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offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamopho... Tue Feb 04, 2025 15:00 | Sam Bidwell
The prosecution of a man for burning the Qur'an shows how Islamic blasphemy codes are becoming embedded in criminal law. Coming up with a legal definition of 'Islamophobia' will accelerate this process, says Sam Bidwell.
The post How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamophobia?? Very Afraid appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council Tue Feb 04, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order today withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and removing all US funding for the Gaza agency UNRWA.
The post US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ALL the Babies Lucy Letby Was Convicted of Killing Died of Natural Causes, 14 Medical Experts Conclu... Tue Feb 04, 2025 12:00 | Will Jones
All the babies that Lucy Letby was convicted of killing actually died of natural causes, often due to poor medical care, and were not murdered, a panel of 14 medical experts has concluded.
The post ALL the Babies Lucy Letby Was Convicted of Killing Died of Natural Causes, 14 Medical Experts Conclude appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Covid Dossier: A Record of Military and Intelligence Coordination of COVID-19 Tue Feb 04, 2025 11:00 | Debbie Lerman and Sasha Latypova
Debbie Lerman and Sasha Latypova present the Covid Dossier: a record of the global military and intelligence coordination of the response to COVID-19, country by country. This was no mere public health response.
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offsite link The Shocking Solar Farm Bird Deaths the Mainstream Media Aren?t Telling You About Tue Feb 04, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Solar farms are an ecological disaster. Birds frequently fly into them, mistaking them for water, while electrocution and incineration are common. But you won't hear about this in the mainstream media, says Chris Morrison.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday October 30, 2006 08:47 by Fiachra Ó Luain   text 3 comments (last - monday october 30, 2006 17:25)
This is very sad. David tells us how Brad used sing his own version of "Saint Patrick's Battalion" all around Latin America. Now he shares their fate. I just checked the RTE news website and there is nothing on it about Oaxaca, a disgrace.
Long Live Indymedia, who have just lost one of their wordwarriors. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Monday October 30, 2006 05:13 by nano
This past week in Australia has been ‘fundamentally’ outstanding; dimwitted fundamentalist religionists vied with each other for top billing in the local media. Never has the nation seen such retarded behaviour from so many diverse religious groups. The prize for fundamentalist imbecile of the week however goes to the Muslim cleric Sheik al-Hilali for his retrogressive reference to women as “uncovered meat”. He unashamedly placed the responsibility for rape and other sexually violent acts onto women; men were exonerated on the basis that “uncovered meat” is sexually provocative! The local media now refers to the cleric as the “Meat Sheik” and continues to sensationalise aspects of the story. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday October 30, 2006 00:18 by Máire Mhic Fhearghusa
Written September 2006 and adapted October for singing.

See: sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiCLAREDRG;ttCLAREDRG.html for tune and words

See: www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/jacobite_era.htm for history and words.
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international / animal rights / event notice Sunday October 29, 2006 23:53 by Bernie Wright
Over 200 senior members of the pharmaceutical and medical professions are expected to attend the IHPA annual awards on Thursday 26 th October.Our message is simple -NO TO ANIMAL EXPERIMEMTS.
There are THREE COMMERCIAL 'registered user establishments' ie. laboratories using animals for commercial purposes here in Ireland.
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national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday October 29, 2006 20:38 by Anti-War Ireland
Tony Lagouranis, one of three former US Abu-Ghraib interrogators in Ireland at the invitation of Anti-War Ireland, has been interviewed repeatedly since his arrival in Ireland. Along with Joshua Casteel and Stephen Lewis, Tony spoke at the anti-war rally at Shannon airport on Saturday and called for the expulsion of the US war machine from that airport. On Tuesday and Wednesday, Tony will speak at Anti-War Ireland public meetings in Cork and Belfast.
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international / gender and sexuality / other press Sunday October 29, 2006 18:50 by Mary Riddell   text 4 comments (last - tuesday october 31, 2006 15:15)
Women die at the hands of the occupying US forces; but most women die at the hands of the "Resistance". Read the full article by Mary Riddell at the link.

Where death is the penalty for going bare-headed

If our leaders are intent on finding peace in Iraq, they could begin by upholding women's basic human rights

Black is never out of fashion in Iraq. Some women, the bereaved, have not cast off their mourning robes since 2003. Others, Christians included, wear Muslim dress as camouflage to preserve their lives. Driving a car or walking bare-headed is a come-on to executioners in a country where last year's Western fashions have become this season's shroud.
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clare / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday October 29, 2006 14:39 by Margaretta D'Arcy   text 37 comments (last - thursday november 02, 2006 14:14)
How I bypassed security and found myself in the airport terminal when the army, the gardai, dogs, horses, helicopters were all mobilized to keep us out. read full story / add a comment
limerick / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Sunday October 29, 2006 12:45 by UL-SP Member
The new documentary of the historic struggle waged by Turkish and Kurdish workers against GAMA construction and the Irish Government, will be showing THIS WEDNESDAY in UL.

Day: Wednesday
Date: 1 Nov 2006
Time: 6:30
Venue: UL Students Union Building, Room 3 read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday October 28, 2006 21:41 by Con Carroll   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 08, 2006 18:47)
Non expert on politics or the reality of working class black South Africans read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday October 28, 2006 16:03 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 29, 2006 02:12)
Article in the Guardian appearing to draw largely on the work of a Guardian journalist that has published "Ghost Plane" (which claims that it was his articles which first revealed rendition flights 1 year ago) talks about Germany parliamentary report revealing how the CIA and Syria attempted to stop Germany revealing information about torture flights. read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / event notice Saturday October 28, 2006 14:45 by m.m.mccarron   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 08, 2006 20:52)
The Eleventh Ken Saro-Wiwa Seminar takes place on Saturday 11 November 2006 in Boole Lecture Room 3 University College Cork from 10.00am to 5.00pm. It remembers the death by hanging on 10 Nov. 1995 of Ken and eight other Ogonis as an outcome of environmental protest against Shell and the Nigerian military ruler, Sani Abacha. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday October 27, 2006 17:48 by antiwar   text 7 comments (last - wednesday november 01, 2006 13:01)
To remember the atomic bomb drop on hiroshima and nagasaki 60 years ago, Salvatore Vaccaro alledgedly damaged 2 f-16 planes. He has been jailed for 6 months now and today he faced the judges in den Bosh in the Netherlands. He has to pay 750000 euro and a year in jail and if he doesnt come up with the monies another year in jail etc. untill he pays up.
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international / gender and sexuality / other press Friday October 27, 2006 13:29 by Chris Murray   text 25 comments (last - friday october 05, 2007 10:04)
This is a copy of a letter sent to Women's Activist's Groups re: Reproductive Rights in Poland.
At the same time the Nicaraguan Government has voted to ban all abortions on the threat
of thirty years imprisonment, after a campaign by the Catholic Church in that country.

The Nicaragua Story is in Today's Guardian. The Polish Letter is printed here.

The Email was sent out by a Reproductive Rights campaigner from Poland.
http://www.federa.org.pl/signatures

307 Votes are needed to Pass this ban into Law.The Parliament consists of 460 seats. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday October 27, 2006 12:59 by Camilla Monroe
Public Meeting organised by Cork Alliance Against War and the Irish Anti War Movement read full story / add a comment
kerry / anti-capitalism / news report Friday October 27, 2006 00:03 by sean moraghan   text 1 comment (last - friday october 27, 2006 20:18)
‘The democratic process has failed for the people of Rossport’, said John Monaghan, who is directly involved in the dispute with Shell in Mayo. ‘They rolled out the black carpet for Shell, built a special road for them, while we’ve been looking at potholes.’ He said local government had rolled over completely for Shell, and the community has received no support either from Mayo County Council or from most of the local TDs.
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dublin / arts and media / press release Thursday October 26, 2006 23:58 by The Cotillions
Press release for new exhibition by contemporary art collective Cotillion to be held at Cornucopia Vegetarian Restaraunt, 19 Wicklow St, from November 5th to December 2nd 2006. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Thursday October 26, 2006 19:58 by No Comment
Pope Benedict today professed regret at the Ferns Sexual abuse scandals and solidarity
with the victims. This might be the first papal utterance of understanding on the issue of child
sexual abuse which tormented a generation of Children. The message was relayed at
an Irish Episcopal Conference at the Vatican today.

Its a start.
It's an acknowledgement of the torment that people went through.
It is not an apology or acceptance of responsibility for the handling and
covering up of the issue.

Pope Benedict was at the head of the council which investigated the issue of Child Sexual Abuse.
The Buck Stopped there. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday October 26, 2006 19:51 by supp
Speaking during a visit to the area this morning, Mr Sargent said he blamed Mr Dempsey for the ongoing dispute due to his failure to intervene.

"This situation is unfortunately going to deteriorate and I put the onus on Minister Noel Dempsey to exercise his responsibilities to ensure a resolution of this matter and not just hide behind the legal small print which he seems to be relying on at the moment," he said.

Trevor Sargent at Bellanboy http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2185255.smil Ministers response

The Green Party Leader has said the Marine and Natural Resources Minister must visit Co Mayo to see for himself the growing seriousness of the situation surrounding the development of the controversial Corrib Gas project. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday October 26, 2006 16:37 by Susan Smith
Dublin artist, Tony Crosbie’s exhibition, Wasteland, in partnership with Amnesty International, takes place at the Broadstone Studios and Gallery, Hendron Building 36/40 Upper Dominick Street, Dublin 7. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday October 26, 2006 13:31 by Duine
Filleann an feall ar an bhfallaire read full story / add a comment
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