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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
Alternative site: https://thesaker.si/saker-a... Site was created using the downloads provided Regards Herb

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

offsite link Waiting for SIPO 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.
The post The Covid Dossier: A Record of Military and Intelligence Coordination of COVID-19 appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.
The post The Shocking Solar Farm Bird Deaths the Mainstream Media Aren’t Telling You About appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday July 23, 2003 23:17 by Acidburn   text 7 comments (last - monday july 28, 2003 16:46)
DSEi is taking place in London and we're heading over!! read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday July 23, 2003 19:55 by Stunned   text 6 comments (last - thursday july 24, 2003 16:26)
From RTE business an interesting list of the National Pensions Reserves fund unethical investments which include Raytheon, manufacturer of the Tomahawk Cruise Missile.

Even with these investments the fund still lost almost €750m (16% of its value) of taxpayers money last year.


Lockheed Martin €3.8m invested as of December 31 2002
Northrop Grumman 1.6m
Raytheon 742,000
BEA Systems 263,000
Bombardier 211,000
Cigarettes
Philip Morris 10.5m
British American Tobacco 3.6m
Imperial Tobacco 2.8m
Oil
Royal Dutch 103m
BP 15.1m
Shell 13.1m
Exxon Mobil 47.2m
Halliburton 1.1m
Miscellaneous
Monsanto 2.5m
Nike 5.3m
Walmart 33m
Starbucks 4.6m
MacDonalds 2.3m
Coca Cola 15.3m
Fox Entertainment 250,000
BSkyB 8.2m
Microsoft 47m
Companies that have had financial difficulties
Tyco 4.9m
QWest Communications 706,000
AOL Time Warner 14.5m read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday July 23, 2003 18:25 by Juliana Fredman
This from a woman making a film in the West Bank about the state of Palestinian health care under the Israeli occupation. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday July 23, 2003 16:01 by advisory service.   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 24, 2003 16:03)
As you will see in today's papers in Ireland, yesterday two bombs exploded in Spain. They were planned, planted, and exploded by ETA.
Since the beginning of July ETA has counted five bomb attacks. Since the beginning of it's annual "summer holidays" bombing season 167 attacks have been made. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday July 23, 2003 15:36 by Rooster   text 30 comments (last - tuesday july 29, 2003 11:41)
THE SDLP today accused Sinn Fein of glorifying terrorist violence by selling pro-IRA merchandise on the Internet.
The new official website being launched today by Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, calls on visitors to buy T-shirts with logos such as 'IRA Undefeated Army' and 'Sniper at Work'. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 23, 2003 15:34 by Robby   text 26 comments (last - monday july 28, 2003 11:14)
IF someone changes the name of a nationality to make it fit better into a slogan (eg: from Pakistani to Paki) is this an indication of racism? Most of us would agree.
If someone wants to get foreigners to leave this country, if they commit violent acts against foreign nationals in an attempt to make them leave, is this an indication of racism? Again, most of us would agree. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday July 23, 2003 15:06 by James moore and frank connolly   text 6 comments (last - thursday july 24, 2003 12:53)
On this day 200 years robert emmet read out the proclimation of 1803 read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 23, 2003 15:01 by Chekov   text 117 comments (last - saturday august 16, 2003 16:30)
This is the text of a talk given last weekend at the Socialist Youth Summer camp in Co. Monaghan during a debate between Brian Cahill of the SP and James O Brien of the WSM. I am posting it here as, although there have been many anarchism vs. Leninism debates on Indymedia, they have rarely risen above simplistic distortions and slagging. Perhaps Brian could post his talk here as well and we could both sides of the debate. Maybe it’ll be different this time, or maybe that is extreme wishful thinking. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday July 23, 2003 13:57 by Pit Stop Ploughshares   text 11 comments (last - friday july 25, 2003 23:48)
Two Ploughshares communites are back before the courts this Friday July 25th.

Three Roman Catholic Dominican sisters - Ardeth Platte, Jackie Hudson, Carol Gilbert - of the "Sacred Earth and Space Plowshares" are to be sentenced in Colarado, USA, to 6-20 years after being convicted of "Injury/obstruction of national defense of the US" & "Injury to government of the property of the US Government" of an ICBM missile silo.

The Pit Stop Ploughshares - Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop,Karen Fallon, Damien Moran & Ciaron O'Reilly have a pre-trial appearance at the Four Courts, Dublin. They have been charged with 2 counts of criminal damage to a hangar (€400) and a U.S. Navy War Plane (€2.5 million).

At Friday's hearing, the judge will set a trial date and revisit bail conditions (the defendants are required to sign on at a specific Dublin garda station daily, banned from within a mile of the U.S. Embassy and banned from Co. Clare). read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / press release Wednesday July 23, 2003 11:53 by Focus Ireland   text 5 comments (last - friday may 19, 2006 12:45)
Launch of Focus Ireland Annual Report 2002
Release date: July 23 2003

FOCUS IRELAND CLAIMS THE GOVERNMENT STRATEGY TO TACKLE HOMELESSNESS IS FAILING AS IN THE STRATEGY’S FINAL YEAR THE CRISIS CONTINUES TO WORSEN
·Government has abandoned its own social housing targets
·Homelessness rising instead of falling despite Govt. promises read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 23, 2003 01:17 by Watchdog   text 11 comments (last - thursday august 07, 2003 01:22)
Anti-smoking groups protect the cigarette industry from the most serious indictments, revelations, charges and liabiliies. "Smokers' Rights" groups do the same. Big Oil (tobacco pesticides), for one, is ignored even as we oppose its oily invasion of Iraq. read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum / news report Tuesday July 22, 2003 19:34 by René
In the proposal for the first EU constitution there is a change in the clausel for trade-treaties like GATS for education and other public services. Time for a new campaign... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / press release Tuesday July 22, 2003 17:34 by microgreenie
The Green Party is to lodge an official complaint to the European Commission over the refusal by South Dublin County Council to request an Environmental Impact Assessment for the Adamstown development at Lucan, which is currently the subject of an An Bord Pleanala oral hearing. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday July 22, 2003 17:33 by Seán   text 2 comments (last - wednesday july 23, 2003 15:51)
Speaking at Press Conference this morning, Sinn Féin National Chairperson Mitchel McLaughlin along with the four Lisburn City Councillors launched a campaign to expose discrimination on the Lisburn City Council. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday July 22, 2003 17:32 by padraic   text 6 comments (last - wednesday july 23, 2003 18:57)
This Saturday in Dublin (venue details to follow) there will be an activist first aid workshop held by a woman from Germany. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 22, 2003 17:30 by Ian   text 2 comments (last - wednesday july 23, 2003 14:25)
War in Iraq was inevitable. That there would be war was decided by North American planners in the mid-1920s; that it would be in Iraq was decided much more recently. The architects of this war were not military planners but town planners. War is inevitable not because of so-called weapons of mass destruction, as claimed by the political right, nor because of Western imperialism, as claimed by the left. The cause of this war is car dependence. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / press release Tuesday July 22, 2003 12:55 by Spitfire Mk III   text 42 comments (last - thursday july 24, 2003 22:07)
On Friday July 25th 2003, StopEsso Ireland presents StopEsso Live!; at the Temple Bar Music Centre, Dublin. This event has already attracted a diverse gathering of DJs to pledge their support, Including Drum and Bass DJ Goldie. In addition to the artists, VJs will create a mix of exciting images of direct actions by StopEsso groups from around the World. The StopEsso Live is a mix of music, dance, inspirational images and activism. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 22, 2003 02:03 by Caeoimhin Eachan   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 22, 2003 15:48)
No political observer can afford to ignore or deny the fact that the Israeli government is still using all gimmicks manoeuvers to hinder the implementation of the international legitimacy resolutions concerning the Middle East problem. Observers and analysts do not need further evidence to find that Israel is still opposing all honest peace efforts being exerted by the Arabs in general and the Palestinian people in particular. By persisting in its intransigent policy Israel is not only standing against the international legitimacy resolutions, but also rejecting the very initiative, the roadmap, put forward by the US and other parties of the Quartet Committee, the UN, the EU and Russia. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday July 21, 2003 20:20 by Assyrian Delegation   text 3 comments (last - monday july 21, 2003 22:30)
As we are nearing a turning point in the history of our homeland Iraq, the below mentioned Democratic Assyrian political organisations would like to take this opportunity to highlight the plight and concerns of our people in Iraq.

Assyrian Christians are the indigenous people of Iraq, our history in that region spans 6000 years. Assyrians speak the Aramaic language, the language of our saviour Jesus Christ and indeed Assyrians were the first nation to accept Christianity in the first century A.D.

During the First World War, Assyrians allied with the British against the Ottoman Turks and as a consequence lost over half our population as well as our ancestral homelands.

There are approximately 1.5 million Assyrian Christians in Iraq today. Under the current dictatorial regime, Assyrian people have endured 35 years of systematic oppression, persecution and summary executions due to our distinct race and Christian beliefs. read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday July 21, 2003 17:41 by Tim   text 14 comments (last - friday july 25, 2003 19:40)
don't have time to report on everything individually so here's a quick-ish round up of What's happening at Shannon from an anti-war point of view. The military charters continue to go through, both passenger and cargo aircraft.
but here's some of the other news for a change. read full story / add a comment
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