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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

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offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link Keir Starmer Denies Breaking Lockdown Rules as it Emerges he Took a Private Acting Lesson During Cov... Mon Feb 03, 2025 18:06 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer?has denied breaking lockdown?rules after it emerged he had a face-to-face acting lesson with a voice coach on Christmas Eve 2020 when London was under strict Covid restrictions.
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offsite link Elon Musk Shuts Down US Government Foreign Aid Agency and Locks Out 600 Staffers Overnight After Tru... Mon Feb 03, 2025 15:41 | Will Jones
Elon Musk?and President?Donald Trump?shut down USAID, the federal Government foreign aid agency, and locked out 600 employees overnight after the pair agreed it was "beyond repair". Afuera!
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offsite link Food Firms Revolt Against Net Zero Over Australia?s Energy Crisis Mon Feb 03, 2025 13:00 | Sallust
Firms supplying food to major Australian supermarkets have launched a revolt against Net Zero, urging the Government to dump its renewables targets and focus on ramping up gas and coal production to cut electricity prices.
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offsite link Wind Turbine Bursts into Flames Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
A wind turbine has burst into flames in Cambridgeshire ? the latest instance of an issue previously described by Imperial College London as a "big problem" that is not being "fully reported".
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offsite link Year After Lockdown Saw Massive Spike in Attempted Child Suicides Mon Feb 03, 2025 09:00 | Richard Eldred
Lockdowns and school closures have triggered a devastating surge in child suicides and self-harm, with hospital admissions soaring and mental health disorders skyrocketing.
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national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Thursday September 15, 2005 16:27 by Anne Devlin   text 3 comments (last - saturday september 17, 2005 02:53)
An account of the experiences of one family and their attempts to communicate with the teaching profession on behalf of their autistic son. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / press release Thursday September 15, 2005 14:41 by Edward Horgan   text 2 comments (last - friday september 16, 2005 12:52)
A press conference will be held at the Oakwood arms in Shannon (on right just before you reach Shannon town) at 2 pm on Sat next 17th Sept to highlight prisoner torture planes and warplanes using Shannon airport and the Peace Rally which is being held at Shannon on the following Sat 24th Sept. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday September 15, 2005 13:53 by Freethinker
Judge: School Pledge Is Unconstitutional
By DAVID KRAVETS, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - An atheist seeking to strike the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools has won a major battle in his quest to force the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the issue again. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday September 15, 2005 06:47 by Kingfisher
Philip Ruddock, Federal Attorney General to Australian, hopes to eclipse the neo-cons of the US in the race toward the fascist ideal of social uniformity and control (oppression). Ruddock has invoked his new 'anti-terrorist' laws – not to protect against ‘Islamic terrorists’ as claimed – but to silence voices of opposition, protest and dissent, as was the real intention. The charade was short lived; it was Ruddock’s inadequate and compensatory personality that 'blew it' for the entire conservative right. read full story / add a comment
national / housing / other press Thursday September 15, 2005 02:54 by Build a hut
Daft.ie have today published a report into the price of rental accomodation. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday September 14, 2005 21:16 by Dr. Coilín Oscar ÓhAiseadha
Plainclothes police officers attacked a peace demonstration held in Wroclaw on Saturday.

Five demonstrators were arrested, and two are to be charged with assaulting police officers and disturbing public order.

The demonstrators were commemorating the war-time pogrom in the city of Jedwabne and protesting against Polish involvement in the war in Iraq. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 19:38 by Ruairi
Shell's crimes elsewhere? Might be interesting read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 18:46 by Mea Culpa! Tua culpa!
Everyone must share blame for riots: Empey
RTE 14 September 2005 17:23
The Ulster Unionist leader, Sir Reg Empey, has said everyone should accept responsibility for the recent loyalist violence in Northern Ireland. read full story / add a comment
antrim / crime and justice / event notice Wednesday September 14, 2005 16:09 by Jason Brannigan
Former political prisoner and miscarriage of justice victim Mark Barnsley will be speaking in Belfast on the subject of ‘Resisting the Prison State’ on Thursday 22nd September, 7.00pm at Glor na Gael, 145 Falls Rd.

To accompany the talks, there will be a joint benefit gig for political prisoners and the Just Books Collective on Tuesday 27th September at Belfast Pavillion, starting at 7.00pm, and featuring Running Riot and Complan. Admission £5 (£3 unwaged). read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday September 14, 2005 15:48 by Justin Morahan
indefinite imprisonment and beatings are blamed for prisoner's decision to go on hunger strike in Guantanamo, now in its second month. The number now on hunger strike is 128 read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 14, 2005 15:39 by SP member   text 42 comments (last - tuesday september 20, 2005 02:05)
The scenes from the streets of Belfast and other towns across Northern Ireland during the weekend have provided a stark warning that the 'peace process' could at some point unravel and be quickly replaced by widespread sectarian conflict. read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday September 14, 2005 15:02 by Wendy Knott
Public Meeting with Denis Halliday, former UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, and Anne Reilly, of the Debt and Development Coalition. Organsed by Comhlamh, the meeting will take place in the Imperial Hotel, South Mall, Cork at 8pm.
All welcome to what should be a lively and informative evening - admission is free. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 13:38 by OZ   text 2 comments (last - wednesday september 14, 2005 13:43)
The Australian Labor Party's support of the Australian Government's detention in solitary confinement of U.S. nonviolent activist Scott Parkin is informative and a matter for concern for the movement globally. The trial of four Catholic Workers on four felony charges In Binghamton New York, this Monday, is part of the pattern. There is an offensive against nonviolent actvists remaining proactive against the war. Following is the story of Scott..... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday September 14, 2005 12:56 by Sinead Ni Bhroin   text 6 comments (last - monday september 19, 2005 16:59)
PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: Anti-war activists will be holding a vigil at O Connell bridge today at 5.30pm for the victims of New Orleans and Iraq. They will be holding a banner reading "Sept. 24th Shannon: Gateway to Iraq" which is highlighting Ireland's complicity with Bush's war on Iraq. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 05:52 by Rodriguez McGruter   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 14, 2005 13:29)
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday September 14, 2005 04:20 by Radio Free Eireann   text 8 comments (last - friday september 16, 2005 12:39)
Radio Free Eireann host John McDonagh and WBAI Arts Director Janet Coleman Host web-cast of debate which will be moderated by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 01:17 by ribbid ribbid   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 02, 2005 12:46)
If both elections in Japan and Egypt proved the rule that the government wins, Norway just about proves it.

Its a tripartite, 3 party coalition which is described as red-green. In much the same ways that commentators described the german coalitions of the past, but little of the analytic substance needed to make the description fit.

What the norwegians who voted wanted and not wanted, and what they sought is... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 00:32 by anon
The 17th street levee was bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers to save the more valuable real estate in the city... to keep the French Quarter protected, the ninth ward was sacrificed

Also Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans. See the DemocracyNow report below read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / event notice Tuesday September 13, 2005 20:06 by Michael Gallagher
Incorporating the Chinese mid-Autumn Festival, the 9th Annual Inter-cultural SOCCERFEST will take place this coming weekend, 17th and 18th September at the Garda and Camogie Sports Grounds, Phoenix Park, Dublin. 10am - 6pm on both days. All welcome and and no entrance fee.. read full story / add a comment
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