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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 EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention Tue Feb 04, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
The EU is drawing up a plan to overhaul its 1951 Refugee Convention that prevents countries from rejecting asylum seekers at their borders in a belated effort to address Europe's exploding migrant crisis.
The post EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention appeared first on 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.
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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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galway / environment Friday April 13, 2007 - 11:26 by Galway water crisis   text 10 comments (last - sunday april 22, 2007 - 16:52)
Galway Spring Water get looked after by Galway City Hall. The people of Galway, having already lost their choice to drink tap water, now told they must drink Galway Spring water if they want to avail of the "buy one, get one free" offer. ... read full story / add a comment
Annie
international / crime and justice Monday April 09, 2007 - 13:59 by Missing   text 3 comments (last - tuesday april 10, 2007 - 19:02)   image 4 images
There are over one hundred women missing in Ireland.

They are presumed dead.

It is fourteen years since Annie Mc Carrick Vanished.

There is no longer an operational website for families of vanished children,
parents, sisters and brothers, to use.

Last week families of the missing women joined together to make protest. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / environment Saturday April 07, 2007 - 16:21 by useless eater   text 12 comments (last - sunday september 16, 2007 - 21:06)
Frank Fahy has launched a webpage called www.isupportthebypass.com

Ye can add yer votes and comments.
I do NOT support the bypass for the following reasons:

... read full story / add a comment
Burke5
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 07, 2007 - 09:48 by T. Yaris   text 1 comment (last - friday april 13, 2007 - 14:27)   image 1 image
For economic mismanagement through bribery ... read full story / add a comment
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national / politics / elections Saturday April 07, 2007 - 02:38 by Voter   text 7 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2007 - 10:34)   image 1 image   1 attached file
Some people don't think much of elections, but it's important to remnember that they concentrate the minds of the establishment.

From Spain in the 30's, Chile in the 70's, to modern day Venezuela, democratic elections have thrown up results which have rocked the forces of right-wing conservatism to the core.

While some people think you shouldn't vote, most people believe it's important to register.

... read full story / add a comment
sligo / consumer issues Friday April 06, 2007 - 13:15 by Union member   text 6 comments (last - monday april 09, 2007 - 13:13)
Sligo Borough Council voted down a motion condemning the governments policy which will tax aid speculators to build a private hospital on public land beside Sligo General Hospital. This is the first Council to endorse what amounts to the beginning of the privatisation of the Health Service. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Thursday April 05, 2007 - 17:44 by Sean Crudden
Advocacy is an "in" term these days. When we advocate are we really pursuing the best interests of those on whose behalf we are advocating? Or are we only trying to placate and tell people what they want to hear? Then, too, there are often a lot of stock cribs which advocates may parrot easily off in the hope of gaining kudos or easy respect from the judges - the administrators and the public. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / environment Wednesday April 04, 2007 - 16:48 by Andrew Flood and Chekov Feeny   text 23 comments (last - monday august 20, 2007 - 22:57)   image 14 images
Peak Oil Theory has been around since the 1970s. Some think we have already reached 'peak oil', others think it will happen with the next twenty-five years. The theory argues that when we reach 'peak oil' the rate at which we extract oil from the earth (measured in millions of barrels per day) will reach a maximum and thereafter will start to drop.

As the rate at which we use oil is currently close to the rate at which we extract it, the point of peak oil will coincide or be closely followed by the world consuming more oil than it is producing. As oil reserves are very limited, within months there simply will not be enough oil available. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday April 04, 2007 - 12:26 by Gregor Kerr   text 8 comments (last - wednesday april 11, 2007 - 16:16)
The nurses’ work-to-rule and their threat to escalate the action next week has been met with an outraged onslaught by Mary Harney and Bertie Ahern. The sight of a group of workers standing up and demanding their rights has become so unusual that it seems as if the government cannot believe the temerity of the nurses in doing just that.
... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday April 03, 2007 - 19:57 by Hugh Murphy   text 4 comments (last - sunday april 15, 2007 - 10:08)
ON THE WATERFRONT

To claim to be a Trade Union SIPTU must condemn the corruption which took place in Belfast.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 02, 2007 - 11:56 by Supporter of Nurses   text 11 comments (last - monday april 09, 2007 - 13:05)   image 3 images


The banner and link to the I.N.O site are included here so that people
can go take a look see. I am not a nurse, nor do I represent a union
anymore- but I have done and I know when a media campaign is being
played out.

In this instance Mary Harney is attempting to use media to isolate
the Nurses unions and it does not wash.

Last week she went live on the RTE Nine O clock news and said that
the maternity hospital problem in Cork was "about money":
Hogwash- The Maternity hospital problem was about the failure
of both the state and the HSE to think of the patient- its all down to
numbers and figures.
http://www.ino.ie ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 01, 2007 - 10:30 by W. Finnerty.   text 17 comments (last - tuesday may 15, 2007 - 22:03)   image 1 image
Opportunity to challenge corruption, tyranny, and bullying ... ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday March 31, 2007 - 16:45 by B Scanlon   text 34 comments (last - friday february 11, 2011 - 23:47)
The house that countess Markievicz was born in now has exhibition in her honour. This woman born into wealth gave her live to Ireland and its poor. Bertie Ahern kicked the show of on Friday for his friend the owner Eddie Walsh the very man who had closed of rights of way on the estate to the people of the area ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Saturday March 31, 2007 - 10:28 by Margaretta D'Arcy   text 65 comments (last - thursday april 19, 2007 - 14:15)   image 1 image
A defence of the resolution which was attacked by the Israeli embassy on the ground that it was biased and misinformed. The author of the resolution explains its background and proves how she was not misinformed and did not mislead the Irish artists. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Saturday March 31, 2007 - 03:49 by johnfitz
demand that the Dail is not dissolved until it ends the atrocity of our complicity in mass murder in Iraq. There is an irrefutable case that our TDs are aware that we, members of the UN, remained silent while half a million Iraqis kids were murdered by UN Sanctions up to 1998 That continued at 5,000 a month under 5y/o kids until March 2003. We then supported the illegal war of aggression - "the greatest crime of all" according to the Nuremberg Tribunal. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / history and heritage Thursday March 29, 2007 - 19:25 by Joe   text 1 comment (last - friday march 30, 2007 - 10:16)   audio 1 audio file
William Thompson was one of the of the first people to critically engage with political economy and attempt to turn it around to defend the improvement of the condition of the working class and rural poor. He was from a Anglo- Irish landowning family from West Cork and was to become a leading figure in the early Co-operative movement. In this talk from the anarchist bookfair Paul Bowman talks about the importance of Thompson and the relevance of his ideas today ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday March 29, 2007 - 12:31 by Johnny Finn   text 4 comments (last - sunday april 01, 2007 - 17:46)
A commentary on the power held by the PDs in Ireland ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday March 29, 2007 - 12:16 by Fr. Commandante   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 29, 2007 - 15:08)
listening to pope, Benedict. last week ... read full story / add a comment
Jampa Ling Centre
cavan / miscellaneous Tuesday March 27, 2007 - 21:55 by an searbhán lochlannach   text 9 comments (last - saturday may 05, 2007 - 15:51)   image 10 images
I’ve just spent 3 days at Jampa Ling Buddhist centre 2 miles from Bawnboy in West Cavan. I’d been thinking about going there for over a year, having heard a very favourable account about the place from a friend. Then, due to start out on a new job, I finally decided to make the time and go, to think and meditate, to re-organise my brain and my heart, to re-evaluate my priorities in life. ... read full story / add a comment
Alliance for Natural Health Logo.
international / consumer issues Tuesday March 27, 2007 - 11:58 by Chris Murray   text 2 comments (last - sunday april 01, 2007 - 11:23)   image 1 image
The Alliance for Natural Health filed nine applications to Annex 1 of the EU Food Supplement
Directive and a further six to annex II in Late Feburary and early March 2007.
The primary subjects of the applications were natural vitamins and minerals
which were ommitted from the Directive's Annexes ('positive list').

On the 16th of March , the ANH informed the EU Commission that it had filed the
applications and would scrutinise it and the European Food Safety Authority's
(EFSA) procedures with regard to their evaluation. ... read full story / add a comment
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