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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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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Why Do Experts Think That Talking About Racism a Lot is Going to Reduce Rather Than Increase Racism? Wed Feb 05, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
How are we going to get rid of racism when we have expects and intellectuals paid to find us guilty of racism at all costs? The answer is never, says Prof James Alexander.
The post Why Do Experts Think That Talking About Racism a Lot is Going to Reduce Rather Than Increase Racism? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Wed Feb 05, 2025 01:58 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
The post Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million appeared first on 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.

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antrim / miscellaneous Friday September 03, 2004 - 16:42 by stepping razor   text 55 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 - 00:30)
Right wing patriotic chechyan extemists holding Russian school children hostage, in Russia were initially trained by the CIA in the 1980s at the height of the cold war.
Chechyan muslim extremists were trained and armed by the US, in order to destablise the then communist Soviet union. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday September 01, 2004 - 19:33 by Dec McCarthy   text 19 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 - 16:58)   image 1 image
The primary role of the police is to preserve the status quo in society. In other words, the first task of the police force, of any police force, is to ensure the rule of the State and the rich elite. In practice this means priority is given to concerns of State over that of the population. For example, in Stoneybatter, near Dublin city-centre, on a number of occasions, the Guards have responded to break-ins over 12 hours after the event. In contrast the Guards were always prompt in attending to the scene of a bin-truck blockade. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 01, 2004 - 00:06 by sharp   text 2 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 - 02:42)
As a protestant who used Maysfield leisure centre, the decision to close Maysfield leisure centre appears blatantly sectarian against the nearby catholic community close to the centre and protestants who chose to use the centre because of its convenience. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday August 31, 2004 - 13:32 by Rambler   text 3 comments (last - tuesday august 31, 2004 - 19:42)
The Largest Branch of the Northern Ireland civil service, today met to vote on 'all out'
strike action without pay ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Sunday August 29, 2004 - 02:56 by john mcdermott   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 29, 2004 - 19:00)
Farming syndicates of property speculators are reported to be moving their money offshore.If Sinn fein are elected there is real concern that they will be dispossed if they retain their wealth here. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Saturday August 28, 2004 - 20:03 by Akrasia   text 7 comments (last - thursday october 04, 2007 - 10:34)
"The problems with aspartame include not only the biochemical nature of this toxin but also it sheds light on the political nature of the players involved. The changes in regulatory policies and regulations resulting from corporate-government ties and the politicians closely associated with these ties. What I can tell you, regarding toxicology, histology and biochemistry, is that aspartame is neurotoxic. Its components easily transcend the blood-brain barrier, interfering with normal nerve cell function. This affects the glutathione and calcium mechanisms in place, destroying nerve call integrity. The methanol then breaks down into formaldehyde-formic acid components, which denaturizes/mutates the DNA: a known scientific fact. The subsequent result from this interaction and from isolates of genetically modified amino acids, the methanol, is nerve cell necrosis and subsequent organ system degradation"

Arthur M. Evangelista, a former FDA Investigator ... read full story / add a comment
muralismo
dublin / arts and media Saturday August 28, 2004 - 13:19 by dunk   text 4 comments (last - tuesday march 01, 2005 - 02:00)   image 9 images
Park Road Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th · 12pm - 6.00pm · family, all ages
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muralismo is happening this weekend, a giant mural will be painted alongside peoples park dun laoighre as part of festival

some indymedia people are trying to do "communication action"; hopefully this will happen
petit cinema, imc boards, printflares, take pictures and hopefully make little documentary with nicaragua team FUNARTE? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 26, 2004 - 23:55 by Jason Brannigan   text 4 comments (last - sunday september 12, 2004 - 17:20)   image 1 image
The talk below was delivered by Jason Brannigan, a member of the the Fascists Out Campaign (FOC) and the anarchist group, Organise! in Derry on Saturday August 14th 2004 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 26, 2004 - 16:32 by Terry   text 2 comments (last - monday october 11, 2004 - 00:22)
This essay argues that the conflict in the Persian Gulf is conditioned by the needs of American capitalism, and thus whether a Democrat or a Republican, a war hero or a draft dodger, sits in the Oval Office, it will make no difference to the propensity of the American state to commit acts of mass violence. An argument which is held up as a true by the record of Clinton, a man who recently received adulation in Dublin, yet whose administration slew far more than that of either Bush Snr. or Jnr. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 25, 2004 - 04:25 by Joe King   text 47 comments (last - saturday september 11, 2004 - 22:15)   image 1 image
Racism is alive and well in Ireland. Only the very dishonest or the very naïve can deny it. We all knew it was bad, we only had to listen to our friends, neighbours and workmates. We only had to look at how generations of Travellers were treated. But the result of the citizenship referendum really opened our eyes to how widespread it is. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday August 24, 2004 - 23:00 by Fergus
Woke up this morning.
Ad on the radio selling ‘income protection’.
What's that?
‘Friends First’ competing against the ‘Welfare State’? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday August 24, 2004 - 12:35 by Michael Hennigan   text 5 comments (last - monday september 06, 2004 - 16:12)
"one of the great scandals in modern Ireland". ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 24, 2004 - 03:05 by BANDUA CATOC   text 10 comments (last - thursday august 04, 2005 - 02:35)   image 1 image
OUR LANGUAGE IS GALICIAN ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday August 20, 2004 - 16:49 by Ciaran Weafer - UCDSU   text 30 comments (last - friday august 27, 2004 - 11:38)
Much debate has been taking place over the last few days regarding the success, or not, of the occupation of the department of education on Tuesday. By engaging in an occupation we are taking a particular stance. It is a form of direct action which means that the action has a direct effect on the people involved. You take a stance, issue demands, and do not move until those demands are met or you are forcibly removed. If your demands are met you have been victorious if you are removed the fight moves to another day but the victory lies in the fact that you have shown an unflinching belief in your tactics and what you stand for and a commitment to continue to bring the fight to the powers that be. Anything less is a failure. As such the occupation of Tuesday last was, in this regard a failure. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 19, 2004 - 13:45 by D   text 16 comments (last - sunday august 22, 2004 - 15:04)
Last night South Belfast ARN meeting was attended by local residents and trade unionists, as well as between fifteen to twenty representatives of various local community organisations and support groups from around South Belfast. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday August 19, 2004 - 00:48 by John McDermott   text 5 comments (last - saturday august 28, 2004 - 01:40)   image 1 image
Power corrupts ,and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday August 17, 2004 - 12:38 by Sean
Does stigma arise from lack of truth, clarity and precision in language? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday August 13, 2004 - 18:59 by paul c   text 1 comment (last - friday august 13, 2004 - 19:06)
Trying to write an Frequently Asked Questions for indymedia.ie... I have written a good deal of it but to help me and others finish it off Im posting about it here...
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/IMCEireFaq

this is among a number of improvements that will soon appear including work by chekov on the code itself and vinnie on a photo thumbnail script ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 13, 2004 - 16:55 by NEFAC
When a state is determined to pursue war, and all forms of indirect symbolic protest actions have failed to sway politicians to halt their imperialist aggression, the only remaining option is direct action by the working class. One option is a general strike by workers that can effect the production and transpiration of military capital, that is the materials essential for the war machine. The other is to deprive the military of the labor it needs to fight the war. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday August 12, 2004 - 18:09 by Hilaal   text 18 comments (last - friday august 20, 2004 - 18:20)
In the great US tradition of Custers last stand and the bay of pigs , the US army's 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit has driven into what will be for them another memorable US army humiliating defeat. ... read full story / add a comment
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