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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
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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

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Ed West: Grooming Gangs ? Britain?s Chernobyl? Sat Feb 01, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
In Britain, after decades being swept under the rug, the full horror of the grooming gangs is now coming to light. Historian Ed West asks: could the fallout bring down our multicultural regime?
The post Ed West: Grooming Gangs ? Britain?s Chernobyl? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link AstraZeneca Abandons ?450 Million Vaccine Factory in Blow to Reeves Sat Feb 01, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
AstraZeneca has abandoned?a ?450 million investment in a major UK vaccine plant powered by renewables?in a blow to Rachel Reeves who vowed this week to "kick-start economic growth".
The post AstraZeneca Abandons ?450 Million Vaccine Factory in Blow to Reeves appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Norway?s Threat to Cut Off the UK Leaves Labour?s Net Zero Plans in Tatters Sat Feb 01, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
As Norway threatens to cut off the UK from electricity at times of low wind speeds, it's a sign of a growing energy nationalism globally that leaves Labour's short-sighted Net Zero plans in tatters.
The post Norway’s Threat to Cut Off the UK Leaves Labour’s Net Zero Plans in Tatters appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Miliband Accused of Breaking Ministerial Code Over Approval of Dale Vince Solar Farm Sat Feb 01, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Ed Miliband has been accused of breaking the Ministerial Code after his department approved an application for a solar farm owned by?the millionaire Labour donor Dale Vince.
The post Miliband Accused of Breaking Ministerial Code Over Approval of Dale Vince Solar Farm appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Thoughts on the Fifth Anniversary of Leaving the European Union Sat Feb 01, 2025 09:00 | Dr David McGrogan
What the Brexit Leave vote, and Boris Johnson?s eventual triumph, seemed to in the end achieve was only the revelation of the extent to which British institutions have been hollowed out and corrupted, says David McGrogan.
The post Thoughts on the Fifth Anniversary of Leaving the European Union appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 21, 2005 - 10:58 by missing maysfield   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 22, 2005 - 12:30)
The predominantly loyalist Castlereagh borough's biased decision to close Maysfield leisure centre, is far from sporting or fair play. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Sunday February 20, 2005 - 22:42 by Michelle Clarke   text 8 comments (last - friday october 14, 2011 - 21:20)
Justice delayed is Justice Denied.

The CAB will not apparently being receiving early pensions. Instead, their skills refined through the 1980's/90's scandals of tax evasion will now prove refined to the degree that we may have an effective, speedy system of tribunals with prompt delivery to the Justice system


However, in the midst of all this exciting blame festering news let us not forget the important issues. We need to review children, we need to consider restorative justice, we need to appoint educational psychologists in our schools, we need Ethics established as a mind set of those entering the work environment, government etc. ... read full story / add a comment
Sean Crudden
national / crime and justice Sunday February 20, 2005 - 16:02 by Sean Crudden   text 3 comments (last - friday february 25, 2005 - 15:42)   image 1 image
Micheal ("Prince Charming") McDowell has admirers - as I know from canvassing on the doorsteps in Navan - but who is the greatest establishment politician of recent decades? ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday February 19, 2005 - 16:35 by Conor Purcell   text 4 comments (last - friday february 25, 2005 - 14:54)
The U.S. embassy has just issued a warning to it's citizens to stay away from certain parts of Seoul. Demonstrations against foreigners are planned and an online petition to keep foreigners out of the country has already got thousands of signatures. Many foreigners are worried, some have already left. And all this because of a website? Welcome to Korea, one of the most reactionary and xenophobic countries in Asia. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Saturday February 19, 2005 - 08:37 by Ross Getman
Coca-Cola may be making noises in the UK to cut down its branding and marketing of caffeinated sugar water to children, but in the US they are steaming full bore ahead like a schoolyard bully. The "pouring rights" contracts at public schools are not just incredibly bad policy, but they have been challenged as unlawful. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday February 18, 2005 - 11:31 by They haven't gone away (you know)   text 26 comments (last - wednesday february 23, 2005 - 18:32)   image 2 images
Strange, not a mention of the raids in Cork and elsewhere that appear to have recovered some of the Northern Bank sterling stolen in Belfast last December. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday February 17, 2005 - 19:01 by Maria   text 2 comments (last - friday february 18, 2005 - 10:53)
Latvia rewrites its history by erasing its Soviet past.
Socialist Party of Latvia proposal to recognize the 9th of May as Victory Day over Nazism in the Great Patriotic War of 1945 has been refused by the Latvian government.
Vaira Vike-Freiberga presented “History of Latvia: XXth Century” to Vladimir Putin at the Holocaust Memorial Day in Oswiecim. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 22:05 by Various   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 24, 2005 - 00:26)
[FOR INDYMEDIA IRELAND'S FILM CRRRRITTTIIICCCSSS] ... read full story / add a comment
Sergio Leone: ''As Romans, we have a strong sense of the fragility of empires. It is enough to look around us.'
national / arts and media Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 18:10 by James R   text 4 comments (last - saturday february 19, 2005 - 00:04)   image 1 image
It took years for movies dramatising the agony of the Vietnam conflict to hit the big screen, yet oddly enough a jaundiced contemporary view of the states seeped into a mass audience through Leone's spaghetti westerns. Remaining conspicuous through absence from the canons of motion picture greats, the stylistic flourishes of Sergio Leone westerns provide the popular mind with an immediate shorthand for the genre cinematically. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 10:50 by Séamus Ó Cadhain   text 41 comments (last - saturday february 19, 2005 - 18:28)   image 3 images
Today's Irish Independent is inferring that the IRA is to blame for an attack on the French windows at Michael McDowell's holiday home. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday February 14, 2005 - 09:58 by ramor ryan   text 11 comments (last - tuesday february 14, 2006 - 22:57)
Once this was a place of great hope. During the late 1980’s, the Sandinistas were consolidating the revolution in Nicaragua, the FMLN were on the brink of overthrowing the government in El Salvador and the radical movements in Guatemala and Honduras were gaining ground. Today it is a region convulsed by massive delinquency and chronic state corruption whose economies are surviving tenuously on remittance money sent by migrants. The defeat of the revolutionary movements has ushered in an era of social disintegration resulting in a veritable neo-liberal dystopia. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 13, 2005 - 22:57 by Michelle Clarke   text 21 comments (last - friday april 04, 2008 - 21:34)
'Why Sinn Fein are a bunch of lying, stealing, cheating, hypocritical bastards?

Freedom of the Press is to be valued and not jeopardised. I lived in Zimbabwe in the 1990's and alas I witnessed what control of the Press was all about......Let us preserve our right to report taking account of the words Ethics, Morality, Justice, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Peace..............

African Saying: 'The area covered by your life is not as important as what you build on it' ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Sunday February 13, 2005 - 21:28 by jim travers   text 2 comments (last - wednesday february 16, 2005 - 01:11)
bin tax protest and automotive disposal ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 11, 2005 - 23:42 by Nead   text 2 comments (last - monday february 14, 2005 - 18:37)
Economy is in massive debt: no problem, nuke your creditors! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 11, 2005 - 22:42 by Kevin Walsh   text 3 comments (last - monday april 09, 2007 - 21:42)
'Restorative Justice - Healing the Effects of Crime'
Written by Jim Consedine
'The Celtic Tradition: Repairing the Damage'
It then reads: Fivefold are Crimes
* the crime of the hand by wounding or stealing
* the crime of the foot, by kicking or moving to do evil deeds
* the crime of the tongue, by satire, Slander and False Witness
*crime of the mouth, by eating stolen things
*the crime of the eye, by watching while an evil deed is taking place

Brehon Law existed in Ireland until the final Tudor conquest in 1500.
The Irish had their own form of Criminal Justice System. The Brehon laws was based on its own form of restorative justice. These laws were replaced with the harsh retributive system of the coloniser!

Now......From Behon to a faltering Irish Peace Process.....Can we learn anything? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday February 11, 2005 - 12:41 by Dermo   text 5 comments (last - tuesday february 22, 2005 - 15:47)
A look at the never-ending story of the Peace process and its continious lurches from crisis, to hope to failure, and back again. We give this as a sample of some of the ideas and analysis that you can find in the latest issue of Workers Solidarity # 84 which is available though the usual outlets i.e. it's members! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday February 09, 2005 - 16:51 by Atlantix   text 24 comments (last - wednesday june 29, 2005 - 16:07)   image 2 images
Hoping to start some sort of heated but rational debate about the worthiness of summit protests. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Wednesday February 09, 2005 - 10:56 by Michael Hennigan   text 87 comments (last - tuesday june 06, 2006 - 13:36)   image 2 images
In Tuesday's 'An Irishman's Diary' in the Irish Times, Kevin Myers wrote of single parents milking the welfare system and repeatedly used the term 'bastards' for their children.

The use of an outdated perjoritive term for children who in times past were termed to have been 'born out of wedlock,' shows what an insensitive bastard the Irish Times has in its midst. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / sci-tech Wednesday February 09, 2005 - 01:18 by Cal Crilly   text 140 comments (last - monday december 04, 2006 - 23:51)   image 1 image
{[ED NOTE: April the 23rd 2005 is/was the first 'Aids Critics Day' } Overview of HIV/AIDS science problems, other causes and solutions.
Comments on HIV/AIDS fashion activism. ... read full story / add a comment
Bertie was up a tree at feeding time
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Monday February 07, 2005 - 22:55 by John McDermott   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 08, 2005 - 14:13)   image 5 images
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