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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

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offsite link The Death of Diversity Kitsch Fri Jan 31, 2025 18:01 | Dr David McGrogan
Diversity kitsch is all around us. But as the grim fact forcefully confronts us that some immigrants hate their hosts so much they want to murder and rape them, David McGrogan senses that it is at last falling from favour.
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offsite link Transgender Emilia P?rez Star Under Fire for Anti-Islam and Anti-BLM Social Media Posts Fri Jan 31, 2025 15:10 | Will Jones
The transgender?star of Emilia P?rez, Karla Sof?a Gasc?n, has come under fire over anti-Islam and anti-BLM social media posts. Another diverse person who missed the intersectional memo ? always one for the popcorn.
The post Transgender Emilia P?rez Star Under Fire for Anti-Islam and Anti-BLM Social Media Posts appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Reeves CV ? More Questions Fri Jan 31, 2025 13:00 | David Craig
David Craig has some more CV questions for Rachel Reeves. Including: was her meteoric rise to Chancellor via the HBOS complaints department due to getting an undisclosed leg-up or two from her Labour connections?
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offsite link Tenth of Farmland to be Axed for Net Zero Fri Jan 31, 2025 11:28 | Will Jones
More than 10% of farmland in England is set to be?diverted towards helping to achieve Net Zero?and protecting wildlife by 2050, the Environment Secretary will reveal today.
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offsite link Badenoch Rebukes Priti Patel for Defending Sky High Immigration Under Tories Fri Jan 31, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel has been rebuked by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch after she?defended sky-high immigration?under the Conservatives when she was Home Secretary.
The post Badenoch Rebukes Priti Patel for Defending Sky High Immigration Under Tories appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / arts and media Monday February 16, 2009 - 13:06 by Paul O' Sullivan
What Senators say on Sundays ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday February 12, 2009 - 17:50 by [email protected]
Sixty-five thousand people in the cold, lots of vilis but only one Robbie Keane. But it's important to say it like it is, in football and politics. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Wednesday February 11, 2009 - 23:29 by Paul O' Sullivan   video 2 video files
Oh, Pat. We really can't stand you now. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday February 10, 2009 - 19:07 by Paul O' Sullivan
Takes four seasons to find one's voice ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday February 09, 2009 - 22:44 by jim travers   text 13 comments (last - wednesday march 18, 2009 - 16:12)
The man is in a corner, his party in a hole, the opposition lining up to take on the government’s toxic debts
and Ireland once again is in an economic shithole that was brought about by political representatives who neither knew how to spend wisely nor how to manage properly, in case of a rainy day, the state’s finances. Joe Higgins was a total gobeen for telling us that we were on a slide to disaster, while David McWilliams was criticised by everybody and anybody who proudly professed their expertise in the financial affairs of the state. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday February 08, 2009 - 19:33 by Paul O' Sullivan   text 5 comments (last - sunday october 17, 2010 - 12:42)
Last week, Martin Mansergh unwittingly gave an insight into the Fianna Fail's attitude toward the opinions of the electorate. His appearance on TV3 was a reminder of his less antagonising sibling. ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Saturday February 07, 2009 - 01:13 by Conor.M   text 62 comments (last - sunday march 08, 2009 - 14:17)
Third level fees should be re-introduced. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 06, 2009 - 10:00 by Gavin   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 10, 2009 - 06:08)
Dublin Bus is slated to see huge cuts in both staff and services. As many as 290 workers and 100 buses will be cut. This means fewer routes and less frequent service. If the Dublin Bus workers go on strike, it will mean an inconvenience for a few days. However, if they take action and force the company to back down, it will in the long run save us all time and money and will help the environment. It will also serve as a message to the politicians. If they want cuts, they can start by tightening the belts at the top, not the bottom. The politicians are giving bailouts to bankers while they hand out cuts to workers and commuters. It's clear where the money to support public services should come from. It should come from the people who created the crisis!
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 05, 2009 - 18:39 by Con Carroll   text 1 comment (last - friday february 06, 2009 - 13:15)
class political identification. this is not a recession this was well though out political economic agenda. this is war against the working class by capitalist interests ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 05, 2009 - 17:04 by Gerry Downing   text 7 comments (last - saturday may 30, 2009 - 21:37)
The strike is now coming to a conclusion. The British labour movement will emerge from it a great deal worse that when it began. The negotiations are centred around which nationality gets which jobs, with even more reactionary demands emerging from the SP that jobs should be 'local'. The strike began about BJ4BW, some gave whole hearted support and pretended the posters, union jacks and pickets comments were just 'media lies' (Galloway et al), others came to the schizophrenic conclusion that the strike might be on reactionary demands, but ‘really’, dialectically, in a contradictory way it was about a fight to advance the rights of all workers and since it might become that it was ok – a sort of ‘if your aunt had balls’ argument.
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national / miscellaneous Thursday February 05, 2009 - 14:33 by Paul O' Sullivan
A look at who's really to blame from a self-confessed Celtic Tiger cub ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 04, 2009 - 18:36 by Mik Wilde
Is the use of intrusive technology like that used by BetEire to track who is using the M50, when they used it and to extort payment for usage the first step down the road to where technology of this kind will be used to track and control our every movement? ... read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous Tuesday February 03, 2009 - 21:35 by Paul O' Sullivan   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 04, 2009 - 19:35)   1 attached file
Account of covering local council meetings ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 03, 2009 - 19:17 by Clare Gallagher   text 5 comments (last - thursday february 05, 2009 - 08:42)
What a biased media rhetoric we really have in this country! The agenda of RTE has become apparent to anyone tuning in to so-called National Broadcaster that it serves to maintain the interests of the social order. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday January 27, 2009 - 21:33 by Sean Matthews   text 7 comments (last - wednesday march 11, 2009 - 16:26)
DUP MLA Sammy Wilson claims jobs should be given to locals before migrant workers.
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national / anti-capitalism Tuesday January 27, 2009 - 10:26 by 1st of May branch   image 1 image
For almost twenty years those of us who argued for an alternative to capitalism were told There Is No Alternative (TINA). We were presented with two arguments, firstly that capitalism was resulting in increased prosperity across the world and over time there would be a trickle down of that prosperity so that even the poorest would benefit. And secondly that socialism meant dictatorship and inefficiency so whatever our ideals it was no real alternative. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday January 23, 2009 - 14:25 by Marie O'Connor   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 24, 2009 - 13:08)
Privatisation is at the heart of the Government's so-called 'reform programme' in health. Now cloaked by the current economic crisis, the present 'slash and burn' approach to public health services, has been in preparation since the mid-90s. 'Transformation' is a code for marketisation. ... read full story / add a comment
Crisis : Danger + Opportunity
national / environment Thursday January 22, 2009 - 13:40 by Dunk   text 4 comments (last - monday january 26, 2009 - 19:26)   image 3 images   video 2 video files   audio 1 audio file
Dear Pat, (Wednesday 21 January, 2009)

Strange times indeed!

Yesterday Martin Luther King’s dream was realised with Barack Obama becoming the first black president of the united States. Today sees Ireland celebrating, after much movement building based on Hope and Bold-ness of vision, the 90th anniversary since the first meeting of Dail Éireann.

But strangest of all is that we are living in times of such climate catastrophe, which threatens our collective existence regardless of nation and race, and in Ireland this fact is neither sufficiently recognised, nor is sufficient assistance given to those with visions for sustainable change. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday January 22, 2009 - 01:22 by Liz Curry   text 1 comment (last - thursday january 22, 2009 - 16:30)
This is an attempt at a summary of the results of questionnaires, interviews and a focus group at the Dublin Grassroots Gathering in June 2008 on the theme of what is winning in horizontal activism. This was done to hopefully be part of a broader movement discussion on goals, strategies, and visions. Thanks again to everyone who participated. Long may the experiments continue! Queries and comments welcome. Thanks again! ... read full story / add a comment
Daily Mail front page from 27 January 2007
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 20, 2009 - 11:56 by Shane OCURRY   image 1 image
It reads more like the adoring parish gazette piece about the bell ringer retiring after 30 years of good Christian service, than objective reporting about the significant, and highly unusual development of a Chief Constable being called to give evidence before an Inquiry into the murder of a solicitor in circumstances that are suggestive of a security force cover-up, if not actual collusion in the murder. It is hard to imagine how anyone could have heaped more praise onto the north of Ireland's former security top-dog. ... read full story / add a comment
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