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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 Medical Journal Article Criticises Corrupt Medical Journals Mon Jan 27, 2025 17:15 | Dr Raphael Lataster
Springer Nature medical journal?Cureus has just published a peer-reviewed article on the corruption of major medical journals. One of the authors, Dr Raphael Lataster, summarises his argument.
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offsite link How to Make a Heat Pump Work in an Old House Mon Jan 27, 2025 15:15 | Sallust
People say heat pumps don't work in older houses. But Tim Adams has proved them wrong ? and all it took was thousands of pounds and two years of tweaking. Now he saves ?5 a week. It'll pay for itself by the time he's 107.
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offsite link Southport Attacker Axel Rudakubana Had Declared the Need for ?White Genocide?. Is This Why the Autho... Mon Jan 27, 2025 13:10 | Laurie Wastell
Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana had declared the need for "white genocide". Is this why the authorities are so adamant that it wasn't a terrorist offence?
The post Southport Attacker Axel Rudakubana Had Declared the Need for “White Genocide”. Is This Why the Authorities are so Adamant it Wasn’t a Terrorist Offence? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Record ?2.4 Billion in CfD Subsidies Paid Out in 2024 Mon Jan 27, 2025 11:00 | David Turver
A record-smashing ?2.4 billion in CfD subsidies was paid out in 2024, with offshore wind pocketing ?1.9 billion. David Turver crunches the numbers to reveal what it means for UK energy bills.
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offsite link New Findings Show No Decline in the Strength of the Gulf Stream Since the 1960s Mon Jan 27, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Another alarmist climate scare story bites the dust as new findings published in Nature show no decline in the strength of the Gulf Stream since the 1960s. Seems the 'day after tomorrow' won't be freezing after all.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 03, 2007 - 05:59 by Con Carroll   text 6 comments (last - tuesday november 06, 2007 - 01:15)
ignorance only happens because we allow it. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Tuesday October 02, 2007 - 10:16 by Domhain Sceadaman   text 28 comments (last - sunday march 30, 2008 - 18:20)
During the period September 1992 to February 1993 an estimated £IR2.5 Billion was made by currency speculators ofshore betting against and for the Punt ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 01, 2007 - 15:29 by Davy Carlin   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 20, 2008 - 13:34)
This is Part 4 of an online series for Indymedia Ireland, in which I will write one final Part in the time ahead.

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Banners at a protest
kildare / miscellaneous Wednesday September 26, 2007 - 23:15 by Gosimeon   text 1 comment (last - sunday september 30, 2007 - 22:16)   image 5 images
White Water Shopping Centre is at the centre of an ongoing drama in Newbridge, County Kildare. The developer's, Ballymore Properties, have reneged on their promise to build a 6-screen cinema as part of the massive White Water Shopping Centre. Instead they have tried for over a year to change the cinema space to retail space. They have tried every trick in the book to do so. Here's an outline. ... read full story / add a comment
Some day they will isolate the hormone which causes shock & sell it.
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday September 25, 2007 - 17:56 by ribbid   text 22 comments (last - saturday january 08, 2011 - 21:15)   image 2 images
This week saw a state wide campaign launched in Italy to stop anorexia nervosa the psychological eating condition which overwhelmingly but not exclusively is suffered by women. There have been many campaigns to stop anorexia since the condition first gained prominence just around post-war period when Europeans generally had enough to eat again. But the campaign launched by Oliviero Toscani of Benetton notoriety could just as easily be accused of body fascism & means something more. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday September 24, 2007 - 22:23 by Oisín Ó Conail   text 3 comments (last - thursday september 27, 2007 - 02:05)
Much of debate about Genetically-Modified Organisms (GMO's) focuses on arguing about possible health issues; but are there other problems associated with patenting food-supplies, such as political and economic control? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 24, 2007 - 11:26 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
In his column in the Irish Times, the Washington Post's opinionator Charles Krauthammer has said that General Petraeus can defeat Al-Qaeda in Iraq. I disagree!

Far from defeating Al-Qaeda, the US occupation provides Islamist fighters with ideal terrain on which to recruit and train to overthrow Mr Bush’s friends in the house of Al-Saud, and does nothing to prevent Al-Qaeda cells elsewhere from planning attacks elsewhere.

Krauthammer’s comments bear no resemblance to the realities of fighting Al-Qaeda, and every resemblance to a propagandum formulated by the White House to justify a military strategy whose chances of success are next to nil. Krauthammer tells us nothing about Iraq, and everything about Washington.

Whte House staff are sure to go on vigorously propagating this implausible "We can defeat Al-Qaeda in Iraq" message in the media in coming months. My counter-analysis provides a copyright-free debunker for reuse as needs arise. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday September 23, 2007 - 00:15 by Rafael Uzcategui   text 5 comments (last - tuesday september 25, 2007 - 01:42)
* A member of the editorial collective of El Libertario (www.nodo50.org/ellibertario; in Spanish & English) prepared this article for the 6th edition of the Costa Rican (A) journal La Libertad [September 2007; http://revistalalibertad.blogspot.com] in response to an inconsistent effort to establish impossible affinities between Chavism and Anarchism. ... read full story / add a comment
Scargill- A BBC Image
international / arts and media Saturday September 22, 2007 - 14:14 by C Murray   text 4 comments (last - saturday september 22, 2007 - 20:18)   image 2 images

The preamble to 'V':-

"My Father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to Master
words" Arthur Scargill, Sunday Times, 10th January 1982.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Scargill

'V', by Tony Harrison is no means his definite statement on or deconstruction of the systems
of power that mitigate against people, that would involve a look at his entire work, which include
his use of the Leeds vernacular in 'The Mysteries', his Translations of Seneca, which informed
the 'Theatre Works', his defence of ordinary people in Bosnia, Bradford, northern ireland
and his television collaborations which are collected in 'The Shadow of Hiroshima and
other film poems'

But in the last week the bogeys of the Thatcherite era have been re-surfacing in photo and
press and contemporarising for the neo-cons.. The Brown regime.
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national / consumer issues Friday September 21, 2007 - 23:58 by Gwen   text 5 comments (last - sunday september 23, 2007 - 12:55)   image 2 images
Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan T.D. drastically cut subsidies for energy efficient homes on September 3rd and today Minister Gormley introduces regulations requiring the use of renewable energy systems in new buildings at the expense of the buyers. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 20, 2007 - 22:09 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 3 comments (last - sunday march 15, 2009 - 19:22)
The circus continues in relation to Bertie's cash lodgements and handouts - I will return to this in a minute....

But first I would like to point out the cutbacks in Sligo Hospital as reported today and as Drumm, the new God to Health said 'there are new limits now'. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 20, 2007 - 13:23 by Adrian Nally   text 5 comments (last - sunday october 07, 2007 - 12:50)
Open letter to Minister John Gormley TD. The letter outlines how Limerick County Council's motor tax office have forced me off the road and are now failing to take responsibility for my plight. It is a complaint to the Minister, in the hopes that he may help to resolve the situation. I have not had an acknowledgement from the Minister's department yet in relation to my email. I have circulated my letter to a number of newspapers and it remains to be seen if they publish its contents. ... read full story / add a comment
Oops
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday September 18, 2007 - 13:17 by Seán Ryan   text 51 comments (last - tuesday october 09, 2007 - 11:48)   image 1 image
Bush's puppet exposed and incinerated.

Al Qaeda not in Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday September 18, 2007 - 12:55 by PaddyK   text 10 comments (last - saturday february 02, 2008 - 23:11)   image 1 image
25 years on and the world simply forgets the Sabra and Shatila Massacres. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / environment Tuesday September 18, 2007 - 11:39 by John Baker   text 5 comments (last - friday september 28, 2007 - 14:33)
This conference was organised by the Irish branch of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil to bring together people from government and the industry as well as some of those working to alleviate the problems. Unfortunately for a variety of reasons Cork Shell to Sea has so far been unable to gain entry but stimulated by the ideas presented on the ASPO website and our own experinces we put this leaflet together that we think raises points that anyone working in this area would do well to consider. This is the text, we plan to distribute this leaflet outside the conference later today and to write a further article in the next day or two. ... read full story / add a comment
by 2007 man will have harnessed the power of the Gerbil
international / environment Sunday September 16, 2007 - 15:43 by Fu Manchu   text 1 comment (last - saturday april 05, 2008 - 08:55)   image 1 image
Each year the average Italian eats 28kg of Pasta which is derived from wheat. This week Italians were urged to go on "pasta strike" to protest rising wheat costs which has seen their daily staple increase 20% in the last year. Elsewhere in Europe shoppers and eaters have found the price of bread rising in similar fashion. For their part farmers blame changing climatic conditions which increase voracious vermin (who doth eat the wheat) and stricter measures by governments to combat climate related problems (the hot sun doth prepare the land for fires thus seeing its chaff & voles burnt increases forest fires) and of course the war on Iraq (for increasing the cost of all oil including red diesel). All pretty convincing reasoning in a passing casual interest slice of toast sort of way.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday September 16, 2007 - 14:04 by john throne
The Service Employees Internation Union in the USA has led the way in the policy of co-operation with management. It is now facing increased opposition from within its own ranks to this policy. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 15, 2007 - 11:26 by Davy Carlin   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 04, 2009 - 12:15)
This is part three of four parts in this series

A Legacy
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A Pyrrhic dance
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday September 14, 2007 - 16:46 by Seán Ryan   text 2 comments (last - sunday september 16, 2007 - 14:15)   image 6 images
Bush no longer looking for victory.

30,000 American troops to be pulled.

The future of Shannon?

Will we help to bomb and subdue Iran too? ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday September 14, 2007 - 07:54 by Brian   text 24 comments (last - monday june 29, 2009 - 13:22)   image 1 image
An attempt to answer some of the criticisms of 'conspiracy theorists', to show that factors in modern society make it all too possible for conspiracies to exist, and difficult for them to be exposed. ... read full story / add a comment
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