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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 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.
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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.
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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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A Poster for the show on the window of the international bar.
dublin / arts and media Friday September 22, 2006 - 03:16 by Pinhead   text 1 comment (last - sunday july 15, 2007 - 13:11)   image 2 images
Lightswitch is a Dublin based production company promising to bring theatre goers the 'ridiculously serious and the seriously ridiculous.' If its chaotic humour and a theatre of the absurd they aspire to then through a healthy mangling of a Greek classic with Antigone Interactive, they hit the nail partially on the head but falter at the point of audience interaction and political depth. The Antigone lead comes across oozing sassy stylistic rebellion like a photo shot prepped baile funk star MIA - all gun belt for show and Che Guevara t-shirt as poseurish portend to an inevitable martyrdom for ritually burying her brother against her father's edicts. ... read full story / add a comment
Protests in Singapore
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday September 22, 2006 - 02:57 by Paul Baynes   image 1 image
During the week of the annual conference of the IMF and the World Bank, some thoughts on the nature of employment in the current phase of globalisation.

More and more, workers throughout the so-called developing world are relying on low paid, unstable employment in the informal economy. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 21, 2006 - 21:15 by Denmann
Pointers to organizing a purpose-driven group without relinquishing control to a boss. ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Thursday September 21, 2006 - 11:41 by Miriam Cotton   text 3 comments (last - friday september 22, 2006 - 12:52)
I have to take issue with Fergus Finlay’s article in last Tuesday's Irish Examiner (‘Aisling’s story shows how special people are doing it for themselves’).
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antrim / miscellaneous Thursday September 21, 2006 - 10:12 by W L Blower   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 25, 2006 - 12:51)
Just in case anyone in the SEELB area was wondering who the Governments appointed commissioners are. As you can see they represent a wide range of views that will enable them to make the right choices for the children, parents and employees in the area. Just checking there are two blue moons in the sky, and the pigs are on the runway ready for take off!!!!
Douglas Osler- Chairman of the Scottish Conservative policy advisory group.
Joan Christie O.B.E- Company Director, Chair of Ballymoney District policing partnership, Deputy Lieutenant of the county.
Lawson McDonald-Accountant and former senior executive with the investment agency the Industrial Development Board.
Pat Carvill-Former permanent secretary of the Department of education and the Department of finance and personnel in Northern Ireland, Member of the Government appointed Advisory Council of the Partnership UK 2002/03. PUK works with its public sector partners to deliver PFI/PPP solutions. ... read full story / add a comment
Fight Against Top Up Fees!
national / anti-capitalism Thursday September 21, 2006 - 01:40 by Radical Student   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 21, 2006 - 06:55)   image 1 image
By Dermot Keenan

The start of the 2006 / 2007 academic years brings with it, for the first time, the burden of top up fees on new students. Previously, most students in Britain and the North (except Scottish students studying in Scotland) pay a contribution towards their tuition fees (anything from £0-£1,250 a year).
... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday September 21, 2006 - 01:33 by Martin Hogan   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 21, 2006 - 18:54)
Gore places the scientific facts of global warming in a real life context that captures the attention of all but the most apathetic.

... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday September 20, 2006 - 17:53 by chomh glic le fear dlí   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 20, 2006 - 21:01)
This week Michael McDowell was on Today FM - he claimed that his party is a party of vision but then went on to say that the PDs propose to take an idea from the UK - to have Garda stations with bad records of solving crime inspected on a regular basis. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday September 19, 2006 - 21:57 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 48 comments (last - wednesday april 15, 2009 - 09:19)
Criminal Asset Bureau, ARA,

The concept of power; absolute power

Quotation:

Freedom
'The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State.
The only one I know is Freedom of Thought and Action

Albert Camus (1915-1960) French Writer ... read full story / add a comment
McDowell reckons that the Gardaí are doing a "fantastic job."
limerick / crime and justice Tuesday September 19, 2006 - 19:29 by Seán Ryan   text 20 comments (last - saturday june 23, 2007 - 12:46)   image 1 image
Crime in Limerick is spiralling out of control. Another man was killed in Moyross on Sunday night after being shot in the head. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 19, 2006 - 15:10 by Chris Murray   text 11 comments (last - friday september 29, 2006 - 11:08)
" Since last week the Labour Party has consistently argued for the closing off of
this loophole. For that reason when the Government was persuaded to deal with
it this week, last night we facilitated it being taken, which is the reason for us not
voting against the order of business.However , we have not seen the bill and there will be
little time to look at the issue. I urge the Tanaiste to cause the Minister for Justice , Equality
and Law reform to make it available as soon as possible. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday September 19, 2006 - 01:02 by David Manning   text 8 comments (last - wednesday september 20, 2006 - 22:17)
Five years on since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the wars that precipitated from that act are now discussed in frustratingly candid terms. While the thousands of American deaths are fittingly remembered as avoidable tragedies, the military responses, claiming the lives of many more innocent people, are described as 'mistakes' and 'necessities'. ... read full story / add a comment
escaping from planet of the apes
louth / arts and media Monday September 18, 2006 - 19:12 by eekkkk   image 1 image
It is a weird and wonderful feeling to realise that right in front of you for once in your life in this sorry excuse for a nation that someone is actually describing in song life (as opposed to romance) as it is lived outside of the tiny Irish celebrity bubble and to realise that your unhappy hometown has unambiguously produced a living poet. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Monday September 18, 2006 - 19:04 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi   text 61 comments (last - tuesday october 10, 2006 - 22:24)   image 8 images
Regardless of one's position on faith groups, comparatively recent concepts of world civilisation blocks, secularism, state & religious group relations - the importance of this last week's papal history can not quickly be underestimated.

Though I come to considering Ratzinger's personal apology for his anti-Islamic comments whilst on holidays in his native Bavaria from old fashioned anti-papist prejudice. Benedict XVI who wanted us all to consider his job as supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic church in the terms of the last war-time (WW1) pacifist "Benedict" has instead made history as the first pope to publically apologise.

& what a lame effort it was, as one nun lies murdered in a inter-religious sectarian attack in Africa & the Vatican city endures its highest level security alert since the mid 19th century. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Sunday September 17, 2006 - 18:03 by diren   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 27, 2006 - 00:23)
The proposed legislation to ‘manage immigration’ has far-reaching consequences, not only for immigrants, but also for Irish society. While the government preaches integration, it is doing everything to undermine it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday September 17, 2006 - 16:43 by Chris Murray   text 22 comments (last - friday march 02, 2007 - 19:13)
The Sunday news this morning is reporting that Judge Brian Curtin, who was arrested as part
of operation amethyst- the sweep on Child pornography users may make use of an 'out'.

He will be allowed to retire in November on the Grounds of ill-health.

This means that the impeachment process will not continue.
This means that the Oireachtas committee which has been investigating
the case will be stopped.

The Judge never faced criminal charges due to a technicality, the date of his arrest
was wrongly entered into the books

... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Sunday September 17, 2006 - 15:40 by Éamonn Ó Flannagáin
Ministers have been warned about accepting Ryder Cup hospitality but what about Civil Servants. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Sunday September 17, 2006 - 00:15 by lumsk   text 1 comment (last - sunday september 17, 2006 - 17:57)
Are we as people living in Ireland doing enough to avert the climate catastrophe that faces us all across the globe? ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Saturday September 16, 2006 - 12:24 by W. Finnerty.   text 48 comments (last - tuesday november 28, 2006 - 13:11)   image 3 images
Is it possible to easily (and lawfully) find out if a particular person is a Freemason?

I realise it is possible to simply ask them; but, would this be permitted in a court room I wonder? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 15, 2006 - 20:21 by Elizabeth Cook
Citizens of New Orleans are taking it upon themselves to enforce the right of return with everyday acts of civil disobedience. Public housing residents in particular are fighting back. HUD is attempting to shutter all of public housing in New Orleans, but residents have forced the reopening of Iberville Housing Development, and have attempted reoccupation of two other developments. ... read full story / add a comment
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