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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

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offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

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offsite link Health Secretary Could Change Law to Update Covid Vaccine Compensation Scheme Mon Jan 13, 2025 15:58 | Will Jones
Health Secretary Wes Streeting is looking at changing the law regarding compensation for?people harmed by Covid vaccines?amid concern it doesn't offer enough support, with just ?120,000 available for those "60%" disabled.
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offsite link Letby Accuser Likely Part Responsible for Baby O Death, Expert Review Finds Mon Jan 13, 2025 13:34 | Dr David Livermore
One of Lucy Letby's chief accusers was likely part responsible for the death of Baby O due to "suboptimal care", an expert review has found, casting further doubt on the nurse's convictions, says Prof David Livermore.
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offsite link The Cold Truth ? Britain?s Grim Winter?s Tale Mon Jan 13, 2025 11:15 | Sallust
Governments don't stay in power if they make people cold and poor, but that's a lesson Britain's recent and present administrations don't seem to have learned, as green ideology pushes freezing Britain into fuel poverty.
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offsite link Paper Showing Earth?s Atmosphere Has Become ?Saturated? With Carbon Dioxide and More Carbon Emission... Mon Jan 13, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Is there such a thing as a Daily Sceptic effect? asks Environment Editor Chris Morrison. After he praised a paper running counter to the 'settled' climate narrative, it was retracted.
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offsite link The Establishment Figures Involved in Trying to Suppress the Story of Britain?s Rape Gangs Mon Jan 13, 2025 07:00 | Laurie Wastell
Twenty one years ago, Channel 4 pulled a documentary about Asian rape gangs in Bradford after coming under pressure from an 'anti-racist' group that included several senior members of the British establishment.
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national / anti-capitalism Sunday August 12, 2007 - 13:18 by Strategic   text 8 comments (last - sunday august 12, 2007 - 21:48)   image 1 image
A short synopsis of ten Years of FF. Reaction Welcome.

http://www.savetara.com ... read full story / add a comment
Sean Crudden
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 11, 2007 - 15:42 by Sean Crudden   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 26, 2013 - 20:07)   image 1 image
Brendan O'Donnell died in the central mental hospital a young man (~ 23) about 10 years ago. Whatever happened him the event set alarm bells ringing in my mind. Is it too late now (or too soon?) to seek a transparent public account of his death and how it came about? He was a triple murderer, physically strong and, as far as I know, suicide was not a factor. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday August 09, 2007 - 15:38 by C.
Having had our bags stolen in Belfast many years ago, we got invited to Anderstown social club by
some fellas who had tried to stop the snatchers and we went to the club. It is a memory etched
onto my brain and says something important about community memory and retaining those
places for the upcoming generations of this Our Island.

Politically naive southerners like myself did not know the North of Ireland, nor where it was 'safe'
to go , back in the nineties; but you learn quickly enough. our hiking trip coincided with some
appalling tragedies and personal dangers that are largely gone. The London type taxis
Which were 50p were operating and some drivers were being sniped on call-out. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Wednesday August 08, 2007 - 13:41 by Emer McGann   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 12, 2007 - 12:31)
Rooming in’ involves the care of a newborn infant in a cot near the mother’s bed instead of in a nursery during their hospital stay. This has very many positive advantages for the mother and baby in terms of bonding and getting to know the new baby’s routine in the early days of its life and also the instant availability of the mother for feeding, a recognised bonding time be it bottle or breast. Rooming in also has many advantages for maternity hospitals in terms reduction in requirements for nursery spaces in hospitals and therefore, reduction in numbers of staff required to supervise the nurseries and take care of the infants. Most Irish maternity hospitals operate a full rooming in policy but the question is - Do Irish Maternity Hospitals support rooming in? ... read full story / add a comment
On The Hill Of Tara
national / history and heritage Monday August 06, 2007 - 19:29 by Susan Repasky   text 20 comments (last - sunday september 30, 2007 - 22:02)   image 6 images
Moments of time, reflecting on the importance of Tara as the Spiritual Center of Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Monday August 06, 2007 - 10:25 by I. Greene   text 10 comments (last - wednesday september 19, 2007 - 17:57)
Not only are obstacles being placed in Michael McKevitt’s path depriving him of the right to defend himself in the Omagh Civil action, but a clear stitch-up is emerging ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Saturday August 04, 2007 - 18:23 by Susan Repasky   text 51 comments (last - monday august 13, 2007 - 02:28)   image 8 images
An open letter to the current Taoiseach of Ireland regarding the M-3 motorway scheme. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 04, 2007 - 18:21 by Cuban Libertarian Movement
* Interview by the Russian newspaper SITUATION from libertarian collective Autonomous Action www.avtonom.org regarding the current political picture in the island. A Spanish translation was published in El Libertario #50, Venezuela, 2007. For more info go to: www.mlc.contrapoder.org.ve -cuban anarchist website- and www.nodo50.org/ellibertario ... read full story / add a comment
Minimalist Scales
national / crime and justice Tuesday July 31, 2007 - 19:47 by Time Elapsed...   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 01, 2007 - 15:35)   image 1 image

The Law Reform Commission has today in the height of the balmy Irish Summer
released a PDF doc. on the removing of conviction from personal record -after time lapse-
The time mentioned in the report http://www.lawreform.ie is seven years. The time
lapse being pertinent , but no mention of the the crime. Being Pernickety here but surely
the type of crime removed from record is important too. Some sexual offences, for instance
carry only six month sentences, such as custodial time for down-loading internet child
porn. The issue of paedophilia and its sentences does not come into the report but
constraints will be placed on the people who have been imprisoned for crime in sensitive
areas such as in 'The Care of Children' ... read full story / add a comment
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derry / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 30, 2007 - 14:55 by Catalan Solidarity   text 7 comments (last - tuesday july 31, 2007 - 19:43)   image 5 images
Members of the Catalan Solidarity: Ireland Committee erected a mural in Derry’s Bogside following a week of events designed to create greater awareness of the continuing fight for self-determination and independence by the people of Catalonia from 300 years of Spanish and French occupation. ... read full story / add a comment
Disney land
national / crime and justice Saturday July 28, 2007 - 11:05 by Caller   text 38 comments (last - wednesday august 29, 2007 - 10:09)   image 2 images
The images of the assault of a young woman campaigner at one of the 38
archaelogical sites on the route of the Proposed M3 by members of a private company;
and the criminalisation of those campaigners who have given time and energy
to forwarding awareness of the ecological and heritage implications of the
bi-section of the Gabhra Valley necessitates inquiry.

John Gormley has stated that his hands are tied and he can do nothing 'unless
something new comes up'. Well ,his hands may be tied but they have not been
placed in handcuffs for asserting the individuals right to protest. He has not been
jailed for conscientous objection.

I am calling on John Gormley to meet with the eight people who have been criminalised
and to speak to them about the brutal attacks that we have witnessed on this newswire.
The concerns of the campaigns regarding the liscensing of the 38 sites, the abuse of
mandate by Minister Roche and the failure of his Dept to engage with the issue.

... read full story / add a comment
Our day will Come
national / anti-capitalism Friday July 27, 2007 - 14:00 by Mick Hall   text 6 comments (last - sunday june 15, 2008 - 20:14)   image 1 image
There are important lessons for the Irish Left to learn from the outcome of the recent General Election in the south of Ireland. Not least if the left is to build support and gain momentum at the Ballot box, it must offer its core electorate policies that give hope to Society and especially those within it who are less well off economically. The Left need to collectively draw up a program that advocates re-unification, greater freedom's and democratic accountability, full employment, fairness in the work place, a sustainable environment; affordable homes, and a re-distribution of wealth which brings to an end the massive chasm that has opened up between the wealthy and the majority of the Irish people during Bertie Ahearn's period in office. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Friday July 27, 2007 - 13:29 by MikW
Set in the DDR in 1984, actors, stasi, writers and politicians display some of the
best and worst vestiges of humanity against a backdrop of dimly lit deserted streets, grey buildings
and fenced in feelings. Stasi agent Wiesler a loyal servant of the party and the state believes
writer Georg Dreyman to be not so loyal, a crime in the stasi agents eyes.
Wiesler gets his chance to nail the writer when the corrupt and seedy Minister Of Culture decides he wants Dreyman to be found guilty of anything. The politicians motives have nothing to do with love of party or state. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 26, 2007 - 16:25 by Con Carroll   text 13 comments (last - thursday august 09, 2007 - 21:39)
first they came for the Jews, I didn't speak out I was not a Jew. then they came for the Communists. I didn't speak out. then they came for people with disabilities. I didn't speak out. then they came for me. no one spoke out for me. ... read full story / add a comment
meath / history and heritage Wednesday July 25, 2007 - 23:41 by Susan Repasky
The following has been sent to newspapers in Ireland and the US regarding the arrest and subsequent imposition of conditional bail agreement on seven protesters against the construction of the M-3. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 22, 2007 - 20:24 by Cutter   text 14 comments (last - saturday august 11, 2007 - 09:32)
The Six One News tonight was followed by a Consumer Soap Opera 'Docu' special
on the intimacies and murder of the O Reilly Marriage. Serious Reporters
discussed with alacrity the 'ins' and 'outs' of the case. This is because RTE
are consumer driven shite and incapable of Opinion and analysis.
-They like to give the public what it wants-

This kind of mentality drives US Consumer TV where Newsreaders burn
reports on Paris Hilton. When did RTE last analyse Geo- political movements
GM/ECO/. It has become popcorn TV for the Great brainwashed Irish Nation. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday July 19, 2007 - 15:54 by herself   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 19, 2007 - 21:07)
I have a problem with many activists- those who go on about social justice such as socialists often ignore environmental issues, likewise Greens and environmentalists tend to think social justice issues aren't that important- they are after all usually middle class..... ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 19, 2007 - 13:30 by David Michael   text 13 comments (last - tuesday july 31, 2007 - 12:15)
With four people now imprisoned and the bulldozers about to desecrate sacred land of Tara some say this might be the end-but it couold be the beginning. Where do we go from here? ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Thursday July 19, 2007 - 12:41 by Ann-Marie   text 16 comments (last - friday august 03, 2007 - 16:23)   image 5 images
Public Meeting for Critical Mass held on tthe 18th July 2007 partially in response to recent discussions of Critcal Mass on Indymedia to highlight and discuss the criticisms and strengthen Critical Mass in Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday July 19, 2007 - 08:37 by Undercover reporter   text 3 comments (last - tuesday july 24, 2007 - 13:00)
Multiple well functioning A&E's to close across Ireland, why? ... read full story / add a comment
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