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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

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Eco-Anxiety Affects More Than Three Quarters of Children Under 12 Mon Feb 03, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
'Eco-anxiety' affects 78% of children under 12, a crisis that teachers say they are unable to cope with, new polling by Greenpeace has found. The solution? More ruthless exposure of children to alarmist material.
The post Eco-Anxiety Affects More Than Three Quarters of Children Under 12 appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Keir Starmer Denies Breaking Lockdown Rules as it Emerges he Took a Private Acting Lesson During Cov... Mon Feb 03, 2025 18:06 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer?has denied breaking lockdown?rules after it emerged he had a face-to-face acting lesson with a voice coach on Christmas Eve 2020 when London was under strict Covid restrictions.
The post Keir Starmer Denies Breaking Lockdown Rules as it Emerges he Took a Private Acting Lesson During Covid Restrictions appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Elon Musk Shuts Down US Government Foreign Aid Agency and Locks Out 600 Staffers Overnight After Tru... Mon Feb 03, 2025 15:41 | Will Jones
Elon Musk?and President?Donald Trump?shut down USAID, the federal Government foreign aid agency, and locked out 600 employees overnight after the pair agreed it was "beyond repair". Afuera!
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offsite link Food Firms Revolt Against Net Zero Over Australia?s Energy Crisis Mon Feb 03, 2025 13:00 | Sallust
Firms supplying food to major Australian supermarkets have launched a revolt against Net Zero, urging the Government to dump its renewables targets and focus on ramping up gas and coal production to cut electricity prices.
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offsite link Wind Turbine Bursts into Flames Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
A wind turbine has burst into flames in Cambridgeshire ? the latest instance of an issue previously described by Imperial College London as a "big problem" that is not being "fully reported".
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday May 25, 2006 - 14:38 by Liam Mullen   text 9 comments (last - monday june 15, 2009 - 10:51)
Although FAS JobsIreland have been in the news a lot lately regarding their proposed move under decentralisation, many of their job advertisements in recent months seem designed to promote illegal immigration. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday May 25, 2006 - 14:01 by chekov
In the Sunday Independent of May 21st, Gene Kerrigan pointed out that the leaks of the Tribal Secta reports into the health service, which were reported as front page news by the Sunday Independent on several occasions, were misrepresentations of the whole truth. Unfortunately, the editor seems happy to continue the tradition, as evidenced by the front page of the edition in which Kerrigan’s article appeared. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday May 24, 2006 - 01:50 by jim travers
The Celtic tiger in the Republic of Ireland has shown that Protestants and Catholics on the island of Ireland can work and live in peace and harmony with one another, once the society they live in accommodates that need.
See also: Opinion/analysis- Dublin-Miscellaneous.....jim travers ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Wednesday May 24, 2006 - 01:13 by jim travers   text 1 comment (last - friday may 26, 2006 - 15:55)
Commodity is one of the basic fundamental requirements that enable the capitalist system to operate in a world of varied political, religious and multi-racial societies. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Tuesday May 23, 2006 - 18:16 by Liam Ó Maoláin   text 12 comments (last - monday november 17, 2008 - 16:43)
A review in Irish of the the Irish media scene. Native Irish speakers should ignore any errors on my part in relation to grammar etc. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday May 23, 2006 - 17:40 by Liam Ó Maoláin   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 24, 2006 - 21:24)
The assumptions lying behind “mass communications research” have altered in the light of new evidence thrown up in a report published in 1970, entitled “Demonstrations and Communications.” (Halloran, Elliott and Murdock ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday May 23, 2006 - 16:32 by Liam Mullen
Audiences see TV as a producer of news and entertainment products but in fact its core role is producing ideologies. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 22, 2006 - 23:11 by Patrique   text 94 comments (last - monday august 13, 2007 - 21:57)   image 1 image
NIPSA conference meets next week to decide policies and principles. But who decides these, the members and branches, or General Council. ... read full story / add a comment
He broke the law again - He alone may write the law, change the law, ignore the law, stretch the law....& get away with it everytime.
national / crime and justice Monday May 22, 2006 - 17:22 by iosaf   text 6 comments (last - friday september 29, 2006 - 13:55)   image 1 image
Mc Dowell wanted us to ponder this :-
"Probably the most important one is that the United Nations high commissioner's representative in Ireland and his predecessor have both pointed to the fact that the Irish system is one of the best in Europe and that it's a good and fair one and that it's transparent, that it's subject to judicial review."

Most of us of course disagree. But one word of Mc Dowell's statement made last week & republished again in today's Irish Times screams out for more attention :-
"Transparent".
... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday May 21, 2006 - 23:41 by Hs   text 67 comments (last - thursday june 01, 2006 - 13:31)   image 7 images
On Saturday we witnessed one of Ireland’s first organised racist counter demonstrations. The demonstrators while being made up of what can only be described as very disenfranchised poor who were joined in the evenings by an assortment of drunks. But there was at least on Saturday afternoon a number of ordinary working class residents who were angered at the attention being drawn to the refugees, while their local area suffered huge social problems. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 21, 2006 - 16:14 by sean   text 7 comments (last - monday may 22, 2006 - 20:02)   image 1 image
marginalised anti hunger strike protestors ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Sunday May 21, 2006 - 01:46 by Hedgehog   text 18 comments (last - tuesday may 30, 2006 - 16:18)
Daily telegraph chooses an animal rights bashing story for their coveted front page. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 20, 2006 - 20:29 by Michelle Clarke
This was a contribution to Indymedia 4th March by Redjade

Coming To Grief by Hans Johnson
Like the breeze of late winter, a single word,
unspoken, has rippled through the recent funerals of several
US service members returned from Iraq.
Families and military presss officers have different reasons for
tight lips on the topic. But Suicide among Iraq soldiers, 29 soldiers by recent count,
says volumes about drooping morale and raises further doubts about how accurately the toll on service members is being measured and how much more they will bear'

We all are delicate human beings...........bureaucracy can always be sorted out......life cannot be given back. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday May 19, 2006 - 08:52 by Ramor   text 2 comments (last - monday january 25, 2010 - 11:22)
( Note ; with Danish journalist Erik Pedersen I went to Michael’s house in Glasnevin a few months ago to conduct an interview about volunteers of the International Brigades for Danish radio. Despite his advanced years, a sprightly man brimming with wit and stories spoke to us for several hours. Characteristically he didn’t talk much about himself or his own endevours in Spain ( he is reported to have been a brave and fearless machine gunner in the battlefield, according to other sources ), instead concentrating on the politics of the situation and on remembering those who fell. History walks with us, and listening to Mr O Riordan reminisce about the heroic struggle waged against the fascist threat in the 1930’s reveals how many of the issues confronted then remain urgent today.
Parts of the interview are unclear, and the brackets are mine, Ramor ) ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Thursday May 18, 2006 - 20:49 by Fiachra O!   text 1 comment (last - friday may 19, 2006 - 14:20)   image 1 image
Deirdre Ní Chonghaile from the Aran Islands sent this in to the Irish Times just before Easter and it wasn't published it. I thought it was brilliant when she showed me so I'm posting it here with her consent. Enjoy.
... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 22:08 by David MAnning   text 2 comments (last - saturday january 05, 2008 - 08:10)
The Illusion of Balance

Ah that wistful sense of balance so uncommon in the liberal media. In response to a letter sent to the Irish Times criticising Charles Krauthammer's mis-quotation, among other things, of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remarks at the "World without Zionism" conference held in Tehran, the Irish Times printed a 'counter balance' of sizeable proportion. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 17:55 by NC   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 15, 2006 - 15:20)
The bullying and intimidation of workers in the Social Economy in Ireland has gone unpublisised for far to long. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 14:39 by Geraldine Moorkens Byrne   text 5 comments (last - friday june 02, 2006 - 22:29)
The NRA throws around groundless allegations: and those who protest find the price of exercising their democratic rights comes very high indeed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 13:51 by Dave   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 18, 2006 - 18:36)
Right winged racist war-monger
international / miscellaneous Tuesday May 16, 2006 - 17:47 by Lisa   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 17, 2006 - 15:24)   image 1 image
John Howard arrives in Ireland on Saturday on a four day trip where he will address the Dail and meet key business and political leaders. It is his first visit to Ireland since he was first elected Prime Minister of Australia ten years ago and one he sees as important because of 'the historical and sentimental links between the two countries'.

Howard is currently swamped in controversy surrounding kick-backs to Saddam Hussein, state treatment of Aboriginal peoples and Refugees, his support for George Bush and his decision to send the Navy to East Timor. As he is met by anti-war protesters in Washington, Irish activists are preparing their own welcome for this notorious war monger. ... read full story / add a comment
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