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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 Grooming Gangs Inquiry ?Told Not to Investigate Senior Police Officers? Tue Jan 14, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Investigators who examined police failings in the Rotherham grooming gangs scandal were told not to investigate senior officers and no one lost their jobs, a whistleblower has said.
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offsite link Where Are They Now? Council Bosses Who Failed Victims of Rotherham Grooming Gang Went on to Be Gover... Tue Jan 14, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
Council bosses in Rotherham who were criticised for failing to protect 1,400 young girls from?grooming gangs?have gone on to become Government advisers, bankers and an "executive coach and mentor".
The post Where Are They Now? Council Bosses Who Failed Victims of Rotherham Grooming Gang Went on to Be Government Advisers, Bankers and an “Executive Coach and Mentor” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Are Novels Part of Our Cultural Malaise? Tue Jan 14, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
Never mind smartphones: surely it was the novel that invented mental health problems, suggests Prof James Alexander, as he pays tribute to the theorist of the form, David Lodge, who died on January 1st.
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offsite link News Round-Up Tue Jan 14, 2025 01:05 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Rachel Reeves is Making the Same Mistake as Liz Truss Mon Jan 13, 2025 20:00 | Will Jones
Labour loves to remind voters how Liz Truss 'crashed the economy', but Rachel Reeves is making the exact same mistake. She's asking the markets to lend the Government vast sums and they're telling her where to get off.
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international / arts and media Thursday October 05, 2006 - 17:07 by Book Reader   text 19 comments (last - monday october 09, 2006 - 12:31)   image 1 image
A tour de force literary performance from Dawkins ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday October 04, 2006 - 17:02 by Orlaith Farrell   text 3 comments (last - wednesday october 04, 2006 - 21:36)
Fourth Rape reform ran aground in Pakistan due to conservative Islamis parties. A woman is raped every two hours and the rapists are protected by fundamentalist legislation. Where is the attention of the World Media? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday October 03, 2006 - 22:51 by Skanger Pride   text 45 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2012 - 19:16)
The pernicious effects of Centre For Talented Youth of Ireland and other "gifted education" programmes. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday October 03, 2006 - 20:39 by Tidsetcha Tinkn   text 9 comments (last - thursday october 05, 2006 - 16:01)
He’s a crook and we know it well before now! Why waste more time?

I’ll tell you why I say that it is unimportant what Bertie took in any single scoop, because while our political wasters are up there in the Dáil, supposedly discussing why we should or should not allow a crook at our helm, the Irish state is blazing into Rossport along with an international crime syndicate and are stealing our resources with the aid of our so called protectors – an Garda Siochána.

We have oil and gas off our coast, which is the envy of all of Europe and our political elite are cover up its theft right under our very noses. ... read full story / add a comment
Jinx and Paula
louth / arts and media Tuesday October 03, 2006 - 19:18 by eeekkk/jinx   text 6 comments (last - tuesday october 17, 2006 - 12:26)   image 1 image
Ten Questions. Answers fast and dirty as returned by e-mail with no cleanup. (This is how you do an interview with a mobile phone in 10 minutes flat and make Indymedia safer for the arts (or anything else for that matter)) ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 03, 2006 - 12:03 by Michael Coulter
Minister Mc Dowell , not content with the role of Tanaiste and the over-long
data retention of all Irish citizens e-mail/phone/fax records for a period of three
years introduced on July 4th 2006 two bills, known as the Privacy and defamation bills.

The choice of date was ironic given that it ties in with the whole US/UK terror
alert and concommitent reduction in civil liberties which we have fought for
and taken for granted through the last couple of centuries.

It has been criticised by Journalists all over Europe and In Ireland, but
that is just grist to the mill. The elite in fortress europe will protect
their rights and reduce yours and those of your children.

http://mediaforum.ie/?p=52
Has a short analysis of the Privacy Bill.

http://www.justice.ie :

Has three or four pdf downloads which comprise the junket rationalisation
of Privacy/Defamation, but no-one is fooled.

http://www.digitalrights.ie/category/defamation (for information on the other half of the package)

... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday October 02, 2006 - 17:31 by Peripheraldisorder   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 03, 2006 - 14:40)
This is a summary article of a thesis I wrote, and titled..

‘Contemporary Critical Theory....Transgressing the logic of Capital..... Deconstructing Post Industrial Capitalism and Reconstructing an Alternative......Radical Theory for Modern Pirates'

whilst doing a philosophy MA in Amsterdam. The overall thesis would be far too long to post in its entirety so I thought that I would post this summary. I posted it on this site as I feel that a lot of people using it would share my basic arguments and that such a modest theoretical contribution to a budding anti- capitalist literature might make for an interesting online debate.
... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Monday October 02, 2006 - 16:48 by gníomhaí   text 1 comment (last - thursday february 15, 2007 - 18:55)   image 1 image
The subject of climate change is getting increasing attention in our media, although articles on the subject still tend to be confined to small pages on the back pages of our newspapers. Al Gore's film 'An Inconvienient Truth' finally gives the issue of global warming the attention it deserves and it makes for compelling viewing. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday October 02, 2006 - 11:35 by rory   text 1 comment (last - monday october 02, 2006 - 16:46)
Its time to clean corruption out of Irish politics and focus on the real issues that are affecting people. The cosy relationships between politicians, developers and big business that engulfs the political elite in this country must end. ... read full story / add a comment
Mangroves in indus delta
international / environment Sunday October 01, 2006 - 19:57 by Qasim Rajpar   image 4 images
The Indus Delta faces major degradation threats that could well result in catastrophe. The major cause of destruction of the Delta is the reduction in the flow of fresh water from Indus River. As the delta dries up and the mangrove forests decline, the sea is slowly sweeping in. The Delta is now said to be only 10 percent of its original area. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday October 01, 2006 - 19:53 by jim travers   text 8 comments (last - wednesday october 31, 2007 - 01:41)
As two countries enter the EU in 2007 are we nuturing the seeds of racial tension by opening our borders to people who wish to import their ways and culture into our society.Are we ignoring the threat of Islamic terrorism by endeavouring to be politically correct when dealing with asylum seekers, refugees and others entering this country. Is it time for change and a time to take stock of the ways in which we allow people freely enter this country? ... read full story / add a comment
So shy
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday October 01, 2006 - 15:06 by BP   text 8 comments (last - tuesday october 03, 2006 - 18:31)   image 3 images
This character was snapped on 16th January 2004, while at a demo against the EU in Galway.

He was highly aggressive and claimed to be a garda, but refused to identify himself.

He is needed in open court, please help bring him in for questioning. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Sunday October 01, 2006 - 14:08 by paddyweb
The friends of Fianna Fail are looting this country. ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Saturday September 30, 2006 - 17:06 by Annie Shipsea   text 6 comments (last - thursday november 23, 2006 - 11:05)
Try to overcome your revulsion/boredom/indifference or whatever it is that so many of you apparently well-meaining activists and Indymedia readers do when it comes to this issue, judging from the the general level of interest that these reports usually get. Five thousand comments on the disctinction between the SP and the SWP, about four on rights for people with disability. Pardon my bluffness but how about cutting us all some slack in this corner, eh? Maybe even give us some of your time and effort? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 30, 2006 - 16:18 by Donnchadh   text 31 comments (last - thursday august 09, 2012 - 20:46)
Given that tens of thousands of Irish people were shipped into slavery, isnt it strange that Ireland has no day remembering them? I dont know of a single monument to the victims of slavery in Ireland. Perhaps someone can let me know if they know of one. As far as I know, even the Republican Movement fails to commemorate the tens of thousands of innocents sold into slavery from Ireland. Many of the women and children into sex slavery.
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national / miscellaneous Friday September 29, 2006 - 15:20 by Miriam Cotton   text 13 comments (last - tuesday february 13, 2007 - 09:25)
Vincent Browne's strange affliction with trying to find jusitifications for the likes of Charles Haughey and Bertie Ahern seems now to have infected recently appointed columnist Chekov Feeney - also a member of the Indymedia.ie editorial collective. Feeney's Newspaper Watch column has, while throwing a welcome spotlight on many examples of media bias and seeming self-censorship -and is apparently unique in Ireland in its objective - sometimes failed to deliver truly well aimed punches at obviously deserving targets. ... read full story / add a comment
A public -private partnership.?
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday September 29, 2006 - 13:34 by John McDermott   text 3 comments (last - saturday september 30, 2006 - 20:43)   image 2 images
national / crime and justice Friday September 29, 2006 - 11:31 by Michael Coulter
A family member of a sex-offender tells me that A U.S style evangelical Preacher
is accessing sex-offenders and bringing them to the kingdom of God - Oh Yes.
He has been banned from Limerick Prison and Cork, He is currently in the process
of being banned from Arbour Hill. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 28, 2006 - 22:50 by Ingrid555   text 3 comments (last - monday october 02, 2006 - 21:15)
Ireland's revenge on England. The REAL Yorkshire Ripper has damaged the fabric of English society far more than the Provo bomb squads ever did in the 1970s. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 27, 2006 - 23:41 by Michelle Clarke   text 16 comments (last - wednesday december 20, 2006 - 18:17)
All I feel at this time is about the adage ' walking in the moccasins' of another.

Do many of us really remember the 1980's? I do. I emigrated with my then husband to England (we hadn't the qualifications for the US. Both he and I worked in the building industry, for large companies - M.F.N. (liquiddation) but one of the big 9 in the 1970's. Then the Gallagher's Abbey. It was rough one day to see all staff lose their jobs as the construction marketed faltered further in the early 1980's. Land banks existed but planning permission for sites in places like Yellow Walls in Portmarnock were at log jam as Governments changed.

I am forever grateful to people like Michael O'Leary and their foresight for Ryanair. It meant we had left Ireland but it was possible to come home and frequently. We brought new friends home. This would not have been possible in the Monopolised Aer Lingus challenged by O'Leary.

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