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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

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link US Withdrawal From WHO Leaves Real Problems Unaddressed Fri Jan 31, 2025 07:00 | Dr David Bell
The problem with blaming Covid and the deadly global response on the WHO is that the pandemic industrial complex is much bigger than the WHO. Leaving it is not enough, says Dr David Bell.
The post US Withdrawal From WHO Leaves Real Problems Unaddressed appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Jan 31, 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 Priest Calvin Robinson Kicked Out of Church for Doing Elon Musk ?Salute? at Rally Thu Jan 30, 2025 19:06 | Will Jones
TV presenter and priest Calvin Robinson has been kicked out of his church after doing an?Elon Musk?'salute' at a pro-life rally in what he said was clearly intended as a joke.
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offsite link Trump Blames Diversity Hiring for Washington DC Air Crash Thu Jan 30, 2025 17:57 | Will Jones
President?Donald Trump?has blamed woke diversity hiring for the Washington DC air crash, one of the deadliest in US history, citing a Federal Aviation Administration report that the workforce was "too white".
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offsite link The Covid Inquiry?s Interest in Censorship is Dangerously One-Sided and Will Further Undermine Trust... Thu Jan 30, 2025 15:30 | Alan Black and Molly Kingsley
The Covid Inquiry has turned to look at the Government's Counter Disinformation Unit. But it's only question is whether the censorship went far enough, say Molly Kingsley and Alan Black. Trust in public health will suffer.
The post The Covid Inquiry’s Interest in Censorship is Dangerously One-Sided and Will Further Undermine Trust in Public Health appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / miscellaneous Tuesday January 02, 2007 - 12:55 by Danny McGrain   text 23 comments (last - thursday may 17, 2007 - 10:57)
The British and Irish Communist Organisation were a Maoist influenced group who in the 1970s were almost unique in supporting Ulster Unionism. They were prolific publishers and claimed an influence over large numbers of both left and right wing individuals. During the 1990s the core members of the group have embraced a neo-nationalist position and become prominent in debates on Irish historical revisionism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday December 30, 2006 - 13:25 by IPC
For several months the town of Oaxaca, capital of the Mexican State of the same name, has been the center (of a movement) of important struggles which have undergone (or suffered) repeated attacks by the forces of repression (police, army and paramilitary) with many victims: at the end of November the toll was 22 dead and 34 disappeared. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 28, 2006 - 21:29 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 127 comments (last - thursday april 16, 2009 - 21:31)   image 3 images
My vision for 2007 is we will revisit 'Who framed Roger Rabbit?'. You see Bertie the half Jack Russell and Kerry Blue (what a mix?) will get rid of the rabbit subtly with some deviance thrown in........According to today's paper's he is making overtures to Joe Costelloe. If the numbers add up in June there could be an FF/Labour coalition.......Now what about McDowell. Let' us get real here. Can you see a Poodle from Ranelagh squaring up to a half Jack Russell and Kerry Blue seasoned Northsider......I don't think so...... ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday December 28, 2006 - 17:28 by gníomhaí   text 7 comments (last - monday january 08, 2007 - 16:05)
Let's face it- statistics bore most people (unless you're a nerd like myself). Statistics also tend to go over most peoples' heads esp. nowadays with the state of the world (in most ways) getting worse. People also feel disempowered, that individuals can't make any difference.
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mayo / environment Tuesday December 26, 2006 - 18:41 by confused local   text 75 comments (last - friday march 16, 2007 - 07:54)   image 5 images
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 26, 2006 - 07:36 by Astrid Essed
In contrary to the often hypocritical ''Christmas'' approach, The Birth of the Child is no sentimental story about ''A Little Child in a Manger'', but the reality of the exclusion of the poor, persecution by the State and seeking illegal asylum in a foreign country
That's the reason, this Story is based on respect towards any human being, regardless descent or committed crime
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international / miscellaneous Monday December 25, 2006 - 18:00 by Sergio Ferolla and Paulo Metri
Patriots are the ones that fight in the party of Tiradentes, being the others, the followers of Joaquin Silvério dos Reis, who was a treasonous one to the "inconfidentes"*, allowing that Tiradentes was imprisoned, hanged and cut in pieces by the Portuguese.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday December 23, 2006 - 22:55 by Ciaron   text 4 comments (last - wednesday december 27, 2006 - 04:55)
For the Christian exploring radical salvation history and seeking to be faithful in a time of escalating and expanding imperial war on the Middle East, the co-option of the Christmas season by the state is always a problem. How do we remain faithful in a context where our radical traditions and stories are being co-opted to feed rampant consumerism that drives the ever expanding market and diminishes finite ecology? ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday December 22, 2006 - 15:29 by Stuart   text 12 comments (last - tuesday december 20, 2011 - 05:26)
The Health and Safety Authority (http://www.hsa.ie) published new draft guidelines on the prevention and resolution of workplace bullying. Interested parties are invited to submit comments and observations to the Public Consultation Phase on the draft by the 16th of January 2007 before the guidelines become a Code of Practice with legal force.

The new Code does not compel the assessment of bullying within Safety Statements, the production of monitoring information about workplace bullying episodes, transparent procedures or objective investigation of bullying complaints. No State authority is nominated with responsibility to enforce effective measures to reduce workplace bullying behaviour.

As such it is a cosmetic measure that can be misused as a charter to bully. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / gender and sexuality Thursday December 21, 2006 - 20:07 by C Murray   text 2 comments (last - saturday february 17, 2007 - 16:16)   image 1 image
The Safe and Legal Abortion Campaign has just issued it's December online
newsletter, so Putting the links in here.

The campaign held a series of fora and workshops in November including
a talk from Colombian Human right's Lawyer and pro-choice camapigner
Monica Roa. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday December 20, 2006 - 14:23 by jim travers   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 20, 2006 - 16:00)
The Moriarity Tribunal has given us a clear indication of the past state of Irish politics. if we are to learn anything, it should be that political life must be more carefully scrutinised and that initatives proposed by politicians must be more openly debated before taxpayers are asked to pay for such proposals. Charlie was not a bad man, he was just give toys to play with and his friends made the game more real. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Wednesday December 20, 2006 - 01:56 by deselby   text 12 comments (last - thursday june 28, 2007 - 20:12)   image 2 images
In light of the Moriarty Tribunal report into payments made to Charles J. Haughey, it seems as good a time as any to reflect on the career and influence of one of the most controversial politicians - some would say the most controversial politian - that Ireland has ever seen. We now have a clearer, almost forensic, understanding of what Haughey gained from public office, but what about the balance to that? What did he give to the Irish people? What did he leave behind? What is his true legacy? ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 18, 2006 - 19:06 by Anamia   text 17 comments (last - friday january 05, 2007 - 14:44)   image 2 images
Shell to Sea has, from the very start, been about more than the fact that a community in a remote area of Ireland were being used as guinea pigs in a vast experiment to see if natural gas could be processed on shore.

What was at stake was whether the state would support the needs of big business against its own people. The central question of the campaign has always been whether communities are expendable, not in the interests of the nation, but in the interests of the shareholders.

How far, the campaign asked, is a European government willing to go to support the desires of a multi-national, when these run counter to the demands of its own citizens?

Could the Left in Ireland use the energy of the state's unquestioning support for Shell to expose and undermine the state's apparatus of control? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 16, 2006 - 14:43 by I. McCabe
In June 2006 the Director of Public Prosecutions revised his general guidelines. One section of the revised guidelines caused bemusement amongst some in the legal profession. Section 9 in particular which refers to the guidelines on disclosure is the one which has created a point of debate and criticism.

Ironically the DPP singled out the McKevitt case as a shining example of fair procedures on disclosure when in fact the opposite happened in the McKevitt trial. Both nationally and internationally legal observers have described the disclosure process used during the McKevitt case as one of the most blatant abuses on disclosure that they have ever witnessed. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday December 13, 2006 - 22:23 by Michelle Clarke   text 16 comments (last - tuesday november 11, 2008 - 18:09)
What needs to be done?

Game plan to combat crime for 2006......... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 20:25 by paul o toole   text 5 comments (last - thursday december 14, 2006 - 15:24)
Forigen Affairs minister 'calls on Iraq' not to use the death sentence on Sadam. ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 14:51 by M Cotton   text 2 comments (last - wednesday february 07, 2007 - 20:27)
Brian Cowen, Minister for Finance announced in his Budget speech on 6th Dec 06 an additional 100m to fund health related disability and mental health services in 2007. This funding incorporates the 2006-2009 multi-annual funding promised under the National Disability Strategy.

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Progressive my left eyeball
national / politics / elections Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 11:16 by fourth mary   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 12, 2006 - 11:52)   image 2 images

Last night Mary Harney released a programme to deal with the elderly,
as she is not far off that stage of life herself you would think that
problem solving and a bit of wry humour would inform her obviously
jaundiced world view.

But Progressive liberalism forgets that there is such a thing as family
and community, and the women I have spoken to today are not pleased
with the present government interfering (again) in the privacy of the
family- by dipping into the home (as equity for 'care') ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Monday December 11, 2006 - 22:40 by wsm   text 3 comments (last - thursday december 14, 2006 - 01:25)
A consortium of Shell, Statoil, and Marathon do a deal with the government allowing them exclusive exploitation rights to the Corrib gas field, off Mayo. Not only that, but they are allowed to write off their costs against taxes, meaning that the whole project is being funded by the PAYE taxpayer, who will receive nothing, not even lower gas prices. It may sound a bit iffy but there is no garda investigation into possible bribery or corruption.
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Hard times in St Lukes Drumcondra.
national / politics / elections Monday December 11, 2006 - 22:04 by John McDermott   text 3 comments (last - wednesday december 13, 2006 - 11:16)   image 1 image
A poetical tribute to Moriarty ,and others..

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