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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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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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Easter Lilies
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 16, 2006 - 02:15 by Barra   text 1 comment (last - sunday april 16, 2006 - 02:35)   image 5 images
Be free... inherit the sky... inherit your own wavy lines... do something real to help people really suffering... internationally as well as nationally.... think outside the boxes.... to hell with borderism.... ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Saturday April 15, 2006 - 23:37 by Seán Ryan   text 6 comments (last - tuesday april 18, 2006 - 21:33)   image 1 image
Establishes the logical foundation for a proof of the existence of an all-powerful God and removes the limitations imposed by Thomas Aquinas and others.

Gives a 'third' opinion on the interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.

Uses Schroedinger's experiment to show why gravity is ignored by Quantum Mechanics.

Chapter VIII in Book II ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday April 15, 2006 - 17:32 by MichaelY   text 2 comments (last - sunday april 16, 2006 - 14:39)
What did the insurrectionists of 1916 fight and die for?
It is after all Easter Week. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday April 14, 2006 - 20:55 by Michelle Clarke   text 8 comments (last - saturday may 06, 2006 - 20:27)
What is worse is the element of trust that is breached. Why do people do such things to other people. Is the motive purely money or is there a hidden inadequacy and jealousy with them.

Has anyone ever been conned? Years ago when there was less access to media and press coverage there was a kind of human connection network that kept people informed and warned.

Joe Duffy is the Man who keeps the tradition of the past, out there and discussed but we need more. ... read full story / add a comment
The .:. Republic & Republicanism - Today as 75 years ago - ideology  worth fighting for.
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 14, 2006 - 16:24 by iosaf mac diarmada .:. ipsiphi   text 1 comment (last - friday april 14, 2006 - 19:27)   image 3 images
Today Good Friday 2006, marks the 75th anniversary of the declaration of the 2nd Spanish Republic.

In its short life it brought hope, inspiration, creative solutions, the values of fraternity, liberty, equality to countless people who had lived in near feudal conditions through dictatorship.
It's "firsts" were many-
free education, free health care, over 50% of the arable land organised in autonomous collectives, the first parliamentary representation by anarchists, the first political radio broadcasts, the first Catalan & Basque republics were declared as an associate component within it's state architecture.

All too quickly it fell, as the first victim of European fascism.
we may never forget this Republic & it ought inspire every Republican today ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday April 14, 2006 - 16:21 by Robbie Sinnott   text 3 comments (last - tuesday july 25, 2006 - 17:05)   audio 1 audio file
interview with Ciaron O'Reilly of the Catholic Worker and Pitstop Ploughshare action at Shannon Airport in February 2003.

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This weekend, Ireland is the site of much parading and rhetoric about independence, sovereignty and freedom, as many commemorate the blood sacrifice of hundreds of men and women who participated in the "1916 Rising".

Currently, Ireland facilitates the passage of 900 US troops per day on their way to an imperial war in Iraq, and back again (sometimes in bodybags, often wounded). CIA flights through Shannon and Baldonnell airports have been documented by consciencious citizens.

The Irish police harrasse and intimidate such citizens, and leave all planes (through a civilian airport in the case of Shannon), untouched or actively guard them.

A majority of the people of Ireland oppose the Coalition occupation of Iraq, but the Irish government they elect, prefers to sign away Ireland's supposed sovereignty, to Empire.

Is there any government that cannot be bought? any principle that is not for sale?
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international / environment Thursday April 13, 2006 - 15:07 by MichaelY   text 7 comments (last - wednesday october 25, 2006 - 16:24)   image 1 image
Can the use of ethanol in motorcars substitute for fossil fuels? ... read full story / add a comment
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
international / history and heritage Thursday April 13, 2006 - 14:12 by Paul Baynes   text 1 comment (last - saturday april 15, 2006 - 15:03)   image 3 images
Last week was the anniversary of the assassination of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4th, 1968. Dr. King's philosophy was one of non-violence, and this article looks at the alternative views of Malcolm X which are not aired quite so frequently. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Thursday April 13, 2006 - 10:41 by Winston
So Today I see that new terrorism laws have come into place in England. Which states one can no longer Glorify terrorism. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / summit mobilisations Wednesday April 12, 2006 - 08:40 by aaronrip/indymedia ireland vidheads   text 15 comments (last - saturday october 06, 2012 - 09:50)   image 10 images
Available in four parts as a pretty high quality download here (for the first time I think):
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

The film had a complicated gestation but heavily involved the majority of the original Indymedia Ireland gang. We came back from working with Indymedia Italy in Genoa all fired up and determined to start an Indymedia in Ireland. Almost five years ago that was now.

The Protests against the G8 in July 2001 in Genoa Italy were the biggest and most significant protests in Western Europe since the Poll Tax riots in the UK. Italian Prime Minister Sylvio Berlusconi, wanting to impress his new best mate George W. Bush, orchestrated a brutal Media/Police preemptive strike on the Anti-Capitalist Movements' biggest First World mobilisation to date. When the weekend of protests ended Carlo Guiliani was dead and a school full of sleeping activists had been attacked in what is popularly referred to as the 'Chilean Night'.

The film traces the events of the three days of protests in detail and poses the question - Was it all a setup? If Seattle was 'Star Wars' then this is 'The Empire Strikes Back'. It is made from a combination of footage of the Genoa protests against the G8 shot by 10 members of IMC Ireland, material from the Italy IMC Archives and material from various other sources. This compelling footage combined with on the spot interviews and reenacted voiceover commentary and analysis from various websites which were active during the protests provides a in-depth blow by blow retelling of the story of the three days of the Genoa protests against the G8.

The film will be available on DVD in the run-up to the fifth anniversary of the Genoa protests. Watch this space for details. ... read full story / add a comment

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international / sci-tech Wednesday April 12, 2006 - 06:03 by aaronrip   image 4 images
An experimental short film about auto- surveillance
Div-X format
Available for download at this page: https://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/345.shtml ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday April 11, 2006 - 14:45 by DF   text 12 comments (last - sunday april 16, 2006 - 20:51)


The victory of the movement against the CPE in France raises exciting possibilities for the European left ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday April 10, 2006 - 17:34 by Anton Paddy   text 1 comment (last - monday april 10, 2006 - 18:14)
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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 10, 2006 - 17:29 by aaronrip   image 4 images
An experimental short based around a recreated snippet of dialogue from the Guantanamo Bay Tribunals. Found on 'Kafka in Gitmo' thread on http://www.moonofalabama.org/. It's here: http://www.moonofalabama.org/2006/03/kafka_in_gitmo.html

Visuals include a photo of a guy in Fallujah being retina scanned by a US soldier, cctv footage of accidents in a tunnel in Moscow, footage from a US helicopter in Iraq wiping out some farmers and excerpts from a sniper eye view in the game 'State of Emergency'.

It's downloadable as a DivX file from here: https://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/327.shtml ... read full story / add a comment
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international / sci-tech Monday April 10, 2006 - 15:54 by aaronrip   text 1 comment (last - monday april 10, 2006 - 17:11)   image 4 images
Our Streets > Their Disposable Worlds.

Mixes a dystopian sci-fi narrative with a journalistic account of US military use of their own videogame technology as a combination of recriutment tool, virtual weapons testing site and information gathering mechanism.

Div-X file available here
https://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/326.shtml

Noisehacker uploaded the grafitti overlays used in the video to indymedia.ie

The Halo footage was found in the trash of a public computer in Belfast ... read full story / add a comment
 Keeping in with the sponsor: Belarussian opposition activists rally before the poll
international / politics / elections Monday April 10, 2006 - 14:43 by Elephant O'Room   image 1 image
With many having been ‘burned’ by the coverage of earlier revolutions in ex-Soviet satellite states, the recent mainstream media (MSM) coverage of the Belarusian election and the situation in the country appeared to be, to put it lightly, more than a little simplistic and one-sided.... ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Sunday April 09, 2006 - 11:49 by Seán Ryan
A discussion of the God-like properties of Mathematics.

Chapter 3 of Book II ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday April 09, 2006 - 04:32 by lizm   text 4 comments (last - thursday april 13, 2006 - 01:27)
Why does Irishantiwar.org still have the Iraq Body Count on their home page? And why is it so hard to contact them by email? ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday April 09, 2006 - 02:28 by rank and file   text 56 comments (last - monday may 22, 2006 - 22:40)   image 1 image
Amanda's excellent contribution shows the ultra-left up for what they really are-utterly incompetent and incapable of leading a Trade union in the 21st Century. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Saturday April 08, 2006 - 13:06 by C Murray   text 2 comments (last - sunday april 09, 2006 - 17:46)
The creation of a Critical infrastructure body charged with fast-track planning applications was held up by Michael Mc Dowell TD and Minister for Justice for many months.
The idea vaunted by Martin Cullen TD at Environment had the breaks put on due to the nimby Mc Dowell who definitely did not want Poolbeg in his back yard, interfering with his constituencey majority.
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