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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 News Round-Up Wed Jan 29, 2025 01:26 | 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 Navy Chiefs Rename HMS Agincourt Submarine to Appease French Tue Jan 28, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Royal Navy chiefs have been slammed for "woke nonsense" after dropping plans to name a new attack submarine after the 1415 Battle of Agincourt, in which England defeated France, to appease the French.
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offsite link More Than Half of Gen Z Believe the UK Should Be a Dictatorship Tue Jan 28, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Most young people ? 52% of Gen Z, aged 13-27 ? are in favour of turning the UK into a dictatorship, according to an alarming study for Channel 4.
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offsite link Mayor of Anti-Car London Council Boasts of Taxpayer-Funded Limo Tue Jan 28, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
The Mayor of the anti-car Labour-run London council of Lambeth ? the first UK local authority to declare a climate emergency in 2019 ? has boasted of being driven around in a taxpayer-funded limousine.
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offsite link The Evidence-Free Claim that the Covid Vaccines Saved 20 Million Lives is Easily Debunked Tue Jan 28, 2025 13:00 | Nick Rendell
The Covid vaccines saved 20m lives. That's the Lancet figure that gets quoted uncritically by media and politicians. But it's easy to show it's junk, says Nick Rendell. The projections of Covid deaths are off the scale!
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national / education Saturday February 07, 2009 - 01:13 by Conor.M   text 62 comments (last - sunday march 08, 2009 - 14:17)
Third level fees should be re-introduced. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 06, 2009 - 10:00 by Gavin   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 10, 2009 - 06:08)
Dublin Bus is slated to see huge cuts in both staff and services. As many as 290 workers and 100 buses will be cut. This means fewer routes and less frequent service. If the Dublin Bus workers go on strike, it will mean an inconvenience for a few days. However, if they take action and force the company to back down, it will in the long run save us all time and money and will help the environment. It will also serve as a message to the politicians. If they want cuts, they can start by tightening the belts at the top, not the bottom. The politicians are giving bailouts to bankers while they hand out cuts to workers and commuters. It's clear where the money to support public services should come from. It should come from the people who created the crisis!
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 05, 2009 - 18:39 by Con Carroll   text 1 comment (last - friday february 06, 2009 - 13:15)
class political identification. this is not a recession this was well though out political economic agenda. this is war against the working class by capitalist interests ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 05, 2009 - 17:04 by Gerry Downing   text 7 comments (last - saturday may 30, 2009 - 21:37)
The strike is now coming to a conclusion. The British labour movement will emerge from it a great deal worse that when it began. The negotiations are centred around which nationality gets which jobs, with even more reactionary demands emerging from the SP that jobs should be 'local'. The strike began about BJ4BW, some gave whole hearted support and pretended the posters, union jacks and pickets comments were just 'media lies' (Galloway et al), others came to the schizophrenic conclusion that the strike might be on reactionary demands, but ‘really’, dialectically, in a contradictory way it was about a fight to advance the rights of all workers and since it might become that it was ok – a sort of ‘if your aunt had balls’ argument.
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national / miscellaneous Thursday February 05, 2009 - 14:33 by Paul O' Sullivan
A look at who's really to blame from a self-confessed Celtic Tiger cub ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 04, 2009 - 18:36 by Mik Wilde
Is the use of intrusive technology like that used by BetEire to track who is using the M50, when they used it and to extort payment for usage the first step down the road to where technology of this kind will be used to track and control our every movement? ... read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous Tuesday February 03, 2009 - 21:35 by Paul O' Sullivan   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 04, 2009 - 19:35)   1 attached file
Account of covering local council meetings ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 03, 2009 - 19:17 by Clare Gallagher   text 5 comments (last - thursday february 05, 2009 - 08:42)
What a biased media rhetoric we really have in this country! The agenda of RTE has become apparent to anyone tuning in to so-called National Broadcaster that it serves to maintain the interests of the social order. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday January 27, 2009 - 21:33 by Sean Matthews   text 7 comments (last - wednesday march 11, 2009 - 16:26)
DUP MLA Sammy Wilson claims jobs should be given to locals before migrant workers.
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national / anti-capitalism Tuesday January 27, 2009 - 10:26 by 1st of May branch   image 1 image
For almost twenty years those of us who argued for an alternative to capitalism were told There Is No Alternative (TINA). We were presented with two arguments, firstly that capitalism was resulting in increased prosperity across the world and over time there would be a trickle down of that prosperity so that even the poorest would benefit. And secondly that socialism meant dictatorship and inefficiency so whatever our ideals it was no real alternative. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday January 23, 2009 - 14:25 by Marie O'Connor   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 24, 2009 - 13:08)
Privatisation is at the heart of the Government's so-called 'reform programme' in health. Now cloaked by the current economic crisis, the present 'slash and burn' approach to public health services, has been in preparation since the mid-90s. 'Transformation' is a code for marketisation. ... read full story / add a comment
Crisis : Danger + Opportunity
national / environment Thursday January 22, 2009 - 13:40 by Dunk   text 4 comments (last - monday january 26, 2009 - 19:26)   image 3 images   video 2 video files   audio 1 audio file
Dear Pat, (Wednesday 21 January, 2009)

Strange times indeed!

Yesterday Martin Luther King’s dream was realised with Barack Obama becoming the first black president of the united States. Today sees Ireland celebrating, after much movement building based on Hope and Bold-ness of vision, the 90th anniversary since the first meeting of Dail Éireann.

But strangest of all is that we are living in times of such climate catastrophe, which threatens our collective existence regardless of nation and race, and in Ireland this fact is neither sufficiently recognised, nor is sufficient assistance given to those with visions for sustainable change. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday January 22, 2009 - 01:22 by Liz Curry   text 1 comment (last - thursday january 22, 2009 - 16:30)
This is an attempt at a summary of the results of questionnaires, interviews and a focus group at the Dublin Grassroots Gathering in June 2008 on the theme of what is winning in horizontal activism. This was done to hopefully be part of a broader movement discussion on goals, strategies, and visions. Thanks again to everyone who participated. Long may the experiments continue! Queries and comments welcome. Thanks again! ... read full story / add a comment
Daily Mail front page from 27 January 2007
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 20, 2009 - 11:56 by Shane OCURRY   image 1 image
It reads more like the adoring parish gazette piece about the bell ringer retiring after 30 years of good Christian service, than objective reporting about the significant, and highly unusual development of a Chief Constable being called to give evidence before an Inquiry into the murder of a solicitor in circumstances that are suggestive of a security force cover-up, if not actual collusion in the murder. It is hard to imagine how anyone could have heaped more praise onto the north of Ireland's former security top-dog. ... read full story / add a comment
Circus life for elephants
national / animal rights Tuesday January 20, 2009 - 11:42 by Bernie Wright   text 13 comments (last - tuesday february 03, 2009 - 00:09)   image 1 image
For a number of years (4 at least) Circus Vegas and other Irish Circuses with animals,( American Circus, Sydney, New York etc,) have been the target of the ALF (Animal Liberation Front) who repeatedly removed or destroyed their signs on a regular basis.
This was due to their use and abuse of both Wild and domestic animals in their shows.
The Vegas Circus told us as we demonstrated at their circus that they had signs damaged to the tune of over 2000 euro a few years ago. This circus is owned by some of the Courtneys Brothers from Wexford.

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international / miscellaneous Sunday January 18, 2009 - 10:51 by Maidhc Ó Cathail
Wall Street's successful lobbying of the U.S. Congress led to the current financial debacle. But the bankers have no need to worry. The government have come to their rescue with American taxpayers' money, raising serious questions about whose interests the politicians really serve. ... read full story / add a comment
Ray Burke
national / crime and justice Saturday January 17, 2009 - 16:20 by Jim Bean   text 3 comments (last - tuesday january 20, 2009 - 18:10)   image 1 image
And give back the money he took from Shell. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday January 14, 2009 - 20:08 by paul o toole   text 4 comments (last - wednesday december 23, 2009 - 16:39)   audio 1 audio file
Happy war, christmas is over ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday January 14, 2009 - 19:23 by jim travers
The vicious assault on a bus driver and the theft of a Dublin Bus in Cork Street, Dublin last week has once again shown us that antisocial behaviour in becoming increasingly out of hand. For the past week bus services to the outer suburban estate of Jobestown and Brookfield have been suspended because of the continued rise in antisocial activities over the past number of months. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday January 14, 2009 - 13:08 by Ronan - IPSC (pers. cap)   text 3 comments (last - tuesday february 10, 2009 - 18:13)
Please read this illuminating Factsheet on the breakdown of the Hamas-Israeli ceasefire.

(Apologies for the straighforward nature of the text. Indymedia does not allow the report to be uploaded in it's original .doc format so it had to be pasted into the text box. The full report will be upload to the the IPSC website, www.ipsc.ie,soon) ... read full story / add a comment
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