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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

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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!
The post Elon Musk Shuts Down US Government Foreign Aid Agency and Locks Out 600 Staffers Overnight After Trump Agreed it Was “Beyond Repair” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.
The post Food Firms Revolt Against Net Zero Over Australia’s Energy Crisis appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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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offsite link Year After Lockdown Saw Massive Spike in Attempted Child Suicides Mon Feb 03, 2025 09:00 | Richard Eldred
Lockdowns and school closures have triggered a devastating surge in child suicides and self-harm, with hospital admissions soaring and mental health disorders skyrocketing.
The post Year After Lockdown Saw Massive Spike in Attempted Child Suicides appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Chancellor?s ?Growth Agenda? is Full of Sound and Fury, but Signifies Nothing Mon Feb 03, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ben Pile brands the Government's 'growth agenda' as empty political theatre, with wooden actors stumbling through hollow lines, written by someone who has no clue what growth actually is.
The post The Chancellor?s ?Growth Agenda? is Full of Sound and Fury, but Signifies Nothing appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / environment Thursday May 08, 2008 - 20:43 by Gabhan Gleeson   text 1 comment (last - friday may 09, 2008 - 23:04)   image 1 image
The last century has been marked by the most explosive growth of pollution and production in the entire history of the humanity. The changes brought about by industrialisation under the economic system of capitalism have lead to a large number of systemic problems. Anarchist communism is in a unique position to solve these systemic problems. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 03, 2008 - 18:35 by Setanta   text 29 comments (last - saturday october 01, 2011 - 21:30)   video 1 video file
Under the Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002 the Irish Residential Institutions Redress Board came into being. I submit that Its conduct and operation constitutes a gross violation of National and International Human and Civil Rights.It encourages unscrupulous applicants and professional people to lie, conceal information and give false evidence in return for financial awards.It denies it's victims their right to innocence unless proved otherwise, and hides behind a wall of absolute secrecy.
No person is safe from the Irish Redress Board. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Friday May 02, 2008 - 00:45 by Oisin
A strategic interest enables your ultimate goal or agenda, and strategies are generalised plans to achieve these goals. A tactic is a specific tool to advance that agenda, using what you actually have right now - not what you think you ought to have. It's unwise for a democrat to confuse long-term strategies with short-term tactics. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday May 01, 2008 - 21:58 by Sean Matthews   image 1 image
The war may be long over and our political rulers have finally decided to get it together but there has been no ceasefire in the class war against working-class people both locally and globally despite the promises of ‘prosperity’.
... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday May 01, 2008 - 18:25 by pat c
The political climate inside Iran is now horrifically tense. Women, gay men and lesbians, students, workers; all are caught in the middle of the stand-off between the regime and imperialism. Arrests have increased and intimidation is rife. Any slight ‘disobedience’ of the theocratic regime is portrayed as a threat to state security.

That is why principled solidarity is so necessary. We in HOPI are determined to show the reality behind the threat of war and to give practical and political suppor t. We are campaigning for trade union support and have a resolution which we would urge all activists to use.
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national / eu Thursday May 01, 2008 - 02:30 by John Fitz   text 7 comments (last - thursday june 12, 2008 - 14:13)
We're told Lisbon is to make the EU efficient. Why then haven't the parliamentarians that want this efficiency reduced their numbers (to about 60 TDs in Ireland) to reflect the fact that two thirds (80% reported for Britain & Germany) of their law-making functions are already transferred to Europe. TDs are rapidly making themselves powerless, redundant, and sidelining democracy and the Constitution. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday May 01, 2008 - 00:32 by hasan i sharba   text 7 comments (last - friday may 02, 2008 - 11:41)
1985 marked not only Thatchers attack on the working class via the miners strike, terror in NI, inner city riots,but also Thatchers sending in paramilitary Police to stop the emergence of a counter culture made up of mainly unemployed young people who sought to challenge Thatchers material society. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Wednesday April 30, 2008 - 18:46 by Chekov Feeney   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 30, 2008 - 23:44)
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday April 30, 2008 - 12:33 by pat c
This is the May Day statement from the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar). More information is available from the links below and Rahe Kargar may be contacted at [email protected]

International solidarity is our global capital to confront global capitalism
*Neo-liberal globalisation is nothing more than the globalisation of unemployment, insecurity, poverty, hunger, a bleak future and constant fear for the majority in this world.
*Under the flag of democracy capitalists spread the dictatorship of free markets on our planet.
*The rich are getting fewer and richer while the poor are getting more numerous and poorer.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday April 30, 2008 - 00:24 by No One's Business by Mine   text 9 comments (last - thursday may 01, 2008 - 20:27)
A personal account of how my right to privacy was signed away by the act of simply signing my employment contract: ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday April 28, 2008 - 17:17 by Larry Connolly   text 18 comments (last - thursday may 01, 2008 - 23:27)
A brief look at the state of the Republican movement. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Monday April 28, 2008 - 15:41 by Howard Holby   text 1 comment (last - friday june 13, 2008 - 20:25)
The purpose of the Lisbon Treaty research is to offer the voters of Ireland objective arguments on the Lisbon Treaty, with facts and evidence with substance, and an objective discussion of the legal, political, economical and social considerations of the Treaty.

So far it has been only the No groups who presented quotes of the Lisbon Treaty, and only their arguments stand valid on the basis of the text itself and on the grounds of scientific facts.
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national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday April 24, 2008 - 17:12 by Seabhcan   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 24, 2008 - 17:17)
New Libertas supporter, Ulick McEvaddy is an arms dealer. His company, Omega Air, supplies planes, pilots and fuel to the US miltary in support of the Iraq war. In the past, he has called for Ireland to join NATO.

What is his, and Libertas' motivation in opposing the Lisbon Treaty. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 24, 2008 - 16:18 by K. Harris   text 2 comments (last - thursday may 01, 2008 - 19:50)
Is the world really fighting a war against terror? Or has it become a war against our own freedoms? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 23, 2008 - 20:15 by Ruairí Ó Brádaigh   text 5 comments (last - friday april 25, 2008 - 21:46)
“How do we move from here to the position of Ireland’s national independence with the essential unity of the country and its people achieved? How do we combat the threat to our separate identity so that we survive as a distinct people to cooperate with the former colonised nations and advance the cause of humankind in general? How do we progress towards building the Democratic Socialist Republic?

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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 16, 2008 - 14:16 by Anto Loserdom
Interview conducted with Caoimhe Butterly when on her speaking tour of Ireland last December (2007). Published in the Irish D.I.Y. punk zine Loserdom. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 15, 2008 - 22:33 by Fathi tobail and Sana Ahmad   text 5 comments (last - thursday april 17, 2008 - 14:07)   image 1 image
Simply we can describe the situation of the Gaza Strip as the worst of its kind since the Israeli occupation of Palestine in 1948, if you walk the streets of Gaza city you will be shocked seeing how miserable and harsh life the people of Gaza are facing, as a result of the Israeli daily aggressions and sever measures. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Tuesday April 15, 2008 - 10:34 by Howard Holby   text 12 comments (last - wednesday may 14, 2008 - 13:44)
The purpose of this article (see below the video) is to provide further support to the statement upheld by politicians, academic and legal experts that the Lisbon Treaty is a constitution.

The emphasis on this fact is vital because from this fact it follows that the Lisbon Treaty needs referendum not only in Ireland but in all of the 27 EU member states.
Because the Lisbon Treaty a constitution, it is crucial to understand that no constitution ever permits the act of overthrowing it, i.e never allows the act of replacing it with another one without the permission of a country's citizens. Therefore the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty without referendums in the other 26 states, is a dictatorial power-grab over Europe. (Please see the document referred at the end of the article.)

With this article we wish to call Ireland to Vote NO to Lisbon Treaty!
Vote NO to a constitution that establishes a dictatorial federal regime with powers over all Europe.

... read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights Monday April 14, 2008 - 16:55 by Laura Broxson   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 16, 2008 - 12:54)
Add Your Voice
national / gender and sexuality Sunday April 13, 2008 - 11:39 by Add Your Voice   text 4 comments (last - tuesday april 15, 2008 - 09:51)   image 1 image

This is a brief link to the Irish Safe and Legal campaign, who have linked to the
Pro-choice Majority Campaign in Britain in relation to the attempt through
legislation to reduce the Upper Abortion Limit, as part of the HFEB Bill .

On May the Seventh 2008, the Houses in the UK will vote on a divisive Bill
which has actively left women's rights and NGO groups out of the equation
in relation to Choice and Healthcare issues.

http://www.safeandlegal.blogspot.com

The HFEB is called the Human Fertilisation and Embrology Bill. (HEFB 2008) ... read full story / add a comment
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