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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
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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? 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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Shatila Refugee camp, Sept 1982. Thousands of Palestinians massacred by the Israeli-backed Christian Phalange
international / miscellaneous Wednesday November 22, 2006 - 14:28 by Wahid Gordja   text 15 comments (last - friday november 24, 2006 - 13:57)   image 1 image
Pierre Gemayel (zh?m?'?l) was the leader of the Kataeb, the fascist Maronite Christian Phalangist party. These are anti-arab race supremacists who hark back to the good old colonial days when the French put them in charge of the 'wee province' of Lebanon they had partitioned off from Syria. In those days the favoured Maronites were at the top of the racial hierarchy which the French used to secure their control.

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national / crime and justice Tuesday November 21, 2006 - 19:23 by Militant Milicent   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 29, 2006 - 13:19)
The Poker-wielding one: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76928
has advanced the theory that a law will soon be launched to endow
the eunuchs of the nation the right to defence of property:
"Sure you cannot take it with you..."

This funny little law by the Minister for Injustice brings to mind the right of
all American Citizens to bear arms- and we can see how well that turned out. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 21, 2006 - 03:09 by Keith Harris   text 7 comments (last - thursday november 23, 2006 - 20:08)
The High Court has told a Co Clare man accused of being responsible for a website which encourages people to rate their lawyers that he could be jailed for four months if certain materials are not removed from the site by Thursday.

Mr Justice Joseph Finnegan told John Gill from Drumline in Newmarket on Fergus that if all material relating to barrister Jayne Maguire was not removed from the website, www.rate-your-solicitor.com, by Thursday afternoon, he would jail him. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 19, 2006 - 20:08 by Anne O'Connor   text 23 comments (last - thursday may 31, 2007 - 19:48)
About 1,150 Non National parents of Irish Born Children, who had previously been denied the right to stay for various reasons under the IBC/05 Administrative Scheme, won a landmark case at the High Court on Tuesday November 14, 2006. The presiding Judge, Ms Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan said the Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform had breached the rights of several Irish-born children under both the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights Act in how he considered the applications for leave to remain here of their parents, the judge quashed the Minister's refusals in all but one case. The decision relates only to non-national parents of children born before January 1st, 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
Holy Well at Raffeen, south of Cork City
cork / environment Sunday November 19, 2006 - 18:44 by John Baker   text 4 comments (last - monday april 06, 2009 - 18:32)   image 2 images
When I'm not confronting power in its various forms I like seeking out ancient places in the landscape that have served human beings for a very long time. This acts as an antidote for me to the stresses and strains of taking on monsters like shell and the irish government. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / sci-tech Sunday November 19, 2006 - 16:57 by Ezra Niesen   text 1 comment (last - friday november 24, 2006 - 18:30)   image 1 image
Scientists who study human evolution have discovered the evolutionary origins of morality. The concept of morality exists in every culture on Earth, but the morals themselves are different, which causes a lot of conflict in the world. Now that the Democrats own the U.S. Congress, I’m sure that conflict is about to get very interesting… ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Sunday November 19, 2006 - 04:10 by Hank   text 140 comments (last - monday june 23, 2014 - 15:00)
Refusing rent allowance is discrimination. Media carrying the statement "rent allowance not accepted" are enabling discrimination.
How to respond? ... read full story / add a comment
offaly / history and heritage Saturday November 18, 2006 - 21:21 by Solas Eile   text 13 comments (last - monday april 26, 2010 - 15:54)
In response to Mr. Muldowney's : The Pearsons and their Prosecutors ?? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 17, 2006 - 21:08 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 8 comments (last - saturday april 25, 2009 - 18:41)
IRISH PRISONS AND HUMANITY

Open Letter to: Governor John Lonergan.

Mr. Lonergan,

You became Governor of Mountjoy Prison in the 1983. You replaced Paddy McFadden from Belmullet in Co. Mayo. McFadden according to sources in the Department of Justice was given 6 hours notice that he was going to be replaced by a handpicked person – yourself John. It is alleged you come from Banshee, Co. Tipperary. You are a former bus conductor. You have a passion for hurling and your known to have the odd flutter on ‘Shergar’.

In the last number of years you have become the most high profile Governor – thanks to media and TV appearances.

I................................... ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 17, 2006 - 14:36 by Sean   text 2 comments (last - saturday november 18, 2006 - 11:42)
Here are presented 10 REASONS WHY WE NEED A HOLISTIC AND CRITICAL APPROACH TO ‘MENTAL HEALTH’ PRACTICE

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dublin / environment Friday November 17, 2006 - 00:13 by turoe
In a press release on 19th August 2006, the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey, announced the latest round of exploration licences for the Donegal, Slyne and Erris Basins. The future of Ireland's oil and gas resources is now being decided by the Irish Government in a process patently lacking in democratic legitmacy and accountability. These issues were debated at the “Exploring Atlantic Ireland 2006” conference sponsored by the Department and other interested parties. The conference discussed the so-called Irish Atlantic Margin Petroleum Province, the industry term for the Porcupine, Rockall, Slyne, Erris, and Donegal basins. The conference press statement stated that what it termed the “waters west of Ireland” contain several large sedimentary basins, broadly similar geologically to the basins of the Atlantic margins of Norway, the UK (the North Sea fields), and Canada (the Newfoundland fields). ... read full story / add a comment
Brian Cowen aka Santa Claus
national / anti-capitalism Thursday November 16, 2006 - 18:47 by Stephanie Lord   text 4 comments (last - tuesday november 21, 2006 - 15:32)   image 1 image
It’s that time of year again folks. Yep, it’s budget time. But this year is a little different due to the upcoming elections scheduled for this summer. Brian Cowen has got his Santa Claus costume on again and he’s going to open his magic sack and give us what we all want for crimbo. Because of course, we have been very good boys and girls all year – and haven’t passed even one motion of “no confidence” in his government. This, despite the fact that Bertie has been up to his eyes in crap all year. No surprise I suppose, and from what I make of it they’ll be back in again next term with Labour. Sure with their sluttish ways, it’s quite obvious that if they’re so willing to get into bed with the Blueshirts, they’d jump into the leaba with anybody (i.e. Fianna Fail) and to hell with the “working man” they claim to stand for……but that’s another story…..
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international / miscellaneous Thursday November 16, 2006 - 18:15 by john throne   text 47 comments (last - thursday january 25, 2007 - 00:09)
Lynn Walsh of the CWI reviews Capitalism Unleashed by Andrew Glynn. John Throne comments. ... read full story / add a comment
A mean-looking subversive wields a dangerous poster in an obviously threatening manner
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 14, 2006 - 19:03 by Eye-witness   text 8 comments (last - sunday december 03, 2006 - 23:17)   image 5 images
This report briefly explains what happened at Bellanaboy on the anniversary of the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa - with a few comments on the whole issue from the observer's point of view and a few pictures. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Tuesday November 14, 2006 - 17:27 by Professor Joe   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 14, 2006 - 17:29)   image 1 image
When a government turns the police on the people...when they say the people are provos....when people are kicked, battered, batoned and hospitalised...when it takes place on an international memorial day...when this is about building one of Europe's biggest gas refineries on a remote bog...when the plot is thick with court cases, compulsory orders, jailings, investigations and protests..when billions of Euros of natural gas are at stake...when the future of the planning process, of natural resource ownership and the remains of Irish democracy hang in the balance..... ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday November 14, 2006 - 17:17 by C Murray   text 14 comments (last - tuesday november 21, 2006 - 11:53)
A five judge panel yesterday returned a two year old child to her natural parents after an
appeal which saw the child's removal from the couple whom had adopted her from the
age of three months.

The Media stated the Judge's decision was based on the primacy of the family within
the Irish Constitution.

The Natural parents are now married and therefore are considered in Irish law to be the
traditional or natural family. ... read full story / add a comment
Market Roller Coaster of the Mind
national / housing Tuesday November 14, 2006 - 13:22 by The Unwelcome Guest   text 31 comments (last - sunday august 28, 2011 - 03:32)   image 1 image
Low Yields turn off Irish Property Investors

November 13, 2006

A new survey shows that the majority of investors in the buy-to-let market do not plan to purchase another property in the next year. The survey was commissioned by EBS and Gunne Residential. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / eu Tuesday November 14, 2006 - 12:27 by Paula Geraghty   text 8 comments (last - saturday june 16, 2007 - 00:41)   image 16 images
A photo essay from a recent visit to Bulgaria. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / consumer issues Tuesday November 14, 2006 - 09:51 by Jim O'Sullivan   text 43 comments (last - saturday november 25, 2006 - 13:03)
Water is in the process of being privatised by stealth. Citizens must inform themselves regarding the ongoing process to hand our water over to a private multi-national company to make profit and learn from the experiences in other jurisdicitons where privatisation has brought hardship to communities and particulatly to the most vulnerable members. Voters should seek to have this placed on the issues list for the upcoming general election. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 10, 2006 - 17:24 by A Constituent   text 2 comments (last - friday november 10, 2006 - 17:56)
Dear Tanaiste and Minister for Justice,

It is manifestly clear to me as a constituent in the Rathmines area that your failure to grasp the issues of community opposition to the high pressure gas pipeline in Rossport, coupled with your failure to 'Watchdog this Corrupt Fianna Fail Administration' even as you climbed a lampost in Ranelagh, to underscore your desire to end corrupt practice is a sham performance. ... read full story / add a comment
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