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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
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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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Human Rights in Ireland
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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Eco-Anxiety Affects More Than Three Quarters of Children Under 12 Mon Feb 03, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
'Eco-anxiety' affects 78% of children under 12, a crisis that teachers say they are unable to cope with, new polling by Greenpeace has found. The solution? More ruthless exposure of children to alarmist material.
The post Eco-Anxiety Affects More Than Three Quarters of Children Under 12 appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Keir Starmer Denies Breaking Lockdown Rules as it Emerges he Took a Private Acting Lesson During Cov... Mon Feb 03, 2025 18:06 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer?has denied breaking lockdown?rules after it emerged he had a face-to-face acting lesson with a voice coach on Christmas Eve 2020 when London was under strict Covid restrictions.
The post Keir Starmer Denies Breaking Lockdown Rules as it Emerges he Took a Private Acting Lesson During Covid Restrictions appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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!
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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".
The post Wind Turbine Bursts into Flames appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Eye Sore: Dun Laoghaire Baths
dublin / environment Monday September 06, 2004 - 21:00 by Chris O'Malley   text 30 comments (last - tuesday september 14, 2004 - 19:56)   image 1 image
People of Dún Laoghaire Boycott Boyd-Barrett Protest

Following the massive failure of Richard Boyd Barrett’s “Save Our Sea Front” protest to attract the support of the people of Dún Laoghaire on Sunday, it is now clear that the group holds little or no mandate to speak on the topic.

Barrett & the SWP have consistently claimed they have the support of the majority of locals in the area – yet just a little over 150 people out of a possible 50,000 residents in the Dún Laoghaire Ward turned up to support the protest.

I hope all the local Councillors Bailey, Devlin, Mitchell-O'Connor, Regan, Ireland & Dillon-Byrne will now stand-up to this fascist - bullyboy and move ahead with a second competition to develop the Dún Laoghaire Baths Site in partnership with the community so as to create a sustainable development that benefits the Town and the wider business community. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday September 04, 2004 - 18:36 by Sean Crudden   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 07, 2004 - 08:58)
Are the received ideas on child development and the standards of practice in Irish schools in harmony with the needs of the growing child or the young adult? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday September 03, 2004 - 18:34 by antrophe
Paulo is a former student activist from Chile, who spent a number of years as a representative in his union, he is now working in Ireland, we managed to grab him for a brief chat about his experiences in the student movement and what problems face education in Chile. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 03, 2004 - 18:28 by Caoimhe K   text 10 comments (last - monday november 15, 2004 - 13:10)
Immigration is a relatively new experience for Ireland with 1997 being the year which marked the start of large numbers of people (generally 10,000 a year) coming to Ireland seeking asylum. Ireland has a demographic problem, in that it has an ageing population and needs this immigration to sustain economic growth and labour supply. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Friday September 03, 2004 - 17:35 by people from UCD   text 6 comments (last - friday october 08, 2004 - 14:09)   image 1 image
Noam Chomsky is a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the 1950’s he redefined the field of linguistics, but outside of his linguistic work, he has become famed as a political dissident for his work in exposing the reality of American foreign intervention across the globe and in his analysis of the power structures governing the media machine guaranteeing the proliferation of ideas benefiting the established social order and elites. The New York Times described him as ‘arguably the most important intellectual alive.’ ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Friday September 03, 2004 - 16:42 by stepping razor   text 55 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 - 00:30)
Right wing patriotic chechyan extemists holding Russian school children hostage, in Russia were initially trained by the CIA in the 1980s at the height of the cold war.
Chechyan muslim extremists were trained and armed by the US, in order to destablise the then communist Soviet union. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday September 01, 2004 - 19:33 by Dec McCarthy   text 19 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 - 16:58)   image 1 image
The primary role of the police is to preserve the status quo in society. In other words, the first task of the police force, of any police force, is to ensure the rule of the State and the rich elite. In practice this means priority is given to concerns of State over that of the population. For example, in Stoneybatter, near Dublin city-centre, on a number of occasions, the Guards have responded to break-ins over 12 hours after the event. In contrast the Guards were always prompt in attending to the scene of a bin-truck blockade. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 01, 2004 - 00:06 by sharp   text 2 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 - 02:42)
As a protestant who used Maysfield leisure centre, the decision to close Maysfield leisure centre appears blatantly sectarian against the nearby catholic community close to the centre and protestants who chose to use the centre because of its convenience. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday August 31, 2004 - 13:32 by Rambler   text 3 comments (last - tuesday august 31, 2004 - 19:42)
The Largest Branch of the Northern Ireland civil service, today met to vote on 'all out'
strike action without pay ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Sunday August 29, 2004 - 02:56 by john mcdermott   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 29, 2004 - 19:00)
Farming syndicates of property speculators are reported to be moving their money offshore.If Sinn fein are elected there is real concern that they will be dispossed if they retain their wealth here. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Saturday August 28, 2004 - 20:03 by Akrasia   text 7 comments (last - thursday october 04, 2007 - 10:34)
"The problems with aspartame include not only the biochemical nature of this toxin but also it sheds light on the political nature of the players involved. The changes in regulatory policies and regulations resulting from corporate-government ties and the politicians closely associated with these ties. What I can tell you, regarding toxicology, histology and biochemistry, is that aspartame is neurotoxic. Its components easily transcend the blood-brain barrier, interfering with normal nerve cell function. This affects the glutathione and calcium mechanisms in place, destroying nerve call integrity. The methanol then breaks down into formaldehyde-formic acid components, which denaturizes/mutates the DNA: a known scientific fact. The subsequent result from this interaction and from isolates of genetically modified amino acids, the methanol, is nerve cell necrosis and subsequent organ system degradation"

Arthur M. Evangelista, a former FDA Investigator ... read full story / add a comment
muralismo
dublin / arts and media Saturday August 28, 2004 - 13:19 by dunk   text 4 comments (last - tuesday march 01, 2005 - 02:00)   image 9 images
Park Road Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th · 12pm - 6.00pm · family, all ages
FREE

muralismo is happening this weekend, a giant mural will be painted alongside peoples park dun laoighre as part of festival

some indymedia people are trying to do "communication action"; hopefully this will happen
petit cinema, imc boards, printflares, take pictures and hopefully make little documentary with nicaragua team FUNARTE? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 26, 2004 - 23:55 by Jason Brannigan   text 4 comments (last - sunday september 12, 2004 - 17:20)   image 1 image
The talk below was delivered by Jason Brannigan, a member of the the Fascists Out Campaign (FOC) and the anarchist group, Organise! in Derry on Saturday August 14th 2004 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 26, 2004 - 16:32 by Terry   text 2 comments (last - monday october 11, 2004 - 00:22)
This essay argues that the conflict in the Persian Gulf is conditioned by the needs of American capitalism, and thus whether a Democrat or a Republican, a war hero or a draft dodger, sits in the Oval Office, it will make no difference to the propensity of the American state to commit acts of mass violence. An argument which is held up as a true by the record of Clinton, a man who recently received adulation in Dublin, yet whose administration slew far more than that of either Bush Snr. or Jnr. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 25, 2004 - 04:25 by Joe King   text 47 comments (last - saturday september 11, 2004 - 22:15)   image 1 image
Racism is alive and well in Ireland. Only the very dishonest or the very naïve can deny it. We all knew it was bad, we only had to listen to our friends, neighbours and workmates. We only had to look at how generations of Travellers were treated. But the result of the citizenship referendum really opened our eyes to how widespread it is. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday August 24, 2004 - 23:00 by Fergus
Woke up this morning.
Ad on the radio selling ‘income protection’.
What's that?
‘Friends First’ competing against the ‘Welfare State’? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday August 24, 2004 - 12:35 by Michael Hennigan   text 5 comments (last - monday september 06, 2004 - 16:12)
"one of the great scandals in modern Ireland". ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 24, 2004 - 03:05 by BANDUA CATOC   text 10 comments (last - thursday august 04, 2005 - 02:35)   image 1 image
OUR LANGUAGE IS GALICIAN ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday August 20, 2004 - 16:49 by Ciaran Weafer - UCDSU   text 30 comments (last - friday august 27, 2004 - 11:38)
Much debate has been taking place over the last few days regarding the success, or not, of the occupation of the department of education on Tuesday. By engaging in an occupation we are taking a particular stance. It is a form of direct action which means that the action has a direct effect on the people involved. You take a stance, issue demands, and do not move until those demands are met or you are forcibly removed. If your demands are met you have been victorious if you are removed the fight moves to another day but the victory lies in the fact that you have shown an unflinching belief in your tactics and what you stand for and a commitment to continue to bring the fight to the powers that be. Anything less is a failure. As such the occupation of Tuesday last was, in this regard a failure. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 19, 2004 - 13:45 by D   text 16 comments (last - sunday august 22, 2004 - 15:04)
Last night South Belfast ARN meeting was attended by local residents and trade unionists, as well as between fifteen to twenty representatives of various local community organisations and support groups from around South Belfast. ... read full story / add a comment
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