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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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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Heat Pumps May Never be Cheaper than Gas Boilers, Miliband Admits Thu Jan 16, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
Heat pumps may never be cheaper than gas boilers, Ed Miliband has admitted as Labour sneaks a new boiler tax through Parliament that will push up prices.
The post Heat Pumps May Never be Cheaper than Gas Boilers, Miliband Admits appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Net Zero vs AI: Starmer Hasn?t Worked Out That The U.K. Can?t Be a ?Superpower? in Both Climate and ... Thu Jan 16, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Keir Starmer wants Britain to be both an "AI superpower" and a "clean energy superpower". He can't have it both ways, says Ben Pile. AI is hugely energy intensive and inconsistent with the path Net Zero is leading us down.
The post Net Zero vs AI: Starmer Hasn’t Worked Out That The U.K. Can’t Be a ‘Superpower’ in Both Climate and Computing appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu Jan 16, 2025 00:50 | 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 Labour U-Turns Over University Free Speech as it Brings Back Tory Law ? But Removes its ?Teeth? Wed Jan 15, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Labour has U-turned over university free speech as it brings back a Tory law clamping down on 'woke' cancel culture ? but removes its "teeth" by dropping the ability of academics to sue their institutions.
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offsite link Israel and Hamas Agree Ceasefire Deal, Trump Confirms Wed Jan 15, 2025 18:09 | Will Jones
Donald Trump has confirmed that Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire agreement to end the war and release the hostages, saying he will continue promoting "peace through strength" throughout the region.
The post Israel and Hamas Agree Ceasefire Deal, Trump Confirms appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / miscellaneous Thursday March 10, 2005 - 09:25 by Bukharin   text 48 comments (last - friday april 06, 2007 - 17:44)   image 1 image
Just in case you thought they had gone all soft and cuddly, heres an article from the current edition of the CPI publication 'Socialist Voice' justifying the Hitler-Stalin pact! Of course if you dare mention Stalin's crimes you are either a right-wing stooge or worse still an 'ultra-left'. Looking forward to their justification of the Moscow Showtrials.

Here's the full article, warts and all: ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 09, 2005 - 12:14 by irish basque committees
654 years in prison for 42 basque youth activists. Solidarity petition. ... read full story / add a comment
20 million  Euro subsidy for private enterprise.?
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday March 08, 2005 - 22:45 by John McDermott   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 09, 2005 - 21:54)   image 1 image
The increased funding of an Airline which is already very successful,is possibly a repeat of the Air Lingus story.
Two heavily susidised entities,Irish rail and a local airline are in direct competition with each other,and as business flows to the private airline,our national rail system will require more and more taxpayers funding. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Tuesday March 08, 2005 - 16:34 by Grace Walsh   text 26 comments (last - saturday march 19, 2005 - 18:20)
An Evening Herlad journalist walked out on an indept discussion on a Griffith College radio show, seemingly not able to hack a difference of opinion on the issue of the war in Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Monday March 07, 2005 - 19:17 by Sean Crudden   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 09, 2005 - 02:32)
A young Russian soloist took over at short notice from the indisposed Patricia Bardon and captured every heart in the National Concert Hall on Friday night in the leading role in a very entertaining and profound performance of the Mahler classic. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / environment Friday March 04, 2005 - 00:31 by Ed Lee   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 09, 2005 - 13:00)   image 1 image
...can you walk the walk?" ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday March 03, 2005 - 11:00 by Nils   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 03, 2005 - 14:25)
I find myself thinking of Kenya’s tsunami victim. That’s right: victim, singular, no “s” on the end. He was Samuel Njoroge, a car mechanic from Nairobi, who was making his first ever visit to the East African coast. “He was very excited about the prospects of going to the beach and learning how to swim,” said his father. He picked the wrong day. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday March 02, 2005 - 22:46 by the burningman   text 8 comments (last - friday june 22, 2007 - 05:35)
Despite efforts by many around the world to rise above sectarianism in the face of the USA's raw imperialism, Walden Bello, a prominent critic of neo-liberalism, has launched an international distancing campaign against the Communist Party of the Philippines and the democratic sectoral movements which draw political inspiration from them. Claiming that the CPP's military wing has targeted him with a “hit list,” which in fact is a mere diagram showing the international linkages of various Phillipino parties and individuals, Bello is playing a dangerous game. Included on the diagram is Bello's Akbayan parlimentary party. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 01, 2005 - 11:32 by USS (Union of Secondary Students)   text 7 comments (last - tuesday march 08, 2005 - 21:02)
Just to let you know that after a slightly quieter period that the USS (Union of Secondary Students) has been reinvigorated. You will already find details of our upcoming conference in Dublin in the IndyMedia Events guide at this link http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68815 We're still looking for more secondary school students to join us. Please do not hesitate to contact us either via email, our web site or phone.

The USS (Union of Secondary Students) ... read full story / add a comment
How fellow europeans now see Ireland thanks to McGreevy
international / sci-tech Monday February 28, 2005 - 23:24 by A. Programmer   text 9 comments (last - wednesday july 06, 2005 - 16:05)   image 1 image
The only vaguely democratic institution in the EU, the european parliament, has repeatedly and firmly rejected software patents (or "computer implemented inventions" in Newspeak). But the European Commission and Council, spurred on by none other than our old pal McGreevy, is still trying to introduce a new law that would hand the european software industry to multinationals, mainly Microsoft and IBM, on a plate, in a sickening little "What's good for Microsoft is good for Ireland" show. ... read full story / add a comment
We want our money back.
national / politics / elections Saturday February 26, 2005 - 10:12 by John McDermott   text 2 comments (last - saturday february 26, 2005 - 22:11)   image 1 image
It has been the longest stealth tax in history.
and now the High Court have ruled it out of order.
Even millionaire old age pensioners will be recompensed due to Bertie,s generousity with Medical Cards. Wonderful! ... read full story / add a comment
louth / public consultation / irish social forum Friday February 25, 2005 - 14:21 by murphys   text 16 comments (last - wednesday march 09, 2005 - 12:44)
DUBLIN, Ireland (Reuters) -- They hit the headlines when there were too few. And now the humble spud is back in the limelight ... because there are too many. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 25, 2005 - 11:03 by Frothing at the mouth   text 3 comments (last - wednesday march 02, 2005 - 10:35)
A US marine, captured on film killing a wounded Iraqi at point blank range during November's assault on Fallujah, will not be formally charged because of a lack of evidence, CBS News reported yesterday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Thursday February 24, 2005 - 12:57 by Brian Nugent   text 28 comments (last - thursday october 18, 2007 - 16:43)   image 2 images
Some thoughts on reading the book 'Stasiland' on a society dominated by the secret police. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 23, 2005 - 17:01 by Davy Carlin   text 25 comments (last - monday february 28, 2005 - 11:34)
I have to give credit where credit is due ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday February 23, 2005 - 14:48 by Maria   text 7 comments (last - thursday february 24, 2005 - 13:37)
It may sound banal and in “what else did you expect” mode, but since I started reading the Irish Times, I have not read a single positive and objective article on Russia. ... read full story / add a comment
every visitor is shown the bullet holes he left. "to remember"
international / politics / elections Wednesday February 23, 2005 - 12:27 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 3 comments (last - saturday february 24, 2007 - 04:23)   image 3 images
Democracy does not spring up out of the ground.
The rights to equal suffrage regardless of socio-economic class, gender, or creed in a secret ballot are European rights.

They have rooted in the arguments of Greek sychophants and intellectuals, who never allowed their wives, concubines, slaves or migrants the same rights.

They have roots in the declaration of the rights of man of the French Revolution. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations Wednesday February 23, 2005 - 11:59 by Gill X   text 21 comments (last - tuesday august 22, 2006 - 04:50)
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 23, 2005 - 11:57 by Paul McAndrew   text 23 comments (last - tuesday july 08, 2014 - 20:14)
The last edition of UCC's student newspaper published a full page anti-gay rant, in its latest attempt to whip up Islamopohbia and homophobia

As a gay student I feel very badly let down by the Students Union at UCC.

If racist material had been widely distribted on campus, let alone an article in an SU funded paper whose sole purpose was to attack black people, there would at the very least have been an immediate statement of condemnation by the Student's Union.

I challenge the SU leadership to deny it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday February 23, 2005 - 11:12 by Concerned   text 41 comments (last - thursday june 09, 2005 - 18:10)
Robert McCartney' s sisters are on Marian Finucane's radio programme on RTE. Anyone who has any doubts about the guilt and activities of IRA activists should listen to these women. ... read full story / add a comment
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