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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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offsite link German Political Insanity Update: Ban on ?Unfiltered Opinions? Announced Thu Jan 16, 2025 17:00 | Eugyppius
German political elites are freaking out as the AfD continues to poll high, boosted by the perfidious Musk. Clamping down on "unfiltered opinions" that undermine "democracy" has become the latest obsession, says Eugyppius.
The post German Political Insanity Update: Ban on “Unfiltered Opinions” Announced appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Richard Tice Demands Apology From Matt Hancock Over Covid Vaccines: ?Horrendous at Every Level? Thu Jan 16, 2025 15:38 | Will Jones
Reform Party leader Richard Tice has called for former Health Secretary Matt Hancock to apologise over his handling of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, calling it "horrendous at every level".
The post Richard Tice Demands Apology From Matt Hancock Over Covid Vaccines: “Horrendous at Every Level” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Keir Starmer?s Human Rights Lawyer Chum is Shipwrecking His Government Thu Jan 16, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
From handing over the Chagos Islands to compensating Gerry Adams, Starmer's decisions owe more to human rights lawyers than sound politics. He needs to sack his chum Lord Hermer before he shipwrecks his Government.
The post Keir Starmer’s Human Rights Lawyer Chum is Shipwrecking His Government appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Why the ?1 in 73 Muslims in Rotherham? Statistic Is Misleading Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:00 | Noah Carl
One figure that has been repeatedly cited in the grooming gangs debate is that 1 in 73 Muslim men in the town of Rotherham has been prosecuted for grooming gang offences. However, this figure is slightly misleading.
The post Why the ?1 in 73 Muslims in Rotherham? Statistic Is Misleading appeared first on 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.

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international / arts and media Friday December 24, 2004 - 22:21 by ah go on!   text 1 comment (last - friday december 31, 2004 - 23:53)
Happy Holidays, coz we know lots of you aren't Christmas believers. And we know you "solstice" types are still in party mode.

and then
Happy New Year.
we'll call it 2005.
coz it makes sense. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 24, 2004 - 00:05 by Jack Russell   text 9 comments (last - saturday january 01, 2005 - 21:41)   image 1 image
Phone Call from Boston...........the state of Irish Government. Time for a review of PD foundation pledge almost 20 years ago............Let's draft the 2005 Resolutions and be interactive with Government.......!!!! ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 23, 2004 - 17:50 by Davy Carlin   text 3 comments (last - tuesday february 14, 2006 - 18:33)
Dear friends,

We would like to thank you for all your support for the Street Seen initiative taken recently to collect sleeping bags and warm clothes for homeless persons. The initiative itself was helped in part also by the large media coverage we got from the newspapers - radio and television as so to publicise and cover it. Although Street Seen is only on its second issue its print is 10,000 copies. The publication affords space to those who may not find space afforded elsewhere for their stories, poetry etc as well as providing an avenue for more established writers to put out their message. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 23, 2004 - 17:47 by Davy Carlin   text 2 comments (last - monday january 03, 2005 - 15:00)
Dear friends the end of the year for the ARN started of as it ended with activists taking a firm stand against racist attacks and racism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 22, 2004 - 18:56 by john petrovato   text 35 comments (last - friday january 14, 2005 - 00:55)
Bethlehem today is little more than a sleepy town. But not the same sleepy town it was 2000 years ago. After 4 years of military incursions, oppression, and violence, the town remains beseiged. Frequently the town is put under “curfew”, meaning that the residents are not allowed to leave their homes. More frequently, roadblocks and checkpoints are placed in and around the town to make travel to and from Bethlehem nearly impossible. Under such conditions, it is not surprising that the town expects very few tourists and visitors during the holidays. Rather than being greeted on the street, we are asked by young children in Bethlehem for help in finding missing relatives, taken by Israeli forces. Refugee camps have sadly become permanent fixtures, with United Nations relief replacing Christmas spirit. Army green seems to be the color of this Christmas season, with coils of barbed wire trimming the roads and alleys. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Wednesday December 22, 2004 - 12:00 by i remember   text 3 comments (last - thursday december 23, 2004 - 23:09)
As I watched the annual Televised lottery numbers taken from the drum this morning by little orphan children, and the first prize awarded to a ticket whic had been bought in the Catalan Town of "Sort" which translates to the english "Luck", I thought about the concept of luck as one of the other writers of the collective in the last days as wondered about "Belief". ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday December 21, 2004 - 13:30 by Terry   text 4 comments (last - thursday december 23, 2004 - 23:52)
An investigation into the Suas ‘development education’ course and the whole issue of World Bank window dressing.
See also:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68015 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday December 21, 2004 - 13:25 by Terry   text 5 comments (last - wednesday december 22, 2004 - 23:00)
Backgrounder on the social origins of world hunger and on the policies of the I.M.F. and World Bank. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 21, 2004 - 00:29 by An Púca   text 44 comments (last - thursday april 28, 2011 - 13:59)   image 5 images
George bush recieves this coveted award for the second time. ... read full story / add a comment
Sean Crudden
national / miscellaneous Sunday December 19, 2004 - 19:33 by Sean Crudden   text 11 comments (last - friday january 21, 2005 - 22:25)   image 1 image
"The law is an ass." How can we distinguish what is authentic and genuine in the dense snow of pretence, pretension, ostentation pouring down on us from the hallowed halls of the media, politics, the professions, and the law as well as the gnomes of commerce? ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday December 18, 2004 - 15:17 by Michelle Clarke   text 8 comments (last - friday march 11, 2005 - 17:41)
The Home Secretary, Mr. Blunkett chose to resign. There is a need to re-focus in line with characteristics of integrity, justice, equality and honour.........Administratively the vulnerable in Irish society are not being protected - nb the hospital/pension issue at present. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 17, 2004 - 00:16 by Appeal   text 9 comments (last - friday january 14, 2005 - 09:26)
Ever since the major disarmament actions in Jan/Feb 2002 there has been an Irish military presence at Shannon Airport. Their mission? To ensure the unfettered use of the airport by the US military.

Each day that Irish soldiers guard US military flights they are accessories to America's criminal wars. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday December 16, 2004 - 22:13 by Peter Quinn   text 1 comment (last - saturday december 18, 2004 - 19:48)
The Partition of Ireland did not create a peaceful state as what was hoped by the British. There was serious tension in the North in the 20’s and 30’s and the Unionists consolidated their state. There were several stringent measures taken in to end IRA action. Many Nationalists believed that the border would be re-fixed so that they could live in the Irish Republic however this never materialized and the Unionists dissolved Nationalist majority councils and took over their power.

In 1921 and 1922 Proportional Representation (PR) was ended in General and Local Elections and although this broke the Government of Ireland Act, the British took no action. Nationalists walked out of Stormont in 1922 after the Unionists got rid of PR and the Unionists then re-drew the council ward boundaries. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 16, 2004 - 16:07 by Davy Carlin   text 19 comments (last - wednesday december 29, 2004 - 16:05)
Democratic Centralism?

In this short piece I will give a frank {point – based }summary of my experiences of Democratic Centralism {DC}. This shall be done from the position of having being both in a DC organisation and working closely with others from similar DC organisations. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 16, 2004 - 15:02 by Dan   text 55 comments (last - sunday march 27, 2005 - 14:05)
Latest issue of Irish Socialist Network publication Leftline, contains articles on Iraq, water charges, the Labour Party and the Easter Rising ... read full story / add a comment
198 dead. 50 non spanish citizens. over 1900 wounded including non spanish citizens. REST IN PEACE
international / racism & migration related issues Thursday December 16, 2004 - 13:04 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 5 comments (last - saturday march 11, 2006 - 11:18)   image 2 images
"You sirs have talked only about yourselves and not of us..."

"from the 11th to the 14th we awaited our dead".

"on the 14th I voted I still hadn't received his [her son's] corpse"

Pilar Manjón - spokesperson for the victims of Madrid 11. ... read full story / add a comment
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louth / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 14, 2004 - 15:54 by Brian Vernon   text 21 comments (last - wednesday december 29, 2004 - 01:30)   image 5 images   1 attached file
Just look at the level of literacy!! He could barely write. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday December 14, 2004 - 12:49 by Oisín   text 16 comments (last - friday october 08, 2010 - 15:19)
James Connolly is probably the single most important figure in the history of the Irish left. He was an organiser in the IWW in the USA but in Ireland is best known for his role in building the syndicalist phase of Irish union movement and for involving the armed defence body of that union, the Irish Citizens' Army in the 1916 nationalist insurrection. This left a legacy claimed at one time or another not only by all the Irish left parties but also by the nationalists of Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Monday December 13, 2004 - 23:36 by John McDermott   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 14, 2004 - 21:53)
Fierce speculation rages as to the carry on of one Martin "Cu"Cullen ,Fianna Fail,s hound from hell ,and the environmentalists nightmare Nemesis.! ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 13, 2004 - 13:26 by James R   text 3 comments (last - tuesday december 14, 2004 - 20:40)
Something is seriously amiss in education. Inequality of access is rampant and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the latest Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report and bouts of rhetoric from the government are going to do little to solve it. Beaten back two years ago, the government is once again trying to introduce fees, this time dumping the idea onto the OECD. Meanwhile, back home it uses its own shoddy track record in tackling educational inequality as a justification. ... read full story / add a comment
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