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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

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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

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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national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 24, 2007 - 06:09 by J. P. anderson   text 11 comments (last - thursday march 01, 2007 - 17:32)
The most needy, most deprived are indeed very poorly served by the political establishment in Ireland. There is overwhelming evidence to suggest that most crime is linked to poverty, social exclusion, educational disadvantage and dysfunctional parenting, often each are combined. If we really want to reduce crime, we have to invest in the education and welfare of our disadvantaged children right from birth and even before birth.
Early school-leaving has consistently identified as a major risk factor for offending, but there are no systematic supports for those at risk of dropping out of school.
http://uk.360.yahoo.com/greagues2
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Rospuda Valley
international / environment Friday February 23, 2007 - 21:39 by Laure Akai   text 1 comment (last - saturday february 24, 2007 - 07:01)   image 6 images
Anarchists and ecologists are in their 12th day of a protest camp out in -20 degree weather. The proposed road through the Rospuda Valley threatens a unique wetlands but local residents have had enough of the lethal traffic problems in their town. A look at the problems facing activists in Poland with getting the word across when even the local priest tries to organize his parishoners to carry out a pogrom against the activists. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Wednesday February 21, 2007 - 10:09 by Jim O'Sullivan   text 7 comments (last - saturday july 14, 2007 - 18:35)
Over the past few years operators have been allowed to exploit mobile phone owners by misleading them into "subscriptiopn servcies" where they are exploited. Its time to call a halt. ... read full story / add a comment
Sean Crudden
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 20, 2007 - 16:03 by Sean Crudden   text 3 comments (last - tuesday february 27, 2007 - 19:15)   image 1 image
"A useful starting point, therefore, might be to ask not why there is so much disruptive behaviour in Irish second-level schools but why there is so little?"

Professor Tom Collins

The Irish Times, 20 February 2007.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 18, 2007 - 21:32 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 9 comments (last - friday october 12, 2007 - 21:40)
Education..........

Community Service

Cookery classes for prisoners at Castlereagh ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Saturday February 17, 2007 - 14:19 by La Plataforma   image 1 image
The Spanish “Transition to democracy” was simply a way to fortify the capitalist economic model. With such Transition, the Spanish dominant class eliminated all sort of social resistance and opened the way for business; they made a Francoism without Franco and presented the Transition as a triumph of the people. It was a history written by the owners of money and their fascist sentries.
But Memory, Dignity and Struggle continue
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galway / eu Friday February 16, 2007 - 15:28 by gníomhaí   text 1 comment (last - friday may 11, 2007 - 10:15)
Faoi dheireadh tá Gaeilge ina teanga oifigiúil den Aontas Eorpach, ach is scannal é nár tharla seo 30 bliain ó shin nuair a chuaigh muid isteach san AE ar dtús.
Measaim gur seo seans deireanach don Ghaeilge teacht slán. Is trua é seo mar tríd is tríd táim i gcoinne an Aontais Eorpach. I mo thuairim, tá an eagraíocht ann go príomha chun an bóthar a réiteach do ghnóthaí móra. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday February 15, 2007 - 15:06 by gníomhaí   text 5 comments (last - sunday february 18, 2007 - 20:14)
Food prices 'set to soar'. I urge all Indymedia readers to pay heed- this is by all accounts only the beginning.... ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Wednesday February 14, 2007 - 15:00 by RogerC   text 2 comments (last - sunday february 18, 2007 - 18:25)
I know that while the Northern Ireland assembly was running the local parties didn't seem to have a problem introducing water charges. However it would be foolish to let them off the hook at this time. ... read full story / add a comment
Aircraft auctioned off to sole bidder,a Mr Humpty Dumpty.
national / politics / elections Wednesday February 14, 2007 - 12:55 by John McDermott   image 1 image
Fianna Fail threatened with voting meltdown catastrophy in north county Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Wednesday February 14, 2007 - 09:33 by Peter Sharp   image 1 image
the Old Chestnut.
national / politics / elections Tuesday February 13, 2007 - 20:23 by C Murray   text 9 comments (last - tuesday march 20, 2007 - 10:04)   image 2 images

http://www.justice.ie has details of a new 'Counter Gangland Crime Law'
published 'draft legislation' which means he thinks he's coming back, or
the guillotine will be used.

The Guillotine is a handy little device which the FF/PD administration has
been using for many years, in which full debate is disallowed ,to shove
everything through in time for 'snap' elections- of which there are few,
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Train our revolutionary offspring !! for Peace now War is ended!! practise your scriabin!!
international / history and heritage Tuesday February 13, 2007 - 04:39 by iosaf   text 12 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2007 - 22:27)   image 5 images
It has been long observed that people for some reason on their non-banking days readily absorb shite about Dangerous Places, Famous People, Sensible Saving Options, Holidays, Interesting facts, Sport results, Media, gardening and health as well looking ahead at “democratic evolution” or looking back at "how history was made". We will assume dear & attentive reader that you are one of those who has passed directly from Saturday to almost Tuesday with the sort of crumpled Sunday Papers a person uses to mop up spilt things like milk. Maybe you didn’t absorb your interesting facts & didn’t want to absorb more Dangerous places. We all have a limit of absorption, like that point where credulity ends & credibility is lost. This edition I will consider the mystical progress from Tolstoy's "War & Peace" and his accompanying anarchist beliefs to the composer Scriabin & his experimental music & then his nephew a.k.a. Comrade Molotov, Soviet negotiator with Hitler & daddy of the "petrol bomb". ... read full story / add a comment
Abortion will be legalised through parliamentary majority...
international / gender and sexuality Monday February 12, 2007 - 10:38 by Chris murray   text 2 comments (last - saturday february 17, 2007 - 15:43)   image 1 image
The Socialist Leader Jose Socrates insists that abortion rights will
be legalised in Portugal after a large abstention in the electorate.
The Leader of Christian Democratic Party Riberio de Castro says
that the referendum is not legally binding,Of the % that voted the right
to legal abortion was carried. The Socialist Party must now use
their parliamentary majority to legalise abortion as they promised in the 2005
election. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday February 11, 2007 - 18:42 by jim travers   text 9 comments (last - thursday march 01, 2007 - 01:28)
History was made today as the GAA opened its doors and welcomed in a modern Ireland for all to enjoy.
The pitch was fantastic, the fans were in their thousands and the stadium was a shining tribute to an association that calls itself the governing body of amateur games while boasting a world class stadium for its members to play in. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday February 10, 2007 - 20:03 by jim travers
Integrated ticketing is a most desirable move forward in helping public transport users move from one form of public transport to another with relative ease, if only it was as easy as that. Providing an actual operational and successful integrated ticketing system such as those seen on the continent, while desirable is but the final process once we have resolved the various other issues that inhibit the successful introduction of the system. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 07, 2007 - 20:31 by Michelle Clarke   text 19 comments (last - sunday july 27, 2008 - 01:24)   image 4 images
Thankfully these men were found out.......Thankfully the police system and legal system could take this to court - to the Crown Court. This is about hard core paedophiles, their fantasies and using websites on the internet to conspire a plan - a plan that would mimic what happened to 'Holly and Jess' RIP, to young girls who experienced a sordid death.

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national / miscellaneous Tuesday February 06, 2007 - 19:32 by jim travers   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 12, 2007 - 01:21)
In order to survive we must eat, when there is a plentiful supply of food we live in the knowledge that since variety is the spice of life and food is in abundance, there is nothing to think about and less to worry about. Despite our preferences towards organically grown produce, modern 21st Century life styles dictate that the foods we eat must be readily available, possibly precooked and ready for consumption at the click of a switch. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday February 06, 2007 - 14:29 by Simon Bolger   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 06, 2007 - 23:32)
Yesterday I was horrified to see that politic campaigns are getting started and soon we will have to endure giant billboards of Michael McDowell face scaring us at every turn. Something you would not want to run into in a dark alley. But this got me thinking about a serious question, should political parties have anything to do with Students’ Unions? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 04, 2007 - 23:01 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 4 comments (last - monday may 14, 2007 - 22:37)
In the last number of years we have heard about Gardai indiscipline and Gardai brutality in our country. The Morris Tribunal in Donegal states that is fact. But tonight let us focus on prison in-discipline and prison collusion of hatred within the system.

The 17 years I worked with Simon gives rise to meeting a variety of people. They were mostly homeless due to a compulsory overtime system. This system was overturned in the High Court in the 1980's but it was too late for hundreds of officers who suffered from depression and additcton to alcohol within the System. Tonight I give their story. ... read full story / add a comment
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