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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
Alternative site: https://thesaker.si/saker-a... Site was created using the downloads provided Regards Herb

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
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Have Covid Travel Requirements Gone Away? Fri Jan 24, 2025 17:00 | Dr Roger Watson
Back in 2022 and 2023 when Covid travel restrictions and vaccine passports were all the rage Dr Roger Watson published his country-by-country guide. Now, in 2025, he takes a look to see if any are still at it.
The post Have Covid Travel Requirements Gone Away? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link A Golden Age for American Meritocracy Fri Jan 24, 2025 14:15 | Darren Gee
The second Trump Presidency has already dissolved hundreds of DEI programmes and looks set to herald a new golden age of American meritocracy. It's a movement America and the world are hungry for, says Darren Gobin.
The post A Golden Age for American Meritocracy appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Think Tank?s Net Zero Survey Concludes the Public is the Problem Fri Jan 24, 2025 13:10 | Ben Pile
The Social Market Foundation has carried out a survey on public attitudes to Net Zero and concluded that the "uninformed" and reluctant public are the problem. Why else would they say no to heat pumps?
The post Think Tank’s Net Zero Survey Concludes the Public is the Problem appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Number of Children Who Think They are Wrong Sex Surges 50-Fold Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:10 | Will Jones
There has been a 50-fold rise in children who think they are the?wrong sex in just 10 years, with two thirds of them girls, analysis of GP records suggests.
The post Number of Children Who Think They are Wrong Sex Surges 50-Fold appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: Go Back to Your Constituencies and Prepare to Live in Mud and Grass Huts Fri Jan 24, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
With all 72 Lib Dem MPs supporting the mad Climate and Nature Bill, their clownish leader Ed Davey is effectively telling them to go back to their constituencies and prepare to live in mud and grass huts.
The post Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: Go Back to Your Constituencies and Prepare to Live in Mud and Grass Huts appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / eu Friday December 01, 2006 - 19:00 by anon   text 3 comments (last - monday december 04, 2006 - 12:35)
As Ahern does his best false outrage, he also quielty suggest he will ban the Guantomano Express from Ireland. A plane he described yesterday as more likley coming here for a golfing holiday, yet now he agrees to ban it, what other planes will be on this list and how will he ban them from Irish airspace if civilian planes don't need to give notice. http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1129/cia.html

In his written submission the the cmttee he desrcibes how many thousands of planes go through Ireland and the Gardai have investigated 6 complaints (It was 4).
http://foreignaffairs.gov.ie/Press_Releases/20061130/22...2.htm ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / consumer issues Thursday November 30, 2006 - 12:51 by Madigan   text 10 comments (last - monday december 04, 2006 - 10:37)
Isn't it strange that when in sniffing distance of getting back into power the local parties shy away from association with opposition to separate water charges. Is the thought of missing out on the double tax so hard to swallow. Maybe the truth is as suspected that all allong the likes of the DUP SF really agreed with the policy. ... read full story / add a comment
Del Toro with his creation "Pan"
international / arts and media Wednesday November 29, 2006 - 17:13 by w.   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 29, 2006 - 17:21)   image 1 image
The most immediately striking thing about Guillermo del Toro’s latest film “El Laberinto del Fauno” (Pan’s Labyrinth) is that it is entirely in Spanish with English subtitles yet still draws large crowds in Dublin’s ordinary multi-screen cinemas. The film, a mixture of fantastic fairy-tale and dramatic account of life in post civil war Spain, follows the journey of a highly imaginative young girl called Ofelia. Ofelia’s mother has married a sadistic fascist army Captain, who is engaged in a battle with local guerrillas throughout the film, and she is forced to move to his remote outpost despite a complicated and pregnancy. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday November 29, 2006 - 08:40 by m.m.mccarron   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 29, 2006 - 16:09)
Reducing the Rossport Issue to Communication Failures - Rational? ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Tuesday November 28, 2006 - 09:05 by Watchdog   text 23 comments (last - sunday december 03, 2006 - 16:26)   image 9 images
If a high dose of radiation element, Polonium 210, can be a tool of quick assassination, lower doses (as in typical cigarettes) are no less tools of homicide. Ask health officials, et al, why Po-210 is still permitted in cigarettes, with zero warning to anyone. Ask why smokers and Pub Proprietors bear the burdens of law, but the cig makers, ingredient suppliers, and complicit regulators go free.
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national / crime and justice Friday November 24, 2006 - 19:14 by C Murray   text 10 comments (last - wednesday may 16, 2007 - 21:25)   image 1 image
Taking the lead from Indymedia Barcelona on this international stop Violence
against Women day :

http://barcelona.indymedia.org/feature/display/282986/i...x.php

The issue of violence was covered this morning in the Irish Times when
women who have been murdered were commerorated by Women's Aid:

http://www.womensaid.org
http://www.ireland.com ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday November 24, 2006 - 13:49 by m.m.mccarron   text 4 comments (last - friday december 08, 2006 - 06:02)
The joining of forces by a public service body and a print multinational must be a first. The Corrib Gas Project is showing up a number of firsts. Count them. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Friday November 24, 2006 - 00:11 by Citizen   text 3 comments (last - wednesday april 02, 2008 - 13:05)
As the supreme court finally settled the argument over the National Aquatic Centre, I am curious as to how much this cost me. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday November 23, 2006 - 17:59 by Tim Sauer
Brazilian government must suspend, while the sector is reorganized, the rounds of licitations of areas promoted by ANP.

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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 22, 2006 - 23:14 by clodagh   text 7 comments (last - tuesday november 28, 2006 - 03:32)   image 1 image
Here's how the PSNI initiates racism in communities. ... read full story / add a comment
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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