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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

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offsite link Miliband Accused of Breaking Ministerial Code Over Approval of Dale Vince Solar Farm Sat Feb 01, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Ed Miliband has been accused of breaking the Ministerial Code after his department approved an application for a solar farm owned by?the millionaire Labour donor Dale Vince.
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offsite link Thoughts on the Fifth Anniversary of Leaving the European Union Sat Feb 01, 2025 09:00 | Dr David McGrogan
What the Brexit Leave vote, and Boris Johnson?s eventual triumph, seemed to in the end achieve was only the revelation of the extent to which British institutions have been hollowed out and corrupted, says David McGrogan.
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offsite link Was the Washington Plane Crash Caused by a Diversity Hire? Sat Feb 01, 2025 07:00 | James Leary
Retired passenger jet pilot James Leary, a regular contributor to the Daily Sceptic, is dubious about Trump's theory that the recent plane crash in Washington was caused by a diversity hire.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sat Feb 01, 2025 01:01 | Toby Young
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 The Death of Diversity Kitsch Fri Jan 31, 2025 18:01 | Dr David McGrogan
Diversity kitsch is all around us. But as the grim fact forcefully confronts us that some immigrants hate their hosts so much they want to murder and rape them, David McGrogan senses that it is at last falling from favour.
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international / miscellaneous Friday January 20, 2006 - 13:32 by charles meckenmann   text 3 comments (last - sunday january 22, 2006 - 03:17)
Woman in audience asks: 'I don't really understand. How is the new plan going to fix the problem?'
President George W. Bush responds: ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday January 20, 2006 - 01:08 by John Meehan   text 5 comments (last - tuesday january 24, 2006 - 18:20)
Alan Thornett has written a reply to an internal Socialist Workers' Party (SWP) document criticising the "Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) model". The SWPsuggests the structure used by the English coalition RESPECT is preferable.

Follow this link :

http://212.67.202.147/%7Eivnet05/article.php3?id_article=951 ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday January 19, 2006 - 17:55 by Offside
"It was vile stuff, but it was sad really and it just shows you that there are some twisted minds around the place." ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 19, 2006 - 15:28 by googler   text 2 comments (last - friday january 20, 2006 - 14:23)
Google Records Sought In U.S. Quest To Revive Porn Law ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 19, 2006 - 14:42 by watcher
Torture is a deliberate policy choice of the Bush administration’s and cannot be blamed on “a few bad apples”, according to the Human Rights Watch World Report 2006. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 19, 2006 - 12:21 by Dylan Ryan   text 4 comments (last - thursday january 19, 2006 - 15:48)
Chomsky's talk was attended by 2000 people, with thousands more being refused tickets. His talk has caused a stir in the mass media this morning as he named US military and intelligence stopovers in Shannon as war crimes and backed calls for demonstrations in Ireland and elsewhere against the occupation of Iraq on M18. Links below ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday January 18, 2006 - 02:26 by Socialist Party
The latest issue of the Socialist is online with articles on:
Irish Ferries
Joe Higgins on Pat Rabbitte and work permits
N.Ireland Civil Service dispute
Water Charges
Israel/Palestine
Iraq
Bolivia
Bin Tax ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Tuesday January 17, 2006 - 13:11 by insurrection   text 2 comments (last - monday november 19, 2007 - 20:37)
Strasbourg, Austria- Dockers are protesting the EU in Strasbourg which is debating a proposal to "liberalise" European ports. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 16, 2006 - 21:35 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha   text 4 comments (last - sunday february 05, 2006 - 21:50)
The Danish Defence Intelligence Service predicts an ongoing very high level of threat to the Danish troops in Iraq, according to the government’s proposal to extend Denmark’s military presence

After the end of the next five months’ extension, due to be passed at the end of this month, the Danish Social Democrats and Social Liberals have stated that they will no longer support Denmark’s military presence in Iraq, since the government is not willing to set a deadline for withdrawal of the Danish troops.

Also, prize-winning journalist Bo Elkjær complains again to the Ombudsman about the Prime Minister's and the Minister of Foreign Affairs' refusal to give interviews. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Monday January 16, 2006 - 19:23 by hell   text 2 comments (last - tuesday january 24, 2006 - 20:38)
Shell oil has been forced to evacuate facilities in the niger delta after further attacks on it's facilities... ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Monday January 16, 2006 - 15:05 by willie   text 12 comments (last - tuesday january 24, 2006 - 08:33)
Red Ink Books, Dublins only radical book shop to close in Febuary ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 16, 2006 - 12:35 by Phoenix Reader   text 1 comment (last - monday january 16, 2006 - 12:38)
Last month's Phoenix ran an interesting story indicating that the CIA are / were also using Baldonnel to refuel the aircraft that are used for their "extraordinary renditions". In the most recent January edition, the Phoenix reports that G2 (defence forces intelligence) have been trying to discover the source of this information rather than investigate the flights themselves.

Since this information is not available elsewhere online, it has been reprinted here in the public interest. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday January 15, 2006 - 21:16 by Freddy O'Connor   text 12 comments (last - wednesday january 18, 2006 - 13:12)
MI5 Agent Martin Ingram named Martin McGuinness as a British Agent on New York radio show Radio Free Eireann. You can listen to the show at www.wbai.org -go to radio archive and look for Radio Free Eireann 1-14-06.
He comes on about 25 minutes into the show. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday January 15, 2006 - 17:24 by Ibis
Social cohesion has never been more fragile than in the present. Developing an effective survival strategy in an age of bankrupt ideologies (political and other) is a challenging but not impossible task. All known political ideologies have failed or are failing (including capitalism). The lack of viable alternatives betrays a beaten and retractive population not a shortage of options. ... read full story / add a comment
poster in question.
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 14, 2006 - 13:19 by legal eagle   text 3 comments (last - monday january 23, 2006 - 13:45)   image 2 images
A poster has appeared throughout the basque territories for an event to be celebrated on the 21st of January 2006 in Barakaldo (Vizcaja) called by the illegalised party Batasuna.

Batasuna are the political wing of ETA, and spanish lawyers argue incessantly over how far the ban on one effects the other and where the line between "Terrorism Law" and "Right to Association" is to be drawn.

Lets put it this way, other than journalists or spooks, not many people will go this gig who aren't supporters of Batasuna (and therefore ETA). But they do like to split hairs. & accordingly when the association of victims of terror in Spain, (which mostly represents victims of Basque seperatist violence) pointed out that in the poster there is clearly visible the "logo" of ETA, they called for the Spanish high court to ban the meeting. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday January 13, 2006 - 21:05 by Radoslaw Sawicki   text 1 comment (last - friday january 13, 2006 - 22:07)
The management of the Jutrzenka factory- a popular producer of sweets - has dismissed Dariusz Skrzypczak, the chairman of the Solidarity trade union in Goplana company in Poznan (Poland) (from January 2005 owned by Jutrzenka). He was fired on disciplinary grounds for the interview published in local press. Although Skrzypczak had only confirmed the fact that Jutrzenka had introduced new conditions of wages, which are unfavorable for most of the workers of Goplana, the management of the plant acknowledged those words as harmful to the company. It is the second attempt to fire Skrzypczak - the first one took place at the beginning of year 2005.
... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday January 13, 2006 - 14:06 by peptide
The subversion of law and ‘order’ has been effectively and completely realised, not by revolutionary, rebel, insurgent groups and associated ideologies, but by the custodians of social order themselves. The process was essentially (d)evolutionary not revolutionary. An elementary student would have little difficulty understanding the character of the ‘New World Disorder’ and the forces that created this new social nightmare. The USA stands, in plain sight, as the most criminal, murderous, terrorist state in the world today. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday January 13, 2006 - 12:29 by MediaWatch   text 29 comments (last - monday january 16, 2006 - 11:16)
Follow the link for an article by Fintan Lane arguing for wages for working prisoners in Ireland. This case received a lot of media attention before Christmas.

http://irishsocialist.net/prison.html

For the background, read the following article by Harry Browne, which was published in Village magazine:

www.villagemagazine.ie/article.asp?sid=1&sud=41&aid=587 ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday January 13, 2006 - 11:46 by pat c   text 10 comments (last - friday january 13, 2006 - 18:51)
While George Galloway boosts his ego on Big Brother his constituents are getting angry at his abscence. When will he be back at work?

The following article is printed in full as the online Economist requires a paid subscrirtion.

pat ... read full story / add a comment
Judith Miller Journalism 101...
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 12, 2006 - 19:33 by Elephant O'Room   text 5 comments (last - saturday january 21, 2006 - 12:43)   image 1 image
From this weeks Phoenix article, on Michael McDowell and Sam Smyth. ... read full story / add a comment
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