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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 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.
The post Labour U-Turns Over University Free Speech as it Brings Back Tory Law ? But Removes its “Teeth” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

offsite link Reeves Jobs Bloodbath Continues as Currys Forced to Outsource to India Wed Jan 15, 2025 15:21 | Will Jones
The jobs bloodbath continues as Currys is forced to?outsource more British staff to India?as a result of Rachel Reeves's "tax on jobs", the Chief Executive of the electricals retailer has said.
The post Reeves Jobs Bloodbath Continues as Currys Forced to Outsource to India appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Woke Paris Theatre Goes Broke After Opening its Doors to 250 African Migrants for a Free Show Five W... Wed Jan 15, 2025 13:39 | Will Jones
A 'woke' theatre in Paris known for its radical Leftist shows faces bankruptcy after being occupied by more than 250 African migrants who were let in for a free event five weeks ago.
The post Woke Paris Theatre Goes Broke After Opening its Doors to 250 African Migrants for a Free Show Five Weeks Ago and They Refuse to Leave appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Declined: Chapter 4: ?A Promise Not a Threat? Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:29 | M. Zermansky
Chapter four of Declined is here ? a dystopian satire about the emergence of a social credit system in the U.K., serialised in?the Daily Sceptic. This week: Ella laments to see a tractor plough the last remaining field.
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national / history and heritage Saturday December 06, 2008 - 12:10 by Jim Gibney   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 07, 2008 - 00:48)   image 1 image
RTE is this country’s national broadcasting agency for both television and radio.

I doubt it very much if a columnist writing in a mainstream newspaper in Britain would feel the need to write, ‘The BBC is this country’s national broadcasting agency’. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 06, 2008 - 01:01 by V. Ritas   text 6 comments (last - sunday december 28, 2008 - 21:26)   video 1 video file
Ben Mcintyre and Paul Orengoh reveal in the Times of London how President-elect Obama's grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was brutally tortured by the British during the Mau Mau freedom fighters uprising in support of Kenyan independence. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Friday December 05, 2008 - 11:54 by redjade   text 1 comment (last - friday december 05, 2008 - 17:02)
from RTE.ie
Ognir is offering via bittorrent... ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday December 04, 2008 - 20:41 by Red Banner
Issue 34 of Red Banner is available now: €2 / £1.50 from bookshops, sellers, or the above address. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Wednesday December 03, 2008 - 16:38 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - sunday december 07, 2008 - 19:50)
Here is an extract from an interview with Maryam Namazie who argues that Political Islam makes abolishing the Death Penalty more difficult. Full text at link.

IPS: Your organisation campaigns for the separation of religion and state. In Muslim countries, is it religion, more than anything else that prevents the abolition of the death penalty?

Maryam Namazie: The death penalty exists in quite a large number of countries and is a form of social control still exercised by states, not all of them ruled by Islamic laws (I wouldn't call them Muslim countries any more than I would call Britain and France Christian ones). The U.S. and China are good examples of this. ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Wednesday December 03, 2008 - 15:25 by mary and john
Veteran rights campaigner Peter Tatchell makes an impassioned plea in today’s London Independent for the rights of the thousands of animals languishing under the voyeuristic gaze of the gawping squawking horde that visits London Zoo each day. Cutting through all the prison/ Zoo’s PR spin , Peter points out that its primary concern lies in satisfying the prurience of these cash-cow visitors , and not in animal conservation .

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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 02, 2008 - 22:58 by Coilín   text 3 comments (last - saturday december 06, 2008 - 20:35)
The Danish evening paper, Ekstra Bladet, reports that foreign minister Per Stig Moeller has provided the parliament with written documentation to show that the prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, was aware of a UN report indicating that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, eleven days before the government submitted a parliamentary bill to invade Iraq. Fogh has previously denied all knowledge of the report.
This development may signal a rift in the Liberal-Conservative coalition and ultimately lead to a parliamentary majority to launch an investigation of Denmark's participation in the invasion. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday December 02, 2008 - 17:22 by redjade
A tribunal into political corruption in Ireland has used the law to prevent some Irish newspapers from printing its preliminary report.

Two Dublin-based papers, the Irish Times and the Sunday Business Post, received threats of injunctions aimed at preventing them from disclosing the main conclusions of the Moriarty tribunal. As a result, the Irish Times was forced to halt printing and destroy 25,000 copies of the paper on Friday night. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous Saturday November 29, 2008 - 00:28 by anticopyright   text 3 comments (last - tuesday april 13, 2010 - 09:46)   image 1 image
http://anticopyright-tr.blogspot.com/ ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday November 28, 2008 - 13:01 by redjade
Solidarity needed - even during the era of President Obama. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 28, 2008 - 10:46 by Peter O´Callaghan   text 10 comments (last - monday december 01, 2008 - 16:41)   image 1 image

The terrorist assault on Mumbai’s five-star hotels was well planned, but did not require a great deal of logistic intelligence: all the targets were soft

Read full article :

http://www.counterpunch.org/

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national / miscellaneous Friday November 28, 2008 - 10:28 by Steerpike   image 1 image
There has been much in the news lately about shoppers taking their money (or credit, more likely) up north, despite government appeals to "patriotism"... a word that should always set the alarm bells ringing off their mountings. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday November 26, 2008 - 13:46 by redjade
''A US appeals court has ruled that the Vatican can be sued for the sex abuse committed by US priests.

The Vatican had tried to block a class action lawsuit alleging that it orchestrated a cover-up of sexual abuse by clergy with the argument that it was protected by laws granting sovereign states immunity from most US civil proceedings.....
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national / anti-capitalism Wednesday November 26, 2008 - 11:41 by Michael Taft
A new 10-point programme for economic recovery and renewal ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 23, 2008 - 23:07 by redjade   text 2 comments (last - monday november 24, 2008 - 09:56)   image 2 images
It was thought that George W Bush and his immediate family would being going into exile in Paraguay after January 20th 2009 - but Paraguay had the misfortune of recently electing a left of centre government.

Thus, George had to make new plans.... ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday November 21, 2008 - 14:49 by Darren C
A massive tide of anger has swept over Ireland following the Fianna Fail government’s draconian Budget announced in October. Bernie McAdam from the League for the Fifth International reports on a wave of struggle and calls for militant action to defeat the bosses' attacks.

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dublin / miscellaneous Wednesday November 19, 2008 - 22:13 by beth   text 6 comments (last - wednesday december 24, 2008 - 22:53)
the next few days I will be going around with hopefully a few sleeping bags and blankets for the homeless. If you have any to donate and you are in Dublin in the next few days please donate sleeping bags or blankets. This year I can use the seomraspraoi building as a collection point. thanx guys.
so please donate your unwanted sleeping bags. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Wednesday November 19, 2008 - 10:31 by Aragon   text 5 comments (last - friday november 21, 2008 - 01:54)
Sarah Carey is apparently a responsible 'yes' voter when it comes to Lisbon. We will all therefore appreciate the terrible position she was put in when she discovered that The Times of London (Irish version) was banning all pro Lisbon pieces in its pages. Carey went along with this - for a good long while, in fact. She has just fetched up however in the pages of the Irish Times, that bastion of balanced and fair journalism (not), armed with a revivified conscience, describing the horrors of the editorial interference of Frank Fitzgibbon at the London Times and wishing she had had the courage to bring the truth of his editorial perfidy to the world before. Read her heart-rending tale here:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/1119/1....html

Sarah tells us that when reading anything in a newspaper, we had better be asking ourselves who is writing it and what is their agenda. Quite so.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 18, 2008 - 16:38 by Paul McAndrew   text 1 comment (last - sunday november 23, 2008 - 14:49)
The report found many gays are isolated

A new study of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people in the West of Ireland has found that nearly 70% of them have suffered some form of discrimination.

90% felt isolated at times because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

The report was commissioned by LGBT West - a consortium of statutory and voluntary service providers in counties Mayo, Galway and Roscommon, including county councils, rural and city partnership companies and lesbian and gay groups.

50% of those who had experienced discrimination were verbally abused and 20% had been physically attacked ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday November 18, 2008 - 09:13 by A.J Fozdyke
www.basicfraud.com
Features the signatures of Queen Elizabeth II: all in top right-hand corner, all without Seals and all forged by Strawman Jack. ... read full story / add a comment
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