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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

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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
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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 News Round-Up Mon Jan 27, 2025 01:16 | 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 Police Officers Told Not to Say ?Black Sheep? or ?Blacklisted? Over Racism Fears Sun Jan 26, 2025 19:03 | Richard Eldred
Police officers have been advised to avoid terms like "black sheep" and "blacklisted", and study concepts like "white fragility" and "anti-racism" in a diversity guide branded "utterly mad" by critics.
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offsite link Trump?s Rise Marks the End of Progressive Utopianism Sun Jan 26, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
The Biden administration's simulated reality has collapsed under the weight of its own hubris, leaving behind a Trumpian order that, despite its flaws, is refreshingly human and real, says Mary Harrington in UnHerd.
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offsite link Tories Demand Right for Parents to Know What Children Are Taught in Schools Sun Jan 26, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Outraged Tories are demanding parents' right to see school lesson materials after shocking revelations that 13 year-olds are being taught there are 100 genders, and primary pupils are learning about masturbation.
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offsite link Deadly Delays: MHRA?s Shameless Failure to Investigate Vaccine Deaths Sun Jan 26, 2025 13:00 | Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson
The case of a healthy woman who died 17 days after her COVID-19 jab, and her friend's relentless quest for answers, exposes two years of MHRA negligence, bureaucratic stonewalling and callous disregard for vaccine safety.
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international / environment Saturday January 01, 2005 - 11:30 by Carolyn Fry
Governments should be exploring the potential of Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) which could actively remove CO2 from the atmosphere and stabilise atmospheric concentrations of the gas at much lower levels. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 01, 2005 - 11:09 by -
Aid pledges to SE Asia have now topped a billion dollars, but for many the assistance will have come too late.

President Chirac of France has suggested the setting up of an international mechanisms to alert to natural dangers which are equitable and efficacious for rich and poor regions of the planet alike. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Thursday December 30, 2004 - 20:46 by i mac d.   text 1 comment (last - friday december 31, 2004 - 18:23)
As you know putting a "word" through "goo" is how most people enter the cybernetic matrix.
Thanks to the fine minds of CERN we have had the internet for years now, and millions oh yes millions of people use it everyday.
Most just use it a little bit. Many people upload thier photos, or download music, many more pay their mortgage and food bills by adding to the code.
Some people abuse it, that really has to be said.

Very few people understand it.

I'd wager a guess that less than 1000 people on this planet understand it.
But i'd probably be wrong. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday December 30, 2004 - 17:48 by pc
Although Simon Chapman was released, there are still many people in jail in Greece since the Thessaloniki anti-capitalst protests. At the eu summit in thessaloniki in 2003 130 were arrested for their part in the demonstrations. 7 are still facing charges (including carlos, one of the 8 hungerstrikers jailed in the period immediately following the summit) & are due to go to trial on 13th january 2005. A day of action is being called for the 8th january 2005. You can find your local Greek embassy/consulate here: http://www.greekembassy.org.uk/pages_en/honorary_consulates.html ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 30, 2004 - 15:32 by Brian Vernon   text 8 comments (last - saturday january 01, 2005 - 15:37)   image 1 image
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 30, 2004 - 13:43 by mac d   text 4 comments (last - thursday january 19, 2006 - 20:52)
:2005
-1984
=21 you get the key to the door now.

Lord Falconer, the minister in charge of freedom of information, emphasises that the act is not solely for the media and researchers to prise secrets out of Downing Street but will give ordinary members of the public a greater chance to get information from the public sector.

But many are sceptical that officials' secretive habits, and this government's reliance on spin and control, will melt away.

Whitehall has taken a long time to get to this position. A freedom of information act was first promised by Labour in 1974, but nothing happened. The Blair government eventually passed the act in 2000, then delayed its introduction for five years.

More than 50 other countries have passed such legislation before now, the first being Sweden in 1766. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 30, 2004 - 13:30 by redjade   text 1 comment (last - friday december 31, 2004 - 17:35)   image 1 image
"We are starting to play the ethnic card in Iraq, just as the Soviets played it in Afghanistan," said former CIA chief of Afghanistan operation Milt Bearden. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Thursday December 30, 2004 - 05:27 by cleaves   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 01, 2005 - 00:28)
Memo to the present US Administration:

In view of the following quote, just how long do you think your lies and deceit will prevail?

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts." (Abraham Lincoln) ... read full story / add a comment
cork / environment Monday December 27, 2004 - 18:57 by pp
The EPA has indicated that it will hold an Oral Hearing of objections to the draft waste licence for a hazardous waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy. Date to be announced. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Monday December 27, 2004 - 18:07 by pc   text 14 comments (last - tuesday january 18, 2005 - 15:01)
The AP has finally come out with a story about the funding behind the Orange Revolution which is under way in Ukraine (via Dominon).

As is to be expected, it's the same folks who were busy funding democracy movements in Venezuela. In this case a lot of the money was routed through the Eurasia Foundation, the Centre for Political and Legal Reforms, the International Republican Institute, many NED funded organizations such as American Center for International Labor Solidarity, Center for International Private Enterprise, the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, the Europe XXI Foundation, the Open Society Foundation - Ukraine, the National Democartic Institute For International Affairs, the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, the Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Research (Razumkov Center), and others.... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday December 27, 2004 - 13:58 by redjade
''...or the people who attacked the United States in New York, **shot down the plane** over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon...'' ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 27, 2004 - 06:44 by DM Gould   text 15 comments (last - friday december 31, 2004 - 13:11)   image 1 image
Guerrilla’ is a Spanish word meaning ‘little war’. Small nations or revolutionary bodies can only defeat the occupying forces, who are superior in human resources and arms, as well as economic and material resources, by means of guerrilla warfare. Guerrilla warfare has been employed to overthrow colonialism, to launch civil wars, and by Communist and Western powers in the Cold War. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 25, 2004 - 05:05 by cleaves
The people of the free world have not forgotten half of America’s population oppose the ultra-right-wing regime of Bush. A similar situation occurred in Nazi Germany with the rise of another madman to power. The population became polarised; however, the half with the conscience was swept along with the fanatics to the ruin of all. Failure to act against the regime in the early stages resulted in a greater calamity for the entire nation. Let it not happen again! ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Thursday December 23, 2004 - 08:10 by ming   text 3 comments (last - friday february 11, 2005 - 12:16)
44 North Koreans who scaled the walls of the Canadian Embassy compound in China last September have been allowed to leave for an undisclosed third country. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday December 22, 2004 - 13:23 by pi   text 3 comments (last - wednesday january 05, 2005 - 17:24)
Barcelona's offer to host a peace conference in 2005 has been rejected by Ariel Sharon. This marks a rejection of the Sharon administration of centring peace efforts on the Barcelona process, which the EMP (The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership) is usually known by.
The EMP reflects the reality of Israel's geographical location as a state of the Mediterranean and one who trades with the EU.
It also reflects the reality of Israel's demographic origins, Isreal is a European nation, the vast majority of whom are descended from European jews. The dictatorship of Libya is not participating in the EMP.

Today Tony Blair on a visit to the region has proposed holding a conference in London in 2005.
This supports the joint US/UK strategy as announced at the Bush & Blair press conference which followed the death of Arafat at Percy hospital in Paris and his burial ceremony in Cairo. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 21, 2004 - 19:56 by gnñ gnñ gnñ gnñ chug chug chug baby e baby e baby   text 6 comments (last - friday june 10, 2005 - 14:06)
Barcelona's high court has released on various conditions, an Imam who was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment in November for inciting gender violence. It was the first prosecution under a law passed by the Tripartite. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday December 20, 2004 - 21:00 by awaiting the end of blunkett ID/DNA vulgarity.   text 8 comments (last - sunday january 02, 2005 - 19:46)
2004 common era will be seen as just another year.

too many people died of,
yeah the horsemen did gallop
and Babalon is still occupied.
But the man in the White House says She will be free soon. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Monday December 20, 2004 - 15:19 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - tuesday january 11, 2005 - 14:13)
you know you're paranoid when the US Government agrees with you.... ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 20, 2004 - 00:56 by ipsiphi   text 11 comments (last - sunday may 27, 2007 - 13:40)   image 2 images
H.E. Mary Mc Aleese, President of Ireland, an Uachtaran has called [as is her perogative under the constitution (a.k.a. the little blue book)] a meeting of the Council of State to consider and moot the proposals of the Mammy Harney who maybe some day a "Granny Harney"' :-

that pensioners of the 2nd richest state in the EU forced to pay 80% of their state pensions to the cost of public nursing homes.

(The 2nd richest state in the EU bit is standard PD propaganda and media manipulation).

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Just follow the link and download the national broadcasting networks audio file and watch the Irish TV.
This is also educational material suitable for "civics" students and those abroad who are considering living or working in the EU state of Ireland.

there may be a test issued later, we're not on holidays yet. ... read full story / add a comment
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