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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

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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offsite link Ed West: Grooming Gangs ? Britain?s Chernobyl? Sat Feb 01, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
In Britain, after decades being swept under the rug, the full horror of the grooming gangs is now coming to light. Historian Ed West asks: could the fallout bring down our multicultural regime?
The post Ed West: Grooming Gangs ? Britain?s Chernobyl? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link AstraZeneca Abandons ?450 Million Vaccine Factory in Blow to Reeves Sat Feb 01, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
AstraZeneca has abandoned?a ?450 million investment in a major UK vaccine plant powered by renewables?in a blow to Rachel Reeves who vowed this week to "kick-start economic growth".
The post AstraZeneca Abandons ?450 Million Vaccine Factory in Blow to Reeves appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Norway?s Threat to Cut Off the UK Leaves Labour?s Net Zero Plans in Tatters Sat Feb 01, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
As Norway threatens to cut off the UK from electricity at times of low wind speeds, it's a sign of a growing energy nationalism globally that leaves Labour's short-sighted Net Zero plans in tatters.
The post Norway’s Threat to Cut Off the UK Leaves Labour’s Net Zero Plans in Tatters appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.
The post Miliband Accused of Breaking Ministerial Code Over Approval of Dale Vince Solar Farm appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.
The post Thoughts on the Fifth Anniversary of Leaving the European Union appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / consumer issues Tuesday August 16, 2005 - 12:58 by isnothingsacred
By Peter N. Spotts, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Mon Aug 15, 4:00 AM ET

"It's the kind of breakthrough scientists often dream about."

They have unraveled the complete genetic blueprint for rice - the staple for more than half of the world's population.... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday August 15, 2005 - 17:19 by Michael A. Lebowitz
This is a short exerpt from an article by Michael A. Lebowitz from the current edition of Monthly Review which has a series of articles on the theme "Socialism in the 21st century". The entire article and others can be found on the Monthly Review site. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday August 15, 2005 - 12:21 by Breaking news   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 16, 2005 - 12:03)
15 August 2005 11:07
The five Mayo men jailed for contempt of court arising from their opposition to the Corrib gas pipeline have issued an open letter from prison.
The men have called on Shell and the Government to lift the injunction which led to their imprisonment. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 13, 2005 - 23:57 by R.Isible
This is a short movie hosted on the Prelinger Archives. It contains footage of Irish workers commenting on the role of money and corporations in the 1976 presidential election. It also shows Ron Kovic being refused entry to the RollingStone fundraiser for Carter. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 13, 2005 - 13:51 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - saturday august 13, 2005 - 19:34)
George Clinton, ex president of the USA, usually publishes opinion pieces in the Italian daily "la reppublica", but this week he launched his European opinion from the French "Le Monde" whence it has now been translated to spanish and is exciting the comment of big newspapers across the continent as being a heavy weight support of a "new theory".

That theory to put it most basically, is "the US & UK have gone mad". Or to use Clinton's words "we can not hide behind a wall or kill all our enemies" [the implication being that is exactly the policy wish].

Or to use the phrase I used on imc uk after the july bombings, "they entered psychosis". ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Friday August 12, 2005 - 16:00 by Jerome a Paris
"The Financial Times publishes this morning the straight propaganda from the "voodoo" supply siders that fill up so many positions in the Bush administration. It is interesting to see their arguments so nakedly expressed." ... read full story / add a comment
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international / sci-tech Friday August 12, 2005 - 13:23 by triffid protection eye wear.   text 17 comments (last - thursday august 18, 2005 - 15:57)   image 8 images
the Swift Tuttle comet's debris annually colides with the planet Earth in mid August giving us all shooting stars which are called the Perseids.

You may approach this simple cosmic fact with awe and superstition, gasping and pointing and mkaing little wishes for world peace or higher wages or you may choose to be scientific about it and simply record time, brightness and suspected location of the drop. Its up to you.

The last time the comet itself was visible was in 1992, someday that comet will collide with us but not yet. ... read full story / add a comment
monaghan / sci-tech Thursday August 11, 2005 - 12:34 by Jedi master   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 11, 2005 - 12:36)   image 1 image
A humourous piece about Zidanes return to football ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 11, 2005 - 01:05 by Arthur McBride   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 11, 2005 - 09:37)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army, hard pressed to attract new soldiers amid the Iraq war, exceeded its July recruiting goal but seems doomed to miss its target for the year, while the Army Reserve and National Guard fell short of their goals again.

See: ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 11, 2005 - 00:26 by feckoffmary   text 2 comments (last - thursday august 18, 2005 - 19:56)
RTE 10 August 2005 19:32

A legal expert has said she believes that the three Irishmen convicted of terrorism offences in Colombia may have no case to answer under Irish law.
...the director of the Council for Civil Liberties, Aisling Reidy, has said gardaí would have to have evidence that someone possessed a false document in Ireland before officers would want to talk to that person.

Full story: ... read full story / add a comment
Breaking The Seals Of Mass Destruction: Image - dervishes camped outside isfahan in May or June of 1909
international / sci-tech Wednesday August 10, 2005 - 15:33 by o!   text 3 comments (last - saturday august 13, 2005 - 21:27)   image 2 images
Mr Bush is uneasy, Iran has only twice taken the headlines from him since he got the job of the great white chief of the USA.

You remember, there were two earthquakes in Bam a little more than a year apart when he went on holidays. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday August 10, 2005 - 13:04 by Dave
Acclaimed film director Ken Loach spoke to Socialist Worker about the latest anti-terror proposals ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday August 09, 2005 - 23:51 by iosaf   text 2 comments (last - wednesday august 10, 2005 - 14:30)
5 members of the Cuban state government, which has stretched since its resplendent days of thrashing hotels and being squeezy hugged by Kruschev, hae had their court rulings annuled.

They have been held by the US since 1998

Since March 10, 2004, the three US magistrates assigned by the Atlanta Appeal Court"s 11th Circuit to revise the case of Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labaņino, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez.have been doing their thing and their decision today to reverse the convictions was unanimous.

The "Red Avispa" or "red bee" spy ring story is a source of gathering solidarity and interest in both the USA and the Spanish speaking Americas. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday August 09, 2005 - 05:59 by JEFF
Jeff is in USA prison for 22 years for burning a couple SUVs
This is a dispatch from prison. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 09, 2005 - 02:59 by Scales_of_Justice
High Court Asked to Take Guantanamo Case

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee asked the Supreme Court on Monday to consider blocking military tribunals for terror suspects, and overturn what they called an extreme ruling by high court nominee John Roberts.
Roberts was on a three-judge federal appeals court panel that last month ruled against Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who once was Osama bin Laden's driver.
Hamdan's attorneys said in their filing with the justices that the appeals court had rejected long-standing constitutional and international law.

Full story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050808/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_military_tribunals

Military tribunals: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/commissions.html ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Monday August 08, 2005 - 00:08 by mms   text 4 comments (last - wednesday august 10, 2005 - 12:17)
A short summary of the above article in Spanish.
more or less what Bertie Ahern said about the extradition to Colombia, that there is not such as treaty between countries.
That Bertie didn't know that there were back until he listened to the news...
full translation available if requested ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Sunday August 07, 2005 - 13:14 by redjade
Dr Mark Garavan, John Beasant and John Donovan interviewed ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Sunday August 07, 2005 - 13:12 by mms   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 16, 2005 - 14:52)
Reading this morning the Spanish newspapers I came across the news that an Irish citizen died yesterday. He had suffered from ashma. It was a natural dead.
below the spanish text ... read full story / add a comment
down / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 06, 2005 - 20:00 by S. Jones   text 13 comments (last - wednesday august 10, 2005 - 01:23)   image 1 image
Seems the way C4 are talking about it. ... read full story / add a comment
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