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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
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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

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offsite link Michael ?Hockey Stick? Mann Ordered To Pay National Review Over $500,000 Sun Jan 12, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Michael Mann, infamous for his climate "hockey stick" graph, has been ordered to pay over $530,000 in legal fees after spending over a decade trying ? and failing ? to silence National Review through a lawsuit.
The post Michael ?Hockey Stick? Mann Ordered To Pay National Review Over $500,000 appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link NHS?s Tech ?Efficiency? Adds Layers of Inefficiency and Pain Sun Jan 12, 2025 09:00 | Shane McEvoy
In an age where technology promises efficiency, Shane McEvoy's recent encounter with an NHS booking service chatbot paints a very different picture of inefficiency and frustration that is symptomatic of deeper issues.
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offsite link Cooking the Books: Why You Just Can?t Trust the Annual Bestseller Lists Anymore Sun Jan 12, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
The New York Times Bestseller list is "pure propaganda", says Elon Musk. The newspaper even admitted in court it is "editorial content", not factual. But what about the Sunday Times version? Steven Tucker investigates.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sun Jan 12, 2025 01:23 | Will Jones
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 Top Journal: Scientists Should Be More, Not Less, Political Sat Jan 11, 2025 17:00 | Noah Carl
Science, nominally the most prestigious scientific journal in the world, is at it again. In November, they published an editorial saying that scientists need to be even more political than they already are.
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national / politics / elections Thursday February 15, 2007 - 10:08 by Apparat
Elections tend to bring out the worst in leftists. Either they get completely caught up in them, insisting that the result of this election is crucial to the future prospects of world revolution, or else they insist that even sneaking a glance at an election poster is an abject surrender to the oppressive state apparatus. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / arts and media Thursday February 15, 2007 - 01:15 by poetry news   image 1 image
Four Galway poets, Neil McCarthy, Mary Madec, Aoife Casby & Susan Millar DuMars, have been selected for this year’s Poetry Ireland Introductions Readings. All four are closely associated with the popular Over The Edge poetry events. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Wednesday February 14, 2007 - 22:49 by AXNC   text 2 comments (last - thursday february 15, 2007 - 17:17)   image 1 image
Latest development for the troubled energy giant in what is rapidly becoming a year of bad news is that the Nigerian election may be fought on plans to nationalise the country's natural resources.

It seems to be an emerging pattern that as energy becomes scarce, states don't like the idea of their oil and gas being sold or (in some cases) given away to transnational companies like Shell.

It seems unlikely, but who knows what is going to happen, maybe the general election in Ireland will be fought on similar issues.

On a day when the minister for justice is moaning about the cost of tribunals, and asking why the money spent there can't be used for parts of the economy which are underfunded like the Health Service, perhaps some smart candidate will start to question why the 51 Billion euro that the Corrib and associated fields are worth could not be used to fund something useful for the Irish economy.

Maybe even a tribunal of inquiry into the giveaway itself.
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tipperary / environment Wednesday February 14, 2007 - 22:06 by MediaWatch
Residents of Ireland’s first eco-village in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, have been told by the local council they must pay €160,000 to meet their social and affordable housing requirements. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 14, 2007 - 12:29 by finch   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 14, 2007 - 16:09)
The Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, has managed to gain some international attention after his hysterical attack on presidential candidate, Barack Obama. The seasoned Australian politician knowingly stated that a victory for Obama OR the Democrats would be a victory for al-Qaeda, “I mean, if I we're running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and pray as many times as possible for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats”. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday February 13, 2007 - 23:10 by tom eile   text 3 comments (last - friday april 06, 2007 - 23:22)
April has been chosen because Bush's ally ,Tony Blair, has said it will be the last month in office for him. The US is confident that its Patriot missiles will be capable of protecting allies in the region from retaliation. The Global Research article quoting anonymous sources is by Ahmed Al-Jarallah ,Editor in Chief of the Arab Times ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Tuesday February 13, 2007 - 18:20 by Dermot L   text 11 comments (last - thursday february 15, 2007 - 01:08)   image 3 images
The most recent issue of Left Tribune, the national magazine of Labour Youth, is now available online at http://www.labour.ie/download/youth/pdf/Left_Tribune_Fe...7.pdf ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday February 13, 2007 - 16:11 by anon   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 20, 2007 - 16:34)
IRELAND has put off signing a UN treaty that bans governments carrying out forced disappearances and jailing people in secret.

The treaty criminalises anybody involved in the CIA secret renditions and forces countries to prosecute those involved. The US has said it will not ratify it.

Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain have also refused to sign.

They have all been associated with the CIA’s kidnapping of terror suspects and with Ireland will be named in a European Parliament report tomorrow. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 12, 2007 - 15:48 by Andy
Following the preliminary decision of the Environmental Protection Agency to grant a licence to Shell for a gas terminal at Bellanaboy, now follows the news that Shell has sought what are termed 'pre-application discussions' under the new Strategic Infrastructure Act to clarify procedures for lodging an application : This Act came into force at the end of January and Shell lodged its application for talks just days later on 8 February and "it is understood the impact of the new act is that any pipeline from the shoreline to any terminal requires the sole permission of An Bord Pleanála" (RTE news)
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international / sci-tech Monday February 12, 2007 - 15:19 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 13, 2007 - 19:03)
Gillian McKeith is a popular TV quack whose books on health and nutrition are avidly consumed by a gullible public in the UK. Due to a grassroots efforts by bloggers the author of the book most borrowed from UK libraries in 2005/6 "Dr. Gillian McKeith's You Are What You Eat Cookbook", has been forced to stop misleadingly calling herself a doctor. ... read full story / add a comment
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roscommon / anti-capitalism Monday February 12, 2007 - 14:34 by Paddy Murphy   text 19 comments (last - saturday december 06, 2008 - 00:17)   image 9 images   video 1 video file
The Irish Times is reporting that RAF/Baader-Meinhof gang member, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, after 24 years in jail would be released on five years probation on March 27. Brigitte, 57, was arrested in 1982 and sentenced to five life sentences for her role in the killings of leading German figures including industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer, Dresdner Bank head Juergen Ponto and federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback.

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dublin / miscellaneous Monday February 12, 2007 - 01:12 by David Collins   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 13, 2007 - 19:09)
A brief notice about a small web-based project which aims to facilitate free sharing of goods, and free provision of services. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday February 11, 2007 - 06:06 by nano   text 4 comments (last - monday february 12, 2007 - 18:18)
John Howard, known internationally as a Bush lackey, shameless coward, racist and abandoner of Australian citizens in trouble, today levelled a criticism at U.S. Presidential candidate, Barak Obama. The ‘aluminium tubing’ Prime Minister stated that Obama’s Iraq policy would “completely destabilise and destroy Iraq”. Howard seems ‘completely’ oblivious to the FACT that his participation in the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq has ALREADY COMPLETELY DESTABILISED AND DESTROYED Iraq! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 10, 2007 - 13:53 by peptide
The ever increasing, unmentionable death toll of U.S. military expansionism in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and elsewhere exceeds one million souls. The human casualties have achieved unification and consensus at last! The slogan of death is unutterable, perfectly silent and devastatingly effective! Devoid of tribe, nation, race, religion and every other divisive factor that contributed to their demise, all humans are united in death – they are finished! In death there are no ideologies, 'critical issues' or causes. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday February 08, 2007 - 04:39 by Kwang zi
China's President Hu Jintao re-establishes trade links with Africa vowing not to interfere with the sovereign rights of African nations. The net result of this soft approach is African nations clamouring to the Chinese whose trade links with Africa extend thousands of years into the past. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of large African port cities containing artefacts and trade material from China and Africa. Large amounts of ceramics, ivory, gems, precious metals and a wealth of other artefacts reveal a long history of lively and thriving two-way trade between the two continents. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 07, 2007 - 19:18 by www.democracynow.org
In Florida, USA, Governor Charlie Crist has announced the state will abandon touch-screen voting machines in favor of paper ballots. The $30 million replacement would mark the nation’s biggest rejection of voting-machines to date.

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international / miscellaneous Wednesday February 07, 2007 - 14:26 by Apparat   text 42 comments (last - thursday february 15, 2007 - 00:52)
The ISN have added 4 new publications to irishsocialist.net

☆ An article on Trotsky
☆ The latest issue of "The Finglas People"
☆ Reflections on the Anti War Movement in Ireland
☆ A review of "Socialism Made Easy", by James Connolly - first published in Red Banner ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Tuesday February 06, 2007 - 15:58 by R. Isible
The independent documentary Loose Change [1] is doing the rounds in screenings and downloads (over 4 million apparently for just this version on Google Videos) [2]. Despite overwhelming testimony from independent scientific experts as publicised by Counterpunch [3], Popular Mechanics [4] and South Park [5] the documentary is spreading a pall of confusion and misinformation about 9/11. George Monbiot takes it on in his latest column: ... read full story / add a comment
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international / environment Tuesday February 06, 2007 - 11:24 by Terence   image 1 image
According to the latest statistics released by the European Wind Energy Association www.ewea.org, Ireland's wind power capacity increased by 50% last year bringing us from 495 MW (megawatts) to 745 MW. Meanwhile for Europe as a whole, new records were broken again and capacity installed for last year by 23% or 7,588 MW over the 2005 figure. Cumulatively total capacity increased by 19% with the total for Europe now over 48,000 MW. ... read full story / add a comment
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