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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

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offsite link ?Islamophobia? and the Grooming Gangs Scandal Sun Jan 12, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
The APPG's dangerously vague definition of Islamophobia is smothering free speech and silencing critical discussions on grooming gangs, warns Freddie Attenborough in the Spectator.
The post ?Islamophobia? and the Grooming Gangs Scandal appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How Wokeism Is Destroying the West Sun Jan 12, 2025 15:00 | Sallust
Sallust draws eerie parallels between the decline of the Roman Empire and the current state of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Dozens of British Women Have Seen Their Breasts Grow After the Covid Jab Sun Jan 12, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
In what has been dubbed the "Pfizer boob job", dozens of British women are reporting ballooning breasts after their Covid vaccines.
The post Dozens of British Women Have Seen Their Breasts Grow After the Covid Jab appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.
The post NHS’s Tech ‘Efficiency’ Adds Layers of Inefficiency and Pain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 18:45 by Dunlo   image 1 image
Today's Guardian is reporting that "Shell is being forced by the Russian government to hand over its controlling stake in the world's biggest liquefied gas project ... After months of relentless pressure from Moscow, the Anglo-Dutch company has to cut its stake in the $20bn Sakhalin-2 scheme in the far east of Russia in favour of the state-owned energy group Gazprom". ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 08:42 by Fran   text 11 comments (last - wednesday december 13, 2006 - 10:44)   image 3 images
A suicide bomber killed at least 54 people and wounded scores in central Baghdad this morning after luring a crowd of poor day labourers to his vehicle with promises of work, the Interior Ministry said.
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Check out the new ISN site while you're at it.
national / politics / elections Monday December 11, 2006 - 16:49 by Conor McGowan   text 71 comments (last - tuesday december 19, 2006 - 16:08)   image 3 images
A document outlining the basic principles of the ISN on the issue of elections is now available to download at the publications and articles section of the new ISN site.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 11, 2006 - 12:01 by pat c   text 34 comments (last - saturday december 16, 2006 - 16:16)   image 3 images
An unfortunate gathering, especially following Tehrans Holocaust cartoon competition. This is no Histography Conference; the Iranian Foreign MInister has said: The first question to be posed is: Did the Holocaust actually happen or not? No mistaking that agenda.

Conference participants include:

Australian Fredrick Toeben, jailed in Germany for incitement and insulting the memory of the dead

Frenchman Robert Faurisson, convicted in France under Holocaust denial laws

Frenchman Georges Thiel, convicted in France under Holocaust denial laws

American David Duke, a former KKK leader and white supremacist


Full story at link.

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galway / arts and media Monday December 11, 2006 - 02:02 by Over The Edge
The Galway-based literary events organisation Over The Edge has launched a web-blog. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday December 10, 2006 - 04:54 by finch
Washington today is characterised by neo-cons running for cover as reality presses in on their delusional world. It’s every psychopath and criminal for him/herself as uncertainty grips the culpable. Neo-cons and their support networks are abandoning the new American century (delusion) for the hard reality of rapid American decline and the very real prospect of facing war crimes tribunals. The recent utterings of arch-neocon, Richard Perle, attempting to lay blame on the imbecile, Bush, reveals panic at the highest levels; but it’s far too late to evade responsibility, the world is very familiar with the criminal perpetrators of the whole neo-con fiasco. ... read full story / add a comment
Prof. Yakov Rabkin says "No" to virulent Zionism
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 10, 2006 - 01:51 by Naomi Horowitz   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 12, 2006 - 09:27)   image 2 images
Recently, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the withdrawal of Israel from the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. As expected, the resolution passed by a large majority of 157. Seven countries voted against: Israel, the U.S., Australia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau. Ten members abstained ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Saturday December 09, 2006 - 01:45 by Brigid Avnery   text 5 comments (last - sunday december 17, 2006 - 17:10)
Extract : "An invasion is not an invasion if “we” do it, regardless of the lies that justified it and the contempt shown for international law. An occupation is not an occupation if “we” run it, no matter that the means to our “positive ends” require the violent deaths of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, and an unnecessary sectarian tragedy. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Friday December 08, 2006 - 12:25 by Marie Stopes   text 10 comments (last - monday december 18, 2006 - 01:13)   image 1 image
More than half top-scoring pupils are girls, despite disadvantages. Discrimination against women is holding back economic and social development across the Arab World, a report by the UN's development agency says.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 08, 2006 - 03:16 by peptide   text 5 comments (last - friday december 08, 2006 - 17:18)   image 1 image
Is anyone surprised? When first we heard the simplistic binary logic of “wanted dead or alive” or “you're either with us or with the terrorists” and “mission accomplished” (no connection to the real world whatsoever); WE KNEW IT WOULD BE A DISASTER. Many intelligent articles were written at that time sounding a warning, testifying to the fact – peruse this site and read for yourselves! But let’s not stop with the above lest it HAPPEN AGAIN; the moronic comment of Wolfowitz, that the Iraqi people would welcome invaders with “bouquets of flowers”, signals either total lunacy or the worst criminal liar of all time? Not to be outdone by Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld offers his ‘poetry of insanity’ for idiots and Americans, quatrains of pathology expressed in the ‘known-unknown-knowns’ of criminal deception. Not to be excluded from the unadulterated INSANITY and INCOMPETENCE is the war-whore herself, Condoleezza (status quo) Rice, of Lebanon infamy who believes that peace equates with war! ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday December 07, 2006 - 16:56 by aunty bertie   text 2 comments (last - friday december 08, 2006 - 13:26)
Congratulations to Lara Marlowe on drawing attention to this important debate in France on the future (rightward) direction of the EU. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday December 07, 2006 - 16:01 by Mickey Mantle   text 4 comments (last - sunday december 10, 2006 - 00:06)
VETERAN campaigner Maura Harrington, who has been in the wars over her opposition to the controversial Shell pipeline, fell foul of a different bandwagon yesterday.
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Jamil Jabaji
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 07, 2006 - 05:53 by Cuileann MK   text 11 comments (last - monday december 11, 2006 - 14:18)   image 4 images
To whom it may concern,

I just heard today that a young guy, 15 years old, who I worked with in Nablus, Palestine this summer was shot dead on Sunday. His crime? To throw a stone. I wrote a few words and attached an article. If
you could stick it up that would be great.

Thanking you,

Cuileann

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Suffer the little children to come unto the talons of Israel
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 07, 2006 - 01:42 by Danny Kaplan   image 1 image
"Israel has never been such an international pariah in all its years."
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international / environment Wednesday December 06, 2006 - 17:54 by Terence
There has been a great deskilling of the present and generation of people up to the mid 40s age or so and in a recent blog article Rob Hopkins asks:

Is Peak Oil Pessimism a Generation of Men Coming to Realise How Useless They Are?

In others we are all now so skiled in practical things, is that why Peak Oil scares to many people because they realize they no longer have the skills to go back to doing more practical skills. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / consumer issues Monday December 04, 2006 - 21:14 by C Murray   text 5 comments (last - friday october 19, 2007 - 16:24)   image 2 images
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/792063.stm reports that there has been a spate
of heroin deaths in Glasgow, England and Wales, also. There is nothing on Indymedia
Scotland.In Ireland there have been six deaths, four people are currently being treated
in Beaumont for complications.

There have been 43 cases in Scotland resulting in 20 deaths.
16 in England and Wales. ... read full story / add a comment
The Mail leads the attack on British terrorism Nov 30 2006
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 03, 2006 - 20:12 by Harry Wells   text 14 comments (last - tuesday december 12, 2006 - 20:48)   image 14 images
Congratulations to the Irish Daily Mail, who have put the other newspapers to shame, by their initial story and follow up coverage of the story of British collusion with acts of unionist paramilitary violence.

As the stories are not on the Daily Mail website and just so the rest of the media can see the story it is ignoring – here is the story as laid out in the Irish Daily Mail.
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President of Bolivia Evo Morales [right]
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 03, 2006 - 20:11 by Bolivia watcher   text 18 comments (last - wednesday december 06, 2006 - 10:07)   image 3 images
Everybody wins. The people of Bolivia now have a share in the profits of their own natural resources. The President is now more popular, having championed the cause of the ordinary people of his country against rich foreigners and vested interests. The energy companies can now be certain of stability, and in the long run they will still make millions.

It's not magic, it's just the application of political sense and good judgement. Will we ever see it in this country? ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Saturday December 02, 2006 - 21:08 by person   text 1 comment (last - monday december 04, 2006 - 10:54)
Its in the line of an announcement- having lived through the 'H' problem in the
eighties and nineties, sometimes a bad batch comes in-( in fact its not good
at all). BUT there have been six heroin related deaths in Dublin in seven
days.

The story is on http://www.ireland.com ... read full story / add a comment
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