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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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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 Trump Blames Diversity Hiring for Washington DC Air Crash Thu Jan 30, 2025 17:57 | Will Jones
President?Donald Trump?has blamed woke diversity hiring for the Washington DC air crash, one of the deadliest in US history, citing a Federal Aviation Administration report that the workforce was "too white".
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offsite link The Covid Inquiry?s Interest in Censorship is Dangerously One-Sided and Will Further Undermine Trust... Thu Jan 30, 2025 15:30 | Alan Black and Molly Kingsley
The Covid Inquiry has turned to look at the Government's Counter Disinformation Unit. But it's only question is whether the censorship went far enough, say Molly Kingsley and Alan Black. Trust in public health will suffer.
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offsite link Judge Blocks Major North Sea Oil and Gas Projects Over Climate Change Thu Jan 30, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
A judge has blocked Britain's two biggest offshore oil and gas developments from producing any fossil fuels by quashing their production permits over climate change concerns.
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offsite link Taxpayer Pays ?3,000 a Day for New Clothes and Shoes for Channel Migrants Thu Jan 30, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
The taxpayer is providing new clothes and shoes to illegal Channel?migrants?at a cost of more than ?3,000 a day. Some are also given mobile phones.
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offsite link Sea Levels Could Rise Six Feet by 2100 Claims Daily Mail in Latest Pseudoscientific Fearmongering Thu Jan 30, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Sea levels could rise over six feet by 2100, the Daily Mail declared in a headline this week. It's the latest pseudoscientific fearmongering being fed to journalists by activist academics, says Chris Morrison.
The post Sea Levels Could Rise Six Feet by 2100 Claims Daily Mail in Latest Pseudoscientific Fearmongering appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday September 05, 2008 - 18:12 by pat c
Jim Moody of the CPGB writes on the likely effects of a ‘pre-emptive’ strike on Irans Natanz fuel enrichment plant. Full text at link.

No nuclear explosion, when delivered by bomb or missile, could be contained underground - especially one so large as to ensure complete destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities within mountain tunnels, as well as its earth and concrete protected structures below ground. This is not akin to an underground nuclear test, where containment can be achieved. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Thursday September 04, 2008 - 07:03 by gossip monger   text 6 comments (last - monday june 08, 2009 - 20:10)   image 1 image
The Moroccan magazine "L'observateur" published at wonderful story 2 days ago reporting that short but plucky Jose Maria Aznar, (65 years - married - 2 children) former PM of Spain, friend and ally of Bush and rightwing thinktanker is indeed the mystery expectant father to the French minister of Justice, (48 years single) Rachida Dati's, baby.

Rachida had announced her surprise pregnancy earlier this week but declined to name the daddy thus sparking speculation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday September 03, 2008 - 17:16 by Mark C   text 2 comments (last - friday december 26, 2008 - 17:56)   video 1 video file
Google have today released their own internet browser, named Chrome. Potential users who may not bother to read the terms of use before using it may be surprised to find that ANYTHING you post on the internet using Chrome will be owned by Google. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday September 03, 2008 - 10:35 by Red Banner
Issue 33 of Red Banner is available now at €2 / £1.50 from bookshops or from the address above
... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday September 02, 2008 - 22:40 by Fachtna Ahoy.
Manchester Pc Daniel Gaffney was jailed today for 12 weeks for assaulting of 12 year old boy in custody. The kid (who can't be named for "protective" reasons) had been arrested at a children's home where he alledgedly had been drinking vodka. PC Gaffney was bringing him to be strip-searched when feeling "intimidated" he hit the boy so hard that a custody sergeant thought his nose was broken. ... read full story / add a comment
To keep the Dolphins captive for the night before the massacre, the fishermen usually injure a few of the captive dolphins with a spear thrust or a knife slash - dolphins will not abandon these wounded family members.
international / animal rights Tuesday September 02, 2008 - 19:18 by ALiberation   image 1 image
As part of the global Japan Dolphin Day campaign (Stop the Massacre of Dolphin protest), ALiberation are organising a protest at the Embassy of Japan tomorrow at 1pm. Please see details below. Please also see the attached video footage of the Massacre of Dolphins.

Action Alerts
As part of the global campaign we are asking people to send in emails to key officials and make phone calls to the Embassy of Japan.
This is in an Action Alert which has two parts.
... read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations Tuesday September 02, 2008 - 00:48 by redjade   text 9 comments (last - monday september 08, 2008 - 07:08)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
America further slides into a Police State.

but Bristol is preggers!!!
{more important, obviously} ... read full story / add a comment
ESDP missions
international / eu Monday September 01, 2008 - 16:26 by redjade   text 10 comments (last - tuesday november 08, 2011 - 17:17)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Or maybe the Irish Army defending the EU from Georgia?
Or maybe the Irish Army defending Russia from Georgia?

Will the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty matter? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 30, 2008 - 23:42 by yobama   video 1 video file
Scenes you won't see on the Irish TV news.

Police -many with no visible ID- pepper sprayed and attacked protesters. Nearly 100 arrests were made. Activists (many marching against the Afghan war) claimed that the arrests meant people would be held for the rest of the convention.

Some protesters who were sitting down were arrested - photographed and released with no charge. ... read full story / add a comment
armagh / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 29, 2008 - 11:56 by éirígí   video 1 video file
The carefully manufactured mask of the PSNI slipped off on Tuesday (August 26) to reveal the ugly face of the RUC. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Friday August 29, 2008 - 00:48 by nnn
It's now available in a boston newspaper. So everyone can get to bed early. It is a dream and a half. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 27, 2008 - 14:03 by tomeile
A senior Russian military analyst warned yesterday that the U.S. and NATO had used the conflict in Georgia as a dress rehearsal for a future military operation in Iran. Col. Gen Leonid Ivashov, president of the Russian Academy of Geopolitical Studies, speaking at a news conference told the Russian news and information agency , Novosti :
"We are close to a serious conflict - U.S. and NATO preparations on a strategic scale are ongoing. In the operation the West conducted on Georgian soil against Russia - South Ossetians were the victims or hostages of it - we can see a rehearsal for an attack on Iran. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday August 26, 2008 - 12:22 by Bazooka Joe
Boats that last wednesday defied Israels inhuman blocade of the Gaza strip by sailing into Gaza from Cyprus are now planning to smuggle out two students which the State of Israel refers to as 'wanted terrorists'. Israel says it will not try to stop the boats ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday August 25, 2008 - 10:17 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 28, 2008 - 17:45)
Amnesty International documents the 20th anniversary of the massacre of prisoners in Iran. It notes that no one has been held accountable for this atrocity. Full text at link.

Twenty years after the then Iranian authorities began a wave of largely secret, summary and mass executions in September 1988, Amnesty International renews its call for those responsible for the “prison massacre” to be held accountable. There should be no impunity for such gross human rights violations, regardless of when they were committed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday August 24, 2008 - 19:06 by pat c
The Iranian Regime has used riot police to attack telecom workers in Shiraz who were on strike due to unpaid wages. Full text at link.

The workers of Iran Telecommunications Industry in Shiraz, in southern Iran, have not been paid for five months. The 1200 workers have gathered in front of the Fars province governor general's office many times but no officials have taken any steps to help them or responded to their demands.THings got so bad a worker hanged himself. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 24, 2008 - 18:24 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 28, 2008 - 14:04)
The ex chief of Mossad gives his opinion of Ahmadinejad. And it aint pretty! Ahmadinejads very existence makes it more difficult to build solidarity against US aggression towards Iran. Full text at link.

"Ahmadinejad is our greatest gift," Israel's Haaretz newspaper quoted ex-Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy as telling the US-sponsored Al-Hurra Arabic satellite channel on Tuesday. ... read full story / add a comment
POrt au Prince, Haiti August 12, 2008
international / crime and justice Saturday August 23, 2008 - 19:57 by Kevin Pina   image 1 image
According to a report delivered to the U.N. General Assembly on January 10, 2008 by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), there were no reported instances of persons disappeared in Haiti during the year 2007. The WGEID is part of the U.N. High Commission on Human Rights and as such is in the loop to receive regular human rights reports filed by the U.N. mission in Haiti. More than five months after Mr. Pierre-Antoine’s disappearance and public acknowledgement of the case by U.N. authorities in Haiti, the WGEID completely omitted any reference to it in their report to the General Assembly. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 18:27 by Y   text 4 comments (last - saturday august 23, 2008 - 21:47)   image 1 image   video 3 video files
Here is some good background from activists and writers on the left about the current situation in Georgia.

Mark Almond is especially interesting as he is very knowledgeable on Georgian democracy.

These speeches are from an SWP meeting held in Central London recently under the banner of the Stop the War Coalition. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 16:21 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - friday august 22, 2008 - 16:15)
The great US liberators are facillitating union busting in Iraq. Military action is being used as a cover to attack workers rights. Full text at link.

The administrations of some oil departments backed by the ministry of oil have clearly infringed on our rights.In fact, they have done more than that by excluding, relocating and issuing warrants for union leaders who defended the rights and entitlements of workers. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / environment Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 15:28 by evil gerald   text 4 comments (last - thursday august 21, 2008 - 15:12)   image 2 images
In today's Evening Herald, columnist Dan White plumbs new depths of idiocy. In a bizarre link, he tries to make out that the conflict in Georgia and South Ossetia should encourage the Irish government to help Shell bring the gas from the Corrib field onshore.

What does he think they have been doing? Does the 11 million euro spent on Garda overtime not indicate (even to the slow witted Dan White) that maybe the government is already on Shell's side?

read the full column here: http://www.herald.ie/opinion/columnists/dan-white/the-r....html ... read full story / add a comment
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