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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

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link ?High Chance? Reeves Will be Forced into Emergency Spending Cuts Sat Jan 11, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
There is a "high chance" that Rachel Reeves will be forced to announce emergency?spending cuts?this spring, Barclay's Chief Economist has said, as borrowing costs surged again on Friday.
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offsite link Covid Vaccine Critic Doctor Barred From Medicine Sat Jan 11, 2025 09:00 | Dr Copernicus
Dr. Daniel Armstrong has had his name erased from the U.K. Medical Register and been barred from practice for making a video in which he argued that the Covid vaccines are unsafe, untested and cause harm.
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offsite link Miliband Picked the Wrong Week to Boast That Wind Power is Britain?s ?Biggest Source of Electricity? Sat Jan 11, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ed Miliband picked a bad week to trumpet wind power becoming Britain's "biggest source of electricity", says Ben Pile, as a cold snap sent costs spiralling and brought gas-starved Britain to the brink of deadly blackouts.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sat Jan 11, 2025 02:10 | Toby Young
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 Is Facebook Really Committed to Free Speech? Fri Jan 10, 2025 18:25 | Rebekah Barnett
Depending on which echo chamber you get your news from, this week Mark Zuckerberg took steps to either save democracy or to end it. But how far is he really going in his new commitment to free speech, asks Rebekah Barnett.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 07, 2006 - 16:56 by nano
The world we live in today is characterised by States adopting the methodologies of organised crime. The traditional methods of criminal organizations have been legitimised by expropriation; no longer are deception, violence, theft, disregarding social codes/contracts the sole province of the sub-culture of organised crime they are now openly employed methods of various conservative governments around the globe – most notably, the USA, UK and Australia. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday August 07, 2006 - 16:07 by Chris Murray   text 8 comments (last - friday december 08, 2006 - 18:17)   image 2 images

From: http://technology.guardian.co.uk/0,,782450,00.html

A 415 million pound scheme of biometric passports is in question today
after hackers broke the codes (within two weeks) of the biometric
passport scheme- ( A Blairite response to 9/11)
The biometric info includes finger-prints, facial scan and iris patterns.

... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 07, 2006 - 15:56 by DT   text 4 comments (last - monday october 01, 2007 - 14:39)
The UN Security Council's draft resolution : "... a document of such bias and mendacity that a close Lebanese friend read carefully through it yesterday, cursed and uttered the immortal question: "Don't these bastards learn anything from history?" ... . ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Monday August 07, 2006 - 09:55 by o as if
European German speakers appear to be leading the way in combatting internet addiction. The Swiss canton of Zurich has just joined with some of the German states and one Austrian province to draw up plans to combat "cyber addiction".

The Swiss estimate at least 3% of surfers in their country suffer from "excessive" internet use. Suffering surfers are most likely male, aged between 20 and 30 and have grown up with computer games and other entertainment systems such as "playstation" and "gameboy". ... read full story / add a comment
Photos of Beirut, three weeks apart
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 07, 2006 - 01:01 by redjade   text 16 comments (last - monday august 14, 2006 - 12:12)   image 9 images
{ Notes on the Long War: .003 / August 7-14 2006 } ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 06, 2006 - 19:48 by canuk in ireland   text 3 comments (last - monday august 07, 2006 - 12:34)
In an article from the Toronto Star newspaper, alleged human rights advocate, and Canadian Liberal Party leadership candidate, Michael Ignatieff admits to "not losing sleep" over the massacre of Lebanese civilians at Qana. Skip down to the second half of the article to read Ignatieff's shameful comments in his own words. ... read full story / add a comment
 “Dermot Ahern, the Irish foreign affairs minister, said he would block any attempt by the US to transport arms to Israel through his county.”
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 06, 2006 - 15:08 by Media Head   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 06, 2006 - 15:48)   image 1 image
This was the front page of Scotland’s Sunday Herald on 30th July 2006.

The Irish Government propaganda machine would have the Scottish population believe that no US military flights are allowed through Irish airports.

“Dermot Ahern, the Irish foreign affairs minister, said he would block any attempt by the US to transport arms to Israel through his county.”

Most interesting is the total absence of any reference to the fact that Ireland allows US military flights through Shannon airport and the recent court victory of the Pitstop Ploughshares. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 06, 2006 - 05:19 by Seán Ryan   text 8 comments (last - wednesday october 04, 2006 - 01:11)
In this week's edition of the Limerick Leader, the Ploughshares are maligned and the law is questioned. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 06, 2006 - 00:35 by Michael   text 2 comments (last - sunday august 06, 2006 - 05:28)
Not in My Name
Nour Odeh, The Electronic Intifada, 30 July 2006

" ,,, The Israeli side has attempted to market this campaign of death and destruction in Lebanon and Palestine as "self-defense" intended to "defend peace," in the words of Shimon Peres, who in 1996 gave the orders to bomb a UNIFIL post in Qana, South Lebanon, where hundreds of civilians had sought refuge. That attack burned 106 Lebanese civilians to death, also in the name of Israeli "self-defense." Israeli officials have also allowed themselves the audacity of speaking on behalf of the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples they are assaulting. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 05, 2006 - 23:42 by RFE
Damian Moran of the pit-stop ploughshares was guest on Radio Free Eireann in New York today. Damian talked in detail about the case and the anti-war movement in Ireland. Damian was joined by Angela McCormack of the Stop the War Coalition (Glasgow, Scotland). ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Saturday August 05, 2006 - 07:31 by rep
The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert embeds his soldiers in Israeli communities, next to schools, beside hospitals, close to welfare centres, ensuring that any Israeli target is also a civilian target. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 05, 2006 - 00:28 by Mary Kelly
Pls take a moment to watch this clip about Israel's
war on Lebanon... images
you won't find in mainstream media.
thanks,
Mary. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 04, 2006 - 21:48 by Daithí
Suffice it to say, it’s an uncomfortable summer here in New York. My own neighborhood was among those without electricity for a greater part of last week.
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international / miscellaneous Friday August 04, 2006 - 17:17 by SP Member   text 269 comments (last - friday may 04, 2007 - 07:42)   image 1 image
Tommy Sheridan has won his case against the News of the World. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday August 04, 2006 - 16:09 by Phuq Hedd   text 20 comments (last - wednesday august 09, 2006 - 20:12)
In Counterpunch, Aug 4th 2006, Jonathan Cook reports on Human Rights Watch's analysis of civilian casualties inflicted by Hizbullah and the IDF and concludes that indiscriminate media reporting is perpetuating at least two inaccuracies: that IDF strikes are "targetted" with Lebanese civilian deaths being a result of Hizbullah using them as human shields; and that Hizbullah attacks are deliberately targetting civilians. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday August 04, 2006 - 15:14 by salamander
The major communication mediums of the world continue to bombard the public with images and descriptions of the Israeli-Lebanon conflict. The media works tirelessly to deliver our social consciousness. Today’s mass media maintains its status as the principal means of creating and sustaining social realities. The internet-based ‘independents’ lack real independent front-line resources and continue to rely on the mainstream for most of their information (much to their chagrin). ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday August 04, 2006 - 14:17 by Media   text 1 comment (last - friday august 04, 2006 - 16:24)
The US Embassy has helpfully posted up a guide to independent journalism on their website http://dublin.usembassy.gov/

here http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/journalism/index.htm
... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday August 03, 2006 - 20:17 by supp
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Natural Resources Martin Ferris TD has accused Shell of duplicity in their announcement that they are to drop their court injunction against the Rossport Five.

Deputy Ferris said:

"In announcing that they are dropping their injunction, Shell have absolved themselves of the requirement to surrender key documents relating to various aspects of the pipeline project. On Monday Justice Mary Laffoy made an order of discovery that for the first time would have placed this information into the hands of those who object to the pipeline.

"The fact that Shell, after more than a year of attempting to bully Rossport men, should now drop their action speaks volumes. It confirms what many of us believe; that the entire deal regarding the Corrib field stinks to high heaven. The fact that Shell is willing to abandon its campaign of intimidation rather than shed any light into this dark corner speaks for itself. ... read full story / add a comment
international / housing Wednesday August 02, 2006 - 19:54 by zee lumpen
During the summer of 1946, over 40,000 British people took the law into their own hands and squatted in property that they didn't own - initially disused military camps, then empty hotels and blocks of flats. It was an unprecedented movement of civil disobedience, and it presented Atlee's Labour Government with its first great crisis. Mark Whitaker tells the story - with testimony from several of the squatters themselves. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday August 02, 2006 - 13:03 by republica   text 2 comments (last - wednesday august 02, 2006 - 15:43)
This is a call from Barcelona to give suport to the prisoners 4f that have been unfairly in prison for half a year next 4th of august. Any actions are wellcomed, ballons with names, information about this, placards especially in front of the spanish embassy but not necessarily, just use your creativity. ... read full story / add a comment
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