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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

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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 Sweden Celebrates Migrant Crackdown Success as Asylum Seeker Numbers Hit 40-Year Low Tue Jan 14, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
The number of migrants granted asylum in?Sweden?dropped to the lowest level in 40 years in 2024 after a years-long crackdown on immigration under a succession of Governments. If Sweden can do it, why can't the U.K.?
The post Sweden Celebrates Migrant Crackdown Success as Asylum Seeker Numbers Hit 40-Year Low appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link In Latest Effort to Deny Reality, Leftist German Word Police Announce that a Standard Colloquialism ... Tue Jan 14, 2025 17:00 | Eugyppius
In the latest effort to deny reality, the Leftist German word police have announced that a standard term for ethnic German is "racist and antidemocratic". Can we no longer even acknowledge our existence, asks Eugyppius.
The post In Latest Effort to Deny Reality, Leftist German Word Police Announce that a Standard Colloquialism for Ethnic German is Racist, Exclusionary and Antidemocratic appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link 2024 Registrations Of New Electric Cars Plummet 27.5% in Germany Tue Jan 14, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
The share of electric cars in new registrations in Germany plummeted 27.5% in 2024 compared to the previous year, as the future "remains bleak for e-mobility".
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offsite link Starmer Throws Reeves?s Future into Doubt Tue Jan 14, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves's future as Chancellor has been thrown into doubt by Keir Starmer as he twice refused to confirm she would stay on and appointed a senior Treasury official as a top adviser amid the fallout from her Budget.
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offsite link Grooming Gangs Inquiry ?Told Not to Investigate Senior Police Officers? Tue Jan 14, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Investigators who examined police failings in the Rotherham grooming gangs scandal were told not to investigate senior officers and no one lost their jobs, a whistleblower has said.
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Superheroes
international / crime and justice Tuesday May 23, 2006 - 23:57 by niall   image 1 image
A gang of anarchist Robin Hood-style thieves, who dress as superheroes and steal expensive food from exclusive restaurants and delicatessens to give to the poor, are being hunted by police in the German city of Hamburg. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 23, 2006 - 12:07 by Pitstop Ploughshares - (DM/ Personal Capacity)   text 2 comments (last - thursday may 25, 2006 - 15:11)
British kowtow to unionist sectarianism
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 22, 2006 - 11:09 by James Reilly   text 4 comments (last - wednesday may 24, 2006 - 17:06)   image 3 images
Garvaghy Road residents won an action in the High Court against appointment of Orange Order members to Parades Commission on Friday May 19th - press coverage to follow. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Sunday May 21, 2006 - 20:48 by Anthony Coughlan
Anthony Coughlan is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin and Secretary of the National Platform EU Research and Information Center ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 20, 2006 - 17:23 by peptide
In response to increased UN pressure to close the illegal Guantanamo Bay detention/torture centre, the Americans left no doubt, “we have no intention of closing Guantanamo Bay”. The flagrant illegality of Guantanamo Bay is lost on the Americans, or worse, stands as a defiant monument to American belligerence and unilateralism. The rest of the world can go to hell; Americans do what they want when they want, is that clear? ... read full story / add a comment
Bertie's best mate is under interrogation
national / politics / elections Friday May 19, 2006 - 17:04 by John McDermott   image 1 image
This is a piece of an article in this months Phoenix Magazine ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues Friday May 19, 2006 - 17:00 by redjade   text 10 comments (last - saturday may 20, 2006 - 21:09)   image 4 images
excuse me, what was the essence of the Jesus story, again? hmm? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday May 19, 2006 - 15:36 by Séan   text 11 comments (last - wednesday may 24, 2006 - 17:31)
Speaking at a meeting of Republican Sinn FÈin in Bundoran this week, Joe O'Neill said the leadership of Provisional Sinn FÈin had sold out the ideals of the 10 hunger strikers who died in 1981 "with one stroke of a pen." ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 19, 2006 - 10:58 by Terence
The German secret service has been spying on journalists for over 25 years. The question is could it happen here and elsewhere. Undoubtably the answer must be yes. Why would it be any different anywhere else? ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 19, 2006 - 00:22 by Seán Ryan   text 7 comments (last - monday may 22, 2006 - 19:56)
Limerick Leader follows up on an article they published recently, where they along with the American Ambassador, threatened the people of Limerick with their jobs, if we didn't shut up about Shannon Airport.

Following this, activists including Ed Horgan wrote to the Limerick Leader in reply and were published.

The have published a reply to us. And I for one do not like it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Thursday May 18, 2006 - 13:42 by Carlotta Gall
[Four] years after the Taliban were ousted from power by the American military, their presence is bigger and more menacing than ever, say police and government officials, village elders, farmers and aid workers across southern Afghanistan. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 13:59 by lark   text 90 comments (last - friday april 04, 2008 - 18:42)   image 1 image
Were the hunger strikers betrayed by their representatives outside the prison?

Danny Morrison wrote of Richard O'Rawe that he should have called his powerful memoir, Blanketmen, "On Another Man's Hunger Strike", cattily referring to the seminal memoirs of a previous generation of republicans, Ernie O'Malley's searing On Another Man's Wound.

As more is revealed about what exactly happened during the 81 hunger strikes, who betrayed who, for what and why, it certainly appears true that a few people have made themselves on the back of 'another man's hunger strike' -- and it isn't Richard O'Rawe. ... read full story / add a comment
Daily Ireland front page (17 may 2006) on criticism of PSNI (story continued in paper)
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 13:25 by Ireland.Com & Daily Ireland   text 2 comments (last - monday may 22, 2006 - 11:17)   image 1 image
Ireland.com breaking news Last updated: 17-05-06, 11:17

The funeral of Catholic schoolboy Michael McIlveen, who died after a sectarian attack, is taking place in Ballymena, Co Antrim. ... read full story / add a comment
Now it's UUP-UVF - just like in the days of Edward Carson and the Larne gun running
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 12:09 by Brian Feeney   image 1 image
"So farewell the PUP, instead of PUP/UVF it's now UUP/UVF....... For the UUP to take on board a member whose party represents the UVF, a group not even on ceasefire, which deals in drugs and prostitution in loyalist districts, is... assisted suicide"

With paisley's DUP up to their necks in Northern Resistance and imported South African arms where does that leave the unionist bluster about "terrorists" in government?

Biting sarcasm from Brian Feeney.
... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 06:21 by Disgusted Republican   text 7 comments (last - sunday june 25, 2006 - 11:22)
Families of the 1981 hunger strikers along with H-block protest veterans have denounced Sinn Fein's main support group in the United States for selling plates commemorating the death fast. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 00:53 by Phuq Hedd   text 29 comments (last - thursday july 06, 2006 - 18:20)
One of the most famous celebrity islamophobes has been exposed as a fraud and is fleeing Holland to join the payroll of the American Enterprise Institute. Cited often on Indymedia and other venues as an exemplar of feminist criticism of "islamofascists" it turns out that many details of her ordeal at the hands of Somali islamicists may be false.

The fact that she is so allied to neocons ought to give pause to those that are too enthusiastic in their blanket attacks on Islam. Of course it doesn't discredit /all/ critics of Islam, or even some of her own criticisms, but it does show that such criticisms are happily amplified and exploited by sinister forces. ... read full story / add a comment
The Socialist #16 - May2006
national / miscellaneous Tuesday May 16, 2006 - 22:32 by SP Online   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 18, 2006 - 16:20)   image 1 image
The May 2006 issue of The Socialist (#16) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents... ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 16, 2006 - 20:16 by RSF
Irish Republican Information Service (no. 66)
Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757; e-mail: [email protected]
Date: 15 Bealtaine / May 2006 ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage Tuesday May 16, 2006 - 20:11 by James Mullin   text 3 comments (last - thursday may 18, 2006 - 01:02)
The traditional view of Irish history is based on the premise that the Irish people had a moral right to fight for their political, economic, social and cultural independence from Imperialist Britain.

According to Dr. Christine Kinealy,(A New History of Ireland, This Great Calamity, etc.) an opposing view began to emerge in Ireland in the 1930s, when a number of leading Irish Academics, following the lead of earlier British historians, set an agenda for the systematic revision of traditional Irish History, which they claimed was rife with “nationalist myths”. Their declared mission was to replace this so-called mythology with objective, “value-free history”.

In her essay, “Beyond Revisionism”, Dr. Kinealy says that the revisionist movement gained a new prominence in the battle for Irish hearts and minds during the 1960’s when the IRA campaign intensified: “Challenging nationalist mythology became an important ideological preoccupation of a new generation of historians”. ... read full story / add a comment
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