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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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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 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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Cartoon with McKay story Irish News May 16 2006
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 16, 2006 - 19:01 by Susan McKay   image 1 image
This story is referred to at:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76019


Michael McIlveen was just 15 when he was beaten to death by loyalists in Ballymena 10 days ago. His mother, Gina, has invited her MP, the Reverend Ian Paisley, to her son's funeral. This is a gesture which is as breathtakingly generous as Gordon Wilson's when he forgave the IRA after it murdered his daughter Marie in 1987. Gina McIlveen has asked the elected leader of the majority of the Protestant people to be by her side as she buries her son, murdered by Protestants because he was a Catholic. The invitation is courageous. It also contains a challenge. She is asking the DUP to show respect. ... read full story / add a comment
Leftline - The publication of the Irish Socialist Network
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 16, 2006 - 15:37 by Conor J.McGowan   text 3 comments (last - tuesday june 06, 2006 - 22:58)   image 1 image
The May 2006 issue of “Leftline” by the Irish Socialist Network is now available to download from:

http://irishsocialist.net/LeftlineMay2006.pdf ... read full story / add a comment
huddles masses fuck off
international / racism & migration related issues Tuesday May 16, 2006 - 01:09 by redjade   text 18 comments (last - thursday may 25, 2006 - 17:02)   image 13 images
Josh Marshall says...
''....the president simply couldn't square the circle between the corporate cheap-labor forces who fund his campaigns and the cultural conservatives who supply his voters? Growing out of that failure, this 'militarize the border' hokum is the policy announcement equalivent of crawling under his desk and screaming "Help!" '' ... read full story / add a comment
Agitoy Corporation
international / arts and media Sunday May 14, 2006 - 19:25 by P   image 5 images
This a spoof video where Japanese Toy Makers develop an action figure based on the stereotypical black bloc anarchist. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / eu Sunday May 14, 2006 - 00:22 by redjade   text 5 comments (last - wednesday january 16, 2008 - 23:07)   image 5 images
Bertie has a new friend... ... read full story / add a comment
Catholics are victims of 90% of sectarian attacks
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 13, 2006 - 22:55 by Susan McKay   text 1 comment (last - sunday may 14, 2006 - 02:43)   image 2 images
'I don't think I'll ever get over it. Me and my son were very, very close,' says Gina McIlveen, pictured at the shrine to her son, Michael, outside her home in Ballymena.
Photograph: Alan Lewis/Photopress Belfast

The killing of Ballymena teenager Michael McIlveen is evidence of the deep-rooted sectarianism that is infecting a new generation, reports Susan McKay

Gina McIlveen had her own experience of sectarian violence before she lost her 15-year-old son, Michael, to it this week. Last Christmas, she and her 16-year-old daughter, Jodie, who was heavily pregnant, were in the Tower Shopping Centre in Ballymena.

"This girl was following us around and she came over and she said: 'I'll kick that Fenian baby out of you.' She went for me outside Santa's grotto and then this man ran out and cracked my face with his fist and broke my nose," she says. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday May 13, 2006 - 16:37 by Green Ink   text 1 comment (last - saturday may 20, 2006 - 15:26)
An American satirist has given George W. Bush a concentrated recap of some of his immoral and illegal offences. Bush was a captive audience as the speech was delivered at a dinner attended by White House press correspondants- and he was sitting two seats from the speaker. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday May 12, 2006 - 18:24 by Seaghán Ó Murchú   text 42 comments (last - wednesday august 09, 2006 - 23:34)
Seaghán Ó Murchú reviews Robert White's biography of Ruarí Ó Brádaigh. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Friday May 12, 2006 - 13:30 by ollie   text 2 comments (last - monday may 15, 2006 - 01:49)
a new book, of interest to indymedia types has just been published. It's called 'Uncertain Ireland: A Sociological Chronicle, 2003-2004

Topics covered include Rossport,the citizenship referendum, waste individualisation, farmers' markets, the george bush carol coleman interview and more.

C more at
http://www.ipa.ie/?id=63&categoryID=14&pubID=599&sc=1 ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday May 12, 2006 - 13:06 by Joao Soares   text 4 comments (last - saturday may 13, 2006 - 13:23)
A comlete dossire had made to studentes and all people.You have the technology and knowledge to spread renewable energies and find peace on Earth ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 12, 2006 - 11:28 by Bela Kun   text 1 comment (last - friday may 12, 2006 - 11:31)
The reactionaries are playing a dangerous game with Iran’s national interests.

From Nameh Mardom (official weekly paper of the Tudeh Party of Iran), no. 731, 2 February 2006
(Translated from Persian)

http://www.tudehpartyiran.org/english.htm
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international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 11, 2006 - 22:16 by gurggle.   text 4 comments (last - wednesday april 04, 2007 - 23:32)   image 1 image
In the last week the Iranian regime has sent 2 letters to the USA, a state which like it is ruled by God Freaks, and also like it is plausibly credited with promoting the most anti-zionism in the world.

It has been a long time since anything as simple as an 8 page letter sent from one "religous nutter" to another could excite comments or be included by the soothsayers of Capital in the reasons for the brief lull and then spike on Oil prices this week.

Actually it might be the first time anything as simple as a letter caused that...
Dr. Mahmoud (Ahmadinejad / Ahmadinezhad) is the "democratically" elected president of the Islamic republic of Iran, a state which is comitted to the destruction of Israel, the development of Nuclear power, and generally getting up the Yankee nose. George Bush is a man who doesn't read newspapers, uses his illiteracy and mal-adroit speech as a propaganda tool, and consistently involves Jesus (PBUH) in all his decision making.

Guantanamo Bay is the most obvious and public sign of US disregard for international law, the place they bothered to tell us about, where over 500 people are held without trial, and experimented on. Its a really scary place. Its so scary that for years we didn't ask questions about it, and its so horrific that Gary Mc Kinnon who used his IT know-how to access the USA defense computers to find out where UFO's really alien or just natural phenomona today is reported as being scared he will be sent there, if extradited.

... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday May 11, 2006 - 19:56 by RSF
Irish Republican Information Service (no. 65)
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: 10 Bealtaine / May 2006 ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Thursday May 11, 2006 - 01:18 by redjade
wow. you'd think these little details would have been accounted for by now...

Maybe the lawyers don't run the world - but the accountants control the lawyers (which control the politicians)? ... read full story / add a comment
the japanese says "Stop the Fall in Population"
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday May 10, 2006 - 17:37 by o as if   text 2 comments (last - tuesday march 20, 2007 - 13:56)   image 2 images
little human interest filler article for you all on "world parenting day"(*).-

Tokyo yesterday saw a national campaign to encourage the Japanese to have more babies launched.
Apparantly the Japanese aren't having enough babies anymore. What is really interesting is the way they decided to promote "having babies".

... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday May 10, 2006 - 12:23 by Dave
2000th issue of British Socialist Worker now online

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200,000 AK-47's
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday May 10, 2006 - 10:37 by redjade   text 19 comments (last - monday august 06, 2007 - 22:06)   image 7 images
'' A Nato spokesman said: "There's no tracking mechanism to ensure they don't fall into the wrong hands. There are concerns that some may have been siphoned off." '' ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Tuesday May 09, 2006 - 21:10 by R. Isible
Patent examiners in the EU are holding a one-day strike in Munich, Deutschland in order to protest their inability to handle an increasing flood of patent applications and the pressure being put on them to cursorily accept these patents. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 09, 2006 - 12:22 by .   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 09, 2006 - 20:18)
"No Less Courage"

By KATE McCABE

In a statement to his lawyer, Guantánamo detainee and hunger strike organizer Binyam Mohammed al-Habashi said of his plans to protest his unlawful imprisonment by the United States: "I do not plan to stop until I either die or we are respected. [We] will definitely die. Bobby Sands petitioned the British government to stop the illegitimate treatment of Irishmen without trial. He had the courage of his convictions and he starved himself to death. Nobody should believe for one moment that my brothers here have less courage."
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