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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

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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

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offsite link Israel and Hamas Agree Ceasefire Deal, Trump Confirms Wed Jan 15, 2025 18:09 | Will Jones
Donald Trump has confirmed that Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire agreement to end the war and release the hostages, saying he will continue promoting "peace through strength" throughout the region.
The post Israel and Hamas Agree Ceasefire Deal, Trump Confirms appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Reeves Jobs Bloodbath Continues as Currys Forced to Outsource to India Wed Jan 15, 2025 15:21 | Will Jones
The jobs bloodbath continues as Currys is forced to?outsource more British staff to India?as a result of Rachel Reeves's "tax on jobs", the Chief Executive of the electricals retailer has said.
The post Reeves Jobs Bloodbath Continues as Currys Forced to Outsource to India appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Woke Paris Theatre Goes Broke After Opening its Doors to 250 African Migrants for a Free Show Five W... Wed Jan 15, 2025 13:39 | Will Jones
A 'woke' theatre in Paris known for its radical Leftist shows faces bankruptcy after being occupied by more than 250 African migrants who were let in for a free event five weeks ago.
The post Woke Paris Theatre Goes Broke After Opening its Doors to 250 African Migrants for a Free Show Five Weeks Ago and They Refuse to Leave appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Declined: Chapter 4: ?A Promise Not a Threat? Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:29 | M. Zermansky
Chapter four of Declined is here ? a dystopian satire about the emergence of a social credit system in the U.K., serialised in?the Daily Sceptic. This week: Ella laments to see a tractor plough the last remaining field.
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offsite link The Real Reason Behind the ?Farmer Harmer? Tax? Wed Jan 15, 2025 09:00 | David Craig
What's the real reason behind the 'Farmer Harmer' Tax, asks David Craig. Could it have anything to do with the current rush among the rich and among financial institutions to buy up farmland?
The post The Real Reason Behind the ‘Farmer Harmer’ Tax? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / animal rights Thursday April 27, 2006 - 14:06 by pat c   text 21 comments (last - saturday june 28, 2008 - 19:34)   image 3 images
Good new for animal lovers! The Spanish Socialist Party are supporting rights for apes but it is not clear if this will include the right to vote.

Perhaps they feared a new outbreak of Gorilla warfare? Started by the Simian Bolivar Brigade, no doubt.

Full story at the link.

pat ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday April 27, 2006 - 08:09 by Séan Ryan   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 27, 2006 - 10:57)
At least 600 US soldiers and citizens implicated in abuse of prisoners according to new studies.

And a major scandal about to happen in America as people begin to ask questions that need to be answered. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 26, 2006 - 19:59 by peptide   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 27, 2006 - 11:04)
Bush has responded to the recent bombings in Egypt with a finger pounding demonstration of determined imbecility; he once again identifies “the enemy” (as singular) implying a centralised terrorist group. If the USA had any credible intelligence they would know that the ‘enemy’ is in fact many separate and spontaneously occurring cells rather than a fixed hierarchical centralised group. Misinformation could be another reason the USA is failing in Iraq! US troops are unable to locate the “enemy” to which Bush and his administration continually refers – we should not forget that Rumsfeld briefs Bush on these matters. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 26, 2006 - 19:12 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - saturday april 29, 2006 - 20:14)
Yet another example of the double dealing by the World Bank. On this occasion however the bare faced fraud carried out by the World Bank has been exposed. They have been shown to have blood on their hands.

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national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 26, 2006 - 17:19 by Condi Rice   text 1 comment (last - friday april 28, 2006 - 11:05)
Condi Rice dropped in to Shannon on Monday, seems like she is a regular down there.

from today's Daily Ireland editorial

"Another controversial visitor to these shores is George Bush’s secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, who we learn is constantly popping in and out of Ireland on her way to destabilise regions around the world at her master’s behest, like a commuter through Connolly Station.
There is nothing illegal about Ms Rice’s movements through Ireland, but given her current role in the Bush war machine, and the fact that the US involvement in Iraq is deemed illegal under international law, her transitory visits, conducted as they are under virtual secrecy, are distasteful to say the least. They are also extremely discourteous to the Irish sovereign nation, which is officially neutral – a state of affairs which is being progressively eroded by the inaction and toadying of the current government to more militarily and economically powerful nations." ... read full story / add a comment
wexford / politics / elections Wednesday April 26, 2006 - 11:44 by Green Ink   text 24 comments (last - thursday april 27, 2006 - 15:38)
RTE are reporting that the founder of the charity for clerical abuse victims One in Four, Colm O'Gorman, is to run for the PDs in Wexford. Interestingly Slugger O'Toole got the scoop on this last night: http://www.sluggerotoole.com/index.php/weblog/rumour_mi..._pds/ ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 25, 2006 - 22:47 by Sinéad Ní Bhroin
Ambassaor to Ireland - Ibrahim Ahdy Khairat
The Egtptian Embassy Dublin
12, Clyde Road
Ballsbridge
Dublin 4

Tel: 6606718
Fax: 6683745
Email: [email protected]

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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 25, 2006 - 21:57 by RSF
Irish Republican Information Service (no. 63)
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:

Internet resources maintained by SAOIRSE-Irish Freedom

http://saoirse.info/ ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday April 25, 2006 - 12:20 by Paul O'C   text 8 comments (last - friday april 28, 2006 - 11:43)   image 5 images
Greek riot police hurled teargas at demonstrators trying to march to the American embassy in Athens to protest against visiting U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 24, 2006 - 19:42 by Mike Dobson   image 1 image
Roger Toussaint, president of the Transport Workers Union, Local 100, heads to jail today to serve a 10-day sentence for authorizing a strike in December that shut down New York City's Transit system ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 24, 2006 - 17:10 by pat c   text 7 comments (last - wednesday april 26, 2006 - 20:58)
Now this something worth protesting about. Maybe even an embassy deserves to be burned! This student had to pay extra for a visa because his name was Mohammed! Maybe someone should tell the US that a lot of nasty people shared the name George including kings who oppressed the American colonists.

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national / arts and media Monday April 24, 2006 - 17:01 by Sindo Watch   text 8 comments (last - tuesday april 25, 2006 - 22:52)
Is Ciaran Byrne another nom de plume for Brendan O'Connor? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday April 24, 2006 - 11:48 by Irish Times Reader   text 8 comments (last - thursday july 13, 2006 - 19:51)
I cut and paste this piece from the Irish Times because I found it extremely alarming.
Tax cuts fuel the capitalist system - producing a larger bourgeoise capitalists class - I don't need to mention the effect the SSIA's will have on economic growth once they reach fruition.
Economic growth in this country has to be stopped - it has destroyed the power of public sector unions created material wealth at the expense of spiritual decay and attracted legions of brain washed "consumer-voters" who worship at the PD/ Fianna Fail facist capitalist altar.
We need social justice not economic growth.
So heres the story:

A new tax-cutting policy aimed at average middle-class families was unveiled by the Progressive Democrats at the conclusion of the party's national conference in Limerick yesterday. Attacks on the Labour Party over tax, immigration and health dominated much of the conference debate. Stephen Collins and Liam Reid report ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday April 24, 2006 - 02:48 by Colin Hatchett
Graffiti artist Marc Ecko broke into a government facility where one of the Boeing 747 planes which serve as Air Force One was parked, and tagged it with graffiti. Ecko then posted video of the tagging online, along with a video statement of “why I tagged the President’s plane.”

- Or so he says. As it turns out, the video is fake. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday April 23, 2006 - 15:54 by Private Joker
I was absentmindedly surfing the internet looking for religious jokes to take the piss out of some Jesus freaks I know in UCD when I came upon the following piece of video footage. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday April 23, 2006 - 11:12 by beeep
Great article from an old london pro-situ on drugs and the changing world of work and how your kids are being fed cocaine culture:

... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 23, 2006 - 10:30 by dingo
The title would suggest that the writer is not attempting to ingratiate self with the readership; to remove any lingering doubts in that regard you can go fuck yourself or any other female/male member of your immediate family, OK! I’m happy to leave persuasive discourse to the theological, political and capital oriented propagandists. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday April 22, 2006 - 23:36 by Masters Voice   text 4 comments (last - thursday june 01, 2006 - 01:17)
"No one believes that a Fine Gael-Labour-Green Rainbow could win a majority and have more seats than Fianna Fail, the Progressive Democrats, the non-left independents and Sinn Fein "" ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / anti-war / imperialism Friday April 21, 2006 - 23:01 by Allen   text 1 comment (last - saturday april 22, 2006 - 10:42)
The use of Shannon Airport as a gateway for U.S. troops en route to the war in Iraq is an affront to the wishes of the vast majority of the Irish people who have consistently opposed the war, said the former Mayor of Sligo, Alderman Declan Bree, when he spoke at the Connolly Forums annual Easter 1916 Commemoration Ceremony in Sligo on Easter Sunday ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 21, 2006 - 22:01 by Donnchadh   text 61 comments (last - wednesday september 08, 2010 - 21:05)   image 1 image
"...it's hard to see ex-prisoners destitute when the
leadership are so wealthy and have holiday homes."

Hughes mentions Kieran Nugent, the first IRA man on the Blanket protest
in Long Kesh. "Kieran died in 2000. They called him a 'river rat'
because he spent his last days drinking by the river in Poleglass. ... read full story / add a comment
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