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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
Alternative site: https://thesaker.si/saker-a... Site was created using the downloads provided Regards Herb

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

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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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link How to Make a Heat Pump Work in an Old House Mon Jan 27, 2025 15:15 | Sallust
People say heat pumps don't work in older houses. But Tim Adams has proved them wrong ? and all it took was thousands of pounds and two years of tweaking. Now he saves ?5 a week. It'll pay for itself by the time he's 107.
The post How to Make a Heat Pump Work in an Old House appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Southport Attacker Axel Rudakubana Had Declared the Need for ?White Genocide?. Is This Why the Autho... Mon Jan 27, 2025 13:10 | Laurie Wastell
Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana had declared the need for "white genocide". Is this why the authorities are so adamant that it wasn't a terrorist offence?
The post Southport Attacker Axel Rudakubana Had Declared the Need for “White Genocide”. Is This Why the Authorities are so Adamant it Wasn’t a Terrorist Offence? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Record ?2.4 Billion in CfD Subsidies Paid Out in 2024 Mon Jan 27, 2025 11:00 | David Turver
A record-smashing ?2.4 billion in CfD subsidies was paid out in 2024, with offshore wind pocketing ?1.9 billion. David Turver crunches the numbers to reveal what it means for UK energy bills.
The post Record ?2.4 Billion in CfD Subsidies Paid Out in 2024 appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link New Findings Show No Decline in the Strength of the Gulf Stream Since the 1960s Mon Jan 27, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Another alarmist climate scare story bites the dust as new findings published in Nature show no decline in the strength of the Gulf Stream since the 1960s. Seems the 'day after tomorrow' won't be freezing after all.
The post New Findings Show No Decline in the Strength of the Gulf Stream Since the 1960s appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Special Episode of the Sceptic: David Starkey on Southport, the Grooming Gangs, Multiculturalism, Na... Mon Jan 27, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
Special episode of the Sceptic: Professor David Starkey on Southport, the grooming gangs, multiculturalism, free speech, national identity and more.
The post Special Episode of the Sceptic: David Starkey on Southport, the Grooming Gangs, Multiculturalism, National Identity and More appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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meath / arts and media Wednesday February 23, 2005 - 15:28 by BCI
''The moratorium is used in times of general elections and referenda as an additional mechanism to ensure that fairness and balance are achieved by the broadcast media during the final 24 hours before polling commences or while polling is underway. This allows voters a period for reflection in the final stages of a campaign.'' ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday February 22, 2005 - 14:59 by redjade   text 29 comments (last - tuesday march 08, 2005 - 00:57)   image 1 image
''American and Iraqi government forces have surrounded the city of Ramadi in preparation for an expected full-scale attack on the city, which has in effect slipped into the hands of insurgents.'' ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday February 22, 2005 - 08:16 by Mary La Rosa
Israel has created a purgatory in which a free man is held prisoner because of nineteen year old memories in a fifty year old brain. ... read full story / add a comment
the poisoned chalice of Socrates
international / politics / elections Monday February 21, 2005 - 21:34 by iosaf & julia   text 7 comments (last - wednesday february 23, 2005 - 04:23)   image 1 image
Portugal celebrated as its right as a democratic state and member of the family of civlised nations a general election Sunday last February 20th 2005.

The result was a foregone conclusion, José Sócrates won an outright majority returning his state to socialist rule with the lowest recorded abstention in Portuguese democratic history. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 21, 2005 - 17:59 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - sunday february 27, 2005 - 10:46)   image 1 image
international / arts and media Monday February 21, 2005 - 11:57 by life is good. appreciate it. use it well.   text 26 comments (last - tuesday march 21, 2006 - 17:59)   image 4 images
Hunter S Thompson, the American counterculture writer, has been found dead at his home in Colorado.

Thompson's son, Juan, found his body. He said the 67-year-old shot himself.

He is best-known for his 1972 account of a drug-addled Nevada trip, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Other books are Hells Angels and Generation of Swine. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday February 21, 2005 - 03:39 by Mark Drolette   text 1 comment (last - monday february 21, 2005 - 15:42)
To see how the Bushies stack up against former regimes of a particular bent, read on. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Sunday February 20, 2005 - 21:47 by frying other fish   text 10 comments (last - saturday march 19, 2005 - 11:20)   image 5 images
“And I like to talk about him about well, why did you do this, or why did you do that? And I suspect he likes to ask me the same questions,”

“We’ve got the framework for a good strategic relationship… I think this relationship can be invigorated,”

“Look, I think the biggest success would be twofold: one, an understanding of the war – the world we live in and the war on terror.” ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday February 20, 2005 - 13:23 by John   text 8 comments (last - saturday february 26, 2005 - 14:30)
Politics.ie (http://www.politics.ie) has launched its own Wiki.

Their aim is " to create the largest central repository of political information on Irish politics. You may edit any page on this website, to add more information or correct mistakes, by clicking on the edit button which is visible on every page. You can also create new pages if you so wish. This is a member driven Irish political encyclopedia, so the more help you give us the better it will become."

Join, edit and contribute ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 20, 2005 - 13:01 by seen in Green Left Weekly   text 1 comment (last - monday february 21, 2005 - 06:14)   image 3 images
A Freedom Ride bus trip by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students of Sydney University has found crass racism in northern and north-western New South Wales. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 19, 2005 - 21:10 by John Kaminski
The Second Wave
New Books, New Groups Fuel Smoldering
Resurgence Of 911 Skeptics Movement
By John Kaminski
... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Saturday February 19, 2005 - 04:08 by Chris Floyd
'You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."
... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday February 18, 2005 - 18:40 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 22, 2005 - 01:49)
Excellent Guardian summary of the history of US torture and how widespread it is.

"The infliction of pain or suffering per se, whether it is physical or mental, is insufficient to amount to torture." Jay Bybee, Assistant US Attorney General (now a federal judge in Las Vegas) ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday February 18, 2005 - 00:47 by european gossip and celebrity press office   text 4 comments (last - tuesday february 21, 2006 - 01:42)
To mark Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams first visit to Montserrat Abbey in Catalonia where he joined with the President of ERC Josep Carod Rovira (the Catalan republican left independence party) our own occasional contributor, Mr Eoin O Broin published at his welcomed suggestion a piece in the local english language (girona based) pan catalonia weekly paper today.

Mr Adams expressed his belief that there is enough wisdom in the current Spanish gov. to help the basques sort things out, and that Mr Blair for another term is still preferable to the tories.
He didn't say he had seen the BVM and I'm sure he got chocolate biscuits.

And stirring words they were too.
But it would breach copyright to publish them here at the moment, and so I won't. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday February 17, 2005 - 17:12 by R. Isible
The floor traders (who are "self-employed") and security guards are reported to have assaulted the non-violent activists pretty severly. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday February 17, 2005 - 01:39 by John Meehan
Follow this link for an article by Brendan Young on why the left should oppose the EU Constitution :

http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=555 ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 18:00 by Basque Observatory of Human Rights
Dear Friends,

We are getting in touch again to let you know that our Bulletin Nº 18 is available at the usual address. Alternatively, you can access it directly by clicking on this link:
http://www.behatokia.info/docs/boletinak/Islada180205eng.zip

The bulletin can be found in pdf compressed format in order to make downloading swifter, or you can also find it in word format: ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 13:51 by cleaves   text 1 comment (last - friday february 18, 2005 - 03:26)
There has never been an instance in recorded history when a nation that achieved military superiority did not attempt to dominate other nations. This is the inevitable result of gaining a strategic or technological ‘advantage.’ In view of the historical record, is it unusual that America would abandon its founding principles in favour of despotism and the pursuit of world domination? The path the US has taken is not new; it is a tired well-worn path that leads to certain destruction. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 11:33 by obit   text 17 comments (last - tuesday february 14, 2006 - 09:07)
The Lebanon is familiar to many Irish, the former French posession saw the Irish army serve with the United Nations in peace keeping operations throughout the late XX century.

In that time, one man came to epitomise Lebanese politics and further became the richest man in the state. Rafik al Hariri was assasinated in a car bomb on St Valentine's day 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
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