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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

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

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

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offsite link Medical Journal Article Criticises Corrupt Medical Journals Mon Jan 27, 2025 17:15 | Dr Raphael Lataster
Springer Nature medical journal?Cureus has just published a peer-reviewed article on the corruption of major medical journals. One of the authors, Dr Raphael Lataster, summarises his argument.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 02, 2005 - 22:43 by Michelle Clarke   text 6 comments (last - friday june 03, 2011 - 14:57)
The French have excelled. People started reading books, thinking, and voting.

The Dutch followed on.

What will happen in Ireland? Will there be another No vote election not be acceptable to Govt . Let us recall, the 'machinery' kicked in another strategic vote....and apathy and people beckoned to the call of the Master!!!

Will it be the same this time....Do we really need to waste money on holding an 'Election' as a form of token gesture.


Where are the Watchdogs? Who has the teeth? Why aren't Corrupt Practices not made a criminal offence? What about the scandalous loopholes in those who pay tax and more importantly the Equitable Amount.

I ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday June 02, 2005 - 22:05 by Jay shaft
Interview with a soldier deploying to Iraq for the second time. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday June 02, 2005 - 17:49 by Dusty
- Revenue Commissioners take very few prosecutions against serious tax evaders.
- It also found that the SSIA scheme is costing the government nearly €300m more than expected.
- PAC urges return of Gaeltacht grant ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Thursday June 02, 2005 - 16:36 by notagain   text 139 comments (last - friday june 10, 2005 - 14:08)   image 4 images
A seven-year-old boy has been left behind in Tralee, Co Kerry, after his parents and four-year-old brother were sent back to Romania as part of a mass deportation late last night.

Full story on RTE ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Thursday June 02, 2005 - 16:07 by A. Niall Retentive   text 2 comments (last - thursday june 02, 2005 - 20:52)   image 2 images
''If all the traffic data covered by the proposal did indeed have to be stored, the network of a large Internet provider would, even at today's traffic levels, accumulate a data volume of
20 - 40 000 terabytes. This is the equivalent of roughly four million kilometres' worth of full files, which, in turn, is equivalent to 10 stacks of files each reaching from Earth to the moon.'' ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Thursday June 02, 2005 - 11:36 by Betty   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 02, 2005 - 11:42)
'The report also found that the system for reporting major incidents through Garda Headquarters to the Department of Justice is unsatisfactory.' ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Thursday June 02, 2005 - 05:59 by Steve Peacock
The U.S. Special Operations Command will spend up to a half-billion dollars over the next five years to develop pre-packaged media products for distribution to foreign news organizations and audiences, according to government planning documents obtained by IMC-Binghamton. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Thursday June 02, 2005 - 02:19 by knowing my ancestor was a pirate & so Too am I.   text 10 comments (last - sunday june 19, 2005 - 22:46)   image 2 images
The Centre for Sociological Studies is one of those institutes of influence in the democratic systems which we have evolved in the European tradition since mostly embracing peace and putting aside our most ancient animosities to each other.

It does opinion polls.
In any society where the percentage of abstentionist votes is as pivotal to the security of centre parties who rule by little more wit than chasing economic indicators in the globalised free market post thatcher/reagan neo-liberal U$ project,

Opinion Polls Count.
Polling opinion pays.
1,594 completed interviews between 29/4/05 and 11/5/05. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 01, 2005 - 21:59 by eeekkk
FALLUJA-THE DAY AFTER (ENGLISH)
This video has been recorded in Falluja in early Janury, 2005, when the city was reopened to civilians after the American attack of November 8th, 2004 (“Operation Al-Fajr”, i. e. “the dawn”).

It’s an important document since the city was closed to reporters at that moment. This video was handed over to the Italian weekly magazine Diario by the Studies Center of Human Rights and Democracy of Falluja. Diario issued a broad enquire on Falluja battle on May 27th, 2005.

“Falluja-The day After” shows the total devastation of the Iraqi town, the corpses of the victims, the mass graves, the exhumation of many corpses by local rescue teams in order to try to recognize some of the victims. The last corpse shown in this video belongs to a 14 year old girl.

The video lasts 18 minutes and 20 seconds. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday June 01, 2005 - 18:06 by Siun - IPSC
At the following link you can send an 'e-wish' to the Irish team or individual team members:

http://home.eircom.net/javascript/Ewishes/Ir_vs_Isr/form.jsp

Ask them to express their opposition to Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands.

Thanks. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 01, 2005 - 02:13 by Anonymous   text 1 comment (last - wednesday june 01, 2005 - 11:18)
Newly published Amnesty report suggests Shannon may be complicit in the illegal "extraordinary rendition" of detainees to foreign nations conducted by US aircraft. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 31, 2005 - 21:31 by The Register   text 4 comments (last - sunday august 28, 2005 - 15:41)
It was with a little fanfare of trumpets that St Andrew's College in Dublin today announced it has rolled out a biometric student registering solution which allows the reading of kids' fingerprints without physically storing an image of same. ... read full story / add a comment
Deep Throat! & He admits it!
international / arts and media Tuesday May 31, 2005 - 20:49 by mustapha mond   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 04, 2005 - 13:36)   image 2 images
the journal of international make-up artists and regular blog spot of influential movers and shakers such as Twinkie, Twiggy, Naomi, Cindy, Amber and Kylie (god bless her - very brave) and michael jackson (god bless him - very brave) Vanity Fair has revealed the identity of Deep Throat, the mysterious phone caller who brought down richard Nixon one time president of the USA. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 31, 2005 - 19:32 by BBC News
"The US Supreme Court has overturned accounting firm Arthur Andersen's conviction for destroying Enron-related documents before the firm's collapse..." ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Tuesday May 31, 2005 - 16:59 by iosaf   text 11 comments (last - tuesday april 04, 2006 - 21:28)   image 1 image
Very clever man is Mr. Chirac, very clever.
I reckon it's on account of him not watching telly,
and avoiding the richer heavier sauces at the antonine carâme suppers.

Raffarin the unpopular and over-fed is out
de Villepin the tall and lean is now PM. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday May 30, 2005 - 23:52 by Archie Kennedy
And in the end we can look back on our lives and remember all the great shows we watched on television; the great virtual escape from alienation. ... read full story / add a comment
Created with Chinese Forced Labour at Tat Shing Rubber Manufacturing Company
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday May 30, 2005 - 16:52 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - tuesday may 31, 2005 - 12:55)   image 1 image
"We were stupid," said Dominic Nutt at Christian Aid. "We didn't check it out, Cafod didn't check it out, and Oxfam didn't check it out." ... read full story / add a comment
No-one has ever really explained why it was such a good idea in terms that convince one it was the only option. That's intellectually lazy. The Shame of Beethoven on them.
international / eu Monday May 30, 2005 - 13:14 by iosaf   text 4 comments (last - wednesday june 01, 2005 - 10:21)   image 3 images
As we were told, in no uncertain terms by the yes campaign, the rejection of the Constitution, would mean a rejection of not only the lengthy document of V.Giscard d'Estaing, but also of the treaties and accords incorporated therein- Nice, Maastricht, Shengen, Versailles, Lisbon and Rome.

In it is thus not surprising that throughout France this morning, in between burning the 12 starred flag, shoppers have been attempting to pay for their bagettes in francs.

Meanwhile the Pope has called on Kathurliks to abstain from €U referenda. ... read full story / add a comment
derry / sci-tech Sunday May 29, 2005 - 23:31 by charles webster baer
this is how to save the earth ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday May 29, 2005 - 23:25 by Antonin Caręme   text 1 comment (last - sunday june 05, 2005 - 13:44)
it has been a little over 100 days since Hariri a lebanese billionaire died along with several of his employees in a car bomb attack in Beirut in the early hours of Saint Valentine's day.
He left to his few sons business concerns worth approximately 2 billion euros in various sectors from primary (construction and quarrying) to services,
= the most popůlar telly stations. ... read full story / add a comment
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