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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
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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 Labour U-Turns Over University Free Speech as it Brings Back Tory Law ? But Removes its ?Teeth? Wed Jan 15, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Labour has U-turned over university free speech as it brings back a Tory law clamping down on 'woke' cancel culture ? but removes its "teeth" by dropping the ability of academics to sue their institutions.
The post Labour U-Turns Over University Free Speech as it Brings Back Tory Law ? But Removes its “Teeth” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.
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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.
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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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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 01, 2005 - 21:05 by Dominic   text 3 comments (last - sunday november 27, 2005 - 00:14)
The cultural significance of Stan Tookie Williams alone is huge, even if I believed in the death penalty (which I don't) I would let this man live out his years.

His anti-gang work during his 26 1/2 years in prison has been huge, for this reason alone I would be comfortable paroling him now (releasing him).

As it stands he is set to be executed on the 13th of December... ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 01, 2005 - 20:59 by pro CGRP   text 1 comment (last - friday november 04, 2005 - 18:08)   image 1 image
Help our prisoners in showing support for those that gave up their freedom for their political activity. ... read full story / add a comment
international / housing Tuesday November 01, 2005 - 13:59 by io   text 8 comments (last - saturday november 05, 2005 - 11:36)   image 1 image
Paris is currently attempting to break the European record for sustained rioting in peacetime this week in the suburb Clichy sous Bois (Seine st. Denis).

So far, the parisien race riot, which centres on the death of two young african born teenagers has outlasted Birmingham's inter-ethnic rioting (which started because of a rape rumour) of the previous weekend, and even Belfast's "love ulster" bash in the summer. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 31, 2005 - 23:33 by 1964   text 3 comments (last - tuesday november 01, 2005 - 19:41)
Article Raises Questions About Vietnam War
By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency has been blocking the release of an article by one of its historians that says intelligence officers falsified documents about a disputed attack that was used to escalate the Vietnam War, according to a researcher who has requested the article. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 31, 2005 - 12:23 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - monday october 31, 2005 - 16:24)
international / environment Monday October 31, 2005 - 01:00 by Terry   text 2 comments (last - saturday november 12, 2005 - 15:25)
This story describes how after World War II, millions of tonnes of nerve gas weapons were dumped at sea off the US. Apparently now it is beginning to wash up and much of the containers would be corroded by now.

Also worth noting, but NOT covered in the news report is that there are millions of tonnes of munitions (incendinary bombs -phosphorous ) dumped in the Irish Sea between the UK and the Isle of Man and a few years back, some of it washed up off Wicklow and Wexford.

The munitions were supposed to be dumped in some relatively deep trench there, but an investigation that took to people who worked on the ships say they often didn't bother go out all the rate and the stuff got dumped in shallow water too.
This probably applies in the US case too -below ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday October 29, 2005 - 19:05 by R. Isible   text 33 comments (last - tuesday may 30, 2006 - 20:19)
Ed Horgan (retired commandant Irish Army) has, according to a report in the Irish Independent, called for armed Gardai to patrol the streets to counter the threat of Al Qaeda. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday October 29, 2005 - 16:16 by cleaves
Bush has announced that Libby is “innocent until proven guilty”, one law applies to disgraced officials while another to the Australian, David Hicks (and many others) who have been denied even the most basic human rights (while they rot for years in illegal detention centres around the world). Should we cite the flagrant double standard or rest in the assurance that a glaring hypocrisy and double standard would not pass unnoticed? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday October 29, 2005 - 16:11 by Ailish Walsh   text 3 comments (last - monday october 31, 2005 - 13:34)
Chris Johnson of Australia grabs Matty Forde of Ireland during yesterday's second and final test of the International Rules Series at the Telstra Dome in Melbourne. Johnson was sent off during the game in which the Australians came in for strong criticism for some high tackling. The Australians won the game and took the series 163-106. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / crime and justice Saturday October 29, 2005 - 16:08 by press council   image 1 image
Bishop (resigned) Comiskey moved a step closer today to an irish tricolour draped coffin when the Irish Independent accused the man of abusing underage girls but not repeat not in a taxi near moscow airport, it was in her bedroom, her parents were downstairs. He was on the way to the toilet.
Yes bishops piss. They shite too. He got lost.

bishop Comiskey started out in the respectable stakes by resigning his job amidst accusation that he had hidden child abuse well enough in Ferns. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 29, 2005 - 10:04 by Rabbitte Hunter
LABOUR leader Pat Rabbitte has been summoned to appear before a Complaints Committee of his own party. It is the first time in the history of the State that a party leader will be investigated by his own party. If the complaint by a councillor, which accuses him of "acting in a manner unbecoming of a Labour Party leader" is fully upheld, he could face suspension or even expulsion. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Friday October 28, 2005 - 17:14 by Con Carroll   image 1 image
89 edition of Class-Wr paper is out in Dublin.with review of book Pushers Out
also available are Cw Anti Thatcher posters
Anti Fascist posters for 1euro 50 cent
Papers are available in the next few days in Red Ink bookshop Fownes st
don't hesitate tophone about info on posters ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 28, 2005 - 05:05 by k.hawley   text 79 comments (last - sunday june 11, 2006 - 21:39)   image 2 images
Who knows maybe President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is actually a U.S./Israeli agent? ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Thursday October 27, 2005 - 15:16 by got to be careful   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 27, 2005 - 21:34)
Dutch authorities have confirmed that 11 migrants have died in a fire at a migrant detention / internment camp at Shiphol airport.

The news is reported at the same time that over 600 migrants arrived by boat to Sicily last night. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday October 27, 2005 - 14:02 by writs!   text 2 comments (last - thursday february 09, 2006 - 14:21)
As you might have noticed all the EU leaders are very upset, this is because Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a former brickie elected to the job of leading Iran on August 3rd said yesterday at a conference for "rabidly anti-israeli people" that Israel ought be wiped off the map. & his official press agency thoughtfully told the west about it afterwards. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 27, 2005 - 13:22 by redjade   text 6 comments (last - saturday november 05, 2005 - 10:51)
October 26, 2005

Amid all the natural and political disasters it faces, the White House is certainly tireless in its effort to legalize torture. This week, Vice President Dick Cheney proposed a novel solution for the moral and legal problems raised by the use of American soldiers to abuse prisoners and the practice of turning captives over to governments willing to act as proxies in doing the torturing. Mr. Cheney wants to make it legal for the Central Intelligence Agency to do this wet work.

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But Mr. Cheney's proposal was even more ludicrous. It would give the president the power to allow government agencies outside the Defense Department (the administration has in mind the C.I.A.) to mistreat and torture prisoners as long as that behavior was part of "counterterrorism operations conducted abroad" and they were not American citizens. That would neatly legalize the illegal prisons the C.I.A. is said to be operating around the world and ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 27, 2005 - 12:56 by It was there as a link all along
international / miscellaneous Thursday October 27, 2005 - 00:53 by Jon Glackin
Request for assistance in addressing the innacuracy of Israeli Maps... ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 26, 2005 - 21:25 by anarchist   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 27, 2005 - 15:30)
UK to avoid cripplingly high rents in urban centres

Diane Taylor
Wednesday October 26, 2005
The Guardian


Françoise is a well-groomed young French woman who works part-time in fashion PR in London, pays her taxes and shares a cottage with friends in north London. She pays no rent though, because she is one of thousands of people across the UK who is squatting. "Many people who squat are working in low-paid jobs and simply cannot afford to pay rent, particularly in London," she says. "We want to do something creative with our lives, not just working behind a bar or on a building site. If you don't have to pay rent on top of all your other living expenses it can mean the difference between having time to live and merely surviving." ... read full story / add a comment
barcelona : blockaded for the first time since 1939.
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday October 26, 2005 - 14:41 by iosaf aye! aye!   text 4 comments (last - thursday october 27, 2005 - 20:57)   image 1 image
The last days have seen the various unions and collectives that represent spanish fishermen decide to blockade ports on the peninsula to demand a reduction in the cost of fuel.

Its a European issue which has passed from state to state through the summer, and each government must fiddle with its budget to ensure that low costing subsidised fuel essential to its industry stays low. Despite hurricane supply pricing, despite Iraq, despite Mr Bush, despite the nerves that nigerians or poor south americans may blow up their oil wells.

UK road haulers need cheap fuel too, and we remember their blockades didn't transpire this summer, well now its the Spanish trawlers turn... ... read full story / add a comment
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