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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 Priest Calvin Robinson Kicked Out of Church for Doing Elon Musk ?Salute? at Rally Thu Jan 30, 2025 19:06 | Will Jones
TV presenter and priest Calvin Robinson has been kicked out of his church after doing an?Elon Musk?'salute' at a pro-life rally in what he said was clearly intended as a joke.
The post Priest Calvin Robinson Kicked Out of Church for Doing Elon Musk ‘Salute’ at Rally appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trump Blames Diversity Hiring for Washington DC Air Crash Thu Jan 30, 2025 17:57 | Will Jones
President?Donald Trump?has blamed woke diversity hiring for the Washington DC air crash, one of the deadliest in US history, citing a Federal Aviation Administration report that the workforce was "too white".
The post Trump Blames Diversity Hiring for Washington DC Air Crash appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Covid Inquiry?s Interest in Censorship is Dangerously One-Sided and Will Further Undermine Trust... Thu Jan 30, 2025 15:30 | Alan Black and Molly Kingsley
The Covid Inquiry has turned to look at the Government's Counter Disinformation Unit. But it's only question is whether the censorship went far enough, say Molly Kingsley and Alan Black. Trust in public health will suffer.
The post The Covid Inquiry’s Interest in Censorship is Dangerously One-Sided and Will Further Undermine Trust in Public Health appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Judge Blocks Major North Sea Oil and Gas Projects Over Climate Change Thu Jan 30, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
A judge has blocked Britain's two biggest offshore oil and gas developments from producing any fossil fuels by quashing their production permits over climate change concerns.
The post Judge Blocks Major North Sea Oil and Gas Projects Over Climate Change appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Taxpayer Pays ?3,000 a Day for New Clothes and Shoes for Channel Migrants Thu Jan 30, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
The taxpayer is providing new clothes and shoes to illegal Channel?migrants?at a cost of more than ?3,000 a day. Some are also given mobile phones.
The post Taxpayer Pays ?3,000 a Day for New Clothes and Shoes for Channel Migrants appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / miscellaneous Saturday August 20, 2005 - 13:44 by JOhn   text 12 comments (last - wednesday august 24, 2005 - 01:01)
Details from the post-mortem examination of the innocent Brazilian shot dead by police suggest Scotland Yard officers lied about the circumstances of the death. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday August 20, 2005 - 13:38 by Martin
With the longest working week in Europe, experts say Britain's health and productivity will decline ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 20, 2005 - 13:31 by Booterstown   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 21, 2005 - 18:47)
A Simple Question and the Power of Shame By Steven Laffoley
... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday August 20, 2005 - 13:06 by dave
New Socialist Worker online ... read full story / add a comment
international / housing Saturday August 20, 2005 - 13:01 by John   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 01, 2005 - 13:52)
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 19, 2005 - 12:52 by dave
Tony Blair could be forced to give evidence under oath after families of 17 soldiers killed in Iraq began a legal bid yesterday to secure an independent inquiry into the lawfulness of the 2003 conflict. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday August 19, 2005 - 04:32 by Shall overcome
Doctor: Coretta Scott King Had Big Stroke
By DANIEL YEE, Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA - Coretta Scott King suffered a minor heart attack and a major stroke that impaired her ability to speak and affected her right side, but she is "completely aware," a doctor said Thursday.
King's daughter said the family expected a full recovery. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Friday August 19, 2005 - 03:16 by Larry O'Hanlon
... from Saturn, caused by the interaction between the solar wind and the planet's magnetic field, have been captured by the electronic ears of the Cassini spacecraft. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 18, 2005 - 11:20 by dave   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 25, 2005 - 13:49)
The leaked statements from witnesses to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes refute the account spun to a compliant press in the immediate aftermath of his killing. It was claimed he was wearing a heavy jacket, implying he could have been concealing bombs on his body, that he vaulted a barrier, ran from the police and refused to stop. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 18, 2005 - 02:38 by peace camper   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 18, 2005 - 15:39)   image 1 image
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 17, 2005 - 18:46 by herewego
Important moment - the Democrats begin to lose their yellow streak:

Ex-FBI Whistleblower to Join 'Peace Mom'
By PATRICK CONDON, Associated Press Writer
Wed Aug 17, 1:18 AM ET

OAKDALE, Minn. - Former FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley, along with a state senator whose son died in Iraq, are headed to Texas this week to join a growing anti-war demonstration near President Bush's ranch. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 17, 2005 - 16:52 by davitt fan
report by Stephen O’Grady: Mayo News ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday August 16, 2005 - 17:20 by Ignazio Alborč   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 17, 2005 - 13:05)
Is born the first great ideology of the millenium!
Is born the anticompetitivist ideology of the "full effective and obligatory occupation (of all the families) for law", of the successive and innovative historical phase regarding the Socialism, of the anticycling of the economy, ("the second phase" of the democracy, that one "material") and of the peace.
This new great ideology democratic and non-political, through the proposizione of a new and revolutionary economic model, succeeds to resolve problems definitively millenarians which unemployment, the poverty, the inflation, the discontinuity of the economic increase, the deficit of the public budget, the instability financial institution. Its greater objective is the peace. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday August 16, 2005 - 15:03 by an imcer   text 5 comments (last - thursday october 20, 2005 - 17:30)
international / consumer issues Tuesday August 16, 2005 - 12:58 by isnothingsacred
By Peter N. Spotts, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Mon Aug 15, 4:00 AM ET

"It's the kind of breakthrough scientists often dream about."

They have unraveled the complete genetic blueprint for rice - the staple for more than half of the world's population.... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday August 15, 2005 - 17:19 by Michael A. Lebowitz
This is a short exerpt from an article by Michael A. Lebowitz from the current edition of Monthly Review which has a series of articles on the theme "Socialism in the 21st century". The entire article and others can be found on the Monthly Review site. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday August 15, 2005 - 12:21 by Breaking news   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 16, 2005 - 12:03)
15 August 2005 11:07
The five Mayo men jailed for contempt of court arising from their opposition to the Corrib gas pipeline have issued an open letter from prison.
The men have called on Shell and the Government to lift the injunction which led to their imprisonment. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 13, 2005 - 23:57 by R.Isible
This is a short movie hosted on the Prelinger Archives. It contains footage of Irish workers commenting on the role of money and corporations in the 1976 presidential election. It also shows Ron Kovic being refused entry to the RollingStone fundraiser for Carter. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 13, 2005 - 13:51 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - saturday august 13, 2005 - 19:34)
George Clinton, ex president of the USA, usually publishes opinion pieces in the Italian daily "la reppublica", but this week he launched his European opinion from the French "Le Monde" whence it has now been translated to spanish and is exciting the comment of big newspapers across the continent as being a heavy weight support of a "new theory".

That theory to put it most basically, is "the US & UK have gone mad". Or to use Clinton's words "we can not hide behind a wall or kill all our enemies" [the implication being that is exactly the policy wish].

Or to use the phrase I used on imc uk after the july bombings, "they entered psychosis". ... read full story / add a comment
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