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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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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Massive Fire at One of World?s Largest Battery Storage Facilities Fri Jan 17, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
A massive fire has?broken out in one of the world's largest battery storage facilities containing tens of thousands of lithium batteries, prompting a mobilisation of firefighters across several counties in California.
The post Massive Fire at One of World’s Largest Battery Storage Facilities appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Climate Change Giving Meaning to Life Fri Jan 17, 2025 15:13 | Dr James Allan
Why are climate alarmists so impervious to facts, so averse to rational cost-benefit analysis? It has all the hallmarks of a religious cult, says James Allan. They can't let it go because it gives meaning to their lives.
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offsite link BP to Cut 8,000 Jobs as Net Zero Bites Fri Jan 17, 2025 13:30 | Will Jones
BP is to cut nearly 8,000 jobs in the face of falling profits and rising shareholder concern over its green energy policies as pressure from Net Zero policies continues to bite.
The post BP to Cut 8,000 Jobs as Net Zero Bites appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Insurers Love the ?Climate Emergency? ? Higher Premiums all Round Whatever the Actual Facts Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:32 | Chris Morrison
There's a climate emergency, so cough up, say insurers. It hasn't stopped them raking in billions, notes Chris Morrison. And no wonder: weather losses are actually down compared to 35 years ago. Time for a bit of honesty?
The post Insurers Love the ‘Climate Emergency’ ? Higher Premiums all Round Whatever the Actual Facts appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Before We Say ?Democracy is Dying? We Have to Know What it Is Fri Jan 17, 2025 09:00 | James Alexander
Is democracy dying? That's what everyone is saying. Killed by populism, apparently. Prof James Alexander suspects the educated classes may not know what they're talking about.
The post Before We Say ‘Democracy is Dying’ We Have to Know What it Is appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / sci-tech Monday August 01, 2005 - 22:05 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 04, 2005 - 10:50)
Ian Clarke (the inventor of, among many other things, Freenet) has been singled out by a notorious US journalist that helped take down the US cracker Kevin Mitnick. The Freenet Project, involves a way to organise the distribution of information anonymously across computer networks in order to ensure anonymity. Now Clarke is being set up by NYT journalist John Markoff as a target of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with claims that Freenet is not about freespeech and anonymity, but actually about trading copyrighted material. Slashdot also has a discussion on the matter which refutes this. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 01, 2005 - 21:12 by kalitara
Why does the world "hate" America? What is the base of the growing "anti-Americanism" in most countries? An American filmmaker talks to the citizens of the world to find out. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 01, 2005 - 19:29 by Davy Carlin   text 33 comments (last - thursday july 20, 2006 - 17:21)
Dear Friends.

Well, as stated, I am now to keep an online activist dairy. {This initial intro will be more extensive}. It will detail thoughts, political writings, poetry and much more, and at times it will be very heartfelt and personal.

Some detailing the past, while most being in relation to ongoing issues that I and others are involved in. It will also give the lighter side of life, and times and events as yet unaccounted for.

The dairy shall be updated on a monthly basis and will incorporate many issues of interest to activists, but also giving those personal thoughts and experiences

Therefore my first entry as attached. Davy Carlin. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday August 01, 2005 - 14:36 by Barra Ó Gríobhtha   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 - 20:48)
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0801/mayo.html

The Minister for Communications, Marine & Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey, has ordered Shell to dismantle three kilometres of pipeline it has constructed onshore in north Mayo.

It has emerged that the section of pipeline was welded together without Ministerial approval. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday August 01, 2005 - 14:07 by %   text 3 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 - 14:34)
87% of the world's opium grown in 2004 was grown in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has succeeded in growing more opium than in any other recorded year.

131,000 hectares of the country supplied the raw material for heroin addicts everywhere, this is an area a little smaller than the size of Leitrim, or if you prefer a little smaller than both counties Carlow and Louth together. ... read full story / add a comment
Kill Your TV!
international / arts and media Sunday July 31, 2005 - 13:27 by iosaf   image 1 image
U.S. ABC television network has been stripped of its accreditation at the Russian Defence Ministry after it broadcasted an interview with Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Sunday.

“We shall continue being open with the press, but that channel will never be invited to the ministry and there will be no interviews with it,” Ivanov emphasized.

“This channel has become persona non grata for the ministry, it is an outcast,” the head of the Russian ministry told reporters.

“If I have to express feelings over that (Basayev’s interview with ABC), I would put it in just one word – indignation,” the Russian defence minister emphasized.

Ivanov said he had given instructions to the head of the ministry press service to see that no military from the ministry maintained contacts with that television network any longer.
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The Russians aren't the only people well pissed off with ABC TV... ... read full story / add a comment
US Trained Iraqi Soldier in Fallujah
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 30, 2005 - 21:53 by redjade   text 14 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 - 14:13)   image 3 images
international / politics / elections Saturday July 30, 2005 - 17:08 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
In his column in The Irish Times of July 30, 2005, the paper’s long-standing America correspondent Conor O’Clery reports that coverage in the US media of the case of a missing young white female has been overshadowing and displacing coverage of more significant news stories, such as genocide in Darfur and fraud in the presidential elections of November 2004.

Web sites such as Harper's and The Free Press provide background information and ongoing coverage of the election fraud. See links below. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday July 30, 2005 - 13:23 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 - 11:46)
As most are now aware, the 4th July 21 London bombing suspect was arrested in Rome, but is not an i-t-a-l-i-a-n. He's an african. It appears the bombing cell were african, and not pakistani after all. It might emerge that the July 7 bombing had more to do with Africa than Madrasses after all.
No matter Pakistan still loses the income of 1,400 foreign students.

However the purpose of this thread is not to speculate, nor to condemn, nor to put any suspect to the trial of media. For Rome is Rome, and i-t-a-l-i-a-n-s do not practise British or anglo-saxon or its close relative irish law. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 30, 2005 - 06:04 by cleaves
The UK has recently undergone a social regression to a period in its history (many centuries past) when summary executions by the King’s representatives were common fair. Performing summary executions in the street is not new in England; this practice, however, was determined by the ancient powers to be counter productive – more revolts resulted from this practice than subjection/subjugation. But today, Blair’s England panders more to the racist sentiments of its people than good political sense. So be it, history has already dictated the inevitable outcomes. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday July 29, 2005 - 14:15 by SP
The latest issue of the Socialist, monthly newspaper of the Socialist Party is now online at www.socialistparty.net ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday July 29, 2005 - 13:42 by voldemort   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 10, 2005 - 11:58)
Ariel Sharon's security has been stepped up a notch since a video was shown on Channel 2 this week. The video shows members of the extreme right settlers who are opposed to the pullout, some rabbis, engaging in a ritual called "Pulsa Denura".

The ritual is a death curse, its name is aramaic and means "lashes of fire" and was last said to be performed prior to the assasination of Israeli premier Yitzak Rabin in 1995. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues Friday July 29, 2005 - 02:51 by David Moore   text 41 comments (last - monday january 30, 2006 - 17:34)   image 1 image
Deport-case
student
halted at
checkpoint



IRELAND'S most
hapless Leaving Cert
student Kunie
Elunhana has been in
yet another scrape
with the law.

Kunie — deported to
Nigeria amid an outcry and
then allowed back to sit his
exams — has now had his
car seized at a garda
checkpoint.

As Justice Minister Michael
McDowell considers whether to
deport him a second time, Kunie is
now facing an embarrassing court
appearance. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday July 29, 2005 - 02:05 by eeekkkkk   text 8 comments (last - thursday august 18, 2005 - 18:13)   image 4 images
international / consumer issues Thursday July 28, 2005 - 21:49 by Paul Connett
A scientist accused of covering up research, showing a link between fluoride in tap water and osteosarcoma, must be removed from the ongoing NIH study. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 28, 2005 - 16:05 by -   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 28, 2005 - 16:09)
(((Its been a while since I've had ocassion to smile whilst collating news)))

here are the news report links to spanish, catalan, italian, german and french language newspapers and tv from Europe and the swiss (polyglot lot) to South america. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 28, 2005 - 13:15 by DV8
The number of attacks on Asians has risen significantly since the London bombings, police and Muslim groups say. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 28, 2005 - 12:48 by Dave
US unions call for troop withdrawal from Iraq ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday July 27, 2005 - 17:17 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi ·.·   text 3 comments (last - tuesday october 13, 2009 - 17:05)   image 1 image
We all have had in the course of our trans-national campaigns occasion to read the english left of centre daily newspaper The Guardian.

many of us are fond of certain contributors, find ourselves @ times as if in a capioera with the opinion forming it takes our lead from and in addition to substantial daily sales offers free on the internet to the english speaking mostly european readers. ... read full story / add a comment
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