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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

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Jan 19, 2025 01:06 | Will Jones
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Proof That Lockdown Critics Were ?Debanked? Because of Their Views Sat Jan 18, 2025 19:00 | Toby Young
PayPal has finally admitted that the reason it shut the account of UsForThem is because it disapproved of the lobby group's stance on mandatory Covid vaccines for children and school closures.
The post The Proof That Lockdown Critics Were ?Debanked? Because of Their Views appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Attorney General Fought Home Office to Help Migrants Stay in U.K. Sat Jan 18, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer's Attorney General Lord Hermer fought the Home Office in the courts to try to help migrants stay in the U.K. The Lefty lawyers are in charge now, and don't we know it.
The post Attorney General Fought Home Office to Help Migrants Stay in U.K. appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link SNP Takes Teachers Out of School for ?Racial Microaggression? Training Sat Jan 18, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
An SNP training programme allows teachers to take the equivalent of?three days out from the classroom?to learn how to "decode racial microaggressions".
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offsite link Asda Backs Farmers Over Inheritance Tax in Blow to Starmer Sat Jan 18, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Asda?has publicly backed farmers in their row with Labour over its?inheritance tax raid?following tractor protests outside of supermarkets in a new blow to Starmer and Reeves.
The post Asda Backs Farmers Over Inheritance Tax in Blow to Starmer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / miscellaneous Wednesday March 30, 2005 - 19:32 by Clovis   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 31, 2005 - 12:48)
In 1956 M. King Hubbert predicted a moment when the world would reach a peak in oil production. Since then a debate has raged, mainly between geologists and economists, about the future of oil production and the impact this future will have on everyday life. Robert Looby interviewed leading figures from both sides of the debate.

http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article_peak_oil_production_debate.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday March 30, 2005 - 17:15 by Clovis
Article in Three Monkeys Online on the current status of reconstruction and political outlook in Aceh. Includes an interview with American Journalist William Nessen.

http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article_tsunami_aceh_analysis.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday March 30, 2005 - 16:49 by dave
A movement is growing in Egypt that will terrify the warmongers in Washington. Simon Assaf reports from the Cairo Conference. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday March 30, 2005 - 14:51 by redjade   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 05, 2005 - 17:44)
What a laugh:
→ FBI says: "we'd do that for anybody if they felt they were threatened - we wouldn't characterize that as special treatment." ... read full story / add a comment
be warned! you lardy types don't understand me @ all.
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 30, 2005 - 14:37 by Ní thuigeann an sách an seang is má thuigeann, ní in am   text 13 comments (last - wednesday september 28, 2005 - 14:48)   image 2 images
As we know the vast majority of children on this Earth don't get fed enough. They don't even get vaccines.
But in the occidental tradition, the campaign for proper nutrition has long formed a basic demand of those interested in the well being of our children.

Every teacher will tell you, that their work is undermined more often than not in deprived areas by the presence of "hunger" in the classroom.

Ireland as one of the richest countries in the world could do well to emulate poorer states such as the UK and Switzerland in the providing of nutritious meals to its children, and incidently employment to those who would cook those meals. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday March 29, 2005 - 23:18 by Abe W Goodman
Flash animation revealing the truth of what GW Bush thinks of the world. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / racism & migration related issues Tuesday March 29, 2005 - 21:55 by Caser   image 6 images
Right on time for the heated phase of mobilization for April 2nd, 2005, the second European Action Day, a new film is released that focuses on international resistance against refugee camps and deportation prisons. “No Lager – Nowhere” is a European Co-production, German/English, 39 minutes, Berlin 2005.

Released last week, it is a 39 minute video which brings together images from various anti-lager actions that have taken place across Europe in the past. The video contains fottage from actions both outside and inside refugee and migrant detainee camps in Germany, Slovenia, Italy, Australia, the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands.
The film documents various experiences and actions from eight countries: a collection of testimonies, but mainly a patchwork of images of resistance, which should encourage and inspire to intensify and to transnationalise the struggles against the "lagerregimes".

Windows Media Video Preview – 5min 10sec – 8Mb ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 29, 2005 - 20:49 by infoshop   text 16 comments (last - thursday april 07, 2005 - 19:01)
"Freedom of speech does not exist, don't try to test it. They will come bust down your door - for real - point a gun to your head and pull the trigger if you refuse to comply." ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday March 29, 2005 - 15:11 by advertising it.   text 7 comments (last - wednesday june 29, 2005 - 19:17)   image 1 image
Book worms, and students of Italian here's a new titlie which might interest you.

But if you're a nutter, (like the type who climbed on to the St Peter's basilica dome last saturday and asked for a lottery for orphans) you're *not to* read it. In fact none of you are to read it. Consider it as bad for your moral development as the Da Vinci Code.

If you're very talented, and related to a government member, you might like to write your own Irish take on it and get a salary in addition to your tax free income. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday March 29, 2005 - 14:32 by tax - compliant
A culture of Omerta already operates here around the nexus of FF/planning / building / landlordism. This really is going to improve matters. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 28, 2005 - 21:34 by Ní thuigeann an sách an seang is má thuigeann, ní in am.   text 26 comments (last - tuesday october 25, 2005 - 14:14)   image 1 image
it has now been 5 years since Sizeism the concept entered the english language of Ireland when a The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted on Monday May 8th, 2000 to outlaw discrimination against fat people. Well, of course they didn't really say fat people because that might reek of . . . discrimination. They voted to add the words "body size" to already exciting laws banning discrimination based on "race, colour, religion, age, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, disability, place of birth or gender identity".

The vote was a big victory for America's Fat Acceptance movement, which has scored similar legislative victories in Washington and Santa Cruz, California. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday March 28, 2005 - 13:06 by Dave
New Socialist Worker Online

Selected Articles from this issue:
M 19: Global anti-war movement retakes the streets

Editorial: Another robbery of the poor and little noise from the opposition

SWP Statement: Recent events around the IRA

International Women’s Day report: protests, music and debate celebrating women’s lives and struggles

Bring Olunkunle home – no more deportations

Crisis in the Health Service

Campaign against the Bin Tax entering new and challenging phase

Dahr Jamail on his experience of the Iraqi resistance The lies and hypocrisy behind Bush and Blair’s crusade for democracy in the Middle East

Neo-con’s hollow democracy

Tariq Ali talks to Socialist Worker about empire and those who fight against it

Response to debates: it time for an alternative left in Ireland?

The most important task facing the social movements in Ireland is the formation of a real left alternative

Debate: The left, socialism, republicanism and Sinn Fein ... read full story / add a comment

international / anti-war / imperialism Monday March 28, 2005 - 08:01 by Yoshie
The Army's 7,500 military recruiters, saddled with "a quota of two new recruits a month" and pressured by the Army brass, are on the verge of a nervous breakdown. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday March 27, 2005 - 17:56 by Ellen McCann
A Spinwatch investigation has revealed that the BBC has been using Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) reports as if they were genuine news. In fact, the SSVC is entirely funded by the Ministry of Defence. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday March 26, 2005 - 19:52 by Jed Brandt   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 09, 2006 - 11:37)
The People's War in Nepal is surging from one success to another. Since "King" Gyanendra's Feb. 1 decree of emergency rule, any claim to being the sovereign of the Nepalese people has been shown for the fantasy it is.

The wildcard in Nepal's civil war has been the marginalized parliamentary parties centered in the capital city. Up until today, they have respected the legitimacy of the monarchy and refused to recognize facts on the ground, including the censorship of their press, and the killing and jailing of their leaders by the isolated monarchy. The Congress Party, UML and the other main "legal" parties have declared in a New Delhi meeting that "This will be our last fight with the king. There will be no more compromise." The parliamentary parties were banned during the coup, and with no where left to turn have accepted the Community Party of Nepal's main demand, the convening of a constituent assembly to decide the fate of the Hindu monarchy. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / sci-tech Saturday March 26, 2005 - 15:06 by for the record.   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 05, 2005 - 13:27)   image 1 image
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the entry into force of the Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention (BTWC) on 26 March 1975. The BTWC was the first Convention to ban an entire class of weapons of mass destruction, and is a key component of the international non-proliferation and disarmament framework. The European Union (EU) considers the BTWC to be the cornerstone of our efforts to prevent biological agents and toxins from ever being developed and used as weapons. ... read full story / add a comment
nobody owns the land or the stars. But the dead yes.
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday March 26, 2005 - 12:29 by o as if = Iosaf   text 1 comment (last - saturday march 26, 2005 - 12:33)   image 1 image
George Bush as well as being the Angel of the Lord, the occupier of Babalon, the wookie supreme of the christian fundamentalist republic of Gilead and the 43º president of the United States of America

is also the Big White Chief, and as such has offered prayers to the members of the Red Lake Indian reservation as they come to terms this Holy Week with the worst school massacre since the Columbine event in 1999. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday March 26, 2005 - 08:56 by mise
Irish Catholics in America have a vibrant memory of humiliating job discrimination, which featured omnipresent signs proclaiming "Help Wanted--No Irish Need Apply!" No one has ever seen one of these NINA signs because they were extremely rare or nonexistent. ... read full story / add a comment
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