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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
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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

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Jan 18, 2025 01:49 | Toby Young
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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international / sci-tech Wednesday January 12, 2005 - 10:23 by are talking to me?   text 5 comments (last - monday february 07, 2005 - 17:31)   image 1 image
Now as many of you know, coz Dan Brown told you,
people from the Elysee to the Louvre can't have proper conversations about their mummies and secrets anymore without being bugged (a technical expression) And they're sick of it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 11, 2005 - 18:12 by pc   text 2 comments (last - wednesday january 12, 2005 - 04:33)
Four remaining Britons and an Australian being held at Guantanamo Bay will be released soon, officials said Tuesday, amid reports the number of prisoners at the U.S. military base would be radically reduced. A lawyer acting for two of the Britons told Reuters all the British detainees would be released within weeks. "The Foreign Office has confirmed to me that the four of them will be coming back within the next few weeks," human rights lawyer Louise Christian said. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday January 11, 2005 - 16:59 by cwi   text 3 comments (last - tuesday january 25, 2005 - 20:22)
As in every country around the world, in Sri Lanka the people have reacted far more quickly than their government. It is an excellent opportunity for the masses to work together and to realise that co-existing and cooperation are possible and to experience them. Unfortunately, the authorities are not using this opportunity to forge unity, but the opposite.

Article from socialistworld.net ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 11, 2005 - 00:24 by m. b.   text 6 comments (last - thursday january 13, 2005 - 17:29)
What exactly is fascism?
Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday January 10, 2005 - 22:35 by boo!   text 5 comments (last - friday january 28, 2005 - 21:36)
Pinochet is now going to get bail.
and will be able to leave his house with swimming pool to have a toddle around only and only if the next judge supports the decision made earlier today to accept his bali application in relation to the ongoing investigation into his alledged missappropriation of several billion dollars during the extended operation Condor which brought him to power September 11 long time ago.

He must be biting his nails. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 10, 2005 - 19:37 by R. Isible
January 10th DemocracyNOW: the continuing exploitation of the Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster by the major state powers continues with the alleged importation of "Al Qaeda t-shirt wearing militants" by the Indonesian military into the contested province of Aceh in order to show a need for US Military involvement.

The interview is with Alan Nairn, a longtime reporter on things Indonesian (he was Amy Goodman's companion when they were beaten by Indonesian soldiers in the early 90's as they attempted to report on a human rights march). ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 10, 2005 - 14:26 by redjade   text 1 comment (last - thursday january 13, 2005 - 15:19)   image 1 image
Hadi Saleh, Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) International Secretary, assassinated 4th January 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Monday January 10, 2005 - 13:38 by benjamin   text 2 comments (last - wednesday january 26, 2005 - 14:00)
Abu Mazen has been elected with a clear mandate to lead the Palestinian people, in full and fair elections a bit like the ones you get for school classroom which you're supposed to do around 14-16 years old, except President Jimmy Carter generally doesn't observe them.

He can't observe all the elections you know. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous Monday January 10, 2005 - 00:34 by cwi   text 1 comment (last - monday january 10, 2005 - 00:36)   image 1 image
The catastrophe in Asia has unleashed an unparalleled feeling of global solidarity. Millions of people around the world have given donations to the people and the countries in need.

This global solidarity and the willingness to help and assist have forced western imperialism to promise aid and to offer a temporary freeze on debt repayment.

While working people around the globe show genuine sympathy there are reasons to show no trust in the promises given by capitalists and political representatives of imperialism.

The Bush administration regards its aid effort as a, “Crucial weapon in a battle for the hearts and minds of Muslims in southern Asia and in much of the rest of the Muslim world, nudging their sentiments in America’s favour”, wrote the San Francisco Chronicle of January 6... ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Saturday January 08, 2005 - 09:59 by crap name   text 2 comments (last - monday january 10, 2005 - 10:51)
On board were members of the high command of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Federation.

who were taking part in a routine exercise with the usual crew.

118 souls were lost in the subsequent disaster. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday January 08, 2005 - 04:33 by Nighthawk   text 2 comments (last - friday january 28, 2005 - 16:36)   image 1 image
Report: U.N. Troops Exploited Congo Girls

By LEYLA LINTON, Associated Press Writer

UNITED NATIONS - United Nations (news - web sites) peacekeepers in Congo sexually exploited women and girls, some as young as 13, a U.N. watchdog office said Friday in a new confirmation that efforts to curb abuses by U.N. troops are not working. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Saturday January 08, 2005 - 02:51 by R. Isible   text 9 comments (last - saturday march 19, 2005 - 15:01)
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales talks up his new creation "WikiNews" and takes a couple of shots at Indymedia on the way. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Friday January 07, 2005 - 00:16 by dot commie   text 28 comments (last - tuesday may 20, 2008 - 07:21)   image 4 images
Bill Gates warns of 'new modern-day sort of communists' ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 06, 2005 - 19:52 by redjade   text 4 comments (last - friday january 14, 2005 - 00:37)
''The military is also impeding the flow of aid. They’ve commandeered a hanger at the Banda Aceh airport, where they are taking control of internationally shipped in supplies. We just got a report this afternoon that the distribution of supplies is being done in some towns and villages only to people who hold the ‘red and white,’ which is a special ID card issued to Acehnese by the Indonesian police. You have to go to a police station to get one of these ID cards, and it is only issued to people who the police certify as not being opponents of the army, not being critics of the government. Of course many people are afraid to go and apply for such a card.'' ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 05, 2005 - 16:22 by pat c
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 5 January - Increased security and better design of humanitarian assistance are urgently needed to minimize attacks on women in areas affected by last week's earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean, warns UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday January 05, 2005 - 15:18 by paddington   text 6 comments (last - friday june 03, 2005 - 14:12)   image 1 image
Mr Brown, drives round car in a big car,
ooops that was brother Marleye.

Mr Brown is scottish.
a lot of people are.
He's sounds scottish as well, a lot of them don't.
He looks after the money for the Queen of England who is the Queen of Scotland as well.
A lot of money.
This is an important job, and especially these next few months it is important as lots of the other people who look after lots of money are going to Scotland to Gleneagles to talk about how to stop getting blood from the stone and start making things better. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday January 05, 2005 - 01:29 by pc   text 28 comments (last - wednesday july 20, 2005 - 19:45)
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraq's insurgency counts more than 200,000 active fighters and sympathisers, the country's national intelligence chief told AFP, in the bleakest assessment to date of the armed revolt waged by Sunni Muslims.

"I think the resistance is bigger than the US military in Iraq. I think the resistance is more than 200,000 people," Iraqi intelligence service director General Mohammad Abdullah Shahwani said in an interview ahead of the January 30 elections...

bleak,bleaker, bleakest... ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday January 04, 2005 - 18:42 by Joe Ranii   text 1 comment (last - tuesday january 04, 2005 - 19:53)
Another bloody assault on Colombia's poorest ... read full story / add a comment
louth / arts and media Tuesday January 04, 2005 - 17:25 by eeekkkk   text 21 comments (last - monday january 17, 2005 - 02:27)
Lots of flirting with the libel and slander laws going on to say the least. ... read full story / add a comment
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