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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

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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

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offsite link Black Coal, White Guilt: Mining the Dark Depths of ?Anti-Racist? Geology Sat Jan 18, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Queen Mary University of London has hit a new low in its introduction of 'Inhuman Geography', where snow-capped mountains and dark underground mines are treated as evidence of 'white racism', says Steven Tucker.
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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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international / eu Saturday December 11, 2004 - 12:48 by iosaf   text 3 comments (last - wednesday january 19, 2005 - 22:26)   image 1 image
The majority of Europe's constitutions specify the seperation of Ecclesiastic or Theocratic authority from that of the Judiciary, Executive and other State elements.

In France the legal seperation is based on "Loi 1905"
In Spain it is based on the accord signed between the Vatican and post dictatorship regime in 1979.
In Ireland (under the Eire constitution a special place is mentioned for the RC church) in Northern Ireland religious ministers look in the XXI century for photographic evidence of conflict resolution. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday December 11, 2004 - 04:57 by Brian Vernon   text 14 comments (last - tuesday december 14, 2004 - 15:48)   image 2 images
Im finding it hard to say anything about this it's so horrific. How can the God loving American people say that this is for the greater good of their nation? Get them out now!!!! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 10, 2004 - 18:09 by pc
27th November 2004: Chief Superintendent Bill Donoghue and Detective Superintendent P.J. Browne of Pearse St. Garda Station Dublin Ireland have been appointed by the Assistant Commissioner of Operations Al McHugh to investigate allegations against Chinese Vice-Premier Huang Ju that he conspired to commit torture against Falun Dafa practitioners.

Criminal Complaint Against Chinese Official Huang Ju Presents an Opportunity for the Irish Judicial System ... read full story / add a comment

international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 10, 2004 - 12:03 by Declan Gallagher   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 15, 2004 - 13:21)   image 1 image
Eminem has put out a new version of his video for his anti-war/anti-bush track "Mosh". Where the first version was to sway voters to atleast get out and vote, This new version urges americians to get out and fight. Check it out. http://launch.yahoo.com/video/default.asp?vid=1131071 ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 10, 2004 - 02:55 by Sisyphe   text 1 comment (last - friday december 10, 2004 - 22:06)
In an unprecedented gesture, around thirty personalities known for their social and political commitment asks the government of Canada to reject the decriminalization of prostitution claimed by certain groups and to take immediate measures to to put an end to the harassing of prostitutes and to the sexual trafficking which is practised in Canada. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday December 09, 2004 - 23:57 by hs
On the 30th of November in Italy there was the fifth general strike against the Berlusconi government. It stopped the country.

Lazzaro Bortolotti, cwi Italy ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Thursday December 09, 2004 - 22:04 by gavel?!?!   text 2 comments (last - friday december 10, 2004 - 02:03)   image 1 image
once upon a time, 63 years before the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime and the popular embracing and hugging of plural democracy by the peoples of Iraq assisted by the coalition of the willing, despite all the nasty misfits, have a go types, intellectuals, teachers, and biographically scant men from the provinces of Ireland, Europe the Americas, Africa and Asia doing their best to stop it.

A very pissed of Charlie Chaplin, composer, script writer, director, actor, comedian, satirist and genius saw fit to screen a movie about dictatorship and the limits of strong leadership and the evils of demogogues and the threat to civilised values in Europe. He had begun work on it in 1938, and when it was finished he chose to append a personal statement feeling "Hitler is a horrible menace to civilisation rather than someone to laugh at" rather than shelve it.
He financed the movie himself, coz no-one else cared to annoy nice Mr Hitler. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Thursday December 09, 2004 - 21:20 by gavel?!?!   text 6 comments (last - wednesday april 26, 2006 - 13:54)   image 1 image
once upon a time, 100 years before the Reclaim the Streets party 2016, a number of misfits, have a go types, intellectuals, teachers, and biographically scant men from the provinces of Ireland, paid Mr Christopher Brady a small and nominal sum of several shillings to their mate to print a few copies of their "proclamation".

Their names were-
Padraig Pearse, James Connolly, Thomas Clarke, Thomas MacDonagh, Sean MacDiarmada, Count Joseph Plunkett & Eamonn Ceannt

They were very proud of it, and put their names in capital letters at the bottom.
They died under suspicious circumstances later that year.

It was the same year the Lord Kitchener saw the one milionth copy of his snappy "Your country needs you!" recruitment poster for the slaughter of the trenches printed. He was very proud of it, and it helped send many millions of young men to their death. He died under suspicious circumstances a year later. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday December 09, 2004 - 12:02 by pat c
"IT WAS A BIT OF A COCK-UP ..HE SOUNDED WHITE OVER THE PHONE "

BNP members who mistakenly hired a black DJ for their Christmas party proved yesterday they were not just racist but STUPID. Official Bob Garner said: "There was a bit of a cock-up. The chap who booked him didn't realise. The DJ sounded white on the phone." ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday December 09, 2004 - 11:17 by Liam   text 8 comments (last - friday december 10, 2004 - 17:23)
"On behalf of our members we are to advise you that our members will not accept the manner or means by which your organisation have taken the decision to dismiss their colleagues." ... read full story / add a comment
louth / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday December 08, 2004 - 22:41 by Brian Vernon
... But first back to Iraq. "Saddam sealed his fate when he decided to switch to the euro in late 2000 (and later converted his $10 billion reserve fund at the UN ... ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 08, 2004 - 18:28 by pc
Anti-war protestors are today celebrating a Court of Appeal ruling which held that the police acted unlawfully in detaining them for 2½ hours without arrests. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday December 08, 2004 - 01:15 by John Meehan
A representative of the Colombian trade union Sinaltrainal recently visited Scotland; the campaign to extend the Coca Cola Boycott was supported by the Scottish Socialist Party ; more details at this link :

http://www.scottishsocialistparty.info/archive/2003_11_30_newsarchive.html#107061684601531358 ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday December 07, 2004 - 20:36 by croisant   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 24, 2005 - 11:55)   image 1 image
Liberátion, founded by amongst others Jean Paul Sarte is to remain a viable business concern after Baron Édouard de Rothschild confirmed yesterday that he is giving the paper 20,000,000€ which approximates to a 37% holding. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Tuesday December 07, 2004 - 14:27 by pat c
The Brazilian government has "threatened" to break the patents on as many as five of the 15 antiretroviral drugs it provides to patients through its National STD/AIDS Programme in order to produce less-expensive generic medicines. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Tuesday December 07, 2004 - 13:18 by thinking if i have no number have i a name?   text 4 comments (last - wednesday december 08, 2004 - 22:48)
Tony Blair and Jose Maria Aznar have enjoyed a private breakfast at 10 Downing Street London.

according to today's print edition of La Vanguardia.

Tony Blair is the Privy Lord Councilor of HMG of the UK and Northern Ireland.

Jose Maria is life president of the PP of España and ex prime minister of HMG of Spain. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 07, 2004 - 13:11 by cleaves   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 07, 2004 - 13:59)
This situation is amusing to some analysts who know that the ‘winner’ of the Iraq intervention is Israel. Unlike the public, analysts do not have short memories or suffer from bias induced blindness. It was clear that following the missile attacks on Israel by Saddam Hussein, Jewish interests were compelled to remove this dictator from power and eliminate any further threat from Iraq. It was relatively easy to lure the ‘avaricious pig’ to the trough of Oil – a brilliant incentive to invade an eliminate Saddam. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Tuesday December 07, 2004 - 11:35 by ENCOD
On Thursday 2 December, the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament approved the report to the Council on the European strategy on fighting drugs (2005-2012). The report will have to be voted by the plenary session of the European Parliament on 15 december, in Strasbourg. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 07, 2004 - 11:31 by Harry Boland   text 25 comments (last - wednesday february 09, 2005 - 23:13)
The 32 CSM totally condemns the harassment of a Derryman by MI5 in Spain earlier this week. This man worked tirelessly with the Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association ( http://32csm.netfirms.com/irpwa.html ) on behalf of Republican prisoners before going to Spain to work. He was approached by two armed MI5 agents in a bar in a small village in the mountains of Catalonia last Wednesday. They were backed-up by a further five armed agents. Their purpose was to try to get this man to work for them as an agent on his return to Derry. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday December 07, 2004 - 11:27 by Liam   text 9 comments (last - friday december 10, 2004 - 14:33)
Garda Paul Daly was found guilty by an 11-1 majority by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of assaulting Mr Emmet Bunting (28), of Collins Avenue, Dublin, on May 6th, 2002, but acquitted him and his colleague, Garda Fergus Hogan, on charges of assault causing harm to Mr Bunting.

Both officers are attached to Pearse Street Garda station and had pleaded not guilty.

The jury of seven men and five women returned its verdicts after deliberating for almost three hours. It was the sixth day of the trial.

Judge Yvonne Murphy remanded Garda Daly on continuing bail for sentence on January 13th, 2005, and discharged Garda Hogan from the court. ... read full story / add a comment
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