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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

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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".
The post SNP Takes Teachers Out of School for “Racial Microaggression” Training appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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 / environment Wednesday November 24, 2004 - 13:21 by Brain Chew   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 24, 2004 - 17:38)
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian police have used tear gas on thousands of protesters at a rally against oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell in the oil-rich city of Port Harcourt. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday November 24, 2004 - 11:37 by carapau
Left ideology diagram at two dimensions

In this link you can see a diagram with almost all left ideology and a small resume of them: http://carapau.webcindario.com/viewtopic.php?t=65 or else www.carapau.pt.vu

In this link you can see a diagram with almost all left ideology and a small resume of them:

http://carapau.webcindario.com/viewtopic.php?t=65


or else

http://www.carapau.pt.vu ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday November 24, 2004 - 11:36 by ipsiphi   text 1 comment (last - monday december 13, 2004 - 20:42)
The Presidency of the European Union has taken note of the reports of the President and the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia before the Security Council on 23 November regarding progress towards implementation of the Completion Strategy of the Tribunal.

While welcoming the measures that have been taken to implement the Completion Strategy, the Presidency notes with deep concern that fugitives accused of serious violations of international humanitarian law, in particular Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic and Ante Gotovina, remain at large. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 22, 2004 - 18:12 by pc   text 2 comments (last - tuesday november 23, 2004 - 16:35)
"...Military aircraft and components have been sold from Russia, China and Belarus and helicopter spares from Lithuania. Tanks, military vehicles and artillery were transferred from Belarus, Bulgaria, Russia and Poland. Small arms and light weapons were exported mostly from China, France, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Arms brokering has been offered from Bulgaria, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and military cooperation by Belarus, India, Malaysia and Russia...." ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Monday November 22, 2004 - 14:13 by iosaf   text 8 comments (last - sunday november 28, 2004 - 15:08)
didn't qualify as a free open democratic accountable election like the ones you get for school class rep.

Yushchenko versus Yanukovych
means - (according to aunty Beeb)
Viktor Yanukovych:
Aged 54
Imprisoned twice in his youth
Former governor of industrial Donetsk region
Raised pensions and public sector pay before election
Would make Russian second official language and allow dual citizenship
Viktor Yushchenko:
Aged 50
An economist and former central banker
Has an American wife
Promises to fight corruption, create five million jobs and pursue free market reforms
Would seek deeper relations with the Europe and the West ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Monday November 22, 2004 - 12:46 by Johnny Fox
A petty dispute re. occupancy of a deer killing hide in Wisconsin, USA escalated into a bloodbath when animal abusers turned their guns on each other.

5 hunters slain and another three wounded "in the bag". This novel approach to hunting will hopefully be taken up by those denied the opportunity to torment small mammals when hunting ban comes into force across the water. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Monday November 22, 2004 - 12:31 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - monday november 22, 2004 - 14:21)
Sharon has confirmed that his government will not stop the Palestinians of Jerusalem in taking part in their planned elections which will be celebrated in less than two months on the 9th of January.

It is not certain that Sharons government will survive the Knesset votes till then, so he's not gone yet. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday November 22, 2004 - 11:39 by iosaf   text 10 comments (last - wednesday december 01, 2004 - 00:14)
for their annual ibero-american conference, the President of Spain Zapatero accompanied by Don JuanCarlos Bourbó de Bourbon (like a bourbon) the King of Spain discussed Zapatero's idea of an "alliance of civilisations" which would shape future relations between the continent and those who varyingly trade with it, invest in it, and exploit it.

The plan has been met with much enthusiasm not least from the popular "leftist" regimes. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 21, 2004 - 14:41 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 24, 2004 - 15:14)
'' In a reference to his plans to begin ordering the missiles next year, he said: "We've some significant money in the 2006 President's budget that we would begin to execute in October 2005." '' ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 21, 2004 - 06:09 by Gary Sudborough
US imperialism hits a stumbling block in Fallujah and the whole of Iraq in its drive for global hegemony and corporate control. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Saturday November 20, 2004 - 17:26 by jeejeejee   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 20, 2004 - 22:40)
Catholickes are not only putting the environment at risk by not obliging the USA with pain of excommunication to honour the Kyoto agreement but also are farming completely un-neccesarily beeswax. ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Saturday November 20, 2004 - 15:40 by Roberto X
Interview with Rebelión Animal from Uruguay ... read full story / add a comment
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international / sci-tech Friday November 19, 2004 - 14:13 by redjade   text 24 comments (last - wednesday february 23, 2005 - 11:39)   image 1 image
Today the University of California's Berkeley Quantitative Methods Research Team released a statistical study - the sole method available to monitor the accuracy of e- voting - reporting irregularities associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000-260,000 or more excess votes to President George W. Bush in Florida in the 2004 presidential election. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday November 19, 2004 - 11:45 by pat c   text 6 comments (last - monday november 22, 2004 - 12:07)
Venezuela prosecutor feared dead

A key state prosecutor may have been killed in a double explosion in his car in Venezuela, officials fear.
Police are carrying out tests on the dead driver of a jeep that blew up in a suburb of the capital Caracas.

They say the vehicle belonged to Danilo Anderson, a prosecutor investigating those involved in a 2002 coup against President Hugo Chavez. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Thursday November 18, 2004 - 23:45 by cpgb   image 1 image
Hot on the heels of his diplomatically worded critique of the Socialist Workers Party’s intervention in Respect (see Weekly Worker November 11), veteran SWP leader John Molyneux has now turned his attention to the organisation’s own regime and culture. In this contribution to the Pre-conference Bulletin No2, headed ‘Democracy in the SWP’, comrade Molyneux exposes the intolerance and monolithism of the leadership and, as “a strongly committed member of the SWP”, calls for far-reaching cultural change... ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 18, 2004 - 21:18 by adili   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 20, 2004 - 11:21)   image 1 image
The overarching idea is to discuss and collectively develop new systems of governance which might be suitable for the quantifiable but as-yet undeclared state of Cascadia without limiting the discussion only to Cascadians. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Thursday November 18, 2004 - 17:42 by Bank of Ireland
Perhaps its the influx of dodgy bankers at the Dublin docks development. Certainly no mention of the antiquated 'justice' system or the growing gap between rich and poor, the homeless problem, corruption, intolerance etc etc. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 18, 2004 - 13:57 by Jem   text 7 comments (last - monday december 13, 2004 - 15:22)
Powell says Iran's nuclear activities "should be of concern to all parties." ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday November 18, 2004 - 13:11 by iosaf merrovinginvanjan   text 3 comments (last - tuesday may 31, 2005 - 17:28)
Tomorrow President Chirac visits the UK for two days most british and french mainstream media organs look at the relationship between the two EU members with nuclear capability.

Chirac has confirmed that even though Blair is "supine" (one of three positions in which the body is laid flat upon the ground the others being prostrate and prone) in it's attitude to Washington, he still likes Mr Blair and has a photo of his young son Leo.
The same Leo who "someone" shopped for being drunk and disorderly years ago on Whitehall after a RTS! event.

Here are some other important things you should know- ... read full story / add a comment
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