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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

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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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offsite link Trump Blames Diversity Hiring for Washington DC Air Crash Thu Jan 30, 2025 17:57 | Will Jones
President?Donald Trump?has blamed woke diversity hiring for the Washington DC air crash, one of the deadliest in US history, citing a Federal Aviation Administration report that the workforce was "too white".
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offsite link The Covid Inquiry?s Interest in Censorship is Dangerously One-Sided and Will Further Undermine Trust... Thu Jan 30, 2025 15:30 | Alan Black and Molly Kingsley
The Covid Inquiry has turned to look at the Government's Counter Disinformation Unit. But it's only question is whether the censorship went far enough, say Molly Kingsley and Alan Black. Trust in public health will suffer.
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offsite link Judge Blocks Major North Sea Oil and Gas Projects Over Climate Change Thu Jan 30, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
A judge has blocked Britain's two biggest offshore oil and gas developments from producing any fossil fuels by quashing their production permits over climate change concerns.
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offsite link Taxpayer Pays ?3,000 a Day for New Clothes and Shoes for Channel Migrants Thu Jan 30, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
The taxpayer is providing new clothes and shoes to illegal Channel?migrants?at a cost of more than ?3,000 a day. Some are also given mobile phones.
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offsite link Sea Levels Could Rise Six Feet by 2100 Claims Daily Mail in Latest Pseudoscientific Fearmongering Thu Jan 30, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Sea levels could rise over six feet by 2100, the Daily Mail declared in a headline this week. It's the latest pseudoscientific fearmongering being fed to journalists by activist academics, says Chris Morrison.
The post Sea Levels Could Rise Six Feet by 2100 Claims Daily Mail in Latest Pseudoscientific Fearmongering appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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The Mail leads the attack on British terrorism Nov 30 2006
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 03, 2006 - 20:12 by Harry Wells   text 14 comments (last - tuesday december 12, 2006 - 20:48)   image 14 images
Congratulations to the Irish Daily Mail, who have put the other newspapers to shame, by their initial story and follow up coverage of the story of British collusion with acts of unionist paramilitary violence.

As the stories are not on the Daily Mail website and just so the rest of the media can see the story it is ignoring – here is the story as laid out in the Irish Daily Mail.
... read full story / add a comment
President of Bolivia Evo Morales [right]
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 03, 2006 - 20:11 by Bolivia watcher   text 18 comments (last - wednesday december 06, 2006 - 10:07)   image 3 images
Everybody wins. The people of Bolivia now have a share in the profits of their own natural resources. The President is now more popular, having championed the cause of the ordinary people of his country against rich foreigners and vested interests. The energy companies can now be certain of stability, and in the long run they will still make millions.

It's not magic, it's just the application of political sense and good judgement. Will we ever see it in this country? ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Saturday December 02, 2006 - 21:08 by person   text 1 comment (last - monday december 04, 2006 - 10:54)
Its in the line of an announcement- having lived through the 'H' problem in the
eighties and nineties, sometimes a bad batch comes in-( in fact its not good
at all). BUT there have been six heroin related deaths in Dublin in seven
days.

The story is on http://www.ireland.com ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday December 02, 2006 - 12:00 by brumble B
Fiji prepares for Oz invasion by leaving blackhawk helicopters on its beaches. A kava intoxicated Commodore Frank Bullawayo has once again forgotten his coup deadline and Australia's Minister of Defence, Dr Brendan (studs) Nelson, faces hostile relatives over the latest cover-ups and military fiascos! Well done, ‘studs’, the record of Robert (suck harder) Hill will soon be under threat. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 01, 2006 - 21:28 by R. Isible   text 5 comments (last - thursday december 07, 2006 - 07:47)
We've all had the spectre of the simple, honest US soldier forced into fighting a war he doesn't want to be part of, doing his duty despite hostility all around him, invoked at one stage or another during discussions of the Iraqi Occupation. Often this figure is mistily conflated with other mythic figures: candybar dispensing US troops in the rubble of post-war Berlin, or US airplanes dropping crates of canned spam in the Phillipines.

Like other popularly held generalisations it's a lie. This video on youtube is a trivial example of the bestial inhumanity of some soldiers. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Friday December 01, 2006 - 18:04 by ShellWatch
Sir Clive Thompson, former Shell marketing executive, is the director of the now-collapsed Farepak firm which has lost 150,000 low-income savers around €600 each. Thompson, chairman of Farepak's parent company European Home Retail, has a long track record of controversy - in 1998 he made a speech at the CBI annual dinner where he asserted that statutory union recognition should be put in a handbook to help firms improve their "pest control techniques". ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday November 30, 2006 - 21:27 by ShellWatch
Shell has been fined €160 million euro by the European Commission for fixing prices of synthetic rubber used to make tyres and other products. Shell was fined along with four other major companies for operating the cartel from at least 1996 to 2002. Its fine was increased from what it would have been under the Commission's normal calculations because of repeat offences. ... read full story / add a comment
Never Mind the Blueshirts
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 30, 2006 - 19:23 by Labour Youth   text 2 comments (last - friday december 01, 2006 - 16:12)   image 3 images
Labour Youth has launched a publication - the Left Tribune - whose front cover states:

Never Mind the Bluehshirts
Here's the Socialism:

US Military out of Shannon
Abolish All College Fees
Free GP Care for all ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 30, 2006 - 17:50 by Cormac Ryan   text 5 comments (last - sunday december 03, 2006 - 19:55)
A debate entitled `Policing - A Bridge Too Far For Republicans?' took place last Monday November 27th in the Conway Mill, West Belfast.
... read full story / add a comment
'Up close and Personal'
international / anti-capitalism Thursday November 30, 2006 - 11:39 by Frieda.   text 11 comments (last - friday november 09, 2007 - 10:38)   image 11 images
The conservatives took over the Podium of the Mexican Parliament yesterday,
amid unprecedented scenes as a result of the naming of the Calderon Cabinet.
Calderon famously got the vote with less than a % difference, between him and Obrador.
Harvard educated Calderon has turned a blind eye to the new 700 mile fence
that borders the US and to the repression of the democratic movement in Oaxaca.
Bush Junior is to busy to attend- thus George H.W will.
(backround to the elections- O'Luain and Mac Diarmada: http://www.indymedia.ie.article/78016 ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 29, 2006 - 18:56 by Fred Johnston - Manager
'Causes for Concern - Irish Politics, Culture and Society', by Michael D. Higgins discussed and given a button-review in 'Kiosque!' ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday November 28, 2006 - 19:45 by Sean Crudden
The United States have seen a record series of 17 consecutive interest rate increases. But maybe the economy there is slowing down for a different reason altogether? ... read full story / add a comment
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national / gender and sexuality Tuesday November 28, 2006 - 19:40 by The Sun Burst   image 2 images
Over the coming months Ógra Shinn Féin will conduct a number of interviews with young female activists. Allowing young women to find their voice and to promote women in struggle.

Speaking candidly about her involvement in republican youth politics 17-year-old Roisin McGreevy speaks her involvement, role and introduction to Ógra Shinn Féin.
... read full story / add a comment
clare / eu Tuesday November 28, 2006 - 19:15 by anon   text 15 comments (last - friday december 01, 2006 - 18:02)
A draft European Parliament report into alleged CIA rendition flights has expressed 'serious concerns' over the 147 stopovers made by CIA-operated aircraft at Irish airports.

The report says these aircraft were on many occasions coming from, or en route to, countries linked with 'extraordinary rendition' and the transfer of alleged terrorism suspects or detainees.

It also claims that CIA linked aircraft which had stopped off in Ireland had 'certainly been used for the extraordinary renditions' of nine named individuals.

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2006/1128/bre...4.htm

Working documents on companies involved
http://www.statewatch.org/cia/documents/working-doc-no-...6.pdf ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 28, 2006 - 18:21 by anon
Ken Fleming, Inspector with the International Transport Workers' Federation, speaks about what is next for the 22 underpaid crew of the Merchant Bravery freight ship

http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/230-2196193.smil ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 28, 2006 - 17:07 by dingo
A recent study highlighting the rapid expansion of organised criminal activity in those areas where NATO and the U.S. have engaged in aggressive military intervention offers further evidence of the lasting negative social consequences of foreign occupation by neo-colonial powers. As corporate driven America attempts to assert its dominance over weaker nations, organised crime, quick to exploit traumatised societies, becomes the principal beneficiary in the 'war against terror' and the spread of ‘democracy, liberty’ and free market capitalism – what is good for capitalist America is even better for a crime boss! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 28, 2006 - 06:05 by mm   text 7 comments (last - wednesday november 29, 2006 - 00:30)   image 1 image
Cut and Run, the Only Brave Thing to Do

Sunday, November 26th, 2006 ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday November 28, 2006 - 03:26 by Jeremiah O'Mahony   text 4 comments (last - saturday december 09, 2006 - 21:02)
Rape victims are being turned away from the very facilities designed to help them.

Victims who have been turned away from facilities around the country are also going to Dublin for treatment resulting in a 30% increase in the number of people reporting there for treatment.
Dublin treatment centres were already in crisis. The treatment unit in the Rotunda has been closed because there is no doctor available.
Ellen O'Malley-Dunlop, of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre says that the crisis is due to a lack of funding.

Nora Newell, a Spokesperson for the Rape Crisis Centre in Letterkenny, reports that women are not reporting rapes because a lack of forensic doctors there means they would have to travel to Dublin wearing the same clothes and this would be unbearable.

... read full story / add a comment
Oaxaca: City of Resistance
international / anti-capitalism Monday November 27, 2006 - 14:35 by Red Latina sin fronteras   text 4 comments (last - monday january 08, 2007 - 23:45)   image 7 images
ALL THE POWER TO THE PEOPLE
POPULAR ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLE OF OAXACA
City of Resistance, November 26, 2006
[email protected]
www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com
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