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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
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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

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offsite link US Withdrawal From WHO Leaves Real Problems Unaddressed Fri Jan 31, 2025 07:00 | Dr David Bell
The problem with blaming Covid and the deadly global response on the WHO is that the pandemic industrial complex is much bigger than the WHO. Leaving it is not enough, says Dr David Bell.
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offsite link News Round-Up Fri Jan 31, 2025 01:05 | Richard Eldred
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 Priest Calvin Robinson Kicked Out of Church for Doing Elon Musk ?Salute? at Rally Thu Jan 30, 2025 19:06 | Will Jones
TV presenter and priest Calvin Robinson has been kicked out of his church after doing an?Elon Musk?'salute' at a pro-life rally in what he said was clearly intended as a joke.
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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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The Day After Tomorrow?
international / environment Thursday December 01, 2005 - 12:26 by redjade   text 5 comments (last - tuesday march 14, 2006 - 20:46)   image 4 images
'We are writing to you as part of a global group of climate
and media activists establishing a topical indymedia site on climate.' ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 01, 2005 - 10:48 by anon   text 3 comments (last - thursday december 01, 2005 - 15:58)   image 2 images
Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern will seek assurances from Washington that US planes using Shannon airport have not been carrying CIA terror suspects when he meets with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday.

Germany, Ireland and Switzerland have joined nearly a dozen European countries that are probing US spy agency flights for prisoners reportedly subjected to extra-judicial detention and possibly torture.

"The Minister will seek assurances from Condoleezza Rice that Shannon was not used for the rendition of prisoners or anything of that nature," a spokesman for Mr Ahern said on Sunday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday November 30, 2005 - 10:41 by saoririseoir   text 1 comment (last - friday december 02, 2005 - 01:05)
Nov 25th: Police diver finding mutilated bodies in Tigris River. (podcast will probably expire on Friday December 2nd), but will try to put up mp3 link in comments.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/outlook.shtml#Fri
This BBC World Service magazine programme called Outlook, is soft news normally, but at the end of this interview, the police diver lets it be known that he has lately been finding many mutilated corpses in the River Tigris.

NYT Report, November 27th.
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051129/ZNYT03/511290451
Sunnis say that hundreds go missing.

A prominent incident on November 24th.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m18184&date=26-nov-2005_22:24_ECT
Sunni clan leader and three sons openly assassinated in baghdad by uniformed police. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 29, 2005 - 16:20 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - wednesday november 30, 2005 - 00:01)
Its good to see that the spirit of Christ is alive and well in the US Catholic Church. These are the same goons who are trying to avoid claims from abuse victims and are refusing the sacrements to Pro-Choice politicians.

Jesus Wept!

Full story at the link.

Pat C ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday November 29, 2005 - 12:59 by iosaf mac diarmada
This week sees yet another international government conference on "Climate change". The event being held in Montreal Quebec is seeing over 160 countries attempt yet again to cobble together a solution on "reduction of emissions" to "fix our weather".

We all know its broken. Huricane Delta has just hit the Canary islands, with 7 islander deaths confirmed and unknown numbers of dead migrants in the seas between the archipelago and Africa. a quarter of a million people left without power. ... read full story / add a comment
An Iraqi child flashes a victory sign as a U.S. Bradley fighting vehicle is seen burning in Baghdad, Iraq (Monday, Nov. 28, 2005)
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 29, 2005 - 00:26 by redjade   text 25 comments (last - friday december 09, 2005 - 15:58)   image 9 images
“I said to the President, ‘We’re not winning the war.’ And he asked, ‘Are we losing?’ I said, ‘Not yet.’ ” The President, he said, “appeared displeased” with that answer.

“I tried to tell him,” the former senior official said. “And he couldn’t hear it.” ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday November 28, 2005 - 21:29 by Upstart Radio America
Al-Jazeera must be doing something right for Dictator Bush to want to bomb them. That is, if he hadn't bombed them in 2001 and 2003 already. George McGovern talks about Poppy Bush's opposition to the war. Jody Paulson compares GWB to Tricky Dick. An awesome speech by NBA Star Eaton Thomas of the Washington Wizzards and finally, Ward Churchill brings it home. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 28, 2005 - 18:31 by yahoo
By PAUL AMES, Associated Press Writer
"Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini also warned that that any of the 25 bloc nations found to have operated secret CIA prisons could have their EU voting rights suspended." ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Sunday November 27, 2005 - 23:41 by regular joe
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 14th May 2002

Persuasion works best when it’s invisible. The most effective marketing worms its way into our consciousness, leaving intact the perception that we have reached our opinions and made our choices independently. As old as humankind itself, over the past few years this approach has been refined, with the help of the internet, into a technique called “viral marketing”. Last month, the viruses appear to have murdered their host. One of the world’s foremost scientific journals was persuaded to do something it has never done before, and retract a paper it had published. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday November 27, 2005 - 00:10 by R. Isible   text 4 comments (last - tuesday december 06, 2005 - 09:32)
Irish Independent reports that a previous occupation of the MV Normandy led to the consideration of using teargas. Plainclothes security personnel are rumoured to have boarded the vessel prepared and equipped to use teargas. This report by Gerald Flynn paints the taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, in a positive light and refrains from pointing out that the oul bollocks hasn't done anything except talk bollocks. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday November 25, 2005 - 20:36 by Sean Crudden   text 2 comments (last - friday november 25, 2005 - 22:16)
Best - the boy wonder of 1960's football - is dead. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday November 24, 2005 - 18:01 by SP Member   text 35 comments (last - tuesday november 29, 2005 - 11:59)   image 2 images
In the aftermath of the Labour Court recommendation on the Irish Ferries, and the confrontation between Joe Higgins and Mary Harney in the Dail this morning, Irish Ferries have escalated the dispute at Pembroke and workers have blockaded themselves into the engine room of the ship. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 24, 2005 - 17:46 by Allen   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 24, 2005 - 18:45)
A LABOUR Party decision to reject a complaint against its party leader, Mr Pat Rabbitte, has been described as "appalling" by Clr. Declan Bree, who made the complaint. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 24, 2005 - 02:22 by Update   text 8 comments (last - saturday november 26, 2005 - 05:12)
As the war on Iraq escalates daily and loses any semblence of popular support in the imperial heartland - nonviolent resistance grows. In England Milan Rai is imprisoned, in the U.S. folks are arrested attempting to re-establish the peace camp outisde Bush's Crawford Texas Ranch on Thanksgiving. In Australia dissidents arrested this past June blockading Operation Talisman Sabre front court in Rckhampton this Monday. Check link below for an update on the Operation Talisman Sabre Crew....... ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday November 23, 2005 - 13:07 by Tom Joad
It appears that the brutal exploitation of migrant workers is not, as we always maintained, onfined to a few bad apples, but is prevelant across the economy and across the world. But workers are fighting back. Read this heartwarming article of fightback and workers unity ... read full story / add a comment
RBR 9 Cover
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday November 23, 2005 - 12:24 by Joe Black   text 6 comments (last - saturday november 26, 2005 - 20:16)   image 1 image
ssue 9 (Spring 2005) of the Irish anarchist magazine Red and Black Revolution is now available online. Red and Black Revolution appears every six months, in the Spring and Autumn of each year. RBR 10 will be made available online in December. Apologies for the delays in the online appearance of RBR 9 ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 20:33 by Séan Ó Murchú PRO   text 8 comments (last - monday november 28, 2005 - 01:27)
Fine Gael proposals to downgrade Irish from a required Leaving Certificate subject have been greeted with a barrage of criticism. ... read full story / add a comment
G8: Can You Hear Us?- online film about clown army
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 18:43 by dunk   image 1 image
G8: Can You Hear Us? follows three very different activists as they make their way to Gleneagles to protest about this year's G8 summit.
a filim made by bbc doc makers, who traveled around with CIRCA, the clandestine rebel clown army, during the g8 last summer.
the doc was shown on bbc4 last week ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 18:24 by Updater   text 26 comments (last - monday november 28, 2005 - 18:03)
Molloy speaks out against the repartition of the North. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 16:52 by Upstart Radio America
This episode includes a PSA from former child actor Dickie Richards. Donate your Uzi today! Followed by the first new Raymond Lafferty piece in several months. A Murtha / Schmidt / SNL mix with music by Sacred Spirit and Fat Boy Slim. Also some thoughts on Dinosaurs from William S. Burroughs music by Shalor. And finally Arundhati Roy with music by Gil Amran. ... read full story / add a comment
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