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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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Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Ed Miliband?s Department Claims 30-Year Average Temperature is Higher Than the Warmest Year on Recor... Thu Dec 12, 2024 09:00 | Chris Morrison
If you think the Met Office produces junk readings, just wait till you see what Ed Miliband's Energy Department is up to, says Chris Morrison. Its 30-year average temperature is way higher than even the warmest year!
The post Ed Miliband’s Department Claims 30-Year Average Temperature is Higher Than the Warmest Year on Record appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link We Never Talk About the Costs of Not Tackling Climate Change, Says Emma Pinchbeck. Don?t Make Me Lau... Thu Dec 12, 2024 07:00 | Ben Pile
We never talk about the costs of not tackling climate change, claims new Climate Change Committee CEO Emma Pinchbeck. On the contrary, says Ben Pile, media scare stories of impending doom are all we ever hear about.
The post We Never Talk About the Costs of Not Tackling Climate Change, Says Emma Pinchbeck. Don’t Make Me Laugh ? It’s All We Ever Hear About appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu Dec 12, 2024 01:31 | 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 China?s Spying Shows it?s Time to Close the ?Backdoors? in Our Technology Wed Dec 11, 2024 20:00 | Dr R P
China has been caught spying on America using 'backdoors' in Western technology that the U.S. Government mandated telecom companies to put there. It's time to close these self-imposed weaknesses, says Dr. R P.
The post China’s Spying Shows it’s Time to Close the ‘Backdoors’ in Our Technology appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Michael Mann?s Latest Attempts to Support the ?Hockey Stick? Graph Aren?t Even Convincing Alarmists Wed Dec 11, 2024 18:00 | Andrew Sibley
Michael Mann's recent attempts to support the 'hockey stick' graph of global temperature by explaining away natural oscillations aren't even convincing alarmists, says Andrew Sibley.
The post Michael Mann’s Latest Attempts to Support the ‘Hockey Stick’ Graph Aren’t Even Convincing Alarmists appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / anti-capitalism Tuesday September 07, 2010 - 22:00 by Paddy Hackett   text 18 comments (last - sunday september 19, 2010 - 22:40)   image 2 images
The problem is that profit cannot, by its very nature, increase continuously. It must fall leading to falling investment. Demand or consumption is a function of this process. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Tuesday September 07, 2010 - 17:27 by Paddy Hackett   text 25 comments (last - sunday february 06, 2011 - 17:01)
In a sense, then, there is a commonality between these three 19th century intellectual figures --Darwin, Marx and Nietzsche. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday September 07, 2010 - 13:58 by banbora
In spite of stringent austerity measures taken by the government , financial markets are beginning to see Ireland as "Europe’s next Greece"..Last week the Standard & Poor’s rating agency cut Ireland's credit rating to AA- . This is the lowest rating in the past 15 years .The revised rating means that this country will now have to pay increased interest rates to ensure the sales of its bonds.

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national / anti-capitalism Saturday September 04, 2010 - 16:14 by Red Banner
Issue 41 of
Red Banner: A magazine of socialist ideas
is now available from bookshops or the above address
€2 / £1.50 ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Saturday September 04, 2010 - 15:14 by Julian and Andrew
At 9:30 this morning, people gathered on O'Connell Street In Dublin to protest against the presence of war criminal and ex British prime-minister Tony Blair. Blair arrived at Easons at around 10am for the book-signing of his recent autobiography, escorted and protected by a sizable gardai presence. Despite the heavy rain, hundreds of protestors took part. At least one protester managed to get past the heavy security to try to make a citizens arrest of Blair for his war crimes. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 29, 2010 - 02:02 by Paul King
Reuters) - The UK government, the police and the Catholic Church colluded to protect a priest suspected of involvement in a 1972 bombing in Northern Ireland that killed 9 people, a report said on Tuesday.

Just one more of the thousand reasons to fully support the PROTEST THE POPE demonstrations. ... read full story / add a comment
The boycott movement threatens the visage of respectability and normality which the leaders of apartheid Israel so desperately crave.
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 28, 2010 - 19:09 by pat c   image 1 image
Dave Lordan writes in The Electronic Intifada on why he is taking part in the Cultural Boycott of Israel. Full text at link.

I am proud to be among the many Irish and Ireland-based artists from across creative disciplines who have chosen to publicly support the growing campaign of boycott against apartheid Israel. Compared to the imprisoned Palestinian people themselves and to those taking part in flotillas and other perilous anti-apartheid activities in Palestine our contribution and risk may be justly considered small. At most we might lose the chance of lucrative invitations to read, perform or display our works in parts of the US where apartheid Israel's supporters hold the power of censorship. Departments of foreign affairs and ministries of culture may also not include us among those artists they can rely upon to project a lying image of a harmonious, bon vivant and, above all, harmlessly apolitical intelligentsia. We are sure to be slandered and ridiculed by the hired bullies of the global media empires.
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international / anti-capitalism Friday August 27, 2010 - 20:52 by Carlos
Argentina is a country which has a defined scope which has been set by the imperialism. Every time someone tries to change anything the army, the navy, the aeronautics and all the police forces kill him or her without any mercy. However we still resist. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 27, 2010 - 02:44 by wake up ireland   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 31, 2010 - 18:01)
Major cannabis seizure, whilst the government prosecutes offshore tax evaders. Its not even about money now. Its about who is running the money, and how they can keep their hold on it. Stop drinking. Grow your own. Make Ireland what it could be. or watch as the rest of the world passes by... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 25, 2010 - 09:43 by Plowshares   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 01, 2010 - 14:12)
On September 9th. 1980 the Plowshares 8 entered the General Electric factory at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA and began to disarm first strike nuclear weapons components under construction.

The folks at Nuclear Resister have put the following slideshow/soundtrack together to mark the 30th. anniversary of the Plowshares movement, Nukewatch and Nuclear Resister. It is a very inspiring and uplifting presentation. Makes ya wanna get off the bench and back into the fray....... ... read full story / add a comment
leitrim / politics / elections Monday August 23, 2010 - 11:26 by Star Ship   text 34 comments (last - tuesday november 02, 2010 - 19:32)
In an article in the "Sunday Tribune" on 25th July 2010, Conor McMorrow wrote about the "parachute candidate". The question that can now be asked is what the future holds and what is going to happen to the Labour Party in Sligo/N Leitrim, now that the general public and the dogs in the street, are aware that all is not well within the local party.? what a way to start an election campaign.
What if anything is going to happen?
there are some interesting comments attached to the web link below.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 21, 2010 - 21:03 by pat c   text 24 comments (last - saturday september 04, 2010 - 20:52)   image 1 image
Mustafa Barghouti MP writes about the pressure that once again is being imposed on the palestinian people to enter into so called Peace Talks. Dr Barghouti believes that such talks without a clear agenda, timetable or without a binding mechanism for implementation will result in a betrayal of the Palestinian People. Full article at link.

We have followed with great concern the increasing external pressure, especially from the U.S. and Israel, on the PLO leadership to shift from indirect negotiations (which have not resulted in any progress) to direct negotiations without clear and binding terms of reference regarding a complete halt of all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory - including in Jerusalem. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 21, 2010 - 14:21 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - saturday august 21, 2010 - 15:44)
This convoy will leave from New Delhi mid-September and will travel across Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and ultimately through the Rafah Crossing into Gaza-Palestine. The Asian convoy will be joined by delegations and vehicles in each of the nine countries through which it passes. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 19, 2010 - 11:48 by green leprechaun   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 04, 2010 - 15:54)
Ireland, by its very nature, should become a model of tolerance and intellect for the rest of the world...afterall....no one else is doing it...the market for tolerance and real intellect is WIDE OPEN...with electronic security and a little know-how the crime can be squashed and the profits can be enormous, all the while setting an example for the world about what freedom means. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Wednesday August 18, 2010 - 10:10 by Irish history Podcast
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 12, 2010 - 08:18 by children_of_lir   text 10 comments (last - thursday november 04, 2010 - 05:30)
From Guardan Newspaper Article: "The Iranian woman whose sentence to death by stoning sparked an international outcry is feared to be facing imminent execution, after she was put on a state-run TV programme last night where she confessed to adultery and involvement in a murder." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 11, 2010 - 20:41 by Solidarity   text 16 comments (last - friday october 29, 2010 - 22:45)
There were several acts of nonviolent resistance to nuclear weapons during the past week's anniversaries of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Wednesday August 11, 2010 - 19:41 by Sean Crudden   text 25 comments (last - sunday september 25, 2016 - 09:01)
What jumps out at me about the recent report by PNA (Psychiatric Nurses Association) to the Minister of Health is that it underlines a definite antagonism between providers and patients in the mental health services. It conveys graphically and in a rather stock way a strong underlying sense of fear and loathing of mental patients. Undoubtedly relations between patients and nurses can assume knife-edge proportions at times. And it is, as we all know from human experience, at times of heightened tension or drama that basic and fundamental motivation emerges clearly in the spotlight. I believe Mr. Kavanagh (general secretary of PNA) when he says nurses in their hundreds have been injured by patients. I am sure he, too, can remember the names of John Carthy and Anthony Burke. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 06, 2010 - 13:09 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - friday august 06, 2010 - 16:18)
John Pilgers outlines the reasons why Blair should be arrested and why he should not be allowed to profit from his War Crimes. We need a new Nuremberg. Full text at link.

Tony Blair must be prosecuted, not indulged like Peter Mandelson. Both have produced self-serving memoirs for which they have been paid fortunes; Blair's, which have earned him a £4.6m advance, will appear next month ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday August 04, 2010 - 12:19 by Sally Bowles   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 04, 2010 - 12:27)
Could todays bomb attack on Ahmadinejad be a set up to allow him to bring in even more repressive measures against dissidents? Om Monday Ahmadinejad said: "The stupid Zionists have hired mercenaries to assassinate me". Now surprise, surpriise an attack takes place. Full story at url below.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad survived an attack with a homemade explosive device on his motorcade during a visit to the western city of Hamadan today, a source in his office said. The source said Mr Ahmadinejad's convoy was targeted as he was travelling from Hamadan's airport to give a speech in a local sports arena. The president was unhurt but others had been injured in the explosion. One person was arrested. ... read full story / add a comment
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