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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

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

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offsite link Transgender Emilia P?rez Star Under Fire for Anti-Islam and Anti-BLM Social Media Posts Fri Jan 31, 2025 15:10 | Will Jones
The transgender?star of Emilia P?rez, Karla Sof?a Gasc?n, has come under fire over anti-Islam and anti-BLM social media posts. Another diverse person who missed the intersectional memo ? always one for the popcorn.
The post Transgender Emilia P?rez Star Under Fire for Anti-Islam and Anti-BLM Social Media Posts appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Reeves CV ? More Questions Fri Jan 31, 2025 13:00 | David Craig
David Craig has some more CV questions for Rachel Reeves. Including: was her meteoric rise to Chancellor via the HBOS complaints department due to getting an undisclosed leg-up or two from her Labour connections?
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offsite link Tenth of Farmland to be Axed for Net Zero Fri Jan 31, 2025 11:28 | Will Jones
More than 10% of farmland in England is set to be?diverted towards helping to achieve Net Zero?and protecting wildlife by 2050, the Environment Secretary will reveal today.
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offsite link Badenoch Rebukes Priti Patel for Defending Sky High Immigration Under Tories Fri Jan 31, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel has been rebuked by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch after she?defended sky-high immigration?under the Conservatives when she was Home Secretary.
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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.
The post US Withdrawal From WHO Leaves Real Problems Unaddressed appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 11, 2007 - 18:51 by Jo ta ke!   text 6 comments (last - wednesday december 19, 2007 - 19:30)   image 1 image
Ógra Shinn Féin recently launched a film at a Basque/Irish Night in Conway Mill Belfast. The film explores the cultural, social and political realities in the Basque country and looks at the current struggle for independence. It is presented by Ógra Shinn Féin activists who travelled to the Basque Country in September to stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity with the Basque people and youth movement Segi.

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fermanagh / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday December 11, 2007 - 07:39 by .   text 8 comments (last - sunday january 06, 2008 - 15:41)   1 attached file
In the latest round in the struggle over Classroom Assistant job evaluation in Northern Ireland NIPSA has called for ICTU to carry out an inquiry in to the process that led to an offer from management been accepted by the trade unions.

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national / anti-capitalism Monday December 10, 2007 - 19:54 by RSF   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 13, 2007 - 12:35)
"Argos announced profits in 2006 exceeding 8.1 billion euro whilst profits for the first half of this year are up 50%. Despite this Argos are refusing workers a 10 % pay rise, which would bring hourly rates to 9.90 euro. The cost of importing strike breakers is greater for Argos than the pay increase sought by the workers. However the prize for the company in winning this battle would be to break the power of the worker's union in Argos" ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Monday December 10, 2007 - 12:28 by ALiberation   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 12, 2007 - 14:00)
Last week, Stephen Sealey, the Brown Thomas Group Buying Director declared by email that his store s policy from February 2008 will be to stock no real fur products. Mr. Sealey confirmed that Brown Thomas will have a Fur Free policy; “from February 2008, Brown Thomas do not intend to stock any fur products. We work with a number of concession partners, and we have communicated this policy to them.” “to confirm we have told all concession partners they cannot sell rabbit fur, or other real fur in Brown Thomas and BT2”. Furthermore, Mr. Sealey added that “the only fur type product that will be acceptable in Brown Thomas is synthetic fur, or leather/suede/sheepskin/shearling.”
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national / anti-capitalism Saturday December 08, 2007 - 19:08 by RSF
The only effect of the Budget will be to ingrain poverty for many families in Ireland because the rise in social Welfare payments has failed to match inflation and does nothing to further equality, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Fein said today ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 07, 2007 - 05:09 by Felice & Jack   text 4 comments (last - monday december 10, 2007 - 06:59)
Fr. Steve Kelly SJ, Fr.Louie Vitalie, Betsy Lamb and Fr. Jerry Zawada are presently in prison for their nonviolent resistance at the U.S. military torture training school in Arizona, USA. More background on http://tortureontrial.org/ Consider writing to them......... ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Thursday December 06, 2007 - 22:25 by Moilligh Síos   text 4 comments (last - tuesday december 11, 2007 - 12:23)   image 1 image
A Road Safety Vigil will be held at the GPO, Dublin, on Saturday 15th December at 1pm, Ógra Shinn Féin, Labour Youth and the Young Greens announced today.
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international / crime and justice Thursday December 06, 2007 - 08:51 by Domhain Sceadaman
A beleaguered Michael Dan, the Chairman and CEO of security giant Brinks was being tight lipped today after the revelation that his largest shareholders are unhappy about the way that the company is being run. The big shareholders want four of the companies directors sacked. ... read full story / add a comment
Solidarity from Labour Councillor; Collette Connolly (in orange scarf)
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 04, 2007 - 20:18 by TJ   text 18 comments (last - wednesday december 12, 2007 - 09:23)   image 5 images
Yesterday evening, the Galway Bin Charges Campaign comprising outraged members of the public, activists from the SWP, SP, Sinn Fein and Galway Alliance Against War vented their anger outside and inside Galway City Council buildings against a proposal that, if adopted, would amount to a front frontal assault on the city's poor, thankfully, conscience prevailed, as such, GBCC wholeheartedly applaudes the city councillors for successfully defending the full waiver on refuse charges at the Budget 2008 meeting on Monday night.

Dette Mc Loughlin (SWP), spearhead of the campaign group said it was admirable, decent and right that councillors across party divides stood firmly against the proposed attack on the waiver system.
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galway / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 04, 2007 - 15:47 by doug f   text 5 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 - 14:03)
The Galway Alliance Against War has issued a statement in relation to the
announcement by the organisers of the Salthill Air Show to cancel next year’s event. ... read full story / add a comment
Cllr Keith Martin
mayo / environment Monday December 03, 2007 - 22:50 by Cllr Keith Martin   text 2 comments (last - thursday december 06, 2007 - 10:13)   image 6 images
Councillor Keith Martin of the Westport Labour Party has said that the proposed "tourism mine" for Mayo is an effort to establish whole-scale Gold Mining in the Vicinity of Croagh Patrick. The company propose to mine for Gold in the Middle of a Designated SAC. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / housing Wednesday November 28, 2007 - 17:33 by Franky
A public meeting is to be held in Galway in December to discuss the opening of a cultural and social centre in Galway.

A number of local charities and community groups have been invited to the meeting and the organisers are hopeful that it will gain support among these organisations.

Independent cultural centres have existed for some years in Dublin and Cork. Now a newly formed association in Galway aims to develop a community orientated and community organised, non-profit, cultural and creative space for Galway. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / consumer issues Tuesday November 27, 2007 - 11:09 by Jene Kelly   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 27, 2007 - 20:10)
AIMS Ireland (Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services) would like to release the web-link to our most recent online survey concerning the availability of information and consent within the Irish Maternity System.
Please see a brief summary below of the aims and objectives of this survey.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 26, 2007 - 18:03 by SP Member   text 11 comments (last - wednesday december 05, 2007 - 12:39)
Paul Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland), Dublin

A member of the Socialist Party, Darren Cogavin, and one other student, Enda Duffy, are due to meet the Vice President for Students at University College Dublin (UCD), Dr. Martin Butler, in the next week. They face punishment for engaging in a peaceful protest against the giant corporation Shell and the Green Party Minister for Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan. Two protests, organised by the campaign ‘Shell to Sea’, took place on 30 October in UCD, the biggest college in Dublin. They were opposing the giveaway of over 50 billion euro worth of gas for free by the Irish government to Shell, and the building of an unsafe onshore pipeline and refinery by Shell in Rossport, Co. Mayo, on Ireland’s west coast.

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national / miscellaneous Monday November 26, 2007 - 12:01 by Des Dalton   text 1 comment (last - monday november 26, 2007 - 21:15)
Commenting on an address given by Professor Kathleen Lynch of UCD’s Equality Studies Centre at a conference on equality and inclusion organised by Pobal on November 22, in which she said that the 26-Counties was “bottom of the league” in terms of giving workers a share of national wealth, Republican Sinn Féin Vice President Des Dalton said that her comments further underlined the “need for the Trade Union Movement to ensure that all workers are organised and members of a union.” ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 24, 2007 - 10:47 by Margaretta D'Arcy
People are asked to contribute to the 16 days live broadcast by Radio Pirate-Woman, giving their own experiences and opinions as to how to end violence against women. ... read full story / add a comment
tyrone / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 23, 2007 - 22:01 by Richard Walsh
Republican Sinn Féin have warned that Brit spies have been attempting to recruit informers in the Tyrone area. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday November 23, 2007 - 15:35 by Labour Lover
The Labour Party has tabled a motion of no confidence in the Minister for Health, Mary Harney TD, which will be taken in Labour Party Private Members time on Tuesday and Wednesday next.

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FAR TOO MUCH BERTIE
national / miscellaneous Friday November 23, 2007 - 00:37 by Kevin Cotter   image 1 image
200,000 stickers to hit the streets of Dublin and later rest of the country this Saturday, 24 November. THEY'RE FREE!!!! No cost, no donation, no favours asked! Just wear them!!

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