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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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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link What Do Britain?s Admirals Do All Day? Thu Feb 20, 2025 19:30 | David Craig
Since 1939 the number of admirals in the Royal Navy has shot up more than four-fold relative to the number of sailors. What do these highly-paid senior officers do all day, asks David Craig. It's more public sector waste.
The post What Do Britain’s Admirals Do All Day? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Doctors Who Change Gender Are Allowed to Scrub Past Wrongdoing from Public Record Thu Feb 20, 2025 18:31 | Will Jones
New public records for medics who change gender are wiped of previous suspensions and formal warnings, it has emerged, after the General Medical Council confirmed that this is its policy.
The post Doctors Who Change Gender Are Allowed to Scrub Past Wrongdoing from Public Record appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Mark Zuckerberg?s Charity Sacks Diversity Team as the Great Unwokening Gains Pace Thu Feb 20, 2025 16:06 | Will Jones
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ? Mark Zuckerberg's multibillion-dollar charity ??has scrapped its diversity team and cancelled funding for projects promoting inclusivity as the Great Unwokening gains pace.
The post Mark Zuckerberg’s Charity Sacks Diversity Team as the Great Unwokening Gains Pace appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Yale Scientists Link Covid Vaccines to Alarming New Syndrome Causing Immune System Damage and Chroni... Thu Feb 20, 2025 13:38 | Will Jones
Scientists from Yale have discovered a syndrome linked to?the mRNA Covid vaccines that damages the immune system and causes chronic fatigue with spike protein persisting in the blood for up to two years.
The post Yale Scientists Link Covid Vaccines to Alarming New Syndrome Causing Immune System Damage and Chronic Fatigue appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Amanda Holden ?Took 28 Flights? for BBC Show Despite Net Zero Pledge Thu Feb 20, 2025 11:54 | Will Jones
Amanda Holden has said that she took 28?flights?to Spain during filming for a BBC DIY show, despite the corporation?s Net Zero pledge.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 30, 2009 - 11:43 by Galway Shell to Sea   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 03, 2009 - 21:08)
Galway Shell to Sea group with the support of Afri and the community in the Erris area are organising a new petitioning initiative calling for a suspension of the work on the corrib gas project.

Signatures will be gathered at public events and by e- mail. The text of the letter requesting signatures is below in both English and Irish anyone wishing to sign or forward this to their contacts for signatures should make sure that they forward all signatures gathered to the following e- mail address [email protected]

This petition is worded so as to have the widest appeal, and the wording has been agreed by representatives of the local groups and Afri so please use this text if you are willing to gather signatures.Please support this initiative by dispersing it as widely as possible.

Anyone wishing for a copy of the actual petition can request a word copy of it from the address above.

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A dog is a dog is a dog
national / animal rights Saturday August 29, 2009 - 18:02 by Bernie Wright   image 1 image
PANIC over Dog Breeding Regulations by those involved in Hunting and other blood sports.

Apparently the blood sports fraternity encompassing shooters, fox hunters, hare coursers and Greyhound breeders are terrified of having their establishments checked by officials of the Dept of the Environment when the dog Breeding regulations are incorporated into legislation shortly.~The Hunting Association of Ireland can be heard saying the Minister is going to ‘hang hunting’.
The AOHS would like to know what have these people got to hide. What have blood sports enthusiasts got hidden in their kennels? Why has panic been whipped up as a response to a simple bill that will make regulations to control Commercial Dog Breeding Establishments which are simply defined as any where that keeps five or more breeding female dogs. This will obviously include Hunt Kennels and others who breed dogs. Its simple!

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international / gender and sexuality Thursday August 27, 2009 - 18:16 by Mina Ahadi   text 1 comment (last - monday september 07, 2009 - 02:30)
Demonstrators arrested in the recent uprisings, particularly those in Kahrizak Prison have been gang-raped and the prison guards have put them under medieval tortures. Many of the detainees, female or male, have died in rape rooms as a result of being repeatedly raped, due to rupture of uterus or rectum and intestinal bleeding. Still others, in or out of prison, are suffering from the resulting physical and psychological traumas of these acts of violence. We know that the torture and raping of prisoners are not confined to Kahrizak and to the recent events. Executions and murder of prisoners, rape and torture in the Islamic regime’s prisons are as old the regime itself.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 27, 2009 - 13:40 by anton   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 27, 2009 - 13:52)
SIPTU members at Coca Cola HBC Ireland Ltd are taking strike action in protest at the company’s plans to outsource the jobs of 130 distribution and warehousing staff in Dublin, Tuam, Waterford, Tipperary and Cork. Pickets were set up at the plants this week .

Last week Coca Cola HBC drivers and warehouse staff received letters from three private transport companies offering them new employment at greatly disimproved pay and working conditions and containing threats of redundancy.

Coca-Cola employs just over 1,200 staff in Ireland at its five main distribution centres. Earlier this year the company announced 130 jobs in the transport division would be outsourced to private transport companies saying that outsourcing is necessary to cut costs and safeguard other jobs

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national / miscellaneous Wednesday August 26, 2009 - 22:30 by Richard Walsh
Republican Sinn Féin have criticised the so-called "Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association" (ISME) for their partitionism, suggesting that it is patriotic to forget about one and a half million Irish people on the north-eastern side of the British-created border.
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national / miscellaneous Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 22:27 by Darren J. Prior   text 4 comments (last - thursday september 10, 2009 - 12:14)
See: www.slideshare.net/darrenjprior/presentations. ... read full story / add a comment
derry / miscellaneous Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 21:37 by Richard Walsh
Republican Sinn Féin tonight protested a meeting of the so-called “District Policing Partnership” in Dungiven, County Derry. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / environment Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 11:59 by pantalona   text 2 comments (last - saturday august 29, 2009 - 14:53)
A night of words, film and music for Afri’s work in support of the Rossport communities. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 00:33 by Over The Edge
North Beach Poetry Nights returns on Monday September 7th at 9 pm in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, Galway with The North Beach Poetry Nights' Slam and Guest Poet, Martina Evans from Cork via London. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 00:05 by Over The Edge
North Beach Poetry Nights announces the Connacht Regional Heat for the All Ireland Poetry Grand Slam in The Crane Bar, Sea Road on Monday 28th September at 9pm. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 24, 2009 - 23:36 by Daithi Byrne   image 2 images
Dublin activists today took part in a march organised by the Dublin Port Workers Group, which have been locked in a bitter dispute with their employer Peel Ports Group. The dockers have held out for over seven weeks, and were forced to strike after their employer imposed force redundancies and introduced new contracts with pay cuts and worse conditions. Despite the company employing scabs from Britain, and a security firm made up of ex-SAS operatives, the communities of Irishtown, East Wall and Ringsend have stood by the dockers in support. The company also took a high court injunction preventing effective picketing. Dock workers from across Europe have sent messages of solidarity and after pledges of similar action, Rotterdam was shut down in support of the action in Dublin today. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 24, 2009 - 20:31 by concerned friends of Niger   image 1 image

A sample letter, addresses, and statements by Nigerien and international rights groups are below.
Further links to background material follows sample letter and statements.

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tyrone / miscellaneous Monday August 24, 2009 - 18:48 by Richard Walsh
The DUP are correct to state that commemoration of the hunger strikers and their brave sacrifice is incompatible with Ruairí Gildernew's membership of the support network for the British colonial police, Republican Sinn Féin have said.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 24, 2009 - 15:14 by Pirate Party   1 attached file
The Pirate Party of Ireland is strongly condemning the blocking of the Pirate Bay website by eircom. ... read full story / add a comment
Fred Johnston (photo Brenda Malloy)
national / arts and media Monday August 24, 2009 - 13:09 by Fred Johnston   text 8 comments (last - sunday september 06, 2009 - 14:23)   image 1 image
Artist designs book to house the work of three Galway poets ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Sunday August 23, 2009 - 15:01 by Richard Walsh   text 7 comments (last - wednesday august 26, 2009 - 18:12)
The screening of pro-EU ads in Free State cinemas has been criticised by Republican Sinn Féin. ... read full story / add a comment
Sarah Clancy
galway / arts and media Friday August 21, 2009 - 13:22 by Over The Edge   text 2 comments (last - saturday august 22, 2009 - 12:43)   image 2 images
Poem by Sarah Clancy and three poems and essay by Kinga Cybulska published on Over The Edge site ... read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media Friday August 21, 2009 - 13:01 by Over The Edge   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 23, 2009 - 11:06)   image 1 image
A long-list for the 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition has been announced. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 19, 2009 - 17:33 by PRO   text 15 comments (last - monday august 24, 2009 - 18:14)
éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson has reiterated the socialist republican party’s commitment to opposing any displays of British militarism in Ireland in response to today’s visit (Wednesday) to Dublin by a British naval warship. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 19, 2009 - 17:10 by Allen Meagher   image 1 image
Our newest edition of 'Changing Ireland' is currently rolling through the presses in Offaly. If you want to see it before anyone else, check it out at www.changingireland.ie ... read full story / add a comment
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