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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

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link The Death of Diversity Kitsch Fri Jan 31, 2025 18:01 | Dr David McGrogan
Diversity kitsch is all around us. But as the grim fact forcefully confronts us that some immigrants hate their hosts so much they want to murder and rape them, David McGrogan senses that it is at last falling from favour.
The post The Death of Diversity Kitsch appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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?
The post The Reeves CV ? More Questions appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.
The post Tenth of Farmland to be Axed for Net Zero appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.
The post Badenoch Rebukes Priti Patel for Defending Sky High Immigration Under Tories appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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dublin / arts and media Thursday June 04, 2009 - 13:31 by pat c   image 1 image
A new arts and literary publication featuring contributions by Francesco Clemente, Seamus Heaney, Nalini Malani, David Mitchell, Sean Scully, Colm Tóibín and a host of other leading art world figures, will be launched by the Irish Museum of Modern Art at 6.00pm on Thursday 11 June 2009. Boulevard Magenta is the brain child of IMMA’s Director, Enrique Juncosa, himself a noted poet, who has brought together a collection of works ranging across the visual arts, prose, poetry, music, film and architecture for the first issue of the biannual magazine. The launch coincides with the opening of a new exhibition at the Museum by the celebrated American artist Terry Winters, who has contributed nine drawings incorporating texts by the American writer Ben Marcus to the publication. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday June 03, 2009 - 15:11 by Workers Solidarity Movement   text 49 comments (last - tuesday june 09, 2009 - 00:10)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Anarchist organisation, Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM), has claimed that voting in Friday’s local, European and by-elections is a waste of time. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday June 03, 2009 - 11:27 by FG   text 3 comments (last - wednesday june 03, 2009 - 17:22)   image 1 image
PBPA says Vote for Real Change and Give the Government a Bloody Nose
Alliance Predicts Gains For Left Independents
Attacks On Joe Higgins Show The Establishment Is Running Scared ... read full story / add a comment
(Left to right) Ronan Sheehan, John Maher, Eoghan Quinn, Gearóid Ó Cuinn. P2P team cycling in  South Park, Claddagh, Galway.
galway / miscellaneous Tuesday June 02, 2009 - 17:21 by Gearóid   image 1 image
Pathways to Palestine, a team of Irish cyclists stopped off in Galway on the Irish leg of their trip to Gaza to baptise their bikes and name them after doctors and paramedics targeted in the recent Israeli invaion of Gaza. They are raising money for 'Medical Aid for Palestinians'. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday June 01, 2009 - 18:01 by Volunteer
Young people in Ireland are not as uninterested in the upcoming elections as many people might think. Instead they are finding the political system inaccessible, confusing and uninspiring.

That’s the view of the SpunOut.ie National Youth Organisation, which reaches 100,000s of young people each year. According to SpunOut.ie there are approximately 500,000 young people in Ireland between the ages of 18 and 25 and according to a SpunOut.ie poll, up to 70% (350,000) of these may not be voting on Friday. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism Monday June 01, 2009 - 15:01 by CYM Belfast
Connolly Youth Movement
Ireland’s Young Communists
Michael O’Riordan branch, Belfast district

Press release: “Armed Forces Day”
Date: 27/5/09 ... read full story / add a comment
Clockwise from top left: 1. Storm Cinema, Naas 2. Old Oscar Cinema, Eyre St, Newbridge 3. Swimming Pool, Nass 4. Abandoned Swimming Pool, Royston, Newbridge
kildare / politics / elections Sunday May 31, 2009 - 17:07 by Bazra B   text 1 comment (last - tuesday june 02, 2009 - 17:24)   image 1 image
It has been an extremely busy campaign for Sean Downey, local election hopeful for Sinn Féin in recent months but took a brief rest bight to convey the overwhelming anger and discontent he has witnessed toward the government and many present councillors during his election campaign, and the key issues as he will try and tackle.
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derry / arts and media Sunday May 31, 2009 - 03:30 by Trevor Philips   1 attached file
Recent launch of a unique book on the work of Derry's famous muralists - The Bogside Artists. ... read full story / add a comment
On June 5th - Vote Joe Higgins
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday May 30, 2009 - 10:35 by Joe Higgins.eu   image 2 images   video 1 video file
This is a press release from Joe Higgins on the unemployment crisis in Ireland. It documents the huge levels of unemployment and puts forwards a socialist solution. Joe Higgins demands that the state take emergency action to defend provide jobs. He called for the renationalisation of SR Technics and Eircom and the nationalisation of other major companies threatening closure. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday May 28, 2009 - 21:20 by Friends of the Earth International   text 2 comments (last - sunday may 31, 2009 - 10:13)
New standards for growing soy will destroy forests, livelihoods and the
climate ... read full story / add a comment
éirígí
national / miscellaneous Thursday May 28, 2009 - 20:18 by éirígí PRO   text 1 comment (last - friday may 29, 2009 - 19:51)   image 2 images
Speaking at the launch of éirígí’s Spot the Difference? campaign, party chairperson Brian Leeson said a real alternative to the petty squabbling and rhetoric of Ireland’s main political parties must be built. ... read full story / add a comment
Help out: http://www.joehiggins.eu/190
dublin / politics / elections Thursday May 28, 2009 - 15:55 by Joe Higgins.eu   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 28, 2009 - 17:37)   image 1 image
The European election campaign is now in it's final push. The main leaflet for Joe Higgins' campaign has been produced, with the hope of getting it into 200,000 homes in the next week. We have produced 2,000 new full colour posters which we need to get up. In order to do that we are launching an appeal for volunteers to help out - take a bundle of leaflets for your estate or one nearby, spare an hour to put up some posters, hand out leaflets with Joe in town or donate towards the cost of the campaign.
Simply log on to the link below to help out. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday May 28, 2009 - 15:41 by PBPA   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 28, 2009 - 17:49)
The People Before Profit Alliance has today called on the eighteen religious orders identified by the Ryan Report as culpable of gross maltreatment of children to fully acknowledge their guilt and responsibility. A spokesperson for PBPA said, "We are profoundly shocked by the behaviour of the religious orders, who are now further compounding the abuse they perpetrated by their brazen refusal to re-open a deal which they negotiated in bad faith." ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday May 28, 2009 - 13:12 by Volunteer....   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 28, 2009 - 14:38)
Afri’s new report, ‘The Great Gas Giveaway; How The Elites Have Gambled Our Health And Wealth’ explains how the government has squandered existing resources and refused to reconsider the ownership and exploitation of the country’s natural resources, despite possessing all the necessary tools to do so. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday May 28, 2009 - 01:37 by Justin Morahan
Free Gaza Movement reports that Mairead Maguire was detained on 15 May by Homeland Security on entry to US and attaches her statement on release. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues Wednesday May 27, 2009 - 10:56 by Residents Against Racism   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 28, 2009 - 21:17)   image 1 image
Residents Against Racism is preparing to protest a second mass deportation to Nigeria within a month - a move the group describes as unprecedented. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 25, 2009 - 22:21 by Grainne Quinn   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 - 14:10)   audio 1 audio file
Upcoming launch for Pathways To Palestine, affiliated with MAP [Medical Aid Palestine ] this Wednesday. The 4000 mile cycle aims to raise money for humanitarian aid and awareness of the plight of ordinary civilians in Gaza.

4 Students.
4000 miles.
14 countries.
40 days. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Monday May 25, 2009 - 15:56 by Michael Murphy   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 - 06:00)
10,000 leaflets to be delivered in Cork attacking the Green party sellout ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday May 25, 2009 - 12:38 by Paul Dunphy
Oxfam Ireland needs 10 million of your unwanted goods!
Give goods a second life
... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Monday May 25, 2009 - 11:27 by Irish Socialist Network   text 2 comments (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 - 10:02)

The shabby treatment of people living in the Ballymun flats shows what's wrong with town planning and local government in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
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