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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

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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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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
The post Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention Tue Feb 04, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
The EU is drawing up a plan to overhaul its 1951 Refugee Convention that prevents countries from rejecting asylum seekers at their borders in a belated effort to address Europe's exploding migrant crisis.
The post EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamopho... Tue Feb 04, 2025 15:00 | Sam Bidwell
The prosecution of a man for burning the Qur'an shows how Islamic blasphemy codes are becoming embedded in criminal law. Coming up with a legal definition of 'Islamophobia' will accelerate this process, says Sam Bidwell.
The post How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamophobia?? Very Afraid appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council Tue Feb 04, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order today withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and removing all US funding for the Gaza agency UNRWA.
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offsite link ALL the Babies Lucy Letby Was Convicted of Killing Died of Natural Causes, 14 Medical Experts Conclu... Tue Feb 04, 2025 12:00 | Will Jones
All the babies that Lucy Letby was convicted of killing actually died of natural causes, often due to poor medical care, and were not murdered, a panel of 14 medical experts has concluded.
The post ALL the Babies Lucy Letby Was Convicted of Killing Died of Natural Causes, 14 Medical Experts Conclude appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday March 06, 2009 - 14:41 by Richard Walsh   text 3 comments (last - sunday march 08, 2009 - 20:26)
Remarks made by Fianna Fáil's Mary Hanafin today and by Fine Gael's Joe McHugh in the recent past that cross-border dole claimants should be targeted amounts to an attack on the least well-off, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin has said.
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Harpist Siobhán Armstrong
national / arts and media Friday March 06, 2009 - 12:56 by Fred Johnston   image 2 images
The literary town of Gort, Co. Galway, will see its second 'Forge at Gort' literature festival kick off on Friday, March 27th, at Sullivan's Royal Hotel, Gort, with a reading by renowned writer, critic and poet, Ulick O'Connor. A host of novelists, poets and musicians are due for this year's festival, which is organised by the Western Writers' Centre, Ionad Scríbhneoiri Chaitlín Maude, Galway. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday March 06, 2009 - 12:09 by Gareth Murphy   text 3 comments (last - thursday july 23, 2009 - 12:48)
Please see below email that has been sent signed by both the CYM and Labour Youth to all Green Party TD's, MEP's, Senators and Cllr's.

We will be increasing the pressure we can exert in the coming weeks.

Email 6th March 2009 ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday March 06, 2009 - 10:28 by Richard Walsh   text 1 comment (last - monday march 16, 2009 - 08:23)
RSF have said that the revelation this morning that RUC Supremo Hugh Orde ordered the redeployment of special units of the British Crown Forces demonstrates that they were correct in stating that the renaming of 'Operation Banner' to 'Operation Helvetic' was meaningless. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday March 05, 2009 - 19:02 by Richard Walsh
The claims made by English prime minister Gordon Brown in Washington that “Ireland is now at peace” are bizarre given the revelation that the Republican threat to English rule was, on the same day, reclassified as “severe”.
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limerick / miscellaneous Wednesday March 04, 2009 - 13:15 by CRPHS, Limerick   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 04, 2009 - 13:23)   video 3 video files
The Limerick branch of the Campaign for a Real Public Health Service (CRPHS) have launched a new website, www.limerickhealth.blogspot.com, to highlight health cuts and scandals in Limerick and help build a campaign against them. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday March 03, 2009 - 21:23 by Progressive Film Club   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 03, 2009 - 21:24)
International Women's Day Film Festival

Sunday 8th of March 2009

To mark International Women's Day the Progressive Film Club will be screening a number of films made by and about women, beginning at 11a.m. and continuing all day.

** Admission for all screenings today is free ... read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 03, 2009 - 16:18 by KarenMcDonnell
Ethical Development Action will be hosting a conference that will be looking at the conditions the saharawi are forced to live in, both in the Algerian refugee camps and in the Occupied Territories of the Western Sahara. Conference will take place on friday the 3rd April.

For more information please email us at [email protected] or check out the website www.edacork.org ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Tuesday March 03, 2009 - 14:14 by éirígí PRO
éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson has labeled the conditions children are forced to endure in Ireland’s schools an indictment on the systems of government in the country.

Leeson identified four matters in particular as indicative of the disdain with which the Leinster House and Stormont administrations treat the nation’s children: ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Monday March 02, 2009 - 19:55 by Feargus
New Book being published ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 02, 2009 - 18:15 by brendan butler
Mallabraca investment group want to take a major shareholding in Anglo Irish Bank ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Monday March 02, 2009 - 14:29 by DCTV
Dear Friends,

Dublin Community Television launched it's schedule for the month of March yesterday.

You can find a PDF copy of the brochure outlinning programming for the month at http://www.dctv.ie/main/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/marc...1.pdf .

Below there is a text copy of the schedule.

Please support community tv and the opportunities it creates for diversifying participation in the Irish media landscape by spreading this as far as possible.

All the best,

DCTV.

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mayo / crime and justice Monday March 02, 2009 - 14:17 by S2S   text 7 comments (last - wednesday march 04, 2009 - 19:34)   image 1 image
The fact that five Mayo Gardaí earned €325,111 in overtime payments last year, once again illustrates how the current Government thinking still seems to be, that throwing money at the Corrib Gas debacle will make it go away.

One Mayo Garda earned €80,990 in overtime last year, which was the highest of any of the Garda claims in the country. While 3 of the top 5 overtime earners in the country came from Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
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