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The Saker

Indymedia ireland

Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters

offsite link Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'

Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home

offsite link British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.

Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.

Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,

offsite link It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.

offsite link [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.

The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.

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offsite link Protests Explode Outside Migrant Hotels Across the Country as Furious Families Mass in Birmingham an... Sun Aug 24, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Anger over asylum hotels has boiled over this weekend, with crowds draped in St George's flags clashing with police and counter-protesters from Birmingham to London.
The post Protests Explode Outside Migrant Hotels Across the Country as Furious Families Mass in Birmingham and London appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Green Jobs Make Us Poorer Sun Aug 24, 2025 17:00 | David Turver
Green jobs are booming, but the bill is eye-watering ? over ?192,000 per role each year in subsidies ? and ordinary energy users are footing the tab, says David Turver.
The post Green Jobs Make Us Poorer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Group of Men Putting up St George?s Flags are ?Attacked With Firebomb? Sun Aug 24, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
In a worrying escalation of community tension, a man was left with blood streaming down his face after being attacked with "a glass bottle and lit rag" just moments after putting up England flags in his hometown.
The post Group of Men Putting up St George?s Flags are ?Attacked With Firebomb? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Pro-Trans Parents Use EU Loophole to Dodge Puberty Blocker Ban Sun Aug 24, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
A private trans clinic is coaching parents to dodge the UK ban on puberty blockers by hooking them up with EU doctors online and pointing them to pharmacies abroad for the drugs.
The post Pro-Trans Parents Use EU Loophole to Dodge Puberty Blocker Ban appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link IPCC Likely to Start Blaming Humans For Weather as Friederike Otto Takes Key Role Sun Aug 24, 2025 11:00 | Chris Morrison
With Friederike Otto spearheading the IPCC's extreme weather team, the foxes are firmly in charge of the chicken coop, says Chris Morrison ? get ready for every storm, heatwave and flood to be pinned on humans.
The post IPCC Likely to Start Blaming Humans For Weather as Friederike Otto Takes Key Role appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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Tax Payers Money Wasted on IBEC

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | news report author Sunday June 07, 2009 00:16author by Whistleblower Report this post to the editors

Disgust at the revelation that public sector bodies are WASTING TAX-PAYERS MONEY on membership of IBEC - this has got to be a scandal!

I work for a relatively small public sector organisation and yesterday some of my colleagues and I found out that our management pays over €15,000 (annually) of TAX-PAYERS MONEY assigned to the running of the organisation to none other than IBEC! To say that we, the employees, were aghast at this revelation is an understatement! Why, we wondered, would a public-sector body have funds to waste on the dreaded enemy of public services?! And not just any funds, but tax-payers hard earned funds, in a time when we're seeing cuts to health services, disability benefits, the unemployed, public transport and across the education sector!!

Apparently this is not unusual - many public service bodies claim allegiance to IBEC and pay considerable amounts of tax-payers' money to do so. I understand the amount paid is commensurate with the size of the organisation, so in some cases it's well in excess of the figure I mentioned. It'd be interesting to know if anyone out there, working for the HSE perhaps, might have access to similar information - I'd hazzard a guess that HSE boss Mary Harney would be only too happy to throw a fgood few quid in the direction of her cronies in IBEC!?

The excuse that our senior management offered for signing up - networking. Call me cynical but I'd imagine access to the IBEC industrial relations machine might have something to do with it. Senior managers within the public service should be absolutely ashamed of themselves with this disgusting waste of tax-payers money at a time when children go without decent education and health services!!

author by old codger - pensionerpublication date Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If there is a change of government we have to fight to stop Enda Kenny avoiding a lot of hard facts on Fianna Fails corrupt
governance of this country.The whole system needs to be changed. The Corrib gas issue has been carefully avoided by Kenny, he just states ( as do Labour) that a deal has been made and can't be changed. The fact that the deal was made by two criminals must be forced down his throat.
WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD CORRUPTION.
DONT LET A NEW GOVERNMENT COMMIT THE SAME CRIMES AS THE OLD ONE.

author by Felix V.publication date Thu Jun 11, 2009 09:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Whenever our financial institutions lower the credit limits, without the customer's consent or input, by the way, it isn't a happy thing for a lot of people. It leads to higher interest rates, and when those credit limits get lowered it isn't good for small businesses that depend on the corporate credit card to pay bills and get crucial supplies. Obama's stimulus and tax incentives haven't driven a lot of spending, banks won't lend, but the positive is that the personal saving rate is increasing, and some are taking the opportunity to get out of debt. Lowering credit limits leads a lot of people to look into a cash advance instead.

Related Link: http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/06/02/credit-limits-lowered-forcing-people-cash-advances/
 
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