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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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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Australian Drugs Regulator Knew mRNA Vaccines Can Enter Nucleus and Integrate into Genome Despite Of... Wed Dec 18, 2024 17:07 | Rebekah Barnett
Emails released under FOI?reveal that senior staff at Australia's drugs regulator knew mRNA vaccines?can?enter the cell nucleus and integrate into the genome, despite the official line that such events are not possible.
The post Australian Drugs Regulator Knew mRNA Vaccines Can Enter Nucleus and Integrate into Genome Despite Official Denials, Emails Reveal appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Turkish Crime Boss Allowed to Remain in U.K. on Human Rights Grounds, Judges Rule Wed Dec 18, 2024 15:39 | Will Jones
A Turkish crime boss said to be one of Britain?s biggest?drug dealers?has won his human rights battle against deportation after the UN Refugee Agency intervened and judges rejected a Home Office appeal.
The post Turkish Crime Boss Allowed to Remain in U.K. on Human Rights Grounds, Judges Rule appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The New Scientific Priesthood Wants Complete Control of What We Are Told Wed Dec 18, 2024 13:32 | Dr David McGrogan
The ambition of elites to "manage the infodemic" amounts to the establishment of a scientific priesthood that wants full control of what we are told to ensure we only come to approved conclusions, says Dr David McGrogan.
The post The New Scientific Priesthood Wants Complete Control of What We Are Told appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link China Cancels Christmas in Hong Kong ? Leaving Churches Fearing for Their Future Wed Dec 18, 2024 11:22 | John MacNab
China has cancelled Christmas in Hong Kong this year. Officials have ordered that the usual celebrations be 'toned down'. It's part of a creeping intolerance that leaves churches fearing for the future, says John MacNab.
The post China Cancels Christmas in Hong Kong ? Leaving Churches Fearing for Their Future appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Brits Could Face Up to ?20 a Year Extra on Energy Bills to Fund ?Carbon Capture? Technology Wed Dec 18, 2024 09:00 | Will Jones
Brits could face an extra ?20 a year on energy bills to fund unproven carbon capture technology as the Government proposes to spend ?21.7 billion on projects to capture the gas from the air and store it underground.
The post Brits Could Face Up to ?20 a Year Extra on Energy Bills to Fund ‘Carbon Capture’ Technology appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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A Clipping From The Herald Last Wednesday
national / arts and media / feature Tuesday April 25, 2006 11:29 by Editors   text 25 comments (last - sunday may 07, 2006 03:32)   image 2 images
Like any other Open Publishing site Indymedia.ie attracts its fair share of trolls. For some years Indymedia users have been harrassed by an obsessed cyber-stalker going under a variety of names. This troll has abused people through the site, as well as sending intimidating and insulting personal emails to different constributors on our editorial lists (particularly to a woman who contributes to the list). This crackpot's one-person mission to monitor the workings of the site has also prompted them into going as far as using a popular blogging site to pour deliberately ill-informed abuse on Indymedia contributors including editors. read full story / add a comment
''These Bleddy Computers Have Me Kilt."
kerry / environment / news report Tuesday April 25, 2006 03:35 by an fear siul   text 2 comments (last - wednesday april 26, 2006 11:34)   image 1 image
“The Power Of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil” is brand new documentary about what our future could look like. First show publicly in Ireland in conjunction with LASC at the Convergence Festival Dublin on April 22nd, it got it’s second showing in Ireland just a few hours ago in McCarthy’s Bar Dingle, County Kerry, as part of events there for Latin America Week 2006. read full story / add a comment
Minister for Environment and Local Government Dick Roche
dublin / environment / event notice Monday April 24, 2006 22:54 by Shell to Sea   image 2 images


Shell to Sea activists plan to set up a table outside the Environmental Protection Agency office at the Customs House in Dublin at lunchtime on Friday, and offer glasses of drinking water from Erris to staff coming in at out.

Erris drinking water comes from Carrowmore Lake. The lake is becoming heavily contaminated with aluminium as a by-product of the removal of peat from the site of the giant gas refinery that Shell seek to construct at Beal an Átha Buí (known in English as Ballinaboy or Bellinaboy).

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British army barricade at Moore street where surrender was taken
national / history and heritage / feature Monday April 24, 2006 22:49 by Andrew Flood   text 41 comments (last - thursday october 25, 2007 19:43)   image 9 images
The Easter rising began at mid-day today 90 years ago. Traditionally the anniversary is marked as being on the Easter Monday rather than the actual date, perhaps in part because of the common theme of blood sacrifice. Histories of the rising tend to focus on the idea of blood sacrifice at both a motivation for the rising and the reason for the creation of the Free State. This article argues that although this may have been an important motivation on the day it was not the reason for the rising nor was the reason for the subsequent rise of the IRA simply found in the execution of the republican leadership after the rising. So using the article to mark the actual '90 years on'' date seems appropriate. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday April 24, 2006 20:03 by Gaz B -(A)-   text 15 comments (last - wednesday june 14, 2006 16:21)   image 3 images
No-one should be surprised by the actions of our Guardians Of Privilege in Baldonnel last weekend. The grumpy authoritarian ego-trippers had to do something to justify their bank holiday overtime pay and the use of the copper-copter. Cuffing a young lad, forcing him to the ground and kneeling on him because he didn’t want to piss himself – that’s really guarding the peace. It seems as though the boys in blue haven’t quite moved on from the days of former blueshirt Garda Commissioner Eoin O’ Duffy. The "few rotten apples" thesis spouted by the Garda Representatives Association (ironically acronymed GRA) isn't credible. One only has to look at the cases of the Wheelock, Mulhall, Abbeylara, McBrearty families, RTS 2002 along with the Sallins train robbery, the 'Kerry Babies' case and Shercock cases in the past as evidence of a wider, institutional and generational malaise with the Gardai. Even, Henry Grattan called the police service" an abominable institution". read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday April 24, 2006 19:42 by Mike Dobson   image 1 image
Roger Toussaint, president of the Transport Workers Union, Local 100, heads to jail today to serve a 10-day sentence for authorizing a strike in December that shut down New York City's Transit system read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday April 24, 2006 16:47 by Jim   text 2 comments (last - thursday april 27, 2006 23:45)   image 1 image
Protest 11.30 - 12.30 outside the offices of the Health and Safety Authority, Hogan Place. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Monday April 24, 2006 15:01 by Terence   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 03, 2006 14:09)   image 1 image
RTE 1: Mon 23rd at 9:35 pm

This is the 2nd part of the two part series called Fallout which is a drama documentary about a serious nuclear accident across the water in Sellafield.

Tonight deals with the situation one year on. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday April 24, 2006 12:15 by Porco Dio   text 5 comments (last - sunday april 30, 2006 19:30)   image 3 images
Porco Dio Presents..
As part of its Fortnightly Gig and Arts Nite...

A benefit for Revolt Video, who will also provide visuals on the night...

Andy Travers and The Worthwhile Experience (Crazy Funk !! That will get you dancing http://www.myspace.com/theworthwhileexperience)

Herv (Twisted Thumping Electronic Beats http://www.myspace.com/hervmusic)

Project 77 (Dual Vocalised Dirty Raw Hip Hop)

Computers That Breed ( Rock out disjointed punk http://www.myspace.com/computersthatbreed)

On Thursday the 4th May
Doors 8pm, first band 8.45pm sharp
Adm €5 before 9 / €6 after
@ The Lower Deck , Portobello

Contact us at : porcodiodublin@gmail.com read full story / add a comment
Jacobs Engineering
meath / history and heritage / news report Monday April 24, 2006 11:24 by watcher   text 19 comments (last - monday july 16, 2007 09:16)   image 8 images
Yesterday, April 23, '06, the Sunday Times ran a story about corruption in a multinational engineering company called JE Jacobs that was recently awarded the N6 roads contract in Galway. Two company members were convicted in Chicago last year of illegal bidding and trading of insider information on construction contracts.

In the article the Times referred to "Jacobs’ Irish arm", (presumably for legal reasons) which is Jacobs Engineering Ireland. TaraWatch has learned the new head of the NRA Fred Barry was a director with Jacobs when he was hired last year.

Everybody knows the construction industry is corrupt, the archaeological profession is corrupt and of course the property development/rezoning industry is rank. Everybody knows there is more to the story as to why the M3 goes where it goes, and will not be moved unless it is forced. It is time Irish citizens put their heads together and figured this one out, before it is too late.

There are already many strong indications as to who and what is involved. Lat year we all saw Tommy 'Pots 'n Pans' Reilly, the Fianna Fail by-election candidate in Meath, get pulled from the race because he had bought land with Frank Dunlop in the Tara Skryne Valley. Then there was the Ireland on Sunday investigation into the owner of land at the Blundelstown interchange, Cathal McCarthy, and other 'friends of Fianna Fail', printed below.

Let's start putting the pieces together. TaraWatch is beginning a 'Land Registry Fund' to do a complete serach of land ownership in the Tara Skryne Valley. But that is only the beginning. Let's do some communal research and see what we can excavate from the muck of Meath.

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Dublins great, so glad we live in an eco city (a few more revolutions and we're there)
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday April 24, 2006 10:56 by dunk   image 1 image
next weekend : in conjunction with triple a + anarchist picnic:

fri:
bikes
criticall mass, first dublin one of 2006

sat:
bikes and gardening and screenings
seomra spraoi stuff:
hopefully also another bike workshop on saturday, up near the phibsboro community garden
also free outdoor screening of "The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil," which was screened during last weekends convergence
urban farms, cpuls, community gardens, health, bikes, community, small local solutions......
and hopefully a REVOLT vid screening too :

sun:
dublin greenway cycle on the sunday, starting from the docks, sun 12, stopping for the anarchist picnic - carrying on with the many many revolutions.......................

links:
4 days of car free stuff- and a whole lot more - (positive alternatvies to car culture 2005, "car free day" was on the thursday and @ 40 cyclists participated, la read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Sunday April 23, 2006 15:24 by Edward Horgan   text 6 comments (last - thursday april 27, 2006 23:30)   image 2 images
For the record, the group of four, Tim Hourigan, Mary Kelly, Deirdre Morgan and Edward Horgan, who made a similar submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs on 20 Dec 2005, also offered to make a similar presentation to the EU Committee. The EU declined on cost grounds, and invited me only. However, I have received substantial help from a dedicated group of peace activists, mainly Irish, but with a few significant non-Irish contributers.

Over the past month a Garda has confirmed to me in confidence that they have directed not to search US CIA aircraft or US military aircraft at Shannon airport, and that many of the Gardai disagree with this directive because it means “… turning a blind eye to the probability of wrongdoing, and we all know what terrible things such policies have led to in the past.”

In my submission to the European Parliament I called a spade a spade, and referred several times to the unlawful killing of over 100,000 in Ir read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media / news report Sunday April 23, 2006 15:03 by la rage du peuple   image 1 image   1 attached file
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The Peppercanister Church with the critic, Sean Crudden, in the foreground.
dublin / arts and media / news report Sunday April 23, 2006 13:02 by Sean Crudden   text 2 comments (last - friday november 06, 2015 14:07)   image 2 images
Yesterday evenings recital was an effort by the Association of Music Lovers to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Norwegian composer Christian Sinding. read full story / add a comment
Knock Aiport changes its name
mayo / miscellaneous / press release Saturday April 22, 2006 23:58 by Keith Martin- Councillor   text 6 comments (last - friday february 02, 2007 12:28)   image 2 images
Cllr Keith Martin wants an end to negative publicity surrounding Knock Airport's name change from Knock International Airport to Ireland Westport Airport Knock read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday April 22, 2006 16:27 by Revolt Video   text 11 comments (last - tuesday april 25, 2006 17:46)   image 1 image
Revolt Video presents an updated film concerning the events at Baldonnel Aerodrome on Easter Sunday.
A full round-up of Easter Weekend and more will be screened at the Indymedia Film Night Thursday 27th
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75151
Video 8 1/2 mins, mpeg2 88.7mb
http://www.obin.org/video/irlandia/16-04-06-baldonnel.mpg read full story / add a comment
Gora Segi - Gora Ógra Shinn Féin!
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday April 22, 2006 00:10 by Ógra B   text 1 comment (last - saturday april 22, 2006 14:50)   image 1 image
Ballymoney Sinn Féin Councillor Daithí McKay has just completed a speaking tour of the Basque Country. The Rasharkin man, who was there representing Ógra Shinn Féin, was to be accompanied by a member of the South African ANC but they were refused access to the region by the Spanish Government. Journalists who were to interview the Sinn Féin man were also subject to harassment from the Spanish authorities. On Friday Cllr McKay gave the opening address - in Basque - at the Basque Topagunea Festival, the first big festival since the ETA Ceasefire and which was attended by over 20,000 people.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday April 21, 2006 22:01 by Donnchadh   text 61 comments (last - wednesday september 08, 2010 21:05)   image 1 image
"...it's hard to see ex-prisoners destitute when the
leadership are so wealthy and have holiday homes."

Hughes mentions Kieran Nugent, the first IRA man on the Blanket protest
in Long Kesh. "Kieran died in 2000. They called him a 'river rat'
because he spent his last days drinking by the river in Poleglass. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Friday April 21, 2006 21:21 by libertarian   text 10 comments (last - monday may 08, 2006 19:33)   image 4 images
The 5th annual anarchist picnic will be joining forces with the monthly Anti-Authoritarian-Assembly for a day of outdoors food, fun, music and political discussion. (with a back up plan in case of bad weather) read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday April 21, 2006 14:30 by aaronrip   image 5 images
Available here as a Div-X download. http://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/356.shtml
60 Minutes long. read full story / add a comment
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