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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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offsite link BBC Under Pressure to Play Christmas Song by ?Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers? Wed Dec 18, 2024 19:00 | Will Jones
The BBC is under pressure to play a Christmas number one contender?parodying Keir Starmer?s winter fuel cuts by 'Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers'.
The post BBC Under Pressure to Play Christmas Song by ‘Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers’ appeared first on 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.
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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.

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Michael's mother Gina McIlveen outside her home in Ballymena (McKay IT 13 May 06)
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday May 13, 2006 23:09 by James Reilly   text 33 comments (last - tuesday july 25, 2006 17:09)   image 14 images
Susan McKay’s article in the Weekend Review section of the Irish Times (May 13 2006 - see link below) explains the background to the unionist sectarian killing of Michael McIlveen in Ballymena. In this DUP heartland over 90% of the sectarian attacks are unionist.

The PSNI calls this sectarianism that is almost universally unionist a “two way thing”. Ian Paisley wants “all sides” to “pull back”. Instead of examining whether unionist ideology is in any way at fault, Paisley warns nationalists in an insulting and bullying manner not to turn the issue into a “political football”. read full story / add a comment
Catholics are victims of 90% of sectarian attacks
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday May 13, 2006 22:55 by Susan McKay   text 1 comment (last - sunday may 14, 2006 02:43)   image 2 images
'I don't think I'll ever get over it. Me and my son were very, very close,' says Gina McIlveen, pictured at the shrine to her son, Michael, outside her home in Ballymena.
Photograph: Alan Lewis/Photopress Belfast

The killing of Ballymena teenager Michael McIlveen is evidence of the deep-rooted sectarianism that is infecting a new generation, reports Susan McKay

Gina McIlveen had her own experience of sectarian violence before she lost her 15-year-old son, Michael, to it this week. Last Christmas, she and her 16-year-old daughter, Jodie, who was heavily pregnant, were in the Tower Shopping Centre in Ballymena.

"This girl was following us around and she came over and she said: 'I'll kick that Fenian baby out of you.' She went for me outside Santa's grotto and then this man ran out and cracked my face with his fist and broke my nose," she says. read full story / add a comment
A mother with a newborn baby in a Belgrade hospital
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Saturday May 13, 2006 13:53 by Magdalena from Dun Laoghaire   text 8 comments (last - wednesday may 17, 2006 22:31)   image 1 image
This year -- as more and more mothers, in America, Britain, Italy, Spain, Poland as well as Iraq, mourn their fallen sons and daughters, lost to the insanity of organized violence -- Julia Ward Howe's call for women to not allow their men to constantly play at war is back in fashion, part of a growing awareness of the link between patriarchy and war. read full story / add a comment
Organising committee chairman Des Longs views the new memorial
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday May 13, 2006 13:08 by Des Long   image 1 image
A new memorial is to be unveiled to two Limerick men murdered by
Crown Forces - the ceremony takes place on the main Limerick to
Tipperary Road at the Cross of Grange on 21st May - all are welcome

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Manus O'Riordan on Connolly & McSwiney in Catalonia (see linked story)
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday May 13, 2006 09:22 by Manus O'Riordan   text 1 comment (last - saturday may 13, 2006 09:50)   image 1 image
CORK COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS
May Day commemorations

by MANUS O’RIORDAN

HEAD OF RESEARCH SIPTU
Metropole Hotel, Cork
MAY 2nd, 2006

James Connolly “Be Moderate”:

“Some men faint-hearted ever seek
Our Programme to retouch
And will insist when e’er they speak
That we demand too much.
‘Tis passing strange, yet I declare
Such statements cause me mirth,
For our demands most modest are:
We only want the Earth!

PHOTOGRAPH
COMMEMORATIVE ADDRESS ON JAMES CONNOLLY AND TERENCE McSWINEY BY MANUS O'RIORDAN ON EASTER SUNDAY 2006 AT THE FORTRESS OF CASTELL DE SANT FERNAN, FIGUERES, CATALONIA. (see linked story) read full story / add a comment
Smash Political Policing Protest Omagh
tyrone / miscellaneous / news report Friday May 12, 2006 22:43 by Ógra B   image 1 image
Friday 5th May seen Omagh PSNI base as the scene of the latest leg of Sinn Féin's ‘End Political Policing’ campaign. Ógra Shinn Fein had organised the protest to call for an End to the political nature of policing in the north of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
Francis Hughes
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday May 12, 2006 20:46 by Elaine   image 5 images
Charlie McGlade Cumman in Drimnagh held a black flag vigil at the junction between Walkinstown Road and the Long Mile Road this evening between 5.30 and 6.30. read full story / add a comment
Dancing with souls: the therapists moves representatives
national / sci-tech / news report Friday May 12, 2006 20:37 by Florian Burkhardt   text 18 comments (last - thursday february 25, 2010 22:34)   image 4 images
My article is about the worldwide spread (including to Ireland) of a new form of potentially dangerous type of psychotherapy. It has reached Ireland from Germany via the UK where it is already a huge business. The new development is that followers of this semi-cult want to apply it to politics and other social areas. read full story / add a comment
Hughes Lives on Forever!
international / miscellaneous / news report Friday May 12, 2006 19:45 by Ógra B   text 16 comments (last - wednesday may 17, 2006 00:54)   image 2 images
Ógra Shinn Féin held a white line vigil in Omagh town centre on Friday 12th May. Ógra activists were there to remember the 25th Anniversary of Francis Hughes.
Francis was the second hunger striker to die in Long Kesh on the 59th Day of his hunger strike, on May 12th 1981. read full story / add a comment
Shannon protest from 2003 occupies airport roofs
cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday May 12, 2006 11:24 by J   text 8 comments (last - sunday may 14, 2006 01:57)   image 1 image
Around thirty people attended an Anarchist meeting, in Cork, on war and the ongoing use of Shannon Airport for US military purposes. read full story / add a comment
- Offical Graffiti Zone -
dublin / miscellaneous / news report Thursday May 11, 2006 23:12 by Noise Hacker   text 14 comments (last - thursday july 06, 2006 12:40)   image 37 images
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday May 11, 2006 22:16 by gurggle.   text 4 comments (last - wednesday april 04, 2007 23:32)   image 1 image
In the last week the Iranian regime has sent 2 letters to the USA, a state which like it is ruled by God Freaks, and also like it is plausibly credited with promoting the most anti-zionism in the world.

It has been a long time since anything as simple as an 8 page letter sent from one "religous nutter" to another could excite comments or be included by the soothsayers of Capital in the reasons for the brief lull and then spike on Oil prices this week.

Actually it might be the first time anything as simple as a letter caused that...
Dr. Mahmoud (Ahmadinejad / Ahmadinezhad) is the "democratically" elected president of the Islamic republic of Iran, a state which is comitted to the destruction of Israel, the development of Nuclear power, and generally getting up the Yankee nose. George Bush is a man who doesn't read newspapers, uses his illiteracy and mal-adroit speech as a propaganda tool, and consistently involves Jesus (PBUH) in all his decision making.

Guantanamo Bay is the most obvious and public sign of US disregard for international law, the place they bothered to tell us about, where over 500 people are held without trial, and experimented on. Its a really scary place. Its so scary that for years we didn't ask questions about it, and its so horrific that Gary Mc Kinnon who used his IT know-how to access the USA defense computers to find out where UFO's really alien or just natural phenomona today is reported as being scared he will be sent there, if extradited.

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Gerry Adams Launching the ÓSF Suicide Prevention Campaign in Dublin.
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday May 10, 2006 19:37 by Ógra B   image 1 image
Suicide Prevention Vigil

Belfast City Hall Front Gates

@ 11am

Saturday 13 May

Organised by Ógra Shinn Féin read full story / add a comment
the japanese says "Stop the Fall in Population"
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday May 10, 2006 17:37 by o as if   text 2 comments (last - tuesday march 20, 2007 13:56)   image 2 images
little human interest filler article for you all on "world parenting day"(*).-

Tokyo yesterday saw a national campaign to encourage the Japanese to have more babies launched.
Apparantly the Japanese aren't having enough babies anymore. What is really interesting is the way they decided to promote "having babies".

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Wednesday May 10, 2006 17:18 by Annie Winters   text 20 comments (last - monday may 15, 2006 00:08)   image 1 image
As the grim state of our health service makes the news, with tales of trolleys, overcrowding and 'third world' standards this reporter took herself off to Cavan for this years INO delegates conference in the Slieve Russel Hotel to see what nurses had to say... read full story / add a comment
200,000 AK-47's
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday May 10, 2006 10:37 by redjade   text 19 comments (last - monday august 06, 2007 22:06)   image 7 images
'' A Nato spokesman said: "There's no tracking mechanism to ensure they don't fall into the wrong hands. There are concerns that some may have been siphoned off." '' read full story / add a comment
international / environment / press release Tuesday May 09, 2006 22:46 by Michael O'Callaghan   text 11 comments (last - sunday may 28, 2006 04:55)   image 2 images
Meath County Council last night unanimously passed two motions that are widely expected to force the world’s largest chemicals company BASF to abandon a controversial experiment with patented genetically modified (GMO) potatoes which it hoped to launch in the area this week. read full story / add a comment
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clare / environment / news report Tuesday May 09, 2006 20:54 by Niall Harnett   text 27 comments (last - friday january 18, 2013 20:41)   image 62 images
Born after the success of a Summer Craft Fair in Bealkelly Wood, the first weekend of traditional craft courses took place under a few hastily hoisted tarps between the trees in the wet Autumn of 2002.

It was booked out.

Since then, the event has gone from strength to strength and the workshop infrastructure along with it, so much so that the little 'Village in the Woods' looks like a scene out of an Asterix comic.

Weekends in the woods take place three times a year in Spring, Summer and Autumn at the invitation of host Del Harding in his woodland home on the shores of Lough Derg. read full story / add a comment
Shannon Airport - Never say no to a customer. by painter not talker
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 09, 2006 18:46 by watcher   text 6 comments (last - tuesday may 16, 2006 17:48)   image 2 images
A “special all-day debate” on European issues is to be held in the Dáil Eireann, on 10th May. But it’s unlikely that CIA torture flights will be mentioned or indeed the fact that (unelected) EU foreign policy chief claims that he knows nothing or has no power to ask countries about the flights. Or the fact that EU governments, including Ireland's, are covering up the truth.

And meanwhile, the US claims that rendition is a well-established procedure that has no connection with torture. It all depends on your definition it seems. "'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.' read full story / add a comment
Ógra Remember Bobby with pride!
tyrone / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday May 09, 2006 17:19 by Ógra B   text 27 comments (last - wednesday may 17, 2006 02:36)   image 11 images
Ógra Shinn Fein in Strabane held a white line vigil in the town centre on Saturday 6th May. The vigil was part of a weekend of events organised across the country to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of bobby sands on Hunger-Strike in 1981.

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