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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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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.

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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my pal Steve Bell of the Guardian newspaper was the first one to notice "Blair's eye", my granny would have thought that dead give-away, "don't trust that one".
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Monday September 25, 2006 20:40 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi   text 12 comments (last - sunday may 06, 2007 19:55)   image 2 images
Many eyes at the moment are on the UK's "new Labour" party leadership. Tony Blair the man who became the youngest ever leader of the "labour party" & then renamed the party which once had been a movement. He went on to become the longest running prime minister in British history apart from the historic & ghastly Thatcher, Disraeli & Gladstone.

His regime saw quite a few key incidental & tragic deaths, constitional reform in Scotland, Wales, London and the northern Ireland statelet, & a commitment to war coached in his namesake's Eric Blair (George Orwell's) "big Brother's peace".

We know he lied many times to parliament, people, party & even we presume his Queen. What made many of us choke on the splinters was his assertion (july 2004) that "he couldn't lie". In many ways his style put "sociopathy" into social democracy whilst all the time pushing a vague concept of "meritocracy"......" if you can lie through your teeth you may be one of us someday!"
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kildare / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday September 25, 2006 19:29 by Pig Brother Little brother   image 1 image
PigBrother.info -- It's your right to watch the Cops!

At National University Ireland
Maynooth
Lecture Theatre Four
John Hume Building
6.30 pm

Soulless & Anger present:
It's your right to watch the Cops!
PigBrother Live Show
A Survey of Police Weapons, their Effects
and why responsible Officers usually get away
Multimedia Live Show

Internationally, police officers who mutilate or kill people on duty usually get off scot free, many times the cases not even making the news. The Swiss internet site PigBrother.info deals with such cases and the police weapons involved. Though often labelled "less lethal" and claimed to be "harmless", actually many proved to be fatal, not to mention lots of them being banned in war by e.g. the Geneva Convention but nevertheless frequently used by policeforces worldwide (like e.g. Dum Dum Bullets that a.o. killed Jean Charles de Menezes, but also the so called "Tear Gas").

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Early morning birds, but where are the worms?
mayo / environment / news report Monday September 25, 2006 17:15 by Text: Ruth & Terry Photos: Terry & Niall   text 16 comments (last - tuesday september 26, 2006 16:11)   image 10 images
At 15.40pm three cops, one plain-clothes, two uniform, D reg car, were at the Shell to Sea picket H.Q. trailer filming. These police are now (16.05pm) at gate 2 of the Ballinaboy site. They are filming Shell to Sea activist Maura Harrington on the public road, when questioned why they said it was routine, the cop filming does not have identification numbers on his uniform.
We got word today at 12 mid-day that the media have been informed by Shell that Shell intend to attempt access to the Ballinaboy former refinery construction site tomorrow.
There is an increased police presence in Erris as of last Friday. The following is a report and photos from the picket today – photos from the 5 a.m. to 1 p.m. period.
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monaghan / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday September 25, 2006 16:26 by Anon   text 5 comments (last - tuesday september 26, 2006 13:08)   image 1 image
There are reports on the radio that the Ceann Comhairle and Pat the Cope
Gallagher were unable to get out of ministerial cars to open the Monaghan
Bypass due to a convergence by the Monaghan Hospital protest Group. read full story / add a comment
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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Monday September 25, 2006 13:09 by nothing leftist   text 24 comments (last - friday december 18, 2009 15:28)   image 1 image
Monday morning rant. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / news report Monday September 25, 2006 02:31 by Noise Hacker   text 17 comments (last - thursday september 28, 2006 12:22)   image 65 images
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday September 24, 2006 19:18 by Kevtin T. Walsh   text 17 comments (last - friday march 21, 2008 14:09)   image 1 image
And the other side........Development, Racing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The Celtic Tiger that is sometimes called the 'Pussycat'

Rolf Harris 1960's
'Two little boys......; moral being, one assist the other to get back up on the horse. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday September 24, 2006 11:10 by Akrasia   text 6 comments (last - wednesday october 18, 2006 19:36)   image 1 image
Only you, the Ordinary American People can Stop World War 3 read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday September 24, 2006 03:40 by participant   text 49 comments (last - friday september 29, 2006 17:58)   image 10 images
Over 500 people turned out today for a great march against the US/UK war on Iraq and Afghanistan. Starting in Parnell Square it made its way down O'Connell where the suppport of passers by was occasionally made clear by cheers of support, up Dame Street and back down to the island on O'Connell St where we were all corralled during the speeches. It isn't clear why the organisers agreed to this corralling because it meant that almost no-one could see the speakers. Speakers were generally interesting - great to hear the Raytheon 9 spokesperson - but mostly were the same people who speak at every IAWM march or variations of same. Overall a good demo and fair play to the organisers.

Shannon next on October 28th for the demo called by Antiwar Ireland! read full story / add a comment
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national / racism & migration related issues / feature Saturday September 23, 2006 21:05 by Caoimhe   text 91 comments (last - tuesday june 14, 2016 12:27)   image 15 images
I was outside the GNIB last Wednesday t,he day the deportation took place, from 10 in the morning to roughly 7:30 in the evening. This is a (sketchy) account of what happened down there. read full story / add a comment
roscommon / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday September 23, 2006 02:27 by Elaine Murphy   text 3 comments (last - saturday september 23, 2006 17:47)   image 1 image
Chavez : "As Chomsky says here clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its hegemonic system of domination, and we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated. The world tyrant’s statement -- cynical, hypocritical, full of this imperial hypocrisy, from the need they have to control everything -- they say they want to impose a democratic model, but that's their democratic model. It's the false democracy of elites, and I would say a very original democracy that's imposed by weapons and bombs and firing weapons. What a strange democracy. Aristotle might not recognize it, or others who are at the root of democracy. What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?" read full story / add a comment
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday September 22, 2006 19:10 by Revolt Video   image 5 images
Wednesday 27th Sept

Seomra Spraoi
1st Floor (ring top buzzer)
6 Lower Ormond Quay
Dublin 2

Waged 5 / Unwaged 3 euros

Door 7.30pm
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Smash Censorship
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday September 22, 2006 18:35 by Radical Student   image 1 image
To University of Ulster and UU Student’s Union,

Ógra Shinn Féin writes this public letter to the University of Ulster and the University of Ulster Student’s Union, in condemnation and protest at your censorship of politics in the University of Ulster.

As a youth political organisation which has been established and active in three UU campuses, Magee, Coleraine and Jordanstown for a number of years, we cannot understand nor accept the decision taken.
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Damien Hulme
louth / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday September 22, 2006 17:58 by Sean Crudden   image 1 image
In an atmosphere of hustle, hassle, harass, hurry it is difficult to think straight. Even those who can think under pressure would surely think more clearly if there were peace. We need to settle down and get our heads together because we are approaching a decisive political cross-roads in Ireland. There may be tiredness and frustration on one hand and powerful, discordant and divisive voices on the other. Now is not the time to allow ourselves to be manipulated any further. Every individual must assert his and her rights and think clearly for themselves. read full story / add a comment
De day de queen of Drumcondra made his Holy Communion.
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday September 22, 2006 16:30 by John McDermott   text 9 comments (last - saturday october 07, 2006 00:58)   image 1 image
"Me Ma said that uncle Phil died,when he was 75 in a place where only rich people went for medical treatment when they got ill.There was no waitin lists or queus there as long as you had plenty of money.It was in a posh part of the city too out past Ballsbridge. I was grown up then and runnin the country of course.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday September 22, 2006 15:48 by Dec McCarthy   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 23, 2006 23:40)   image 1 image
Rice’s new’ Middle East is depressingly and wearyingly familiar to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the history of imperialist interventions in the region. Just like those British and French colonialists who sat over maps a century ago redrawing boundaries across the Middle East, the US, the UK and the Israelis imagine they can shape a subcontinent regardless of the needs or desires of the majority of the people who live there. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday September 22, 2006 15:25 by chiapas solidarity group   image 3 images
A REVOLUTION IN OAXACA ? read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday September 22, 2006 12:03 by Mark Malone   text 2 comments (last - friday september 22, 2006 19:34)   image 1 image
The Irish government’s explicit support for Shell’s proposed development in Rossport, against the demands and wishes of a large proportion of the locally affected community, exemplifies not only the highly organised and funded public relation strategy that Shell and its partners have used. It also highlights the massive democratic deficit in this country. In a broader sense corporate Public Relations, and it’s close links to government, is perhaps one of the most potent factors in curtailing meaningful democracy. read full story / add a comment
A Poster for the show on the window of the international bar.
dublin / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday September 22, 2006 03:16 by Pinhead   text 1 comment (last - sunday july 15, 2007 13:11)   image 2 images
Lightswitch is a Dublin based production company promising to bring theatre goers the 'ridiculously serious and the seriously ridiculous.' If its chaotic humour and a theatre of the absurd they aspire to then through a healthy mangling of a Greek classic with Antigone Interactive, they hit the nail partially on the head but falter at the point of audience interaction and political depth. The Antigone lead comes across oozing sassy stylistic rebellion like a photo shot prepped baile funk star MIA - all gun belt for show and Che Guevara t-shirt as poseurish portend to an inevitable martyrdom for ritually burying her brother against her father's edicts. read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday September 22, 2006 02:57 by Paul Baynes   image 1 image
During the week of the annual conference of the IMF and the World Bank, some thoughts on the nature of employment in the current phase of globalisation.

More and more, workers throughout the so-called developing world are relying on low paid, unstable employment in the informal economy. read full story / add a comment
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