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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

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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.
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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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Sneaky punchs are the order of the day in Mayo - Video evidence
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Saturday November 11, 2006 22:45 by VideoLady   text 30 comments (last - thursday november 23, 2006 03:55)   image 15 images   video 1 video file
Gardai at yesterday's protest in Mayo were violent, agressive and provocative. Statements by Shell, Bertie Ahern and Michael McDowell suggest that protesters used 'provo tactics'.
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international / environment / other press Saturday November 11, 2006 19:18 by rikki   text 10 comments (last - monday november 13, 2006 14:48)   image 5 images
Activists blockaded a busy London shell garage yesterday, not once but twice, in solidarity with Rossport protestors in county Mayo read full story / add a comment
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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Saturday November 11, 2006 17:43 by Paula Geraghty   text 2 comments (last - tuesday november 14, 2006 16:59)   image 10 images
Bin Tax campaigners were angered at the garda presence at the Suir Road depot this morning for the weekly protest. read full story / add a comment
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galway / consumer issues / event notice Saturday November 11, 2006 14:51 by Santa   text 5 comments (last - thursday november 08, 2007 10:41)   image 2 images
We need helpers for Buy Nothing Day in Galway. You don't even necessarily have to do much.
We need people to man (woman?) a stall, people to be at a film screening and barter fair and people to dress up for a street theatre. If nothing else, turn up for the day and BUY NOTHING on that day. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday November 11, 2006 06:07 by peptide   text 5 comments (last - saturday may 12, 2007 17:39)   image 1 image
Tony (45 mins) Blair, member of the coalition of willing criminals and terrified of the prospect of facing a war crimes tribunal, has today labelled the dissenting voice of opposition (justice) as “poisonous propaganda”. The world received this ridiculous statement with ample incredulity. We are all familiar with the politics of inversion and pathologically lying Prime Ministers (Blair and Howard) but this latest desperate statement from Blair even elicited a bray from the Whitehouse donkey, who is far too busy with his own problems to offer any assistance to his partner in crime. The three most notorious murderers of the 21st century, Bush, Blair and Howard are facing an extremely hazardous future! read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / press release Saturday November 11, 2006 04:25 by Internationale   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 11, 2006 17:36)   image 2 images
Ballymoney Sinn Féin Councillor Daithí McKay has said that the EU must make the upholding of human rights and democracy for the Kurdish people a pre-condition of Turkish admittance to the European Union. Speaking after completing a 4-day tour of Turkish Kurdistan representing Ógra Shinn Féin Councillor McKay said:

"Turkey's treatment of the Kurdish people has been totally abhorrent and it's efforts to deny this sizeable minority their human rights has been plain to see. After one of the public debates I took part in Diyarbakir this week a number of international speakers, including myself, had our passports seized and photocopied by the police. This was just one example of how Turkey's Article 301 is used to threaten citizens for engaging in free speech criticising the government. Another example was when we were warned not to say the word 'Kurdistan' during a radio interview as the Government would have the radio station shut down.
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Rossport : Dublin,mayday style !
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Saturday November 11, 2006 01:23 by TJ   text 170 comments (last - wednesday march 26, 2008 20:22)   image 29 images
Gardaí violently attack anti-Shell demonstrators in Mayo. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / press release Friday November 10, 2006 23:45 by Rua   text 22 comments (last - friday september 17, 2010 23:18)   image 3 images
INLA put claims of drugs to bed.... read full story / add a comment
An old banner updated
mayo / environment / other press Friday November 10, 2006 20:15 by Jo Cowen   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 16, 2006 12:03)   image 4 images
A mixed bunch of people blockaded Newcastle-upon-Tyne's largest Shell Garage and one lovely lass goes a little bit further than commonsense dictates... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday November 10, 2006 16:44 by Labour Youth   text 9 comments (last - sunday november 12, 2006 11:52)   image 5 images
Members of Labour Youth marked the anniversary of Ken Sara Wiwa's murder by protesting outside Fianna Fail Headquarters on Lower Mount Street. There was a good response from members of the public who were leafletted and members of Labour Youth held placards saying "Shell 2 Sea" , " Nationalise our Gas" and "FF gave our Gas Away".

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mayo / environment / news report Friday November 10, 2006 12:25 by Wedneday   text 74 comments (last - monday july 16, 2007 15:13)   image 1 image
Details of action taken against Shell on the anniversary of Saro-Wiwa in Mayo read full story / add a comment
How the site gates now look.
mayo / environment / news report Thursday November 09, 2006 16:52 by Eve   image 1 image
As the siege enters its sixth week Shell to Sea campaigners continue to maintain their morning pickets of Shell’s refinery site. Security outside the gates has been stepped up with the erection of a six-foot tall sheet metal fence around the main site entrance late last week. Around the same time Shell to sea signs were removed and defaced by Gardaí including one reading “community under siege”. Gardaí also ordered that the Shell to sea H.Q. trailer be moved. The trailer was moved a nominal few feet down the road and the picket continues.
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From Ogoni to Bogoni.......Global Hell
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday November 09, 2006 12:08 by Shell to Sea   image 1 image
International Day of Action against Shell on the 11th anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa and his comrades Nov 10th 2006.

The Galway bus will leave the quad, NUIG at 4am Friday morning.

Return fare is 15 waged/ 10 unwaged.

To book a place call 0863764991 or 0863840973 read full story / add a comment
Niall Harnett V Sgt. Conor O'Reilly & An Garda Síochána.
mayo / environment / news report Thursday November 09, 2006 01:23 by Niall Harnett   text 35 comments (last - friday november 09, 2007 11:37)   image 14 images
Over recent weeks there have been a number of confrontations between Niall Harnett and Sgt. Conor O’Reilly & Gardai, at the proposed Shell Corrib Gas Refinery Site, Bellanaboy, culminating last week in the breaking of Niall's driver’s window in order to forcibly remove him from his van, and the theft under ‘colour of law’ of that van by O’Reilly on Tue 31st Oct. In the High Court on Tue 7th Oct, Mr Justice Michael Peart granted to Niall an injunction against O’Reilly from further damaging or disposing of his van, which O’Reilly had threatened, and leave to seek an order for it's release without condition. Other ‘reliefs’ applied for are a ‘declaration’ by the High Court that the van was held unlawfully and that O’Reilly and An Garda Síochána have acted ‘Ultra Vires’ - the legal term for 'exceeding their powers granted by law’, which in this case would mean simply that they broke the law. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday November 08, 2006 22:38 by Indymedia Ireland   text 19 comments (last - friday november 28, 2008 13:31)   image 22 images
Happy birthday to us. read full story / add a comment
Does that Shell logo look funny?
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday November 08, 2006 20:59 by Ciarán   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 09, 2006 20:09)   image 5 images
With everybody gearing up for the national day of action on 10th November, some artwork appeared in West Belfast getting the word out on what the day's about. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday November 08, 2006 18:26 by Vincent   image 2 images
“Tara and the rebellion of 1641″

- Dr. Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, School of History and Archives, UCD

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ETA leader & hunger striker José Ignacio de Juana Chaos at the moment of his sentancing.
international / crime and justice / news report Wednesday November 08, 2006 18:25 by ipsiphi iosaf   text 7 comments (last - monday january 22, 2007 20:02)   image 4 images
ETA prisoner José Ignacio de Juana Chaos has commenced another hunger strike. He did so on the eve of his sentancing in protest against the expected term of 12.5 years, which has been handed down by the Spanish court this sentance is for promoting terrorism , [ de Juana Chaos authored a series of articles calling for the continuation & escalation of ETA's armed campaign. ]

The Spanish prime minister Zapatero has said in a statement that he expects the sentance (by the independent judiciary) will further complicate the nascent Basque Peace Process. Already most observers recognise that the process is in crises, the internal ETA magazine only a week ago threatened a return to violence if political progress in not seen to be made by late Autumn. Though critics of Basque seperatism would point out that since late Spring over 120 incidents of arson have been attributed to the group & one theft of 350 arms. read full story / add a comment
Click on Poster / Flyer to enlarge, print and distribute please.
clare / environment / event notice Wednesday November 08, 2006 17:38 by Niall Harnett   image 1 image
Saturday 18th Nov @ 8pm, Upstairs, Mrs O'Brien's Kitchen, Lahinch, Co Clare.

Films, Music and Dance from 8 till late ...

... including the award winning documentary 'The Drilling Fields' which tells how Shell paid off the Nigerian Military to rape and kill villagers in the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta who opposed Shell, destroying their pristine fertile delta environment, poisoning their lands and rivers with oil spillages, burning and flaring. Interviews and footage of Saro-Wiwa as he organised the Ogoni people and travelled the world for support. Eventually framed for murder with 8 other leaders of MOSOP ( Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People) he and them were hung by the Shell/Nigerian dictatorship in 1995.

Also showing the new film, among others from Revolt Video ( http://revoltvideo.blogspot.com/ ), featuring the Rossport Solidarity Camp - X Wrong Project, X Wrong Place.

Followed by Sounds and Dance.

Admission €5 before 9pm, €6 after 9pm. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday November 08, 2006 15:43 by Anti Imperialist   text 25 comments (last - monday november 13, 2006 20:31)   image 7 images
Ógra Shinn Féin held their National Congress on 3 - 5 November in Liberty Hall, Dublin.

Following are some pictures from the Congress and also links to full reportings of the weekend: read full story / add a comment
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