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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
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

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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.

offsite link The Curious Links of Led by Donkeys Wed Dec 18, 2024 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
Led by Donkeys, the group behind anti-Brexit and assorted other Left-wing stunts, was set up by four Greenpeace activists who have a lot of curious links to the Blob, says Charlotte Gill.
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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Dec 18, 2024 00:46 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Musk Backs Reform After Meeting Farage at Trump?s Home Tue Dec 17, 2024 19:30 | Will Jones
Elon Musk has backed?Reform U.K.?after meeting Nigel Farage at Donald Trump?s home in Florida, tweeting his agreement that "Britain needs Reform".
The post Musk Backs Reform After Meeting Farage at Trump’s Home appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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President. Pretty (indifferent) in pink.
mayo / environment / news report Saturday April 21, 2007 19:55 by Annabelle   text 11 comments (last - saturday april 28, 2007 01:36)   image 3 images
Shell to Sea demonstration at Presidential visit in Belmullet. read full story / add a comment
Willie Corduff with his wife Mary on his release from prison in September 2005
mayo / miscellaneous / feature Saturday April 21, 2007 15:03 by Bill Poster   text 43 comments (last - tuesday may 08, 2007 18:47)   image 7 images
Mayo farmer Willie Corduff, who was jailed for three months in 2005 over his opposition to Shell's inland gas refinery at Bellanaboy and high-pressure pipeline through his farm, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. Awarded annually to six grassroots environmental heroes, the $125,000 no-strings-attached prize is the largest of its kind in the world and is often referred to as the Nobel Prize for the environment. read full story / add a comment
Top of copy letter...
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday April 21, 2007 13:19 by Sharon.   text 7 comments (last - sunday april 22, 2007 09:14)   image 3 images
A facsimile copy of Seán MacDiarmada's last letter was included in a batch of old Republican material which was handed over to us recently... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Saturday April 21, 2007 08:57 by obit   text 7 comments (last - monday april 23, 2007 22:16)   image 1 image
The President Johnson Center of NASA in Hueston Texas was seen to shooting less than 4 days after suggestible and gullible world viewers had begun to absorb the V Tech Blackburg Massacre.

Information on the man who alledgedly broke into the facility without proper ID, being stopped, retina scan, finger-print analysis or voice-print is reported as having taken a hostage who was killed. The man then commit suicide. This is not the worst massacre in US tech facility history & will not usurp the legacy of Columbine. But it is the worse massacre in NASA ground history but not as bad as the legacy of Columbia read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday April 20, 2007 14:47 by Youth Voter   image 1 image
The youth wings of all the state’s main political parties are calling jointly for the government to commit to weekend voting in the interest of guaranteeing and promoting students’ and other young people’s right to vote.
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday April 20, 2007 14:15 by TD   image 1 image
Joel Kovel, Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies at Bard College in New York and American Jew, argues that Israel is an incorrigible human rights offender because, by discriminating against Arabs, it is guilty of 'state-sponsored racism'. read full story / add a comment
"Is the boss a bastard?"
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday April 20, 2007 00:17 by MJ Costello   text 6 comments (last - tuesday november 18, 2008 17:38)   image 4 images
In a recent Irish Independent article Kevin Myers blamed RTE for "hate mail, death threats, and abusive graffiti on my car, concluding with my home having to be given round-the-clock Garda protection"

Kevin says this resulted from Joe Duffy’s Liveline whipping up the “mob” "after (as I admitted within a day and repeat now) was [sic] a very poor article of mine".

Major Myarse, as Kev is known affectionately, does not reveal why he was persona non-grata with the “mob”.

Was it opposition to poor syntax, bad grammar, or irritation at Kev not letting facts get in the way of his opinions (or of his apology, which took two days to appear, not one)? Not the latter, we can be sure. Otherwise the mob would be scribbling its criticism on Kev's car every day of the week and Kev, like Salman Rushdie, would require permanent ”round-the-clock Garda protection”. read full story / add a comment
know your liberties before it is too late
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday April 19, 2007 21:13 by blonde haired bar worker   text 11 comments (last - thursday april 10, 2008 14:12)   image 3 images
Without the right to bear arms almost a hundred years ago the Irish Republican Brotherhood would have found their strategy for Irish Independence somewhat more challenging. As we know many militia were present in Ireland at the point in our history. As for Ireland the universal right to bear arms which had first been codified in "modern law" as a privilege by the British Bill of Rights in 1689 facilitated insurrection, rebellion, revolution & held the forces of oppression in check throughout the world. The whole world. Not the bit you see in the movies or can send an email to.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday April 19, 2007 21:00 by World Wide Marijuana Marcher   text 6 comments (last - saturday may 05, 2007 13:39)   image 5 images   1 attached file
On the 6th Of May 2007, Ireland will have its first ever End the Proihibition of Cannabis March! This issue has been brushed under the carpets by the politicians for long enough--Cannabis smokers are people-not criminals!

Assemble 2pm at the Garden of Remembrance-bring colour, good cheer and friends!
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Poster
limerick / politics / elections / event notice Thursday April 19, 2007 16:24 by Limerick Socialist Party   image 3 images   2 attached files
There will be a pub quiz in Limerick in aid of the Joe Higgins election fund.

Thursday the 26th of April at 8pm, in Riddlers Bar, Sarsfield St.

Entry fee per person is €10 waged, €5 unwaged. Bring a friend! Bring a team! read full story / add a comment
Sean Phadraic
galway / history and heritage / event notice Thursday April 19, 2007 11:52 by John C   image 1 image
Réabhlóid Phádraic Uí Chonaire le Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh
An tAthrú Mór, A. Ó Cathasaigh, eag,

Charlie Byrne's, sa tSráid Mheánach, Gaillimh, ag 6 pm

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national / crime and justice / news report Thursday April 19, 2007 10:39 by Patient   text 8 comments (last - tuesday august 28, 2007 08:40)   image 1 image
175 women qualify for compensation for the removal of:
uterus/ uterus and ovaries/ovaries.

The plan was announced by Ms Harney yesterday.

Younger women with less children effectively get more cash than
older women whose child-bearing years were at an end.

There is an application time for the victims of Dr Michael Neary.
You must receive independent certification that this indeed happened to you.
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Save Delara Darabi
international / gender and sexuality / other press Thursday April 19, 2007 10:26 by Maud Gonne   text 1 comment (last - saturday may 19, 2007 19:59)   image 1 image
Delara Darabi -- Artist on Death Row Needs Our Help!

On January 27, 2007, Iran’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Delara Darabi for a second time. Delara faces death by public hanging for a murder that took place when she was 17 years old. After murdering a woman related to Delara, Delara’s 19 year old boyfriend, Amir Hossein, convinced Delara to admit responsibility for the murder to protect him from execution. Apparently, both believed that because Delara was under the age of 18, she could not be sentenced to death. This belief proved to be devastatingly false.

With complete disregard for its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child , and despite overwhelming evidence of Delara’s innocence, as well as her repeated denials about having had any role in the commission of the crime, an Islamic court found her guilty of murder based solely on her initial claim of responsibility and sentenced her to death by hanging. read full story / add a comment
Broadhaven Bay
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday April 18, 2007 19:45 by Bill Poster   text 16 comments (last - friday april 20, 2007 19:06)   image 1 image
Very good news for Shell to Sea from the High Court today.

* The stance of the Rossport Five and Brid McGarry has been legally vindicated.
* The original pipeline route through Rossport is now defunct.
* Shell will have to pay the €1 million costs, including those of the Rossport landowners. read full story / add a comment
Front
international / environment / event notice Wednesday April 18, 2007 19:22 by F   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 18, 2007 19:24)   image 3 images
There are now a collection for resources you can download from the Rising Tide website for the Friday 8th June 2007 - International Day of Direct Action against Climate Change and the G8.
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Prof Liviu Librescu
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 19:11 by Obit   text 3 comments (last - thursday april 19, 2007 02:30)   image 1 image
Professor Librescu was a 75 year old professor in Virginia Tech.
He lectured for twenty years in solid fuel mechanics.
He chaired the International organising Committee of the 6th international
congress on thermal stresses in 2005.

He will be buried in Ru'anna ,Israel on Wednesday read full story / add a comment
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international / housing / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 18:32 by La Plataforma   image 1 image
A group of activists from the "8 de Marzo" collective squattered the old wedding hall "Milano". One week later, and one hour before starting a neigbourhood afternoon snack organized for the neighbours and local people as a part of the "presentation working days", the police sealed the building and started a pressure campaign trying to nip the project in the bud before it could grow. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday April 18, 2007 18:02 by Culture   text 10 comments (last - sunday april 22, 2007 01:18)   image 1 image
Yesterday (17 April), Ógra Shinn Féin and Sinn Féin activists protested Adam's auctioneers in Dublin who where selling of some of Ireland's most historic possesions.

The protesters gathered outside the Auction room and chanted 'Ireland's History is Not For Sale!' read full story / add a comment
'The Neon Rose' - novel of the Irish in Paris
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday April 18, 2007 17:04 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
Author and critic Fred Johnston launches novel set in contemporary Paris read full story / add a comment
Gardaí stand watch over trucks moving surface peat from the site of the propesed refinery
mayo / environment / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 12:33 by IT Reader   text 47 comments (last - tuesday june 05, 2007 13:15)   image 3 images
The oral hearing in Belmullet continues, with questions still unanswered about the large Garda presence in the hotel where the hearing is taking place, and then, the surprise revelation that the consultation process carried out by Shell and Mayo County Council on the subject of "cold-venting" did not include actually consulting with anyone who lives near the proposed refinery.

Mayo County Council are still not attending the hearing.

"Cold-venting" is when you release gas directly into the environment, rather than burning it off, which is called "flaring". read full story / add a comment
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