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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 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.
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.

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It's Turner season- so Here's a Harry Clarke
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Saturday January 26, 2008 19:51 by C Murray   text 2 comments (last - sunday january 27, 2008 11:14)   image 2 images
This is the last week of the annual Turner Exhibit in the National Gallery's Print Room.
The blurb on the boards describes the provenance of the bequest and the agreement
between the estate of the collector and the Scottish and Irish galleries.
We only exhibit the Turner's in their climate control cases during the month of
January, this is largely because they are drawings and washes of landscapes
and are fragile.

The light is weakest at this time of year in Dublin and conducive to a visit. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / news report Saturday January 26, 2008 19:13 by Comhairle Cuige Laighean, Sinn Féin Poblachtach   text 7 comments (last - wednesday january 30, 2008 12:35)   image 1 image
Republican Sinn Fein to campaign against EU Constitution read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Saturday January 26, 2008 17:48 by Des Derwin   text 1 comment (last - friday february 08, 2008 18:11)   image 1 image
Dublin Council of Trade Unions

Public Meeting
ENOUGH!
A DECENT PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE NOW!

6.00 p.m. Monday 11th February 2008
Liberty Hall, Dublin
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday January 26, 2008 13:20 by Michael Gallagher   text 7 comments (last - monday february 11, 2008 14:42)   image 15 images
Outside Ahern's Office
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday January 26, 2008 10:46 by éirígí   text 5 comments (last - thursday february 21, 2008 15:25)   image 3 images
éirígí have announced the details of their latest public protest in opposition to the proposed state visit of the Commander-in-Chief of Britain’s armed forces to the Twenty-Six Counties.

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Gender and Ecology
national / politics / elections / other press Friday January 25, 2008 15:14 by C Murray   text 12 comments (last - sunday february 24, 2008 14:13)   image 2 images
The Taoiseach gets Friday off. Its a long-standing tradition that was facilitated by the
Labour Party in exchange for speaking time in the Dail.

The images on the Newswire of the Women's Protest in Belfast caught my eye,
given the Health and social problems that are becoming evident in Dolphin's Barn,
because someone gave Ms Harney 16 Billion Euros to continue to implement her Health
Policy which is to close down hospitals in areas that have high populations of young children.

Its called 'amalgamation'.

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RIP Jan .
international / miscellaneous / news report Thursday January 24, 2008 23:59 by Barry   text 9 comments (last - saturday january 26, 2008 18:16)   image 3 images
A young antifascist skinhead activist , Jan Kucera , has been brutally slain during a clash with a number of neo nazis in the small town of Pibram , just outside of Prague in the czech republic . Tensions between fascists and anti fascists have been high in that area since the successful mobilisation in November in which anti fascists and anarchists physically prevented neo nazis from staging a despicable rally in the centre of Pragues historic Jewish quarter to mark the anniversary of the nazis Kristalnacht pogrom against the jews of Germany during the 1930s .

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Heng or whats left of it!
international / history and heritage / news report Thursday January 24, 2008 21:12 by tarapiXie   text 5 comments (last - saturday january 26, 2008 11:47)   image 7 images
We had decided to have our breakfast on the henge this morning. As I drove towards the N3 a low loader carrying a digger was driving towards Lismullen. Approx 10 protestors arrived in Lismullen, some from the road and some from Rath Lugh. Security were present during the entire time we were there. 2 protestors were assaulted within a few minutes of arriving. I tried to block the fuel coming out of the Lismullen carpark but Mark Cleary kept pushing me out of the way and the fuel tractor got away. Steve from Kildare, one of the security men assaulted another protestor, he was pulled from the fence and thrown onto the ground head first, and hurt his neck. read full story / add a comment
Investment in Lies
mayo / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday January 24, 2008 20:23 by Rudiger   text 15 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2008 14:47)   image 3 images
Shell recently launched another cynical attempt to buy off opposition to their Corrib Gas project by offering grants to community groups that will be closest to Bellanaboy and their proposed raw gas pipeline. read full story / add a comment
Is that water from Carrowmore Lake?
international / environment / news report Thursday January 24, 2008 18:34 by sHell watcher   text 4 comments (last - friday february 01, 2008 20:04)   image 2 images
In Davos today, Shell's Chief Executive has said energy demand growth this year would be higher than last.

"I look at the energy industry, and of course we look at the total economic climate, but we don't see any reason for panic," Jeroen van der Veer told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
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Would bifocals help?
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Thursday January 24, 2008 10:19 by Terry   text 4 comments (last - friday february 01, 2008 15:25)   image 3 images
Meath, Heritage Capital of Ireland? Balloon is Full of Hot Air in more ways than one. read full story / add a comment
GAAW Poster
galway / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday January 23, 2008 20:13 by Niall Farrell   image 1 image
The Galway Alliance Against War will hold a public meeting at Liam Mellows statue Eyre Square this Saturday at 1.30pm. The main speaker will be Rhuhel Ahmed a former Guantanamo prisoner. On the day, GAAW intends to dress Liam Mellows in an orange boiler suit to highlight the unimpeded use of Shannon airport by the CIA torture flights. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday January 23, 2008 18:59 by NMI   text 9 comments (last - sunday january 27, 2008 00:47)   image 14 images
Here are some pictures and a two-minute video of the end of the protest in support of the people of Gaza, held in Dublin this lunchtime read full story / add a comment
Not exactly the Assembly chamber
antrim / housing / news report Wednesday January 23, 2008 17:35 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin   image 5 images
Residents of the Village area of South Belfast held a protest yesterday (Tuesday 22 January) outside Stormont against the housing conditions in which many people are forced to live and against the inaction of the Department of Social Development and NI Housing Executive in dealing with these problems. read full story / add a comment
Serkalem Fasil- Ethiopia
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday January 23, 2008 11:42 by C Murray   text 6 comments (last - sunday march 30, 2008 11:54)   image 9 images
I have received over two years consistent appeals by Women's Writer's Unions for aid in advertising
repressions of Women Writers , some of the appeals have gone on the Newswire; and some have been passed
on to to groups where the campaign would be more effective. The plight of the writers has not in that period
alleviated and some are in dire situations. This morning another one arrived, an archive update of the
2007 Women's Day attempt to highlight the cases of imprisoned Women Writers and activists.

All their names are familiar, Amnesty, Human Right's Watch, Reporters Without Borders, International Women In Media
Federation, Committee for the Protection of Journalists and PEN Women's Union have advocated on their cases.

Links to the ongoing cases of Journalist and activist repression:-between Women's day 2007-2008.

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The Socialist #31 - January 2008
national / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday January 22, 2008 21:56 by SP Online   image 1 image
The January 2008 issue of The Socialist (#31) now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents. read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 22, 2008 21:40 by Mark A. Nolan   image 1 image
The healthcare system, upon which people in Ireland depend, is an apartheid system. Simply put, some lives are worth more than others. Rare attempts at reform have been stymied by historic, chronic underspending and vested interests. This legacy has forced the vast majority of working people to take out private health insurance and has laid the foundations for a neo-liberal push towards an American-style system of private medicine. read full story / add a comment
Gaza City in darkness, save for a few apartments with their own means of electricity and the headlights of a car driving through the power cut (Photo : Adel Hana/AP. More can be viewed on the UK Guardian website. See link)
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday January 22, 2008 18:14 by TD   text 17 comments (last - saturday february 23, 2008 06:04)   image 2 images
Besides the wanton murder of nearly 40 Palestinians the past week, the vicious Israeli blockade of Gaza has also snuffed out the lives of five patients, including three babies in the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City - according to Dr Raed al-Arani, a surgeon and spokesman for the hospital, they either died from hypothermia or from power cuts interrupting their vital oxygen supplies at home.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday January 22, 2008 17:18 by Shell 2 Hell   text 1 comment (last - tuesday january 29, 2008 22:43)   image 4 images
Last Sunday in solidarity with the people of Rossport, Ógra Shinn Féin held a protest outside the offices of Statoil Ireland in Dublin. The protest was to highlight the continue involvement of Statoil, a Norwegian state industry, in the theft of Irish natural resources and endangerment of the Rossport community, through dirty deals with Shell and the 26 county government.
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national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday January 22, 2008 17:09 by Republican Youth   image 3 images
Young Republican delegates from across Ireland and representatives of International youth movements mobilised in Dublin this weekend to take part in a packed and upbeat Ógra Shinn Féin National Congress.

Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams delivered the main address and helped launch Ógra’s new drugs and alcohol campaign called N.A.R.C. (Not Another Ravaged Community) campaign.

The Sinn Féin President told the assembled; Comhdháil Náisúnta, that the Lisbon treaty was a bad deal for Ireland.

“The Lisbon Treaty, like many of the treaties that went before it, does not deliver reform, efficiency or democracy. It is a bad deal for Ireland. We deserve and can achieve better.”

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