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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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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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national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Friday January 18, 2008 15:26 by Sper   text 2 comments (last - wednesday january 30, 2008 11:13)   image 1 image
The Socialist Party will host a public forum in Wynns Hotel on Tuesday, 29 January, at 7.45pm to discuss the way forward for the health service and outline ideas of the type of campaign that we feel is necessary to improve the health service. Along with former Socialist Party TD JOE HIGGINS, Consultant Oncologist, JOHN CROWN and ORLA HARDIMAN, a Consultant Neurologist and co-coordinator of "Doctors for a Better Public Health Service", will both speak at the meeting outlining their views on the health service and how problems could be addressed. The meeting will also be addressed by a nurse and other speakers. read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Friday January 18, 2008 13:18 by Choice Ireland   text 9 comments (last - wednesday march 05, 2008 02:39)   image 3 images
What? Feminist Walking Tour
When? IWD Sat March 8th, 2.30pm
Where? Meet at Stephen's Green Arch
Why? Education, Celebration, Visibility, Solidarity, Fun! read full story / add a comment
filling your heads with citations, proofs, ideas & no trivia!
international / arts and media / other press Friday January 18, 2008 12:32 by Fu manchu   text 2 comments (last - monday march 17, 2008 00:00)   image 1 image
Tara Brabazon is Professor of Media Studies a the University of Brighton and Director of the Popular Culture Collective. She's an author of a few bits & bobs on internet use, media culture & is building quite a profile for herself for attacking Google & Wikipedia claiming that they undermine educational & didactic processes & more than Harry Potter actively contribute to turning our kids brains (& minds) to utter mushy shite.

Thing is, her arguments are proving to interest & influence far beyond the generally airified chitchat discussions of Media Studies university departments. Today's "Liberation" the French leftwing daily reports how the "Just say No to Wikipedia!" stickers are appearing across the USA in high schools as well as public amenity libraries. The cultural link with Nancy Reagan's "Just say no to Drugs!" ought be obvious.
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Le Pen
dublin / miscellaneous / news report Thursday January 17, 2008 13:35 by Anti-Racism   text 35 comments (last - friday february 01, 2008 10:35)   image 1 image
Far-right nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen has been invited to Ireland by the UCD Law Society according to this morning's Daily Star.

The Star reports that Le Pen's availability is somewhat unsure, as his trial for conspiracy to justify war crimes and deny Nazi crimes against humanity is ongoing, with a verdict due next month. read full story / add a comment
Unite to fight raw gas pipeline
mayo / environment / news report Thursday January 17, 2008 13:08 by Rudiger   text 4 comments (last - wednesday january 23, 2008 17:52)   image 4 images
Latest update from Erris read full story / add a comment
a gnostic heretical elite driven by ambition & magic.
international / arts and media / other press Thursday January 17, 2008 13:07 by + "ora pro nobis"   image 1 image
This week's Vatican Observatory newspaper has fielded two articles on Harry Potter explaining to whomever bothers that the popular kids' series of novels & movies is really doing what the mad sicko fundamentalist Americans already said it is. Yep. Sending your kids to Satan.

....."J.K. Rowling's successful character Harry Potter is the wrong model of a hero, says the Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano in its Monday-Tuesday edition. In an article signed by Edoardo Rialti, L'Osservatore says that many have tried to establish a parallel between Rowling's main character and "the great fantasy masterpieces of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and Clive Staples Lewis, the Christian authors of the most beloved fables of the 20th Century............"

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international / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday January 15, 2008 22:28 by Cathal Lalor   text 16 comments (last - tuesday january 29, 2008 18:46)   image 1 image
The Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation today released their so-called 'Index of Economic Freedom' for 2008. This index ranks countries according to how their institutions and policies facilitate the power of capital. Ireland is third, beaten only by the dictatorships of Hong Kong and Singapore. The dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and its rationalizing ideology,-neo-liberal economics-, has triumphed in Ireland. The developing societal breakdown is a measure of its success.
The other side of the coin is the dismal failure of the left. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / news report Tuesday January 15, 2008 16:28 by Voteno.ie   text 31 comments (last - saturday january 19, 2008 12:57)   image 2 images
A new website - www.VoteNo.ie - has been launched to garner a No vote to the Lisbon Treaty. read full story / add a comment
4 days of secularism & general pope-bashing - Thank Galileo.
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday January 15, 2008 12:08 by + "ora pro nobis"   text 12 comments (last - friday march 28, 2008 00:19)   image 2 images
67 members of staff at the university of Sapienza in Rome have joined their student body in rejecting a planned visit by Pope Benedict XVI this Thursday citing his position & opinion on Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) common era, who was placed under house arrest by the Roman Catholic church from 1633 onwards in a process which Joseph Ratzinger described as "reasonable & just" in 1990.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday January 14, 2008 23:58 by Seamus Power.   text 7 comments (last - thursday february 14, 2008 18:10)   image 3 images
Institutionalised religion is concerned in retaining control: the reality of power is more important than the prospect of exploring multiple realities. Anything new or different raises the alarm bells.
The words of church officials come from dogma not from the heart, influenced by tradition, not intuition. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday January 14, 2008 20:23 by WSM   text 39 comments (last - tuesday march 25, 2008 13:04)   image 1 image
international / miscellaneous / event notice Monday January 14, 2008 18:07 by Fleachta   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 26, 2008 23:54)   image 1 image
Come along and support us to highlight our protest against profit driven Globalisation. Be part of the Global Day of Action on Saturday, January, 26th 2008, 11:30 am outside the Central Bank, Dame Street, Dublin 1- for a Media Stunt and Information Stalls of Groups and Organisations read full story / add a comment
'Bloody Sunday' picket , Dublin , Saturday Jan 26 , 2008.
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday January 14, 2008 17:13 by Sharon .   text 65 comments (last - tuesday october 18, 2011 04:44)   image 14 images   3 attached files
A picket in memory of the 14 people massacred by the British Parachute Regiment on Sunday , January 30 , 1972 , will be held in Dublin on Saturday January 26 , 2008. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Monday January 14, 2008 16:29 by AM   text 32 comments (last - monday january 21, 2008 14:36)   image 1 image
Paul Allen, Cheif Executive Officer of Serica Energy, has said that the company hopes to drill Corrib "look-a-like prospects" this year. He states that the tax and licensing situation in Ireland is very good for the oil industry (and thus not so good for the people of Ireland). read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday January 14, 2008 15:47 by Johnny H   text 1 comment (last - monday january 14, 2008 15:51)   image 1 image
There will be a CYM Discussion Class on "The Ongoing Cuban Revolution" this Wednesday at 7pm in Connolly Books, East Essex Street, Temple Bar. read full story / add a comment
Georgina Smith
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday January 14, 2008 12:37 by Margaretta D'Arcy   text 1 comment (last - monday january 14, 2008 18:47)   image 2 images
The anti-war spirit is alive and active in a prison near Stirling in Scotland. On Thursday January 12th, at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, a pair of grandmothers, Georgina Smith (78) and Helen John (70), were sentenced by Sheriff Richard MacFarlane to jail for 45 days and 40 days respectively, for writing the truth on the outside of the Edinburgh High Court on Armistice Day November 11th 2006. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / news report Monday January 14, 2008 11:59 by N.A.R.C   text 12 comments (last - saturday january 19, 2008 18:13)   image 1 image
Ógra Shinn Féin will launch a major National campaign on Drugs and Alcohol this coming weekend in Dublin.

The launch will take place this Saturday 19th January at the youth movement’s National Congress in the ATGWU Hall, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin at 2pm. Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams will be attending the launch.

The campaign which will run for the next 6 months is called N.A.R.C, an acronym for not another ravaged community.

It will focus on many issues relating to drug and alcohol abuse, including youth and community action, gaining a more concerted effort from government, and rolling out a vigorous and broad based awareness programme. read full story / add a comment
AI member as Guantánamo prisoner at the Spire
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday January 14, 2008 10:40 by Amnesty1   text 22 comments (last - thursday january 17, 2008 10:40)   image 11 images
Amnesty International members and supporters mobilised across Ireland read full story / add a comment
{redjade is jealous of whom took this photo - great shot!}
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday January 13, 2008 18:21 by Ciaron O' Reilly   text 16 comments (last - tuesday june 03, 2008 19:00)   image 11 images
The London Catholic Worker marked the 6th. anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo with a vigil at the U.S. embassy, located near Grosvenor Square in central London.

To vigil is stay awake; to stay awake to the mainstreaming of torture, to attacks on civil liberties, to our complicity with the CIA kidnapping and rendition flights refueling in England to the U.S. gulag that is Guantanamo. As we enter the 7th. year of the Bush initiated war without end, civil society remains asleep, sedated and silenced in the face of a war that escalates in Iraq and Afghanistan and expands into Lebanon, Somalia, Pakistan and who knows where next? read full story / add a comment
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dublin / animal rights / news report Sunday January 13, 2008 17:53 by Laura Broxson   image 3 images
New Target for Anti-Fur Protesters! read full story / add a comment
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