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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
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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.
The post The Curious Links of Led by Donkeys appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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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Issue 3 of Moloch is now online
international / arts and media / press release Friday August 07, 2009 21:10 by Ailbhe Darcy   text 1 comment (last - friday august 07, 2009 21:14)   image 1 image
The new issue of Moloch, an online journal of new writing and art, has just been launched. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Friday August 07, 2009 19:39 by Gary Barrett   text 12 comments (last - wednesday september 30, 2009 20:34)   image 4 images
As part of the SIPTU Community Campaign, a protest against the cutbacks in the community sector is being held at 1pm on Parnell Square, Wednesday September 30th. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / news report Friday August 07, 2009 17:02 by Relict Almasty   text 1 comment (last - friday august 07, 2009 18:59)   image 1 image
Only a few years ago I felt pretty good at geography and potential statehoods when I wrote that the West's sponsorship of Kosovo would logically lead to us thinking about Abkhazia and Ossetia & knowing full well the average reader would have a better idea of where to hunt almasties than point out those two places on a map. It only took a short while for both those latter places to be wrapped up in a short little war between Russia and its southern neighbour Georgia exactly one year ago. Yesterday users of Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal & blogger.com all suffered serious denial of services. Today we learn the cause was a sustained and concentrated attack on the cyber profile of one individual. He or She operates under the name "Cyxymu" which is a dinky phonetic rendering of Sukhumi which we all know is the capital of Abhkazia. read full story / add a comment
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limerick / anti-capitalism / event notice Friday August 07, 2009 12:29 by Limerick Socialist Youth   image 3 images
On Saturday 15th August, the Limerick Socialist Party and Socialist Youth will hold a day of discussion and debate beginning at 1pm in Pery's Hotel. The day is designed to provide a forum for people sick of unemployment, low wages and cutbacks. read full story / add a comment
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limerick / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Friday August 07, 2009 12:17 by Limerick Socialist Youth   image 2 images
Socialist Youth are organising a picket/protest at the Limerick Chambe of Commerce as part of an ongoing campaign against pay cuts and in particular the threats to the minimum wage. As part of our campaign, we have been handing out peanuts to people, arguing that we are not monkeys – we need more than peanuts!. The protest, titled “We Won’t Work for Peanuts” is planned for next Tuesday, August 11th at 1pm outside the Chamber of Commerce on O’Connell St, opposite the White House. read full story / add a comment
Pathways to Palestine Poster
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Thursday August 06, 2009 21:11 by G. Quinn   text 3 comments (last - sunday august 09, 2009 23:38)   image 2 images
Press Release: 6th August 2009

After cycling through 14 countries and two time zones , four Irish cyclists have now completed their journey of 6000km from Ireland to Gaza only to be turned down at the border. The students, attempted to enter Gaza this morning but even their invitation from the UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency] didn’t help them. Their 6000km cycle aimed to raise money in support of an emergency appeal to provide for neo-natal care and medical resources for burn victims in Gaza. The initiative came from Eoghan Quinn (21), a type-1 diabetic, after he learned of the restrictions on medical supplies reaching Gaza. [1]. “As a diabetic I am completely dependant on constant access to medicine. I wanted to use my fortunate circumstance to help those cut off from the outside world in Gaza.” read full story / add a comment
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national / environment / event notice Thursday August 06, 2009 17:54 by Climatecamp   text 1 comment (last - monday august 10, 2009 15:24)   image 1 image
Banner and bunting making for Climate Camp
Dublin group get together
Venue: Seomra Spraoi, 10 Belvedere Court, off Gardiner St, Dublin 1
Date: Tuesday 11th of August
Time: 6pm-9pm

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What's at Stake
national / environment / event notice Thursday August 06, 2009 15:11 by Climatecamp   image 1 image
'Copenhagen and Climate Debt - What's at Stake' - A workshop with Pat Finnegan of GRIAN
One over 70 workshops on direct action, sustainable living and campaigning that are happening between 15th-23rd of August, at the Climate Camp in Co. Offaly
www.climatecamp.ie
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Stewart at Heathrow: 'I think the coalition - or parts of it - has got to become more threatening... There are differences in the movement as to whether violence against property is justified'
national / environment / event notice Thursday August 06, 2009 14:25 by Climatecamp   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 06, 2009 14:27)   image 1 image
Effective Direct Action Campaigning - 'Lessons from the anti-roads and anti-aviation campaigns in the UK'
John Stuart is a life-long activist supporting environmental direct action campaigns accross Europe. The Independent on Sunday has named him Britain's most effective green activist, and by friends 'the greatest eco-warrior of our age'. read full story / add a comment
Public Meeting
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday August 06, 2009 12:56 by Laura   image 1 image
This public meeting will have one of the workers who occupied Thomas Cook offices on Grafton St. from Friday 31st of July until the early hours of the morning on Tuesday the 4th of August after being forcibly removed by over 80 Gardai. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday August 05, 2009 17:56 by Saoirse   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Ógra Shinn Féin welcomes home Pearse McCauley and Kevin Walsh and we also wish them the best of luck. Both men have been released this morning from Castlerea jail in Roscommon after 10 years of imprisonment.
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Jimmy Devins
national / politics / elections / news report Wednesday August 05, 2009 17:45 by Noble 7   text 15 comments (last - tuesday january 11, 2011 19:10)   image 1 image
Jimmy Devins TD has resigned from the Fianna Fáil party.

Devins may be best known to Indymedia readers as the husband of Mary Devins, the judge who presides over many court cases involving opponents of the Shell plan to install an experimental pipeline in Erris, County Mayo.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 05, 2009 16:34 by redjade   text 2 comments (last - friday august 07, 2009 23:16)   image 1 image
Mary Robinson's 'long public record of hostility and one-sided bias against the Jewish state' read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday August 05, 2009 13:26 by Fred Johnston   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 12, 2009 20:05)   image 1 image
New Poetry Collection Launched in Galway read full story / add a comment
Caoimhe Butterly
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday August 05, 2009 11:34 by TD   text 2 comments (last - wednesday august 05, 2009 23:27)   image 1 image
Now that IDB Holding Corp through its Clal Industries unit, Mashav, an Israeli holding company for Nesher Cement, in which Irish building material group CRH has a 25% stake is acquiring Israel's second largest building materials company; Hanson Israel, it's clear CRH are getting big in that rogue state and deeper in its complicity in the construction of the illegal Apartheid Wall: Amnesty International, "C.R.H., through its subsidiaries Mashav and Nesher is likely to be providing the raw material of the fence/wall...if so, it would contravene the U.N. norms on the responsibilities of Transnational Corp. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Wednesday August 05, 2009 07:58 by K.Nikolaisen   text 57 comments (last - sunday august 09, 2009 15:17)   image 22 images   video 2 video files
At 5 AM this morning, over 150 Garda took part in an opperation to remove Thomas Cook workers who had occupied the building.They sealed off the street, dragged peaceful demonstrators away from the front door,and smashed their way in with a battering ram. read full story / add a comment
Shameless Banker
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday August 04, 2009 23:21 by Enough is Enough   text 10 comments (last - thursday august 06, 2009 13:13)   image 1 image
Gort na Móna historical discussion
antrim / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday August 04, 2009 22:33 by Gort   image 1 image
"The Fenians, the Gaelic Revival and their relevance to Ireland today"

Public discussion with Dr Feargal McCluskey
and Dr Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh
Followed by traditional session read full story / add a comment
Mr. Binman Workers Protest
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Tuesday August 04, 2009 21:29 by Ann-Katrin Orr   text 1 comment (last - friday august 07, 2009 15:22)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
On March 25th workers at Mr. Binman’s Carrick-on-Suir depot in Tipperary were called into a general meeting. The privatized bin company wanted pay cuts of 10% across the board from the workers. The following day workers were called one by one into management offices and told that for them, 10% would not be enough. Wage cuts of 20, 30, 40 or even 49% were demanded.

In response, the workers organized a meeting of their own. They quickly learned that, not only were there different pay cuts for different workers – there was also different pay rates, different work hours and different conditions. They decided to fight these pay cuts, and get unionised, joining SIPTU. The company refused to recognize the union, or negotiate with them, and strike notice was served. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Tuesday August 04, 2009 16:18 by Susan Boyle   text 4 comments (last - thursday august 06, 2009 16:55)   image 1 image
Those of us whose holidays or vacations are generally spent eating healthy salad, considering the holistic benefits of poverty which reduce alcohol consumption & welcome soft slumber - are often left with only two things to do.

The sensible : decorate the gaff.
The frustrating : read about other people's holidays.

Oh, if I had enough for a decent roller and emulsion I'd have enough for a six pack & oriental massage on my local beach. So instead I offer to the reader a miscellany of links covering former President Clinton's surprise day trip to North Korea. read full story / add a comment
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