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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

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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
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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail supporter? Anthony

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offsite link DESNZ Has Net Zero Competence Sun Jul 28, 2024 15:00 | David Turver
David Turver casts a critical eye over the new crop of ministers at the Department of Energy and Net Zero, revealing a batch of public sector lifers with no commercial savvy and zero energy know-how.
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offsite link Hate Cleric Raises £3 Million to Create Islamic Homeland on Scottish Island Sun Jul 28, 2024 13:01 | Richard Eldred
A radical cleric has raised over £3 million to transform a remote Scottish island into a self-governing Islamic state with its own army, justice system, school and hospital.
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offsite link Why I Fear What Labour Will Do to the Education System Sun Jul 28, 2024 11:00 | Stephen Curran
We are facing a radical agenda set by the progressive wing of the educational establishment, says Dr Stephen Curran. We should build on the past 14 years' foundation, not tear it down.
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offsite link Labour Has Just Betrayed a Generation of Young People Sun Jul 28, 2024 09:00 | Richard Eldred
By dropping the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, the Education Secretary has declared war on the culture of free speech on campus. The fight-back starts here, says Claire Fox in the Telegraph.
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offsite link The Extreme Weather We?re Experiencing Is Not Man Made, According to the IPCC Sun Jul 28, 2024 07:00 | Mark Ellse
Day-to-day weather, with all its extremes, is "just weather", according to the IPCC. With their authority onside, we can shrug off the BBC's melodramatic climate reports and misinformation, says Mark Ellse.
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armagh / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday February 26, 2009 11:13 by Sean Matthews   image 1 image
THE recent publishing of the report by the Consultative Group on the Past demonstrates the simmering sectarian tensions and hostility beneath the surface.The 190 page report by the group, chaired by ex-Church of Ireland primate Lord Eames and former Policing Board vice chairman Dennis Bradley marked 18 months of consultation with victim groups and others that have been bereaved through the conflict. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday February 26, 2009 03:09 by Aquiles Magana   text 2 comments (last - monday april 27, 2009 20:54)
Update on the current situation in the Salvadoran presidential election. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 25, 2009 12:57 by TruthWillOut   text 2 comments (last - tuesday march 03, 2009 23:59)   video 2 video files
Amnesty's report on weapons used by both sides in Gaza finds much to condemn.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE15/012/2009/....html

The group is particularly hard on the U.S., having found numerous remains of American munitions -- including white phosphorus shells from Pine Bluff Arsenal, and a Hellfire missile made in Orlando.

Another weapon which bothers Amnesty is a mysterious munition, filled with cubic particles.

This type of ultra-precise strike capability is supposed to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties.

So we turn once again to Garlasco's comment, from an earlier conflict:

"It is unfortunate that these weapons are being developed specifically for use in densely populated areas which may negate the intended effect." read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 24, 2009 11:58 by Etain   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 25, 2009 10:25)   image 1 image
“People who got mortgages they can’t afford to pay back were greedy and foolish and should suffer the consequences…They signed a free contract, they’re adults and they have to take responsibility for their actions”. This is the kind of thing that gets thrown around a lot in recessions. It conveniently ignores a few things. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday February 22, 2009 22:08 by Dermot O'Byrne   text 20 comments (last - sunday march 15, 2009 20:24)
Is the Labour Party led by Eamon Gilmore on the side of the working class? read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday February 22, 2009 15:22 by Gregor Kerr   text 5 comments (last - tuesday february 24, 2009 11:33)
From late morning yesterday (Sat. 21st February) it was clear that the Irish Congress of Trade Unions’ National Demonstration was going to be huge. It was also clear that those marching were from all over the country and from all types of employment – both public and private sector. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday February 20, 2009 16:32 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - saturday february 21, 2009 14:12)   1 attached file
All are strongly urged to turn out with their unions on the ICTU March to-morrow. March begins at 2 pm from Parnell Sq.

Leaflets can be collected at Royal Dublin Hotel, O Connell St, from 1pm on Saturday for distribution in your section of ICTU March. Text of leaflet (not laid out) is set out below.

Next General Meeting of Public Service Alliance, Thursday Feb 26, 8.15PM, Teachers Club, Parnell Sq, Dublin.

All are welcome. Keep up the "grassroots" pressure
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national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday February 16, 2009 13:06 by Paul O' Sullivan
What Senators say on Sundays read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday February 12, 2009 17:50 by paulosullivan01@gmail.com
Sixty-five thousand people in the cold, lots of vilis but only one Robbie Keane. But it's important to say it like it is, in football and politics. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 11, 2009 23:29 by Paul O' Sullivan   video 2 video files
Oh, Pat. We really can't stand you now. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 10, 2009 19:07 by Paul O' Sullivan
Takes four seasons to find one's voice read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday February 09, 2009 22:44 by jim travers   text 13 comments (last - wednesday march 18, 2009 16:12)
The man is in a corner, his party in a hole, the opposition lining up to take on the government’s toxic debts
and Ireland once again is in an economic shithole that was brought about by political representatives who neither knew how to spend wisely nor how to manage properly, in case of a rainy day, the state’s finances. Joe Higgins was a total gobeen for telling us that we were on a slide to disaster, while David McWilliams was criticised by everybody and anybody who proudly professed their expertise in the financial affairs of the state. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday February 08, 2009 19:33 by Paul O' Sullivan   text 5 comments (last - sunday october 17, 2010 12:42)
Last week, Martin Mansergh unwittingly gave an insight into the Fianna Fail's attitude toward the opinions of the electorate. His appearance on TV3 was a reminder of his less antagonising sibling. read full story / add a comment
national / education / opinion/analysis Saturday February 07, 2009 01:13 by Conor.M   text 62 comments (last - sunday march 08, 2009 14:17)
Third level fees should be re-introduced. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday February 06, 2009 10:00 by Gavin   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 10, 2009 06:08)
Dublin Bus is slated to see huge cuts in both staff and services. As many as 290 workers and 100 buses will be cut. This means fewer routes and less frequent service. If the Dublin Bus workers go on strike, it will mean an inconvenience for a few days. However, if they take action and force the company to back down, it will in the long run save us all time and money and will help the environment. It will also serve as a message to the politicians. If they want cuts, they can start by tightening the belts at the top, not the bottom. The politicians are giving bailouts to bankers while they hand out cuts to workers and commuters. It's clear where the money to support public services should come from. It should come from the people who created the crisis!
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday February 05, 2009 18:39 by Con Carroll   text 1 comment (last - friday february 06, 2009 13:15)
class political identification. this is not a recession this was well though out political economic agenda. this is war against the working class by capitalist interests read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday February 05, 2009 17:04 by Gerry Downing   text 7 comments (last - saturday may 30, 2009 21:37)
The strike is now coming to a conclusion. The British labour movement will emerge from it a great deal worse that when it began. The negotiations are centred around which nationality gets which jobs, with even more reactionary demands emerging from the SP that jobs should be 'local'. The strike began about BJ4BW, some gave whole hearted support and pretended the posters, union jacks and pickets comments were just 'media lies' (Galloway et al), others came to the schizophrenic conclusion that the strike might be on reactionary demands, but ‘really’, dialectically, in a contradictory way it was about a fight to advance the rights of all workers and since it might become that it was ok – a sort of ‘if your aunt had balls’ argument.
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday February 05, 2009 14:33 by Paul O' Sullivan
A look at who's really to blame from a self-confessed Celtic Tiger cub read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 04, 2009 18:36 by Mik Wilde
Is the use of intrusive technology like that used by BetEire to track who is using the M50, when they used it and to extort payment for usage the first step down the road to where technology of this kind will be used to track and control our every movement? read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 03, 2009 21:35 by Paul O' Sullivan   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 04, 2009 19:35)   1 attached file
Account of covering local council meetings read full story / add a comment
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