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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

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link The Oxford Scientist Trying to Cancel Elon Musk Sat Nov 30, 2024 11:00 | Will Jones
An Oxford scientist has resigned from the Royal Society in an attempt to get Elon Musk kicked out of the prestigious science body over his support for free speech, climate scepticism and opposition to woke.
The post The Oxford Scientist Trying to Cancel Elon Musk appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Zelensky Says He?ll Give up Ukrainian Territory to Russia to Achieve Peace Sat Nov 30, 2024 09:00 | Will Jones
Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday night that he was willing to cede territory to Russia to end the war for the first time on condition that Ukraine is admitted to NATO "fast".
The post Zelensky Says He’ll Give up Ukrainian Territory to Russia to Achieve Peace appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Jay Bhattacharya, My Great Barrington Declaration Co-Author, is the Right Person to Restore Integrit... Sat Nov 30, 2024 07:00 | Dr Martin Kulldorff
Martin Kulldorff says that Jay Bhattacharya, his fellow Great Barrington Declaration author, is the right person to restore integrity to public health as he succeeds at NIH a man who branded him a "fringe epidemiologist".
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offsite link News Round-Up Sat Nov 30, 2024 01:30 | Toby Young
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 ?Ulez Architect? and 20mph Zone Supporter Appointed New Transport Secretary Fri Nov 29, 2024 17:38 | Will Jones
One of the 'architects of Ulez' and a supporter of 20mph zones has been appointed as the new Transport Secretary?after Louise Haigh's resignation, raising fears the anti-car measures may become national policy.
The post ‘Ulez Architect’ and 20mph Zone Supporter Appointed New Transport Secretary appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Aminatou in Lanzarote.
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 09, 2009 10:44 by UD   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 10, 2009 13:00)   image 1 image
Aminatou Haidar is now three weeks drinking sugar-water at Lanzarote airport because her
papers were stolen by Morocco. The Spanish government has little to say on the issue of
a Peace-activist and Nobel recommended woman dying on their doorstep and Morocco
presses ahead with whatever attracts them in the Western Sahara.

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Garda David Walsh
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday December 08, 2009 21:17 by Seán Ryan   text 3 comments (last - sunday january 31, 2010 22:52)   image 2 images
Yesterday, on Monday the 7th of December, Mr Robert Ševcik was in the Richmond Court to conclude a marathon hearing that had spilled into a second day. Mr. Ševcik an animal rights activist, was answering to four charges, ranging from threatening, insulting and abusive behaviour, under the Public Order Act, to failing to produce his passport upon demand, under the Immigration Act. All of these charges arose out of a protest at Barnado's Furriers on Grafton st. close to the Molly Malone statue, on the 18th of October, 2008.

It was a case littered with perjury, a missing garda sergeant and a mysterious garda inspector. Nonetheless, at the end of the case, the judge accepted Mr Ševcik's evidence and he walked out of the court, with each and every charge dismissed.

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How long shall we continue to allow this rotten State continue its attempt at snuffing out the most basic and fundamental of rights?

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday December 07, 2009 21:41 by James McB WSM personal capacity   text 6 comments (last - wednesday december 09, 2009 11:41)   image 2 images
The Garda Representative Association today announced a ballot of their members for possible industrial action. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / news report Sunday December 06, 2009 21:31 by Thomas Janak   text 3 comments (last - tuesday december 08, 2009 13:57)   audio 2 audio files
Colette Nic Aodha, poet, with poet Seosaimh O Guairim and Cllr. Catherine Connolly, who launched the book
national / arts and media / news report Saturday December 05, 2009 17:22 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
A project top have three Irish-language poets give their impressions of Galway, sponsored by one of a series of awards from Bus Éireann and Foras Na Gaeilge is launched in Galway City Museum read full story / add a comment
Social & Climate Justice Caravan
international / environment / news report Saturday December 05, 2009 09:46 by Social & Climate Justice Caravan   text 1 comment (last - sunday december 06, 2009 07:44)   image 8 images   video 3 video files   audio 1 audio file
In front of the international head quarters of WWF (World Wildlife Fund) in Gland-Geneva, participants of the Social and Climate Justice Caravan made their first protest action. Delegates from farming organisations, indigenous and fisher folk from the South denounced the greenwashing carried out by WWF in their respective countries.

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cruel feather harvesting from live birds
international / animal rights / news report Friday December 04, 2009 22:50 by Bernie Wright   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 06, 2009 17:05)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Dont buy items with feathers/duvets, jackets, hanging decorations, xmas decorations,....etc..
Down is the soft layer of feathers closest to birds’ skin, primarily on the chest area. These feathers are valued because they do not have any hard quills. Products labeled as “down” may contain a combination of these underfeathers and other feathers or fillers. While most down and feathers are removed from birds during slaughter, geese from breeders and ones bred for meat and those on foie gras farms may be live-plucked.
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Dinny McGinley TD
national / arts and media / news report Thursday December 03, 2009 19:47 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   image 3 images
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Landerneau, Brittany (c) Western Writers' Centre
national / arts and media / news report Thursday December 03, 2009 15:08 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
The Galway-based Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude - is hoping to create a literary link between Brittany and Galway. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 22:39 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
Listen and see why some of the people came from around the country to take part in yesterday's protest read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 19:43 by Rudiger   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 03, 2009 17:09)   image 2 images
This weekend saw the annual Ken Saro Wiwa memorial weekend being held in Erris, Co Mayo. This was the 14th such memorial weekend, and is held in memory of the Ogoni leader who was hung along with 8 other men because of their opposition to Shell. The weekend was organised as Sr Majella McCarron, who told the assembled crowd during the weekend of how she had worked closely with Saro Wiwa for 18 months while she was in Ogoniland and continued to communicate with him up until the time he was detained and subsequently hung. read full story / add a comment
'no ifs, no buts- no education cuts!'
kildare / education / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 17:26 by Donal Ó Fallúin - WSM/FEE NUIM   text 13 comments (last - wednesday december 16, 2009 19:11)   image 6 images   video 1 video file
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national / consumer issues / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 12:40 by cirrius   text 4 comments (last - monday december 07, 2009 23:30)   video 1 video file
People who used to get the Christmas payment include those on the blind pension, Invalidity pension, widows allowance, long term unemployed people, people on carer's allowance, state pension, and the families of those in prison. Contrast their treatment with the pensions paid every week to former government ministers like Ray Burke and Bertie Ahern, or the billions ploughed into the budgets of banks and developers.

This year, the Fianna Fáil/Green Party coalition, backed by various Independents, has axed the Christmas payment to pensioners and those on the dole. Yesterday Sinn Féin held a protest outside Leinster Houses demanding that the payment be restored.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh said: “Economic recovery will not be achieved by driving people into poverty. The recession will deepen if the government persists in taking money from those who spend it on everyday necessities. If these cuts are not resisted we face a prolonged recession with more and more people living in poverty.”
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 09:37 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
Symphysiotomy: The story of a cruel childbirth operation. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 04:22 by Basque Info   text 5 comments (last - saturday may 21, 2011 08:56)
Protests were held in Belfast, Dublin, Limerick, Omagh, Strabane and in Dungannon in solidarity with the Basque pro-Independence Left movement and in protest at a massive Spanish police repressive operation involving 650 police, raids on over 60 premises and the arrest of 34 Basque youth as a result of their political activities. The Basque Country itself saw a number of school strikes and other protests during the week, including one of 20,430 in Bilbao, the capital, on Saturday. Further protests are being organised. Thirty-one of the youth were sent to prison, bringing the total of Basque political prisoners to 762, the highest in 35 years.

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Fighting for Animal Rights Across Ireland
dublin / animal rights / news report Tuesday December 01, 2009 19:40 by ARAN   text 2 comments (last - friday december 04, 2009 12:21)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
This Sunday join compassionate people from across Ireland and beyond to gather in Dublin for a peaceful march and rally to call for stronger laws in the upcoming animal welfare bill due to be released in 2010 – the rally also aims to highlight the problem of animal abuse in Ireland to the nation and call for tougher penalties for those who abuse animals and who currently get away with a mere a slap on the wrist. The march also aims to establish rights for animals and to remove from society that animals are nothing more than commodities. read full story / add a comment
Kish energy prospect
dublin / consumer issues / news report Tuesday December 01, 2009 14:31 by Ramon Eyan   image 2 images
The Department of Transport has issued a notice to mariners to steer clear of an area in Dublin Bay where an exploration vessel is to conduct tests to check the viability of a plan to convert under sea deposits of coal to gas which could be used to produce energy. The tests will be carried out on behalf of a company called VP Power in the Kish Basin, around thirteen miles east of Bray Head starting on December 7th.

VP Power is group of investors who have raised money to fund the testing of the experimental gas-from-coal prospect. Brian Geoghegan, husband of health minister Mary Harney, is one of the backers of the scheme.
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dublin / arts and media / news report Tuesday December 01, 2009 11:41 by DCTV
The December Schedule from DCTV is here. Read on below for some highlights.
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national / environment / news report Monday November 30, 2009 17:05 by Contaminated Crow
Three masts, two windfarms, two quarries, an electricity sub-station and an animal rights protest read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday November 30, 2009 14:57 by Medusa   text 9 comments (last - monday april 26, 2010 18:52)   video 1 video file
Taping Placards to the Main door at the Galway Cathedral high lighting churches abuse of children read full story / add a comment
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