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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
Alternative site: https://thesaker.si/saker-a... Site was created using the downloads provided Regards Herb

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 Is Banning the Burps of Bullocks Worth Risking Our Bollocks? Fri Nov 29, 2024 11:32 | Ben Pile
Is banning the burps of bullocks worth risking our bollocks? That the question posed by the decision to give Bovaer to cows to 'save the planet', says Ben Pile, after evidence suggests a possible risk to male fertility.
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offsite link The Ed Miliband Phenomenon ? What Makes ?Britain?s Most Dangerous Man? Tick? Fri Nov 29, 2024 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
With his zeal for impoverishing Britain and his imperviousness to inconvenient facts, Ed Miliband is Britain's most dangerous man, says Tilak Doshi. What makes fanatics like him tick?
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offsite link In Episode 21 of the Sceptic: David Frost on Allison Pearson, Starmerism and Kemi Badenoch, and Nick... Fri Nov 29, 2024 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 21 of the Sceptic: David Frost on Allison Pearson and free speech, the meaning of Starmerism and Kemi Badenoch, and Nick Dixon on whether Trump will put woke away.
The post In Episode 21 of the Sceptic: David Frost on Allison Pearson, Starmerism and Kemi Badenoch, and Nick Dixon on Whether Trump Will Put Woke Away appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Nov 29, 2024 01:17 | 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 Only Psychological Therapy Could Cure Long Covid, Major BMJ Study Finds Thu Nov 28, 2024 19:00 | Will Jones
Psychological therapy may be the only treatment to successfully cure lingering 'Long Covid' symptoms, landmark new research in the BMJ has suggested.
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50% of all gem-quality diamonds are crafted in Israel but you can't identify them.
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 10, 2010 22:51 by Sean Clinton   text 21 comments (last - sunday september 05, 2010 13:58)   image 3 images
Both the print and broadcast media have given a lot of coverage to the saga of Naomi Campbell’s encounter with blood diamonds, allegedly given to her by the former Liberian ruler and accused war criminal Charles Taylor. The controversy surrounds what Campbell described as a few “dirty looking pebbles” she received in the middle of the night while attending a dinner party hosted by former South African President, Nelson Mandela.

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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 10, 2010 19:25 by George Hill   text 4 comments (last - sunday august 15, 2010 00:39)
The People Before Profit Alliance have made an official complaint against Independent Senator Rónán Mullen in relation to reports he made in Seanad. This raises questions about PBPA's judgement and their approach towards elected office. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 10, 2010 12:13 by Latif Serhildan
The oppressive fascist Turkish regime attempted to eliminate the Kurdish population more than decades now. One has to look at the brief history of the Kurds to know what Turkish state has tried to do with the Kurds. In 1921 at Kocgiri; 1925 at Sex Sait; 1930 at Agri and Zilan by killing more than fifty thousand people. In 1938, at Dersim an estimated seventy thousand children and elderly men and women were killed. Since 1984, more than forty thousand people have lost their lives due to the Kurdish conflict in Turkey. Kurds have not only been deprived of their basic rights and freedoms, read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / opinion/analysis Monday August 09, 2010 00:29 by mat   text 1 comment (last - monday august 09, 2010 14:08)
NO ONE IS ILLEGAL clip read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Saturday August 07, 2010 11:46 by Paddy Hackett
The Good Friday Agreement makes the false assumption that the six county sectarian state can be re-established as a democratic sectarian-free state. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday August 02, 2010 14:26 by JMC & YOD   text 30 comments (last - friday september 17, 2010 03:25)   image 1 image   1 attached file
This is a brief account of our travels to the West Bank in June 2010. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Saturday July 31, 2010 16:28 by Thomas "TJ" Janak   audio 1 audio file
Listen to E-Wave host George Mulcahy and "electro-popper" TJ ... read full story / add a comment
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national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Saturday July 31, 2010 13:08 by éirígí Sligeach   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 05, 2010 14:33)   image 2 images
The massacre of three members of the Miami Showband Occurred 35 Years ago today. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Friday July 30, 2010 16:35 by Thomas Janak   audio 1 audio file
An interview with performance artist Kelly Frances McKenna read full story / add a comment
meath / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday July 29, 2010 14:12 by Farrelly57   text 12 comments (last - saturday august 14, 2010 16:47)   image 4 images
Here is a small wood, made smaller by the M3 Motorway and used obviously as a tip by locals now. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 28, 2010 20:48 by Tony Healy   text 4 comments (last - tuesday august 03, 2010 23:42)
A ban on trade union donations to the Labour Party will not benefit anyone other than the enemies of the working class and the organised working class in particular.

The Green Party leader John Gormley has announced that the ban is to be introduced, alongside a ban on corporate donations, so much for the Green Party’s veneer of radicalism. This “radicalism” has become very stale and particularly mouldy also. Of course the proposed legislation is designed to appear even handed.

But the truth of the matter is that the link between Labour and the working class is potentially very important and the bourgeois understand that very well.
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 27, 2010 17:19 by Catholic Worker   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 28, 2010 15:42)
VID (8 mins 30 secs) - (A slightly hungover) Ciaron O'Reilly on "Christian Anarchism & the Catholic Worker". Talk given at Christian - Anarchist gathering in England 2010.

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national / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Monday July 26, 2010 17:17 by Paul McAndrew   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 27, 2010 14:48)
Urgent! Attack on vital health provision for trans people in Ireland
The Labour councillor making the call for cuts. is Colm Keaveney . I've already spoken to him on this mobile number. It works. Got it from Labour website.
colm@colmkeaveney.ie
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday July 26, 2010 12:42 by indyjourno   text 9 comments (last - wednesday august 11, 2010 12:06)   video 1 video file
Today’s Irish Independent features a rather poor attempt at a hatchet job of left wing activism in Ireland. Will Hanafin decided to hang around several left wing protests at the request of the Irish Independent. What emerges is a tale of him meeting middle-aged women and humourless platitudes. Of course maybe “far-left protesters” are just humourless individuals or idiots, as Hanafin seems to suggest. read full story / add a comment
dublin / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Sunday July 25, 2010 15:22 by Declan Cullen
Gormley's mad proposals need to be halted.

Its amazing how mad Minister John Gormley really is. He says that local councils can save 500 million euros in new reforms proposed that will affect vehicle owners.Its going to get so complicated and costly to own a vehicle in this state that most people will probably give up the dream of owning a car and content themselves with the fact that they will have to walk, or cycle depending on the distance. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 20, 2010 11:42 by Sean Keir Moriarty   text 2 comments (last - wednesday july 21, 2010 22:21)
Dear Prime Minister Cowen,

Over the course of the past three (3) years, I've written you, Mr. Gormley, the members of Dáil Éireann, the Meath County Council, archaeologists at NUI Galway, UC Dublin, UC Cork, The Heritage Council, The Discovery Programme and the OPW on numerous occasions regarding my research paper, 'Orthostat, the Mound of the Hostages'.

http://www.knowth.com/tara-pdf.htm

The purpose for doing so was to convince The Heritage Council, The Discovery Programme & OPW to complete the geo-physical mapping of Tara, which I have no doubt will confirm the hypothesis set forth in my paper, that the symbols carved on Orthostat L2 within the Mound of the Hostages, constitute a map of the Hill of Tara, as it existed during the Neolithic Age. ( ca. 3200 BC)

The response I received from The Discovery Programme was that "no one here is compet read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday July 19, 2010 15:55 by Paddy Hackett   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 20, 2010 16:23)
The left and the right are the same. They merely perform different political and ideological functions. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday July 18, 2010 16:35 by éirígí Sligeach   text 1 comment (last - sunday july 18, 2010 17:56)   image 5 images
A demonstration was held outside Castlerea Prison on Saturday July 17th to celebrate the release of jailed Shell to Sea campaigner and Human Rights activist Pat 'the chief' O'Donnell read full story / add a comment
Simon Bolivar's remains get disturbed yet again - today exhumed from the Venezuelan pantheon
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Friday July 16, 2010 23:20 by iosaf - o as if   text 5 comments (last - sunday july 18, 2010 19:38)   image 3 images
Today the Venezuelan state continued its riveting bicentinial celebrations of its war for independence from the Spanish empire led by the "liberator" Simon Bolivar by exhuming his remains in what has been officially termed a respectful and patriotic operation supervised by Venezuelan flags, Venezuelan military and no less than 50 Venezuelan scientific experts in forensic anthropology, archaeological preservation & such like if not so.

Even though dental records did not exist a little less than 200 years ago, there has been little doubt that the reliquary opened, so that it may be "preserved for posterity" in the words of state minister for Justice, Tarek El Aissami, did indeed hold the remains of Bolivar. read full story / add a comment
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galway / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday July 15, 2010 11:14 by JM   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 15, 2010 15:39)   image 1 image
A documentary covering practically a decade of turmoil faced by the community in Rossport, Co Mayo. read full story / add a comment
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