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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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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

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offsite link Ethnic Minority Candidate Given Police Job Despite Failing Interview Thu May 01, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Senior officers in?West Yorkshire Police ? the force recently in the news for blocking white job applicants ??intervened to ensure that an ethnic minority candidate who failed her interview was given the job.
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offsite link Migrant Channel Crossings Hit 10,000 in Record Time Under Labour Despite Starmer?s ?Smash the Gangs?... Thu May 01, 2025 17:05 | Will Jones
The number of migrants?crossing the Channel so far this year?has hit 10,000 in record time under Labour, as the total runs 40% higher than last year despite Starmer's pledge to "smash the gangs".
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offsite link Which Ideology is Most Receptive to Bullshit? Thu May 01, 2025 15:04 | Noah Carl
Which ideology is most receptive to bullshit? A Swedish study found that social conservatives are more receptive than social liberals but that Greens were the most receptive of all.
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offsite link COVID-19 Started in America, Not China, New Chinese Government Report Claims Thu May 01, 2025 13:04 | Will Jones
COVID-19 started in America, not China, a new Chinese Government report has claimed, in the latest salvo in the five-year long propaganda war over the origins of the virus.
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offsite link Transgender Players Banned from Women?s Football in England Thu May 01, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Transgender women are to be banned from playing women?s football in England following the Supreme Court ruling that trans women are legally men, as the FA follows its Scottish counterpart in bringing in a ban.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday February 18, 2007 21:32 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 9 comments (last - friday october 12, 2007 21:40)
Education..........

Community Service

Cookery classes for prisoners at Castlereagh read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday February 17, 2007 14:19 by La Plataforma   image 1 image
The Spanish “Transition to democracy” was simply a way to fortify the capitalist economic model. With such Transition, the Spanish dominant class eliminated all sort of social resistance and opened the way for business; they made a Francoism without Franco and presented the Transition as a triumph of the people. It was a history written by the owners of money and their fascist sentries.
But Memory, Dignity and Struggle continue
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galway / eu / opinion/analysis Friday February 16, 2007 15:28 by gníomhaí   text 1 comment (last - friday may 11, 2007 10:15)
Faoi dheireadh tá Gaeilge ina teanga oifigiúil den Aontas Eorpach, ach is scannal é nár tharla seo 30 bliain ó shin nuair a chuaigh muid isteach san AE ar dtús.
Measaim gur seo seans deireanach don Ghaeilge teacht slán. Is trua é seo mar tríd is tríd táim i gcoinne an Aontais Eorpach. I mo thuairim, tá an eagraíocht ann go príomha chun an bóthar a réiteach do ghnóthaí móra. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday February 15, 2007 15:06 by gníomhaí   text 5 comments (last - sunday february 18, 2007 20:14)
Food prices 'set to soar'. I urge all Indymedia readers to pay heed- this is by all accounts only the beginning.... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 14, 2007 15:00 by RogerC   text 2 comments (last - sunday february 18, 2007 18:25)
I know that while the Northern Ireland assembly was running the local parties didn't seem to have a problem introducing water charges. However it would be foolish to let them off the hook at this time. read full story / add a comment
Aircraft auctioned off to sole bidder,a Mr Humpty Dumpty.
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 14, 2007 12:55 by John McDermott   image 1 image
Fianna Fail threatened with voting meltdown catastrophy in north county Dublin. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 14, 2007 09:33 by Peter Sharp   image 1 image
Isn't that a crime? read full story / add a comment
the Old Chestnut.
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 13, 2007 20:23 by C Murray   text 9 comments (last - tuesday march 20, 2007 10:04)   image 2 images

http://www.justice.ie has details of a new 'Counter Gangland Crime Law'
published 'draft legislation' which means he thinks he's coming back, or
the guillotine will be used.

The Guillotine is a handy little device which the FF/PD administration has
been using for many years, in which full debate is disallowed ,to shove
everything through in time for 'snap' elections- of which there are few,
or recesses (of which there are many). read full story / add a comment
Train our revolutionary offspring !! for Peace now War is ended!! practise your scriabin!!
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 13, 2007 04:39 by iosaf   text 12 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2007 22:27)   image 5 images
It has been long observed that people for some reason on their non-banking days readily absorb shite about Dangerous Places, Famous People, Sensible Saving Options, Holidays, Interesting facts, Sport results, Media, gardening and health as well looking ahead at “democratic evolution” or looking back at "how history was made". We will assume dear & attentive reader that you are one of those who has passed directly from Saturday to almost Tuesday with the sort of crumpled Sunday Papers a person uses to mop up spilt things like milk. Maybe you didn’t absorb your interesting facts & didn’t want to absorb more Dangerous places. We all have a limit of absorption, like that point where credulity ends & credibility is lost. This edition I will consider the mystical progress from Tolstoy's "War & Peace" and his accompanying anarchist beliefs to the composer Scriabin & his experimental music & then his nephew a.k.a. Comrade Molotov, Soviet negotiator with Hitler & daddy of the "petrol bomb". read full story / add a comment
Abortion will be legalised through parliamentary majority...
international / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Monday February 12, 2007 10:38 by Chris murray   text 2 comments (last - saturday february 17, 2007 15:43)   image 1 image
The Socialist Leader Jose Socrates insists that abortion rights will
be legalised in Portugal after a large abstention in the electorate.
The Leader of Christian Democratic Party Riberio de Castro says
that the referendum is not legally binding,Of the % that voted the right
to legal abortion was carried. The Socialist Party must now use
their parliamentary majority to legalise abortion as they promised in the 2005
election. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday February 11, 2007 18:42 by jim travers   text 9 comments (last - thursday march 01, 2007 01:28)
History was made today as the GAA opened its doors and welcomed in a modern Ireland for all to enjoy.
The pitch was fantastic, the fans were in their thousands and the stadium was a shining tribute to an association that calls itself the governing body of amateur games while boasting a world class stadium for its members to play in. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday February 10, 2007 20:03 by jim travers
Integrated ticketing is a most desirable move forward in helping public transport users move from one form of public transport to another with relative ease, if only it was as easy as that. Providing an actual operational and successful integrated ticketing system such as those seen on the continent, while desirable is but the final process once we have resolved the various other issues that inhibit the successful introduction of the system. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 07, 2007 20:31 by Michelle Clarke   text 19 comments (last - sunday july 27, 2008 01:24)   image 4 images
Thankfully these men were found out.......Thankfully the police system and legal system could take this to court - to the Crown Court. This is about hard core paedophiles, their fantasies and using websites on the internet to conspire a plan - a plan that would mimic what happened to 'Holly and Jess' RIP, to young girls who experienced a sordid death.

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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 06, 2007 19:32 by jim travers   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 12, 2007 01:21)
In order to survive we must eat, when there is a plentiful supply of food we live in the knowledge that since variety is the spice of life and food is in abundance, there is nothing to think about and less to worry about. Despite our preferences towards organically grown produce, modern 21st Century life styles dictate that the foods we eat must be readily available, possibly precooked and ready for consumption at the click of a switch. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 06, 2007 14:29 by Simon Bolger   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 06, 2007 23:32)
Yesterday I was horrified to see that politic campaigns are getting started and soon we will have to endure giant billboards of Michael McDowell face scaring us at every turn. Something you would not want to run into in a dark alley. But this got me thinking about a serious question, should political parties have anything to do with Students’ Unions? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday February 04, 2007 23:01 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 4 comments (last - monday may 14, 2007 22:37)
In the last number of years we have heard about Gardai indiscipline and Gardai brutality in our country. The Morris Tribunal in Donegal states that is fact. But tonight let us focus on prison in-discipline and prison collusion of hatred within the system.

The 17 years I worked with Simon gives rise to meeting a variety of people. They were mostly homeless due to a compulsory overtime system. This system was overturned in the High Court in the 1980's but it was too late for hundreds of officers who suffered from depression and additcton to alcohol within the System. Tonight I give their story. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday February 03, 2007 17:24 by Liberates   text 12 comments (last - thursday march 01, 2007 00:17)
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the Pitstop Ploughshares action at Shannon Airport in which a US navy plane was decommissioned with the aid of tools and symbols of peace.

This five-part article by Harry Browne charts the journey of the action from inception to acquittal, and in turn, paints a portrait of each of the five activists who sacrificed so much, that others might not suffer. read full story / add a comment
Berties old boot in the shoebox in St Lukes.
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Saturday February 03, 2007 10:22 by John mcDermott   image 2 images
35 million euros missing from Black Bart Aherns shoebox in St Lukes.! Consumer Protection Bill passed into law.!
its the taxpayers he has bitten though.!
Maura Magahy , twinned with Monica (Lewinsky) Leech.?
Another consultancy contract worth 400,000 euros per annum for the sweet Maura, in "Digital Hub" fiasco. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday February 02, 2007 19:35 by Sean Crudden   text 1 comment (last - saturday february 03, 2007 22:16)
When Louis XIV made the statement "L’etat c’est moi" (I am the state) he diminished himself because whatever way you think about it the state is a smaller and less important thing than any one of its individual citizens. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday February 01, 2007 12:23 by Ireland plc
Mrs Thatcher once said 'there was no such thing as society or community', and she dedicated her years in power to destroying many working class communities, through privatisation and closure of industries, and the depletion of council public housing stock by promoting private property ownership.

In Thatchers tiny insulated world of isolated inward looking, nuclear family units, living in detached or semi detached private properties, whose only opportunity for socialising is through the workplace, and only allegiance is to their isolated families, and making money. Hence the abundance of programmes on tv promoting buying houses, selling us the capitalist dream. read full story / add a comment
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