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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 ?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.

offsite link Assisted Suicide Set to Be Legalised as MPs Back Bill Fri Nov 29, 2024 15:07 | Will Jones
MPs have voted in favour of legalising assisted suicide as Labour's massive majority allowed the legislation to clear its first hurdle in the House of Commons by 330 votes to 275.
The post Assisted Suicide Set to Be Legalised as MPs Back Bill appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Australia Passes Landmark Social Media Ban for Under-16s Fri Nov 29, 2024 13:43 | Rebekah Barnett
Australia is the first country to ban social media for under-16s after a landmark bill passed that critics have warned is rushed and a Trojan horse for Government Digital ID as everyone must now verify their age.
The post Australia Passes Landmark Social Media Ban for Under-16s appeared first on 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?
The post The Ed Miliband Phenomenon ? What Makes ?Britain?s Most Dangerous Man? Tick? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / eu / news report Monday July 21, 2008 23:56 by Paula Geraghty   text 15 comments (last - sunday august 03, 2008 16:55)   video 2 video files
Anti Globalisation protestors took to Government buildings to highlight the WTO impact on Irish farming, workers and human rights and fisheries. Each group was divided and coralled into three different sections in a state move to institutionalise supposed differences in those who articulated a NON in the Lisbon Treaty referendum. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday July 09, 2008 23:08 by DCTU   text 22 comments (last - saturday october 11, 2008 15:36)   video 1 video file
Following on from the success of the March last 29th March and representative Conference 26th April the Public Health Care Campaign believes that we should continue the pressure. If we don't stand up for our rights and a better health service we won't get it. read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / news report Saturday June 07, 2008 18:52 by Joanne   text 14 comments (last - thursday august 21, 2008 16:27)   video 1 video file
Dublin youth activists united in protest today outside the European Union house to urge a No! vote in this Thursday’s Lisbon Treaty referendum.

The protest, which included an open mic and street theatre, was jointly organised by Ógra Shinn Féin, and the Connolly Youth Movement, with members of the IPSC and Anarchist activists also in attendance.

Following a very imaginative and visible protest which had Brian Cowen and Charlie McCreevy present, there was an extensive canvass of the thronged Grafton Street asking people to secure a better deal for Ireland, and vote No!
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international / environment / opinion/analysis Friday May 30, 2008 19:01 by dunk   text 9 comments (last - monday january 26, 2009 18:14)   video 2 video files
As a species we are finally waking up to the Climatic crisis that we have stupidly gotten ourselves into. After many years of not listening, people now realise the problem we face: ADAPT OR DIE. Some see the human species as a cancer that should die off, a natural end for a silly species. But others have a vision of a sustainable world, a vision that drives them to think differently, act differently, design differently, live differently. For many its simple little lifestyle changes, for others its nothing short of the next chapter in this unfolding strange story of civilization: the ecological revolution. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday May 23, 2008 19:17 by John Jefferies   text 23 comments (last - thursday august 07, 2014 22:47)   video 1 video file
A NATO submarine has arrived in Cork Harbour this evening. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday May 19, 2008 22:35 by NARC   text 5 comments (last - saturday may 24, 2008 14:50)   video 1 video file
Ógra Shinn Féin publicly launched a short film ‘Drugs – A Community Struggle!’ at their youth forum on drugs last Saturday 17 May in the Teacher’s Club, Dublin .

The short film outlines the youth movement’s NARC (Not Another Ravaged Community) campaign which is working to increase drug and alcohol awareness and tackle the negative effects that they have on our youth and communities.

The film outlines the problems associated with drink and drugs, the underlying reasons behind these problems, and identifies solutions on how we can collectively begin to tackle the drug epidemic.

The republican youth movement have uploaded the film to YouTube and Bebo in order to engage a wider audience.

You can view it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVzsjyDQePk
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dublin / animal rights / event notice Thursday May 08, 2008 21:09 by Stephan Wymore   text 1 comment (last - sunday september 07, 2008 00:00)   video 1 video file
This year we are holding our biggest event for the animals in our ten year history and we want you to be there with us. World Animal Week is celebrated during October 1st to the 7th and during this important week here in Ireland Animal Rights Action Network is coordinating our largest peaceful rally ever and we’re expecting hundreds of people and many respected groups to turn out in force for the animals and be a united voice, so please mark your diaries for our most important event of the year, wherever you live in Ireland north or south we’ll need you with us on October 5th in Dublin.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday May 03, 2008 18:35 by Setanta   text 29 comments (last - saturday october 01, 2011 21:30)   video 1 video file
Under the Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002 the Irish Residential Institutions Redress Board came into being. I submit that Its conduct and operation constitutes a gross violation of National and International Human and Civil Rights.It encourages unscrupulous applicants and professional people to lie, conceal information and give false evidence in return for financial awards.It denies it's victims their right to innocence unless proved otherwise, and hides behind a wall of absolute secrecy.
No person is safe from the Irish Redress Board. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Thursday March 20, 2008 00:05 by safe legal and rare   text 62 comments (last - friday december 17, 2010 19:51)   video 1 video file
The Council of Europe has called on Ireland to decriminalise abortion.

This week , the Council of Europe's Committee on Equal Opportunities issued a report saying all member states should guarantee women the right to a safe termination of pregnancy.

The report states quite clearly: “the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men considers that a ban on abortions does not result in fewer abortions, but mainly leads to clandestine abortions, which are more traumatic and more dangerous.”

Some people estimate that the number of Irish women who travel to England every year is about 7,000. Since some women obviously use false British addresses, or disguise their origins in other ways, the true figure can never be known.
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international / arts and media / feature Sunday February 24, 2008 00:32 by Paula Geraghty   text 19 comments (last - tuesday october 14, 2008 14:35)   video 2 video files
Townsend's interpretation of the famous Battle in Seattle, where the World Trade Organisation was shut down due to the emergence of what the media labelled the anti-globalisation movement has finally hit the big screen, and it doesn't get much bigger (in Dublin) than the prestigous Savoy Screen Number 1! read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech / feature Friday February 22, 2008 09:29 by James O'Brien   text 167 comments (last - friday march 01, 2013 19:38)   video 3 video files
Anarchism has traditionally been hostile to all religions because by their very nature they tend to be authoritarian. A supernatural creator who sets the rules is naturally considered to be the ultimate source of authority. And its authority means humanity’s obedience. If there is a god, it would, in the words of Bakunin, be necessary to abolish him. But a creator doesn’t exist, so we are left with the more mundane task of spreading the good news that values aren’t handed down from on high, but emerge from human society.
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antrim / history and heritage / news report Monday October 15, 2007 22:38 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin   text 8 comments (last - sunday october 30, 2011 19:06)   video 1 video file
With the International Brigade Memorial Trust AGM taking place in Belfast on the weekend of 12-14 October, attendees were overjoyed to witness the unveiling of a memorial to those who took a stand in defence of the Spanish Republic on Saturday 13th October in Writers' Square. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday June 14, 2007 01:19 by Graham Ó Maonaigh   text 30 comments (last - friday february 20, 2009 12:55)   video 1 video file
Legalise Cannabis Ireland Campaign has called a rally outside the gates of Dail Éireann at 1pm on Thursday 14th of June, on Kildare Street. The rally is to coincide with the election of the Taoiseach. read full story / add a comment
cork / politics / elections / news report Wednesday May 09, 2007 20:09 by Aidan   text 93 comments (last - wednesday october 27, 2010 17:22)   video 1 video file
Morgan Stack, self styled "Scholar for Truth" and the Head of the Irish 911 Truth Movement is standing for election in the Dail, in Cork Central, and Kerry North. He claims he wants to expose the truth about 911. Yet he spreads Anti-semitic lies through his website. read full story / add a comment
antrim / arts and media / news report Wednesday April 11, 2007 19:17 by Anthony Wisener   text 4 comments (last - tuesday november 01, 2011 01:10)   video 2 video files
Ballymena born writer Gerard McKeown has won The New Belfast PerformancePoetry Cup, after competing in an intensive slam contest, which featured competitors from all over Ulster. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Friday March 09, 2007 15:47 by Socialist Party   text 19 comments (last - monday may 24, 2010 21:24)   video 1 video file
Channel 4 ran a documentary on thursday nigth claiming to be a 'scientific' counter argument to climate change. The scientific method is to look at the balance of evidence and make a decision, not focus on one or two pieces alone.

In this article Pete Dickenson looks at the evidence put forward by the 'sceptics' and argues for immediate action to stop climate change. read full story / add a comment
roscommon / anti-capitalism / other press Monday February 12, 2007 14:34 by Paddy Murphy   text 19 comments (last - saturday december 06, 2008 00:17)   video 1 video file
The Irish Times is reporting that RAF/Baader-Meinhof gang member, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, after 24 years in jail would be released on five years probation on March 27. Brigitte, 57, was arrested in 1982 and sentenced to five life sentences for her role in the killings of leading German figures including industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer, Dresdner Bank head Juergen Ponto and federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback.

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mayo / miscellaneous / news report Saturday November 11, 2006 22:45 by VideoLady   text 30 comments (last - thursday november 23, 2006 03:55)   video 1 video file
Gardai at yesterday's protest in Mayo were violent, agressive and provocative. Statements by Shell, Bertie Ahern and Michael McDowell suggest that protesters used 'provo tactics'.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday November 01, 2006 20:10 by NIFC   text 4 comments (last - thursday november 02, 2006 19:58)   video 1 video file
The National Irish Freedom Committee (NIFC) has been helping publicise the struggle of the people of Rossport for quite some time now and we are the only Irish organisation here in America that has been vocal in our support of the community in Mayo, and have actively used all our resources to try help keep our membership, other concerned people, and the general public informed about what is going on there.

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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 11, 2006 10:02 by xtic   text 12 comments (last - saturday october 28, 2006 04:31)   video 1 video file
This morning 150 people have been blockading the bridge on the Bangor road despite the appaling weather. Constuction traffic has been delayed for 15 minutes. read full story / add a comment
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