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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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offsite link Germany?s Economic and Political Suicide Fri Dec 27, 2024 17:00 | Tilak Doshi
Germany has gone from being the EU's industrial powerhouse to the sick man of Europe in just a few decades. Why? A suicidal energy policy fuelled by Green zealots.
The post Germany?s Economic and Political Suicide appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Madeline Grant on Starmer?s Army and the Assisted Dying Debate Fri Dec 27, 2024 15:00 | Richard Eldred
We catch up with the Telegraph's Madeline Grant to discuss whether Starmer's Army is up to snuff, her favourite MPs to sketch and her bizarre dispute with a Labour MP over her coverage of the assisted dying debate.
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offsite link FBI Found Evidence Covid Was Lab Leak But Was Not Allowed to Brief President Fri Dec 27, 2024 13:00 | Toby Young
An FBI whistleblower has disclosed that attempts to brief the President with evidence corroborating the lab leak hypothesis in 2021 were thwarted by senior intelligence officials.
The post FBI Found Evidence Covid Was Lab Leak But Was Not Allowed to Brief President appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Kemi or Nigel: Who is Right? Fri Dec 27, 2024 11:00 | Anonymous IT Reporter
Kemi claims Nigel is making up his membership numbers. But is he? To definitively prove he isn't, he should make his software open source, so we can see where the numbers are coming from.
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offsite link The Pilots of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 Deserve Respect ? They Saved 29 Lives Fri Dec 27, 2024 09:00 | Ian Rons
The pilots of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 attempted to fly their badly damaged aircraft and partially succeeded, thereby saving the lives of 29 passengers, but not their own.
The post The Pilots of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 Deserve Respect ? They Saved 29 Lives appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / racism & migration related issues / press release Monday August 23, 2010 15:42 by pom

A no border camp will be organized between the 25th of September and the 3rd of October. Some places to visit... read full story / add a comment
Wanted for War Crimes Poster
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Monday August 23, 2010 13:41 by GAAW Convenor   text 7 comments (last - thursday august 26, 2010 13:41)   image 2 images
The Galway Alliance Against War has written to progressive organisations throughout the country asking them to become involved in the campaign to stop the mass murderer Tony Blair coming to Ireland to kick off the world promotion of his memoir. On the 4th September Blair is to conduct a book-signing in Eason’s O’Connell St Dublin from 11am-1pm. And the previous evening he is due to appear on RTE’s Late Late Show.

GAAW intends to begin picketing the local Branch of Eason’s in Galway from this Thursday lunchtime in protest and is asking other groups around the country to hold protests outside Eason’s stores.

The Galway Alliance Against War is of the view that Eason’s and RTE can be forced to rescind their invitations to this man who is directly responsible for the deaths of more than 1.3 million Iraqis. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday August 22, 2010 18:43 by Ardoyne Resident   image 1 image
Amid ongoing community tension, arrests and Court appearances of local residents relating to the Twelfth protest and subsequent riots. The hugely discredited Parades Commission has ‘ruled’ on yet another Loyal Order march through the Greater Ardoyne area for this coming Saturday, 28 August. read full story / add a comment
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donegal / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday August 21, 2010 16:16 by éirígí Sligeach   text 6 comments (last - sunday august 22, 2010 12:31)   image 4 images
For at least the third time this year a PSNI/RUC patrol crossed over the border from Belleek in Co Fermanagh into Co Donegal. read full story / add a comment
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national / public consultation / irish social forum / press release Friday August 20, 2010 23:13 by DANNY MCBREARTY   image 1 image
Following the arrest of Republican activist Gary Donnelly and revelations that the crown constabulary had demanded and seized related materials from a journalist, Republican Network for Unity (RNU) Chair DANNY MCBREARTY noted: read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday August 20, 2010 14:28 by AII
Iran's Supreme Court has rejected Ja'far Kazemi's request to appeal against his death sentence. The sentence was imposed for his alleged participation in anti-government demonstrations and links with a banned organization. His sentence may be carried out at any time. Six other people with alleged links to the same organization are said to be under sentence of death.

Ja'far Kazemi was arrested on 18 September 2009 and interrogated and possibly tortured for months in Evin prison in Tehran. He was accused of participating in protests which followed the disputed outcome of Iran's presidential election in June 2009, but was not accused of committing any violent acts; and for his alleged contact with banned opposition group the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). He was sentenced to death for "enmity against God", and is also believed to have been convicted of "propaganda against the system". On 26 April, he learned that his death sentence had been confirmed by an appeal court. A further appeal was apparently rejected in late July read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / press release Thursday August 19, 2010 14:59 by Mina Ahadi   text 2 comments (last - friday august 20, 2010 14:35)
For Immediate Publication.

According to a report disseminated by the International Committee against Execution, in addition to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, at least 21 others in the Islamic Republic's prisons are living with the nightmare of a stoning conviction. At any moment, their sentences could be implemented. These verdicts should be overturned immediately and this despicable punishment against humanity should be abolished everywhere and forever. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / press release Wednesday August 18, 2010 19:44 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo   image 1 image
The 30th of August is the deadline for submissions to Minister for the Environment, John Gormley on Shell's plans to tunnel under Sruwaddacon Estuary which is designated a Special Area of Conservation.

The tunnel will be....

* 4.9 kilometers long
* 4.2 meters in diameter
* 15 months of tunnelling
* 24 hour a day tunnelling
* 944 truck movements a day at peak construction
* 68,000 m3 of material removed
* 2.5 km of 3m high fencing
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday August 17, 2010 14:39 by IPSC   image 1 image
Dear John,

Although you were born in Ireland, you may not be aware that on 12th August the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) launched its "boycott pledge" campaign, whereby over 140 (now over 160 and counting) Irish artists undertook "not to avail of any invitation to perform or exhibit in Israel, nor to accept any funding from any institution linked to the government of Israel, until such time as Israel complies with international law and universal principles of human rights."
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday August 16, 2010 22:49 by Marie O Connor   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 19, 2010 01:12)
‘“Whistleblower” exposed a hospital world of cover up and concealment that is still with alive. Symphysiotomy was as much an institutional abuse as invountary sterilisation. Survivors of symphysiotomy have called upon the Government to initiate an independent inquiry into these childbirth operations on the grounds that they amounted to medical malpractice.

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donegal / miscellaneous / press release Monday August 16, 2010 16:38 by Séamus Mac   image 1 image
The Annual Hunger Strike Commemoration will take place in Bundoran, Donegal on Saturday 28th August 2010. Leaving the towns East End at 3pm. The Republican gathering commemorates all Irish Republican soldiers who have given their lives in pursuit of the 32 County Republic. read full story / add a comment
Seems like an improvement to us
national / miscellaneous / press release Sunday August 15, 2010 00:53 by Anonymous   text 11 comments (last - friday august 20, 2010 21:18)   image 2 images
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national / crime and justice / press release Friday August 13, 2010 15:17 by RNU-PRO   image 1 image
The REPUBLICAN NETWORK FOR UNITY (RNU) Cathaoirleach/Chairperson, DANNY MCBREARTY, has called for the proposed parades bill to be “Binned rather than Revised” because the misjudgments at the very heart of the proposed the measure run too deep to be papered over by a few corrective amendments as suggested by the language of the joint announcement by Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday August 12, 2010 00:27 by Anthony Ravlich
Because of human rights omission New Zealand has suffered major social problems, some social statistics worse than other countries, at the bottom of the social scale but it is hidden from mainstream New Zealanders. Fear is pervasive and there is a sense of hoelessness which is holding back progress and adaptation to global changes. A focus on the truth rather than power politics and the 'money grab' will help overcome this. It has, in my opinion, modeled itself on the British class system permitting mass social class discrimination. read full story / add a comment
Community Walk Out
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday August 11, 2010 15:52 by Shell to Sea   text 8 comments (last - friday september 10, 2010 20:01)   image 10 images
Yesterday morning forty people from around Sruwaddacon Estuary brought Shell’s survey work in the area to a complete standstill. The community walked out onto the mudflats at low tide to assert their cockle-picking rights and disrupt Shell’s borehole drilling survey.

At around 11.30am people converged at Aughoose and walked down a public right of way onto the mudflats. The group walked to one of the two jack-up barges and prevented drilling by walking underneath the platform. IRMS - Shell’s private security firm – tried to block their free passage but the people prevailed and walked where they pleased. Three people scaled the legs of the barge and occupied them for about four hours. One person chained himself to the one of the drill-shafts in order to stop the work.

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national / politics / elections / press release Wednesday August 11, 2010 00:55 by Charlie Williams   text 17 comments (last - friday march 20, 2015 10:54)   image 1 image
We're pleased to inform you that a new political party in Ireland is on its way. Fís Nua or New Vision.
We see ourselves as a federation of socialy and ecologicaly engaged persons and groups/organisations that want to enter the parliaments.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday August 09, 2010 21:00 by Ardoyne Republican   image 1 image
Once again, the discredited Parades Commission has permitted an unwelcome sectarian parade to pass through the Greater Ardoyne community to then board a bus at the rear of Holy Cross Church, to travel to Derry. GARC feel it is necessary to inform the wider public that this parade has nothing to do with the Protestant religion, heritage or culture. So those who insist on this act of provocation need to justify why?
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday August 09, 2010 20:21 by IPSC   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 10, 2010 18:21)   image 1 image
Subject: IPSC Statement in Solidarity with the 'Ahava 4'

Date: Monday 9th August 2010

To: The 'Ahava 4', London
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dublin / arts and media / press release Monday August 09, 2010 16:10 by L.A.N.C.I   image 1 image
LANCI is launching a new festival to commemorate and celebrate this year . This will incorporate the 8th International Tango Festival!
The LANCI Festival aims to give international recognition to the varied cultures of Latin American Countries. This Latin American Festival offers a variety of artistic and traditional presentations including music, and dance in the form of salsa, samba and tango, film exhibition, photographs and paintings from Latin American artists. This is the first time that a festival of this kind is being held in Dublin. A cosmopolitan city like Dublin guarantees that this type of event will be a success. read full story / add a comment
Calling all Happy Campers!
national / environment / press release Sunday August 08, 2010 13:08 by Jennifer O' Leary   text 3 comments (last - tuesday august 24, 2010 11:21)   image 2 images   video 2 video files
The Irish Climate Camp will take place this year at Victoria Bridge, County Tyrone, from the 12th to the 16th of August. The camp is taking place in support of the local community and their opposition to the proposed new A5 – a project that will cost a lot of money, a lot of energy (carbon emissions) and really makes no logical sense since vehicle numbers using that route have decreased considerably over recent years. Climate camp Ireland is a group of individuals that believe in taking direct action to prepare for and mitigate the effects of climate change. The camp is open to anyone to attend, and will host numerous workshops on many aspects of climate change. read full story / add a comment
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