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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

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link The Jobs Bloodbath is Only Just Beginning Wed Jan 08, 2025 15:18 | Sallust
If Rachel Reeves thought companies could easily absorb the extra ?24bn in NI charges she is about to see she was very much mistaken. As Next replaces till staff with self-scanners, the jobs bloodbath is just beginning.
The post The Jobs Bloodbath is Only Just Beginning appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Grooming Gangs Scandal is the Tip of the Iceberg of Public Sector Failure Wed Jan 08, 2025 13:00 | Dr Rowena Slope
The grooming gangs scandal has horrors all of its own. But it's also the tip of the iceberg when it comes to public sector failure, where managerial bureaucracy has killed compassion and common sense, says Dr Rowena Slope.
The post The Grooming Gangs Scandal is the Tip of the Iceberg of Public Sector Failure appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Keir Starmer Will Order Labour MPs to Block Grooming Gangs Inquiry in Parliament Today Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:11 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer is set to block a national inquiry into child grooming gangs in Parliament today, ordering his MPs to oppose an amendment tabled by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch that would trigger a new official inquiry.
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offsite link Declined: Chapter Three: ?Papers, Please!? Wed Jan 08, 2025 09:00 | M. Zermansky
Chapter three of Declined ? a dystopian satire about the emergence of a social credit system in the U.K., serialised in?the Daily Sceptic ? is here. This week: the Government clamps down on "anti-health extremists".
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offsite link The Psychoses of the Established Political Parties Wed Jan 08, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
The Labour party suffers from a psychosis of not having any ideas of its own from later then 1890. The Conservative Party psychosis is the compulsion to 'dish the Whigs'. That's English politics, says Prof James Alexander.
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mayo / environment / news report Saturday July 31, 2010 23:14 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 03, 2010 16:45)
On Wed 28th July a delegation of residents handed in their objections to An Bord Pleanála and Eamon Ryan regarding Shell's latest plan to put a raw gas pipeline close to homes and through the Special Protected Area (SPA) of Sruwaddacon estuary. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / news report Saturday July 31, 2010 22:52 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo   image 1 image
Gormley was quite happy to not grant a foreshore licence for the Poolbeg incinerator in his own constituency, but seems set to allow Shell to put the health and safety of the community in Erris at risk and destroy a Special Area of Conservation. If Gormley is seeking to renegotiate on Poolbeg and withhold the granting of a foreshore licence, why can't he do the same with Shell?
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday July 31, 2010 09:15 by Trade Union TV   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 03, 2010 16:34)   video 1 video file
Watch the protest and picket here at Trade Union TV with Aonghus O'Snodaigh TD, Brendan Archbold, Unite, Freda Hughes and David Landy of the IPSC. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / news report Friday July 30, 2010 17:35 by Rossport Solidarity Camp   image 6 images
10 people from the Rossport solidarity camp delayed Shell’s survey work for the dangerous and experimental Corrib gas pipeline yesterday. The campaigners waded out to one of the rigs drilling boreholes in the Sruwaddacon estuarythe rig at high tide, fixed rope around the legs of the rig, and occupied the space underneath it to prevent the being moved to a new site. Work was delayed for around two hours. read full story / add a comment
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national / environment / news report Friday July 30, 2010 11:22 by Andrew   text 1 comment (last - monday august 02, 2010 03:51)   image 2 images
Dublin Shell to Sea yesterday held a demonstration in solidarity with Niall Harnett who spent his 100th day in prison for opposing Shell's experimental gas pipeline in Erris. That morning another 7 people were arrested while protesting the pipeline testing in Sruwaddacon estuary Special Protested Area. read full story / add a comment
Crowd assembled outside Dunnes Stores HQ
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday July 29, 2010 16:54 by Freda H   text 46 comments (last - thursday august 26, 2010 19:48)   image 5 images
Today, Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international law. Present at the handing-in were Brendan Archbold, the trade union official at the centre of the 1980s Dunnes strike when workers refused to handle South African goods, Freda Hughes IPSC National Chairperson, Aengus O'Snodaigh of Sinn Fein along with supporters of the campaign and members of both the Palestinian and South African communities in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
James Connolly Mural on back of Free Derry Corner
derry / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday July 28, 2010 20:17 by Eleanor   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 28, 2010 20:23)   image 1 image
On Monday 26th July 2010, an event organised by the Free Derry Collective was held to mark the centenary of James Connolly's return to Ireland. read full story / add a comment
that animal rights serve as a mechanism for accentuating the divide between "Spain" & "Catalonia" is not so sweet, really...
international / animal rights / news report Wednesday July 28, 2010 16:53 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 28, 2010 17:33)   image 2 images
Today the Catalan parliament became the 2nd of the Spanish state's regional legislatures to prohibit bull fighting following the decision by the Canary islands. The Canary decision was more palatable for afficionados of bullfighting because they had never had a tradition of the ritual which leaves neither side indifferent.
The decision by the Catalan parliament to become the first Iberian mainland regional government to prohibit bullfights (noting that the tradition is practised in Portugal as well) has of course been and was going to be linked to Catalonia's resentment of the insistence of the Spanish state to homogenise identity and culture to the detriment of its own plurality.
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Dónal Ó Mearáin, Fintan Lane, Fiachra Ó Luain & Jim McLaughlin
donegal / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday July 27, 2010 22:37 by Séamus Mac Lochlainn   image 1 image
A public meeting was held in Donegal Town on Saturday 24th July 2010 in the Central Hotel. It was organised by the North West Solidarity Network, a group of local activists who work together to develop events and initatives aimed at awareness raising and practical solidarity. The meeting was organised to address the issue of the Free Gaza flotilla and to look at possible ways forward for local actions. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday July 27, 2010 00:28 by KSI   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 27, 2010 00:38)
Kurdish spokesman's lawyer condemns arrest as political in nature. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / news report Monday July 26, 2010 18:30 by Cat   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 28, 2010 04:01)   image 1 image
Around 150 people came to Mayo's first street feast last weekend in Kilcommon Parish. read full story / add a comment
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national / environment / news report Monday July 26, 2010 17:04 by getouttamyhead   text 3 comments (last - sunday august 01, 2010 15:50)   image 1 image
Brave farming couple Michael & Claire Hussey of Ballydooley, Dunamon, Co. Roscommon, had to remain silent through two hearing of their case as barristers argued the merits of a zoning issue against An Bord Pleanala, the Irish planning authority which overrulled the decision of Roscommon Co. Council prohibiting a Tetra-bearing mast less than 30 metres from their farmhouse. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday July 24, 2010 17:56 by Madam K   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 29, 2010 13:48)   video 1 video file
A lovely walk along the beautiful bay is enough to unnerve those recruited to steal our natural resourses.
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national / environment / news report Thursday July 22, 2010 13:49 by Madam K   video 1 video file
Sruwaddacon estuary,the estuary is a Special Area of Conservation and Special Protected Area ,National Heritage Area read full story / add a comment
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derry / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday July 22, 2010 00:51 by Eleanor   text 21 comments (last - monday august 09, 2010 20:43)   image 5 images
Last Thursday evening news arrived that Derry City was victorious in its bid to be the UK's first City of Culture.

The great and the good of the city lined up in front of the worlds media and to join in with the celebrations. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday July 21, 2010 20:44 by Madam K   text 3 comments (last - saturday july 24, 2010 13:11)   video 1 video file
After serving five months and one week for opposing Shell Pat O`Donnell arrives back home in Erris to a Hero`s welcome read full story / add a comment
Beat the Boreholes!!
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday July 21, 2010 15:23 by Rossport Solidarity Camp   text 4 comments (last - saturday july 24, 2010 10:09)   image 7 images
Beat the Boreholes continued yesterday with a walk on the strands of the estuary in the evening and leisurely paddle out earlier in the afternoon.

Members of the local community walked close to the drilling barges at low tide and showed their opposition to Shell's willingness to destroy Sruwaddacon estuary. The estuary is not only a Special Area of Conservation and Special Protected Area – it has been an integral part of live in the community for generations. Despite this Minister Gormley has given the go-ahead for Shell to damage it. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday July 21, 2010 01:06 by DD   video 1 video file
After serving the full five and a half months of his sentence local fisherman Pat 'The Chief' O'Donnell was released from Castlerea Prison on July 17th. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday July 19, 2010 16:23 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 11 comments (last - monday august 09, 2010 21:02)
It was over a decade since Chris Cole and I had been at the gates of British Aerospace (BAE) Warton in Lancashire, England. That was back in the day when BAE were making their money from butchering East Timorese. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday July 19, 2010 04:53 by TD   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Last night, the West Bank village of Bil'in was subjected to yet another Israeli Occupation Forces terror raid at 1.30 am when an unusually large number of IOF soldiers intruded into the outskirts of the village to arrest a local youth; 17 year old Ahmad Abed Al-Fatah Burnat - which unfortunately they effected. read full story / add a comment
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