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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
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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

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link How Lockdown Broke the Will to Work Tue Dec 03, 2024 19:00 | Sallust
The former boss of Waitrose, Lord Price, has blamed lockdowns for annihilating the will of many Britons to go to work. Many workers are now fixated on maximising sick pay and doing as little as possible.
The post How Lockdown Broke the Will to Work appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?I Love Jesus? Rainbow Armband Earns Marc Guehi Formal Reprimand from FA Tue Dec 03, 2024 17:00 | Will Jones
Marc Guehi?and Crystal Palace will be formally reprimanded by the FA after the player wrote "I love Jesus" on his rainbow armband because of a ban on "religious and political images". No ban on holy Pride though.
The post “I Love Jesus” Rainbow Armband Earns Marc Guehi Formal Reprimand from FA appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Has Donald Trump Ended Woke? Tue Dec 03, 2024 15:00 | Richard Eldred
The age of woke is over, says Nick Dixon. The time of MAGA has come! But will the British political class wake up and smell the coffee?
The post Has Donald Trump Ended Woke? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How Far Down Does the Slippery Slope Go? Tue Dec 03, 2024 13:00 | Dr David McGrogan
The assisted suicide Bill is epochal because it takes liberalism to its zenith: the state stepping in to kill citizens to make them free and equal, says Dr David McGrogan. But how far down does the slippery slope go?
The post How Far Down Does the Slippery Slope Go? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link BBC Includes Male ?Trans Woman? on 100 Women List Tue Dec 03, 2024 11:15 | Will Jones
The BBC has included a male 'trans woman' scientist in its annual list of?100 inspiring women, just days after sparking controversy over its choice for women?s footballer of the year.
The post BBC Includes Male ‘Trans Woman’ on 100 Women List appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / environment Monday May 26, 2014 - 11:43 by Ratatoskr   text 8 comments (last - thursday may 29, 2014 - 12:18)
A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide. The new “water barons” — the Wall Street banks and elitist multibillionaires — are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace.
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PEOPLES NEWS
national / eu Thursday May 22, 2014 - 09:33 by Gary Boyne   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 22, 2014 - 10:26)   image 1 image
The Peoples News contains comment on developments in the EU from an Irish and democratic perspective

Back issues of the newsletter are available from the website http://www.people.ie/english5.html

The Peoples Movement Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/peoplesmovementireland?ref=hl ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 12, 2014 - 22:58 by Genny   image 5 images   video 1 video file
Members of Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning's family made a second trip from Wales to Dublin last week, to report back on February's visit to Chelsea in Fort Leavenworth, to catch up with friends made last November in Ireland and this January at the Manning Truthfest in Pembrokeshire, and to see a bit of Dublin. The family's visit to Chelsea in February was paid for with donations made to the Private Manning Family Fund, the first time in nearly four years that the family had received any financial support with prison visits. ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Monday May 12, 2014 - 22:43 by Laurence Cox   video 1 video file
soundmigration has made this new video about the activist MA at Maynooth. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday May 04, 2014 - 16:18 by Anarchist Collective “Cycle of Fire"   image 1 image
MAY DAY 1886 - 2014
The struggle for a new society without exploitation and oppression from human to human continues until the subversion of the world of the state and capital, the global social revolution, anarchy and communism.
Anarchist Collective “Cycle of Fire”
Anarchist bulletin “Black Flag” ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous Friday May 02, 2014 - 10:30 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
To: Former participants/members of the Rossport Solidarity Camp, potential future volunteers, all who wish to work in solidarity for social, environmental and economic justice in the struggle against the Shell Corrib Gas Project.

We invite you to a meeting to review the current status of the solidarity movement and discuss how we can best continue our work into the future. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday April 25, 2014 - 23:07 by no water taxes   image 1 image
Opposition to water charges has taken the Direct Action route with residents in a Cork housing estate preventing workers from Irish
Water from installing smart meters. Irish Water is the quango that has so far provided over €70 million in setup fees to consultants
and various private firms and the government reckons it will cost up to €1,000 million to get it fully run and running. It will
then be handed over to the private sector so that they can squeeze hard pressed people for money for the rest of their lives.
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national / politics / elections Wednesday April 23, 2014 - 17:33 by Justin Morahan   text 2 comments (last - saturday may 17, 2014 - 10:54)   image 1 image
There can be no Independents listed on Irish ballot papers although they are coming in at over 20% in the polls ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday April 18, 2014 - 18:00 by Arielle Retrosi
On Monday, the Supreme Court hears arguments between Argentina and holdouts who refused two debt restructuring deals after Argentina defaulted on its debts in 2001. The Supreme Court Justices will determine if predatory hedge fund, NML Capital can obtain information from US Banks that reveal Argentina's holdings in order to target those assets for debt payments. The Obama Administration is siding with Argentina in the case. In the summer, the Supreme Court will also decide if it will hear a much broader case between Argentina and the hedge funds that impacts extreme poverty, official US debt policy and country debt restructuring. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 15, 2014 - 12:32 by 1 of Indymedia
Buried in the DLC CC website is a notice inviting members of the public to have their say in the 2016 - 2022 development plan. These are types of plans throughout the country that have been shaped, influenced and manipulated by corrupt developers in the past and probably will continue to do so in the future.

The consultation period has already been in operation for over a month since March 19th and continues until May 14th.

This is the public chance to have their say. However DLR have been very coy about this and have given very little publicity about it. It appears you have to know about it in order to find out about it. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / gender and sexuality Monday April 14, 2014 - 11:03 by Akbayan (Citizens Action Party)   image 4 images
On the Supreme Court decision declaring the Reproductive Health Law constitutional ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday April 11, 2014 - 20:54 by Arielle Retrosi
The annual International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings are focusing on the role of high debt burdens in both global economic recovery and increasing inequality. At the onset of the meetings, the G24 released an IMF statement noting that the IMF's failure to implement quota reform and the outcome of the US Supreme Court Argentina/NML Capital case impacts global inequality. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / sci-tech Friday April 11, 2014 - 09:43 by wageslave   image 1 image
The false sense of security of the internet has been completely overturned by the latest security bug to be discovered. A bug in the popular OpenSSL library used by many of the most important and frequently used server sites on the net allows arbitrary chunks of memory to be read remotely from user machines and servers, possibly containing very sensitive data, user tokens, bank details, emails and passwords. What does all this mean and how did it happen and what can we do to protect ourselves? ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / education Monday April 07, 2014 - 03:03 by Dublin 32CSM   image 1 image
April/May edition of the Beir Bus (Dublin) ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / housing Saturday April 05, 2014 - 20:06 by SHAC - Social Housing Action Co-op   text 2 comments (last - wednesday april 23, 2014 - 17:52)   image 5 images
A Galway squat has recently been evicted. The property had been recently taken over by Bank of Scotland who are appointed KPMG as caretakers of the property. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism Monday March 24, 2014 - 01:34 by Nico   text 6 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2014 - 17:56)   image 7 images
The term ‘gentrification’ was coined in 1964 by sociologist – Ruth Glass. She defined it as a change in the social structure and housing market in working class areas. She explained – "One by one, many of the working class quarters have been invaded by the middle class - upper and lower ... Once this process of 'gentrification' starts in a district it goes on rapidly until all or most of the working class occupiers are displaced and the whole social character of the district is changed" (Glass, 1964, p.xvii). ... read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous Friday March 14, 2014 - 10:54 by v for vendetta   text 2 comments (last - sunday march 23, 2014 - 13:25)   image 1 image
Sadly, Tony Benn has died aged 88
"After the war people said, 'If you can plan for war, why can't you plan for peace?' When I was 17, I had a letter from the government saying, 'Dear Mr. Benn, will you turn up when you're 17 1/2? We'll give you free food, free clothes, free training, free accommodation, and two shillings, ten pence a day to just kill Germans.' People said, well, if you can have full employment to kill people, why in God's name couldn't you have full employment and good schools, good hospitals, good houses?"
-Tony Benn (1925-2014): ... read full story / add a comment
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cork / education Wednesday March 12, 2014 - 00:03 by Corkonian   text 4 comments (last - saturday march 29, 2014 - 16:39)   image 2 images   2 attached files
On midday on Friday 7th March the Institute of Chemical Engineers - and their corporate sponsors, Shell - had organised for an engineer from Shell's Corrib Gas Project to give a talk and workshop for staff and students of the Engineering College at UCC. A cork group formed and mobilsed to attend the lecture, distribute independent information on Corrib and challenge any Shell spin.

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international / racism & migration related issues Tuesday March 11, 2014 - 15:01 by CalaisMigrantSolidarity   text 5 comments (last - thursday june 23, 2016 - 16:11)
In the week of the 3rd to the 7th of March four houses were squatted in Calais. One of these has already been evicted once and reoccupied. The remaining three are legally secure (in France exists a law which stipulates that houses which have been squatted for more than 48 hours cannot be evicted without a legal procedure) but despite this remain as before under threat. In the past in Calais there have been countless illegal evictions by police, predominately those of living quarters of refugees.

Many of the initial squatters have now traveled further on and so there is the need for support from activists who can secure these future safe spaces, document police violence as well as any eviction attempts and help make the houses livable.

The current situation is a key moment in the story of squats in Calais. It is the first time that there is the possibility to keep many houses at the same time --- a chance which we shouldn't pass up! It will pay off in the future to fight for these houses and the struggle begins now! We have lots of room for creativity and the energy of people who want to support us in this struggle! ... read full story / add a comment
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international / eu Friday March 07, 2014 - 21:09 by 32 County Sovereignty Movement   text 1 comment (last - friday march 07, 2014 - 22:19)   image 5 images
An attempt today was made by the 32CSM to hand in the UN submission on the violation of Ireland's national sovereignty to the EPP which was blocked by the Free state police. ... read full story / add a comment
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