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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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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link How Science is Showing that Free Speech is Built into the Brain Thu Dec 12, 2024 15:52 | Dr Christopher Badcock
Science is showing that free speech is built into the brain, says Dr. Christopher Badcock. The latest insights from neuroscience suggest that the censorious are regressing to infantile cognition where no nuance is allowed.
The post How Science is Showing that Free Speech is Built into the Brain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Only 20% of Muslim Americans Voted for Kamala Harris Thu Dec 12, 2024 13:30 | Noah Carl
Just 20% of Muslim Americans voted for Kamala Harris ? fewer than voted for Donald Trump! The reason Muslims are abandoning the centre-Left is clear, says Noah Carl: they want parties that don't back Israel.
The post Only 20% of Muslim Americans Voted for Kamala Harris appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Greta Thunberg?s Descent from Climate Darling to Militant Pro-Palestine Activist Thu Dec 12, 2024 11:43 | Will Jones
Not long ago, anyone criticising St Greta was labelled a bully. Her expertise in climate science was beyond question, despite leaving school at 14. Now, it looks like the heretics were right and the worshippers were fools.
The post Greta Thunberg’s Descent from Climate Darling to Militant Pro-Palestine Activist appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Ed Miliband?s Department Claims 30-Year Average Temperature is Higher Than the Warmest Year on Recor... Thu Dec 12, 2024 09:00 | Chris Morrison
If you think the Met Office produces junk readings, just wait till you see what Ed Miliband's Energy Department is up to, says Chris Morrison. Its 30-year average temperature is way higher than even the warmest year!
The post Ed Miliband’s Department Claims 30-Year Average Temperature is Higher Than the Warmest Year on Record appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link We Never Talk About the Costs of Not Tackling Climate Change, Says Emma Pinchbeck. Don?t Make Me Lau... Thu Dec 12, 2024 07:00 | Ben Pile
We never talk about the costs of not tackling climate change, claims new Climate Change Committee CEO Emma Pinchbeck. On the contrary, says Ben Pile, media scare stories of impending doom are all we ever hear about.
The post We Never Talk About the Costs of Not Tackling Climate Change, Says Emma Pinchbeck. Don’t Make Me Laugh ? It’s All We Ever Hear About appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday March 24, 2014 20:22 by Claiming Our Future   image 1 image
There are unique moments, inspired by history which offer possibilities and hope for radical transformation in the present and future. 2016 could be one such opportunity. It will be 100 years since the Easter Rising and the proclamation of the Irish Republic. It is also likely to be the year of the next General Election. We face major challenges and questions about what type of future Ireland is going to have? What values should shape Irish society in the coming decades? read full story / add a comment
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday March 24, 2014 20:08 by pm   image 1 image
Paul Murphy MEP will be organising a city centre 'Day of Action' against forced labour schemes such as JobBridge, Gateway and Tús. there will be banner drops, leafletting and collecting signatures for the scambridge.ie petition against these schemes and in favour of the RealJobs programme. The day will conclude with a street meeting at 3pm on Henry Street. Come along and help out, every little helps! read full story / add a comment
A picture is worth 1000 words but was this one worth 20,000 euro of taxpayers money?
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / other press Monday March 24, 2014 14:56 by fred   text 2 comments (last - thursday may 29, 2014 14:44)   image 1 image
broadsheet.ie have put together a great timelline for the activities of Irish water thus far. It makes for very interesting reading. That is, If you are into reading about how our lords and masters and their capitalist friends are taking us for a ride at our own expense and the loss of what should be very basic state run services that should never be run as for profit services. After reading this expect it to be your blood and not the kettle that is boiling! read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday March 24, 2014 14:28 by Fusion Sundays   image 1 image
Free indoor market with stalls from around the globe, workshops, live music and great vibes... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / news report 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 / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday March 23, 2014 13:56 by v for vendetta   image 1 image
Huge protests are taking place in Spain over bank bailouts of nearly 50 billion and subsequent crippling austerity measures imposed by the Spanish government on the Spanish people and jobless figures of 50% among the under 24 age group. The otherwise peaceful protest was marred at the end when a small group of masked youth engaged with police in violent scuffles. Very convenient and needless to say this is the subject matter of the first sentence in most MSM news reports read full story / add a comment
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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Saturday March 22, 2014 00:53 by pm   image 1 image
This forum will bring together activists who fought the home taxes to learn lessons from other campaigns, such as the Greek SOS Water Campaign and the Anti-Bedroom Tax campaign in Scotland and to discuss how to make water tax a major issue and build a campaign against it now and into the autumn. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday March 21, 2014 11:36 by LASC - Latin America Solidarity Centre   image 1 image
Cuba is the Country Focus for the 15th festival that will take place in Dublin, Limerick, Galway and Birr. read full story / add a comment
Simulation of a radioactive leak of Cesium from Hinkley Point B
national / environment / press release Thursday March 20, 2014 23:28 by Friends of Irish Environment   image 1 image
FRIENDS OF THE IRISH ENVIRONMENT - PRESS RELEASE - 20 MARCH 2014

A United Nations Committee has found there is a 'profound suspicion of non-compliance' over the United Kingdom's failure to undertake trans-boundary consultations for the construction of a new nuclear plant in Somerset, England.

The investigation has been undertaken by the Implementation Committee of the United Nations Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context [Espoo]. read full story / add a comment
NFE to remember Sean Healy , Easter Monday 2014, Glasnevin Cemetery, 1pm.
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday March 19, 2014 23:47 by Sharon.   image 1 image
Sean Healy Sluagh , NFE, to lay a wreath in memory of Sean Healy on Easter Monday 2014. read full story / add a comment
Easter Monday 2014 , Dublin : RSF Easter Commemoration, GPO , 2pm.
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday March 19, 2014 23:33 by Sharon.   text 4 comments (last - friday april 25, 2014 15:43)   image 6 images
RSF Easter Monday Commemoration, GPO, Dublin, 2pm. read full story / add a comment
Easter Sunday 2014 (20th April) : RSF Easter Commemoration , Deansgrange, 12.45pm.
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday March 19, 2014 23:21 by Sharon.   image 1 image
Easter Sunday 2014 (20th April), Deansgrange, Dublin. read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / feature Wednesday March 19, 2014 21:53 by T   text 16 comments (last - saturday february 05, 2022 17:10)   image 24 images   video 1 video file   3 attached files
It was three years on March 11th since the triple nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima plant in Japan in 2011. This article attempts to try and give an picture of the situation today and to show that the accident is still an active event that will take many decades to cleanup and it is anything but over.
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The Siege of the Four Courts
national / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday March 18, 2014 21:24 by Stoneybatter & Smithfield People's History Project   image 1 image
Our next public talk takes place on Saturday 29th March at 4.30pm in The Cobblestone, Smithfield.

This month's topic is The Siege of the Four Courts with guest speaker Liz Gillis, author of the Fall of Dublin, the story of the attack on the Four Courts. read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday March 18, 2014 17:44 by 0   image 1 image
Patrick MacGill was born in 1889 in County Donegal Ireland. The same county as myself. He became known as the "Navvy Poet."This was after his work for a time as a "navvy", this term comes from working with a shovel building roads, the shovel was called a navvy shovel, something to do with navigating and the roads. Before he worked as a navvy he worked as a farm laborer, a ditch digger and a quarryman. He later fought as a young man in Flanders in the First World War. He became a poet and writer. Below are two of his poems. The first on his work as a navvy and how he saw society with its brutal class divide. The second on his experience in the trenches in Flanders in the imperialist war. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday March 17, 2014 11:29 by John O'Shea   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 18, 2014 21:16)   image 3 images
All over Ireland, leprechauns are being found in front of banks and cultural venues in suspected protest over banking crisis or perhaps a protest against St Particks 'plastic paddy' sterotypes? read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Monday March 17, 2014 10:07 by Sara   image 1 image
Philippines, March 2014 -- With less than four months remaining before the upcoming “death” of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)’s land distribution component on June 30 2014, 300 farmers from the Save Agrarian Reform Alliance (SARA) today trooped to Malacanang Presidential Palace, calling for a drastic acceleration and overhaul of the implementation of the land reform effort.
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sligo / environment / press release Sunday March 16, 2014 21:19 by Anti-fracking   image 2 images
For the third year running North West Network will be entering a horse drawn float into the Sligo St. Patrick's Day Parade, with a "frack free Ireland" theme. The 2014 parade, however, will see their attempt to set a world record for the most people dressed as W.B. Yeats in one place at one time! read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / news report 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 / news report 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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