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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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Human Rights in Ireland
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offsite link University ?Sacks? Economist Who Wrote Paper Criticising Mass Immigration Policy Sun Dec 15, 2024 09:00 | Will Jones
Economist Prof Steve Fothergill has said he was "sacked" by Sheffield Hallam University after writing a paper that criticised UK immigration policy for allowing large numbers of jobs to be taken by foreigners.
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offsite link Ed Miliband Triples Down on Energy Suicide Sun Dec 15, 2024 07:00 | Ben Pile
Rather than facing the facts, Ed Miliband has this week tripled-down on what everyone else can now see are terrible mistakes in energy policy more than two decades in the making, says Ben Pile.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sun Dec 15, 2024 01:02 | Will Jones
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Trial of Migrant Murder Suspect Will Take Twice as Long Because of Language Barrier Sat Dec 14, 2024 15:00 | Will Jones
The murder trial of an asylum seeker believed to have arrived in the U.K. on a small boat could take twice as long because he does not speak English, a court heard.
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offsite link BBC Accused of ?Gross Historical Ignorance? in Syria Reporting Sat Dec 14, 2024 13:00 | Will Jones
The BBC has been accused of "gross historical ignorance" after it said that Syria's Jews "want to believe they have a space now" following the collapse of Assad's Government at the hands of an Islamist insurgency.
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Internment Without Trial
international / crime and justice Tuesday March 12, 2013 - 18:40 by Brian Clarke   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 13, 2013 - 10:56)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
"IMAGINE! THEY DID NOT WANT TO KNOW! THEY LOOKED THE OTHER WAY!". Not many British commoners or citizens of the Irish scum states, want to think about secret courts, secret trials or internment without trial, these days. How often were the German people accused, of reacting to the rise of Hitler and his persecutions in these precise terms. "IMAGINE! THEY DID NOT WANT TO KNOW! THEY LOOKED THE OTHER WAY!" ... read full story / add a comment
Animal welfare campaigners are also pressing for a coursing ban in Pakistan
international / environment Monday March 11, 2013 - 21:55 by End hare coursing shame   image 3 images
Ireland is one of the last bastions of hare coursing...an "honour it shares with Pakistan. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday March 11, 2013 - 08:39 by hj foley
What follows is a short history of Tibet and the role which the current Dali Lama has played.
Some of the facts may surprise you ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Sunday March 10, 2013 - 01:51 by Walden Bello   image 1 image
I’ll miss Hugo. When I first was introduced to him in Porto Alegre in 2003, he greeted me, “Mi padre,” and said he learned a lot from me. I was dubious about this and thought he was simply buttering me up, like any two-bit politician. Then he started telling me what he learned from Development Debacle, Deglobalization, and Dark Victory. I was stupefied; the guy actually read my stuff!
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday March 09, 2013 - 00:55 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   text 1 comment (last - monday march 11, 2013 - 23:15)
A new nationwide opinion poll in Ireland has shown that people are becoming more and more disillusioned with the political process leading one to wonder if democracy (people rule) has simply become demopsefia (people vote). This type of disillusionment is becoming widespread across Europe in general. While no one is naive enough to believe all the promises of politicians, in recent years the desires of the electorate seem to be ever more blatantly subsumed to the financial interests/problems of recent governments. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday March 08, 2013 - 18:29 by one of NFI   text 7 comments (last - friday april 26, 2013 - 21:47)
Statement from participants in the No Fracking Ireland Network on the EPA ‘public consultation’ process with regard to ‘Proposed terms of reference for EPA/DCENR/NIEA Research Programme on Environmental Impacts of Unconventional Gas Exploration & Extraction (UGEE)’
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national / environment Friday March 08, 2013 - 18:20 by One of NFI
This was originally published by Gluaiseacht in a publication released at the time of the 2012 Grassroots Gathering in Galway. ... read full story / add a comment
International Women's Day Queen of Ireland
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 06, 2013 - 08:32 by Brian Clarke   text 3 comments (last - saturday march 09, 2013 - 03:53)   image 4 images   video 3 video files
The time has come to elect a Queen of the Claddagh on International Women's Day . I propose Marian Price as our first Irish Republican Queen, who represents love, loyalty and honour. Who does not permit the perversion of the course of justice allowing Royal Prerogatives to be shredded by minions that usurp or pervert the law, with theft, wanton destruction and kidnap. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Tuesday March 05, 2013 - 17:34 by Ban Coursing   video 1 video file
Niall Quinn on his shameful involvement in hare coursing. ... read full story / add a comment
A fox untroubled by human predators...
international / animal rights Monday March 04, 2013 - 12:21 by End Bloodsports in Ireland   text 13 comments (last - wednesday march 06, 2013 - 19:48)   image 11 images
Hare coursing and foxhunt clubs crave good PR. In recent days they've got the opposite: Mega pop star Paoblo Nutini denounced bloodsports after attending a hunt ball in Westmeath without realising its connection to foxhunting...and then members of the Irish Council Against Blood Sports captured horrific footage of hare maulings at the so-called "Irish Cup" coursing festival at Limerick racecourse. Now one of the most important Irish cultural iniatives of recent decades has effectively disowned the cruel baiting of live animals for "sport"...
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 25, 2013 - 22:30 by Anthony Ravlich
Video available: discusses the Captured UN's 'permanent' rebalancing of global power from the West to Developing Asia (including China and India), the 'grassroots-up rather than Beehive-down' approach to rebuilding Christchurch and the cowardice of the domestic and global establishments in refusing to discuss the ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization for World Peace - to replace neoliberalism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday February 24, 2013 - 10:52 by Luke Eastwood
Despite the continued 'green shoots' talk, recovery seems increasingly far away.

It does not take a genius or even an economist to realise that we are in fact in the depths of a major depression, which is continuing to worsen. The mainstream media, especially the USA media 90% of which is owned by just 6 corporations, continues to talk up a recovery but this is pure hyperbole that an intelligent person should be able to see through.
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Dilma Rousseff studies the case under the new Brazilian industrial policy.
international / arts and media Friday February 22, 2013 - 19:22 by Emilio José Lemos de Lima   image 1 image
Produced at millions of copies, costing pennies each, distributed throughout the country by the Brazilian Film Company and commercialized by legions of heroic fighters of the streets called Street Vendors, these copies are the biggest deterrent to piracy, will enhance the income and dignity of this micro-marketers, will take the national cinema to innumerable Brazilians and to other people, and, sold at popular prices, will make billionaire the Brazilian Film Industry and turn it in a sector able to fulfill its strategic role of consolidating a democratic and plural national identity and of compromising our population with a well-argued and well-supported national project.
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dublin / history and heritage Wednesday February 20, 2013 - 10:07 by Matt Treacy   text 48 comments (last - tuesday march 05, 2013 - 07:46)   video 1 video file
Regarding Anthony Coughlan’s latest attempt to denigrate my books.

The books stand on their merits and I have no need to repeat what is in them. They stand or fall on their own merits. However a number of points in Coughlan’s ‘review’ do need to be addressed.

First of all, the production issues relate to a small number of books sold at the time of the launch. All of these have been corrected and the index is now fully accurate.

He claims the book is ‘thoroughly nasty’. I take it that is a reference to it’s critical analysis of the pro-Soviet Communist movement. I make no more apology for being anti-Stalinist than I do for being anti-Nazi. It is also clear that one of the features of the CP book most upsetting to the inheritors of Irish Stalinism is its exposé of the dishonesty and intellectual gymnastics that were employed to justify the Stalin/Hitler Pact between 1939 and 1941. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday February 19, 2013 - 18:47 by Emilio José Lemos de Lima
Zorba the Greek?
Dear Friends,
Unfortunately, only one IMC is working in Greece nowadays and there are many Greeks around the world.
The article that you see below, in Greek and in English, was published here a few days ago, in Italian and English, under a similar situation.
I ask again your help to reach their recipients.
Thank you once more for being the guarantors of freedom that you are.
I send you my hug!
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national / anti-capitalism Monday February 18, 2013 - 23:53 by éirígí PRO   text 13 comments (last - thursday january 16, 2014 - 18:53)   video 1 video file
A Do It Yourself guide to sabotaging 'water meter ready' stopcock chambers . ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 16, 2013 - 18:32 by Galway Alliance Against War
GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR
FEBRUARY 2013 BULLETIN
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/galway.antiwar
Or https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/312442090965/

CONTENTS
1. IRISH SOLIDERS TO TRAIN TROOPS INVOLVED IN OVERTHROW OF MALI’S DEMOCRATIC GOVT IN 2012
2. SHANNON’S BLOOD MONEY
3. OBAMA’S EMPTY PROMISES FROM THE “LAND OF THE FREE”
4. ON THE SCENT OF DEATH THREATS TO GAAW’S PRO
5. MING, GAAW’S COMPUTER & CORRUPTION IN THE GARDAÍ
6. UNEMPLOYED KILLER OF THE MONTH
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national / eu Sunday February 10, 2013 - 23:12 by Ordinay Citizen   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 12, 2013 - 19:35)
How we are being made to like a bad Anglo deal and only long term solution is for us to have a government without FF or FG and what they could do if/ when they get into power. ... read full story / add a comment
Cliffs of Mohair
international / public consultation / irish social forum Sunday February 10, 2013 - 09:37 by BrianClarke   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 12, 2013 - 00:29)   image 8 images   video 1 video file
Unions, which organized the rallies, claimed more than 100,000 people attended, with 60,000 marching in Dublin. Demonstrators also protested in Cork, Galway, Limerick, Sligo and Waterford.

"It would be fatal for people to believe this issue is now resolved and we can all move on," David Begg a supposed Union leader said. "At the onset of the crisis Ireland had one of the lowest debt to GDP ratios in Europe. The difference between then and now is due entirely to Ireland socializing bank debt at the behest of the ECB, to save the European banking system."

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international / miscellaneous Sunday February 10, 2013 - 04:57 by hj foley   text 1 comment (last - friday may 29, 2015 - 11:05)   1 attached file
Digicel and the countries it operates in. The story also details the level of corruption in these countries ... read full story / add a comment
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