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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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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.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu Dec 12, 2024 01:31 | Richard Eldred
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 China?s Spying Shows it?s Time to Close the ?Backdoors? in Our Technology Wed Dec 11, 2024 20:00 | Dr R P
China has been caught spying on America using 'backdoors' in Western technology that the U.S. Government mandated telecom companies to put there. It's time to close these self-imposed weaknesses, says Dr. R P.
The post China’s Spying Shows it’s Time to Close the ‘Backdoors’ in Our Technology appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Michael Mann?s Latest Attempts to Support the ?Hockey Stick? Graph Aren?t Even Convincing Alarmists Wed Dec 11, 2024 18:00 | Andrew Sibley
Michael Mann's recent attempts to support the 'hockey stick' graph of global temperature by explaining away natural oscillations aren't even convincing alarmists, says Andrew Sibley.
The post Michael Mann’s Latest Attempts to Support the ‘Hockey Stick’ Graph Aren’t Even Convincing Alarmists appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday November 14, 2014 - 22:20 by Paddy Hackett   text 3 comments (last - saturday november 15, 2014 - 12:17)
Romanticising the working class as much, as the radical left do, merely holds back any chances of authentic political development. It is almost a taboo among this Left to make any serious criticisms of this working class. Left communists are not obliged to pander to a working class that has been backward for so long. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 11, 2014 - 22:46 by Blanca Gasco
A high level technical analysis of why MH17 crashed down and how it was worked out. Clear evidences show that the airplane was shot down by an ukrainian fighter jet.

Eyewitnesses have seen and heared a second airplane near the passenger plane. Look for these You Tube Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa_R2NA1txc ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czqmeMhWyFo
; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuoIw3jBV4g , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuoIw3jBV4g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuoIw3jBV4g
... read full story / add a comment
international / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday November 07, 2014 - 16:54 by john throne   text 2 comments (last - monday november 10, 2014 - 10:01)
Workers move en masse against the water charges. Their leaders can no longer hold them back. The left no longer have an excuse not to themselves be able to build a mass force. The left sectarianism, ultra leftism and opportunism of these groups has to be confronted. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 05, 2014 - 22:26 by William Wraithwrite
It may very well be coincidence that just when Israel was starting to take some heat for its atrocious war crimes and policy in Gaza at the end of this summer of 2014 along comes a newly name-minted entity engaging in sensational beheadings for news-grabbing attention. Whether red herring cover just happens to be luck for Israel and the United States in regards to committing and tolerating war crimes or whether there was some conspiracy is not that relevant but what is relevant is that the people of the world cannot let other more recent events erase from memory what the world witnessed in Gaza. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday November 05, 2014 - 13:34 by Paddy Hackett
It does follow that truth is unattainable. However it is not easily acquired. Its acquisition is a struggle. To strip off illusion and much of ambiguity contemporary society needs replacement by a communal form that precludes social oppression ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday October 31, 2014 - 20:10 by Paddy Hackett   text 1 comment (last - friday october 31, 2014 - 21:17)
The anti-water charges campaign is a populist campaign driven by the opportunist politics of the Socialist Party, the Socialist Workers Party and other organisations including the UNITE trade union. The Socialist Party and the Socialist Workers Party merely view the campaign as a means to enhance their popularity within the working class while opportunistically impeding the development of communist consciousness among the working class. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday October 30, 2014 - 11:26 by john throne   text 5 comments (last - saturday november 01, 2014 - 16:01)
By John Throne. The so-called workers party which has recently had its conference played a major role in derailing the movement of the 1968/1970 period.
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IGB are responsible for so much suffering.
international / animal rights Thursday October 30, 2014 - 09:37 by bernie wright   text 5 comments (last - friday october 31, 2014 - 20:15)   image 1 image
Smothered Greyhounds found dead.- U bet-They die.

The Alliance for Animal Rights (AFAR) wholeheartedly condemns the suffering inflicted on the eleven greyhounds found smothered on Monday on exiting the Irish ferries vessel in France.
As this news comes in the midst of a greyhound Racing crisis in Ireland we hope firstly that no more Greyhounds will suffer at the hands of the Greyhound Industry.
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international / gender and sexuality Tuesday October 21, 2014 - 22:43 by john throne   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 28, 2014 - 22:54)
The degrees of violence against women and children and the slave labor inflicted on Irish women in the laundries are not caused by some flaw in the Irish character but by the nature of Irish capitalism and its relationship to the anti women dictatorial Catholic church. ... read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality Sunday October 19, 2014 - 01:47 by john throne   text 4 comments (last - monday october 20, 2014 - 17:14)
Sinn Fein I believe are rightly under attack for the issues around the Cahill case and the way they are said to have handled this. Abuse of women (and Men) exists in the revolutionary left also. When this comes up the leadership of these organizations usually try to cover this up by citing the supposed interests of the organization concerned and the revolution. This puts enormous pressure of the victims of assault and has to be condemned. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism Tuesday October 14, 2014 - 22:34 by fred   text 3 comments (last - friday october 17, 2014 - 00:18)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
A pre election sleight of hand giving out a few pennies to the poor with one hand while taking them back with the other via water charges? Here is some information on some of the changes ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Tuesday October 14, 2014 - 11:40 by Paddy Hackett   text 8 comments (last - wednesday october 15, 2014 - 23:58)
Single issue demands such as the movement against water rates hold back the class struggle by suggesting that capitalism can continue in the absence of these charges or taxes. This is because such demands are not embedded in a programme of an interlinked series of demands that challenges the capitalist system. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday October 11, 2014 - 21:28 by john throne   text 1 comment (last - monday october 13, 2014 - 18:59)
How can this mass movement against the water charges be developed into a lasting mass movement against austerity and capitalism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday October 10, 2014 - 23:46 by john throne
Benny was a Comrade and example. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 10, 2014 - 16:05 by Anthony Ravlich
Describes the UN's gross deceit e.g. human rights omissions creating the IMF which discriminates on ground of intellectual property. Also, activists' lack of understanding of political globalization which has led to the dominance of the bureaucracy. In addition, the decimation of animal populations. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Wednesday October 08, 2014 - 17:50 by Paddy Hackett   text 7 comments (last - sunday october 12, 2014 - 10:29)
The rhetoric by the Sinn Fein, the Anti Austerity Alliance and the People Before Profit Alliance featuring on RTE's Prime Time programme amounts to nothing but illusion. Their election candidates showed no understanding of the need for revolution. Their rhetoric suggested that capitalism can be managed or reformed to the benefit of the working class by effectively taxing the rich and not the working class. Indeed the entire show confined itself to suggestions as to how to reform capitalism in one way or another. In that way the participants sought to effectively defend the capitalist system. Essentially all contributors were essentially advocating bourgeois politics. If the Socialist Party and the Socialist Workers Party were genuinely revolutionary they would have challenged RTE and its other contributors by advocating the need for revolution. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / animal rights Wednesday October 08, 2014 - 16:54 by Against animal cruelty   text 3 comments (last - thursday october 16, 2014 - 08:05)   image 3 images
I have to ask: does the Catholic Church have a death wish?

Hare coursing is a horribly cruel “sport” that is a crime in many jurisdictions. It’s bad enough that the Irish government allows it…but this week pictures circulating on social media (twitter and facebook) clearly show a Catholic Priest officially BLESSING a hare coursing venue. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Wednesday October 08, 2014 - 14:30 by Luke Eastwood   text 3 comments (last - monday october 13, 2014 - 22:14)   image 1 image
The Irish government is charging for public water as part of its TISA signup. This is just the start, we will all pay for all water if they have their way, even if we don't get any services from Irish Water. The eventual plan will be to privatize all resources so that absolutely nothing will be free in this country. ... read full story / add a comment
Hare coursing "sport"
international / animal rights Friday October 03, 2014 - 20:55 by Ban Hare Coursing in Ireland   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 04, 2014 - 13:38)   image 8 images
We, in common with all animal welfare/rights/rescue organisations and conservationist groups in Ireland are appalled that another hare coursing season has just been allowed to commence, with public hare-baiting sessions already having being staged at Liscannor in County Clare and Kilflynn in County Kerry.

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international / anti-capitalism Thursday October 02, 2014 - 23:32 by Paddy Hackett
Parties such as the SP, SWP and Sinn Fein are essentially no different from each other nor from Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Fianna Fail. They are all bourgeois nationalist parties competing for power within the capitalist system. Reformism is still alive and well and embedded within the Irish working class movement. ... read full story / add a comment
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