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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 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.
The post BBC Accused of “Gross Historical Ignorance” in Syria Reporting appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Nutcracker Gets Woke Makeover With Suffragettes and Girl Boss Lead Sat Dec 14, 2024 11:00 | Will Jones
The Nutcracker has been given a woke makeover by the English National Ballet with the addition of Suffragettes and a girl boss lead character.
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offsite link IPCC U-Turn as it Prepares to Start Blaming Humans for Bad Weather Sat Dec 14, 2024 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Up to now the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has largely held the line on not blaming 'extreme' weather on humans. But its latest press release suggests that is about to change, says Chris Morrison.
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offsite link 2025 is the UN Deadline for All Countries to Integrate Climate Propaganda into Their School Curricul... Sat Dec 14, 2024 07:00 | Steven Tucker
2025 is the UN deadline for all countries to integrate climate propaganda into their school curriculum. Is this why there's been such a push recently in the UK and elsewhere to green the classroom, asks Steven Tucker.
The post 2025 is the UN Deadline for All Countries to Integrate Climate Propaganda into Their School Curriculum appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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offaly / miscellaneous Saturday March 24, 2012 - 11:08 by Auld Rotten Hat   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 27, 2012 - 22:46)
For a number of years now, I have been going regularly to music festivals – everything from Glastonbury, Electric Picnic, Life and much smaller independent music festivals which I have always found to be a huge contrast to the often staid, boring meetings and rallies on social justice issues. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / gender and sexuality Thursday March 15, 2012 - 23:11 by Eleanor Leahy   text 22 comments (last - tuesday april 03, 2012 - 19:30)   image 1 image
This is an article to mark international women's day 2012. The austerity that is being forced on the Irish people so that the banks can be bailed out is causing harm to every aspect of society. This article does not suggest that hard times are an excuse or cause of domestic violence but that austerity is worsening the situation for women trapped in abusive relationships and is taking away services that are life saving to them.
... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 12, 2012 - 22:46 by The Watcher
Is the time for passive protest and resistance over in Ireland? ... read full story / add a comment
Hare Coursing: Please sign petition to have it banned
international / animal rights Monday March 12, 2012 - 13:11 by Ban Hare Coursing Cruelty   text 2 comments (last - sunday march 25, 2012 - 22:28)   image 2 images
A petition has been started to call on the Taoisech Enda Kenny to support the upcoming Bill that aims to ban hare coursing ... read full story / add a comment
Star Commander Harris : Sir Anthony! Theres nae sign of intelligent life!
national / history and heritage Sunday March 11, 2012 - 13:21 by Ex-Corkman   text 8 comments (last - sunday march 25, 2012 - 11:50)   image 3 images
Eoghan Harris regularly rants about terrorism both real and imaginary. While he still checks under his bed for Trots his main fear is that we are in a Weimar Republic stage and Sinn Fein are on the verge of seizing power. He fails to notice that his beloved Blueshirts are the one party in Ireland with a Fascist past. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Friday March 09, 2012 - 23:32 by Galway Alliance Against War   text 3 comments (last - monday march 12, 2012 - 18:10)
Galway alliance against war - march 2012 bulletin

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Gaaw supported peace events

Sunday 11th march between 2-3pm
Mark the 9th anniversary of the start of the criminal iraq war
1,455,590 iraqis were slaughtered in us war and occupation of iraq

Peace vigil organised by shannonwatch at shannon airport
(please assemble at roundabout before airport)

Sunday 11th march radisson blu galway @ 8pm
Ó ghaillimh go gaza gig
Dónal lunny & friends
In aid of galway/palestine children’s charity concert
Tickets for the concert are €20/€10 and will be available on the door on the night.
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national / eu Tuesday March 06, 2012 - 19:41 by O.O'C.
The Government's announcement of a referendum on the so-called "Fiscal Compact Treaty" (properly titled the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union/TSCG) calls in question its original intention to introduce the quite different European Stability Mechanism Treaty (ESM) to the Dáil for approval of its ratification on Tuesday or Wednesday next, or else sometime in the present pre-Easter Dáil term, as the Taoiseach recently announced. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Monday March 05, 2012 - 02:13 by O.O'C.
We should work for a powerful No vote in the referendum on the Permanent Austerity Treaty, but we should also not be distracted from the anti-democratic process that the Government is using to bring the European Stability Mechanism into being ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Wednesday February 29, 2012 - 18:49 by cropbeye
If there is a vote on the Euro compact campagainers should not go up a blind alley.

A lot of Irish Government and establishment figures dont actually know much about the workings of Europe in depth when you scatch
the surface.

Dont waste time on them. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Tuesday February 28, 2012 - 01:02 by O.O'C.   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 17, 2012 - 12:42)
“It would be tragic and fatal if we were to lose democracy on the road to saving the euro”

- Dr Andreas Vosskuhle, President of the German Constitutional Court, 2011

“There are 27 of us. Clearly, down the line, we will have to include the Balkans. There will be 32, 33 or 34 of us. No one thinks that federalism, total integration, will be possible with 33, 34, or 35 States. Clearly there will be a two-speed Europe: one speed that moves towards a Federation for the Eurozone and one speed for a Confederation within the European Union.”  

- French President Sarkozy, 8 Nov. 2011 
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Hare Coursing: A former judge and a respected conservationist group now say it should be banned
international / animal rights Saturday February 25, 2012 - 00:53 by Ban Hare Coursing Now   text 1 comment (last - saturday february 25, 2012 - 15:38)   image 5 images
Evidence is mounting recent weeks that hare coursing can no longer ward off accusations of deliberate cruelty and ecological vandalism. Opposition to it is increasing, with a former district court judge and the prestigious Irish Wildlife Trust caoming out in favour of its abolition. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 24, 2012 - 12:13 by SIPTU Community Campaign
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has criticised spending cuts in the community and voluntary sector as “short-sighted and ultimately self-defeating.” Launching a new study on the impact of cuts – Downsizing the Community Sector – Congress General Secretary David Begg said it was clear many of the cuts were taking place “below the radar and out of the spotlight. But their impact is enormous. In many communities these cuts are eroding the social fabric, eating away at what binds those communities together,” he said. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Tuesday February 21, 2012 - 01:04 by O.O'C.   text 7 comments (last - tuesday february 28, 2012 - 15:24)
The Government seems determined to push ahead in the next few months with the ratification of two important treaties: the “Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union” and the revised “Treaty on the European Stability Mechanism.”

The two treaties would make member-states of the euro zone into regimes of economic austerity, involving deeper and deeper cuts in public expenditure, increases in indirect taxes, reductions in wages, sustained liberalisation of markets, and the privatisation of public property. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Friday February 17, 2012 - 10:47 by Gregor Kerr   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 28, 2012 - 16:50)
The fiscal treaty, as agreed by EU governments, is clearly an austerity treaty and will impose serious levels of economic and financial pain on Irish workers for years to come. In his blog ‘Notes On The Front’ Unite economist Michael Taft says “The Government, in signing the Fiscal Treaty, has effectively committed itself to introducing up to €6 billion more in tax increases and spending cuts in the medium-term, over and above what it has already planned”.[1]

The prospect of such an approach is horrific and should shock all of us into action. Unless this is resisted we can expect even further tax increases, wage cuts and a slashing of all public services over the next couple of years. ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Thursday February 09, 2012 - 18:18 by Glen Clifford
This post is a quick response to an SWP internal members bulletin, which was presumably leaked by one of their members - available to read here: http://tomasoflatharta.com/2012/02/09/kubla-heard-from-...else/. It gives an insight to the real views of the SWP on a number of issues including the ULA and the CAHWT. I want to take up some of their points relating to the Household tax campaign, which I object to and to offer what I think is the real situation with the campaign. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 08, 2012 - 22:33 by Galway Alliance Against War   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 14, 2012 - 17:06)
The regular bulletin from the Galway Alliance Against War ... read full story / add a comment
Spirit of Freedom
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 07, 2012 - 11:20 by BrianClarke   image 1 image   video 1 video file
James Connolly wrote:


“An Irish Republic, the only purely political change in Ireland worth crossing the street for, will never be realised except by a revolutionary party that proceeds upon the premise that the capitalist and the landlord classes in town and country in Ireland are criminal accomplices with the British government, in the enslavement and subjection of the nation. Such a revolutionary party must be socialist, and from socialism alone can the salvation of Ireland come.” ... read full story / add a comment

international / anti-war / imperialism Monday February 06, 2012 - 22:07 by Declan Cullen
Will the victims of 9/11 ever receive justice? ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday February 06, 2012 - 13:51 by Declan Cullen   text 10 comments (last - tuesday february 14, 2012 - 17:12)
CANCER RATE INCREASE AND FLUORIDE. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Friday February 03, 2012 - 09:31 by Declan Cullen   text 2 comments (last - saturday february 04, 2012 - 10:27)
The people of this nation are is fed up with the corruption, lies and theft that is ongoing in this country and carried out by our so - called leaders, and rightly so. But now with all the aforementioned becoming more apparent, the people of this nation should now understand WHY this really happened in .............. ... read full story / add a comment
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