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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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offsite link What?s the Difference Between Scepticism and Cynicism? Wed Dec 04, 2024 19:00 | James Alexander
What's the difference between scepticism and cynicism? Cynicism is especially necessary for assessing politics, says Prof James Alexander, as it sits below scepticism, making us question the motives of those who rule us.
The post What’s the Difference Between Scepticism and Cynicism? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Manchester United Drops LGBT Rainbow Jacket After Muslim Star Player Refuses to Wear It Wed Dec 04, 2024 17:30 | Will Jones
Manchester United dropped an LGBT rainbow jacket that the team was planning to wear on Sunday after a Muslim star player refused to wear it, in the third LGBT Pride controversy to hit the Premier League this week.
The post Manchester United Drops LGBT Rainbow Jacket After Muslim Star Player Refuses to Wear It appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link More Than 50 Experts Ready to Defend Letby, Says Her Lawyer Wed Dec 04, 2024 15:14 | Will Jones
More than 50 experts stand ready to defend?Lucy Letby, her barrister has said, as the police confirm they have questioned her in prison over more deaths and collapses.
The post More Than 50 Experts Ready to Defend Letby, Says Her Lawyer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link AI is a Misnomer Wed Dec 04, 2024 13:00 | Joanna Gray
AI is a misnomer, says Joanna Gray. It's not and will never be 'intelligent'. The fact that human 'super recognisers' are needed to spot the mistakes that AI makes at least 25% of the time should be proof enough.
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offsite link Civil Service Reverts to Working From Home Under Starmer as Private Sector Returns to Office Wed Dec 04, 2024 11:30 | Will Jones
Working from home?has made a comeback in the Civil Service since Keir Starmer's Labour came to power, with attendance at 13 Government departments falling while the private sector goes in the opposite direction.
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Fieldsport "conservation"
international / animal rights Wednesday June 12, 2013 - 22:09 by Bird Man   image 3 images
In the past few days, animal protection campaigners have become aware of a disturbing YouTube video that shows a leading dog trainer and breeder using LIVE, tied-up birds to train gundogs. ... read full story / add a comment
Tehran Elections 2009 Protests (creative commons)
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 12, 2013 - 00:00 by Eamonn Sheehy   text 4 comments (last - wednesday june 12, 2013 - 14:31)   image 6 images
Forough (not her real name), an Iranian woman, speaks of her experiences during 2009's crackdown on peaceful post-election protests.
As the 2013 presidential elections take place, what is happening in Iran today? ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Sunday June 09, 2013 - 14:44 by notajobbridgesucker   text 8 comments (last - tuesday june 11, 2013 - 00:12)
Here is an interesting arcticle i have found on the scambridge.ie website,i find it interesting how joan burton has massaged figures,and is furiously trying to spin something positive out of job bridge.

What could be so positive about robbing what could be a paid job from the poorest of communities,usually the paid work they convert or nullify into unpaid work are of working class and middle class level jobs.

IT ROBS WHAT COULD BE A PAID JOB FROM THE COMMUNITY.

What is so positive about that?The 38% of interns taken on are not 38% per se,but 25% of that 38%,so there is another shady lie from the minister for ''jobs'' or should i say unemployment?

Here is the article below:
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international / anti-capitalism Saturday June 08, 2013 - 00:26 by Void Network   image 1 image
INTERNATIONAL CALL-OUT FROM GREECE for all people in Turkey and everybody in the world fighting against contemporary Totalitarianism: ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Tuesday June 04, 2013 - 14:08 by An Draigneán Donn   text 3 comments (last - wednesday june 05, 2013 - 15:04)   image 1 image
Answering the claim, by a certain Liberal, that Muammar al-Gaddafi wasted Libya's oil wealth. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday June 02, 2013 - 23:49 by Seana Sperling
Group Bullying (Mobbing) and Group Stalking is becoming a problem globally, but because of the U.S. involvement in two wars, some Peace Activists, Leftwing Educators and Writers in the U.S. are being bullied and stalked by groups of people that feel the activists and scholars are un-American. ... read full story / add a comment
Martin Corey
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday June 02, 2013 - 00:33 by Brian Clarke   text 13 comments (last - thursday june 06, 2013 - 10:00)   image 6 images   video 3 video files
In the wake of the internment of Marian Price, which I believe over the last two years, can generally be agreed, to have been a form of internment because it lacked a proper, transparent trial, in a timely manner. I also believe it can be generally agreed by reasonable informed people, to have been a major setback, to what is known as the peace process in Ireland. I personally have neither been a proponent of this process or have believed it will achieve traditional Irish republican aspirations but I accept very reluctantly, it is a reality, delivered by a leadership with elements of competency, without wholesale fratricidal, blood letting. ... read full story / add a comment
"sport" to some...
international / environment Saturday June 01, 2013 - 12:47 by Abolish hare coursing in Ireland   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 01, 2013 - 13:00)   image 7 images
Shocking reports on hare coursing events just obtained under FOI (extracts reproduced below) reveal that the cruelty continued unabated throughout the entire 2012/2013 season despite assurances from Ministers Deenihan and Coveney that self regulation and “codes of conduct” under which coursing clubs operate have eliminated such cruelty.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 30, 2013 - 14:47 by dave   text 17 comments (last - friday may 31, 2013 - 12:09)   video 1 video file
Here is an excerpt on the background of pat condell,you can find more information,as i havent copied and pasted it all..

''Patrick "Pat" Condell (born 1949 or 1950) is an English writer, political commentator, comedian and atheist internet personality. He performed alternative comedy shows during the 1980s and 1990s in the United Kingdom, and won a Time Out Comedy Award in 1991. He was also a regular panellist on BBC Radio 1's "Loose Talk".''

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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday May 30, 2013 - 10:29 by Laura Duffy
Michael Campbell is an Irish political prisoner currently detained in Lithuania in conditions that breach his Human Rights ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday May 28, 2013 - 17:48 by Congalltee   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 28, 2013 - 17:56)
Should we abolish TDs' immunity from arrest (if coming to/from Dail)?

Article 15.13
"The members of each House of the Oireachtas shall, except in case of treason as defined in this Constitution, felony or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest in going to and returning from, and while within the precincts of, either House, and shall not, in respect of any utterance in either House, be amenable to any court or any authority other than the House itself."

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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 27, 2013 - 19:47 by An Draigneán Donn   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 29, 2013 - 11:38)   image 2 images
2011 was the year that language was finally murdered, and its remains disappeared. ... read full story / add a comment
Britain's Dirty Wars
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 24, 2013 - 12:36 by Brian Clarke   image 1 image   video 1 video file
In 2006, it became public knowledge, that Britain's SS(secret services) helped the IRA organize 'human bomb' attacks, in a tactic involving, forcing civilians, to drive car bombs into British army checkpoints with devastating consequence. This was just one of a series, in an evolution of guerrilla warfare techniques, that left many keen observers scratching their heads wondering, who was friend or foe and whose side, several senior British intelligence operatives were on. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 24, 2013 - 07:59 by M. 0’ hAnluain   text 6 comments (last - monday may 27, 2013 - 09:41)   video 1 video file
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” (Abraham Lincoln)
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Trickle Down Republic
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday May 22, 2013 - 18:03 by Brian Clarke   text 10 comments (last - friday may 31, 2013 - 00:04)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Occasionally I find an article in the Irish Times that is worth reading, sometimes written by Vincent Browne, which makes me wonder is Vincent one of us ? What do you think?
"Government zealously protects the wealthy in Ireland’s Wild West tax haven
Column: There is a determination not to disturb the contentedness of the wealthy by even a modest increase in income tax
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antrim / miscellaneous Monday May 20, 2013 - 13:51 by RNU PRO   text 6 comments (last - sunday may 26, 2013 - 15:42)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
Óglaigh na hÉireann yesterday (17th May) claimed responsibility through the media for a gun and bomb attack on British Police operating in the Twinbrook area of West Belfast. An attack which by all accounts forced a panicked PSNI unit to scramble along the ground for cover before retreating from the area altogether, albeit only for a few hours. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday May 19, 2013 - 18:37 by Fionuala Ni Cionnaoith   text 11 comments (last - tuesday may 21, 2013 - 21:58)
First of all i would like to introduce a misson as to what direct democracy would like to achieve:

What is direct democracy?

Direct democracy is a form of democracy in which the people have the right to:

Select their own candidates to represent them.
Call a referendum on any topic if a sufficient number of people deem it necessary, by gathering a set number of signatures.
Create legislation and put it to a referendum if a sufficient number of people agree with it, by gathering a set number of signatures.
Recall, remove from office, any representative deemed to have acted in breach of their terms of employment.

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national / crime and justice Sunday May 19, 2013 - 15:37 by maothail lad   text 15 comments (last - thursday may 23, 2013 - 07:36)   image 1 image
Justice Minister Alan Shatter and Mick Wallace were on Prime Time last night to talk about the penalty points report and the appearance of Commissioner Martin Callinan at a Public Accounts Committee meeting earlier that day.

During the chat, Mr Shatter accused Mr Wallace of having been stopped by the Gardaí last May.
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Price of In Justice
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 18, 2013 - 06:40 by Brian Clarke   image 1 image   video 1 video file
A commoner in British Occupied Ireland, can be designated a “terrorist” on the secret, unaccountable dictat of the unelected British Viceroyal Villiers, without notice and without a trial. Under CMPs(Closed Material Procedures) any Irish person may be jailed, simply on vaguely-defined, highly paid “material support,” against any person or group, labeled by the Viceroyal as “terrorist.” Any political dissent, such as wearing green, as in a recent incident, or singing a 'Celtic Song', or holding a piece of paper at an Easter ceremony, can be labeled as “terrorism” or “material support for terrorism,”
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