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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

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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
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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link The Covid Inquiry Asks for Red Teams But Will Get Blue (Pilled) Teams Mon Dec 16, 2024 07:00 | James Alexander
Politics professor James Alexander has finally got round to reading part one of Baroness Hallett's report. It's a dull pudding, he says, but does contain a few raisins.
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offsite link News Round-Up Mon Dec 16, 2024 00:47 | 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 Loophole in Labour?s New Puberty Blockers Ban Will See Vulnerable Children Used As ?Guinea Pigs to T... Sun Dec 15, 2024 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Despite a ban on puberty blockers for children, a loophole will still allow minors to participate in clinical trials, raising concerns that vulnerable youngsters are being used as "guinea pigs" for dangerous drugs.
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offsite link Bid to Build Britain?s Biggest Muslim Cemetery Sun Dec 15, 2024 17:00 | Richard Eldred
The billionaire Issa brothers have provoked fury with their plans to build Britain's biggest Muslim cemetery, a colossal 45-acre site in Lancashire.
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offsite link Number of Civilians Killed in Gaza ?Inflated to Vilify Israel? Sun Dec 15, 2024 15:00 | Richard Eldred
A damning new report has exposed how Gaza's Health Ministry inflated casualty figures by misclassifying victims and counting unrelated deaths, fuelling a false narrative that Israel is deliberately targeting civilians.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday July 29, 2011 - 20:30 by Paddy Healy

Following the surrender of the Labour Party in Cabinet on JLCs, SIPTU has described the proposals as “relatively positive” on RTE Television News, July 28 and has given the government plan “a cautious welcome” (Martin Wall, Irish Times July 29).

This is a dark day for Irelands biggest union which was built by Larkin and Connolly

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national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday July 28, 2011 - 19:50 by Paddy Healy

Labour's Shame on Low Pay-Labour Party has capitulated to Fine Gael by agreeing to cut low pay

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dublin / crime and justice Saturday July 23, 2011 - 20:29 by Captain america
Forget so-called conspiracy theories. Instead look at reality. Dare ask yourselves who actually seems to have benefited from the 9-11 calamity. In light of the debt ceiling debates and continuous politics as usual of Washington D.C., it is time for the American people and individual states of this federation to look at a troubling set of facts. There seems to have been “several” beneficiaries of 9-11 that don’t exactly fit the story line we were constantly fed by the propaganda machine and mainstream media as to how to connect the dots (which we were rhetorically asked to do). ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 21, 2011 - 23:11 by Workers Solidarity Movement PRO   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 23, 2011 - 09:56)
Anarchist Organisation Workers Solidarity Movement has issued a statement supporting the demands of the Maghaberry prisoners for their Rights and Dignity to be respected ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 20, 2011 - 15:49 by Grupo Raices - the Irish Colombia Solidarity Group   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 30, 2011 - 13:25)   image 1 image
The Irish foreign minister Eamon Gilmore has given his support to US-EU policy on Colombia - even though that policy is based on complicity with gross human rights violations by the Colombian state and its paramilitary allies ... read full story / add a comment
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international / education Saturday July 16, 2011 - 15:00 by Sean Crudden   text 66 comments (last - thursday october 24, 2013 - 16:06)   image 10 images
“Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I get. But the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinner. I say unto you, This man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.”

Luke Chapter 18

You probably know that a publican means a tax-collector. Such a person was generally hated reviled despised in biblical times. A publican was definitely not “politically correct.”
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 15, 2011 - 13:13 by Declan Cullen   text 9 comments (last - thursday july 21, 2011 - 11:07)
I remember a few years ago seeing, as eveyone else did, the signs on the road sides around Ireland stating that a particular road project was 'Funded by the EU' which everyone, including myself though was great. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday July 13, 2011 - 19:35 by Paddy Hackett
In contrast much of the radical Left falsely posit the source of the current capitalist contradictions as existing within the process of circulation of capital. This is why they persistently confine themselves to solutions that are grounded in the process of circulation of capital. They focus on money, credit, spending, taxation and commodities. Each one of these forgoing forms are necessarily confined to the sphere of circulation. Consequently they cannot provide the key to the solution of the the current world capitalist crises. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Tuesday July 12, 2011 - 23:22 by Michael Cross   video 1 video file
Are traits associated with psychopathic personality actually assets to an ambitious politician or highly driven member of the corporate world? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 09, 2011 - 19:10 by Seán Ó Murchú
Geraldine McNamara PRO of Republican Sinn Fein said that Martin McGuinness has shown his true colours in his statement in the Belfast Telegraph in which he is seeking legislation to make it easier for Irish people to get British citizenship and passports. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday July 08, 2011 - 23:31 by Paddy Hackett   text 8 comments (last - friday july 15, 2011 - 11:09)
Throwing more debt, in the short or long run, at the problem will not solve
the problem. This is precisely because the source of the problem does not
lie within the process of circulation (i.e. money and credit spheres). It is
contained within the production process.

Forgive the publication of this second draft. The first draft was rough with some errors in it. This draft is a more presentable version. But still not perfect. The first draft may be discarded.

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international / anti-capitalism Thursday July 07, 2011 - 21:52 by Paddy Hackett
Throwing more debt, in the short or long run, at the problem will not solve the problem. This is precisely because the source of the problem does not lie within the process of circulation (i.e. money and credit spheres). It is lodged within the production process.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 30, 2011 - 21:36 by GARC   image 1 image
Over the past few months, the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (GARC) have been involved in intensive meetings involving the Catholic Church, CARA, the Parades Commission, the SDLP and a number of other Youth, Community and Political groups. To give our analysis of yearly unwelcome Loyal Order parades through the greater Ardoyne community and the equally unwelcome violence and destruction which they leave in their wake.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday June 28, 2011 - 08:49 by Kathy Kelly   text 6 comments (last - sunday july 03, 2011 - 15:30)   image 2 images   video 4 video files

Last week, newly-arrived in Athens as part of the US Boat to Gaza project, our team of activists gathered for nonviolence training. We are here to sail to Gaza, in defiance of an Israeli naval blockade, in our ship, "The Audacity of Hope." Our team, and nine other ships' crews from countries around the world, want Israel to end its lethal blockade of Gaza by letting our crews through to shore to meet with Gazans. The US ship will bring over 3,000 letters of support to a population suffering its fifth continuous decade of de facto occupation, now in the form of a military blockade controlling Gaza's sea and sky, punctuated by frequent deadly military incursions, that has starved Gaza's economy and people to the exact level of cruelty considered acceptable to the domestic population of our own United States, Israel's staunchest ally.
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international / anti-capitalism Monday June 27, 2011 - 21:39 by Paddy Hackett
Financialisation is a universal scam dressed up as a sophisticated exercise designed to create the illusion that the economic system is faring well. But at the end of the day it is just a paper generator with no authentic exchange value. It just postpones the day when the law of the tendency of the general rate of profit manifests itself in the form of an economic crisis.

Marx's Capital has not lost its value as a means to a correct understanding of the nature of capitalism today. The law of value is every bit as relevant today as it was in the past. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday June 27, 2011 - 16:43 by SIPTUPR   video 1 video file
Renowned UK based Academic Eilis Lawlor explains why Cleaners are more valuable to society than Bankers! ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday June 24, 2011 - 14:39 by SIPTUPR   video 1 video file
Renowned UK based Academic Eilis Lawlor explains why Cleaners are valuable to society than Bankers! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 21, 2011 - 14:47 by Brian Flannery   text 74 comments (last - sunday may 29, 2016 - 22:01)   1 attached file
In the last 10 years, numbers have risen drastically with people being incarcerated in prisons throughout Ireland.

We need a complete overhaul in the way our prisons are run. The latest report by Judge Reilly, Inspector of Prisons were shocking and indicated that many laws have been in fact been breached viz a viz basic human rights.

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Ruairí making the column inches by ignoring poverty issues.
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 20, 2011 - 10:58 by indignant person   text 4 comments (last - wednesday june 29, 2011 - 13:36)   image 1 image
I want to seperate out what is becoming problematic in terms of Irish Coalition Partnerships for a minute
and focus on how those people who attain power actually begin to use it. For instance , the Irish Dáil is
a place where ideology (of whatever flavour) is not an issue when entering into what we fondly term a junior
coalition partnership/ relationship with a majority party (JCP). it doesn't matter a bit, no political party , whatever
their stripe goes into poor areas and asks for votes , because they (and especially the Labour party) do not
care to know about poverty. It is invisible to them, and mostly at the moment in terms of access to education. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday June 19, 2011 - 18:58 by Paddy Hackett
Marx by producing the materialist conception of history was also producing the materialist conception of alienation. The materialist conception of history is the only genuine, comprehensive and consistent materialism. It laid the basis for identifying the real nature of capitalist alienation together with the historical process that dissolves it. Hegel never succeeded in finding the limits preventing humanity from transcending its alienation. Hegel shares this fundamental inability to understand both the nature of alienation and the means whereby it can be abolished with the Young Hegelians; Feuerbach; the philosophical materialism of the Enlightenment and the Classical School of Political Economy. ... read full story / add a comment
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