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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
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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 Musk Says Farage ?Doesn?t Have What It Takes? to Lead Reform Sun Jan 05, 2025 18:00 | Richard Eldred
In a twist that left the nation on the edge of its seat, Elon Musk has sensationally called for Nigel Farage to be removed as leader of Reform UK.
The post Musk Says Farage ?Doesn?t Have What It Takes? to Lead Reform appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Why Is Labour Focusing on Saving the Planet When Birkenhead Is Rapidly Becoming a Third World Slum? Sun Jan 05, 2025 16:00 | Dr David McGrogan
Birkenhead is a town where past pride meets present decline, as lofty promises of progress clash with harsh reality. The contrast between the two couldn't be starker, says Dr David McGrogan.
The post Why Is Labour Focusing on Saving the Planet When Birkenhead Is Rapidly Becoming a Third World Slum? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Forget About Climate Change. The Real Existential Threat to the Our Future is Babygeddon Sun Jan 05, 2025 14:00 | Sallust
In the Daily Sceptic, Sallust says the West's below replacement level birth rate is a far, far greater threat to our future than climate change. And this depressing Labour Government will only make things worse.
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offsite link Labour?s ?Anti-Corruption? Minister Spent Years Living in House Given to Her Family by Ally of Forme... Sun Jan 05, 2025 12:02 | Toby Young
Labour's anti-corruption minister used to live in a flat gifted to her sister by a political ally of her aunt, the ex-PM of Bangladesh. This is in addition to the flat she was gifted by another ally of her aunt's.
The post Labour?s ?Anti-Corruption? Minister Spent Years Living in House Given to Her Family by Ally of Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister (Who?s Also Her Aunt) appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Universities Have Been Made Racist by Courses Focused on ?Undertakings of White People? Sun Jan 05, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
Degree courses focused on the?"undertakings of white people"?have made universities racist, according to a review by a?Russell Group?university that has pledged to make reparations in response.
The post Universities Have Been Made Racist by Courses Focused on “Undertakings of White People” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / sci-tech Wednesday May 01, 2013 - 18:35 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 01, 2013 - 23:53)   image 5 images
Just as we are seeing climate chaos change to climate catastrophe, we may also see job chaos change to job catastrophe. We are entering an era of technological change which has the potential to create havoc in an already seriously undermined world of employment. It has become a well-worn cliché to declare that the robots are coming but it is necessary to consider seriously how the creeping technologisation of production and services is going to affect many areas of employment considered today to be relatively safe from the machines. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 01, 2013 - 05:00 by Anthony Ravlich
Includes a brief description of neoliberal absolutism and a plan for youth to fight for their individual rights in a globalized world requiring a global ethical human rights approach. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday April 30, 2013 - 11:44 by Gavin R. Putland
It's possible to shift the tax burden from labour to consumption without raising prices or widening after-tax wages relativities. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday April 30, 2013 - 11:29 by Paddy Hackett   text 9 comments (last - friday may 03, 2013 - 14:39)
The current Minister of Agriculture is forever defending the farming community while his government are forever attacking the Irish working class. The farming community must be exposed as a parasitic category. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 29, 2013 - 12:32 by ...
Cheap clothes in Pennys = cheap lives in Bangladesh
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Pro-Choice Enablers??
international / public consultation / irish social forum Sunday April 28, 2013 - 16:03 by Brian Clarke   text 14 comments (last - thursday january 16, 2014 - 18:43)   image 6 images   video 3 video files
As someone who grew up in the culture of child abuse in east Galway, which now seems to be leading the country's policy on abortion or more accurately the lack thereof, I have always wanted to ask two principal questions, primarily to the enablers of systemic child abuse in Ireland.

Currently despite all the publicity about the culture of child rape in Ireland, the priority is the protection of the unborn to the detriment of the already born. I ask any decent person, if there still exists such a specimen on our island, with an ounce of nature left in them, to think about what I have written and have the courage to make a reply, that makes sense without getting personal. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday April 28, 2013 - 11:28 by luke eastwood
The time to do something is always now! ... read full story / add a comment
Greyhound and hare suffer in coursing...only the fans get a kick from this cruelty
international / environment Saturday April 27, 2013 - 13:49 by Against Cruelty to Irish Greyhounds   image 3 images
Animal welfare groups and greyhound protection organizations are appalled at the deliberate cruelty to greyhounds in Ireland revealed in the course of a recent court case, where a man admitted getting someone to shot two greyhounds that refused to chase hares (link to item on case below)
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Saoirse
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 27, 2013 - 07:52 by Brian Clarke   text 2 comments (last - saturday april 27, 2013 - 10:10)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
In his book "Born Free and Equal" : Ansel Adams documented life in internment camps, set up during the second world war for the Japanese. Internment of civilian nationals was also carried out in World War Two in Britain, where all Germans, Austrians over the age of 16 and some Italians, were called before special tribunals and divided into one of three groups: ... read full story / add a comment
SS State Secret
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 18, 2013 - 00:12 by Brian Clarke   text 18 comments (last - thursday december 05, 2013 - 16:37)   image 3 images   video 2 video files
The human suffering in British Occupied Ireland, by elderly political internees like Marian Price and Martin Corey, is markedly similar to the political internment, introduced forty years ago by the British, which escalated from crisis to disaster, culminating in the deaths of 10 Irish hunger strikers.
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The War we Don't See
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 16, 2013 - 13:10 by Brian Clarke   image 1 image   video 1 video file
John Pilger is I believe, one of the few remaining ethical mainstream journalists, who reports accurately and truthfully. The elite currently own the Mainstream Stream Media, the Government and the Banking system. The proletarian 99% of "1984"continue to require but bread and circus. It seems like, it is probably all they will ever want while watching TV. The ruling elite or establishment worldwide know this, they have always known this. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday April 16, 2013 - 02:46 by fred   text 16 comments (last - friday may 31, 2013 - 22:26)   image 8 images   video 2 video files   audio 1 audio file
Today, for a brief moment, America knows how awful it feels to live in one of the states they have invaded or that they have helped reduce to sectarian nightmares with imported jihadist mercenaries, CIA advisors, funds and weaponry, such as Iraq, Syria or Libya, where explosions like this occur every other day ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Thursday April 11, 2013 - 12:26 by Gan Ainm   image 1 image
Fifteen years on from the signing of the ‘Good Friday Agreement’ it is imperative that Irish Republicans and the people of Ireland give careful consideration to the merits, mechanisms and leftovers of what was offered to the country that reportedly historic day. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 08, 2013 - 21:19 by Gale Vogel   text 26 comments (last - thursday may 29, 2014 - 13:59)
What is a day in the life of people living in Ireland today? If we're lucky we awake to the stress of travelling to work, breakfast and getting the children ready for school. What of those who do not have this luck? ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous Monday April 08, 2013 - 14:35 by Lover   text 14 comments (last - saturday april 13, 2013 - 01:00)   image 6 images   video 1 video file
I know various parts of Britain are hosting gatherings to remember the dark legacy of Maggies reign but I think that in Dublin we should all come together tonight on O Connell Street to collectively remember all effected by the woman, particularly the hunger strikers, shoot to kill victims, Argentines, miners the list goes on. SO just throwing it out there and open to suggestions but this occassion should not pass with out challenging the message that Thatcher represented. Needless to say the media will be quick to have revised sanitised versions of her life being beamed over the airwaves. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday April 07, 2013 - 20:37 by Brian Clarke   text 5 comments (last - monday april 08, 2013 - 23:06)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Chomsky spent an inordinate amount of time on climate change, in Dublin, which a small part of environmental damage, resulting from the current unregulated greed of capitalism, without any sense of social responsibility particularly in contemporary Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday April 07, 2013 - 13:13 by Fidel Castro
A few days ago I mentioned the great challenges humanity is currently facing. Intelligent life emerged on our planet approximately 200,000 years ago, although new discoveries demonstrate something else.

This is not to confuse intelligent life with the existence of life which, from its elemental forms in our solar system, emerged millions of years ago.

A virtually infinite number of life forms exist. In the sophisticated work of the world’s most eminent scientists the idea has already been conceived of reproducing the sounds which followed the Big Bang, the great explosion which took place more than 13.7 billion years ago.

This introduction would be too extensive if it was not to explain the gravity of an event as unbelievable and absurd as the situation created in the Korean Peninsula, within a geographic area containing close to five billion of the seven billion persons currently inhabiting the planet. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 07, 2013 - 12:58 by Maryam Namazie
The AP has revised its stylebook to no longer include the term Islamist. They explain why:
"Islamist” is frequently used as a label for conservative Islamic political movements, particularly Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood . It generally carries a negative connotation"

Has the AP thought that maybe it carries a negative connotation because fascistic movements – religious or otherwise – generally do?

The disgusting Council on American-Islamic Relations which has previously lobbied AP to drop the term because they say it ”has become shorthand for ‘Muslims we don’t like’” and “is currently used in an almost exclusively pejorative context” is elated: We believe this revision is a step in the right direction and will result in fewer negative generalizations in coverage of issues related to Islam and Muslims."

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Secret Courts
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday March 31, 2013 - 14:01 by Brian Clarke   image 1 image   video 1 video file
British human rights group Amnesty International and legal charity Reprieve have condemned the British government's secret courts passed in the House of Lords as a “terrible day for British justice” ... read full story / add a comment
A clear message to the governement on bloodsports
international / environment Friday March 29, 2013 - 15:44 by Ban animal cruelty posing as "sport"   image 4 images
Members of several animal welfare and animal rights groups and sympathetic TDs held a peaceful protest outside Dail Eireann on Thursday, March28th, to express their abhorence of the "exemptions"for the barbaric "sports" of hare coursing and fox hunting that the government has inserted into the Animal Health and Welfare Bill.

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