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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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offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
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offsite link Net Zero is Now Costing Serious Jobs and Threatening Entire Regional Economies Mon Dec 02, 2024 11:24 | Will Jones
Britain's Net Zero policies, such as the fast-approaching ban on non-electric cars, are a fiasco, now costing serious jobs and threatening entire regional economies, says Liam Halligan.
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offsite link Local Green Discovers That Infinity Migrants Might Not Be So Great After Developer Announces Plans t... Mon Dec 02, 2024 09:00 | Eugyppius
Eugyppius wonders at the irony of a Green Party member's progressive ideals clashing with the reality of mass migration, as a tiny Bavarian village faces a proposed migrant housing facility that would shatter its peace.
The post Local Green Discovers That Infinity Migrants Might Not Be So Great After Developer Announces Plans to Open a Migrant Housing Facility in His Tiny Bavarian Village appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Judge Who Sentenced Cameron Bell to Nine Months For Calling Migrants ?Tramps? on TikTok Declined... Mon Dec 02, 2024 07:00 | Laurie Wastell
Cameron Bell, a 23 year-old care worker, was sentenced to nine months for live-streaming the aftermath of civil unrest in Tamworth. But the same judge declined to jail a paedophile, says Laurie Wastell.
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offsite link News Round-Up Mon Dec 02, 2024 01:25 | 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 Canadian Town Fined and Mayor Sent for Compulsory Education After Failing to Hoist Pride Flag Sun Dec 01, 2024 19:00 | Richard Eldred
In a bizarre ruling, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has fined the tiny town of Emo and its mayor $15,000 for failing to fly a Pride flag ? on a flagpole that doesn't exist.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 12, 2009 - 22:47 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.   text 4 comments (last - wednesday may 13, 2009 - 14:22)
A denunciation of the atrocities perpetrated against the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, of the distortions fed by its government to the international media and of the need to step up solidarity with the Tamil people in their struggle for self-determination. Please show your support tomorrow Wednesday 13th at 13,30 in the dáil, Kildare Street in a protest organised by the Stop the Slaughter of Tamils Campaign.
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dublin / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 12, 2009 - 20:38 by Socialist Party
Videos from the launch of the Socialist Party's local election campaign. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 12, 2009 - 18:09 by Ram Puniyani   text 2 comments (last - wednesday may 13, 2009 - 11:29)
The article below shows that the Talibans terrorisation of Sikhs is not justified by the Quran.

The Taliban’s capturing of Swat valley and other parts of Pakistan are accompanied by the news of their atrocities in the region, which not only include the brutal killings of innocent citizens, mostly Muslims, on the ground of their belonging to different sub-sect of Islam, but also there has been imposition of Jizya, on non Muslims, Sikhs. While many Muslims have been killed and abducted many on various flimsy grounds, many a Sikhs have fled from the area. The failure to pay the full Jizya has caused Sikhs dear, while some of them have been kidnapped and others’ households-properties have been confiscated. Taliban’s logic is that they are imposing this as per the tenets of Islam.
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international / gender and sexuality Tuesday May 12, 2009 - 17:56 by A. Faizur Rahman   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 13, 2009 - 09:18)
Here you will find an exposition of the truth about what is mandated by the Quran and how this is twisted and ignored by the fundamentalists.

About a month ago the world media reported a shocking decision by a Saudi judge in which he refused to annul the marriage of an 8-year old girl to a 47-year old man. But to those who are already familiar with the so called Islamic laws of Saudi Arabia this ruling was merely the latest in the sequence of several such cases of human rights abuse in the name of the shariah. The question is: does the Islamic law really uphold child marriage?
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international / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 12, 2009 - 11:37 by Red Banner
The ‘Hidden Connolly’ articles published in Red Banner, previously unavailable to the general reader, are now available from the magazine’s website ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Tuesday May 12, 2009 - 01:18 by Nap Peter   text 11 comments (last - thursday may 14, 2009 - 16:17)   image 1 image
So what will we, the people of ireland vote, when we are told to vote again of the first vote is not good enough. YES or NO???Propaganda is everywhere! The history of the EU is interesting. Who knows whats happening?

Following is an interesting article by Philip Jones in Copenhagen. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday May 11, 2009 - 13:57 by insurance scammer
Anyone lucky enough to catch episode 5 of the 13th series of "South Park" will already have digested the idea that Somalian pirates could be directed by a little fat kid with an attitude problem. But now the Spanish radio station "SER", acknowledged through its long list of leaks for its links to the intelligence services, has broadcast fresh claims, it says is based on a leaked briefing from European military intelligence that the pirates are being guided from London. & not just a bedsit in Dalston - but rather insiders in the maritime transport industry and insurance sectors. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Sunday May 10, 2009 - 14:15 by Miriam Cotton   text 4 comments (last - monday may 11, 2009 - 15:20)
A Youtube of film-maker Quinn reading his letter on the upcoming occasion of its 40th anniversary - 14th May 2009. Approx 4 mins long. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday May 09, 2009 - 23:47 by indo   text 2 comments (last - sunday may 10, 2009 - 23:37)
May 9th. "Irish Independent" ........As work/life balances go, he (Martin Sheen) seems to be onto something, looking at least a decade younger than his 68 years. The most recent arrest was less than two years ago, and related to trespassing on a nuclear test facility in Nevada. He has, he says, no plans to add to his impressive tally as he tours around Ireland this weekend with his grandson. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday May 09, 2009 - 23:04 by vendeval   text 1 comment (last - sunday may 10, 2009 - 20:16)
In the report on the annual police operation in Berlin delivered by local district German Federal Police chief Dieter Glietsch, we may read the usual justification for expenditure on kevlar, praise for "garda management", plea for more than this year's 6000 officer deployment, attention brought to the 450 of them who reported injuries and then one little jewel of intelligence.

a 24 year old police officer who is normally stationed in Frankfurt Airport was arrested after not only throwing cobble stones at Berlin plod but then having a fisticuff go at resisting arrest.

He is now suspended from duty. ... read full story / add a comment
Joe Higgins introduces Mouseland
national / anti-capitalism Saturday May 09, 2009 - 22:15 by Joe Higgins   text 1 comment (last - sunday may 10, 2009 - 13:38)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Joe Higgins presents the animated tale of Mouseland, a politicial satire which looks at the false choices presented to working people in elections, narrated by Tommy Douglas. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 08, 2009 - 16:28 by Socialism or Barbarism!
Review of blasphemy law's implications ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 07, 2009 - 21:53 by pat c   text 8 comments (last - tuesday may 12, 2009 - 15:05)   video 1 video file
Once again the USAF has slaughtered civilians in Afghanistan. But hey its OK! Hillary says shes sorry! Full story at link.

On the eve of a tripartite summit in Washington which the Obama administration has organized with the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan, reports from Afghanistan indicate that US air strikes in western Farah province have killed and wounded scores of civilians, many of them women and children. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 21:12 by babycham   text 2 comments (last - friday may 08, 2009 - 22:27)   image 2 images
Yesterday the unionist parties of the Spanish state of both ruling leftwing PSOE and rightwing opposition PP, who have never agreed on anything other than pay-rises, united to elect the leader of the Basque branch of the PSOE as first minister of the Euskadi region for their loyalist commitment to the project the PP saw a young up and coming member (before only noteworthy for her thoughts on condoms [she'd never use one]) appointed speaker of the Basque parliamentary house. The Lehendakari (taoiseach) of the last ten years of the PNV majority centre right nationalist party who have always held the post thus passes into history. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 19:36 by Kat
I would just like to forward this article from the Dublin SPCA website.
I feel this issue is not getting enough media attention. see story below.
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international / miscellaneous Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 09:02 by Wallshaveears   text 12 comments (last - friday may 08, 2009 - 12:39)
HAMAS POLITBURO chief Khaled Meshaal said yesterday the movement was ready to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the basis of the two-state solution. ... read full story / add a comment
he's looking for sympathy and privacy and relief from scandal.
international / politics / elections Tuesday May 05, 2009 - 17:15 by prurience   text 9 comments (last - monday may 10, 2010 - 23:54)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
Irish readers might be missing a story whose soap-opera plotting and extraordinary comments are delighting the enemies of Berlusconi. The man who managed to bring the Vatican behind his new right wing alliance has just fallen foul of the RC newspaper who have published on their front page a stinging attack on the morality and behaviour of Silvio who only this weekend was accused of "cavorting with minors" by his estranged wife for attending an 18 year old birthday party depite never making it to his own childrens' 18th festivities.

Preaching from the pulpit they have called on Italian voters to express their unease at the urns.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 05, 2009 - 02:45 by frequentblasphemer   text 3 comments (last - tuesday may 05, 2009 - 13:07)
In the Irish Times Fintan O'Toole points out that 2009 is the centenary of the occasion when a play by Bernard Shaw, "The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet", was used to show up the absurdity of having blasphemy laws. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday May 04, 2009 - 15:05 by Peter
"A Bigger, Bolder Role Is Imagined For the IMF
Changes Suggest Shift in How Global Economy Is Run"

"Inside a cavernous assembly hall in downtown Washington, dignitaries gather twice a year for routine meetings of the International Monetary Fund. Before long, though, the room could take center stage in the IMF's transformation into a veritable United Nations for the global economy" ... read full story / add a comment
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