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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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offsite link Greta Thunberg?s Descent from Climate Darling to Militant Pro-Palestine Activist Thu Dec 12, 2024 11:43 | Will Jones
Not long ago, anyone criticising St Greta was labelled a bully. Her expertise in climate science was beyond question, despite leaving school at 14. Now, it looks like the heretics were right and the worshippers were fools.
The post Greta Thunberg’s Descent from Climate Darling to Militant Pro-Palestine Activist appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Ed Miliband?s Department Claims 30-Year Average Temperature is Higher Than the Warmest Year on Recor... Thu Dec 12, 2024 09:00 | Chris Morrison
If you think the Met Office produces junk readings, just wait till you see what Ed Miliband's Energy Department is up to, says Chris Morrison. Its 30-year average temperature is way higher than even the warmest year!
The post Ed Miliband’s Department Claims 30-Year Average Temperature is Higher Than the Warmest Year on Record appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link We Never Talk About the Costs of Not Tackling Climate Change, Says Emma Pinchbeck. Don?t Make Me Lau... Thu Dec 12, 2024 07:00 | Ben Pile
We never talk about the costs of not tackling climate change, claims new Climate Change Committee CEO Emma Pinchbeck. On the contrary, says Ben Pile, media scare stories of impending doom are all we ever hear about.
The post We Never Talk About the Costs of Not Tackling Climate Change, Says Emma Pinchbeck. Don’t Make Me Laugh ? It’s All We Ever Hear About appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu Dec 12, 2024 01:31 | 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 China?s Spying Shows it?s Time to Close the ?Backdoors? in Our Technology Wed Dec 11, 2024 20:00 | Dr R P
China has been caught spying on America using 'backdoors' in Western technology that the U.S. Government mandated telecom companies to put there. It's time to close these self-imposed weaknesses, says Dr. R P.
The post China’s Spying Shows it’s Time to Close the ‘Backdoors’ in Our Technology appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Sean Samhat
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 30, 2010 - 20:49 by Rebels YELL   image 1 image   video 1 video file
A monument to Fergal O'Hanlon and Sean South lies at the crossroads where they died, six miles from the nearest town every direction.The crossroads is bordered by local woodlands with signposts to Fivemiletown, Brookeborough, Roslea telling which are all six miles away. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 30, 2010 - 19:40 by David Walsh with General Joe   text 6 comments (last - wednesday january 12, 2011 - 14:54)
“Feminist opinion—as the Assange case and the Polanski affair before it have demonstrated—has become one of the means of legitimizing the suppression of nonconformists and political dissidents, and of changing the subject from the great social issues, above all, class oppression and social inequality, to stale and self-pitying concerns.
Those supervising the attack against Assange are no doubt congratulating themselves on its clever design. Mounting it in the guise of a campaign against the sexual molestation of women… how else could such a filthy operation, with its threat of a sweeping assault on democratic rights, be mounted and even legitimized today?
The powers that be know the Pollitts of this world, and the Nation. The magazine’s editor, Katrina vanden Heuvel, is, after all, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a leading ruling class think tank whose membership has included numerous CIA directors, along with dozens of US generals and admirals.” ... read full story / add a comment
A Terrible Beauty
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 30, 2010 - 03:04 by Rebels YELL   image 1 image   video 1 video file
In contemporary British Occupied Ireland, there is much revision and censorship of traditional Irish republicanism. Indeed there are ex-republicans such as Anthony McIntyre from Belfast who spent years imprisoned in Long Kesh concentration camp, who co-authored a book titled, Good Friday, The Death of Irish Republicanism, ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday December 29, 2010 - 19:10 by Jane Ruby   text 27 comments (last - wednesday january 12, 2011 - 15:28)
Ten Days of Intensive Training in Central Mexico: Video Production, Investigative & Online Reporting, and Movement Strategies for Journalists ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday December 29, 2010 - 04:39 by r.i.p.
R.I.P Thomas (Tomi) Schwaetzer. alias "Max Watts" 1928 - 2010 ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Tuesday December 28, 2010 - 22:57 by Bryan Wall
"The ongoing economic destruction of Ireland is not surprising when one looks at the history of collusion between bankers and politicians, at the highest levels, in Irish politics. Over the years, some of this has been revealed by insiders and tribunals. " ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday December 28, 2010 - 16:56 by nmn   text 11 comments (last - saturday april 23, 2011 - 15:05)
Today Michael Noonan TD, Fine Gael Spokesman on Finance, released a press statement that his ministerial pension was being paid in full to two "well known charities".

... read full story / add a comment
Captain Morgan Fischer - standing up for Ryanair passenger safety - forced out
international / anti-capitalism Friday December 24, 2010 - 11:00 by CEO - (former Cabin Crew)   text 5 comments (last - saturday december 25, 2010 - 08:47)   image 3 images
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1207/presswatch-business.html

PILOT WHO CROSSED O'LEARY RESIGNS - The Ryanair pilot who said the airline should replace Michael O'Leary, the low-cost airline's chief executive, with a junior flight attendant to save money has quit after being reassigned from southern France to the "Siberia" of a base in Lithuania, says the Financial Times.

Captain Morgan Fischer was one of almost 30 Ryanair pilots working at Marseilles who had to move after the airline announced in October that it was closing the base following a disagreement with French authorities. The pilots were asked to bid for new bases. Most did so and were offered work at bases in Spain, Italy, Portugal and elsewhere, including some a few hours' drive from Marseilles, where many live with their families. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 24, 2010 - 07:03 by LCW   text 1 comment (last - saturday may 28, 2011 - 17:59)
Photos/Report - "Merry Christmas-War is Over" - Catholic Workers "close" Dalston "Arcade of Death"
A merry band of London Catholic Workers and friends, fresh from shooting remakes of videos for John Lennon's anti-war classics "Merry Christmas (War is Over)" and "Give Peace a Chance" (watch this space for the finished videos), took themselves along to their favourite local army showroom, or "arcade of death", inside Dalston Kingsland shopping centre to bring their seasonal message of peace to the happy festive shoppers of east London. ... read full story / add a comment
Nice to think in the times of wikileaks that an IMC site (Paris) can still get the judgers foaming at their commercial press bits.
international / arts and media Thursday December 23, 2010 - 23:10 by .:. iosaf   text 2 comments (last - friday december 24, 2010 - 10:58)   image 2 images
Hortefeux the minister of the interior (= to minister of justice or home secretary) has found a new enemy now that Romanians, women in veils & Africans are old hat.

Yep.

Paris indymedia is according to him an anti-police website which facilitates the indentification of serving police officers thus leading to their general ostracisation & probably unpopularity. ... read full story / add a comment
Rebel Vision
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday December 21, 2010 - 23:22 by Rebels Yell   image 1 image
If incompetent rulers are a pre-requisite for revolution in Ireland, well this most certainly is that time, as we watch the bankruptcy of both finance and Irish leadership dailyunfold. It is somewhat paradoxical for Irish republicans to politically agree with a British proponent of population control such as Huxley but few will deny, these last quotes below, again from Huxley, would be an apt summary of the motivation of a large segment of Irish republicanism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday December 17, 2010 - 17:44 by Truthsayer   text 5 comments (last - monday december 27, 2010 - 20:14)
Tommy Sheridan's wife Gail has been acquitted of perjury at the High Court in Glasgow after the Crown dropped the charges against her. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 15, 2010 - 13:53 by john throne
In the largest prisoners strike in US history the prisoners in Georgia have united across racial lines. This is a major victory. Please send your support. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 12, 2010 - 20:56 by Diarmuid Breatnach
Protest in response to the Moroccan attack on Gdim Izik camp in El Aaiun, and the countless human rights violations carried out by the Moroccan Army which has led to a the death of many innocent Saharawi Civilians. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday December 11, 2010 - 23:52 by Paul Ryan   video 1 video file
Students and Teachers Carol singing to raise funds for the projects in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday December 10, 2010 - 00:37 by john throne   text 6 comments (last - sunday december 12, 2010 - 23:11)   image 3 images   video 2 video files
The union and labor leaders should be leading the battle to defend the right of all of us to know what is in the cables of capitalism. But they are so much part of the system they will not. While continuing to point this out and to build opposition forces to these union leaders in the workplaces and unions we, the left and all activist and anti capitalist forces, have to act ourselves. We should join Anonymous which is coordinating the defense of wikileaks and its funding base. Boycott Mastercard, Visa, Amazon etc. At the same time we should seek to give more of a democratic structure to Anonymous so it can become a more effective and democratic and decision making body, with a leadership which is collective and has depth, and so is better able to replace itself when capitalism can arrest or otherwise remove more of its leaders. ... read full story / add a comment
Aine Brady
national / education Thursday December 09, 2010 - 21:05 by LM   text 2 comments (last - saturday december 11, 2010 - 02:18)   image 6 images
Today, students from NUI Maynooth staged a picket at the office of Aine Brady T.D. The protest was organised by the Free Education for Everyone (FEE) campaign, who were also involved in the Castlebar secondary level walkouts. ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Thursday December 09, 2010 - 01:54 by LM   text 8 comments (last - friday december 10, 2010 - 20:28)   audio 1 audio file
Approx 100 students from two secondary schools in Clondalkin (Coláiste Bríde and Moyle Park College) took part in a walk out on budget day against the cut backs in education and increased college fees.

The students gathered in front of the office of John Curran TD in Clondalkin village and got a lot of support from passing cars and pedestrians.

Since then, Shane Donnelly, one of the leaders of the walk out has been suspended from school pending a board of management meeting later this week which will discuss and decide on his expulsion. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Wednesday December 08, 2010 - 09:57 by Baggie
Iceland out of recession reports Guardian.

Burn the Bondholders!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/07/iceland-...arter
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Night's Candles are Burnt Out (1927-28) by Seán Keating [3]
international / arts and media Tuesday December 07, 2010 - 21:33 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 09, 2010 - 13:32)   image 4 images
by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin

As the global economic crisis deepens, one may ask how the artist can play any role in social, economic and political change?

Visual artists have been commenting on society since William Hogarth, a pictorial satirist and social critic during the early 1700s, used art to comment on the politics and customs of his time.

The same challenge still exists today - how can the visual artist make images that have a profound effect on people and their view of society and so hope to contribute to making a better society for all? ... read full story / add a comment
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