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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

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Why Did Excess Deaths Not Drop After Covid? Tue Dec 17, 2024 07:00 | Nick Rendell
In 2020 Asian countries were praised for their pandemic response. But since 2021 they've seen soaring death rates, while the UK is still running hot. Why did deaths not drop once the 'pandemic' was over, asks Nick Rendell.
The post Why Did Excess Deaths Not Drop After Covid? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Tue Dec 17, 2024 00:53 | 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 Lucy Letby?s Lawyers Say They Have ?New Evidence? that ?Significantly? Undermines Her Convictions Af... Mon Dec 16, 2024 20:00 | Will Jones
Lucy Letby?s lawyers have said they have new evidence that "significantly" undermines her convictions after a key medical witness changed his mind about three baby deaths. They urge the Court of Appeal to reopen the case.
The post Lucy Letby’s Lawyers Say They Have “New Evidence” that “Significantly” Undermines Her Convictions After Key Expert Witness “Changes his Mind” on Three Baby Deaths appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Nigel Farage Milkshake Attacker Spared Jail ? By the Same Judge Who Imprisoned a Police Officer for ... Mon Dec 16, 2024 18:00 | Laurie Wastell
Nigel Farage's milkshake attacker has been spared jail in a ruling by the same judge, Tan Ikram, who jailed a police officer for a WhatsApp message but let off the 'punch a TERF' trans activist and the 'paraglider girls'.
The post Nigel Farage Milkshake Attacker Spared Jail ? By the Same Judge Who Imprisoned a Police Officer for a WhatsApp Message appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link What?s the Point of Private Eye? Mon Dec 16, 2024 16:22 | David Craig
What exactly is the point of Private Eye? On the biggest stories of our time ? the 'climate crisis', Covid origins, mRNA vaccines ? it has taken an unswervingly establishment line, says David Craig. Is the BBC to blame?
The post What’s the Point of Private Eye? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday March 25, 2009 - 17:52 by Per
In the early morning of March 22th three disarmers were arrested at Saab Aerospace Systems’ weapons factory in Linköping, Sweden. Martin Smedjeback, Annika Spalde and Pelle Strindlund were on their way todisarm Jas 39 Gripen fighter jets, planes intended for export to India, Thailand and South Africa. The peace activists, who are all part of the anti-militaristic network Ofog, entered Saab’s industry area in Linköping by cutting holes in the barbed wire fence surrounding the area. Once inside they held a silent minute, dedicated to the twenty children that die every minute because of poverty in a world that invests more money in weapons than in fighting poverty. ... read full story / add a comment
Stop The Pylons!
donegal / environment Tuesday March 24, 2009 - 16:08 by Alternatives to Pylons, Donegal   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 26, 2009 - 12:54)   image 1 image
An Bord Pleanála to hold Oral Hearing on controversial ESB Networks Planning Application
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 23, 2009 - 19:41 by Richard Walsh   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 26, 2009 - 20:57)
Republican Sinn Féin welcomes the release of two men from Antrim Barracks today. The 31-year-old and 27-year-old men had been held since Monday, 16th March. Upon their arrest the two embarked on a hunger strike.
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national / miscellaneous Sunday March 22, 2009 - 21:00 by Eugene Mc Cartan   text 2 comments (last - tuesday march 24, 2009 - 19:46)
The call by Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore on RTE radio on Sunday morning (22nd) for the Taoiseach Brian Cowan to intervene with the trade union movement to get them to call of the one day strike on the 30th of March is yet another example of how out of touch the Labour Party is with the growing anger of the Irish people to the deepening economic crisis and the attempts by the government to make working people pay for a crisis that is not of their making. As this bankrupt government prepares its emergency budget it must be meet with the full force of that anger so that
they get the message loud and clear.
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national / miscellaneous Thursday March 19, 2009 - 22:35 by Richard Walsh
Republican Sinn Féin has learnt that two men arrested in North Armagh on Monday have been refusing food since being taken to Antrim RUC Barracks. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Wednesday March 18, 2009 - 20:11 by Dublin Basque
Basque festival/ Jaia scheduled for this Saturday had to be cancelled but will be rescheduled.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 17, 2009 - 21:14 by Danny   text 36 comments (last - saturday april 04, 2009 - 18:06)
The following is a press release concerning the arrest and trial of John Anthony Hill, with information on where to go if you wish to show support. ... read full story / add a comment
Flairline Fashions now Fur Free
national / animal rights Tuesday March 17, 2009 - 11:26 by ALiberation   text 3 comments (last - saturday march 21, 2009 - 21:05)   image 1 image
ALiberation welcomed The Flairline Fashions Group to it’s Fur Free Shopping Program
The Flairline Fashions Group portfolio of stores includes Pamela Scott, Richard Alan, Lisa Perkins, Ashley Reeves and Pamela Scott Ski. All 24 outlets within the group will end all connection with animal fur.

Contact: Jim Walsh of ALiberation
Mobile: 086 320 3643
Email: [email protected] ... read full story / add a comment
armagh / miscellaneous Tuesday March 17, 2009 - 00:41 by Richard Walsh   text 5 comments (last - thursday march 26, 2009 - 17:23)
RSF has learnt that the RUC are intending to raid every address in the Drumbeg/Meadowbrook areas of Craigavon, Co. Armagh. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 13, 2009 - 23:59 by Internationalist   text 6 comments (last - thursday march 19, 2009 - 22:05)   image 1 image
The Basque Left Independence Party Batasuna comments on the last days events in the North of Ireland:

BATASUNA wants to express its total support to Sinn Fein President and MP Gerry Adams on his statement about recent attacks against British Army and PSNI members in Ireland.

BATASUNA wants to underline that currently in Ireland, and as consequence of an inclusive process of dialogue and attacks against British Army and PSNI members in Ireland.
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national / miscellaneous Thursday March 12, 2009 - 22:56 by Frank   text 94 comments (last - sunday march 22, 2009 - 09:16)
End The Conflict End British occupation ... read full story / add a comment
Maura & Pat recently at a Shell to Sea talk in Sligo
mayo / crime and justice Wednesday March 11, 2009 - 21:36 by S2S   image 1 image
This evening at Belmullet court Shell to Sea spokesperson Maura Harrington was sentenced to 28 days in prison in relation to an assault at Pollathomais Pier on the 11th June 2007. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / history and heritage Wednesday March 11, 2009 - 19:13 by TaraWatch   image 1 image
TaraWatch wrote today to the UK universities pension fund, Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), who are institutional investors in Cintra, the subsidiary of Ferrovial, who are building the M3 motorway, to inform them of the ethical investment issues involved with the Hill of Tara and to ask for stakeholder engagement. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / animal rights Sunday March 08, 2009 - 21:37 by SHAC   image 1 image
On March 3rd 2009, Andrew Baker, Chairman and CEO of LSR (Life Science Research / Huntingdon Life Sciences) made a non-binding proposal to purchase all of the outstanding shares of LSR for a price of $7.50 per share. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday March 06, 2009 - 14:41 by Richard Walsh   text 3 comments (last - sunday march 08, 2009 - 20:26)
Remarks made by Fianna Fáil's Mary Hanafin today and by Fine Gael's Joe McHugh in the recent past that cross-border dole claimants should be targeted amounts to an attack on the least well-off, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin has said.
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Harpist Siobhán Armstrong
national / arts and media Friday March 06, 2009 - 12:56 by Fred Johnston   image 2 images
The literary town of Gort, Co. Galway, will see its second 'Forge at Gort' literature festival kick off on Friday, March 27th, at Sullivan's Royal Hotel, Gort, with a reading by renowned writer, critic and poet, Ulick O'Connor. A host of novelists, poets and musicians are due for this year's festival, which is organised by the Western Writers' Centre, Ionad Scríbhneoiri Chaitlín Maude, Galway. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday March 06, 2009 - 12:09 by Gareth Murphy   text 3 comments (last - thursday july 23, 2009 - 12:48)
Please see below email that has been sent signed by both the CYM and Labour Youth to all Green Party TD's, MEP's, Senators and Cllr's.

We will be increasing the pressure we can exert in the coming weeks.

Email 6th March 2009 ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday March 06, 2009 - 10:28 by Richard Walsh   text 1 comment (last - monday march 16, 2009 - 08:23)
RSF have said that the revelation this morning that RUC Supremo Hugh Orde ordered the redeployment of special units of the British Crown Forces demonstrates that they were correct in stating that the renaming of 'Operation Banner' to 'Operation Helvetic' was meaningless. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday March 05, 2009 - 19:02 by Richard Walsh
The claims made by English prime minister Gordon Brown in Washington that “Ireland is now at peace” are bizarre given the revelation that the Republican threat to English rule was, on the same day, reclassified as “severe”.
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limerick / miscellaneous Wednesday March 04, 2009 - 13:15 by CRPHS, Limerick   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 04, 2009 - 13:23)   video 3 video files
The Limerick branch of the Campaign for a Real Public Health Service (CRPHS) have launched a new website, www.limerickhealth.blogspot.com, to highlight health cuts and scandals in Limerick and help build a campaign against them. ... read full story / add a comment
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