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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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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link If You Thought the Farmers? Inheritance Tax Raid was Bad, Wait Till You See What its Proponents Have... Thu Dec 12, 2024 19:00 | Mat Brown
If you thought the inheritance tax raid on farmers was bad, wait till you see what its proponents have in store for us next, says Mat Brown. The Blob that gave us the 'tractor tax' has its sights set on a wealth tax.
The post If You Thought the Farmers’ Inheritance Tax Raid was Bad, Wait Till You See What its Proponents Have in Store for Us Next appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Education Department Awards $1 Billion in DEI Grants Since 2021, Report Finds Thu Dec 12, 2024 18:03 | Will Jones
The U.S. Education Department has handed out more than $1 billion in DEI grants since 2021, a report from Parents Defending Education has found. No wonder Donald Trump wants to abolish it.
The post Education Department Awards $1 Billion in DEI Grants Since 2021, Report Finds appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How Science is Showing that Free Speech is Built into the Brain Thu Dec 12, 2024 15:52 | Dr Christopher Badcock
Science is showing that free speech is built into the brain, says Dr. Christopher Badcock. The latest insights from neuroscience suggest that the censorious are regressing to infantile cognition where no nuance is allowed.
The post How Science is Showing that Free Speech is Built into the Brain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Only 20% of Muslim Americans Voted for Kamala Harris Thu Dec 12, 2024 13:30 | Noah Carl
Just 20% of Muslim Americans voted for Kamala Harris ? fewer than voted for Donald Trump! The reason Muslims are abandoning the centre-Left is clear, says Noah Carl: they want parties that don't back Israel.
The post Only 20% of Muslim Americans Voted for Kamala Harris appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 02, 2011 - 15:02 by PRO   video 1 video file
The Irish-owned ship, the MV Saoirse, that was meant to take part in Gaza Freedom Flotilla 2 has been sabotaged in a dangerous manner in the Turkish coastal town of Göcek, where it was berthed. ... read full story / add a comment
Sean McMonagle's car was attacked on Wednesday night
derry / miscellaneous Friday July 01, 2011 - 10:58 by PRO   image 1 image
SIPTU have condemned the ‘sickening attack’ on a Derry community worker’s car.

Sean McMonagle a well-known community activist, and who is a member of SIPTU, had his car attacked at his Rinmore Drive home, in the Creggan area of Derry on Wednesday night.

Hundreds of people took to the streets last night in the Creggan estate in a protest against the attack and in solidarity with Sean.
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national / crime and justice Thursday June 30, 2011 - 16:07 by RNU PRO   image 1 image
Speaking in support of the Loughisland victims, CARL REILLY, Chairperson of the REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY (RNU) said; "The Loughinisland Report will be remembered far longer for Al Hutchinson’s Houdini like twists to escape finding RUC collusion, than for any truths revealed about the victims marked for death by the UVF for watching an Ireland World Cup match. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 30, 2011 - 15:26 by Seán Ó Murchú
At 8am on Thursday June 30 five members of the 26-County Special Branch carried out a search on the home of Geraldine McNamara National PRO of Republican Sinn Fein. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday June 30, 2011 - 15:22 by Seán Ó Murchú
A national internship scheme has been launched today in an effort to bring people off the unemployment register and back into the workforce.

This sounds great Geraldine McNamara Republican Sinn Fein PRO said, but when we are told that the person on the scheme will receive a mere fifty euro per week on top of their existing payment then we should start to worry. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / gender and sexuality Thursday June 30, 2011 - 14:08 by Conor, Suzanne, Shane   image 1 image
The following is the press release about the counter-demo... ... read full story / add a comment
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national / crime and justice Wednesday June 29, 2011 - 13:01 by RNU PRO   image 1 image
REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY Spokesperson, MARTIN ÓG MEEHAN has expressed his disgust at the joint MI5/British Army and PSNI intimidation of Republican families outside Banbridge on Sunday 26 June, 2011. ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Sunday June 26, 2011 - 15:57 by Campaign to Abolish Animal Cruelty in Sport   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 05, 2011 - 03:18)
The UK parliament has voted to ban wild animals from circuses. Lets do likewise in Ireland! ... read full story / add a comment
Belfast Mayor Niall O'Donnghaile supports Boots workers
national / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday June 25, 2011 - 15:26 by PRO   text 1 comment (last - monday june 27, 2011 - 13:23)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
SIPTU, the trade union representing Boots workers held a day of action at the company’s flagship store in Donegall Place, Belfast today (Sat 25th June) to highlight Boots attack on low paid workers despite achieving record profits of over £1 billion last year.

Workers held a protest for over 2 hours and handed out thousands of leaflets to bring attention to Boots withdrawal of basic terms and conditions of employment.

Mayor of Belfast Niall O'Donnghaile, a former Boots worker attended the protest to show his support.
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international / education Saturday June 25, 2011 - 14:47 by Louise K Thomas
TheBest Poems Encyclopedia would like to call for submissions for its second annual Poetry print Anthology for the best 303 creative works and poems written of the year and develop a new collection dedicated to promote the best poets in english literature and also discover young emerging poets among social poetry diaspora. The deadline for submission is 30 November 2011. All current members and those who join in advance of the deadline are eligible. Submissions are free and information on how to submit directly via the online form can be found at our website http://www.best-poems.net ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Saturday June 25, 2011 - 12:50 by Maureen Gallagher
Maureen Gallagher has just won an award in the Swift Satire Competition. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday June 24, 2011 - 14:49 by Malachy Steenson   text 1 comment (last - friday june 24, 2011 - 15:12)
Finance Minister Michael Noonan TD flabbergasted the nation yesterday with his call on people to go on a shopping “splurge” and start spending money in the shops again. On the same programme he suggested people should wear T-shirts emblazoned with the motto “Ireland is not Greece”. As his pronouncements mimic Marie Antoinette, is clear that the pressure getting to him.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday June 24, 2011 - 14:14 by SIPTUPR   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Contract cleaners protested outside the Department of Enterprise against proposals to dismantle their Employment Regulation Order (ERO)which sets pay and conditions for their sector.
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antrim / miscellaneous Wednesday June 22, 2011 - 17:02 by PRO
SIPTU, the Trade Union representing the community and voluntary sector have appealed for calm in East Belfast, calling for an end to further attacks and praised the 'crucial' work of those community workers on all sides who were 'at the coalface' in dealing with the recent violence.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday June 21, 2011 - 21:22 by LCW   text 1 comment (last - friday august 05, 2011 - 14:34)
Three English Catholic Workers were today convicted at Newbury Magistrates Court of Criminal Trespass under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA), and Criminal Damage.

The convictions follows a protest at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in September 2010 organised by the Catholic Worker. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 21, 2011 - 14:15 by RNU PRO   text 8 comments (last - thursday june 23, 2011 - 13:06)
REPUBLICAN NETWORK FOR UNITY CHAIRPERSON, CARL REILLY has asked Republican communities across Belfast and beyond to be vigilant after Monday night’s sectarian attack on the Short Strand area. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 17, 2011 - 22:39 by Peter Mulholland
Until recently, Irish religion has been seen as defined by Catholic power in the South and sectarianism in the North. In recent years, however, both have been shaken by widespread changes in religious practice and belief, the rise of new religious movements, the revival of magical-devotionalism, the arrival of migrant religion and the spread of New Age and alternative spirituality.
As recently as 2007 Ireland was being described as “one of the two remaining ‘blind spots’ for the study of religions in Europe”, (Ireland's New Religious Movements 2011 - see the link below)
Now the details of a new MA course on Contemporary Religions have been announced by the Department for the Study of Religion in University College Cork. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 17, 2011 - 22:15 by Peter Mulholland   text 1 comment (last - sunday june 19, 2011 - 13:55)
The following is an unofficial translation of a letter sent by 26 Israeli academics to the minister of Welfare and Social Services, Moshe Kahlon, in protest at the recommendations of a recent government sponsored report on ‘the cult phenomenon’. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / animal rights Thursday June 16, 2011 - 21:37 by [email protected]   text 18 comments (last - thursday july 07, 2011 - 01:24)   image 5 images
Throughout the world, individuals, groups and organizations stand up to proclaim their dissent. We demand the banning of animal agriculture, fishing and hunting. ... read full story / add a comment
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