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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 The Right vs the Woke State Mon Dec 30, 2024 19:00 | Richard Eldred
How should conservatives approach our woke institutions? Why, as all of public life has become politicised, is Parliament itself increasingly toothless? Watch Niall Gooch on all that and more.
The post The Right vs the Woke State appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Is Data Always the ?Absolute Truth?? Mon Dec 30, 2024 17:12 | Joanna Gray
"Data is the absolute truth," said Nigel Farage recently. "Oh Nige," says Joanna Gray, "don?t be so gullible." Data is like the kitchen drawer: an incoherent mass of things that seemed useful. What we need are principles.
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offsite link Thousands of Council Staff Allowed to ?Work From Beach? Mon Dec 30, 2024 15:00 | Will Jones
Thousands of council staff have been allowed to work from the beach in locations such as Barbados, South Africa and Thailand since the pandemic despite six authorities?declaring bankruptcy in that time.
The post Thousands of Council Staff Allowed to ‘Work From Beach’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Asymptomatic Spread is Still a Myth Mon Dec 30, 2024 13:00 | Dr Clare Craig
In 2020 anyone claiming Covid was like influenza was branded a conspiracy theorist. Yet now we hear demands for masks and social distancing for flu. But asymptomatic spread is a myth for flu as well, says Dr Clare Craig.
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offsite link ?Green? Scottish Ferry Emits Far More CO2 Than Old Diesel Ship Mon Dec 30, 2024 11:11 | Will Jones
The CO2 emissions of a long-delayed and over-budget 'green' Scottish ferry will be far larger than that of the old diesel ship it is set to replace. Once again the benefits of a 'green' technology are hugely oversold.
The post ‘Green’ Scottish Ferry Emits Far More CO2 Than Old Diesel Ship appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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To keep the Dolphins captive for the night before the massacre, the fishermen usually injure a few of the captive dolphins with a spear thrust or a knife slash - dolphins will not abandon these wounded family members.
international / animal rights / other press Tuesday September 02, 2008 19:18 by ALiberation   image 1 image
As part of the global Japan Dolphin Day campaign (Stop the Massacre of Dolphin protest), ALiberation are organising a protest at the Embassy of Japan tomorrow at 1pm. Please see details below. Please also see the attached video footage of the Massacre of Dolphins.

Action Alerts
As part of the global campaign we are asking people to send in emails to key officials and make phone calls to the Embassy of Japan.
This is in an Action Alert which has two parts.
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international / summit mobilisations / other press Tuesday September 02, 2008 00:48 by redjade   text 9 comments (last - monday september 08, 2008 07:08)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
America further slides into a Police State.

but Bristol is preggers!!!
{more important, obviously} read full story / add a comment
ESDP missions
international / eu / other press Monday September 01, 2008 16:26 by redjade   text 10 comments (last - tuesday november 08, 2011 17:17)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Or maybe the Irish Army defending the EU from Georgia?
Or maybe the Irish Army defending Russia from Georgia?

Will the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty matter? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday August 30, 2008 23:42 by yobama   video 1 video file
Scenes you won't see on the Irish TV news.

Police -many with no visible ID- pepper sprayed and attacked protesters. Nearly 100 arrests were made. Activists (many marching against the Afghan war) claimed that the arrests meant people would be held for the rest of the convention.

Some protesters who were sitting down were arrested - photographed and released with no charge. read full story / add a comment
armagh / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday August 29, 2008 11:56 by éirígí   video 1 video file
The carefully manufactured mask of the PSNI slipped off on Tuesday (August 26) to reveal the ugly face of the RUC. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Friday August 29, 2008 00:48 by nnn
It's now available in a boston newspaper. So everyone can get to bed early. It is a dream and a half. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 27, 2008 14:03 by tomeile
A senior Russian military analyst warned yesterday that the U.S. and NATO had used the conflict in Georgia as a dress rehearsal for a future military operation in Iran. Col. Gen Leonid Ivashov, president of the Russian Academy of Geopolitical Studies, speaking at a news conference told the Russian news and information agency , Novosti :
"We are close to a serious conflict - U.S. and NATO preparations on a strategic scale are ongoing. In the operation the West conducted on Georgian soil against Russia - South Ossetians were the victims or hostages of it - we can see a rehearsal for an attack on Iran. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday August 26, 2008 12:22 by Bazooka Joe
Boats that last wednesday defied Israels inhuman blocade of the Gaza strip by sailing into Gaza from Cyprus are now planning to smuggle out two students which the State of Israel refers to as 'wanted terrorists'. Israel says it will not try to stop the boats read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Monday August 25, 2008 10:17 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 28, 2008 17:45)
Amnesty International documents the 20th anniversary of the massacre of prisoners in Iran. It notes that no one has been held accountable for this atrocity. Full text at link.

Twenty years after the then Iranian authorities began a wave of largely secret, summary and mass executions in September 1988, Amnesty International renews its call for those responsible for the “prison massacre” to be held accountable. There should be no impunity for such gross human rights violations, regardless of when they were committed. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday August 24, 2008 19:06 by pat c
The Iranian Regime has used riot police to attack telecom workers in Shiraz who were on strike due to unpaid wages. Full text at link.

The workers of Iran Telecommunications Industry in Shiraz, in southern Iran, have not been paid for five months. The 1200 workers have gathered in front of the Fars province governor general's office many times but no officials have taken any steps to help them or responded to their demands.THings got so bad a worker hanged himself. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday August 24, 2008 18:24 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 28, 2008 14:04)
The ex chief of Mossad gives his opinion of Ahmadinejad. And it aint pretty! Ahmadinejads very existence makes it more difficult to build solidarity against US aggression towards Iran. Full text at link.

"Ahmadinejad is our greatest gift," Israel's Haaretz newspaper quoted ex-Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy as telling the US-sponsored Al-Hurra Arabic satellite channel on Tuesday. read full story / add a comment
POrt au Prince, Haiti August 12, 2008
international / crime and justice / other press Saturday August 23, 2008 19:57 by Kevin Pina   image 1 image
According to a report delivered to the U.N. General Assembly on January 10, 2008 by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), there were no reported instances of persons disappeared in Haiti during the year 2007. The WGEID is part of the U.N. High Commission on Human Rights and as such is in the loop to receive regular human rights reports filed by the U.N. mission in Haiti. More than five months after Mr. Pierre-Antoine’s disappearance and public acknowledgement of the case by U.N. authorities in Haiti, the WGEID completely omitted any reference to it in their report to the General Assembly. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 20, 2008 18:27 by Y   text 4 comments (last - saturday august 23, 2008 21:47)   image 1 image   video 3 video files
Here is some good background from activists and writers on the left about the current situation in Georgia.

Mark Almond is especially interesting as he is very knowledgeable on Georgian democracy.

These speeches are from an SWP meeting held in Central London recently under the banner of the Stop the War Coalition. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday August 20, 2008 16:21 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - friday august 22, 2008 16:15)
The great US liberators are facillitating union busting in Iraq. Military action is being used as a cover to attack workers rights. Full text at link.

The administrations of some oil departments backed by the ministry of oil have clearly infringed on our rights.In fact, they have done more than that by excluding, relocating and issuing warrants for union leaders who defended the rights and entitlements of workers. read full story / add a comment
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national / environment / other press Wednesday August 20, 2008 15:28 by evil gerald   text 4 comments (last - thursday august 21, 2008 15:12)   image 2 images
In today's Evening Herald, columnist Dan White plumbs new depths of idiocy. In a bizarre link, he tries to make out that the conflict in Georgia and South Ossetia should encourage the Irish government to help Shell bring the gas from the Corrib field onshore.

What does he think they have been doing? Does the 11 million euro spent on Garda overtime not indicate (even to the slow witted Dan White) that maybe the government is already on Shell's side?

read the full column here: http://www.herald.ie/opinion/columnists/dan-white/the-r....html read full story / add a comment
"Life in Beirut carrying on as usual"
galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 20, 2008 13:46 by TD   text 9 comments (last - monday november 02, 2009 19:28)   image 6 images
Barak Ravid is reporting in today's edition of Haaretz newspaper that Israel would, according to PM Ehud Olmert, "unleash more massive firepower" and to "hit back harder than before," if Lebanon were to become a "terrorist state" under the domination of Hezbollah. Israel "did not use all means to respond then, but if Lebanon becomes a Hezbollah state, then we won't have any restrictions in this regard ... gone are the days when wars are fought on remote and hidden battlefields while life in the cities carries on as usual," he said. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / other press Tuesday August 19, 2008 16:37 by The Bold Collective   text 1 comment (last - saturday august 30, 2008 17:01)
Currently broadcasting from letterfrack:

Brian Anson, speaking about the Divis Flats

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The "Special Area of Conservation" at Glengad beach
mayo / environment / other press Tuesday August 19, 2008 13:14 by Mayo News Reader   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 24, 2008 16:33)   image 1 image
According to Sunday's Daily Mail, Shell misled the experts who were tasked with assessing the company's planning application for the proposed onshore pipeline route.

Julie Fossitt, Senior Ecologist with the National Parks and Wildlife Services and author of the standard reference work "A Guide to Habitats in Ireland" asserted in a memo released under Freedom of Information legislation, that '‘key information was withheld from specialists whose opinions were included in the planning documents" and that ‘the project ecologists did not have access to key sections of the proposed pipeline route’.

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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday August 19, 2008 10:35 by pat c   text 5 comments (last - monday november 03, 2008 15:48)   image 1 image
Peter Tatchell writes on how the Iranian Regime is stepping up its war against the working class: trade union activists have been jailed and flogged. This is part of the Regimes wider assault on all dissidents: In Baluchistan alone700 nationalist and human rights campaigners are on death row. Full article at link.

Among those recently jailed were two workers' rights campaigners, Sousan Razani and Shiva Kheirabadi. They have been sentenced to 15 lashes and four months in prison for the "crime" (under Iran's Islamic law) of participating in a May Day celebration in the city of Sanandaj earlier this year. The verdicts were issued by the criminal court of Sanandaj – branch 101. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday August 18, 2008 18:23 by pat c
Here is the case of Farzad Kamangar. teacher, trade unionist, human rights activist. Sentenced to death by a kangaroo court. You can help to save his life. Full text at link.

Farzad Kamangar, a 33-year old teacher and trade unionist from the Kurdistan Province of Iran, is at risk of execution following an unfair trial.In recent weeks, Education InternationaI has written to the Iranian Government to request a fair trial for Farzad Kamangar and other union activists who are under arrest. In spite of joint efforts from various national and international organisations to have death sentence of Farzad Kamangar communted, it was upheld by the Supreme Court on 11 July 2008. In addition, Iranian trade union colleagues and human rights activists who show solidarity with Farzad are being subjected to pervasive intimidation by the Iranian authorities. read full story / add a comment
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