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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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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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offsite link Merz Once Promised to Cut AfD Support in Half. He Has Doubled it Instead Tue Apr 22, 2025 19:00 | Eugyppius
When incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz first ran to be party chairman he pledged to cut the AfD's support in half. Seven years later he has doubled it instead, says Eugyppius.
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offsite link Reeves Cannot Blame Trump for British Growth Downgrade, Says IMF Tue Apr 22, 2025 17:23 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves cannot blame Donald Trump's trade war for the downgrade in the UK's growth prospects, the IMF has said, as it warns that Britain's inflation rate will be higher than in the US.
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offsite link Climate Adviser Racks Up 40,000 Air Miles While Backing Tax on Frequent Flyers Tue Apr 22, 2025 15:11 | Will Jones
A Government climate adviser ? a member of the Climate Change Committee, no less ? who backed a tax on frequent flyers has racked up 40,000 air miles in a year by jetting to environmental conferences.
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offsite link Migrant Crime League Tables to be Published Tue Apr 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
The nationalities of migrants with the highest rates of crime will be revealed in official?league tables?for the first time under plans due to be announced by the Government today.
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offsite link Net Zero is the New Brexit Tue Apr 22, 2025 11:10 | Will Jones
Net Zero is the new Brexit, "where Parliament is so hopelessly out of touch with the country", Nigel Farage has said. Michael Deacon agrees: as people realise the true cost of eco-zealotry they are turning against it.
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international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 22, 2008 03:30 by wageslave   text 13 comments (last - saturday march 05, 2011 05:20)
Immortal technique. A breath of fresh air in a choking corporate musical gangsta bling wasteland
Play some for the kids near you!
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international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday January 21, 2008 23:07 by Portia
Many readers will ask- what on Earth is this person on about??

Of course the Government wants to stop violence!!!!!!!!

Does it really??

No, that is propaganda.

Violent men and women are rewarded by the system in secret courts not open to the public.

Secret courts are supposed to keep the childs identity secret.!!

That is not what is being kept secret at all.

Rather- it is the corruption of the state agents, lawyers, judges etc that is kept hidden. read full story / add a comment
national / housing / opinion/analysis Friday January 18, 2008 15:41 by as do many other small builders   text 1 comment (last - friday january 18, 2008 17:33)   image 1 image
I'm sitting here in a wee village with row upon row of empty houses in sight. The rumour is less than 10% have sold. They're building even more. If I was them buildermen I'd give up and go home or take them diggers and go digging for gold in the mountains. The shit is hitting the fans BIGTIME. They'll try to paper over the cracks until after the EU constitution referendum but I don't think they'll succeed.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday January 17, 2008 13:53 by Paul Kinsella
This is personal with me! Without going into detail, I personally know people who are very ill, and who could die if they don't get check-up, examinations, tests and treatment soon. Of course, if they have money, they will get seen to straightaway. It's not right! That's why it's good to see that the Dublin Council of Trade Unions (DCTU) have launched a Campaign Against The Health Cuts. Full details in the main article below. read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 16, 2008 11:11 by Nessa
Nessa Ní Chasaide argues that the World Social Forum Global Day of Action provides an opportunity to bring a global movement home read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday January 14, 2008 23:58 by Seamus Power.   text 7 comments (last - thursday february 14, 2008 18:10)   image 3 images
Institutionalised religion is concerned in retaining control: the reality of power is more important than the prospect of exploring multiple realities. Anything new or different raises the alarm bells.
The words of church officials come from dogma not from the heart, influenced by tradition, not intuition. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday January 14, 2008 23:49 by Seamus Power.   text 2 comments (last - thursday january 17, 2008 18:03)
Politicians are at the forefront in creating a new world, but will they slip further into their world of power and deceit ? read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday January 14, 2008 11:33 by Geoffrey Cooling   text 9 comments (last - wednesday january 30, 2008 19:24)
We need real and workable measures to deal with our drug problems, mandatory prison time for users is at least one option, while legalization is another. Let us at least start the debate. read full story / add a comment
Baskin's -Birdman
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Sunday January 13, 2008 14:40 by C Murray   text 4 comments (last - thursday january 24, 2008 14:55)   image 2 images
Dark tales of babies for breakfast and drugged up doctors on muscle -relaxants racing
in dark nights of Belfast operating theatres (in the nineties) provided an evening of food
for those inclined to Carteresque tales and shape-shifters of the Danish variety.

This evening of story-telling of shamanism and shrimps was brought by the good offices
of Coilin- the Oh-Aissieux, of the Narratvie Arts Club:-http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84746.
Backround to the Narrative Arts Club:- http://tinyurl.com/2barxo read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday January 11, 2008 14:24 by paul o toole   text 25 comments (last - saturday march 29, 2008 22:02)   image 1 image
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national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday January 10, 2008 10:26 by C Murray   text 7 comments (last - monday january 14, 2008 20:58)   image 2 images
This is a short opinion and analysis based in an article written in December 2006
regarding the Press laws introduced by the then Minister for Justice, Michael Mc Dowell.
He published a Bill entitled 'The Privacy and Defamation Bill 2006'.

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78780

The Bill did not get legislated for in the form introduced and the 'Defamation 'section was 'shelved'.
Last night at the Launch of the Press Council of Ireland, current Justice Minister , Brian Leninhan TD
threatened the re-introduction of the defamation section , which had garnered international criticism. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday January 07, 2008 15:26 by Weary   text 48 comments (last - tuesday january 22, 2008 10:46)
"Threads" a BBC docudrama from 1984 focuses on the impact of a full blown nuclear war on the residents of Shefield in the 1980's.
The U.S. and Russia come to blows after a military coup in Iran prompts a Soviet military incursion which provokes an American military response.
The conflict escalates into a full-blown nuclear war which decimates humanity and population of Britain.
Shefield recieves a direct hit which transforms the city into a wasteland. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday January 07, 2008 10:25 by Gary MacLennan   text 24 comments (last - thursday february 14, 2008 00:09)   image 1 image
**Accessing "Route Irish" on the net

If you have a high speed connection, I'd suggest that you ight-click (pc) or ctrl-lick (mac) on this link and download to your desktop
http://www.archive.org/download/RouteIrish/Route.Irish....X.avi

Or you can go to
http://www.archive.org/details/RouteIrish
and watch online.
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national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 02, 2008 11:36 by Geoffrey Cooling   text 13 comments (last - friday april 18, 2008 18:59)
Behind the current drugs problem is an underlying moral social issue. read full story / add a comment
The Henge Site is In the Ownership of the NRA since 26-12-07
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday December 28, 2007 19:42 by Tara Support   text 11 comments (last - monday january 21, 2008 00:47)   image 8 images
It is not so easy to build a time line on the issue of Tara and all that this entails.

For starters the issue began many years ago and the campaigns have largely evolved
with new people coming on to help as was necessitated, however, the General Election of
2007 provided a useful focus and of course saw a corrupt Minister for Environment
replaced by one who is morally inept and constitutionally Hamstrung.. but I will give it a go.
http://www.savetara.com/articles/2007/122707_contractor....html read full story / add a comment
Wiki Image of the Tsunami
national / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 26, 2007 16:56 by C Murray   text 6 comments (last - sunday january 27, 2008 12:36)   image 5 images
A member of my family was supposed to be on Phuket on the day of the Tsunami
but had been dragged away on holiday by his partner.He lost his friends and co-workers
and it took us a while to ensure he was indeed alive..

Today is the third anniversary of the Great Sumatra- Andaman Earthquake
and a lot of help is still needed, unfortunately the links to the Isis site are not working
so I cannot offer a Grassroot perspective of what has been achieved and what is
still needed. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday December 22, 2007 11:22 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 6 comments (last - monday december 24, 2007 09:48)   image 2 images
Joe Strummer died on Dec. 22nd. 2002.
This how a few people in London celebrated his memory last night.
Feel free to post your own memoriam as a comment. read full story / add a comment
Left Communists fight in the German Revolution
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday December 21, 2007 10:18 by Oisin Mac Giollamoir   text 29 comments (last - wednesday january 16, 2008 07:05)   image 4 images
An introduction and critique of an often forgoteen tendency in the revolutionary movement. read full story / add a comment
www.SocialistYouth.wordpress.com
national / environment / opinion/analysis Monday December 17, 2007 12:30 by Socialist Youth   text 2 comments (last - monday january 14, 2008 17:49)   image 1 image   1 attached file
Catastrophe faces our planet because of climate change. A whole number of studies, reports and films such as Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth have highlighted this fact.

In February of this year, a report written by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) showed that temperatures could rise as much as 6.4OC by the end of this century. Already climate change has resulted in the doubling of category four and five storms in the last 30 years, while arctic ice has thinned by 40% in the last 40 years.

While climate change effects our planet as a whole, it is the world’s workers and poor who will bear the brunt. If major action is not taken to halt climate change then 600 million more people in sub-Saharan Africa will go hungry from collapsing agriculture, 400 million more will be exposed to malaria and 200 million people will be forced to migrate due to rising sea levels, according to the United Nations Development Programme...... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday December 17, 2007 00:20 by Gregor Kerr
In early December classroom assistants in the North returned to work after a series of strike actions which had gone on since September. This action by the classroom assistants showed in stark form the two faces of the trade union movement. On the one hand there was the tremendous bravery and solidarity shown by the workers themselves in standing up to attempts to bully and harass them back to work. On the other hand was the duplicitousness and skulduggery of some trade union bureaucrats who not alone did their best to undermine the dispute but actively worked with management and politicians to betray the workers. read full story / add a comment
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