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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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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Revealed: The ?Secret? Base Where Far Left MPs Plot Their Radical Campaigns Wed Apr 30, 2025 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
Charlotte Gill has tracked down the 'secret' base where a group of far Left MPs including Jeremy Corbyn and Carla Denyer plot their radical campaigns. Read what she learned about Pelican House.
The post Revealed: The ‘Secret’ Base Where Far Left MPs Plot Their Radical Campaigns appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Wed Apr 30, 2025 01:30 | 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 Solar Farms Failure Behind Spain Blackouts, Grid Operator Confirms ? as Tony Blair Turns on Net Zero Tue Apr 29, 2025 19:00 | Sallust
Solar farm failures were likely behind the blackouts in Spain and Portugal, Spain's national grid operator has said ? as Tony Blair comes out against Starmer's Net Zero plans and the phasing out of fossil fuels.
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offsite link Spain and Portugal?s Blackout Reveals the Achilles? Heel of Electricity Grids Dominated by Wind and ... Tue Apr 29, 2025 17:00 | Anonymous Engineer
The power outage in Spain and Portugal wasn't caused by extreme weather, but by an over-reliance on wind and solar. If the UK continues on its headlong path to Net Zero, we can expect similar failures.
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offsite link An Excess of Pity: Why We Fail to Deport Those Whom We Should Deport Tue Apr 29, 2025 15:00 | Dr David McGrogan
Why do we fail to deport those whom we should deport? It's due in the end, says Dr David McGrogan, to an excess of pity. We are pitying ourselves into disorder and social decay. We need to be willing not to be nice.
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international / housing / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 15:43 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 17, 2005 21:10)
Prejudice against the homeless exists everywhere. Even in South Bend Indiana as the Catholic Worker Movement found out when they tried to open a shelter for the homeless. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 15:31 by ollie
yep ,they are fighting and winning a war on drugs, a war on terror and don't do hypocracy.....

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/GK16Ag01.html read full story / add a comment
international / health / disability issues / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 14:50 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - saturday november 19, 2005 15:46)   image 1 image
I reckon this is wishful thinking on the part of the CIA. No concrete evidence to back it up. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 05:43 by R. Isible   text 4 comments (last - friday november 25, 2005 18:45)
(c) Irish Independent Nov 17th 2005, Tom Brady (security editor who never got off his arse to investigate prisoners being "rendered" at Shannon)

Freedom of speech crackdown

THE law is to be changed to deter radicals making inflammatory remarks that could put Ireland's security at risk.

The planned move was disclosed yesterday by Defence Minister Willie O'Dea who said the Government could not guarantee that other threats would not be issued against Ireland by fundamentalists prepared to abuse the freedom of speech.

But it was proposed to toughen existing legislation to act as a deterrent against a repeat of the comments made by Islamic lawyer Anjem Choudary in Trinity College in Dublin last week.

Mr O'Dea said he had received huge public reaction against the remarks which suggested Ireland could be attacked by international terror groups because US war planes were allowed to refuel in Shannon.

Many read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 03:56 by cleaves
US Secretary of Defence, Zionist and neo-con extraordinaire, Donald Rumsfeld, will visit Adelaide (of all places) to hold discussions with servile Australian politicians regarding Australia’s continuing involvement with the pariah nation of the world, the USA. Rumsfeld’s visit is timely, it coincides with nationwide dissent and protest against IR and draconian anti-terrorist laws recently implemented by leading US lackey and coward extraordinaire, John Howard. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Thursday November 17, 2005 03:31 by Séan   text 33 comments (last - saturday november 19, 2005 12:28)
It was reported in today’s Irish Independent that SINN Fein has been booted out of Trinity College after the campus branch chairperson circulated a hate email containing threats to Margaret Thatcher.

The message urged Sinn Fein members to insult the late husband of the former British Prime Minister, and contained the statement: "We'll get the ******* yet." read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday November 16, 2005 18:46 by Insurrection   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 16, 2005 18:52)
Insurrection Spreads Globally. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday November 16, 2005 15:42 by iosaf   text 15 comments (last - wednesday june 07, 2006 06:09)
Latest twist in the killing of De Menezes on July 22 in london at Kennington tube station.

The Daily Telegraph has revealed that the police who killed Jean Charles de Menezes used _illegal_ "dum dum" bullets.

["Modern hollow point bullets are descendants of the expanding "dum dum" ammunition created by the British in an arsenal of the same name near Calcutta, in India, at the end of the 19th century and outlawed under the Hague Declaration of 1899.

The bullets, which expand and splinter on impact, were available to officers taking part in Operation Kratos, the national police drive against suspected suicide bombers which has been described as a "shoot to kill" policy."] read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday November 15, 2005 21:08 by Insurrection   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 16, 2005 11:13)   image 2 images
Timur was an active member of St. Petersburg's hardcore punk and anarchist-community. On the evening of November 13, Timur became the victim of an attack by nazi scum. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / other press Tuesday November 15, 2005 21:05 by Insurrection
Former special-branch member Frank Hayes has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of Gordon Geary. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday November 15, 2005 19:35 by R. Isible   text 13 comments (last - wednesday november 16, 2005 21:10)
George Monbiot (Guardian Nov 15th 2005) comments on the Italian TV documentary supposedly showing that the US used phosphorous in Iraq. He points out at least two newspaper reports by embedded reporters which clearly state that US forces used "shake-n-bake" phosphorous weapons. He also points out that the Labour MP Ann Clywd who was part of the UK government's disinformation campaign on the related issue of the use of napalm has been played for a patsy. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday November 15, 2005 19:22 by R. Isible
Harry Browne in Counterpunch reports on the latest shenanigans of Ireland's judicial establishment and the continuing trial by ordeal of the Catholic Worker 5 / Pitstop Ploughshares/ Shannon 5 for their disarmament of a USAF warplane illegally present in Shannon. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday November 15, 2005 16:21 by Dr. Coilín Oscar ÓhAiseadha   text 11 comments (last - saturday november 19, 2005 15:00)   image 2 images
A selection of items about CIA aeroplanes:
1. Stockholm, Tuesday — Sweden’s security police, Säpo, does not wish to comment as to whether chartered CIA aeroplanes have landed on Swedish soil with prisoners from the base at Guantánamo in Cuba.
2. MADRID, Spain Nov 14, 2005 — A court in Spain said on Monday it has received a prosecutor's report on allegations that the CIA has used a Spanish airport on the island of Mallorca for covert transfers of Islamic terror suspects.
3. CHART, TABLE: CIA Secret Prison Planes--What the MSM Won't Tell You
Clayton Hallmark | 14.11.2005 18:07 |
A LIST OF THE 28 PLANES, 8 SHELL COMPANIES, AND SEVERAL CIA-RELATED COMPANIES. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday November 15, 2005 13:17 by finch
There are two types of Australian today, the pre-Howard traditional Aussie and the Howard infected diseased group of cringing cowards. Take note you gutless wonders. If you think the Howard disease will endure and you’re safe, then think again. Howard’s survival depends on the degree to which the consciousness of the people has been permanently altered. What residual or lasting effects do you think Howard will leave on the consciousness of the people? Almost none, if history is consistent! read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday November 15, 2005 00:31 by Michael Hennigan
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair warned in a speech in London on Monday night that rich countries should see "past a narrow view of self-interest" in the current Doha Round trade talks and not allow "differences over support for agriculture...to block an agreement that could give renewed hope to the 1 in 5 people in the world living on less than $1 a day."

French President Jacques Chirac has threatened to veto European Union concessions and his stance has been supported by Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / other press Monday November 14, 2005 20:24 by Insurrection   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 15, 2005 00:39)
It is never possible to see the outcome of a specific struggle in advance. Even a limited struggle can have the most unexpected consequences. The passage from the various insurrections-limited and circumscribed-to revolution can never be guaranteed in advance by any method. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday November 14, 2005 17:56 by Obvious   text 1 comment (last - monday november 21, 2005 18:25)
Connex Sweden has very close links with Connex Ireland .Probably why they have the same attitude to union reps and anyonewho speaks their mind. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday November 14, 2005 17:16 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 15, 2005 14:16)
The Australian Trade Union movement are fighting back against Government attempts to destroy Free Collective Bargaining and replace it with workplace contracts. A Day Of Action has been called for Tuesday 15 November.

You can read the full story at the link.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday November 14, 2005 16:39 by pat c   text 10 comments (last - wednesday november 16, 2005 14:53)   image 1 image
At least the authorities in Mallorca are taking their responsibilities seriously. Any chance that the Airport Police (SIPTU members), the Gardaí or the DPP might take similar action at Shannon? read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday November 13, 2005 23:00 by rory
France’s state of emergency—Sarkozy threatens mass deportations
By Antoine Lerougetel
12 November 2005

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French Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy has given a clear racist coloration to the state of emergency, which was imposed at midnight on November 8. The following day, he explained to the National Assembly his instructions to the préfets (regional central government officials), whose task it is to carry out the police repression of the suburban youth revolt that has been raging in France’s council estates for over two weeks

“I have told the préfets that foreigners, who are legal or illegal immigrants, who have been indicted, are to be expelled immediately from our territory, including those who have a residence permit,” Sarkozy said. “When one has the honour of possessing a residence permit, the least that you can say is that you won’t get yourself a read full story / add a comment
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