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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
Alternative site: https://thesaker.si/saker-a... Site was created using the downloads provided Regards Herb

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 / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday October 29, 2005 16:16 by cleaves
Bush has announced that Libby is “innocent until proven guilty”, one law applies to disgraced officials while another to the Australian, David Hicks (and many others) who have been denied even the most basic human rights (while they rot for years in illegal detention centres around the world). Should we cite the flagrant double standard or rest in the assurance that a glaring hypocrisy and double standard would not pass unnoticed? read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Saturday October 29, 2005 16:11 by Ailish Walsh   text 3 comments (last - monday october 31, 2005 13:34)
Chris Johnson of Australia grabs Matty Forde of Ireland during yesterday's second and final test of the International Rules Series at the Telstra Dome in Melbourne. Johnson was sent off during the game in which the Australians came in for strong criticism for some high tackling. The Australians won the game and took the series 163-106. read full story / add a comment
wants a flag draped coffin
national / crime and justice / other press Saturday October 29, 2005 16:08 by press council   image 1 image
Bishop (resigned) Comiskey moved a step closer today to an irish tricolour draped coffin when the Irish Independent accused the man of abusing underage girls but not repeat not in a taxi near moscow airport, it was in her bedroom, her parents were downstairs. He was on the way to the toilet.
Yes bishops piss. They shite too. He got lost.

bishop Comiskey started out in the respectable stakes by resigning his job amidst accusation that he had hidden child abuse well enough in Ferns. read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday October 29, 2005 10:04 by Rabbitte Hunter
LABOUR leader Pat Rabbitte has been summoned to appear before a Complaints Committee of his own party. It is the first time in the history of the State that a party leader will be investigated by his own party. If the complaint by a councillor, which accuses him of "acting in a manner unbecoming of a Labour Party leader" is fully upheld, he could face suspension or even expulsion. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / other press Friday October 28, 2005 17:14 by Con Carroll   image 1 image
89 edition of Class-Wr paper is out in Dublin.with review of book Pushers Out
also available are Cw Anti Thatcher posters
Anti Fascist posters for 1euro 50 cent
Papers are available in the next few days in Red Ink bookshop Fownes st
don't hesitate tophone about info on posters read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday October 28, 2005 05:05 by k.hawley   text 79 comments (last - sunday june 11, 2006 21:39)   image 2 images
Who knows maybe President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is actually a U.S./Israeli agent? read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / other press Thursday October 27, 2005 15:16 by got to be careful   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 27, 2005 21:34)
Dutch authorities have confirmed that 11 migrants have died in a fire at a migrant detention / internment camp at Shiphol airport.

The news is reported at the same time that over 600 migrants arrived by boat to Sicily last night. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday October 27, 2005 14:02 by writs!   text 2 comments (last - thursday february 09, 2006 14:21)
As you might have noticed all the EU leaders are very upset, this is because Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a former brickie elected to the job of leading Iran on August 3rd said yesterday at a conference for "rabidly anti-israeli people" that Israel ought be wiped off the map. & his official press agency thoughtfully told the west about it afterwards. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday October 27, 2005 13:22 by redjade   text 6 comments (last - saturday november 05, 2005 10:51)
October 26, 2005

Amid all the natural and political disasters it faces, the White House is certainly tireless in its effort to legalize torture. This week, Vice President Dick Cheney proposed a novel solution for the moral and legal problems raised by the use of American soldiers to abuse prisoners and the practice of turning captives over to governments willing to act as proxies in doing the torturing. Mr. Cheney wants to make it legal for the Central Intelligence Agency to do this wet work.

[....]

But Mr. Cheney's proposal was even more ludicrous. It would give the president the power to allow government agencies outside the Defense Department (the administration has in mind the C.I.A.) to mistreat and torture prisoners as long as that behavior was part of "counterterrorism operations conducted abroad" and they were not American citizens. That would neatly legalize the illegal prisons the C.I.A. is said to be operating around the world and read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday October 27, 2005 12:56 by It was there as a link all along
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday October 27, 2005 00:53 by Jon Glackin
Request for assistance in addressing the innacuracy of Israeli Maps... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday October 26, 2005 21:25 by anarchist   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 27, 2005 15:30)
UK to avoid cripplingly high rents in urban centres

Diane Taylor
Wednesday October 26, 2005
The Guardian


Françoise is a well-groomed young French woman who works part-time in fashion PR in London, pays her taxes and shares a cottage with friends in north London. She pays no rent though, because she is one of thousands of people across the UK who is squatting. "Many people who squat are working in low-paid jobs and simply cannot afford to pay rent, particularly in London," she says. "We want to do something creative with our lives, not just working behind a bar or on a building site. If you don't have to pay rent on top of all your other living expenses it can mean the difference between having time to live and merely surviving." read full story / add a comment
barcelona : blockaded for the first time since 1939.
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday October 26, 2005 14:41 by iosaf aye! aye!   text 4 comments (last - thursday october 27, 2005 20:57)   image 1 image
The last days have seen the various unions and collectives that represent spanish fishermen decide to blockade ports on the peninsula to demand a reduction in the cost of fuel.

Its a European issue which has passed from state to state through the summer, and each government must fiddle with its budget to ensure that low costing subsidised fuel essential to its industry stays low. Despite hurricane supply pricing, despite Iraq, despite Mr Bush, despite the nerves that nigerians or poor south americans may blow up their oil wells.

UK road haulers need cheap fuel too, and we remember their blockades didn't transpire this summer, well now its the Spanish trawlers turn... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / other press Wednesday October 26, 2005 12:17 by Vercingetorix (Ireland)   text 4 comments (last - saturday october 28, 2006 13:54)
"Too many people in this country have suffered enormous financial loss. They have suffered physically and mentally and have been totally destroyed. Their lives are a living hell," said Victims of the Legal Profession Society (VLPS) President Mary McDonnell. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday October 26, 2005 01:08 by Anthony   text 6 comments (last - sunday august 12, 2007 07:19)
Rosa Parks died at the age of 93 on October 24, 2005. It was 50 years ago that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man aboard a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested and convicted of violating the state’s segregation laws.

Her act of civil disobedience was the spark that lit the flames of the American civil rights movement - a long struggle for freedom which inspired others around the world to do the same - including our fellow countrymen north of the border. read full story / add a comment
Rossport 5 Free
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday October 25, 2005 19:53 by Michael R.   image 1 image
Please see here the article and picture from the Irish Times website today.

Judgment reserved in Rossport Five case
Last updated: 25-10-05, 11:47

The 'Rossport Five' pictured after their release from Cloverhill Prison last month

The five Mayo men who spent 94 days in prison for their contempt of court over protests against a controversial gas pipeline will have to wait to learn whether they face further penalties.

The High Court today reserved judgment on the case of the five, who spent more than three months in Cloverhill Prison for failing to abide by an injunction preventing them from protesting against the high-pressure pipeline.

The 70-kilometre pipe runs through some of men's land, only metres from their homes, from the Corrib gas field in the Atlantic to an onshore refinery at Bellanaboy.

Micheal O'Seighin, Wille Corduff, Philip McGrath, Vincent McGrath and Brendan Philbin were read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / other press Tuesday October 25, 2005 19:49 by Anti-Fascist
"As consumers we do not want our money used to fuel wars, environmental destruction and human rights violations." read full story / add a comment
"Zarqawi, I don't even know if he exists,"
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday October 25, 2005 15:59 by Starstruck   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 26, 2005 16:34)   image 1 image
An Article by Dahr Jamail,with thanks to Hytham in Dublin read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday October 25, 2005 14:34 by Tom Flocco
Bush administration suit against its own Justice Department, attempting to block the issuance of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s indictments read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday October 25, 2005 11:07 by mms   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 25, 2005 14:59)
Sue is going to be in Dublin tomorrow at Trinity College at the launch of the
THE CHEMICAL WARFARE IN COLOMBIA: THE COSTS OF COCA FUMIGATION'
By Sue Branford and Hugh O'Shaughnessy read full story / add a comment
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