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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link News Round-Up Mon May 26, 2025 00:21 | 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 Defence Chiefs Spent More Than ?200 Million of Taxpayers? Money on Travel and Luxury Stays ? While T... Sun May 25, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Defence chiefs have blown over ?200 million on luxury travel and five-star hotels for senior staff, while rank-and-file troops are left to languish in squalid, rat-infested housing.
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offsite link Two Men a Day Given Trans Surgery on NHS at Taxpayers? Expense Sun May 25, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
Every day, the NHS is putting two biological men ? some still in their teens ? through irreversible trans surgeries on the taxpayer's dime, despite warnings it's risky, unethical and unsupported by solid evidence.
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offsite link Labour Axe the Word ?Us? for Being Too ?Exclusionary? in Devolved Wales Sun May 25, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
In the latest helping of woke gobbledegook, Labour bosses in Wales have binned the word 'us' from their national culture policy after a consultation group deemed it too "exclusionary".
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offsite link Are Social Media Posts Investigated More Than Physical Crimes? Sun May 25, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
In today's Britain, you're more likely to be arrested for an offensive tweet than a burglary ? even though barely anyone gets charged and the public want police focused on real crime.
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& the veiled friend had to be seen to go to war
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday February 16, 2008 17:52 by ribbid   text 7 comments (last - friday february 29, 2008 12:58)   image 20 images
180,000 signatures on a petition have failed to lobby the Wikipedia foundation to remove images of the founder of Islam from entries in multiple languages available on the online encyclopedia. However, the illustrations are not nor are likely to be included in the arabic version or other lingustic portals associated with muslim sensibility.

It might thus appear languages are sensitive.
I have always suspected so, to be frank - perhaps more sensitive than the eye..,
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Seagrave at work..
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday February 15, 2008 17:21 by C Murray   text 1 comment (last - friday february 15, 2008 21:38)   image 2 images
Many women artists have given time to their art and neglected their art to continue
their passionate dialogues with contemporary culture. This small piece is about
some contemporary activist women, in literacy, anti-war, against oppression;
and surviving regimes that find 'art' to be at variance with their ideologies. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday February 15, 2008 09:56 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 33 comments (last - thursday july 10, 2008 04:13)   image 3 images
It's five years on since millions marched against the invasion of Iraq. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday February 14, 2008 18:22 by Irish Nationalist   text 19 comments (last - saturday april 19, 2008 10:37)
The truth about religious discrimination in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday February 11, 2008 16:11 by Mairtin MacMaolain
Upon leaving the Westlink and heading right towards the heartland of Belfast Republicanism at the bottom of the Grosvenor Road is written on a low wall one of the more thoughtful pieces of graffiti associated with this troubled town. "Nil mar a shíltear a bhítear" it reads, which translates as "that which is thought is not that which necessarily is". Accompanying this defiant meesage is another equally penetrating statement "I am not your stereotype". read full story / add a comment
Previous project :- Shadows in Manhattan
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday February 11, 2008 11:22 by C Murray   image 1 image


http://www.europelostandfound.net
http://schoolofmissingstudies.net

The Lost Highway Expedition is currently in Sarajevo and comprises a network of
groups, individuals and artists who are 'moving roughly along the unfinished Highway
of Brotherhood and Unity in the former Yugoslavia'. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday February 11, 2008 10:58 by Nora   text 32 comments (last - saturday february 16, 2008 20:17)   image 1 image
It's time that Islamic followers all over especially women, must demand radical progressive change to their religion and the so-called Sharia laws, especially in this very modern century. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday February 08, 2008 18:38 by Cian Prendiville   text 14 comments (last - wednesday april 06, 2011 23:43)   image 4 images   1 attached file
In January’s Finance Bill VAT on condoms was lowered slightly from 21% to 13.5%. Any reduction should be welcomed, the crucial question is why, given the problems with STIs, is there VAT on condoms, or indeed why are they not free? read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday February 07, 2008 23:00 by mickeymouse
Former USI officer Steven Conlon recently published a piece in the irish times calling for USI to be made a statutory body with compulsory membership for all students unions read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 06, 2008 21:15 by Simon
Last year a Belfast anarchist travelled to the West Bank to work with the International Solidarity Movement and Palestinians and wrote this report on his impressions of the Palestinian struggle.

“The South African apartheid regime never engaged in the sort of repression Israel is inflicting on the Palestinians. For all the evils and atrocities of apartheid, the government never sent tanks into black towns. It never used gunships, bombers, or missiles against black towns or Bastustans.

"What we are witnessing in the occupied territories- Israel’s penal colonies- is the invisible and daily killing of the sick and wounded who are deprived of medical care, of the weak who cannot survive in the new poverty conditions, and those of us who are approaching starvation” (Ronnie Kasrils, S.Africa’s minister of water affairs, Al Ahram Weekly, p175).

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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday February 03, 2008 21:45 by paul o toole
be afraid, be very afraid...ha!, ha! read full story / add a comment
Electronic Soldier
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Saturday February 02, 2008 11:38 by C Murray   text 4 comments (last - monday february 04, 2008 12:00)   image 2 images
'Dictionary of War is a Collaborative Platform for creating 100 concepts on the Issue of War
to be invented and arranged by scientists, artists, theorists and activists at four public
two day events in Frankfurt, Munich, Graz and Berlin.'

The Novi Sad edition/collaboration took place on the 25th and 26th of January.

http://dictionaryofwar.org read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday January 31, 2008 19:38 by Gregor Kerr   text 2 comments (last - friday february 01, 2008 11:14)
When Irish Ferries launched their new €50million vessel in Dublin Port on Tuesday 29th January, 400 guests from the tourism, freight and shipping sectors attended the naming ceremony. How many of them, I wonder, took a moment as they quaffed their champagne and nibbled on their canapés to ponder on the news revealed by International Transport Workers Federation inspector, Ken Fleming, that the workers who would be manning the ferry will be paid as little as €4 per hour?
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national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 29, 2008 13:40 by C Murray   text 2 comments (last - wednesday january 30, 2008 14:48)
In the wake of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences Bill) 2006; as amended in 2007,
two expert committees were set up to look at :- The issue of consent , to which interest groups
were invited to make submission; and in the wake of that a committee was set up under the
chairmanship of Mary O Rourke (Senator) to look at amending the Constitution.

Latest news on the issue of Protection is that the State may postpone the Referendum
now until 2009, because they do not (nor do the opposition) want the two Referenda
to coincide and create confusion for the voter. The Government had discussed holding
a referendum on Protection on the same day as the Lisbon Treaty Vote. read full story / add a comment
It's Turner season- so Here's a Harry Clarke
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Saturday January 26, 2008 19:51 by C Murray   text 2 comments (last - sunday january 27, 2008 11:14)   image 2 images
This is the last week of the annual Turner Exhibit in the National Gallery's Print Room.
The blurb on the boards describes the provenance of the bequest and the agreement
between the estate of the collector and the Scottish and Irish galleries.
We only exhibit the Turner's in their climate control cases during the month of
January, this is largely because they are drawings and washes of landscapes
and are fragile.

The light is weakest at this time of year in Dublin and conducive to a visit. read full story / add a comment
Investment in Lies
mayo / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday January 24, 2008 20:23 by Rudiger   text 15 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2008 14:47)   image 3 images
Shell recently launched another cynical attempt to buy off opposition to their Corrib Gas project by offering grants to community groups that will be closest to Bellanaboy and their proposed raw gas pipeline. read full story / add a comment
Would bifocals help?
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Thursday January 24, 2008 10:19 by Terry   text 4 comments (last - friday february 01, 2008 15:25)   image 3 images
Meath, Heritage Capital of Ireland? Balloon is Full of Hot Air in more ways than one. read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 22, 2008 21:40 by Mark A. Nolan   image 1 image
The healthcare system, upon which people in Ireland depend, is an apartheid system. Simply put, some lives are worth more than others. Rare attempts at reform have been stymied by historic, chronic underspending and vested interests. This legacy has forced the vast majority of working people to take out private health insurance and has laid the foundations for a neo-liberal push towards an American-style system of private medicine. read full story / add a comment
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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