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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

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offsite link Government Hands Foreign Farmers £500m ? the Same Amount the Inheritance Tax Raid is Projected to Ra... Fri Nov 22, 2024 15:14 | Will Jones
Labour is continuing to hand out more than £500 million to foreign farmers ? about the same amount projected to be raised by its inheritance tax raid on British farms that threatens to "destroy" them.
The post Government Hands Foreign Farmers £500m ? the Same Amount the Inheritance Tax Raid is Projected to Raise appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link UN Shock: Risks of Trans ?Women? in Female Sport Highlighted in New Report Fri Nov 22, 2024 13:00 | Ramesh Thakur
In a wholly unexpected but welcome development, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls has released a report highlighting the risks to women of trans 'women' in female sport, says Ramesh Thakur.
The post UN Shock: Risks of Trans ‘Women’ in Female Sport Highlighted in New Report appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Emperor?s New Ad Fri Nov 22, 2024 11:16 | Laura Dodsworth
Once upon a time, two crafty Brand Managers approached the Jaguar board claiming they could create an ad so daring only the most discerning would understand its brilliance. Laura Dodsworth with a modern day morality tale.
The post The Emperor’s New Ad appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link If Labour Really Wanted to Ensure People Can Afford to Heat Their Homes it Would Ramp Up the Gas Fri Nov 22, 2024 09:00 | Ben Pile
According to Labour, "all families deserve the security of a home they can afford to heat". If the party really believed that, says Ben Pile, it would drop its commitment to over-priced green energy and ramp up the gas.
The post If Labour Really Wanted to Ensure People Can Afford to Heat Their Homes it Would Ramp Up the Gas appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link In Episode 20 of the Sceptic: Matt Ridley on the Farmers? Revolt, James McSweeney on Britain?s Polit... Fri Nov 22, 2024 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 20 of the Sceptic: Matt Ridley on the Farmers? Revolt, James McSweeney on what?s wrong with Britain?s political class and Connie Shaw on the trans madness at Leeds University.
The post In Episode 20 of the Sceptic: Matt Ridley on the Farmers? Revolt, James McSweeney on Britain?s Political Class and Connie Shaw on Trans Madness at Leeds University appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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down / education / event notice Monday December 04, 2017 20:54 by cpi   image 1 image
Speakers: Lynda Walker and Ernest Walker (recently returned from the centenary celebrations in Russia)
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down / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday August 07, 2012 17:13 by Gerry Rice
Hello everybody,
I have just uploaded my updated website www.gerryrice.com
If you have seen my older version and still have it on your computer, right-click on, especially, the HomePage at least, and in the drop-down menu left-click on the "Reload" link or the "Refresh"
link to load the updated site. This is the price a whistleblower has to pay for his trouble in Northern Ireland - 35 years and counting....
You will know that you have accessed my website update when you see the following first line at the top of my HomePage and under the title Prologue:
Voltair said, "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
Please let me know what you think :-)
Gerry. read full story / add a comment
David Cameron meets Mash Direct management & employees
down / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Monday June 07, 2010 15:39 by Gerard   image 1 image
Mash Direct: Northern Ireland food company that hosted Prime Minister accused of denying rights to employees.

It was with astonishment that many employees of Mash Direct read the headlines of Newtownards Chronicle (27/05/2010) following the stately visit by Prime Minister David Cameron to the food production factory in Comber, County Down where they routinely spend 60 hours or more of their week. Manager Martin Hamilton spoke eloquently of the growth of the firm through, ‘determination and hard work’ and said nothing of the determination of those who do the hard work to have their basic employment rights upheld within his expanding business.
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down / politics / elections / press release Tuesday April 27, 2010 15:49 by Irish Republican Youth   image 1 image
Education Minister Caitríona Ruane joined a large group of Ógra Shinn Féin members today at Down’s County Museum in Downpatrick, to launch Sinn Féin’s Youth Manifesto ‘Creating the Future’, for the upcoming Westminster election.

The Museum was selected as a site of historical significance, it previously being home of the County Gaol where United Irishmen leader Thomas Russell was executed on 21 October 1803.

The youth manifesto which was drafted by members of the party’s youth wing Ógra Shinn Féin forms the basis of the work and policies which Sinn Féin will be carrying out regards youth in the next 5 years.

These include education, suicide prevention, drug and alcohol awareness, calling for the abolition of ASBO’s, road safety, youth job creation, creating affordable housing, and progressing Irish Unity.

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down / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday January 27, 2010 11:33 by Richard Walsh
A young nationalist couple in Banbridge have been harassed by British Intelligence agencies over the course of the past twelve months due to their friendship with a member of Republican Sinn Féin in Newry. Most recently an elaborate hoax bomb was left outside their home.
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down / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday January 07, 2010 12:03 by MH   text 6 comments (last - saturday january 09, 2010 14:11)   image 4 images
Fujitsu workers in the North have begun 3 days of strike action in opposition to a massive assault by bosses on conditions. read full story / add a comment
down / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday April 20, 2009 14:33 by Newry SDLP
Gerry Conlon from the Guildford Four will join Breege Quinn at an SDLP event in Newry on Wednesday evening called ‘Justice Denied: A Public Discussion’. read full story / add a comment
down / miscellaneous / press release Friday January 30, 2009 14:20 by Richard Walsh   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 31, 2009 18:22)
The Joe Conway Cumann of RSF, Newry, Co. Down, have congratulated the youth in Mayobridge and Attical for their resistance to the British colonial police (RUC). read full story / add a comment
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down / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday January 05, 2009 20:36 by Free Palestine   image 1 image
Ógra Shinn Féin Newcastle will be hosting a torch light vigil in solidarity with the Palestinian People of Gaza currently enduring sustained brutality from Israel.

The vigil will take place at 8.30pm on Friday 9th January, on Main Street in the County Down town.
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down / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday November 20, 2008 18:04 by Gerry Rice
The Northern Ireland Assembly was meant to be interdependent. After ten years there is no sign of its being interdependent. Why? read full story / add a comment
Out!
down / gender and sexuality / event notice Wednesday July 30, 2008 17:18 by M Hewitt   image 1 image
Public Meeting, Thursday 31st July @ 7.30pm,
Holiday Inn Hotel (Facing BBC),
Ormeau Ave

Speakers include
Eamon McCann- Journalist
Goretti Horgan- Alliance for Choice
Etain O Kane- Unison LGBT
Speaker from Student Movement read full story / add a comment
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down / anti-war / imperialism / press release Monday May 26, 2008 00:34 by Mark Hewitt   text 8 comments (last - thursday may 29, 2008 16:26)   image 1 image
GEORGE BUSH – NOT WANTED HERE
We are appalled at the news that George Bush will visit Belfast next month. It is disgraceful that his visit is as a result of an invitation issued by the First Minister and Deputy First Minister.
This part of the world more than most places has an understanding of the deep damage and pain that war and conflict produces. George Bush is internationally regarded as a warmonger. The so called “war on terror”, now rebranded as the “war for democracy” that he has championed has inflicted that damage and pain on countless millions.
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down / miscellaneous / press release Friday May 02, 2008 16:09 by Newcastle Ógra Shinn Féin
Newcastle Ógra Shinn Féin have criticised the NI Electoral Office for the convoluted procedures that young people are forced to go through in order to get on the electoral register. read full story / add a comment
down / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday April 23, 2008 19:41 by Richard Walsh
A Newry RSF member was approached by MI5. read full story / add a comment
down / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday March 25, 2008 19:57 by East Down Ogra   text 21 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2008 16:08)   image 1 image
East Down Ogra Shinn Fein played a key role in Easter parades across the county, including Newcastle, Castlewellan and Downpatrick. The Ogra colour party lead the parade in Newcastle and Downpatrick and followed the senior colour party in the Castlewellan march. The colour party consisting of activists from Kilcoo, Newcastle and Ballynahinch proudly marched in commemoration of Irelands patriot dead and sought to show to the public that Irelands youth would continue to play a pivotal role in the struggle for re-unification. read full story / add a comment
IRSP protest at Irish Consulate - Belfast
down / anti-capitalism / news report Friday February 29, 2008 22:41 by ErnestoLynch   text 14 comments (last - tuesday march 04, 2008 11:26)   image 2 images
The IRSP Ard Comhairle learned with dismay and anger of the assault, arrest and detention of our comrades in the Free State last weekend on trumped up charges.
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down / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday December 05, 2007 08:22 by .   text 13 comments (last - tuesday february 05, 2008 14:30)
Striking Classroom Assistant held a protest outside the Belfast office of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions on Monday to demand a trade union inquiry into claims that the majority of Classroom Assistants have voted to accept managements offer.

The offer was forced through a meeting of the Joint Negotiating Council for education workers in Northern Ireland last Friday by the employers and GMB/UNISON. The decision was taken despite the opposition of the biggest non teaching education trade union, NIPSA, and the abstention of T&G.

During the period of strike action Stormont Education Minister Catriona Ruaine has made repeated calls for NIPSA to ballot its members. NIPSA has pointed out that every offer made by management has been brought to consultation meetings of members but in an effort to clarify the situation and to remove the Ministers excuse for not negotiating offered to ballot members last week. This offer was ignored.
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down / miscellaneous / news report Friday August 31, 2007 18:12 by Butcher's Apron   text 19 comments (last - wednesday may 07, 2008 12:57)   image 1 image
A young member of Ógra Sinn Féin last Saturday night noticed that a building was flying a Union Flag in Newcastle, County Down Ireland.

This "butcher's apron" flag is of course offensive to many Irish people, and since the building belonged to the avowedly sectarian "Orange Order" the young man decided that the best way to peacefully protest was to scale the building and remove the offending symbol.

Sadly, after removing the flag, the young ÓSF member lost his footing and fell from the roof, injuring his arm. He has received medical treatment and is recovering.

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Classroom workers strike
down / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday August 17, 2007 11:31 by .........   image 1 image   1 attached file
Classroom workers across Northern Ireland are preparing for a ballot for strike action which if successful will close schools across the country in September and October. read full story / add a comment
down / environment / press release Monday July 09, 2007 11:16 by Florence Mutesasira
Christian Aid's Cut the Carbon 1,000 mile march from Northern Ireland to London will launch from Bangor Marina at 12 noon on Saturday, 14 July 2007. The march will highlight the devastating impact global warming is having on millions of poor people in developing countries. read full story / add a comment
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