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offsite link Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters

offsite link Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'

Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home

offsite link British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.

Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.

Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,

offsite link It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.

offsite link [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.

The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.

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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
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

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offsite link Most Right-Wing Americans Deny the Role of Genes Sun Aug 10, 2025 11:00 | Noah Carl
It's widely assumed that people on the right are more likely to believe that genes matter for success. However, a new poll shows that overwhelming majorities of both Democrats and Republicans deny the role of genes.
The post Most Right-Wing Americans Deny the Role of Genes appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Three Things about Islam Sun Aug 10, 2025 09:00 | James Alexander
With Islam only growing in relevance for the West, Professor James Alexander draws on Hegel, Belloc and Girard to offer some thoughts on what Islam is and its significance for Christian and post-Christian societies.
The post Three Things about Islam appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Angry Outbursts of Climate Alarmists Show a Scientific Establishment in Crisis Sun Aug 10, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Defenders of the climate 'consensus' have been getting angry in recent weeks, leading to embarrassing outbursts in the media. It's a sign of crisis in a scientific establishment that has banned dissent, says Ben Pile.
The post The Angry Outbursts of Climate Alarmists Show a Scientific Establishment in Crisis appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Aug 10, 2025 00:01 | Will Jones
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 Starmer?s ?Deterrent? Fails as 400 Cross Channel in First Two Days of Migrant Returns Deal with Fran... Sat Aug 09, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
More than 400 small boat migrants have arrived in the first two days of Labour's returns deal with France, making a mockery of claims it would be a "new deterrent".
The post Starmer’s “Deterrent” Fails as 400 Cross Channel in First Two Days of Migrant Returns Deal with France appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday June 13, 2008 14:24 by jim travers   text 2 comments (last - friday june 13, 2008 16:29)
The rejection of the Lisbon Treaty by the Irish electorate has not only told politicians, in what now appears to be a unified one party state made up of Labour, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, that the Irish people will not tolerate any interference to our Constitution by unknown bureaucrats in the EU. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday June 12, 2008 13:31 by old fashioned Green   text 4 comments (last - saturday june 14, 2008 07:31)
these are the main reasons why I and many Green party members are voting no to Lisbon and why we refused to campaign for a yes vote.
Reason no 1: REACH
Reason no 2: Nuclear power
Reason no 3: EU Corruption
Reason no 4: EU Police state. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 11, 2008 17:53 by jmstipe20   image 2 images
Background information for the Irish referendum on June 12: The EU today lacks proper democratic procedures. The Lisbon Treaty boosts this lack of democracy making the EU even more remote to its citizens. This is the conclusion of a study by Michael Efler, Percy Vogel, Gerald Häfner, Roman Huber and Felix Wünsche. read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 11, 2008 14:52 by Cathal Brennan
Video from the Lisbon Debate hosted by the Socialist Party in Wynn's Hotel on the 5th June 2008. Here Joe Higgins outlines the No argument.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89u1OMnJFA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zACw6U4Nbgc&feature=user

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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 11, 2008 14:31 by Raymond Bhreatnach   text 4 comments (last - thursday june 12, 2008 16:21)   image 1 image
AN INFORMED AND REASONED PIECE ON WHY TO VOTE A BIG NO TO LISBON
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national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 11, 2008 11:58 by Barra Ó Gríobhtha   text 13 comments (last - friday june 27, 2008 21:23)
In the last few days, Brian Cowen has stated that Ireland's future will be decided by the Lisbon Treaty Referendum. If, therefore, its ratification is so paramount with regard to the future of Ireland, and indeed Europe, then why are we the only nation voting on it? Surely, in any democracy, people are entitled to decide on issues which fundamentally shape their future, right? A half a billion people now live in the E.U., but only a few million are being asked for their opinion in a referendum being billed by Cowen as the most import in a generation. Either European democracy is well or truly a thing of the past, or Cowen, Kenny and Gilmore are exaggerating the importance of this referendum with a view to sparing their blushes on the corridors of power in Brussels. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 11, 2008 10:27 by Howard Holby
The areas in which national competences will be or potentially will be transferred to the Union, and the procedure of how the national parliaments may try to retain the remainder of their competences.

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international / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 10, 2008 17:04 by paul o toole   text 2 comments (last - thursday june 12, 2008 22:04)
Nutrality in Ireland has been reduced in our constitution as nothing more than 'aspirational' by our courts. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 10, 2008 01:18 by Galway woman   text 4 comments (last - friday june 20, 2008 14:34)
I just got a leaflet through the door from Labour today calling for a Yes vote. It is worse that I could have guessed. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Monday June 09, 2008 10:07 by Howard Holby   text 12 comments (last - thursday june 12, 2008 03:25)   image 1 image
This article summarises our main arguments against Lisbon and presents a most recent example as a further proof of our former claims. read full story / add a comment
galway / eu / opinion/analysis Monday June 09, 2008 00:01 by Frustrated Galwegian   text 3 comments (last - monday june 09, 2008 21:59)
Written after reading comments by Michael D. in the Local Press urging people to vote Yes. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday June 08, 2008 09:45 by Ramor Ryan   text 1 comment (last - sunday june 08, 2008 10:02)   image 1 image
"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake." - Stephen Daedalus, in Ulysses, James Joyce 1922

Oaxaca City, Mexico, May 15 - Midnight in Oaxaca, and walking around the historic center, it's almost as if nothing had ever happened here. The bourgeoisie sit around under the colonial arches in the long stretch of French-style outdoor cafes lining the central plaza. Aside from being beset by a small army of ambulant trinket vendors and beggars, the well-heeled citizens sipping cappuccinos seem very at ease with the world. A few late night tourists wander about the pleasant old streets under the starry sky, and the industrious hum of the sultry cosmopolitan city invokes an eternal calm.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday June 06, 2008 19:39 by Sevinch Karaca   text 2 comments (last - wednesday july 30, 2008 09:34)
Labor has friends in Turkey, maybe R.Quinn should run for elections in Turkey to replace AKP who is also facing ban and closure. For more on the case http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2008/0606/121269....html

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national / eu / opinion/analysis Friday June 06, 2008 19:34 by Howard Holby   text 2 comments (last - tuesday june 10, 2008 08:02)
Myth: ‘Ireland and Europe need the EU and Lisbon Treaty’

Fact: the EU needs Ireland and Europe, and the EU needs the Lisbon Treaty to gain control over Europe read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday June 06, 2008 12:32 by Andy McNab   text 7 comments (last - sunday june 08, 2008 16:05)
Opponents of the Lisbon Treaty claim that Ireland will become part of a Pan-European Army.
However their hysteria betrays a profound ignorance of our military weaknesses and indeed the military weakness of the European armies even the big three, German, France and the United Kingdom.
None of the European armies shows any likelihood of being able to overcome nationalistic rivalries, duplication of resources, linguistic difficulties and a plethora of different weapons systems that would make a Pan-European army exist anywhere except in the fantasies of Brussels bureacrats even if a common defence treaty is made official. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday June 06, 2008 02:44 by Northern Nationalist
On April 29th, when the Strategic Review Body on Parading formally launched its consultative report, two residents’ groups - the Lower Ormeau Concerned Community in Belfast and the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition in Portadown – whose communities were at the very heart of the turmoil and conflict over contentious marches in the 1990’s jointly set out their views and concerns in a full page article in “The Irish News”, the main nationalist daily paper in the North.

Since then, the two residents' groups have been spuriously accused by some within Sinn Fein of working to "an agenda" - although no-one who makes that accusation is prepared to state what that agenda is.

Given that parades are officially listed as one of the items to be “resolved” at the Downing Street talks between Peter Robinson, Martin McGuinness and Gordon Brown, its worth recalling the position of the two residents’ groups and establishing if others, and not the residents, are working to "an agenda".. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 04, 2008 09:46 by Howard Holby   text 12 comments (last - monday june 09, 2008 00:34)
Continuing the topics of our former essay “Our future under a ratified Lisbon Treaty” http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87683 [1],
this analysis presents some of the further major negative effects expected within a unified Europa under Lisbon.

Contents:

Lisbon Treaty: a flawed constitution for Europe
Nomad lifestyle, uncertain future, low efficiency
Low wages with no freedom to negotiate
The main victims of Lisbon: the young generations
“Efficiency” à la Lisbon - No, thanks!
NO to Lisbon = yes to economic strength read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday June 02, 2008 19:59 by Gregor Kerr   text 5 comments (last - thursday june 05, 2008 10:56)
A number of weeks ago, a member of the INTO (Irish National Teachers Organisation) submitted a letter for publication in the union magazine ‘In Touch’. This was in response to a request in the previous issue of the magazine for members to write letters for publication. This is the story of what happened.... read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Saturday May 31, 2008 13:23 by Brendan Young   1 attached file
"…the internal market applies to health services. People can shop around. Opening the market could provide lucrative opportunities for private providers to lure clients". EU Health Commissioner, Markos Kyprianou, 5th September 2006.
Recent decisions by the European Court of Justice, together with pronouncements by the Commission give rise to serious concern regarding the future of public services – including healthcare – in the EU. The legal and judicial bases have now been laid allowing for many areas of healthcare provision to be subjected to the internal market and competition rules. Lisbon fails to reverse these neo-liberal developments. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday May 31, 2008 02:01 by Stenographer & Frígean
'what Freganism is about…is having self-sustaining communities where you’re sharing the things that you don’t need to the people who do'.

'.this ridiculous notion that money makes the world go ‘round - when sharing, really could..'

Below is a transcription of a debate between a Freegan (Alf Montague) and a modernist extremist (Feidhlim McAleer).

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