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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'

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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.

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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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Scepticism is no longer a fringe reflex. It's a rational stance for anyone who's paying attention, says Clive Pinder. Nearly every pillar of public life has been exposed as contemptuous of the people it claims to serve.
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offsite link John Torode?s Sacking ?Because He Sang a Kanye West Song? Branded ?Cultural Two-Tier Policing? Sat Jul 19, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
John Torode was reportedly sacked by the BBC because he sang along to a Kanye West hit that included the traditional 'reclaimed' racial slur. In the Telegraph, William Sitwell brands it "cultural two-tier policing".
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BP?announced on Friday morning that it was selling its US wind farm business, sending its share price soaring by 2%.
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offsite link 16 Year-Olds Like Me Shouldn?t Be Given the Vote Sat Jul 19, 2025 09:00 | Jack Watson
16 year-old Jack Watson says teenagers like him shouldn't be given the vote. Many of his peers waste money, sleep in all day, play games and are clueless about politics. Keir Starmer's move here reeks of desperation.
The post 16 Year-Olds Like Me Shouldn’t Be Given the Vote appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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The truth will set us free from The Devil's lies

category national | politics / elections | opinion/analysis author Tuesday April 06, 2004 10:37author by john mcdermott - Remove Fianna Fail Partyauthor address Ashtown,Dublin Report this post to the editors

Tom Gilmartin speaks the truth in Dublin Castle.

The star witness ,Freda Kelly who yesterday confirmed the accuracy of Tom Gilmartins testimony ,-as opposed to Bertie's lies and denials-speaks the truth.!

Freda Kelly’s appearance at the Tribunal in Dublin Castle brought back old memories for me .I knew her personally,and had a business relationship with her, during the period covering the proposed construction( and controversies) relating to the development of the Blanchardstown,and Quarryvale centers.
At the time,it was thought that two large developments so close together ,would be mutually destructive-a perspective which the fullness of time has disproven.

She was a customer of my Hackney Cab Service based in Blanchardstown Village.
At this time,I was grappling unsuccessfully with the increasing demands of The new Multinational American companies,for reliable taxi/cab services in the locality.
Freda had an account with us,and I personally brought her to the Brian Lenahan household in Castleknock on a number of occasions.She had very good connections with,and open access to that family,and was always interested in updating news re-the shopping center controversy for her local newspaper.I knew also from chatting with her that she was an unpaid volunteer guide involved in the development of Kilmainham Jail as a tourist/historical visitors center.

It was also a period of intense frustration for myself due to the ongoing intrigues of elements of the Irish Taxi Federation and The Republican Party(Fianna Fail) who had cemented a solidarity/voting pact - the offshoot of which was a moratorium/ban on the issue of new Taxi Plates,new Hackney Plates, and to copperfasten it all;the denial of access to the Bus Lanes for Hackney Cabs in the ever worsening ‘ Celtic Tiger’traffic tailbacks.For these and other reasons,we did not share the same political affiliations.

I always knew Freda to be a reliable ,straight talking and conscientious lady.I was surprised to see her appear as a witness in The Tribunal.
I have no doubt whatsoever of the accuracy and veracity of her testimony.
This brings us to the mystifying ‘Collective Amnesia’problems of the present Fianna Fail Cabinet,re a meeting which ,as Tom Gilmartin himself said ‘nothing hangs on it’?. Why the barefaced memory losses?
Her testimony must lay to rest the real truth,and place Tom Gilmartins testimony as close to irrefutability as is possible to establish,given the devious nature of ‘The Soldiers”secret off the record gatherings in Merrion Street, to extract pay-offs from ‘ new boys/developers’ on the block.

author by Joepublication date Wed Apr 14, 2004 17:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

His 'background' makes him more rather than less credible in this case. Bit like Gilmartin!

author by intheknowpublication date Wed Apr 14, 2004 13:11author address Blanchardstownauthor phone Report this post to the editors

How you have the audacity to bitch and moan about politicians is beyond me:

Sunday Business Post, 2000

"Three taxi plate holders have agreed tax settlements totalling almost £150,000 for undeclared income and Vat, following an investigation by the Revenue Commissioners.

The single largest settlement for £108,684, including interest and penalties, was by John McDermott of 56 Martin Savage Park, Ashtown, Dublin. His occupation is listed in Iris Oifigiuil as "taxi/landlord".

Seeing as we have been subsidising your taxes for years, I feel your right to rant and rave about the state of our politicians is somewhat lessened. However, as you are probably reclining on a deckchair in the sun, in a house paid for by undeclared money, you might have nothing better to do.

 
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