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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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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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 EXCLUSIVE: New Freedom of Information Revelation Casts Further Doubt on UK Met Office Claims of ?Hot... Mon Sep 08, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Met Office "hottest evah" claims are being inflated by dodgy station siting, heat spikes and old-school averaging, says the Daily Sceptic's Environment Editor.
The post EXCLUSIVE: New Freedom of Information Revelation Casts Further Doubt on UK Met Office Claims of ?Hottest Evah? Temperatures appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The ?Feminist? Open Letter Which Tells British Women to Shut Up and Get Raped ? Just so Long as the ... Mon Sep 08, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
If you're female in Great Britain, who's on your side these days? asks Steven Tucker ? certainly not the feminists, who all suffer a bad, brain-scrambling dose of PMT: Pro-Migrant Totalitarianism.
The post The ?Feminist? Open Letter Which Tells British Women to Shut Up and Get Raped ? Just so Long as the One Doing the Raping Happens to be an Immigrant appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Mon Sep 08, 2025 00:50 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?25 Million ?Nanny State? National Emergency Alert Flops Sun Sep 07, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Britain's ?25 million 'nanny state' emergency alert was meant to blare out to millions of phones, but the big test turned into a big flop as alarms arrived late or not at all, leaving the BBC twiddling its thumbs.
The post ?25 Million ?Nanny State? National Emergency Alert Flops appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Change Law so We Can Stop Policing Tweets, Demands Met Chief Sun Sep 07, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
Met supremo Sir Mark Rowley wants the law changed so police can stop policing harmless tweets, avoid getting pulled into culture war battles and focus on real-world crime instead.
The post Change Law so We Can Stop Policing Tweets, Demands Met Chief appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Riotous Nonsense

category international | worker & community struggles and protests | other press author Wednesday October 05, 2011 13:17author by pat c Report this post to the editors

British Maoist Harry Powell writes on the recent riots in Britain. Harry argues that the riots were led by a lumpen element that has long preyed on working class communities. Here is an extract, the full article runs to 36 pages.

The incident that sparked off the rioting was the police shooting Mark Duggan in Tottenham, North London on 4th. August. After an unsatisfactory response from the police to their inquiries the family and friends of Duggan held a protest outside a police station. This attracted other people and developed into more general disorder involving fighting with the police, damage to buildings and looting from shops.

This sort of disorder spread to other areas of London and outside in cities such as Birmingham, Manchester and Nottingham. Just as suddenly as these outbursts had begun, they came to an abrupt end on 10th. August when the weather turned wet. As someone commented, “I don’t recollect that the Russian Revolution came to a sudden halt when the weather turned bad.”

Chairman Mao said, ”No investigation, no right to speak.” The present writer does not claim to be some sort of expert on urban disturbances but for forty years in Nottingham I have lived in and near the localities where such outbursts have occurred, both past and present. I have carried out political work in these areas, particularly anti-racist, anti-poll tax, anti-war and anti-voting campaigning. Thus I have some first hand experiences I can draw upon in assessing the reports and analyses of other people.

For the most part the riots occurred in urban areas where there is much unemployment and underemployment, large numbers of ethnic minorities, poor housing and limited social facilities. It is the young people in these areas, particularly black ones, who have high rates of unemployment and very limited opportunities.

The class composition is largely working class (proletarian) with some middle strata elements such as small shopkeepers and business proprietors (petit bourgeois) and gentrified enclaves of more affluent business and professional people (manageriat).

Related Link: http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/riotous-nonsense-by-harry-powell/
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