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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

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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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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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It is simplistic to blame the recent spike in wildfires on climate change, writes Paul Homewood. A more likely cause is the rewilding of uplands, supposedly to cut carbon emissions, and poor management of forested land.
The post The Truth About Britain?s Wildfires appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Lucy Connolly and Ricky Jones: the System Worked as Intended Thu Aug 21, 2025 13:00 | Nick Rendell
Lucy Connolly's jail sentence versus Ricky Jones's acquittal shows not two-tier justice but two-tier laws ? the system worked as intended, says Nick Rendell.
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offsite link Starmer Accused of Hypocrisy Over Lucy Connolly Prosecution Thu Aug 21, 2025 09:00 | Toby Young
As Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer urged restraint when it came to prosecuting people for social media posts. Why, then, was the book thrown at Lucy Connolly?
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offsite link The Climate Change Committee?s 2015 Fifth Carbon Budget Over-Estimated the Price of Gas in 2025 and ... Thu Aug 21, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
The Climate Change Committee's Fifth Carbon Budget, produced 10 years ago, got its predictions about the price of gas in 2025 and the price of renewables predictably wrong, says Ben Pile.
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Thursday January 01 1970

Protest against "exemptions" for hare coursing and fox hunting in "animal welfare" bill

category national | environment | event notice author Monday March 25, 2013 15:33author by Ban Animal Cruelty posing as "sport" Report this post to the editors

New law makes a mockery of "animal protection" pledge by government

Protest on Thursday re “animal welfare" bill that protects...

Hare coursing and Fox hunting!

Peaceful protest: Location: Dail Eireann, Dublin. Date: Thursday, March 28th. Time. 12.30 to 2 pm.

This "sport" could be permitted under "animal welfare" bill
This "sport" could be permitted under "animal welfare" bill

On Wednesday and Thursday (March 27th and 28th) of this week, the government proposes to enact into law the Animal Health and Welfare Bill, which it has promised will update protection of animals in Ireland.

However, the Bill will specifically exempt some of the most horrific animal cruelty practises ever devised by man: Hare coursing, Fox hunting, and the practise of “digging out” foxes or fox-cubs that go to ground during a hunt.

So, instead of protecting hares and foxes from cruelty, the Bill will protect the interests of the powerful coursing and hunt clubs, allowing them to continue inflicting savage and completely indefensible distress and suffering on these animals for “sport”.

The proposed exemptions would make a travesty of a Bill that purports to modernise our animal welfare laws.

The Bill has been proceeding slowly through the Oireachtas for months but the Final Stage will be debated this week and the bill is expected to be voted into law on Thursday.

Attached links below show that the blood sports activities to be exempted from prohibition are indeed cruel, despite ludicrous claims that the animals are “humanely treated” in coursing and foxhunting.

Deputies Clare Daly and Maureen O’ Sullivan will be challenging the government’s bid to exempt these two blood sports under the Bill.

A reasonable turnout for the protest on Thursday would help to drive home the message that the exemptions are unacceptable to people who believe that animal cruelty should not be protected by a law enacted to protect animals from such cruelty.

The cruel nature of live hare coursing that all animal protection groups, and (according to opinion polls) the majority of the Irish people, object to, has been repeatedly captured on film. The veracity of the following footage has not been questioned. As you will see, the “action” filmed is very similar to the types of incidents observed and reported by NPWS rangers.

The following three pieces of footage were filmed at the 2013 “Irish Cup” live hare coursing event, held at Limerick Racecourse in February:

1)

Cruel coursing scene at Limerick Racecourse
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xy224b_disgusting-crue...imals

2)

Hare cries out when hit and mauled
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xy21zl_hare-cries-out-...imals

3)

Hare severely mauled and carried off field
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xy21v5_hare-severely-m...imals

A brief film about hare coursing in Ireland:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k1L1JfKi3N8RkNAwGy?sta...rt=12

Related Link: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k1L1JfKi3N8RkNAwGy?start=12

...Exempted from prohibition under new law
...Exempted from prohibition under new law

Coursing protected by new animal welfare bill...instead of the hare!
Coursing protected by new animal welfare bill...instead of the hare!

Fun for some...
Fun for some...

author by fredpublication date Mon Mar 25, 2013 17:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

FG couldn't give a toss about animal welfare, as this Orwellian titled "animal welfare" bill shows. Also as shown by them allowing the barbaric fur farming industry to continue to have a home in Ireland, putting us, as a country, on a par with the likes of China in cruelty terms.

If there is a sniff of money involved in animal cruelty, then who gives a shit about the suffering caused to the animals. That's just the kind of morally bankrupt philosophy you are up against with these guys.

Guaranteed they will ram this through, regardless of any protest, or principled speech in the Dail given by decent people like Clare Daly.

There's profit in hunting and coursing, for tourism, and a few psychologically scarring minimum wage jobs in fur farming. And also, their rich 1% friends like riding around in their red coats looking down on the peasantry from astride their horses and probably had a quiet word.

We are now living in a post capitalism feudalist society. It's not surprising to see that our current lords and masters also enjoy acting just like the feudal lords of old, and are just as well connected with the political establishment.

 
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