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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 Sadiq Khan?s Road Charges Will See Thousands Pay ?4,410 Extra as Motorists Brace for Tougher Driving... Wed Aug 13, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
With more drivers going electric and tax revenues tanking, Sadiq Khan plans to scrap EV exemptions and hike the Congestion Charge, soaking some London motorists for up to ?4,410 a year.
The post Sadiq Khan?s Road Charges Will See Thousands Pay ?4,410 Extra as Motorists Brace for Tougher Driving Rules appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Lucy Letby Case and the Scourge of Experts Wed Aug 13, 2025 17:13 | Guy de la B?doy?re
From ancient Egypt to the Lucy Letby trial, 'experts' have a habit of dressing up guesswork as certainty, says Guy de la B?doy?re ? and when lives are at stake, that's a dangerous game.
The post The Lucy Letby Case and the Scourge of Experts appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Keir Starmer Humiliated as US Slams Britain?s ?Worsening Human Rights? in Bombshell Report Wed Aug 13, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
The US has left the PM red-faced by blasting Britain for cracking down on free speech and civil liberties, warning that human rights have worsened under Keir Starmer's watch.
The post Keir Starmer Humiliated as US Slams Britain?s ?Worsening Human Rights? in Bombshell Report appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Don?t Put Expensive Items at Front of Stores, Labour Tells Shopkeepers Wed Aug 13, 2025 13:15 | Richard Eldred
Shopkeepers are to blame for the rise in shoplifting, according to Labour's policing minister, who says they should keep items that "obviously people will nick" out of reach.
The post Don?t Put Expensive Items at Front of Stores, Labour Tells Shopkeepers appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Free Speech Union to Pursue Legal Action Against Thanet Council Over Latest Public Spaces Protection... Wed Aug 13, 2025 11:04 | Richard Eldred
The Free Speech Union is dragging Thanet Council to court, claiming its revamped Public Spaces Protection Order still tramples free expression with a "foul language" ban that criminalises everyday speech.
The post Free Speech Union to Pursue Legal Action Against Thanet Council Over Latest Public Spaces Protection Order appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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3/17 IRISH QUEERS fight homophobia with culture!

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Tuesday March 09, 2004 19:23author by JF Mulligan - Irish Queers (NYC)author email irishqueers at hotmail dot com Report this post to the editors

Stop the Irish government from sending an official representative to the bigoted parade.

S*U*P*P*O*R*T Y*O*U*R I*R*I*S*H Q*U*E*E*R*S*!

Irish queers have the same problem as queers in most immigrant communities --
while our community scrambles to assimilate into mainstream conservative U.S.
culture, our insistence on being both Irish AND queer challenges the American
Hetero Dream, which is very nervous-making to our immigrant communities.

So the big local muckety-mucks do the usual thing: first they denounce us, then
they try everything to pretend we don't exist. They put their normalness on
public display in the form of parades featuring -- instead of the rich culture
they came from -- military contingents, cop contingents, religious
contingents... (The weirdest part is that in Ireland, queers are singled out for
government *support*, and have never been excluded from a parade.) The erasure
of queers, and the homogenizing of our national cultures, does violence to us.
We protest!

Join Irish Queers in protesting our exclusion from the (admittedly very dull)
NYC St. Patrick's parade, this year with a big, fabulous performance which will
show parade-goers the difference between lame moralistic, militaristic
grandstanding and *actual* Irish culture!

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dramatic reading by ~* MALACHY McCOURT! *~
music by ~* THE UNITED 32s! *~
art by ~* CONOR McGRADY *~ & ~* KEVIN NOBLE! *~
and lots more...

Wednesday, March 17, 10:30am-1pm
E.58th St./5th Ave. (at FAO Schwarz)
call (917) 517-3627 if you have trouble finding us or getting in.

Also see "10 things you can do"...
www.irishqueers.org
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Why do we care about the parade?

The NYC parade is the biggest, most public celebration of Irishness in the U.S.
It's broadcast on national television by NBC, gets more than $1m of City funds,
and is a photo-op for many politicians who claim (out of the other side of their
mouths) to be friends of queers. It has nothing to do with celebrating Irishness
anymore -- the organizers now call it "a triumph of traditional Catholic values
over homosexuality." The parade has excluded many different "undesirables" over
its history, including women, people of color, people in wheelchairs and Irish
independence activists. The parade is an icon of right-wing religious attempts
to cleanse Irish identity of queerness, Irish republicanism, feminism and other
diversities. It's our community's parade, and we belong in it.

author by all eeeking asidepublication date Wed Mar 10, 2004 06:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

and even if you can't, get past the graphic and on to the anti-racist, anti-imperialist, anti-leprechaun text.

author by jeffpublication date Wed Mar 10, 2004 17:22author address author phone Report this post to the editors

" A triumph for Catholicism"?!?

C*nts! It is alright for them Freaks ( I refer to the organisors, not the Queers) to stand by an organisation that is one of the biggest paedo rings ever, but grown adults that are a little bit different from the rest of the cattle that is the dross of humanity are excluded from marching down a road. Nope, not Orangemen, but Pink Paddies!

Aye, Let me tell you this, my Pink friends. Nature will hurl the cancer ridden bigots into the abyss, and great sorrow will be their crop!
For one day, you will march the tarmac of New York, and perhaps even visit the graves of these old fools, and trample on their skulls!

Amen!

author by Joepublication date Wed Mar 10, 2004 17:50author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The parade organisers proclaim it to be "a triumph of traditional Catholic values". Well done lads, you've lost Ireland and 'taken' New York for a couple of hours on one day a year. Good luck to the queers but to be honest the longer you can keep the bigots busy over their with their 'triumph' the better it is for eveyone over here!

For added amusement consider the actual origins of the NY parade. I'd have guess that it was post 1798 when many of the Protestant leaders of the rebellion fled to New York including Thomad Adis Emmet (older brother of Robert). Paddys Day offered a way for the rebels to maintain a level of unity abroad with the other rebels 'of all religions and none' who arrived over the next 50 years. Certainly 'the wearing of the Green' was/is popular in such circles. Some quick googling hints that this guess is probably right, see http://www.phippscountry.com/stpatricks.htm

author by eeekkkpublication date Wed Mar 10, 2004 22:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

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queersweb.jpg

author by Marypublication date Thu Mar 11, 2004 13:44author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I think it is disgraceful that Sinn Féin is in receipt of thousands of dollars from a bigoted organisation like the ancient order of Hibernians. Just goes to show that Sinn Féin have no real commitment to LGBT rights.

I think their new slogan must be:

An Ireland of Equals (sponsored by bigots in the U.S.)

author by Watcherpublication date Thu Mar 11, 2004 14:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

As you well know , SF get no money from the AOH. SF are wrong to participate (but they do oppose the ban on LGBT participation) in the parade but they have always been in the forefront of fighting for LGBT equality.

author by Marypublication date Thu Mar 11, 2004 14:40author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Article in the Belfast Telegraph by Sean O Driscoll published last August states that:

"Ancient Order of Hibernians: An independent group that bans gays from its St Patrick's Day parades has given tens of thousands of dollars to the pro-gay Sinn Féin. Its Atlanta branch gave $8,560 between November 1, 2000 and April 31, 2001. "

So if this isn't true maybe why haven't Sinn Féin sued the Telegraph?

Checkout the link below, for a copy of the article.

Related Link: http://humanrightsonline.net/sfeinmoney.html
author by Brigidpublication date Thu Mar 11, 2004 15:31author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Gerry Adams will be in New York on Sunday and for a $75 admission fee you get to hear him at a bar wtih a other suppossed republicans. Will anyone mention that republicans shoulldn't be supporting the Hibs and their parade? (This is the same shower that prevented Joe Doherty supporters, Bloody Sunday commeration committee, friends of Roisin McAliskey, from participating) Sinn Feins 'solidarity ' with bigots and their private hate fest speaks more to the integrity of Sinn Fein.

author by leprechaunpublication date Tue Mar 16, 2004 20:23author address author phone Report this post to the editors

" anti-racist, anti-imperialist, anti-leprechaun text."

What?


Come on you can't get much more camp than leprechauns.

author by what?! - nomorethoughtpolicepublication date Wed Mar 17, 2004 03:18author email nomorethoughtpolice at yahoo dot comauthor address author phone 917-317-5639Report this post to the editors

where the HELL did you get the idea the organizers call it "a triumph of Catholic values over homosexuality"?!? show me your source.

author by Readerpublication date Thu Mar 18, 2004 05:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Would have been no harm if you had included more details, your article is a little bit short, 300 words would be about right.
If you are having difficulty uploading photos - they may be over the size limit. Anyway since they are already published elsewhere the link is sufficient and no need to publish them here.

author by ecpublication date Thu Mar 18, 2004 13:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

and yes they're too big for here.

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