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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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Human Rights in Ireland
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offsite link Starmer?s Palestinian Pledge Exposes the West?s Moral Collapse Thu Jul 31, 2025 15:05 | Laura Perrins
The fact that either Britain or France would recognise a Palestinian state while Hamas still holds hostages sums up the moral rot at the heart of Europe, says Laura Perrins.
The post Starmer?s Palestinian Pledge Exposes the West?s Moral Collapse appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Muhammad? Tops Baby Name Charts Again Thu Jul 31, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Muhammad is once again the most popular baby name for boys in England and Wales, in a year marked by a growing trend towards global, cross-cultural naming.
The post ?Muhammad? Tops Baby Name Charts Again appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link White House Warns Starmer: Stop Threatening US Tech Companies? Free Speech Thu Jul 31, 2025 11:00 | Toby Young
It looks increasingly likely that the sweeping censorship powers granted to Ofcom by the Online Safety Act will be raised in US-UK trade talks, as the Trump administration becomes increasingly concerned.
The post White House Warns Starmer: Stop Threatening US Tech Companies? Free Speech appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Mainstream Naysayers Gather As Hopes Rise for Fourth Year of Record Coral on the Great Barrier Reef Thu Jul 31, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Despite three record years of coral growth, the mainstream media keeps pushing doom and gloom on the Great Barrier Reef ? a story that doesn't quite add up, says the Daily Sceptic's Environment Editor.
The post Mainstream Naysayers Gather As Hopes Rise for Fourth Year of Record Coral on the Great Barrier Reef appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Unless Migrant Crime Is Happening to Them Personally, Many Brits Simply Refuse to Believe It Even Ex... Thu Jul 31, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Britain's migrant crimewave is only invisible to those living in leafy delusion ? just ask Steven Tucker, who rips into the blind elites mistaking burning mattresses for cultural enrichment.
The post Unless Migrant Crime Is Happening to Them Personally, Many Brits Simply Refuse to Believe It Even Exists ? Especially Our Blinkered Rulers appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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The Death of Syd Barrett

category international | arts and media | news report author Tuesday July 11, 2006 22:44author by iosaf Report this post to the editors

Syd Barrett the lead singer & founder, composer/songwriter of "The Pink Floyd" has died aged 60 years.

May he rest in peace.
Syd Barrett (1946- 2006)
Syd Barrett (1946- 2006)

" I want to tell you a story
'bout a little man
If I can.
A gnome named Grimble Grumble.
And little gnomes stay in their homes.
Eating, sleeping, drinking their wine.
He wore a scarlet tunic,
A blue green hood,
It looked quite good.
He had a big adventure
Amidst the grass
Fresh air at last.
Wining, dining, biding his time.
And then one day - hooray!
Another way for gnomes to say
Whoooooooooooooooooooooam I?
Look at the sky, look at the river
Isn't it good?
Look at the sky, look at the river
Isn't it good?
Winding, finding places to go.
And then one day - hooray!
Another way for gnomes to say
Whoooooooooooooam I ?
Whoooooooooooooooooooooam I" - the Gnome by Syd Barrett.

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He's been sorely missed for a long time. We mostly don't as do much of those types of drugs now.

Perhaps some readers may add their personal memories of Syd, or accounts of how if in any way his Art 8or that of the music of early Pink Floyd he was in no doubt central to) affected them; their pacifism; their ethical stance;their clothing or interior decorative tastes; their sense of collective identity or their views idyllic or neo-liberal on fiscal policy; indeed their attitude to it all in general.

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author by Cormac Eilepublication date Wed Jul 12, 2006 13:03author address author phone Report this post to the editors

A genius.

author by Pinkpublication date Wed Jul 12, 2006 13:25author address author phone Report this post to the editors

...You Crazy Diamond.

author by iosafpublication date Wed Jul 12, 2006 17:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Last monday was the anniversary of the birth of Tulsa. A scientific genius who invented amongst other things the term "microtulsa" which measures the ambient threat to the protesters in Bantry for example. His death got me thinking of how lives intertwine and brought me to wanting to mention the passing of Barrett a few days earlier. Tulsa lived most of his life in the USA but never disclaimed his twin Croatian / Serbian heritage on the contrary saying he loved both his "birth countries" equally. Thus last Monday the Belgrade Airport saw representatives from both Croatia and Serbia change the name to Tulsa airport in his memory. Tulsa was supposedly working on a "Death Ray" at his death, which led to the FBI seizing and confiscating all his papers, research that they still have classifed as "above top secret".
But apart from inventing AC electricty and death rays (which the press ofthe time called a "peace ray") Tulsa also pioneered the psychedelik orb - where a current jumps from a central coil to the outer sphere - and in some ways Syd Barrett played his part in making people want one of those pschedelik orbs and lava lamps (which were more a commercial interpretation of the Soviet thermodynamic and chaos theoretician Pyrogine) in their homes.

And yes kids - there really was a time when people lay about on synthetic furry rugs, wearing very little if any clothing, gurgling to themselves with happy smiles on their faces and eyes the size of saucers.
& it was all mostly innocent post war generation fun.

RIP.

author by Dada(ist)publication date Wed Jul 12, 2006 20:10author address author phone Report this post to the editors


"Death is the sanction of everything the storyteller
can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."
(Walter Benjamin)

or:

Kaspar is dead (Hans Arp-Trans: Ralph Manheim)

alas our good Kaspar is dead.
who will now carry the burning banner hidden in the pigtail of clouds
to play the daily black joke
who will now turn the coffee mill in the primeval barrel
who will now entice the idyllic deer out of the petrified paper box.
who will now confound the ships on the high seas by addressing them as
parapluie and the winds by calling them keeper of bees ozone spindle
your highness
alas alas alas our good Kaspar is dead. holy ding dong kaspar is dead.
the cattlefish in the bellbarns clatter with heart-rending grief when his
christian name is uttered. that is why i keep on moaning his family name
Kaspar kaspar kaspar.
why have you left us. into what shape has your beautiful great soul migrated.
have you become a star or a watery chain attached to a hot whirlwind light or a transparent brick on the groaning drum of jagged being.....

a hundred letter for fall and rise again. (fin again....

author by Perry/Chicagopublication date Tue Jul 18, 2006 00:15author email dbx166 at rcn dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

The death of Syd struck a chord with me and my mid-month podcast at The Best Radio You Have Never Heard (http://www.bestradiopodcast.com) is a tribute to the great rock visionary.
"Here To Do My Parts" is a tribute to Syd Barrett. Even though of course there is some Pink Floyd music in the show, it is more of a tribute to Syd’s vision. I like to think of it as traveling music for Syd’s iPod as he makes the trek to the Gates of Dawn, or perhaps some gardening music for the great beyond as, in his recent past, gardening was one of Syd’s few hobbies.

Have a listen and let me know what you think.

Perry/Chicago
http://www.bestradiopodcast.com

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