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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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offsite link Migrants Must Leave Epping Hotel, High Court Rules Tue Aug 19, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
The Bell Hotel in Epping is set to close after the council won a High Court battle, forcing asylum seekers out following weeks of violent protests.
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offsite link JK Rowling: The Arts Are Giving in to the ?Gender Taliban? Tue Aug 19, 2025 17:00 | Toby Young
JR Rowling has said she's thinking of setting up a prize for "the most craven, bootlicking capitulation to the gender Taliban", with the Polari Prize, the National Library of Scotland and the Edinburgh Fringe frontrunners.
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offsite link Gary Lineker up For TV Award Despite Anti-Semitism Scandal Tue Aug 19, 2025 15:00 | Toby Young
Gary Lineker, the disgraced Match of the Day presenter, has been nominated for a National Television Award, as has the state-funded anti-free speech propaganda series Adolescence.
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offsite link ?These are Worrying Times for My Generation? Tue Aug 19, 2025 13:20 | Jack Watson
If Britain keeps sidelining its history, my generation will inherit a country stripped of meaning, identity and pride, warns 16 year-old Jack Watson.
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offsite link Council Bans Staff From Calling Married Couples Husband and Wife in Case it Causes Offence to They/T... Tue Aug 19, 2025 11:00 | Toby Young
The Royal Borough of Greenwich has banned staff from using the terms 'husband' and 'wife' in case it offends gender non-conforming couples.
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Shell and the Wild Birds of Erris

category mayo | environment | opinion/analysis author Saturday July 05, 2008 14:19author by m.m.mccarron Report this post to the editors

Shell, the State and EU/Irish law

Shell to Sea is currently drawing persistent attention to the flouting of EU/ Irish law in relation to the Wildlife Act of 1985 amended in 1995. It received statutory significance through its signing by the then, Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Michael D Higgins

A recent comment in a news item suggests that Michael D Higgins expressed anxiety about the wild bird situation in Erris.

As a Minister of State in the mid-nineties he signed into Irish law , S.I. 31/1995 - European Communities(Conservation of Wild Birds)
( Amendment) Regulations, 1995.

The Explanatory Note on the Statutory Instrument explains the classification of "seven sites as Special Protection Areas in accordance with Article 4 of the Directive and to provide that contravention of the provisions of these Regulations shall constitute an offence".

These seven sites include Blacksod and Broadhaven Bays on the County of Mayo.

Has the State explained to the citizens why this legal instrument is being broken through the netting of the rare sandmartin nests on the machairs of Glengad. Surely the Shell to Sea photograph of a bird which has beaten itself to death in its effort to reach its nest through Shell netting spells out an offence against the said statutory instrument.

author by lulupublication date Sat Jul 05, 2008 15:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The situation in Erris is a disgrace; birds' nests netted, bogland ripped up, precious broadleaf trees torn down and left leaning on other trees - and they made sure to do it in the nesting season! All this destruction can't just be put back with a few euros and a fella with a shovel.......it's long-term. It's a crucial question why this is apparently being permitted by the authorities.
Anyone who cares about wildlife, put down your books, grab your binoculars, and come and see what's happening to this beautiful, irreplaceable environment.

author by JMpublication date Sat Jul 05, 2008 17:52author address Rossportauthor phone Report this post to the editors

Not only are the authorities allowing the intentional destruction of "protected" habitats, they are quite often the ones carrying out the vandalism on the oil companies' behalf. A total disgrace.

Trees pushed aside
Trees pushed aside

Bogslide caused by roadworks
Bogslide caused by roadworks

Netting at Glengad
Netting at Glengad

author by observerpublication date Sat Jul 05, 2008 21:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

A great tragic picture of a destroyed tree in this time of climate concern.

The miracle is the growth of a tree in the barren bog. Trees have to be carefully nurtured in unfriendly soil. They are few and far as far as the eye can see and differ from the forestry trees which grow quickly in the bog. Where are the inspectors from National Parks and Wildlife Services? Worth finding out the process by which derogation from law is achieved - who decides, where and when?

 
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