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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

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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
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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
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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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A furious Tory row broke out at a state visit reception on Tuesday night as Boris Johnson defended his record in government before a gathering of senior Conservative and Reform figures.
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offsite link Trump?s Genius is He Understands There Are No Ordinary People Wed Sep 17, 2025 17:52 | Joanna Gray
Donald Trump's genius is that he understands there are no ordinary people, says Joanna Gray. British politicians would do well to copy his refusal to talk down to the public.
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offsite link Activists Circulate Guide on How to Ground ?One In, One Out? Flights Wed Sep 17, 2025 15:42 | Will Jones
Pro-migrant campaigners have circulated a guide on how to ground 'one in, one out' flights, telling activists how to contact Air France and prevent the planes from taking off.
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offsite link Starmer Faces Disaster in Wales as Poll Shows Labour in Freefall Behind Reform and Set to Lose First... Wed Sep 17, 2025 13:56 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer?is facing a disaster in Wales as a poll shows Labour in freefall behind Reform and set to lose the First Minister post for the first time since devolution.
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offsite link The Debate: This House has Confidence in the President-Elect of the Oxford Union Wed Sep 17, 2025 11:37 | Will Jones
Should the Oxford Union have confidence in its President-Elect, George Abaraonye, whose comments celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder were leaked this week? Is it a matter of cancel culture or basic decency? Join the debate.
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Dramatic Reduction in Irish Working Hours Announced

category national | miscellaneous | opinion/analysis author Thursday October 23, 2003 23:12author by random input Report this post to the editors

That's right ladies and gents, our overworked elected leaders have finally given the Irish working class what they have long wanted, further reduced working hours...

Well, its true except for the bit about the Irish working class. What really happened was that today, by a majority of 55 to 47 (only one PD bothered to turn up for the vote), Dail Eireann voted to give itself another week's holidays - next week! Yes indeed, our already overworked government have decided that after only four weeks back in parliament, they deserve another break - just weeks before they take their five week Christmas holliers. Uncomfirmed reports suggest that the decision was taken as Ministers are quite dizzy after a month of 'spinning like mad'.

It cannot be denied that our TDs bear a heavy workload these days, what with all those shopping centres and new pubs to open, as well as trying to steer clear of both rush-hour traffic, pedestrians and tribunals.

So while that tax-paying spongers who refuse to pay the bin tax are in jail, their taxes are being used to fund another Dail holiday. I'm sure everyone can see the justice in that.

Mary Harney addressed a concern that has been on the lips of the whole nation today - namely that TDs do not get to spend enough time with their families. She remarked: "TDs were looking forward to spending time with their children, who would be off school next week." Yes indeed, now that the schools are out, TDs can obvioulsy not afford the childcare that the rest of double-income working families must pay for during the school holidays. Of course, it would be economically unwise for all Irish workers to follow their lead in an attempt to spend more time with their children.

One wonders what this will mean for Joe Higgins. Surely the Dail was providing a much meeded diversion from breaking the law. The boredom of the next week may well see him getting up to more mischief and landing himself back behind bars (seriously Joe -and the rest of the bin taxers!- fair play!)

In other news, Clare Daly is looking like becoming a shoe-in in the next Dublin North election (or by-election) given today's "revelations" about the activities of one G.V(ery, very drunk) Wright. I use inverted commas because everyone already knew he was corrupt as fuck!

Oh, and more Job Losses - September 2003 figures up 61% from this time last year. Ms Harney however remained optimistic, saying the "upturn in the global economy" would help out. What upturn?

author by random inputpublication date Fri Oct 24, 2003 15:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

...as long as they are used for good things, and NOT, for example, building roads over Pollardstown Fen, paying for abuses carried out by the Catholic Church (the Vatican is rolling in dough) and of course the facilitation of an illegal war by Irish war criminals.

As for the lamp-posts - hang em high I say. But then what's one opinion in a country of millions? Ages ago someone on this board said "You know democracy has come to town when you see politicians hanging from lamp-posts". I agree.

And we should import vultures specifically to peck the rotting flesh from their acid-rain bleached* corpses.

(* I would like to say 'sun bleached' but this is Ireland aferall)

author by Anonymouspublication date Fri Oct 24, 2003 15:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Report on business sector of the Irish Examiner yesterday entitled "One rule for the poor, no rule for the rich".

The article referred to the way small business's in Ireland are being hit with taxes left, right and centre - for example new tax coming in for company vans, if you use them for personal use as well, an extra tax is being levied on this.

Where as the super-rich and the owners of huge business's can legitimately avoid huge taxes by using such things as non-Irish residency and tax havens.

No one likes giving away cash, including Denis O'Brien, and including ALL of us - I'm sure we'd all be the same if were in the same postion as he is. Its the system must be changed that does not allow the super-rich to avoid taxes and better still not allow them to become rich in the first place. But as I say I'm sure we'd all grumble if we had to give hundreds of thousands/millions of euro away so get rid of the lamp post lark I reckon.

author by random inputpublication date Fri Oct 24, 2003 14:47author address author phone Report this post to the editors

There's a lovely strecth of sturdy overhanging lamp-posts down here. However, at present I must admit they look a bit bare. Just lacking that certain je ne sais quoi. I have, however, given them all names... Dukes, O'Fearhaill, Power, Wall, Welds, Maktoum, Dardis etc.

author by Magspublication date Fri Oct 24, 2003 14:29author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If the Unions (ha, ha,) in this country were any good they should immediately have instructed all members to take next Tuesday to Friday off, to be with their families. Some chance. However I reckon such an instruction would quickly cause the TDs to change their minds on their self given holiday.

Anyone know if the 4 rugger buggers ever came back from their little jaunt to Australia, that just happened to coincide with the World Cup?

The lack of opposition to any indulgence of the ruling class is getting a bit annoying. But I had a good laugh this morning reading in the Irish Times that poor old Denis O Brien thinks Ireland has become a 'Communist State' beause he is expected to pay tax on £290 MILLION. He is so miffed the poor man is considering 'turning his back' on Ireland altogether.

These people are beyond parody at this stage. Just find a convenient line of lamp posts I reckon.

author by random inputpublication date Fri Oct 24, 2003 02:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

the 61% is not jobLESS it is Job LOSSES, in comparison to this time last year. I thought that would be obvious. Obvioulsy not.

(figure comes from RTE - and who am I to argue with National Broadcaster?)

author by Shannonpublication date Fri Oct 24, 2003 02:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Up 61? eh? Sounds catastrophic, it's a wonder they're not rioting in the streets.

So that increase leavs us with how many jobless? And waht % of the total workforce would that be?

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