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Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2009-11-30T22:03:11+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=94964http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifwell done!!http://www.indymedia.ie/article/94964#comment2628462009-11-30T22:03:11+00:00sorchaMay they be the first of many! May they be the first of many! Commenthttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/94964#comment2628572009-12-01T01:12:16+00:00PeterIt would be positive if further events like this were to take place. Well done t...It would be positive if further events like this were to take place. Well done to those involved.count me out!http://www.indymedia.ie/article/94964#comment2628682009-12-01T12:02:12+00:00neutered moranThe Count Me Out website is a source of information for those considering leavin...The Count Me Out website is a source of information for those considering leaving the Roman Catholic Church (RCC). <br />
For many who no longer practise, remaining "lapsed" is not sufficient; a clean break is needed.The Papal Nuncio Must Gohttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/94964#comment2628822009-12-01T15:32:39+00:00Fred JohnstonThere is no excuse whatever for the government hesitating to expel the Papal Nun...There is no excuse whatever for the government hesitating to expel the Papal Nuncio. This gesture would show once and for all that the State does not bend the knee to the Catholic Church. This will take courage, of course, and we don't have a government possessed of courage or any sense of 'doing the right thing.' Two elements of public life have for far too long restricted the growth and moral development of this country: Fianna Fáil and the Catholic Church. Both were enemies of imagination, progress and individual thought. They are inextricably linked. They must go.ALL the main political parties are guilty herehttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/94964#comment2628892009-12-01T16:10:05+00:00Kevin HigginsYes, most of the blame can be laid on Fianna Fail, as they were in office more t...Yes, most of the blame can be laid on Fianna Fail, as they were in office more than anyone else. However - and it's a very big however - Cumann na ngaedheal (Fine Gael's predecessors) were in power from the foundation of the state in 1922 until 1932. Cumann na ngaedheal set up the cosy arrangement between church and state which led to these abuses being covered up. <br />
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Labour served in the two inter-party coalition governments, 1948-51 and 1954-57. Labour leader William Norton had not a word to say about paedophile priests during his six years as a member of those two governments.<br />
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Sean McBride of Clann na Poblachta, who also served in the inter-party government of 1948-51, never, as far as I'm aware, had a word to say on this issue.<br />
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And Labour was back in government alongside Fine Gael 1973-77, 1981-82 & 1982-87 and did nothing whatsoever to raise or investigate these issues while in government.<br />
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More importantly, they did not raise the issue when they were in opposition either, hence putting no pressure at all on the various Fianna Fail governments to do anything about it.<br />
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So it would be more correct to say that the cover up of clerical child sex abuse in Ireland was a silent conspiracy involving ALL the main political parties. Yes, it is Fianna Fail's fault. But it is also Fine Gael's fault. And it is the Labour Party's fault too (what did their then leader, and TD for Wexford, Brendan Corish ever have to say about this issue: nothing.) And it is Sean McBride's fault. And the fault of every other politician who ever bowed down to kiss a bishop's ring.<br />
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Try Again?http://www.indymedia.ie/article/94964#comment2675632010-04-22T21:18:02+00:00Aidana.harte2 at nuigalway dot ieWould anybody like to organise another one? I was involved in the first one, but...Would anybody like to organise another one? I was involved in the first one, but we had no media coverage unfortunately! Only guards....galway protesthttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/94964#comment2675782010-04-23T10:01:33+00:00kevin flanaganhi aidan we will support you in any protest if you contact us there is lots you ...hi aidan we will support you in any protest if you contact us there is lots you can doJFK Grotto.http://www.indymedia.ie/article/94964#comment2676722010-04-26T12:27:47+00:00Galwegian.The funniest thing about Galway Cathederal is The John F. Kennedy fresco grotto....The funniest thing about Galway Cathederal is The John F. Kennedy fresco grotto.<br />
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JFK and his wife Jackie look towards the heavens.<br />
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Like Saints.<br />
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(The cathederal was built shortly after JFK was murdered and there was a whiff of sainthood about JFK at the time.)<br />
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After KFK. was found to be less than an ideal husband the grotto was covered up.<br />
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The grotto is still there though.......look behind some carefully positioned plants!<br />
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Wrong about Kennedy altarhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/94964#comment2676902010-04-26T18:52:20+00:00Fred JohnstonNo, it's worse than that - it's a side-altar over which Kennedy looks at Pádraic...No, it's worse than that - it's a side-altar over which Kennedy looks at Pádraic Pearse, as I recall: or else it was a damned ugly mosaic! Kennedy didn't look much at Jackie when he was alive, so why should he in death? I think Roman emperors were made into gods; so it shows how much grovelling and panting the Church here was willing to do to a lecherous American president in the days when it was second nature to abuse children in the Church's care.