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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

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

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 Furious Anti-Migrant Campaigners Face Off With Counter-Demonstrators in Portsmouth Fri Aug 22, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Portsmouth has become the flashpoint for a weekend of anti-migrant protests and counter-demonstrations, with tensions set to spread nationwide as up to 30 asylum hotels face copycat protests after the Bell Hotel ruling.
The post Furious Anti-Migrant Campaigners Face Off With Counter-Demonstrators in Portsmouth appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trans Woman Who Concealed Gender Before Performing Sex Act on Man is Found Guilty of Sexual Assault Fri Aug 22, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
A biologically male trans woman who hid that he was male before carrying out sex acts on a man has been found guilty of sexual assault, after a jury ruled he couldn't have given informed consent.
The post Trans Woman Who Concealed Gender Before Performing Sex Act on Man is Found Guilty of Sexual Assault appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Labour MPs Now Back a Rwanda-Style Deportation Scheme For Small Boat Migrants Amid ?Dire? Asylum Fig... Fri Aug 22, 2025 15:00 | Toby Young
In an embarrassing U-turn, Labour MPs are now calling for a Rwanda-style deportation scheme to deal with the record-breaking number of asylum claims.
The post Labour MPs Now Back a Rwanda-Style Deportation Scheme For Small Boat Migrants Amid ?Dire? Asylum Figures appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sorry, But Bakewell Tart is Not in Imminent Danger of Disappearing Due to Climate Change Fri Aug 22, 2025 13:00 | Chris Morrison
The Daily Sceptic?s Environment Editor Chris Morrison takes issue with a recent piece in the Telegraph that wrongly suggested a global almond shortage was endangering the traditional Bakewell Tart.
The post Sorry, But Bakewell Tart is Not in Imminent Danger of Disappearing Due to Climate Change appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Is the Birth Rate Low Because of Climate Anxiety? Fri Aug 22, 2025 11:00 | Noah Carl
Is the global fertility crash due, at least in part, to worries over the climate? A new Swedish study finds little evidence that concern about climate change is an important contributor to low birth rates.
The post Is the Birth Rate Low Because of Climate Anxiety? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Catolic Workers on the Papal Visit to the U.S. and the War on Iraq

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Monday April 21, 2008 21:35author by Catholic Worker Report this post to the editors

Why Did the Pope Avoid Addressing the Iraq War?

Bishop Thomas Gumbleton is a Catholic Bishop from Detroit. He attended the first trial of the Pitstop Ploughshares www.peaceontrial.com in Dublin in March 05 walking to court with the five defendants. He was the youngest Bishop ever appointed in the American church and the longest serving Bishop in the United States. He visited Iraq a number of times in the 1990's breaking the sanctions. The Catholic Worker founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in New York City in 1933 is an anarcho pacifist faith based movement of 180 communities

Bishop Gumbleton said Thursday: "While it's disappointing that
the Pope has not addressed the Iraq war in his trip yet, I expect he
will do so at the United Nations.

"Back in 1965, Paul VI said 'No more war! Never again war!' at the
United Nations. In 1982, John Paul II, while accepting nuclear
deterrence, said that it could be acceptable only as a step toward
total disarmament -- so we should abolish nuclear weapons. It's my
hope that Benedict speaks not only against this war in Iraq, but
against all war.
"In 1991 John Paul II repeated the cry of Paul the VI in an encyclical
letter, condemning the 1991 Iraq war. After that war there were over
12 years of sanctions that brought about the death of 1.5 million
Iraqis, half of whom were children. This invasion has brought about
the deaths of hundreds of thousands more and made refugee or displaced
4 million. We've had thousands of U.S. soldiers killed, even more
veterans commit suicide and tens of thousands of casualties. That's
why John Paul II condemned the 1991 war and pleaded that the second
one not start."

Gumbleton's weekly Sunday homilies given at Saint Leo Church, Detroit,
from September 2001 to the present are available at the National
Catholic Reporter web page:
.

A member of the Des Moines Catholic Worker and a former priest,
rank Cordaro also visited Dublin i support of the Ptstop Ploughshares.
Frank Cordaro said : "The previous Pope -- before the Iraq invasion --
said it would be unjust, immoral and illegal. The current Pope met
with Bush and spoke to thousands in D.C. without saying anything like
that. I say shame on the Pope. He uses the word 'peace' -- but so
what? Even Bush does that.

"On birth control and abortion the Pope tells Catholics: you have to
agree with me. But with the Vatican's stated stance on this war --
that they are against it -- isn't backed up. The Pope and the U.S.
Bishops have got to let U.S. Catholics in the military, who agree with
Pope John Paul II that the war in Iraq is unjust, know that the
Catholic Church will support them as conscientious objectors.

"Our church has to get real about this war. There's no real support
from the pulpit against it, no real action from the Bishops against
it. The war in Iraq sadly reveals that the Catholic Church in the U.S.
is far more nationalistic and militaristic than it is Roman Catholic."

Both Gumbleton and Cordaro had signed a letter calling on the pope to
protest the Iraq war: "Shortly before the U.S. invaded Iraq, you
rightly declared that 'there were not sufficient reasons to unleash a
war.' You've also called attention to the terrible new technologies
which cause indiscriminate destruction. Five years later, how much
more reason you have to call for an immediate end to this war, and to
refuse to meet with the President of the United States until that is
accomplished. ...

"If meet with him you must, then meet as a prophet should -- issuing a
warning and an invitation to repentance. Courtesy cannot be used as an
evasion of our biblical faith. ..."
http://vox-nova.com/2008/03/08/letter-urges-pope-to-protest-war-during-us-visit

Related Link: http://vox-nova.com/2008/03/08/letter-urges-pope-to-protest-war-during-us-visit

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Iraq? What about America.     Fred    Mon Apr 21, 2008 23:23 
   "What About the War Benedict" by McGovern     Counterpunch    Tue Apr 22, 2008 19:18 
   the enforcer     paul o toole    Tue Apr 22, 2008 22:30 
   Response to Paul     Ciaron    Wed Apr 23, 2008 09:46 
   PapaRatzi, PapaNazi, PapaRothweiler!     JoJo    Wed Apr 23, 2008 17:22 
   Response to JoJo     Ciaron    Wed Apr 23, 2008 18:35 
   ranting     Sceptic    Wed Apr 23, 2008 19:49 
   enforcer     paul o toole    Wed Apr 23, 2008 23:29 
   enough of the Papa Nazi meme     redjade    Wed Apr 23, 2008 23:46 
 10   Definitions     Razza    Thu Apr 24, 2008 00:16 
 11   Respect the Pope (is there nothing sacrosanct anymore?)     Jacqueline Fallon    Thu Apr 24, 2008 01:19 
 12   we are church?     Constantine    Thu Apr 24, 2008 02:52 
 13   facts please     paul o toole    Thu Apr 24, 2008 08:14 
 14   oops     redjade    Thu Apr 24, 2008 09:02 
 15   Jacqueline     paul o toole    Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:42 
 16   Resposnes on this Pope and the Papacy     Ciaron    Thu Apr 24, 2008 19:16 
 17   Dissident Voice     Miriam    Sun Apr 27, 2008 13:37 
 18   'What about the war Pope Benedict?'     Miriam    Sun Apr 27, 2008 15:23 


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