OscailtIrish Neutrality is not ObsoleteIn an article published in the Irish Times on April 8th, the paper's former foreign correspondent Patrick Smith claimed that the concept of neutrality was obsolete for Ireland. In a response published on April 14th John Maguire outlines why that is not the case. ShannonWatch has reprinted his excellent letter in full on their website and it is reprinted here too.
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.2017-04-21T23:51:03+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=106135http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifEven shannonwatch have swallowed some of the kool aid it seems!http://www.indymedia.ie/article/106135#comment3011512017-04-21T23:51:03+00:00disappointed "However, such threat-perceptions ignore how far the NATO-based system has play...<blockquote style='padding: 0.5em; background-color: #CCFFCC;'><em> "However, such threat-perceptions ignore how far the NATO-based system has played into President Putin's hands by reviving cold-war-era fears of encirclement."<br />
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Good letter however I'm somewhat disappointed to see that Shannonwatch has bought into the US propaganda about Putin being evil and is routinely<br />
regurgitating it in it's communications.<br />
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Putin is merely the patriotic leader of a proud independent people who are in a desperate existential battle for survival against a superior and belligerent force<br />
intent on dominating them, taking their resources, silencing their dissent and integrating them into a global system of control.<br />
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I guess if you repeat something often enough, even people who really should know better eventually start to parrot it as truth too. :-(What sort of regime in Russia?http://www.indymedia.ie/article/106135#comment3011522017-04-22T07:42:07+00:00BengtRussia is being encircled provocatively by USA--led NATO. What kind of regime is...Russia is being encircled provocatively by USA--led NATO. What kind of regime is Putin leading, however? Is it democratic? Do dissenting journalists move freely without threats to personal safety? What about the clampdown on Jehovah's Witnesses? (JWs were among the assorted categories of political prisoners in Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago.) And the ex-communist party bosses are economically in cahoots with the oil, gold and natural gas oligarchs. Not a nice country to live in.I'd happily live in Russia. Not so sure about the US though!http://www.indymedia.ie/article/106135#comment3011542017-04-26T01:17:49+00:00fredHalf the foreign journalists that "report" on Russia are nothing but cheap propa...Half the foreign journalists that "report" on Russia are nothing but cheap propagandists paid by western interests to badmouth them on the world stage <br />
and if I were russia I'd keep tabs on the bastards too! They are mostly up to no good at all.<br />
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As for NGO's, half them are funded by the likes of NED and we all know what monkey business they get up to. Russia was right to crack down on their<br />
foreign funded " fostering democracy" activities. (translation: deliberately attempting to create unrest and start off another colour revolution).<br />
We've all seen what effect 5 billion of US/NED "fostering democracy" money has had in Ukraine. Not pretty! <br />
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Russia would be naive not to see this and not to take measures to protect themselves and limit the damage.<br />
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The fact is, NGOs from foreign countries are watched and have to register in the US too but nobody brings that up<br />
The US cracks down heavily on dissent too (see 8000 arrests in occupy wall street and all the military equipment and snipers brought in for ferguson protests). <br />
The US government spies on EVERYONE as we know thanks to Snowden. Especially social activists.<br />
But of course that is different. If the US government spy and crack down on dissent it's considered "freedom and democracy".<br />
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Russia should be left alone, but there is far too much money at stake in military sales. The US hates any country willing to stand up to it on the world stage.<br />
It is spiteful, deceitful and vengeful and it never forgets. Plus demonising Russia is just so profitable and has the added bonus of weakening Europe by<br />
driving a wedge between it and Russia. Because otherwise it might pose a serious threat to US economically if Europe were to have a really strong healthy relationship with Russia.<br />
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As for the European leaders, they do what they are told, probably in many cases just for US money, or in others, to appease the worlds biggest bully to avoid getting on their shitlist.<br />
Because we've all seen what happens to countries / people on their shitlistHow many want to emigrate to Russia?http://www.indymedia.ie/article/106135#comment3011552017-04-26T08:44:44+00:00BengtAt the US embassy in Ballsbridge there are often queues of Irish people waiting ...At the US embassy in Ballsbridge there are often queues of Irish people waiting to apply for green cards so they can emigrate to the USA and find satisfying careers. There are no similar queues for working visas at the Russian embassy. Police violence against Wall Street occupiers and against Black Americans are reported in newspapers and on television. Brutalised protesters in Russia don't get equivalent coverage in the Russian media. your rose tinted reality is an illusionhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/106135#comment3011572017-04-27T00:21:09+00:00freda few people swallowing the american dream bullshit they are fed over and over p...a few people swallowing the american dream bullshit they are fed over and over proves nothing.<br />
"It's called the american dream because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin<br />
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As for the media, well all media distort and lie. Russia is no different. But still, you do have many anti putin TV channels and newspapers operating in Russia.<br />
In the US however, only 6 corporations own most of the news outlets and they are pretty much all in lockstep, Bought and paid for. And they are always trying to get RT, the one russian news outlet, closed or blocked. Free speech rules! Yay! (but only as long as it's saying what we approve of it seems!!)<br />
Press TV, Iran's broadcasting network was blocked already from the sky EPG. So much for dissenting news outlets in the west!!<br />
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You have a very naive and rose tinted view of western freedom of speech. No surprise there since the daily bath of propaganda we are immersed in is all pervasive and very effective indeedI gotta emigrate to Russiahttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/106135#comment3011582017-04-28T00:25:42+00:00BengtI am devastated by your refutation of my illusions about the USA. I now realise ...I am devastated by your refutation of my illusions about the USA. I now realise that if I want happiness in life I've got to apply for a work visa in Russia. I might marry a Russian woman with an engineering degree and live with growing babushkas in Eastern Siberia.Good luck with thathttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/106135#comment3011592017-04-28T05:11:21+00:00fredI doubt any sensible russian woman would be daft enough to fall for a spoofer li...I doubt any sensible russian woman would be daft enough to fall for a spoofer like you! :-D<br />
Find yourself a nice amoral US democrat female. A much better match!