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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

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 Jaguar Land Rover Announces Mass Management Redundancies: 500 Jobs Face Axe After Woke Rebrand Thu Jul 17, 2025 11:08 | Will Jones
Jaguar Land Rover has announced mass management redundancies, with 500 UK jobs facing the axe after its woke rebrand ? but the company insists it is just "normal business practice".
The post Jaguar Land Rover Announces Mass Management Redundancies: 500 Jobs Face Axe After Woke Rebrand appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link World?s Poor in for Hard Time as Pope Leo Backs Green Agenda and Net Zero Thu Jul 17, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
The world's poor are in for a hard time as Pope Leo backs Net Zero, says Chris Morrison. Ever the sucker for 'settled science', the Pope fails to see that the global elites' green agenda will trap billions in poverty.
The post World’s Poor in for Hard Time as Pope Leo Backs Green Agenda and Net Zero appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Why Are Taxpayers Being Charged ?1.7 Million for a Theatre That Discriminates Against White People? Thu Jul 17, 2025 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
Why are taxpayers being charged ?1.7 million for a theatre that discriminates against white people, asks Charlotte Gill. Taxpayers shouldn't have to fund opportunities that most of them can never apply for.
The post Why Are Taxpayers Being Charged ?1.7 Million for a Theatre That Discriminates Against White People? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu Jul 17, 2025 00:36 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Police Wrong to Join Pride March, Judge Rules Wed Jul 16, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
A police force failed to act impartially when it allowed officers to take part in a gay Pride and transgender rights march, a court has ruled.
The post Police Wrong to Join Pride March, Judge Rules appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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It's a Wonderful Life

category international | arts and media | other press author Wednesday December 24, 2014 12:31author by movie buff Report this post to the editors

Not so wonderful for Ayn Rand , the FBI and Senator Joe McCarthy

It's a Wonderful Life,produced and directed by Frank Capra , has become a television and video staple over the Christmas season. This Rawstory feature tells the little-known story of how Hollywood's evocation of bygone small town America at Christmas time with its Scrooge-like banker , Mr Potter,almost fell foul of Ayn Rand , the FBI and Senator Joe McCarthy's House of Un-American Activities Committee .



"On May 26, 1947, the FBI issued a memo stating "With regard to the picture "It's a Wonderful Life", [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a 'scrooge-type' so that he would be the most hated man in the picture.  "

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/ayn-rand-helped-the-...anda/

author by movie buffpublication date Wed Dec 24, 2014 12:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/

It's amazing to think that such innocence could ever have been construed as being part of any Red Menace plot .

 
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