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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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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 Dragons? Den Entrepreneur Used Covid Business Loans to Buy ?1.8 Million Mansion ? But Avoids Jail Wed Jul 23, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
A business owner who appeared on BBC?s Dragons? Den illegally pocketed two?COVID-19 business loans?to buy a ?1.8 million mansion ? but has avoided jail despite the ?100,000 fraud.
The post Dragons’ Den Entrepreneur Used Covid Business Loans to Buy ?1.8 Million Mansion ? But Avoids Jail appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Koran-Burner Hamit Coskun?s Appeal to be Decided by Pro-Free Speech Judge Wed Jul 23, 2025 17:25 | Will Jones
A judge who has argued in favour of free speech will rule on the appeal of Hamit Coskun, who was convicted of burning the Koran outside the Turkish consulate on February 13th.
The post Koran-Burner Hamit Coskun’s Appeal to be Decided by Pro-Free Speech Judge appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link James O?Brien ?Should Be Taken Off Air? After Antisemitic Comments Claiming British Jews Are Taught ... Wed Jul 23, 2025 15:18 | Will Jones
LBC presenter James O'Brien should be "taken off air" after repeating false and antisemitic comments claiming that British Jews are taught "Arabs are cockroaches to be crushed" at "Shabbat school?, critics have urged.
The post James O’Brien “Should Be Taken Off Air” After Antisemitic Comments Claiming British Jews Are Taught “Arabs Are Cockroaches to be Crushed” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link A Pox on Pronouns Wed Jul 23, 2025 13:19 | James Alexander
Leftists love to rail against imperialism. Why then, asks Professor James Alexander, do they think it's acceptable for every disturbed individual to be able to dictate their nutty pronouns to the whole world?
The post A Pox on Pronouns appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Asylum Seeker Hotel Bill Leaves Tory Council in ?17 Million Deficit Wed Jul 23, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Conservative-led Hillingdon council has been forced into a ?17 million deficit after the Government failed to provide adequate funding for the migrants it houses in hotels there.
The post Asylum Seeker Hotel Bill Leaves Tory Council in ?17 Million Deficit appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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The Lives of Others: (Review)

category national | arts and media | opinion/analysis author Friday July 27, 2007 13:29author by MikWauthor email mik334 at hotmail dot com Report this post to the editors

Set in the DDR in 1984, actors, stasi, writers and politicians display some of the
best and worst vestiges of humanity against a backdrop of dimly lit deserted streets, grey buildings
and fenced in feelings. Stasi agent Wiesler a loyal servant of the party and the state believes
writer Georg Dreyman to be not so loyal, a crime in the stasi agents eyes.
Wiesler gets his chance to nail the writer when the corrupt and seedy Minister Of Culture decides he wants Dreyman to be found guilty of anything. The politicians motives have nothing to do with love of party or state.

Set in the DDR in 1984, actors, stasi, writers and politicians display some of the
best and worst vestiges of humanity against a backdrop of dimly lit deserted streets, grey buildings
and fenced in feelings. Stasi agent Wiesler a loyal servant of the party and the state believes
writer Georg Dreyman to be not so loyal, a crime in the stasi agents eyes.
Wiesler gets his chance to nail the writer when the corrupt and seedy Minister Of Culture decides he wants Dreyman to be found guilty of anything. The politicians motives have nothing to do with love of party or state.

The writers apartment is bugged and Wiesler spends the majority of the rest of the movie
in the apartment upstairs listening in on the lives of Dreyman his girlfriend and their
associates. Through his intrusion into the lives of others the stasi agent discovers some things
about his own life and the true nature of the party and state he has served.
The DDR is painted as a bleak place ruled by corrupt politicians and its 100000 stasi agents.
The blurb at the start of the movie informs (no pun intended) us that the stasi had 300000 informers
The movie gives the impression that some of these informers were forced to choose between
informing on family, friends and lovers or been blacklisted out of existence or simply
disappearing forever into temporary detention. In the DDR you could be made disappear for reading
non official news papers.

The image of the DDR portrayed in the movie reminded me of an image I had recently of the globalized world. A desolate place of sameness where choice and space do not exist, where the need of the corrupt rulers and their agents in the state terror services to know everything
imprisons us behind fences of greed and fear. The movie draws you in and through multiple story lines you eavesdrop into the lives of the characters just as the stasi agent upstairs eavesdrops on the writer and his girlfriend.

The movie drags on a bit in search of a happy ending (to put bums on seats methinks) . It does not need a happy ending.
However the dragged out happy ending does not detract to much from the quality viewing experience that is 'The Lives of Others'.
Go see it.

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