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DeletedUser wrote: Wed Oct 18, 2023 11:04 am Sounds like a good investigative method - leaving out a key detail only the murderer would know.

That poor girl, may she rest in peace.

Except a load of people would have known, the witnesses, the people handling her body etc etc
Far more likely is they are actively trying to downplay migration crime.

Palani is another example
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Mass shooting in Maine. 22 killed. Gunman known to police. Caught now I think.



https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2023/1026/14 ... ing-maine/
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Afghanistan refugees in Pakistan - 1.7 million.
Suicide bombing happens and Pakistan gives them a deadline to leave or all be deported
https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... deport-17m

UK taking an unknown number in, planes alreadly landing and being reported by the BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67235667

The same UK that Ireland shares an open border with.
Also being reported:
British citizens fleeing the conflict in Israel and Gaza will be exempt from residency tests and able to get easier access to benefits and other services after arriving in the UK, ministers have said
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/b ... 36837.html
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Bet you hardly knew that there were three related knife attacks in Dublin yesterday - one in Moore Lane, one in Wolfe Tone Square and one in the GPO Dublin (where the attacker reportedly shouted to Allah). Three people are in hospital with serious slash wounds that are said to be not life threatening. Three people are in custody, two men and a woman.
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An Oireachtas Committee has recommended that the pension age in Ireland should increase from 70 to 75
https://gript.ie/oireachtas-committee-r ... -70-to-75/

Who was on the committee
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isha wrote: Fri Nov 03, 2023 11:47 am Bet you hardly knew that there were three related knife attacks in Dublin yesterday - one in Moore Lane, one in Wolfe Tone Square and one in the GPO Dublin (where the attacker reportedly shouted to Allah). Three people are in hospital with serious slash wounds that are said to be not life threatening. Three people are in custody, two men and a woman.

https://x.com/griptmedia/status/1720375 ... 85343?s=20
https://x.com/lynseymooney33/status/172 ... 53414?s=20
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isha wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 10:14 am This Nashville shooter had a manifesto. We will hopefully get to see what was in it.
This manifesto has been leaked. It shows that anti-white ideology is what motivated Hale. Critical race theory that sees white people as “privileged”, the thing being taught in schools. How else was she able to describe children in such cruel ways and murder them in cold blood.



https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -joe-biden
To us, white supremacy is not just an armed white man with a swastika tattooed on his forehead. It is the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (called by then senator Joe Biden, who drafted the legislation, “Biden’s bill”) juxtaposed with the Anti-drug Abuse Act of 1986 – which together led to the mass incarceration of, principally, Black men. It also explains the enormous sentencing disparity between powder cocaine and cheaper crack cocaine, which was more widely available in poorer and predominantly Black communities. Under the 100-1 crack versus powder cocaine disparity that existed before 2010 (when it was reduced to 18-1), the distribution of just 5g of crack, versus 500g of powder cocaine, carried a minimum five-year federal prison sentence. It also explains the difference in coverage, criminalising and compassion between the “crack epidemic” and the “opioid crisis”.

White supremacy is not just a klansman burning a cross, it is the fact that no one was held liable for the horrors inflicted on the people of Iraq. If the victims of the Iraq war were white, it is hard to believe that the architects of the assault would be on BBC Radio 4 opining on the issues of the day.

White supremacy is not just Combat 18 in combat gear: it is a homeless Black man with mental health issues being choked to death on a subway train by a white marine veteran, members of a Fox News TV audience cheering at the report, and the attitude that sees the former soldier premptively hailed a hero and bolstered with public donations of $2m towards his legal fees.

White supremacy is not just 14 words, it shapes what is seen as worthy history and what is dismissed as “wokery”: who is viewed as worthy of respect and empathy, and who are dismissed as grifters with a ‘victimhood mentality’.

Yes, we see the immediate urgency of the threat of white supremacy in extreme forms – as Biden does. However, normalised white supremacy – in all its forms – is just as dangerous.”
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Beatty wrote: Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:42 pm An Oireachtas Committee has recommended that the pension age in Ireland should increase from 70 to 75
https://gript.ie/oireachtas-committee-r ... -70-to-75/

Who was on the committee
That right there is the reason why everyone should be doing something to provide for themselves later in life, from early on in their working life. Nobody should count on there being anything left in the kitty by the time they're just banjaxed and unable to work effectively any more.

And a massive adjustment in peoples expectations generally wouldn't go astray. I still see far too many people spending money they should be saving on short-lived useless crap that does little to improve their quality of life and everything to distract them from living a good life.
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JayZeus wrote: Tue Nov 07, 2023 5:25 pm That right there is the reason why everyone should be doing something to provide for themselves later in life, from early on in their working life. Nobody should count on there being anything left in the kitty by the time they're just banjaxed and unable to work effectively any more.

And a massive adjustment in peoples expectations generally wouldn't go astray. I still see far too many people spending money they should be saving on short-lived useless crap that does little to improve their quality of life and everything to distract them from living a good life.
I don't know why we are worried about this.
Shure isn't Leo, Roddy, Helen and the rest of the geniuses importing thousands to help pay our pensions.

Shure wasn't of the lads in the GPO the other day, checking how our postal system works and how they pay out pensions.
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Beatty wrote: Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:42 pm An Oireachtas Committee has recommended that the pension age in Ireland should increase from 70 to 75
https://gript.ie/oireachtas-committee-r ... -70-to-75/

Who was on the committee
Indeed, "Who was on the committee" and also ... their ages ...

Anyway, where are the (say) over 70s going to find a job ?
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dawg wrote: Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:06 pm Indeed, "Who was on the committee" and also ... their ages ...

Anyway, where are the (say) over 70s going to find a job ?
There will certainly be alot of sick leave taken. Long term sick leave too.
I suspect to qualify for welfare, (to bridge the gap between then and pension age), you`ll have to sell your home.

I see it as another route through which home ownership will decline.
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Suella Braverman sacked
David Cameron Foreign Secretary
Never a dull day
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Asking Cameron to repair your international reputation is like asking King Herod to babysit your kids
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Looks like big hair is having a moment. First Argentina, now that hotbed of far right politics, the....er, checks notes.... Netherlands.
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isha wrote: Thu Nov 23, 2023 8:20 am Looks like big hair is having a moment. First Argentina, now that hotbed of far right politics, the....er, checks notes.... Netherlands.

Geert-Wilders.jpg
I wouldn't have a lot in common with him but one area where we do agree is halting the spread of Islam in Europe. There, we are in full agreement.
Being offended doesn't automatically mean you are right.
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isha wrote: Thu Nov 23, 2023 8:20 am Looks like big hair is having a moment. First Argentina, now that hotbed of far right politics, the....er, checks notes.... Netherlands.

Geert-Wilders.jpg
Oh wow :o
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41 workers in India have been freed after 17 days trapped inside a tunnel. Thank goodness. What a scary time for them. It must have also been horrible being taken out by the rescue pipe. Stuff of my nightmares.
The pipe to get out was 60 metres long approximately.
They were extracted one by one on a wheeled stretcher that was pulled through a roughly metre-wide tunnel of welded pipes that crews had pushed through the collapsed dirt and rocks.
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2023/1128 ... ia-tunnel/
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The stuff of nightmares alright. I don't even like the Tube and I've never been through the Channel Tunnel despite being a former railway enthusiast and prefer being tossed about in a ferry crossing.
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isha wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:22 pm 41 workers in India have been freed after 17 days trapped inside a tunnel. Thank goodness. What a scary time for them. It must have also been horrible being taken out by the rescue pipe. Stuff of my nightmares.
The pipe to get out was 60 metres long approximately.


https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2023/1128 ... ia-tunnel/
Does anyone know if old Elon turned up and when told he wasn't needed call the Indian guys running the rescue a bunch of peados ?
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Kissinger is dead.
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JayZeus wrote: Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:22 am Kissinger is dead.
Fecking hell he really lasted.
What is they say about the good dying young.
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isha wrote: Thu Nov 23, 2023 8:20 am Looks like big hair is having a moment. First Argentina, now that hotbed of far right politics, the....er, checks notes.... Netherlands.

Geert-Wilders.jpg
His hair is absolutely glorious. I don't know or care about his politics, I just know I have never seen more dazzling hair. Somebody please get me that hair for Christmas.
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95438756 wrote: Mon Aug 14, 2023 3:58 pm Right Wing Trump Admirer leads the poll in Argentina. :-?
BBC News - Javier Milei: Trump admirer leads race for Argentina presidency
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-66496816
He won and is promising to dissolve and reform the central bank… :o
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Upcoming referendum about family reunification!
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