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Raymond Deane
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Irish composer, pianist, author, activist... www.raymonddeane.com
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Swift Festival 2025: Make Freedom Ring (21/11/25) - Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
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November 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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With UN blessing, the US and Israel impose the master’s plan
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With UN blessing, the US and Israel impose the master’s plan
Adopting Trump's "peace plan" for Gaza, the UN Security Council endorses an unprecedented rejection of Palestinian rights.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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And MajorBullShit (MBS) grins wolfishly throughout.
robertbohan.bsky.social Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1d
Would be interesting to know how much money you might have volunteered to pay into someone’s daughter’s account, to get this level of veneration from Dirty Donald? We know there was already $2B given [sorry - ‘invested’], how much more is flowing like blood from an embassy?
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d
Trump: I’m very proud of the job he’s done. What he’s done is incredible in terms of human rights.
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Telegraph headline: EU could hand Northern Ireland special status to ‘prepare for reunification’

A leaked letter mainly composed of Irish MEPs says Northern Irish politicians should be granted observer status under EU rules.

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EU could hand Northern Ireland special status to ‘prepare for reunification’ A leaked letter mainly composed of Irish MEPs says Northern Irish politicians should be granted observer status under EU rules Northern Irish politicians could be reintroduced into the European Parliament in preparation for a united Ireland, The Telegraph can disclose. More than a dozen MEPs have written to Roberta Metsola, the parliament’s president, requesting special “observer” status for Northern Irish representatives. In a leaked letter obtained by The Telegraph the group, mainly composed of Irish MEPs, argued that the move “will be keeping the door open to the European project for the people of Northern Ireland” should Ireland be reunified. Unionists accused the plan’s architects of trying to drag the region back into the European Union. The letter was signed by several members of Sinn Fein, which has been urging the EU to support its campaign to break up the United Kingdom to create a United Ireland. “We believe that the Union should recognise this unique position and offer observer status to Northern Ireland political representatives in the European Parliament,” the MEPs wrote. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/11/18/eu-parliament-northern-ireland-special-status-unite-ireland/
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Shameful beyond measure - a black day for humanity.
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Apartheid #Israel's settler terrorists are attacking Indigenous Palestinian people with total impunity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... #ZionismIsTerrorism #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy #IsraelFascism
‘They have total impunity’: West Bank settler violence surges after Gaza ceasefire
UN logs 260 attacks in October alone, its highest monthly tally, as settlers attack farmers and burn olive trees
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November 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Evil #Israel shoots & injures AJ journalist Fadi Yassin. "The most moral army" at its dirty work again. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe... #IsraelFascism #StopIsrael
Israeli army fires on Al Jazeera cameraman at protest in occupied West Bank
The Israeli army has shot and injured Al Jazeera Arabic cameraman Fadi Yassin while reporting in the occupied West Bank.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Book Review: Charting Judaism’s moral crossroads at the Gaza genocide mondoweiss.net/2025/11/book...
Book Review: Charting Judaism’s moral crossroads at the Gaza genocide
“Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By: Jews of Conscience on Palestine” gathers over a century of Jewish voices opposing Zionism. The moral clarity of its contributors is more needed than ever as the self-pro...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands
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BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands
The Prescott memo contained no research questions or objectives, method, sample, time frame or, crucially, analytical framework for examining output.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Anthony Albanese legacy is collaboration with war criminals to further a genocide . Supplying arms and 2 way trade against International Law and residing over the Most Indigenous deaths in custody of any parliament in the past. And locking up 10 year old babies in adult cells.
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Diana Buttu tells Drop Site that leaked footage of Sde Teiman only came about because the Israeli doctor didn’t believe Israelis would do something so severe, & reported it thinking Palestinian captives had assaulted each other. She added that the Military Advocate General, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi...
Diana Buttu tells Drop Site that leaked footage of Sde Teiman only came about because the Israeli doctor didn’t believe Israelis would do something so severe, and reported it thinking Palestinian captives had assaulted each other. She added that the Military Advocate General, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, only leaked the footage to explain to the Israeli public why a prosecution of the Israeli perpetrators was necessary. This did not stop the ‘Right to Rape Riots’ that took place in Israel.
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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#BoycottStarbucks
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Starbucks workers launched a nationwide strike on Thursday, with more than 1,000 union baristas walking out across 40+ U.S. cities. The open-ended work stoppage, organized by Starbucks Workers United, began on the company’s high-traffic “Red Cup Day” to maximize pressure.

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Starbucks workers launched a nationwide strike on Thursday, with more than 1,000 union baristas walking out across 40+ U.S. cities. The open-ended work stoppage, organized by Starbucks Workers United, began on the company’s high-traffic “Red Cup Day” to maximize pressure. Roughly 65 stores were initially affected, though the union says disruptions will expand as more locations join. Workers accuse Starbucks of stalling contract talks, refusing to bargain in good faith, and ignoring unfair-labor practice rulings. Starbucks downplayed the impact, saying less than 1% of its U.S. stores are affected and that most locations remain open. The strike marks one of the largest coordinated actions since the union campaign began in 2021 and signals escalating frustration over wages, scheduling, and stalled negotiations. Starbucks Workers United @SBWorkersUnited As of today, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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📹 Civil Defense teams in Khan Younis are running an awareness campaign in shelter camps, trying to prepare displaced families for the coming winter storms.
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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⛈️ JUST IN | A major storm system is closing in on southern Gaza, putting more than 900,000 displaced Palestinians at risk of flooding, after two years of Israeli destruction have crippled basic infrastructure, Al Jazeera reports.

Saeb Lakkan, spokesperson for Khan Younis Municipality, warned...
⛈️ JUST IN | A major storm system is closing in on southern Gaza, putting more than 900,000 displaced Palestinians at risk of flooding, after two years of Israeli destruction have crippled basic infrastructure, Al Jazeera reports. Saeb Lakkan, spokesperson for Khan Younis Municipality, warned that the storm “is dangerous and threatens to flood thousands of tents along the coastline and damage large areas inside the city,” with sewage networks collapsed and retention ponds already overflowing. Al Jazeera also cited the Palestinian Meteorological Department which expects flash floods by Friday and Saturday. Lakkan said Israeli attacks have left the city barely functioning, destroying around 210,000 meters of roads, 300,000 meters of water pipelines, and 120,000 meters of sewage lines. 📹 Civil Defense teams in Khan Younis are running an awareness campaign in shelter camps, trying to prepare displaced families for the coming winter storms.
November 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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🇭🇹 REPORT | UN data shows more than 4,384 people have been killed so far this year in Haiti — over half were killed by the police. That hasn’t stopped G7 governments, meeting this week in Niagara, from pushing for expanded funding for new UN-mandated “security operations.”

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🇭🇹 REPORT | UN data shows more than 4,384 people have been killed so far this year in Haiti — over half were killed by the police. That hasn’t stopped G7 governments, meeting this week in Niagara, from pushing for expanded funding for new UN-mandated “security operations.” UN data shows 61% of all people killed or injured were hit during police-led raids, including: ▪️drone strikes ▪️summary executions ▪️and operations backed by a private military company. (The UN table does not name it, but the firm operating in Haiti is Vectus Global, led by Erik Prince) Police have carried out 174 extrajudicial executions, and claim to have killed 1,900 “gang-affiliated” civilians, a category that Jake Johnston explains often means nothing more than living in a gang-controlled neighborhood. Jake Johnston @JakobJohnston Some 600 civilians have been killed or injured while caught in the crossfire of police operations in Haiti so far this year, according to the UN. 174 people were extrajudicially executed by police. Police claim to have killed more than 1,900 people "affiliated with gangs" -- which can mean little more than living in a gang controlled neighborhood. Since the start of the year, there have been a reported 4,384 people killed in Haiti — well over half at the hands of police.
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Kudos! 'Actor Claudia Karvan and a group of pro-Palestine advocates have launched a series of racial discrimination complaints against News Corp papers, Sky News and more than a dozen of their highest profile commentators.' archive.md/m8LBH #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy #auspol #StopIsrael
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Sing it! #NoMusicForGenocide www.npr.org/2025/11/13/n... #BDS #Israel #GazaGenocide
Why more than 1,000 musicians are boycotting Israel with 'No Music for Genocide'
Artists including Lorde, Björk and Massive Attack have joined an international initiative to geo-block their music from being streamed in Israel.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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What they're doing is great (but what the headline is doing is weird; adults are not primarily identified by their reproductive status when they're not doing something specific to offspring, or are they, since trivializing women happens a thousand ways?)
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They've been showing up all over Evanston, a leafy suburb north of Chicago: suburban moms fresh from the school run and out to protect their community from what they see as unwelcome visitors. https://cnn.it/47U4IqS
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Was wonderful to have Ellen Jansson performing at @ucddublin.bsky.social school of music today… super programme including a stunner from @raymo27.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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But of course there IS no ceasefire. This is all double-speak, criminals defending criminals...
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⭕️ NEW: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there is “some concern” that escalating settler violence in the West Bank could “spill over” and undermine the fragile Gaza ceasefire — a notable public acknowledgment from the Trump administration that illegal Israeli settler attacks are happening at...
⭕️ NEW: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there is “some concern” that escalating settler violence in the West Bank could “spill over” and undermine the fragile Gaza ceasefire — a notable public acknowledgment from the Trump administration that illegal Israeli settler attacks are happening at all. Rubio praised Israel’s President for condemning a large settler arson attack between Nablus and Tulkarem, as Netanyahu and his coalition partners remain silent. His remarks come amid record levels of settler attacks, with Israeli state complicity, and collapsing law enforcement. Police investigations into extremist Israeli violence have dropped 73% since 2023, even as incidents reach all-time highs, Times of Israel reported. Security officials have privately blamed far-right ministers with ties to the perpetrators,
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Australia is shamefully complicit with genocidal #Israel as well until comprehensive sanctions are deployed against it, @albomp.bsky.social www.middleeasteye.net/video/france... #GazaGenocide #BDS
Francesca Albanese: Why I'm accusing 63 nations of complicity in the Gaza genocide
The UN’s top expert on Palestine accuses UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer of ‘enabling genocide’ in Gaza and calls out Germany and Italy for blocking EU action on Israel
www.middleeasteye.net
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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#Israel is the villainous, land-thieving, murderous belligerent criminal, not Hizb. www.aljazeera.com/features/202... #StopIsrael #Lebanon #IsraelFascism
Israel is intensifying attacks on Lebanon, is it planning another war?
Analysts say Israel is not upholding its end of the ceasefire and looking for reasons to strike a depleted Hezbollah.
www.aljazeera.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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The US knew fascist, criminal #Israel was using Palestinians as human shields. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11... #StopIsrael
US knew Israeli officials discussed use of human shields in Gaza: Report
Israel has repeatedly been accused of using Palestinians as human shields in violation of international law.
www.aljazeera.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM