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offsite link Number of Children Who Think They are Wrong Sex Surges 50-Fold Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:10 | Will Jones
There has been a 50-fold rise in children who think they are the?wrong sex in just 10 years, with two thirds of them girls, analysis of GP records suggests.
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offsite link Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: Go Back to Your Constituencies and Prepare to Live in Mud and Grass Huts Fri Jan 24, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
With all 72 Lib Dem MPs supporting the mad Climate and Nature Bill, their clownish leader Ed Davey is effectively telling them to go back to their constituencies and prepare to live in mud and grass huts.
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In episode 27 of the Sceptic: David Shipley on Southport, Fred de Fossard on Trump vs Woke Capitalism and Ed West on the grooming gangs as Britain?s Chernobyl.
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Niall Connolly, Martin McCauley and Jim Monaghan spend third Xmas in Jail

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Tuesday December 23, 2003 18:42author by catriona ruane Report this post to the editors

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brian Cowen, has said that he has noted
the contents of a report which claims that the three men, Niall Connolly,
Martin McCauley and Jim Monaghan, held in Colombia on charges of training
guerillas should be immediately released.

The report by a group of Irish, US and Australian lawyers and political
figures including Niall Andrews MEP, Senator Mary White and TDs Sean Crowe
and Finian McGrath has concluded that the men have not received a fair
trial, that there is no evidence to link them to the main charges against
them and that they should be released immediately.

In a Dáil answer to Mr McGrath, Ind, Mr Cowen said that he had noted the
contents of the report but would not comment until the judge issues his
verdict in the case. The minister in his written reply also said that the
trial ended in early August but the verdict by Judge Jairo Acosta is not
expected until the new year.

The observers report entitled Colombia 3; Judge for Yourself, includes
detailed analysis of the legal case and the trial process by a number of
lawyers who attended the hearings including Irish barrister, Ronan Munro
and solicitor, Pat Daly. It also includes contributions by US human rights
advocate Natalie Kabaskalian and Australian lawyer Shaun Kerrigan both of
whom criticise what they claim were prejudicial statements by senior
Colombian political and military figures during the trial.

The men who were arrested on August 11, 2001 as they arrived in the
capital, Bogota, from a demilitarised zone controlled at the time by FARC
guerillas in the south east of the troubled Latin American country will now
spend their third Christmas in a Colombian jail where, the report states,
they are constantly exposed to physicial danger.

"These men are now to spend their third Christmas in jail and away from
their families who are deeply concerned for their safety and well being. We
are glad that the minister has read the document and noted its contents and
we can only hope that Judge will make his decision based on the law and
will not be subjected to any outside political or military pressure" said
Caitriona Ruane, spokesperson for the Bring them Home campaign.

author by Joabpublication date Mon Dec 29, 2003 15:05author address author phone Report this post to the editors

So what were members of the IRA doing there with false passports and access to training material and arms??

leave them in prison where they belong..

author by jenny bpublication date Thu Jan 01, 2004 19:21author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Jo Ranting the colombian junta black ops propaganda spokesperson appears to be behind the above false and totally ignorant statement.
The colombian junta authorities have no physical, or forensic evidence against the 3 irish men. They have no testimonies, or eye witnesses against the 3 men, yet have held the 3 Irish men in a colombian junta prison, for 3 years. The men have yet to be sentenced and are not violent hardened criminals.
The scenario in colombia is worse than guantanomo bay.

author by Oona deathlistpublication date Fri Jan 02, 2004 11:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

There is a lot of sympathy and public support for the men, who are in the hands of the harsh unjust colombian junta authorities, which is why Catriona Ruane was elected recently.

author by DOBpublication date Fri Jan 02, 2004 12:45author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Over the past four years been a huge fall in the cost of , and increase in the consumption of Cocaine in Ireland. Draw your own conclusions.

author by just 4 you c**t frontpublication date Fri Jan 02, 2004 18:27author address author phone Report this post to the editors

We can draw our own conclusions about the CIA and contra crack cocaine smugglers too, and the NIO/Brti government back FRU LVF/C Company smack/crack pushers.

author by Paul Knol - NONEpublication date Sun May 09, 2004 19:51author email ryanknol at hotmail dot comauthor address author phone 480-775-9119Report this post to the editors

Why fear these three men that will no longer be in Columbia. Why?

Send them home as they have suffered enough.

If you love Colombia as a wounderful and beautiful place and you wish this country to have a rich culture you need to get on with making Colombia a country rich in Culture let the people know how Beautiful Columbia is.

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