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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 Official Intake: Strategic Framework on Palestinian Sovereignty and UNSC Veto Reform Logged via UN R... Sat Aug 22, 2026 09:36 | Alina Tanveer (Independent Palestinian Policy Researcher)
Verified Legal Brief Processed under Mandela Legacy for United Nations Headquarters New York
A verified humanitarian policy framework for the immediate enforcement of Palestinian Sovereignty and United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Veto Reform has been officially processed and logged by the United Nations Resident Coordinator Office (UN RCO) in Pakistan for onward strategic routing to the United Nations Headquarters (HQ) in New York.

offsite link I survived Cancer Tue Aug 18, 2026 14:31 | Ambassador Paul Timothy Martin Ryan KT
here umis how I did it with a lot of help.
I lived longer because of mental health but they take 25 years to quit smoking in the hospital.

offsite link Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 21:01 | imc
Was that not what the War on Terror was about ?
Today things finally came full circle. It was Al-Qaeda that supposedly caused 9/11 and lead to the War on Terror but really War of Terror by the USA and lead directly to the deaths of millions through numerous wars in the Middle East.

And yet today the former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda, Al-Jolani was hosted in the White House by Trump. A surreal moment indeed.

In reality of course 9/11 was orchestrated by inside forces that wanted to launch the War of Terror and Al-Qaeda has been a wholly backed American tool ever since then.

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 Tue Nov 04, 2025 02:40 | Mark
That tree we got retained in 2007, is no more
2007
http://www.indymedia.ie/art...

2025
https://eplan.limerick.ie/i...

offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Fri Oct 31, 2025 23:44 | imc
A major study involving 1.7 million children has found that heart damage only appeared in children who had received Covid mRNA vaccines.

Not a single unvaccinated child in the group suffered from heart-related problems.

In addition, the researchers note zero children from the entire group, vaccinated or unvaccinated, died from COVID-19.

Furthermore, the study found that Covid shots offered the children very little protection from the virus, with many becoming infected after just 14 to 15 weeks of receiving an injection.

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

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
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 Official Intake: Strategic Framework on Palestinian Sovereignty and UNSC Veto Reform Logged via UN R... Sat Aug 22, 2026 09:36 | Alina Tanveer (Independent Palestinian Policy Researcher)

offsite link I survived Cancer Tue Aug 18, 2026 14:31 | Ambassador Paul Timothy Martin Ryan KT

offsite link Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 21:01 | imc

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 Tue Nov 04, 2025 02:40 | Mark

offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Fri Oct 31, 2025 23:44 | imc

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Lockdown Skeptics

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offsite link Carney?s Dagger: How Ottawa?s Trade Brinkmanship Threatens US National Security Strategy Mon Aug 31, 2026 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
Mark Carney's 'war' rhetoric has turned a tariff row into a crisis threatening North American energy security ? and the first casualty could be Alberta, not Washington, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
The post Carney?s Dagger: How Ottawa?s Trade Brinkmanship Threatens US National Security Strategy appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Mon Aug 31, 2026 00:10 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Seven County Councils Threaten Legal Action Over Rayner?s Plans to Scrap Two-Tier System Sun Aug 30, 2026 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Seven county councils are threatening to take Labour to court over plans to abolish them, carve up counties and create new authorities ? with critics accusing Labour of "blatant gerrymandering".
The post Seven County Councils Threaten Legal Action Over Rayner?s Plans to Scrap Two-Tier System appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link What is the Point of ?Critical Disability Studies?? Sun Aug 30, 2026 17:00 | Charlotte Gill
Taxpayers have poured hundreds of millions into the British Academy-backed world of 'Critical Disability Studies' ? but, as Charlotte Gill finds, much of it just looks like useless academic gobbledygook.
The post What is the Point of ?Critical Disability Studies?? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link NHS Hands Free Condoms to Asylum Seekers in Taxpayer-Funded Hotels Sun Aug 30, 2026 15:00 | Richard Eldred
NHS England is handing out free condoms to asylum seekers in taxpayer-funded hotels, sparking fury over public money being spent on people who have entered the country illegally.
The post NHS Hands Free Condoms to Asylum Seekers in Taxpayer-Funded Hotels appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Education

Education is one of those key things in life. While the basics of food and shelter are fundamental closely followed by health, education is probably next and is a key to how life unfolds. We must not be caught up with the idea of interchanging the word education and school as they are not the same thing.

On this page, we present some of the ideas behind John Taylor Gatto (1935 - 2018) who was a teacher in New York city and a great educator. He, as he said himself, taught in the best and the worst schools and three times won the New York city's Teacher of the Year award. After he quit teaching he started to investigate the history of why compulsory school was setup and he spent the rest of his life trying to undo the harm that schools does.

Gatto through his essays, books and many interviews has tried to convey what education should be really about and it should be something we take ownership of ourselves and take on for our entire life.

The material on the rest of the page is taken from: https://www.garynorth.com/public/18741.cfm

There is a website dedicated to John Taylor Gatto at: https://www.johntaylorgatto.com/
Link to one of his most famous essay's: Against School

See also the Wikipedia page Waldorf Schools which are based on the work of Rudolf Steiner.or better still go to the Waldorf Foundation for Education website.

John Taylor Gatto died at age 82 on October 25.

He taught at the New York City public school system for 26 years. Three times he won the city's Teacher of the Year award. Once he won the New York state Teacher of the Year award.

Shortly after he won these final two awards, he quit teaching as a career. He made his announcement in a Wall Street Journal article, "I Quit, I Think." You can read it here: https://www.garynorth.com/public/18740.cfm

In a fine obituary of Gatto on the website of the Foundation for Economic Education, Brittany Hunter wrote this:

After three decades in the classroom, Gatto realized that the public school system was squashing individualism more than it was educating students and preparing them for the real world. To make matters worse, his later research would reveal that this dumbing down was not just by accident, but by design.

Gatto dedicated the rest of his life to repairing the damage done by the public education system.

Feeling the education system was beyond repair, Gatto could no longer in good conscience be an active participant. Rather than sending his letter of resignation to his superiors in his school district, he sent a copy of “I Quit, I Think” to the Wall Street Journal, where it was published as an op-ed on July 25, 1991.

In his biting resignation, he wrote:

I’ve come slowly to understand what it is I really teach: A curriculum of confusion, class position, arbitrary justice, vulgarity, rudeness, disrespect for privacy, indifference to quality, and utter dependency. I teach how to fit into a world I don’t want to live in.

I just can’t do it anymore. I can’t train children to wait to be told what to do; I can’t train people to drop what they are doing when a bell sounds; I can’t persuade children to feel some justice in their class placement when there isn’t any, and I can’t persuade children to believe teachers have valuable secrets they can acquire by becoming our disciples. That isn’t true.

Gatto dedicated the rest of his life to repairing the damage done by the public education system. He wrote several books on his experience in the classroom including Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling and Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling. His book The Underground History of American Education is perhaps the most accurate and damning history of the American education system that has ever been written.

Here, we see what made him different. Warning: you will figure out in the first three minutes how you got shafted in school.

What went wrong? Gatto said it was planned. Here is a seven-minute video. It is an extract from his Underground History. His theory: schooling is a means of producing docile, obedient workers and citizens. He cites primary sources from influential American educators.

For those who have read R. J. Rushdoony's earlier book, The Messianic Character of American Education (1963), all this will be familiar. It started in the late 1830's in Massachusetts. Rushdoony followed the confessions of faith of two dozen progressive educators. Gatto followed the money.

He did great work in the public schools. He did greater work outside them.

Links

https://www.henireland.org -Home Educaiton Network Ireland
https://hslda.org/post/ireland -Legal status and resources on homeschooling in Ireland
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/irish-mother-of-six-jailed-for-homeschooling -Irish mother of six jailed for homeschooling (2014)
https://wicklowSudburySchool.com/ -Wicklow Sudbury School - Ireland's first democratic school of self-directed learning

You might be interested in this very short video: Peter Gray on self-directed learning Fundamentals
https://youtu.be/YoE480mzrk0

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