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Posted by Jim on July 25, 2019
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Retired FDNY Auto Mechanic James J. Sottile
WAKE Sunday, July 28, 20192:00 PM – 4:00 PM & 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
O.B. Davis Funeral Home
1001 Route 25A Miller Place, NY 11764
FUNERAL Monday, July 29,
St. Marks Roman Catholic Church
105 Randall Road Shoreham, NY 11786
All Off-Duty Members should attend in Class A Uniform.
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On behalf of Relatives for Justice, and all the families, we cannot thank you all enough in securing this important intervention at this crucial stage in terms of legacy and seeking to ensure truth and accountability for human rights violations perpetrated by the armed forces of the British government and its agents. As we’ve often say it is US intervention that makes all the difference as the UK seek to ignore and bury the truth about its actions whilst only raising those of republicans. They do however care for their international standing and reputation on the world stage and the regular interventions of Congress, prompted by your great work, therefore carries significant weight. Keeping a vigilant eye and holding them to account in Washington is key.
Once again thank you all so much,
Mark Thompson, CEO Relatives for Justice
Posted by Jim on July 24, 2019
New British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed an over-the-top Cabinet of Brexiteer ultras and right-wing extremists. In the process, he has also replaced Karen Bradley as Direct Ruler in the north of Ireland with the former Tory Chief Whip, Julian Smith. Among his more controversial appointees are infamous Vote Leave campaign guru Dominic Cummings, whose tactics of technological manipulation were exposed in ‘The Uncivil War’ docudrama, as Special Advisor; and Priti Patel, who proposed the Brexit strategy of cutting off food supplies to Ireland, as Home Secretary.
The announcements were seen as a statement of war with the EU, with the British civil service, with Remain voters and Tory moderates, and also with Ireland, despite his sacking of widely discredited Bradley in favour of Yorkshire MP Julian Smith (pictured, right).
Revealing her departure earlier today, Bradley said it had been “an enormous privilege” to “represent this special nation and integral part of our precious union”.
Johnson set the tone of his premiership on Tuesday with a declaration that his leadership of the Conservatives would be known by DUDE (deliver, unite, defeat, energise) — the final E added, he said, as an insurance against a DUD acronym.
His cabinet changes are being seen as the most sweeping in recent British political history, replacing seventeen ministers, more than half the Tory cabinet, sacking some while others had resigned in advance.
In a campaigning speech today, Johnson said he is confident that his new cabinet will defeat “the doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters”.
Speaking on the steps of Downing Street, he warned the European Union that he was prepared to withhold Britain’s 39 billion pound divorce bill and repeating his demand that the backstop deal to prevent a remilitarised border through Ireland should be renegotiated.
He declared the “people who bet against Britain are going to lose their shirts because we are going to restore trust in our democracy.” And he joked: “Never mind the backstop, the buck stops here!”
The 26 County Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said he looked forward to meeting Mr Johnson to discuss Brexit but stressed that the commitment of the Dublin government and the EU to the backstop remained unchanged.
“I look forward to having the opportunity to sit down one to one and for our teams to meet and to see if they can put a little detail behind those slogans and statements,” he said.
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said Johnson’s initial Downing Street address “was bloated with bluff but short on solutions to the challenges of Brexit.”
Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald said she has written to the new British PM seeking a meeting to discuss Brexit and the Stormont Executive.
“I have reminded the new prime minister of the requirement of the British government to honour and implement their commitments under the Good Friday and subsequent agreements,” she said. “Agreements that are incompatible with Brexit. The people of the North voted to remain within the EU and that vote must be respected.”
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July 24 2019
DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds has urged the public and politicians to give Boris Johnson a chance to prove himself as Prime Minister.
The North Antrim MP was speaking after Mr Johnson received widespread criticism after winning the Tory leadership contest on Wednesday.
Mr Johnson is set to move into Number 10 on Wednesday evening after Theresa May resigns as Prime Minister.
After his victory Alliance leader Naomi Long said that the UK needed a “statesman not showman,” while SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said that he had “coasted into Downing street on a wave of Brexit bluff and bluster”.
However, Mr Dodds told BBC Radio Ulster that Mr Johnson had significant experience and should not be written off so easily.
“Whether the Tory party chose Jeremy Hunt, Boris Johnson or whoever, it is entirely a matter for them,” Mr Dodds said.
“When he was Mayor of London Boris Johnson delivered a considerable amount, running one of the biggest cities in the world with a massive budget, so he has some kind of track record.
“On the Brexit issue there’s a lot of division, but people do see him as a centrist in terms of Tory policy and in terms of his outlook on things.”
The DUP deputy rejected the idea that the incoming-Prime Minister was an “extremist right-winger”.
“I think that people need to give him a chance and see. It certainly isn’t the case that Theresa May’s premiership over the last couple of years has been covered in glory. I think people really want to see Brexit over the line and done and dusted. “
The North Belfast MP also addressed the renew of his party’s confidence and supply agreement with Mr Johnson’s government, with negotiations due to take place in the coming days.
Mr Dodds said that the DUP had three priorities, strengthening and advancing the union, the delivery of Brexit and the restoration of Stormont.
“He shares those priorities, we’ll work with him in the coming days to achieve those,” he said.
“Well also raise with the government, as we always do, a host of issues which affect our constituents including the health service and the rest and clearly the job situation in manufacturing in Northern Ireland at Wrightbus is important, we’ll certainly be raising all of those issues.”
The DUP deputy leader said that he believed Mr Johnson had the right approach to deliver Brexit.
“He has said that October 31 will be it and I think if you don’t have a deadline and don’t keep no-deal on the table then you won’t get anywhere.
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“That’s what has devilled the negotiations that Theresa May conducted, it’s now clear that Theresa May had never even put that on the table and if you’re doing a negotiation that’s not the right approach.
“Boris will bring a different approach, people recognise that he’s serious about getting this done and for the sake of the country I think everybody recognises this needs to be done.”
Asked if he expected the DUP to have a place on the Brexit negotiating team, Mr Dodds said that he believed the new PM would adopt a more “collaborative” approach than his predecessor.
“One of the problems Theresa May ran in to, not just with ourselves, but her own party, was that she kept a very, very tight circle of advisors, not political people, she was very much directed by civil servants,” the North Belfast MP said.
“I think he will ensure that as we go along people are heavily involved. The extent of that remains open for discussion.”
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Seminar The Way Forward in the Teacher’s Club on July 27. The following is the prospective running order.
Opening remarks: Cathaoirleach
John Joe McCusker, Republican Sinn Féin, (background of Éire Nua and relevance to non-nationalists/Republicans)
Anthony McIntyre, Independent Workers’ Union
Speaker from Provisional Sinn Féin
John Rees, Republican Sinn Féin, (making Éire Nua relevant to a younger generation in a revolutionary setting)
Seán Bresnahan
Speaker from 32-County Sovereignty Movement
Speaker from Direct Democracy
Des Dalton, (Éire Nua and Saol Nua as a Republican vision of the type of new Ireland that is required … also including a brief consideration of the ownership of history and the importance of understanding how
There will be a Questions & Answers session after each contribution. Please let us know the name of your speaker.
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