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VFW POST 551 BENEFIT FOR FIREFIGHTER CHRISTOPHER SLUTMAN’
There will be a benefit in honor of Firefighter Christopher Slutman on Saturday, June 29, from 1:00 – 5:00 PM, at Mooney’s Public House, 82-11 Eliot Avenue, Middle Village, NY 11379. A $40 donation includes beer, wine, soda and finger food. All proceeds go to the Slutman family. To send a donation, please contact VFW551@yahoo.com or mail to Haspel Staab VFW Post 551, 61-55 69th Street, Middle Village, NY 11379. Checks should be written out to Haspel Staab VFW Post 551.
PLAQUE DEDICATION
On Wednesday, July 17, 2019, at 1100 hours, a Plaque Dedication Ceremony will be held honoring the memory of Firefighter George R. Scheer, Engine 249. The dedication will take place in the quarters of Engine 249 & Ladder 113, 491 Rogers Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. All off-duty members and their families are invited to attend. Members are requested to attend in dress uniform.
FDNY MARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION CIGAR NIGHT
On Monday, August 19, 2019, from 1900-2300 hours, the FDNY Marine Corps Association will host their 1st Annual Cigar Night at Vetro on the Bay (open air rooftop venue), 164-49 Cross Bay Blvd in Howard Beach, NY 11414. Cost is $130 per person and includes 4-hour open bar with premium liquor, beer and wine, 4-hour buffet catered by Russo’s on the Bay, and 4 cigars plus cutter. There will also be raffle prizes and a 50/50 throughout the night. Space is limited to the first 150 people, so this is a first come, first serve event. No money will be collected at the door, so you must RSVP with either Joe Bachert at 631-605-1444 or Frank Ancona at 718-986-9822 and send checks payable to FDNY Marine Corps Association to reserve your spot. Checks should be mailed to FDNY Marine Corps Association, P.O. Box 1014, Smithtown, NY 11787.
AUDITION FOR THE 2021 OFFICIAL FDNY CALENDAR OF HEROES
Casting calls for the 2021 Official FDNY Calendar of Heroes have been scheduled for Thursday, July 11, 2019, and Thursday, August 1, 2019. Email FDNYCalendarOfHeroes@fdny.nyc.gov to fill out an application. Applicants will receive an emailed response after July 1 with location and start time.
WORLD POLICE AND FIRE GAMES ATHLETIC PACKAGESAll orders for the 2019 World Police and Fire Games Athletic Packages must be placed by July 1, 2019. For participating athletes with proof of registration, packages will cost $125. For non-participants, the cost is $250. Payment must be received via check or Venmo before your order is placed. To place your order, contact Antoinette Fatone at afatone@ufanyc.org or 212-545-6974.
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And once the ties with the crown had been broken
Westward in saddle and wagon it went
And ’til the railroad linked ocean to ocean
Many the lives which had come to an end
While we bullied, stole and bought our a homeland
We began the slaughter of the red man
But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light
The blue and grey they stomped it
They kicked it just like a dog
And when the war over
They stuffed it just like a hog
And though the past has it’s share of injustice
Kind was the spirit in many a way
But it’s protectors and friends have been sleeping
Now it’s a monster and will not obey
(Suicide)
The spirit was freedom and justice
And it’s keepers seem generous and kind
It’s leaders were supposed to serve the country
But now they won’t pay it no mind’
Cause the people grew fat and got lazy
And now their vote is a meaningless joke
They babble about law and order
But it’s all just an echo of what they’ve been told
Yeah, there’s a monster on the loose
It’s got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watchin’
Our cities have turned into jungles
And corruption is stranglin’ the land
The police force is watching the people
And the people just can’t understand
We don’t know how to mind our own business’
Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who’s the winner
We can’t pay the cost’Cause there’s a monster on the loose
It’s got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watching
(America)
America where are you now?
Don’t you care about your sons and daughters?
Don’t you know we need you now
We can’t fight alone against the monster.
Steppenwolf – Monster Lyrics | MetroLyrics
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Boris Johnson claimed there were ‘abundant technical fixes’ that would avoid checks on the border
John Manley. Irish News. Belfast. Wednesday, June 25, 2019
TORY leadership contender Boris Johnson’s plans for solving the vexed issue of the post-Brexit Irish border have been dismissed as “fantasy”.
The former foreign secretary, who despite recent controversies relating to his private life remains the bookies’ favourite to succeed Theresa May, said he could persuade Brussels there were alternatives to the backstop.
He told the BBC there were “abundant, abundant technical fixes” that would avoid checks on the border.
When challenged that these did not exist yet, Mr Johnson replied: “Well, they do actually… in very large measure they do, you have trusted trader schemes, all sorts of schemes that you could put into place.”
However, he conceded there was “no single magic bullet”.
The Uxbridge and South Ruislip MP admitted he would need Brussels’ co-operation to avoid a hard border in the event of a no-deal Brexit but said he did “not believe for a moment” the UK would crash out of the EU on October 31.
Sinn Féin MP Chris Hazzard said Mr Johnson’s proposals were “deluded” and highlighted his “total lack of knowledge of issues around the border”.
“It is widely accepted that there are currently no technological solutions anywhere in the world that could deal with the disastrous impact of Brexit in the north – that suggestion has been roundly debunked on repeated occasions,” he said.
“This type of rhetoric may fool Tory party members but it does not fool anyone in Ireland or anyone with even the most basic grasp of the situation.”
The South Down MP said the only deal on the table was the withdrawal agreement.
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood described Mr Johnson’s suggested solutions as “fantasy”.
“The truth is that all of his talk about technology and trusted trader schemes is fancy footwork around the core issues – how do you prevent crippling customs tariffs on trade across this island and across the European continent without border infrastructure in less than five months? How do you protect the integrity of the single market and manage SPS regulations without checks on goods at the border or in situ?” he said
“Setting aside the political complexity of all that, the basic literacy of the withdrawal agreement has escaped Johnson – without an agreement there is no transition. And with no transition we are looking at a hard border very quickly.”
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By Chris Fogarty challenges what he sees as the distortion of the historical record on Ireland in the 1840s.
Yesterday I asked Editors: “In the interests of truth regarding the 1845-1850 genocide of Ireland will your news organ publish a letter from me?” I sent it to The Irish Echo, The Irish American News, The Pensive Quill,historyireland.com, Author Ed Moloney, the American Irish Historical Society, The New York Times, and The Irish Times. I included some background data.
Having a rough idea as to the extent of news media corruption my inquiry is an attempt to determine its actual extent. Today, The Pensive Quill, alone, has replied, positively; thus establishing its bona fides. I will soon name all repliers and non-repliers.
The letter for which I seek publication starts here:
Will we allow Ireland to remain unique on Planet Earth; the only nation with a government that officially conceals a genocide of its own people by a foreign power? Will our news media continue to conceal the fact that the murder of some 5.2 million innocents required the deployment into Ireland of more than half (67 regiments) of Britain’s 130-regiment army?
Prof. Christine Kinealy, through her many “famine” books, and through approval by corrupt academia and news media, leads the Anglo-Irish campaign to keep the “Irish Famine/Gorta Mor” lie alive. As shown here-below, her modus operandus includes not only total concealment of the food removal but also deliberate falsifications of the record (to which falsifications Irish academia acquiesces). Here are two examples of Kinealy’s fabrications:
1) In her gushingly-approving review of Cormac O Grada’s The Great Irish Famine book in Fortnight magazine (April, 1990), Kinealy attributed to:
myths and misunderstandings the stories of ships full of grain leaving Ireland, of overcrowded famine graveyards, of callous landlords … which have been passed glibly from generation to generation.
Kinealy still conceals the genocidal
actions of Ireland’s then-landlords (English) and glosses over the Holocaust
mass graves that dot the map of Ireland, but she has been forced to cease
concealing the fact that a torrent of Irish grain was exported while Ireland
starved.
2) As part of her officially-lauded career, Kinealy also deliberately falsified a crucial utterance by Lord Clarendon, Britain’s Viceroy in Ireland. In Clarendon’s letter (July 5, 1847) to British Prime Minister Lord John Russell he wrote:
Sir Edward Blakeney says that the Country (sic) is tranquil, and if it were not for the harrassing (sic) duty of escorting provisions the troops would have little to do.
On page 119 of her A Death-Dealing Famine, Kinealy
quoted that sentence but omitted its first four words; “Sir Edward Blakeney
says…” making the sentence seem to be Clarendon’s own opinion instead of what
it was, Blakeney’s statement. Once one knows that “Sir Edward Blakeney” is General
Sir Edward Blakeney, the commander-in-chief of the sixty-seven regiments in
Ireland throughout their food removal mission in 1845 through 1850, one
understands that Kinealy HAD to “disappear” General Blakeney because his very
existence and mission refute and expose her genocide-concealing, fraudulent
career.
⏩ Chris
Fogarty is author of Ireland 1845-1850: the Perfect Holocaust, and Who Kept it
‘Perfect’.
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by Paul Ryan, a resident of Louth, with a poem from his collection.
The mirrors reflection
Foreign to me
Not the manI wanted to be.
Unanchored nowCast adrift
Haunted memories
Through which I sift.
Poisoned by narrowness
Tattooed with doubt
Gripped by fear
Day in day out.‘Twas never our fault
We succumbed to their rage
All togetherTurn the page.