Liam McBurney
ZUMA Press
Ireland’s police forces have given unconvincing explanations about why they are cooperating with an Israeli ministry implicated in torture and war crimes.
The European Union has allocated approximately $8.5 million to a research project ostensibly aimed at using new speech and facial recognition technologies to help identify criminal networks.
Named Roxanne, the project includes Israel’s ministry for “public security” and a number of law enforcement bodies.
The involvement of Ireland’s two police forces in the project has angered campaigners and politicians from across the island. They have pointed out that the Israeli ministry oversees prisons where Palestinians are routinely abused and a police force active in settlements which violate international law.
Peace and Neutrality Alliance
Press Release
MEPs debate the importance of neutrality to the European peace movement
Irish peace groups and MEPs from the Left group of the European Parliament convened a Webinar (16/12/2020) to discuss issues of crucial importance to the peace movement in Ireland and Europe. Chaired by Clare Daly MEP (Independents 4 Change, Dublin) members of the public heard from PANA Chair Roger Cole on the history of Irish neutrality. Özlem Demirel MEP (Die Linke, Germany) spoke about the accelerating militarisation of Europe under the EU’s mechanisms for a “common defence.” The veteran anti-war campaigner Ed Horgan (Shannonwatch) discussed the failure of the United Nations as an institutional forum for peace-keeping. The final speaker, Mick Wallace MEP (Independents 4 Change, Wexford) spoke about the worsening geopolitical environment in EU foreign affairs, and the continuing importance of evicting the United States military from Shannon Airport.
| UPDATED: 19:30, Fri, Dec 18, 2020
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Clare Daly claimed Spanish, French and Portuguese trawlers are destroying the sea bed in the UK s fishing waters. It comes as the Ministry of Defence laid secondary legislation to provide Royal Navy Police with extra powers to patrol England and Wales s territorial waters in the event of a no deal Brexit. Speaking to European Parliament, Ms Daly said: There s no doubt about it that break-ups can be ugly and hostile and this one is no exception.
MOUNT CARMEL â Betty Ruth Riley Mair, 94, passed peacefully in her sleep on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, at Wabash General Hospital. She was the youngest of eight children born to Mary Ann (Hatfield) and Charles W. Riley in Owensville, Indiana, on Jan. 22, 1926.
After graduating from Owensville High School in 1944, Betty attended Central Beauty College in Indianapolis, Indiana. Upon completion of college, she was employed by Marinella Beauty Shop in Princeton, Indiana, along with her sister Lorraine.
Upon return from the Navy, Bob Mair lived in Princeton. He spied his future wife sitting at the corner of a local restaurant. They were married six months later Dec. 31, 1946. In 1949 they moved to Mt. Carmel, where they settled and were active in the community and their church, Trinity United Methodist. As a 67-year member of Trinity, Betty kept very busy. She taught Sunday School, helped with Bible School, and provided food for the many meals served at the church. Betty decorated a ta