All jokes aside but ABBA’s last major album was a masterpiece and a phenomenal commercial flop..
I think it was called ‘Airport’.
(I could be wrong)
It was totally underrated.
Welcome back ABBA
We missed you.
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
I fupping hate them, their return is just another sign Armageddon is nigh,
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
who knew the horses of the apocalypse would be wearing poxy lasers
Bitnboxy
Abbageddon brought upon us by Abbatars. No!
Cian
+1
+4
Rosette of Sirius
All I know is my weekend is gonna be ruined by this poo as it’ll be played nonstop from about half past Albariño o’clock.
Charlie
+1. They’re the Jason Byrne of music. Appalling.
ian-oG
You. You get it.
Who in their right mind actually listened to Jason Byrne and thought ”you know what, that guy is funny!”. Who?
Like seriously, seriously, he is about as funny as a terminal diagnosis for testicular cancer. Less even. Christ I absolutely cannot stand him, running around the stage shouting annoyingly like a spanner is not comedy, its running around the stage shouting annoyingly like a spanner. There are no hidden comedic undertones.
Good God….
Charlie
That’s my point Ian.
ian-oG
And a very accurate point it was Charlie.
GiggidyGoo
Most stand-up comedians are like that. Most should be stood down.
I quite enjoy Foil Arms and Hog though.
Charlie
“Most stand up comedians are like that”? Really? Gimme a dozen just for giggles.
Micko
Ah now, I like Jason Byrne
I’ve seen him twice over the years in Vicar st and on both occasions we were in the front row tables and he absolutely destroyed us taking the wee out of us.
Very funny live. But maybe you have to be there.
He is shockingly bad on the TV though. That comedy show they gave him a few years back was broootal.
Saw Foil Arms & Hog for the first time live a while back. Very good too and very different of course.
From ex-Pfizer vice president Mike Yeadon’s shared telegram channel earlier today. He foresees the ever expanding vaccine passport system incorporaing access to food, that is if we continue to comply. Food for thought!
‘.. If we comply, and permit VaxPass to regulate access to food, we are under totalitarian tyranny from which no escape is possible.
To disengage afterwards means starvation.
If you’re sceptical, run the thought experiment.
I expect deliberate food shortages at some point because that gives the excuse for rationing. Then you can’t have a 3rd party food shop for you, because I predict a ration will be linked to a valid VaxPass.
Not all at once. Just restrictions at the margin initially, to get us used to it.
Do not comply with VaxPass.
United non-compliance is all we have.
I urge you to persuade others of the danger that is VaxPass regulated access to food, especially if rationing is introduced.
Even if you think I’m wrong, please allow a little mental space to see if events match that trajectory or not.
I ask because, if I am correct, and only later is this appreciated, it may be too late.
On the other hand, if I’m wrong & you’ve prepared a little, it’s a pleasant upside!
…in fairness, Dr Mike hasn’t had an airing in weeks…but just a new slant on the same old conspiracy…
GiggidyGoo
It’s not written as a theory.
SOQ
What is not a conspiracy is the following-
1. Israel has now one of the highest vaccination rates in the world.
2. Israel has now one of the highest infection rates in the world.
3. Israel’s vaccine passport system will now only recognise those who have had three injections.
Anyone who has not had the booster will be refused services in the same way as someone who has had none- FACT.
Fez
President????
John
Fascinating reading the constant anti-vaxxer garbage posts by F_Clueless and clickbaiter Bodgers SOQ puppet & Co. All repetitive inane and insane mutterings by the lot of you.
It’s game over and you have lost, the vast majority of intelligent people accept and understand the medical need for vaccination and have ignored all of your obnoxious and downright stupid attempts to dangerously persuade them other wise.
Your vacuous conspiracy poo is old hat and totally Donald Ducked, Cop yourselves on and stop being a public embarrassment.
Bodger
John, how wrong you are.
Micko
Call people stupid – Check
Say anti-vax – Check
Mention Donald Trump – Chec… wait no. You said Donald Ducked.
Aaaah Sorry John, so close. You’re not a winner I’m afraid.
“What gave the debunked claim credibility was that one of the petition’s co-authors, Michael Yeadon, wasn’t just any scientist. The 60-year-old is a former vice president of Pfizer, where he spent 16 years as an allergy and respiratory researcher. He later co-founded a biotech firm that the Swiss drugmaker Novartis purchased for at least $325 million.”
$325 million, very nice. Is he a Big Pharma good or Big Pharma bad guy ?
He says a lot of things they aren’t necessarily true.
By the way , that wonderful “treatment” for Covid, Ivermectin was developed by Merck who are… take a guess ?
Taking 3 heaped teaspoons of Andrews Liver Salts will produce some similar results as taking Ivermectin from what I have read. However I’m not claiming that Andrews Liver Salts prevents or cures Covid, because I’m not a total gobdaw.
chris
Yet Reuters has a member of Phizer on it’s board. What would Mike Yeadon have to gain? He’s already independently wealthy. Is he trying to profit by whistleblowing? If you are so dismissive of his claims then you are going to have to point to a reason for him making them. Btw the Ivermectin patent has long since expired.
SOQ
journal.ie as a fact checker? LOL
Mojo Nixon
He had no problem with Pfizer for 16 years. Are you sure he was independently wealthy ? Because 16 years there would add up to a lot of pay and share options allowing him to setup his own small pharma that he then sold to another big pharma ?
And a correction. He wasn’t actually a VP for 16 years, he ran a division not related to vaccines. But suddenly after making his money, leaving setting up a different Pharma business and selling it on to a rival in the field, he is has started tilting at windmills.
BTW. Ivermectin was still developed by big Pharma that you lot seem so concerned about. If the drug was still within patent, you’d be on here screaming about people being forced to take a deworming drug and big Pharma profiting from it. Get your ducks in a row ffs.
SOQ
Have you never asked yourself why it is that people like you are so quick to question the motives of those who are speaking up against this thing – some at risk of ruining their entire careers- yet you are so willing to blindly support pharmaceutical companies who have already been fined BILLIONS for fraud and corruption?
I am all for exchange of opinions but seriously- at least have a bit of cop on.
Bodger
+ 1
GiggidyGoo
A comment to focus the minds.
+1
Cian
Jeez, you’d think the pharmaceutical companies were 100% evil.
Can you think of just one reason that people might support pharmaceutical companies?
SOQ
No you would think the dissenters were 100% evil the way some question their motives- complete double standards- and what’s worse is they don’t even know why they are doing it.
Mojo Nixon
Yet you have no problem posting bullpoo from a guy who has worked in said industry for 20 years ? Where the fupp was he when they were paying out BILLIONS for fraud and corruption, he had no problem taking their money then… but suddenly he is your Knight in Shining armour ?
Care to comment on the DISPROVEN poo he has said ?
I’ll tell you what, next year if we are in a Children of Men scenario, I’ll come on here and hold my hands up…. but you lot certainly won’t if there isn’t.
You’ll have probably moved onto the Great Reset or some other bullshit.
Cop on yourself.
QAnon+1
( That fella(s) seems to have been very quiet… I wonder why ? )
GiggidyGoo
Housing minister terrified to debate housing with the Eoin O’Broin. https://mobile.twitter.com/Economicopoly/status/1433572948984664070
“Darragh O’Brien admits the idea of debating Eoin Ó Broin ‘absolutely terrifies’ him, revealing he only agreed to appear on Prime Time after Miriam promised to lock Eoin in the green room during his interview.”
Watching that last night, you could tell how nervous Darragh O’Brian was as he continually tried to stretch out waffle-riddled answers, tried to interrupt, and tried the usual distractions from answering.
It took him what – 16 months to produce a brochure and his plan is going to solve the housing crises in 9 years?
Cian
Your source for this is a twitter feed called ‘Dr Harold News’ who bio says “FAKE news and topical SATIRE from Dr Harold.”
RTE definitely isn’t the SF press office.
Try harder Cian.
goldenbrown
don’t either of yiz worry about this
I’m pleased to report that sausagefingers will get his opportunity to bluster and talk over
Mary Wilson on R1 has our backs, teed this up for us very nicely, just now
Bitnboxy
I am by no means a Shinner and some of them make my skin crawl (David ‘Up the Ra’ Cullinane) and they have some utter liabilities in the ranks (Violet Anne Wynne) but Eoin O’Brion, like Mary Lou, is a very competent, effective communicator and media performer. I don’t think one has to be the most perceptive of observers not to have noticed that Darragh O’Brien is not at all keen on debates with O’Brion and appears to have built an entire strategy on avoiding this eventuality.
Paulus
Ditto, (I can’t bring myself to say “This”).
Similarly, Pearse Doherty.
Cian
@GiggidyGoo RTE definitely isn’t the SF press office.
Yes Cian – and you tried to divert from the point of my original post. Your four D’s are laid bare on a daily basis now.
Try harder.
Cian
@GiggidyGoo
Your first post was from a SATIRE account;
when I pointed that out you sent a post from a Sinn Fein account.
Now, go away pigeon.
GiggidyGoo
@Cian. “Housing Minister terrified….” plus a comedy link, plus some facts, and all you can come up with is….?
a Lame duck response. Now paddle along quackly.
goldenbrown
“TikTokers flood Texas abortion whistleblower site with Shrek memes, fake reports and porn”
True, but it’s a decent summary nonetheless and it shows that every time Coveney tries to defuse the issue he makes it worse. Whatever the truth of the matter, international scrutiny of the issue is not a great look for the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Defence.
GiggidyGoo
The thing is.
If he has a problem having his phone hacked, then it doesn’t matter whether he deletes his messages or not. If the phone is hacked, the messages will have been compromised immediately upon sending or receipt. His story is bull.
goldenbrown
if only he had more artistically minded interns to help him come up with the goods
The reaction to the Supremes upholding the Texas ban on post 6 wk terminations is spiralling beyond their control
even the US Senate’s
Employers are now stepping in to protect their own employees who seek treatment
and Women Worldwide have their backs
Election Fraud claims are not just collapsing, they’re being bankrupted
and now ‘Count Auditors’ financial affairs are being scattered out there like a lorry of ball barings has shed its load
Septics don’t like white collar crime, give them their due like, so this isn’t going to end well for those lads calling around to voters in Maricopa County, and calling themselves count officials
or Cyber Ninjas ⊙.☉
Senior Trump Inc officials are now giving evidence to a NY Grand Jury, and they’re going back years
and one thing about the NY AGs office there, they are hardcore financial crime prosecutors with zero tolerance for financial fraud, corruption and tax evasion
But Jacob Chansley pleads guilty, but is looking for you “patience & Consideration”
And politely requests ye don’t call him the Q Shamon anymore
A plea deal btw, but damn sure it included a tell all to the FBI
Meanwhile, a sacked State Chief of Vaccines, (paediatrician Michelle Fiscus, Tennessee) has filed big ticket federal defamation suit against State officials for – well you know
Large parts of the country are drowning and getting washed away
Biden has lost it altogether
and his only international allies seem to be the Taliban
or Boris
‘Merika is (￣﹃￣)
but hey, bake offs back
Nigel
Interesting how all the dysfunction you describe is the result of right wing political ideology. Biden is definitely not doing anywhere near enough where he can, but you’re looking at the rise of an authoritarian theocracy who will embrace anti-facts as ideology, such as Trump won the election, covid is fake, vaccines are evil, climate cange is a fraud, women don’t deserve to have access to health care, black people not being able to vote should be normal, the party that represents the electoral minority deserves to rule, cities should be shit-holes by design, secure employment and a living wage is socialism, spending taxes on health care is slavery but spending vastly more on the military is God’s will, migrants and refugees are vermin, and a host of other beliefs so reprehensible they’re treated as jokes. If Biden doesn’t get his act together and pass some sort of sweeping voting rights bill, the US is fecked, and by extension the rest of the world is going to suffer.
…oh Nigel…no mirrors in your house…the world won’t suffer with an end of Yankee expansionism…six of one and half dozen of the other…good riddance…
Nigel
Oh bisted. Expansionism, imperialism, militarism and authoritarianism all come in more flavours than ‘Yankee,’ and think of all the people in the US who deserve better you’re consigning to the hellscape.
Junkface
Anyone who does not see faults on both sides of the political divide in the US culture wars is living in a bubble. Traditional left wing people sit with their jaws on the floor as they watch straight up authoritarianism take a hold on the left of society in a much worse way than the right ever did! If you actually believe in left wing politics, civil rights, the enlightenment, science, and freedom of speech you have to be able to critique your own side, The right wing used to be the censors and wannabe authoritarians, like McCarthyism in the 1950’s. We are now way beyond that and the heavy bias in all media towards corporate wokeism, upper class illiberialism is incredibly cynical. Same goes for crushing free speech, and freedom of expression. Working class people suffer the most as they have lost jobs or had careers ruined the most. 90 to 95% of all US college professors are (il)liberal, meaning only 5 to 10% are conservative. This is incredibly one sided and creates an unrealistic and false view of the world for students.
This is also why Trump will win again in 2024. The US left have no one! Biden will be fully senile by 2024, Kamala Harris is a disaster of a politician. Picked only for her identity not on merit. How did that work out dems? Looming politrical disaster ahead.
Nigel
I am absolutely willing and able to critique my own side. I am not willing to join in attacking the fantasy version of my own side invented by the right and adopted by people like you because it is utter disngenuous bull. ‘Corporate wokeism’ is not left wing, any more then corporate greenwashing is environmentalism, it’s cynical PR. ‘Illiberalism’ has not caused working class people to lose jobs. Neoliberalism, maybe. (Ronald Reagan and George W Bush, definitely.) I don’t know what you want to do about the political views of college professors other than performing some sort of political test on them on hiring, which seems counter to the general thrust of your rant. Perhaps a survey of the liberal/conservative divide in corporate boardrooms would also be appropriate, just to make sure they’re not imbalanced in the other direction?
Junkface
Ha ha ha! I knew you would reply with something like that Nigel. You are wokeism / tribalism patient zero. An ever larger list of left wing intellectuals of all races and nationalities express the horror of the stupidity and regressive thinking that has taken hold of society, mainly on the left.
You continue to hold your fingers in your ears and scream about the right, who have little power in the media and arts.
I hate most of the grifters and politics of the right wing, but they don’t have the same grip on the entire world, movie and media industry. They are not the authoritarians anymore.
The left wing are more concerned about transwomen’s toilet rights than helping the poor, unemployed, or getting everybody reasonable health care.
Nigel
I always think it’s funny how you claim to revere difference of opinion but my different opinion on this matter brands me as an evil woke authoritarian tribalist, or whatever culture war slogans you’ve internalised from the right wing grifters you claim to hate.
I’ll trade you having liberals in movies and media for right-wingers owning movies and media and having disproportionate political and economic power any day.
It’s funny, because I would say the right are more concerned about policing trans women’s access to public toilets than about helping the poor, unemployed, or getting everybody reasonable health care.
Junkface
The right wing was never known to be very considerate of the poor or unemployed, or health care. That is a left wing position in politics. You know, the Labour party in the UK, the democrats in the USA, Sinn Fein in Ireland. What in God’s name are you talking about? You seem clueless.
Nigel
Bit rough on trans people to abandon them to the tender mercies of the right just because you don’t want them to call you ‘woke.’
Junkface
Jaysus. Do we help the majority of working society with core issues with regards to quality of life, housing and health, or abandon everything for the sake of 0.01% of the population and their public toilets/changing rooms options?
Nigel
Supporting minority rights is a traditional left wing stance if ever there was one I’m not really in favour of using broader political and social goals as excuses to stop just because right wingers have made you think it’s wrong.
last year – and keep following up on events now
I had a real good look into how ‘Mericka votes
like, how citizens get on the electoral register,
the infrastructure to cast their ballots
and the count process
It is utterly shambolic
at all levels
and in all constituencies, and whatever the jurisdiction being decided
you might remember me mentioning chatting to an actual State Returning Officer (Iowa Paul Pate)
When America gets that sorted
Everything will follow on and get itself up right with the will of the majority
tbh there is a case to be made with Biden’s trillions to fix potholes and bridges bill
that they reinvest in their Election Apparatus
And by the way the FEC is rotten – beyond belief
found myself really fecked off that ‘Patiots’ would be so caught up in Q and MAGA and Trump
and not face into the real corruption in American Elections
It is not a democracy for all
and that’s for sure
buy hey, have some horse wormer
Bitnboxy
It’s all mad but in a very dark dystopian kind of way. The inaction of Scotus – overturning Roe and 50 years of precedent without even hearing a case, the sanctioning of abortion “bounty hunters”, the crime of having an abortion after being raped is now likely greater than the sentence the rapist will get. Who will bear the brunt of the loving pro-life embrace? The very poor and the very desperate.
The cuddly folks at Grift (Youth Defence) Media, David Quinn and the abortion obsessives at the Iona “Institute” are having a collective orgasm. Quinn in particular is drooling at the potential now to roll back all progress without a messy court challenge.
Bitnboxy
The jaw-dropping Scotus majority decision to effectively green light the macabre Texas “law” just shows the extent to which Trumpian madness has now infiltrated vast swathes of the US and its institutions. You can almost hear the laughter from the Kremlin and Beijing.
Nigel
It’s not Trumpism, or rather he’s just the current avatar energising and enabling it. Asinine people who think they’re clever love to blame Trump on ‘liberal identity politics’ while ignoring terrifying trends in US right-wing conservatism that go back to the Civil War.
well its the evolution of activism and people power
Marches aren’t all just about workers rights, voters rights, walking 100s of miles
sit ins, lock ins and boycotts
even Picket lines aren’t upheld anymore
Issues are isolated out more, hashtagged individually and given a very narrow identity
that is the price of Diversity I suppose
Identity activism
and identity activism creates division
people that would traditionally all be on the same side
fighting for the same rights, social issues
get ‘cancelled’ – pick any one of the raging noise glinner gets himself tagged into
I’ve been a cooperator all my life
So I know where I am on anything
and personally
I think the answers to all our problems
particularly in Ireland
Housing Healthcare Education Equality Sustainability
are in the Cooperative Principles
all that Liberal Idenity slagging off from Trump and his messes
all began with catchphrases
Catchphrases
and none of them looked or thought any further than
the catchphrase
America dumbed itself down
and then ran a Presidential Election Trump v Biden
It made its own bed
nothing to do with deep state, cabals, billionaires injecting mindcontrol chips,
They did all this to themselves
Nigel
See? Clever people still think Trump was a result of liberal identity politics and liberals being mean to Trump supporters. It’s ridiculous. Trump supporters, and right wing US conservatives before Trump – remember the Tea Party? – never needed anyone to be mean to them to feel aggrieved and entitled, they literally make stuff up all the time about liberals and Democrats and gay people and trans people and immigrants and feminists. You can’t send ammo to an ammo factory. The US right always made their own ammo in far more quantities than liberal identity politics could ever supply. Besides, blaming liberal identity politics is just a coded way of referring to right-wing racism and misogyny and homo- and trans- phobia without being so gauche as to admit they actually exist or are pose serious social and political problem.
People who oppose covid measures, climate change measures, trans rights, abortion rights – all the thin end of the wedge for this kind of right-wing extremism. I’m not saying they’ll ever be anything more than a crank minority here, but they’re loud cranks, there can be a LOT of money behind them and the media often feel obliged to treat their opinions as worthy of serious consideration, so as in the US, an extremist right-wing minority can completely warp a society into a weird and horrible shape.
GiggidyGoo
That’s some staged pic of the four boyos in the times comparing the stories in the current edition of the comics.
Cian
Yet another Ivermectin study which said it was 100% effective against Covid has been found to be questionable. The question being: “did the study actually happen” (and the answer is most likely ‘no’).
All jokes aside but ABBA’s last major album was a masterpiece and a phenomenal commercial flop..
I think it was called ‘Airport’.
(I could be wrong)
It was totally underrated.
Welcome back ABBA
We missed you.
I fupping hate them, their return is just another sign Armageddon is nigh,
who knew the horses of the apocalypse would be wearing poxy lasers
Abbageddon brought upon us by Abbatars. No!
+1+4
All I know is my weekend is gonna be ruined by this poo as it’ll be played nonstop from about half past Albariño o’clock.
+1. They’re the Jason Byrne of music. Appalling.
You. You get it.
Who in their right mind actually listened to Jason Byrne and thought ”you know what, that guy is funny!”. Who?
Like seriously, seriously, he is about as funny as a terminal diagnosis for testicular cancer. Less even. Christ I absolutely cannot stand him, running around the stage shouting annoyingly like a spanner is not comedy, its running around the stage shouting annoyingly like a spanner. There are no hidden comedic undertones.
Good God….
That’s my point Ian.
And a very accurate point it was Charlie.
Most stand-up comedians are like that. Most should be stood down.
I quite enjoy Foil Arms and Hog though.
“Most stand up comedians are like that”? Really? Gimme a dozen just for giggles.
Ah now, I like Jason Byrne
I’ve seen him twice over the years in Vicar st and on both occasions we were in the front row tables and he absolutely destroyed us taking the wee out of us.
Very funny live. But maybe you have to be there.
He is shockingly bad on the TV though. That comedy show they gave him a few years back was broootal.
Saw Foil Arms & Hog for the first time live a while back. Very good too and very different of course.
Find your own Bitty.
and in case ye missed it
https://twitter.com/DoubleZCreative/status/1433379693739315201?s=20
https://t.me/robinmg/7963
From ex-Pfizer vice president Mike Yeadon’s shared telegram channel earlier today. He foresees the ever expanding vaccine passport system incorporaing access to food, that is if we continue to comply. Food for thought!
‘.. If we comply, and permit VaxPass to regulate access to food, we are under totalitarian tyranny from which no escape is possible.
To disengage afterwards means starvation.
If you’re sceptical, run the thought experiment.
I expect deliberate food shortages at some point because that gives the excuse for rationing. Then you can’t have a 3rd party food shop for you, because I predict a ration will be linked to a valid VaxPass.
Not all at once. Just restrictions at the margin initially, to get us used to it.
Do not comply with VaxPass.
United non-compliance is all we have.
I urge you to persuade others of the danger that is VaxPass regulated access to food, especially if rationing is introduced.
Even if you think I’m wrong, please allow a little mental space to see if events match that trajectory or not.
I ask because, if I am correct, and only later is this appreciated, it may be too late.
On the other hand, if I’m wrong & you’ve prepared a little, it’s a pleasant upside!
Best wishes
Mike
Dr Mike Yeadon’
“All governments suffered a technocratic coup d’etat at the same time last spring.”
That makes perfect sense. I knew it. I thought there might be a deadly virus going around but it was a well-coordinated coup.
Stop watching/reading Murdoch.
I have a bridge for sale. Serious offers only please.
What’s on the other side.
Another conspiracy theory?
…in fairness, Dr Mike hasn’t had an airing in weeks…but just a new slant on the same old conspiracy…
It’s not written as a theory.
What is not a conspiracy is the following-
1. Israel has now one of the highest vaccination rates in the world.
2. Israel has now one of the highest infection rates in the world.
3. Israel’s vaccine passport system will now only recognise those who have had three injections.
Anyone who has not had the booster will be refused services in the same way as someone who has had none- FACT.
President????
Fascinating reading the constant anti-vaxxer garbage posts by F_Clueless and clickbaiter Bodgers SOQ puppet & Co. All repetitive inane and insane mutterings by the lot of you.
It’s game over and you have lost, the vast majority of intelligent people accept and understand the medical need for vaccination and have ignored all of your obnoxious and downright stupid attempts to dangerously persuade them other wise.
Your vacuous conspiracy poo is old hat and totally Donald Ducked, Cop yourselves on and stop being a public embarrassment.
John, how wrong you are.
Call people stupid – Check
Say anti-vax – Check
Mention Donald Trump – Chec… wait no. You said Donald Ducked.
Aaaah Sorry John, so close. You’re not a winner I’m afraid.
Join us tomorrow for more Zealot Bingo!
Well said John.
This guy ?
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coronavirus-vaccines-skeptic/
“What gave the debunked claim credibility was that one of the petition’s co-authors, Michael Yeadon, wasn’t just any scientist. The 60-year-old is a former vice president of Pfizer, where he spent 16 years as an allergy and respiratory researcher. He later co-founded a biotech firm that the Swiss drugmaker Novartis purchased for at least $325 million.”
$325 million, very nice. Is he a Big Pharma good or Big Pharma bad guy ?
https://www.thejournal.ie/debunked-mike-yeadon-pfizer-covid-19-vaccines-5447489-May2021/
He says a lot of things they aren’t necessarily true.
By the way , that wonderful “treatment” for Covid, Ivermectin was developed by Merck who are… take a guess ?
Taking 3 heaped teaspoons of Andrews Liver Salts will produce some similar results as taking Ivermectin from what I have read. However I’m not claiming that Andrews Liver Salts prevents or cures Covid, because I’m not a total gobdaw.
Yet Reuters has a member of Phizer on it’s board. What would Mike Yeadon have to gain? He’s already independently wealthy. Is he trying to profit by whistleblowing? If you are so dismissive of his claims then you are going to have to point to a reason for him making them. Btw the Ivermectin patent has long since expired.
journal.ie as a fact checker? LOL
He had no problem with Pfizer for 16 years. Are you sure he was independently wealthy ? Because 16 years there would add up to a lot of pay and share options allowing him to setup his own small pharma that he then sold to another big pharma ?
And a correction. He wasn’t actually a VP for 16 years, he ran a division not related to vaccines. But suddenly after making his money, leaving setting up a different Pharma business and selling it on to a rival in the field, he is has started tilting at windmills.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/michael-yeadon-vaccine-death/
BTW. Ivermectin was still developed by big Pharma that you lot seem so concerned about. If the drug was still within patent, you’d be on here screaming about people being forced to take a deworming drug and big Pharma profiting from it. Get your ducks in a row ffs.
Have you never asked yourself why it is that people like you are so quick to question the motives of those who are speaking up against this thing – some at risk of ruining their entire careers- yet you are so willing to blindly support pharmaceutical companies who have already been fined BILLIONS for fraud and corruption?
I am all for exchange of opinions but seriously- at least have a bit of cop on.
+ 1
A comment to focus the minds.
+1
Jeez, you’d think the pharmaceutical companies were 100% evil.
Can you think of just one reason that people might support pharmaceutical companies?
No you would think the dissenters were 100% evil the way some question their motives- complete double standards- and what’s worse is they don’t even know why they are doing it.
Yet you have no problem posting bullpoo from a guy who has worked in said industry for 20 years ? Where the fupp was he when they were paying out BILLIONS for fraud and corruption, he had no problem taking their money then… but suddenly he is your Knight in Shining armour ?
Care to comment on the DISPROVEN poo he has said ?
I’ll tell you what, next year if we are in a Children of Men scenario, I’ll come on here and hold my hands up…. but you lot certainly won’t if there isn’t.
You’ll have probably moved onto the Great Reset or some other bullshit.
Cop on yourself.
QAnon+1
( That fella(s) seems to have been very quiet… I wonder why ? )
Housing minister terrified to debate housing with the Eoin O’Broin.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Economicopoly/status/1433572948984664070
“Darragh O’Brien admits the idea of debating Eoin Ó Broin ‘absolutely terrifies’ him, revealing he only agreed to appear on Prime Time after Miriam promised to lock Eoin in the green room during his interview.”
Watching that last night, you could tell how nervous Darragh O’Brian was as he continually tried to stretch out waffle-riddled answers, tried to interrupt, and tried the usual distractions from answering.
It took him what – 16 months to produce a brochure and his plan is going to solve the housing crises in 9 years?
Your source for this is a twitter feed called ‘Dr Harold News’ who bio says “FAKE news and topical SATIRE from Dr Harold.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrHaroldNews/status/1433532218043887621
I suppose this is fake too? https://mobile.twitter.com/luke_oriordan/status/1433541515687702528
From the horse mouth.
Try harder
From the Sinn Fein press office? Sure.
RTE definitely isn’t the SF press office.
Try harder Cian.
don’t either of yiz worry about this
I’m pleased to report that sausagefingers will get his opportunity to bluster and talk over
Mary Wilson on R1 has our backs, teed this up for us very nicely, just now
I am by no means a Shinner and some of them make my skin crawl (David ‘Up the Ra’ Cullinane) and they have some utter liabilities in the ranks (Violet Anne Wynne) but Eoin O’Brion, like Mary Lou, is a very competent, effective communicator and media performer. I don’t think one has to be the most perceptive of observers not to have noticed that Darragh O’Brien is not at all keen on debates with O’Brion and appears to have built an entire strategy on avoiding this eventuality.
Ditto, (I can’t bring myself to say “This”).
Similarly, Pearse Doherty.
@GiggidyGoo
RTE definitely isn’t the SF press office.
You linked to Luke O’Riordan
https://mobile.twitter.com/luke_oriordan
“Communications/press @sinnfeinireland and @bfcdublin. Formerly of @irishsunsport. #EndDirectProvision”
Yes Cian – and you tried to divert from the point of my original post. Your four D’s are laid bare on a daily basis now.
Try harder.
@GiggidyGoo
Your first post was from a SATIRE account;
when I pointed that out you sent a post from a Sinn Fein account.
Now, go away pigeon.
@Cian. “Housing Minister terrified….” plus a comedy link, plus some facts, and all you can come up with is….?
a Lame duck response. Now paddle along quackly.
“TikTokers flood Texas abortion whistleblower site with Shrek memes, fake reports and porn”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/02/texas-abortion-law-tiktok-reddit-whistleblower
g’wan the tockers!
The influential Politico has a handy précis on the Coveney story.
https://www.politico.eu/article/irish-foreign-minister-simon-coveney-under-fire-deleting-texts/
Nothing new there.
True, but it’s a decent summary nonetheless and it shows that every time Coveney tries to defuse the issue he makes it worse. Whatever the truth of the matter, international scrutiny of the issue is not a great look for the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Defence.
The thing is.
If he has a problem having his phone hacked, then it doesn’t matter whether he deletes his messages or not. If the phone is hacked, the messages will have been compromised immediately upon sending or receipt. His story is bull.
if only he had more artistically minded interns to help him come up with the goods
Or even some high flying well resourced brothers
‘Merica is on the brink folks
The reaction to the Supremes upholding the Texas ban on post 6 wk terminations is spiralling beyond their control
even the US Senate’s
Employers are now stepping in to protect their own employees who seek treatment
and Women Worldwide have their backs
Election Fraud claims are not just collapsing, they’re being bankrupted
and now ‘Count Auditors’ financial affairs are being scattered out there like a lorry of ball barings has shed its load
Septics don’t like white collar crime, give them their due like, so this isn’t going to end well for those lads calling around to voters in Maricopa County, and calling themselves count officials
or Cyber Ninjas ⊙.☉
Senior Trump Inc officials are now giving evidence to a NY Grand Jury, and they’re going back years
and one thing about the NY AGs office there, they are hardcore financial crime prosecutors with zero tolerance for financial fraud, corruption and tax evasion
But Jacob Chansley pleads guilty, but is looking for you “patience & Consideration”
And politely requests ye don’t call him the Q Shamon anymore
A plea deal btw, but damn sure it included a tell all to the FBI
Meanwhile, a sacked State Chief of Vaccines, (paediatrician Michelle Fiscus, Tennessee) has filed big ticket federal defamation suit against State officials for – well you know
Large parts of the country are drowning and getting washed away
Biden has lost it altogether
and his only international allies seem to be the Taliban
or Boris
‘Merika is (￣﹃￣)
but hey, bake offs back
Interesting how all the dysfunction you describe is the result of right wing political ideology. Biden is definitely not doing anywhere near enough where he can, but you’re looking at the rise of an authoritarian theocracy who will embrace anti-facts as ideology, such as Trump won the election, covid is fake, vaccines are evil, climate cange is a fraud, women don’t deserve to have access to health care, black people not being able to vote should be normal, the party that represents the electoral minority deserves to rule, cities should be shit-holes by design, secure employment and a living wage is socialism, spending taxes on health care is slavery but spending vastly more on the military is God’s will, migrants and refugees are vermin, and a host of other beliefs so reprehensible they’re treated as jokes. If Biden doesn’t get his act together and pass some sort of sweeping voting rights bill, the US is fecked, and by extension the rest of the world is going to suffer.
…oh Nigel…no mirrors in your house…the world won’t suffer with an end of Yankee expansionism…six of one and half dozen of the other…good riddance…
Oh bisted. Expansionism, imperialism, militarism and authoritarianism all come in more flavours than ‘Yankee,’ and think of all the people in the US who deserve better you’re consigning to the hellscape.
Anyone who does not see faults on both sides of the political divide in the US culture wars is living in a bubble. Traditional left wing people sit with their jaws on the floor as they watch straight up authoritarianism take a hold on the left of society in a much worse way than the right ever did! If you actually believe in left wing politics, civil rights, the enlightenment, science, and freedom of speech you have to be able to critique your own side, The right wing used to be the censors and wannabe authoritarians, like McCarthyism in the 1950’s. We are now way beyond that and the heavy bias in all media towards corporate wokeism, upper class illiberialism is incredibly cynical. Same goes for crushing free speech, and freedom of expression. Working class people suffer the most as they have lost jobs or had careers ruined the most. 90 to 95% of all US college professors are (il)liberal, meaning only 5 to 10% are conservative. This is incredibly one sided and creates an unrealistic and false view of the world for students.
This is also why Trump will win again in 2024. The US left have no one! Biden will be fully senile by 2024, Kamala Harris is a disaster of a politician. Picked only for her identity not on merit. How did that work out dems? Looming politrical disaster ahead.
I am absolutely willing and able to critique my own side. I am not willing to join in attacking the fantasy version of my own side invented by the right and adopted by people like you because it is utter disngenuous bull. ‘Corporate wokeism’ is not left wing, any more then corporate greenwashing is environmentalism, it’s cynical PR. ‘Illiberalism’ has not caused working class people to lose jobs. Neoliberalism, maybe. (Ronald Reagan and George W Bush, definitely.) I don’t know what you want to do about the political views of college professors other than performing some sort of political test on them on hiring, which seems counter to the general thrust of your rant. Perhaps a survey of the liberal/conservative divide in corporate boardrooms would also be appropriate, just to make sure they’re not imbalanced in the other direction?
Ha ha ha! I knew you would reply with something like that Nigel. You are wokeism / tribalism patient zero. An ever larger list of left wing intellectuals of all races and nationalities express the horror of the stupidity and regressive thinking that has taken hold of society, mainly on the left.
You continue to hold your fingers in your ears and scream about the right, who have little power in the media and arts.
I hate most of the grifters and politics of the right wing, but they don’t have the same grip on the entire world, movie and media industry. They are not the authoritarians anymore.
The left wing are more concerned about transwomen’s toilet rights than helping the poor, unemployed, or getting everybody reasonable health care.
I always think it’s funny how you claim to revere difference of opinion but my different opinion on this matter brands me as an evil woke authoritarian tribalist, or whatever culture war slogans you’ve internalised from the right wing grifters you claim to hate.
I’ll trade you having liberals in movies and media for right-wingers owning movies and media and having disproportionate political and economic power any day.
It’s funny, because I would say the right are more concerned about policing trans women’s access to public toilets than about helping the poor, unemployed, or getting everybody reasonable health care.
The right wing was never known to be very considerate of the poor or unemployed, or health care. That is a left wing position in politics. You know, the Labour party in the UK, the democrats in the USA, Sinn Fein in Ireland. What in God’s name are you talking about? You seem clueless.
Bit rough on trans people to abandon them to the tender mercies of the right just because you don’t want them to call you ‘woke.’
Jaysus. Do we help the majority of working society with core issues with regards to quality of life, housing and health, or abandon everything for the sake of 0.01% of the population and their public toilets/changing rooms options?
Supporting minority rights is a traditional left wing stance if ever there was one I’m not really in favour of using broader political and social goals as excuses to stop just because right wingers have made you think it’s wrong.
last year – and keep following up on events now
I had a real good look into how ‘Mericka votes
like, how citizens get on the electoral register,
the infrastructure to cast their ballots
and the count process
It is utterly shambolic
at all levels
and in all constituencies, and whatever the jurisdiction being decided
you might remember me mentioning chatting to an actual State Returning Officer (Iowa Paul Pate)
When America gets that sorted
Everything will follow on and get itself up right with the will of the majority
tbh there is a case to be made with Biden’s trillions to fix potholes and bridges bill
that they reinvest in their Election Apparatus
And by the way the FEC is rotten – beyond belief
found myself really fecked off that ‘Patiots’ would be so caught up in Q and MAGA and Trump
and not face into the real corruption in American Elections
It is not a democracy for all
and that’s for sure
buy hey, have some horse wormer
It’s all mad but in a very dark dystopian kind of way. The inaction of Scotus – overturning Roe and 50 years of precedent without even hearing a case, the sanctioning of abortion “bounty hunters”, the crime of having an abortion after being raped is now likely greater than the sentence the rapist will get. Who will bear the brunt of the loving pro-life embrace? The very poor and the very desperate.
The cuddly folks at Grift (Youth Defence) Media, David Quinn and the abortion obsessives at the Iona “Institute” are having a collective orgasm. Quinn in particular is drooling at the potential now to roll back all progress without a messy court challenge.
The jaw-dropping Scotus majority decision to effectively green light the macabre Texas “law” just shows the extent to which Trumpian madness has now infiltrated vast swathes of the US and its institutions. You can almost hear the laughter from the Kremlin and Beijing.
It’s not Trumpism, or rather he’s just the current avatar energising and enabling it. Asinine people who think they’re clever love to blame Trump on ‘liberal identity politics’ while ignoring terrifying trends in US right-wing conservatism that go back to the Civil War.
well its the evolution of activism and people power
Marches aren’t all just about workers rights, voters rights, walking 100s of miles
sit ins, lock ins and boycotts
even Picket lines aren’t upheld anymore
Issues are isolated out more, hashtagged individually and given a very narrow identity
that is the price of Diversity I suppose
Identity activism
and identity activism creates division
people that would traditionally all be on the same side
fighting for the same rights, social issues
get ‘cancelled’ – pick any one of the raging noise glinner gets himself tagged into
I’ve been a cooperator all my life
So I know where I am on anything
and personally
I think the answers to all our problems
particularly in Ireland
Housing Healthcare Education Equality Sustainability
are in the Cooperative Principles
all that Liberal Idenity slagging off from Trump and his messes
all began with catchphrases
Catchphrases
and none of them looked or thought any further than
the catchphrase
America dumbed itself down
and then ran a Presidential Election Trump v Biden
It made its own bed
nothing to do with deep state, cabals, billionaires injecting mindcontrol chips,
They did all this to themselves
See? Clever people still think Trump was a result of liberal identity politics and liberals being mean to Trump supporters. It’s ridiculous. Trump supporters, and right wing US conservatives before Trump – remember the Tea Party? – never needed anyone to be mean to them to feel aggrieved and entitled, they literally make stuff up all the time about liberals and Democrats and gay people and trans people and immigrants and feminists. You can’t send ammo to an ammo factory. The US right always made their own ammo in far more quantities than liberal identity politics could ever supply. Besides, blaming liberal identity politics is just a coded way of referring to right-wing racism and misogyny and homo- and trans- phobia without being so gauche as to admit they actually exist or are pose serious social and political problem.
money is flowing
so of course they’re activated
People who oppose covid measures, climate change measures, trans rights, abortion rights – all the thin end of the wedge for this kind of right-wing extremism. I’m not saying they’ll ever be anything more than a crank minority here, but they’re loud cranks, there can be a LOT of money behind them and the media often feel obliged to treat their opinions as worthy of serious consideration, so as in the US, an extremist right-wing minority can completely warp a society into a weird and horrible shape.
That’s some staged pic of the four boyos in the times comparing the stories in the current edition of the comics.
Yet another Ivermectin study which said it was 100% effective against Covid has been found to be questionable. The question being: “did the study actually happen” (and the answer is most likely ‘no’).
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/ivermectin-covid-study-suspect-data
in completely unrelated news Joe Rogan (the ivermectin-taking podcast star) tested positive for COVID.