And your January report discounts what he says about Johnson’s crass Brexit comparison exactly how?
You’re not very good at anything, are you?
Me So Harney
Couldn’t care less what he said..
I’m merely laughing at you citing a very corrupt individual. Sums you up to a tee. Maith an fear indeed.
Fearganainm
His views will have been heard by hundreds of thousands of people, probably more by the time the online clip picks up circulation.
Your ‘snigger’, plus an old link from January, aren’t going to have any impact on anyone at all.
That’s how important and effective you are.
Me So Harney
He’s a corrupt failed politician from the most corrupt nazi infested regime in the northern hemisphere.
I know it, you know it and most of the people who view his utterances know it.
You’re spittle licking posturing won’t change anything and just makes you look even sillier.
Who will you be citing next, Tony Blair?
Tinytim
Christ on a bike. Quit your poo attitude on the daily. You need to take yourself outside and have a long frank conversation with yourself.
Times were an a discussion of varying ideas came here for healthy discourse, and could be seen in the stats by the duration of ones stay.
Dinkum
Sure border guards on the Hungarian border are finding bags of cash in luggage and we are talking millions in dollars and other currency
Poreshenko is corrupt as the rest of them
But at least there was no war under his regime
That started after he was deposed and up until the invasion by Putin 25thousand people were butchered as a result of it
This must never be forgotten as the present war is reported and the suffering of the Ukrainian people
Fearganainm
Unlike Tony Blair, Poroshenko is a Ukrainian in Ukraine. He’s presumably cleared to give media interviews. And doubtless he talks with other Ukrainians. Your assessment of him and his credibility is neither here nor there. His views on Johnson’s comments were aired not by me – and let’s face it, the purpose of your comments is to snipe at me, rather than addtress issues – but by a British media outlet with considerable reach. His views are now ‘out there’ and no amount of whining from you changes that.
You must be gutted. Now off you go to commence a letter writing campaign to all those editors (and there are others, you’ll have to look for them), letting them know your opinion of their carrying the story. You’d think they’d have asked for a comment from a Poroshenko expert like you, eh?
Me so Harney
“gutted..”
“Your assessment of him and his credibility is neither here nor there. His views on Johnson’s comments were aired not by me – and let’s face it, the purpose of your comments is to snipe at me..”
Just get on with your life because they probably never will.
Mr. T
Poroshenko has no credibility. He is on record as having funded almost entirely the euromaidan protests and eventual coup in Ukraine, later leading to his election. How funny
K.Cavan
The CIA funded the coups in 2004 & 2014, $5 billion will buy a lot of thugs & snipers.
stephen moran
Tory MPs voted this evening to make it a criminal offence, with up to 4 years in jail, for Ukrainian families to arrive in the UK without the right papers. The provisions of the Borders bill will enshrine the UK as ‘one of the most anti-refugee countries in the world’, Médecins Sans Frontières says
I’d like to call out the Toryboy muppets on here particularly the gobshite who said de Pfeffel was “having a good war”. When there’s a vacancy at the Daily Excrement or the Fail you can toddle along to share a right wing wank with Liddle, Litllejohn and Hithcens and the other circle jerks you worship . Patel is a poison dwarf, case closed.
and what of that grifting lecherous windbag and pound shop Trump, de Pfeffel (the kingpin of false equivalence) – who is disgrace to the species got eviscerated former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for conflating his failed shambolic unicorn Brexit with the the ongoing slaughter and genocide being perpetrated by real life present day Nazis Russian at the behest of their fascist depostic overlord the war criminal Putler
…..I’m actually beginning to think that foghorn of Irish exceptionalist ignorance Anthony Coughlan is actually a regular on BS or else worse the ultimate conspiracy theorist “academic” Tim (the Ukrainians are shelling themselves) Hayward – he’s sub Tucker
‘Realistic, achievable, necessary’: Mary Lou McDonald pushes EU to back Irish reunification
Are they not the same Sinn Fein that opposed Ireland’s membership of the EU at every hands’ turn including taking our place in the single currency. They were as bad as the Brexit ultras in their day and now they shamelessly want to go with their begging bowl to the EU. The Germans paid for their own reunification. But of course rewriting history is a specialty with these charlatan grifters.
Did someone call ?
I got to the second par of your sea of verbal effluent then thought do I continue reading or take another long toke, a slug of my bourbon and go for a skinny dip in the pool.
A nano-second later I had me budgie-smugglers off and I was leaping like a spawning salmon into the cooling water.
The fragrant Lady TenPin followed me shortly afterwards, arching her lithe body like a Michaelangelo statue as she dove into the floodlit water wearing nothing more than the day she was born.
Of course congress ensued.A chap doesn’t fail to avail of an open goal.
Anyway, what were you saying One Vowel™ ?
“Non-Irish EU citizens face having to apply for a US-style visa waiver to cross the Border between Northern Ireland into the Republic after MPs in Westminster tonight voted down an amendment which sought to ditch the requirement…”
stephen moran
I’m looking forward hearing the magical thinking unicorn solution they plan to implement to actually enforce that idiocy on the ground – the Tories are all hat and no cattle – utterly braindead self delusional post imperialist neo colonial fantasists
stephen moran
i see all 8 of the Northern Taliban MPs voted for this – I’m sure businesses in Norn Iron will be thrilled
Hughie Luas
Did anyone see Imelda May on the telly on Saturday?
K.Cavan
Hopefully, not too many.
Hughie Luas
This war economy business. Food shortages. Stocking up tomorrow on pasta, tayto, batteries, toilet paper and whatever’s in the middle aisle in Aldi. We are all going to die.
stephen moran
I have a pack of those iodine tablets from back in ’02 going cheap – the best before back is still more recent than the rations those cannon fodder Russian conscriptions are tucking into whilst on drone watch
Hughie Luas
That reminds me. Need to cook up a load of space cakes for the emergency. I am sure there’s a Ballymaloe recipe. Is yer man Joshua on Telegram?
I don’t know about Telegram, but Grandad Tim is on insta, showing his holiday snaps of anonymous children… which is completely normal for a convicted paedophile to do.
No wonder the kid turned to drugs.
SOQ
Food shortages or not, I don’t think that people stocking up on the middle isle of Aldi is a good idea. They have warehouses full of that stuff.
“In a blistering social media post, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now a top Kremlin security adviser, lashed out at Poland for its support of Ukraine, reviving and escalating decades-long tensions between Moscow and Warsaw. Poland’s surprisingly spirited defense of Ukraine would prove “expensive and pointless,” Medvedev predicted, ominously adding that he was confident that Warsaw would “make the right choice” and embrace Russia again…”
K.Cavan
Poland has always hated Russia, he’s clearly taking the pee. The idea that he’s threatening Poland is something only a child would pay any attention to but the media have a good grasp of the intellectual level of their target audience.
f_lawless
Former British Ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, was an important voice in calling out the orchestrated propaganda campaign targeted at western publics during the height of the regime change war in Syria. His unique position as a former British establishment insider, turned whistleblower, with a first-hand experience of living in Syria and dealing with the Assad government, gave him a unique insight and a level of credibility which meant that the inevitable attempted smears such as an ‘Assad/Putin propagandist’ etc didn’t carry weight.
This recent article by him about how the situation in Ukraine relates to what happened in Syria is worth a read: https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/03/21/ukraine-the-syria-playbook-redux/
“…In Syria, Assad was winning and had no need to use chemical weapons. It would have been crazy to do so, when it was the only thing that could make the West bomb him. In Ukraine, Putin similarly has no need to do the one thing which would likely lead to direct NATO intervention. No matter, the authorised version of the history of the Syrian conflict holds that abetted by Russia, Syria used chemical weapons, and so today Russia must be poised to do the same in Ukraine.
‘History is written by the victors’, Churchill is supposed to have said. With Syria, given the West’s control of the narrative via its monopoly hold over international media, history is written by the losers.
Constant parallels are being drawn with Syria in the Ukraine context. But they are the wrong parallels, and the wrong lessons are being drawn from the Syrian ordeal…”
Fearganainm
Peter Ford is currently a Director of the British Syrian Society, alongside President Assad’s father-in-law Dr Fawaz Akhras. Mr Ford took up his role in 2017.
Me So Harney
Petro Poroshenko is a corrupt failed politician and energy baron from the most corrupt nazi infested regime in the northern hemisphere.
Fearganainm
Poroshenko hasn’t faced trial yet. He might turn out to be as bent as a Donegal road but as of now he hasn’t been convicted of anything and whilst he awaits trial he is currently in command of a battalion of the Territorial Defence Forces.
Gabby
“as bent as a Donegal road”
That’s one for connoisseurs of literary style.
K.Cavan
The media has been lying for some time but what’s changed is the public’s inability to spot utterly unbelievable stories & discount them. They’re fully committed to believing the narrative, the whole narrative & nothing but the narrative, no matter how counterintuitive, unlikely or fantastical it becomes, because there are now Bad Guys & Good Guys & we, The West, we are the Good Guys, always. No matter what we do, it’s the Right Thing to do. They’ve become so infantilised that they’d believe anything, literally.
Steph Pinker
‘I wish I hadn’t helped create the myth that it’s easy for women to have it all.’
Who is she? A comic superhero? And, creating a myth all on her own about having children AND a career?
She’s special, in more ways than one.
In the meantime it’s back to reality…
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
Steph it’s taken me this long to cop you are a lady !
Steph Pinker
Ahhh Janet! I thought the name was a bit of a giveaway?
Nonetheless, it could be a pseudonym but you’d probably know for sure if I told you that I’ll still respect you in the morning…
Ian - oG
Didn’t take long to suss her out.
Only a year ago she was on Twitter saying that the pandemic was a hoax because people were not dropping dead in the streets. So no surprise she’s both a tory and a fake british ‘lord’.
As for ‘having it all’, her husband is a stay at home dad which is quite the boon when you want to have a successful career, not something everyone can do because, money and stuff.
Micko
You went through her tweets from a year ago?
Ian - oG
No.
But feel free to make up stuff.
Micko
I’m not making anything up – just going on what you wrote.
You said “it didn’t take long to suss her out” and then talked about a tweet from a year ago.
Are the two not related? Are ya not implying that it didn’t take you long to suss her out by going through her tweets and find something from a year ago that you didn’t like?
Am I misinterpreting your post?
Ian - oG
No.
You are making stuff up.
You said, quite specifically ”You went through her tweets from a year ago?”
I haven’t been near her twitter account.
Micko
Not making stuff up. Just want you to clarify.
So you said that she tweeted something last year.
So if you didn’t go through her Twitter account recently, it means that you read her tweet a year ago. Am I correct there?
So how did it not take you “long to suss her out” when you made up your mind on her over something she wrote a year ago?
Are you saying that it didn’t take you long to suss her out a year ago and are now sharing that information?
I’m only asking you to clarify your initial point. No need to be so defensive.
Ian - oG
I did not go near her Twitter account, not recently, not a year ago.
Based on her comments from less than a year ago on the pandemic and then her comments about women ‘having’ it all she sounds like she is quite detached from reality – hence, ‘suss her out’.
In relation to her comments on women having it all, of course they can, if their husband stays at home to raise the kids. But most people do not have that luxury and now need both parents to work. Then her comments on the pandemic, again, sussed out.
Now, if you want me to not be so ‘defensive’ maybe don’t ascribe things to me that I did not say, I have a thing whereby I dislike people saying I said things that I did not.
Micko
Where and when did you see her comments on the pandemic?
Ian - oG
Not on twitter. As I have told you multiple times.
You do know what someone says on twitter can be read off twitter?
Now, kindly refrain from ascribing things to me that I did not say, thank you.
If you want to read up on her comments it would take approximately 1/20th the time you have spent asking me to clarify my post.
Micko
You’re being very vague.
I’m only trying to ascertain when you read that information about her tweet and her opinion on the pandemic, along with the duration of time took you to “suss her out”.
You say it didn’t take long.
Again – these are your words. I’m only writing them back to you in an attempt to clarify and understand your point.
If you’re going to be so evasive, perhaps you shouldn’t comment on the subject?
Ian - oG
Nobody is being vague, you are jumping to conclusions.
If you cannot understand my posts, you cannot understand my posts. Nothing to do with me I’m afraid, sorry.
Micko
Fair enough.
But like the old saying goes “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”
Johnny
No one ever says or said that no one,they say if you can’t do it teach it,you always appear to be lecturing people,with old fashioned out dated hackneyed,kinda culchie sayings,what does your Uncle Joe have say ?
Ian - oG
I can explain it simply, I don’t feel the need to.
Bit of a difference there.
So feel free to continue pretending you don’t understand.
The Millie Obnoxious™
This load of mickeyswinging could have easily been cleared up with a very simple “Sorry, I misunderstood your point there,” followed by an equally simple “No worries, pal!” about three comments ago.
Micko
Not the Broadsheet style Millie
Pedantry until the end.
This is the way…
;-)
K.Cavan
I think women have made their choice. They actually like imitating men & don’t really want to be women, any more. The other gender’s grass is always greener.
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
sigh
scottser
does my bum look big in this?
Fearganainm
A Why Ukraine isn’t (yet) an ‘All Out War’ analysis:
That much is pretty obvious- they could have flattened the place in 48 hours if they wanted to.
While they clearly want to overthrow the drama queen and pack the Azov Nazis off to their maker, there is a long term strategy at play. So far they have refrained from getting the good cutlery out, although that may now be changing with the first use of hypersonic missiles.
Zelenskyy now feels he is ready to talk which is probably all just a coincidence. Pity he wasn’t ready to talk before so many of his people were displaced. He is quoted as saying that Trudeau was his inspiration for him going into politics- quelle surprise.
Monkey see monkey do.
Nigel
‘there is a long term strategy at play’
Who actually beieves this any more? There’s no strategic advantage to be gained by dragging out the conflict into a wet muddy spring while the defenders inflict mounting attrition on Russian soldiers and tanks.
SOQ
Anyone with half a brain believes that, because it is glaringly obvious. To understand the strategic advantage you first need to understand what the strategy is, and more importantly the objectives.
They are going to take out the puppet regime, the Nazis and the Bio Labs- its not like they are keeping any of that a secret now is it?
Nigel
Well, no, that’s just a load of post-hoc rationaisation to justify as strategy what is more easily explained as incompetence and disarray. None of the pretexts you mentioned require a strategy which allows the defenders to pick men and equipment off bogged down convoys, ineffective drawn-out assaults on cities, and targeting civilian infrastructure, making the superior military power look weak, ineffectual and poorly lead. The biolabs weren’t even an issue until they became part of a Qanon conspiracy that took off online, helped by the likes of yourself.
SOQ
OK Nigel you are right- as per usual.
Don’t bother listening to any of the independent political commentators or military experts- easier to just run around broadsheet telling every one you know best.
Nigel
As I’m sure you’re ignoring loads of commenters and experts yourself.
K.Cavan
Keep drinking the Kool Aid, Nigel. I disagree with you on mostly everything but you’re simply not stupid enough to actually believe that Ukraine has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning this war, so you’re now imitating the media & spewing out propaganda that you don’t even believe, yourself.
Grossly dishonest, Nigel, what’s the point in such bizzare behaviour? Who do you think is going to lend credence to such blatant lies?
Nigel
Of course they’ve almost no chance of winning you adorable little dishonest straw-spinning disingeneune, that’s not the same thing as the Russian invasion being hampered by incompetence, disarray and corruption.
K.Cavan
See, again, in your lifetime, “war” means the USA attacking a much weaker, poorer country & bombing it back into the stone age, then rolling in, in their tanks, & declaring “victory” in the “war”.
These are not wars, just a schoolyard bully, writ large & murderous & Europe has decided that being the bully’s gofer is a sweet deal.
Nigel
See, this is a military superpower attacking a much weaker, poorer country and getting mauled. It’s like a bully picking on a smaller kid and getting kicked in the nuts a few times before his ‘victory.’
“…Other videos shared on social media have shown fights for sugar in markets in other cities in Russia, all while officials have maintained that the shortage is part of an artificial crisis..”.
K.Cavan
Same as Nigel, Ferg, I find it highly unlikely that you’re stupid enough to believe such nonsense. Instead of using this forum to express yourself, you’re besmirching it with utter nonsense from the MSM. I mean, The Guardian is a lunatic fringe newspaper with a tiny circulation, nobody believes anything it publishes & do you seriously believe the Russian invasion will fail for lack of sugar? If you do, you are eejit, if you don’t, why are you taking up space with this crap?
Fearganainm
Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien seeks changes to Fair Deal plan to help house refugee influx:
Clearly FFG are looking to Europe for their next gigs with their self aggrandising gestures over Ukraine.
Because the fury I am hearing from people who have been trying for a while now to secure a home or who are being gouged on rent when they see how quickly the government can act when they feel the eyes of the outside world on them has hammered the last few nails in their coffin in regards a certain demographic.
Nobody cares that Leaky Leo or Simon Scarecrow are going to be offering to let Ukrainian families stay with them, all they see is that they could have done something for people up until now, they chose not to.
I know precisely nobody now who will vote FF, ”the old peoples party” is a term I have heard quite a bit over the last two years and even those who were wont to vote FG are finding themselves adrift.
As I have said in the past, SF is not going to provide any solutions but at least they will not be doing what FFG have been doing, not much but a start.
K.Cavan
The Elites’ plans for Ireland’s future political system is that FG will pretend to be Conservative & SF will be the fake Left, to provide the pretence of choice required in all vassal states to keep the sheep in line.
FF will be phased out, they’re too unpopular to be of any use to those in control. All it’s TDs know this, I assume & they have to put food on the table. Varadker’s just doing what he’s always done, he has his back to his electorate & is watching his bosses for signs of what they want him to do, the ever-willing sheepdog, looking to his master for a “come by!” & the little whistle. Then & only then, does he turn towards the sheep.
All neo-liberal countries are corporate kleptocracies & always have been. Ireland is one too, you know? You might as well say, “the UK is neo-liberal”.
Fearganainm
Tommy Robinson potentially facing jail after failing to attend high court
Good, I hope they ‘accidentally’ put him in with a load of jihadis. The head hacking type preferably.
K.Cavan
You really are a genuine fascist, Ian. You think it’s ok to decapitate someone for having an alternative viewpoint to yours? You really need to stop making politics the centre of your life, it’s a bad centre for anyone’s life.
Robinson is controlled opposition, anyway, his backers are Jewish businessmen who want to use his anti-Islamic rhetoric against Muslims. Everybody knows this.
scottser
the problem there is that ‘tommy robinson’ cares so little for the opinion of others and would not hesitate to deny to others the same rights he enjoys.
as for wishing violence upon him, he has convictions for GBH, stalking, financial and immigration frauds, drug possession, public order offences and contempt of court. again, he would have no problem causing violence to another himself. a good righteous kick in the balls is the least that pr1ck deserves.
You know sweet F.A. about anywhere but you won’t hesitate to conjure up a conspiracy theory. You should get that seen to.
Check out Jacques Audiard’s ‘Un prophète’ (2009). It might help you to think more carefully about Corsicans and Islamists in French prisons.
Me so Harney
“The attempted recruitment of Algerian cops who’d fled Algeria during the civil war there (1991-2002), isn’t at all shocking. They ‘looked the part’ and spoke the language of communities in various parts of France that did indeed harbour Islamist terrorists.”
Right, so actual fact and not a conspiracy, wading through the gaslighting bit by bit..
“Your second link doesn’t confirm any effort to recruit informers ‘to take part in terror events’. Membership was encouraged, in order to have inside informers, but there is nothing there about ‘taking part’ in anything. In other words, your link doesn’t provide evidence of your claim.”
From the link..
“Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants. The men claim they were given a choice of working for the Security Service or face detention and harassment in the UK and overseas.”
Membership was encouraged indeed, through threats of severe retaliation, ie blackmail, given a choice of participation or detention in the UK or overseas, in other words they have no choice and have commited no crime, itn seeems your ok with this, fairly psychopathic..
” The recent killing of the Corsican – you want to believe that was a state set up? The alleged perpetrator is already doing a long stretch and his ‘reward’ is going to be an even longer one. How do you think recruiting touts is going to be made ‘attractive’ if the pay-off is getting banged away for years?”
“The alleged perpetrator is already doing a long stretch..”
Exactly, no doubt his choices were slim to none, easy pickings for intelligence services which already infest mafia laden Corsica.
“Finding an inmate willing to extend his sentence is trickier and you haven’t explained it at all. And it seems that you’re doubting the capacity for violence that Mr. Franck Elong Abé, who fought with the Taliban, possesses. And you’re suggesting that he would be happy to do a favour for the infidels at the cost of many years more of his liberty.”
He’s easy pickings, a perfect patsy..
“who fought with the Taliban..”
Tell us, who trained and armed the Taliban?
Poor little contrarian, blissfully ignorant..
lol
Me so Harney
“You know sweet F.A. about anywhere but you won’t hesitate to conjure up a conspiracy theory. You should get that seen to.”
“Check out Jacques Audiard’s ‘Un prophète’ (2009). It might help you to think more carefully about Corsicans and Islamists in French prisons.”
LOL.. intelligence service sponsored “entertainment”..
Ironically, guess who also pops up in that flick… yes the mafia.. who runs Corsica? Yes the mafia..
Stuff happens LOL
Go back to sleep little contrarion..
Fearganainm
Well, You so clueless, what exactly do you believe that your links ‘confirm’? That intelligence forces all over the world recruit informers from communities that they are monitoring?
Gee, who would have thought that? Except everyone who already knows that.
The attempted recruitment of Algerian cops who’d fled Algeria during the civil war there (1991-2002), isn’t at all shocking. They ‘looked the part’ and spoke the language of communities in various parts of France that did indeed harbour Islamist terrorists.
Your second link doesn’t confirm any effort to recruit informers ‘to take part in terror events’. Membership was encouraged, in order to have inside informers, but there is nothing there about ‘taking part’ in anything. In other words, your link doesn’t provide evidence of your claim.
The recent killing of the Corsican – you want to believe that was a state set up? The alleged perpetrator is already doing a long stretch and his ‘reward’ is going to be an even longer one. How do you think recruiting touts is going to be made ‘attractive’ if the pay-off is getting banged away for years?
So, your astonishing revelation is that state agencies use informers. Something every person in Ireland has been aware of since even before the eve of the Battle of Kinsale.
Finding an inmate willing to extend his sentence is trickier and you haven’t explained it at all. And it seems that you’re doubting the capacity for violence that Mr. Franck Elong Abé, who fought with the Taliban, possesses. And you’re suggesting that he would be happy to do a favour for the infidels at the cost of many years more of his liberty.
You’re a balloon.
K.Cavan
I’d like to state that I want Ferg banned or at least limited in the number of links to the MSM that he’s cluttering up this forum with. He’s turning this into a teenager’s bedroom with his obsession with The Guardian, which is a vomit-stain of a newspaper for freaks & BBC employees.
He’s a bloody nuisance.
Fearganainm
“You think it’s ok to ban someone for having an alternative viewpoint to yours?”
As someone who has been on the receiving end of more personal abuse than any other poster on this forum I still wouldn’t ask for anyone to be censored.
Just ignore someone if they annoy you.
Or take the wee.
Eventually the multi-username turnips get embarrassed and quietly shut up or storm off in a huff like poor old Papi.
Morto.
SailorGerry
Its a funny thing, when you try to join the dots and get an overview of what is going on in the world. I find my self asking the question how we get to the point of owning nothing and being happy, according to the WEF.
For it to happen, individual property rights must be sacrificed for the collective it would seem.
Below is a small part of that puzzle the enshrines the collective above the individual in Irish law.
This bothers me, along with the Irish government ceding sovereign rights to the UN and its next Plandemic response plan which also irks me, in part because it is not even a topic worthy of reporting in the news.
Part2,
3.1. The State, in particular, recognizes the common good as including the right to secure, affordable, dignified housing, appropriate to need, for all residents of Ireland and shall guarantee this right through its laws, policies and prioritization of resources.
3.2. The State, accordingly, shall delimit the right to private property where it is necessary to ensure the common good and to vindicate the said rights to housing for all residents of Ireland.
The secret cabal are buddhists? Makes a change fro the Edlers of Zion, I suppose.
Micko
“ owning nothing and being happy“
On that whole thing. I’ve seen lots of videos talking about it. But I’ve never seen it in any actual communication from the WEF with that official wording of “owning nothing” etc
Does anyone have a link? Coz I can’t find it anywhere.
SailorGerry
Micko, this was fed from an Offguardian article but you can get the gist.
They pulled the video due to the backlash but still available on brandnewtube……
It dates from 2016 as part of a feature entitled “8 predictions for the world in 2030”. They removed it from their website when it started to gain notoriety in the Covid era. But here’s a link from the official WEF twitter account with much the same wording:
They include a link to their website but when you click on that, it says “sorry, but we can’t find the page you were looking for”
_______
edit: sorry SailorGerry I didn’t see your comment when I posted mine
Micko
Just being the Devil advocate though lads.
Is that just possibly something that Danish politician said and the WEF ran with?
Plus, that video is something anyone could knock up in a couple of hours. So I wouldn’t;t take that as Gospel.
Also, I used the Way Back Machine on that ink and the article that WAS there is pretty innocuous. A kind of fluff piece on how life COULD be. – link below
First popped up in late 2020 – which is a bit odd as it says it’s from 2016.
Again, not saying it’s not a real goal of the WEF, just that it could be totally made up or at least exaggerated to wind people up to prove a point.
That all said, I do find the level of access the WEP and Klaus have to access world leaders and thinkers very disturbing.
Like, just fupp off Klaus – no one voted for you ya bleedin melt! ;-)
K.Cavan
The use of “residents”, where you’d normally find “citizens” is telling. The government makes it clear that someone who arrived, perhaps illegally, perhaps yesterday, is as important in the eyes of this law as any citizen, so citizenship carries more & more responsibility, including housing & feeding whoever shows up, yet less & less entitlements, even to something as essential as housing.
The Irish will, one day, wake up owning nothing but I doubt they’ll be happy. They’ll actually moan & complain & bellyache about it, after the fact, the feckin’ eejits & wonder why “somebody” doesn’t do “something” about it.
stephen moran
As part of their extra special peace keeping mission ! From Russian TV light entertainment department Vladimir Soloviev, a Kremlin propagandist, hyperventilates that Moscow could next consider a nuclear strike against EU, the invasion of Poland and the Baltics, or the creation of a permanent land-bridge from Belarus to Kaliningrad, i.e., an attack on the Suwałki Gap. As not seen on Claire Byrne
You wouldn’t be able for these lads – I kept on expecting either Chris Morris or Jeremy Beadle to appear from underneath one of Vlads welcoming long tables.
Subtlety and nuance are not exactly these guys’ strong points….I wonder do their mothers love them to
Now where’s my diviner rod ? I’m off to do a bit of dowsing for those biolabs.
K.Cavan
I have to say, stephen, this is a new experience for me, on Broadsheet. You’ve hardly been commenting for long but I’ve already learned to just not bother reading your posts, life’s too short
No chance you’d just bugger off, perhaps?
SOQ
Interesting news coming out of Canada- after pulling a surprise election in the middle of the pandemic which backfired because he ended up with a minority government, Trudeau has brokered a secret confidence and supply deal with the New Democrats (NDP) party which will keep him in power until 2025.
Trudeau‘s popularity has plummeted after his handling of the Trucker protests, and the introduction of a bill by the Ontario government which effectively made it illegal to protest at borders is deeply unpopular, which resulted in large err.. protests last weekend. There appears to be some dissatisfaction within NDP membership over the deal, and possible resignations to come.
Justin became,just the 8th (eight) pm with a name that begins with the letter “J.”
From Canada’s 22 prime ministers, there have been five Johns, a Joe and a Jean….
This may account for the fact,that the majority of Canadians (first names starting with the letter J ?) continue support how he ended freedom.
Here now, Johnny, Trudeau & Varadker had a pic taken of them showing their socks to the assembled media drones.
Yes, I said socks.
Surely that counts for something?
stephen moran
II don’t know what kind of partisan slant you are trying to put on the facts but Canada’s ruling Liberal Party has signed a deal with the smaller New Democratic Party to help Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stay in power for the full length of his four-year term, strengthening his position after a shaky performance in September’s snap election. The New Democrats changed their position from supporting Trudeau on a case-by-case basis to a more long-term vision as the two parties agreed to deals on social and climate policy, which include a plan to rapidly phase out fossil fuel financing.
I really don’t think the rest of us giving a fly feck about some poxy self indulgent Koch Bros sponsored right wing truck drivers to be honest – wake up and smell real totalitarianism
SOQ
I reported the story because it is of interest- and because the opposition was going to block everything until he went. The opinion polls are absolutely dire for him, not because everyone has become trucker supporters all of a sudden, but because of his cowardice and high handed arrogance which created a situation which was entirely avoidable.
As for the truckers being right wing goes- sure everyone and their dog is being called that these days, so much so that it getting to the point of being a compliment. There may be right wingers involved, but there is also blacks, Sikhs, gays and every other sort too.
It is probably the biggest popular movement in Canada’s history, and stretches way further than just truckers as Toronto at the weekend proved – they are not going anywhere.
Johnny
Link above to NYT.
.. The announcement came weeks after Mr. Trudeau precipitated the end of the Ottawa protests that had paralyzed the city’s downtown by invoking the Emergencies Act, which was widely supported by Canadians….
You are projecting and simply making things up,it’s kinda sad.
K.Cavan
Again, Johnny, you’ve no clue what you’re talking about, two-thirds of Canadians don’t vote for Turdeau & never will. He’ll be out of politics & back to being a drain on society before he ever wins a majority but Soros’ money keeps the NDs alive & him in power.
K.Cavan
“Wake up & smell real totalitarianism”.
Ah, out of the mouths of baby-fascists. Hilarious!
K.Cavan
Actually, Trudeau’s Liberals normally get about a third of the vote in Canada & The New Democrats have been supporting his minority government for several years. Trudeau arrived with a landslide victory, some time ago, after the Tories just kept buggering everything up & has been on the slide out of popularity, ever since.
Trudeau himself, even before he went full Fascist, would regularly get approval ratings in the mid-teens, about 16% would be fairly normal.
The New Democrats are a Soros-funded fake political party led by a virulently racist Sikh, they don’t have great long-term prospects. They’ve acted as Trudeau’s gofer since their inception & as the members, not exactly the shapest tools in the box, begin to realise that this is what they were created to do, they may become dissolusioned.
Otis Blue
Former England cricketer Stuart Meaker traveled to Poland as a volunteer to help refugees process their visa applications to reach the UK after fleeing Ukraine. So how’s that been going?
Priti badly, it seems.
Speaking on Sky News this morning, he’s been critical of the process being forced upon refugees by the British government, saying that they are being obliged to ask 3-years-olds, who have fled with just a teddy and a bag of clothes, whether they have a military background or any prior convictions. Adults are being asked to produce mortgage deeds, which many appear to have neglected to pack as they flee the conflict.
“We’re struggling to be able to get people to connect with families in the UK, and it’s just not working. It’s almost like we don’t want them to come”
Remember kids a dead colonel or general a day keeps the Russkies at bay.
K.Cavan
But you do, stephen, you do.
SailorGerry
That is a bit harsh Stephen, and to quote a real pond dweller “What difference, at this point, does it make?”
Sooner Mariupol falls, the sooner this sh!t show ends.
stephen moran
I earnestly hope you are right but I just don’t see any off ramp here for Putin that he can sell domestically as a victory – Ukraine has suffered to much to go with an asses roar of his initial demands – especially if they are going to put any peace agreement to a referendum (which seems fraught with disinformation risks that would make Brexit look like an equal time debate) – I think there is ZERO trust in anything the Russian says of claims and I don’t think Zelensky hasn’t reached anything like a Michael Collins point of our military situation is hopeless yet. Russia knows if doesn’t have the manpower or the finances to sustain any type of occupation. Based on the RAND Corps COIN rule of thumb you are talking a 500k+ occupation force required to manage a populist insurgency at what $5-10 billion a day – the US tour of Iraq and Afghanistan cost $8 trillion (thats trillion not billion or 20% of the total national debt) .
K.Cavan
Stephen, if you think a long-term insurgency in the Eastern part of Ukraine is even a remote possibility, you’re deluded. Nobody will fight for Zelensky. Have a look at a heat map of the 2014 election, it was a country that had a clear, geographical split, Russian in the East, Ukrainian in the West. It’s over now, the Ukraine that existed prior to this war is gone for good, it only cane into existence in 1991, anyway.
Nigel
If nobody’s fighting for Zelensky the Russians must be the first army in history to fight a friendly-fire war.
stephen moran
That is static analysis in a very dynamic situation. War changes everything
stephen moran
Sunnis represented only 20% of the Iraqi population and they put on one hell of an insurgency – indeed it was only a fraction of that 20% involved in either AQI or ISIS – plus you have a far larger foreign legion element in Ukraine – ISIS only numbered 40/50k fighters at their peak
Johnny
I just leave this here,reminds me of Irish priests giving sermons on morality.
“This form is the latest in a string of revelations concerning the former chief of staff — who echoed President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020 — and his wife. The New Yorker first reported that Mark and Debra Meadows submitted voter registration forms that listed as their home a mobile home with a rusted metal roof that sold for $105,000 in 2021, even though they had never lived there. North Carolina officials announced last week that Mark Meadows is under investigation for potential voter fraud.“
Charmed I’m sure…not sure if this got an airing in these hallowed pages but just stumbled across it in an email I get from the “Counter Extremism Project” – ahem
“Boston.com: Hate Group Displays Neo-Nazi Symbols, ‘Keep Boston Irish’ Sign At St. Patrick’s Day Parade”
“…The group stood on the sidelines on West Broadway and displayed a sign that read “keep Boston Irish.” They also wore masks with the number 131, a calling card for the Nationalist Social Club, which has been identified as a neo-Nazi group by both the Counter Extremism Project and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The number is the alphanumeric code for ACA, or Anti Communist Action, and is frequently used by the group. One member of the group carried a black flag with a white plus sign inside a circle. The symbol, which is sometimes called a sun cross or incorrectly called a Celtic cross, is a commonly used white supremacist symbol, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The actual Celtic cross is not a hate symbol, and is a symbol of Christianity used in Ireland, Cal Farley, an investigative researcher with the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism told The Boston Globe. The version of it used Sunday, in which the cross is squared off instead of tapered ornately within the circle, is oft-used by white supremacist groups. Parade organizers told the Globe that the group was “neither invited, nor welcome at our parade.” “As a Jewish American, it hits especially close to home for me,” Dave Falvey, commander of South Boston Allied Veterans Council, said in an e-mail to the Globe Monday.” https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/03/22/neo-nazi-signs-st-patricks-day-parade-national-socialist-club/?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3935546_
K.Cavan
Oh Lord, imagine being stuck in a lift with this pair of frightful bores. You’d climb out the roof hatch, secure yourself, then hack through the steel cables with your bare hands
What’s more, you’d be hailed as a hero when eventually rescued.
Fearganainm
Russian journalist probed over ‘False’ Ukraine shelling report
“What we’ve got here is… failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it… well, he gets it. I don’t like it any more than you men…You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain’t gonna need no third set, ’cause you gonna get your mind right…”
Fearganainm
Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state, has died at 84
Lesley Stahl: “We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?”
Madeleine Albright: “We think the price is worth it.”
Fearganainm
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to address Dáil and Seanad on April 6th
“Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama on Wednesday said Donald Trump had asked him to “rescind” the 2020 presidential election, “remove” President Joe Biden from his office, “immediately put” Trump back in the White House and hold a new special presidential election. Brooks said in a statement that he had drawn Trump’s “ire” by telling the former president that his plan was not legal. The congressman later told NBC News that Trump proposed the series of events to restore him to the presidency after Sept. 1, more than seven months after Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021. Trump earlier Wednesday said he was withdrawing an endorsement of Brooks in May’s GOP primary for one of Alabama’s U.S. Senate seats. Trump cited Brooks’ call for Republicans to move on from the 2020 presidential election and to focus on winning races this year and in 2024…”
Fearganainm
Two Metropolitan police officers who strip-searched school girl removed from frontline duties
“…The meeting also revealed that Barnett knew about the girl being strip searched in January 2021. Officers were called due to a teacher wrongly suspecting that she had cannabis. He added that the school “probably should not have called us and we should probably have understood very quickly that we had no role to play there”…”
Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko on Boris Johnson’s Brexit slabbering…
(British media) Source: https://twitter.com/ITVNewsPolitics/status/1506320633759739910
Snigger..
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/ukrainian-court-freezes-assets-of-former-president-petro-poroshenko/a-60363996
And your January report discounts what he says about Johnson’s crass Brexit comparison exactly how?
You’re not very good at anything, are you?
Couldn’t care less what he said..
I’m merely laughing at you citing a very corrupt individual. Sums you up to a tee. Maith an fear indeed.
His views will have been heard by hundreds of thousands of people, probably more by the time the online clip picks up circulation.
Your ‘snigger’, plus an old link from January, aren’t going to have any impact on anyone at all.
That’s how important and effective you are.
He’s a corrupt failed politician from the most corrupt nazi infested regime in the northern hemisphere.
I know it, you know it and most of the people who view his utterances know it.
You’re spittle licking posturing won’t change anything and just makes you look even sillier.
Who will you be citing next, Tony Blair?
Christ on a bike. Quit your poo attitude on the daily. You need to take yourself outside and have a long frank conversation with yourself.
Times were an a discussion of varying ideas came here for healthy discourse, and could be seen in the stats by the duration of ones stay.
Sure border guards on the Hungarian border are finding bags of cash in luggage and we are talking millions in dollars and other currency
Poreshenko is corrupt as the rest of them
But at least there was no war under his regime
That started after he was deposed and up until the invasion by Putin 25thousand people were butchered as a result of it
This must never be forgotten as the present war is reported and the suffering of the Ukrainian people
Unlike Tony Blair, Poroshenko is a Ukrainian in Ukraine. He’s presumably cleared to give media interviews. And doubtless he talks with other Ukrainians. Your assessment of him and his credibility is neither here nor there. His views on Johnson’s comments were aired not by me – and let’s face it, the purpose of your comments is to snipe at me, rather than addtress issues – but by a British media outlet with considerable reach. His views are now ‘out there’ and no amount of whining from you changes that.
He’s getting picked up in other media now:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/23/please-dont-compare-ukraine-to-brexit-petro-poroshenko-asks-boris-johnson
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-brexit-boris-johnson-poroshenko-b2041815.html
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1584877/Brexit-news-Ukraine-Petro-Poroshenko-Boris-Johnson-comment-latest-vn
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/ukraine-brexit-boris-johnson-comparison-petro-poroshenko-kyiv-b989850.html
You must be gutted. Now off you go to commence a letter writing campaign to all those editors (and there are others, you’ll have to look for them), letting them know your opinion of their carrying the story. You’d think they’d have asked for a comment from a Poroshenko expert like you, eh?
“gutted..”
“Your assessment of him and his credibility is neither here nor there. His views on Johnson’s comments were aired not by me – and let’s face it, the purpose of your comments is to snipe at me..”
lololololols
https://twitter.com/Pat26630002/status/1506669518336237587
TwItTeR JoUrNo/EU rentagob
Are media outlets lining up to interview you yet?
Just get on with your life because they probably never will.
Poroshenko has no credibility. He is on record as having funded almost entirely the euromaidan protests and eventual coup in Ukraine, later leading to his election. How funny
The CIA funded the coups in 2004 & 2014, $5 billion will buy a lot of thugs & snipers.
Tory MPs voted this evening to make it a criminal offence, with up to 4 years in jail, for Ukrainian families to arrive in the UK without the right papers. The provisions of the Borders bill will enshrine the UK as ‘one of the most anti-refugee countries in the world’, Médecins Sans Frontières says
I’d like to call out the Toryboy muppets on here particularly the gobshite who said de Pfeffel was “having a good war”. When there’s a vacancy at the Daily Excrement or the Fail you can toddle along to share a right wing wank with Liddle, Litllejohn and Hithcens and the other circle jerks you worship . Patel is a poison dwarf, case closed.
and what of that grifting lecherous windbag and pound shop Trump, de Pfeffel (the kingpin of false equivalence) – who is disgrace to the species got eviscerated former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for conflating his failed shambolic unicorn Brexit with the the ongoing slaughter and genocide being perpetrated by real life present day Nazis Russian at the behest of their fascist depostic overlord the war criminal Putler
“Can I ask you how many houses were destroyed because of Brexit? We have whole cities that were completely erased.” ‘How many Britons died because of Brexit? Zero’
https://twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1506335268038758413
…..I’m actually beginning to think that foghorn of Irish exceptionalist ignorance Anthony Coughlan is actually a regular on BS or else worse the ultimate conspiracy theorist “academic” Tim (the Ukrainians are shelling themselves) Hayward – he’s sub Tucker
‘Realistic, achievable, necessary’: Mary Lou McDonald pushes EU to back Irish reunification
Are they not the same Sinn Fein that opposed Ireland’s membership of the EU at every hands’ turn including taking our place in the single currency. They were as bad as the Brexit ultras in their day and now they shamelessly want to go with their begging bowl to the EU. The Germans paid for their own reunification. But of course rewriting history is a specialty with these charlatan grifters.
And good to see our Unionist friends in the North keeping up their strong tradition of associating with pond life and doing their bidding
https://twitter.com/David_McNair/status/1506230274048282628
Did someone call ?
I got to the second par of your sea of verbal effluent then thought do I continue reading or take another long toke, a slug of my bourbon and go for a skinny dip in the pool.
A nano-second later I had me budgie-smugglers off and I was leaping like a spawning salmon into the cooling water.
The fragrant Lady TenPin followed me shortly afterwards, arching her lithe body like a Michaelangelo statue as she dove into the floodlit water wearing nothing more than the day she was born.
Of course congress ensued.A chap doesn’t fail to avail of an open goal.
Anyway, what were you saying One Vowel™ ?
Charger waking up again in Mittyworld.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dxRhOrtDUw
You see the world a certain way, stephen.
Don’t you?
What are the Russian people being told?
https://twitter.com/yoshkinkrot/status/1506341516503134209
Non-Irish EU citizens face visa requirement to cross Border between Northern Ireland and Republic:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/non-irish-eu-citizens-face-visa-requirement-to-cross-border-between-northern-ireland-and-republic-41476547.html
“Non-Irish EU citizens face having to apply for a US-style visa waiver to cross the Border between Northern Ireland into the Republic after MPs in Westminster tonight voted down an amendment which sought to ditch the requirement…”
I’m looking forward hearing the magical thinking unicorn solution they plan to implement to actually enforce that idiocy on the ground – the Tories are all hat and no cattle – utterly braindead self delusional post imperialist neo colonial fantasists
i see all 8 of the Northern Taliban MPs voted for this – I’m sure businesses in Norn Iron will be thrilled
Did anyone see Imelda May on the telly on Saturday?
Hopefully, not too many.
This war economy business. Food shortages. Stocking up tomorrow on pasta, tayto, batteries, toilet paper and whatever’s in the middle aisle in Aldi. We are all going to die.
I have a pack of those iodine tablets from back in ’02 going cheap – the best before back is still more recent than the rations those cannon fodder Russian conscriptions are tucking into whilst on drone watch
That reminds me. Need to cook up a load of space cakes for the emergency. I am sure there’s a Ballymaloe recipe. Is yer man Joshua on Telegram?
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/rachel-allen-congratulates-convicted-drug-25241514
He has a very good porridge recipe I believe
I don’t know about Telegram, but Grandad Tim is on insta, showing his holiday snaps of anonymous children… which is completely normal for a convicted paedophile to do.
No wonder the kid turned to drugs.
Food shortages or not, I don’t think that people stocking up on the middle isle of Aldi is a good idea. They have warehouses full of that stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL7jyXCQ2Zc
Kremlin lashes out at Poland for siding with Ukraine:
https://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-lashes-out-at-poland-for-siding-with-ukraine-134545060.html
“In a blistering social media post, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now a top Kremlin security adviser, lashed out at Poland for its support of Ukraine, reviving and escalating decades-long tensions between Moscow and Warsaw. Poland’s surprisingly spirited defense of Ukraine would prove “expensive and pointless,” Medvedev predicted, ominously adding that he was confident that Warsaw would “make the right choice” and embrace Russia again…”
Poland has always hated Russia, he’s clearly taking the pee. The idea that he’s threatening Poland is something only a child would pay any attention to but the media have a good grasp of the intellectual level of their target audience.
Former British Ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, was an important voice in calling out the orchestrated propaganda campaign targeted at western publics during the height of the regime change war in Syria. His unique position as a former British establishment insider, turned whistleblower, with a first-hand experience of living in Syria and dealing with the Assad government, gave him a unique insight and a level of credibility which meant that the inevitable attempted smears such as an ‘Assad/Putin propagandist’ etc didn’t carry weight.
This recent article by him about how the situation in Ukraine relates to what happened in Syria is worth a read:
https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/03/21/ukraine-the-syria-playbook-redux/
“…In Syria, Assad was winning and had no need to use chemical weapons. It would have been crazy to do so, when it was the only thing that could make the West bomb him. In Ukraine, Putin similarly has no need to do the one thing which would likely lead to direct NATO intervention. No matter, the authorised version of the history of the Syrian conflict holds that abetted by Russia, Syria used chemical weapons, and so today Russia must be poised to do the same in Ukraine.
‘History is written by the victors’, Churchill is supposed to have said. With Syria, given the West’s control of the narrative via its monopoly hold over international media, history is written by the losers.
Constant parallels are being drawn with Syria in the Ukraine context. But they are the wrong parallels, and the wrong lessons are being drawn from the Syrian ordeal…”
Peter Ford is currently a Director of the British Syrian Society, alongside President Assad’s father-in-law Dr Fawaz Akhras. Mr Ford took up his role in 2017.
Petro Poroshenko is a corrupt failed politician and energy baron from the most corrupt nazi infested regime in the northern hemisphere.
Poroshenko hasn’t faced trial yet. He might turn out to be as bent as a Donegal road but as of now he hasn’t been convicted of anything and whilst he awaits trial he is currently in command of a battalion of the Territorial Defence Forces.
“as bent as a Donegal road”
That’s one for connoisseurs of literary style.
The media has been lying for some time but what’s changed is the public’s inability to spot utterly unbelievable stories & discount them. They’re fully committed to believing the narrative, the whole narrative & nothing but the narrative, no matter how counterintuitive, unlikely or fantastical it becomes, because there are now Bad Guys & Good Guys & we, The West, we are the Good Guys, always. No matter what we do, it’s the Right Thing to do. They’ve become so infantilised that they’d believe anything, literally.
‘I wish I hadn’t helped create the myth that it’s easy for women to have it all.’
Who is she? A comic superhero? And, creating a myth all on her own about having children AND a career?
She’s special, in more ways than one.
In the meantime it’s back to reality…
Steph it’s taken me this long to cop you are a lady !
Ahhh Janet! I thought the name was a bit of a giveaway?
Nonetheless, it could be a pseudonym but you’d probably know for sure if I told you that I’ll still respect you in the morning…
Didn’t take long to suss her out.
Only a year ago she was on Twitter saying that the pandemic was a hoax because people were not dropping dead in the streets. So no surprise she’s both a tory and a fake british ‘lord’.
As for ‘having it all’, her husband is a stay at home dad which is quite the boon when you want to have a successful career, not something everyone can do because, money and stuff.
You went through her tweets from a year ago?
No.
But feel free to make up stuff.
I’m not making anything up – just going on what you wrote.
You said “it didn’t take long to suss her out” and then talked about a tweet from a year ago.
Are the two not related? Are ya not implying that it didn’t take you long to suss her out by going through her tweets and find something from a year ago that you didn’t like?
Am I misinterpreting your post?
No.
You are making stuff up.
You said, quite specifically ”You went through her tweets from a year ago?”
I haven’t been near her twitter account.
Not making stuff up. Just want you to clarify.
So you said that she tweeted something last year.
So if you didn’t go through her Twitter account recently, it means that you read her tweet a year ago. Am I correct there?
So how did it not take you “long to suss her out” when you made up your mind on her over something she wrote a year ago?
Are you saying that it didn’t take you long to suss her out a year ago and are now sharing that information?
I’m only asking you to clarify your initial point. No need to be so defensive.
I did not go near her Twitter account, not recently, not a year ago.
Based on her comments from less than a year ago on the pandemic and then her comments about women ‘having’ it all she sounds like she is quite detached from reality – hence, ‘suss her out’.
In relation to her comments on women having it all, of course they can, if their husband stays at home to raise the kids. But most people do not have that luxury and now need both parents to work. Then her comments on the pandemic, again, sussed out.
Now, if you want me to not be so ‘defensive’ maybe don’t ascribe things to me that I did not say, I have a thing whereby I dislike people saying I said things that I did not.
Where and when did you see her comments on the pandemic?
Not on twitter. As I have told you multiple times.
You do know what someone says on twitter can be read off twitter?
Now, kindly refrain from ascribing things to me that I did not say, thank you.
If you want to read up on her comments it would take approximately 1/20th the time you have spent asking me to clarify my post.
You’re being very vague.
I’m only trying to ascertain when you read that information about her tweet and her opinion on the pandemic, along with the duration of time took you to “suss her out”.
You say it didn’t take long.
Again – these are your words. I’m only writing them back to you in an attempt to clarify and understand your point.
If you’re going to be so evasive, perhaps you shouldn’t comment on the subject?
Nobody is being vague, you are jumping to conclusions.
If you cannot understand my posts, you cannot understand my posts. Nothing to do with me I’m afraid, sorry.
Fair enough.
But like the old saying goes “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”
No one ever says or said that no one,they say if you can’t do it teach it,you always appear to be lecturing people,with old fashioned out dated hackneyed,kinda culchie sayings,what does your Uncle Joe have say ?
I can explain it simply, I don’t feel the need to.
Bit of a difference there.
So feel free to continue pretending you don’t understand.
This load of mickeyswinging could have easily been cleared up with a very simple “Sorry, I misunderstood your point there,” followed by an equally simple “No worries, pal!” about three comments ago.
Not the Broadsheet style Millie
Pedantry until the end.
This is the way…
;-)
I think women have made their choice. They actually like imitating men & don’t really want to be women, any more. The other gender’s grass is always greener.
sigh
does my bum look big in this?
A Why Ukraine isn’t (yet) an ‘All Out War’ analysis:
https://www.newsweek.com/putins-bombers-could-devastate-ukraine-hes-holding-back-heres-why-1690494
That much is pretty obvious- they could have flattened the place in 48 hours if they wanted to.
While they clearly want to overthrow the drama queen and pack the Azov Nazis off to their maker, there is a long term strategy at play. So far they have refrained from getting the good cutlery out, although that may now be changing with the first use of hypersonic missiles.
Zelenskyy now feels he is ready to talk which is probably all just a coincidence. Pity he wasn’t ready to talk before so many of his people were displaced. He is quoted as saying that Trudeau was his inspiration for him going into politics- quelle surprise.
Monkey see monkey do.
‘there is a long term strategy at play’
Who actually beieves this any more? There’s no strategic advantage to be gained by dragging out the conflict into a wet muddy spring while the defenders inflict mounting attrition on Russian soldiers and tanks.
Anyone with half a brain believes that, because it is glaringly obvious. To understand the strategic advantage you first need to understand what the strategy is, and more importantly the objectives.
They are going to take out the puppet regime, the Nazis and the Bio Labs- its not like they are keeping any of that a secret now is it?
Well, no, that’s just a load of post-hoc rationaisation to justify as strategy what is more easily explained as incompetence and disarray. None of the pretexts you mentioned require a strategy which allows the defenders to pick men and equipment off bogged down convoys, ineffective drawn-out assaults on cities, and targeting civilian infrastructure, making the superior military power look weak, ineffectual and poorly lead. The biolabs weren’t even an issue until they became part of a Qanon conspiracy that took off online, helped by the likes of yourself.
OK Nigel you are right- as per usual.
Don’t bother listening to any of the independent political commentators or military experts- easier to just run around broadsheet telling every one you know best.
As I’m sure you’re ignoring loads of commenters and experts yourself.
Keep drinking the Kool Aid, Nigel. I disagree with you on mostly everything but you’re simply not stupid enough to actually believe that Ukraine has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning this war, so you’re now imitating the media & spewing out propaganda that you don’t even believe, yourself.
Grossly dishonest, Nigel, what’s the point in such bizzare behaviour? Who do you think is going to lend credence to such blatant lies?
Of course they’ve almost no chance of winning you adorable little dishonest straw-spinning disingeneune, that’s not the same thing as the Russian invasion being hampered by incompetence, disarray and corruption.
See, again, in your lifetime, “war” means the USA attacking a much weaker, poorer country & bombing it back into the stone age, then rolling in, in their tanks, & declaring “victory” in the “war”.
These are not wars, just a schoolyard bully, writ large & murderous & Europe has decided that being the bully’s gofer is a sweet deal.
See, this is a military superpower attacking a much weaker, poorer country and getting mauled. It’s like a bully picking on a smaller kid and getting kicked in the nuts a few times before his ‘victory.’
Back in the U.S.S.R.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/23/were-going-back-to-a-ussr-long-queues-return-for-russian-shoppers-as-sanctions-bite
“…Other videos shared on social media have shown fights for sugar in markets in other cities in Russia, all while officials have maintained that the shortage is part of an artificial crisis..”.
Same as Nigel, Ferg, I find it highly unlikely that you’re stupid enough to believe such nonsense. Instead of using this forum to express yourself, you’re besmirching it with utter nonsense from the MSM. I mean, The Guardian is a lunatic fringe newspaper with a tiny circulation, nobody believes anything it publishes & do you seriously believe the Russian invasion will fail for lack of sugar? If you do, you are eejit, if you don’t, why are you taking up space with this crap?
Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien seeks changes to Fair Deal plan to help house refugee influx:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/housing-minister-darragh-obrien-seeks-changes-to-fair-deal-plan-to-help-house-refugee-influx-41477203.html
Clearly FFG are looking to Europe for their next gigs with their self aggrandising gestures over Ukraine.
Because the fury I am hearing from people who have been trying for a while now to secure a home or who are being gouged on rent when they see how quickly the government can act when they feel the eyes of the outside world on them has hammered the last few nails in their coffin in regards a certain demographic.
Nobody cares that Leaky Leo or Simon Scarecrow are going to be offering to let Ukrainian families stay with them, all they see is that they could have done something for people up until now, they chose not to.
I know precisely nobody now who will vote FF, ”the old peoples party” is a term I have heard quite a bit over the last two years and even those who were wont to vote FG are finding themselves adrift.
As I have said in the past, SF is not going to provide any solutions but at least they will not be doing what FFG have been doing, not much but a start.
The Elites’ plans for Ireland’s future political system is that FG will pretend to be Conservative & SF will be the fake Left, to provide the pretence of choice required in all vassal states to keep the sheep in line.
FF will be phased out, they’re too unpopular to be of any use to those in control. All it’s TDs know this, I assume & they have to put food on the table. Varadker’s just doing what he’s always done, he has his back to his electorate & is watching his bosses for signs of what they want him to do, the ever-willing sheepdog, looking to his master for a “come by!” & the little whistle. Then & only then, does he turn towards the sheep.
Nicely put
UK now a corporate kleptocracy
Why did P&O not fear UK political blowback over mass sackings?
via The Irish Times
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/why-did-p-o-not-fear-uk-political-blowback-over-mass-sackings-1.4833474
All neo-liberal countries are corporate kleptocracies & always have been. Ireland is one too, you know? You might as well say, “the UK is neo-liberal”.
Tommy Robinson potentially facing jail after failing to attend high court
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/22/tommy-robinson-potentially-facing-jail-after-failing-to-attend-high-court
Good, I hope they ‘accidentally’ put him in with a load of jihadis. The head hacking type preferably.
You really are a genuine fascist, Ian. You think it’s ok to decapitate someone for having an alternative viewpoint to yours? You really need to stop making politics the centre of your life, it’s a bad centre for anyone’s life.
Robinson is controlled opposition, anyway, his backers are Jewish businessmen who want to use his anti-Islamic rhetoric against Muslims. Everybody knows this.
the problem there is that ‘tommy robinson’ cares so little for the opinion of others and would not hesitate to deny to others the same rights he enjoys.
as for wishing violence upon him, he has convictions for GBH, stalking, financial and immigration frauds, drug possession, public order offences and contempt of court. again, he would have no problem causing violence to another himself. a good righteous kick in the balls is the least that pr1ck deserves.
Stuff happens:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60830052
Indeed, stuff does happen, not that you’d be aware mind..
https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-10-06-yvan-colonna-s-brother-placed-in-police-custody.rkD317KF8v.html
That’s old news, do keep up:
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/corse-la-paillote-du-frere-dyvan-colonna-visee-par-un-incendie-11-04-2021-RDW67WVQHBF5FDGLA5BPZCEQTY.php
You think it was jihadis that killed him..
Lol
You think it wasn’t?
https://actucameroun.com/2022/03/22/france-qui-est-franck-elong-abe-ce-djihadiste-ne-au-cameroun-qui-a-tue-yvan-colonna/
You know sweet F.A. about anywhere but you won’t hesitate to conjure up a conspiracy theory. You should get that seen to.
Check out Jacques Audiard’s ‘Un prophète’ (2009). It might help you to think more carefully about Corsicans and Islamists in French prisons.
“The attempted recruitment of Algerian cops who’d fled Algeria during the civil war there (1991-2002), isn’t at all shocking. They ‘looked the part’ and spoke the language of communities in various parts of France that did indeed harbour Islamist terrorists.”
Right, so actual fact and not a conspiracy, wading through the gaslighting bit by bit..
“Your second link doesn’t confirm any effort to recruit informers ‘to take part in terror events’. Membership was encouraged, in order to have inside informers, but there is nothing there about ‘taking part’ in anything. In other words, your link doesn’t provide evidence of your claim.”
From the link..
“Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants. The men claim they were given a choice of working for the Security Service or face detention and harassment in the UK and overseas.”
Membership was encouraged indeed, through threats of severe retaliation, ie blackmail, given a choice of participation or detention in the UK or overseas, in other words they have no choice and have commited no crime, itn seeems your ok with this, fairly psychopathic..
” The recent killing of the Corsican – you want to believe that was a state set up? The alleged perpetrator is already doing a long stretch and his ‘reward’ is going to be an even longer one. How do you think recruiting touts is going to be made ‘attractive’ if the pay-off is getting banged away for years?”
“The alleged perpetrator is already doing a long stretch..”
Exactly, no doubt his choices were slim to none, easy pickings for intelligence services which already infest mafia laden Corsica.
“Finding an inmate willing to extend his sentence is trickier and you haven’t explained it at all. And it seems that you’re doubting the capacity for violence that Mr. Franck Elong Abé, who fought with the Taliban, possesses. And you’re suggesting that he would be happy to do a favour for the infidels at the cost of many years more of his liberty.”
He’s easy pickings, a perfect patsy..
“who fought with the Taliban..”
Tell us, who trained and armed the Taliban?
Poor little contrarian, blissfully ignorant..
lol
“You know sweet F.A. about anywhere but you won’t hesitate to conjure up a conspiracy theory. You should get that seen to.”
A conspiracy theory you say.. LOL
Do the DST use muslim patsies? Yes..
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/french-agents-accused-of-blackmailing-exiled-police-1.207756
Do intelligence services blackmail muslims to take part in “terror” events? Yes
https://more.bham.ac.uk/euro-islam/tag/intelligence-service/
“Check out Jacques Audiard’s ‘Un prophète’ (2009). It might help you to think more carefully about Corsicans and Islamists in French prisons.”
LOL.. intelligence service sponsored “entertainment”..
Ironically, guess who also pops up in that flick… yes the mafia.. who runs Corsica? Yes the mafia..
Stuff happens LOL
Go back to sleep little contrarion..
Well, You so clueless, what exactly do you believe that your links ‘confirm’? That intelligence forces all over the world recruit informers from communities that they are monitoring?
Gee, who would have thought that? Except everyone who already knows that.
The attempted recruitment of Algerian cops who’d fled Algeria during the civil war there (1991-2002), isn’t at all shocking. They ‘looked the part’ and spoke the language of communities in various parts of France that did indeed harbour Islamist terrorists.
Your second link doesn’t confirm any effort to recruit informers ‘to take part in terror events’. Membership was encouraged, in order to have inside informers, but there is nothing there about ‘taking part’ in anything. In other words, your link doesn’t provide evidence of your claim.
The recent killing of the Corsican – you want to believe that was a state set up? The alleged perpetrator is already doing a long stretch and his ‘reward’ is going to be an even longer one. How do you think recruiting touts is going to be made ‘attractive’ if the pay-off is getting banged away for years?
So, your astonishing revelation is that state agencies use informers. Something every person in Ireland has been aware of since even before the eve of the Battle of Kinsale.
Finding an inmate willing to extend his sentence is trickier and you haven’t explained it at all. And it seems that you’re doubting the capacity for violence that Mr. Franck Elong Abé, who fought with the Taliban, possesses. And you’re suggesting that he would be happy to do a favour for the infidels at the cost of many years more of his liberty.
You’re a balloon.
I’d like to state that I want Ferg banned or at least limited in the number of links to the MSM that he’s cluttering up this forum with. He’s turning this into a teenager’s bedroom with his obsession with The Guardian, which is a vomit-stain of a newspaper for freaks & BBC employees.
He’s a bloody nuisance.
“You think it’s ok to ban someone for having an alternative viewpoint to yours?”
Poor you.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNGFn4RX0AIFKuA?format=jpg&name=small
As someone who has been on the receiving end of more personal abuse than any other poster on this forum I still wouldn’t ask for anyone to be censored.
Just ignore someone if they annoy you.
Or take the wee.
Eventually the multi-username turnips get embarrassed and quietly shut up or storm off in a huff like poor old Papi.
Morto.
Its a funny thing, when you try to join the dots and get an overview of what is going on in the world. I find my self asking the question how we get to the point of owning nothing and being happy, according to the WEF.
For it to happen, individual property rights must be sacrificed for the collective it would seem.
Below is a small part of that puzzle the enshrines the collective above the individual in Irish law.
This bothers me, along with the Irish government ceding sovereign rights to the UN and its next Plandemic response plan which also irks me, in part because it is not even a topic worthy of reporting in the news.
Part2,
3.1. The State, in particular, recognizes the common good as including the right to secure, affordable, dignified housing, appropriate to need, for all residents of Ireland and shall guarantee this right through its laws, policies and prioritization of resources.
3.2. The State, accordingly, shall delimit the right to private property where it is necessary to ensure the common good and to vindicate the said rights to housing for all residents of Ireland.
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2020/21/
“ for all residents of Ireland”
‘owning nothing and being happy’
The secret cabal are buddhists? Makes a change fro the Edlers of Zion, I suppose.
“ owning nothing and being happy“
On that whole thing. I’ve seen lots of videos talking about it. But I’ve never seen it in any actual communication from the WEF with that official wording of “owning nothing” etc
Does anyone have a link? Coz I can’t find it anywhere.
Micko, this was fed from an Offguardian article but you can get the gist.
They pulled the video due to the backlash but still available on brandnewtube……
https://realverifiednews.com/own-nothing-and-be-happy-the-great-resets-vision-of-the-future/
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/wef-took-their-quot-you-039-ll-own-nothing-and-you-039-ll-be-happy-quot-video-down_Wa2988wDhEVrU58.html
It dates from 2016 as part of a feature entitled “8 predictions for the world in 2030”. They removed it from their website when it started to gain notoriety in the Covid era. But here’s a link from the official WEF twitter account with much the same wording:
https://twitter.com/wef/status/813869325635424256
“Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better”
They include a link to their website but when you click on that, it says “sorry, but we can’t find the page you were looking for”
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edit: sorry SailorGerry I didn’t see your comment when I posted mine
Just being the Devil advocate though lads.
Is that just possibly something that Danish politician said and the WEF ran with?
Plus, that video is something anyone could knock up in a couple of hours. So I wouldn’t;t take that as Gospel.
Also, I used the Way Back Machine on that ink and the article that WAS there is pretty innocuous. A kind of fluff piece on how life COULD be. – link below
First popped up in late 2020 – which is a bit odd as it says it’s from 2016.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200919102818/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/shopping-i-can-t-really-remember-what-that-is?utm_content=bufferbd339&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Again, not saying it’s not a real goal of the WEF, just that it could be totally made up or at least exaggerated to wind people up to prove a point.
That all said, I do find the level of access the WEP and Klaus have to access world leaders and thinkers very disturbing.
Like, just fupp off Klaus – no one voted for you ya bleedin melt! ;-)
The use of “residents”, where you’d normally find “citizens” is telling. The government makes it clear that someone who arrived, perhaps illegally, perhaps yesterday, is as important in the eyes of this law as any citizen, so citizenship carries more & more responsibility, including housing & feeding whoever shows up, yet less & less entitlements, even to something as essential as housing.
The Irish will, one day, wake up owning nothing but I doubt they’ll be happy. They’ll actually moan & complain & bellyache about it, after the fact, the feckin’ eejits & wonder why “somebody” doesn’t do “something” about it.
As part of their extra special peace keeping mission ! From Russian TV light entertainment department Vladimir Soloviev, a Kremlin propagandist, hyperventilates that Moscow could next consider a nuclear strike against EU, the invasion of Poland and the Baltics, or the creation of a permanent land-bridge from Belarus to Kaliningrad, i.e., an attack on the Suwałki Gap. As not seen on Claire Byrne
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1506310307412680713
You wouldn’t be able for these lads – I kept on expecting either Chris Morris or Jeremy Beadle to appear from underneath one of Vlads welcoming long tables.
Subtlety and nuance are not exactly these guys’ strong points….I wonder do their mothers love them to
Now where’s my diviner rod ? I’m off to do a bit of dowsing for those biolabs.
I have to say, stephen, this is a new experience for me, on Broadsheet. You’ve hardly been commenting for long but I’ve already learned to just not bother reading your posts, life’s too short
No chance you’d just bugger off, perhaps?
Interesting news coming out of Canada- after pulling a surprise election in the middle of the pandemic which backfired because he ended up with a minority government, Trudeau has brokered a secret confidence and supply deal with the New Democrats (NDP) party which will keep him in power until 2025.
Trudeau‘s popularity has plummeted after his handling of the Trucker protests, and the introduction of a bill by the Ontario government which effectively made it illegal to protest at borders is deeply unpopular, which resulted in large err.. protests last weekend. There appears to be some dissatisfaction within NDP membership over the deal, and possible resignations to come.
The opposition is obviously very angry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWrRSZ_auYg
Oh. Very Interesting.
Justin became,just the 8th (eight) pm with a name that begins with the letter “J.”
From Canada’s 22 prime ministers, there have been five Johns, a Joe and a Jean….
This may account for the fact,that the majority of Canadians (first names starting with the letter J ?) continue support how he ended freedom.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/world/canada/trudeau-new-democratic-party.html
Here now, Johnny, Trudeau & Varadker had a pic taken of them showing their socks to the assembled media drones.
Yes, I said socks.
Surely that counts for something?
II don’t know what kind of partisan slant you are trying to put on the facts but Canada’s ruling Liberal Party has signed a deal with the smaller New Democratic Party to help Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stay in power for the full length of his four-year term, strengthening his position after a shaky performance in September’s snap election. The New Democrats changed their position from supporting Trudeau on a case-by-case basis to a more long-term vision as the two parties agreed to deals on social and climate policy, which include a plan to rapidly phase out fossil fuel financing.
I really don’t think the rest of us giving a fly feck about some poxy self indulgent Koch Bros sponsored right wing truck drivers to be honest – wake up and smell real totalitarianism
I reported the story because it is of interest- and because the opposition was going to block everything until he went. The opinion polls are absolutely dire for him, not because everyone has become trucker supporters all of a sudden, but because of his cowardice and high handed arrogance which created a situation which was entirely avoidable.
As for the truckers being right wing goes- sure everyone and their dog is being called that these days, so much so that it getting to the point of being a compliment. There may be right wingers involved, but there is also blacks, Sikhs, gays and every other sort too.
It is probably the biggest popular movement in Canada’s history, and stretches way further than just truckers as Toronto at the weekend proved – they are not going anywhere.
Link above to NYT.
.. The announcement came weeks after Mr. Trudeau precipitated the end of the Ottawa protests that had paralyzed the city’s downtown by invoking the Emergencies Act, which was widely supported by Canadians….
You are projecting and simply making things up,it’s kinda sad.
Again, Johnny, you’ve no clue what you’re talking about, two-thirds of Canadians don’t vote for Turdeau & never will. He’ll be out of politics & back to being a drain on society before he ever wins a majority but Soros’ money keeps the NDs alive & him in power.
“Wake up & smell real totalitarianism”.
Ah, out of the mouths of baby-fascists. Hilarious!
Actually, Trudeau’s Liberals normally get about a third of the vote in Canada & The New Democrats have been supporting his minority government for several years. Trudeau arrived with a landslide victory, some time ago, after the Tories just kept buggering everything up & has been on the slide out of popularity, ever since.
Trudeau himself, even before he went full Fascist, would regularly get approval ratings in the mid-teens, about 16% would be fairly normal.
The New Democrats are a Soros-funded fake political party led by a virulently racist Sikh, they don’t have great long-term prospects. They’ve acted as Trudeau’s gofer since their inception & as the members, not exactly the shapest tools in the box, begin to realise that this is what they were created to do, they may become dissolusioned.
Former England cricketer Stuart Meaker traveled to Poland as a volunteer to help refugees process their visa applications to reach the UK after fleeing Ukraine. So how’s that been going?
Priti badly, it seems.
Speaking on Sky News this morning, he’s been critical of the process being forced upon refugees by the British government, saying that they are being obliged to ask 3-years-olds, who have fled with just a teddy and a bag of clothes, whether they have a military background or any prior convictions. Adults are being asked to produce mortgage deeds, which many appear to have neglected to pack as they flee the conflict.
“We’re struggling to be able to get people to connect with families in the UK, and it’s just not working. It’s almost like we don’t want them to come”
More Stuart here…
https://twitter.com/SMeaker18/status/1505477438515687426?s=20&t=OCD-6DQViW8xMYNbdW7rjg
The same government that could not house the homeless already existing in Ireland, now seem to be signalling they can house an extra 200,000 refugees?
Maybe the government will conscript holiday homes to fill the shortfall, or maybe its just words and PR fluff?
Looks like a continuation of the Kallergi plan……
https://gript.ie/minister-ireland-preparing-to-receive-200000-ukrainian-refugees/
Imagine being on here and defending this kind of malevolent scumbag and the pondlife he represents
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1506535989048745984
Remember kids a dead colonel or general a day keeps the Russkies at bay.
But you do, stephen, you do.
That is a bit harsh Stephen, and to quote a real pond dweller “What difference, at this point, does it make?”
Sooner Mariupol falls, the sooner this sh!t show ends.
I earnestly hope you are right but I just don’t see any off ramp here for Putin that he can sell domestically as a victory – Ukraine has suffered to much to go with an asses roar of his initial demands – especially if they are going to put any peace agreement to a referendum (which seems fraught with disinformation risks that would make Brexit look like an equal time debate) – I think there is ZERO trust in anything the Russian says of claims and I don’t think Zelensky hasn’t reached anything like a Michael Collins point of our military situation is hopeless yet. Russia knows if doesn’t have the manpower or the finances to sustain any type of occupation. Based on the RAND Corps COIN rule of thumb you are talking a 500k+ occupation force required to manage a populist insurgency at what $5-10 billion a day – the US tour of Iraq and Afghanistan cost $8 trillion (thats trillion not billion or 20% of the total national debt) .
Stephen, if you think a long-term insurgency in the Eastern part of Ukraine is even a remote possibility, you’re deluded. Nobody will fight for Zelensky. Have a look at a heat map of the 2014 election, it was a country that had a clear, geographical split, Russian in the East, Ukrainian in the West. It’s over now, the Ukraine that existed prior to this war is gone for good, it only cane into existence in 1991, anyway.
If nobody’s fighting for Zelensky the Russians must be the first army in history to fight a friendly-fire war.
That is static analysis in a very dynamic situation. War changes everything
Sunnis represented only 20% of the Iraqi population and they put on one hell of an insurgency – indeed it was only a fraction of that 20% involved in either AQI or ISIS – plus you have a far larger foreign legion element in Ukraine – ISIS only numbered 40/50k fighters at their peak
I just leave this here,reminds me of Irish priests giving sermons on morality.
“This form is the latest in a string of revelations concerning the former chief of staff — who echoed President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020 — and his wife. The New Yorker first reported that Mark and Debra Meadows submitted voter registration forms that listed as their home a mobile home with a rusted metal roof that sold for $105,000 in 2021, even though they had never lived there. North Carolina officials announced last week that Mark Meadows is under investigation for potential voter fraud.“
They are facing felony charges.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/23/debra-meadows-appears-have-filed-three-false-voter-forms/
Charmed I’m sure…not sure if this got an airing in these hallowed pages but just stumbled across it in an email I get from the “Counter Extremism Project” – ahem
“Boston.com: Hate Group Displays Neo-Nazi Symbols, ‘Keep Boston Irish’ Sign At St. Patrick’s Day Parade”
“…The group stood on the sidelines on West Broadway and displayed a sign that read “keep Boston Irish.” They also wore masks with the number 131, a calling card for the Nationalist Social Club, which has been identified as a neo-Nazi group by both the Counter Extremism Project and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The number is the alphanumeric code for ACA, or Anti Communist Action, and is frequently used by the group. One member of the group carried a black flag with a white plus sign inside a circle. The symbol, which is sometimes called a sun cross or incorrectly called a Celtic cross, is a commonly used white supremacist symbol, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The actual Celtic cross is not a hate symbol, and is a symbol of Christianity used in Ireland, Cal Farley, an investigative researcher with the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism told The Boston Globe. The version of it used Sunday, in which the cross is squared off instead of tapered ornately within the circle, is oft-used by white supremacist groups. Parade organizers told the Globe that the group was “neither invited, nor welcome at our parade.” “As a Jewish American, it hits especially close to home for me,” Dave Falvey, commander of South Boston Allied Veterans Council, said in an e-mail to the Globe Monday.”
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/03/22/neo-nazi-signs-st-patricks-day-parade-national-socialist-club/?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3935546_
Oh Lord, imagine being stuck in a lift with this pair of frightful bores. You’d climb out the roof hatch, secure yourself, then hack through the steel cables with your bare hands
What’s more, you’d be hailed as a hero when eventually rescued.
Russian journalist probed over ‘False’ Ukraine shelling report
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/22/russian-opens-criminal-case-against-journalist-over-false-info-on-russian-army-a77040
“What we’ve got here is… failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it… well, he gets it. I don’t like it any more than you men…You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain’t gonna need no third set, ’cause you gonna get your mind right…”
Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state, has died at 84
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/madeleine-albright-the-first-female-us-secretary-of-state-has-died-at-84-41480639.html
Lesley Stahl: “We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?”
Madeleine Albright: “We think the price is worth it.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to address Dáil and Seanad on April 6th
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky-to-address-dail-and-seanad-on-april-6-41480774.html
Rep. Mo Brooks says Trump asked him to ‘rescind the 2020 election,’ remove Biden and call special election
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/23/mo-brooks-says-trump-asked-him-to-rescind-election-remove-biden.html
“Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama on Wednesday said Donald Trump had asked him to “rescind” the 2020 presidential election, “remove” President Joe Biden from his office, “immediately put” Trump back in the White House and hold a new special presidential election. Brooks said in a statement that he had drawn Trump’s “ire” by telling the former president that his plan was not legal. The congressman later told NBC News that Trump proposed the series of events to restore him to the presidency after Sept. 1, more than seven months after Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021. Trump earlier Wednesday said he was withdrawing an endorsement of Brooks in May’s GOP primary for one of Alabama’s U.S. Senate seats. Trump cited Brooks’ call for Republicans to move on from the 2020 presidential election and to focus on winning races this year and in 2024…”
Two Metropolitan police officers who strip-searched school girl removed from frontline duties
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/23/two-met-officers-who-strip-searched-school-girl-removed-from-frontline-duties
“…The meeting also revealed that Barnett knew about the girl being strip searched in January 2021. Officers were called due to a teacher wrongly suspecting that she had cannabis. He added that the school “probably should not have called us and we should probably have understood very quickly that we had no role to play there”…”