Usual thing when war is about to start
Silence the enemy and the propaganda starts .there is WW 3 on the way and finally the cull has begun the great reset and we are just going to walk into it as the press hypes it up
To be honest we all knew what a bastard Putin is and the thing many do not realise is Putin cares nothing about sanctions neither do these oligarchs
When you have $10 billion and you end up with $2 billion you still will never see one reduction to your lifestyle but the average person in Russia will and the suffering will not be much more than the west as price gouging is emdemic
As the war drum beats in overdrive we are all sleep walking into war
Fearganainm
Russia revokes registration of Amnesty and Human Rights Watch
“April 8 (Reuters) – Russia’s justice ministry said on Friday it had revoked the registration of 15 foreign organisations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW). The Russian units of the organisations, which also included the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “were excluded due to the discovery of violations of the current legislation of the Russian Federation,” the ministry said in a statement. The decision, which did not give details of any violations, was announced days after New York-based HRW said it had found “several cases of Russian military forces committing laws-of-war violations” in Ukraine…”
Fearganainm
“A Russian Tochka-U missile struck a civilian evacuation point at the Kramatorsk rail station on April 8, killing at least 50 and wounding around a hundred evacuees. Russian attempts to deny the strike are completely false. Pro-Russian Telegram channels and the Russian Ministry of Defense initially claimed Russian forces conducted precision strikes on railway stations in Donbas before deleting the claims once heavy civilian casualties emerged. Russian and DNR sources claimed both that the strike did not occur and that Ukrainian forces launched the strike as a false flag, ludicrously claiming that Russian forces do not use the Tochka-U missile — despite the fact Russia designed the Tochka, has demonstrably used it in previous strikes, and confirmed reports that Russia’s 8th Combined Arms Army (operating in Donbas) is equipped with the missile.”
“Here is a saved screen of a Telegram post confirming the hit on Kramatorsk rail as an “attack on cluster of Ukrainian combatants” The author of the post is Dmitry Steshin, military “journalist” with http://KP.RU”
I think this post must be peak Fearganaimn. The typical lack of personal insight/opinion offered; no contextualisation of source – just a link to a site called “Understanding War . org” which actually has in its “About Us” section: “We are committed to improving the nation’s ability to execute military operations and respond to emerging threats in order to achieve U.S. strategic objectives.“.
It’s obviously a site that wants us to ‘Understand war’ in a way that conforms to the strategic objectives of US imperialists. By sharing the link and offering no context, it gives the impression of someone who lacks judgement and is mindlessly churning them out.
scottser
Bomb a train station why don’t ye
Mad
If you can’t do better than that stick to plucking your banjo
SOQ
Of course. The internet is awash with this sort of propaganda and there is always a drone to flood broadsheet with it too.
Given British Intelligence’s meddling in the Ukraine situation, this saturation is unlikely to improve here in Ireland anytime soon.
anti bot
Go on answer the question. Is an invasion and killing innocent people acceptable to you?
Annie14Tennis
Take a hike B9
Fearganainm
Peak ‘avoiding the core of the issue’ from f_lawless. While you’re objecting to a source, the information that ‘Pro-Russian Telegram channels and the Russian Ministry of Defense initially claimed Russian forces conducted precision strikes on railway stations in Donbas before deleting the claims once heavy civilian casualties emerged.’ is available from many other sources – including archived copies of the now deleted initial Russian claims.
What you have to address in this instance is not ‘the nature of a single source’ but the fact that the Russians claimed “We did it,”, before the story began to pick up attention from other media. Then the Russians deleted their “We did it,” material and began rushing out statements to the effect that Russia did not have or use Tochka-U missiles. Alas, for whitewashers like yourself, this latter claim was swiftly exposed as false via footage of Russian convoys that included Tochka-U missiles, Russian statements from earlier this year boasting of using Tochka-U missiles etc.
The Russians don’t make it easy for you, forcing you to twist and turn and spin and lie in the face of overwhelming evidence that the Russians themselves, unhelpfully for you, have put online – and that’s before any other sources provide additional evidence.
Russia hasn’t used Tocha-U for a decade, this was a Ukrainian war crime or an accident . Hurtling towards defeat & capitulation, the illigitimate Zelensky Junta has formed battalions of convicts, murders, rapists & the like, at least they’ll be in good company, among the Nazi fanatics & murderers in the increasingly rag-tag remnants of the army of that vile, Nazi-infested regime. Their desire to die for the principles of their deity, Adolph Hitler, will soon be satisfied & the world will be a better place when their carcasses are thrown in a hole.
Fearganainm
When making a claim be sure to try and verify it.
Belarus, March 30th 2022:
“A column of Russian equipment with “V” marks was moving from Rechitsa towards Gomel along the M10 highway. There were at least 8 Tochka-U, several BTR-82a, about 9 KamAZ trucks, some of which are carrying Tochka-U missiles, communication vehicle and a crane.”
“Russia’s defense ministry claims it doesn’t have the Tochka-U missiles used in the horrific rocket attack on Kramatorsk today. But just weeks ago they were boasting about using them in exercises just before the war. Not even bothering to find a good excuse.”
And just who is that verified YouTube account holder pushing the wonders of the Tochka-U tactical missile system?
Why yes, it’s Минобороны России – the Russian Defence Ministry.
anti bot
Answer the question. Is it acceptable to invade a country and kill innocent people. You’re here all day posting bs but can’t answer a simple question. Why?
Duncan Wheeler
Ask the experts, the Americans, they will be able to fill you in..
Fearganainm
Waitrose begins rationing sunflower oil due to war in Ukraine
“…Pour éviter de paralyser les lignes de production, les fabricants de produits alimentaires prennent les devants: la part de l’huile de tournesol pourrait diminuer dans la composition de certains produits, voire disparaître complètement, dans les mois qui viennent. Une situation inédite. “Je n’ai pas le souvenir d’avoir observé des changements aussi brutaux et imprévisibles par le passé”, remarque Jérôme Foucault, président de l’Association des entreprises de produits alimentaires élaborés (Adepale)…”
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
vous êtes trompés de site la, non ?
Lush
Ah J, you forgot the accent on the a.
You’ve been away too long.
That aside, hope all’s well.
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
far too long, I had a lurid dream about ” home” last night, stuffing my face I was and riding for Ireland
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
hope you’re well too Lushie and thanks for the thought
Lush
At the same time?
Marvellous.
Mad
What a vision
Mad
How awful.
No more late night chipper
bisted
…whatabout the poor Russians having to do without coke, Pepsi or big Macs…
K. Cavan
They have Big Macs, bisted, just not made by American corporates. I’m sure they’ll taste just as crap. Everybody with functioning taste buds knows the Whopper is a far superior offering. The Big Mac is well-named, it tastes like a plastic raincoat. Anyone who drinks Coke or Pepsi has yet to achieve adulthood, they’te both as appealing as warm tom-cat urine.
Annie14Tennis
….tastes like a plastic raincoat… that’s brilliant.
Mad
Christ t’night
Dinkum
I would say as soon as possible they will be reopened with the big vlad On the menu and chicken Kiev all the rage in Moscow
K. Cavan
Not to worry, the EU Commissioners don’t eat chips.
Dinkum
They are french fries in the EU.
Reconstituted potato mash squirted through metal nozzles and instantly frozen to resemble potato chips then deep fried in rape seed oil yum yum
anti bot
Answer the question, is it acceptable to invade a country and kill innocent people. How come you won’t answer?
Mick MacMichael
Why are you persisting with your silly posts Botty. Come on tell us. Answer the question. Why dont you answer.
jonjoker
Fearg, you may not realise this but Waitrose does not have any shops in Ireland (unless they have the occsional one north of the border) so we’re not terribly concerned about what they do or do not have.
Fearganainm
Until you’re standing in front of empty shelves where sunflower oil used to be, that is.
Let me know where you imagine an unending, limitless supply is going to come from for Irish shops – there’s a fortune to be made if you seriously believe that shortages throughout Europe and elsewhere aren’t going to be mirrored in Ireland.
Ditto pasta, ditto flour, ditto couscous…
jonjoker
Nothing to do with Brexit then?
Fearganainm
More likely to do with Ukraine being a major exporter of sunflower oil (47% of the world’s exports) and wheat (5th largest exporter of wheat in the world in 2020).
When the food riots start later this year don’t say that you weren’t warned.
“Reuters in Yahidne”, well, well Ferg, I never took you for a witty guy, most comedians, you see, are pretty intelligent but you’ve caught me off-guard with the subtlety of your humour, you sly dog.
Reuters in Yahidne”, brilliant!
That could become a viral meme.
“Yeah, who told you that, Reuters in Yahidne?”.
Fearganainm
What did the Reuters’ journalists in Yahidne have to say? Maybe you’d like to comment on that?
I’d say that they have more credibility than some alleged ‘journalist’ using the ID German Vladimirov, wouldn’t you?
Duncan Wheeler
Reuters don’t employ journalists they employ fiction writers. Bit like yourself Fergie.
It seems the sad and untimely death of that young GAA player Red Og Murphy last week was 100% unrelated to Covid vaccines, so no doubt we’ll have a full retraction of that frankly grotesque insinuation and blatant attempt to push an agenda at a moment of intense sadness for his family, friends and community?
The priest at his funeral spoke at length of how young people need to reach out to their friends rather than bottling things up…
All anyone knew as that a young athlete had died suddenly, and given the spate of recent health issues among that demographic- it was not unreasonable to assume it was vaccine related.
The fact you are raising the issue in such a manner means you are doing exactly what you are accusing other of doing of course- the difference being that you have the full facts at hand.
RIP Red Og.
Fergalito
No, it is unreasonable. You don’t jump to conclusions or speculate on the cause of death where a fact vacuum exists.
It is despicable, unjustifiable and reflects poorly on the journalistic integrity of the “author.” It cannot be rationalised as understandable on the basis of driving a subjective agenda forward.
I agree with the first part of your apologist statement ” All anyone knew as that a young athlete had died suddenly..”
If that was all anyone knew then why fuppin speculate wildly. Shameful.
Kali
“You don’t jump to conclusions or speculate on the cause of death where a fact vacuum exists.”
Were you not reading any comments sections in 2020. Everytime someone died there were cretins crying covid, evidence be danmed
Fergalito
The point is valid regardless of what the issue is. Just because it’s made in the context of this particular story doesn’t make it subjectively false or without any wider veracity across any article or topic of conversation or interaction. Pretty basic, fundamental stuff.
K. Cavan
“100% unrelated” that sounds more desperate than definitive, Broadbag. I can sense your faith in the narrative is weakening. I doubt if his family were busy scanning the corners of the sewer we call The Media, for mentions of his tragic death, so you can unclutch your pearls & dismount that high horse, you just look stupid up there & pearls really don’t suit that outfit.
SOQ
Pfizer saw so many adverse events they had to hire 2,400 new employees to process them.
Dr. Naomi Wolf: “[Pfizer] hid, they concealed, they redacted from disclosure, forced by court, the fact that they were processing so many adverse events in the first three months…
So at the same time as when without informed consent, the vaccine bullying, coercion and threatening was in full flight- they were hiring thousands of people to process the injuries.
And before any of you idiots start your deflection by attacking Naomi Wolf, just take a hike. It’s not about her- she is just the messenger. That you would even attempt to do so on such a serious subject, speaks volumes.
Tom J
I think I will bring my dog for a walk.
ce
Or is the dog walking you???
Tom J
Yeah, I trained him well.
ce
I can’t believe that – If you trained him well he’d skip the park and be taking you to the pub
Tom J
He’s barred, when he gets a few beers he starts singing.
Tom J
What makes you think she’s a doctor.
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
the dog ?
Tom J
No, that’s a vet you are thinking of.
K. Cavan
I rest my case, M’lud.
Tom J
A barrister now are you.
SOQ
Death By ‘Suicide’: Life Insurance Companies Will Likely Deny Most COVID Jab Claims
Attorney Todd Callender: “The court specifically found that participation in clinical trials is so hazardous that it voids the coverage of the insurance contract. ‘You should have known.’ They treated it, for purposes of the law, as a suicide. The court is saying, ‘Participating in a phase three clinical trial is suicide.’ That’s the conclusion.”
So in summary: while an insurance company may pay out upon such, they do not have to. A knock on effect may be that in the same way as suicides, some vaccines deaths may be covered up and that in turn will skew the figures downwards.
anti bot
You really are a despicable human being. Covid and suicide in the same post…
K. Cavan
Would you care to elaborate, Aunty Bot, the rest of us are normal, we can’t quite grasp the intricacies of the bizarre fantasy-world you inhabit, where “suicide” & “Covid” are mutually exclusive words, within a post.
Why don’t you take a bit of time off to compile a list of words which you reckon don’t go together. Please make it as comprehensive as possible, take the rest of your life if needs be, this is important work that can only be entrusted to you, for obvious reasons.
anti bot
You just said in your previous text that insurance companies will deny cover for Covid vaccination people. This is the same thread about a young man dying. How is that disgusting? Tell us about how the invasion of a country and innocent people being killed is acceptable. how come you can’t answer? No intelligence?
Mick MacMichael
Almost like getting a choc ice and a stick botty. Did yer mammy buy one today?
Dinkum
I suppose SOQ there is legal arguments regarding the coercement of governments to take the vaccine
And as well the government did not ban a substance that could kill you
I can see the legal Eagan bottom dwellers salivating over the hourly rate arguing this out in court for months
When this is over I assume we will see many cases brought over the people who died as a result of a vaccine that was fast tracked and given to the population without going through the usual trials
I can see it now Pfizer the new whiplash litigation
Meanwhile all the publicans waiting on their full payouts on their insurance policies are still waiting as the insurance companies have delayed this with the collusion of government to drag it out in the courts waiting for the book of quantum decision still delayed in the courts for over a year
SOQ
Well it looks like the precedent has been set, and that will remain until another court rules in a different direction. If claims really are going through the roof then there will come a point where Insurance companies will go out of business.
And yes, given that governments are partly at fault, it is likely that they will have to step in which means the tax payer will be footing the bill yet again- and it is going to be a substantial bill- crazy in fact.
There is going to be legal actions all over the place, take employers for example. If they forced someone to take the experimental drug still in trails at threat of dismissal- then they surely they are liable too? Will their employers liability cover that? I doubt it.
stephen moran
There are lads on here that if you took them to a football match in which the home side won 3:0, but the goals all went to VAR (and were shown to be clearly onside from multiple different angles ) who’d argue the home team in league with the 3rd official and in cahoots with the broadcasting company had prerecorded the exact goals scored using a mocked up opposition to fool the ref and the public if only the rest of us could see it because bigdongsean666’s 2nd cousin once went out with the janitor at the stadium and had a video “proving it” on some quack echo chamber on the net.
bisted
+1…don’t really understand the soccerball analogy but definitely agree with the last few words about the ‘quack echo chamber on the net’…
Mad
It works both ways though bisted: Nigel being the prime example
bisted
…moi…Nigel and I are usually on the same hymn sheet…he does seem to be a bit blinkered when it comes to yanks – at least, his half of yanks…other than that he gets my +1…he’ll be along here shortly to speak for himself*
*please let him have the last word or you’ll be here all weekend…
Mad
Haha I won’t (be here all weekend).
I agree – sometimes I do see eye to eye with Nigel on many topics- but I thought we were discussing the style of engagement, that’s all.
Yer man’s football analogy^ is good, but remember that’s one fella in a crowd of what, at Windsor Park, 15,000 average? That’s why I don’t get that people feel they need to shout the likes of SOQ down all the time, he is literally one lad bawling I a crowd of people- leave him off, he’s doing no harm, really. I’m not saying you pile on him, but like with V, have people ever thought these personalities crave the negative attention? Just don’t give it to them.
^sorry that’s a bit confusing, there was another similar football analogy here yesterday about some guy moaning at Linfield’s game even though they win all the time
bisted
…talking about gullible yanks…these four yanks were staying in the Europa in Belfast and were asking advice from the concierge on what they should do and see…among other things the concierge suggested they go to the local soccer derby between Linfield and Glentoran at Windsor…the yanks agree and ask the concierge if he can get tickets…reassured that they wouldn’t need tickets they ask what time the match starts…after another consultation on the phone the concierge said Windsor wanted to know what time they’d like the match to start…
Mad
Hahaha very good
K. Cavan
Well, it’s no longer up for debate, really, you lads are to comedy what the SS were to the Sudetenland. Just stick to serious elucidation of your closely-held beliefs, in future, please. They contain more than enough comedic material for a few hearty laughs, which we all need, now that the people you support & vote into power have taken the gloves off to pound you all into dog-food.
I hope it’s kibble, the stink when I pop a can made from you lads would be inhuman & It would end up being fed to the foxes, out the front garden. Just so you know your final resting place, I leave the grub for my canid friends under the back of the white car.
K. Cavan
Ah, bisted, quacks don’t echo.
TenPin Terry
There are some gullible fools on here who’d embarrass themselves by demanding to be the 33rd Team after failing to qualify for a tournament.
Back of the net as they say.
bisted
…nobody does gullible like yanks…they demanded that the world cup soccer be played over 4 quarters…gaa compromised and brought in water breaks…
K. Cavan
You’re labouring the “yanks” stuff at this stage, busted. Especially since most of your views on most subjects were determined by the CIA’s psyops department months ago. Methinks thou dost protest too much. What could be more gullible than a gullible New Englander (that’s Yank, busted), except the livestock they like to whip into an incoherent frenzy of mooing?
If only ye were real cattle, then the manure you produce would be useful for the rose bushes.
GiggidyGoo
There are some tans too who still cannot get over englands exit from the world cup in 1986 courtesy of Argentina’s Maradonna, and who still are moaning about it on english media Lineker as recent as 2021, 35 years later.
Now, that’s
Back of the net!
Howzat!
1966!
Touchdown!
Escape from Victory!
Sunak’sTax Bill!
K. Cavan
The Hand Of God, Giddy, the sun never sets on a bitter Little Englander.
TenPin Terry
The Hand of Frog …
‘ Please Mr Blatter, can we be an extra special team ‘cos everyone loves the Irish and we have the best supporters in the world doncha know ‘
* sniggers *
GiggidyGoo
35 years? Hand of God. Hahahahahahahah. And it’s a little englander still bringing up something that us Irish have forgotten about.
Mind you don’t bump off the TV set in the daycare centre Charger, Raheem Sterling might fall. Haw hawwwww.
K. Cavan
Jeez, stephen, that was torturous, even by the painful standards you’ve dragged into this forum. Next time you have a brainfart like that, just light a scented candle, ok?
Good lad.
Verbatim
I never realized how loving the EU is. Tingles assured-a love fest!
“This questionnaire is the basis for membership in the European Union. This won’t be the usual matter of years, but only take a matter of weeks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTqcSpVL15Q
Or, you may ask yourself what really is going?
K. Cavan
If only they’d ask themselves a few questions, Verbatim, at least being stumped for answers would use up some of the time they spend here, reiterating what Dr Claire Byrne & Professor Ryan Tubridy splutter at them from the gogglebox.
jonjoker
The 3rd Reich didn’t manage to take and hold Ukraine (aka Lebensraum), but the 4th Reich is hoping to.
TenPin Terry
Poor Boris.
A glittering career that ends in tawdry failure after a police investigation.
But anyway, that’s enough about Becker.
From boom boom to bust.
Fnarr fnarr.
bisted
…oh, douze points Rodney!
Mad
Yes he had a good innings though
Not bad for an ugly fat freckled ginger German
Rode a lot of fine jinnets
Put a fair bit up his nose I’d say
Wasted the rest..
K. Cavan
Games, sets & matches, Mad.
K. Cavan
The Sudetenland, Terry, the SS, Terry.
johnny
…this alleged corruption case against Digicel is back on.
“Mr O’Brien also also previously acknowledged concerns over the scheme. In a 2012 New York Times interview, he addressed concerns that $26 million had allegedly gone missing from the fund by promising to ask then-president Martelly for it to be audited.”
You can gaze on the Ninth Wonder of the World that is the paradise they call Háití & see there the future of The West, once we get rid of all that awful White Supremacy, eh?
SOQ
Alex Christoforou makes some astute observations about the latest Biden / Obama appearance, but especially the mystery surrounding the steel factory in Mariupol where a nest of Azov are surrounded. Ukrainian helicopters have been trying hard to get in but no success to date.
According to journalist ‘Vladimirov’- NATO officers from France, Germany, Britain and “neutral” Sweden got stuck at Azovstal in Mariupol.
If this turns out to be the case then they will have been caught red handed not only on active duty in Ukraine, but actively working with the Azov Nazis- which puts paid to the claims that Ukraine is in anyway independent right now. It could also lose the French election for Macron, as working with Nazis is never a good look.
It seems quite likely that the US has lost that three-star general as the Russians, clever buggers, allowed the first helicopter to land & take off again, before blowing it out of the sky.
It’s patently clear that the murderous psychopath Obama is back in the driving seat, Biden is just going around, soiling himself & making Bush Jr look like a Shakesperian actor with his increasingly unintelligible utterances. He’s not in charge of anything, even control of his spinchter is beyond the poor old guy at this stage.
It really is pathetic & it’s becoming a hard watch, I’ve almost stopped laughing at him, now & mostly reserve my glee for the gibbering of that talented WOC, Harris, the gift that keeps giving the lie to the ridiculous dogma that sees people chosen for important posts on the basis of the shape & colour of their genitalia.
The Governor of Texas is about to begin bussing close to half a million illegal immigrants per month to Washington, the ordure will intercept the air conditioning unit & the USA will continue to Balkanise until the term “United” will no longer be applicable.
Goodbye Miss America.
SOQ
You may be right about the US general, but it hasn’t been confirmed one way or another, and will probably be a very long time before it is.
If the story of the European NATO officers is correct, then in order to do maximum damage to Macron, the Russians will sync their move in time with the French elections. It really doesn’t matter if the NATO officers are captured dead or alive, as long as they have heads to display.
Christoforou is correct in that will then radically change the European public opinion on Ukraine, because once people realise they have been lied to- the propaganda is no longer effective.
There is a difference between being captured and being killed. Has he appeared anywhere since? Surely that wouldn’t be too hard to arrange?
Fearganainm
He’s appeared in Turkey, where he lives and works. His response on April 5th was, you’ll perhaps be disappointed to learn, made on the same day as the rumour started by an alleged ‘journalist’ using the ID German Vladimirov – the rumour you’re amplifying – began spreading on Telegram, Twitter, Tik Tok etc.
German Vladimirov is your sole source – all other commentary points back to ‘him’ – whoever or whatever ‘he’ is.
Incidentally, French, German, British and Swedish military officers were indeed in the Mariupol area – in 2021. Maybe ‘German Vladimirov’ has inserted that fact into his unconfirmed anywhere else 2022 concoction.
SOQ
So is there a video of him somewhere? Alex Christoforou said above he could not confirm of deny the rumour of coruse.
As for the NATO officers- he appears to more confident about them. Is there any evedence that they since left the area?
Oh and lose the friggen stroppy attitude love- in the main you do nothing more than regurgitate legacy media stories which we can all check ourselves.
In fact- they are so repetitious, it is hard to miss.
SOQ
* evidence
jonjoker
Fearg, if he is alive all he needs to do is show up on video with a copy of today’s newspaper, or better still talking about something that has just happened.
Photos are easily photoshopped, tweets can be easily written by someone else.
High-quality video is the best way to squash a false rumour.
jonjoker
And one more thing – I’ve read a load of “fact checks”, and the best of them are dubious.
In the current Ukraine war situation I just file them under “fake news”, aka propaganda. Nobody serious bothers with them, the moniker must be one of the quickest to go out of fashion in the history of the internet – like all those RW websites that use some version of the word “true” in their titles you know you can just dismiss them out of hand.
Fearganainm
SOQ – you don’t check anything. You do zero evaluation before running here with a rumour.
And that is what it remains – a single source rumour being repeated by others. When pushed for a source they all fall back on ‘German Vladimirov’ – who for all you know is some spotty kid in Dalkey winding people up.
Even pro-Russian posters advised caution about ‘German Vladimirov’, one stating that he had never, ever heard of the alleged ‘journalist’ before the NATO officers’ rumour.
You’re here trying hard to keep alive a single source claim that gained traction online on April 5th. Apart from repeaters like yourself no other ‘new’ information has surfaced.
We know you don’t do fact-checking. Nor do you bother to revise outdated information if new information comes to light. You have zero interest in accuracy.
SOQ
I very much doubt if Alex Christoforou is stating such from a single rumour. If you check his YouTube channel you will see he regularly hits between 50 and 100k views per broadcast- some of which being 2-3 times in a single day.
So there are plenty of people paying attention to what he says.
He is right to be asking why the Ukrainians are so desperate to get one or more people out of that steel factory- they are clearly of importance.
Is there any evidence those NATO officers are elsewhere?
If you don’t like what I write then don’t friggen read it- it really is that simple.
jonjoker
SOQ, is there any reason we shoud accept Christoforou’s word for anything?
What is his background? What unrelated stories has he broken?
Or is he just a commentator on the internet who has built up a following?
Genuine question BTW.
Fearganainm
@SOQ
Most of what you write is error strewn garbage from dodgy sources or thoroughly discredited or partisan individuals.
All your YouTube and Tik Tok junk is just a scroll by moment, you’re not really a very successful Putinbot at all.
And Alex Christoforou? Another pro-Russia shill.
You’re so credulous when it comes to all the swill you imbibe.
So people should upload “Look! I’m not dead!” hostage-style photographs to the Internet every time some whackjob lunatic starts an online rumour about their alleged death?
I can’t see it catching on.
jonjoker
This is hardly a common-or-garden rumour now, is it?
SOQ
@ jonjoker
Alex Christoforou owns and runs The Duran website out of Cyprus. Is he impartial? Probably not- but it is pretty obvious that he has his finger on the pulse.
He does not come across as the likes of RT but he is certainly not legacy western media either. He strikes me as being anti WEF / NWO more than anything else, which means he has the ‘far right’ label of course – the usual rubbish.
Check the site (theduran.com) and make you own mind up- while you are still allowed to.
Daisy Chainsaw
German Vladimirov? Does he write for the duran duran website too?
Duncan Wheeler
@fergie It’s all my data/sources are more valid/true than yours nonsense. Your confirmational bias jumps out of your comments. No nuance, no friendly debate, just hostile insults and reams of ahem ‘facts’ and one sided links, many from discredited sources, ie msm. There is no neutral vact checking website. They all have an agenda and it’s not the unbiased judging whether a fact is just that. Your definite certainty is naive. We know nothing about this war until it has been properly investigated by non compromisedbodies, (find them if you can) it can’t be assesed until it is over.
There is one stark fact about this war- one side of the story has been banned so only one side is being broadcasted. And the same bottom holes from the lockdown / vaccine scandal are now demanding the official narrative only AGAIN.
Except when one looks at what is coming out about Pfizer- it is quite obvious that the lockdown / vaccine dissidents- who were smeared and some hounded out of their jobs- were actually the ones telling the truth- they were, and are, correct.
People can post what they want but when they come at me for doing exactly what I done during the pandemic- ignoramuses who can’t even converse in a civil manner- can go to hell.
goldenbrown
LOL
thanks for another lovely day out at Broadsheet Zoo
my favourites are the f_lawless and K. Cavan enclosures…just missed feeding time at the SOQ pen but still good value
greetings to fellow patrons, hope your weekend going well? tis great isn’t it, sure where else would you get to observe such unusual animals for free wha?
Micko
I’m gonna balance a ball on my nose later on.
Whiskey depending ;)
TenPin Terry
Aye, me too Micko.
Exeter v Munster looks a good bet for teatime scoops then Lady TenPin has asked me to fire up the old ribeye steak and red wine combo tonight which basically means a trip to headboard heaven via a few combustibles and a movie.
Speaking of which any good cop thrillers anyone can recommend on Netflix/Prime ?
That or a good war movie.
Ta muchly in advance.
K. Cavan
I think Z-Cars is probably right up your litter-strewn, urine-drenched alley, with your head, Terry.
K. Cavan
Once it’s not one of your own, Micko. You can leave that sort of contortion to the tortured genius that resides in the head of wee stephen-with-a-lower-case-“s”, the stockbroker (heehee!), who’s busy losing his family fortune to Paddy Power.
Not everyone can find the shift key.
K. Cavan
Ah, poor goldenbrown, staring through the bars, unfortunately unaware that he’s on the inside, making animal noises he thinks humans understand & throwing his faeces at the visitors. Anyone got more peanuts?
goldenbrown
no. really sorry for you to learn it like this but I’d be one for saying it as it is
tell you what, let’s do a quick experiment:
you tot up the amount of posts per day that you do
then compare that to mine
see?
I’m just a visitor
SOQ
Saying what as it is exactly? All I can see is an immature individual with nothing to say who is trying to make themselves feel superior by sneering at others.
Fearg, here in Ireland we don’t really care what BJ is up to, unless it affects us.
We’re not impressed about his antics generally, although he can be good for a laugh.
Still, if it rocks your boat who am I to take your simple pleasures away from you.
Fearganainm
It’s a single tweet from a Ukrainian ambassador, an item of news, not a Hollywood tribute.
I detest Johnson so have no clue what you’re waffling about. I suspect that you don’t either.
Fearganainm
Why the battle for Donbas will be very different from the assault on Kyiv
The Guardian, again. Imagine actually believing anything that their unpaid bourgeois Brit student/blogger “journalists” write, eh?
You’d end up as crazy as a Ferg.
Fearganainm
Look, I know that you can’t help whining ‘The Guardian’ every time you see a link from that source but you’re only displaying your utter stupidity – perhaps that’s a compulsion that you can’t control?
The article is by Dr Jack Watling, senior research fellow for land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and so not a creation of ‘The Guardian’.
Lots of media sources carry articles by lots of different people – didn’t you know?
OK, OK, you only do it to avoid reading…
jonjoker
“Royal United Services Institute”
Would that be a branch of the UK state?
I wonder why some people might think it’s more likely to be propaganda than objective reporting?
Fearganainm
People that thought like that would have to be acutely paranoid. And be incapable of understanding the difference between ‘reporting’ and ‘outlining possible scenarios’.
Speculating about something =/= reporting on it.
jonjoker
Almost everything you have posted here is UK-related.
If I didn’t know better, I might even think you are from the UK. And living there too.
Fearganainm
“Almost everything you have posted here is UK-related. If I didn’t know better, I might even think you are from the UK. And living there too.”
Your first sentence is incorrect. So is your second. That’s a 100% failure rate on your part. You’re not really doing very well here, are you?
Duncan Wheeler
@ K.Cavan Tru dat.
Fearganainm
Dr Tony Holohan will not take up academic position at Trinity College Dublin and will leave public service
Well Michael McNamara has already been making those comparisons and Zappone and the government are very keen not to be seen supporting Holohoop. In fact, I cannot remember ever seeing mehole or Leo and him at the one briefing?
The real question is- why is he so keen to leave the Chief Medical Officer of Ireland position all of a sudden? Time will tell but you can be certain he is trying to save his neck.
benblack
He can refuse to participate in any future inquiry and cannot be compelled because he is no longer a public servant – which is the purpose of this latest drama, IMO.
SOQ
You are probably right. Given his behaviour, such an inquiry could turn into a criminal investigation.
TenPin Terry
Boris in Kyiv for a surprise visit today on the back of announcing a further £100million in weapons for Ukraine.
A giant bestriding the European stage schooling the French and German pygmies in how to stand up to tyrants.
Germany has been dragged kicking and screaming into retaliation against Putin and Macron is just a typical French appeaser.
Boris is a true leader for our times. He’s having a great war and still finds time to shaft his main leadership rival.
They’ve been underestimating Box Office Boris for years.
Maura
Are you a caricature?
jonjoker
A buffoon meeting a clown, Maura.
stephen moran
Refugees are choosing to return to war-torn Ukraine exhausted by the ‘hunger and homelessness’ inflicted by the long wait for UK visas
Boris is the ultimate BS artist – a pound shop Trump – a man devoid of any substance- 47 u turns and counting – courtesy of Politico London
Since winning an 80-seat majority in December 2019, the government has reverse ferreted on: The NHS staff visa charge … Jacob Rees-Mogg’s conga voting system … Reopening all primary schools last summer … Free school meals over summer (thanks to Marcus Rashford) … Centralized COVID app … Huawei … “Air bridges” … Exam results algorithm (“no U-turn, no change“) … Extending the eviction ban … Face masks in schools … Badger culls … “Go back to work or risk losing your job” … Pints in parliament after 10 p.m. … October lockdown … Furlough extension … Free school meals over holidays (thanks to Rashford, again) … Christmas canceled … Closing schools a day after they reopened, after weeks of mind-melting rhetoric … Free school meals vouchers (thanks to Rashford, again) … Review of workers’ rights post-Brexit … Cumbria coal mine … Prosecutions of troops overseas … Dyson texts probe … Local lockdowns travel mess … Allowing MPs a vote on the foreign aid cut — which, as a 2019 manifesto commitment, also counts …Hancock resigning a day after the matter was “closed” … Johnson and Sunak’s short-lived isolation pilot scheme … “Amber watchlist” … Vaccine passports for nightclubs … National Insurance and triple lock manifesto commitments on the same day … Planning reforms … Emergency extended visas to ease labor shortages … Dumping raw sewage … Standards reform and the fate of Owen Paterson … HS2’s eastern leg … Reintroducing pre-departure COVID tests four days after saying they wouldn’t … Who pays for cladding removal? … Mandatory jabs for the NHS … Gavin Williamson’s blanket ban on phones in school … Parliamentary scrutiny of trade deals, per POLITICO’s own Graham Lanktree … Fur and foie gras imports unbanned … Streamlined Ukrainian visa process … Post-Paterson plan for time limits on MPs’ second jobs … Allowing Tory MPs to abstain on Lebedev security advice vote … Fracking — sort-of … and then last night’s speedy conversion therapy reversal and counting
stephen moran
Johnson: I just offered Zelenskyy a visa to pick seasonal fruit
Fearganainm
Leaving Cert Irish oral exams postponed for 500 pupils due to ‘high levels of Covid-19’
“Almost 500 Leaving Cert students have had their Irish oral exams postponed at short notice due to a lack of available examiners and “high rates of Covid-19”. The State Examinations Commission (SEC) said “deferring these examinations at short notice is a necessary step due to the high rates of Covid-19 in society”. Seven different schools across the country are affected and approximately 500 students are impacted from the total of 52,000 examinations to be held in this subject…”
Fearganainm
Thousands of ventilators pulled as electrical faults put UK patients’ lives at risk
“…Globally, there have been 389 reports of failures, including one where the patient died and four where they were seriously injured. In six of the total cases, the warning alarm didn’t sound…”
Not ‘just a UK story’
Fearganainm
Pro-life ex-GOP aide who worked on Trump ads sentenced to more than a decade in prison because ‘He enjoyed seeing children getting raped’
Colonel Alexander Bespalov, the commander of the 59th Guards Tank Regiment (part of the 144th Guards Motorized Rifle Division), has been killed in Ukraine:
The BBC is to hand over broadcast and unbroadcast material from a documentary series about Northern Ireland’s Troubles to the police as part of investigations into terrorist activity, a judge has said. An order was made at Belfast Crown Court following agreement between the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and BBC on material in the Spotlight On The Troubles: A Secret History series, which was first broadcast in 2019. The material includes interviews with Patrick Ryan, a Catholic priest, who told the programme he had maintained a network of Europe-wide contacts used to generate arms and money for the IRA. It also features interviews with convicted killer Laurence Maguire about his involvement with the Mid Ulster UVF…The judge continued: “Within 21 days the BBC shall produce the following material to the PSNI, insofar as they are held by the BBC arising out of episodes three, six and eight of the BBC’s Spotlight On The Troubles: A Secret History, first broadcast in 2019. All broadcast and unbroadcast recordings of interviews of Patrick Ryan, insofar as those interviews relate to his involvement of suspect acts of IRA terrorism. All broadcast and unbroadcast recordings of interviews of Laurence Maguire insofar as those interviews relate to his involvement in suspected acts of terrorism in connection with Mid Ulster UVF…”
Father O’Memopark is 91.
Fearganainm
Suspended DUP councillor William Walker, arrested in child grooming case, has left Northern Ireland
Sure, you can’t beat an insult dating back to 1689, can you?
jonjoker
Why are you surprised at this, Fearg?
Fearganainm
Serious question. Has someone recently given you a heavy blow to the head? Where is any indication of surprise in that post? Even the slightest hint of it? You maybe need to lie down for a while, you’re really struggling to come up with… well, anything. An bhfuil do chiall ná do chéadfaí agat?
stephen moran
Inside Cyber Front Z, the ‘People’s Movement’ Spreading Russian Propaganda
In an effort to win the information war, Kremlin allies have deployed a new kind of troll farm.
I realize this purely a binary issue here and no on is going to persuade anyone in the opposite bunker, trench, or tinfoil hat at this stage of Z(e) war but this did appeal to my cognitive biases.
He really should have stuck to do his playboy thing as Sussex CC – as the proved he could neither bowl nor bat in Islamabad – i wonder what Jemima thinks – another of Vlads fanboys run out
Imran Khan ousted as Pakistan’s PM
Mad
Didn’t he have a good long knock Stephen?
Hardly the least sticky wicket in the world
“Gardaí have confirmed that a review of Garda protocols for dealing with third-party concerns about the potential for violence will be carried out following the death of a Cork father and his two sons in October 2020. A spokesperson for An Garda Síochána told The Echo a senior officer from a different division will conduct the review into this matter…”
stephen moran
when you’ve lost Uncle Silvio – no more Bunga bunga
BREAKING. Silvio Berlusconi breaks his silence on his friend Vladimir Putin and #Ukraine: “I’m distressed and disappointed by Putin. War crimes happened in Bucha. Russia shouldn’t deny its responsibilities”.
Fearganainm
“In Mariupol, the Russians collect the bodies of killed citizens in an underground passage on the outskirts of the city near Sadkiv, and then burn them in the crematorium – Mariupol City Council reports”
Compared to other atrocities that are taking place, this is not a huge deal. However, de-platforming seems to have become the norm, without much of a chin-wag. What does this do for the war effort?
https://support.spotify.com/ru-en/article/russia-service-suspended/
Usual thing when war is about to start
Silence the enemy and the propaganda starts .there is WW 3 on the way and finally the cull has begun the great reset and we are just going to walk into it as the press hypes it up
To be honest we all knew what a bastard Putin is and the thing many do not realise is Putin cares nothing about sanctions neither do these oligarchs
When you have $10 billion and you end up with $2 billion you still will never see one reduction to your lifestyle but the average person in Russia will and the suffering will not be much more than the west as price gouging is emdemic
As the war drum beats in overdrive we are all sleep walking into war
Russia revokes registration of Amnesty and Human Rights Watch
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-revokes-registration-amnesty-human-rights-watch-ministry-2022-04-08/
“April 8 (Reuters) – Russia’s justice ministry said on Friday it had revoked the registration of 15 foreign organisations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW). The Russian units of the organisations, which also included the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “were excluded due to the discovery of violations of the current legislation of the Russian Federation,” the ministry said in a statement. The decision, which did not give details of any violations, was announced days after New York-based HRW said it had found “several cases of Russian military forces committing laws-of-war violations” in Ukraine…”
“A Russian Tochka-U missile struck a civilian evacuation point at the Kramatorsk rail station on April 8, killing at least 50 and wounding around a hundred evacuees. Russian attempts to deny the strike are completely false. Pro-Russian Telegram channels and the Russian Ministry of Defense initially claimed Russian forces conducted precision strikes on railway stations in Donbas before deleting the claims once heavy civilian casualties emerged. Russian and DNR sources claimed both that the strike did not occur and that Ukrainian forces launched the strike as a false flag, ludicrously claiming that Russian forces do not use the Tochka-U missile — despite the fact Russia designed the Tochka, has demonstrably used it in previous strikes, and confirmed reports that Russia’s 8th Combined Arms Army (operating in Donbas) is equipped with the missile.”
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-8
“Here is a saved screen of a Telegram post confirming the hit on Kramatorsk rail as an “attack on cluster of Ukrainian combatants” The author of the post is Dmitry Steshin, military “journalist” with http://KP.RU”
https://twitter.com/ABarbashin/status/1512367813918351361
I think this post must be peak Fearganaimn. The typical lack of personal insight/opinion offered; no contextualisation of source – just a link to a site called “Understanding War . org” which actually has in its “About Us” section: “We are committed to improving the nation’s ability to execute military operations and respond to emerging threats in order to achieve U.S. strategic objectives.“.
It’s obviously a site that wants us to ‘Understand war’ in a way that conforms to the strategic objectives of US imperialists. By sharing the link and offering no context, it gives the impression of someone who lacks judgement and is mindlessly churning them out.
Bomb a train station why don’t ye
If you can’t do better than that stick to plucking your banjo
Of course. The internet is awash with this sort of propaganda and there is always a drone to flood broadsheet with it too.
Given British Intelligence’s meddling in the Ukraine situation, this saturation is unlikely to improve here in Ireland anytime soon.
Go on answer the question. Is an invasion and killing innocent people acceptable to you?
Take a hike B9
Peak ‘avoiding the core of the issue’ from f_lawless. While you’re objecting to a source, the information that ‘Pro-Russian Telegram channels and the Russian Ministry of Defense initially claimed Russian forces conducted precision strikes on railway stations in Donbas before deleting the claims once heavy civilian casualties emerged.’ is available from many other sources – including archived copies of the now deleted initial Russian claims.
What you have to address in this instance is not ‘the nature of a single source’ but the fact that the Russians claimed “We did it,”, before the story began to pick up attention from other media. Then the Russians deleted their “We did it,” material and began rushing out statements to the effect that Russia did not have or use Tochka-U missiles. Alas, for whitewashers like yourself, this latter claim was swiftly exposed as false via footage of Russian convoys that included Tochka-U missiles, Russian statements from earlier this year boasting of using Tochka-U missiles etc.
The Russians don’t make it easy for you, forcing you to twist and turn and spin and lie in the face of overwhelming evidence that the Russians themselves, unhelpfully for you, have put online – and that’s before any other sources provide additional evidence.
That is the context of your drone work here.
T.hese tactics are as old as war itself.
https://geopolitics.co/2022/04/03/i-was-used-to-create-fake-news-about-russian-air-strike-on-maternity-hospital/
She is a lot more convincing than some of the types on msm.
Let’s put your article alongside this one, for balance, like:
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/04/08/a-new-wave-of-old-lies
Russia hasn’t used Tocha-U for a decade, this was a Ukrainian war crime or an accident . Hurtling towards defeat & capitulation, the illigitimate Zelensky Junta has formed battalions of convicts, murders, rapists & the like, at least they’ll be in good company, among the Nazi fanatics & murderers in the increasingly rag-tag remnants of the army of that vile, Nazi-infested regime. Their desire to die for the principles of their deity, Adolph Hitler, will soon be satisfied & the world will be a better place when their carcasses are thrown in a hole.
When making a claim be sure to try and verify it.
Belarus, March 30th 2022:
“A column of Russian equipment with “V” marks was moving from Rechitsa towards Gomel along the M10 highway. There were at least 8 Tochka-U, several BTR-82a, about 9 KamAZ trucks, some of which are carrying Tochka-U missiles, communication vehicle and a crane.”
https://twitter.com/MotolkoHelp/status/1509099435262976000
The Twitterati speak. Must be gospel then so.
Yeah, work that messaging, work it.
More:
“Russia’s defense ministry claims it doesn’t have the Tochka-U missiles used in the horrific rocket attack on Kramatorsk today. But just weeks ago they were boasting about using them in exercises just before the war. Not even bothering to find a good excuse.”
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1512413792516378624
February, 2022 – Russian ‘warm up’ military exercises. And look what they are using – Tochka-U missiles.
https://www.belta.by/photonews/view/puski-raket-takticheskimi-kompleksami-tochka-u-otrabotali-na-uchenii-sojuznaja-reshimost-2022-27946/
That must be VERY disappointing for all the Putinbots frantically spraying all over the Internet that Russia doesn’t have or use Tochka-U missiles.
November 2017, a spot of boastful merch promotion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9O41BRKBUg
And just who is that verified YouTube account holder pushing the wonders of the Tochka-U tactical missile system?
Why yes, it’s Минобороны России – the Russian Defence Ministry.
Answer the question. Is it acceptable to invade a country and kill innocent people. You’re here all day posting bs but can’t answer a simple question. Why?
Ask the experts, the Americans, they will be able to fill you in..
Waitrose begins rationing sunflower oil due to war in Ukraine
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/waitrose-begins-rationing-sunflower-oil-23643842
“…The disruption has been caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which supplies 80% of Britain’s sunflower oil… “
Pénurie d’huile de tournesol: la composition de certains produits alimentaires va changer
https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/consommation/penurie-d-huile-de-tournesol-la-composition-de-certains-produits-alimentaires-va-changer_AV-202204070332.html
“…Pour éviter de paralyser les lignes de production, les fabricants de produits alimentaires prennent les devants: la part de l’huile de tournesol pourrait diminuer dans la composition de certains produits, voire disparaître complètement, dans les mois qui viennent. Une situation inédite. “Je n’ai pas le souvenir d’avoir observé des changements aussi brutaux et imprévisibles par le passé”, remarque Jérôme Foucault, président de l’Association des entreprises de produits alimentaires élaborés (Adepale)…”
vous êtes trompés de site la, non ?
Ah J, you forgot the accent on the a.
You’ve been away too long.
That aside, hope all’s well.
far too long, I had a lurid dream about ” home” last night, stuffing my face I was and riding for Ireland
hope you’re well too Lushie and thanks for the thought
At the same time?
Marvellous.
What a vision
How awful.
No more late night chipper
…whatabout the poor Russians having to do without coke, Pepsi or big Macs…
They have Big Macs, bisted, just not made by American corporates. I’m sure they’ll taste just as crap. Everybody with functioning taste buds knows the Whopper is a far superior offering. The Big Mac is well-named, it tastes like a plastic raincoat. Anyone who drinks Coke or Pepsi has yet to achieve adulthood, they’te both as appealing as warm tom-cat urine.
….tastes like a plastic raincoat… that’s brilliant.
Christ t’night
I would say as soon as possible they will be reopened with the big vlad On the menu and chicken Kiev all the rage in Moscow
Not to worry, the EU Commissioners don’t eat chips.
They are french fries in the EU.
Reconstituted potato mash squirted through metal nozzles and instantly frozen to resemble potato chips then deep fried in rape seed oil yum yum
Answer the question, is it acceptable to invade a country and kill innocent people. How come you won’t answer?
Why are you persisting with your silly posts Botty. Come on tell us. Answer the question. Why dont you answer.
Fearg, you may not realise this but Waitrose does not have any shops in Ireland (unless they have the occsional one north of the border) so we’re not terribly concerned about what they do or do not have.
Until you’re standing in front of empty shelves where sunflower oil used to be, that is.
Let me know where you imagine an unending, limitless supply is going to come from for Irish shops – there’s a fortune to be made if you seriously believe that shortages throughout Europe and elsewhere aren’t going to be mirrored in Ireland.
Ditto pasta, ditto flour, ditto couscous…
Nothing to do with Brexit then?
More likely to do with Ukraine being a major exporter of sunflower oil (47% of the world’s exports) and wheat (5th largest exporter of wheat in the world in 2020).
When the food riots start later this year don’t say that you weren’t warned.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2292034/war-in-ukraine-sparks-global-scramble-for-sunflower-oil
One would think Waitrose customers would all have air fryers, negating the need for it.
What life under Russian occupation was like for the villagers of Yahidne:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/08/yahidne-villagers-kyiv-ukraine-school-basement-russian-occupation
Source: Reuters in Yahidne
“Reuters in Yahidne”, well, well Ferg, I never took you for a witty guy, most comedians, you see, are pretty intelligent but you’ve caught me off-guard with the subtlety of your humour, you sly dog.
Reuters in Yahidne”, brilliant!
That could become a viral meme.
“Yeah, who told you that, Reuters in Yahidne?”.
What did the Reuters’ journalists in Yahidne have to say? Maybe you’d like to comment on that?
I’d say that they have more credibility than some alleged ‘journalist’ using the ID German Vladimirov, wouldn’t you?
Reuters don’t employ journalists they employ fiction writers. Bit like yourself Fergie.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKS9fNjXoAERD9k?format=jpg&name=medium
It seems the sad and untimely death of that young GAA player Red Og Murphy last week was 100% unrelated to Covid vaccines, so no doubt we’ll have a full retraction of that frankly grotesque insinuation and blatant attempt to push an agenda at a moment of intense sadness for his family, friends and community?
The priest at his funeral spoke at length of how young people need to reach out to their friends rather than bottling things up…
Report on the funeral here:
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligochampion/news/red-og-murphy-had-a-presence-that-brightened-your-day-funeral-hears-as-role-model-laid-to-rest-41534857.html
You’re such a ghoul Fergie.
All anyone knew as that a young athlete had died suddenly, and given the spate of recent health issues among that demographic- it was not unreasonable to assume it was vaccine related.
The fact you are raising the issue in such a manner means you are doing exactly what you are accusing other of doing of course- the difference being that you have the full facts at hand.
RIP Red Og.
No, it is unreasonable. You don’t jump to conclusions or speculate on the cause of death where a fact vacuum exists.
It is despicable, unjustifiable and reflects poorly on the journalistic integrity of the “author.” It cannot be rationalised as understandable on the basis of driving a subjective agenda forward.
I agree with the first part of your apologist statement ” All anyone knew as that a young athlete had died suddenly..”
If that was all anyone knew then why fuppin speculate wildly. Shameful.
“You don’t jump to conclusions or speculate on the cause of death where a fact vacuum exists.”
Were you not reading any comments sections in 2020. Everytime someone died there were cretins crying covid, evidence be danmed
The point is valid regardless of what the issue is. Just because it’s made in the context of this particular story doesn’t make it subjectively false or without any wider veracity across any article or topic of conversation or interaction. Pretty basic, fundamental stuff.
“100% unrelated” that sounds more desperate than definitive, Broadbag. I can sense your faith in the narrative is weakening. I doubt if his family were busy scanning the corners of the sewer we call The Media, for mentions of his tragic death, so you can unclutch your pearls & dismount that high horse, you just look stupid up there & pearls really don’t suit that outfit.
Pfizer saw so many adverse events they had to hire 2,400 new employees to process them.
Dr. Naomi Wolf: “[Pfizer] hid, they concealed, they redacted from disclosure, forced by court, the fact that they were processing so many adverse events in the first three months…
https://www.reddit.com/r/banned4life/comments/tx4t76/bombshell_pfizer_saw_so_many_adverse_events_they/
So at the same time as when without informed consent, the vaccine bullying, coercion and threatening was in full flight- they were hiring thousands of people to process the injuries.
And before any of you idiots start your deflection by attacking Naomi Wolf, just take a hike. It’s not about her- she is just the messenger. That you would even attempt to do so on such a serious subject, speaks volumes.
I think I will bring my dog for a walk.
Or is the dog walking you???
Yeah, I trained him well.
I can’t believe that – If you trained him well he’d skip the park and be taking you to the pub
He’s barred, when he gets a few beers he starts singing.
What makes you think she’s a doctor.
the dog ?
No, that’s a vet you are thinking of.
I rest my case, M’lud.
A barrister now are you.
Death By ‘Suicide’: Life Insurance Companies Will Likely Deny Most COVID Jab Claims
Attorney Todd Callender: “The court specifically found that participation in clinical trials is so hazardous that it voids the coverage of the insurance contract. ‘You should have known.’ They treated it, for purposes of the law, as a suicide. The court is saying, ‘Participating in a phase three clinical trial is suicide.’ That’s the conclusion.”
https://rumble.com/v10a1sf-death-by-suicide-life-insurance-companies-will-likely-deny-most-covid-jab-c.html
So in summary: while an insurance company may pay out upon such, they do not have to. A knock on effect may be that in the same way as suicides, some vaccines deaths may be covered up and that in turn will skew the figures downwards.
You really are a despicable human being. Covid and suicide in the same post…
Would you care to elaborate, Aunty Bot, the rest of us are normal, we can’t quite grasp the intricacies of the bizarre fantasy-world you inhabit, where “suicide” & “Covid” are mutually exclusive words, within a post.
Why don’t you take a bit of time off to compile a list of words which you reckon don’t go together. Please make it as comprehensive as possible, take the rest of your life if needs be, this is important work that can only be entrusted to you, for obvious reasons.
You just said in your previous text that insurance companies will deny cover for Covid vaccination people. This is the same thread about a young man dying. How is that disgusting? Tell us about how the invasion of a country and innocent people being killed is acceptable. how come you can’t answer? No intelligence?
Almost like getting a choc ice and a stick botty. Did yer mammy buy one today?
I suppose SOQ there is legal arguments regarding the coercement of governments to take the vaccine
And as well the government did not ban a substance that could kill you
I can see the legal Eagan bottom dwellers salivating over the hourly rate arguing this out in court for months
When this is over I assume we will see many cases brought over the people who died as a result of a vaccine that was fast tracked and given to the population without going through the usual trials
I can see it now Pfizer the new whiplash litigation
Meanwhile all the publicans waiting on their full payouts on their insurance policies are still waiting as the insurance companies have delayed this with the collusion of government to drag it out in the courts waiting for the book of quantum decision still delayed in the courts for over a year
Well it looks like the precedent has been set, and that will remain until another court rules in a different direction. If claims really are going through the roof then there will come a point where Insurance companies will go out of business.
And yes, given that governments are partly at fault, it is likely that they will have to step in which means the tax payer will be footing the bill yet again- and it is going to be a substantial bill- crazy in fact.
There is going to be legal actions all over the place, take employers for example. If they forced someone to take the experimental drug still in trails at threat of dismissal- then they surely they are liable too? Will their employers liability cover that? I doubt it.
There are lads on here that if you took them to a football match in which the home side won 3:0, but the goals all went to VAR (and were shown to be clearly onside from multiple different angles ) who’d argue the home team in league with the 3rd official and in cahoots with the broadcasting company had prerecorded the exact goals scored using a mocked up opposition to fool the ref and the public if only the rest of us could see it because bigdongsean666’s 2nd cousin once went out with the janitor at the stadium and had a video “proving it” on some quack echo chamber on the net.
+1…don’t really understand the soccerball analogy but definitely agree with the last few words about the ‘quack echo chamber on the net’…
It works both ways though bisted: Nigel being the prime example
…moi…Nigel and I are usually on the same hymn sheet…he does seem to be a bit blinkered when it comes to yanks – at least, his half of yanks…other than that he gets my +1…he’ll be along here shortly to speak for himself*
*please let him have the last word or you’ll be here all weekend…
Haha I won’t (be here all weekend).
I agree – sometimes I do see eye to eye with Nigel on many topics- but I thought we were discussing the style of engagement, that’s all.
Yer man’s football analogy^ is good, but remember that’s one fella in a crowd of what, at Windsor Park, 15,000 average? That’s why I don’t get that people feel they need to shout the likes of SOQ down all the time, he is literally one lad bawling I a crowd of people- leave him off, he’s doing no harm, really. I’m not saying you pile on him, but like with V, have people ever thought these personalities crave the negative attention? Just don’t give it to them.
^sorry that’s a bit confusing, there was another similar football analogy here yesterday about some guy moaning at Linfield’s game even though they win all the time
…talking about gullible yanks…these four yanks were staying in the Europa in Belfast and were asking advice from the concierge on what they should do and see…among other things the concierge suggested they go to the local soccer derby between Linfield and Glentoran at Windsor…the yanks agree and ask the concierge if he can get tickets…reassured that they wouldn’t need tickets they ask what time the match starts…after another consultation on the phone the concierge said Windsor wanted to know what time they’d like the match to start…
Hahaha very good
Well, it’s no longer up for debate, really, you lads are to comedy what the SS were to the Sudetenland. Just stick to serious elucidation of your closely-held beliefs, in future, please. They contain more than enough comedic material for a few hearty laughs, which we all need, now that the people you support & vote into power have taken the gloves off to pound you all into dog-food.
I hope it’s kibble, the stink when I pop a can made from you lads would be inhuman & It would end up being fed to the foxes, out the front garden. Just so you know your final resting place, I leave the grub for my canid friends under the back of the white car.
Ah, bisted, quacks don’t echo.
There are some gullible fools on here who’d embarrass themselves by demanding to be the 33rd Team after failing to qualify for a tournament.
Back of the net as they say.
…nobody does gullible like yanks…they demanded that the world cup soccer be played over 4 quarters…gaa compromised and brought in water breaks…
You’re labouring the “yanks” stuff at this stage, busted. Especially since most of your views on most subjects were determined by the CIA’s psyops department months ago. Methinks thou dost protest too much. What could be more gullible than a gullible New Englander (that’s Yank, busted), except the livestock they like to whip into an incoherent frenzy of mooing?
If only ye were real cattle, then the manure you produce would be useful for the rose bushes.
There are some tans too who still cannot get over englands exit from the world cup in 1986 courtesy of Argentina’s Maradonna, and who still are moaning about it on english media Lineker as recent as 2021, 35 years later.
Now, that’s
Back of the net!
Howzat!
1966!
Touchdown!
Escape from Victory!
Sunak’sTax Bill!
The Hand Of God, Giddy, the sun never sets on a bitter Little Englander.
The Hand of Frog …
‘ Please Mr Blatter, can we be an extra special team ‘cos everyone loves the Irish and we have the best supporters in the world doncha know ‘
* sniggers *
35 years? Hand of God. Hahahahahahahah. And it’s a little englander still bringing up something that us Irish have forgotten about.
Mind you don’t bump off the TV set in the daycare centre Charger, Raheem Sterling might fall. Haw hawwwww.
Jeez, stephen, that was torturous, even by the painful standards you’ve dragged into this forum. Next time you have a brainfart like that, just light a scented candle, ok?
Good lad.
I never realized how loving the EU is. Tingles assured-a love fest!
“This questionnaire is the basis for membership in the European Union. This won’t be the usual matter of years, but only take a matter of weeks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTqcSpVL15Q
Or, you may ask yourself what really is going?
If only they’d ask themselves a few questions, Verbatim, at least being stumped for answers would use up some of the time they spend here, reiterating what Dr Claire Byrne & Professor Ryan Tubridy splutter at them from the gogglebox.
The 3rd Reich didn’t manage to take and hold Ukraine (aka Lebensraum), but the 4th Reich is hoping to.
Poor Boris.
A glittering career that ends in tawdry failure after a police investigation.
But anyway, that’s enough about Becker.
From boom boom to bust.
Fnarr fnarr.
…oh, douze points Rodney!
Yes he had a good innings though
Not bad for an ugly fat freckled ginger German
Rode a lot of fine jinnets
Put a fair bit up his nose I’d say
Wasted the rest..
Games, sets & matches, Mad.
The Sudetenland, Terry, the SS, Terry.
…this alleged corruption case against Digicel is back on.
“Mr O’Brien also also previously acknowledged concerns over the scheme. In a 2012 New York Times interview, he addressed concerns that $26 million had allegedly gone missing from the fund by promising to ask then-president Martelly for it to be audited.”
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/us-court-throws-out-1-5bn-alleged-corruption-case-against-digicel-1.4238429
Judge ruled the case may proceed.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/western-union-haitian-ex-presidents-face-revived-antitrust-suit
(its Saturday and its complicated)
You can gaze on the Ninth Wonder of the World that is the paradise they call Háití & see there the future of The West, once we get rid of all that awful White Supremacy, eh?
Alex Christoforou makes some astute observations about the latest Biden / Obama appearance, but especially the mystery surrounding the steel factory in Mariupol where a nest of Azov are surrounded. Ukrainian helicopters have been trying hard to get in but no success to date.
According to journalist ‘Vladimirov’- NATO officers from France, Germany, Britain and “neutral” Sweden got stuck at Azovstal in Mariupol.
If this turns out to be the case then they will have been caught red handed not only on active duty in Ukraine, but actively working with the Azov Nazis- which puts paid to the claims that Ukraine is in anyway independent right now. It could also lose the French election for Macron, as working with Nazis is never a good look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6ybe6oCWbo
It seems quite likely that the US has lost that three-star general as the Russians, clever buggers, allowed the first helicopter to land & take off again, before blowing it out of the sky.
It’s patently clear that the murderous psychopath Obama is back in the driving seat, Biden is just going around, soiling himself & making Bush Jr look like a Shakesperian actor with his increasingly unintelligible utterances. He’s not in charge of anything, even control of his spinchter is beyond the poor old guy at this stage.
It really is pathetic & it’s becoming a hard watch, I’ve almost stopped laughing at him, now & mostly reserve my glee for the gibbering of that talented WOC, Harris, the gift that keeps giving the lie to the ridiculous dogma that sees people chosen for important posts on the basis of the shape & colour of their genitalia.
The Governor of Texas is about to begin bussing close to half a million illegal immigrants per month to Washington, the ordure will intercept the air conditioning unit & the USA will continue to Balkanise until the term “United” will no longer be applicable.
Goodbye Miss America.
You may be right about the US general, but it hasn’t been confirmed one way or another, and will probably be a very long time before it is.
If the story of the European NATO officers is correct, then in order to do maximum damage to Macron, the Russians will sync their move in time with the French elections. It really doesn’t matter if the NATO officers are captured dead or alive, as long as they have heads to display.
Christoforou is correct in that will then radically change the European public opinion on Ukraine, because once people realise they have been lied to- the propaganda is no longer effective.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/05/tweets/no-nato-allied-land-command-leader-wasnt-captured-/
There is a difference between being captured and being killed. Has he appeared anywhere since? Surely that wouldn’t be too hard to arrange?
He’s appeared in Turkey, where he lives and works. His response on April 5th was, you’ll perhaps be disappointed to learn, made on the same day as the rumour started by an alleged ‘journalist’ using the ID German Vladimirov – the rumour you’re amplifying – began spreading on Telegram, Twitter, Tik Tok etc.
German Vladimirov is your sole source – all other commentary points back to ‘him’ – whoever or whatever ‘he’ is.
Incidentally, French, German, British and Swedish military officers were indeed in the Mariupol area – in 2021. Maybe ‘German Vladimirov’ has inserted that fact into his unconfirmed anywhere else 2022 concoction.
So is there a video of him somewhere? Alex Christoforou said above he could not confirm of deny the rumour of coruse.
As for the NATO officers- he appears to more confident about them. Is there any evedence that they since left the area?
Oh and lose the friggen stroppy attitude love- in the main you do nothing more than regurgitate legacy media stories which we can all check ourselves.
In fact- they are so repetitious, it is hard to miss.
* evidence
Fearg, if he is alive all he needs to do is show up on video with a copy of today’s newspaper, or better still talking about something that has just happened.
Photos are easily photoshopped, tweets can be easily written by someone else.
High-quality video is the best way to squash a false rumour.
And one more thing – I’ve read a load of “fact checks”, and the best of them are dubious.
In the current Ukraine war situation I just file them under “fake news”, aka propaganda. Nobody serious bothers with them, the moniker must be one of the quickest to go out of fashion in the history of the internet – like all those RW websites that use some version of the word “true” in their titles you know you can just dismiss them out of hand.
SOQ – you don’t check anything. You do zero evaluation before running here with a rumour.
And that is what it remains – a single source rumour being repeated by others. When pushed for a source they all fall back on ‘German Vladimirov’ – who for all you know is some spotty kid in Dalkey winding people up.
Even pro-Russian posters advised caution about ‘German Vladimirov’, one stating that he had never, ever heard of the alleged ‘journalist’ before the NATO officers’ rumour.
You’re here trying hard to keep alive a single source claim that gained traction online on April 5th. Apart from repeaters like yourself no other ‘new’ information has surfaced.
We know you don’t do fact-checking. Nor do you bother to revise outdated information if new information comes to light. You have zero interest in accuracy.
I very much doubt if Alex Christoforou is stating such from a single rumour. If you check his YouTube channel you will see he regularly hits between 50 and 100k views per broadcast- some of which being 2-3 times in a single day.
So there are plenty of people paying attention to what he says.
He is right to be asking why the Ukrainians are so desperate to get one or more people out of that steel factory- they are clearly of importance.
Is there any evidence those NATO officers are elsewhere?
If you don’t like what I write then don’t friggen read it- it really is that simple.
SOQ, is there any reason we shoud accept Christoforou’s word for anything?
What is his background? What unrelated stories has he broken?
Or is he just a commentator on the internet who has built up a following?
Genuine question BTW.
@SOQ
Most of what you write is error strewn garbage from dodgy sources or thoroughly discredited or partisan individuals.
All your YouTube and Tik Tok junk is just a scroll by moment, you’re not really a very successful Putinbot at all.
And Alex Christoforou? Another pro-Russia shill.
You’re so credulous when it comes to all the swill you imbibe.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-duran/
@ jonjoker
So people should upload “Look! I’m not dead!” hostage-style photographs to the Internet every time some whackjob lunatic starts an online rumour about their alleged death?
I can’t see it catching on.
This is hardly a common-or-garden rumour now, is it?
@ jonjoker
Alex Christoforou owns and runs The Duran website out of Cyprus. Is he impartial? Probably not- but it is pretty obvious that he has his finger on the pulse.
He does not come across as the likes of RT but he is certainly not legacy western media either. He strikes me as being anti WEF / NWO more than anything else, which means he has the ‘far right’ label of course – the usual rubbish.
Check the site (theduran.com) and make you own mind up- while you are still allowed to.
German Vladimirov? Does he write for the duran duran website too?
@fergie It’s all my data/sources are more valid/true than yours nonsense. Your confirmational bias jumps out of your comments. No nuance, no friendly debate, just hostile insults and reams of ahem ‘facts’ and one sided links, many from discredited sources, ie msm. There is no neutral vact checking website. They all have an agenda and it’s not the unbiased judging whether a fact is just that. Your definite certainty is naive. We know nothing about this war until it has been properly investigated by non compromisedbodies, (find them if you can) it can’t be assesed until it is over.
@ Duncan Wheeler
Dry your eyes, shill
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpJNEIpXoAAFhXq?format=jpg&name=medium
There is one stark fact about this war- one side of the story has been banned so only one side is being broadcasted. And the same bottom holes from the lockdown / vaccine scandal are now demanding the official narrative only AGAIN.
Except when one looks at what is coming out about Pfizer- it is quite obvious that the lockdown / vaccine dissidents- who were smeared and some hounded out of their jobs- were actually the ones telling the truth- they were, and are, correct.
People can post what they want but when they come at me for doing exactly what I done during the pandemic- ignoramuses who can’t even converse in a civil manner- can go to hell.
LOL
thanks for another lovely day out at Broadsheet Zoo
my favourites are the f_lawless and K. Cavan enclosures…just missed feeding time at the SOQ pen but still good value
greetings to fellow patrons, hope your weekend going well? tis great isn’t it, sure where else would you get to observe such unusual animals for free wha?
I’m gonna balance a ball on my nose later on.
Whiskey depending ;)
Aye, me too Micko.
Exeter v Munster looks a good bet for teatime scoops then Lady TenPin has asked me to fire up the old ribeye steak and red wine combo tonight which basically means a trip to headboard heaven via a few combustibles and a movie.
Speaking of which any good cop thrillers anyone can recommend on Netflix/Prime ?
That or a good war movie.
Ta muchly in advance.
I think Z-Cars is probably right up your litter-strewn, urine-drenched alley, with your head, Terry.
Once it’s not one of your own, Micko. You can leave that sort of contortion to the tortured genius that resides in the head of wee stephen-with-a-lower-case-“s”, the stockbroker (heehee!), who’s busy losing his family fortune to Paddy Power.
Not everyone can find the shift key.
Ah, poor goldenbrown, staring through the bars, unfortunately unaware that he’s on the inside, making animal noises he thinks humans understand & throwing his faeces at the visitors. Anyone got more peanuts?
no. really sorry for you to learn it like this but I’d be one for saying it as it is
tell you what, let’s do a quick experiment:
you tot up the amount of posts per day that you do
then compare that to mine
see?
I’m just a visitor
Saying what as it is exactly? All I can see is an immature individual with nothing to say who is trying to make themselves feel superior by sneering at others.
Stop looking in the mirror then.
Empty vessels make most noise- for sure.
Grow up you clown.
Welcome to the circus.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FP5XeLaXsAAsFyh?format=jpg&name=large
Not much else to add really…
Enjoy the weekend …
Mao Zedong (Not pictured). ;-)
Also not pictured
Leopold II
Hideki Tojo
Ismail Enver Pasha
Pol Pot
etc etc
Johnson in Kyiv:
https://twitter.com/UkrEmbLondon/status/1512791528607031303
A clown meets a buffoon – nuff said!
Fearg, here in Ireland we don’t really care what BJ is up to, unless it affects us.
We’re not impressed about his antics generally, although he can be good for a laugh.
Still, if it rocks your boat who am I to take your simple pleasures away from you.
It’s a single tweet from a Ukrainian ambassador, an item of news, not a Hollywood tribute.
I detest Johnson so have no clue what you’re waffling about. I suspect that you don’t either.
Why the battle for Donbas will be very different from the assault on Kyiv
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/09/donbas-ukraine-russia-battle-very-different-from-kyiv-
The Guardian, again. Imagine actually believing anything that their unpaid bourgeois Brit student/blogger “journalists” write, eh?
You’d end up as crazy as a Ferg.
Look, I know that you can’t help whining ‘The Guardian’ every time you see a link from that source but you’re only displaying your utter stupidity – perhaps that’s a compulsion that you can’t control?
The article is by Dr Jack Watling, senior research fellow for land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and so not a creation of ‘The Guardian’.
Lots of media sources carry articles by lots of different people – didn’t you know?
OK, OK, you only do it to avoid reading…
“Royal United Services Institute”
Would that be a branch of the UK state?
I wonder why some people might think it’s more likely to be propaganda than objective reporting?
People that thought like that would have to be acutely paranoid. And be incapable of understanding the difference between ‘reporting’ and ‘outlining possible scenarios’.
Speculating about something =/= reporting on it.
Almost everything you have posted here is UK-related.
If I didn’t know better, I might even think you are from the UK. And living there too.
“Almost everything you have posted here is UK-related. If I didn’t know better, I might even think you are from the UK. And living there too.”
Your first sentence is incorrect. So is your second. That’s a 100% failure rate on your part. You’re not really doing very well here, are you?
@ K.Cavan Tru dat.
Dr Tony Holohan will not take up academic position at Trinity College Dublin and will leave public service
https://www.independent.ie/news/dr-tony-holohan-will-not-take-up-academic-position-at-trinity-college-dublin-and-will-leave-public-service-41537150.html
Oh dear.
What a pity.
Never mind.
Himself and Zappone can compare notes.
Well Michael McNamara has already been making those comparisons and Zappone and the government are very keen not to be seen supporting Holohoop. In fact, I cannot remember ever seeing mehole or Leo and him at the one briefing?
The real question is- why is he so keen to leave the Chief Medical Officer of Ireland position all of a sudden? Time will tell but you can be certain he is trying to save his neck.
He can refuse to participate in any future inquiry and cannot be compelled because he is no longer a public servant – which is the purpose of this latest drama, IMO.
You are probably right. Given his behaviour, such an inquiry could turn into a criminal investigation.
Boris in Kyiv for a surprise visit today on the back of announcing a further £100million in weapons for Ukraine.
A giant bestriding the European stage schooling the French and German pygmies in how to stand up to tyrants.
Germany has been dragged kicking and screaming into retaliation against Putin and Macron is just a typical French appeaser.
Boris is a true leader for our times. He’s having a great war and still finds time to shaft his main leadership rival.
They’ve been underestimating Box Office Boris for years.
Are you a caricature?
A buffoon meeting a clown, Maura.
Refugees are choosing to return to war-torn Ukraine exhausted by the ‘hunger and homelessness’ inflicted by the long wait for UK visas
https://www.businessinsider.com/refugees-exhausted-by-visa-misery-returning-to-war-torn-ukraine-2022-4?utmSource=twitter&utmContent=referral&utmTerm=topbar&referrer=twitter
Boris is the ultimate BS artist – a pound shop Trump – a man devoid of any substance- 47 u turns and counting – courtesy of Politico London
Since winning an 80-seat majority in December 2019, the government has reverse ferreted on: The NHS staff visa charge … Jacob Rees-Mogg’s conga voting system … Reopening all primary schools last summer … Free school meals over summer (thanks to Marcus Rashford) … Centralized COVID app … Huawei … “Air bridges” … Exam results algorithm (“no U-turn, no change“) … Extending the eviction ban … Face masks in schools … Badger culls … “Go back to work or risk losing your job” … Pints in parliament after 10 p.m. … October lockdown … Furlough extension … Free school meals over holidays (thanks to Rashford, again) … Christmas canceled … Closing schools a day after they reopened, after weeks of mind-melting rhetoric … Free school meals vouchers (thanks to Rashford, again) … Review of workers’ rights post-Brexit … Cumbria coal mine … Prosecutions of troops overseas … Dyson texts probe … Local lockdowns travel mess … Allowing MPs a vote on the foreign aid cut — which, as a 2019 manifesto commitment, also counts …Hancock resigning a day after the matter was “closed” … Johnson and Sunak’s short-lived isolation pilot scheme … “Amber watchlist” … Vaccine passports for nightclubs … National Insurance and triple lock manifesto commitments on the same day … Planning reforms … Emergency extended visas to ease labor shortages … Dumping raw sewage … Standards reform and the fate of Owen Paterson … HS2’s eastern leg … Reintroducing pre-departure COVID tests four days after saying they wouldn’t … Who pays for cladding removal? … Mandatory jabs for the NHS … Gavin Williamson’s blanket ban on phones in school … Parliamentary scrutiny of trade deals, per POLITICO’s own Graham Lanktree … Fur and foie gras imports unbanned … Streamlined Ukrainian visa process … Post-Paterson plan for time limits on MPs’ second jobs … Allowing Tory MPs to abstain on Lebedev security advice vote … Fracking — sort-of … and then last night’s speedy conversion therapy reversal and counting
Johnson: I just offered Zelenskyy a visa to pick seasonal fruit
Leaving Cert Irish oral exams postponed for 500 pupils due to ‘high levels of Covid-19’
https://www.independent.ie/news/leaving-cert-irish-oral-exams-postponed-for-500-pupils-due-to-high-levels-of-covid-19-41537208.html
“Almost 500 Leaving Cert students have had their Irish oral exams postponed at short notice due to a lack of available examiners and “high rates of Covid-19”. The State Examinations Commission (SEC) said “deferring these examinations at short notice is a necessary step due to the high rates of Covid-19 in society”. Seven different schools across the country are affected and approximately 500 students are impacted from the total of 52,000 examinations to be held in this subject…”
Thousands of ventilators pulled as electrical faults put UK patients’ lives at risk
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/09/faulty-philips-ventilators-uk-hospitals-patient-lives-risk
“…Globally, there have been 389 reports of failures, including one where the patient died and four where they were seriously injured. In six of the total cases, the warning alarm didn’t sound…”
Not ‘just a UK story’
Pro-life ex-GOP aide who worked on Trump ads sentenced to more than a decade in prison because ‘He enjoyed seeing children getting raped’
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/pro-life-ex-gop-aide-who-worked-on-trump-ads-sentenced-to-more-than-a-decade-in-prison-because-he-enjoyed-seeing-children-getting-raped/?utm
Colonel Alexander Bespalov, the commander of the 59th Guards Tank Regiment (part of the 144th Guards Motorized Rifle Division), has been killed in Ukraine:
https://donpress.com/news/09-04-2022-ocherednoy-polkovnik-vs-rf-byl-ubit-na-voyne-s-ukraincami
BBC to hand over material from Troubles documentaries for terrorism probe
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bbc-europe-ira-police-service-of-northern-ireland-belfast-b993102.html
The BBC is to hand over broadcast and unbroadcast material from a documentary series about Northern Ireland’s Troubles to the police as part of investigations into terrorist activity, a judge has said. An order was made at Belfast Crown Court following agreement between the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and BBC on material in the Spotlight On The Troubles: A Secret History series, which was first broadcast in 2019. The material includes interviews with Patrick Ryan, a Catholic priest, who told the programme he had maintained a network of Europe-wide contacts used to generate arms and money for the IRA. It also features interviews with convicted killer Laurence Maguire about his involvement with the Mid Ulster UVF…The judge continued: “Within 21 days the BBC shall produce the following material to the PSNI, insofar as they are held by the BBC arising out of episodes three, six and eight of the BBC’s Spotlight On The Troubles: A Secret History, first broadcast in 2019. All broadcast and unbroadcast recordings of interviews of Patrick Ryan, insofar as those interviews relate to his involvement of suspect acts of IRA terrorism. All broadcast and unbroadcast recordings of interviews of Laurence Maguire insofar as those interviews relate to his involvement in suspected acts of terrorism in connection with Mid Ulster UVF…”
Father O’Memopark is 91.
Suspended DUP councillor William Walker, arrested in child grooming case, has left Northern Ireland
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/news/suspended-dup-councillor-william-walker-in-child-grooming-case-has-left-northern-ireland-41537062.html
Grand night out in Lurgan included opportunity to call someone a Lundy:
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/uup-leader-doug-beattie-hits-back-after-he-is-branded-lundy-and-traitor-at-anti-protocol-rally-41537098.html
Sure, you can’t beat an insult dating back to 1689, can you?
Why are you surprised at this, Fearg?
Serious question. Has someone recently given you a heavy blow to the head? Where is any indication of surprise in that post? Even the slightest hint of it? You maybe need to lie down for a while, you’re really struggling to come up with… well, anything. An bhfuil do chiall ná do chéadfaí agat?
Inside Cyber Front Z, the ‘People’s Movement’ Spreading Russian Propaganda
In an effort to win the information war, Kremlin allies have deployed a new kind of troll farm.
I realize this purely a binary issue here and no on is going to persuade anyone in the opposite bunker, trench, or tinfoil hat at this stage of Z(e) war but this did appeal to my cognitive biases.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kbjny/russia-cyber-front-z-telegram?utm_source=email&utm_medium=editorial&utm_content=news&utm_campaign=220409
He really should have stuck to do his playboy thing as Sussex CC – as the proved he could neither bowl nor bat in Islamabad – i wonder what Jemima thinks – another of Vlads fanboys run out
Imran Khan ousted as Pakistan’s PM
Didn’t he have a good long knock Stephen?
Hardly the least sticky wicket in the world
“What led to charismatic Pakistan PM’s downfall?”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-61047736
Gardaí to review handling of third-party concerns about violence following Cork murder-suicide
https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-40848242.html
“Gardaí have confirmed that a review of Garda protocols for dealing with third-party concerns about the potential for violence will be carried out following the death of a Cork father and his two sons in October 2020. A spokesperson for An Garda Síochána told The Echo a senior officer from a different division will conduct the review into this matter…”
when you’ve lost Uncle Silvio – no more Bunga bunga
BREAKING. Silvio Berlusconi breaks his silence on his friend Vladimir Putin and #Ukraine: “I’m distressed and disappointed by Putin. War crimes happened in Bucha. Russia shouldn’t deny its responsibilities”.
“In Mariupol, the Russians collect the bodies of killed citizens in an underground passage on the outskirts of the city near Sadkiv, and then burn them in the crematorium – Mariupol City Council reports”
https://twitter.com/avalaina/status/1512841599138545673