68 thoughts on “Thursday’s Papers”

    1. TenPin Terry

      €710,00 for a bungalow in the arse-end of nowhere ?
      Someone is laughing all the way to the bank.
      Just another member of the smugeratti upping sticks from Devon where locals there are also fed-up with wealthy incomers.
      You’re welcome to the whinge-bag, old sport.

  1. stephen moran

    So was the Tory MP in question doing a bit of “downstreaming” – it would be sweet if it was the Stoke’s finest braying donkey Jonathan Gullis or even Michael Fabricant (who surely is no stranger to a bit of the old Cameron Diaz “hair gel”) – well it can’t be Mikey “septum” Gove or hands on Markie Francois (as they are both checking out “Life at a Top Peoples Health Farm” – allegedly) .

    1. Steph Pinker

      Why are you surprised, SOQ?

      You could be cynical at this stage considering the time and dedication you’ve given to investigating, researching and trying to source facts about the deliberate transmission of Covid through elderly patients from hospitals to care homes and vice versa over the past two years; you [and others] who have been subjected to serious abuse will also be proven correct about vaccine injuries and related deaths in time; therein lies the oxymoron.

      Fair play to BS for publishing all alternative points of view, opinion, fact, and for having the foresight and imagination to be intelligent enough to acknowledge the frailties of human nature.

      It’s called integrity.

      1. SOQ

        Yes well the core question is what is it going to take for the families of those Irish people to get justice? Micheál Martin has already ruled out a public enquiry- which is a scandal in itself- so is it to be one or more private citizens, like in Britain?

        As for the abusers- they should be ashamed of themselves, but they probably aren’t- even the most recent post on the subject had the twisted trying to make it personal.

        We will be living with the injuries done by those untested gene therapies for a very long time. If the clinical opinions of the likes of Robert Malone are correct- the immune system damage hasn’t even really manifested as yet. Good to see him back on Twitter of course.

        Another 80 Pfizer pages to be dropped begining of May- how anyone can even think of defending this sort of criminality at this stage- is beyond me.

        1. SOQ

          I take no pleasure in flagging this but post vaccination autoimmune hepatitis appears to be now a thing. The reason why it is presenting in unvaccinated young children is still unknown- but there is no data as to if their parents were vaccinated as yet.

          This is addition to the reactivation of hepatitis C of course.

          https://www.journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S0168-8278(21)00237-3

          The core problem here is that if there is specific auto immune disorders emerging, it may take quite a long time to identify the conditions which may manifest.

          1. Nigel

            ‘As causality cannot be proven, it is possible that this association is just coincidental’

            Lovely effort at propaganda there, naming it after something that hasn’t been shown to be related at all.

          2. Tom J

            @ SOQ, How would the parents being vaccinated affect the children. That’s like someone drinking beer and someone else getting drunk. A cheap night out if it worked.

          3. SOQ

            Big Pharma is a criminally corrupt industry and the mealy mouthed ‘no evidence’ spin from ‘fact checker’ pharma shills does not explain why children are coming down with autoimmune hepatitis now.

            If it is a case that all of those children have had exposure to someone recently vaccinated, then there is a potential cause and effect which should be investigated.

            Despite the denials, I am certain that shedding is a thing, and will be proved to be such- the question is, what?

          4. Tom J

            @ SOQ, If shedding is a thing, please explain how you haven’t gotten any side effects. I’m sure you have been in contact with vaccinated people, as most of the population of Ireland have had the vaccine.

          5. Kin

            I would agree this strange unexplained hepatitis SOQ
            You see if you go against the narrative you are a trump supporter and wierd
            No one has explained exactly where this came from
            All I know some of these vaccines are from antibodies from eating bats or anything else that we are fed when the governments do not want to come clean.
            The half truths and downright lies the scare mongering and the trough Pfizer are dining on the big bucks and given total protection by governments from being sued
            It makes sense that these vaccines could be the cause
            But SOQ imagine you are right and maybe the governments know already and are covering it up
            Let’s face it they did it with the smear tests
            But I am in favour of the vaccine myself and think of course some people will have bad reactions to this vaccine and every other
            For me at 68 rather take my bey with it and not risk getting a bad case of covid

            I remember the swine flu jab and the lies told when young girls developed sleep disorders
            To be honest I would not trust any government on this planet

          6. SOQ

            And that is the point KIn?

            Everything is dismissed out of hand until the evidence cannot be ignored any longer- and even then they will try and bury it.

            In the case of these CoVid-19 experiential gene therapies, we already know there has been serious cover ups- what else could you call attempts to hide the side effects for 75 years?

            Is it a conspiracy? Yes absolutely- fact not theory.

            Dr Namoi Wolf is doing some super work digging into the released Pfizer documents and deciphering what they mean. She is suspended from Twitter of course- but she’ll be back.

            https://twitter.com/katscan27_kim/status/1518250794310676480.

      2. Ten Pin's Fictitious Mrs.

        Troll hundred and sixty degrees. Incredibly impressive Steph, the landing in particular. Good luck with your forthcoming weekend.

    1. Steph Pinker

      Blondie: Varadkar is a bad entity – don’t think for a second that he cares for you, or anyone else except himself.

    2. paul

      Leo’s arrogance is remarkable. He admits to leaking the document, leaking the document was a crime, claims he committed no crime.

        1. Gavin

          As far as I’m aware he’s in breach of the official secrets act, which every civil servant signs, but I’m sure there be plenty of grey area nonsense

          1. Cian

            Does that apply to the Taosach? Genuine question. *someone* in governmebt decides what is an official secret and the Taosach is the big boss. Does ha have the power to make it no longer an official secret?

            As far as I’m aware that legislation says that it is a offence if something is released without the authority of the minister. So a minister can legally leak

          2. Vlad X. Novichok

            As I understand it, Trump and Putin were/are the only national leaders excused to act with impunity by Broadsheet Tankies. And the rest of them – inc. the likes of Leo, Macron, Trudeau and even Ardern are the most wicked of sociopaths. As I understand it.

          3. paul

            hopefully a lot of that grey can be cleared away by the timeline of events including shipping the document to his friends home instead of his place of employment.

      1. Kin

        This crime bars him from being teach if he is prosecuted but we can all take it the prosecution will be dropped
        And that is perversion of the course of justice and add in corruption
        Hopefully the opposition keep snappy at their heels

  2. TenPin Terry

    Phew, I haven’t thought about the Ginger Growler™ for at least 12 hours.
    I think I may be over the worst of it.

  3. NobleLocks

    Great to see the backlash at the intolerant lefty cry bullies who silenced Senator Sharon Keoghan because they didn’t like her opinion. If ever any evidence was needed at how anti-democratic insane left-wing cancel culture is… it’s plain to see.

    It’s clear that the committee has no legitimacy now and needs to be completely disbanded. Also there needs to be some consequences for these new-orthodoxy people who dare to think they have a right to stop democracy because they don’t like it when it doesn’t suit them.

    1. Ian - oG

      ”Great to see the backlash at the intolerant lefty cry bullies who silenced Senator Sharon Keoghan because they didn’t like her opinion. If ever any evidence was needed at how anti-democratic insane left-wing cancel culture is… it’s plain to see.”

      CANCEL CULTURE IS TERRIBLE!

      ”It’s clear that the committee has no legitimacy now and needs to be completely disbanded. Also there needs to be some consequences for these new-orthodoxy people who dare to think they have a right to stop democracy because they don’t like it when it doesn’t suit them.”

      CANCEL THIS!

      LOL

        1. NobleLocks

          This is already happening in the US, more and more Gay men in particular are saying that they are not represented by this hateful new homophobia. The founding of the LGB Alliance in the UK saw the beginning of the end for them there too.

          Nige still is a true believer though…

          1. Nigel

            Is it a slur and a threat to democracy and freedom of speech to refer to the LGB as trans exclusionary, or would that still be awful bullying and abuse?

        1. Nigel

          Yes, a lot of comparing trans issues to religion. Fantastic way to channel contempt and delegitimise. Amazing hostility and resentment being expressed, outright hatred and disgust directed at a minority trying to defend themselves and some of whom are obviously struggling to articulate their thoughts and feelings and their developing sense of themselves as a group. Great to see, altogether. Crush them before democracy dies.

          1. NobleLocks

            Way to Strawman Nige! Comparing trans ideology and tactics to religious ideology and tactics is NOT the same as comparing “issues” as you put it. You miss the point so often lol

            And it is us who are defending ourselves from direct and overt attacks by the “trans community”. Don’t forget TENI got the idiot fraternity in Amnesty and WI to sign a letter to remove democratic representation from people who didn’t agree with ‘Sarah’ Philips & ‘Aoife’ Martin’s ridiculous ideology.

            These men are actively attacking the democratic process in Ireland under the guise of victimhood that YOU provide to take away my democratic rights because I won’t supinely participate in their fantasies of covetous envy.

            If you had a shred of integrity you’d feel some shame for supporting these oleaginous turds, yet STILL you brazenly continue to defend them

          2. Nigel

            ‘These men’

            Yeah, not trans issues at all.

            ‘oleaginous turds’

            I rest my case, m’lud.

          3. NobleLocks

            They are men. Both of them are men. If you want to deny reality that’s your problem.

            Anyone who is going to try to take away my right to vote and be represented because I refuse to participate in their fact denying ridiculous fantasies is imo an oleaginous turd. You can rest your effin case all you like sunshine, they’re anti-democratic, anti-fact and anti-reality. These insane men belong with all of the other lunatics out there who want to take away the rights of the individual.

            Stick that in your pipe.

  4. stephen moran

    Buy dollars wear diamonds – Is see the “doomed” $ index is trading at a 5 years high this morning ( and that measure seriously understates its actual broader global strength as it exclude emerging market – soon to be sub-merging market currencies) – but never like things like real world fact of real interest rate differentials (which drives a the relative value of a floating currency) get in the way of the delusional fantasy of it magically being usurped by the CNY, BRL,INR or RUB. If you are in San Paolo and want to buy goods from China the ONLY was yo do it is to exchange your BRL for dollars as the BRL is non convertible and vice versa as the CNY is also non convertible. Both countries also have capital controls. BRICS is a silly acronym dreamt up by Man Utd fan Jim O’Neill when he worked for the for The Great Vampire Squid 22 years ago to try and flog equities to people too easily parted with their money. Those countries had nothing in common then and even less now.. The $ may be the root of all evil but it remains the base for all financial transactions. The Saudi Arabian Riyal is pegged to the $ btw (and for very good reasons).The Yen is dropping like as stone and the CNY is weakening at the fastest pace since they last devalued in 2015 as the domestic Chinese economy continues to implode (prospective reserve currencies DON”T devalue in my textbook).. The monetary policy of all BRICs economies is dovish they are totally out of synch with that of the US hawkish rate hikes.

    1. SOQ

      The $ may be the root of all evil but it remains the base for all financial transactions- but also, energy is the key commodity.

      Genuine question- what impact is all of this new trading in other currencies going to have on the US dollar? I ask because I don’t really understand what advantage the US has by the dollar being the global currency.

      1. jonjoker

        Have a listen to the link on this webpage.
        https://popularresistance.org/michael-hudson-us-dollar-hegemony-ended-abruptly-last-wednesday/
        The interesting bit with Michael Hudson starts 27 minutes in, I think it explains it fairly well.

        “Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire” etc

        1. stephen moran

          I’VE TOLD YOU BEFORE THAT IS TOTAL GARBAGE. Talk about an axe to grind – That man is a fool who knows the square root of diddly squat about anything let alone how currency markets actually work in reality rather than in his anti American fantasy worldview – if you’d followed his advise on that day you be carried out on a stretcher by now as the $ has done nothing but strengthen since then ! If you are going to learn anything about economics its a good idea to read pure theory and not some knob on ZH whose myopic view is totally driven by ideology and dogma

          The US deficit has nothing whatsoever to do with funding the MIC – the US runs a deficit because the $ is the global reserve currency – look up the Triffin paradox – read Michael Every on why Breton Woods mark 111 won’t work – you might as well ask Noam Chomsky about the dollar – risible bs

          1. jonjoker

            Economics and Pure Theory – which theory would that be?
            The Chicago Boys?
            Hayek?
            Maybe Ayn Rand would fit the bill?

            Just because you don’t like what Hudson says isn’t a reason not to listen to him. Counter his arguments instead of howling at the moon, someone might listen to you then.

        2. Me So Harney

          Stephen talking nonsense as per usual.

          All stephens “forecasts” have been spectacularly mistaken. The latest offering is more of the same.

      2. stephen moran

        The basic definition of money is that it is a medium of exchange i.e. you can use it to buy and sell things – you can’t use the RUB,CNY or BRL to buy and sell things outside of their domestic economies – You can’t get BRL wired to you from Rio and pop down the local AIB and change it into €. There are a myriad of other reason such as capital controls i.e. you are sitting in an of those countries you CANNOT simply transfer 1 million BRL or CNY to another country – it’s illegal. Also there is not liquidity in those currencies i.e. you CANNOT call up JP Morgan’s / Goldman Sach’s FX desk in London and ask for a price in $/BRL in $100mm. Even currencies like the South Korean won have to settle loccaly not offshore i.e. the currency is non deliverable. The reason for this is all those countries wish to be able to control their own monetary policy i.e. where they set interest rates – if they had to worry about a real floating exchange rate then they would have to set interest rates at levels that would often contradict what their own domestic economies require. They would lose control. That’s why the number of currencies that are actually “floating” (i.e. their value is actually set by the market is tiny. Most countries have a peg (the the dollar – which works until they have to devalue because their inflation rate causes their exports to become uncompetitive) or the have a “managed float” i.e they try to keep it within a band (_or + 10-15percent of a central rate) against a basket of other countries who are their largest trading partners (that’s what China, South Korea, Brazil etc etc do). Lastly and maybe MOST importantly their are NO developed derivative markets in any of those currencies i.e. you cannot hedge them at all and given they are much more volatile than the dollar why would you risk using them given a choice

  5. SOQ

    Leaders Questions – Deputy Catherine Murphy. April 26th 2022

    Senior civil servants are refusing to appear before Oireachtas committees – to answer legitimate questions about their decisions. Who exactly is calling the shots in this country?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdcElWzw_5A

    Back of the net Catherine.

    1. Nigel

      There’s also an ongoing drought in the US west affecting millions, though they think it’s coming to an end, for the moment. Summer is going to be lit.

    2. stephen moran

      Yes I’m afraid its well beyond the expected redtop “it ain’t half hot mum” headline – sadly icebergs don’t melt at the end of peoples gardens so they will remain in denial until “Raytown ” is submerged.

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