It seems that once again, our children are in fact being raised like livestock for export. The population of the State in April 2012 is estimated to have been 4,585,400 an increase of 10,500 over the previous year. The 10,500 increase comprises births of 74,000, deaths of 29,200, emigration of 87,100 and immigration of 52,700.

Emigration is estimated to have increased from 80,600 the previous year and is now at the highest absolute level since at least 1987 and just below the rate per 1,000 population that emigrated in 1989. Last year’s emigration estimate means that an average of 240 people emigrated for each of the 365 days.

We have a peaceful country with no military enemies, untouched by natural disasters with an abundance of natural resources to sustain ourselves, yet we have again returned to mass emigration on a scale seen in the 1950s and 1980s.

This is a man-made disaster.

240 Of Us Are Emigrating Every Day According To Latest Population Estimate (NamaWineLake)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D13NQzHtpbA&feature=youtu.be

At the Dockers’ Monument on Spokane Walk, opposite Bishop’s Quay, Limerick, back in the Summer

Cllr John Gilligan: “This is OUR city.”

Limerick B-Boy: “You can’t be like that.”

Cllr John Gilligan?

B-Boys?

Thanks Phil Wade


If you’re anyway prone to OCD, this will first horrify and then delight you.

Give it about two minutes.

A Youtube comment explains the phenomenon thus:

Each metronome is contributing horizontal force each time it swings, from the momentum of its weight. If two metronomes move opposite directions they will cancel each-other’s force. But if they are not perfectly synchronized, their respective directional force will be translated to the board they are standing on. If several are moving CLOSE to the same direction at the same time, they will influence the board’s motion more. Soon they are influencing other metronomes to move in the same direction.

slyoyster

Shocking news our favourite think tank,
For anyone thick as a plank,
“You’ll earn more on the whole,
With a job than with dole”
That’s the truth, and not merely a prank.

John Moynes

 

Just One in Eight Better Off On Dole, ESRI Finds (Irish Times)

Job or Dole?

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)


Nature.com gives the world the greatest headline ever.

Nothing will ever beat that.

NOTHING.

Buddhist ‘Iron Man’ Found By Nazis Is From Space (Nature.com)

[via Emily Hummel and John Moynes]

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