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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The Irish famine was not caused by a potato blight. It was caused by a law passed in 1663, and the blight simply arrived to collect.

Ships left Cork the whole time it was happening, carrying butter and bacon under armed guard, past people dying on the quayside.

The version taught in schools is a fungus. Blight arrives, potatoes rot, tragedy. It leaves out why eight and a half million people were standing on one South American tuber to begin with, and that part is not weather. It has dates and it has signatures.

Ireland had cattle before it had writing. The national epic is a war over a stolen bull. Wealth was counted in cows, rank was counted in cows, and for a thousand years the country ran on beef, milk and butter.

Then in 1663 the English parliament taxed Irish cattle out of the English market, and in 1666 banned them outright, in an act that called the importing of them a common nuisance. Ireland was pushed into salt beef, hides and butter for the navy, the colonies and the slave plantations. Produced on Irish land, sold out of Irish ports, eaten somewhere else. The good ground was reorganised around what would survive a sea voyage.

What was left for the people was the crop that feeds a family off a quarter of an acre of bad land. That is not a folk tradition. That is what you are reduced to when the field behind your house is producing somebody else's dinner.

In 1845 the crop failed and the food kept leaving.

Butter, bacon, ham and live cattle going out of Cork and Limerick and Waterford while the workhouses filled. The relief that existed came with the Gregory Clause: hold more than a quarter acre of land and you were entitled to nothing. Give up the ground or starve on it. Somebody sat down and drafted that.

A million dead. A million gone. Eight and a half million down to six and a half in six years, and Ireland is the only country in Europe with fewer people in it now than in 1840.

The lesson everyone takes is about the fragility of monocultures, which is a comfortable lesson, because it blames a plant.

Nobody starves for want of food in a country that is exporting it. They starve because two centuries of decisions, taken by men who were never going to be hungry, left them one thing to eat and that thing could fail all at once.

Ireland's cattle are now the subject of national emissions targets, and the argument is once again about what that land ought to be producing, conducted by people who will not be eating the outcome either way.

The blight came in 1845. The reason it killed a million people was drafted in 1663.

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

I often wondered how, in spite of going on an all expenses paid junket to Israel, Lenore Taylor was appointed Editor @GuardianAus.

I've now come to the conclusion that she she got the job because she went on the junket.

And that's why she banned the use of the word "genocide".

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Pound for pound these are most expensive warships on the planet. At $9b a pop Hunter Frigates are an obscene waste of money. When I asked Defence officials if there were any more expensive warships on the planet - they mumbled something about US nuclear powered aircraft carriers.

[Rina Lu🇷🇺 @rinalu_]

Putin says he sometimes watches Western television just to understand what European audiences are being shown. And what he sees is “mass deception.”

He gives a recent example. After an attack on Starobelsk that killed civilians, including children, Russia struck targets in the Kiev region in response.

According to Putin, Western channels spent the entire day showing the Russian strikes: the destruction, the damage, the “Russian aggressor.”

But not a word about what happened in Starobelsk before that. Not a word about the dead children.

Then the narrative moves to Ukrainian drones, their military successes and how much those weapons cost. The message to European viewers follows naturally: pay more.

Putin’s point is simple, and I completely agree with him: if you show the response while erasing what preceded it, you are manufacturing the story your audience is allowed to see.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

There seems to be very little recognition from Israeli officials and soldiers that when they boast about killing people, they are talking about real people whose lives they ended. This courageous aid worker did nothing to deserve to be killed, does not deserve to be called a legitimate target after she was murdered, and those responsible should still be prosecuted.

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

IDF military's cyber-intelligence Unit 8200 carried out the pager attacks.

Tomorrow a Unit 8200 operative Yael Zarfati, will run the Sydney Marathon. She will receive 24/7 protection from NSW Police.

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Oryon thought he hid the evidence after his unit killed 15 medics & bulldozed their ambulances into the sand

He was wrong

A phone recovered from the mass grave revealed footage recorded by one victim. The video caught the execution, completely busting the Golani Brigade officer

[Richard @ricwe123]

Do you know in 2014, Ukraine needed a loan?

There were two offers on the table:

🔴The IMF dangled a $15 billion lifeline but, as always, it came with strings firmly attached.

-Scrap the ban on private land ownership.

-Slash pensions and subsidies,classic austerity.

🔴Russia also offered $15 billion, no strings attached, no IMF-style conditions, and no neoliberal gutting of the economy.

President Viktor Yanukovych picked the Russian deal.

So what happened?

Washington instigated a coup, ousted the President, and installed a new puppet regime.

The new Ukranian government bent the knee to the IMF, signed off an austerity program and opened the door to privatization.

Now, massive chunks of Ukrainian land,about a third, are in the hands of US giants like BlackRock.

[Deepcut News @deepcutnews]

The @Sydney_Uni is facing an alumni revolt over Israel.

More than 450 graduates and staff, including a deputy vice-chancellor and Australian AM and OAM recipients, signed a letter demanding a rare Convocation meeting (the first in over three decades) to discuss the university's ties to Israel and free speech on campus.

The signatories accuse the university of a "profound moral failure" over Gaza and a "suppression of dissent" on campus.

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[Clash Report @clashreport]

NEW: Israel funded a fake US think tank called the "Hanover Institute" that published 124 reports totaling over 560,000 words in nine days, designed to be cited by AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.

The site was built on a platform that promises to optimize content so AI systems will treat it as credible research.

Every headline mirrors a question a user might type into a chatbot:

Is Israel Carrying Out a Genocide in Gaza?

The answers consistently frame information to blunt criticism of Israel.

The operation was funded through Israel's government advertising agency via the European ad group Havas, with tens of millions of dollars routed to American contractors including a firm run by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale.

An Israeli official admitted to Ynet:

We paid a lot of money, but the situation only got worse.

Source: The Guardian

[Judith T Soon everyone will have been against this @JuAvrilT]

This won’t make the usual suspects happy but 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️👏👏👏

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

Meet Canadian - Israeli Robert Moisescu. A convicted felon (bank robbery) and an IDF soldier. His substack is under the alias Bobby Moses. He lives in Montreal.

“I’m a Zionist & I’ve killed a lot of motherf@ckers like you. I’m going back and I’m going to do more like you.” @SPVM

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

A police chief in Oshkosh, Wisconsin caught Flock lying to his city council, and killed the $8 billion surveillance company's contract less than a day after the council had approved it.

Here's how it happened.

The night before, Oshkosh's council was set to renew its deal with Flock Safety, the license plate camera company backed by a16z and Tiger Global.

One council member asked the Flock rep a plain yes-or-no question. Does this system build a heat map of everywhere a specific car travels over time?

Flock's rep said no.

The council believed him and voted 5 to 2 to renew. By the next morning, Chief Dean Smith's own officers had told him that answer was false.

So he pulled up the system himself. He watched it generate the exact heat map Flock had just sworn it couldn't make.

Then he walked into an emergency meeting and said it out loud: "Because of this misrepresentation, I can no longer recommend Flock."

Understand what a heat map is, because it's the whole trick.

Flock sells cities a tidy little story. A car drives by, we snap a photo, we read the plate, that's all it is.

But the same system can quietly average out where your car goes day after day and paint your routine onto a map.

Not one snapshot at one corner. Your pattern. Where you sleep, where you work, where you keep going back and how often.

A Flock employee later admitted on the record that the software does exactly that.
So the pitch and the product are two different things. The company wins the contract selling a plate reader, then sits on a moving map of your life.

The only reason Oshkosh caught it was one skeptical question and a police chief who bothered to check the answer.

The vote to rescind was 7 to 0. Unanimous.

Flock called the whole thing "one small misconception" from a long meeting and said it was disappointed nobody let it explain.

A surveillance company worth eight billion dollars got caught lying about whether it maps where you drive. Its defense was that the lie was small.

Oshkosh got one honest answer by accident. Congress can make it the rule.

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🎩The Other 98%

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

An Israeli court has acquitted Israeli settler Yona Schreiber, a resident of the occupied West Bank settlement of Peduel, of charges related to the late April assault on a Christian nun in Jerusalem's Old City.

According to Kan 11, the Jerusalem Magistrates' Court ruled that Schreiber was not criminally responsible, accepting that he was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time of the attack and could not comprehend his actions.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

It seems reasonable — to ask these sponsors of this weekend’s Sydney Marathon, why they’d want their brands associated with participation by members of the IDF.

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Ive run out of outrage with the govt of this country.
Look who they've allowed in for the Syd Marathon:

Lt Roy Oryon's Golani Brigade committed the most heinous crimes in Gaza incl the killing of 15 paramedics.

Yael Zarfati's Unit 8200 played a key role in the pager attacks.

[Valy 🎩🎭 @liderfiscal]

ÚLTIMA HORA: Revelaciones increíbles de la más completa impunidad para los pedofilos.

Todd Blanche, Fiscal General de EE.UU.

"No procesaremos a los abusadores nombrados en los archivos de Epstein ni revelaremos sus nombres al público."

Un Estado que protege a delincuentes y persigue a la gente trabajadora es un estado fallido, la muestra más fidedigna del colapso de una sociedad y un imperio en decadencia.

#trump_is_pedophilia

[QINTELPRO @QINTELPRO_]

On September 17, 1948 - the day after Count Bernadotte submitted his report advocating Palestinian right of return - four Lehi operatives ambushed his motorcade in Jerusalem and killed him.

Bernadotte was not a random diplomat. He was the man who had rescued over 30,000 prisoners from Nazi concentration camps through negotiations with Heinrich Himmler in the final months of the war. He saved more Jews from the Holocaust than almost any other individual.

His final report to the UN Secretary-General stated: 'It would be an offense against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes, while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine.'

The man who saved 30,000 Jews from Nazi death camps was assassinated by Jewish extremists for defending Palestinian rights.

The brains behind the assassination: Yitzhak Shamir - future Prime Minister of Israel (1983-1992).

Israel arrested and tried some Lehi members for the murder. They were pardoned almost immediately.

UN Resolution 194 - adopted December 1948 - affirmed the right of return for Palestinian refugees. It has never been implemented.

[Nomadicwanderer 🛩🚆🚘🌏 @NiallDandydons]

So let’s talk about the five “tragic young lives cut short” on the A66. Because nothing says “heartbreaking loss to the community” quite like a car full of lads with cloned plates, balaclavas in the photo album, and a TikTok history of leading the Old Bill on a merry dance through housing estates before deciding the dual carriageway looks better the wrong way round at 3:30 in the morning.

Michael, Theo, Cole, Jacob, Makai. Five names, five sets of parents, and zero net contribution to anything that doesn’t involve blue lights and burnt-out Nissans. Society will not miss them. Not the shopkeepers, not the people who actually pay tax, not the families of the two coppers they turned into roadkill. The only people weeping into their cheap cider are the ones who raised them, and even then it’s mostly performance.

Parents should take responsibility. You don’t wake up at 16, 17, 18, 23 and suddenly decide “today feels like a good day for cloned plates and wrong-way suicide by police car.” That starts years earlier when Mum and Dad decide that boundaries are oppressive, that “he’s just a bit lively,” and that the proper response to the third stolen car is another soft interview and a stern look.

You produce the product, you own the product. These weren’t angels who took a wrong turn. They were thugs in training, and the training worked perfectly until physics intervened.

Two officers, actual useful human beings with wives, kids, shifts to finish are gone because five feral little princes thought the rules didn’t apply to them. And the usual suspects will still try to turn the dead joyriders into victims of “systemic whatever.” Spare me. The system didn’t put them in that Passat. Their parents did, by raising them to believe consequences are for other people.

They won’t be missed. The rest of us will just have slightly quieter streets and two fewer good men. That’s the ledger.

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