Alan Finnerty

Interested in Politics, Music & Recording. Takes a biscuit but doesn't like coffee. Listen to

[Alan Finnerty @TacticALmover]

Check it out
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[Ciarán Nugent @ciarannugent]

This joker just blocked me immediately after I shared this with him

[Sopo Japaridze @sopjap]

Being delivered by Baerbock is just icing on the cake

[Village Magazine @VillageMagIRE]

Ah sure
https://t.co/PxX1ZYKsNg

[Alan Finnerty @TacticALmover]

Ireland’s data centre strain a ‘cautionary tale’ for rest of world, UN says

https://t.co/LPDa9Nr9jp

[Ciarán Nugent @ciarannugent]

We've been through all this

This is misinformation

https://t.co/JkU0mnwpim

[Ciarán Nugent @ciarannugent]

Yes

It's terrible.

There's no controversy saying it's terrible for neutrality advocates

Those accountable should be properly grilled on this

Also, Caolan is mates with Tommy Robinson. No surprise there either.

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

Graph from Chapter 1 of "The Great Global Transformation"
Within the United States, the growth rate for all parts of the population (but the very top) was higher in the period 1964-79 than in the period 1979-2019 (blue line above the red). That difference was particularly pronounced for the poorest parts: their long-term growth decelerated from 3.5% per capita per year to less than 1%.
Only the very top of the US income distribution grew faster under neoliberalism than under the New Deal- like arrangement.

[Lynn Boylan 🍷📖🐾 @LNBDublin]

@PBresnihan Documents we obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI) reveal that the Terms of Reference for the €100,000 report were heavily skewed to produce a predetermined outcome in favour of data centres.

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

Revoking a 65 year commitment to only deploy defence forces on UN mandated peacekeeping missions while calling for increased military spending.

At a time of increasing geopolitical uncertainty and conflict.

F/FG are dragging us down such a dangerous path.

[Paddy Cosgrave @paddycosgrave]

It’s worth remembering Aughinish Alumina’s Russian owner - “Putin’s favourite oligarch” - was protected by Ireland’s Fine Gael & Fianna Fáil for years. Fine Gael once lobbied the White House directly to lift sanctions on Aughinish Alumina, and then boasted about it all 🤔

[Ciarán Nugent @ciarannugent]

Dan O Brien on newstalk misrepresenting Irish income tax rates in an international context. Again.

We don't have high income taxes

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

As the Government pushes ahead with plans to remove the Triple Lock, they are cynically using Ireland's withdrawal from the EU Irini mission to support their agenda. Unfortunately the media has rehearsed their line without digging deeper 1/3

https://t.co/FdyINHmgYO

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

the uk has revoked my visa as well. all at the behest of israel. the west is betraying "liberal values" for a genocidal fascist foreign government. soon we will all become israel.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

The British government is saying they're banning me because I am "a serious risk to the public order" due to my criticism of Israel.

They say that my charge that Israel controls the American government through donations to 94% of Congress, while factual, is antisemitic nonetheless. Don't know if facts will soon be banned in Britain.

I didn't get banned for criticizing the UK, but for criticizing Israel. They broke the irony record by saying it was because I said Israel might control other governments. I wonder if they're going to ban themselves.

Think about it - if I had said that the Israeli government controls the British government so thoroughly that they'll ban someone from coming to the UK just for criticizing Israel, they would have said that was an antisemitic statement. This is absolutely Kafkaesque.

[Lynn Boylan 🍷📖🐾 @LNBDublin]

@JoeSmyth10 Average electricity demand from data centres in EU Member States is between 2-3%. Irish households and small businesses are paying for the hosting of all of these data centres.

[ً @GCraughwell]

progress ireland also take inspiration from israel's property policy

[Lynn Boylan 🍷📖🐾 @LNBDublin]

If you take the greater Dublin area where they are concentrated it's 50% of electricity demand.

[ً @GCraughwell]

they're also affiliated with an incredible umbrella group of presumably equally progressive think tanks

[Daniela Gabor @DanielaGabor]

I joked here that I'm preparing a Short Manual for Defence against Speculative Attacks for progressive governments, who knows when it's needed.

[Alan Finnerty @TacticALmover]

@Keyes @dubcivictrust lol