aubergine

#Zilliqa, cybersec and cynicism

[3bucksleft @3bucksleft1]

I'm Not Going To Share The Video Its On Other Platforms And It Wouldn't Do Anyone Any Good But When Is Enough Going To Be Enough? #ireland #dog

[aubergine @currybeans]

@EoinLenihan @punishablepress Is the full interview up yet? Have not seen it on timcasts YouTube

[Ihsan Horani @neutralground90]

Don't let this get buried.

Last October the EU spent €10 million on a project to convince Europeans that Islam was foundational to European civilisation.

Le Journal du Dimanche found several academics involved are documented as close to the Muslim Brotherhood. One translated Hassan al-Banna's writings. Another lectures at the Brotherhood's theological institute in Paris.

This is how it actually works.

Not just mosques and charities. Academic projects. Public funding. Peer-reviewed legitimacy. The slow construction of a historical narrative that makes political Islam's presence in Europe feel ancient, inevitable and beyond question.

By the time anyone objects the argument has already been laundered through universities, exhibitions and conference papers.

Former FRONTEX director Fabrice Leggeri saw it clearly: "a historical falsification funded with public money."

https://t.co/gBFtvJr63P

[John McGuirk @john_mcguirk]

For six months every thirteen years, when it is in Hibernian hands, the EU Council Presidency becomes the most important diplomatic office in world history. The rest of the time, nobody knows who holds it. Until yesterday it was Cyprus, apparently.

[Joe Naughton @JoeNaConnacht]

Can someone please explain these two decisions?

One looks to have a clear grounding and the other is a penalty given for not straight from a line out but England didn’t compete.

[Dr Harold News @DrHaroldNews]

Simon Harris has reassured the public that in the event of severe water shortages, the Government has a plan in place to supply Data Centres with Ballygowan.

[Aontú @AontuIE]

Ireland, not the EU should decide what supplements we can purchase.

Petition: https://t.co/l7pasdPekB

#aontú #saveoursupplements

[aubergine @currybeans]

@UghEffortOfThis He looks slightly taller and narrower? What I missing 😁🦆

[aubergine @currybeans]

@ValentinaForUSA How odd, the same thing happens in Ireland.
Cork man, Dublin man..... often later revealed to have an unusual name

🤔 One could conclude they are all in "lockstep"

[Handre @Handre]

Two small island economies blew up in 2008. Iceland and Ireland. Their names differ by one letter, and their handling of the crisis differed by everything that matters.

Iceland's three big banks, Kaupthing, Landsbanki, and Glitnir, had grown assets to roughly ten times the country's GDP by 2008. Pure credit-fueled madness. When the music stopped, the Icelandic government did the unthinkable: it let them fail. Bondholders ate the losses. The state refused to socialize private bank debt onto 320,000 citizens who never signed up for it. Capital controls went up, the króna collapsed, and the politicians actually prosecuted bankers. Twenty-six of them went to prison. Sigurður Einarsson and Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, the men who ran Kaupthing, served real sentences.

Ireland took the opposite road. In September 2008, the Irish government issued a blanket guarantee covering the liabilities of its major banks, including Anglo Irish Bank, a property-lending casino that should have been allowed to die in peace. The taxpayer absorbed the bill. By the time the rescue ended, Ireland had poured around 64 billion euros into its banks, roughly 40 percent of GDP. The state took on private gambling debts, then went to the Troika in 2010 hat in hand for an 85 billion euro bailout, and accepted years of austerity to pay for losses it had no business owning.

Both economies recovered. Both eventually grew again. The difference is who paid and who learned. Iceland made creditors and reckless bankers bear the consequences of their own decisions, which is the entire point of capitalism: profit and loss, not profit and bailout. Ireland protected the people who made the bad bets and handed the invoice to schoolteachers and shopkeepers.

You will hear economists call Ireland's GDP rebound a triumph (much of that "growth" is multinational accounting fiction, Leprechaun economics, but that's another lesson). What they skip is the moral architecture. When you guarantee bank liabilities, you abolish the discipline that makes markets work. You tell every banker in the country that downside is optional.

Iceland jailed its bankers. Ireland reimbursed theirs.

[aubergine @currybeans]

@CleansedTweets Similar to Japanese plum wine or sweeter?

[Glendalough ☘️ Celtic Acoustic Collective @Glendaloughers]

☘️ Sally Gally

Irish & Celtic music from Nagoya, Japan 🇯🇵

Glendalough Celtic Acoustic Collective

🎻 Fiddle 🪗 Accordion 🪈 Tin Whistle 🎸 Mandolin

#irishmusic #celticmusic #ケルト音楽

[MichaeloKeeffe @Mick_O_Keeffe]

📍Cork, Ireland

Aggressive migrant is taught a valuable lesson by an Irishman.

[aubergine @currybeans]

@punishablepress That Hurley looks like an antique, ceremonial artifact? 😁

[John McGuirk @john_mcguirk]

The simple fact is that if you bring to your society lots of people from countries where beheadings are normal, you will get more beheadings. See also: Female Genital Mutilation, sexual assault, etc. This is a policy choice. By politicians. Who must bear responsibility.

[aubergine @currybeans]

@fellawrites 2 this year so far

[Arklow Says No @ArklowSaysNo]

Yves Sakila was Congolese because he was the victim.

This Ghanaian is "Dublin man" because he's the perpetrator.

[Michael McCarthy @punishablepress]

It's time we had an honest conversation about the effects of diversity and multi-racial societies.

This is happening the same month our government plan to hand away border sovereignty to the EU.

They did this without a public vote.

[TheLiberal.ie @TheLiberal_ie]

Maitie Mag Toghearnan has revealed himself as the man who confronted the migrant in Belfast last night.

Faced with unimaginable violence, he chose courage over fear and grabbed a hurley stick to defend his fellow Irish man

Respect 👏

[The Yorkshire Lass @real_shirelass]

WTF has been going on in Belfast. I’ve just woken up to the news that a black African immigrant tried to behead a white man in the street last night, someone else reporting that the victim who was white had his eyes taken out. Reports are saying that the Man who was attacked died of injuries in hospital and the attacker has been arrested by police. Rupert Lowe is calling for police to urgently release the details of what happened last night on the streets of north Belfast.

I feel physically sick.