Ha, I am very near sighted, took off my glasses and saw the number clearly. (93 fyi). I literally cannot recall the last time I saw something better without my glasses. (But don’t go expecting any prizes, now.)
Irish politicians are avoiding questions about Aughinish. Patrick O’Donovan refuses to answer my calls. The refinery is in his constituency
He says the Russian owned plant is not connected to Russia’s war machine, without showing evidence. They want this to blow over. It won’t
🚨BREAKING: In a Chicago suburb, a U.S. citizen was observing an adult man in a black ski mask, who she believed was an ICE agent, driving around a HIGH SCHOOL…
…and police pulled HER over.
Not the MASKED MAN driving around the Schaumburg high school…
The officer told her she was being detained for “stalking.”
Even though, when she asked who she was allegedly stalking… the cop admitted he didn’t even know yet, and would “find out in just a moment.”
So, just to clarify…
The cop hadn’t confirmed who the MASKED MAN was.
He hadn’t determined whether he was a federal agent, or why he was driving around a HIGH SCHOOL in a SKI MASK.
But the cop had already decided the woman, OBSERVING THE MASKED MAN, was the problem.
Americans have a First Amendment right to observe what government officials are doing in public.
If this was a federal agent… documenting their activity isn’t a crime.
It’s accountability.
And if it wasn’t a federal agent… most people would expect the police to be concerned about a MASKED MAN driving around a HIGH SCHOOL.
Not the woman observing him.
In a country where school shootings are a real and constant threat to students… that’s the bare minimum our law enforcement should be doing.
But when she asked why a MASK MAN, driving around a HIGH SCHOOL, didn’t concern him, the officer said:
“Everyone wears masks nowadays.”
So, if someone can be detained for peacefully observing, what they reasonably believe is government activity…
While police focus more on the observer than the MASKED MAN around a HIGH SCHOOL…
Then we have some serious questions that need to be asked… @GovPritzker
@gilbertoderry@CaolanReports Putin invaded with charges of nazi country over there, so which is it? You admit the reason for the invasion was a farce. Ukraine wants to be free from authoritarian rule, why do you side with the oppressor? Your job? You can sell that shit anywhere.
@AhernHerbe8277@CaolanReports I am totally disgusted with the behaviour of some of these fake Irish. The people who fought for freedom, and cannot help bless another country fighting for freedom. Seriously?
@GOB1153857@CaolanReports Funny how you go to “jewkraine”, A country that was invaded on the false charge of being “Nazi” by Putin. You can’t keep your stories straight and you support murder, torture by Putin. I for one hope Ukraine kills 50k invading Russian soldiers this month.
@nijineko33@CaolanReports Your country is betraying freedom by allowing the situation Caolan reported on to continue. Putin is a murdering, freedom stealing, invading bastard. Standing with him, putting local jobs above the assistance of such is worse than shameful. You carry Putin’s sin.
@meldoylesun@CaolanReports He is that, and the world needs about 8 billion more like him. Putin is an evil, invading murdering SOB. If you cannot stand with Ukraine, you stand with Putin and share his sin.
@Crushcommies420@CaolanReports No, they are actually dangerous. Please do not minimize this. I agree with the maladjusted bit though, and your final sentiment.
@PaulJac64175722@_Aria_2210 You can’t do sqrt like that, sorry. You can factor it though, but I think it is just easier to do the calculation in your head. 6^2 =36, and 8^2 =64 and 36+64 =100 now the sqrt is obviously 10. Now dividing by a fraction, invert and multiply. 10 * 10 =100
@SqSehrish This is written so poorly,
Suppose
f(6,6) = 125;
f(5,5) = 104;
f(4,4) = 83;
f(3,3) = 62;
Find f(2,2). And define f(x,y).
My answer: So f(2,2) = 41 and f(x,y) = (x*20) + (y-1);
The Trump admin is dismantling a $370M ocean-monitoring network run out of Woods Hole — ~900 sensors tracking marine heatwaves, currents & coastal flooding. Congress restored the funding twice; they're scrapping it anyway. We're going blind on a changing ocean. #ClimateChange #Oceans #NOAA
I'm afraid that this is why the US administration wants to shut down ocean observations: they don't want the people to know what is happening in our oceans, as it does not fit their ideology and the interests of their fossil fuel industry funders.
https://t.co/G1E5zXdyid
@outbreakupdates Did you look at the tenor of the comments replying to this report from CNN. Classic disbelief, it isn’t happening, etc. what’s next? Will they throw rocks at aid workers in the USA when it arrives there? Blame the people trying to help, it is in the replies.
Sweden, at the request of Ukraine, arrested the ship Caffa, which was transporting grain from Crimea
As stated by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Kravchenko, this is the first case when, at the request of the Ukrainian prosecutor's office for international legal assistance, a foreign court approved the arrest of a ship that could have been involved in the illegal export of Ukrainian products from the temporarily occupied territory.
The ship Caffa (previously called "Ufa") systematically violated the order of entry/exit to the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine with the aim of harming the interests of the state. To conceal this activity, a scheme of false registration was used: the ship is listed as Guinea False in international databases.
Scandal brewing in “neutral” Ireland after revelations that one Russian-affiliated plant there has been supplying over 83% Irish exports of alumina to Russia where it’s smelted into aluminum, a critical component for war production.
Aughinish Alumina in County Limerick, Europe’s largest alumina refinery, owned by United Company Rusal (Russia’s largest aluminium producer), whose parent EN+ Group was founded by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska. An investigation by the Irish Times, OCCRP and other outlets, drawing on confidential documents, customs data and satellite imagery, established the supply chain.
The Irish government tried to deflect but when a reporter filmed the plant with signs in Russian, they could no longer deny it. Now internal documents were leaked showing that the company is threatening the Irish government with loss of jobs and all sorts of things if it tried to curb its exports to Russia.
The newest defense is that alumina isn’t under EU sanctions so technically no rules were broken. Except Ireland had no problem defying the EU and forging ahead with its own restrictions on imports from Israel with its Occupied Territories Bill. Because… reasons (or maybe Russian occupation of Ukraine is OK while Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands is not).
Australia stopped its alumina exports to Russia because the material is so necessary for the war (its main exporter was also 20%-owned by Deripaska). The neutral Irish government is operating under different standards, where morality is spelled in Russian.
I wonder what the Irish people, who overwhelmingly support Ukraine (in fact, they are among the strongest supporters in Europe when it comes to economic and financial aid), think about all of this.