Captain Cork

I'm not from Cork

[gript @griptmedia]

The Italian Senate has voted in a landslide to make parental consent mandatory for sex education, with the country's Education Minister saying this was done to "protect children from the confusion of gender propaganda":

https://t.co/mqaumGuoSP

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Natalie Jaresko, a US-born American citizen working for the US State Department, including at the US embassy in Kiev, received Ukrainian citizenship following the NATO-backed coup in 2014 and immediately became the Finance Minister of Ukraine.
Salome Zourabichvili is a French citizen who served as the French ambassador to Georgia. Following the NATO-backed "Rose Revolution", Zourabichvili was granted Georgian citizenship (while still serving as the French ambassador to Georgia). Shortly thereafter, she left the job of France's ambassador to Georgia and took the job as Georgia's Foreign Minister. Later, she took the position of President of Georgia, and has since been a key advocate for allowing Georgia's civil society to be administered by Western "NGOs" financed by Western governments and cooperating with Western intelligence agencies. After holding the presidency, she went to work for the McCain Institute, where she advocates for more intervention, while in Georgia, the current political leadership warns about the West seeking to use these NGOs to topple their democratically elected government to open up another front against Russia.

The imperialist design is always celebrated as democracy, and the purge of the opposition is always celebrated in the West as fighting Russian interference. We cannot even have discussions in the West about the extent to which this supports or undermines our security - as all criticism is purged as "Kremlin talking points". In my opinion, Europe is committing suicide.

[Mandy Gall @TheMandyGall]

Resign @NormaFoleyTD1

[Dr. Marcus De Brun @indepdubnrth]

What people do know is that I have been found GUILTY of undermining public health guidelines during the Pandemic.

What the public DO NOT KNOW is what those guidelines stated. So I will publish them here:

For the treatment of Covid patients in the Community/Nursing Homes settings, Doctors were advised as follows:

1. Do not take the patients blood pressure.

2. Do not listen to their chest (auscultation)

3. Do not prescribe any medication (paracetamol only)

4. Refer to end of life protocols (palliative care/midazolam).

What these guidelines effectively stated is this: Do not examine your patients. Do not touch your patients.
Do not prescribe treatments for your patients -and if they appear to be very unwell- sedate them and allow them to die.

I can only recall one period in human history when human beings were treated in this manner.

[Stella O'Malley @stellaomalley3]

I can vouch for this! @NormaFoleyTD1 has been told many times about this issue

[Dr. Eoin Lenihan @EoinLenihan]

Well done @CharlieFlanagan speaking out.

“Norma Foley can’t say she doesn’t know about fisting and rimming and more in school books,” said Flanagan, who retired from politics in 2024. “She does, because I told her personally.”

Remember, shortly after retiring in 2023, Flanagan also told The Irish Times, “I do find that the plurality of voices long evident in Leinster House are not as evident now. There is a dangerous intolerance of any view that is
not being pushed by vociferous, well-financed and well-funded non-government organisations.”

He raised the alarm about the power of the NGOs stating, "I have said to colleagues that I would have more influence on Government policy if I was a middle-ranking official with an NGO than I have as a government backbencher.”

So in this most recent scandal, I am inclined to believe Flanagan over Foley.

[gript @griptmedia]

EXCLUSIVE: "I expect you to treat this with urgency" - In emails seen by Gript, Norma Foley was warned by a teacher about the book 'What's The T?' as far back as 2023 - though she continued to deny all knowledge to Gript this morning:

https://t.co/Kgij6PUJAw

[Colette Colfer @ColetteColfer]

There’s something very wrong in the political system when you email a politician outlining concerns about the impact of gender identity on women’s sports, single sex spaces, and distressed young women who are medicalised and harmed by ‘taking T’, and the politician’s response says thanks for your communication but I disagree with you, Trans people should have equal rights. To be clear - at no point did I suggest trans people should not have equal rights. So - I replied saying absolutely trans people should have equal rights and then reiterated my original points but there’s no reply. It’s like an iron door is closed, like to question or raise concerns is to expose Superman to kryptonite and so this cannot be allowed.

[Dr. Marcus De Brun @indepdubnrth]

"MISINFORMATION"
Throughout the course of 6yrs of investigations and 7 days of hearings and cross examinations by the IMC's legal team. I was NEVER accused of misinformation. Not ONCE. I don't think the word ws ever even used!

Yet it forms the headline of RTE's coverage -and they have never ever interviewed me - not once in 6yrs. Not ONCE!

Who exactly is guilty of "misinformation" ?

GP found guilty of misinformation: https://t.co/3qPqI3N5vE

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

There is a strange development in which academics of international politics are expected to publicly condemn adversarial countries before they are allowed to participate in public discourse. The complexity of international politics is reduced to a moral question of good versus evil, and academics must make moral declarations before even discussing facts, history, strategy, and interpretations. Academics should explain why states behave as they do; they are not moral validators.

What value does it bring to an analysis if the analyst "condemns" one side? After Russia invaded Ukraine, the former Norwegian foreign minister actually argued that "this is not the time to understand, but to condemn". This ridiculous position is pushed on academics. However, understanding is not endorsement, explanation is not advocacy, and ignorance is not strength. I argue it is in Russia's security interest to push NATO away from its borders, it is in Iran's interest to control the Strait of Hormuz, and it is in China's interest to create a new international economic architecture. This is not advocacy, nor is it a normative position about how the world should work; rather, it is a recognition of how the world actually works.

An academic should examine interests, capabilities, and strategic calculations that produce such policies—not participate in ritualised declarations of virtue that contribute absolutely nothing. Furthermore, moralism and condemnation often lead to a lack of understanding and increased conflict. When the conclusion is always that the good guys are confronting the bad guys, then the solution is always "peace through strength", "weapons are the path to peace", and defeating the latest reincarnation of Hitler. If you want war, condemn the other side as pure evil. If you want peace, the first step is to understand the other side.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

@SRAikenUUP @JamesD74431175 @Israel @Alan__Shatter Another lie. Such a pathetic. Position to suddenly take a genocide being committed by Israel and then put blame on Irish people with zero basis.

[Keith Redmond @ExCllrRedmond]

We all had green bins in our houses. They bottles went into it. But that was too easy. So instead, the Re-Turn scheme was invented to enrich that company and supermarkets who pocket the unreturned deposits. The whole thing is baffling.

[Stefania Maurizi @SMaurizi]

We must protect vulnerable people, the underdog,truthtellers,those who fight for #Peace,#Truth,#Justice. We must protect @FranceskAlbs. If you haven't signed @couragefound's petition for @FranceskAlbs, pls do it now!

https://t.co/a7XDmJ0CjO

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Dutch friends.
"If you tolerate this, then your children will be next" (cit)

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

I hadn’t realised this.

Re-Turn is making bin charges more expensive.

Bin companies are losing €15m in revenue from aluminium cans and PET bottles. The cans are worth €800 - €1400 a tonne & bottles €500.

So we are paying twice!
Deposit charge + higher bin charge.

I think we need to start a Boycott.

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

Boycott Re-Turn
Let the money pile-up

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

META sent me an AI message flagging my Facebook profile, saying it will no longer be promoted because of "lack of original content." This was part of my response to them:

"You are flagging my profile, claiming I put up unoriginal content. Clearly, your AI leaves much to be desired. The majority of my posts are either A) videos of interviews I have given to mainstream and alternative media, so BY DEFINITION, it is ORIGINAL content. I created it. And B) it is me providing ANALYSIS of news, which is my job as the co-head of a think tank. Again, by definition, it is original.

If you want to ban me because I am critical of Israeli policies, then just say so instead of hiding behind these insulting pretexts.

[Captain Cork @ganski123]

https://t.co/zqclPHrm7x

[Susanne Delaney @SuzieD755164]

ALEX COUGHLAN'S FAMILY asked me to share this beautiful, touching clip of him reading to his little nephew. It really conveys the type of person Alex was. If you would like to get to know who Alex was and how he lived his life, then please watch the duration of this short memorial video in his honour. Please also take part in what is asked at the end of the video, and also use these hashtags when sharing: #AlexCoughlan #RememberHim #SpeakHisName

Let's keep his name and face in the public eye. Make sure this memorial video reaches every person in this country and beyond. Share it with everyone you know. Share it the world over.
NEVER FORGET ALEX.

Unfortunately, it may be shadowbanned, so we all need to pull together on this one.

Just to say... Alex was a truly wonderful person by all accounts. It is important to keep this post and all comments about HIM. Please. For this one post. Do this in memory of Alex. Because one cruel and final indignity that is visited upon those who have had their lives stolen is the fact that the unforgivable act can end up defining that person in the public eye by that very act itself. Who the person was can be lost amidst the tragedy. Alex was someone I would have loved to know. I wish I'd had that great privilege and I know he comes from an amazing family. They will read these comments most likely. So please be mindful of that.

Thank you.

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

57 Arab and Muslim countries OFFERED Israel PEACE in 2024. GUARANTEED security in exchange for a Palestinian state and the end to the occupation.

Israel REFUSED.

Then Israel claims “they don’t want peace” while acting as the MAIN obstacle to peace.