@DaniMayakovski@McdonoughColin Thank you for putting a spotlight on this. From what little I hear the Russian mines have the worst human rights abuses.
@DocDutcher@jakeshieldsajj 2/ Study current marketing techniques that are clinically proven to effectively drive enough strong emotion to overcome people’s natural passivity, as emotion, not logic, stimulates behavior. & Stop thinking we are too smart to be fooled, propaganda works on emotions for most.
@DocDutcher@jakeshieldsajj 1/ Some quick ideas- have a doc appt. soon.
Copy what makes them effective- message discipline on a national level. Get donors to hire a professional PR team. Counter the messaging from them that encourages our passivity and increases divisions between us, and promote unity.
@TournierJeanPi2@jakeshieldsajj Do you have the source of this article?
I’m hesitant to use it if I can’t vet the source enough publicly to fend off attacks.
Yes. It should have. And also about a dozen other Trump scandals. I don’t know how we got so passive. I can barely walk, just had another spine surgery, but I write politicians often to try to make up for it.
@Honeyba18627773@ConorHogarty I respect your concern about local employment, but not the nasty delivery.
Can AA find non-Russian buyers? Most likely. Global demand for Alumina is more than current supply, enough that prices are increasing, and a shortage is likely soon. So they can get different buyers.
@ConorHogarty Great article. I don’t know enough about Ireland to tell if that’s an indicator that real change might happen, or if it’s to placate people by having them just think so. The last paragraph used AA’s on stats on where there product goes, which doesn’t match independent sources.
@Gianl1974 Every photo I see of Melania with Epstein & Maxwell shows her standing with them as equals, and not as a subordinate, or a traded commodity. Lots of us wonder if she was active in a more managerial role during her last years working with Epstein, but there’s no proof. So far.
BREAKING: HELL YES! Albania strikes a crushing blow against Jared Kushner's corrupt private island development by FREEZING the bank accounts of a major company tied to the project.
And it gets even better...
According to Albanian reporter Lindita Cela, the nation's anti-corruption prosecutors have frozen the accounts of a landholding company involved in Kushner's $4 billion luxury resort plans.
The move comes as massive protests sweep the country, with local residents incensed at the idea of Ivanka and Jared gobbling up coveted real estate to create a vacation spot for the Epstein Class. The slogan “Albania Is Not for Sale" has been spreading like wildfire and clashes between police and protestors are increasing in intensity.
The asset seizure was ordered by the Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organized Crime and is part of a broader investigation into possibly fraudulent property titles.
Suspiciously, the company in question is owned by Qatari oligarchs Moutaz and Ramez Al-Khayyat. Kushner's ties to dirty Gulf money are well-established. They blossomed during his time in the first Trump administration, where he twisted American foreign policy to benefit specific actors in the region in return for massive investments and business advantages. This deal is rotten all the way to the core.
The Al-Khayyats have snatched up property along a protected stretch of coastline of the Adriatic Sea and it's here and on a nearby island that Kushner intends on erecting his resort for the top 1% of the top 1%. Given what we know about the Trump family, it's safe to presume that the development will serve as a paradise for pedophiles, war criminals, and human traffickers.
But this time, Jared bit off more than he can chew. Albanians are a proud, defiant people. They've survived centuries of larger regional powers seeking to divide their land, rewrite their history, and erase their culture. They're not going to let one greedy businessman defeat them now.
We stand with Albania!
Kushner out! Ivanka out!
Do you stand with the Albanian people?
Please ❤️ and share to demand more investigations into Kushner!
@MoorcroftRico@Acyn As an American Fella- you got that right.
Is Europe ready for millions of US political refugees if we don’t take back Congress from Trump at our midterm elections this November?
@Hydra_Fella@Justinhead1982 I learned very quickly here in the US of the differences between the people of a country, and their government. 70% of us support Ukraine still, while Trump’s orange face matches the color of Putin‘s hemorrhoid cream. And 30+ million of us are proud of our Irish ancestry.
@thingwhere@JC_1901@CheallaighNiamh I don’t know if you want anyone to follow your account, so I’ll take my follow back if you prefer, but it’s so good to see someone else use data, and that can adjust as that data changes.
@thingwhere@geraldineCosgr2@ConorGallaghe_r Same here in the US- around 70% support Ukraine, and admire & respect Zelensky. And around 50% still want to help financially too, in spite of home budget crunches from the Trump economy. Many of those consider Zelensky the leader of the free world too.
Great reporting, as ever, by @ConorGallaghe_r@IrishTimes on ownership of Aughinish Alumina plant.
Like many EU states, Ireland spent most of the last two decades in denial about the nature/extent of the Russian presence in the country. We should have changed approach in 2022.
The President of the United States is asleep at his desk. Again.
Behind him stand seven grown adults in expensive suits, and not one of them is doing anything about it. One is mid-sentence. Another is gazing sideways with the haunted look of a man whose pension depends on never acknowledging what he can see in his peripheral vision.
The rest of the world is watching, and the rest of the world has noticed something. Americans are terrified of authority. That fear has settled over this administration like a fog, and it turns otherwise functional adults into warm furniture. Nobody moves. Nobody speaks. The paralysis is total.
In any European parliament, in any boardroom from Oslo to Ljubljana, someone would have leaned over by now. Tapped a shoulder. Said, quietly but clearly, that perhaps this isn’t the moment. Somebody would have done something, because the alternative, pretending a sleeping man is running a meeting, would have been too absurd to sustain.
Not here. Here, seven men have collectively decided that the correct professional response to the President losing consciousness in the Oval Office is to carry on as though he were a particularly demanding houseplant.
@OckersM Yes! And Deripaska almost built an Aluminum plant in Kentucky, for the US Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, who saved Trump from impeachment around the same time back then. Only Rachel Maddow reported it. We know of Deripaska.