I asked a local councillor if the russian refinery here in Ireland should be sanctioned.
He said yes, if it was supplying Israel.
But Russia? No.
This is Ireland’s sanctions hypocrisy in 90 seconds.
Ireland defense for supplying roughly 90% of EU alumina exports to Russia is that the EU never sanctioned alumina.
But when it came to Israel, Ireland didn't wait for the EU.
Dublin pushed ahead with its own Occupied Territories legislation, openly challenging the EU's common trade policy and arguing that moral considerations required action.
Apparently, "we can't act without Brussels" applies to Russia, but not to Israel.
Interesting standard.
⚡⚡⚡BREAKING: Ireland’s dirty secret exposed: Data reveals Ireland’s Aughinish Alumina factory — owned by Russian giant Rusal — shipped a staggering 83% of its exports (200,619 tons) to Russia in Q1 2026 alone. While PM Micheál Martin claims sanctioning it would “hurt the EU more than Russia,” the truth is this Irish plant is fueling Putin’s war machine: alumina → Russian aluminum → weapons killing Ukrainians. Official statistics crush the factory’s own lies (they claimed only 45% to Russia). As Ireland prepares to lead the EU Council, will Dublin keep blocking sanctions on its Russian-owned cash cow? Share if you want real sanctions.
A Sikh man murders a British boy, he and his family blame the boy, and his mother hides the knife.
The British police handcuffed that boy and left him to die in the street.
And this is the coverage from the @BBC??
The Sikhs are the victims??
You don’t hate the media enough.
Not
Nearly
Enough.
Every day, ships leave this russian owned factory in Ireland straight for St Petersburg carrying thousands of tonnes of raw alumina for the war machine.
There’s corruption everywhere. Locals tell me politicians are bought by oligarchs.
Ireland is no longer militarily neutral.
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“When people living in Western countries can no longer act freely because of Chinese state thuggery operating on Western soil, it is long past time to respond decisively.”
BREAKING: Australian authorities came close to charging Australian Special Forces soldiers with war crimes simply for firing WARNING SHOTS at Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.
Retired Australian Special Forces Major @HestonRussell revealed to @karlstefanovic that Australian Special Forces soldiers were investigated over their practice of firing warning shots at insurgents - a practice legal under US engagement rules but illegal under Australian law.
While working alongside US forces who were authorised to fire warning shots, Australian Special Forces developed an informal understanding that firing near a fleeing insurgent would cause them to stop and allow capture - Australian forces adopted this tactic to reduce lethality because they were otherwise lawfully authorised to kill fleeing insurgents.
Russell says that Major General Brereton - the lawyer who led the war crimes investigations into Australian soldiers - told him that his command decision to allow warning shots "had opened every single one'' of the Australian soldiers under his command to being prosecuted for war crimes.
Countless Australian soldiers committed suicide under pressure from the Brereton Inquiry.
"Alert but not frightened."
That is how Jimmy Lai described his attitude toward the changes that defined his life. Toward the National Security Law. Toward a 20-year sentence for believing that truth prevails in God's kingdom.
He is 78. He has been in solitary confinement for nearly five years.
He deserves to come home.
Read Claire Lai's reflection in @ActonInstitute: https://t.co/sxLNTMtn6j
#FreeJimmyLai #BringHimHome
@BaldingsWorld Perhaps it doesn't matter. When they liked the US more than China, they did more business with China. When they don't like the US more than China, they do more business with China. The behavior will only change when a China shock comes.
This is a very important and quite explosive set of reports coming out in the next few weeks from @ukctransparency@samdunningo and his colleagues have done courageous, meticulous, painstaking work which exposes the links between the CCP, the shadow economy, and organised crime in the UK.
@GOVUK must pay careful attention to this - and then act to bring those who are named to justice and end the culture of impunity that surrounds Chinese criminals protected by the CCP and the Chinese Embassy.
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Police have shut down a park in Kensington as 2 drones containing RADIOACTIVE and CARCINOGENIC material found looking to target the Israeli embassy in London.
Islamist Iranian-linked group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia has reportedly taken responsibility.
This is terrifying.
The fact Starmer is refusing to proscribe the Iranian Regime is EXTREMELY concerning in my opinion.
Pope Leo grew up in Chicago.
I grew up in Lebanon.
I wasn't forced to leave Lebanon because there was peaceful coexistence.
I was forced to leave Lebanon because Islamic terrorists blew up my home and killed many of the people I grew up with.
I wish the Pope would talk to the persecuted Lebanese before making ignorant statements about countries he knows very little about.