vanessamarshdraws

i draw. i make a mess. i say yes too often. i make things on paper. Artist creator.

[vanessamarshdraws @vanessamarsh]

2019 and then some - lots done early in the year - not so much in late 2018 so here’s to my #artvsartist2019 hello new year here’s to us getting on better creatively this year!#illo #illostories #irishillustrator #irishillustration #draweverydaydrawevery… https://t.co/us4sHt2IP6

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

They're threatening to kill kids flying kites now.

No level to which they will not stoop.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Israel has said that paper kites flown by Palestinian children will be treated as weapons of war.

Read that again.

This is the reality of genocide: the total destruction of innocence, freedom and joy.

End all military cooperation with Israel, now.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Israeli defence minister Katz has issued a decree to execute any child flying a kite.
Don’t forget to remain silent about this!

Silence is complicity.
Silence is taking the side of the psychopaths.
Silence is taking the side of those committing genocide.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I genuinely DO NOT get the endgame. If the plan ends with a ruined planet, collapsed economies, and no working class left to spend money. What are billionaires actually hoarding wealth for? To sit in a bunker with numbers on a screen that don't mean anything anymore? Like what is the actual point? 😭

[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.

[OME @Mike_Eagle]

if you squint at the word trillion it looks like guillotine

[kathydjourno @kathydjourno]

Today is Love Inishowen Day. I’m looking back at the dunes of Five Fingers Strand near Malin Head. I share a lot of photos of this place, my home where we live, work and raise our family. You’ll see a lot of our place today with its wild, beautiful heart! #loveinishowenday

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

Please do traipse up to these mobs in, say, loyalist East Belfast and praise them because “all they want to be is Irish.”

Let us know how that goes.

[Catherine Corbin @Catheri76947001]

David Hockney
Rip!

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Congratulations to Elon Musk, the world's first assh000000000000le.

[tim abrahams @timabrahams]

"Do remember they can't cancel spring"
RIP David Hockney.

[vanessamarshdraws @vanessamarsh]

Fuck sake. Time to seriously consider eating the rich.

[TheJournal.ie @thejournal_ie]

Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire after investors piled into SpaceX during the biggest stock market debut in history.

It would take the average Irish worker more than 18 million years to earn as much as Musk's amassed fortune.
https://t.co/J13TOtO2Lc

[StevieB @StevieB09074258]

"The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking. A lot of people don't look very hard."
RIP David Hockney 🎨

[Twig & Heather @FortCottage]

@simongerman600 @joehas

[maude @sheisartmoney]

they’re deleting these vids, keep sharing em

[Amnesty EU @AmnestyEU]

🚨 Dutch parliament backs suspending the EU trade agreement with Israel

Will the ones with the power to sway the vote listen?

Tell Germany and Italy to follow 🇳🇱 example and back suspension: 👇
https://t.co/ZafdXAiisS

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

There's a lot of horrific news at the moment, but Israel performing a quadruple tap bombing on paramedics really is just an astounding example of their moral bankruptcy as a state.

[hicham toufik @hichamtowfik]

She neeeds all our voices
I stand with franchesca albanis