General Current Affairs Chat - Global and Local

[PogMoThoin22]

This is gerrymandering the Irish will soon have no vote

[Beatty]

This is gerrymandering the Irish will soon have no vote

The school has 352 students of 17 different nationalities.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/1213/14217 ... mmodation/

Our school has 363 pupils and approximately 45 staff.
https://www.kilranenationalschool.com/

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/we ... 82947.html

[knownunknown]

9,000 women have just been given the green light to sue Disney for unfair pay practises, sexual discrimination.

This comes from the most woke company imaginable, who turned classics like Star Wars and ghostbusters into feminist pornography.

“ It appears Disney has grouped dissimilar jobs into the same group(s) and then seeks to hide behind that to avoid accountability for potential systemic pay discrimination”

Not only was there pay discrimination, the suit alleges, but also Disney were seeking to hide this practise of pay discrimination.

I think the whole thing is a farce, making sure women and men are paid the same(for various reasons that don’t include sexism) but I’ve never advocated for it like companies like Disney have. They’ve dug their own grave here and the results are comical.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ty-lawsuit
https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/9000- ... -fate.html

[knownunknown]

What is being described as ‘gamergate 2.0’ centres around a company hired to inject wokeness into video games, sweet baby inc. The gaming magazines and news media will tell you it’s a harassment campaign against this company(https://www.wired.com/story/sweet-baby- ... gamergate/). Whereas in reality it came about because this company successfully cancelled a Brazilian man’s steam account(Kabrutusrambo) for merely talking about sweet baby inc injecting wokeness into games.

Won’t be as easy to point fingers and shout nazi as they have done for years because more people are now aware of their ridiculous yet effective tactics.
https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/03/ ... heir-work/

Note which of these articles cites evidence, tweets and examples to justify their narrative.

[6234567]

I watched a video on that ^^^
They screenshotted a tweet where Sweet Baby more or less threatening blackmail on everyone.
It was a case of "we hope you don't have anything in your past that could be used against you"
Of course if Sweet Baby was hired by a company, all potential unPC behaviour wouldn't be an issue.

[Setanta]

The government are selling any tangible asset of the country to line their pockets as usual....they learned feck all from giving away oil and gas rights


PC brigade as per usual,have zero to say on this....using the green agenda to deny prosperity to the citizens of the state,is everything that is wrong with establishment here

[PureIsle]

The government are selling any tangible asset of the country to line their pockets as usual....they learned feck all from giving away oil and gas rights


PC brigade as per usual,have zero to say on this....using the green agenda to deny prosperity to the citizens of the state,is everything that is wrong with establishment here

In the case of offshore wind generation we might have dodged a bullet ..... but only if the taxpayer does not get caught for financial support and is not left holding the bag should such enterprise fail.

[Setanta]

In the case of offshore wind generation we might have dodged a bullet ..... but only if the taxpayer does not get caught for financial support and is not left holding the bag should such enterprise fail.

Any state that sells off it's assets is a stupid one....this is part of the green agenda to finish off fishing here aswell


The establishment in this country needs rooting out, they are now openly and permanently in the pockets of forgien businesses.....let the enterprise fail,but on Irish terms,we don't need every fucker in the world trying to profiteer off Irish assets.....a properly run country wouldn't let this happen....but Ireland is such an openly corrupt shithole,this sell off is cheered by the establishment and PC brigade

[PureIsle]

Any state that sells off it's assets is a stupid one....this is part of the green agenda to finish off fishing here aswell


The establishment in this country needs rooting out, they are now openly and permanently in the pockets of forgien businesses.....let the enterprise fail,but on Irish terms,we don't need every fucker in the world trying to profiteer off Irish assets.....a properly run country wouldn't let this happen....but Ireland is such an openly corrupt shithole,this sell off is cheered by the establishment and PC brigade

No physical asset is 'sold off' in the case of offshore wind generation, as I understand it.
Do I understand correctly?

A licence is issued to allow use of the offshore space to create the structures for the generation.
Provided that Ireland has a positive net value from the licencing, and no exposure to ANY costs associated with it (including tax breaks), even when the time comes to remove/replace the structures, then I would look at what are the net gains for Ireland.

Now when it comes to the terms of that licence it is a completely different matter.
Ireland should of course be the main beneficiary by far.
As I have not read the terms of the licence and who might be responsible for what costs, I cannot make a judgement.

Admittedly, based on track record, the gov in this country, regardless colour, have been anything but competent.

[Setanta]

No physical asset is 'sold off' in the case of offshore wind generation, as I understand it.
Do I understand correctly?

A licence is issued to allow use of the offshore space to create the structures for the generation.
Provided that Ireland has a positive net value from the licencing, and no exposure to ANY costs associated with it (including tax breaks), even when the time comes to remove/replace the structures, then I would look at what are the net gains for Ireland.

Now when it comes to the terms of that licence it is a completely different matter.
Ireland should of course be the main beneficiary by far.
As I have not read the terms of the licence and who might be responsible for what costs, I cannot make a judgement.

Admittedly, based on track record, the gov in this country, regardless colour, have been anything but competent.

No physical asset is 'sold off' in the case of offshore wind generation, as I understand it.
Do I understand correctly?

A licence is issued to allow use of the offshore space to create the structures for the generation.

And whom will own/profit from this electric generated??....the left are selling out our country as per usual

Provided that Ireland has a positive net value from the licencing, and no exposure to ANY costs associated with it (including tax breaks), even when the time comes to remove/replace the structures, then I would look at what are the net gains for Ireland.

Literally same excuse PC brigade and establishment used to justify giving away oil and gas rights alongside sidelining out fishing industry to avoid financially supporting it

Ireland should of course be the main beneficiary by far.

Ireland should be the only beneficiary....pay no heed to establishment and left....we owe private and outside industry zero of our resources and assets,and shouldn't sell out future to them

the gov in this country, regardless colour, have been anything but competent.

The big problem is,the government are competent....these aren't mistakes,for generations free staters have sold the country down a river and worked againest the interests of the public and for the establishment here......noone makes these mistakes consistently,these are an active decision to run country down for money,and only papering with a green agenda nowadays

[Setanta]

https://www.businesspost.ie/news/exclus ... 0-a-month/


Another rip roaring success for Irish establishment and it's need to privatise everything at expense of citizens here


We have the worst establishment,privateers,and leftists running riot in the world here,every day,our state gets actively worse for it's citizens

[Setanta]

Irish government prepares to provide a financial assistance to a company whom made 21 billion profit last year


At some stage,we need to elect people who'll look out for ordinary people in the state and not just outside forgien interests

[knownunknown]

Assassination attempt on Slovak PM, he’s in unstable condition according to bbc with bullet wounds to abdomen.

[Setanta]

Assassination attempt on Slovak PM, he’s in unstable condition according to bbc with bullet wounds to abdomen.

Seemingly not pro NATO wars and sympathetic to Russia

,an indication, perhaps,of future facing non-establishment voices,if Ireland ended up in NATO

[knownunknown]

Reports are that Fico is in ‘stable but serious’ condition.

He is a populist and the rhetoric surrounding him in Slovakia is similar to the English speaking world surrounding Trump, violent rhetoric about how he’s going to bring about the Armageddon etc..etc…

His would be assassin was a liberal, not anything to do with geopolitics. This assassin(Writer, poet and anti-violence movement founder Juraj Cintula ) didn’t like the policies of his country’s choice for leader. Ironically he’s the type of guy who says Cintula is attacking democracy. This is exactly where the US is heading and 50% of the country would cheer if it happened.

Eerily, about a month, ago Fico is seen here predicting an attack on a high ranking politician, little did he know it would be himself.

[marhay70]

Reports are that Fico is in ‘stable but serious’ condition.

He is a populist and the rhetoric surrounding him in Slovakia is similar to the English speaking world surrounding Trump, violent rhetoric about how he’s going to bring about the Armageddon etc..etc…

His would be assassin was a liberal, not anything to do with geopolitics. This assassin(Writer, poet and anti-violence movement founder Juraj Cintula ) didn’t like the policies of his country’s choice for leader. Ironically he’s the type of guy who says Cintula is attacking democracy. This is exactly where the US is heading and 50% of the country would cheer if it happened.

Eerily, about a month, ago Fico is seen here predicting an attack on a high ranking politician, little did he know it would be himself.

Don't know much about him except that he is allegedly, "pro Putin", against the wishes of a substantial portion of the population. Again, I don't know much about the political set up in Slovakia, probably as much as the typical Slovak knows about Ireland, but it doesn't augur well for an EU member state to have a pro Moscow PM, we've enough problems with Orban.
As for Trump, I think it's plain to see just what type of person he is, quite apart from the fact he is obviously unstable.

[knownunknown]

Don't know much about him except that he is allegedly, "pro Putin", against the wishes of a substantial portion of the population. Again, I don't know much about the political set up in Slovakia, probably as much as the typical Slovak knows about Ireland, but it doesn't augur well for an EU member state to have a pro Moscow PM, we've enough problems with Orban.
As for Trump, I think it's plain to see just what type of person he is, quite apart from the fact he is obviously unstable.

Fico ran on a platform of stopping funding to the polish led alliance of arming Ukraine and the will of the people had their say.

That’s exactly what the slovakians and the press said about Fico. Unstable, a threat to democracy, pro putin, etc. etc..
The press ran with a narrative that he was a threat to democracy and eventually a famous writer, left wing, progressive who started an anti violence group on Facebook, assassinated him. A person who would call himself liberal.

It’s trump derangement syndrome in Slovakia.

Mr Fico and his SMER, or Direction party, secured nearly 23% of the votes at the polls in October but he has remained controversial and is known for foul-mouthed tirades against journalists and has campaigned against immigration and LGBTQ+ rights

The 59-year-old has previously been compared to former US president Donald Trump.

https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-slova ... o-13136482

[Setanta]

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/cri ... 40107.html


This country is a joke

[marhay70]

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/cri ... 40107.html


This country is a joke

I thought the prevailing theory was that he shot himself? Good shot, whoever it was. The suspect probably got to the UK, the same way all the welfare tourists get here, wouldn't surprise me if he was originally one himself, allowed to melt into the ether by non existent law enforcement.

[knownunknown]

Reports of the helicopter carrying the Iranian president having a hard landing about 7 hours ago and since then no updates. Most likely a goner. No tears shed here.

Ebrahim Raisi's death(the butcher of Tehran) has now been confirmed.

He has been accused of crimes against humanity by various UN sources, recently executing women who don’t abide by his strict form of Islamism(not wearing burka), sent thousands of prisoner’s of conscience to their death when he was part of the ‘death committee’, supported terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah and fired hundreds of munitions against Israel.

Absolutely no loss to the world.

[marhay70]

Reports of the helicopter carrying the Iranian president having a hard landing about 7 hours ago and since then no updates. Most likely a goner. No tears shed here.

Ebrahim Raisi's death(the butcher of Tehran) has now been confirmed.

He has been accused of crimes against humanity by various UN sources, recently executing women who don’t abide by his strict form of Islamism(not wearing burka), sent thousands of prisoner’s of conscience to their death when he was part of the ‘death committee’, supported terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah and fired hundreds of munitions against Israel.

Absolutely no loss to the world.

Was Israel involved? Iran would never tell if they were but you'd think such a personage as the President would use the best equipment, crewed by the best fliers, using the best navigation aids. Getting lost in poor weather conditions, although it can't be discounted, seems to me to be unlikely.

[knownunknown]

Was Israel involved? Iran would never tell if they were but you'd think such a personage as the President would use the best equipment, crewed by the best fliers, using the best navigation aids. Getting lost in poor weather conditions, although it can't be discounted, seems to me to be unlikely.

The only thing we can say for certain is there is no need for Israel to be involved. (Using Occam’s razor).

The amount of fog is quite clearly evident from all the footage of the searches. Remember America’s darling Kobe Bryant went the same way, one of the richest men there, helicopter crash in fog.

“ An NTSB official said there was likely added self-pressure on the pilot to complete the trip despite the weather conditions, due to his relationship with the client” something similar is highly plausible here. Of course Mossad is also a possibility.

[Setanta]

Was Israel involved? Iran would never tell if they were but you'd think such a personage as the President would use the best equipment, crewed by the best fliers, using the best navigation aids. Getting lost in poor weather conditions, although it can't be discounted, seems to me to be unlikely.

Helicopters are notorious in fog to getting lost and wreaking emselves as can't land... happened here several times,most notably the crash in tramore sanddunes,must be 25 years ago,less than 300 metres from airport IIRC,costing 4 lives



If Israel was involved,you'd see a whole load of mossad agents fleeing the country (and Israel aswell) with their families and being detained for questioning at airports/open desert crossing...and would have leaked from white house by now aswell.

[marhay70]

Helicopters are notorious in fog to getting lost and wreaking emselves as can't land... happened here several times,most notably the crash in tramore sanddunes,must be 25 years ago,less than 300 metres from airport IIRC,costing 4 lives



If Israel was involved,you'd see a whole load of mossad agents fleeing the country (and Israel aswell) with their families and being detained for questioning at airports/open desert crossing...and would have leaked from white house by now aswell.

It was the third of three helicopters in line astern. Iran has many people who would have dearly loved to see the back of Raisi, he wasn't exactly "Mr Popular", all Israel would need to supply is the means.

[Setanta]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co ... dq2dno.amp


What we all known to be true.....billy wright being an agent of British interests here and actively worked to stop targeting of spies/agents in IRA,who were responsible for,what I felt was the most reprehensible of the troubles killings/disappearances in mullaghmore...and which is almost unknown and covered up by establishment here

Everyone knows of killing of Mountbatten there,but a much more sinister killing,which could been 100% prevented and was pushed for by British intelligence is barely known/acknowledged