Seems it wasn’t that long ago western democracies were outraged by nations firing on unarmed merchant vessels. 🤷‍♂️

The Irish government is doing more to house computers than it is to house people, and is somehow making less money from it.

#SpeirGorm

Blaming hungry birds for taking fish and doing nothing whilst mega factory ships take more fish in a minute than these birds would take in an entire year
Both EU and Trump now want to target mass killing of Cormorants birds that only a few decades ago were almost extinct

Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable.

Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours.

Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment

Ireland's data centres nationally are already using energy at 4 times the PROJECTED European average for 2030.
If we're serious about energy conservation the very first thing we have to do is reintroduce the moratorium on building any more of them. #spéirgorm

Please remember that dandelions are not truly weeds. They are the bees first meal in the spring. Grow and protect the dandelions, save the bees and you save the world.
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If this is accurate, it is just one more reason why dim-witted Donald's useless war will prove to be a huge mistake.

Trump’s massive miscalculation on Iran is going to hit hard. The NYT spoke to US officials who say Iran is fighting back more effectively than the Trump administration expected, with stronger military capability and continuing attacks on US targets.

More American casualties are likely, they say.

Killybegs Fishermen's Organisation says: As #Irish pelagic fleet face imminent tie-up with meagre quotasalmost caught for the year, 36 Norwegian pelagic #trawlers off the west coast of Ireland, reported landings of over 40,000 tonnes of blue whiting last week - more than the entire Irish quota

The best way to save nature is to leave nature alone
Greenways as advocated by some Greens do not support nature
The lead to more development with bike hire and repair shops, cafes and saunas springing up in once untouched places of nature

Richard Nairn: How green are greenways? The proposed Wicklow to Greystones Greenway route runs right along the edge of the ecologically sensitive coastal area known as the Murrough Wetlands

Ireland Greenway craze
Threatens another untouched place of nature in Wicklow
The Kilcoole Marshes, which hold large numbers of ducks, geese, waders, herons and cormorants throughout the winter months.
threatened by Greenway development
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

As it happened: Storm Chandra wreaks havoc on Ireland Follow live updates as Storm Chandra brings strong winds and heavy rain across the country.

Whenever flooding hits, we hear in detail all about the wrecked homes, livelihoods, property, and related misery.

But NEVER the major cause: that Ireland has been totally stripped of the native ecosystems like forest & bogs that would naturally have absorbed the water.
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Watching Davros and the Americans talking about defence in Greeland
I think Ukraine should be involved in all European defence.
Ukraine knows how to protect Black Sea no Russian ships
Ukraine could do the same for Greenland

Denmark/Europe should organize a counter-Olympics.

Every freedom-loving nation should opt to participate there and boycott the United States.

The world was slow to react to fascism a century ago.

Let’s be quicker to the draw this time.

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.

What can/should the EU do in response to US imperialism against Greenland?
1. Refuse to sign/ratify any trade agreement with the US that is not truly reciprocal.
2. Respond to any US punitive tariff with corresponding tariffs on sensitive US goods. /1

"Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!... HELP IS ON ITS WAY" - Trump.

The European Union plans to suspend a trade deal with the United States over Trump’s Greenland tariffs, Bloomberg reports.

🇩🇪🇬🇱 German soldiers arrive in Greenland for a NATO-linked reconnaissance mission led by Denmark.

Mitch "Turtle" McConnell Deserves
Most Of The Blame......

An air alert has been declared in many regions of Russia due to an attack by Ukrainian drones, - Russian media

For the first time in the entire war, on New Year's Eve, there were more Ukrainian drones over Russia than Russian drones over Ukraine.

Western Europe is struggling to grasp that it is living “in a space between peace and war”, as Blaise Metreweli, Britain’s spy chief, put it on December 15th.

For countries close to Russia—especially the Baltics, Poland and the Nordics—the concept of “war readiness” is well understood.

5. The US is just irrelevant in Ukraine: Trump has given Ukraine NOTHING, insultied Ukraine & Zelensky & knows nothing.
6. Worst of all, Witkoff & Trump support Putin.
7. Disgustingly, the Trump dimwits think they can make money on Russia & Ukraine. /3

AI chatbots share climate disinformation to susceptible users AI chatbots' personalised answers risk inflaming conspiracy and misinformation, as investigation shows climate disinformation shared to sceptic user personas

Have you also asked an AI chatbot about climate and found the answer to be quite good? Maybe that is because it was you who asked.
Some AI (e.g. Grok) tailors their response to suit your beliefs. It’s called ‘AI sycophancy’ (a new word I just learned.)
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Do FIFA need World Cup ticket prices to be high? FIFA works on a four-year revenue cycle, with a surplus to be generated from the World Cup

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: The easy thing to do is to label FIFA's World Cup ticket pricing as an act of opportunistic wealth-hoarding and a sign of both moral decay and the ceaseless pursuit of profit in the sport. Does FIFA need the revenue?

Section 3 of the 14th Amndmt, aka the "Insurrectin Clause" or "Disqualificatin Clause," prohibits those who previously swore an oath to support the Constitution but then engaged in insurrection or rebellion from holding certain public offices, unless Congress removes that disqual with a 2/3 vote

It seems that Friday we will be at war, to keep the EPSTEIN files hidden.

The same happened with the cod Fishery off Canada . Keep fishing and cod fishery was closed for.twenty years.