Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...
Did Nazi Germany have a right to defend itself when it invaded most of its neighbours and kept people from a specific religion in concentration camps?
In the 1990s, the working class of this country was told that unfettered free trade would create millions of new jobs and raise wages.
As many of us understood then, that claim was a lie.
Now they’re being sold the same false promises about AI.
15% of fossil fuels extracted each year are used to make fertiliser, run farms, process foods and transport them. In a very real sense our food is made from oil and gas.
We are about to feel a very painful food shock.
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Radio silence on a renewables revolution from our useless FF/FG government .
Is their goal total subservience to the oil barons hegemony?
Yup! ⬇️
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
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Varadker's comments reflect a wider erosion of the influence of farm organisations and their public image, which is a good thing
www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
Time for a rural truth commission.
Let’s get the 50 top facts out there (& linked to evidence).
Trump - shit for brains.
In Science & Climate in @irishtimes.com, @whittledaway.bsky.social looks at how Ireland's hillscapes have been savaged by sheep and by policies that fail to offer upland farmers a viable alternative......
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
I’m very keen on a rural truth commission. Could be a rolling page with rural facts (truths) plus links to evidence.
To be referenced every time an untruth appears.
A more accurate headline might read: 'Broccoli farmer has his facts wrong on solar energy & land use'.
For Ireland to hit its target of 8GW of solar power would require 0.25% of farmland.
Somehow the remaining 99.75% isn't adequate to maintain food supply...?
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"
How very Trumpian. ⬇️
Hezbollah exists as a DIRECT result of Israeli violence in Lebanon. Literally.
They formed in 1982 following Israel's invasion and occupation. They drove the IDF out of southern Lebanon in 2000.
Western news media defiantly fails to report these facts. #IsraeliTerrorism #LebanonUnderAttack
Why are states like Victoria slashing fares on public transport?
Well, a little less road use makes a lot of difference when it comes to petrol, diesel and knock-on economic impacts.
In response to the war in Iran, petrol prices have surged by almost 50% & diesel prices have jumped more than 70%.
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What appalling people.
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
The US far-right are determined to interfere and influence European and Irish elections. Here’s James Geoghegan and John Dallon, who portrayed themselves as ordinary farmers / contractors, hobnobbing with Kevin Posobiec, an American far-right influencer.
The consolidation of the dairy + beef industry, profiting a handful of export-led processors, pushed by the Irish state for 50 years.
-> food insecurity, fossil fuel dependency, environmental degradation, massive income inequality and farmer indebtedness.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Good Lord! ⬇️
This guy adds A + B to make Z.
Playing to the extreme right again.
Such a negative position.
Burn baby burn! 🔥🔥🔥
No obligation for sustainable energy to fuel these monstrous #DataCentres
Govt short term gain, zero vision, ruins all hope for sustainable Ireland 🤦🏾♀️
“The three buildings & the accompanying gas-fired power plant required an investment of €1.5 billion.“
#spéirghorm #IrishPol
Israel - a society of deeply sick Zionists.
The World Food Programme estimates that if the blockage continues until mid-year, an extra 45m lives will be at risk, on top of the more than 300m people who already struggle to feed themselves
Where’s the land use plan?
