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Digging for Gold.
How to destroy a civilisation in one easy article.
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Jonathan Mills
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Jonathan Mills
@Muinchille
Cuntasóir. Irish finance, economics, and reunification. RT's may be ironic, satirical or just plain astonished. Oppressor of the pedantry.🇮🇪
Dublin Katılım Ocak 2011
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I think the contrast principle from Cialdini’s Influence explains perfectly why every Irish person starts posting “best country in the world” the second we get one sunny day.
We always judge things relative to what has come immediately before.
So after six months of cold, rain and darkness one random warm day feels like paradise because the baseline has been set so low.
But to be fair, Ireland probably is the best country in the world when the sun is shining.
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Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan confirms that his Department owns dozens of residential houses for accommodating asylum seekers, but says these were previously bought under Roderic O'Gorman's Department of Integration, and that "I don't have any intention of procuring more".
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Viral task:
1) Go to ur local county council website
2) Find Section 5 Exemptions list. From 2021 onwards
3) Look for applications from Didean Dochas.
4) Screen shot & post below 👇
Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪@Nick_Delehanty
A quick look at planning lists and Section 5 Exemptions shows that they are acquiring scores of houses in clusters in estates and towns.
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It is kind of fun to watch people trying to make sense of Hormuz in the language of globalism (1945-2024, RIP). Were people that innocent? Why yes, so they were. That change of narrative may be the biggest effect that Hormuz will have. They will have to learn a new innocence now.
Anas Alhajji@anasalhajji
🧿The Hormuz Crisis is not an oil crisis. It cannot be compared to past oil shocks. 🧿It is not an energy crisis. It cannot be compared to what the US experienced in 1972-1973 or any other in Europe. 🧿It is not a lockdown crisis. It cannot be compared to COVID-19. 🧿The Hormuz Crisis is a manufactured global crisis — the largest since World War II, intended to change the global economic and financial system and trade patterns. Its ramifications across every sector, every industry, and every field are beyond our current comprehension. We will learn as we go. 🧿The innocence is gone forever.
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If you are shocked that the Govt buys houses for IPAS...
Then you obviously have never heard of a company called Dídean Dochas.
Its easily the best business model I have ever seen....all paid for by the Irish taxpayer:
1) Govt gives tens of millions to a private company
2) Company buys hundreds of houses across midlands
3) Company rents houses back to the State for IPAS
4) Company routes all profits to Isle of Man.
5) State doesn't even own the houses at the end of it all
6) Company's balance sheet worth €€€€€
6) CEO of Company is EDPetrol.
7) Vrooom Vrooom
Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪@Nick_Delehanty
Since 2022 Didean has been busy buying up properties around the midlands - Laois, Offally, Carlow, Limerick, Westmeath and beyond. By end of 2023, their property portfolio was worth €7.5million and rising fast.
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@TimDekker18 He might not be, but the State Department are. No one will touch it. It's not worth it.
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@Muinchille Does Trump really care? He is not the rule of law type.
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@olddiesel @StripeyMiata The NOx is the largest element. You'd want to nail it down. 🙃
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What would the VRT be on that @Muinchille @olddiesel?
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"...the task that stands before us is that of being builders of communion, rather than architects of Babel. We are to be servants of the coming Kingdom, instead of lords of towers destined for ruin."
vatican.va/content/leo-xi…
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Shared with permission.
This is an example of what people inside the system share with me regularly.
Pobal administers €1.31 billion across 38 programmes on behalf of the Government of Ireland each year. It is a weird quasi-public intermediary that nobody seems to fully know what it is: not quite a state agency, not quite a charity, not quite a contractor, yet sitting in the middle of huge public funding flows into communities across Ireland.
It also gathers some of the most consequential social-change data in the country, especially around immigration, integration, disadvantage, local services and community need.
And yet, according to people who work around these systems, there are HUNDREDS of people manually copying data from one spreadsheet cell to another, moving information between disconnected systems that could have been automated over 10 years ago without AI.
This is the kind of machinery operating underneath huge parts of the Irish state and intermediary sector, while almost nobody outside it can properly see how it functions.
Even Mick Wallace raised questions years ago about what exactly Pobal is supposed to be.
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@Conor1960 Pretty palatial by modern standards, full of servants quarters and servants. High density living 18th century style. Your apartment blocks will be the same once the pyrite kicks in, the plumbing backs up, and the elevators stop.
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@Muinchille They began as town houses for the gentry. Palaces I’m not so sure about.
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I'm hardly in favour of Fine Gael, but I also don't see the problem here. Fine Gael's voters got what they came for, cheap labour, new suckers for tenements, why expect them to complain? Labour's voters, likewise; newly oppressed grist for the NGO jobs mill.
Liam Kearns@Kearns1010
Protests in Galway caused by a FF/FG government. By election in Galway West. FG win the seat. Make it make sense. We really deserve the misery we are in , in this country. The way we keep voting as a whole, is absolutely mind boggling. No change, if no change
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Ireland is rightly praised as an FDI superpower.
But new OECD QuIS data show Ireland near the bottom of the league for industrial‑policy instruments and spend as a share of GDP – especially for SME‑focused supports. The state backs FDI hard; the SME toolkit is much thinner. 1/2.
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A huge heat dome is sitting over France, with temperatures that might hit 40°C. It’s still spring. It’s still May. What was once considered “extreme” is increasingly becoming normal across Europe. Heatwaves are earlier, longer, & pushing ecosystems and health beyond limits.
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@Muinchille You’re smart enough to know that tenements were appalling places where large numbers lived and shared toilets & other facilities. Calling modern apartments tenements is just a gross exaggeration.
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And the tide is flowing...
Tea with Tolkien@TeawithTolkien
the Pope quoting The Lord of the Rings!!!!!!! I feel so alive!!!!
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@Netterville It's useful on a number of levels: markets, central banks; the EU, China. Keeps Russia from going under and leaving a gaping hole, too.
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@Muinchille Indefinite is what’s hoped for. He can shrug at the lobbyists.
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We provisionally have a new record high temperature for May in Ireland with two stations at Clonmel and Killarney reporting 28.8c beating the previous record of 28.4c. We could see still see higher temperatures over the next hour.
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@Netterville September, if all goes well, but I wouldn't be sure that indefinite isn't the answer.
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@Muinchille No excuse for delay left unused. This is ‘my dog ate my homework’. The man has no plan and has only two maxims which guide him. 1, Don’t piss off the Israel lobby; and 2, Don’t make any decisions before the midterms.
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