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Simposio Internazionale Di Scultura Su Pietra FVG 2021

@misanharriman Tnuc

To preserve the values of the civilized world, it is necessary to set fire to a library. To blow up a mosque. To incinerate olive trees. To dress up in the lingerie of women who fled and then take pictures. To level universities. To loot jewelry, art, banks, food. To arrest children for picking vegetables. To shoot children for throwing stones. To parade the captured in their underwear. To break a man’s teeth and shove a toilet brush in his mouth. To let combat dogs loose on a man with Down syndrome and then leave him to die. Otherwise, the uncivilized world might win. Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.

“The English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. He regards himself as a part of the ruling nation & becomes a tool of the English capitalists against Ireland, thus strengthening their domination over himself". "The English worker cherishes religious and social prejudices against the Irish worker. His attitude is the same as that of the poor whites to the blacks in the USA. This antagonism is artificially intensified by the press & all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes". "The Irishman does the same and sees in the English worker only the accomplice of the English rulers. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the working class. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power". The alternative is class solidarity.

During the Vietnam War, Donald Trump received five draft-deferments: four for education and one for bone spurs in his heels. His father Fred, although he was of draft age during World War II, also did not enlist or serve. Trump’s paternal grandfather, Friedrich, was born in Bavaria in 1869. He deliberately avoided mandatory military service by emigrating to the US aged 16 in 1885. At that time, military service was compulsory for young men in Germany. Seems like Trumps always chicken out. #TACO

@Yasser_Kobani God help you if you are dependent on Zionist

Murshid Khaznawi is a well-known and respected Kurdish figure among the people of Rojava In this video, he makes a clear humanitarian appeal to Israel, calling for intervention to save Kurds threatened with genocide by extremist Islamist groups in Rojava He says openly: “If my voice can be heard, then I am shouting to Israel” @MurshidKhaznawi

@IAPonomarenko I think we all see that the king is all together all together but all together as naked as the day he was born

I’d sooner believe in a flat Earth than in Donald Trump, after all his wild escapades, providing Ukraine with security guarantees so ironclad they’d be worth trading away Ukraine’s primary defensive strongholds in Donbas to Russia. I find it even less likely that Putin would simply be satisfied with the ruins of Donbas and just stop there, leaving Ukraine in peace forever -- and that he won't just regroup, demand more and more of his "ancestral Russian lands enshrined in the Russian constitution", and then launch a new war the moment he is able to.

@JonNeale As an Irish man I totally agree. As someone said there were more Einstein's in the cotton fields that we will ever know of.

The West Midlands, population circa 6 million, produced Shakespeare, Darwin, George Eliot, Tolkien, Elgar and Larkin, but no one thinks its inhabitants are uniquely gifted; in fact quite the opposite

@daibach23 Try that joke with a coloured character and see how you get on, you racist prick.

On a golf tour in Ireland , Tiger Woods drives his Mercedes into a petrol station in a remote part of the Irish countryside. The pump attendant, obviously knows nothing about golf, greets him in a typical Irish manner completely unaware of who the golfing pro is. "Top of the mornin' toyer, sir" says the attendant. Tiger nods a quick "hello" and bends forward to pick up the nozzle. As he does so, two tees fall out of his shirt pocket onto the ground. "What are those?, asks the attendant. "They're called tees" replies Tiger. "Well, what on the god's earth are dey for?"? inquires the Irishman. "They're for resting my balls on when I'm driving", says Tiger. "Fookin Jaysus", says the Irishman, "Mercedes thinks of everything!".

Irish monks invented the space between words & early punctuation, such as commas & full stops, etc, 1,400 years ago This simple act helped advance literacy & knowledge dissemination & became the dominant standard across the globe today What an amazing contribution to the world

@Shack_Rat He did admit we knew it was always only window dressing.

Everyone praising Mark Carney’s speech as “bold,” “brave,” or “eloquent,” and treating it as evidence that the West can still rescue itself, is still misunderstanding the nature of the crisis. The “rules-based international order” didn’t erode gradually or mysteriously; it collapsed the moment Western governments showed that the rules don’t apply when the violator is an ally. Gaza didn’t expose a weakness in the system that could be patched or repaired; it revealed what the system actually is. For two years, the Western world didn’t merely fail to restrain Israel; it funded it, armed it, vetoed accountability, rewrote legal standards in real time, and criminalized dissent at home. International law was selectively suspended, not overwhelmed like some people want to say, and once legality becomes conditional, the concept itself ceases to exist. That was the real point of no return in 2023. Not because Donald Trump violating the sovereignty of Greenland broke the order, but because the precedent was set in full view of the world: mass killing can be lawful if it’s committed by the right state, against the right people, with the right patrons. After that, no appeal to “norms” or “institutions” can be taken seriously again. Don’t gaslight yourselves into thinking that Carney is offering a path to renewal here; he’s delivering a sophisticated obituary. You can’t rebuild credibility with speeches after showing that the law is optional. Anyone treating this as a hopeful turning point is as delusional as a person watching their house burn and believing better fire alarms will restore the structure. It’s already over. And as the Western order fractures under the weight of its own contradictions, Gaza won’t be a footnote to its collapse. It’ll be remembered as the moment the world finally understood that the system had died long before anyone admitted it.

@implausibleblog Is this why they left the EU. Nothing else about Brexit makes sense

Journalist, "Would you guarantee that British bases and British personnel would not be used by the Americans in anyway if there is to be any American action against Greenland?" Labour's John Healey, "Whenever the UK commits troops, or supports the actions of other nations, wee will always do so on a fully legal basis" "Greenland and Denmark are part of NATO, UK and the US are part of that alliance with treaty obligations" "We will only do so if the purpose is correct and the legal basis is sound"

in hindsight, incredible restraint from these ICE officers in this horrific vehicular attack

@RodKahx And just Wow

Wow.

A valuable flute went missing yesterday from the owner's bike on the way to a lunchtime session in Cassidy's in Camden St. It has huge sentimental value and a reward has been offered. If anyone sees it, please send a DM. RTs appreciated.

@SamaHoole Might explain our English overlords distaste for the Irish and our fondness for keeping pigs.

Ancient Middle East, roughly 1000 BCE. Multiple religions suddenly develop prohibitions against pork. Judaism, Islam, later various Christian sects. The explanation given is hygiene. Pork carries trichinosis. It's "unclean." But here's the interesting part: Cattle and sheep carry diseases too. Anthrax, brucellosis, various parasites. Yet beef and lamb are deemed clean and acceptable. The real reason for pork prohibition is economic and political. Pigs are democratic animals. They're easy to raise. Any peasant family can keep a pig, feed it scraps, and have meat for winter. Pigs don't require large grazing lands. They convert waste into protein efficiently. Cattle and sheep, however, require pasture. Land. Lots of it. Land that must be controlled, owned, managed. Land that concentrates in the hands of those wealthy enough to hold it. In ancient societies, if everyone can raise pigs, everyone has access to meat. Power disperses. But if meat requires cattle grazing on large estates, meat access becomes controllable. The priests and rulers who established dietary laws weren't idiots. They understood that pork democratized protein access. A peasant with a pig was independent. A peasant dependent on beef from landlord's cattle was controlled. The "unclean" designation wasn't about parasites. It was about power. This pattern repeats through history. Medieval European nobility consumed pork freely while peasants were restricted. Victorian England saw pork associated with lower classes while beef signified wealth and status. Modern industrial agriculture has inverted some of this. Factory-farmed pork became cheap commodity meat. But the cultural associations remain. Beef is prestigious. Pork is common. The interesting thing is pork is nutritionally excellent. High in fat, rich in B vitamins, contains all essential amino acids. It's particularly high in thiamine, crucial for metabolism. But it was shamed, restricted, and prohibited not because it was inferior, but because it was too accessible. When everyone can access protein, hierarchies flatten. The elites have always understood this. That's why pork was made "unclean" while beef and lamb were sanctified. Control the meat supply, control the population. If that meat supply is too easy to produce independently, demonize it.

@ZaphodBeeb34165 @StuartDowell_ Too busy making money in Israel

Most shocking of all is how little the major european nations like Germany, the UK and France has done to rapidly increase their military strength in the almost 4 years(!) Since the russian invasion of Ukraine. How many more tanks, artillery pieces and combat ready troops do they have now? Any at all? It's unbelievable. We shouldn't have to give a shit about what the US says. We should have had the military strength to dictate to Russia how this ends.

A shocking part of the Trump–Russia "peace plan" isn’t just what it does to Ukraine. It is what it quietly does to Poland. Buried in point 9 is a sentence that looks harmless: European fighters will be stationed in Poland. On paper, that sounds fine. In practice, though, it looks like Washington and Moscow have agreed over Poland’s head to limit the presence of foreign forces on Polish soil, including US forces, and to put a ceiling on NATO air power over the region. If “European fighters” are explicitly named, the obvious Russian reading is simple: no US jets in Poland. And if Russia is co-signing language that defines who and what can be stationed here, it is also a de facto say over NATO air policing in the Baltics and the rest of the eastern flank. That is not “Pax Americana.” That is the US accepting a Russian veto over the security posture of front-line allies. For Polish politics this hits a very specific nerve. For years, Jarosław Kaczyński and now President Karol Nawrocki have built their doctrine on one core idea: forget Brussels, forget Berlin, our security rests on a direct, privileged relationship with Washington. For a country that has spent a decade telling itself that American power is the only real guarantee, that should be a brutal wake-up call.

From someone working remotely from Malta for tax reasons.

@Theobald1949 @RobLooseCannon That's why it's a skyline and not a building line.

@RobLooseCannon Anything would be better than our non existent skyline

Did you know Dublin almost had a giant steel-lattice sculpture of a man wading in the Liffey, just 30cm shorter than the Statue of Liberty? In August 2007, the Dublin Docklands Development Authority fast-tracked a proposal from British artist Anthony Gormley (of Angel of the North fame) for a 46m (150ft) human figure based on casts of his own body. AI mock up image below. Internally it was referred to as The Iron Man / The Colossus, though it never received a public name. The structure would have stood 30m east of Seán O’Casey Bridge, 12m out into the river, towering 8 metres taller than Christ the Redeemer in Rio. Gormley described it as “a charcoal drawing against the sky”. Pretty poetic, but the plan was for it to be unlit and painted black, meaning against Dublin’s typical weather it would often appear as a massive dark silhouette looming over the quays. What’s astonishing is that An Bord Pleanála actually granted planning permission. Infuriatingly this was done without public consultation, thanks to the DDDA’s special “fast-track” powers under Section 25, which bypassed normal planning rules. Local groups like the East Wall Residents’ Association and St. Andrew’s Community Centre objected immediately but too late, because it had already been greenlit. The projected cost was officially around €1.6m, but internal assessments suggested €4m+ once river-bed foundations, prefabrication, transport, and long-term river safety monitoring were included. Construction was to take place in London, with zero Irish fabrication or labour involved, before being shipped to Dublin in parts for a three-month assembly that the DDDA openly admitted would cause major disruption along the quays. And yes, it would have required constant monitoring to prevent ships from colliding with it. Then came the recession. The DDDA collapsed financially and was eventually shut down.The sculpture quietly disappeared from the agenda in 2012. Personally, as much as I admire some of Gormley's work, the idea of spending Irish public money to build a giant English-made statue of an Englishman’s body, using English fabricators and English engineers, to loom over the city with no public input raises a few questions. Was there really no Irish sculptor, no Irish fabricator, no Irish metalworkers capable of producing a monumental piece? Or was the boom-era mindset simply that bigger and imported meant more modern? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

@BanTarleton36 @RobLooseCannon The spire is english

@RobLooseCannon Shades of 'burn everything except her coal' type Anti British propaganda. It would have been better than the Spire.. thats appalling

Bound and tortured Palestinian hostages Israel's National Security Minister Ben Gvir: “Do you see them? This is how they are now, but one thing remains to be done and that is to execute them” This is what the US, UK and Europe support:

Israeli settlers are burning down the Christian town of Taybeh in the West Bank The village is known for its uniquely all-Christian population. Cars, lands and home all attacked in a series of violent pogroms aimed at uprooting Palestinian communities