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#CiaraKelly is trying to normalise inequality like it's a right of passage, not everyone deserves to have a normal quality of life/expectations from a so-called wealthy nation, might explain why so many people desperate to leave Ireland for a better life independent.ie/opinion/commen…

@BarryAndrewsMEP @mickmca32 @vonderleyen @fiannafailparty @RenewEurope The EU should be added to the charge of complicity x.com/i/status/20346…

✈️ Just landed back in #Brussels after seeing situation on ground in #Beirut. 🇮🇱 Israel are now collapsing residential buildings in central #Beirut, a city of over 2m people. This is the Gaza playbook. Again, @vonderleyen is silent.

BREAKING : Massive blow to Israel Germany has announced to withdraw its defence of Israel in the Genocide case at the International Court of Justice 🔥 Israel is getting globally isolated, as Europe is uniting against Zionists 🫡

@shanaka86 @AoifeMFoley Really have to ask was this deliberately encouraged by the US to get buyers for their fracked GAS

BREAKING: The world thought Hormuz was an oil story. Then it became an LNG story. If the damage assessment holds, it becomes a civilisation-input story that lasts half a decade. There is a difference between a shipping shock and a capacity shock that the market has not yet priced. A shipping shock traps molecules. The oil exists, the gas exists, the tankers are anchored, and when the strait reopens the molecules flow again. A capacity shock destroys molecules. The liquefaction trains that convert gas into LNG are physically damaged. The molecules cannot be produced even if every ship in the world is available to carry them. QatarEnergy’s CEO Saad al-Kaabi told Reuters that damage to Ras Laffan is severe. Repairs to impaired liquefaction capacity could take three to five years. Force majeure was declared on March 4 and has since escalated as the damage assessment worsened through March 18 and 19. Long-term contract buyers including Italy, Belgium, South Korea, and China face multi-year delivery disruptions. Shell declared force majeure on cargoes it resells from QatarEnergy. The market must now confront a possibility it has refused to model: that roughly 17 percent of Qatar’s 77 million tonne per annum capacity is not delayed but structurally impaired. JERA’s CEO stated that the global LNG market does not have the spare capacity to bridge the gap if Hormuz-linked supply is meaningfully lost. That single sentence reprices everything. If the replacement molecules do not exist in sufficient volume, the adjustment mechanism is not alternative supply. It is fuel switching, demand destruction, and rationing by balance-sheet strength. Rich buyers can pay more. Poor buyers cannot. The poor buyers are already breaking. Vietnam’s diesel is up 40 to 59 percent. Australia’s petrol is up 70 cents per litre. Sri Lanka is rationing fuel with QR codes at 15 litres per car per week, a four-day workweek, and Wednesday school closures. India raised LPG prices while importing 85 percent of its crude through a strait that is 90 percent shut. Gulf air cargo collapsed 79 percent. Jet fuel surged 58 percent. IndiGo and Akasa imposed surcharges. Vietnam Airlines warned of shortages from April. Ninety-five countries have reported petrol price increases since February 28. Ras Laffan is not just LNG. It is helium, urea, methanol, polyethylene, and sulfur. The downstream cascade from a multi-year Qatari impairment runs through semiconductor fabrication, pharmaceutical synthesis, phosphate fertiliser production, food packaging, and desalination. The facility that is damaged produces the molecules that four billion people depend on for chips, medicine, fertiliser, plastic, and drinking water. Europe’s post-2022 gas security was built on Qatari LNG replacing Russian pipelines. A structural impairment does not merely make gas expensive. It makes gas unavailable to industry. That is how an LNG shock becomes a deindustrialisation shock. BASF and Yara are already cutting fertiliser output. Russian LNG fills the gap at 18 to 22 percent of European imports. The country Europe sanctioned is the country Europe now depends on because the country Europe trusted was struck in a war Europe refused to join. Anyone arguing this resolves quickly now carries the burden of proof. They must explain where the replacement molecules come from when the world’s largest LNG hub is physically impaired, the strait is commercially closed, and the CEO of Asia’s biggest power buyer says there is no bridge. The market priced a shipping delay. The evidence demands a capacity repricing. The difference between those two words is measured in years, in trillions of dollars, and in whether the lights stay on. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️ In 1847, during the Irish Potato Famine, Choctaws gathered what they could and sent a donation to help the people of Ireland. That act of generosity created a lasting friendship between the Choctaw and Irish people that continues today. From one community to another, it’s a reminder that kindness can travel far and endure for generations. 💚 Learn more about this connection at choctawnation.com/about/history/….

From May, Meta will be able to see your DMs on Instagram. Company now warning users to download/remove content from DMs that users wouldn’t want others to see. Company says it’s still committed to encryption privacy (eg WhatsApp), just not on Instagram independent.ie/business/techn…

“We're going to continue to speak the truth.” Kneecap rapper Mo Chara has defeated the British state’s attempt to bring back terrorism charges against him. He spoke to AJ+’s @Dena about the case.

Uefa could lose its tax-exempt status in Switzerland unless it expels Israel. Swiss MPs in the canton of Vaud, where the European football governing body is headquartered, will vote on a resolution on Tuesday 17 March to decide whether the association should have the privilege taken away. The resolution’s supporters note that the Israeli Football Association (IFA), a Uefa member, fields games on illegally occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank. They argue that IFA’s membership of Uefa makes Swiss taxpayers "complicit" in Israel’s breaches of international law. If the resolution is accepted, the Vaud government would be called upon to set a deadline to Uefa to justify whether maintaining IFA as a member, and failing to take any sanctions against IFA, is compatible with the goals of promoting peace and fighting racism and discrimination, the condition of Uefa’s tax exempt status. “Tax exoneration means that instead of receiving that money, Swiss citizens, specifically in Vaud, are funding the illegal activities of the Israeli football Association,” the campaign group Game Over Israel said in a statement. The Swiss resolution reads: “As an international federation, [Uefa] has long benefited, despite its significant commercial activity, from a tax exemption granted specifically because international sports federations play an important role in promoting peace and combating racism and discrimination.” In September last year, a panel of UN experts called for Israel to be suspended from international football as punishment for its genocide in Gaza, which has killed over 72,000 people at a conservative estimate. Both Fifa and Uefa suspended Russia’s participation in international matches soon after its invasion of Ukraine. Ashish Prashar, campaign director at Game Over Israel, said: “Uefa is at the forefront of funding and normalising the apartheid and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territories by continuing to provide a subsidy and allowing the Israeli Football Association to be a member.” Vaud MP Théophile Schenker said that by failing to expel Israel, Uefa is sending a signal that it condones the expansion of settlements. “Football deserves better than that,” he said.

To the White House and the Pentagon, Don’t listen to Palantir, Don’t listen to Alex Karp, Don’t listen to Peter Thiel. You are losing. This cannot be turned around. There is no silver bullet. Neither in Ukraine nor in Iran. You lost the support of your own people and the world. Alex Karp is a narcissist conman. He doesn’t have a superior IQ and for sure isn’t anything special. Same for Peter Thiel. Both have no moral compass considering the amount of people they killed without remorse. They say they are helping “war fighters” but they are not. Their hubris will get them killed. They are very convincing salesman. That’s it. Their technologies are not groundbreaking and Palantir got totally owned by hackers. It’s true because that claim was released a month ago to my 1.7 million followers and not a beep from Palantir. No statement that the claims are false, no cease and desist letter, no lawsuit, nothing. Because it’s true. In my opinion Palantir is a charlatan. The only hope you have is peace in Ukraine and in Iran. To achieve that you have to accept the L. You have to accept that you are no longer the #1. Your markets will tank regardless. Focus on your real problems. You can’t spend $20 billion per day on your Govt. You can’t afford hundreds of military bases around the globe. You are no longer the most powerful nation in the world. The sooner you accept that the better. After you have dealt with your problems, after the major crash, which is now inevitable, join the Multipolar world. The future is peace. The world wants peace. Palantir is not going to get us there. Don’t waste your time trying to beat Iran into submission for “the chosen people” and their prophecy. You can’t. Iran will make the oil prices go up and crush you economically. No superior military can prevent that. Stop wasting time and people in Ukraine. What good did corrupt Zelenskyy bring you? Make peace with Iran, Russia and China before it’s too late. Is doesn’t even matter if Netanyahu is dead, the prophecy is another Jewish lie or Zelenskyy will get nukes. If you don’t make peace now most of humanity will die in a nuclear winter. Not Alex Karp and Peter Thiel because they both have built private bunkers. Don’t listen to the Palantir guys. They are gambling with humanity. Make peace now. Just some friendly advice.

"It’s also an important opportunity to promote Ireland and our values in what is undoubtedly a more challenging, turbulent and complex world.” A St Patrick’s Day message from Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, @HMcEntee

The killings in the last 24 hours of 14 health workers in southern #Lebanon mark a tragic development in the escalating Middle East crisis. @WHO has confirmed that 12 doctors, paramedics and nurses were killed in a strike late last night on the Bourj Qalaouiyeh primary healthcare center. Just hours earlier, two paramedics lost their lives in attacks on a health facility in Al Sowana. These incidents highlight the ongoing assault on Lebanon’s healthcare system, which is crucial for the populations it serves. Since March 2, WHO has verified 27 attacks on healthcare in Lebanon, resulting in 30 deaths and 35 injuries, including the horrifying events of Friday. WHO condemns this tragic loss of life and emphasizes that health workers must always be protected. According to international humanitarian law, medical personnel and facilities should never be attacked or militarized. The intensification of conflict in Lebanon and the broader Middle East increases the likelihood of such tragedies. Urgent action is required to de-escalate the crisis and protect the health of people throughout the region.

They raped a man. They gang-raped him. They raped him so brutally that he had to be hospitalized. Doctors documented the injuries. The video of the assault was leaked. Now the rapists are free. This is not just unlawful and immoral. It is sick! #ThisIsIsrael

Dozens of MPs call for formal apology over Britain's actions during Palestine administration | Politics News | Sky News share.google/3kVp3bOI3upov0…

Earlier today, an Israeli settler ran over a five-year-old Palestinian girl in the village of Umm al-Khair. According to witnesses and activists at the scene, Israeli police arrived and blamed Palestinians for the incident. The settler was not arrested. Instead, he ordered police to arrest the peace activists who were there to document Palestinians' struggle against settlers' daily attacks and settlement expansion.

Countries that have joined South Africa’s ICJ Genocide case against Israel: •Belgium •Ireland •Spain •Netherlands •Iceland •Mexico •Chile •Colombia •Bolivia •Brazil •Cuba •Belize •Libya •Palestine •Türkiye •Maldives Has yours yet?

vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026/valasz… Deadline for application submission April 2, 2026, 16:00 (CET) Voting at foreign representation Address St. Christopher’s Primary School, Address: Haddington Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin4, D04 FP20 Voting time April 12, 2026, 06:00 - 18:00

One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control: TikTok CBS CNN HBO Discovery Channel BET Cartoon Network Comedy Central DC Studios Fandango Miramax MTV Nickelodeon Paramount PlutoTV Showtime TBS The CW TNT Warner Bros. And more This is oligarchy.

Prof John Mearsheimer’s “radical statement on how the EU should stand up to Donald Trump 👇 PROFESSOR JOHN MEARSHEIMER: Yes, let me make a radical statement, Glenn. I think that one could make an argument that it’s in the Europeans’ interest to, in effect, pursue the Spanish model vis-à-vis the United States, to play hardball with the United States, to tell the United States that you’re going to greatly improve your relations with China. You’re going to trade with China and you’re going to trade sophisticated technologies with the Chinese. And if the Americans don’t like that, well, we’ll cut a deal then. But in the meantime, we’re going to fundamentally change our relationship with China. And furthermore, with regard to the Middle East, we’re going to condemn what you’re doing in the most powerful terms, and we’re even going to look for ways to punish you. We’re going to condemn you for starting a war of aggression. We’re going to condemn you for collaborating with the Israelis and waging a genocide. We’re going to condemn you for assassinating Ayatollah Khamenei, pursuing a really hardball strategy with the United States. And given that the United States needs Europe in all sorts of ways, that will provide the Europeans with some leverage so that they can protect their own interests. What we’re saying here is that by constantly kowtowing to the Americans, by licking President Trump’s boots, you put yourself in a situation where your interests are not protected, and if anything, your interests are hurt and you’re getting yourself into more and more trouble as the years go by. That’s the way I’d look at it if I were a European. But again, this is a radical argument. And the Europeans’ brains have been grooved to think that this is heresy. The arguments I’m making are wrong. They’re just simply wrong. We don’t have to analyze them. We just dismiss them out of hand. We’ve learned all along that the only way to deal with the United States is to be nice and to be subservient. That might have been true at one point, but I don’t think that’s true with President Trump. And I’m surprised they haven’t figured that out. I think the Spanish leader has figured that out. President Trump is a classic bully in many ways. The United States is a country that is a bully and long has been a bully. But President Trump is a classic bully. And the only way you deal with a bully is you stand up to that bully, and if you show weakness, the bully will walk all over you. And of course, this is what President Trump is doing with the Europeans. He walks all over them. He doesn’t pay attention to their interests. He does what he thinks is in America’s interest. And if that hurts the Europeans, tough luck for them. That’s his approach. And you would think that the Europeans would have learned this by now and would have altered their policies towards the United States in fundamental ways, but apparently that’s not the case.

@vonderleyen completely failed to uphold the values of the @EU_Commission

@danobrien20 Any moral person would call out what's been done in their name, would join the call for protest, boycotts consequences for those commiting crimes against humanity with such a history of discrimination & persecution would never allow it happen ever again if not they are complicit

This is a very important read not only on how besieged Ireland’s tiny Jewish minority feels, but also on how widely held the simplistic oppressed/oppressor narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is in this country. ‘the Jewish community of Ireland watches all of this—the calls for boycotts, the invocations of apartheid-era South Africa, the hand-wringing over whether Israeli footballers can safely enter the country—and understands precisely what it means for their place in Irish society.’

@SenWarren @liamcunningham1 Have you see Silo because trump and his friends have their Paradise

I just left a classified briefing with the Trump Administration about the war in Iran. I was worried before, but I’m more worried now.