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A woman athlete is cruelly booed in the @WNBA because she dared to say….
Are you ready for this?
She said….. ‘I want to protect girls’
Protecting young girls is now denounced by liberals, many organizations and unfortunately many women too.
What happened to feminism?!
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Coimisiún na Meán is investigating two radio stations to see if they broke a code that...
"includes prohibitions on the stigmatisation and incitement of hatred against people or groups in society, and on the encouragement of views or behaviour prejudicial to the protection of the environment."
First of all, reporting about the investigations in the national press before proceedings and appeals (if needed) are concluded poisons the well of public opinion against those investigated and potentially prejudices the proceedings against them by putting pressure on CnaM to find guilt (as if CnaM needed encouragement).
But more importantly, TippFM is the largest radio station in the country that allows voices - rational, well-spoken, researched and presented voices that present heterodox opinions and actual debate in relation to some of the government's most controversial social and economic policies.
Fran Curry of TippFM was one of the only radio hosts who invited me on to speak about Vandalising Ireland this year. He was probing, professional and fair. He is one of the most popular regional radio hosts in the country precisely because he operates with a proper journalist's instinct - he follows the story, presents all sides, interrogates all sides and then allows listeners to make up their own minds.
This investigation - and its high-profile announcement in the national media - will have a deeply chilling effect on public discourse. It is impossible to see this as anything other than CnaM and the national media - doing the bidding of the state in attempting to police and shut down any criticism of how the country is being governed.
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"includes prohibitions on the stigmatisation and incitement of hatred against people or groups in society, and on the encouragement of views or behaviour prejudicial to the protection of the environment."
First of all, reporting about the investigations in the national press before proceedings and appeals (if needed) are concluded poisons the well of public opinion against those investigated and potentially prejudices the proceedings against them by putting pressure on CnaM to find guilt (as if CnaM needed encouragement).
But more importantly, TippFM is the largest radio station in the country that allows voices - rational, well-spoken, researched and presented voices that present heterodox opinions and actual debate in relation to some of the government's most controversial social and economic policies.
Fran Curry of TippFM was one of the only radio hosts who invited me on to speak about Vandalising Ireland this year. He was probing, professional and fair. He is one of the most popular regional radio hosts in the country precisely because he operates with a proper journalist's instinct - he follows the story, presents all sides, interrogates all sides and then allows listeners to make up their own minds.
This investigation - and its high-profile announcement in the national media - will have a deeply chilling effect on public discourse. It is impossible to see this as anything other than CnaM and the national media - doing the bidding of the state in attempting to police and shut down any criticism of how the country is being governed.
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Coimisiún na Meán has launched separate "formal broadcasting investigations" into South East Radio and Tipp FM
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I am a Jewish journalist in London. Last year someone threw chemicals over my car. The police recorded it as a hate crime.
@BBCNews @guardian @amnesty did not say a word.
So remember, when these outlets talk about press freedom - they mean only for the journos they like.
@BBCNews @guardian @amnesty did not say a word.
So remember, when these outlets talk about press freedom - they mean only for the journos they like.
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We now have media outlets under investigation, but @CNaM_ie has released no information as to what the stations are being investigated for. Very odd way for a public body to act.
Coimisiún na Meán has launched separate "formal broadcasting investigations" into South East Radio and Tipp FM
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Well what a surprise that some of Irelands Rent a Mob head off to UK....
🟥A total of 28 Irish people have been arrested at Palestine Action protests, the largest cohort of non-British-national terror suspects arrested in the UK
Read here: irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/1…
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Britain sank the wrong ship, five days before WW2 ended.
Around 7,000 prisoners died. It’s barely in the history books.
Cap Arcona disaster
Around 7,000 prisoners died. It’s barely in the history books.
Cap Arcona disaster
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The naval race was over well before 1914 and Germany lost it. Britain had lived for centuries with a major naval
power (called France) just across the Channel. The real
problem was Henry Wilson’s secret promises to France, of which the Cabinet knew nothing, Parliament less than nothing and the British people even less than that. And for what? Taking sides in a Russo-German war in which we had no interest. Britain , contrary to popular belief, never paid off its WW1 debts to the USA. Repayment and interest stopped in 1934.
power (called France) just across the Channel. The real
problem was Henry Wilson’s secret promises to France, of which the Cabinet knew nothing, Parliament less than nothing and the British people even less than that. And for what? Taking sides in a Russo-German war in which we had no interest. Britain , contrary to popular belief, never paid off its WW1 debts to the USA. Repayment and interest stopped in 1934.
This is all wrong, though.
Britain got into WWI for essentially three hard security reasons: The competition with Germany over naval dominance in the North Sea, the concomitant fear that German militarization of the Channel coast by seizing Belgium would allow a staging area for an invasion (always a “hard ‘no’”), and the reality that Britain (through its “military conversations” with France) was already engaged in Continental balance of power politics and in fact needed to be for the preceding two reasons.
Those are all excellent reasons to get involved in a war, and yet the amazing thing is that there was such a debate in the British government about intervention at the time of the July Crisis that historians still dispute which, if any, of them truly forced Britain’s hand (leading, ironically, to this very dispute).
Britain was the consummate reluctant warrior - and yet its back was to the wall.
British statecraft in the early 20C is actually a model for how to manage an increasingly tight imperial security situation - if they couldn’t stay out, you have to wonder if anyone could.
And, in fact, while there is always a pull back and forth in British strategy between the Continent and global empire/naval affairs, every hegemonic war since 1492 has seen British power either deployed to the Continent or (rarely, but it happens) Continental power deployed against Britain.
Here are the data points:
—The Italian Wars saw fighting over Calais (which England lost) as well as a French-supported (per the Auld Alliance) Scottish invasion of England (turned back at Flodden, Britain’s answer to Antietam)
—The War of Dutch Independence included the War of the Armada; the follow-on 30 Years War manifested in Britain as the English Civil War (and yes - they’re related - affairs on the Continent feature in the 19 Propositions, and Puritan fear that Charles’ Arminianism and absolutism amounted to crypto-Catholicism is a standard feature in histories of it)
—The Spanish Succession War and the preceding wars of Louis XIV saw an Anglo-Dutch alliance and, famously, Marlborough’s army deployed to the Continent
—The Napoleonic Wars, of course, featured Wellington’s army in Spain and then at Waterloo
The World Wars were just one more instance. And in fact this was well-understood by British leaders at the time and even by the British public.
The “it was all for nothing” narrative is a (very) latecomer - it’s a recycling of German war angst (of the All Quiet On The Western Front variety, double-distilled by “nie wieder Krieg” after they got beaten the second time) via EU propaganda (have to marry your neighbor to avoid fighting them, you see).
Britain still, to this day, doesn’t really buy it - the tone of Remembrance Day ceremonies tends to be solemn, but the dominant themes are gratitude and memory, not cynicism or disgust. As they should be.
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Hamas dug the world's most impressive tunnel network in Gaza for terror & pioneered the use of plumbing pipes to create tens of thousands of rockets, but it somehow can't dig trenches and basic public drainage to manage rainwater & push floods away from displacement tent zones?
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Remember when Hamas made their own PR video showing them digging up pipes in Gaza and using them to create rockets to fire on Israel? Well now they have no water and sewage system and they have flooding and guess who is to blame for that?
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In the Netherlands pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas demonstrations at airports and train stations are banned. Maybe now they understand it. The Dutch police are not joking.
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This really was an appalling judgment mistake by this cop....
Yesterday in Iowa, a wrong way police chase ended with two innocent people dead after a poorly timed and poorly executed PIT maneuver pit innocent drivers at risk. The Iowa media won't show the moment of impact, even though Iowa DOT doesn't require censorship. But I will.
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The fact that no Irish journalist or media outlet has written about the extraordinary privilege enjoyed by Simon Harrris's bother sums up the appalling state of Irish ' journalism'...
Simon Harris's brother's salary at his own charity was literally being subsidised by the taxpayer and he is on the board of the tax funded Rethink Ireland and is on his 2nd term as a @_IHREC Commissioner...and we know this is because Adam Harris is Simon Harris's brother
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My memory from being young is this kind of behavior was common and didnt cause any great excitement....
It's not AI ..wrdw.com/2026/11/08/tee…
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Welnee, @HLN_BE , er zijn geen twijfels over het geslacht van Khelif.
We weten al, nb van voor de Olympische Spelen 2024, dat hij een man is met 46 XY 5-ARD. Dat is een Disorder of Sex Development (een DSD) die zijn mannelijk voordeel volledig intact laat.
Zijn stootkracht is 260% van die van een vrouw. Dat maakt een gevecht tegen een vrouw niet alleen oneerlijk, maar ook erg gevaarlijk.
Dat hij nu toch weer de kans krijgt om dat weer te doen, dát is het echte nieuws. En dat hebben jullie gemist.
#KhelifIsAMan
#SaveWomensSports
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We weten al, nb van voor de Olympische Spelen 2024, dat hij een man is met 46 XY 5-ARD. Dat is een Disorder of Sex Development (een DSD) die zijn mannelijk voordeel volledig intact laat.
Zijn stootkracht is 260% van die van een vrouw. Dat maakt een gevecht tegen een vrouw niet alleen oneerlijk, maar ook erg gevaarlijk.
Dat hij nu toch weer de kans krijgt om dat weer te doen, dát is het echte nieuws. En dat hebben jullie gemist.
#KhelifIsAMan
#SaveWomensSports
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Here's @PeterTatchell's chapter in 'Betrayal of Youth' (BOY). Right under 'How To Make Paedophilia Acceptable'.
Furthermore, please stop describing CHILDREN as "lesbian, gay or bisexual". Children do not have sexual orientations. They are children. If you mean young people whose sexuality is emerging, make that clear. You of all people should have learnt to be extremely careful about this.
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Below find a promotional video from University of Galway announcing its involvement in the Global Migration Media Academy (GMMA).
The video says:
The Global Migration Media Academy will train journalists to ethically report on migration issues.
Antonio Vitorino, the former Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), a United Nations-related organisation says
“The media play a vital role in shaping the way we think about migration.”
That's an important admission about the influence of journalism.
Oh and the irony gets richer…
“Dr” Tom was previously invited to discuss an Irish Times hoax article as an expert on journalism👇
Public interest and annoyance isn’t something to mock @ConorGallaghe_r why don’t you investigate?
There's a legitimate distinction between training journalists to report accurately and fairly on migration and training journalists to promote a particular interpretation of migration.
In its 2024 alumni magazine, University of Galway described the initiative as aiming to reshape how migration stories are told and understood worldwide.
THAT wording deserves SCRUTINY.
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#TomFelle
The video says:
The Global Migration Media Academy will train journalists to ethically report on migration issues.
Antonio Vitorino, the former Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), a United Nations-related organisation says
“The media play a vital role in shaping the way we think about migration.”
That's an important admission about the influence of journalism.
Oh and the irony gets richer…
“Dr” Tom was previously invited to discuss an Irish Times hoax article as an expert on journalism👇
Public interest and annoyance isn’t something to mock @ConorGallaghe_r why don’t you investigate?
There's a legitimate distinction between training journalists to report accurately and fairly on migration and training journalists to promote a particular interpretation of migration.
In its 2024 alumni magazine, University of Galway described the initiative as aiming to reshape how migration stories are told and understood worldwide.
THAT wording deserves SCRUTINY.
share.google/mEDvL12HCA5RfP…
facebook.com/share/v/1Av7VJ…
#TomFelle
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