A woman who believes passionately in #FreedomOfSpeech and #FreedomOfExpression. Logic and pragmatism should win the day.
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Alex Scanlan retweeted
Carol Nolan TD said the "welfare system is being targeted on a massive scale" after NEW figures showed 925,000 applications for social protection in 2 years where the persons arrived from outside Ireland – with 127,000 of those applying under the Habitual Residence Condition rejected.
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Alex Scanlan retweeted
😡 My heart is breaking watching this...
Justice Clarence Thomas just dropped the TRUTH that every American needs to hear. Progressivism isn’t just some harmless idea — it’s a direct assault on the very soul of this country. It wants to replace God-given rights with government-granted privileges. It demands we become weak, subservient, and dependent.
This is an OUTRAGE. I sure do hope that Congress will finally step up and FIX THIS before it’s too late. Justice Clarence Thomas is a TRUE PATRIOT — a man of courage, conviction, and unwavering love for the Constitution and the America our Founders envisioned.
In a time when so many are afraid to speak truth, he stands tall. I am sure that you are just as OUTRAGED over this as I am. If this video moves you like it moved me, share it. Loudly. Our rights don’t come from Washington. They come from God. And no government will ever take that away from us.
Alex Scanlan retweeted
The Senedd should not silence democratically elected politicians for raising mainstream, legitimate concerns on behalf of their constituents.
This is an attack on free speech and democracy.
The Free Speech Union stands with @joemartin1066 and his right to free speech.
Alex Scanlan retweeted
Gli immigrati sono in Italia per i sussidi. Questa è la verità. Se togli i sussidi non avrai più immigrati.
In tutta Europa è così. E il sistema sta collassando perché non può reggere in questo modo.
Il problema economico è l'immigrazione.
Alex Scanlan retweeted
Let's put an end to a common misconception.
The slow-motion societal collapse you're witnessing unfold in real time—fuelled by mass migration, two-tier justice, Net Zero mandates, skyrocketing living costs, and the relentless erosion of national stability—isn't happening because our so-called "leaders" are "incompetent" or because their policies have somehow "failed".
It's the coordinated, INTENTIONAL demolition of Western civilisation.
Do you honestly believe it's one enormous "coincidence" that Western nations are all being brought to their knees at the exact same time, in the exact same way, by the exact same policies?
Alex Scanlan retweeted
One of Ireland’s greatest tragedies is allowing academics and experts from outside the country, working through our own institutions, to police the language of a nation renowned for its literary and linguistic genius, and accepting it all without question.
Alex Scanlan retweeted
I put up a social media post and an Irish man came on to highlight that he was homeless and living in his car.
Two foreign imports laugh react to the man's situation, the circumstances many Irish men find themselves in.
Never underestimate how much these people hate us.
Alex Scanlan retweeted
UPDATE: Canada and Australia have revealed their secret ballots were against Iran's U.N. election. We call on all others to also reveal how they voted — especially those who nominated Iran in April: UK, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, Austria.
Alex Scanlan retweeted
Jeepers, The Ditch appear to be implicitly accusing the parents (Barty and Mary Harris below around 2005) of FG leader and Tanaiste Simon Harris, of defrauding the state-backed mortgage-to-rent scheme, and further, claim the Harrises will be enriched to the tune of €233,000 (€600k minus €367k) if they buy back their home in 2027. Oh, and Simon Harris brother, the incredibly lucky Adam is in the mix there too!
Should be said, the murkiest implications from The Ditch report today rest on the documented address provided by Adam Harris in 2021/2 which Ditch claims is the same as the parent's property, but Adam is not answering questions, and specifically if the documented address he officially gave to the authorities was correct.
There are also questions for the Mortgage-to-Rent company Home for Life (backed at the time by state-owned AIB) which paid €367,000 for the 4-bed dormer bungalow in July 2022, despite the fact the property is said to have been on the market for €490,000 in Oct 2019 (CSO national house price index Oct 2019... 108.9, index in July 2022...132.1 which suggests the property was worth nearly €600,000 in 2022). The valuation of the property at below €450,000 in July 2022 enabled it to be covered by the State-backed mortgage-to-let scheme.
Why did the mortgage company in 2022 agree to a sale price of €367,000 for a property apparently worth substantially more?
Home for Life which bought the property for €367,000 is not answering questions, which in private individual terms you can understand, but they need to make a statement about the principles.
It appears to have been an incredibly cushty deal for the Harrises facilitated by Wicklow County Council, and if Adam Harris was indeed living in the property at the time earning over €38,500 then the parents weren't, on the face of it, eligible for the mortgage-to-rent scheme at all.
And of course in July 2022, Simon Harris was a Cabinet minister on more than €200,000 in salary & expenses, his brother Adam was on around €60-70k at autism charity AsIAm. Could they not have bailed out the parents?
Popcorn time... (good work by Ditch). Do we know the mortgage company in July 2022? (apols, don't have access to Land Direct this evening).
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Alex Scanlan retweeted
Von den Kanaren direkt ans europäische Festland und nach Deutschland! So schirmt sich die #EU also gegen illegale Zuwanderung ab!
Alex Scanlan retweeted
"When the potential punishment becomes sufficiently extreme, people self-censor. That should concern every person in this House": Senator Sharon Keogan warns fines of up to €20 million could threaten local radio stations:
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Alex Scanlan retweeted
When I spoke at the UN in Geneva they cleared the room after me of all women because the Taliban would not entertain them in their Meeting! Disgraceful useless out of date organisation
The UN are clearly UNfit for women.
We are dismayed (to say the very least) that they would even consider a country such as Iran as a member of any body that plays a role in shaping women's rights.
Iran oppresses women and girls. They oppress the female sex. We'll take no lectures from the UN on the rights of women while they even entertain this.
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Alex Scanlan retweeted
Je vous présente une des pires pays d'extrême-droite d'Europe, le Danemark 🇩🇰
- 10 points de moins de dépenses publiques que la France
- Excédents budgétaires et dette publique de 29% du PIB
- Licenciement sur simple lettre du patron. Taux de chômage de 3%.
- Pas de SMIC imposé par l'Etat
- Age de départ à la retraite à 67 ans, bientôt 68
- Retraite partition limitée à un minimum vieillesse égal pour tous. Les compléments de retraite se font uniquement par capitalisation
- Environ 48 % de la population a une assurance santé privée
- Politique d’immigration très restrictive : protection temporaire par défaut, regroupement familial difficile, obligation d’intégration réelle
- Résidence permanente seulement après 8 ans + langue + preuve d’emploi soutenu
- Fin du visa automatique pour les migrants au chômage depuis plus de 3 mois
- « Paradigm shift » sur l’asile : protection temporaire par défaut, objectif prioritaire de retour au pays plutôt que d’intégration définitive
- Contrat ordinaire pour l'immense majorité des employés du service public
- Durée de travail limitée à 48h par semaine par l'Etat. Majorité des conventions collectives à 37h par semaine.
- Un des taux d'activité les plus élevés au monde
- Allocation chômage conditionnée à une recherche d’emploi très active : au moins 2 candidatures par semaine, obligation d’accepter des jobs hors de son domaine, risque de perte des droits si on ne prouve pas sa disponibilité
- Interdiction du droit de grève pour certains fonctionnaires
- Impôts sur les bénéfices parmi les plus faibles d'Europe
- Aucun impôt sur la fortune
- Protection de la propriété et justice parmi les meilleures du monde
- Création d’entreprise en 1 jour, entièrement en ligne.
- Classé 7e à l'indice de liberté économique contre 65e pour la France.
- Classé 4e pays de l'OCDE où il est le plus simple de faire des affaires. La France est avant-dernière.
Ça fait peur, très peur. Un véritable enfer néolibéral.
Les heures les plus sombres, à 1 heure de Paris en avion.
Alex Scanlan retweeted
If you're African and you enter the Canary Islands illegally, you don't get punished.
You don't get deported or jailed or sent back. You get flown to the Spanish mainland.
A free flight, paid for by Spanish taxpayers, to Madrid, Barcelona or Valencia.
A man crosses the border illegally, lands in the Canary Islands, and his reward is a plane ticket deeper into Europe.
The message to the whole of Africa is: just make it to the beach. Touch the sand and we'll handle the rest. We'll fly you in, house you and feed you.
Then they act shocked when the boats keep coming, when thousands drown, when the islands can't cope.
They've built a system where breaking the law pays better than following it. The man who applies for a visa, waits years and does everything properly gets rejected. The man who pays a smuggler, jumps in a boat and breaks the law gets a free flight to mainland Spain.
That isn't compassion, it's madness. It's a government that has given up on its own borders and its own people.
Spain is wrecking itself by taking in people it has no plan for. No punishment, no consequences, just a free flight. And they wonder why Europe is falling apart.
Alex Scanlan retweeted
An unemployed Roma gypsy with 5 kids is better off than this person.
The social contract has been shredded.
There should be anarchy on the streets.
‘I earn €78k a year, but I’m living pay cheque to pay cheque’ — public sector workers reveal what they earn and where it goes
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Alex Scanlan retweeted
This is why I will be cancelling my Red Cross standing order this morning.
I've been paying €25 per month for the past 5 years. Its not much, but I will be giving it to the Irish lad sitting in front of Tesco on Baggot St from not on.
It ends today @irishredcross.
Alex Scanlan retweeted
Every single person that makes it to the red circle gets access to the green square for the rest of their life, and is eligible for benefits.
There is absolutely no way Europe can sustain this indefinitely. Its absolutely ridiculous.
Ce que je vois de mes yeux aux Canaries est FOU. Un espagnol vient carrément de nous parler d’invasion.
On a des centaines d’hommes (quasi exclusivement) venus du Sénégal, de Gambie, de Mauritanie etc. qui débarquent sur les îles de l’archipel espagnol. La Croix Rouge les prend en charge.
Ils sont transférés dans des camps un peu partout à Tenerife et pourront demain être envoyés sur le territoire métropolitain espagnol, à Malaga par exemple. Vous connaissez la suite.
On est le seul média sur place avec les migrants, c’est ça @frontieresmedia.
Pour nous soutenir sur le terrain quand c’est comme ça, abonnez-vous, relayez nous, faites monter le sujet et faites un don
sur frontieresmedia.fr
Alex Scanlan retweeted
The HSE has refused twice to say how many doctors started work before Garda vetting and other safety checks were done.
Its own audit found the gaps. Patients deserve the full picture.
I've written to the Ceann Comhairle and asked for the records under FOI. I'm not letting this go.
