Helen McEntee and the Irish government are arming the Defence Forces with 550+ French Scorpion armoured vehicles (Griffon, Serval, Jaguar etc.) enough to mechanise an entire 4,000 strong brigade while our total force is only 8,000. That’s roughly one armoured vehicle for every 7–12 troops. Are they planning for catastrophic losses? This isn’t for home defence or traditional UN peacekeeping. It’s preparation for high-intensity “peace enforcement” in Lebanon under a new EU mission McEntee is pushing Irish troops into after removing the Triple Lock to drop the UN mandate. The EU’s own Lebanon policy states it supports the Lebanese government establishing a “state monopoly on arms” and “strongly condemns Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel… and calls for the full disarmament of Hezbollah.” consilium.europa.eu/en/polic… Irish soldiers have already died in Lebanon (48 since 1978). Buying French armour to help enforce Hezbollah’s disarmament effectively doing Israel’s and the EU’s dirty work while France profits and Irelands neutrality is over.

Still blaming “corporate greed” for the smaller, more expensive jar of coffee? Most spent 2020–21 cheering the lockdowns while governments and central banks created trillions out of nothing to pay for the stay home orders, furlough schemes and “stimulus.” Then they spent the next few years nodding along as the same governments poured endless borrowed money into Ukraine war funding. Now the currency is weaker, the jar is 10g lighter and the price is higher, and the response is “greedy companies.” Those lockdowns and that war funding were not free. They were financed by expanding the money supply faster than the real economy could absorb it. That is debasement. Your wages and savings did not magically keep pace they were diluted. You took a real pay cut whether the number on your payslip went up or not. The coffee jar simply made the theft visible. If you supported both the lockdowns and the open ended war spending, you helped write the cheque. Pretending the only villains are the companies adjusting to the mess you applauded is pure cope. The money got smaller. Everything else followed.

Meanwhile in India... Rival villages club each other bloody with sticks and torches so their side can snatch the idol of a local Shiva form. One dead, over a hundred injured. Locals call it re-enacting a mythological battle, Scripture calls it idolatry. Grown men setting fires and thrashing each other for village bragging rights over a statue is exactly the pagan blood rite the early Church suppressed. New agers romanticise it as “sacred ancestral energy” and “decolonised spirituality” while ignoring the body count and the superstition that the winning village gets better luck. The same people who denounce medieval Christian violence suddenly respect exotic stick fights for a goddess statue. Blood and broken bones are fine when brown and pre-Christian. Christ rendered this tribalism obsolete.

If the Pentagon is quietly prepping every major US base to run 90 days with zero outside power, fuel, water or supplies, the rest of us should take the hint. Basic 90-day food & preps for a family of 4.. Food staples > 50–75 lbs rice > 25–40 lbs dried beans/lentils > 20–30 lbs pasta or oats > 20+ lbs canned meats (tuna, chicken, spam) > 30+ cans mixed vegetables & fruit > 5–10 lbs powdered milk or shelf-stable milk > Cooking oil, salt, sugar, spices, peanut butter Water > Aim for 1 gallon per person per day (360 gallons total) store what you can + get a good filter (Sawyer/LifeStraw) and rain collection Other basics > Manual can opener > First aid kit + 90 days of any meds > Flashlights, batteries or solar/crank lights > Toilet paper, soap, hygiene items > Blankets, warm layers, basic tools > Battery/solar power banks + AM/FM radio Start small and build. Better to have it and not need it.

They're prepping every major US base to go 90 days with zero outside power, fuel, water or supplies. Portable reactors, microgrids, stockpiles. Official line is "resilience for a big war." Funny how the timing lines up with everything else heating up. What do they know that we don't?

In a crisis, Irish troops committed to the EU Rapid Deployment Capacity (the evolved Battlegroup) could be ordered into an active or near active war zone. The RDC is explicitly structured for rapid intervention including stabilisation, peace enforcement, and initial entry operations and Irish personnel have already trained for such scenarios in multinational exercises simulating deployment into unstable regions. Removing the UN authorisation requirement from the Triple Lock lowers the legal and political threshold for Ireland to join such an EU led deployment. While Government and Dáil approval would still be needed, the change removes the veto that has historically constrained participation in non UN missions. This possibility sits against repeated statements from Irish ministers and EU counterparts framing Russia as an escalating threat. Minister Helen McEntee has described Russia moving from hybrid threats to “kinetic” actions against European states citing airspace and land incursions in Romania, Latvia, Estonia, and Germany, highlighted attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, and expressed interest in an Irish Naval role in EU operations targeting Russia’s shadow fleet. Taoiseach Micheál Martin has spoken of Russia “trying to kill as many civilians as possible” to force a Ukrainian capitulation. EU High Representative Kaja Kallas has described Russia’s actions as increasingly physical and said Europe must respond. In this climate, an EU decision to activate the RDC in response to a perceived Russian linked crisis whether in the Balkans Mediterranean, or further afield could place Irish Defence Forces personnel under EU command in a contested environment rather than a traditional UN Blue Helmet peacekeeping role.

The government’s plan is clear scrap the Triple Lock so they can send Irish troops into the EU’s Lebanon mission that exists to help the Lebanese army enforce the US Israel Lebanon deal and disarm Hezbollah. That’s not peacekeeping. That’s backing a process that risks pulling Ireland into the fight to strip Hezbollah of its weapons, under pressure from Israel and the US, with no UN mandate and against the traditional understanding of Irish neutrality. Clonan is right to call it out. Removing the Triple Lock is the first step to putting Irish soldiers into exactly that kind of mission.

A 10-year-old girl in Tusla care. A failed asylum seeker held for a year. Charges withdrawn with zero public explanation. Then immediately rearrested for deportation. The Citywest case has now closed without a trial..

This South Belfast footage is the everyday version of what David Betz has called “feral cities.” In France, large banlieues with high concentrations of North African and Sub-Saharan African populations already function as partial no-go zones where the state has lost effective control, crime is endemic, and periodic riots burn public infrastructure. Betz, a King’s College London war studies professor, argues Britain and France are furthest along this path, with rapid demographic change and collapsing legitimacy creating the conditions for civil conflict. From a race realist view, the pattern is predictable. Average group differences in impulsivity, aggression and rates of violent offending persist across countries and are not fully explained by poverty or discrimination. Importing large numbers from high violence source populations raises the risk of exactly this kind of predation on local children and communities, as seen here and in the French suburbs.

The Irish government just dropped sexual assault charges against a failed African asylum seeker who admitted kissing a 10 year old girl. He had a deportation order for months before the attack. The State ignored it. Meanwhile, Irish men get locked up for mean tweets about the same issue. Two-tier justice isn’t a theory. It’s policy.

Good guy with a gun... Chad covers his granddaughter with his own body while neutralising the threat. Patriarchy for the win..

The triple lock was built so Ireland could stay neutral, permanent members got a veto precisely to stop us picking sides in their fights. Micheál Martin now calls that safeguard “outdated” because Russia might use it. The whole point was that Russia or anyone else 'could' use it. Stripping out the UN requirement while still selling the policy as neutrality is just rebranding, not reform. You can argue for a more activist Ireland. You can’t pretend the veto was never meant to keep us out of 'great power' struggles. Nobody voted for this it's an outrageous overreach..

Irish Times: Ukrainian family “abandoned” after four years in a Laois woman’s home. Meanwhile nearly 18,000 people are in emergency accommodation including almost 6,000 kids, tens of thousands more are the hidden homeless couch surfing or in cars, and 62% of 18 to 34 year olds are still stuck in the parental box room most of them for money reasons. So the real abandoned people are the native Irish who never get a headline. 9But sure, print the friendship story.

Ireland’s government is so committed to dissolving the Irish family and people that it spends taxpayer money on ads teaching kids their own grandparents’ hugs are suspect while flooding the country with the demographic changes that make the ad’s mixed race framing inevitable.

I ordered @Starlink on the 30th of September. They told me it would be shipped by the 20th of October after I placed my order. Now they're pushing my shipping window out again! Ridiculous.. @elonmusk

It's criminal what's been done to the Ukrainian people by Western powers... Kidnapping men off the street and forcing them to fight to the last man despite the huge population mismatch with Russia and their historical shared ancestry. Its like if the Irish government wrecked our relationship with England at the behest of other powers. Knowing full well many Irish people have some English ancestry or other family ties and they forced us to fight to the last Irishman in open battle. That's what's being done to Ukraine its diabolical...