General Current Affairs Chat - Global and Local

[Setanta]

Actually, on second thoughts, best not derail the UFO thread...

Gonna reflect awlfully on America's ruling party to smash the railway unions few weeks ago,protesting over likelihood of this happening



Talks of fish and cow kills upto 100 miles from it,and they telling people it's ok to return to their homes....immoral utter cunts

[isha]

I saw an interview with a union man and he was saying the workers get 90 seconds per car (train compartment) to check them for safety. This is to reduce workforce, increase profits. Plus they don't have the staff to send to check the rails themselves. It is completely immoral. Late stage capitalism resembles more and more early stage capitalism with all its inequity and hazard.

[Hairy-Joe]

Shock horror, Sinn Fein forgot to pay another bill. It's a 5k bill for posters from 2014.

Definitely a case of pot, kettle, black giving out about Pascals free van.

[PogMoThoin22]

Shock horror, Sinn Fein forgot to pay another bill. It's a 5k bill for posters from 2014.

Definitely a case of pot, kettle, black giving out about Pascals free van.

Don't kid yourself. It was never about Pascals free van, it was about crony appointments to boards handling regeneration projects, government contracts and private undocumented meetings with the minister for finance the posters guaranteed

[knownunknown]

Watching former twitter staff getting grilled because they denied to congress that they were “shadow banning”. They repeated many times over the years that they were not shadowbanning people, especially conservative voices. Now it turns out they admit they were “visibility filtering” people and apparently that’s a different thing entirely. The neck on these people.

Shadow ban: block (a user) from a social media site or online forum without their knowledge, typically by making their posts and comments no longer visible to other users.(OED)

Visibility filter: Visibility Filtering, or VF, is a doublespeak term for shadow banning. It is the act of reducing the amount of views a post gets on social media by the company that owns the platform. Examples are: blocking searches of individual users; limiting the scope of a particular tweet’s discoverability; blocking select users’ posts from ever appearing on the “trending” page; and from being included in hashtag searches.(urban dictionary)

[isha]

Nicola Sturgeon resigns.
Good. What she tried to push through with her Gender Recognition Act was wrong (as is our own). Leaving females in prison vulnerable to being incarcerated with males. And even when she decided that was too much because of rapist Isla Bryson taking over the news one week later, she refused to recognise that the men she decided couldn't be in women's prison after all, could still shower in the swimming pool changing rooms beside small girls. Because Trans Women ARE Women. FFS. Good riddance to her

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-64647907

[marhay70]

Nicola Sturgeon resigns.
Good. What she tried to push through with her Gender Recognition Act was wrong (as is our own). Leaving females in prison vulnerable to being incarcerated with males. And even when she decided that was too much because of rapist Isla Bryson taking over the news one week later, she refused to recognise that the men she decided couldn't be in women's prison after all, could still shower in the swimming pool changing rooms beside small girls. Because Trans Women ARE Women. FFS. Good riddance to her

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-64647907

Hopefully this is the first of many high profile people to bite the bullet on this nonsense and put it to bed forever.

[Del.Monte]

Another enemy of the Union bites the dust and good riddance to her and the SNP.

[Setanta]

A big blow,she was working heavily with Michelle O'Neill on laying groundwork for the push for Scottish independence


Future Scottish first ministers should work to continually force issue through Hollywood and continually force Westminster into position of being interlopers and undermine it's authority.....the fact Westminster could and will tear up laws passed by devolved parliaments to appease it's mass media,should raise much more alarm bells than any trans issues/personal like/dislike of sturgeon

[DeletedUser]

Another enemy of the Union bites the dust and good riddance to her and the SNP.

An enemy of women is removed from her post - may she never know a second's peace.

[DeletedUser]

Nicola Sturgeon resigns.
Good. What she tried to push through with her Gender Recognition Act was wrong (as is our own). Leaving females in prison vulnerable to being incarcerated with males. And even when she decided that was too much because of rapist Isla Bryson taking over the news one week later, she refused to recognise that the men she decided couldn't be in women's prison after all, could still shower in the swimming pool changing rooms beside small girls. Because Trans Women ARE Women. FFS. Good riddance to her

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-64647907

May she be the first in a long line of high profile resignations!!!!

[isha]

May she be the first in a long line of high profile resignations!!!!

She is not the first. Jacinda Ardern also stepped down. When Justin Trudeau resigns I will be overcome with happiness

[DeletedUser]

Oh I forgot Ardern!!!

Trudeau is a dreadful pox!!!

[Boardsie Exile]

I suspect she was using the gender issue as a trojan horse with lowering the voting age to 16 being the long-term goal. Her assertion that she "trusted young people to make up their own mind"' got my spidey-sense tingling. She played with matches and got burned

Labour might yet make a comeback up there.

[isha]

I don't know anything about Scotland's Labour party. But I really feel from as much as I do know about political parties globally that we have very poor choices. We can have billionaire berks who went to posh schools and are pushing technocratic feudalism for their rich buddies, we can have raving cultic progressives who would whip of a teenagers mickey just because they feel a bit feminine, or we can have the weird theocratic xenophobes. It's a tad depressing.

[Setanta]

I don't know anything about Scotland's Labour party. But I really feel from as much as I do know about political parties globally that we have very poor choices. We can have billionaire berks who went to posh schools and are pushing technocratic feudalism for their rich buddies, we can have raving cultic progressives who would whip of a teenagers mickey just because they feel a bit feminine, or we can have the weird theocratic xenophobes. It's a tad depressing.

The UK labour party is heading for defuntness.....it's got itself run by what would in a normal society be regarded as Thatcherites

This will cause extremism to rise within UK,as poorer & marginalised in society have noone left to speak out for them....they are not likely to be a stable neighbour over next 10 years,lunatics are really on brink of taking over asylum over there


(the now-banned here,dark horse shouts down and silences anyone on planks,who points out labour are in fact tory-lite)

Support for Welsh independence has near doubled in less than two years,it won't need much more to push it into realistic indyref territory,......UK politics and it's outworkings are gonna be much more interesting than USA over medium term

[jmayo]

A big blow,she was working heavily with Michelle O'Neill on laying groundwork for the push for Scottish independence


Future Scottish first ministers should work to continually force issue through Hollywood and continually force Westminster into position of being interlopers and undermine it's authority.....the fact Westminster could and will tear up laws passed by devolved parliaments to appease it's mass media,should raise much more alarm bells than any trans issues/personal like/dislike of sturgeon

That was well and good looking for a way to force Westminister to go against Scottish parliament, but the fooking the topic she picked was detrimental to womens rights.
Putting a rapist in a womens prison has to be one of the fooking stupidest things that has been done over the last few years.
But to cap it off Sturgeon would have copper fastened this type of shytology.

[jmayo]

I don't know anything about Scotland's Labour party. But I really feel from as much as I do know about political parties globally that we have very poor choices. We can have billionaire berks who went to posh schools and are pushing technocratic feudalism for their rich buddies, we can have raving cultic progressives who would whip of a teenagers mickey just because they feel a bit feminine, or we can have the weird theocratic xenophobes. It's a tad depressing.

I have long said the state of Western democracies is at an all time low.
There is total disconnect between large sections of the citizenry and the political classes.
Politicians are now led by media, open polls, celebrity halfwits, NGOs, zealot academics with zero cop on of reality and/or ultra rich globalists intent in enslaving everyone to make them even richer.

About the only leader that passes for a statesman of any sort at the moment is Zelensky.
Now I know some of you Russian fans may not like that, but hell he is.
He refused to leave when I would bet every other so called Western democratic leader would have legged it.
And he has continously been seen at the forefront of his country's defense.

Western politicians are either rich gobdaws intent on further feathering the nests of their elitist cliques, or a bunch of self serving media chasing junkies.
Arden, Trudeau and our own Varadkar are the latter whilst the US and UK usually have the former.

[Setanta]

That was well and good looking for a way to force Westminister to go against Scottish parliament, but the fooking the topic she picked was detrimental to womens rights.
Putting a rapist in a womens prison has to be one of the fooking stupidest things that has been done over the last few years.
But to cap it off Sturgeon would have copper fastened this type of shytology.

It (alongside Ukraine) is at present the easiest issue to push Westminster buttons and push them into reacting to media pressure

The moral merits of using marginalised groups to do so,is dubious imo......but the snp have shinners advising em now (pretty sure there was an SNP delegation at the internment commeration and feile last August),and have undertaken a move to make Westminster rule incompatible with devolution and let it in a position where the population have to back independence or look towards English rule at next referendum......


In short,are people going to risk having perpetual conservative rule,over trans ID issues.....I would think not

[isha]

I have long said the state of Western democracies is at an all time low.
There is total disconnect between large sections of the citizenry and the political classes.
Politicians are now led by media, open polls, celebrity halfwits, NGOs, zealot academics with zero cop on of reality and/or ultra rich globalists intent in enslaving everyone to make them even richer.

About the only leader that passes for a statesman of any sort at the moment is Zelensky.
Now I know some of you Russian fans may not like that, but hell he is.
He refused to leave when I would bet every other so called Western democratic leader would have legged it.
And he has continously been seen at the forefront of his country's defense.

Western politicians are either rich gobdaws intent on further feathering the nests of their elitist cliques, or a bunch of self serving media chasing junkies.
Arden, Trudeau and our own Varadkar are the latter whilst the US and UK usually have the former.

I agree with paragraphs 1 and 3.

I'm not a fan of the Russian leadership.

[Del.Monte]

My belief is that Zelensky is still an actor at heart who has landed his biggest role but is in out of his depth. The whole Ukraine fiasco is all part of some mad scheme to degrade Russia's military, it may not have started out like that but the proxy war that it has developed into is clear to anyone with half a brain.

PS I am not a fan of the Russian leadership either.

[jmayo]

My belief is that Zelensky is still an actor at heart who has landed his biggest role but is in out of his depth. The whole Ukraine fiasco is all part of some mad scheme to degrade Russia's military, it may not have started out like that but the proxy war that it has developed into is clear to anyone with half a brain.

PS I am not a fan of the Russian leadership either.

But don't most public roles involves acting to some degree.
At least he can act brave rather than craven like most of the rest.

And yes it has turned into a proxy war against Russia, but that is Russia's own fault.
First off their military was not good enough to quickly conquer Ukraine and secondly it has been shown to be a shambles.

Russia's military has been found out and most of that has to be down to the way Russia has been led since the demise of Soviet Union.
All of Russia's leaders post USSR have presided over corruption and like everything else the military budget was probably looted and ended up being spent on yachts and hookers.
And the Soviet Union's latter years was when their military started it's downfall.
Afghanistan was the beginning of the end.
No longer could they compete in terms of hardware and things haven't improved under so called Russian democracy.

[Setanta]

But don't most public roles involves acting to some degree.
At least he can act brave rather than craven like most of the rest.

And yes it has turned into a proxy war against Russia, but that is Russia's own fault.
First off their military was not good enough to quickly conquer Ukraine and secondly it has been shown to be a shambles.

Russia's military has been found out and most of that has to be down to the way Russia has been led since the demise of Soviet Union.
All of Russia's leaders post USSR have presided over corruption and like everything else the military budget was probably looted and ended up being spent on yachts and hookers.
And the Soviet Union's latter years was when their military started it's downfall.
Afghanistan was the beginning of the end.
No longer could they compete in terms of hardware and things haven't improved under so called Russian democracy.

TBF ever since the yanks helped rig the 1996 russian elections,calling it a democracy has been at best a misnomer and at worst a down right lie


It's why I distain when they cry about supposed interference in their elections

[Setanta]

Dunno if this belongs in sport section

But jarlath burns was elected president of GAA,a pivotal appointment,of a commonsense bloke who has long worked hard in reach out/peace initiatives in south Armagh

In these times,when unionists seem determined to hollow out the GFA and good it's done,and reach backwards in its relationship with the orange order....there's never been a better time to appoint likes of him,to what is quite a significant cultural position with a clear defined vision for what he wants to achieve


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hopefully he'll get a chance to present an all Ireland trophy to my own county,however unlikely it may be

[95438756]

Radical islamist parade in Malaysia
‘Armed’ Islamist parade in Malaysia deepens fears of growing conservatism

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/a ... nservatism