Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council briefing on biological laboratories in Ukraine (agenda item "Threats to international peace and security").."We conducted an investigation of a biological incident that occurred in the Slavyanoserbsky district of the LPR in 2020. As it turned out, in Stepovoe village flyers made in the form of counterfeit currency notes were infected with the tuberculosis agent and distributed among minors. The idea was that after handling money, children often handle food without washing their hands first." https://russiaun.ru/en/news/unsc_130522

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The Topography of Ireland by Gerald of Wales, discussed a few times in this channel, was one of the main sources continentals had to read about Ireland during the 13-15th Centuries. It was basically Norman propaganda piece that can be summed up as "great country, pity about the natives" - example of this is calling the Irish backward/savages for preferring to live in Woods than in Cities.

Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarca, anglicized as Petrarch, who discovered Cicero's papers and is considered to have begun the Renaissance, owned a copy of Topography of Ireland, which is still available in the French National Library in Paris. Petrarch himself hated cities and preferred to live in woods, to the point where his friends nicknamed him Woody.

Upon reading the Irish preference to live in the woods than cities, he wrote in the margin in his copy “Go there, Woody, what are you waiting for?”

Fabulous Ireland- Ibernia Fabulosa; Imagining Ireland in Renaissance Italy by Eric Haywood

Do have to say, very upsetting that a lot of history posts in this channel are stuff I've only found out recent enough from reading or someone sent to me. Some of the stuff you'd think would be common knowledge among the populace. Some of the literature/art/history you'd think would be celebrated and top of the curriculum in schools.

No one reads anymore about the Fenian sagas, Táin, about our Saints, about Hugh O'Neill, O'Sullivan Beara, Eoghan Roe, 1798, Fenians of 1800s nor much about the revolutionary period 1916-24 or even a deep knowledge of the Troubles.

In the 1900s illiterate farmers could recite an oral version of "Merugud Uilix Maicc Leirtis", the medieval Irish adaption of Homer's Odyssey. Hedge Schools were teaching Greek/Latin and in Christian Brother schools nationalism was being drilled into students. That's all gone now, most people learn about Irish history now from movies like 'Wind The Shakes the Barley' or 'Michael Collins' or some documentaries on TV about the Troubles from doc like on the 1981 Hunger Strikers.

This is compounded by the fact history is no longer a compulsory subject for students doing the junior cert, so many students by age 12 onwards will receive 0 education on it from schools, when most history is normally studied & comprehended. This needs to change - local organizations are needed to be formed centred around fixing the record in the form of book clubs, livestreams, lectures, conferences to elevate national consciousness.

“The teacher who cannot, if he wishes, arouse a patriotic spirit in the breasts of Irish boys and girls is not worth his salt."

Pádraig Pearse

https://youtu.be/PQLMUHQtKKg

I dunno how this hasn't even hit 75k views in over a year.

I remember years ago we'd go for drinks and we'd be listening to some poor version of this song, we're spoiled with this absolutely perfect rendition

English anti-bardic measures in Ireland. Bards constituted the native intelligentsia and were repeatedly identified as major inciters of rebellion. Upheld national consciousness.

Leerssen, 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗶𝗼𝗿-𝗚𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 : 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗮 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟲)

"An Chinsealacht" (The Dominance), is the Irish term for the Protestant Ascendancy.

Thought that titbit is interesting

Ceann Salach

The dirty head
The dominance

I'm lucky that I came into the farm in an unorthodox way, I'm not big into the idea of making money, but I love a project. The farming basically came around through a mad mix of ideas about art, anti establishment thinking and horticulture (long story with many winding roads).

I know people that nearly lost everything when prices collapsed in pork a decade or more ago, I grew up in the era when farms with 15 cows suddenly decided to bump their numbers up 10x. These crazy situations were facilitated by desk jockeys and government schemes, I just decided to ignore all trends and do what I thought was sensible. Native cows, silvapasture, mixed farming, cut down on machinery etc etc etc.

I'd hate to be someone overly invested in one area today, which is most farmers tbf, the bank doesn't give out many loans to people who are getting "a few grand here, and a few grand there". The bank want monolithic farms, and only consumers can force them to change that practice.

The townie/culchie divide runs deep. My "auld fella" did pretty well for himself, he never got too involved with the RTE interpretation of the world, same as RTE types never got too involved about how the functional economy works.

Ireland opens its doors to anything on two legs. It was supposed to be all about the Ukrainians but other asylum seekers have seen how open Ireland is and have rushed to get in as quickly as the Ukrainians and the Irish government is accommodating them. I would like to say that's funny but it's gone beyond a joke....it's disastrous,it's insane,it's an invasion and the Generals leading this army are the Irish government.


https://www.businesspost.ie/news/ukrainians-to-be-moved-out-of-dublin-hotel-to-make-room-for-asylum-seekers/

Just a conspiracy bro 👍
They don't want you owning a car.

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 MEPs Clare Daly & Mick Wallace, NATO’s Latest Targets
Strategic Culture Foundation (RSS)

Daly and Wallace have been castigated as fringe thinkers, outcasts and agents of Asma Assad, Xi and Putin for expressing the traditional view of Irish neutrality.

Naomi O’Leary’s recent two-page spread in the Irish Times castigating “Mick Wallace, popularly known as the ‘Golden Lion King’ in China, and fellow MEP Clare Daly” for being media staples in the Russian, Chinese, and Arabic languages, best typifies Ireland’s resurgent fascism. This resurgent fascism has also witnessed attacks on their erstwhile colleagues in the Irish Parliament, credible death threats on people like me, physical attacks on Russian diplomats and on Russian citizens living in Ireland.

O’Leary’s pathetic smear piece seems to have been spurred by the emergence of Irish MEPs Daly and Wallace as two of the more prominent critics of NATO’s and the EU’s pro-war policies and the existential threats those NATO policies present not only to world peace but to Irish neutrality and Ireland’s standing within the NATO empire as well. Although O’Leary’s main thrust is that the two MEPs have featured in Arabic, Russian and Chinese media, there is also an unintentionally insightful emphasis on the persecution of political dissidents in the Baltic states.

Both MEPs make good media copy as they are informed on the issues which concern them; because Daly is particularly articulate, her denunciation of the war mongering Obama family in the Irish Parliament went viral. Wallace, meanwhile, is not only equally well informed but has a unique sartorial style which the Chinese, amongst others, predictably lap up like ducks to water. There should therefore be no mystery as to why Russian, Arabic, American, Australian and Chinese media interview them and why they ignore Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, who has the charisma of a pancake.

O’Leary and her fellow journalists disagree. To them, the fact that Daly and Wallace get more column inches in the Chinese media than Martin, Irish MMA fighter Conor McGregor or Irish golfer Rory McIlroy is some sort of national Irish disgrace, rather than a cause for reflecting on how banal and surplus to requirements are most Irish politicians that the Chinese media quite rightly ignore the lot of them.

O’Leary is aggrieved that their “mere tweets have repeatedly made headlines internationally”. Wallace’s latest such tweet that Zelensky should return to his old job of being an over paid buffoon led to such a carnival of reaction by Ireland’s NATO aligned politicians that one would have imagined Wallace had insulted a politician, rather than given career advice to a very corrupt comedian, whose off shore bank accounts and incessant demands to start World War Three show he should have no position of authority outside of a circus.

O’Leary also attacked the pair for supporting Algirdas Palec...

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