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Free speech threatened around the world! The dispute between Brazil and X continues. According to a report, "A federal judge has withdrawn $3.3 million from bank accounts belonging to X and Starlink to enforce a fine.’ [thepressunited.com/updates/brazil…] "The Brazilian Supreme Court has

What a tragedy that would be!😇

Chanelling Chance the Gardener from Being There!

Laws that advantage particular groups over everyone else are one’s own (privus ) laws (leges), that is, privileges.

Did any of the MSM report on this?

Reuters reports, "The Dutch government said on Friday it aimed to implement a raft of measures to limit migration in the coming months, including a moratorium on all new applications, days after Germany announced new border controls to keep out unwanted migrants. The new

The BBC reports: "Seven men convicted under the UK's biggest investigation into child abuse have been jailed for assaulting two vulnerable girls in Rotherham." [bbc.com/news/articles/…]

Would you like to see what a supposedly democratic government proposes in order to prevent, protect against, control or respond to the incidence or spread of infection or contamination? (Below, see a screenshot of p. 47 of the Northern Ireland Department of Health’s Policy

“What’s yours is mine, and what’s mine is my own,”

Nonsensical. Wilfully storing up social trouble, both now and into the future

Colin Murphy turns a critical eye on some of Kamala Harris’s dubious claims and evasions in the recent US Presidential debate. [independent.ie/opinion/commen…] When it comes to dubious claims, he notes that Harris “claimed Trump had said there would be a ‘bloodbath’ if the election

I have an online subscription to the Irish/Sunday Independent. But there are times when material in the print edition does not seem to appear online. On Sunday’s, I look forward to reading the opinion pieces, especially those by Eilis O'Hanlon and David Quinn. Today’s online

“...under the proposed regulations you could be required to submit to a medical examination; be removed to/and or detained in a hospital or other suitable establishment; kept in isolation or quarantine; be disinfected or decontaminated; be subject to restrictions as to where you

Unbelievably stupid it was, and unbelievably stupid it still is!

“Public safety is a choice and the West has decided to completely give it up for the sake of ‘wokeness'. It’s not right, but it’s certainly a choice. It doesn’t have to be the way it is, America. It doesn’t have to be that way."

There are only so many times that one can claim that Francis’s remarks have been mistranslated, misunderstood, miscontextualised.

“So where the **** are we right now?

The semi-humorous rhetorical question, “Is the Pope Catholic?” used to be used to emphasise the obvious truth of some other remark one had made. Whether this question is any longer necessarily rhetorical is moot; what’s not in doubt is that it’s no longer humorous.