#ireland

nowisthetime@pod.automat.click

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A group of Russian Navy Ships
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has been seen entering the Irish Sea in what is being considered an aggressive move. There are strong signals the ships will sail up and around the United Kingdom and this will move them close to the main submarine base of Faslane.

The route that the warships have taken on their homeward journey seems provocative, apparently sending a strong message to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members.

It also serves as a notice to #Ireland, which is not a member of NATO. In a number of ways, Ireland can be considered a weak spot on Europe’s western border.

At the moment, the warships appear to have taken a U-turn and are sailing southwest. Nevertheless, this is a fluid situation that people need to watch closely.

ramnath@nerdpol.ch

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https://www.bitchute.com/video/4oC22F4mFzGU/

#IRELAND - TRACEY O' MAHONY - #RETURN TO #SCHOOL 2022

This video will cover the following topics:
1. Current #Covid-19 school policies, including the requirement to complete a return to school #health form for your child
2. Vaccines in schools – this will include whether the school can ask if your child has been vaccinated against Covid-19 and whether parents can be refused entry to information evenings depending on their covid-19 vaccination status.
3. Social, Personal and Health Education (also called SPHE) and Relationship and Sexuality Education (also called RSE)

108madhuri@nerdpol.ch

Horrific and Sad. Good old Catholic Ireland.

This short film doesn't address how the #Mothers were enslaved and tortured, sometimes for many decades, in these institutions.
#history (not sure if this is available for viewing outside #Ireland.
https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/shortscreen-mother-and-baby-e1/306699304225?fbclid=IwAR2PBiAA5DMnX79q534Zv7e3IgZz4XMIjA9tFOglAAmtixJbUP-U5acRaec

marcel_gomes@sysad.org

I already presented myself since i’m #Newhere but i did’nt make it ”public ”.

So…here goes: Swedish guy.
Really urban ( #Gothenburg ) but got stuck in the countryside.

Some interests ( saw other posts like this so i hope it is not irritating. I will be more sparing with hashtags after this ):

#Esoterica #Kabbalah #Thelema #Hermeticism #Freemasonry #OddFellow etc

#History #Archeology #Culture
#Bagpipes #Kilt #Tartan #Suit
#Scotland #Ireland ( lived there in the 90’s ) #Iceland

#Fediverse ( i am also on Mastodon and Pixelfed ).

#Whisky #Stout

#Music #Rock #Shoegaze #Postpunk #Goth #IndieRock
#HeavyMetal #HardRock #ClassicalMusic #Jazz #Ska #Folkmusic #80s #90s. Etc,etc…

berternste@pod.orkz.net

‘It felt like history itself’ – 48 protest photographs that changed the world

The Guardian

Protest can change everything. Which is why governments around the world want to suppress it. In a week when thousands in the US expressed their fury over Roe v Wade, we look back at some of the images that helped rewrite laws and change the way we think.

Governments tend to define democracy as narrowly as possible. The story they tell goes as follows: you vote; the majority party takes office; you leave it to govern on your behalf for the next four or five years. (...)

We have seen what happens if we leave politics to governments. Fairly elected or not, they will, without effective public pressure, abuse their power. (...)

Trust in governments destroys democracy, which survives only through constant challenge. It requires endless disruption of the cosy relationship between our representatives and powerful forces: the billionaire press, plutocrats, political donors, friends in high places. What challenge and disruption mean, above all, is protest. (...)

A government that cannot tolerate protest is a government that cannot tolerate democracy.

Such governments are becoming a global norm. In the UK, two policing bills in quick succession seek to shut down all effective forms of protest. (...)

In the US, state legislatures have been undermining the federal right to protest, empowering the police to use catch-all offences such as “trespass” or “disrupting the peace” to break up demonstrations and make arrests. (...) In Russia, a new law against “discrediting the armed forces” has been used to prosecute dissenters engaging in actions as mild as writing “no to war” in the snow. Similar draconian laws are being imposed by governments in many other nations.

Why do governments want to ban protest? Because it’s effective. Why do they want us to accept their narrow vision of democracy? Because it makes our power ineffective. (...)

The extraordinary people in these images understand this – from suffragettes picketing the White House in 1917 to Patsy Stevenson being manhandled by police at last year’s Sarah Everard vigil; from relatives of those killed at Amritsar in India in 1919 to those taking to the streets after George Floyd’s murder in the US.

Almost everything of importance is disintegrating fast: ecosystems, the health system, standards in public life, equality, human rights, terms of employment. (...) Business as usual is a threat to life on Earth. Disrupting it is the greatest civic duty of all. (...)

Complete article with photos

Photo of young woman confronting heavily armed riot police

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ivyblackledgewhitfield@diaspora.polaris62.fr

#ireland #photography #autochrome
Early color photography.
Photograph of young Irish lady. She is wearing a traditional Irish red cape.

Autochromes of Ireland that French academics Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeleine Mignon took in May and June 1913 are the first colour photographs of the island