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BREAKING: Switzerland suspends funding to Doctors Without Borders after it failed to report that its staff exploited refugee women and girls for sex—in exchange for aid, jobs and money. Previously, 🇨🇭 called MSF “a source of best practice and inspiration.” swissinfo.ch/eng/internation…
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This is eye-opening. Europe’s share of global tech R&D has collapsed from 23% in 2005 to just 8% today, while the US has climbed to 62% and China has risen from near zero to 15%. South Korea now outspends Germany, France, the UK, and Italy combined in tech R&D. Yep, you read that right.
This is the predictable result of policy choices that systematically favor control and redistribution over growth. Layered regulation, data rules, AI restrictions, labor rigidities, and precautionary frameworks, raises the cost and slows the pace of turning ideas into products, forcing companies to spend scarce resources on compliance rather than experimentation. High taxation and expansive redistributive systems extract capital that would otherwise fund private R&D and risk-taking, while shrinking the after-tax reward for building something new and scaling it. The broader left-leaning mindset that prioritizes equality of outcome over dynamism treats entrepreneurial success as something to be managed, taxed, or shared rather than unleashed and rewarded.
Places that protect the returns to innovation and keep barriers low continue to pull ahead, attracting talent and capital that Europe increasingly loses. Europe’s relative decline is the cumulative outcome of treating dynamism as a problem to be regulated rather than the engine of prosperity. Without a shift toward lighter rules, lower burdens on enterprise, and greater tolerance for unequal outcomes from unequal effort, the gap will keep widening, and Europe will become an open-air museum for wealthy Americans and Asians.
The NGO industrial complex regularly does things that would get normal companies into hot water.
#Ireland #Transparency #Accountability #PublicMoney
The €4 Billion Transparency Hole on the Charities Regulator Website. 👇
It’s almost the end of 2026. As a citizen researching publicly funded charities in Ireland, I still cannot download the largest state-reliant non-profit in the State, Corlann’s, 2023 or 2024 audited accounts directly from the Charities Register or from its own website. The newest document available is for 2022.
Corlann, formerly Brothers of Charity Services Ireland, directs the public to the Charities Register to inspect its financial statements. In 2024 alone, its register entry records €366 million in public income, representing a 99.9% reliance on the State. Across the two reporting years, 2023 and 2024, Corlann reported €702.8 million in public income, without either year’s audited financial report available to download from the state portal.
The financial returns were submitted. The figures appear in the Charities Regulator’s dataset. What citizens cannot download are the detailed financial reports behind those figures.
The Regulator’s downloadable CSV contains high-level numbers, but it does not identify which departments, agencies or specific state grant schemes provided that money.
The audited accounts can provide the funding breakdowns and explanatory notes that those headline figures cannot.
I am not even counting 2025. Allowing for administrative lag, I am giving them the benefit of the doubt on that year. This review is strictly confined to reporting years from 2020 to 2024.
And this is not an isolated incident.
I conducted a systematic review of the top 152 non-profit delivery organisations in my health, social care and housing dataset. Together, they account for over 80% of the public income recorded in that group: €3.81 billion in 2024.
44 of those 152 organisations, or 28.9%, have gaps in downloadable audited accounts on the Charities Register.
In 2024 alone, those organisations recorded €1.30 billion in public income. Across all the reporting years affected by those document gaps, their cumulative public income reaches €3.35 billion.
The gaps deepen the further you look:
St Michael’s House, a disability provider with €126 million in public income in 2024, also has no downloadable accounts for 2023 or 2024 on the register. Those two years cover €248 million in cumulative public income.
Clúid Housing Association, with €121 million in public income in 2024, and Respond Housing, with €70 million, are two of the largest Approved Housing Bodies in the State. The latest audited accounts I could download from the Charities Register were for 2019. That is a five-year gap covering €649 million in cumulative public income, without the corresponding accounts available there to inspect the detail.
Across my research population of 3,428 organisations, 1,108 charities, or 32.3%, have no downloadable financial report for 2024 on the state portal.
Across 2020–2024, the total is 4,850 unavailable reports, associated with €4.14 billion in cumulative public income.
This is not a claim that money has gone missing. It is a demonstrable, systemic breakdown in accessible public scrutiny.
The State’s alternative is the Companies Registration Office, which charges €2.50 per document. At that rate, obtaining the 1,108 missing reports for 2024 would cost a citizen €2,770.
Include the earlier years and the equivalent bill reaches €12,125, assuming all 4,850 documents are available through CRO as separate purchases.
Why should taxpayers pay twice: first to fund the services, and then to scrutinise how public billions are distributed?
The financial returns appear in the Regulator’s dataset. Why are the corresponding audited financial reports not available to download?
Where is the breakdown in publication, and who is accountable for fixing it?
In 2026, the detailed accounts of organisations receiving public billions should be free, complete and downloadable in a single click.
If that works out it's an impressive foreign relations win. Sadly, because of who helped bring it to fruition there will be loads of shitlib types praying it fails. Fuck all of you (you know who you are!).
THE CEASEFIRE HAS COMMENCED
The ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia took effect at 4:00am Moscow time on October 27, 2026.
Timing was accelerated two days ahead of schedule to protect the safety of civilians and to facilitate the delivery of critical humanitarian aid. The ceasefire’s geographic area has expanded beyond Oleshky, within the Kherson Region, to provide safe passage for the humanitarian convoys.
General Valery Gerasimov, Joint Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has confirmed.
That said, ASML does have a chokehold effect on many of the top 20! Sad statistic though :-(
Or maybe it means less overall loss when we have the next crash? #eurowin
Ireland leads, but not at what you want to be a leader at.
Climate policies have consequences
EU pays 1.9x US prices and 3x China and India
UK has the costliest electricity in the world
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
Reading this report from the ESRI is why the D4 set will say 'see, we have more migrants here than the rural areas!' (but the issue tend to be more about IPAs than simply where you come from. And remember how they freaked when the camps sprung up in D2?
Personally I don't like the way tariffs are being used these days, but the idea that they 'don't work' is not ass well established as people think. This is big industrialisation (dwarfed by what's happening in microprocessors).
If the job demand was there, the wages would rise on their own. Bringing the full cost so high is an error and results in fewer young people working.
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>be Lula
>get convicted of corruption
>get sentenced to 12 years
>get released by the STF on procedural errors
>never actually acquitted lmao
>beat Jair Bolsonaro in 2022
>Jair gets thrown into jail over an alleged coup attempt
>Congress votes to cut his sentence
>Lula vetoes it
>four years later, face his son
>during a debate, threaten to also lock him up if he loses the election
>election day
>former private lawyer, now STF judge, extends voting by 2 hours nationwide
>request came from Lula's own coalition
>win by 4 million votes in a runoff with no paper trail
>next day, Moraes orders the losing candidate to surrender his passports
>victory speech: "we're going to regulate social media"
>"democracy" lmao
>RIP Brazil
Wonderful idea - there is so much digitization and improvement in services that would be profound if we could get past the idea that you need 25 people replicating the same paperwork, and none of them can ever be fired
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More than 60 Christians killed in Ethiopia 'massacre', church official says bbc.in/4swbUDS
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After two months, the John Gillick affair has finally reached the @IrishTimes.
This is a noteworthy moment. Since late August, when screenshots of antisemitic posts to Gillick’s personal X account began circulating, only one journalist at one newspaper (@Fearghaloc at the @Independent_ie) has covered the story. The screenshots highlighted posts describing Jews as “human scum” and “filthy dogs,” and declaring that they “need to be thrown out” of Ireland. The Wayback Machine revealed a substantial archive of such posts going back to the start of last year.
John Gillick is not a nobody. He worked at AIG for over 20 years. He headed consumer marketing and sponsorship, fronting the company’s partnerships with sporting bodies including Dublin GAA, the Golfing Union of Ireland, and Hockey Ireland. In March of this year, he was photographed with the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) at a gala dinner in Washington, D.C. On 2 September, Gillick stated that his account had been compromised and that the antisemitic posts were not his. He reported the matter to the Gardaí, and that investigation continues.
However, on Friday, AIG’s president and chief executive, Eric Andersen, confirmed to Orli Degani, chair of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, that Gillick is no longer working for the company.
Andersen does not run the Irish subsidiary, @AIGIreland. He has led AIG worldwide since June. It is significant, therefore, that a complaint from a handful of people in this country reached the CEO of a global insurer in New York. Degani thanked him specifically for the personal attention he gave it.
But note the disparity here. The CEO of a multi-billion-dollar multinational corporation judged this matter serious enough to deal with himself. Meanwhile, most of the Irish press ignored the issue for eight weeks. Consider, by contrast, how a story last week about a Palestinian necklace being edited out of an episode of Cheap Irish Homes was instantly in the headlines of every major newspaper, TV station, and radio broadcaster in the country.
That asymmetry reflects something that I have written about here before: a habit of looking the other way when Jews are being targeted. The elements of a story were always there: a senior figure in Irish sports sponsorship, a personal account calling for a minority group to be expelled from the country, a company inquiry, a Garda investigation into a claimed hack. Had the target of the posts been any other minority community in this country, it is hard to imagine having to wait two months for a second journalist to take an interest.
Ms Degani says the case mattered “far beyond the actions of one individual,” and she is right. The issue was never about what was posted on one account. It is about whether Irish Jews can trust that when things like this happen, they will be taken seriously by employers, by the Gardaí, by the media, and by the public. Her closing point is that reporting antisemitism matters. It does, but so does reporting on it.
irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/…
Some people think red lights are a notional concept - in one clip traffic starts and she still punches through the junction, in the next 3 cars go through, the last clip is the obligatory scrote-on-a-scrambler the north inner city is plagued with (and cops do f"£k all about it)
