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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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>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
karldeeter ⭐ retweeted
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/…
karldeeter ⭐ retweeted
Laffer curve latest: big increases in the tax burden have reduced tax revenues as companies have been pushed into bankruptcy.
Business insolvencies rose 39% between 2019-20 and 2025-26 as higher taxes and soaring costs caused firms to collapse. HMRC lost £13bn as a consequence.
Nimesh Shah of accountants Blick Rothenberg said: “The UK tax burden is at its highest levels in modern peace time and changes to tax, labour laws and the minimum wage increase have added significant burden to businesses".
“The irony is that the Government increasing the tax burden has had the effect of increasing HMRC’s tax losses.”
karldeeter ⭐ retweeted
Ireland now has a more equal distribution of incomes than Denmark and Sweden, according to today's Eurostat figures.
Gini coefficient (lower = more equal)
Ireland: 27.2
Denmark: 28.2
Sweden: 28.6
karldeeter ⭐ retweeted
Remembering Dónal Lunny, one of Ireland's most celebrated musicians, who has died aged 79 🤍
During his last appearance on the #LateLate in January of this year, the multi-instumentalist became the first inductee into our Trad Music Hall of Fame - a testament to his influence and the impact he had on the genre over the years.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
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At this rate, the only affordable thing in Europe will be the promise of affordable housing.🇪🇺 @EU_Commission
“The Commission gathers 100+ financial experts to help unlock investment in affordable housing.”
Yessss!! We're finally solving the housing crisis! 🥳
Oh, wait.
“In the next 18 months the Group will bring experts together in thematic sub-groups and plenary discussions.”
No, no! 18 months of meetings, discussions, frameworks and toolkits.
Apparently, Europe's housing crisis can wait.
The meetings cannot!
karldeeter ⭐ retweeted
France has short workweeks; public and social spending, as shares of GDP, above the European Union average; a fiscal policy that could hardly be further from austerity; heavily regulated labor markets; and extraordinarily generous paid vacation entitlements. In short, it has everything an opponent of neoliberalism could wish for their own country.
France is also home to advocates of degrowth and even more burdensome redistributive policies. Economists like Thomas Piketty urge other countries to impose higher tax rates and introduce new taxes to combat inequality.
Yesterday, France was engulfed in flames. Police forces were overwhelmed by violent, opportunistic mobs engaged in widespread destruction and looting, for whom the very notion of private property seemed either alien or laughable.
And what do many blame for the chaos?
Neoliberalism, of course.
Let that sink in, fellas.
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A thorough analysis of the scope of capital departure from Britain by Brian Monteith in the Telegraph.
"Available evidence suggests the scale of the capital loss is likely around £200bn to £250bn in just two years," explains Monteith, with copious evidence.
"An obvious example of business displacement is the quadrupling of the number of British members of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce, from 2,402 active Chamber members at the end of 2020 to 10,334 in March 2026. While some of these cases will involve British companies establishing a presence in Dubai, most are likely to be new operations in Dubai run by British citizens".
"Of course", notes Monteith, "those who have left will no longer be expanding their wealth in the UK. Those who would otherwise have stayed to build their businesses will be doing it elsewhere, and fewer will arrive to build wealth here. In the long run, this is probably the most significant factor".
"All of [the anti-wealth] policies will have to be reversed by a future government if truly wealthy individuals are to be attracted back and those becoming successful here in future are not encouraged to also leave. Full abolition of inheritance tax is by far the most sensible policy".
karldeeter ⭐ retweeted
Thomas Sowell explains why fascism and Nazism are left-wing ideologies:
“Back in the 1920s, however, when fascism was a new political development, it was widely—and correctly—regarded as being on the political left.”
“Jonah Goldberg’s great book ‘Liberal Fascism’ cites overwhelming evidence of the fascists’ consistent pursuit of the goals of the left, and of the left’s embrace of the fascists as one of their own during the 1920s.”
“Mussolini, the originator of fascism, was lionized by the left, both in Europe and in America, during the 1920s. Even Hitler, who adopted fascist ideas in the 1920s, was seen by some, including W.E.B. Du Bois, as a man of the left.”
“It was in the 1930s, when ugly internal and international actions by Hitler and Mussolini repelled the world, that the left distanced themselves from fascism and its Nazi offshoot—and verbally transferred these totalitarian dictatorships to the right, saddling their opponents with these pariahs.”
“What socialism, fascism and other ideologies of the left have in common is an assumption that some very wise people—like themselves—need to take decisions out of the hands of lesser people, like the rest of us, and impose those decisions by government fiat.”
Source: “Socialist or Fascist?” (2012)
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Do the people protesting the Faber decision on Sally Rooney realise they’re basically arguing to legalise funding of proscribed terrorist groups in the UK? One thing to disagree about proscription of Palestine Action, quite another to argue people should be free to fund terrorism. In my view the issue is how the state makes decisions to proscribe certain organisations, not whether or not people should be free to undertake commercial activity in order to fund terrorist organisations.
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6 years ago I left Lebanon for a normal life with my family in Amsterdam. Today, the terrorist party that destroyed my country and drove me out is glorified on Dam Square.
How is this acceptable in the Netherlands? The suicidal empathy of the European Left makes me sick!
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In 2010, Polish workers cleaned the houses of British professionals. Today, Poland's GDP per capita sits above $43,000 in purchasing power parity terms, level with Spain and closing fast on France. That reversal took roughly one generation. This was deliberate policy, not luck.
Poland ran a flat tax on business income, kept labor markets comparatively flexible, and spent the 1990s dismantling the Soviet pricing apparatus faster than almost any neighbor. Capital read those signals immediately. Volkswagen, Samsung, and hundreds of smaller manufacturers moved production east. Warsaw became a financial hub, not a branch office.
The EU structural funds helped, obviously, pouring +-160 billion euros into Polish infrastructure between 2004 and 2020. Funds alone don't explain the difference. Ukraine received aid too. Poland built what mattered around the money: enforceable contracts, a functioning court system, and a bureaucracy that didn't simply steal the paperwork.
Respect property, enforce contracts, keep inflation credible, and capital flows toward you. Poland did roughly that for thirty years while Germany and France were busy building regulations that made hiring someone feel like adopting them legally.
The housekeepers became engineers, then managers, then founders. Warsaw startup valuations crossed 50 billion euros in aggregate by 2024. Polish engineers now earn salaries that make relocating to London feel irrational rather than mandatory.
Wealth is produced where producers are left alone to produce it. Poland left them alone just enough.
Another 10 years of this and people from the UK will be cleaning the houses of professionals in Poland.
karldeeter ⭐ retweeted
Euro area annual #inflation up to 3.8% in September 2026 ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web…
ALT Annual inflation rates (%) in September 2026
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Second episode of my new podcast with @cormaclucey available on the usual platforms. (See links in replies). We discuss the public sector pay dispute and whether RTE is biased, among other topics.
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In 2001, the Swiss implemented fiscal rules to avoid big government expansion. They want smaller government and wealthier individuals. They are pro business, pro growth and pro investment. They seek to attract wealthy individuals and highly skilled people.
Taxes as a percentage of GDP sits at 27%. Vs France/Germany and UKs 35%+. No CGT, Lower dividend and Corp taxes, no IHT.
If the anti-wealth brigade were correct about how the economy works, Switzerland would be descending into a hellscape by now. According to @garyseconomics we should be seeing people starving and freezing in Switzerland.
Instead it’s high tax France, Germany and UK with civil unrest and widening poverty. It’s almost as if wealth is actually a good thing.
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The Trump administration announced sanctions against the International Criminal Court on Friday, saying the U.S. would ban transactions with the court and cut off its resources over concerns about potential prosecutions of Americans.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that the U.S. would continue efforts to dismantle the court unless its concerns were addressed, declaring, “Either the I.C.C will end its threats, or we will end the I.C.C.”
karldeeter ⭐ retweeted
The Islamic Revolution in Europe has begun.
This is France. Today, we see the same scenes in Berlin. Every day, these hordes waving the Arab National Socialist flags of Palestine grow larger.
In Iran, it took roughly two years to go from this stage to complete chaos and the establishment of the Islamic Republic. We saw the same symbolism, the same flags, and heard the exact same slogans.
Brace yourselves.