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TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
TWENTY BILLION DOLLARS IN RUSSIAN OIL ASSETS AND GUESS WHOSE FRIENDS ARE FIRST IN LINE
Lukoil is selling off its international empire. Oil fields. Refineries. Gas stations spanning the globe. Valued at twenty billion dollars
Who's bidding. A guy named Todd Boehly who personally handed Trump's political operation two million dollars
Standing next to him. Investors out of Abu Dhabi controlled by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed
The same sheikh who just bought a massive stake in Steve Witkoff's company. Witkoff. Trump's handpicked envoy supposedly negotiating peace, not profit
Then there's Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Business partners with the Qatari al-Khayyat brothers. The same brothers circling this exact deal
Donald Trump waives sanctions on Russia days before they take effect. No explanation given to the public. None
And the people positioned to cash in on that exact decision are his son-in-law's business partners, his envoy's new investor, and a two-million-dollar donor
Ukraine loses territory and leverage. Americans lose a law their own Congress passed to choke Putin's war machine
Mitch McConnell objects. Susan Collins objects. Republicans objects. Doesn't matter. Trump signs it anyway
Putin's own envoy is on Telegram calling this a historic moment. He's not wrong. Historic for who gets rich
Frozen Russian reserves. Pipeline access. Investment projects. All of it opening up right as Trump's inner circle lines up at the door
This isn't foreign policy. This is a liquidation sale with Trump's family and friends holding the only invitations
And every ordinary American paying more at the pump gets to watch Trump's in-laws get richer off the deal that caused it
Remember this the next time they tell you sanctions relief is about diesel prices
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
Why is Stephen Nolan refusing to talk about Jeffrey Donaldson?
He banged on for years about Bobby Storys funeral. He's been banging on about Michelle O'Neill for weeks now every single day on his show, yet he refuses to talk about a much bigger story in Jeffrey Donaldson. For months his line was 'No no no we can't talk about that as there's a live case ongoing' - fair enough but since his conviction he refuses to let the public call in and give their opinion. He has grilled absolutly NOBODY in the DUP about who knew what in terms of his hidden life in London, drinking, gay saunas.
His complete and obvious avoidance of the Jeffrey subject really is just plain weird to me. I can’t help but think he has a hidden life himself perhaps? ..
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.” — George Orwell, 1984
Defense contractors & their powerful lobby will never be satisfied with simply aiding the U.S. in building a strong military that is prepared for war.
The nature of the industry’s existence is not patriotism, but endless conflict. War is their business model—a perpetual state of war ensures a perpetual demand for their products.
Until we address this issue, we will continue to be subjected to forever wars that only serve the defense contractors—and the warmongering interests wealthy enough to rent the defense contractors.
Stop spilling American blood for profit.
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
Tonight was one of those nights that left us speechless. 💔
There are very few nights on our soup run that truly leave us lost for words, but tonight was one of them.
The sheer number of people, the desperation on their faces, and the overwhelming need for something as basic as a hot meal was heartbreaking to witness.
At one stage, the pressure on our queue became so intense that the rope barrier came down and people surged forward towards the food tables. Our volunteers struggled to regain control, and having to ask people to step back, knowing how desperately they needed food, was absolutely heartbreaking.
We even had to warn that we might have to stop serving if we couldn't restore order. Imagine having to say those words to people who are simply hungry.
Tonight wasn't about people being difficult. It was about desperation. It was about hunger. It was about people struggling to survive.
And that is what has stayed with us tonight.
Despite everything, we made sure that every single person received a hot meal, a bag of food and essential supplies to help them through. Nobody was left without.
Tonight, we had 450 hot meals, along with fresh vegetables, bananas, apples, oranges, yoghurts, fresh bread, brown bread, sandwiches, pastries and plenty of other goodies. Our tea and coffee station was also kept busy throughout the evening.
A very special thank you to the Traveller Women's Sheds, who kindly donated all the beautiful treats from our wonderful coffee morning together earlier today. We brought everything down to our tea and coffee station, and our homeless friends thoroughly enjoyed every last bit. ❤️
But tonight has left us with a very real worry.
How much longer can we continue to meet this growing need? How many more people are going to find themselves depending on soup runs just to eat?
We know we are not alone. Across Dublin, other soup runs and homeless outreach groups are undoubtedly witnessing the same struggles, the same hunger and the same desperation.
We cannot do this without your generosity, your donations and your continued support.
Tonight reminded us, perhaps more than ever, why we do what we do. But it also reminded us just how frightening the level of need has become.
These are human beings. They deserve dignity, compassion and the basic right to food.
We went home tonight knowing everyone had been fed, but with heavy hearts, wondering what tomorrow will bring.
From all of us at Muslim Sisters of Éire, thank you for helping us continue to be there. ❤️
#MuslimSistersOfEire #MSOE #HomelessnessIreland #DublinHomeless #SoupRun #FoodPoverty #HumanityFirst #CompassionInAction #CommunitySupport #NoOneShouldGoHungry msoe.ie/donate/
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
En el Cross de Navarra en Burlada en el año 2012, el corredor olímpico keniano Abel Mutai 🇰🇪 lideraba la prueba con solvencia. Sin embargo, al llegar a la recta final, se confundió con las señales del recorrido y se detuvo unos metros antes de la línea de meta pensando que ya había ganado. Justo detrás venía el corredor español Iván Fernández 🇪🇸. En lugar de aprovechar el despiste para adelantarlo y quedarse con la victoria, Iván frenó, se puso detrás de Mutai y comenzó a hacerle señas y empujarlo suavemente hacia la verdadera línea de meta para que ganara la carrera.
Al terminar, un periodista se acercó a Iván y le preguntó admirado:
- ¿Por qué hiciste eso? ¡Podrías haber ganado!
Iván respondió:
- Él era el verdadero ganador. La victoria era suya, no mía.
El periodista insistió:
- Pero podrías haber ganado tú...
Iván lo miró y dijo:
- ¿Pero cuál sería el mérito de mi victoria? ¿Cuál sería el honor de esa medalla? ¿Qué pensaría mi madre de ello?
En un mundo obsesionado con ganar a toda costa, la honestidad y la empatía valen más que cualquier trofeo. No pienses solo en llegar primero; piensa en cómo decides correr el camino.
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
🇫🇷Βασικά τι έχει γίνει σήμερα. Στο Παρίσι όπου ο κόσμος κατεβαίνει στους δρόμους κατά χιλιάδες, η γενική διεύθυνση της στρατοχωροφυλακής θέλησε να υποχρεώσει τους διαδηλωτές να ακολουθήσουν τη διαδρομή της πορείας που θα τους υπεδείκνυε ώστε στο τέλος οι στρατοχωροφύλακες να τους στριμώξουν και να τους διαλύσουν με τη γνωστή καταστολή.
Ομως όσοι ήταν αποφασισμένοι να κατέβουν στους δρόμους συνεννοήθηκαν αυτή τη φορά εκτός κοινωνικών δικτύων και κάνουν... "ντου" απο παντού στη γαλλική πρωτεύουσα με αποτέλεσμα η στρατοχωροφυλακή να τα έχει χάσει όπως και την ψυχραιμία της!
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
If the EU had any balls, 27 Ambassadors in Tel Aviv would be recalled tonight to their national capitals for consultations.
Tonight. Not tomorrow.
Netanyahu disputes settler attack on EU diplomats, alleging smear campaign haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-1…
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
Una catástrofe agroindustrial sacude el corazón rural de los Estados Unidos en plena temporada de recolección: más de 100 mil trabajadores agrícolas de origen mexicano iniciaron una masiva caravana de retorno a su patria. La caravana que ha tomado por sorpresa a los dueños de las megagranjas, ha provocado un vacío laboral que tiene a la industria de cultivos al borde de la quiebra en plena temporada de recolección.
#LatinoAmerica
#Mexico
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
🇫🇷🇵🇸 DU JAMAIS VU — Un maire français roué de coups par des colons israéliens cagoulés en Cisjordanie occupée. Bernard Baudoux, maire communiste d'Aulnoye-Aymeries (Nord), accompagnait une délégation de diplomates européens.
L'attaque a lieu ce samedi 17 octobre à Taybeh, village chrétien près de Ramallah. Des diplomates français, belges et polonais rencontraient de cueilleurs d'olives palestiniens. À 78 ans, Bernard Baudoux est retrouvé prostré au sol, adossé à un véhicule. Ses jours ne sont pas en danger (AFP).
📍Israël condamne une attaque d'« émeutiers ». Pourtant, la veille, une journaliste américaine était elle aussi frappée par des colons alors qu'elle couvrait des violences contre des agriculteurs palestiniens.
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
Cooper: "We did not get involved in any of the offensive action on Iran"
US planes were taking off from British bases to bomb Iran & Keir Starmer boasted that within 2hrs of the war starting RAF pilots were shooting down Iranian missiles. Does that sound like not being involved?
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
Wonderful cloudy skies here this morning, like watercolour paintings, and proper rain showers.
(from my photo archive)
Hope you enjoy your day whatever comes your way x
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
Brilliant work by cartoonist @BJennings90, perfectly capturing the absurdity of counter-terror policing in the UK. #SallyRooney #SarahHelm
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
Russia has been cut off from CNN, CBS, ABC Pornhub, Facebook...
US is working depriving Russians of McDonalds, Coca-Cola and US fastfood.
If they continue with these sanctions and Russian people will probably be the most healthiest, well adjusted, spiritual and well informed people on the planet.
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
🔴 New investigation from me: Westminster Synagogue boasts of sending thousands of medical kits “directly to soldiers” and of being “in direct contact with the IDF” — and, on the same list, asks for money to feed, wash and lodge “200 elite unit soldiers.”
The Charity Commission has already called that class of activity unlawful for a registered charity. Read the full investigation, exclusively via @mintpressnews at the link below:
🔴 New investigation: Westminster Synagogue boasts of sending thousands of medical kits “directly to soldiers” and of being “in direct contact with the IDF” — and, on the same list, asks for money to feed, wash and lodge “200 elite unit soldiers.” The Charity Commission has already called that class of activity unlawful for a registered charity.
Read the full investigation by David Miller (@Tracking_Power) exclusively via the following link: mintpressnews.com/revealed-t…
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
Have I got this right?
The UK has a Green Party leader who is Jewish stating that Zionism IS racism & Labour Party leader who claims this is not only wrong but also makes the accusation that this is anti-Semitism.
Those slaughtered in the name of Zionism are victims of racism.
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
Frédéric Chopin est enterré au Père-Lachaise, à Paris. Son cœur, lui, est à Varsovie, dans un bocal d'alcool scellé dans un pilier d'église.
Ce compositeur polonais, mort à Paris le 17 octobre 1849, avait un père français.
Nicolas Chopin naît en 1771 à Marainville, un village des Vosges. À 16 ans, il part pour la Pologne.
Son fils Frédéric naît près de Varsovie, en 1810.
À 21 ans, il s'installe à Paris. Il ne reverra jamais la Pologne.
En 1835, il obtient la nationalité française. Il voyage désormais avec un passeport français.
La tuberculose le ronge. Il meurt place Vendôme, vers 2 heures du matin, à 39 ans.
Il avait peur d'être enterré vivant. Il a demandé qu'on ouvre son corps, et que son cœur rentre en Pologne.
Sa sœur Ludwika l'emporte à Varsovie. La légende dit qu'elle l'a caché sous sa robe pour passer la frontière.
Le cœur est scellé dans un pilier de l'église Sainte-Croix.
En 1944, pendant l'insurrection de Varsovie, les SS s'en emparent. Il finit la guerre caché dans un presbytère, hors de la ville.
Il retrouve son pilier le 17 octobre 1945. 96 ans jour pour jour après la mort de Chopin.
En 2014, des médecins l'examinent en secret, sans ouvrir le bocal. Il n'a jamais été ouvert.
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
The youth give me hope…
“Just because the government has screwed up doesn’t mean you should destroy the dreams of young people.”
— The Pink Panther protest in France 🇫🇷
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
Hidden deep in the wooded limestone banks of the River Liffey at Lucan, the Hermitage Cave has captured local imagination for centuries, so much so that the townland itself took its name from this curious grotto. The golf club was founded here in 1905.
What today looks like an inconspicuous outcrop of grey limestone covered in ivy, was once the focal point of stories that tied the landscape to the high romance and violence of medieval knightly lore.
Hermitage Cave is really two small caverns set into a crag overlooking the river. The larger one, dubbed the Hermit’s Cell, runs some three or four metres deep, ending abruptly in a grotto of flowstone and calcite drapery that glints in your torchlight. The smaller, scarcely a metre deep, is less hospitable with an almost square cut, door-like entrance.
Local legend says a solitary hermit once made his home here, perhaps in atonement or maybe in search of divine revelation. In the 19th century Schools’ Collection, old tellers remembered that a knight, having lived in the nearby Hermitage House, withdrew to this woodland retreat after some great sorrow or scandal, becoming the Hermit of the Liffey.
Another tale known locally is The Legend of the Five Knights and the Beautiful Maiden. According to tradition, a gallant knight and his beloved maiden of noble birth, fled together to the Hermitage woods to escape an enforced match.
Four suitors were dispatched by her enraged father to bring her back. They overtook the lovers near the Hermit’s Cell and a duel ensued. “Come one by one,” the knight declared, as was custom in those chivalric ages and in most modern martial arts films.
One by one the pursuers politely fell until, by the river’s edge, five gallant knights lay dead. Hope she was worth it lads. From their graves, five graceful lime trees sprang up, marking their honoured resting places still visible along what is now the 11th fairway of Hermitage Golf Club.
The maiden’s own fate was equally botanic and poetic. Beside the river where she died of shock or heartbreak, a single whitethorn once grew, slender and white.
Obviously these archetypes fit within older Irish folklore cycles than actual medieval history. Its a rip off Fenian cycle’s “The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne” and the Ulster cycle’s “Deirdre of the Sorrows”. In fact the medieval European romance of Tristan and Iseult, left its mark linguistically on the landscape just east of Lucan in Chapelizod as Séipéal Iosóid comes from “Iseult’s Chapel”.
TheRanting Lunatic retweeted
Tired of this bullshit now.
Zionism is not Judaism. Zionists are not even necessarily Jewish. Zionism is a political position. A great many Jews worldwide disagree with that political position.
The right of the Labour Party has spent more than 10 years weaponising antisemitism for political ends, irrespective of the harm it has caused, including to the anti-Zionist Jews you threw out of your party.
You are the antisemites. Not the Greens.
Get in the bin.
Labour is absolutely right to end Coalition agreements with the Greens where they support 'Zionism is Racism'.
We will not stand with antisemites. No form a racism is acceptable.
The Prime Minister is right to rule out working with the Green Party.
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