“It’s A Powder Keg”: Steve Bannon Warns Tucker Ireland’s Post-Stabbing Anti-Immigration Crisis Is “Coming Here, At Scale”

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Tucker Carlson sat down with Steve Bannon to discuss last week’s terrorist incident in Ireland – where an Algerian immigrant went on a stabbing spree in downtown Dublin, attacking five people – including three children. Following the stabbing, anti-immigrant riots broke out across the country over the government’s general pro-immigrant policies.

“Several days ago, a man in his 50s for reasons that are still not clear stabbed five people outside a school in Dublin, Ireland, including three children, and then almost immediately after, parts of that City erupted into rioting,” said Carlson, adding “The Washington Post stepped in helpfully to explain, here’s the Tweet The Washington Post sent out quote ‘online rumors claimed the perpetrator of a stabbing attack was an immigrant’.”

“Actually, the man was an immigrant,” Carlson continued. “He was from Algeria and as it turns out he’s been living in Ireland for 23 years at public expense, he has never had a job.”

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Muhammad Was The Most Popular Boy’s Name In Irish City In 2022

Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,

It follows a trend being witnessed across northern Europe following years of mass migration from predominantly Muslim countries…

Muhammad became the most popular boy’s baby name in the Irish city of Galway last yeardata published on Friday by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) revealed.

It is the first time the popular Islamic name has topped the list of baby names in an Irish city, and follows the trend of the U.K. and other European nations that have seen the name top the charts in recent years.

Jack and Noah dominated in other Irish counties, while James made up the top three. All three names retain their places in the top three from last year.

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Ireland’s protests – will Varadkar go full Trudeau?

Guest Post by Gavin O’Reilly

Since Russia began its special military operation in Ukraine almost a year ago, one of the key features of the collective West’s response, alongside sanctions and the expulsion of Russian diplomats, has been the accommodation of refugees fleeing the conflict, with millions of Ukrainians being housed across Europe since last February, including 70,000+ in the 26-County Irish State.

The first question that springs to mind regarding this approach however, is that if it is being done out of genuine concern for those fleeing conflict in Ukraine, then why was it not implemented in 2014 when that war first began?

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Love Letter to Ireland! (and to ALL the Debt-Enslaved Nations of the World)

Guest Post by David Chu

Love Letter to Ireland! (and to ALL the Debt-Enslaved Nations of the World)

How often have the Irish started out to achieve something and every time they have been crushed politically and industrially. By consistent oppression, they have been artificially converted into an utterly impoverished nation.

~ Friedrich Engels, 1856

Look out, Ireland!

Financial debt-bergs, dead ahead!

The Irish “external debt to GDP” ratio is currently at 609%. In December 2010, it was well over 1,000% (1,091.5% to be precise). No other nation on Earth carries this much external debt to its GDP. The United States, the world champion of all debts for sure with an official national debt reaching almost $31 Trillion, only has 104% as its external debt to GDP.

What this means is that Ireland will be fleeced once again, meaning her people will be enslaved financially and economically . . . when interest rates rise. Interest rates are rising significantly and will rise dramatically. Ireland is the poster child of nations in debt slavery and what will happen to those who borrow way beyond their means.

Before we get into the nitty gritty of this unlucky Irish story, I want to state for the record that I am not an economist. Thank God! I am a mechanical engineer by profession and I understand numbers. Numbers don’t usually lie. Well, sometimes numbers can be manipulated. But most of the times, they also can tell the truth. We are going to take a 30,000 feet overview of this increasingly hot and very dangerous situation that is not adequately covered by the mainstream or the alternative media.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Ireland grants a divorce for the first time in the country’s history – 1997

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The Republic of Ireland legally grants a divorce for the first time following a 1995 referendum. The first divorce in Ireland, granted to a terminally ill man who wished to marry his new partner, was a harbinger of the decline of the Catholic Church’s power over the Republic.

The Irish Constitution of 1937 specifically forbade divorce. Though the constitution prohibits the state from adopting an official religion, Ireland is an overwhelmingly Catholic country, and the original document contained many elements of Catholic doctrine. The Church played an outsized role in Irish public life, even by the standards of other heavily Catholic countries. Italy, for example, had legalized divorce by 1970. In 1986, the Irish government put the issue up to a nationwide referendum, but 63.5 percent voted against amending the constitution. A law allowing legal separation passed in 1989. After coming to power in 1994, a “Rainbow Coalition” government composed of center-left parties one again propagated a referendum on amending the constitution to allow divorce.

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Ireland Probes Possible UFO Sighting After Multiple Pilots Report “High Speed, Bright Lights”

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In what sounds like a repeat of the infamous 2004 “Tic Tac Incident”, when a US Navy ship witnessed what looked like a strange, tic tac-shaped object with “no visible means of lift” flying off the coast of California, a UFO sighting by commercial pilots off the coast of Ireland has triggered an investigation by the Irish Aviation Authority, RT reported.

The strange flying vessel was first spotted by a Britsh Airways pilot on Nov. 9 at 6:47 am local time. At the time, the pilot was flying over the southwest coast of Ireland. At the time of the report, the pilot was flying from Heathrow to Montreal, and made a call to Shannon Air Traffic Control to ask if Ireland was conducting military exercises. When they said no, the baffled pilot shared what he had seen.

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In a recording of the call obtained by RT, the pilot can be heard saying they witnessed a “a bright light” that had been flying at a very fast speed beside her plane before it “disappeared at very high speed.”

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Ireland allows sale of contraceptives -1985

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In a highly controversial vote on February 20, 1985, the Irish government defies the powerful Catholic Church and approves the sale of contraceptives.

Up until 1979, Irish law prohibited the importation and sale of contraceptives. In a 1973 case, McGee v. The Attorney General, the Irish Supreme Court found that a constitutional right to marital privacy covered the use of contraceptives. Pressured by strong conservative forces in Irish society, particularly the Roman Catholic Church, the government was slow to change the law to reflect the court’s decision, and a number of proposed bills failed before reaching the books.

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HOW ABOUT THEM APPLES – $14.5 BILLION OF THEM

Concluding a two-year long investigation, the European Commission has ordered Apple to pay up to €13 billion ($14.5 billion) in back taxes for its subsidiaries in Ireland. The Commission argues that Apple received “undue tax benefits” between 2003 and 2014, violating EU state aid rules.

As our chart illustrates, Apple’s provisions for income taxes outside of the United States amounted to just $4.89 billion during said period. According to the European Commission’s statement, the company paid an effective tax rate ranging from 1 percent in 2003 to 0.005 percent in 2014 on its European profits during the time. To put that in perspective, Apple paid an effective tax rate of 26.1 percent in the United States in 2014, with income taxes adding up to almost $60 billion between 2003 and 2014.

Both Apple and Ireland have already denied the Commission’s allegations and announced that they are going to appeal against today’s ruling. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the end, as it may be the first case of a company being ordered to pay back taxes to a government that doesn’t even want the money.

Infographic: Apple's Foreign Tax Payments Since 2003 | Statista
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DOES THIS MAKE SENSE?

As I write this, the U.S. 10 Year Treasury bond is yielding 2.31%. It’s currently at a 16 month low. The Fed has been manipulating interest rates lower since 2010, but they have been dramatically reducing their purchases of Treasuries and Mortgage bonds. The 10 year Treasury yield should be rising, if the economy is truly improving. Instead it is plunging, indicating a recession. Real short term interest rates are already Negative. The entire financial system in the United States is manipulated, warped, and false. The free market does not exist. Everything is controlled and rigged by the Federal Reserve and their Wall Street owners.

Interest rates in a free market are supposed to reflect risk, debt levels and economic growth. Look at the bullet points below. Ireland’s debt levels are off the charts. Their economy is still in a shambles. In a free market only a fool would buy their government bonds. I wouldn’t buy their debt if it was yielding 10%. How could it possibly be yielding 1.63%, far lower than U.S. bonds? Spain is on the verge of revolution. Youth unemployment exceeds 40%. Their economy is a joke. Their debt load is unsustainable. How can their bonds be yielding 2.038%?

Is Ireland, Spain, France and Italy really a safer investment than the U.S.? Of course not. Europe is disintegrating before our very eyes. Germany is plunging into recession. The economic sanctions on Russia are backfiring. Not selling stuff to Russia hurts your economy. It’s going to be a cold winter in Europe, especially when Russia turns off the natural gas.  The EU has papered over their insolvency with trillions of new debt. Pretending there is no risk, doesn’t mean there is no risk.

Interests rates across the globe do not reflect reality. Central Bankers and politicians think they can pull levers and control the global economy. They are sadly mistaken. The unintended consequences of their reckless actions will destroy the world. When all the bubbles implode simultaneously, the anger, discontent, disillusionment, and seeking of the culprits will lead to riots, revolution, and ultimately to war.

None of this makes sense, but the consequences of what these bankers have done will be dire. This will not end well.

  •     IRELAND SELLS 10-YEAR BONDS AT RECORD-LOW YIELD OF 1.63%
  •     GERMAN 10-YEAR BUNDS RISE; YIELD FALLS 2 BASIS POINTS TO 0.88%
  •     DUTCH 10-YEAR GOVERNMENT BOND YIELD DROPS TO RECORD-LOW 1.021%
  •     PORTUGUESE 10-YEAR BOND YIELD DROPS TO RECORD-LOW 2.942%
  •     FRENCH 10-YEAR GOVERNMENT BOND YIELDS DROP TO RECORD-LOW 1.214%
  •     U.S. 10-YEAR NOTE YIELD DROPS TO 2.296%, LOWEST SINCE JUNE 2013
  •     SPANISH 10-YEAR BOND YIELD DROPS TO RECORD-LOW 2.038%
  •     FINNISH 10-YEAR YIELD DROPS TO 1% FOR FIRST TIME ON RECORD