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Elon Musk’s X platform fueled far-right riots in Ireland, experts say
4Dec By adminNo Comments
Money

Elon Musk’s X platform fueled far-right riots in Ireland, experts say

Elon Musk's social media platform X has fueled far-right disinformation in Ireland and played a key role in riots last month in the country's capital Dublin, experts tell CBS News. The violent clashes erupted on Nov. 23 between about 200 civilians and riot police in central Dublin as demonstrators vented rage after a stabbing incident that left multiple people wounded earlier in the day, including a 5-year-old girl who was hospitalized with serious injuries. False reports circulating on social media had suggested the stabbings were carried out by an illegal immigrant. The assailant was in fact a naturalized Irish citizen originally from Algeria. The violence, which saw a tram and a bus set on fire and stores looted, was partially incited by far-right local actors with significant followin...
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Shane MacGowan, longtime frontman of The Pogues, dies at 65, family says
30Nov By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

Shane MacGowan, longtime frontman of The Pogues, dies at 65, family says

Celtic folk-punk singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan, the beloved chain-smoking, hard-drinking longtime frontman of The Pogues, has died at the age of 65, his wife Victoria Mary Clarke said in an Instagram post on Thursday."I don't know how to say this so I am just going to say it. Shane who will always be the light that I hold before me and the measure of my dreams and the love of my life and the most beautiful soul and beautiful angel and the sun and the moon and the start and end of everything that I hold dear has gone to be with Jesus and Mary and his beautiful mother Therese," Clarke said. "I am blessed beyond words to have met him and to have loved him and to have been so endlessly and unconditionally loved by him and to have had so many years of life and love and joy and fun and laugh...
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Dublin Riots See Stores Looted, Cars Burned After Children Stabbed
24Nov By adminNo Comments
World

Dublin Riots See Stores Looted, Cars Burned After Children Stabbed

Ireland witnessed its worst civil disorder in decades after rioters marauded through Dublin city center looting shops, and setting buses and police cars on fire in a spate of violence that appeared to be triggered by  a stabbing attack that injured three children, Irish police said Friday that 13 shops were damaged and 34 people arrested following the riots, which followed the attack by an unnamed man outside a school on Thursday afternoon. Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said on Friday that he had not seen such levels of violence “for decades.” He added that it had been caused by a “lunatic, hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Meta Pauses Ads for Users Under 18 in Europe as It Rolls Out Subscriptions
6Nov By adminNo Comments
Technology

Meta Pauses Ads for Users Under 18 in Europe as It Rolls Out Subscriptions

Updated Oct. 30, 2023 9:16 am ETMeta Platforms will stop showing ads to European teens as part of a plan announced Monday to launch subscription-based versions of its social-media products to comply with the continent’s regulations.The plan would temporarily suspend showing ads to all users under the age of 18 in the European Union and parts of Europe that follow EU rules.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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High Camp and High Tragedy in Two Electrifying Off-Broadway Productions
3Nov By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

High Camp and High Tragedy in Two Electrifying Off-Broadway Productions

Snatch Adams, a six-foot-tall walking vagina working as a red-nose clown, would usually be entertaining folks on the vaudevillian “Borsch” Belt comedy circuit—“borsch” as in (a)bort(ion)—but extremists have been closing Planned Parenthoods. There’s certainly not a lot of other things an unemployed, six-foot-tall vagina-clown can do. Start a podcast? Launch a wellness app? Snatch (Becca Blackwell) and their dear friend Tainty McCracken (Amanda Duarte) experience a flicker of confusion, but then the right idea strikes like a period on a day you’re wearing white pants: air a TV talk show called “It’s That Time of the Month,” which mashes together the best of Conan O’Brien, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” and performance artist Carolee Schneemann in her “Interior Scroll” era.Heretofore, the comic and ...
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Ireland’s Tax-Cutting Success Story – WSJ
2Nov By adminNo Comments
Business

Ireland’s Tax-Cutting Success Story – WSJ

By Stephen Moore and Steve ForbesEuropean Union officials and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen are pushing for a global minimum corporate tax, and no wonder. High-tax countries are getting bled to death, while low-tax ones experience stunning growth.Ireland, whose economy grew by 12.5% last year—faster than any other European nation—is one of the greatest tax-cutting success stories of modern times. The Journal recently reported that Ireland is “swimming in money.” It’s a vivid example of the Laffer Curve, which shows that lower tax rates can result in faster growth and higher revenue. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Match Preview – England vs Ireland, Ireland in England 2023, 1st ODI
19Sep By adminNo Comments
Sports

Match Preview – England vs Ireland, Ireland in England 2023, 1st ODI

Big picture: Back to the margins It's no slight on the visitors, honest. But here we are again, all the same. Just as Ireland opened England's international season at Lord's back in June, with a contest so translucent that both teams found themselves peering straight through it towards more pressing matters beyond, so they have returned at this fag-end of the English summer, with the narrative once again marching off into the middle distance.Back in June, the focus for the two squads was England's Ashes bid on the one hand, and Ireland's 50-over World Cup qualification campaign on the other (and we'll come back to that sorry saga in a moment). Now? It's just cricket for the sake of cricket.Three ODIs that, when they were first added to the schedule last year - before the BCCI had got roun...
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