Paul Sweeney

I hope the Tech Broliarchy listens to the workers for all our futures

Britain’s Labour Party needs a new leader who can lead all groups/factions to work together & get the country moving & ultimately rejoin us in Europe too.

Vintage black and white photo of a young child wearing a winter coat and a knitted hat, looking intently towards the camera.

An old black-and-white photo of a woman holding a toddler, flanked by two young children standing in a garden.

27 February 1932 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Leo van den Berg, was born in Rotterdam.

He was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber on 8 August 1942. He perished together with his mother Roza and his siblings Roosje and Max.

AI to half jobs ? Twitter co founder Jack Dorsey’s tech firm Block is to half its workforce thanks to AI. He says other firms using AI will soon follow

Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case Migrant workers alleged they were subjected to abusive treatment in a Malaysian factory for Dyson.

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#Trump family to sell Truth Social it’s far right social media company to make a load a money and invest in nuclear fusion with Big Tech oligopoly #Google

#Deloitte has received huge sums from US govt for its anti-immigrant consultants per FT

The ideological implications of China’s economic success This essay is a (modest) attempt to look at the meaning of China’s experience as the country is being poised to become this year or the next, according to the official World Bank classification, a hig...

The ideological implications of China’s economic success
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Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.

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Danish PM calls an early election seeking ‘Greenland bounce’ Mette Frederiksen hopes to profit from her stand against Donald Trump’s attempt to claim the Arctic territory

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Greece has a statute of limitations of 15-20 years for crimes.

This prosecution is a waste of time and simply a smear on someone who opposes Israel.

Deutche Bank paid out $225m in Epstein fines & settlements over a #Russian money laundering scheme. The bank rolled out the red carpet for him. The rich look after each other. Time for change!

Deutche Bank regularly paid out lots of money $875,000 to pay off “foreign models”during the 6 years it handled Epstein’s finances!

It is disappointing that Christine Legar governor of the ECB Europe’s bank regulator is accepting more money than was published in its annual report and is getting pay from another bank. on top of her French pensions, then we see that the Deutsche bank rolled out the red carpet for Jeffrey Epstein.

Let’s hope #Orban is thrown out!

Privatised money money healthcare in US ! Stay away from Europe! But we’ll help your citizens

Rolls-Royce urges UK government to commit to subsidies for £3bn engine project per FT. All state handouts must get a quid pro quo for taxpayers eg on climate change etc

Who are the key players in the Irish farming lobby? Irish farmers, with the support of the Government, have had some big wins in recent times.

I disagree because irish farmers would lose out on Mercouser& taxpayers may demand that they pay for all the state quangos like Bord Bia, Teagasc etc not workers! thathttps://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0222/1559755-irish-agri-organisations/

London was set a target of building 88,000 new homes pa over the next decade. In 2025 building started on just 5,891 — 94 per cent below target, a 75 per cent year-on-year decline, the steepest drop in the country, the lowest in 40 years and lowest in any major city in developed world this century.

Pentagon aggressively lobbies EU against Buy European weapons push In previously unreported remarks, the U.S. administration warned Brussels that it will retaliate if Europeans “strong-arm American companies out of the market.”

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Why Is Trump Dumping East Wing Rubble in a Public Park? The East Potomac Golf Links is a municipal course that has been a fixture in Washington for decades. President Trump is turning it into something else.

President Trump is using East Potomac Park in Washington as a dumping ground for the remains of the East Wing. He also wants to turn its affordable golf course into a luxury destination. “It’ll be a real loss for a lot of people in the city,” a local resident said.

Mary L Trump (@marytrump) Let’s turn the page on Presidents’ Day

For President's Day, Donald posted a picture of himself trying to look tough (he looked like my grandmother, but she never wore that much makeup), and this quote:

"I was the hunted. Now I’m the hunter."

Another reason to stop celebrating this holiday.

Corruption aids de -Regulation of EU skies. Top EU transport official allowed Qater Airlines into EU open skies after favours ( per FT). Unions & airline bosses not happy with this. Reverse it now.

This should enrage the economic Fool Trump:-Ireland exported more than twice as much goods last year to the US it’s important €3 .5 billion as against €1.7 billion in imports

My take on the EU’s Dragi Report

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Fintan O’Toole: For Sinn Féin, Tiocfaidh ár lá is being replaced by Turn the Other Cheek Sinn Féin is rightly proud of republicanism’s role in the fight against fascism in Spain. So why is it now opposing assistance for Ukraine?

Neutrality has to be reviewed by real Progressives in the New World Order:- For Sinn Féin, Tiocfaidh ár lá is being replaced by Turn the Other Cheek

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Fintan O'Toole: Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson will go down in history as crawlers and creeps If we want to understand why democracy is in such trouble, we can learn plenty from the careers of two men who were once stellar figures in democratic politics

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Brexit means Britain exited EU ! Come back fully or not at all!