There are some blatant lies and misrepresentations here by Ciara Smyth

But she gives an A+ lesson in how establishment figures manipulate data to control public opinion.

Here's a quick thread breaking it down
#RTEUpfront

https://twitter.com/RTEUpfront/status/1749576586377015657

Firstly she says

"The number of international applications are actually tiny"

This is obviously false because 2022 had the highest figures in history with 13,651

But this lie isn't the important part. Its what she says next that's the real manipulation

(1/10) IMMIGRATION THREAD 🧵

The Irish have been relatively insulated from mass migration when compared to other parts of Europe

But now it's becoming more prevalent and people are being called racist for noticing, so what do the other EU countries think about immigration? 🧵 (2) PEW research did a large survey of EU opinions on immigration in 2018, here are some results

As you can see the majority of Europeans 51% want reduced immigration and only 10% want it increased.

NEW THREAD 🧵.

The dumbest things Sam Harris said on @triggerpod with video to back it up.

Everyone's seen his insane support for silencing the truth about Hunters laptop, but most haven't seen the other insane/hypocritical stuff he was saying.

Strap in! Here Sam uses the "Its a private company" argument to justify Trumps ban and says private companies should be able have total freedom of association

Sam however doesn’t agree with his OWN argument and totally contradicts himself. By supporting the Civil rights act

Here is a new THREAD 🧵 proving once and for all how utterly pointless and ineffective covid restrictions have been in Ireland.

This is because we can now compare how two covid waves act with and without restrictions! (1/15) (2/15) Ireland had a wave of covid that began to rise in early March. By the end of the month the positivity rate was 46% the second highest its ever been.

THREAD 🧵 (1/11) Varadkar is telling partial truths and outright fear mongering here to get his way.

He is not defending Ireland he is selling it out!

https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1499373973548765189

(2/11) Firstly I'm not opposed to Ireland having a stronger military to protect our sovereignty and national interests.

Varadkar however wants a stronger military so we can end our 70 year neutrality and have it used by the EU/UN to further its interests whatever they may be

THREAD: AUSTRALIAN COVID MADNESS
Most people have been horrified by the tyrannical madness out of Australia. With politicians and police acting like dictators and their jack booted enforcers

So here is a thread of the craziest most authoritarian things that have happened so far 1: Lets start with perhaps the most sickening of all, Four newborn babies died because they were denied heart surgery because of Covid restrictions.

For a disease with an age of death above life expectancy and >99% survival rate

fee.org/articles/four-…

THREAD(1/21)The media and politicians have started pushing for further restructuring of society because of Climate change. Their climate predictions to justify this are horrifying.

So lets look at the last 50 years of climate predictions and see how they stack up? (2/21) Salt Lake Tribune 1967: ‘Dire famine by 1975.’
Research by Stanford University

(1/6) Short thread on how the #DeltaVariant arrival at this time of year could actually be a positive. Crazy I know but hear me out. Yes it's more transmissible but from the evidnece of our nearest neighbours it's actually far less lethal than previous strains (2/6)Variants that spread easier are usually milder and that seems to be the case. The CFR in UK is 10x less than alpha

The UK almost entirely Delta since late April but deaths/hospitalisations are still low.

Also look at Scotlands case increase and look at its death increase.

(1/8)Must read thread on vaccine passports with sources. Vaccine passports are being touted as a solution to this pandemic by many sources and some countries have even introduced them. (2/8)Covid Vaccines have not been proven to stop you spreading the disease. They stop you alone getting sick. It makes no difference to other people or transmission so why would you force it?