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Futurism: Top Spy Says Tech Corporations Are Closer to Running Entire World Than Governments

Future SocietyThe Industrialists Pot Meet Kettle Top Spy Says Tech Corporations Are Closer to Running Entire World Than Governments Who would know better? By Joe Wilkins Published Dec 17, 2025 7:00 AM EST When it comes to toppling governments from behind the … Continue reading

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Exploring Ireland’s history: UCD Archives. Kathleen McConnell was requested by Eamon de Valera to join the ‘consular staff’ of his tour of America – Occtober 2nd 1919

Kathleen O’Connell was born on 5 October 1888 at Caherdaniel, Co. Kerry, one of eleven children of John O’Connell, farmer, and Mary Ann O’Connell (née O’Sullivan). Educated locally, she emigrated to America in 1904 and trained as a secretary in Chicago. … Continue reading

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Invisible people: Machine(s) behind Anti-Homeless Rhetoric. Comment: Ireland. Sunday Mail concerning McVerry Trust needs major scrutiny moving beyond the PAC and possibly criminalising some of the people who were in key positions. The people who suffer are those who are homeless while greed is exercising its right to power.

It’s Not Just One Anchor: The Machine Behind Anti-Homeless Rhetoric By Erin Wisneski Cynthia Griffith Jocelyn Figueroa | December 1, 2025 | Awareness | Narrative Change Credit Image: © Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts via ZUMA Press This piece exposes the well-funded media and policy ecosystem that reframes … Continue reading

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Grok 4 AI: The Rising fall-out. Sir John Maxwell. Looking for connection to Michael Comyn K.C.

See new posts This letter is from a file in the Eamon De Valera Papers (P150/512) with the title ‘British Documents Re: 1916’. The file consists of intelligence reports and despatches between Irish Command [i.e. successive Commanders-in-Chief of British Forces … Continue reading

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Grok4 AI: Background reading re Michael Comyn KC. It makes it so much easier to read when you get a synopsis like below

The book The Secret Court-Martial Records of the Easter Rising (also published under the title From Behind a Closed Door: Secret Court Martial Records of the 1916 Easter Rising), authored by historian Brian Barton and first released in 2002, compiles … Continue reading

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Courage.Media: Europe’s Christian Path v Anti-Christian Present

Commentary Europe’s Christian Past Meets Europe’s Anti-Christian Present The continent of cathedrals now polices prayer 2 Dec 2025 John Mac Ghlionn View articles Christianity shaped Europe: cathedrals rose before nations, monks preserved learning when marauders burned villages, and the Church became … Continue reading

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Grok 4 AI: Erskine Childers great grandson writes to Michelle Clarke, granddaughter of Michael Comyn KC 2013. Also 4 young men executed around that time.

Erskine Childers great grandson writes to Michelle Clarke, granddaughter of Michael Comyn KC 2013. Can Grok add to the content or find data recorded in newspapers? Dear Michelle Many thanks for your email. I must apologize for the rather lengthy … Continue reading

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The Guardian: China rebuilds its forgotten ‘Auschwitz’ to remember Japan’s brutality. (This article is over 10 years old) but somehow we know little of Japan’s war impact on China.

China  This article is more than 10 years old China rebuilds its forgotten ‘Auschwitz’ to remember Japan’s brutality This article is more than 10 years old As Beijing prepares to hold a massive military parade to mark the end of the … Continue reading

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Grok 4 AI: Michael Comyn KC quote from: Mark Phelan’s 2012 PhD thesis titled Irish Responses to Fascist Italy, 1919-1932 published by the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Either way, few Senators remained on hand to hear the chastisements of Michael Comyn of Fianna Fáil, who, delving back into the annals of British and European history, and without any hint of irony, warned that ‘If parliament neglects its … Continue reading

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Eoin Hickey: “Growing Up in Skryne – A Journey Through the `1950’s. Comment canisgallicus.com: I grew up first on the road to Tara Hill in the Dispensary Residence called Belper in 1963 (first living for 6 months in Belvin Hall, Tara) and then my family moved to Skryne. I knew Mrs Hickey and travelled with her to Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare long ago now.

Skryne in the 1950s See also: Skryne. Growing Up In Skryne – A journey through the nineteen-fifties By Eoin Hickey Source: http://deargrandchildren.org/family/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Growing-Up-In-Skryne-1.pdf The pictures have been titled here and can be found by accessing the above link. The Steeple at Skryne – a … Continue reading

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