Getting rid of fossil fuels is a terrible idea. It wouldn’t do anything for the climate and you couldn’t power any substantial electric grid without them. The world needs affordable and reliable energy ? https://www.heritage.org/energy/report/powering-human-advancement-why-the-world-needs-affordable-and-reliable-energy
,1,The Left wants to control everything from what your children are taught, to what kind of car you drive, and even the kind of stove you’re allowed to cook with. The American people sent them a clear message this November: leave me alone.
,1,If the Senate cannot ensure prompt consideration for President-elect Trump’s cabinet nominees, he has other tools he can use, like recess appointments, consistent with the law and the Constitution.
,1,Getting rid of fossil fuels is a terrible idea. It wouldn’t do anything for the climate and you couldn’t power any substantial electric grid without them. The world needs affordable and reliable energy ? https://www.heritage.org/energy/report/powering-human-advancement-why-the-world-needs-affordable-and-reliable-energy
,1,"There are people who are on the internet purposefully looking for children to tell them, 'Yes, you can be another gender if you want to.'"
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,1,The story of how Dublin and Ireland has transformed from one of Europe's poorest countries to one of its wealthiest--an improbable rise in just 30 years.
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Healthcare system overhaul https://rb.gy/dh6zia
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Ireland's wind export potential https://rebrand.ly/7qfbjge
European wind generation by country https://rebrand.ly/5pubvqq
Demographics of Ireland (Population and Immigration) https://rebrand.ly/pvxnt7z
Americans with Irish descent https://t.ly/VLNXe
Welcome to Dublin 0:00
Geography of Dublin 0:36
Vikings settle Ireland 0:53
English take control 1:04
Irish Rebellion 1:30
Partition of Ireland 2:19
Troubles 2:36
Good Friday Agreement 3:10
Economic Boom 3:27
Brexit bonus 4:12
Tax Haven 4:22
US Corporations 5:01
High living standards 5:22
Wind energy potential 6:10
Guinness 6:54
Loses 1/2 population 7:05
31.5 Million Irish Americans 7:22
Immigrants in Ireland 7:37
Script:
The capital of the only native English-speaking country in the European Union is considered one of the most liveable and richest places in the world, but this success is a very recent phenomenon. For a millennium this rocky island was occupied by Vikings, then the English. Independence only came a century ago, and peace less than 25 years ago after the end of a decades-long low-level war with its neighbor to the north.
This is Dublin, Ireland.
On a bay where the River Liffey flows into the sea lies Ireland’s prime city, with a metropolitan population of 1.26 million, four times as large as Cork, the country’s second-largest metro area, 215 kilometers to the southwest.
In 841 seafaring Vikings established a fortified base that grew into a substantial port and commercial center. In 1169 the Anglo-Normans invaded Ireland and for the next 750 years English Kings and Queens controlled the island. Dublin Castle, first founded in 1204, was the nerve center of the crown’s power here.
Under the Protestant English the Catholic Irish were oppressed. Their land rights and ability to self-govern were stripped away. Influenced by the American and French Revolutions, Ireland’s push for independence began in earnest in the spring of 1798 when rebel leader Wolfe Tone led peasants against the highly trained redcoats in a prolonged campaign of battles throughout the island. Although it was ultimately snuffed out, for the next 125 years it inspired a series of agitations and uprisings against the British that extracted more and more rights for the Irish. A group of Irish rebels declared Independence in 1916, withstood six years of violent struggle with the empire by riding a growing wave of nationalist support, and ultimately won the right to self-government.
But the island’s 6 northernmost counties with a Protestant majority chose to remain in the United Kingdom as a separate country called Northern Ireland. This was unacceptable to the Catholic majority in the South who wanted the entire island to be a unified free Republic. So a force calling themselves the Irish Republican Army launched a guerilla campaign of armed resistance against the British and the North focused on its capital, Belfast. This period, known as The Troubles, lasted for three decades, with violence spilling south into parts of the Republic and even across the sea in England.
Finally, everyone had had enough, and peace was achieved with the Good Friday agreement.
Between 1995 and 2000 growth averaged an astounding 9.4%, and stayed strong at 5.9% per year until 2008. This dramatic rise meant Irish incomes surged past every other European Country except tiny Luxembourg
But the biggest key to Dublin’s turnaround may be its ridiculously low headline corporate tax rate that stood - as of 2023 - at 12.5%, compared to 29.9% in Germany, 25.8% in France and the Netherlands, and 25% in Spain and Turkey.
But for lawmakers in Dublin, transforming into one of the world's largest tax havens was a brilliant move at the end of The Troubles, with U.S.–controlled multinationals now making up twenty-five of the top 50 businesses in Ireland, including the EU headquarters of giants Pfizer, Microsoft, Google, and Apple.
For example, every Irish has access to low-cost public healthcare, and leaders from every major political party are united in undertaking an ambitious transition to a universal system - Sláintecare.
wind power, which now makes up 36% of Ireland’s electricity generation, the second-highest ratio in Europe. A new electricity interconnector with France is coming online in 2026
,1,A bill that would limit which bathrooms transgender people can use moved one step closer to the governor's desk.
The Florida House passed a bill that would require people to use the public bathroom of their sex at birth. That would apply to areas like educational institutions, healthcare facilities, or any place deemed public under law including lodging, restaurants, or gas stations.
Lawmakers who approved it said this is about protection and safety.
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,1,Getting rid of fossil fuels is a terrible idea. It wouldn’t do anything for the climate and you couldn’t power any substantial electric grid without them. The world needs affordable and reliable energy ? https://www.heritage.org/energy/report/powering-human-advancement-why-the-world-needs-affordable-and-reliable-energy