Is deacair a chreidiúint go bhfuil bliain imithe ón lá a síneadh an conradh fealltach sin leis an Troika – an IMF/ECB/EU, an ‘bailout’ mar a ghlaotar air go minic. Rinneadh an conradh sin idir an Taoiseach, an tAire Airgeadais agus an Troika ar son muintir na hÉireann – ní raibh aon réamheolais, fiú ag [...]
“Our Sovereignty is Gone” – No it is not!
November 8, 2011
Even though our rights are being stripped at every level, and our resources have been sold off, and we are enslaved to an avaricious financial system which cares nothing for our future – we are still a Sovereign people. It is still our right to direct the affairs of our state, it is the right [...]
Gallagher – the Dragon Emerges from his Lair
October 24, 2011
What about Seán Gallagher, former National Executive member of Fianna Fáil, looking like favourite in Presidential election? The business and corporate ethos remains to the fore. “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini It is not proven that these words were every [...]
Constitutional Ammendments 29 & 30
October 20, 2011
Two amendments to our Constitution, Bunreacht na hÉireann have been included in the voting next Thursday, thefuture Initiative advocates a NO vote. The following article was issued by Kathy Sinnott, we feel it explains the case: For what it is worth, looking at the Irish Constitution (our rights and limits on government necessary to safeguard them) [...]
Shameful neglect of ‘Special Needs’ highlighted
October 3, 2011
A packed meeting last week heard upsetting stories from hard pressed parents, teachers and Special Needs Assistants (SNA). These normally silent and voiceless people suffer from services withdrawn by the previous government and again by the current FG/Labour coalition. The effect of these cuts has been to deprive children of their rights as equal citizens. [...]
More on welfare ‘Fraud’, the values are bogus.
September 17, 2011
We have condemned Minister Burton’s Campaign Against Welfare Fraud as being a witch-hunt against the weakest in our society. She is appealing to the basest intellect – encouraging neighbours to spy on each other and criminalising masses of citizens who are already victims of continued corrupt political and economic systems. She has quoted millions of [...]
Burton’s Campaign Against Social Welfare Fraud
September 15, 2011
Joan Burton’s anti-fraud campaign is encouraging us to report anyone suspected of making false or improper welfare claims. She says that there are hundreds of millions being recovered in this campaign and that this year so far they have received over 8,500 anonymous tips from members of the public. It is a curious thing for [...]
Talk Talk scandal reveals conflicting interests
September 13, 2011
The people of Waterford are to lose a further 575 jobs. Talk Talk announced closure last week giving only one months notice to staff – the minimum possible – even though some have 10 years service. Some workers were left to hear the news through social media or news reports as they were not present [...]
Deepening crisis demands a new type of response
September 5, 2011
The news this past week has been grim, the crisis is deepening. We have ever increasing numbers unemployed, continuing emigration, more families facing mortgage crisis and more cutbacks in essential services. These problems in our society are causing untold destruction to the lives of individuals, families and whole communities. The domestic economy continues to contract [...]
Fiach Mac Conghail – Tadhg an dá thaobh?
July 20, 2011
In an article in today’s Irish Times Fiach Mac Conghail outlines a number of political reforms that he supports, in a hands-off sort of way. The ideas are put out in the guise that this is what the We The Citizens group and their own commissioned MRBI pole discovered – ideas that the government are [...]
Revolutions of the past still talk to us
July 19, 2011
Someone has asked why we should bother looking at history at all, wouldn’t we be better focusing on the future? We do not look at history for reasons of nostalgia or wishing that we might repeat what was done before, but correcting any ‘mistakes’. Our focus is, and should be, on the future, on finding [...]
US Independence wasn’t just a ‘good idea’, it was required
July 6, 2011
These days Americans, at least those connected with the USA, are called upon to celebrate their independence as a free state and as a sovereign people. This is a proper thing indeed because freedom and sovereignty are very precious things to any nation. But why is there a reluctance in the case of the USA? [...]
Would Positive Discrimination bring some benefit?
March 20, 2011
The new government has declared that it will abolish the Seanad and that it wants just one ‘house’ in the Oireachtas, Dáil Éireann. In democratic conditions, where citizens control their own assembly of representatives, and consequently are the decision makers in the society, there would be no need for anything more than a single assembly or [...]
Should troubled mortgage holders stop paying the banks?
November 16, 2010
Such a question usually draws gasps of “you must be realistic” or “oh you don’t understand anything, do you” from the well paid ‘experts’ in economics and politics – because such a suggestion is contrary to the basic principles on which our economy is organised and which pays the wages of these ‘experts’. But, given the systemic [...]
“Yes, we are all different”, they say – the lie is admitted!
October 29, 2010
All of the Cartel parties have confirmed that their policy on the economy is the same, what else matters? We have already seen their attitude towards democracy itself, especially so in the re-run of the Lisbon referendum last year. Download .PDF image of the published A4 leaflet here… Yes-we-are-all-different.pdf The Cartel are all now in agreement on the [...]
Should we withdraw from the bond and currency markets?
October 13, 2010
The big powers consider the currency crisis This past weekend the IMF & G20 failed to agree on currency policy and broke up leaving continued uncertainty on the management of currency markets worldwide. China, which holds nearly $2.5 trillion in its currency reserves, is resisting ongoing pressure to revalue its own currency, which would ease pressure on [...]
Lisbon Treaty: Lack of democracy is still the issue.
October 2, 2010
They keep telling us what to do! In 2002 we were brought back to vote a 2nd time on the Nice Treaty, we were told we got it wrong and had to say “Yes”. Last year we had to go back again and re-vote on Lisbon, again, to get it right … we were told by [...]
The vested interests persist with plunder!
September 29, 2010
William Slattery, left. The merry dance continues … In the past few days another ‘independent’ commentator, with clear vested interests, said we should cut 30,000 jobs in the Public service. First dancers, take the floor … William Slattery, National Competitiveness Council member, advisor to An Bórd Snip Nua, and head of the US finance [...]
Planning for sustainable economy in Ireland …
September 17, 2010
The first point about economic planning in Ireland is that it should be done in the service of the Irish people. It will not shock very many if we suggest that this is not currently the case; our economy is geared completely in the service of foreign finance monopolies and large scale industry, the multinational [...]
What do you think – is this the way forward?
September 10, 2010
The economic and political crisis seems to deepen on a daily basis now, there is no shortage of fresh scandal or insult upon insult to the people. Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned, in Ireland our ‘rulers’ are on the fiddle too. Why do we sit on the ditch while the hurling is [...]
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