Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The "Green Party"
The Green Party in Ireland are finished. If there were to be an election tomorrow, the party would end up with zero TDs, a position similar to that in which they find themselves at local and urban council level. They know this. Therefore, it is better for them that they stay on in power for the last few months, in order to have a party at all. The ideals on which the party is based have been abandoned, replaced by FF policies as soon as the dollar signs flashed in front of their eyes back in 2007. The Green Party promised many things prior to the election. Among them were the following: a halt to the Corrib Gas project "until a complete, independent inquiry" takes place into the project. The stopping of works on the M3 at the Hill of Tara and the demilitarization of Shannon. Now, personally I'm not too bothered about the last one but it is one of three statements that have proven to be downright lies. The Corrib Gas project is powering along, costing more to the Irish Taxpayer than we will ever see coming back to us. The M3 has rolled along, desecrating 0ne of our truly amazing historical sites. Shannon is, well, Shannon and nothing has changed. The Green Party has however, introduced some wonderful legislation surrounding light bulbs and toilets. On top of this, they have destroyed the car industry and become more corrupt than the corruption kings themselves. We will probably now see an introduction of a carbon tax, probably by means of an extra tax on fuel. This might be fair in a country with a public transport system. However, as someone who lives in Galway and works in Mayo, public transport would mean travelling for 14 hours over two separate days to reach my destination, which is about 60 miles away. I like many others in this country need a car because there is no other alternative. The Greens are now more akin to a piece of six month old broccoli that you unexpectedly find at the back of your cupboard. They are disgusting and rotten to the very core by their surroundings. I, personally, cannot wait for them to be thrown out with the rest of the trash.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
What a Country
Well Ladies and Gentlemen,
Today, you got a pay cut. It may have been worded as a pension levy but the will not console the 30 year old married couples with a mortgage whose pensions are thirty five years away.
Immediately, people whose wages are being cut will cut back on expenses such as broadband, sky etc.
Inevitably, this will further dampen the economy and cause more job losses.
This short sighted attack on wages is an idiotic move by an increasingly desperate looking goverment.
What if, however, there was a way out without cutting people's wages while forging ahead with capital investment projects and infrastructural improvements? Where could one find this magic bullet? Does it even exist?
Yes it does. Off our shores, where billions of euro of fishing rights have been given away to our European neighbours (even the ones in excess of 800 miles away), we have also given away up to 1 trillion euro of our gas and oil. That 2 billion euro of required savings kind of pale into insignificance, doesn't it.
Time to take a stand, minions.
Let it begin.
Today, you got a pay cut. It may have been worded as a pension levy but the will not console the 30 year old married couples with a mortgage whose pensions are thirty five years away.
Immediately, people whose wages are being cut will cut back on expenses such as broadband, sky etc.
Inevitably, this will further dampen the economy and cause more job losses.
This short sighted attack on wages is an idiotic move by an increasingly desperate looking goverment.
What if, however, there was a way out without cutting people's wages while forging ahead with capital investment projects and infrastructural improvements? Where could one find this magic bullet? Does it even exist?
Yes it does. Off our shores, where billions of euro of fishing rights have been given away to our European neighbours (even the ones in excess of 800 miles away), we have also given away up to 1 trillion euro of our gas and oil. That 2 billion euro of required savings kind of pale into insignificance, doesn't it.
Time to take a stand, minions.
Let it begin.
Monday, October 6, 2008
still here
Sorry it's been so long, hi mom, hi dad. That's my readership covered.
Over the last few weeks I have watched with great amusement as this country has gone into meltdown. It's been compulsive viewing to say the least. A lot of birds have come home to roost.
Did anyone really believe that American corporations were going to wait here long term when things started to go bonkers? Yes you did because you're morons. 98% of the population in this country are. Thankfully, I'm in the minority in this case.
If anyone has been paying attention to my blog, you'll have noticed that I have predicted the future on more than one occassion now.
It's a gift I guess.
Anyway, screw the lot of ye. You're getting what you deserve.
Over the last few weeks I have watched with great amusement as this country has gone into meltdown. It's been compulsive viewing to say the least. A lot of birds have come home to roost.
Did anyone really believe that American corporations were going to wait here long term when things started to go bonkers? Yes you did because you're morons. 98% of the population in this country are. Thankfully, I'm in the minority in this case.
If anyone has been paying attention to my blog, you'll have noticed that I have predicted the future on more than one occassion now.
It's a gift I guess.
Anyway, screw the lot of ye. You're getting what you deserve.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Hunger Striking with an end in sight?
When one applies for planning permission in this country (when an individual without masses of money, I mean), they may ask a politician to put in a good word. Last year I managed to gain a meeting with a planner to discuss an application I submitted with my wife. She also asked some local politicians for some help but after the meeting with the planner we were assured all was ok. Imagine our surprise then, when some months later, the two local eejits came back and said they had dropped a few kind words for us and we would be successful. After we already were. After I had talked to a planner who hadn't even been approached at that stage anyway.
My point is that politicians often come out to speak about issues or talk of topics when they know they're on the way to being solved.
A few decent politicians came out yesterday along with Ken Loache to ask Shell to move the Solitaire along so that Maura Harrington might be allowed come off her hunger strike.
Therefore, I would imagine that the ship will move in the next few days and some less noble politician will come out and claim responsibility.
With any luck it will move but please do not believe any politicians from the main parties other than current supporters of Shell To Sea when they say they had an input.
My point is that politicians often come out to speak about issues or talk of topics when they know they're on the way to being solved.
A few decent politicians came out yesterday along with Ken Loache to ask Shell to move the Solitaire along so that Maura Harrington might be allowed come off her hunger strike.
Therefore, I would imagine that the ship will move in the next few days and some less noble politician will come out and claim responsibility.
With any luck it will move but please do not believe any politicians from the main parties other than current supporters of Shell To Sea when they say they had an input.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Bomb Scare at Shell HQ
Publicity in Ireland and indeed worldwide for Shell at the moment is pretty bad.
The company is directly responsible (along with our government) for a woman being on hunger strike.
The captain of a pipelaying vessel due to lay your pipeline grew a concsience and turned back.
What do you do?
Who were the only ones to benefit from a bomb scare outside Shell HQ today?
Shell To Sea perhaps?
Maura Harrington?
The Erris people?
No, didn't think so.
The only ones who may gain from this is of course Shell themselves.
Conveniently, one of their police (I think they're called Gardai) found it. Probably after he put it there.
Anyone who thinks that anyone other than Shell or some wing of the government did this is quite foolish (Donegal anyone?).
Wake up and smell the coffee people.
Think about it just for one second before you digest your RTE news or the bog roll that is the Indo.
There's only one culprit here
The company is directly responsible (along with our government) for a woman being on hunger strike.
The captain of a pipelaying vessel due to lay your pipeline grew a concsience and turned back.
What do you do?
Who were the only ones to benefit from a bomb scare outside Shell HQ today?
Shell To Sea perhaps?
Maura Harrington?
The Erris people?
No, didn't think so.
The only ones who may gain from this is of course Shell themselves.
Conveniently, one of their police (I think they're called Gardai) found it. Probably after he put it there.
Anyone who thinks that anyone other than Shell or some wing of the government did this is quite foolish (Donegal anyone?).
Wake up and smell the coffee people.
Think about it just for one second before you digest your RTE news or the bog roll that is the Indo.
There's only one culprit here
Hunger strike in Mayo
Hi,
Since I last wrote on this a lot has happened.
It is not quite on the scale of Padraic Pearse saying that
"All has changed, changed utterly."
However, things have changed.
Firstly, I find it hard to delight in the decision by Maura Harrington to go on hunger strike.
I believe that the woman is intelligent and probably did not take this decision lightly.
I also believe that her family would be destroyed if she is allowed to die of hunger on the side of the road, ironically in a village where she sat in a bucket of a digger back 6 years ago.
What I find truly shocking about the whole situation is the fact that it had to come to this.
This country did not protect its' citizens but rather the workers of a multinational company with quite a poor record of health and safety (for locals not themselves). Police stated that they were there to protect both sides while they park their vehicles in Shell compounds in the area.
They chat with the Shell workers while shouting abuse and laughing at locals.
The army, police and navy were brought in huge numbers to ram this project down the throats of locals.
The mainstream media won't report on it unless Shell tell them to. Countless hours of footage of Irish people being kicked and beaten will not be discussed by the mainstream media.
The state broadcaster will not show it but will report stories of the most popular babies names of the year.
Not one state agency with responsibility for the environment has helped the locals.
Shell have gone across several SACs in their quest to bring this ashore. If you or I erected a hut on a SAC, we would be jailed.
So a woman goes on hunger strike to bring the issue to the attention of a nation, which has too many credit cards to care.
A woman goes on hunger strike to bring to the attention of the nation, the shameful giveaway of our oil and gas.
Maura, you are a heroine. You are a woman beyond reproach. You are a woman with morals that no Shell dollar can buy. I salute you for this. But I hope you do not die.
Since I last wrote on this a lot has happened.
It is not quite on the scale of Padraic Pearse saying that
"All has changed, changed utterly."
However, things have changed.
Firstly, I find it hard to delight in the decision by Maura Harrington to go on hunger strike.
I believe that the woman is intelligent and probably did not take this decision lightly.
I also believe that her family would be destroyed if she is allowed to die of hunger on the side of the road, ironically in a village where she sat in a bucket of a digger back 6 years ago.
What I find truly shocking about the whole situation is the fact that it had to come to this.
This country did not protect its' citizens but rather the workers of a multinational company with quite a poor record of health and safety (for locals not themselves). Police stated that they were there to protect both sides while they park their vehicles in Shell compounds in the area.
They chat with the Shell workers while shouting abuse and laughing at locals.
The army, police and navy were brought in huge numbers to ram this project down the throats of locals.
The mainstream media won't report on it unless Shell tell them to. Countless hours of footage of Irish people being kicked and beaten will not be discussed by the mainstream media.
The state broadcaster will not show it but will report stories of the most popular babies names of the year.
Not one state agency with responsibility for the environment has helped the locals.
Shell have gone across several SACs in their quest to bring this ashore. If you or I erected a hut on a SAC, we would be jailed.
So a woman goes on hunger strike to bring the issue to the attention of a nation, which has too many credit cards to care.
A woman goes on hunger strike to bring to the attention of the nation, the shameful giveaway of our oil and gas.
Maura, you are a heroine. You are a woman beyond reproach. You are a woman with morals that no Shell dollar can buy. I salute you for this. But I hope you do not die.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Drugs In Ireland
Last year represented the greatest amount of drugs seized, in monetary terms, In Ireland.
This was not due to the competence of the Gardaí or the Navy. No, this was due to the incompetence of some drug runners. Yet, we hailed it as a great blow in the war against drugs.
Well done lads. Pat yourselves on the back and take a long gracious bow. Did anyone know that a sniffer dog has found more drugs this year than the rest of the force put together?
What's worrying about all this is the fact that the value of the amount "found" last year in Cork shows how much was getting in past our dozy navy and cops anyway.
The drug dealers must be laughing now.
The government decides to send three navy vessels to police a few protesters in North Mayo. Also send in 200 or so of our finest plods in their boats. 3 out of 8 navy vessels available to this country are in north mayo being used against its' own people instead of doing their job and protecting this country.
Who is gaining from this? Why are the government so desperate to push this through that they use the navy and guards to beat their own people into submission at the behest of an Anglo-Dutch Company?
It's quite obvious someone somewhere got money. Ray Burke, Bertie Ahern, Frank Fahey, etc. But it still fails to answer the questions. Why do the government use the media to slur ordinary decent people in fear of their lives and intimidated and beaten by our police force?
Whatever the reasons, it is shocking to see this happen. Maybe official government papers released in twenty years time will tell us the truth. By then it will be too late for the people of Erris in Mayo, choking to death on poisonous fumes.
But hey, at least the drugs business will still be flourishing, eh?
This was not due to the competence of the Gardaí or the Navy. No, this was due to the incompetence of some drug runners. Yet, we hailed it as a great blow in the war against drugs.
Well done lads. Pat yourselves on the back and take a long gracious bow. Did anyone know that a sniffer dog has found more drugs this year than the rest of the force put together?
What's worrying about all this is the fact that the value of the amount "found" last year in Cork shows how much was getting in past our dozy navy and cops anyway.
The drug dealers must be laughing now.
The government decides to send three navy vessels to police a few protesters in North Mayo. Also send in 200 or so of our finest plods in their boats. 3 out of 8 navy vessels available to this country are in north mayo being used against its' own people instead of doing their job and protecting this country.
Who is gaining from this? Why are the government so desperate to push this through that they use the navy and guards to beat their own people into submission at the behest of an Anglo-Dutch Company?
It's quite obvious someone somewhere got money. Ray Burke, Bertie Ahern, Frank Fahey, etc. But it still fails to answer the questions. Why do the government use the media to slur ordinary decent people in fear of their lives and intimidated and beaten by our police force?
Whatever the reasons, it is shocking to see this happen. Maybe official government papers released in twenty years time will tell us the truth. By then it will be too late for the people of Erris in Mayo, choking to death on poisonous fumes.
But hey, at least the drugs business will still be flourishing, eh?
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