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The end of foreign investment in Ireland and the end of technical transfers

 The 'plan' of July-August 1988 to endow the South with my stipendium for the break-up of the Eastern has been a failure. Ireland has not moved one step forward. Wild, hate-mongering gangs of Irish soldiers and ex-Gardai and pensioners,actors and actresses roam through the streets to sniff and snort at progressive people and radicals. They send menstruating young girls out to "get the smell" or to "tell it to the smell first". The riff-raff and scum of the South feast on mindless orgies of televised sport and replace religion with mass intoxication by beverage and media. To blatant anti-Semitic and reactionary policing and soldiers armed with knuckledusters, cutthroat razors, mercury, heroin,Angel Dust, Chlenbuterol, cocaine, steroids, amphetamines and toxins which they induct into radicals water supply in their meagre accommodation, we say,"The Celtic Tiger must be put to sleep." The "choice of American investment in Europe" which was th...

The legal process

 There are other forms of justice than retributive justice and police measures. There are civil determinations and social justice. But what must rule with dignity,equity and respect are the demands of the working man and woman on the basis of equal pay for work of equal value. .... I for one have heard enough from spoofers such as lawyers, journalists, politicians and judges to do me a lifetime. We repeat the old axiom of the ordinary person,the centre cannot hold. I for one want police,doctors,nurses and their clientele in the ambulance service to go and drown themselves in Lough Erne or the nearest reservoir.

Legal assistance from the state

 The state,in a normal, law-governed society,should fund legal assistance to the poor and less well-off  where theft of assets,serious wrongdoing and the host of legal improprieties at civil law are cogently argued in a coherent and cohesive manner at a court of higher instance. That is not the case in the Banana Republic down South. Politics forms the main source of personal enrichment to Fine Gael and the Gardai's camp followers as it did with Fianna Fail Ministers such as Haughey. No republican ever argues for anyone's rights other than his own or his clientele's, foremost amongst the latter being members of his immediate family. Insider trading  Therefore,over fifty years after Haughey- when Minister for Civil Government- purchased land in Donnycarney before his government rezoned it for housing,we repeat that Ireland is still a Banana Republic full of nationalist arseholes,GAA drunkards and professional nuisances,not forgetting the penniless bar-flies we find everywh...

Airborne coaldust particles.Saved by the bell

 Living off the South Circular Road in Dublin in 1988-9 led to chronic respiratory problems for all the unfortunate inhabitants of the South Inner City. The air was heavily polluted by smoke from domestic coal-burning. In 1989,Mary Harney took the initiative in banning coal-burning in many areas and saved many lives, probably including mine. In dealing with the low survival rate of cancer,she cut unnecessary hospital beds and basically tricked doctors to do a better job by lowering expenditure. That is why we say pathetic and solipsistic rhetoric about spending more money on health is such a lot of hyper-inflated waffle. Ignore this nonsense, everyone,vote for people who are objective and genuinely progressive and take a businesslike approach. Cancer survival rates doubled from 1:4 to 2:4 because of Ken Baker and Mary Harney not being satisfied with platitudes and rhetoric. 'Health' histrionics? For the birds and the bees.

Ireland and Germany. Ireland and the United States. Germany and the United States... Ireland and France.

 Ireland and Germany You,my Kerry Blue friends,are very much the lesser partner in this arrangement,as you should know from receiving only 1100-1200 rifles on a tiny fishing smack adapted by a British "adventurer" in the Howth gun-running episode (read The Green Book). The Germans and Austrians munificence stretched to 12 000 rifles for '"the Army" of Carson and the "political soldiers of Ulster".  The American dimension . The US and Germany  The BND,doctors and CIA run Germany in association with the German Business Federation. One employee of that gang of four Great Powers, Cyril Kennedy of the CIA/Hyannis Port outfit monitors arms shipments to neutral and non-aligned countries from bankrupt, infertile Germany. .... Those 'stupid' Germans?  I ridiculed their womenfolk as "fitted with contraceptive devices to control [their] fertility"  in July-August 1988 (Der Spielplan,located at 14 Fortified Terrace,Upper Rathmines,Dublin 6). .......

Demoniacs. Raising the social and educational level in the South. Street urchins and corner-boys. Armi di poveri....

The problem with the South's backwardness  and other societies which push the poor below the level of subsistence is formed by reactionary politicians,all policemen and many male teachers. They are the beasts who terrorise and spy on voices for change and social progress. For my part.... In 2009 my unfolding drama of Sinn Fein election proposals argued for the appointment of School Attendance Officers and Educational Compliance Officers. (Gorbachev saw that social change is from below by bottom-up social movement, democratic social campaigning by grassroots organisations and from above,organised social philanthrophy through taxation and social investment. In our country there may be no local change without dedicated community organisations and no enhanced  social provision without social altruism.) In Ireland,we have a long history of clerical altruism which is giving way to social altruism.  At a real level we say that the Southern state is not sustaining the poor to acc...

Oglaigh na Feirsde,ta beirim agam oraibhse!

 Cease and desist from your activities and nuisance clamour on the radio in Belfast 'Irish' what is known by Gaeilgeoiri as canaiocht,neither song nor verse! Give over your muddleheaded thinking and stop crawling through the streets after people. You are 'driving the whole country around the bend'. Some of your victims have turned to drink and drugs. You have heard the Hierarchy's pleas for peace and tolerance and respect for other creeds and nationalities until at least a decision is taken in the Dail with a two-thirds majority for a referendum on Irish Unity. In the meantime,the thinking man's money is on the police and Gardai breaking up fights and 'coming out on top of you'. Pay heed,pilgrims who take no interest in party politics! Tell the police what you know but only if you are sure of your facts and stop indulging people,voters,whose day is long past.  Vote!  I,for one, don't give a fiddler's f... how anyone votes,if they at least go to a...

Taxation in Ireland

 Given that the South will soon bear the heavy financial and political burdens of unification,is it not time to look ahead to the immediate future. Basic welfare costs, education needs and health requirements must be funded. Let the Southerners encamp themselves in social security offices and quickly derail the runaway train of welfare dependence. The biggest challenge for unifiers is the health service. People in the North have different expectations and many are ensnared by the tyranny of maladjusted doctors and by chronic need for solace which conceals real social immobility. ... This raises the question of financing basic social infrastructure. We must think in terms of five levels of (non) taxation on income and salaries with the basic proviso that those who can pay more,should pay more. Let us examine the related question of whether the South's prosperity is material or unreal before subjecting tech giants to prohibitively high levels of corporate taxation. Let us build on re...

My early "Musings and exttrapolations".... Contributions to Irish economic thinking

First, a preliminary....I,as Marx believed,and all sane people believe,that economic conditions and social  upbringing determine collective consciousness. My youthful high academic achievements were the outcome of reasonable sufficiency and a Catholic upbringing in Northern Ireland.  Thatcher took reasonable means of support away from myself and many others,pitting young against middle-aged and old and low-paid and poor against middle class and students. She destroyed youthful naivete, careful nurturing and moral tuition. Mouthy middle class Brits backed her so-called reforms as upper class prats back every reactionary government. As long as we have classes,these twits will always do,British-Asian hoodwinkers not excepted. (Therein lies the reason,lack of means universally and small sufficiency, that the Security Unit pulled a white plastic bag over Frank Hegarty's and others head.For my part, I decided to be economical with explosives by using fuel-air materiel). Schooldays o...

Inequality,North and South

 It is often said by the knowledgeable Northerner and poor and beaten-down Southerner, "The big fellow gets it all in the South". He says that it is a society based on greed, gluttony and ripping people off at every level. It is a society based on rank poverty and great stores of idle money which is not in real circulation in the sense that it is invested in industry and commerce. It is a society where only government using the levers of fiscal controls can prevent complete ossification. Much of modern privateers wealth is sourced from technical theft and financial espionage. We count amongst those who have expropriated the technique of others without payment, Denis O Brien and the Indian parasites,the Hindustani brothers. Their riches are built on unlawful expropriation of the inventions of others. I say," Seize their assets and deport them!" How are we to cope with the problem of social parasitism? We have to bear down on not just businessmen who steal technical i...

The question of high-rise public housing

 High-rises should not be built out of public money nor should planning permission be granted for these buildings as dwellings. We are stupid people-and Aodhan O Riordain is typical of the type-if we think that we can avoid the social problems associated with these buildings. I consider O Riordain to be an fool  who has bought into fashionable ecological notions about land use. He thinks that normal existence is possible in such buildings and unlicensed fire-traps. Let public money be spent on houses fit for human beings, not future drugs-dens and ghettos of the poor. If O Riordain is so keen on high-rises,let him go and live in one himself. ... 26.2.2023 O Riordain's latest bright-spark idea is the medical solution to the drugs problem. Let us be clear,those of us who do not lose our mind in a rush to judgement,there should be a sympathetic response with the THREAT OF A CRIMINAL SANCTION. Nothing less,nothing more,is required. Once again,a party which agrees with high-rises,p...

Universal provision for smoking cessation in the South

 The pernicious habit of smoking must be catered for in every group and class in the South. (The actual provenance of the invention of the Nicorette Inhalator and the Swedes patenting of this device is yet another instance of intellectual property theft. They have no rights to the invention and must surrender the patent to its real inventor,namely myself. Phyllis Bateson and Colin Campbell and the Queen's University, Belfast Information Service are the thieves of this innovation and of many more of my ideas. Their blond-haired,blue-eyed Swedish Wonderboy friends came up with nothing. If the Swedes in association with QUB have stolen my invention,they have no property rights to the Inhalator. The Swedes are those people who every knowledgeable person despises as the 'road to no town'). The use of smoking substitutes is necessary for the greater social good. If QUBIS and Bateson will not acknowledge the device's provenance,I will let any country make the Inhalator. But wh...

Rent controls. Fair Rents Tribunals. Evictions

Since living in England,I have been a long-standing proponent of rent controls and restrictions on evictions. Need, before greed. The post-war British model of not only Fair Rents Officers but legal prohibitions on eviction were removed by that evil,sick woman, Thatcher. She cuckolded England and its people with a breed of blood-sucking financial speculators and estate agents and market traders. Hers were unlearned ideas for a society of maggots and delinquents and financial parasites. We see this tawdry legacy and its loose-living at work even today. I say to people, anything Thatcher rejected, regulation,capital controls,high progressive taxes,direct income levies, business rates on empty properties, EMBRACE THEM. ..... 5.12.2022 Likewise,where the decision of a Fair Rents Officer is contests,let us have a three-person tribunal without representatives of landlords but rather pensioners, unemployed and trade unionists and doctors,not a well-heeled legal spoofer such as William Brady o...

An Irish Welfare State. Pharmacy services and free availability of medicines

 Medicines should never be completely free but it is best if only a token amount of €1 was charged to dissuade waste and superfluous visits to doctors and needless consultations with medical personnel. However,it is desirable that everyone,not just the publicly insured, should have ready access to medicine for a token fee. Pharmacies? Community pharmacies with sole proprietors only should be licensed to prevent profiteering from human suffering and needless interventions by multi-millionaire pharmaceutical monopolies. Pharmacy is after all a personal relationship,not a commercial enterprise.

Bertie the blether. Kicking the ball further down the field....

 Spare us,Shannonside/Northern Sound,that abnoxious bully talking about the upcoming Irish Unity Referendum and his wicked efforts to postpone the inevitable for another ten years. He is a Free Stater. In association with Blair he engineered the iniquitous Belfast Agreement which established the reign of police-medical terror and destroyed the working life for Northerners. Thousands are dead because of the activities of doctors, police and nurses and soldiers in Northern Ireland. He and his own so-called achievements were the work of others. He sees himself like any other wordy Narcissus in his own reflection. Let us have our referendum now and forget about the Stormont Assembly and finally free ourselves from our connection to the Irish and British Army and,in my case,the Declaration which I made in August 1982 and tried to repudiate many times. Let me and others take our bearings and be allowed to get on with our lives. There is no glory in the deaths of so many which some of tho...

This Ireland." An English man is a...

 "...good judge of character but never one of his politicians or an Evangelical clergyman"... .... likewise,I say, anyone who hangs around public houses or works there or in a restaurant, particularly in an Irish or Italian restaurant is lacking in basic wisdom  (Common Sense). In the latter case they are all dolemen or people destined for the scrapheap at a relatively early age because they are involved in some sort of 'hookery' which the police know all about... 30.11.2022 In Ireland,when an intelligent man makes his appearance,you will very soon hear the word "bollocks"  (Anc. Greek,Pollux) mentioned or spoken. You will witness the chronic fool,the urban psychopath or the small town hooligan holding forth on his wit and wisdom in opposition to the scholar in every public house in the country when better counsel should prevail.That country tomfoolery is something which the bumpkin has heard from a criminal or his counterpose in this country,a doctor,ultima...

Go-betweens,not partisans

 Where you get a lot of alcohol being sold or,in the North,a well-attended church you have police rule or an Orange lodge bringing billy-boy bands in to disrupt civil peace because local Protestant businesses are losing trade to Catholic shopowners hand-over fist. That is the general rule but the social elites and penniless fools have other means of bending the knee to the English Crown,so here goes for a study of intermediaries between citizen and state....... The IRA in Belfast in the 1990's "Easy!Easy!Easy!"  The illusion of an IRA 'victory' in 1997 was brought on by idiots in Belfast Sinn Fein. They were anxious to make a name for themselves as Britain's nemesis. The illusion of a victory was hoisted on nationalists by publicists such as Adams and others,not least of his hangmen being Morrison through dictates in An Phoblacht/ Republican News to take to the streets. That pronunciamento led to quixotic scenes on the streets of Belfast when a final ceasefire...

Southerners

Everywhere in the South, the intelligent person is confronted by Irish Army and Garda pigs mobilised for the fascist street scenes and to sniff and snort at anyone with a modicum of good judgement. What do we say of this fascist state and its inhabitants who are such ready prey for being fleeced by shopkeeper,farmer,publican and huckster? We say of those who run the South, primarily the Gardai,that you are pathetic, primitive and backward  people,sniffers and snorters,who never amounted to very much and behave like the Old English of County Kildare (the Geraldines). Particularly,that is,the neanderthals who monitor revolutionaries, Communists, socialists and anarchists. They rise in station as  they throw students and scholars out of their modest accommodation without a court order. They do so at the instigation of some headman such as Brendan Mc Cormack or the Irish members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland or a clown like an Irish publican or the local Nationali...

Demoniacs. Typical of the scum recruited by the Gardai Central Detective Unitin Dublin was...

 ...Mickey Smith,a moneylender originally from Ballyfermot who plied his trade around the slums of Dublin. A parasite! Not only did he have connections to the Dublin Gardai but his was the house which hosted the meeting between those who bombed Birmingham and Chris Mullin of ITV Weekend,all part of the clumsy diplomacy of John Hume' Dublin affiliates such as the Rev. Thomas Hudson and Noel Browne. Smith was typical of the offal of society of informers, whores, pimps and "petty thieves" ( Eugene Mc Cartan) and rent-boys (Tommy O Rourke). Gardai informers and their foes were rarely fully tuned-in because they were usually high on drugs or drunk. For guidance on the reality of revolutionary movements,read Dostoyevsky,Brendan Behan and Sean O Casey.  The latter wised up to revolutionary oppositionists before they died and had nothing more to do with them.  Revolutionaries are dangerous friends as one individual described such loose-tongued people. .... All policemen and their...

Public libraries. Rural ignorance and mobile libraries...the nub of the problem with gasbags..

 The lack of modern library services outside Dublin and the North and the lack of mobile libraries until recent years points to a lack of joined-up political thinking,proper moral training, real civil development and a country's history marked by intellectual undernourishment. A gombeen class produced this phenomenon in the South, something Southern Protestants can see better than anyone. ... The central problem? The elephant in the room? Irish economic underdevelopment brought about by a history of colonialism, conservative central banking practices,Fine Gael politicians and the influence of farmers,big and small. ... The labour approach? The labour standard is to put workers and the poor first and tell whingeing farmers and screeching women like Moira Drumm and Michelle O Neill and Bairbre de Bruin,"Shut your beak!" ... The BIG picture? The goal in the round of all the ideas enunciated on this blog is joined-up thinking. ... The role of politics,people who appear only a...

The Irish countryman.Rough, ignorant and unmannerly. Demutualisation of agricultural co-operatives 1988-1992

You should as a rule not engage with the Irish countryman,be he Orange or Green,rural or townie,Northerner or Southerner,unless he has spent good time abroad or been in regular waged employment. Here are the reasons. A typical characteristic of the " hungry small farmer" with less than adequate means of subsistence is his greed for what belongs to someone else. He is a man set on a path of blind ambition and nepotism. His fellow traveller is the down-at-heel townie. (The political phenomenon which lies at the heart of understanding both Stalinism and Hitlerism is the opposition or support of the countryman). Sensible people say to those talking through their hat about involving these rough, ignorant and unmannerly people in trade unionism and socialist politics,"Do you think you are in Russia in the 1930's. Clearly,you do not know what you are talking about. Stop talking nonsense and get a grip on yourself. Farmers are like their animals,full of shit. They'll die...

Demoniacs. Who are the Gardai anyway other than...

 ... other than rough, ignorant and unmannerly country people and semi-educated fascists who send their children to study law and medicine,a bunch of tramps, the worst of them being the Cork or Kerry or Midlands Gardai. These tramps in their big cars try to run people over and kill them even on a Sunday. They are,in that facet of  their activities,no different from police anywhere. The country Gardai are drunken layabouts recruited from the farming  class and the pending dole queue. They will,if they are allowed to behave like the licensed thugs that they are,carry out illegal evictions at the behest of landlords. Gardai own property which they are not paying tax on in every county in Ireland.  Detectives working undercover? Police everywhere are notorious for cheating people out of their change when working undercover in bars and restaurants and for stealing from the till. These people,if they were not enforcing the law,would be put in jail for breaking the law,such...

The dungfly. The informer

A tout is a weak and pathetic sort of fool who ends up drinking himself to death. He is a fickle sort of creature,a straw in the wind who like the biblical Jew is a wanderer between sky and cloud. However,he can be dangerous so here are my reflections from a lifetime of experience and untoward advances by these pricks..... A spy or false witness usually acts on his own volition and is interested,inter alia, in  what you listen to on the radio or watch on television. He is a sociopath who likes to alter outcomes and he gets money from the police for telling them such information.The police have the power to influence broadcasting content and schedules. It's MONEY which motivates the hound most.  Sometimes,a country  informer operates remotely by telephoning or through a neighbour but he will stop visiting and calling if you DO NOT ANSWER THE TELEPHONE... Say "Skat!" Sometimes, he may arrive at your door the next day to tell you that he was "concerned" about you. ...

Dental care in the Republic. A case for public dental care provision

 The quick fix solution of putting monofluoride in the water supply to prevent tooth decay has run its course if the concomitant rise in oral,testicular,colon and skin problems including cancer is a guide. Time to make a clean breast of it and introduce free dental care provision to all under eighteen years of age in Ireland,North and South.Likewise,full provision for the poor and marginalised and low-paid. Orthodontics paid for by the state,in the sense that it is cosmetic, rather than restorative care for criminal injury? No! An expensive luxury for the individual and society. Merely writing a blank cheque for those greedy dentists such as the Mc Enhills who already have far too much money. Those parasites are in the private sector because they don't measure up to a minimum standard of competence, using as they do cheap,non-contractual dental implant components. They fail to meet standards of professional probity,reporting some of their clients to the police at the drop of a hat....

Fine Gael. The English Conservative Party. The US Republican Party. Wealthy businessmen

 Approach with caution or you will have cause for regret.... Wasters! Parasites! Not just the ringleaders but their supporters, too. Their wealth came from the sweated labour and intellectual achievements of others as even mealy-mouthed Scots such as Gordon Brown openly admitted in 2008. That is why we say of the rich,their media apologists and police spokesmen and women such as that wicked harlot,Margaret Thatcher,"Stop talking about work and do some yourself since I suspect that you have never held anything heavier than a nail-brush in your hands."Maggie Thatcher should have been given a job emptying bed pans in an old people's home,not giving speeches in  the House of Commons, something for which she was manifestly unsuited because she had no proper training in oratory.  The English? The Americans? Those who vote Fine Gael? These days,often devoid of good sense and proper judgement.  Their true voice?  Cutthroats and corner-boys. The English,in particular? Mu...

Free optical care

 With the advent of non-private corporate opthalmology to our high streets,a whole new world of measured social support has become possible. By social support,I mean government wealth transfers to the poor. The possibility of supporting, financially, optical care for the low- and medium-income pensioner,sick, unemployed and disabled is a necessary extension of social provision. Reasonably priced mass-market optical wear alleviates the need to write a blank cheque to bloated middle class opticians with third-rate qualifications, people talking out of their backside. Those "specialists" are delivering a sub-standard service. A burden shared is a burden halved! Let English-based high street opthalmology chain stores be made to feel more welcome by all in Ireland. We must give over our native petite bourgeois fantasies about supporting local business and the sole trader. Let dreams of national self-sufficiency pass by,not immediately but at a measured pace. A way of life in local...

Inhuman and degrading treatment

I our troubled,post-Conflict age with it's ritual over policing and the necrotic designs of spinsters and GAA men on political power,it is in the street that we encounter our and others nemesis. This street drama with guns and knives has its outworkings in wider society and in our own communities and families. Families are the transmission belt for greedy people who want to exercise total power over their clientele and others. Note, therefore families are always involved in internecine conflicts and in critical debates. The lesson of our recent past is that in Sinn Fein games of petty politicking,there is ALWAYS a woman involved and after the HANDOVER that leads to games of chance in an Irish hospital setting. As a follow-up how does a GAA whore, promiscuous Sinn Fein woman,a former rent-boy or committed woman who has just gone through a difficult abortion talk to a man? " You should be shot with your own dung!" she says with great affirmation. Or,she utters an outright l...

Social provision in the South

 Social welfare provision in the South is modest but wise and adequate. That is the legacy of trade union interventions. Trade unions believe in adequacy,not expense. Some improvements are required for the wretchedly poor who can not gain a foothold to the working life. What are needed now are Schools Attendance Inspectors and Educational Compliance Officers not funding for a ridiculous hen party such as TUSLA. Tusla body is interfering with ethical and moral guidance by parents,teachers and guardians. Carol Coulter made entirely unfounded and libellous remarks about Garda Gerry Mc Cabe in collaboration with the chief of police,Reichsmarschall Cullinane and his successor,another useless,time-expired old hen.  Basic cooking,civics and housekeeping should be taught to all young boys and little girls. That development would greatly enhance the social and economic well-being of poorer families. Any other curriculum proposal is a front for tired old hens in medicine and trade union...

Gluaiseacht ar strae. As any female native speaker will tell you...

 ...what you hear on television or radio or read in print represented as the Irish language is not,by a very long stretch of the imagination,the Irish language. It is broadcast for purely propagandistic purposes only to salve the open wound in our society namely,the festering wounds left by British imperialism and a half-cocked cultural scene. ..... These are radio broadcasts by people for whom Irish is not their native tongue or people who do not speak Irish in the family. ... Amongst these bainin-sweater types who listen in to and broadcast this make-believe "Dublin Irish", we count the undiscerning Irish Irelanders,as James Connolly called them. Foremost amongst the unknowing? Gerry Adams and Lynette Fay. ... 25.8.2022 The uses of literacy When in Dublin,never tell a Garda,that you are "trid a cheile" or he will immediately arrest you for public nuisance. Most of them take you to mean that you are "a Communist" or incendiary poet who stirs up passion in...