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The Free State press and media

Illucid prose,jargon middle class language, headlines that are informed by bores and penny-a-liners, completely unscientific and backward and primitive ideaisation..... ....we say to these people,you are not telling anything but lies to the reader,listener and viewer.. The truth of the matter is not dishonest journalists no matter how facile and misleading the prose.... The problem is that you are part of the group of apologists for a country whose people are well known for stupidity and ignorance and you are by virtue of a meagre education and impoverished training in places such as TCD and UCD the blind leading the blind. I say as an accomplished public intellectual, the ruling class does not need your apologia. Your country is in a state of quiet desperation, caught between the English behemoth and US encroachments on the very basis of your society.... My advice to Southern penmen and broadcasters is,"Put down your pen and switch of your microphone and computer. You are not suf...

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...

Maintaining balance in society and economic affairs and between church and state

Economic balance is only partially accommodated by a written agreement between employers, state and trade unions. The state as the largest employer in any country is in no way independent,in blue collar workers opinions. Glasnost? Openness? A law-governed state which publishes its enactments and/or court judgements is in every way in keeping with the demands, major and minor,of transparency in government.  To return to the opening theme... A written wages agreement at national level may assist,in certain circumstances,the narrowing of economic inequality and social 'levelling-up'.  My opposition to consensus politics 1983-2003, what was the sole outcome? Small groups of under-remunerated people and idle hands such as myself and others were leaving ourselves open to 'active police measures'. These are undertaken in pursuit of a bogus,Church-instigated, so-called social consensus and civil peace. The fact is that police forces monitor incipient political protest and bar m...

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...

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 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 ...

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.

Full spectrum dominance and its outworkings

In its pursuit of total control of world affairs and the world economy,the Anglo-American alliance and the Coalition of the Willing have hoaxed millions and tens of millions of voters with games of puppets and competing puppets,a game of electoral chance..... Therefore,the wise old owl says, In the North,a well-attended Catholic church ,it attracts 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. The loyalists have other means of offending while bending the knee to the Orange Order,so here goes for a study of other sectarian 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 appearance of a victory was inspired by publicists...

Inhuman and degrading treatment

In our troubled,post-Conflict age with its 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,a 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...

Emigration to England

On London building sites, soldiers are regularly drafted into the resident workforce to protect English craftsmen and builders from aggressive Irish labourers. It is these English thugs from Manchester,Newcastle and Liverpool who use skills learned at Pinewood Studios and Elstree Farm to rig accidents for Irish workers. If an Irishman emigrates to England,he will soon find out who his real friends are because the Englishman is a rough, ignorant, unmannerly individual wherever you meet him,a carbon copy of the Irish countryman whose identity he shaped by sending English soldiers and policemen to control his perennial fits of rebelliousness. The British Labour Party and women particularly the little Irish mother at home,NOT shits such as Catholic priests,Asians,the English working man,a born waster,gamblers in your family,Kerry contractors,the GAA,Galway labour agents,the Scots,British soldiers,police,North of England people or the blacks sent by the English to attack him and,least of al...

RTE radio and television...

 ..amidst all the state-led Irish-ry and sterling praise for children of a lesser kind are very good at leading social change and addressing social and political problems. They are not so good at dealing with corruption, particularly in their own organisation or at exposing clerical concupiscence with Fine Gael. On the real nature of economics and capital accumulation and it's circulation,facts which underlies modern society,the in-house journalists do not have a single critical idea or comment. ..... One objectionable aspect of RTE's broadcasts is the dovetailing of incompatible interests and parties-nothing can conceal that uncomfortable fact-and BBC Northern Ireland attempt to do the same with even less success and discernment. This occurs vis-a-vis rival groups, parties and organisations. (BBC Northern Ireland is run from London on behalf of the British Foreign Office. Its political commentators are agents of the British Government working in tandem with unionist politician...

The British welfare system of social security and health

The British Welfare State model is not the way forward for the South of Ireland,be well advised. It is not suited to the conditions of a state founded one hundred years ago today,a country which lacks the rudiments of lawful government. My criticism of Britain and its NHS focusses largely on contrived welfare dependence, not, truthfully,the public health service or the Labour Party of England and Wales or Scotland. It is clear to trade unionists that a good few British welfare claimants should be sent to work in the remaining factories,the large farms and thriving businesses,not gather dust in an environment not created for human fulfilment or peaceful enjoyment of leisure and education.. Ours are the effects of neo-liberal policies,a wasted generation,Thatcher's children all around with neither a head for facts nor figures nor any experience of work nor earning an honest livelihood nor plying a trade,occupation or career on some foreign soil... ... 16.10.2022 Consider the plea of ...

Fascism in Ireland. People of the Republic of Ireland,stop...

 ... fooling yourselves about Sinn Fein... There is absolutely nothing socialist about those people. Part with illusions,please, before your hardwon prosperity evaporates. Vote Fianna Fail and Labour and unaligned. Ireland is well ahead of the political game. One-party government is not possible in a fluid society.  The North is a very different sort of society to the South and the sectarian differences stretch back many years.  Irish unity will come in its own good time and fascism in the police and military up here will come to a bitter and final and brutal end. Irish unity? Any such arrangement requires a measure of tolerance and respect. Deeply-ingrained prejudices can not easily be overcome. .... 28.8.2023 Public justice dictates that some republican militants be locked up where there is involvement in electoral fraud and where they have been involved in the illegal distribution of drugs and prescription medication. The Welfare State for the South? A British style of...

What did James Connolly stand for?

James Connolly participated in a nationalist uprising but his politics were staunchly Labour and syndicalist. His plagiarisers are invariably revisionists who do not accept that he did not believe in the Bolshevik (or authoritarian) path to power. He was a revolutionary democrat. You should go and read his writings if you want to know about one of our leading modern political figures and the only republican who wasn't in hock to the British State. His writings are available from any reputable bookshop. ... 27.8.2022 Old bores in Ireland such as Gerry Adams and Owen Carron and the seigneurs claim Connolly as part of their ideological patrimony. They have no knowledge of the social and trade union  and political background to his writings or knowledge of his lively insights into the era when he lived. The people mentioned are only messenger boys for publicans and small businessmen. Adams and the Communists extract a few worthless phrases from Connolly only to throw in a few of their ...

Nationalism and semi-fascist dictatorship vs. socialism and realism

Irish,German, Russian,Italian and American nationalism are remarkably similar though with a different emphasis because all are based on the garnering of a domestic market for an emergent class of employers and middlemen. German nationalism is distinguished by supremacist notions formed between 1847 and 1883. American nationalism has disastrous imperialist outworkings. That nationalism is only now being overcome. Irish nationalism is tinged with a definite belief in faith and Irish Unity. Italian nationalism is characterised by Mother Love (because very few Italians remain faithful to their spouses for long). In Italy nationalism is also marked by rebel song. .... Nationalism is very much a beast of the backwoodmen's making. The most dangerous type is the German type. German nationalism in its political form was best summed up by Wagner (1847),"No end or end goal marks out the German race rather the process of strivation" . In Ireland as Wolfe Tone said,nationalism is Engl...

Belfast, Belfast....public transport...issues of urban transport

 ...surely,is it not time as I wrote in my teleological election proposals for the North and South in September 2009  that Belfast had a proper electric light railway i.e. trams as superannuated geriatrics such as myself call them and an electrified railway network was built across the North by trade union workers and a motorway was built between Belfast and Derry. If there is £108 billions of public money available for the electric high-speed railway in England we can build an electrified train and tram network in Northern Ireland and build it with trade union labour with the aim to keep work outcomes predictable and to ensure that social insurance and income tax are paid to fund our generous welfare system and public housing.  This could be financed at 2/7 of the cost of the Southern Luas and DART because the South is a society and economy which imbibed the narcotic of "value-added" prices during its rapid accumulation and late development era.( But now,I ask,why is eve...

"There may be trouble ahead". The writing is on the wall for the police and their families.

 The imminent departure of the police and their families  It is more or less a racing certainty that partition will soon end,very abruptly, and most people in the North will be culturally and economically impoverished because of political speculation and hidden social crisis in the South. A plague then on both your houses say all democratic socialists and social democrats and Reform Communists. The South has squandered its ill-gotten gains and purloined tax revenues as Tony Blair did in England with the revenue from oil stolen from Arab peoples in the Middle East.. 9.9.2021 Partition has brought much vile çruelty and open hatred of Irish Catholics but we must not be moved to brutality and a thirst for revenge or a misguided hatred of our fellow man. Rather let us tell the source of antagonism,the Orange and Irish Army psychiatrists,to get out and afford them no assistance against the rage and hatred they have created by their bizarre behaviour . Let us give them and foreign do...

Fine Gael

 Fine Gael represent big landowners,multi-millionaires and Irish Army officers. Many of those  groups and outlying organisations in the Gardai and civil society are involved in serious crimes of violence and brutality against democrats and socialists. Their spokesmen are a few dog-ends and stragglers who desire "firm measures" against "mongrel foxes". The old head-the-ball, as Liam Cosgrave called rank-and-file republicans. A vote for anyone other than Fianna Fail or Labour is a wasted vote.  A fascist has no good in him be he gay or straight. Fascists' and right-wing legislators believe in committing their flawed jurisprudence to paper and call for firm measures against dissenting voices. We count all the British Government's Irish functionaries in the 1970's as "semi-fascists" and people providing breeding grounds for imperialism.  Fine Gael is the party of Big Business and financial concerns and those interests required strong laws. ... 14.1...

Built-in obsolescence or hitting the ground running?

 The question of whether the railways should operate diesel trains or electrify the locomotives is really a non-starter...it is thirty years ago and more since I laid down the basis of the National Development Plan. That document from my pen was entitled the Programme of Irish Socialists. I called for the extension of suburban electric rail to all the suburbs of Dublin,the electrification of inter-city railways and a light railway for Dublin and short-haul buses (the Nipper). What now? Firstly,electrify national railways. Secondly,build the Western Road and Rail Orbital Route to open up the West. Thirdly,things have moved on-it is time for a tramway for Cork City. Joseph Paul Mc Carroll LL.B.