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Will Obama clean up Ireland's greatest terror?

Now that Barack Obama has cleansed Pakistan of the world's greatest terrorist will he please concentrate on Ireland's greatest terror-the Banks!! It will be more difficult to take out the banks in Ireland than it was Bin Laden. Because you can't come in at the dead of night. Irish banks never work at night. In fact many in Ireland would say they never worked at all. The banks are very devious. You can't take them out after dark but also there are two bank holidays a week so it's hard to pin them down. They are never there at weekends and they only attend their hideouts for five and a half hours a day. Barack will not be able to send in Drones because like Colonel Gadaffi their headquarters and premises are usually placed in highly populated areas beside schools, hospitals and churches etc. They use the poor and sick as human sheilds. They are also extremely wealthy institutions and pay their top brass $7-10 million per year. They got that money from the Irish government who took it from elderly blind women and handicapped children and their carers.

So Barack beware when you arrive in Dublin. Sew up your pockets and lock your brief case. Don't carry cash and keep you credit cards in your pocket. These bankers are dangerous and waiting to pounce!

Time to Leave the European Union

The European Union is fast becoming an abject failure. And Ireland must prepare for withdrawal immediately. It will take up to five years to process the escape as we will have to disengage financially and legally. We will also have to create new trade partners throughout the world. Perhaps we will have a good start by having countries like Spain, Italy, Finland, Portugal, Austria and Greece following us out of the Big Club. The European Community was an excellent idea in 1972. This is not 1972 and we are not in a nine state economic unit. We are in a twenty seven state monstrosity of dishevelled nations with a two state dictatorship of Germany and France. With Britain calling the shots even though they are 30% partners.

In 1972 China was an impoverished Communist State who wouldn't have had dealings with Ireland or the EC for ideological reasons. In 2011 if Ireland were willing to trade with China we could do without the other 26 EU states. Our new trade partners should be China, India, Pakistan and the USA as well as Norway and other states on the periphery of Europe. Russia, Turkey etc. The world has changed economically, socially and technologically since the 1972 Treaty.

Ireland has in the last ten years suffered drastically because of our EU membership. We have had one of our greatest economic assets, our vast expanse of seas around our Island state destroyed. Our fishing industry has simply been stolen from us as a nation and handed to Spain's factory fishing industry. Our agricultural industry has been decimated by EU regulations and basically handed over to the Polish. Ireland's main produce if it were on it's own is agriculture. But our farmers are being paid NOT to produce! Our government is banned from subsidising agriculture and industry by EU regulations. Replacing all this potential entrepreneurship with multi billion pound gambling casinos of hedge funds and stock exchanges trading or gambling on the misery of other country's financial woes. Ireland has the potential to feed its own people, to house its own people, to heat it's populations homes. It already has one of the highest export records within Europe and if outside the EU could develop real export industries such as food. Ninety per cent of our land is not utilised and lies barren.

Ireland has the potential to become one of the largest exporters of food in the world per capita. Take the example of Spain and it's factory fishing. Ireland should start a monolithic factory farming industry with one thousand agricultural factories involved in the production of potatoes, chilled and frozen foods, canned foods. Cattle, poultry, sheep, and every crop possible can be grown in our little country. We must take back our fishing industry by imposing a twenty mile fishing zone around this island, except where we share the zone with the UK. We could build a fishing fleet that would again provide tens of thousands of jobs on and off shore. But our government are restrained by EU regulations from subsidising such initiatives. Yet we have a potential customer base of about 4.5 billion people around the world who are well disposed to Ireland. The EC was created to promote trade with our partners in Europe in 1972. Now it is suppressing our trade by silly rules inside and outside Europe. This country could create hundreds of thousands of jobs for it's people. Just by utilising the potential it already has as a country. The EU is stifling this potential whilst at the same giving a "bailout" at 7% and raking in billions from an artificial economy created by the European Central Bank.

It's time for a new club Europe. Join with Ireland and lets go see our true friends round the world. In the east, the west, the south, the north. Greece, Portugal, Italy. Iceland you stood up to them so come join Ireland and create the potential for our countries to find a place and stand alone on this earth. Our peoples have the potential if we can cast away the shackles of Europe.

Last chance for Irish electorate to save themselves.

Six hundred thousand Irish people are either unemployed or have emigrated to Australia, Canada, the USA, New Zealand, or the UK. If we estimate that each of those individuals are part of a family of at least three adults then there are at a very minium 1.8 million voters suffering horribly as a result of the Fianna Fail government's policies. If we add to that the attacks on the blind, the sick, the disabled, the handicapped and disabled children, pensioners and the homeless there are well over 2 million voters directly damaged by this outgoing government. Wouldn't you think that with a total population of only 3.8 million then it would be impossible for Ireland to elect the same again? Another right wing capitalist regime who's first priority will be to protect the rich. But on Monday 28th February Enda Kenny will lead Ireland for the next five years. His Fine Gael party is a right wing protectorate for banks, the wealthy, big farmers, industrialists, foreign bond holders etc. But the Irish people only have themselves to blame for what they are about to inflict on their own country over the next 72 hours. They have a choice of a left wing alliance of political representatives or a right wing alliance of Fine Gael and Fianna Fail. The Irish people will vote 55% right wing FG/FF and 20% right of centre Labour. And they are looking for change? Loose change is all they'll get. If the IMF feels like throwing a few cents to them!!

The Catholic Church in Ireland yesterday warned that there will be violence in the streets if the new government do not address the "bonus culture" and vast inequalites in Irish society. Even though Fine Gael has been chosen to run the country for the next five years that doesn't mean Cairo could not happen in Dublin in six months time. That's how long I think Enda's got to start taking a cut off the rich. I don't usually respect much the Roman church have to say. But they got it right this time. Six months till doomsday.

Are Irish Tax Payers Money Laundering for Al Qaeda?

I'm very surprised that niether Pat Kenny or any Irish media outlet have not questioned Brian Lenihan's assertion that no-one knows who bond holders are! Lenihan was dismissing Michael Lewis's book about the Irish banking crisis (Thursday 3rd Feb 11). So we could be money laundering for Al Quieda and if we don't know who the €85 billion bonds belong to how do we tax them? Of course I forgot, we don't tax anyone with over a million in this country.

Irish Election Prediction 2011

I predict that on 28th February 2011 the Irish General Election will produce the following results:

Fianna Fail 20 seats (2007/ 78 seats)
Fine Gael   61 seats (2007/ 51 seats)
Labour       33 seats (2007/ 20 seats)
Green Party  0 seats (2007/ 06 seats)
Sinn Fein    31 seats (2007/ 04 seats)
PD               0 seats (2007/ 02 seats)
IND           21 seats (2007/ 05 seats)

Can anyone tell me what the betting is on this?

What a Cruel Budget!

Well I knew there would be some kind of dictatorship coming out of this disastrous government in the Republic of Ireland. But what a smartly crafted web they have spun to do the maximum damage and then sit back for five years while the people have to take punishment they have meted out but which will be blamed on a new Government to be elected in January. The FF Green Coalition have done a deal with the IMF and the European Commission and Central Bank for a five year cruelty plan (austerity). Then Fianna Fail will be politically destroyed in the election due within seven weeks. But their plan must be implemented by the new government over the next five years. The type of adjustments in the budget for the first year is a sign of things to come. The first attack was on the blind. I know. I need to repeat that. Brian Lenihan's first item in his budget was to take €8 a week minimum off blind people. Second was disabled children. Will I say that again too? Disabled children. A person on a welfare benefit with a disabled child will lose €8 a week from their benefit and also €10 from child benefit. If they are working and on a minimum wage they will have a reduction of 12% in their income because the minimum wage is being reduced by €1 per hour. And they will for the first time be brought into the tax net. By the way the government also announced a maximum wage in the civil service of €250k a year. How kind. And so that these highly paid, highly skilled layabouts don't leave the country their income tax will not be increased but low paid and middle income people will have tax increases. At the beginning of this year this government sacked 2,000 classroom assistants who cared for disabled  children and kids with learning difficulties in Irish schools. Now many of those kids cannot attend school because they need one to one help with both their learning and such things as toileting, mobility and feeding. There are many, many more ways which Brian Cowan and Brian Lenihan have attacked and abused children, the blind and disabled. The poor. Ireland has had a terrible history of child abuse and state elderly abuse by church and state institutions. Now the government have joined in to abuse them all with deprivation of education, food, heat, clothing. Even the white stick is going to be stolen. Abuse is abuse lads. The level and the different variety doesn't make it any less harmful. Meanwhile the rich have a little more cream poured on their strawberries. I'll keep up dating this budget blog. And if the government is abusing someone in this society I will report it without favour.

One good thing that came from this budget was the reply of Sinn Fein's Pearse Doherty to the Finance Minister's budget speech. Such an eloquent contribution. Such humanity. If I wanted to make a comparison this man reminds me of Michael Collins. If Pearse Doherty were to join Fine Gael or labour he would lead them in one year and be Irish Premier within two years. Watch this space for a new legend in politics. He will be the making of Sinn Fein if people can forget the past. But he will make a mark in Irish politics starting in 2011. You read it here.