Irish Revolution 2010

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Mother Ireland's Legacy of Barbarity

In 1999 in Ireland, there was an attempt to prosecute a newspaper for a cartoon mocking the church, but the judge said that he could not prosecute, because there was no definition of what legally constituted blasphemy.

 Well now there is. The Irish Government has just passed one that protects the Catholic Church and the high and mighty, from blogs like this.  The law concerns itself with what might or might not cause "outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of [a] religion" (note, not just Catholics, Sinn Fein, Nuns, priests, everyone except atheists it seems. This blog would probably be deemed illegal in a court of irish law. Sinn Fein's deputy  first minister for the Queen in Ireland also wants dissident journalists gagged. There has been several journalists already assasinated recently in Ireland.

As Michael Nugent of Atheist Ireland pointed out:

"The proposed law does not protect religious belief; it incentivises outrage and it criminalises free speech. Under this proposed law, if a person expresses one belief about gods, and other people think that this insults a different belief about gods, then these people can become outraged, and this outrage can make it illegal for the first person to express his or her beliefs."

So Irish law has now enshrined that the taking of offence is more important than free speech or expression. If something might cause a motivated group of say paedophile Catholics to be "outraged",  then it is illegal, with a fine of up to €25,000 payable immediately or a long prison sentence.

A prosecution can be brought with ease and the punitive nature of the fine  is not legislation, that is simply served  to tie up a few loose ends. Again like the decades of torture and child abuse that happened in Ireland without complaint from either mothers or fathers hardly anybody cares in a culture of cruelty. People like Sinead o'Connor will  be  persecuted and prosecuted under the new Fianna Fail , Green party legislation.

Recently I blogged a petition about decades of violence, incarceration of my mother, electro-shock, etc of the 30 people with humanity and nature left in them, who signed just a couple of them are Irish from hundred who read these blogs.

After the demise of the Celtic church the Roman Catholic church asked the British to govern Ireland in return for huge property deals. The Roman Catholic church and the British raped, plundered and pillaged Ireland. They have now left a culture of mostly slave minded gombeens who generally have no compassion for  their neighbours and children.

As always it falls to a very few heroic people to sacrifice their lives to challenge these outrageous crimes. Just a few hundred families are now  left to preserve the soul of a once famed compassionate people.

Suzie's Liberating Golden Shower on the Pope's Face

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How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

Pope Benny Dick Butch-Slapped after X-Mas Mass ???

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Rise Suckers

The great only appear great because we are on our knees. 

Let us rise.- Connolly - Eirigi !

It is worth remembering that both the influence of Connolly and the part that Labour played in the Irish National Revolution ensured that the Democratic Programme of the Irish Republic, agreed at the first sitting of the first D·il (Irish Parliament) on January 21st 1919, read:

We declare in the words of the Irish Republican Proclamation the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland...we declare that the nation's sovereignty extends ..[to] all its resources, all the wealth and all the wealth-producing processes within the Nation, ... declare it is the duty of the Nation that every citizen shall have opportunity to spend his or her strength and faculties in the service of the people. In return for willing service, we, in the name of the Republic, declare the right of every citizen to an adequate share of the Nation's labour...

It shall also devolve upon the National Government to seek ... a standard of Social and Industrial Legislation with a view to a general and lasting improvement in the conditions under which the working classes live and labour...

We declare and we desire our country to be ruled in accordance with the principles of Liberty, Equality, and Justice for all...

If this seems radical the draft democratic programme was more so. It included the passage:

It shall be the purpose of the Government to encourage the organisation of the people/citizens into Trade Unions and Co-operative Societies with a view to the control and administration of the industries by the workers engaged in those industries.18

These passages from one of the founding documents of the Irish Republic give an indication of the revolutionary intentions of many republican activists during the Irish National Revolution, a revolution that involved widespread working class militancy with Soviets being declared in Cork and Limerick and workers frequently seizing their workplaces. All this when 5 years previously the seeds of a socialist movement scarcely existed in Ireland!

This shows how close Ireland came to the Social Revolution that Connolly dreamed of and gave his life for. This revolution can't be achieved by means of a lobby, or a parliament or a coup d'etat. This revolution will only be achieved when the ordinary people of the world, us, the working class, get up off our knees and take back what is rightfully ours; namely, everything.









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An Alternative from SOCIALISM OR BARBARISM!

(1) Evict the corrupt Fianna Fáil/Green Party/Progressive Democrat Government!
(2) Stop the bail out of the banks. Let them go bankrupt and let the depositors secure what they can of their savings. The duty is on government to protect the small investors.
(3) Jail those who got us into this situation. That includes bankers and property sharks irrespective of which of them is a relative or a friend of a politician.
(4) Instead of bailing out banks invest the money in productive industry under either public or communal management.
(5) Purchase the property on the bank books at minimal cost or seize it outright and give it to local authorities to meet housing need.
(6) Announce a national emergency and get communities to organise now for food security and to agree carbon descent planning.
(7) Nationalise the Corrib and all carbon reserves and invest heavily in Wind Energy production units along the northwest coast.
(8) Employ unemployed construction workers in building canteens in all Irish schools and infrastructure to deal with the coming environmental crisis.
(9) Harmonise VAT on an all-Ireland level to prevent distortions in the national economy – this will be likely revenue neutral.
(10) Raise a wealth tax to pay for any shortfall in public finances and plan towards paying off the national debt altogether.

Does this appear eminently sensible? It is. It's not an explicitly marxist solution but that is not what is needed right now and cannot be promoted among the people. The reason that even the left are not proposing this minimum programme is their innate right opportunism, their adaption to neoliberalist economic theory and their cooptation within the structures of power.



A socialist response to the Irish economic crisis | Socialism or Barbarism!



Sinn Fein's Alternative

NAMA is bailout for the greediest and most corrupt – Ó Caoláin

September 17, 2009

Sinn Féin Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD has described NAMA as a “bailout for the greediest and the most corrupt in Irish society”. He said the biggest losers would be the unemployed, ordinary mortgage holders and the least well off who will be hit by savage Budget cuts. He called for nationalisation of the main banks and the development of a State bank.

Speaking in the Dáil, Deputy Ó Caoláin said:

“There is no doubt whatsoever about who Fianna Fáil and the Greens are serving with this rotten Bill. It is a bailout for the greediest and the most corrupt in Irish society – the bankers and the speculators whose boundless avarice has devastated the Irish economy.

“Throughout the Celtic Tigers years, Fianna Fáil-led Governments pampered this elite group. They allowed them to benefit from massive tax breaks at unknown cost to the State. They allowed them to determine the State’s housing policy – a policy which was no policy but to let the market drive everything. And boy did that market drive. It drove property prices to unreal and unsustainable levels.

“It drove a frenzy of greed for profitable property, inducing many who could not afford to do so, to borrow to buy in the grossly inflated market. It drove debt to levels previously unknown in this country. It was fuelled by cheap loans supplied by a banking system corrupted by the culture of greed that saw massive salaries, bonuses and perks lavished at all senior levels in the financial institutions. And finally the locomotive was driven into a wall and we are now left to deal with the train wreck that is the Irish economy.

“Who are the biggest losers in all of this? Not the bankers and the property speculators who did the crime because they will never do the time. Not the politicians who facilitated them because no-one in Fianna Fáil or the PDs and now the Green Party ever admit any responsibility for anything and they are never made to pay the price for their disastrous policies and disastrous management.

“No, the real losers in all of this are over 400,000 unemployed people in this State, they are the families saddled with massive mortgages, many of whom are being evicted from their homes, they are the people who never had the chance of a decent home during the Celtic Tiger years, they are the weaker sections of the community who are about to be punished most by the savage Budget cuts now in preparation.”

Setting out Sinn Féin’s proposals to address the banking crisis, Deputy Ó Caolain said:

“Sinn Féin believes the only way to deal with the current crisis is to nationalise the two main banks, AIB and BoI, with the potential of turning these two banks into a state bank. This will offer far greater security for the taxpayer. Bad loans can be dealt with in the context of nationalisation and the state can make informed decisions about whether these loans should be foreclosed or managed. We may need to set up a bad bank to deal with the toxic loans within the nationalised system. The government can then decide on a process of recapitalization and restructuring, and deliver the management control that will ensure resumed lending.

“The restructured banking sector envisaged by Sinn Féin goes far beyond just restoring normality to the system. There was nothing normal about a sector that systematically overcharged customers, was complicit in tax evasion and routinely withdrew access to financial services from working class and rural areas because of profit pursuit. As well as intense regulation of the sector, Sinn Féin wants to see a banking system that contributes to the greater good of an economy that serves society as a whole. We also want to see all those who participated in and encouraged the practices that brought about the current crisis held to account and criminal convictions pursued.

“Nationalisation is preferable to repeated recapitalisation, which is excessively costly for the taxpayer yet leaves the government with no real say over how those banks are run. It also deals with any potential losses that could be incurred by the taxpayer, having left the banks in private lands and bought the bad loans off their balance sheets.

“If recapitalisation of a state bank or the nationalised banks is required this could be funded through national bonds which (unlike bank bonds) would be guaranteed. EBS, Irish Nationwide and Irish Life and Permanent must be examined to see if they can function with recapitalisation and the State taking a stake alone or need to have their business wound up and/or transferred to the other two banks.” ENDS

Full text of Deputy Ó Caoláin’s speech follows:

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD, Sinn Féin Dáil leader

I want to begin by urging the Fianna Fáil/Green Government to do its duty to the people and to make a commitment here and now that if this legislation is passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas it will support a Petition to the President under Article 27 of the Constitution to put the NAMA Bill before the people in a referendum.

by the Houses of the Oireachtas if it “contains a proposal of such national importance that the will of the people thereon ought to be ascertained”. If ever there was such a Bill then this is definitely it.

So here now is the real challenge to Fianna Fáil backbenchers and the Green Party. If the Government will not put this Bill to the people and if you, the backbenchers and the Greens, are as exercised as you claim to be about this Bill then go to the country – either in a referendum on NAMA or pull the plug on this disgraceful, discredited and bankrupt Government and allow the people to vote in a General Election.

The people are watching this debate and they are watching how those they elect are serving them – or if they are serving them at all.

But there is no doubt whatsoever about who Fianna Fáil and the Greens are serving with this rotten Bill. It is a bailout for the greediest and the most corrupt in Irish society – the bankers and the speculators whose boundless avarice has devastated the Irish economy.

Throughout the Celtic Tigers years, Fianna Fáil-led Governments pampered this elite group. They allowed them to benefit from massive tax breaks at unknown cost to the State. They allowed them to determine the State’s housing policy – a policy which was no policy but to let the market drive everything. And boy did that market drive. It drove property prices to unreal and unsustainable levels.

It drove a frenzy of greed for profitable property, inducing many who could not afford to do so, to borrow to buy in the grossly inflated market. It drove debt to levels previously unknown in this country.

It was fuelled by cheap loans supplied by a banking system corrupted by the culture of greed that saw massive salaries, bonuses and perks lavished at all senior levels in the financial institutions.

And finally the locomotive was driven into a wall and we are now left to deal with the train wreck that is the Irish economy.

Who are the biggest losers in all of this? Not the bankers and the property speculators who did the crime because they will never do the time. Not the politicians who facilitated them because no-one in Fianna Fáil or the PDs and now the Green Party ever admit any responsibility for anything and they are never made to pay the price for their disastrous policies and disastrous management.

No, the real losers in all of this are over 400,000 unemployed people in this State, they are the families saddled with massive mortgages, many of whom are being evicted from their homes, they are the people who never had the chance of a decent home during the Celtic Tiger years, they are the weaker sections of the community who are about to be punished most by the savage Budget cuts now in preparation.
All of this need not have happened. There were many of us, including Sinn Féin, who urged a different direction. Trade unionists, people in the community and voluntary sector, other parties of the left, economists with a social conscience urged policies based on the principle of equality and driven by need, not greed.

Over a decade ago, in November 1998, in our Pre-Budget Submission, we in Sinn Féin pointed out that the banks here enjoyed a return on their equity that was double the European average, making them among the most profitable banks in the industrialised world.

We said that ultimately the banks should be nationalised so that the Irish people would be the true beneficiaries. We also proposed an increase in Corporation Tax for Irish retail banks with resulting tax funds earmarked for community and local development projects in the most disadvantaged areas throughout the State.

Of course, instead of this, we saw bank profits continuing to soar, a belated, limited and short-lived bank levy, successive banking scandals which ripped off the customers and the taxpayers and, as we now know, collusion between the banks and the property speculators as they inflated the property bubble.

Now the same corporate criminals are to be bailed out by this Government using the people’s money. That’s what NAMA is in a nutshell. It is supposed to address the crisis caused by a corrupt system but NAMA itself may well turn out to be the source of the next decade’s tribunals.

Higher taxes are coming, something the establishment parties have railed against for years - but they won't be to pay for better public services. They will be disappearing into the NAMA black hole created by a Government refusing to take the obvious step of nationalisation to address the banking problem.

The basic concept of NAMA is flawed and this legislation to introduce it is flawed through and through.

The focus point for most commentators has been the price NAMA will pay for toxic loans it transfers from the banks onto the taxpayers' balance sheet. This is the argument around what discount NAMA should get on the €77 billion worth of bad loans on the banks' balance sheets.

Will the Minister advise the House how much of that €77 billion was used in the actual purchase of sites and land banks and employed in actual development works? In other words how much of this €77 billion is accrued unpaid interest?

The legislation says that for these loans NAMA will not pay current market value - what would be repaid to the banks if the properties the loans are on were sold immediately. Instead it will come up with estimates based on 'long-term economic value'. The moves by ACC Bank against the developer Liam Carroll have actually done the Irish taxpayer a huge service. After being dragged to the courts, Carroll had to admit that if forced to repay his loans he would only be able to repay a quarter of their worth. That is based on the fire sale of his properties at their current market value.

Whatever price is paid for the bad loans, risk will transfer from shareholders and creditors to the taxpayer. This transfer of risk creates a real danger of 'moral hazard' in the future - that is, the banks engaging in risky lending behaviour because there are no consequences.

NAMA is incapable of meeting the twin objectives of achieving the best value for the taxpayer and exposing the taxpayer to the least risk possible. The debt to which NAMA is exposing the taxpayer is €54 billion - a third of our GDP, and that’s before we re-capitalise. And make no mistake about it these financial institutions will need to be recapitalized.

The Irish taxpayers’ expense far exceeds the bank-related debt taken on by Sweden in its bad loan management in the '90s - 8% of its GDP. This will have implications for our sovereign credit rating - we have already been downgraded by several ratings agencies - and will incur increased debt servicing costs, potentially in the region of billions annually.

This legislation contains numerous problems. These include a reliance on the banks acting in 'good faith' to give all the information on the loans to NAMA. The Minister for Finance is to have sole power to appoint NAMA board members. NAMA will be empowered to 'work with developers' to finish projects, potentially lending them taxpayers' money to do so. NAMA will also have compulsory purchase order powers to help developers complete projects if there are so-called 'ransom strips' or contested land in the way. Power is given to the Minister for Finance to overturn 'independent' valuations of loans made by NAMA.

And then there are the operational concerns. NAMA won't have the expertise to reclaim debts, as it is not used to working in this sphere and the staff it recruits may still be loyal to their former bank employers. There is the prospect of developers’ loans being nursed for decades while ordinary loan-holders are forced to pay back their debts or face repossession. NAMA will be another huge Government cost at a time when other organisations of significant public importance are being amalgamated or abolished. As for the notion that a levy will be introduced on the banks if NAMA makes a shortfall - we don't know how a 'shortfall' will be defined, much less what the levy would be.

The Government has put forward NAMA as an alternative to nationalisation but almost all commentators are agreed that even after NAMA, nationalisation might still be the outcome. That is because even after the loans are taken off the books of the banks, there is nothing to guarantee against more loans becoming impaired as interest rates increase. Further liquidity problems may arise, so the State will go down the route of equity capital shares that may be so large that banks are nationalised by proxy.

The Government claims that cleaning out the banks via NAMA will bring about a return to normal bank practice and lending. We are told we need NAMA for the economy to return to normal and anybody anti-NAMA is either politically and economically naïve, anti-patriotic, or both. But this rests on the assumption that private bankers are committed to restoring our economy through providing credit and that they will place this above the interests of bank shareholders. Will banks lend when they manage to get their hands on cash via the NAMA-issued transfer bonds?

A code of conduct for banks covered under the State guarantee scheme on lending to small and medium enterprises was published by the Financial Regulator last February and took effect in March - but SMEs say the banks continue to deny loans and credit.

It's not certain what 'normal' is when it comes to banks' lending practices, but it is certain that banks do not fulfill the role of public investment. Historically banks lend too much and too easily in booms and lend too little and too cautiously in recessions.

My colleague Sinn Féin Finance spokesperson Arthur Morgan has rightly asked where is the NAMA for ordinary people? When homes and small businesses are being repossessed the length and breadth of the state, when people are facing negative equity and economic hardship, the Government can stand over bailing out banks and developers alone.

The Department of Finance's Guide to NAMA exposes the fundamentally flawed thinking behind NAMA. Frequently Asked Question no. 2 reads: "How can you justify this further bail-out of the banks for assets and not prevent banks from increasing mortgage rates?"

The answer:
"It is true that the banks in most instances will not be paid the current market value but will be paid a price which is in accordance with the long-term economic value of each asset. With regard to mortgage rates, the interest rates reflect commercial market realities as banks must pay more to access funds in wholesale retail markets. The Government has no role to play in the commercial day-to-day operation of banks here and believes that it is important that the banking sector has a market presence and operates within market discipline and constraints."

Surely if banks were operating in normal market conditions with discipline and constraints they would not be under a blanket state guarantee and in the middle of shifting all their bad loans off their books onto the taxpayers' heads at a bargain price for themselves?

One of the most incredible aspects of NAMA is that it is outsourcing the property management aspect to private development firms. Had it been used as a property management company, the State could have used land seized on defaulted loans for vital infrastructure, social housing provision or tourism development.
We now have the crazy situation where people throughout the country are sitting in homes and business premises in negative equity, and worse, are being evicted as their property is repossessed. The property managed by NAMA should be available to local authorities to house people evicted as a result of banks moving against them. However, the NAMA-owned property, paid for by taxpayers, is to be managed by private development companies - tenders have already been put out to attract such companies. This revelation is highly suspicious and will lead many to believe that the taxpayer is again being deceived and robbed by the Government, banks and developers.

Sinn Féin believes the only way to deal with the current crisis is to nationalise the two main banks, AIB and BoI, with the potential of turning these two banks into a state bank. This will offer far greater security for the taxpayer. Bad loans can be dealt with in the context of nationalisation and the state can make informed decisions about whether these loans should be foreclosed or managed. We may need to set up a bad bank to deal with the toxic loans within the nationalised system. The government can then decide on a process of recapitalization and restructuring, and deliver the management control that will ensure resumed lending.

The current upheaval in banking will undoubtedly have an impact on the staffing numbers at the banks. While a clear-out of those at the highest levels of the banks whose reckless mismanagement brought about the current banking crisis is required, Sinn Féin recognizes that the vast majority of bank employees played no role in the corruption and bad management that pervaded the sector. The Government should work with the IBOA and other trade unions representing these workers to ensure the retention of the maximum possible number of jobs in banking and to ensure that employees who lose their jobs receive proper redundancy packages and the opportunity to retrain.

The restructured banking sector envisaged by Sinn Féin goes far beyond just restoring normality to the system. There was nothing normal about a sector that systematically overcharged customers, was complicit in tax evasion and routinely withdrew access to financial services from working class and rural areas because of profit pursuit. As well as intense regulation of the sector, Sinn Féin wants to see a banking system that contributes to the greater good of an economy that serves society as a whole. We also want to see all those who participated in and encouraged the practices that brought about the current crisis held to account and criminal convictions pursued.

Nationalisation is preferable to repeated recapitalisation, which is excessively costly for the taxpayer yet leaves the government with no real say over how those banks are run. It also deals with any potential losses that could be incurred by the taxpayer, having left the banks in private lands and bought the bad loans off their balance sheets.

If recapitalisation of a state bank or the nationalised banks is required this could be funded through national bonds which (unlike bank bonds) would be guaranteed. EBS, Irish Nationwide and Irish Life and Permanent must be examined to see if they can function with recapitalisation and the State taking a stake alone or need to have their business wound up and/or transferred to the other two banks.

The issue of ordinary bank shareholders is a sensitive matter. While many of these shareholders benefited quite well during the boom period for the banks, many reinvested dividends in order to secure their future and have lost much of their pensions. However, the interests of the taxpayer/public shareholders cannot be held hostage to the interests of private shareholders. The most appropriate way to protect vulnerable shareholders/pensioners is to ensure that no cuts take place to State pensions or other social protections and that the State pension is increased. In doing so you protect equally those who have lost life savings through risky investments and those who never had the money to make investments or build up a private pension in the first place.

Sinn Féin opposed the Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009 which sought to grant the Minister for Finance the power to extend the guarantee beyond 2010. While other states ran guarantees for longer while securing their banking systems, none had the extensive guarantee with the lack of appropriate conditions that we have. A blanket guarantee is not the way forward for the banking system.

We believe that the Public Accounts Committee should be tasked with carrying out a full investigation of malpractice in the Irish banking system over the last decade. Its findings should inform better regulation of the banking sector. Malpractice and even criminality by the banks led to this crisis. Yet there have been no arrests, no fines, no admissions or findings of guilt. All those responsible must be investigated and prosecuted where the evidence warrants.

The Minister for Justice must disclose to the Dáil if there are current investigations being undertaken by either Gardaí or the Criminal Asset Bureau and the public must be kept informed of criminal proceedings being taken against those guilty of corporate malpractice. Those at the highest level of the banks over the last number of years and suspected of culpability in mismanagement and fraud must be removed from their positions and new management installed in the nationalised banks.
Other measures should include:

Whistleblowers legislation to cover workers in the financial services and banking sectors.

Intensify regulation of the banking sector and make it independent.

Enhance the role of credit unions through reform of legislation to allow them to expand their work as community-based not-for-profit services supporting social and economic development.

Legislate for the right to a bank account, as has been done in the Netherlands, France and other states, to enable people without a bank account to open an account at a financial institution of their choice.

Enable An Post to provide basic banking services, including a basic bank account. Basic bank accounts are simple, low cost, 'no frills' current accounts designed for those who are financially excluded.

Provide greater support to MABS to deal with the increase in personal debt and those seeking help in addressing personal financial crises.

Emergency action on banking is required. But it is emergency action to rescue the peoples' economy, not a rescue for the bankers and developers who have devastated it. Providing fresh capital is only part of the solution. Even more important is providing new leadership at the banks, leadership which puts the public interest first. We need a banking system that serves the people.

NAMA has nothing to do with improving Irish society. The ultimate point of it is to socialize debt and privatize profit. This Bill should be rejected. This Government should be rejected. Let the people have their say.


Gombeen free State








The Ideas of James Connolly

Lena Eileen Eyes

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Unguarded naked Lena eyes,


Sending Simple Soul messages,


Then I knew,


Eileen's Eternal Unity with Life's spark.




by brian clarke for Lena Eileen

Human Right 15

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Copenhagen's Climatic Capital of Smoke and Mirrors

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and South African President Jacob Zuma at a meeting on the sidelines of the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.




COPENHAGEN: World leaders may have given up on saving the planet from climate change, at talks here on Friday. Instead, they are negotiating a PR declaration aimed at saving face.

Leaders delayed their departure on Friday evening when the conference was scheduled to end. There are reports that the UN secretary general may have asked them to stay.

It’s clear that there will be no legally-binding treaty or extension of the Kyoto Protocol, With over 100 heads of state and government gathered they cannot afford to go home empty-handed and look like the fools that they really are.

The latest version of a declaration available is being called a weak text, with no specifics or specific commitments. It has no figures for emission reduction targets by developed nations by 2020, still using  x and y  to fill the gaps in the text.

The language reflects the fundamental disagreements on the shape of a future global climate change regime.Despite the hype of over 100 heads of state on a single platform, their speeches fail to bring anything new to the table, merely reiterating the divide between rich and poor countries.


The talks problems are rich nations insisting that large developing nations like India and China for example join a new legally binding treaty to cut emissions, while on the other side, developing countries are demanding that rich nations fulfil their legal obligations to reduce emissions and finance adaptation and tech transfer efforts.

Developing countries are not prepared to accept dismantling the Kyoto agreement the world’s only legal treaty to combat climate change.




 Fake Misleading Copenhagen Propaganda Climate News from the British Broadcasting Coperation

Climate change agreement reached in Copenhagen

Key states have reached what they call a "meaningful agreement" at the Copenhagen climate summit.

A US government official said the deal was a "historic step forward" but was not enough to prevent dangerous climate change in the future.

Analysts welcomed the fact that a deal had been done, but said its achievements were modest.

US President Barack Obama said the deal would be a foundation for global action but there was "much further to go".

He said the US, China, Brazil, India and South Africa had "agreed to set a mitigation target to limit warming to no more than 2C and, importantly, to take action to meet this objective".

He added: "We are confident that we are moving in the direction of a significant accord."

The two-week summit had been deadlocked as world leaders had struggled to hammer out a deal.

Responding to Friday's developments, Greenpeace UK executive director John Sauven expressed disappointment.

"It seems there are too few politicians in this world capable of looking beyond the horizon of their own narrow self-interest, let alone caring much for the millions of people who are facing down the threat of climate change," he said.

"It is now evident that beating global warming will require a radically different model of politics than the one on display here in Copenhagen."

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A Censored Chavez Contribution at Copenhagen Climate Summit, Press the go button a second time

Cannon Fodder

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Rotten Injustice

“It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.”
Johnny Rotten (Lydon)

BBC BRUTISH BULLSCUTTER COPERATION

Don't even give them a chance to launch their Bullscutter !

Oh, no. Brutish Bullscutter Coperation. Don't come fucking near me today. Dear Jaysus, you Kerry fucking recruits and gobshites all over the Irish media are their by-product. There are so many things I could say to express my deep mistrust and yes, anger of these new media Irish opinion makers. Their world service can be a titillating export but their rampant censorship of the restless native's replies stinks to high heaven, of arrogance, cultural imperialism and age old repression.

I don't vote right wing as far as I know, so maybe that also explains my antagonism to them. I don't believe the Brutish Bullscutter Coperation, which henceforth will be simply called the BBC, offer anything approximating legitimate alternatives for this country, indeed any country but thats their business. I disagree with their monarchy, class system of commoners, lords, inherited privilige and intolerance of diversity or alternatives.

Lest you think nationalism is blinding me, do not confuse my rants against Brutish Bullscutter with the many Scottish, English and Welsh friends I have known down through the years, most of whom are the salt of the Earth in my opinion and great people.

It goes against every fibre of my being and tradition to be rude to people but you have got to stand up for your identity these days or become a smiling zombie product of their pundits and seductive manipulating bullscutter.

Brutes are people too but we must take this tour d'arse with all of its insanity, as a relief from the bland sanitized, couldn't give a fuck mercenary BULLSCUTTER ! of our age.

New Irish Revolutionary Army

A new state-of-the-art, hard-core version of the IRA has been formed
out of elite trained forces from various traditional republican
groups. Reports state that carefully hand-picked groups of dedicated
and proven fighters, have been formed out of the Continuity IRA, Real
IRA and other republican groups, in order to combat penetration from a
web of various British collaboration services. Media sources say those
involved are experienced operators who are meticulous about security
and experienced in running an armed campaign.


Citing one "Republican hardliner," a media source stated the "new IRA
organisation" may not officially bear a name to avoid detection. They
would partly draw on membership of the Real IRA, Continuity IRA, and
"In terms of its capacity to mount attacks, it represents the most
potent threat in terms of launching a new campaign," according to a
Republican source.







The "peace Process" is almost finished with a stand-off threatening
closure of the delicate balancing act of former Republican and
pro-British parties, who form the six county 'power-sharing
executive', now in its final death throes.Sinn Fein with its colleague
Peter Robinson's Democratic Unionist Party, who jointly lead a cobbled
executive who disagree on everything from the transfer of powers, to
policing the impossible justice matters of the failed orange statelet,
manipulated from London, Hollywood and east Belfast.









New Republican leadership is uniting traditional republican factions
who are preparing to mount fresh bombing campaigns both in Britain and
occupied Ireland. Conservative estimates state 200 activists now owe
allegiance to the new force. Veterans of the IRA are drawing in
support right across the board.

British informer services guess that it is not aligned to any
political party, but it is led by hardline IRA members along with
former members of the IRA army council. The "new organization of
traditional republicans" has yet to declare confirmation of existence
but may make an announcement in its own time in the new year, in the
worst possible terms for the British. “In terms of its capability to
mount attacks, it represents the most potent threat in terms of
launching a new campaign,” said one seasoned observer often known as
the hurler on the ditch.

To avoid infiltration by the British services, it is believed to be
“hand-picking” only volunteers who have already carried out attacks or
proven their credentials as reliable members. “It is choosing people
from CIRA, RIRA and other groups, leaving those they consider possibly
compromised, on the outside,” said the republican source. “They don’t
want republicans who are involved in smuggling or other activities
that could compromise them. They might use them to generate finance or
even help mount operations but they won’t be allowed to join.

“This group is highly secretive and paranoid about informants and
their identities being revealed. They are serious operators who know
what’s involved in running a campaign. They’ve done it before ” it
said.

Meanwhile on the political front, Kevin McQuillan, a spokesperson for
the Republican Network for Unity, said that there had been a
“re-alignment” within traditional republican groups.“I think the
turning point amongst the armed groups, ironically enough, happened in
March when Martin McGuinness called the republicans who attacked
Massereene ‘traitors’. The use of that terminology by an iconic
republican figure shocked us,” said McQuillan.

He believes attacks by traditional IRA factions have become more
strategic and frequent. “I think there is a meeting of minds among all
republicans. There has been an increase in attacks and those
operations are more organised and strategic,” he said.

The threat posed by traditional republicans has never been greater,
according to a British source for both the gardai and MI5 who said
that there is an “intelligence deficit” on traditional republicans.“
The main players are under surveillance but there is so much activity
it’s almost impossible to decipher what is happening. They are meeting
and planning the whole time.”





It is believed that new republican special units have been formed to
spear head a long war in occupied Ireland of the six counties. Small,
well trained, experienced, supported by larger units operating in the
occupied Irish war theatre, where the battle lines are sometimes ill
defined with enemies mixed amongst friends in formerly loyalist areas.
Their move into areas such as Ballymena and South Belfast for example,
signals a willingness to engage in a new form of asymmetric guerrilla
warfare in Ireland for the 21st century.

The new units are sometimes referred to as 'cadre multipliers', small
teams of highly trained operators, who can achieve results better than
say regiments with much larger forces, sometimes integrated, sometimes
operating alongside standard service units, co-ordinating attacks in
the six counties with strikes in occupied England, whilst fostering a
positive relationship with marginalized friendly communities such as
the black Irish community in England.









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"During the last year of his life, Malcolm moved towards recognizing the system of capitalism as the root cause of the oppression and indignities suffered by African Americans. Though he never rejected Islam, he stopped doing his political organizing on a religious basis. In June 1964, he founded the secular Organization of Afro-American Unity.

At the OAAU's founding rally, Malcolm stated "we want equality by any means necessary." In a 1964 speech, he said "you can't have capitalism without racism." Malcolm never became a socialist and he never broke with some of the conservative ideas he had acquired early in his life. However, at the time of his death the trajectory of his political thought was towards anti-capitalism, internationalism, and revolution.

In January 1965, he said "I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice, and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation... It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a racial conflict of black against white, or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter."

Malcolm's identification of the economic and political system of global capitalism as the underlying basis of racial oppression and his arguments in favor of international political struggle anticipated the worldwide growth of revolutionary movements in the late 1960s."

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The police chief who was in charge of the British police force, that failed to protect a mother, who begged for police protection for her children who then went on to kill herself and her daughter, still refuses to apologize. He has now been promoted with a huge contract worth more than a million pounds sterling to police Ireland for "Her Majesty the Queen of England".

Chief Constable Matt Baggott is the same Baggot who ran England's Leicestershire police force while Fiona Pilkington and her family endured violence, bullying and harassment that drove her to despair. Despite a record of persistent complaints by Ms. Pilkington over a long period of time, Baggot's police often heartlessly ignored her heart wrenching pleas for protection. Instead of being fired, he was promoted to teach loyalists in British occupied Ireland, on the finer points of British policing standards. He has also been awarded the Queen's Police Medal (QPM) and was later also appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

Baggot has just been serving in Ireland a few short weeks and already the local edition of the British version of the Sunday World's newspaper reports: “Anger as cops leave hanged man’s body on show for three hours”. The police later confirmed that the body was left hanging from the flyover for more than four hours. It had first been spotted by an off-duty officer at 8am, but may have been there longer, and was not removed until close to 1pm."

The Sunday World who also published a picture of the hanging, was criticized for coverage of the matter by Baggot. The image of cars driving past casually was necessary, as available tabloid space for words, could not adequately describe, the horror of the incident's impression. To be fair about the matter, it should be noted that shortly after the picture was taken, the traffic was then stopped by Baggot's British police force in Ireland.

Nevertheless the body was still clearly visible by children from nearby houses for hours on end, before the British police bothered to get screens or remove it. Baggot's police who have massive screens which are normally used in public order situations, to hide Irish resistance to British rule in Ireland from the world's media, were not however used. Baggott's first reaction was again, a form of heartless denial and distinct lack of responsibility, as in the Pilkington case.

Rather than apologize, his first reaction was to criticize a newspaper's Sunday World photos of the incident. Another attempted cover-up, of British double-standards as he selectively criticized media coverage of the victims of his own negligence, while approving of the photos British inspired barbarities, such as the Saddam's hanging for instance, which appear regularly in the media worldwide.

A reporter with the same newspaper, the Sunday World whom the English police chief of northern Ireland criticized, was shot three times as he walked hand-in-hand home with his wife. Almost a decade later the killers have not been charged, although a senior police officer told the inquest at the time, that he was satisfied eight people interviewed after the murder, were responsible.

Neither has the appointment of Martin McGuinness a 'peace proponent', and a former Irish republican turning to Unionist policies, who bizarrely himself has complained about the freedoms given to the local press, after being appointed as " her Majesty's" Deputy first minister in Ireland. Neither has it prompted any of her Majesty's other ministers in occupied Ireland to bother with justice in the matter.

The coroner in the case of the journalist, Martin O'Hagan's murder said at the time he was satisfied with the police theory, that the murder of Mr O'Hagan was "related to investigative journalism in the area." Newsagents in the area are fearful too for their own safety and have also stopped selling newspapers, after being threatened.

A senior detective who has since retired and now works as a police consultant abroad, says that the priority should have been the presence of a doctor and attempts to revive the victim. If death was certain or instance if rigor mortis had set in, the body should have been cut down immediately and taken away for forensic examination.

“I can’t see the logic of leaving it hanging exposed to the elements,” he said. “It would be preferable to cut it down, with the ligature still around the neck, and take it away for forensic examination indoors.”

Almost a decade after an investigative reporter, Martin O’Hagan was shot dead, journalists in Northern Ireland still question why police officers under Baggot\s British supervision have failed to bring anyone to justice:

“Why?”.

Why, they demand to know, has no one been prosecuted, despite publication of massive evidence pointing to a loyalist paramilitary gang near O’Hagan’s former home in Lurgan ???????

The International body, Reporters Without Borders has condemned fresh paramilitary death threats made against other journalists in Ireland.

A leading Belfast journalist recently recieved a threat, accompanied by a bullet, bearing the name, address and car registration number of Robin Livingstone, the editor of the "Andersonstown News", which was sent to a TV studio by a group claiming to be the Red Hand Defenders, thought to be a loyalist paramilitary front, for the occupying British forces that include, M16,M15, British Army, British Police, RUC/PSNI and many other British inspired death squads still roaming the streets of Ireland.

Reporters Without Borders say: "This latest sinister development shows that paramilitaries still feel at liberty to seek to intimidate journalists - a threat worsened by the police failure to catch the killers of Martin O'Hagan." The NUJ has also condemned such "outrageous" action. Jeremy Dear, the union's general secretary, said: "We condemn utterly such threats. It is vital the PSNI acts to protect those under threat and that politicians from all parties deliver a clear message in defence of media freedom and the right of journalists to work free from such threats."

A spokesperson from British Irish Rights Watch, has said the threats are aimed at stifling press freedom, adding: "With the 2001 murder of journalist Martin O'Hagan still unsolved, threats against journalists and others must be taken seriously." However Baggot's British police the PSNI has just recently threatened to imprison the Editor of another leading Irish newspaper, because of a refusal to reveal her sources, a normal journalistic right in any genuine democracy.

Many human rights campaigners have called for the immediate resignation of Baggot and McGuinness for their combined criticism and attacks on press freedom. Even the BBC who normally use selective censorship in Irish affairs, were forced to mention the matter. Sadly in Ireland, decades after the much trumpeted "peace process", Press freedom has been one of the main victims. Ordinary people cower in silence with fear of British inspired death squads that still roam Irish streets. The resurrected disgraced sectarian police force of the former RUC, although given a new makeover name of the PSNI, are still detested by the majority of the population. Strangely the only common theme, that unites working people on both sides of sectarian divide fostered by the British presence, is their common hatred of Baggots newly named police force the PSNI under Baggot's British supervision.