Many of we Irish living involuntarily in exile in the USA laughed long and hard at the latest scam – the appointment of the other gay Byrne as cultural ambassador (since the original one is after all doing the roads);
Byrne's appointment
This Irish government has for over a decade sustained an offensive targeting any creative artists who queered the pitch of their beloved westlife, cecilia ahern etc. Clearly, the money has run out – from having one of ahern's garbage productions on primetime network TV, they are now realistically looking at whether they can stream video from 300-seater venues in the USA
When they were still virtuous and pure, mar dhea, the “Greens” asked many questions about nefarious activities in the music biz from which FF were benefitting mightily. It involved also Enterprise Ireland; briefly, what was happening was that artists would be “signed” by Ffers, their copyrights stolen with collusion from Ffers at IMRO, and trade fairs like Midem (where the Irish stand was controlled by FF's Shay Hennessy) would be used to export millions of units The artits never got paid
We got the cops involved, and IMRO is now a much cleaner body. A federal court case is in the offing for recovery of royalties
That case, again
and the judge ordered a mediation meeting after an unsuccessful attempt to dismiss by Valley, who responded with another motion to dismiss which is to be heard, appropriately, on April Fools' Day, 2010
Details are on bottom of http://seanonuallain.com/id2.html
in what is admittedly a long narrative, appended. The “greens” need to go before they allow and indeed assist FF in destroying this part of our heritage as well
Valley entertainment has recently in 2009 been sued by an independent Irish singer-songwriter Melanie O'Reilly for copyright violation. To date Valley has paid all royalties due to Ms O'Reilly to an individual with no legitimate claim on Ms O'Reilly's material, and having agreed through its lawyers in 2000 not to do so. Furthermore, it has continued to do so having been furnished with documentation that the "company" it got the license from in 1998 is not a valid business entity in Ireland or anywhere
Valley continues to steal from Irish musicians, and its bravado in "standing up" to ex-President Bush has to be seen for the fraud that it is. Its own website (checked 3/9/10) confirms that "Seven labels collaborated for the original release of Celtic Woman by Ireland's Excellent Music"
In that, it shares a dubious distinction with Quebec's St Clair (now owned by the private investment firm Pouschine Cook Capital Management, LLC) However, Excellent music was struck off the Irish register of companies in 2000 - and again, in the case of Valley, Ms O'Reilly's putative license came from another source. Both Valley and St Clair can look forward to many years of lawsuits from Irish musicians, having their misdeeds exposed, and boycotts of their products - the boycott is after all an Irish invention.
What is stunning about this is the gall of this Irish government in attempting to domesticate artists, having victimized them for so long. The truth of the matter is that the colonial effort which involved also traducing the universities and the native science enterprise itself in the manner described in the companion blog has now run aground due to lack of funds. Now, having funded garbage like “Celtic thunder “ in the USA (omnipresent on public TV at one stage; the screams of protest still reverberate), they are trying to move up the value chain.
PS 5u aibrean 2010; We won both parts of the case, with St Clair having a default judgement lodged against them, and Valley agreeing a financial settlement, with our tracks taken off their album
Monday, March 22, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The “greens” and climate change
It may be hard to believe, but less than a decade ago the “greens” were an avowedly leftwing party (and described as such by Gormley himself at national convention). Every effort was made by the volunteer
(and elected) national council to reflect as much of Irish society as possible in a wide range of policies; most of us who served thereon have very warm memories of our colleagues there. A warning signal was that the current bunch of elected reps showed up perhaps once each over a five-year period; Gormley's contempt for policy is best attested by the fact he lived less than a mile away from the hotel where meetings took place, and only showed up once – ironically for an incinerator discussion
There is much controversy about climate change, largely because the “hockey stick” model – let's be patriotic(!) and call it the “hurley” - is a palpable fake to anyone who knows even the most minor aspects of time series prediction. Any attempt to come to conclusions as broad of Al Gore does would need massively more evidence, and the hurley was done without any reference to the wide community of statisticians. That is not to say that climate change is not occurring, and indeed it may be partly anthropogenic. However, it is its political and financial uses which are more significant
Wrt gore, it could be argued that Gore got the Nobel and his currently lucrative career for staying quiet like a good little boy while Bush stole the 2000 election. Gormley had similar problems. He wanted to be a minister, but hated the idea of an independent set of policies acting as constraints, particularly as he is by no means a real green of any sort. So farewell integrity, truth, respect for the law – let alone the policies we used pass on national council about the Arts, waste, GMOS, and so on. Gormley first tried a policy coup – all policies could be summarily changed by the elected reps, utterly in defiance of the will of the members. When this was turned down, he looked into the void – and liked what he saw
FF were never going to allow him interfere with their sacred scams, many of which he had exposed in the Dail – the music biz/IMRO, DCU, banking and so on – let alone shell, Tara, etc. Why not just tear up all the policies and find a new utterly controversial and apparently urgent issue for stupid kids to get excited about? Therein lies the true genius of climate change as a political tool; it is rather like transubstantiation and life after death in that non-one can possibly disprove it, no-one really need do anything except shout down all who oppose it, and it gives a free pass to finished narcissists like Gormley and his colleagues as they destroy 25 years' hard work by activists committed to the sanctity not just of the physical environment, but forms of human life that inform our time on earth with purpose and meaning.
(and elected) national council to reflect as much of Irish society as possible in a wide range of policies; most of us who served thereon have very warm memories of our colleagues there. A warning signal was that the current bunch of elected reps showed up perhaps once each over a five-year period; Gormley's contempt for policy is best attested by the fact he lived less than a mile away from the hotel where meetings took place, and only showed up once – ironically for an incinerator discussion
There is much controversy about climate change, largely because the “hockey stick” model – let's be patriotic(!) and call it the “hurley” - is a palpable fake to anyone who knows even the most minor aspects of time series prediction. Any attempt to come to conclusions as broad of Al Gore does would need massively more evidence, and the hurley was done without any reference to the wide community of statisticians. That is not to say that climate change is not occurring, and indeed it may be partly anthropogenic. However, it is its political and financial uses which are more significant
Wrt gore, it could be argued that Gore got the Nobel and his currently lucrative career for staying quiet like a good little boy while Bush stole the 2000 election. Gormley had similar problems. He wanted to be a minister, but hated the idea of an independent set of policies acting as constraints, particularly as he is by no means a real green of any sort. So farewell integrity, truth, respect for the law – let alone the policies we used pass on national council about the Arts, waste, GMOS, and so on. Gormley first tried a policy coup – all policies could be summarily changed by the elected reps, utterly in defiance of the will of the members. When this was turned down, he looked into the void – and liked what he saw
FF were never going to allow him interfere with their sacred scams, many of which he had exposed in the Dail – the music biz/IMRO, DCU, banking and so on – let alone shell, Tara, etc. Why not just tear up all the policies and find a new utterly controversial and apparently urgent issue for stupid kids to get excited about? Therein lies the true genius of climate change as a political tool; it is rather like transubstantiation and life after death in that non-one can possibly disprove it, no-one really need do anything except shout down all who oppose it, and it gives a free pass to finished narcissists like Gormley and his colleagues as they destroy 25 years' hard work by activists committed to the sanctity not just of the physical environment, but forms of human life that inform our time on earth with purpose and meaning.
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