Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Why non-critical immigration to Ireland should be stopped immediately
Whether we like it or not, the Irish state was established as an ethnic project. It was decidedly not a racial one; deep in the maw and sinew of the nascent state was commitment to a set of principles which transcended race. The 1916 proclamation, which explicitly acknowledged two communities on the island of Ireland, anticipated the objections of critics like Anderson who questioned all post-colonial national movements
The tiny size of the Irish state has allowed takeover by various globalizing movements, with dreadful consequences. The first such, notoriously, was Roman Catholicism; the people's response to this mediaeval arrangement has formed the stuff of thousands of novels. The second was neoliberalism, with a brief foray into neoconservatism. It is in that context that immigration was encouraged
It is important to point out that no-one advocates a return to the situation wherein Irish women were asked to have more children than they could handle, while living a life recognizable to their sisters abroad as worthy of them. Yet the current situation wherein there are tens of thousands (at least) from abroad on welfare and bringing up their children at a time of mass unemployment and economic meltdown similarly is unacceptable
Given that the Irish people indicated overwhelmingly in a 2004 referendum that Irish citizenship should be reserved to those ethically Irish, immigration to Ireland should be stopped for all except critical jobs like software localization.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
An Irish MK-Ultra, anyone?
I believe the whole Norris incident offers vital clues as to how Ireland really works, and the creation ex nihilo of soothsayers from TCD – Gurdjiev, von Prondzynski, Norris, Robinson inter alia (spot the Irish name).
A first question is – how did Norris get a job at TCD with only a BA among his earned degrees? And whence this reputation for brilliance, given that he published nothing of any merit, let alone becoming meritorious of the accolade of “Ireland's leading Joyce scholar”;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/02/scandal-scuppers-gay-president
David is not a scholar of any sort. He is just - fortunately for us – a very incompetent politician who finally chanced his arm just a little too much.
In a metaphorical sense, David was born in 1987; it was then he first ran for a Trinity Seanad seat. He ran alongside Mary Robinson and Ferdinand von Prondzynski, inter alia. In a parallel universe, FvP is still running for the Irish presidency, while Norris is enjoying his third year of retirement from TCD. Instead, FvP decided to lead us to the Elysium of full corporate takeover of the universities and destroyed centuries of goodwill while losing 8 cases. Robinson represented both Norris and Bacik in court – unsuccessfully.
The TCD hustings in 1987 were interesting indeed, with FvP being outshone by his loquacious colleague. Of course, we now have the chance to be led by Robinson's successor Ivana Bacik to the Parnassus of abortion on demand. It is interesting how many of these people are immigrants with rather fragmented psyches and attenuated/mysterious family backgrounds.( An Irish MK-Ultra, anyone? )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA
Gurdjiev does not even have a name – it should be Georgiades, if anything.
If he has any integrity, Norris will resign from the Seanad immediately. It is clear that a lot of people like him. It is also clear that he was never qualified to teach, and that a real scholar should have been coming into his own at 52, the age David retired.
A first question is – how did Norris get a job at TCD with only a BA among his earned degrees? And whence this reputation for brilliance, given that he published nothing of any merit, let alone becoming meritorious of the accolade of “Ireland's leading Joyce scholar”;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/02/scandal-scuppers-gay-president
David is not a scholar of any sort. He is just - fortunately for us – a very incompetent politician who finally chanced his arm just a little too much.
In a metaphorical sense, David was born in 1987; it was then he first ran for a Trinity Seanad seat. He ran alongside Mary Robinson and Ferdinand von Prondzynski, inter alia. In a parallel universe, FvP is still running for the Irish presidency, while Norris is enjoying his third year of retirement from TCD. Instead, FvP decided to lead us to the Elysium of full corporate takeover of the universities and destroyed centuries of goodwill while losing 8 cases. Robinson represented both Norris and Bacik in court – unsuccessfully.
The TCD hustings in 1987 were interesting indeed, with FvP being outshone by his loquacious colleague. Of course, we now have the chance to be led by Robinson's successor Ivana Bacik to the Parnassus of abortion on demand. It is interesting how many of these people are immigrants with rather fragmented psyches and attenuated/mysterious family backgrounds.( An Irish MK-Ultra, anyone? )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA
Gurdjiev does not even have a name – it should be Georgiades, if anything.
If he has any integrity, Norris will resign from the Seanad immediately. It is clear that a lot of people like him. It is also clear that he was never qualified to teach, and that a real scholar should have been coming into his own at 52, the age David retired.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Ireland could be turned around in a year
There are several pathological tendencies within the Irish state and society which are being ignored in the frenzy about rate cuts and gay presidents
The first is the role of the state itself in eviscerating civil society. This tendency has not lessened in the slightest since the fall of the 1997-2011 juntas and their replacement by – well, by everyone not part of the juntas. Indeed, the shamelessness with which the state continues to fix its citizenry for the speculation, megalomania, and sybaritic lifestyles of a very few for a very short period is remarkable
Yet that is less surprising, put in the context of a state that has lurched from a disastrous Roman Catholic fixation to a no less disastrous neoliberal one, all at the expense of its people. Indeed, encouraging immigration allowed Brecht's parodic notion of the leadership choosing a new citizenry, as the old one had failed it
The results have been catastrophic, at every level – material, cultural, and existential. At the last level, there were many refuges for hold-outs against galloping statism until recently – pub, music session/concert, freedom of assembly and speech. The state has used proxies like IMRO to control Irish music, whose 1990's torrent has now turned into a trickle. In the meantime, attested criminality in the music business goes unpunished in Ireland, with Irish musos forced to get their rights through legal action in Britain and the USA.
A second mechanism used by the state is the differential application of European law and recommendation to control its people. So a farmer who went down to the pub and had 3 pints every Saturday night for 35 years before driving back slowly on deserted roads suddenly finds himself subject to the same legislation as a joyrider going 200 km/h on a crowded autobahn. Competition law was actually used (via Siptu) to stop musicians agreeing what fee to ask for in a gig.
It is true, at the time of writing in August 2011, that Irish people in general like their new PM. That is easily explicable by the fact that the government he replaced made no secret of its criminality and lack of basic self-control. The best that Enda Kenny can do, given the parameters he has set his administration (or he has allowed others to set) will be to restore the confidence of some in a MO that was intended to be totalizing and criminal in the first place
The irony, of course, is that Ireland could be turned around in a year
1.Default on all debt. Indeed, the “loan” from the “UK” should immediately be written off as reparations
2.Re-emphasise the sense of genetic and cultural belonging that will motivate us to give of our best
3.Scrap every parasitical entity within the Irish state, from think-tanks to NGOs, that drag us down financially
4.Claim all natural resources for the people as the constitution requires
The first is the role of the state itself in eviscerating civil society. This tendency has not lessened in the slightest since the fall of the 1997-2011 juntas and their replacement by – well, by everyone not part of the juntas. Indeed, the shamelessness with which the state continues to fix its citizenry for the speculation, megalomania, and sybaritic lifestyles of a very few for a very short period is remarkable
Yet that is less surprising, put in the context of a state that has lurched from a disastrous Roman Catholic fixation to a no less disastrous neoliberal one, all at the expense of its people. Indeed, encouraging immigration allowed Brecht's parodic notion of the leadership choosing a new citizenry, as the old one had failed it
The results have been catastrophic, at every level – material, cultural, and existential. At the last level, there were many refuges for hold-outs against galloping statism until recently – pub, music session/concert, freedom of assembly and speech. The state has used proxies like IMRO to control Irish music, whose 1990's torrent has now turned into a trickle. In the meantime, attested criminality in the music business goes unpunished in Ireland, with Irish musos forced to get their rights through legal action in Britain and the USA.
A second mechanism used by the state is the differential application of European law and recommendation to control its people. So a farmer who went down to the pub and had 3 pints every Saturday night for 35 years before driving back slowly on deserted roads suddenly finds himself subject to the same legislation as a joyrider going 200 km/h on a crowded autobahn. Competition law was actually used (via Siptu) to stop musicians agreeing what fee to ask for in a gig.
It is true, at the time of writing in August 2011, that Irish people in general like their new PM. That is easily explicable by the fact that the government he replaced made no secret of its criminality and lack of basic self-control. The best that Enda Kenny can do, given the parameters he has set his administration (or he has allowed others to set) will be to restore the confidence of some in a MO that was intended to be totalizing and criminal in the first place
The irony, of course, is that Ireland could be turned around in a year
1.Default on all debt. Indeed, the “loan” from the “UK” should immediately be written off as reparations
2.Re-emphasise the sense of genetic and cultural belonging that will motivate us to give of our best
3.Scrap every parasitical entity within the Irish state, from think-tanks to NGOs, that drag us down financially
4.Claim all natural resources for the people as the constitution requires
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