Government parties have littered the airwaves with empty rhetoric about how they are going to lessen the pain of austerity and how their strong voice in Europe will get us the deal we deserve. Well none of it is true. It never was, and they knew...
Government has a tendency to speak to us in soundbites, and when it comes to failure they are either deathly quiet or they use Orwellian doublespeak to tell us it means the opposite. Just look at the medical card debacle this week. The government...
There was a mixed bag of criticism in the European Commission Report on Irish Economy. The Irish Independent chose to review it in the context of how it’s demands for another 5 billion in budget cuts will affect Joan Burton in her push to...
We wrote a few days ago about the somewhat strange invitation given to Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to the private corporate – banking – geopolitical led Bilderberg Group meeting in Denmark last...
The Swiss continue to show the way in how their system of direct democracy enables real issues to come to public debate. Earlier this year the Swiss debated and voted on Basic Income as an alternative to social welfare. Now they are bringing the...
Although it is great to finally see an editorial in a national newspaper calling for us to stand up “…the bully boys of the EU…” and revisit of the 64 billion bailout of Irish banks, it ihas been far too long coming...
The office of corporate enforcement has requested more staff, in particular forensic accountants, to help prosecute cases according to this Irish Independent article. It is interesting to note that they under spent their budget and their staff...
Post submitted by Noel Gallagher If our governments lie to us to attain office, is it any surprise that they continue to lie to us when they are in office? More worryingly, are we naive enough to believe them? We have been told many times that...
It is nice to see the economic talking heads making statements about the current political and economic reality, this time Damien Kiberd in the Journal. However seeing another collation of the symptoms of the economic mismnanagement of Ireland is...
The government are forever telling us they are taking steps to create jobs. We are still waiting to see the evidence, unless of course you count the dole queue dropping by only 20,000 after 300,000 have emigrated. So here we have a preview into...
In our continued spirit of researching and sponsoring discussion into alternative monetary and banking systems we would encourage people to take the opportunity to attend a presentation on public banking. It is to be held in Athlone on 15th...
We see this week the repeated threats being made by government to already suffering families, about how they will take property tax from you whether they like it or not. All rights removed, nothing you can do to stop them delving their hands into...
