We are coming to the end of the
neoliberal dispensation. Economization of life; financialization of the
economy; bail-outs of the banksters when, as frequently must happen,
the bubble bursts. The methods of control envisaged since 2000;
spying, torture, preventive war – morphed into simple illegal dispossessions/evictions and putting the expansion burden on China.
China , in turn, grew a real-estate
bubble from 2009 and then coerced its populace into the stock “market”
in shanghai. Both bubbles are now pricked. In Ireland, the
establishment saw its main chance to survive; destroy fiscal and
general economic independence, and ask scum like Blackstone in to
buy property poistfolios at a discount and with a guarantee of
coercive help to evict Irish people.
In my 2012 book I predicted that one or
other of the over-reaches by the state would end in violence;
In Mayo, the state colluded with Shell
to destroy the infinitely courageous protesters; the student fees
protesters were bought off. The water charges has proven to be the
tipping point. Criminal prosecutions against these protesters while
the criminals who destroyed a generation's work in building up the
economy remain scot-free is the end of this state. I will not mention the numerous occasions wherein the state has actively colluded with criminals in the music industry and elsewhere as the details are here;
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/59228
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/59228
I predict blood on the streets of
Dublin this weekend, and a rocky road to 2016
PS Some what to my pleasant surprise, the water charges protest was peaceful and dignified and - not to my surprise - elicited no response from the state. Much of the agitation has been violent, like following meter installers to their homes
It is as if, because the coup in all its philistinism, criminality and incursions by the corrupt state apparatus was never actually officially declared, what we are experiencing is a simple (and dangerous) weakening of the state itself rather than the normal political process of replacement of one set of ideas by another through elections
PS Some what to my pleasant surprise, the water charges protest was peaceful and dignified and - not to my surprise - elicited no response from the state. Much of the agitation has been violent, like following meter installers to their homes
It is as if, because the coup in all its philistinism, criminality and incursions by the corrupt state apparatus was never actually officially declared, what we are experiencing is a simple (and dangerous) weakening of the state itself rather than the normal political process of replacement of one set of ideas by another through elections
