As of 2018 Ireland is a
basket case economically culturally and morally. The level of state indebtedness is crippling.
There is a homeless crisis, with Irish natives dying on the streets while gigantic
tranches of accommodation are sold at massive discounts to wall street
firms. No bands have broken for a
generation while Iceland
and the other Nordic countries are thriving musically; indeed our most talented
female pop singer just killed herself in January 2018. Not a single Nasdaq
listing has been achieved for over a decade.
The “government” is a corrupt “supply and confidence” job
with thus no opposition to articulate the people’s concerns. An unelected “citizens’
assembly” sets the political agenda and – perhaps not coincidentally – sets as
topics for referenda precisely those topics (like abortion and gay marriage)
most likely to divide the Irish people.
In 1997 Ireland was
doing well economically and brilliantly in cultural terms. An unprecedented intervention by independent newspapers
of Ireland,
controlled by an ex CEO of Heinz, allowed an utterly unqualified person become Prime Minister that
year. In July 1997. the IRA unexpectedly called a ceasefire. In 1998, a deal
for power sharing that included the rejection of any land claim by Ireland was shepherded through by the United Kingdom and United States.
No attempt was made
to unseat the prime minister's minority government for 5 years. In 2002 he
declared that “we have the money” and so the opposition even if elected could
not run the country. It is arguable that we only later found which money this
was.
It was the result of
bonds issued by private banks in Ireland. This issuance was
quickened 2005-2007 and the banks went bust. They were nationalized and in an unprecedented
move even Junior debt was transferred to
the Irish taxpayer.
We also know of several initiatives redolent of
experimentation on a country. Universities were removed from any oversight, and
their imminent privatization was announced. The state went to the supreme court
three times to try and destroy tenure, and thus academic freedom. Those foreclosed on and evicted were told they
still owed all the outstanding mortgage debt – a practice echoed in Spain with the results
we have all seen, and again to benefit Wall Street.
In a freakish initiative,
the PM’s previously silent daughter was marketed as a writer, and given access
to Hollywood
through the movies and broadcast TV. While her Dad’s resignation initiated her
writer’s block, at the same time the work of independent labels was effectively
dumped on the US market by
the state body Enterprise Ireland and the
artists were unpaid. The head of the Irish music rights agency was involved in
copyright theft on a huge scale; companies like U2’s distribution company were
allowed trade blithely after dissolution.
It is always a bad idea to get into conspiracy theories.
However we do know that in The Feeding Frenzy that followed the bust and the
nationalization of property, ex CIA directors like Petraeus and VP Quayle inter alia were involved. We do
know that science in Ireland
was taken over by the CIA in the early 2000s through Anita Jones of InQTel. We
do know that MTV held its awards in Dublin at
that time, bringing an array of American pantomime artists like Britney spears
and Alice
cooper.
Paradoxically, Irish culture is thriving – outside Ireland, and in
the hands of non-Irish people. Scotland
and the other “Celtic” countries have kept up a respectable level of
achievement. Much more consequentially, the learning of Irish language and
music is a burgeoning field, particularly among people with no Irish genetic
heritage.
Therein lies the Achilles heel of this ruthless and
otherwise successful neo-colonial venture. Having survived for 500 years in
adversity, the culture has become portable in that it requires few physical
resources. Just a fiddle or a smartphone is quite enough; no need for the type
of concert hall that can be controlled by the (deep) state.
In fact, the only issue is whether the Irish people will be
the conveyors of this burgeoning and rudely healthy culture. Even that phrase
is moot; the “Irish people” now includes over half a million who have
assimilated well there, despite their initial invite being arguably to fill the
accommodation built to maintain Ahern’s grip on power through the bank bonds- political
funding scam described above, one of many talons he used to maintain what must
have seemed an insuperable grip.
The mistake made by the British was, according to the leader
of 19i6, to leave us our Fenian dead. The mistake made by the globalist
criminals who took over Ireland
from 1998 was other; it was an underestimation
of the power of the culture when released onto the web. There are so many
reasons to deny the jurisdiction of what many of us still disparagingly call
the “Free” state that only one will be listed here; we want a physical space for this culture to foster
its further development, and you criminals will not continue to deny it to us, particularly
in the name of those who gave their lives to found the state in the first
place.
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