tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89467140834793089712024-03-05T16:32:17.202-08:00International Congress of Irish StudiesÉire gan teorainn - Ireland without bordersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-10470147949070579892020-01-13T22:43:00.000-08:002020-01-13T22:43:02.730-08:00Fixing Ireland<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Fixing Ireland</div>
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This document starts with a set of solutions relevant to Ireland in the
2020’s. It is important to remember that many of us who fixed Ireland a
generation ago are still active, know what’s wrong, and know how to fix it.
Here are some solutions;</div>
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</span></span>In keeping with standard practice, renounce the odious
part of our 230 billion Euro debt. Much of this was imposed in a process
denounced by the ECJ as unfair and unjust, and to solve short term issues
raised by Timothy Geithner;</div>
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</span></span>The quid pro quo for the European Union will be
subjecting GAFAM and other silicon Valley “Irish” companies to normal tax
regimes. If they leave as a result, so be it as we are great software engineers and our talents have been suppressed;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Bringing the universities under statutory control,
which they have avoided since 2002;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Restructuring Irish science away from the SFI model,
which was the result of interference by CIA/In-q-tel operative Anita Jones, a
former SFI board member, and has resulted in Ireland – at great expense to the
taxpayer- slipping in the international rankings;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Asserting classic common law ownership, preventing
privatized profit and socialized risk as exemplified by NAMA;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Reinstating the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>copyright wing of the Gardai, scrapped after a peculiar decision by the
DPP in 2003;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Making a realistic territorial claim, reflecting the
preponderance outside the extreme north-East corner of citizens wishing to
remain in the EU;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Energetically promoting Irish tech and art, with our
creators buttressed by an aggressive copyright regime;</div>
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</span></span>The cliché of “joined up government” is appropriate to
rectify the current situation whereby often junior bureaucrats make unilateral
decisions without consultation. The HEA official who placed the universities
outside statutory control in 2002 is an example; the RTE bureaucrat who later
apologized for an insane decision that prevented Irish radio breaking through
in the US is another’</div>
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</span></span>What is ultimately a poll tax should be discontinued,
and the money can be regained by discontinuing the Apple appeal, inter alia;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>While our teachers, nurses and others in the front line
should be rewarded, much of the bureaucracy is wasteful and early retirement
should be encouraged for those wasting their lives in these jobs;</div>
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</span></span>Market mechanisms should consistently be applied. For
example, many young people would have been able to afford to buy houses and
start families had the state not illegally intervened in the housing market in
2013, often in a manner that benefitted Wall St at the expense of the Irish;</div>
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</span></span>With respect to the environment, there is a strong case
for asserting our rights on all offshore oil, the better to keep it in the
ocean;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Ireland
is full of civil rights black holes; all of which need to be filled in. Abandon
hope ye who enter mental hospitals, or indeed the preclearance area in Dublin airport</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>A return to normal representative democracy; no supply
and confidence, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a return to normal
unions independent of the state, no citizens’ assembly etc</div>
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What went wrong?</div>
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For a decade following the mid-90’s, Ireland was
culturally and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>economically the most
promising country in the world. It is important to remember that the current
imbroglio is due to incompetent and often criminal behaviour by those in
political power. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moreover, much of this
story simply has not been told. </div>
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It comes as a shock to many to find that the Good Friday
agreement rescinds all land claims by the Irish state, including that on the 26
counties. Yet that was known at the time, and featured in Dáil debates and op
ed IT pieces. Shocking too is the fact that Irish traditional music was
privatized in 1998 and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is owned by a
Murdoch-related organization. SFI is a classic CIA operation, and when the
chief science officer complained about its foci being identical to In-q-tel,
the government suddenly remembered he did not have a real Ph.D. and forced him
out. </div>
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The independent music scene was destroyed by an illegal deal
made at the Enterprise Ireland trade stand in 1998. The proceeds from that deal
could have seen the dozens of musicians involved safe through life. Instead,
the state asserted criminals’ freedom to trade with dissolved companies and
claim ownership at random, a process that ended with a federal court case in
the USA
in 2010<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>after the Irish system failed.
By then, of course, the world had changed, and the role of the Irish state in
trivializing art by colluding in its being objectified as “content” to be
purveyed by GAFAM with little benefit to is creators needs scrutiny.</div>
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Everything about the financial crash suggests that the
government at the time had agreed beforehand with the holders of junior bonds
that they would be made whole, a first in world history as private junior debt
was transferred to the sovereign, The founders of Stripe, the Collison
brothers, were turned down by enterprise Ireland. The IDA first accepted and
then rejected for no reason, a Stanford/Intel/HEA proposal for Ennis approved
also by Clare Co, council. </div>
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The project to privatize the state universities, another
first in world history, resulted in the taxpayer losing millions, then
billions, as academics were illegally dismissed by the colleges, and won a
series of court cases that are the definition of Pyrrhic victories. E-voting was
an attempted coup; rendition planes landed in Shannon.
And so on.</div>
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We did not meet a wall; we progressed into disaster, with
the additional suicides caused by the crash close to equaling the death toll of
the Troubles. The scale of the engineering for failure precipitating the
social, financial and artistic collapse suggests an underlying<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>malign dynamic resembling a colonial process.
All that is another day and another debate; for the moment let us focus on
implementing solutions.</div>
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<td colspan="25"><span>Weekend
Irlandais · Ouistreham Riva-Bella, Septembre 2019<br />
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<td colspan="25"><span>VENDREDI
20 SEPTEMBRE 2018</span></td></tr>
<tr><th align="center" height="20" valign="bottom" width="24"><b>3</b></th>
<td width="64"><span>10h30</span></td>
<td width="78"><span>11h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>11h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>12h00</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>12h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>13h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>13h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>14h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>14h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>15h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>15h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>16h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>16h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>17h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>17h30</span></td>
<td width="62"><span>18h</span></td>
<td width="56"><span>18h30</span></td>
<td width="64"><span>19h</span></td>
<td width="44"><span>19h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>20h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>20h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>21h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>21h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>22h</span></td>
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<tr><th align="center" height="74" valign="bottom" width="24"><b>4</b></th>
<td colspan="5"><span>Atelier
cuisine irlandaise du CSC - Salle n°2 de la Grange aux Dîmes</span></td>
<td colspan="4"><span>Repas
des élus de Wexford et Ouistreham Riva-Bella</span></td>
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<td colspan="3"><span>Conférence
"Les Anglais dans la caricature française ... et vice versa (1814-1904)"
- <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Salle n°1 Grange aux Dîmes</span></span></td>
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<td colspan="3"><span>Concert <br />
<span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Eglise Saint-Samson "The land of Ireland part 1"</span></span></td>
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<td colspan="25"><span>SAMEDI
21 SEPTEMBRE 2018</span></td></tr>
<tr><th align="center" height="20" valign="bottom" width="24"><b>6</b></th>
<td width="64"><span>10h30</span></td>
<td width="78"><span>11h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>11h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>12h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>12h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>13h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>13h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>14h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>14h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>15h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>15h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>16h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>16h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>17h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>17h30</span></td>
<td width="62"><span>18h</span></td>
<td width="56"><span>18h30</span></td>
<td width="64"><span>19h</span></td>
<td width="44"><span>19h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>20h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>20h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>21h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>21h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>22h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>22h30</span></td></tr>
<tr><th align="center" height="28" valign="bottom" width="24"><b>7</b></th>
<td colspan="20"><span>Exposition
of Norman Heritage in Ireland</span></td>
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<td colspan="20"><span>Irish
film in Cinema le Cabieu</span></td>
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<td colspan="5"><span>Animation
pour les enfants autour d'histoires et de contes irlandais<br />
<span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Bibliothèque municipale de ORB</span></span></td>
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<tr><th align="center" height="48" valign="bottom" width="24"><b>10</b></th>
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<td colspan="3"><span>Conférence
Irish immigration in France - <span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Gearoid O Colmain</span></span></td>
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<td colspan="4"><span>Demonstration
Gaelic Game Hurling<br />
<span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Stade Kieffer</span></span></td>
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<td colspan="5"><span>Défilé
de voitures anciennes britanniques - <span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">bourg/rue de la mer/esplanade Lofi</span></span></td>
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<td colspan="20"><span>Retro
beach race - plage de ORB</span></td>
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<td colspan="5"><span>Concert
trio Cosan Glas<br />
<span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">(Dansoir)</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th align="center" height="22" valign="bottom" width="24"><b>14</b></th>
<td colspan="25"><span>DIMANCHE
22 SEPTEMBRE 2018</span></td></tr>
<tr><th align="center" height="20" valign="bottom" width="24"><b>15</b></th>
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<td width="47"><span>11h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>12h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>12h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>13h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>13h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>14h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>14h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>15h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>15h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>16h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>16h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>17h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>17h30</span></td>
<td width="62"><span>18h</span></td>
<td width="56"><span>18h30</span></td>
<td width="64"><span>19h</span></td>
<td width="44"><span>19h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>20h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>20h15</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>21h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>21h30</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>22h</span></td>
<td width="47"><span>22h30</span></td></tr>
<tr><th align="center" height="35" valign="bottom" width="24"><b>16</b></th>
<td colspan="20"><span>Exposition
of Norman Heritage in Ireland</span></td>
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<td colspan="20"><span>Irish
film in Cinema le Cabieu</span></td>
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<td colspan="3"><span>Conférence
2 républiques <span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">- Salle n°1 Grange aux Dîmes - Sean O Nuallain</span></span></td>
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<tr><th align="center" height="50" valign="bottom" width="24"><b>19</b></th>
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<td colspan="5"><span>Dessin
à la craie de Sym Art's - thème irlandais<br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Esplanade Lofi</span></span></td>
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<tr><th align="center" height="68" valign="bottom" width="24"><b>20</b></th>
<td width="64"> </td>
<td width="78"> </td>
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<td width="47"> </td>
<td width="47"> </td>
<td width="47"> </td>
<td width="47"> </td>
<td colspan="4"><span>Irish
Dance - <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Esplanade Lofi</span></span></td>
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<tr><th align="center" height="68" valign="bottom" width="24"><b>21</b></th>
<td width="64"> </td>
<td width="78"> </td>
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<td width="47"> </td>
<td colspan="4"><span>Tea-time
irlandais - Salle n°1 de la Grange aux Dîmes</span></td>
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<td colspan="4"><span>Concert
of Ireland's National Composer Turlough O Carolan (17th century) with
3 musicians from Wexford and Ireland - <span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Eglise Saint-Samson </span></span><br /><span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span>Concert <br />
<span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Eglise Saint-Samson "The land of Ireland part 1"</span></span></span></span></td><td colspan="4"><span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></td>
<td width="47"> </td>
<td colspan="4"><span>Film
irlandais <span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Cinéma Le Cabieu</span></span></span></td>
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</tbody></table>
</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-10361024115878805342018-03-14T10:27:00.001-07:002019-04-30T00:55:57.133-07:00Finally - Gardai investigating assault by armed US border cops in Dublin Update 2019; things are now much clearer. These untrained thugs, as it turns out, have diplomatic immunity. In short, even while on Irish soil, they can do ANYTHING THEY WANT to you. So the provisions stating that you can back out of the process at any time are nonsense. They can assault you, arrest you, kill you and it's all "legal". As I recall, their treatment of al-Baghdadi in similar circumstances is what started ISIS.<br />
<br />
Finally, our quisling state keeps insisting that they are unarmed. something perforated my skin.<br />
<br />
<br />
2018 account<br />
<br />
Gardai have formally requested video<br />
<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk508621507"></a>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
answer the question about jurisdiction it turns out that the American
Immigration runs a pre-clearance area in Dublin with their own
uniformed and armed staff. These are the guys who attacked me . </span></span></span></span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Specifically
what happened is issues came up above my eligibility to come in on a
tourist visa. I've made no bones whatsoever in previous interviews
with them in the last few years about this and I was being open
with them saying that I run an online research company..that of
course means does inevitably I will be doing some work on that in the
United States when I'm over seeing Melanie.</span></span> I have
indeed run academic conferences in the US since 2012. The day
academics need business visas to attend and run academic
conferences<br />in another country, that country will have no more
academic conference</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">However
when this issue came up this time I was told that they rendered my
application to enter the United States invalid. This is the point
that things got ugly. I said fair enough just give me back my
passport and my phone which they had seized. I assumed I was free to
go but that actually was not the case. The official who had my phone
and passport assaulted me and I ran across the airport floor back to
Ireland as I saw it. This is not how they saw it and 10 of them run
after me and assaulted me from behind drawing blood in the process.
They then locked me in there little in there little Guantanamo in
their section of the airport doing a full a full Frisk including a
crotch search. I was refused access to a department of Foreign
Affairs official. When the Irish airport cops arrived to get me there
was a marked change of attitude and the Irish took all their names
and then advised me to go to the police station to make a formal
complaint of the assault which drew blood which I have done</span></span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the
situation; I was detained without being so informed. When I broke
away from my detainer I shouted “this is Ireland” which did not
stop at least 10 CBP thugs chasing me outside their own zone in
Ireland. They then dragged me back and locked me up, I might still be
there had the airport police not seen things my way, take their
names, and advise me to make a formal complaint</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is how the
jurisdictional issue arises;</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Agreement
between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United
States of America on Air Transport Preclearance - TREATY SERIES 2010
Nº 12</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8946714083479308971#_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.dfa.ie/media/dfa/alldfawebsitemedia/treatyseries/uploads/documents/legaldivisiondocuments/treatyseries2010/no.-12-of-2010.pdf</span></span></a></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*****************</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">S.I. No.
9/2011 - Preclearance Area (Dublin Airport) Regulations 2011.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8946714083479308971#_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2011/si/9/made/en/print</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">******************</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4.1 Customs
and Border Protection (CBP) Pre-clearance:</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The US CBP
agency provides carriers bound for the United States with US CBP
pre-clearance facilities</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">in Dublin
Airport’s Terminal 2. These facilities offer US-bound passengers
departing Dublin a range of</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">services
that can be completed prior to departure, including all customs, US
immigration and agriculture</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">clearance.
The daa pre-clearance charge for the use of CBP pre-clearance
facilities at Dublin Airport is</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">set out
below:</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Service
Charge € Description</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">CBP
pre-clearance charge* 7.90 Per passenger</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*This
charge is zero rated for VAT.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This daa
CBP pre-clearance charge is distinct from any other pre-clearance
charge(s) that may be</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">levied by
the US CBP agency on passengers travelling to the United States.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">All
enquiries can be addressed to: Gary McLean Head of Op - Phone
353 1 944 2748</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8946714083479308971#_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.dublinairport.com/docs/default-source/Airport-Charges/2017-miscellaneous-charges-booklet.pdf?sfvrsn=0</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*******************</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">USCBP
Preclearance Locations</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dublin
Airport, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Terminal 2, Pier E,
Dublin, Ireland 011 353-1248-0300</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8946714083479308971#_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/ports-entry/operations/preclearance</span></span></a></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*******************</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Irish
Times: Wed, Feb 1, 2017</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Government
keen to maintain US immigration preclearance facilities at Irish
airports</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
‘<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Complete
review’ of the Dublin and Shannon facilities will continue,
officials say</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Review:</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">According
to the Government briefing, a group of senior officials from both the
Irish and US governments meet annually to review the operation of the
agreement. The Preclearance Consultative Group, which includes
representatives from the US Department of Homeland Security, Customs
and Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration
and from the Irish Department of Transport and Dublin and Shannon
airports, is due to have its next meeting on March 1st.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8946714083479308971#_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/government-keen-to-maintain-us-immigration-preclearance-facilities-at-irish-airports-1.2958610</span></span></a></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">***************</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Irish
Independent - February 1 2017</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pre-clearance
at airport is 'critically important' for our country, says DAA boss</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8946714083479308971#_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/preclearance-at-airport-is-critically-important-for-our-country-says-daa-boss-35414263.html</span></span></a></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">**************</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">01-Jun-2016
CAPA</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">US
immigration pre-clearance: Dublin Airport's rapid growth has been
supported by enhanced US access</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">How the
pre-clearance procedure is impacting airports</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
countries where the pre-clearance procedure is already in place, at
selected airports are: Canada, Ireland, the UAE (specifically Abu
Dhabi), the Caribbean (Aruba, the Bahamas) and the North Atlantic
(Bermuda) as in the table above.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dublin (and
Shannon) airports are five-year veterans at pre-clearance. Dublin
makes for an interesting case study. </span></span>
</div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ireland is
the only country in Europe to offer pre-clearance for travellers
flying to the US, and has done so for over five years. The service is
available for those departing from Dublin and Shannon airports.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">At Dublin
the Customs & Border Protection pre-clearance (CBP p/c)
initiative, which was installed in 2010 as part of the Terminal 2
project, is described as having ‘worked well.’ In summer 2015 all
US bound flights pre-cleared at Dublin. Since 1986 the two countries
had previously had a pre-inspection agreement - allowing immigration
inspections but not customs or agriculture inspections.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">There has
been a particular focus on growing trans-Atlantic traffic at Dublin
in recent years. Not for the first time - Aer Lingus was active in
this segment in the 1980s, attempting to build Dublin as a hub, but
lost its way later. And this time around it is not just Aer Lingus,
which has become a member of International Airlines Group (IAG) and
could become a focus of transatlantic hub activity for that group.
Trans-Atlantic airlines now include Air Canada Rouge; Air Transat;
American; Delta; Ethiopian (to LAX); United; US Airways; ASL Airlines
(previously Europe Airpost) and WestJet.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">As a
consequence, Dublin is the fifth largest airport in Europe for
trans-Atlantic flights and it increased its trans-Atlantic passenger
numbers by 17% in 2015. Transfer passenger numbers increased by 27%
as Dublin Airport continued to become a significant hub for
trans-Atlantic transfers.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In 1Q2016
the number of passengers connecting from the UK and mainland Europe
and transferring onwards to the United States increased by 68%. The
increase in the reverse direction was 72%.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">That is not
to claim that the CBP p/c is uniquely responsible for these results.
As the airport's operator, daa (Dublin Airport Authority), points
out, Dublin Airport is helped by its geographic position on the
western edge of Europe and the strong route network to North America,
Europe and the Middle East, as well as the availability of US CBP.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This means
shorter flying times and less backtracking of connections. Not
mentioned, but also important, is a comparatively passenger friendly
tax regime, especially when contrasted with the UK's.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nevertheless
the influence of the CBP p/c can perhaps be gauged from this
advertisement from Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport, one of many
(there are 21 in the UK) with ‘feeder’ flights that connect with
Aer Lingus services to the US. The CBP p/c procedure is couched in
such a way as to make it appear as if it has been arranged for the
benefit of Liverpool Airport’s own passengers, which in a way it
has, conferring as it does a special status on them, one which they
cannot get ‘on a direct flight’ (i.e. from a competing airport).</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
<div class="western">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This very
positive marketing for Dublin suggests it could become as important
for westbound transit from the UK and vice versa as Amsterdam
Schiphol Airport is, eastbound.</span></span></div>
<div class="western">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To answer the
question about jurisdiction it turns out that the<br />American
Immigration runs a pre-clearance area in Dublin with their<br />own
uniformed and armed staff. These are the guys who attacked me
.<br /><br />Specifically what happened is issues came up above my
eligibility to<br />come in on a tourist visa. I've made no bones
whatsoever in previous<br />interviews with them in the last few years
about this and I was being<br />open with them saying that I run an
online research company..that of<br />course means does inevitably I
will be doing some work on that in the<br />United States when I'm over
seeing Melanie. I have indeed run academic<br /> conferences in
the US since 2012. The day academics need business<br />visas to attend
and run academic conferences<br />in another country, that
country will have no more academic conference<br /><br />However when
this issue came up this time I was told that they<br />rendered my
application to enter the United States invalid. This is<br />the point
that things got ugly. I said fair enough just give me back<br />my
passport and my phone which they had seized. I assumed I was free<br />to
go but that actually was not the case. The official who had my<br />phone
and passport assaulted me and I ran across the airport floor<br />back
to Ireland as I saw it. This is not how they saw it and 10 of<br />them
run after me and assaulted me from behind drawing blood in
the<br />process. They then locked me in there little in there
little<br />Guantanamo in their section of the airport doing a full a
full Frisk<br />including a crotch search. I was refused access to a
department of<br />Foreign Affairs official. When the Irish airport
cops arrived to get<br />me there was a marked change of attitude and
the Irish took all their<br />names and then advised me to go to
the police station to make a<br />formal complaint of the assault which
drew blood which I have done<br /><br />This is the situation; I was
detained without being so informed. When<br />I broke away from my
detainer I shouted “this is Ireland” which did<br />not stop at
least 10 CBP thugs chasing me outside their own zone in<br />Ireland.
They then dragged me back and locked me up, I might still be<br />there
had the airport police not seen things my way, take
their<br />names, and advise me to make a formal complaint<br /><br />This
is how the jurisdictional issue arises;<br />Agreement between the
Government of Ireland and the Government of the<br />United States of
America on Air Transport Preclearance - TREATY SERIES<br />2010 Nº
12<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dfa.ie%2Fmedia%2Fdfa%2Falldfawebsitemedia%2Ftreatyseries%2Fuploads%2Fdocuments%2Flegaldivisiondocuments%2Ftreatyseries2010%2Fno.-12-of-2010.pdf&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEy5_zaoFlbiWKsH5H9ttBHVnaxzQ"><span style="color: blue;"><u>https://www.dfa.ie/media/dfa/alldfawebsitemedia/treatyseries/uploads/documents/legaldivisiondocuments/treatyseries2010/no.-12-of-2010.pdf</u></span></a><br /><br />*****************<br />S.I.
No. 9/2011 - Preclearance Area (Dublin Airport) Regulations
2011.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishstatutebook.ie%2Feli%2F2011%2Fsi%2F9%2Fmade%2Fen%2Fprint&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFaBBmOaW5daRdBenEep-O7fx7fEQ"><span style="color: blue;"><u>http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2011/si/9/made/en/print</u></span></a><br />******************<br />4.1
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Pre-clearance:<br /><br />The US CBP
agency provides carriers bound for the United States with<br />US CBP
pre-clearance facilities<br />in Dublin Airport’s Terminal 2. These
facilities offer US-bound<br />passengers departing Dublin a range
of<br />services that can be completed prior to departure, including
all<br />customs, US immigration and agriculture<br />clearance. The daa
pre-clearance charge for the use of CBP<br />pre-clearance facilities
at Dublin Airport is<br />set out below:<br /><br />Service Charge €
Description<br /><br />CBP pre-clearance charge* 7.90 Per passenger<br />*This
charge is zero rated for VAT.<br /><br />This daa CBP pre-clearance
charge is distinct from any other<br />pre-clearance charge(s) that may
be<br />levied by the US CBP agency on passengers travelling to the
United States.<br /><br />All enquiries can be addressed to: Gary
McLean Head of Op - Phone 353<br />1 944
2748<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dublinairport.com%2Fdocs%2Fdefault-source%2FAirport-Charges%2F2017-miscellaneous-charges-booklet.pdf%3Fsfvrsn%3D0&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGhYqhgdjGGfP_L0GI2xWT5dtrIkA"><span style="color: blue;"><u>https://www.dublinairport.com/docs/default-source/Airport-Charges/2017-miscellaneous-charges-booklet.pdf?sfvrsn=0</u></span></a><br />*******************<br />USCBP
Preclearance Locations<br /><br />Dublin Airport, U.S. Customs &
Border Protection, Terminal 2, Pier E,<br />Dub</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-31570376509153644332018-02-10T16:01:00.002-08:002018-02-10T16:01:29.181-08:00The crash of 2018<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Jim
Cramer formerly of Goldman Sachs has a show on MSNBC called Mad Money. As you
might expect from the title of the show and the person who pretends to be crazy
while touting a very financialized version of capitalism. After the stock
market rout of February 8th 2018 he took
us through the exotic financial instruments that he said caused the crash that
day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">In particular <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Cramer </span>dipped Into his
stockbrokers heart and said that frankly they would bet on anything.
That included, he claimed, raindrops on
the window. But for him to crash was caused by several stocks that bet on volatility on the market. He was horrified
that the SEC allowed them to exist and indeed generate $billions in business
that day. They have exotic names; SUXY, UVXY and indeed one – not sadly – died on
Feb 3 as it encouraged bets AGAINST
volatility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Is this the truth, or
Cramer disavowing his own past in hedge funds? For example, the Shiller-Cape index independently suggests that the S+P and Dow should be at about half
their current level;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://www.quandl.com/data/MULTPL/SHILLER_PE_RATIO_MONTH-Shiller-PE-Ratio-by-Month">https://www.quandl.com/data/MULTPL/SHILLER_PE_RATIO_MONTH-Shiller-PE-Ratio-by-Month</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The Shiller index in
currently at 31.8 versus the historical average of 16.8.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Up to recently
capitalist boom/burst Cycles were explained by entities like Kondratieff Cycles which argued that boom bust was caused
by the delay in capitalists building plant and that they would occur about once
every 15 years. What is happening now is quite different particularly as
automatic trading means that we have a very out of control stock market..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Moreover our economy is
far more financial. After the crash of 2008 the capitalist class did two rather
brilliant operations. One was to get behind Obama which meant that they had
what Cornel West called “A black puppet of Wall Street” in the White House. The
other was to bet the national economy on Wall Street using a degree of state
control that Stalin would be ashamed of. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">In particular, the Fed
gave money to the banks that until recently were then forced to deposit at the
Fed;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://seekingalpha.com/article/4142886-qe-gift-just-kept-giving-now-taking">https://seekingalpha.com/article/4142886-qe-gift-just-kept-giving-now-taking</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The bull market of the
past year is explained in these terms as this deposit restriction being eased
so the money went elsewhere, creating the very inflationary pressures that the
Fed is now trying to ease with interest rate hikes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The problem is that this
has also created massive national debt and that several pundits like Rogers and
Icahn believe that this would be impossible to resolve even in the very painful
way we discovered since 2008; evicting millions of people before closing the
legal loophole that allowed banks evict
people from houses they, the banks, had sold the mortgages on; neo-feudalism
with the “gig economy”; trash like Uber, Airbnb and the new equally bad AI as
tech; and so on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Where does Ireland stand
in this? As we always have been for most of our history; a colony, pushed
hither and thither by these forces. When they had to pin a tail on a donkey a
decade ago, we rather than Iceland (let alone larger indebted countries) became
the donkey. “Junior” debt was added to
the sovereign ( a big word that means you and me) for the first time, The resulting shambles has
been viewed as tough love with robust economic growth now seen as a certainty –
just as the world economy implodes, taking Ireland with it. In fact, according to Barry Eichengreen, the
ECB also forbade 50% reduction of senior unsecured debt which even the IMF
wanted;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2014/ireland/pdf/Eichengreen_IrishCrisisEU.pdf">https://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2014/ireland/pdf/Eichengreen_IrishCrisisEU.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">It is
difficult to see how they're going to handle it in the United States. They have
sacrificed another generation to immensely High property prices and created to
freakish presidencies in Trump and Obama. After Hillary Clinton they can't
really put a woman there and ask for sympathy on the basis that she is woman in
the same way as they did for Obama being black.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Robert Nye the author of
the concept of “soft power” argued that only if Trump gets reelected or Worse
starts War can we decide that he is something different than freaks Like Joe
McCarthy or George Wallace..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">What seems to be the case
for Ireland is that we need to get back to politics again rather than have the
economy drive politics and the whole society<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The
other noticeable events today was the final demission of Gerry Adams;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">http://www.nationalreview.com/article/456284/gerry-adams-retirement-northern-ireland-still-unsettled<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The
article misses the point that we southern republicans lost our whole country
because of the 1998 deal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Readers
seeking any consistency in his life will look in vain 4 themes beyond the fact
he wanted to remain head of the Republican movement. As far as he was concerned
intern that involved simply dangling a nebulous United Ireland in front of his
followers while he shifted from communism to neoliberalism to God knows what
else in a far too long career.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">One of the things of
this blog and of the Society of which expression is that we are underwent a
coup attempt in Ireland from 1998 to 2008. The coup was meant to be sealed by
an electronic voting initiative which
was intended to prevent elections for the rest of our lives at least. Will
simple Fianna Fail corruption explains an awful lot of what went on, it is also
true to say that experiments were being done like the privatization of the
universities, the privatization of traditional music, and a corporate structure
which was a new form of fascism. Part of the funding for this initiative came
from government promoted bonds which highly unusually are to be repaid in full;
with CIA personnel around to ensure this but see preceding entry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">What we need to do is
forget about this “United Ireland”; any entity that the DUP is happy to enter
will be unrecognizable as Ireland. As has been stated here, simple access to
the web grants us 90% of what is currently valuable about Ireland. And yes, we
c an do much better; refuse to pay back any odious debt, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">stress agriculture (in
case we need to be self-sufficient as globalized forces marginalize us), software,
and culture. We can do this in conjunction with Scotland, another high resource
and low population country (genocide will do that to a country)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Adams was actually a
bureaucrat, and was nicknamed the “draft dodger”. While there is evidence that
he betrayed Paddy Kelly and the others killed in the Loughall massacre, it is
altogether undeniable that his entourage was full of touts like Scappaticci, recently back from
the dead as Adams resigns, Kelly and others were a la ISIS about to occupy some
territory; it is arguable that Adams stopped them and the least we owe them, Mairead Farrell, Joe
McCann, Bobby Sands et al is the
assertion of a territory in which our values rule<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Currently, Ireland is in
a power vacuum. Referenda are proposed by an unelected “citizens assembly” and
divide the country for years; we have an
“S+c” relationship between govt and oppo; bills are issued for water and then
withdrawn; and as happened here in California, civil servants go berserk in the
absence of government and start endangering Irish citizens. We owe it to
ourselves and to the world to create a
parallel Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-51924412317609938372018-01-29T13:14:00.000-08:002018-01-29T13:14:04.427-08:00The recolonisation of Ireland from 1997<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--> First of all
there was traditional Fianna Fail criminality; lining<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>their own pockets. They<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were also
able to give assurances to foreign powers that they could get away in Ireland with
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These included
removing the Universities from the rule of law in order to prepare them for
privatization, an egregious electronic voting proposal, exploiting the
corporate structure of Ireland to facilitate summary dismissal of employees,
and pushing the standard of the Arts and Sciences down so that they could
replace it with their own sources of expression which, epitomized by the
meteoric rise and fall of the Taoiseach’s daughter Cecilia, were vastly inferior
but could be controlled; in her case, by her father</div>
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At this point Fianna Fail started playing out of their
league and it could well be the case that the ultimate goal was a rerun of the
civil war but with a different result, one in which they ended up actually
beneficially owning much of the state that they failed to conquer militarily. To
do that they had to issue bonds that were both explicitly (senior debt) and
implicitly (junior debt ) guaranteed by the sovereign ie the taxpayer. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then came the buying
of Irish bonds by<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>foreign agencies who
of course want their money back. The result is a crushed people who owe nothing
that is no land but the debt that was illegally transferred to them.</div>
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So the recolonisation of Ireland is one part CIA takeover (Science
Ireland), one part ideological innovations that seem to have a think tank origin
(the universities), and one part Fianna Fail filth. </div>
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So what can be done? Ironically, we had all our ducks in a
row in 1997 – in particular, export of software and music. As I keep repeating,
there are huge resources in the Irish republican narrative to negate the
current power of the state. In particular, much power is held by an unelected
Taoiseach; by an<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>unelected “Citizens’
assembly”; and, particularly for those of us abroad, by <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>unelected civil servants behaving
like Soviet commissars from their consulates</div>
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There is no need to obey the Irish state on the medium in
which Irish culture is most expressed; the web. It does control Pravda/RTE and
much other media. Likewise, it has nothing to offer to elite artists and other
thinkers, because the ignorant scum left in the “public service” cannot assess
our work. Most interestingly, it has nothing except debt; no land, a contested
imperium, etc. Pout the Fenian flag on your own property and thus announce your
wish to join others in a real Land of Ireland. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-24880409502444545962018-01-24T11:36:00.000-08:002018-01-24T11:36:38.975-08:00Ireland 1997 to 2018 a short and tragic account<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As of 2018 Ireland is a
basket case economically culturally and morally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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. </div>
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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. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1997 Ireland was
doing well economically and brilliantly in cultural terms. An<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>unprecedented intervention by independent newspapers
of Ireland,
controlled by an ex CEO of Heinz, allowed an utterly <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the result of
bonds issued by private banks in Ireland. This issuance was
quickened 2005-2007 and the banks went bust. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were nationalized and in an unprecedented
move even Junior debt <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was transferred to
the Irish taxpayer.</div>
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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. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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. </div>
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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 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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. </div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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. </div>
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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 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-18336655625027113062017-11-27T09:45:00.002-08:002017-12-10T19:24:20.058-08:00(the death of) Citizenship and Law in Ireland<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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This Irish government will collapse this week. The next government will collapse in similar fashion. The problem is that the new colonial dispensation reorganized the state to suit our new colonial masters like Silicon Valley and the quid pro quo was that the normal rule of law was to be abandoned. So a justice minister felt comfortable in joining a campaign against a righteous whistleblower in the cops as that is how the establishment protected itself. </div>
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Using what the GW Bush administration called the "weapons of the weak" - reason and publishing - my colleagues and I have just revealed the depths of state criminality in Ireland in the past 20 years;</div>
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<a href="http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/660/1102">Peer-reviewed conference proceedings</a></div>
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Why the intensity this
campaign against academic freedom in Ireland documented therein? We may never see a
document from any government office beyond the attested drive to privatize the
universities while removing them from the rule of law. In my home county, a
state-sponsored body boasted of the close links to the CIA . It is a fact that privatization of state universities would be the
greatest goldmine in history, particularly as the real estate could be
dispensed with. It was my patriotic duty to stand up against this criminality. </div>
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university presidents violating ancient common law precedents about stealing
property, rights of one's person etc, and these are being allowed fade away
rather than being confronted</span></div>
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Academic freedom depends on
tenure, but the relevance of the law in society requires lawyers willing to do
their job. Frankly, coming as I do from a part of the country where the
Republican courts flourished until 1925, I am tempted to invoke issues about citizenship, the role of law,
and the fact that the Irish people has shown a laudable intolerance of statutory<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nonsense like the recent water company's
campaign to define all users of water/citizens as customers.</div>
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Finally, we find a new
tactic; refusal to list a case. It looks as that tactic, coming from a state
body (which DCU financially<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is, despite
the nonsense about autonomy), enjoys collusion from the legal profession. That
will ensure a well-merited contempt for the law, and its use as instrument by
the state against the citizenry, which is not a desirable outcome.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Remarkably, I set up a prize-winning online university
in the meantime and the top mind conference in the world in terms of downloads</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">PS Underlying all the actions of our self-appointed elite is the notion that white collar criminal activity was within their gift; to be engaged in, ignored or acted on as they wished. That is what brought Ireland down in 2008 and will do so repeatedly until we get a new generation of administration</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">PPS (10 Nollag 2017) I still stand by this. The "supply and confidence" is over. Moreover, that Brexit fudge will not take</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-48645503350915971012017-11-20T07:11:00.000-08:002017-12-10T21:29:51.481-08:00No Brexit deal and a hard border by Jan 2019<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US">Until Nov 2017 it did indeed look like the
kind of country a gay half-Indian man with no experience could run and indeed today it was delegated to a 16-year-old South African girl, in Ireland only 3 years. (I could not have made that up). . Universally
pitied for its history as a colony; forgiven its tax haven status; no national
territory; “autonomous” state institutions like universities and museums that
did not require statutory oversight; a party political system so incestuous
that the putative opposition party is in a “supply and confidence” arrangement;
and so on.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Then Leo V decided to take on the Brits and
is now utterly in over his head. He does not get it; the very point of Johnson
Politik is NOT to have a deal on the Irish border by the time phase 2 is about
to start. When the Barnier negotiations restart – or rather fail to restart - Johnson can then collapse the scrum shouting about
these frogs and Krauts, with their disgraceful WW2 history, trying to tell the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
what to do with their own land. That is a suitably jingoistic theme for a
leadership heave and nasty, brutish and short snap election campaign.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Because <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place> has no territory, Johnson
can theoretically put the new customs post anywhere. He will put them where
they were before, whatever the DUP say. They in turn will realize that, while
they were indeed initially brought to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ireland</st1:place></st1:country-region> to be a nuisance, even
their nuisance value has now expired. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So what is the antidote to Boris? In Adams’
farewell speech, he pointed out that Sinn Fein get 500k votes all over the
island – roughly equal to the tweedle parties in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Dublin</st1:city></st1:place>. While they seem to have definitively
said goodbye to the militarists of the <st1:place w:st="on">Adams</st1:place>
generation – and Martin Ferris may have been pushed – the Good Friday deal
(GFA) no longer works for them. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For the Brits, the Good Friday deal was
arguably a classical forced Anglo-Saxon
unconditional surrender; surrendering of territory and arms in exchange for
POW’s. They made it clear at the first
crisis in the assembly that the viewed the GFA as entailing binding commitments
only for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
Now that the stakes are so high with the EU, the charade can be dropped. In
this narrative, Sinn Fein signed on for it in bad faith, only to get the POW’s
home, and are now unwilling to reinstate the institutions as nobody is going to
rejail Joe O’Connell et al.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Is there an alternative to a forced snap
election in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place>
next year as the humiliations pile on? Probably not, and Sinn Fein will be in
government afterward, making it desirable to – yes! - reinstate Stormont. As individuals, what
can we do? Here is gets interesting.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Republican narrative – to which the
IRA, if not Sinn Fein still subscribe – is that both political entities on the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">island</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Ireland</st1:placename></st1:place> are illegitimate, the progeny of
the abortive 2<sup>nd</sup> Dáil. It is
a fact that <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place>
is a deeply criminal state, a tax haven for scum, with no territory. Its
resources have been sold off cheaply to
the point that the web contains more of value to Irish culture, held in the
public domain, than the state. So get the Fenian flag, announce your own
“parallel <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place>”
on property you own, with a commitment to making it part of a new Republic.
Then let the chips fall where they may.</span></div>
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PS The document is anodyne. What May said is what matters ie that by the
phrases "customs union" and "single market" in the document she feels
free to mean UK or EU "customs union" and "single market" as she wishes.<br />
<br />
The Queen of Tarts etc; words mean what she wants. And that's what we
get for putting a dyslexic and Indian up against the Brits. Bertie vs
Blair in the GFA resulted in us having no national territory and, as we
found, no country</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-92018012650242668552017-10-14T12:14:00.000-07:002017-10-28T14:19:15.314-07:00The Free state disgraces us again in LA<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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I run a music company that performs,
composes , records, teaches, and makes radio programmes. We have
won many awards and sold in the tens of thousands. All of the
royalties were stolen, as the free state decided sometime in the
1990's not to have any more independent music. So along with all the
other artists of that period, our work was bootlegged and sold off at
an enterprise Ireland trade stand at Midem trade fair for sale at
Walmart. Our CD's were stolen by U2 through their dissolved
distribution outlet; again no action from the Free state
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Yet that is not the main point here.
The takeover of science in Ireland by the CIA through its InQTel
front in the person of Anita Jones has resulted in the Irish taxpayer
funding US spooks, unaccountable even to the US electorate, to the tune of
about $1 billion a year. The main point is that the Free state does
not allow Irish people express themselves in any advanced cultural
activity and is almost certainly actively involved in cultural genocide..</div>
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After a lot of work, we have managed to
find a home for jazz in Gaelic in a downtown SF club. The owner, who
is gay, loves our theater background, and commented that he wants
something classy, a contrast to the burlesque infecting SF. The Free
state's response to this need? An ugly transvestite and kitsch;</div>
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https://www.irelandweek.com/</div>
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Something needs to be done, as there is
no doubt that talented artists are among those being evicted from
their homes in Ireland. As for those of us abroad, the Free state is
just more garbage to deal with.<br />
<br />
PS Intriguingly, Iceland with < 10% of our population earlier this year ran a successful event for 8 days with the LA Philharmonic;<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/01/the-la-philharmonic-celebrates-iceland"> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/01/the-la-philharmonic-celebrates-iceland</a><br />
<br />
PPS 28 Oct/MF 2017 Rather incredible, but true; a Google search today on "ireland week" los angeles<br />
news over the past week yields - nothing. So $x millions of taxpayers' money, along with a huge chunk of national credibility, was wasted. By contrast, our event on mon 23 is still getting Google shows. There is an argument that Varadkar was trying to project a Trannie Ireland and LA did not bite</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-47001368285426500592017-09-28T14:10:00.001-07:002017-09-28T14:10:34.032-07:00ICIS 5 schedule<!--[if !mso]>
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9:15 am <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What might a new world religion look like? – Celtic
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</span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>translation
of “Orthai Cosanta” by Seán Ó<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Duinn<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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10:00 am<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Celtic Becoming: A Sixth Century Movement in Mind</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Jack
Du Vall, Center for Non-Violent Conflict<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Leanne
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-9769081584828688672017-07-19T03:48:00.000-07:002017-08-03T01:36:49.861-07:00Twenty years of the Irish deep state 1997-2017<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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It is fact that since 1997 the “republic of Ireland”
has inflicted the following processes on its “citizens”;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>an attempted e-voting proposal whose software developer
did not actually know how Ireland’s
voting system worked. This began in 2002 with a “trial run” at a general
election<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and ended only in 2009;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Two globalizing EU proposals (Nice and Lisbon) were defeated by the citizenry at
referenda and promptly represented ie vote until you give us the result we
want;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>An attempt was made, defeated only by mass and occasionally
violent protest, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to make water charges
compulsory be redefining a citizen as a customer of a private company;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Compulsory purchase was used for a private company in Mayo
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Gardai functioned hand in glove with
private security;</div>
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</span></span>deterritorialization with a pax Americana rescinding<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all our land claims on every part of the
island;</div>
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</span></span>removal of the universities from the rule of law on the
basis of a fanciful reading of the 1997 universities act, leading – as one
might expect -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to abuse of scholars and
theft;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>allowing music companies operate openly post
dissolution, coinciding with the death of the independents;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>turning the banks into private cash cows for a new elite,
who burned through the state’s wealth once their debt was shifted to the
sovereign;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>a quickening of corporatism, leading for example to new
hires in the health services for administrators at a time when a freeze on
hiring doctors and nurses – trained at great expense – meant there were less of
them to administer, as they emigrated;</div>
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</span></span>failed attempts at generating IP by dint of
centralizing software in the Taoiseach’s office, and indeed music and film in
the Taoiseach’s family</div>
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</span></span>allowing “vulture funds” insist that the householders
they evicted would still have to pay their full mortgage, while NAMA allowed
the new elite regain possession of their empires for 40c on the euro on average;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>deliberate state intervention in the housing market
making homes unaffordable again after the 2007-2012 crash had allowed market
forces reduce them;</div>
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</span></span>In one of the few banking crisis cases that went to
court, the defendents were found guilty but not sentenced by the judge because
he ruled that the state had ordered them to commit crimes. The agent of the
state , Neary, was never charged</div>
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rights, and proceeded to privatize all of Irish music, while its chair amassed
a horde of pirated copyrights;</div>
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</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was
attested abuse of Irish students at the universities, not responded to by the highest
authorities when put to them in the Dail, coupled with their replacement for
the elite academic jobs by foreigner.</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>When a whistleblowing Garda member revealed (inter
alia) abuse of the driving penalty points system, he was not protected; in
fact, he had allegations of penetrative sexual assault copied and pasted from
another’s file onto his and nobody has been charged for this clear fraud;</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>In an effort to get rid of academic tenure, DCU
asserted a bogus contract with fraudulent signatures by dint of an alleged “comprehensive
agreement” with the closed-shop union which the union never even discussed. 8
court case later even after <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>recission of
an illegal disciplinary procedure, the illegal contracts are still being
asserted and the employees dubiously employed – not to mention the perpetrators
– still paid from the public purse<br />
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<br />
Finally, during unprecedented austerity, the government refused a tax windfall of E15 billion imposed on Apple for its activities in Ireland, but chose instead to appeal the verdict. when the Minister for finance resigned a year later, the money remained uncollected</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-88726743195417308662017-04-26T00:55:00.002-07:002017-06-05T10:07:45.523-07:00ICIS 5 - "A western way" - CIIS, SF Oct 5 2017<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Oct 5 am A western way?<br />
In conjunction with foundations of mind.<br />
Room 304 <a href="http://foundationsofmind.org/schedule.html"> CIIS •
1453 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103</a><br />
10 am<br />
Celtic Metaphysics; Omos Sheain Ui Dhuinn<br />
The Benedictine monk Sean O Duinn, currently aged and infirm, argued that
Celtic spirituality was panentheistic. In particular, he cited Jubainville’s
work about a link from Amergin to Eriugena; indeed, from the Upanishads to the Celtic
church’s reconstruction of Patrick in the Lorica. <br />
. Arguably, the mediaeval synthesis of Roman law and Hebraic experience of
the sacred that birthed Europe in the face of
Islam is in rapid terminal decline . The language of the social sciences
has become sufficiently debauched that normative statements, first ruled out by
political correctness, are now viewed as epistemologically suspect. <br />
This session invites papers looking for solutions or arguing that no such
solutions will be found. It argues that East Asian systems fail to make
metaphysical subject-object distinctions of sufficient granularity to support
dualistic Western science. Conversely, for all its bravado, western science has
never engaged with the Ground of Being. The results include relativism in
morality and aesthetics which culminate in “Crime and Punishment” means vs end
paradoxes in arguments about stopping terrorism and a debauching of art that
culminates in drunken party goers staring at a DJ as the apotheosis of their
very expensive aesthetic experience.<br />
<br />
Specifically, we invite papers on this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and other <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>themes;<br />
- Drawing on Plato out of Dionysius the Areopagite, Celtic mediaeval
philosophers like Eriugena produced an ecological, rationally-founded
emanationist synthesis. Can this be the foundation of a western
way?<br />
<br />
<br />
2 Pm Culture and mental health in Celtic countries<br />
The notorious <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Saints. Scholars and
schizophrenics” incident has elided a more serious discussion about mental
health in Ireland.
The number of suicides in the Republic since the crash of 2008 now exceeds the
3k+ total killed in the troubles from 1969 to 1997. The attempted
medicalization of mental health in the 1945 legislation, one that is trumpeted
as anticipating Laing and Szasz, had the paradoxical result of ensuring that Ireland
had the highest number of psychiatric resident patients per head in the world
from 1955. <br />
Mental health has been treated in Gaelic epics like “Buile suibhne” (translated
by Heaney in his only foray into Gaelic) and the legendary St Dympna. This
thread discusses what actually can be done. Suggested themes are up to you, but
might include;<br />
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psychotherapy</div>
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In May 2017<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there
are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>unelected Prime ministers in Britain and Ireland;
no MP’s in the UK as all are
now candidates; a Scotland
that loves the EU more than Britain;
and a Northern Ireland ruled
directly from Westminster
after the de facto collapse of the 1998 agreement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moreover, the EU has<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- for the first time – exercised
geopolitical<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>jurisdiction on the island of Ireland
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This session<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>raises
the issue of whether the Humpty that is the UK can be put back together again.
In his recent address to Anglo-American studies at UC Berkeley , Chris Patten
remarked that Northern
Ireland pays very dearly in bad government
for peace. There are profound disincentives for Sinn Fein to bother; they are
the de facto opposition in the Republic of Ireland, and nobody is going to risk
Canary Wharf style bombings again,</div>
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The collapse of the Northern
Ireland executive had a salutary tang of corrupt
politics-as-usual; an energy scheme had been imported from the “mainland”
without caveats as to limits on payment of state money to consumers. The
responsible minister, Arlene Foster, refused to resign from her new job as
first minister. However, the geopolitics have<br />
become very tricky, with some customs posts between the two Irelands a distinct possibility until the EU
intervened and effectively proclaimed a united Ireland . In the meantime, Trump has
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>appointed a secretary of state whose
Senate hearing alluded to a war between Northern and Southern
Ireland now, fortunately, in the past. It resembled KA Conway’s
Massacre at Bowling Green
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geopolitics of western Europe. As the UK falls apart, the resurgence of a
Celtic confederation in the islands formerly known as British is a distinct
possibility. Themes are by no means limited to the following</div>
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dispensation post 2008 are the former Celtic cultural empire, can there be a
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state. Arguably, a new “elite” layer of bureaucrats was added
under Ahern (amid his massive public service expansion) that first clamped down
on the very creative class that had established Ireland’s modern brand</div>
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Even at this early stage – less than one week after his election
– Trump seems to have been domesticated. He will deport fewer illegals than Obama
(it will be hard to find more than <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2.5
million with criminal records). The wall is to be a fence. Obamacare will last.
The chair of the Republican party is his chief of staff. All in all, not
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On the campaign, it was SO different. Orange/blonde/whatever
hair (extensions), spray tan, groping women’s pussies (America indeed had a
choice; which serial rapist they wanted in the white House) , sending Hillary
to jail without due process, and the last chance for the USA before the 11
million became legal and voted. In short; American Id.</div>
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The best writing on him (WSJ) pointed out that in his property
developer world, it does not matter what you say. Indeed the final contract
explicitly says all previous verbiage is to be discarded. So what will happen?</div>
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Trump is constrained by two factors; those who voted for him
and his own character. The former, particularly evangelicals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will insist on recission on Roe vs Wade. They
may go a lot further than he wants in gay “marriage” etc. That latter breaks
down into defects in temperament (he has anger issues) and, more importantly,
knowledge. At his best, he will insist that “white trash” gets back to work
like coal-mining; yet American dominance is currently based on violation<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of civil society norms in companies like AirBNB,
or the cosmic levels of copyright violation <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Facebook, Youtube etc, not rust belt industry.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is the mark of a tragic character to be brought
down by his virtues. Trump will prove that extends also to scum of the earth. as for us in Ireland, and given his adoration for eminent domain./ compulsory purchase, surely we should take his Doonbeg/Doughmore golf course from him?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">good friday 2017 It has lived down to expectations.The astonishing addition is that trump will clearly go to war rather than have his contacts with Russia during the campaign focussed on by the media.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We are entering an era of dictators with nukes - Kim, Xie, Putin and now Trump. The US was so busy selling its democratic values to the rest of the world as an exemplar that it lost its own democracy.apart from e-voting, manipulation of the voting rolls etc, Obama made no attempt to curtail the powers of the executive prsidency, including the one that allows Trump launch a nuclear attack within 4 minutes. As has been pointed out, about the time for writing one of his ill-considered tweets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is ironic that the powers that Erdogan is looking for in Turkey - appointing a cabinet etc - are vested in the presidency in the USA. No attempt has been made to implement the provision in the US constitution that limits war-declaration to congress; as a result of something trump saw on CNN, the US is now at war with Syria. The good news, such as it is, is that Trump will likely go to war with N Korea as his main focus, as Syria will be a red rag to the russians. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He will introduce conscription a la Vietnam after Kim invades the south. The result will put the US and SE Asia in paroxysms for the remainder of our lives. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-71380895664665902662016-09-05T12:33:00.003-07:002017-04-26T14:37:47.526-07:00One Bad Apple? - why Ireland does not protect the IP of its creative class<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
One Bad Apple? - why Ireland does not
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In late summer 2016, the world learned
a little about the criminality that passes for state administration
in Ireland. First of all, after its disastrous 1996 Olympics, the
British focused on excellence in sport; a and finished a creditable
2<sup>nd</sup> in 2016. By contrast, the Irish establishment focused
on refinement of a ticket scam after Ireland's successful 1996
Olympics and finished 62<sup>nd</sup> in 2016. Indeed, the Irish
delegation “won” more arrest warrants than medals.
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Given that Pat Hickey had been targeted
in 2012 by no less a figure than Romario, hero of one of Brazil's
soccer world cup wins and now a politician, it may be puzzling that
Hickey did not emulate his anointed successor Delaney and flee to
Ireland. The reason is almost certainly that Hickey felt he had
protection at the highest level; apart from being swooned over in
Dail committee, there is FOI correspondence between the current
Taoiseach and his constituency running-mate inquiring about the
availability of Olympic tickets for a teenager!</div>
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And so it goes; debauching of all that
is good and fine about the Irish people so that a self-appointed
elite can run with their correlates in other countries. Hickey's
arrest and humiliation was no surprise; indeed, a few days before he
was viewed naked on Brazilian TV , he had essentially told the Irish
minister for sport where to go. Our Olympic presence was his business
and nobody else's; the fact we look pathetic in the world's eyes is a
slightly regrettable byproduct.
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The Apple scam exemplifies this. Why
run a country at all? Why not just use sovereignty to create a tissue
of “legal” lies and - as Stiglitz puts it – say here's $1
billion if you create a few jobs? Indeed, Google heard the message
loud and clear just over a decade ago and announced they would
prefer not to hire any Irish people, given the higher comp sci
standard in the Baltic states. No, silly, you can't find this on the
web!
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Try also to “Google” (and “Bing”)
“Cahill – v – DCU, (2009), IESC 80 (2009)”. Remarkably, no
results for the critical decision in Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence about
academic tenure until 2014 when I put this anomaly on my blog.
Remove a few characters and yes; this was a good if inflexible hack
As for Prondzynski, he disappeared completely from Ireland, and is
trying to privatize a Scottish
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university with a “softly, softly”
approach; we kicked him out. Now we come to the point; Ireland is
infested with the kind of spooks who have a swat team visit if you
accidentally leave the new iphone in a bar. Indeed, until Tim Pat
Coogan (not the state)intervened, the US was openly stealing Irish
passports at its Dublin embassy</div>
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The sheer brazen criminality of the
Irish establishment is extraordinary. In 2016, a cop whistle blower
found he had “confessed” to being motivated by bitterness at a
disposition. He revealed he had secretly taped it, and the two
deposers were lying. No action was taken. If you go to the cops about
anything the deep state wishes to continue, forget it; moreover,
writing to politicians with the details will occasion nothing other
than a polite reply. It will be used against you, and during the next
horse-trading to form a coalition.
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Nor did any of the unspeakable from the
neocon era ever get resolved in Ireland. The universities are still
said to have "autonomous statutory responsibilities" ie no
responsibilities at all to the state. Tenure is still, rant as
Supreme court justice Clarke may in his 2007 judgment, whatever
academic tenure is on the contract (ie none). These contracts, in
turn, are wholly illegal, in 1997 including the signature of a
personnel officer who had left 7 years before. Music copyrights are
still in limbo. Nobody can live as a full human being in this
dystopia passing s a state.
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However, even that is not the point. In
MacSwiney and others' writings, Ireland is for the self-realization
of the Irish people, to help them better contribute to humanity. What
the establishment wants instead is for the dressings and rituals of
a sovereign nation be used to continue their criminal pre-eminence
over the rest of us. What matter if the boxing authorities become so
pissed off that our brave fighters are cheated of wins? What matter
if Google says we Irish are stupid? Obviously the smart guys are
getting their photos taken with the Skibereen lads......</div>
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It gets worse. We have not produced a
new globally successful popular music group since the Cranberries in
1992. The reason is that there is no IP or company protection in
Ireland for independent Irish creatives; in fact, the state sponsored
a trade stand in 1998 in which effectively ALL the 1990's
independents had all their material sold off (for less than a song!)
and illegally licensed through Walmart. The ancillary rights like
mechanical and broadcast were held by dissolved companies, an
arrangement that Paul Appleby, our then corporation czar, blessed.
Again, that is not how it looked to other jurisdictions, and a case
was taken in US federal court that stopped it. Why have a state if
the legal system cannot handle issues like this?</div>
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So what did the establishment want?
Now it gets really sinister – or would if it were less pathetic.
Gearoid O Colmain claims that the German establishment wants the
population replaced; thus the influx from 2015. That had been tried
in Ireland; disincentives on young Irish staying during the recession
produced emigration levels not seen since the famine. The problem;
the eastern EU people they were replaced by in general integrated
well, and went back home regularly. Ireland did a better job with a
much higher percentage of immigrants than Britain. But what of
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The Irish establishment decided that
they themselves-talentless politicians and functionaries and their
families – would produce and control it. This was exemplified by
the seizure with artistic genius of Bertie Ahern's two daughters in
199; one, however, made the mistake of singing in public as Bertie
did what Mrs Worthington was advised not to do. The other, more
wisely, became a writer for Murdoch; several “books”. A TV series
and a film costing the Irish taxpayer perhaps $50 million + later,
she got writer's block after the demission of her Dad.</div>
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The precedent had been set. In 2016,
the Irish consul in SF hired a hitherto unknown “composer” and
“maestro” called Kluge (I could not make this up) to produce a -
well, a Kluge to celebrate 1916, a revolution about self-government.
Moreover, he not only chose to hold it in a church other than St
Mary's, beloved of the Irish; he decided that he and his buddies
would have speaking parts. He then proceeded to initiate legal action
through UB Berkeley against an event there with actual descendants
of 1916 fighters.
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It goes on. Irish music abroad is
ill-represented by Sharon “the robot” Shannon, who gets all the
gigs and is apparently is a front for property development done by
her manager Dunford – or so the high court in Ireland effectively
ruled in 2015. 500K was produced to fund an opera; it is unlikely to
play La Scala soon. This 500k could fund the activities of 50 bands
for a year. The minister for the arts and the Gaeltacht does not know
Irish – or the arts.
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Elsewhere, you will find research I did
proving that Ireland was better-placed in science rankings BEFORE the
$ billions were put into SFI. We were happy doing what we did for
Ireland, and enjoying the company of our fellow-Irish rather than
pecuniary award. The solution? - in 2014 take out a full page ad in
Nature and science announcing Ireland was in the top 4 in many areas
(it was between 30 and 50 in all). This is the Hickey scenario;
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Now to Apple. A system of
linguistically better functionality than the 2011 debut of SIRI was
produced in TCD as far back as 1987. Its creator, as a condition of
employment, was forced to bring his PhD work, including this, to DCU.
There it disappeared in 1997 along with the IBM AT (yes, that was
our gear!)it was on; DCU's task surely involves retaining work
like this?. TCD kept a copy of the original system, on a now
unusable 5” floppy. That is why the Collison brothers are in SF,
not Dublin, with their $5 billion company; Enterprise Ireland did not
respond positively to their Irish native genius. That is why DCU
continued to fire good academics, and lock them out from their lab,</div>
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There are solutions I will publish a
discussion document about IP in my new book on ireland. However, even
that does not come close to the sovereignty issue. In 1998, Ireland
accepted the GFA; in 2010 it accepted an invidious deal from the
troika. Sovereignty over all our 32 counties was ceded in 1998; it
looks as though sovereignty is now limited to using the law as an
instrument to give American corporations like vulture funds free rein
over us, including pursuing Irish people for a mortgage AFTER they
have been evicted.
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So let us cut to the chase. Brexit
could yet be our salvation; for once, our Daddy is bigger than the
Daddy of the loyalist vermin RUC men (yes, cops!) who attacked
peaceful Catholic homes and pubs with submachine guns and bombs in
the 1970's, in general being let off scotfree (pun intended) by such
as “Judge Lord”Lowry. We should simply resolve to agree with the
EC ruling, and develop native industry. We then can use the EU to
create a United Ireland, continuing perhaps to a Gaelic confederation
with Scotland, and a Celtic one with West wales which also voted
remain.
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As things stand, the existence of an
Irish state adds nothing but disgrace to all Irish, and the creative
class are particularly targeted. Yet our Daddy (the EU) is bigger
than theirs (the detritus of corporate America). Expect nothing from
these scum; survive, continue to create, and try and find a market.
Work toward a new Ireland really in the EU, with the odious debt of
2010 being balanced against proper corporate taxation.<br />
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PS (Aibrean 2017) And our saviour is - Trump! By fixing corporation tax at 15% he will ensure google, Apple et al with their crappy tech will suddenly get a fit of patriotism, declare themselves as American, and our superior Irish tech will breathe again </div>
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<br />
First two speakers; Hassan and Dan<br />
A full account will soon be posted<br />
<br />
First, here's Gearoid on Saturday<br />
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Gearóid O' Colmáin, journalist<br />
<br />
Poland suppressed insurgency
in Russia.
New version in U.S.— Poland as point of attack against Russia.
Was Militarization of Poland
and Ukraine as Polish-Lithuanian-Uktranian
Commonwealth.
Turkey- U.S. used against Russia,
and U. S. in conflict with Turkey
over Kurds. Balkans - former colony of Ottoman Empire.
Turkey - a conduit for mass
immigration to Europe.<br />
<br />
When Libya was bombed into the stone age this lead to mass migration and from
Turkey, migrants and refugees fled from areas at war— Afghanistan, Iraq,
Somalia, Pakistan, millions moving. Used as weapons to press EU to join US policy against Russia
so U.S.
doesn't suffer and US banks can profit. Turks gained consensus from EU - but
there will be a major problem, huge % of migrants have false passports, because
US spreads so much disinformation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only
20% of immigrants were Syrian, but US said Syrians could get in, so a lot of
fake passports were made, printed in France, now there are a lot of fake
Syrians. Will be thousands of fake passports.<br />
<br />
Turkey
openly supported Islamic State. Joe Biden admits this, and Trump said everybody
knows Saudi banking terrorists. Turkey
is a Terrorist
State.
NATO knew consequences of destabilization of Libya - Khadafy did deals for EU.
He integrated sub-Saharan Africans into the LIbyan economy, they needed
workers. Weapons of Mass Migration, Kerry Greenberg's phrase.<br />
<br />
Pentagon's map for 21st century : will be 3 major global power— U.S., India,
China.
Need to use EU to get Russia
out of the picture. Europe will go through
decline, stagnation and violence. Ukrainian crisis could spread; we're in a
period of low-intensity war.<br />
<br />
<br />
There are over 56 examples since WWII using migrants as weapons,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>e.g. Burundi
since April 2015 for geopolitical reasons, caused massive refugee crisis,
turned to soldiers and forced them to fight,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>similar in Syria
where men are blackmailed into fighting because. <br />
example of man whose baby was kidnapped by the Free Syrian Army, the baby's
head was cut off and the body thrown in front of the house. The man was warned
that if he didn't join the army the same would happen to his whole family. US press calls
these moderate rebels. Syrian government had to declare amnesty for people
forced to fight.<br />
<br />
Threat to Macedonia,
borders were closed, fears of collapse because of refugees. US tried to take
over. Labor laws abrogated, turns everybody into a refugee. e.g. Marseille.
This is why no Labor Party exists in the U.S., because of mass immigration.
Bosses import new cheap labor whenever unions try to organize for
worker's rights. Including the Irish. In the 90s organized labor was Black
workers. They were supplanted by Mexican immigrants. Blacks couldn't compete.
Migration is used by the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ruling elite.<br />
<br />
Germany is having population
replacement, the problem is migrants don't have skills the economy needs to
grow, this is a form of sabotage against Germany. Hans Kuntz, director of
the European Council on Foreign Relations. His book. on German Economic theory.
Germany's market is China.
Russians are constructing infrastructure. Europe is being used against Russia.
But if Europe refuses to follow the US plan then it falls apart. Angela
Merkel has no idea what she's doing.<br />
<br />
Czech Republic
is in negotiation with Syria.
cooperation on anti-terrorism means cooperation with Russia. Rand Corporation studies
about Czech
Republic—
they're worried.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Czech's are not
happy with NATO bombing Yugoslavia.
See them (Czechs) as new members, unreliable. Brussels
is talking to Russians, there is lost credibility as hegemon of Europe.<br />
<br />
Sean: What should Ireland
do?<br />
<br />
We have no leaders, we should be proud we aren't in NATO. We have no backbone,
we should stand up, and we have an obsequious craven political ruling
class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do a dance for the US
president on St. Patrick's Day. Lack statesmen. e.g. water charges, obscenely
corrupt. Michael Higgins<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has not done
much since he spoke out against the Iraq War. Oligarchs don't need a
government, the power is taken over from politics. corporations and banks have
supplanted democracy, government is on autopilot. Global institutions are not
elected, not accountable to anyone, we live in think-tank-land. assault on
values replaced by commodity fetishism.<br />
<br />
Eamon: essentially Fianna Fail wants to have its cake and eat it, won't join
coalition, rebuilding themselves, don't want to concede to Sinn Fein,
non-establishment parties won a majority, a ragtag group. Sinn Fein won't be
different. Republican Party is in bed with the government. Evangelical tea
party style, imposing Tory agenda on a fragile post-crisis economy.<br />
<br />
Gearoid: Khadafy admired Sinn Fein, they could've used the resources to at
least speak in favor of peace in Libya. it was a terrible betrayal
of Khadaffy, the Irish Republicans who died in the Hunger Strike would've
been ashamed. They have clout, everybody knows Gerry Adams, but most people see
cynics.<br />
<br />
Sean: in 24 hours before the troika "Ireland and Default" appeared
in... Google search (1 million unique pages appeared within 24 hours).<br />
<br />
Gearoid: Engineered that German banks would look for money in Greece and Ireland. Ireland
done more for EU than opp., we sold massive amounts of water rights to EU, look
at Iceland.
In France
people love Irish salmon. Why don't we have a huge fishing industry?</span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Sunday<br />
<br />
<b>Sunday, 24 April<br />1916 anniversary </b><br />
<br />
<b>Cathal MacSwimey-Brugha</b> read
the 1916 Irish proclamation and talked about his grandfathers, Cathal
Brugha and Terence Macswiney. Cathal Brugha read the proclamation in
Irish at the first Dail sitting in 1919. Cathal described how his
grandfathers and many of those executed following the 1916 Rising, such
as Thomas Kent were poets and artists interested in social and cultural
concerns. Kent was the Boston editor at a publishing house, who became
aware of the British Empire's economic and linguistic dominance over the
Irish, as well as their involvement with a triangle of corruption.
Terence MacSwiney's character can be seen in the books on his shelves,
including a book he authored, "Principles of Freedom," Longfellow's
poems, and "Leabhar Chlainne Suibhne." In addition to using Irish people
as canon fodder at a time when Ireland lost some 50% of its population
from the 1800's to the 1900's, slave trading and opium deals weakened
the British Empire's perceived moral authority. Terence MacSwiney
battled for the soul of Ireland, asking guiding questions such as, "What
would you do if you were free?" Terence battled for the soul of Ireland
by attacking the British Empire's presumed moral authority and
credibility, to show people had been unaware of immoral activities being
carried out without the knowledge of most Irish or English people.<br />
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<b>Dr. Malachy Ó Néill</b> gave
a presentation, "Recalling a Trio of O’Neills in 2016," that reviewed
the lives of three O'Neills from different centuries: Earl of Tyrone
Aodh Mór Ó Néill (1550-1616), Irish Harper Arthur O'Neill (1734-1816),
and one of the "Children of the Rising," William O'Neill (1900-1916).
Reviewing details from the lives of these three Irish men provides us
with insights regarding the Irish culture 400 years ago, 200 years ago,
and 100 years ago. A letter intercepted during the nine year war, dated
20 May 1555 shares insights about the linguistic struggle at that time
to preserve the Irish language. Two centuries ago, Irish harper, Art
O'Neill, blind since childhood, won prizes for his harp playing, trained
James McDonnell to play the harp, and influenced harpists and harp
music for generations. With a playful nod recognizing the significance
of O'Neill contributions to Irish culture and history, Art O'Neill
famously once commented, "it's no matter where an O'Neill sits, and let
it be at what part of the table I am." A century ago, young William
O'Neill was just sixteen years old when he was killed at Constitution
Hill when he'd gone to look for his father, hearing he may have been
injured there. William was one of 11 children, whose mother had died
when he was just 13. He was buried with two of his siblings, though five
of his siblings had already died at that time (some may have died very
young or in childbirth). </div>
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<b>Éamonn Ó Cíardha</b>
presented thoughts about 1916 as ‘The Last Jacobite Rebellion.’ Many
Irish were Jacobites, yet during the 1600's when there was a succession
of King James, the Irish faced military loss, but kept their Catholic
faith. The pope recognized the Catholic Stuart king as the King of Three
Kingdoms, and Jacobitism was viewed by the Irish in the late 1600s as
being a means by which Irish language, history, and culture could be
promoted in ways that could restore Irish lands and Catholic heritage.
There had been quite a bit of amnesia in Ireland about Irish history and
Jacobitism, which has continued. By the mid 19th century, Jacobitism
had been largely successfully removed from the Irish political and
literary works. Jacobitism has crossed over to English literature, and
now is enjoying some resurgence thanks to the revival of the Irish
National Theater. Lyrics of the song, "Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile" were
described, and the song sung.</div>
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<b>Melanie O'Reilly</b>
talked about her experiences growing up in a family devoted to Irish
culture and the arts, with an uncle who founded the Dublin Theater
Academy, and a mother who was an actress with the Abbey, and who later
worked as an RTE broadcaster in the 1960's. Melanie learned after her
mother passed away that she had performed in a Lady Gregory piece in the
Youth Theater, dressed wearing cultural revival hair and clothes.
Cultural revival is important for feeling a sense of Irish culture; as
Melanie's father once said, "You can only truly be welcoming to other
people when you know who you are," emphasizing the importance of
respecting one's own culture for the way it provides us with foundation
and bearings. Melanie described how she became interested in jazz for
its internationally recognized language, and how she lived and worked in
Scotland for fifteen years, cowriting with a Scottish musician, and
putting melody to Gaelic poems. Her music sold well following
Riverdance, with strong album sales and many gigs. Without Melanie's
knowledge or permission, her Irish record label took songs off her album
and put them on musical compilation albums with some 250,000 illegal
occurrences found in 1998 when an internet search was run. Melanie was
one of many Irish artists whose music was stolen, with a change of just
one letter sometimes made in song titles. Melanie came to the United
States of America in 2003, and subsequently won legal action against
those who had stolen her music.<br />
<br />
<b>Mary Steiner </b>talked about
the United Nations and Indigenous Peoples of Ireland, describing a right
of language as a possible path to peace. Mary Steiner's Irish ancestry
on her mother's side (McDonnell, Murphy, Fitzpatrick) helped inspire her
interest in preservation of language as the bloodline to culture
through songs and stories. Mary Steiner's shared the UN's "Universal
Declaration of Human Rights," pointing out how this document is the most
translated document in the world, translated into some 463 of the
world's 6,000 or so current languages. The United Nations Association
founded in 1943 is dedicated to preserve language, along with human
rights. The 1916 Proclamation includes the right to keeping the Irish
language--and there may be some advantage for the Irish people to
investigate whether they can be defined as Indigenous, defined by
territory (not sovereignty). There may be a strong case for this, as
Seán Ó Nualláin pointed out that recently an Irish man with only Irish
ancestral names was found to have 13% unique DNA strands. There is a
European Court of Justice with a human rights convention that mirrors
the UN declaration of Human Rights-- and if the Irish explain that
keeping their language is a cultural right, there is a chance this
approach could be successful--with the UN recognizing Ireland with
Indigenous representation in addition to as a Nation State, with
additional cultural heritage protections ensured as cultural rights. </div>
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<br />
Irish studies conference Women's faculty club and 229 Dwinelle UC Berkeley 22-24 April 2016<br />
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First call for participation<br />
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Confirmed for UC Berkeley, co-sponsored by Professor emeritus Daniel Melia (Dept of Rhetoric and Celtic Studies program) <br />
Theme - Parallel Irelands;
Ireland
as Republic, deep state, Utopian and actual colony<br />
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Confirmed speakers include Profs Dan Melia (UC Berkeley), Cathal MacSwimey-Brugha (UCD), <span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr Malachy Ó
Néill,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Eamon O Ciardha (both U Ulster)</span> </span>Gearóid Ó Colmáin
(RT news), Chris O'Sullivan (USF), Mary Steiner (United Nations), Fred
Martin (UC Berkeley), Glynn Custred (Cal state, East Bay ), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Gerald Gillespie
(Stanford), Melanie O'Reilly (RTE/ Mistletoe music), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hassan Ahmad (UC Berkeley),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scott David (U Wash), , Seán ó Nualláin (UOI) <br />
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Others will be added as the cosmos unfolds……..<br />
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10 am<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Dan Melia will open the conference<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sovereignty and
the law </div>
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11 am Keynote; Dan Melia on Brehon Law<br />
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12 Seán ó Nualláin; a New constitution, same old Republic ? <br />
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I Giglioli ((UC Berkeley), Glynn Custred, Greald Gillespie, Gearóid Ó Colmáin</div>
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Sunday, 24 April<br />
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1916 anniversary <br />
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9-30 Reading of the proclamation in Irish Cathal MacSwimey-Brugha who will
talk about his grandfathers Cathal Brugha and Terrence Macswiney. Incidentally, Cathal Brugha read the proclamation in Irish at the first Dail sitting in 1919<br />
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10-00 Reading of the proclamation in English ; SFPD officer Che Heron who will
talk about his great-grandfather, James Connolly and the effects his
execution had on the family<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">0-30 </span>Keynote
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Recalling a Trio of O’Neills
in 2016" </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr Malachy Ó
Néill</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">11-30 </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1916: ‘The Last Jacobite
Rebellion’ Eamon O Ciardha</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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1pm Lunch</div>
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2pm Language and Culture<br />
<br />
Chair and Keynote Mary Steiner (UN, SF)<br />
<br />
3pm Keynote by Chris
O’ Sullivan on the Irish Utopian community in the San
Joaquin Valley in California<br />
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The international congress of Irish studies was established in 2012
and has run two conferences at UC Berkeley with another in Dublin, Ireland.
It promotes the kind of free expression of ideas that might have prevented Ireland’s
recent meltdown. We have never accepted either state or corporate funding
- and yes, it was offered! Stateside, we have had eminent speakers like Profs
Dan Melia of UC Berkeley, Chris O’Sullivan of USF, and luminaries like
Ishmael Reed. In Ireland,
we had several of that country’s most important thinkers, including Des
Fennell, Dr Des O’Neill, Prof Cathal Brugha, and the actor and playwright
Arthur Riordan. Our next conference will be our 4<sup>th</sup><br />
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Since the first cfp was issued, these themes have emerged
and will be discussed;<br />
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1. Immigration and nationality ( 23 April 2016)<br />
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a. On Dec 29 it was announced that ISIS/ISIL had issued a fatwa<br />
legitimizing conditions for rape of female sex slaves. The same day,<br />
the European court issued its own fatwa prohibiting the expulsion<br />
from Ireland of the leader
of ISIS there regardless of the outcome of<br />
the contemporary supreme court appeal in Ireland. ISIS has explicitly<br />
threatened Ireland,
and has made no secret of its plans to overthrow<br />
the state there in favor of a theocracy. Does this mean that the<br />
charge of treason in the Irish constitution applies only to Irish<br />
people wishing a better life for other Irish people a la 1916?<br />
<br />
b. Unlike Ireland, ISIS actually has a national territory, one that it<br />
vigorously defends. A little-bruited consequence of the 1998 GFA<br />
agreement is that Ireland
rescinded its claim on all its land,<br />
including the 26 counties. Yet the attempt to define the nation in<br />
terms of anchor babies was defeated in 2003 with the same number<br />
voting against this definition as voted for the GFA. Does this bring<br />
us back to the 1937 implicit definition of the nation?<br />
<br />
c. The newly crowned heavyweight boxing champion, Tyson Fury, has been<br />
refused the Irish citizenship he covets because his father, in keeping<br />
with traveler tradition, used a baptismal cert in place of<br />
state-issued document. Together with hundreds of thousands of<br />
Argentinean Irish, and tens of millions who lack an Irish grandparent<br />
but desire recognition by the state, he is excluded. Conversely, many<br />
Catholics in the North will vote to stay in the UK and jealously hold<br />
on to their Irish passports. Are we giving our passports and state<br />
recognition to the wrong people?<br />
<br />
D, Right on cue, with the influx of new coolie workers from Syria for<br />
multinationals, Neolithic middle Eastern has been found in Belfast.<br />
(Whether the female farmer was Protestant or Catholic has apparently<br />
not been determined)Yet in 2010 the first Irish DNA test on an autochtone revealed<br />
considerable genetic isolation and uniqueness?<br />
<br />
<br />
2 Sovereignty and the law (Sunday, 24 April)<br />
<br />
The Berkeley
balcony incident was a great and avoidable tragedy. After<br />
action against Irish J-1 holders by the cities of Berkeley
and Santa Barbara
in<br />
2010, members of the Irish community in Ca pleaded with the Irish<br />
state to cut the numbers by 90%. In the wake of the incidents of June<br />
16, 2016, the US
state department has in fact insisted in the face of<br />
opposition from An Taoiseach that all future J-1 visas must come with<br />
a job, thus cutting the numbers by 80%. Given that spooks on the US<br />
embassy in Dublin were engaged in the theft of Irish passports, did<br />
these kids get caught in a crossfire between the US state
department<br />
and diplomatic security services, whose representatives were stealing<br />
passports in Dublin at precisely the time they were needed in<br />
Benghazi?<br />
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Since the final cfp the following events have occurred;</div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">Using
perhaps $250k of Irish taxpayers’ money, the Irish free state has
organized a rival event in SF with a musical maestro whose name<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the computer mavens on this list will
find delicious; Kim Kluge! We will thus open our event with Melanie
O’Reilly – one of Ireland’s
alltime greats – premiering hers and Frank Martin’s new suite “"The
Land of Ireland - Amergin to adzed-head and beyond"</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">Tor
the first time in its 90 + years of existence, the establishment
comprising the power structure of the Irish free
state has failed to form a government after a free lection;</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">Therefore,
the Irish free state will simply collapse
from its own weight over the next few months. While its destruction has
been wished for by many for generations, violence is unnecessary. We do
recommend that Irish residents withhold water charges, USC, LPT and all
other taxes not taken at source in order to starve the beast.</li>
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Theme - Parallel Irelands; Ireland as Republic, deep state, Utopian and actual colony<br />
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Confirmed speakers include Profs Dan Melia (UC Berkeley), Gearóid Ó Colmáin (RT news), Chris O'Sullivan (USF), Mary Steiner (United Nations), Glynn Custred (Cal state, East Bay ), Gerald Gillespie (Stanford), Melanie O'Reilly (RTE/ Mistletoe music), Scott David (U Wash)</div>
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The international congress of Irish studies was established
in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2012 and has run two conferences at
UC Berkeley with another in Dublin,
Ireland.
It promotes the kind of free expression of ideas that might have prevented Ireland’s
recent meltdown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> We have never accepted either state or corporate funding - and yes, it was offered. </span>Stateside, we have had
eminent speakers like Profs Dan Melia of UC Berkeley, Chris O’Sullivan of
USF,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and luminaries like Ishmael Reed.
In Ireland,
we had several of that country’s most important thinkers, including Des
Fennell, Dr Des O’Neill, Prof Cathal Brugha, and the actor and playwright
Arthur Riordan. Our next conference will be our 4<sup>th</sup></div>
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Suggested themes include;<br />
<br />
1. Ireland’s “deep state”; a historical duopoly of political parties<br />
in power, unelected bureaucrats, and an impenetrable legal system<br />
2. Alternative Irelands; the Diaspora; utopian communities; virtual<br />
Irelands; the “fighting Irish” of Notre Dame; the “new Irish” in<br />
Ireland and their assimilation<br />
<br />
Further themes can be found below <br />
<br />
<br />
Please send a 500 word abstract to <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ors2b5yu1uvr/?&cs=wh&v=b&to=eireann@yahoo.com">eireann@yahoo.com</a> by Feb 15 2016;<br />
notification of acceptance by Mar 1. We already have a publisher</div>
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<sup> Further themes</sup></div>
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While it is common knowledge that, until two<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>decades ago, Gerry Adams sat on<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a council claiming to be the true government
of all Ireland, with powers
of summary execution, that state of affairs has a long history. Fianna fail
arose from a “government in exile” which, like the real one, was headquartered
in the Dublin of the 1920’s.
For a long time, the republic of Ireland
had two athletic associations, the NACA and BLE, and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the former forbade its often superb athletes
from Olympic competition. In the 1970’s, in the cash crisis occasioned by the
marathon bank strikes of the period, Irish civil society created a parallel
currency, with cheques being probabilistically discounted.</div>
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The debacle of the state’s commemoration of the centenary of
1916,involving the reduction ad absurdum of using Google translate t orender
the central text into Irish, has already resulted in a parallel commemoration
of O’Donovan Rossa’s interral. On Easter Monday, 2016,Robert Ballagh will lead
an alternative celebration. Yet that is only the beginning.</div>
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The refusal of the Irish state to implement even minimal
copyright and corporation law has led to musicians <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- including the greats Donal Lunny, Melanie
O’Reilly<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Nuala ni Dhomhnaill–
registering their priceless works with US
rights agencies. The Byzantine Irish legalsystem with its unaccountable delays
led the Facebook/NSA plaintiff to throw up his hands in horror at what he called insanity and
successfully take the case elsewhere than Facebook’s EU HQ in Ireland The
illegal selling of the work of independent Irish artists atWalmart, work
originally licensed by and to criminals at an Irish government trade stand in
1998,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was stopped only through a US
Federal court case after the Ahern administration – as they promised
they would<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in 2002 – interfered with a
criminal prosecution in Ireland.</div>
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Yet the issue is deeper still. The IRA unsuccessfully
challenged the British and Irish states’ monopolies on violence; from 1919 the
provisional government successfully challenged the civil and criminal law
promulgated since the tanistry decision<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>of 1608. In fact, Ireland’s
current chief justice is open to a Brehon law argument in her court.</div>
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<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></div>
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It is arguable that Hobbes with his bloody-minded use of
force by the state<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is more current than
Rousseau with his social contract . One of the innovations of 21<sup>st</sup>
century political thought , particularly following Lofgren’s magisterial essay
on the topic, is the assertion of the “deep state” in Western democracy.</div>
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This is essentially a locus of power not answerable to the
democratic process. While Lofgren points out that the CIA/NSA complex<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>plays such a role in the USA, this conference explores its correlate in Ireland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It also asks whether Irish citizens can beat the new colonial
establishment at its own game, as in the past.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much of this new
infrastructure,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has not been reported in
the press. The doctrine of “autonomous statutory responsibility” was repeatedly
invoked in the Dail to free the universities from statutory control , perhaps
in a prelude to the planned privatizations.</div>
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Industrial relations fora have been precisely to delay
processes to facilitate a killer punch by management , as in the Cahill vs DCU
case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The latitude allowed the state in
legal processes against its citizens, who got no funds for their legal team, is
contrary to EU guidelines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Conversely, certain “private “organizations<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>, (like IMRO) masquerade on their websites as
state, such are given illegal monopolies and state protection. In the newly
celebrated topography it is as if the links of responsibility<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are optional. and new islands added at the
whim of the Irish establishment . In a state where the recent Allergan deal is
the magnitude of CDP, it does not comfort one to discover that SFI has the same
objectives as In-q-tel, CIA’s VC outgrowth</div>
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In this conference, we will discuss the Irish Utopian
community once planned for the San Joaquin valley;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Irish deep state; the “fighting Irish”
(often, none are ethnically Irish) of Notre dame, who live outside the rule of
law and whose rape of Lizzy Seeberg led directly to her suicide; the “Irish”
festivals like Milwaukee often featuring rock<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>bands in kilts; and these less obvious claimants; </div>
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<ol start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">The Bertiestate. Arguably,
1997-2008 was a prolonged coup attempt. While we will never know for sure
about the coup, it is clear that there was a sustained attempt to
introduce a fraudulent e-voting system, massive transfer of money to a
group around Ahern – both the holders<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>of the title “richest man in Ireland” during that period are now
bankrupt – a sustained assault at academic freedom by court actions,
closing of many venues that performed live music, and the Taoiseach’s own family,
in turn, being seized by artistic genius which went into exponential decay
in 2008. </li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">On a positive note, the
emigrants to England in the 1950’s Diaspora produced bands like the Smiths
and Oasis, much of the successful soccer teams of the Charlton era, a
pre-Riverdance parody dance troupe called the “Hairy Marys” and their
children<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>considered themselves –
like, say,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Johnny Marr of the
Smiths – Mancunian Irish rather than English. Why stop at the island
itself? This is particularly the case as Sinn Fein’s view is a united
“multicultural” Ireland
within the Commonwealth. Where does that leave Scotland’s
aspirations?</li>
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The 2014<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>theft of
Irish passports while in the custody of the US
embassy in Dublin was first
revealed as an industrial-scale planned activity in the 2013 ICIS proceedings.
Nothing was done until Tim Pat Coogan was refused a visa and Tim himself,
without any Irish state help, brought the situation to the boil. In the wake of
these and numerous other incidents in which the Irish state has been
revealed as little other than facilitator of a tax haven with suppression of
the bogger natives, we invite papers on the following themes;</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An independent
currency. Varoufakis<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was checkmated by
the ECB after failing to introduce an electronic currency. The result is that Syriza
and Greece<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are a cautionary tale. While Irish civil
society and community could not perhaps achieve the network of pubs and cheques
of the 1970’s, can we leave the EU/ECB yoke through use of Bitcoin?</div>
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2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brehon law is
fully as sophisticated as what passes for justice in Ireland’s
civil courts;<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/court-should-consider-implications-of-decisions-kearns-1.2471496">From the horse's mouth</a><br />
<br />
Is there a case for its re-introduction, particularly in our new
society in which smartphones give the citizen near-perfect information? </div>
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3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Irish people
no longer can travel freely to the USA,
which has been complicit in theft of Irish passports. Is it patriotic to accept
a British passport on the same basis that Dev took the Oath?</div>
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4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The proposed
abolition of the NUI led to the creation of a university
of Ireland in the USA, with regular seminars and conferences at
Stanford and Berkeley. Is there any need, given Irish excellence at
Scholarship, for these boondoggles like Medialab and SFI<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with fully 5 billion euro now allocated to
the latter?</div>
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PS The St Pat's day lecture/ICIS32 conference were institutions at UC Berkeley 2008-2015 and here is an incomplete list<br />
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<span style="color: #550055;"><br />
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2008<br />
<br />
</span>The destruction of Tara<br />
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<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fevents.berkeley.edu%2Findex.php%2Fcalendar%2Fsn%2Fihouse.html%3Fview%3Darchive_results%26startArchivePageData%3D50%26browse_archive%3Dyes&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFhx9W4CdSHjFfl7J4CKoXf44FsiQ" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://events.berkeley.edu/<wbr></wbr>index.php/calendar/sn/ihouse.<wbr></wbr>html?view=archive_results&<wbr></wbr>startArchivePageData=50&<wbr></wbr>browse_archive=yes</a><br />
<br />
2009 Shell in Mayo<br />
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<br />
<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fevents.berkeley.edu%2Findex.php%2Fcalendar%2Fsn%2Fihouse.html%3Fview%3Darchive_results%26startArchivePageData%3D200%26browse_archive%3Dyes&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFktUlp7CFxETc-YSN4LAL4t8c41A" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://events.berkeley.edu/<wbr></wbr>index.php/calendar/sn/ihouse.<wbr></wbr>html?view=archive_results&<wbr></wbr>startArchivePageData=200&<wbr></wbr>browse_archive=yes</a><br />
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2010<br />
<br />
Academic tenure<br />
<span style="color: #550055;"><br />
<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fevents.berkeley.edu%2Findex.php%2Fcalendar%2Fsn%2Fihouse.html%3Fview%3Darchive_results%26startArchivePageData%3D300%26browse_archive%3Dyes&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEp8QbxxV1nss74Of21kh8Y-r3bAg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://events.berkeley.edu/<wbr></wbr>index.php/calendar/sn/ihouse.<wbr></wbr>html?view=archive_results&<wbr></wbr>startArchivePageData=300&<wbr></wbr>browse_archive=yes</a><br />
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2011<br />
<br />
Talk on “The Irish banking crisis and its aftermath”<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fevents.berkeley.edu%2Findex.php%2Fcalendar%2Fsn%2Fihouse.html%3Fview%3Darchive_results%26startArchivePageData%3D500%26browse_archive%3Dyes&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEbw34yBKZ8UiGSR7wcnYl5xUj7KA" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://events.berkeley.edu/<wbr></wbr>index.php/calendar/sn/ihouse.<wbr></wbr>html?view=archive_results&<wbr></wbr>startArchivePageData=500&<wbr></wbr>browse_archive=yes</a><br />
<br />
2012<br />
<br />
First ICIS32 conference<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fsanfrancisco.eventful.com%2Fevents%2Ficis-conference-%2FE0-001-048430480-6&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEzNoCqoQ2XrVGENgcv-VqTcDWVtw" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://sanfrancisco.eventful.<wbr></wbr>com/events/icis-conference-/<wbr></wbr>E0-001-048430480-6</a><br />
<br />
2013<br />
<br />
"The Re-enchantment of Ireland"<br />
<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fevents.berkeley.edu%2Findex.php%2Fcalendar%2Fsn%2Fihouse.html%3Fevent_ID%3D65384&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEQ5hfbVyzmTvuvn6oARRhoPJu7fw" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://events.berkeley.edu/<wbr></wbr>index.php/calendar/sn/ihouse.<wbr></wbr>html?event_ID=65384</a><br />
<br />
2014<br />
<br />
Ireland's missing ambassador; the strange case of the diplomat gone Wilde:<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fevents.berkeley.edu%2Findex.php%2Fcalendar%2Fsn%2Fihouse.html%3Fevent_ID%3D76561&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGvxW5KQOxoADOoP8gmbzDlYIg3cA" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://events.berkeley.edu/<wbr></wbr>index.php/calendar/sn/ihouse.<wbr></wbr>html?event_ID=76561</a><br />
<br />
2015<br />
<br />
“The Irish in California:<br />
Global Diaspora, National Implications” part of the third ICIS conference;<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fevents.berkeley.edu%2Findex.php%2Fcalendar%2Fsn%2Ftownsend.html%3Fevent_ID%3D88301%26date%3D2015-03-17%26filter%3DEvent%2520Type%26filtersel%3D&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNF15X5IgDsllmCVG2_JPIwp3NF2yA" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://events.berkeley.edu/<wbr></wbr>index.php/calendar/sn/<wbr></wbr>townsend.html?event_ID=88301&<wbr></wbr>date=2015-03-17&filter=Event%<wbr></wbr>20Type&filtersel=</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-82676875778749651672015-10-06T09:43:00.003-07:002015-10-29T14:23:47.820-07:00Sunday afternoon quarterbacking; the war on Irish men<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Letting you in on a secret; in general the only
other men that Irishmen really respect/fear are other Irishmen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other countries produce their sociopaths, but
only the Irish produce males who can think like criminals and behave like
gentlemen <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The castration of our manhood
by the ECB must have been sweet indeed to our enemies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">That tendency in the Irish state to allow the finest and the best be dominated by scum, particualrly scum imported from the EU, quickened after that, we lost 10,000+ health care professionals; our university positions were filled by foreign retards; in a final insult, our young women are being abused and illegally deported from the US. The word is out that we are too weak to stand up for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The quarterback in that most peculiar travesty
of rugby, American “football” (the ball rarely meets the foot) requires skill
in decision-making, physical courage, and two of the best examples are Tom
Brady and Matt Ryan. Of more interest, perhaps, is the fact that the outstanding
player in the rugby world cup is Bernard Foley of Oz. He is an outhalf; that requires decision-making,
physical courage, and – unlike the quarterback - ability both to pass and kick,
and to play a central role in defence as the giants lumber out of the set
pieces and mauls. But he is one of 4 Irish outhalves at the rugby world cup;
both Johnny Sexton and Alan Macginty (playing for the US( are from Dublin; Owen Farrell is the fourth. Aprt from
sexton (not an Irish name, in the only national rugby team that refuses to play its national anthem),
all have Kennedyesque good looks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">In the new Ireland, one of the major goals will
be to allow these brilliantly skilled young Irish men their head. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are those of us who believe that we, who
defeated the Brits in war after war, have had this gay and feminazi nonsense
foisted on us exactly to prevent our self-expression. That is what Terence
MacSwimey, the true founder of the Irish nation, most feared, and we will not tolerate
it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">PS (11/10/15) in the past few days Ireland has competed against France, Germany (our 2 main "creditors") and Poland, to whom we teach English on our island as we expel our own youth. There were no noticeable acts of gratitude from any of the objects of our affection; while we bear our creditors, Poland, aided by a Turkish ref, sent us flailing into the pay-offs. Oh well, another set of paydays for FIFA and the FAI.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt;">PPS </span><br />Well, Argentina's players WEPT as they sung their anthem<br />
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Ireland does not play its anthem<br />
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Guess who won?<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-2564607899926873822015-09-05T10:41:00.000-07:002015-10-03T15:01:02.338-07:00A colony once again redux<br />
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In 2005, at the peak of the Celtic
bubble, I started work on the book that became “A colony once
again”; <br />
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<a href="http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/59226">http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/59226</a></div>
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It is fair to say that it was
contrarian; the cheer-leading for the miracle economy of the time was
so intense that I was actually barred from broadcasting on RTE.
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In 2010, Ireland lost her economic
independence. Yet that was less the icing on the cake than the
decoration on the icing. What I noted in 2005 was the Ur-event of
neocolonization; the rejection of the natural impulse of a nation to
have its sensibility reflected in the apparatus of state. The rest,
as they say, is history; while I phrased the neocolonization in
terms of global trends like neoconservatism and phenomenology,
Ireland is now again at a critical juncture that demands we examine
what went on from 1997 onward.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Briefly, if one considers the present
“government” as essentially a colonial administration, everything
falls into place. It is a fact that the state is on the hook for E100
+ billion in debt that was passed on to the sovereign from private
banks, including (in an unprecedented move) junior such debt. It is a
fact that the state sponsored criminals to sell off the oeuvre of
Ireland's leading musicians of the 1990's to fellow-criminals at
international trade shows for cut-price sale at Walmart. It is a fact that there has not been a
single prosecution for this, despite successful legal actions taken
in the USA and England. It is a fact that the latitude allowed these
criminals in the legal anti-matter in which we dwelt involved also
enormous pressure on musicians to sign “indemnifications” which
would retrospectively clothe the scams in legality.</div>
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It is a fact that repeated question in
the Dail about criminal activity in the universities – including
bribery and intimidation of students – were met with the response
that the universities are allowed act outside the law. It is a fact
that there were repeated attempts to impose an utterly inadequate
e-voting system on the nation. It is a fact that when the tide went
out in 2008 and we found out who was naked, several “businessmen”
had loans in the $ billions that were - in that beautiful phrase -
“non-performing” ie they had no intention of ever repaying them.
It is a fact that the 1998 GFA deprived Ireland of a national
territory and is best regarded as not just a surrender by the Provos,
but is a classical Anglo-Saxon imposition of what they wanted in
1921 ie unconditional surrender to the Anglo-american alliance.It is also a fact that, while the GFA was adopted by referendum,
it was voted out by referendum in 2004 wherein the definition of the
nation reverts back to the 1937 “whole island”.</div>
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Suspension of the action of criminal
investigation was a major technique. That means that the DPP
actually advised people to take civil actions, fully knowing how
ruinously expensive they are. The creaky civil system could actually
be abolished in Ireland at no risk to justice. For those not familiar
with this area, it is nonsense to continue this demarcation in a
country where “contempt of court” is a criminal verdict arising
from civil proceedings. Another major technique was refusal to stop
trading after dissolution companies owned by wealthy individuals
like U2.
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Remarkable resources have been invested
to curtail the natural fecundity of the Irish while forcing them to
accept hordes from Eastern Europe. Soon, of course, we will be told to vote to
accept n abortion regime that ensures the Kermit gosnells of Ireland
will be honored. The division of job agencies into one dealing with
domestic companies and the IDA, dealing with foreign such, resulted
in corporate takeover of hitherto superb Irish software education by
American imbeciles working through Irish criminals.</div>
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So what to do? Well, the colonial
system is remarkably fragile, and our current PM has announced he no
longer has the stomach for the job and will retire soon. That is not
surprising, as he is no longer safe walking down the street. </div>
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Like Scotland, Ireland has a venerable culture, massive natural resources that are being stolen from us by the day, and a gifted native population. We can turn everything around in a year once we get rid of the gangsters currently in power. </div>
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Here is the plan;</div>
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<ol>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Agree to put corporate tax up to
35% as a quid pro quo for a debt writedown. As this should apply
only to services, it is likely that Intel will stay</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Being Irish is still the no. 1
ethnicity in the world. We have given it away too cheaply to
Americans, who reciprocate by falsely accusing and then deporting
our women on at least two occasions. Let Americans work for Irish
credentials by passing a culture exam and paying 1% of their income
to us</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Reassert the claim on the whole
island, and allow a referendum take place that will allow parts of
the NE corner to secede. Irish credentials can be gained by people
in these seceded areas. For the rest of the NE corner, a vote of
over 60% in electoral areas will allow them access to Irish
passports without passing a culture exam. If there are riots as a
result of this, send in the army</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Reinstate the 1916 document as the
founding document of the state, and insist as all Irish patriots
have done that even 1921 was a forced compromise too many, Accept also 1919 (first Dail), 1937, and rescind 1608 (the evil "Tanistry" decision that resulted in recission of the Brehon law regime</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-20911178667501845192015-08-26T09:25:00.000-07:002015-09-05T12:07:11.703-07:00Resistance to the unlawful actions of the Irish state is morally justified<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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In my 2012 book I predicted that one or
other of the over-reaches by the state would end in violence;</div>
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<a href="http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/59226">http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/59226</a></div>
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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;<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/59228">http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/59228</a><br />
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I predict blood on the streets of
Dublin this weekend, and a rocky road to 2016<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
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</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-20594090020029380732015-07-13T14:23:00.001-07:002015-09-01T10:57:38.589-07:00A Dialogue Among World Views<br />
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of Mind II: A Dialogue</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> Good review of the event here;'</span></span></span></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><br /></span></span></span></u></span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="https://cynthiasuelarson.wordpress.com/2015/08/30/reparsing-nature-at-foundations-of-mind-ii/">https://cynthiasuelarson.wordpress.com/2015/08/30/reparsing-nature-at-foundations-of-mind-ii/</a></span></span></span></u></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Conference
August 13-15 3105 Tolman Hall UC Berkeley</span><br />(watch for
announcement of larger venue)<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><br /></span></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Thursday
August 13: Metaphysics</span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></u></span></span></span><br />
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<div align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="border: none; line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 0.11in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Living
the Quantum Paradigm</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Thursday,
Aug 13 2015, 9:00-1:00 (Break 10:45 - 11:15)</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Chair:
Cynthia Sue Larson</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Panelists/speakers
include Wolganag Baer (Nascent), </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">James</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Johnson
(LBL),<span lang="sv-SE">and Swami Prasannatmananda (</span>Vedanta
society)</span></span></span></span></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','Arial';">This is a humorous introduction to this section;</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','Arial';"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siJRYT1rbEU&feature=youtu.be">Henrt Stapp, colleague of Heisenberg, and cell-phone addiction</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">This session
invites interdisciplinary dialogue and exercises addressing the
underlying philosophy and logic of quantum physics, and approaches to
living in accordance with quantum principles. Questions about the
nature of reality require inclusion of quantum physics beyond the
historical “shut up and calculate”</span></span><span style="background: #ffffff;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">approach, which</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">has
provided multiple interpretations of quantum physics without
agreement on the philosophical quantum paradigm foundation. Whereas
quantum physics challenges scientists to comprehend whether, how, or
where a boundary between classical and quantum physics may exist,
philosophy promotes critical thinking and clarity about arguments,
terminology, and ideas. Scientific philosophy can lead the way toward
development of new theoretical approaches and alternate
interpretations, while finding conceptual weak points in theories
and</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span lang="fr-FR">arguments.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Experiential
approaches to living in accordance with quantum principles provide
unique opportunities for appreciating the feeling of levels of
consciousness and the dream-like nature of reality. In Vedanta, the
body is a synonym for sensations and the mind for thoughts; both are
presented to consciousness, the fundamental eternal reality. Yet
exercises are also proposed to maintain this insight, which otherwise
does not persist.</span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">10:00
Submitted papers </span></span></span></span></u></span></span></span><br />
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<b>Shiva Meucci </b><br />
<b>Judy B. Gardiner</b><br />
<b>Cynthia Sue Larson</b><br />
<b>Frank Heile</b><br />
<b>Leanne Whitney</b><br />
<b>Julia Bystrova</b><br />
<b>Jonathan W Schooler</b><br />
<b>Maria Syldona</b><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><br /></u></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Session
on Ontology</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Thursday,
Aug 13 2015 1:00 - 3:30</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span lang="fr-FR">Chair:</span>
Sean O'Nuallain</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Panelists/speakers
include Henry Stapp (LBL, Berkeley) , Jacob Needleman
(SFSU)</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">(keynotes), Len
Talmy ( U Buffalo) Kevin Padian (UC Berkeley)</span></span></span></u></span></span></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="border: none; line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 0.11in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">It
is our belief that much grief, and waste of taxpayers' money, could
be avoided with an appropriate re-parse of nature that acknowledges
there are rifts between the quantum and classical physical
realities,</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">and further
ontological discontinuities at the biological and intentional
thresholds. It is further our belief that the relative failure of the
HGP, and imminent debacle of both the Obama and “Blue <span lang="it-IT">brain</span>”</span></span><span style="background: #ffffff;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">neuro initiatives, are due to
precisely this unwillingness to cater to ontology. Moreover, even
incessant crawling of the web has</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">failed
to yield anything other than at best mediocre results in machine
translation.</span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Finally,
this tendency manifests itself in the social sciences with
psychologism, the reduction of exigent social dynamics to cognitive
and other psychological theories of how these forces are processed.
This has led on the one hand to the non-engaged intellectual; on the
other, to bewildering interpretations of postmodern thinkers geared
mainly to giving instructors a free pass.</span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">This
session invites papers that address technical issues in science and
the arts under this rubric. Consider the question of authentic
political engagement. In particular, the latter category of papers
may explore the fact that reality is related to consciousness and yet
transcends it, As we act, we become aware of being objects in</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">a
social space that yet can be magicked away in a classroom.</span></span></span></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Submitted
papers</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Sean O
Nuallain</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Jonathan
Schooler</span></span><b><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In
the absence of theory, return to Villa Serbelloni?</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Thursday,
Aug 13 2015 </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">3:45 to 5:30</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Chair:
Marcin Joachimiak (Physical Biosciences, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory)</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Panel
includes , Kevin Padin (Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley), Stuart
Kauffman</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">(Systems
Biology,Seattle), Howard Pattee (Binghamton University),</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Beverly
Rubik (FAIM)</span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Several
decades before the HGP was initiated, a diverse group of scientists
convened at Villa Serbelloni to tackle the troubling lack of theory
in biology. The solutions they proposed were various, from</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">an
untroubling emphasis on hierarchy to a reinstatement of Aristotelian
material and final causality to a network-based approach to the
interaction of metabolism and genetic code. It is fair to say</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">that
the HGP to its cost –</span></span><span style="background: #ffffff;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and that of the public who paid for it
– ignores these guidelines. Is it time for a fresh period of
reflection?</span></span></span></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Submitted
papers</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Madza Vierges
(Ph.D candiate, Cal)</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Beverly
Rubik (Faim)</span></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Friday,
August 14: Science</span></b></span></u></span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="border: none; line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 0.11in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">Session
on </span>Probing subjectivity with neuroscience<span style="color: #222222;">;
non-invasive probes into subjectivity</span></b></span><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Friday,
Aug 14 2015 </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">9 am - 1 pm</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Chair;
Justin Riddle (Ph.D. candidate, UC Berkeley)</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Panel
includes Walter Freeman (UC Berkeley), </span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">
Jeffrey Martin, Chris Tyler, <u>S</u>aher <u>Y</u>ousef</span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">While
a century ago dreams were regarded as revelatory of true psychic
dynamics, a later generation took to drugs for that same purpose. A
new ethos is stressing invasive methods that essentially
involve</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">consent forms
being signed by patients already stressed by imminent <span lang="nl-NL">surgery.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">While
the results have been mixed, the fact remains that there already
exists an array of tools that can shape experience without the risks
of drugs or surgery. This session will investigate these tools, like
TMS and EEG, and their results. It will feature discussion of
synchronized gamma and whether it indeed is the signature
of</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">consciousness that
many claim it is.</span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">9:00 <span lang="nl-NL">Keynote:
Walter Freeman</span></span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">9:45 Chris
Tyler</span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">10:30 Q+A</span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">10:45 break</span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">11:00 Panel/papers</span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Papers</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span lang="pt-PT">Juan
Acosta-Urquidi</span></span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Justin
Riddle</span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">1:00 break</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
Real Madrid Model for universities; superstar academics, free
transfers</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Friday,
Aug 14 2015 </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> 2 pm - 3 pm</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Chair
Brian Barsky (UC Berkeley)</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Panellists/speakers
include Ignacio Chapela (UC Berkeley)</span></span></span></span></u></span></span></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="border: none; line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 0.11in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">A
new model on the university is being developed in Europe and Russia;
superstar academics are to be flown in as adjunct profs, if only for
a few months a year, and tenure is to be excised along the
lines</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">successfully
implemented by Thatcher and Major. An executive is to be created that
removes power from the academic community to centralize it into fewer
and less accountable hands. While this model reached its nadir in
Ireland in the aughts, other countries are now emulating</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">it.
This panel attempts to dissect it and propose alternatives.</span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">This
is particularly relevant as the 50the anniversary of the free speech
movement at Berkeley comes to a close. In keeping with the themes of
this conference, Mario Savio was “interested in the</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">connection
between quantum mechanics and free will”</span></span><span style="background: #ffffff;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span lang="de-DE">(Cohen, 2009 P</span>
275)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">As
a high school student on a summer programme at the NSF summer
institute “One day I made an observation ….which convinced me –</span></span><span style="background: #ffffff;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and still does - that this essential
connection between macrophysics and microphysics also precludes
strict determinism…</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">we have
once again coupled a a sub microscopic event with macroscopic human
behavior. The physical indeterminism of human behavior constitutes a
necessary</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">condition
for human freedom”</span></span><span style="background: #ffffff;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(Savio from Cohen, 2009, Pp
17-18)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span lang="nl-NL">Cohen,
R (2009) Freedom</span>’s Orator . NY: OUP</span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Submitted
papers</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Sebastian
Benthall, (I-school UC Berkeley)</span></span></u></span></span></span><br />
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<div align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="border: none; line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 0.11in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Quantum
entanglement, negative probabilities and neural oscillations;</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">the
sublime final achievement of the great American polymath
Patrick</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Suppes</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Friday,
Aug 14 2015 3:30 to close</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Participants
include members of the final Suppes group including</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Acacio
de Barros and Gary Oas. They will be joined by,</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">others
with empirical results</span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Like
his fellow-American Frank Lloyd Wright, Pat Suppes experienced a
breathtaking burst of creativity in the ninth decade of his life.
While Pat’s earlier work on economics, psychology and the
philosophy of science achieved justified world renown, it is the
sustained attack on problems of mind and world that occupied his
later energies that we will celebrate in this panel. This work, which
is being continued at Stanford, features the highly technical and
competent researchers on this panel bringing a wide artillery of
techniques to bear on issues of mind, brain, cognition, and
epistemology. It is their work which will indicate whether what was
being hinted at in Pat’s autumn years until his passing in late
2014 is an entirely new language for describing</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">humanity’s
relationship to reality itself</span><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">4:30
Submitted papers </span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">R. P
Bajpai</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Karla Gadamez
(LBL)</span></span></u></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Saturday,
August 15: Ecological consciousness, environmental technology</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />9
<span style="background: #ffffff;"><span lang="nl-NL">am to 12-30</span></span></span></b></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span lang="nl-NL">9
am</span></span></b></u></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span lang="de-DE">Stuart
Kauffman</span>: Conference Keynote </span></b><span style="background: #ffffff;">"Humanity
In A Creative Universe”</span></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><u><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial Bold, serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">10-15</span></span></span></u></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: Arial Bold, serif;">Miguel
Altieri</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <br />Agroecology Scaling
Up for Food Sovereignty<br />and Resiliency </span></span></u></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">11
am</span></span></span></u></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>Fritjof
Capra</b>The Systems View of Life: A Unified Conception of Mind,
Matter, and Life</u></span></span></span><br />
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<div align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="border: none; line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 0.11in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">1:30-2-30
session continues</span><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">Confirmed
speakers include <b>Glenn Aparicio Parry, Katja Pettinen, </b></span></span></span></span></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>Tania Re</u></span></span></span></div>
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3:00 pm</div>
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Mindfulness : meditation, presence in
daily life and high performance in sports and the arts</div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffffff;">While
the beneficial effects of meditation to health can perhaps most
economically be explained in terms of its measured decrease in brain
metabolism, the issue of how to elicit high performance perhaps
needs to be re-opened in the context of modern neuroscience. Artists,
meditators and athletes will talk about their experience of presence
and flow</span></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
Sperry Andrews, </span></span></span></span>Yoshio Nakamura, </u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><u>S</u>aher <u>Y</u>ousef</span></span></span></span></u></span></span></span>, Melanie
O'Reilly, Sean O Nuallain</u></span></span></span></div>
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The general outline of Ireland's grim
future is now clear. While it is unlikely that any political party
can explicitly claim this as its program, it is equally unlikely
that any of the current main parties have the gumption to buck these
trends;</div>
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Borrowing on the financial
markets, secured against commitments to sell off the family silver
at a discount. The more silver is committed, the lower the
borrowing rate ("bond yield"), and the cops can be used against the ensuing riots as
we've already seen;</div>
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Financialization of the economy
and the economization of life. The wet dream of hucksters such as
Blackrock to continue demanding mortgage payments AFTER repossession
has become a reality in Ireland and Spain'</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Continuation of the assault
against Irish artists, scholars and other entrepreneurs
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</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Yielding to every international
neoliberal demand – gay marriage, abortion, etc – culminating in
passivity when the US embassy connived in theft of Irish passports</div>
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The problem is that this combination is
unstable. One can borrow, and encourage parasites to breed with
welfare payments; but the international banksters always ask for a
kilogram flesh too much, and water charges proved these modern-day
Shylocks often overstep. So there is no party with support steadily
over 25%, and we can expect instability for while.</div>
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While Iceland did fine by playing a
much more subtle game with the IMF, Greece seems determined to take
the banksters on mano a mano. This is what Ireland, with its much
greater natural resources, should have done long ago and Greece's
stance deserves all our support<br />
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PS (5 Iuil 2015) Lest we forget; we were repeatedly told that the "yes" was such a foregone conclusion that bookies had paid out on it 4 days BEFORE THE VOTE;<br />
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<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-01/paddy-power-pays-out-early-on-greece-voting-yes-in-referendum">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-01/paddy-power-pays-out-early-on-greece-voting-yes-in-referendum</a><br />
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So who paid Paddy Power to pay out "five figures" ie about the Kilkee Strand races level? Was it Blackstne, also features in that disgusting article?<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-50996456034246767022015-06-17T12:20:00.002-07:002015-11-12T11:14:56.039-08:00Reality check; Irish students have misbehaved in Berkeley for close on a decade( Pre-preface; finally, action from the US embassy in Dublin to prevent a recurrence;<br />
<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-europe-34798079&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGiXpBipJcfJ8tmsJZFwCfZQUipHg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-<wbr></wbr>europe-34798079</a>)<br />
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I preface these comments ; I write as a parent whose two daughters came to Berkeley for the summer, aged 20 and 19, in 2011 and 2013 (respectively). Getting each of them home safely was a non-trivial task. As such, my heart goes out to the parents who seem falsely to have been told their kids were safe here without any supervision. This is the most immature and undisciplined Irish generation in living memory.<br />
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What bothers me about the line taken by the Irish state is<br />
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1. It had been warned, in writing, since 2103 that there was likely to be a problem<br />
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2. Its conveying - however indirectly - the notion that it it ok to wake people up every night as Irish kids have been doing in Berkeley every summer for a decade is not just disrespectful. It is also possible it will lead to a more serious incident, like taking an SUV out on US 101 and causing a pile-up<br />
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The Irish Times has decided that whereof it should not speak, it will again lay down the law as "paper of record";<br />
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<a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/new-york-times-article-a-fantastic-distortion-of-j-1s-1.2253154">http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/new-york-times-article-a-fantastic-distortion-of-j-1s-1.2253154</a><br />
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On 15 June, 2015 Mel and I picked
up our new friend, F. a young piper from Ireland, in our car. We
brought him to the Starry Plough in Berkeley , where he played with
me for young Americans doing Irish dance. Many of them drive from
silicon Valley every Monday; the dance floor is mobbed. This receives
NO state subsidy and the Starry Plough recently celebrated its 40<sup>th</sup>
anniversary; it is now the SF East Bay's oldest night club.</div>
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F. went home; his music may have saved
his life. Otherwise, he might have been “partying” and lost his
life with the others. How did we meet him? We have taken to giving
young Irish people our business cards when we see them, lost, on the
streets of Berkeley.</div>
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Every year the fraternity houses and
many apartments are “let” to Irish J-1 holders; notoriously,
they wrecked a house in SF in 2014. However, we had already warned
the consul general in 2013 - in writing – that this was an
accident waiting to happen. After the 2014 house carnage, we wrote
again, ccing to the Taoiseach, whose daughter was herself on a J-1 at
the time.</div>
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It turns out that there was serious trashing of houses in Santa Barbara in 2010. In Berkeley, the Irish J-1 holders through raucous parties have actually caused local legislation to be changed so that two noise infractions now nets you a large fine. That happened around the same time as the Santa Barbara incident </div>
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What needs to be done? Frankly, ALL the
Irish state services here in the Western USA are a joke; in SF, only
the pastoral center is trusted. There will be a time to
investigate the waste of state money in farcical projects like the
San Jose “innovation” center, and the state;s obstruction of the
development of Irish studies here. What we need to do right now is
express our sympathy, however, to those involved and bereaved, but
also tell them that – yes, Irish people did care enough for their
sons and daughters to ask the consul to stop the annual influx.<br />
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Looking through the tragically shortened life histories of the dead, they do NOT come across as drinkers. In fact, they come across if anything as nerds on their first unsupervised trip away from home, and profoundly decent kids. The most innocent explanation - and a likely one - is that, although they WERE keeping their neighbours awake, they were posing for a photo. The fact both lessees, and the cousins were on the balcony with the birthday girls supports this<br />
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It would be very interesting to find out who was INSIDE the room, egging them on in whatever idiot game they were playing - a game guaranteed to win them the Darwin awards this year, if the "photo" idea is wrong. I note they all inside have been offered flights home</div>
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Those who want to come here should be given a course on American culture, and respect for others. No matter what humbug the IT comes up with, the fact remains that there were (at least) 13 people on a balcony in downtown Berkeley at 12-40 in a city where people got to bed before 11am, that there is a history of Irish kids creating a ruckus there, and that kids come over here with neither accommodation nor a job ready. secondly, the lease for that building sates no noise after 9pm.</div>
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Finally, many of us work hard on projecting a positive image on Ireland. Waking people up in the middle of the night is not how to do that. wandering around the streets with hurleys, and interacting neither with Americans their own age nor the larger Irish community does not help either</div>
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How does one recognize an Irish kid sans hurley? In general, because they wear a sports jersey with a logo like "AIG" or some other sterling exponent of ethical behaviour. The Irish state is perhaps deliberately producing a generation of thugs and imbeciles; that needs to be rectified in the educational system there. Until it is so rectified, please keep these unformed kids away and give them a chance to be exposed to the real depth and beauty of their own culture</div>
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Then they will turn out to be fine young men and women like their Californian counterparts<br />
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PS I went to the address and noted the wreaths. Unless I'm mistaken, several of them are fraudulent. for example, the one from a "flatmate" remembering their wonderful company is at odds with the recollection of the African-American woman interviewed with me on NBC. who remembers non-stop noise. The handwriting is remarkably similar on many....what we have IMO is classic Irish stage-management of an undoubtedly tragic event, stage-management which is aimed at getting the state off the hook<br />
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As for us, we played a memorial at the Starry Plough 22 June. It is noticeable that Clodagh, a survivor who is currently paralyzed, has been heroic. Why was she not told to have her social life in the wee hours in nightclubs there for the purpose?<br />
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Stop press (!) F had his drink spiked in the wee hours of 24 Aug, and was abducted and thrown out of a car in downtown Oakland. He phoned us at 1 am. We took photos of the grazes etc <br />
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PPS Source for the change in the Berkeley noise ordinance due to the Irish kids; Jim Hynes, an Irish -American who works for the city of Berkeley. If the Irish state put a fraction of the effort it is putting in to imposing a maudlin narrative on this event into asserting the rights of its creative class, or indeed preventing musicians from being ripped off and getting cancer as several did following events I have documented in my "Ireland in crisis" book, we would have a great country and both Mel and I would be living there, not in the US;<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ireland-Crisis-Analyses-Proposed-Solutions/dp/1443849650">http://www.amazon.com/Ireland-Crisis-Analyses-Proposed-Solutions/dp/1443849650</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-8292466157087115962015-05-10T10:54:00.003-07:002015-05-10T11:31:47.632-07:00Returning Gaelic culture to Scotland<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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In my capacity as the de facto head of Irish studies at UC
Berkeley, I was invited to a private luncheon/discussion/Q+A with Chris Patten
on Fri 8<sup>th</sup> May, in the wake of the Tories’ success. He was
indiscreet and very smart; he correctly pointed out that the physics/comp sci
graduates being employed by the bookmakers were always more likely to provide
more accurate predictions than the official pollsters (including Nate Silver )
and so the result had been less of a surprise to him.</div>
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He added that he will of course travel England’s green
and pleasant land boosting whatever deal Cameron gets from the EU before the
referendum. And NI, he continued, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pays
dearly for peace in the shape of bad government; the unionist “cultural”
expression is a tribal perversion of Britishness with which he is
uncomfortable. Finally, yes, the UK may split up.</div>
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Scotland
will look within after secession and all indications are that it will use its
Gaelic past as a key pillar of its identity. Indeed, it can look to Ireland’s successful playing up of the sophistication
of the Neolithic culture, the Gaelic language, Scottish reels and bagpipe bands
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as usurpations of Scotland’s own
culture. It will do the necessary DNA analysis and conclude that there was no
massive Irish invasion of Scotland,
but a shared culture and people over North-Eastern Ireland and western Scotland. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, as this blog has consistently argued,
it may make Ireland
irrelevant by using its superior intellectual and legal traditions.</div>
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Unlike Ireland,
which simply adopted the most arcane traditions of English jurisprudence, Scotland has
its own legal system. It is of course a fantasy to imagine that legal and moral
standards are immeasurably higher in any other country to one’s own; yet what
passes for “law” in Ireland
beggars belief. After a brief period of republican courts, the Irish free state
re-instated the British system, labeled “insane” by the plaintiff in the
current Facebook case who realized that he could get neither a speedy nor a
fair trial in Ireland.</div>
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What Ireland
uniquely possessed was tortured, exiled writers and a political absolutism that
led briefly (1921-1998) to independence of part of the island. This absolutism
may indeed stem from the perception that a whole alternative civilization was
locked up in texts and music that the British had not got around to suppressing
for precisely the same reason as that in India; it just seemed too childish
and pathetic. By the 1990’s that “infantile” culture had achieved such
worldwide currency that Liam Neeson, prior to accepting an OBE in 1999, spoke of
how universal consciousness was manifesting in Ireland….</div>
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It was just about then, Neeson’s Deepak Chopra moment, that
things were falling apart there, But what had held them together up to then?
There is no equivalent of Edinburgh’s “Athens of the North”; Ireland’s writers were in general
banned and exiled; the music was sustained more by barowners’ steadfast refusal
to take money from musicians drinking and playing there than any state
initiative. In my opinion, the answer is complex; it was a sense of the
numinous in Irish society, one that protected clerical pedophiles but also
asserted a hierarchy of value in the elite arts like theater; a nexus of impresarios,
theater-managers and actors who sensed (in a system that Neeson himself befitted
from) that while there was very little money, free rehearsal space in a modern
city center is a gift; an Irish twist on roman Catholicism that allowed
organizations like Opus dei actually make a positive contribution; and a
political system where even an undoubtedly venal person like Charles Haughey
would assert not just the territorial integrity of the country, but the greatness
of a past that could – and, briefly, did - yet shape the future. </div>
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In fact, the only truly egregious thing that Haughey
inflicted on us was Bertie Ahern. Within a year of the latter’s taking office,
and the unionists’ brutal murder of Sean Brown that led to what they must have
seen as the IRA’s surrender, all the pillars of the old Irish society were
gone. Neoliberalism replaced Catholicism as the state dogma; the folk music was
privatized in a contract that only the Irish legal system could assert as
valid; a series of bubbles was generated that led to the surrender of the
country’s economic autonomy. We are now facing at least a decade of political
instability, with political parties being birthed and dying in a fragmented
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The country that Ireland has become is not a fit
locus for the remnants of Celtic/Gaelic culture that it preserved with such
persistence and courage. The book of Kells could with justification just as easily
be termed the book of Iona; the bagpipe bands so beloved of Irish-Americans are
Scottish; the Fiannaiochta exist as strongly in Scotland
as Ireland.
It is possible that the Irish state has served its historical purpose. The fact
that the British ensured, by repeatedly frustrating the democratic will of the
people, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that it was birthed in violence,
resulted in a pathological state. They will not make the same error with the
Scottish, who will thrive in a resource-starved 21<sup>st</sup> century,
hopefully as our close partners.</div>
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Indeed, there is a case for a Scots-Irish confederation,
with the rights of Protestants protected by the demographic reality of their
being almost 50% of the population.<br />
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PS Aspects of Ahern's destruction of Irish civil society is outlined in this free excerpt <br />
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<a href="http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/59226">http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/59226</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ireland-Crisis-Analyses-Proposed-Solutions/dp/1443849650">http://www.amazon.com/Ireland-Crisis-Analyses-Proposed-Solutions/dp/1443849650</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8946714083479308971.post-38763101432378113582015-03-06T14:00:00.001-08:002015-03-26T21:07:40.388-07:003rd ICIS conference; 1st annual UC Berkeley St Patrick's day celebration<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">1<sup>st</sup>
annual UC Berkeley St Patrick's day celebration Noon-10pm </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Schedule</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Noon
Kurka Boshkin play at Memorial stadium, UC Berkeley</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QycRVt8Xf8"><span style="font-size: small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QycRVt8Xf8</span></a></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1-30-10pm Third conference
of the </span><span style="color: navy;"><u><a href="http://icis32.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: small;">International
Congress of Irish Studies </span></a></u></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sponsored
by the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict , and the
International Congress of Irish Studies</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Introduction
by Prof Dan Melia (Emeritus, UC Berkeley)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part
1: The (American ) Irish Diaspora</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">1-30
pm 370 Dwinelle UC Berkeley 8<sup>th</sup> annual UC Berkeley St
Patrick's day lecture</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prof
Christopher O'Sullivan (USF)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“<span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Irish in California”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Irish in
California:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Global
Diaspora, National Implications</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Irish seem to have been in California forever yet there is no
evidence that St. Brendan ever explored the Pacific Coast.
Nonetheless, even prior to the Gold Rush, people of Irish ancestry
played enormous roles in shaping California’s destiny, particularly
its landscapes, its culture and, most important, its politics. The
Irish contributed to California in three major ways: First, as empire
builders, with figures such as the mysterious Irish priest Father
Eugene Macnamara, who sought to build an Irish nation in the San
Joaquin Valley in the 1840s; San Francisco’s first millionaire, Sam
Brannan; and the four Irish millionaires known to posterity as the
Silver Bonanza Kings. Second, the Irish made lasting contributions as
planners, surveyors, and engineers with figures such as Jasper
O’Farrell, architect of San Francisco’s city plan; and Michael
O’Shaughnessy and William Mulholland, both of whom shaped the
destinies of San Francisco, Los Angeles and the state of California
with unprecedented water projects. Finally, and perhaps most
important, were the Irish contributions to politics, with figures
such as the Workingmen’s Party leader Denis Kearney; San
Francisco’s “Blind Boss” Chris Buckley; the “Renaissance
Prince” of San Francisco, Mayor Jimmy Phelan, and his chief
adversary, the Galway-born champion of labor, Father Peter C. Yorke.
However, the most important Irishman in California history may have
been the long-forgotten and misunderstood U.S. Sen. David C.
Broderick who, both in life and, more consequentially, after his
shocking murder, kept California in the Union column. </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part
2: Conflict and resolution on the island of Ireland </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">2-30
pm Seán Ó Nualláin UOI</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;">“<span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
Prime Minister Gerry Adams is unlikely to invade Northern Ireland”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Abstract</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">By
April 2016, the 100<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the Easter rising
that gained Ireland a measure of independence, it is likely that
Gerry Adams will be Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland.
Moreover, as his lieutenant Martin McGuinness has stated, it is
likely that the set of elections in early 2016 for the Westminster and
Northern Ireland assemblies will make a United Ireland inevitable.
With Sinn Fein fulfilling their master plan of being in government in
both jurisdictions of the island, neither of which jurisdictions
they recognized until recently, they may be tempted to simply send
the army over the border. This paper argues that Adams has his eye on
another anniversary and will simply let the border melt away. 1919
was the first meeting of the “provisional” government after which
his paramilitary organization was named, and from which it claimed
its role as the legitimate government of the whole island from 1919
to 1999. It is in keeping with Adam's extreme-long term thinking that
it is also the 850<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the first Anglo-Norman
invasion.</span></span></span></div>
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We study the effect of political marches on violence in Northern
Ireland. To this end, we construct a new dataset for the main
conflict period of 1969-1979, geocoding all 1,844 casualties of
political violence, collecting locations on political marches and
daily rainfall data. We use a difference-in-difference design to
estimate the change in violence during marching season in wards where
marches took place to those where no marches took place. We find
significant effects accounting for about 50 casualties. We also find
that this effect is stronger for Catholic victims targeted by state
forces. In months with a lot of rain, marching wards exhibit no more
violence than non-marching wards, suggesting that lower attendance
may lead to lower violence.</span></span></div>
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Tom Walsh (UC Berkeley) Title TBC</span></span></div>
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pm Clemens Ruthens "Trinity, Dublin and Dracula: A Bit(e) of
Bram Stoker" </span></span>
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4: St Patrick, Man and Myth<br /><br /> The historical St Patrick is a
fugitive figure, as one would expect<br /> looking across a chasm
of over 1.5 millennia. This has allowed<br /> various concepts to
be projected on him; a Briton who yet becomes the<br /> most potent
rallying-symbol for the entire Irish diaspora; a liberator<br /> who
seems to have been involved in expunging the native Celtic<br />
traditions<br /><br /> Yet we have two documents from him that indicate a
well-defined<br /> subjectivity; his confessions and the letter to
Coroticus. It is<br /> interesting how different the songs
celebrating him are from these.<br /> “Dóchas linn Naomh
Pádraig” speaks of his Druidic opponents as being<br />
“useless, and hard of heart” and “He cleansed them for us
forever,<br /> great glory to our dear saint!”</span></span></span></div>
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By contrast, the Lorica of Saint Patrick declares “ I arise
today.<br /> Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity”
and<br /> continues to refer to the Druidic concept of “niurt”, a
divine<br /> strength pervading the cosmos. According to respected
researchers<br /> like O Duinn of the University of Limerick, there is
a sly reference<br /> to the Chandogya Upanishad, with Christ rather
than the infinite<br /> invoked to be beside, behind and above the
speaker.</span></span></div>
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The Lorica of Saint Patrick was almost certainly written several<br />
centuries after Patrick’s death. It may represent a historic<br />
compromise between the Druidic remnants still existent and a<br />
Christendom weakened by the fall of the Roman empire. It is a text<br />
plunged in the kind of nature mysticism that O Duinn insists is<br />
central to the Druidic tradition. As such, it resembles Tibetans'</span></span></div>
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successful reconstruction of Indian Buddhism.</span></span></div>
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ebbing of Christendom has again been experienced by 21st
century<br /> Ireland, leaving moral chaos..</span></span></div>
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pm Prof Dan Melia (Emeritus, UC Berkeley) on a redating of St
Patrick's mission to the mid 4<sup>th</sup> century from the received
date of 432</span></span></div>
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7-30pm Melanie O''Reilly and Frank Martin perform ethno-jazz, Cafe
Trieste, San Pablo, Berkeley</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
propose giving the Lorica an ethno-jazz setting,<br /> with Celtic and
other themes. We propose also an indirect tribute to<br /> our late
friend, Dave Brubeck, by setting “Ailiu Iath eirann” with its<br />
celebration of the physical land of Ireland to 5:4; the fact the
lines<br /> in general have 5 syllables making this possible.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Melanie
O''Reilly was Ireland's representative at the Euro-Jazz festival at
UCLA in 2013</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Melanie
O''Reilly and Frank Martin's Joyce & Jazz Suite already had an
invite and grant to be performed at Cork Jazz Festival as part of the
Jazz Gathering, in 2013.<br /> Both Joyce & Jazz Suite AND the Sean
O Riordain pieces have been<br /> recorded on Ceol Ceantair CD and
these pieces were performed at NCH,<br /> -this concert was picked as
one of the top ten concerts of the 2103,<br /> by Ireland's Sunday
Independent. The Sean O Riordain pieces were performed part of
Dublin's IMRAM festival in 2014; among other current Imran projects
is the Doors in Gaelic, featuring Ray Manzarek's saxplayer George
Brooks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Frank Martin is an SF bay area music legend and one of the world's
greatest pianists in any genre. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">PS We had another outstanding success with an audience of over a thousand over all the events Photos of the conference and late gig include Mel ;</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tom Walsh and Dan Melia (UC Berkeley) </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">and Clemens Ruthens (Trinity, Dublin). Next time a pro photographer, I hope; </span></span></div>
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