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		<title>By: ralphlaurensale</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: s1lverbullet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Coughlan is an ablsolute idiot only in high-level politics because her father was a loyal FF TD scumbag too. Same goes for Cowen. The reason they can&#039;t make any good decisions is because most top ranking FF&#039;ers are mentally retarded due to their intermarrying. Just look at coughlan, cowen , haughey jnr, o dea. Talk about runts of the litter!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Coughlan is an ablsolute idiot only in high-level politics because her father was a loyal FF TD scumbag too. Same goes for Cowen. The reason they can&#8217;t make any good decisions is because most top ranking FF&#8217;ers are mentally retarded due to their intermarrying. Just look at coughlan, cowen , haughey jnr, o dea. Talk about runts of the litter!</p>
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		<title>By: s1lverbullet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you are dead right laughingbear. we all know that their actions were criminal but we are told that they seemingly did&#039;nt break the law. This supposedly comes straight from the Attorney General(who is put in place by the Taoiseach of the time). Another past AG is that scumbag Dermot Gleeson who, after rinning AIB into the ground and losing billions elderly shareholders cash, walks right into another high- paid job with a mining(exploitionary) company. It shows how corrupt the world is when that fucker can use his bildeberger cronies to land on his feet. I mean, honestly, I wouldn&#039;t put him in charge of a corner shop!!! ( unless he did exactly what he was supposed to do, and bring the system to its knees!!)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you are dead right laughingbear. we all know that their actions were criminal but we are told that they seemingly did&#8217;nt break the law. This supposedly comes straight from the Attorney General(who is put in place by the Taoiseach of the time). Another past AG is that scumbag Dermot Gleeson who, after rinning AIB into the ground and losing billions elderly shareholders cash, walks right into another high- paid job with a mining(exploitionary) company. It shows how corrupt the world is when that fucker can use his bildeberger cronies to land on his feet. I mean, honestly, I wouldn&#8217;t put him in charge of a corner shop!!! ( unless he did exactly what he was supposed to do, and bring the system to its knees!!)</p>
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		<title>By: s1lverbullet</title>
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		<dc:creator>s1lverbullet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I honestly feel that we are in a worse state than the greeks but our gombeens are better at PR. Our right wing media will report anything the gombeens tell them backed up by Garrett fitz&#039;s son in the ESRI. This is the most corrupt country in the western world full of religious sadists and child molestors, where the rich can only get 7 years for murder and still control their victim&#039;s estate and the poor go to jail for not paying for Pat Kenny&#039;s wage increases! God help the next generation!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I honestly feel that we are in a worse state than the greeks but our gombeens are better at PR. Our right wing media will report anything the gombeens tell them backed up by Garrett fitz&#8217;s son in the ESRI. This is the most corrupt country in the western world full of religious sadists and child molestors, where the rich can only get 7 years for murder and still control their victim&#8217;s estate and the poor go to jail for not paying for Pat Kenny&#8217;s wage increases! God help the next generation!!</p>
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		<title>By: liam</title>
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		<dc:creator>liam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lunch would be a good start...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lunch would be a good start&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: G</title>
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		<dc:creator>G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>working from outside of the system, or working from within, and to what end, the age old debate.........there is movement Tim and that is the main point, you have to travel the road yourself, the revelations will be more profound despite the comments from others.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>working from outside of the system, or working from within, and to what end, the age old debate&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;there is movement Tim and that is the main point, you have to travel the road yourself, the revelations will be more profound despite the comments from others.</p>
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		<title>By: G</title>
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		<dc:creator>G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ Ruairi - some extremely important points especially on fear, maybe it is fear, which was drilled into all of us growing up (in school, in the home and later in the work place) which is the MAJOR factor holding people back.

Too afraid to step up and challenge things, it is one thing the enemy does not suffer from.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Ruairi &#8211; some extremely important points especially on fear, maybe it is fear, which was drilled into all of us growing up (in school, in the home and later in the work place) which is the MAJOR factor holding people back.</p>
<p>Too afraid to step up and challenge things, it is one thing the enemy does not suffer from.</p>
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		<title>By: Ruairí</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ruairí</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eireannach, I agree with some of your sentiments here in this post but I do have to disagree strongly with your glossing over the deaths of 50,000 men in World War 1 and many multiples of that number injured. We were indeed a part of that world mindset and I believe it was that outward looking connectedness with European affairs that gave us the moxy to finally believe in ourselves, push for independence and then achieve great things (social as well as infrastructural) in the 1st 10 years of our statehood. I can only presume your brevity caused you to not factor in the enormous social flux caused by our involvement in WW1 and our close ties with Britain. I doubt you were truly glossing over the deaths of so many people but focussing on the fact that the theatre of war did not occur here. But even in the War of Independence, we took a massive blow culturally in the fire of the Custom House. We lost many great houses around the country. I take your point completely about inheriting antiquated infrastructure that escaped war ravages. But the greatest force for change is social power and we surely received a massive dose of that after WW1 and perhaps almost enough to establish elft and right politics here, though it quickly blurred into Soldiers of Destiny and blueshirts.
I would say a tremendous amount happened in the new Ireland in almost every decade. Even in the 50&#039;s, picture the galvanising effect of such poverty and emigration. In the 60&#039;s, the energy and bounce coming out of that period of darkness. Picture the 20&#039;s when we were an unstoppable force as a people. I think we do our ancestors a disservice if we blandly say that nothing happened......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eireannach, I agree with some of your sentiments here in this post but I do have to disagree strongly with your glossing over the deaths of 50,000 men in World War 1 and many multiples of that number injured. We were indeed a part of that world mindset and I believe it was that outward looking connectedness with European affairs that gave us the moxy to finally believe in ourselves, push for independence and then achieve great things (social as well as infrastructural) in the 1st 10 years of our statehood. I can only presume your brevity caused you to not factor in the enormous social flux caused by our involvement in WW1 and our close ties with Britain. I doubt you were truly glossing over the deaths of so many people but focussing on the fact that the theatre of war did not occur here. But even in the War of Independence, we took a massive blow culturally in the fire of the Custom House. We lost many great houses around the country. I take your point completely about inheriting antiquated infrastructure that escaped war ravages. But the greatest force for change is social power and we surely received a massive dose of that after WW1 and perhaps almost enough to establish elft and right politics here, though it quickly blurred into Soldiers of Destiny and blueshirts.<br />
I would say a tremendous amount happened in the new Ireland in almost every decade. Even in the 50&#8242;s, picture the galvanising effect of such poverty and emigration. In the 60&#8242;s, the energy and bounce coming out of that period of darkness. Picture the 20&#8242;s when we were an unstoppable force as a people. I think we do our ancestors a disservice if we blandly say that nothing happened&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: G</title>
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		<dc:creator>G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;He had to get the thumbs down from the electorate before he was lined up for this.&quot;

Well put - think it again says a lot about the contempt for democracy, widely engaged in by the political elite or political classes, a term more feequently used on RTE, as if these people who derive their power ironically from the people are somehow a class onto themselves, something removed or apart - which in reality they are.

Indeed, a remarkable situation, we see it on all fronts.  Che makes the interesting point on the&#039;myth&#039; of the self-made man, and to a point he is correct (there are self-made men, normally honest and hard working, with few connections who work on and then see their life&#039;s work gobbled up in taxation (inheritance tax) etc). 

I think upon reflection, Che was tackling these types of sceanarios, where people are appointed to things and then championed as visionaries, &#039;self-made&#039; etc  - something he would have seen right across Latin America.

Che makes the point that their connections, their advantages in life etc are not entered into the equation, instead the myth making gives the impression of something entirely different and by extension there is a lack of honesty to the message as it does not reveal all the facts/lacks accuracy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;He had to get the thumbs down from the electorate before he was lined up for this.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well put &#8211; think it again says a lot about the contempt for democracy, widely engaged in by the political elite or political classes, a term more feequently used on RTE, as if these people who derive their power ironically from the people are somehow a class onto themselves, something removed or apart &#8211; which in reality they are.</p>
<p>Indeed, a remarkable situation, we see it on all fronts.  Che makes the interesting point on the&#8217;myth&#8217; of the self-made man, and to a point he is correct (there are self-made men, normally honest and hard working, with few connections who work on and then see their life&#8217;s work gobbled up in taxation (inheritance tax) etc). </p>
<p>I think upon reflection, Che was tackling these types of sceanarios, where people are appointed to things and then championed as visionaries, &#8216;self-made&#8217; etc  &#8211; something he would have seen right across Latin America.</p>
<p>Che makes the point that their connections, their advantages in life etc are not entered into the equation, instead the myth making gives the impression of something entirely different and by extension there is a lack of honesty to the message as it does not reveal all the facts/lacks accuracy.</p>
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		<title>By: G</title>
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		<dc:creator>G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ruairi - on the money.

Perceptive stuff.

Cuba is my specialisation, interesting that you should muse on this topic and post that article (thanks). 

As I posted previously, Cuba has demonstrated an incredible solidarity in the health care sector (not industry!) with developing countries, they truly are working to the best spirit possible and not the &#039;Hyprocritic Oath&#039; which seems to so characterise the financial aspect of Irish health care, where money increasing determines the level of care you receive, a truly appalling betrayal of Republican principles.  

I am not sure how much one can actually hate a government but I am reaching pretty high levels of hatred and disgust.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ruairi &#8211; on the money.</p>
<p>Perceptive stuff.</p>
<p>Cuba is my specialisation, interesting that you should muse on this topic and post that article (thanks). </p>
<p>As I posted previously, Cuba has demonstrated an incredible solidarity in the health care sector (not industry!) with developing countries, they truly are working to the best spirit possible and not the &#8216;Hyprocritic Oath&#8217; which seems to so characterise the financial aspect of Irish health care, where money increasing determines the level of care you receive, a truly appalling betrayal of Republican principles.  </p>
<p>I am not sure how much one can actually hate a government but I am reaching pretty high levels of hatred and disgust.</p>
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