Unlike hosting the Rugby World Cup, the global economy is no longer an “all-or-nothing” game of nations pitted against each other where for one side to win the other must lose. It’s more nuanced.
Nor is the national economy like the national soccer team; in the global game for prosperity there are no qualifiers and no World Cup every four years. Rather there is constant competition, and two countries can win at the same time.
With the re-emergence of flag-waving and nativism in global politics, it’s easy to forget that countries and national economies can defy simple geopolitical definitions or groupings. Globalisation has allowed countries, particularly small countries, to escape the tyranny of geography.
For example, despite the political rhetoric of Ireland being at the “heart of Europe”, the truth is that Ireland isn’t really a European economy at all but an Atlantic economy, profoundly influenced by history, geography, language and culture.
Compared with any other EU country, Ireland is more exposed to Brexit, more open to American investment and more porous to Anglo/American commercial norms and innovations. In addition, our mercantile structure is held together by a shared English-language common law system.
A Trading State
Over the past two decades while we have become diplomatically and constitutionally closer to the EU, we have become economically and commercially closer to the American world. Close to 80 per cent of our total exports now come from US multinationals, and this figure is growing.
We’ve done well out of this economic promiscuity, servicing both sides with equal enthusiasm. American capital flowed in, as did European immigrants seeking better prospects.
Increasingly, Ireland looks less like a region of Europe and more like a trading hub off the continent’s west coast, akin to a medieval Hanseatic city state, an early 20th-century Shanghai or a 19th-century St Petersburg. The “trading state” has been a feature of economic history from ancient Alexandria to Dubrovnik.
Macron may have a bigger impact on Ireland than Brexit
Commercially, Ireland is more akin to a trading state than a nation state. The growth of services rather than manufacturing, the fall in transport costs, and the emergence of ecommerce have insured that Ireland is not on anyone’s periphery but at the centre of the globalised trading world.
However, playing this trading state game takes skill and vision.
We should aim to maintain a footloose commercial status in the face of the relentless march of harmonisation, the enemy of uniqueness.
Economic history tells us that others, usually bigger players, become jealous of the small trading state’s autonomy and move to strip it of its advantages, particularly if capital is moving consistently towards the smaller competitor. Remember, money is like water, it always moves to the place of least resistance.
To maintain this position as a home for international capital and a destination for international talent, our trading state must be deft and subtle, negotiating between the great powers rather than siding with one explicitly.
The Macron Factor
Over the years, I’ve often visualised Ireland as a jockey riding two horses: the continental EU horse and the Atlantic Anglo/American horse. When both horses are riding together, the jockey’s position is tenable.
For years, both horses ran together as the EU and the Anglo/American world were on the same track economically, socially and politically. But three forces – Brexit, US president Donald Trump and French president Emmanuel Macron – have changed the nature of the race.
The Brexit arguments have been well rehearsed elsewhere. In terms of individual countries, the UK is our single biggest trading partner. No other European country is as important to us.
Trump is a threat to our capital base because he wants to reduce US corporation taxes to coax American capital back home.
But while Trump wants to drop taxes, Macron wants to increase them. The greatest threat to Ireland’s trading state status is not the in-your-face, nativist, flag-wavers in Washington and London, but the behind-the-scenes, integrationist harmonisers in Brussels and, more importantly, in Paris.
Although we only do €9 billion of trade with France (which means we do more commerce in nine weeks with Britain than we do over a whole year with France), Macron may have a bigger impact on Ireland than Brexit.
Because of the dominance of the UK and the English language in Irish media, we receive a lot of UK-centric and, therefore, Brexit-obsessed news. However, in continental media, Brexit rarely holds the front page. For most Europeans, Brexit simply makes detached what was always semi-detached. In contrast, the EU’s own backyard has long been framed by the Franco-German relationship. This too is changing.
Even as German chancellor, Angela Merkel, pieces together her new coalition government, there is a sense that this will be her last hurrah. Across the Rhine, Macron realises this and sees an opportunity to remould Europe. Macron is the man of the moment and he realises he needs to construct a new rallying call to combat populism.
In the first round of the French elections, populism revealed itself on the extreme right and extreme left. In Germany, it materialised in the form of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) on the right. Meanwhile, the nationalist revolt in Catalonia has further undermined European harmony, which was once taken for granted, particularly in Brussels.
Further east, reactionaries and nationalists with values that run contrary to core EU positions on migration and racial tolerance are in power across a vast territorial arc from Stettin in Poland to Bratislava in Slovakia and on to Budapest. In the old imperial capital of Vienna, an anti-immigrant electoral surge has propelled the extreme right to power.
Macron sees these difficulties within the EU as the signal for regeneration of the European project, a siren call made more acute by the anti-EU developments of Brexit and Trump’s presidency. Be under no illusion: British and American nativism supports European populism implicitly and, in less guarded moments, explicitly.
The French president envisages a more integrated EU economy, more adept at combating the US and Asia.
Macron’s European regeneration means “more Europe”, that is tax harmonisation and particularly corporate tax harmonisation. It will not just be about the rate at which corporate tax is levied, but also be about the way tax is assessed. For services such as Google ads, this implies the tax will be levied in the country where the ad is placed, as opposed to where Google is domiciled, which is Ireland.
Commercially, the new Europe will be the gospel according to EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager, made flesh in the guise of Macron.
Ireland’s call
What do all these developments mean for Ireland – the 21st-century trading state?
We must make a choice. We can stay outside the new integrationist EU, using our veto to block any changes to our tax code, but this confrontation risks siding with tax avoiders or “corporate deserters” as former US president, Barack Obama, described them. In addition, “Official Ireland” is unlikely to step off the integrationist wagon even if an economically deeper Europe is not in our interest.
Is there any way Ireland can use the tumult in the years ahead to our advantage, remaining a premier destination for mobile capital, investment, and talent? Can we remain a trading state, like the Hanseatic cities, ensuring our citizens are prosperous?
Yes, we can.
What about proposing that multinationals take the difference between what they owe and ought to pay, roughly €9 billion, and pay this to us in shares?
It is possible but we must take the lead and redefine the relationship between the nation state and international companies. Unless you believe globalisation is about to come to a shuddering halt, investment will remain global, corporations’ supply chains will remain multinational, and – as noted – money will move like water to the place of least resistance.
Here’s the way the system works now.
The multinational sets up in a country, creating jobs, and paying as little tax as it can. The company gets access to the market and the country gets jobs and tax. In the case of Ireland, our attraction is enhanced by the fact that multinationals based here have the concession to trade with the EU. It’s a free pass.
We get only tax and jobs and if we don’t have the local talent to fill the jobs, educated Europeans come without needing visas or any such-like that Brexit threatens.
Tax and wages are income, but the real question is what happens to the wealth of the multinationals? The distinction between income and wealth in economics is one of the least well understood by politicians, which is not surprising because income is short-term and so too is politics. Wealth is longer-term and inheritable.
The lion’s share of the riches made by multinationals goes to shareholders in the form of rising share prices and dividends. Only a tiny fraction goes back to workers in the form of income and to the host state in the form of taxes.
What we want
The tumult in the world gives Ireland a chance to change this system in a way that all Irish people might benefit and in a way multinationals could embrace.
We could reinvent the relationship between the state and the corporation. In so doing, we could remain fully European but with an American sense of corporate innovation that would enrich all Irish citizens. Investment would flow in here, mirroring that of the successful city-states of the past.
According to the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, American multinationals in 2014 made $113 billion (or €96 billion) profit in Ireland. Our corporation tax rate is 12.5 per cent, so they should be paying about €12 billion a year in tax. But they paid only €3.25 billion. This means that about almost €9 billion is missing because these companies use a myriad of loopholes to avoid even our low rates of tax.
The net is tightening, and companies such as Apple are moving money to offshore structures to avoid tax. But these companies know they are on the wrong side of global opinion, and they want a way out.
Deals are done when both sides have something to gain from reaching an agreement.
Multinationals in Ireland want a new deal which minimises their immediate tax outgoings while being tax compliant.
What do we want?
We want them to stay here, but we want something more. We want a share in their wealth, not just wages and tax income.
What about proposing that multinationals take the difference between what they owe and ought to pay, roughly €9 billion, and pay this to us in shares? We then set up an Irish sovereign wealth fund with about that figure every year in the shares of multinationals based here. These are the shares of the best performing companies in the world across some of the fastest growing sectors of the global economy. This fund could grow rapidly, creating a real source of wealth for this country, which could be between €110 billion and €140 billion over a decade – €23,000 per Irish person.
In such a way, we could treat the multinational presence as akin to an oil find, as Norway has banked its oil windfall. In this way, we don’t just get income, we share in the wealth of the companies and we put aside this wealth for future generations – into a fund that can’t be used to finance day-to-day Government spending.
Nor would this fund necessarily be used to fund pensions; it could be used as a start-up fund. The Irish economy needs a vibrant start-up scene and not just a multinational sector. Pledging liquid shares of globally traded companies as collateral against investment funds for start-ups would lead to a surge in local innovation.
The attraction to multinationals is that it is exactly how they pay their workers now: in a combination of wages and share options. They would be paying the host country in a similar split between tax and share options. In addition, this initiative reduces their immediate tax bill, which drops immediately into their bottom line.
Politically, this is a form of wealth redistribution in a country with significant levels of wealth inequality. It would give all Irish citizens a stake they don’t have.
It gets us out of a potential scrap with Brussels, turning the threats of Trump and Brexit into a huge opportunity and putting us one step ahead of Europe, while keeping both feet firmly within the EU.
Geo-strategically, converting unpaid and future taxes into shares would place Ireland at the cutting edge of globalisation.
Ireland would become a leader in framing a new relationship between the nation state and the global multinational.
It’s an ok article from Mr McWilliams, who reiterates his points from earlier columns. The article has some very discerning observations as well as some striking weaknesses. One thing I’d like to notice is that when he says “Further east, reactionaries and nationalists with values that run contrary to core EU positions on migration”, this has to be put in a more precise way (btw – I’m not sure if he realises that by using a word “reactionaries” he uses the language of the Nazis): the countries of central and eastern Europe positions run not as much against the EU… Read more »
So the Anti-Irish Times have once again proved that they are the toilet paper of reference, publishing once again completely false information and refusing to publish my clarification. Here is the truth they were scared of this time: “In his article (November 13), Mr Derek Scally writes that “Poland’s post-war communist leadership renounced the right to reparations in 1953, a position reiterated by Warsaw ahead of EU accession in 2004.” This is factually incorrect: in 2004, the Polish Parliament voted unanimously to seek compensation from Germany for damages suffered during World War II. He also writes: “Berlin has dismissed all… Read more »
Best of luck with the Irish Times David.
I I believe Davids opinions are simplistic . I am reminded of the shoe boy who ggave advise to the stock broker what shares to buy and we all know what happened immediately after that …Wall Street collapsed . CComparing Norwegian Fund Management ( Government controlled ) and a proposed nnewley defined private corporate fund management ( Irish style) is like chalk and cheese and telling the punter they both taste the same. Remember the ODCE ( ccorporate police) is effectively defunct and a non entity . Wild West and wagon mmedicines for sale seems more like it . Understanding… Read more »
Didn’t I see recently that Norway’s wealth fund are getting out of oil? However, the principle is good, and likely to be acceptable to M. Macron?
Not sure that Mr Trump will see it the same way. With his economic lunacy he will need even more need to repatriate US multinational’s “missing money”
Ruth Coppinger has a much simpler approach – Nationalise the Multinationals.
Kamikaze is the ultimate equaliser.
Very interesting and creative yet not without some extraordinary risks. When you align a government with the interests of a company you will fundamentally change the behavior of both. In time, high-risk companies will seek to locate here, creating taxation revenue streams, soon we will be courting them. Other jurisdictions will compete. Share classes will be adjusted. Soon the entity dispensing the goodies will be in control. I would not bet on governments winning out in the end at all. I would be fearful that government would soon become captured by corporate special interests. How would you regulate a sector,… Read more »
Yeah, a provocative idea, not without some merit, but massively fraught with risk.
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1. The EU & Ecb would try to change the rules when we can’t refuse to raid this sovereign wealth fund
2. Yes, we are again a thriving,trading state with a recovering balance sheet and that is great, but we are also in tax & other competition with other EU trading states e.g. Denmark, The Netherlands & the UK (who may go rogue within a decade)
3. Yes, Tax is a direct cost to multinationals, but so are shares, &/or share options (albeit usually at a cheaper cost of finance), so we cannot just magic the tax multinationals ‘ought to pay’. The fact is they don’t pay this level of tax code we and many, many competing nations don’t and probably can’t charge it. Otherwise they go elsewhere
4. Would I trust our politicians & senior civil servants with a sovereign w wealth fund? Frankly no. Ahem what happened to the last one!?
5. Ireland currently charges underfunded private pensions to fund over inflated public salaries & pensions, to do what the author is suggesting requires an integrity in governance that simply has not been evident in Ireland to date. Norway manage their sovereign wealth fund at a redone from central government he’d and outside of the EU, this proposal would have to find a way to craft such a level of structure and I integrity in governance in structure s,… Good luck with that!!! P.s. Excuse the multiple posts, as unforyunately there is no edit facility and formating from my phone is… Read more »
Merkel is probably about to get turfed out by the CDU. Merkel has fibbed and lied for years, and it is no longer working. She is a massive electoral liability. And at this point in time, she has ruined relationships between Germany and most countries in Europe. The only problem is the face saving effort that will be required in the media. That is preventing a frank and honest discussion. In the interim, Macron is enjoying the limelight. And he is liable to produce anything that will move investment to France – or countries that operate with high costs, and… Read more »
I think we all know where this will end up. Various MNCs will sign over shares. And the public sector unions will demand even fatter pensions. The proposal might be seen as a bailout of the massive public sector deficit. But David is now on the public payroll, effectively in Trinners. So, I suppose he will be expected to go along with this. The problem, as an outright chancer declared many eyars ago, is that the state system is living way beyond it’s means. And this is a reflection of ambition, and dishonesty. So, I am opposed to the idea,… Read more »
roughly €9 billion, and pay this to us in shares? And the existing shareholders will agree to this of course. Every issue of new shares dilutes the value of the existing shares. Usually the issuance of new shares means the infusion of cash (paid for the shares) used to fund development and growth of the company, and it is hoped add to the wealth and performance of the corporation. The above proposal will not do this. In the case of simply issuing shares as a payoff it means all existing shareholders can expect a lower value. In many cases a… Read more »
“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.”
A creative idea David but it needs tweaking. A sovereign wealth fund? A non-runner just look at the scams that operate with the National Lottery (the fastest method to move wealth from Coolock to Foxrock via the golf club) the ultimate tax on stupidity. An individualized wealth fund using ISA/IRA/401K type pension shelters for share/stock/ETFs would deliver real wealth to the ordinaryIndividuals who make up this State. Make it compulsory to open an ISA account (similar to the SSIAs) when starting work and allow it to be tax sheltered until retirement. The wealth generated from such a system would make… Read more »
Merkel, hypocrisy, virtue signalling, lies, and never admiiting to mistakes. Mike Shedlock takes Merkel to task for her “Carbon virtue signalling and posturing” hypocrisy. https://www.themaven.net/mishtalk/economics/who-s-worse-for-the-environment-merkel-or-trump-35dqYK0-HUSPuMgk4hEQYA Trump is honest about coal. Merkel is pushing coal to an even greater extent than Merkel…and….engaging in posturing to cover it all up. And the Irish media are joining in, giving reverential endorsements of a liar. Also, it should be noted that Macron is keeping his word on the matter. And so are the British Tories. Both are following through policies that they advcate, with their own policy framework. The best thing that could happen… Read more »
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http://www.returnofkings.com/137242/it-was-a-nightmare-to-work-in-a-90-female-workplace?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter%20dlvrit%20rss
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BUT, ABOUT TO HAVE REPERCUSSIONS FOR ALL PLANS
THE “ESCHATOLOGICAL” PLAN IS THE MOTHER OF ALL PLANS
AND, IT IS A SMOTHER-MOTHER.
Apropos of the traitors to Ireland : Sinn — George Soros — Fein Fianna — Mehole Martin — Fail Fianna — Gay — Gael Labor does not work Aunty Ass Dorothy Dalliance So-called Independents Most likely that despite the volume of kinky sex that they are getting [ Hetero, Homo, Bi-Orgies, & sadly pedophile sex too ; Yes ! ], it is clear that it all unsatisfying for them ; Were it satisfying for them, they would be satisfied, & not constantly betraying the country in their various ways : power games graft murder maiming defamation fornication inter alia BAD… Read more »
Apparently it is mathematically impossible to pay off the so called National Debt{Mathematically Perfected Economy}, if this is the case surely tackling anything other than this is secondary…
“A new economic plan for Ireland”, is the heading. Many fallacious ideas are presented but all from a perspective that the economy is run, controlled and operated by the government and its adherents. Nowhere is the idea promulgated that the economy is basically the sum of actions, taken in their own self interest, by individuals. Therefore individuals should be given the maximum amount of freedom with which to make those decisions. One of the largest inhibitors of individual freedom is the adoption of the EU by its member states. All EU citizens are now subject to rules, laws and regulations… Read more »
The Context of the Planning ;
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DIVISION-DISTRACTION-DECEPTION
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GIVEN THE CONEXT ;
HOW SELF-AWARE IS THE PLANNER ?
INDEED, HOW SELF-AWARE IS THE PROPOSER OF THE PLANNING ?
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https://twitter.com/Ian56789/status/932966747682082816
How CNN fake news is made and spread – Poland independence day march:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FKhVTevGz4
As I said earlier, all CNN journalists should be treated as potential terrorists (like Antifa – officially recognised as a terrorist organisation under some jurisdictions).
“Further east, reactionaries and nationalists with values that run contrary to core EU positions on migration and racial tolerance are in power across a vast territorial arc from Stettin in Poland to Bratislava in Slovakia and on to Budapest.” – it’s understandable that writing for “The Anti-Irish Times”, David has to dance to their tune (“racial intolerance” – where did he take that particular fake news from?!) – otherwise, they won’t pay him. Btw, the proper name of Stettin is Szczecin, as the name of Kingstown is Dún Laoghaire:
Poland: Nationalism Rising | Tommy Robinson and Stefan Molyneux:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYTsRpstpBY
Grzegorz You say above that David uses the language of the Nazis when he uses the word ‘reactionary’. By coincidence I am reading Goetz Ali’s (fairly) recent Unser Kampf again and yesterday had marked off this quote (which I translate): “Reactionary [wrote an anonymous Nazi student in Feb 1932] is he who tries to hold back artificially the powers that are shaping the future… Reactionary is also he who sacrifices to the capitalist Moloch and who, blinded, persuades the German Folk that West-European liberal democracy is the only way to happiness.” You might remember Ali on that YouTube video where… Read more »
Conversation on store of value v. speculative investment. Compatibility is closer than thought.
http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/gold-versus-bitcoin-pro-gold-argument-takes-shape/
David proposing for planning dedicated for retrieval of the Irish taxpayers’ funds given to Scammers “Hillary + Bill Clinton” Foundation ?
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OBVIOUSLY, MSHD HAVE THE VIDEOS
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http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/shock-claim-hillary-visited-pedophile-jeffrey-epsteins-sex-island-6-times
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Further apropos of the Irish State funds given to Messrs Hillary Clinton + Bill Clinton ;
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Did any Irish politician & / or Irish Senior Civil Servant visit Jeffery Epstein’s Lolita Sex Island ?
David is on about attracting talented foreigners to locate to Irish State as employees. . But, the phenomenon of the deliberate — by “the dreadful Few” [ foreign ] + Hidden State [ local ] — Housing Crisis as destructive social engineering upon Irish nation populace of Irish State is becoming ever more notorious around the world ; So, how to attract them given this crucial mitigating crisis ? . How about publishing a list such as the following apropos of rotten Landlords operating in our major cities ? . . EXCERPT ; Letitia James Public Advocate for the City… Read more »
https://brianmlucey.wordpress.com/2017/11/22/brexit-whos-going-to-build-the-border/#more-9419
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2 OSTENSIBLE OPPOSING “PLANNERS” + “PLANS” DOVETAILED — “BY SECRET AGREEMENT” — WITH EACH OTHER
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AND, I WILL SOON SOURCE FOR U ALLEGATIONS AGAINST “David Irving” THAT BECAUSE OF THE PARTIES PRESENT & THE CONTEXT POINT TO THESE ALLEGATIONS BEING HELD WITH CONVICTION ABOUT David Irving.
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http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2017/11/eustace-mullins-chabad-leo-strauss-nazis.html
@ Grzegorz, . . INTRIGUING + “INFORMATIVE ?” . FROM . Chris Spivey . ABOUT . “THE NEWSPAPER OF RECORD” 8-) FOR IRELAND . i.e. . “The Irish Times” ; Yes, that newspaper worthy of basing Plans upon . . EXTRACT ; Now Elser’s mother is one of those Chameleons whose face fits all… Within sensible bounds of course. In fact to compare her with the former Mayor, Councillor and current Sinn Féin MP for Foyle, Elisha McCallion, I do not have to even change any angles. Fuckin’ amazing that is. And according to Wikipenis: Elisha McCallion (born 21 October… Read more »
Ah well, ewe must abandon any hopes of Social Credit as improvement on Private Central Banking & Zero — no longer “Fractional” — Reserve Banking being crafted into the economic plan for Ireland [ i.e. Ireland minus North East of Ireland ] ;
Because, Social Credit is Aunty-Semetic ; It is so it is
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At least it was deemed to be so in Canada.
So, best we hear no advocacy for Social Credit emanating from Canada at all at all at all …
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https://www.amazon.com/Social-Discredit-Anti-Semitism-Response-McGill-Queens/dp/0773520104
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https://www.google.com/search?dcr=0&source=hp&ei=MsEWWoLVBcLzvgSB9rmoAQ&q=Janine+Stingel%27s+study+Social+Credit%3A+Anti-Semitism&oq=Janine+Stingel%27s+study+Social+Credit%3A+Anti-Semitism&gs_l=psy-ab.3…4372.4372.0.6183.4.2.0.0.0.0.178.178.0j1.2.0….0…1c..64.psy-ab..2.1.211.6..35i39k1.212.xs1uiJQJxW8
I am on record for saying that Varadkar’s biggest blunder on becomming Taoiseach was to appoint Frances Fitzgerald as Tanaiste, when she should have been sent to the backbenches. Simply put, Fitzgerald is a lot of the dysfunctionality and underperformance in the institutional state. And the FG party are now contemplating a general election over the shambles that FG have run in the Justice Department. Are FG really that stupid as to call a general election on what is a severely weak area of policy ? Well, it seems that they are. Nobody knows what way this will play out,… Read more »
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Anti-Irish Times-cum-Anti-Polish Times
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Henry Makow retweeted this ;
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ALL EMBRACING PLAN OF HUMILITY . VERSUS . NIHILISTIC PLAN OF CONCEITEDNESS . . Of course for a plan to be approved by the Anti-Irish Times-cum-Anti-Polish Times, that plan must have been politically INcorrect. . . “Man leading by example against the Frankfurt School Bolloxology” has this to say about Catholicism & current manifestations of its Opponent ; . . EXTRACT; In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews, Peterson said religion in general and Catholicism in particular stand as a perpetual bulwark against ideologies of the political left or right, which is why the Catholic Church is under now attack… Read more »
CENSORED ON GOOGLE . DOES “TRINNERS’s SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS”, LET ALONE GOVERNMENT OF IRISH NATION WITHIN IRISH STATE, HAVE A PLAN TO DEAL WITH GOOGLE [ MSHD ] CENSORSHIP ? BECAUSE, INTERNET SEARCHES “RESULTS” + “LACK OF THEREOF” ARE BASIS FOR : RESEARCH ANALYSIS & THUS SYNTHESIS WITH “WHATEVER” FOR PLANS. . . THE FOLLOWING I GOT FROM “www.duckduckgo” ; Thanks to Grzegorz reminding to us it. . . https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus0502.pdf . . This pdf. from USA Bureau of Justice Statistics refused to offer up with GOOGLE.COM … DELIBERATELY BY GOOGLE / MSHD. . . PLEASE GO TO ; . Table… Read more »
RTE are at it again.
Storms and general elections are their news.
They are setting new measurements for general elections. If someone COULD do their job better is the new measure.
Not 10,000 less hospital beds than every other oecd country because people in the same rte union SHOULD do their job better.
A failed rain man can always become an election pollster.
I know there are not very many Enda fans on this blog but I thought overall he was doing a good job. Francis Fitzgerald is being crucified on the same cross.
Where are the Hugh Leonard’s, the Seamus Heaney’s, the Yeats’, the Brian O’ Nolan’s and by extension the Dylan Thomas’s, the R S Thomas’s, the John Betjeman’s, the Chesterton’s and the Belloc’s? Where are they?
Where indeed.
Mike, I still stand by what I’ve told you in February about the Article 48 pledge – that there is a flaw in the wording of their pledge: “I hereby pledge to vote only for candidates, in the next General Election, who support the reintroduction of Article 48 (Direct Democracy) into the Irish Constitution.” in that their pledge is too narrow, as such formulated pledge would indicate that out of those who do NOT support it, for me or anyone who signs the pledge, there would be NO difference whatsoever as to which OTHER candidates (among those NOT supporting the… Read more »
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As Otto Khan, a Kuhn Loeb partner stated after WW1 ;
the bankers “re-make the world by creating artificial conflicts and determining the outcome.”
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https://www.henrymakow.com/2017/11/The-Putin-Deception-2.html
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Present “Dail Political Crisis” in Irish State is an artifice by agreement of the the local Banksters + rest of Hidden State.
ALWAYS PLAN FOR THE WHEEL TO TURN FULL CIRCLE . MANY “INDUCED” STARVATIONS OF THE IRISH SINCE CONQUEST BY THE BRITS ; ACTUAL “FAMINES” NOT SO. THUS, NOT “THE GREAT FAMINE” BUT, RATHER, “THE GREAT HUNGER” . SO, WHAT SAYS DAVID ABOUT SAUDI + ISRAEL + ISRAEL’s BITCH [ USA ] INDUCED STARVATION OF YEMEN ? . . ………………………………………………………….. FROM MAN WHO WAS CLOSE TO BECOMING USA PRESIDENT ; . . Pat Buchanan on the US-Saudi Starvation Blockade in Yemen “Is this now the American way of war? Are we Americans, this Thanksgiving and Christmas, prepared to collude in a… Read more »
The idea, operation of blog chain and Bit Coin, the introduction of a Bitcoin futures market within 60 days, the manipulative ability of the futures market and the decision as to what will constitute the real savings vehicle and wealth preservation in the near future.
https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/bitcoins
“Further east, reactionaries and nationalists with values that run contrary to core EU positions on migration and racial tolerance”
-> VALUES CONTRARY TO “CORE” EU POSITIONS
-> DOES “REACTION” ALWAYS MEAN BAD?
-> IS “TOLERANCE” ALWAYS GOOD?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufv0lym6peE
Truthist,
You should have a look at this (I won’t be elaborating on it though):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoI-xMW0NNI
More on the Clintons who were given Irish State funds by Bertie — “I won it at the races” — Ahern [ Me-hole Martin rotten too in the story of dubious money going through “Fianna Fail again” ] ;
Surely the Irish State should be suing for these funds given to Clintons to be returned to us ?
Could housing many “homeless + roofless”.
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DO WE HAVE A PLAN FOR THIS ?
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com/secret-service-agent-epstein-clinton/
Individual freedom terrifies those in power. But it is an innate desire that cannot be suppressed. Therefore the media attempts to replace the drive for personal liberation with sexual liberation.
http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/why-the-media-pushes-sexual-liberation/
Gold-based debit card Glintpay gets started Submitted by cpowell on 06:15PM ET Sunday, November 19, 2017. Section: Daily Dispatches Glint App Brings Gold into the Digital Age By Emma Dunkley Financial Times, London Sunday, November 19, 2017 The world’s oldest currency is being brought into the digital age with the launch of a debit card and app that will allow people to pay for goods in gold. Fintech group Glint (http://glintpay.com) has teamed up with Lloyds Banking Group in the UK and MasterCard to create an app that enables people to load credit in various currencies, which can then be… Read more »
Me-hole Martin when he was “Fianna fail again” Minister for Education declared for all the world to know ;
“Irish State’s education system is world class.”
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Hmm … m !
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How come we were never told the truth about this ?
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https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/4656-holodomor-the-secret-holocaust-in-ukraine
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AND, DOES DAVID HAVE A DETAILED PLAN FOR WHAT SHOULD BE THE FUNDAMENTALS OF :
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Primary Education ?
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Secondary Education ?