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This is what happens.

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Reflections on the remarkable return of Mr Donald J Trump.

This is what happens!

This is what happens when you ignore what millions of ordinary people have been saying for most of the last decade.   

This is what happens when instead of addressing their concerns you jam even more mass immigration, broken borders, social disorder, woke policies, gender madness, soft-on-crime policies, high taxes, regulation, and cultural chaos down their throats.  

This is what happens when instead of treating your fellow citizens with respect you choose to berate them, spread innuendo & false unfounded propaganda against them once again, like you did in 2016, as “Nazis”, “fascists”, “MAGA extremists”, “insurrectionists”, “garbage”, and more.  

This is what happens when the only people who refuse to acknowledge that most voters do not want to live in a world with open borders, mass migration, soft-on-crime policies, high taxes, restrictions on free speech, forever wars, and the sexualisation of our children happen to be the very people who control our institutions.  

This is what happens when you allow our public, taxpayer-funded institutions, from universities to schools, to be hijacked and taken over by radical ideologues who use their power to impose a stifling, unscientific, and deeply divisive woke agenda on everybody else, including our families and children.  

This is what happens when you use the legacy media, and the creative and cultural industries, to try and radically reframe the national story, telling ordinary people who love their nation that they should be ashamed and embarrassed of the very things that make them a people – their shared sense of history, identity, culture, and ways of life.  

This is what happens when you ignore how the White, Hispanic, Latino, and African American working-class have been completely clobbered on two sides at the same time—by a rampant hyper-globalisation that saw global firms offshore jobs to exploit cheap migrant labour overseas, and by a radicalising elite class that simultaneously ushered into Western economies masses of cheap migrant labour through illegal and legal migration to satisfy their own sense of moral righteousness.  

This is what happens, Democrats, Labour UK, European Union Org., and some EU member states when you endlessly persecute and prosecute a former president, stage a coup against an incumbent president, replace that president with somebody who has no public mandate, talk openly about changing the rules that govern the Supreme Court, use your friends in big tech to SUPPRESS FREE SPEACH, call anybody and everybody who dares voice a different opinion a “Nazi” and then wail endlessly about ‘threats to democracy’.  

This is what happens when instead of recognising that THE TRUE SOURCE OF POWER, LEGITIMACY, AND AUTHORITY lies with the people you transfer these things away from the people below to unelected courts, judges, companies, supranational bodies, and the “expert” class, almost all of whom are utterly disconnected from ordinary people.  

This is what happens when you treat normal people who are asking entirely legitimate questions about what is happening to their country, their home, like idiots, garbage, right-wingers dismissing their questions as “MISINFORMATION” and “disinformation” while hiding information from them and using biased experts to endorse only “officially approved narratives”.  

This is what happens when instead of tolerating opinions, beliefs, and views you do not like you MAKE NO SECRET of the fact that you want to censor, restrict or shut down platforms that do give voice to the Forgotten Majority.  

This is what happens, British conservatives, when instead of leaning into the political realignment that is STILL UNFOLDING across the Western world you TURN AWAY FROM IT, treating millions of working-class, non-graduate, and culturally conservative voters from the small towns and rural areas with complete and utter contempt and falsely imprisoning them to the point of forcing SUCIDE, while at the same time release serious criminals to make room for those sentenced to prison by a ruthlessly corrupt judiciary who have terrorist autocratic tendencies as their disgusting disguise.

And, ultimately, this is what happens when instead of learning from the lessons of 2016, from Trump 1, and the continuing rise of NATIONAL POPULISM across the West, you instead choose to double down on your side and say to hell with everybody else.  

This. 

This is what happens.  

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Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life.

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Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life. Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and MILITARY (#terrorist) components.

The religious component is a contrived concealed element for all of the other components.

Islamisation begins when there are sufficient #Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called religious privileges.

Islam, with over two billion followers, is the second-largest religion globally and projected to outnumber Christians by 2050.

Islam includes major denominations –SUNNI and SHI’A. Internal conflicts, particularly between these casts/sects, have led to serious arms conflicts in several regions. Invariably they don’t live in peace together.

When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for the latter’s religious privileges, some of the other sinister components will sneakily creep in as well.

Here’s how it works:-

As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens.

It is a trick.

United States — Muslim 1.34% (update 2020 census)

Australia — Muslim 3.2% (2021 census)

Canada — Muslim 4.9% (2021 census)

China — Muslim 1.8% to 2%

Italy — Muslim 4.8% (2017-2019 census)

Norway — Muslim 3.29% ( 2017-2019 count)

At 2% to 5%, muslims begin to proselytize (to convert or attempt to convert – evangelize) from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.

This is happening in:

Denmark — Muslim 2%

Germany — Muslim 3.7%

United Kingdom — Muslim 6% (update 2020 census)

Spain — Muslim 4%

Thailand — Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

For example, they will push for the introduction of halal food (clean by Islamic standards), thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply.

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law.

The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions.

In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections. FRANCE.

After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues. Think what is going on in Turkey now, after the so called coupe attempt.

At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks.

From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels.

After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim.

“The Immigration and Nationality Act” passed June 27, 1952 revised the laws relating to immigration, naturalization, and nationality for the United States. That act, which became Public Law 414, established both the law and the intent of Congress regarding the immigration of Aliens to the US and remains in effect today. Among the many issues it covers, one in particular, found in Chapter 2 Section 212, (28), (F) is the prohibition of entry to the US if the Alien belongs to an organization seeking to overthrow the government of the United States by ‘force, violence, or other unconstitutional means.’ This, by its very definition, rules out Islamic immigration to the United States. Islamic immigration to the US would be prohibited under this law because the Koran, Sharia Law and the Hadith all require complete submission to Islam, which is antithetical to the US government, the Constitution, and to the Republic. All Muslims who attest that the Koran is their life’s guiding principal subscribe to submission to Islam and its form of government. Whether Islam is a religion is immaterial because the law states that Aliens who are affiliated with any “organization” that advocates the overthrow of government are prohibited.”

In very recent times that should be of acquaintance with most, the school headmaster in Batley Yorkshire should be ashamed of himself & removed for issuing any form of apology to Muslim thuggery.

With over twenty years experience dealing with and fighting Middle East terrorism & Islamic fundamentalism, my comments have the authority of a vast experience.

Updated on ongoing basis.

Climate Change Political Corruption to Control People.

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@LeoVaradkar @Europarl_EN @EU_Commission @EUCouncil & myriad of EU’s.

But, let’s keep pushing #climatechange because it’s most effective way for gov to control people.

#NASA admits climate change occurs because of changes in Earth’s solar orbit, NOT because of SUVs, fossil fuels, cows, etc.

Greta Thunburg is in need of psychological care.

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Ireland! Where Right is Wrong and Wrong is Right…

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What is the difference between the Irish Government and an organised #crime syndicate?

 

Answer: There is none!

 

Ireland is no longer a country. It has no soul, no truth, no truthfulness, no justice, no equality, no decorum, no morals, no code, no honour, no creed, no leadership. It is a perverse, twisted and sinister land where right is wrong and wrong is right.

 

The courts are packed to the rafters with criminal trials and civil law suits, while white-collar criminals walk free and the small debt defaulter or a person prepared to assist the defaulters rights against a crooked regime gets a prison cell. It is a wild land where rules go flying out the window at a moment’s notice.

 

Elections mean nothing whatsoever whether people want them or not and are nothing but a next-in-line party system irrespective of suitability, credibility or law-abidance. The old guard are there while the system rots and rots from bureaucracy, self-serving unconstitutional legislation, diminution of the Irish Constitution, inertia and lying rhetoric. Political parties claiming they can do a better job in trying to oust the other, but only hiding behind prepared departmental rhetoric and defending what should be prosecuted when in government. Not that Ireland has what is known as government – more an autocratic regime overseen by an old-styled centralized, autocratic failed #USSR style of governance know as the #EU. The European Union is the ultimate downfall for the majority sovereign citizens of the bloc and is only geared towards further fiscal enhancement of the super-rich, as we saw in Ireland when bankers and foreign investors were bailed out on failed investments by every Irish man, woman and child to the tune of close to €50,000 each, a sum, one must note that none of the Irish banks would approve such an amount of money as a credit loan or advance for most citizens, yet the austerity ridden regime imposed that high a financial burden on every man, woman and child. It won’t be sufficient either to ever clear the debt of the country which is nearer to €1 trillion rather than the stated €200 billion.

 

A land where the terrorist, bomber, murderer, or recidivist gets early release and victims get kicked in the teeth for their trouble and forgotten about quickly. We badly need to follow suit of the people of Iceland and take back our country from criminally corrupted politicians and their crony super-rich friends and jail them accordingly, as in Iceland. It can be done and it will be done. Ninety nine percent of the people of what is left of our nationhood urgently want this to happen. The sovereign majority people simply hate politicians in Ireland and the EU with a passion.

 

Laws are lax or unenforced and nothing but a book of politics and convenience to set the guilty free.

 

Our people have being enslaved by a slick, sick and supine system of government and Church, under a corrupt waiting-list system, which has done more to divide people than unite them.

 

It is a disgraceful country where government abrogates its responsibilities and careerist politicians laugh at the electorate when they collect their enormous undeserved salaries, pensions and perks.

 

A society which does not give a damn and is chronically indifferent and self-serving in the extreme.

 

An abode where mé féiners will kick you when you are down and begrudge you when you are up.

 

A culture of fear, repression, ignorance, jealousy and one-upmanship. 

 

It is a regime of incessant work for the unconnected, un-ucronied and non-nepotised who ironically have no life and no disposable income who end up marooned under a mountain of debt for their life’s toil – while thousands are hidden on underpaid ineffective, illegal job initiatives.

 

An expensive country where money management is impossible and taxes are covertly progressive to fund criminal politicians.

 

This country is a load of trouble from beginning to its failed revolutionary end and will end up at the bottom of the bottomless pit.

 

There is nothing in Ireland for good honest law-abiding sovereign people only a load of very bad trouble.

 

 

 

Statement by the Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern, T.D. in Dáil Éireann on Wednesday, 14 February, 2007 in relation to The Report of the Tribunal of Inquiry (Moriarty Tribunal) into Payments to Politicians and Related Matters

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Statement by the Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern, T.D. in Dáil Éireann on Wednesday, 14 February, 2007 in relation to The Report of the Tribunal of Inquiry (Moriarty Tribunal) into Payments to Politicians and Related Matters.

 

Ceann Comhairle

What came home very forcefully to me as I read this report is the sheer scale of the amounts of money – over €11 million (or some €45m in today’s values) – found by the Tribunal to have been either privately donated to Mr Haughey or misapplied by him during the period under inquiry from 1979 to 1996.  What struck me even more forcefully were the devices employed to conceal the fact of and the nature of those transactions.  We are indebted to Judge Moriarty and the Tribunal team for their outstanding work in painstakingly stripping away the layers of secrecy and obscurity surrounding Mr Haughey’s financial affairs and exposing them to public scrutiny.  We look forward to receiving the second part of their report soon.

To those of us who knew Mr Haughey, who worked with him over the years, who saw him as a dynamic colleague and leader of exceptional abilities, the detailed revelations in this Report come as a grave disappointment.  Even now, I and others who worked with him in government find it difficult to comprehend the complexity of the man and the other life he led. 

To quote Judge Moriarty:

“ Apart from the almost invariably secretive nature of payments from senior members of the business community, their very incidence and scale, particularly during difficult economic times nationally, and when Governments led by Mr Haughey were championing austerity, can only be said to have devalued the quality of a modern democracy”

It is a harsh and damning indictment.  It is also a great tragedy. 

I said hard things about Mr Haughey and my disappointment at his lapses from the expected high standards on numerous occasions.  I said it at our Ard Fheis in 1997 and in subsequent statements and in interviews.  I stand over those criticisms. 

I also stand over my comments made at Mr Haughey’s funeral and on other occasions that he did a lot of good work for this country.  I believe I was right in those comments and there is no denying that he delivered much political progress but history will be the final judge of that. 

Here, in this forensically detailed Report, we have a judgement on a politician and statesman, who had it in him to be great, but who was seduced by a conviction of personal entitlement that ultimately undermined his vocation to be a true servant of our country and of our people.   Regrettably, the account now presented to us, is that of the private person who failed to live up to the high standards that we are entitled to expect of those in public life, as elected representatives or as office holders.

It is a cause of deep personal hurt that the Report has also found serious misappropriation of donations intended to assist with the medical treatment of the late Brian Lenihan.  The revelation that Mr Haughey, for his own personal benefit, redirected those and other donations, such as the political donations intended for the Fianna Fáil Party, was a matter of grave disappointment for me and for those who worked with him. 

In those times past, the lack of a formal, developed, ethics code and oversight machinery for those in public office no doubt facilitated the years of evasion and deceit that characterised Mr Haughey’s financial dealings, but does not excuse them.  Today we have a highly developed ethics framework that not only provides a mechanism for keeping holders of public office honest, but sets out clearly for them the highest standards of behaviour that they need to meet to earn the public trust.  I refer specifically to the enactment of the Ethics in Public Office Act, 1995 and the Standards in Public Office Act, 2001. 

The 1995 Act provided mechanisms for dealing with conflicts of interest in relation to members of the Houses, Ministers and officials in the Civil Service and the wider public service. It established the independent Public Offices Commission and provided for a Select Committee on Members’ Interests in each House of the Oireachtas to oversee its key provisions. It required Members of the Oireachtas, senior civil servants, public board members and senior executives of State bodies to disclose their personal interests in order to provide transparency in decision-making and accountability.  It regulated the acceptance of gifts by office holders.

The 2001 Act, for which I personally pressed, established a new Standards in Public Office Commission (the Standards Commission), to be chaired by a judge or former judge of the Supreme or High Court.  It was given wide investigative powers into acts or omissions of public servants or officeholders that are inconsistent with the proper performance of their duties, or that would be inconsistent with the maintenance of public confidence in that performance.

The Commission can engage inquiry officers to conduct preliminary investigations of complaints and indicate whether a case exists for further investigation by the Commission of a matter of significant public importance. The Commission has tribunal powers; it can summon individuals and papers, administer oaths, order discovery and preservation of documents and require the giving of evidence. It is an offence to obstruct an investigation of the Commission or an inquiry officer.

The 2001 Act also provided for the preparation of Codes of Conduct, in consultation with the Commission, for Members, for Office Holders and for directors or others employed by public bodies. These Codes of Conduct deal with the standards of conduct and integrity appropriate to the performance of their public duties by the persons concerned.

The Act also requires Members of the Houses to furnish a tax clearance certificate within nine months of an election. A statutory declaration that the Member’s tax affairs are in order must be made one month either side of the election. Similar arrangements apply to persons appointed to positions as judges or senior public officials.  Penalties for a false declaration were increased from a fine of £50 to one of £2,000 and a term of imprisonment from three to six months.

The result is a strong ethics statutory framework, overseen by a powerful, independent, Standards Commission. 

The strengthening of the ethics framework has also led to the imposition of vigorously enforced standards for the treatment of political donations and expenditure, as set out in the Electoral Acts.

And we are presently preparing proposals to further strengthen the ethics legislation to address issues that arose last Autumn.

As a result of these initiatives, the transparency in the financial affairs of public representatives, now required and enforced by law, stands in sharp contrast to the secretiveness and evasiveness of the transactions revealed in the Tribunal’s Report. 

The Tribunal’s Report also makes a number of other important findings, not least ones relating to myself. 

I refer to the operation of the Leaders Allowance Account and the practice that had progressively evolved for administrative reasons of pre-signing cheques. I accept the view expressed in the Report that the practice was undesirable.  I am happy, however, that the Tribunal accepted my evidence and were satisfied that I had no reason to believe the account was operated otherwise than in an orthodox fashion.  I am also pleased that the Tribunal said in their report that it is “noteworthy” that at my insistence amendments have since been made to the governing of the Leaders Allowance Accounts. 

The important point to emphasise is that the issues, which arose in respect of that account, arose more than 15 years ago.  Even before the introduction of statutory controls in 2001, the operation of the account within Fianna Fáil was reformed in 1992 by my colleague Albert Reynolds and was further reformed in 1994 when I became party leader.  For example, I arranged for the party’s auditors to present the audited accounts to the party’s National Trustees, its National Treasurers and senior party officials.  This further increased the transparency of the account.

In Government, Fianna Fáil has changed the legislation governing such accounts.  Under the old system, a party leader had a large amount of discretion as to how the account was to be used, and this gave rise to an ambiguity about what was permissible. 

The 2001 amendment set out with greater clarity the purposes for which the leader’s parliamentary allowance are to be applied. The categories of expenditure which are to be included in the meaning of ‘expenses arising from parliamentary activities’ have now been clearly defined.

In addition, the new legislation requires a parliamentary leader to prepare a statement of any expenditure from the allowance.  It requires that such a statement be audited by a public auditor.  This audited report is then required to be furnished to the Standards Commission.  

The Standards Commission:

– considers the statement and the auditor’s report;

– can consult with the Parliamentary leader;

– furnishes a report in writing on the statement and the auditor’s report       to the Minister for Finance; and

– causes a copy of that report to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas. 

Since the reforms by the Fianna Fáil / PD Government in 2001, the system is far more robust.  We did not wait for the Moriarty Tribunal to conclude; we went ahead and changed the system.  There are now a large number of restrictions and guidelines as to how this money can be used.  We will closely study the Report of the Tribunal to establish whether there are any further improvements that might now need to be made.

On the issue of the pre-signed cheques, it is important to recognise that this was not an uncommon feature of life in past decades.  It was done for convenience and to save time.  There was no reason for me to believe that any unusual use was being made of any of these cheques, and indeed the vast majority of the cheques drawn on the Fianna Fáil Leader’s Account were put to proper use. A very small number were used otherwise.  Because of the reforms introduced by me, first within the Fianna Fáil system and later by legislation, this practice – which ended 15 years ago – cannot be repeated.

We have learned much from the work of this Tribunal, from its predecessor the McCracken Tribunal and from other Tribunals and Inquiries.  We have developed a greater awareness and understanding of the need for explicit measures to underpin the high standards of governance that the public deserve and expect.  As I already noted, many important legislative and other initiatives have been taken to address this. 

In addition to the measures I have already referenced, actions have been taken in relation to:

– individual issues of tax evasion;       

– a major reorganisation of structures in the Revenue Commissioners, including the strengthening of anti-evasion operations through the creation of a dedicated Investigations and Prosecutions Division to manage and advance all Revenue prosecutions in cases of tax and duty evasion;

– conferring of substantial additional statutory powers on the Revenue Commissioners;

– development of Codes of Practice and other procedures to guard against conflicts of interest;

– strengthening of the financial regulatory and supervisory framework.  The establishment of the Financial Regulator as a Single Financial Regulatory Authority with an explicit mandate for consumers has placed the Irish regulatory system at the forefront of best international practice;

– sharing of information by State agencies.  Legislation now allows the Financial Regulator to report suspicions of money laundering (which includes the proceeds of tax evasion) directly to the Gardaí and the Revenue Commissioners.  The Regulator is also obliged to report any suspected criminal offences to the appropriate enforcement authority, for example, the Director of Corporate Enforcement;

– the creation of independent regulatory authorities for the enforcement of company law and for the supervision of the accountancy and auditing profession.  In this regard, also we are undertaking an ambitious programme of reform of the existing Companies Acts, led by the Company Law Review Group, in order to keep our Companies legislation up to date and appropriate for the needs of our economy; and

– strengthening the prevention of corruption legislation, including a presumption of corruption for non-disclosure of a significant political donation in particular circumstances.

We will continue to apply the lessons learned from the work of the Moriarty Tribunal and other inquiries. 

However, the overarching lesson is that the achievement of high standards cannot be taken for granted.  They must be promoted, through legislation, through changes in our political culture and, above all, through constant vigilance of which the independent Standards Commission is the ultimate guarantor.

ENDS

Corrupt Risks to Credit Unions in Ireland.

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There are very serious risks for the wider credit union movement in Ireland.  

Even the biggest, strongest and safest credit unions – positions earned and achieved from decades of hard work, prudent management and massive support from credit union wide members, will only be insulated from the risks for longer than most others.
It is a dastardly apparent corrupted situation that even the strongest credit unions can realistically expect to prosper in the light of substantial and in many cases, UNWARRANTED obstacles being placed in their way by legislators and regulators.  
Changes introduced in 2011 relate to how a credit union is governed. Most credit unions have embraced these changes without reservation as being essential to maintaining a safe and secure movement.  
In a more critically untoward way however, there have also been changes IMPOSED which leave credit unions at a DISTINCT DISADVANTAGE to other regulated lenders. Excessive restrictions enforced through regulation is like a #cancer – #KILLING #CreditUnions and is making it IMPOSSIBLE for even the biggest and strongest credit unions to function in a commercial manner.  
These unnecessary, questionable untoward restrictions are putting credit unions at a serious competitive disadvantage to #BANKS by forcibly making it harder for credit unions to take in and retain #DEPOSITS and preventing them from meeting credit union members’ demand for the type of loans they require, which many credit unions clearly have the capacity and ability to provide.  
The weaker credit unions will suffer the consequences first, but eventually the strongest will also suffer. This means that even the biggest and strongest credit unions will eventually have to succumb to the Banks. Bear in mind these actions are being taken by the people you have elected as politicians to represent you.  
All members of credit unions need to take serious urgent action to safeguard their future.
During 2016 two striking examples of how excessive, unjustified unfair regulation hindered the business of some bigger credit unions. This regulation effects growth potential and therefore credit union services for members in the coming years.
1. Firstly, some of the bigger credit unions are now able to offer #mortgages to their members. The members responses to the initiative was overwhelmingly positive. However it rapidly became apparent that, with the level of demand from the members, the credit union would require significantly more latitude from the #Regulator to meet the demand. It can be confirmed that application to the #Regulator to increase the mortgage lending to meet the demand from credit union members has gone unanswered. Are we surprised? The regulations as they stand means that credit unions can only lend out 15% of their total loan book for loans of greater than 10 years. This equates to just 5% of what some of the bigger credit unions have in shares. It is INCREDIBLE that these credit unions can in theory lend 95% of their shares in unsecured lending and only 5% secured on the members homes. This is also clearly counterintuitive when considered in the context of the HIGH DEMAND such credit unions have from their members, as well as the worsening housing crisis for credit union members. Discussions with the Central Bank are ongoing, with a view to having the unfair restrictions adjusted.
2. Secondly, almost all credit unions in Ireland are now restricted to a ceiling of €100,000 in deposits per member. This has been brought about to bring the limits in credit unions in line with the guarantees that apply. ALTHOUGH THE SAME GUARANTEES APPLY TO ALL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, NO SUCH LIMITS OR RESTRICTIONS APPLY TO #BANKS. This is blatantly, indiscriminately, unfairly putting credit unions at a serious disadvantage, illegally, unjustly damaging the reputation of credit unions and effectively coercing and forcing credit union members to place their funds elsewhere.
3. So in essence, credit unions are not permitted to meet the demand for mortgage loans for their members. At the same time, credit unions are being restricted in the level of new funds they are permitted to accept from members.
4. These restrictions have been gradually introduced since 2011 at a time when the state held and still holds a declared interest in ensuring that Irish #Banks remain viable and profitable – YOU CAN DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS FROM THIS. Unfortunately however, ONE THING IS VERY CLEAR, the future for Credit Unions in Ireland has never been more uncertain. The Director’s and leadership in credit unions are very deeply concerned about this and are engaging with various stakeholders in order to try and influence a positive future for credit unions.
The Irish central bank has nothing to be proud of and cannot be trusted. It is a pity they did not take required actions against the main banks when they should have.
People need to wake up and take strong action to protect their credit unions against the major untoward actions being taken against credit unions in favour of banks.
Anyone that can should collect and collate intelligence of all forms – digital, voice and paper based on all interactions between the Banks and any representative of governance in Ireland, legal firms, accountants and judiciary and be prepared to furnish same to any organisation that can take the necessary steps to bring obviously corrupted collusion between the Banks and the powers that be to justice.  

  • Obvious nefariousness must never be allowed to succeed to the benefit of banks and their greedy shareholders.

Why Irish Water and the water charges exist in the first place?

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Let’s be honest here. Irish Water isn’t going away nor the water charges until people truly understand why Irish Water and the water charges exist in the first place. You are asking yourself why they continue to push for charges when the people have, many times, voiced their outright opposition to both IW and the charges. So why are they committing political suicide to push through the most unpopular issue in decades? 

They can’t blame the EU for forcing these charges considering Slovenia’s plan to ensure their water is a public good so why are they so adamant? Why are they wasting yet another quarter of a million euros setting up a committee to deliver a report that will eventually recommend water charges? 
To find the answer, you have to go back to 2008 and the economic collapse caused by the banks and financial institutions. The Government, at the time, rushed to bail out these banks and financial institutions in order to preserve the status quo, to preserve the “Golden Circle” that ran this country for decades.

In order to get the funding to bail out these banks and by extension, the developers that were caught up in the collapse, they had to get a bailout from the Troika because our bonds had skyrocketed due to bailing out failing banks and putting the finances of the country in felonious jeopardy causing our borrowings to also skyrocket to the point that our only avenue for cash was the Troika. The Troika consisted of three entities: The European Commission (EC), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). 

As part of the deal to bail out the State, a Memorandum of Understanding had to be agreed to and signed by the then Finance Minister, Brian Lenihan and the Central Bank Governor, Patrick Honohan. They signed this deal in 2010. Remember that date because it is important.

Click to access euimfrevised.pdf

This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was essentially a promise to NeoLiberalise the whole of Irish Society through the privatisation of public services right across the board by execution of the “National Recovery Plan” as outlined in the MoU. The main aim was to turn our society from people-centric society into a market-centric society. 

That is the foundation by which the NeoLiberal economic agenda operates.

As part of this agreement, our public services were to be repackaged and sold off piece by piece by way of Fine Gael’s “NewERA” plan. From Gas, Electricity to water and other essential public entities, all of them had to become market based utilities so that eventually they could be carved up and sold off. Bord Gais being the most recent casualty of this NewERA plan.

Click to access 14108505_Ervia_Information_Booklet.pdf

Water was also part of this deal. This is why the Government created Irish Water and put control of that utility under the same parent company responsible for the sale of Bord Gais Energy to Centrica, Eriva (The National Treasury Management Agency) was created on the back of NewERA to repackage our assets into saleable assets and to created markets for gas, electricity and water. Markets that can then be opened up to competition as per EU market rules.

Why was this measure taken? Because under the MoU, Fianna Fail promised to set up Irish Water with a view to start charging for water and Fine Gael took it to the next level by putting in place a market creating entity to ensure that the promise to set up a fully commercial space for water would be realised. The Troika expect Irish Water to turn our water into a commercial concern, as per the Price Waterhouse Cooper’s report, that envisioned an opening of the market to competition in the future, just like what was done to our Electricity and Gas in the past. 

http://www.housing.gov.ie/sites/default/files/migrated-files/en/Publications/Environment/Water/FileDownLoad%2C29193%2Cen.pdf 

One would be naive if one didn’t get the impression from all of this that the two main parties responsible for introducing and then implementing Irish Water were both party to the process and knew full well where this was leading! 

What’s even more shocking is that Fine Gael already envisioned Irish Water in 2009, a YEAR BEFORE the Memorandum was agreed to and they even chose the NAME of the utility! 
http://michaelpidgeon.com/manifestos/docs/fg/Fine%20Gael%20LE%202009.pdf 
Fine Gael’s NewERA Plan 2009.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=97488&d=1259413305 
After all, how hypocritical it would be for either of them to disavow Irish Water after being responsible for its introduction in the first place? 

Would YOU TRUST them to tell you the truth after all they have done so far or are you willing to accept that they can’t blame the EU for any of this and that Irish Water was an Irish invention thought up by opportunist politicians desperate to protect the “Golden Circle” #1percent and to push for commercialisation of yet another of our resources? 

So the important factor you need to absorb is that Irish Water is a means to an end and not the end in itself. It was set up to create a market for water so that competition could be introduced. That is the ultimate plan. Not conservation nor modest charges or any other hair-brained suggestion. It is all about #MONEY.

They won’t let Irish Water go until you begin to understand why Irish Water exists in the first place. 

You must now be prepared, as the sovereign majority that you are prepared to stand up to the #GoldenCircle, the #1percent and to back that up you will take all necessary measures to STOP #IrishWater.