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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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Missing Person – Deirdre Jacob Newbridge Co Kildare.

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Deirdre Jacob has been missing for the past 18 years from her home in Newbridge, Co. Kildare. 
In 1998 Deirdre who was attending Teacher Training College in the U.K. was home on summer holidays. 
On 28th July she left her home to walk a 25 minute journey to Newbridge, she visited her grandmother, A.I.B., and the Post Office. At around 2:30 p.m. she left Newbridge to walk home. Deirdre was sighted a number of times on her journey home, the last sighting was at the gateway to her home, just after 3:00 p.m. 
No further trace was found despite a long and exhaustive search by Gardaí, supported by many people in the surrounding area. 
Gardaí believe that there is someone yet to come forward with vital information. 
The Lions Club are now launching a new poster campaign to include a larger catchment area. 
We seek your assistance at this time to coincide with National Missing Persons Remembrance day on 07.12.16. 
All we ask is to distribute posters in high profile shops, public areas etc.  
Attached is a copy of an example of the poster.  Please print off on A4 size paper and display.

Tell me about Search Engine Optimisation – I have a Small Business.

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This SEO guide is designed more to assist small to medium businesses or individuals in their quest to help serve themselves with the least possible unnecessary investment in SEO.

Likewise, of course the principles involved can also be employed for larger scale businesses.

The significant keyword phrase “Search Engine Optimisation” is usually abbreviated by the acronym SEO. It refers to the detailed measures, strategies, attentive mundane (in a sense) detailed dedicated work and thought processes undertaken by people like yours truly to gain, improve and maintain a webpage or website’s prominence generically in Internet search engines results pages such as on Google, Bing, Yahoo!, etc., and the security conscious really relative DuckDuckGo! where your privacy is respected.

The business of optimising webpages and websites for enhanced ability to be seen in the main search engines results pages began to gain impetus around 1995. It is now certain that sites ranking generically higher in search engine results pages reach a much greater number of the millions of those ‘twenty four seven’ internet surfers around the globe. Consequent upon receiving greater traffic the ability of eBiz/mBiz(e-Business and m-Business) web pages and web sites is improved to convert a greater number of their visitors to buyers and thereby engage in greater business activities and make more money. Interest in SEO spread rapidly and by the time Google arrived on the scene in 1998, SEO was becoming conventional in online internet marketing policies and has continued growth at an astounding rate, year-on-year since.
Presently, SEO is a multi-billion pound, euro, dollar, yuan currency industry that is demonstratively growing and changing significantly every year. It is without any doubt acknowledged as a requisite for e-businesses and m-businesses that want to acquire or generate a much superior and successful online presence.

Tell me the Basics of SEO

The base ideals behind Search Engine Optimisation center on keywords and keyword phrases.

1. Most people surfing the internet go to search engines, and type in queries that use specific keywords and or keyword phrases for the subject, topic, item or business essentials that they wish to search for.

2. The internet search engines sets of rules and algorithms make certain associations between your inputted search query, the webpage/s and websites they have indexed and then rapidly display the most relevant pages in a premier position on the search engine results pages.

3. SEO practices are used by web page and web site owners to make stronger connections between their web page or site and its relevant keywords. When successful, the site will appear higher in the search engine results pages for these specific keyword or key phrase search queries.
The advanced programmes and software that search engines use to trawl the World Wide Web webpages and websites for indexing purposes are very intelligent and as machines, they readily distinguish between right and wrong and take no prisoners!

SEO practitioners must have a good working knowledge of the latest  technologies in this field and must be ultra-honest in their work ethics  implementation and practice application!  Thankfully the search engines are undertaking significant work with their algorithms to stop the SEO chancers in their tracks.  Very positive developments!

I mentioned mundane work earlier. This type of work is just that and it  is time consuming!  You really must possess the right qualities and have great lateral thinking abilities.  I say “most sane people would not undertake SEO/M work properly because of its challenging demands”.  You  really must have a great understanding of and a love (a grá) for the  many processes involved in order to succeed with SEO/M and make it work as  it should for those requiring the exceptional outcomes that can be
provided by a service job well done.  Job satisfaction is just brilliant!  SEO/M  consultants and practitioners require staying power, the ability for  high and sustained concentration and a very quiet working environment.
Yes, it just might appear like a good idea to simply pile as many keywords and keyword phrases into a site or page as possible – ugh! does not work.

Search engine technologies, though mechanical give us a rare glimpse of  a pretty unique machine-driven computerised type of artificial  intelligence! Their artificial logic and thought processing abilities  are much smarter than one may realise!

Remember being ultra honest is paramount! There are no quick “glick” fixes and no tricks of the trade, despite what some so-called practitioners may claim – be very wary!

Keywords and keyword phrases are only one part of the complex balance used to determine website or webpage relevancy. Without the balance, of among other important elements of SEO such as links, traffic, meta tags and usability, a site or page will not find much benefit from simply adding bundles of keywords. In total you are looking at a minimum of fifty key elements that must be considered by SEO consultants and practitioners in order to achieve reasonably successful outcomes.
Especially concentrating on a single aspect of SEO – such as on-page keywords and keyword phrases can actually damage your efforts more than help them!
As I have stated, there are many different “logical SEO elements” the search engine algorithms take into account to decide site or page relevancy. These can be divided into on-site and off-site indicators of site/page forte and status. The weight each differing logical SEO element carries is never precisely clear and develops with site and page maturity also, so the basics of SEO involve an understanding of those many logical SEO elements the search engines are using at a given time – they do change, and building the implicit métier for each of them as they relate to your site or page is to say the least very important and requires serious concentration and ultimate carefully understood application.
SEO is much more than simply dumping more keywords into a page or site. It is a fine art, marketing, merging advertising, scrutiny, understanding tendencies and performances, and an ability to take restrained yet logical risk.
The prospective outcomes can really stagger the imagination because of the power of the resources.
Say you ask yourself, “Why should I bother with SEO?” you could consider it more like: “Is it as an e-business, vitally important to me and my website or web page to reach the millions of extra visitors?” When you answer “Yes” you ought to categorically consider and become more aware about SEO and what it can do for you.

Ask yourself – Can I Disregard Search Engine Optimisation SEO?
There are indeed some pages and sites that really never have to worry about SEO and then other ones that might be able to ignore it and still find their success through sheer word-of-mouth, household name notoriety and general media reputation. I sometimes wonder do such organisations need SEO marketing on their websites at all!!!
If you have a special personal website or page, such as a blog full of your writings, poems and opinions, a fad or hobby site, or even a website to share stories and photographs with friends and family and other groups, you really do not have to concern yourself with SEO. Something like a password-protected, members-only site should certainly ignore SEO from a prominence achieving point of view to quite the contrary. What I would term a reverse form of SEO could and probably should be applied to such a site. There are procedures that can be put in place to ward off the search engine spiders that trawl the internet to index websites on the fly.
If your page or site is not in need of or likely to benefit from being found by new visitors performing “relative organic” searches, there is no need whatsoever to apply SEO.
Inversely, most e-businesses with websites should be aware of SEO and optimise their sites and pages accordingly. Presently the web plays a much greater part in the daily commercial practices of most businesses and it is growing rapidly.
Millions of additional people steadily continue to turn to the World Wide Web to search for goods and services. The whole business of marketing, selling and what we might term traditional shopping is changing. It is obvious now that many established localised businesses cannot even rely on people walking in off the streets the way they used to. Ignoring SEO today could prove to be a rather disastrous mistake for even a local business entity.
Proactive thinking is required here by the SEO consultant and indeed his client. The way in which goods are sold is most definitely changing and we need to be up there positively identifying these changes and determining the best ways to conduct business dealings going forward. Mark my words – “watch for the massive upsurge in outdoor market stalls and localised outdoor markets such as farmer’s markets”. (Statement: Jan 2011).

Have you ever heard of a “Missed Opportunity”? Of course you have!
While SEO cannot fulsomely guarantee more people will find your site or page, it is most certainly true that more and more customers presently expect a sturdy appearance on the World Wide Web and make their buying moves from that starting point. It is therefore not a very shrewd commercial methodology to just ignore the intense growing power and financial potential offered by the Internet.
Your opportunity to reach a new and evolving audience and ever growing potential customers is dramatically increased by applying and continually improving SEO techniques. It makes for common sense that a bigger audience brings the site or page vendor new possibilities of additional sales, greater income and more profits in the short, medium and longer term. I’m sure you will agree that if that potential greater business audience never finds the site or page because the vendor ignores SEO, unproductivity will arise.
It is therefore very important that you must be aware that if you elect or decide to ignore SEO, there are many other business competitors on the Internet who aren’t. Don’t readily give your competitor’s a big portion of your realistically achievable website or webpage traffic, additional audiences, and increased opportunities of an online nature.

Big Dilemma – Do You Need to Hire a Skilled SEO Consultant?
The answer is yes you do and you should. It’s a big important question whether to hire a proficient SEO consultant or not. You do need to maximise your website or webpage SEO. It does however vary from site to site, but more often than not, the answer is “Yes.” As I have stated before SEO is a very complex balance of many essential elements and strategies that undergo ongoing change, so specialists offer the insight to potentially make it all work to your ultimate advantage.
Skilled SEO guidance will positively assist online businesses well. Sole proprietorships and other small businesses are sometimes able to successfully manage some of their own SEO efforts, but even a little specialists help will undoubtedly bring the proper positive application that will in the long run save lots of time, money and energy and help generate a better income. An important factor here is the determination of the level of competition found in the targeted niche market, which is an ultra-important consideration – the more competition there is and to be able to determine the level of competition definitely suggests that there is a very strong benefit in hiring an SEO expert.

Questions you need to ask yourself when making such a decision should include the following:-

  • How much of your time can be spent on SEO?
  • What is my maximum budget that can be applied to SEO?
  • What level of Return on Investment (ROI) can be expected by utilising SEO?
  • What is my full understanding of SEO?

The industry that is SEO, with its many varied and constantly changing procedures, rules and intricacies means that if you are not spending the needed time to stay au-fait and on top of it, you will probably be missing something. Bearing in mind that there is also SEO half-truth propaganda being spewed out, it makes more sense that a professional SEO person, rather than an organisation will have prized knowledge and experience to help guide a person and or business entity clear of the misrepresentations and outdated or extremely risky tactics.
This coupled with the fact that the search engines are all predominantly different. What works top in Google does not automatically work in the same way in Microsoft’s Bing Search engine. A proficient professional SEO person will readily have sufficient knowledge and experience on how to weigh the efforts in order to logically grow maximum advantages across all of the major Internet Search Engines.
Indeed many of the larger corporations and businesses have internal SEO workers dedicated to Search Engine Optimisation so they in particular can additionally manage costs and increase the levels of engagement. Even with dedicated committed employees working on such daily efforts, skilled professional assistance for “bigger-picture” development can help render a better result. The outside professional, experienced SEO Consultant is more able to look at the site or webpage and the current strategies by considering many more relative factors thereby bringing a much broader range of experiences and know-how to the tasks in hand.
Ultimately, the decision of whether or not to hire an SEO usually comes down to availability of budget. Many smaller businesses become do-it-yourself SEO’s because they understand the need, but lack the resources to bring in experienced knowledgeable experts.
This SEO guide is designed more to assist smaller businesses or individuals in their quest to help serve themselves with the least possible unnecessary investment in SEO.
It is however recommended that experienced SEO help be used to guide your work. Most importantly, don’t get lost in SEO at the expense of your website. The greatest thing you can do to improve your site is to improve the content in it, and create value for visitors. Creating value is substantially more important than focusing on SEO – to do the reverse is putting the cart before the horse. Make sure then if and when you do leverage the power of SEO, that new audiences will find meaning and value in your site.
If you have misgivings, always focus on building new and better content rather than fiddling about specifically for any perceived requirements of the search engines. Think of SEO as an important asset to bring your greater content to more varied and much wider audiences. SEO should not be perceived as being the final and only result or goal of your online labours. It should be a controlling mechanism you utilise to help many more persons discover the worth of the goods, services and merchandise you have on offer.

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Governance in Ireland – The Irish Nation Destroyed by a Political Party!

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As a true Irish man, I firmly believe that Irish cynicism, begrudgery, inefficiency, sloppy thinking, addiction to alcohol, corruption, fraud, malpractice, greed, certain sports, entertainment and the craic – i.e. that boring, juvenile type trivia on a bar stool, with many individuals 45 years on the dole, is more responsible for ‘the state of the nation’ than the coalition Irish government we have voted into power – one faced with carping disdain from the same electorate which voted consistently for Fianna Fáil’s self-interested, corrupt, pocket-lining, perfidy, 54+% according to available figures.

Ireland has no rightful place among the politically evolved post-WWII nations of Western Europe because it’s government of the day cowered away and chickened out of its responsibilities with a deceitful preference that Hitler might win.  Many thousands of brave Irish men identified the dangers, fought and died under the flags and in the ranks of foreign armies.  Can you imagine how proud they would have been to fight under their own flag?  Indeed some nations rightly gave them their Irish military identities, under which they were proud and honoured to fight and die.  It’s a disgrace in itself that only now are those brave people being recognised by the Irish State.

Ireland has been for too many years a “let’s pretend” farce of a crony ridden banana republic, resulting today wherein practically the only and main ‘functional’ infrastructure is that provided by EU money & close Troika fiscal governance.  That’s how bad they got it wrong.

The audacity was raw lies, deceit and incredibly toxic indoctrination when at the approach to the pinnacle of our fiscal & governance woes they told us we had “turned the corner“.

FF spent the country’s ‘wealth’ primarily on themselves, certain elites, cronies and electoral bribes.  These elites, cronies are still presently benefiting.  They need to be identified, singled out and have their assets stripped – to pay back what rightly belongs to the entire populous of the nation.  Those corrupt and crooked and everyone aligned to them still have a big price to pay & should spend the remainder of their life behind bars doing hard labour.

The Irish public service and semi-state bodies are an overpaid, dysfunctional shambles peopled in the main by lazy pass-the-buck inefficient unintelligent officials immersed in their own bullying ‘little autocratic’ privileges, dynasties and self importance.  Not one of them would be able to put forward an adequate honest contradiction to this. Where else but in such a country would you have people like County Managers paid more than the Prime Minister of Spain!  Contracts do not have to be honoured in view of the obvious nefarious and unethical way in which they were drawn up and implemented.

It is so easy to tear up the contract when it comes to the less well off and less powerful ordinary man and woman in the country.

It is sad to note that so many Irish people appear to have been contaminated by the Celtic Tiger imperative of ‘instant gratification’ uselessness and ‘idle talk’.

It is a pity the factual history (readily available) has been ignored as a ‘primer’ on how NOT to govern a country.

From Anthony Jordan’s, ‘Eamon De Valera, 1882-1975; Irish; Catholic; Visionary’, and comments by Tim Pat Coogan, “De Valera instituted a hierarchical political class, a Catholic state” and, “knew how to get and hold onto power”.  He established the Irish Press (control of the media), the Fianna Fáil party, and a Constitution which gave ‘special place to the Catholic Church, “which did not stand the test of time“.

Just look at the last three Taoisigh Fianna Fáil produced. “SC**BAGS”.   Those who care don’t matter and those who matter don’t care!

The then on-going violence instigated by De Valera’s “Machiavellian approach to the Treaty and antipathy to Collins”, (whose MURDER he arranged) e.g. civil war and IRA attacks on Northern Ireland, has largely been ignored/written out of Irish history.  He survived execution in Kilmainham Gaol by NOT BEING IRISH but claiming American citizenship.  Fianna Fáil rehabilitated De Valera by putting a certain history in all schools”.  Brainwashing!  This is a fact!  That so many Irish students and elders alike are historically illiterate can be explained when one comprehends, even in recent times that, “Mary Hanafin as Minister for Education did not allow a book with another viewpoint to be distributed, even at no cost to the schools”.

We are planning to attempt to give celebration, as a bankrupt people for 1916!  (Troika take note).  Let’s rethink this madness and forget about that era!

There were no doubt some brave but foolish people dragged into the rising, as it is referred to.  However an average-minded half intelligent person at the time knew that Britain was anxious to pull out of Ireland entirely.  It was fighting the Great War and had many other more serious issues to deal with.  The empire was breaking up.  Britain was ready to go and leave the island to the Irish.

We had a few typically corrupt lying thieving gombeen Irish and half Irish men who craved power!  ‘Now’s our chance, they thought’ to kick the Brits out while they were a bit down and under pressure, give them a bloody nose & we will take power in a glorious warrior-like way in an instant.  Typically exceptionally stupid planning there – they only lasted a couple of days- many people more brave than some of the prominent leaders were killed unnecessarily.  Those sad ilk who instigated the rising in order to grab power typically reneged on their perceived bravery and could not even offer a dignified surrender.  Those who thought they could grab power were taught a lesson & most deserved what they got!

To the objective observer, 26 county Ireland has in the main suffered under an extreme right-wing theocratic and oligarchical collusion.

That is the real elephant in the room!

That is the history that decades of supine Irish voters dare not confront when they conveniently transfer blame onto (‘the EU’, ‘French’, ‘Brits’ or ‘German’ Nazis) and latterly ‘the present Irish government.  In ten years time Ireland will be a completely different country simply because of the expanding multi-racial multi-ethnic population we now have taking root in our midst.  About time too!  Never again to be governed by the ilk that has in the main gone before.

To use a criminally convicted politicians phrase, and there should be many more so convicted, “let’s draw a line in the sand” and determinably comprehensively separate our inglorious past from the present and the opportune possibility to generate an honest, equal, secure, peaceful and fair-for-all future for all of the people of our small proud nation Éire.

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5 Sep 2012.

 

 

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