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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11A wreath-laying ceremony will take place at the Talbot Street Memorial, (near Connolly Train Station) at 11.30am on Tuesday 17th May.
The public are very much welcome to attend. Justice for the Forgotten [JFF] have asked that no flags, banners or emblems should be displayed.
Further details at link
“ Last Friday a secret meeting of EU finance ministers was held to discuss the threat that Greece will be forced to default and withdraw from the euro. “http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/spai-m14.shtml
“The EU wants Ireland to accept emergency funding but it is thought the loans will come with strings that will effectively dilute its sovereignty. “http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329745/Britain....html
I don’t know whether the people who asked the head of the British armed forces over were insensitive to the significance of the day, but the British state that organised the Dublin/Monaghan massacre would have been fully up to speed when they accepted the invitation . Actually , they invited themselves didn't they?
Just put a black arm band on for these sad sad few days and hold your heads high. We will never forget what has gone before.
If I was within range her hyenass and the visit I'd just take out the tin-foil and make meself a crown studded with a few pieces of broken glass.
Its the imbecile pretension of a primitive feudal anachronism in the digital age that baffles me. If ya cant laugh, you've lost it. The po-faced pro-visit liggers dont deserve to be allowed to depress and divert us further than the Kenny&Gilmore gobshites already have.
In fact i may just claim Tara and demand she comes curtsy.
30 million Euros for ' afternoon Tea ' seems gross beyond belief , how many Irish People could
afford such a luxury ' for all the tea in China ' .
...and nobody bothers to point out how the security measures and crowd restrictions indicate just how undemocratic and unpopular the visit is in the wake of our being gutted by just the bread'n'circus boyos that are clapping like seals at the diversion of this primitive representative of global pillage and feudal privilege.
Speakin of tea, here's a different cuppa from an earlier blitzard of disinformation
SUGAR??
A major school of rhetoric
Was spooling up a plan
To extricate its finger
From a fairly wormy can
The playing fields of Eton
Where ash is turned to oak
Huddled its professors
And masters of the stroke
They rifled through their Milton
Their Shakespeare and our Burke
Pulled down their tomes of Chaucer
Their Boswell and their Kirk
They parsed and scanned in Numbers
Genesis and Faust
To find the phrases needed
To arm them for their joust
Then spread all through their networks
Pole to pole and back
Layered and reinforced
They stopped up every gap
So now you know the story
Of why we're so serene
Secure in our convictions
Gospelled by our screens
Britannia rules the airwaves
Plutonium fills the sea
Never mind the details
Have a cup of tea.
Good idea with the black armbands, paddy. Hopefully people will take up this idea.
Eamon Mallie believes that members of the UDA may have been invited to Dublin by Mary McAleese to see and possibly meet Elizabeth Windsor
I think this is the closest ive felt to being invaded. I think its only now I can truely appreciate what the people of the six counties had to endure for 30 years. UDAs, monarchs, gun-totting SAS and some of our own, restrictions left , right and centre, paranoia, felon setting, criminalisation of dissent or protest, taking down protest posters, where is it all going to end. I feel there is like a social psychologist somewhere with a check list to try and measure the level of freedom, repression tolerated on this island. Did anyone else see what looked like a low flying jet across Dublin today. Regardless of our opinions on the old hag I feel all activists should mobilise for freedom to movement and protest.
In light of all this how are all of us as progressives trying to highlight this in the media. Are we happy that this categorising of protesters will even intensify after the whole escapade. Are we going to speak up, imagine the crazyiness in media the next day 'sectarian rioters' or 'anti-english extremists' etc etc will be across the banners of much of the newspapers. Are there any non-republican groups really on the airwaves or media around this. I really think its a broader issue and there has been a lot of silence from a lot of quarters in Ireland that should be more vocal
Not for want of trying. I've written, as I do, to the IT(Royal Irish Times?)attempting to expand the argument beyond their trench, but have no confidence they want anything resembling anything other than the frames they like to erect for the usual managed 'debate', riddled as ever with the ladled contradictions.
It was the same as the tiger went rampant. You might get the occasional note in deconstructing the bullshit, but then the shutters lock down again and the spin machine cranks up to ensure the desired slant gets best display.
'..categorising... will... intensify..'.
Naturally. Given the economic and social forecast, they know full well we're heading for a potential 32 county Ulster situation, only filthier. They have been preparing for decades for such outcomes(contingency planning for foreseen 'events, dear boy', as Macmillan put it).
The agenda is provided by the same external providers who brought us the boom(for the already over-rich boomiest), with sufficient 'trickle-down' to keep the majority fooled into thinking the growth could be unending; until such a time as they figured we were deep enough into hock to haul up the nets and run the takeover program they've been hammering Latin America and Africa with for rehearsal.
Hence, no change of government, just a change of shirt. Any who dissent from the right-wing economic PD program in its freshly starched blue shirt with Gilmore's pink collar will be a threat to 'growth and stability and Ireland's international reputation and good standing'. No matter that any growth from the productive sectors wil by siphoned out for the bondholders, as long-planned.
Whats different this time round is the lack of safety valve emigrant destinations, and a generation raised to expect global accessability of upward mobility.
The anger will be palpable. Whether we get people disciplined enough to lead that anger and energy constructively remains to be seen. Be sure they will be providing provocateurs to decoy the unwary. Business as usual then.