What you want to say – 7th September 2016 September 7, 2016
Posted by WorldbyStorm in Uncategorized.trackback
As always, following on Dr. X’s suggestion, it’s all yours, “announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose”, feel free.
for lefties too stubborn to quit
As always, following on Dr. X’s suggestion, it’s all yours, “announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose”, feel free.
banjoagbeanjoe on That talk of a Labour/Social D… | |
roddy on What you want to say – 17th Ap… | |
tomasoflatharta on What you want to say – 17th Ap… | |
sonofstan on What you want to say – 17th Ap… | |
tomasoflatharta on What you want to say – 17th Ap… | |
‘Killed for not spea… on ‘Killed for not speaking… | |
WorldbyStorm on ‘Killed for not speaking… | |
Tomboktu on ‘Killed for not speaking… | |
raymonddeane on News platform? | |
WorldbyStorm on Spirit of Revolution: Ireland… | |
sonofstan on A stick? | |
sonofstan on Spirit of Revolution: Ireland… | |
Tomboktu on What you want to say – 17th Ap… | |
WorldbyStorm on A stick? | |
banjoagbeanjoe on A stick? |
worldbystorm2014ATgmailDOTcom
Tony Phillips here claims:
Now I’ve always suspected that is the case – when one counts up the public investment that Apple Inc got for free – education of workers, road, electricty and other infrastructure, all sorts of sweeteners by the IDA etc. etc.
But has anyone crunched the numbers? Anybody?
LikeLike
This Analysis from the Tax Justice Network about the dubious value even from a gimmlet-eyed beggar-my-neighbour point of view of successive Irish misgovernments is essential reading.
Even the OECD is refuting Corporation Tax arbitrage as an economic ‘strategy’.
Referring to arguments which are cloned in standard RoI govt and meeja megaphone sophistries they say …
I other words, €13Bn not invested in public works, social security, looses say at least €20Bn in the domestic economy by multiplier effects.
And the jobs in Cork are bought (if there is indeed any relationship between jobs at Cork and the great Corporate Tax giveaway) at the expense of other, more sustainable, jobs in the local economy.
LikeLike
Also the Apple that ‘creates jobs’ in Cork has, at least in tax scam legal fiction, little to do with the one that so massively robs from the public purse.
Namely Apple Operations International with all of no employees.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Last Nights NAMA Spotlight Documentary
LikeLiked by 4 people
Wow!
LikeLike
Wow indeed. Fair dues to the BBC.
LikeLike
thanks a lot irish election Literature – damning picture
LikeLike
re-blogged here with a bit more info about frank cushnahan and a couple of other Stormont scandals https://eurofree3.wordpress.com/2016/09/07/nama-miskelly-miss-out/
LikeLike
Thought this might be of interest to one or two of you 🙂 Ten of the best NWOBHM bands
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/sep/07/the-new-wave-of-british-heavy-metal-10-of-the-best?CMP=twt_a-music_b-gdnmusic
LikeLike
Ploughing through the intimidating programme of European Consortium for Political Research conference here in Prague – 2,000 papers over 4 days! – and I’ve found one that must have been designed by a CLR committee: ‘V for Vendetta and G for Gramsci’ Teaching Power Through Movies’
Go on; which one of you is pretending to be Katerina Glaab from Munster with an umlaut?
LikeLike
A thought hit me today, if Donnelly has left the Social Democrats has he also left their technical group with the greens? And if so do they still exist, not having five members anymore?
LikeLike
I think it was on the news that he hasn’t left the dail grouping. So – as I understand it – he says that he is still a social democrat, and that he’s a member of the Social Democrats in the dail, but he’s no longer a member of the Social Democrats. But perhaps I have that wrong…
LikeLike
I think you’re right re the fact he hasn’t left the Dáil grouping but I hadn’t heard he was still SD in the Dáil. I heard due to the technical group he’d still have to vote with them or some such.
LikeLike
It’s like a matrovska doll of political allegiances, all we need is for him to sign for FF in the next transfer window* to make it all even more complicated.
* rumour has it LP are looking to swoop in at the last minute and bag the high profile signing, though word has it he’s also been potted at FG’s training ground…
LikeLiked by 1 person
*matryoshka, Russian isn’t my strong point.
LikeLike
Donnelly has been seen having coffee with FF, Tea with Labour, lunch with FG …. or so rumour would have it!
LikeLike
wheres the tax (justice) review the Zappone was talking about last week not in the gov motion http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=33582&CatID=139
LikeLike
Can anybody hear explain Minister Zappone’s rationale behind backing an appeal? Cos I don’t get it? She believes that other countries could benefit if we appeal the Apple decision…..how so? If we’re appealing it’s to overturn the 13 billion ruling, so adios to the pot of gold..
LikeLike
I guess it was agreed by cabinet but independent review of Ireland’s corporation tax code not in motion as I expected it to be The Minister also spoke about the Government’s decision to undertake a review of the corporation tax code, which is to be done by an independent expert. – See more at: http://www.merrionstreet.ie/en/News-Room/Releases/Statement_by_the_Minister_for_Finance_on_the_Government_Decision_to_appeal_the_Apple_State_aid_decision.html
LikeLike
Can anybody hear explain Minister Zappone’s rationale behind backing an appeal?
She’s not convinced that the Irish people are ready for that €13bn. We need more time.
LikeLike
Female misogynist Phyllis Schlafly is no more, but her rotten legacy
lives on in the likes of Trump and Ann Coulter:
http://theslot.jezebel.com/how-phyllis-schlaflys-legacy-paved-the-way-for-todays-a-1786250619
LikeLike
[…] https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2016/09/07/what-you-want-to-say-7th-september-2016/#comment-567892 […]
LikeLike
Worth a read, an extract from a new book on UK official secrecy.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/08/britains-secret-wars-oman
LikeLiked by 1 person
+1 Good read. James Heartfield’s ‘Unpatriotic History of the Second World War’ covers elements of the the UK’s interventions post the official end of WWII in both the French and Dutch colonies in South East Asia. It’s worth reading even if it is the most appalling edited book I’ve every read.
LikeLike
Not forgetting the British support for Greek fascists used to crush the workers movement in Greece during the Greek Civil War.
LikeLike
Predictable.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/concerns-raised-as-5-000-fewer-girls-receive-hpv-vaccine-1.2782713
LikeLike
Two important books on the subject that came out this year are by British marxists John Smith and Tony Norfield. Tony looks mainly at finance and the world imperialist system while John looks at the imperialist domination and exploitation of the Third World.
John Smith is interviewed here: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/interview-with-john-smith-author-of-imperialism-in-the-twenty-first-century/
Tony Norfield is interviewed here: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/interview-with-tony-norfield-on-finance-and-the-imperialist-world-system-today/
LikeLike
For those seeking analysis of Venuzuala from the left
there’s a new paper on the TNI site “The implosion of Venezuela’s rentier state” from Edgardo Lander:
Click to access lander-venezuela-english-1.pdf
The recent NLR article from Julia Buxton is also well worth a read:
https://newleftreview.org/II/99/julia-buxton-venezuela-after-chavez
They make for hard reading for those of us with Bolivarian sympathies
LikeLike
Yea that Buxton article was enlightening. And depressing.
But we’ve got to face the facts about what did and didn’t happen during the pink tide in South America.
LikeLike
Sometimes twitter
LikeLike
LikeLike
“All hail the mob, the incarnation of human progress” – Connolly:
LikeLike
Quick question: why did we opt out of Schengen? Was it because of the difficulty of the border being a Schengen border?
LikeLike
We did not opt out of Schengen fully. We still share information and have “Schengen alerts” (missing children, fugitives etc.) and the like.
However, we stayed out of the border and, if I recall, the common Visa provisions because the UK declared that they were opting out. Large part was to do with the land border/Common Travel Area but there has also been a conscious choice to align our immigration with that of the UK.
LikeLike
Ta –
LikeLike
Interesting reprorts in the UK press today re Amber Rudd’s admission that UK citizens may need advance permission via a visa waiver programme to enter the EU: the Telegraph is calling it a ‘holiday tax’ as if holidays were the only thing the rest of Europe was for, or the only reason Brits would go there.
LikeLike
Has anybody tried the Little Sun Charger?
http://littlesun.com/product/little-sun-charge/
Is it good enough to replace the grid for powering a mobile phone, or in Ireland would it only allow you reduce the amount of energy you take from the grid??
LikeLike
I dunno Tombuktu – it depends on the type. You’d have to crunch the numbers – there’s a lot of these portable devices about. 3+ Junction devices seem good – but I don’t know to what extent these have been commercialised.
I couldn’t see any figures on the site – that makes me suspicious.
Here’s a relevant diagram from the relevant Wikipedia article – some fairly impressive research results.
LikeLike
You want one of these
Click to access CTJ-Datasheet.pdf
but you might have to wire it up yourself 🙂
LikeLike
Or a few, given that they’re only 1cm^2 big. Nice little project.
Seriously this kind of thing might be a better bet.
LikeLike
Goal Zero stuff looks good, the Nomad 20 is getting good reviews. Sorely tempted by it myself. But carrying a few extra camera/cell batteries is a cheaper and lighter solution.
LikeLike
Make the solar panel charge a portable battery pack or a pair of packs and charge your mobile from it/them overnight.
LikeLike
Thanks for the pointers.
(I came across the one I asked about because it’s a social enterprise that was sharing an event with FairPhone recently.)
LikeLike
“The moral principle – the moral challenge of our humanity- remains the same: should we adjust our populations to an abstracted economic ideology, or should we, rather, use the best of our reason to craft economic and social models that can anticipate the needs and care for the peoples who share this fragile planet?”-
President Higgins.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0910/815701-famine/
The President here succinctly captures the essence of neoliberal policy making; attempting to force reality to conform to an abstraction. Like all such mad utopian dreams this is now morphing into dystopia. But a realistic human alternative has yet to emerge….
LikeLike
Not just neo-liberalism – the prioritisation of the abstract value of capital and its accumulation over all human values is the essence of capitalism.
LikeLike
True
LikeLike
21 hours of free talks and lectures by the late great radical Howard Zinn.
http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/hear-21-hours-of-lectures-talks-by-howard-zinn-author-of-the-bestselling-a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states.html
LikeLike
41 years on from the coup in Chile.
One of the important elements of the process in Chile was the emergence of bodies of popular power. An interesting interview on the subject: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/forms-of-popular-power-in-chile-1970-1973-interview-with-franck-gaudichaud/
LikeLike
Every week over 100,000 people join the ranks of the proletariat. . .
LikeLike