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What you want to say – 26th September 2018 September 26, 2018

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As always, following on Dr. X’s suggestion, it’s all yours, “announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose”, feel free.

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1. EWI - September 26, 2018

A court victory for Uber in the US:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/uber-wins-key-ruling-in-its-fight-against-treating-drivers-as-employees/

Note that it flows from a decision authored by Gorsuch, arch-crony to corporate interests before him.

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2. Paddy Healy - September 26, 2018

Details of Vote on Sinn Féin Motion of No Confidence in Minister For Housing Defeated by Government With Fianna Fáil Abstaining, 19TDs absent
How Did your TD vote ?Click Here: https://wp.me/pKzXa-wc
Comment : Notable Votes- Noel Grealish (Independent Galway) and Michael Lowry (Independent Tipperary) voted with Government against motion. All independent Alliance TDs including Finian McGrath and John Halligan voted with Fine Gael .Michael Harty (Independent Clare) formally abstained with Fianna Fáil. 19 Deputies Absented themselves from Vote!!!! (a small number may have valid excuses)
Dail Record 25/09/2018 Question again put:
The Dáil divided: Tá, 49; Níl, 59; Staon, 29.

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WorldbyStorm - September 26, 2018

Very useful. Can’t see Michael Healy Rae how did he vote?

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Paddy Healy - September 26, 2018

Thanks WBS. You are Correct! 20 deputies absented themselves including Michael Healy-Rae

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Tomboktu - September 26, 2018

“Can’t see Michael Healy Rae how did he vote?”

I thought MH-R was stand-in presenter on a TV show that evening.

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3. Liberius - September 26, 2018

https://twitter.com/gemmaod1/status/1044919051229835264

Some interesting names there, and combinations of names not usually associated with each other.

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WorldbyStorm - September 26, 2018

+1 a most interesting list

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Liberius - September 26, 2018

I think some of those in that list might want to reflect on some of the things she says, along with the fact they’ve ended up on the same side as Ronan Mullen & Mattie McGrath.

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WorldbyStorm - September 26, 2018

I find it weird that she’d expect SF to back her.

I think it’s an overstatement to say they’re on the same side. She’s thanked them – but you’ll notice how inchoate her statements are. Few would consider Clare Daly or Joan Collins to be less ‘obsessed’ with abortion than RBB or RC for example (or could it be that she genuinely believes her candidacy is more important than their long time activism on this issue?).

I’d also wonder how solid were the assurances she was given that those she names would support her. I’ve seen nothing that indicates anything solid was done for her. Talking to some working for some on that list she has I’ve had the distinct impression that no assurances were given (this was before she tweeted the above). Indeed I had the impression that there was a degree of hostility to her candidacy – as well as which there was apparently a lot of pressure from emails and calls for those TDs to row in behind her. Granted that doesn’t necessarily mean that there were no assurances – but…at the meeting last week of Inds it was clear that there was no commonality of approach in regard to a candidate (and some of those she lists weren’t even in attendance). I don’t doubt she thinks that they were in her court, unless she’s trying to make trouble for people on the leftish side – but that’s not quite the same thing. Is there any hint of a list beyond that which she has made – I’ve not seen or heard of one.

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Liberius - September 27, 2018

Well yeah I suppose if there is no nomination papers with names signed on it then it is all a touch vague as go how much any of those listed were assured supporters, but looking at how she’s come out blasting at Solidarity, PBP & SF but not the ones in that list you’d have to think there was at some level a view that they were supportive (imagined or otherwise).

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WorldbyStorm - September 27, 2018

I think going half way to your conclusion that it does show a certain vagueness about where people stand – I imagine she was given something along the lines of ‘if you can get x nominations we’ll think about it’ (just to be clear I don’t know that for a fact but it would seem to fit the lack of nomination papers, the lack of people turning up at meetings to nominate an ‘Ind’ Presidential candidate’ – which by the by really annoys me her using). I think those lines might have been given in the full knowledge she wasn’t going to make it. But I do agree that a clear stance is preferable to a vague one and that people can choose not to support someone entirely legitimately as well as support someone. And that’s before we get to the politics of this and of the proposed candidate… 😦

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The McCarthy Report - September 27, 2018

Pat Dunne has confirmed on facebook that Joan Collins signed her nomination papers.

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WorldbyStorm - September 27, 2018

Seems unnecessary – and I don’t buy the idea that a candidacy *has* to be supported on democratic grounds- the issue of a potential candidates record is as important or more so. Some people may be glad that nomination paper never saw the political light of day in terms of being used.

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Barnes - September 27, 2018

So, on Gemma.
What do people want in a candidate?
I’ve seen has described as “fascist” on Twitter which really meant the people who wrote that might need to get a grip.
Sure, she might hold sine views you/I don’t like but people are a pick and mix. She has done good work to highlight Garda corruption and I think at a greater cost to herself, anf to the wider benefit of the nation than Twitter heads calling her fascist.
I’m glad she is nominated though I won’t be voting for her. She has put herself out there and warts and all people can hear a voice that at least has guts.

Now all that said sometimes the most driven and tough are the most excentric.

But in the main at least she means what she says. Christ, thats something.

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WorldbyStorm - September 27, 2018

I get what you’re saying and calling her a fascist is childish but on the other hand if the standard is she’s not a fascist so therefore anything less than than that is okay doesn’t quite scan (for me at least). Tbh it’s not her politics that has concerned me – tho I’m not keen on her views on the Hpv vaccination IIRC – it’s the rhetoric re others and talk of litigation that concerns me. And I don’t think seeing that that she would be a what I’d imagine would work for the Prsidency

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yourcousin - September 27, 2018

“But in the main at least she means what she says. Christ, that’s something.”

No, Because that’s just code for being an asshole. Civility is not synonymous with lying. You can be civil, direct, and honest at the same time.

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Daniel Rayner O'Connor - September 27, 2018

Once again, Barnes has me flummoxed. I thought GO’D (initials interesting) had failed in her bid for nomination and that that was why she was abusing the SP/Solidarity people who’s support would have brought her nearer the magic no, and hence more credible for waverers.

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Liberius - September 27, 2018

She has done good work to highlight Garda corruption

You see the problem with that is we can all find common ground with almost anyone on a whole variety of topics but that doesn’t mean that we should then ignore anything else about that person, one commonality doesn’t trump (on pun intended) everything else.

Also if the bar is as low a merely not being a dictionary definition fascist then you’re standards are the problem, not those that didn’t nominate her.

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4. Paddy Healy - September 26, 2018

20 TDs didn’t vote not 19 in no confidence motion.

HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS CRISIS


Believe it or not!!
After a TD registers with Ceann Chomhairle after being elected, the deputy gets paid the salary until the next election even if they never turn up in Leinster House again!!! Some rarely turn up in order to attend to their constituency and/or business/profession!
Seamus Healy TD has been calling for a change in this system for years

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5. Liberius - September 27, 2018

Didn’t see that coming.

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WorldbyStorm - September 27, 2018

Bloody hell.

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6. Gearóid Clár - September 28, 2018

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/state-still-cannot-bring-itself-to-honour-the-memory-of-ric-men-1.3642435?mode=amp

“State still cannot bring itself to honour the memory of RIC men” – Stephen Collins in the IT.

Cannot bring itself < Does not want to

The usual tropes. Bad apples. Mostly good Catholics. Maturity. Shot in terrible circumstances. Old IRA (because, despite them being bloodthirsty thugs, they at least weren't the Provos).

As you might expect, nothing about the 1918 election, the British Empire, their previous form as enforcers of eviction, the Stasi-like record keeping.

Collins has never been a strong essayist or columnist. He lacks the skill to identify the counter-arguments in full, and so defeat them. This only highlights the bankruptcy of his cause. Weak piece.

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WorldbyStorm - September 28, 2018

That’s v. true re his flaws as a writer. He simply doesn’t get it.

I found that a grim piece – his moral equivalency is remarkable, not least given the anti-democratic structures in place, the denial of HR, the constrained nature of British democracy, and the reality of the RIC as a coercive armed force.

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EWI - September 28, 2018

These would be the same gents of the so-called HARP organisation, who on a previous occasion referred to these ‘RIC men’ – who deliberately include the Auxiliaries and the Black&Tans – as having been ‘murdered’? 🤔

On a related note, I see that the so-called Parnell Society (in reality, Redmondites) have invited Bruton to deliver their Ivy Day lecture. All of this facilitated by Green and his cohort in Glasnevin.

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7. Paddy Healy - September 29, 2018

Many of those with over €50m in assets paid small amounts of income tax
Tax Evasion by Irish Super-Rich With the Assistance of Government https://wp.me/pKzXa-oM
Cliff Taylor Irish Times September 28,
About 90 of the wealthiest people in the country pay income tax at a lower rate than the average taxpayer, according to a new report from the Comptroller & Auditor General And 83 of these so-called high net worth individuals, or one in four of the total, declared taxable income of less than the average industrial wage, which is just over €36,500. The report shows many of Ireland’s very highest earners pay relatively small amounts in income tax, with many using tax credits and reliefs to cut their bills.The study by the C&AG, in the latest annual report, covered the Revenue’s taxation of more than 300 of the country’s richest people in 2015.

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8. Paddy Healy - September 29, 2018

Very Important Article by Paul Gillespie in Irish Times To-Day
Why the next economic crisis will be much harder to fix
New Economic Crash on the Way https://wp.me/pKzXa-ua

“Transatlantic relations are being transformed, partly because the dollar is used by the Trump administration to leverage its policy on Iran against European companies. That is forcing the pace in developing an autonomous European Union security and defence policy, as well as a more distinct economic and political regime.”

Paul Gillespie, Irish Times, Sept 29

Ten years on from the global financial crisis of 2008 it helps to see it in historical and geopolitical terms. Many continuing effects of the crisis generate fears it could recur, triggered next time more from political economy than finance.Such perspectives reveal 2008 is aptly named. It was a crisis greater in scale and speed than that of 1929, defying claims that capitalism is no longer prone to disaster. It played out financially through the banking system before morphing into the politics of austerity, inequality and reactive populist revolts in the major western states. And it was genuinely global, rolling over from the United States to Europe and immediately affecting China and then major emerging economies.

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9. Starkadder - October 1, 2018

The Best Piece About Brett Kavanaugh so far, by JoAnn Wypijewski :

Wisdom is the fundamental and ancient criterion for a judge. Kavanaugh has failed the test of wisdom not by what he is accused of doing when he was 17 and drunk but by his adult neglect of reflection and his indifference to suffering, something this moment puts in a sharper light.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4055-what-brett-kavanaugh-really-learned-in-high-school-make-the-rules-break-the-rules-and-prosper

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CL - October 1, 2018

“Brett Kavanaugh: “This is something out of a Twilight Zone episode.”
Stuart Newman: “I don’t remember any gang rapes in a Twilight Zone episode.”…
Actor Ken Olin: “Since Trump was elected he’s sent us more alleged rapists than Mexico.”…
Elliot Sperber: “When Kavanaugh says he didn’t have sex until many years after college maybe he meant consensual sex.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/28/roaming-charges-theres-a-tear-in-my-beer/

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Barnes - October 1, 2018

The accusation against him is rape is it. While there isn’t much difference bar a question of timing the guy hasn’t yet been charged. If he did it he won’t get Justice. If he didn’t do it he won’t get Justice.
It’s no longer about him. It’s become a wider issue and he can never clear his name now.

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Barnes - October 1, 2018

Timing isntthe word i wanted. Not timing, more abuse precursors rape and is on a continuum with it

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WorldbyStorm - October 1, 2018

Sexual assault? Attempted rape? Don’t they fit the description. I agree, simply using the term rape is problematic prior to charges etc. big the other two terms are profoundly serious.

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Barnes - October 1, 2018

Yeah they are better terms but calling the man a rapist is to steering close to conviction by acclaimation.

All three quotes above seem to leave it in no doubt that he is a rapist. He might be. He might be an absolute twat. He might not be a rapist. He may not have even ever been involved in any sexual assault. It seems mighty easy for an actor or a writer to call him that but it might not be fair.

I think its no longer now about him and thsts potentially disastrous since it has to be about him. It has to be about her.

Many people seem to have gone meta on this.

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10. Barnes - October 1, 2018

Kanye west decides to make America great again in a speech at SNL.

This odd move was at least as odd as Jim Carrey championing socialism.

Are these political thought leaders in America today?
You have to have a bit of money to be heard in America is probably the key take out

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WorldbyStorm - October 1, 2018

I’m always entertained by the folk who can’t understand Kanye’s thing for Trump. Both very very wealthy, both egotists, what wouldn’t they like about each other?

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Barnes - October 1, 2018

But in America Kanye is expected to be democrat and line up. Thr problem eith identity politics is when it cleaves too finely people begin to pick sides that don’t seem to make sense from the old perspective.

Still, Kanye might as likely turn stound tomorrow and say he hates Trump.

By the way, his name is now Ye.

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WorldbyStorm - October 1, 2018

Don’t I know – I love the way some can’t handle that reality re K and T tho I also despair at the idea K represents a ‘community’ when j think that is v questionable – certainly as questionable as us all agreeing Bono represented northsiders in Dublin

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WorldbyStorm - October 1, 2018

Is that true re his name ? 😦

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Barnes - October 1, 2018

Yeah and it’s pronounced Yay.
I bet you all sssumed it was Yee.

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WorldbyStorm - October 1, 2018

Sheesh, it never ends. One real step forward would media stepping back from treating celebrities or musicians or actors as if they have some remarkable powers of insight – part of where we are today is precisely due to this.

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11. Paddy Healy - October 1, 2018

Why a Wealth or Assets Tax on Super-Rich is necessary for Tax Equity and To Fund Adequate Public Services such as Housing,Health, Education
Tax Advice to Multi-Millionaires! https://wp.me/pKzXa-oM
Above all stay funding pro-capitalist political parties so that you can continue to pay little tax, continue to avail of public services and continue to enrich yourself at the expense of the Irish people.
How can 83 individuals with assets of over 50 million each declare less than 36,500 for tax purposes which is the average industrial wage?
The following device is not mentioned in the Irish Times Article by Cliff Taylor at the link below which describes many other tax avoidance strategies: If you work in a company which you fully or partially own, simply pay yourself less than 35,000. As this is approximately the threshold for payment of the 40% tax rate, all your income will be taxed at 20%. You could pay yourself much less than 35,000. This would make room for income from your bank deposits to be also charged at 20%. The artificially reduced salary increases profits which accrue to you.! Some profits may be written off against past losses. You don’t need a large income. You could sell off….

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15. Paddy Healy - October 2, 2018

Humanitarian Rescue Agency, Médcins Sans Frontiéres, Appeals To Government to Register Rescue Ship, Aquarius, to Prevent Increased Drownings of Refugees in the Mediterranean in Letter to Irish Times
Full Letter https://wp.me/pKzXa-Ut
Operation Sophia, in Which the Irish Navy Participates, is assisting the Libyan Coastguard to Return Refugees To Torture Camps
Saving lives in the Mediterranean-MSF
Letter to Irish Times, Monday, October 1, 2018
This week the Taoiseach told the United Nations “we should provide a voice for the oppressed around the world”. We urge him to provide a voice for those who risk their lives at sea and speak out against reducing search-and-rescue capacity.
European governments, including Ireland, must allow the Aquarius to continue its mission in response to the tragedy in the Central Mediterranean and immediately issue a new flag under which the vessel can sail.
In Libya, refugees and migrants are often extorted, beaten, sexually assaulted, sold into slavery and even murdered.

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16. GW - October 2, 2018

It’s great to see that the Tories have finally come up with a workable technical solution to the pesky land border through Ireland.

As the great Nadine Dorries MP notes on her website:

In consultation with Boris, our partners in the D.U.P. and the E.R.G. I wish to state that we will insist on a friction-less solution to all security concerns and debate with our Irish colleagues the very real technical solution of building an electronic defense system using solar powered drones to deploy a massive block-chain spanning the 499km Irish border.

Block-chains as we all know are all-powerful, but conveniently invisible.

(Actually not but no more far-fetched than the usual guff.)

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Barnes - October 2, 2018

Latest proposal is to have checks in the irish sea pending the technological infra to do it in the border.

Anyone remember the boundary commission. That was s lot of pending as well.

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17. Paddy Healy - October 2, 2018

RESTORE PAY,PENSIONS, ALLOWANCES OF DEFENCE FORCES
Marine Rescue Services, Fishery Protection, Protection against Drug Importation, Scaled Back https://wp.me/pKzXa-sM
AS GOVERNMENT BUYS 200 Million EURO VESSEL
Crew shortage prevents Naval Service vessels setting sail
Peter Murtagh Irish Times Tuesday, October 2,
Two Naval Service vessels were unable to set sail last week because of a crew shortage while reservists have been brought in to plug gaps on a third ship, it has emerged. Emergency talks were held last Friday in Haulbowline between Chief of Staff, Vice-Admiral Mark Mellett, Assistant Chief of Staff Brig Gen Peter O’Halloran and the Flag Officer Commanding, Cmdr Mick Malone.

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