03-12-2010, 09:09 AM
The documents comprising the EU/IMF bankers/bondholders bailout are here
The Irish Unite Union's 'Peoples Budget' is here
I have only skimmed the documents but a couple of things leap off the page:
The Irish Unite Union's 'Peoples Budget' is here
I have only skimmed the documents but a couple of things leap off the page:
- The subservient (forelock-tugging) tone of the the Irish in the 'letters of intent' to both the EU and IMF - they seem to be quickly learning their new status as serfs - I guess it's just a return to the status-quo-anti for them, as the new enablers of their new absentee landlords.
- The Unite union's pathetic faith in Growth as our saviour - with absolutely zero questioning of the system that - by design - produced (and will always produce) the mess in the first place.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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