Like the crest of a wave

Sometimes somethings are unstoppable. Other things can be stopped if the people rise to take action. Peter Sutherland has vested interests in keeping the borders open. It's just that big money and big power go together. It's reassuring that we have Sutherland, his eminence to guide Ireland through the dark tunnel of the future. Meanwhile Biffo when he spoke at the Trilateral commission, he arrived late as a protest that he had leave after his address. Even if Biffo was in high heels he stil...

Is leatsa é? Na labhair gaeilge linn!

yourcountryyourcall.com It's not open to everyone. Yes folks you don't have to be Irish and you don't have to be living here. You don't have to have much interest in the past or future of Ireland either. despite the vigourous use of the Irish language in advertising this grand quest you had better not submit a suggestion in Irish. Now you might think that since Ireland has its own native language you might be able to make a suggestion in it. Since the government (which 'supports' YCYC) decla...

Markets! Finance! Scandal!

David McWilliams on the Keiser Report, 18 March 2010 David McWilliams appears @ 13:10 in the following clip David McWilliams Max Keiser

It’s a long way from Porkie Pies

We were treated to a spectacle of the usual with cream on top via Pat "judicial review" Kenny and his new vehicle The Frontline. Have a click here and fast forward to 30 minutes and watch the video until it hits 35 minutes and then put yourself out of your misery. If you really want to punish yourself then watch Lucinda at 17 minutes. She reads off a page rather than memorising a few lines which I thought we learned to do in school. And makes lots of mistakes along the way. Bill Cullen ...

Gross Domestic Product

Real Riches " Our object in building up the country economically must not be lost sight of. That object is not to be able to boast of enormous wealth or of a great volume of trade for their own sake. It is not to see our country covered with smoking chimneys and factories. It is not to show a great national balance sheet, nor to point to a people producing wealth with the self-obliteration of a hive of bees. The real riches of the Irish nation will be the men and women of the Irish nation the...

Mass immigration is Good for the Economy?

It is often asserted in the press, by politicians and the pro-immigration lobby that mass immigration is good for the economy. In addition to being vague the phrase comes hand-in-hand with an implicit implication, namely, that that which is good for the economy is good for the people of Ireland. Firstly, we must specify what is meant by the phrase "good for the economy". Normally something which has the consequence of increasing the size and/or wealth of an economy is "good", while that which...