Café Bazar in Salzburg may seem an unusual spot to consider Ireland’s future economic choices, but it could be a perfect place to start. After the British leave the EU, Ireland will need a new friend or a series of new friends within the European Union. This will involve hard choices and possibly some unpleasant trade-offs. Let’s call this challenge the Irish dilemma.
As long as the UK was in the EU, Ireland played a canny, if slightly duplicitous, game. We could appear in Brussels to be good Europeans, giggling derisively at the isolated British, safe in the knowledge that those same friendless British shared many of our interests and would therefore stand up for us.
In protecting their own interests they also protected our low-tax, American-focused economic model without our having to lift a finger. The Brits could do the heavy lifting while we played both sides. Within the EU gang we could remain friends with everyone, as long as Britain remained friends with nobody.
This is a triangular dynamic that you see in most primary-school playgrounds. Children instinctively understand this game, its limits and its benefits. The aloof but powerful loner regularly protects weaker lads from the periodic maliciousness of the gang. We elevated this common facet of group psychology to become a cornerstone of national diplomacy. But that era is over.
Today we face a conundrum: how can we remain a fully-fledged member of the EU while preserving the Anglo-American economic model that underpins our prosperity? Being net contributors to the EU also changes the game.
For as long as Ireland was benefiting from EU largesse, the case was open and shut. But conditions are changing fast. In the past few days, politics in Germany, just kilometres north of Salzburg, has added a worrying dimension to the Irish dilemma.
The Blueprint
The blueprint for Germany’s “grand coalition“ between Angela Merkel’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union and Martin Schulz’s centre-left Social Democrats constitutes the clearest drive towards European integration since Jacques Delors ran the European Commission. This is not good news for Ireland – and coming so soon after Brexit it constitutes a double whammy to Irish diplomacy.
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PS. Ireland will go along with what France and Germany tell them to do. Simple as that.
They are not fit to govern themselves.
Congrats on the new site.
Regards to all.
Michael.
The Main-Stream Media [ MSM ] has long-time been swamping us with out-right lies, & sub-conscious techniques, for to make us feel, & think, falsely that the likes of present day Hungary’s policies for its internal affairs, & its EU affairs, & its other foreign affairs, make them “unsavory bedfellows” [ as David with sleight-of-personal agenda puts it ] were Irish nation in the fashion of Irish State to emulate them.
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Here is a useful meme to remind u about the MSM & also Michael O’Bummer’s husband ;
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Henry Makow [ Notably a “Canada-firster” ; And, his parents from Poland ; And, he having affinity for Poland ] again highlighting how MSM is on the offensive against Poland because the Polish leaders with the majority of the Poles would rather not lather with agenda of Suds [ Now 6 foot under ] ;
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https://twitter.com/HenryMakow/status/956606299105648641
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Welcome back to all. Central European countries are trying to retain their national identity and characteristics. Many Western European countries are become so “liberal” that they are agreeing to anything in the name of inclusivity. The former are putting physical barriers to protect themselves, the latter are being overrun. The only thing protecting the British to some degree is the Channel as it has done the last thousands of years. Ireland , too, has some protection BUT it currently has an unguarded mutual border with Britain. There are no easy solutions as this border has existed as a free access… Read more »
Secret society plots to unseat Trump.
https://www.infowars.com/anti-trump-secret-society-using-burner-phones-to-stay-under-the-radar/
Soros invades Davos
https://needtoknow.news/2018/01/switzerland-soros-deploys-antifa-davos-world-economic-forum/
This is the Europe so desperately desired. Chastity belts in the modern era.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/video-germany-introduces-womens-pants-safety-alarms-thwart-off-migrant-sex-attacks/
I think David’s right on the money with Salzburg. Eastern and mittel Europa are pragmatic partners with common interests. Nassim Nicholas Taleb described Vienna as New York City surrounded by Texas and Dublin could be described in a similar manner. It’s socially liberal surrounded by a conservative agricultural hinterland. The relationship of Austria with Germany is also very similar to our historical relationship with the UK. The EU needs a group of like minded smaller Countries to counter the current Franco/German hegemony. We are nothing if not politically focused as a Country but we need to get away from this… Read more »
The impending economic collapse is hidden from most. People only see a rising stock market, not the negative underlying factors that will cause the whole system to crash. – Peter Schiff
http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/category/financial-markets/
How trump can control Mueller and fake news re collusion.
https://spectator.org/what-trump-can-and-must-do-about-mueller/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=c305e8f81d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-c305e8f81d-104365713
“”The media can mock Johnson, Congressmen Gowdy, Nunes and others, but it is the media’s own lack of oversight that looks clownish. The media, which is supposed to be in the information business, spends most of its time trying to suppress information, and shills for stonewalling government agencies that do the same. It was the Benghazi investigation, which the media tried to short-circuit, that kicked loose Hillary’s private e-mail server, which produced many distant and ironic ramifications, the most recent of which is the exposure of Strzok’s texts. The media only likes Republicans when they are passive and self-defeating. They… Read more »
Wow, the new website looks awesome!!! :-) Not sure though what David has in mind when he says: “it means lying down with unsavoury bedfellows”: 1. L e g a l neo-Nazi demonstrations in Germany in 2017: 690 (an increase by 1/3 compared to 2016): https://www.verfassungsschutz.de/de/arbeitsfelder/af-rechtsextremismus/zahlen-und-fakten-rechtsextremismus/rechtsextremistische-demonstrationen-2016 In Poland – zero. 2. Racist crimes in Germany in 2016 – 22,471 https://www.verfassungsschutz.de/de/arbeitsfelder/af-rechtsextremismus/zahlen-und-fakten-rechtsextremismus/rechtsextremistische-straf-und-gewalttaten-2016 in Poland in 2016 – 765 “Ireland will have to make a choice” – two months ago, I would have definitely said Austria and Poland. Now, I’m not too sure – but definitely not Germany and France: choosing Carolingian Europe… Read more »
Interesting info: it was the US who proposed bilateral talks with Poland in Davos, not the other way round (perhaps pissed off with Duda’s crumbling under Merkel’s pressure and ousting Defense Minister Macierewicz?): http://i.iplsc.com/andrzej-duda-i-donald-trump/00075IC7Q6KD8X2H-C122-F4.jpg So President Trump demands to meet president Duda eye-to-eye in Davos, and, at the same time, the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson comes to Poland to meet PM Morawiecki: http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/345921,Polish-PM-US-state-secretary-to-discuss-military-energy-ties Now Here is an interesting bit – following these two: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/910567/Visegrad-European-Union-rebels-Brussels-back-down-Poland-punishment The Empire Strikes Back? I wonder what Leo Varadkar thinks of this, being in the centre of the world – and being “a man… Read more »
https://soundcloud.com/sprottmoney/sprott-money-news-weekly-wrap-up-12618 Rising interest rates are the gathering storm clouds over the bond market. The bond market controls all other markets. It is like the thunder storm. firs is a nice bright day. Then hot is over heated. Then the benign cumulus followed by the anvil heads and the distant rumbles. Then soon is the wind blowing to the storm, contrarian winds, and before long a downpour, thunder and forked lightening. The storm washes out the super heat in a fraction of the time it takes to build and a new day dawns. The bond markets currently hears the distant rumbles… Read more »
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (WNW 319 1.26.18) The mainstream media (MSM) is finally beginning to cover the FBI/DOJ scandal to attack President Trump and his Administration, but they are doing it as a big “conspiracy theory” in the face of overwhelming publicly reported evidence of corruption and law breaking. Senator Ron Johnson stated this week there was a “secret society” within the FBI and DOJ that has off site meetings “to map out survival strategy at the FBI.” Other Congressmen, who have seen an unreleased memo naming names of high ranking members of the FBO and DOJ, say jail time… Read more »
Culturo-Eco-Ethnico-Geo-Politico-Religo-Ethnico [ Parameters in alphabetical sequence only ] Strategy Maneuvering ; Ref. One’s sense of the PRESENT general mindset of the majority of the these categories of people ; A_ What is Order of importance of these Parameters ? B_ What does each Parameter at Upper Layer consist of ? ………………………………………………………………… 1_ Irish State Populace ; incl. Immigrants 1_1 Elite / Hidden State / Deep State ? e.g.s 1_1_1 Political Parties e.g.s Fine GAY & L-Word Strategists Fianna fail-again Strategists Labor-does-not-work Strategists Sinn — COMPROMISED-Fein 1_1_2 Certain Intelligentsia 1_1_3 The Top Banksters 1_1_4 Uppermost of Corporate Ire. 1_1_5 Certain Civil… Read more »
HEADING ; China unveils huge plans for the Arctic, with ‘Polar Silk Road’ on the way . 26 Jan, 2018 . SUB-HEADING ; China unveils huge plans for the Arctic, with ‘Polar Silk Road’ on the way . © Olaf Krüger / Global Look Press . EXTRACT ; . INTRO. ; Beijing has announced plans to extend the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative to the Arctic by developing shipping routes. . In a white paper released on Friday, the country said it expects to have a “major role in expanding the network of shipping routes” and noted that “as a… Read more »
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Well, in essence, we are in a very political situation. We have an overly expensive state system, with obscenely unaffordable commitments. To give an indication, being unemployed in Ireland is incentivized by means of what is provided in addition to the dole. That is the essence of the Irish approach. Loads of freebies, and a complex system of free stuff. This is not up for negotiation. Neither is the level of state expenditure. And neither is the extent of state involvement. We have gone from McCreevyism, to Pat-Rabbittism – from earn it & do as you like, to tying ourselves… Read more »
I suspect that given the behaviour of FF/FG/LP in recent years, that nobody will want to be our friends on our terms. We served as lackies for Brussels. And that is now returning to cause Ireland serious problems.
EU = Orwellian Super-State of Europe . Germany is “pilot case” for what what out local elite are aiming to roll out soon here too ; . Sinn Fein — through Gerry-“compromised”-Adams & the other SF Politicos — are all for the Marxist-Leninist-Trotskite-Stalinist Super-State of Europe “Hell-Hole” EU too. They just going through the motions of supposedly genuinely earning their support from the populace. Ever wonder why the Irish State’s elite have been facilitating S-compromised-F to rise in power when SF actually are very lacking in talent & character for the betterment of our country ? SF will function like… Read more »
EU is the dissolution of its individual jigsaw pieces which is each sovereign state. . Only a fool of a nation would allow itself to be such a jigsaw piece. The scholar, Dr. Stan Monteith, gives an absorbing presentation below on what is the overall Jigsaw. U can benefit very much also from just attending to the audio of this video. //////////////////////////////////////////// . Monteith was close friend of Mr. G Edward Griffin whom I am increasingly impressed with despite the very strong case that Griffin plagiarized Eustace Mullins’s original work exposing the private corporation Federal Reserve Bank of America [… Read more »
Apropos of father-in-law [ Donald Trump ] of the leader / President [ Jared Kushner ] of our Friend in North America, vis. USA ; USA is also a player in David’s article
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Note ;
Alex Jones has more listenership than all of Fox News.
Of all media persons, he garnered most votes for Trump from the electoate.
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HEADING ;
ALEX JONES ADMITS TRUMP A PRODUCT OF ARMY INTELLIGENCE
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Brendon O’Connell
Published on Jan 26, 2018
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“”I don’t have much faith that the retail market will ever wise up to the racket and simply buy real metal, remove it from the banking system, and put it away for the long term. Certainly the monetary metals mining industry is too frightened of its governments and banks to protest the price suppression. But some governments are getting annoyed with U.S. dollar imperialism and are moving away from the dollar and toward gold’s return as the world reserve currency, a more impartial reserve currency. These governments have not shared their timetable with GATA but the movement is clear. Indeed,… Read more »
“President Nixon created the DEA in 1973. Years later, Nixon’s Domestic Policy Cheif, John Ehrlichman said:
“”We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.””
http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/proof-that-50-years-of-drug-policy-is-based-on-lies/
New Friend in Europe ; Poland ? + @ Grzegorz [ from Poland ] . 1_ Ref. The Article below sourced from that metaphorical Lady who was chatting with Mr. Michael O’Bummer’s husband above [ See Graphic posted on 27th inst. ] . 1_1 Numbers do not tally with urs . 1_2 Terms do not tally with urs . 1_3 If other locations had more fatalities than Autschitz-Birkenau, why do the Anti-Polish protagonists not mention, & indeed highlight, these instead ? …………………………………………… . Reflection ; “Putting Poland on the back foot” in this overall matter also serves to help the… Read more »
With this decision, Trump :
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NOT honoring his pledge to the Electorate that USA government with Trump as President would relent from causing suffering to other nations
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Israeli military officials warned that a humanitarian crisis, triggered by the possible collapse of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees could lead to a civilian uprising.
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Israeli Haaretz Newspaper
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https://twitter.com/HenryMakow/status/957730343880155136
Ref. The backdrop to every article here vis. The worsening housing situation . . And, Truthist, as one who for most of his life has been homeless, & with episodes of actual “homelessness + rooflessness”, & all that through absolutely no fault of my own but in fact through malice & other corruption by private persons & / or the Irish State, it may surprise the reader that I agree with Henry Makow’s opinion here ; . . TWEET on Mshd-Twitter ; Reader: “I’ve spent some time sleeping rough and IT IS VERY UNPLEASANT AND DANGEROUS… but… this…..seizing other people’s… Read more »
A righteous nation best beware of nations committed to being top & / or bottom !
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Should not Poland, & Hungary, & other brave countries in EU dismiss the notion of allowing Irish State ally with them given that all of Irish State’s Political Parties & so-called Independents in Dail, & Main-Stream Media, & [ Pseudo ] Intelligentsia etc. are in cahoots with censoring policies of Mshd-Twitter, Mshd-Google, Mshd-Facebook, etc. ?
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https://www.projectveritas.com/2018/01/11/undercover-video-twitter-engineers-to-ban-a-way-of-talking-through-shadow-banning-algorithms-to-censor-opposing-political-opinions/
There was an interesting build-up to that latest Israeli-Polish diplomatic crisis. On the one hand, there is this bill 447 (Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today) in the US Senate. On the other hand, when Poland tried to tie this bill with the issue of unpaid German WWII reparations for Poland, there was a series of labelling materials on German TV and newspapers, based on mendacious statements made by the German 5th column in the Polish Parliament, headed by MEP from Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform party, Róza Maria Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein. Interestingly, almost all leading members of pro-German parties… Read more »
Interesting: it looks like the diplomatic feud between Poland and Israel has now turned into an INTERNAL Israeli feud (with Times of Israel and Haaretz publishing anti-Polish articles, and Jerusalem Post publishing a pro-Polish article, in which they seem to side with the Polish PM against Lapid and Netanyahu narrative). Who would have thought??????????! http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Setting-history-straight-Poland-resisted-Nazis-540092?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Perhaps this can be explained by two things: 1) Even the most obsequious cute-hoorish journalists and celebrities in Poland didn’t dare to support the “Poland’s complicity in the Holocaust” lie 2) They – the politicians in Israel – realised that Lapid went too far with… Read more »
Another interesting fact is that a very balanced article on that was published in today’s “Irish Times” (would it be due to the fact that, perhaps for the first time when it comes to reporting on Poland, it wasn’t written by – as Tony Brogan said and I laughed – a fake-news specialist Mr Scally?), as opposed to, i.e., an article in “The Telegraph”.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/israeli-leaders-angry-at-planned-polish-law-on-holocaust-1.3371357
Mr Jakubiak from the opposition party Kukiz’ 15 said something, which I would love to hear from an Irish political party leader (of course, swapping the word “Poland” for “Ireland”): “For the last 8 years, Poland’s foreign policy was carried out on the lines ‘if everything around Poland is nice, then it will be nice for us’. Now, Poland, as a country and a nation, has to have its own views and take care of its own interest, and not about French or Israeli interest. We are a legal entity and not a banana republic. We should care about Poland… Read more »
Yee think that the Deep State / Hidden State of the Irish State will not seek permission from all of these 3 occult organisations before it commits to any foreign affairs policy ?
Of course they will !
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By the way, Suds [ recently placed 6 feet under ] was a top honcho in each of ’em ;
Indeed, he was the Boss-Man in Europe for The Trilateral Commission.
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Here is illustration of Trump being a highly intelligent man.
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There is no way that any of the present Irish politicians could be successfully forthright with the foreign media ;
They are just too self-conscious of the need to be politically correct [ PC ] for the sake of The Frankfurt School Ideology.
So, they just retreat to using cliches & smarmy stuff.
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https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/910986/Donald-Trump-Piers-Morgan-Brexit-talks-Theresa-May-EU
Good grief there seems to be a lot of gobsh@@es here.
We can claim ownership of something but don’t own anything. The human and good thing to do is to not restrict people based on where they are born. The challenge thus is developing a world that is fair for all.
That’s the opposite of right wing avarice from Hungary et al. Yes, Hungary is in s difficult position but it’s not to be applauded for failing to find a good solution.