Years ago, a mate of mine, the son of a hard-working Jewish butcher from Brooklyn, managed to get into Harvard. This was a huge undertaking for this average family without the financial resources to pay Ivy League fees. But they managed, as families tend to do. They saved, scrimped and borrowed so eventually the son emerged from one of America’s finest universities with brilliant results. He hasn’t looked back since.
Two decades later in New York, when we were chatting to his dad, discussing the sacrifices parents have to make to send their kids to top US universities, the old man looked at me and chuckled: “If you think Harvard is expensive, try ignorance!”
Ignorance is expensive and Donald Trump is testament to this. By pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord yesterday, he is signalling to the world that the United States — for so long the world’s pre-eminent home of scientific enquiry — is rejecting science. For the country that sent the first man to the moon, this is shameful. American universities produce far more Nobel Prize winners for science than the rest of the world combined — what does this say to them?
Having a climate change denier in the White House is frankly embarrassing.
There is also something bigger about the US withdrawing from the world. It is a massive change from everything that has gone before. We will miss America if it goes.
Pax Americana has given the world its geo-political ballast for the past 70 years. Implicit in this is the understanding that the USA — initially the world’s major and then the world’s only superpower — would defend concepts like free trade, free movement of people, freedom of the press, and multilateral organisations like the UN and the World Bank.
For most of the EU’s existence, peace in Europe was preserved by the fact that the Americans deployed its military up against the Iron Curtain. Does anyone really think that Western Europe’s military would have given Soviet generals a sleepless night? Of course not! Nato, as much as the European Union, created the conditions for peace in Europe. Nato is an American creation.
Likewise in Asia, the ability and willingness of America and, in particular, the US Navy, to project its power to the farthest corners of the globe preserved peace in Asia.
Obviously, the Americans have made mistakes. Indeed it is deeply fashionable to list our grievances against the Yanks. However, that “what aboutery” approach is to fall into the great critics’ trap of failing to distinguish between good and best. Sure, we’d all love to be best, but in many cases, being good as opposed to bad is sufficient. Being best is an aspiration and a rare reality.
The Americans operated a foreign policy for much of their hegemony known in Washington as “adult supervision”. This summed up the American approach to allow all the smaller countries, former friends and foes alike, to mess around in the playground until there was an issue. Only then would America step in and do the right thing. This strategy was most evident for Europeans during the genocidal war in Yugoslavia. In Yugoslavia, even as innocents were being slaughtered on our TV screens, the so-called European powers of Germany, Britain, France and Italy sided with their old allies, either Serbia or Croatia, claiming impotence as a drunk and vicious rabble murdered and raped.
Finally, it was Bill Clinton who decided this was enough; and the Americans bombed the Serbs to the negotiating table as the Europeans looked on with fake indignation.
For Irish people, Pax Americana was most evident in the North. It wasn’t European politicians who sat down tirelessly with the various sides in Northern Ireland between 1994 and 1999. It was Americans.
The Americans involved themselves, mainly on the nationalist side, giving our government a friend in the negotiations. It was American politicians who helped with the furious scurrying back and forth between Dublin and London, helping clear obstacles. I can’t remember a continental European politician becoming seriously involved, can you? Do you remember names like Jacques Chirac, Eduard Balladur or Gerhart Schroeder in the Good Friday Agreement?
As you can see, at crunch times, the American adults came in to supervise the unruly children and sort things out.
Part and parcel of American hegemony has always been trade and capital flows. Over the years this has culminated in Ireland doing $90bn (€80bn) of trade with the US every year. This is a phenomenal figure, particularly when you place it on top of the close to $400bn (€354bn) in US foreign investment here.
Unfortunately, the global understanding whereby the US will always be there as a type of “underwriter of last resort” is disappearing with Mr Trump. As I said, let’s not confuse best with good; the US has made plenty of mistakes as the global policeman, but if it leaves the pitch we will miss it.
So how serious is Mr Trump about leaving the pitch? If his Irish-American puppeteer Steve Bannon has anything to do with it, withdrawing from the Paris Accord is only the start.
Mr Bannon is a true radical. He is on record as saying he wants to destroy and disrupt the “status quo” both within America and outside it. He wants to tear up agreements that he believes were hatched over the head of the ordinary American yet signed in the name of the ordinary American. He is the Nativist in the administration who believes that the people have been betrayed by a ruling class which sits above democracy, ultimately looting the country for its own narrow ruling class.
For him, American commitments to agreements such as the climate change accord, the UN, Nafta and Nato are simply various ways of emasculating American sovereignty.
Mr Trump repeated these Bannon mantras time and again in his campaign and it seems that when he is under pressure in Washington and needs a quick headline, he lurches for the Bannon playbook, whether it’s a renewed immigrant ban or withdrawing from an international treaty.
This is all very dangerous for us, because Ireland has benefited overwhelmingly from Pax Americana. We are umbilically tied to the US. Furthermore, any withdrawal of America from the world stage would leave the world a much more dangerous place.
Germany, the only other possible Western hegemon, hasn’t the permission to lead properly; or at least the Germans have shown no appetite for the constraints and costs of leadership.
Those who are now looking to China to take up the global reins should be equally cautious: China is an autocratic, one-party state on the cusp of a financial meltdown. To paraphrase an elderly man: “If you think America is bad, try China!”
I note this about a previous occupier of the Aras who in decent & perceptive ordinary hardworking jobless & self-employed & jobbed Irish : 1. was destined to make a right aul fist of it 2. did make a right aul fist of it . And, being a Socialist just like Bernie Sanders she is not embarrassed to put out her arm for a fist-full of Dollars. . . http://www.rte.ie/tv/irelandsgreatest/maryrobinson.html . . ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// . And, then there is a present occupier of the Aras geezer known for rambling … utterances ; Another “Champagne Socialist” he is so he is. .… Read more »
David McWilliams usually reads every situation with alacrity of a graphic equaliser – and gets it right. In this article on what the US abandonment of Europe would mean for Ireland, his conclusions are right – but I question the main premise of his argument: that pulling out of the Paris climate agreement will lead to the US’s diminished power projection in Europe. On the contrary, it will mean the US not wasting money on bogus and costly agreements, and spending it instead on instruments needed both in hard and soft power projection. Far from diminishing its soft power projection,… Read more »
“initially the world’s major and then the world’s only superpower — would defend concepts like free trade, free movement of people, freedom of the press, and multilateral organisations like the UN and the World Bank.” And for whose benefit?
If you thought the British Empire would ana abusive relationship, try the nEU Empire.
Northern Ireland found it’s way to peace because the PIRA simply ran out of resources. Of course, the defiant response was that they were never beaten. True. But it was on the horizon. The surge in recruits in the early 1970s, propelled the armed struggle. By the 1990s, there were less young men in the families involved, and they were all known at that point. At that point nationalist parents in NI, had told their kids to not spend their lives on the run. Once Gorbachev took over in the Kremlin, and started a reconciliation with the West (which he… Read more »
I reckon Trump was correct, to pull out. The Paris Accord is a show. And the biggest pretenders in politics are outraged that somebody has questioned their theatre. Merkel, who still denies knowledge of VW cheating emmissions testing, unleashed a political theatre. In retrospect, this could have been foreseen. Merkel is now a proven liar, and is eager to find some external counterpoint to distract from her own tendency towards ineptitude. Likewise Macron, who needs theatrics to make up for a lack of substance, got involved. Trump is correct. America needs money to fix America. Trump is wrong on coal.… Read more »
Hi David, A super article except…………… I think I have morphed into Tony Brogan; No mention of the decline of the American Republic for the last 100 years coinciding with the creation of the federal reserve in 1913? America has lost it’s way morally and everything else has gone to shit as a result. Take for example over 100 years ago in the US it was impossible to establish a ltd company UNLESS the good or service benefited the greater good. Say that now to the chicago economics brainwashed sociopaths in charge in the US with their Milton friedman dogma… Read more »
The great irony of it all is tech companies in California going ape_hit over Trump wanting to devote American money to solving American problems – whilst the same corporate entities operate out of Dodge on the Liffey.
Or maybe that should be Tax Dodge on the Liffey.
California Governor Jerry Brown is running out of money. And that is a big problem for Ireland. Far bigger than Trump.
Steve Bannon is once again being presented as the problem.
Here is Steve Bannon, in action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmMe-2qaSss&t=3933s
In my mind Bannon, has produced very important information concerning Ireland’s dodgiest oligarch. Information that is of relevance to all of us.
And incidentally, the documentary is critical of Russia – yet I see countless Irish “journalists” attacking Trump and Bannon as being agents of Russia.
[ Germany, the only other possible Western hegemon, hasn’t the permission to lead properly; or at least the Germans have shown no appetite for the constraints and costs of leadership. ] I would view the fact that Germany has no competence as an even bigger problem. Merkel has a track record in ineptitude. When Merkel replaced Schroeder, she was weak on domestic issues, and instead moved to playing the within the EU. The results have been utterly disastrous. So, Germans who are reluctant to proceed down this path, have been proven correct by Merkel’s tendency to create a crisis out… Read more »
I agree with a lot of what you’re saying. We know the trump is a buffoon.
Maybe it’s time for the rest of the world to grow up and take responsibility.
Ever cloud has a silver lining.
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HEADING ; Ireland Was Always Ruled by Freemasonry . . June 5, 2017 . …………………………………………. . Matt-Barrett-and-Leo-Varadkar-2-1068×714.jpg . (Ireland’s New PM, a globalist bumboy, right, with partner.) . ………………………………………………….. . SUB-HEADING ; . Ireland’s election of gay neo-con Prime MinisterLeo Varadkar is consistent with its long history as an abject Masonic colony. . ……………………………………. . PREFACE ; . According to Jude Duffy, the idea that Ireland is reacting to centuries of Catholic repression is a Zionist myth. Ireland was never Catholic. . “One of the great mindless clichés about Ireland is that it is a place suffused with “Catholic guilt”.… Read more »
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two things.Thanks for the great comedy hour provided by Bernie Saunders at the Dalkey bash..It was great craic to watch a champange socialist democrat in full flow and if thats going to be a US president..The Dons vote is secure in 2020.
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Like most people you have missed two important things about the Paris agreement.It was never ratified by Congress,and it would cost more to the US in work and jobs than any other country..
Three you and everyone keep underestimatin Trump at your peril.
If the Climate Change racketeers are to be believed, then the Paris Accord is too late, and too litte. Therefore why all the fuss about something that will make no difference ? Well, those involved need to pretend that they are fixing the problem. That way they can continue to get media endorsements. Remember Merkel wanting to scrap nuclear ? What carbon footprint would follow from that decision. In the end she had to accept nuclear power, but it had zero to do with the environment and everything to do with money. Trump is not being hypocritical about it. The… Read more »
James Howard Kusntler has some entertaining thoughts on the energy intensive economy, and it’s long term non-sustainability. One of his most informative terms is “the 1000 mile Ceasar Salad”. With various components from California, Florida etc.. in December. Well, in Ireland we have a variant. The 1000 mile round trip weekend pissup. With Irish people going to Barcelona, or Malaga to have a drinking session, most of which they will forget. How is that for a carbon footprint ? If I have annoyed anybody, just create a “safe space” in your imagination, and pretend that Trump is the problem –… Read more »
Is this the result of Trump’s recent visit to Riyadh ? Trump’s speech was long overdue. Trump told those in attendance that there is a problem – and it is the responsibility of those in attendance to fix it. [ The contrast with Obama producing speeches that amounted to nothingness, is note worthy. Obama’s speech in Cairo preceded a series of disasters. With the payout to Iran, being the most idiotic. ]. We are seeing something that two weeks ago would have been regarded as unpredictable. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-06/gulf-states-launch-naval-blockade-qatar The key question here is motive. What is driving this sudden change in… Read more »
I’ve only one thing to say about Macron.
When he sorts out France’s budget deficit then I’ll take him seriously.
I’m not holding my breath btw.
Merkel is a commie.
Corbyn is a commie.
What do people expect from them.
Destabilising Influences ie Ahents of Chaos – Maxwell was Smarter than we gave him credit for.
As for disMay – deemed to be a good leader had she not ruled.
So lads a nice short post cutting to the chase.
Agree with you David. There is sadness attached to losing the big brother who looked out for you, even if he did some suspect things, Ireland was one of his favourite little brothers. And we looked up to him, seeing the good, denying the bad. . People and time move on. We have moved beyond the womb and there’s no going back. The world is no longer a place of tribes or villagers or towns, or cities, or regions, or Empires or Nations. We are global. And a lot of the challenges we face are global too. Including Climate Change.… Read more »
Global warming is a mass delusion and should be looked at, like other similar delusions, as a historical phenomenon. Christopher Booker’s The Real Global Warming Disaster is an excellent investigation of such a phenomenon, from its political antecedents to its official launch at the 1988 Senate hearing which had been booked in advance for what was likely to be the hottest day of the year and where the air conditioning had been switched off the night before James Hansen spoke to camera. Ruth Dudley Edwards has a very good review here of Booker’s book: http://www.ruthdudleyedwards.co.uk/RDEreviews/Review-warming-booker.html I don’t think it was… Read more »
Here is an account of the Hansen episode:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/25/bring-it-mr-wirth-a-challenge/
Senator Wirth admits it was set up.
Frolly1000’s channel about AGW Scepticism is entertaining. The title of this one is worth the entry fee alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoCUe-BvX5I&t=33s “The Ocean Ate My Global Warming” I have a modest comment about ten down. Anyone guess who I am? There’s a photo of moi too. YouTube debates on AGW are entertaining in a tradionally choreographed, stylized way. It is considered de rigueur for ‘warmists’ to denounce their opponents as stupid and in the pay of the fossil fuel industries. A better class of comment goes like this: “I did a web search on your name but did not find any peer-reviewed… Read more »
The Return of the Nativist?
Donna Laframboise, a Canadian journalist, is very good on the IPCC which she tears to pieces in her book The Delinquent Teenager.
I was just looking for an example from her blog and found one about bono:
https://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2010/09/22/can-we-recycle-bono/
https://spectator.org/leftism-an-incurable-disease/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=176a4f414e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-176a4f414e-104365713
Ref. Article of Jude Duffy that was copied & pasted as post of Truthist June 6, 2017 at 2:18 pm . HEADING ; Ireland Was Always Ruled by Freemasonry . …………………………………………………………….. . . That article* I supplied above from Jude Duffy is very relevant to : ………………………………………………………. . Adam Byrne . . 1. President Michael D. Higgins as Fairy up in the Aras . 2. Most recent Taoiseach Mr Enda / Edna [ He so uninspiring that I still not sure which it is ] Kenny having rumor about him being Tranny . inter alia ……………………………………………………….. . Coldblow . .… Read more »
New comment in Henry Makow’s website about Jude Duffy’s article . . ………………………………………………………….. . John said (June 6, 2017): . . Once more, truth to tell as always, you have knocked the nail on the head. . I was young catholic monk in early 70’s in Dublin and Belfast and am aware of (the truth) of most things related in article. . I know that the Workers Party are unreconstructured gangsters, thugs, out and out cultural marxists—just as Sinn Fein has become the respectable equally culturally marxist low lifes. . I used to vote for them in Ireland—no longer! When… Read more »
@ Grzegorz . . BEST TO ALWAYS BE ATTENTIVE TO HENRY MAKOW’s TWEETS THEY ARE MOST RELEVANT + STIMULATING & OCCASIONALLY WITTY HOWEVER, I DO NOT AGREE WITH EVERY COMMENT OR LINK TWEETED. . DMW’s TWEETS ARE IN THE MAIN VERY BORING. BUT, SOME OF DMW’s TWEETS ARE MOST REVEALING ABOUT DMW ; AND, THUS, THE WAY THAT THIS COUNTRY IS HEADING 8-) . HOWEVER, DMW’s ARTICLES ARE IN THE MAIN NOT BORING. DMW IS A VERY TALENTED WRITER. IF HE UNDERSTOOD — ARGUABLY “HE DOES BUT IS BOUGHT + PAID FOR BY U KNOW WHO” — THE BANKSTER SCAM… Read more »
@ GRZEGORZ, . . Please : . delegate reading & interpretation of this PDF to reliable Pole I suggest . read it only when u have time . report to us here only with utmost brevity at ur leisurely convenience Afterall, “A man cannot serve 2 masters” ; Unless one is a bottom ; Is Varadakar a Bottom or a Top ? Paddy Power taking any bets on that ? Better chances of getting windfall from bet on that matter than investing in Crypto Currencies perhaps ? . If u strolling when dark near the Aras, please be careful of… Read more »
AND U ALL THINK THAT U HAVE PROBLEMS ?
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INSTEAD, BE THANKFUL FOR SMALL MERCIES !
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Here, have a look at this crazy mixed-up kid ;
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Cultural Marxism Personified –
“I am a Queer, Gender Fluid, Disabled Sex Worker”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBUIqbdJgn8
Macron-watch. This is amusing. Like Eamon Gilmore, Macron has actions for “public posture” and then other behaviour. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-06/putin-trump-and-my-guy-macron Macron is the French Tony Blair, according to Le Monde. [ Le Monde is centre right, so this is some admission.] I think this should be noted. In the interim, he is trying a PR offensive. We need to be wary of the ultimate end of this. We can expect a left right struggle within France. That is the internal business of the French. And we can expect Macron to behave like Sarkozy, throwing his weight around, alienating others, bullying the weak,… Read more »
The Torygraph are firing everything at Corbyn.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/06/exclusive-special-branch-monitored-jeremy-corbyn-20-years-amid/
However, I think that there are extreme reasons to be very wary of Corbyn.
Beyond his inability to see the immorality inherent in SF/IRA, there is the fact that his economics is nonsense.
He would create serious problems, via mismanagement, of the economy for Ireland.
MURDER OF INNOCENT PERSON[S] IT IS ;
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SHAMEFUL FROM THE IRISH CHAMPAGNE SOCIALIST TALENTED WRITER & THE NON-USA FIRSTER CHAMPAGNE SOCIALIST.
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HEY, BERNIE, HOW ABOUT THE 60 MILLION RUSSIANS GENOCIDED BY THE FOLKS WHO HELD THE RUSSIAN PEOPLES CAPTIVE DURING SOVIET SOCIALIST REIGN OF TERROR ?
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AND, WHO EXACTLY GENOCIDED BY STARVATION 14 MILLION UKRAINIANS ?
AND, THERE ABSOLUTELY NO FAMINE.
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AND, BERNIE, WHO STARVED TO DEATH 11 MILLION IRANIANS DURING “THE CITY’s” OCCUPATION ?
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https://twitter.com/davidmcw/status/871641204664004609
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IT’S A BUMMER WEEK FOR SURE
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Bail-in just happened in Spain
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And, in this relationship, the Securities Holders are the bum-boys.
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-07/spains-banco-popular-bailed-acquired-santander-%E2%82%AC100
Something to invest in. A Community food project as an extension of the blossoming use of urban farms. BUT it has to be protected from regularization by local and state government.
http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/7-years-of-work-on-food-forest-destroyed-over-permit/
A single person out of a score did not get a permit and so bureaucracy destroyed it all.
Hiya folks! Or howya! Whatevs. Sharon here, Andy’s ‘Secretary’. I think this is an ‘official statement’ from Andy Mooney but there’s still lots of interdimensional interference from Zozo so it may be that daemon causing mayhem again. Not sure when sanity will prevail but we’re all working hard to bring you The Andy Mooney Experience as soon as possible. Keep the faith! Laterz…Shazza “We are umbilically tied to the US.” David McWillaims. Incorrect. You/we are tied umbilically to the EU via the gordian knot of the Euro. Ireland’s traumatic birth as a modern nation continues to fascinate & appall in… Read more »
Clean testimony.
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=25471?omhide=true
Ref. Tony Brogan June 7, 2017 at 7:54 pm . I will not be shoehorned in to a position by others. You should have no expectations of me other than what I deliver from and through my own observations. . I will say, I know nothing of Freemasons except for the references in some novels and other commentary. . ………………………………………………………….. . Well, Tony for a man who often seeks to SHOEHORN David McWilliams in to discuss, & then take his position, about Private Central Banking & Fractional Reserve Banking & as alternative to both it to be Sound Money or… Read more »
. . This man features regularly as : . . references in some novels . references in … other commentary : print, radio, TV, film, & internet : fictional & fact & factional . participant in some interviews & discussions : radio, TV, & internet . . AND, YET, THERE ARE THOSE WHO NEVER COMMUNICATED WITH HIM WHO ASSERT THAT THEY “KNOW” HIM ; INDEED, OF THESE OBSERVERS THERE ARE THOSE WHO EVEN ASSERT THAT THEY “KNOW” ; . . “Putin is first and foremost—-RUSSIAN.” . . AS VERY RECENTLY “SHOE-HORNED” AT HEEL OF THREAD OF DISCUSSION BY ANOTHER POSTER… Read more »
“Various alternatives have been proposed: 100% Reserves, Narrow Banking, Limited Purpose Banking and Sovereign Money. Of these proposals, only Sovereign Money transfers the power to create money to the state and effectively separates the creation power from the allocation power, and provides a transition to debt free money. The Sovereign Money System is described in detail in Chapter 7.” “New money, created by the Central Bank, will be transferred to the government and put into circulation in the economy via increased government spending, by reduction in taxes, by repaying public debt or by paying a citizen dividend. The Central Bank… Read more »
. THE CIVIL SERPENTS HAVE F..KED EVE & ARE EATING THE APPLES … AGAIN. . . AND, THE CHAMPAGNE SOCIALISTS DIFFER IN OPINION. . Bernie Sanders would be delighted. David would be concerned. . Guess levity or sadness for one depends on whether or not one’s own millions in turnover will be contributing to the slithery & rude masters in disguise “eat + have” stroke pulled on the public once again. . . HEADING . Thursday 8 June 2017 . ‘Nobody is doing high-fives’ – trade union plays down deal as public servants set for pay boost of up to… Read more »
Britain First get aired in Poland. ———————————————————————— We are pleased to say that our first official overseas trip to Poland was a great success. Britain First made the national news on all Polish TV channels and we forged solid friendships and alliances with patriot groups in the country. image Deputy leader Jayda Fransen gave a speech in the centre of Warsaw, the Polish capital, in front of a big crowd of Polish patriots and her speech was replayed on national TV. Over the next few months, Britain First will be visiting many countries across the West to cement new partnerships… Read more »
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“Today there have been terrorist attacks in the Iranian parliament and at least seven people have been killed.”
UK Election results. It looks like Conservatives + DUP. Theresa May is in a tight corner. Her BREXIT negotiation aspect has tightened. This is also a problem for Ireland, because the Irish political have behaved like donkeys in the last 12 months. This is payback time. The Irish pro-EU establishment has engaged in all sorts of posturing concerning the future of the North, and has done everything possible to annoy the Unionists. Which will result in continued subvention of NI (despite the cost) and probably a harder Brexit than if the Tories had one on their own. The BREMAIN parties… Read more »
Guy Verhofstadt, the European parliament’s Brexit representative, described the result as “yet another own goal – after Cameron now May”, adding: “I thought surrealism was a Belgian invention.”
“No-one likes us, we don’t care.” I am surprised this story (my brother told me about it) has received so little attention. When the three Islamic knife-men reached the Black and Blue pub in Borough at the end of their rampage across London Bridge and smashed the door in 47-year-old (it’s a difficult age) Roy Larner, who had only had four pints, confronted one of them – “F*** you. I’m Millwall” – and then the other two joined in, wounding him eight times. “This happened in about 20 seconds. As I got them out of the Black and Blue the… Read more »
“”Part and parcel of American hegemony has always been trade and capital flows. Over the years this has culminated in Ireland doing $90bn (€80bn) of trade with the US every year. This is a phenomenal figure, particularly when you place it on top of the close to $400bn (€354bn) in US foreign investment here.”” The US has traded around the world with a major deficit occurring for a period of time that is extraordinary. ————————————————– United States Balance of Trade 1950-2017 | Data | Chart | Calendar The goods and services deficit in the United States widened to USD 47.6… Read more »
Oh – My – God! The Polish monthly I am writing for and its clubs (now active in many countries all over the world – including Taiwan and Australia, but in lion’s share in the UK, US, and – of course – Poland) have its annual convention in Warsaw in July, and we – as a rhetorical question, of course – asked President Donald Trump why not drop in to Warsaw that day (after all, he won in Michigan and Wisconsin thanks to our votes).
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To our shock
He tentatively accepted the invitation!
In some countries anti-Masonry is often related to antisemitism and anti-Zionism. For example, In 1980, the Iraqi legal and penal code was changed by Saddam Hussein’s ruling Ba’ath Party, making it a felony to “promote or acclaim Zionist principles, including Freemasonry, or who associate [themselves] with Zionist organisations”.
http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/2017/06/michael-savage-newsletter-heres-why-america-hates-politicians/