An eloquent portrayal of the lines of battle.

Here's a description of the enemy. Now go out and fight.

This is where the hope of humanity lies.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SKw2j3XOY0

All Kinds of Everything in the Irish Presidential Farce

Talk about all kinds of everything - if a playwright was to present such a spectrum of clowns, the audience would revolt at what seemed like easy caricature.

The smug disabled business shark turned reality TV sham
the cutesy singer turned spooky bean an teahadi,
the creepy fascist turned creeping Jesus,
the snake-eyed terrorist turned statesman,
the 'special needs wears prada' PR shrew turned stateswoman,
the poet/activist politician turned leprechaun,
the gay activist, scholar politician turned shrieking bon-viveur.

A true farce whose only redeeming factor is the somewhat accentuated mirror image of the absurdity of the island formerly known as Ireland.



God help us.

Democracy is the real existential threat to the Jewish State that is Israel.

The theocratic nature of Israel has for too long been concealed behind the empty slogan “the Middle East’s only democracy.”
The idea of a Jewish state is tolerated and defended by the same 'progressives' who shiver at the mention of an Islamic one.
And while the US railed against the brute nature of the Taliban's Islamic state it rallies in defence of the anti-democratic idea of a Jewish one.


Worldwide indignation was aroused by the insult
to modernity that was the Taliban's use of the chador.
Yet somehow the world is supposed to find acceptable
Israel's use of that appalling medieval phenomenon: the siege.
Afghani woman were 'imprisoned' inside the chador. A whole Palestinian people is imprisoned inside Gaza.


Like all religious states, Israel’s true anti-cosmopolitan nature has
rarely been debated. Ironically, it's the secular, democratic desires
of the Arab Spring’s protests that have thrown an
unforgiving spotlight on both the Jewish State’s backwardness and its fears
of change to the region's retrogressive status quo.

‘New historian’ Israeli Benny Morris believes that an
ethnically-cleansed religious state was Israel’s aim from the very
outset. When global awareness started to render unacceptable the
policy of ‘transfer,' a more subtle, but equally evil, policy of
'politicide' was adopted. Politicide is an attack on any of the
constructs that define people as a nation. Its aim is to deprive
people of hope and to encourage emigration through despair.

The leak of the Palestine Papers – diplomatic correspondence about
Arab-Israeli peace talks 1999-2010 - further undermined Israel's
pretence at being the rational peace-seeker faced with a
delinquent, intransigent partner. Predictably, the bulk of the media
supported this pretence. Most coverage told us how a corrupt
Palestinian Authority was prepared to sell its people's aspirations
short while the leaders lusted for the perks of power. But what the
leaked papers really revealed was the flip side of this tale of treachery and greed. And that was the fact that the
Palestinians were prepared to bend over backwards for a peace deal.
Yet still they got nothing. And the world was spun the
fallacious rehash of the Palestinians "never missing an opportunity to
miss an opportunity".

Neither the democratic challenge of the Arab Spring nor the truths
revealed by the Palestine Papers has curbed Israel's backward
ambitions. Instead the world witnessed Benjamin Netanyahu getting 29
Congressional standing ovations whilst bluntly rejecting Obama's call
for a ‘‘67’ based peace deal - a plan which Israel's continuing policy
of creating facts on the ground has rendered nearly redundant.

Like a true zealot, Netanyahu treated us to a paean to old-fashioned
greed and territorial expansionism which if uttered by an Ayatollah
would have made many a young Iranian blush.
But Netanyahu, can't even hear the supposed 'sense' of the Israeli
left as they currently proclaim that a ‘67 based plan is the best deal
modernity will offer to that ultimately offensive and outdated
concept: the religious state.

A democratic deficit, to put it mildly, is
the hallmark of all of Israel's Arab neighbours. But, despite
oppression, it's the citizens of those countries who are out on the
streets bravely demanding that they be granted
the decency of a modern democracy.
The Arabs leaders may now quake at their people's demands.
But they are not alone in their fear of democracy.

"More and more Palestinians are uninterested in a negotiated,
two-state solution, because they want to change the essence of the
conflict from an Algerian paradigm to a South African one. From a
struggle against 'occupation,' in their parlance, to a struggle for
one-man-one-vote. That is, of course, a much cleaner struggle, a much
more popular struggle - and ultimately a much more powerful one. For
us, it would mean the end of the Jewish state."

That is the former vice prime minister in Ariel Sharon's government,
Ehud Olmert, talking to the Israeli paper Haaretz in 2003.
Olmert was recommending Israel impose a unilateral solution to
safeguard the Jewish state and protect its religious status from the
fatal threat of one-man one-vote. Olmert shows us that Israel, safeguarded by nuclear weaponry,
sees its real existential threat not in Arab Armalites but in the ballot box.

Olmert told Haaretz that his "formula for the parameters of a
unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize
the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not
to divide Jerusalem" .

The newspaper noted that Olmert's language was that of “long ago”
adding that the former vice prime- minister hankered "unabashedly for
those more hopeful times." It seems those more “hopeful times” were
back when the ethnic cleansing implicit in 'minimising' Palestinians
was a more acceptable pursuit.

Olmert's language does indeed hark back to "long ago”.
Because in the 21st century, when it comes down to a choice of
religion over democracy, the answer must be quite simple.
And when religion involves the complete abnegation of democracy, the
question ceases even to be legitimate

Kevin Barrington

Libertas Funding - Wikileaks shows how the international man of mystery's finances were baffling even the US embassy in Dublin

THE American government appeared to be unaware of the source of funding for Declan Ganley's Libertas movement -- despite widespread speculation it was being secretly backed by the US.
A confidential US embassy cable indicates American diplomats were as curious as Libertas' political opponents to know the source of the party's funding.



http://www.independent.ie/national-news/wikileaks/america-was-unaware-of-the-source-of-libertas-funding-2662665.html

REMEMBER: LIBERTAS BACKER ULICK MCEVADDY THINKS ANGLO IRISH ARE HEROES

It seems Declan Ganley is trying to exploit the ongoing national tragedy in his typical snake oil salesman manner.
Ganley is trying to peddle a "I told you so line."

Well Declan your party did tell us.

Tell us what?

That the bankers were real heroes.

And any particular bankers?

Yes.

Sorry we can't hear you.

Louder please!

"Anglo Irish".

Yes indeed. The very words of fellow multi million military contractor and Libertas backer, Ulick McEvaddy.

As Barricade reported at the time

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0220/breaking43.htmlhttp://interfacematters.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/ulick-mcevaddy-anglo-investors-were-heroeshaha-good-one-ulick/

So would any journo worth the name present this little nugget to Mr Ganley the next time he tries to spin some deceptive yarn.

LIBERTAS AND ITS TOXIC IDEOLOGY FINALLY FLUSHED DOWN THE TOILET

The country may be going down the tubes but thankfully the foul phenomenon that was Libertas has been despatched to its rightful home: the sewer.
That's it for the lying snake oil salesman and his odious devotees, sewer-rats all.
So where have all the men-cubs gone?
We'll start with the most odious.
The factless factotum that is Alan Kennedy aka Cookiemonster - his web name and the one he uses to continue to waste his life serving a master that has long since jettisoned Kennedy.
Poor Cookie. Perhaps someone told him to go back to the books.
Or perhaps blindly following the entrepreneurial ideas of the besuited bogman, who waxed lyrical in true plastic paddy mode about turning a shilling cutting turf, Alan. doing his usual job of trying to impress his boss, becomes a turf accountant! Yo Cookie on the ball!
As Libertas watcher/slayer Peoplekorps tells us Alan's jack-booted dreams of promulgating the Big Lie have fallen at the first hurdle.
And to think the Kennedy, who railed against wasted welfare taxes and other state expenditure, did not baulk at wasting the tax-payers money when, at his master's behest, he presented faux citizen joe complaints to the Broadcasting Standards Commission.
The complaints? "Bias" in the RTE Prime Time Ganley Special.
RTE showed us Ganley was a dodgy liar.
But Alan, used to journalistic disgraces like Bruce Arnold and his print fellatio, obviously found the truth hard to swallow.

On the subject of swallowing, enter the equally odious rancid right-winger Robert Cassidy Cassidy would sell his own sexuality down the swanee for the chance to lap up the bread-crumbs falling from narcissist Catholic Fundamentalist arms dealers' tables. That's how desperate Robert/Bobert was. So see how he now is equally desperately trying to spin himself out of the career grave of his own creation.


The bold John McGuirk hit a career high note calling Libertas' own representative of the Wahhabi wing of the Catholic, Caroline Simmons, "a psychotic bitch."
There's some hope for McGuirk, who has just a little too much Machiavelli in his blood to be the true Libertas snake in the grass as epitomised by Kennedy and Cassidy above.
While not the sign of a good publicist, which may explain his employment issues, McGuirk shows some signs of actual intelligence. Because when it comes to Caroline and Christianity, it's a case of Jesus wept.

Next we have David Cochrane who loyally tried to keep his finger in the dyke until the dam-burst of truth made poor David question where his ambition was best served.
Here's David blogging about looking for a job (Oops where has David's blog gone since we first reported 13/9/10)

See a pattern here. Jobs for the boys. The better boys. The boys who deserved. The boys who would trample on anyone - what a crew of maladjusted malcontents.
Imagine Icarus with such a toxic attitiude that he believed only a select few had a right to the sun shine.
Now you get the picture.
When the sun didn't melt their wax, a flame-thrower was necessary. Never has Ireland seen such privileged little gents flashing Swastikas in their eyes.

Declan and his boys were a little cabal, mercenaries, malcontents and misfits, like a bastard offspring of Anglo Irish.

Then there was the man himself. Declan Ganley. A man who claims The Village magazine called him a 'mass murderer' in a high court writ! An overactive imagination?
He was right, however, about being called "a corrupt liar."
So what does he do?
He walks away from his own law suit. Then fails to carry out the very settlement he grasped as a fig leaf to cover his fear of a court appearance

SO SAYONARA LIBERTAS.
There are plenty of others in Irish politics as objectionable as you. But few so dumb.
Thank God for arrogance, it makes hastening a downfall so easy.

AND HERE'S THE GOOD NEWS IN PRINT:

Ganley's Libertas company dissolved

The Libertas Party Ltd, the company established by the anti-Lisbon Treaty campaigner Declan Ganley as part of his attempt to create a pan-European political party, has been dissolved.The company was incorporated in November 2008 and has not filed any accounts. In June, Mr Ganley wrote to the Companies Registration Office seeking to have the company struck off. The Libertas Foundation Ltd, also established by Mr Ganley in 2008, has similarly been dissolved.



SO SAYONARA LIBERTAS.

There are plenty of others in Irish politics as objectionable as you. But few so dumb.
Thank God for arrogance, it makes hastening a downfall so easy.
And thankfully now, as the stoned reggae singer  might say, the only solution is dissolution.

POLITICIDE - IT'S PEACE NOT TERROR THAT REALLY TERRIFIES ISRAEL

By Kevin Barrington

Polish Jew Raphael Lemkin lost his family to the unspeakable and unprecedented horror of the Nazi's Final Solution. The fate that befell Europe's Jews led Lemkin to singlemindedly devote his life to finding a term to describe and, in doing so, assist him criminalise Hitler’s acts.
Lemkin rightly argued that the terms of the day, 'barbarity" and "vandalism, fell tragically short of describing “the assault on all aspects of nationhood; physical, biological, political, social, cultural economic and religious.”
Given the backdrop to this relatively new word, it is not surprising that genocide analogies to Israel's policy towards the Palestinians generate instant uproar. The uproar, however, rarely goes beyond outrage at the mistaken use of the word. Therefore there is little Lemkin-like analyses of what the Israeli’s Palestinian policy should be called.
Although rarely seen or heard in the mainstream media, the policy has been linguistically pinned down, though, needless to say, it has yet to be criminalized. Writing in the New Left Review Israeli Political Scientist Baruch Kimmerling coined the term “politicide.”
Politicide was “a process aimed at destroying a certain people's prospects - indeed their very will -for legitimate self-determination and sovereignty over land they consider their homeland," Kimmerling

The eminent Palestinian Professor Sari Nusseibeh argues that “peace talks” and the conditions and preconditions thereof are a mere pretence. Because if there is one thing that Israel fears more than terror, it’s the prospect of peace with the Palestinians. Nusseibeh- allowing for the looseness of human analogy - is like a cross between John Hume and Field Day era Seamus Deane – has been called the “most dangerous Palestinian of them all.”
And the usual “wolf in sheep’s clothing.” Ironic for a man that has as much to fear from Hamas and other Palestinain militants because of his opposition to suicide bombers and violence in general Leftist Knesset Yossi Sarid has spoken with exasberation about the Israeli government’s constant complaint about no credibille peace partners. Yet when there are such figures they “do their utmost to insult them, to weaken them.”
Authors of the Israel Lobby john J Mearsheimer qnd Stephen M.Walt make the same point
“Olmert like his predecessor Sharon has no interest in negotiating a peace settlement with the Palestinians…Israel would prefer occupation to peace if the latter means giving 95% or so of the West Bank to the Paestinians,” they write.
They too argue that that the Israeli government does all they it can to undermine moderates.
“In order to achieve its goals, Israel has decided to avoid any peace negotiations,” wrote that well-known radical Jimmy Carter in his recent book “Palestine. Peace Not Apartheid.”
And the goals-politicide.
Israel wanted the best parts of the West Bank, the best land, the water etc leaving “Palestinians destitute within a small and fragmented remnant of their own land.,” he wrote.
Politicide, Nusseibeh comments is the only explanation, for the actions of the Israeli Defence Forces during one of their now routine assaults on Palestinian areas.ltu
IDF troops ransacked the Palestinian Authority's Bureau of Statitistics and the Ministry of Education - attacks that can only be seen as an assault on a people's identity. In a further display of such cultural vandalism, Nusseibeh points to an IDF raid on Al Quds Centre For Media Studies where the TV broadcast of  cartoons was interrupted to show pornography. The broadcasting facilities were then destroyed.

Like Israel’s initial support for Hamas to undermine Fatah, the government’s policy only strengthens those Palestinian factions that claim violence is the only effective tactic. But this is the way Israel wants it. If Hamas ceased firing rockets into Israel, the government would need to find a faction to continue the fusillade.

In order to successfully pursue its policy of politicide, Israel has to make sure there is no-one credible to talk to. So when Hamas started to slightly moderate its tone, despite being the government of the biggest prison in the world, Israel invades, pursues a policy of collective punishment and contimues laying the groundwork for another nihilistic generaton jihad.


Politicide, however, comes at a price. As Richard Ben Cramer writes In his Pulitzer prize winning “How Israel Lost”, Israel used to be “a nice little country with a problem” but now the problem has consumed the country. Everyone’s heart Is either heated or hardened. The stories emerging from the IDF about the gross human rights abuses in Gaza testify to the brutalization of Israel.
Israel can keep the land but lose its soul, Cramar writes, adding that even in the States the Leon Uris image is long gone. And no matter how hard the lobby tries, there is still a reek of something rotten in the State of Israel.


Politicide is a tragedy. One that's rarely challenged by the international commun counit, bar the occasional symbolic attempts by countries like Belgium who threaten to try and detain visiting Israeli Generals.
Some argue that in a world full of human rights abuses, such attempts are mere political grandstanding
But if injustice is not a sufficient motivation to rally a response to Israel's pretence of peace-seeking, then perhaps safety might be.

Israel, and the US have granted a degree of legitimacy to the theory that western liberal democracy is a con job designed to keep uppity arabs and other irksome natives in their place. Unfortunately the angry young man or woman in the oft talked about Arab street as well as their countetrparts in the Arab libraries and universities can find too much empirical evidence to back up this tragic view.
Israel needs to be told very loud and very clear that its insidiuos policy of creating fact is endangering not just the long term prospects of Israel but is endangering anyone getting on public transport in any city in the West.
Unfortunately because of our silence we are seen as complicit. And therefore, in the minds of 'generation jihad', we are all 'legitmate' targets.