Time to boycott Israeli goods, just like we did with South Africa during Apartheid

If you are horrified by the actions of that oppressive regime in Israel then you can make a difference and you can voice your displeasure at the atrocities being carried against the Palestinians. In the 1980s, people of good conscience boycotted all goods from South Africa because of Apartheid. Twelve Dunnes workers stood up and said enough. They refused to have anything to do with produce from South Africa that they took to the streets and went on strike for two and a half years. What is happening today is no different. Israel commits atrocities yet they still sell their products here.

Three key features characterise Israeli apartheid:

* Four million Palestinians in the Occupied Territories lack the right to vote for the government that controls their lives through a military occupation. In addition to controlling the borders, air space, water, tax revenues, and other vital matters pertaining to the Occupied Territories, Israel alone issues the identity cards that determine the ability of Palestinians to work and their freedom of movement.

* About 1.2 million Palestinian Israelis, who make up 20 percent, or one-fifth, of Israel’s population, have second-class citizenship within Israel, which defines itself as a Jewish state rather than a state for all its citizens. More than 20 provisions of Israel’s principal laws discriminate, either directly or indirectly, against non-Jews, according to Adalah: The Legal Center for Minority Rights in Israel.

* Millions of Palestinians remain refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and elsewhere, unable to return to their former homes and land in present-day Israel, even though the right of return for refugees is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

We thought it was wrong then and it's wrong now. Israel is carrying out apartheid on Palestinian land, oppressing and terrorising the Palestinian people on a vast scale and it must be stopped.

If you wish to make a stand, a real stand, not like the numpties in the Dáil who say and do nothing, then hit them hardest....

with your wallet....

More Dirty Deeds About To Be Forgotten? Only If We Let Them.

Its now a week since the first of the Anglo tapes were released, to the horror and disgust of the nation. Sadly, one week on more tapes were released and today's tapes were ignored by the so called "state broadcaster" RTE. Today's tape was as worrying as the others as it contains the Anglo banker gangsters saying they were acting in the same manner as AIB. AIB has cost us a little less than Anglo, and was the bank with the fifty biggest loss IN THE WORLD. Why are RTE ignoring this? Are they doing their best to protect AIB?

The more worrying undercurrent in this whole sorry saga is just why no action has been taken against any of these criminal bankers. Our minister for justice somehow heard about a TD driving while using a mobile phone, yet he says he heard nothing about these tapes that the Gardai have had for over 4 years. The excuse he gave on radio was last week was that he was given the information on Wallace during a briefing from the garda commissioner on the penalty points fiasco (remember that? Official Ireland was wiping penalty points from the licenses of connected people). Its very interesting that the same commissioner never gave his minister for justice and update on the banking investigation. This proves that minister Shatter never asked to be updated on the progress of the banking investigation, and this proves his boss Enda Kenny is not bothered about it either. The government did not give a shit about justice before these tapes were released.

FF,FG and Labour are doing their level best to make sure there is an inquiry held in the Dail in relation to all of this. An inquiry in the Dail will almost certainly mean that there will be no prosecutions over what happened. Why do FF,FG and Labour want this? Its pretty clear that the conspiracy to defraud Ireland goes far and wide, and if the truth was to ever come out, every single connected elite in the country would be finished. These elites are the supporters and friends of FF,FG and Labour. All the senior civil servants, the businessmen, the bankers and the union leaders will all lose out if the truth was ever to become public. For these reasons we will never find out the truth unless we stand up to these bastards.

This Wednesday, at 6pm outside the Dail there will be a "Jail the bankers" protest. If you have any care for your country, yourself, your children and your children's future then it is your duty to attend this protest. If we let the bastards off the hook with this, then they will rob us again, again and again. The people of Brazil have stood up, the people of Egypt have stood up. Now its time for the people of Ireland to stand up.

€843,000 for Richie Boucher at Bank of Ireland. End this madness by supporting a bankrun.

Michael OLeary runs Europes biggest airline, Ryanair. Last year Ryanair made a profit of about €500 million. OLeary gets a salary of €768,000. Richie Boucher runs a tiny European bank, Bank of Ireland, last year it made a loss of €2 billion, yet Boucher gets a salary of €843,000.

Given the damage Bank of Ireland have done to our country, its little surprise the level of public outrage over this salary. However, we have been here before. Media and public outrage typically lasts for 24-48 hours, the fuss dies down and nothing changes. We wait for the Bank of Ireland AGM next year and the same process is repeated. Over and over again, nothing changes.

Its now clear that its time for us as citizens to stand up and force change. We can do this by moving money out of Bank of Ireland. This will hit them where it hurts, and they will change how the act when we take action. We will do this on 15th of May.

This is a simple process and we can use the Central Bank guidelines against Bank of Ireland. There are 4 steps to move your account.

1. Pick a new bank - Go there and get a "switching form"
2. Pick a switching date (15th May)
3. Complete the switching form
4. Switch

All of your direct debits will be automatically moved. 

Some people will tell you moving to a new bank in pointless as they are all the same. Yes, they are all the same, but we can keep moving from bank to bank to force them to change. 

There is more information on the National Consumer Agency website.

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Censorship at RTE

Once more RTE is doing its very best to protect the elite of the EU and Ireland that are destroying our society. Today, the fascist EU elite were having a meeting in Dublin, a massive anti austerity protest was organised outside this meeting. There was not one mention of this protest on RTE. The following complaint to RTE was posted to us, we suggest that everybody sends a similar complaint to complaints@rte.ie

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am incensed at RTE's failure to cover the protest march taking place presently in Dublin. I cannot believe that RTE have the audacity to collect licence fees from the public, while operating as what can only be describes as an arm of the government and establishment. You have no journalistic integrity whatsoever.

In the recent Meath East by-election, you excluded DDI candidate Ben Gilroy from televised debate. this was despite his obvious popularity with voters, as evidenced by numerous opinion polls in the run up to the by-election.

The salaries of the "talent" working for RTE are truly disgusting. The people of this country are suffering greatly and it is beyond belief that RTE continues to pay, out of the licence fee extorted from the populace, grossly excessive salaries to these banal, B-grade, servile maggots.

I do not expect that my complaint will make the slightest bit of difference to RTE's operating policy, but I wanted to air my grievances. I would also like to add that I am looking forward, with great relish, to the day that RTE finally runs itself into the ground. The only honest service that you provide the people is the weather forecast.

Yours etc.,

A list of TD's that voted for the latest robbery on the people of Ireland

James Bannon (FG)
Pat Breen (FG)
Richard Bruton (FG)
Joan Burton (Lab)
Ray Butler (FG)
Jerry Buttimer (FG)
Catherine Byrne (FG)
Eric Byrne (Lab)
Joe Carey (FG)
Paudie Coffey (FG)
Niall Collins (FF)
Áine Collins (FG)
Michael Conaghan (Lab)
Seán Conlan (FG)
Paul J. Connaughton (FG)
Ciara Conway (Lab)
Noel Coonan (FG)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (FG)
Joe Costello (Lab)
Simon Coveney (FG)
Barry Cowen (FF)
Michael Creed (FG)
Jim Daly (FG)
John Deasy (FG)
Pat Deering (FG)
Regina Doherty (FG)
Paschal Donohoe (FG)
Timmy Dooley (FF)
Robert Dowds (Lab)
Andrew Doyle (FG)
Bernard J. Durkan (FG)
Damien English (FG)
Alan Farrell (FG)
Frank Feighan (FG)
Anne Ferris (Lab)
Frances Fitzgerald (FG)
Peter Fitzpatrick (FG)
Charles Flanagan (FG)
Terence Flanagan (FG)
Sean Fleming (FF)
Eamon Gilmore (Lab)
Brendan Griffin (FG)
Dominic Hannigan (Lab)
Noel Harrington (FG)
Simon Harris (FG)
Brian Hayes (FG)
Tom Hayes (FG)
Martin Heydon (FG)
Phil Hogan (FG)
Brendan Howlin (Lab)
Heather Humphreys (FG)
Kevin Humphreys (Lab)
Derek Keating (FG)
Paul Kehoe (FG)
Billy Kelleher (FF)
Alan Kelly (Lab)
Enda Kenny (FG)
Seán Kenny (Lab)
Seamus Kirk (FF)
Seán Kyne (FG)
Anthony Lawlor (FG)
Kathleen Lynch (Lab)
Ciarán Lynch (Lab)
John Lyons (Lab)
Eamonn Maloney (Lab)
Micheál Martin (FF)
Michael McCarthy (Lab)
Charlie McConalogue (FF)
Dinny McGinley (FG)
Michael McGrath (FF)
John McGuinness (FF)
Joe McHugh (FG)
Tony McLoughlin (FG)
Michael McNamara (Lab)
Olivia Mitchell (FG)
Mary Mitchell O’Connor (FG)
Michael Moynihan (FF)
Michelle Mulherin (FG)
Dara Murphy (FG)
Eoghan Murphy (FG)
Gerald Nash (Lab)
Dan Neville (FG)
Derek Nolan (Lab)
Michael Noonan (FG)
Éamon Ó Cuív (FF)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl (FF)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Lab)
Kieran O’Donnell (FG)
Patrick O’Donovan (FG)
Fergus O’Dowd (FG)
John O’Mahony (FG)
Joe O’Reilly (FG)
Jan O’Sullivan (Lab)
John Perry (FG)
Ann Phelan (Lab)
John Paul Phelan (FG)
Ruairí Quinn (Lab)
Pat Rabbitte (Lab)
James Reilly (FG)
Michael Ring (FG)
Brendan Ryan (Lab)
Alan Shatter (FG)
Brendan Smith (FF)
Arthur Spring (Lab)
Emmet Stagg (Lab)
David Stanton (FG)
Billy Timmins (FG)
Robert Troy (FF)
Joanna Tuffy (Lab)
Liam Twomey (FG)
Leo Varadkar (FG)
Jack Wall (Lab)
Brian Walsh (FG)
Alex White (Lab)

The list of TD's that voted to cut carers allowance and other social welfare cuts.

On 13th December 2012, the following TD's voted to cut the respite carers allowance. If you TD is on this list make sure you let them know your feelings towards them.

       Bannon, James.          
       Barry, Tom.          
       Breen, Pat.          
       Burton, Joan.          
       Butler, Ray.          
       Buttimer, Jerry.          
       Byrne, Eric.          
       Byrne, Catherine.          
       Carey, Joe.          
       Coffey, Paudie.          
       Conaghan, Michael.          
       Conlan, Seán.          
       Connaughton, Paul J.         
       Conway, Ciara.          
       Coonan, Noel.          
       Corcoran Kennedy, Marcella.          
       Costello, Joe.          
       Coveney, Simon.          
       Creed, Michael.          
       Daly, Jim.          
       Deasy, John.          
       Deenihan, Jimmy.          
       Deering, Pat.          
       Doherty, Regina.          
       Donohoe, Paschal.          
       Dowds, Robert.          
       Doyle, Andrew.          
       Durkan, Bernard J.         
       English, Damien.          
       Farrell, Alan.          
       Feighan, Frank.          
       Fitzpatrick, Peter.          
       Flanagan, Charles.          
       Gilmore, Eamon.          
       Hannigan, Dominic.          
       Harrington, Noel.          
       Harris, Simon.          
       Hayes, Tom.          
       Heydon, Martin.          
       Hogan, Phil.          
       Humphreys, Kevin.          
       Humphreys, Heather.         
       Keating, Derek.          
       Kehoe, Paul.         
       Kelly, Alan.          
       Kenny, Seán.          
       Kyne, Seán.          
       Lawlor, Anthony.          
       Lynch, Ciarán.         
       Lynch, Kathleen.          
       Lyons, John.          
       Maloney, Eamonn.          
       Mathews, Peter.          
       McCarthy, Michael.         
       McEntee, Shane.          
       McGinley, Dinny.     
       McHugh, Joe.     
       McLoughlin, Tony.     
       McNamara, Michael.     
       Mitchell, Olivia.     
       Mitchell O'Connor, Mary.     
       Mulherin, Michelle.     
       Murphy, Dara.     
       Murphy, Eoghan.     
       Nash, Gerald.     
       Neville, Dan.     
       Nolan, Derek.     
       O'Donnell, Kieran.     
       O'Donovan, Patrick.     
       O'Mahony, John.     
       O'Reilly, Joe.     
       Ó Ríordáin, Aodhán.     
       Perry, John.     
       Phelan, John Paul.     
       Phelan, Ann.     
       Quinn, Ruairí.     
       Rabbitte, Pat.     
       Reilly, James.     
       Ring, Michael.     
       Ryan, Brendan.     
       Sherlock, Sean.     
       Spring, Arthur.     
       Stagg, Emmet.     
       Stanton, David.     
       Timmins, Billy.     
       Tuffy, Joanna.     
       Twomey, Liam.     
       Wall, Jack.     
       Walsh, Brian.     

The criminal budget from hell.

Welcome to Ireland. The bankrupt country that pays its leader a whopping €200,000 a year and thats before his unvouched expenses and salaries for his "special advisers" are considered. Ireland is a country where every member of parliament is paid a whopping €92,000 per year and thats before their generous expenses are considered. You would think this would be the first place any sane person would look for cuts in times of austerity, however, not in Ireland. Instead the cuts are directed at people caring for the disabled, the cuts are directed at children, essentially cuts are directed at the weak and voiceless.

Last year in Ireland our members of parliament cost us €31,000,000 in salaries and expenses. Its not known how much the cut to respite care will cost, however its pretty safe to assume a removal of all politician expenses and halving their salaries would go a long way to making this saving.

The budget also attacks the lowest paid. Taking €5 per week from almost everybody. A person on €200,000 per year will lose the same as somebody on €21,000 per year. Yet another act that protects the rich while penalising the poor.

All this from a government that continues to pay millions to bondholders week after week.

Its time for the people of Ireland to wake up and begin the fightback against the criminal cabal stealing from the citizens of the country.