TUNE: Irish Tide Incoming - Intro

[Georg R. Baumann]

Spent the morning in my nickers with too much coffee and smokes, but very pleasant on my keyboards rolling out an idea for an intro....

Irish Tide - Incoming (Intro)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4914840/Irish%20Tide-Incoming.mp3

 

[Bob Latham]

"Irish Tide Incoming".......

Does the title refer to the twice daily encroachment of the Atlantic Ocean on the western shores of Galway or perhaps an influx of economic migrants from the Emerald Isle disembarking at NY's Pier 42.

Either way, it's an emotive piece and certainly worth your intake of caffeine and nicotine.

Bob

 

[Georg R. Baumann]

Thanks man!

Yup! You were right to think that economy was on my mind, the tragic migration of young people being forced to leave Ireland and other countries.

Then again, in fairness, as upsetting as all this is, their tragedy is a somewhat comfortable ride compared with the great Irish famine. They have a ticket to Australia, Canada etc. and know they will find work, work with a decent pay I might add, high enough to make economical and ethical sense.

Unlike the 1 euro Jobs that the flippin Germans introduced to falsify their unemployment statistics, introducing a forced slave labour market, undermining workers rights and allowing a system where you can not support yourself even when working 8 hours a day 5 days a week because your salary is so low.

The troubles that the people go through now coming from Africa in boats, hitting european shores is by no means a comfortable ride. The reactionary EU Mandarins already are prepared to change direction by making use of FRONTEX, thanks to the utterly ridiculous Lisbon treaty, FRONTEX being a red Flag on every human rights organization worth a sausage.

From the Magreb to the southern Tip of the Saudi Arabian Peninsula people start to stand up for themselves, WikiLeaks might even have been a small block in that development with the cable releases.

The inherent reasons for the uprising in Egypt and Tunisia was blatantly filtered out from the Irish News Channels, which in deed is the information gateway keeper and in that respect only marginally different from the 'dear leader's' propaganda machine. - These are FOOD RIOTS! -

The next wave of surging food prices is already on the horizon, China's march wheat production is under severe threat, but I guess, it will make a few people very happy, being able to place feckin bets on the death, starvation and suffering of entire nations. Oh well, The Deutsche Boerse (German stock market) fusioned with NYSE, how bloody convenient.

Autocrats like Mubarak were so very convenient for western governments, I am sure he will be missed.

Best
Georg

P.S. Wheat stocks fell yesterday 3.6% due to some messages concering the chinese 18 million acres of March wheat.... temporarily that is.... the overall tendency for these commodities is up, up and UP! With 95% of industrial production dependent on Oil.... Peak Oil=Peak Everything!

 

[Sandrine Bascouert]

HI georg!
While looking out for possible jobs in France, mainly for the Husband in IT, we discover that some companies advertise for some jobs payed less than 1000 euros per month for around 40hours per week, the requirement are 5 years degree, 8 to 10 years experience (mostly PHP/My SQL) some require 10 years experience for coding Iphones (something wrong?). At the same time our beloved French president (grins) is putting some guilt on the unemployed because -as he says- 500 000 positions are not covered in the French industry (bullshit, no statitics to prove that). So, the German have pupils in that matter.

I honestly prefer the "I promise you blood and tears" as we have here in GB than this hypocrisy. Thanks to the natural inability of the French to emigrate (except in UK for sure) you will not see my fellow countrymen across the pond (they don't want us anyway ). But it could have been.

PS: One of the highest ranked French minister is involved in a scandal where she's been said to have traveled at the expenses of one of the closest friends of the ex Tunisian dictator, while her parents (travelling in the same private jet, at no cost) where making business with the very same man... days before the "revolution" took place. Never trust these moral pontificators (the French politics in general, from left to right)


Anyway back to the tide: your tune was nice, not my cup of tea usually but very insightful for me.

 

[Georg R. Baumann]

As for Ireland:

Since the last week of January, Irish banks have issued €18.35bn worth of government guaranteed debt. So the reliance of Irish banks on government guaranteed debt has risen from €16billion in mid-January to about €34billion today.

They are continuing this Heist and use the cover of the current elections to do so quietly. The public is not informed of these payments.

Ireland needs a referendum asking it's citizens whether they wish to continue paying back the gambling debts of banksters in Germany, UK and France, or prefer to default.

I guarantee you, the overwhelming majority of people will call for bondholders to be BURNED!

The process as we see it unfolding in Europe is highly undemocratic and governed by a group of reactionary insiders.

 

[Bob Latham]

Ireland needs a referendum asking it's citizens whether they wish to continue paying back the gambling debts of banksters in Germany, UK and France, or prefer to default.

I suspect that the outcome would produce a "Chamberlain moment"

"I am speaking to you from the cabinet room at Leinster House. This morning the Irish Ambassador in Berlin handed the German government the final note stating that unless we heard from them, by 11 o'clock, that they were prepared, at once, to withdraw their bankers from Europe a state of embargo would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received and that consequently this country is at odds with Germany."

The process as we see it unfolding in Europe is highly undemocratic and governed by a group of reactionary insiders.

When a dog approaches a lamp post, he has to decide whether to cock his left leg or his right leg.....the end result, either way, is a wet lamp post.

Similarly, democracy is just a way of letting the populace choose whether they want to be governed by a left or right wing dictatorship.

Where's Socrates when you need him eh?

Bob

 

[Georg R. Baumann]

time better spent than flippin politics....

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[Bob Latham]

time better spent than flippin politics....

You're not wrong there Georg.....cracking stuff.

Bob

 

[Sandrine Bascouert]

You're damn right... really better!

 

[Georg R. Baumann]

It is just too painful to listen to the blatant lies that are produced in times of uncertainty. There are no politicians with vision and ethic around anymore, mediocre Technocrats at best, paid by lobbies and vested interest, besides their salaries and retirements which is paid by the very taxpayer they screw.

A gordian knot of lies and immoral policies they created, the next wave might solve that....

 

[Georg R. Baumann]

Crop:

 

[Sandrine Bascouert]

Is someone lives there? You? Ah... sorry mate....
At least you got the most beautiful view in the world.

 

[Georg R. Baumann]

It is just across the bay where I live.

I just contacted a long list of internationally known economists, some of which I correspond regularly since a year with, and suggested an alternative DAVOS to be held in Dublin. I see a lot of potential there, hopefully they pick it up in some form.

It is clear to me that the BIS (Bank of International Settlement) plays a major role in the global disaster unfolding. The Basel Initiatives are insufficient to solve problems that occured by banksters out of control.

As suggested earlier with reference to a referendum, there is strength in numbers. The european citizens initiative is an instrument that might be valuable to explore.

I envision a list of reform demands created by an intergovernmental independent economists panel which is initiated in Ireland and comprises members of many countries such as, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Iceland, Norway, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, UK, France and more.

The goal is to bring together economists with a vision and desire to create a catalog of urgent changes that need to be implemented to untie the gordian knot that was created in the global financial markets.

Central Banking system has failed, and leaving the changes up to insiders alone makes no sense, we gathered enough evidence that this does not work in the past three years alone.

So what I am proposing is an alternative DAVOS meeting, the first to be hosted in Dublin to kickstart a European Citizens initiative that collect s1 million and more signatures and puts political pressure on the system.

Meanwhile on the beach....