U S and outside interventions in our society and in other countries

In the American or German canon when you are having problems with the police or finding work,the problem is "close up" or near at hand,namely in the same house or close to the same location as yourself.(In the English canon in a police state such as ours,when you are experiencing nuisance and interference with your peace of mind and a lack of local sobriety,the problem is someone who was in your company earlier on the same day. The disturbance can be traced back to police or politician in any case. Typical of those thugs responsible in Fermanagh and Tyrone are those who see in Michelle O Neill's inane rhetoric the panacea for their problems).

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28.11.2022

US imperialism 

Our recent past in Northern Ireland?The nationalist part of the mixed equation?

Drugs gangs sponsored by the US State Department and Department of Defense made their appearance to undermine civil government and the rule of law in 1971. Those lost souls started their campaign of attrition by exploiting civil society wrongs.

In our situation judges,clerical and lay, should have openly addressed the public to tell them that legitimate grievances would be remedied eventually and that politics and  reform were the only proper  grounds for peaceful advancement. Good politicians would,in those and similar circumstances, point out to the public that sinister elements were fuelling rioting and murder with drugs and alcohol. 

For their part rulers in a time of upheaval should stay away from the microphone until they make their appearance with offers of dialogue sanctioned by their foremost sympathisers. (No ruler or group of rulers can do that openly because then they must surrender their prerogative to have the 'final say' and preclude being in a position to curtail the powers of legislators and executive at the same time).

US meddling in China

The US has settled on China like a bag of hens (hib-eng. 'clocks') to reduce it to its own level of mental ineptitude,drug intoxication and casual murder.

The American Dream 

This phenomenon which America spreads is not a state of democratic rights rather a contagion of criminal, drug-fuelled love of guns, violence and race hatreds.

 There should be no attraction for sane people in armed protests, political rallies, violent demonstrations and outside attempts to stir up dissent unless the issue is of relevance to civil peace and proper governance.

America is a once-imperialist,now pensioner state in many ways. Many of its military still have the clearly stated aim of world domination. The last aspirant to that mantle was Adolf Hitler. He had similar designs to every American President. Behind the sugary rhetoric,the United States is the main threat to world peace and the Soviet Union was no less in its time.

Industrially,the US is only a husk of its former self,its real wealth and civil society hollowed out by foreign military adventures and large sections of its manufacture and industry long gone to other countries. Its stature in the world is built on imperialist violence, fiscal profligacy,  financial irregularity and corporate theft.

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17.8.2023

The modern age. Democracy 

The first thing to emerge from Venetian and French republicanism was humanism, secular and naive (and who says that we should not all be naive of occasion). That developed into free-basing profit-accumulation, loose thinking and capitalism with very few restraints. (What happened in the Soviet Union in 1991 was a form of managerial and popular rebellion).

In the ascent from ape to Man,came liberal collectivism which was connected in Anglophone society to the Lutheran and Calvinist Reformed religions.

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It is now our bounty to have socialist, democratic parties in our parliaments in Northern Europe. Those parties are neither fish nor fowl in terms of Marxist ideological or workerist socialism but a coalition of workers and the intelligentsia. Very few people in the growing class of welfare recipients are animated by class politics or anything remotely approaching progressive arguments about facts and figures.

In the European scenario, Southern Ireland is a newly semi-democratic society but one without a system of comprehensive health provision or adequate public housing programmes.

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27.8.2023

Societies. Their origins

Violence is a characteristic of all societies formation and remains a pertinent opposite to civil peace and political power until its prominent advocates and foremost spokesmen are long dead. 

Change

In many ways,a wind of change in North America is blowing but only time will tell whether it will deliver anything other than more armed thuggery and licensed gangsterism. 

Change. Ireland

The Republicans were certainly  not socialists though many in Sinn Fein are now further to the left than the struggling and impaired British Labour Party. The Troubles consisted of,in truth, nothing other than opposition to the British Government and the Church,Rock of Ages. Both knew that fact. (Witless newspaper readers in Tyrone, Belfast and Derry could not accept that violence solves no problem or series of problems).

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23.10.2023

Random acts of violence -the Continent of Europe 

Political commentaries on France in the nineteenth century neglect the signal fact that the categories of oppositionist and ruler or main antagonist and insurrectionist are not carved out of oak.(A lazzaroni,translated from Marx's commentaries by Rothstein and Levitsky as a cutthroat who was drawn from the poorer classes was in fact a cavalry officer mobilised from military pensioners. The lash of the bull-whip talked about by Lenin was the lash of a schoolmasters buckle on a scholar's back).

Another illusion spun by the Moscow school of scandal was the translation of ein bose Geist as firstly,a hobgoblin and then as a sprite and finally as the spectre of Communism. Marx's opening lines to his salvo of 1848,the Communist Manifesto,for ,,das tolles Jahr'' actually referred to the collapse of an entente cordiale between aristocracy and worker against the democratising middle class. Ein Bose Geist, therefore. The expression's real meaning referred to the breakdown of the alliance between worker and landowner,is the ending of a cross-party coalition by the malicious intervention of the Army. (Another contention of Marx entails  that a spoilt priest has cuckolded a married man with a cuckoo child).

Riddles? Riddle me this,if I only had wings I could fly to the heavens,Icarus....

Money and power or Industry and Trade

 Marx believed in the ultimate victory of industry over finance (Grundrisse,Capital Vols.1-3).

The dichotomy between industry and finance is a false dichotomy even by his own account. Read Das Kapulutal. Industry and finance form a unity known as riches or wealth. Surely this supposed dichotomy is a nonsense with the benefit of hindsight. In this regard ,we think of Hitlerism and Hjelmar Schacht and Fink of the Reichsbank,their approach.

Let someone who was Irish working  class answer both propositions,"There'll be money when we're gone.." (Dermot Mc Carroll after my mother,Mary Patricia).

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And while I'm at it, consciousness comes from species-being (Feuerbach) and social conditions. If you prefer,creation, background, society and conditions and upbringing,not a living deity alone since God leaves a lot to chance and doesn't always like to pump from below decks on a ship taking in water or  take the helm of a ship heading for the rocks. 

Everybody has a different experience of the Deity but in my experience,while interventionist when genuinely and needfully implored,he is largely laissez-faire.

As the Dalai Lama might say,"All things must pass except God's love and human suffering (and the Kindly Stranger such as Mr. Cheng Chui the Hong Kong Anglican who assisted me in Paris)."

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3.7.2023

Radio news bulletins in Britain and Ireland 

Anyone who is remotely normal says of state media and Irish journalistic news-spinners and RTE bores,"I don't want to hear any shite about good financial conduct or listen to an old spinster give housekeeping lessons. If I need any advice I will go to an economist or well-read person not a bar-room philosopher or society hostess like you."

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18.4.2025

The German Disease,opposition to the Jews both rabbinical or secular drives German hatred of Schmiergeld ('easy money') and love of manual and intellectual labour.

The Germans' Anglo-Saxon 'cousins' certainly do not see work as a path to self-fulfilment and had to be taken in toe by a bourgeoisie to get them to work for social security and health services which they did not have under either Tory or Liberal. The limit those Liberal Unionists could manage was Joe Chamberlain's "municipal socialism". That was nevertheless one of the main starting points for national wellbeing developments.

Where vis-a-vis the German dichotomy of  finance and industry,lies Britain's great enduring and overwhelming strength which will one day bring the return of usurious currency transfers?

It lies simply and solely in liberal visions of the mainstay of British society,the House of Commons,keeping the dark odours of German anti-Semitism out of public dealings. In the Magna Carta of 1214 (also known as the Treaty of Runnymede) the Crown enjoined the landed aristocracy "to pay the Jews the interest on their debts".

That effectively put England at ease with Jesus's injunction to "be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees" in a manner that allowed merchant and usurious liens to slowly displace the feudal system.

In 1845-6 in Brussels and in 1865-7 (The German Ideology, Capital) Marx appeared out of the blue to preach a line of prejudice straight from the Lutheran doctrine of anti-Semitism. By insinuation and in private correspondence in the 1870's,he opposed the system of paying interest on capital. That system was well established and integral to the working of the industrial society and the Free Trade economy of the day. Usury had mass appeal and was integrated into many capitalists businesses.

Marx's Germany was one lost in a philosophical enquiry and archaic reasoning and the consequent problems of German and Austrian chaos theory were deeply entrenched. The problems of immobility and inflexibility were mirrored in the anti-Semitism of preachers of the ruling classes and academia and particularly the Army. That was the case,too, in France because all were heavily indebted to the Jewish moneylenders and employers and resented them. The English if more uncouth than the French are a fairer minded race.

Anti-Semitism has been exported by the German Nazis and French millionaires to a backward country, Ireland in our times. Irish fascists are behaving brazenly and openly with the full backing of  the barroom type. The debtors who do not realise that the Catholic Church and Islamic internet broadcasts offer no intelligent guidance on proper conduct in the temporal world have no insight. Their political doctrines and anti-Semitism is one feature of fundamentalist religiosity. Anti-Semitism has little to tell Irish people on good behaviour and the modern concept of citizenship and equality before the law. Many anti-Semitic traits were imported from Germany in the 1930's and are now deeply ingrained by "street scenes with fascists".