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 and 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 hatred. 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. Its military 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.
Economically,the US is only a husk of its former self,its wealth and society hollowed out by foreign military adventures and large sections of its 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 and 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....
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