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Limerick Red said:
Arson,bomb threats, gun attack threats, things have been knocked up a notch.
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Journos being given carte blanche to make shit up and/or reword whatever nonsense the garda press office sends their way I suspect.

Pile of shit here from Colette Browne who's far from being the worst featherweight columnist. People doing activism wrong etc.

Mr Murphy claimed that the graduation ceremony which Joan Burton attended was not marred by the protest. He should speak to Independent Senator Katherine Zappone - whom no one could accuse of being a Government apologist - who has said she felt so fearful that she called gardai twice to ask for reinforcements. He should also speak to the college's CEO, Liz Waters, who also has no political allegiance and told Newstalk yesterday that she was terrified.
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Who gives a shit what senators and academics who've spent their lives sashaying about the halls of the state, hoovering public money into their pension pots as they go, have to say about anything, especially academics with "no political allegiance".
 
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copliker said:
Journos being given carte blanche to make shit up and/or reword whatever nonsense the garda press office sends their way I suspect.

Pile of shit here from Colette Browne who's far from being the worst featherweight columnist. People doing activism wrong etc.


Who gives a shit what senators and academics who've spent their lives sashaying about the halls of the state, hoovering public money into their pension pots as they go, have to say about anything, especially academics with "no political allegiance".
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Not living at home for a few years I had forgotten how much the media and state close ranks when threatened from the left. From COCAD ,the bin charges , shell to sea, the minute the Left, the working class and direct action are put together the state sends it's army of jurnos into overdrive.

I am reminded of an incident when justin Barrett was no platformed by afa in ucd, joe Duffy was chairing the debate, in his introduction he mentioned it was shocking that there were no protests against Barrett speaking, said that in his student days blah blah blah, when Barrett went to speak he and other known fascists in the audience got a shoeing. The next day Duffy had Barrett on his radio show, and Duffy waxing lyrical about left wing boot boys, how shocking it was, no place in modern society etc. funnily enough I don't think Barrett has been spotted since
 
Limerick Red said:
Not living at home for a few years I had forgotten how much the media and state close ranks when threatened from the left. From COCAD ,the bin charges , shell to sea, the minute the Left, the working class and direct action are put together the state sends it's army of jurnos into overdrive.
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See here. "Are Irish Water protesters assaulting three gardaí a day?"

(answer is no, gardai claim they suffer 1000 assaults a year, but somehow the media are reporting that 3 gardai are attacked per day at water protests)
 
The media assault on water protestors is getting beyond belief at this point. Every day in every paper and on every current affairs program. Here is an example of the kind of shit the more "leftish" commentators have been pushing:

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/c...scredits-real-leftwing-politics-30752751.html

There's a real mixture of distaste and fear amongst the commentariat as a whole at the sight of the working class getting angry and organised. And it's shared both by the right and by the "liberals".
 
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Nigel Irritable said:
The media assault on water protestors is getting beyond belief at this point. Every day in every paper and on every current affairs program. Here is an example of the kind of shit the more "leftish" commentators have been pushing:

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/c...scredits-real-leftwing-politics-30752751.html

It's like one of those Cohen or Aaronovitch columns about how the "real left" are actually complacent right wingers like them.
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That John Waters piece I posted on the other thread takes a different tack. A professional opinion monger accusing politicians of opportunism and misjudging the composition of the protests somewhat.

Sure, the visible political faces of the water protests are indeed a rum bunch of opportunists seeking to fashion a mainstream protest into a Bolshevik uprising.

Genuine protesters must henceforth march in the knowledge that they stand to be squeezed in a pincer movement between slipstreaming ideologues and State propagandists.
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copliker said:
That John Waters piece I posted on the other thread takes a different tack. A professional opinion monger accusing politicians of opportunism and misjudging the composition of the protests somewhat.
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I actually hadn't seen that one - it's impossible to keep up with this shit, and Waters' byline means "skip on sight". I suppose as a professional crank, taking the view that the protests aren't entirely composed of dangerous feral lumpens must seem contrarian enough to him in the current media climate.

He's actually taking much the same line as Cora Sherlock, main face of the lifer movement - she too hates the "rum bunch of opportunists seeking to fashion a mainstream protest into a Bolshevik uprising". They are after all also baby killing militant abortionists.
 
Nigel Irritable said:
I actually hadn't seen that one - it's impossible to keep up with this shit, and Waters' byline means "skip on sight". I suppose as a professional crank, taking the view that the protests aren't entirely composed of dangerous feral lumpens must seem contrarian enough to him in the current media climate.

He's actually taking much the same line as Cora Sherlock, main face of the lifer movement - she too hates the "rum bunch of opportunists seeking to fashion a mainstream protest into a Bolshevik uprising". They are after all also baby killing militant abortionists.
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The last thing I'd read by Waters was his defence of Begley the garlic smuggler a couple of years ago, where he quoted Ayn Rand.
But as the Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand pointed out in 1957, there is another syndrome here that we need to be conscious of also.
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Nein danke.
 
Fuckin Waters...cunt... the man hijacked a favorite band of mine, and forced them to sing a song celebrating counter revolution in a socialist country as Irelands eurovison entry!! and ya thought it couldnt get worse than that....his rambling defense of the Iona institute....the man was "what about the mens-ing" before "what about mens".....if he doesn't come to a bad end there is no justice in this world.
 
It's all getting a bit confusing today. Coonan says we are setting up an ISIS situation. But Fergus Finlay (Labour bigwig turned charity plutocrat) says we are fascists. Meanwhile Victoria White, renowned numbskull and wife of the leader of what's left of the Greens, thinks our glorious leader Ruth Coppinger wants her communist followers to make gloves out of human hands.

I'm having an identity crisis.
 
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Oh yes, one for the "why the greens are shit" thread. I hope someone is archiving all these crackers.

white said:
Coppinger defended Lenin’s revolution under questioning on RTÉ last week by saying the October Revolution had ended Tsarism. That may well be true, but the Bolsheviks also put an end to all hope of democracy in that country. If you want to judge the success of the Revolution, you only need to look into the beady eyes of Vladimir Putin.

Yes, the Russian people had suffered misrule and exploitation for generations. They were ill-fed and poorly educated. But we just can’t rely on the fact that our relative prosperity and educational status will keep us safe from barbarity. We are just as capable of depravity as they were.
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And what was going on in the fanatically anti-communist Irish state at that time? Oh...
 
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copliker said:
That was a personal dig at Murphy's background rather than the party as a whole. At ease comrade.

http://www.thejournal.ie/paul-murphy-posh-education-1785875-Nov2014/
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Yep, Paul has had so many references made to his family background in the last month that you'd think he was one of those gombeen TDs inheriting a family seat. Even Richard Boyd Barrett didn't get that shit quite so intensively, although he's probably closest. The media can't quite decide what posh suburb they think he's from either and keep promoting him to ever richer ones. By the end of next week he will be next door neighbours with Neil Jordan in Sorrento Terrace.

As a socialist from a middle class background he's a hypocrite. If he was from a working class background he'd be envious.

Funny thing is, don't vote for him he's posh was one of Sinn Fein's central canvassing lines. It didn't work, but it was a bit cheeky from the party of Mary Lou McDonald.
 
Nigel Irritable said:
Yep, Paul has had so many references made to his family background in the last month that you'd think he was one of those gombeen TDs inheriting a family seat. Even Richard Boyd Barrett didn't get that shit quite so intensively, although he's probably closest. The media can't quite decide what posh suburb they think he's from either and keep promoting him to ever richer ones. By the end of next week he will be next door neighbours with Neil Jordan in Sorrento Terrace.

As a socialist from a middle class background he's a hypocrite. If he was from a working class background he'd be envious.

Funny thing is, don't vote for him he's posh was one of Sinn Fein's central canvassing lines. It didn't work, but it was a bit cheeky from the party of Mary Lou McDonald.
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He's been reduced to posting a "See? We oppose ISIS!" scan from the paper at Coonan. :( All we need now is a bit of ISIS apologia from Boyd-Barrett.

Coonan is asking for his business affairs to be scrutinised. Same constituency as Michael Lowry eh?

edit: Coonan not Cooney, never heard of him before today
 
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copliker said:
He's been reduced to posting a "See? We oppose ISIS!" scan from the paper at Coonan. :(
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:(:(

copliker said:
Coonan is asking for his business affairs to be scrutinised. Same constituency as Michael Lowry eh?

edit: Coonan not Cooney, never heard of him before today
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Rabble already went through his previous Dail "speeches". Almost everything he's ever said amounts to an incoherent one line heckle. FF and FG always seemed to have an endless supply of these characters on the back benches.
 
The Herald's Gerry Gregg weighs in.

Starts with
Last weekend I was in Killarney at an event to commemorate the life of the "Vatican Pimpernel", Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty.
He was the cleric who risked his life in wartime Rome to provide safe-houses and escape routes for thousands of Allied soldiers and Jews on the run from the Gestapo.
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Finishes with
Whatever we think about the injustice or otherwise of water charges, there can be little doubt what's in store for us should Sinn Fein team up with the socialists. Better get used to monuments in Jobstown to Trotsky and Leaving Cert exams devoted to the poetry of Bobby Sands.
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Nigel Irritable said:
It's getting to the point of auto-satire.
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I don't recall seeing his guff in the paper before. I wonder if he's the same Gerry Gregg who gets the mention in the Brian Hanley/Scott Millar Lost Revolution buke. :D There is a whiff of a bargain basement Eoghan Harris about that strained pomposity.

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From his IMDB (if it's him) - he and Harris were co-creators of a series I don't remember anything about. I really want to see this.

reviewer said:
I didn't think that things could get much worse than the Cassidy's or Upwardly Mobile but this has managed to beat both of them. Bad acting. Bad dialogue. Bad plots. Bad editing. Bad directing. I actually can't think of one good thing to say about it. It is in fact possibly the worst thing that Ireland has produced so far.
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The Big Bow Wow was legendarily shit. Yes, that almost certainly is the same Gregg. His production company with Harris was called Praxis Pictures!

I'm not surprised to find he, like Harris, is now a right wing shit heel.
 
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