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googlenews frontpage The Irish aren't smiling as the eye their corrupt elite

moonpurple

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/02/irish-eye-their-corrupt-elite

this is on the most viewed on the gaurdian website
and on the frontpage of google news

:cool:

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Coriolanus

Confab wrote: »

That Daily Mail article is anti-EU propaganda. The point about the EU taking over Ireland's budget suits me though.

People laughed when I welcomed Lisbon as a step towards a federal super state, and they laugh at the idea that the EU will take a firmer role in national budgets after this fiasco.
Viva le Revolucion! Bring on direct rule from Brussels I say.

[Deleted User]

There once was an After Hours thread,
Which all but exploded my head,
With its loony conclusions,
And hairbrain solutions......

Ah f*ck this, I'm off to bed.

phasers

this
Thread
Really
Confuses
Me

bnt

Google News is not a news source, it's a news aggregator. Why not link directly to the Guardian page? I wouldn't even call that news - just opinion.

Dudess

Is your way
of writing like this
meant to be
kinda quirky
and part of your
"random" schtick
or is it just something
your computer does?

[Deleted User]

Does anyone notice when Google news gets articles in the wrong sections i.e a news story about 5 people being murdered brutally ends up in the Entertainment section? Doesn't seem all that entertaining to me.

Unless they were clowns.

moonpurple

if they knew where
tom barry would be next
there would not have been
no tom barry

boards haiku, no copyright:cool:

southsiderosie

I can't believe I am saying this, but I actually nodded in agreement all the way through that Daily Mail article.

DAMN YOU MOONPURPLE!!! DAMN YOU!!!!

Wibbs

Superbus wrote: »

I have no idea what you mean.

Ditto. Like I've said before I'll have whatever he or she's smoking.

So do you want the IMF in, or not?

ejmaztec

rua327 wrote: »

Yawn.... The title is even spelt wrong.

"spelled":P

mikemac

OP, fair enough if you want to copy and paste articles but what's your opinion?

Yes, now you're talking so at least start the debate

Superbus

moonpurple wrote: »

if the imf

change the fact that the head of the esb is charging us 750,000 annually for his
version of the 'the magic of the marketplace' (Reagan, Ronald)

b r i n g

t h e m

i n

more love to my bros and hos , taken as given:)

I have no idea what you mean.

moonpurple

if the imf

change the fact that the head of the esb is charging us 750,000 annually for his
version of the 'the magic of the marketplace' (Reagan, Ronald)

b r i n g

t h e m

i n

more love to my bros and hos , taken as given:)

Superbus

omahaid wrote: »

What word is spelt incorrectly?

They is missing a 'y'.

Front page isn't one word.

I'm guessing Google News isn't either.

omahaid

rua327 wrote: »

Yawn.... The title is even spelt wrong.

What word is spelt incorrectly?

Mr Benevolent

That Daily Mail article is anti-EU propaganda. The point about the EU taking over Ireland's budget suits me though.

moonpurple

firstly
loving hugs for everyone here at this soap box

welcome to speakers corner:)

secondly
this view above from Synon prompts the thought that
what napoloen could not do with his artillary
or deutschland could not do with their panzer divisions

might occur when the 2 of them work together and use their...calculators:eek:

finally love to you all, most of all to those who really need to get out more:rolleyes:

plus 14,000 posts may come at a personal cost

pablomakaveli

moonpurple wrote: »

:eek:what is really interesting on googlenews just now is this explosive view

mary ellen synon, daily mail

dm;dr (daily mail; did'nt read)

rua327

Yawn.... The title is even spelt wrong.

orourkeda

go on the corrupt banking elite

moonpurple

:eek:what is really interesting on googlenews just now is this explosive view

mary ellen synon, daily mail

A drunken Premier playing right into the hands of the EU:cool:
By MARY ELLEN SYNON
Last updated at 9:41 AM on 1st October 2010
Comments (30)
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Can one bank bring down a country? At the end of August, a reporter from the New York Times asked that question about Ireland's bust Anglo Irish Bank.
The Dublin government denied such a thing were possible. Yet now it is looking very much like it might happen.
Anglo's debts are so vast that the government may have to pay 34billion euros to bail-out the bank. Bail-outs for other Irish banks will bring the total to 50billion euros.

Party animal: Irish Premier Brian Cowen and admirers at a Fianna Fail function
Brian Lenihan, the finance minister, was forced to admit yesterday that these bail-out costs will push the national deficit this year to 32 per cent of GDP.
Such figures would be shocking in Britain. Even at its worst, Britain's deficit is heading for little more than 10 per cent.
However in Ireland, where the entire working population numbers just 1.8million and unemployment is at 14 per cent, figures like that are beyond shocking. They are catastrophic. Words such as Armageddon and apocalypse are being used by economists.

More...
Will Irish economic meltdown hit UK's fragile recovery? Country faces eye-watering 34bn euro bill for bank bail-out
MARY ELLEN SYNON'S BLOG: Is the whole truth out on Ireland's economic crisis?
MAIL COMMENT: The credit crunch is far from over
But here is the worst of it. The EU chiefs not only think that Ireland's crisis will turn into a national death-spiral, they may be secretly hoping it will.
Brussels knows that the further Ireland and other troubled eurozone countries sink into financial disaster, the greater the excuse the eurocrats can find to achieve one of their long-standing ambitions: to take control of national budgets.
Yesterday, Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, said he intended that the punishments planned for eurozone economic rule-breakers such as Ireland should soon be extended to all members of the EU, including Britain.
Commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, prophesied 'the biggest step forward in economic governance'. What that means - and this is why it should alarm Britain - is that EU chiefs want national budgets to come under their scrutiny. Any member state which failed to meet budget criteria laid down by Brussels would be fined, perhaps have EU funds cut off, and possibly lose its vote in the European Council.
The commission will use Ireland's present pain as an excuse to grab more powers.
Of course, it wasn't supposed to be like this. Ireland struggled its way out of debt and recession in the 1980s to find real growth in the 1990s. By 1997, the country was celebrated on the front cover of the Economist as 'Europe's shining light'.
But then came the single currency. Ireland joined the euro for the most foolish of reasons - to prove it was no longer under the influence of Britain, the old ' colonial' power. In joining the euro, the Irish wanted to prove theirs was now a 'European' country.
Membership of the euro was what began Ireland's disaster. First the European Central Bank ensured that eurozone interest rates were kept low to suit the sluggish German economy. Ireland's economy, however, was already bubbling. The euro's low interest rates were like pouring petrol on to a fire.
Brian Cowen, who is now prime minister, was finance minister during the period the boom turned into a bubble. He could have cooled the property market. Instead, he exploited it to indulge in a public spending orgy.
Now he refuses to take any responsibility for the crash, or the vanished tax revenues.
Instead, this month he embarrassed his country with an alcohol-fuelled 3am singing session in a Galway bar. It left him sounding, as one opposition politician put it, 'somewhere between drunk and hung-over' during an important national radio interview the next morning.
Since Mr Cowen inflated the bubble, house values nearly halved in Ireland and are still falling, and some of the commercial investment property has now lost 90 per cent of its value.
So much money gushed into rogue-lender Anglo that the bank grew to be the size of half of Ireland's national wealth. The crash left Anglo and the other banks debtors who could not pay.
Yet the Irish government has only recently admitted the full volume of this looming disaster.
For the first months following the world's crash into financial and economic turmoil, the Dublin government presented itself as uniquely virtuous.
It bragged about how its public sector pay cuts and spending cuts were more severe than in any other country.
What it didn't mention-was that Irish civil servants were the highest-paid in Europe. The cost of public sector wages remains around 40 per cent of GDP.
Most of the austerity was an illusion, but the government won admiration abroad for appearing to make cuts. As the truth of the banks seeped out, the admiration stopped. A chorus of international economists started predicting disaster for Ireland.
Some now reckon Ireland must eventually default and be forced out of the eurozone. Some calculate Ireland will soon be in worse shape than Greece.
No one much believes the finance minister's constant assurance that the debts are ' manageable.' All the government's calculations are based on growth restarting in the economy. But in the last quarter, Ireland's stricken economy began to shrink again.
The question now is whether Ireland will have to turn to the EU for a bail-out. That is likely to come. But the cost to Ireland will be worse than borrowing more billions on the financial markets. It will be forced to surrender ever more control over its taxation and its spending to the EU.
Ireland's misery is Europe's opportunity. And Britain's grave danger.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1316707/ANGLO-IRISH-BANK-BAILOUT-Premier-Brian-Cowen-playing-EU-hands.html#ixzz11Hjt5FoI

bonerm

moonpurple wrote: »

boards.ie
is changing its subtitle
from
now your talking
to
post something to witness the diamond sharp sarcastic response from some spotty teen recovering between web ****

Damn. I was hoping there'd be some secret message here.

[Deleted User]

Moonpurple, this is After Hours. Expect p*ss-taking.

You want serious?
Soc > Politics

> thataway

omahaid

ooooo cat fight

moonpurple

boards.ie
is changing its subtitle
from
now your talking
to
post something to witness the diamond sharp sarcastic response from some spotty teen recovering between web ****

[Deleted User]

OMFG a letter to an editor of a paper! We should all read its wisdom!

Edit: the letter makes a good point, but your artsy BS post almost made me not read it & assume it was propaganda.