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Another EU Summit, Another EU Failure

eblaney — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:57:19 +0000

The recent machinations by the EU to resolve the economic crisis by taking advice from bankers and financiers is akin to holding an AA meeting over a few pints in the local pub and they will have just about as much success. However, it is obvious that the EU politicians, unelected officials and those in the financial services sector are suffering from an addiction. Their addiction to power, control, ego and personal financial gain, has destroyed the lives, hopes and aspirations of tens of millions of people Just like every other addict, the Eurocrats immediately condemn anybody who begins to suggest that it is they who may be a big part of the problem.

The Euro is dead, long live the Euro!

eblaney — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:53:34 +0000

I submitted this article to the Sunday Independent but they couldn't make space for it. It was written two weeks ago. The Irish League of Credit Unions recently released their quarterly “What’s Left?” report. It deals with how people throughout the Country are managing financially and the figures up to June are not just frightening they are a damning indictment on the failure of our Government to run OUR Country. Just to give you an idea of just how bad the Government’s policy of protecting the banks has been for the average adult, nearly one in every two (47%) are late paying at least one bill a month, one in every three adults have between zero and seventy Euros left after paying their bills and a heartbreaking two hundred and eighty thousand people stated that their income does not even cover bills like their mortgage and electricity.....

The IMF itself should be on trial

eblaney — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:15:35 +0000

This timely article, prompted by the arrest of DSK in New York recently, give the most superb insight to what our new masters have in store for us if Mr.Kenny/Gilmore & noonan continue with the self delusional idea that we are capable of repaying the ECB. This article will give you great insight what will happen when, eventually and after we are totally broke, we refuse to play ball with the IMF. So the fact that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is facing trial for allegedly raping a maid in a New York hotel room is – rightly – big news. But imagine a prominent figure was charged not with raping a maid, but starving her to death, along with her children, her parents, and thousands of other people. That is what the IMF has done to innocent people in the recent past. That is what it will do again, unless we transform it beyond all recognition. But that is left in the silence.

Time to upgrade to Ireland, Version 2.0.

eblaney — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:33:23 +0000

As a nation we need to consider whether or not the Ireland which our forefathers envisaged after independence, has outlived its usefulness. Not long after independence of the 26 counties had been achieved, the enormity of the task of building a Nation from scratch dawned on the then and subsequent governments. Effectively, we had nothing. Nothing perhaps, except the determination to succeed and to build a nation of which all of it people, both at home and abroad, could all be proud. There were many many courageous, dedicated and capable women and men down through the years, who turned what was effectively a bog field, into a modern thriving economy and society.

The Money Merry Go Round

eblaney — Sun, 01 May 2011 12:12:18 +0000

According to the International Monetary Fund’s latest report, practically every developed economy is in debt. So everyone is in debt to someone else which is exactly the way the financial wizards of this world want to keep it. After all, we give them the license to literally print money which they then lend to us …

Bank Debt vs Sovereign Debt: What’s the difference?

eblaney — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:23:36 +0000

Kevin O’Rourke, Ronan Lyons, Constantin Gurdgiev & David McWilliams discuss Ireland’s debt. This video gives a really good explanation of why it is so important that we know the difference between them and why they must be separated!

Default, the EU and what’s next

eblaney — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:31:31 +0000

In this 4 minute video Prof Kevin O'Rourke & Constantin Gurdgiev explain what happens after we separate what we as a Country owes from the debts of the privately owed Irish banks.

Independent candidate calls for probe into ‘economic treason’ allegations

eblaney — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:36:33 +0000

Independent candidate calls for probe into ‘economic treason’ allegations Sunday Feb 13th 2011 Eamonn Blaney, independent candidate in Dublin North East and co-founder of the New Vision alliance of independent candidates, is calling for a formal trial to investigate the allegations of “economic treason” that have been levelled against the outgoing government. “I am deadly …

‘New Vision’ tells of public anger

eblaney — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:52:19 +0000

New Vision tells of public anger PAUL CULLEN and MARIE O’HALLORAN INDEPENDENTS: A GROUP of Independents standing under the banner of New Vision says they could win seats if the anger expressed by people on doorsteps translates into votes. Eamonn Blaney, spokesman for the group, said 20 Independent candidates had so far committed to the …

Web designer refuses to cringe in the face of adversity – Irish Times

eblaney — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:01:05 +0000

IT WOULD be a shame to waste a strong iconoclastic streak, wouldn’t it? Eamonn Blaney uses his to excellent effect; badgering, doorstepping, blathering full belt to whoever will listen to get where he needs to go with his new venture – Cringefactor.com. A few years ago the Howth native left, rather than waiting to get pushed from, his €110,000 a year job. He decided to upskill and headed into Trinity College Dublin to do a masters in business administration. Blaney spent €25,000 of his own funds, got his masters degree and re-entered a working world of . . . very little – no head honcho job, few prospects of one and faltering hope in a radically different work environment to the one he had previously inhabited.