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David McWilliams: All bets are off, so why pay for costly Anglo gamble? – David McWilliams, Columnists – Independent.ie

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http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/david-mcwilliams/david-mcwilliams-all-bets-are-off-so-why-pay-for-costly-anglo-gamble-2923011.html

A Clear Case for not paying the Anglo Irish Bank Profiteers

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Nov 3, 2011 at 10:49 am

Posted in Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), General Election 2011, International Political Analysis, Ireland, Tugging the Forelock

The Billion Dollar Anglo Irish Bond – Cedar Lounge Revolution – and the Greece Referendum

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http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/the-billion-dollar-anglo-bond/

and a cartoon which says it all :

More, from the NAMA Winelake :

http://namawinelake.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/black-wednesday-imf-dependent-4-6m-population-country-with-debtgdp-over-100-and-rising-today-pays-usd-1bn-unsecured-unguaranteed-debt-of-completely-bust-bank/

Dave Allen has the last word :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5y_gE1Rb1Y

 

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Nov 2, 2011 at 3:44 pm

Posted in Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards), Fine Gael, General Election 2011, Greece, Humour, International Political Analysis, Labour Party (Ireland), People Before Profit, Referendums, Tugging the Forelock, United Left Alliance

Kings of Plagiarism: a Prime Minister (Taoiseach), a President and Unionist Small Fry

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Stephen King – the Unionist who once wrote a regular Irish Examiner column looks trapped –

Reports say his column is suspended.

His big mistake – plagiarism.

But, let us remind ourselves that the rot usually starts at the top : Enda Kenny, Taoiseach (Prime Minster) of the Republic of Ireland (a failing state, covering a little more than two-thirds of a large island situated to the west of Britain) has form.

Kenny, elected regularly to Dáil Éireann, since 1975, spoke with US president Barack Obama in Dublin’s College Green, and delivered a speech lifted directly from his Yankee colleague.

A letter writer to the Irish Times cut through some pathetic excuses : Read the rest of this entry »

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Oct 8, 2011 at 1:56 pm

Posted in Barack Obama, Fine Gael, Ireland, Tugging the Forelock, Unionism, USA

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