President Macron plans to promote Colonel Dreyfus, who died peacefully in 1935, to General. His motive is not wholly disinterested, for he wishes to derail the campaign of a right-wing scoundrel who wants to absolve the Vichy Government of Marshal Petain for its rounding up of Jews and handing them over to the Germans to […]
November, 2021
CROCODILE TEARS FOR AFGHAN WOMEN by Donal Kennedy
Listening to the BBC this morning was sickening. The USA and BRITAIN and others unleashed a war on Afghanistan murdering men, women and children in far greater numbers than those murdered in the United States in September 2001 by Arab fanatics who had no connection with Afghanistan When Britain’s Lt,Col McNally, in accordance with his […]
PAT & JUDE TALK ABOUT AN ASSAULT ON BOJO, SOLAR PANELS , SPACE X AND NAPPIES, & PAINTING JOHN HUME
Close your eyes and think of this: a former Tory Prime Minister putting his fist and boot into a current Tory Prime Minister. And it’s not a fantasy – John Major has been pulling no punches with Boris Johnson on his performance regarding Owen Paterson AND his protocol wrangling. We discuss. Everyone now knows we […]
WHOSE WARS DOES FINTAN FIGHT? – by Donal Kennedy
“If only we could fight climate change like we fight wars” pleads Fintan O’Toole in THE IRISH TIMES. I don’t know how you, dear reader, rate Fintan as an Eco Warrior, but as an Ego Warrior he has some form. I don’t know what he understands by “we” because as a human being, an Irish citizen and a native Dub I […]
THE RICH ARE DIFFERENT? by Donal Kennedy
The quotation is attributable to Scott Fitzgerald . I don’t know how much the leader-writer/s of The Irish Times is/are paid today but it has been said that one Editor, called Kennedy, was paid as much as the Editor of Britain’s Daily Telegraph, when the Telegraph had a circulation of 9 times that of our home-grown anti-Irish […]
Retrofit DIY
Sometimes the statements people make are so ludicrous, the only possible response is to collapse into the nearest chair and clutch your belly so it doesn’t laugh itself off the rest of you. This is the case with two items in the Irish Times this morning. The first is in their editorial, headed ‘Climate Action […]
PAT & JUDE TALK ABOUT SAVING THE PLANET, GOVERNMENT INPUT, O. PATERSON EX-MP, AND PAYING A CONTE…
Micheál Martin gave a rousing speech at Cop26 and has unveiled plans for combating greenhouse emissions between now and 2030. Will they work? Is he passing the buck to Sean and Maire Citizen? And what about the billionaires who, we’re told, are ‘plundering the planet’ with their private planes, megayachts and space travel? And then […]
HENRY GRATTAN ON IRISH RIGHTS AND ENGLISH HONOUR – A THOUGHT FOR TODAY? – by Donal Kennedy
I “He (Mr Pitt) confines ‘the purposes of Irish representation’ (in the English Parliament) to two objects – first, watching and waiting, which requires one representative; secondly, protection against Jacobinism, which requires no representative whatever. He then proceeds to ask himself a question extremely natural after such reasoning – ‘What security has Ireland? He answers with […]
Guantanamo: who cares?
Did you ever have one of those nightmares where you’re trying to run from something but your legs just don’t seem to work, and the more you struggle the more you’re rooted into the same spot, and all the time Something is closing in on you? I would imagine that’s how detainees in Guantanamo Bay […]
BRITAIN SEEKS U. S. TRADE PREFERENCE; NO TRUST, NO TRADE SAYS COMMITTEE – by Michael J Cummings
AMERICAN BREXIT COMMITTEE 1919 CHESTNUT ST, SUITE 1724 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103 John M. Corcoran Esq., Chairman Michael J. Cummings, Secretary November 3, 2021 BRITAIN SEEKS U. S. TRADE PREFERENCE; Yesterday U. S. tariffs were lifted on imported steel from the European Union. The British are annoyed thinking they were entitled to the same deal even […]