Posted in BlahBlahBlah on May 26th, 2010 4 Comments »
Look Delusion up in Wikipedia and this is what you get…
From a Guardian article today on the “Irish Situation”
Despite sitting at a desk surrounded by thousands of square metres of vacant office space in Dublin’s docklands, John FitzGerald, an economist at the Economic and Social Research Institute, an independent think-tank, is far more optimistic than […]
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This are now serious and empirically-based questions about the decision by the Government to overpay for property which will be bought by NAMA in an attempt to create a ‘floor’ for house prices.
According to this newspaper item published today:
Over 300,000 homes - more than double the official estimate - are lying empty around […]
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This morning in work the idle chatter which usually develops in the short moments before my co-workers and I turn to our daily tasks settled inevitably on the Fás expenses debacle and Mary Harney’s controversial ‘wash and blow’ dry. I entered into the spirit of the conversation to a certain degree – I alienate […]
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Posted in BlahBlahBlah on Oct 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Now that impotence is on clear display and it is spreading alarm around the world. For people desperately want someone to get a grip. The left has been warning for years that corporations now enjoy more power than nation states, but never has it been clearer than it is now. The realisation is dawning that […]
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William Greider, writing in The Nation, thinks that if Paulson plan for the US Government to buy all of Wall Street’s bad debt is successful it has the potential to bring down one or both political parties in the States. He quotes an analyst who says the plan is “exclusively being lobbied for by precisely […]
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I was going to write a post as a reaction to yet another throw-enough-shit-at-the-wall-and-hope-some-of-it-sticks article from The Dubliner. Their plan seems to be to finance the printing of an expensive glossy magazine by trying to attract an almost exclusively online audience. Does the article draw the battle lines between new media and old? Well, no, […]
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