FedUpUSA

Yes, I meant it:

THE Government has been ordered by the EU/IMF to impose a property tax on all homeowners within a year.

To the Irish: How do you respond when someone declares war on you?

You’ve had war declared upon you.  The only determination left is whether that war is an invasion of your sovereign land by a foreign power or whether your own government has declared war on you as a consequence of bribery and extortion by a foreign power.

Either way, it’s war.  You are a sovereign people and a sovereign nation. 

You have an inalienable right of self-defense.

You now must either exercise that right or lose it forever.

The Market-Ticker

You have to wonder….

The Fine Gael/Labour coalition Government is to implement in detail the outgoing Government’s four-year austerity plan as approved by the EU-IMF, the Sunday Independent can reveal.

In what will amount to the most barefaced breach of election promises ever perpetrated by an incoming Government, the coalition partners’ programme for government will cause uproar when it is published today.

While an attempt will be made to dress up the programme as a new plan by a new Government, when it is analysed it will be seen for what it is — the continuation of the economic policies of Fianna Fail and the Greens, virtually in minute detail, as laid down by the EU-IMF.

We shall see if the Irish stand for this.

The decision is theirs, of course.  But one is compelled to ask what recourse is left when the ballot box fails?

Certainly, the acts of Congress in the United States in 2008 were outrageous.  But just weeks later we had an election, and we returned to office most of the scoundrels.  Wise or foolish, the people spoke.

Now, in 2010, the people saw that their election of “The Chosen One”, Barack-is-gonna-pay-my-mortgage Obama, didn’t get them what they were told they were going to get.  They tossed the Demoncrats out nearly en-masse, and elected a whole new crop of alleged saviors, this time Rethuglicans.

But the Rethuglicans who they elected, even those so-called “radicals” in the Tea Party, have gone on record saying that entitlements cannot be cut.

Yet that’s where the budget problem is.

These same Rethuglicans are now sitting on their hands and chuckling as Mexican trucks are being allowed en-masse into the United States.  Why is this important?  Because the next act is opening a seaport in Baja – in Mexico – just south of our border.

The Port of Long Beach is

as soon as this is completed.

The Mexicans, in addition to not complying with our safety standards, also have subsidized fuel.  The government of course will make sure those trucks have extra large fuel tanks and will be full when they cross into America.  They will run up through the heartland, operating without US Safety Standards, without US rules on number of hours one can drive, without US CDLs and qualifications thereof, and without paying US fuel prices. 

What’s left of the American trucking industry will likewise be

All this in the name of cheap Chinese imports and “free trade”, otherwise known as robbing the hell out of America’s job market.

But heh, we’re still voting for it. 

What happened in Ireland, however, was different.  Fianna Fail was tossed on their ear over their accession to the Banksters in Berlin.  The people spoke.

And now Fine Gael has intentionally misled and screwed the Irish people.

There remain only two options for Ireland.  One legal, one not.  The “not” one is of course the one that nobody (in Ireland) can advocate – revolution.

The legal one anyone can advocate: Refuse to labor, refuse to produce, refuse to fund.

The Egyptian model.  Refuse to work.  Stand and shout, wave your pitchforks and torches.  Not to loot and burn, but rather to defend your right to refuse commerce – that is, to refuse the intercourse of labor and product.

Force the government to do what you sent them to Parliament to do - tell the Berlin Banksters to pound sand.

Will Ireland choose to labor as slaves, to revolt or to peacefully refuse to submit?

That’s the question before us today.

And soon, right here in America, it will be before us as well.

The Market-Ticker

If she’s not drinking this weekend she’s not very bright.

The unprecedented and historic defeat, Fianna Fail’s worst result in 85 years, makes the Irish government the first eurozone administration to be punished by voters in the aftermath of the EU’s debt crisis. Voter turn-out was exceptionally high at more than 70 per cent, indicating public anger at the government and the EU.

Late last year, Ireland was forced to accept a £72 billion EU-IMF bailout to cover huge public debts that were ran up to save failed Irish banks.

The bail-out was designed to prevent financial contagion that threatened the existence of the euro…..

The problem is, as noted, that the bailout wasn’t for Ireland’s benefit and they were effectively forced to take it.

Well, now they’ve got a new government.  And it can say “Screw off.”

But neither the two European leaders nor the European Central Bank or EU will permit any substantial changes, despite the huge popular Irish revolt against the bailout.

What are they going to do?  Invade?  I doubt it.

This isn’t about “permission.” It’s about sovereignty.

Chancellor Merkel will tell Mr Kenny that if he wants to reduce the high, punitive 5.8 per cent interest rate charged on EU loans then Ireland will have to give up its low corporate tax rates – a measure regarded as vital to Ireland’s recovery and one of the few economic policies it has not yet handed over to Brussels or Frankfurt.

No it doesn’t.  Merkel needs to be told to take a running chainsaw up the back door – sideways.  Extortion is not an acceptable tool of negotiation.

The new Irish premier will also be warned that there is no question of forcing privately-owned financial institutions to assume Ireland’s £85 billion bank debts because the resulting market panic would spread to Germany and France, tearing the euro single currency apart.

Good.  Then they have leverage and lots of it.  I suggest the Irish use it, and since the ECB, France and Germany have demonstrated that they’re willing to extort and threaten, the rules of engagement have been set – there is no longer a need for pleasantries.

A European diplomat, from a large eurozone country, told The Sunday Telegraph that “the more the Irish make a big deal about renegotiation in public, the more attitudes will harden”.

So what?  The “European Diplomat” would be wise to stay the hell out of Ireland.  I hear the Irish tend to have bad tempers, especially when screwed and drunk.

Have some more whiskey, my friends….

“It is not even take it or leave it. It’s done. Ireland’s only role in this now is to implement the programme agreed with the EU, IMF and European Central Bank. Irish voters are not a party in this process, whatever they have been told,” said the diplomat.

Oh yeah?  What if they decide that serving heads on a plate is an acceptable response if these banksters try to come into the country?  What are they going to do about it?  

They can’t exactly force Ireland to comply now, can they?

I suggest the Irish set up a line of these at all international ports of arrival, and anyone who is a European Bankster, including those from the ECB, Germany or France gets their passport stamped while having their picture taken with head forward through the hole.

France has sufficient experience with these devices that I’m sure that Trichet will figure it out.

Some folks in Ireland appear to get the point:

“We have a hostage, it is called the euro,” he said. “The euro is insolvent. The only question is whether Ireland should be sacrificed to keep the Ponzi scheme going. We have to have a Plan B to the misnamed bailout, which is to go back to the Irish Punt.”

Ireland needs to tell the German and French bankers they’re not going to pay – and that isn’t a negotiation.  It’s a statement.

If they need that in more-graphic form, it’s simply this:

The Market-Ticker

How many times will you be lied to and sit for it?

Remember, “it’s all contained.”  Uh huh….

European governments sought to quell the market turmoil menacing the euro, handing Ireland an 85 billion-euro ($113 billion) aid package and diluting proposals to force bondholders to bear some cost of future bailouts.

Yeah, right.  Incidentally, the interest rate on that package is 5.8%.  That means that if my math is right this has larded up $1,473 per year in interest costs on every man, woman and child.

This of course has to be paid each and every year, which means taxes are going up and government services are going down – by a lot, given that there’s plenty of people who don’t work in Ireland. 

How any government gets away with this sort of thing is beyond me.  But they all have thus far – our banks, Greek banks, now Irish banks.  All ripped off the people with false claims of “growth” and “prosperity” and when exposed they then get the politicians to take their losses onto the public balance sheet and bail them out, effectively charging the citizens for the costs of their original robbery!

The market is not impressed, and yet the market is the alleged reason this is being done.  To “stabilize” the market.  To provide “confidence.”

Yet CON is the root of CONfidence, and conned is exactly what you’ve had served up – by Paulson, by Geithner, by Congress and by our President, both past and present.

People keep saying that while these actions might have been “unseemly” and “unacceptable” they weren’t illegal.  They keep forgetting that operating a bank is a privilege granted by the government, not a right, because banks inherently trade on the credit of the sovereign state behind them.

Yet we the people of this nation continue to allow our government to pull this crap.  We do it repeatedly despite plenty of evidence that we’re getting screwed repeatedly.  Asset “inflation” is thought of as good, but it’s really bad – if you want to buy a house you want it to be cheap, not expensive, just as you do for your DVD player, computer or television.  We allow ourselves to be scared into believing that Deflation is the “bogeyman” even when we’re talking about deflating previous inflation, and even though anyone with a fifth-grade understanding of math can easily determine that the alternative is literally impossible – which means attempting it won’t end in happiness and smiles but rather in collapse and tears.

Never mind that the market doesn’t care if you believe in the candy-crapping unicorn or not.  This morning it has “moved on” and blown spreads wide on Portugal and Spain, and will continue to do so until the truth is recognized.

We are choosing only how long we would like to avoid what has to happen, and how much damage we’re willing to sustain through that waiting - damage that is compounding the longer we wait - not whether we can succeed on the path we’re on.

The possibility of success there is not determined by wants or desires, but by what can be done, and the simple fact of the matter is that the path our government, and those of Europe, are on cannot lead to success.