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Just noticed of late that a Irish General has been given the prestigious Legion d’honneur

( or Legion of Honour ) by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in a ceremony in Paris for his command of the european mission to Chad which has now been taken over by United Nations. It’s a order established by Napoleon in 1802 for bravery or merit by either miltary or civilian and you can read more on here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion d’honneur

It’s been a while since I have put up any posts, haven’t much time to ” hang ” around lately. So I just noticed a story on the cover of the Sunday Tribune ” Real IRA: We will take campaign to Britain ” an exclusive by Suzanne Breen. This journalist is not know for having any republican sympathies and its rather strange that any group would talk to her. The cover also features a picture of Martin McGuinness and the deceased Denis Donaldson it’s more like a threat. Maybe I got a knock on the head somewhere but let me give my take on it.
I also find it strange that two days before the Massereene attack that ” special intelligence forces “  were deployed (answers on postcard for this one too .. ).

Anyway let me put my spin, let’s say they want don’t someone to blab the truth about past ” mistakes “, ” blunders ” and all those ambushes members of a certain organization walked into.

The long and the short of it is that if someone blabs, ” special intelligence ” will get someone else to give them a helping hand to the afterlife. Charming What ?

Or How we blew the Boom.

2 Budgets within six months isn’t good and here is Brian Cowen to explain —

There you have it Budget 2009 and it’s nasty. Basically loads of cuts and more taxes.

• The halving of the childcare allowance and it’s scraping by the end of the year.
• Children’s allowance to be means tested from next year on.
• Income Levies doubled 2% @ €15,000, 4% @ €75,000 and 6% @ €175,000.
• Jobseekers allowance to be halved for under 20’s.
• Health levies increased and employee prsi ceiling raised to €75,000
• Mortgage interest relief is to be of seven years duration only.
• No “Christmas Bonus” this year and possible reduction in social welfare rates in future years.
• 25 cent on a packet of cigarettes and 5 cent on a litre of diesel.

There is no solutions on how to put the economy on track and get people working again. It’s a “batten down the hatches” budget and its very anti-people and lacking in idea’s.

Here some of my earlier postings.

Bleak Outlook for 2009 II & Postive Idea’s.

Boom to Bust and What do we do now ?

Following the sudden outbreak of violence after nearly 12 years in the North. Isn’t it time that some proper analysis is given rather than the tripe (dire propaganda) that is trotted out to fool the masses. The ” Real IRA ” has been largely dormant and its unusual that it should strike now of all times. This particular movement has a reputation for having a high number of “informers” in it’s ranks and there is little they could do without the “security forces” knowing. They must also have become capable of wire-tapping British army barracks which is hardly credible.

Take the actual attack and the amount of  ammo used, it’s like the “attackers” didn’t want to do it in comparison to the attack the following night (one round). Now let me give my take on the matter, what if MI5’s real target doesn’t even live in the north, they want this person elimanted for a number of reasons but are fearful of any possible retaliation on themselves or their political masters so their solution is to get somebody else to do it. Someone else saw what they are doing and sent a message back and what would happen. It’s far from over.