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As an essayist and print author, Joe has been writing incisive editorials for Sott.net for over 10 years. His articles have appeared on many news sites and he has been interviewed numerous times by Sputnik News and Press TV. His articles can also be found on his personal blog JoeQuinn.net.
Reader Comments
Thanks for the new report! I actually didn't know about the IMF's involvement in Ireland, just in Haiti, Korea, and Argentina; thanks for the summary! I'd be an amazing day if the Irish would refuse to pay off their government's debt again.
Keep up the great work, SOTT! Maybe one day, when time and money allows, you could do an hour presentation with an interview. Something to keep in mind, as it would certainly be interesting.
a very powerful, incisive and indeed very moving report from the SOTT team. If you haven't figured out yet where the best alternative news site on the net is this should convince you. Don't worry, the Irish Celts have had enough and are stirring from their slumber, you can feel it here. There's a democratic, peaceful protest in Dublin on Saturday 27th Nov at 11am from Wood Quay to the GPO. If you're reading this and live in Ireland please make an effort to be there. The stakes couldn't be higher, your freedoms. No doubt the provocateurs will be there, so i'm taking my camcorder with me, as the controlled Irish media will no doubt present a different picture for world consumption.
This is only the beginning, it's time to turn our backs on the enslavers. And we stand in solidarity with Americans who refuse to submit to despicable sexual assault and invasive body scanning at their airports.
Well done SOTT team!
and SOTT team. Your words and explanations of the current major problems in our world are very clear and easy to understand - and inspiring. This is what the world needs at this moment in time - a clear and down-to-earth explanation for what is happening to all of us. And I agree with you that 'taking a stand' NOW is what is most important. Keep this up. I'm so looking forward to the next SOTT report.
That was riveting! I'm too young to have known 'the news' as anything other than bland half-truths and outright lies. Everyone in Ireland needs to watch this.
Thank you for taking the time and putting the effort into making this / these (going forward), true, Public Announcement & benefits statements.
Joe - you come across extremely well, keep up the excellent work.
It would be an incredible sight to see if the Irish people can collectively agree to rid themselves of the banking systems debt. We need to be working and earning for ourselves and our family, so that we can enjoy our lives and not have to stress about bills galore. Instead, we work to pay off our debt which get's larger year by year.
Mortgage. Mort = Death, Gage = Pledge. When signing to purchase a house, you sign a death pledge. It's not well known, but so disturbing. What's so messed up, is that if people FINALLY pay off their damn mortgage, they are convinced to RE-mortgage their house... "Oh, your not dead yet? Well, we'll take care of that, just sign on the dotted line..."
Keep up the good work SOTT. These reports are much appreciated.
I am really hoping we will see a concerted populous effort to cancel bank debt. If one country manages to pull it off, then others may take heart and try the same thing. (And of course, the American public will be warned against the evils of socialism once again, but whatever.)
If that happened; if all debt markers were reset to zero, then who would suffer? Really, what would happen? (If we removed guns and fascism from the equation, that is.)
-All the physical infrastructure and food production capabilities would remain in existence. There's more than enough food and energy to go around, if it were managed efficiently. And that's without exploiting new sciences. If we removed usury from the economy, if governments started actually issuing their own money. . .
The only thing that would change would be the ability to trick workers into toiling long hours for next to no return. Gee whiz. The slaves would not be forced to slave. Would everything fall apart then? No. Of course not. Why would it? We're only talking about debt cancellation. We might have to start building our own crappy junk instead of offloading the jobs to even poorer people far away. Or perhaps, we could even start living without all that extra junk and work instead toward other goals. Without debt, there would be a LOT of extra energy available to spend.
I've been told by economics 'experts' who tell me why such a thing would spell disaster. But I disagree. I think it would spell change, but I for one would be willing to play in that new environment. I strongly suspect that, *with psychopaths removed from the equation*, it could be smartly managed and rapidly made into a heaven on Earth.
I think it's important to recognize that the U.S.S.R. was a failed attempt at socialism, sabotaged from day one. They got rid of the oligarchs but failed to recognize and rid themselves of their psychopaths. Socialism *could* work. It doesn't even have to be called Socialism. Heck, I could happily do without centralized government. If compassion, knowledge and level-headed behavior were prized above all things, then society could work very well without top-down pyramidal power structuring.
Sadly, I don't think we're going to get the chance to find out before the next ice age.
So I just hope the Irish manage to pull together and refuse to submit to unnecessary suffering at the hands of international banker bullies. I think that's the best we can hope for today.