The Hub - Ireland is bent so lets unbend it

The Hub Ireland is calling on newly elected TDs to follow some practical points to alleviate the suffering thousands of families are subjected as a result of mortgage debt, the banking system and government ineptitude or inability to do anything about the root causes.  The Hub says that it's wish list is not exhaustible but is achievable and are calling on people to apply pressure on local TDs.
 

The Hub-Ireland, 21 Little Mary Street, Dublin 7, 01 534 9118 - http://www.thehub-ireland.com/

Suggestions For Our Representatives

The separation of power between the Registrar and the Sheriff.

A separate office and distinction between the Registrar and Sheriff, no poundage on possession!

A complaints board before a judicial review against the action of the County Registrar.

The suspension of the pooling system of solicitors in the Circuit Court.

A suspension of all eviction and ejectment notices for two years to allow a resolve to the present crisis to fully unfold.

A halt to receivership where the local business is viable but for debt that the banks erroneously added: allow Ireland to recover.

A mechanism to ensure observation of Circuit Court and High Court rules.

A mechanism to stop the banks selling ‘toxic’ loans.

A control mechanism to stop vulture funds buying loans at €0.19 cent in the €uro and demanding 100 % of the loan value.

More control over the institutions of the Land Registry Ireland, the Companies Registration Office and the Valuations Office: making them more accountable to the people of Ireland and the justice System.

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Following graph and info from 'Failure of Irish Politics' by Padraig O'Mara
 

                                Graph from 'Failure of Irish Politics' by Padraig O'Mara

Padraig O'Mara in 'Failure of Irish Politics' said“vulture funds are preparing to pull the trigger on hundreds of business foreclosures and property receiverships in the aftermath of the election”

This is certainly consistent with news in late 2015 that the Government had ordered county registrars to lay off on evictions until after the election, for fear of a voter backlash.

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They Marched Us To The Top Of The Hill And They Marched Us Down Again

Article by Enda Craig

Unrealistic promises

When a political party arrives at a final policy position it is mostly after a huge amount of research.    The party's strategists factor into their final composition as much difficulty as possible for the opposition.   Sizing up the enemy to get the upper hand, they  gear policies to this or that target group, offer this or that incentive and possibly use unsuspecting pressure groups to further their own goals.  Understanding the market is one thing but pressurizing your foes is as important. 

However, the hatched schemes and the offer of goodies usually present some important decisions to be taken.  If a policy, agreed on as strategy,  presents an advantage to the party and to boot it generates difficulties for the opposition,  it may also make things difficult for supporters.  The result is a moral dilemma.   On the one hand it pressurises the opposite parties into offering more  but on the other hand it alienates supporters by not fulfilling  the promised policies.

Consider the following situation

1.  Let's say all along the party doesn't want to be in government, that it is not ready to take power and that it would  be best served by being the main opposition.   The party  pretends that it wants to go into government, but by making it impossible to do so electorally, the party knows that this will never happen. 

2. This opens the door to the possibility of a huge 'hoodwink' as it can promise the world, knowing that it will never have to deliver on the promises.  The policies will be popular.  They will take support away from opposite parties and  will put pressure on them to outdo the promises.   

3. The desire to gain advantage and crucify the opposition now takes over and becomes  the priority.  This is achieved by making monumental popular promises and cloaking them in flimsy and flaky  economic costings.  The details gets lost in the headline announcements and few people question them.

4. The party can now put together an 'a la carte' menu of big time promises.  This  will boost  ratings among  present supporters and  attract substantial new voters.  By extension it will achieve the high popular ground.  Most people only look at the headlines and care less  about the detailed economic or political ramifications.

5.  Opposition parties stand open mouthed at the brazen content of these promises.  They quickly find their opposite number is  gaining popularity from the public at large.  In a panic they decide to react  realising that their arguments pointing out the deficiencies  are gaining them nothing.

6. Rather than continue on the truthful road they now begin to promise the same and maybe more as the enemy.  They know it is totally disingenuous, untruthful and possibly undeliverable.  It is the same as the opposition but the spiraling race for power knows no bounds or morality.  All that matters now is the bottom line - success at the ballot box

7. But will there be a day of reckoning built into this situation, especially for the side who would slaver at the thought  of attaining power?

8. Fianna Fail's  policy promises  are now eagerly awaited by the unsuspecting multitudes.  Their Achilles heel now lies exposed.   Their spinners and magicians are already hard at work putting a gloss on a possible u-turn.  The finished product is anyone's guess.

 9. Meanwhile the initial promoters of this shameful strategy are on the moral high-ground, sticking to principles.  They are  now tooled up and lie in ambush for Michael and his merry bunch.   The time of reckoning is at hand.  The Pantomime plays on and the abuse of the people continues.

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Irish Water, EPA, HSA and Government Cover Ups and Misiformation Lead to Massive Water Problems

Irish Water, the Environmental Potection Agency along wity the Health and Safety Authority in Ireland have conned the public into thinking that they have to chlorinate to protect drinking water quality from microbiological contamination.

Startling new revelations uncovered by Friends of the Irish Environment about Trihalomethanes, a cancerous causing chemical in our drinking water has put all agencies responsible for our drinking water in the spotlight.   

Not only are these chemicals caused by a reaction to chlorine being added to the water, but it is now known that the above agencies and our government knew about the problems and the risks of taking this chlorine option.   

Irish Water's biggest lie

Tony Lowes, Director of Friends of the Irish Environment,  holds no punches when it comes to laying the blame for the massive problems today with our drinking water.  He attributes it to the stance  Ireland's regulatory bodies, Irish Water and the Government have taken and has described it as 'Irish Water's Biggest Lie'.

Mr Lowes does not accept the official line and says it is a con to say that it would be dangerous and irresponsible to stop chlorinating  in order to avoid what they class as a 'minor'   by-product of disinfecting with chlorine.    He says that the by product can create more than 60 chemicals classed as  trihalomenthanes, THMs.

Irish Water and supporters are pushing the line ‘The real risk of inadequate chlorination outweighs the risk associated with THMs and should be avoided’. ‘We can’t risk public health!’ they say accusing interfering environmentalists like ourselves and  Erin Brockovitch of ‘scaremongering’.

After a complaint from a resident in Ballycroy County Mayo in 1998 which triggered an EU Environmental Compliance investigation,  Ireland was condemned by the European Court of Justice on  November 14 2002 over the microbiological contamination of hundreds of public and private water supplies.

EU Commission Warned Ireland not to add Chlorine

The EU's Drinking Water Directive requires an absence of e.coli in drinking water supplies in order to protect human health. These bacteria point to a high risk of human pathogens being present.  In 2007 Ireland received a final written warning for not complying with that judgment. After Ireland chose chlorine as an answer to the problem,  the Commission warned them privately that chlorine was not really suitable for Ireland – that two of the biggest threats both biologically and chemically to Irish water are not addressed by chlorine – cryptosporidium and Trihalomethanes.  However, the Commission stance that the method by which a member state addresses a judgment of the court is left to the member state’s discretion.

New York City, for example, protects its water sources so carefully that most of it does not even require filtration and minimal chlorine is used only in conjunction with UV light which inactivates harmful microorganisms but does not change the water chemically since nothing is added except energy.

Carcinogens are being created by method used by Irish Water

Irish water is creating these chemicals by using the wrong kind of disinfectant for our surface waters.  These chemicals were not there before Irish Water got its hands on it.  The unsuspecting public are  paying the price now for the refusal of the Irish State to listen to good advice.  Instead the state took the ‘cheap’ and easy way out.

Mr Lowes said  "The Irish State has been putting your health at unnecessary risk.  Alternative methods of disinfection like UV light and filtration systems would have rendered the current water treatment structure obsolete (as it has transpired to be), so requiring more money and higher maintenance – with chlorine, you just chuck it in. All the Commission could do and did with diligence was to pursue Ireland relentlessly to at least install chlorine meters, as chlorine is a poison and as they say in the trade, ‘poison is in the dose’.
o it’s NOT a question of chlorine OR THMs. Chlorine does not stop cryptosporidium. And it actually creates THMs. Don’t believe their lie."

Tony Lowes
Director Friends of the Irish Environment
Office 353 (0)27 74771
Mobile 353 (0)87 2176316
Kilcatherine, Eyeries, County Cork
www.friendsoftheirishenvironment.org
 

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