Have we hit a period of awakening to Corruption? Somebody has been watching others recently. The Criminal Assets Bureau seem to be on their toes and hence the motor industry is under scrutiny. Accountants, solicitors, and others have had offices raided and they are looking for evidence. The Target market who were following the money, may have wanted to pay less than necessary and avoid taxes! These people are not people who comprise the plain people of Ireland, who pay their taxes.

Ironically, money spent on the glamour machines that haunt the environment, are not bought with a sense of conscience. Is it time to invoke conscience? Do I recall some women in Chelsea, London SW3, making a statement for the environment? They targeted the 4 wheel  drivers – mostly women, and politely, asked them did they grasp the costs involved in driving these 4 wheel drives while others put mud (to be washed off) on certain vehicles. These are what I would call value added qualities that ought to be attached to price.

Follow the money is what spurs on the spending of money – the money involved in the narcissistic type of personality. The following is about satisfying ‘needs’ i.e. emotional, visual, pleasure, so the price is paid for the persona’s nominated identity eg the hair, the make-up, the clothes, the shoes, the holidays, the elite dinner parties: add to these the Car(s), the House(s), the Houses in Ireland by US mavericks in private equity fund acquisitions, the apartments abroad, the designer children, the designer play creches, then the private schools………The Money, the Perks, the Inheritances, the ……… add to this the Black Economy…….the cash and where to spend it in such a way that it can’t really be identified……All we need to note is the amount of people going to blitz out spending in the US when if they made a value added decision they would realise that the Dollars weakness has lent to the near closure of Waterford Glass – craftmanship and part of Irish history and how a little community and nationhood with such turbulent financial/currency markets could foster the notion of awareness and home-bound support to our plain people of Ireland in particular people who are struggling to keep their businesses afloat.

You ask why we have problems with our Health Service? Easy, public and private patients. Old wisdom says beware of the vested interest and if this is so why can our Minister for Health and the representatives of the Consultants representative bodies not make some serious decisions? My belief is a decision with the preference of public and the option for others who want to attend privately being able to do so. This market is now open for people with the financial resources to choose hospitals in other jurisdictions.  In fact people who are diagnosed with cancer and who have the knowledge and the means do travel abroad for treatment.

Cocaine, Heroin, illegal drugs – too many have died. Some say the cocaine was too pure and others say they don’t know what rubbish was added to the batch – either or means death for Katy French age 24, and three other young men. Follow the money………it is in reverse ………. how much did Katy French pay and to whom? How much did the other boys pay and to whom? Did they have intent or was it addiction need? All we know is whether it was given as a gift to them or bought by them, it was a price too high. The price was death. These people die and the illegal substances market out there grows and expands. Why?

The Island of Ireland we are, but it is difficult to control those who are determined to follow the money; particularly when there is lots of it; and a solid market and an infrastructure to sustain the God called Money ‘Mammon’ (‘wealth regarded as a source of evil’).  Too many have blood on their hands, call them gangsters or facilitators ie Banks or buyers, it is so easy for them  to trade.  These drugs come from South America or Afghanistan (96% of cocaine is sourced here).  The trail of destitution is never-ending apart from those who don’t engage but just trade. The price offered by the negotiators is too tempting to the local impoverished farmers to stop growing the crop and start growing another.  Again here there is the vested interest more of the Follow the Money of arms and the Taliban with Poppy the agricultural gem to grow.

The Plain People of Ireland are survivors. They have a strength of spirit. Moyross in Limerick has been so frequently in the news for the hardships sustained by so many.  The Franciscan Monks have ventured forth. In earlier centuries, it would have been to South America or Africa as missionaries. This time, these missionary men have come to Moyross what could be called Limericks No Go territory and people’s hearts are lifting, the children are responding, please support them in their efforts, this first Christmas. One monk sings Rap: we need more interaction; we need to explore the hidden talents that lie within people.

by Michelle Clarke

Quotation: 

Imprisonment
Ruth First (1925-1982) South African Journalist and anti-apartheid activist

‘For the first 56 days of my detention in solitary; a black iron bedstead became my world, my retreat’

No 4

Prime Time tonight, in strict investigative role, has no doubt dug up some other sources of money, that is played in the field of those dealers, smugglers, mules.

That Market that bids people to be biddable to others and even go so far as to conceal their ‘cocktail sausage’ piece of gear in their bellies or anus – some held 93 and others over 100. It is sounds agony but it is desperation no doubt, desperation that money makes it worthwhile and of course risk.

All the same, there are people willing to be the dealers and subcontract out to the carriers and the whole of Ireland has been planted with dealers at every town, village a marketplace for illegal drugs to be transacted.

Who receives the money? Where does the money Go? We know some finds its way to foreign lands in Europe but the amount of product being sold in Ireland states large tranches of cash related to illegal substances sold are being money-laundered.

How this work? Are the solicitors involved?

The Plain People of Ireland took the matter into their hands in the 1980’s. The flats eg Pearse House, Fatima Mansions and many others were witnessing daily hardship, and lives lost. HIV was prevalent and people died. But people power, the Mothers in particular and the Grandmothers formed groups and hands on it was.

Times change and now it is cocaine which is considered to be more sought after by the middle class.  The social divide merits consideration because when a middle class person, with healthcare provision, decides to give up on the drugs, they have private hospitals and support systems.

This money needs to be followed: just like the drug dealers need be stopped. So time to get Banks to gear up and not be facilitators.  This is where whistleblowers are required. The Illegal Drug Trade needs to stop. A ‘high’ is a really great feeling desire and strength.

Ask questions?

How does this cocaine get to Ireland. 92% pubs are showing up usage in the loos. If this is the case, perhaps they are losing their once reliable trade of old-timers. This makes sense. Cocaine Bravado young people bragging their heads off and competing with each other are not where the gentle old folk used to frequent.  Time to consider it perhaps. Get the dogs into the pubs……Like Rocky in Portlaoise, what is the harm, if you drive out the illegal drug trade and addicts are not facilitated.