Matt Cooper talked to my best mate today on the phone . . Call to Action on Nice

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday October 15, 2002 02:24 by News Dissector

. . . . let's make the shit hit the fans . . . .

Matt Cooper (tribune/last word) talked to my best mate today on the phone and claimed he did not know what GATS was let alone article 133 . . . who does he think he is kidding? Anyone who gives a shit needs to do everything in their power to initiate a proper NICE Debate over the next few days. SPREAD THIS AROUND THRU AVAILABLE CHANNELS

Another journalist friend rang an Irish Civil Servant who is on the (secretive) Article 133 Committee and asked for an interview or any info whatsoever about what they are doing in Brussels as regards GATS . . . .the journalist was basically told that such questions were 'inappropriate' and even downright rude and basically that what they dealt with was secret and not for oversight by cheeky young people (Irish Representatives on Article 133 Committee:Tony Joyce (01) 6312543 - Dublin
Eugene Forde (00) 322 2308580 - Brussels). . . UK are presently being pressed into putting education and health on the table for GATS by the wto as observer reported this weekend. . . we are so globalised that it is scary to think what the IRLGOV are offering up to keep american industry here now that we are in for the 80s again and will be approaching the IMF for help again. Add to the already completed privatisation of the public housing sector the privatisation of everything else short of teachers, Doctors, Nurses and Public media - give ireland a year of bad recession and the by then unaccountable 133 Committee might start talking the talk about all that shit.

Ireland as the next Argentina anyone? Bertie looked like he had seen a ghost on the news this evening when he ranted about liars talking about neutrality being lost through nice. Reminded me of Nixon truth be told.

Am I crazy or did dev not enshrine neutrality in the constitution? So why are they fucking with it.

Cowen needs a proper pr person. War against terror ... WE ... DO .... THIS ...AND ... WE ... DO .... THAT over and over on Q and A this evening. Are those american warplanes figments of Tim Horigan's imagination or are the GOVT lying like it is going out of style?

Matt Cooper (tribune/last word) talked to my best mate today on the phone and claimed he did not know what GATS was . . . let alone article 133 . . . who does he think he is kidding? Anyone who gives a shit needs to do everything in their power to initiate a proper NICE Debate over the next few days.

Enlargement aspect of the debate is a smokescreen. Poland is presently 50% 50% pro anti NICE. They are not the only ones.

The Media are rolling over and playing dead . . IT and INDO are giving hugely more coverage to the yes side. Independent network news slanted their coverage (1.5 Million audience per day through local radio) in a three to one ratio towards the yes side for a month until the Greens Caught them out. The REFCOM is simply an instrument of FF policy. Citibank are paying for very suspect polls and their record is incredibly suspect when it comes to the great globalisation rip-off. IBEC and IFSC usually secretive are killing themselves to appear as charitable and do gooding members of the community.

It's a setup and it is a stunning example of '21st Century Democracy'.

Below are all the media Contacts you need to convince yourself that it is a big lie.They are humans ring them scream at them if you have to. Write down what they say. Demand that they strictly enforce the 50/50 requirement of the Broadcasting bill.

Ask them about 133. Ask them why the constitution is being changed when Neutrality is enshrined in it already. Ask them to ask Bertie for the contents of the list that the Irish Reps on the ART 133 Committee put forward as their bottom line for privatisation in GATS/EU/WTO Negotiations. Ask why the present and next generation of the left is being ignored and sidelined at every possible opportunity. Ask about Shannon and do it now. aSK THEM WHY mARY hARNEY IS cutting and pasting her statements on 133 from the WTO Website.

Ask them how much Landlords get from Social Welfare each year and how much of it is taxed.Ask them to justify their existence as Journalists.

Spread this list around as widely as possible. pHONE NUMBERS AS FOLLOWS: Block their phones so FFPD manipulators can not get access. Do the dirty work now. There are far more of us than there are of them. Bertie loses it and plays dirty. Two can play that game. Or even 1000.

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