Productivity?The Search for the Holy Grail

The failure to raise productivity in the East is the reason socialism in failed.

Why so?

The gerontocracy prevented change.

Much idle piffle is talked about the Soviet Union. Most of it originates in Germany which carefully monitors the world socialist movement as do all nations in decline or those after a hiatus.

Fools,fools,fools...

Do they understand nothing?

The history of modern economics is littered with the corpses of once powerful empires and thriving nation-states redolent with wealth and well-earned prestige.Gorbachev was the only one who told the truth openly to the CPSU.

Without improvements to productivity the Soviet Union was lost,he told them.

He too fell victim to the winds of change as do all rulers.

23.5.2021

SPALTSAMKEIT. "Technische Begabungen".

One thing that was as untrue in the Soviet Union as it is in Russia today is talk of "raising the cultural-scientific level" in isolation from the world market (Mikhail Gorbachev,Speeches and Writings, 1986, Progress Publishers,Moscow).

Russia has only relatively recently received limited technical support from the US on satellite and dual-purpose technology under the SDI technology-sharing arrangements agreed to in 1987 to build mutual trust and assurance. Those arrangements were entered into on an equal and fair basis by both parties  to harness then moods for peace, change and rapprochement .

The failure of the offers of "joint industrial ventures" with Western firms?

What was missing until 2005 was electro-mechanical technology transfers from Germany as a token of contrition for the unprovoked attack on the USSR in June 1941. Russia suffered a profound break in its economic development caused by the resulting war.

It would seem that peace has finally broken out between the Great Powers thirty years after the end of the Cold War.

Russia should abandon navel-gazing while remaining assured of its place among the nations and join in scientific-technical research and technical exchange with

the Western world. One step is to make student placements in Western firms.The road away from the world market is the path to economic insignificance and a much diminished status so PERK UP,RUS . The future is a lot less bleak than the past.

Peaceful cooperation,therefore,Russia. Mutual tolerance. Mutual respect. Keep along the path of the mixed economy,Vlad, that's why you were PUT IN.

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5.6.2022

I cannot help but see in modern Disco Tex Russia a weakened military power but a much better country.

The war and China's bellicose military preparations represent a lesson forgotten of the futility of armed conflict and the fatuous certainties of big gusts of hot air,not from military leaders,their hearts aren't in war in the age of the nuclear weapons possessed by all major powers,but from politicians such as Biden. These gusts of hot air are coming from imperialist leaders who have realised that the limits of economic development have been reached and that the world stands poised on an ecological precipice.

Time for fresh thinking about industrial ways and means not 'clear' thinking or 'new' thinking.

Time to set economic limits,not as Parnell claimed. On his plinth,it states,"Let no man set a boundary to the march of a nation..". That led only to complete desolation and the departure of three million more Irish people before their governments began to come to terms with reality.

National industrial bases might perish on the rock of international competition but let little Pablo not go to the big city. Let him climb up the mountain like his father and forefathers and grow his coffee beans and maize and peas and beans and husband his chickens,goats and pigs. Let us have done with constant international modernisation now,too. The limits have been reached just as Ireland's 'industrial miracle' has died. Time for integrated,limited and ecologically restricted development not the bright lights of the big city.

Joseph Paul Mc Carroll

Richard the Raver. RTE news broadcasts

Turn on the RTE Politics Programme any night of the week for The Remains of The Day in current affairs to listen to the semi- educated ravings of Richard Boyd Barrett and Fine Gael clucks and old hens.

Despite these merry hens efforts at selective euthanasia,abortionism has been banished from the Dail with every forthright abortionist losing his or her seat. Richie hangs on like the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dyke on the Dun Laoghaire seafront.

Perhaps "a proper psychiatric investigation and examination " would be in order for Richie and this news series producer.

The thinking man's money is on those who dissociate themselves from the antics of this pocket-sized Napoleon.

Do not vote for this man. 

He is a ranting, raving lunatic.

Both he and his party's financier,O Brien Press,are involved with prostitution and drugs gangs to finance their group's activities and the historical provider of those drugs is the Italian mafia based in London operating in association with the London Metropolitan Police and British Military Intelligence.

Pbp? Not a political party, A DRUGS GANG.

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4.5.2022

While there are ravers and ranters and just plain nutters,most of us in the North these days strive to get on well together the activities of Irish soldiers apart.

From a Northern point of view,one thing is sure,if a Southern culture based in public houses and brothels and drinking dens characterises the greedy Southerners, nothing is to be gained by trading the social gains of the British Welfare State for a mess of Fine Gael/Fianna Fail free market pottage.

Why do Southern broadcasters indulge what most sensible people regard as those inextricably bound up with pedantic,land-of-make-believe rhetoric and the antics of dolemen who are fit for nothing apart from shovelling dung in a farm outhouse.

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25.7.2022

Once again,tired listeners say,spare us your repetitive mock outrage,Richie. Everybody who knows you,knows that you are a middle-class guttersnipe and a boring little spoofer who is only interested in himself.

The people of Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown must be easily fooled if they elected someone born with a silver spoon in his mouth..

What is the name of your firm,you hate-filled preacher of half-digested rubbish and madman ranting and raving about trivia?

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Sinn Fein 

I would like to ask those in RTE broadcasting, if they have made the electorate of the South aware that Mary Lou Mc Donald's private education cost £30 000 per annum at a fee-paying school?

And these are the people who RTE journalists present as "left-wing leaders" and "progressive".

I say to you in RTE,"You never lost the plot,you never had the plot. Vote Labour, independent or Social Democrat!"

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7.3.2024

Labour 

Returning once more to this dog's dinner of news broadcasting,we find that Labour are a "liberal" party which is indistinguishable from our Irish Blueshirts and yes,yet again, there are many petticoats in the Senate who are "well-placed to take seats" and nationalism is in decline.

I kid you not.

As Noeleen Kelly said,"There's an awful lot of shite on the radio" when listening to Pat Kenny in the Morning on RTE one Saturday morning twenty one years ago.

And so say all of us on this side of the Border who have to listen to this watered-down pap news and trite genuflection to a culture based on selective death and public euthanasia and abortionism. 

Richie's political sponsor,England,and its advocates destroy our indigenous way of life and threatens our very wellbeing and hard-won prosperity.

Whatever you think of US investors and German technical experts and Commonwealth immigrant managers,they came here to escape that dark Satanic culture. 

To return to the two thousand opinion formers down South,their 'social model' perished decades ago and their vociferations as experts about everything under the sun is complete bullshit.

People have had  enough of self-appointed  experts and intend to take a different path under a one-party Fianna Fail government and that is a certainty.

"A Labour voter"

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A header such as a left-leaning Irish revolutionary socialist or other bog-standard philosopher who talks nonsense about the Swedes or Nordic 'model' is an arrant fool. He says the first thing that comes into his head and the 'liberal' or enlightened type who highlights Pierre Trudeau or Corbyn is a fool who is endorsing voluntary euthanasia.

Headers such as Richard Boyd-Barrett and Eamonn Ryan should be given a wide berth and their supporters-and followers of Harris- given suppositories to find out if they are getting adequate oral nutrition.

They like the Free State doctors are full of sh.. from eating rich meals in expensive restaurants late at night paid for by the Department of the Taoiseach.

Those people recruit a regiment of women and old age pensioners and layabouts and waifs to spread their doctrines and they in turn 'bring on board' the langers such as Gerry Kelly and Gerry Adams and herbalists and ageing freethinkers.

Ipso est, nuisance emanates from the immediate vicinity down South,so beware, you good people of Dublin and its environs. These people are up to their necks in it with military spies and Gardai. Stand aside when they come your way and bid them a sally farewell if they venture into your path,salute them with a disappointed grin,praying that they don't mention you in written correspondence to a policeman or drop your name at a public event or rave-up in The Bailey with Irish Times journalists.

People such as Dickie Barrett speak from ignorance and prejudice,not knowledge. They are packed full of medication. Theirs is the practiced wisdom of the born deceiver and bar-room philosopher and the paid tout.

Barrett?

An idle mouthpiece!

Hope despoiled

The meritocracy which Blair claimed was his aim was nothing of the sort. Blair's path to advancement focussed solely on the privileged and middle class.

What Blair really wanted was a craven, informer society where people denounced friends and family to the police and medics.

Blair's society was the society of the police-NHS death squad.

Hooligans and fascist scum such as Blair and Ahern have defeated any hope of advancement for Northern Irish Catholics because his was a popularity built on dreams and illusions not realty or the rules of proper social intercourse.

The voice of  semi-fascist Hitlers is as it has always been the Northern Ireland Office. The latter's most vociferous opponent is Sinn Fein.

If every society has a gangster elite surely in the North of Ireland it is the employees of the Northern Ireland Office whose orchestrators are the Dail Dole Office, Westminster spivs and the RUC/PSNI.