911 agus na teoiricí comhcheilge timpeall an ghréasáin.

Os comhair ríomhaire le déanaí fuair mé roinnt suíomhanna idirlín faoi 911. I bhfírinne, ó tháinig an t-idirlíon go tithe an domhain tá réabhlóid mhilteanach tar éis tarlú ar fud na cruinne. Anois agus don chéad uair i stair an domhain, tá an t-eolas uileláithreach. Ciallaíonn sé sin go bhfuil deis ag gach duine a bheith ina iriseoir, taighdeoir nó bleachtaire. Is é sin le rá, is féidir le gach duine an tsochaí ina maireann muid a iniúchadh agus a scrúdú ar bhonn gan macasamhail. Is muintir na gúglachta ( google) muid anois, mar a dhearfá. Ag gúgláil timpeall an ghréasáin le cuardach ‘911 cover up, CIA’ agus mar sin dé, chuir sé iontas orm an méid suíomhanna agus físeanna atá ann a chúisíonn an CIA agus Mossad a bheith taobh thiar de na hionsaithe ar na túir sa Nua Eabhrac.

Go deimhin, chualamar scéalta mar sin cheanna agus is fíor go mbíonn conspóid ag baint le gach tubaiste a tharláíonn sna Stáit Aontaithe i gcónaí. Tugaim an t-ainm ‘danbrowneachas’ ar theoiricí comhcheilge mar sin, agus ní bhíonn morán suime agam aon aitheantas a thabhairt dóibh. Ach é sin ráite, tá rud éigin go hiomlán difrúil i gcás 911 os rud é go bhfuil daoine ardcháile den tuairim go raibh an CIA agus Mossad taobh thiar de na hionsaithe.

Cuir i gcás, Francesco Cossiga, Iar-uachtarán na hIodáile agus ollamh le dlí san Ollscoil Sassari. Fear measúil, stuama é Cossiga agus tá sé ina saineolaí faoi cheisteanna a bhaineann le cúrsaí slándála. Dúirt sé le Corriera della Sera cúpla blain ó shin go riabh sé soléir dó agus dón seirbhís rúnda na hIodáile go bhfuil an CIA agus Mossad ciontach as an sceimhlitheoireacht sa Nua Eabhrac. Níl aon dabht faoi sin dár leis. Dúirt Cossiga go raibh na hionsaithe pleanáilte chun casus belli a fháil don chogadh san Afganistáin agus Iáráic. Tá alán taithí ag Cossiga leis an CIA. Bhí siad an-ghníomhach san Iodáil le linn an Chogaidh Fhuair san oibriú Gladio. Ba í sceimhlitheoireacht státurraithe nó, sceimlitheoireacht na brataí bréagaigh a bhí i gceist ansin. Ba é Cossiga an chéad duine a labhair amach faoi.

Deireann iar-stiúrthóir na seirbhíse rúnda i bPacastáin Ginerál Hamud Gul an rud ceannan céanna. Ina theanta sin, dúirt sé go raibh an CIA agus Mossad thaobh thiar na hionsaithe sceimhlitheoireachta arís i Mumba le déanaí. Núair a fheiceann tú rudaí mar sin maile le dúrud mór d’ fíricí aisteacha eile a gheofaidh tú san idirlíon, go háiraithe sa U Tube, tosaíonn tú a bheith beaganín buartha!

Ar ndóigh, tá a fhios ag gach éinne go raibh Mossad ag obair sa Nua Eabhrac roimh na hionsaithe agus go raibh réamheolas acu faoi na sceimhlitheoirí. Agus céard faoi na Five Dancing Israelis’ na céad iosraelaigh ag rince? Gabh na póilíní FBI céad Iosraelaigh sa Nua Eabhrac díreach tar éis na hionsaithe de bharr iompair gur mheas siad a bheith ‘aisteach’. De réir an tuairisc, bhí vean plódaithe de phléascáin ullmhaithe acu. Tharla sé ina dhiaidh sin go riabh na céad fir ina bhaill de Mhossad, an tseirbhís rúnda na hIosraele. Mar sin, níor chualamar móran eile faoin scéal. Bhí tuairisc sa Teilifís na Fraince an bhliain seo caite a rá go raibh Mohammad Atta ina bhall de Mhossad, agus arís níor chuala mé aon tuairisc eile faoi ina dhiaidh sin.

Is fíor go bhfuil a lán ceisteanna le freagairt fós faoi 911 ach bheadh sé saonta an iomarca aitheantais a thabhairt don theoiric chomhcheilge sin. Ba choir féachaint ar gach taobh den scéal. Má fhéachann tú ar roinnt físeanna sa U Tube, cur i gcás, feicfidh tú fianaise a bhréagnaíonn alán teoiricí comhcheilge. Dúirt Noam Chomsky nach raibh aon fhírinne ins na teoiricí sin. Ach maireann na ceisteanna faoi Mhossad fós. Cén eolas a bhí acu? Cad a bhí á dhéanamh acu sa Nua Eabhrac? Scéal contúirteach agus rúndiamrach gan amhras, scéal a fhágann i mbun machnaimh mé go fóill.

How many years must a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea?

Ten years ago I gave English lessons to a German entrepreneur in Berlin, who had set up a successful wind energy company specialising in the supply and construction of wind turbines. The company was rapidly expanding throughout Europe. I remember asking her if she had plans to expand the business in Ireland. “If I we could promote this form of energy in Ireland” she told me “ we could almost double our business. Ireland is perfect for wind-energy production. But I don’t think your Government has really shown interest in this possibility” She was right. The Irish government was, as usual, doing its best to avoid the winds of change! Their chief interests included urban sprawl, environmental and heritage destruction and the sale of our national resources.

But in these morose times, it comes as a relief to find out that something positive and uniquely progressive could still happen in Ireland. A new think tank was set up six months ago called Spirit of Ireland to explore the potential of the Irish wind energy industry. On their website they confidently proclaim
‘Ireland has enormous advantages of geography and geology. Every day and every night, truly extraordinary wealth in terms of energy blows across our land. Our place on the corner of Europe tipping into the huge Atlantic Ocean, ensures an endless supply of energy on a massive scale and of enormous value. 98% of our Energy is imported at a cost of over €6.5 billion per year. Every year! Ireland has within its reach a truly enormous and inexhaustible source of Natural Energy and Wealth. By taking energy from the wind and by building large Hydro Energy Reservoirs we can make energy from the wind fully reliable and usable’

The growth of the wind-energy industry has always been hampered by the problem of fluctuations in wind intensity and the storage of the energy. What happens when there is little wind? The Spirit of Ireland project has come up with a compelling solution to this problem. The key here lies in Ireland’s unique geography. A Russian by the name of Igor Shvets, who is professor of physics in Trinity College Dublin, (who says the country doesn’t need immigrants!) has pointed out that Ireland abounds in impervious valleys which are contiguous to the ocean. If the Spirit of Ireland project is implemented, these valleys will be dammed and hydro- storage reservoirs will be built, thereby serving as natural lakes storing water which can be used for electricity generation when the wind is down. The project website states the solution thus:

‘Professor Igor Shvets has identified suitable valleys on the West Coast, which are ideally shaped. Basic rock dams in a few valleys, will provide Hydro Storage Reservoirs at modest cost. Positioned close to the sea, water volume is not an issue. Japan’s J-Power had built a successful sea water storage facility in Okinawa over 10 years ago. Senior executives and engineers from Japan visited Ireland and confirmed the validity of this approach. Filling the reservoirs with wind energy and using it when needed means that the intermittency of the wind problem is resolved. International Consultants from Canada, the US and Norway contributed to other aspects of the design.’

Ireland currently ranks 16th in the world for wind-energy production and 9th in the European Union. But according to the Spirit of Ireland project, Ireland’s unique geology, geography and marine environment has not been adequately exploited. Ireland could become a world leader in wind industry, exporting energy to other countries and saving billions in national energy expenditure every year.

The Spirit of Ireland project aims are to create tens of thousands of jobs, achieve energy independence in 5 years, as well as saving thirty billion by reducing the importation of fossil fuels, thereby effecting a radical reduction in the country’s carbon dioxide emissions. The project includes many financial experts who estimate that a fully developed national wind energy project would add 50 billion Euro to the economy! So, perhaps therein lies the solution to our soaring trade deficit which could yet reach 50 billion Euro. This is an innovative and progressive idea. But national progress requires intelligent governance. Ah, there’s the rub!

According to the European Wind Energy Association EWEA, wind energy accounted for over 43 percent of all new energy generating capacity in the EU last year. If the Government insists on introducing its silly blasphemy laws, perhaps they should consider giving a ‘special’ protection to old Aeolus, the Greek god of the wind, or Danu, the Celtic god of wind, wisdom and fertility!
Who knows, it could yet transpire that the solution to our economic despair lies in what we all breath though none of us see; the answer is blowin in the wind.

For a breath of fresh air (sorry, couldn’t resist) see: http://www.spiritofireland.org/

Introducing 'Papal Pull' the new improved condom

The encouragement to procreate by religious despots is a policy they should seriously reconsider if they want to hold on to power.

Elections are due to be held in Iran in June to decide which leader is going to lead the country out of the first decade of the 21st century. Iran is a fascinating country. The world’s first great empire in the 6th century BCE under Cyrus the Great-who some claim to have instituted the first charter of human rights-the country has nevertheless seen a long succession of despots, with the exception of the progressive Mohammad Mossedegh but the CIA put an end to him in 1953. The first thing that strikes one about Iran is its sheer youth. Over 70 percent of the Iranian population is under 30 and over 60 percent of those attending university are women.

President Obama’s address to the Iranian nation a few weeks ago was astute, particularly his decision to use the medium of the internet which the Iranian government is unable to fully control. When the Ayatollah Khomeini assumed absolute power after the 1979 revolution, he encouraged couples to have big families. He also lowered the legal age of marriage for women to 9 years! Khomeini was following the example of the Prophet Mohammad who married a 6 year old girl named Ayesha and apparently consummated the relationship when she was 9! In other words, Mohammed was a paedophile.

There are currently over 700,000 blogs in Iran and this number is increasing in the thousands every day

The result of Khomeini's procreation policy was a population explosion over the past thirty years during which time the demographical figures of Iran doubled. The problem for the clerical oligarchy now is that the majority of the population is composed of young people eager to escape the stultifying shackles of Islamic tyranny. The difference between Iran now and Iran ten years ago when Khatamei was opening up the country to progress, is the omnipresent internet. The internet has become such a phenomenon among Iran’s youth that the secret service, the notorious ‘etellat’ are no longer able to employ enough people to filter the sites and control the flow of information.

As David Macwilliams has illustratively pointed out in his book The Pope’s Children, the pontiff’s visit coincided with a baby boom

There are currently over 700,000 blogs in Iran and this number is increasing in the thousands every day. The blogosphere phenomenon has become so all-pervasive in Iranian society that both the Ayatollah himself as well as president Athmadinejad now have blogs. If you do a search in Wikipedia you can find a list of Iranian blogs in English both from inside and outside the country. Many of them make for interesting reading. For many Iranians the daily oppression is so intense, that keeping a blog and sharing one’s thoughts with the world is a form of catharsis and relief. The ironic aspect about this surge in the country’s youth is their disillusionment with the clerical oligarchy, the very people who encouraged their creation. One could argue that a similar phenomenon happened in Ireland 30 years ago. Was not the year of the Islamic Revolution also the year of Pope John Paul’s visit to Ireland? As David Macwilliams has illustratively pointed out in his book The Pope’s Children, the pontiff’s visit coincided with a baby boom.

In a sense, the encouragement to procreate by religious despots is a policy they should seriously reconsider if they want to hold on to power. Once you encourage a baby boom there is a strong possibility that that new generation will reject you and all you stand for. This is to a certain extent what happened in Ireland in the case of Catholicism and it is already happening in the Islamic Republic of Iran. On the question of contraception, the Ayatollah Khomenei seemed to have realised the danger of his earlier policy of encouraging procreation. He later came out in favour of contraception and condoms are now widely available in the Islamic Republic of Iran with the divine blessing of the imams.

This mandatory contraception policy would entail the Pontifex Maximus transforming himself into the Pro-durex Seximus, as it were

In this sense it is strange that the present Pope should be spreading disgraceful lies about condoms in Africa and denouncing an innocent sexually abused 9 year old girl in Brazil for having an abortion; strange not in an ideological sense but more in terms of totalitarian strategy. Of course, it is all part of the Big Lie which I spoke about last week. But if the church wants to hold on to power in developing countries for the coming generations, then it should be encouraging contraception and abortion. For the less young people there are, the more power for the religious despots.

For the less young people there are, the more power for the religious despots

The key then for the survival of religious tyranny would be the promotion of these two concepts. This mandatory contraception policy would entail the Pontifex Maximus transforming himself into the Pro-durex Seximus, as it were. Vatican inc. could launch a lucrative contraceptive marketing campaign; they could call the new condom ‘Papal Pull’ with the caption :“Make divine love with Papal Pull, a condom proved and tested to stop the sexually transmitted disease of life. Call your parish priest today ! Terms and conditions apply” They could even publish their message on the condom packets just like the Government warning on cigarette boxes: “Church warning: Pre-marital or extra-marital sex seriously increases your chances of going to hell!”.