The German constitutional court has just made a decision on the Lisbon treaty and clarified what it says about an EU-wide army.  The findings are available here -
http://www.nationalplatform.org/lisbon-treaty/german-constitutional-court.html
What is relevant for Ireland is this particular passage:
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(2) The wording of the Treaty of Lisbon does not oblige the Member States to provide national armed forces for […]

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About 2 years ago, I went to one of the big Irish banks to ask for a mortgage for a place in Dublin.  Now, there was a bit of equity around in the form of another property that was bought a decade ago that was now worth more than was paid for it.
However, imagine my […]

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About a million years ago, a load of politicians took a load of money in return for altering planning stuff.  As a result, Dublin city is a mess and people spend ages in their cars every day going to and from work and school and the shops.  Politicians from all the political parties were involved […]

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Well, according to Paddy Power, the Lisbon Treaty will make it through.  The YES camp are odds-on favourites, with the NO camp being at 2-1.
The interesting one is the margin of victory.  The shortest odds are for a victory between 50.01-54%.  The odds here are 4-7, that is to say if you bet 7 Euro, […]

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So, this is my post about what way I am going to vote and why I am going to vote that way.  As I have said a number of times, I like to make decisions based on exploring real data and information and not on the basis of supersition or gut-instinct or any of that […]

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I have just read on the web that Rivada networks (who have American Rear Admiral Robert F. Duncan as Senior Vice President) and Libertas (who want us all to vote NO to the Lisbon treaty) HAVE THE SAME PHONE NUMBER.
Yes, folks they have the same phone number in Galway - 093 43900.
What the hell is […]

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I have just discovered that Declan J. Ganley, who is a multi, multi millionaire who is funding Libertas, the organisation that is behind most of the campaign against the EU reform treaty is the head honcho of “Rivada” which is a communications company that supplies communications devices to the US army.
What the hell is […]

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The judge from the Pat Kenny case is going to visit the site for some reason, in order to get a better idea of what is going on. What is that all about?
The land that is in dispute between PK and his missus and their neighbors is 0.2 acres in size, but might be […]

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A woman in Saudi Arabia has been given a sentence of 200 lashes and six months in prison for ‘being in a car with an unrelated man’.
The woman was gang-raped by seven men.
This is clearly an attempt to say that ’she asked for it’. The seven men who raped her were given derisory sentences […]

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I’m probably going to say something that people don’t like here, but anyway.
I’m getting fed up with people not taking personal responsibility for what is happening in Ireland and for blaming politicians and leaders for everything.
Armed violence is gone out of control, but people still don’t get the connection with doing a line of coke […]

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