"The Clarion Call" started as a periodic e-newsletter written by Vercingetorix, as a stand against the desecration of sacred sites and other wrongs perpetrated by the government, not the least of which concerns the conflict surrounding the Hill of Tara and the M3 motorway in County Meath, Ireland, as well as other concerns occuring on the Isle.

We hardly know ourselves -- would we?

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Change of mindset
by Wishing Wed Feb 24, 2010 17:13

I believe we really do have a problem with tribalism regarding the way we vote here, but, no more, or at least not all that much more, than other nations have at the present time.

Also, there is reason to believe that things may be starting to really change in some places regarding this issue: thanks largely to the present global banking crisis it seems.

"It's an evil wind indeed that does not blow some good."

For example, I've just read a recent article about the way a lot of people in certain parts of the United States seem to be abandoning political parties, or at least putting their differences to one side to a very large extent, in the search for innovative, real, and lasting solutions to the banking crisis (and all of the closely associated and disastrous social problems connected with it) -- and happily finding that there may well be major benefits for local communities, and society as a whole, by so doing.

Basically, it seems that a growing number of political candidates (and their supporters) -- belonging to different political parties -- are together proposing that states generate their own credit by setting up their own banks.

How I wish a that movement of that kind might soon start up here in the Republic of Ireland.

If such a "movement" were to suddenly appear here in the Republic of Ireland, being carried straight to us on a hare's back, it wouldn't be half fast enough for me: particularly if the same "movement" applied itself, at the same time, to stopping the "Great Giveaway" of our much needed oil and gas reserves: which, AMAZINGLY it seems to me, and for reasons best known to themselves (that I suspect might not be of the best kind), ALL of our main political parties appear to be hell-bent on going ahead with.

The text of the "Truthout" article in question (which relates to the United States only unfortunately at the present time) can be viewed at:

http://www.truthout.org/more-candidates-favoring-state-owned-banks57106

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The text in the section immediately above has been copied from the following Indymedia (Ireland) location:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/95793#comment265527

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"You haven't an arm, you haven't a leg
The enemy nearly slew you
You'll have to go out on the streets to beg
Oh, poor Johnny, what've they done to you?"

Military Band Leader Patrick Gilmore -- the "Glynn Miller" (sort of) of the American Civil War -- who came from Ballygar (County Galway), and who was the author of , is said to have informed someone, in 1863, that "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya" provided the basis for what he used when writing the song which was to later prove itself one of the most enduring of that period, and which continues to this day to be a firm favourite with the military bands of the United States of America.

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Human Rights (Ireland):

http://www.humanrightsireland.com

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