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Richard Boyd Barrett?

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  • 23-07-2005 10:06am
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    Nuttzz
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    Who is he?

    I was listening to Newstalk this morning and he was on, he seems to be wheeled out as Irelands expert on what is happening in Iraq.

    He ran for local elections and could only get half a quota to get elected so who does he represent? If anyone?

    The 13 candidates of his party got 6464 votes between the lot of them, less than what Sean Haughey (ffs) got on his own in the last election.


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    Frank Grimes
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    He's the chairman of the Irish Anti-War Movement (http://irishantiwar.org)


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    mike65
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    During the "No to Nice" campaign he was all over the place but hardly a sausage since.

    Mike.


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    The Corinthian
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    He’s been one of the leading lights (for what it’s worth) of the Irish Socialist Workers Party since the early 1990’s. As such you’ll see him in the limelight of a good few campaigns that are wither fronts for or that are hijacked by the SWP.

    Having said this, on a personal level he’s actually quite a nice chap.


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    GUBU
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    Nuttzz wrote:
    I was listening to Newstalk this morning and he was on, he seems to be wheeled out as Irelands expert on what is happening in Iraq.

    If he's used as an "expert", it's going to be a very one-sided discussion! I hope Newstalk had someone with a different point of view on Iraq and similar knowledge of the subject on as well to even it out a bit.


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    Nuttzz
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    GUBU wrote:
    If he's used as an "expert", it's going to be a very one-sided discussion! I hope Newstalk had someone with a different point of view on Iraq and similar knowledge of the subject on as well to even it out a bit.

    he was on, with another chap would said the americans should pull out of iraq and leave the security of iraq to iran :eek: and an iraqi kurd. RBB's opening lines to the iraqi went along the lines of "you are a kurd of course you happy with the war"

    I have looked at the Irish Anti-War Movement website, it looks like its just the SWP with a different name. I dont understand how demonstrating about the Rossport 5 comes under the remit of an anti war movement (anti-globalisation one maybe, or even the SWP)


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    Victor
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    Nuttzz wrote:
    I dont understand how demonstrating about the Rossport 5 comes under the remit of an anti war movement (anti-globalisation one maybe, or even the SWP)
    The oil/gas industry?


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    Nuttzz
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    Victor wrote:
    The oil/gas industry?

    The US went to war at the behest of shell????


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    supersheep
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    Nuttzz wrote:
    The US went to war at the behest of shell????
    EVERYONE knows that. 9/11 was a conspiracy to drive up the price of oil and bring about a 1984-style world.... :p


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    Victor
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    supersheep wrote:
    EVERYONE knows that. 9/11 was a conspiracy to drive up the price of oil and bring about a 1984-style world.... :p
    I think his point is that Royal Dutch Shell, isn't an American company.

    But one can't deny they have benefitted from higher oil prices.


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    Sand
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    But one cna't deny they have benefitted from higher oil prices

    Which has more to do with China sucking up as much production as it possibly can than anything else, with side effects such as immunity for the Sudanese in Darfur, and Uzbekistan having a patron ready to protect them from any backlash from the massacre of protestors a few months ago.


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