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		<title>By: Irish Election &#187; Nunn Distances Himself from Libertas&#8217; Campaign</title>
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		<dc:creator>Irish Election &#187; Nunn Distances Himself from Libertas&#8217; Campaign</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] today in the Irish Times. Despite the party polling at 2% in the latest Business Post poll, the Chairman appears to be hanging his hat on a few high-profile scuffles between his candidates and sitting [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Irish Election &#187; Just One Letter&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.irishelection.com/2008/05/libertas-rivada/comment-page-1/#comment-116064</link>
		<dc:creator>Irish Election &#187; Just One Letter&#8230;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Declan Ganley from appointing Michael Jackson and George Foreman to the board of Rivada Networks. All four newcomers to the board [of Rivada] are linked to the international defence [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Declan Ganley from appointing Michael Jackson and George Foreman to the board of Rivada Networks. All four newcomers to the board [of Rivada] are linked to the international defence [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Niall</title>
		<link>http://www.irishelection.com/2008/05/libertas-rivada/comment-page-1/#comment-65961</link>
		<dc:creator>Niall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My favourite Libertas poster had to be the &quot;Don&#039;t vote for another Turkey&quot; one. An unfortunate choice of word? Hardly.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My favourite Libertas poster had to be the &#8220;Don&#8217;t vote for another Turkey&#8221; one. An unfortunate choice of word? Hardly.</p>
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		<title>By: U Davey</title>
		<link>http://www.irishelection.com/2008/05/libertas-rivada/comment-page-1/#comment-65960</link>
		<dc:creator>U Davey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Whoever ran the Yes campaign should get their arses in a sling. They used the same tactics as last time - thinking that papering lamp-posts with photos of baldy oul&#039; bollixes saying &#039;Vote Yes&#039; would carry the day.  They had no strategy in place to respond to the very slick campaign run by Libertas.  And no-one will ever persuade me that that Libertas campaign wasn&#039;t the product of very very very expensive experts, mocked up to look like it was an amateur undertaking.  They pressed all the right psychological buttons to make people feel that they were being bullied into voting Yes, when in fact they were being manipulated into voting No. 


I don&#039;t believe that Future Taoiseach is so naive that he doesn&#039;t know exactly why the US want to wreck the EU.  They already have the UK in there as their cat&#039;s paw.  The EU is a big threat to the US, and they don&#039;t want it to succeed.  Why do you think they&#039;re pressing for Turkey&#039;s application to join the EU to be fast-tracked?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whoever ran the Yes campaign should get their arses in a sling. They used the same tactics as last time &#8211; thinking that papering lamp-posts with photos of baldy oul&#8217; bollixes saying &#8216;Vote Yes&#8217; would carry the day.  They had no strategy in place to respond to the very slick campaign run by Libertas.  And no-one will ever persuade me that that Libertas campaign wasn&#8217;t the product of very very very expensive experts, mocked up to look like it was an amateur undertaking.  They pressed all the right psychological buttons to make people feel that they were being bullied into voting Yes, when in fact they were being manipulated into voting No. </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t believe that Future Taoiseach is so naive that he doesn&#8217;t know exactly why the US want to wreck the EU.  They already have the UK in there as their cat&#8217;s paw.  The EU is a big threat to the US, and they don&#8217;t want it to succeed.  Why do you think they&#8217;re pressing for Turkey&#8217;s application to join the EU to be fast-tracked?</p>
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		<title>By: celtic donkey</title>
		<link>http://www.irishelection.com/2008/05/libertas-rivada/comment-page-1/#comment-64493</link>
		<dc:creator>celtic donkey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 11:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve been investigating Libertas since the beginning, I&#039;m highly suspicious of the whole thing and there is a lot more to it than meets the eye. 

- You&#039;re right about Cochrane. He has been working for Ganley since at least last September, when he had just moved to Oranmore. He was then describing himself as a &quot;political adviser&quot; to Ganley. Perhaps Ganley is paying him privately, not Libertas, although he is listed as a Director. 

- No exclusivity about Rivada and Libertas sharing details, I&#039;m afraid! Most of the founder members of Libertas are Ganley employees, most of whom are based in his Tuam HQ, which is where that phone number is answered. 

- On Libertas&#039; founding document, most of the other signatories were Ganley employees. Other notables were Roger Downer, former president of UL, who was well-known only for his US fundraising abilities, and his sidekick in the college, who still works there. Very strange - no idea how or why he became involved, except that there was a hullabaloo in the college last year over Aeronautical Engineering projects being used for US warcraft...

- Bringing us back to the link between Ganley, McEvaddy and the rest of the crew. US military is the link. 

- Chekhov Feeney&#039;s excellent article on Indymedia has raised eyebrows among the Galway business community, who are determined to fight Ganley&#039;s campaign very vocally on a local platform. Chris Coughlan was one of theirs, and an incoming President of Chambers Ireland (which is currently advocating a yes vote), before he signed up to Libertas. Let&#039;s not forget HP, Coughlan&#039;s employer, is a US company. 

More on this on my blog... http://www.celticdonkey.blogspot.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been investigating Libertas since the beginning, I&#8217;m highly suspicious of the whole thing and there is a lot more to it than meets the eye. </p>
<p>- You&#8217;re right about Cochrane. He has been working for Ganley since at least last September, when he had just moved to Oranmore. He was then describing himself as a &#8220;political adviser&#8221; to Ganley. Perhaps Ganley is paying him privately, not Libertas, although he is listed as a Director. </p>
<p>- No exclusivity about Rivada and Libertas sharing details, I&#8217;m afraid! Most of the founder members of Libertas are Ganley employees, most of whom are based in his Tuam HQ, which is where that phone number is answered. </p>
<p>- On Libertas&#8217; founding document, most of the other signatories were Ganley employees. Other notables were Roger Downer, former president of UL, who was well-known only for his US fundraising abilities, and his sidekick in the college, who still works there. Very strange &#8211; no idea how or why he became involved, except that there was a hullabaloo in the college last year over Aeronautical Engineering projects being used for US warcraft&#8230;</p>
<p>- Bringing us back to the link between Ganley, McEvaddy and the rest of the crew. US military is the link. </p>
<p>- Chekhov Feeney&#8217;s excellent article on Indymedia has raised eyebrows among the Galway business community, who are determined to fight Ganley&#8217;s campaign very vocally on a local platform. Chris Coughlan was one of theirs, and an incoming President of Chambers Ireland (which is currently advocating a yes vote), before he signed up to Libertas. Let&#8217;s not forget HP, Coughlan&#8217;s employer, is a US company. </p>
<p>More on this on my blog&#8230; <a href="http://www.celticdonkey.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.celticdonkey.blogspot.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Irish Election &#187; Libertas &#38; Rivada - Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.irishelection.com/2008/05/libertas-rivada/comment-page-1/#comment-64473</link>
		<dc:creator>Irish Election &#187; Libertas &#38; Rivada - Part II</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 14:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Libertas &amp; Rivada  [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Chekov</title>
		<link>http://www.irishelection.com/2008/05/libertas-rivada/comment-page-1/#comment-64471</link>
		<dc:creator>Chekov</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;&quot;Wagger believes is stretching the evidence (Wagger doesn’t remember Cochrane being a member of the Freedom Institute, for example)&quot;&lt;/em&gt;

EWI has answered that one.  I&#039;ve a long memory for such stuff.  Any other evidence stretching?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>&#8220;Wagger believes is stretching the evidence (Wagger doesn’t remember Cochrane being a member of the Freedom Institute, for example)&#8221;</em></p>
<p>EWI has answered that one.  I&#8217;ve a long memory for such stuff.  Any other evidence stretching?</p>
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		<title>By: le</title>
		<link>http://www.irishelection.com/2008/05/libertas-rivada/comment-page-1/#comment-64470</link>
		<dc:creator>le</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 12:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>military contracts are military contracts and our like golddust</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>military contracts are military contracts and our like golddust</p>
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		<title>By: Irish Election &#187; Caption Comp: Rock the Vote Re-Launch</title>
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		<dc:creator>Irish Election &#187; Caption Comp: Rock the Vote Re-Launch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 11:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Libertas &amp; Rivada  [...]</description>
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		<title>By: &#187; The more they talk&#8230; Semper Idem: A Blueshirts blog on politics, mainly</title>
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		<dc:creator>&#187; The more they talk&#8230; Semper Idem: A Blueshirts blog on politics, mainly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 08:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] emphatic. However, it is also a statement which seems a bit too emphatic considering the links Wagger highlighted yesterday.  One wonders where this story will go [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] emphatic. However, it is also a statement which seems a bit too emphatic considering the links Wagger highlighted yesterday.  One wonders where this story will go [...]</p>
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