DDDA Directors & The Anglo Irish Bank's Banana

The Story of The DDDA Directors & The Anglo Irish Bank's Banana

The experiment involved five Dublin Developers Autocracy Directors, a cage, a banana, a ladder and, crucially, a water hose.

The 5 DDDA Directors would be locked in a cage, after which an Anglo Irish Bank banana was hung from the ceiling with, fortunately for the DDDA Directors (or so it seemed…), a ladder placed right underneath it.

Of course, immediately, one of the DDDA Directors would race towards the ladder, intending to climb it and grab the banana. However, as soon as he would start to climb, Seanie would spray the Director with ice-cold water. In addition, however, he would also spray the other four DDDA Directors…

When a second Director was about to climb the ladder, Seanie would, again, spray the Director with ice-cold water, and apply the same treatment to its four fellow inmates; likewise for the third climber and, if they were particularly persistent (or dumb), the fourth one. Then they would have learned their lesson: they were not going to climb the ladder again – banana or no banana.

In order to gain further pleasure or, I guess, prolong the experiment, Seanie outside the cage would then replace one of the DDDA Directors with a new one. As can be expected, the new guy would spot the banana, think “why don’t these idiots go get it?!” and start climbing the ladder. Then, however, it got interesting: the other four DDDA Directors, familiar with the cold-water treatment, would run towards the new guy – and beat him up. The new guy, blissfully unaware of the cold-water history, would get the message: no climbing up the ladder in this cage – banana or no banana.

When the beast outside the cage would replace a second Director with a new one, the events would repeat themselves – Director runs towards the ladder; other DDDA Directors beat him up; new Director does not attempt to climb again – with one notable detail: the first new Director, who had never received the cold-water treatment himself (and didn’t even know anything about it), would, with equal vigour and enthusiasm, join in the beating of the new guy on the block.

When the researcher replaced a third Director, the same thing happened; likewise for the fourth until, eventually, all the DDDA Directors had been replaced and none of the ones in the cage had any experience or knowledge of the cold-water treatment.

Then, a new Director was introduced into the cage. It ran toward the ladder only to get beaten up by the others. Yet, this Director turned around and asked “why do you beat me up when I try to get the banana?” The other four DDDA Directors stopped, looked at each other slightly puzzled and, finally, shrugged their shoulders: “Don’t know. But that’s the way we do things around here”…

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DDDA Is A Farce linked to Anglo-Irish. Enough Damage. Shut DDDA Now.

Lar

Enough Damage.
DDDA Is A Farce linked to Anglo-Irish.
Shut The DDDA Autocracy Down Now.

The Developer's Autocracy (DDDA) should be shut down immediately.

The Autocracy is cross-contaminated by Anglo-Irish Bank and is even using curious materials from the promoters of the Poolbeg Incinerator - where politically-challenged and politically appointed officials in Bord Pleanala and EPA-Ireland apparently over-rode the professionals, apparently.

Do your own research to form your own opinion.
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See article posted as comment number 1
See Feb/March edition of Village Magazine.
See Shane Ross, Senator, Irish Republic.

Lifting a lid on Anglo’s links to the docklands

Anglo Irish Bank helped finance the property explosion in the docklands, but was it too close for comfort to the docks development agency, wonder Nick Webb and Louise McBride

Seanie

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/lifting-a-lid-on-anglorsquos-links-to-the-docklands-1640827.html?service=Print

DDDA Developers Autocracy Visits Theatre - A Farce With Your Money

Seanie's Shell Game by the Seaside.

Shut down the Developers Autocracy Immediately

• €13,700: Developers Autocracy five-star hotel accommodation in Spain.
• €30,000: Developers Autocracy "active citizenship" trip to Boston.
• €1,077 : Developers Autocracy Theatre tickets for 12.

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Wasters - €30,000 on Docklands' trip to Boston

Ken Foxe

http://www.tribune.ie/article/2009/feb/08/wasters-30000-on-docklands-trip-to-boston/

With unprecedented pressure on the public purse, The Sunday Tribune uncovers several cases of jet-setting at the taxpayer's expense

Sean Fitzpatrick

A CONTROVERSIAL state body flew 13 people to Boston for a conference on housing management and "active citizenship", at a cost of almost €30,000, it has emerged.

It also spent €1,077 on theatre tickets on a 12-person trip to London, nearly €1,700 on a dinner in the same city and €13,700 on five-star hotel accommodation in Spain.

The Dublin Docklands Development Authority, which is responsible for the regeneration of the capital's docklands, regularly flew more than ten people to various seminars and courses and on visits overseas.

In August 2006, the DDDA flew 13 people to Boston for several days for a conference. Flights and accommodation came to €24,043 and €3,000 went on incidental expenses. These included dinner for 20, which cost €1,466.80, and two other dinners for 14 costing nearly €750. A "float" for the trip was €350, while snacks cost €71.43.

In September 2006, another 12 people from the DDDA travelled to London for "education and research". While the authority was economical with flights, it made up for it by buying theatre tickets.

Flights to London cost just €518.60, with train tickets from Heathrow coming in at €366.90. Theatre tickets for 12, however, cost €1,077 while two dinners for 12 people came in at €1,461.

Accommodation for three nights for the group came to nearly €5,500, the DDDA said in response to a Freedom of Information request.

One of the most costly trips was in October 2006, when 14 officials went to Bilbao and San Sebastian in Spain. Flights cost just €2,056.45, but the hotel bill for two nights came to €13,772. The group stayed at the five-star Hotel Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, which has made the coveted Gold List in Condé Nast Traveller magazine.

The 14 officials also enjoyed two fine meals at the Casa Nicola and Juanito restaurants in the Basque country, costing €2,285.

On that trip were board members Lar Bradshaw, Declan McCourt, Seán FitzPatrick (former Anglo Irish Bank chairman), Donall Curtin, Mary Moylan, Joan O'Connor, Niamh O'Sullivan and Angela Cavendish. Executive members Paul Maloney, David Higgins, Gerry Kelly, Loretta Lambkin, John McLaughlin and Neil Mulcahy also travelled.

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Dublin Developers Autocracy, Dublin Docklands Authority, Anglo Irish Bank,

Poolbeg Incinerator Style Pollution Costs California $28 Billion Annually

Poolbeg is already polluted above EU air pollution standards. The Poolbeg Incinerator to be operated by an offshore-entity will add to the particulates burden. The effects of the microscopic PM2.5 and PM1.0 particulates are not understood, they are not measured, but in a parallel to the Tobacco Industry, the premature deaths could lead to the Irish Government being sued for Eight Billion Euro. Send a text to John Gormley and to BIFFO.

Bord Pleanala rejected an incinerator at Rathcoole because of air pollution and traffic concerns - both are far worse at Poolbeg and will cause many more premature deaths, except for horses. In a Dail non-response [Dail reference:12568/07] Dick Roach passively confirmed there will be up to 300 premature deaths each year.

• At least one Bord Pleanala Director comes from the 'consulting company' used by DCC to promote the waste-to-toxins incinerator.
• The Irish EPA is apparently totally compromised at Director level in a scenario not unlike Anglo-Irish and the Developers Autocracy (DDDA).
• A small incinerator in Tipperary was also rejected by Bord Pleanala - because it would harm horses.

California's standards are far more advanced then the EU standard which is apparently hobbled by BASF (IG Farben).

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California Economy Loses $28 Billion Yearly due to Health Effects of Pollution

http://lifeofearth.org/2008/11/california-economy-loses-28-billion-yearly-due-to-health-effects-of-pollution.html

• The California economy loses about $28 billion annually due to premature deaths and illnesses linked to ozone and particulates

• Most of those costs, about $25 billion, are connected to roughly 3,000 smog-related deaths each year, but additional factors include work and school absences, emergency room visits, and asthma attacks and other respiratory illnesses

• The savings would come from about 3,800 fewer premature deaths among those age 30 and older; 1.2 million fewer days of school absences; 2 million fewer days of respiratory problems in children; 467,000 fewer lost days of work and 2,700 fewer hospital admissions, according to the study.

• The study noted that attaining the federal standard for exposure to particulates would save more lives than lowering the number of motor vehicle fatalities to zero in most of the regions examined.

Click here for full article, or read the article posted as a comment. Particulates are caused by diesel cars and incinerators.

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Deadly Particles (PM2.5), Poolbeg Incinerator, Waste-To-Toxins, Bord Pleanala, EPA, IG Farben-BASF,

DDDA Friends In Anglo Irish Manipulated Deposits?

DDDA - Dublin Developers Autocracy

Did the director friends of Dublin Developers Autocracy in Anglo Irish manipulate deposits?

The DDDA should be shut done - the Five Thousand Million Euro which DDDA plans to spend on concrete at Poolbeg should instead be used to build a sustainable culture of 21st century innovation.

• Anglo Irish Bank seems to have been the bank inside The Galway Tent pyramid scheme.
• The Dublin Developers Autocracy (DDDA) is curiously linked to Anglo-Irish in a manner which does not inspire confidence - the inbred directors' relationships are a severe challenge to ethics.
• The Dublin Developers Autocracy is apparently running a sham "public consultation" before it dictates planning permissions in Poolbeg to the benefit of Anglo-related property developers.
  

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Regulator to probe Anglo's deposit history
By Brendan Keenan

Monday February 09 2009

THERE will be intense scrutiny of figures for deposits at Anglo-Irish Bank when the nationalised lender publishes its annual results later this month, following reports that the Financial Regulator is examining whether previous year-end figures were artificially boosted by short-term inflows of deposits to coincide with the annual results.

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Full article is posted as the first comment.

Explanation of DDDA and DCC Incinerator Promotor's Methodology in Ringsend/Poolbeg: Community Participation in Regeneration and Development, Andrew MacLaran, The Centre for Urban & Regional Studies, Head of Geography, School of Natural Sciences, TCD.
http://www.cpa.ie/research/seminars/presentations/2008-11-04_AndrewMacLaran.pdf
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Dublin Docklands Authority, Anglo Irish Bank,

DDDA Developers Autocracy Big Lies

Galway Races, 2006

DDDA Developers Autocracy Big Lies

The DDDA Developers Autocracy seems to hinder and effectively block the free flow of information to the public whilst loudly claiming the opposite. Is this consistent with the Big Lie Technique - more politely called ‘spin’? A Trinity College research paper has interesting comments on the curious techniques used by organisations such as DDDA and Incinerator-Promoters-DCC when "engaging" and "consulting" with their targets, their esteemed public, in Ringsend.

The DDDA Developers Autocracy provides autocratic planning permission for Seanie's Anglo-Irish Bank.

Anglo's large stakeholders, including the landowners keep their names secret - why? The public can NOT contest this autocratic permission in any meaningful way.

The land in the 'docklands' for which DDDA is spinning is actually on Sandymount Strand; Dick Roach approved DDDA's land grab beyond the docklands and into Sandymount in 2007. The transfer of the public strand from the public to private companies during the 1990's is very curious and seems to have involved Allied Irish Bank using the cynical pretext of a sports ground. More than three hundred workers were fired in order to tidy up the Glass Bottle Factory site. Taxes are being increased to pay off the three hundred million Euro which Seanie, DDDA and Anglo-Irish Bank have lost at the IGB site.

Some of The Autocracy’s spin is below. Translate it yourself. If needed get some help from Ernst & Young, defenders of the public interest and the auditors for Seanie’s Bank. Price Waterhouse Coopers can provide any needed “consultation”, if you pay them, as they apparently have for DDDA and Anglo-Irish Bank.

Big Lie One
"The planning scheme has been prepared following engagement with all stakeholders, including the landowners, local communities, utility companies, state and semi-state bodies, over the period in advance of this formal public consultation phase," DDDA chief executive Paul Maloney said.

Big Lie Two
"We have also met with many of the residents from the Ringsend, Irishtown, Sandymount and Poolbeg areas, and the Docklands Council members to capture their vision for the area and understand their concerns. This consultation has been invaluable," he added.

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Irish Times & Labour Party Spin For Developers Autocracy (DDDA)

Very Curious.

Following its lazy, or otherwise practice, The Irish Times seems to have yet again issued a DDDA press release on behalf of the Dublin Developer's Autocracy (DDDA). The Developer's Autocracy seems to directly use The Irish Times and The Labour Party's Councillor Humphries to perform its PR and spin, coordinated by it's own in-house spin department.

The DDDA Developer's Autocracy should be shut down. It no longer serves its original social purpose. Who does the DDDA Developer's Autocracy work for besides the directors of Fianna Fails developers' bank (Anglo-Irish) and its own DDDA directors and their colleagues in the tent?


Dublin Developer's Autocracy (DDDA) & Gerrymander

It is curious that Cllr Humphries distributes leaflets on behalf of DDDA for its cynically titled "public consultations". Cllr Humphries has not distributed leaflets about the close relationships between DDDA and Anglo-Irish Bank. He does not explain how these relationships can be fully trustworthy.

Cllr Humphries leaflets were distributed to part of the electoral district apparently gerrymandered to the benefit of the Developers Autocracy, and split as urged by Cllr Humphries. It is especially curious that DDDA, to date, has not itself issued household flyers about the alleged "consultations". This smells more strongly than the Poolbeg Sewage Factory. It smells of The Big Lie.

And it will be interesting to see if the rest of the gerrymandered district is notified. And it will be interesting to see if the "consultations" continue to be held in locations at a considerable distance from the large population around Dublin Bay.

Very Curious & totally consistent with The Big Lie methodology, however accidentally.

Irish Times Needs Developer's Autocracy Advertising Money

The Irish Times gains advertising revenue from the Dublin Developer's Autocracy - a minimal disclosure omitted from the Irish Times 'article' dated Feb 2, 2009.

Example of Irish Times journalism:
"The plans, once they are ratified by the Minister for the Environment, ..."

A credible journalist or a minimally pretending journalist would at least say IF they are ratified. And then add some critical insight to inform the public.

This same lazy, or otherwise journalist, also reprinted press releases taken more or less directly from the promoters of the Poolbeg Incinerator at the politically biased EPA Oral Hearings in 2008.

This same lazy, or otherwise journalist, does not mention any possible conflicts of interest at the Dublin Developer's Autocracy:

• Dublin Developer's Autocracy dictates planning permission at Poolbeg
• The public can not appeal decisions
  
• Dublin Developer's Autocracy bypasses Bord Pleanala
• Dublin Developer's Autocracy "invested" taxpayer money in the IGB site and lost most of that money (information is currently withheld; ask Seanie to confirm probable write-offs are €400,000,000.)
  
• Revolving doors between Anglo Irish Bank's auditors, Price Waterhouse Coopers auditors/accountants/directors, DDDA Developers Autocracy, Anglo-Irish, RPS Consulting, Dublin City Council, Incineration Promoters, EPA Ireland, Ex-EPA Ireland "consultants", Covanta & Dong, Indaver, Energy Answers, An Bord Pleanala, ...
  
• Apparently the honest Directors at the Dublin Developer's Autocracy have a longstanding history of "working closely with" the honest Directors of Anglo Irish Bank.
  

The Irish Times journalist and the editor should be posted to New Orleans as they are "doing a mighty fine job".



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Dublin Developers Autocracy, Dublin Docklands Authority, Poolbeg, Poolbeg Incinerator, Councillor Humphreys,