Ganley in Slovakia says he does not want to be Irish Prime Minister

Declan Ganley in Slovakia tells his side of Libertas failedEU funding fiasco which is being investigated. libertas claims are not substantiated by the images they have put on Flicker which are not applications for EU funding. (See older post Libertas gets dirty)
It is Ganley who is misrepresenting the truth once again. When will Mr. transparency stop his disinformation and mistruth led media flight?
He also says he has "sources" in the EU. Does he have his spy master Kevin O'Connell building up a spook network inside the EU?

Ganley does not want to be Irish prime minister! Would the Irish would have a hard time electing a supporter of the British Armed Forces ?(See older post Declan Ganley's London Club)

"Where do you see for five years? Chcete byť europoslancom alebo írskym premiérom? To be an MEP, or the Irish prime minister?

„Nechcem byť írskym premiérom. "I do not want to be Irish Prime Minister. Dúfam, že o päť rokov sa budem môcť pozrieť dozadu a uvidím, že Libertas si svoju úlohu splnila. I hope that in five years I can look back and see that Libertas has fulfilled its role. Že ľuďom bude ležať na srdci demokracia, zodpovednosť a transparentnosť v Bruseli. That people will lie at the heart of democracy, accountability and transparency in Brussels.
Ak to dokážeme, únia bude oveľa silnejšia, dôveryhodnejšia a rešpektovanejšia na celom svete. If we, the Union will be much stronger, more credible and rešpektovanejšia worldwide. Chcem z Bruselu dostať lobistov a dať tam namiesto nich ľudí. I want to get from Brussels lobbyists and give them there instead of people."

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Gute Beziehungen zum CIA

Schon die Anfänge der erfolgreichen Unternehmer-Karriere liegen im Dunkeln. Der Sohn irischer Gastarbeiter in England habe bereits mit 13 Jahren 18 Stunden am Tag Torf gestochen, "90 Lkw-Ladungen in einem Sommer", erzählte er selbst in einem Fernsehinterview. Mit 19 kam ihm die Idee, westliche Forschungssatelliten mit russischen Raketen ins All zu schießen und das Ganze lukrativ versichern zu lassen. In anderen Versionen handelte er sich mit Aluminium aus Sibirien reich oder verdiente beim Verkauf eines gewaltigen Holzimperiums 100 Millionen Dollar. Niemand weiß, ob irgend etwas davon stimmt. Klar ist nur: Schon in jungen Jahren wurde er zum Multimillionär.

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Dabei lernte er offenbar viele wichtige Leute aus der Administration in Washington kennen, Don De Marino zum Beispiel. Der war beim damaligen Präsidenten Ronald Reagan für die wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen zwischen den USA und Saudi Arabien zuständig. Später, unter Präsident George Bush Senior, wechselte er ins Handelsministerium, 2004 kam er ins Verteidigungsressort. Dazwischen war er Direktor bei Ganleys Firma.

Ein Investmentfonds Ganleys, der "Anglo-Adriatic-Investment-Fund", residiert in London in der Mount Street 128. Dort sitzt zufällig auch die europäische Repräsentanz des US-Investmentfonds Paladin Capital. Und der Vorsitzende in dessen "Advisory Board" ist ein guter Bekannter Ganleys, James Woolsey, Ex-Chef des US-Geheimdienstes CIA.

Auch bei den neokonservativen Intellektuellen in Washington ist Declan Ganley gut angesehen. Als er zum Beispiel am 15. Juli im "Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom" der extrem konservativen Polit-Stiftung "The Heritage Foundation" auftrat, wurde er von Gastgeberin Sally MacNamara ob seiner Leistungen beim irischen "Nein" zum EU-Vertrag als "moderner Friedenskämpfer" bejubelt.

No Free Lunch:Ganley's Irish Independent hack Bruce Arnold attempts to divert from Libertas' disarray with accusations of smears.

Libertas Lackey Bruce Arnold has claimed that there is a smear campaign against Declan Ganley which seems to involve everyone who has ever spoken out against him or Libertas. Arnold was a guest at the Ganley organised dinner in honour of Czech Eurosceptic President Vaclav Klaus. (Full guest list at bottom of post). This dinner was Ganley's attempt to show himself as a regal and real player and was a deliberate attempt by him in collaboration with a state visitor who came at Irish taxpayers expense to embarrass the Irish government . Ganley stage managed the event to turn the Lisbon No vote into his own personal mandate. However the dinner was seen as a deliberate insult to the Irish people as Klaus was their guest.

Arnold asks questions in his piece about Ganley's eastern activities. He does not answer them. When he next dines with Mr. Ganley could he please find out the truth behind Ganley's Anglo Adriatic Investment Company and publish that? If Declan Ganley answered questions more forthrightly, then the confusion about his past and his current program would be resolved for once and for all. Arnold does not refer to the personal vendetta that Ganley and Libertas are waging against Minister for European Affairs Dick Roche. Their website host two recent attacks on him from Ganley while Arnold's article is yet another attempt at the same. Ganley is still smarting from being caught out over his claim his nationality was listed as British on his company returns due to a mistake "box filling". Roche pointed out on live radio that they were handwritten.



While Arnold presents Ganley as a victim anyone who watched the Primetime show on Ganley may take a different view. Arnold cannot ignore the contradictions between Ganley's statements and those of other people featured. Especially moving was the old pensioner who had lost his savings in Ganley International's Anglo Adriatic Investment Fund.

Read Arnold's defence of his ally below

Declan Ganley is the victim of a shameful smear campaign

Saturday February 14 2009

'Dick Roche is still looking. He has found nothing'

Declan Ganley was the most successful Irish politician of 2008. He won the Lisbon Treaty referendum, throwing the Government and opposition into chaotic confusion. He did this democratically. This irritated the losers, particularly Dick Roche. As Minister for Europe, Roche was significantly at fault for the defeat. He was well-versed in EU Lisbon Treaty intricacies, so this was inexcusable.

The campaign points made by Ganley throughout 2008 have been consistently ignored; instead, personal attacks have been launched. Among actions taken was an unbalanced, ill-researched and, in my view, malicious 'Prime Time' programme. The 'Irish Times' has published exclusively negative stories. There have been 'Village' magazine attacks, the latest of these provoking legal action by Ganley, now partly resolved.

Dick Roche was a significant contributor in 'Village' magazine, quoted as saying: "Declan Ganley is a liar, a self-employed mythologiser, a snake oil salesman".

Two smears have been applied, the first the US Funding Smear, the second an Irish Funding Smear. These have been conflated by the European Parliament's smear, where MEPs have used flimsy allegations and employed dubious procedures. Evidence in favour of Ganley has been ignored, as have his fundamental rights.

Democracy is undermined when public institutions are used in the ways adopted by Irish ministers and European parliamentarians.

RTE's 'Prime Time' programme, on November 27, 2008, was supposedly a profile of Ganley. The Sunday Independent said the programme was "an artful hatchet job, a televised internet conspiracy theory that hoovered up a fair chunk of the licence fee. RTE set out to throw mud, not to shed light, an approach that is the antithesis of public service broadcasting".

This was evident when Miriam O'Callaghan described Ganley as an enigma, asking whether his "incredible life story actually stacked up". She said there were more questions than answers, then delivered further questions,and answered none of them -- 'If [Libertas] isn't a front for spooks, is it a tool for the neo-cons?'; 'Was Ganley linked to Russian organised criminals in his early business dealings?' No answers came.

'Was public money used for this mud-slinging against Mr. Ganley?'; 'Who was behind this?'; 'What are the implications for the future?'

Lucinda Creighton alleged that Ulick McEvaddy and Ganley, whom McEvaddy supports, sought to derail political union in the EU out of self-interest connected with business dealings and their US paymasters, supposedly opposed to EU integration. No evidence has come out supporting this.

Lucinda Creighton criticised McEvaddy's description of the Lisbon Treaty as "unintelligible drivel".

She said: "There is no way this Libertas money is coming from donations." Further smears came from Fine Gael MEP Gay Mitchell. He asked rhetorically: "Are they getting it from the CIA, the UK Independence Party or their friends in the US military?" He offered no evidence. Stories on Libertas's compliance with electoral laws ran in Irish newspapers last September. Ganley replied on RTE radio that he had made a loan of €200,000 to Libertas. He stated that the money had not come from US government sources.

Environment Minister JohnGormley made a statement that Libertas acted lawfully under funding rules. Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny called for changes in electoral law. The papers reported the content of Mr Ganley's radio interview the day before. There were further questions about Libertas funding legality.

Smearing shifted to the European Parliament, where Daniel Cohn-Bendit revealed " ... a link between those who funded the 'No' campaign in Ireland and the Washington Pentagon and the CIA". He took this from Irish newspapers.

Cohn-Bendit claimed Ganley had concluded military procurement contracts with the Pentagon worth about $200m.

He said: "We must continue to keep close tabs on these things, and the facts must be put on the table. We cannot allow Europe to be damaged by people who demand transparency but are not prepared to play by the same rules themselves." This was greeted with applause.

Cohn-Bendit said Dick Roche had "made it his personal responsibility to investigate these matters. I warmly encourage his systematic pursuit of the truth". Dick Roche is still looking. He has found nothing.

The allegation that Libertas accepted CIA funding is a criminal allegation and the parliament's use of press reports for a criminal allegation is disproportionate. Mr Ganley's rights have vanished.

The truth is, Ganley won. The others lost. The Government made a mess of the campaign.

While Cowen and Roche fumbled their way towards defeat, Ganley focused on what was wrong with the European Union. He mounted an unwavering campaign. He led the 'No' vote groups in a detached way, making no alliances, dismissing ideas that were central to other 'No' voters.

The Cowen-led government then made an extraordinary mistake, indicating they would seek to reverse the decision. Brian Cowen advised Gordon Brown to ratify the Lisbon Treaty. This approach, relayed to Europe, was supported by Martin.

'No' vote activity might have declined, with the Government achieving their objectives in a subtle way. Instead we had angry confrontation. Motivation for trying again should have come from Europe, with a reluctant Dublin Government sticking with the democratic choice. Hearts and minds would have changed. Instead, the Dublin Government led the charge, insulting 'No' voters, siding with defeated.

This astonished Europe. The French presidency responded warmly, Nicolas Sarkozy visiting Dublin to seek the second referendum. This move had further negative effects. Sarkozy's new form of EU democracy was what Declan Ganley's Libertas opposed.

There was a campaign against Ganley's political credibility. The allegations to destroy him have not been established. From the start they served a political purpose, to divert responsibility for the Irish 'No' vote into stories about political funding.

What Ganley has said on Europe's democracy is never reported. The December Summit dealt with peripheral matters, ignoring his criticisms. This lack of fairness and balance is reprehensible. We should be ashamed of ourselves.

LEADING OPPONENTS of EU integration, anti-abortion campaigners and prominent figures in the Irish news media featured on the guest list for Tuesday 11 November 2008 dinner in honour of Czech president Vaclav Klaus, hosted by Declan Ganley of Libertas.
The list of those who accepted an invitation to attend was as follows: Mr Declan Ganley; Mr Jens-Peter Bonde; Ms Jens-Peter Bonde Dr Hans-Peter Martin; Ms Caroline Simons; ambassador Tomas Kafka; First Lady Livia Klausova; guest of honour, Czech president Vaclav Klaus; Mr Gary Hunter; Mr Pat Flynn; Mr Robin Matthews; Mrs Frances Matthews; Mr David (Harry) Hewitt; Mrs Frances Hewitt; Mr Kevin O'Connell; Mrs Kevin O'Connell; Mr Philip Lee; Mr Denis Bergin; Mr John Hughes; Mrs Helen Hughes; Mr Darius Sobkow; Mr Christophe Beaudouin; Mr Philippe de Villiers; Mr Mike Feerick; Mr Jiri Weigl; Mr Jiri Brodsky; Ms Margaret Costigan; Mr Bruce Arnold; Mrs Mavis Arnold; Mr Anthony Coughlan; Mrs Muriel Coughlan; Mr Patrick Louis; Mr Constantin Gurdgiev; Ms Jennifer Hord; Mr Frank Fitzgibbon; Mrs Frank Fitzgibbon; Mr Tomas Pojar, Czech deputy minister for foreign affairs; Mr Ladislav Mravec; Mr John Reid; Fr Michael Ross; Mrs Anita Kelly; Mr Gerard Lawless; Mrs Catherine Reid; Mr Chris Coughlan; Mr Colum Coughlan; Mr Michael Ganley; Mrs Bernadette Ganley; Mrs Margaret Roarty; Mr Eamon Dunphy; Ms Jane Goggin; Mr Paul MacDonnell; Ms Catherine McCartney; Mr Damien Fallon; Mrs Fiona Fallon; Mr Alan Kennedy; Ms Marta Myskova (photographer); Mrs Libuse Schmidova; Mr David Cochrane; Mrs Norrie Keane; Mr John Smith; Ms Mary Durkin; Mr Martin Mulroy; Mrs Eilis Mulroy; Ms Claire O'Donoghue; Ms Evonne Corcoran; Mr Francis O'Flaherty; Mr Sean Ascough; Mr Tom Ascough; Mrs Jackie Ascough; Mr Martin Daly; Mrs Barbara Daly; Cllr Martin Ward; Mrs Martin Ward; Mr Sean Ganley; Mr Tommy Keane; Mrs Claire Keane; Mr John McGuirk; Mr Richard Waghorne; Mr Jason O'Toole; Mrs Agnieszka O'Toole; Mr Martin Alioth; Mrs Mary Finnegan; Mr John Lee; Mr Keith O'Grady; Mrs Zuzana Rìcov; Mr Jindrich Foreigt; Mr Radim Ochvat; Ms Kathy Sinnott; Mr David Fieldsend; Mr Jesper Katz; Mr Alan Campbell; Mr James Prior; Mr David Gray; Mr Keith Birch; and Mr Walter Patterson.

Ganley denies that he is " a liar, a murderer, an arms dealer, a CIA agent, a KGB agent "

Declan Ganley says he is not " a liar, a murderer,
an arms dealer, a CIA agent, a KGB agent "

Ganley denies that he is " a liar, a murderer, an arms dealer, a CIA agent, a KGB agent ". Speaking at a pro life Catholic conference in the West of Ireland this weekend declan Ganley asserted that he was against abortion and Gay marriage. He alledged a conspiracy against Libertas at EU level. he went on to say "I have been called a liar, a murderer, an arms dealer, a CIA agent, a KGB agent – all of those things, all are filthy lies, but even if [such things were true] it doesn’t change the
truth of what we are saying is in this treaty."

Strange that he thinks that even if he were all those things he would still be right!

Ganley says Libertas became a recognised party despite best efforts of Brussels

PATSY McGARRY

At a religious conference this weekend, Libertas’s founder spoke on the EU, abortion and same-sex marriage

LIBERTAS WAS “formally recognised as a political party against the best efforts by Brussels”, the group’s founder Declan Ganley has said. He “had been reliably told” that officials in Brussels were instructed to find one comma out of place, one “i” not dotted, he said.

Two supporters in eastern Europe had been “nobbled” he said, “but there were plenty of others”.

The party was now recognised in all 27 EU countries, he said, and referred delegates to its website www.libertas.eu.

Mr Ganley was speaking in a panel discussion at a conference in Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon, at the weekend. It was organised by the Catholic John Paul II Society and co-hosted by the pro-life Human Life International group. Mr Ganley was responding to a question from the floor as to whether he was setting up a political party.

He also assured delegates of his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage, referring to earlier opening remarks in which he quoted from Pope Benedict’s recent encyclicals, Deus Caritas Est and Spe Salvi, “with their message of God’s love”.

Reflecting on Ireland’s history he continued, “our faith and our rights are strong today because we have suffered the yoke of oppression . . . we grew stronger and we grew free”.

He queried whether “we have lost something” and noted the address of the pope at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome immediately prior to his election in April 2005. There, the pope criticised a “dictatorship of moral relativism . . . in a world where faith in God is seen as a threat”, Mr Ganley said.

He went on to criticise “a media obsessed with breaking down the domestic church . . . and the family” and reminded delegates that “the essence of our faith is that all life is sacred”. He concluded: “Yes we must, we must take risks for truth.”

In the later question-and-answer session, he said any guarantees given by the EU on social and ethical issues “were not worth the paper they are written on”, where the European Court of Justice was concerned.

He continued that: “the laws of the union have primacy over the laws of any member state . . . If there is a conflict, union law rules.”

He continued: “I have been called a liar, a murderer, an arms dealer, a CIA agent, a KGB agent – all of those things, all are filthy lies, but even if [such things were true] it doesn’t change the truth of what we are saying is in this treaty.”

He said that on average more than 80 laws a year came from Brussels. However, he also warned one should “never become a Eurosceptic”. The EU, he said, was “a lesson learned from the bloodfest suffered on this continent for hundreds of years”.

All had been touched by it, including families such as his own and his wife’s. “The miracle of [the European Union] is that it has ended [the violence and war that] was on the European continent and so is deserving of our support.”

However, he continued, “for it to succeed, its legitimacy and its vitality has to come from you”.

The problem was, he said, that “the Brussels elite holds you in contempt . . . telling you to vote again. They told the French, the Dutch, and now you, to vote again . . . taking us for absolute fools, uninformed idiots.”

Ireland, he said, “made the most pro-European statement [in rejecting the Lisbon Treaty]. We want Europe to be strong, but it is also going to be accountable.”

During the same discussion NUI Senator Rónán Mullen said he would be voting No in the next Lisbon Treaty referendum if it could not be guaranteed that Ireland would retain its independence on “certain sensitive social and ethical issues”.

Irish Times 9 Feb 2009

Libertas EU funding in doubt as Estonian says he never signed up for Ganley's program

Libertas' application for EU funding is in disarray only 24 hours after the EU committee responsible approved 200,000 euro for the group..
Richard Corbett MEP calls for investigation as Libertas application is now open to question with one alleged signatory denies he supported the application.
The Estonian MP Igor Gräzin, " issued an affidavit on 3 February stating: “I have never signed any papers asking for a recognition of Libertas as a political party in the EU and all corresponding claims are utterly untrue.” So whose signature was on the application?

What is Ganley up too?
The committee refused 's apllication for 100,000 euro for a think tank as it had the same name as the political party and its appointed members were all Irish. No doubt his usual Irish Libertas hacks like Caroline Simon the leading anti abortionist and legal officer of C.O.I.R. , and former Rivada employee David Cochrane.

Libertas bid for funding comes a cropper

By Simon Taylor and Judith Crosbie

03.02.2009 / 12:25 CET

Libertas funding deal at risk after Estonian MP denies backing the formation of a pan-European party.

The European Parliament is re-considering a decision to give €200,000 in EU funds to Libertas, a new political party opposed to the EU's Treaty of Lisbon, after a member of the Estonian parliament denied that he had signed the documents used to establish the party as a pan-European organisation.

Estonian MP Igor Gräzin, a member of the Estonian Reform Party, issued an affidavit on 3 February stating: “I have never signed any papers asking for a recognition of Libertas as a political party in the EU and all corresponding claims are utterly untrue.”

Gräzin was one of eight politicians who signed the documents seeking to establish Libertas as a pan-European political party. EU rules require that, to be eligible for EU funding, a party's founding documents must have signatories from at least seven EU member states, a quarter of the total number of states.

Libertas was set up by Declan Ganley, who led the successful campaign for a ‘No' vote in the Irish referendum against the Treaty of Lisbon in June 2008.

Gräzin said that “none of Libertas's agenda” matched his position in the Estonian parliament or the Estonian Reform Party.

Gräzin was the only member of the Estonian parliament to vote against the constitutional treaty, the failed precursor of the Treaty of Lisbon, when it went before the parliament for ratification in 2006.

Gräzin's declaration came just the day after the European Parliament's budgetary bureau, made up of its president and fourteen vice-presidents, decided to award just over €200,000 to Libertas.

A prominent political opponent, the UK Liberal Democrat MEP Andrew Duff, commented that “Mr Ganley seems to have fallen at the first hurdle. Apparently his claim to have recruited enough supporters was untrue. What Europe really needs is a bit more Veritas and a lot less Libertas.”

The Parliament's bureau on 2 February allocated funds to ten parties other than Libertas for their campaigns for elections this June to the European Parliament.

The largest chunk of funding – €3.4 million – was allocated to the conservative European People's Party.

One group that has an explicitly Eurosceptic platform, the Independence/Democracy Group, received funding.

Another political group that, like Libertas, challenges the way the EU is run, Adie, received EU money until last year.

Libertas also applied for €111,000 to fund a think-tank affiliated to the party. The bureau turned down that request as the members of the think-tank's board come from just one member state (Ireland) and as it had the same name as the political party.

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EU funding for Libertas group thrown into doubt

The confirmation of the Eurosceptic group Libertas as a pan-European political party, entitling it to EU funding, has been cast into doubt, this website can reveal.

It follows Monday night’s decision by parliament’s bureau, the assembly’s key decision-making body, to endorse its status as a fully-fledged European party and allocate it €200,000 in EU funding.

However, it has now emerged that one of the eight people who Libertas claimed had signed its application to parliament appears to have withdrawn his ‘signature.’

UK ALDE deputy Andrew Duff today said he had received an email from Estonian MP Igor Grazin, a member of the liberal Reform Party in Estonia, which seems to distance himself from Libertas, the anti-Lisbon treaty group set up by Irish businessman Declan Ganley.

The email said to have been sent by Grazin reads, “I have never signed any papers asking for recognition of Libertas as a political party in the EU and all corresponding claims are utterly untrue.”

Duff says he received the correspondence after the decision by the bureau, comprising parliament’s president Hans-Gert Pöttering, its 14 vice presidents and six quaestors.

Grazin was not immediately available for comment but, if correct, the development is significant and would, says Duff, leave the bureau having to reconsider its decision.

According to EU legislation, a pan-European political party must be formally endorsed by elected representatives from at least seven member states.

Libertas said its application for recognition as a political party had been signed by “eight European democrats”. Apart from Grazin, they included two elected representatives from France and one each from the UK, Poland, Finland, Greece and Bulgaria.

“If, as appears the case, Grazin has withdrawn his support, the bureau decision will have to be changed because Libertas will have signatures from only six EU countries and not seven,” said Duff.

“I am satisfied that the email sent by the Estonian MP is genuine, not least because people I know have spoken to him. The fact of the matter is that his signature is needed in order to validate the application.”

He added, “This is a significant development because it is a constitutional issue. I have to say that it also proves the fragility of Mr Ganley’s enterprise.”

Libertas spokesperson Anita Kelly strongly refuted any suggestion that parliament’s bureau has been misled in any way.

She said, “I know nothing about this alleged email sent by Mr Grazin to Mr Duff.”

“The fact of the matter is that he did sign the submission which went to the bureau.

“The application was carefully scrutinised by parliament’s legal service and if it contained insufficient signatures it is hardly likely the bureau would have accepted the application because it would have been rendered invalid.”

When asked about the implications if Grazin's signature was not in the application, a well-placed parliament source said, “At a minimum the matter will have to be investigated.

“Grazin has, after all, sent an affidavit to the parliament so there are now two conflicting sources of information - the other being the application submitted by Ganley.

“Should it prove that Grazin is not one of the signatories, then Libertas will be one country short of the criterion to qualify for recognition and funding.”

Further reaction came from UK Socialist deputy Gary Titley who described Libertas as "phoney," adding, "EU funds should only go to political parties whose elected representatives were elected in their name. As far as I am aware, this is not the case with Libertas."

His party colleague, Richard Corbett said, "As far as I am concerned Libertas has not yet proved its existence. I would like the bureau to investigate further, in particular the affiliates and members Libertas claims to have." here

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