Posted on 12/06/2011 12:49:54 PM PST by Qbert
Why bother with the one true barbarous relic - democracy - when good ole' fascism will suffice. As The Telegraph's Bruno Waterfield reports, "EU to avoid any votes - parliamentary or popular on treaty change - via obscure Lisbon Treaty 'passerelle' clause, Art. 126 (14) via protocol 12. "This decision does not require ratification at national level. This procedure could therefore lead to rapid and significant changes," says confidential Van Rompuy text. Funnily enough, only Britain will have to have a parliamentary vote under the Tories recent Sovereignty Act even though it is eurozone only changes." And that is how a bunch of corrupt kleptocratic incompetent eurocrats usurp all power in a regime now entirely controlled by Goldman Sachs. Unless, of course, the UK once again stops the insurgent takeover of the insolvent continent by the squid.
Of course, the one person the chart above ignores is US ambassador to Germany, Philip Murphy, a 23 year retired partner of... Goldman Sachs.
La la la la ..... can’t (won’t) hear ya.
Great article. The non-voting issue is discussed in a presentation on Zero Hedge. See the presentation here:
http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com
And the EU just announced it was DOUBLING the rescue fund!!!!
The Unelected Technocrats are in charge now.
I hope the Euros enjoyed the short experiment with Democracy.
And they tell us not to believe in conspiracy theories!
Well, I guess they’re right. It’s not a conspiracy anymore, it’s right in the open. Our guy here in Italy is Goldman Sachs, Trilateral Commission, Bilberger. I’d love to know his merits and demerits, but they all took place behind closed doors. But we know he’s a Grande Professore... and now the spread is down to a more manageable figure. And the horse medicine was so strong that one of the lady ministers actually shed tears.
There’s only one problem. The financial wizards with all their fantastic inventions were the ones who got us into this mess in the first place with their 700,000 billion dollars in toxic paper (10 times the planet’s GNP). We don’t need those kind of technocrats, (bankers every last one of them) we need nuns... ‘cause underneath it all the real problem is cultural: we need kids, families with moms and pops, we need lower entry barriers for new activities. Germany, whose actual accounts might even be more messed up than Italy’s (if Handelsblatt is to believed) is not any sort of paragon of virtue when they’re not reproducing and need to import Turks.
It’s Chinese style capitalism that is taking over. Destruction of the middle class well underway. We count the Audis but not Die Kinder.
The alarm bells should’ve already gone off (and I missed them) when they came out with the designs for the Euro Bills... all makebelieve places devoid of people. People are a nuisance, they don’t matter... a good many probably need to be eliminated anyway. Our guy, il grande Professore SuperMario was also tight with the Rockefeller Foundation. Yep, our guy’s got every conspiracy credential possible to man.
I remember money always being important in the grand scheme of things... but it was never like this!
Well Italy’s on fire so let’s call the pyromaniacs!
Interesting. It’s the same secretive backroom dealing that’s been escalating over here from both parties.
I can’t but help think that a potentially massive change like this without popular vote is going to go over well in the other EU nations.
What is interesting is FReepers continue to justify the German power grab.
Ping
I count on the Northern countries to rebel. They’ve got pride (even to a sinful degree) whereas we’ve got cyncism (to a sinful degree). Plus they have a culture of Res Publica, for us, the State (for historical reasons) has always been the enemy.
Italians will probably accept the shenanigans if they perceive it coming from Europe. It will gall them - eventually - if it is perceived as German or German/French.
All the fiscal rigor (more taxes but not cuts) will tend to exacerbate the North - South rift.
But I see disaffection with the whole European dream on the rise even here in what was once the most enthusiastic of the Europa lovers. Eventually a form of religion will take hold: “Hey, we’re not happier. What happened to the families? Where’s mama cooking the meals? Why the hell should we consider men plooking each other up the butt “marriage”... What are those Africans doing rowing the gondolas? Why have all the small privately owned warm and neighborly cafes gone out of business and been replaced by franchises with foreigners wearing name tags? How come it’s not safe anymore? Why is every transaction monitored? Why are those people clogging the streets with their butts in the air banging their heads on the ground? They’ll demand to have Italy back, with all her vices and virtues. Open borders will become truly dangerous with all the Muslims.
Yes, I think people will suddenly realize that life was definitely better in the bad old days and that less can truly and significantly mean more...
“For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul?”
Matthew 16:26
That religious baloney... which shockingly - embarrassingly is 100% true - time and time again (even when it pisses you off because of Northern pride or Southern cynicism).
At the moment, the answer to Europe’s problems is too big and simple to be accepted. So first come the secretive money junkies and technocrats... and then when they fail... there will be a return to the stern but forgiving King who has never failed us. And focus will return. The French Revolution ain’t what we are. Never mind the egalitè and the faux fratermité or the liberté that means “rien” left to lose. Give us back the good, true and beautiful!
Forza Europa!!!
Decisions, decisions. I took a profit and dumped my bullish dollar position today. I’m concerned there could be another short-term Euro boost from all this tomfoolery.
The next question for this trade will be...When do I pull the trigger and get back in? Probably after the Euro and stock rally which will follow the end of the Dec. 9 meetings.
I disagree. Northern countries will roll over. It will be the more nationalist Eastern countries that will rebel (Slovakia eg). They are too recent to Soviet rule to not see what is coming. The scary part is Putin’s popularity is way down and he could use a war and some glory of winming back some of the old bloc for his ratings.
Ah, but that’s why they call them “treaties”. So the educated elite can decide what’s best without disturbing the masses’ TV-watching.
What experiment was that? The government they set up in Brussels was a copy of the USSR's government, and that was totalitarian in nature. (As is its analog in China.) Sounds like an experiment in the removal of democracy, and it's worked a little too well.
I hope the Euros enjoyed the short experiment with Democracy
Well I’m certainly glad we spent hundreds of billions defending them from the Soviets during the Cold War so that they could now set up the EUSSR....
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