Posted on 10/05/2017 9:02:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
And then you have those 50 United States... All of whom could succeed from the Union. People are getting dumber and dumber.
This is so silly. You may be able to declare independence from your host country, but you can NEVER escape the coils of the EU. /S
More independence, more competition, more freedom, more human thriving. Decentralization or decentralization. George Soros is not happy about independence movements. So silly to want to responsibility and power to people far away. Sheeple.
More independence, more competition, more freedom, more human thriving. Decentralization or decentralization. George Soros is not happy about independence movements. So silly to want to responsibility and power to people far away. Sheeple.
People don’t want this new world order crap. They want their own culture and people and to hell with the others. border s language and culture.
Everyone deserves their own S***hole!
Daniel 2:41-43 ...’And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken?. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.’
Scotland had a historic referendum on leaving the United Kingdom resulting in a narrow 55 percent vote against leaving the UK.And when the 55 percent is for Obama, it counts as a landslide. 55 to 44.x is not a narrow victory, particularly since the cooked books polling leading up to the referendum was pushed as showing a five percent margin of victory for what turned out to be the losing side. Silesia, an odd partly German, partly Slavic/Polish enclave stitched into Poland by the USSR after WWII, has been seeking greater autonomy, but the Polish government doesn't go for that. I would like to see it, but as with any of these, the majority in the geographic area are not in favor or couldn't care less.
Scotland doesn’t want to leave the EU. Look at how they voted against Brexit. They don’t love the UK but they adore the EU.
Scotland has had better relations with western Europe than England since the Romans went away.
Scotland lives on welfare payments collected from wealthy taxpayers in England. If they left the UK, they wouldn’t be able to pay their bills.
This country hasn't had any serious secessionist movement in more than 150 years because it's the one country in the world that probably still offers the best combination of circumstances that most people would value: (1) modern affluence, and (2) the ability to be left alone if you desire.
In most of these cases, not all of them...the chief sticking point is that various regions are producing a heck of a lot of tax revenue which goes into a national pot, and they (the high-producer region) aren’t getting their fair share back. This is Catalonia’s big issue, and from the European map shown....I’d say at least eight of these other regions have the same problem.
I would say this as well...almost none of these regions have any interest in producing a military if they are allowed split off, and that savings will pour right back into streets, bridges, harbors, railways, etc.
Now, if you asked me in twenty years....will some disorder occur and peace be threatened? Probably an overwhelming possibility.
Silesia belonged to Germany until 1945 when it was given to Poland—at the same time Stalin took large chunks of Eastern Poland (where much of the population was White Russian or Ukrainian). The Germans fled from Silesia and the area was resettled by Poles. If any Germans are there now they are probably not very numerous.
Not German, Silesian.
https://www.ft.com/content/7ff14a52-74a2-11e3-9125-00144feabdc0
http://www.voxeurop.eu/en/content/article/578111-irreducible-autonomy-silesia
http://www.google.com/search?q=Silesian%20Autonomy&spell=1&ie=UTF-8
Scotland didnt exist in Roman times, there were no Scots there. The rest of Britain that had a Celtic population continued to enjoy trade with western and Mediterranean Europe.
California here in the USA...
German, not Polish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsmannschaft_Schlesien
They've been quiet, though, for the past few years, AFAIK.
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