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German Bailout Rebellion: “We Have Euro-Anarchy”
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com
For German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her ilk, it’s going to be a steamy August and an even steamier September and October with political battles left and right, to be fought mano a mano, as the Eurozone debt crisis and the growing bailout rebellion in Germany are migrating from parliamentary discussions, closed-door meetings, and shaky EU summit deals—21 of them so far—to electoral politics. Voters may finally have a say.
She has consistently driven her agenda towards a more integrated Europe, but her solutions to the debt crisis have butted into the German constitution. The Fiscal Union treaty and the ESM bailout fund are currently being dissected by the Federal Constitutional Court, with a decision due on September 12. These mechanisms would transfer budgetary sovereignty and other rights from the Bundestag to the EU government, and thus from voters in Germany—or Italy and Spain, for that matter—to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.
More mechanisms with sovereignty transfers have appeared on the horizon as the EU government has embarked on a power grab—supported by many national politicians with visions of upward extensions of their careers. Might German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble be dreaming about a promotion to EU Finance Minister? And the inevitable Merkel to EU President?
Thus, a few weeks ago, Schäuble had voiced the word referendum, sending shockwaves through the system. With that word, he’d called for a new constitution that would permit the transfer of sovereignty. A constitutional convention would draft it, and the people would vote on it. Politicians on all sides jumped in behind him. On the right, coalition partner CSU was enthusiastic, particularly Bavarian Minister-President Horst Seehofer. Saturday it was Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (FDP) who came out in favor. The next day, it was Sigmar Gabriel, President of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) who wanted “to ask the people.” But the agendas couldn’t be more different.
Seehofer wants to drive a wooden stake through the heart of the mechanisms that transfer Eurozone debt to Germany, such as Eurobonds or a banking union. And he sees the referendum as a chance for voters to say heck no! His party faces strong opposition in Bavaria from the Freie Wähler (Free Voters) who have demonstrated in the streets against a future where a “child, just after being born, is already liable for the bailouts that great-aunt Merkel had signed” [Bailout Rebellion Reawakens in Germany].
Westerwelle might be more interested in creating a European constitution, an effort that had already disastrously failed when the Constitutional Treaty, signed by the 24 member states in 2004, was rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005. They’d been given a vote. Germans had not.
Gabriel lashed out against Merkel. The liabilities from the bailouts were already enormous, he said, but “without control.” Merkel is “tolerating with a wink” that the ECB buys sovereign debt of Spain and Italy, “while her party colleagues criticize it.” Through the bailouts, Merkel had already created a “secret debt union,” but didn’t want to tell the people. He accused her of always acting too late and without a “clear crisis solution strategy.” It could not be that there is a common currency, he said, “but other than that, everybody is doing whatever they want.” While some countries might not increase their taxes and run up deficits, Germany would have to pay in the end. “Today we have euro-Anarchy,” he said.
His solution to the euro-Anarchy: Eurozone-wide mutualization of debt linked to a centralized control of national budgets by the European government, in which he would no doubt play a large role. The Greens are already in his camp.
Just when there is less agreement within the Eurozone than ever before, and more tensions and discord, all seventeen member states should suddenly fuse together into a solidarity that has never before existed, and integrate into a happy union, subservient to a mega-federalist construct run mostly by unelected bureaucrats, at the expense of taxpayers in Germany, France, and elsewhere.
Even in the US, after two hundred years and a civil war, states are still responsible for their own debts, though we’ve come close to Gabriel’s model via the indirect federal bailout programs for states and the Fed’s printing press that threw so much money into the air that some of it even reached California—which was issuing IOUs at the time.
The French and Dutch, when given a chance to vote on the European constitution in 2005, “unexpectedly” voted for sovereignty. Referendums are risky. And in Germany, voters might follow the French and Dutch example. Meanwhile, the referendum, though it might never come about, is already doing something else: it’s eating into the substantial support among the opposition for Merkel’s policies, and difficult battles and compromises lie ahead.
Germany and Austria may have their differences, and their love for each other may not always be palpable, but when it comes to money, they’re joined at the hip. And now the euro debate took on sharp tones in Austria as well. With a new theme: “Insolvency Procrastination.” Read.... The Euro Revolt Spreads To Austria: “Europe Can Only Function If Every Country Has Its Own Currency.”
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There it is. You can't print solvency. You can only print debt.
Dear Testosteroneposit,
what makes you think, that we will get a vote?????
we will never get a vote.v We never got one.
No thinking average person wanted the euro nor the Maastricht treaty, nor the Schengen agreemen, nor the fascistic treaty of Lisboa. No one wantred to guarantee for 1.000. Billion Euro for other countries debt.
The only way out of this anglo saxxon tyrany is a revolution. We have a situation ehich is in a lot of his parts similar to the developments before WW I.
Once again, the monstrers of the City of London, the rathole of bloodsuckers needs blood, bacause they fucked up the whole system and they want complete control of the new shite currency approaching at the horizon, including the implementation of an unelected european government.
This is a fascist systemimplemented by the Bankster elitists, Rothschild, Rockeellers a.s.o.
Sam Fuld, the big pig, said already in 2009 that Germany will pay,...at the end.
amen
Dear Testosteroneposit,
what makes you think, that we will get a vote?????
we will never get a vote.v We never got one.
No thinking average person wanted the euro nor the Maastricht treaty, nor the Schengen agreemen, nor the fascistic treaty of Lisboa. No one wantred to guarantee for 1.000. Billion Euro for other countries debt.
The only way out of this anglo saxxon tyrany is a revolution. We have a situation ehich is in a lot of his parts similar to the developments before WW I.
Once again, the monstrers of the City of London, the rathole of bloodsuckers needs blood, bacause they fucked up the whole system and they want complete control of the new shite currency approaching at the horizon, including the implementation of an unelected european government.
This is a fascist systemimplemented by the Bankster elitists, Rothschild, Rockeellers a.s.o.
Sam Fuld, the big pig, said already in 2009 that Germany will pay,...at the end.
"These mechanisms would transfer budgetary sovereignty and other rights... to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels."
that's democracy in action since time began no?
the EU was every Marxo-Fascists wet dream, it was going sooooo well until they started running out of other peoples money .. bit of a bugger when your wet dreams ram up against the brick wall of whole nations going broke not being able to finance your delusions of Empire anymore
...you can hear them squeelin' in Brussels
1870-1871.
1914-1918.
1939-1945.
This just ain't gonna work.
What is your point? Should the German people be forced into paying reparations from nearly a hundred years ago?
1870-1871: they did not pay reparations, they cashed in reparations and the full of them, contrary to post 1919, when the debt repayment was cut in half, again cut in half and later rejected thanks to the US of A lobbying.
Correct.
That German propaganda is still being used to rally the German public behind German control of Europe, NOT subjugation to the EU.
Germany is the biggest debt transgressor in history. http://germanywatch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/germany-biggest-debt-transgressor-in.html
1871 ?
Pray remind, the only people paying reparations then were the French (with the able support of Jun. Morgan the Senior.).
"Even in the US, after two hundred years and a civil war, states are still responsible for their own debts,"
The unbearable debts of the States were assumed by the Federal Government after the ratification of the Constitution, because those debts were presumed to be mostly War of Independence debts , and the same thing happened after the War of 1812.
think you'll find the States and local towns in the US going bankrupt as we speak will not be bailed out by those bankrupt waisters in Washington, they're on their own
which is precisely how Europe should also be resolving its national issues, rather than each Govt of inept crying babes running to Nanny and buck-passing the problem up to Brussels
collectivising problems and individual Govts shirking their own problems is becoming an epic (socialist) disaster
Centralization of power always yields to more suffering of citizens as citizens get less and less say about their lives.
The less leaders know about their subjects' lives the easier it is to abuse them.
'Americanism' provides a decentralized system of power: the elite rule no longer on their own behalf, they are no longer autocrats, the elite rule on the behalf of 'We the people' ('American' middle class)
So maybe it is time to look at the effects of decentralization of power as it allows dilution of responsibility (elite never acts on their own behalf so they have no responsibility, middle class orders and states its wishes but do not carry out the execution so they are constantly kicking the can on someone else)
That is decentralization of power as brought to you by US citizenism.
Actions are taken and nobody is responsible for, save for being a victim, a poor, an extorted, a farmed, a killed etc
Dont find yourself on the wrong side of 'American' decentralization of power, it is lethal.
..... 'We the people' ('American' middle class)
The middle class cropped up in another post on ZH.
The average disposable personal income in the US was, USBS 2010 rounded up
under 50,000 USD per year 75 %
50 - 100,000 USD pe year 18 %
over 100,000 USD per year 7 %
You may check the 2010 data from the US Census Bureau, which shows household income, a different distribution.
Is the under 50K the Great Middle ? Nice going.
The bureaucrats in Brussels sit in the 7% category. And income linked pensions (also paid for by guess who).
Disposable income, disposable income... That is another scam thrown in by US citizens to offuscate the situation.
'American' economics have as their core smithian economics, which force a shaping on landscape.
Meaning the environment is suited to support this or that activity.
Pushing forward disposable conceals the disparity in environments that exist as following smithian economics.
One can live in a very nice environment while being left with 50k as disposable income while another might live in a very shitty environment while being left with the same 50k.
US citizen economics come with transfer of wealth to an interior from an exterior. It has consequences.
One is that disposable income means very little.
Americanism???
Ar you sneaking in a successor to US Citizenism?
AA, are you losing your grip on nomenclature?
There has no successor story.
This was said a long time ago: US citizenism is just another name for 'Americanism', a name that pinpoints more exactly who is behind the scene
But hey, US citizenism is as US citizen does so...
Todos somos americanos.
Wishful thinking is not reality.
The Germans will bail out the banks and nothing will change.
Go back to sleep. No one wants to change anything.
US citizen middle class wants to preserve the status quo or expand the current situation.
See US civil war: either preserving status quo on slavery (north) or expanding slavery to all states (south)
No side supported the emancipation and ending of slavery.
Huh?
Heutzutage entscheiden sich immer mehr Menschen, die Woolrich Arctic Parka Jacken als den Wintermonaten Schutz zu pflücken. Die Jacken von der Marke Woolrich Outlet Designer-Haus gemacht sind nicht nur einzigartig entworfen, sondern auch mit hochwertigen Stoffen hergestellt, die Woolrich Parka warm und dauerhaft für das Tragen zu machen.
The above is an advert in German for a winter coat. Please remove it.
a chinese made german winter coat LOL
here in the Netherlands we'll have elections soon. behind the scenes (in the "political arena") the mind has already been made up: souverignity will be transferred to Brussels.
As they've repeatedly said, this will be "the solution to the currency crisis" (nevermind that transferring authority will be to the corrupt and malfunctioning bureaucracy that allowed the Euro experiment to fail, even before it's introduction.) The Treaty of Lisbon is an important step in their eyes, though it has nothing to do with de democratic rights assured in the dutch Constitution. It was a powerplay, a "shortcut" to avoid a further "head-on collision" with their constituency. They've forgotten that they're REPRESENTATIVES and assumed, in their arrogance, to be better equipped to take an important descision than the "hoi polloi".
And that is why they're IGNORING the referendum of 2005. A "mistake" soon to be forgotten? They're IMO severely out of touch. There's a discrepancy between the "political opinion" and the reality on the ground (what the sheeple and citizens that are more aware (more and more, each day) think). Even their perfect mass media propaganda net will burst from illogical connections; If you touch a dutch man's wallet, he'll wake up. It's always been like that.
I think they're hoping for a panic, like so far fear mongering has worked to keep people convinced the euro and it's tumorous appendicies keep them wealthy (and out of slavery), and in this fashion will try to let this "automatic" transfer of power (of self determination) roll over automatically.
Looks like to me that there are a lot of politicians currently in power throughout the EU who want desperatly to avoid having to deal directly with the current economic shitstorm. They know it is only going to increase in size and destructive power, and what better way to shift blame and keep their cushy jobs than by handing the keys over to Brussels.
Of course, none of these bozos, (and that goes for almost all of the MEPs in Brussels as well, Nigel Farage being the rare exception) have even the smallest idea how to fix this nightmare, other than by printing Euros till the ink supplies are gone, so as long as it's out of sight, it's out of mind. They will still get their fat checks and pensions, just with a lot less grief.
The issue of representation in 'Americanism' is a tricky one.
From the start, one could wonder what was represented.
why? firstly i don't read it, secondly maybe to the german reader there is a wonderful hidden analogy there between the advert and the wintering of europe's "progressive" EU age.
lol, thanks for the lipstick as I love being tongue in cheek here!
The political federation of Europe's NATION STATES is something that is irreversible in the age of globalisation where all continents now come into the world's competition for finite resources and economic development.
The Euro currency is a botched attempt. If Europe reverts to nationalism and protectionism, it will be a regression similar to the Greek city states of old; or to the city republics of Italy post Rome's collapse and subsequent power transfer in Europe to Germany/France during feudal age. We know how that ends : demise of Greece and Italy as powerful cultures!
Europe doesn't want to go down THAT road again!
The current problem of Europe's financial balkanisation is a symptom of a greater malaise : the crisis of capitalist civilisation in a finite world. Paradigm change coming.
That's the BIG picture. Euro shenanigans is the smaller picture like the Balkan situation before WW1. In itself it is not a world shaker. As the match to the powder keg of Oligarchy capitalism explosion it is, could become more so, the REAL issue.
Sarajevo moment in Europe euro crisis and the whole powder keg of Pax Americana ignites!
Its private capitalism and oligarchy construct that implodes; just like the USSR did as a result of their Afghan adventure. For Pax Americana the fatal flaw is the worship of "greed is good" mantra and blind faith in its symbol; the holy greenback, now exposed to be a false god!
That is the core issue of current western civilisation at the cross roads, damned if it doesn't change and damned if it does.
Its a real mess. But like all messes there is INEVITABLY a painful exit and when that comes we will see how the cookie will crumble on the WORLD stage.
Think pre-1492... we will be back to a multipolar world. It will be the end of the european cultural hegemony of planet earth.
The Internet culture is opening new horizons for modern man in the finite world age, where the power of imagination and the mind's empire shows it true face; both ugly and radiant. The new frontier...
PS : One amusing aspect of MSM financial blogs, like BI, where Wolf likes to print his posts; just below this same very article is an article that defends the opposite view :
Why Germany Will Eventually Bail Out Its Neighbors - Business Insider
Now that is good reporting principle; like being a good lawyer, you can defend both sides of the debate. Fact is when you scratch below the surface, neither is deep enuff to teach us anything remarkable. Its all rehashed and repackaged stuff. But that's the blogosphere!
Blobbing up is the only path in the US world order.
NATO = blobbing up; Euro = Bankrupt morons sharing credit card
Good luck to repo from the blob formed by the "bankrupt morons sharing credit card", that is why they are blobbing up.
Singled out, one could hope to recove bits of the debt, unionized, it is going to be another story...
Deutschmarks! Deutschmarks! Deutschmarks!
First off, I am German.
I just do not see a German Euro Rebellion. Sorry. Let me make one thing clear, IMVPO the EURO is a catastrophic idea. It binds together different economies and puts them all in a prison. It has done way more damage than good, and it can not be "saved". It could function within the handful of central European nations which are more or less on the same level as Germany, and that is what I think should happen.
But the reality is, Germany will NEVER leave the Euro, force another country to leave the Euro or do anything that consciously destroys the Euro. That is for historical reasons. There is simply no considerably large enough power within Germany that could fight against the Euro-prison. And as I see the Euro harms ALL it's participants. The PIGS now the most, but Germany in the long run just the same. It is a lose-lose scenario. BUT: The Euro was installed for entirely political reasons, against all even then known risks. It does not work economically, but as I said, there is simply no large enough political movement, in Germany, and in no other Euro-Zone country as well. As least I do not see that. And the two "left" parties in Germany SPD and Greens already support bonds and a permanent transfer. The reality is, too many Germans see Europe and the Euro as identical ideas, as if any sort of European cooperation would die with the Euro, which is of course irrational, but most Germans are in this matter misinformed, manipulated and most emotionally driven. Most Germans have (like most other people in the world) little to no knowledge about economy. And it's no wonder, given how complicated economy is. So for most Germans, the EU is a vision, an idea, and a chance for an "escape" from the doom and pressure to be German. Germans love the EU idea so much, because it nurtures their irrational hope to escape being stigmatized as Germans and become Europeans instead. It is much driven by the German self-hate. That is why Germans, politicians and people alike, do not understand that OTHER European nations have much less enthusiams to give up their national monetary souverenity.
To be honest, I expect Germany will sooner or later give into EVERYTHING the South States (PIGS) demand. No German politician want's be responsible for being the evil nation (again) which destroyed the Euro dream. And the PIGS states know this full well and abuse that fact as good as they can. It is of course an illusion and a terrible danger. A permanent money transfer would not solve anything. North Italy pays for South Italy for generations, and it hasn't done anything good. Same with money transfers anywhere else. They simply don't help. And transferring the souverenity to the EU would not help either, because the regional interests still would remain the same, so the struggle which now exists between the national governments would then be fought within the EU bureaucracy, only with even LESS transparency!
The strength of Europe was it's diversity, the independence of it's nation and the healthy competition betewen the EU member which drove all nations to find it's niche and to improve to competer. A quasi-socialist EU with flattens all these differences with a common currency is economic folly! But as we have seen with the Sovjet Socialism, even a totally anti-economic system can with force and tricks be kept alive a lifetime.
I am afraid we will see this Euro drama continue for many years, simply because no politician has the guts to stop this disaster. And it will only cause endless hostilities between North and South. A tradegy, but I do not see that it will end anytime soon.
Elikal thanks for the prespective. Some of my firends in Augsburg, Germany state basially the same thing. Guess what in the USA it is basically the same way with economics. Most people could care less and bicker over a message while our politicians laugh about how stupid we are.
LOL fouke spot on about supporting other countries that retire younger then you. I honestly do not see a unification of Europe until all the standards are set the same throughout the region to be honest. But what do I know!!
I just do not see a German Euro Rebellion.
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If you cant see it, you can imagine it.
US citizenism is a lot about fantasy.
here's what i see:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHhePr0TKfc
and hear i might add.
We are all Germans, Kennedy once said he was a Berliner, meaning his identity with allied interests.
The Euro drama is a disaster that no one seems to stop while it suits Brussels and the Banksters.
This post brings the situation in Europe in fine focus, and shows the various alternatives.
Yes, we will go all bankrupt together. After that we will get back our national currencies and the whole EU garbage will hopefully be scrapped.
I am an American expat, been living in Germany for 21 years and own a small business which employs 9 Germans. I am always keeping abrest of the political and economic winds here and can confirm much of which has been written above. Almost the entire political class is going to back the Euro until it collapses. There is no talk in the media or on the street about returning to the Deutschmark. At least, not yet.
You will hear conversations about how times were better under the Deutschmark, how expensive everything has gotten since the Euro came onto the scene (many older Germans routinely convert prices in Euro back to DM the formula being nearly €1 = DM2), and you can still hear from time to time the word "Teuro" which is a nickname combining the words "teuer" meaning expensive, and "Euro". The German people loved the DM.
It is no wonder that the public was never asked to vote to give up their DM for the Euro. They would never had said yes. However, Germans are very much different from the French. People here very rarely ever protest against anything. The exceptions being the occasional union protest or protests against neo-nazi marches or the rare public works project debacle such as the new train station in Stuttgart. Besides that, people grunt and take it. The politicians counted on this public pacification to get the Euro transition and they got it done.
The political class went "all in" with the Euro, slapping each others backs, lauding the wonders it would do for businesses and for tourism, for European security, the works. To revert back to the old system before the Euro, will be an admission of failure, and there are a lot of politicians out there who do not want their legacy tainted with the Euro collapse. It is such a horrible prospect for them that they will eventually allow the printing presses to run non-stop. It will happen. There is no secret printing of Deutschmarks going on right now. There is no plan DM.
One last thing. There is nothing that pisses Germans off more than having to work until they are 67 to collect their retirement, while their tax euros go to support other EU countries who allow a much lower retireme nt age. In a nation with a huge demographic problem, the gray vote, with each passing year, is the Archilles Heal of the German political system. Que in German Arbeitsministerin Ursula von der Leyen. She has just recently introduced her new retirment plan proposal that would guarentee a new "liveable" retirement rate for those workers who either currently are working, or have worked, their whole lives earning meager wages only to end up with a retirement amount which forces them onto the public welfare roles in order to live. There has been some resistance to the plan from the FDP, and even within her own CDU party, because of the costs, but I wonder what is the real reason behind this proposal. For one, if the political class has already privatly forseen the unlimited printing of Euros as the only solution available to solve the EU wide debt crisis, then they will have to appease the grey vote and the lower class. Almost all of the individual German states and local communities are up to their eyeballs in debt, and can never absorb the massive welfare demands it will be subjected to, under the current retirement system, once the Euro
is in full devaluation mode. Von der Leyen may be selling the reform as a sign of solidarity with the working poor, but that seems like a smokescreen to hide the real issue, defuse the social timebomb now, at least for awhile, before the Germans finally are fed up to the gills and erupt en masse against this Euro disaster.
Well observed. But we had very big damonstrations in former years, for example the Friedensemonstrationen against Pershing a.s.o. with hundredthousands of participaNTS, or the Anti AStomkraft demonstrations, or against Startbahn West in Frankfurt. But our governments always gave no and nothing about peoples ideas. for me, my country is still a Colony of the evil anglosaxxon-israelic empire.
Yes' those were big demonstrations, as was the 1968 student demonstrations, but they were a long time ago. There have been more recent demonstrations here in Germany such as student protests about implementing tuition for college (especially when the money has not been used to better education but rather to plug up holes in local budgets), as well as sympathy protests for the 99% cause, so some people do open up sometimes..
You would think that when the government puts hundreds of billions of taxpayers euros (on top of the hundreds of billions already used to bailout Hypo Real Estate and other banks) on the line, either with state-backed guarentees or direct financial aid, and they are just throwing it all into economic blackholes all over Europe which immediately suck that cash over the event horizon never to be seen again and forcing the debt burden onto the German nation, the people would be getting a little pissed off. So far, there have been a few concerns voiced on Gunther Jauch (premier political talk show) and Presseschau (similar to Meet The Press) on Sundays once and awhile, but thats about it.
Do you know that Focke Wulf was owned 30% by ITT before and during the war, and that ITT sued the U.S. Government, sucessfully, after the war for the damage to the Focke Wulf plants via U.S. bombing?
I have been both an Arbeitnehmer (employee) and now, an Arbeitgeber (employer). Many Americans believe that the social medicine structure here in Germany is free. I can assure you, it is not. Employees must pay 15.5% of their monthly pay for health insurance. There are other insurances and income and solidarity taxes that eat up over 1/3 of total pay. Employers must make matching contributions, as well as pay for all sorts of other fees and taxes. Sales taxes are at 19% with some exceptions. Gas prices are easily over 7 bucks a gallon. The small business owner does not have it easy here, especially if your target market is strictly domestic, but you can be successful if your business model is solid.
If you are a foreigner here in Germany, your not going to be successful or respected if you go around and trash how things are done here. You are always an ambassador for your country whether you like it or not, and so
you have to play by their rules. Are there things here I wish were different? Of course. But small business owners within the US also have to deal with all sorts of crap unique to the area they are set up in. Try running a small biz in Queens, NY where you have to deal with city, state
and federal regs and taxes. Now throw in Obamacare on top of that. You can just as easily go nuts in NY as well as here in Bavaria if you let the system beat you down.
I didn't know the history behind ITT, Focke Wulf and the Second World War. Sounds like a crock.
Thank you (and the above-referenced poster) for your useful insights.
What? Are you saying that Germany has an actual democracy and that the indignant opposition means what they say? Wow! hats off Germany! Because every other 'developed' democracy has two bought-and-paid-for parties that scrap in front of the cameras and drink scotch together at the club, laughing at the sheep while discussing implementation of their next set of instructions. But apparently Germany will be allowed to threaten 60 years of undemocratic EU advancement with a democratic vote? Gee willikers, that's great Batman!
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers." - Caroll Quigley
Homo Euro-Asiaticus has been the Ruling Caste on most Human Federation planets since the early 3000's, professor.
Prof. Andrea Kim-Smidt
Beijing University
The main problem for europe is not this ..its demographics.
There is a theory put forward a few years ago in AD 6540 , that the earlier native white Europeans were wiped out in Europe , North America and Australasia and became extinct very suddenly between AD 1950 and AD 2200 over a compartively short period of time by a calamatous combination of several simultaneous converging factors .
1)A mysterious sudden massive sudden drop in the reproductive rate to below replacement level , which appears to have created up side down 16-8-4-2-o family trees .
2) This seems to have coincided with a massive unregulated nomadic migration of Homo Asiaticus , Homo- Africanus , Homo-Hispanicus , and Homo-Arabicus from the south and east in search of more fertile and rich northern enviroments .
Evidence shows the newcomers had a far higher reproductive rate .
Although earlier experts have always put forward the theory that Homo European must have been overwhelmed by a far more technologically advanced influx of humans with a higher I.Q. , new evidence has come to light which shows that the very opposite may have been the case , which has stirred up a great deal of controversy and ridicule in scientific circles .
The new theory is ;
" that they were simply victims of their own success "
The discovery of many bone fragments with evidence of multiple skull fracture and all from different locations indicates that the final demise of Homo European was a very violent affair .
Other theories point to an unusual genetic susceptibility as indictated by DNA samples to a form of neurological virus which may have infected those areas of the brain which regulate the hard-wired natural survival instincts which humans use to form a sense of tribal identity , extended family , and normal precautionary fear of strangers reflex which exists in all present day moden humans.
This would have put Homo-European at a evolutionary dead-end .
It maybe that this lead to Homo-Europeans inability to recognise the apperance of a new species competing for the same rescources when confronted with one .
A surprising number of complete skeletons have been recovered showing fatal injuries and the jaw bones frozen in a permanent
rigor-mortis grin , which would mean that on many occasions
Homo-European may have been smiling ironically as he was beaten to death .
The speculation that many of the architectural turrets and structures that have been unearthed from that period , were the creations of Homo European or some ancient race of giants have been debunked , because the very same type of artifacts have also been uncovered in Africa and Asia , which means this new style was imported from outside to Europe from the Middle East .
Professor Muhammed Abdul
University of Archaeology
Mecca .
"Homo-European may have been smiling ironically as he was beaten to death ." Hate Crime.
Sorry.