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A Hard Look At Europe
Submitted by Mark J. Grant, author of Out of the Box,
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant:
First, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
Having just returned from the Continent I have been musing about the reality of what the European Union has become. I have crossed out the hype and the hyperbole and I concentrate this morning on not what we are all told but how the construct has evolved. In the forthcoming months as the likelihood of Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cypress, Slovenia and possibly Italy returning to the window for funds or more funds grows at a significant rate and as the Rules of Engagement have changed substantially; a realistic assessment now may prove to be quite worthwhile to consider future actions.
"The question is not what you look at but what you see."
-Henry David Thoreau
In the beginning there were a handful of core nations equal in partnership and full of the excitement of a new venture. Much of the esprit was a desire to band together and compete against the United States for economic dominance and world power. Americans were the upstarts, afterall, and it had long aggravated the Europeans that we had so much control. "Those cowboys," sums up the European position nicely.
Now the Europeans didn't say this aloud of course. They rattled off world peace and band of brothers soliloquys that held their populace at rapt attention. It was rather like Camelot where all of the knights sat at the Round Table in pursuit of their noble quest. Well, to quote an American colloquialism, "Them days is gone forever."
So now we find the EU headquarters no longer staffed by equals but a useful front for Berlin which resides in another country. In the EU now there is Germany and then there is everyone else and whatever motives you may ascribe to the Germans and whatever political position you may wish to embrace; Germany has gained control of most of Europe. Much more pleasant to use Euros than tanks; on that most of us can agree.
This point is critically important to understand. Yes, sure, the Germans will smile and nod and give way on agricultural supplements and on fishing rights and trivial matters but when it gets down to it and the decision is important; Berlin will have its way. Consequently when considering what might happen or allocating your assets; politically and economically the sole thing to consider is the German viewpoint because it will be put in place. When contemplating the discussion on the European banking union or what took place in Greece with the retroactive change in laws that swacked the bond holders, or the confiscation of depositors' money in Cyprus; this was all approved, if not formulated, in Berlin. It is called the European Union but the Emperor is German and the rest of the Court dances to the Prussian anthem.
The honey is free trade and money when needed and the vinegar is the lack of both. The EU stays intact by the utilization of this carrot and of this stick and it has proven to be a very effective strategy. The problem centers on the Germans wanting and expecting everyone to be German and the inability and the lack of desire for a great many of the people on the Continent to either be German in traditions and standards because of thousands of years of cultural differences that cannot be magically transformed by the occasional bratwurst for lunch. In the end, the Germans will demand too much and there will be some sort of revolt but for now; Puff the Magic Dragon holds sway.
The fact that the equity markets have done fabulously and that the interest rates for European sovereign debt have done remarkably well all rest on one thing and one thing only; the creation of money and a massive amount of it. There is no inflation because the underlying economies are in horrendous shape, unemployment in a number of countries at Depression levels and yet the band still plays on. The printing of money is the alchemist's dream and we have finally learned how to coin gold from iron ore.
For Britain, especially, it is a difficult moment. They fought two wars to not be governed by the Germans and now they find themselves trapped. London is the financial capital of Europe and now, moment by moment and drop by drop, they are seeing their stature erode. I can assure you that the Germans will, one way or another, overcome London if Britain remains in the EU and yet they cannot easily leave the EU either. England has become minimized and while they congratulate themselves for joining the European Union but keeping their currency that was really the second best choice. They never should have joined up and their status would have been on an equal footing while now they have been pushed into the coat closet and they get congratulated by the Germans for their fine work of maintaining it. There is no longer a Great Britain but a Trivialized Britain as Germany slowly but surely places their foot on England's neck. Britain needs to let its citizens decide and bear the consequences of their decision.
When lying in bed at night and looking up at the stars you may well ask yourself what happened to your ceiling.
Europe, and the rest of the world for that matter, has been transformed by the printing of money. The dislocation between economies and markets is huge and the glue is the twenty-four seven machinations of the printing presses. Politicians in Europe and America have taken a back seat to the heads of the world's central banks. These people, elected by no one, have become the absolute rulers of the world. The three most important people in Europe are Draghi, Weidmann and Merkel. Merkel, I would say, is appropriately put in third place.
Lastly, as I stare out at the horizon, you should understand the German viewpoint of the State. It comes first, foremost and before any laws. Anything may and will be utilized to further the State, defend the State and carry on its existence. Germany will not hesitate, for one moment and especially in the vassal nations in the rest of Europe, to protect its franchise. Nothing will get in its way as long as they hold their present position of pretty much absolute power.
My heritage is German and I get this joke. You win by being in control and control must always be exercised and never relinquished. In the German mind there are Germans and then there is everyone else and the "everyone elses" will not be treated as the Germans treat themselves.
Consequently as new troubles arise and other nations show up hat in hand, because money is both the carrot and the stick, you may expect whatever needs to be done to protect Germany to be what is done. The preservation of the German state and the continuation of Germany retaining power will be the guiding light that you may bank on in any investment decisions. It will be austerity for the needy, vengeance for those out of step and the sound of the boots marching for the Fatherland.
Achtung!
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A Hard Look At Europe
Can I just opt for the waterboarding?
The EU is a Rothschild front. Any article t hat fails to address that fact, is incomplete.
Nein! Bend over, the State owns your arschloch as well.
Sun-worshipping satanists.
The Watchers...
Arrogant Germans? This attitude did not end too well last time either!
Which last time?
That's it. Time for a rant:
Recently I took a ride through the outside world, and I can tell you that sentiment wasn't good. But where is there a better sentiment to be found these days? Moar and moar People are desperate and frustrated, and they ask: „What can be done, if nothing can be done?“
Well, I have some practical proposals. A sole person can do more than he or she believes, and if one does it together with others, it can even be fun to do something.
-Visit all your local politicians and get them to guarantee your pension approval certificates.
-Distribute flyers in front of branches of big banks which advise readers: „Entering this bank could be lethal for your wealth!“
-Become an organ-donor, and label all your organs with the seventh commandment: „Thou shall not steal!“
-Turn off your cellphone, decelerate and ask the minced meat where it derives from, before you buy it.
-Name your dog „Bomb“, tie him to the entrance of an insurance agency and call him loud and clearly.
-While at a catholic church, toss some condoms into the collection.
-Give pollsters and other attitude-snoops decidedly false answers.
-Refuse each and any form of internet-striptease, like online-banking.
-Avoid shopping malls. Support retail sales, and be generous.
-Plant agricultural crops like cabbage, savoy or hemp on all fallow land in your neighbourhood.
-Organize blockades of building centers, chicken farms and radwaste repositories.
-Do not haul atomic waste.
-Do not sell weapons into crisis regions.
-Do not invest in antisocial networks.
-Love your neighbour like he loves himself.
-Rest civilized – but disobedient.
-Distribute flyers, reading: „But this can not be true!“
Or go into more details:
But this can not be true
-that there are so many people working for a wage which doesn't suffice even their basic needs.
-that many of these people do work, for which a training or even an academical degree is required.
-that so many folks depend on welfare programs for their living, among them millions of kids and adolescents.
-that minimum wages are nothing short of a very bad joke, if they exist after all.
-that there is no even halfway affordable living space in any major city.
-that a state, which calls itself free and fair, pays it's most important and valuable employees, the hospital nurses and nurses for the elderly, social workers, streetworkers and kindergarten workers such a miserable wage, that these people can't even afford a measly week of vacations.
But this can not be true! We don't live in some woefully gulag, do we? And it ain't the 13th century anymore, too. Also we don't live in the never-never-land of the alarmists and doomsayers. This here is the fat world, the home of opulence. We have erverything here, for each and every person, doubly and threefold. Here, each year several billions are fed to dogs, cats and other animal.
And there shall not be enough money to pay a decent upbringing, education and social life for every child, let alone the adolescents?
Now, don't make a fool of yourself!
This can not be true!
And if it were to be – than it would be about highest time that we do something about it!
I would simply add to resist those who would be afraid of big government and tyranny.
I realize that 100's of millions were killed by that in the last century...but they're really working to change that now.
Go placidly..
This suggestion has legs. I like it!
Or name him Fire and take him to a movie theatre. You can't yell Fire! in a movie theatre. Or can you? It would make for an interesting legal case.
In Germany a man was sentenced to 5 months jailtime for teaching his dog (who he called Adolf) to raise his right paw on command.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-503870/Howl-Hitler-German-taught...
Great suggestion! So many excellent potential variations. I could name my dogs "Duck" and "Gun" and take them on a walk in front of the bank at lunch hour. Might even be able to collect disability for being shot by a rent-a-cop or the wife gets to score big with a wrongful death lawsuit.
-Name your dog „Bomb“, tie him to the entrance of an insurance agency and call him loud and clearly.
Bloody hillarious !!!
Your suggestion to "plant agricultural crops like cabbage, savoy or hemp on all fallow land in your neighbourhood" may prove a bit difficult in the Eurozone soon, if the fascist bureaucrats have their way: http://www.naturalnews.com/040214_seeds_European_Commission_registration.html
In a more facetious vein, labeling your organs with "thou shalt not steal" may be a problem in the US, because one's body belongs to the government and there is that supposed "separation of church and state" thing.
Probably could have mentioned continent-wide banking network in deep stall, and terminal ...
I N S O L V E N C Y
Like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=icfVsql38oc
This is not about liquidity, there's plenty of that. This is about the underlying collateral and debt. None of these countries are fucking solvent.
The Huns can roll whomever they want as long as they don't piss off the Russians.
okay i'm done taking a hardlook at Europe. Can I buy stocks now?
You've won the lottery....and you get to move to the island.
All sold out... BUT DON'T WORRY!!! WE'LL DELUTE WHATEVER STOCK YOU WANT!!
If you don't care for an imminent consolidation of DAX you may ...
You are misreading the situation.
The UK & France combined has a bigger economy then Germany.
Germany is a entrepot colony of these 2 powers.
Its quite clear to see from where I am standing.
You may be right about the size of UK and French economies, but Germany is the only large country that puts more into the EU than it takes out. It is paying the bills, and that's what counts. If Germany pulls out of the EU, or even cuts its contribution to what it receives, the EU is finished. Do you think that UK and France will step up and fill in the financial gap? They may, but it's not how I would bet.
As Yoda says, "size matters not". A large agricultural or service economy is qualitatively different from an industrial economy producing high-value-added products. How many things do France and UK produce that the emerging market economies will buy? Germany produces a lot of them. In principle, any advanced country could just copy Germany; have a high level of technical education, produce lots of engineers, work hard and take pride in quality. In practice, it doesn't happen often; Switezerland did it, Japan did it, and Korea is doing it. Seems like a no-brainer, but no large countries in the EU are doing it.
YOU are wrong. Go look at the NETT Contribution by each EU State before uttering falsehoods
German energy self suff
(Taken from the IEA OECD energy balances publication for 2011)
Y1960 : 0.881
Y1971 : 0.5744
Y1980 : 0.5197
Y2000 : 0.4012
Y2008 : 0.3990
Y2009 : 0.3990
Y2010e : 0.3897
Its is constant decline - it must destroy other countries to sustain the sale of its "value added products"
No it does not...................
It borrows off the entire european hinterlands account.
Its domestic primary production is in constant decline.
Its a entrepot economy.
A "added value economy"
The UK and France sustain it because they like its toys.
But to build its toys the rest of the euro hinterland must be reduced to dust.
Both of you may have points. The calculation can be done in different ways.
But why, then, is Germany always the one asked to write the checks?
Why do the dusty hinterland countries even stay in? That's the mystery.
Germany had a Industrial edge of 15 years ~ over the rest of europe after the war.
That industry can buy agrarian countries leaders until all of the capital is gone.
Ireland , Greece etc became a Imperial market during the boom years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_JP3LSBug
Absolute Drivel. Completely wrong. Total ignorance of the Morgenthau Plan. Utter lack of historical grasp of JCS1067
Joint Chiefs of Staff directive 1067 (JCS 1067). Here the US military government of occupation in Germany was ordered to "…take no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany [or] designed to maintain or strengthen the German economy" and it was also ordered that starvation, disease and civil unrest were to be kept below such levels where they would pose a danger to the troops of occupation.
The directive was formally issued to Eisenhower in the spring of 1945, and it applied only to the US zone (although attempts had been made to get the other Allies to accept it). The occupation directive remained secret until October 17, 1945. It was made known to the public two months after the US had succeeded in incorporating much of it into the Potsdam Agreement.[46]
On March 20, 1945 President Roosevelt was warned that the JCS 1067 was not workable: it would let the Germans "stew in their own juice". Roosevelt's response was "Let them have soup kitchens! Let their economy sink!" Asked if he wanted the German people to starve, he replied, "Why not?"[47]
On May 10, 1945 Truman signed the JCS 1067.[48] Ignoring the amendments to JCS 1067 that had been inserted by McCloy of the War Department, Morgenthau told his staff that it was a big day for the Treasury, and that he hoped that "someone doesn't recognize it as the Morgenthau Plan."[6]
In his 1950 book Decision in Germany, Clay wrote, "It seemed obvious to us even then that Germany would starve unless it could produce for export and that immediate steps would have to be taken to revive industrial production".[50] Lewis Douglas, chief adviser to General Lucius Clay, U.S. High Commissioner, denounced JCS Directive 1067 saying, "This thing was assembled by economic idiots. It makes no sense to forbid the most skilled workers in Europe from producing as much as they can in a continent that is desperately short of everything" [51] Douglas went to Washington in the hopes of having the directive revised but was unable to do so.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee asserted: "During the first two years of the Allied occupation the Treasury program of industrial dismantlement was vigorously pursued by American officials."[52]
The intention of the Morganthau Plan - signed by FDR & Churchill - was to turn Germany back into an agricultural economy...to roll back the Industrial Revolution in Germany.
Morganthau was also the first to spread word of a 'holocaust' in Germany. Cunt.
Yeah he and all those other tattooed men and women made up the whole thing. As a matter of fact (do a little effing reading), FDR was well informed about the camps and there was serious debate with the administration on whether or not to bomb the death camps. This was not something that was "brought up" after the war.
He did not mention anything about the politics of 1945.
1949...........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GOdLncnMPk
And don't forget a certain Saturn V less then 20 years later.
The factories were destroyed but many of the technicans survived.
The US got to the moon first because their Germans were better then the Russian Germans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSv5383Dpvs
I'd look at it a little different: The US got to the moon first because Korolev died too early. And just for the record: Robert H. Goddard would have succeeded, too, if only he had lived long enough. So it were germans who had to help with the rockets. But they have never been the only ones who could have done that.
Moon landing? Your argument just went to hell.
Moon landing? Your argument just went to hell.
Germany better write those checks if they want to avoid Deutsche Bank going bankrupt...
In the middle of an asylum observed by doctors
Germany has been the dominant player in Europe since at least 1860. She's defeated France 3 times and would have probably beaten England if not the US intervention both times. She has dominated the industrial sector and easily led in science. For a while (and even now some claim) she is in the vanguard of the arts.
France can only twiddle her thumbs and whine about the glory days of muscular Catholicism and, enterprise before she adopted Socialism as the state religion. Sinking fast. The UK is almost in the same boat, floating in debt, aging, deindustrializing and still doing what they've been doing since WWII - trying to manage the long decline as gracefully as possible.
But Germany is also cooked. Demographically it's a nightmare - losing population annually despite a steady 150-200K immigrants each year. (Now THAT'S scary.) And yes, I know the US is screwed but that has nothing to do with these comments.
I really wish I understood the mindset of a person where the state is the end all and be all. Personally for me, I'll do my thing and you do your thing. As long as we aren't hurting each other or some one else then we are good. Just leave me alone and don't try to force your will upon me.
Doc I have that converation with my libtard friends and they agree with you wholeheartedly. Then I explain that crushing my taxes and my health care costs to pay for their free healthcare and massive pensions is actually hurting me. Then I get blank stares. Followed by...but what you don't understand is "we have a contract".
Idiots...I don't remember signing any contract that allows them to force their will on me.
You see they were underpaid 40 years ago so now everyone has to get ripped to shreds around them to support the lifestyle they are entitled to.
Since, in the US, Social Security numbers are assigned at birth, I suppose the case could be made that the assigning of said SS number is the equivalent of a contract. Not that it matters. He who has the most power, and the will to use it, wins.
Sucks, doesn't it?
Indeed, especially when the one you think has the "most power" is wrong. SS numbers are assigned by the U.N. by the way. Americans are nothing more than "tenants" by the way...
Jeez and they couldn't even give Obama his own?
Social Security numbers are recycled.
Dear Dr., that is in fact a very rare mindset. Most people hurt themselves, and in a perverted sense of justice they regard that as a justification to demand that you (and me, and all others) have to get hurt, too.
That state is the atheist's church. It is good, wise, altruistic, and will do the right thing. No amount of examples of incompetent, murderous states will change anyone's mind. Our state is good. If the Nazis tortured guerillas who were ambushing their troops, that was bad. If America does the same, it's good, because America is good. Does any of this sound familiar?
You can have a religion without thinking that you have a religion.
Absurd. The biggest foes of State tyranny have historically been atheists. Libertarians have (by far) the highest percentage of atheists and I doubt any would consider the state their "church". It is not even the savage regimes with secret police who torment their own people - Germany, USSR, Iran, North Korea, Cuba - that is the problem. A far greater danger comes from the insiduous slide into a mindset of automatically considering the State for every element of existence.
"The biggest foes of State tyranny have historically been atheists."- Well, if you ignore all of Russia's history for the last 100 years or so. Most libertarians I know attend a church every Sunday. Don't know what planet you are on.
Dr. Engali,
Thank you for summing up what so many feel. I still remember when the federal government was something "out there" that had little to do with our personal lives. Issues were settled at the local and sometimes state level but the idea of running to the feds for permission to start a business, grow crops, mine, hunt, fish, build a factory, etc - that is new.
I blame it entirely on two things: The Civil Rights movements correctly interpreted the idea that the State enforces equal rights under the law. However, it also enshrined the idea that ANY problem requires federal attention. Secondly, the media is much more oriented toward DC than ever before. In the Cronkite era there were occasional political stories but foreign affairs, the space race, weather, new inventions, sports, etc were the norm. Now it's DC 24/7/365 and it's inescapable.
A fool-proof method for sculpting Tyranny:
First, get a huge block of democracy; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like Tyranny....
A fool-proof method of sculpting government:
First, get a huge block of economy, then you chip away at everything until nothing is left...
"The question is not what you look at but what you see."
Joke of the week goes to:
GREAT HORNED SUNSPOT: Around the world, amateur astronomers are snapping pictures of behemoth sunspot AR1734 as it crosses the solar disk. In Buffalo, New York, photographer Alan Friedman noticed something when he rotated his picture 90 degrees. "Sunspot 1734 has a definite owlish look!" [Space Weather]
I don't see a BC logo.
In a time of prosperity, all areas of an economy rise; in times of decline and crisis, the center holds its own and the periphery gets hammered. The center has the political and financial resources to maintain businesses, jobs, and political institutions, the periphery not so much.
What I'm saying is that Germany may well start hammering periphery economies (Greece, Cyprus, etc...). Its the Golden Rule; those with the gold....
But that doesn't mean that either Germany, or the periphery, will want to move to an alternative economic landscape (leave the EU).
In the forthcoming months as the likelihood of Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cypress, Slovenia and possibly Italy.
Its CYPRUS FFS...
I have always preferred CYPRUS as spelling it helps me take the writer more seriously
Perhaps he pines for the Cyprus of yesterday.
A European gentleman once told me that "Germans do not dance.....they just march."
I guess that pretty much sums it up.
The reality is that the Europeans decided to set up a union based on geography and some notions of common interest. Common interest is bullshit and the current mess shows there is little common interest other than not wanting the Euro to sink and having chaos ensue.
'Americans' are hooked on power. There is no turning back now.
The 'american' author reclaims a german heritage.
Is he one of those US Americans who are 9.x pc indian in a vain attempt to naturalize?
If so, better for him to see as it is. It is no longer as it was in Europe. He now has Indian in him and his german heritage is gone.
Always read Mark Grant's comments. Usually find them informative and entertaining but this one is a bit over the top. OK ECB monetary policy might have been too loose to accomodate Germany a few years back but the PIIGS were only too happy to borrow without restraint. Germany may have benefitted from their profligacy but it didn't cause it.
Exactly, so go back to the DM and be done with it then.
Clearly the USA also benefitted from the ECB policy as US Banks went beserk in the years after 2001. You seem to ignore the fact that many of the PIIGS had very good sovereign debt levels UNTIL they had to prop up deadbeat BANKS. It may be that Banks and their false accounting delivered taxes to fund these sovereign states - but that is true of the Clinton Years in the USA too when we were assured of "The New Paradigm".
The truth is that Ireland and Spain are carrying the DEBT from Deadbeat Banks as in the UK. Germany is simply carrying TARGET2 as a way of funding Deutsche Bank, Allianz sub PIMCO and French Banks loaded up with exposure to PIIGS
Exactly. The western banking system is insolvent, period, full fucking stop. Don't hold your breath for an honest conversation about any of this. WWIII will happen first.
This is a usefull article, but let's not argue over who is in control. It is not the EU or German Central Banks. It is the FED, with headquarters in the US protected by US politicians and the US Military.
Without the FED and its control of IMF and BIS, European Union, could not and would not exist. We have become their monetary ennablers. Our SWAPS and support of NATO is what is keeping Germany in control of all the others in the EU.
Well, well...there's been quite a bit of German-bashing here on ZH, lately. The truth is that the Germans are very aware of the fact that they will not be able to run the show alone. If anything, this is exactly what history teaches them.
Well, it's not as if anyone ever has asked us, what we are aware of. And neither does anyone seem to give a shit about it.
Charlemagne resuscitated and why not Julius Caesar if the Pax Americana stumbles tomorrow?
After all Germany has access to markets to its west and to RM to its East...its potential clout is of the size of the USA; if it can keep its empire together.
Whence the CB cooperation with Pax Americana, USD/EUR bond, but on its own terms in its back yard, notably in troubled Club Med.
PS : As ZH article points out Ben of FED is like Goebbels today. So Mutti as Charlemagne is an improvement on that! Slaves never be choosers unless they take the REIchstag!
1st Germany hasn't been ruled by Germans since(at least) '45 till present
"In the German mind there are Germans and then there is everyone else and the "everyone elses" will not be treated as the Germans treat themselves." - could not be more false, have you been to Germany recently?
The streets are FULL of immigrants (East European, African, Turks, you name it) and have yet to hear 1 complaint from a German about this(even implied), sure some are more vocal but the general population embraces immigration(for better or for worse).
The German politicians constantly do the opposite of what the general public sentiments are, and seem to always get away with it(even during elections).
Germans should embrass those immigrants as they are the ones having those babies!!
Reading your comment I noticed that german politicians act just like french politicians...and every politicians in the world I guess
Germans should embrass those immigrants as they are the ones having those babies!!
Why of course, because one Turk = one African = one German, right?
Germans (along with the rest of the White Race) are on a path to self-inflicted-extinction if nothing is done about it, maybe the people will wake up but will it be not too late than ?
Would you rather have blond hair, blue eyes babie as your only option?
One turk=one polish? Right?
And your self inflicted extinction thing is an overexageration...especially in Germany when you compare their number of immigrant to UK or France...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE2kMWNJomo
War with Iran ... coming soon.
The US will win but it will be a pyrrhic victory.
Old king Pyrrhus won many battles against the Romans but in the end he was bankrupted and had to retreat from Italy.
And the same will happen to the US after their many mideastern wars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhus_of_Epirus#Retreat_from_Italy
Sic transit gloria mundi
"as I stare out at the horizon"
Mark J Grant, you're not on a beach by any chance, or maybe at the top of a sky-scrapper?
Sounds very literary and inspiring wherever it is ... :)
Just like going to the track; Benny's trillion dollar window is always open for those in need. Come'n up Europe, we got plenty to spare.
First impression is this is a first draft, entertaing in parts. Rewrite it with more bite focusing on the end.
It is almost cynical trying to blame Germany for a systemic problem that is at the heart of the fractional reserve banking system and is the root cause of the Euro crisis. It is stupid of Mark Grant to do this although it plays into the hands of the Rothschild controlled group of private bankers who are really to blame and who are profiting from this mess, so probably he is being well paid to do this.
Germany had its economy wrecked by exactly the same group of private bankers in the 1930s when it was forced at the end of WW1 to sell its state owned central bank to Rothschild interests. These parasites then used it to collapse the German economy and cause the Weimar hyperinflation. Milton Friedman has acknowledged this. Now faced with round two of the same asset stripping game Germany has leaarned from what happened last time and is resisting.
The villains in this crisis are not the Germans but the Rothschild linked private banks who own the ECB. Germany is a victim of their scheming rather than a benefactor as it is just one of the stronger dominoes in the collapsing line.
“Germany doesn't want a new constitution. The rulers of the EU want a new constitution; they are completing what they started, building a European superstate, which has been the goal for a century or more. "Germany" (read: the banker shills who make up Germany's government) is just playing the role assigned it by the bankers upstairs. Same with the rest of them. The nation v. nation deathmatch that's endlessly discussed in the press and regurgitated by the ignorati is just propaganda, distraction, cover-up, justification, etc. Like the Rep-Dem farce in the U.S.” -- John Wilmot (ZH)
Mark J. Grant is Managing Director of the Corporate Syndicate Department for a publicly traded investment bank. In addition, he has run the capital markets departments and has been on the boards of four investment banks. He also served as the president of a public company in telecommunications and was on its board of directors. His commentary "Out of the Box" is distributed to more than 5,000 financial institutions in 48 countries and is published each day out of London and Paris as well.
When Snoopy was asked why he was on Charlie Brown’s team, Snoopy replied, “I play for whoever owns the supper dish.”
"Much more pleasant to use Euros than tanks…" -- Mark J. Grant, Out of the Box
Will this WWII imaging of the German people never stop. Of all the misdirected analyses of the European crisis, this is one of the worst. To think that the German politicians have absolutely anything to say about the governing or the direction of the European Union is a blatant lie.
The European Union was an invention, lock - stock, and barrel - of the central bankers. It was put together, lied about, and maintained for their personal monetary benefit and power. And if one of the members misbehaves, like Cyprus, who is it who smashes them? The German politicians? Only the ones who are owned by the central bank.
The lies about the control of Europe are bad enough but do we continually have to suffer the Nazi symbols and Nazi references that the Zionists (partners of the bankers) continue to employ to divert the blame and excite the ignorant?
Deutsche Bank is not Germany; it’s the Fed. Can you say, Who’s your papa?
A hard and naked perspective on Angela Merkel, during her FKK salad days:
http://www.propagandes.info/blog/angela-merkel-nue-et-aryenne/angela-mer...
Try finding a photoshop picture of Golda Meir and see how far you get with that.
JR, that is not a photoshopped take. That is an original, propably from the early 1980s in the Ostsee (Germany's Eastern coast).
Freie Körper Kultur (FKK or nudism) was and still is common in the former GDR's area. I hesitated in posting this picture given it could be construed as a vulgarian attempt to ridicule her. None of the sort. In fact this picture humanises her.
As to Golda Meir, I recall a splendid and unphotoshopped picture of hers posing as the Statue of Liberty. Google picture seems rather poor in results, perhaps because of her hirsute armpit, who knows.
https://www.google.de/search?q=golda+meir+liberty+statue&client=firefox-...
This is the exact genuine article just like Obama's birth certificate. This is the computer age. If this had been an original photograph it would have been in the political circles of Germany years ago, and you know it. There's no doubt about that picture. To play along with this is even worse than the person who photoshopped it.
BuzzFeed said backwhen (and HuffPo knows it( that:
"The nudist blogger who first posted the image said he does not believe it is Merkel...
"The image appears to have been posted online in 2009 on a nudist lifestyle blog called 'Nudiarist,' although the picture it circulated in recent days on Reddit and in various publications, including Digital Journal and the Spanish Vanity Fair. 'Nudiarist' is protected, but the man who runs the blog, Chet Kresiak, confirmed in an email that the photo appeared on his website in a November 11, 2009 post.
Kresiak said he believes the photograph appeared originally in a Swedish nudist magazine called HELIOS that published in the 1950s and 1960s. Although he was unable to identify the issue that published the picture, it's his opinion that the woman it depicts is not Angela Merkel.
"'She was born in 1954,' he wrote in an email to BuzzFeed. 'This appears to be an April Fool's joke.'"
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/angela-merkel-nude-photo-may-not-be-of-angela-merkel
Of course, Jewish-owned HuffPo will run it over and over as often as possible (always with a disclaimer at the bottom pretending innocence) as it did April 9, 2013. You know, like “when did you stop beating your wife” sort of thing. But then, the American media is captured.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/09/angela-merkel-naked-april-fool-german-chancellor-aged-18-nudist-beach-_n_3043402.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEPm8-2Bc6k
Thanks for the research, JR. Indeed, this picture could perfectly be a fake.
I give Mr. Grant an A for effort. Day after Day, Week after Week, Month after Month, and almost Year after Year, and being woefully wrong.
"Just keep up the charade until I can finish setting the charges and then we can all evacuate the building together, OK..??"
I just don't get it and suspect I never will. Seems to ME like southern Europe wants to live beyond their means while Germany pays for it. The PIIGS want to retire at 50 with cushy benefits while they retire modestly at best in Germany at 65. In MY world, Germany says "F" you to Southern Europe. Let them leave the euro if they don't want to begin living within their means, or let Germany leave it and stop enabling the bloodsucking leeches to suck them dry.
The battle lines are being drawn. I would bet England will leave the Euro entirely.
Before or after it enters?