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Europe's Soaring Revulsion Against "Europe" In One Chart
Mario Draghi may have lied to Zero Hedge when saying there was no European "Plan B" (or Z), but he was right when he said that there has been a "vast amount of political capital that has been invested into the Euro." There is one problem: that political capital (like virtually every other form of capital in Europe) is evaporating at an unprecedented pace.
The following map from Votewatch may be in French, but what needs no translation is what Europe can expect following the 2014 elections for European Parliament which start today and continue until the 25.
In short - with the biggest projected "gainer" in the election, and a forecast winner in places like the UK, France, Denmark, Poland, Finland and others, being v, projected to gain 56 parliamentary seats to a record 177 (at the expense of popular European parties), the surge in the "revulsion and loathing" at the concept of a "united Europe" is unprecedented.
At this rate one more election and the Eurosceptics will be the single largest political block in a "United" Europe. We hope even hard line eurocrats can see the problem with that outcome.
So, Mr. Draghi, is it time for another political capital injection?
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Maybe. Maybe not.
One can never ignore that it is the political elites that start wars, not the people, who mostly get along with each other.
I think most Europeans feel more or less the same way about it. It's the politicians and the bankers that caused all the shit we're in. E.g. nobody is trashing windows of Greek restaurants or shit like that, because everybody knows it's not the Greek people who caused it, but it's those #%^$@@#$ in Brussels! One day they may all be hanging on the bridges...
I remember The Squid cooking Greek books... you don't?
"One day they may all be hanging on the bridges..."
You left the LAMPOSTS out they may be needed you know...............
We occupied Germany for 50 years and still have bases there today. That's the big difference from pre-WWII...
More naive bullshit from a believer in the EU=peace propaganda. We've had 60+ years of peace because of nuclear weapons, and nothing else. War between European countries - some with nukes, others with capabilities to produce them within months - is not going to happen, ever again. There's simply no credible scenario.
We hope you're right, but never say 'never' bro. Some places have been known to trash themselves from within. We in the U.S. have a long un-proud history of doing so about every 20-30 years, too. We're overdue, but that's what the welfare state is there to do: stop dissent.
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and yet, there are ongoing wars being fought globally, from then to now, simultaneously, overlapping, invasions and defendings, overthrown elected-leaders, all this time.
the War Machine has never stopped, you just need to look beyond me-duh reportage to find out where it's marching on, daily.
and, of course, there's the other endless War, the banking class vs. the world. . . current-cy wars. . .
The Prague and Budapest UPRISINGS, the 1974 invasion of Cyprus by a NATO Member (Turkey) and the bombing of Yugoslavia were WHAT then???
Perhaps one of the major reasons why the EU in Brussels is almost totally undemocratic is that it can simply ignore polls of this type and carry on regardless with its plans for a USE. They will simply dismiss these results as a local or regional problem which has to be addressed by local politicians.
smacker, the decision to leave the EU is a national one. you can't ask the EU parliament to decide for the UK to stay or leave, for example. that's Westminster's prerogative, and rightly so. and so on. remember that the EU has a very limited scope, and again, rightly so
Quite so. But my point was that the unelected Brussels Eurocrats will just ignore such a poll. It will make not one jot of difference to anything they do nor to the way they conduct EU affairs.
THAT THEY are at the root of pan-European discontent with the whole European "thing" will go right over their heads. In the case of Barroso & Rompuy, right thru their heads.
This poll is full of bullshit, the euroskeptics will get far more than that.
Doesn't matter.
You think they're going to give up those cushy tax free jobs and the ridiculous perks that come with them?
It will take heavy ordnance to shake those imperial bloodsuckers loose.
Look across the pond if you don't believe.
what is french for clusterfuck??
Fueqe de clustère
Melange, and it must flow!
(Google translate says: "groupe baise")
ask dsK; maybe "partouze Lilloise" would be appropriate.
For the militarists its sounds more like "la bérézina!" that was a true french clusterfuck.
Btw : Lille is not far from Brussels.
When things get rough across the globe expect eyes to return to problems in Europe, where they continue to talk. I have not written much about the Euro-zone as of late because nothing is really happening.
The Euro-zone is engaged in a talkathon, with fear of an immediate collapse off the table the members of the Euro-zone much like their political counterparts in America just talk about solutions without any action. For us in America news from across the pond dribbles out in small doses with almost daily media boost of promises that things are getting better. For more on all of "what is not happening" see the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/04/euro-zone-update.html
Having failed to convince British voters to vote LibCon, the British MSM is desperately trying to suppress turnout today, calling the elections "boring" and "unimportant". How pathetic.
Flat-line Express.
Any vote, even an invalid one, is a vote for the system. The illusion of particiation expressed in a vote is in practice a formal renunciation of your sacred duty to resist tyranny. Vote, obey, pay taxes, serve the debt you've inherited and show them what a dilligent slave you are.
Yes,
Because NOT voting ruins everyones day.
Being invisible is not resisting tyranny.
It's just being invisible.
A determined grain of sand is more effective and morally supperior to a blob of fat, if the evil machine is to be stopped.
It is your moral choice.
Suppression. Let's say you succeed, and turnouts were south of 20%. What would you make of this? Call it an illegitimate election and call for revolution? If there were 5 Nigel Farage -like leaders in the European Parliament there would be effective education and the formation of an effective movement. The bureaucracy would be held to account and perhaps even stymied now and then. People would begin to feel the effect their votes had, setting up UKIP and others for their national elections.
For some strange reason Nigel Farage reminds me of Emmanuel Goldstein.
Votes have no effect other than legitimate the Soviet moloch now sitting in Brussels.
Farage cannot change or revert the trend, even if you assume he is for real and actually believes in what he says.
The real news is that despite the number and mass of "EuroSceptics" on this map, there is still only one Nigel Farage.
And really, that tells you all you need to know about the possibility of reforming such a system from within.
Nigel Farage = Ron Paul = Saviour.
when people stop looking for their Savoiurs, stop desiring someOne, anyOne to LEAD them,
and instead dis-engage from a system that OBVIOUSLY is set up to enSlave,
then energy can be expended on strengthening local community ties, sovereignty where it matters - within.
SELF, not SERF.
Any exit-poll news on how UKIP is doing?
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Thailand's army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha takes control of the government in a coup saying the army has to restore order and push through reforms
Latest:
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One of my FX plays right now:
Short Euro - vs. the Yen, USD....devote 2% of block to these shorts....
First target: 1.30 - 6 months time.
2014 close 12/31/14 projected: 1.25
The EURO is FUCKED - the Yen and USD ALREADY ARE FUCKED - but the EU has done all the lying and manipulation it can to hold this bitch at levels defying any sort of logic or reason....lol...can't even believe I'm typing "reason"...
Lastly, the Frogs can't STAND the fucker over 1.30 to the buck....France is TRULY FUCKED
Now look at this:
http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2014/05/22/nigel-farage-der-g...
Excerpt:
"Nigel Farage: The biggest EU opponent helps himself from the EU pots
The most popular critic of the EU, the Briton Nigel Farage, is no better than the established politicians criticised by him. Now after an argumentative second pension of the EU comes out: Farage occupies his woman as a secretary, pays from EU-tax pots – which he wants to abolish. More hypocrisy isnt possible."
Mr. Farage is obviously a hypocrite.
Controled opposition i guess.
In the end they are all liars.No exception.
Note: DWN is one of the most critical news media .
Everybody knows as soon as a local major military power goes on the march Europe's spine and unity will crumble; just like it always does. They have become quite well conditioned after all these years, the cute little lemmings.
Europoors have no illusions, there never was any unity in the first place, only Eurocrats pretend otherwise - and even they know it's not true.
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The latest polls in Italy show that there is a fair possibility that Beppe Grillo's M5S might be the first party. So, also Italy would be gray on this map.
M5S European stance is: if Europe does not stop to harm southern countries in favour of northern ones, let's exit from Euro, and even from Europe. If European countries agree to behave more cooperatively, we'll stay in Europe.
Two big scandals announced today about mismanagement and theft in an insurance company (Unipol) traditionaly controlled by leftist, and in a Genoa bank controlled by both left and right parties are increasing the possibilities that M5S wins.
Actually, the latest barometers indicate that M5S will have a landslide victory. I follow the Italian media on a daily basis.
These are exiting times for politics in Italy. Bebbe Grillo is a bit like an Andrew Jackson or Teddy Roosevelt figure. He is making the crony parasites that infest the swamp of Italian politics shit their pants with fear.
Eurotrash cash burn.
Options for Europe part 89. MMT garbage. Believe Billy sees the weakness in the grand system mechanics.
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?cat=44
And for all of our American readers who don't quite get what the EU fuss is about, here's a quick explanation:
Imagine if your government decided that the individual states of the United States were an inconvenience and to do away with them. Then they decided to invite every country in Central and Latin America to join this borderless federation.
That is what we are facing in Europe and that is why the EU is dying on its feet.
your explanation misses many important details: Germany, France, italy, etc. all are sovereign countries. each with own national taxes, army, navy, debt, history, culture, often language, etc.
Not for long.
your list is faaaaar offff, except history language and culture.
everything else depends upon EU.
Germany is a sovereign country. It is.
hard to imagine such a thing happening here
Imagine if your government decided that the individual states of the United States were an inconvenience and to do away with them. Then they decided to invite every country in Central and Latin America to join this borderless federation.
That is what we are facing in Europe and that is why the EU is dying on its feet.
Incorrect analogy because what you're doing is actually trying to form a United States of Europe
Imagine if your government decided that the individual states of the United States were an inconvenience and to do away with them. Then they decided to invite every country in Central and Latin America to join this borderless federation.
That is what we are facing in Europe and that is why the EU is dying on its feet.
Incorrect analogy because what you're doing is actually trying to form a United States of Europe
The problem with Ireland ?
Sinn Fein will capture much of the protest vote.
The problem with that is ..............its a pro Europe party
In truth Ireland needs a Bernadette Devlin but without the Marxist baggage.
A social credit conservative with real inertia begind her much like the all guts Devlin who whatever else you could say about her had a Joan of Arc quality of leadership which men tend to follow into the abyss.
Instead - Ireland has various inarticulate characters to rest our exhausted heads on.
Europe is merely a larger 19th century British banking union - a very structured disaster they will call a success.
Anybody who has confidence in the machinary of the present government either directly benefits from it (few and fewer) or is a fool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO8gvTWit-E
"It is perfectly obvious that this country under the present constitution is ungovernable. You have civilians living in this area who are forced to barricade the place and to launch an almost military offensive on the police force of this country, not because the people in this area want to break the law, but because they know that if they do not keep the police out of this area, that the police will come in here and ruin their homes and attack their wives and children. Therefore, since the police force are the people who are in fact disturbing the peace, there can be no confidence in the machinery of government"
People have made a grave mistake (thanks to the local elite in each euro vassal)
They have left Europe into their homes when at least in rural Ireland the free state was somewhat distant from the hearth and the farm if you chose not to engage with the so called modern world.
What is "political capital?"
a different word would be political consensus
Go UKIP
Even if I have my reservations about the UKIP, I Voted against all the other Warmongers.
Therefore, it fell onto Nigel to do more with the wet rags, that are the Eurocrats.
It's at times like this - trying to decipher the above graphic - that I wish I'd applied myself a bit more in remedial Spanish 101
Spanish doesn't help much w/ French, tete de linotte
In this specific case I agree with Nuland: "Fuck the EU". (Know that I'm European.)
As it has NOTHING at all to do with the poeple (except the very moment when there are elections) - and everything and all with the oligarchs and lobbies of mega companies.
Hence IMHO clearly already prearranged election result: coalition of the losers!
But from this weekend on there could well be quite some smoke in Europe.
And where's smoke - there's easily - at some point - fire.
Vive l'Europe, vive Europeans - fuck the EU (which has nothing to do with Europe or the Europeans).
Good man! (Or woman!)
Ever the optimist, I would just like to say GOODBYE and GOOD RIDDANCE to the EU Commission, all the hangers-on, would-be World Improvers, Welfare Socialists and all other moochers who have poisoned this fair earth to the detriment of people who actually work and strive to make a better living for their kith and kin.