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Europe, The Morally Bankrupt Union
Submitted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer of the Automatic Earth
Europe, The Morally Bankrupt Union
The European Union is busy accomplishing something truly extraordinary: it is fast becoming such a spectacular failure that people don’t even recognize it as one. People have no idea, they just think: this can’t possibly be true, and they continue with their day. They should think again. Because the Grand European Failure is bound to lead to real life consequences soon, and they’ll be devastating. The union that was supposed to put an end to all fighting across the continent, is about to be the fuse that sets off a range of battles.
To its east, the EU is involved in a braindead attempt at further expansion – it has only one idea when it comes to size: bigger is always better -, an attempt that is proving to be such a disaster that heads will roll in the Brussels corridors no matter what. Europe has joined the US and NATO very enthusiastically in creating not just a failed state, but a veritable imitation of Hiroshima, in Ukraine, right on its own borders. The consequences of this will haunt the EU (or if it doesn’t last, which is highly plausible, its former members) not just for weeks or months or years, but for many decades.
The carefully re-crafted relationship with Russia, which took 25 years to build, was destroyed again in hardly over a year, something for which Angela Merkel deserves so much blame it may well end up being her main political legacy. Vladimir Putin, and Russia as a nation, will not easily forget the humiliation the west has thrown at them, the accusations, the innuendo, the attempts to draw them into a war they never wanted and in which they see no advantage for any party involved.
That US warmongers would try and set this up, is something Moscow has long known and expected; that Merkel would stand side by side with the likes of John McCain and Victoria Nuland is seen as a deep if not ultimate betrayal between neighbors and friends. Russia will present Germany with the bill when it feels the time is right. Obviously, all other EU countries that have behaved in the insane ways they have over the past year will receive that same bill, or worse.
To be sure, this week we’ve seen the first protest voices from Germany regarding NATO’s vacuous attempts to draw Russia into the battlefields of Ukraine. But those voices are years too late. They can’t undo the damage already done. They may keep American weapons from reaching Kiev – and even that’s a big maybe -, but they can’t bring back either the lives of the victims, the Ukrainian economy or the trust lost between east and west.
To its south, the EU faces perhaps its most shameful -or should that be ‘shameless’? – problem, because it doesn’t do anything about it: the thousands of migrants who try to cross the Mediterranean to get to Europe but far too often perish in the process.
The Italians spend themselves poor, trying to save as many migrants as they can (170,000 last year!), and there are private citizens – Americans even – pouring in millions of dollars, but the EU itself has zero comprehensive policy as people keep dying on its doorstep all the time. The official line out of Brussels is that the EU polices only the European coastline, but the drownings mostly take place off the Lybian coast. At least Italy and others do sail there to alleviate the human misery.
And now the problem threatens to expand into a whole new and additional dimension, with Muslim extremists like ISIS set to travel alongside the migrants to gain entry into Europe with the aim of launching terror attacks. Having turned a blind eye to the issue for years, Europe will now find itself woefully unprepared for this new development. Still, expect more bluster and brute force where there was never any reason or need for it. That the EU’s MO today.
It’s not just in the south either that migrant problems are rampant: the Ukraine is a hotbed migrant route that Europe has lost control over for obvious reasons, and there have for example been thousands of African refugees camping out in the French port of Calais for what feels like forever, desperate to make it to Britain (I know, God knows why..).
To its west, the EU has Britain, which by the time it gets to vote on Europe may well have its belly so full of Brussels that no scare campaign helps anymore. Then Britain will make a sharp turn right, as many other countries will. Which is exclusively due to the EU, and to all the domestic politicians across the entire spectrum who are so blind to the failings of the Union that the only option voters have if they want out is to choose right extremism.
To its north, the EU doesn’t seem to have much to worry about right now, but don’t you worry: they’ll think of something. Count for instance on Brussels to join Denmark in its Arctic land claims, and offend Moscow some more while they’re at it.
But the biggest failure is not even in politics outside of its own territory. The union rots from within. Which starts with its moral bankruptcy, obviously. If you allow yourself to be an active accomplice in the death of over 6000 East Ukrainians, and you simply look away as thousands of migrants die in the seas off your shores, it should not be surprising that you just as easily allow for a humanitarian crisis, like the one in Greece, to develop within your own borders. It comes with the territory, so to speak.
And make no mistake: this absence of moral values is something Europe in its present form will never be able to claim back. Never. The EU has shown itself to be a gross moral failure, and that’s it: the experiment is over. They can’t come back in 10 or 20 years and say: now we want it back, we’re different now. You’d need to have a whole new union, new rules and principles, and new leadership.
It’s like the US, which once (post WW) had an enormous moral high ground in the world to walk on, and it’s completely gone. Nobody trusts anything America says anymore. America has lost its place in the world as guardian of freedom and democracy, and so has Europe. All they can do now to exert influence is to engage in political scheming and military sabre rattling. Everything else is gone.
What will undo Europe from within is its economic policies. Which are strongly linked to the same moral values issue: inside a union, you cannot let thousands of people go without food and health care while others, a few hundred miles away, drive new Mercs and Beamers over a brand new Autobahn. That’s not a union. That’s a feudal society. And those don’t hold.
In practical terms: Mario Draghi will launch ECB Q€ this month, and it will be as dismal a failure as the entire eurozone project. Because the ECB will need to drop interest rates into very negative territory to keep the ship afloat a little longer, and because Draghi won’t find the sovereign bonds he wants to buy, available in the market.
If Draghi acted in the interest of the entire eurozone and all its citizens, he’d be busy restructuring bank debt in Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, all over the eurozone, instead of playing these monopoly money games. But Draghi’s only pumping more ‘wealth’ into the broke banking system, €1.1 trillion more, to be specific.
Eventually, this refusal to restructure a a bankrupt system will bring bail-ins like the one playing out in Austria right now, closer, across the currency zone (though mostly not before 2016). And by the time that process spreads to ever more banks, which is inevitable, it will have consequences Draghi cannot oversee. And they’ll be of his own making. If he just did his work today, and forced banks to get healthy or close down, it wouldn’t end nearly as messy and chaotic.
Europe’s leaders across all of its institutions are completely lost, whether it comes to intelligence, morals or simple decency. They’re all too willing to trample upon their own people in order to have access to power. And that can only lead to more misery.
Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over. They’re done.
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I Am Italian: Documentary on Donbass 2014 made after the work of the Italian journalist Andy Roccchelli killed in Donetsk by the NATO occupational forces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVtHKArpYHQ
The most important thing that a "union" or government can provide is protection to the citizens. Both the U.S. and EU are admitting millions of people into their countries who do not share their same basic values. Unchecked immigration will be the death of these empires.
I stay away from the media, because it's all Jewish propaganda. But just for fun, once a month I hit up Google News. Sure enough, right at the top of the page is the same old main stream media Jewish garbage propaganda about isis or al queda or Afghanistan rebels OR SOME FUCKING HATE CRIME IS BEING SPEILED OUT BY THE JEWS.
European "monetary policy" is exactly the same thing, just a different version of Jewish hate crime against non-Jews.
"...and forced banks to get healthy or close down..."
Anyone who proposes solutions that don't address the true root of the problem, a cabal that creates money from thin air, is a party to the madness.
The author does not know what he is talking about. Germany is such a large net payer to the European Union that there is not enough money in the country to keep its infrastructure in good shape. If you want to drive your car on a good highway I suggest you go to a country where - thanks to the system of 50% co-financing with EU money - new infrastructure has been built. If you drive highway number 2 from Warsaw/Poland to Hannover/Germany (labeled A2 in both countries) you will see that the quality of the infrastructure is *much* higher in Poland than in Germany. As the main contributor to the EU, Germany has co-financed that highway.
Who the fuck taught you to send all those funds - and lies and propaganda - to all over Europe?
Fuck Bruessels and all its whores and parasites - and sent 'em immediately straight into the Ukraine (the next country they desperately want in the EU) where they shall fight for their lifes. Only that will still their greed for ever more and more.
And fuck the Neocons far across the ocean, far of the battlefield - same type of relentlessly greedy whores and parasites - which will not stop (for greed and bloodlust) before there is another WW on the back of the European and Russian people.
Fuck all those coward warmongerers and which should be immediately sent to Libia, Syria, Iraq etc. so they can still their bloodlust.
Anyone care to comment on the effects of a policy that rewards paying down principal? I.e. mortgage interest tax deduction, except instead of rewarding paying interest, rewarding reducing debt.
I realize the prepayments would probably affect the value of mortgage assets by moving principal payments forward, but seems like it would also leave banks flush with cash.
Thoughts? Caveated with I was really high the other night and started thinking about this.
The problem is the parties most in need of paying down principal are the same parties who set policy.
How do you incent a broke government to pay down principal?
Excellent question, but I think the first step is to incentivize the population to escape personal debt which then reduces the power of bankers.
THE TRUE AND ONLY WAR IS THE MAJORITY VS THE SOCIOPATHS RUNNING THIS MESS.
The EU will get back their 'morals' when their immigrant masters impose Shiria law on them. The 30-years war was fought for naught.
Unfortunately the majority consists of clueless dumb and ignorant sheeple. So it's easy game for the Sociopaths.
Since Stonage.
If you think western news outlets are full of hate, don't look into what passes for mainstream in the inbred, Islam infected Arab world. You'd be confronted with some serious cognitive dissonance.
That's why the U.S. Constitution, interpreted as written and by the Federalist Papers, is such a great document. Too bad that leftist politicians (both in office and judges) have decided that it is meaningless - that their bankrupt political philosophy should trump the Constitution.
plus one for not saying republican or democrate! we are living in times of transition from good to ugly.
as time wears on and no revolt, it gets to a point of chaos. democracy died when dolla took over and the suprem court ruled a corp is an individual. ironic as the untied state are an actual corporate as organized legally, of course intentionally...
The Constitution sanctified slavery, sexisim and worst of all the legitimate monopoly of force to government. In the absence of the Constitution of the United States, the Federal Government would never been able to lay an income tax nor return men to the bonds of slavery after they had escaped. Without the Constitution's establishment of the Federal Government all the lovely guarantees of the Bill of Rights would have been unnecessary nor would said powerful Federal Government been able to take away these "rights" so easily. In the immortal words of Penn and Teller, The Constitution is BULLSHIT!
"...Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most, their government took ’em away. And rights aren’t rights if someone can take ’em away. They’re privileges, that’s all we’ve ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter and shorter." - George Carlin
The ONLY way to break away from Great Britain in order to end slavery was to allow it when the country was founded. The U.S. would not have been created if slavery was abolished from the start. Please read up on history.
The Constitution also left all powers not reserved to the federal government to the states. Corrupt judges have decided that that part of the Constitution doesn't count.
That you use Penn and Teller as your constitutional scholars is telling.
Your inability to comprehend what you read is even more telling. I used a Penn and Teller catch phrase. I did not quote their understanding of the Constitution.
If you're gonna be snarky, try to apply it to the subject properly.
LOL! Cute reply. You compliment me by mimicking me. Now run along and do your homework, Snowflake.
You need to turn off Penn, Teller, and Carlin; and actually read the Constitution itself.
- Did not "sanctify" slavery. The Consitution FOR THESE United States formed a framework whereby the several States could exist in confederation-type union, wherein each State would remain individually sovereign. The Constitution did nothing to establish or disestablish slavery, as this was out of the Federal Government's jurisdiction.
- Sexism. I presume this is a stab at women's suffrage, or lack thereof. The Founding generation, and generations after them, recognized the need for families to act as units. There can be only one head of household, and this duty falls to the man. Therefore, it adds nothing to the political process to allow women the right to vote. It is redundant. Her vote is represented by her man. Tell this to a modern feminazi and you'll hear screams of mysogyny; but it's the damn truth regardless.
- Income tax was made illegal by the Consitution. It would take a Woodrow Wilson to railroad a bad Amendment through Congress allowing such. This is not a fault of the Constitution.
- The Federal leviathan we live under today is not representative of any creation of the Founders, or the founding document. The guarantees of the Bill of Rights were absolutely necessary, regardless of the form of government created. Contracts for citizens' rights are as old as at least the Magna Carta.
Why go on? You are illiterate and hate-filled. Go learn to read; then read some books - preferably not written by foul-mouthed irreverent comedians.
Generally I'm with you.
Unfortunately though we have to deal with around 8 billions dumb, short memoried and ignorant sheeple - who care for food, porn, games, cars and the next pay day - but never ever for freedom.
So - the constitution - unfortunately - becomes absolutely meaningless over the decades and generations.
Thank the sheeple.
Nothing, except the clothes and colors and the glittering, changed since Stonage.
There are still 99.99% blind sheeple which prefer sugar and bread and slavery and the leadership of the 0.01% power and blood thursty one-eyed animals.
Not?
In your long winded retort I read nothing to refute the fact that the terrors of the Federal Government were/are only possible because the Constitution created that entity in the first place. To further paraphrase Penn and Teller. Government itself is bullshit. Whether libertarian or socialist, with democratic or republican machinations it always fails to perform as advertised. The endless fellating of the founding fathers not withstanding...
And the reason you did not read in my retort a refutation of the "fact" that the terrors of the Fed. Govt. were/are only possible because the Constitution created that entity is becase I made no effort to refute that assertion, as it is prima facie absurd.
This argument is, essentially, post hoc, ergo propter hoc, and therefore demands no attention.
...and therefore demands no attention.
And yet you responded ;-) BTW ergo propter hoc is completely inapplicable in this debate. All events that spring from the governments use of it's monopoly on legitimate violence are rightfully blamed on those who established said government. It was and is a knowable outcome of any system of government based on coercion. Unless your precious constitution was approved by every single citizen of the many states than it is based on a tyranny of the majority and is wholly coercive.
Sorry to break that to you...
"Unless your precious constitution was approved by every single citizen of the many states than it is based on a tyranny of the majority and is wholly coercive."
I'm sorry but that statement shows you to be an absolute moron. Yes, many of your previous statements have indicated it but this one puts you over the top quite nicely.
That you believe that all laws must be passed by 100% of the citizens (thankfully you agree to that burden - only citizens allowed to vote) voting yea is silly at best. Name one government in today's world that functions under that system - where no law is implemented without a 100% yea vote from every citizen.
If you hate that the U.S is founded by a set of documents that you didn't vote for you are welcome to move to a better country. Please state which country you are moving to so we will all know of the 100% voter approved paradise.
Murray Rothbard and Von Mises are morons as well I guess ;-)
Make practical arguments for your coercive tyranny of the majority government if you wish. I'd likely agree withal few. But there is no ethical argument for a .gov monopoly on force. Many a libertarian and anarchist thinker have taken this position quite vociferously.
Interesting how you are only capable of thinking in black and white. All or nothing. Anarchy or tyranny
BTW - Fantasizing about Mises being an anarchist is just that - a fantasy, and a false one at that. Mises recognized that 100% self determination is not possible:
"If it were in any way possible to grant this right of self-determination to every individual person, it would have to be done. This is impracticable only because of compelling technical considerations, which make it necessary that the right of self-determination be restricted to the will of the majority of the inhabitants of areas large enough to count as territorial units in the administration of the country."
Please stop promoting your fantasy by falsely claiming that Mises agrees with you.
The Constitution, as originally written, not as modified by leftist politicians and/or judges, limited the federal government quite well.
Over by this summer.
Its looking that way, but all previous reports of its death were premature.
This summer... at the latest.
What a party. Tequila, Vodka, Rum, Gin, Champagne by the gallons. Debauchery, sex, violence, you name it, it's all been done. Damn, those central bankers know how to throw down.
Now comes the vomiting and headache. One constant never-ending massive frickin hangover.
I dunno, Europe has a long and storied history with Feudalism. Looking at history, I think that is more the natural state of mankind. I would say the ideals of individual freedom are more the exception than the rule.
Individual freedom is not incompatible with Feudalism. Arguably, under what we know as democracy today, we have fewer civil liberties than a peasant farmer living in a localized Medieval kingdom. See my post below.
These people who run the EU are going to do alot of damage before they admit they were wrong, if ever.
The ENEE sadism
Their idea for a solution in regards to the poeple driving new cars a few hundred miles away: Fuck them over, too, and then you'll be equals.
A union involves equal opportunity, not the right of the most childish and least responsible to suck the intelligent dry after theyve used up their own resources. The EU may be fucked, but this author is a socialist idiot and completely off point.
Its like envying your neighbor with nicer things when you were blowing all your cash on hookers and blow in your 20's. You had your fun, now he's having his.
He is not an idiot. The idiot was the banker who ignored rules of prudent lending and assumed all credit risks were pooled at an interest rate wiuthout a risk premium
Germany as a nation needed to make financial placements in very large size, offshore, because it had inadequate domestic opportunities for investment, because of its collapsing demographics, because of socialism, which was itself an embrace of hedonism.
They massively bought American MBS for this reason. Their pension and insurance regimes needed good returns on huge placements. So they lent massively to people of poor impulse control in the USA and Greece and Spain and on and on. The returns will be/were poor.
LOL pensions, insurers LOL
Both are SO screwed with NIRP as the Swiss found out
They tried to protect domestic retail by pegging to the EUR but eventually they realized their insurers were f*cked
Never heard a socialist idiot trashing the EU before, its there prize posession. You have a strange idea of what a socialisst is
The crimes of NATO are legion but usually ignored by the free and fair press of the West. Here is but one example. And let's not forget the complete destruction of Libya for humane purposes:
Heroin production in Afghanistan increased 40 times since NATO began its ‘War on Terror’ in 2001, the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service stated, adding that more than 1 million people have died from Afghan heroin since then.
“Afghan heroin has killed more than 1 million people worldwide since the ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ began and over a trillion dollars has been invested into transnational organized crime from drug sales,”Viktor Ivanov said at the conference on the drug situation in Afghanistan.
http://rt.com/news/afghanistan-heroin-production-increased-266/
Heroin Deaths in the U.S. Have Doubled in 2 YearsOct 3, 2014
http://time.com/3460809/heroin-death-overdose/
NATO War Crimes in LibyaAlthough the rationale of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for entry into Libyan conflict invoked humanitarian principles, the results have proven far from humane. In July 2011, NATO aircraft bombed Libya’s main water supply facility, which provided water to approximately 70 percent of the nation’s population. And, in a failed attempt to appear unbiased and objective, the BBC has revealed, almost a year after the information was relayed by independent media, that British Special Forces played a key role in steering and supervising Libya’s “freedom fighters” to victory
http://www.projectcensored.org/8-nato-war-crimes-in-libya/
Heroin doesnt kill people. People who use heroin kill people. Themselves mostly but yeah, not only.
I look at a history of South African diamond mines or Dutch rubber plantations in Africa, Stealing silver and gold from Axtec and Incas in South America, I. G. farben plants next to Austwich or the history of India or Carribean and I would ask myself when was Europe ever even remotley about Morality?
Europeans or homo sapiens ?
Got me there, its the flaw in our character that makes all these things possible. Man I have it made with some security with this gig.
What we are willing to do to others and pretend not to see for some nice accessories and the supposed good life
That youtube video of the chimpanzee with the AK47 really sums us up as a species.
The Nazi officer-was just following orders, the prison warden- just doing my job, the cop killing a homeless man-I just wanted to do 20 and a pension, the Conquistador- I had a letter of marque from the Queen or Bernie Madoff, Victoria Nuland,John Corzine,Mugabe,Bill Clinton,Jamie Dimon, Boko Haram or Mario.
You always get the same answer to the question in the end. I made it ok in my mind with bags under my eyes.
Here is Yanis Varoufakis's new diatribe and warning to EU : If you reject our economic plan we will have a referendum and maybe a new government as nobody will invest in Greece under the eternal threat of bankruptcy and Grexit...
http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2015/03/08/avant-l-eurogroupe-varou...
Mutti has to make up her mind on UKRAINE AND GREECE...
"The rain in Ukraine falls mainly from the remains of a shot down plane..."
Some legacy !
The choice in Ukraine is simple: it is to tell the USA to get out of European matters and that hands Putin a victory. The US is putting a gun to Germany's head, not Russia's
Assuming your scenario is correct; it still stays Mutti's call...
Does she give in to Nato's Gen Strangelove who is serving Pax Americana's narrow motives and mindset ?
Ost politik with a Putin singing "I need lebensraum in Ukraine" is an OMINOUS refrain that reminds the world of yesteryear... But Nato's call of saying : we stay hegemon of world affairs for Pax Americana is playing at Charybdis to Putin's Scylla!
Europe is now Ulysses's boat in that narrow passage!
Lemme fix that: "I need lesbianraum in Ukraine."
That ... would be heaven.
"The rain in Ukraine falls mainly from the remains of a shot down plane..."
Isnt " The remains in the Ukraine fall mainly from shot down planes" more accurate?
The remains in Ukraine stem mainly from Nuland's donuts. (I think she caused it)
They will never admit they're wrong, simply explain that by some unforseen curcumstance people died. They could never be held responsible. SSDD. NATO, I have nothing for. Looks like they're just playing a hand in the game, east west and nato. And people die. Meanwhile in Selma, no person can be called illegal and BHB is trying his best to tie immigration to black history, in an effort to dilute voters who are tired of the courruption with another free shit army.
What part of "Socialism is a lie !" .... don't you understand ?
So Mutti is a socialist? And saving that mega HF Deutsche capitalist bank is a socialist act???
And the makings of ECB into an even bigger HF at european level, impovershing the people, is a socialist dream ?
When did the english language morph to that point?
Popes and Ayatollahs say the same things based on "divine" word in "holy" books, but Greek logic is based on facts not obscurantism.
WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF RETURN TO NEO-FEUDALISM, the precursor to elitist, monopolist capitalism.
Choose your words, don't bend concepts and facts to suit your bent mindset.
Everything is the fault of The Left - the Leftist media in the US being the prime example.
LOL blame something, but from where i sit: politicians and criminals go hand in glove. be yee leftist, centrist , rightist..you must deal with crime and corruption..today the criminals have them all on thier side..corzine rightist leftist or in fact just a criminal..makes one wonder why no one talks about that.
They're nihilists Donny.
OK LBJ, Nixon, Reagan and the Bushes were all lefties!
I get it.
Mrs Thatcher was the worst leftie of them all; after all she did quote Saint Francis of Assise-- a notorious christian leftie who loved to turn the other cheek and only defend the poor-- when she said : Where there is discord I will bring harmony... And she did, by killing off the trade unions and privatising the public services. Some harmony there. Also she was famous for saying : Never doubt the goodwill of our bankers as THEY know how to count and manage money matters instead of raising debt and taxes for no rhyme or reason.
Well we all know how moral our bankers are!
The author, shocked at the absence of morality.
We are human. We want to live in peace, with others who are like us. Like us means, a similar culture and to some extant, look the same. You can look differant, but if your culture is different, well your not welcome.
Then we want to work and eat and provide for our family. If you flood our space, with others not from our tribe, and it makes things harder for us, we don't fucking like it. Anywhere. On the planet. Get it? Got it? Good.
Then, as a bonus, after we are fed and housed, a system that permits us to better our lot, if we work harder or smarter than the next guy. Nothing's perfect, and life ain't fair, we get it. Just try with the system. Give us a shot. Don't piss on us, as tell us it's raining.
And a real dream. Acknowledge every man's right to be armed and defend his life, liberty and property. Again, nothing's perfect, just don't hang a brother out to dry.
Now, how many of those simple, easy principals are being violated.
And when we have our " house" in order, people tend to be very generous to his fellow man. But, charity starts at home.
Finally, a comment worth reading!
I'd add that the author of the article gets it completely wrong when he writes: "inside a union, you cannot let thousands of people go without food and health care while others, a few hundred miles away, drive new Mercs and Beamers over a brand new Autobahn. That’s not a union. That’s a feudal society. And those don’t hold."
Bullshit.
As Jesus noted in his time, the poor will always be with us. The leftist delusion that poverty and hunger are problems civilized people have a duty to solve forms the basis for at least half of the welfare-warfare state that the USA has become - and probably more than half! Yes, author, a government absolutely can let thousands of people go without food and health care while others drive fancy cars. To attempt to "cure" this - from the governmental level - is to start down the slippery slope to totaliarianism by legislated salvation! Kings and lesser nobility recognized this in feudal societies; and in cases where the peasant and/or bourgeois classes insisted on an enumerated list of civil liberties (eg. The Magna Carta), the arrangement worked quite well. It is unfortunate, in some respects, that those did not hold. Democracy has turned what's left of Western Civ. into a tyranny of the majority.
This is to say nothing of individual charity, which is a good and noble thing.
And, by the way, it's "Bimmer," not "Beamer."
http://www.bimmer-mag.com/
The E.U. is an Empire not a Commonwealth.
Like any empire it rots if it does not expand.
No empire extends credit from the centre to the periphery
"inside a union, you cannot let thousands of people go without food and health care while others, a few hundred miles away, drive new Mercs and Beamers over a brand new Autobahn"
How is this different than US?
You point to the Beamer, and tell the newbies " that's what you can have, if you (-fill in the blank-)"
(-fill in the blank-) = Shut the fuck up and believe.
EU foundation was built on smoking out our favorite show characters with a BMW and planting new money trees under the lavish refinancing of the IMF.
Morals? Stupid ZH, this is a post morality world. Just witness the progress!
All this talk of morality and you only mention banksters in the last paragraph?
Money drives everything; it is a cause, not an outcome.
"The European Union is busy accomplishing something truly extraordinary: it is fast becoming such a spectacular failure that people don’t even recognize it as one."
"To its north, the EU doesn’t seem to have much to worry about right now, but don’t you worry: they’ll think of something."
"And make no mistake: this absence of moral values is something Europe in its present form will never be able to claim back. Never."
"Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over. They’re done."
==> Thanks for the retarded article, Tyler.
Don't be so hard on your retarded views for the success in socialism. It just never works.
We had numerous major famines on the British banking unions periphery during the height of that poweR
Failure = SUCCESS.
Margaret Thatcher on Socialism
Look at the big picture. Core, periphery, semi-periphery status.
Germany is the only one really making out with this setup right now. They get an artificially low currency to help with their expensive exports they specialize in. Greece etc. will take a big initial hit but will be better off down the road with their own curency.
OT
Another Shocker – HSBC Is The Custodian For GLD,,,, closeing all their gold vaults. “So if they are closing down all the vaults, where is the gold going? Who’s going to be holding it, or is it really even there (in the vaults)? So this should be shocking news to everyone that the Spyder (GLD) gold is now crawling out of HSBC vaults, going to whom?
It will only hurt the paper holders. Stackers will laugh.
The promotion of multiculturalism and diversity has done nothing but create a group of people who stand for nothing and have no identity. Exactly what the handlers want. A group of people that have no culture and nothing they call their own, have nothing to fight for.
As the individual European cultures were stripped away by a flood of immigrants, those that clung to their national identity were called bigots, racists, xenophobes. In reality it was because the handlers knew a sense of national identity would stand in the way of their plan.
Decentralization is the only cure for the world's problems. The issue with that is it is very hard to scam the entire world one person at a time. Better to create a system where a few can scam everyone at one time by law.
"The carefully re-crafted relationship with Russia, which took 25 years to build, was destroyed again in hardly over a year" This sums up how brain dead this wrier is. Even Snowden wants out of Russia with the murdering maniac Putin in charge. Why not go to Russia and write your BS because with one bad word you'll join Nemstov with bullets in your back, you idiot. The left is now reaching new levels of desperation to complete the fnal surrender but they have forgotten so soon that it all ends up in the newly refurbushed Gulags where internatioinal observers were just expelled. Didn't know that? Look it up.
Yup after a failed Putin rigged election when the Ukrainian people revolted it was just fine to invade and shoot down a nuetral plane with 300 on board, take territory and deny it all. You are a"noble" fighter for human rigts for sure and its all the EU's fault for listening to requests to join the EU and I guess somenone must have secretly taken over those Baltic countries and made them make the requests to join. Go back on your medication.!!
Ed Snow has done his snowjob. Ed is homesick and wants to go back to Langley.
you can't see much with your head up your posterior. lol
.....thousands of migrants who try to cross the Mediterranean to get to Europe but far too often perish in the process.....
WE DID NOT INVITE THEM.
We do not need them here.
They should not export their problems (Unemployment, Population Explosion, Starvation) to Europe.
To the hell with immigrants.
Europe is the most densely populated continent with 120 people per km^2.
To the hell with those africans and asians.
Stop calling them "immigrants." Call these people what they are: illegal (and legal) aliens.
Well said Jano, the sentiments of a lot of us in Europe
Well said Jano, the sentiments of a lot of us in Europe
Morality is fantasy that psychopaths might be restrained. A good bureaucracy is as much a fantasy as a good king. The EU is a fantasy of a greater king or bureaucracy being superior to a lesser one.
Extirpate the festering Anglozionazi cancer, the politburo of whores and pedophiles in Brussels and call it a day. Tear NATO apart, and send Pentacon Kill Industries rednecks and ethnics back to Slumville USSA. After the fast approaching collapse local preparedness and self sufficiency will be the way to go.
I for one celebrate the demise of everything Mercan and Anglozionazi. The sooner it implodes the better.
...you cannot let thousands of people go without food and health care while others, a few hundred miles away, drive new Mercs and Beamers...
Sounds like another Union I know, except lots of time they are just a few blocks away.
I am Italian too , I can tell you the the EU is a fake democracy . Many countries engage in harassment , gangstalking , monitoring , psy-op operations against people who know a few things embarassing to the Eu criminal governments . Whistleblowers are getting killed by spy agencies and nobody speaks about it . The newpapers are controlled by the secret services so the governments can engage in abuse of Human Right , abuse of power. Every day certain people are harassed and this form of torture can continue for decades and there is no where to go to find an explanation.
This happens in Italy , Slovenia , Germany , Finland , Norway , Great Britain, France and other countries , but of this matter nobody talks about it . Many people die in custody due to police brutality , see the Cucchi case and many others . Investigations are derailed and the responsible people never punished
http://www.themistsofavalon.net/t4972-ex-health-minister-of-finland-raun...
http://newsinsideout.com/2015/03/eucach-org-melanie-vritschan-nsa-is-rem...
http://www.eucach.org
it has always been a fuedal society.
it's in the mentality.
it's in the genes.
it's a patriarchal serf/slavedance that goes back forever.
it's always funny to listen to the self-inflated burocrats talk about democracy.
no one in europe knows what it is.
uhhh maybe the greeks. they still are in europe, aren't they?
spot on.
we are 2 in 20 millions.
who cares.
Just a pile of shit of an article. We in EU enjoy the freedom of choise the union gave to us. I guess there will always be someone who barks on moving caravan... We are 500mill strong, which itself gives a possibility for large scale innovation, which is impossible in smaller communities. Russians? Who gives a shit about them. I dont even use their gas, but if I would - I would care even less where it comes from. The union will ciese to exists as all synthetic formations do, but until now - musical chairs game is on and music still playing (unless you are corrupt and lazy greek)
The banksters know Europe is a lost cause. Why do you think they're cashing out now? They have maybe five years before the Russian army show up in Frankfurt.