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Marine Le Pen Will Reap What The EU Has Sown
Submitted by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,
Many people are cheering now that yesterday Marine Le Pen and her Front National (FN) party didn’t get to take over government in any regions in the France regional elections. They should think again. FN did get a lot more votes than the last time around, and, though she will be a little disappointed after last weekend’s results, it’s exactly as Le Pen herself said: “Nothing can stop us”.
And instead of bemoaning this, or even not believing it, it might be much better to try and understand why she’s right. And that has little to do with any comparisons to Donald Trump. Or perhaps it does, in that in the same way that Trump profits from -people’s perception of- the systemic failures of Washington, Le Pen is being helped into the saddle by Brussels.
The only -remaining- politicians in Europe who are critical of the EU are on the -extreme- right wing. The entire spectrum of politics other than them don’t even question Brussels anymore. Which is at least a little strange, because support for the EU on the street is not nearly as strong as among politicians, as referendum after referendum keeps on showing.
Some of which have rejected (more power to) the EU outright, like the one in Denmark last week, while others do it indirectly, by voting for anti-EU parties -see France this and last weekend-. There’s a long list of these votes going back through the years, with for instance both France and Holland saying No to the EU constitution in 2005, which led to many countries to postpone their own votes on the topic.
Brussels had an answer, though: by 2007, the Constitution proposal was converted into a Treaty (of Lisbon), which said basically the same but in a different order, and only through amendments to existing treaties. It was still rejected again in an Irish referendum, but in a second vote in 2009 accepted.
Importantly, the switch from Constitution to Treaty meant unanimity among EU nations was no longer needed; a majority was good enough. And so the whole thing was pushed through regardless of what people thought -and voted .
The overall picture is clear: Europeans in general are fine with the EU, but when it tries to grab more sovereign powers, they say NO, time and again. Only to be overruled by their own domestic politicians as well as Brussels. Their worries, frictions and arguments have only one way to go: the far right. All other political currents are united in unwavering support for the EU, basically no matter what.
But people see what’s happening in Greece, and with refugees, they see the way the Union treats the Russia and Ukraine issue, they see the new-fangled unholy plans with the EU border force, and they don’t want Brussels to tread on their respective nation’s sovereignty anymore than it already has.
They find no resonance for their worries at home, however, other than with people like Le Pen, Nigel Farage and similar ‘political outcasts’. And therefore that’s where they will turn. All Le Pen has to do is wait for the economy to get worse, and it will, and she can reap what the EU has sown.
As soon as Brussels threatens to turn into an authoritarian body, something it has already very evidently done, people will resist it.
The European Union could have been a very useful and appreciated organization, with many obvious advantages for the people of Europe. But as soon as it oversteps its boundaries, it is destined to self-implode. This process and outcome has become inevitable, because the Union has de facto appointed itself the arbiter of these boundaries.
The unelected high lords of Brussels have become too greedy, and too unaccountable, and they will end up achieving the exact opposite of what they claim the EU stands for: they will lead the continent into conflict, armed and otherwise.
The new border force concept is the perfect example for what is going wrong in Europe. A group of the largest, and therefore most powerful EU nations, have agreed on a rainy Monday afternoon that they’re going to set up some sort of military police force that will ‘protect’ the borders of member nations even if these nations don’t ask for such protection and/or outright resist it.
This is obviously directed mostly at Greece for now, and the EU thinks it can do with Greece as it pleases. But ask any German, French or British citizen if they want entrance to their countries controlled and decided by a para-military bunch of foreigners, and they’ll think you’ve lost it. But that’s the idea behind the border force: take away nations’ sovereignty. Start with the smaller and weaker and work your way up.
That this has some interesting legal implications, as I wrote recently in Greece Is A Nation Under Occupation, that few seem to even contemplate, will add to the entertainment.
There are 28 separate constitutions in the EU. Under which of these is it legal for a government to sign away control of its own borders? In how many of these countries will this be appealed at their own version of the Supreme Court? And how many of these courts will say: sure, sovereignty is way overrated anyway!?
The EU could have been a useful union. Not all those border checks, for one thing, not all those forms to fill out all the time. But with the advent of the euro, things got out of hand. You can have a functioning union between very different entities. But only as long as those differences are recognized and respected.
The euro is an idea that seeks to deny the differences between the people(s) of Europe, it seeks to claim that Germany IS Greece. To that end, it must then take away all nations’ sovereignty. The euro cannot exist without that. To function properly as a currency, it needs a banking union, a fiscal union. And then take it from there.
These are all things that nobody properly thought or talked about before it was introduced. Perhaps because everyone knew that these things would be unacceptable to the European people. And now the euro’s here, and all these things will have to be pushed through anyway. Brussels thinks it has plenty experience pushing things through despite the will of the people, so this one will work too.
But all it takes is for someone to point this out in clear language to people. Unfortunately, the only ones who do today connect this with resistance to refugees, to open societies, to all sorts of things that have nothing to do with why the euro is a failure.
Meanwhile, as I’ve written many times before, the EU is this body that self-selects for sociopaths in its hierarchy, being its undemocratic self. What few people recognize is that it also self-selects for the likes of Marine Le Pen.
And we haven’t seen anything yet. As I said before, all Le Pen has to do is for the economy to pine for the fjords. And looking at the current commodities slaughter, that might happen before anyone can look it up in the dictionary.
And Angela Merkel, after having pushed aside the Dublin accord on refugees and opened German doors, now wants to close them again. As if that works. The EU now wants to hand Greece tens of millions of euros just to keep refugees in the country.
But what happens when the recent projection of another 3 million arriving in Europe in 2016 comes to fruition? What happens when the refugees don’t listen to the Berlin/Brussels dictates? One can only imagine the chaos. The EU has offered Turkey €3+ billion to keep them there, but president Erdogan doesn’t look like the kind of guy you can make a deal with and expect him to live up to it.
Europe seriously risks being flooded with people, while its economy shrinks like a cotton jersey in an autumn rain storm. And who’s going to be looking at the wannabe dictators in Brussels for help then? Nations will end up deciding to decide for themselves. And because all politicians but the far right have unequivocally supported the Union for many years, guess who’ll be coming to dinner?
Today the victims are the Greeks and the refugees. And all those whose governments cut their benefits to ‘balance their budgets’. Tomorrow, those budgets must be balanced all over Europe, in this line of thinking.
As we witness the commodities plunge, and the stock market crash that must of necessity follow it, it becomes hard to see how countries like Italy, Spain, even France, could escape resembling Greece a whole lot more in 2016. And then Europe will be right back where it left off 70 years ago.
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Good thing the 1930s are coming back again for all of us that missed them the first time around.
I know. It's downright thoughtful of the fascists to replay the past for those of us who didn't get to revel in the glory of the 1930s.
Good article dude. Normally your articles suck -- this was spot on. Well done.
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nah, he's the same asshole
"Today the victims are the Greeks and the refugees. And all those whose governments cut their benefits to ‘balance their budgets’."
he still wants europe to let in "refugees" and european citizens to foot the bill
Yesterday, Marine Le Pen and her Front National (FN) party got 46% of all French votes.
She had to fight a combine front of all established parties and she still got 46%. Yes, Marine Le Pen and her Front National (FN) party did not get the majority votes and did not took over French regional governments but for common people in welfare states (and Greece is a good example) takes lots of time and extreme misery to understand how to use their vote productively. The EU realities are on Marine Le Pen and her Front National (FN) party side. She is right: Marine Le Pen and her Front National (FN) party are unstoppable!
I don't know anything about the structure of French politics... 46% of all the votes and they didn't win the seats of any regional governments? How's that possible?
They hold an election. Then the high two candidates have another election for each seat. I'm sure it is more complicated than that, but that's the general idea.
I have to agree usually his articles do suck. He's a true believer in the Church of Glo-Bull warming. That pretty much disqualifies anybody as an establishment tool looking to enforce artificial scarcity in the energy markets.
Mr. Yoga Pants,
Like data?
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/glob/201408.gif
And google "Bakken oil statistics" as a check of your "artificial scarcity" thesis. Analyze, if you can.
I have to agree usually his articles do suck. He's a true believer in the Church of Glo-Bull warming. That pretty much disqualifies anybody as an establishment tool looking to enforce artificial scarcity in the energy markets.
Calling LePen to be on the -extreme- right wing is still only facepalm-worthy.
I hope we leave out prohibition this time.
Since InBev got a $75B loan in order to purchase Miller, I'm guessing that revenue stream will be unaffected. (plus I think they borrowed another $50B to buy Anhauser Busch)
All that money and all they can produce is multiple brands of shitty beer. Oh, but look at their distribution network!
Just as long as she doesn't laugh like that Marissa Melissa or whomever Mayer Meyer from Yahoo.
That reminds me of an old joke that I love.
Guy has been unemployed for a long time and gets in interview and has no suit to wear.
He goes to a tailor and says "Hey I need a suit but I haven't much money I haven't worked in a long time"
Tailor says "Try this one"
Guy tries it on and the one arm is too short and one leg is too short. Guy says "hey what about the short arm and leg?"
Tailor says "here tug them down your arm and down your leg a bit and walk like this" as the tailor shows him a gimpy walk that allows you to hold your arm to hide the fact the sleeve and pantleg is too short.
Guy says "ok I don't have much money I'll take it"
so the guy goes walking out the store in the suit walking like a gimp and passes two drunks sitting leaning against the building.
Drunk#1 says "Oooooh will you look at the poor crippled guy"
Drunk#2 says "Yeah ....but look at the suit he's got on!"
Zieg Heil babies...
Just for everyone's reference with the parallel universe (not history repeating, or even fucking rhyming)...
Adolf's character arc:
1. Adolf Hitler is Born - April 20, 1889
2. Hitler's Boyhood - 1895-1903
3. Hitler's Father Dies - January 3, 1903
4. Hitler Fails Art Exam - October 1907
5. Hitler's Mother Dies - December 21, 1907
6. Hitler is Homeless in Vienna - 1909-1913
7. Hitler in World War I - 1914-1918
8. War Ends with German Defeat - November 11, 1918
9. Hitler Joins German Workers' Party - 1919
10. Nazi Party is Formed - 1920
11. Hitler Named Leader of Nazi Party - July 1921
12. The Beer Hall Putsch - November 9, 1923
13. Hitler on Trial for Treason - February 26, 1924
14. Hitler's Book "Mein Kampf" October 16, 1924
15. A New Beginning - February 26, 1925
16. The Quiet Years - 1926-1929
17. Great Depression Begins - October 29, 1929
18. Germans Elect Nazis - September 14, 1930
19. Success and a Suicide - 1931
20. Hitler Runs for President - 1932
21. The Republic Collapses
22. Hitler Named Chancellor of Germany - January 30, 1933
23. The Reichstag Burns - February 27, 1933
24. Hitler Becomes Dictator of Germany - March 23, 1933
25. Nazis Boycott Jewish Shops - April 1, 1933
26. The Gestapo is Born - April 26, 1933
27. Burning of Books - May 10, 1933
28. Dachau Opens - Spring of 1933
29. Night of the Long Knives - June 30, 1934
30. Hitler Becomes Führer - August 2, 1934
31. Triumph of the Will - September 1934
32. The Nuremberg Laws - September 15, 1935
33. Nazis March into the Rhineland - March 7, 1936
34. The Berlin Olympics - Summer of 1936
35. Hitler Reveals War Plans - November 5, 1937
36. Hitler Becomes Army Commander - February 1938
37. Nazis Take Austria - March 12, 1938
38. Conquest at Munich - September 1938
39. Night of Broken Glass - November 9, 1938
40. Nazis Take Czechoslovakia - March 15, 1939
41. The Nazi-Soviet Pact - August 23, 1939
42. The Last Days of Peace - Summer of 1939
43. Poland is Crushed - September 1939
44. A New World War - September 3, 1939
45. Attack on France - May 10, 1940
46. Britain Stands Alone - Summer of 1940
47. Attack on Russia - June 22, 1941
48. Mass Murder in the East - Summer of 1941
49. America Enters the War - December 11, 1941
50. Defeat in the Desert - Autumn of 1942
51. Catastrophe at Stalingrad - Winter of 1942-43
52. The Final Solution - January 1942-45
53. Battle of the Atlantic - September 1939-43
54. The Kursk Gamble - Summer of 1943
55. Allies Invade Italy - July 10, 1943
56. The Auschwitz Experience
57. D-Day Invasion - June 6, 1944
58. Running Out of Time - Summer of 1944
59. Battle of the Bulge - Winter of 1944
60. Enter the Bunker - Spring of 1945
61. Downfall of Adolf Hitler - April 1945
62. Aftermath: Nuremberg and Beyond
https://archive.org/details/JewishDominationOfWeimarGermany1919-1932
Danke mein Freund.
Es ist Israel, (Nazi Zionists) das nun angehalten werden muss.
Die Muslime sind einfach zu Sündenböcken.
Party like it's 1929, bruh.
Apparently Raul hasn't heard of Deibold. It doesn't matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes.
I am surprised that multiculturalist asshole Raul did not bash Europeans this time for not taking in more "refugees" as he loves to do with his "articles" on here.
UN Immigration official Peter Sutherland wrote an article about the benefits of mass population transfers. In paragraph #10 he mentions the futility of mono-ethnic societies and how much better off everyone would be if we could all just get past these silly myths about nationhood and sovereignty.
http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2015/03/02/peter-sutherland-the-migration-...
"he mentions the futility of mono-ethnic societies* and how much better off everyone would be if we could all just get past these silly myths about nationhood and sovereignty*."
* - does not apply to Israel, obviously. Poor defenseless Israel must be allowed to defend itself against any non-Jewish incursion in order to preserve their precious bodily fluids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAHJCPoWCC8
Yeah, I noticed that he called anybody who opposes the union far right politicians just like anybody else in the MSM.
The .gov trolls are out in force today. Their paychecks must be tied to the multi-culti scam.
Globalisation always goes in phases of expansion and retrenchment into nationalism.
We have seen how the current globalisation works.
In the good times, prior to 2008, all we hear about is the wealth creators. How they are responsible for the boom and how they deserve to keep their rewards.
In the bad times, after 2008, the easy profits have gone and so have the wealth creators. It is up to national tax payers and national institutions (Governments and Central Banks) to sort out the mess.
The profits are privatised and the losses are socialised.
Unconditional bailouts for bankers and austerity for the people.
A globalist elite lining their pockets at everyone else’s expense.
What is there not to like?
We cannot tax the rich any more as they will go abroad so those at the bottom have to suffer with austerity as there is no money.
The people know that if more people arrive, then the budget will have further to go and more cuts will be necessary.
A breeding ground for retrenchment into nationalism.
1920s/2000s - high inequality, high banker pay, low regulation, low taxes for the wealthy, robber barons (CEOs), reckless bankers, globalisation phase
1929/2008 - Wall Street crash
1930s/2010s - Global recession, currency wars, rising nationalism and extremism
simply right. not far right or extreme right.. just right thank you
I am not a lover of fascists but I have followed this story and there is something smelly here it might be time for independent monitoring of French elections.
Why bother? All you need to know is that the mob will rule. Everything else is superfluous, existing only to ease your mind/entertain/enrage you.
Seems like any Inter-EU border control force would have to have a significant number of trooops from France, Germany and England as they are the biggest population countries. So yes they would be foreignrers in Greece, not so much in Germany and France. But I don't see England being in a hurry to man up to protect EU borders.
the eu is the federalization of europe a la the usa. the states slowly concede power to the feds until the feds control everything .gov. simple enough plan. the celts to the normans to the bavarians and slovaks will all collectively be one united eurotrash corp....er...nation.
That most certainly is the objective. The food of migrants is aimed at breaking down existing ethnic, racial and reigious homogeneity. Time will tell if it will succeed.
"The unelected high lords of Brussels have become too greedy, and too unaccountable, and they will end up achieving the exact opposite of what they claim the EU stands for: they will lead the continent into conflict, armed and otherwise.
The new border force concept is the perfect example for what is going wrong in Europe."
The new European Intelligence Agency (modelled on the CIA) would be another example.
"Faced with the failure of European security cooperation, the leader of the Liberals in the European Parliament has called for the creation of an EU intelligence agency."
Verhofstadt calls for creation of EU intelligence agencyWhat the "Le Pens" of the world are going to inherit is apparatus for control that would have made a Nazi wet his/her pants.
The Paris Attacks Are Just The BeginningWhen she opens her mouth she puts her foot in it. Just like Trump.
In a democracy that functions that is her worst enemy : herself.
Not saying those in power are not corrupt and don't need a kick in the ass of huge proportions. But She is NOT the solution.
Take a look at her Niece Marion Maréchal-Le Pen
The freshest face in French politics is no awestruck ingénue. At 25, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen could still pass for a chic teenager turning heads on the Champs-Élysées. Yet three years into her term as France’s youngest parliamentarian, she’s earning her stripes in the family business: the far-right National Front. And her pretty smile does little to assuage the critics who consider her party an ugly threat to French values.
A Joan of Arc for Palin.
Not that Palin is a reference. I think in making that analogy she totally exhausted her knowledge of French history.
The EU is not about what is good for europeans but for transnational corporations and banks.
And there is absolutely a Jewish eschatalogical plan at work (Babs Specter - who doesnt even speak Swedish)
Consider this handsome bloke, like Murdoch a crypto
UN Migration Envoy Believes EU Should ‘Undermine’ National Homogeneity
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/25/un-migration-envoy-believes-e...
Sutherland is about as Irish as Alan Shatter is, who opened tiny Irelands doors wide open - and was allowed to because the Irish are too afraid of being accused of 'hate' by people who literally hate that they exist as a people.
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2013/03/the-misplaced-minister-irel...
Any people that invites its own destruction by leftist twaddle perhaps simply deserves its destruction.
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/politics/Professor-believes-the-Irish-w...
Welcoming the stranger doesnt mean giving him your home.
Ah yes, Alan Shatter, another nation wrecking Yid, it's all they ever work towards.
http://balder.org/judea/Hate-Speech-Laws-Immigration-Jewish-Influence-Ir...
spot on, Sutherland would be what we call a #west Brit' he hates Irish and harks back for the days of the british empire, the cunt earns a pension of over 70ooo euro a year from the Irish taxpayer despite the treachorous cunt being in government for less than a year in the early 80's he wasn't even elected he was just the attorney general. the other kike bastard shatter, is a typical lying thieving jew, his house was 'apparently' robbed a few years ago and one of the ithems 'apparently' stolen were two rolex watches, he told the garda (police) they were real but it subsequently emerged they were fake rolexs, typical parasite jew everywhere they go they destroy, there's more of them in Ireland trying to destroy our country, theres an ugly 'openborders' cunt called ronit lenit, ivana bacik and a former government minister mery taylor, they have all one thing in common, they are pro abortion in killing Irish babies and in flooding the country with immigrants.
Hopefully the time is quickly approaching where the demagoguery loses its effectiveness and people start embracing "far right" as a badge of honor meaning "one who wants to maintain a stable society, a healthy culture, and liberty for THE CITIZENS."
this whole election is a perfect example of the 'tactical' voting...or in other words the fix is in. wait til jeb bush gets the republican nomination even tou the people dont like him. the voters will get a good look at the real lords. a big fuck you from the 1%............
I disagree......As long as Euro`s are handed out as government subsistance, and actually purchase, food, drink. shelter, and Iphones...the sheeple with sell their children to keep the subsistance flowing......Only when the subsistance stops, do you see angry calls for change.......And at the moment Euro`s are purchasing subsistance.......
Its been the human way since the beginning of time......
"the sheeple with sell their children..." are you talking about the ancients or are you talking about US Student Debt?
No, think of Rotherdam. It's literal, it's happening today. What the Muslim men desire most are your daughters. They will be sacrificed to the ZOGNWO and the caliphate.
Too bloody true, mate.
... future generations will have to pay down the geometrically accelerating national debts with austerity or lose their currency via default.
Like Blimpie says.....My child will pay you monday for my social security check today.......
no, no, no. I am willing to, even desperate to read some decent criticism of the EU. but this is nothing but hot air, rehashed for the choir that does not even listen/read
1. "Meanwhile, as I’ve written many times before, the EU is this body that self-selects for sociopaths in its hierarchy, being its undemocratic self. What few people recognize is that it also self-selects for the likes of Marine Le Pen."
so basically Raul is taking here the usual "undemocratic self". Weak, really weak. The EU, whatever it does, has to pass the scrutiny of 28 sovereigns, i.e. 28 governments with armies and police and secret services, and of course 28 elected parliaments, which are those who usually appoint the national cabinets, which form the EU Council...
... while then whatever is supposed to be really done by the EU has to pass the scrutiny and majority of votes of the... ta dah! elected EU Parliament
nope, it's ok for a man on a British street not to know such things, but not for Raul, a so called expert on the EU writing political articles. fail, big one
so "self-select"... for a moment I thought you wanted to say "re-cycle", Raul, a hint about the tendency of the EU of taking former (elected) ministers and prime ministers for key EU positions, like the former Polish PM that is now "President", but no, not even that. fail
and at the end, what's the gist of the message? that the EU creates a phenomenon like Marine Le Pen? I could not laugh lauder
by now, I think it's fair to categorize you as from the radical (socialist) Left, but from one of the fringes that has a big problem with the EUR. fine for me
but Marine Le Pen can be fairly categorized among people that do interest themselves for the intricacies of ideological logic, as a National Socialist
I'm not writing this for the purpose of calling her Nazi, then National Socialism does not have a monopoly of ideological direction that can, but don't have to go "full monty crazy"
in other terms, she is a double dose of conservativism (French brand), one dose of socialism (for French). which generates a healthy dosis of criticism of liberalism (classic), btw, by her easily called "ultra-liberal"
but the French party landscape has changed, Raul. the modern "Republicans" have a more "Anglo-Saxon" liberal approach then before. a balance between conservativism and liberalism (or one dosis each). and since the Left is purely socialist (purely moderately/democratic equitarian), that's where the gap opened for Marine Le Pen's party
the same gap that the socialists want for themselves, and claim that ground by helping the Republicans to grab seats against FN
Raul, I find it strange that you talk so much about sovereignty, but don't seem to understand the conservative bedrock that is in the whole of Europe, and which is the whole reason why we have the EU we currently have... and not more and/or better, as you also are fond of asking for
nr. 2 is the one I could write the longest comment. hundreds of pages, no sweat. hohum
"The euro is an idea that seeks to deny the differences between the people(s) of Europe, it seeks to claim that Germany IS Greece. To that end, it must then take away all nations’ sovereignty. The euro cannot exist without that. To function properly as a currency, it needs a banking union, a fiscal union. And then take it from there."
Germany is Greece? funny that
The euro cannot exist... without taking all nation's sovereignty? gold was a monetary system that... had nothing to do with sovereignty. fail
A currency needs a banking union, a fiscal union. Nope, gold did not need that. second fail. and fail because you suggest a fiscal union in the first place, you crypto-federalist in guise of critic
well, perhaps some lost wanderer wants to pose a good question to that, I'm to lazy to continue to point 28 or so. cheers and good night
Why do 'Murikans have to be pompous assholes who keep saying things like "They should think again"?
I can't believe it's in the DNA. Maybe the food?
You seem to have a hard on for demeaning americans at every post you make. Why is that?
On fuck, it is simple. Don't put EU soldiers in Greece but give them funds to field their own.
Greece has no borders with another EU nation so also secure the other EU borders. Hungary is already doing it.
If Serbia and other non EU nations allow these invaders into their nations that it's tough shit for them. The invaders will proceed no further.
That is a simple solution.
"There are 28 separate constitutions in the EU. Under which of these is it legal for a government to sign away control of its own borders? In how many of these countries will this be appealed at their own version of the Supreme Court? And how many of these courts will say: sure, sovereignty is way overrated anyway!?"
What silly question is this? Has the author ever heard of 'primacy of EU law' (page 121)?