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More From the Economist: Another Example of Elite EU Misdirection
Staring into the abyss ... The euro crisis might wake Europe up. But more likely, argues Edward Carr, it will lead to compromise and decline. When Britain abandoned the gold standard in 1931, it was not only forsaking a system for managing the currency but also acknowledging that it could no longer bear the mantle of empire. – Economist
Dominant Social Theme: There are many options that the EU has. The best one is to retreat from the abyss.
Free-Market Analysis: This article from the Economist newspaper, one of the leading Anglosphere power elite mouthpieces, is not as it seems and in this article we shall show why. One of the dominant social themes of the elite is centralization, and this article endorses further EU centralization without actually saying so. It seems to give readers an unbiased look at the EU's prospects but does not.
The whole idea of the EU is to centralize a huge swath of a geographical region that contains numerous cultures and tribes that have traditionally shown antipathy to each other. The elites who created this horror-show have been quite aware that a currency-driven union would collapse. Therefore, the plan was evidently and obviously to use the collapse to further tighten and centralize the union.
But in our view, something has "queered the works" – the Internet and, subsequently, what we have called the Internet Reformation. This has allowed many more people than the elites anticipated to understand the strategy behind the planned obsolescence of the Union.
The move toward global governance has been set back by this understanding – and the subsequent anger – and a campaign has been launched to move the EU toward a greater union. The Economist, positioned as a sophisticated thought magazine is helping to lead the charge. Here's some more from the article:
Some Europeans would like to put up carefully designed fences around the EU's still vast and wealthy market. Others, including a growing number of populist politicians, want to turn their nations inward and shut out not just the world but also the elites' project of European integration. And a few— from among those same elites, mostly—argue that the only means of paying for Europe's distinctive way of life is not to evade globalisation but to embrace it wholeheartedly.
This is not some abstract philosophical choice. It is a fierce struggle for Europe's future, being waged in Athens as George Papandreou loses power to a temporary government of national unity, in derelict factories in France and Belgium and in the wasted lives of millions of unemployed young Spaniards. This struggle will set the limits on Europe's welfare state. It will determine how the unbalanced partnership between Germany and France, and an increasingly detached Britain, will shape the EU. It will define the high politics of Brussels and the low politics of European populism.
A euro-zone central banker confesses that he has lately been thinking about historical catastrophes such as the first world war and wondering how the world blundered into them. "From the middle of a crisis", he says ominously, "you can see how easy it is to make mistakes." Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) was supposed to banish the competitive devaluations that threatened the single market in the early 1990s. It promised to bind a unified Germany into the EU and pave the way for some sort of political union in Europe.
We can see from the ambivalence of this text that this article is taking an even-handed tone when it is not. The article gives us the impression that options are being evaluated by its writers, but they are not. They are presented pejoratively.
The end of the article provides us with all we need to know. It concludes by stating that the single market is "under threat" as it has been before. The article also quotes Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the French former head of the IMF as saying, "If Europe fails, it will suffer from low growth, economic domination and cultural domination." Perhaps Strauss-Kahn is trying to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of the elites by promoting this sort of fear-based meme.
Finally, the article concludes: "Can Europe turn back from the abyss? Only if the core countries will support the rest as they submit themselves to radical political, social and economic reform. Nobody should be under any illusions about how difficult that will be."
Conclusion: Here the Economist's final position is revealed by the final paragraph: The "abyss" is disunion. And the core countries must "support the rest" as they attempt "reform." Of course, reform is IMF austerity and the real result of such reform would be to refine and reinvigorate the EU as the powers-that-be prepare for additional global governance. Just another promotional piece in the apparently endless campaign to create a new world order.
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Posted by rossbcan on 11/14/11 03:17 PM
"do you doubt that there will be many willing to work for the psychopaths?"
No, but I do doubt they can or will be productive enough to earn their keep. If you are stupid enough to be a slave, this imposes other limitations.
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Posted by DarbyJie on 11/14/11 01:32 PM
"Parasites, if they wish to survive, must NOT KILL THE HOST,"
This is much too simplistic; with the billions of people on earth do you doubt that there will be many willing to work for the psychopaths? They are NOT all on strike, no, that would require that the vast majority were virtuous and principled but this is patently not the case, wouldn't you agree?
In addition, these nutcases have been stockpiling veritable mountains of food and other niceties, just to provide for any such eventuality. MONEY is no problem whatsoever, remember: they've robbed humanity **blind**. :(
And yes, they ARE insane, but unfortunately we will probably not survive long enough to see _their_ ultimate (self)-destruction, something I think they will bring upon themselves but only after they've destroyed the Earth, our home. Dammit.
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Posted by Abu Aardvark on 11/14/11 12:34 PM
DB: "These are great. Thanks much."
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You are welcome. Are you aware, BTW, that there's something REALLY BIG going on in Germany RIGHT NOW?
"The Brown Army Faction - A Disturbing New Dimension of Far-Right Terror"
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Excerpt:
"The greater the mystery, the more outrageous the speculation. There have been persistent rumors that German intelligence agencies once helped the trio escape, or even used Böhnhardt, Mundlos and Zschäpe as informants, despite vehement and repeated denials by federal and state officials. In a 2001 memo, even police officers with the State Office of Criminal Investigation speculated that Zschäpe at least might have been working as an informant -- a charge that, once again, the intelligence agencies vigorously deny."
Now, make no mistake: "Der Spiegel" was and is the main elite mouthpiece (not only) when it comes to intelligence matters. The above article is, in the best case, damage control, maybe much worse. Hence they "forgot" some important details in their lengthy piece - like the fact - reported 2006 in the prestigious "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" - that one German "Verfassungsschutz"-agent left one of the 10 murder scenes MINUTES before the actual murder:
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After the fact was reported, the series of murders stopped.
Also very strange: The biggest-selling, very influential, completely controlled, 100% US/Israel-friendly daily tabloid "Bild" came out yesterday with the headline, "Did Nazi-Killers Get Fake Passports From Intelligence Agency?"
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I don't have any clue, yet, how this whole story will unfold. Maybe it's the biggest red herring since ... well long ago. Maybe it's GLADIO 2.0 - but where's the motive when you shoot foreigners and than do everything you can to give the impression, for years, that the murders are NOT racism-related but rather a "mafia/protection money" thing?
I could go on for quite some time. The list of inconsistencies and contradictions is very long already. It stinks to high heaven anyway, and is, I'm afraid, just the beginning.
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Posted by injun1 on 11/14/11 12:19 PM
The IMF- A new Army;
"This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system on it. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise."
-Joseph Stalin
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Posted by Abu Aardvark on 11/14/11 11:29 AM
Howdy elves and feedbackers!
Some articles from the weekend which I'd like to share ...
"The EU's architects never meant it to be a democracy" (Telegraph)
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"Bernanke Launches an Old Testament Diss Against Ron Paul" (EPJ)
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"Intel Source: Israel Behind Deadly Explosion at Iran Missile Base" (TIME)
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"NYT Comes Pretty Damn Close to Reporting that Obama and Geithner May Have Known Each Other When They Were Children in Asia" (EPJ)
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"Greece turns to Iranian oil as default fears deter trade" (Reuters)
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"The Fed Examines the Role of Central Banks in Financial Stability" (EPJ)
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Reply from The Daily Bell
These are great. Thanks much.
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Posted by rossbcan on 11/14/11 11:09 AM
"what 'pushback" you had in mind"
It is happening, and has been happening for a very long time. "Mathematics of Rule". Parasites, if they wish to survive, must NOT KILL THE HOST, which they are:
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so, the question resolves to: are elites so insane as to be suicidal or, will they acknowledge the need for some sort of "quid pro quo"?
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Posted by rossbcan on 11/14/11 11:03 AM
"why did the Dark Ages last for all those many centuries."
Because the sheeple did not know that there are "better alternatives" and, actually believed that the RC "church" was representing the "will of god" in which some were by divine will, serfs and others, master.
Then, came the Gutenberg press, exposing what the bible ACTUALLY said, proving the priesthood as self-decreed masters and, hypocrites. They were forced to make a major step back and, are still being pushed back.
Now, we have a new "religion", "scientific progress" and misplaced trust in some who claim to be "scientists" and, entire "professions" (all humanities, economics included) falsely claiming to be reality and scientific oriented.
The internet is rapidly sorting fact from fiction. Reality ALWAYS wins. When dealing with intelligent creatures, the rapidly of reality "winning" is dependent on the penetration of informed choice (unseen hand) acting in civilization.
Once you have seen the truth, there is no going back. Ever:
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The number of "one eyed kings" (sovereign individuals) in the "civilization of the blind" is rapidly, near exponentially increasing. They are making choices, to which all others must adapt:
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I will avoid the "who is more realistic" debate. The facts stand. History was in different environments, different choices. This is NOW.
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Posted by taxesbyanyothername on 11/14/11 10:17 AM
Wow a realist! Dare I think there may be others?
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Posted by DarbyJie on 11/14/11 10:03 AM
@rossbcan
Not to be a party-pooper but. if slave civilizations do not and can not and have not lasted, why did the Dark Ages last for all those many centuries.
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And you wrote:
"Oh, did I fail to mention that elites and their collective servitude endeavors are DOOMED? The only outstanding question is how much collateral damage we, the people are willing to tolerate before significant and REAL (by actions) pushback occurs."
I do believe in optimism, but come on, we need to give hard facts their due weight too, no?
Just curious, what 'pushback" you had in mind - will we "Hate" them to death? This reminds me of the knight in Monty Python... still bragging even as his head is being lopped off. [Sorry.]
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Posted by rossbcan on 11/14/11 09:35 AM
Of course, the end game is centralization and hierarchical command / control organization whereas the ad-hoc internet both in terms of commerce and people exercising voluntary association is peer to peer, ad-hoc, temporary associations for mutually agreed goals, in an issue by issue basis.
The internet is pregnant with the potential of freedom which the intellectually competent are drinking of, deeply. There can be no going back. Central controllers offer servitude, where we all stand in line, in our assigned places, a tradeoff of security they cannot provide for freedom which they cannot take. And, our slavers are dinosaur "thinkers" seeking the impossible, the general servitude of mankind using hierarchical command / control which cannot possibly function, by the basic laws of reality:
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Secondly, in actual fact, the object of command and control once achieved, according to history, collapses whatever civilization (the rules by which we peacefully cooperate for MUTUAL self-interest) is foolish enough to tolerate it, by destroying "MUTUAL self-interest" and, thus, ALL reasons for the productive to be so.
Thirdly, Darwin and Evolution PROVES that when you suppress freedom to choose correctly, you suppress collective survival, dooming civilization:
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Oh, did I fail to mention that elites and their collective servitude endeavors are DOOMED? The only outstanding question is how much collateral damage we, the people are willing to tolerate before significant and REAL (by actions) pushback occurs.
