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2012-05-31 Europe

The euro is going up in smoke - and there's no fire brigade to stop it

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Posted by tipper 2012-05-31 16:04|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 If the euro fails, [Merkel] was told by those present, it will be Germanys fault. For the third time in a century, that nation stands accused of blowing up Europe.

Bingo. The guilt of German leaders is why they won't be rational about it. They think it is their duty to see this through to the bitter end, as recompense for past crimes. France exploits that maximally. Result: Germany is France's bitch.

Just one nit to pick: the reference to a "federal Europe." The EU is not a federalist system like the US, with some powers delegated to the federal government, and the rest reserved to the states. It's exactly the opposite.

The purpose of the EU is, and always has been, to abolish nation-states. So the EU's relationship with member states is governed by the concept of subsidiarity. Exactly what it sounds like: member states are subsidiaries of the EU. Vassals. Subject to. Subordinate to. The whole six-decade development of the EU has been premised on the gradual transfer of sovereign rights and powers from member states to Brussels. From elected national officials, to unelected technocrats, mainly the European Commission.

They've managed to convince people that, through their elected national officials, they've had meaningful input throughout this process, but that's a bunch of bull. Just to clarify that ordinary people did not make this mess - the EUrocrats did.

Posted by RandomJD 2012-05-31 17:46|| 2012-05-31 17:46|| Front Page Top

#2 monetary union was a political conceit

Wrong!! From the beginning monetary union was a large step in the over-all plan to do away with nations in Europe. See RJDs comment. This is all part of the plan to force the total subjugation of the various nations to the unelected, self-selected technocracy of by and for the elites.

Posted by AlanC 2012-05-31 20:19|| 2012-05-31 20:19|| Front Page Top

#3 "The EU is NOT a Federalist System like the US" > apparently not for Germany's lack of trying ...

To wit,

* TOPIX > [Daily Mail.UK] FEDERAL EUROPE WOULD BE A GERMAN SUPERSTATE, BECAUSE NO OTHER POPULATION [in EU/EUZ] IS SO MOTIVATED TO SUCCEED.

"Greater Germany" = aka as Euroland.

Which IMO bears the question, AND THE RUSSO-GERMAN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP + ALLIANCE - read, 1980's Gorbachevian, Pro-Russia "PAN-SLAVICISM" AKA EASTERN EUROPE + ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-05-31 23:19|| 2012-05-31 23:19|| Front Page Top

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