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'Cuz no one wants to answer the basic question no matter how many times its been asked.
The Globalists have no probs wid the US + EU + aligned unilaterally paying the bills for everyone else in the world - WHOM IS GOING TO PAY THE US', EU's ETC. BILLS? WHOM IS GOING TO GIVE + REPLACE THE JOBS THAT WENT OVERSEAS?
... ...@etc. in the name of "Globalism", by + for same???
FASCISM-FOR-COMMUNISM-FOR-COMMUNISM, NATIONALISM-FOR-GLOBALISM-FOR-GLOBALISM - IOW, THE PROVERBIAL SELFISH OR NEPOTIST "ONE-WAY STREET"???
Inspired by the nationalist aspirations of Scotland and Catalonia, pro-independence campaigners will hold a mass rally in the heart of the lagoon city on Saturday, calling for an urgent referendum to be held on the issue.
Indipendenza Veneta, a newly-founded pro-independence movement, says it expects several thousand people to turn up for the rally. They will be ferried across the Grand Canal in gondolas to deliver a "declaration of independence" to the headquarters of the Veneto regional government.
It may sound fanciful, and it will be fiercely resisted by Rome, but activists want to carve out a new country in north-eastern Italy which would comprise Venice, the surrounding region of Veneto and parts of Lombardy, Trentino and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The "Repubblica Veneta", as it would be known, would encompass about five million people.
Might as well: if Europe is supposed to be one big happy family, why not each of the kids have their own bedroom?
Recent surveys show widespread support for independence among Venetians, who speak a distinct dialect and feel geographically and culturally distant from Rome.
A poll conducted by Corriere della Sera in September found that 80 per cent were in favour of independence. A more recent poll by Il Gazzettino, a local newspaper, found a slightly lower but still overwhelming level of support 70 per cent.
The political movement was formed in May and shortly afterwards presented a petition with 20,000 signatures to Luca Zaia, the governor of the Veneto region.
"We have gained a lot of momentum from what is happening in Scotland and Catalonia and things are moving fast," Lodovico Pizzati, the head of the movement, told The Daily Telegraph on Friday. "And we are building on a very strong base calls for independence for the Veneto region go back to the 1970s. It may sound crazy but I think Veneto will become independent before Scotland or Catalonia."
Mr Zaia has acknowledged the high level of support for independence but said there is no constitutional basis for Venice and the surrounding region to secede from Italy.
The pro-independence activists say they have meanwhile referred their case to José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission.
"We argue that our right to self-determination is being violated," said Prof Pizzati, a former World Bank economist who now lectures at Venice's Ca' Foscari University.
Italy's economic crisis has only exacerbated Venetians' resentment against the central government in Rome.
"The economic situation here is really desperate, with the recession hitting small and medium-sized businesses. Meanwhile of the 70 billion euros we pay in taxes to Rome, we get back about 50 billion euros, directly and indirectly. We are losing out on 20 billion euros a year," said Prof Pizzati.
After more than a millennia of independence, the Most Serene Republic of Venice, La Serenissima, was invaded by Napoleonic forces in 1797, with the French deposing the last doge. After a few decades under Austrian rule, Venice and the surrounding region was incorporated into Italy in 1866, five years after the unification of the rest of the country.
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#1
This is probably already on a map somewhere in the EU as one of the provinces of "The Greater European Republic" or whatever they're calling their desired end point these days.
Given the old saying 'you and whose army' meets a EU that has really no army [that in previous centuries kept aspirations in check] or means to fund such, forcing the natives in line is going to be interesting.
#3
As far as the Eu is concerned it shouldn't matter what size the member states are. Dissolving to smaller parts will make them more dependent upon the larger EU for a number of things and limits the debt they can run up. Of course it also makes countries like Italy more likely to drop out of the EU as well because there is still national pride despite all attempts to suppress it.
[An Nahar] German federal prosecutors on Friday charged a 48-year-old man of dual German-Lebanese nationality alleged to have been spying for Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... on opponents of the Syrian regime in Germany.
Prosecutors said the man, named only as Mahmoud El. A, was a Syrian secret service operative between April 2007 until his arrest in February 2012.
"It was his job to observe the activities of Syrian opposition members living in Germany and to spy on them," prosecutors said in a statement.
He allegedly passed on the information he received to a handler during regular meetings in Berlin, which increased in frequency after the outbreak of the "Arab Spring" in 2011.
"Since then, he reported especially on gatherings of Syrian opposition members critical of the regime. He handed his superior officer photos of people participating in demonstrations," the statement added.
The suspect was arrest on February 7 and has been in jug since.
He has largely admitted the charges against him, prosecutors said.
[An Nahar] A Lebanese man accused of plotting an attack on Israeli tourists in Cyprus pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." on Friday before a criminal court in the southern city of Limassol, court sources said.
Hossam Taleb Yaacoub, who was enjugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! in the southern resort city some three months ago, appeared before the court under tight security.
The trial had been due to start in mid-September, but was delayed after the prosecution changed the charges against the suspect, reducing the original 17 charges down to eight and prompting requests for clarification from the defense.
Initially, police said the 24-year-old, who also holds a Swedish passport, was to be tried on terrorism charges, but these have since been changed to conspiracy and consent to commit a crime, and belonging to an unnamed criminal organization.
The charges refer to two visits he made to Cyprus in November 2011 and July 2012, when police suspect he was tracking the movements and planned arrival times of Israeli tourists on the holiday island.
The court agreed that Yaacoub should remain in jug until the next hearing on October 25.
Cyprus police have refused to comment publicly on the case, describing it as a "sensitive political issue" but did say Sherlocks have found no evidence to suggest he had any accomplices.
The suspect was reportedly enjugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! in a Limassol hotel room on July 7 after flying in from London's Heathrow.
Reports said he was enjugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! after a tip-off from foreign intelligence agencies, including Israel's Mossad spy service.
Cyprus bolstered security for Israeli interests on the island following a July 18 suicide kaboom in Bulgaria that killed six people, five of them Israeli tourists.
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German federal prosecutors on Friday charged a 48-year-old man of dual German-Lebanese nationality alleged to have been spying for 
[An Nahar] A Lebanese man accused of plotting an attack on Israeli tourists in Cyprus 
