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Are These the Labour Pains of a New Renaissance?
From Gates of Vienna.
A few days at home with a nasty chest infection has at last given me time in which to examine the broader picture in some depth rather than just my usual narrow focus on Counterjihad matters that is all my normal schedule permits. And what a fruitful time it has been.

To my own surprise I am far from depressed by what I have seen, perhaps because within me there is a small, primordial seam of anarchism at last rising to the surface after a lifetime watching helplessly as my country and the rest of Europe and our cultures were deconstructed piece by tiny piece and cast upon the wind.

First and foremost the brightest light on my new horizon is the fact that the giant Ponzi scheme that is European monetary union is on the verge of a well-deserved and long overdue collapse. It was always going to fail, of course, because it is a false construct designed not for the financial and fiscal benefit of the ordinary men and women of the Union but in order to enable the ushering in of a continent-wide socialist police state by means of subterfuge and stealth.

And, as is always thus with false constructs, it never did need to be destroyed from without, for the seeds of its destruction were sown in its very foundations by those political pornographers who created it. These legislative and executive elites, drunk on the dopamine of power, wallowing in hubris as they looted the coffers for their personal benefit -- they exalted in the mutual masturbation of their own egos as the little people were left to go about their meaningless lives ignored or at best humoured, of no consequence to the peddlers of this embryonic New World Order.

Fatefully for the deconstructionists, they forgot about or refused to acknowledge the inherent power and utter ruthlessness of the desperate, of the people of whom for so long they had been so contemptuous, and who are now in the process of casting off their chains.

And, yes, the deconstructionists should begin to fear, for the time of those they sought to destroy is returning. The pendulum of history has reached the extent of its current swing towards the tyranny of the left, paused for a moment and then commenced its rapidly accelerating reverse journey. I doubt if it is going to halt at the bottom of its arc.
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Europe leaders summon Greek PM to explain himself
[Dawn] Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou was flying to the chic French Riviera resort of Cannes on Wednesday to explain himself to European leaders furious over his surprise referendum on a bailout deal that took them months to work out.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy
...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit...
, German Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom...
and top European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
officials arrived at the Palais des Festivals, site of Cannes' famous film festival, for private talks ahead of their meeting with Papandreou, scheduled for 19.30 GMT.

The pledge to hold a referendum has riled financial markets and threatens to derail a debt crisis plan that's not even a week old. A "no" vote in the referendum could lead to a disorderly Greek default and force Greece from the euro, toppling fragile banks and sending the global economy spinning back into recession.

Even scheduling the vote could scuttle pending payouts of bailout money Greece needs to avoid default. And the wait is ramping up the pressure on Italia, the eurozone's third-largest economy, whose debts are enormous but which is considered too big to be bailed out.
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Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When* Italy goes, France will too


*Notice not IF.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/03/2011 7:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Followed shortly by UK & US. And Germany. Who will be the last one standing? And for how long?
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2011 7:18 Comments || Top||

#3  EU- Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou was flying to the chic French Riviera resort of Cannes on Wednesday to explain himself to European leaders furious over his surprise referendum on a bailout deal that took them months to work out.


You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave!'

Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/03/2011 7:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Greek crisis: Papandreou 'to offer to resign'
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is expected to offer his resignation within the next half-hour, sources in Athens have told the BBC.

Mr Papandreou will meet Greek President Karolos Papoulios immediately after an emergency cabinet meeting has finished.

He is expected to offer a coalition government, with former Greek central banker Lucas Papademos at the helm.

Mr Papandreou himself would stand down, the BBC understands.

The Greek government was on the verge of collapse after several ministers said they did not support Mr Papandreou's plan for a referendum on the EU bailout.
Posted by: tipper || 11/03/2011 8:22 Comments || Top||

#5  The man tipped to replace George Papandreou is LucasPapademos
Posted by: tipper || 11/03/2011 8:42 Comments || Top||

#6  >He has been a member of the Trilateral Commission since 1998.

Very NEW World Order.

I'm shitting it. This is the first actual shot in the war against democracy.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/03/2011 8:55 Comments || Top||

#7  This is the first actual shot in the war against democracy.

Alien from Arcturus alert.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/03/2011 11:22 Comments || Top||

#8  It's not the first shot, not by a long shot...
Posted by: Steve White || 11/03/2011 11:59 Comments || Top||

#9  When you owe the bank $100,000, you have a problem; when you owe $100,000,000, the bank has a problem. Substitute 'Greece' for 'you', and 'Germany' for 'the bank', and add a few more zeros to the amounts and you have described the current situation.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2011 12:54 Comments || Top||

#10  Who will be the last one standing?

China.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/03/2011 13:44 Comments || Top||

#11  The Elites are aghast that the commoners expect to actually be allowed to vote on something their masters have already decided for them. EU delende est.
Posted by: Speamble Wittlesbach8094 || 11/03/2011 15:55 Comments || Top||

#12  Papandreou knuckles under.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 11/03/2011 16:35 Comments || Top||

#13  Speamble, ordinarily that's the case: the Eurocrats quickly mask their distaste, magnanimously let people vote - then make them keep voting till they get the answer they want.

This was different. The point of this exercise was merely CYA for the Greek government. To create the illusion that one option might be better than the other, when in fact the people of Greece are f*cked either way.

But point taken. Europeans haven't had a voice in their own governance for a very long time.
Posted by: RandomJD || 11/03/2011 20:27 Comments || Top||



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