public works and how to take advantage of
the fact that the banks have told you to rape
the periphery. You add to the rape by making
those countries' into colonial
outposts of the Brussels Mafia.
in simple talk, unelected Brussels is taking
advantage of general misery that they've
enforced to go ahead with a federalist
plan of more powers for itself. Especially,
in those countries that are too "weak"
to run themselves, they'll be run directly
from Brussels, through the use of the
Troika, as is going on now.
checkit: 1 automatic earth
The
next step in the elaborate European
centralization plan was announced today by EU President Van Rompuy.
EU
President Calls for Central Fund to Wind Down Failing Banks
European
leaders proposed an industry-financed fund to cover costs of winding down
failing euro-area banks, seeking to deepen the bloc’s integration and limit
fallout from future financial crises.
Nations
in the currency bloc should back the creation of a centrally managed
"European Resolution Fund," according to a report prepared by
European Union President Herman Van Rompuy. The fund would be financed by
levies on banks and could have a credit-line to the euro area’s firewall fund
for sovereigns, according to the report.
"Establishing
a single resolution mechanism is indispensable," according to the report,
prepared for a summit of EU leaders in Brussels Dec. 13-14. The move
"would mitigate many of the current obstacles" to managing bank
failure, including "national bias and cross-border cooperation
frictions," the report says.
EU
nations have provided €4.6 trillion ($6 trillion) of capital injections,
guarantees and other support to their banks since 2008, in a bid to prevent a meltdown of the financial system following the
collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.. The banking crisis has ravaged
nations’ public finances, forcing Spain and Ireland to seek international aid.[ANTI FRAGILE. ON THE ONE HAND THEY’RE COLLUDING WITH THE SAME IMMORAL
BANKERS WITH WHOM THEY ARE COOPERATING ON THE POLITICAL LEVEL, AGAIN AT THE EXPENSE OF
DEMOCRACY AND THE MIDDLE CLASS-COSTICK67]
2 Testosterone pit
The
Relentless Eurocratic Power Grab
Friday,
November 30, 2012 at 7:16PM
“The
euro has profound economic advantages and is the most powerful symbol of
European integration,” said not some wild-eyed dude with a joint between his
lips, slouching in a café in Amsterdam, but the “Final Report“ issued by the
Future of Europe Group, composed of the foreign ministers of Germany, France,
Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, Portugal, and
Luxembourg. It remains uncertain what they were smoking.
But
they did fret about the future of the euro and the EU, their chef d’œuvre. To
keep it glued and duct-taped together, they came up with a laundry list of
recommendations concerning its governance. It included the vampire item that
simply refuses to die, namely shifting sovereignty over national budgets to the
European government.
To
their credit—or was it just window dressing, given the uproar on the
internet?—they also called for more “democratic legitimacy and accountability,”
of which only trace elements are discernible in the EU government. One of the
key items: “a directly elected Commission President.”
Then
came the eurocrat response.
“If
this is not going hand in hand with large powers for the Commission, then
forget it,” said European Council President Herman Van Rompuy at a conference
centered on that Final Report. It would give that top job “a huge legitimacy,”
he said, but it would “organize the disappointment in advance.” Only by handing
“large powers” to the Commission could a directly elected Commission President
become functional.
Another
step in the ongoing and ever so methodical power grab.
Just
then, a 52-page draft
report by the unelected European Commission President José Manuel Barroso
bubbled to the surface—a continuation of his bureaucratic drive to create the United States of Europe come
hell or high water.
To overcome “the crisis of confidence,” he
called for “fast and deep” integration and envisioned a powerful European
government. It would, for example, have the power to coordinate how Member States tax their citizens—with the unspoken goal
to alleviate tax competition between countries, a recurrent complaint by
high-tax countries against their lower-tax brethren. Even in the USA, the
federal government doesn’t
attempt to tell the states how to tax their residents. It would cause a revolt.
Barroso,
building on his idea of a United States of Europe, also wants to give the Commission, his
Commission, the power to veto the budgets of Member States. Imagine the
White House vetoing California’s budget—OK, that budget should be vetoed
because it's a sham, but it’s our sham, and we will deal with it or sink with
it. White House interference would be a reason for secession.
He
wants to endow that souped-up government with the ability to levy its own taxes, rather than be dependent on handouts that are determined
during bitter budget negotiations by the 27 Member States. It would be a
coup. It would give the European government the power to impose taxes on
already overtaxed people—with little or no democratic limits.
And all that without a constitution. Because
the people had voted it down by referendum [read.... Sacrificing The Will
Of The People On The Altar of The Euro].
Meanwhile,
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was
giving interviews left and right, to reject exactly what the eurocrats were
trying to push through: a federal Europe. He believed in a Europe of
national states that worked together closely.
