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First steps taken towards global information censorship

Published 17/12/2010 Big Government , Censorship , New Politics , Politics of Spite , United Nations , Vested Interests 3 Comments

BERJAYAHow best can we keep information to ourselves and prevent ordinary people exchanging it?

That is the question being asked by the global political class as the United Nations, now confirmed as an entity committed to global control, considers setting up an intergovernmental working group to ‘harmonise global efforts by policy makers to regulate the internet’.

Regulation. Censorship. Control. Repression.

As iTnews reports:

At a meeting in New York on Wednesday, representatives from Brazil called for an international body made up of Government representatives that would to attempt to create global standards for policing the internet – specifically in reaction to challenges such as WikiLeaks.

The Brazilian delegate stressed, however, that this should not be seen as a call for an “takeover” of the internet.

Of course they don’t want it to be seen as that, but that’s what it is. The political class has seen how the information age has brought with it the ability of ordinary people to scrutinise their behaviour and expose their actions. Politicians around the globe cannot stand any examination of what they do and resent the opportunity that has been provided for ordinary people to spread awareness and share information around the world in seconds at the click of a mouse, without state control or sanction.

Because states have different rules ordinary people have been able to shop around for locations in which to host data where freedom of speech is protected. The only way to exert control over what people can say, write, watch, listen to and read online is to have harmonised regulation that facilitates global control over what will be permitted to be shared around the ether and what will be censored because it is inconvenient to the politicians.

So here we are, just days after global climate change conference in Cancun where plans were being made for centralised UN control over the redistribution of money, learning that plans are being made for centralised UN control over internet content.

Is there anyone who still scoffs at the notion of a developing world order? One that is committed to eradicating democracy and using regional supranational entities, like the EU, as the local branches of its governance structure with power in the hands of unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats.

If I had read this post elsewhere a couple of years ago I would have laughed at it and had visions of conspiracy theorists and foil hats. But the fact is the evidence is being presented openly like pieces of a jigsaw. On their own the pieces seem fairly inconsequential, but when put together to complete the picture you can see what is happening. Even then many people would tell themselves ‘oh that’s just ludicrous, don’t be so stupid’. It is not ludicrous, it is real and those of us who live in nominal democracies risk experiencing what it’s like living under complete state control.

This isn’t about the aims of secret societies, Freemasons, Illuminati or shadowy organisations. It is simply the aim of the self selecting political class and their well known financial backers and beneficiaries. It is happening openly in plain sight.

Cameron’s lies on the EU and Human Rights Act

Published 17/12/2010 Betrayal , Contempt , David Cameron , Dishonesty , Fraud , Hypocrisy , Moral Relativism , New Politics , Politics of Spite 4 Comments

An excerpt from a speech on Fixing Broken Politics delivered in May 2009 as reproduced on this blog in January 2010.

THE EU AND THE HRA

But the tragic truth today is that no matter how much we strengthen Parliament or hold government to account…

…there will still be forces at work in our country that are completely unaccountable to the people of Britain.

People and organisations that have huge power and control over our daily lives and yet which no citizen can actually get at.

Almost half of all the regulations affecting our businesses come from the EU.

And since the advent of the Human Rights Act, judges are increasingly making our laws.

The EU and the judges – neither of them accountable to British citizens – have taken too much power over issues that are contested aspects of public policy…

…and which should therefore be settled in the realm of democratic politics.

It’s no wonder people feel so disillusioned with politics and Parliament when they see so many big decisions that affect their lives being made somewhere else.

So a progressive reform agenda demands that we redistribute power from the EU to Britain and from judges to the people.

We will therefore hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, pass a law requiring a referendum to approve any further transfers of power to the EU, negotiate the return of powers, and require far more detailed scrutiny in Parliament of EU legislation, regulation and spending.

And we will introduce a British Bill of Rights to strengthen our liberties, spell out the extent and limit of rights more clearly, and ensure proper democratic accountability over the creation of any new rights.

These are the words and promises of David Cameron when in opposition. In government Cameron has:

To quote Cameron:

‘It’s no wonder people feel so disillusioned with politics and Parliament when they see so many big decisions that affect their lives being made somewhere else.’

Too true. And also when they are lied to by a deceitful, two faced hypocrite like him, who will say anything to achieve personal power then break those cast iron promises because he had no intention of ever honouring them. Quisling bastard.

What say you now Cameron, you lying hypocrite?

Published 17/12/2010 'uman rights innit , David Cameron , Dishonesty , Hypocrisy , Justice , Law and Order , National Sovereignty 5 Comments

BERJAYAIt is bad enough that a politician says what voters want to hear in an attempt to secure power for themselves, before reneging on that promise which in reality he had no intention of keeping.

It is quite another to go so far as sending a personal letter to the grieving father of child killed under the wheels of a car, promising to change the law so the illegal immigrant who had no right to be here and was already banned from driving in any case, could be deported – and break that pledge. That is cold, cynical and reprehensible.

But that is David Cameron for you.

Being bound by the Human Rights Act, which idiotically and uniquely in Europe incorporates all the case law from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg thanks to the morons in the previous Labour government, Britain is unable to expel from these shores repeat offenders who are here illegally.

Cameron promised to scrap the HRA and replace it with a Bill of Rights, but by January this year as this blog pointed out, Cameron had achieved his headline and started quietly executing a U-turn (link includes Cameron’s speech about the HRA and pledge to scrap it) to preserve the EU’s domination over this country. Then shortly after winning the General Election the Tories showed they were nothing but a lying bunch of useless handwringing charlatans when HRA was again used in the case of Abid Naseer and Theresa May said the government would not appeal. Read it and weep – or better still feel sheer hatred for these lying bastards.

Aso Mohammed Ibrahim has no right to be in this country. It should not matter a damn that since arriving here his only achievement – apart from being a useless recidivist and leaching off the taxpayer – is having managed to produce two offspring that supposedly mean he has a ‘right’ to stay here for a family life. It is an perversion of justice that this criminal scum remains here offending against society. But Cameron knew that when he pledged to scrap the HRA and he knows it even now as he turns a blind eye to the injustice of the HRA and this appalling case and waits for Andy Coulson to spin him a plausible line to edge him out of trouble.

The comments of the bereaved father, Paul Houston, should make Cameron ashamed. Whether Cameron is capable of feeling shame is another matter altogether:

‘He needs to take a long, hard look at himself and make the right decision for this country because as it stands the Human Rights Act is on the side of criminals, terrorists and thieves against law-abiding citizens.

‘He wrote to me to say he would bring in the British Bill of Rights but that appears to have been put in the back burner because of the Coalition.

‘I don’t want to see this matter sidelined. I think it needs to be placed very firmly on the agenda again. If he has got the courage of his convictions that is what he will do.

‘The law does need to be changed so that it properly represents everyone – not just this awful minority who ruin people’s lives.’

So, what say you now Cameron, you two faced, lying hypocrite? What weasel words and excuses will you spew forth, or will you just hide like the craven, chinless wonder we know you to be?

5 Star Blogging

Published 16/12/2010 5 Star Blogging Leave a Comment

BERJAYAA daily selection of five blog posts recommended to you for being thought provoking, insightful, covering interesting subjects or comprising quality writing…

1. Katabasis on Enough Of Student Hypocrisy Already

2. OldRightie on Do We Condone?

3. EU Referendum on Just Another Lie

4. The Boiling Frog on Ireland (Sort Of) Loses Abortion Case

5. No Frakking Consensus on The IPCC’s 12 Days Of Christmas

The sleeping Fox catches no poultry

Published 16/12/2010 Climate Change , Counter Consensus , Media Leave a Comment

BERJAYASo it’s just as well that when it comes to the media coverage of climate change matters one Fox is wide awake. The problem is the warmists don’t like their sacred goose being cooked quite so openly.

The furore concerns Fox News, which has emailed its editorial staff insisting that they show balance when reporting on global warming matters. This has resulted in, as Alex Singleton puts it, ‘fury from The Guardian, the Huffington Post and other intellectually lazy media outlets’.  The email is reproduced in part below:

From: Sammon, Bill
Sent: Tue Dec 08 12:49:51 2009
Subject: Given the controversy over the veracity of climate change data…

…we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies.

Spot on. Excellent journalism. How ironic that Fox News, which is routinely mocked for claiming to be fair and balanced, is being pilloried for being just that when reporting about climate change and actually doing what public service broadcasters like the BBC should do as a matter of course.

I hold no brief for Fox News, but Fox are factually correct in what they are saying. And while it might infuriate Al Gore, George Monbiot and other propagandists, it is only proper that viewers understand there is a significant counter argument and that the assertions from the warmists are only theories. One can’t imagine why other media outlets are trying to hide this fact…

The UK’s energy policy in a nutshell

Published 16/12/2010 Abuse of Power , Big Business , Big Government , Climate Change , Lights Out , Our Tax £s , Vested Interests 4 Comments

BERJAYAOn his Telegraph news blog, James Delingpole poses the question: ‘Huhne: the final nail in the coffin of Cameron’s lousy coalition?’ He bloody well should be, but as much as we wish it was the case it is just a little too hopeful.

However, this does not detract from the outstanding clarity of Delingpole’s explanation of the multiple problems with this pathetic government’s energy and climate change policy. The public are being fleeced and deceived into accepting ‘solutions’ in order to ‘save the planet’ from a ‘problem’ that a) is unproven hypothesis and b) we as a country have no influence over in any case.

We can’t even describe this as nonsensical. It makes perfect sense. Corporations and big business investors are getting rich at our expense as our energy bills head north towards £2500 a year. Not a penny of public money is being put into proven and reliable nuclear power, instead it is being spent by the billion on unreliable and inefficient wind turbines that are not even close to economically viable without huge subsidies from our wallets and energy bills. The miniscule amount of electricity they produce must be purchased at excess cost and this is why our bills are rising.

Despite sufficient evidence to call into question the basis for such a policy, the politicians like Cameron and Huhne press on regardless. They have an agenda and it has nothing to do with serving our interests. In fact it dramatically increases the chance of the lights going out. Little wonder more and more people are getting to the end of their teather and coming to terms with uncompromising courses of action.

Reaching the end of the line

Published 16/12/2010 Big Government , Liberty , Justice , Law and Order , Democracy , Sovereignty 5 Comments

Last week’s post here, ‘The Rules of the Game Have Changed‘ sparked the most debate yet seen on this blog.

The reluctant and deeply saddening acceptance, that if democratic means and lawful protest continue to fail to make the political class accept the will of the people we should be prepared, as an absolutely last resort to take direct action, has now been echoed in a hard hitting piece by lawful rebellion practitioner, Captain Ranty.

There is undoubtedly a sea change taking place in this country. Among people I speak with and commenters on this blog patience is wearing thin at the political class’ arrogant and self serving refusal to put our our interests first, in the manner they are duty bound to do. If they will not relinquish then we will need to take power back.

It is profoundly depressing, but people who have respected the law all their lives are reaching the end of the line and recognising that by playing by the rules the politicians have put in place we are unlikely to achieve the necessary change. The politicians bear sole responsibility for this. As Captain Ranty puts it, we are ‘stupid no more’. One can only hope that it never comes to direct action. But if it does, many people who have resolutely disagreed with direct action in the past are now saying they will take it as a last resort.

Assange: Is CPS taking orders from elsewhere?

Published 16/12/2010 Crime and Punishment , Crown Prosecution Service , Justice , Liberty , State Intrusion 2 Comments

BERJAYAWhat is the Crown Prosecution Service up to?  Irrespective of the rights or wrongs of the WikiLeaks release of US diplomatic cables, the CPS seems to be playing politics to deny Julian Assange his liberty without good reason.

Earlier this week Gareth Julian, head of extradition at the CPS, appealed against the decision to grant bail to Assange, in an attempt to keep him in custody pending the decision of whether or not to extradite him to Sweden to answer charges of sexual offences.  It was widely believed and reported in the media – without contradiction by the CPS – that Swedish prosecutors has opposed bail for Assange.

However the Swedes have gone on the record today (to Tim Marshall at Sky News) to state clearly they had no view about bail and had not made any such request of the British authorities. The CPS is not denying what the Swedes are saying. So why did the CPS oppose bail, in a case in which it was representing Sweden, when Sweden had no problem with Assange having his liberty until the extradition hearing?

Is it delving into the realms of conspiracy theory to suggest the CPS is taking instructions from elsewhere, such as the US government or the British government in an attempt to neuter Assange as the release of US cables continues?  Is it because the Americans want Assange in custody until they can make a move to have him shipped to Washington, where some of the more hysterical talking heads describe him as a terrorist?

What is clear is that Gareth Julian should be asked to explain why he opposed bail and who was instructing him to do so.  This has implications for the justice system in the UK and the matter should be completely transparent.

Democracy EU style

Published 16/12/2010 Abuse of Power , Big Government , Democratic Deficit , EU , Independence 2 Comments

BERJAYAAway from the increasingly irrelevant sideshow at Westminster, the EU is having another get together to stitch up an agreement that will alter the Lisbon Treaty and once again will not be subject to approval by the citizens of any member state.

Our all wise and all knowing political elite have decided that member states will be able to avoid ratification by public referenda because the treaty change is considered “limited” and falls under the category of “simplified revision procedures” in Article 48.6 of the Lisbon Treaty. This is what people continually warned against, the treaty affords politicians the right to make changes without democratic oversight or mandate.

Although the agenda items focus on putting in place a permanent rescue mechanism for the euro zone and deciding how the new mechanism will be triggered, how it will be financed, whether there will be a role for financial markets, federal overlord Van Rompuy and his quisling minions fear that the issue of the longer-term EU budget could be raised and dominate procedings. As EurActiv explains:

Reportedly, most leaders want to avoid a repetition of the October summit, when UK Prime Minister David Cameron abruptly introduced the issue of the 2011 budget. This time, it is feared that the issue of the longer-term budget could steal the show.

The long-term EU budget for the period 2014-2020 is not on the agenda and Van Rompuy has reportedly conveyed the message that any country that raises it would gravely offend the Commission.

A diplomat told EurActiv recently that discussions should not start until the Commission has tabled its own proposals in June 2011. Otherwise, the message would be that the Commission was taking orders from member states.

This should be a wake up call for those people who kid themselves that democracy serves in the EU simply because around 34% of UK voters took part in the election of Members of the European Parliament. As has been pointed out time and again, it is not the ‘representatives’ from the member states in the parliament who call the shots, it is the unelected and unaccountable European Commission and European Council. And if you try to take the initiative they become ‘gravely offended’. Retribution follows shortly thereafter.

Who the hell do these people think they are?  Oh, silly me, I forgot. They are our lords and masters who wish to eradicate nation states. These are the people we must obey because the political class says so.

They want to bring us chaos?

Published 16/12/2010 Blogosphere , Failing State , Islamism Leave a Comment

Leg Iron at Underdogs Bite Upwards is in fine form today. The ‘news’ that Islamist terrorists have plans to attack us this Christmas inspires some wry observations. Instead of being frightened, he suggests, try some derision:

They plan to cause chaos at Christmas. Have they looked at this place over Christmas? Chaos starts in November and we don’t sober up until March. Well, okay, that might just be me and a few friends. The West is obsessed with a) global warming and b) deciding whether winter tyres should be made compulsory in view of the persistently cold weather.

We have windmills where there’s no wind, solar panels in a country where it’s dark for half the year and cloudy for the other half, a government that spends its time calling each other names when it’s not engaging in fraud, spying or illicit sex. We have students protesting about fees they aren’t really ever going to pay and we have people telling us that eating is bad for us. We have people turning up at hospitals with the Winter Squits in case they become dehydrated, because they don’t have taps at home. They are admitted to hospital, thus spreading the Winter Squits all over the hospitals and to every place that patients are discharged to, while claiming smokers and fat people are crippling the NHS. Banks have no money, shops have no food, the post office can’t deliver because of a little bit of snow and murderers sue their employers when they get fired after conviction.

They want to bring us chaos? The old saying ‘ like taking coal to Newcastle’ comes to mind.

There’s a lot more besides. Take a look at the whole thing.

5 Star Blogging

Published 15/12/2010 5 Star Blogging Leave a Comment

BERJAYAA daily selection of five blog posts recommended to you for being thought provoking, insightful, covering interesting subjects or comprising quality writing…

1. Your Freedom And Ours on No, They Can’t Repatriate Powers

2. Raedwald on I Can’t Pretend That Localism Isn’t A Crock

3. Bishop Hill on Uncertainty? It’s Old Hat

4. England Expects on The Treaty Changes: No Referendum

5. Longrider on The Groan, A New Low?

And although not a blog posting, an important read about changes to UK energy policy…

6. Cameron Energy Strategy May Roll Back Thatcher’s Policies to Cut Emission

Cancun summit no solution to global warming

Published 15/12/2010 Alarmism , Carbon Trade , Climate Change , Spin , Vested Interests 2 Comments

So says Jeff Rubin of Canada’s Globe and Mail. He’s right, it wasn’t. Rubin starts his piece by telling readers:

There are basically two ways to cut carbon emissions, and neither one of them involves global climate change summits like the one just held in Cancun, Mexico. The way I see it, you can either price carbon, or you can restrict growth.

Then ends his piece saying:

If the world is serious about tackling global climate change, we need to put a meaningful price ($50 to $60 U.S. per tonne) on carbon emissions now. If we don’t, our next choice is to forego economic growth.

One would have thought by now the scales would have fallen from Rubin’s eyes. But he is a true believer and so remains doggedly ignorant and uncomprehending of the real reason for the Cancun jamboree. Money.

Cancun, or COP16 as it was known, like COP15 at Copenhagen and other expensive and lengthy conferences before them, was not about ‘tackling global climate change’ or fighting the supposed evils of carbon dioxide. It was about agreeing the framework and the figures for redistributing money from industrialised nations to developing nations, so it can be spent on the technologies and solutions corporations are promoting that will reduce CO2 emissions by a tiny amount and, hey presto, combat climate change!

That is the reason why Cancun was no solution to global warming. No solution is actually necessary because man cannot stop a natural, cyclical phenomenon. Man can merely pretend he is the cause of changes to the climate and use it as an opportunity to cash in. Perhaps Rubin would understand more clearly if he followed the money.

EU putting pressure on Swiss sovereignty

Published 15/12/2010 Abuse of Power , Big Government , EU , National Sovereignty , Politics of Spite , Taxation 3 Comments

BERJAYAThe EU has decided it is time for Switzerland to decide whether it wants closer integration with the bloc or to be cast out into the market-access wilderness, according to EUobserver. In reality Switzerland is not being given a choice if it wants to trade with EU member states.

The bully boy tactics of the ‘colleagues’ stems from their anger that the Swiss people are determined to remain independent. The EU, in its own inimitable way, has decided that if Switzerland’s cantons will not willingly embrace EU primacy, the bloc will start asserting itself in a hostile manner using blackmail and threats. The supposedly pro free trade EU is using access to its customs union market as a weapon to make the Swiss bend to Brussels’ will. As the piece explains:

Without “efficient arrangements” to ensure Switzerland adopts EU law, including case law set down by European Court of Justice rulings, and enforcement of this law, the European single market, which Switzerland has access to, lacks the “necessary homogeneity,” said the ministers.

In other words, the EU will make Switzerland’s ability to trade with it difficult. A significant factor in all this is that the EU hates businesses and individuals to have an ability to choose what’s best for them, specifically when it comes to taxation. The tax systems in the cantons are far more favourable to businesses and individuals and companies are moving there to save themselves huge sums of money. The EU cannot stand the thought that within continental Europe there is a competitive alternative to its self serving tax and spend regime.

The EU will stop at nothing to dominate Europe and subsume nation states. It is outrageous that the EU should make such brazen demands of a sovereign country to adopt laws made elsewhere. Now it remains to be seen if Switzerland can hold firm in the face of the forthcoming assault. Welcome to the post-democratic age.

5 Star Blogging

Published 14/12/2010 5 Star Blogging Leave a Comment

BERJAYAA daily selection of five blog posts recommended to you for being thought provoking, insightful, covering interesting subjects or comprising quality writing…

1. EU Referendum on This Stinks

2. House of Dumb on Our Elite Aren’t

3. GWPF on Deutsche Bank & Corporate Irresponsibility

4. Dick Puddlecote on Education, Education, Education

5. The Digital Glebe on The Great CO2 Non Problem

http://nofrakkingconsensus.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/if-the-science-is-so-persuasive-why-the-theatrics/

Arctic warming crisis

Published 14/12/2010 Alarmism , Climate Change 1 Comment

This is such an important story I have reproduced here with full credit to the SPPI Blog…

Source: The Washington Post

The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway.  Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone.  Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.

Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.  Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.

Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.

Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.

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Oops!  Never mind.  This report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the Associated Press and published in the Washington Post – 88 years ago!

Says it all really… The more things change the more they stay the same.

One for Lauren Booth to consider

Published 14/12/2010 Abuse of Power , Intolerance , Islamism , Moral Relativism 5 Comments

BERJAYAThe journalist sister-in-law of Tony Blair, Lauren Booth, recently revealed she had converted to Islam. It’s her choice. But in response to questions raised asking how she could square her new Islamic faith and the subjugation of women with her views on women’s rights, Booth wrote:

So let’s all just take a deep breath and I’ll give you a glimpse into the other world of Islam in the 21st century. Of course, we cannot discount the appalling way women are mistreated by men in many cities and cultures, both with and without an Islamic population. Women who are being abused by male relatives are being abused by men, not God. Much of the practices and laws in “Islamic” countries have deviated from (or are totally unrelated) to the origins of Islam. Instead practices are based on cultural or traditional (and yes, male-orientated) customs that have been injected into these societies.

Booth readily admits to not having read the Qur’an so her knowledge of Islam is negligable. But on the basis of her fanatical fondness for and relationships with some Palestinians she offered the comment above.

Now watch the video below. Just to be clear, as the reporter says before the clip is played, the Governor of Khartoum said this woman had been punished under Sharia Law – not a cultural or traditional custom, but a tenet of the Islamic faith. There is no justification for this kind of barbarism, certainly not the ‘crime’ of wearing trousers under one’s proscribed garments.

A boycott of the 2011 Census?

Published 14/12/2010 Big Government , Our Tax £s , State Intrusion , Statistics 5 Comments

One of the emails received here after the blog post ‘The Rules of the Game Have Changed’ included this suggestion…

One peaceful way in which we could show our resistance to the way we are treated by the politicos is to refuse to co-operate with the 2011 Census.

Of course if only a handful of people fail to supply the required info, they will end up fined or imprisoned. But imagine the amount of egg on the faces of our self-appointed lords-and-masters if a million people refused to co-operate?

I discovered there’s already a small Facebook group dedicated to resistance to the 2011 Census. I’ve “Liked” it, and sent invitations to do the same to all my FB Friends.

There have been a number of excellent comments from readers in recent weeks and it would be good to hear what you think.  So, any thoughts on this idea would be very welcome.

Hammond: Buy an electric car, I’m keeping my Jag

Published 14/12/2010 Contempt , Hypocrisy , Our Tax £s , Parasite Class , Politicians , Spin 3 Comments

Transport Secretary Philip Hammond showed up the double standards of spinning politicians on Sky News this morning when asked if he would be giving up his diesel Jaguar and buying one of the new Nissan Leaf vehicles or other electric cars he wants us to buy with a subsidy of up to £5,000 per vehicle. Watch him duck and dive as he tries to avoid saying ‘good God no’. The message is clear, electric cars are for ‘other people’ and are not good enough for great people like Hammond.

5 Star Blogging

Published 13/12/2010 5 Star Blogging Leave a Comment

BERJAYAA daily selection of five blog posts recommended to you for being thought provoking, insightful, covering interesting subjects or comprising quality writing…

1. Real Science on GISS: Erasing The Past

2. Biased BBC on The EDL – ‘Ultra Nationalists’

3. Calling England on Out Of Time

4. Not A Sheep on A Common Logical Flaw

5. England’s Freedome on Swedish Bomb: Is That Fish I Smell?

http://nofrakkingconsensus.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/if-the-science-is-so-persuasive-why-the-theatrics/

No, Non, Nein

Published 13/12/2010 Abuse of Power , Democratic Deficit , EU , National Sovereignty 1 Comment

BERJAYAGermany is not the country it once was. Its finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has indicated his country’s firm opposition to the harmonisation of tax policy across the Eurozone is softening.

Previously the arch federalists in Spain have been pushing the idea of tax harmonisation, something that Germany has long refused to consider. But now, in the clearest signal that the EU project is entering the final stages of its coup within every member state, Schaeuble has conceded that:

‘The basic decision was for fiscal and budgetary policy to be decided on the national level. If that is to be changed, then we can talk about it.’

This is a huge sea change, a huge boost for Brussels and it demonstrates that regardless of the impact on individual nation states, the political classes across Europe obey the instruction to put the EU first. In itself that is bad enough. But the big story is Schaeuble’s prediction that:

‘In 10 years we will have a structure that corresponds much stronger to what one describes as political union.’

For many politicians the notion of ‘ever closer union’ was just a catchphrase. They conned themselves and the public that the nation states will continue to exist and will be sovereign, even as they were busy signing over power to Brussels as fast as they could move their pens and absorb the taxpayer funded hospitality that sought to flatter and seduce. But you cannot keep surrendering competence for your own nations affairs indefinitely and be sovereign because eventually there is nothing left to hand over – and at that stage you are nothing but a land mass that has lost its identity and determination over its affairs.

John Randolph once said that ‘a state can no more give up part of her sovereignty than a lady can give up part of her virtue’. Sovereignty has already been given up, but an illusion of self determination remained. Now even that illusion is being removed to reveal the true nature of things.

The UK is not part of the Eurozone, but already charges a Euro tax in the form of VAT. The EU will not accept a two speed Europe and it needs Britain (and our money) right in the middle of things. Therefore the deeper integration towards the ‘political union’ Schaeuble sees arriving in the next decade encompasses Britain and means matters will come to a head domestically.

With the British people in angry mood and the political class continuing on its self serving path, this issue could come to a head with quite a bang. The sooner the better!

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