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Showing posts with label European. Show all posts
Showing posts with label European. Show all posts
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Saturday, August 13, 2016
Friday, July 1, 2016
Monday, June 27, 2016
Merkel calls for “action”
to prevent other countries from leaving the EU, Polish national TV obtains shocking document about one European supercountry
Monday, June 20, 2016
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
The geopolitics of European football
Euro 2016 has just begun. Thousands of fans, despite unprecedented security measures, have already collided in real fights. This alone demonstrates that football for Europe is more than just a game. Football is a hysterical mass spectacle and big business. For European countries, with their centuries-old conflicts and confrontations, this is the battlefield where hidden geopolitical ambitions, phobias, likes and dislikes are manifested. Football is often seen as a metaphor for war, where nations with different ideals and styles attack each other on the battlefield with the support of crowds filled with energies of hatred and faith.
Land against Sea in Marseille
The start of the tournament was marked by riots staged by British football fans. Due to geopolitical inertia, English hooligans came into conflict with their Russian counterparts. Mass brawls ensued and the Russians won. The game itself became relegated to second place against the backdrop of an historical battle between fans from countries that themselves used to oppose each other in the Great Game. Great Britain is no longer a major maritime power, but it is still opposed to the Russians by virtue of its Anglo-Saxon blood. Old geopolitical patterns thus manifest themselves in a new environment. Interestingly enough, Russian and English behavior on the continent has a lot in common, especially in their shared attitude towards France as if it was an occupied territory. The British and Russians behave in continental Europe like they are in a foreign land. The Russians came as the bearers of the Red Army flag from 1945. and the British landed in Marseilles, a port city, like an expeditionary force.
Old geopolitical contradictions
There is no doubt that we will face a load of interesting, bloody, and even humorous brawls. The Polish and Ukrainian fans do not even meet each other. This audience typically adheres to right-wing views, as Polish and Ukrainian nationalists dislike each other since the Second World War when Ukrainians massacred thousands of Poles in Volyn.
The traditional football confrontations between Hungary and Romania, Poland and Germany, Germany and Italy, England and Germany, Austria and Hungary, and the Czech Republic and Slovakia on the one hand reflect the history of the sport, while on the other demonstrate the vitality of old geopolitical and international conflicts. In some cases, such opposition is a clear consequence of politics, as in the case of England-Argentina rivalry.
Maradona wrote in his autobiography concerning the famous match of Argentina vs. England (1986 FIFA World Cup) that “it was as if we had beaten a country, not just a football team … Although we had said before that the game, that football, had nothing to do with the Malvinas war, we knew they had killed a lot of Argentine boys there, killed them like little birds. And this was revenge.” Of course, this is no less of a geopolitical rivalry for the English.
The new conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and Russia and Turkey on the field of world politics will certainly find their way onto the football field and in the streets of European cities.
The First Global Game
Football became global at the beginning of 20th century. Needless to say, the spread of football and its popularity was linked to the geopolitical factor of the influence of the British Empire, England being the place where the game originated. The places were the game subsequently took hold (Central America, South America, and Europe) were more often than not locations where Britain wielded influence by means of trade, not conquest. In countries that suffered acute British imperialism (India, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand), despising Britain is inextricably tied to disliking British football. In these countries, football never really took hold as a popular sport, whereas cricket and rugby (in fact also English games) became national sports. Thus, football became a form of English soft power and a sign of the first wave of Anglo-Saxon Globalism as promoted mainly by the upper classes and British expats.
Football and identity
Football and its culture often act as markers of geopolitical, religious and national identity. Hence why the Basque club, Athletic Bilbao, in Spain accepts only Basque players. The confrontation between the Madrid “Real” and “Barcelona” replicates the confrontation between the capital and the country’s separatist Catalonia. The Celtic Club in Glasgow is supported mostly by the Romano-Catholic part of city, while its main rival, the Glasgow Rangers, is supported by Protestants. Sectarian divergences play a serious role in North Irish football as well. Relations between different parts of Great Britain are demonstrated through rivalries between the Scottish and English, the English and the North Irish, and the English and Welsh football teams.
Football achievements in Europe have always been elements of the struggle of European powers for prestige. Football helped raise national self-esteem and feelings of national unity. In 1938, Benito Mussolini threatened to shoot the Italian team if it did not win the World Cup. With such a serious motivation, the Italians became champions.
In 1954, for the first time since 1945, the West German national team took part in the World Cup in Switzerland. In the final round, the Germans defeated the team of Hungary. This victory was an important symbol of success for the power defeated in the World War and helped millions of people to restore a sense of national pride and self-confidence.
During the Cold War, sport became an arena of confrontation between the two predominant systems. And football was no exception. At the World Cup in 1974, the teams of West and East Germany met, and the victory of the GDR’s team had great symbolic meaning for all of the Socialist Bloc. ..
Did somebody say “ISIS”?
For Europeans, football is more than just a sport. The massive spectacle requires increased security measures, something especially important for the now concerned French. The country is overflowing with Muslim migrants and recently experienced ISIS terrorist attacks. If something of the sort repeats itself in France during the European championship, then the prestige of the country and its security forces will drop to zero and the fear of growing radical sentiments will spread across all of Europe.
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Monday, June 6, 2016
The European Parliament Is On the Verge of Legalizing Pedophilia
Monday, June 6, 2016 5:29
Sometimes, good things come in small packages, although there is not much good that can come this subject. This article is brief and very much to the point. There is very little offered in contextual background with almost no dots to connect. I view the following as the most important article, and certainly the most disturbing article, I have ever written.
Soon, Our Children Will Not Be Safe
George Soros contributed $2 million to the North American Man Boy Love Association. They are actively advocating for sex with children. Their byline is “Sex before eight or it is too late”. Please tell me how a seven year old can consent to having sex with an adult?
For years, I have been claiming that the criminal elite will eventually remove the final taboo, the final prohibition from society, namely, adults having sex with children.
With the advent of the transgender restroom issue, I renewed my claim that the globalists were bootstrapping the laws towards eventually removing the final prohibition.
The last time I made this claim was about a week ago. Soon, our children will be at risk to unsavory predators, acquiring STD’s and experiencing a lifetime of horrifying psychological scars.
At issue in this article is a document that the European Parliament is issuing to its member states. Below, are excerpts of the article.
From the European Parliament
A EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK NATIONAL STATUTE FOR THE PROMOTION OF TOLERANCE
SUBMITTED WITH A VIEW TO BEING ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURES OF EUROPEAN STATE
What originally appears to be a general restriction on free speech against any and all groups is really a lot more when on reads the fine print. Here are the relevant excerpts:
Section 1. Definitions For the purposes of this Statute: (a) “Group” means: a number of people joined by racial or cultural roots, ethnic origin or descent, religious affiliation or linguistic links, gender identity or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics of a similar nature.
I do not advocate for the discrimination of any of the non-heterosexual groups except for pedophiles and transhumanists and only because they leave victims behind. This is not a movement being promoted by the majority of people in these lifestyles, this is a movement promoted by the globalists. However, make note of the term, sexual orientation, it will figure prominently in the rest of the article.
The Dangers of Bootstrapping
When the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual -3rd Edition was created in the 1960’s, being labeled “homosexual” also brought a mental illness diagnosis.
When the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) -4th Edition was created in the 1990’s being labeled “transgender” also brought a mental illness diagnosis in which the person was labeled as having Gender Identity Disorder.
Today, under DSM-V, LGBT people are a legally protected class and special status protections not afforded to heterosexual couples.
Please look back at the definition posted earlier. The protected class in this EU document is “sexual orientation”. This term is very broad and very vague given the political climate of the today. At one point in time in our recent past, the only approved sexual orientation was the Biblical definition. Today, each non-heterosexual orientation has been bootstrapped to the next to make it acceptable (e.g. gay to transgender).
With transgenders receiving protected status in the US, Canada and Europe, how long will it be till the transgender lifestyle is bootstrapped to the next one in line. And what is the next one in line? That would be abject pedophilia that will soon become a protected class in which it will become a crime to speak out against, much less prosecute for their heinous action.
To the novice to our Patriot movement, this may seem like a fantasy. But to those who have around for awhile, you can see all the elements of the globalists at work (e.g. create the protected class, shower the protected class with laws that only protect them, and then through incrementalism, bootstrap the previous to the next step).
Again from the EU Parliament document:
(d)Public morals. Explanatory Note: Examples: tolerance does not denote acceptance of such practices as female circumcision, forced marriage, polygamy or any form of exploitation or domination of women. (ED. Note: Why doesn’t this document mention protecting children instead of only protecting women?)What About North America?
If you still need convincing, please look at what’s happening in North America, it parallels Europe.
Bloomberg.com stated that
Beyond national laws that criminalize hate speech, there is a need to ensure such activity by Internet users is “expeditiously reviewed by online intermediaries and social media platforms, upon receipt of a valid notification, in an appropriate time-frame,” the companies and the European Commission said in a joint statement on Tuesday. (Ed. Note: The European Commission is the same group that was referenced above). Ed. Note: This is an enforcement document which derives itself from the same document listed above. Americans and Canadians are in cahoots with the Euros.
Nearly two weeks ago, I wrote the following “The New York City Commission on Human Rights, employees, landlords are demanding that businesses can face stiff fines if they do not refer to transgenders by using“approved” terms such as “ze” and “hir”. Failure to do so will result in violation of the New York City Human Rights Law.This is the most poorly written administrative law that I have seen. However, it appears that each business must refer to each transgender in the the exact terms that each transgender demands.This is an unreasonable burden on any business. To remain compliant with this unusual and far-reaching demand, a business will have to literally hire and question all people entering a business….Here is an excerpt from the administrative law: “Intentional or repeated refusal to use an individual’s preferred name, pronoun or title. For example, repeatedly calling a transgender woman “him” or “Mr.” after she has made clear which pronouns and title she uses.” If you are rubbing your eyes in confusion, you are not alone…”“Covered entities may avoid violations of The NYCHRL by creating a policy of asking everyone what their preferred gender pronoun is so that no individual is singled out for such questions and by updating their systems to allow all individuals to self-identify their names and genders. They should not limit the optionsfor identification to male and female only,” states the NYCHRL on gender identity”. THIS WILL LITERALLY CAUSE ALL BUSINESSES TO REVISE THEIR ORDER FORMS. Again, what small business can afford such an onerous demand?Can you imagine every business being forced to ask every customer as they walk through the door if they want to be referred to as “he”, “ze”, and “hir”?…
Canada is on the verge of passing legislation that makes illegal to criticize transgenders. Here are the relevant parts of this very vague law.
Conclusion
Who is to say that “sexual orientation” will not be extended to pedophiles as there is precedent for this type of bootstrapping? It is the next logical step and we have four decades of bootstrapping various forms of sexual orientation into the next form sexual orientation.
Yes, I know this EU document stifles free speech and protects Muslim immigrants coming into Europe, but the incessant reappearance of the term “sexual orientation” is troublesome because in the document, absolutely no criticism is allowed as it is referred to group libel.
Each and everyday we move closer to eliminating the final prohibition. The final day of elimination is nearly here.
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Monday, May 30, 2016
Monday, May 2, 2016
Australia Releasing Herpes Virus Into Rivers
Australia Releasing Herpes Virus Into Rivers To Destroy European Carp
Australia plans to spend 15 million dollars in a bid to exterminate European carp by releasing a strain of herpes virus into the country’s largest waterway.
Tuesday’s federal budget will include funding for the clearing of the Murray-Darling Basin from the country’s worst freshwater feral pest, Australian authorities said on Sunday.
According to the Australian, the killer koi herpes virus, spread by infected carp touching each other and in surrounding water, and cannot infect any other form of life, including humans, birds, animals or crustaceans such as yabbies that might feed on the dead or diseased carp bodies.
The Guardian reports:
The plan includes the staged release of the carp-specific herpes virus in the Murray-Darling basin. CSIRO scientists have been testing the virus in Australian native fish species and other animals found along the river for the past seven years and have established that it is safe to release into the ecosystem without harming other species.
The virus affects the carp’s skin and kidneys, takes about seven days to have a noticeable effect and, once it takes hold, usually kills the fish within 24 hours.
A joint ministerial taskforce will finalise the national plan and includes the minister for industry, innovation and science, Christopher Pyne, the deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce, and the minister for the environment, Greg Hunt.
“The common carp is a nasty pest in our waterways and makes up 80% of fish biomass in the Murray Darling Basin,” Pyne said.
“Anyone who loves the Murray knows what damage the carp have caused to the river environment over many years. The Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre and the CSIRO have made significant progress evaluating a viral biological control agent, we know that it works, we know it’s completely safe, now we need to plan the best way to roll it out.”
Joyce said the economic impact of carp was estimated at $500m a year, mostly in regional Australia, and especially along the Murray River.
Current control measures, including trapping, commercial fishing and exclusion, were expensive and largely ineffective at controlling carp over large areas or for any length of time, he said.
Carp also threaten others species by making water turbid, causing erosion and out-competing native fish for food and resources.
The Australian Conservation Foundation described the funding and staged release of the virus as “a good first step”. The foundation’s healthy ecosystems program manager, Jonathan La Nauze, said the funding would enable the community consultation and planning required to ensure the virus was released safely and without unwanted impacts on river communities.
Friday, April 22, 2016
Commission fails to regulate new GMOs
Commission fails to regulate new GMOs after intense US lobbying
April 21st 2016
The European Commission has shelved a legal opinion confirming that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) produced through gene-editing and other new techniques fall under EU GMO law, following pressure from the US government. A series of internal Commission documents obtained under freedom of information rules reveal intense lobbying by US representatives for the EU to disregard its GMO rules, which require safety testing and labelling.
The documents show that US pressure is focussed on potential barriers to trade from the application of EU GMO law. They suggest that the EU should ignore health and environmental safeguards on GMOs to pave the way for a transatlantic trade agreement. The next round of TTIP negotiations starts on 25 April 2016 in New York.
Nina Holland, researcher for Corporate Europe Observatory, says: "The biotech industry has waged an under-the-radar campaign to get new GM products absolved from GM regulation. The TTIP negotiations are seen by industry across the board and the US government as the perfect opportunity to block EU processes that are supposed to protect public health and the environment. The regulation of new GM techniques is a case in point."
Franziska Achterberg, EU food policy director for Greenpeace, says: “The Commission must come out of the bushes and state clearly that gene-editing is genetic engineering. Europeans need to be reassured that the Commission will apply GMO rules to all GMOs, whatever way they’re produced. This is the only way to ensure that GMOs don’t enter the food chain untested and unlabelled.”
Dr Helen Wallace, Director of GeneWatch UK, says: "Gene-edited crops and trees pose risks to the environment. Before they can be marketed, these risks need to be properly assessed. Farm animals, fish and insects could all be gene-edited in future. Changes to nature could be irreversible if this industry is not regulated".
Please read the full media briefing here.
Corporate Europe Observatory: Nina Holland: +32 (0)466 294 420, nina@corporateeurope.org
Greenpeace: Franziska Achterberg: +32 (0)498 362403, franziska.achterberg@greenpeace.org
GeneWatch UK: Dr Helen Wallace: +44 (0)7903 311584, mail@genewatch.org
The documents show that US pressure is focussed on potential barriers to trade from the application of EU GMO law. They suggest that the EU should ignore health and environmental safeguards on GMOs to pave the way for a transatlantic trade agreement. The next round of TTIP negotiations starts on 25 April 2016 in New York.
Nina Holland, researcher for Corporate Europe Observatory, says: "The biotech industry has waged an under-the-radar campaign to get new GM products absolved from GM regulation. The TTIP negotiations are seen by industry across the board and the US government as the perfect opportunity to block EU processes that are supposed to protect public health and the environment. The regulation of new GM techniques is a case in point."
Franziska Achterberg, EU food policy director for Greenpeace, says: “The Commission must come out of the bushes and state clearly that gene-editing is genetic engineering. Europeans need to be reassured that the Commission will apply GMO rules to all GMOs, whatever way they’re produced. This is the only way to ensure that GMOs don’t enter the food chain untested and unlabelled.”
Dr Helen Wallace, Director of GeneWatch UK, says: "Gene-edited crops and trees pose risks to the environment. Before they can be marketed, these risks need to be properly assessed. Farm animals, fish and insects could all be gene-edited in future. Changes to nature could be irreversible if this industry is not regulated".
Please read the full media briefing here.
Corporate Europe Observatory: Nina Holland: +32 (0)466 294 420, nina@corporateeurope.org
Greenpeace: Franziska Achterberg: +32 (0)498 362403, franziska.achterberg@greenpeace.org
GeneWatch UK: Dr Helen Wallace: +44 (0)7903 311584, mail@genewatch.org
Sunday, July 12, 2015
European Stocks, Chinese Stocks And Commodities Are All Crashing – Are U.S. Stocks Next?
By Michael Snyder, on July 7th, 2015
A global stock market crash has begun. European stocks are crashing, Chinese stocks are crashing, and commodities are crashing. And guess what? All of those things happened before U.S. stocks crashed in the fall of 2008 too. In so many ways, it seems like we are watching a replay of the financial crisis of 2008, but this time around the world is in far worse shape financially. Global debt levels are at an all-time high, the 75 trillion dollar global shadow banking system could implode at any time, and there are hundreds of trillions of dollars in derivatives that threaten to wipe out major banks all over the planet. The last major worldwide financial crash was almost seven years ago, and very little has been done since that time to prepare for the next one. If global markets do not calm down, we could see carnage in the months ahead that is absolutely unprecedented.For months, European authorities have been promising us that a “Grexit” is already “priced in” to the markets and that any “contagion” from the Greek crisis will be “contained”. Of course everyone knew that was just a smokescreen. Just in the past couple of days since the Greek “no” vote, European stocks have already been crashing. The following comes from Zero Hedge…
Does this look contained to you?As I mentioned at the top of this article, European stocks started crashing well before U.S. stocks started crashing during the last financial crisis. If you doubt this, just look at this chart, and this chart and this chart.
Portugal, Spain, and Italy all collapsing…
Will the same thing happen again this time?
And just like I have warned repeatedly, European bond yields have started to soar. When bond yields go up, bond prices go down, so many bond investors are losing a tremendous amount of money right now. Here is more from Zero Hedge…
Who’s next?If there is not a last minute deal between Greece and her creditors, what we have witnessed so far in the bond markets will just be the tip of the iceberg. In the months ahead, we could witness a bond crash unlike anything that we have ever seen in all of history. Just consider what Egon von Greyerz recently told Eric King…
European bond risk is anything but “contained” as GGB 10Y Yields top 18%…
There is no liquidity in this market and this is where we will soon see a problem. We will see the bond market totally seizing up in the next few months. Eric, people simply don’t understand that this is a much bigger problem than Greece.Hmm – there is that word “derivatives” again.
So we are talking about a worldwide problem, not just a Greek problem. The majority of the $100 trillion bond market is worthless, and of course a ticking time-bomb of over $1 quadrillion worth of derivatives is linked to that. This means that, sadly, we are heading into a major contagion that will lead to financial catastrophe for the world. This will also lead to an implosion of all bubble assets across the globe.
It is funny how that keeps popping up.
As things unravel over in Europe, a lot of desperate Europeans are feverishly purchasing physical gold. The following comes from Bloomberg…
European investors are increasing purchases of gold as Greece’s turmoil boosts the appeal for an alternative to the euro.Meanwhile, Chinese stocks have continued to fall. Overall, Chinese stocks have fallen 27 percent since the peak, and a whopping 3.2 trillion dollars of “paper wealth” has been wiped out in China in just the last three weeks.
Demand from Greek customers for Sovereign gold coins was double the five-month average in June, the U.K. Royal Mint said in an e-mailed statement. CoinInvest.com, an online retailer, said sales on Saturday and Sunday were the highest since Cyprus limited cash withdrawals in 2013, driven by a jump in German, French and Greek buyers.
Investors are searching for a safe haven after Greece imposed capital controls, closed banks and stopped selling gold coins to the public until at least July 6.
At this point things are so bad that about one-fourth of all stocks in China have already suspended trading according to CNN…
The turmoil in China’s stock market is so bad that some companies are calling it quits.Desperate measures are being employed to try to stop the stock market crash in China. For example, over the weekend an alliance of securities brokerages pledged to invest “at least 120 billion yuan” in order to stabilize stock prices…
Over 700 Chinese companies have halted trading to “self preserve,” according to the state media. That means about a quarter of the companies listed on China’s two big exchanges — the Shanghai and Shenzhen — are no longer trading.
China’s top 21 securities brokerages said on Saturday they would collectively invest at least 120 billion yuan ($19.3 billion) to help stabilize the country’s stock markets after a slump of nearly 30 percent since mid-June. In addition, 57 Chinese mutual funds are reportedly investing 2.2 billion yuan in stock funds.The Chinese central bank has gotten involved as well. In fact, the People’s Bank of China has taken the dramatic step of actually directly loaning money to brokerages…
In an extraordinary move, the People’s Bank of China has begun lending money to investors to buy shares in the flailing market. The Wall Street Journal reports this “liquidity assistance” will be provided to the regulator-owned China Securities Finance Corp, which will lend the money to brokerages, which will in turn lend to investors.In addition, the Chinese government has taken the following steps to intervene…
The dramatic intervention marks the first time funds from the central bank have been directed anywhere other than the banks, signalling serious concern from authorities about the crisis.
-All short selling of stocks has been banned.
-China’s national social security fund has been banned from selling stocks, but they can continue to buy stocks.
-Local media has been banned from using the terms “equity disaster” and “rescue the market” in their news reports.
But despite everything that you just read, Chinese stocks have still been falling.
Meanwhile, global commodity prices are crashing. Just check out this chart. This is also something that happened before U.S. stocks crashed back in 2008.
Thankfully, U.S. stocks have not started crashing yet. But it should be noted that the “smart money” in the United States has been selling stocks like crazy since the “no” vote in the Greek referendum. And if the patterns that we witnessed seven years ago hold up, it is just a matter of time before we experience a stock market crash too.
Incredibly, there are a lot of people out there that very strongly believe that everything is going to be just fine. They have tremendous faith in the central bankers and in our political leaders, and they are assuring all the rest of us that there is no possible way that the global financial system could be brought down again.
I truly wish that they were right. If everything was going to be just fine, instead of writing about the coming economic collapse I could write about sports or do a blog dedicated to LOLcats. But of course the truth is that the “hopetimists” are dead wrong.
A great shaking is coming to our world, and life as we know it is about to change in a major way.
Note: Source theeconomiccollapse.blog.com
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