Debt Rattle March 14 2019
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 14 2019]BREXIT – CANUTE RULES THE WAVES!
There are three current options : Teresa May’s agreement with the EU, Hard Brexit and an extension to negotiate further or prepare for hard brexit.
British MPs have just voted against all three!
Negotiating a new agreement in two weeks seems to be a non-starter, especially as the EU has made it plain that the current agreement is non-negotiable.
Asking for an extension is problematic. If it extends into late May then the UK needs to elect MEPs. Also the EU has said there needs to be a reason for the extension, not just more of the same. An extension needs the acceptance of ALL EU states.
If nothing happens in the next two weeks the default is hard BREXIT.
There is a fourth option, which those few who are experts on the subject agree is the best [least worst] option, and that is the EEA/EFTA option, also known as the ‘Norway solution’.
This would be a compromise but would give something to all sides. For the remainers it would still give ties to the EU, and for the leavers it would give some independence to allow the UK to develop trade with the rest of the world. For business it would mean a minimal disturbance to EU trade. It is the only realistic option. It could be regarded as ‘stage1’ with steps in the future to even more independence from the EU. [If the EU still exists!]
It would still take some time to negotiate so it seems the way forward would be a two year extension while it is negotiated.
Unfortunately it is more likely that UK politicians will thrash around for two weeks and we will have a hard BREXIT on the 29th, possibly the worst of all worlds.
Unfortunately it is more likely that UK politicians will thrash around for two weeks and we will have a hard BREXIT on the 29th, possibly the worst of all worlds.
They explicitly voted that down yesterday.
Tusk just announced he wants a long-term extension to Article 50. Maybe that’s the only way left to go.
General elections are another. So perhaps a second referendum, though obviously a lesser option. But it would leave Tories in power, and they’s sell their first-borns for that.
Even simpler: get rid of May. Everything could need to start again whoever’s in power.
Good work again today, Ilargi, you old CONSERVATIVE! 🙂
http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/03/one-more-step.html
Moon of Alabama asks:
Did John Bolton, President Trump’s national security advisor, order an assault on the North Korean embassy in Spain to get an advantage in the nuclear talks?
On February 22 the embassy of the DPRK in Madrid was raided by a gang of thugs:
A group of men entered North Korea’s embassy in Madrid, bound and gagged staff, before driving off with stolen mobile phones and computers, Spanish media has reported.
…Spanish police are investigating after El Confidencial reported a woman escaped the embassy last Friday screaming in Korean, prompting residents nearby to call police.
After she reportedly revealed staff were tied up and gagged, officers knocked on the door to investigate, but were met by a man who told them everything was fine.
Soon after, two cars left the compound at high speed, one of them carrying the man who had answered the door. Police did not enter the building, but staff walked out soon after the incident.e might be missing.
…Kim Hyok Chol was ambassador to Spain until September 2017, when the Spanish government expelled him and another diplomat following Pyongyang’s round of nuclear tests and missile launches over neighbouring Japan.
The name Kim Hyok Chol sounds familiar. He recently was in the news when he led the North Korean delegation in the nuclear talks…
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/03/who-ordered-the-cia-to-raid-north-koreas-embassy-in-spain.html#moreHow many dollars of medical repair does it take to fix one dollar of knife-in-the-back? How much has been secretly spent already?
At his Monday press conference, Mike Pompeo said “we’ve asked (Congress to appropriate) up to $500 million…to restore the economy of the Venezuelan nation (sic) (and) help Juan Guaido.”
He failed to explain the ongoing Trump regime coup plot, nor that it’s all about replacing Bolivarian social democracy with US-controlled tyranny – DLT and hardliners surrounding him wanting control over Venezuelan oil, gas, gold, and other valued resources.
It’s what the scourge of imperialism is all about, Guaido an illegitimate US designated puppet, usurper in waiting, traitor to Venezuela and its people, belonging in prison longterm for his highest of high political crimes.
What the Trump regime calls “democratic transition” in the Bolivarian Republic and other targeted countries is all about gaining imperial trophies – intolerant of democracy everywhere, notably at home.Trump Wants Half a Billion Dollars to Finance Regime Change in Venezuela
Charles Hugh Smith:
How States/Empires Collapse in Four Easy Steps
The promises cannot be met, and so society decays into warring elites and competing constituencies.
There is a grand, majestic tragedy in the inevitable collapse of once-thriving states and empires: it all seemed so permanent at its peak, so godlike in its power, and then slowly but surely, too many grandiose, unrealistic promises were made to too many elites and constituencies, and then as growth decays to stagnation, the only way to maintain the status quo is to appear to meet all the promises by creating money out of thin air, i.e. debauching the currency.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogmar19/empires-collapse3-19.htmlOnion .
“Just imagine: If Adam and Eve had carried firearms and stood their ground against God, they would have been able to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge in peace, and He could never have forced them to leave paradise,” said Pastor Hugh Peters of Houston’s Second Baptist Church, explaining how the entire course of human history would have been altered for the better if the first man and woman had taken the simple precaution of keeping a semiautomatic weapon at the ready for use during emergencies.
“God was trespassing on their property, pure and simple. He had absolutely no right to force them from their home. Had Eve been able to open-carry a handgun, maybe tying it to her hip with a vine or something, God would have known to back off. This is one of the Bible’s most important lessons.”
War has already begun so that the elites and military can continue with their “ways”
• Coca-Cola Produces 200,000 Plastic Bottles A Minute (G.)
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=34&t=6
How much oil is used to make plastic?
China’s grounding of the 737 Max and all the other nations following them plus Ethiopia giving the flight recorders to France’s BEA for analysis are nails on the coffin. Civilization runs on trust. The global economic hegemon is broken. No one believes the USA anymore. The UK is an incompetent laughing stock. Inequality, force and extortion only work until someone stands up to it. Russia did in Syria. Now China. It’s over.
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How much oil is used to make plastic?Interestingly (or not), most U.S. produced plastic is made with elements of natural gas
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=34&t=6China’s grounding of the 737 Max and all the other nations following them plus Ethiopia giving the flight recorders to France’s BEA for analysis are nails on the coffin. Civilization runs on trust. The global economic hegemon is broken. No one believes the USA anymore.
VietnamVetOn one level, it’s a fascinating thing to watch; yes, it’s happening in real time.
On another level it’s rather frightening; empires rarely die peaceful deaths…
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