Macron Heralds The End Of The Union

[Raúl Ilargi Meijer]

Paul Almasy Paris 1950 Paul Signac Boulevard de Clichy under snow 1886     The concept of the EU might have worked, but still only might hav
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[V. Arnold]

I often wonder if, as a species, we’ll survive our infancy?

[V. Arnold]

On another note: Is that kid sucking on a lollypop or a cigarette?

[Dr. D]

I feel for Europe, but this was so terribly obvious far before the Euro.

Remember yesterday, how “nobody saw”? When the trillion-dollar derivatives were handed to Sachs to gin up openly fraudulent accounting in Greece and Italy were in the papers, did anyone ‘not know’? When France, Spain, and even Germany never met their debt ratios, did anyone ‘not know’? When the EU votes were flat shot down everywhere they were tried, and they went around them in an undemocratic way, did anyone ‘not know’?

It’s been 20 years where every day another story was printed how we all knew. Wonks like Armstrong could have even guessed back with Thatcher that it would have to fail in some way, merely skimming the letters of intent.

With a land as great as Europe, why would you wish to become like the United States? For unlike the American founders, the European founders hated Europe: hated its smallness, the unique pockets and traditions, hated its diversity, hated its languages, its cultures, hated that it could no longer colonize Libya, Africa, and Syria, could no longer invade and lose to Russia every few generations. They spent all this 20 years erasing flags, borders, traditions, cultures, budgets — whole peoples, the fathers of Europe and Democracy. They hate everything that makes Europe great, everything that makes its own people love and defend it, and so, besides economics, they were on a collision course with their own people that continues today.

They could have just obeyed the democratic will. They could have fixed the problems. They could have been responsible, upfront, and saved all. But more than they hate Europe, they love themselves, who are smarter, better, richer, more perfect than those vile, benighted peasants, working some boulangere in Lyon, some scallop bed in Normandie. So the struggle becomes a mortal one: either unelected soviet (literally) bureaucrats in Brussels sucking up six digits to not show up in parliament and rubber stamp whatever unknown and unspoken actors put before them, or the actual people of Europe, whose blood and sweat make it exist at all.

And it’s easy to tell who will prevail. For Europe can survive without unelected bureaucrats ordering them around and taking their money, but not the contrary. Since they love their narcissism more than life itself, let’s hope that is not what it costs them — although it well may.

Behind these ill-advised men, the U.S. – or the anti-American CIA anyway — paid, advocated, and directed the Euro project since the 1950’s — a warning if I ever heard one. Behind them are disaster capitalists aching to devour Europe with intentional turmoil, fanning the flames now that they’ve been shut out of Russia and Argentina is a husk. There are indeed plans and papers describing this too, how, if they do not want to be ruled by a neofeudalism voluntarily, then such violence can be unleashed that they will have no choice but to support hand-picked strongmen, warlords, and thereby come to feudalism and the end of democracy in any case.

So beware. Only such care, nationalism, and patriotism, to love your country and its history, leading to 100 years of democracy, is likely to save you, as it saved Switzerland once. The widening gyre is not of the hawk but the vulture, and he indeed hears the call of his hidden falconer, waiting in a hedge fund or military lobby somewhere, but free men endure to the end.

[Raúl Ilargi Meijer]

V. Arnold,

On another note: Is that kid sucking on a lollypop or a cigarette?

I have the perfect standard answer to this question:

Yes.

[regionswork]

The entire planet would be doing better now had diplomacy, the arts and competition via sports and participant maintained level playing fields been the post WW-II focus. Deficits now are products of the various military-industial-political complexes. I’ve had included congressional in early drafts, but didn’t use it in the final. Competition can’t be taken out of life for it is inherent in nature. Obvious that a single belief or system can not dominate. Stealing from others is no solution. The world civilization has been evolving since the Neolithic. Today’s #BuiltEnvironmentTechnosphere and #TechnosphereWaste is full of non-productive military junk. President George Herbert Walker Bush took the world as he found it and worked to improve it as his spiritual tradition taught him. The neoconservative undid that. He recognized Ronald Reagan’s proposal as vodoo economics, but took the VP nod so his experience would be of use. Though the Masters of War fan the embers of envy and anger of losses in the past, the necessity of human unity and cooperation, the good intent of The Creator who gave us this chance to play in this sandbox of reality, flows into the world through its good people. Everyone serves the good by demonstrating it or the need for it.

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