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EU Opens Article Seven Process Against Poland: Poland to Leave the EU?
EU Opens Article Seven Process Against Poland: Poland to Leave the EU? The EU opened up Article 7 charges against Poland for having non-EU values. Poland is a serious risk to leave the EU. Article seven is a charge against a country for having non-European values. Specifically, the charge against Poland relates to its judiciary, […]
The Greek Fraud Reads Like a Crime Novel
The Greek Fraud Reads Like a Crime Novel Tamara de Lempicka The refugees 1937Note: I feel kind of sorry this has become such a long essay. But I still left out so much. You know by now I care a lot about Greece, and it’s high time for another look, and another update, and another […]
EU To Restrict Movement of Cash
EU To Restrict Movement of Cash The EU is now developing strict rules for carrying cash when traveling to non-European countries and returning to Europe. The revision of the First Cash Control Regulation from 2005, which stipulated that EU citizens should register cash in excess of € 10,000 when leaving the EU or when returning […]
Europe Is Flirting with a Disaster for Free Speech
Europe Is Flirting with a Disaster for Free Speech The controversial Article 13 is getting some push-back from some officials, but it isn’t dead yet. Freedom of speech is undoubtedly one of the most important features of any democratic society. Without it, knowledge could not be shared, injustices could not be called out, and the […]
Jeffrey Sachs Still Promotes Disaster
Jeffrey Sachs Still Promotes Disaster Amedeo Modigliani Elvira Resting at a Table 1919Many of you are undoubtedly familiar with Naomi Klein’s 2007 book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, in which she describes how neoliberalism, as developed by Milton Friedman and his Chicago School, wreaks often very brutal and bloody havoc upon societies […]
EU Concern Rising About Italian Debt
EU Concern Rising About Italian Debt The EU Commission is deeply concerned that Italy is under pressure to spend frivolously because of the upcoming elections. The EU is apply more scrutiny for Italy’s huge sovereign debt. Because of the vast size of the Italian economy, the high level of total debt is a major cause for […]
EU Preparing for the Banking Crisis
EU Preparing for the Banking Crisis Subtly, the EU is looking to establish preparations for the coming banking crisis and how to protect the banks from massive withdrawals. The solution? The EU wants to be able to temporarily free up credits for the banks and at the same time to freeze bank deposits, In other words, like […]
Where are Europe’s Fault Lines?
Where are Europe’s Fault Lines? Beneath the surface of modern maps, numerous old fault lines still exist. A political earthquake or two might reveal the fractures for all to see. Correspondent Mark G. and I have long discussed the potential relevancy of old boundaries, alliances and structures in Europe’s future alignments.Examples include the Holy Roman […]
Centrally Planned UK Generation Scenarios for 2030
Centrally Planned UK Generation Scenarios for 2030 The economies of the European Union have centrally planned energy delivery strategies where the amount of electricity to be generated from a particular source by a particular time is planned in minute detail by legions of civil servants and academics. This post summarises some of the scenarios for […]
Lebanon – the next front in the Great Gas War.
Lebanon – the next front in the Great Gas War. The Great Gas War has already two distinct fronts: The now relatively quiet Northern Front in Ukraine and the Southern Front in Syria in which the Western empire has been losing. It looks to me that Lebanon is being targeted as the next front, where […]
Preparing For EU Collapse
Preparing For EU Collapse Claude Monet The house at Yerres 1876 If there is one thing the Spain vs Catalonia conflict reminds us of, it has got to be Turkey. And that is a much bigger problem for the EU than it realizes. First of all, Brussels can no longer insist that this is an […]
The EU Just Did the Big Banks a Massive Favor
The EU Just Did the Big Banks a Massive Favor “Testimony to the iron grip the financial industry’s lobby still exerts on governments and legislators.” The European Union’s executive arm, the European Commission, made a lot of bank executives very happy this Tuesday by abandoning its multi-year pledge to break-up too-big-to-fail lenders. Despite the huge […]
Europe: Journalists Against Free Speech
Europe: Journalists Against Free Speech Gone is all pretense that journalism is about reporting the facts. These are the aims of a political actor. Being bought and paid for by the EU apparently counts as “press freedom” these days. According to the guidelines, journalists should, among other things, “Provide an appropriate range of opinions, including […]
