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A New Wind Blows A Changing of the Guards. War Notes from Germany, A Country of Peaceful Overtones.
The mood from some German people thinking about the euro crisis and its fallouts is “Please don’t leave Germans alone with all the power.” This, they say, its not good for everyone, including Germans.“Follow through with the dream and G...
E.U Crisis. Euro In Intensive Care, Outlook Critical.
The sick child of the Europe project is moved into Intensive care as conditions for lady Euro's survival becomes critical. Some say the outlook is fatal. At the time of writing Spain is the focus of financial market worry. There are some scary permut...
Syria Uprising: Asma al-Assad, For Whom Power Doth Crush #3
Re-framing reality is a game most dictators and their wives indulge in. It offers solace, a justification for passing their guilt to others. This is usually towards people they are supposed to serve and protect. There is never any doubt in the mind s...
E.U. Crisis: And Then There Was 2 For Confederate Nations of Europe. Germany Ponders Euro Future
UK and Czech Republic form the tiny but growing block I refer to as the Confederate Nations of Europe. This confederacy is the counterweight to the federalist rump core led by an empowered Germany and the central Euro sphere. Both groups share concer...
The Irish Referendum: Democracy Fights Back: Austerity on Trial.
Lets face it, this is not going to be billed as “the Mother of all Referendums.” In fact it's a Welterweight bout. Firstly, nothing about this one rounder will change the issue of the December 2011 fiscal treaty. That's a done deal. Guaranteed to...
Israel Attack on Iran: Remembering the Horns of Hattin.
Did you know it is much much easier to enrich uranium from 20% to 90%, than to enrich uranium up from 3.5% to 20%. Time needed is shorter while complexity greatly reduced. European countries such as Germany, Italy and Netherlands are about six mont...
E.U. Crisis: Superstate in Peril: Democratic Media Turns on Troika. Backlash #3
Analytic minds from London to Tokyo to New York point towards a Greek exit from the Euro. They suggest a tailored Marshal plan to help re-structure the country over a long time frame. It happened before in Europe. But this advice is ignored by the E...
Euroskeptics Now An Organised Force: Brussels Fiddles with Apathy. Backlash #2
Dr Simon Usherwood, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics, University of Surrey U.K. heads up the Collaborative Research Network on Euroskepticism. The findings are interesting reading for both the embattled Euro Federalists and the ris...
E.U. Crisis: Financial Markets V Democracy: The Return and Rise of the Populist Backlash.
Members of the now disbanded Magyar Gárda explain their reasons for joining the movement in 2009. But have they really gone away. So I became a Public Enemy: “Without laughter, life is not worth much” Public EnemyMonika is a 20 yr old unive...
E.U. Greek Crises: A Very European Character, To Hell or Connaught with Democracy.
While discussing poverty over a fine dinner in Belfast 2004, my Greek friend said to me, “When you have nothing to sell you end up selling yourself to survive.”It instantly triggered a comment during a conversation some 16 years earlier with the...
Angela Merkel, De Facto Queen Of E.U. Courts a Tactical Error.
Is Chancellor Merkel making a tactical error in offering support on all fronts to get the French president re-elected. An endorsement by the de facto Queen of the European Union is a great asset for any politician embarking on a campaign trail. Appea...
Syria Uprising: Russia and China Strengthen Authoritarian Military Bloc
For whom power doth crush #2. Asma al Assad seals her fate as a pawnin a wider power struggle. 2011 By vetoing the U.N. motion condemning savage bombardment of Homs city by Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, Russia and China opened a second front line aga...
WikiLeaks: Assange & Manning Trials: Apache Apache #2
America is a heavy hitter in all respects. Concerning all disciplines practised in the free world we get an abundance of input form Uncle Sam. This is especially true for the Art of War. Does America care anymore if it wins or loses the small wars it...
Davos Hosts A Council to Control Nuclear Economics. War Clouds Move Over Iran.
The World Economic Forum 2012 hosted a Forum for Economic War. The target is Iran. The race to control the global nuclear power industry uses the old formula, war and money backed with feeble excuses to attack the opposition. North Korea and Pak...
A Surreal Proposal Comes From the EU Commission.
The E.U. Commission has a real job to win hearts and minds of European citizens for this weeks launch of the European Citizen's Initiative programme.This brand new tool for participatory democracy....... will strengthen the democratic foundations of...
Austerity Needs a Workout: Occupy Arrives at Davos to Confront the Beast.
Eurozone crisis is in a phase of salami fed doses of bad news followed by more bad news were the bad news is, there is more bad news.This anaesthetization process (austerity) entails degrading living standards for millions of Europeans. A rise in une...
E.U Crisis. The Merkozy Project: Seeking an Alternative Answer
Searching for answers. The famed Atomiumin Brussels was the centre of attraction for the1958 World fair about the future. 2012 Physicists are searching for answers to an evolving universe deep underground in the Swiss based CERN laboratory. The...
Chancellor Angela Merkel; Reluctant Fuhrer, A Necessary Leader for 2012
It is a portrait which has bewildered most who deplore the endless and un-necessary references to the last war. Especially if the intention is to object to anything proposed by Germany which meets any degree of disapproval for whatever reasons...
E.U. Crisis: Pick of the Best 2011: Out of Control
A reflective view about the financial crisis sweeping the western world throughout 2011.Don’t blame us for the crisis say the Wall Street elites. We only follow fundamentals and the money.But as much these modern highwaymen utilise rampant capitali...
E.U. Crisis: Batten Down the Hatches. Der Sturm Est Arrivée
The Irish are as mad as hell and aren’t gonna take it any more. Or so it would seem watching a transmission from Dáil Éireann (House of Representatives) in Dublin Wednesday. Most parties lambaste the handling of the Euro crisis which is about to...
