Merkozy Summit, Marseille, No Sunshine for Cameron

The "Devilish Merkozy Duo," as they have been dubbed in many capitals, “can do whatever the hell they like.”

The British position at the Merkozy summit in Brussels seems isolated. Leader Cameron says he will scupper any treaty which harms British interests. Meaning, the very people and practices which caused the crisis in the first place.

David Cameron may have bitten off more than he
 can chew. Europeans are doing it for themselves. 
Picture Dec 2011 

We have only a few weeks to save the Euro and, have the impression that some actors still haven't recognized the seriousness of the situation," said a senior German government official in Berlin , Wednesday.       

Sarkozy declared in Marseille Thursday, “Never has Europe been so necessary. Never has it been in so much danger, Never have so many countries wanted to join Europe. Never has the risk of a disintegration of Europe been so great. Europe is facing an extraordinarily dangerous situation. The diagnosis is that we have a few weeks to decide because time is working against us. If we aren't in agreement on this, I fear that we won't be able to agree on anything. That's the analysis."

Wow! Haven't some observers been saying this for quite some time now..................

The German chancellor said it was time to put aside national egos and national interest. but smaller nations have complained they're being forced to follow the agenda of Germany and France with very little room for discussion.

"The Führer has requested our presence," quipped an enraged diplomat recently. The rather rude comment followed attempts by Merkel's EU policy adviser to gain backing for Germany's position.

Throughout the crisis, many of the core Eurozone members have been greatly irritated by the British Conservative party's gloating satisfaction (Schadenfreude) with the UK's decision not to join the Euro.

German and French leaders are not optimistic of finding agreement among the 27 nations of the EU. “If negotiations break down then we will have a treaty for the 17 members of the eurozone. Coherence isn't everything,” said Sarkozy, “but in political life it counts. The situation is serious, the Euro could explode and Europe unravel. That would be a catastrophe not only for Europe and France, but for the world.”

“Should the eurozone go ahead with a separate treaty that leaves out the non-Euro countries,” . Cameron explained, “then clearly that is not a treaty that Britain would be signing or would be amending.” But France and Germany have already made it clear that they will go ahead with their plans for the Eurozone without regard to the interests of Britain.

Britain tonight Thursday looks to be in a poor position to defend its interests at the summit.

Meanwhile back home, there are mounting calls for Cameron to make good his promise to hold a referendum on any proposed European treaty changes. With much of Britain in the anti-Europe camp, the nein danke side would most certainly prevail. No one said it was going to be easy........ 

FiskalAnschlußWoche. The Financial Policing Vereinigung Kicks Off in Earnest.

Oh Lordy, hear my prayer and grant my wish for FiskalAnschlußWoche. The media is in such a flurry this week over the Friday summit. “Dimension” the Art of Superstate is in a panic. Or is it! Didn't anyone tell you there is no accident in politics, If there is you can bet it is planned that way............President Roosevelt

Stripped, punishments, exclusions, inclusions, drastic actions, exceptional powers, disintegrate, unprecedented intrusion, discipline, fundamental erosion, sinner states, reward,

scare tactic, commit, partial break-up, Europe’s misadventure. Words peppering the news this week.....

On a bed of nails she makes me wait.......And you give yourself away......... with or with out you I can live........

France & Germany call a summit to shape Europe's direction. It is the great and famous FiskalAnschlußWoche
Picture Frankfurt 2011

The Euro crisis that began in Greece almost two years ago, ensnaring Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy now threatening France and Germany, has mutated into a European moment of direction.

“Fiskalunion” is now a real option. A progress born of the latest turmoil. And, one managed to produce such a scenario. This week is the deadline for Euro ins to stake their claim to Federal direction. There is hardly anymore panic left in the system to exploit, Disaster will be averted at the last moment. Austerity and Union will be seen to be attainable. But not all citizens will play this game of family re-union.

Federal Europe is off to a shaky start. Damage has been done to confidence over the past two years. Brussels is clearly incapable of winning respect from all citizens with its intrusive laws, endless fines and punishments. Although power is shifting to central bankers, the Merkozy alliance and the Confederate Nations of Europe, it will still be a summit of historic proportions. Lets hope they remember the song.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, well you just might find you get what you need.........rolling stones.......

Easy Street Traffic Diverted to Austerity Avenue. Central Bankers Seize Crisis Management from Governments.

The news buzzing in downtown Europe this Thursday Dec 1 2011 is Easy Street traffic is being diverted to Austerity Avenue. The sign reads... repairs to sub structures to get started in earnest. These upgrades include moves to significantly reduce Western living standards. Many observers say these plans have been in place for quite some time. If Illuminate (banker elites) foot soldier defectors are to be believed ( a dodgy concept) the crash was orchestrated a decade ago. The next announcement according to the defectors is to reduce population numbers to steady living standards globally. Good reading if you like conspiracy.

Dutch citizens enjoy the easy life on the Hague's Scheveningen beach 2011,
not far from the prison where convicts of the International criminal court are housed.

But the fact is, global power has just made an inexorable and relentless shift from democracy towards the technocrat Masters of the Universe. Money power back in the driving seat. Central banks are controlling bond market moods while governments impotently watch from the wings; having forgotten their lines and suffering stage fright. The bankers are now an Ad hoc political committee, while politicians get new roles as office clerks. (G & T, that's a good chappie, shaken not stirred).

The United Kingdom this week entered another Winter of Discontent, last seen in 1978. A discontent which may turn to a decade of resentment. And a resentment, which will spawn the seeds for a democratic backlash. To manage the world through a financial steering committee using policies of mass instruction (where individuals matter none) for the well being of future individuals is contradictory.

This re-routing of society into Austerity Avenue is about saving the financial industry at all costs. An industry based on gambling and creating virtual money from debt and worthless insurance instruments. An industry which has failed to serve and protect society. Was it ever meant to. When democracy fights back and fight back it will. Power will shift again. But in what direction. Only time will tell.   

Book Review: To Live Outside the Law by Leaf Fielding; Operation Julie Acid Bust.

I began writing this review after a very long night of reading. During Summer past, I was asking myself about this book and what it could say to me as one of those who participated in the British 60's & 70's counter-culture. Sure, I had heard of Operation Julie. Big news at the time, but the details escaped me. I was busy then with a war in another part of the United Kingdom.

What made me read on and on was simply the story. Living outside the law is an exciting biography about Fielding's remarkable early life as a Hippy on the road and subsequent rise in Intertrans Acid supply company. But his story is more. It's also an account of the British Acid Movement's drug fuelled social revolution and how a whole section of society viewed their world at that time.

“What do you think about acid” he asked me straight out. “Mmm, difficult” I said ... Let's see...LSD is probably the best hope the human race has got of coming to grips with its problems.” (p 219).

That universal period of Hippy subculture is well documented in music and folklore. However, Fielding opens the door to the activities of a core British youth galvanised by heady events from Haight-Ashbury's Summer of Love in 1967 to the thrilling half a million strong Isle of Wight pop festival in 1970.

Leaf Fielding's Infidel Waltz 1979. He made the sketch while serving his
sentence in  Horfield  Prison with Alston "Smiles" Hughes and 13 other
 co-conspirators.  "Operation Julie" was the biggest ever L.S.D. bust.

This is a superb read for those who desire to understand the mind of a rebellious youth. A time of Hippy temptation and solidarity. Fielding fills the gaps and provides us with continuity. He describes the fate of those who led the British Acid Movement to Turn on, Tune in and Drop out after we all married and got sucked into the society we opposed.

Indeed I had spent some time with the legendary Alston “Smiles” Hughes, later to become a top player in the Acid ring. Meeting in London in 1970 when I was seventeen years old, we joined the party at the Isle of Wight after which we hitched together to north Wales and on to Birmingham. All the time discussing the merits of a bohemian sub-culture based around the use of a psychedelic drug people have used since religion was invented. And, a drug some informed people will continue to use as a source of spiritual and creative influence forever more.

The revealing detail around Operation Julie and the subsequent jail term is chilling. Fielding provides a rare insight into a tormented imprisonment for those who should not have been there. The fifteen strong Julie mob, as they are referred to in the book, bear more resemblance to a group of political prisoners. In many ways they were just that. Their collective motivations toward creating social change is captivated perfectly through Leaf's own personal stories. What a journey.

The book, for those who understand the effects of LSD, takes the the reader on its own gripping trip of discovery and ultimate realisations.

First there is the initial rush to reach the first plateau of awareness. Then it swiftly engages the delights of Fielding's mad crazy and unconventional behaviour often associated with the drug. The book then finally passes the doors of perception to reflect on its conclusive study while the inevitable bad comedown is reported from a prison cell. Clever Fielding, he knows his drugs.  

One Small Step for Angela Merkel; One Giant Leap for Europe.

November 27^thDispatches from the month that was. Two leaders, Two views. One Europe to save.

“Europe is in one of its toughest, perhaps the toughest hour since World War Two,” said Angela Merkel in the city of Leipzig. "The Euro is the symbol of unification. It is the symbol for half a century of freedom and peace....now we have to make sure that Europe will emerge strengthened from this crisis. If the Euro fails then Europe fails, and we want to prevent and we will prevent this, this is what we are working for.

“Irish problems are Slovak problems, Greek problems are Dutch problems and Spanish problems are our problem,” Merkel said. “Our responsibility does not end at our borders.”

A breakthrough in the crisis will be achieved not by less Europe, but more. The task of our generation now is to complete the economic and currency union in Europe and step by step, create a political union we never managed to build in the '90s. It's time for a breakthrough to a new Europe.”

Left: A time of crisis in West Belfast. A youth leaps away from a burnt out car. Fast forward and a visitor from the Basque Country sees a different view.   

“These are times of change. Assumptions are collapsing. Fears about Europe’s future are understandably intense.” Warned David Cameron at the Mayor's banquet in London. Think how the European Union looks to those watching. A source of alarm and crisis.

The Second World War gave birth to the European Union. But for me, 1989 is the key date, when Europe tore down the Iron Curtain and came together. Democratic nations working together across our continent.

How out of touch the EU has become. It’s the pointless interference, rules and regulations that stifles growth. There is a real sense that the EU is somehow an abstract end in itself, immune from developments in the real world.

It does not have to be like this. Out of crisis can come opportunity if Member States are ready to grasp it. Now is the chance to ask: what kind of Europe do we actually want. The answer is clear.

One with the flexibility of a network, (Confederate Nations of Europe) not the rigidity of a bloc (Federal Nations of Europe)......... whose institutions help by strengthening its members to thrive in a vibrant world, rather than holding them back.” …..dispatches ends......

Two Leaders. Two options. One solution. A two way Europe working in tandem. A choice and means to full fill destiny. The ultimate goal is unity but unity can come in different arrangements. A forced marriage is no marriage as we know too well.

It is time to ask the people in April 2012...what kind of Europe do you want. You have the choice to join either option according to your convictions. A Confederate Network or A Federal Union with a means to opt in and out in future elections. The step must come from Berlin with London's support if we all are to make a giant leap for Europe.

Negative outlook, Market Fright, Angela Merkel Holds Out for Closer Union.

Climbing the Walls over the Euro crisis; 
Bond markets take fright, Picture: Dusseldorf  2011

A chilly Wind passed through Berlin today Wednesday 23^rd Nov 2011. It is clear the gust front has arrived with the financial thunderstorm close on its heels.

Bonds market shunned Berlin debt. Berlin shunned Brussels eurobonds. Traders took Flight. It may be planned that eurobonds will eventually come into place but the Saxon Queen is correct to say first things first.

Commitment to Art of Superstate part 1V is a condition she needs before issuing such guarantees to cover the debt of weaker economies.

Continuing to cultivate a technocratic United States of Europe is a flawed plan. Unity is no longer with us.

Brussels needs to accept there is more than one way to skin a goat. Without a safe and stable democratic core with Germania Magna at the helm Europe will implode and crumble under the weight of recession and citizens concern for the future.

Bond markets gamble on the future. Real leaders don't have that choice. The Chancellor will get her core group of Euroins and only after such a bold step, will Brussels get its eurobonds.

The big question is whether the Chancellor will wait for the storm to engulf Europe and the World in the hope citizens will run to her core for shelter or hold a democratic referendum early next year. It would be wiser to get permission before making big moves. Something Brussels should have thought more about in the years between Maastricht and Lisbon.

Europe United in Diversity is Over, Enter the New European Project, Art of Supersate part 1V

There was no way it could have survived in such a battered demoralised form. Superstate part 3 was sucked into the Whirlpool and drowned in a sea of debt and confusion. Patronising tones from the Brussels Elitenprojekt were resented by citizens. They object to being forced to tighten their belts, while a fat pig got larger and moved to stand on two feet in defiance of nature.

Berlin and London have agreed to disagree. The Saxon Queen will ask her people and the core Euro ins to support a new smaller integrated Eurozone. It will be be managed collectively by that club of governments under the supervision of Berlin's Frankfurt HQ for operations (ECB).

The grand design in Brussels is over for the moment. The Euro outs Confederate Nations of Europe now being referred to as The Network will form an economic and political check and balance.

With privileges to join and leave the new Eurozone pending performance on both sides of the divide, Art of Superstate part 1V should evolve organically or remain as it is till events determine otherwise.

Time stops for the Brussels project "United in Diversity" as
the new German engine powers Art of Supersate part 1V.  

Given the history and complexity of the continent it is too much to expect citizens to follow the Brussels plan unquestioningly. Democratic rights are being approached and in the cases of Greece and Italy shelved.

As the storm arrives it will serve better those who are sinking under the weight of the Union to lighten the ship and float.

Austerity doesn't have to be so punishing. The next big battle is again with the Banksters. No casino in the world refunds gamblers' losses. The banks need to be cut loose from the real work of building by sweat and toil. If this battle is not won then all the political planning will be for nothing as citizens will do the job themselves.

As we have seen in action across the Maghreb and now Syria, what starts as a denial of service to peaceful demand for reform ends in the monster having its head removed. None or thing is too big or too powerful.

Surely this new arrangement between the Eurozone and Confederate nations of Europe cannot be worst than that of people listening each day to the prospects of a dark future dictated by a 1% which believe money is more important than people.  

Into the Whirlpool: Europe at the Crossroads, Berlin or London that is the Question.

A meeting in Berlin Friday 18^th November 2011 will decide the nature and shape of Art of Superstate for the coming years if not decades. If reports are to be believed and there is reason to doubt the sources, mainly the British and German press whose job it is to inform the people, then democracy is on the block. There is also no doubt that today's crop of politicians have good intentions for Europe. But give democracy away and it is hard to get back.

Having seen the direct results of communism, politically and economically its is frightening to hear the attitudes of the mandarins and financial inner circles hoping to take power over Europe's future. That's right Take Power not win or represent but take power without proper consultation.

The Brussels unelected elite want to shape Europe in a fashion managed by unelected elite. Europe's future is to be decided by this unelected in time of crisis. But when do they decide a crisis is over. Have we ever known the world not to be falling apart.

From the series November Berlin 1989.
Cameron and Merkel meet 22yr later in Berlin to decide
if new walls are to be placed between their peoples.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has called for a stronger political union to overcome the debt crisis, which she called "maybe Europe's most difficult hours since world war two. A breakthrough will be achieved not by less Europe, but more." she declares.

But the nice Saxon Queen must take her people with her and those who willingly wish to follow.

In London Mr Cameron said the EU was out of touch and must reform or it would remain “in peril.” He called for less European integration.

“If the whole political establishment is about to disappear into a windowless room in Brussels discussing things that no one understands, it means absolutely nothing to millions of ordinary people who are worried about their jobs, worried about economic security, worried about prospects for their children,” he said.

But Mr Cameron must tell his people what it means to desert Europe at this hour of need. These two leaders must agree to support the ideals of Confederate Nations of Europe while offering hope to the Federalists for a core Eurozone. If they cannot agree they will split Europe along pro and anti democratic factions. This would be disastrous for Europe and the world.

At some point there has to be a Europe wide referendum to offer the people the choice to go euro in or euro out, how to manage the system and who will do it. The unelected,  the voice of the people or a bit of both. November Berlin 1989. "It was all done in the name of the people."

Apache Apache: America should not want to rule the world. America should want to guide the world.

On Thursday 10^th Nov 2011 a US judge ruled Twitter must release details of Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir's personal account and those of Seattle-based WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum and Dutch hacker Rop Gonggrijp. This follows other rulings in favour of the State Department's pursuit of those involved in the release last year of a video showing a US Apache helicopter unit killing two reporters in Iraq.

The order also seeks records relating to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and WikiLeaks informant private Bradely Manning who is confined in controversial conditions awaiting trial.

Member of parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir pictured at her Iceland home 
2011. US authorities have demanded Twitter to hand over her personal account details.
 The US is investigating the WikiLeaks release of the Apache attack video on civilians in Iraq 2010

Jonsdottir believes the US authorities want to use her information to try and build a case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

The former WikiLeaks volunteer  learned her account was under scrutiny after Twitter challenged the subpoenas and believes the case sets a worrying precedent for private citizens and politicians across the world.  (extracted from the Guardian Nov 12 2011)

The appalling events surrounding the shooting of the journalists and several other unarmed civilians, including medics trying to recover bodies, justifies any breach of confidentially between government authority and the people. The West cannot demand that dictatorial regional regimes fall and disappear under the weight of people power while denying the birth and growth of organisations dedicated to free speech and the pursuit of justice. We must practice what we preach. Torture camps, government assassinations, drone bombing of innocents and the culture of not with me then against me, needs to not represent democracy. This is not a perfect world but it is much easier to wreck the house than to rebuild it. Especially, if pillars of democracy such as whistle blowing and free speech are silenced in favour of a suspected war crime. 

Vive l'Art de l'Etat-Super: DasGrup Frankfurt Takes the Helm; Confederate Nations Sharing Alongside Inner Core Eurozone Federalists.

A new Eurozone leadership has emerged. Das Frankfurt Group, is named after the city housing the European Central Bank and the location for its first meeting. It also has the bizarre trappings of a Chosen Few or Euro Angels secret chapter. Democracy doesn't live there anymore. Well, just until the crisis is over, if ever, or the people revolt, if ever.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy speaks of a confederate group of nations living beside a league of inner core Eurozone Federalists.

......”The truth is that we need to establish exactly the list of those who don't want to be part of the club and those who simply cannot be part." he said speaking to students in Strasbourg on Tuesday 8^th Nov 2011.

Referring to the further enlargement of the EU, he said: "There are 27 of us. "Clearly, down the line... there will be 32, 33, 34 of us. No-one thinks that federalism, total integration, will be possible with 33, 34, or 35 states."

"Clearly," he added, "there will be a two-speed Europe: one speed that moves toward more integration in the Eurozone and one speed for a confederation in the EU."

DasGrup Frankfurt, a poster at Frankfurt train station points towards KaiserStrasse and the route to the ECB. 2011

But clearly, Commissioner Barroso is not in agreement and replied this week, “A split union, he said, will not work. Neither a union with an integrated core but a disengaged periphery; nor a union dominated by an unhealthy balance of power.”

A British from across the channel was dismayed ““I despair of the way in which EU leaders are constantly behind events. I do not think enough people realise how serious this crisis is, and how hard it is going to hit us. This is far worse than the banking crisis of 2008 in its seriousness and, if it is not solved by Christmas, I think the whole of the Eurozone will break up.”

And the Saxon Queen, who is the most powerful in the Frankfurt group commented this very same week in Berlin, “the situation in Europe has become unpleasant. It is time for a breakthrough to a new Europe. That will mean more Europe, not less Europe."

But it maybe very plausible for this French suggestion to actually work beyond the legal mess which will engulf it. Options are fast fading as power houses Italy, Spain and soon Belgium and France get cornered by the bonders.

In the mid eighties China's Deng Xiaoping took a great gamble. As a communist country with designs to unite democratic periphery territories, Deng introduced a one country, two systems policy. (Communism & Capitalism working side by side). Whereas the objectives for China at that time were political, judicial as well as financial, there are some similarities to Europe's present dilemma.

When the dust settles on this crisis Europe will look very different. One possible picture is a group of Confederate nations to include France herself as leader with the UK, possibly the southern part of Italy and those emerging from the meltdown. A two speed alliance working alongside the inner Eurozone core managed by Germania Magna, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark with a number of European Union Capital cities also tied to the Euro. Athens, Lisbon, Prague or Rome could be using the Euro while surrounding country sides could use the local currency.

The Confederate Nations of Europe should be able to survive politically with its partners, compete economically using two currencies and develop Art of Superstate Part IV. Vive l'art de l'etat-super

G 20 Failure, Occupy Wall Street Movements and A Hard Winter’s Tale to Tell

Politicians have again failed citizens in Art of Superstate.  To hear the American president address the Euro Union on how he had been given a crash course in European politics by those whose names were sticking in his throat is disheartening. 

The G20 meeting maybe also have been the last opportunity to avoid mass defections of citizens from passively watching to actively engaging with spreading revolutionary ideas.

Dublin Ireland, JFK poster at a city centre Bank oct 2011

The next step will be not just a wish to change the wrongs of the financial and political sectors but a will to determine the means.  

To-days movements are not those of frightened, dis-enfranchised, poor or desperate sections of society, they are young, educated, determined, and most have the support of their parents.

Distaste of political elites is spreading. It is triggering a whole rethink about government, its function, its value and indeed how we manage our world. Centralised government is now perceived as a seedy club for business interests

The financial sector is clearly a target for evolution. Its revolution during the big bang twenty-five years past became an un-controlled monster, rather than a servant of society. It operates as a power searching animal, feeding on financial greed while harbouring contempt for social or human morality.   

Italy is at the debt Rubicon, Greece has past the point of no return.  It is time to separate financial markets from politics just as we separated religion and state. Straight talking is commencing. The intellectual movements appearing on the streets of capitals across the globe, the social networks and the virtual discussion spaces between those streets is the genesis of new re- order. In this post-Neo Con world it will be a Hard Winter’s Tale to tell the children. Let’s hope it can be told in peace. 

Into the Whirlpool Goes the Ship of Fools: Panic in the EU

Down, down deeper and down into the Whirlpool sinks the EU crisis.

A Spectre stalks Europe looking for a new Depression  Oct. 2011

Europeans were told yesterday by a Brussels spokesperson that to leave the Euro was to leave Art of Superstate.  It was a sad and un-necessary outburst of anger at Greece from a commission losing its own credibility with Europe’s citizens.

Europe’s leadership is off to the Bric (Brazil, Russia, India & China) countries begging for assistance while fumbling in its own back garden over assistance to a small house member.

 Leaving the Euro is acceptable but expulsion from the Union by the commission is wholly un-acceptable. If that were to happen then Art of Superstate will invite its own nemesis and a place in the history books.

Trouble of the kind witnessed 80 years past is lurching closer. Unity is still strength. Greece must not be coerced into a resentful position to save Brussels pride. Brussels should acknowledge that the mood of citizens is fast shifting towards direct action, social unrest and possibly revolution.  Greek resistance is well documented.

It would pay the Brussels mandarins to think before they send a spokesperson to say the wrong thing.

Art of Superstate: What a Difference a Month Makes

Oct 29 2011 Occupy movement spreads  to capitals over 

US & Europe. Dame Street, Dublin, Ireland.

Last month Art of Superstate slipped into the Whirlpool. Down, down and down it goes. As it sinks to rock bottom, side line events are shaping future battle lines. For Citizens of the Arab Spring, the Eurozone and the newly created Euro exclusion group Occupy, Death to Gaddafi and the first Eurozone Summit was history and leadership.

Occupy is a citizen’s movement in the making, a reaction to authority and the shortcomings of Greed and Banking amorality. In fine form, Christian churches in London closed their doors to the new poor. Wall Street employees flicked champagne over concerned protesting Americans beneath them. To those who think Democracy is week the message is clear. For whom, Power doth Crush. http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/09/wall-street-mocks-protesters-drinking-champagne

Oct 26 2011-A summit to provide the basis

 for a Euro Zone members club.   

Oct 21 2011-Gaddafi is unceremoniously executed.

Syrians won strength with Libyan revolutionary success. For Bashar Assad his murderous brother and inner circle, the present era of Dictators is over. Killing Gaddafi was wholly justified. A means to justify the end.

Greece announces a referendum over centrally imposed austerity directing the country towards all out social unrest. Such a referendum will allow Greece to exit the Euro Zone and join the new group of “Euro Outcasts” where countries float freely to adjust economic and political aberrations. It remains to be seen if the Outcasts & the Euroins can suspend political squabbling for joint leadership over the Art of Superstate.

Art of SuperState must not be afraid to test all options vital to its survival. What Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy produced was correct, even, if it falters at insurmountable hurdles and trials ahead. The summit shows a willingness to lead and to try available routes. Courage is rewarded. Inaction is not an action which wins kudos for Art of Superstate or from its citizens.

The Whirlpool is deep and dangerous. Recession hovers on the near horizon. Challenges are great and inspiring. Days ahead are indeed interesting times.

European Unity: A Beacon of Hope or a Warning Light for the Elitenprojekt.

“Goldman Sachs rules the World” says the smartly presented 30 something trader.

Into the Whirlpool.
 The light of European Unity is now seen as
the warning Beacon from a Lighthouse. Groiningen 2010

During a BBC interview, independent city trader, Alessio Rastani advocated preparing for the worst economically and advised how to make money in times of crisis. In a straight talking communiqué with the BBC the trader (actually not a real trader) revealed the nature of the finance industry as one which cared little for anything which does not turn a profit.

He announced “Governments don’t rule the world, Goldman Sachs does.”

The bizarre interview seemed to suggest a view that the worlds citizens are a helpless and powerless group unable to stand up to the almighty markets. Wow has he got that one right.

He drew parallels with the 1930’s great depression and urged those interested in survival to start planning for the next big one. (Depression)

Rastani predicted the next 12 months will see savings vanish and that it is just the beginning. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15059135

Lovely stuff for a mid week BBC yarn about the future chaos. Except this talker on the subject of financial ruin is just like the rest of us. Someone working to keep himself and his family. But does it make the blarney any less true or worrying. Not likely. The Euro and its "Elitenprojekt" is caught in a whirlpool. Like sailors answering the Siren calls Brussels is heading for the light of European unity while Skeptics point out the beacon is in fact a lighthouse warning of rocks ahead.

But we are all in it together and sooner or later Doomsters and Elitists must put Europe first and decide which light to follow.

The New Jerusalem: Elusive Capital of a Divided Heaven on Earth.

If you are a generation removed from the Holocaust, just seventy years past, then it is understandable why the Jewish/Israeli people are concerned about the preservation of Israel’s  very existence.

It is also not hard to criticise Israeli government’s approach to dealing with Palestinian grievances. Israelis do it every day in political and social life.

Total victory over your opponent requires total destruction. Let one survive and it will re-establish growth to avenge and inflict retribution for past harm and defeats.  Winning contested spaces by military means can attempt to be Machiavellian towards total destruction, or they can be concluded with compromise, and permit communities to move into  a new peace. No country and its people can withstand a perpetual state of conflict with its neighbours.

If you also believe humanity today is a little bit wiser about this path of destruction then peace talks will eventually prevail.

                The complexities of Jerusalem, with its very deep religious and political motivations are often hard to understand.

The New Jerusalem to most is a biblical concept. To others it is a dream and a hope. And to a few, a truth in waiting as the Holy Capital of the Kingdom of Heaven.

“I saw an angel of the Lord coming and saying to me: Trouble not thyself so greatly, concerning the salvation of Jerusalem.” (3 Baruch 1:3)  The New Jerusalem will be the earthly location where all true believers will spend eternity with God. “

Al Quds “The Holy Sanctuary, City of the Temple” or Yerushaláyim  "Abode of Peace" is the closest Humanity gets to Heaven. From the Divided Cities Series. 1991

But for now leaders Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas are focused on Earthly matters. Should the New Jerusalem become the centre of negotiations after contested settlements around Jewish and Palestinian States, it will be difficult for the world not to entrust Israel with a very heavy burden. That burden will be the light Jews have carried for many centuries. It will be upon the rock of tolerance for Palestinian neighbours, Islam and the respect for free worship that Israeli security and ultimately its future will be built. Not missiles or tanks.

Jerusalem should strive like all the divided cities to heal the wounds of their past. It should be given the chance to be unified but with a compassion for Palestinian desires to share this fabled city within an equal desire to make it the unified capital of Israel.

For all the glory of God and his ways there is still the Earthly solution to political failures. What the Lord gives the Lord can take back.

The economic crisis sweeping Europe is producing some serious political questions. One of which is how much isolationism is worth supporting before it becomes a hindrance to economic progress. Israel/Palestine can flourish, but a divided city reflects a divided land. The Levant just isn’t that big to chew it forever.

EU Crisis. The Secret World of Credit Default Swaps. Instruments of Control

What’s the buzz, tell me what’s a happening, what’s the buzz, tell me what’s a happening.

European exposure to the financial crisis is so enormous that a default of Spain alone would easily wipe-out a fist full of banks and pension funds.

But wait a minute aren’t these loans insured and the lenders protected. Isn’t that the complaint of the Piigs that it is way too costly to insure their bonds.

If you crash a car, you claim insurance. That’s what it’s there for, you’ve paid the hefty premium.

There are fancy financial tools around to cover sovereign default claims such as Credit Default Swaps. Except…..no one seems to be very sure about that.

The world of Credit Default Swaps is murky and highly secretive. Apparently, a chosen few Wall Street Bankers keeps the world in the dark about where these instruments are and whether they are actually worth anything at all. Their personal names are unknown to the general public. But they are drawn from the same anti-social and dangerous clique, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley etc. Their function is putting profit before people.

If any Piigs force Credit Default Swaps (loan insurance) to pay out and cover
their Debts, the Swaps may be not worth their Bacon. If this happens then
Piigs at the market go home. 2011

This scenario around CDS is scaring the Euro leadership. Greece can force by default, the Credit Default Swaps to cough up. If they are proven to be inadequate as they were in 2008 when they played a pivotal role in the first meltdown after Lehman Brothers, then European capitalism may take a possible fatal body blow.

The swap part of the name means the policy is traded around the world willy nilly. It seems their locations are vague and no one knows who holds what and for whose debt. Between 2000 and 2008 Credit default swaps traded upward from $900 billion to more than $30 trillion. In contrast to traditional insurance these Swaps are completely unregulated. Theoretically Greece could be holding the Credit Default Swaps (insurance) which cover their own debts to German and French lenders. It looks like a default swap is never going to pay out to the lenders as an insurance policy.

The secret cartel (who pontificated some time back they were more capable of running the world than politicians) trade their Wall street invented derivatives for extremely large profits. They earn huge fees insuring for events they believe will never happen or will never be allowed to happen, such as exposing a sizeable number of European banks to total failure. It is called hostage taking and blackmail to some folks. In short they say don’t rock the boat or we all sink. Hence the face down between lenders and debtors. No wonder the Euro-Core vanguard sense shaky ground. They also face potential meltdown if the mountain of debt is no longer covered by dodgy insurance policies. What is at stake is the vast hoardings of the Secret Bankers, citizens pensions and the collapse of world inter banking activity.

The Cult of Secret Bankers needs to finish. They have had a run for more than 300 yrs, They need to be resisted and the boat allowed to sink. We can rid ourselves of this parasite banking cartel. Build new modern structures. Put citizens welfare before reckless selfishness.