End of Dimension, Art of Superstate: The Long Euro Struggle to Continue.

This is the week it all changed. The week when finally the pursuit of a European Superstate was denied. The week when Europe split into those federalists who lost the debate for unconditional Unity of Europe and those who hear citizens protests demanding protection for their traditional identity and culture over a half baked notion to Europeanise 27 distinct countries.

The Brussels commissioner performed a chameleon act to placate steam rolling populist calls to degrade the European Union. Barroso calls for a Federation of Nation States, not a Superstate. Who will follow these people often labelled as arrogant, inward thinking and who ignored warning signals for so long.

The break-up has begun. Europe is to develop organically as it has always done and will be. Observers do not believe Barroso and other Federalists have abandoned their goal for Superstate. They wait for better times and for the people to come to their senses. Brussels for now is a capital for a “Tribe of Dreams.”

EU's Barroso declares  European Superstate a bankrupt ambition.  It's all or nothing in the Euro rescue.
 New mechanisms are created to fight financial markets and support the periphery. Image Brussels 2012.

The commission president stated in a State of the Union address, “Today I call for a federation of nation states. Not a superstate. …...A decisive deal for Europe– to project our values, our freedom and our prosperity into the future of a globalist world. This decisive deal would maintain the integrity of the Union and show the irreversibility of the Euro. A deal that requires the completion of a deep and genuine economic union, based on a political union.”

"We must use the 2014 election to mobilise all pro-European forces. We must not allow the populists and the nationalists to set a negative agenda. We need no more walls dividing us! We will start from the principle that deeper integration will not be just for some. No one will be forced to come along. And no one will be forced to stay out.”

It is precisely this style of contradictory language which fed the chambers of Euroskeptics blasting the argument for more Europeanisation. In other words this speech is just another rant for the ”Tribe of Dreams” towards a direction not all wish to take.

Whatever secret deals are done behind closed doors in Luxembourg and Brussels, the game is still the same. Brussels hopes for a return to Art of Superstate while nations states work to rescue the Euro and build a Confederate Nations of Europe. Brussels is saying anything to be heard. And the response. More skepticism. 

EU Crisis: The Euro Gale Surges Higher and Higher

The Euro situation in Europe is firmly political, with roots in the reunification of Germany in 1990, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is claimed France insisted on currency union (Euro) for its approval to that event and that everyone, including France, knew they were putting the cart before the horse. This trade off is still denied in certain German political circles.

Today's Europe questions the doctrine of closer political and currency union in the face of skepticism to Brussels’s dictatorial approaches to sell them a Superstate. Citizens see social- political changes happening organically for Europe's sovereign nations since the end of the Cold War. Brussels's has lost the use of war paranoia to further the Federalist cause.

Insults gather pace. The centre cannot hold but Brussels says it will
convince the people a United Federalist Europe is the best way forward.
Reality is different as citizens look to protect what they have
and what they know. The media reacts in Berlin and Athens Aug 2012.

It only takes a child to cry “the Emperor has no clothes” for people to join and applaud the obvious. The long held EU dogma, Europe's destiny lies in political and currency union, is no longer sacrament amongst nation states. Across the continent intellectuals are preparing for a redefined European Union where old taboos about loyalty to the project are questioned and redrawn.

Was France right to put the cart before the horse in 1989 knowing we would reach this discussion point eventually over currency and political union. Was this just luck or far sighted good judgement by François Mitterrand . In other words, was the Euro and the Euro zone just a tool to create a stable democratic Germany.

How hard will Chancellor Angela Merkel's calls for closer European Unity, which Helmut Kohl had proposed back in 1989, fall on the ears of today's France given that Germany is no longer a military threat and one of Europe's strongest democracies. What can Chancellor Merkel gain by such calls over universal doubts (including German) to such moves. Does she provoke a clear rejection by the nation states so the Euro can be put to sleep and a new phase in Europe's journey be awakened.

The Circus is in town, 2012

Politicians are increasingly dividing over Europe's direction. Former EU commissioner and technocrat leader of Italy Mario Monti declared "There are many manifestations of populism that are aimed at disunity in nearly all the member states." While Spain's former premier Jose Maria Aznar believes “It is a very serious mistake to try to destroy the nation states. You cannot go against the cultural beliefs of the people and the forces of history. A United States of Europe is an impossible idea." 

What is certain is the EU is no longer the golden dream of Europe's citizens. Nationalism is back in favour and any future federation clearly uncertain. The Brussels Bubble is now perceived by millions as a Brussels Circus.

Europe's Bright Future: As Good as it Gets

An Essay on Europe. By Martin Nangle

“Jews know why this wall was built,” he said. I looked at him. This young man who had engaged a conversation was most likely the only person on the Berlin tram that crisp '89 November morning who thought as such.

I was there as a photojournalist enjoying the electric buzz of the fall. A generation removed from the European War, I did not share his dangers of German reunification.

At the heart of Europe's future, Germany 2012 is split on which direction
Europe should take. A time for agreed unity. Picture Nov '89

It was the end of history. No not history. The end of “A” history. History does not stand still, it comes to a concurrent conclusion by sowing the seed for a new one. 

It's remarkable to experience the birth of ones own history and the closing of the previous one started by my grandfather's generation. He was captured at the Somme in 1916 and sat out that conflict on a farm in Southern Germany. Lucky for him and lucky for me. I suppose.

What my mind discovered, walking the streets of Berlin over the following days, was a simple description of one's own history. It belongs to a couple of generations, if it is not your story then it is not your responsibility and getting involved is a mostly matter of choice.

What I didn't consider was the man's statement on the tram. That came later during my tours of post Soviet Empire, The Levant, Yugoslavia and Brussels..........continued on http://martinnangle.blogspot.co.uk/p/europes-bright-future-as-good-as-it-gets.html

Anna Ardin and Julian Assange: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Truth

The Accuser;

Anna Ardin, the woman at the centre of the Julian Assange Swedish rape allegations is a very interesting person to say the least. According to a youtube entry supporting the Assange camp she is awarded the following credentials.

• Ms Ardin is a press officer with a Swedish Labour Party Newspaper and was the person who invited Julian Assange to Sweden in that context.
• She is a radical Feminist with a highly personal agenda.
• A very religious person and a supporter of a religious branch of the Swedish SDP party called the the Brotherhood Movement. (Now named Faith & Solidarity).
• Together with her female lover or girlfriend, Ms Sophie Wilen they conspired to entrap Assange and have him sent to prison. Ms Ardin publicly describes herself as a lesbian on her old website.
• Ms Ardin invited Assange the day following the alleged rape to join her for a dinner.
• That the whole episode is a carefully arranged plot between Sweden and the US to capture Assange, have him moved to the US where he can be punished for leaking cables harming US political and military interests.
• That Ardin has clear connections with the CIA.

A yarn of kiss and tell, the raping of a consenting Lesbian with a male monster,
 a political honey trap or an act of revenge by government on free speech.
Anna Ardin and Julian Assange, are celebrities on the international stage, 2012

Ms Ardin describes herself on her blog as;

A political scientist, communicator, entrepreneur and freelance writer, I am also a libertarian feminist, Methodist and animal rights activist from Gotland.

Politically, I am chairman of Heart Believers, An association of socialists believers of all religions in the Stockholm area. We support

• International politics of solidarity and justice working against racism and fear to talk about religion.

I am anti-racist spokesperson for Faith & Solidarity (formerly the Brotherhood movement),  a group of 3000 members and member of the International league of religious socialists.

• Our political idea is utopian. It is based on God's boundless grace and thus inviolability. Every person, regardless of what she has suffered, no matter what she herself has been guilty of, is entitled to mercy and forgiveness, to redress and a dignified life.

The Swedish Law on Rape:

Sweden has three categories of ’rape’:

• gross rape (4-10 years imprisonment), ordinary rape (2-4 years imprisonment), minor rape (0-4 years imprisonment)
• Present Swedish law identifies all men as potential rapists. When someone has sex with a person that is in a helpless state because of unconsciousness, sleep or being under the influence of drugs, it will be considered to fall under rape.
• Swedish law considers unprotected sex as rape.

The Accused and the Accusations;

• It is under these headings Assange faces charges. He had consensual sex with the women but during the encounter over two days the women say he committed the above breaches. Should the women be proved to have indeed planned and executed a politically motivated honey trap to harm Assange they will most likely walk free resulting in handing Ardin, a radical feminist activist, a licence to lie.
• Assange, if convicted, can face the rest of his life under duress and torment for a "dispute over consensual but unprotected sex." Assuming he is extradited to the US
• How this rape accusation is substantiated without the partner being conscious is bewildering. Should the partner wake up/sober up during contact then it makes sense to have a clear discussion about the matter. After all Ardin describes herself as a communicator quoting Every person, regardless of what she has suffered, no matter what she herself has been guilty of, is entitled to mercy and forgiveness, to redress and a dignified life.

Either way it is all its a bit of a passion killer and hardly the legitimate stuff of government diplomatic flurry and inquisition.  

Decline and Fall, Christianity Lashes Out: Political Double Standards Flourish.

Julian Assange disclosed the use of outright murder by American forces in Iraq. For that he is not the messenger of protest and the need for change but an Enemy of the State. Pussy Riot exposed the extending brutishness and extremism over Russian intellectual life by a ruling political Mafia. For that action they are not a messenger of protest and need for change, but an Enemy of the State.

State and Church, protectors or instruments of  repression. Political double standards flourish
across the World as governments pursue the messengers of State crime. Picture Krakow 2009

The State everywhere holds the same double standards to protect itself from the prying eyes of the people. Assange faces dubious charges over the use of a condom during consensual sex with two women in Sweden. He is currently being castigated by Swedish, UK and US politicians. The familiar pre demonetization process before a show trial and his subsequent torment as an Enemy of the State. The Moscow Three will be no doubt humiliated by a regime who think it right to treat political prisoners as they wish.

Such behaviour can be partly individual human nature. But as an instrument of social control its the product of arrogant State power and the influence of institutions like State Christianity; a cruel and superstitions religious built on punishment and retribution. Christianity, its shameful history is well documented. God and State must be obeyed and those who protest incarcerated and punished accordingly.

As Western society evolves en mass towards a new religion of Science, Fact and Discovery, Christianity in a few generations will claim its rightful place as the most evil religion that ever existed. It will will take longer to destroy the Mafia State.   

Sovereign Nations Looking More Like Home. More Europe Reaches New Lows.

It was always going to be a hard sell. It was always about the test, the probation period to see if it could work. The push to forge a European Superstate, (the Europe Project), has hit new lows in popularity with Europeans. Cry our beloved countries sings ever louder over Le Place de Luxembourg in Brussels.

It was the brainchild and baby of post war political elites. Some would cast doubt on whether there is anything at all elitist about today's federalist technocrats. One thing is for sure, this bunch have messed it up big time.

Trust in Europe's Federalist Elites has all but evaporated as citizens find renewed faith in the
national spirit. Banking becomes the most despised of professions. Image Frankfurt 2012.

When did anything grandiloquent performed by pretentious civil servants ever succeed without the approval of society. Even the Soviet Union flourished and died on this principal.  

Failure to perform effectively has suddenly left sovereign independent nations looking more like a safer home for families, their culture and their future. More Europe looks increasing like a menace to individual freedom and more of a home to those who worship power and money.

The elitist few are totally to blame, failing to effectively direct the ship when it entered choppy waters in 2010. And there is worst to come in the Euro crisis, regardless of the huff puff blowing from the Eurotower in Frankfurt's Kaiserstrasse.

Who will follow the Euro to a destruction of their beloved countries. Italy is not a weak dependent economy like Greece. Spain can split apart and Catalonia is still stronger than Greece. Struggles for national independence is embedded in folklore and culture across the continent. The original strategy to frighten Europeans during crisis into a united Europe is having the opposite effect. Art of Superstate needs to rid itself of the Brussels Bubble, change political course and engage citizens in meaningful dialogue about self determination. The federalist dream is now the political nightmare of the old, the vain and the rich. We are talking decades to correct the mistakes of these so called Elites.

Great Brits Lift the World to a Golden Summer.

It has been described by some as an elitist event. How many people actually sail fancy boats or train excellent horses in dressage. (dancing horses). Why are Asian and African traditional sports not included. How come so many top athletes are from private schools. Is the Olympics simply a rich Western gathering to celebrate its existence, character and sporting personality.

Maybe some of this is there but the real nature of the Olympics is meritocracy. It is said great talent has a way of rising naturally to the top. This is true of most sports. In many ways sport is still a passage to a multikulti environment where one's talents is respected regardless of race, gender or colour.

Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah delight the home crowd during the worlds most popular
sporting event in London 2012. 

Time was when Roman games occupied the imagination of its citizens. In A.D. 107, Emperor Trajan entertained the people of Rome with a military victory extravaganza in the Colosseum. It lasted 123 days during which 11,000 animals died and 5000 pairs of gladiators fought each other in cruel combat. 

Today's games are a relatively infant project having begun in Athens in 1896. Then just nine sports were scheduled. London 2012 hosted its extravaganza with thirty-six disciplines to delight the world. It represents a truly acceptable face for globalisation through diversity and co-operation.

“Everything is politics” said Thomas Mann. “It has been called Art of the possible. It is a realm akin to art, insofar as like art, it occupies a creative mediating position between spirit and life, the idea and reality.”

Three weeks of peace fun and entertainment bring us together as one species, one planet, one life. Global sporting games are the new mediating position between the idea and reality. Romans, eat your heart out. Those damned barbarians have done it again. 

EU Crisis: German Parliament Sparks a Firestorm Over Defense of Democracy. Euro on the Run.

The Italian technocrat Mario Monti was part of the Jaques Santer commission forced to resign en mass in 1999 over corruption and nepotism charges.

Mr Monti's latest outburst is seemingly against democracy. He calls for leaders to dilute accountability to their parliaments over the Euro crisis. The Euro is everything to the Brussels Federalists. No loose talk of failure please.

"If governments” he said in a recent Der Spiegel interview, “allow themselves to be entirely bound to the decisions of their parliament, without protecting their own freedom to act, a break up of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration."

This has forced the German Bundestag to stand up against what is generally regarded as a technocrat/banker plot to rail road Europe into a system described by philosopher Jürgen Habermas as “Post-Democratic Executive Federalism.”

Sparks spread a firestorm of heated words over Mario Monti and his comments
that Democracy should be sacrificed for the sake of saving the Euro.
Foto: Deutscher Bundestag Lichtblick/Achim Melde Platz der Republik  2010

If this were to happen then at best a return to freedom fighter/revolutionary activity is assured. Such activists are easy to find but it looks like responsible managers for Executive Federalism isn't so easy.      

The scathing report on the E.U. Santer commission released March 15^th 1999 paints the picture why citizens are reluctant or unwilling to follow such a Tribe of Dreams into the Federalist unknown.

“There was growing reluctance of the Commissioners to acknowledge any guilt and that It was becoming increasingly difficult to find anyone who had the slightest sense of responsibility."

Could this be a reason the European Project is destined to fail if it stays on its present course. In the words of one irate Berlin politician “We must make it clear to Mr Monti that we Germans (read Europeans) will not shut down our democracy to pay Italian debts.”(read save the Euro)

Summer madness is in full swing.

E.U. Crisis: Brussels Corruption Gravy Train Rules OK. Freedom is Just Another Word...

It is this time of the year our leaders take off for August holidays. The citizens are left alone with recreational rioting or violence of sorts. Lazy hazy commentators are free to help fill this void with unlimited imaginative speculation. So here we go.

After Mario Draghi's bravado announcement to “Save the Euro with whatever it takes,” its now the turn of Italy's Mario Monti to pitch his 5 cents worth.

Described by the London Daily Telegraph as the De Facto Prime Minister of the Eurozone Latin Block, this unelected official has Rome in his pocket and hoping to soon bag Madrid. But who are these guys who run or say they run Europe.

The Good the Bad and the yet to arrive. Ten champions of the people
or merely Capos to a corrupt institution.
History will judge: 2012 

The story goes back to 1999. Jaques Santer, a former Luxembourg prime minister, had 20 people in his commission. Some of his crew of wiseguys were into fraud and corruption. They got caught out. This famous story was highlighted through one former prime minister of France, Edith Cresson, who was accused of nepotism. She gave her dentist a plum job in her department and he salted a pile of dosh.

After the mass resignation none of the crew was found guilty of any criminal behaviour. All got to keep their gold plated pensions with benefits.

The affair was investigated and a report was produced on March 15, 1999. Presented to the Commission and Parliament, it largely cleared most members, aside from Cresson, but concluded that there was growing reluctance of the Commissioners to acknowledge any guilt and that "It was becoming increasingly difficult to find anyone who had the slightest sense of responsibility."

What a game these technocrats were able to play with European Democracy. So where are these wiseguys today.

Edith Cresson, is off the map as are most of the (innocent) crew who included local names such as Neil Kinnock, Padraig Flynn (later disgraced) and Leon Brittan. Some retired, some went back to work and some have passed away.

But some top fatcats from this wiseguys commission who gave the orders and ran operations are still about.

Erkki Liianen, then in charge of Budgets Personnel and Administration went on to become the Governor of the Bank of Finland. He is also Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank and Governor of the International Monetary Fund for Finland

Jaques Santer, capo de capo of the commission was recently rehabilitated and reinstated as head the Special Purpose Investment Vehicle. In effect a fund raising body for the E.U. This action was described by a UK politician as “Putting Dracula in charge of a blood bank. “

But the most grandiose part of the story is the appointment of

Mario Monti, the man for Internal Market, Customs and Taxation who runs Italy, not just a bank or a fund raising board but an entire country and De Facto Prime Minister of the Eurozone Latin Block.

You couldn't make it up....makes me want to read some real fiction..............It was a hazy sunrise in August.......

Eurozone Pain in Spain: To Catch a Falling Star and Put It in A Bailout

An endgame at last for the beleaguered Eurozone in it current form. This patient, already in an intensive care unit since last year is beginning to respond to diagnostic treatment prescribed by an array of observers, critics, specialists and skeptics.

And, it's finally decision time for Greece, Spain, Italy and France. Options are clear. You can stay in the club but under German leadership and German rules or leave the Eurozone, devalue and become more competitive.

 An endgame at last for Stars of the Eurozone drama. How it is played out
 we must wait for the last act.  2012 & London 1973

Can Spain stomach a full blown bailout. Can it sell the humiliation which goes with Troika stomping through Madrid. Can Rome and Paris secede power to the new powerful bankers who just last year were arrogantly flicking champagne over citizen protesters as they marched down Wall Street. Can French music drown out the jokes and the smug laughter of victorious technocrats clicking their fingers to demand how high French officials jump.

Not an accurate analysis I know. However, this is how it will all be perceived during the technocrat occupation of Madrid, Paris or Rome. There is also the possibility the Troika will be lucky to make it from the airport to the hotel in one piece.

The situation is almost clear. It's a new concert from when Greece leaves. Who dances with Germany down the line must be sure they know their steps in keeping up with the tempo. Who leaves the Eurozone must speed up reforms towards securing efforts to rejoining the zone. Or, sit and watch sullenly from the benches while a new Euro super-core waltz its way to dizzy heights. 

Spain Hits the Wall.

The markets have gone after Spain. Italy is firmly in their crosshairs. Today Monday July 23 Spanish 10yr bond yields surged beyond 7% and into the zone most analysts regards as imminent sovereign bailout territory. Its credit rating is next to junk. It's back to summer madness 2012.

Viva Espana. From Moorish Andalusia to bars in Madrid, Spanish
submission or resistance to the notorious Troika will be tested soon. 2012

Two of Spain's regions Catalonia and Valencia are broke and seeking Madrid's help to pay the bills. Before the crisis Spain enjoyed a boom funded by North European Banks. Now they want their money back. Debt money talks louder than guns these days but the results are the same, pain and suffering.

Will the Spanish go along with a Troika (European Commission, IMF & European Central Bank) takeover of their country. Who controls the finances calls the shots is a favourite German expression.

But it can not go on like this much longer. Never in the history of conquest has a country submitted to aggressive Imperial will without some degree of resistance. In pledging total commitment to the Euro and the expansion of Superstate by financial coercion, the Troika (and this is now what it stands for) continues to alienate citizens from the very idea that more Europe is a good thing. 

E.U. Crisis: Democracy Confronts Masters of the Universe.

Bank of France warned the whole world is at risk and Europe’s leaders still have failed to grasp the nettle. But what nettle.

Euro skeptics are adamant it is the fault of failed political European leadership. Those who created a flawed product, namely Der Euro, or those multi-kulti arrogant self centred wishy washy Federalists in Brussels. And now it's the austere puritanical Germans led by unmoving and unfeeling Chancellor Angela Merkel, de facto president of Art of Superstate.

Yes, there is some truth to these allegations. But then again, the blame game is always a bit of the truth surrounded by a whole heap of baloney.

The second truth is this crisis is part of a Banking industry spinning out of control and its activities as directed by Masters of the Universe.

The world is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practised in past centuries. …....David Rockefeller at Bilderberg meeting Baden Baden 1991

Merkel recently broke a taboo to face down top bankers, as has UK politicians in the Libor interest rate fixing scandal. They have come to realise the catastrophe these reckless and feckless people are bringing on our society. More importantly they realise an imminent backlash, as citizens consider too big to fail is now becoming too powerful and threatening.

Tower Power. Frankfurt's financial district grows stronger and stronger. 2012

The real confrontation between society and the Masters of the Universe has yet to come. The muzzling of this wild and dangerous financial sector will not be an easy walk in the park.

Barclays former UK chief took on the British establishment. Barclays has “Wow” assets of $2.5tn, "Too big to fail". However he did fail and might now face criminal charges. Banks have also been caught out laundering money for a spectrum of criminals including Mexico's drug cartels. And to make matters worst up to 17 Trillion Euros of wealth is salted away in off shore accounts by the notorious 1% avoiding taxes, while placing the burden of bank debts and the austerity programme on the shoulders of society.

The financial industry is the cause of this present collapse and crisis. Since de regulation (Big Bang 1986) the Masters used their economic power to tear down laws, rules, and regulations introduced in the 1930's Great Depression specifically designed to protect society from this sector's greed.

By the year 2000 virtually all of those early shelters were dismantled. After 70 years of regulation it took just 7 short “Boom” years for today's unethical banking to bring us to this mess. And, the plausible unravelling of European Union.

Only war has a bigger negative impact on society than a full blown financial crises of this magnitude. ............The head of the ECB Mario Draghi recently proclaimed to Le Monde that the federalist EU project is misunderstood. All in fact is still OK. Mr Draghi was Goldman Sachs International vice-chairman for Europe between 2002 and 2005. He is alleged to have been part of the team which doctored Greece's application to join the Euro in the face of that country's glaring failings to meet the EU's economic criteria. He answered to the following questions;

So is the Euro still in danger?

No, absolutely not......that underestimates the political investment in this union, as well as the support of European citizens. The Euro is irrevocable!

Does your time at Goldman Sachs make you uncomfortable?

No, indeed, I value this experience of the world of finance and of the private sector.

           ..You support the calls for political union made by Angela Merkel

Moves towards a financial, and political union are inevitable. This will lead to the transfer of sovereignty. One must remember that with globalisation, it is precisely by sharing sovereignty that countries can better preserve it. In the long term, the Euro must be based on a greater degree of integration.

Meanwhile citizens are preparing for a breakdown scenario in 2013 by forcing their parliaments to work for sovereign democracy and not for globalist bankers.

The Great Euro-Coaster Ride. A Period of Devaluation to Soften the Crisis.

The Euro started out as paper money on Jan1 2002 at 1.62 to the British pound. By 2008 The British pound dipped for a brief moment below one to one.

A New Moon rising over the Euro sign at the ECB Frankfurt 2012

The Euro was on a roller coaster ride, made invincible, or so it thought, by the presence of four major economies, France Germany Italy and Spain. It didn't matter much if petty little peripherals got into a spot of bother, these wise guys would take care of their gang members and protect their turf. In return the smaller soldiers would tough it out, grow up a bit and eventually become more like their bigger mates on the street. 

As we are told by wise guys, if you don't hit hard at others coming to take over your street they will break every bone in your body. Hesitation or a flash of fear in the defender's eyes sends Teddy Boy a signal to take out the studded belt.

In the end, modern society as we know is more than a street brawl. It is a complicated economic and social rhythm of highs and troughs. A roller coaster ride designed by nature and modern capitalism. In the face of continued gang (bond markets) onslaught it can be better just to retreat from the fight. Devalue and become competitive. The flawed Euro has no chance of winning in its present shape. It is time the Euro wise guys realised there are many alternatives on the street. The Euro can be redesigned if they put safety before face, community before greed, principals before selfishness and see that new moon rising.    

E.U. Crisis: Germany At the Heart of Europe's Future. Euroskeptic Forces Gather in Berlin

Can it possibly be that Europe's present future is once again a German decision. Chancellor Merkel's European strategy is being openly challenged in Berlin and Karlsruhe by the president and the constitutional court.

Merkel is still popular with her electorate but the Euro crisis and the seemingly rapid disintegration of European solidarity, shows signs of eating the very fabric of the European project.

Is this love or pie in the sky. German constitutional court
 debates Europe's future. A long delay will finish the Eurozone
in its present form: July 2012

Powerful forces are assembled to ensure no more Europe until clear and democratic policies are fully debated within the German establishment.

In many ways it can only be Germany now which decides. Chancellor Merkel famously said “If the Euro fails, Europe fails.” Perhaps it is still too soon for Europa Maximus to succeed. Better the devil you know.

The focus for Europe's future is now centred in Karlsruhe with the German constitutional court. They, today Tuesday 10^th July, have put the fiscal pact on hold to consider objections by persons loyal to Euroskepticism. If indeed they take months to decide the treaty's fate then the Eurozone in its present form is doomed. Spain especially and probably Italy too will not have enough oxygen to survive this time frame unaided.

Maybe it is planned this way  

EU Crisis: A Disastrous Liaison, Chancellor Merkel Breaks A Taboo

It was a week that changed everything. Taboos broken and mindsets changed. It was the end of Art of Superstate part 3 and the beginning of part 4.

A disastrous liaison. Oh what a Brussels night! Commander Merkel suffered a setback, a blackmail, a loss of German dominance over the Eurozone, ambushed by the French, Italian and Spanish alliance. Sent home to mull capitulation to easing austerity and providing better terms for bailout Piggies.

Isn't it wonderful to see the nature of Europe today. Hooray! division and resentment reigns once again. Some say France will not join the Core but will move over to the Confederate Nations of Europe with the UK. Others say the UK will leave the EU.

There were also some new realities. The summit saw the Chancellor make bold steps to forge banking union as a prelude to new political creations. Reactions came from Netherlands and Finland. They questioned this strategy crying they will not pay the debts of other Europeans. But it is done. Germany has broken a taboo to speaking openly about forming Superstate part 4.

Watching me watching you. The week the taboo was broken on too big to fail. The
Law moves against the banking criminals who brought the West to its knees.

The ECB will use massive financial loan mechanisms to tackle the problem of troubled banks. And this was the week the biggest taboo of all was broken. To big to fail was cast aside. A disastrous liaison between bank folly, politics and the family of citizen taxpayers was finally cut.

It was the week when the law turned on the Big Bang of the 1980's which produced the Big Gang of swindlers over past decades.

There is only one war in Europe today. Not a war between nations and self interest, the 27 is still intact. No! Superstate is still safe. The war is with renegade bankers, bond vultures and an industry so big it is spinning out of control and beyond effective management. In short, casino banking and financial markets have become an existential threat to the security of citizens.

Banker bashing is now a legal obligation after police uncover financial crimes riddling major banking names. Who knows what goes on behind closed doors until the spotlight is cast. For the banking industry exposure reveals a wretched nest of greed and corruption. For political classes, well they may still be the the same old lying sods they have always been, but at least these days they now realise who butters their bread.

E.U. Crisis: The Cyprus Effect, And the Band Played on in Frankfurt.

As another one bites the dust, the financial Opera sadly continues to play out a broken dream.

Cyprus may not be difficult to bail out but the effect on Banker's and Federalist's moral must be devastating.

The dominoes fall, the sinking ship takes on more and more water, Europe's leaders falter at the crossroads and at the Frankfurt Opera the band plays on at camp “Occupy.”

The despair of some citizens, subjected to what is becoming an experiment in forging an elitist banking community, is turning to cold resistance in the form of plebiscite.

Frankfurt Occupy Camp summer festival. June 2012. The Euro to soon face

 the music as Cyprus becomes the latest victim of the banking crisis.

From inside the Frankfurt camp there is growing awareness that a resilient rag-tag bunch of activists are fast becoming an effective focus for banking misconduct and a tourist site for the city.

It was hard rock and good vibrations at the camp on Saturday night, June 23. Bands performed for passing citizens while blasting away at the Frankfurt ECB. tower. Home to Czars of Money.

Feeling the pressure, plain clothes security emerged from inside the Tower during broad daylight to harass and confront private citizens with crude threats, intimidation and attempts to steal cameras. 

Local police, when interviewed about the incident, pointed out these security personnel have no legal right to approach private persons on the public highway. Frankfurt police are to approach the Bank for a response.     

E.U. Crisis: Federalist Commander Merkel Plans War of Attrition Against Czars of Money.

An uneasy Eurozone alliance of seventeen stars: how many will heed the battle call
to fight the Czars of Money.  June 2012

It’s never over till it’s over say the wise ones. As the E.U. crisis drags on, on and on, chancellor Angela Merke, federalist commander in Berlin, sees years of twisting and turning towards partial unification. How cautious and unbrave this home management policy must seem to Czars of Money troops. They are winning and becoming stronger by the week. Not the month. Not the year. Merkels new strategy, War of Attrition is not the right path to tread. She does not lead an asymmetric force which can use guerrilla tacticts. Attrition and aysmmetric warfare works best when the enemy is constrained by law, over weight and social debate for actions. This is not the case with the Czars who care little for parliament, morality or social comment. Their positions are well trained and fast moving.     

Commander Merkel does not have political time on her side. Nor does she have control over all factions in the Eurozone. Her resources are limited it is true, but she can fight back by declaring the ultimate objective and outcome of this war. The total removal of  Czars of Money influence over the financial affairs of Europe.

No, she must not hesitate. Merkel must face the enemy in open combat with fewer countries and with well nourished soldiers. The strongest and fittest within the Eurozone should heed the battle call; for Art of Superstate, part 3  is lost if Spain and Italy falter in the coming summer reckoning.

And what will happen if the battle is lost. Very little as history shows. Some pain. Some loss of wealth. Some bitter recriminations. But Europe will roll on and pick up the struggle after the casualties are buried.  

E.U. Crisis: Commission Capo Lectures Nobody on How not to Lecture the Commission.

President Barroso and his Commission democratically represents....well, Nobody.....However, Barroso took on a role at the G20 to tell the world they should not lecture... “we,” I presume he means the 27,…on democracy or the handling of the economy.

Nobody is listening to
President Barroso at the G20 2012

“In Europe we are open democracies”....he said....”but frankly we are not coming here to receive lessons in terms of democracy or in terms of how to handle the economy because the European Union as a model can be very proud of......we are certainly not coming here to receive lessons from Nobody.

The president should listen to the storm of cries from citizens shouting for him and his commission to dissolve and leave democracy and the economy where it belongs....with the people. And who will cry for their departure.....well Nobody of course.  

E.U. Crisis, Greek Elections: It's Not About the Money Honey, We Don't Need your Money, Money.

To day Greeks have the stage all to themselves. Tomorrow the audience will either applaud or walk out of the theatre. Either way the show is over.

Press eyes focus on whether outside forces can shape the outcome of the Greek election through direct threats or scare tactics. A now familiar strategy affecting the democratic process across Europe.

Least we forget, and we should never desert our history, 80yrs ago during the last great financial débâcle, democracy in Europe was reduced from 24 countries in 1920 to 11 by 1939.

Political and fiscal union crudely peddled from Brussels, and to some extent Berlin, is perceived in a cohering manner. This will not work just as totalitarianism didn't succeed in 1939.

The world today Sunday 17^th June 2012 is in a state of chassis (Juno and the paycock; Sean O' Casey) over predicting the situation and outcomes in Greece.

Greece is on a collision course with foreign lenders...... Chaos erupts..... Greece is forced to declare bankruptcy...... If Greece leaves the Euro, a disorderly default is likely as creditors lose patience. …. If the Germans don't act.... it could lead to an economic Armageddon....collapse in confidence across Europe threatens …. global crisis that will have dire consequences.......

It's not about the money.  Greece and Germany are no longer lovers in the Euro family. How
they divorce is how the Euro will reshape the European Project. Picture Frankfurt 2012

In the end it is not about the money, money. We don't need your money money....In the end it is about dignity, independence and a sense of well being. Greece's impassioned and tempestuous affair with the Euro is over. Whatever way one sees the outcome of the election, Greece and Germany have fallen out and recriminations are bitter.

As one Greek living in Germany put it "It was absolutely wrong for Greece to enter the euro. It's only a small country of 10 million people; it can't possibly destabilise the EU' – but they were mistaken.”

"I am flying back to Thessaloniki on Sunday morning just to vote," he said proudly. "We live in a world where democracy has been taken away from us. My vote is the only thing left for me and I must do it for my country." (source: Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Der Spiegel)

Seems like everybody's got a price,
I wonder how they sleep at night.

It's not about the money, money, money
We don't need your money, money, money.

Commander Merkel Leads Eurotroopers V Czars of Money. The Battle for Europe 2012 Draws Towards Reality.

In my crazy dream I saw the Battlefield. Disorder was spreading through the periphery of the main Eurocore body rolling slowly across the open plains.

Flying columns from the Czars of Money army rushed the weak Spanish brigades positioned to the rear. The Eurocore army Commander in Chief, Saxon Queen Angela Merkel seeing the attack held her nerve while sending reinforcements. These reinforcements bought but a few hours of precious time.

The army of the Czars of Money is exceptionally strong. Its soldiers are well trained and equipped with a fabulous war chest. Sensing unease in the Eurocore ranks it then split its forces 70/30. The lesser group maintained its pressure on the Spanish while the larger force prepared a full frontal assault on Roman guards protecting a major number of citizens. There was a mood of foreboding amongst these citizens, fearing a financial massacre should the Guards falter and buckle under the ensuring fight. Some citizens donned their balaclavas in futile defiance.

The Battle for Europe 2012 centres around the Roman Guard defending Italy.
Picture: GDR revolutionary wall mural Dresden 2012 

Commander Merkel called a council of War advisers to assess the situation. I was there. “Like mad hungry hyenas scenting fresh flesh” I said to her, “the Czars of Money are becoming more and more embolden with each attack on our formations.” Her face looked worried but resolved. She was committed to continue the struggle to move the main body of the Eurocore to safer ground and beyond the reach of the highly dangerous Financial Mercenaries.

“Should our Roman Euro-troops fail to hold the line for the forthcoming assault then I fear the battle and indeed the war is finally lost. Commander!” I continued, “ the group we defend is too large and too slow to react to these harassing columns. We must strengthen the Roman Lines. There is no time to wait. Greece must be offered terms it can accept to leave the Eurocore, as should Portugal, France and Southern Italy.

Leaner and faster we can move to deliver the Coup de Grace to this Crisis. Euro-troopers cannot avoid using the invincible might of our most potent weapon. The Eurobond. This done there will be a rush from some of the strong non combatant Nordic tribes to join the new army. Move Now Commander” I urged. “Confederate Nations of Europe will cover the Western and Eastern Flanks. Victory is assured.