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This blog writer at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (found at Real Clear World) warns us solemnly:  Let’s hope the Alternative for Germany fails for good: But absent a concerted and determined effort by Germans and all Europeans to refute AfD’s populism and consign it to political no-man’s land, the crisis in [...]

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I have been too angry to write about Cyprus until today.  I cannot imagine what the people in the USA or any nation would do or could do with the possibility of a forcible, foreign inspired “tax” on bank savings.  I do not subscribe to the “taxation is theft” theory of libertarianism.  But this truly [...]

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No, actually British Prime Minister David Cameron promised a referendum by 2017.  But it might as well be 2040!  I wish I had said there would be a total solar eclipse in the USA before there is a British EU referendum for I might have been right (There will be such an eclipse on August [...]

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When I first heard the European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize, I thought:  No, it can’t be.  Got to be some sort of EU official.  NOPE.  Not the Onion!  The European Union was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Here’s a CNN story and another and here’s the Nobel page’s citation.  Here’s the first paragraph: [...]

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Der Spiegel, the unreadable magazine when I was studying Deutsch in high school (I had no problem reading Bild and there was always a pretty Fraulein on the back appropriate for a saved but not sanctified teenager!), is reporting that pro-Europe parties won the most seats in the recent Dutch parliamentary elections: The incumbent conservative-liberal [...]

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This Reuters article is what I expected on the eve of the Greek elections:  Vote Tweedledee or Tweedledum or ELSE! European leaders urged Greece to reject radical leftists who threaten to tear up the terms of a bailout deal should they win an election on Sunday, a result that would send shockwaves through global financial [...]

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I am well aware that several days ago, UK PM David Cameron vetoed the increase in power/loss of sovereignty fiscal provisions proposed for the EU. This proposal was nothing short of turning the sovereign nations of the EU into states.  It proves my “Tweedledee/Tweedledum” theory of most of the major European political parties. I have [...]

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It is amazing to hear the arrogance of the EU officials who are trying to save the superempire.  This scary article from the Christian Science Monitor is an example: An end to sovereign control over European budgets. That was the big idea that Germany‘s Angela Merkel and France‘s Nicolas Sarkozy outlined in a letter to [...]

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Former UN Ambassador John Bolton, who should have run for President and who I have suggested as Ron Paul’s running mate, says much of the same things about Europe I have been saying (perhaps in a more scholarly way!) in this article in the Washington Times! Very little media attention, however, is focused on a [...]

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Is this another right wing conspiracy theory, or is there something to the fact that President Obama is allowing classified materials to be released on the internet? You be the judge. Wikileaks Provocateur-in-Chief Julian Assange has telegraphed his intentions for weeks, yet the Obama Administration did nothing. Nada. Zilch. So, some of the documents were [...]

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Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has definitively announced the failure of multiculturalism in Europe. Thus she has come much closer to adopting the positive value system of multiculturalism’s opposite, culturism. While her speech represented a great leap forward for culturism, the full impact of culturist realizations will not come until she understands the impact of history [...]

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« « Watcher Council Nominations October 27, 2010 | main | The Council has Spoken 10/29/2010 The Watcher on Oct 29 2010 at 8:00 am | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken! And I’m floating in a most peculiar way And the stars look very different todaySpace Oddity – David Bowie In his classic “Space [...]

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Even As World Leaders “Embrace A Newfound Desire For Fiscal Austerity” The Obama Administration Will Urge The World To Continue “Stimulus” Spending PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL URGE WORLD LEADERS TO CONTINUE STIMULUS SPENDING “The U.S. Plans To Press Its Economic Partners At A Summit To Move Cautiously With Plans To Tighten Their Fiscal Policies while the [...]

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SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “Europe’s in the midst of what German Chancellor Angela Merkel describes as an existential crisis, all brought about by governments that spent money they didn’t have. Americans are watching this crisis play out, and they see Democrats doing the same thing here day after day after day.” (Sen. Mitch McConnell, Floor Remarks, 5/26/10)

“The U.S. National Debt Hit $13 Trillion Today, A Stratospheric Number With Looming Implications For Every Citizen.” (“National Debt Clock — Tracking the Red,” Fox News, 5/26/10)

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Der Spiegel is the leading magazine in Germany.  This story is encouraging and breathtaking.  The Chancellor of Germany said this Thursday: During a speech given during the awarding of the prestigious Charlemagne Prize for furthering European unity in Aachen on Thursday, Chancellor Angela Merkel used strong words to address the current euro zone crisis. If [...]

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