Tag: EU

Brussels burning

4GW forces are rising in Europe. The goverments are increasingly unable to afford to buy off the masses with bread and circuses. The only thing that is shocking is that this is not Greece, Italy, or even Spain, but Belgium.

ACV estimated that some 120,000 people had taken to the streets, with the police looking at a figure of more like 100,000. Slogans on banners included: ‘Eliminate the causes of the crisis, not the poor’, ‘Hands off the pension age’, and ‘human need not corporate greed’. By late afternoon cars and other vehicles could be seen burning in the centre of Brussels. There were also reports of buildings being set on fire, and other property being damaged. ‘There are disturbances in the centre of the centre,’ said a Brussels police spokesman. The unexpectedly massive march opens a month-long campaign by the trade unions against the business-friendly governing coalition and is to be capped with a nationwide general strike on December 15.

From “Importing More 4th Generation War”, one of the hundreds of columns that appear in William S. Lind’s On War:

Once a state faces 4GW springing from a community of refugees, its options are limited. It can adopt a variant of the old Ottoman millet system, and demand that the community police itself, or it can try to attack the problem directly through the police. Both approaches usually founder on the same bonds of a common language and culture that provide the alternate primary loyalty. The millet system also accepts the weakness of the state as a given, which in turn accelerates the state’s decline.

In the real world, as opposed to the dream world of “multiculturalist” ideologues, there is only one way to prevent refugees from other cultures from serving as Trojan horses for 4th Generation war: do not admit the refugees. They are carrying a plague for which states have no cure. It may seem heartless to turn plague carriers away at the door, but it is also necessary to survival. When the state’s fundamental peace, security and order are at stake, the head, not the heart, must be the governing organ. America is particular must learn this lesson fast – for much of Europe, it is already too late – as cries grow to admit hordes of refugees from Iraq.

Remember, the singular hallmark of 4GW is this: the loss of state legitimacy. What will terrify the Belgian government is the fact that the rioters are a mix of native Belgians and immigrants, which indicates that the anti-government opinion is fairly broad spectrum. Remember, this is the left that is rioting; the right is, if anything, even less happy with the state of affairs.

Invasion and disintegration is inevitable

As long as countries remain in the EU… and as long as states remain in the USA:

We will never be able to control our borders so long as Britain remains in the EU, a Tory minister warned last night. In an explosive interview, skills minister Nick Boles said the free movement of people is a fundamental principle of the EU that Britain has to accept.

As long as the UK remains a successful economy, Britons need to get used to a ‘very large amount of immigration every year’.

Mr Boles’s words blow a hole in David Cameron’s argument that he can claw back any meaningful powers from Brussels over UK borders. They will also be seized on by Ukip and Eurosceptic Tories as proof that his talks with Brussels will achieve little.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has already said she would not agree to any ‘tampering’ with EU migration rules. In an interview with Total Politics magazine, Mr Boles insisted the British people would favour a reasonable level of immigration if they thought Parliament had control. But he admitted that those who believed MPs did not have such control were ‘right’.

No nation in history has EVER survived permitting “the free movement of people”, and the free movement of people is an intrinsic and integral part of free trade. Which is something I have been trying to point out to naive conservatives, starry-eyed libertarians, and short-sighted liberals ever since I did the math and realized that the USA cannot POSSIBLY remain a coherent, functional nation under a free trade regime. This is not up for debate. It is mathematically impossible, based on what we already know about historical inter-state free movement of people within the United States.

Retro robbery

The EU sticks the UK with an unexpected bill for $2.7 billion due to GDP revisions:

Addressing reporters in Brussels, Mr Cameron admitted the demand had made him ‘downright angry’ but he would not pay the £1.7billion, equivalent to £56 for every income taxpayer in Britain. The European Commission has demanded the cash by December 1, but Mr Cameron insisted he would not meet the deadline.

Downing Street later stressed that he was not simply delaying payment, and made clear there were no circumstances under which Britain would hand over £1.7billion.

Asked about the impact on UK staying in the EU, Mr Cameron said: “Well it certainly doesn’t help, let’s put it like that. I think there is a strong case for Britain involved in the European Union, if we can reform it in the way I have set out. When you are presented with a bill like this, with a month to go, is that helpful for Britain’s membership of the European Union, no it certainly is not.”

How shamelessly corrupt is this Tory quisling? What possible case can there be for Britain to be involved in the European Union, let alone a “strong case”? It significantly reduces the “good for the economy” and “good for trade” benefits a membership provides if you have to turn around and fork over $25 billion dollars for the privilege.

Any Brit who still favors EU membership needs to get his head examined. UKIP’s Farage puts it well: Ukip leader Nigel Farage said: “The EU is like a thirsty vampire feasting on UK taxpayers’ blood. We need to protect the innocent victims, who are us.”

Ay caramba

Spain’s industrial output has collapsed to 1976 levels. This is why the EU is going to collapse in the next ten years; it has completely failed on its promises of delivering economic prosperity. All it truly ever had to offer was a medium-term credit bubble in exchange for the mass sacrifice of national sovereignty.

Travel in Europe

So, I’m back from my latest trip, and I made a few observations:

  1. Thanks to Ebola, no one wants to sit or be anywhere around Africans. It would no doubt horrify the usual suspects to see how an African could clear out seats in all four directions simply by sitting down in both countries I recently visited.
  2. More people and startups are struggling than the newspapers want to admit. No one except those dialed directly into the stock market spigot being pumped by the Fed/ECB are doing what they consider well. This is true of even the very, very rich and successful who are involved in things rather than paper.
  3. If women want to stop looking like useless idiots in the business context, they really need to stop talking incessantly about their sex all the damn time and the “problem” of there being insufficient vaginas in [insert practically any industry, activity, or organization here]. We all know the drill. It doesn’t make you look smart. It makes you look clueless, irrelevant, and totally off-topic.
  4. The venture capital market is showing clear signs of 1999/2008 in a variety of ways. This doesn’t indicate an immediate crash, but one before 2016. Right now, it’s more feverish than 2008 but not as crazy as 1997-1999.
  5. New little technology project. It’s pretty cool and the Dread Ilk can definitely be of assistance in this regard if anyone is so inclined. More about this anon.

Dutch slaughter

So much for the concept of “never again”. Between abortion and the end of life and euthanasia at the end of it, modern secularists are beginning to make the National Socialist approach to mass killing look downright moderate:

The number of mentally-ill patients killed by euthanasia in Holland has trebled in the space of a year, new figures have revealed. In 2013, a total of 42 people with ‘severe psychiatric problems’ were killed by lethal injection compared to 14 in 2012 and 13 in 2011. The latest official figures also revealed a 15 per cent surge in the number of euthanasia deaths from 4,188 cases in 2012 to 4,829 cases last year. The incremental rise is consistent with a 13 per cent increase in 2012, an 18 per cent rise in 2011, 19 per cent in 2010 and 13 per cent in 2009.

The rise is also likely to confirm the fears of Dutch regulator Theo Boer who told the Daily Mail that he expected to see euthanasia cases smash the 6,000 barrier in 2014. Overall, deaths by euthanasia, which officially account for three per cent of all deaths in the Netherlands, have increased by 151 per cent in just seven years.

Most cases – some 3,600 people – involved cancer sufferers but there were also 97 people who died at the hands of their doctors because they were suffering from dementia, the figures show. The figures, however, do not include cases of so-called terminal sedation, where patients are given a cocktail of sedatives and narcotics before food and fluids are withdrawn. Studies suggest that if such deaths were added to the figure then euthanasia would account for one in eight – about 12.3 per cent – of all deaths in the Netherlands.

So, Dutch doctors are murdering people with “severe psychiatric problems” as well as dementia. At this point, it won’t be long into it is decided that everyone with an IQ under 99 is removed from the gene pool.

The idea that modern post-Christian society is any less barbaric than the Middle Ages is becoming increasingly risible. 

The truth about free trade

Free trade advocates are very often dishonest and attempt to claim that while they support the free movement of capital and goods, they do not support the free movement of people. But this is nonsense, because the free movement of people is intrinsically necessary for free trade in both labor and services. Furthermore, observe that the European Union’s “Four Freedoms” are explicit on this point:

One of the “Four Freedoms” of the Single Market is free movement of persons – along with free movement of capital, goods and services. Having a Single Market means having free movement of products (goods and services) and factors of production (capital and labour). Saying the UK wants to restrict free movement of persons but stay in the Single Market makes precisely as much/little sense (and for precisely the same reasons) as would saying “The UK wants to impose tariffs on imports from Germany and France but remain in the Single Market” or “The UK wants to impose capital controls on investment into Italy but remain in the Single Market”. Restricting free movement would, in substance, be withdrawing from the Single Market and hence in substance withdrawing from the EU. The substantive question is unambiguous. The only thing left to consider is the semantic question – whether withdrawing from free movement would be called “withdrawing from the EU” or not. Since the EU is the zone of EU citizenship and EU citizenship means free movement, the answer must be “Yes – the UK would not be in the EU”, though we might perhaps still be in some other form of “Europe”.

The second reason it is not mere word games is that many schemes for “withdrawing from the European Union” involve continuing to participate in some other form of “Europe” – e.g. the “Norway option” of continuing to be in the European Economic Area. “Out” hasn’t normally meant “no Europe”, merely “exiting the European Union”. But exiting the European Union is precisely what any form of restriction on the free movement of persons entails, by definition.

Past generations can be forgiven for not grasping that free trade meant the end of national sovereignty and the end of the very concept of “the nation”. They did not understand how inexpensive and easy travel would eventually become. But now we know better. And this is the real reason that “nationalism” has been attacked as  an intrinsic and dangerous evil; it is the strong point around which resistance to the universal pillaging of the global elite’s attempt to construct its vision of Eine Welt, Eine Art, Eine Ordnung.

The lie of democracy

Spain opposes democratic self-determination:

The president of Spain’s powerful northeastern region of Catalonia on Saturday formally called an independence referendum, the latest secession push in Europe and one of the most serious challenges to the Spanish state in recent years. Catalan leader Artur Mas signed the decree to call the referendum in a solemn ceremony in the regional government headquarters in Barcelona, flanked by most of the region’s political leaders who support the vote….

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was flying back
from a state visit to China when Mas made his declaration. He has
repeatedly said Spain’s constitution doesn’t allow referendums on
sovereignty that don’t include all Spaniards, and experts say the
Constitutional Court is almost certain to declare the vote illegal.

This is why it is impossible to take people who claim to support democracy seriously. Whether it is the proper definition of marriage or independence that is on the table, when push actually comes to shove, they usually find a way to invalidate the very Will of the People upon which their very legitimacy rests.

National spirit in Sweden

The rise of the Swedish Democrats echos that of the National Front in France, the People’s Party in Switzerland, UKIP in England, and other nationalist, anti-immigrant parties:

“The Sweden Democrats is the only political party that wants to stop immigration,” Anders Sannerstedt, a political scientist at Lund University, told the French news agency AFP. “All the other political parties have a united stance, a generous immigration policy.”

That pro-immigration stance was exemplified by Prime Minister Reinfeldt in an August 16 speech. “I’m now pleading with the Swedish people to have patience, to open your hearts, to see people in high distress whose lives are being threatened,” he said. “Show them that openness, show them tolerance.”

Reinfeldt’s immigration stance clearly cost his Moderate party votes this year. Its share of the vote fell from 30 percent in its successful reelection of 2010 down to just 22 percent this year. In contrast, the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats more than doubled their showing from 2010, becoming the third-largest party after the Social Democrats and the Moderates. A majority of Swedes voted for non-Left parties in Sunday’s election, but the absolute refusal of any of these parties to negotiate with Sweden Democrats dooms them to remain in the opposition.

There is absolutely no use supporting any “conservative” pro-immigration party anywhere in the West. They are all traitors to their nations and there is nothing conservative about supporting immigration; it is literally supporting the replacement of the native people. Notice how immigration is more important to the fake “conservatives” than every other aspect of the right-wing agenda. That’s because they aren’t conservatives, they are globalists in conservative clothing.

And when people are crying about how poor innocent immigrants are being deported en masse, remember who was responsible for the nightmare. Not the people doing the actual ethnic cleansing, but those who made it necessary in the first place. Because the eventual outcome is not only predictable, it is certain whether you think it is desirable or not. After all, where did all of these homogenous nations come from in the first place?

Those who think the short-term triumph of multiculturalism is inevitable because it has been dominant for 40 years should recall the Spanish Reconquista. 781 years of Ummayad rule wasn’t enough to quench the nationalistic spirit in Iberia, and every single Muslim was forcibly ejected from Spain in the end.

It will be no different in the Second Reconquista. Europe belongs to the Europeans.

The EU states the obvious

The European Union has no intention of fighting to defend its Ukrainian puppet:

There can be no military solution to the Ukraine crisis, only a political one, Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s new head of foreign policy, has insisted.

In her first interview since being appointed at the weekend, Ms Mogherini, soon to step down as Italy’s foreign minister, said: “It’s in the interests of Ukraine, Europe and Russia that the crisis should have a political, not a military solution.”

The prospect of Europe going to war to defend Ukraine against Russian aggression “simply does not exist”, she insisted.

At least the Eurofascists are not operating in the realm of complete fantasy, at least where the Russians are concerned. Putin has stated that Russian forces can take Kiev within two weeks, and based on the inability of the Ukrainian army to hold its ground, there is little reason to question his assertion:

Kiev forces retreated from Luhansk airport after battling a “Russian armed forces” tank column on Monday, Kiev said, in what Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko described as the latest stage of Moscow’s “direct and open aggression”.

The battle came ahead of a key meeting between Russia and Ukraine in Minsk, the Belarus capital, later on Monday.

“In the Luhansk direction, Ukrainian forces have received an order and have pulled back from the airport,” Ukraine army spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters. He said seven Ukrainian service personnel had been killed in the past 24 hours. Ukraine’s defence minister Valeriy Geletey said that Russian units are moving into other towns in the region, including the largest city of the region Donetsk.

Ukraine should jump at the opportunity to give Novorossiya its independence if that is what Putin is demanding at the Minsk talks. It is strategically risky to fight a war you are certain to lose if what is at stake is not vital, because you often end up losing far more than you were hoping to protect. And the Ukrainians should keep in mind that NATO is not a magic shield; neither the European nations nor the USA are going to go to war with Russia over resistance to their their shabby attempt to financially pillage Ukraine and expand NATO.

There are no good guys here, but it is a positive sign to see that there is resistance to the global vampire squid as well as limits to its rapacious reach.