The big stories in the UK this week have been the British Commonwealth leaders conference in Antigua, where they has been much talk of apologies to nobody in particular (because everybody involves is long dead,) for Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade and ways of giving African and Caribbean nations huge amounts of UK taxpayers money without looking as if we are paying reparations, and Prime Minister Andy Burnham's efforts to sneak us back into the EU by the back door. The two may be unconnected but the UK back-stabbed commonwealth by joining the EU, neglected its own responsibilities towards citizens of former colonies, then once in Europe was never a wholehearted member..
In spite of this I am happy my vote in the referendum went to the 'Leave campaign. Behind all talk of ever closer union and bringing member states together as 'one nation' members of the political elite that is promoting EU expansion are ruthless and corrupt sucessors of the former Nazis who created The Common Market, which was the first incarnation of what has become a giant, failing monster. The ‘hopes’ you saw disappear as the EU ‘changed’ from a free trade club of sovereign nations to a corrupt and authoritarian wannabe federal superstate were not what I saw or experienced while working as an IT consultant at the bloc's administrative headquarters in Luxembourg, and the construct was set in its current direction long before the Treaty of Lisbon changed it from a trading bloc to a political federation..
Still in UK there are many who do not know the behind the scenes truth of what the EU is and aims to become, and they blame Britain's inability to fit comfortably into the plan for becoming a federal superstate on local xenophobia and not EU authoritarianism, corruption or obstruction. That the UK political class are as corrupt and caught up in their own delusions and illusions also is the main reason why Brexit, while not the catastrophe many Europhiles predicted has not been a resounding success or led to a resurgence of The Commonwealth.. Similarly goes for various other UK/EU ‘relic establishments’, which are often used, directly or indirectly, to undermine UK from within UK.
For now, however fake everyman Andy Burnham is trying to wheedle us back in, without a vote and without himself having gained a popular mandate. The contempt of the British political class for any semblance of democracy has been on full display ever since the Brexit vote.
In fact the vote itself was only proposed by David Cameron in an effort to gain a Tory majority after the miserable coalition he had run with the Lib Dems and to prevent losses to UKIP under Farage. He had set up the ‘nudge unit’ which he thought could be used to finesse a Remain vote and assumed he would easily win.
The majority of the Uniparty, their owners and donors, as well as leaders of all Europe's liberal democracies, were ideologically wedded to the EU project and assumed it would be an easy win for Remain. That’s why there was no plan for how to leave.
After Cameron tendered his tearful resignation, the poison chalice was passed on to the next in to bat who were forced to pretend to honour the vote whilst having not the faintest idea or desire how to achieve it.
Many years of political chaos later, Boris Johnson managed finally to deliver the worst possible Brexit, obscured by the scamdemic and ever since it has been dishonestly blamed for everything currently wrong in the UK.
Burnham is going to have some very stormy times if he tries to drag the UK back in, especially as the EU seems to be going self-destruct right now. Most British voters don't care one way or the other about apologies for the slave trade, but do care about being forced to pay for reparations when, at the time Britain was leading the civilised world in abolishing slavery (which is still rife in Africa, the middle east and some parts of South East Asia,), their own ancestors were working in near slave conditions in the Industrial Revolution factories. They also care about being sold down the river (an expression that comes from the slave trade BTW,) to a Brussels based bureaucratic dictatorship.
FROM THE ARCHIVE:
De - Dollarisation: China, Brazil Make Deal To Ditch US Dollar For Bilateral Trades
China and Brazil this week concluded a deal to conduct trade between their nations in their own in their own currencies, ditching the established reserve currency for global trade, US dollar as an intermediary, the Brazilian announced said on Wednesday. This is Beijing’s latest strike against the almighty greenback in its currency war aimed at shifting the balance of geopolitical and economic power from west to east.
NATO Rhetoric About Russian Threat is 'Absurd'
The reasons being given for the latest NATO military buildup in Eastern Europe, the idea that the Russian 'Russian threat' to Eastern Europe grows every day is "simply absurd," according to former US diplomat and Senate policy advisor Jim Jatras. Effectively, Jatras says, the buildup is an attempt by the US to keep Germany and France on board with Washington's world domination agenda and ...
Naked Bankers Go For Gold
... That gold sale in 2013 was a naked short. The seller had no gold to sell. COMEX reported having gold only equal to about half of the short sale in its vaults, and not all of that was available for delivery (quite a lot of it belonged to the german government) In effect the naked shorting of gold could only work because really the right hand was selling to the left hand.
The Demise Of Dollar Hegemony: Russia Breaks Wall Streets's Oil-Price Monopoly In a move that went almost completely unreported in mainstream media, Russia has recently opened a market for the trading of physical and 'paper' oil (futures) in Moscow in Roubles. This is the most blatant challenge yet to the domination of the US dollar in world trade.
WMD in Mayfair
Recalling yesterday's Machiavelli Blog which commented on events surrounding the unfortunate death of the alleged former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, it seems the murder investigation has now found evidence of many caches (well OK, traces) of radio active toxins in various fashionable establishments in London's West End frequented by former Russian intelligence agents.
China launches global yuan payment system
China’s Central Bank has started a global payment system which provides cross-border transactions in yuan. The China International Payment System (CIPS) intends to internationalize the yuan and challenge the US dollar's dominance.
NATO Rhetoric About Russian Threat is 'Absurd'
The reasons being given for the latest NATO military buildup in Eastern Europe, the idea that the Russian 'Russian threat' to Eastern Europe grows every day is "simply absurd," according to former US diplomat and Senate policy advisor Jim Jatras. Effectively, Jatras says, the buildup is an attempt by the US to keep Germany and France on board with Washington's world domination agenda and ...
Naked Bankers Go For Gold
... That gold sale in 2013 was a naked short. The seller had no gold to sell. COMEX reported having gold only equal to about half of the short sale in its vaults, and not all of that was available for delivery (quite a lot of it belonged to the german government) In effect the naked shorting of gold could only work because really the right hand was selling to the left hand.
The Demise Of Dollar Hegemony: Russia Breaks Wall Streets's Oil-Price Monopoly In a move that went almost completely unreported in mainstream media, Russia has recently opened a market for the trading of physical and 'paper' oil (futures) in Moscow in Roubles. This is the most blatant challenge yet to the domination of the US dollar in world trade.
WMD in Mayfair
Recalling yesterday's Machiavelli Blog which commented on events surrounding the unfortunate death of the alleged former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, it seems the murder investigation has now found evidence of many caches (well OK, traces) of radio active toxins in various fashionable establishments in London's West End frequented by former Russian intelligence agents.
China launches global yuan payment system
China’s Central Bank has started a global payment system which provides cross-border transactions in yuan. The China International Payment System (CIPS) intends to internationalize the yuan and challenge the US dollar's dominance.
Refugee Crisis Or Existential Battle With USA for Europe
It has been clear for some years now that the USA, backed by its main NATO and EU military allies the UK and France (the FUKUS axis has been trying to provoke Russian into firing the shot that will be heard around the world and recognised as the startiung signal for World War Three.
Nothing is ever as it seems to be however, and views from middle east and far eastern journals suggest the USA is also working at destabilizing EU nations in order to force their support in its wars.
The European People’s Party (EPP) is the largest political group in the European Parliament, and they are unerringly supportive of America's efforts to start a war with Russia. “The time of talk and persuasion with Russia is over," MEP and Vice-President of the EPP told a meeting on Tuesday, 21 April, “Now it’s time for a tough policy, and concentration on defence and security ...”
The Mediterranean Boat People Crisis - How Does Europe Deal With The Mediterranean Migrant Crisis
The numbers of migrants trying to cross from the Libya on the coast of north Africa to one of the EU's southern nations is increasing. Europe's impoverished southern nations can't cope. And in the better off nations of northern Europe immigration is a toxic issue which is fuelling the rise of anti EU parties from France to Finnland in the north and Hungary in the east. What can be done?
This Is Why The US Just Lost Its Superpower Status According To Larry Summers
As more and more countries flock to join the Chinese led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank after Britain, France Australia, India and other traditional US allies defied Washington to associate themselves with China's initiative, conservative economic pundit Larry Summers once a contender for the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve delivered a sharp rebuke ...
The True Debt Disaster America Faces - Only A Fraction Of Government Debt Is Known To The Public
Politicians and the media talk about the $17 trillion debt the US Government owes to creditors. They are lying, the $17 trillion is a fraction of what america owes. The real figure is $200 trillon. And Obama's loonytoons economics are driving that up at an accelerating rate.
U.S. versus Russia War: Top Russian Politics Scolar Stephen Cohen Tells The Truth
We have been blogging for four years about the US drive for war, provocation of Russia in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and elsewhere made it obvious. But I'm just a news junkie with a strong sense of curiosity and have wondered why the US seems set on this course. Good to see experts like Stephen Cohen, a prominent expert on, Russia are coming onside.
Does It matter If The Dollar Is Replaced?
"Without delving too deeply into Austrian economic and capital theory, just let me point out that money printing disrupts the structure of production by fraudulently changing the “price discovery process” of capitalism. Capital is allocated to projects that will never be profitably completed. Bubbles get created and collapse and businesses are suddenly damaged en mass, thus, destroying wealth. (Zero Hedge)"
What the BRICS plus Germany are really up to in the Currency Wars?
The move led by Russia and China to dump the Petrodollar has escalated into a currency war, not the kind of war we assciate Obama with but give him time. Some wars as in Ukraine, by proxy are not going so well. Others, like the one against Islamic State aka ISIS aka ISIL in the middle east are going worse. Disintegration of The American Economic Empire is manifesting itself in moves by wannabe global players towards creating a multipolar world ...
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