Friday, April 22, 2016

Lifelong Feminist Camille Paglia Slams Hypocrite Hillary Clinton And Her 'Liberal' Supporters

Killary (Image source) And some people think this crooked, lying, money grubbing woman deserves to be President of the USA? That's got to be a sick joke.

As strong evidence emerges that the New York Democratic Primary election between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders was rigged by the Democratic Party Nominations Committee in favour of their preferred candidate Clinton, America's hectoring on other nations on democracy are making it a laughing stock around the world.

The latest we have on this story from Rosette Newcome at US-Uncut is that ">New York City comptroller Scott Stringer has ordered a full audit of the city’s Board of Elections after widespread complaints over the voting process.

As the city comptroller, Stringer has the authority to conduct performance audits of all state agencies, including the Board of Elections. Stringer’s order of a full audit comes after the news that 126,000 voters in Brooklyn were quietly purged from county voter rolls over the last five months, and in response to the news of polling places opening two hours late and voting machines not working. Stringer issued a public statement Tuesday afternoon, describing the Board of Elections as “disorganized, chaotic and inefficient.”

“There is nothing more sacred in our nation than the right to vote, yet election after election, reports come in of people who were inexplicably purged from the polls, told to vote at the wrong location or unable to get in to their polling site. The people of New York City have lost confidence that the Board of Elections can effectively administer elections and we intend to find out why the BOE is so consistently disorganized, chaotic and inefficient. With four elections in New York City in 2016 alone, we don’t have a moment to spare.”
In an official letter to Board of Elections executive director Michael Ryan, Stringer asked Ryan for the agency’s response in how it conducts poll site operations, communications with voters, training of poll workers, and complaints of voter disenfranchisement.

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Lifelong Feminist Carmen Paglia Slams Hypocrite Hillary Clinton And Her 'Liberal' Supporters
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Essential reading for our American readers who must soon decide who they want as their next president. Important too for non Americans who cannot influence the outcome of the election but are entitled to know why their arses might be blown from here to eternity sometime in the next few years.

The Birth Of Cultural Marxism
Ever wondered when and where the idiotic pseudo -philosophies of hippys and the idiotic and divisive politically correct dogmas of the modern left were born. The Social justice Warriors (aka 'liberals' or progressives' though they are really neither of these things but instead are moralistic authoritarians who hate free speech and personal liberty and support censorship, government control of media and criminalisation of dissent.

Wall Street 'Whistleblower' Exposes Clinton Foundation Fraud
The woman is a phoney, a self interested, self aggrandizing elitist with a sense of entitlement the size of a galaxy. Whatever Hillary does, and whatever minority group the claims she is acting in the interests of, you can bet the main beneficiaries are Hillary Clinton, her family and her cronies.
No surprise then that a whistleblower has exposed Hillary's charity, 'The Clinton Foundation as a fraud.

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

EU IN TURMOIL: Hungary threatens REBELLION against Brussels over forced migration

The fence built along Hungary's southern border to stop illegal immigrants entering the country en route from Greece and Turkey top Germany. It is worth noting that international law provides for refugees t seek refuge in the closest safe nation to the one they are fleeing. The moment they start trying to choose a destination they become economic migrants (Image Source)

Europe's problematic 'borderless' Schengen Area looks to be on the brink of total collapse because a furious government in Hungary has launched a rebellion against open borders. The country's prime minister Viktor Orban has totally rejected the mandatory migrant quotas the European Union bureaucracy in Brussels wants to impose on all member states.

Orban is currently touring Europe’s capital cities, rallying support for a new plan for passport free travel with greater protection for individual states, dubbed "Schengen 2.0." It is thought the plan will involve reverting to the original borderless travel plan which enabled citizens of EU nations to move freely between member states but required non EU trsvellers to show passports and where appropriate, visas.

Currently, EU countries are forced to comply with orders from Brussels to offer no obstruction to any cross border by movement within the EU even it is involves travellers who have arrived illegally in EU nations, and to accept and settle a specified number of economic migrants whom the bureaucrats insists are refugees even though they are obviously not fleeing from combat zones. Orban has described these quotas as "wrong-headed" and is now leading a group of other countries determined to re-take control of their borders.

He said during a speech in the Lisbon leg of his trip: "We must protect the borders.The EU cannot create a system in which it lets in migrants and then prescribes mandatory resettlement quotas for every member state."

Orban also promised a referendum in Hungary on whether the country should accept these orders, warning that some of the settled migrants were unlikely to integrate, leading to social friction. He said: "If we do not stop Brussels with a referendum, they will indeed impose on us masses of people, with whom we do not wish to live together."

Other countries may follow suit in opposing these plans and hold their own referendums, taking the power from Brussels and putting it back in the hands of their residents. Only two weks ago in a plebiscite in The Netherlands, Dutch voters threw out a proposal to fast track the accession of Ukraine to full EU mermbership. War torn Ukraine does not mmet any of the democratic, economic or social citeria for EU membership so the attempt by Brussels to recruit the country to the community can only be a calculated provocation to Russia.

Slovakia and the Czech Republic have both threatened to take legal action against the EU’s orders to take in migrants. Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said on Sunday: “I expect the line of opposition will be wider. Let us talk about legal action against the proposal when it is necessary.”

The action plan, which will be shared with the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland as well as the prime ministers of several other unspecified countries, is just the latest nail in the Schengen coffin. Other countries may follow suit in opposing these plans and hold their own referendums, taking the power from Brussels and putting it back in the hands of their residents.

Slovakia and the Czech Republic have both threatened to take legal action against the EU’s orders to take in migrants. Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said on Sunday: "I expect the line of opposition will be wider. Let us talk about legal action against the proposal when it is necessary."

The stubborn, arrogant stupidity of the unelected bureucrats who run the EU is being very clearly illustrated here. They are trying to usurp the sovereign powers of democratically elected governments on an issue which has caused a massive surge of anti EU sentiment in public opinion thrughout the Union. Their dictatorial attitude can only serve to harden anti EU feelings and swell support for anti EU parties such as France's Front National, UKIP in britain and Germany's Alternatif Fur Deutschland.

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The Video That Ought To spell The End Of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign

OK you are thinking, this is the umpteenth example of lying, crookedness, corruption and playing fast and loose with national security that should have (would have) ended the political career of anybody but The New World Order's darling, the anointed one, the compliant drone willing to unquestionably do the bidding of that ruthless cabal of faceless, secretive, super wealthy creatures of dubious humanity who really run the world.

The case is human beings are easily manipulated and a propaganda campaign consisting of a toxic mix of lies and scaremongering has frightened the weak of will, the apologies for human beings who rather than face life as a great adventure instead desire instead to cringe behind the apron of Nanny State.

Such people get what they deserve. The sad thing is the rest of us here in the west, where snivelling cowardice is in the majority it seems, the rest of us do not deserve such a fate. So here again is why only snivelling cowards who are not fit to be called human would want to vote for a repugnant hypocrite like Hillary. Thanks to The AntiMedia for making this article available on a creative commons licence. If you love or respect democracy and individual freedom please share it and the embedded video as widely as possible.

Claire Bernish
April 20, 2016
(ANTIMEDIA) After New York’s stunningly disorganized and questionable primary results proved, yet again, our elections are rigged to ensure establishment darling Hillary Clinton garners the Democratic nomination, a new video from Abby Martin’s Empire Files could topple Clinton’s entire campaign.

Evidence of said rigging isn’t difficult to find — it’s written directly into the electoral process in superdelegates, whose 700 “unpledged” votes remain uncommitted to a candidate until the nomination. This is “to ensure nominees are hand-picked party insiders,” as Martin explains in the video.

“The single vote of a superdelegate is worth thousands of ours,” Martin notes. “Many of these people are current and former members of Congress, and dozens more are literally corporate lobbyists working on behalf of every industry from healthcare to private prisons.”

In fact, the employment of superdelegates was initiated precisely for situations when the people’s choice doesn’t align with the establishment’s — such as the current overwhelming popularity of Bernie Sanders.

But the web of corporate media executives and insiders contributing directly to Hillary Clinton’s campaign couldn’t possibly explain the extreme bias, lack of criticism, and virtual media blackout on Sanders’ success, right? And her campaign, dripping with corporate lobbying cash, wouldn’t concern the American voting public, even though lobbyists literally act as superdelegates — would it?

Watch Empire Files: Abby Martin Exposes What Hillary Clinton Really Represents to see the proof the establishment doesn’t want you to discover.

This article (The Video That Could Bring Down Hillary Clinton’s Campaign) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Claire Bernish and theAntiMedia.org. Anti-Media Radio airs weeknights at 11pm Eastern/8pm Pacific. Image credit: Gage Skidmore. If you spot a typo, email edits@theantimedia.org.

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Lay Lines?

I saw a post today about a new type of Chinese ICBM that could strike targets in the USA in half an hour. That;s a bit worrying but should put a stop to Obama and the neo - cons sabre rattling.

(Image source)

China tests ICBM capable of striking US within half an hour

Beijing has successfully tested a new long-range ballistic missile capable of engaging any potential target worldwide. The rocket takes just 30 minutes to cover its maximum 12,000km range and can deliver multiple strikes on any nuclear-capable state. The launch of China’s Dongfeng-41 (East Wind, DF-41) missile was registered by the US satellite tracking system in real time, the Washington Free Beacon reports

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What puzzled me though was a comment in the thread. It read:

Jack M 20 April 12:26pm
nuclear warheads can ONLY BE SET OFF on lay lines..or above lay lines...F.Y.I.

Now I have slept with women in London, Copenhagen and Stockholm, and on a map you can draw a straight line joining all three.

Is that a lay line?

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Bernie Earns less In A Year Than Hillary Gets For One Speech To Bankers

Sen. Bernie Sanders released his income taxes details last wekend. It was his 2014 income tax details, anyway and did on Friday night. In journalism, releasing information at that off hour is what's called "a Friday news dump," usually an attempt to bury bad news.

They return showed that Sanders and his wife Jane jointly earned $205,271 for 2014, a good income, an income many people would cut off an arm and a leg for. Or to put it another way, Sanders made around $25,000 less for a whole year than his primary opponent, Hillary Clinton, earned from ONE SPEECH that she delivered to the great vampire squid of global capitalism, Goldman Sachs, which paid her a cool $225,000 for a 45-minute job of a speech, a fee that was paid to the once and would-be future White House resident on three separate occasions. (Because, as Hillary shrugged in a 2015 debate, "that's what they offered.")

In 2014, Hillary and her ex-president husband Bill Clinton earned just over $28 million, or a whopping 135 times as much as the Sanders household. And of course Hillary Medusa Rodham Clinton is a member of the billionaire Rodham clan. And yet she claims to speak for 'the poor' and some people are naive enough to believe her.

Well nobody ever claimed democracy is a perfect system, it's just better than all the others.

Sourced from www.philly.com

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No surprise then that a whistleblower has exposed Hillary's charity, 'The Clinton Foundation as a fraud.

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OMFG - Yellowstone Eruption In 2016? Can Shakespeare Help Me?

Thanks to Kelli Shrugs for bringing this to my attention (and to Shakespeare for the prescient lines -scroll down past pic.). The full headline reads:

Yellowstone Eruption In 2016? Shocking New Video Shows What Is Really Going On At Yellowstone

Over the past week, our planet has been hit by large earthquake after large earthquake, and according to Volcano Discovery there are 38 volcanoes around the world that are erupting right now. We have seen a dramatic spike in global seismic activity that is unlike anything that we have seen in ages, and that is why what is going on at Yellowstone, is so incredibly alarming. Geologists tell us that a full-blown eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano would have up to 2,000 times the power of the Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption of 1980, and approximately two-thirds of the country would immediately become uninhabitable. As you will see below, there are signs that something big is getting ready to happen at Yellowstone, and if it does erupt all of our lives will be permanently changed forever.
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Not being a Bible reading type of person, in times of stress I usually turn to Shakespeare for solace or inspiration. And sure enough I found these lines which helped me understand we cannot change the course of nature and must accept the inevitable.

The night has been unruly: where we lay,
Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,
Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death,
And prophesying with accents terrible
Of dire combustion and confused events
New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird
Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth
Was feverous and did shake.
(Macbeth, 2.3)

Good old Shaky, always hits the spot.

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Monday, April 18, 2016

Guardian Reports Minimum Wage Reduces Earnings – Is The Left Seeing Sense.

Even the bright young things are finding that when a left wing government introduces a minimum wage, it quickly becomes the standard wage (Image source)

It has long been known (since the chaos that followed the failure of the Speenhamland Poor Relief System in the late eighteenth century, that attempt to help 'the poor' by imposing a minimum wage will not only fail but will end up lowering wages and causing low earners even greater hardship.

Only lefties and socialists denied this because not matter how many times we cite the economic hardship and widespread suffering that resulted from socialist policies in nations like Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, Nazi Germany, Pol Pot's Cambodia and Tony Blair's Britain to name but a few, the lefties respond that those countries did not implement 'real socialism', but when challenged they are not capable of defining what is meant by 'real socialism'. Instead they usually say things like 'equality and diversity', 'mass immigration and multiculturalism' or 'all join hands and sing Kumbaya.'

But even the left are waking up to the realities of economics and human nature it seems, as this report in the UK's most left wing newspaper, The Guardian, illustrates:

Employers claw back living wage in cuts to perks, hours and pay

From fish factories in Grimsby to coffee shops in central London and even Waitrose supermarkets, workers across the country are seeing perks and pay rates cut as companies try to offset the cost of George Osborne’s national living wage.

On Monday, just over two weeks after the new minimum pay rate of £7.20 an hour for over-25s came into force, MPs will debate the effect the 50p rise in basic pay has had on thousands of workers.

In the past few weeks the Observer has learned of companies withdrawing overtime and Sunday pay, bonuses, free food and paid breaks in order to keep the wage bill down.

Siobhain McDonagh MP, who called the backbenchers’ debate, said: “When the chancellor announced the national living wage, he said: ‘Britain deserves a pay rise and it’s getting one.’ I took him at his word on that. People should get a pay rise, not a pay cut.”

The left admitting that one of their sacred cows does not work, in fact it achieves the opposite of what it is intended to do is a major step towards restoring sanity to the political systems of developed nations. It has taken a long time, I have been saying this very thing in blogs and online publications for ten years.

Shakespeare made this comment on the folly of trying to impose equality on things that are simply not the same:

Are we not brothers?
So man and man should be; But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.”

(Cymbeline, act 4, sc. 1)

And the wise old bubble-and-squeak Aristotle (who was a bugger for the bottle we're told ), over two thousand years ago, advised us; "The greatest inequalities arise from trying to make unequal things equal."

Continue lefties, let self - righteousness
wreak havoc where you try to spread justice
but with misguided zeal only succeed
in bringing low that which you tried to raise.

(and that's a Shropshire Lad's tribute to a Warwickshire Lad)

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Obama Bids To Persuade Britons To Sacrifice Their Nations Independence To Serve US Geopolitical Interests

U.S. President Barack Obama will head to London next week to join the international chorus of leaders imploring Britain not to leave the European Union.

According to a White House press release on Thursday (14/4/2016) the president will arrive in Britain on April 21 for a three-day visit, just two months before the country votes in an referendum on the issue.

“He will make very clear that this is decision for the people of the United Kingdom to make,” Obama’s close foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters.

“But we have no closer friend in the world and if we are asked our view as a friend, we’ll offer it.”

Rhodes said Obama would be “very straightforward and candid as a friend as to why the US believes that it is good for the UK to remain in the EU.”

Opinion polls suggest the June 23 vote will be a close one, but large numbers of voters remain undecided and Britain’s allies are keen for Europe’s second largest economy to stay in the bloc.

Aside from meeting British officials, Obama will have lunch with Queen Elizabeth II on April 22, one day after the long-serving monarch’s 90th birthday.

He will also stage a joint news conference with Prime Minister David Cameron, who is campaigning for a vote to remain in Europe despite broad support for “Brexit” within his Conservative Party.

On Sunday, after his stay in Britain, Obama will head on to a major industrial fair in Hannover, Germany, where he will give a more general speech on the challenges facing Europe.

Obama's intervention could boost the leave campaign if we all start reminding people of:
a) the disastrous outcome of Obama's wars,
b) The disastrous outcome of Obama's social engineering projects,
c) The disastrous results of Obama's green energy policy
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/worlds-largest-solar-plant-21-billion-energy-department-loan-guarantee-files-bankruptcy
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-19/beginning-end-affordable-care-act-largest-us-health-insurer-may-exit-obamacare

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Saudi Arabia Threatens To Liquidate Its Treasury Holdings If Congress Probes Its Role In Sept 11 Attacks

An excellent insight into the west's relationship with the medieval mindset of Wahhabi Muslim autocracies. Why do we let the primistive mindset of these oil rich vagina mutilators dictate to us. Maybe it is because the USA has not, for atound a century been a democracy because it was hijacked by oligarchs during World War One and Saudi Arabia is not an ancient monarchy like britain but was created by an opportunist religious nut after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. And that's nor all the two nations have in common. Both like to achieve their political aims by the use of threats and terror.

Anyway, here's Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge on how, once again, the Saudi government is calling the Obama Administration to heel.

Back in January, when the market was watching in shocked silence as oil prices were crashing to decade lows and as concerns emerged that Saudi Arabia may need to commence selling its vast, if unquantified, USD reserves, we wrote a post titled "Attention Finally Turns To Saudi Arabia's "Secret" US Treasury Holdings" where we noted something very surprising: whereas we do know that Saudi Arabia is the owner of the world's third largest USD reserves ... their actual composition remains as a secret, because while the US discloses the explicit Treasury holdings of all other nations, Saudi Arabia's holdings, for some unknown reason, are not officially disclosed.

(Image source: Zero Hedge)

"It’s a secret of the vast U.S. Treasury market, a holdover from an age of oil shortages and mighty petrodollars," Bloomberg wrote of Saudi Arabia’s US Treasury holdings.

"As a matter of policy, the Treasury has never disclosed the holdings of Saudi Arabia, long a key ally in the volatile Middle East, and instead groups it with 14 other mostly OPEC nations including Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Nigeria,” Bloomberg goes on to note, adding that the rules are different for almost everyone else. Although Saudi Arabia's "secret" is protected by "an unusual blackout by the U.S. Treasury Department," for more than a hundred other countries, from China to the Vatican, the Treasury provides a detailed breakdown of how much U.S. debt each holds."

So who does know how much US paper the Saudis are sitting on? Well, the Saudis of course,"a handful of Treasury officials," and some bureaucrats at the Fed, Bloomberg says, noting that “for everyone else, it’s a guessing game."

Yes, a “guessing game,” but one that will very soon have profound consequences for markets and for geopolitics.

We closed with a simple, if suddenly very prophetic question:

"who would be the new patron saint of the US Treasury Department in the event the Saudis drawdown all of their reserves and decide to diversify away from USD assets... Put differently, who will monetize the US deficit if relations between Washington and Riyadh hit the skids over Iran?"

It is this question that has suddenly reemerged with a bang, and could rock the US administration to its core as what until recently was a "fringe conspiracy theory" is suddenly exposed as an all too unpleasant fact, and becomes the biggest political scandal to rock the U.S. in years, in the process maybe even crushing the friendly diplomatic relations the U.S. has held for years with its biggest Mid-East ally, Saudi Arabia.

It may be pure coincidence of course that the Saudi Arabian treasury has deciced to put pressure on Washington in this way when of the topic of September 11 has reappeared in the news recent weeks. The taboo - in official circles - topic of whether there was a "Saudi connection" in the biggest terrorist attack on US soil (Yes there was). Last weekend, out of the blue, the 60 Minutes news review broadcast an item on the "28 pages" that were classified beyond top secret in the Congressional investigative report into 9/11 - pages that allegedly confirm the Saudi connection.

A report in the New York Times earlier this week revealed Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Saudi officials have always denied that the global beheading capital had anything to do with the Sept. 11 attacks, and the 9/11 Commission officially found "no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded the operation." But critics have noted that the commission’s narrow wording left open the possibility that less senior officials or parts of the Saudi government could have played a role or were selected to take the hit if Saudi involvement was confirmed.

Suspicions have lingered, not just because the conclusions of a 2002 congressional inquiry into the attacks cited evidence that Saudi officials living in the United States at the time had a hand in the plot. Just this week an independent invastigator claimed evidence existed of the detonation of three thermonuclear devices at the site (That is an unofficial report by the way, this publication mentions it as evidence of continuing doubts, we do not endorse it.)

The information contained in those 28 pages removed from the report, still has not been released publicly. It was the surprising rekindled focus on these 28 pages in recent days that suggested that something may have been afoot.

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Friday, April 15, 2016

EU to Keep Part of TTIP Trade Deal Papers Under Wraps

Representatives of various anti TTIP protest groups mock the secrecy surrounding negotiations of the trade deal's terms. (Image source)

One of the things about the dodgy trade deal being pushed through between the USA and EU, the Trans Atlantic Trade And Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the secrecy that has surrounded negotiations. Even elected representatives, members of European national assemblies such as the UK Parliament and the German Bundestag have not been allowed to know what is in it.

That alone should tell you beyond reasonable doubt that the so called 'free trade' deal (which is actually very little to do with trade and a lot to do with transferring sovereignty over vital areas of national law and administration from national governments to global corporate businesses) is bad for the people and good for the elites.

Even now as the bureaucratic dictatorship in Brussels and the wretched Obama administration in Washington push to get the deal, nicknamed Obamatrade, completed before the worst American President ever leaves office, the officials in charge of negotiations are reluctant to release details to the public or the media.

The European Commission does not plan unveiling all documents on the EU-US free trade deal, Europe's top trade official said in an op-ed published in a French newspaper on Friday.

The publication in Le Monde comes less than two weeks before the 13th round of EU-US talks on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) kicks off in New York on April 25.

"Certain documents must stay confidential, either those related to tactical comments directly referencing Europe’s negotiating stance or those citing US documents, which are not for us to publish," EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem said in the article.

The TTIP deal, which aims to deregulate trade US-EU trade, has been criticized for lack of transparency, prompting the Commission to publish some of the TTIP documents.

Malmstroem stressed that TTIP documents in question would be made available to national parliaments of EU member states, offering a degree of openness that had not been there before. Parliaments will also be the last to decide on the trade pact once the Commission is done negotiating it, she added.

European lawmakers have laid down a set of principles they want to be observed during the ongoing talks, including greater transparency, inviolability of social and environmental standards, and respect of EU’s red lines, she continued.

Last year, the secretive deal sparked widespread concern that it would lower environmental, health, safety, and workers’ rights standards in Europe, as well as enable the extra-judicial settlement of disputes in circumvention of national sovereignty.

Here's an extract from Malmstrom's Le Monde article translated into English

By Cecilia Malmström
Like any major initiative, the Transatlantic Partnership on Trade and Investment (TTIP) raises many concerns and hopes, giving rise to a lively debate about its purpose and its methods. One thing is certain: the role of national parliaments in the democratic control of the negotiations will be crucial as people who read the article by sixty [European] parliamentarians published in Le Monde will recall.

This forum demonstrates the commitment of Members of Parliament to exercise fully their role of elected representatives in the democratic control of the negotiations for over two years with the United States. This is not surprising: these negotiations are important for Europe, and also for France, which is a key player in the transatlantic relationship, which has always been about globalization of trade.

These parliamentarians set conditions for successful negotiations which I fully share: transparency at all levels, reciprocity between the parties, intransigence on social and environmental standards, which can be changed only to the highest bidder, respecting our red lines and the refusal of any private arbitration tribunal in favor of a global accountability for investment.

The Commission will not yield anything on defending the European agricultural and food model. Beef hormones or chlorinated chicken remain in the United States. The goal of negotiations is rather to promote our agricultural model, to obtain recognition of controlled appellations and support our exports high value added dairy products, wine and spirits or processed food. Imperative that we get more openness and reciprocity in public procurement and services. These are all vital interests for France and 22,000 companies that export overseas. They will be reflected in the final agreement.

Unfortunately, as you may have guessed, all that is total bollocks. The 'sixty parliamentarians' were all from parties fully committed to the abolishing the sovereignty of Europe's member states and absorbing the whole of the EU plus those Balkan, East European, middle eastern and north African states that figure in the bureaucracy's expansion plans into a single, federal superstate.

That is why we British must vote LEAVE and support popular movements in other states that are calling for IN / OUT votes. The EU is not transparent, not democratic and it is certainly not economically sound.

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