Remember all my once-upon-a-time crazy talk about the aims and methods of transnational progressivism? Well, now. Bill Wilson, ALG:
Only now, nearly four years into the economic maelstrom of the financial crisis, do we see the real cost: national independence and sovereignty. It isn’t our money the Masters of the Universe want. It’s not land or other hard assets they crave. It’s our freedom they want, and the freedom of every other developed nation.
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[…] Greece and the other second-tier economies were allowed to borrow at will, piling on debt so high that their small populations could never repay them. And, then the rug is pulled out from under them. What was the price of bailout? Submit to dictates from the EU. Greece was handed a laundry list of actions it had to take. Effectively, their governments were shoved aside while international bureaucrats took control.
Now, we learn that the same thuggish process has taken place in Italy. Prime Minister Berlusconi reportedly said, “With all those letters and communiqués, they [according to the paper, ‘they’ refer to the European Central Bank, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel] made us appear as a government under a compulsory administration. This is not true. Also, they decided to intervene in favour of our bonds to save themselves, not Italy.”
Ireland, Portugal, and Spain have also tasted the boot of the EU masters — either do as they say or drown. But, as Mr. Berlusconi so aptly points out, it is not Italy or Greece or any other country that is being “saved,” it is the banks and the tiny handful of plutocrats who own and run them. […]
Entire nations of Europe are being pillaged to cover the bad bets of the banks. And the ultimate sacrifice demanded is their national integrity, their national independence. No more authoritative voice than socialist currency manipulator George Soros demands nothing less. In a column published recently, the socialist money-man called on Germans to, in effect, suck it up — pay the tab for Europe. Full national integration with nations losing the right to make fundamental spending decisions — sovereignty — is the price Soros and his predator band demand.
A similar fate awaits the U.S. We have a President who proclaims the problems can be addressed if we just fix our “broken” political system. Parroted by Obama-poodle Ezra Kline in the Washington Post, there never is a discussion of exactly what changes have to be made to our political system in order to “fix things.” […]
From day one, Obama has pressed to submerge the United States under the thumb of others. His refusal to acknowledge the unique role of America in the world, his constant bowing and scraping to “world opinion,” and his unilateral implementation of un-ratified treaties all point to where he wants to take us.
The incessant call to bind the productive nations of the world into world organizational control, whether the UN, the IMF, the World Bank, the G22 or other lesser known bodies, is becoming the hallmark of the economic crisis. Gordon Brown, the former socialist Prime Minister of Great Britain, wrote just this week of the need for a “world solution” to the financial crisis. Others are joining the chorus.
Americans were warned of this early in our history. As George Washington observed in his Farewell Address, “foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government”. America, or European nations or Japan for that matter, will not find prosperity or peace by submitting to the internationalists. The World Governance crowd has nothing for us. They are the enemy of all that is truly American.
So, my first suggestions for budget cuts to the extra-legal Super Committee would be to eliminate all funding for the IMF, the World Bank and the UN. If we need to spend money overseas to support and defend the U.S., let accountable, U.S. employees spend it; not unelected, faceless bureaucrats who in their heart hate American independence and sovereignty.
Or, if worse comes to worst, my suggestion is, elect a conservative President and give him an agreeable Congress, then tell Soros and his alphabet-soup transnational “progressive” pals that, while we appreciate all their efforts to drive us into global dependency, we’ve simply decided to opt out, not pay their ransom, and that they can either get stuffed or come and get their money. We’ve defended ourselves and the sovereignty of European countries before, and that’s what we plan to do again.
Because their control extends only insofar as we’re willing to agree to their terms and rules.
There’s a reason Obama is spreading our military thin and wants to see it cut drastically and weakened dramatically. There’s a reason he’s scrapped NASA. And Boehner’s budget deal, which will hit a stalemate in the “super committee,” triggers huge cuts to the military — while fixing nothing on the entitlement side, all cuts to Medicare coming on the provider side.
This is all by design.
The question is, what steps is an awakened US willing to take against the 21st century soft-war being waged against capitalism and the West by the transnational left?
And my counsel is simply this: remember that, to a large extent, might still makes right. And this is why we can’t treat our military expenditures as the equivalent of some social spending program. It’s the reason why, while treaties are appropriate, ceding sovereignty (be it the illusory gesture Obama has taken with the Libya debacle in order to unpersuasively argue his way around the War Powers Act, or the desire by leftist Democrats to put the US under the jurisdiction of the ICC, etc) must be fought at every turn.
Judges who consider “international law” should be recalled or impeached. And we should begin to parse the feel-good one-worldist rhetoric of our politicians with an ear toward what the end game of such internationalist nudges precisely is.
In the end, we have the ultimate say over our liberty and sovereignty. We can surrender it in a soft coup — and that’s been underway for decades now; or we can resist by refusing to accept the terms of the “debate” being manufactured and deployed to destroy us both from without and within.
Such has been a reoccurring theme on this site since its inception. And the reason is, as I’ve preached over and over and over again, there is an inevitable and inexorable end that comes with accepting and institutionalizing the foundational premises of leftist epistemology, from the Balkanizing of its identity politics preparing the ground for collectivism; to the insistence that it is “consensus” of the most reasonable who are responsible for determining meaning.
This way lies tyranny. And it was only a matter of time, on the long march, before it became visible on the edges of our own horizon.
Right here. This pisses me off.
were allowed to borrow at will
SO what exactly would have happened if they weren’t allowed? These same fuckers would be screaming from the rooftops that the “rich” weren’t giving the “poor” a fair shake.
The whole fucking meltdown occurred because a bunch of assholes couldn’t deal with their kids having a tantrum in Wal-Mart. So we bought them their toys instead of smacking them around, and now that they’re all grown up they want me to fork over their car payment or my grandkids will starve. Well they spent all the money I gave them on oxycontin and tattoos and I’m done. Send those brats to live with their other grandparents, if you can find them, you aren’t getting any more money from me.
I’m not sure your scenario is really worse coming to worst. I think if worse really comes to worst, the productive and self-reliant will have to hightail it to the small agricultural towns, and the voter cattle in the big cities can turn Mr Soros and his friends into alphabet soup.
Alas, the tyrants always seem to fly off in their private jets just ahead of the mob.
In all matters financial, if you cannot impose self discipline, the market will do it for you. With that goes a large part of your sovereign rights. That is the case for Greece, and that
will beis the case for the US. Set aside the needs for the Germans to bail out their banksters, or Congress to do so for ours. It is the logical end to such a lifestyle.The Generals said so when they pegged the national debt as the largest threat to our security.
Amy Winehouse writ large on national economies.
like the sailor said quote ain’t that a hole in the boat
Banking and anger. I think we’ve seen this story before and it doesn’t end well.
I’m just glad that our young people have Fallout 3 and The Hunger Games to prepare them.
“Alas, the tyrants always seem to fly off in their private jets just ahead of the mob.”
Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu would beg to differ… :)
Maybe someone could let the air out of Soros’ jet landing gear tires?
“Greece and the other second-tier economies were allowed to borrow at will, piling on debt so high that their small populations could never repay them. And, then the rug is pulled out from under them. What was the price of bailout? Submit to dictates from the EU. Greece was handed a laundry list of actions it had to take. Effectively, their governments were shoved aside while international bureaucrats took control.”
Greece did that to themselves, they didn’t have to pile up the debt. They did, and they are paying the price for it. We will do the same later.
Or what LMC said. Same thing, only his is a little more visceral.
“I think if worse really comes to worst, the productive and self-reliant will have to hightail it to the small agricultural towns”
Don’t forget to bring a gun, a hundred rounds of ammo, a months subsistence, and a skill.
We don’t cotton to slackers out here…
amy winehouse has been sober for almost a month
100 rounds of ammo? Lee, I have that more than covered. I’m ready for the zombie apocalypse.
That’s a minimum cranky. Bring four guns with a thousand rounds each, you can sit in on the Defense Boards weekly strategy meeting down at Huey’s Bar&Grill…
So just heard Sarkozy and Merkle have called on all the Euro nations to enshrine a Balanced Budget Amendment in their respective constitutions. Ha! Follow Europe Barry.
Just to twist the emphasis slightly, I’d say that liberty lost is sovereignty lost.
We’re all sovereign. We cede a portion of our sovereignty to a Sovereign so that we may
Or at least that’s how those funny little men in stockings and knee-breeches put it a century ago.
When we cede more than a just measure of our sovereignty to a Sovereign, we put our liberty at risk. When we allow a benefactor to provide our living to us instead of providing it for ourselves, we’ve already made the proverbial liberty for security trade.
What’s happened in Greece and elsewhere is that the people traded their liberty for dependency on the State. The State in turn traded its Sovereignty in order to finance that dependency. Liberty was traded away, sovereignty lost, and now Sovereignty has been lost as well.
Lee? Done and done. Well, that was before I sold all my guns and ammo to a guy down the street, of course.
Are guns going to suck as bad in the real post-apolcalypse as they do in Fallout 3?
Boehner’s budget deal, … triggers huge cuts to the military
How the hell did that happen? Who wrote up those terms and agreed to them?
WTF!!!
Don’t forget to bring a gun, a hundred rounds of ammo, a months subsistence, and a skill.
I don’t have arms or ammo, but I gots plenty of canned goods and I can pull weeds like nobody’s business.
I’m all about the pre-positioning, Lee. Child of the Cold War, and all that.
“I don’t have arms or ammo”
Well, wumans can just bring a large cook pot, and maybe some bandages and such.
I gots two crock pots and colorful band-aids, if that helps.
Uh, we really only touched on that at Huey’s. Bout all I can do is direct you to the HomeEc Board. I think they got a quilting bee going on where they discuss that stuff at length.
#20 – I still get a little wistful thinking of “POMCUS sites”
REFORGER….BEGIN!
I’m really walking a line here, ain’t I? ;-)
I’m really walking a line here, ain’t I? ;-)
You must have me mistaken for Amanda Marcotte. I don’t give a rip about “sexism,” especially when it’s in obvious jest.
And yeah, I’ve tied a few quilts in my day.
“You must have me mistaken for Amanda Marcotte. “
Yeah, like I’m new. =^D
I knew I shoulda toined left at Albuquerque…
If worse comes to worst, I take comfort in the fact that we have tiered federal, state, and local governments. I really can’t see the Governor of Wyoming bowing to a bunch of blue helmets. Can’t see that happening in Texas either, nor in a whole swath of southern, mid-western and rocky mountain states. If those blue coastal states want to sell out we can’t stop them, but we don’t have to join them.