The Strauss-Kahning of EU Taxpayers Continues!

There are reports this morning that IMF Chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, held in custody in New York, in jail on an an island, created from garbage, has been placed on suicide watch. We must hope it is effective for the world needs to know every detail of this man's lifestyle and attitudes which the court should expose, not merely the simple answer as to whether he was guilty or not to the events alleged by the hotel maid.

These same attitudes, in the IMF/EU Bail Out packages to Greece, Ireland, and following this week's Ecofin meeting, Portugal as well, are evident in every high-handed action of those running both these organisations.

It is noteworthy that one of the individuals mentioned as a possible European candidate as a replacement for IMF Chief, former Olympic synchronised swimming contestant, Madame Christine Lagarde, has already confessed the decision of last May's Ecofin on the first Greek bail out was illegal! (Read full details of that on my posting of 9th April, linked here).

If Europe is to retain its right to decide the post of IMF Chief, which presently seems doubtful, then it should be someone who has run a country while maintaining a sound currency, leaving us only with Switzerland, from which I suggest two times former President Adolf Ogi.

This morning EurActiv reports that EU Finance Ministers are calling for taxes on international shipping and aviation. Looking at the reported lifestyle of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, with whom these devious creatures regularly rubbed shoulders and wined and dined, (see a fascinating image on EU Observer, linked here), can any doubt that the real motives of raising extra monies has nothing whatever to do with our planet's environment, but everything to do with ensuring they can continue to maintain the lifestyles their election has brought them, long after they have been booted from office, right up to their moment of deaths, and for their widows and families, for as long as possible thereafter, just as has been achieved by all their predecessors. All this while the tax-payers that support the rotten EU structures are ground into poverty and economic growth across the Continent, (except, of course, in Germany), is destroyed.

Being Strauss-Kahned will in future be used by this blog as a short-hand phrase covering this entire process!

Two Swiss Citizens who might save the EU!

I have been wracking my brains to offer a concrete suggestion that will help the EU to emerge from its present desperate and apparently hopeless deep malaise, now becoming widely known as the Euromess, which itself is beginning to threaten the entire world trading economy. Since the final decade of the last century I have been arguing that the democractic deficit within the EU, is the greatest danger for the EU, and that the development of the internet, and the model of the constitution of the Swiss Confederation, should serve as the means for the solution of that dreadful deficit, which left unresolved can only result in a pan-European tyranny as defined by Karl Popper.

In order to escape the pernicious influences and widespread drug availability in modern English society, my wife and I decided to educate our children in Switzerland and as a result spent considerable time within that country, during which I became a great admirer of its methods of governance and the integrity and honesty of some of its politicians. Two in particular stick in my mind, and lying awake last night, I mentally prepared this posting and decided to put forth their names as possible saviours of the founding European dream. They are Adolf Ogi, twice former President of the Swiss Confederation and fearless fighter of corruption within the Olympic movement whose own personal integrity possibly lost his own native bi-lingual canton of Wallis/Valais one winter olympics, which was held instead in Turin. The other is former Chief Prosecutor for the UN International War Crimes Tribunal, Carla del Ponte, who is a native of the Italian speaking canton of Ticino and who first gained prominence for her fearless fight against mafia influences around the Swiss shores of Lakes Lugano, Como and Maggiore.

The EU Council could charge these individuals, or those they might recommend, possibly joined by a third French speaking Swiss statesmen to prepare a draft constitution for the EU along the lines of the constitution of the Swiss Confederation (with its 26 very independently minded Cantons), based upon direct democracy using the full present and future potential of the internet, totally disregarding the present corrupted and distrusted Treaties, pillars and institutions of the EU and all subject to a simultaneous, pan-EU referendum held in each of the 27 EU member states. The EU emergency funding arrangements could, if necessary, be supplemented to continue throughout the period of the preparation of the proposed draft constitution, but the confidence provided by the fact that the EU might be about to tackle its completely evil democratic deficit, could make further drawdowns increasingly less likely, and Europe could become as its founders surely must have hoped, a beacon of democracy for the rest of the world, rather than a road-map towards tyranny and institutionalised corruption as it appears today.