Cameron's "Big Lie" EU Speech One Week On!

After Prime Minister, David Cameron, had finished making his long delayed speech on Britain's future relationship with the European Union, delivered at the Bloomberg TV studios in the City of London this time last week, I concluded it required some careful consideration before reacting. By last weekend I had prepared the following response which I submitted to the International Business Times for their usual publication of such posts. I advised that should this not be published by Wednesday 0900 GMT, the post would be published on Ironies Too, to mark this one week passage by the speech into history.

As I was preparing to post my comment in its original form under the title "Cameron's Proclamation of Continuing Complicity in Corruption" the IB Times duly published my post which is linked from here.

Hypocrite Von Rompuy

Brussels, 20 October 2011 EUCO 104/11


Joint statement by President Herman Van Rompuy and President José Manuel Barroso on the death of Muammar Gaddafi.

The reported death of Muammar Gaddafi marks the end of an era of despotism and repression from which the Libyan people have suffered for too long. Today Libya can turn a page in its history and embrace a new democratic future. We call on the National Transitional Council to pursue a broad based reconciliation process which reaches out to all Libyans and enables a democratic, peaceful and transparent transition in the country

Von Rompuy's role model for EU; Gaddafi reported dead!

Over many decades of my life, the evil spectre of Colonel Gaddafi has hovered in the background, casting a pall of corruption over the Mediterranean Sea and up across Europe, even sometime reaching the inner depths of Downing Street.

At lunchtime today Gadaffi was reported captured in Sirte, reports now suggest that rather than just having been shot in the legs, he is in fact dead. Al Arabiyah is tweeting that this is in fact the case and that shortly they will be permitted to film the corpse.

All this is cause for an immense feeling of both relief and satisfaction. One day the truth of Gadaffi, his role in the original oil price crisis and the long demise of the West will be more widely known and even fully appreciated. I will enjoy a quiet celebratory drink this evening.

Unhappily, Von Rompuy, still seems prepared to lead the EU in a similar direction, see my posting on that topic from last August, linked here.

Guido has a picture see here.

Gaddafi's Libya - a blueprint for Von Rompuy's EU?

 

EU Council President Von Rompuy with Gadaffi

Popular Conferences and People's Committees are the fruition of the people's struggle for democracy. Popular Conferences and People's Committees are not creations of the imagination; they are the product of thought which has absorbed all human experiments to achieve democracy.

Direct democracy, if put into practice, is indisputably the ideal method of government. Because it is impossible to gather all people, however small the population, in one place so that they can discuss, discern and decide policies, nations departed from direct democracy, which became an utopian idea detached from reality. It was replaced by various theories of government, such as representative councils, party-coalitions and plebiscites, all of which isolated the masses and prevented them from managing their political affairs.

 The above is taken from Gaddafi's Green Book, linked here, note the similarity with the Committees of the Regions now being consolidated across the EU, by the same secretive elite who have destroyed all our national democracies and economies, which latter result they are using as an excuse to now impose economic governance all across the Euro Zone, which concept is also being pushed by Britain's Coalition Government and vigourously extolled by a Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, and close ally of a Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron!

Libya's Committees disguising Gaddafi's Despotism

In Libya, in spite of the Gaddafi family public denials that they were in control, the entire populace suffering from this oppression, knew that the pretence that Gadaffi was not in complete control was a sham, charade and farce.

In the EU as it is presently being led, every one knows that the EU Parliament is powerless and toothless and that the appointed EU Commission is merely a body of espense and gold plated pension accruing bunch of self-serving failed national politicians. The President of the EU Council, Herman Von Rompuy is a plant and the leaders of the former nation states, which make up the council are incapable of either decision or effective action. One week ago today, this ghoulish man was proposed by Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy to also be President of the Euro Group, how mind-blowingly scary is that, especially as the non-euro ten will still be required to meet their share of the costs of keeping this creature on the payroll.

But who are they who control and pull Von Rompuy's strings? At least the Libyans knew the name of the despot at the head of their own tyranny? In the EU the huge majority of the hundreds of millions of former voting citizens of parliamentary democracies have yet to realise that they are being blatantly disenfranchised, so much for Europe as a safe haven for democracy!

The role of the EU's Committee of the Regions, is described by the EU itself on this link. The Government's Localism Bill, now passing through parliament, will allow the EU to rule the regions directly from Brussels, by-passing Parliament, and thereafter to keep them in line.

Parliament will levy local fines to ensure the regions pursue the centrally decreed policies - it has therefore nothing to do with localism at all. Merely another brick being cemented into position to bury our sovereignty and independence. Read earlier posts on localism from here.

Look again at the photo at the top of this posting, the smile on the gloating face of Von Rompuy, can now be better understood, can it not?

Muammer Gaddafi and the shame of Europe!

Since September 1969, only two world leader's ever tried to do anything about the revolting despot who ruled a country pressed tight up to the underbelly of the European Continent. These two were Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagen, who in trying to rid the world of this blot on humanity, were denied overflight rights of Europe's mainland nations, for their bombers, by the weak-willed and corrupt rulers who were then also in the midst of forming the European Union, whose first appointed President Herman Von Rompuy, visited Gaddafi as one of his first acts, as may be seen in this video of Nigel Farage's well stated protest, in the obscenity upon democracy that is the European parliament.



David Cameron, in trying to claim credit for Gaddafi's demise, could have saved much bloodshed and brought matters to a close far sooner had he early on reversed his decision and spared the Harriers and used the Ark Royal off Libya. President Sarkozy of France at least was able to supply the aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle", how long will that remain the case as the consequences of our leaders' similar incompetence in the economic sphere, continues to be, almost now daily, so vividly demonstrated.

Acceptance of corruption can never be the best course, we have taken 42 years to learn the lesson with Libya, the EU has soured the life and morals of our Continent for almost as long, it is time it too was brought to an end!

By the destruction of the democracy of 27 former nations, a Popperian tyranny remains on the march across Europe, if happily, soon no more in Libya!

Gadaffi, Going, Going, G......?

Last October I posted some thoughts on the sanctity (or otherwise) of contracts, it is linked here.

I will shortly post some further thoughts and my own personal recollections of the Gadaffi years, but that can wait until he is actually gone. In considering his regime, and the first oil price shock it delivered, which almost brought the West to its knees, the entirety of that earlier posting bears reading in full, others may just wish to consider the following more relevant selective quotes:

In the post WWII years, world crude oil supplies were controlled by the seven "major" oil companies. These seven, sometimes known as the seven sisters, (five American, one British and one Anglo-Dutch) determined which new supplies be brought on stream and when to ensure adequate supply at fixed prices. In order to meet the desire of the larger oil producing states around the Persian/Arabian Gulf to have their national income grow at a reasonable rate, the major oil companies, unwilling to offer any price increases, committed to increasing their liftings from the main producing countries at an annual rate of six per cent.

(It is interesting to note, as a complete digression from my main point in this explanation, that these cheap and growing supplies of fixed price energy particularly aided the nations of Europe, the six Common Market Club members of which were at that time typically involved in endless quarrels over butter mountains, wine lakes and other pointless one upmanship and beggar my neighbour point scoring which they continue to this day. Economic growth was actually fuelled by all this fixed price oil flooding into the market, the paricular US major by which I was employed to seek homes for such supplies expanded its refining base in the late sixties in Europe from two to five oil refineries).

Such a cosy arrangement did not, of course, suit everyone; Colonel Gadaffi in Libya for one fumed at having large reservoirs of light, low sulphur crude oil locked beneath his deserts yet tantalisingly close to the lucrative European markets. Gadaffi brought in smaller but nevertheless international US oil companies (known as independents, typified by Occidental and Conoco) to develop his reserves and bring them to market.

As the monster Gadaffi became seems on the verge of falling, it is interesting to consider from the foregoing, was Gadaffi, at least initially not acting in the best interests of Libya, as he discerned them? Had King Idris, whom he replaced, been doing the same?