Posted on The Telegraph-By Nile Gardiner-On September 29, 2011:
“Ezra Klein, a columnist at The Washington Post, has written an interesting piece on why “Europe could decide the 2012 election”. Klein writes that “the 2012 election is likely to be decided by the actions of a handful of European leaders” taken over the next two weeks. He warns that the debt crisis in Europe “can shatter an already fragile global economy”, with significant implications for the United States and the fortunes of President Obama. Klein notes that Europe’s leaders could do more “to secure Obama’s reelection” than Obama’s own advisers:
“It doesn’t have to happen, of course. Europe has the resources to get through this crisis. But it doesn’t have the governance structures necessary to do so, nor is it clear that it has the political will needed to create them. At the moment, Greece is teetering on the edge, and so things could get very bad, very quick. And if they do, our economy is going to get very bad, very quick – and so will President Obama’s reelection chances.”
If Europe somehow vastly exceeds the market’s expectations and emerges with the strong fiscal union that everyone knows they can form but no one thinks they will create, it could do more to restore global confidence and kickstart an economic recovery than any single piece of legislation we can pass here, and that could do more to secure Obama’s reelection than any message David Plouffe can think up.
This Washington Post piece echoes President Obama’s declaration earlier this week that the European crisis is “scaring the world”, as well as his administration’s calls for a more aggressive, integrated response by the European Union. As I’ve noted previously, while faith in the European project is flagging all over the continent and Euroscepticism is on the rise,
Eurofederalism is alive and well among American liberals in the media and within the Obama administration itself. Some of the strongest supporters of ever-closer union in Europe can be found in Washington and New York, despite the fact that a federal Europe has never been in the interests of the United States. As even the Germans begin to lose faith in the euro, American liberals will no doubt continue to cling to the illusory dream of a federal Europe, which as we speak is starting to go down in flames.
I expect in the coming weeks that Barack Obama will increasingly focus upon the European financial crisis in an effort to distract attention away from his own economic record. He will also seek to blame Europe’s leaders for some of the economic ills America faces. But ultimately, no matter what the EU decides to do about the financial contagion spreading from Greece to Portugal, Italy, Spain and France, President Obama will be judged in 2012 on his own Big Government record, which looks similar to a lot of the heavy-spending interventionist policies that have spectacularly failed across the Atlantic.”
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I. Why Have European Countries Succumbed To Governance By The EU?
Posted on Post & Email-by Don Hank, blogging at Laigle’s Forum-On February 9, 2011:
(“Feb. 9, 2011) — The EU is the progressives’ dream. It is headed by the unelected European Commission, which is the only body entitled to propose legislation. Further, the public at large and their elected MEPs (Members of European Parliament) are thereby shut out of all meaningful decision making. The Commission does not consult with the voters but only with interest groups, and the details are ironed out by committees, which could be referred to as technocrats.
The national governments (called “local”) are obliged to adopt – or harmonize – EU legislation, so they are puppets of the regime.
We see the outlines of this system in our American “democracy,” where interest groups rule over the majority and the majority likes it or lumps it.
What you read here presumably is what a North American Union would look like. You will recall that in the latter days of his administration, GW Bush — whose father chattered a lot about the New World Order — was in fact toying with just such a supranational scheme, called the Security and Prosperity Partnership. A secret meeting held in Canada would have laid the groundwork for implementation of the scheme. Fortunately, the plot was outed and the plan was scrapped — temporarily or permanently, who knows?
Some GOP “moderates” now want to draft Jeb Bush for president in 2012.
Don Hank
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“Before these are drawn up, the Commission consults a wide range of interest groups and advisory bodies and having drawn up such proposals it will consult experts via various committees and groups to get the technical details right.”
Sonya Jay Porter is an Englishwoman, a free-lance writer and a member of the UK Independence Party, which is working to get Britain out of a political alliance with the European Union. In the article below she tells us why.
How The EU Parliament Works:
…And it’s not like Britain’s
by Sonya Jay Porter
Many people throughout Europe and the rest of the world still think that the parliament of the European Union is democratic.
Compared to that in Britain, It isn’t.
To begin with, the Members of the European parliament (MEPs) are not elected as in Britain, on a ‘first past the post’ system but by a multi-member type of proportional representation. There is currently a total of 732 seats in the EU parliament and these are allocated to each member state on the basis of population, Germany having the largest number and Luxembourg the fewest. Britain now has 72 seats, or about 9.8% of the total. Once elected, MEPs then sit, not in national blocks but in seven Europe-wide political groups. As stated in the EU’s Guide to its Institution (2005), ‘between them, they represent all views on European integration, from the strongly pro-federalist to the openly Eurosceptic’. You will notice the use of the word ‘openly’. But so far, so democratic.
It is important to realise that unlike the British Parliament (which we know by its place-name as ’Westminster’), the European parliament does not consist of a proposing Chamber, such as the House of Commons, and a scrutinizing Chamber like the House of Lords.
Decision-making at European Union level involves various European institutions, in particular:
The European Commission
The European Parliament
The Council of the European Union
According to The Guide, The European Commission, which now consists of 27 members, is independent of national governments and its job is solely to represent and uphold the interests of the EU as a whole. The Commission alone is responsible for drawing up proposals for new European legislation which it then presents to the Council and the parliament and it is here that democracy begins to falter, for the Commissioners are not elected but appointed.
A new Commission is set up every five years within six months of the parliamentary elections and it is the member state Governments which agree together who is to be the new Commission President. The President then, in discussions with the member state Governments, chooses the other Members of the Commission who will all have held political positions in their own countries but are neither MEPs (Members of Parliament) nor have been elected to this position by the populations of the EU member states.
It is the Commission alone, which is responsible for drafting proposals for new European legislation. Before these are drawn up, the Commission consults a wide range of interest groups and advisory bodies and having drawn up such proposals it will consult experts via various committees and groups to get the technical details right.
However, the European Council is the EU’s main decision-making body with its first duty being to pass European laws, in many cases, but not all, jointly with the European parliament. In some fields, the Council alone legislates but has to consult parliament. The Council, which consists of ministers from the member states, will discuss, behind closed doors and away from the media, the proposals put forward by the Commission. Which ministers attend which meetings depends on what subjects are on the agenda. For instance, Environment Ministers will attend a meeting on the environment and Finance Ministers will attend a meeting on financial matters. If then agreed, the proposal may then be put to the chamber of the European parliament.
And it is in the European parliament that democracy really breaks down.
Before being voted on, the proposals will go to various Committees of MEPs for possible amendment after which the chamber will be given perhaps 24 hours’ notice of the coming vote in which to study these amended proposals. Discussion will also take place as to who will speak for each group and for how long on which measure. At this stage in Westminster, there would be an active debate in the House of Commons, often taking a considerable time, but in the European parliament speaking time is allocated amongst the Parliamentary Groups on the basis of size, and most MEPs will get around just one minute to speak. Nor are these are not what would be recognised in the British Parliament as debates but just short talks, mainly designed for the media.
After these speeches come the votes. But once again, although a proposal can be won or lost on 51% of those voting, the method of counting votes is quite different from that at Westminster. No ‘ayes to the right’ and ‘noes to the left’. Instead, most votes go through merely on a show of hands. Bearing in mind that scores of proposals and their amendments can be brought forward for voting on in one day, and that there are nearly 800 possible voters, it is not surprising that there can be some spectacular mistakes. The UK Independence Party, which sits with the European Freedom and Democracy Group, has formally requested that all votes be taken electronically but this was refused by the parliamentary authorities. In spite of this, should any vote be lost, this is not the end of the matter. It then goes to ‘Conciliation’, after which in most cases, the proposal goes through into EU law.
In Britain these EU laws (known as either directives or regulations) go through Parliament in the sense that committees have a short debate where they are asked to ‘take note’ of a particular directive or regulation. Note that there is no option to reject them and although there is a vote on ‘taking note’, this is academic since unless we have an appropriate veto, Britain has no choice but to accept these EU laws which now comprise some 84% of all British legislation.
Which means that whatever the unelected European Commission puts forward as a proposal will become law in Britain and the other EU states because there is virtually no way of stopping it. And that means the countries of the European Union are ruled not by democracy but by a form of dictatorship known as an oligarchy, dictatorship not by one but by a group.
But a dictatorship nonetheless.
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http://www.thepostemail.com/2011/02/09/how-the-eu-parliament-works/
II. Obama administration filled with activists for globalism: ‘Seeking ‘climate change adaption,’ crackdown on firearms, gun sellers!’-Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On October 1, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=350049#ixzz1ZdXprxHX
III. Debunking Obama’s Tax Demagogery!-Posted on DickMorris.com-By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann-On October 1, 2011:
http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/debunking-obamas-tax-demagogery/
IV. Obama’s Real Debt Plan: Tax the Middle Class!-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Brian Wesbury-On July 28, 2011:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/28/ignore-the-fire-alarms/
V. President Obama was set to release Jonathan Pollard but Vice President Biden told him: "Over my dead body!"-Posted on Israel National News-By Elad Benari-On October 2, 2011:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148394#.ToiPemA4hwM
VI. Will Joe Biden Drop Obama from the Ticket?-Posted on Vision to America-By V2A-On October 1, 2011:
http://visiontoamerica.org/4475/will-joe-biden-drop-obama-from-the-ticket/
VII. Are People Falling Out Of Love With Obama?-Posted on DickMorris.com-By Dick Morris-On October 1, 2011:
http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/are-people-falling-out-of-love-with-obama-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/
VIII. Obama’s Former Wall Street Donors Turn Against Him!-Posted on LA Times-By Nathaniel Popper, Los Angeles Times-On September 30, 2011:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-obama-wall-street-20110930,0,6677823.story
IX. Fmr. Clinton Adviser: ‘Very Possible’ Obama Will Bow Out of Presidential Race!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Grant M. Dahl-On September 29, 2011:
X. Warning: The threat of suspended elections is real!-Posted on Canada Free Press-By Judi McLeod-On September 30, 2011:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40802
XI. Video: Rush: 'Barry Soetoro' elected with 'no identity documents': ‘Warns of president's strategy to avoid defeat at polls by suspending election’-Posted on WND.com-On September 30, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=350585
XII. Obama’s Predictable Scandals!-Posted on National Review Online-By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON-On September 21, 2011:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/277797/obama-s-predictable-scandals-victor-davis-hanson#
XIII. Europe Stunned After Being Told “Obama Is Not In Charge”!-Posted by EU Times-On September 18, 2011:
http://www.eutimes.net/2011/09/europe-stunned-after-being-told-obama-is-not-in-charge/
XIV. HHS Privately Calls Obamacare “Recipe For Disaster”!-Posted on Judicial Watch-On September 16, 2011:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/comment/reply/10820
XV. Video: Rush Reads Six Pages of Headlines of Obama Blaming Other People!-Posted on ImpeachObamaCampaign.com-By Ben-On August 9, 2011:
XVI. Now Carney Admits: ‘The White House Doesn’t Create Jobs’!-Posted on The Blaze-By Madeleine Morgenstern-On August 5, 2011:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/now-carney-admits-the-white-house-doesnt-create-jobs/
XVII. Obama's Failed Presidency!-Posted on American Thinker-By Steve McCann-On August 1, 2011:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/obamas_failed_presidency.html
Note: My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
How the EU’s Lisbon Treaty Affects U.S. National Security!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/does-the-eu’s-lisbon-treaty-affect-u-s-national-security/
New World Order By Executive Order!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/new-world-order-by-executive-order/
Powerful men who meet secretly to plan on how to run our country!
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
Does Our President Hate America?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/does-our-president-hate-america/
Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/
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“Food For Thought”
God Bless the U.S.A.!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related
Semper Fi!
Jake
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