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Here we go again

This blog was started on May 15, 2008, to fight for a more democratic EU and, therefore, against the terms of the pre-constitutional legalistic text called Treaty of Lisbon, with a post containing only this declaration:

The Irish are the voice of all citizens of Europe

(Click on the title to read it in English, or click on the following links to read the same text in other language: português, français, deutsch, nederlands, español.

Sixteen months later, the deafness of our politicians forced many of us back to the fight.

This time, this blog will be used more as a support to others better organized, advertising initiatives and actions, reporting news and results.

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EU desperately needs to be refounded.

A UE precisa desesperadamente de ser refundada.

Five years in the presidence of the European Commission were more than enough for Mr. José Barroso to destroy the European Union.
Many begin to understand now that, consequently, it becomes unavoidable (inescapable, inevitable) refounding the Union of the European countries. Exactly what I’ve been writting in this blog - and saying in many other places - for two years.

Cinco anos na presidência da Comissão Europeia foram mais que suficientes para o Sr.José Barroso destruir a União Europeia. Muitos começam a perceber agora que, em consequência, se torna inevitável (inelutável, incontornável) a refundação da União dos países europeus. Exactamente o que venho escrevendo neste blogue - e dizendo em muitos outros lugares - há dois anos.

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Nous sommes sans doute dans une période de rupture. Le monde ne peut plus continuer tel qu’il est, l’Union européenne ne peut plus continuer sous sa forme actuelle. Les peuples d’Europe ne peuvent plus continuer à être asservis aux Etats-Unis d’Amérique et aux bureaucrates de Bruxelles.
Il faut en finir, les peuples d’Europe ont soif de liberté, de justice, de fraternité. Nous disons NON à l’asservissement de l’Europe par une bureaucratie irresponsable, nous disons NON à la disparition des nations dans une mondialisation sans âme. En revanche, nous disons OUI à la libre coopération des nations, nous disons OUI à l’amitié des peuples.
(La notion française de la souveraineté au regard de la construction européenne, par Alain Bournazel au journal Horizons et Débats, 3 mai 2010)

Nós estamos, sem dúvida, num momento de ruptura. O mundo não pode continuar como está, a União Europeia não pode avançar na sua forma actual. Os povos da Europa não podem continuar a ser escravizados pelos Estados Unidos da América e pelos gabinetes dos burocratas de Bruxelas.
É preciso acabar com isto, os povos da Europa têm sede de liberdade, de justiça, de fraternidade. Dizemos NÃO à escravização da Europa por uma burocracia irresponsável, dizemos NÃO ao desaparecimento das nações numa mundialização desalmada. Ao contrário, dizemos SIM à livre cooperação das nações, dizemos SIM à amizade entre os povos.

La Unión Europea debe refundarse y aplicar medidas radicales para salvar el sueño gestado tras la II Guerra Mundial. Esta es la conclusión del informe que el Grupo de Reflexión sobre el futuro europeo, presidido por Felipe González, hará público hoy. El momento no puede ser más crucial. Con un Tratado de Lisboa que no ha servido para dinamizar las instituciones, cada vez más relegada en la escena internacional, sacudida por la recesión mundial y amenazada por la crisis griega, la Unión Europea atraviesa su peor momento.
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(Felipe González llama a refundar Europa, Andreu Missé - Bruselas - 08/05/2010, diario El País)

The European Union must refound and implement radical measures to save the dream born after the World War II. This is the conclusion that the Think Group on the Future of Europe, presided by Felipe González made public today. The time could not be more crucial. Under a Treaty of Lisbon that failed to boost the institutions, increasingly isolated on the international scene, shaken by the global recession, threatened by the Greek crisis, the European Union faces is at its worst.

EU Parliament has not the faintest idea of what is free speech in democracy.

Nigel Farage thought he was in a democratic parliament, and he made a free speech.

As a result, he was heavily fined.

That’s for him to learn where he is.

The EU-German Empire starts to show up.

German Politicians Want Greece to Sell Islands, Bild Reports

By Jana Randow

March 4 (Bloomberg) — German politicians say Greece must sell property, companies and uninhabited islands to raise money for debt payments, the newspaper Bild reported.

“A bankrupt party must use everything he has to make money and serve his creditors,” said Josef Schlarmann, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, who heads a lobby representing 40,000 business owners and managers allied to the party. “Greece owns buildings, companies and several uninhabited islands, which can now be used to repay debt.”

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Last Updated: March 4, 2010 02:21 EST

Once upon a time existed Europe…

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Tradução:

Nas próximas gerações, vai-se contar uma história às crianças:
"Era uma vez, uma Europa dividida no seu meio por um grande muro e as pessoas de Leste eram muito pobres. Não tinham democracia e viviam sob um sistema maléfico chamado "comunismo" que matou milhões dos seus próprios cidadãos.
Mas, alegria! O muro caiu, e acabámos por ter 27 nações, e estas pessoas acabaram por viver em democracia, e houve paz para 500 milhões de pessoas.
Mas infelizmente…"
A história não acabou. Há mais, prometo-vos.
… É a primeira vez que recebo tantos aplausos.
"Mas infelizmente a história continua. Os políticos no poder tornaram-se muito gananciosos. Procuraram alcançar poder e dinheiro para si próprios, e por isso recorreram à mentira, ao engano, e organisaram o mais espectacular golpe de Estado burocrático que o mundo jamais viu.
Mas não precisaram de balas para fazê-lo, eles eram muito mais inteligentes, muito mais manhosos do que isso. O que eles fizeram foi pôr em prática um novo tratado. Chamava-se o tratado de Lisboa.
E de seguida, deram a 27 indivíduos um poder total e ilimitado. Foram estas pessoas que fizeram todas as leis.
Claro, já tinham uma bandeira e um hino, mas continuaram a fazer um novo estado. Mas ignoraram os povos.
E o que fizeram, conscientemente ou não, foi recriar o mesmo sistema maléfico sob o qual os povos de Leste tinham vivido anteriormente. Mas o que é inacreditável é que muitos destes novos chefes já tinham trabalhado anteriormente para este mesmo sistema maléfico.
Mas, obviamente, o seu plano tinha defeitos, e o seu plano monetário fantasioso colapsou.
Pouco importa, os novos chefes não queriam ouvir os povos. Não, eles tornaram a vida cada vez mais difícil, eles puseram dezenas de milhões de pessoas num estado de pobreza, recusaram a palavra dos povos, e no fim, estes povos tiveram que recorrer à violência para recuperar o seu Estado-Nação e a sua democracia."
E a moral da história, é que não aprenderam nada da História.
Membros do parlamento europeu, antes de darem mais poderes a esta Comissão, lembrem-se que há 60 anos, uma cortina de ferro caiu sobre a Europa, e agora, com esta Comissão, há uma mão de ferro que se faz sentir na Grécia…

Era Uma Vez A Europa…
Por Pedro Velhinho Bandeira, 14 de Fevereiro de 2010,
no blog O Porco Capitalista.

Who’s in charge here?

US blames Lisbon Treaty for EU summit fiasco

Mr Obama - the Madrid summit decision is being seen as a diplomatic snub to Spain (Photo: whitehouse.gov)

ANDREW RETTMAN

03.02.2010 @ 09:27 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The US State Department has said that President Barack Obama’s decision not to come to an EU summit in Madrid in May is partly due to confusion arising from the Lisbon Treaty.

State department spokesman Philip J. Crowley told press in Washington on Tuesday (2 February) that the treaty has made it unclear who the US leader should meet and when.

(read more)

How to Fight the Information War

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When they finally take your country from you,

you still can fight them from the inside of their empire.

Let’s use the prerogative written in the 4^th paragraph of the 11^th article of the Treaty on European Union, also known as Treaty of Lisbon.

I appeal all my visitors to join their Vote to these Citizen Initiatives (and on those that will hopefully follow), on the site of the (so claimed) First European Civic Movement.

(ATTENTION: you can only sign these until the 31 of December.)

I know (we all do, for sure) that this is not going to be an easy fight. Let me tell you the truth: these first attempts will probably fail.

However, do not let yourself be discouraged; do not let yourself be isolated because that’s exactly what they (the non-elected, all-powerful commissionaires of the EU) want.

Spread the word, and in time the number of signatures will be so big that they can no longer afford to ignore it.

Please, be patient and determined.

Note: You can download from here (in several languages and file formats) the Consolidated versions of the Treaty on European Union (Treaty of Lisbon) completed with the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

Year 1 A. F.*

*If you don’t have a clue about the meaning of A. F. you should read this book.
(In case you can’t read the book now, read A. F. as After Freedom)

… At midnight last night, we ceased to be an independent state**, bound by international treaties to other independent states, and became instead a subordinate unit within a European state.
Yes, a European state. …

… Under the Lisbon Treaty, which came into force today, it acquires “legal personality”, which gives it the right to sign accords and treat with other states. Nor is this right simply theoretical: the EU now has a foreign minister, a diplomatic corps (the European External Action Service) and 160 overseas embassies.
Until yesterday, the EU could not annex additional policy areas without a new treaty, which needed to be ratified by all its constituent nations. Now, it has the so-called “passerelle” clause, or self-amending mechanism. …

It is appalling, demeaning, disgraceful that such a thing should have been done without popular consent, and in the absence of the referendum that all three parties had promised. …
(At midnight last night, the United Kingdom ceased to be a sovereign state, by Daniel Hannan, December 1st, 2009 on Telegraph.co.uk)

**This is true for each and every one of the 27 states of EU, now EF (European Federation).

… Mr Barroso said “… I’m delighted that we now have the right institutions to act, and a period of stability, so that we can focus all our energy on delivering what matters to our citizens***.”
(Lisbon Treaty comes into force, December 1, 2009, IrishTimes.com)

***May God have mercy on us.

The ‘new Europe’ and the European army

As I say from the beginning, the empire can hardly wait to become militarised.

(Como digo desde o início, o império mal pode esperar para se tornar militarizado.)

From The Times
November 17, 2009

Italy’s Foreign Minister says post-Lisbon EU needs a European Army

Italy is to push for the creation of a European Army after the "new Europe" takes shape at this week’s crucial EU summit following the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty.
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It was a "necessary objective to have a European army", Mr Frattini said. "Take Afghanistan: at present President Obama asks Poland, or Italy, or Great Britain for more troops. If there were a European army, he would have a ‘toolbox’ to draw from. He might need 30 aeroplanes: he would be able to ask if the European army was in a position to provide them."
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