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stockholmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 05:39 PM
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Nigel Farage Dances On The Euro's Grave:"What gives you the right to dictate to the Italian people?
 
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Nigel Farage needs no introduction: the famous Euroskeptic is one of very few men who has had the temerity to question, often in an abnormally high decibel fashion, the stupidity of the Eurozone leaders from day one. Now that he has been proven correct, he has every right to gloat, which he does to everyone's delightful amusement in the European parliament. The look on the unelected von Rompuy's face, especially as he watches his decade-long bureaucratic nirvana crash and burn every single day, is quite priceless.

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• European Parliament, Strasbourg, 16 November 2011

• Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, UKIP, Co-President of the EFD Group in the European Parliament (Europe of Freedom and Democracy)

• Debate: EU Economic Governance - Statements by the Presidents of the European Council (Herman Van Rompuy), the Commission (José Manuel Barroso) and the Eurogroup (Jean-Claude Juncker) - <2011/2902(RSP)>:


http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/FindByProcnum.do?lang=en&procnum=RSP/2011/2902
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"Here we are on the edge of a financial and social disaster and in the room today we have the four men who are supposed to be responsible. And yet we have listened to the dullest most, technocratic speeches I've ever heard. You are all in denial. By any objective measure the euro is a failure. And who exactly is responsible, who is in charge out of all you lot? The answer is none of you because none of you have been elected; none of you have any democratic legitimacy for the roles you currently hold within this crisis.

And into this vacuum, albeit reluctantly, has stepped Angela Merkel. And we are now living in a German-dominated Europe - something that the European project was actually supposed to stop. Something that those who went before us actually paid a heavy price in blood to prevent. I don't want to live in a German-dominated Europe and nor do the citizens of Europe.

But you guys have played a role, because when Mr Papandreou got up and used the word 'referendum'. Or Mr Rehn, you described it as 'a breach of confidence', and your friends here got together like a pack of hyenas, rounded on Papandreou, had him removed and replaced by a puppet Government. That was an absolutely disgusting spectacle that was. And not satisfied with that, you decided that Berlesconi had to go. So he was removed and replaced by Mr Monti, a former European Commissioner, a fellow architect of this Euro disaster and a man who wasn't even a member of parliament.

It's getting like an Agatha Christie novel, where we're trying to work out who is the next person that's going to be bumped off. The difference is, we know who the villains are. You should all be held accountable for what you've done. You should all be fired. And I have to say, Mr Van Rompuy. 18 months ago when we first met, I was wrong about you. I said you would be the quiet assassin of nation states' democracy, but not anymore, you are rather noisy about it aren't you. You, an unelected man, went to Italy and said, 'This is not the time for elections but the time for actions'. What in God's name gives you the right to say that to the Italian people.
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iandhr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 06:16 PM
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1. Some of the euro skeptics in the EU Parlement
Are of the far-right crazies. They have success partly because the mainstream parties is Europe have not addressed the fact the EU operates often in an Un-democratic fashion.
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emcguffie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 07:28 PM
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4. I hope he isn't far right.
He definitely isn't a fan of a Europe dominated by Germany.

But if there's anything I agree with some of the right about, it is the protection of our liberties, and I think some of them have a similar problem with the banks as we have. Maybe they are the old fashioned conservatives? There are at least a few on the right who use their brains at least part of the time. There are things -- a few things -- that I agree with Ron Paul about, such as wresting control of our currency from the Fed and the legalization of marijuana. And I agree with this fellow about what happened to Papandreou (sp?) for daring to suggest a referendum and what is now to happen to Italy.

I'm indescribably delighted to see Berlusconi go, but I don't think the Italians or the Greeks -- or the Americans, for that matter -- deserve this austerity stuff which is designed to protect the wealthy bankers.
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 07:39 PM
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5. He is VERY far-right.
The Skin
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stockholmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 08:07 PM
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6. the 'accepatable' Left in the West gives Banksters 'left cover' to shove austerity down our throats
It all about systemic control via a false left/right paradigm and continuity of agenda.


"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy."

- Carrol Quigley (Bill Clinton's mentor at Georgetown), Tragedy and Hope (1966)
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-18-11 12:39 AM
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8. ''I’m for truth, no matter who tells it.'' ~Malcolm X - :-/ n/t
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emcguffie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 07:21 PM
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2. Hear, hear!
I don't know who he is, but I certainly do like what he's saying.

Thank you for posting. Thanks also to Mr. Farage for standing up.
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eilen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 07:25 PM
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3. Can we borrow him to address the Congress and Senate?
And then the Obama White House?
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 11:27 PM
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7. You tell 'em Nigel!!!!
- No matter, this is how they'll end up:



K&R

Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you-
Ye are many — they are few"

~Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Prometheus Bound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-19-11 05:23 AM
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9. I love listening to Nigel speak.
He is fearless.
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Hydra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-19-11 03:34 PM
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10. Ah, what a clear breath of truth
Though the lies are surprisingly disappearing lately. As Nigel points out, the people spearheading the destruction of civilization are being rather noisy about it.
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