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2006-06-08 Europe

Great read by Fjordman : Why the EU Needs to be Destroyed, and Soon

Long, but interesting, as often with this euro-writer; suggested further reading material for this piece (linked in it or in comments) are :

Is the Nation State Obsolete? The Brussels Journal (Fjordman).

The trouble with Islam, the European Union - and Francis Fukuyama - Roger Scruton - openDemocracy (Roger Scruton).

Roger Scruton The West and the Rest (online book excerpts, haven't read it fully yet).

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-08 04:48|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm a big fan of Fijordman and he may be right about a popular rebellion against the EU (secret) agendas. I see a number of straws in the wind that indicate Europe may be saveable, like the sharp drop in support for the Paleos.

But I am pining my hopes on a modern Anglosphere (wrong name but we have been calling it this for a while). An alliance of democratic, rule of law, trading states spanning the USA, Australia, India, Japan, Singapore and others.

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#2 Love the bits in the comments about the need of the mandarins in the Euro elite for a thug class, hence the encouragement of Muslim immigration.

Reminds me of the puppies in Orwell's "Animal Farm".

Posted by no mo uro 2006-06-08 09:37|| 2006-06-08 09:37|| Front Page Top

#3 One view from a man I respect, Claude Reichman, is that France's Enlightened Elite/Oligarchy/Technocracy (statist and socialist high-level civil servants graduated from the various "grandes écoles") suppresses its rival the middle class both by suffocating it with taxation and regulations to attack it from above, and by using the "dangerous class" (Youths, most notably) as a "lumpen proletariat"(Tm) to attack it from below.
The middle class is thus living in insecurity, paralyzed, and the Oligarchy can rule without opposition.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-08 10:05|| 2006-06-08 10:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Bastiat - something along the lines of the wealthy use their wealth, power and connections to make sure you don't get yours.

And

Maybe Bastiat but another economist said something like the wealthy and the lower classes conspire together and are the enemy of the middle class.

Posted by anonymous2u 2006-06-08 11:32|| 2006-06-08 11:32|| Front Page Top

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