[patriots] Re: Fwd: Re: Fw: "Ruled by man who hates us". Letter Sunday July 6th 2013
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- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 19:01:34 +0100
COLUMNISTS
Juncker? UK’s Cameron A Greater Threat To EU Freedom
Finian CUNNINGHAM | 02.07.2014 | 00:00
The events in Ukraine and the political spat over who should be the next
president of the European Commission might seem like issues far apart. But
there is a connection that may seem rather surprising. As European leaders
gathered in Brussels last week to decide on whether Jean-Claude Juncker should
become the next EC president, despite British objections, the same leaders were
also being lobbied by Washington to leverage further trade sanctions against
Russia over the crisis in Ukraine.
The election of Juncker was presented, in the British media at least, as
a kind of “showdown principle” over independence and freedom within Europe; but
perhaps of much greater pertinence to European independence is how the
continent appears to be toeing an aggressive American foreign policy towards
Russia. This latter aspect is scarcely touched upon, yet it is arguably more
urgent and relevant to the so-called democratic deficit that mars the European
project. This democratic deficit is all too often associated with European
politics in the popular mind and it lies behind the rise in anti-EU sentiment
that shook the Brussels establishment in the parliamentary elections last month.
First though, on the EC presidency: British Prime Minister David Cameron
incurred a humiliating rejection from other European leaders at the end of the
week when they voted overwhelmingly for Jean-Claude Juncker to become the next
president of the European Commission.
Apart from solitary support from Hungary, Cameron was the odd man out
when the leaders of the other 26 EU members gave their approval for Juncker to
take the top post. Previously the prime minister of Luxembourg, Juncker is to
replace the outgoing José Manuel Barosso for the high-profile Brussels job,
provided that his nomination now gets the backing of the European Parliament.
Britain’s premier David Cameron had been gunning for Juncker in recent
weeks, complaining bitterly that the Luxembourg politician was too much of a
“Brussels insider”. Ahead of the vote by EU leaders at the summit on Friday,
Cameron told reporters: “This is the wrong person, the wrong approach… My
message to my fellow heads of government and heads of state is that this
approach that they are contemplating taking is the wrong approach for Europe.
That is a mistake.”
Following the crushing blow to Cameron’s opposition to Juncker, the
British premier remained defiant, saying: “For a Europe crying out for reform,
we have gone for a career insider.”
So the narrative being contrived here is that Cameron was trying to take
the moral high
ground and put himself forward as “the champion of the people” by
standing up to the grey, faceless bureaucracy that has become an epithet of
European politics. The British leader is endeavouring to make himself out to be
a defender of free, independent European states, as opposed to the Brussels
monolith, where the selection of top bureaucrats often seems to be an arcane
process removed from any public input.
There is little doubting that Juncker is a consummate Brussels figure. He
is one of the longest-serving European leaders, having been prime minister of
Luxembourg between 1995-2013. He is a doyen of the Christian democrat
centre-right European People’s Party – the largest bloc in the European
Parliament – and he is an avowed integrationist and federalist. The 59-year-old
Juncker is credited with being one of the main planners of the Euro single
currency during the early 1990s. And he has a reputation for relishing
late-night political marathons, helped along by chain-smoking and generous
consumption of wine.
The British Conservative Party leader is thus positioning himself as a
champion of European reform and decentralization, by stridently opposing the
selection of Juncker as the next European Commission president. Cameron points
to the dramatic rise in votes across Europe in the parliamentary elections last
month, which saw a host of fringe, anti-EU parties gaining a total of 25 per
cent of total seats. These anti-EU parties, many of them espousing
anti-immigrant politics and neo-fascist tendencies, are viewed as a growing
popular discontent with European enlargement. In Britain, the ultranationalist
UK Independence Party led by Nigel Farange has made particular electoral
inroads against Cameron’s Conservatives, the traditional dominant party of the
centre right.
In the weeks up to this week’s summit in Brussels, Cameron had been
threatening that if Jean-Claude Juncker were to be made EC president then he
would bring forward a British referendum on EU membership from 2017 to a sooner
date, and that he may even campaign for a No vote, leading to Britain’s exit
from the bloc altogether. That remains to be seen in the wake of Cameron’s
debacle with other European leaders this week.
However, let’s look at the principle of European freedom and independence
from another perspective. This week also saw the signing of the EU trade
association between Brussels and Ukraine. The controversially elected president
of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, who won the poll with less than a 45 per cent
voter turnout last May and amid widespread violence in that country, has pushed
ahead with the EU trade pact. Poroshenko’s governing regime in Kiev came to
power in an illegal Western-backed coup last February. Both the signing of the
EU trade agreement and the ongoing violence in Ukraine at the hands of the Kiev
regime have led to a parlous deterioration in relations between Moscow and
European governments, as well as primarily between Russia and the US.
But the eastward expansion of the EU, as with NATO, to incorporate former
Soviet states and now the grooming of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova for eventual
incorporation is best understood as a geopolitical agenda defined first and
foremost by Washington. As Sergei Glazyev argued recently in his article on the
‘Rise of Eurofascism’, the EU has
unfortunately become a vital part of the architecture upholding US global
hegemony.
Glazyev notes: “The United States supports the eastward expansion of the
EU and NATO in every way possible, viewing these organizations as important
components of its global empire. The US exercises control over the EU through
supranational institutions, which have crushed the nation-states that joined
the EU. Deprived of economic, financial, foreign policy and military
sovereignty, they submit to the directives of the European Commission, which
are adopted under intense pressure from the US.
In essence, the EU is a
bureaucratic empire that arranges things within its economic space in the
interests of European and American capital, under US control.”
This intended subordinate role of the EU to US geopolitics was aptly
highlighted this week when Washington tried to lobby European leaders to launch
a third round of sanctions against Russia, allegedly for not “de-escalating”
tensions over Ukraine. Western media reports disclosed that US President Barack
Obama and his senior aides were engaged in intense phone calls with various
European leaders, pushing for European sanctions.
As the Financial Times reported: “Washington is pressing the EU to
threaten Moscow with sanctions against entire sectors of the Russian economy,
including energy, finance and defense. Dan Fried, the US envoy for sanctions,
visited Brussels on Wednesday to signal that the US was ready to proceed with
these ‘level three’ measures but would seek to do so in lockstep with the EU,
diplomats said.”
The key European political figure to advance American foreign policy is
the British Prime Minister David Cameron. The week of intense Washington
pressure on Europe to adopt a tough line towards Russia began with Obama and
Cameron working out the common ground. American government-sponsored Radio Free
Europe reported that the White House said Obama and Cameron “agreed that should
Russia fail to take immediate steps to de-escalate the situation in eastern
Ukraine, the US and European Union would work to implement additional
coordinated measures to impose costs on Russia.”
As it turns out, the EU decided to not press ahead with Washington’s
objective this week of slapping more provocative embargoes on the Russian
economy. The opposition came from Germany’s Angela Merkel and several other
member states that have a high dependence on Russian gas supply, including
Austria, Italy, Spain, Finland, Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia.
The rejection of American-led sanctions against Moscow paves the way for
diplomacy and talks, and a real possibility of de-escalation of what has become
a very dangerous precipice towards a catastrophic war in Europe. On that score,
notable European countries have this shown a welcome measure of independence
from Washington and the latter’s aggressive policy towards Russia – at least
for now. The same cannot be said for Britain. Britain’s Cameron is the
archetypal messenger boy for US policy. If he had his way, the EU would be
nothing more than an American satrapy, carrying out orders without question.
The EU’s democratic deficit is a real concern and needs to be addressed
with reforms that reign in faceless bureaucracy and oppressive economic
policies of austerity. All of that is related to Europe’s subservience to
American Big Capital, instead of addressing real social needs. But none is more
subservient to American interests than successive British governments, which
ironically have deepened the democratic deficit of Europe by their slavish
kowtowing to Washington’s economic and foreign policy objectives. The latest
example of that is Cameron serving as Obama’s flunkey in Europe to promulgate
sanctions against Russia.
The real threat to European freedom and independence comes from
politicians like Cameron, not Jean-Claude Juncker.
From: Jack Lewis
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 5:08 PM
To: Patriots
Subject: [patriots] Fwd: Re: Fw: "Ruled by man who hates us". Letter Sunday
July 6th 2013
From Dave Barnby.
Jack
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Fw: "Ruled by man who hates
us". Letter Sunday July 6th 2013
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 11:15:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Davebarnby@xxxxxxx
To:
CC:
Sonya,
Terry writes:
'Mr. Cameron, who has always said he will vote to stay in the E U'
The letter is inaccurate:
David Cameron has not said he will vote to stay in (the EU). In fact It is
worse than that he has said he will campaign to stay in. And why do we want a
referendum anyway; we didn't need one to go in, in 1972, so why do we have to
have one to come out??
Incidentally the Mail reported on 5th May that Juncker, the president elect of
the EU, when Prime Minister of Luxembourg (which put him in charge of the
secret services) spied on and kept files on 300,000 of its half million
population. Could that be the reason why Chancellor Merkel decided to stop
backing David Cameron's campaign to stop Juncker getting the job and switched
to supporting him instead?
dave
In a message dated 07/07/2014 14:10:52 GMT Daylight Time, Sonyaporter@xxxxxxx
writes:
-----Original Message-----
From: "Terry Lyden" mailto:terrylyden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Subject: Fw: "Ruled by man who hates us". Letter Sunday July 6th 2013
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 12:31:57 +0100
another try !! Terry
From: Terry Lyden
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 12:28 PM
To: letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: "Ruled by man who hates us". Letter Sunday July 6th 2013
Dear Sir ,May I please reply to G Abrahams of Birchington Kent, letters
July 6th 2013, who pleads with us to vote for David Cameron and not UKIP if
we" want to keep Britain as we know it" The problem of course is the Britain
we have today is not the Britain we used to know and love because we have been
ruled by the E U for far too long with no voice of our own. The recent snub by
the German Chancellor ,Angela Merkel ,over Mr Jean Claude Juncker shows our
poor chances of repatriating any powers from the E U.
We would agree that Labour has no intention of giving us an in/out referendum
and Mr. Cameron, who has always said he will vote to stay in the E U, has
also no intention of giving us a referendum until 2017. BY this time it will
be too late as more poor countries will join the E U creating more pressure on
our way of life and economy.
Yours faithfully. T Lyden, 13 The Ryde Laleham, Staines TW18 2SL 01784
458810
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