February 13, 2012
Published: 27 Nov 09 12:50 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
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Incoming Swedish EU commissioner Cecilia Malmström has been offered the substantial portfolio covering the police, migration and organized crime, EU Commission President Manuel Barroso announced on Friday.
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Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.
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Still a bit of diplomacy and a lot of Hmmmm's should get her through her spell.
No wonder Britain doesn't want to be part of any federation run by bureaucratic diplomats at the helm.
In Sweden criminals have carte blanche to do as they please.
Look at the larger picture, however.
The Bilderbergs have filled a seat with Baroness Catherine Ashton,
a VP of the EU Commission, now sitting as the High Representative of Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, to continue to implement the New World Order European Union mandate, so everything looks grand for their continued hegemony, and their continued cowing/collusion of/with the so-called superpower, and the so-called Western group of 7, soon becoming the group of 20, but with the notable exceptions of Russia and China who are not under their control.
India is becoming a military and economic power, so where they will stand is anyone's guess but controlling that vast and populous Far Eastern country with their plethora of ethnicities and religions will be daunting to impossible.
How the powers-that-are machination's will play-out during the continuing American Depression, and their Middle East and on-going and expanding Forever Wars, and with AIPAC pushing for an invasion of Iran, will be interesting in 2010.
Malmstrom's portfolio, in this light, is banal at best.
One way to flush the AIPAC and CIA plants out of their sewers is to write something which hints of the book: The Rise of The Fourth Reich.
Nemesis and his/her/it ilk are as well detailed in an excellent essay that Maureen Orth wrote in Vanity Fair a few months ago that covers very well how the United States uses the Internet to track, record and to shut-down PCs that get too close to inflaming the masses with the truth, and how many are planted to watch and record, as does the NSA.
Not to worry, though, the Rise of The Fourth Reich was on the New York Times best-seller list for months, and judging by the lack of reaction to that book during their present wars for Empire, and their abysmal economy, the feckless masses are either in a catatonic state or in denial, and more likely, as rabidly nationalistic as they were in 2001. That is, those who are still eating and who have a roof over their head.
However, many of Obama's base are deserting him because they now realize that his rhetoric was jive to enable him to gain the throne, and once seated he did just exactly what bush did with Wall Street and with Afghanistan, that is: gave the former trillions of tax money and surged the latter, first with 19,000 and now with an expected 35,000more troops,
and counting. The United States Army is about to come undone at the seams with 4 to 5 deployments in succession of the same troops.
The French Foreign Legion they are not.
Many of Obama's starry-eyed supporters are now frothing at the mouth over his duplicity.
Check the New York Times War blog for authentication.
Poor saps, they do not have a clue about who is the real power.
I see your friends at the local have deleted my previous comment, suggesting you see a psychiatrist for putting up crazy conspiracy theories. Styrangely at the local they do not delete your obviously unhinged american conspiracy theory.
That I have taken note of.
I have had a bad feeling about Obama from the beginning. Nothing I can put my finger on. Call it hocus-pocus, gut feeling or whatever you want.
In any case, the only relevance of my comment to follow to the above statement is to point out that I am not an Obama supporter.
However, you display the same short-sightedness as many millions of people around the world who are unhappy about how their government is running things. These people always jump to voting for the opposition when this happens. Never happy, always complaining.
Same situation goes for those who criticize the curent government in Sweden.
There's only one thing people often forget to look at: the mess is usually created over years, sometimes even decades. It takes AT LEAST twice as long to fix a mess than it does to create it in the first place.
You can't just reverse everything from one day to the other. Bad decisions were taken to implement policy which is now ingrained in the system. Reverse or pull out one piece unxepectedly and you can create a collapse of the whole system. Things have to be done slowly.
People seem to want their newly-elected to perform miracles and fix all the mess overnight. When they can't do that, the people get impatient and vote again on the ones who created the mess in the first place.
This creates two situations:
1. You never give anyone enough time to fix the mess.
2. You perpetuate the mess you are against in the first place.
Take note of that, as well.
Both of you should reread 'double concerto's ' comment # five to regain perspective.
The American political system for the last 40 plus years to the present has produced a corruption that neither Obama or anyone else will change until something new occurs. The disaffected and angry masses recently reacted to that fact by calling for anarchy in an recent NYTs blog, and one poster agreed that the only way to disinfect the corruption is for the system to fail.
Dangerous surprises, indeed, and ones of which might be upon them before years elapse. The people are fed-up with lies, greed, wars, unemployment, lack of affordable health-care and the same old, same old politics that promises to change all of that and does the same..