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By Chris Furgerson
New European Regulation Belongs in the This-Can’t-Possibly-Be-True Category According to the Irish Times, European Union bureaucrats in Brussels have decided that people no longer should be allowed to eat cakes, tarts, and other treats ...
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This may seem like a dumb example of why no socialism no where, yet it may be a perfect example. From the Cato @ Liberty blog: New EU regulations have banned the consumption of cakes and confectionery entered at country fairs and agricultural shows immediately after baking competitions. The chairman of Mayo County Council, Cllr Joe Mellett, said the new rules were the “death knell” for the Irish agricultural show.” When you see things like this it’s no wonder the people voted No to the Lisbon Treaty. This will be the end of the traditional baking competition at local shows across the country, therefore impacting on local revenue. It’s just ridiculous.” Under the rules adjudicators of bakery sections in local shows are only permitted to taste the traditional favorites such as apple tarts or cheese cakes. Once the judging is over, the produce must be immediately destroyed. As a result, only bite-sized versions of the cakes will be entered in shows… …Mr Mellett, one of the founding members of his own local agricultural show in Swinford, said he “could not believe” the latest EU directive. “Honestly, when I saw this first I thought it was something to do with April Fools’ Day. I just couldn’t imagine someone sitting down and coming up with this rule.” Posted by Daniel J. Mitchell on 08.27.08 @ 10:33 am ===========No Socialism No Where
Posted by Chris Furgerson at 8/27/2008 11:39 AM and is filed under Politics
New European Regulation Belongs in the This-Can’t-Possibly-Be-True Category
According to the Irish Times, European Union bureaucrats in Brussels have decided that people no longer should be allowed to eat cakes, tarts, and other treats entered in baking competitions. American bureaucrats love to concoct senseless rules, but can anyone think of a regulation in the United States that matches this gem?
It is exactly this type of nonsense that bureaucrats come up with. And the Democrats - and some Republicans - in this country want to take us down that same path. Certainly Hillary and Obama will...
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These different experts were nearly all present to the ERT (European Industrial Round Table) which is - it appears - the sole policy making body for new European law and directives. With plenty of direct contacts with the Private ...
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After having announced the attributes and the names of the new European Commissioners on 12 August 2004, José Manuel Barroso met his team on the 20 August 2004 in Brussels for the first time. The new commissioners will then be submitted to hearings on September 27, by the European Parliament, who shall vote at the end October on the new Commission, before it officially takes over on November 1st 2004. The “European popular group” showed its satisfaction the day after the announcement of the nominations. Its president Potterin commented positively on the Lisbon strategy, in other words the strenghtening of European competitiveness. This will be the central aim of Günter Verheugen. [Bilderberg], who will report directly to Barroso, himself presiding over the group in charge of this strategy. Verheugen declared that he will be in charge of the group of commissioners responsible for European economic coordination and this will give him a strong position. The subject is essentially depending on the individual member states. Between the nations in Europe and the EEC, we will find M. Verheugen. The president of the “democrat group”, M. Graham Watson greeted the ‘inspired’ choices and the ‘imaginative’ thoughts of the future president of the commission. He was delighted at the presence of one third women in the commission and the absence of super commissioners. The actual commissioners refuse to give their public ideas about the decision of Mr Barroso. One of them observed privately, that the former Portuguese prime minister rewarded his friends, who were with him on the side of the American intervention in Iraq. So, M. Mandelson (trade/commerce), Italy with Rocco Bottiglione (justice liberty security), Denmark with Marianne Fisher Boel (agriculture), Poland with Hubner (regional policy), Spain with Joaquin Almounia (economical and financial affairs) have got more powerful commission posts than France ad even Germany, if we judge limited the powers of M.Verheugen. The preeminence of the liberals is also underlined with Peter Mendelson, says a senior civil servant of the commission. Trade policy runs a risk of being more liberal and Atlantic. The British commissioner, he added, can attempt to try again to suggest the idea of a free trade zone upon the Atlantic, against the which Pascal Lamy [Bilderberg] fought. The Irish Charlie McCreevy and her collegue in charge of the concurrence, the Dutch Kroes Smit, are two ultra liberals in charge of two key posts, should provoke reservations from our point of view in regard with their past performance. McCreevy, Irish finances secretary from 1997 to 2004 is considered as the artisan in company of First Minister Bertie Ahern of the ‘Celtic miracle’. His policy towards Foreign Investments turned the island into an El Dorado of American Multinationals. Firms are paying 12,5 % of taxes (in France the rate is 35 % ). The minimum wages are under what is required to live with some respect of oneself. McCreevy promoted the recovery of the National Airways company, Air Lingus, which was near of the bankruptcy by cutting the number of employees.The result of this policy gave some undesired effects: public services running down, increased poverty, inflation, and strikes for higher pay in the public sector. Sometime nicknamed the Iron Lady in the Netherlands, Mrs Kroes Smit, who was secretary of State then secretary of Transportation, is known by the Dutch Trade Unions as having been behind the privatisation of the old postal service. Her arrogance and bad temper brought her a lot of enemies. Her nomination may well be down to Jacques Chirac, President of France, because, is it told in The Hague, he asked the Dutch government to name Christian Democrat Veerman agriculture commissioner. Mrs Kroes says her policy is Popular/Liberal but no-one is quite sure why she thinks she is popular. These beginnings are not reassuring, so the French socialist MP, Arnaud Montebourg, denounced the attribution of all the key posts in economical and financial fields to personalities who have a systematic orientation towards liberalism. This European commission, he concluded, is an enemy to every member of our party. Another French socialist MP underlined the decline of France which can only receive a little second order nomination. The position of President Chirac is not comfortable. The partial nominations in the EEC Commission is showing a spirit of vengeance on the French and the German rebels who weren’t on the American side in the Iraq war. The strange Blairite creature the British press have christened the ‘Prince of Darkness’ for his twice being forced out of ministerial positions for illegal activities but ability to ‘ressurect’ his politiacal carreer. Peter Mandelson, we see that he is a member of the Ditchley Foundation, which aims to develop Transatlantic links between Great Britain and the USA. With more than 15 conferences every year in the castle of Ditchley Park, near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire Ditchley is certainly one of the most important places of meeting for the International Elite, along with the Trilateral Commission and the . Ditchley has focused on International problems, as the expansion of Europe (mister Verheugen was just Commissary at the broadening of Europe during the commission Prodi, is this not curious ?), Global Arms Control, the Euro currency, Defense Industry, conflict of Kosovo. It is a very select club, the members are industrialists, financiers, ministers, secretaries of State, journalists, intellectuals and leaders of armed forces, including NATO. President of Ditchley, we find as we look closer, is ex-British Prime Minister John Major. A member of Bilderberg and the European President of the Carlyle Group. John M is also credit adviser for Suisse First Boston, President of the council of European Advisers of Emerson Electric and boss of Atlantic Partnership. We find as well as members Lord Leon Brittan, vice-president UBS Warburg, director of Unilever, former vice-president of the . Giulanio Amato, former first secretary of Italy and Bilderberger. Etienne Davignon, that all know in Bilderberg affairs as President, dame Pauline Neville Jones who was Governor of the BBC, president NatWest Markets, member of Bilderberg Stresa 2004, and who sollicited a few month ago to become director in Eurotunnel, whose Lord Tugendhat, member of Ditschley, former vice-president of the European Commission to the budget is director as in Rio Tinto. All these friends awarding jobs to each other over lots of plush surroundings and good food which nobody seems to know who pays for. A lot of commissioners of the new Commission are not well known because originating from the new members of Europe countries, but in any case there is no doubts about the fact that their hearts all beat in favour of extreme liberalism. We are coming to a more hard stage of liberalism tending to be restored in full power of its belief in its credo. Let us remember that Liberalism is claiming three liberties: 1. Liberty of the manpower. It is in no way meaning that the workers have to be free but that the people are free to move from one country to another, one region to another, letting the patrons have a free access to a big tank of manpower. The more global it is, the best it is. The first wave of liberalism died in the years 1920-1930 after it did a lot of harmful work on the European and American Societies. Their system is saying that if everything is free and companies making no cartels and monopolies, with no workers belonging to Trade Unions, the system will enrich everybody. In a way this is the counterpart of the dream of Karl Marx. This is perfectly utopia but based on the works of Nobel prize economists, and mathematic developments, this seems in their eyes to be true. The system ‘requires’ every country in the world to be included, and every individual to be effected. That is why Liberalism and Globalism work closely together. Some French socialists are reproaching to M. Chirac not to have presented M. Lamy at the Presidency of the Commission. Chirac is not mad. He remembered all the worst that Mr Lamy [ Bilderberg] has done to the interests of France. Mr Lamy proclaims to the world that he is a French Socialist as was Mr Strauss Kahn, and Mr Fabius. All of the three are from the ‘Champagne Left’ and all three are Bilderbergers who like to live in luxury. The works of Mr Lamy in collaboration of M. Zoellick [Bilderberg USA] have given a conclusion going along with the end of farming subsidies to help European and American agriculture compete in export fields. This will create a strong crisis in the rural world of USA as well in Eastern Europe (standards of living are not the same in Poland and other new member countries as Western Europe). Undoubtly, this signature will help the products from countries of the South to invade the American and European markets meanwhile a lot of indebted farmers will stop exploiting their fields. This will meet he wishest of the EEC Commission which has decided to reduce the subsides to agriculture in the next four years. This is an application of the principles of Liberalism. Mr Chirac is the worst enemy of Liberalism in Europe. He is deliberately promoting the French Industry and French Groups. He has been denounced as practising “Colbertism” (after the name of the commerce minister of king Louis XIV). Chirac helped the alliance of Adventis - Sanofi, the merging of these two companies rendered this French group the third in pharmaceutical field. But Novartis and M. Vasella [Bilderberg] was on the side expecting to merge with his own group. The intervention of M. Chirac made him sour although he declared the opposite. Mr Chirac continues to work with a nation idea of capitalism, opposed by the Global vision of Liberalism. The power of France is coming from the fact that the European “Council of Ministers” has more power than the commission. They are not both supposed to quarrel, and up the moment of the adoption of the Constitution of Europe and its application, it will be so.Only then will the Commission take power above the Council of Ministers. The constitution, if accepted by the members states will be in full power in 2009.Until then the current system will prevail. Let ’s imagine that one nation rejects the constitution. It will delay the process. Thus the special links between France and Germany are working in the field of economical cooperation as well than in politics, enraging the opinionated liberals. Now to demonstrate the power of international capitalism , I will show you the list of the commissioners since 1994 and their outside activities: Vice-président : Sir Léon Brittan, vice-président UBS Warburg, administrator Unilever, adviser of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Industrial Affairs, technological informations & telecommunications, Martin Bangemann : member of gestion council of Telefonica Concurrence : Karel Van Miert, administrator Agfa Gevaert, de pers group , member surveillance comite of Philips, Wolters Klowers, Goldman sachs international, Rabobank, Swissair, DHV, GUIDANT , Eli Lilly, British American Tobacco, member of consultance comite RWE. Foreign Relations, Foreign Security Policy : Hans Vandenbroeck : secretary of board of directors and commercial director of (division of chemical group Akzo Nobel) Relations with the European Parliament. Culture & audiovisuel : Marcelino Oreja : former director of Banco Guipuzcoana, Cementos Portland Valderribas , Acerinox, Vidrieras Guardian Llodio, papeles Scott Iberica, Agroman Empresa Constructora Regional policy : Monica Wulf Mathies :former director of Veba (division of chemical group EON), Deutsche lufthansa,BGAG Beteiligungsgesellschaf der Gewerkschaften , Bund Verlag Interior market, financial services : Mario Monti, former member de l’Aspen Institute Italia, executive comite of the Trilateral commission , of the direction of meetings of Bilderberg group,former director of Gilardini (1979 — 1983), Fidis (1982 1988), Fiat (1988 1993), Banco commerciale italiana (1983 1994,), Rizzoli editore (1984 1985), IBM italia (1981 1990) , assurances Generali (1986 1993). Economical affairs, finances and money : Yves Thibault de Silguy : presently director of Suez and member of Internation Medef, director ofUgine and Unimetal (divisions of Usinor-Sacilor) Budget, personnel & administration : Erkki Liikanen : président 1983 à 1989 of the surveillance council Outokumpu inc, former director of the Firm televa oy Président : Romano Prodi, former member of the orientation comittee of the review If (revue of the IBM foundation Italia), member of the ‘association for the protection and promotion of investments of Private Foreign Investments (AAPPI, in Zurich), comite of direction of the review ” moneto e credito of the BNL (Banco nazionale de Lavoro). When he declared his personnel professional and private interests, romano Prodi declared having 50 % of the firm ASE , then in phase of liquidation since end 1997. Concurrence : Mario Monti, cfr Commission Santer Interior Market, taxation & custom union : Frédéric Bolkenstein, président of International libérals, président of the Atlantic Commission atlantique (Netherlands), member of the Society Mont - Pelerin, former member of the surveillance comite of the firm Merck Sharp & Dohme. Frits Bolkenstein stayed during 16 years near Royal Shell Dutsch before becoming General director of Chemical Shell . Economical & Money Affairs : Pedro Solbes Mira : member of the Spanish section of the Trilateral Commission. Enterprise- Information Society : Erkki Liikanen cfr commission Santer Foreign Relations : Chris Patten : precise at the moment of the declaration of his personnal interests & Professional interests havingr 4660 shares of the company Heavitree Brewery (leisures, ho tels) Commerce : Pascal Lamy : former director general of the Crédit Lyonnais, former member of the direction comite of the Socialist party, former président of the prospective commission of the Medef ( french patrons !!!!), former member of the consultative council of Rand Corporation Europe. Health & Consumers protection : David Byrne, precise in his declaration having 625 shares of Lough Inagh & Derryclare Fishery and 8000 shares of Agua Deck Employment & Social Affairs ( !) : Anna Diamantopulou, former president of EOMMEX, Greek organisation for little and Middle enterprises and artisans (1993 1994), precise in her declaration, having shares in different Greek firms for about 88.000. Member of Bilderberg since Stresa 2004. Development & Human help : Paul Nielson, former president LD -Energy, Water Group, former director Denerco (petroleum), tarco (chemical industry), Vestas D. W. T (world leader in manufacturing wind turbines) . Justices & Interior affairs : Antonio Victorino, former vice-president Portugal télécom international (1998 –1 999), former president of the General Assembly of auctionneers Banco Santander central (1998 — 1999). Next door to the commissioners’ offices in Brussels we find a lot of workforces existing by the political will of the European leaders, and more particuliarly, members of the Commission, the contacts with the business world are so important that hey could fill a book. Under the Santer Commission for instance, we have two instances about the future of telecoms and Society of Information on one side, on the other about the European competitiveness in Europe. It is in February 1994 that Martin Bangemann then commissioner in charge of industrial affairs, Information technologies and telecommunications set up a workforce including (no Trade Unions) the following chiefs of enterprises: carlo de Benedetti, président of Olivetti, Gyllenhammar president of Volvo, Pierre Lescure president of Canal+, Gaston Thorne, president CLT, Peter Bonfield, president of British telecoms; Etienne Davignon, president Société Générale de Belgique, Hans Olaf Henkel, président Henkel, Heinrich von Pierer, president of Siemens, Jan Timmer, president of Philips, Candido Velasquez, president of Telefonica whom Martin Bangemann will be little after member of the direction. These different experts were nearly all present to the ERT ( European Industrial Round Table) which is - it appears - the sole policy making body for new Eurppean law and directives. With plenty of direct contacts with the Private sector of telecommunications and new technologies. The conclusions they had in these years were in favour of their own private interests. They asked the EEC to install the following reforms, as urgently as possible: * Developement of the enterprise mind to favorize the birth of new dynamic sectors in the studied fields In a word, to do more with less. One year after, in February 1995, President Jacques Santer himself created a consultative group on European competitiveness. Made up of of 13 members : president of Unilever, Percy BARNEVIK (president of ABB et member of Bilderberg) , David Simon (president of BP) or Orja Ollila (president of Nokia and Bilderberger ). This year they invited some Trade Unions. It is true that the European Confederation of Unions (CES) has accepted since a few years all the reforms of the EEC and the requests of the European patrons. For instance, the General Secretary of the CES, Emilio Gabaglio, was taking part in the year 2000 to the European summit under the auspices of UNICE and the European Commission. He agrees with the ERT that workers must become more flexible. He spoke in the frame of a task force devoted to reinforce the flexibility of the work markets. Today the boss of the European Syndicates is himself a member of the European Policy Center, a think thank based in Brussels and which has as director the former vice president of the Commission , Peter Sutherland, [Bilderberg] who became president of BP Amoco and of the American Bank Goldmann Sachs . Marek Tysis - 23Aug04Bilderberg and the New European Government
2. Liberty of the soil: meaning that the ground is a good as other merchandise. This point was really important two centuries ago when the clergy was having a control upon lot of fields in Europe as well as the nobles had.
3. Liberty of the currency. Money is a merchandise as others.
Commissioners’ backgrounds
1. Santer Commission (1995 — 1999)
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Prodi Commission (1999-2004)
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* Building of competitive Europe on this market without Public investments, without more financial help, without subsides , without regulation, or more protectionism.
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