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ORIGINAL: Arpig

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Perhaps you should run Ontario with bank appointed mandarins, since that style of government appears to appeal to the lot of you..

And perhaps you should learn to read.

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The purpose of the national government is made abundantly clear—to prevent an election or any possibility of the plans of the financial oligarchy being thwarted by popular opposition.

In this, Greece can only be seen as a down payment on what is to come for countries throughout Europe and internationally.
On November 4, the Financial Times identified the next target for regime change. “In God’s name, go!” it proclaimed in another editorial, this time directed at Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi.

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None the less, the virtual suspension of the democratic process that euro membership seems increasingly to demand should be viewed with alarm. Legitimacy, it appears, is expendable; the single currency is not. From the start, the march to European unification has always implied an erosion of sovereignty. But we seem to be reaching the point where the diktats of a small policy elite vastly outweigh the decisions of national parliaments.

A particularly unhealthy development is the emergence of the “Frankfurt Group”, a shadowy collection of senior policymakers, to drive through the measures thought necessary to save the euro. Its reported make-up – Angela Merkel, Christine Lagarde, Nicolas Sarkozy, Mario Draghi, José Manuel Barroso, Jean-Claude Juncker, Herman van Rompuy and Olli Rehn, with external powerhouses such as Barack Obama occasionally allowed in by invitation – gives no reason for confidence.

Nothing any of them has done to date has succeeded in stemming the crisis. On the contrary, their actions have often made matters worse. If the definition of madness is to do the same thing repeatedly and expect different outcomes, this collection of latter-day Napoleons would quickly be confined to the asylum. A policy agenda that has consistently failed is scarcely more likely to succeed if pursued more decisively and oppressively through a European equivalent of the Chinese Politburo.

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Since you like the EU and think what goes on there is a good thing, why not let some banks appoint the provincial government, if they don't like the budget or the provincial bond yields? You could probably get on in some sort of supporting staff role. Perfect job for you, and well paid too.

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Again, you need to learn to read.

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ORIGINAL: Arpig

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Since you like the EU and think what goes on there is a good thing, why not let some banks appoint the provincial government, if they don't like the budget or the provincial bond yields? You could probably get on in some sort of supporting staff role. Perfect job for you, and well paid too.

Again, you need to learn to read.

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The next time you post an opinion in an online forum or a Facebook group message board, don't be surprised if you get a rebuttal from a federal employee. The government is looking for ways to monitor online chatter about political issues and correct what it perceives as misinformation.
The move started recently with a pilot project on the East Coast seal hunt. A Toronto-based company called Social Media Group has been hired to help counter some information put forward by the anti-sealing movement.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade has paid the firm $75,000 "to monitor social activity and help identify ... areas where misinformation is being presented and repeated as fact," Simone MacAndrew, a department spokesperson, said in an email.
The firm alerts the government to questionable online comments and then employees in Foreign Affairs or the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, who have recently been trained in online posting, point the authors to information the government considers more accurate.

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I can read you just fine.

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I realize that the average Fox News viewer thinks that "international" means the next state over, but hopefully people on this site are a little more enlightened. I don't know if anyone noticed, but we have 3 new leaders in Europe this week:

• Mario Darghi - new head of the ECB, appointed by ????, ex-Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Goldman Sachs International.
• Lucas Papademos - new Prime Minister of Greek - a position that is supposed to be selected by the citizens of Greece. Appointed by ????. Ex-Goldman Sachs.
• Mario Monti - new Prime Minister of Italy - a position that is supposed to be selected by the citizens of Italy. Appointed by ????. Current member of the Goldman Sachs board on international advisors.

So, two "democracies" with new Prime Ministers that the voters never cast a single vote for. And both active or past members of Goldman Sachs. And the head of the ECB, one of the most powerful jobs in Europe, also ex-Goldman Sachs.
The only thing that surprises me is that GS are being so blatant in their takeover of Europe. Can it be that they are a lot more worried about the OWS movement than they are pretending to be? I don't know what is more pathetic - this attempt by the 1% to control the 99%, or the deafening silence from the so-called "news media".

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ORIGINAL: FirstQuaker

Looks like OWS is on the EU's case now -

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I realize that the average Fox News viewer thinks that "international" means the next state over, but hopefully people on this site are a little more enlightened. I don't know if anyone noticed, but we have 3 new leaders in Europe this week:

• Mario Darghi - new head of the ECB, appointed by ????, ex-Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Goldman Sachs International.
• Lucas Papademos - new Prime Minister of Greek - a position that is supposed to be selected by the citizens of Greece. Appointed by ????. Ex-Goldman Sachs.
• Mario Monti - new Prime Minister of Italy - a position that is supposed to be selected by the citizens of Italy. Appointed by ????. Current member of the Goldman Sachs board on international advisors.

So, two "democracies" with new Prime Ministers that the voters never cast a single vote for. And both active or past members of Goldman Sachs. And the head of the ECB, one of the most powerful jobs in Europe, also ex-Goldman Sachs.
The only thing that surprises me is that GS are being so blatant in their takeover of Europe. Can it be that they are a lot more worried about the OWS movement than they are pretending to be? I don't know what is more pathetic - this attempt by the 1% to control the 99%, or the deafening silence from the so-called "news media".

Forum Post: Covert corporate takeover of Europe

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ORIGINAL: Iamsemisweet

All of these people were duly appointed by whoever in those countries had the right to appoint interim successors. So ??? In Italy, for example, is the president of that country. The implication that these appointments violated the constitution of these countries is incorrect.

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ORIGINAL: FirstQuaker

Looks like OWS is on the EU's case now -

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I realize that the average Fox News viewer thinks that "international" means the next state over, but hopefully people on this site are a little more enlightened. I don't know if anyone noticed, but we have 3 new leaders in Europe this week:

• Mario Darghi - new head of the ECB, appointed by ????, ex-Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Goldman Sachs International.
• Lucas Papademos - new Prime Minister of Greek - a position that is supposed to be selected by the citizens of Greece. Appointed by ????. Ex-Goldman Sachs.
• Mario Monti - new Prime Minister of Italy - a position that is supposed to be selected by the citizens of Italy. Appointed by ????. Current member of the Goldman Sachs board on international advisors.

So, two "democracies" with new Prime Ministers that the voters never cast a single vote for. And both active or past members of Goldman Sachs. And the head of the ECB, one of the most powerful jobs in Europe, also ex-Goldman Sachs.
The only thing that surprises me is that GS are being so blatant in their takeover of Europe. Can it be that they are a lot more worried about the OWS movement than they are pretending to be? I don't know what is more pathetic - this attempt by the 1% to control the 99%, or the deafening silence from the so-called "news media".

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Do you have any idea of the political records of the locally elected fools?
If you're talking about Mussolini, Berlusconi is a much better match than the interim scapegoat they've dredged up from the back of his cabinet.

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Maybe you can sue the Germans and the Chinese for insulting your work ethic, perhaps that can pry some money out of them to prop the EUrozone back up.

And would you prefer the alternative styling of the EU as the EUSSR?

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ORIGINAL: FirstQuaker

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

Do you have any idea of the political records of the locally elected fools?
If you're talking about Mussolini, Berlusconi is a much better match than the interim scapegoat they've dredged up from the back of his cabinet.

You normally act like you have more sense then this.What if the EU tried this on the UK? If you had joined the EUrozone, you would be worse off then the Italians right now, read your financials and see where you would be if some Parliament had you on the EUro..

Suppose they then told the UK to write a new budget and fire Cameron while putting a Eurocrat in his place? And have the Queen over in Brussels in the Eurocourt for not having a good enough budget to suit them? Offered to wreck your economy if you did not comply.

Any normal  men and women would go to Brussels and burn it to the ground in such a case.