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Post by Michael Downing on Nov 20, 2016 22:43:24 GMT -5
straightlinelogic.com/2016/11/20/the-serfs-have-rebelled-europe-next-by-alasdair-macleod/The Serfs Have Rebelled – Europe Next?If Trumponomics leads to inflation that leads to still higher US interest rates and a stronger dollar, Europe’s shaky banking system will be the first to feel the pain. From Alasdair Macleod at gold money.com: Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom described how personal freedoms are progressively eroded by the state in the name of the common good. His warning is more associated with totalitarianism and dictatorships, than modern democracies, but the statist attitudes he warned about still apply today and lead to the same loss of personal freedom and increase of state control. In the main, the serfs are patient and tolerant of their masters, but in a democracy, the establishment behind the state risks being challenged. And that has happened twice this year, first with Brexit and now with Trump in America. We can be certain that the establishment in Britain and America will reinvent itself. Theresa May is not out to change the world, but is adapting to the new realities. Donald Trump is still mostly an unknown quantity, but the initial impression is one of appalling economic ignorance, dressed up as the new Reaganomics. He proposes substantial tax cuts and state-directed infrastructure spending “to make America great again”. But unless tax cuts and infrastructure commitments are made in lock-step with reductions in government spending, which seems extremely unlikely, the outcome will be to stimulate latent price inflation to a surprising degree.
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Post by avordvet on Nov 21, 2016 5:28:46 GMT -5
Europe has been on the knifes edge of revolution for awhile, with the people disarmed and politically oppressed for decades, the muzzy invasion might be the match that finally lights off a new wave of freedom... after the required bloodletting and refreshment of the tree.
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Post by avordvet on Nov 23, 2016 5:13:25 GMT -5
The people of Europe had better stand up soon, because the EU's self-immolation continues unabated... ‘Sharia police’ are not illegal, rules German courtEI, Nov 23, 2016 A German court on Monday ruled that a group of Islamists did not break the law in forming “sharia police” street patrols and telling people to stop drinking, gambling and listening to music. Looks like bad news for Europe, as these “Sharia thugs” will soon be seen across the EU. The ultra-conservative Muslim group around German Salafist convert Sven Lau sparked public outrage with their vigilante patrols in the western city of Wuppertal in 2014, but prosecutors have struggled to build a case against them. The city’s district court ruled that the seven accused members of the group did not breach a ban on political uniforms when they approached people while wearing orange vests bearing the words “Sharia Police”. Judges said there could only be a violation of the law – originally aimed against street movements such as the early Nazi party – if the uniforms were “suggestively militant or intimidating”, a court spokesman said. In this case, they found that the vests were not threatening and noted that one witness said he thought the men were part of a bachelor party. en.europe-israel.org/2016/11/23/sharia-police-are-not-illegal-rules-german-court/
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