Monday, July 10th., 2017
In Good Will's Hope: May the Greek govts. and all parties' leaders find the intelligence and the necessary 'bravado' sparks to start trully caring about how thirsty their own garden is. Not the Jesuitic Pope's, not Merkel's, not Macron's Masters' gardens!
Bondsmen and serfs must soon find ways to serve Greece and Greek people's local, national and international interests. m.l.p.
"...In matter of fact it
was Germany and France in September 2015 who convinced EU Commission
President Jean-Claude Juncker to turn to using a “qualified majority”
vote, a sly way under the EU Lisbon Treaty to ram through decisions of
the more powerful states against the smaller EU member wishes. Instead
of the EU practice of using unanimity to decide such sensitive matters
as forced taking of refugees, Germany and France forced through a
relocation plan for 120,000 refugees using a qualified majority vote in
an area where it has no legal competence to act according to EU legal scholars...."
The Unspeakable Crime Of Viktor Orban
by Tyler Durden
Jul 10, 2017 3:30 AM
Some people seem like they
never learn how to play the game. At the top of the list in the European
Union these days is Hungary and her stubborn Prime Minister, Viktor
Orbán. He just doesn’t seem to get it. He doesn’t understand that it’s
not “European” to defend the sovereign rights of your citizens and your
nation. No matter how the EU faceless technocrats hovering around the
dubious Luxembourg EU President Jean-Claude Juncker try to educate Orbán
and his government, he doesn’t seem to get it.
The past year has
been a tough one for the Brussels’ EU political correctness Supremos.
First Mr Orbán insisted on going through with a national referendum. How
anti-European! Letting citizens vote on issues affecting their lives in
their own countries! What a dangerous idea if that ever spreads. Next
thing you know women might demand genuine equality and to be taken
seriously as human beings. Horror!
Last
October 2016 Viktor Orbán’s government organized a referendum vote on
whether to let the faceless, unelected EU Commission of President
Jean-Claude Juncker (or his successors) dictate the number of refugees
from North Africa and the Middle East Hungary would be forced to
welcome, including to pay for and more. The Hungarian voters voted with
over a whopping 98% in agreement with their Prime Minister that Brussels
should have no such right.
In matter of fact it
was Germany and France in September 2015 who convinced EU Commission
President Jean-Claude Juncker to turn to using a “qualified majority”
vote, a sly way under the EU Lisbon Treaty to ram through decisions of
the more powerful states against the smaller EU member wishes. Instead
of the EU practice of using unanimity to decide such sensitive matters
as forced taking of refugees, Germany and France forced through a
relocation plan for 120,000 refugees using a qualified majority vote in
an area where it has no legal competence to act according to EU legal scholars.
Fortunately,
Brussels could ignore the Hungarian referendum vote on a technicality
that just under 50% of eligible voters voted. Soros-allied NGO’s and
their allies in Hungary waged a massive boycott campaign before the
vote. “Whew! That was a close call. Democracy almost caught us in the act.”
And just to be sure
no one in the rest of the EU would get suspicious that some basic
democratic rights were being trampled on in Hungary, the
anti-nationalist mainstream EU media threw a relentless barrage of
calumny against Orbán for even daring to ask a popular vote.
University Transparency?
Next, that irascible
troublemaker Orbán and his Education Ministry introduced a law that
passed Hungary’s Parliament requiring Hungarian universities granting
degrees in more than one country actually establish campuses in each and
every country. The glaring offender was the Budapest Central European
University (CEU). That curious institution was founded in 1991
just after the fall of communism by financial speculator and NGO fake
democracy funder supreme, George Soros, in the post-communist chaos of Europe.
The new Hungarian law
also required among other things that employees of the Budapest Soros
university obtain work permits, a practice normal in every western
democracy. The Central European University claimed that for some reason
that would “limit its ability to hire staff.” The CEU spokespeople did
not say that that ability limiting aspect of the new law was because
undercover CIA agents were reluctant to file for legal work permits in
foreign countries of operation. Or is there some other reason that law
would limit the ability of Soros Budapest university to hire staff? The
Orbán government has also demanded that the university open a campus in
America as it grants degrees in New York State but has no campus there,
and that it teach courses accredited by Hungarian education authorities
and no longer teach US-accredited courses. Soros
managed apparently to finnagle accreditation of their degrees in both
Hungary and in the USA, despite the fact there is no US campus.
Money from
Soros’ Open Society NGO went to finance among other things courses and
training at the Soros Budapest university in a “civil learning and
innovation (sic) platform to help strengthen the fabric of civil society
in Hungary.”
The Central European
University also takes money, lots of it, from the CIA-connected US
Government NGO called National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as well as
from Soros’ foundations. One recent NED grant to the Soros Budapest
university went for a project at the university for honing the “skills
of young Romani activists and scholars and promote their engagement in
public service…focusing on public policy and human rights.” Some say Soros’ Central Europen University course offering reads more like a hybrid from a Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals handbook and a Gene Sharp Color Revolution manual on “non-violence as a weapon of warfare.”
Rules of the club?
That new Hungarian
university law really caused Brussels bureaucrats like Super-Commissar
Frans Timmermans, the commission’s First Vice President, real heartburn
before he was able to force Orbán to set aside the law after many
threats to Orbán and his government. Timmermans, a former Dutch foreign
minister who can never be faulted for erring on the side of democracy,
remarked at the time, “The European Union is a project driven
and designed by its member states.” He scolded Orbán, declaring that
Hungary should remember she had signed on to “the rules of the club.”(sic)
EU Commission As Politburo
Yeah,
Orbán, you thought joining the EU was joining a union of sovereign
nation states engaged in principled dialogue? How naive can you be?
It’s a club, and Brussels’ unelected Supremos like Juncker, and his
seven Über-Commissars like Timmermans, will decide what’s good for you.
“Them’s the rules of our club. Get it? I beg your pardon, Viktor Orbán,
but we never promised you a rose garden, did we?”
Just to make clear
that Brussels dictates ain’t about democracy and such silly
old-fashioned notions, Juncker, on getting Angela Merkel’s definitely
undemocratic nod to become EU President in 2014, created a new structure
of seven Super-Commissioners or more appropriately, Super-Commissars.
It resembles the old Soviet Politburo in most respects except that
Brussels today is possibly a bit less democratic than Brezhnev’s
Politburo.
Timmermans, technically First Vice-President under President Juncker, is Super-Commissar responsible for many portfolios including refugee or “migrant” policy as the EU euphemistically terms it.
The Juncker
Super-Commissioners move the EU Commission even further away from any
semblance of democracy. These Super Commissioners have the authority to
control and frame other Commissioners’ activities including the right to
veto any legislative proposal issued by their colleagues according to a
fact book leaked from Soros’ Open Society Institutes.
Today the EU
Commission is a power pyramid of unelected authority with President
Juncker at the top and First Vice President Timmermans just beneath him.
All other commissioners fall under their powers. This is something
rarely discussed in public discussion in European mainstream media.
Now You Target NGOs?
The most recent
Hungarian government slap in the face to Juncker and those God-fearing
Commissars in Brussels and their pal George Soros is a new law the Orbán government proposed and the Hungarian Parliament approved on foreign-financed NGOs. Under the new law, any
Hungarian NGO receiving more than €24,000 from foreign sources must
make an annual declaration to the Hungarian government of precisely who
the sources of their funds were. If an NGO refuses to divulge they risk being closed.
How vulgar! Now you
can be sure that the myriad of Hungarian NGOs and assorted groups
financed by the billions of dollars from Soros and his Washington NGO
friends such as National Endowment for Democracy are not happy with even
this mild new law. Perhaps they have something to hide from the
Hungarian government? Who knows? Immediately the German Foreign
Ministry, certainly no foe of Mr. Soros, issued a statement condemning
the Hungarian NGO law. Foreign Minister spokesman Martin Schaefer said
the new Hungarian law on NGOs puts it in the company of such countries
as Russia and China which consider “financing NGOs from abroad as a hostile act.”
No one
bothers to mention the fact that the United States has something called
the Foreign Agents Registration Act requiring that agents representing
the interests of foreign powers in a “political or quasi-political
capacity” disclose their relationship with the foreign government and
information about related activities and finances.
EU Makes Stupid Blunder
Taking what the
Brussels EU Commissars clearly regard as the insufferable insolence of
Orbán and the Hungarians against the Brussels attempt at absolute power
over member country internal affairs, the EU decided to take the extraordinary act of launching “infringement procedures” against Hungary’s government.
If the EU court finds Hungary guilty it could demand fines and other
sanctions. Until now the EU Commission has never sanctioned an EU member
state. A try of sanctions in 2000 against Austria for allowing members
of Jörg Haider’s Austrian Freedom Party, FPÖ, into a coalition
government were quickly dropped owing to huge anti-EU opposition.
For good
measure, the EU court filing also included Poland and the Czech Republic
who also steadfastly refuse to take the Brussels mandated refugees from
Italy and Greece.
The EU Commission
legal attack followed a May 17 vote of the EU Parliament–another bizarre
not-democratic body if ever there was one. The EU Parliament, citing
Hungary’s refusal on refugees as well as her new law on NGOs and the law
on the Soros University, demanded that the EU trigger Article 7.1 of
the EU Treaty that allows Brussels to determine if a member state has
breached the EU “values” and whether it should be punished, including
suspension of voting rights within the EU.
The Brussels legal
attack on Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic will likely blow up in
their face and accelerate the further dissolution of the obviously
ill-conceived European Union. At the very least it forges unity of those
under attack and stiffens resistance to a clearly autocratic EU
bureaucracy and power patriarchy.
It‘s
becoming crystal clear to more and more European citizens that the
monster that is Brussels today does not represent the true interests of
EU citizens. The unspeakable crime of V. Orbán is his insistence on
acting in the interests of his citizens not to the self-declared
arrogant unelected Commissars in Brussels.