European Free Speech Under Further Attack

No FreedomFrom the Wall Street Journal;

Danish journalist Lars Hedegaard, president of the International Free Press Society, had to stand trial in Copenhagen because he had criticized Islam

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, an Austrian human-rights activist, was fined €480 for calling the Islamic prophet Muhammad a pedophile because he had consummated his marriage to a nine-year old girl

Now Gert Wilders comments that his trial is a political trial.

 

Posted on 12 Apr, 2012 by alfred

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Financial Transaction Tax - a Tax on the poor

Every one to the left, seems to be quietly quoting this Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) without realising that it is a tax on the poor, not on the banks, but worse than that, it is the first attempt to create a tax outside of the control of elected governments, that is likely to succeed. Tiny to start with, but once the principle is established, it will be raised, and there will be nothing to stop other transnational taxes, on ships fuel, aircraft fuel etc etc.

 

Posted on 15 Dec, 2011 by alfred

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Goodbye

This blog has served its purpose and has now been thoroughly eclipsed by many superior writers who keep us updated, on an almost daily basis. Therefore I will only post here occasionally.

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As the tentacles of the European experiment, move daily, tiny bit by tiny bit, around our throats, more and more people are waking up to the horror of the reality of the one European Government, governed by an unaccountable elite in the Commission, hell bent on controlling every minute detail of our lives. Andrew Symeou is free, at last and more and more people ...

      

Posted on 01 Nov, 2011 by alfred

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Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty

What chance? Certainly worth a try. From PJC Journal "

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Lisbon Treaty Exit Clause

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Responsible department: Foreign and Commonwealth Office

We the British people petition the Government to make use of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. Exit Clause."

  

Posted on 27 Oct, 2011 by alfred

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Fat Tax - What Next?

"To discourage unhealthy eating and limit the population’s intake of fatty foods, an increasing number of countries across the the European Union is considering levying taxes on unhealthy food."

From TaxProf Blog

(Compare with:

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.")
I'm beginning to understand the need for the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution

 

Posted on 27 Oct, 2011 by alfred

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more and more money please

From der Spiegel:

"The markets would prefer more and more money, and ever-increasing loans, but in the end, the money will not have much value anymore. The first serious experts are already talking of an impending need for currency reform, a traumatic idea for the Germans."

 

Posted on 03 Oct, 2011 by alfred

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TEN-T Project 14

Never heard of it? Its costing you £30 billion and more. As the EU's Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency states

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"The west coast main line (WCML) is the most important trunk route in the United Kingdom's rail network with some 2,000 train movements per day. It links London and the south-east with England's largest conurbations (Birmingham and Manchester), as well as with Liverpool, north Wales, north-western England, Cumbria and Scotland, covering a distance of 850 km."

Yes, this is an EU Project. Did you know that? As Witterings from Witney reminds us

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"Conservative Home has an article by Mark Field on the subject of HS2 in which he confesses that the underlying logic of HS2 has always been something of a mystery to him. ... Needless to say not once in Field's article does he refer to the EU link so perhaps he needs to 'surf the net' a little more prior to putting fingers to keyboard. Mind you, the lack of any mention of the EU is hardly surprising when one remembers that he was one of those Conservative MPs that supported the Government giving the IMF an additional £9.2billion 'bung' - from which an educated guess can be made as to where his loyalties lie."

 

Posted on 29 Jul, 2011 by alfred

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The Tentacles creep ever onwards

Just a few major EU advances that don't register much in the MSM

  1. EU coastguard corps to replace our coastguards. While we discuss which stations to close, the EU plans to vote on the pan-EU corps, in October.
  2. EU VAT Levy to go up from 0.3% to 1.3%. While we plan our supposed austerity cuts, the EU plans to increase the amount it takes from VAT. Plans for a direct EU Tax on Banks also continue.
  3. EU calls for joint military HQ. EU foreign affairs and security chief Baroness Ashton presented a proposal for a new permanent headquarters. (This one did get into the press.)

European Police Force grows. At a meeting in Rome in June, as Albion Alliance reports, "Attention was focused on the various European Agencies such as Europol, Frontex, Eurojust and CEPOL [European Police College]. In particular, the importance of CEPOL was pointed out in relation to the training of the “European policeman” aimed at safeguarding EU citizen’s security."

.. and so it goes on and on and on

 

Posted on 28 Jul, 2011 by alfred

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