THE DISCUSSION DEEPENS

The discussion about world events deepens and, as such, there is no shortage of political, economic and academic hacks all too willing to define things for you.

Here's an interesting article from marctomarket.com.

It was the Fascists that first offered the "third way" between Bolshevism and Liberalism (capitalism).  None less than Hitler himself saw the linkages between socialism and Fascism.  He observed in 1942 that, “There is not much difference between the basic economic techniques of socialism and fascism.”     

However, when we first wrote about this a month after Lehman collapsed, some pushed back and noted that an essential part of Fascism was missing--some unifying hatred or racism. The refugee challenge coupled with the terrorist strike has exacerbated the xenophobia and Islamophobia that was bubbling near the surface in any event.

The refugee challenge alone prompted several countries (e.g., Germany, Sweden, Austria and Hungary) to suspend the free passage (passport-free travel).  However, in light of the terrorist attack on France, a more dramatic solution has been proposed.  The EU interior ministers met last week and were recommending a wider suspension of the Schengen Agreement that created a passport-free travel zone well before EMU was contemplated (Maastricht).  

One of the prices of greater security is less liberty.  The interior ministers also proposed the establishment of a passenger name record for planes, trains and ships.  It would be not only for travel in and out of the region but also intra-EU travel.  This appears to have been agreed upon back in 2008, but due to concern about privacy issues, it has not gone forward.  Now it likely will. 

Some observers think that without free mobility, the European project is over.  Of course, many of those that are sympathetic to this argument seem to be euro-skeptics in the first place.  Moreover, there are contingencies within the Schengen Agreement for precisely this. Just like in many sports, the violation of the rule are incorporated into the rules themselves, so too with many official agreements. 

The idea that people who want to protect themselves--since it's an admitted fact government can't protect them--is a form of hatred is a curious one for sure. About once every four years, we get a cold. Most colds are caused by viruses. Do we hate viruses, not at all. But we do want to and try to avoid the havoc they can bring.?  One of the ways even so-called medical experts, many of whom are government bureaucrats at non-legitimate government agencies like the CDC,recommend is isolation.

Don't go where the viruses might be and don't bring them home. Incidentally, from time to time, that becomes a government policy regarding international travel. We don't know about yours, but when we visit our health care provider one of the first questions they are still asking as recently as a week ago, is have you been to west Africa or out of the country lately?

It is also instructive to note this writer omits the chasm that exists between climate-change freaks and non-believers. It's a given in MSM that the philistines and the haters are the non-believers. Not the zealots pushing their propaganda to enforce their agenda. The stakes have now been ramped up so high, many non-believers who speak up are openly punished.

Like the old saying it depends on whose ox is getting gored, the definition of hatred and xenophobe apparently rests with who's defining it. And you can start with the government official PC policy of zero tolerance.

In a not so strange way, isn't that what those ISIS people are saying, zero tolerance? At the bottom line isn't that what most wars are about? What do you do when someone or some entity intrudes into your space too much? You can if possible avoid them, take it to the courts if you still have any faith left in them, or go to war. The point here is: war can be defined in many different ways.

With few exceptions, most of those we've interviewed who went through a nasty divorce described it as war. You might not like that definition but each side usually sees it as being about survival.

The so-called far right in France--whom we have no connection to--is making a statement no different from what their opponents are doing. The number of people in Europe opposed to the EMU is no secret. And it's growing. That rattles establishment cages big time.