This story was previously titled "EU Lisbon Treaty to become law within weeks after Czech president concedes defeat (Not with a bang but a whimper) - Daily Telegraph"
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Posted By gamahuche 2 months ago in News
The controversial Lisbon Treaty is set to become law within weeks after the Czech Republic's eurosceptic president conceded his attempt to challenge it was futile.
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gamahuche2 months ago
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Strange that just a couple of days ago the last hold-out against the Lisbon treaty was talking a great fight - and suddenly this extremely obstinate human being suddenly caved. Much to the chagrin, no doubt of the British Conservatives who wanted him to stay in the fight as a stalking-horse so that they could get a revisit to the terms after their putative return to power. So suddenly the other relatively newly-minted bogeyman of Sudetenland restitution is laid to rest.. More to this than meets the eye, I guaranteee!
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gamahuche2 months ago
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I'm not the world's greatest fan of the EU though there are a few features that I do like in terms of personal lifestyle - like the ability to cross borders without any formality whatsoever and to live wherever you wish.
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For those who were formerly occupied by the Soviets and before that the Nazis the fact that it is inconceivable that anything like that could happen again is an enormous plus.
Another simple part of the equation is that the politicians who wanted to stay out of the EU were a pretty seedy bunch - both here and in Ireland, the last holdouts.
The serious dark cloud on my horizon is the that Tony Bliar is being touted for the Presidency of Europe.
Now if THAT came to pass it might drive me to emigrate to another continent.-
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hyperbola2 months ago
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The zionist lobby will work very hard to put their tool Blair into the EU presidency. However, a zionist tool from the UK should be eminently resistable by Europe.
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UK newspaper wins details of how Blair consulted arch zionist Rupert Murdoch 3 times before invading Iraq
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Justifying all our posts here at GLP exposing the hand of zionism behind Bush and Blair, the UK's top quality newspaper, the Independent, today won a victory over the UK government which sought to suppress the interaction between Rupert Murdoch and Tony Blair. Why would a government seek to hide this?
Well, today's edition publishes as many details as can be published (the UK government has blocked many details) under the freedom of information act. And they are a bombshell. Blair ran off to Murdoch three times in the days before the Iraq invasion and consulted the world's most notorious zionist 9 times during his premiership.
This is proof in print of the huge involvement that Zionism had in the war. The fact that they fought so hard to cover this up shows that this involvement was both secret and not in the main players' interests to be disclosed. That implies that this relationship was in Zionist interests as the UK government, if it had been acting in the public interest would have nothing to hide.
Moreover, these disclosures prove that the alliance was personal.
This proves that Iraq at the very least was an invasion that was based on zionist motives, possibly inspired by and controllled from the movement....
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gamahuche2 months ago
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BTW I should 'fess up that I adapted the Telegraph title which was: "EU Lisbon Treaty to become law within weeks after Czech president concedes defeat".
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The first part comes of course from T.S. Eliot: "The Hollow Men", which seemed an apt title too..:
This is the way the world ends
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gamahuche2 months ago
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The [London] Times - formerly the "Paper of Record" printed a lousy article on this and got the story completely wrong.
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Here is a Czech story:
Havel deems Klaus's behavior as irresponsible
12:41 | 16.10.2009CzechNews
Václav Havel at the Na zábradlí theatre commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution
Prague - As the Czechs commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism this year, front leaders of the 1989 Velvet Revolution gathered in Prague's theatre Na zábradlí on Thursday to recall the important moments of Czech history.
Among the guests was also the first post-1989 president Václav Havel who expressed his concerns over president Václav Klaus. According to Havel, Klaus is damaging the country.
"He is damaging the country and he acts irresponsibly," the playwright-turned-politician said adding that he cannot avoid commenting on the issue.
Klaus has refused to sign the Lisbon Treaty after both chambers of the Czech parliament ratified it. He demands an opt-out from the Charter of Fundamental Rights, claiming that the Lisbon Treaty will "make it possible for the EU Court of Justice to bypass Czech courts and deal directly with claims raised by those who were displaced after World War II directly."
Cardigans and corduroy pants
The Na zábradlí theatre is very symbolic for Václav Havel. He started his career as a playwright there in the 1960s.
"I spent the most beautiful years in my life in this theatre," he said nostalgically. He said he also met his future wife here Dagmar Havlová.
With him on the theatre stage were also former dissident and later politician Alexander Vondra, Ji?í K?ižan and Havel's spokesperson Michael Žantovský. All of them were among the leading figures of the Velvet Revolution.
The relaxed atmosphere of the afternoon session was underlined by the Revolution protagonists wearing cardigans and corduroy pants.
"We agreed we would come in the clothes we had during the Velvet revolution times," Alexandr Vondra explained to the viewers. "Václav Havel is wearing the same pants. Mine did not fit me any longer," he added laughing. -
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