Jul 6, 2025 12:10 AM
(This post was last modified: Jul 6, 2025 12:20 AM by C C.)
POINT OF VIEW
https://youtu.be/JbwI5ouhWpE
VIDEO EXCERPTS: I mean, I remember when there were great hopes for the European Union. It is analogous in a way to the former hope that if we brought China into the capitalist economic system, that would produce a liberalization in political ideology in China [...] but that just didn't happen, even a little bit.
So when the EU was formed [...] it became radically easy to move between countries without the inconvenience of passports, border guards, and so forth. And the hope was that the toxic elements of nationalism [that had troubled Europe in the past] ... would be radically ameliorated ... The EU was sold as peace, unity, and prosperity.
[...] But what was meant to unify Europe now rules it from a labyrinth in Brussels, enforcing green mandates and crushing national will. ... China didn't liberalize, the EU didn't democratize, and Canada's next. With Mark Carney pivoting hard toward the global elite, the Trudeau era may just have been a warm-up act. The real plan: Rule from above, erase borders below. This isn't integration, it's inversion.
[...] This is why the UK left the EU. The consequence was really the elimination of intermediary political structures and the creation of a super organism in Brussels.
I've been to Brussels, to the home of the EU. The building that the enterprise is housed in is a monstrosity of cataclysmic foolishness. It's like the world's biggest and ugliest badly designed airport. Tiny offices.
I've got a comical story for you. I was there 3 years ago maybe, speaking to a ... politician from Eastern Europe, Romania I think. And he had this tiny little office. And while I was there, the environmental police came into his office and adjusted his
thermostat. So that he couldn't keep it cool fundamentally, because of the green requirements, and there wasn't a damn thing he could do about it.
[...] thermostat adjustments are ... deadly essential, especially to elderly people, during the winter. But I thought it was so telling that we had gone to this staggeringly hideous monstrosity of a building. It was just a rat's maze inside. I don't know how you would ever orient yourself inside that building. It's just gargantuan.
And then to speak with this elected official who was powerless ... to adjust his own thermostat. [...] So you got a radically centralized Europe where the distance between the citizens and the government grew to like slave and tyrant proportions. A hyper elite with disenfranchised people. That's what it looks like to me.
[...] when national parties try to move in a direction that the Brussels elite do not approve of, then often environmental groups -- the Greens in particular -- take them to court and frequently win. And so the activist types can appeal to a centralized authority that can supersede national sovereignty, and frequently does.
[...] I think it was Keir Starmer, if I remember correctly, who made some denigrating comments about Westminster not so long ago. It's probably a few years, pointing out that the real seat of power and the real decision-making
authority rests with these super-national organizations ... These politicians whose ambition knows no bounds have their eye on the ultimate prize. And if that means sacrificing local or national interests, so be it...
https://youtu.be/JbwI5ouhWpE
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/JbwI5ouhWpE
https://youtu.be/JbwI5ouhWpE
VIDEO EXCERPTS: I mean, I remember when there were great hopes for the European Union. It is analogous in a way to the former hope that if we brought China into the capitalist economic system, that would produce a liberalization in political ideology in China [...] but that just didn't happen, even a little bit.
So when the EU was formed [...] it became radically easy to move between countries without the inconvenience of passports, border guards, and so forth. And the hope was that the toxic elements of nationalism [that had troubled Europe in the past] ... would be radically ameliorated ... The EU was sold as peace, unity, and prosperity.
[...] But what was meant to unify Europe now rules it from a labyrinth in Brussels, enforcing green mandates and crushing national will. ... China didn't liberalize, the EU didn't democratize, and Canada's next. With Mark Carney pivoting hard toward the global elite, the Trudeau era may just have been a warm-up act. The real plan: Rule from above, erase borders below. This isn't integration, it's inversion.
[...] This is why the UK left the EU. The consequence was really the elimination of intermediary political structures and the creation of a super organism in Brussels.
I've been to Brussels, to the home of the EU. The building that the enterprise is housed in is a monstrosity of cataclysmic foolishness. It's like the world's biggest and ugliest badly designed airport. Tiny offices.
I've got a comical story for you. I was there 3 years ago maybe, speaking to a ... politician from Eastern Europe, Romania I think. And he had this tiny little office. And while I was there, the environmental police came into his office and adjusted his
thermostat. So that he couldn't keep it cool fundamentally, because of the green requirements, and there wasn't a damn thing he could do about it.
[...] thermostat adjustments are ... deadly essential, especially to elderly people, during the winter. But I thought it was so telling that we had gone to this staggeringly hideous monstrosity of a building. It was just a rat's maze inside. I don't know how you would ever orient yourself inside that building. It's just gargantuan.
And then to speak with this elected official who was powerless ... to adjust his own thermostat. [...] So you got a radically centralized Europe where the distance between the citizens and the government grew to like slave and tyrant proportions. A hyper elite with disenfranchised people. That's what it looks like to me.
[...] when national parties try to move in a direction that the Brussels elite do not approve of, then often environmental groups -- the Greens in particular -- take them to court and frequently win. And so the activist types can appeal to a centralized authority that can supersede national sovereignty, and frequently does.
[...] I think it was Keir Starmer, if I remember correctly, who made some denigrating comments about Westminster not so long ago. It's probably a few years, pointing out that the real seat of power and the real decision-making
authority rests with these super-national organizations ... These politicians whose ambition knows no bounds have their eye on the ultimate prize. And if that means sacrificing local or national interests, so be it...
https://youtu.be/JbwI5ouhWpE