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[Swartz]

Of course, pal. Obscure drops and subsequent clarifications epitomize intellectual talent. We’ve all been impressed by your output here on Dave’s over the many years.

Back to the point, one I should have also made clearer: To understand the EU, you must understand the function of the ECB; to understand the function of the ECB, you must understand the role of Mario Draghi; to understand the role of Mario Draghi, you must understand the role of his former employer, Goldman Sachs (The Vampire Squid). To understand the role the Vampire Squid plays in shaping the world you live in – your reality – you must be willing to accept that reality as you know it may be false.

“The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money”

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[Fallacy]

That is a direct quote from journalist Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone magazine in 2009. Another example of obscure drops and subsequent clarifications epitomizing intellectual talent? As for whether we "must be willing to accept that reality as you know it may be false" or not, (reaches for a tab of LSD) go ahead. We are ready for the blue/red pill moment. Keep telling us how it is, Black Morpheus.

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Answer by Wichard Woyke, a political scientist who taught European politics at the University of Münster and is considered to be one of Germany's premier experts on international politics, to a question during an interview with Deutsche Welle: "Is Schengen becoming a threat to the European Union simply because of the large numbers of people that are freely moving?"

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[wonkavite62]

Well, this issue about whether the EU is a good idea is something some people in the U.K. felt strongly enough about to form their own party-UKIP or the United Kingdom Independence Party, led by Mr. Nigel Farage.
But my worry is not the E.U. per se. It's THIS € the Euro. When I searched the Euro on YouTube, I found a video by a US professor explaining why the single currency was flawed and bound to fail. I will try to find the video for you.
I used to live in Spain. When I was a student at the University of Granada, Spain, in 1998, rent in Granada could be shockingly cheap. Nine years later it was quite expensive. This was starting to happen when I taught in Madrid. My rent was low, but only because the room itself was a windowless box. I realised that speculators were buying property and trying to get rents and mortgages as high as possible. People were encouraged to buy unaffordable houses. I used to asked how the average person was going to afford this in a country where the average salary was still lower than in northern Europe.
The prices of other things shot up. A bottle of San Miguel ber was €3, on Jan. 1 2002, and the same beer in 2005 in the same pub was €7!
As a consequence of the euro German banks were able to lend money and encourage speculation. But when crisis hit in 2008, Spain was
incapable of devaluing the Euro Germany, on the other hand, was sitting pretty.
I think some European ideas, such as the Social Chapter, and free movement, carry certain benefits. But when politicians set up something big, like the Euro, they need to be able to fix it if something goes wrong. Otherwise leave things as they are.

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[chellovek]

The EU isn't going to crumble or be dissolved.

I'm not entirely sure what you lot are envisioning when you spout this crap.

"Gadzooks, there's a bit of trouble. Let's break up the largest trading bloc in the world" with resulting massive economic and regulatory confusion (billions of $ lost in the process, trade agreements with wide swathes of the world rendered null in a stroke)

Things will go on as ever- making an imperfect hand of an imperfect reality. What has imperfectly been achieved is worth too much $$$ to be so casually tossed away.

[Neil]

After a few beers, I enjoy a nice curry, maybe going home to watch a spot of netflix before nodding off. Logging onto the internet and throwing a toddler like strop at a load of strangers who dare to disagree with me is the furthest thing from my mind.

In ten years when you're a piss stained tramp screaming at the other vagrants in the park how they are all of 'limited intellect' remember you were given some decent advice once.

On topic I see the Portuguese are the latest to be rudely informed by the French and Germans that democracy isn't something they should worry their pretty little heads about.

[chellovek]