07-04-2009, 08:58 AM
This was first seriously mooted in February last year. Then the whole permanent Presidency thing was shelved because the uppity Irish went and voted 'NO' to the new constitution (No one else was allowed a vote of course since the earlier original had been voted down by the French and such an outcome could not be risked again). Anyway, full ratification now being well and truly underway - with Irish somewhat sidelined - it's back on the agenda again.
I did a brief blog on it last year HERE, along with a few others on Blair. The man really is a ghastly creepy con-artist who has mastered the sine-qua-non art of any aspiring Elite-Serving politician - that of deception/fraud - eliciting trust whilst systematically betraying it. He has lately taken to lecturing the great unwashed on theology, of all things, following his embrace of Roman Catholicism - it really is puke-inducing stuff. He is one of very few 'celebrities' that I simply CANNOT bear to watch or listen to for fear of either being sick or smashing the set. The fact that he is - quite genuinely - held in high esteem by so many people makes me despair for the future of the human race - 'Peace Envoy' to the Middle East ??? !!! - Christ the man is a bloody war criminal. Talk about a looking glass world.
There was an EU petition started last year which is still active and which is probably worth signing. It's linked from my blogpost.
I did a brief blog on it last year HERE, along with a few others on Blair. The man really is a ghastly creepy con-artist who has mastered the sine-qua-non art of any aspiring Elite-Serving politician - that of deception/fraud - eliciting trust whilst systematically betraying it. He has lately taken to lecturing the great unwashed on theology, of all things, following his embrace of Roman Catholicism - it really is puke-inducing stuff. He is one of very few 'celebrities' that I simply CANNOT bear to watch or listen to for fear of either being sick or smashing the set. The fact that he is - quite genuinely - held in high esteem by so many people makes me despair for the future of the human race - 'Peace Envoy' to the Middle East ??? !!! - Christ the man is a bloody war criminal. Talk about a looking glass world.
There was an EU petition started last year which is still active and which is probably worth signing. It's linked from my blogpost.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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