gusmac wrote:
bloodnock wrote:
Its borrow from Peter to pay Paul to pay Francoise to pay Stavros to pay Peter....and each time a transaction occurs an EU Minister and bureaucrat takes a wee slither for themselves...

Not just EU ministers and Eurocrats.
Every politician of every persuation and their bureaucrats - local national and european.
Not to mention every banker, financier and just about anyone with a couple of million to rub together.
They are all corrupt as each other and they all want to [edited by admin] us over so they can line their own pockets.
FFS You could open up with an UZI in any bank or government headquarters on the planet and I doubt you would hit an honest man.
The last bloke to enter parliament with good intentions was Guy Fawkes.

Ahem to that...
What is evident around the world, from Egypt to Russia to Europe and beyond, is a growing unrest amongst the masses and for how diverse those people are, the single thing they have in common is a lack of true representation.
This will (as History has shown) lead to the more "extreme" ideological interests using this disenfranchisement for its own nefarious means.
We are from an intellectual stand point living in one of the most interesting periods of history, certainly up there with the latter day years of Rome.
The world world systems in place such as WTO, IMF, World Bank, FED and its overseers such as the Council for foreign relations, Bilderbergs are at a cross roads with the masses.
As the great shelley wrote.
“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few.”