NICE is getting NASTIER
Some reasons for a 'NO' Vote
Military Affairs:
In the last week of April as scheduled by the European
Commission, a meeting to discuss the Security and Defence
Policy was convened in Dublin.
A group of Generals met formally in
Dublin to discuss the implementation of an Armament
Policy; to discuss co-operation and co-ordination with
NATO activity that is considered the pattern for future
European Defense and Security action and to increase
"co-operation" throughout Europe in the sphere
of Financial Criteria (support from our taxes, my friends)
to raise the level of our European Defense Forces to
International or U.S.A. strength.
One particular point in their 10pt. discussion aroused my
curiousity: No8. Lay out the bases (basis?)
for common use of Armaments by several
countries. (my italics) Is this the two tier
segmentation of the EU that we all suspect is in hand,
which will enable the chosen to dominate others not alone
by trade and 'political importance' demographically, but
also by MILITARY DOMINATION that might well be used
within the EU to sort Left/Right Wing allegiances???
Globalisation is a COLONIAL and
structured deceit:In return for dismantling the Common
Agricultural Policy, (CAP),which is to take place before
enlargement, the EC is demanding full-scale
privatisation Internationally; a revision of all GAT
commitments and a reduction in all scheduled limitations
therein. That means WITHIN the EC as well, and accounts
for new demands that we read in the newspapers, such as
the PD's plans to sell-off all our Public Services in
Ireland to the highest bidders. This also means that such
lists as those of scheduled Insurance Companies can be
invaded by companies whose securities do not come under
inspection for security in their legal affairs etc.
Those parts of the Telecom industry
now sold to Vodaphone (whose shares are plummeting) was
recently thought to have been insured until March this
year by BT - enquiries for re-insurance elicited the
information that the company thus engaged does not
actually exist... so much for trusting the British.
The GUARDIAN newspaper on
their website http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,685670,00.html recently gave a list of countries to whom
specific requests have been levelled. Comment on this can
be found at The National Platform from jcoughln@tcd.ie
I looked at the requests
scheduled for Venezuela, that has so recently been in the
news because of a 'Coup' that Washington applauded just
too early and too vociferously to extract their political
intentions when a reverse came about. Also, because it is
clear that EC Financial Services wish to expand
throughout Latin America and elsewhere. What became
horrifyingly clear from my survey was that every possible
channel of trading and interference has been noted by the
Belgian bureaucrats, who compiled the demands, that will
degrade the possibility of these countries ever getting
clear of debt, and also careering throughout the various
levels of society it is intended to open up foreign trade
commitments - right down to the repair of personal and
domestic goods of every kind that would normally be done
by small engineers or craftsmen setting up small business
concerns on the corner of the street. This amount of
interference can clearly been seen as patterned on
COLONIAL laws and regulations of the past. Also the LANGUAGE in which these
demands are couched is repellent...."remove the ban....eliminate
reciprocity conditions.....eliminate test.....eliminate
these : requirements; prohibitions; ceilings; residency
requirements; safeguards..." Incredibly, also,in
regard to the tourism industry, it is demanded that any
preferential treatment for Venezuelan graduates of the
Tourism Institutes be eliminated !
Having thrown off colonial servitude to England, less
that 100 years ago and at such a price; who only now,
since the advent of European grants and agricultural
subsidies, that has taught us how to invest our money and
how to achieve full quality education, can call ourselves
a vibrant and thriving Nation; do we now want to take
part in a type of Global Colonial Expansion that will not
only nullify our significance within the political union
of our choice - Europe - but completely prevent any
development occurring in the Third World countries that
will give them the benefits we are presently enjoying ???
Globally the populations of the world will become
subservient to these dominant forces, continue to bleed
profits of their indigenous resources to industrial
conglomerates and have even the dangerous environmental
times for the World, in a changing climate, in the hands
of Governments who have not yet even had the sense, as
have the Japanese, to create a machine that can create
world-wide palimpsests for the treatment of water
shortages, desertification etc. etc.and whose plans by
the World Bank, in the Middle East for instance, demand
the destruction of olive trees and orchards that will
undoubtedly enhance desertification.
T.H.HOULIGAN
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