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Terry Boardman
9.6.2016
RECOMMENDED !
For sober and thought-provoking comment on the subject of Britain’s EU Referendum, please see the following two essays by ANDY THOMAS:
EU or Not EU: Deciding With the Inner Voice and
EU or Not EU: Reasoning the Issues
as well as responses to those essays and further thoughts on the EU vote by Andy at his website:
http://truthagenda.org/2016/06/07/responses-to-articles-and-further-thoughts-on-the-eu-vote/
6.10.2014
My translation of LUDWIG POLZER-HODITZ – A European:
A Biography by T.H. Meyer
has been published today by Temple Lodge
This detailed study by Thomas H. Meyer of Basel of one of Rudolf Steiner’s closest esoteric pupils, Count Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz (1869-1945), a man who was especially involved with the political issues of Central Europe and with the origins of Social Threefolding as well as with karmic research, was originally published by Perseus Verlag (Basel) in German in 1994. This translation was made from the revised and expanded 2nd edition of 2008.
http://www.templelodge.com/pages/viewbook.php?isbn_in=9781906999643
21.8.2014
Interview with Sergei Glaziev
Extensive outlay of the thoughts of Putin’s close collaborator and advisor :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cikvqdMRTTA
19.3.2014
The Ukraine Crisis and the ‘Eastern Partnership’
In response to Russia’s absorption of Crimea, some voices in countries that were formerly part of the USSR and are now ‘independent’ are reacting irresponsibly by calling for action by NATO. They talk about Czechslovakia and 1938 and forget what happened 6-9 August 1945. This is not 1938; we now have nuclear weapons and Cuba in 1962 should have taught us the folly of playing nuclear poker with the very exisatence of mankind.
The Ukraine crisis began in late November 2013 when President Yanukovych of Ukraine rejected the Eastern Partnership Association Agreement with the EU and opted instead for an agreement with Russia. That prompted the Maidan demonstrations in Kiev that focused especially on issues of corruption. But soon the demonstrations were joined by Far Right elements and the violence increased, reaching appalling levels in February 2014. But what was the EU Eastern Partnership – a project supposedly devised by Poland and Sweden – actually for? In the autumn, before the protests got seriously underway in Kiev, the following two articles appeared from Lithuania:
http://www.tspmi.vu.lt/tinklarastis/2013/10/tomas-janeliunas-the-main-advocate-of-the-eu-eastern-partnership-programme/ Note the reference to Brzezinski’s Grand Chessboard here.
http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/50145/kirkilas-eastern-partnership-dilemma-the-eu-or-russia-democracy-or-autocracy-201350145/ From Sept 2013:
For Lithuania, given the country’s European integration experience, the Eastern Partnership has naturally become the No 1 priority of its EU Presidency. Lithuania strongly holds on the position that these countries should be helped to make the ‘right’ decision towards Europe and given a credit of trust in advance, especially now, when Armenia might be lost to Russia’s geopolitical project. Demand or “waiting and seeing” strategy is no longer feasible, if Europe does not want to lose the other three.
The major battle is now for Ukraine (democracy ranking 80th). Georgia and Moldova will likely follow the pattern afterwards. Therefore, Lithuania hopes that during the Vilnius Summit of Eastern Partnership the EU Association Agreement will be signed with Ukraine and the Free Trade Agreements will be initialled with Georgia and Moldova.
Zbigniew Brzezinski in his famous book on Eastern Europe ‘The Grand Chessboard’ states, that “with Ukraine Russia is an Empire, without Ukraine – it’s not. The politicians in Russia took it very literally and doing everything in their power to keep Ukraine in their sphere of influence”. With Ukraine Russia is an Empire, without Ukraine – it’s not.
And now from the horse’s mouth:
http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21590585-success-eastern-partnership-depends-ukraine-playing-east-against-west 23 Nov 2013 (note the date – just before the Maidan demos got going)
From the “Charlemagne” section: “Playing East against West” “The success of the Eastern Partnership depends on Ukraine”
“Perhaps not since the end of the cold war has Europe hosted such a raw geopolitical contest.”
(Nb Malcolm Rifkind this morning on BBC radio said: “not since 1945….”)
IN JUNE 1709 Peter the Great fought a decisive battle against the Swedish king, Charles XII, at Poltava, in what is now Ukraine. Ukrainians fought on both sides. Ivan Mazepa, a Ukrainian Cossack Hetman, had sided with Sweden in a quest for Ukrainian independence. But the battle ended in Sweden’s defeat: Russia swept westward, dominated all of the Baltics and turned Poland into a satellite.
On November 28th the heads of European Union member states will gather in Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, for a summit of the “Eastern Partnership”. This project was championed by Poland and Sweden in 2008 as a way of engaging with six former Soviet republics (Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia) after Russia blocked Georgia’s and Ukraine’s path to NATO. The success or failure of this venture depends on whether Ukraine, by far the largest and most important of the six, signs an association and free-trade agreement with the EU.
Radek Sikorski and Carl Bildt, the foreign ministers of Poland and Sweden, have put their reputations on the line. Ukraine is of particular importance to Poland, for historical reasons, but also as an emblem of Poland’s dominant role in eastern Europe. For Mr Bildt, signing the agreement with Ukraine is a test of Europe’s pulling power and its ability to enact its own foreign policy…Losing Ukraine to Europe has long been a Russian nightmare. Although Ukraine declared its independence 23 years ago, Russia has never fully internalised it.
As Zbigniew Brzezinski, national-security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, explained two decades ago: “Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both …Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.” The “loss” of Ukraine would push Russia’s western border back to where it was in the 17th century. It would also make a mockery of Mr Putin’s project for a Eurasian union and his mission as a gatherer of Russian lands….[final sentence:] Even if the Swedes and Poles triumph in Vilnius, they would be foolhardy to celebrate.
[As the writer well knows, it was not so much Sweden or Poland that were seeking to triumph in Vilnius, it was Zbigniew Brzezinski and his comrades. - Terry]
[I've just heard Poland has called for a meeting under NATO's self-defence clause; BBC is now discussing NATO 'hard power' options. NATO likely to send forces to eastern Poland: "the Russians only respect military demonstrations of red lines" - Terry]
It’s always worth revisiting Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard (1997)…. I did so again recently, and the sheer level of subtle and not so subtle vitriol and venom against Russia that breathes throughout the whole book struck me again. It’s worth watching the man in action here:
In the article in Foreign Affairs Sept 2009 which this video interview is referring to, Brzezinski in 2009 here talks about the need for a “cooling off period” after the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia before EU/NATO moves are made in the direction of Ukraine. Was that cooling off period 2008-2013? Did Brzezinski actually have input in the formation of the Eastern Partnership concept? He writes in the article: “for promoting and consolidating positive change in the East” the Eastern Partnership …could very well be an effective instrument…”
Putin and his advisers are under no illusions that ZB was behind the spirit of the Eastern Partnership if not the actual concept itself:
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/the-mania-ukraine%E2%80%99s-euromaidan-9636
Putin adviser Sergei Glazyev writes:
Despite the fact that Ukraine’s participation in the Common Economic Space with Russia is natural and vital for the development of Ukraine’s economy, culture and education, it is being opposed by the anti-Russian policy of Washington and its NATO allies in Kiev. This policy is steered by Zbigniew Brzezinski who convinced the American geopolitical machine that Russia could never return to its Great Power status without Ukraine.
The main problem is the nature of the EU itself. It is not ‘European’ and it is not a bridge; it is a sub-western* construct – a transatlantic superhighway – serving the transatlantic interests very capably presented through Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1997. Those who see through the EU project have to decide whether they feel it should be accepted as such and that the attempt could be made to metamorphose it into something ‘good’, or else, that it should be scrapped and Europeans begin again with an altogether different form of associative community. Personally, I’m not convinced that the former is the way to go. It seems to me like it would be an attempt to pour ‘new wine in old wineskins’. A real alternative has been available to Europe for almost 100 years since Rudolf Steiner first spoke about the threefolding of the social organism.
* ‘sub-western’, as in ‘subordinated’
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7 May 2013
REISSUE of my first book MAPPING THE MILLENNIUM – Behind the Plans of the New World Order
My first book Mapping the Millennium – Behind the Plans of the New World Order (original cover shown on this page) , first published in 1998 by Temple Lodge Publishing of London, out of print for the last few years and hard to come by, was re-issued by the same publisher this month, May 2013. It is available via the usual outlets price £13.99.
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SANDY HOOK
You may have seen this already.
http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=32818
Very good thread. Watch especially The Sandy Hook Shooting Fully Exposed
Note also that this on the page
Via: NBC:
“The weapons used in Friday’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., were legally purchased and registered to Nancy Lanza, the mother of the gunman, Adam Lanza, two law enforcement officials told NBC News.The gunman was clad in black and used two 9mm pistols to kill 20 small children and six adults at the school. It was unclear how many shots were fired there”
is DIRECTLY contradicted by the words of the Medical Examiner in the first video on the Cryptogon page who said that a rifle was used in the killings.
By the way, 14 December was the day of the fatal attack on Kaspar Hauser who was born in 1812, 200 years before. You might think that is stretching things too far, but if you take seriously the possibility, probability, that that guy in the Cryptogon video – Gene Rosen – was acting and lying through his teeth about such an event then you have to ask yourself what kind of ‘per-sona’ is he? What level of evil are we dealing with here? And in the year, the Kaspar Hauser anniversary year, in which the Jimmy Saville affair was also blown wide open in the English-speaking world, the worst levels of evil are surely those in which horrendous things are done to children.
If Kaspar Hauser is as important a spiritual being as he is considered to be, then he surely represents something like the true child within each of us and as such, it’s not perhaps too far-fetched to imagine that the day chosen by evil forces for such a deed against children might be associated with him, especially in ‘his’ anniversary year. 14 Dec is the 348th day of the year, leaving 17 days left to run before the end of the year. Kaspar Hauser died on the 17th December from the wounds he received on the 14th.
After the absurdity of the O’Bama kills Osama affair, it’s clear that the PTB in the US now feel they can pull off any stunt, do a little “media magic” hocus-pocus over it and Joe Public in the US will just shrug and let them carry on.
By the way, I very much recommend the following on 9/11 if you haven’t seen it; it’s made by architects, engineers, physicists, chemists and other knowledgeable people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddz2mw2vaEg The fact that the mainstream media ignores this kind of evidence is IMHO evidence of…. dare I say it…. a cover-up. Yet Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen and now Mali go on, alljustifed by 9/11 and the so-called ‘al-Qaeda threat’.
One of the things that operates like a clamp on some people’s minds is the thought that “our government would never do that!” which keeps them from seeing that a government could actually deliberately bring about the deaths of its own citizens by commission or omission. People on both right and left fall for this – the right because of the patriotic “my country right or wrong” attitude, and the left because of their tendency to believe in government and state action (as a symbol of community and protection of the weak) againsy selfish and greedy individuals. Especially when there’s a leftwing government in power, they find it hard to conceive that it could kill its own citizens for ulterior motives. But that’s what our government did in 2003 when we invaded Iraq and what the American government did then too and also in 1991 and also in 1967 when it allowed the Israelis to attack an American warship and kill many of the crew, the USS LIberty.
Here are two documentaries on the issue, one British, one American.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOBeqvgsQas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aVXj7hFZx4 BBC
China – Japan: Just The Tip Of The Iceberg – Analysis
Japan: U.S. Pawn In Campaign To Encircle China
Time for Tough Measures
By Chu Zhaogen
WWII Clouds Loom Over China-Japan Dispute on Senkaku Islands
In its relations with Japan, China frequently brings up the topic of Japanese aggression and atrocities in China from the late 19th century Sino-Japanese war continuing throughout World War II. The dispute with Japan is now part of the legacy of World War II and China claims that under the Potsdam Declaration of 1945, Japan was obligated to return all the territories seized illegally.
The above means that the dispute over the islands is now connected to one of the most highly charged issues in Sino-Japanese history, making it a matter of national honor for the Chinese that is not subject to negotiation.
In the interim, China has allowed anti-Japanese demonstrators a relative freehand (“Their feelings are perfectly understandable” explained the Chinese Foreign Ministry) and the Japanese Embassy in Beijing has issued warnings to Japanese citizens and businessmen to take precautionary measures.
Japanese participation in public and private events in China has been canceled as part of the anti-Japanese mood.
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http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201209130062
New Japanese populist party headed by young charismatic leader from the working class, Toru Hashimoto, Mayor of Osaka, includes disputed islands in its logo.
Osaka [Hashimoto] rejects petition for referendum on nuclear power
http://122.248.242.148/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201203280037
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The United States of Europe – Whose idea was it actually?
Now the BBC is coming right out with it – United States of Europe – and claiming it’s GERMANY’S idea! The aptly named Guido Westerwelle (the leader/guide of the western wave – a cruel irony in this name; he might just as well be called Mr Trojan Horse) and the others in the German transatlantic elite are happy to carry this can, so once again Germany’s elite will lead its people into disaster when the other peoples of Europe eventually come to damn Germany for the ultimate catastrophe that will result from this deceitful charade. See article below.
The real beans of the matter were spilled by another insider, Niall Ferguson in The Sunday Times on 20 May in his article titled “One Nation (Under Germany)”:
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article34798.html
“And what of those who dreamt up the single currency wheeze in the first place? Shouldn’t they now be feeling at the very least a trifle sheepish? Not at all, Ferguson reckons. If things play out the way he predicts, they will have achieved their ambition — albeit by somewhat devious means.
“I think it’s worth considering that the architects of the monetary union knew all along that it would lead to a crisis and the crisis would lead to a federal solution. I’m not quite sure how far that was articulated, but I think it was implicit. In fact, you could say it was actually designed to create a crisis,” he says.
In the late 1990s, an internal paper circulated in the Bank of England about a hypothetical breakup of the single currency. It floated the idea that “country I” — and the supposed identity of country I could be speculated upon but was never made explicit — would run an unsustainable deficit. Because there was no legal exit from the single currency, the costs of any exit would be sky high. “And,” Ferguson says, “it was designedly so. That point has held good.
“They [the euro enthusiasts] have achieved what they wanted in that the level of financial integration has gone so far, it’s almost impossible to undo. And it was always meant to be undoable, which is why there never was an exit clause. You were never going to get federalism by any other means.”
If the current crisis does indeed see the creation of a federal state of Europe, where does that leave Britain? Would it want to be part of that new superstate? “The answer is clearly no,” Ferguson says. And if— a big if — there were a referendum, Britain might vote to leave the EU altogether.”
Here Ferguson reveals the extent to which he is ‘in the know’. The whole scam of this current crisis, he says, was designed to bring about the fiscal and political integration of Europe. This means the creation, in effect, of the United States of Europe, the intended little sister of Big Brother USA. This is the final stone in the 63 year-long USE project – to be completed by 2013 – that began with the founding of the European Coal and Steel Community which was cleverly steered into place by Jean Monnet in 1950 and disguised as the (Robert) Schumann Plan. Every 6 or 7 years since then, the project has taken a further step or lurch forward, sometimes accompanied by a convenient crisis, and now we have the biggest crisis yet, in order to facilitate the biggest and final step – the removal of independent national fiscal taxation and budgetary powers and their appropriation by a centralised authority, or de facto Ministry of Finance.
Responsibility for this latest authoritarian manoeuvre is already being placed on the German scapegoat, as we see below from the BBC. It is a total fabrication, because the idea and planning for a United States of Europe were conceived in the Anglosphere over 100 years ago by imperialist thinkers such as W.T.Stead (see his books The United States of Europe and The Americanisation of the World) and Cecil Rhodes and carried on by the Round Table group and their successors. Rightwingers and anti-German leftwingers either seek to hide this fact (if they are even aware of it) or else, in their ignorance of it, they claim that the USE is a plan devised by the Nazis (see, for example, John Laughland‘s well-known book, The Tainted Source – The Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea, 1997). Yes, there are of course those in the German elite, such as Westerwelle, who wish to see the creation of a USE allied to the USA, but they are actually Anglosphere puppets within the German establishment. Some of them don’t even realise that the ideas in their heads and the words on their lips are neither German nor European but Anglo-American.
‘More Europe!’: Germany’s battle-cry for the eurozone
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18557059
“It is the rallying cry of Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel as she points to what she thinks is the way out of the euro mire.
“More Europe means that we must give up more powers to Europe,” Mrs Merkel says.
She said it again after meeting the leaders of Spain, France and Italy in Rome: “The lesson of this crisis is more Europe, not less Europe.”
But is Berlin’s ceding power to Brussels also the route to a United States of Europe?
The Future Group A picture of the German conception of Europe’s future is emerging from the utterances of the German foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, and through the newly published interim report of what is known as the Future Group, which he set up.
The proposals are:
• More European power to determine the economic and tax policies of the member states. There should be a “transfer of sovereignty” to the European centre
• A strengthening of the EU’s “foreign office”, with a common European foreign and security policy
• A smaller European Commission able to make decisions faster
• A bigger role for the European Parliament to make “stronger democratic legitimacy”
• A directly elected President of Europe
• A European army
United States of Europe?So is it a USE – a United States of Europe? There are certainly similarities with the USA – with its central power over economics and common foreign policy.
Without saying United States of Europe, Mr Westerwelle justifies the move to “more Europe” by citing the current crisis in the eurozone.
“It is the worst crisis that Europe has ever faced. We have to learn the right lessons from it. Decision-making in Europe is often too slow,” he says.
“Unfortunately, a cold wind of repatriation is sweeping through the European Union. The grand idea of Europe is in danger.”
He goes on: “But the truth is that we need more Europe, not less. Europe must stand up for itself, for the idea of cultural unity. Steps towards a genuine political union would make a tangible contribution to ending the crisis.”
Mr Westerwelle has some weight behind him. A Future of Europe Group that he set up is made up of fellow foreign ministers from Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Poland.
It is not clear if France is in or out. It sent an official to the early meetings with a promise of a foreign minister after the election.
‘Too fast, too far’
But 17 of the 27 countries in the European Union were left out, including Britain and Sweden which are both sceptical about more power going to Brussels.
And it should be said that what Mr Westerwelle thinks is not always what Mrs Merkel thinks. He may be the foreign minister but he comes from a different party in the coalition.
But “more Europe” is their shared desire.
In Britain there is a view, certainly within the Conservative Party which dominates the coalition government, that the lesson to be drawn from the crisis is that European integration went too fast and too far.
In the Eurosceptic view, European integration was ill-advised because the peoples of Europe were not ready for it. They would baulk, so the argument runs, at being pushed and jostled towards a single identity.
In the German view, pushing towards a unified identity is precisely what now needs to be done.
Can they both stay in the same boat if they are rowing in opposite directions? Might they squabble and tip the whole thing over?”