Conservatism Took A Serious Dive

Conservatism is on life support, and globalism is taking root everywhere like a rapidly propagating weed. The only thing left for globalists to do is to install digital currency across the globe while peppering urban areas with data centers for perfect control and their takeover will be complete.

The first Google search of the definition of conservatism is “commitment to traditional values and ideas with opposition to change or innovation.” A ridiculously biased definition, skewed towards the leftist belief and propaganda that conservatism is bad and thus opposed to change and innovation. Conservatives have patented many inventions and innovations across the centuries that contributed to the development of the western world and culture.

The second definition of conservatism from a Google search is that conservatism is a “political view in favor of free enterprise, private ownership, and socially traditional ideas.” The entire western world is built on free enterprise, private ownership, and the rich who advocate for socialism and communism live by and stay rich with the help of private ownership of the means of production, not the government ownership of the means of production, which is socialism, the steppingstone towards communism.

Michael Savage authored a book a decade ago in which he declared that “conservatism is dead.” He seems to have been proven correct, at least in Virginia, now run by a very leftist governor and the leftist Democrat Party.

Following the Commonwealth of Virginia referendum on April 21, 2026, in which Democrats have made a decisive and shrewd move to hijack the vote in the state of Virginia with a confusing wording, asking low information voters if they wanted to vote Yes on a gerrymandered map which would give Democrats a 10-1 advantage in future voting, thus assuring that Virginia would be an entirely blue state in perpetuity. The move is called gaslighting, ‘Blame what you are doing on your opponent!’

It was no surprise that the YES vote won and that 49 percent of Virginians who voted NO have lost most of their representation in Congress. This begs the question; how much effort have Republicans expended to inform the voters? In northern Virginia’s most populous counties the NO signs were rare, and nobody seemed to speak on behalf of reason and logic.

B.H. Obama and Hakeem Jeffries were busy, speaking all over Virginia, even in churches, in support of the YES vote and blaming the “evil Republicans” for trying to steal votes from the disenfranchised Democrats forced to bring I.D.s to vote and destroying democracy in the process. Supporters cheered.

Many voted YES in the referendum while loudly proclaiming their disdain for President Trump. It was not a logical vote based on facts; it was a vote based on the Democrats’ hate for President Trump.

The Republican side was hiding and remained silent. After they lost the referendum, the phones started ringing for donations to the RNC.As the Republican elephant is cowering more and more in the shadow of the mighty Democrat donkey, and the Democrat-controlled judicial system and the government bureaucracy are placing more rocks in the spokes of the conservative politicians' bicycles, it is more evident that President Trump will be the last duly-elected Republican President.

The massive cheating at the polls will allow the Democrat Party to install its totalitarian power around the country with the help of digital currency control and AI surveillance.

In such an environment, Republicans could eventually claim that they tried so hard, but, they are in a minority. At least, they will get a symbolic seat at the table that divides the political spoils. 

Catalonia and Its Referendum on Independence from Spain

Catalonia, satellite image of snowfall
March 8, 2010

Catalonia is located on the eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula and has a population of 7.52 million people. Catalonia has a distinct history, culture, and language. Its main city, Barcelona, was captured in 1714 by the first Bourbon king of Spain, Felipe V, and Catalonia lost its autonomy. Catalonia’s national day, September 11, commemorates this event.

The regional Government of Catalonia decided that a referendum would take place on Catalan independence on October 1, 2017. But the Constitutional Court of Spain declared on September 6, 2017 that the referendum and its invocation violated the Constitution.

Spain is divided in 17 autonomous communities with government delegates who must follow the same Constitution and legislation. However, Catalonia has tried for a long time to become independent. A few Catalonian politicians believe that they have something important to gain if they separate from Spain. After all Catalonia contributes the lion’s share of taxes to poorer regions. Catalonia provides one fifth of Spain’s industrial output.

 

Estelada blava, the pro-independence Catalonian flag

Photo: Wikipedia

 

Few citizens actually voted to break away in the legal referendum which took place five years ago on the issue of separation from Spain. Most ordinary Spanish citizens do not seem to be at all interested in separation. The average Spanish citizen sees the conflict in Catalonia in their own light.

But the current president of Catalonia, in an unconstitutional move, decided to organize a new referendum on the issue of independence from Spain.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and his government made a mistake in dealing with Catalonia and addressed the conflict by calling in the national police and the civilian guards which he sent to Catalonia to “establish law and order” and to prevent Catalonians from voting.

Naturally Catalonians were outraged by the police presence and overt force and decided to vote even though many were not initially convinced that it was a good idea or even useful to separate Catalonia from Spain. It was reported that 2.225 million Catalonians voted on Sunday out of a total 5.5 million citizens registered to vote.

The conflict escalated when the Spanish police prevented Catalonians from entering the improvised voting centers while the Catalan police (Mossos d’Esquadra) protected the voters.

Additionally, the Internet was cut in voting centers and the voting population could not be cross-checked and verified; anyone could vote as long as they wrote down their names and an I.D. number. In the ensuing chaos, people who were not residents of Catalonia got to vote and some voted five times.

Catalonia is a more industrialized part of Spain, however, in the event of separation of Catalonia from Spain, business owners threatened to move to other areas. If Catalonia becomes an independent state, it is no longer part of the European Union; it must mint its own currency, have a monetary policy, and force Spanish citizens to travel with a passport in their own country.

The problem for Spain is that the rail road and interstate which connects it to Europe runs through the Mediterranean coast, through Catalonia. In the northern part of Spain, in order to cross into France through the Pyrenees Mountains, people use a narrow highway that crosses through Andorra.

Some Spanish believe that the Catalonian president acted unconstitutionally and forced the central government to take radical and unpopular measures which allowed Catalonians to claim that their democratic right of self-determination was violated.

The public opinion is greatly divided and many Catalonian families are separated along political lines; family members in the same house do not speak to each other because they have different political and economic views on the matter.

Most argue that an independent Catalonia would not benefit either side; it is simply a manipulation of the masses by a few elites with personal agendas.

For several years now, schools have been teaching the Catalan language while the Spanish language classes have been reduced. In public administration, nobody is hired unless they speak Catalan - same situation for professors or doctors. Some Spanish believe that English would be more beneficial since Spain has a huge tourist industry.

Violence was not the answer, many Spanish citizens claim, but it was necessary for the central government to re-establish law and order. Voting in a referendum that has been declared illegal by the central government in Madrid and by the courts was also a bad idea.

 

 

"I've lived in Your Future and It Did Not Work"

Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky, a Russian writer born in 1942 but educated at Cambridge, was a dissident in the Soviet Union of the 1960s and 1970s. Because he exposed the Soviet practice of jailing political prisoners in psychiatric institutions, the young Russian was sentenced to twelve years (1964-1976) in prison, labor camps, and psychiatric wards under the brutal Soviet regime that did not allow any dissenting opinions. He was released to the West in 1976.

After the fall of the Soviet empire, the Russian government invited him in 1992 to testify against the criminal actions of the Soviet Communist Party.  According to Paul Belien, who interviewed Bukovsky in 2006, in order to “prepare for his testimony, Bukovsky was granted access to a large number of documents from Soviet secret archives. He is one of the few people ever to have seen these documents because they are still classified. Using a small handheld scanner and a laptop computer, however, he managed to copy many documents (some with high security clearance), including KGB reports to the Soviet government.” http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865

The documents Bukovsky was able to read and copy, allegedly confirm “the existence of a ‘conspiracy’ to turn the European Union into a socialist organization.”

Vladimir Bukovsky is not shy about calling both the demised Soviet Union and the European Union a “monster.” No sooner had they buried the communist monster, he said, that a new leviathan was created – the European Union.

The similarities of the two are obvious to Bukovsky. The Soviet Union was ruled by fifteen unelected people who appointed each other and were not accountable to anyone.  The Supreme Soviet was the Soviet Union’s parliament that rubber-stamped what the Politburo decided.  Nobody dared to diverge from its platform.

The EU is governed by twenty people who are also not elected, are not accountable to anyone, meet in secret, and nobody can fire them.  Parliament members are so unimportant that they only get one minute to speak in the chambers.  The EU Parliament is “elected on the basis of proportional representation, which is not true representation,” Bukovsky said. The similarity with the Supreme Soviet is glaring. It votes on silly things and the average MP can only speak six minutes per year in the chamber, he added.

There are hundreds if not thousands of “Eurocrats,” handsomely paid, with huge staffs, privileges that people can only dream of, and attractive bonuses; and nobody really knows exactly what they do or “fail to do.”

Bukovsky described how the Soviet Union was created by force, many times with military occupation. Likewise, the EU was created by “coercion and economic bullying,” he noted.

Nations did not necessarily join the EU voluntarily. They voted in referendum after referendum “until the people voted the way that was wanted.” Bukovsky called it a “shotgun marriage.”

The Soviet Union had to constantly grow and spread; otherwise it would have collapsed. The historic entity, the Soviet people, was created at the expense of nationalities that were forced to relinquish their customs, languages, and ethnic traditions. Bukovsky sees the same development about the European Union.  The entity EU created is called European, a person with no national feelings, living as a pawn in a multi-national community.  And eventually, we will all become global citizens subjugated to the power of the U.N. and those elitists that pull its strings.

When the Soviet Union collapsed after 73 years, the end result was widespread ethnic conflict, in the wake of the destruction of the nation-state.  Likewise, Brussels is absorbing nation-states with the idea that eventually they will cease to exist. There are already changes in school curricula, separating students from their history and their identity as French, Greek, or Italian citizens and turning them into European or global citizens.

Corruption was endemic in the Soviet system and such corruption is “flashing in the EU.” They keep telling us the same story in the EU as in the Soviet Union,” that a federal state is necessary in order to avoid war. “

There are no Soviet style Gulags in the EU but “political gulags” called political correctness.  PC stifles freedom of speech installing a self-imposed gulag in which you are not allowed to speak of race, of ideology, to criticize Islam or the massive influx of illegal immigrants and refugees.

How did the European Union come to be? In his opinion, the turning point occurred in 1985-86 when the Italian communists and German Social-Democrats visited Gorbachev complaining about the onslaught of ‘wild capitalism.’ The left-wing parties of the West feared the loss of influence and prestige to capitalism which coincided with the communists’ fear. To avert this evil, they decided to “introduce the same socialist goals in all countries at once.”

“The Soviets came to a conclusion and to an agreement with the left-wing parties that, if they worked together, they could hijack the whole European project and turn it upside down. Instead of the open market, they would turn it into a federal state.”

Bukovsky described, in his interview with Paul Belien, a meeting that took place in January 1989 between Gorbachev and a delegation of the Trilateral Commission composed of the former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, American banker David Rockefeller, and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.  The goal was to convince Gorbachev to “integrate Russia into the financial institutions of the world, such as GATT, the IMF, and the World Bank.”

During the meeting, as revealed in the documents Bukovsky was allowed to peruse, Giscard d’Estaing told Gorbachev, “Mr. President, I cannot tell you exactly when it will happen – probably within 15 years – but Europe is going to be a federal state and you have to prepare yourself for that. You have to work out with us, and the European leaders, how you would react to that, how would you allow the other East European countries to interact with it or how to become a part of it, you have to be prepared.”

Bukovsky continued in his 2006 interview with Paul Belien,

“This was January 1989, at a time when the Maastricht Treaty [1992] had not even been drafted. How the hell did Giscard d’Estaing know what was going to happen in 15 years’ time? And surprise, surprise, how did he become the author of the European constitution?” [2002-2003]

Bukovsky expressed his concern to Belien about the Europol with powers much bigger than the former KGB, including diplomatic immunity. They will police 32 kinds of crimes, he said; particularly worrisome to Bukovsky then was the crime of “racism” and “xenophobia.”  A British government bureaucrat allegedly had told him that “those who object to uncontrolled immigration from the Third World will be regarded as racist and those who oppose further European integration will be regarded as xenophobes.”

“The Soviet Union used to be a state run by ideology. Today’s ideology of the European Union is social-democratic, statist, and a big part of it is also political correctness.” 

As seen everywhere, not just in Europe, political correctness has become an “oppressive ideology.” Hate speech laws in regards to race relations, religious speech, and Islam represent a “systematic introduction of ideology which could later be enforced with oppressive measures.” Democracy is disappearing rapidly and systematically. Civil liberties are suspended and emergency powers by executive order are introduced.

As the recent events in Germany and other European countries have shown, the out-of-control refugee invasion is creating huge problems for its native citizens while the bureaucrats and politicians are turning a blind eye, telling their own constituents that rhetoric against the unwanted flood of refugees of military age, who rape and pillage, is just as bad as the hundreds of European women who were molested and raped.

Bukovsky believes that “The EU has grown the seeds of its own demise.  Unfortunately, when it collapses, and it will, it will leave a massive destruction behind, with huge economic and ethnic problems.” He continued, “The old Soviet system was incapable of reform and so is the EU. But there is an alternative, to being ruled by those two dozen self-appointed officials in Brussels, it is called independence. You don’t have to accept what they have planned for you. After all you have never been asked if you wanted to join. I have lived in your future, and it did not work.”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHOuc12J4W4

If decisive rejection of such plans would only be so easy! U.N’s Agenda 21 signed in 1992 has already been implemented around the world under the guise of Sustainable Development.  Agenda 21 has now morphed into its sister on steroids, Agenda 2030, United Nation’s vision of global socialism, controlling every aspect of human life.

Bailout, Bailins, and the Greeks' Trojan Horse

Istanbul Archeological Museum Trojan Horse (Wikipedia)

While Americans are eagerly signing petitions to ban the American flag on the heels of Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam leader call to ban the Stars and Stripes “due to its links to racism” or are busily banning anything attached in any way to the Confederate flag and our history, the United States and the world are in serious financial trouble driven by out-of-control debt, particularly the most visible nation of all, Greece.

Healthcare for illegals, gay marriage, and other non-stop crises occupy the American overwhelmed minds, while the Trojan Horse of huge national debt and loss of sovereignty to the globalist Transpacific Partnership (TPP) mystery “committee” are ignored.

Greece is bringing to the forefront the issue of debt, what happens when it spends 60 percent of GDP, lives from borrowed billions, and refuses to curtail spending on entitlements, expecting more bailouts from the EU, essentially Germany.

Banks and the stock exchange are closed for the week, issuing a 60 euros limit per withdrawal. Not unexpectedly the euro fell against the dollar and the British pound. Sky News reported Prime Minister Tsipras as blaming the European partners and the European Central Bank for the debacle because creditors “have refused a request to extend Greece’s international bailout beyond Tuesday, until after the referendum.” The move risks a Greek default on 1.5 billion euros payment to the International Monetary Fund.

Tsipras claims that the bank deposits of the Greek people are fully secure and the payments of wages and pensions are guaranteed. I am not so sure that is the case since Greece is carrying a government debt load of over 175 percent of its GDP.  Countries cannot service such level of debt without printing money. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/greece/government-debt-to-gdp

The European Central Bank will maintain its “emergency cash lifeline to Greece’s banks” without an increase. The Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) on which Greek banks depend, if lowered, may force the country out of the Eurozone.

There were many economists, of course, who questioned the wisdom of accepting Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain into the EU because their monetary policies were plagued by high inflation. Others believe that a return to the drachma may not be such a bad idea.

Expecting the worse after banks announced closings, Greeks stood in long lines to withdraw cash from ATMs and many horded gasoline and food. After five years of various bailouts, demonstrations, protests, refusals to adopt more austerity measures, negotiations between the leftist government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Brussels creditors have broken down. For months economists have predicted Greece’s pull out from the Eurozone.

In preparation for the national referendum on July 5, police patrols are more visible especially around ATMs. Tsipras asked voters for a “yes” or “no” vote on the bailout proposal considered by his government as confiscatory. The plan would “raise taxes and hurt pensioners,” forcing Greeks to “an endless cycle of austerity.” But the Greeks have been told few details of the deal – nobody really knows the implications of a “yes” vote or a “no” vote and everyone fears they “would become Venezuela.”

But the well-off Greeks, fearing the election of the leftist Syriza, have already moved money out of Greece or took cash out and stored it elsewhere.

The Tsipras government favors a “no” response to the referendum because the bailouts terms are “humiliating” and would deepen Greece’s economic recession. But without bailouts, “most Greek banks would have totally collapsed by now.” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/article-3141480/Hundreds-queue-outside-banks-fears-Grexit-grow-ahead-MPs-vote-bailout-referendum.html

It has been reported that withdrawals of 500-600 million euros have emptied more than 2,000 ATMs.  When the austerity referendum was announced, people started withdrawing money. When the Greek banks reopen, would they need bail-ins like the Cypriot banks? Would the depositors be forced to accept worthless I.O.U.s for their cash?

The European Union has required its member countries to enact bail-in legislation. Bail-ins force creditors and shareholders to rescue troubled banks. Cyprus citizens holding private bank accounts had to take “haircuts,” a form of wealth confiscation. Private pension funds were raided in Poland. http://www.dcclothesline.com/2013/09/25/cyprus-style-wealth-confiscation-is-now-starting-to-happen-all-over-the-globe/

Bailouts forced taxpayers to financially rescue big banks that had engaged in risky financial activity, using the infamous “too big to fail” excuse.

How much longer can Germany sustain the very shaky European Union? Should they bring back their own currency, the Deutsche Mark? As more large deposits and capital leave Greece when banks reopen, corporate asset controls may emerge. The Greek market may be shocked and defaults of various debt instruments may emerge.

A Romanian friend, Florina, explained the Greek crisis in terms that most people can understand. “I loaned money to a family in a time of financial crisis so that they can survive, and the family did not curtail their spending, they blew the money on unnecessary stuff; now the family is holding a meeting to vote if they are going to pay me back or not. That’s Greece now.”

 

 

Impeachment Referendum for Old or New Communism

Tomorrow, July 29, 2012, Romanians are going to the polls to vote for or against impeachment of their President, Traian Basescu. It is not something Romanians are happy about since their choices are either the old communist guard represented by President Traian Basescu or the new communism represented by the Prime Minister, Victor Ponta, and his ruling parliamentary coalition government.

It was unprecedented that a German Chancellor attacked another European Prime Minister so publicly. Angela Merkel gave Victor Ponta a dressing down for his attempted coup and unconstitutional removal of the President in a democracy.

Never before did the President of the European Union raise his voice to a Prime Minister of a member country in the manner in which the socialist Martin Schulz expressed his displeasure to the humiliated socialist Victor Ponta.

Victor Ponta and his USL (social liberal union) dominated coalition are eager and desperate to remove President Basescu by any means necessary. In order to remove the president, USL must win the referendum which must be valid, meaning that 9 million Romanians must show up to vote, according to the decision of the Constitutional Court.

Sadly for Prime Minister Ponta, he and the USL do not have popular support. If they did, Romanians would show up en masse to vote and President Basescu would be impeached. The problem is that Romanians are sick of all parties and their endemic corruption. There is a reason why representatives spend millions to get elected – they stand to make billions once they win a coveted parliamentary post.

Prime Minister Ponta was reminded that Romania is beholden to the powers that rule the EU and the monetary policy of the euro, the European Central Bank, the IMF, and indirectly Germany and United States. Romania’s budget is partially covered by its economy and the tax base from the existing private firms. The rest of the national income is derived from EU loans, backed by various banks.

When Romania finally said no to communism in December 1989, the former communist apparatchiks took advantage of the temporary power vacuum created and dismantled as much of the industry as possible, selling national assets for personal gain, piece by piece, without any accountability, to foreign investors who had no idea that those assets belonged to “the people.” Honest citizens remained poor – they did not steal anything, and refused million dollar loans from the west that they knew they could not possibly pay back.

Ponta’s government has a 70 percent majority in Parliament and there should be no reason why it cannot begin to govern and implement the anti-crisis plans they had promised the voters during the electoral campaign. Unfortunately, Romanians know well that the coalition’s sole interest is the interest of most politicians - corruption and bribery. Since President Basescu started doing his job and arrested some of the more blatant corruption culprits, the USL dominated coalition would have to play by the rules of law, an inconvenience that could be eliminated by impeaching the President.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta wrote an article titled “Romanian Reality,” in Foreign Policy Magazine on July 26, 2012, defending his government takeover attempt.

“Impeachment proceedings have been carried out in strict accordance with the law, as confirmed by the Constitutional Court. The proceedings themselves are a response to Basescu’s repeated abuses of power, again confirmed by the Constitutional Court. The vote for impeachment passed Parliament by a two-thirds majority, and 70 percent of voters now oppose Basescu, according to opinion polls. The final word now rests with the Romanian people, who will vote in a free and fair referendum on Sunday, July 29…Basescu’s call for a boycott is an anti-democratic step designed to avoid impeachment at any cost.”

Ponta forgot to mention in his article how he stripped the Court of its right to overrule the Parliament when the Constitutional Court made the decision based on precedent that the President should attend the European summit not the Prime Minister. He also failed to mention how he replaced some members including the Ombudsman, with his political allies. Ponta did not mention the fact that “he seized the official bulletin in which laws were published in an attempt to control legislation, delay the Court, and prohibit the release of new rules by President Basescu.” (Andrew MacDowall, Christian Science Monitor, July 12, 2012)

Prime Minister Ponta sugar-coated the truth with his version of events. Any other objective witness would have called his coup an attempt to bypass democratic rule of law, with the final outcome to remove the democratically-elected President. Traian Basescu may not have been the best and effective president but the Romanian people should decide his fate at the voting booth.

Romanians are ambivalent as to which brand of communism they will have to follow because they know corruption and lawlessness will rule the day. Will it be the winds of the old guard communism or the new brand of European socialism/communism? Either way, voters will be stuck between the rock and the hard place of economic austerity measures proposed by the European Union.