Of Gabriele Sannino

Source: counterinformation
Feeling pro-European today implies courage and recklessness. More simply, serve so much, a lot of ignorance, both processes and phenomena.
If for the man in the street - who is necessarily ignorant given everyday life, the work, the mass media that misinform and so on - Europe is beautiful because it allows you to travel without a passport, you don't have to change the currency, or because Erasmus allows you, for many citizens - more informed and aware - this Europe of the bankers, at this point, It's becoming a real nightmare.
Already, because this is where we need to start to think: the Europe of the peoples no longer exists, perhaps it never existed, only the Europe of finance exists, of technocracy and bankers.
The man in the street or perhaps the young man with high hopes forced to emigrate to London or Dublin to work as a dishwasher or waiter is unaware - for example - that it is precisely this Europe with its monetary mechanisms that leads him to this gesture.
If only he could sense it, for example, than the small amount of money that the ECB lends (Also) to our nation brings about the economic crisis that forces him to leave, perhaps he would start to look at everything with much more suspicion.
And if he also understood that this happens all over the world or almost, given that central bankers, by controlling the money taps – opening and closing them – they determine “crises” or “expansions”, well the young people and not only, at this point, they would be on the main road to a very personal human and personal awakening.
But let's go back to Europe, indeed to European metastasis.
This sipping of the Euro was imposed on the nations with the Maastricht Treaty of 1992 which it foresees, among various things, an emission limit of 3% of money relative to GDP (which it was known would decrease in Italy by virtue of a currency that was practically double compared to the previous one as well as "lent" as a debt).
The bankers are not happy, through their waiters or "our political forces", they have arrived in recent years to have us included in the Constitution, to art.81 to be precise, the balanced budget, i.e. the reduction of this percentage of emission allo 0,5%, and this for no particular economic reason, if not the "pretext" of being more responsible and not creating public debt.
Already, but how does this debt arise?, how this national debt in which we are sunk is formed?
The money, actually, it already arises at the source as a debt, it is lent to our nation in this way, even when it comes to mere virtual figures. The point is that this money is created by the ECB out of thin air, out of nothing, and it is on this "nothing" that the state issues debt securities which will then be bought by investment banks or by the European Central Bank itself (read quantitative easing) that in this way they will be able to blackmail us with the spread - the interest rate on the same - as soon as the country does not implement the restrictive laws that they impose on us.
We are talking about laws - sorry "reforms" - which provide for the privatization of public goods, bailouts of banking institutions at the expense of citizens, devaluation of work, of the pension, healthcare and so on, as you have to "lose weight" to make their profits grow.
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The Euro therefore – essentially – is a scam, a method of occult government, as is the public debt, which is sic et simpliciter the amount of money in circulation in a given nation (amount that should belong to citizens and not constitute a debt).
Cut a portion of debt - that held for example by the central bank - as proposed in the draft of the Lega-5Stelle government program (we were talking about 250 billion approximately) in reality it would be sacrosanct, that is, the minimum when you know how money is born: however the newspapers (or rather newspapers) and the mass media - who know nothing about economics and talk too much at random - immediately attacked the two parties.
Their complicity is the result of ignorance but above all of bad faith.
The beauty - or rather the incredible - in all this is that Italy, despite this wicked money management system upstream, would still have a primary surplus, i.e. a management asset (in practice the income is greater than the expenditure) only that this interest on the debt... leads us to an overdraft!
This is why those who defend the Euro today defend all this rot, aware or not.
That's why everything is actually paid for by the bankers (including our salaries) and if the spread goes up as soon as we act bad, perhaps the real president of our "Republic" is not Sergio Mattarella, but that of the ECB, or Mario Draghi.
Re-discussing the treaties - as some political forces suggest - is impossible, it takes time, above all we need a united Europe, something that doesn't exist, given that the bankers have seen fit to create two opposite poles, a bloc of creditor countries (for whom money is always debt, ma, having adopted a weaker currency than the previous one or in any case similar, they accumulated a budget surplus through exports) and a bloc of debtor countries (who instead found themselves with a currency that had practically doubled, which led to a collapse in exports, a growing wave of imports as well as industrial desertification).
Even those who tell you about Eurobonds are lying, knowing they are lying. These would be European bonds that would pool all the debts of all the Eurozone countries: in your opinion the creditor countries will do it? You see Germany taking on the Italian public debt?
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But let's come to another cancer of Europe: the institutions.
In Brussels we have a parliament that ratifies laws issued by a European Commission... not elected by the citizens. How governments - now in the hands of finance - choose commissioners? We are not given information.
The entire legislative process is polluted by lobbies of all sorts, who promise money and work to the "elected" in exchange for favorable laws.
The most active lobbies are the financial and pharmaceutical ones: international banks spend something like 120 millions of euros a year for lobbying, this is why there are no laws that divide commercial banks from speculative ones, and this is why citizens and not institutions must carry out their rescues.
As for the drug lobbies, Big Pharma spends something like 40 millions a year, followed by other smaller multinationals such as Glaxo, Novartis and Bayer with respective 2,5 millions: this is why vaccines - like many other drugs - can never be questioned, although clearly provoking in many children (and not only that) several side effects… in some cases permanent?
It is estimated that there are something like this around the Commission and Parliament buildings 2600 lobbying firm: each – on average – spends 2,5 million euros every year. There's everything, from Google to Apple to Walt Disney and even the porn industry!
This is why European policies, from agriculture to fishing to the various industrial sectors, they are all in favor of multinationals, while small and medium-sized businesses suffer seriously. The objective – or rather the pretext – is that protectionism is overcome, while competition – neoliberalism – is the rule.
He CETA, for example, it was one of the least transparent negotiations ever. It leads to unbridled competition between companies, favoring larger companies at least 20 times the size of our average farms, which already benefit from totally different economies of scale and have much less stringent regulations than ours. What are we going to tell the small business owner when he sees his market shares in Europe eroding in the coming years, given that most of them don't have the strength to approach the American market, Canadian or Asian? These ultraliberal treaties, at this point, they are real economic crimes, just like the financial market already covered.
Small fishermen are also suffering: while the large fishing companies, for example, they can afford real hacks with all the bureaucracy that the commission imposes on the sector, the little ones are forced to make do or pay to be able to work and fill out the numerous forms required. Think about that, among the many paperwork, you need to fill out a form in which the red snapper is called "dec", the “gun” capon, the cuttlefish “ctc”, the octopus “occ” and so on. They say it is used for the traceability of the catch and therefore for the quality, but in this way they make life impossible for small fishing boats.
And what about the industry? In Europe, taxation between nations is profoundly different, which involves a real flight towards those who make you pay less taxes (thing that, combined with the “Euro” issue we were talking about before, for us it becomes a deadly cocktail).
In short, be against this Europe, at this point, it is a civic and moral duty. It means being true citizens, informed and aware.
The day we all take to the streets, without useless and superfluous divisions, to ask to get out of this cage and take back monetary sovereignty (it's from there, the waterfall, that all the other problems arise) it will seriously be the day of the defeat of the "system", as well as this small elite that continues to govern us in a subtle way.