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== Welcome == |
== Welcome == |
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[[File:Voltaire Philosophy of Newton frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Philosophy of [[Voltaire]]]] |
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Welcome to my user page. I have found [[Wikipedia]] now more than four years and since then I contribute often to articles from various fields, from articles on [[history]] [[politics | political]] to [[society (disambiguation) | society]], [[European Union]] and other things. |
Welcome to my user page. I have found [[Wikipedia]] now more than four years and since then I contribute often to articles from various fields, from articles on [[history]] [[politics | political]] to [[society (disambiguation) | society]], [[European Union]] and other things. |
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==== Motto ==== |
==== Motto ==== |
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<center>''"People who don't vote can hardly complain about the government that they get." '' -- Normal Guy.</center> |
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==== The message of the moment ==== |
==== The message of the moment ==== |
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The British debate on the European Union is gradually achieving farcical proportions. The rest of the EU and the European national governments are concentrating their energies on dealing with the immediate economic crtisis and the longer issues arising from globalisation facing the continent. These are the loss of powers to unaccountable international institutions and companies respectively their networks, i.e. banks "too large to fall", OPEC, off-shore banking (and the resulting loss of revenue to the states) etc, as well as protecting the lives and livelihoods of European citizens in an age of deteriorating wages, wars for resources, and shifting global power balances. In order for European nation states' voices to carry some weight amidst nations like China with a population of 1,5 billion or the USA with its overwhelming (except to Islamist terrorists apparently) military might, they need to be pooled. The EU as the greatest economic power (!) in today's world can bring something to the negotiating table that individual nations states cannot. |
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''"Lord Acton has left too little completed original work to rank among the great historians; his very learning seems to have stood in his way; he knew too much and his literary conscience was too acute for him to write easily, and his copiousness of information overloads his literary style. But he was one of the most deeply learned men of his time, and he will certainly be remembered for his influence on others."'' |
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So, all in all, this is no small order for a continent that for centuries had been embroiled in bitter and devastating wars and looking back over the last 50 years, it has not done such a bad job. The problems to be solved at this moment, however, are gigantic, and they affect every single citizen. |
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And it is precisely at this time that the UK government is choosing to ramp up its whingeing, nagging and carping from the sidelines, demanding that signed treaties be renegotiated, blabbing about national sovereignty while extraditing its own citizens to the US and handing over its economy and society to the demands of its largely off-shore financial institutions. The UK comes across as a one of those constantly yapping little dogs, desperate for attention. The truth is no one outside of the UK is faintly interested. What the UK electorate should realise is that all this nonsense about repatriating sovereignty is mood music for the folks at home, diverting attention away from the fact that the UK has sold its sovereignty to "the markets" a long time ago. No other European leader has time for this crap. The Eurozone will integrate further --whatever happens-- and it will devise its own standards and treaties, and the UK will be outside of them. |
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===Important book for me=== |
===Important book for me=== |
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* [[Around the World in 80 days]] by [[Jules Verne]] |
* [[Around the World in 80 days]] by [[Jules Verne]] |
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Revision as of 20:39, 20 October 2012
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| — Wikipedian ♂ — | |
| Name | G. |
|---|---|
| Born | Marius April 5 |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Country |  Romania |
| Current location | Bucharest |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+02:00) |
| Ethnicity | Romanian |
| Race | White |
| Personality type | INTJ |
| Family and friends | |
| Marital status | single |
| Pets | a dog |
| Education and employment | |
| Occupation | student |
| Education | post high school |
| University | Bucharest University, Romania |
| Hobbies, favourites and beliefs | |
| Hobbies | Politics, History |
| Religion | deist |
| Politics | Social-liberal |
Welcome
Welcome to my user page. I have found Wikipedia now more than four years and since then I contribute often to articles from various fields, from articles on history political to society, European Union and other things.
Motto
The message of the moment
The British debate on the European Union is gradually achieving farcical proportions. The rest of the EU and the European national governments are concentrating their energies on dealing with the immediate economic crtisis and the longer issues arising from globalisation facing the continent. These are the loss of powers to unaccountable international institutions and companies respectively their networks, i.e. banks "too large to fall", OPEC, off-shore banking (and the resulting loss of revenue to the states) etc, as well as protecting the lives and livelihoods of European citizens in an age of deteriorating wages, wars for resources, and shifting global power balances. In order for European nation states' voices to carry some weight amidst nations like China with a population of 1,5 billion or the USA with its overwhelming (except to Islamist terrorists apparently) military might, they need to be pooled. The EU as the greatest economic power (!) in today's world can bring something to the negotiating table that individual nations states cannot.
So, all in all, this is no small order for a continent that for centuries had been embroiled in bitter and devastating wars and looking back over the last 50 years, it has not done such a bad job. The problems to be solved at this moment, however, are gigantic, and they affect every single citizen.
And it is precisely at this time that the UK government is choosing to ramp up its whingeing, nagging and carping from the sidelines, demanding that signed treaties be renegotiated, blabbing about national sovereignty while extraditing its own citizens to the US and handing over its economy and society to the demands of its largely off-shore financial institutions. The UK comes across as a one of those constantly yapping little dogs, desperate for attention. The truth is no one outside of the UK is faintly interested. What the UK electorate should realise is that all this nonsense about repatriating sovereignty is mood music for the folks at home, diverting attention away from the fact that the UK has sold its sovereignty to "the markets" a long time ago. No other European leader has time for this crap. The Eurozone will integrate further --whatever happens-- and it will devise its own standards and treaties, and the UK will be outside of them.