social.stefan-muenz.de
Die Wohnungskrise steht erst am Anfang. Wer sind die neuen Akteure? Was bedeutet das für die Städte? Eine europäische Gemeinschaftsrecherche.interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de
#news #surveillance #démocratie #Europe #répression #manifestationLe Conseil d’État valide durablement la surveillance de masse
Source : La Quadrature du Net Le Conseil d’État vient de rendre une décision qui restera une tache indélébile sur la plus haute juridiction administrative et sur la France. Au mépris le plus total …www.les-crises.fr
Source : La Quadrature du Net Le Conseil d’État vient de rendre une décision qui restera une tache indélébile sur la plus haute juridiction administrative et sur la France. Au mépris le plus total …www.les-crises.fr
Government denies renewal of temporary residency status from about 189 Syrianswww.theguardian.com
Europe’s Achilles heel is the lack of fabless companies that design chips. Once Europe’s chip design prowess is rejuvenated, the region will be in a much stronger position to think about how best to invest in its manufacturing capabilities.https://twitter.com/JPKleinhans/status/1380129241656868868
A planned ‘coronavirus tax’ on revenues and attacks on foreign-owned media threaten to cut away democracy piece by piece, says the Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ashwww.theguardian.com
Video: Woman Knocked Unconscious by Police Horse During Brutal Lockdown Enforcement
The total disregard for the woman shown by the police officer who ploughed straight into her is evident in the clip.
Eight revelers were injured during the clashes and two had to be hospitalized, including the woman seen in the video. Her condition is unknown.
#news #Brussels #Belgium #police #brutality #Europe #EU #tyranny #dictatorship
https://summit.news/2021/04/02/video-woman-knocked-unconscious-by-police-horse-during-brutal-lockdown-enforcement/
Video: #Woman Knocked #Unconscious by Police Horse During Brutal Lockdown Enforcement
Revelers trampled, blasted with water cannons.
#pureEvil cops hate us all ,for money they will kill
Zum bisherigen Geschäftsmodell von TSMC passt das alles nicht so recht, heißt es in der "FT". Laut Analysten seien die Taiwanesen deshalb so effizient und profitabel, weil sie vieles direkt im Land konzentrieren. Für den US-Standort hätte sich TSMC nur deshalb entschieden, weil die Amerikaner zugesagt hätten, die höheren Fertigungskosten im Land durch Subventionen auszugleichen. Mit Japan will TSMC keine Konfrontation riskieren - wohl auch angesichts der historisch schwierigen Beziehungen zwischen Taiwan und dem Inselstaat. In Europa, so deutete ein TSMC-Sprecher gegenüber der FT an, sehe das Unternehmen kaum einen Vorteil für den Aufbau eines eigenen Werks.#tsmc #semiconductors #europe #taiwan
Der Brand in einer Chipfabrik in Japan verschärft die Chipkrise der Autoindustrie. Davon profitiert Taiwans Halbleiter-Auftragsfertiger TSMC - der heimliche Riese der weltweiten Chip-Produktion.www.manager-magazin.de
Ich fasse die Lage zusammen.
Wir befinden uns in einer eugenischen Transformation. Ziel ist die Erfüllung der eugenischen Utopie von 500 Millionen Menschen auf der Erde und Bildung eines eugenischen Weltstaats, um die Kontrolle über die Menschheit dauerhaft aufrechterhalten zu können.
Gerade die eher links-orientierten fallen auf die moderne Eugenik sehr leicht rein, denn die Eugenik ist nicht mehr nationalistisch und rassistisch, wie am schlechten Beispiel der US-Eugenik-Gesetze und denen von Nazi-Deutschlands.
Die moderne Eugenik ist fanatisch und komplett ..
umweltfreundlich,
anti-rassistisch,
anti-nationalistisch,
anti-kriegerisch und sogar
anti-kapitalistisch.
Das klingt erst mal verlockend, doch die Eugeniker sind bereit, durch "sanfte medizinische Behandlung" über 7 Milliarden Menschen zu eliminieren.
Der Große Eugenische Intelligenztest! Jene, die nicht bestehen, werden per Impfung "erlöst"!
https://geoarchitektur.blogspot.com/p/der-groe-intelligenztest-jene-die-nicht.html
Gnadenlose Umschaltung der Covid-19-"Übung" in eine reale und weltweite Massenhysterie und Massenpsychose zur Implementation der globalen Gedankenkontrolle!
https://geoarchitektur.blogspot.com/p/gnadenlose-umschaltung-der-covid-19.html
#eugenik #eugenics #transformation #globalism #geoengineering #usa #europe #germany #deutschland #corona #covid #covid19Der Große Eugenische Intelligenztest! Jene, die nicht bestehen, werden "per Imfpung erlöst"!
geoengineering climate change chemtrails klimawandel water hydraulic fracturing fracking qatar arabia emirates jetstream atmosphere CO2geoarchitektur.blogspot.com
geoengineering climate change chemtrails klimawandel water hydraulic fracturing fracking qatar arabia emirates jetstream atmosphere CO2geoarchitektur.blogspot.com
Response to the #EPO 's Response to #Techrights About #Microsoft 'Cloud' (Still Failing to Justify the #GDPR Violations) http://techrights.org/2021/03/15/epo-waffle-on-microsoft/ #europeResponse to the EPO's Response to Techrights About Microsoft 'Cloud' (Still Failing to Justify the GDPR Violations)
In another 'damage-limiting' or face-saving exercise, as soon as we published details about the illegal Microsoft deal (outsourcing all key data to the US) EPO management issued a baffling and severely flawed statement to staff; the video above is an informal response to ittechrights.org
In another 'damage-limiting' or face-saving exercise, as soon as we published details about the illegal Microsoft deal (outsourcing all key data to the US) EPO management issued a baffling and severely flawed statement to staff; the video above is an informal response to ittechrights.org
#Europe 's Second-Largest Institution ( #EPO ) is Not Only Violating the Law But Also Acting in Defiance of the #UniversalDeclarationOHumanRightsEurope's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) is Not Only Violating the Law But Also Acting in Defiance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
EPO staff and stakeholders working from home are having their basic rights grossly violated by António Campinos and his cohorts, who very well understand that they break the law but hope that nobody will noticetechrights.org
EPO staff and stakeholders working from home are having their basic rights grossly violated by António Campinos and his cohorts, who very well understand that they break the law but hope that nobody will noticetechrights.org
N'importe quel hébergeur-N'importe quel hébergeur-N'importe quel hébergeur-terroriste-?-résistant-?-terroriste-?-résistant-Outre la question des errements d’une telle modération, cela pose un autre problème : il n’y a que les grandes plateformes qui seront capables de tenir de telles contraintes. Ce qui pose un coût à l’entrée très important pour les nouvelles plateformes sociales, qui seront contraintes d’acheter un service à Facebook par exemple à défaut de pouvoir se conformer à la loi.https://www.acrimed.org/Facebook-Google-et-co-les-plateformes-contre-la
par Frédéric Lemaire, La Quadrature du Net, Mathias Reymond, Pauline Perrenot, vendredi 12 mars 2021
#censure #europe #france #web #loi #GAFAM #internet #capitalisme #libre #framasoft #acrimed #laquadrature #itv #neo con #presse #media #avia #ikar #privee #justice #supranational #moderation #interopérabilité
Chômeur
Futur chômeur
Chômeur mais pas encoreénième réforme du capital, contre la solidarité. L'assurance chômage.
**En bref, seul et fort pour le capital.
**#social #france #europe #neo-con #capitalisme #egoisme #competition #ikar #manif #chomeur #emplois #patrons #chef #vaniteux #roublard #vicieux #cupide #liberaux #economie #economie-humaine #raclure #mort-du-cnr #cac40 #medef #tuto
Les Grossiers de l'écran 2019 // Catégorie 1 : "Réforme de l'assurance chômage" - 11'
Display of moving memorial made in aftermath of 2013 boat tragedy aims to provoke debatewww.theguardian.com
N'importe quel hébergeur-N'importe quel hébergeur-N'importe quel hébergeur-terroriste-?-résistant-?-terroriste-?-résistant-Outre la question des errements d’une telle modération, cela pose un autre problème : il n’y a que les grandes plateformes qui seront capables de tenir de telles contraintes. Ce qui pose un coût à l’entrée très important pour les nouvelles plateformes sociales, qui seront contraintes d’acheter un service à Facebook par exemple à défaut de pouvoir se conformer à la loi.https://www.acrimed.org/Facebook-Google-et-co-les-plateformes-contre-la
par Frédéric Lemaire, La Quadrature du Net, Mathias Reymond, Pauline Perrenot, vendredi 12 mars 2021
#censure #europe #france #web #loi #GAFAM #internet #capitalisme #libre #framasoft #acrimed #laquadrature #itv #neo con #presse #media #avia #ikar #privee #justice #supranational #moderation #interopérabilité
Outre la question des errements d’une telle modération, cela pose un autre problème : il n’y a que les grandes plateformes qui seront capables de tenir de telles contraintes. Ce qui pose un coût à l’entrée très important pour les nouvelles plateformes sociales, qui seront contraintes d’acheter un service à Facebook par exemple à défaut de pouvoir se conformer à la loi.https://www.acrimed.org/Facebook-Google-et-co-les-plateformes-contre-la
Move seen as a symbolic protest against discriminatory policies promoted in Poland and Hungarywww.theguardian.com
The Brexiteer’s guide to #history
https://www.newstatesman.com/robert-tombs-this-sovereign-isle-review?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB
#UK #Brexit #EU #EuropeThe Brexiteer’s guide to history
L’Angleterre”, the great French political scientist André Siegfried was wont to say in beginning his Sorbonne lectures on the British Isles, “est une île”, and he would stop there, silently inviting his listeners to ponder the significance of this basic geographical fact. A geographical determinist by conviction, he specialised in ascribing long-term stabilities in French voting patterns to the varieties of soil and settlement where the voters lived. Of course, “England” is no more an island, least of all a “sovereign island”, than “Great Britain” is. The historian Norman Davies put it more accurately in his bestselling book The Isles, which pays due attention to Scotland, Ireland, Wales and numerous offshore entities from the Isle of Man to the Shetland Isles, and does not confuse them all with England, as the French are liable to do. This Sovereign Isle promises to follow Siegfried closely. (“Geography,” the author declares, “comes before history.”) But there is more to it than that, of course. Robert Tombs, who for a long time taught French and European history at Cambridge, has published many major books including an excellent history of 19th- century France and an entertaining survey, written with his French wife Isabelle, of what the British and the French have thought of each other over the centuries. Equipped with dual Franco-British citizenship, he is uniquely well placed to view the relationship between England and the Continent from both sides of the Channel. Tombs is a confirmed Brexiteer. But he knows well enough that England is not an island, and that Siegfried’s geographical determinism has been undermined at many points by later researchers. His opening chapter, like those of the many other books that try to explain Brexit as the outcome of historical forces, trots rapidly through the history of the British Isles from the Romans to the present. But he is too good a historian to repeat the tired old clichés about Britain never having been invaded since 1066 (“Until Nelson’s time, the islands’ history was one of innumerable raids and invasions, at least nine of which since the Norman Conquest have overthrown governments,” he points out). [See also: NS Recommends: New books from Florence de Changy, Allie Morgan, Ethan Hawke and Alice Zeniter] The English Channel was easy to cross and did not form an effective barrier to invasion except under specific historical circumstances – history does come before geography, then, in this case – and he reminds us that, in the Middle Ages, the ruling English elites spoke French and spent a lot of time fighting and politicking on the Continent. Over lengthy periods England was part of, or closely linked to, Continental European kingdoms, whether Danish (under Cnut the Great), Norman (under William I and his successors), Angevin (under Henry II and his sons), Spanish (under Philip II), Dutch (under William III) or Hanoverian (under George I, II and III and William IV). Britain was a European state in the Middle Ages and for a long while after. And the Reformation – far from being “Britain’s first Brexit” as ignorant politicians declare – “did not separate the islands from the Continent”, Tombs writes. “For two centuries, it drew them more deeply in.” This was partly through the politics of alliances and alignments, and partly because the Reformation imported into Britain the conflict between German and Swiss Protestantism on the one hand, and Roman Catholicism on the other, with devastating effects. Tombs’s sharp historical eye doesn’t have much space for the nostalgic myths of empire that have intoxicated so many Brexiteers. “Having an empire had not been the source of Britain’s power or wealth,” he says. “Empire had been in many ways a political, strategic and economic liability.” He rightly mocks the Brexiteers’ “nostalgic obsession with boyhood memories of a Victorian golden age of unrivalled power which had never really existed, of all-conquering gunboats and imperious proconsuls in cocked hats”. All of this is admirably independent-minded and well argued. The first part of this book should indeed be made compulsory reading for all Brexiteers. After about page 20, however, things begin seriously to go downhill. It’s rather like a modern version of Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The amiable and eminently reasonable Dr Tombs-Jekyll I remember from my time as his colleague in Cambridge drinks a strong potion of Brexit ideology and is transformed into the aggressive and polemical Mr Tombs-Hyde, jettisoning in the process almost everything that makes him such a good historical writer and teacher in his normal professional life. *** Membership of the EU, says Tombs-Hyde, has been a total waste of time and money for Britain. It has brought no economic benefits (“there is no evidence that membership of the successive European communities has done anything at all to stimulate the UK’s economic growth”). It has brought in hundreds of thousands of economic migrants who have taken away Englishmen’s jobs (“Between 2005 and 2007, 540,000 incomers found jobs, and 270,000 British workers lost them”). It finally became clear in 2016 that “Britain had no significant influence within the EU – the dénouement of a 40-year illusion”. Corrupt, failing, divided and weak, the EU itself has been an economic disaster and it is clearly about to collapse (its “fissiparous tendencies” are now, he says, “approaching a critical stage”). The EU was from the outset an anti-democratic project. The founding fathers thought fascism was the result of an excess of unenlightened democracy that brought authoritarian regimes to power, so the answer was to take control away from the people and place it in the hands of unelected bureaucratic elites who would push for an ever-increasing centralisation of power in Brussels, in their own hands. The British vote to leave the EU was therefore a vote to take back the democratic power of decision-making for the people. It wasn’t an example of English nationalism: the Brexit vote was generally typical of mass disillusion with the EU among European populations. If other countries had held a vote, he says, they would probably have voted Leave. However, this claim sits uneasily with the more reasonable argument by Tombs-Jekyll that the desire for a united Europe was weak here because Britain had neither been ruled by a dictator nor occupied by a hostile power in the Second World War. In any case, there’s no evidence that disillusion with the EU is widespread among the citizens of its member countries. According to a 2019 poll by the Pew Research Center, across 14 EU member countries, a median of 67 per cent hold favourable views of the European Union. The EU has been through some severe tests in the past couple of years, notably Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic; but it shows no signs of breaking up. Unity among the 27 has been strengthened by the Brexit negotiations, which have also deterred many supporters of Grexit, Frexit and the rest from trying to go it alone. Early ambitions of creating a kind of United States of Europe have long since faded, if they were ever realistic in the first place. Tombs-Hyde fears the project of “ever closer union” between the member states of the EU is a growing threat to democracy: had Britain stayed as “a participating member of an embryonic European federation”, it “would not have been a sovereign democratic nation”. Tombs-Jekyll, however, declares that “ever closer union” is an example of the “magical thinking” of the elites. In any case, if the EU is about to collapse, why should anyone worry too much about the idea of “ever closer union”? “Having your cake and eating it” may have been one of the principal declared aims of the UK government in negotiating Brexit, but it seems to be a common mode of thinking in Brexitland as well. [See also: “Can you imagine if you presented Freud to Jane Austen?”: Josh Cohen on literature and psychoanalysis] Most Europeans appear to think of the EU primarily as a means – not always successful but definitely always worth pursuing – of improving economic performance and raising living standards. In this, Britain, during its 40 years of membership, played a notable role: its greatest contribution was Margaret Thatcher’s introduction of the single market, now abandoned by her successors, but there were many others as well. It’s simply nonsense to say Britain never had any significant influence on the EU. For many Leave voters, of course – more than a quarter, according to opinion polls – immigration was the key issue, but the idea that immigrants from Poland and Romania were taking jobs away from Brits was a fantasy. Many of them, for example in the fields of East Anglia, were doing jobs that the British were unwilling to do themselves; or alternatively, they were highly skilled people, including doctors and health workers, who have contributed enormously to the UK. The specious economic arguments Tombs-Hyde presents, many of them taken from Eurosceptic economists and Conservative think tanks such as Policy Exchange, amount to the kind of cherry picking of evidence that Tombs-Jekyll would never dream of indulging in when doing his academic historical work. We live in a complex, economically interconnected world, in which the UK exports services, especially financial services, in return for goods in which it is not self-sufficient and never can be. The basic fact is that the EU is the UK’s major trading partner: the EU accounted for around 45 per cent of the UK’s exports in 2014 while 53 per cent of the UK’s imports of goods and services that year came from the rest of the EU. How could it be otherwise when Europe is the UK’s nearest neighbour? The Remain campaign’s warnings that Brexit would endanger all this were effectively dismissed by Leavers as “Project Fear”. However, looking at what is happening now, many of those warnings seem to have been understated. According to Tombs, “early alarms that large parts of the City [of London] would decamp to Paris, Frankfurt or Dublin… soon proved hollow”. They don’t look so hollow now, and even the UK government is advising British firms to set up headquarters in the EU to avoid extra costs and red tape. Tombs-Hyde pours scorn on the warnings issued by “Project Fear” that “lorries would queue for miles both to leave and to enter the country”. Perhaps he should have gone to Kent to see what was happening there in the immediate aftermath of Brexit. Trade across the Channel and the North Sea has been badly hit by the new rules and regulations. Small businesses are declaring they can no longer afford to trade as a result. The creation of a customs barrier in the Irish Sea has already angered unionists to the extent that checks were suspended under threats of violence against those who are supposed to carry them out. Working out exactly how much EU membership benefited the British economy is a complicated business; the leading economic historian Nick Crafts reckons over the 40 years it amounts to about 10 per cent of GDP. Working out the damage done by Brexit is impossible; partly because it’s too soon to tell, partly because it’s difficult to separate it from the impact of the Covid pandemic. Britons are already realising, however, that Brexit was a bad idea. Recent opinion polls have recorded strong majorities in favour of the view that Britain was wrong to leave the EU. If the vote was held today, Remain would win decisively. Tombs makes no mention of this shift of opinion, which began not long after the referendum itself. *** Tombs-Hyde devotes many pages to complaining about the way in which prominent Remainers allegedly “assumed an intellectual and moral superiority over their opponents, whom they endlessly dismissed as ignorant, xenophobic and nostalgic” (though Tombs-Jekyll’s own dismissal of the Brexiteers’ imperial nostalgia has apparently been forgotten by this stage). He complains about the “stifling consensus” in favour of Remain among academics “led by massed vice-chancellors” that apparently left Leavers afraid to speak their mind. All this lachrymose prose somehow manages to convey the impression it was the Leavers who lost and who feel victimised, not the Remainers. Yet, in his acknowledgements, Jekyll-Tombs warmly thanks the many academic colleagues who have given his project their encouragement over the past four years. Not so stifling, then. [See also: Why Keats’s haunting reflections on tuberculosis resonate in the age of Covid-19] At the end of the book, Tombs-Hyde proposes the “Anglosphere” and the Commonwealth as a basis for a “global Britain” to replace the EU. This is not the nostalgia Tombs-Jekyll dismissed at the start of the book, he says, but a forward-looking abandonment of “a declining Continent” for global connections marked by “language, similarity of legal systems and robust attachment to democracy”. Britain can use the “affection” in which the Commonwealth “is manifestly held by so many of its citizens”. But many Commonwealth countries are far from democratic; the Commonwealth has long since ceased to mean very much for a large number of them; and democracy is looking fragile even in the biggest and richest of the Anglosphere nations, the United States. Nor is there any solid evidence to suggest Europe is declining; rather, the reverse. In this case, geography really does come before history, and Britain’s future inevitably lies with its nearest neighbours, who form the largest trading bloc in the world. This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe Robert Tombs Allen Lane, 224pp, £16.99www.newstatesman.com
L’Angleterre”, the great French political scientist André Siegfried was wont to say in beginning his Sorbonne lectures on the British Isles, “est une île”, and he would stop there, silently inviting his listeners to ponder the significance of this basic geographical fact. A geographical determinist by conviction, he specialised in ascribing long-term stabilities in French voting patterns to the varieties of soil and settlement where the voters lived. Of course, “England” is no more an island, least of all a “sovereign island”, than “Great Britain” is. The historian Norman Davies put it more accurately in his bestselling book The Isles, which pays due attention to Scotland, Ireland, Wales and numerous offshore entities from the Isle of Man to the Shetland Isles, and does not confuse them all with England, as the French are liable to do. This Sovereign Isle promises to follow Siegfried closely. (“Geography,” the author declares, “comes before history.”) But there is more to it than that, of course. Robert Tombs, who for a long time taught French and European history at Cambridge, has published many major books including an excellent history of 19th- century France and an entertaining survey, written with his French wife Isabelle, of what the British and the French have thought of each other over the centuries. Equipped with dual Franco-British citizenship, he is uniquely well placed to view the relationship between England and the Continent from both sides of the Channel. Tombs is a confirmed Brexiteer. But he knows well enough that England is not an island, and that Siegfried’s geographical determinism has been undermined at many points by later researchers. His opening chapter, like those of the many other books that try to explain Brexit as the outcome of historical forces, trots rapidly through the history of the British Isles from the Romans to the present. But he is too good a historian to repeat the tired old clichés about Britain never having been invaded since 1066 (“Until Nelson’s time, the islands’ history was one of innumerable raids and invasions, at least nine of which since the Norman Conquest have overthrown governments,” he points out). [See also: NS Recommends: New books from Florence de Changy, Allie Morgan, Ethan Hawke and Alice Zeniter] The English Channel was easy to cross and did not form an effective barrier to invasion except under specific historical circumstances – history does come before geography, then, in this case – and he reminds us that, in the Middle Ages, the ruling English elites spoke French and spent a lot of time fighting and politicking on the Continent. Over lengthy periods England was part of, or closely linked to, Continental European kingdoms, whether Danish (under Cnut the Great), Norman (under William I and his successors), Angevin (under Henry II and his sons), Spanish (under Philip II), Dutch (under William III) or Hanoverian (under George I, II and III and William IV). Britain was a European state in the Middle Ages and for a long while after. And the Reformation – far from being “Britain’s first Brexit” as ignorant politicians declare – “did not separate the islands from the Continent”, Tombs writes. “For two centuries, it drew them more deeply in.” This was partly through the politics of alliances and alignments, and partly because the Reformation imported into Britain the conflict between German and Swiss Protestantism on the one hand, and Roman Catholicism on the other, with devastating effects. Tombs’s sharp historical eye doesn’t have much space for the nostalgic myths of empire that have intoxicated so many Brexiteers. “Having an empire had not been the source of Britain’s power or wealth,” he says. “Empire had been in many ways a political, strategic and economic liability.” He rightly mocks the Brexiteers’ “nostalgic obsession with boyhood memories of a Victorian golden age of unrivalled power which had never really existed, of all-conquering gunboats and imperious proconsuls in cocked hats”. All of this is admirably independent-minded and well argued. The first part of this book should indeed be made compulsory reading for all Brexiteers. After about page 20, however, things begin seriously to go downhill. It’s rather like a modern version of Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The amiable and eminently reasonable Dr Tombs-Jekyll I remember from my time as his colleague in Cambridge drinks a strong potion of Brexit ideology and is transformed into the aggressive and polemical Mr Tombs-Hyde, jettisoning in the process almost everything that makes him such a good historical writer and teacher in his normal professional life. *** Membership of the EU, says Tombs-Hyde, has been a total waste of time and money for Britain. It has brought no economic benefits (“there is no evidence that membership of the successive European communities has done anything at all to stimulate the UK’s economic growth”). It has brought in hundreds of thousands of economic migrants who have taken away Englishmen’s jobs (“Between 2005 and 2007, 540,000 incomers found jobs, and 270,000 British workers lost them”). It finally became clear in 2016 that “Britain had no significant influence within the EU – the dénouement of a 40-year illusion”. Corrupt, failing, divided and weak, the EU itself has been an economic disaster and it is clearly about to collapse (its “fissiparous tendencies” are now, he says, “approaching a critical stage”). The EU was from the outset an anti-democratic project. The founding fathers thought fascism was the result of an excess of unenlightened democracy that brought authoritarian regimes to power, so the answer was to take control away from the people and place it in the hands of unelected bureaucratic elites who would push for an ever-increasing centralisation of power in Brussels, in their own hands. The British vote to leave the EU was therefore a vote to take back the democratic power of decision-making for the people. It wasn’t an example of English nationalism: the Brexit vote was generally typical of mass disillusion with the EU among European populations. If other countries had held a vote, he says, they would probably have voted Leave. However, this claim sits uneasily with the more reasonable argument by Tombs-Jekyll that the desire for a united Europe was weak here because Britain had neither been ruled by a dictator nor occupied by a hostile power in the Second World War. In any case, there’s no evidence that disillusion with the EU is widespread among the citizens of its member countries. According to a 2019 poll by the Pew Research Center, across 14 EU member countries, a median of 67 per cent hold favourable views of the European Union. The EU has been through some severe tests in the past couple of years, notably Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic; but it shows no signs of breaking up. Unity among the 27 has been strengthened by the Brexit negotiations, which have also deterred many supporters of Grexit, Frexit and the rest from trying to go it alone. Early ambitions of creating a kind of United States of Europe have long since faded, if they were ever realistic in the first place. Tombs-Hyde fears the project of “ever closer union” between the member states of the EU is a growing threat to democracy: had Britain stayed as “a participating member of an embryonic European federation”, it “would not have been a sovereign democratic nation”. Tombs-Jekyll, however, declares that “ever closer union” is an example of the “magical thinking” of the elites. In any case, if the EU is about to collapse, why should anyone worry too much about the idea of “ever closer union”? “Having your cake and eating it” may have been one of the principal declared aims of the UK government in negotiating Brexit, but it seems to be a common mode of thinking in Brexitland as well. [See also: “Can you imagine if you presented Freud to Jane Austen?”: Josh Cohen on literature and psychoanalysis] Most Europeans appear to think of the EU primarily as a means – not always successful but definitely always worth pursuing – of improving economic performance and raising living standards. In this, Britain, during its 40 years of membership, played a notable role: its greatest contribution was Margaret Thatcher’s introduction of the single market, now abandoned by her successors, but there were many others as well. It’s simply nonsense to say Britain never had any significant influence on the EU. For many Leave voters, of course – more than a quarter, according to opinion polls – immigration was the key issue, but the idea that immigrants from Poland and Romania were taking jobs away from Brits was a fantasy. Many of them, for example in the fields of East Anglia, were doing jobs that the British were unwilling to do themselves; or alternatively, they were highly skilled people, including doctors and health workers, who have contributed enormously to the UK. The specious economic arguments Tombs-Hyde presents, many of them taken from Eurosceptic economists and Conservative think tanks such as Policy Exchange, amount to the kind of cherry picking of evidence that Tombs-Jekyll would never dream of indulging in when doing his academic historical work. We live in a complex, economically interconnected world, in which the UK exports services, especially financial services, in return for goods in which it is not self-sufficient and never can be. The basic fact is that the EU is the UK’s major trading partner: the EU accounted for around 45 per cent of the UK’s exports in 2014 while 53 per cent of the UK’s imports of goods and services that year came from the rest of the EU. How could it be otherwise when Europe is the UK’s nearest neighbour? The Remain campaign’s warnings that Brexit would endanger all this were effectively dismissed by Leavers as “Project Fear”. However, looking at what is happening now, many of those warnings seem to have been understated. According to Tombs, “early alarms that large parts of the City [of London] would decamp to Paris, Frankfurt or Dublin… soon proved hollow”. They don’t look so hollow now, and even the UK government is advising British firms to set up headquarters in the EU to avoid extra costs and red tape. Tombs-Hyde pours scorn on the warnings issued by “Project Fear” that “lorries would queue for miles both to leave and to enter the country”. Perhaps he should have gone to Kent to see what was happening there in the immediate aftermath of Brexit. Trade across the Channel and the North Sea has been badly hit by the new rules and regulations. Small businesses are declaring they can no longer afford to trade as a result. The creation of a customs barrier in the Irish Sea has already angered unionists to the extent that checks were suspended under threats of violence against those who are supposed to carry them out. Working out exactly how much EU membership benefited the British economy is a complicated business; the leading economic historian Nick Crafts reckons over the 40 years it amounts to about 10 per cent of GDP. Working out the damage done by Brexit is impossible; partly because it’s too soon to tell, partly because it’s difficult to separate it from the impact of the Covid pandemic. Britons are already realising, however, that Brexit was a bad idea. Recent opinion polls have recorded strong majorities in favour of the view that Britain was wrong to leave the EU. If the vote was held today, Remain would win decisively. Tombs makes no mention of this shift of opinion, which began not long after the referendum itself. *** Tombs-Hyde devotes many pages to complaining about the way in which prominent Remainers allegedly “assumed an intellectual and moral superiority over their opponents, whom they endlessly dismissed as ignorant, xenophobic and nostalgic” (though Tombs-Jekyll’s own dismissal of the Brexiteers’ imperial nostalgia has apparently been forgotten by this stage). He complains about the “stifling consensus” in favour of Remain among academics “led by massed vice-chancellors” that apparently left Leavers afraid to speak their mind. All this lachrymose prose somehow manages to convey the impression it was the Leavers who lost and who feel victimised, not the Remainers. Yet, in his acknowledgements, Jekyll-Tombs warmly thanks the many academic colleagues who have given his project their encouragement over the past four years. Not so stifling, then. [See also: Why Keats’s haunting reflections on tuberculosis resonate in the age of Covid-19] At the end of the book, Tombs-Hyde proposes the “Anglosphere” and the Commonwealth as a basis for a “global Britain” to replace the EU. This is not the nostalgia Tombs-Jekyll dismissed at the start of the book, he says, but a forward-looking abandonment of “a declining Continent” for global connections marked by “language, similarity of legal systems and robust attachment to democracy”. Britain can use the “affection” in which the Commonwealth “is manifestly held by so many of its citizens”. But many Commonwealth countries are far from democratic; the Commonwealth has long since ceased to mean very much for a large number of them; and democracy is looking fragile even in the biggest and richest of the Anglosphere nations, the United States. Nor is there any solid evidence to suggest Europe is declining; rather, the reverse. In this case, geography really does come before history, and Britain’s future inevitably lies with its nearest neighbours, who form the largest trading bloc in the world. This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe Robert Tombs Allen Lane, 224pp, £16.99www.newstatesman.com
‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Chaos Strikes Global Shipping
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Two-Thirds of Austrians Say Coronavirus Restrictions Are Worse Than the Virus
An Austrian Gallup Institute online survey of 1,000 Austrians found that 65 per cent of respondents agreed with the statement that the economic consequences of the Wuhan coronavirus lockdowns would destroy the lives of people more than the virus, up from 41 per cent the year before.
#news #Austria #Europe #covid #coronavirus #lockdown #economyTwo-Thirds of Austrians Say Lockdowns Worse Than Coronavirus
Nearly two-thirds of Austrians believe the economic consequences of lockdowns will be worse for people's lives than coronavirus itself.www.breitbart.com
Nearly two-thirds of Austrians believe the economic consequences of lockdowns will be worse for people's lives than coronavirus itself.www.breitbart.com
UK: Muslim students demand apology for prof insulting Islam by saying insults to Islam are punishable by death
The Muslim students who are complaining and demanding an apology would be doing us all a favor if they actually explained how the points Steven Greer made in his class, such as the fact that “insult to Islam was punishable by death,” represent a “misinformed and bigoted view of Islam.” What exactly has Greer said that is false? According to this story, one student pointed out that Muslim leaders condemned the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre. Of course neither the student nor Al Jazeera mention that hundreds of thousands of Muslims showed up in the wake of that massacre to protest not in favor of the freedom of expression, but against it.
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It seems like Fairphone is gaining momentum and increase sale of their google free fully repairable mobile phones.
"Fairphone was founded in 2013 with the goal of building sustainable smartphones that are environmentally friendly and fair to the people who make them. The phone is designed to be repairable by favoring screws instead of glue and having major components broken out into modules that are easily replaceable.
The Fairphone 2 and 3 are the only devices with a 10-out-of-10 repairability score from iFixit. Fairphone even sells spare parts directly on its website: a new screen is €90 euros, a new battery is €30, and a replacement USB-C port is €20. The company also advocates for worker's welfare in the smartphone supply chain, with a focus on sourcing non-conflict minerals and a paying workers a living wage. The Fairphone 3 is still made in China, but it's assembled by Arima, which is working with Fairphone to improve workers' conditions."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/fairphone-and-e-team-up-to-build-open-source-sustainable-smartphone/
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The Fairphone 3 becomes an open source, Google-less, repairable smartphone.arstechnica.com
The Fairphone 3 becomes an open source, Google-less, repairable smartphone.arstechnica.com
The Role of the U.S. Military in #World #Politics
Undeniably, the U.S. #military liberated #Europe from #fascism. Only because of this could very bad #war criminals be punished.
However, today, in contrast, one must ask how many tyrants have been brought to power by the U.S. military or can hold on to power because of it.
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According to figures released from the European Union’s border protection agency Frontex, 124,000 illegal migrants managed to make their way into the bloc in 2020, with illegal crossings at land borders dropping considerably and arrivals at seaports skyrocketing.
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