re: "More EUro Alarmism"

Emperor Misha I at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VRWC.") welcomed some remarks by Angela Merkel.

Money quote(s):

"German chancellor Angela Merkel very reasonably warned that if the EUropeon FAIL continues much longer, Europe may find itself in serious shit."

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"(A)dd one source claiming that Germany has already issued orders to start printing Deutschmarks again instead of the laughably moronic “Euros” in “preparation for a possible withdrawal from the EU” and you have the beginnings of a full court press panic."

CAA still has a few DM (bills and change) rattling around the CAA-cave, come to think of it.

"Merkel is only stating the obvious, after all. If the whole Marxist Utopian nonsense collapses, which is will as inevitably as night follows day, Europe is going to be a clusterfuck and it will be every man to himself" (Emphasis in original text. - CAA.)

EM1 is talking about more than just the unraveling of the "common currency," but then it's not irrational to believe that an Euro devolution would be just that and no more.

What's that rule about "you can't just do one thing"?

(Something to do with "unintended consequences.")

"What’s Germany, or any other European country, supposed to do if that happens?

....go down with the Marxist Titanic or try to fulfill their obligations to their own citizens and do what they have to do to survive?

Just exactly when did Greek public employees become entitled to the fruits of German, or any other workers’ labors?" (Emphasis in original text. - CAA.)

That's the question that Germans (and others) are asking themselves. The answer seems to be (mumble, mumble, mumble) "solidarity"!

"If Europe collapses and the socialist hordes descend like the vermin they are to rape the few remaining European nations who still retain a sense of responsibility and our nation sides with the socialist locusts, I’ll burn my passport and take the next flight out to join the 21st century equivalent of the Escadrille Lafayette.

The only good socialist is a dead one."

10/27

re: "Wikileaks Hyperventilation or "Transatlantic Brainwashing""

Joerg Wolf at Atlantic Review ("A Press Digest for Transatlantic Affairs") gives us a German perspective.

Money quote(s):

"According to Spiegel, Wikileaks reveals that US diplomats consider Foreign Minister Westerwelle to be incompetent and Chancellor Merkel to be risk averse. So what? Most Germans think the same. Of course, US diplomats are more candid in secret cables than in public statements. Everybody is."

S&S - Security is tight in Strasbourg for NATO summit. Strasbourg tightly regulates access during NATO event.

Stars and Stripes

Security is tight in Strasbourg for NATO summit


Strasbourg tightly regulates access during NATO event


By Kevin Dougherty, Stars and Stripes

Mideast edition, Saturday, April 4, 2009

Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes
Police line the route that the motorcades of U.S. President Barack Obama and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France traveled down following their meeting in Strasbourg on Friday morning. Much of the eastern French city was blocked off for security reasons, and parking on many of the city streets has been forbidden since Monday. On Saturday NATO leaders are to meet in the city.


Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes
A worker helps raise the U.S. flag in front of the Palais de la Musique et des Congres in Strasbourg, France, where the North Atlantic Council meeting will take place Saturday.

Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes
The kitchen staff looks out the windows of the 15th-century Maison Kammerzell on Strasbourg, France's cathedral square, hoping to catch a glimpse of U.S. President Barack Obama and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, following their meeting at the Rohan Palace on Friday morning. The crowd lining the square only got to see the presidents' motorcades roll by.

STRASBOURG, France — For the last day or so, the city center of the Alsatian capital in northeastern France has been, to borrow a military term, in lockdown mode.

Read the whole article here.

Snippet(s):

"Since the summit is occurring in two countries — France and Germany — the staging of the event has been, in the words of a State Department spokesperson, "a logistical nightmare." Aside from the ever-present worry of a terrorist attack, both European hosts have acted in concert to keep anarchists somewhat in check.

Following the G-20 summit in London, President Barack Obama arrived Friday in Strasbourg for discussions with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and a town hall meeting afterward. Obama then met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and later, NATO leaders gathered in nearby Baden-Baden, Germany, for a working dinner."