{"id":135598,"date":"2022-09-23T18:25:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T22:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=135598"},"modified":"2022-09-23T18:30:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T22:30:03","slug":"ursula-von-der-leyen-queen-of-the-anarcho-tyrannical-eu-superstate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=135598","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ursula Von der Leyen: Queen of the Anarcho-Tyrannical EU Superstate<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>As Democracy Dies in the EU, Von der Leyen Reveals its Sins<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Batman-leading-out-of-darkness.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"816\" height=\"358\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Batman-leading-out-of-darkness.webp 816w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Batman-leading-out-of-darkness-300x132.webp 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Batman-leading-out-of-darkness-768x337.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tom Luongo<br \/>\nGOLD GOATS &#8216;N GUNS<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no secret at this point that the EU is an anti-democratic organization. The leadership isn\u2019t elected, but selected from a pre-determined pool of candidates from within the Party structure.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone with the power to make a decision was placed there not by popular vote but by backroom collusion.<\/p>\n<p>As we approach this weekend\u2019s Italian elections there is real despair in the air that there is any light out of this dark time. That no matter what decisions we try to make, they are only in service of those that seek total dominion.<\/p>\n<p>And yet all you hear from these Eurocrats is that we are in a \u201cwar of Democracy versus Autocracy,\u201d as EU Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen put it in her hellish EU state of the union address to the European Parliament recently.<\/p>\n<p>Cloaking herself in the inverse of the EU flag\u2019s colors to show solidarity with another anti-democratic regime, Ukraine, Von der Leyen and her merry tribe of vandals in Brussels cast themselves as the protectors of the sacred right of a \u2018democracy\u2019 they deny to anyone who disagrees with her.<\/p>\n<p>The same can be said for nearly every major government in Europe. Every time an \u2018election\u2019 rolls around the local system is gamed to ensure a particular outcome. The political establishment always coalesces around maintaining the status quo, freezing out any possibility of an \u2018unworkable\u2019 or \u2018representative\u2019 coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Any outcome they can\u2019t overcome that lies outside the scope of the EU\u2019s values is either laden with poison pills, immediately put under pressure by the EU\u2019s Byzantine rules, and eventually forced out of office.<\/p>\n<p>There is no better example of this anti-democratic structure made flesh than Italy.<\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade Italians have been saddled with mostly-unelected technocratic governments who at best stymie and populist\/sovereigntist impulses within Italy\u2019s electorate or, at worst, advance the EU\u2019s centralization agenda under the false rubrics of Climate Change and \u201cEuropean Values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>European Values is a phrase that is synonymous with the phrase \u201crules-based order.\u201d We make the rules, they say, and you abide by them. We\u2019re allowed to break those rules because 1) we can and 2) we are the goodies.<\/p>\n<p>So, it shouldn\u2019t be a surprise that as the Italians go to the polls this weekend with the center-right coalition led by the Brothers of Italy (FdI) likely to win a major, uncontestable victory, the unelected, openly totalitarian President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, openly threaten Italians to \u2018vote right\u2019 or face her wrath.<\/p>\n<p>&#x203c;&#xfe0f;<em>Corrupted unelected bureacurat Von der Leyen threatens the Italians: \u201cWe will see the result of the vote in Italy. If things go in a difficult direction, we have tools, as in the case of Poland and Hungary.\u201d This is called meddling in elections\u00a0&#x1f447;&#x1f447;&#x1f447;VDL<\/em>&#x203c;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video src=\"https:\/\/video.twimg.com\/ext_tw_video\/1573249121905004545\/pu\/vid\/1280x720\/q1Fd4MLvF8Rx7m_p.mp4?tag=12\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<p><em>Originally tweeted by AZ\u00a0&#x1f6f0;&#x1f30f;&#x1f30d;&#x1f30e;\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZmilitary1\">@AZmilitary1<\/a>) on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZmilitary1\/status\/1573249718192427008\">September 23, 2022<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be honest. Seeing that threat issued towards inherently disagreeable Italians coming from a German bureaucrat will not go as she thinks it will.<\/p>\n<p>When you run out of the power to persuade people the only things left is threats (no matter how empty) and subterfuge. Italy has been trended towards this moment for over a decade and to this point subterfuge has worked particularly well for the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s down to open threats and \u2018consequences.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Ask Hungary about those \u2018consequences.\u2019 The EU parliament this week exercised its only real power, wagging their finger sternly at a member who doesn\u2019t represent the majority\u2019s conception of \u2018European Values\u2019 by declaring the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/09\/20\/nothing-to-do-with-reality-hungarian-mep-slams-leftists-after-eu-declares-his-country-is-no-longer-a-democracy\/\">democratically-elected (by a landslide) government of Viktor Orban is \u2018not a democracy.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Orwell\u2019s O\u2019Brien would be proud.<\/p>\n<p>This declaration means they have the ability to withhold shared EU development funds from Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>This is called \u2018blackmail\u2019 in common parlance.<\/p>\n<p>Moments like this always invoke the great Lew Rockwell reminding us that the government engages in behavior decent people would be ashamed of. It\u2019s more of the \u201crules-based order\u201d I keep hearing so much about, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>The rough translation to all of these issues is \u201crules for me and not for thee,\u201d the very essence of San Francis\u2019 description of\u00a0<em>anarcho-tyranny.<\/em>\u00a0The EU is truly and\u00a0<em>anarcho-tyrannical<\/em>\u00a0State where words only have the meanings they decide they have.<\/p>\n<p>And definitions are malleable.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to pervert the meanings of words to destroy any concept of meaning itself. Doing that unmoors us from our beliefs, seeing only them as the arbiters of truth.<\/p>\n<p>Orwell tried to warn us about this 74 years ago. Moreover, it\u2019s the mechanism by which to subvert our common bonds as people and replace them with the State.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15184 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-3.png?resize=616%2C346&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-3.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-3.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-3.png?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-3.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-3.png?resize=816%2C459&amp;ssl=1 816w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-3.png?resize=142%2C80&amp;ssl=1 142w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-3.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"346\" data-attachment-id=\"15184\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2022\/09\/23\/as-democracy-dies-eu-its-sins-are-revealed\/image-3-29\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-3.png?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-3.png?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-3.png?fit=616%2C347&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dexter White,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/september-2022-n-72251559\">writing for this month\u2019s Gold Goats \u2018n Guns Newsletter<\/a>, covered this subverting the sacred and turning it into the profane, originally defined as \u201cof this world\u201d as an antipode to the sacred, while discussing Biden\u2019s Reichstag Fire speech at Independence Hall:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>To make something of this world, you must remove it from the realm of the sacred and make it profane. We used to reserve the sacred to the temple.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the left is to deny the sanctum, in total. The only ideas allowed are the profane ones, even while they are described in sacred language.<\/p>\n<p>This transition, the act of sacralizing the profanities, is deliberate. It\u2019s what George Orwell was getting at with the concept of newspeak in\u00a0<em>Nineteen Eighty-Four.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The sacred is displaced, in its entirety, by the profane, to the point that it can no longer be spoken of because we no longer have the words to do so.<\/p>\n<p><cite>DEXTER K. WHITE,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/september-2022-n-72251559\">\u201cWELCOME TO THE PROFANUM,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0ISSUE 61 GGNG NEWSLETTER<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, rights, which are supposed to be sacred and inviolate are now equated with \u2018democracy,\u2019 a purely terrestrial concept, the very essence of the profane. We can only have rights the \u2018democracy\u2019 grants us, rather than those rights being inherent in our individuality or given to us by God.<\/p>\n<p>To continue exercising our rights means submitting to the whim of the majority, their immediate needs. This is that typical appeal to the \u2018common good\u2019 and all those other Star Trek\/Marvel level platitudes that are shoved down our throat by the purveyors of the profane (and the obscene) in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Any celebration of the sacred is to be met with brutal denunciation. The gatekeepers of the profane in the media \u2014 critics, columnists and talk-show hosts \u2014 are all hyper-aware of these threats. They perform their role as gatekeepers almost unconsciously.<\/p>\n<p>In mythological terms the gargoyle guards the entrance to the temple, the profane that guards the sacred at the cost of his own humanity. Biden defiled the Marine corps having them at his speech, itself a desecration of the location.<\/p>\n<p>It should be considered an unforgiveable offense.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where media enforcement comes in, through amplification of one side and the censorship of the other. It\u2019s why a hundred people fleeing Russia\u2019s mobilization order makes the news but the thousands standing in line at military registration centers do not.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary\u2019s sin was voiced eloquently by Balazs Hidveghi, MEP for Hungary,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/09\/20\/nothing-to-do-with-reality-hungarian-mep-slams-leftists-after-eu-declares-his-country-is-no-longer-a-democracy\/\">after the recent vote to strip them of their \u2018democracy\u2019 status.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cThey are simply unable to accept the fact that the people of Hungary have elected a Conservative government for the fourth time in a row,\u201d the politician argued. \u201cA government that dares to defend its nation\u2019s interests, one that stands in the way of the extreme left\u2019s ideology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is the real \u2018sin\u2019 of Hungary, and that is why all these unfounded lies are coming from the left,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it is a sin in the minds of the Von der Leyens of the world for the EU represents their new temple, the apotheosis of their mad quest to finally make Communism work.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a sincere sin that Orban refuses to subordinate Hungary\u2019s Christian morals and values to those \u201cEuropean Values\u201d held so sacred by Von der Leyen. If you weren\u2019t paying attention the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclesmagazine.org\/web\/viktor-orban-and-the-serbian-patriarch-lights-in-a-dark-world\/\">Orthodox Patriarch of Serbia presented Orban with its highest honor recently.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>On September 5, Patriarch Porfirije\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/serbian-orthodox-patriarch-presents-award-to-viktor-orban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">presented Orb\u00e1n<\/a>\u00a0with the gold degree of the Order of Saint Sava, which is the highest decoration awarded by the Serbian Church. The ceremony took place at the<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dbpedia.org\/page\/Carmelite_Monastery_of_Buda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carmelite Monastery in Budapest<\/a>, the current seat of Hungary\u2019s prime ministers.<\/p>\n<p>The news would not, perhaps, be worthy of special note were it not for the Patriarch\u2019s speech justifying the award and Orb\u00e1n\u2019s response.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kXpNpkdYACM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Both addresses summarize the malaise of today\u2019s Europe<\/a>. Both represent a welcome example of solidarity and unity among Christian believers belonging to different traditions (Orb\u00e1n is a Protestant at the helm of a mostly Roman Catholic nation).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/standard.rs\/2022\/09\/05\/patrijarh-porfirije-urucio-orden-orbanu-zbog-odbrane-hriscanskih-vrednosti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Both are therefore worth bringing in translation to our readers<\/a>, as no other outlet in the Western world will do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Srdja Trifkovic put it, this move sees both men as \u2018lights in a dark world.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Von der Leyen\u2019s threat to Italy is the same move just made against Hungary, \u201cVote the right way, or you will lose the EU\u2019s support.\u201d The problem with that threat, however, is that Italy is not Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary is a state the EU wants to have fully under its control. Crushing its nationalism and cultural identity is necessary to keep the other Eastern European countries in line and to project a united front, one supernation under NATO, indivisible, with liberty and justice defined for all.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the EU doesn\u2019t\u00a0<em>need<\/em>\u00a0Hungary to survive. But neither can it be allowed to oppose the majority, lest it undermine their authority. That mouse cannot be allowed to roar.<\/p>\n<p>So, not only will Hungary lose its status, because it has exercised its right of refusal to go along with Commissar Von der Leyen\u2019s policies on sanctioning Russia, the EU is now finding that \u201cEuropean Values\u201d no longer require unanimous consent.<\/p>\n<p>The push is on to reform the EU charter to remove each country\u2019s veto power over taxes and foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Italy is the second-biggest economy in the EU. It represents the third leg of the tripod on which the entire European Project is built.<\/p>\n<p>So, while the EU wants Hungary crushed to keep Eastern Europe in line and push through its new \u2018democratic\u2019 reforms, it\u00a0<em>needs\u00a0<\/em>Italy or the whole EU collapses.<\/p>\n<p>And at that point I have to remind Ms. Von der Lyin\u2019 of the oldest adage in banking.<\/p>\n<p>When you owe the bank $1000 it\u2019s your problem.<\/p>\n<p>When you owe the bank a trillion dollars, it\u2019s the bank\u2019s problem.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s where we are today. Italy\u2019s debt problems thanks to the EU\u2019s mad insistence of keeping control over Italy\u2019s political system are far worse today than they were in 2011 when Silvio Berlusconi was ousted and technocrat Mario Monti was installed.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Draghi only compounded the problem taking the ECB and all of Europe to negative interest rates for nearly a decade. Christine Lagarde was brought in to keep the ball rolling while Draghi was installed to ensure Italy was hog-tied to the EU Commission through COVID relief funds, a bill that Draghi was not able to get passed.<\/p>\n<p>Today Italy\u2019s TARGET2 liabilities are the EU\u2019s liabilities. There is no mechanism to pay them back. There is only default, hyperinflation or both. The leaders of the center-right coalition about to take power in Italy have to realize their leverage in this situation.<\/p>\n<p>Because it is immense and it renders every syllable of Von der Lyin\u2019s threat as hollow and devoid of substance as the power she ultimately thinks she exercises.<\/p>\n<p>And that brings us to the market meltdown we saw after the Fed raised interest rates in the US again by 0.75% on the eve of Italy\u2019s elections and the referenda of four Ukrainian Oblasts to decide who they want to be ruled by, Russia or Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The choice for them is simple. The corruption of what they are voting for is meant to complicate that decision.<\/p>\n<p>Every day brings another note about the manufactured energy crisis in Europe using \u2018punishing the autocrat Putin\u2019 excuse to cover their real intentions, nationalization of major industries, wholesale debt default and centralization of power across the continent to the EU.<\/p>\n<p>And if it means doing away with functioning capital markets and the middle class that sustains them, then so be it. It\u2019s for the common good, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Another tranche of people finally hit the \u2018acceptance\u2019 phase of the Kubler-Ross model on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2022\/09\/18\/what-the-end-of-the-fed-put-actually-means\/\">death of the \u201cFed Put\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and the lie that Europe\u2019s problems are solvable this week. They looked at their portfolios and, waking up from a long, lost weekend at Bernie\u2019s, hit the sell button.<\/p>\n<p>Repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, there are still too many people in \u2018denial\u2019 and \u2018bargaining\u2019 to really catalyze the revolt against these revolting Eurocrats.<\/p>\n<p>The rush into the US dollar has only just begun. Whatever happens in Italy and Ukraine this weekend will have profound effects on the future of the West.<\/p>\n<p>At the climax of Matt Reeves\u2019\u00a0<em>The Batman,<\/em>\u00a0Bruce leads the fallen people of Gotham out of the darkness of a biblical flood brought on by the city\u2019s sins to an uncertain future, vowing to finally embrace that role to guard what\u2019s left while the city rebuilds.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what Europe will turn into over the next few months, but the one thing we can safely say is that it won\u2019t be a triumph of \u2018democracy.\u2019 \u2018European values,\u2019 on the other hand, will have been properly defined as the obscenity they truly have become.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2022\/09\/23\/as-democracy-dies-eu-its-sins-are-revealed\/\">https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2022\/09\/23\/as-democracy-dies-eu-its-sins-are-revealed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Democracy Dies in the EU, Von der Leyen Reveals its Sins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}