by Oui
Tue Sep 10th, 2024 at 10:29:54 AM EST
Don't tell me it wasn't foretold in many diaries ... MAGA and eliminating a competitor on the global market. De-globalisering using the European Union as a stepping stone. As the China virus came along to enact the American wartime Defense Production Act and taking it from there ...
Virus Warfare and Its Discontents | UCLA Law Review |
This Essay critically analyzes the wartime framing that both Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden relied upon in fighting a "War on COVID-19." According to this militarized framing, they sought to, in Trump's words, "fight that invisible enemy," the coronavirus. The conundrum this Essay explores is: Even as Biden has announced plans to let the coronavirus health emergency declaration expire in May 2023 (as this Essay goes to press), for the future, how should lawmakers address crises, such as COVID-19, with the urgency of a social emergency without reinforcing our overly-militarized, securitized, and policed state implicated by national security emergencies?
The problem with a militarized, securitized approach to a health crisis, such as COVID-19, is that security "is a deeply indeterminate concept, whose power derives not only from its association with particular issues or threats, but from the way that it combines fundamental ambiguity with a sense of heightened urgency." As a normative and practical matter, a militarized, securitized approach to the interrelated health and economic crises catalysed by coronavirus is flawed due to the indeterminacy of war discourse and its relationship to legality in exceptional moments.
Hero and Villain: The Defense Production Act
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
Using Europe as a battering ram to attack the Russian Federation. How the trap was set and Brussels wilfully complied. George Bush and Dick Cheney declared war on Russia at the NATO Bucharest Summit in Spring 2008. Joe Biden set the next stage in Feb. 2014 to implement the NATO expansion plan eight years later. MAGA
Second Thoughts on Confrontation with Russia? | 12 April 2018 |
Blowing up Nord Stream knocking off Western Russia from the European map
Europe's Economic Competitiveness in Sharp Decline | March 2024 |
Poeff ... there goes your competitiveness Brussels. ... 😂 🤣
Sikorski: Thank You America!
Down the drain ... American dirty fracking will deliver the gap this decade ... lobby in Washington DC did terrific job. It cost a penny ... but Koch is a happy person.
How Nord Stream 1 Rewired German Gas | CSIS - 30 July 2019 |
EU GDP Growth 2000-2021 | World Bank |
Is this the End of EU?
The Schengen agreement, which made the free movement of people in the EU a reality, celebrates its 25th anniversary in June 2010. EPP TV travelled to Schengen to look at how the idea developed and how Schengen has become a milestone in the development of European integration.
Schengen Treaty: 25 years of Europe without frontiers
Draghi Report the Highlights ...
[work in progress]
Germany `facing three-quarters-long recession'- as it happened. First reacties to Draghi report on future of the EU
'For the first time since the cold war we must genuinely fear for our self-preservation,' warns former ECB chief as he presents new report on European competitiveness
Lucas Guttenberg, senior advisor at Bertelsmann Stiftung, says Mario Dragihi's report is "surprisingly good" - indeed, better than another report from another former Italian PM, Enrico Letta, into "the future of the single market".
Its main message seems to be this: Member states need to get their act together if they want to keep the continent on a path of prosperity. They need to agree on what they want and how to do it. They need a plan.
The European Union post Brexit and economic "prosperity"
Schengen Treaty? German panic closing its borders is anti-EU
The far right are victorious … destruction of the European Union from within … who needs Russia to do such damage? Trump – Biden – Wilders – Scholz - Merz – AfD
Volkswagen says time running out amid clashes with workers | Reuters |
East Germans left behind – rise of left and social democracy and former Die Linke Sahra Wagenknecht
