HOW TERRORISTS AND THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION DON'T REALLY MATTER Five fatal minutes

MAKE (translated by Cosmin Ghidoveanu)
Ziarul BURSA #English Section / 22 ianuarie 2016

Five fatal minutes

I've been thinking for one night and one day, but I still couldn't figure out why Jean Claude Juncker said that, without the Schengen Space, the Euro itself is losing its reason to exist.

I drew a map, in which I have overlapped the Eurozone with the Schengen space.

A rather interesting drawing came out.

The Schengen space is more extended than the Eurozone, which appears to have a vertical hole going through it starting from Sweden, going through Poland, Sweden and ending in Hungary, countries which seemed to have found it more advantageous to benefit from the free circulation within Schengen, but they did not find themselves ready to adopt the Euro.

Ireland did the opposite, it joined the Euro, but it is not in Schengen.

On the map, there is a "Schengen - Euro" trench, on the border of the European Union with Russia, and on its lateral edges there are two European countries - Great Britain in the West and Romania in the East -, which are not in the Schengen space, nor in the Euro.

Even though at first glance you would think that Britain and Romania are the same dish, still the British are like a steak without carrots, whereas we are a steak without potatoes: because they refused to join, while the EU refused to let us join.

But we seem identical, especially because I "refuse" and "I accept" apply in both cases.

So.

1. Schengen = the elimination of the border controls on the borders within the Schengen Space, which includes 22 EU countries and 4 non-EU countries (total 26) = free circulation of individuals = one territory.

2. The Eurozone = a unified currency in 19 of the 28 EU countries.

Unified territory and unified currency - why should the former be a condition for the latter?!

The first Schengen agreement dates from 1985, while the unified currency was introduced in 1999.

The historical succession suggests that the territorial unity would be the first step, preparing the second one, - the currency unification, but that doesn't mean that once these steps will have been taken, you are still dependent on the place you started from, if you want to stay in the place you have arrived to.

In other words, you could very well set up barbed wire fences between the EU Schengen countries, without bank depositors, the banks themselves, investors, brokers and the stock markets having any problems in handling the EU currency.

I sat one day and one night to think about what Jean Claude Junker said, but I didn't get it.

What does one have with the other?!

Nothing.

On the other hand, the Eurozone has to do with sovereign debts, it has to do with chaotic money printing, it has to do with the financial-banking system operating in a fraudulent manner - all of it relying on the spoliation of the population, in a civilization of credit and perception (which, are, as a matter of fact, one and the same thing: trust), covering a Zone which spans economies with different forces, behaviors, mentalities and faiths.

The combination between the differences, (on one hand) the fraudulent system, (on the other) and the mob-like rule seated at the top of the EU, is the one that is blowing up the Euro, and not the Islamic State and the sexual terrorists from the Cologne train station.

Besides, aside from the things I didn't get from Juncker, I also didn't get how the Islamic State can endure for years, against the 60 states that have declared war on it.

But for that, I didn't have to think for a day and a night, because it is obvious - nobody wants to dismantle the Islamic State, terror is useful and it is so in many ways, because it justifies the police apparatus and Big Brother, keeps the population focused on something else than democracy and keeps up the turmoil in the oil producing regions (where the millions of migrants are coming from), so that the financial hole that the world's most developed states have dug for themselves.

To state that the migrants (that not only you have driven away from their homes, but you have also received with open arms in your homes) are the ones ruining the Euro, is nothing but a diversion.

It's the European Union itself taking charge of this.

Besides, Juncker said on another occasion that he has no problem lying.

The European Union was a beautiful dream, born out of the aspiration to freedom, justice and prosperity.

Once achieved, it uses the dream against the aspirations that gave it birth, becoming a simple tool for spoliation.

I understand, from yesterday's issue of BURSA that yesterday in Davos, the "Digital Revolution" was considered as "a threat greater than migration and the financial market crises combined".

Of course, I didn't understand.

My colleagues explained to me: computerization assists robotization, the process occurs at an explosive pace and people lose jobs.

Yes, unemployment is a problem.

But, my colleagues didn't have Marxism courses when they were in school, so they can't remember the revolt of the silk weavers in Lyon in 1831 nor that of the Silesia weavers, in 1844, when, to avoid becoming homeless, the laborers destroyed the machines that were replacing them.

Meanwhile, Marx has explained to us, or I don't know whether he did explain or not, but I will explain it myself in any case, that technical, technological and computer development are good, because they reduce the need for work, freeing people from its chores, meaning that nowadays we aren't carrying bags around 24/24, instead we can spiritually elevate ourselves and we can dedicate ourselves to creative activities.

So, what "threat" is the "Digital Revolution"?!

On the other hand, if you treat it as a threat worse than migration and the crisis of the markets combined and you say that in Davos, we ware going to forget for five minutes that 2016 is the year of the confiscation of bank deposits, all over the European Union.

And since the law "bail-in" law (which allows banks to seize their customers' deposits if they are at risk of default) has come into effect in Romania as well ..., for some people those five minutes may be fatal.

POST SCRIPTUM

I am told that president Klaus Johannis insists that we enter Schengen.

I am convinced that he would want to enter the Eurozone too.

Good thing he promulgated the law of the confiscation of deposits in banks.

Otherwise, I would have been worried.

www.agerpres.ro
www.dreptonline.ro
www.hipo.ro

adb