Why it’s so important for world peace that EU dictatorship be stopped
In 1958, Billy Meier published and circulated a letter, worldwide, that forewarned of the then not yet existent European Union (EU) and its ultimate goal – along with the US – of bio-chipping and enslaving every human being on Earth.
In light of Brexit, the power hungry bureaucrats will still try to usurp total power and control, so vigilance and determination must be maintained and their efforts defeated.
In a 1987 document called the Henoch Prophecies, said to have actually been authored almost 11,000 years ago by the prophet we know as Enoch, there is information about the EU, problems with immigration, Russian military movements, etc.
More details were also given to Meier about very specific events that are unfolding right now. I’ve include excerpts below and bolded some very pertinent information:
From Contact 215, The Henoch Prophecies
Billy: Ah, one more moment please, my friend. As you were mentioning Henoch’s prophecy, the question went through my head as to why, actually, also Switzerland will come to the checkout, respectively will be overrun by foreign war powers. Is there a particular reason for this? As a neutral state, our country should be respected and should remain spared from acts of war.
Quetzal:
309. If Switzerland would actually remain neutral, then it would also be spared from acts of war.
310. Through many irresponsible ones of the people and the government, the land of peace, as it was called in the early prophecies, will lose its true neutrality, despite contrary statements and promises of the irresponsible ones.
311. The fact will be that these irresponsible ones – for which they already prepare and strive today – will form connections with the UN and NATO, as well as with the forthcoming European Union, whereby the true neutrality of Switzerland will be destroyed, and indeed, against all contrary assertions of the responsible governments and the misled population, as I already explained to you.
312. Through the UN and NATO, Switzerland and also the citizens will be drawn into acts of war.
313. Although the UN should be of a purely peaceful nature, that won’t remain so because it will be inevitable in the new millennium that also the UN forces will take up arms.
314. Even though it will only be for defense in some circumstances, it still means acts of war, through which death will keep a rich harvest even in the ranks of the UN forces.
315. Nevertheless, that won’t be everything, for the idea of creating a European Union has already arisen in various high leaders of Europe, through which the people, who will comprise it, will be greatly limited in their freedom, as well as the various provincial governments that will sell off their countries entrusted to them to this European Union, which will exhibit very strong dictatorial tendencies.
316. Brussels in Belgium will become the governmental center for this union, and the responsible persons there will acquire tremendous compensations, which will have to be paid by the countries belonging to the union and their populations.
317. They will call these compensations Fair Pay, for which the citizens of all union-member countries will have to perform hard work in the sweat of their brows.
318. Through these, the leaders of the European Union will be able to live in the lap of luxury at the expense of the citizens and will be able to laugh at the stupidity of their advocates.
319. The rulers of the individual countries, as well as those of the European Union in Brussels, will gradually take it so far, even to the point where they will want to sue and punish their rejectors, complainants, and critics.
320. And the doings of the European Union will ultimately be the decisive reason for the fact that from the east, military forces will invade Europe and will subjugate and destroy everything, if the entire population of Europe and their governments do not rationally work against everything, so that the threatening prophecies do not fulfill themselves.
Billy: When should these connections with the planned European Union come about, then? I mean with regard to Switzerland.
Quetzal:
321. The beginnings for this will already be established by the leaders of the government of Switzerland in the coming nineties, but the actual connections won’t come about until the next millennium.
322. The irrationality of both the government and the majority of the Swiss people will, unfortunately, be more powerful than their reason.
323. And through this, all roads will be paved for the autonomy of the government, by what means the catastrophe will ultimately break out over Switzerland, if the country’s citizens still don’t become sensible and don’t counteract the machinations that lead to slavery and war.
324. The people in the European countries and, with these, also those in Switzerland, still have time to prevent everything and to turn to the better, but it is doubtful as to whether their reason will triumph and whether they will prevent the imminent evil thereby, for this is still possible during the next few years, but after this, it will then become too late very quickly.
See also:
Billy Meier video regarding the EU, Russia, etc.
*Brexit: Why Britain Should Leave The EU
An Open Letter to a Friend about Illegal Immigration
*Thanks to David Kamada
Thanks, Michael. I’ve been asking for a date on the Henoch prophesies for months. Anyway, whoever gave you the 11,0000ya date is way off the mark. (As you know, this topic lies well within my area of professional expertise.) I hate to inject fact into a good story, but writing does not appear on Planet Earth until around 3,000 BCE (5,000ya), in Mesopotamia. We see no earlier evidence of writing on this planet. (China is a close argument for the same time period, but evidence their earliest “writing” consists of a few chicken scratches.) Plus, 11,000ya human Earthlings were still in the Stone Age (early Neolithic)! Not a single state-level society existed 11,000ya, much less a country of any name. Eleven thousand years ago humans were just learning how to domesticate plants and food animals. Eleven thousand years ago, modern aspect (current, we) Homo sapiens sapiens, as a genus, species, and subspecies probably would not exist for another couple of thousand years.
Since we are talking about writing, 11,000ya paper would not be invented for another almost 8,000 years, papyrus another 6,000 or so. Thus, if Henoch was alive 11,000ya, he was an animal skin-clad (if clad at all) hunter/gatherer/potential farmer whose localized vocabulary consisted of maybe a few dozen words—that only his family group understood—and that he couldn’t use to prophesize anything, because he knew less about life and human existence (surely nothing about then non-existent countries like those of today’s Europe) than the average American fourth grader does today. Even if he did, he couldn’t write it down, because no written language had been invented yet—and neither had papyrus or paper or pens or pencils. Of course, at 11,000ya Henoch would also have preceded the Iron Age, so he wouldn’t even have been able to chisel words in stone, even if he an alphabet was available (which, again, it wasn’t.)
In any case, Henoch couldn’t possibly have authored any kind of document 11,000ya. As I’ve discussed with you (off line) before, many of the dates—as well as numerous details—in the Prophecies are way off. Way, way off. Whoever wrote them—and it could not have been Henoch 11,000ya–wasn’t doing his or her research. One last thing before I get any more verbose: 11,000 years ago we likely had a human population of less than 1,000 people on our entire Planet Earth, and they were spread out, from Africa to China. What that means is, not enough people existed in any one spot to invent much of anything other than stone tools and statues of naked women with no faces (“Venus” figurines)—oh, and maybe some rattles and flutes. By the way, my intention is not to debate anyone on this; I’m just presenting the facts, as best we know them. Among learned scholars, no debate exists here.
Hi Scott,
The issue of writing, and reading, is one of the reasons why the entire Plejaren mission, with the various prophets, has spanned such a long period of time.
As was the case with Jmmanuel, who had a trusted scribe in Judas, the various prophecies, predictions, spiritual teaching, etc., were vulnerable to much manipulation, since reading and writing in the case of the six prophets before Meier was known only to very few.
In terms of Henoch, the narrative also includes the fact that he too had “mentors” from the Pllejaren race. So, as was the case also with the other prophets, an exact record of what he/they foretold was kept by the Plejaren. As was also explained according to the information in the case, the comings and goings of various extraterrestrial races goes back…millions of years (http://www.futureofmankind.co.uk/Billy_Meier/Event_Timeline).
In terms of the Plejaren mission, as it’s referred to, the prophet Henok came here some 389,000 years ago. A later personality of his would be Henoch. This would mean that the kind of technology necessary to write/record information was certainly available to Henok, Henoch and/or their mentors, as also with Jeremiah and Elijah, etc.
The situation would be akin to what even exists today, i.e. still remote tribes who have no written language, etc., existing in a world where children now carry computers in their hands as iPhones, etc. With no knowledge of the history of contemporary civilization, using the remote, primitive tribes as the reference point would give us similar information about the small population on th planet and its primitive status.
Certainly, since this information pertains to the far distant past – any actual record of which is completely unknown to us on Earth – we could call the information about dates speculative. One thing that is easy to prove, however, is that Meier verifiably published this predictive and prophetic information well before any of the events happened. And we continue to see the specific, foretold events fulfill right before the sleepy eyes of the public. As I’ve mentioned before, we have at least 200 specific examples now. Perhaps somebody’s trying to tell us something?
It’s quite likely that we’ll have to work backwards, so to speak, meaning that as the great majority of these events fulfill it will become abundantly clear that not only was the actual source impeccably correct but that it – and we – had to endure the limitations of very tunnel-visioned people who effectively prevented not only our growth and knowledge but also the necessary scientific interest that would have helped us take advantage of all of the freely offered assistance.
Thanks for participating here!
There were civilizations older than that Scott and a simple search proves it. But interesting that you and your colleagues are content with the “nothing can be older or close to the 11,000ya age”. That’s the great thing about science, it always changes.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/358139-5-mysterious-ruins-that-predate-known-civilization/
Scott —
“Human population has been estimated to have been around five million people 10,000 years ago. Recent studies from the Center for Genome Research and others such as Ambrose suggest a small group of perhaps 10,000 people could have left Africa between 50-100,000 years ago and populated the entire planet.”
Please excuse the typo in my first paragraph above. Line Six should read, “…evidence *of* their early writing….”
There is more that meets the eye here. 1 minute in they call it “a dictatorship”. Whoa.
For 11,000 years that spirit form hs been trying to help us earth humans, yet most have eyes to see but do not s, ears to hear but do not hear. We are stubborn, and slow to learn.
I just heard on the news that Spain may be the next to leave the EU. Let`s hope other countries will follow suite against the EU and the UN too before I forget. Yes Barry,Humans are very slow to learn. Being stubborn is a human trait. As for me it`s a survival trait which to me is a positive trait on my mother`s side since she never gave up and as for me I will most definitely will never ever give in ,I will always stay the corce no matter what happens to me When I see something I like I stay with it. When I see something I don`t like then I stick to my phasers(guns),I never ever give up. It`s part of being human.
What really stood out for me was “even to the point where they will want to sue and punish” in 319. The rulers of the individual countries, as well as those of the European Union in Brussels, will gradually take it so far, even to the point where they will want to sue and punish their rejectors, complainants, and critics.
Hi Ev, for sure the lawyers are rubbing their hands together as we speak. Iceland also opted out of the EU.
Hi Shelia 🙂 for sure and as Terry said and I’ve read too Spain is in the cue to try it as well. A lot of madness going on in England right now (as I have read personal views and reports from citizens of England of the happenings there right now) and will be for some time to come and this is only the cause and effect of internal England, they/we haven’t seen the effects of the outside world yet. Hope their seat belts are in good working order and for that matter ours as well and on so many fronts.
Scott Antes, there was written material older then 3,000+ years if we take into account Meier’s material on Alantis.
Humans are slow learners….really!!!! Reminds of my favorite quote which comes from Mr. Einstein. “Two things are infinite in this world the Universe and Human stupidity, but I’m not sure about the Universe!!!!!” makes me laugh every time.
All kidding aside, I think things could be changing for the better for us on this planet. Without saying too much, pay close attention to the American presidential race, nothing is as it seems.
Great article, Michael. I appreciate the credit, though you misspelled my name in the end. No worries 😉
Whoa, sorry David! It should be fixed now.
Thanks a bunch, Michael!
Peace.
Hi joe, The presidential race does not boad well since both Clinton and Trump are those two 1% elites trying very hard to ruin the good ol` US of A with their money and minons wreckling the rest of us poor sphyches to death who have practically no money to even support and live on save for e few bucks to get buy on,nough said.:-(((
This Brexit is the first step toward the collapse of globalism, and the collapse of the west. In other worlds, nobody should be cheering. The content in this contact report is not relevant to today. In other words, the cat is already out of the bag. The EU was not stopped; now it is supporting numerous economies by bringing together strengths and diversifying weaknesses among the union. Unwinding it now would hurt the weaker countries, sending populations into economic uncertainty and even economic ruin. This is the other side of the EU coin.
Instead of the countries coming together toward a planetary union, no matter how earth human primitive, we are going backwards with slogans like “Make my Country Great Again” or “America First.” Billy has said it “we are all in one boat.” Globalism is the only solution toward peace and cooperation among the masses. World government is the next step when we stop fighting over race, resources, religion, etc. and begin to lead with slogans like “Make our World Great for Everyone.” This means thinking of your neighbor, the environment, the planet, and all the life, as well as yourself. But folks like Alex Jones scare the people about World government, with rants about the NWO, banksters, skull and bones, blah blah blah. Obviously we need to improve our leaders and our systems so that our planetary government is not a dictatorship. But this is another lesson for the Earth human. But world government and globalism, especially with the Creational-natural laws and directives in force, is a GOOD thing.
I doubt that ALL the “elites” are disappointed with Britain’s exit from the union. We see that since the outcome world financial markets have been disrupted. There is a flight to security with the US dollar, gold and a handful of others surviving the re-pricing. This is because of the HUGE amount of uncertainty that has been injected into world markets. It can be argued that England and Germany pretty much created the economic strength of the union, carrying weaker economies like Greece and Spain for example. So by Britain leaving the union, she has shed the burden of the weaker states she was carrying. And now that the remaining member states have become dependent and benefited from this stable globalism, weaker states that depart would loose huge economic benefit and see their currencies and economies fall into banana republics. And this could happen to the greater lot. This means a lot of western families would suffer badly.
While Great Britain and the United States see a windfall to their markets, in the short to medium term, as the increasing uncertainly around the world creates the perfect market conditions for a flight to quality to boost US and British markets and currencies. This phony economic boost, at the expense of the weaker states and economies, could get Donald Trump elected, as he points to saying that the Britain exit was good once the US and British markets rebound just around election time. Obviously this phony bubble will not last. And unless the US and Europe continue to work toward globalism, rather than fall back to isolationism, we could see the “collapse of the US in 2020,” as Billy has said, come to pass. And if the US collapses, so does the rest of the west. The only hope for these other western states to break away from the US and Britain, and form a new union with the eastern powers. As Billy has said in effect. This means the remaining west collapses, sending her peoples into economic ruin, and the east takes on world hegemony. This is not good people. Even if you live in the east. What the world needs is unity so that the west and east begin to live in harmony with each other; and eventually we become a planet, rather than a bunch of tribes fighting it out for ourselves.
Contradicting some of your assertions are things like:
225. According to the prophecies of Henoch, the truth about industrialised countries is that they only seem to appear to be true civilisations, but in fact they are not; because more and more, at the end of the 20th century and at the beginning of the third millennium, they will disregard all true love, true freedom and true wisdom as well as true peace along with all values of humaneness and all values of men’s and women’s true being.
226. But not even all the terrible happenings will hinder the USA in continuing to proceed with her actions against all countries.
227. Even when the North American continent will be stricken by the most terrible catastrophe which has ever been recorded, evil military powers will wreak havoc with computerised and nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, whereby it will also happen that computerised weapons become independent and cannot be controlled any longer by human beings.
…as well as Meier’s and the Plejaren’s CLEAR warnings that the EU is a dictatorship and in no way a true global government, such as will eventually come about after people either become truly reasonable…or destroy everything because various globalists and others are never satisfied, even with too much.
What is contradicting? Can’t you ever find anything good to say about my crap?
I don’t doubt the EU is a dictatorship; and is bad in a lot of ways. What needs to happen, in my opinion, is that the US and Europe need to move toward a NEW union that is not a dictatorship and rally the other countries toward a better, more profitable system. If the elites really want to fix things, they will use the Brexit as an opportunity and form a better form of government. If the countries go this rout toward a new and improved unity then I think that 2020 will pass without collapse for the US. In my opinion, if the momentum of Farage is continued with a Trump administration, and more countries dump globalism, then the 2020 prophecy will come to pass. I hope I am wrong. Either way, I am NOT voting for Trump.
There’s nothing personal in my stating my reference points that appear to contradict the essence of your position.
I should ad that Meier and the Plejaren revery strong proponents of cultural identity, of not creating a big melting pot of cultures, etc. It initially surprised me because, as a peace loving person, I originally thought that all borders should be dissolved, etc., etc. But what the teaching expresses is a different matter, for various reasons.
Remember that Meier’s called for a true, international peace-combat force under the control of a real international ruling body of equal partners and participants. Eventually, as we’ve read in the prophecies, etc., we will have a truly unified, cooperative world, where people can still retain their personal and cultural uniqueness.
“…we will have a truly unified, cooperative world, where people can still retain their personal and cultural uniqueness.”
Okay so we agree then? I am arguing for unity and globalism and you are arguing repressive forms of govt and thinking there is a contradiction. And now you bring in culture? When I am arguing for globalism, it is not for the current form of dictatorships and the like, it is for world unity and cooperation. I think we are on the same side after all?
I would think that we do essentially agree about the goal. And we probably both understand the challenges to its accomplishment, the factors that delay it, etc.
Michael,
I too had the same initial feelings about open borders, immigration, etc., and then I read what Billy & the Plejaren said and have started to rethink my position. Do you know the main reason why Billy & the Plejaren have this view on open borders and immigration? Is it mainly related to the mixing of genetics which can be harmful to the health of the mixed genetic person? Or is it simply to preserve culture? Perhaps its both, but I’m still a bit confused on this.
Matthew,
I recall one comment where they point out that when people who’ve come from a particular culture with a highly religious background move into a very different one, as is happening suddenly now in Europe, the problem is that they don’t want to, and won’t, assimilate into the new culture and adapt to it, etc. And if their beliefs run quite counter to the people in the host country, more problems will occur, as is also the case in Europe.
Also, when there’s disparity between the economic conditions that they left for better ones, too often they can’t really contribute to the one they are moving into as much as they get from it, even to the point of damaging the health care and education systems, as is the case in the US already, they also are betraying their responsibilities to their home country. It also may lead to lower wages because they will accept them, thereby contributing to problems in that arena for the legal residents of the country.
MH “You took the words out of my mouth! I couln`t agree more you! You just so right on and spot on my friend! Keep up the great work you are doing! I think this is just the tip of the iceberg! After what happened in Turkey STILL No peacekeeping forces to icolate the IS gangs and all the rest of those rotten nasty terrorist including the EU and UN unfortunately! As I`vw said before thost nasty elites just want to take over this world and possibly the entire solar system,hence that is my guess thanks to Billy and the Ps. The elites want to control everything!”
I had a dream last night that I saw a huge bomb exploding somewhere and heard the news that it was the beginning of an atomic war. I think it was somewhere in the East, not in America.
Welcome “back” Anthony!
Good thoughts you contribute here and ditto to MH’s reply.
When the masses see that we need spiritual leaders after the release of those secret sciences hidden in the vatican, and those leaders actually lead, is when we will be one global human force, I think.
In the meantime it appears that certain prophecies and predictions are playing out.
We who are of BEAM’s spiritual teaching persuasion need to continue or start meditating and learning, I think.
Peace.
I live on a granit faultine which since 1985 we had an earthquake backthen and my erea of New York is due for another earthquaked. In the meantime dispite all the rumblings I try to meditate as much as I can dispite all the rumblings but its not easy but I try even if I have to use the internet You Tube videos to meditate most of the time as a distraction from the tremers plus I`m not to far from Indian Point Nuclear power plant plus my other organization is fighting the Spectra Algonquin Pipepline too. So meditiating from where I am is very difficult that is why I use You Tube Meditations instead ofmeditating quietly because of the rumbling tremers in my erea unfortunately.:-(((
I read in the contact reports somewhere, sorry don’t have time to find the source (Quetzal) he suggested playing background music in the meditating room at SSSC a long time ago. Will endeavor to find the source later.
Andrew I do listen to background music from the 50 channels we have on local cable TV. The tw that I listen to are soundscape which is nes age ambient atmospheric music with a postive spiritual ambince and the other is easy music which I call fred Astair Musicbut my yonger brother calls it elevator music so which ever one plaus quiet slow music I will lie down to meditiate but then comes along therumbling treemers that has been going on since Sptember 2012 and I don`t ven know why or what iti is so I mostly meditate on the internet using You Tube meditation music preferably in the universal cosmic vein which helps me forget what is going on on ths planet etc as things are bad enough thankyou. The though of traveling in space help[ me think more positive thouths.
“92. A close study of the psyche of the individual group members has let me recognize that for the promotion of the Meditation, and also in daily life and at meetings, a melodious background music would be of much value.”
-> Contact Report 114
Imagine playing Billy’s album at SSSC as background music to the salome peace meditation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminator_(album)
Why All the Post-Brexit Hysteria?
06/27/2016 – Troy Vincent
The night after the vote for an independent United Kingdom from the European Union had concluded I found myself at dinner with my wife trying to explain why the world portrayed by many financial analysts and news outlets was so filled with doom and gloom. “Why does the UK leaving the EU necessitate a global or UK financial meltdown?” she asked. And then it hit me, this was the question the world’s largest financial publications were failing to ask, or at the very least to answer honestly.
The answer to this question can be as complex as you would like to make it, but the clear and simple answer is this: the UK leaving the EU fundamentally necessitates neither of these things. To justify this simple answer we need only consider what affords a national economy its productivity. The intellect of the talented people of the UK that create value, the infrastructure, the primary institutions, and the capital goods that allow individuals to turn their time into valuable outputs have not changed. It is not as if London’s financial district or the many manufacturing industries around the UK were decimated by a meteor and must be rebuilt from the ground up. Physically and intellectually the UK is the same today as it was the day before the vote to secede.
So, what then is causing all of the commotion? Once again, the answer can be as complicated as we would like to make it, but without foolishly trying to perform an accounting measure by forecasting what the cost and benefit of each change in tax and trade policy might be, we need only admit that the real cause of the hysteria is purely political in nature. The uncertainty that has put the fear of god into some economists and financial analysts is only a matter of petty political gamesmanship. As Mises so astutely observed, “Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses. The other members of society, of course, enjoy the advantages of progress, but they not only do not contribute anything to it; they even place obstacles in its way.” The EU, with thousands of laws seeking to govern each detail of economic activity, such as the power efficiency of toasters and tea kettles, is nothing more than an obstacle for entrepreneurs and their employees across Europe.
By threatening greater taxes and tariffs as a result of a vote for a more sovereign, less centralized and bureaucratic system of governance, the EU is demonstrating the very sort of tyrannical attitude toward trade arrangements that the Brexit advocates sought to escape. Economists have been fixated on the costs of the loss of trade the UK will suffer, ignoring the benefits and the fact that a trade deal is simply a handshake and a signature on a piece of official government paper. There is nothing that prohibits mutually beneficial voluntary trade between two people or two nations other than an oppressive government body. The many trade complications that have been presented over the past month are much less economic conundrums and much more scare tactics that sound as if they came from Lord Vader giving an ultimatum to join the Galactic Empire. They can be summarized by something like, “You can choose to be independent but you will feel our wrath.”
It is this fear that drives uncertainty about the future and the uncertainty that drives turbulence in markets. To reiterate, this turbulence is entirely unnecessary, as trade deals can and would be struck between two mutually benefiting nations barring some greater despotic governmental force like the EU holding at ransom some other portion of their economy. Logically and economically speaking, if both Germany and the UK benefited from trading with one another last week, why wouldn’t they continue to trade with one another today? The only reason that this arrangement would not take place is if the cartel called the EU, of which Germany is a member, prohibited them from doing so. It is clear in this example that it is not the UK’s independence that is the problem but instead the power that the EU has over policies to which its member states are subject.
If there is one thing that the EU should hope for it is complete economic catastrophe as a result of this vote; that their threats and fear mongering leads to action resulting in a self-fulfilling prophecy. Otherwise, if the UK proves that you can leave the union, maintain friendly trade relations and continue to be a dominant global economy, it would signal the beginning of the end of the EU. If other nations see proof that you can escape the Brussels bureaucracy with only minor short-term complications it will surely lead to an exodus from the destined-to-fail union.
Hi Rafael,
I think you’ll find that Anthony is very familiar with Lord Vader.
It’s Rafael who has brought the Death Star to this rap battle over globalism. How strange? I wonder if he is on somebody’s payroll. I thought this was a spiritual site; why all the scholarly mumbo jumbo Rafael? Is Rafael new to this blog?
The bottom line Rafael, as Billy has said, “we are all in one boat.” The UK has abandoned her western brothers and sisters, left Germany holding the bag and the rest of the others out to dry.
Gee Anthony last time I remember you were huffing and puffing your way outta this blog.
What gave?
Anyway just as I predicted you are back.
Can I take this to the bank now.
Hey Lee,
Bleep you, cuz. Don’t take anything to the bank; instead keep cleaning up baby bleep.
Cheers!
Matt & Anthony,
Okay, you’ve each bleeped, let’s move on.
What, has the moderator in you finally woken up? I have provided food for thought and your boy lee comes out of nowhere to dis me? Who needs to move on?
Brexit: Individualism > Nationalism > Globalism
06/22/2016 Jeff Deist
Decentralization and devolution of state power is always a good thing, regardless of the motivations behind such movements.
Hunter S. Thompson, looking back on 60s counterculture in San Francisco, lamented the end of that era and its imagined flower-child innocence:
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
Does today’s Brexit vote, win or lose, similarly mark the spot where the once-inevitable march of globalism begins to recede? Have ordinary people around the world reached the point where real questions about self-determination have become too acute to ignore any longer?
Globalism, championed almost exclusively by political and economic elites, has been the dominant force in the West for a hundred years. World War I and the League of Nations established the framework for multinational military excursions, while the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank set the stage for the eventual emergence of the US dollar as a worldwide reserve currency. Progressive government programs in Western countries promised a new model for universalism and peace in the aftermath of the destruction of Europe. Human rights, democracy, and enlightened social views were now to serve as hallmarks of a post-monarchical Europe and rising US.
But globalism was never liberalism, nor was it intended to be by its architects. As its core, globalism has always meant rule by illiberal elites under the guise of mass democracy. It has always been distinctly anti-democratic and anti-freedom, even as it purported to represent liberation from repressive governments and poverty.
Globalism is not, as its supporters claim, simply the inevitable outcome of modern technology applied to communication, trade,and travel. It is not “the world getting smaller.” It is, in fact, an ideology and worldview that must be imposed by statist and cronyist means. It is the civic religion of people named Clinton, Bush, Blair, Cameron, and Lagarde.
Yes, libertarians advocate unfettered global trade. Even marginally free trade has unquestionably created enormous wealth and prosperity for millions around the world. Trade, specialization, and an understanding of comparative advantage have done more to relieve poverty than a million United Nations or International Monetary Funds.
But the EU, GATT, WTO, NAFTA, TPP, and the whole alphabet soup of trade schemes are wholly illiberal impediments masquerading as real commercial freedom. In fact, true free trade occurs only in the absence of government agreements. The only legislation required is a unilateral one-sentence bill: Country X hereby eliminates all import duties, taxes, and tariffs on all Y goods imported from country Z.
And as Godfrey Bloom explains, the European Union is primarily a customs zone, not a free trade zone. A bureaucracy in Brussels is hardly necessary to enact simple pan-European tariff reductions. It is necessary, however, to begin building what globalism truly demands: a de facto European government, complete with dense regulatory and tax rules, quasi-judicial bodies, a nascent military, and further subordination of national, linguistic, and cultural identities.
Which brings us to the Brexit vote, which offers Britons far more than simply an opportunity to remove themselves from a doomed EU political and monetary project. It is an opportunity to forestall the juggernaut, at least for a period, and reflect on the current path. It is a chance to fire a shot heard around the world, to challenge the wisdom of the “globalism is inevitable” narrative. It is the UK’s last chance to ask — in a time when even asking is an act of rebellion — the most important political question of our day or any day: who decides?
Ludwig von Mises understood that self-determination is the fundamental goal of liberty, of real liberalism. It’s true that libertarians ought not to concern themselves with “national sovereignty” in the political sense, because governments are not sovereign kings and should never be treated as worthy of determining the course of our lives. But it is also true that the more attenuated the link between an individual and the body purporting to govern him, the less control — self-determination — that individual has.
To quote Mises, from his 1927 classic (in German) Liberalismus: (https://mises.org/library/liberalism-classical-tradition/html/p/14)
If it were in any way possible to grant this right of self-determination to every individual person, it would have to be done.
Ultimately, Brexit is not a referendum on trade, immigration, or the technical rules promulgated by the (awful) European Parliament. It is a referendum on nationhood, which is a step away from globalism and closer to individual self-determination. Libertarians should view the decentralization and devolution of state power as ever and always a good thing, regardless of the motivations behind such movements. Reducing the size and scope of any single (or multinational) state’s dominion is decidedly healthy for liberty.
Back to reality , these groups exist because you and your neighbor and your friends care little about the existence of your society. You , your neighbor and your family allowed it to happen , the organization the mobilization and the acceptance of all the bullshit we experience today. I have stood up my whole life and its virtually impossible to exume a psychologically dead person from a topic. If you cannot take control of your own business , your family , your neighborhood , forget about global events , your toast. You mean nothing except another stupid statistic in the outcome that we see. Organized domination , of your mind your purse strings and your family destiny. Wake up , its not difficult. Acknowledge your fake life first. Deal with the fake. And maybe , maybe you can awake. Until then , your stupid too. So many should be ashamed these wicked fools took control of their lives and their families. Their is a lot of stupid going around .
David,
I’m not sure if you directed this post at a specific person but I’ll take the opportunity to tell you I won’t be posting your next comment about Obama presenting a speech to the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo in Arabic. The actual facts are that he made the speech at the Major Reception Hall at Cairo University in Egypt. Al-Azhar University co-hosted the event. And he made the speech in…ENGLISH.
We may not feel that many parties in the world are credible, so let’s not destroy our own credibility with such nonsense.
While the lyrics of music often can have multiple meanings, there are times when old song lyrics from decades gone by seem to hold particular meaning for the current times. There is an old song by a British group that strikes me particularly hard as far a what it seems to say to me about the current times. While the lyrics undoubtedly will be recognized by many, there may be some who are not as familiar with them, and I hope that all can consider the relationship to what the prophecies have stated and what seems to match certain events taking place right now, or maybe once again as the case may be.
We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
The change it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold that’s all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners they are flown in the next war
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again no, no
I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
There’s nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced by the bye
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again no-no
Yeaah!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Sheesh! I can’t believe… rather I know that Brexit is a good idea for Britain! I say Congratulations! This line was concerning to me from Quetzel:
322. The irrationality of both the government and the majority of the Swiss people will, unfortunately, be more powerful than their reason.
Switzerland is a beautiful country both in that it once was neutral and that the residents are so hardworking and helpful to each other. You can be independent from each other yet still be friendly towards one-another… Each country has gone through turmoil in their past… fighting off Vikings, protestants, catholics, roman catholics, terrorists, and whomever else shows up and wants to live off the policies of each country they “invade”… but really… the government was set up by-the-people, for-the-people… and those that want a free ride should not be allowed the same rights as others whom have fought and died for these policies, right it makes sense… no?
I know the US is a great country, but as you can see it is fallible as any other… especially when you think about the native americans and the like who lived here first… What did the “europeans” do to this country from the native; both north and south americans point of view?
I see folks worried about what other’s will think about their comments… well it just goes to show they have not read the Meier material enough to realize you have to approach any subject from a point of neutrality… like Switzerland… (too late) rather than a point of contention and anger over a presumed viewpoint of solidarity. Just because something is true does not make it right or wrong… it just is and is the OPPOSITE of lying, which… I understand folks on this planet do about ten times a day and have become unconscious of it… Whereas… if a human being of this planet were to understand… we are all equal… No one is better than another and stop lying to one another FOR ONE DAY!. We would begin to see that we are all for truth and against lying… but we first have to stop lying before we can see that.
The media is lying often for the good of their “station” or “benefactors” and folks do not see the truth for the trees…
Salome: Be greeted in Peace and Wisdom.
Dear Randy,
Why is it good for Britain? And what about the rest of Europe? Explain how this is good for France and Germany, for example. Please explain the logic. Btw- the Swiss are not part of the EU.
Anthony,
You sound a bit like a mid-1930’s German; cheering the expansion of Nazism and grieving for it’s losses.
I’m British. I voted out. Brexit is good for British democracy. Are you British? If not, your opinion does not count here and some other country will have to deal with you. I doubt you’re even European, as you don’t know that Switzerland was sold out to the EU when it signed up to be part of Schengen (no borders EU agreement):
http://www.schengenvisainfo.com/schengen-visa-countries-list/
If you are British, please educate yourself about what the EU is really about and check this, thanks: http://eutruth.org.uk/
Don’t worry Matt Anthony is just giving us all a lesson on the laws contrariness or so he claims.
Sorry Randy, but I must throw some flowers at you for that one, THANK YOU!!!!
because of brexit this man said : “You should know that those who observe us from afar are worried. I saw and heard and listened to several other leaders of other planets and they are very worried … “- Jean-Claude Juncker current President of the European Commission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e8grEVGMLA
disclosure is running ?? !!!
More than likely a, how do they say in French, faux pas.
Sounds like this dude received an alien probe up his unowat by fake MILAB aliens.