The Evil European

Pavel Felgenhauer, a Moscow-based defence analyst, told the Guardian. "This is the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union that the Russian military is actually preparing for an all-out nuclear war with America." He added: "I believe we [the Russians] are sending the west a serious message. The message is treat us with respect, and if you don't go into our backyard we won't go into yours. Russia wants to divide the world into spheres of influence. If not, we will prepare for nuclear war."
Luke Harding, Russia challenges west with nuclear overhaul
The Guardian, 27/09/08

Spheres of influence....make me spew my guts up.

All this willy waving....make me spew my guts up.

"The Labour Party is unmaking Britain, turning it into the surveillance society that Britain's foremost prophet of doom, George Orwell, warned against. Labour admits that we migrants are only the first step, and that every indignity that they visit upon us will be visited upon you, too. If you want to live and thrive in a free country, you must defend us too: we must all hang together, or we will surely hang separately."
Cory Doctorow, Britain will make foreigners carry RFID identity cards and will put us in a huge, Orwellian database: the rest of Britain will be next
Boing Boing, 26/09/08

A form of madness seems to have taken hold in this country, a disease of types. This contagen seems to spread regardless of reality, research, fact, reason and common sense. I do not see the Tories doing any better, but something has to give.

I belive the more abuses that are undertaken, the more police brutailty and invasion, the more that councils spy on us, the more people will resist.

This restance can take place as small act of definace, to protest and to large court cases. The Human Rights Act, article 8 is on privacy. We should us it.

"But, first of all, Europeans should trust themselves: they are not an endangered species without Russia and the US."
The new Warsaw Pact, Gyula Hegyi
The Guardian, 24/09/08

I get tired of this East vs. West, them and us, Cold War mentality. Why should we align ourselves anymore?

As a child studying history I have a vivid memory of a newspaper cartoon. It showed a map of the northern hemisphere with a huge crater where Europe is and a joint speech bubble from the USA and USSR saying 'oppps'.

We need to find our own way, and I am sure others will join us if, like the European project itself, it is built on trust, respect and cooperation.