EU Soldiers Accused of Torturing Civilians in Congo

The Swedish military has accused French soldiers of torturing civilians during the EU-led Operation Artemis in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003, one of the bloc’s first joint missions.
Five years ago, the European Union sent some 1,500 soldiers to DR Congo as part of a UN mission to take action against the bandits [...]

A factual error leads to a fallacy

Debate on Quaequam Blog
Which claimed the Constitution was 95% the same as the previous treaties.
A fallacy is, very generally, an error in reasoning. This differs from a factual error, which is simply being wrong about the facts.

I will go into this a bit later, but first I would like to put [...]

UN Seat Lord Malloch-Brown and EU Referendum

Security Council Seat Lord Malloch-Brown Eureferendum

I have been pondering this for a couple of days, and I am saddened that my first real post for a very long time should be to question one of the icons of our fight to regain our sovereignty both from the EU and our own political class.
Whilst [...]

Security Council Seat

Security Council seat
Sir – The replacement of our seat on the UN Security Council with a single EU seat (report, August 7) would seriously hamper our ability to form alliances with other non-EU nations or take unilateral action to defend British interests.
We could even find ourselves engaging in a conflict opposed by our [...]

Global Warming this morning

A Tangled Web posts that 2005 data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide “ice caps” near Mars’s south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row. So it would seem to add to the evidence that the long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both [...]

EU fishing policy morally wrong

The EU fisheries commissioner Joe Borg says that the EU fisheries policies that encourage the throwing away of thousands of tonnes of dead fish are “morally wrong” and must be reformed.
According to the United Nations Worldwide, 8 per cent of the catch is discarded, but in some waters around Scotland and Ireland it reaches almost [...]

Scotland Does Not Want Independence

I know a lot of Scots would take issue with that headline but I will try to explain why I belive it to be true.
But first I would like to explore why some Scots are calling for the break up of the United Kingdom.

Brian Adam is the MSP for Aberdeen North

Independence [...]

Vision for the Oceans and Seas

A European Vision for the Oceans and Seas: A ‘Roadmap’ for the Motorway in the Sea. Anne Palmer 16.6.2006.

I have always hoped that the people we elect into ‘power’ in this seafaring nation of ours, and yes, pay their wages, would take on the mantle of responsibility in looking after our own [...]

European Defence and EU Foreign Policy.

From Anne Palmer 20.4.2006.

Without doubt, one of the most important jobs of a Prime Minister and His/Her Government is to ensure that the Country is always ready, able and willing to defend itself. To ensure their military staff has adequate supplies and that the forces that have to use [...]

Nothing More Than Hot Air?

There are two MSM articles that coincide with two separate themes this blog has referred to recently,
The first was in yesterdays Telegraph “There IS a problem with global warming… it stopped in 1998
By Bob Carter”
For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the [...]

Consumer rights day

I did not know that there was such a thing as “consumer rights’ day”
The Brussels Journal

Chresten Anderson
Today the Austrian EU Presidency is organising the 8th European Consumer Day, in cooperation with the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). The date marks US President John F. Kennedy’s declaration to the US Congress on [...]

Immunity From What?

Immunity From What?
I read a News Release on 23rd September, “Government to end Crown Immunity from Planning Controls”. The list was quite long so I will mention only that “the Crown” includes Government Departments, Her Majesty’s private estates, the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall and also part of the Palace of Westminster is [...]

The Two Courts

The Two Courts
The European Court of Human Rights ECHR
The European Court of Justice ECJ
Confusingly we have two European courts witch our governments have allowed to hold sway over our domestic national laws. As a point of fact no government should allow any other court to make any laws which our courts must obey, we are [...]

EU States Right to Freeze Funds?

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Member states must freeze the funds of all individuals named on UN lists of suspected terrorists without judicial review, according to a verdict from the European court of first instance in Luxembourg on Wednesday (21 September).
It is the first of the so-called “terrorist cases” to be tested, and the Court in [...]

EU Websites User Survey 2005

EU Websites User Survey 2005
EU Websites User Survey 2005
A few words about this survey
This survey is part of my PHD thesis regarding the EU’s public diplomacy strategy online and its use of the Internet to promote a European public sphere.
In particular, I am [...]

What price the supremacy of EU Law now?

Germany’s top court blocked Berlin’s extradition of a suspected al Qaeda financier to Spain, ruling on Monday that a key instrument in the European Union’s campaign against terrorism was unconstitutional
The Federal Constitutional Court ordered the release of Mamoun Darkazanli, a German-Syrian fighting his handover under an EU arrest warrant, a new instrument the court said [...]

Is EU law superior to state law

So much for the claims that the Primacy of European Law is a central principal of the EU.
The FCO Tackling myths about the European Constitutional Treaty
Primacy of European Lawis not new. It was already well established as a central principle of the single market well before the UK joined the EEC in 1973 and has [...]

War Crimes the Government and the ECHR

With Trust in the Government”. Anne Palmer. Written July 16th 2005.
It was strange to read in Hansard, (14th July 2005) that before going to war, Lord Boyce, as Chief of the Defence Staff, allegedly sought assurance that armed intervention in Iraq was lawful under public international law, the chain of our command of our armed [...]

EU to voters: Drop dead!

This posted in the American Thinker By James Lewis June 2nd, 2005
For half a century the ruling class of Europe has owned the project of European unification. Nobody bothered to ask the voters. But now they have made a mistake. Purely as a gesture, France, Holland and Britain scheduled popular referenda on the EU Constitution. [...]

no campaign bulletin – 20 May

no campaign bulletin – 20 May
New cross-party no campaign launched
French and Dutch referendums on a knife-edge
UK government confused on referendum, but other countries won’t take no for an answer
1. New cross-party no campaign launched
The Centre for a Social Europe and the Vote No campaign have joined forces to launch a major new cross-party campaign to [...]

Eurealist :: Conservative Party officially rejects British Constitution

Eurealist :: Conservative Party officially rejects British Constitution: “Conservative Party officially rejects British Constitution
by Eurealist at 05:15PM (BST) on April 14, 2005 | Permanent Link | Cosmos
The British Declaration of Independence
54, Haymarket, London SW1Y 4RP
Press: 01661 843226 Office: 01291 621748
www.bdicampaign.org. Email: info@BDIcampaign.org
Many Thanks
for petitioning on the British Declaration of Independence [...]

Brown in a Stew over ECJ Tax cases

In the main culled from Financial Director
In his annual Budget appearance before the Treasury Select Committee, Gordon Brown emphasized the government would be resolute in its attempts to stop companies using European law to eat into government revenues.
‘The UK will defend vigorously any challenge to UK tax law,’ he said. ‘We will take whatever action [...]

No democratic choice in the EU

The EU is launching a fully fledged foreign service, with missions to third countries and the United Nations, Euro-ambassadors, trade attachés, a diplomatic training college, the works. The fact that it is doing so without any legal basis does not seem to bother anyone.
So says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph today “EU’s ‘illegal’ diplomatic corps [...]

Fools led by Liars II

I have received an email from Jonathan Dawid in response to my post here
I have posted it in full and also my reply….
Someone has pointed me in the direction of your resposne to my recent
letter in the Times. I am afraid that you have rather missed the
essential points of my letter (and my previous letters [...]

More rubbish half truths propaganda and Xenophobia

Patricia Hewitt, Mansion House Wednesday, 23 February, 2005
In the speech Hewitt claims “We listened very carefully to the views of business, trade unions and others before we negotiated the Constitution. We set out our objectives. And we achieved every one of them.”
With 275 amendments suggesting changes to the draft by the British government at [...]

Brevity favours the Liars

Brevity favours the Liars
Reading the headline in The Telegraph “How the EU will change your lives”
I expected the article to be a reasonably comprehensive description of the innumerable of ways the EU will affect the people and the government of the United Kingdom. From undermining the power of the Westminster government, and our elected representatives [...]

Straws Myths

Myth One: Britain would lose control of Foreign Policy
It strengthens Britain’s influence in the world FOC Myth
We won’t be forced to follow an EU policy through ‘loyal cooperation’. FOC Myth
The EU can’t take our seat at the UN FOC Myth
Towards a single EU foreign policy? Gerard Baker argues in the Times that the British [...]

‘1503 Procedure’

The Anglo Saxon Chronicle: “The UN 1503 Procedure
For those of you who wish to follow up my suggestion in my previous posts HERE and HERE of renouncing EU citizenship. The following concerns the ‘1503 Procedure’ of the UN Commission on Human Rights. Under this procedure, citizens are able to petition the UN Commission on Human [...]

Tackling Short FOC Myths

Tackling Short FOC Myths
The FCO has this week been regaling us with its series of papers “Tackling myths about the European Constitutional Treaty”
What is becoming apparent as these papers are released on a daily basis is that they are very short, with very little information used to back up the basic point “Myth” making the [...]

Now who are the turkeys?

Now who are the turkeys?
Loose the Delusion has suggested that because the Foreign Office mandarins are full on Europhiles, this somehow confirms the idea that our foreign Policy is going to remain a power of the British Government.
Arguing that the loss of Sovereignty over Foreign Policy would mean the department would become surplus to requirements [...]

Operations Center

with thank to Anne Palmer
Operations Center
BRUSSELS – Berlin and Paris have come to an agreement with London concerning the future leadership structures for military operations by the European Union. Thus, within the military staff of the EU, the core for a ,,center of operations,” which is to serve as headquarters for independent EU military actions, [...]

The Asian tsunami the BBC and some other Idiot

I am often so flabbergasted at the BBC blatant bias that it takes me a while to wake up, not the case with Eureferendum title “Beneath Contempt” which mentions last night “Newsnight programme, a report on the UN “Oil for Food” scandal. In what was supposed to be a critical piece, we heard Peter [...]

Ireland not to take part in EU battlegroups

From Euobserver (side bar)
Ireland not to take part in EU battlegroups
“Ireland is not to take part in the European Union’s battlegroups due to constitutional difficulties.
The Irish Times reports that Irish defence minister Willie O’Dea ruled out participation for the foreseeable future because of major legal and constitutional difficulties.
Ireland is a neutral country and needs a [...]

BBC British Biased Coverage

EU Referendumtml
posting on the Booker column in the Telegraph on Sunday questions why it is that the BBC does not report the American efforts in the Indian Ocean, watching the BBC on could be forgiven for thinking that the Americans were not even helping when in fact theirs is the biggest force operating in [...]

The Spectre of the Euromyth

The Spectre of the Euromyth
It is interesting to note in the slow run up to the EU referendum that the EU Commission is again raising the spectre of the Euromyth, their term for press reports which do not promote the EU line.
This week there have been two articles in the press dealing with the Euromyth, [...]

Oxfam waits for UN

Letter to the Times
From BARBARA STOCKING,the Director of Oxfam
“Sir, Rosemary Righter (Comment, December 31) does not address the point that if something is vital, and yet not working well enough, it might be better to fix it rather than abandon it. The UN, as co-ordinator of the world’s humanitarian aid, is just such a thing.
Yes, [...]

The Tsunami Disaster and Aid Questions

The Tsunami Disaster and Aid Questions
The tsunami disaster has created a massive outpouring of charitable giving, which considering the massive loss of life in some of the poorest countries in the world is an understandable reaction. What else do we ordinary folks, have to offer, and what other could we do, but to contribute in [...]

Reading the Runes

Thank you to Martin Cole at Ironies for the link to the Yorkshire post and more from our very own EU Propaganda Minister Denis xenophobe MacShane.
The Yorkshire Post feature
“Reading the runes for 2005”To celebrate the dawn of a new year, we asked a collection of writers to look into their crystal balls to offer a [...]

The Two Courts

The Two Courts
The European Court of Human Rights ECHR
The European Court of Justice ECJ
Confusingly we have two European courts witch our governments have allowed to hold sway over our domestic national laws. As a point of fact no government should allow any other court to make any laws which our courts must obey, we are, [...]

EU pushes for Seat on UN Council

EU pushes for Seat on UN Council
Dr. Benita Ferrero-Waldner new EU Commissioner for External Affairs has said the European Union should have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council “The more we speak with one voice, the better for us and the better for Europe. We are not important if we don’t speak with [...]

A Raving ‘Europhiliac’

Europhiles led by Leon Brittan, ex EU Commissioner and to quote his own words “a raving ‘Europhiliac’ have attacked Gordon Brown for what they termed an “unnecessarily hostile approach to the European Union”.
Mr Brown’s crime was that he attacked other EU states for penalising innovative companies, and not being fair to British firms, and accusing [...]

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Not in My Name

Not in my name
I forget where I stole most of this from but do extend my thanks to the person who did most of the work.
The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has forced EU citizenship on me, which is in breach of article 20 (2) of [...]