'Barbieland Europe' Is Too White Says Think Tank

Besieged Union searches for its identity

Sep 29, 2024

Voters in Europe this year rejected the uniparty of war and degrowth
Predictably Brussels blamed the voters for thinking in ethnic terms, not civic
Ruling Commission failed to promote a European identity, perhaps on purpose

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Sep 29, 2024

Europe is too European and "white" says a think tank report that blames voters for a lack of diversity in candidates and thus leaders.

The chutzpah is breathtaking. The aristocratic and very, very white leadership of the European Commission which runs the Union blames the commoners. A body which is unelected, by the way. The European Parliament is purely advisory.

People have become “visibly disillusioned with the European project” says the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).

It warns of a "drift” towards understanding “Europeanness” in ethnic terms, rather than in a “civic” way, especially among young people and fears this may stop more liberal-leaning young people from supporting Brussels in the future.

It blames Central Eastern European (CEE) countries, without naming Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia or Bulgaria, in a September 25 report. These countries have objected to the EU’s new migration pact and its obligatory relocations.

It notes a lack of Muslim or non-white candidates in the European elections of summer 2024. In those elections the top concern of voters was the Ukraine war and migration.

“Worse still, parts of the European political mainstream (especially among centre-right and liberal parties) certainly appeared to embrace elements of a xenophobic view of the world – as reflected in the EU’s new migration and asylum pact, adopted in April, or in political proposals to send refugees to third countries, both of which raised major human-rights questions.” [1]

The European project is supra-national; it has sought to bury rather than blend the identities of its the people who make up the continent. Back in the late 1990s, when the European Central Bank was designing its paper currency, it strictly banned images of any cultural landmarks or monuments. A bank note in Italy was thought to resemble a famous bridge, so the ECB had it pulped and replaced with a new engraving that was more generic.

Even though voters showed their discontent, Europe's leaders refused to budge. In France and Germany they manoeuvred to keep popular parties out of the ruling coalitions.

In the latest election, in Brandenburg, the Social Democrats orchestrated a narrow win on September 22, after a tactical voting drive to exclude the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). That was after AfD won in -Thuringia and gained second place in Saxony.

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen was appointed to a second term. The unpopular prime minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, whose coalition collapsed in mid-2023 in a row over migration, remained in office for another year and takes over as NATO secretary-general on October 1.

You can’tget rid of them!

See German Voters Reject Political Squatters -'Centrist' parties defy popular fury, cling to power (Sep 03, 2024)

Framing the enemy

As in the United States, where the Bush, McCain, Romney and Cheney families are backing vice president Kamala Harris, the uniparty has never been more obvious.

In case the voter objects to this clear collusion by the power elite, the latter is framing the citizen as the threat.

As in Europe, the voter is told he is xenophobic, even extremist. "White supremacists" present the gravest terror threat to the United States, according to the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.

"Scarred by violence, lawmakers plan for possible ‘mass casualty’ event," wrote The Washington Post on September 19. U.S. Congressmen are proposing a constitutional amendment to fill vacancies in case of multiple deaths.

It may even benefit the power elite to create such a “supremacist” wedge. There are clear signs that they are using issues like immigration as a strategy of tension. We'll return to this below.

See Crisis Update - People vs. The Elite - Globalists will turn up the heat; but awareness grows as events impact daily lives (Feb 05, 2022)

Strangely, the one who seems to be in the sights of violence is their opponent Donald Trump. Love him or hate him, be he genuine or a foil for the elite, Trump has often said that the target is the American people; he is just standing in the way.

Charlie Kirk breaks it down:

"Springfield, Ohio, is a perfect example of how the ruling class has treated the heartland of the country.
Step one, we close the factories and we send them overseas so that people don't have work; step two we flood these communities with opioids so that they are permanently addicted and we kill a lot of them; step three we send their kids, their sons and daughters, to fight in no-win wars and they come back with permanent health issues; step four, we flood their town with foreigners after we have completely abused and broken them and we sent their jobs overseas; step five, the residents who are still there and have survived all this abuse, notice that the foreigners are doing really weird stuff, illegall stuff, like driving in head-on traffic, killing kids, eating cats and taking geese out of the pond.
And then we call the people that are still there in Springfield racist after their factories have closed, their sons died in Iraq, and they're addicted to opioids, and their local school is being over run by Haitians but they are racist for noticing that their home is turning into Port Au Prince."

What's going on

Let's analyse.

Political incumbents claim to be "centrists" and are using a compliant media to claim that any challenge to what they are doing is populist or extreme.

This claim is easily inverted: centrist is the label claimed by those who occupy power, regardless of how subversive their actions: war, open borders, deindustrialisation, societal implosion.

See The Great Reset As Subversion - A KGB defector warned us decades ago (Jan 02, 2022)

You can see it when the privileged play victim: The World Economic Forum’s Ngaire Woods told its Great Narrative meeting in Dubai:

“The bad news is that in every single country they were polling, the majority of people trusted their elites less. So, we can lead, but if people aren’t following, we’re not going to get to where we want to go.”

Crisis Update - Scripted Collapse Of Your Wealth - Bombshell report obscured by Reuters shows how middle class can be wiped out (Jan 31, 2022)

So you get the same policies, regardless of whether you vote for the reds or the blues. Some call it the uniparty, the deep state or a government of occupation.

Currently the top policies are war and open borders; previously it was Covid. The long-term policy, underway since the 1970s, which we can infer is the over-arching one, is de-industrialisation, jobs shipped abroad and Western energy production curtailed. This is the Green transition, net zero or the sustainable development goals.

Energy-intensive manufacturing is leaving for east Asia. While they bleed industrial jobs they are importing migrants without regard to skills. See the European Commission's latest statistics on migration to Europe. [2]

Cooking the books

The people never voted for this, politicians rarely mention it, and the media acts as censor.

That's because this is not politics but bookkeeping. If de-industrialisation is in the right column, on the left sits artificial intelligence (AI), digital identity and depopulation.

Plans for central bank digital currency lend support to this accounting analogy. In social and economic terms, CBDC is a centralised digital ledger. If all property is on one ledger, no-one pays anyone and thus there are effectively no assets. Since there are no assets or ownership — you’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy. However, someone will control the ledger.

See Crisis Update: Artificial Intelligence, Digital ID And Depopulation - Worldcoin and life in an app (Aug 01, 2023)

Insight - Digital Currency A Fig Leaf For Central Planning - BBC Verify provides the essential service of queering the narrative (May 27, 2023)

Evidence includes the arrest of independent journalists like Richard Medhurst under the UK Terrorism Act. Journalist unions have protested, so far in vain.

A brief history of censorship

"Centrists" never explain this curious combination of policies, which at first glance make no sense, and which inflamed the voters in this year's elections.

These policies lack public support, or would meet opposition if more people were aware of what they entail. That is why governments are keen to control the flow of information.

Instead they try to put out the fires which have flared since the migration crisis of 2015, when 1.3 million migrants applied for asylum in the EU, Britain's vote to leave the EU the following year, and the unexpected defeat of the Bush-Clinton political machine by Donald Trump.

Britain's Theresa May, prime minister from 2016 to 2019, would set up a propaganda network across NATO and EU countries which she called Rapid Response Units.

Mike Benz of the Foundation for Freedom Online and a former State Department official, put it like this: NATO feared voter unrest could fracture the EU, which would undermine the military alliance. As NATO is the enforcement arm of the International Monetary fund, which in turn is the enforcer of the World Bank and ultimately the Bank for International Settlements, the "rules-based international order" would be disarmed.

To see this in action, look at Libya where Muammar Gaddafi was promoting an African gold dinar until NATO ousted him in 2011.

At its Warsaw Summit in 2016, NATO stressed the need for new capacities in cyber and hybrid warfare: “From tanks to Tweets,” as sec-gen Jens Stoltenberg would say. [3]

In effect it redefined democracy as the sanctity of democratic institutions. These no longer reflect the will of the majority but create it — through private corporate foundations, NGOs, academia, health policy and selected assemblies.

This has given birth to the EU Digital Services Act, which is part of a broader Pentagon, NATO, CIA, NSA and DHS censorship operation.

See Crisis Update - The Public-Private Censorship Industry - Official culture of playing loose with the truth could crush fragile trust in media (Feb 27, 2023)

Crisis Update: Assange In Final Battle Against Extradition - Truth and disinformation are a hall of mirrors (Feb 21, 2024)

Debate in the media is confined to fact checking or accusations of "denial." The state and corporate media largely act as censor and propagandist blowhorns with almost no diversity of reporting. Governments increasingly treat dissent — Facebook posts on migration or alternative journalism against war — as terrorism.

See Chronicle of Dissent - The Press On Its Dying Bed - False videos and narratives of Covid-Ukraine suggest the 4th Estate is near death (Mar 26, 2022)

In Australia, the Albanese government has given the public barely a week (until September 30) to make submissions to a Senate inquiry into a bill to censor social media of anything the government deems to be “harmful” mis- or disinformation.

Forgotten identity

Let us take from these unruly spheres, this clashing constellation, two elements: the war with Russia, and earlier NATO's attack on Yugoslavia; and the European Commission's obvious yearning for identity.

Under Von der Leyen's watch, the European Union has aligned with NATO more openly. When Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orbán set off on a peace train, meeting the presidents of Ukraine, Russia and China, it was the European Commission that moved to isolate him, trying to strip Hungary of the EU Council Presidency.

See NATO Fury At Hungary's Peace Train - Summit pits Western leaders against People (Jul 11, 2024)

What could the wars and identity have in common?

Having lived and worked in Russia, the author knows it has a much more diverse culture — with one foot in Asia and another in Europe — than Western European states which only recently encountered multiculturalism.

European Russia accounts for about 80 per cent of Russia's total population, about 110 million people, making it the continent's most populous country after Germany. By area the European part of Russia alone equals eight times the size of second-placed France — almost 4 million square kilometers of Europe's total of 10 million sq km. Russia is a touch bigger with 17 million sq km.

They don't teach you that in school.

Why so coy?

Ignoring for now the dictum of NATO's first chief Hastings Ismay to exclude Russia, a country with a strong national identity which transcends its many cultures, why is the European Commission so lacking in confidence about its own identity?

It is conflict with Russia, and ignoring public disgust at the open borders policy, that angers electors and drives Von der Leyen to seek a unifying idea, a banner under which to march to war.

Gerard Delanty, reviewing The Politics of Everyday Europe, by Kathleen McNamara of Georgetown University (2015), perceives a strong argument that the EU is engaged in “deeper cultural transformation in which a plethora of new symbols and practices have recreated Europe as a new imagined community. In this account the sources of political authority lie outside the sphere of the state and reside in everyday life. The EU has shaped new orders of governance that have become institutionalised in European societies.”

“It has transformed the meaning of citizenship, sovereignty and borders…. By this she means that the EU does not challenge national identity but navigates around it and constructs itself as complementary to the nation.” [4]

Numerous UN-linked officials and EC commissioners have said in the past that Europe must surrender its culture and submit to assimilation, and not worry whether migrants bring useful skills. [5]

See From Argentina To A Street Near You - A crisis born of elite conceit is about to be exported around the world (Aug 16, 2022)

What replaces culture? “Values and trust,” which are code for post-democractic government, as we discussed in our recent series on censorship, "Trust and Servitude."

Think about that: representation is replaced by trust; rights by values; truth by consensus.

There is a certain fondness for inversion.

See Eurasia note #91: What Is This EU That Georgia Would Join? - Europe lost its way in the ‘90s – Georgia-EU part 3 (May 07, 2024)

The European Commission even subverts language: its use of complementarity is the opposite of Niels Bohr's coinage; subsidiarity the reverse of the Latin verb subsidio (to aid or help).

Don't even go near the Tower of Babel.

As noted, voters' voiced their dismay at war and open borders. Predictably the bureaucrats in Brussels unleashed the think tank researchers to blame the voters!

What is the source of the European Commission's failure over more than six decades to fashion a culture? After all, its founding members France and Germany are pillars of civilisation, not to mention many other member states.

To put it down to the difficulty of combining different national identities… well if that were so, then the pretension to multiculturalism was a lie straight out of the box. If you cannot fashion a culture out of the European heartland, what chance do you have when adding Somalis, Berbers and Bangladeshis to the mix?

If, on the other hand, the purpose of the European project is the negation of culture and nation; being instead the anodyne facade for corporate power, then suddenly it all makes sense.

Europe is shifting its industry to Asia ,either by deliberate decision, like German chemicals giant BASF or by dint of closing down hydrocarbon energy capacity while Asia keeps building coal-fired power stations.

And yet we must ask: does the European Union truly seek to embrace Asia? It wants the migrant workers but stripped of identity. There is a formulaic, bureaucratic lack of character to the Commission. It is above culture as if that is a smelly reminder of the nation state.

Strategy of tension

The strategia della tensione is one description for Italy's political violence when state intelligence agencies, paramilitaries and far-left, far-right groups bombed, kidnapped and shot politicians and the public.

"The purpose is to create a general feeling of insecurity in the population and make people seek security in a strong government," writes Wikipedia.

The most famous example is NATO and Operation Gladio.

See Eurasia note #32 - Ukraine May Meet Its Gladio - Insurgents may drag Russia into a version of Italy's 'Years of Lead' or Greece's 'Z' (Mar 09, 2022)

No sane person wants to return to that, but the rulers cannot resist divide and rule.

A “right wing” wedge might may stoke tensions in a target population on the issues of race, immigration or security.

Members of the Patriotic Front, which some consider to be “glowies” — so clearly a creation of the three-letter agencies that they gleam — were arrested in April after they posted “reclaim America” stickers on a masonic lodge in Idaho.

This technique of wedge politics saves the uniparty from building a political platform, the hassle of explaining it to the electorate and the leg work of recruiting supporters. Instead they use the media and education system to indoctrinate cohorts, by dividing and selling them an identity.

The media has declared open season on Trump and young people have heard little else during their formative years.

Stochastic terrorism is what the media has been waging for eight years: "Political violence that has been instigated by hostile public rhetoric that is directed at a group or an individual."

We wrote that 10 days before U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland published Ryan Routh's manifesto, in which the Trump shooter offers $150,000 to anyone who will "finish the job."

See Another Trump Shooter; Plot Thickens - Stochastic terrorism to drive the population wild (Sep 16, 2024)

Future centralisation

This brings us to the United Nations General Assembly and the recently-adopted Pact for the Future. It gives the UN executive powers to intervene in countries in the event of unspecified emergencies. It is similar to the World Health Organisation's recently amended International Health Regulation.

In order to grab such power it would be necessary first to emasculate nation states, and viewed from this angle, the European Commission holds the scalpel and kidney dish.

What was the one country to reject the Pact for the Future on the grounds that it interferes in domestic jurisdiction? You guessed it: Russia.

Just food for thought… marinate in your own juices but do not take sides.

See Russia Rejects UN Pact For The Future - Communitarian dialectic continues to exploit 'false binary' (Sep 23, 2024)

The perpetrators are not nation states, just as they are not the reds and the blues; the performers in the arena and on the stage do not write the rules nor the script. We can, however, draw conclusions from the action.

We must reassess, continuously, on the fly. Easy answers die fast as a mayfly The idea of a United States of Europe cannot be dismissed as the idea of Martin Bormann, head of the NSDAP chancellery; nor of the Office of Strategic Services, later the CIA. French and German groups had discussed uniting the countries in the interwar years — France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944, Julian Jackson (2001).

The philosophical precedents for supra-nationalism are at least 1,000 years old, embracing Pedro Abelard/Aberlardo. Political ambitions for the unification of Europe were espoused by the campaigner for a unified Italy Guiseppe Mazzini. In 1843, Victor Hugo forecast:

“The day will come when we will see the emergence of two monolithic blocks: the United States of America and the United States of Europe, one facing the other, hands outstretched across the sea, exchanging their produce, their products, their commerce, their industry… " [6]

Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, an Austrian aristocrat, founded the Pan-European Movement in 1923, giving his name to a prize for integration — though a former member of the European Parliament (MEP) John Stuart Agnew stated in a written question in 2019 that Kelergi's book, Practical Idealism, bears an "uncanny parallel with open door immigration."

Javier Vergara in his article The History of Europe (2006) goes on to list Joseph Caillaux, author of Quo vadis France, Quo Vadis Europe (1922) — though, it is argued, he would have excluded not Russia but Great Britain, "as it already formed part of a commonwealth covering another part of the planet."

If the people can “demand” an identity, it is worth quoting Vergara:

"The new Europe can not be reduced to what sociologists call a political, media and economic ‘technosystem or ‘technostructure’, in which citizens give their uncritical assent with disconcerting passivity to the coordinated decisions of others."

Italian prime minister Georgia Meloni stated what would, a few short years ago, have been common logic:

“For me, the West is more than a physical place. By the word West we do not simply define countries by specific geographical location, but as a civilization built over the centuries with the genius and sacrifices of many.”

[1] ECFR, Sep 25, 2024 - Welcome to Barbieland: European sentiment in the year of wars and elections

[2] EC, Apr 2024 - Statistics on migration to Europe

[3] Communique, 2019 – NATO, Atlantic Council, NSA: Hybrid Points of Contact

[4] Gerard Delanty – The EU’s Indistinct Identity

[5] Peter Sutherland, YouTube — Peter Sutherland: Global agenda, nationalism & migration

[6] Javier Vergara, 2006 - The History of Europe and its constituent Countries: considerations in favour of the new Europe (PDF download)

Optiskeptic

Sep 29

Imagine a think tank saying Africa is too black...

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PlateauBrain

Russia didn't exactly reject the pact. Riley Wagmann breaks this misconception down quite well. Frankly I'm surprised you don't quote his work on Russian matters. He brings receipts every single time, like you (except in this case with Russia).

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