{"id":1864,"date":"2010-05-29T14:25:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T14:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/eu-shape-up-or-ship-out\/"},"modified":"2010-05-29T14:25:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T14:25:19","slug":"eu-shape-up-or-ship-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/eu-shape-up-or-ship-out\/","title":{"rendered":"EU: shape up or ship out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>hedge funds owners betting in the capitalist casino have designs on the Euro <\/p>\n<p \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/briangreene\/ubadaqiiyGfjwvcdzubGbysuknsoFFwFkrbAvfjChnJJfjvgullkxytDeqmt\/media_httpdefenseofth_gyksz.jpg.scaled500.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"\/> <\/p>\n<p \/> but there is strength in unity &#8211; europe is hanging together or they <br \/>will hang separately <\/p>\n<p \/> perhaps this saga will expose the policies of the pro capitalist EU <br \/>and the pro capitalist leaders of its member countries. <\/p>\n<p \/> This month the EU is being blamed (by Mary Harney RTE Drive Time <br \/>27\/05) for bringing about the proposed sale of the VHI. Next month the <br \/>EU will be blamed for a 13% VAT charge on all local government <br \/>services that compete with the privatised sector of previously <br \/>publicly owned services.Similar outcomes were highlighted during the <br \/>two Lisbon referendums, and they were denied by the pro Lisbon (vote <br \/>yes) groups. It gives me no pleasure is stating that I told you so. <br \/>The EU and its Lisbon treaty has a pro market capitalist agenda that <br \/>wants to smash the member states involvement in civic society. Think <br \/>about it when your children&#8217;s school is charged 13% Value Added Tax on <br \/>their water supply, two EU sponsored principles at work against your <br \/>children&#8217;s education budget.      <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.briangreene.com\/eu-shape-up-or-ship-out\">web lab<\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hedge funds owners betting in the capitalist casino have designs on the Euro but there is strength in unity &#8211; europe is hanging together or they will hang separately perhaps this saga will expose the policies of the pro capitalist EU and the pro capitalist leaders of its member countries. This month the EU is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/eu-shape-up-or-ship-out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EU: shape up or ship out?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}