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So, what’s bad for the U.S. is good for Germany. It sounds like what the French have been trying to push on us for decades and, with the ‘card check’ legislation, what the UAW wants to do to the competitive U.S. auto industry (i.e., Toyota, Honda, BMW, etc.)

Beggar thy neighbor is never attractive, so must be disguised with high toned pseudo-moral platitudes. Let’s hope that the new president lied about his intentions during the campaign.

I wish that Mr. Rosenthal would look into the financial and political relationship between Bertelsmann and George Soros’s various financial proxies, especially as they relate to Obama. For example, how did an unknown like Obama land such a lucrative publishing contract with a publishing house as desirable as Random House in the first place?

Obama’s relationship to Bertelsmann is reminiscent of the Chicago-style relationships that have come to full light with the Illinois Governor. Skirting Senate Ethics Rules to advance his own profit… I wonder what else we don’t know about from our future President, and how much of his agenda is already pre-sold to foreigners and “We the people…” have no leverage at all in our own “democracy.”

The “connections” of so many Americans to an international order seeking to impose a Euro-Socialist agenda worldwide, should be frightening to any & all. Most despise socialism once they understand what all it entails. Lets face it, we have no example of a successful socialist system to go on. In Europe, most nations who have embraced the socialist concept, are deeply in debt & have recognized for decades their systems could not sustain the “benefits” mentality that socialism has as its basic foundational tenet.
Economic productivity, even activity, in Europe is waning. It has been for decades. And the only reason we get the “advise’ to join in is to slow down our productivity & growth because Europe cannot keep up. Ironically, if one looks at many of the now free eastern block nations, they have all embraced a free market system & many are doing very well financially. Just this past week I once again read about the Czeck Republic and its President, Vaclav Klaus. This is a man who lived the nightmare of a socialist economy and government for nearly fifty years. he knows how oppressive and repressive such a system really is. This man published a book on the subject, which the New York Times promptly ignored &/or put down as drivel. In fact the book was a warning to the free world that what this man lived is what awaits all if they fail to remain vigilant & stand up for their free market economies & democracies, that have made nations great & helped their average peoples live decent lives.
Bertelsmann’s intentions sound suspiciously like the charismatic babble a past “leader” (sic) championed prior to plunging just about all on the planet into dark times of worldwide war & misery. The idea the entire planet should embrace a worldwide economy, looks like these folks want everyone to be as miserable as they are. Unemployment in Europe was already considerably higher than in America. In fact, among ethnic groups, many have suffered unemployment for many years. Why would we want to be “just like them?” Molding America’s systems to match Europe’s looks like a ploy to create a one world order. Just what we need is another group of megalomaniac condescending elitists who wallow in “their” opinions of “their” superiority, to create a world system, that of course “they” should control. No thanks.
One can only hope Americans will wake up from their stupor and decide we should be the independent free market giant we were & can be again, if we stop kowtowing to special interests who promote their issues while ignoring the damages they do to all others in the process!

Another interest group Obama is beholden to…so what else is new?

Obama has managed to hide and cover up yet another mystery of his life. But not until he provides the true and original copy of his birth certificate will anyone who respects the United States Constitution afford him due honor or respect — anyone, of course, except his fanatical supporters, the liberal media, Hollyweird and blacks who get upset at the mere mention of such an issue.

Obama is a phoney, a charlatan, a deceiver of the highest order. He said and did everything he could to get elected, and now he’s even pissing off the libs because he’s going against the ultra-liberalism that he campaigned for. Again, the guy is a phoney.

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Soros connection:

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-22644454_ITM

As far as Germany and Bertelsmann goes, they shouldn’t be taken seriously, either. They need America more than America would ever need them. If Obama ends up appeasing Bertelsmann and allowing the company to push him around, then he isn’t as keen and shrewd as the world was led to believe.

Again, Obama is a phoney and, I’ll add, another Chicago thug in the vein of Blogo.

Europe’s arrogance is indefatigable. You’d think a shabby track record these last hundred years on matters of global order maintenance would give Euro-scolds pause or, at the very least, leave Americans who’ve paid enourmous prices for Europe’s blunders skeptical. But no.

Unfortunately — and almost paradoxically, after 100 years of taking Europe’s garbage out for them — a large portion of America’s so-called leadership class is as committed as Europe’s would-be global viceroys to diminishing the influence, authority and sovereignty of the United States.

Thanks, #8. I love Europe, but everytime I visit an American national cemetary or memorial there (whether it’s in France, England, Belgium or Italy), it saddens me that the Europeans who live in the big European cities don’t give any credit or gratitude to the hundreds of thousands of American lives lost or forever disfigured so that Europeans would have the freedom to criticize us the way they love to do.

#9 I am a european, a german from Berlin – and unfortunately You are right. I am embarrased beyond words for the stupid anti-Americanism in Germany and Western-Europe. I remember the Wall next to my parents house in West-Berlin and each time I saw the watchtowers, and the soldiers with their german shepards watching the “death strip”, I asked myself when this will finally disapear. I am so glad it did 19 years ago.
My parents always told me that the Americans (along with their allies) freed us from fascism and saved us from communism. It’s such a simple truth. “The Americans are our friends” they told me. I basically never did what my parents asked me to do – but they surely where absolutely right with this. So many Americans fought and died for our freedom. I am thankful and I won’t forget that.
They are people in Germany who still think like me of the USA, but I have to say that the mainstream goes right with that unbelievable arrogant and completely ridicoulus Bertelsmann “Trans-Atlantic Briefing Book”. I wish I could laugh about it, but I can’t. I hope President Obama can.

I read the Pentagon paper on global warming which warns that it is more dangerous than terrorist activities! Crazy terrorists blowing up hundreds of people cannot equate with a hundred thousand inhabitants having to move somewhere because their islands are being submerged or millions migrating because their countries are in perpetual drought or unstoppable flooding. While the U.S. does use more energy than most, Europe complains about it but then gives only lip service to solving the problem. I don’t expect the rich and powerful to do anything because they are only concerned with how much money they can make before things fall apart. The only silver lining to the global depression is that people have cut way back on energy use.

Well, Bertelsmann definitely has some influence and political power in Germany as well, but I don’t think that the company is in a position to make any demands or claims. In less than an hour 70 mils are peanuts for Obama. I only hope that he will resist more critical interest groups. A giant task that Bush wasn’t able to handle: Oil- and weapon-companies.

Hey Vinny, you realy think all European are arrogant???? Sorry, but isnt it a bit snotty to say this….
I hope Obama will change Things in US, but if it is the right way to say 70Mils are peantus – that remains to be seen….. In my opinion it is right, the Book is a shame, an I hope he will not take a hard line with Germany.

Arrogant?? Why??? I am not arrogant!!

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