{"id":363949,"date":"2018-06-03T23:21:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T22:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/democracy-is-fighting-to-survive\/"},"modified":"2018-06-03T23:21:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T22:21:42","slug":"democracy-is-fighting-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/democracy-is-fighting-to-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy Is Fighting To Survive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The European peoples whose governments were paid to sell out the sovereignty of their nations to the EU are experiencing great difficulties in being permitted to govern themselves.<\/p>\n

As the result of Italians\u2019 frustration with the self-serving elite who have ruled Italy for decades, the recent democratic elections in Italy brought to power two anti-establishment political parties, Five-Star and Lega (League), that have solid majorities in both houses. However, the Italian president, an operative for the EU, attempted to appoint the prime minister independently of the election results, tried to himself appoint a \u201ctechnocratic cabinet\u201d that would ignore the democratic outcome, and succeeded in blocking the anti-establishment winners of the election from forming a government for three months.<\/p>\n

EU official Gunther Oettinger said that it was \u201cnot acceptable\u201d for Italians to vote for anti-establishment parties and threatened Italians with financial destabilization that would \u201cteach them how to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>Previously, in the wake of the international economic crisis brought on by the \u201cbanks too big to fail,\u201d the Italians and the Greeks attempted to govern themselves democratically, but it was not permitted. The European Commission appointed Mario Monti, a banker, to be Italy\u2019s prime minister. Monti, a member of Goldman Sachs Board of International Advisers, European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission, and a member of the Bilderberg Group, was appointed by the elite, not elected by the people. His cabinet did not include a single elected politician. (See my book,\u00a0The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism<\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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The European peoples whose governments were paid to sell out the sovereignty of their nations to the EU are experiencing great difficulties in being permitted to govern themselves. As the result of Italians\u2019 frustration with the self-serving elite who have ruled Italy for decades, the recent democratic elections in Italy brought to power two anti-establishment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-363949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}