Herman Van Rompuy announces a new 'reverse majority rule' to get around the national veto.What is the legal basis of this latest power grab?
Herman Van Rompuy, the President of Europe, wants a new mechanism to enforce sanctions against member states which borrow too much. Fair enough, you might say: of the 27 member states, only three currently meet the EU’s debt and deficit rules.
What’s alarming is the mechanism Mr Van Rompuy intends to use:Whenever possible, decision-making rules on sanctions should be more automatic and based on a reverse majority rule, implying a Commission proposal is adopted unless rejected by the Council.
The reverse majority rule?
I’m one of those few sad souls who has waded through the entire text of the European Constitution Lisbon Treaty, and I can’t remember any such procedure.
I have spent two days asking around in Brussels, and no one there knows what it is, either.
So here is an innovation which would substantially shift power from the national capitals to the Commission, and which concerns an issue of major importance (levying fines), but which seems to have no legal basis.
I know that a number of Eurocrats read this blog, and occasionally post remarks under amusing noms de plume. Perhaps one of them can enlighten me? On the basis of what article is President Van Rompuy arrogating these new powers? Is the EU – yet again – making up the rules as it goes along? End of Quote
In the dual EU presidency of Jose Manuel Barrasso and the newly elected EU president of the Council of Ministers, Herman Van Rompuy, the world may have seen the coming together of the Antichrist and the False Prophet.
That being said, l had found it quite difficult to determine who was who relative to the aforementioned Satanic duo?
However if we read the above quotation quite carefully and then refer to the Holy Scriptures themselves we may be able to find a glue to the answer to that question.
The chapter that l am referring to is Revelation Chapter 13.
In that Chapter we are told of the two beasts mentioned above; however, it is not the first beast that has drawn my attention to the article above but the second beast, and in particular the part in the chapter that says even though the second beast does not seek authority for himself he hands his authority over the first beast.
To my way of thinking that sounds exactly like what Van Rompuy is doing relative to the EU Commission (or Barrasso) as he appears to be handing more and more power over to Barrasso.
There are now going to be some that are going to say that l am jumping at shadows relative to the above conjecture, but we still need to remember that what we are dealing with here is not the European Constitution Lisbon Treaty, but the Lisbon Treaty.
As that is the case it still needs to be remembered that Barrasso was the Prime Minister of Portugal before he became the 11th EU Commission President -- and that Lisbon is a very much a part of Portugal.
Therefore what that effectively means is EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty should have more correctly been named the Barrasso Treaty.
Instead of handing the preponderance of power over to the newly appointed Council President the power for the complete running of the EU has been handed over to Barrasso; thereby seemingly making him the first beast of Revelation Chapter 13.
Yet we still need to remember that the second beast is more dangerous and deadly than the first beast.
Of course there maybe some that are reading this that are going to say that the opposite is applicable and that all of the power for the running of the EU is going over to Van Rompuy; or yet still, they may have other ideas relative to the suggestions that l have made above? If that is the case l would like to hear of them with their ideas.
Revelation Chapter 13 and Verses 11 to 18 referring to the second beast - the False Prophet.
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
I have spent two days asking around in Brussels, and no one there knows what it is, either.
So here is an innovation which would substantially shift power from the national capitals to the Commission, and which concerns an issue of major importance (levying fines), but which seems to have no legal basis.
I know that a number of Eurocrats read this blog, and occasionally post remarks under amusing noms de plume. Perhaps one of them can enlighten me? On the basis of what article is President Van Rompuy arrogating these new powers? Is the EU – yet again – making up the rules as it goes along? End of Quote
In the dual EU presidency of Jose Manuel Barrasso and the newly elected EU president of the Council of Ministers, Herman Van Rompuy, the world may have seen the coming together of the Antichrist and the False Prophet.
That being said, l had found it quite difficult to determine who was who relative to the aforementioned Satanic duo?
However if we read the above quotation quite carefully and then refer to the Holy Scriptures themselves we may be able to find a glue to the answer to that question.
The chapter that l am referring to is Revelation Chapter 13.
In that Chapter we are told of the two beasts mentioned above; however, it is not the first beast that has drawn my attention to the article above but the second beast, and in particular the part in the chapter that says even though the second beast does not seek authority for himself he hands his authority over the first beast.
To my way of thinking that sounds exactly like what Van Rompuy is doing relative to the EU Commission (or Barrasso) as he appears to be handing more and more power over to Barrasso.
There are now going to be some that are going to say that l am jumping at shadows relative to the above conjecture, but we still need to remember that what we are dealing with here is not the European Constitution Lisbon Treaty, but the Lisbon Treaty.
As that is the case it still needs to be remembered that Barrasso was the Prime Minister of Portugal before he became the 11th EU Commission President -- and that Lisbon is a very much a part of Portugal.
Therefore what that effectively means is EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty should have more correctly been named the Barrasso Treaty.
Instead of handing the preponderance of power over to the newly appointed Council President the power for the complete running of the EU has been handed over to Barrasso; thereby seemingly making him the first beast of Revelation Chapter 13.
Yet we still need to remember that the second beast is more dangerous and deadly than the first beast.
Of course there maybe some that are reading this that are going to say that the opposite is applicable and that all of the power for the running of the EU is going over to Van Rompuy; or yet still, they may have other ideas relative to the suggestions that l have made above? If that is the case l would like to hear of them with their ideas.
Revelation Chapter 13 and Verses 11 to 18 referring to the second beast - the False Prophet.
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
