Italian prime minster Matteo Renzi went down in flames in a crushing defeat of a referendum he sponsored.
Sergio Mattarella, Italy’s president, has a choice. President is largely a symbolic position but what happens next is up to Mattarella.
The president may ask Renzi to hang on in a caretaker role, there could be snap elections, there could be a fourth technocrat government. Renzi was the third consecutive appointed technocrat prime minister.
Extraordinarily Clear
The Telegraph reports Matteo Renzi concedes defeat in Italian referendum and steps down as prime minister
“My experience of government finishes here,” Mr Renzi told a press conference after the No campaign won what he described as an “extraordinarily clear” victory in the referendum on which he had staked his future.
Marine le Pen Tweet
Translation: “The Italians have disowned the EU and Renzi. Listen to this thirst for freedom of nations and protection!”
Matteo Salvina Tweet
Translation: Long live Trump, long live Putin, long live Marine le Pen, and long live the [Northern] League!
Matteo Salvini is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and leader of the Lega Nord (Northern League) political party.
On April 26, Salvini stated Donald Trump Gets my Backing.
With 40% counted the vote is 59.1% No, 40.9% Yes.
Five Star Movement
If a snap election is called, Beppe Grillo’s Eurosceptic Five Star Movement (M5S), might win.
Beppe Grillo Says Hooray!
Via translation, Beppe Grillo says Hooray!
Hooray! He won democracy. The response of the Italian as turnout and how indication was clear. The regime’s propaganda and all his lies are the first losers in this referendum. Times have changed. Sovereignty belongs to the people, now we start to really apply our Constitution.
This vote has two important consequences.
1) Goodbye Renzi
2) The Italians are to be called to vote as soon as possible.We enjoy working with the President Mattarella at this crucial time. As the first political force of the country we are willing to do all the steps necessary to achieve the general election.
A lesson for all: you can not lie to the people forever without suffering consequences.
Grillo seeks new elections. Of course the nannycrats will oppose.
Another One Bites the Dust, More Coming
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Good riddance. Italy and the EU need a wholesale housecleaning. Consider this stunner on ZeroHedge today:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-04/something-strange-taking-place-mediterranean
The question is: do Europeans remember that countries have borders, and are they willing to do something, anything, about it?
The UK and the US have spoken loud and clear. I’m less convinced the Europeans have the same fortitude and determination. If not, they deserve to live in a cesspool of Africans and Muslims where their women are raped and laws openly flouted.
nonsense
Italy needs to fund a segment of it’s Government that takes illegal non EU immigrants (many from Africa) as soon as they arrive and puts them immediately back on a boat back to take them right back where they came from. No matter how much money or manpower it takes. No matter how many times they have to do it. The immigrants need to know if they come there illegally they are going right back home. And they need to shore up the legal immigration laws as well. France and other EU nations all need to do the same.
“… so tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1789….”
No. We are gonna mourn the imminent fall of Vienna to the Turks after a 500-year-siege (a short blip in the history of mankind). A small fifth column opened the gates.
“… some heads are gonna roll (roll, roll), some heads are gonna roll…”
The world is fixin to change, and faster and to a bigger degree than most think possible……26 years after the failure of communism, we will watch the failure of western style socialism…….Thatcher was right, they will run out of the ability to borrow ‘other people’s money’
A lot is riding on just how certain forces react to Italy’s vote and looming in the background is the possibility it might set in motion a series of events that could break apart the Euro-zone. Nine years after the onset of the financial crisis in 2007, output remains 8% down from its pre-crash level.
As far-fetched as the thought Italy would follow the U.K.’s example and leave the European Union may seem, capital flows suggest that some people aren’t waiting to find out. A great deal of money as been sneaking out the backdoor, more on this and the other ramifications the vote holds below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2016/12/italy-caught-between-rock-and-hard-spot.html
Elections are bullshit.
The private for profit western central banking global cartel has completed its STEALTH takeover of every country in the world where it operates.
And YOU and your progeny are its SLAVES.
Nothing changes unless or until nations, through whatever means necessary, take back control of currency and credit from the money masters.
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered…. I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies…. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” Thomas Jefferson
Did someone say “Money Masters”???
My favorite documentary of all time by Bill Still of that same name is on YouTube at:
I am surprised he went so easily. Didn’t the globalist cabal urge him to stay on? Tough to find a job if you don’t follow the dictum.
They dictum.
Very few Americans are aware of the turmoil in the EU as our press hides this and feeds us BS like the Kardashians.
If Americans were more aware they would see Trump’s victory as in-line with the general discontent with elites worldwide.
Discontent and lack of trust in traditional media is growing as it should. They have depreciated their own brand and will suffer financially for it. That is just what happens when you bet on the wrong horse.
Now in Phase Two, it will not be too long before Trump supporters will show signs of discontent.
The Pendulum continues to swing and it shows that there is no safe bet.
Trump is a wealthy, ivy league schooled billionaire – he was born into a wealthy family. He does not know how to live on less than millions per year. He is an elite. If you are paying attention you know that he is putting Goldman Sachs, and lobbyists in charge of his administration. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. You got suckered, and you will know it sooner than later.
We’ll see about Trump. He’s worth it for his appointments to the supreme court if he does that correctly. As for getting suckered…….I’m sure I have a better BS detector than you so you might want to stop being so cocksure.
Scramble, not Blueprint.
Blueprint = Western-led corporate-dominated matrix for managing human population
Scramble = national/tribal devolution & confrontation
Economic paradigm shift. Blueprint leverage – with it’s global-scaled wagers & capital – must be unwound, while Scramble consequences have yet too be recognized/understood by the vast majority.
HatTip: RoyalDutchShell
Part of the disgust and hate by italians toward Renzi was caused by the out of control immigration situation.
In 2013 italian government started a moral posing after a ship full of “asylum seekers” from africa had drowned and this moral posing consisted of giving boat rides from libyan waters straight to Italy to save people from drowning.
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This exploded the numbers coming to italy when smugglers could send ships that were practically sinking from the start and pack the ships absolutely full of people with no need to pack food and water and no need to pack lots of fuel and no need to withstand a long sea voyage because italian and later EU was providing a sea taxi service straight to Italy.
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The numbers coming exploded in 2013 and 2014 and as a consequence italians became angry when hundreds of thousands turned up in italy and many crimes and rapes also happened directed at the locals by “asylum seekers”.
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Renzi wanted to do something so in 2014 Renzi started PUSHING people coming to Italy to the north to the point that according to Newsweek Italy “lost” over 100,000 people of the 170,000 “asylum seekers” that were given sea taxi rides from Libyan waters to Italy in 2014.
Renzi and italian government PUSHED these people to the north by having laughable policy of no registration at all and no fingerprinting and free movement from Italian islands to Italian mainland with just a paper bearing a made up name the “asylum seeker” could invent on the spot and scheduled interview time for weeks or months later to make an official asylum application.
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NOBODY with even a little bit of intelligence wanted to stay in Italy since Italy gives 0 euros and people are not coming to italy to stay in italy but they are coming to welfare europe so italy is not the destination they want but they want germany, netherlands, belgium, sweden austria, france, denmark, finland and norway with germany and sweden being to most loose welfare countries with incompetent bureaucrats previously giving asylums with straight up lies and no vetting at all of the claims by asylum seekers. UK is also favored for its welfare but UK is difficult to get to since there is controls on the french side and the UK is not in schengen free movement area.
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After Renzi had pushed over 100,000 to the north in 2014 of course more people came in 2015 because Renzi gave them what they wanted and why they came: a passage to welfare europe where one could get free life forever with just a story that ticked a bureaucrats boxes.
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The situation got so bad that Frances leftist president Hollande demanded that the pain Italy was causing to France must be stopped and France ordered in June 2015 that french border police is to throw schengen treaty to the garbage dump and every “asylum seeker” coming through Italy to France must be STOPPED at Italian-French border and kept on the italian side of the border.
Those who managed to sneak to france were thrown back to italy by the french and told to seek asylum in Italy and stay in italy despite the “asylum seekers” yelling “asylum, asylum, asylum” to french border police or french police on Frances soil after they had in some cases got hundreds of kilometres inside france.
Spot checks on trains and of cars were carried out also inside of France in addition to strict control on the french-italian border.
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This caused africans to cry in Italy that they do NOT want Italy and that Italy is bad and they want northern europe.
Reason is simple: Italy gives 0 euros and Germany and Sweden give 1000 euros and free apartment and family re-unification to welfare and all one had to do was tell a lie/story/fairytale how they were “threatened” in their home country.
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With France closing its borders in 2015 the flow to italy was reduced and some went from italy to greece to get to welfare europe since in 2015 the balkan route was still open and Merkel was insulting countries who tried to close borders or follow dublin treaty and register people as asylum seekers and not to let them pass through.
Hungary tried to do this and follow laws and agreements and Merkel insulted hungarians constantly in her open borders insanity amplied by “refugees welcome” leftists waving placards because they had been exposed to pictures of one dead syrian baby by constant media brainwashing.
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Germany got exactly what Angela Merkel ordered, caused, invited, cheered and wanted.
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All other italian neighbors like Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia also tightened their border controls and italy was forced to also start patrolling their sides of the borders with the ultimatum being towards italy that there will be complete border closures if italy does not stop the asylum seeker flow.
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The end result in 2016 has been that boats still keep coming despite mostly closed borders so Italy has to keep the hundreds of thousands coming and this has caused chaos, crime, rapes and hatred towards Renzi who is the one responsible.
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The idiotic “solution” Renzi cried for in 2015 and got after France closed their border with italy in 2015 is the reason people still keep coming to Italy.
Stupid EU and Angela Merkel together with Sweden and supported by “just push them to the north” countries Italy and Greece pressured through a burden sharing system for EU where 160,000 asylum seekers were to be given ride by EU from Greece and Italy to around europe to seek asylum with the most places being in welfare europe.
Spineless european leaders went along so the leftists in their home countries would not call them “racists” because when burden sharing was voted through in 2 installments all the media was repeating was picture of dead syrian baby called Aylan who drowned between Turkey and Greece.
Aylans father told later to CNN that their goal was to reach Sweden because he had heard Sweden gave 100% acceptance and Aylans father also needed lots of dental work done and everything is free in Sweden so that is where they wanted to go despite already being completely safe in Turkey.
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Do-gooders promising 100% acceptance and free money and free apartments and free everything re responsible for all the drownings.
Sweden and Germany have drowned all the people who have drowned in the Mediterranean sea.
The message Europe should be giving is “you will be safe and get 0 euros and you will stay in Italy or Greece in guarded refugee camps and you will return home once the situation at home improves”.
Instead the Europe has been giving the message “come quickly and you will get free money, free apartment and can re-unify your family straight to welfare so if one comes later whole family can come join him/her and all this with just a story to a bureaucrat and its for the rest of your life this free everything lifestyle”
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Smugglers still tell people in Libya that come with us because European Union will give you a ride to welfare europe once you reach italy.
There is still 150,000 places free.
Burden sharing has been a failure with “asylum seekers” refusing eastern europe (no welfare provided there) and only France, Netherlands and Finland being stupid enough to take large numbers of “burden sharing” “asylum seekers”.
Even Sweden and Germany which demanded and cried for burden sharing have taken hardly anybody.
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ALL burden sharing should be STOPPED immediately and cancelled and NOBODY should get from Greece and Italy to welfare europe so NOBODY would come.
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Goodbye Matteo Renzi.
Hopefully italians will curse you where ever you go.
They need to have a heavily funded dedicated arm of the Gov’t and fleet of boats to round them all up and take them right back to the countries they came from.
As heartless as this may sound: What you suggest provides no stronger deterrence, than telling the inmates of jails that if they are caught fleeing, they’ll be brought back to jail at taxpayers expense……
Unless Europeans are willing to stand by as thousands of children drown in the Med, or perhaps even to actively assist the drowning, the refugee streams will continue. And only intensify over time, in lockstep with 3rd world population growth.
The fact that Europeans have no children, have simply raised the market value of being young in Europe to the point where people in places where youthfulness is plentiful, and hence pay less, are willing to risk A LOT to make the journey. And by the looks of things, the youthfulness gradient only looks set to get more lopsided over the coming decades.
It’s a losing battle for the West, and the Ayatollahs of political Islam knows it: The only acts the Europeans can engage in that will reliably stop the streams-cum-floods of people, are acts so heartless and brutal; that the only ones willing to engage in them, will be rulers so brutal, that the baby of European liberal values, will inevitably be tossed out with the ever rising bathwater of refugee streams.
When the “refugees” coming are told that there is NO WAY from Italy and Greece to welfare paying europe then 95% of people will NOT come because paying 1000-5000 euros to a smuggler to get to Italy or Greece and risking your life and getting 0 euros in Italy and Greece and sleeping on the streets if you are not working is extremely stupid.
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“refugees” are coming because there was a way from Greece to welfare europe (now cut by closing borders but EU in its idiocy still airlifts some “refugees” from Greece to welfare paying europe through the blunder called asylum seeker burden sharing aka relocation mechanism with promised capacity up to 160,000) and there still is a way to welfare paying europe through Italy (borders watched heavily but still part of the people get through from Italy to italys neigbors France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia and through them also to northern europe and EU also airlifts in its unbelievable stupidity some “refugees” from Italy to welfare paying europe through the blunder called asylum seeker burden sharing aka relocation mechanism with promised capacity up to 160,000).
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When there is NO WAY to welfare paying europe giving 1000 euros a month and free apartment and family re-unification straight to welfare and free hospital/dental/daycare/school/university and monthly stipend of around 100 euros per each child the “refugees” pop out until the child is 17 years old then NOBODY will come.
NOBODY is coming for Italy and Greece!!!
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People are coming and people are drowning BECAUSE of Sweden and Germany and rest of western europe are giving all the goodies with just a story which can be full of lies and complete fairytale thanks to stupid EASO-modules and stupid EU-directives demanding quick processing of asylum claims and quick family re-unifications.
Would you invent a story of “persecution” if you could get FREE EVERYTHING for you and your family for the rest of their life with NO NEED TO WORK with just a story?
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Once there is NO WAY north from Greece and Italy not by walking and not by train and not by trucks and not by EU bureaucrats making problems worse with stupid burden sharing 95% of people will stay at home in Iraq, Somalia,Eritrea, Iran, Nigeria, Marocco, Pakistan, Palestine etc. instead of giving their life savings to smugglers and borrowing from their extended family to pool money with the dream to get to welfare europe.
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Once there is NO reason to go to Italy and Greece the remaining 5% can be placed in camps with food, water, tents and schools and wait until they return from reece and Italy to back home.
Turkey provides humane refugee camps so nobody would come from Turkey to Europe if one could only get same kind of refugee camp service in Greece and no way north.
The turkish economy is much better than greek economy, there are more jobs in turkey and the culture is familiar to muslims and apartments are cheaper in turkey than in Greece and turkish government is schooling all refugee children already and also providing places in turkish universities to refugees.
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Later the policy should be made that EVERYBODY coming is taken back to Africa (to peceful Egypt or peaceful Tunisia) or to peaceful Turkey fter the amount of people coming has slowed to a trickle of 5% with the complete cutting of the way north from Greece and Italy.
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The hysteria that people will drown is just hysteria.
Germany and Sweden are responsible for ALL THE DROWNED PEOPLE SO FAR because they lured and invited syrians to come with 100% acceptance and IMMEDIATE permanent residence permits through immediate granting of asylum to everybody and immediate family re-unifications.
EVERY syrian was already safe in Turkey.
When it comes to Iraqis, Afganistanis and eritreans they were ALL ALREADY SAFE in their home countries peaceful parts when it comes to iraqis and afganistanis and eritreans were SAFE if they only would perform their army service of 18 months.
Rest are coming with even more flimsy and non-existant reasons just dreaming about european welfare lifestyle.
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The insanity of EU tempting every eritrean to escape eritrean army service by granting them asylum because they deserted eritrean army and giving 1000 euros, free apartment and family re-unification and free life forever based on this to every eritrean reaching western europe for the rest of their lives is mind boggling stupidity.
And this after Eritreans have shown themselves to be as bad as somalis when it comes to violent crimes and rapes…
EVERY ERITREAN MUST BE RETURNED BACK TO ERITREA.
Just make a deal of no punishments for army deserters that europe sends back.
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The EU could have pushed for safe spaces inside some of the ME countries paid for by the rich countries in that area. This entire experiment was designed as a soft takeover of Europe. Nobody is this stupid, not even Merkel.
Thank God for Trump.
Agreed. I’ve been saying this for YEARS. Where are the oil rich arabs who could be providing a homeland and loving support for palestinians, syrians and many others who cannot survive on their own.
Crickets. What they’re really interested in is war and conquest. Of each other and everyone else.