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Written on September 14th, 2016 in comment, politics Comments Off

Published on RT, Sept 13, 2016.

The EU has ceased to satisfy its citizens’ needs and aspirations, George Soros said calling on people to band together to save it. The billionaire warned the disintegration of the bloc will be almost impossible to avoid.

Britain eventually may or may not be relatively better off than other countries by leaving the EU, but its economy and people stand to suffer significantly in the short to medium term, Soros wrote in a commentary on the website Project Syndicate.

The catastrophic scenario that many feared has materialized, making the disintegration of the EU practically irreversible.

The financial collapse in the UK in the wake of Thursday’s vote has proved to be worse than any crisis over the past three decades. In the space of 10 minutes of trading on Friday, London’s FTSE index lost $164 billion when sterling dropped to its lowest mark in 31 years, trading up to 12 percent lower against the dollar. Ratings agency Standard and Poor’s threatened to downgrade the UK’s rating, which is currently triple A.

Financial markets worldwide are likely to remain in turmoil as the long, complicated process of political and economic divorce from the EU is negotiated, Soros wrote in his post-Brexit-vote analysis, noting that the “consequences for the real economy will be comparable only to the financial crisis of 2007-2008″ … //

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(mein Kommentar: auch industrielle Warenschöpfung kann auf den Einzelnen herunter verdemokratisiert werden, um internationalen Grossunternehmen den Wind aus den Segeln zu nehmen: geben wir jedermann Zugang zu gemeinsam verwalteten 3D Druckern – grossen, kleinen – zusammen mit dem Wissen how-to-do-it, damit jeder für sich oder die Gemeinschaft die benötigten Produkte herstellen kann. Dann müssen wir nur noch lernen, gerecht für alle den Zugang zu den Wundermaschinen zu verwalten bzw. zuzulassen – z.B. als Genossenschaft … that’s it – Heidi);

UPDATE: (my comment: industrial production can be democratized. Let’s create cooperatives to give access to 3D printers for every one, to create ourselves things we need. Why let big corperations satisfy our needs … as in any way next we’ll be put out of work by robots, receiving an unconditional income … a good new solution – Heidi);

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UPDATE: Dernières places à saisir au grand Congrès International de Santé Naturelle, à Paris les 1er et 2 octobre 2016, dans Institut pour la Protection de la Santé Naturelle IPSN, le 8 Sept 2016: toutes les places pour notre Congrès des 1er et 2 octobre 2016 à Paris auront bientôt été distribuées (Newsletter);

Transforming a Country into Collateral Damage, on Global Research.ca (first on Reader Supprted News.org), by William Boardman, Sept 12, 2016: US Cluster Bombs Killed Children for Decades in Laos, and Now Yemen;

Yale’s Bad History, on YACOBIN, by Corey Robin, Sept 11, 2016: what happens when a history professor at Yale opposes a grad union but doesn’t know her history?

When Your Boss Is Just Going through the Motions, on The Progressive, by David Cohen, Sept 08, 2016;

Why We’re Stuck Voting Fears Instead of Values, on The Progressive, by George Martin, Sept 8, 2016;

von Dawa Ulm auf YouTube hochgeladen:

EU disintegration practically irreversible – Soros, on RT, June 26, 2016;

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