EU adds 10 new nations...

[insein]

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/040430/1/3jwxl.html

Saturday May 1, 12:39 AM
Fireworks and flags as new Europe fetes enlargement

Prime ministers gathered on a mountaintop in Slovenia and a bell tolled in Budapest as 10 countries, eight from the former Soviet bloc, celebrated before joining the EU and definitively ending Europe's Cold War east-west division.

At the top of a mountain on the borders of Austria, Italy and Slovenia, top officials met for a ceremony to mark the European Union enlargement due to take place at the stroke of midnight Friday.

"Life has offered me the chance to stand for the first and the last time on a border that tomorrow will be no more," said Slovenia's Prime Minister Anton Rop.

In Prague, a Polish couple explained why they had come to an EU fair on historic Na Prikope street in the baroque splendor of the Czech capital, where national as well as the characteristic blue EU flags were flying at stands for each of the 25 EU states -- the 15 present members, plus the 10 soon to join the EU family.

Wojtek Luranc, who is from Warsaw, said he and his wife wanted "to celebrate this day in the capital city of our neighbor."

"We have waited for this moment for 60 years," said 25-year-old Luranc, speaking despite his youth of the long journey European peoples have taken since World War II.

In Slovakia, computer programmer Peter Zigmund, 30, said joining the EU "will give us the chance to find a job, to travel, to do business."

Others expressed concerns over the gigantic leap for the European Union, on a day when western states, except for current EU president Ireland and Germany, were barely celebrating at all.

"I don't think that there will be a sudden change for us," said Jan Loukota, a 28-year-old electrical engineer in Prague, alluding to fears of an influx of low-skilled workers from the poor east to the prosperous west after May 1 that have led virtually every western country to slap restrictions on incoming workers.

The Czech Republic is one of the 10 nations joining the EU along with Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.

Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla told reporters that the enlargement marks "the definitive end of the Soviet communist bloc... the final change in the Czech Republic's geopolitical position."

In Poland, former president and Solidarity trade union leader Lech Walesa described his country's entry into the EU as a dream come true.

"I fought for our country to recover everything it lost under communism and the Soviets... and now my struggle is over. My ship has come to port," Walesa was quoted as saying in the Zycie Warszawy newspaper

Good or bad thing?

 

[Avatar4321]

That depends on what happens from this point on. I honestly dont know.

 

[OCA]

In Cyprus, I know a lot of Greek Cypriots, they are pretty excited. They think its gonna bring more attention to their illegal occupation of half the island by the Turks. Nothing is going to happen though, they just don't have anything to barter with.

 

[Comrade]

Originally posted by insein
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/040430/1/3jwxl.html

Good or bad thing?

Bad thing for the US and capitalism overall, as long as the EU is led by socialist governments.

An extremely bad thing so far as Europe continues to see an influx of immigrants and high birth rates among Islamic non-conformists.

And a nightmare as a long as policies against America develop into a need for a seperate military force apart from US cooperation.

 

[OCA]

Originally posted by Comrade
Bad thing for the US and capitalism overall, as long as the EU is led by socialist governments.

An extremely bad thing so far as Europe continues to see an influx of immigrants and high birth rates among Islamic non-conformists.

And a nightmare as a long as policies against America develop into a need for a seperate military force apart from US cooperation.

I can't speak for other countries but us Greeks just booted the socialists out on their asses and we are part of the EU so maybe there is hope yet. I'll tell you the worst thing about the EU is the Euro. Used to be you could go to Europe and the dollar was REAL strong, now the Euro is worth more than the dollar and we lose money there. Sucks.

 

[NewGuy]

There are only 2 choices real soon:

The chip, or the gillotine.

And the rider with the bow is amassing his kingdom. If you just watch the events and do nothing, you will not like the end result.

 

[Avatar4321]

Originally posted by NewGuy
There are only 2 choices real soon:

The chip, or the gillotine.

And the rider with the bow is amassing his kingdom. If you just watch the events and do nothing, you will not like the end result.

Can you translate this into English? You know something someone who doesnt have psychic ability to understand what you mean?

 

[NewGuy]

Then, in the King's English:
(Note the BOLD and asterisk as relevant in this discussion in regard to my statement, although everything is required for context.

Revelation chapter 13
King James Version
*1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
*2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
*4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
*6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
*7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
*8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
*9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
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.

 

[OCA]

Originally posted by NewGuy
There are only 2 choices real soon:

The chip, or the gillotine.

And the rider with the bow is amassing his kingdom. If you just watch the events and do nothing, you will not like the end result.

I haven't even gotten past this post and i'm sure somebody asked what you were talking about. REVELATION! Its gonna happen, not a damn thing we can do about it. The Euro and the EU are clear signs of prophecy coming true.

Hell I though that Clinton was and maybe still is the anti-christ. Somebody check the back of his head for 666 please.

 

[rtwngAvngr]

I have to agree with oca, these countries which were destroyed by the communists are going to be a force for free markets and nonsocialism, freedom I guess it's called. They lived under the full ugly fruition of seemingly innocuous liberal thinking, they will not let it happen again, at least not for 3 or four more generations.

 

[NewGuy]

In the prophecy, the antichrist MUST come from the "revived" roman empire. Also, the beast's heads and horns and crowns represent the kings of nations, and the lands that the home territory sits on.

Ultimately, the geography is Rome, and it is the EU in it's entirety. The question is, : Who does the EU end up being under the authority of at the time they make the 7 year treaty with Israel?