Tory & Labour policies just different bits of EU General programme “Solidarity and Management of Migration Flows” http://tinyurl.com/yfdb3cg

RT: @PJCJournal: European Citizens Initiative: http://wp.me/pETjd-o4 #democracy

RT: @PJCJournal: The 3 Amigos & the deficit: http://wp.me/pETjd-nZ #askthechancellors

RT: @PJCJournal: Wikileaks under attack again: http://wp.me/pETjd-nU

RT: @IanPJ: LBMA OTC Gold market cited as a Ponzi scheme in CFTC hearings http://tinyurl.com/ylrx7cn Who dare print?

RT: @PJCJournal: Does Communitarianism make sense?: http://wp.me/pETjd-nN

Full text of the Ashton proposal establishing the organisation and functioning of the EEAS. http://tinyurl.com/yerc47q

Explanatory Memorandum on the legal basis for Baroness Ashtons job and her role in setting up the EEAS. http://tinyurl.com/ybn2os2

RT: @WitteringWitney: Cameron – Poodle on Brussels leash! Woof! Woof! http://bit.ly/d259tk

Stasi meets the KGB in new EUSSR. Europol is given KGB/STASI powers, with or without proof. Who voted for this? http://tinyurl.com/y85av9r

Jim Allister Traditional Unionist PPC North Antrim has signed pledge for EU referendum. http://tinyurl.com/ydv4onr

Ashton strikes deal on EU diplomatic corps. Unelected with more power, more money. http://tinyurl.com/y8782xy

Application of Lisbon Treaty: Commission’s exercise of implementing powers http://tinyurl.com/yfswpk2 #euvote

European Commission prepares new negotiations with US on transfer of bank data for ‘counter-terrorism’ purposes http://tinyurl.com/yg45flt

This is a personal post by James Higham.  Your are welcome to put your own views on this blog or to comment on these:

If you had any doubts about EU defence intentions, commissioned EUISS report recommendations are in ‘What Ambitions for European Defence in 2020?’ [H/T Calling England and IPJ] Some recommendations:

To avoid “global systemic collapse”, the document suggests that the “full spectrum of high intensity combat” be used to protect what is called “globalisers” from “localisers”. Localisers, (making up 80% of the world population) include the “bottom billion”, states in the Middle East and the so-called “Alienated Modern States” like North Korea.

Globalisers include not only members of the OECD and “Rapid Transition Societies” like China and Brazil, but also “Transnational Corporations”—the “Fortune Global 1000″.

The paper discusses “barrier operations shielding the global rich from the tensions and problems of the poor”. “As the ratio of the world population living in misery and frustration will remain massive, the tensions and spillover between their world and that of the rich will continue to grow. As we are unlikely to have solved this problem at its root by 2020 – i.e. by curing dysfunctional societies, we will need to strengthen our barriers. It is a morally distasteful, losing strategy, but will be unavoidable if we cannot solve the problems at their root.”

Horse’s mouth.

Meanwhile, the rump of what was our national parliament who are doing some window dressing elections on May 6th and who do a pretend budget today are also honouring their obligations to former partner the US:

Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.

The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government signed a contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island. According to a cargo manifest from the US navy, this included 387 “Blu” bombs used for blasting hardened or underground structures.

Experts say that they are being put in place for an assault on Iran’s controversial nuclear facilities. There has long been speculation that the US military is preparing for such an attack, should diplomacy fail to persuade Iran not to make nuclear weapons.

Although Diego Garcia is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, it is used by the US as a military base under an agreement made in 1971. The agreement led to 2,000 native islanders being forcibly evicted to the Seychelles and Mauritius.

The Sunday Herald reported in 2007 that stealth bomber hangers on the island were being equipped to take bunker-buster bombs.

Isn’t that nice? So, a two-tier society plus war by any means soon.

In other news, there is a stitch-up over an EU parliamentary spending coverup, while the EU dithers over Greece because of a national spanner in the works, national public opinion being savagely against it and so they’re turning it into a recommendation for EU audits of national accounts, the IEA reports that this spanner is resulting in a conflict between the EU attempt to centralize planning over national economies but that this will conflict with the national SGPs:

Firstly, the EU 2020 strategy is likely to conflict with the Stability and Growth Pact. Countries may face the choice of whether to fulfil the EU 2020 strategy by increasing public spending or to fulfil the Stability and Growth Pact by reducing public spending. In my opinion, the Stability and Growth Pact should and will have priority after the Greek disaster.

Plus Eurogendfor is very much on the cards for Greece.

Klaus spoke yesterday to the European Parliament, ” advocating a free market economy and criticizing the socialist European Parliament”,the foreign press is picking up on EU attempts to control who reports on it,the Tories, courtesy of Cameron-Clarke, are now in bed with the EU coming up to the general election [discussed here].

On the other hand, two pdfs here and here show thinktank recommendations to control the use of surveillance and to issue guidelines for same [watch where these recommendations end up].

Conclusion

EU 2020 is the new buzzword to envelope and move on from Lisbon and the moves are all as we have predicted, transparently so [the gloves are off] and still, still, national leaders of all but the horribly disorganized UKIP are happy to go along with the EU, despite all evidence as to its immediate and immense danger for our right of national self-determination [deliberate self-blinkering?]

No one is standing up for you but UKIP and they are so out of it just now that one despairs. This show-election will go through and then the real fight will begin. The resistance is springing up all over the place – the Jury Team is the latest and well done to them, every little bit helps but they’re getting the same treatment that the Albion Alliance is getting. Some sections of the MSM are getting onboard but the rest continue to flatly ignore it.

It’s getting close to the point where we’ll have to start supporting the American movement too and they us [this latter being the $64 000 question - whether they care about the former UK in the least].

Judging by visits from parliament and other interested bodies to the AA, [our databse was gone over last evening in fine detail], they’re beginning to understand what we are about and where we’re headed, seemingly unconcerned about outward signs of success but a lot going on all the same behind the scenes.

Let the battle continue. Finally, today:

Darling to hit middle classes with ‘stealth tax’

James Higham at nourishing obscurity

John Mander UKIP PPC Westmorland and Lonsdale signs pledge for EU referendum. http://tinyurl.com/ylp5wv8

New Albion Alliance blog: The Albion Alliance March Newsletter. http://tinyurl.com/yzg2p3a

Here we go with the March edition of the Albion Alliance Newsletter, and I do apologise for the late distribution of this as I needed to take some time out to recharge the batteries.

A campaign such as the Albion Alliance is always going to be a bit like an iceberg – the visible part is small but there is a lot going on under the water. However, unlike an iceberg we are not just drifting, but carefully aiming our campaign where we think it will have the most impact, and impact it certainly has had. It is quite clear that those in power as well as the public are watching, listening and taking note, with the campaign being read and acted upon by many.

The main web page and candidate database is constantly being monitored by the big party organisations, with regular visits from amongst others the Labour Party, CCHQ, Cooperative Party, Parliament, European Commission, European Parliament, The Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, Sky News and The Guardian along with literally hundreds of visits from Universities across the UK as well as the public visiting to view the status of their candidates.

One of the biggest impacts that we have seen thus far is that we have been made aware, by candidates, that CCHQ have issued an instruction to all Conservative Candidates not to correspond with us, or if they do then there is a template giving the party line that must be used, and is used consistently. That instruction also indicates that candidates will be deselected if conservative candidates sign the Albion Alliance pledge. It would seem that this party at least is running scared of open debate on the EU, and have apparently also given instructions to TV companies not to include the subject in any forthcoming debates in the run up to the election.

We felt that this level of micro management of candidates over such an important election issue is something that is probably unacceptable to voters, so in order to counter that CCHQ instruction we have added a facility for candidates (of any party) to sign the pledge in secret, where the names of secret pledge candidates will not be released until after the nomination process with returning officers are closed. This is proving to be a popular move.

With the election drawing ever closer, we now feel that it is time to widen the debate. In order to facilitate that we have decided that one of our moves is to launch our own dedicated Albion Alliance blog (http://blog.albionalliance.org.uk/), so that issues relating to the EU, our membership of it and its impact on life in the UK can be brought up and discussed, openly.

Whilst the administration committee will be making regular posts on this new blog, we are also going to open it up to guest posters. This may be from those who already blog elsewhere or from members of the public who have never published their thoughts before and would like an outlet.

The Albion Alliance hope that the provision of this blogging facility will promote debate, awareness and the general exchange of ideas and political viewpoints surrounding UK membership of the EU. Posts for submission do not necessarily have to be purely on the European Union or the need for/against a referendum, but ideally they will link to both those two subjects. You may wish to write about your experiences in getting your candidate to sign up to the Albion Alliance pledge, or how EU laws, regulations or directives impact on your life or even how you envisage the UK working in a de-regulated world.

The only thing we ask is that posts remain polite, do not contain profanities or anything which could be construed as personally defamatory, libellous or racist (sometimes difficult we know), but subject to that criteria it will be published as written.  Anything which we feel may cross the outline above we will contact the author with suggested changes, and all posts will be open to comments for which the same criteria will apply. Albion Alliance retain all editorial rights at all times.

If you would like to submit a post for publication, please send your draft to blogposts@albionalliance.org.uk

Now to things more mundane. The bulk of our activities are and always will be correspondence based and technical updates, with the major task at this moment keeping the candidate database up to date, and that’s not easy. In this we again look for your help. If you look at your constituency in the database and know there are candidates who are either missing or shouldn’t be there, or any of the details are incorrect, please let us know on media@albionalliance.org.uk and we will amend the relevant entries. Let me thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

Whilst the main thrust of the Albion Alliance campaign is to get the agreement of candidates to sign the pledge BEFORE they are elected, where do we see the Albion Alliance going after the election.

We think that it is going to become starkly relevant to people after the election, when the EU really starts to grip combined with the traditionally lean fiscal quarters meeting the general post-recession politics then this campaign will become more the focus than pre-election. It will become more apparent of the need for us to have an immediate say in where we plan to go as a country, socially and politically.

This is where the Albion Alliance will really have its work cut out to keep up the pressure to give us a say in our future, and again a change in campaign strategy, but for now, please, we ask you to keep an eye on your constituencies, write to or phone your candidates, put as much pressure on them as possible to sign up to the pledge, and if you are a blogger keep up the articles, as this is after all, a basic question of democracy.

Thank you all for your support.

The Team at The Albion Alliance