Comments for Danubian ironies http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova Lucia Virostkova is a Slovak journalist, based in Bratislava. She previously wrote for EUobserver and Slovak media on the EU affairs in Brussels. Her blog looks into reactions of ordinary people and national politicians to issues raised and tackled by EU institutions. Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:28:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Monkeys blow Europe ahead of Slovak vote by skinner http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/2012/03/05/monkeys-blow-europe-ahead-of-slovak-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-252 skinner Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:28:40 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/?p=35#comment-252 What is missing: Robert Fico expected to become the new PM was in case fo Gorila mentioned more frequently than anyone else (drinking cola)... Slovaks have a very difficult choice which party to vote for. Old politicians all have somethin "filthy" in common and the new are mostly products of good marketing and promotion. The only trustworthy person/PM was publicly executed by Sulik in collaboration with her own party-mates. So, what is to expect next in Slovakia? New PM will have to cut down on budget expenses and raise taxes what is not usual for left wing politics. Maybe next year Greece (and other EU members) will have to vote for (or against) bailout of Slovakia. But that is how democracy works... What is missing: Robert Fico expected to become the new PM was in case fo Gorila mentioned more frequently than anyone else (drinking cola)…
Slovaks have a very difficult choice which party to vote for. Old politicians all have somethin “filthy” in common and the new are mostly products of good marketing and promotion. The only trustworthy person/PM was publicly executed by Sulik in collaboration with her own party-mates.
So, what is to expect next in Slovakia? New PM will have to cut down on budget expenses and raise taxes what is not usual for left wing politics.
Maybe next year Greece (and other EU members) will have to vote for (or against) bailout of Slovakia. But that is how democracy works…

]]> Comment on Monkeys blow Europe ahead of Slovak vote by Miki Cernak http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/2012/03/05/monkeys-blow-europe-ahead-of-slovak-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-243 Miki Cernak Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:13:06 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/?p=35#comment-243 In many ways things are not so easy as they are apear by this blog. Reality in Slovakia is similar with situation world wide and Generation X. Generation X upgraded hardware from black and white screen to full collor wide 3D. There always had been 2 worlds in society which were smoothly overlied . But this world has deep hollow between them. Young Slovaks, and rest of the world genX, killed the Leviathan. Slovaks are people of the world. With strong communities in North America, all over Europe, even in Central and South America. With this is comming knowledge of languages and experiences. What is most common for genX is internet reformation. Guys like Fico, Christian Democrats, Dzurinda are supported by different groups: 1,Oportunists and their circles 2, Grannys democrats. GenX see things different. What worked in the 20th century does NOT work in the 21st – mostly due to what we call the Internet Reformation. Everything that central bankers did to enrich their cronies in the 20th century has been exposed on the Internet in the 21st. Challenges to capitalism via armed force or elections have repeatedly been tried and failed. It is time for systematic use of nonviolent action to challenge capitalism and build alternatives to it. A comprehensive nonviolent strategy involves nonviolent methods to move towards economic and social alternatives that do not rely on systems of violence. Capitalism is responsible for an enormous level of death, suffering and wasted human potential, including everything from impoverishment of Third World peoples to boredom in factory jobs Capitalism is sustained largely by support and acquiescence rather than force. When large numbers of people break the law, police and military enforcement can be futile or counterproductive. The fact is that most people go along with the system, even those who oppose it. The challenge is to develop a strategy that undermines beliefs in capitalism and creates momentum to bring about an ever-expanding challenge. This is a very difficult challenge. Capitalism has shown a remarkable capacity to coopt its critics, for example in the use of the rhetoric of 'revolution' in advertising. Apple Computers has used the image of Gandhi spinning khadi as an advertising angle, turning Gandhi's opposition to western-style industrialism into a corporate pitch for an opposite direction. What Schultz get lately from Sulik is just scratching the surface. The study in Czech republic shows, that Czech republic is short 200 bilion Crowns doing business with EU. All Eastern and Southern Europe would looks the same. http://machpetrmach.blog.idnes.cz/c/248535/Evropska-unie-nas-stoji-rocne-asi-200-miliard.html By statistix Slovakia has 60% of productivity of Denmark, but only 17% of income. Where money goes? EU and USA loox similar but they ain't. Federal governement in US is collecting taxes, but then about lots of things in country as federal government. What happened here is that those named corrupted politicians like Radicova,Dzurinda and Miklos, member of nazi member prince Bernhardt founded Bilderberg group, sold Slovaks to the West in exchange for feaudal privileges. In chess vocabulary they exposed defense to ruthles German corporations who are taking wheap and leaving bitterness for Slovaks. Mathematically GenX will take over the world by 2020. The brutal critical critical mass is gonna be achieved and GenX is gonna be everywhere:police, military, business, politics. We have to follow methods of Fabian Society:Non Violent- persuade-steadily...if you read between his lines and then look around you at the different generations, you will see that a revolution is brewing. But it is not brewing between democratic and totalitarian regimes. It is between generations. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-goulston-md/the-gen-x-global-revoluti_b_939658.html We will try to change regime early, but The greatest show on the planet earth is just on the way. It is comming like a fog into The City. In many ways things are not so easy as they are apear by this blog. Reality in Slovakia is similar with situation world wide and Generation X. Generation X upgraded hardware from black and white screen to full collor wide 3D. There always had been 2 worlds in society which were smoothly overlied . But this world has deep hollow between them. Young Slovaks, and rest of the world genX, killed the Leviathan. Slovaks are people of the world. With strong communities in North America, all over Europe, even in Central and South America. With this is comming knowledge of languages and experiences. What is most common for genX is internet reformation. Guys like Fico, Christian Democrats, Dzurinda are supported by different groups: 1,Oportunists and their circles 2, Grannys democrats.
GenX see things different. What worked in the 20th century does NOT work in the 21st – mostly due to what we call the Internet Reformation. Everything that central bankers did to enrich their cronies in the 20th century has been exposed on the Internet in the 21st.
Challenges to capitalism via armed force or elections have repeatedly been tried and failed. It is time for systematic use of nonviolent action to challenge capitalism and build alternatives to it. A comprehensive nonviolent strategy involves nonviolent methods to move towards economic and social alternatives that do not rely on systems of violence.

Capitalism is responsible for an enormous level of death, suffering and wasted human potential, including everything from impoverishment of Third World peoples to boredom in factory jobs
Capitalism is sustained largely by support and acquiescence rather than force. When large numbers of people break the law, police and military enforcement can be futile or counterproductive. The fact is that most people go along with the system, even those who oppose it. The challenge is to develop a strategy that undermines beliefs in capitalism and creates momentum to bring about an ever-expanding challenge.

This is a very difficult challenge. Capitalism has shown a remarkable capacity to coopt its critics, for example in the use of the rhetoric of ‘revolution’ in advertising. Apple Computers has used the image of Gandhi spinning khadi as an advertising angle, turning Gandhi’s opposition to western-style industrialism into a corporate pitch for an opposite direction.

What Schultz get lately from Sulik is just scratching the surface. The study in Czech republic shows, that Czech republic is short 200 bilion Crowns doing business with EU. All Eastern and Southern Europe would looks the same.
http://machpetrmach.blog.idnes.cz/c/248535/Evropska-unie-nas-stoji-rocne-asi-200-miliard.html
By statistix Slovakia has 60% of productivity of Denmark, but only 17% of income.
Where money goes? EU and USA loox similar but they ain’t. Federal governement in US is collecting taxes, but then about lots of things in country as federal government. What happened here is that those named corrupted politicians like Radicova,Dzurinda and Miklos, member of nazi member prince Bernhardt founded Bilderberg group, sold Slovaks to the West in exchange for feaudal privileges.
In chess vocabulary they exposed defense to ruthles German corporations who are taking wheap and leaving bitterness for Slovaks.
Mathematically GenX will take over the world by 2020. The brutal critical critical mass is gonna be achieved and GenX is gonna be everywhere:police, military, business, politics.
We have to follow methods of Fabian Society:Non Violent- persuade-steadily…if you read between his lines and then look around you at the different generations, you will see that a revolution is brewing. But it is not brewing between democratic and totalitarian regimes. It is between generations.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-goulston-md/the-gen-x-global-revoluti_b_939658.html
We will try to change regime early, but The greatest show on the planet earth is just on the way. It is comming like a fog into The City.

]]> Comment on Slovakia’s price for EU bail-out fund by Katina http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/2011/10/12/slovakia%e2%80%99s-price-for-eu-bail-out-fund/comment-page-1/#comment-238 Katina Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:19:50 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/?p=22#comment-238 I would like to express myself on soething really outrageous, which is simply Eurogroup's Presidency. The Finnish PM Mr. Jurki Katainen is persona non grata for the position of the President of Eurogroup.- The Presidency of Eurogroup MUST be given to SOUTH!!! Enough is enough with the dominanve of NORTH!!! People of Europe rise up!!!! I would like to express myself on soething really outrageous, which is simply Eurogroup’s Presidency. The Finnish PM Mr. Jurki Katainen is persona non grata for the position of the President of Eurogroup.- The Presidency of Eurogroup MUST be given to SOUTH!!! Enough is enough with the dominanve of NORTH!!! People of Europe rise up!!!!

]]> Comment on Slovakia’s price for EU bail-out fund by Marek http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/2011/10/12/slovakia%e2%80%99s-price-for-eu-bail-out-fund/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Marek Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:39:18 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/?p=22#comment-21 Lucia, kde si stratila svoju kritickost? Hlavny podiel na situacii maju DE,FR a Prodi, tym ze nerespektovali Pakt stability, pamatam si ako ho Prodi v roku 2003-2004 nazval "stupid pact" a my to teraz mame za nich vyzrat. Preco sa Nemci a Francuzi nevedia dohodnut? Bolo to pisane aj v Sme, Sarkozy chce zachranit svoje banky a prezidentsky urad. Ja osobne som vemi skepticky k pozitivnej ulohe Eurofondov. Pripomina mi to typicke pocinnosti Slovakov napr. v 19. storoci. Pay, pray and obey. Lucia, kde si stratila svoju kritickost? Hlavny podiel na situacii maju DE,FR a Prodi, tym ze nerespektovali Pakt stability, pamatam si ako ho Prodi v roku 2003-2004 nazval “stupid pact” a my to teraz mame za nich vyzrat. Preco sa Nemci a Francuzi nevedia dohodnut? Bolo to pisane aj v Sme, Sarkozy chce zachranit svoje banky a prezidentsky urad. Ja osobne som vemi skepticky k pozitivnej ulohe Eurofondov. Pripomina mi to typicke pocinnosti Slovakov napr. v 19. storoci. Pay, pray and obey.

]]> Comment on Slovakia’s price for EU bail-out fund by Brano http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/2011/10/12/slovakia%e2%80%99s-price-for-eu-bail-out-fund/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Brano Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:38:22 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/?p=22#comment-17 Slovakia was never to block the EU bail-out fund!!! Please have a look at political parties stances on this subject ... the EU bail-out fund has been continuously backed by more than 110 votes (out of 150) long before 11 October 2011. What happened last week was a mere political trap set up by the opposition ... and 1 of the 4 coalition parties acted blindly. Slovakia was never to block the EU bail-out fund!!!

Please have a look at political parties stances on this subject … the EU bail-out fund has been continuously backed by more than 110 votes (out of 150) long before 11 October 2011. What happened last week was a mere political trap set up by the opposition … and 1 of the 4 coalition parties acted blindly.

]]> Comment on Slovakia’s price for EU bail-out fund by Marcel http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/2011/10/12/slovakia%e2%80%99s-price-for-eu-bail-out-fund/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Marcel Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:08:02 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/?p=22#comment-16 Why would anyone want to sign up for the trainwreck that is the wealth-destroying Euro? The Euro was designed by the bankers, for the bankers and against the people. The undemocratic EU does nothing but help transfer our money to their criminal banker friends. Why would anyone want to sign up for the trainwreck that is the wealth-destroying Euro? The Euro was designed by the bankers, for the bankers and against the people.

The undemocratic EU does nothing but help transfer our money to their criminal banker friends.

]]> Comment on Slovakia’s price for EU bail-out fund by Read the source http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/2011/10/12/slovakia%e2%80%99s-price-for-eu-bail-out-fund/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Read the source Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:53:55 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/?p=22#comment-15 Well, at the end of March, the Committee for European Affairs in the Slovak parliament refused to give mandate to the PM Radicova to agree with a permanent bail-out fund. She reacted by signing the change of EFSF anyway... The finance minister declared to the Slovak parliament that the participation of his country in the second bail-out for Greece would not exceed 350 mil. euro. Guess how big is the agreed amount? The original EFSF was agreed only because it was tied to several conditions. What happened with all these conditions meanwhile? Yes, you get it... Now, who has set a very negative example? Breaking the very fundamental rules (deficit ceilings, no bailout clause etc. etc.) - is it a good example? Well, at the end of March, the Committee for European Affairs in the Slovak parliament refused to give mandate to the PM Radicova to agree with a permanent bail-out fund. She reacted by signing the change of EFSF anyway… The finance minister declared to the Slovak parliament that the participation of his country in the second bail-out for Greece would not exceed 350 mil. euro. Guess how big is the agreed amount? The original EFSF was agreed only because it was tied to several conditions. What happened with all these conditions meanwhile? Yes, you get it…
Now, who has set a very negative example? Breaking the very fundamental rules (deficit ceilings, no bailout clause etc. etc.) – is it a good example?

]]> Comment on Slovakia’s price for EU bail-out fund by Jeandesgains http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/2011/10/12/slovakia%e2%80%99s-price-for-eu-bail-out-fund/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Jeandesgains Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:43:54 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/?p=22#comment-13 More on the subject http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111012/ANE/111019964/1198 More on the subject http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111012/ANE/111019964/1198

]]> Comment on Slovakia’s price for EU bail-out fund by Jeandesgains http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/2011/10/12/slovakia%e2%80%99s-price-for-eu-bail-out-fund/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Jeandesgains Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:14:43 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/?p=22#comment-12 Until recently Slovakia was a poor country. It gets a little bit richer when some cars factories were delocalised there. But Slovakian should think about what is happening right now in Romania where Nokia is re-delocalising a factory. Are they so sure western Europe will accept to support them when the wind will (because it will) turn? Until recently Slovakia was a poor country. It gets a little bit richer when some cars factories were delocalised there. But Slovakian should think about what is happening right now in Romania where Nokia is re-delocalising a factory. Are they so sure western Europe will accept to support them when the wind will (because it will) turn?

]]> Comment on Loving Europe in Slovak way by Rado http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/2011/09/28/loving-europe-in-slovak-way/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Rado Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:32:31 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/virostkova/?p=9#comment-9 From an economical view it is possible to go bankrupt, negotiate with your creditor new realistic loan payments, maybe extend payment period, evaluate and cut down your expenses or let the currency devaluate without harming other countries. But as a politician you have to convince your voter to agree on necessary measures as in Greece or in Slovakia that the plan will work not that it makes us co-deptors without cause. From an economical view it is possible to go bankrupt, negotiate with your creditor new realistic loan payments, maybe extend payment period, evaluate and cut down your expenses or let the currency devaluate without harming other countries. But as a politician you have to convince your voter to agree on necessary measures as in Greece or in Slovakia that the plan will work not that it makes us co-deptors without cause.

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