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'Zeus-like' van Rompuy kidnapping our democracy - Nigel Farage MEP

— ► European Parliament, Brussels - 07 April 2010

► Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, UKIP, Co-President of the EFD group.

► Debate: Outcome of the March 25-26 EU Summit

President of the EU Council Herman Van Rompuy replies to MEPs' statements
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► Credits:

Video: EbS - European Parliament

Music:
Intro from 'Resistance', by Muse
Ending from 'Red Army is the Strongest', by the Soviet Red Army Choir.
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FULL TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH:

We're in the presence of a great man today, the president of Europe, a man who is so important he is beyond criticism, beyond reproach, he is the king of the modern political class, he is the modern day Zeus, and he intends to rule us from Mt Berlaymont and woe betide anybody that questions his authority or questions his dignity or they will face severe punishment. Indeed, in my case the last time we met and I had one or two things to say the parliament imposed the maximum possible fine, and I'm told if I say anything that upsets you the microphone will be cut off. Well, what price free speech, what price democracy?

But you've come back to us today, and now with the approval of Mr Sarkozy and Angela Merkel you're the head of a new economic government for 500 million people. And you've launched your 10-year plan, your wish list, and I just wonder, have you remembered what happened to the last 10-year plan, that was launched in 2000? It was launched in this parliament to much acclaim, it was a total and utter crippling failure even before the global recession hit. And in fact, all centralised EU plans fail: just look at the disasterous, ruinous Common Fisheries Policy. And now, your beloved euro has failed. It's failed politically at its first major hurdle, you weren't able to come up with a plan at that summit, you can't bail out Greece without the International Monetary Fund coming in to save, at least for the moment, your euro dream. And yet, Mr van Rompuy, your plans seems to be 'we're losing, we're failing, let's have more of the same, let's have more Europe, let's have more failure'.

But what really matters is the loss of democracy here. You have not been elected. You are not accountable, there is no mechanism for the peoples of Europe to remove you. It was Zeus of course that kidnapped Europa, my fear is you are kidnapping our democracy. You are only here because that Lisbon Treaty went through, without the British people being given the referendum that they were promised, and as far as we are concerned, this is unfinished business. People fought and died so that we could be an independent, self-governing, democratic nation that was able to hire and fire its leaders, and no-one that believes in democracy will accept the post of President of the European Union. Thank you.









► Nicolas Sarkozy, President in Office of the European Council (Jul-Dec 2008) visits the European Parliament (Strasbourg) on 10 July 2008. He is taken on by Nigel Farage MEP, UKIP leader and Co-President of the Independence/Democracy (IND/DEM) group.
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Credits:
- Hemicycle scenes: Audio Visual, European Parliament
- Music: Cornerstone - From "El Morro": Undefeated, Rebirth; From "Air Lyndhurt": Illuminati; Mystic Baltic
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Note on the rejected EU Constitution and Lisbon Treaty:

The people of France and the Netherlands rejected the proposed EU constitution in the 2005 referendums. Since all 27 Member States are required to ratify, the Constitution was dead, but this took a long time to sink in. After this, other countries cancelled a promised referendum and the EU Constitution was re-written as an "amending treaty" or a "reform treaty" and named "Treaty of Lisbon".

On the basis of this deceit, they claimed that no referendums are necessary on the Lisbon Treaty. Ireland was constitutionally required to hold a referendum and on the 12 June 2008 the people of Ireland gave a resounding No to Lisbon. Yet this vote is not being respected and the rule of law is being ignored. The EU leaders agreed at the June 19-20 EU Summit that ratifications must go on. Moreover, 26 Member States are being denied a referendum.

The Lisbon Treaty establishes a new "European Union" with joint citizenship - an EU "federal" State that is technically and politically empowered to centralize more power in Brussels. The treaty also stipulates the militarisation of the Union in order to 'police the world' just like the US does today.
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To view the Political Groups in the European Parliament go to: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members...









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► European Parliament, Strasbourg;
16 December 2008

Nigel Farage raises the issue of the verbal attacks on Czech President Vaclav Klaus on 5 December 2008 at the Prague meeting with the European Parliament's "Conference of Presidents".

For excerpts from the transcript please go to this link (pdf): http://www.maltafly.com/archive/image...

On Klaus' website, in Czech: http://www.klaus.cz/klaus2/asp/clanek...

Appearances on this video:
(following sequence of actual debate)
- Inititial short shots of the Presidents of the EPP, PES, ALDE, Greens, UEN, GUE, respectively: Joseph Daul, Martin Schulz, Graham Watson, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Cristiana Muscardini, Francis Wurtz.
- Nigel Farage (IND/DEM)
- Hans-Gert Pottering (President of the European Parliament)
- Martin Schulz (PES)
- Hans-Gert Pottering
- Nicolas Sarkozy (French President holding EU Council presidency)
- Jose Manuel Barroso (President of the EU Commission)
- Hans-Gert Pottering
- Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou (acting Chair)
- Nigel Farage
- Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou
- Martin Schulz
- Nigel Farage

NOTE: Translations into English are based on live EP interpretation
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Sources:
Video - European Parliament Audio Visual Library
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For those of you who have asked, Nigel spoke a few moments before Daniel Hannan lambasted Gordon Brown.


This is the transcript:

Mr President, the Prime Minister has received some criticism this afternoon for his comment British jobs for British workers, but you can brush that aside, because from the moment he said it I do not think anybody seriously thought that he would ever, as a British Prime Minister, put the interests of British workers above that of his European dream. My goodness me, you showed that this afternoon, Prime Minister.
It is just a pity that, apart from UKIP, virtually nobody seems to have bothered to turn up to listen to you. You are very popular here. You are very popular indeed because within a few days of the Irish saying no to the Lisbon Treaty, you had rammed that Treaty through the British Parliament, breaking a specific manifesto pledge that you would give the British people a referendum on the Constitutional Treaty.
Shame on you, Prime Minister, for doing that. You have devalued democracy in our country; you have devalued the trust that voters put in you as a British Prime Minister. Of course, we know the reason why. The reason why is that we would have voted no. You said in your speech that none but those on the extremes oppose European Union. Well, that may be right amongst professional career politicians, but a clear majority of the British people want us to have friendship and free trade with the European Union, but do not want to be members of this political Union.
You cannot continue to build this European Union against public opinion. If you do it against the will of the people, you are storing up enormous social and political problems for the future. Please let the peoples of Europe decide their destiny. Do not have it done in parliaments like this and parliaments like Westminster. It will not work!
As far as the economy is concerned, you have told us that somehow you are the economic guru; you are the man who can save the world. Well, I remember very well your first big act as Chancellor when you sold 400 metric tonnes of gold on the worlds exchanges at USD 275 an ounce. At todays valuation, that would be USD 10 billion higher. It was not just the fact that you got it wrong, because we can all get it wrong. It was the fact that you announced in advance how much you were going to sell and on what day you were going to sell it. It was an error so basic that the average A-level economics student even in these educationally devalued times would not have done this. To add to that, you have destroyed our private pension system, and you took away from the Bank of England its ability to regulate the banks and gave it to the tick-box bureaucrats of the FSA in Canary Wharf.
We have not heard an apology. Your Government has apologised for the Amritsar massacre; you have apologised for slavery; you have apologised for virtually everything. Will you please apologise for what you did as British Chancellor, and then perhaps we might just listen to you?










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It is the last plenary session before the European elections, 4-7 June 2009, and UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP gives another lesson in Democracy. The parliament's president, Hans-Gert Pöttering reacts by pointing out that the fact Mr Farage "can give such a speech shows that this is a free and democratic European Parliament."

Kudos to Hans-Gert for having reached thus far in his understanding of democracy, but he needs more lessons.







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桃源谷『大牛埔』生態調查影像紀錄

羅東社區大學蘭陽山川生態社
民國99年4月4日
桃源谷『大牛埔』生態調查影像紀錄



摘要：
桃源谷昔稱「綑牛仔山」『大牛埔』，早期農閒時候，孩童放牧與嬉戲之地。桃源谷讓你置身世外的安詳與寧靜，幾戶人家，炊煙裊裊、雞犬相聞的景象，一趟走下來，必能印象深刻，回味無窮。 這片海拔500公尺的青草坡，傾斜將近30度， 坡面上的綠草，迤邐延伸三、四公里。草原上可西眺三貂嶺，東望太平洋；北邊福隆山嶐嶐嶺南接雪山山脈蘭陽五岳，站在分水嶺最高點，遠眺蘭陽平原及龜山島，徐徐海風拂面，令人俗慮全消，山海交錯，人煙渺遠，宛如置身世外的天堂仙境。
壹、緣由：
桃源谷步道共分為大溪線、草嶺線、石觀音線及內寮線等四條，全長總計14.5公里，其四條步道的匯聚地即為桃源谷。
桃源谷為面積達十餘公頃之大草原，地理上具有山勢一側陡峭、一側平緩之「單面山」特色，秀麗清朗的景致，成為東北角熱門的登山路線，草原週邊遍佈金毛杜鵑，台灣百合
適逢春季，花開鳥鳴，詩情畫意。遊探桃源谷，堪稱為不虛此行。
貮、活動目標：
1.引導羅東社區大學蘭陽山川生態社影像紀錄桃源谷大草原生態。
2.觀察東北角海岸等地區之生態資源、土石緩滑地質景觀。
3. 影像紀錄、「綑牛仔山」『大牛埔』人文史 蹟及訪談技巧。
4.激發社團的鄉土情懷進而珍惜愛護鄉土。
5. 培養社團運作及互助合作的精神。
參、活動地點概述﹕
一、桃源谷　位於雪山山脈主脊北段的灣坑頭山西稜與內寮山之間，海拔555公尺
二、灣坑頭山　灣坑頭山位於東北角貢寮鄉與宜蘭頭城鎮的界稜上，與內寮山連稜，兩山之間既是桃源谷寬廣的大草原。灣坑頭山東邊山勢宏偉突出，陡峭峻拔，而西面的山嶺則平緩斜伸，視野極佳，山稜東北邊下降於桶盤堀尖山，兩山之間的鞍部，即是草嶺古道的嶺頂。


三、蕃薯寮山　海拔456公尺，循著桃源谷草原大溪線續行，便會來到蕃薯寮山。由於步道的建設，蕃薯寮山基點曾移動且架高置放，特別突出。於頂上回望仍可見到桃源谷大草原的美景。
四、大溪漁港　：
聞名全省現撈海鮮，肥美好吃，每到傍晚漁船進港時，漁民們搬運到港岸上整理，並進行拍賣，假日魚貨交易因應而生。漁港主要漁貨以「金鉤蝦」、紅目蓮、鰻魚、硬尾魚、白帶魚，肉魚、小管、螃蟹、白北、赤宗等魚貨，因種類較多而能提供遊客多樣化的選擇。



肆、活動前準備事項﹕
1.出發前詳細研究相關的資料，以便影像紀錄。
2.事先搜集相關資料，以利影像紀錄進行
3. 黃武雄「學校在窗外」教學的真正意義，釋放社團視野、重建屬於在地的世界觀。
4.事先了解活動的流程，分組分工所進行影像紀錄的方式。
伍、注意事項﹕
1.活動之前，分組分工請將攜帶物品準備齊全。
2. 活動組活動之前，交通工具聯繫宜事先準備。
3.總務組統計實際參與人數辦妥保險。
4. 攝影紀錄發表組：電池充電、記憶卡備份準備齊全。
5. 山區氣候多變，應備雨具和禦寒衣物。
6. 為維護自然景觀、環境整潔及公共設施、請勿採取花木、
岩石或任意引火燃燒、拋棄果皮、紙屑或破壞古蹟、稀有
動物。
陸、活動當天攜帶物品﹕
1.生活方面
◎點心及午餐 ◎水壺 ◎休閒服
◎手帕衛生紙 ◎帽子 ◎零錢
2.活動方面
◎羅盤 ◎記錄本 ◎原子筆
◎彩色筆 ◎雨衣、雨傘 ◎小背包
3.自由攜帶
◎攝影裝備 ◎望遠鏡 ◎桃源谷導覽圖

柒、2010/４/４桃源谷生態調查影像紀錄
活動行程表﹕（活動組：楊錦裁、謝品中、張清標詢問規劃設計）
一、老弱婦儒：由內寮線開車上山
二、火車：
北迴線於大里下車，回程大溪站。
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-- 蘇澳 至 樹林 冬山０７：０９ 羅東07:15 宜蘭０７：２７大里08０１ ４８分 每日行駛


程序 時間分配 活動綱要 附 註
1 7﹕00～7﹕10 整隊出發
2 7﹕15～ 8﹕０1 車上活動
3 8﹕０1～10﹕10 下車進入登山口
4 10﹕10～1２﹕30灣坑頭山.自然探索沿途介紹景觀
5 1２﹕30～1４﹕00 桃源谷生態調查影像紀錄
6 1４﹕00～16﹕3０石觀音寺山海之美觀賞
7 16﹕3０～１7：２０大溪漁港
８ １7：３３快樂賦歸 溫暖的家

捌、 活動記錄
發表於peopo公民新聞

羅東社區大學蘭陽山川生態社

http://www.peopo.org/portal.php?op=viewPost&articleId=53805

影像紀錄。

我的老寶貝

http://media.peopo.org/fullscreen.htm?v=582b0559&auto=true



很多人都很怕老，尤其在台灣，只要提到老人照顧，大家想到的不是外籍看護就是養老院，似乎只把老人當病人或是需要被照顧的人來看待。不過，有一個人很不一樣，她叫做林依瑩。林依瑩長期從事老人服務，經常帶老人四處趴趴走，還組成台灣第一支不老騎士隊，帶著一群八十幾歲的老人騎摩托車環島。林依瑩在社區裡推廣銀髮運動班以及幫銀髮族送便當，要老人家過得健康快樂而且有尊嚴。記者張筱瑩、羅盛達的報導。

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