SCOTTISH NATIONALISTS AND EUROSCEPTICS ARE BLOODBROTHERS...

The idea of an independent Scotland is no different than the idea that the UK is not a natural and beneficial member of the European Union.  Both ideas are misguided and mistaken.  Greater integration of commerce, politics and citizenship is desirable.  It is the objective of gobalisation and the integration of humanity into a single, co-operating community.  There is nothing wrong with promoting cultural identity and uniqueness.  Scots can play all the bagpipes and eat all haggis they want.  English Eurosceptics can love Tony Hancock and drink all the tea they desire.  Yet should they want to withdraw from integrated markets, they in their corrupt nostalgic ideology, are returning to the ideas of protectionism and narrow pursuit of national interests that spawned the most destructive cataclysims of the C20th, the world wars.  When times were good we talked of a world economy that delivered prosperity on a fair and moral platform, of integration and shared wealth.  Let us not return to the evils of segregation, nationalism and isolation.  Say no to a return to the fractured state of little Britain, little Scotland, little......

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Gray Dourman

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NATION STATES ARE CORRUPT

Nations states are as corrupt as collaborative alliances.  Corruption and fudging the rules is part and parcel of politics so we just have to challenge when we can and live with it when we can't.  So here is the way I see the emergence of collective human politics and the extinction of the nation state.

I hate to say it, but I have to agree with Sarkozy, the fraud and greed which caused this economic crisis was not overregulation but under-regulation and regulation constrained by national borders.  Had Greece been audited by functioning Euro bureaucracy it never would have got into the Euro in the first place.  It was audited and it balance sheets submitted by a London/NewYork alliance of private interest in the name of Goldman Sachs and KPMG supported by Moodys the very institutions our Mr. Cameron is seeking to protect.  Doesn't he smell just as bad as lying Eurocrats.

1. Globalisation and the interconnection of economies and communications stimulates homogenisation of rules and transactions.  Look at how tax avoidance regimes have been identified and pressured over the past two years.  Within a decade tax avoidance facilitated by national borders with have all but eliminated.

2. At the same time, while macro economy societies emerge diversified micro social societies emerge through communications and specific groupings of interests supported by social networking facilitated through technology.

The outcome: more economic union and more cultural diversity.

We were warned at the beginning of this decade that globalisation would have a price, but it would be a price worth paying.  I am hurting hard through this mess but I believe the hurt will sort itself and the world will emerge more unified and better off as per the distribution of wealth and the quality of life and more diversified where language, music, art and independence of thought are encouraged.  After that we can get on with understanding and putting the Higgs Boson to work.

Gray Dourman

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