The commander in chief of the United States armed forces recieved today the Nobel peace medal and man-of-peace certficiate in Oslo. Must be a joke, you would say.

Well, it does sound like a joke, or at least, sounds like a bizarr news item in ight of last weeks news: The man just sent 30,000 more US soldiers to Afghanistan, bringing total number of the occupation force there to 100,000 man and woman. The winnr also managed to persuade other countries to send troops there, raising another 10,000 soldeirs in a week. He could easily qualify for getting the prize of best worrior:

He is the commander in chief of yet another war, down in Iraq, waged and perpetrated based on lies and propoganda about weapons of "mass destruction" that were never found until this day. That other war has resulted so far in the destruction en mass of the lives of millions of people.

With the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty by all members of the European Union, Europe is moving one big step ahead along its integration path, or what could better be called the  process of "European sneaky federalism". 

Europe has a president for the Council, and has  a high representative for foreign and security policy. Congratulations!

There might be lots of debate about what these labels actually cover, as well as to the cons and pros of such new positions, and JungleLaw intends to survey this debate soon. However, before one gets to evaluating the posts themselves, we have to pause a bit and notice the way these figures were put in place, because it is  indeed very distrubing, to say the least.

You may observe that they were not elected by the peoples of Europe. Neither was the president of the EU comission, nor any of the judges sitting on the all powerful European Court of Justice. Same goes for the president of the European Central Bank. That is to say, non of the officials of new Europe were ever elected by the citizenship. They were all selected.