Bank of England website admits that British banknotes are fraudulent

The Bank of England's own website seems to admit that banknotes constitute fraud.

The words 'I Promise To Pay The Bearer On Demand The Sum Of...' refers to weight in silver. If you cannot redeem your money for silver, what is it actually worth?

This may seem like an arbitrary point but as they themselves say, since 1931, money has been fiduciary, i.e. a matter of faith.


It says it can be redeemed for silver but in reality it cannot, i.e. a confidence trick.

If you accepted payment for something in vouchers which could be exchanged for chocolate and when you tried to claim your chocolate, you were told that what the voucher says was not true, you'd feel conned, right?

So, why then, do people accept payment in vouchers which cannot be redeemed and which, even as fiduciary money, depreciate in value on a daily basis?

There is no point in demanding economic reform without ending this fraud - it is at the root of everything against which the Occupy Wall Street et al are protesting. There are those in America who are focussing their protests on the Federal Reserve but the Bank of England should also be at the centre of protests in the UK.

It is also significant that the Bank of England's website top level domain is .co.uk rather than .gov.uk indicating that it is a private company, not part of the government.

www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/about/history.htm

The murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher - more lies about Libya

The British media used to have real balls. We had World in Action, Dispatches and John Pilger regularly shaking down the establishment with ground breaking exposés. Even The Sunday Times under the editorship of Harold Evans had a reputation for hard-hitting investigative journalism.

But much has changed in the last couple of decades and journalism the world over has gone soft, frequently acting as quasi public relations officers for governments questionable policies and conquering ventures.

The atrocities which were committed against Libya in the last few months have allowed intelligence agency sponsored prejudices to resurface, the most recent in most minds being that of the release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing - though evidence clearly shows that he was the victim of the most politically expedient and outrageous miscarriage of justice.


Now there are claims that the man responsible for the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher may face justice. However, in April 1996, a Channel Four two part documentary demonstrated that the official version of WPC Yvonne Fletcher's murder in St James Square was completely fallacious and designed to incriminate Libya. The programme shows how the fatal bullet was not from the Sterling sub-machine gun which was fired at anti-Gaddafi demonstrators but another weapon fired from a much higher position. Eleven rapid shots were heard on a video recording yet the police recovered twelve bullets from the scene.


The programme showed how an anti-Gaddafi terrorist cell called Al Burkan (the volcano) with members who had infiltrated the Libyan embassy was backed by the CIA and used to incite international condemnation of Libya and actually sacrifice their own supporters in doing so.


It traces the weapon used in the murder back to Berlin and exposes the whole sordid involvement of the UK and US intelligence services in an oil greedy vendetta against a regime which would not acquiesce to US foreign policy, i.e. neo-colonialism powered by the military industrial complex.


Shame on all those who conspired to perpetrate this lie and shame on all those who perpetuate it now.


This documentary is essential, if uncomfortable, viewing. It is yet another bombshell destroying another part of the official myth about Libya.

The Truth about Libya?

Since the lies which were propagated and perpetuated by the media in the months preceding the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, I have learned to trust little, if anything I read, hear or see.

Prior to the NATO led coup d'etat in Libya, the British media were full of condemnation for Muammar Gaddafi - yet Press TV and RT (Russia Today) were showing huge popular support for him with massive rallies.

Now the country is in ruins and faces a decade or more of rebuilding and a future of IMF debt slavery. Yet, claims of a Libya at odds with the evil regime portrayed by the west persist.

Libya: Billions of Dollars Siphoned off by Gaddafi or His Philanthropic Plan for Africa?

According to this report on RT, Gaddafi used $42b to establish an African Investment Bank to provide interest free loans to African nations - thus obviating the IMF/World Bank and their 'terms'.



That wouldn't be the billions siphoned off by the man who lives in a tent, by any chance, would it? Money now frozen thus forcing a continent perpetually in the grip of drought, plague and famine to remain in the clutches of the international loan sharks.

And it seems that NATO are targeting the 'Great Man Made River', the world's largest irrigation project - one of the dream projects of 'crazy dictator' Gaddafi.

Also, check out the statistics for rape in Libya, also contained in the report. Not a single rape reported.

And atrocities committed by 'rebel' forces agains Libyan troops.

I don't hear any of our elected so-called representatives vocally opposing this war.

I don't see any real coverage of it in the media.

Do we wait until 'we' are embroiled in a mess 'we can't get out of' in order to perpetuate another MIC money spinner?

Tasteless Times cartoon nails its colours squarely to the mast

The Times cartoon depicting starving Somalis with one of them saying, 'I've had a bellyful of phone-hacking...' is the most despicable, cynical attempt by News International to divert attention from what is rapidly developing into the fall of a media empire.

The cartoonist, Peter Brookes, ought to be ashamed of himself for even putting the thought to paper, let alone submitting it for publication. And what kind of contemptible low life of an editor thought this was remotely appropriate or funny.

The only good this has served is to illustrate quite graphically that The Times and The News of the World are indeed of the same blood.

The Dirty Digger continues to dig his own grave.

Footnote. I think it is worth saying that the sentiment of this cartoon may have been validated if it had been in anything other than a News International publication.

Western Media Turns a Blind Eye to Gaddafi Support in Libya

For the second time this month, as far as I am aware, there has been a massive rally in Libya to demonstrate support for Muammar Gaddafi, this time in Sirte, yet we only hear about Libyan rebels in the western media. Why should that be? Radio Four's World at One simply mentioned Gaddafi's speech but glanced past the magnitude of the rally but to have reported the speech, they must have been aware.



On 1st July, there was a rally in Tripoli at which it was estimated as many as a million people turned up, vocally demonstrating support along with a Libyan flag which was 4.5km in length.



At first, I was a little skeptical but then discovered that historian Webster Tarpley had been present at the rally and had been interviewed at the time on various non-mainstream media.



So, we are waging war with on country which is supposedly violently oppressing its people, about one million of whom turn out to demonstrate their support for the government.

One million of a population of 6.5 million, land area 1,759,541 sq km with no motorway system or railway, whilst under attack.

On February 15th 2003, one million people turned out in London to oppose the war in Iraq.

One million from a population of 60 million, land area 243,610 sq km with 3,497 km motorways and 16,116 km rail track.

A country seven times the geographical size, just over a tenth of the population with hardly any transport infrastructure has the same number of people turning up to support the government as the UK managed to mobilise to oppose the war in Iraq. A million people who are supposedly violently oppressed?

As our allies irritatingly say, 'do the math'.

It has also been widely reported that Gaddafi has armed his entire adult population. If western media reports are to be believed, wouldn't that seem a little strange? To arm people you are violently oppressing?

I'm no expert on Gaddafi but he seems very popular with the majority of Libyans and, from what I have read and seen, with understandable reason - in a nutshell, oil profits are distributed to the population not guzzled by oligarchs or commodity speculators.

There is also speculation that Gaddafi wants to stop trading Libyan oil in Dollars and start exchanging it for gold.

Given that gold cannot be run off the presses whenever it is expedient to do so and that much of the UK's (and probably US's) gold reserves were flogged off some time ago - it can be seen why Libya is a threat to the western business model and therefore a legitimate target.

When the mendacious demonising of Gaddafi has been clipped from the image of him which is projected for us my the media and government, there is little remaining evidence of the of the monster.

Libya is bottom of the table of nations by %GDP owed (0%), i.e. they owe nothing to the IMF/World Bank and therefore cannot be controlled by the international loan sharks who call the shots on countries like Jamaica et al.

If my government were giving me a house, assuring me of employment, financially supporting my education, giving me a huge wad of money when I got married etc. etc. I think I would be out on the street supporting it when threatened by marauding corporate invaders wishing to steal the source of the nations wealth.

But if, conversely, my government, who were squandering money to support corrupt bankers, squeezing the poor and cutting back services whilst paying off interest on loans to pay for wars nobody supported, wanted to start another war...

Big Brother, mainstream media, government cover-ups. We want answers!

Big Brother, mainstream media, government cover-ups. You want answers? Well so does he. He's Alex Jones...

So goes the introduction to Alex Jones' radio show with the dramatic accompaniment of the Imperial March from Star Wars.

Having been an occasional listener to Alex Jones since the evening I saw him on Jon Ronson's Secret Rulers of the World in April 2001, the criticism of mainstream media for their spin and omission has been a thread woven through every topic he covered. Naturally, encompassed by News Corp/News International, Murdoch owned Fox News was a central target for attack.

It's a curious thing, then, that when the Murdoch media empire appears to be crumbling, there isn't so much as a mention on infowars.com. Not even when it was revealed that the FBI was investigating the possibility of News International journalists or private investigators being involved in the hacking of victims of 9/11 - not an area that Alex Jones is known for neglecting.

It can't have escaped the attention of Alex Jones. His right hand man for many years, Paul Watson, a journalism graduate, lives in Sheffield - and nobody in the UK can claim to be unaware of the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

So, how come Alex Jones is keeping so quiet about such a significant story concerning the mainstream media, police corruption and possible government cover-ups?

We want answers...