Gordon Brown is touted as having a sharp brain. At least that’s what his mum says. This observation is also made by many pundits within the UK press who, one can only assume, are blunt brained. Brown, the new UK Prime Minister, is on a gadabout right now, smooching and smoozing with the demented (G W Bush) and the deluded (the United Nations) and no doubt anyone else that’s worth a press call.
In today’s “The Independent” there runs the following:
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Brown: We are failing the world’s poorest countries
By Andrew Grice, Political Editor in New York
Published: 01 August 2007 The Independent
(Click HERE for full article)Gordon Brown declared a “global emergency” yesterday as he launched a major new campaign to tackle poverty, ill health and poor education in the developing world.
Launching his first major foreign policy initiative since becoming prime minister, he admitted that world leaders had failed to lived up to their promises to solve the crisis in the poorest nations.
His “wake-up call” won the backing of 12 other leaders, including President George Bush, and the bosses of 20 global companies, including Microsoft’s chairman, Bill Gates. The campaign, to be run through the UN, will be based on a new partnership between governments, the private sector and faith and pressure groups.
These are dumb remarks, deceptive ones too, though whether Brown is aware of this no one knows, not even Brown himself. His “wake-up call” won’t work either. It never has and never will. Because the only action that will transform this situation PERMANENTLY, is an action that none of them are willing to take.
Or will take.
Ever.
The action that needs to be taken is a simple one by the way and it’s this.
A complete transformation of the world’s money system.
Ok, I lied. It’s a complex thing and not so simple to fix. The main challenge is getting all these road-block do-gooders like Brown and Gates and Bush and Bono and Geldorf out of the way or at least educated as to what the root problem is. Which most of them won’t accept anyway because to do so will lead to a loss of a great part of their monetary hoard. And that hurts you know. It’s like starvation to them. Dear things.
Pouring money into say Africa has always caused more problems because the TYPE of money that is poured in works just like pouring gasoline onto a fire. On their logic, Brown or any of the other luminaries mentioned above wouldn’t make it into the local fire brigade.
Understanding all the different aspects of the monetary mayhem is a big meal to gulp down. Not sensible to try eating a 15 course dinner when your digestive system is used to beans on toast. So lets take it one bite at a time. Say hello to John Terry.
John Terry is a very good footballer playing in the English Premier League. Scanning the net earlier this week I came across a brief report and commentary on Mr Terry’s new pay packet deal - a whopping £7 million a year. He’ll never worry about buying another pair of football boots ever again. Handy that.
I responded to the article. And in doing my bit for the great recycling movement, thought I’d append my response here as it eases in nicely with the money issue.
“Is it any wonder that our society is becoming hooked on greed?”
Hmmm. I think it more a case of footballers being showcased as role models with which to delude the upcoming generations with “Yes, learn to kick a football very well and you too could earn squillions and live in a world of boys toys, blondes, breast implants, lager and 3 hour long vacuous interviews on Sky”.
There was a great ad that used to appear in US comic books in the 60’s and 70’s headlined: “Don’t Envy Plumbers … Be One!” Plumber envy was a big issue back then and went through a revival recently here in the UK. I guess that line could now be tweeked to read “Don’t Envy Footballers … Be One!”
Of course, a question lurking behind all this is, just what is it that John Terry will be paid in? Pounds, apparently. But what are they? Hardly anyone knows. Not even Alan Greenspan, the infamous recent ex-head of the US Federal Reserve, who said that they no longer have a working definition of what money is. He was being disingenuous. But he has to be, he’s a banker.
If you follow the money, you get a rather interesting picture of what John Terry is about to be paid in. Here’s most of the trail -
Fred, a fan, shells out £60 (or whatever) to go see Chelsea v A Team That Can’t Win The Premiership Utd. This £60 (plus lots more of them) pay John and his Chelsea chums.
Fred is, ta da, a plumber. He got paid £800 by Mrs Wilkinson for replacing her dodgy sink.
Mrs Wilkinson, no longer able to earn a crust at the Chelsea Fan Shop where she has been replaced by a robot with breast implants, had to re-mortgage for a couple of grand to pay Fred and buy some food to live. She likes food.
The Bank enabled Mrs Wilkinson to re-mortgage. They switched the figures round on her account and blobbed £2000 into her current account.
Question; where did the bank get the £2000 from?
Answer; nowhere, they just made it up. Out of thin air. And dropped interest charges onto it also. Nice.
98% of all the so-called money we use in the UK is created out of thin air by banks as credit at interest. The banks always are owed more money than exists. That’s a bit of a thought isn’t it. In musical terms, our money system is in a permanent, ever increasing feedback loop. And soon, it will go BANG.
The nature of the system is such that the only solution is for the predominant mass of people to get ever more deeper into debt, forever. If they don’t, people like John Terry wouldn’t get paid because no one would have borrowed the money into existence for it to be there to pay him. Who said Football was a simple game?
The debt is wholly unrepayable because the system has been designed to make it that way. On purpose. As this structure ensures that a very few people can control everyone else by carrot and stick technology (you get credit, you don’t get credit). Think this unlikely? Ask yourself why you were never taught about money in school.
So where does this leave John Terry? Well, I would suggest playing for a pointless team in a pointless league which is now a part of showbusiness and no longer acts as the great community fire lighter it once used to.
I suggest an English Football League where the Stanley Matthews Boot is the only allowable footwear, shirts must have collars, fans have to use rattles and pitches must cut up easily bring mud back into the game.
Nice site btw.
The same type of money that pays John Terry is the same type that Mr Brown will end up using to support the World’s poorest countries. And in so doing, it will make them poorer because there will be interest to pay. Somewhere, someone always pays interest and the financial asphyxiation of humanity continues.
Cheered up now? You should be. You’ve just been shown a glimpse of the bizarre and life destroying results of a money system that works to drive more and more wealth into fewer hands. On purpose of course, but so brilliantly disguised that, as John Maynard Keynes the eminent (apparently) economist once said ” . . not one man in a million will understand how it works”. Make that two shall we.
Education is also one of Mr Brown’s stated passions. Maybe he’d like to introduce the teaching of fractional reserve banking into schools up and down the UK. That would then enable the next generation to forcibly dismantle the privately owned Bank of England and put in its place something a little more useful to the vast majority of people. Like a latrine for instance.
Paul
ADDENDUM
One thing that happens a lot (though you still have to dig them out) is the outbreak of conscience amongst the ex banking chiefs in their later years. Here’s three you may find edifying.
“Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits.” – Sir Josiah Stamp At the time the 2nd wealthiest man in England and an ex Director of the Bank of England.
And …
“I am afraid that ordinary citizens will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.” — ‘Mr Reginald McKenna’ (when Chairman of the Midland Bank in London)
And …
“The few who can understand the System (Cheque Money and Credits) will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no opposition from that class. While on the other hand, the great body of people mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical (hostile, hurtful) to their interests.” – ‘Rothschild Bros of London’ (to New York firm of bankers - 25 June 1863)
Not to worry though ay! Worse things happen at sea.
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