Fall of the Republic

Posted On October - 25 - 2009

Fall Of The Republic documents how an offshore corporate cartel is bankrupting the US economy by design. Leaders are now declaring that world government has arrived and that the dollar will be replaced by a new global currency.This film reveals the architecture of the New World Order and what the power elite have in store for humanity. More importantly it communicates how We The People can retake control of our government, turn the criminal tide and bring the tyrants to justice.

Century of Self

Posted On August - 25 - 2009

To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?

The Obama Deception

Posted On September - 08 - 2009

The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people. The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order. He is being pushed as savior in an attempt to con the American people into accepting global

Our System of Illusion 2

Posted On August - 26 - 2009

John Harris presents his Freeman perspective and understanding on the subject of politics, Common Law, Statute Law, Contracting and more. Filmed at the Lawful Rebellion Conference, the British Constitution Group, :London, 13th Jun 2009, Its an illusion 2 insights have to be taken into consideration as the more social aware we become we look into not only why things wrong with our constitution but the socialistic denial of free behaviour in our human rights.

Money as Debt II – Promises Unleashed

Posted On September - 26 - 2009

Bailouts, stimulus packages, debt piled upon debt, where will it all end? How did we get into a situation where there has never been more material wealth and productivity and yet everyone is in debt to bankers? And now, all of a sudden, the bankers have no money and we the taxpayers, have to rescue them by going even further into debt! Money as Debt II Explores the baffling, fraudulent and destructive arithmetic of the money system that holds us hostage to a forever growing DEBT

An interview with Aaron Russo(1943-2007)

Posted On September - 01 - 2009

Hollywood director Russo goes in-depth for first time on the astounding admissions of Nick Rockefeller, including his prediction of 9/11 and the war on terror hoax, the Rockefeller's creation of women's lib, and the elite's ultimate plan for world population reduction and a microchipped society Aaron Russo joins Alex Jones for a fascinating sit-down in depth video interview on a plethora of important subjects.

Frank Capras Why We Fight

Posted On September - 05 - 2009

Don't miss Why We Fight a series of seven propaganda films commissioned by the United States government during World War II to demonstrate to American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war. Later on they were also shown to the general U.S. public to persuade them to support American intervention. This is great historical footage.

Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

Posted On September - 04 - 2009

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and operates; or of the sound money and banking. This extraordinary new film is the clearest, most compelling explanation ever offered of the Fed. Watch it, and you'll understand why. This is economics and history as they are meant to be: fascinating, informative, and motivating.

Bill Hicks - Revelations tour 1993

Posted On August - 25 - 2009

Bill Hicks: The world is like a ride at an amusement park. It goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride...Funny political satire WARNING ADULT HUMOR

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This episode of The Alyona Show features a discussion of China and Americas different approaches to Afghanistan. In an interview with Christina Larson from Foreign Policy Magazine, Alyona asks if China will reap the financial benefits of the region while the U.S. spends their money and soldiers lives on war. Then, what are the U.S. interests in natural gas? Why are they getting involved in negotiations for the Nabucco pipeline? Also, watch part 2 of Alyonas interview with military journalist David Axe, recently returned from Afghanistan. Then, is healthcare hysteria due to the coincidental release of reports on mammograms? One congressman, is trying to make November 25th, No Complaint Day. Will anyone join the ranks? Also, YouTube launches a new channel for Citizen Journalists. Alyona then interviews Dylan Avery, writer and director of Loose Change, a documentary on the events of 9/11. Then, Alyona asks the audience who the bigger idiot is after a mother calls the police on her 10 year old daughter, and the police use a taser on her.
RussiaToday
04 November 2009



November 4th marks a one-year anniversary of Obama being elected as America's President. RT's Anastasia Churkina wraps up what the U.S. president and his people have been up to this year.


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Fall Of The Republic documents how an offshore corporate cartel is bankrupting the US economy by design. Leaders are now declaring that world government has arrived and that the dollar will be replaced by a new global currency.

President Obama has brazenly violated Article 1 Section 9 of the US Constitution by seating himself at the head of United Nations' Security Council, thus becoming the first US president to chair the world body.

A scientific dictatorship is in its final stages of completion, and laws protecting basic human rights are being abolished worldwide; an iron curtain of high-tech tyranny is now descending over the planet.

A worldwide regime controlled by an unelected corporate elite is implementing a planetary carbon tax system that will dominate all human activity and establish a system of neo-feudal slavery.

The image makers have carefully packaged Obama as the world's savior; he is the Trojan Horse manufactured to pacify the people just long enough for the globalists to complete their master plan.

This film reveals the architecture of the New World Order and what the power elite have in store for humanity. More importantly it communicates how We The People can retake control of our government, turn the criminal tide and bring the tyrants to justice.
A film by Alex jones
Investigaiton by CoreOfCorruption.com



B-Thing Construction pass Israeli Art Student WTC

Willie Rodriguez, one of the janitors who worked at the WTC and helped save lives that day, was the last person pulled from the rubble and was even recognized by the president for his actions. Aside from experiencing basement and sub-level explosions on 9/11 before the 1st plane hit, he also stated that he did see the art students in the WTC in an email exchange I had with him.

So why is all this information about an innocent art stunt so important, aside from the fact that these individuals had WTC construction passes in 2000 before releasing their book in August of 2001? Because according to the DEA report on the investigation into a separate story of art students in the country penetrating military bases, government agencies and so fourth as a part of a spy ring, 2 names show up in the arrests of over 140 spies that sparked interest for me.

Hanan Serfaty was arrested by DEA agents in connection to the Israeli spy ring. What makes him stand out, is that he was listed as being an art student who was apart of the World Views program, which was in the World Trade Center on floors 90 and 91 in the Lower Manhatten Cultural Council. Although he is not listed by Gelitin as a member of The B-Thing, the listing of the identities of the other 14 students who were on floor 91 at the time was never released to the public, neither was the total list of those involved in the stunt which numbers at a minimum of 6.

It should be noted that 1 member of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council died on 9/11 while working in his studio on the 91st floor. His name appears on the list of those who were in the building when it came down.

Hanan was an "art student" who was a former Israeli military intelligence officer who rented two Hollywood apartments close to the mail drop and apartment of Mohammed Atta and four other hijackers. Serfaty was moving large amounts of cash: he carried bank slips showing more than $100,000 deposited from December 2000 through the first quarter of 2001; other bank slips showed withdrawals for about $80,000 during the same period. Serfaty's apartments, serving as crash pads for at least two other "art students", were located at 4220 Sheridan Street and 701 South 21st Avenue. Lead hijacker Mohammed Atta's mail drop was at 3389 Sheridan Street--approximately 2,700 feet from Serfaty's Sheridan Street apartment. Both Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, the suicide pilot on United Airlines Flight 175, which smashed into World Trade Center 2, lived in a rented apartment at 1818 Jackson Street, some 1,800 feet from Serfaty's South 21st Avenue apartment.

In fact, an improbable series of coincidences emerges from a close reading of the 2001 DEA memo, the 9/11 Commission's staff statements and final report, FBI and Justice Department watch lists, hijacker timelines compiled by major media and statements by local, state and federal law enforcement personnel. In at least six urban centers, suspected Israeli spies and 9/11 hijackers and/or al-Qaeda¬ connected suspects lived and operated near one another, in some cases less than half a mile apart, for various periods during 2001 in the run-up to the attacks. In addition to northern New Jersey and Hollywood, Florida, these centers included Arlington and Fredericksburg, Virginia; Atlanta; Oklahoma City; Los Angeles; and San Diego.

Israeli "art students" also lived close to terror suspects in and around Dallas, Texas. A 25-year-old "art student" named Michael Calmanovic, arrested and questioned by Texas-based DEA officers in April 2001, maintained a mail drop at 3575 North Beltline Road, less than a thousand feet from the 4045 North Beltline Road apartment of Ahmed Khalefa, an FBI terror suspect. Dallas and its environs, especially the town of Richardson, Texas, throbbed with "art student" activity. Richardson is notable as the home of the Holy Land Foundation, an Islamic charity designated as a terrorist funder by the European Union and U.S. government in December 2001. Sources in 2002 told The Forward, in a report unrelated to the question of the "art students", that "Israeli intelligence played a key role in helping the Bush administration to crack down on Islamic charities suspected of funneling money to terrorist groups, most notably the Richardson, Texas-based Holy Land Foundation, last December [2001]". It's plausible that the intelligence prompting the shutdown of the Holy Land Foundation came from "art student" spies in the Richardson area.



Like we didnt know!!!


Next year, for the first time ever, social security recipients will not receive a cost of living adjustment in their payments. Instead, Barack Obama is proposing a one-time $250 payment right before next fall's midterm elections. Gerald Celente says that the cost of living really hasn't decreased, the government is basing their measurements on a decreasing standard of living and the payout is just to keep people quiet.
RussiaToday
14 October 2009



Death rather than nation building - that's what the U.S. army brought to Iraq and is bringing to Afghanistan according to former army sergeant and anti-war activist Matthis Chiroux.
He shared his views on the U.S. military campaigns with RT's Marina Portnaya.

Quoted from http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/13/benito-mussolini-recruited-mi5-italy:

 

Documents reveal Italian dictator got start in politics in 1917 with help of £100 weekly wage from MI5

 

History remembers Benito Mussolini as a founder member of the original Axis of Evil, the Italian dictator who ruled his country with fear and forged a disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany. But a previously unknown area of Il Duce's CV has come to light: his brief career as a British agent.

Archived documents have revealed that Mussolini got his start in politics in 1917 with the help of a £100 weekly wage from MI5.

For the British intelligence agency, it must have seemed like a good investment. Mussolini, then a 34-year-old journalist, was not just willing to ensure Italy continued to fight alongside the allies in the first world war by publishing propaganda in his paper. He was also willing to send in the boys to "persuade'' peace protesters to stay at home.

Mussolini's payments were authorised by Sir Samuel Hoare, an MP and MI5's man in Rome, who ran a staff of 100 British intelligence officers in Italy at the time.

Cambridge historian Peter Martland, who discovered details of the deal struck with the future dictator, said: "Britain's least reliable ally in the war at the time was Italy after revolutionary Russia's pullout from the conflict. Mussolini was paid £100 a week from the autumn of 1917 for at least a year to keep up the pro-war campaigning – equivalent to about £6,000 a week today."

Hoare, later to become Lord Templewood, mentioned the recruitment in memoirs in 1954, but Martland stumbled on details of the payments for the first time while scouring Hoare's papers.

As well as keeping the presses rolling at Il Popolo d'Italia, the newspaper he edited, Mussolini also told Hoare he would send Italian army veterans to beat up peace protesters in Milan, a dry run for his fascist blackshirt units.

"The last thing Britain wanted were pro-peace strikes bringing the factories in Milan to a halt. It was a lot of money to pay a man who was a journalist at the time, but compared to the £4m Britain was spending on the war every day, it was petty cash," said Martland.

"I have no evidence to prove it, but I suspect that Mussolini, who was a noted womaniser, also spent a good deal of the money on his mistresses."

After the armistice, Mussolini began his rise to power, assisted by electoral fraud and blackshirt violence, establishing a fascist dictorship by the mid-1920s.

His colonial ambitions in Africa brought him into contact with his old paymaster again in 1935. Now the British foreign secretary, Hoare signed the Hoare-Laval pact, which gave Italy control over Abyssinia.

"There is no reason to believe the two men were friends, although Hoare did have an enduring love affair with Italy," said Martland, whose research is included in Christopher Andrew's history of MI5, Defence of the Realm, which was published last week.

The unpopularity of the Hoare-Laval pact in Britain forced Hoare to resign. Mussolini, meanwhile, built on his new colonial clout to ally with Hitler, entering the second world war in 1940, this time to fight against the allies.

Deposed following the allied invasion of Italy in 1943, Mussolini was killed with his mistress, Clara Petacci, by Italian partisans while fleeing Italy in an attempt to reach Switzerland two years later.

Martland said: "Mussolini ended his life hung upside down in Milan, but history has not been kind to Hoare either, condemned as an appeaser of fascism alongside Neville Chamberlain."

Russia Today
October 8, 2009




If the dollar collapses, it would spell economic disaster not just for the United States, but for the world, says Gerald Celente, director of the Trade Research Institute.

“It is more than just the demise of the dollar – this is going to be felt worldwide. There’s a major financial crisis ahead. The United States, the world’s superpower, is failing on its most basic level,” Celente told RT.

And the reason for the future demise of the American currency, Celente says, is the disproportionate financial system:

“We can’t print money out of thin air, backed by nothing and producing practically nothing.”

The researcher believes the crisis of the dollar is irreversible, since America is losing its gold – the value of its currency.
RussiaToday
07 October 2009




RT contributor and investigative journalist Wayne Madsen reports that scientists researching the Spanish flu epidemic from 1918 may have intentionally or accidentally manipulated genetic material to create the H1N1 virus that exists today.
JeeYeon Park
CNBC
October 6, 2009

With the prospect of higher unemployment hanging over the markets, some experts expect a correction. So are they right? Michael Cuggino, president and portfolio manager at Permanent Portfolio Funds, and John Lekas, CEO and portfolio manager at Leader Capital, shared their insights.














“I think we go below the double dip,” Lekas told CNBC. “By year-end, we drop below 6,300 on the Dow and by 2011, we’re at 4,200.”

Lekas said although Monday’s ISM services index was “neutral,” the unemployment number was at 785,000 last month and that number is expected to worsen.


Full Article: http://www.cnbc.com/id/33179408

Quoted from http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/02/abdelbaset-megrahi-documents-lockerbie-witness:

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi documents claim key witness received payments | World news | guardian.co.uk

 

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi documents claim key Lockerbie witness received payments from US

Claim refers to concerns raised about safety of Libyan's conviction for Lockerbie bombing in 1988

The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing released evidence today claiming to show that a key witness at his trial received payments from the US after giving evidence.

The claim is made in documents published online by Abdelbaset al-Megrahi in support of his attempt to clear his name of involvement in the worst terrorist attack on British soil.

It refers to concerns raised by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) about the safety of Megrahi's conviction for killing 270 people in the Lockerbie bombing on 21 December 1988.

The documents would have formed part of an appeal, which Megrahi, who is terminally ill, agreed to drop in return for his release on compassionate grounds.

The commission found police memos suggesting that Tony Gauci, the only witness to link the Libyan to the alleged plot, expressed an interest in being paid to give evidence. He also received payments from the US department of justice after the trial, the new documents claim to show.

The commission said the documents should have been disclosed to Megrahi's defence team, and that the failure to do so made Megrahi's conviction unsafe. The papers allege that Gauci was paid $2m (£1.2m) after Megrahi's conviction, and his brother Paul $1m.

In a statement Megrahi continued to protest his innocence. He said: "In releasing this information I have no desire to add to the upset of many people I know are profoundly affected by what happened in Lockerbie. My intention is only for the truth to be made known."

The new documents, published on a website set up for the purpose, constitute the convicted bomber's attempt to prove his innocence after his controversial release from Greenock prison on compassionate grounds in August. Megrahi is in the terminal stages of prostate cancer, and Scottish ministers believe he has less than three months to live.

Last month Megrahi released 298 pages of legal papers, which appeared to suggest the commission regarded Gauci's evidence as "unreasonable" .

The crucial mistake, the SCCRC said, was believing prosecution claims that Megrahi had bought clothes at Gauci's shop on 7 December 1988, allegedly later found in the suitcase used for the bomb. This evidence was "unreasonable", the SCCRC said, and was alone grounds for belief that Megrahi was wrongly convicted.

The new dossier presents what is said to be fresh and undisclosed evidence, suggesting that the clothes found in the suitcase were not purchased on 7 December 1988. It also claims there was potentially another independent witness who saw other Libyans, not Megrahi, purchasing the clothes.

Quoted from http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/France-Telecom-Communications-Giant-Hit-By-24th-Suicide-In-18-Months/Article/200909415394713:

France Telecom: Communications Giant Hit By 24th Suicide In 18 Months | Business | Sky News

Worker Is 24th To Die In Firm's 'Suicide Spiral'

 

A 24th France Telecom employee has killed himself in what the company says is a "suicide spiral".

The 51-year-old father-of-two hurled himself to his death from a bridge onto a busy road in the Haute-Savoie region of the country.

In a letter to his wife, he blamed the unbearable "atmosphere" at his workplace.

France Telecom has been dogged by an series of suicides in the last 18 months.

The deaths include a woman who jumped from her office window in the summer, while another man survived stabbing himself in the stomach during a work meeting.

Unions say a drive to restructure the company in the face of the global recession is behind the deaths.

The company laid off 22,000 workers between 2006 and 2008 while staff say changing working practices and poor management have placed intolerable pressure on workers.

Labour minister Xavier Darcos this month ordered an official to monitor France Telecom's health and safety meetings.

The company has also been told to delay any relocation plans until October 31.

France Telecom employs around 100,000 people in France and insists the number of suicides is in line with the national average.

It said some of the deaths were down to copycat behaviour.

But one union official said workers had been treated like "sausage meat".

Quoted from http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Australian-Town-Bans-Sale-Of-Bottled-Water/Article/200909415393386:

Australian Town Bans Sale Of Bottled Water For Environmental Reasons | World News | Sky News

Green Oz Town Gives Bottled Water The Boot

9:43am UK, Monday September 28, 2009

Ian Woods, Sky News correspondent, in Australia

A small town in Australia has become the first in the world to ban the sale of bottled water.



Residents said the cost of making, transporting and disposing of the plastic bottles is damaging the environment.

People in Bundanoon in New South Wales voted in favour of the ban three months ago and since then, chilled filtered water dispensers have been installed throughout the town.

Over the weekend, all bottles of still water were removed from shops and replaced with reusable containers which cost around £2 each. Customers can then refill them, either in the store, or at a drinking fountain in the street.

Some residents welcomed the action simply on cost grounds.

One man told me it was how it used to be - when everyone drank water for free.

Another complained that bottled water was more expensive than beer.

Tapping into public opinion

But the main reason for implementing the ban was environmental.

The people of Bundanoon, 90 miles from Sydney, decided that the impact of manufacturing the bottles, transporting the water round the country and then disposing of the empties could not be justified.

Matters came to a head when a bottling company decided to extract water from the Bundanoon area.

Faced with the prospect of their water being driven to Sydney, put into bottles, and then driven back to the town, residents decided to act.

The campaign was led by Huw Kingston, who emigrated to Australia from Wales, and says 70% of bottles end up in landfill sites rather than being recycled.

He says the people who backed his idea are "not a bunch of greenies", and he denies that the action has deprived people of a choice.

"If there is the odd person who really, genuinely, loves the taste of bottled water - and I can't think why they would - then maybe we have taken away that choice," he said.

"But what we've provided here is more publicly available water than every before.

"I'm not sure how anyone can prefer bottled water to our beautiful filtered water."

There is still some comfort for those who prefer designer water to what comes out of the tap.

Shops are still selling bottles of sparkling and flavoured waters.

Some shopkeepers were initially sceptical about the plan, fearing they would lose money.

To compensate for the lost business, they're selling refillable plastic bottles with the slogan "Bundy On Tap", and because the ban has put Bundanoon on the map, they're proving popular with visitors as well as locals.

Shop owner Lorraine McKintosh said the shops had never promised they would not sell bottled water ever again, but she thought it was best to go along with what their customers had decided.

The idea has gone down well at Bundanoon School.

Principal Robyn Versluis said: "It's the perfect example of thinking globally but acting locally".

Pupil Ella Grier declared: "It's a really big step for a small town. We're really brave to do it."

Quoted from http://www.theflucase.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=647%3Alen-horowitz-files-pandemic-charges-against-rockefeller&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=64⟨=en:

Len Horowitz files pandemic charges against Rockefeller

LOS ANGELES, CA -- Drug-industry investigators have uncovered documents exposing an international drug ring, operating from New York City, is behind the H1N1 swine flu fright and vaccination preparations.

 

Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz and Sherri Kane, an investigative journalist, have released evidence in legal affidavits that leaders of a private global biotechnology "trust" are behind the pandemic flu, including its origin and alleged prevention via vaccinations. Their documents, being sent by attorneys to the FBI this week, evidence industrialists are operating a crime ring within the "Partnership for New York City" (PNYC), and are behind the pandemic's creation, media persuasions, vaccination preparations, and health official promotions.

"David Rockefeller's trust, that engages several powerful partners on Wall Street, including media moguls Ruppert Murdock, Morton Zuckerman, Thomas Glocer, and former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Jerry Speyer, are implicated in advancing global genocide," Dr. Horowitz wrote to FBI directors.

"This 'partnership' controls biotechnology research and development globally. Health commerce internationally is also controlled virtually entirely by this trust that also exercises near complete control over mainstream media to promote/propagandize its products and services for the drug cartel's organized crime. This trust, in essence, makes or breaks medical and natural healing markets, primarily through the mass media companies and propaganda it wields for social engineering and market building," Dr. Horowitz wrote.

Among the revelations from the Horowitz-Kane research are those linking Larry Silverstein of Silverstein Properties, Inc., and the 9-11 terrorist attacks, to the drug cartel's geopolitical, economic, and population reduction activities. Mr. Silverstein, leaser of the World Trade Center who authorized to have Building-7 "pulled" [detonated] is a chief suspect in the "9-11 truth" investigation. Silverstein is currently landlord and co-partner in the biotechnology trust founded by David Rockefeller and implicated by these new discoveries.

Given the unprecedented nature and urgency of these findings, Dr. Horowitz has posted his affidavit for public review on FLUscam.com, hoping wide spread dissemination will prompt governments worldwide to cease mass vaccination preparations to avoid becoming accessories.

"The last time I contacted the FBI I warned them about the impending anthrax attacks one week before the first mailings were announced in the press," Dr. Horowitz recalled. "It took them 6 months to respond. When they did, they made me a suspect in the mailings. This time I am warning the Justice Department a month before the deadliest genocide in history. I'm praying they'll take kindly to my appeal for a PNYC investigation, and Court-ordered injunction, to stop the vaccinations for public protection

Change? NO WE CAN'T

Business as usual Mr President....



Eight years after the Patriot Act became law in the United States, President Obama has told lawmakers that he wants to reauthorize three parts of the act that were set to expire later this year. Many people have said that the Patriot Act is an invasion of privacy and opens the door for abuses of power, so why would Obama extend one of former President Bush's policies?
RT. 14th September



Gerald Celente - the most trusted name in trends - sits down for an exclusive interview with RT's Anastasia Churkina to talk about what the future holds for America during and after the Great Recession, gives advice to Obama, and forecasts the unexpected.

Quoted from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/6201505/Brixton-to-launch-its-own-currency.html:

Brixton will become the first urban area in Britain to launch its own currency in an effort to help local shopkeepers during the recession.

 

The area of South London town is today unveiling the Brixton Pound, which will come in B£1, B£5, B£10 and B£20 denominations.

The currency can be used to pay for goods in the area, but cannot be used outside Brixton or be paid into a bank.

"The goal is to create a liquid economy throughout Brixton," said Tim Nichols, the project manager of the Brixton Pound. "We have about 55 businesses on board, who can either give it out as change or pay it as part of their employees wages.

"The idea is for people to pay local suppliers for goods and services - this includes people like plumbers. At any point they can take it back to an issuing point and replace it for sterling."

Brixton will become the fourth town to have its own currency after the Totnes Pound in Devon, the Lewes Pound in Sussex and the Stroud Pound in Gloucestershire.

John Kazantzis, a councillor at Lambeth Council, said: "Brixton has a vibrant and diverse business community and I'm delighted that we are the first area in London to benefit from this scheme."

 

Brixton to launch its own currency - Telegraph

Quoted from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/6196531/UK-unemployment-jumps-to-highest-since-1995-as-recession-pain-bites.html:

 

The number of Britons joining the dole queue climbed by 210,000 to 2.47 million in the three months to the end of July, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed today. That's the highest level since 1995.

Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, said on Tuesday that while there are signs the economy is beginning to grow again, it's not likely to feel any different for most people. It was a view echoed today by the fashion retailer Next, which said that it sees little reason for "the consumer outlook to significantly change through the rest of the year."

The recession has forced companies across the economy to axe staff and ditch investment plans. The retail, construction and financial services industries have been among those hardest hit. However, the cuts have spread to even the more resilient industries such as defence, with BAE, which helps build the Eurofighter, announcing plans yesterday to close a factory in Cheshire.

"Unemployment still looks likely to go reach 3 million in 2010, and could go higher," said Howard Archer, an economist at Global Insight. "Even if the economy does return to growth in the third quarter, activity is still unlikely to be strong enough for some considerable time to come to prevent further net job losses."

Despite evidence that the economy has technically emerged from recession, most experts expect a recovery to be sluggish as Britons grapple with their debts and trim spending in the face of rising unemployment.

It's a picture mirrored in the US, where Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, cautioned that a recovery will be long and hard.

Separate figures showed that the number of people claiming unemployment benefit rose by 24,400 in August, similar to what economists had forecast. Sterling was little changed against the dollar at $1.6477 after the figures were released while the FTSE 100 stayed 1pc stronger at 5096.28.

 

UK unemployment jumps to highest since 1995 as recession pain bites | Telegraph

RT. 15 September, 2009

The past year of economic decline has seen Washington’s influence on the wane, as well as London’s, and the way is now open for other countries to decide policy. Among them: Russia and her BRIC colleagues.

It has been a year since pictures of the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers were beamed around the world – unprecedented images of bankers, the so-called Masters of the Universe, leaving Wall Street offices with their possessions in cardboard boxes.

To many of us, the financial crisis has meant job losses and home repossessions, but to economists, it is changed the fabric of our society, and accelerated a long-awaited move towards a multi-polar world.

A global society that no longer marches to the beat of America’s drum isn’t here just yet – but the direction is clear. The world, more and more, is turning towards new leaders and new currencies for solutions.

Doctor Paola Subacchi, research director of International Economics, Chatham House, thinks the economic crisis can be viewed as a catalyst for change


“Countries which were growing fast, their economies were expanding, they were gaining more visibility in international relations terms – I’m thinking of the BRIC,” she says.

The platform for that movement was last April’s G20 summit in London. Created in the late nineties, the G20 was a response to the financial crises of that era. Its goal was to include key emerging market countries in global economic decision making, and they have met three times already.

“The upgrade of the G20 from a finance ministers’ meeting to a head of state meeting is very important. And it’s very important now to see around the table many more countries representing a large majority, almost the totality of global GDP,” Subacchi adds.

With their new, louder voice, the BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – are calling for a move away from the dollar as the major global reserve currency. Throughout the last decade, an average of two thirds of the world’s foreign exchange reserves has been held in dollars.

“Countries like Russia and China and Brazil are trying to divorce themselves from the US, because it’s a completely toxic currency that’s just right for fraud. It supports an empire that’s just too lazy to compete,” financial analyst Max Keiser says.

Having a variety of reserve currencies wouldn’t just have economic significance. Geopolitically, if countries held reserves in roubles or yuan, Russia and China would gain weight in the international arena, and be more able to direct policy.

Chris Higson, a Professor at London Business School, believes the world would be a better place “if we simply don’t rely on one possibly unreliable superpower exercising its authority.”

Earlier this month, the UN backed the creation of an artificial currency for foreign exchange reserves. It is the first time a major multinational institution has come up with such a suggestion.

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