Monday, 10 May 2010

Darling’s Last Act: Leaving a £15 Billion Bill for British Taxpayers

'David Cameron is facing an immediate clash with Europe after Alistair Darling prepared last night to sign up to a massive new fund to back the euro that could cost British taxpayers £15 billion. In what could be his last act as Chancellor, Mr Darling went along with plans to double to ¤110 billion (£96 billion) the bailout fund designed to prevent a repeat of the Greek financial crisis. The emergency finance, used to help Latvia and Hungary last year, will now be available to eurozone countries for the first time as well.

The fund, known as the “stabilisation mechanism”, increases by a further ¤60 billion the ¤50 billion that the EU can already use to help countries with balance-of-payments problems. Britain was already exposed to a potential £7 billion cost under the original scheme and its ultimate liability under the enhanced plan will be a further £8 billion, Treasury officials say.'

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Message From Montague

'Last week brought one or two real surprises for you, I shared your excitement when David Icke's book arrived, you found so much of what I have told you over the 6 years since my passing, all beautifully explained and laid out so that there is no way one can misunderstand what is being said.  

This book is the greatest Eye Opener possible as one is left in no doubt just how corrupt your World is. I, Montague Keen, am happy to put my name to this. I tell you now that he will produce yet another great book in the near future. I did tell you my dear that the TRUTH is coming out, it cannot be stopped.' 

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The Greek Spirit of Resistance Turns Its Guns on the IMF

'But for those on the left, leading the protests with flags emblazoned with the hammer and sickle, the intervention of the IMF has been the tipping point. The majority of Greeks not only see it as the harbinger of harsh economic reforms but the symbol of foreign occupation. For the abundance of conspiracy theorists on both the left and right, its involvement is part of a grander, but seemingly no less implausible, plan to subjugate Greece after draining the country of its resources.

"This has gone beyond economic matters to a battle for national independence," says Manolis Glezos, the leftist who shot to fame snatching the swastika from the Acropolis shortly after Hitler's forces streamed into Athens in 1941. "Papandreou himself has admitted we had no say in the economic measures thrust upon us. They were decided by the EU and IMF. We are now under foreign supervision and that raises questions about our economic, military and political independence".'

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British Petroleum's Oil Spill is Latest Crime in a Criminal History

'Far from being a "good corporate citizen," BP is a corporation that has made its huge profits through a history of crimes around the globe. Originally named the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, the company was founded in 1908, as the first company plundering the oil reserves of the Middle East. Anglo-Persian was renamed Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1935 and was subsequently renamed the British Petroleum Company in 1954.

The British government owned a majority share of the company and what little revenue was handed to the Iranian government was paid back to British and other European creditors. In 1947, for example, AIOC reported after-tax profits of £40 million, while giving Iran a mere £7 million. The company subjected Iranian workers to deplorable working conditions, paying Iranians considerably less than foreigners. The following passage is how the director of Iran’s Petroleum Institute described those conditions.'

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The Common People

 

Obama Bemoans Public Access to Alternative Media (that tells the truth about him)

'US President Barack Obama lamented Sunday that in the iPad and Xbox era, information had become a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy, in his latest critique of modern media. Obama, who often chides journalists and cable news outlets for obsessing with political horse race coverage rather than serious issues, told a class of graduating university students that education was the key to progress.

"You're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank all that high on the truth meter," Obama said at Hampton University, Virginia.'

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Meria Heller: 'It's 2012 - What Are You Going To Do About It?'

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Russia and the Central Asian Drug Trade: The Role of Kyrgyztan

'A drug trafficking campaign is being conducted against Russia on a broad scale affecting all spheres of its political, social and economic life. Kyrgyzstan plays an important role in this campaign. There are ten main routes of heroin traffic from Afghanistan (occupied by the US forces) with six of them crossing the Kyrgyz city of Osh, an important hub of Afghan drug traffic.'

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British Taxpayers Ordered to Bail Out Euro

'All 27 EU finance ministers have been summoned to Brussels on Sunday to sign up to a “European stabilisation mechanism. Britain will be unable to veto this as it will be put through under the “qualified majority voting” system.

The deal, effectively to shore up the euro, was denounced as a “stitch-up” last night after it emerged Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President and Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, had devised it behind closed doors and were attempting to push it through at a time when there is no clear government in Britain.'

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