Where Does All The Money Go???

      We are all somewhat confused by the plundering and shuffling of assets by the financial Mafia, we know we are being ripped-off, we know that it was a deliberate ploy to save all the members of that financial Mafia from going bust from their gambling addiction. However, it is such a complex ponzi system that at times we just shake our head and walk away. However, we shouldn't, our living conditions are at stake, the longer this plundering by the financial Mafia goes on the lower our living condition sink, while the wealth continues to syphon upwards. Hospitals and other public assets, will be sold off to keep the ponzi banking system afloat, it is happening now and it will continue until we the people stop the rip-off and bring down the system.

      This a rather long video, but well worth viewing to the end, pity about the adverts.

 

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We Swim In The Vomit Of Corruption.

 

      We should all know by now that we live under the vomit of a stinking corrupt system controlled by the financial Mafia. Greece immediately comes to mind, a country where they brought to bear the full venom of their power, to overthrow the government and destroy the social fabric of the country. After five years of "austerity", which translates as poverty and deprivation for the people and the plundering of the country's assets, they have now being shackled to a perpetual regime of higher taxes, lower pensions, more unemployment, a worsening of working conditions and greater plundering of the country's assets. All this in an attempt to protect the financial Mafia's phoney house of cards balance sheets. 

The financial Mafia and national governments usually work hand in hand, to the benefit of the banksters, as they always hold the upper hand. When a government doesn't play to their rules, it, and its people are destroyed, Greece for example. 

      There is never a time, now or in the past, when these banksters, working for the financial Mafia, have got involved in a country to the benefit of the people. Everything they touch, create or modify, is to the detriment of the people and riddled with greed and corruption. From Africa, to South America, Europe to Asia, their poison has ravaged through the lives of the ordinary people, creating poverty, deprivation and wars. Just a thought, If the banks are too big to fail, they should be owned and organised as a public utility.

     The latest piece of corruption and greed to come out of this cesspool, is connected to UBS bank. This from Politics in the Zeros: 

$72 billion in now-toxic Puerto Rico bonds are stashed away in supposedly conservative bond funds and retirement accounts. Moody’s says the probability of default is now 100%. Some of the bonds have no legal protection and their recovery rate might be 33 cents on a dollar. Bonds with better protection will still get clobbered. Recovery on those will be 65-85%.
That’s not the worst of it. UBS (and probably lots of other banks too) underwrote some of the bonds and put them in their own closed-end funds. These funds are not traded. UBS sets the price. Some investors bought these bond funds with money borrowed from UBS and may have used them as collateral for more “investing.” However, UBS just decreed the collateral value on their very own Puerto Rico closed-end funds is now zero. That’s right zero. UBS is saying their own bonds are worthless. Expect a festive number of lawsuits.

Clients were warned that they can no longer use these funds as collateral for loans, even those loans they used to buy these funds with in the first place.

Thus, they will have to come up with new collateral very quickly or UBS may sell the bonds and come after them for the balance. Let’s be clear. Some of them are retirement accounts. All of them will take big hits.
Of course, banks made lots of money by underwriting slop everyone knew was risky then foisting it off on customers and clients. It’s all just terribly tragic. There will be investigations. UBS will promise to sin no more. The government will levy a stiff fine (or is this a protection racket.) No one will go to prison. Lots of people’s retirement accounts will drop in value. None of the banks care what happens to Puerto Rico.

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Crisis To Plan.

 

      For some time now that babbling brook of bullshit, our mainstream media, has been vomiting bilge water and crap about the "Greek crisis", pouring festering sewage over anything the Greek people try to do to alleviate their situation. The theme is always, bad Greece, for not following the dictate of the financial Mafia and not punishing the people of Greece further for the greed of the banksters. It all makes it so glaringly obvious that people don't matter, democracy is an illusion, and the people can got to hell in a hand cart, as long as the financial Mafia can keep their corrupt house of cards standing. The Euro situation is unsustainable and is kept alive by each paying the other to pay them back what they owe, shuffling money between indebted institutions and printing trillions of Euros to paper over the cracks.

      However we should be under no illusions, what is happening in Greece, is not a one-of crisis, it is a formula that will be applied to any country that tries to tell the the financial Mafia that their system is fucked and is unsustainable. It will be the method to bring any government into line, that in any way threatens the financial Mafia's monopoly of power over people. The moment people start to take control to shape their country, it is seen as a nail in the coffin of the power of the financial Mafia, and will be crushed. They will push the Greek government and people to chaos and destruction, and from the troubled times, engineer a right wing government that will willing sign up to the Financial Mafia's terms, and the illusion can continue.

      The photo is a rare gem of truth from a member of that babbling brook of bullshit, the Metro.

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Finance Is A House Of Cards, And There's A Wind Blowing.

       More on that impending financial collapse, that flies in the face of the Cameron/Osborne, “you've never had it so good lie”, "the recession is over", "we are on recovery mode". The financial “experts" are telling people to pull their money out of the giant HSBC bank and advising shareholders to sell, as it appears to be going down the plughole. The whole money system is just a house of cards, monopoly money, an illusion, a world wide scam.
A couple of quotes that might help to verify that claim:

  1.        This used to be the way pretty much all of the money in circulation came to be.  That is, until Investment and Retail Banks got tired of this monopoly on debt based currency, and kicked off the commercial money supply.  You might assume that when you take out a loan or other form of credit, a bank gives you that money from its reserves, and you then pay back that loan to the Bank at a given interest rate – the Bank making its profit on the interest rate.  You would be wrong. The Bank simply creates that loan on a computer screen.  Let’s say you are granted a loan for $100,000.  The moment that loan is approved and $100k is entered on the computer – that promise from you to the bank creates $100k for the bank, in that instant.  This ledger entry alone creates the $100k, from nothing. Today, over 97% of all money that exists, is made this way.

And

2.          The world’s second richest man, Warren Buffet warned us in 2003 that the derivatives market was ‘devised by madmen’ and a ‘weapon of mass destruction’ and we have only seen the first blast in this debt apocalypse.The news that should have us all worried is: the derivatives market contains $700trn of these debts yet to implode.
          Global GDP stands at $69.4trn a year. This means that (primarily) Wall Street and the City of London have run up phantom paper debts of more than ten times of the annual earnings of the entire planet.
         Not only can the Bankers not pay it back, the combined earning power of the earth could not pay it back in less than ten years if every last cent of our productive power went solely to pay off this debt.

Both quotes are from an article on jacknowledge:

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The £500,000 Poverty Level!!

     Every passing day confirms the fact that, in this country, we live in two different worlds. While you and I are doing so well living in houses with an extra bedroom, we have to have an extra tax, we enjoy the pleasure of workfare placements without salary, we are doing too well on disability benefits, that the government is obliged to cut them, we are wallowing in zero hours contract on the minimum wage. Those poor mid-ranking bankers are struggling on £500,000 annual salary.

An extract from E Financial Careers: 

“People here are already carrying a lot more debt than they used to,” said a senior manager at one European investment bank in London – again speaking off the record. “A member of my team has a £750k mortgage on his house, which is a huge burden for him. A lot of other mid-ranking people here can’t afford to live in Zone 1 and are having to move out to Zones 3 or 4 – which is difficult when you’re a VP-level banker working very long hours.”

     Doesn't your heart bleed for these people? How on earth can they afford a Ferrari or Porche, their whole lifestyle is being jeopordise, if the don't get that big fat bonus and a substantial salary increase. Some of them have probably abandoned they idea of a yacht for next summer.

 I'm finding things very tough at the moment

    This is the obscene inequality that this system is built on, a society where those parasites in the millionaire class ooze sympathy for those who can't get by on £500,000 a year. While stating that those, that produce every article that the parasites posses and every service they enjoy, will have to make sacrifices and tighten their belts.

      I don't see that rationale and discussion will sort out this inequality, I can't see that group who feel that it is difficult to get by on £500,000 a year, and their millionaire bosses, sitting down to sort out the real inequalities in this society. There will have to be another method, and that will have to come from those of us living well below the level of the parasites' £500,000 poverty line salary.

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Government Paid Mercenaries!

      When a state carries out policies that kill people in another state, they usually call it war. However, what do you call it when a state carries out policies that kill its own people? Well here in the UK the policies pushed through by the state are killing people. One of them is called “Work Capability Assessment” and the weapon is in the hands of ATOS. I suppose that ATOS being a French company, we should call them mercenaries.

      The number of people who have died after being assessed by ATOS, as fit to work, is well over 100,000. In any war situation these figures would be a national disaster, why does our babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media, not splash them across banner headlines? Simply because they are on the other side, the side of the murdering state. The latest tragedy in this brutal assault on the disabled and vulnerable, was 53 year old, partially sighted Jacqueline Harris, as well as her problem with her sight she had restricted mobility and was on constant pain relief. However the compassionless bureaucrats, sitting comfortable in their cocooned world of “ticky-boxes” considered her fit to look for work and stripped her of her benefits. It was a pain to far, and sadly Jaqueline Harris took her own life.

    This war against its own people continues on many fronts, the freezing/cutting of wages in the midst of rising energy and food prices, the bedroom tax, putting extra strain on already stretched finances, are just two attacks which are pushing more people into fuel poverty, food banks, deprivation and in turn malnutrition, with the resultant health problems. In truth, these actions are a slow death sentence and are directly responsible for health problems and an early death in thousands of cases. The state by its deliberate policies is killing its own people, all in the name of the economics of the banksters, it is sacrificing the lives of its citizens to bolster and increases the wealth of the already obscenely wealthy. We live in a sacrificial society, where the people are offered up to the god Mammon. 

This from The Void:

     A woman stripped of benefits after being found ‘fit for work’ by Atos has taken her own life the Bristol Post have reported today.

According to the newspaper: 

     “PARTIALLY-sighted and only able to walk with the aid of a stick, Jacqueline Harris suffered crippling pain due to slipped discs in her back and neck. Her mobility was reduced further when a dog savaged one of her wrists. “Despite being in agony which strong pain relief could not ease, the 53-year-old was deemed to be fit for work following a government health assessment and told to find a job.

      “Her sister claims the verdict that she was ineligible for disability benefits drove her to take her own life earlier this month.”

Read the full article HERE:

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Austerity Is Death By Another Name.

       When that babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media, report on the Greek “crisis”, it is always about bailouts, debt, and need for greater “austerity”. What, seldom if ever, gets a mention is the death factor in all this financial Mafia economic gobble-gook. Hidden behind the unemployment figures and falling wages, rising taxes and prices, is the death factor. Accelerated deaths from malnutrition, stress, drug and alcohol addiction are all linked to the “austerity” plan. There is another toll the people of Greece are paying to satisfy the financial mafia and banksters, suicide. During the first 4 years of Greece's “financial crisis”, 2007-2011, the suicide rate increased by a staggering 43%. In fact 2011 marked the highest number of suicides in Greece, for 50 years. According to some authorities the last two years are showing indications that there will a further very large rise.

        The group Klimaka, based in Athens, stated that reported suicides rose dramatically, but we cannot take these figures as accurate, as there are a considerable number of unreported suicides, the figures are in all probability, much higher. Greece is a relatively small country population wise, with a population of just 11.28 million, (2012 figures), but with the direct impact of the financial Mafia's dictate, creating 27% unemployment, 60%+ among the young and a stratospheric minimum 43% increase in suicides, you begin to get the true meaning of “austerity”. This is a small country, a member of one of the largest and richest developed economic blocks on the planet, yet we can't see to it that the people of a small country of 11.28 million, can have a reasonable standard of living. Capitalism isn't working for the benefit of the majority, capitalism will never work for the benefit of the majority, capitalism can't work for the benefit of the majority. It isn't made that way, it is simply a system of exploitation, where the few live in luxury off the backs of the many, who struggle to survive, as all the wealth they create is siphoned up to that few, the parasites, the leeches of society. Capitalism is the enemy of the people.

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It's A Global Rip-off Sytstem.

        Every Thursday in Madrid, protesters, among them many pensioners, turn up to demonstrate outside the main banks such as Bankia. When Spain's property bubble burst in 2008, the banks attempted to balance their books by encouraging some 300,000 families to invest their life's savings into complex preference shares. The families say that instead of being warned of the risks, they were assured that the shares could not be safer. Now the banks are bust, the money has gone, and thousands pensioners and families have lost everything. There are thousands of arbitration cases, which can take years, and some are being offered a fraction of their savings. Of course to be a 70+ year old pensioner and told that your case will take years and it will be a fraction of what you had, is hardly justice. That money didn't just vanish into thin air, it went somewhere, just one of the many ways this system siphons wealth upwards to the pampered parasitic class.

 Photo from Demotix.

 

       Another way to syphon wealth from the ordinary people to that group of leeches, is to sell off public assets. Staying with Madrid, there have been protests there against the selling off of publicly owned affordable housing stock, to venture capitalists, which results in increased rents and evictions. This is the way this system, controled by the financial Mafia, works, everything can become a money-maker, all you have to do is force the ordinary people to pay, if they don't, then like the banks, steal their money, or the venture capitalists, evict them.

Photo from Demotix.

  

Main banner of the demonstration, in Spanish: 'Right to housing for everyone, out vulture funds. Against the financial scam'.

        This is Spain, but it is not unique, across the globe the pattern is the same, it is a world wide con-system, a universal rip-off, a system that for the many, it produces struggle, poverty and deprivation, for the few, opulence. When the financial Mafia talk of growth, they are talking about their balance sheets, that need have nothing beneficial for you and I. The system is run by the wealthy parasites and everything they do will be to protect and increase that wealth, we are incidental to them, to be used, or abandoned as surplus to requirements. Is this what we want for our kids and grandkids? The choice is ours to make, we can destroy this greed drive system of exploitation, and replace it with one that sees to the needs of all our people. We have the imagination, the ability and the resources, all that is missing is the will. Think, what type of heritage do you want to leave to the next generation? 

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When Is Enough Enough?

        This is a wee speech that we should all learn and repeat on a daily basis and when ever we come face to face with that bloated political class and any of their corporate/financial Mafia friends. Reblogged from arrezafe:

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The Holy Trinity, The Protectors Of Wealth.

       The people of Greece have experienced what is probably the most rapid deterioration of living standards of any modern developed country. They have entered a world of collapsing education and health-care, vicious wage cuts, stratospheric unemployment, destruction of all social services, massive tax increases and a range of new taxes, all this, to save the banksters and the bond market from facing their gambling losses.

     The resultant misery, ill health, mental and physical, rising addiction problems, increase in suicides, a flood of homelessness, rising crime and violence on the streets and the break up of families as thousands leave Greece to try to survive elsewhere, is not enough. Well according to that Holy Trinity, the protector of wealth and privilege, the Troika, (ECB, European central bank, EC, European Commission, IMF, International Mankind Fuckers), as they are pushing their fascist puppet government in Athens to speed up the pace of “reforms”. It seems that because the Athens puppets couldn't give away the state run natural gas supplier DEPA at a cheap enough price, they are not meeting the criteria set by the Holy Trinity, the Troika, so might not get the rest of the bailout.

      So four years of untold misery for the people of Greece with the promise that they would all then enter the promised land of mythical growth and prosperity for all, looks like it isn't going to work. They haven't sold (handed over) enough of the people's assets to the corporate world, they haven't lowered the wages enough, the haven't dismantled the employment regulations enough. Under no circumstances can the banksters and the bond markets be allowed to lose any of their ill-gotten gains, even if they gamble the lot with the reckless gay abandon of drunk gambling addict.

     There is also the talk of a €2-3 billion shortfall in the funding of the Holy Trinity, as they claim that some European states are dragging their feet on the funding matter. So even if the fascists puppets in Athens gave away all the people's assets and paid-off another few thousand public sector workers, there is a chance that they wont get the money. No matter the outcome, the misery knowingly inflicted on the people of Greece will continue, their situation is not likely to improve much, if at all, for decades to come. 

  It is not the balancing of the budget that has to be addressed, it is not the  Trioka's reforms that have to be speeded up, it is the stinking system of greed driven capitalism that has to be dismantled. Through all this misery and hardship in Greece, the pattern is the same as other countries, the rich are doing just fine, it is the people that have to take the misery to prop up a system of privilege for the few. Is this what we want?

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They're Only Here To Help You!!

    A mortgage is for life, but your house might not be!! Enjoy.

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Which is Safest, a Bank or a Box Under the Bed.

      I keep pumping out the message that what is happening in Greece, is on its way here via Spain, Portugal, Italy and Ireland, and now we can add Cyprus. Remember that first directive from the financial Mafia, that savings in Cyprus would be cut by up to 10%. It was thrown out by all the local politicians, so they could go back to Brussels supposedly to "discuss" the matter again, giving them and there millionaire circle of parasites time to get there money out before they came back and accepted the second and same demand, by the financial Mafia. Only this time it was rumoured that it would be 40% of savings stolen. Now the figure is going to 80% snatched from your account. Everybody is saying that is a one and only savings plunder of this type by the financial Mafia. How wrong could you be, it seems that this type of theft has been discussed by all the players in the financial Mafia club, from the US, to UK and even sunny New Zealand. It will, I have no doubt, be rolled out across all those countries that are summoned to the altar of the Trioka and told to seek a bailout. Then perhaps it could be used to supplement the "austerity" measures to encourage those mythical "green shoots of recovery". All for our benefit of course!!

      In this type of "democracy" these big decisions that can shatter the lives of millions are made in secret, by faceless suits, in sumptuous rooms in marble halls, all done and dusted away from prying eyes. Make no mistake about it, the economy in Cyprus is finished, all small and medium business will go bust, poverty and deprivation will be the norm for the unfortunate ordinary people of the sunny Mediterranean island. It will be decades of poverty and suffering for all the ordinary people, of course they can take comfort in the fact that their misery and deprivation is saving the country. Can somebody explain to me what the "country" is, if it is not its people? In true and honest language, the ordinary people are being sacrificed to save the billionaires from taking a hit on their gambling losses. We are dealing with desperate conmen, gangsters, thugs.

    This from Seeking Alpha:

     Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few eurozone "troika" officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England dated Dec. 10, 2012, shows that these plans have been long in the making; that they originated with the G20 Financial Stability Board in Basel, Switzerland (discussed earlier here); and that the result will be to deliver clear title to the banks of depositor funds.

New Zealand has a similar directive, discussed in my last article here, indicating that this isn't just an emergency measure for troubled eurozone countries. New Zealand's Voxy reported on March 19:

The National Government [is] pushing a Cyprus-style solution to bank failure in New Zealand, which will see small depositors lose some of their savings to fund big bank bailouts...
Open Bank Resolution (OBR) is Finance Minister Bill English's favored option dealing with a major bank failure. If a bank fails under OBR, all depositors will have their savings reduced overnight to fund the bank's bailout.

Read the full article HERE:

      Well now you know what they discuss at those G20 parasite get-togethers.

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THE MASKING OF DEPRIVATION.

        While the media was spewing out images of everybody having a great time over the last week or so, we should remember that nothing has changed, austerity is still the plan. With fireworks, tinsel and an array of nicely wrapped boxes, it is easy to forget the misery inflicted the poor on a daily basis by this austerity and it is still there. Christmas has done nothing for the people of Greece who are still being rapidly pushed down the slope to the pit of deprivation. The media would have you think otherwise, with glowing reports of how the financial Mafia have agreed the terms for the next slice of bailout. Which in fact will never go anywhere near the ordinary people of Greece, it is merely to help out the Greek banksters. Just remember, Greece's today is our tomorrow, unless, of course, we change the system.

This from LibCom:

      As more loans have been released to the Greek state a combination of recent surveys and reports show the true effects of years of austerity. There has been across the board reductions in conditions and living standards for large parts of the Greek population.
       The political and financial worlds have been feeling pretty pleased with themselves recently. The next instalment of loans to the Greek state have been released and the country's credit rating has even improved. The Prime Minister and his government tell us that this means Greece is on the road to recovery. The government and it's international lenders have saved Greece, just in time for Christmas.
In contrast to the official optimism(or delusion) a recent round of reports and surveys shows that the situation is in fact getting worse. Unemployment, corruption, suicide and homeless rates continue to rise as living standards and wages fall.
      The latest unemployment rate is around 26% and is expected to rise further still. 26% of the Greek working population comes to over one million people without work. In addition to this it's also possible that up to 500,000 more are unemployed but not included in official statistics. As the economy is expected to contract further in 2013 we should expect this rate to keep rising.

Read the full article HERE:

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THE COUNTRY, LIKE THE STREETS, BELONGS TO US.

 

      Saturday 20th October the STUC, has called for a massive march and rally in Glasgow, to protest against the coalition government's policy of cuts. There will be on in London on the same day. Let's be clear on this, this is not a trade union protest. It is a national protest of trade unionists, unemployed, pensioners, disabled, students, teenagers, unpaid carers and housewives. This is not a battle of trade unionists against the government, it is a people's protest against the cabal of millionaires who are shoving their ideology down the throats of the ordinary people. Nothing in this ideology was ever in their manifesto, they don't have a mandate to impoverish the people of this country for the benefit of the banksters. They don't have a mandate to build corporate fascism in this country at the behest of the financial Mafia, nor do they have a mandate to sell off the people's assets to their millionaire friends in the corporate world. No where in their manifesto did it say we will privatise the National Health Service, we will decimate your education system, we will close libraries and nurseries. The election and their much publicised manifestos were,  no more than a sham, a con-trick, what they say before the election and what they do after, have no relation to each other.

 

 

 

      So let's make this people's protest against this dictatorial elite of pampered millionaire parasites, this cabal of privileged leeches, the biggest and noisiest this country has seen in many a year. We will not accept poverty imposed on us by millionaires who know nothing of our problems, who are products of plundered wealth, tax dodges and privileged upbring.

      While they stand in expensive suits, and preach to the general public that sacrifices have to be made, tough decisions have to be made, knowing full well that such tough decisions and sacrifices, will in no way impinge on their lavish, unearned lifestyle. They can never see the decimation they are deliberately heaping on the ordinary people, as they always have one eye on their shareholdings and another on their bank accounts.

     This protest must shout loud and clear, we the people are the country, we will decide how this country will be run, and it will be run for the benefit of all our people, we will see to the needs of all our people, we will not starve our children nor sacrifice their future to fatten banksters and bond market gurus.

     October 20th. Take to the streets, fill Glasgow to overflow, with noise, and determination. Don't wait for the STUC to contact you or inform you, form your own group, contact other local groups, Clydeside IWW, Glasgow Anarchist Federation, but turn up, be part of this. Let this be the start of complete solidarity between employed, unemployed, pensioners, students, disabled, teenagers, unpaid carers and housewives. It is your world or it is their world, they are not prepared to compromise, under no circumstances should we, we have the the lives of our pensioners and the vulnerable of society and the future of our children and grandchildren, in our hands.

 

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SHE'S JUST CHECKING THE BOOKS.

      With the Greek people struggling to survive the financial Mafia's onslaught it would appear to be rubbing salt on the wound when the chief hit-man of that Mafia, Angela Merkel, is to pay a visit to their capital Athens. I have no doubt she will be there to check over the books and see that the subservient Greek government is doing what it is told. Seeing that it is selling off enough of the people's assets to her corporate friends and at the right price. She will also be throwing a bankers eye over the plundering of the public purse to see that all the wee nooks and crannies have been duly emptied into the coffers of her bankster cronies. 

 The people have to tighten their belts to get us out of this mess.

This from Teacher Dude's Grill and BBQ:

    After much consideration I've decided that I'll be going down to Athens to cover the protests planned for the arrival of German chancellor, Angela Merkel to Greece. It's not a decision to be taken lightly as angry protesters are unlikely to be throwing rose petals and messages of good luck tomorrow. Already political organisations from across the entire political spectrum have said they will be calling upon supporters to take part in anti - austerity demonstrations on Tuesday in the centre of the Greek capital.In addition both public and private sector trade unions will be also part of the mix with marches set for 1 pm in Syntagma Square*, opposite parliament and the scene of the many violent confrontations.

     For their part, the Greek police has announced, depending on which media source you use, that 6000, 6500 or 7000 officers will be on duty including the notoriously violent riot units known as the MAT. Also 4 water canons will be on standby, marking an escalation in the arms race between police and protesters in Greece.

     As far as the foreign and local mainstream media is concerned the visit by Merkel is being hailed as a diplomatic triumph for Greek PM, Antonis Samaras and proof that Germany is determined to keep Greece within the Eurozone. On the internet and in the streets and cafes the arrival of the German leader has provoked a reaction of anger and dismay, being viewed as an arrogant act of provocation at a time when the nation's poorest are being hammered by an public service cuts and tax hikes during an economic downturn unprecedented in modern Greek history. 

      Last week's policing fiasco when demonstrating shipyard workers stormed the grounds of the ministry of defence unopposed means the law enforcement authorities and the government will be determined to show that they are in charge of the situation on the streets. In operational terms that means the gloves will be off and a repeat of the violent clashes that marked the mass Indignant rallies last year is a distinct possibility. 

Read the full article HERE:

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THE MIGHTY BUS-PASS OF DESTRUCTION!!!

     The other day while mucking about the house, I was half heartedly listening to some crap pouring out of the mouth of a politician, and I thought, Ah, another Tory having a go at he poor and the pensioners. According to this member of the crooks and liars club, it seems that the root of our financial troubles are free bus-passes and winter fuel allowances. Shock, horror, it wasn't a Tory, it was the leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Johann Lamont. This particular member of the crooks and liars club believes that it is free bus-passes, free prescriptions and the freeze on council tax that has brought about all these austerity cuts. To her these universal benefits are responsible for the loss of 30,000 public sector jobs. So the gambling banksters are off the hook, it's those bloody pensioners that are responsible for our “double-dip recession”. I have tried hard to work out how my humble and much appreciated bus-pass has brought Greece, Spain, Italy and Ireland to their knees, and I can't quite get it. All my analysis keeps taking me back to something the financial Mafia were up to, but who am I to understand the complexities of the gambling antics of the financial Mafia.

     So there you have it, come the next election you could vote Tory and have benefit cuts and an end to universal benefits, or you could vote Labour, and instead, just have benefit cuts and an end to universal benefits. There is however, a universal agreement between the main political parties, that all our problems will be solved if we strip the public naked and send all the tax money to the parasites that run the financial Mafia. The astute analysis of our political masters is that all the wealth we create in this country, can only support our corrupt financial institutions and there isn't enough left to be squandered on the social fabric of society.

      As winter approaches and the temperature starts to tumble, all those suffering fuel poverty, (aproximately a third of the population of Scotland) just feel good inside in the knowledge that you are saving the banksters from facing their gambling losses, what nobler cause could you serve.

      Of course we could re-organise our society so that it sees to the needs of all our people, and all that wealth that “WE” create, could go towards a fair and just society. All we have to do is ignore all politicians and get rid of the profit greedy parasites that are sitting on our backs.

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IT'S TRUE, WE NEED MORE ANARCHISTS.

     It is more than a year and a half since I wrote up the blog, We Needs More Anarchists, but I feel it is even more relevant today than when I wrote the piece.

    Savage cuts have been made to our living standards and to the education system, our National Health Service is being fragmented to be made suitable for the corporate world to gobble up. The disabled have been attacked and made to feel like criminals as they sit before assessors, to see if they can lift an empty box, or some other such humiliating and useless task. VAT increase has been followed by energy price increases, wages are frozen or cut and pensions are under attack. We are being forced to work longer, pay more for our pensions and get less when we retire. This is not the end of the financial Mafia's grand plan, there are more cuts in the pipeline, next year will see an even greater attack on our living standards. All this to prop up the banksters world so that they don't loose all the billions they gambled on phony deals and get rich quick schemes.

      Do we just let them get on with it, and screw us for all we are worth, or do we try to negotiate with them with, "Please sir, can you give us a little bit more of the cake", or do we decide we can run our affairs much better by ourselves and set about destroying this system that hands power to the rich? Do you honestly believe that voting to put a cabal of millionaires in power will solve our problems? Will they start to move wealth from their millionaire friends down to the likes of you and I? Would their millionaire friends let them?

      Like I said more than eighteen months ago, We Needs More Anarchists, and now, 

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