Now here’s a chap who gets it. When are you going to get angry? I know the government and their cronies in the media will tell you that calm and reasoned, politically correct and apologetic begging is the correct way to converse with power.

They’re bound to tell you that though, aren’t they? Who benefits most from this namby-pamby, stiff upper lip bullshit? You?

Does anything change when you beg?

When the crooks in government and their insatiable bosses in the boardrooms and ivory towers are confronted with one man who speaks the truth they can ignore it.

Hell, they can even ignore a million on the march, as they did when the British people instructed their “public servants” not to invade Iraq.

It’s only when all of us start reacting to the abuses of power with unflinching and uncompromising strength that the tiny minority who dictate to us (as in fascism) will be forced to pay attention.

You don’t ask a mugger nicely not to rob you, you punch him in the face and defend yourself, for crying out loud!

Yes, the swearing is optional. If bad language is going to get in the way of you defending yourself and the rights of billions of others who suffer at the hands of corporate and bankster criminals, then stand up nicely. Jeez…

But say it firmly. And mean it. Whether you like it or not you are in a war for your future. Are you going to fight?

If you were instructed to fight in one of their poxy wars you’d be fed all that crap about your duty and honour to die for the bastards. Millions have heard it, millions have died.

Well you have a duty to yourself too, and the people around you. And your kids.

And Now for the News that Matters

After all, having a 200lb issue that “matters” hanging under his nose for over a month now must be taking a toll as he strains to look every which way to avoid it.

The issue, of course, is Andrew Maguire’s disclosure of systemic fraud perpetrated by the usual suspect banksters in the gold and silver futures market.

Now Peston will need to redouble his efforts in looking the other way as the SEC probes six major Wall Street banks for evidence they “mislead investors”. Not that anyone needs any further evidence to notice the jumbo neon sign at the summit of a mountain of corruption blinking, “Bloody Obvious!”

The list of guilty parties, let’s dispense with pretentious words such as alleged considering we are talking about the same old gang, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Citigroup Inc, Deutsche Bank AG, UBS AG, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc reads like roll call at a mobster’s convention and indeed it is.

This malignant and execrable cabal that has hijacked the global economy and looted trillions from humanity will now deploy a steaming horde of the world’s most unscrupulous ambulance chasers to defend their spray-on honour. And of course they’ll prevail because that’s just how it works in these enlightened times.

Gatekeepers like Robert Peston who apologise for gangsters like Goldman Sachs inflict a terrible harm on our society in addition to the fundamental toll caused by the great banking scam. Consider the sight of half the population of the western world wandering around in a delusional state worshipping new heroes like Obama or the cynical “change” coalition spewed up by the UK election. How were these people so thoroughly misled and for such a sustained period of time?

That’s correct, they have been listening to worm-tongues like Robert Peston.

Most of us don’t even suspect the nature of the problems we face, it appears. People like Peston are afforded gravity and authority rather than being laughed and then angrily chased out of the room. Little surprise the banksters can pull off daylight robbery.

The victims of the mass media all worry how the privileged hens shall be aligned in the coup whilst the fox walks through them taking bites from each. We all have to take the pain, advise the banksters’ political and media friends. Nobody must ever mention the fox.

Getting back to the terribly troublesome Andrew Maguire, I suppose he’d be a post apocalyptic Chicken Licken rushing around the silly old hens warning them the sky had long fallen and the heavens were on the way down too.

Cluck, cluck, cluck says Peston as he forces another dose of conventional wisdom from his overtaxed and swollen rectum. Bonds will hold up, the hedge funds are secure, house prices are improving, the recovery is surging ahead, it’s a boom, it’s a bust, treat all the symptoms but never admit to the cancer.

Even so, he won’t be able to forever distract you from the teeth sinking into your groin. “Peston Shocker – The Banks are Corrupt! Who could have known?”

There’s a huge and long running global scandal exploding around our ears yet for now Peston remains confident of the mainstream machine’s ability to airbrush it all away. When will he realise that closing his eyes won’t make Andrew Maguire or the record of the banksters disappear?

We need a better media, a media that informs and acts as a warning when the powerful exceed the bounds of their already lavish entitlement. We need a media that doesn’t entertain the likes of Robert Peston.

And it’s not just Peston but all the gatekeepers who examine the dots but studiously fail to connect them. These hacks and repeaters are detrimental to an informed public that would be a genuine antidote to the corrupt political system and global criminal corporate network. We need to make them invisible rather than the whistleblowers.

That would be a change worth getting excited about.

You have to hand it to the mainstream media. The control it has exerted over the general election coverage these past few weeks is a wonder to behold. A beautifully executed con job that has left nothing to chance.

Certainly what the TV presenters, interviewers, commentators and news anchors have achieved, along with their counterparts in the press, is unethical, immoral, corrosive to democracy and the idea of liberty and wholly harmful to the people of this nation. But it can’t be denied they have managed to massage an angry and vengeful electorate into a compliant and misdirected mass, on the TV screens at least.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/ or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” – Joseph Goebbels

The media prepared the pre-election ground with a campaign of fear based around the ludicrous prospect of the BNP suddenly gaining mass appeal. The message went forth that rejection of the mainstream parties represented a wasted vote or worse, an open door for extremism and fringe politics.

This was presented with a straight face as if it is possible to conceive a more extreme or crackpot outcome than the thirteen years we have suffered under New Labour.

Which “fringe” party advocated illegal war against helpless civilians and the transferral of power to casino gangsters in the City of London followed by a trillion pound bailout when the inevitable consequences unfolded? Which “extremist” party suggested empowering busybodies on the government payroll to root through rubbish bins or inspect the contents of refrigerators to ensure insane behavioural engineering diktats are obeyed? Who built the surveillance state and wants to go further with a control freak agenda that would delight and impress Adolf Hitler or the old Stalinists but leaves civil rights campaigners and libertarians shuddering and fearful for the future?

Say what you like about the BNP (and most if it is deserved) but nothing is more loony than the loony left. Yet everyone else is the madman according to a media that has played along with barely a whimper of protest, barring your cartoon Littlejohn types who are offered up as confirmation the alternative view is brash and dangerous.

Thirteen years of abuse piled upon abuse is a history vanished down the memory hole, unquestioned by political pundits like Nick Robinson who delight in the statistics of the fast approaching kick-off but never stop to consider what the game is all about. Politics as sport is their business and they come armed with fancy graphics and jarring music to blast away sober observations or awkward questions.

Even Stella Rimington, former MI5 chief, has warned against the remorseless rise of the police state – the police themselves complaining of political excess and agendas that run contrary to the beliefs upon which this nation is supposedly built. We hear nothing of this in the so-called debates sandwiched between the spinning logos and prime time advertisements.

But despite the array of tools at their disposal the “experts” can’t spin away what is obvious to even the most uninformed voter, Labour’s turn at playing government has been a disaster of epic proportions. Neither have the talking heads been able to attach significant appeal to the eternally grey David Cameron who has been engineered too precisely to the extent he evokes memories of the widely hated Tony Blair.

Pumping up the profile of the Liberal Democrats and Nick Clegg was a master stoke born from necessity and has paid off surely even beyond the mainstream’s wildest expectations. Clegg and his not so secretly fractured party offer nothing but a cosmetic reconfiguration of the traditional two party system and indeed it could be argued their policies are the most detrimental in terms of our liberty and prosperity. You may recall, though the fact has been purged from the discussion, the Liberal Democrats are determined to see us consumed entirely by the anti-democratic and instinctively authoritarian European Union.

Clegg is a lightening conductor for the public rage. The establishment feared a meltdown this election. They fretted at the prospect of the disillusioned and disgusted public rejecting the corruption now clearly exposed in Westminster by turning to genuine alternatives or staying at home.

The solution to rising public resentment has been the packaging and marketing of Nick Clegg, offered for sale as the much demanded change the people yearn for. Yet an examination of his policies on the key issues unmasks him as just another clone tightly bound to the establishment agenda. More government, more control, more taxes, less liberty. This is the “Liberal” Democrat and this is your “alternative” on May 6th.

Certainly on the trivial issues made monumental by media misdirection, such as meaningless proposals for electoral reform, Clegg is singing a different tune. He has big ideas on how to cement beyond removal the utterly crooked and perverted manner in which detached and self-interested puppets for the corporate elite are ushered into bureaucratic prominence.

In reality Clegg has nothing serious to say about bringing the decision making process closer to the man in the street. In an age of technology you might think it is possible to refer to the governed more than once every five years, especially on such huge and far reaching issues as deeper integration with the Europeans.

TV reality shows can organise snap referenda in real time having engaged the audience on a weekly basis thus provoking informed choice. Politicians can’t even honestly inform us through their shady and double-dealing manifestos. The detached “lifer” bureaucrats in parliament and the civil service believe an endorsement every half decade is perfectly sufficient, they go as far as to suggest democracy is threatened when left to the public opinion. You’ve heard them make this remarkable claim every time the idea of genuine public engagement is suggested.

Few, I suppose, would enjoy a parliament run by phone-in vote but this isn’t the point. What matters is the politicians believe the only workable system is a non-representative free hand for them until it comes time to spew a new set of lies and half truths at election time.

The fact the British public was not allowed to voice an opinion when our nation was signed away to the Europeans is staggering. This act alone proves our present form of government is far removed from the democratic principle and more akin to a plutocracy. An important discussion point, you might imagine, but it hasn’t rated a mention during the election campaign with the only party prepared to speak about it, UKIP, thrown to the sidelines and starved of media coverage.

A similar blackout has occurred in relation to the expenses scandal. Of course it has not been possible for the media and politicians to completely ignore the public backlash. Instead the three parties have all agreed to hold their hands up and have promised tighter self-regulation. A handful of the worst offenders have been thrown to the lions, ironically at the public expense. This, all three parties agree, is sufficient recompense for stealing from our wallets at a time when the banks are signing off on our generation spanning poverty.

These politicians all stand in a palace and refer to each other as “honourable” men and women. Even though the evidence indicates the opposite, there are no plans for any of the parties to look deeper into how the whole Westminster bubble operates and maintains itself.

The inescapable but unmentioned conclusion is that politics more and more attracts those most unsuited to public service. It lures dishonest nest featherers who act according to their club affiliation rather than the common good. When caught betraying the public trust they investigate themselves, reprimand themselves, it’s a closed shop.

The expenses scandal informs us beyond argument our politicians are corrupt and our political system is rotten. Now these same miscreants stand before us and tell us they have changed. What do you expect a liar to say when caught red handed? He’ll tell a lie, of course.

These “honourable” men collude with the media and propose criminals and conmen are the best we can hope for come election day. No other options have been granted air time or column inches. This is it, this is your government, this is your media. The overriding issue analysed (to death) is whether one corrupt party will dominate or if they’ll all get a “fair” crack at the trough.

Our politicians are murderers and war criminals too, not that you would know it from the media coverage. Certainly Afghanistan has had plenty of controlled exposure. The debate has been carefully distilled to an unapologetic argument about who will provide the most resources to our imperial forces so they can further destroy a nation far away. Oil and gas contracts for the big corporations is not newsworthy because motive is never considered.

The media rambles about a sham democracy confined to a few square miles in Kabul whilst Afghanistan continues to be the bloodied plaything of profiteers in glass towers in London, Washington and New York.

The invasion and occupation of Afghanistan is publicly justified by the events of September 11th, 2001. Based on a proclamation rather than a proper investigation it has been decided an ex-CIA operative and his Taliban friends, who were tolerated until they refused to play ball in handing over their nation’s resources to the west, were responsible for 911 and a “just” and “moral” penalty is the death and destruction of the Afghan people and infrastructure respectively.

The hunt for bin Laden has long ceased to be an issue, ever since he was allowed to escape when cornered – so the story goes. The Taliban, once defeated, are the main focus now. Apparently if we don’t keep fighting over there they will all come and fight us over here. The easy interchangeability of manufactured boogie-men provides the ever present threat useful for policy makers at home and the lucrative opportunities for our big brand companies in the war zones.

If it’s not Al-Qaeda it’s the Taliban or Saddam or the “new Hitler” in Iran. Enemies that have no record whatsoever of having targeted our nation prior to us deciding to bomb them and steal their national resources. Yet the mainstream media is happy to confirm the lie, they hate us because we are free.

How many Afghans have paid the price of this lie is unknown because we don’t count the corpses. What we do know is there is no end in sight to the carnage nor the monetary expenditure at a time when we are told we have no money left to spend. Gordon Brown has been boasting about extending expenditure way beyond any estimations offered when we decided to follow along with tail wagging behind the American war machine.

None of the mainstream approved parties suggest reviewing our commitments overseas and the media hasn’t pressed them. It is silently implied the war in Afghanistan will continue without question or exit strategy.

Worse still is the sordid history of our engagement in Iraq. This issue has been airbrushed out of the campaign entirely. Our nation (or the fathers, sons and daughters of a portion of it) went to war based on the lies told by our political leaders and at least hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of human beings have been murdered as a result.

Four million Iraqis have been reduced to refugee status. Our crazed warmongers boasted they would bomb Iraq back to the stone age and they have delivered on that promise. Regime change and nation building are now the norm and International law is only ever applicable to the other guy.

All the parties strain to heap praise on “our boys” over there who do a marvellous job building nations for Johnny Foreigners who, thanks to previous and similarly disastrous imperial interventions, have failed to build viable states of their own accord. History is parcelled up into detached segments which are then switched in and out according to the demands of the imperial agenda. The media sells each new justification for aggression without a blush.

Iraq is a crime of such magnitude it can scarcely be comprehended, the ultimate war crime of the type we determined to hold Germany accountable for at the conclusion of World War II but for which we now throw away our own laws because we are the aggressor. Behind the scenes the resources of Iraq are silently signed away to Shell and Exxon Mobil, the media ignore the dots that beg to be connected and studiously avoids the repeated patterns that scream of a guiding hand behind these “fateful” events.

The war criminal Tony Blair walks free, in this country at least, and lines his pockets explaining to paying audiences how he would commit his crimes again even though his lies about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction have long since been exposed. The war criminal Gordon Brown, who wrote out the cheques, has been rewarded by promotion to the highest office without seeking any endorsement from the electorate. He is so detached from morality or the fundamentals of justice he has the nerve to run for office again and the media plays along by averting their eyes from his blood soaked past.

In eight hours of televised debate Brown remained unchallenged on his criminal past by the other two candidates. Clegg is fond of using the term “illegal” to describe the invasion and occupation of Iraq but he shuns the next obvious step by failing to associate the policy of prominent British politicians with the illegal act. If a crime has been committed is it not usual to ask who committed that crime and attempt to bring them to justice?

For Clegg the word “illegal” is useful as a campaigning device but it’s plain enough he’d rather not push things further. That’s because he sat in the same parliament as the war criminals and is tarnished by association. He may not have voted for war but he observed the criminal behaviour anyway and did nothing other than show his total commitment to our invading forces once the killing spree commenced. At Nuremberg such a defence resulted in hanging. In modern Britain, regardless of the scale of the crime, the greatest threat to our politicians is banishment to a lucrative boardroom safe from public scrutiny.

Of course David Cameron overtly supported the aggression against Iraq, a fact you may (despite the media silence) still recall.

Perhaps the most glaring omission by the mainstream media in the coverage of this election is the unprecedented fraud conducted by the banks against not just the people of Britain but the entire planet.

Much like the expenses scandal the media would have you believe the underlying problems in the banking system lie with corrupt individuals rather than an inherently corrupt model. Gatekeepers like Robert Peston of the BBC will dutifully relay the latest news that Goldman Sachs stands accused of criminal behaviour but they aren’t disposed to laying out the whole laundry list of crimes attributable to these banksters. And there are many on record.

For those who aren’t afraid of digging where journalists never tread it quickly becomes apparent the banks are a cancer that has eaten away at global economies and hence our personal prosperity for centuries. Boom and bust is the tell-tale sign of the real banking function.

Originally designed to safeguard gold deposits the bankers learned they could cheat their customers by issuing paper promises against those deposits but in amounts that far outweighed the physical quantity of gold in the vaults. Eventually the banksters persuaded kings, queens and politicians this fraud was beneficial to the economy and so fractional reserve banking, a euphemism for counterfeiting, was born.

This crime is now so ingrained in modern economic models most observers sing loudly about the overall benefits of allowing a few individuals to prosper by repeatedly diluting the wealth of their victims. It is proposed that capital driven economics (capital being a euphemism for debt) builds long term prosperity and were it not for fractional reserve banking and the fiat currency (money created from thin air and backed by nothing of tangible value) mankind would have progressed at a slower pace.

Never mind that every bubble must burst if it is inflated sufficiently. Set aside that slavery is the underlying price of the bankster economy as well as the horror of war and a world where a third of the population battles obesity whilst the rest of humanity starves to death. Out of sight, out of mind is the real magic formula behind the first world miracle.

The final nail in the coffin of a free and prosperous humanity arrived when control of the money supply was taken from the state and handed to the banksters. This allowed the latter to cyclically inflate the money supply, thereby expanding the public debt, and then reduce it causing defaults and the transfer of tangible assets to the banks in settlement for debts they had written using money pulled from thin air. Thus their risk was cut to zero and their return guaranteed. The very same model persists today but with a few more avaricious twists applied.

Herein lies your eternal boom and bust cycle that politicians laughably claim they seek to eradicate. All three political parties stress an immediate return to debt production by the banks is imperative. The credit must flow again, they declare. The wheel must turn again. You’ll notice how they use positive terminology to describe highly undesirable circumstances. Debt is credit, money is debt. Freedom is slavery but that’s another story never to be told.

Our economy does not have to operate like this, it could cast off the vampire bankers that suck the nation’s blood. The government could easily create money backed by real assets and then regulate the money supply. In fact this is how it used to be before the banksters cornered the market on everything. Now such concepts are laughed at by “experts” who tell us that paying interest on our own money is an essential ingredient to any modern economy. How convenient.

Of course it’s true that our gleaming consumer debt economies could never have grown so large without voodoo banking practices. We have all become richer in paper terms as a result of this grand fraud but, because of the inertia in the system, we have been saved from a final accounting. Until now perhaps.

Certainly we possess a lot of consumer “things” we never owned before but in reality we are worse off than the penniless pauper. He has nothing but we are submerged in debt and the interest on that debt can never be repaid. After all, if the banksters produce all the money in the system then where does the money required to pay interest come from? Think it through.

In light of this, how should we tackle the banks that have extracted a trillion pounds (£1,000,000,000,000) under threat of a global financial collapse? That’s called an extortion racket, a tool much favoured by your average gangster but taken to new extremes by our expensively suited banksters.

Brown, who handed even more control to the banks, calls it an outrage, Cameron wants more freedom for the banks, Clegg is promising “tough” action so that nobody will ever hold the nation hostage again. They all suggest a limit on bonuses and a tax on the illicit spoils. Would you think justice had been served if a bank robber was forced to pay a small percentage of his loot back to the bank and then had the interest on his ill-gotten gains taxed at a couple of percentage points? This is what the frontrunners in this election are suggesting as a fitting punishment for the greatest criminals ever to foul the planet. It’s a joke.

And what do they offer by way of reform? They urge the banks should be broken up at the very same time they suggest huge and unaccountable money lenders be given sweeping global powers. The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the IMF, these are the organisations that will be tasked with building a more robust and stable model. They also happen to be the greatest practitioners of the global counterfeiting and debt scams. You couldn’t make it up but because the media carefully conceals the real nature of banking the electorate can be tricked into believing real action has been taken.

Sorry, but it’s only your money that has been taken and your jobs and houses and land and the future of your children. Don’t be fooled, nothing is changing and if anything the future is bleaker than at any time in history.

I really have wandered off the election track now and I could go on and discuss the third world sweat shops and the permanent war economies and the drugs trade and all the other tin foil hat “conspiracies” that our “honest” politicians and bankers would never be involved in. I’m the madman, remember. It’s the guy who stole your wallet that has your best interests at heart.

It is an understatement to conclude the mainstream media could have done a better job of informing the public during this election build up. That it has decided once again against fulfilling its original role in society is another indicator of how corrupt and attached to the political and corporate elite it has become.

As such the voters will go into the polling booths drenched in spin, shielded from the real issues and bereft of a real choice. Some will see through the conditioning, others are already immune to it. But, I fear, most will fall victim. I get this impression from talking directly to people around me. Their issues are meaningless to me and mine are incomprehensible and outlandish to them. I believe they are well meaning but complacent, they think I’m a lunatic. I resent the majority endorsing more of what I despise and the majority despises me for even questioning the system in which they have so much faith invested.

I am a libertarian, the exact opposite of a Liberal Democrat. Therefore I would never seek to impose my beliefs or will on others. What I object to is others who feel it only right to impose their uninformed decisions on me.

It is painfully evident the mainstream parties and their complicit media have scored a decisive victory in this election. All hint of dissent has been purged, all possibility of choice eradicated.

For those of us who were hopeful the glaring exposure of the criminals in office or the direct impact of their (greedy beyond reason) bankster friends on the lives of normal people would somehow energise real change, May 6th will be a bitter blow.

Nevertheless, anyone committed to justice, a fair and level playing field (which just so happens to be the opposite of wealth distribution by force), peace, equality under the common law and above all liberty must start again and plan for the next five years.

These will be trying times in which the state consolidates its grip and the globalist agenda advances at pace. We will witness more war, more suffering and misery, more inequality, more crimes against humanity and the guilty parties will continue to walk free.

We will see the mainstream media taking big steps to recover a monopoly on information as the Internet is strangled using brute force legislation. We may even be targeted directly as the economic situation worsens and the state seeks out minority victims and “truth criminals” to be thrown to the masses as a distraction.

But I truly believe more people are waking up to the reality of the world in which we are living. I believe more realise we are endlessly repeating the same mistakes and the cycle needs to be broken for genuine progress to occur.

We didn’t get our message across this time, we were trounced by a beautifully executed media con. But nobody can afford to lose heart or give up the fight. Great social change never arrives without protracted struggle. No matter how intimidating or pervasive the enemy, take comfort in recalling that every great tyranny has eventually stumbled then fallen. Rome, the power of the Church, the Soviet empire, these are notable examples.

For all the Twittering and political wheezing that disguises the debauchery of our political system and strives to mislead, I believe most people are decent and honest and ready to do the right thing if so persuaded. We failed to persuade them this time. We must double our efforts then.

Each and every libertarian is now tasked with picking up a brick from the ruins and laying it on another to recommence the building process. Speak no more of May 6th but instead look forward to a brighter time when surely change for the better must arrive. And work to make it happen.

On May 6th 2010 the livestock of United Kingdom Plc is invited to select a new farmer. You are not obliged to accept this invitation and if you decline a new farmer will be nominated on your behalf by the rest of the herd. You will receive notification of the new farming rules and regulations from May 7th onwards. Welcome to your democracy. This is the story of your enslavement.

Saint Cable, his faith and their cash.

Of course let’s just skip over the admitted fact all the parties have been feeding off dodgy dough up to this point. Provided lessons are learned, what’s a little dirty money between ravenous, cash guzzling pigs?

To underline their intent, the Lib Dems won’t be handing back the reeking pile of dosh shovelled in their direction by their since vanished criminal friend Michael Brown.

Brown stole millions from honest investors, £2.4million of which found its way into Liberal Democrat coffers. In a recent interview, asked if the party should hand the money back to the investors who had lost out, Vince Cable assured the panel everything was above board before stating, “Fuck no! We’re keeping the money, fuck the investors!”

Okay, he might have phrased it slightly differently as he twisted and slithered under sustained questioning, but the sentiment was the same.

Good to see the Lib Dem’s principles are firmly in tune with Westminster. Maybe they are a viable option after all, or at least they are fast learners.

Andrew Maguire is still a red hot topic on the Internet and is still being ignored by the mainstream media. Erik Townsend, a private investor based out of Hong Kong, has written an extensive and hugely informative article that investigates GATA’s role in this story and examines the interviews that have involved Maguire to date.

Townsend leaves JP Morgan in the dog house but is not impressed with GATA and goes as far as to question Maguire’s motivation. This is the other side of the coin.

Debunking the Post-CFTC Precious Metals Fearmongering Campaign

Andrew Maguire is the story the BBC will not mention. Robert Peston is the BBC’s business editor and on his BBC blog Peston’s Picks he claims to offer his “take on the business stories and issues that matter.”

“Business stores and issues that matter” in this case of course refers to stories and issues that matter to Robert Peston and his fellow mainstream gatekeepers at the BBC. Anything else that might well be of critical importance to you, the general public, will never see the light of day.

Mr Peston’s blog is a typical mainstream filtering device. Corporations like the BBC rely on omission to ensure you are kept ignorant of or steered away from anything that runs contrary to the establishment agenda.

This agenda operates on many levels but is ultimately geared to protecting the interests of power and money. And, in the case of the BBC, it uses your money to do its anti-social work.

Some wonder, therefore, how it is possible to openly criticise the BBC and see your criticism printed. The BBC is a shield designed to deflect and absorb such criticism. The criticism is then used as evidence that organisations such as the BBC are honest and receptive to conflicting opinions. “Fair and balanced” as the notoriously unfair and unbalanced Fox News shamelessly boasts. It’s a clever trick and it works well.

But you will hit a brick wall of silence and censorship when you attempt to dig behind the issues and raise a wider perspective than is approved by the media gatekeepers.

Andrew Maguire’s revelations about fraud in the gold and silver futures market and the comprehensive proof he offered to the authorities that implicates JP Morgan Chase is a classic example of the mainstream media agenda at work.

The Andrew Maguire story has been gathering steam on the Internet for weeks now but the mainstream media has deliberately failed to notice. This story is important as it provides a link to other issues that have unavoidably broken into the mainstream, particularly the news that Goldman Sachs has yet again been charged with fraud for market manipulation.

The Maguire story connects dots, a practice long since extinct at the BBC. Goldman Sachs stand accused of manipulating the housing market prior to the crash of 2008. Will Hutton in his article in the Observer finally realises what has been obvious to many for years.

Hiding behind the complexities of our financial system, banks and other institutions are being accused of fraud and deception, with Goldman Sachs just the latest in the spotlight. This has become the most pressing election issue of all – Will Hutton, Now we know the truth. The financial meltdown wasn’t a mistake – it was a con, The Observer, Sunday 18 April 2010

Well done Will, so will you follow this up to ensure it really does become an election issue? I think not. He’s right though, the banks have been stealing your money for ever. It’s the blue whale in the living room, because elephants just don’t measure up in size to the levels of the fraud we are discussing.

The mainstream media is playing a story about fraud in the housing market that discusses the same type of criminal activity detailed by Andrew Maguire in the evidence he submitted to the CFTC. Why is fraud committed two years ago a hot topic when fraud being committed today isn’t worth a mention? Who is drawing the bigger picture?

In 2009 Matt Taibbi aired all of Goldman Sachs’ dirty and blood-stained laundry in an epic article in Rolling Stone. It catalogues Goldman’s involvement in six major cases of deliberately creating financial bubbles and then profiting by collapsing them.

Does Robert Peston lack the necessary skills to do a Google search as he endeavours to offer his, “take on the business stories and issues that matter?” Is Will Hutton moving beyond the suggestion that tighter regulation is all that is required to control the banksters? He even hints the Lib Dems are ideally placed to come to the rescue. Since when have we heard Nick Clegg or the oracle Vince Cable even mentioning the banks’ perpetual debt machines that have sucked the blood from humanity through the ages?

No, a few new regulations here, a tweak there, a couple of scapegoats thrown into jail and all will be well and everyone can get back to business as usual. It’s called a limited hangout, you concede a little ground in order to disguise the fact you already own the pitch. It’s revealing the bare minimum in order to ensure the minimum fallout.

The banks can’t hide the massive scope of their misdeeds and nor can they hide the immense sum of money it has cost you. They think you are stupid but they know nobody is that stupid. So you get a few of the facts in isolation and they tell you what needs to happen next. The politicians parrot the same song and a consensus is constructed to which you’ll be invited to subscribe at pains of being branded a conspiracy theorist or general malcontent should you refuse.

The issues are very complicated, don’t you know? Far too complicated for you to understand. You need to leave it up to the Robert Pestons of this world to decide how much you ought to know and when you need to know it.

Please follow the links in this article. They’ll lead you on a path that Robert Peston hopes you will never tread. Then go back and read his blog and marvel at his footwork as he dances around the whale.

Andrew Maguire had the courage to step forward and expose corruption. When will the BBC have the courage to do the job we pay them handsomely to do?

I’ll be shocked when somebody accuses Goldman Sachs of being honest, to be honest.

Goldman Sachs, which emerged relatively unscathed from the financial crisis, was accused of securities fraud in a civil suit filed Friday by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which claims the bank created and sold a mortgage investment that was secretly devised to fail.

U.S. Accuses Goldman Sachs of Fraud

For those who aren’t familiar with Andrew Maguire and his recent revelations about rampant manipulation of the gold and silver futures market by major players such as JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, I’m not surprised. The story has been completely ignored by the mainstream media.

To get up to speed have a read of Andrew Maguire exposes systemic fraud by CFTC and JPMorgan and follow the links and watch the video contained in that article.

The story has been spreading like wildfire on the Internet, especially among independent gold and silver traders. Of course they have a vested interest, which is not to say they are behaving in a nefarious manner. But when you take the mainstream media silence and all you have left is the Internet buzz you can quickly spot the strategy at work.

Ever since the Internet became a major competitor to the traditional media the latter has attempted to brandish independent Internet based journalism or reporting as less than reliable. The idea goes that if a story only exists on the Internet and has not been confirmed by “legitimate” media sources it is most likely rumour or gossip or a conspiracy theory (their favourite smear).

A lot of the time this isn’t far from the truth. There is a lot of garbage on the Internet. Of course there’s a lot of rubbish in the mainstream media too, but “professional” media people aren’t as keen to talk about that. And mainstream fantasy can have fatal consequences – Iraqi tanks massing on the Saudi border, anyone? People die when the mainstream lies.

But the Andrew Maguire case is legitimate in as far as it is certainly newsworthy and the silence of the mainstream media on this story is highly revealing. In fact it’s a story in its own right.

Let’s pretend all of the Internet articles on Maguire have gone away, that they never existed, that there’s literally no mention anywhere of the story. What are we left with?

What we have is an established trader who has not only blown the whistle on fraud but has also provided absolute proof by demonstrating the fraud as it actually occurred. And Maguire didn’t run to some conspiracy site on the Internet to spill the beans, no he went through official channels and he was ignored.

If this isn’t newsworthy then nothing ever is. The whole world has just suffered a major banking scandal and here we are again watching the usual suspects, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, allegedly committing an even bigger fraud. This should be a global headline but instead we get silence. And that silence is deafening in what it reveals.

I have sent requests to several British mainstream sources asking for their opinion on the facts as we know them to date. I haven’t received a single acknowledgement of receipt of my emails, never mind a considered response.

The mainstream media is killing this story stone dead and in a coordinated manner. How can that be? We can only speculate but whatever the truth it doesn’t align with the notion of an independent press designed to hold the powerful to account. Rather it smacks of collusion with authorities content to stop information escaping into the public domain.

As a result of the recent banking fraud common people have lost their jobs, their homes, their savings. What will be the further consequence if Andrew Maguire is correct? Who will suffer and who will benefit and to what degree?

And what sort of a media do we have when it ignores even a cursory glance at a potentially explosive disclosure and instead spends the majority of its resources pursuing gormless celebrities and repeating tired old sound bites from demonstrably crooked politicians as they jostle for a front row at the pig trough?

Who’s joining the dots? What about Gordon Brown’s fire sale of the British public’s gold reserves? Where’s the audit of the trillions handed over to the banks to bail them out? Does Peter Mandelson’s draconian censorship bill tie into this in any way?

Investigative journalism in the mainstream is dead. For all its warts the Internet is the only place where all the news exists, often buried in trash I agree but there nonetheless. Far from the self-claimed respectability resting with the mainstream the BBCs and CNNs of this world are compromised beyond repair and deserve contempt rather than credibility.

People are catching on, that’s why the mainstream is slowly dying. And that’s why unelected Euro-quislings are attaching their tentacles to the Internet.

What else is the mainstream concealing, burying, killing off? Do they filter and massage the news just to protect their corporate advertising customers or is there more to it? Is it just a matter of greed trumping ethics or could the fact that just a handful of corporations now own the whole mainstream media have a bearing. And why did the politicians ever allow this to happen and…

…can you see where I’m going with this? Oh no – it’s a conspiracy theory! Go back to sleep, there’s nothing to see here except a mad guy without a press pass spouting nonsense on the Internet.

So they would have you believe. It’s still up to you to decide for yourself though, they can’t take that away from you. Yet.

Andrew Maguire’s revelation of JP Morgan Chase gold and silver manipulation is being hidden by the mainstream media. Maguire struck by hit and run driver in London, suffers minor injuries.

Finally there is concrete proof, delivered in real time no less, of long suspected market fixing in the gold and silver markets. As this explosive story develops only the Huffington Post has run with it, the Wall Street Journal, CNBS, Fox Money, Bloomberg and all of the other US mainstream financial media are not covering what could be the largest financial fraud in history.

From Nathan Lewis at the Huffington Post:

“People involved in the markets have known/suspected for years that they have been manipulated by certain large entities, notably JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.”

“Maguire understands the process so well that he was able to describe it to the CFTC’s Bart Chilton on the phone in real time. As in: ‘in a few minutes, they are going to do this, and then they will do that.’”

Listen to an extended interview with Maguire and GATA’s Adrian Douglas on King World News here.

“Even long-time gold specialists like Maguire have been amazed to learn that there is no gold corresponding to the vast ‘gold deposits’ at the major LBMA banks.”

Read the full article at the Huffington Post – It’s Ponzimonium in the Gold Market

If nothing else, this story should be all you need in order to finally determine who the mainstream media serves. And if you are still struggling I’ll give you a clue, it’s not you!

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