European Central Bank in Frankfurt

As for the economic meltdown, look around you. It’s here anyway, is Europe going to rescue us from the global mess created by the bankers? How, by handing total independence to the bankers? By allowing the banks to operate without the fussy interference of our (allegedly) democratic representatives?

The European Central bank as our salvation? I’m a little dubious. Lisbon serves this institution the monetary policies of all the European nations on a platter (silver, no doubt) once it is ratified. Then it disconnects the bank from any possibility of external influence, say for example the will of the people or other such potentially irksome distractions. Is this a good thing? Oh indeed, the experts will tell you, because if incompetent politicians are allowed to intervene in monetary policy they’ll go and spoil everything! The whole economy could collapse as a result, don’t you know?

We are told we need central banks, they are essential, economies can’t work without them. In the modern world that might even be true. But that’s never the main issue. Accountability is the key. This European Central Bank will end up accountable to nobody bar itself and we should be very worried about that, even if we don’t hear much about it on the TV.

Concerns have also been raised over the Lisbon Treaty which, like the European Constitution, will make the ECB a formal institution of the EU and which does include – contrary to what is often said – an article ensuring the bank’s independence (article 282 (3) TFEU). – Wikipedia

If the European Central Bank is anything like its American cousin, the Federal Reserve, then we are in for a whole lot of trouble. Any nation that hands control of its money to a small, invariably self-interested group of individuals, as is the case with the Federal Reserve, ends up being directed by that minority group. As Mayer Amschel Rothschild boasted, “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws.” Whatever could he have meant, nothing bad I hope?

Yes we get flags and blue and yellow bunting and a new president and a human rights charter we can wave around furiously as we lose our jobs and homes. But how close are we to losing what little control of our money we have left and what sort of people are we handing this control to?

The politicians, you know – the people who work for us, won’t say. Perhaps they don’t know. Perhaps they have fallen in line with what seems to be an emerging pattern in our modern democracies, the willingness to sign now and read later.

New Irish Newspaper Needs Your Support

As you know Lisbon 2 is around the corner and we need the Irish people to VOTE NO once more.

Most of the Truth Groups in Ireland have started a coalition called Truth Coalition Ireland to work together to fight for a NO VOTE.

Here is a message and a plea for support. Remember, if Ireland can shoot this Lisbon “Treaty” down with another “NO” vote it will force our Europhile politicians into a position where they will no longer be able to deny the British people a voice.

Truth Coalition Ireland

1: We have a newspaper ready to print called the “Sovereign Independent”. The aim is to post one to every household in Ireland, but this would be a mammoth task which would be almost impossible without everyone’s help and support. We can not stand by and do nothing, so even 50,000 copies in a small country like Ireland will make a huge difference.

2: The Whole Truth Collation UK is coming to Dublin on the 5th of September to lend their support to our goal. They will be holding a Lisbon Treaty information conference with guest speakers including David Icke, Scott Tips, Brian Gerrish and others to be confirmed. The venue will be finalised this coming week. Keep an eye on the Truth Coalition Ireland website for upcoming information….

Please Please… we need all the help you can give..

The time for the Irish people to vote on Lisbon once again is just around the corner and if we can secure a NO vote we will be sending a message to the corrupt Eurocrats that we will not accept this illegal constitution.

How can you help…?

Donate on one of the websites or pass this on to someone who may help out.

All donations will be used for the printing and distribution of the “Sovereign Independent” newspaper only.

All comments, suggestions and help is very welcome. Please contact any of the groups listed below:

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• The United Kingdom is a democracy,
• That has a parliament led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and an “opposition” led by “Dave” Cameron,
• And the office of the Prime Minister is the highest in the land,
• And the laws made in parliament are a representation of the will of the public as expressed at the ballot box.

Which makes me wonder why the old sayings, “None of them are any good!”, or, “This lot are as bad as the last lot!”, are as popular today as they have ever been.

Many people I have talked to seem to accept as sound the structure of our society yet they don’t seem very happy with how it currently operates. In political terms they are cynical of it, jaded at the monotonous disappointment that follows every honeymoon period afforded to one government after the next. Brown was prudent and solid enough and the only real choice for the job, the media told us. Things could “only get better” under Blair, if you recall. “Honest” John Major was going to sweep away the harshness of a Thatcherite system that initially excited the average citizen but ended up being despised. Labour before that was too disastrous to contemplate, though the Winter of Discontent might seem small potatoes compared to the global meltdown we could be facing if the media is incorrect in its present prediction of an imminent recovery – as wrong as they were about this crisis happening in the first place, or Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, for example.

“This lot are as bad as the last lot!” Why? Because their diametrically opposed policies are just as hopeless as the other crowd’s? More likely because you can’t tease a cigarette paper between the agendas of either party. Could it be that both parties are so similar that in effect there is only really one party split into two groups? Sounds like a conspiracy theory and we’ve been conditioned to reject anything carrying that label, out of hand. So why was “Dave” Cameron elected as Tory leader? It’s not a secret, they wanted the next Tony Blair. Many Labour backbenchers often wondered why Tony Blair hadn’t selected the Tories as his natural home. And Gordon Brown placed the banks at the heart of his agenda from day one, like any good Tory would do, cutting them loose to build the financial disaster we are currently experiencing. The Tories are selling you their compassion and environmentalism, whilst agreeing to hand unrestrained power to the banks, giving them a free hand whilst claiming to be championing consumer protection. Yes indeed, the differences between the parties that constitute our democracy are there for all to see.

Which brings me to Peter Mandelson. Apparently Gordon Brown, the man in possession of the highest office in the land, only held onto his chair because Mandelson provided him support at a crucial time. When I heard the TV news loops relay these facts I couldn’t help wonder what it means to be “in charge” when a subordinate holds the power to issue a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down. Of course the electorate in this democracy wasn’t consulted, either at the time when Blair transferred power to Brown under the terms of a pre-arranged deal or more recently when Brown’s fate was in the balance. The media casually explains the government has the right to delay all such consultation with the people, apparently regardless of the circumstances. Those are the rules, and the rules need no further comment.

“Dave” Cameron, meanwhile, has been whispering at the top of his voice and demanding a general election. And, by golly, if there is an election and provided the Irish haven’t re-voted “Yes” and provided the treaty hasn’t already been verified, Cameron will see to it the British people get a say in whether the sovereignty of this nation is handed over to Europe. It’s not as stirring a performance as Elizabeth rousing the troops at Tilbury or Churchill urging us to fight them on the beaches, but at least he made suitable noises during the right scene. If events overtake his desire for a democratic resolution to the European question, as appears inevitable, he can point to his innocence in the whole affair as he reluctantly accepts the will of a few old men in Brussels. Democracy is not perfect then, or even utilised when inconvenient, but if you believe what you read in the press and hang on the words of the news anchors we, the people, are running this show.

To cap it all, I hear Tony Blair is in the frame for the presidency of Europe. And Mandelson has kept Brown in office and so prevented a general election that might have forced Cameron to actually offer a referendum on Europe. Such happy coincidences.

If you have read this far then some of you, at least, will be furiously shaking your heads and muttering, “Yes, I bloody know all that! It’s obvious!” So why does the TV news and the newspapers continue to try to make you believe the exact opposite? Why do they continue to insist we live in a democracy and that Gordon Brown is our leader and that the will of the people is paramount and that our parliament is the ultimate representation of our will?

Whilst this charade goes on we will never get to ask the big questions. The big questions will always be swamped by the trivia. At the heart of it, the politicians work for us, so it is said. Do you believe that? Really? What if it simply isn’t true? What if the facts upon facts upon facts show otherwise?