Six Things to ask yourself

For Joe public life is full of events. From the time you wake in the morning to the time you rest your head again at night, we do stuff, lots of stuff.

We get the breakfast going, get the kids ready for school, listen to the news, go to the shops, buy food, clothes or just shop for nick nacks, visit the hospital or doctors or even take a neighbour, take the bus to see friends, meet in the local coffee shop, attend meetings, go to work, take a drive, sing or take photographs, eat out, an evening in the pub or just watching TV.

We all fill our days in different ways…but, virtually everything you do, touch, buy or imbibe is covered by a plethora of laws, rules or regulation. Totally.

In a post on 6th Feb (Britain at the Crossroads) I indicated that the UK is now a totalitarian state, governed by an unelected and totalitarian super-state. That does not mean that cops are running around waving guns at everyone to get them to do things they dont want to do, but it does mean that virtually everything you do, touch, buy or imbibe is covered by a plethora of laws, rules or regulations. Totally.

I ended that post by asking a simple question.

Quiz for today, totalitarian: If you don’t believe that Britain is governed totally by political rules, regulations, orders and diktats, please name me 6 everyday activities, yes, just six, that you undertake that does not require a. permission, b. licence, c. regulated action, d. regulated packaging, materials, ingredients, tools etc.

i.e. 6 activities that never touch the state or a regulator.

I recall reading somewhere that in the 1950′s it was claimed that the average member of the public only ever came into contact with the state on 3 occasions, school, the post office and paying tax. Not quite true but I think you get my drift.

I didn’t get any takers, so I am giving you the opportunity again. Has the UK become a totalitarian state or can you name just 6 activities that never touch the state or a regulator?

When you have decided that you cannot find 6 things, I will then ask which political party will have the guts to start repealing all these laws, rules and regulations, and take us back to being a free democratic society, a society where you decide, weigh up your own risks and take responsibility for your own actions and activities.

I think  you may be hard pushed to answer that as well.

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In reply to John Redwood

In response to John Redwood’s article today headed ‘Tuesday 5 July 10.30am proposal to put £9.5 billion extra into IMF‘, I have posted the following*.

Dear Mr Redwood,
Spending plans and actual spending are two very different things as I am sure you know well, and although the coalition may have reduced Labour’s forward plans to spend, they have not reduced actual spending, in fact that has gone up.

That £9.5bln will push that spending up even further, but to match that against future spending planning is not quite cricket.

Britain will have to borrow that money, and repay it, from International Bankers, give it to the IMF so that they can lend it out to other States no longer in a position to borrow, so that they in turn can repay the same International Bankers we borrow from for government debt that no taxpayer asked for or wanted.

This quite ridiculous state of affairs where governments are socialising debt must come to an end, before the end is thrust upon us.

*currently sitting in moderation. 1.40pm 3rd July – published

Taxpayers here and elsewhere are fed up of having to pay the debts of others whilst seeing their own services cut to the bone. Their patience is not infinite. To attempt to match new spending against reductions in a budget that no longer exists is duplicitous to say the least. Coalition MPs should heed that.

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Gold & Silver bullion – what’s going on?

A very good question. This evening I happened upon an article about DSK written by James Higham, which has outlined how the US government has trumped up the charges that DSK has faced, not to do with his infidelity, but to stop him asking the VERY awkward questions.

Not just him, but another international Banker, a friend of DSK, is suffering the same fate as we speak, all because there have been concerns within the IMF about US delays in providing gold for auction.

Rumours have abounded for some time that there is no gold left in most major treasuries, or what can be seen is really gold plated bars of lead or zinc, that even gold stockholders are only issuing paper certificates but not handing over the physical gold, and that sooner or later governments would have to start hiding this and covering up through control and legislation.

Earlier today I received an email linking me the site of a Gold Bullion dealer who is equally concerned, not with the disappearing gold, but by a new law that has been passed in the US (Dodd-Frank Reform and Consumer Protection Act) which forbids and restricts certain kinds of gold and silver trading effectively making it illegal.

At first I though the email was just another round robin style story, but now.. well now I’m not so sure. Perhaps Ron Paul’s calls for audits of the Fed, US Treasury and especially Fort Knox are right on the button.

Perhaps an audit of the Bank of England is also long overdue.

You can read the two items here.

What did DSK discover in America?

Bullion Will Now Be Illegal for ALL U.S. Residents

You will as always draw your own conclusions, but if the US is going to financially implode on July 15th, I am sure TPTB would want it to be preceded by unrest, (some will no doubt say black ops), on July 4th as official paranoia reaches fever pitch in law enforcement circles.

Have a great weekend.

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As Athens burns the EC announces €1 trillion budget

Whilst demanding that Greece impose upon its people draconian austerity measures, European Commission president José Manuel Barroso defended the EU budget as ambitious but responsible and warned member states against “Pavlovian reactions”.

1,000,000,000,000 (or one million millions) of your tax money spent by unelected no-bodies, living the life of Riley at your expense with 15 years of unaudited accounts, is not what I call responsible. No wonder more and more EU member states’ citizens are sliding below the poverty line.

Classical conditioning (also Pavlovian or respondent conditioning, Pavlovian reinforcement) is a form of conditioning that was first demonstrated by Ivan Pavlov in 1927.

The typical procedure for inducing classical conditioning involves presentations of a neutral stimulus along with a stimulus of some significance, the “unconditioned stimulus”. The neutral stimulus could be any event that does not result in an overt behavioral response from the organism under investigation. Conversely, presentation of the significant stimulus necessarily evokes an innate, often reflexive, response.

One of the earliest literary references to classical conditioning can be found in the comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) by Laurence Sterne. The narrator Tristram Shandy explains how his mother was conditioned by his father’s habit of winding up a clock before having sex with his wife.

Another example is in the dystopian novel, A Clockwork Orange in which the novel’s anti-hero and protagonist, Alex, is given a solution to cause severe nausea, and is forced to watch violent acts. This renders him unable to perform any violent acts without inducing similar nausea.

In Barosso’s case, in his addiction of forcing member states to impose austerity measures whilst imposing fiscal oversight, Barosso is forced to watch the fiscal destruction of a nation taking EU/IMF money making it impossible to break the debt cycle and become subservient to Brussels. This renders him unable to perform any kind of fiscal bullying without inducing demands for more money and direct taxation to feed the EU/IMF beast, the member nations being incapable of refusing such requests to borrow even more as they approach the fiscal tipping point themselves.

Some call it the Nero syndrome..

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Back soon..

Apologies for the lack of blog posts lately, but I have been heavily involved in the setting up of a new business venture. It has quite understandably been taking up all my time, energies and reading slots so I have not been able to undertake political research as normal.

Blogging will resume shortly…

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Marxist Britain

Do you recognise any of the following traits in our political and social life?

1. The creation of racism offences.
2. Continual change to create confusion
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6. The promotion of excessive drinking
7. Emptying of churches
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
9. Dependency on the state or state benefits
10. Control and dumbing down of media
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family

What’s that? All of them? Surprised?

One has to ask: Was it through a fit of absent-mindedness or gross incompetence? Or was it not inadvertent at all, but deliberate?

The reason I say deliberate is because the above comes from the Frankfurt School 1928 Manifesto of Cultural Marxism, also known by its other name Political Correctness, and it is very much alive and well in 2011, in the UK, the EU and across the entire western world.

William S. Lind argues that,

“Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, but back to World War I. If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious.”

or this:

“The Socialist Alliance programme is the foundation upon which everything else is built, including in time our exact organisational forms and constantly shifting tactics. The programme links our continuous and what should be all-encompassing agitational work with our ultimate aim of a communitarian, or communist, system. Our programme thus establishes the basis for agreed action and is the lodestar, the point of reference, around which the voluntary unity of the Socialist Alliance is built and concretised. Put another way, the programme represents the dialectical unity between theory and practice.” [emphasis added] Posted by Weekly Worker 368, January 25 2001. See also: “The transition to the communitarian system” in the same issue of the American Communist Party’s Weekly Worker.

The Frankfurt School is the name usually used to refer to a group of scholars who have been associated at one point or another over several decades with the Institute for Social Research of the University of Frankfurt, including Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Reich, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Wolfgang Fritz Haug and Jürgen Habermas.

In the 1930s the Institute for Social Research was forced out of Germany by the rise of the Nazi Party. In 1933, the Institute left Germany for Geneva. It then moved to New York City in 1934, where it became affiliated with Columbia University. (and it is Columbia University where the next step in this Marxist dialectic arose, Communitarianism, before spreading and taking root in the Chicago school under Amitai Etzioni)

Its journal Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung was accordingly renamed Studies in Philosophy and Social Science. It was at that moment that much of its important work began to emerge, having gained a favorable reception within American and English academia. Among the key works of the Frankfurt School which applied Marxist categories to the study of culture were Adorno’s “On Popular Music,” which was written with George Simpson and published in Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences in 1941, Adorno and Horkheimer’s “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception”, originally a chapter in Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947).

Its thinkers were particularly influenced by the failure of the working-class revolution in Western Europe (precisely where Marx had predicted that a communist revolution would take place) and by the rise of Nazism in such an economically and technologically advanced nation as Germany. This led many of them to take up the task of choosing what parts of Marx’s thought might serve to clarify contemporary social conditions which Marx himself had never seen. Another key influence also came from the publication in the 1930s of Marx’s Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts and The German Ideology, which showed the continuity with Hegelianism that underlay Marx’s thought.

The Hegelian dialectic is the ridiculous idea that constant conflict and continual merging of opposite ideologies, as established by extreme right or left belief systems, will lead spiritual mankind into final perfection. Hegel’s brilliance rests in his ability to confuse and obfuscate the true motives of the planners, and millions of people world-wide have been trying to make sense of why it doesn’t work for over 150 years. But like the AA definition of insanity, the world keeps trying it over and over expecting different results. …

The laying of a Marxist Britain, inside a Marxist EU was the mission of Tony Blair and his largely Marxist and Communist cabinet members. (even if they denied being current members). The EU is also awash and top heavy with Communists and Marxists with the President of the EU Commission, Manuel Barosso a Maoist.

The next step, to turn Britain into a Communitarian state is the mission of Cameron and Clegg, with the help of advisers such as Philip Blonde and his Red Toryism and the ever present Fabian Society think tank Demos (George Osborne, his party colleague David Willetts joined its advisory board) and its also interesting to note that Vince Cable and Danny Alexander are both on the Advisory Council.
http://www.demos.co.uk/people#council

Cameron launched his Big Society idea in the Conservative manifesto as ‘new thinking’ – yet it seems the EU launched their idea a tad before Cameron – see here; and this was followed up a few months later with this. – its all communitarian clap trap.

When are you going to realise that, and stop voting for, all three parties in the UK are building global communitarianism, international communism with a smiley face…. centrally planned, carefully managed, societies.

Do you really want to live exist in a region of a Communist EU Empire?

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Thanks to James Higham for the original idea.

Further reading.


http://nourishingobscurity.com/2011/06/18/jumping-the-shark/


http://www.thecomingdepression.net/survival-tips/multiculturalism-attempt-to-destroy-national-identity-uk-speechwriter/


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School


http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm


http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communitarian/niki.htm

“The Socialist Alliance programme is the foundation upon which everything else is built, including in time our exact organisational forms and constantly shifting tactics. The programme links our continuous and what should be all-encompassing agitational work with our ultimate aim of a communitarian, or communist, system. Our programme thus establishes the basis for agreed action and is the lodestar, the point of reference, around which the voluntary unity of the Socialist Alliance is built and concretised. Put another way, the programme represents the dialectical unity between theory and practice.” [emphasis added] Posted by Weekly Worker 368, January 25 2001. See also: “The transition to the communitarian system” in the same issue of the American Communist Party’s Weekly Worker.

“The Socialist Alliance programme is the foundation upon which everything else is built, including in time our exact organisational forms and constantly shifting tactics. The programme links our continuous and what should be all-encompassing agitational work with our ultimate aim of a communitarian, or communist, system. Our programme thus establishes the basis for agreed action and is the lodestar, the point of reference, around which the voluntary unity of the Socialist Alliance is built and concretised. Put another way, the programme represents the dialectical unity between theory and practice.” [emphasis added] Posted by Weekly Worker 368, January 25 2001. See also: “The transition to the communitarian system” in the same issue of the American Communist Party’s Weekly Worker.

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UK Government railway policy

Or rather EU Railway policy studies that successive UK Governments (1999-2011) have sold to the British people as their own work. There are of course no vested interests…

Note: Copyright in these studies is held by the European Union. Persons wishing to use the contents of these studies (in whole or in part) for purposes other than their personal use are invited to submit a written request to the following address: European Commission – Mobility and Transport DG – Library (DM28, 0/36) – B-1049 Brussels or by electronic form

But: The European Commission does not guarantee the accuracy of the information given in the studies, nor does it accept responsibility for any use made thereof.

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The International Transport Forum (ITF) published a report entitled ”Charges for the use of rail infrastructure  -  current status and developments since 2004″ in late 2008. The ITF is an inter-governmental body within the OECD family. Its objective is to serve political leaders and a larger public in developing a better understanding of the role of transport in economic growth and the role of transport policy. The International Transport Forum was created under a Declaration issued by the Council of Ministers of the ECMT (European Conference of Ministers of Transport) at its Ministerial Session in May 2006 under the legal authority of the Protocol of the ECMT, signed in Brussels on 17 October 1953, and legal instruments of the OECD

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As Cameron & Co become even more EU centric..

..here is a reminder from my original post last August, that you can find all the background on government plans, u-turns and policy bull when you read the news direct from the EU.

Unfortunately is like listening to a Soviet newsreader with all the committees, sub committees, directorates and workers groups, or statements from the umpteen presidents, but because its updated every hour, you get to read the news, policy decisions and directives before the UK civil servants & politicians have had a chance to spin it or present it as their own work.

Then and only then can you really see that what Cameron & co are dishing up to the British public three or six months later is policy written elsewhere, from the NHS plans, railway ‘investments’ and routes, the post office sell off to weekly bin collections. It’s not Tory, its not even LibDem.. it is all, and I mean all, EU policy wrapped up in British political bullshite for local delivery. (which the MSM then cut and paste!)

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THE ALBION ALLIANCE presents..

Posted on August 30, 2010 by IanPJ

INFORMATION.

Information is power, we all know that, but until now in the UK the politicians and the media have had a virtual monopoly on information coming out of the EU, and on the way in which it is shaped and presented.

Well that is about to change. The Albion Alliance have set up a site to bring you information and news direct from Brussels, as soon as possible after it is published, and wherever possible, in its raw state.

No bias, no spin, no editing, no shaping or nudging, just raw data from all the main agencies of the EU. The president, the European Council, the Commission, the Directives, Regulations, Acts, Opinions and Decisions, the Committee of the Regions, the European Central Bank, the European Investment Bank, the Economic & Social Committee, the European Ombudsman and even news about SEPA. (what’s SEPA I hear you ask!)

Read it raw, make your own mind up. The politicians are going to hate us.

As the system settles down, more links will be added to give an even wider picture of what is going on around the EU. The layout and font will not suit everyone, but what The Albion Alliance are providing is information, not presentation.

There is a list of categories down the left hand side, where you can check for specific news not on the front page, there is also a list of databases in the documents link, where you can search for EU documents directly and they even bring you the latest Statutory Instruments from the UK Parliament so you can see our own Government turn EU law in to UK law whilst they and the media spin you a line.

Want to check out all those Euromyths, now you can search for the original documents and decide for yourselves (if you can navigate the purposefully complicated cross referencing systems), but its there, all for you to use.

There are even tabs at the top explaining how EU law is made and a list of all the main EU agencies with links to their sites for your reading delight, or distain. Few realise just how many areas of government are already controlled by Brussels.

The Albion Alliance is not gone, despite the best efforts of some, it is back with gusto with a view to providing the means for people to educate themselves about the EU rather than having to rely on the biased media, if and when they mention the EU at all. A reference point to counter the Government Nudge.

Since its launch yesterday, the European Commission and the European Parliament have been crawling all over it, no doubt they and many UK politicians would rather you did not access EU data in this way, so please, give this new Albion Alliance site your support. You are not a number, you are a free people. Make use of this information.

Remember, its updated hourly, so keep going back to check on the latest…

As I said at the time of the original post:

The sheer volume of shite that the EU generates on a daily basis is staggering. Please make good use of the document links also, before someone decides that the British public is not allowed to see how the empire was created with the help of so many British Quislings.

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The EUs forked tongue spits again…

Yesterday I asked whether the left hand knows what the right hand is doing.. well here’s some more jiggery pokery from the same idiots in Brussels.

Syed Kamall, Conservative MEP for London, said: “The EU parliament’s vote in favour of a transaction tax is particularly disappointing given that they did not even wait for the European Commission’s initial impact assessment before making their decision.

Yup, the EU Parliament have jumped the gun again in looking for ways to cream off more of your money and get a direct taxation system going.

In a bid to boost Brussels’ budget by five per cent, the EU Parliament has voted to slap a Tobin, or so-called “Robin Hood” tax, on all financial transactions. The tax would levy a 0.05 per cent fee on the total value of “every type of financial transaction” that goes through any institution in Europe, pushing up the cost of economic activity at a time when the region is struggling to stage a convincing recovery.

And as Syed Kamall says “Unilaterally imposing the tax would send financial activity to lower cost destinations outside the EU and damage London’s attractiveness as a financial centre, and banks would simply pass on the costs of the tax to their customers, hitting savers and investors.” (source)

the EUs Left hand and right hand…both around your throat..and gripping ever tighter.

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EU speaks with forked tongue

Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing? Oh I am sure they know exactly what their doing.. but you be the judge.

This first element comes from the EU Parliament;

A freeze on the 2014-2020 budget will not be possible unless agreed policies are slashed, the European Parliament said in a vote yesterday (8 June), challenging countries that want to freeze the EU’s long-term spending to reflect austerity at home.

A minimum increase of 5% in the EU budget is needed if the bloc is to complete all its agreed objectives, such as putting in place a common diplomatic service and boosting its economy, the Parliament said. (source)

And this affront to our intelligence goes on whilst The European Parliament is refusing to release a secret report detailing widespread abuse of MEPs expenses despite an EU court ruling that there is “overriding public interest in disclosure”. (source)

The second element from the EU Commission;

The European taskmaster has cracked the whip. However much austerity has been imposed by EU member states, it is simply not enough.

That is the overriding message from the European Commission that runs through its recommendations for each of the 27 member states in the new, post-crisis system of radically centralised oversight and correction of national economic policies by the EU known as the ‘European Semester’. (source)

and in a further move by the EU Commission reminiscent of Tony Blair’s ‘Back to Work’ policy designed to get women into the workplace, or rather on the tax treadmill;

Housewives are being urged by the European Commission to go back to work.

Brussels says it wants stay-at-home mothers in Germany, Austria and Holland to take up jobs to avoid a looming labour shortage.

‘Germany must better integrate women into the labour market,’ said the Commission, in a report on the German economy.

‘Germany, but also Austria and the Netherlands, should look at the example of the northern countries,’ said European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, in a reference to Scandinavia. (source)

As prices and inflation will continue to rise, the days when any family will be able to afford to live from a single wage….

Power and Tax – The EU are determined to force austerity at home, spend more themselves and tax everyone, directly (definitely on the agenda) and indirectly until there is nothing left to take.

nb. Options to fuel the EU’s future budget include an EU tax which could take several forms: a tax on air transport or a share of new financial, corporate or energy taxes, as well as an EU VAT.

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