Ok, I know I'm opening myself up to all sorts of abuse from some people but I'd like to stimulate some serious debate on the subject so here goes anyway: (got your tinfoil hat on?)
Given recent economic events, I believe that we are headed for a serious depression that will make the 1929 crash and the following depression look like a Sunday school outing!
The recent Iceland fiasco showed what Fractional Reserve Banking can do ..... but not to worry eh? Our Chancellor will underwrite the shortfall ....... where does he get this money from? ...... the central banks, borrowed at interest; and who pays for this bailout of banks again? ..... we do!
I honestly believe that this crisis has been engineered by the central bankers, in the same way that the last one was, and that we, the ordinary people, will soon lose almost all our property and freedoms; there will remain the lucky few who have paid off their mortgage, who may be able to keep their homes but the rest of us will become poverty stricken. There's maybe a while before it's that bad but it IS coming.
Like most people nowadays, I obtain a lot of my information from the internet and much of what is out there refers to American problems but as we have seen, what has an effect there also transfers over here and around the world. I'm also aware that not everything one reads should be taken as total truth but much of the information avilable is factual and can be varified.
Soon, there will be no cash money, only your new ID card/driving license which will contain all your personal info including health, financial, family etc together with a tiny RFID chip that can track you and your habits. When it comes to paying tax, you won't get the option, it will be deducted from your credit ..... and if you get stroppy, they void your card so that you can't even buy food etc.
A few quotes:
David Rockefeller in 1991.
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
Mayer Amschel Rothschild: (Banker)
"Give me control of a nation's money
and I care not who makes the laws."
JP Morgan (Banker)
"Capital must protect itself in every way... Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd."
Henry Ford (Industrialist)
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
Lord Acton (historian)
"The issue which has swept down the centuries
and which will have to be fought sooner or later
is the people versus the banks."
Josiah Stamp (Banker)
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin.
The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them,
but leave them the power to create deposits,
and with the flick of the pen they will
create enough deposits to buy it back again.
However, take it away from them, and
all the great fortunes like mine
will disappear and they ought to disappear, for
this would be a happier and better world to live in.
But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers
and pay the cost of your own slavery,
let them continue to create deposits."
Many more quotes around but I'm sure you get the idea.
Apart from flames, what do people think about this stuff?