Been a while!

Its been awhile since I posted on here, but seems to be a precious thing at the moment. What can I say I awoke this morning to be confronted by wikileaks and the documents detailing the Afghan war and it appears to have been tarted up as winnable for our benfit.
Earlier in the week our wonderful PM was in America, meeting with his counterpart. At first I relished the idea of Dave going to America, especially after his ballsy and stubborn showing in Europe. What I got was a pathetic sycaphantic moron. His constant playing down of Britain's role in the special relationship. Don't get me wrong Britain in almost all ways is smaller than the States, population, economy, military, so on and so on and although our general weight in the world has been slightly shredded, it is by no means as badly shredded as America's. To top it all off he can't even get his history right, aparently the USA joined the war in 1940, predating Pearl Harbour by a year. What a useless mug this man is!!!!!

Burkha ban!

I read today about this ban with mixed feelings. On the one hand a victory for womens rights and a free society. On the other hand a further decay of liberty and freedom. If I wished to walk down the street with pink foam hat on I should be able to, but by the same token its impratical and not a part of regular dress.
I heard an amazing statement from an MP on Sky News stating somethings along the lines of 'I hope we(Britain) follow the ban in France, the burkha has no place in British society'. Whilst I'm torn on this statment, half of me agreeing with and half disgreeing with it. He is right that the burkha has no place in British society, but then does homosexuality or Hinduism. No, so should they go to?
I think that if you disregard the root of this problem then you disregard the problem altogether. The problem is immigration on a mass scale, I'm not opposed to immigration but mass immigration on the basis of an expiriment called multi-culturalism is flawed and wrong. At the politicans own admission this expiriment has failed, but now we are left to pick up the pieces.
I don't know what the future holds but I know that it isn't paved with gold and filled with milk and honey.

The wonderful economic wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum over 100 years ago wrote the seminal children’s book ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and ever since the allegories surrounding this book have always centred on the economy of the state in Franks case America. This becomes more evident when you realise that Frank was political activist throughout most of his life, following the presidential candidate William J. Bryan around on Bryan’s free silver campaign. In the book Bryan has the role of the cowardly lion. Without wanting to get bogged down in history your probably wondering how this is relevant to today, well the guiding principle of Baum’s thinking comes from tally sticks.
Tally sticks were used by King Henry the first as a way of creating a currency outside of the goldsmith or banks. They were pieces of wood with notches cut in them to signify how much they were worth. The great thing about this concept is that it removes control from corporations and big banks, but would you trust the government to have the licence to print your money. Also there will be many shouting that you can’t have a currency based on nothing, but as long as you control the quantity your national debt never exceeds the amount of money in the system. Abraham Lincoln was also a proponent of this system with the greenbacks(strange how he was assasinted). Another president who tried to investigate the central banks control with an attempt to expose black Friday as a sham was James. A. Garfield(also assassinated). Andrew Jackson was another president who tried to deconstruct the strangle hold of banks(attempted assassination).
So the question is can we trust our leaders to affront this system of ‘fiat money’. As much as I would love to say yes, I don’t think we can. This would be the solution to all of current and very near future problems we face but will only work when there is a government whose only concern is it people and how to make our lives better!