The UK’s pro-Israel lobby in context.

[Elihu]

Bank of England Will Switch to Plastic Pound Notes

Speaking at a press conference in the Bank's Threadneedle Street headquarters, Carney said: "Our polymer notes will combine the best of progress and tradition. They will be more secure from counterfeiting (lol!) and more resistant to damage while celebrating the history and tradition that is important both to the Bank and the nation as a whole."

http://www.theguardian.com/business/201 ... CMP=twt_fd

[bluenoseclaret]

Thanks for that.......

[American Dream]

It is perhaps ironic that a statue of Churchill should stand just yards away from the King David Hotel, scene of a deadly Jewish terror attack on British military headquarters in 1946 that was to hasten the demise of mandate rule in Palestine.

Bank of England Will Switch to Plastic Pound Notes

Whoah, dude- Proof that They rule the world...

[bluenoseclaret]

EU sanctions Israeli settlements but not state that created them
Ameer Makhoul

Earlier this year, the European Union adopted guidelines making a distinction between the State of Israel and its “entities” in the Palestinian territories it has occupied since 1967. The guidelines deem those entities ineligible for EU grants, prizes and financial instruments from 2014 onwards.

On its face, the EU decision gives the impression of a fundamental, essential and positive change in EU policy and approach to Palestine. However, Palestinians as well as solidarity movements should not rely on this EU decision.

The decision sounds anti-occupation but it actually serves to legitimize the colonial Israeli system, the driving force behind the occupation, including its “entities.”

Settlements do not determine policy; they are the inevitable outcome of the fundamental policy of Israel, rooted deep in Israeli society and in governmental, semi-governmental and non-governmental structures.

All settlements are backed by Israeli law and the legal system; they are a strategic state enterprise and considered a mainstay of Israel. According to Israeli law, these “entities” are considered legal and justified, protected by the state and served at all levels by all state structures.

“National priority”

Settlements are treated by the government the same way as sites in present-day Israel, but with more benefits. These include cheap housing, a “high national priority” in terms of government budgets, as well as a taxation policy that gives incentives for living in settlements.

Meanwhile the Israeli police, rather than the army, keep order and serve the settler population. The settlements are also served by civilian courts, not the Israeli military court system — in stark contrast to Israel’s military administration of the Palestinian population in the West Bank.

Israeli settler-colonization is not a policy adopted after the 1967 occupation; it’s an outcome of the 1948 occupation and the Nakba or ethnic cleansing of Palestine. For example, Nazareth Illit inside present-day Israel is built on land confiscated from Nazareth and eight other nearby villages. It’s much like the Maale Adumim settlement, which is built on stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank.

Israel is a rich, developed country. It’s a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The government is committed to serving the settlements and their populations, at the same level or higher as Tel Aviv or Haifa.

Boycott the entire state

The Israeli government has enough resources to fund and budget anything the EU will not fund.

The so-called Green Line marking the boundary between present-day Israel and the West Bank does not exist in Israeli eyes. Israel is one governing entity — one system oriented to Zionist colonial ideology at all levels. To limit the EU “sanctions” on settlements, means, de facto, to justify the state’s colonial system and colonial nature. It means to legalize the system.

The EU statement may look fine, but behind the nice, promising words, it aims to delegitimize the colonial “entities” but legitimize the colonial state.

The only way for the EU to have real impact is to sanction and boycott Israel as a state, including all its systems, to sanction the core system, not just the branches of its policy outcomes.

A just peace will never be achieved by the EU’s current approach.

No shock there.

http://electronicintifada.net/content/e ... them/13012

[slimmouse]

You know what?

I'd really love to know what AD feels about how money works. His opinions on how it is created and all the rest of it. His own perception of this particular deception.

Not some stupid 10 page essay from some chump or other, but rather what AD thinks.

[bluenoseclaret]

PM him then.!

[American Dream]

You know what?

I'd really love to know what AD feels about how money works. His opinions on how it is created and all the rest of it. His own perception of this particular deception.

Not some stupid 10 page essay from some chump or other, but rather what AD thinks.

Very brief answer: I think there are are a million and one unjust shenanigans connected with Finance Capital but there are an equal number of injustices connected to Productive Capital. They are two sides of the same coin, all part of the same system. This is where far right, crypto-racist bankster discourse loses the plot...

[bluenoseclaret]

"...how money works....."

AD...Why so evasive. Are you Knowledgeable about "Political Economy."?

Any views on "fractional reserve banking"...or the ideal "reserve asset ratio."

Your views on "QE."

You could have said ...how credit is administered is also important.

Kro

[slimmouse]

That very brief answer was actually nothing of an answer at all, when you look at it.

You talk about a all those unjust shennanigans, which I actually agree with, but you really didnt answer the question even remotely

What is money AD. How is it created?

Lets all get with the programme here.

[American Dream]

That very brief answer was actually nothing of an answer at all, when you look at it.

You talk about a all those unjust shennanigans, which I actually agree with, but you really didnt answer the question even remotely

What is money AD. How is it created?

Lets all get with the programme here.

I'm not going to play 20 questions with you- but you can answer the question if you want...

[DrEvil]

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

[American Dream]

Continues at: http://www.pasleybrothers.com/conspirac ... mitism.pdf

[bluenoseclaret]

AD

"Also, I should point out that I am anti-Zionist, that is I do not subscribe to the theory and practice of Jewish Nationalism/Settler Colonialism, as made manifest in the State of Israel."

Yes of course....

Chutzpah ..comes to mind.

[bluenoseclaret]

A bit of entertainment:

The "American Dream" Film-Full Length

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGk5ioEXlIM

"An Entertaining but hard hitting look at how the problems we have today are nothing new,and why leaders throughout our history have warned us and fought against the current type of financial system we have in America Today....

...All of us Americans strive for the American Dream,and this film shows you why your dream is getting farther and farther away.Do you know how your money is created?Or how banking works?Why did housing prices skyrocket and then plunge?Do you really know what the Federal Reserve System is and how it affects you every single day?You will be challenged to investigate some very entrenched and powerful institutions in this nation,and hopefully encouraged to help get our nation back on track....."

“Allow me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who writes the laws.” - Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Gosh.!

[American Dream]

I'm a bit puzzled by your politics, bluenoseclaret- as should be any reasonable reader who doesn't want to make undue assumptions but is disturbed by the suggestions that your comments seem to make regarding your worldview.

Clearly, you have attached yourself somehow to the cause of Palestinian self-determination. but it's not so clear what your politics actually are.

What do you think is wrong with the World? Is it "Jewlluminati" control? If so, what do you think their agenda is?

What do you think will make things better? Does it center on the New Age visions of David Icke, the "Christian" visions of Texe Marrs, the political visions of Lyndon LaRouche, and/or something else?