I,Secret Squirrel have solved the National debt of America, easily, quickly, efficiently, without needing The Houses of Congress and The Senate to agree,without the possibility of veto, or failure,by using a revolving credit plan.Credit card companies have cheques that permit you to pay off another credit card company by using this cheque,paying credit card company A with a cheque from credit card company B,then paying credit card company B.
I propose America use the same system, but in a form of revolving credit for the National Debt. In short,we pay our debt off with national credit card company government accounts, with several such companies,without mentioning names, as we're dealing with the financial mechanics of the system,say A,B,C,D,E,we pay A with B's cheque,B with C's cheque etc and on to, and then when arriving at E's cheque,we pay A with E's cheque, and so enter the system round about ever more, revolving credit revolves constantly, and so we maintain the national debt payments,fully, and so also garner an absolutely spotless credit rating, allowing America to borrow,print up, spend,whatever, yet more, as ever it needs yet more.
America will never ever default on a debt payment ever again,since that condition cannot possibly ever arise again.
Everyone knows that such a burden of debt is far more easily borne when it's kept constantly moving instead of sitting heavily upon the nation. Mind you you do notice that none of the other existent political parties have mastered the financial economics of debt management that I,Secret Squirrel, has.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Secret Squirrel On America And It's Possible National Debt Default.
Secret Squirrel has noticed the recent great suckings and blowings in America, sucking and blowing by well exercised wind bags, sucking and blowing about firstly, the debts of other nations and how defaults would bankrupt them,destroy them, et all,and veiled threats made to them of their inability to pay debts,bankruptcy etc etc etc, nations such as Spain, Iceland, Italy, Greece. Well it seems it is a case of The Great Black Kettle, calling the tiny pot,black.We now see an America, emblackened, emblackened with respect to IT now defaulting on it's debt, but we see a different outcome drawn for America,by Americans,specifically it's government, which made the admonishments and threats to the other nations, concerning their debts,et all, strangely enough.
The National Debt has Risen to $13.665 Trillion Under President Obama ... "And then we've got to pay interest to China or whoever else is willing to buy our debt,".interesting words, buy our debt.so what if no one wishes to buy our debt.Obama has just days before his crisis emerged, chastised Spain,Italy,Ireland, Greece about their debt saying he didn't buy their debt, and wouldn't tolerate, or whatever, their default..........well they didn't default,they haven't they won't,they were bailed out by France,Germany,England, but it seems nobody seems to buy Obama, and his plan,nobody wants to bail him out,for whatever reason, and why,can we guess.Does it matter.Do you mind?What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.The government's authority to borrow more money has expired, and the US risks a default on its debt if Congress and the White House cannot agree a plan by next Tuesday,to allow the government of the people of the United States, to borrow money,borrow from where who can say,borrow from whom, borrow from what,borrow money which doesn't exist, or doesn't yet exist.What started the borrowing crisis, and what happens to the US and the world economy if it cannot be resolved?
The US government has a legal limit on how much debt it can run up – $14.3tn at present. It reached the cap in May, which means it cannot borrow any more money.Well now, the US is in debt exactly to who and whom? To what nations?Shortly before this "crisis",Obama was yelling and screaming at,and threatening, Ireland,Spain,Italy,Greece on being in debt, and possibly defaulting on THEIR debts.So, a few days later, Obama's America debt problem arose. Now, who's in debt to whom? Well, nations are in debt to other nations, in sum toto their imports exceed their exports,however this oddity seems to be the case for all
nations, so what goes around comes around, everybody is in debt to everybody else, and everybody else, in Europe for example, solves their problem by borrowing from other nations at any particular given time, for example, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Greece ,borrow from nations such as England,France,Germany, in Europe, as in a closed circuit.
Well now, America is in similarity to Europe,but we must regard the States as nation states, therfore Obama must find a rich state to borrow from.Sadly, this may not be the case, and now what?Will America borrow from France,Germany,England...seemingly no as they claim to be over extended at
this point, perhaps thence to compound America's problem,in the light of global politics,so that solution,the number one solution, is out of the picture.
But is it a problem?Again, to whom exactly is America in debt to.Pondering this out, each nation being in debt to each other nation, we find that America's problem is simply itself,it is it's own problemHow did America pay it's debts in the past?
Interestingly they have a different solution to that of Europe, rather America is in debt to itself, as such it simply has to raise it's own debt limit,agaian, as it has in the past, and do what it always does.namely it prints up Treasury Certificates
for x billions or whatever is necessary, and it goes to the Treasury Department, which then takes the certificates, puts them away, and prints up the required currency versus and against the Treasury Certificates they were given. And so the problem is solve,that is the solution,the number two solution, it has been applied and has worked successfully for every other President before him.
So why then cannot Obama do the same thing?He seems to understand he must raise America's debt ceiling,but that's where Obama gets stuck.Underpants gnomes are also stuck, underpants gnomes are those who come in the night when you sleep,and steal your underpants. They have the understanding that this will lead to profit, but as yet they have not figured out how to make this profit.Studying
their problem, the missing step they haven't yet fathomed is to sell said stolen underpants and hence make a profit. Here too Obama is stuck, he has no idea how to make America turn a profit. In the life of the world, Obama (America), has invaded foreign lands, the Arab lands,which contain oil,but that's where he's stuck, how to turn a massive profit? Well, now, as with the underpants gnomes, the trick is to turn a profit by selling what he has, they have underpants they have procurred and must said said underpants if they wish to make a profit. Obama has a pile of oil(versus the underpants gnomes underpants), but he doesn't realize that he must now sell this oil he has procurred and hence make a profit. Problem solved. That is the other solution to things,the number three solution,but again, Obama does not realize this.He has happily invaded Arab lands, but is stuck in a now what condition.
So how has America been keeping afloat since then?Well,Treasury secretary Tim Geithner managed to stave off default by suspending payments into two federal pension funds, pledging to repay the money once Congress has approved a higher debt ceiling.This is wonderful as a solution, it is THE solution, the immediate solution.However, we hit a snag there in this reasoning, the logic is faulty, it will work, but it won't,for example, why can he not simply do this now,as in repay the money now...quite simply he hasn't got the money since he spent it,and won't have it then either,regardless, as where can this money which doesn't thence exist,come from.Well, pretzel logic dictates that it can't, therefor this solution, the number four solution, won't work,it can't it doesn't make sense.But then does government make sense,or is there no rhyme nor reason to politics,no sense nor sensibility.
There is another solution, the government can borrow the funds, provided Congress agrees,should all agree how to do it,quite simply, The Congress, and The Senate,Congress is Republican, the Senate Democrat, but from where will America borrow the funds that it can't repay to pay it's debts?Again, so Congress agrees,but from where can he borrow the money from which he can't get the money without the permission of Congress,neither they nor he, nor we, can ever possibly know,beyond the fact he can't ever pay it back again, so it's all gone from wherever it came from and they'll never see the money that they never had in the first place.All of which only serves to pint out that there is a problem existant because money at present doesn't exist. Curious that Europe has no evident problem that Obama has, but then Europe doesn't have Obama.What happens if a deal can't be agreed by Tuesday,which happens to be August 2nd,2011?
The US treasury estimates that funds will dry up by then, which would leave the government unable to pay its bills – such as social security payments, Medicare, military salaries and debt interest payments. The Republicans claim that the government would get by for a few more days after 2 August, but there is no doubt that the two sides need to agree a deal soon.Or at least they claim this will solve the problem, but this doesn't explain from where the money that they don't have will come from,nor what basis said currency then has.Some analysts said however that recent strong tax receipts meant the United States could have
up to two extra weeks of cushion after August 2, offering a possible temporary reprieve before it could be forced to default.So the world's richest nation default on its debt, with supposedly ruinous global results,because it has not been paying
its debts whilst they also have not been paying their debts,all merely acumulating yet more debts.Wonderful.So what would happen if the US defaults....‘Payments’ default would be accompanied by ‘default’ ratings of the US government or some of its debt issues by the major credit rating agencies. A downgrade of the short-term rating of the US government to ‘default’ would be highly likely, while the nature of the downgrade for the long-term debt looks more uncertain.Increases in US rates at all points of the curve are likely to be relatively large and to persist for years. The dollar could drop sharply and major disruption in the US and global financial system could cause private lending and borrowing rates to rise even more rapidly than the sovereign rates. Financial conditions could worsen sharply and interbank, credit and other funding markets are likely to ‘freeze’. As a result of the financial turmoil, the negative wealth effects, the increases in costs of capital and the substantial hit to sentiment, the US dives into a deep recession, taking the rest of the world with it,because they're all in debt themselves.So it's all a question of debt, isn't it.Well let's look at the national debt list by nations...........as a percentage of their GDP....let's start, in first place is Japan, with a percentile of 225.80 percent of their GDP......
1 Japan
225.80 percentile debt of GDP
2 Saint Kitts and Nevis
185.00
3 Lebanon
150.70
4 Zimbabwe
149.00
5 Greece
144.00
6 Iceland
123.80
7 Jamaica
123.20
8 Italy
118.10
9 Singapore
102.40
10 Belgium
98.60
11 Ireland
94.20
12 Sudan
94.20
13 Sri Lanka
86.70
14 France
83.50
15 Portugal
83.20
16 Egypt
80.50
17 Belize
80.00
18 Hungary
79.60
19 Germany
78.80
20 Dominica
78.00
21 Nicaragua
78.00
22 Israel
77.30
23 United Kingdom
76.50
24 Malta
72.60
25 Austria
70.40
26 Netherlands
64.60
27 Spain
63.40
28 Cote d’Ivoire
63.30
29 Jordan
61.40
30 Cyprus
61.10
31 Brazil
60.80
32 Mauritius
60.50
33 Ghana
59.90
34 World
59.30
35 Albania
59.30
36 Bahrain
59.20
37 United States
58.90
38 Seychelles
58.80
39 Morocco
58.20
40 Bhutan
57.80
41 Guyana
57.00
42 Vietnam
56.70
43 Philippines
56.50
44 Uruguay
56.00
45 India
55.90
46 Croatia
55.00
47 El Salvador
55.00
48 Poland
53.60
49 Malaysia
53.10
50 Kenya
50.90
51 Argentina
50.30
52 Pakistan
49.90
53 Tunisia
49.50
54 Turkey
48.10
55 Norway
47.70
56 Denmark
46.60
57 Aruba
46.30
58 Latvia
46.20
59 Finland
45.40
60 Colombia
44.80
61 United Arab Emirates
44.60
62 Costa Rica
42.40
63 Thailand
42.30
64 Dominican Republic
41.70
65 Mexico
41.50
66 Serbia
41.50
67 Slovakia
41.00
68 Mozambique
40.80
69 Sweden
40.80
70 Malawi
40.40
71 Czech Republic
40.00
72 Panama
40.00
73 Bolivia
39.70
74 Bangladesh
39.30
75 Ethiopia
39.30
76 Yemen
39.10
77 Bosnia and Herzegovina
39.00
78 Ukraine
38.40
79 Switzerland
38.20
80 Montenegro
38.00
81 Lithuania
36.70
82 Slovenia
35.50
83 Romania
34.80
84 Cuba
34.40
85 Macedonia
34.20
86 Canada
34.00
87 Taiwan
33.90
88 South Africa
33.20
89 Senegal
32.10
90 Syria
29.80
91 Guatemala
29.60
92 Papua New Guinea
27.80
93 Indonesia
26.40
94 Trinidad and Tobago
26.40
95 Honduras
26.10
96 Gabon
25.80
97 Algeria
25.70
98 New Zealand
25.50
99 Venezuela
25.50
100 Moldova
25.00
101 Zambia
24.10
102 Korea, South
23.70
103 Peru
23.60
104 Tanzania
23.30
105 Ecuador
23.20
106 Paraguay
22.80
107 Botswana
22.60
108 Australia
22.40
109 Uganda
20.40
110 Angola
20.30
111 Namibia
20.00
112 Hong Kong
18.20
113 China
17.50
114 Saudi Arabia
16.70
115 Bulgaria
16.20
116 Iran
16.20
117 Luxembourg
16.20
118 Kazakhstan
16.20
119 Nigeria
13.40
120 Kuwait
12.60
121 Qatar
10.30
122 Cameroon
9.60
123 Russia
9.50
124 Uzbekistan
9.00
125 Estonia
7.70
126 Gibraltar
7.50
127 Chile
6.20
128 Wallis and Futuna
5.60
.
129 Azerbaijan
4.60
130 Oman
4.40
131 Equatorial Guinea
4.10
132 Libya
3.30
America is at 58 percentile of it's GDP,made up of 50 states, Europe is at a similar cumulative percentile of GDP of the sum total of 27 nations in the European Union,collectively.China's is only 17.50 percent,Australia only 22.40,not far ahead of them.I must snicker at this, Libya under Khadafi before his problems, had Libya at only 3.30 percentil of GDP debt. So, how are they collectively able to pay their debts,and why aren't they in the position of defaulting on their debts?That is the other nations,who don't seem to have the problem America is having,seemingly being able to solve their economic crisis in intelligent fashion?Now all nations continually add to their national debt, in short, their national debt keeps rising,each year,rather than falling, and so too has America's.But Obama can't solve his national debt problem, the problem of America's national debt.
Now let's consdier what the probelm is,the national debt, and how it will be solved, merely by raising the debt ceiling itself.........according to....
http://politisite.com/2011/07/25/can-president-obama-use-14th-amendment-to-raise-the-debt-ceiling/
......... Although the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution does not say specifically that the President has the power to raise the debt limit, there is a lot of talk recently that he may try to do so. The Amendment says in Section 4.
“The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.” And Section 5. “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”Even so President Clinton said that he would use the Amendment to raise the debt Limit bypassing Congress. The ability for the President to bypass Congress in an Amendment that gives the President certain powers but not in section 4..............................
Clinton said he believed a deal would be struck before August 2, but if he were in charge, and both sides failed to reach an agreement, he would simply raise the debt ceiling himself using powers granted under the 14th amendment of the Constitution. The
amendment says that the validity of the public debt shall not be questioned. Clinton said he’d “force the courts to stop
me.”...........So that's what Obama can try to do,IF? Congress allows him and says he can do it? Or not if they don't?So what now,what was the other attempt.....The latest round of bargaining began on Monday when Mr Boehner and Senate Democrats offered competing plans to raise the debt limit and cut spending.The plans differed in size and scope, and neither would raise new tax revenue - a red line for Republicans.Mr Boehner's plan would also require another debt limit agreement in about six months, something Mr Obama has publicly declared he will not accept.So,let me get this straight, all they have to do, is agree,and everything will be all right. So, why can they not agree, and will they not agree, for the good of the nation adn the people of the United States,they just have to agree,and the required debt ceiling will be raised, and the money borrowed from where ever in la la, or fantasy land, or never,never land and everything will be right and well..go figure,that's the cure.......there's more.........seems America defaulting really only affects it's credit rating, versus Obama's threats,blustering and blundering with respect to Spain,Italy,Ireland or Greece defaulting would affect THEM to massive extents, but not the same for America, America defaulting has now been pushed to a ridiculous credit rating,borrowing ability shift downwards.....curious things not the same as his statements about their debt
problem,defaulting..........bankruptcy.......so now the plot thickens,read on...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/8672159/US-debt-crisis-Republican-budget-proposal-passed-in-House-of-Representatives.html
US debt crisis: Republican budget proposal passed in House of Representatives
The House of Representatives on Friday night passed a bill designed to end the looming US debt crisis, but amid high level warnings that Congress was "playing with fire", it faced almost certain defeat in the Senate.
By Alex Spillius, Washington
Hours after President Barack Obama called for Republicans and Democrats to put party politics aside, the Republican-controlled House scraped through a bill by just eight votes, even though Democrats, who control the Senate, had warned that it was unacceptable and "extremist".John Boehner, the Republican Speaker of the House, gave an impassioned appeal to his colleagues in the House to approve his plan, slamming his fist on the podium several times."I stuck my neck out a mile to get an agreement with the president of the United States," he said, referring to failed negotiations with Mr Obama earlier this month"My colleagues, I can tell you I have worked with the president and the administration since the beginning of this year to avoid being in this spot," he added. "A lot of people in this town can never say yes."With the vote out of the way after two days of high drama, negotiations immediately started on a compromise bill that would be started in the Senate by Democrats and then go back to the House.It might then pick up enough votes across both parties to pass before Tuesday's deadline to raise the so-called debt ceiling.There is a however real danger that Congress will not meet the deadline set by the US Treasury, which could mean that the US fails to pay its creditors for the first time.The government may also fail to fund state pensions, student loans, military salaries, contracts with businesses and a gamut of routine payments.World leaders have warned of the dire consequences for the global economy of a US default.There has been dismay at the dysfunction in Washington, with World Bank President Robert Zoellick saying the United States was "playing with fire"."Whatever the logic about the tactics, it's a very dangerous environment," he told a meeting of the Society for International Development."To be blunt, to have a debt default in the United States would not only be a financial calamity but should be an embarrassment for every American" he said.America's largest foreign creditor, China, has repeatedly urged Washington to protect its dollar investments and its state-run news agency said the US had been "kidnapped" by "dangerously irresponsible" politics.Speaking earlier at the White House, Mr Obama warned that the country's top credit rating was at risk after leading credit agencies said they were likely to issue a downgrade."If we don't do that, if we don't come to an agreement, we could lose our country's triple-A credit rating, not because we didn't have the capacity to pay our bills – we do – but because we didn't have
a triple-A political system to match our triple-A credit rating," he said."There are a lot of crises in the world that we can't always predict or avoid – hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, terrorist attacks. This isn't one of those crises. The power to solve this is in our hands," he said.Opponents of a deal have accused the administration of scare tactics and questioned if the consequences of failing to raise the debt ceiling would be so dire after all.
Here ends to informational epistle from the Daily Telegraph.
So what happened in The Senate with the Republican bill? Well, the Democrats in the Senate, voted..........No.So now the Democrats want America to default?Seemingly so.That's politics?Suicidal politics?The politics of Russian roulette with ONE bullet removed?Curious,through the great embuggeration that is American politics,now the Democrats seem to want to allow America to Default,Obama's Democrats...Crisis?What crisis? It seems it's all so irrelevant with respect to America,and all is as it seems,for America,so we don't mind.Do you mind?What is mind? No matter. What is matter?Does it matter?Never mind.
The National Debt has Risen to $13.665 Trillion Under President Obama ... "And then we've got to pay interest to China or whoever else is willing to buy our debt,".interesting words, buy our debt.so what if no one wishes to buy our debt.Obama has just days before his crisis emerged, chastised Spain,Italy,Ireland, Greece about their debt saying he didn't buy their debt, and wouldn't tolerate, or whatever, their default..........well they didn't default,they haven't they won't,they were bailed out by France,Germany,England, but it seems nobody seems to buy Obama, and his plan,nobody wants to bail him out,for whatever reason, and why,can we guess.Does it matter.Do you mind?What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.The government's authority to borrow more money has expired, and the US risks a default on its debt if Congress and the White House cannot agree a plan by next Tuesday,to allow the government of the people of the United States, to borrow money,borrow from where who can say,borrow from whom, borrow from what,borrow money which doesn't exist, or doesn't yet exist.What started the borrowing crisis, and what happens to the US and the world economy if it cannot be resolved?
The US government has a legal limit on how much debt it can run up – $14.3tn at present. It reached the cap in May, which means it cannot borrow any more money.Well now, the US is in debt exactly to who and whom? To what nations?Shortly before this "crisis",Obama was yelling and screaming at,and threatening, Ireland,Spain,Italy,Greece on being in debt, and possibly defaulting on THEIR debts.So, a few days later, Obama's America debt problem arose. Now, who's in debt to whom? Well, nations are in debt to other nations, in sum toto their imports exceed their exports,however this oddity seems to be the case for all
nations, so what goes around comes around, everybody is in debt to everybody else, and everybody else, in Europe for example, solves their problem by borrowing from other nations at any particular given time, for example, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Greece ,borrow from nations such as England,France,Germany, in Europe, as in a closed circuit.
Well now, America is in similarity to Europe,but we must regard the States as nation states, therfore Obama must find a rich state to borrow from.Sadly, this may not be the case, and now what?Will America borrow from France,Germany,England...seemingly no as they claim to be over extended at
this point, perhaps thence to compound America's problem,in the light of global politics,so that solution,the number one solution, is out of the picture.
But is it a problem?Again, to whom exactly is America in debt to.Pondering this out, each nation being in debt to each other nation, we find that America's problem is simply itself,it is it's own problemHow did America pay it's debts in the past?
Interestingly they have a different solution to that of Europe, rather America is in debt to itself, as such it simply has to raise it's own debt limit,agaian, as it has in the past, and do what it always does.namely it prints up Treasury Certificates
for x billions or whatever is necessary, and it goes to the Treasury Department, which then takes the certificates, puts them away, and prints up the required currency versus and against the Treasury Certificates they were given. And so the problem is solve,that is the solution,the number two solution, it has been applied and has worked successfully for every other President before him.
So why then cannot Obama do the same thing?He seems to understand he must raise America's debt ceiling,but that's where Obama gets stuck.Underpants gnomes are also stuck, underpants gnomes are those who come in the night when you sleep,and steal your underpants. They have the understanding that this will lead to profit, but as yet they have not figured out how to make this profit.Studying
their problem, the missing step they haven't yet fathomed is to sell said stolen underpants and hence make a profit. Here too Obama is stuck, he has no idea how to make America turn a profit. In the life of the world, Obama (America), has invaded foreign lands, the Arab lands,which contain oil,but that's where he's stuck, how to turn a massive profit? Well, now, as with the underpants gnomes, the trick is to turn a profit by selling what he has, they have underpants they have procurred and must said said underpants if they wish to make a profit. Obama has a pile of oil(versus the underpants gnomes underpants), but he doesn't realize that he must now sell this oil he has procurred and hence make a profit. Problem solved. That is the other solution to things,the number three solution,but again, Obama does not realize this.He has happily invaded Arab lands, but is stuck in a now what condition.
So how has America been keeping afloat since then?Well,Treasury secretary Tim Geithner managed to stave off default by suspending payments into two federal pension funds, pledging to repay the money once Congress has approved a higher debt ceiling.This is wonderful as a solution, it is THE solution, the immediate solution.However, we hit a snag there in this reasoning, the logic is faulty, it will work, but it won't,for example, why can he not simply do this now,as in repay the money now...quite simply he hasn't got the money since he spent it,and won't have it then either,regardless, as where can this money which doesn't thence exist,come from.Well, pretzel logic dictates that it can't, therefor this solution, the number four solution, won't work,it can't it doesn't make sense.But then does government make sense,or is there no rhyme nor reason to politics,no sense nor sensibility.
There is another solution, the government can borrow the funds, provided Congress agrees,should all agree how to do it,quite simply, The Congress, and The Senate,Congress is Republican, the Senate Democrat, but from where will America borrow the funds that it can't repay to pay it's debts?Again, so Congress agrees,but from where can he borrow the money from which he can't get the money without the permission of Congress,neither they nor he, nor we, can ever possibly know,beyond the fact he can't ever pay it back again, so it's all gone from wherever it came from and they'll never see the money that they never had in the first place.All of which only serves to pint out that there is a problem existant because money at present doesn't exist. Curious that Europe has no evident problem that Obama has, but then Europe doesn't have Obama.What happens if a deal can't be agreed by Tuesday,which happens to be August 2nd,2011?
The US treasury estimates that funds will dry up by then, which would leave the government unable to pay its bills – such as social security payments, Medicare, military salaries and debt interest payments. The Republicans claim that the government would get by for a few more days after 2 August, but there is no doubt that the two sides need to agree a deal soon.Or at least they claim this will solve the problem, but this doesn't explain from where the money that they don't have will come from,nor what basis said currency then has.Some analysts said however that recent strong tax receipts meant the United States could have
up to two extra weeks of cushion after August 2, offering a possible temporary reprieve before it could be forced to default.So the world's richest nation default on its debt, with supposedly ruinous global results,because it has not been paying
its debts whilst they also have not been paying their debts,all merely acumulating yet more debts.Wonderful.So what would happen if the US defaults....‘Payments’ default would be accompanied by ‘default’ ratings of the US government or some of its debt issues by the major credit rating agencies. A downgrade of the short-term rating of the US government to ‘default’ would be highly likely, while the nature of the downgrade for the long-term debt looks more uncertain.Increases in US rates at all points of the curve are likely to be relatively large and to persist for years. The dollar could drop sharply and major disruption in the US and global financial system could cause private lending and borrowing rates to rise even more rapidly than the sovereign rates. Financial conditions could worsen sharply and interbank, credit and other funding markets are likely to ‘freeze’. As a result of the financial turmoil, the negative wealth effects, the increases in costs of capital and the substantial hit to sentiment, the US dives into a deep recession, taking the rest of the world with it,because they're all in debt themselves.So it's all a question of debt, isn't it.Well let's look at the national debt list by nations...........as a percentage of their GDP....let's start, in first place is Japan, with a percentile of 225.80 percent of their GDP......
1 Japan
225.80 percentile debt of GDP
2 Saint Kitts and Nevis
185.00
3 Lebanon
150.70
4 Zimbabwe
149.00
5 Greece
144.00
6 Iceland
123.80
7 Jamaica
123.20
8 Italy
118.10
9 Singapore
102.40
10 Belgium
98.60
11 Ireland
94.20
12 Sudan
94.20
13 Sri Lanka
86.70
14 France
83.50
15 Portugal
83.20
16 Egypt
80.50
17 Belize
80.00
18 Hungary
79.60
19 Germany
78.80
20 Dominica
78.00
21 Nicaragua
78.00
22 Israel
77.30
23 United Kingdom
76.50
24 Malta
72.60
25 Austria
70.40
26 Netherlands
64.60
27 Spain
63.40
28 Cote d’Ivoire
63.30
29 Jordan
61.40
30 Cyprus
61.10
31 Brazil
60.80
32 Mauritius
60.50
33 Ghana
59.90
34 World
59.30
35 Albania
59.30
36 Bahrain
59.20
37 United States
58.90
38 Seychelles
58.80
39 Morocco
58.20
40 Bhutan
57.80
41 Guyana
57.00
42 Vietnam
56.70
43 Philippines
56.50
44 Uruguay
56.00
45 India
55.90
46 Croatia
55.00
47 El Salvador
55.00
48 Poland
53.60
49 Malaysia
53.10
50 Kenya
50.90
51 Argentina
50.30
52 Pakistan
49.90
53 Tunisia
49.50
54 Turkey
48.10
55 Norway
47.70
56 Denmark
46.60
57 Aruba
46.30
58 Latvia
46.20
59 Finland
45.40
60 Colombia
44.80
61 United Arab Emirates
44.60
62 Costa Rica
42.40
63 Thailand
42.30
64 Dominican Republic
41.70
65 Mexico
41.50
66 Serbia
41.50
67 Slovakia
41.00
68 Mozambique
40.80
69 Sweden
40.80
70 Malawi
40.40
71 Czech Republic
40.00
72 Panama
40.00
73 Bolivia
39.70
74 Bangladesh
39.30
75 Ethiopia
39.30
76 Yemen
39.10
77 Bosnia and Herzegovina
39.00
78 Ukraine
38.40
79 Switzerland
38.20
80 Montenegro
38.00
81 Lithuania
36.70
82 Slovenia
35.50
83 Romania
34.80
84 Cuba
34.40
85 Macedonia
34.20
86 Canada
34.00
87 Taiwan
33.90
88 South Africa
33.20
89 Senegal
32.10
90 Syria
29.80
91 Guatemala
29.60
92 Papua New Guinea
27.80
93 Indonesia
26.40
94 Trinidad and Tobago
26.40
95 Honduras
26.10
96 Gabon
25.80
97 Algeria
25.70
98 New Zealand
25.50
99 Venezuela
25.50
100 Moldova
25.00
101 Zambia
24.10
102 Korea, South
23.70
103 Peru
23.60
104 Tanzania
23.30
105 Ecuador
23.20
106 Paraguay
22.80
107 Botswana
22.60
108 Australia
22.40
109 Uganda
20.40
110 Angola
20.30
111 Namibia
20.00
112 Hong Kong
18.20
113 China
17.50
114 Saudi Arabia
16.70
115 Bulgaria
16.20
116 Iran
16.20
117 Luxembourg
16.20
118 Kazakhstan
16.20
119 Nigeria
13.40
120 Kuwait
12.60
121 Qatar
10.30
122 Cameroon
9.60
123 Russia
9.50
124 Uzbekistan
9.00
125 Estonia
7.70
126 Gibraltar
7.50
127 Chile
6.20
128 Wallis and Futuna
5.60
.
129 Azerbaijan
4.60
130 Oman
4.40
131 Equatorial Guinea
4.10
132 Libya
3.30
America is at 58 percentile of it's GDP,made up of 50 states, Europe is at a similar cumulative percentile of GDP of the sum total of 27 nations in the European Union,collectively.China's is only 17.50 percent,Australia only 22.40,not far ahead of them.I must snicker at this, Libya under Khadafi before his problems, had Libya at only 3.30 percentil of GDP debt. So, how are they collectively able to pay their debts,and why aren't they in the position of defaulting on their debts?That is the other nations,who don't seem to have the problem America is having,seemingly being able to solve their economic crisis in intelligent fashion?Now all nations continually add to their national debt, in short, their national debt keeps rising,each year,rather than falling, and so too has America's.But Obama can't solve his national debt problem, the problem of America's national debt.
Now let's consdier what the probelm is,the national debt, and how it will be solved, merely by raising the debt ceiling itself.........according to....
http://politisite.com/2011/07/25/can-president-obama-use-14th-amendment-to-raise-the-debt-ceiling/
......... Although the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution does not say specifically that the President has the power to raise the debt limit, there is a lot of talk recently that he may try to do so. The Amendment says in Section 4.
“The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.” And Section 5. “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”Even so President Clinton said that he would use the Amendment to raise the debt Limit bypassing Congress. The ability for the President to bypass Congress in an Amendment that gives the President certain powers but not in section 4..............................
Clinton said he believed a deal would be struck before August 2, but if he were in charge, and both sides failed to reach an agreement, he would simply raise the debt ceiling himself using powers granted under the 14th amendment of the Constitution. The
amendment says that the validity of the public debt shall not be questioned. Clinton said he’d “force the courts to stop
me.”...........So that's what Obama can try to do,IF? Congress allows him and says he can do it? Or not if they don't?So what now,what was the other attempt.....The latest round of bargaining began on Monday when Mr Boehner and Senate Democrats offered competing plans to raise the debt limit and cut spending.The plans differed in size and scope, and neither would raise new tax revenue - a red line for Republicans.Mr Boehner's plan would also require another debt limit agreement in about six months, something Mr Obama has publicly declared he will not accept.So,let me get this straight, all they have to do, is agree,and everything will be all right. So, why can they not agree, and will they not agree, for the good of the nation adn the people of the United States,they just have to agree,and the required debt ceiling will be raised, and the money borrowed from where ever in la la, or fantasy land, or never,never land and everything will be right and well..go figure,that's the cure.......there's more.........seems America defaulting really only affects it's credit rating, versus Obama's threats,blustering and blundering with respect to Spain,Italy,Ireland or Greece defaulting would affect THEM to massive extents, but not the same for America, America defaulting has now been pushed to a ridiculous credit rating,borrowing ability shift downwards.....curious things not the same as his statements about their debt
problem,defaulting..........bankruptcy.......so now the plot thickens,read on...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/8672159/US-debt-crisis-Republican-budget-proposal-passed-in-House-of-Representatives.html
US debt crisis: Republican budget proposal passed in House of Representatives
The House of Representatives on Friday night passed a bill designed to end the looming US debt crisis, but amid high level warnings that Congress was "playing with fire", it faced almost certain defeat in the Senate.
By Alex Spillius, Washington
Hours after President Barack Obama called for Republicans and Democrats to put party politics aside, the Republican-controlled House scraped through a bill by just eight votes, even though Democrats, who control the Senate, had warned that it was unacceptable and "extremist".John Boehner, the Republican Speaker of the House, gave an impassioned appeal to his colleagues in the House to approve his plan, slamming his fist on the podium several times."I stuck my neck out a mile to get an agreement with the president of the United States," he said, referring to failed negotiations with Mr Obama earlier this month"My colleagues, I can tell you I have worked with the president and the administration since the beginning of this year to avoid being in this spot," he added. "A lot of people in this town can never say yes."With the vote out of the way after two days of high drama, negotiations immediately started on a compromise bill that would be started in the Senate by Democrats and then go back to the House.It might then pick up enough votes across both parties to pass before Tuesday's deadline to raise the so-called debt ceiling.There is a however real danger that Congress will not meet the deadline set by the US Treasury, which could mean that the US fails to pay its creditors for the first time.The government may also fail to fund state pensions, student loans, military salaries, contracts with businesses and a gamut of routine payments.World leaders have warned of the dire consequences for the global economy of a US default.There has been dismay at the dysfunction in Washington, with World Bank President Robert Zoellick saying the United States was "playing with fire"."Whatever the logic about the tactics, it's a very dangerous environment," he told a meeting of the Society for International Development."To be blunt, to have a debt default in the United States would not only be a financial calamity but should be an embarrassment for every American" he said.America's largest foreign creditor, China, has repeatedly urged Washington to protect its dollar investments and its state-run news agency said the US had been "kidnapped" by "dangerously irresponsible" politics.Speaking earlier at the White House, Mr Obama warned that the country's top credit rating was at risk after leading credit agencies said they were likely to issue a downgrade."If we don't do that, if we don't come to an agreement, we could lose our country's triple-A credit rating, not because we didn't have the capacity to pay our bills – we do – but because we didn't have
a triple-A political system to match our triple-A credit rating," he said."There are a lot of crises in the world that we can't always predict or avoid – hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, terrorist attacks. This isn't one of those crises. The power to solve this is in our hands," he said.Opponents of a deal have accused the administration of scare tactics and questioned if the consequences of failing to raise the debt ceiling would be so dire after all.
Here ends to informational epistle from the Daily Telegraph.
So what happened in The Senate with the Republican bill? Well, the Democrats in the Senate, voted..........No.So now the Democrats want America to default?Seemingly so.That's politics?Suicidal politics?The politics of Russian roulette with ONE bullet removed?Curious,through the great embuggeration that is American politics,now the Democrats seem to want to allow America to Default,Obama's Democrats...Crisis?What crisis? It seems it's all so irrelevant with respect to America,and all is as it seems,for America,so we don't mind.Do you mind?What is mind? No matter. What is matter?Does it matter?Never mind.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Secret Squirrel Ponders Implications Of The Phone Hacking Scandal
Secret Squirrel has monitored the emerging British Phone Hacking scandal,as most call it, the Rupert Murdoch Scandal,as some call it, and feels it is necessary to comment on the scandal ,at present being investigated,and emerging events of the day concerning it. This scandal, at present,just that,but Squirrel surmises, it WILL, reach epic and gigantic proportions, proportions as yet unimagined by many.It WILL be a far reaching hummungous scandal reaching far in to the past, and having deep present day repercussions, and reaching out well in to the future,altering the fabric of the sanctity of the lives of Britons,citizens of Britain,citizens ruled by Parliament,the citizens under the British Monarchy.
There has been revealed, through a mole,a quesling,or what ever you term said person(one Sean Hoare) who first revealed the phone hacking scandal(he was one of them involved in actually informationally hacking as things had been set up for him,by as yet persons and persons unknown and anonymous,yet hidden by others,in short,he WAS a spy,of sorts,perhaps out of sorts), of the massive intrusion in to the private lives of Britons, of members of government, in short an event which may yet emerge to involve not simple journalists,nor journalism,but rather spies, spying, directed by foreigners, citizens of a foreign power, a power alien to Britain,events emerging most definitely indicating occurrences to the detriment of the British citizen.
Hoare had told the New York Times that reporters at the NoW (News Of The World)were able to use police technology to locate people using their mobile phone signals, in exchange for payments to police officers. He said journalists were able to purchase the mobile phone tracking data from police for just £300.Where there is crime, there must be punishment.Looking at events,from what may occur, dependent on whose phone has been hacked we're looking at something very much like this.People were located via their mobile phones,locationally traced.
Now what is the legal side to all this.Well now,dependent on how a crime of intrusion in to a politician,member of governments position,there is a definitional change in crime designation, phone hacking is a crime with respect to anyone,yes, but it changes when members of government,politicians are involved,dealing with them in that fashion can result in things like charges for treason,that's right, treason,where we shall first commence and proceed from there.
In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more serious acts of betrayal of one's sovereign or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife. Treason against the king was known as high treason and treason against a lesser superior was petty treason. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor.Treason is committed by citizens of the nation, in this instance,Britain.A
citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]." In many nations, it is also often considered treason to attempt or conspire to overthrow the government, even if no foreign country is aided or involved by such an endeavour.Since the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 became law, the maximum sentence for high treason,crime against the Monarch,members of the Royal Family, in the UK has been life imprisonment.For spying,in Britain, the maximum punishment is 14 years in prison.Ordinary treason, is somewhere in between.
Now in present day events,the scandal has been termed The Phone Hacking Scandal.Let us first examine the method used, that of hacking cell phones, in the first instance.The modern cell phone originated with Martin Cooper; however, in order to completely understand the invention of the cell phone, you actually have to go back to the year 1947. It was then that the underlying technology that makes cell phones possible was invented. Known as hexagonal cells for mobile phone base stations, cell phones were invented through a joint effort between AT&T and Bell Labs. They were not actually used until the late 1950s.Doctor Martin Cooper invented the modern cell phone. He invented the technology responsible for the cell phone when he was the Director of Research and Development at Motorola. Dr. Martin Cooper is also known as the first person to make a call on a cell phone. His revolutionary call took place in April of 1973 in New York. He is currently the CEO of an antenna corporation.That's where and when it all began, in America, the country which controls the technology, and security technology,and computer technology, of the modern in use cellphone.There were and are internet enabled smartphone devices as well, and as we know, they have had problems recently with nations complaining they wished the codings for said system such
that THEY could monitor calls made with those devices.One recalls the Canadian Blackberry for example, and calls by foreign nations such as Pakistan,India,some Arab lands, etc which wished THE TECHNOLOGY to be able to penetrate and monitor such device use, in short, they wished to be able to hack in to said types of "phones" NOT BEING ABLE TO DO SO THEMSELVES, in short they THEY, a GOVERNMENT had not been able to penetrate the Canadian security of said,device, but OBVIOUSLY ,CANADA, and the company which made said device, COULD. In short penetration of said security of such devices is not easy, BUT is available and can be done with sufficient knowledge provided by the system designers etc,do take careful note here.Can it be done? Yes, but knowledge, extreme knowledge computer codings of the system, are required, not something just anybody can
get their hands on, massive technological help at the highest levels, IS required, not a simple task indeed.
Phone hacking involves a highly technologically motivated enterprise.It is not easy by any means,face it you cannot do it you yourself. How would it be done, requires direction, ordered initiation, thence requires those with the technological know
how, those with knowledge of the phone networks involved,and those with a high grade of computer skills. It requires massive organization,and cannot be done by a joe plumber in the confines of his apartment.In short it is a form of say,foreign,
intelligence apparatus network abilities. Also, take note, IF you did this, you would go to prison, as well as those who assisted you, all the lackeys and minions involved, together with the brains and organization of the outfit. If such hacking
took place involving government officials, then the term for that is spying, if by locally directed, it is domestic spying, but spying nevertheless.If it involves foreign nationals,such as say, American citizens, it is spying by and for a second power, a foreign power, a breech of NATIONAL security by a malevolent foreign entity,regardless of nation.need one wonder to what purpose.Rupert Murdoch,owner of The News Of The World,owner of a newspaper and media empire,worldwide in it's situation, has tried to brand himself mostly as Australia,and is referred to in press(his) as an Australian American, but he was Australian,(and does NOT hold dual citizenship,NOT in Australia) and to expand his empire of owned newspaper apparatus in foreign nations,and to gain control of media in foreign nations,he had to become an EXCLUSIVE American citizen, and so dropped, and lost his Australian citizenship. At that moment he was no longer an Australian, those many years back, but ipso facto, an American purely and simply.To Britain, and Australia, at that moment, he became a foreigner,back in 1985.He is
ranked 13th most powerful person in the world in the 2010 Forbes' The World's Most Powerful People list.With a net worth of US$6.3 billion, he is ranked 117th wealthiest person in the world.
Interestingly high officials in Scotland Yard have resigned, having failed the British Politicians, the British people,all, not just those who were the victims of the phone tapping,hacking etc by and for whatever foreign directed purpose there was.For example Sir Paul Stephenson, commissioner of the UK's Metropolitan Police, commonly known as Scotland Yard, resigned (DailyTelegraph), following revelations that he had employed former News of the World editor Neil Wallis as a personal
adviser.
"Wallis was arrested last week on suspicion of phone-hacking while at the newspaper, though Stephenson claimed that Wallis was not involved in the scandal while working for him in 2009. Stephenson said he had not told Prime Minister David Cameron about Wallis's employment so as not to "compromise" Cameron "(Financial Times), whose former communications chief, Andy Coulson, was also arrested for phone-hacking activities at News of the World,as well as police corruption charges(bribery and corruption, obtaining information from police through monetary payments, bribes,the pot de vin,schmiergeld,tea money.),the penalties for committing a crime under the Bribery Act are a maximum of 10 years' imprisonment, along with an unlimited fine, and the potential for the confiscation of property.Well that's a right plum job he had, and a really well based position for a mole to be in,an informative position,an invasive position,a job of massive available intelligence on Britons and Britain,and on of influence.If the lad could and would wear a dress, we would have a Profumo Scandal.The affair even yet deepens......most seriously.........David Cameron's friendship with Rebekah Brooks([BBC]Ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating phone hacking and bribery at the News of the World.The 43-year-old
was arrested by appointment on Sunday on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on suspicion of corruption.) and employment of Andy Coulson puts him at the very center of the phone-hacking story, writes the Daily Telegraph.Curious, they're the heads, the high heads, the dinner table party lads, not really functionaries who actually function.Questions,questions,questions arise out of this,questions we must have answers to,regardless.
why was Tony Blair so effiminent and ineffectual,unable to function when it came to dealings with the Americans.Was he more than their simply servile,smarmy patsy and the world's worst negotiator when it came to the Americans?Was there more to his ineptitude with respect to the Americans,were there things he didn't know that they knew,about British policies etc and himself?He certainly was Britain's most ridiculous and worst leader(loose term here applied,probably incorrectly).The Prime Minister raised the prospect of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown being called to give evidence to a phone-hacking inquiry today.Prime Minister Cameron said,"For the last 30 years at least, the British political establishment has lived in dread of
Rupert Murdoch. Although the real influence of his papers has been probably been wildly exaggerated, the Tories have always craved his support. Neil Kinnock loathed him, but Tony Blair actively courted the Murdoch press and until late 2009 one of
the unofficial rules of New Labour was: "never do anything that might offend News International."
The judge leading the phone hacking inquiry will have powers to call past and present politicians, editors and media proprietors.so deep does it go, so far back does it go.but to what purpose..simple..."news".Recall Murdoch's paper's revelations were hardly shocking things, simply so much gossip as to hardly even irritate, say a Hollywood celebrity,run of the mill smut and a touch of smarm.
At the Guardian.....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/08/phone-hacking-kate-middleton-tony-blair
The Guardian has commented.......Pressure is building on the Metropolitan police to expand their phone-hacking inquiry to include a notorious private investigator who was accused in the House of Commons on Wednesday of targeting politicians,
members of the royal family and high-level terrorist informers on behalf of Rupert Murdoch's News International.Guardian inquiries reveal that the former prime minister Tony Blair is among the suspected victims of Jonathan Rees, who was
involved in the theft of confidential data, the hacking of computers and, it is alleged, burglary. According to close associates of Rees, he also targeted:
• Jack Straw when he was home secretary, Peter Mandelson when he was trade secretary and Blair's media adviser Alastair Campbell;
• Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent, all of whom are said to have had their bank accounts penetrated, and Kate Middleton when she was Prince William's girlfriend;
• The former commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir John Stevens, and the current assistant commissioner, John Yates, who later supervised the failed phone-hacking inquiry for 19 months;
• The governor and deputy governor of the Bank of England, whose mortgage account details were obtained and sold.Rees, who worked for the Mirror Group as well as the New of the World, is also accused of using a specialist computer hacker
in July 2006 to steal information about MI6 agents who had infiltrated the Provisional IRA.
Here ends their epistle.
At CNN.........
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-25/world/uk.blair.hacked.report_1_hacker-group-phone-numbers-personal-data?_s=PM:WORLD
Blair suffered personally, some, and maybe more.........
Personal details about Tony Blair that appear online were apparently not hacked from the former British prime minister's computer systems, but from the email account of a former staffer.Responding to a report about a hacker group that claims to have accessed Blair's personal data, a Blair spokesman said Saturday, "This information has not been obtained from Tony Blair or any of his office systems."
Here ends the epistle from CNN, but there may be more, known,unknown,made public,kept private.where there is politician, where there is government, where there is Prime Minister, there is image(the portrait with the stink lines air brushed
out),there is embarrassment,there is keeping up appearances.
There is far more to the phone hacking scandal than meets the eye.It has implications of, being yet far deeper than ever was the simple,by comparison now, Profumo scandal, it is of rather great epic proportions,and indicates a great depth and direction of operations involving foreigners,directed by foreigners,and those within Britain,moles and operatives of a nefarious foreign power penetrating the national security of the politicians of Britain,and the security of Britain itself. Actual penetration of the British phone system could not have been prevented, only in technological hindsight,nor known, until there was a leak from within that (domestically inclined or otherwise) newspaper intelligence apparatus.Also the technology of the entire
system, cellular, is, in fact, foreign, it's coding etc and and security anti-bugging,anti-listening, anti-hacking, is thence also foreign, and in the case of cellular communications, American.Those in Britain with the knowledge of the security system computerized and whatever to prevent hacking and thence initiate hacking, in Britain, are there for very very few and far between,but those with said knowledge withing America and it's system, are in fact a great many,if not commonplace,but sworn to the Omerta of Americans with respect to the system. A newspaper organization is a vast intelligence network, but the one of Rupert Murdoch, was extremely up to date, high technology,with capabilities far yet exceeding even yet say, Scotland Yard itself.
As of present, the scandal is of humungous perspectives, but even yet a far greater,far vaster vista is yet opening up, the surface of this occurrence has hardly yet even been scratched.Direct and massive investigation is required,but looking at the nature of things being what they are, one commences to already doubt whether or not the government itself will be able to afford,or even yet allow full revelation of things. The present coalition is extremely lucky, it has been in power only a few months, in the revelations of what has occurred,and was the fledgeling government of the people of Britain which detected it.But such penetration occurred far early and went on many yet years,quite probably, undetected,hidden by the secrecy of the organization.
The plot thickens, Police say Sean Hoare, the whistleblower reporter who alleged widespread hacking at the News of the World, has been found dead.Police said Hoare's death at his home in England was considered to be somewhat suspicious, according to Britain's Press Association news agency,since forensics teams were called in.Recall he had stated before his death, that there would be yet more revelations, but in light of everything,his statement in particular, suicide becomes a highly dodgey label to place on it. The whistle blower would gain the public notoriety , the adoration of having revealed, not a smashed and shattered life by any means, but rather a rather,perhaps, envied, life, now in the limelight, hardly having let the people of Britain down, he had uplifted them to the point where he himself would have been in fact,publicly worshiped for his brave actions, his actions on the behalf of the British justice system, his actions on the behalf of the British people. Yes indeed, but now he is gone, removed,out of the game,making investigations yet more difficult. Indeed the game is afoot, a high crime game, a high stakes game.This is not a simple home invasion, a simple hacking of cellular phone system, but also, the hackings of the phones of politicians.Why whatever for, whatever and whomever,would such phone tapping etc benefit, and who would suffer to the detriment.Who indeed is behind this foreign invasion,this foreign intrusion?Who indeed.
And how and whom is responsible,whom is to face,and how many are to face, the British Justice System, and the British penal system, and for what ever charges...........yes, the game is afoot.
There has been revealed, through a mole,a quesling,or what ever you term said person(one Sean Hoare) who first revealed the phone hacking scandal(he was one of them involved in actually informationally hacking as things had been set up for him,by as yet persons and persons unknown and anonymous,yet hidden by others,in short,he WAS a spy,of sorts,perhaps out of sorts), of the massive intrusion in to the private lives of Britons, of members of government, in short an event which may yet emerge to involve not simple journalists,nor journalism,but rather spies, spying, directed by foreigners, citizens of a foreign power, a power alien to Britain,events emerging most definitely indicating occurrences to the detriment of the British citizen.
Hoare had told the New York Times that reporters at the NoW (News Of The World)were able to use police technology to locate people using their mobile phone signals, in exchange for payments to police officers. He said journalists were able to purchase the mobile phone tracking data from police for just £300.Where there is crime, there must be punishment.Looking at events,from what may occur, dependent on whose phone has been hacked we're looking at something very much like this.People were located via their mobile phones,locationally traced.
Now what is the legal side to all this.Well now,dependent on how a crime of intrusion in to a politician,member of governments position,there is a definitional change in crime designation, phone hacking is a crime with respect to anyone,yes, but it changes when members of government,politicians are involved,dealing with them in that fashion can result in things like charges for treason,that's right, treason,where we shall first commence and proceed from there.
In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more serious acts of betrayal of one's sovereign or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife. Treason against the king was known as high treason and treason against a lesser superior was petty treason. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor.Treason is committed by citizens of the nation, in this instance,Britain.A
citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]." In many nations, it is also often considered treason to attempt or conspire to overthrow the government, even if no foreign country is aided or involved by such an endeavour.Since the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 became law, the maximum sentence for high treason,crime against the Monarch,members of the Royal Family, in the UK has been life imprisonment.For spying,in Britain, the maximum punishment is 14 years in prison.Ordinary treason, is somewhere in between.
Now in present day events,the scandal has been termed The Phone Hacking Scandal.Let us first examine the method used, that of hacking cell phones, in the first instance.The modern cell phone originated with Martin Cooper; however, in order to completely understand the invention of the cell phone, you actually have to go back to the year 1947. It was then that the underlying technology that makes cell phones possible was invented. Known as hexagonal cells for mobile phone base stations, cell phones were invented through a joint effort between AT&T and Bell Labs. They were not actually used until the late 1950s.Doctor Martin Cooper invented the modern cell phone. He invented the technology responsible for the cell phone when he was the Director of Research and Development at Motorola. Dr. Martin Cooper is also known as the first person to make a call on a cell phone. His revolutionary call took place in April of 1973 in New York. He is currently the CEO of an antenna corporation.That's where and when it all began, in America, the country which controls the technology, and security technology,and computer technology, of the modern in use cellphone.There were and are internet enabled smartphone devices as well, and as we know, they have had problems recently with nations complaining they wished the codings for said system such
that THEY could monitor calls made with those devices.One recalls the Canadian Blackberry for example, and calls by foreign nations such as Pakistan,India,some Arab lands, etc which wished THE TECHNOLOGY to be able to penetrate and monitor such device use, in short, they wished to be able to hack in to said types of "phones" NOT BEING ABLE TO DO SO THEMSELVES, in short they THEY, a GOVERNMENT had not been able to penetrate the Canadian security of said,device, but OBVIOUSLY ,CANADA, and the company which made said device, COULD. In short penetration of said security of such devices is not easy, BUT is available and can be done with sufficient knowledge provided by the system designers etc,do take careful note here.Can it be done? Yes, but knowledge, extreme knowledge computer codings of the system, are required, not something just anybody can
get their hands on, massive technological help at the highest levels, IS required, not a simple task indeed.
Phone hacking involves a highly technologically motivated enterprise.It is not easy by any means,face it you cannot do it you yourself. How would it be done, requires direction, ordered initiation, thence requires those with the technological know
how, those with knowledge of the phone networks involved,and those with a high grade of computer skills. It requires massive organization,and cannot be done by a joe plumber in the confines of his apartment.In short it is a form of say,foreign,
intelligence apparatus network abilities. Also, take note, IF you did this, you would go to prison, as well as those who assisted you, all the lackeys and minions involved, together with the brains and organization of the outfit. If such hacking
took place involving government officials, then the term for that is spying, if by locally directed, it is domestic spying, but spying nevertheless.If it involves foreign nationals,such as say, American citizens, it is spying by and for a second power, a foreign power, a breech of NATIONAL security by a malevolent foreign entity,regardless of nation.need one wonder to what purpose.Rupert Murdoch,owner of The News Of The World,owner of a newspaper and media empire,worldwide in it's situation, has tried to brand himself mostly as Australia,and is referred to in press(his) as an Australian American, but he was Australian,(and does NOT hold dual citizenship,NOT in Australia) and to expand his empire of owned newspaper apparatus in foreign nations,and to gain control of media in foreign nations,he had to become an EXCLUSIVE American citizen, and so dropped, and lost his Australian citizenship. At that moment he was no longer an Australian, those many years back, but ipso facto, an American purely and simply.To Britain, and Australia, at that moment, he became a foreigner,back in 1985.He is
ranked 13th most powerful person in the world in the 2010 Forbes' The World's Most Powerful People list.With a net worth of US$6.3 billion, he is ranked 117th wealthiest person in the world.
Interestingly high officials in Scotland Yard have resigned, having failed the British Politicians, the British people,all, not just those who were the victims of the phone tapping,hacking etc by and for whatever foreign directed purpose there was.For example Sir Paul Stephenson, commissioner of the UK's Metropolitan Police, commonly known as Scotland Yard, resigned (DailyTelegraph), following revelations that he had employed former News of the World editor Neil Wallis as a personal
adviser.
"Wallis was arrested last week on suspicion of phone-hacking while at the newspaper, though Stephenson claimed that Wallis was not involved in the scandal while working for him in 2009. Stephenson said he had not told Prime Minister David Cameron about Wallis's employment so as not to "compromise" Cameron "(Financial Times), whose former communications chief, Andy Coulson, was also arrested for phone-hacking activities at News of the World,as well as police corruption charges(bribery and corruption, obtaining information from police through monetary payments, bribes,the pot de vin,schmiergeld,tea money.),the penalties for committing a crime under the Bribery Act are a maximum of 10 years' imprisonment, along with an unlimited fine, and the potential for the confiscation of property.Well that's a right plum job he had, and a really well based position for a mole to be in,an informative position,an invasive position,a job of massive available intelligence on Britons and Britain,and on of influence.If the lad could and would wear a dress, we would have a Profumo Scandal.The affair even yet deepens......most seriously.........David Cameron's friendship with Rebekah Brooks([BBC]Ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating phone hacking and bribery at the News of the World.The 43-year-old
was arrested by appointment on Sunday on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on suspicion of corruption.) and employment of Andy Coulson puts him at the very center of the phone-hacking story, writes the Daily Telegraph.Curious, they're the heads, the high heads, the dinner table party lads, not really functionaries who actually function.Questions,questions,questions arise out of this,questions we must have answers to,regardless.
why was Tony Blair so effiminent and ineffectual,unable to function when it came to dealings with the Americans.Was he more than their simply servile,smarmy patsy and the world's worst negotiator when it came to the Americans?Was there more to his ineptitude with respect to the Americans,were there things he didn't know that they knew,about British policies etc and himself?He certainly was Britain's most ridiculous and worst leader(loose term here applied,probably incorrectly).The Prime Minister raised the prospect of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown being called to give evidence to a phone-hacking inquiry today.Prime Minister Cameron said,"For the last 30 years at least, the British political establishment has lived in dread of
Rupert Murdoch. Although the real influence of his papers has been probably been wildly exaggerated, the Tories have always craved his support. Neil Kinnock loathed him, but Tony Blair actively courted the Murdoch press and until late 2009 one of
the unofficial rules of New Labour was: "never do anything that might offend News International."
The judge leading the phone hacking inquiry will have powers to call past and present politicians, editors and media proprietors.so deep does it go, so far back does it go.but to what purpose..simple..."news".Recall Murdoch's paper's revelations were hardly shocking things, simply so much gossip as to hardly even irritate, say a Hollywood celebrity,run of the mill smut and a touch of smarm.
At the Guardian.....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/08/phone-hacking-kate-middleton-tony-blair
The Guardian has commented.......Pressure is building on the Metropolitan police to expand their phone-hacking inquiry to include a notorious private investigator who was accused in the House of Commons on Wednesday of targeting politicians,
members of the royal family and high-level terrorist informers on behalf of Rupert Murdoch's News International.Guardian inquiries reveal that the former prime minister Tony Blair is among the suspected victims of Jonathan Rees, who was
involved in the theft of confidential data, the hacking of computers and, it is alleged, burglary. According to close associates of Rees, he also targeted:
• Jack Straw when he was home secretary, Peter Mandelson when he was trade secretary and Blair's media adviser Alastair Campbell;
• Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent, all of whom are said to have had their bank accounts penetrated, and Kate Middleton when she was Prince William's girlfriend;
• The former commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir John Stevens, and the current assistant commissioner, John Yates, who later supervised the failed phone-hacking inquiry for 19 months;
• The governor and deputy governor of the Bank of England, whose mortgage account details were obtained and sold.Rees, who worked for the Mirror Group as well as the New of the World, is also accused of using a specialist computer hacker
in July 2006 to steal information about MI6 agents who had infiltrated the Provisional IRA.
Here ends their epistle.
At CNN.........
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-25/world/uk.blair.hacked.report_1_hacker-group-phone-numbers-personal-data?_s=PM:WORLD
Blair suffered personally, some, and maybe more.........
Personal details about Tony Blair that appear online were apparently not hacked from the former British prime minister's computer systems, but from the email account of a former staffer.Responding to a report about a hacker group that claims to have accessed Blair's personal data, a Blair spokesman said Saturday, "This information has not been obtained from Tony Blair or any of his office systems."
Here ends the epistle from CNN, but there may be more, known,unknown,made public,kept private.where there is politician, where there is government, where there is Prime Minister, there is image(the portrait with the stink lines air brushed
out),there is embarrassment,there is keeping up appearances.
There is far more to the phone hacking scandal than meets the eye.It has implications of, being yet far deeper than ever was the simple,by comparison now, Profumo scandal, it is of rather great epic proportions,and indicates a great depth and direction of operations involving foreigners,directed by foreigners,and those within Britain,moles and operatives of a nefarious foreign power penetrating the national security of the politicians of Britain,and the security of Britain itself. Actual penetration of the British phone system could not have been prevented, only in technological hindsight,nor known, until there was a leak from within that (domestically inclined or otherwise) newspaper intelligence apparatus.Also the technology of the entire
system, cellular, is, in fact, foreign, it's coding etc and and security anti-bugging,anti-listening, anti-hacking, is thence also foreign, and in the case of cellular communications, American.Those in Britain with the knowledge of the security system computerized and whatever to prevent hacking and thence initiate hacking, in Britain, are there for very very few and far between,but those with said knowledge withing America and it's system, are in fact a great many,if not commonplace,but sworn to the Omerta of Americans with respect to the system. A newspaper organization is a vast intelligence network, but the one of Rupert Murdoch, was extremely up to date, high technology,with capabilities far yet exceeding even yet say, Scotland Yard itself.
As of present, the scandal is of humungous perspectives, but even yet a far greater,far vaster vista is yet opening up, the surface of this occurrence has hardly yet even been scratched.Direct and massive investigation is required,but looking at the nature of things being what they are, one commences to already doubt whether or not the government itself will be able to afford,or even yet allow full revelation of things. The present coalition is extremely lucky, it has been in power only a few months, in the revelations of what has occurred,and was the fledgeling government of the people of Britain which detected it.But such penetration occurred far early and went on many yet years,quite probably, undetected,hidden by the secrecy of the organization.
The plot thickens, Police say Sean Hoare, the whistleblower reporter who alleged widespread hacking at the News of the World, has been found dead.Police said Hoare's death at his home in England was considered to be somewhat suspicious, according to Britain's Press Association news agency,since forensics teams were called in.Recall he had stated before his death, that there would be yet more revelations, but in light of everything,his statement in particular, suicide becomes a highly dodgey label to place on it. The whistle blower would gain the public notoriety , the adoration of having revealed, not a smashed and shattered life by any means, but rather a rather,perhaps, envied, life, now in the limelight, hardly having let the people of Britain down, he had uplifted them to the point where he himself would have been in fact,publicly worshiped for his brave actions, his actions on the behalf of the British justice system, his actions on the behalf of the British people. Yes indeed, but now he is gone, removed,out of the game,making investigations yet more difficult. Indeed the game is afoot, a high crime game, a high stakes game.This is not a simple home invasion, a simple hacking of cellular phone system, but also, the hackings of the phones of politicians.Why whatever for, whatever and whomever,would such phone tapping etc benefit, and who would suffer to the detriment.Who indeed is behind this foreign invasion,this foreign intrusion?Who indeed.
And how and whom is responsible,whom is to face,and how many are to face, the British Justice System, and the British penal system, and for what ever charges...........yes, the game is afoot.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Secret Squirrel On The Canadian Internet Billing Crisis
Secret Squirrel has had his attention aroused by a second attempt,in Canada, by the CRTC( Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) at initiating a monopolisticly financially dictated cap on internet use, i.e. to have a dictated global provider plan for UBB,Usage Based Billing of the free Canadian Internet,to the behest of the heavily monopolistic consortium of Bell/Rogers to the detriment of the Canadian people, the Canadian internet user, we, the people.
Why does anyone need to make laws about the internet at all. Everything has been working fine up to this point, and the internet and all it's technologies that it's producing have been growing at a fantastic rate.Why do people need to work so hard to try and not only control the internet but to make a profit from it? This is getting to the point it's absolutely retarded!But so too is the system.Presently Bell/Rogers Canada's rather large media monopoly,controlling heavily cable and cable services(including internet access through cable,through Rogers)and Bell controlling the phone lines,used for interne(by Bell and anyone else) and including internet access via satellite services)wish to force on consumers what is called an internet cap, or UBB, short for Usage Based Billing, on all consumers basically, by attempting to go through the CRTC to achieve this, broadspectrum.You see, they could easily do it themselves,and so heavily line their pockets,quite obviously, and greatly increase their already humungous and guaranteed monopolistic profits,but if only they do it themselves, then their internet customers,who are not yet fed up with them already, and their conduct,would flee to other providers you see, the basic independents, and others who are in whatever fashion allowed by government to run internet services in direct competition with and against them,such as AOL.Competition allows for a good deal for the consumer, a choice,but The Bell/Rogers idea is to in a sense remove this and force ALL internet providers to go to usage billing through the dictates of the CRTC,whose members are appointed,SHOULD the government follow the ruling of the CRTC.So, who then really is the government watch dog,the CRTC really working for,Bell/Rogers, or Canadians?
This is not the first attempt at this,the Canadian government(Conservative at that time, and once again incumbent THIS time) reversed a controversial ruling that was seen as hurting Internet video and competition,which of course it is, especially forcing all internet providers to the same ends,as in applying usage billing.The policy, which would have then taken effect March 31, centered on the amount of data that consumers can view or download and for what expense. Not surprisingly, it’s the bigger ISPs that supported the new fees supported by the policy. Many have already been charging users in accordance with how much data they access – and now, the new law would have smaller ISPs do the same. That’s because smaller ISPs lease bandwidth from larger telecommunications firms such as Bell Canada, Rogers Communications, and Shaw Communications. Despite their small size, the lesser-known ISPs (Internet service providers) have typically been providing both greater bandwidth and lower fees than have the bigger ISPs such as Bell and TELUS. Following a Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission decision that would not only allow but in some cases require usage-based billing for independent Internet providers, the Conservative Party and Prime Minister Harper and Industry Minister Tony Clement had already settled on overturning the CRTC's new rule. The regulator would have a chance to do so voluntarily but would be forced to make the change if it disagreed.While the Conservatives have often been pro-business, the party is concerned enough about the anti-competitive nature of the ruling to take action. "A decision like this is clearly not in the best interest of consumers," the anonymous official said.Clement in a Twitter conversation with a CBC reporter suggested it was virtually certain the CRTC measure would have to go back to the "drawing board.",and so too it was and so too it did happen.
Public reaction also likely played a factor. A petition with over 200,000 signatures, along with tens of thousands of e-mails to Clement and increasingly high-profile media coverage, may have signaled broad public opposition. A federal election is considered a possibility this year and could have seen usage-based billing as a major platform issue. Both the opposing Liberals and New Democratic Party were the first to formally object to the CRTC's ruling.Imagine, all parties agreed that USB,Usage Based Billing was NOT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST.The Public, yes, I,you,me,we all Canadians,NOT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST,that said decision was monopolistic, anti-competition,not in the best interest of consumers,of we,the people.
Critics rightly argued that Bell/Rogers and other major ISPs have an anti-competitive incentive for usage-based billing rules. The approach prevents an independent provider from becoming a genuine competitor, even if it can fully afford to offer better service than its major rival. Incumbents have their own TV services and, after Bell's new CTV acquisition, now have their own TV channels as well. The conflict of interest can encourage them to impose artificially low bandwidth caps on themselves, and on independents,all done in efforts to make themselves appear more attractive,to the disadvantage of the independents and other competitive internet service providers.And so the decision was rejected, and sent right back to the CRTC where is was supposed to quietly die. But,strangely,the Jaberwocky still stalks the public,BELL/ROGERS have revived the dead monstrosity in CRTC committee and once again the CRTC is holding hearings.however.what has changed.not the arguments solidly presented against, not the government resolve,consider ALL THREE PARTIES ALREADY OPPOSED UBB,Usage Based Billing.
What really then is the point of these CRTC hearings,and yet another decision.The THREE PARTIES were firmly resolved,the government itself of the incumbent Conservatives had made a decision, taken a stand,and so too did the other parties, the opposition, the Liberals, and the New Democrat Party........so why must the Jaberwocky of USB be slain again..........quite simply regardless of the decision of the CRTC what with their second attempt, they simply HAVE TO BE TOLD MUST BE TOLD, UBB is dead.Quite simply Bell/Rogers are attempting the journey toward an Internet oligopoly or monopoly,in sum toto.
To understand the real impact, though, it is important to view UBB in context with other issues, which together:
jeopardize the sovereignty of our nation,
have a chilling effect on freedom of expression, and
threaten the privacy and democratic freedoms traditionally enjoyed in Canada.
“There is a huge conflict of interest here being seemingly ignored by the CRTC. Bell-Rogers are limiting their competitors’ ability to compete with their cable divisions, by using their Internet divisions to discourage increased Internet usage. Why is this not discussed more often? Maybe one company should no longer be allowed to own both?”
As we've been covering, Canadian regulatory agency the CRTC recently had their (or should we say Bell's) effort to impose usage-based billing (UBB) on Canadian wholesalers and consumers shot down by Canadian leaders for being anti-competitive, punitive, and generally just ridiculous. The review was demanded after immense public backlash to the concept of usage-based pricing, though the CRTC's inquiry is expected to be rather hollow.
The Harper/Reform/"Conservative" Party ,though it did state it would not allow implimentation of UBB,as too did the will of the other parties,Liberal and NDP,did nothing except send the decision back to the CRTC with instructions to review the decision,as in change their minds.But the time is now,to reaffirm that decision NOT to impliment or allow UBB,it is the time for the Conservatives, to, and for the Liberals and NDP Party to,force the reaffirmation of the original decision not to allow such UBB implimentation,in all direct honesty and integrity,it is the time for the government also to keep it's WORD, it's solemn vow,to the Canadian people.Opposition to the CRTC was massive.
The NDP’s digital-issues critic said any decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to allow usage-based billing threatens access to the Internet.
According to Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus, usage-based billing is unfair to consumers and could be used by large Internet service providers to limit competition from third-party ISPs and online media sources.
“We’ve seen this all before with cell phones,” Angus said in a press release today (January 20). “Allowing the Internet Service Providers to ding you every time you download is a rip-off. Canada is already falling behind other countries in terms of choice, accessibility and pricing for the Internet.”
Angus called for “clear rules that put consumers first”.
The NDP’s release was applauded by OpenMedia.ca, a nonprofit organization that’s been campaigning against usage-based billing, also known as Internet metering.
OpenMedia.ca has collected more than 34,000 signatures on an online petition against usage-based billing for Internet service.
In December, Vancouver city council voted to take a stand against usage-based Internet billing and call on the CRTC to reverse its May decision opening the door to the practice.What makes these UBB approaches noteworthy when viewed from a Canadian perspective is that in other countries, there is the free market system,free enterprise,and there is sufficient competition such that consumers in other countries can typically choose between unlimited or UBB capped plans,depending on the provider, and any provider must make itself attractive to consumers, or else adopt a different market plan approach to attract consumers, in short, they can choose, they are not dictated to.Should a provider imagine a UBB cap plan is attractive to a consumer at say $35 a month, versus a unlimited plan at $35 a month,well so be it.The choice is there, for the people,the consumer, and for the provider as well.That is the free market system, the proper method of free enterprise.
It is also pointed out the basic Bell/Rogers monopoly,the very root of this present evil,with access of internet by use of their phone line,they also have internet over their cable line,which is fair, in that their cable is a monopoly,do you suppose,or else it is somewhat skewed,and, then is it not.BUT there is internet by satellite, that bypasses both their phone monopoly, AND their cable monopoly.would CRTC see to it that a satellite provider was blocked BY GOVERNMENT from either beaming said service to Canada, AND/OR not following USB but rather a free usage internet through THEIR system................and so.........not....It is sadly pointed out that Satellite providers must have permission to beam their signals in to Canada, and the CRTC would subject THEM ALSO to being forced to use UBB also,AND that any such UBB would also be subject to the definition of the CRTC/BELL/ROGERS in what a "deal" they could submit to the Canadian consumer, the Canadian Public.so this all most assuredly,as it did before,and so too as it does now,points to a direct cash grab made available to the massive monopoly, the Bell/Rogers..........Let freedom ring!Let there be free enterprise, let there be a competitive system,let there be laissez faire,let there be a democratic economic system, Or not.
Here's my suggestion. Everyone everywhere needs to back off and let the internet progress as it needs to. Right now all these new laws and regulations are only meant to one thing,Put money into some monopolistic providers( BELL/ROGERS) pockets, and really that has no place in the supposedly free market,free enterprise,democratic Canadian financial and economic systems.LET FREEDOM RING!!In Poland,the internet is.......free.
Why does anyone need to make laws about the internet at all. Everything has been working fine up to this point, and the internet and all it's technologies that it's producing have been growing at a fantastic rate.Why do people need to work so hard to try and not only control the internet but to make a profit from it? This is getting to the point it's absolutely retarded!But so too is the system.Presently Bell/Rogers Canada's rather large media monopoly,controlling heavily cable and cable services(including internet access through cable,through Rogers)and Bell controlling the phone lines,used for interne(by Bell and anyone else) and including internet access via satellite services)wish to force on consumers what is called an internet cap, or UBB, short for Usage Based Billing, on all consumers basically, by attempting to go through the CRTC to achieve this, broadspectrum.You see, they could easily do it themselves,and so heavily line their pockets,quite obviously, and greatly increase their already humungous and guaranteed monopolistic profits,but if only they do it themselves, then their internet customers,who are not yet fed up with them already, and their conduct,would flee to other providers you see, the basic independents, and others who are in whatever fashion allowed by government to run internet services in direct competition with and against them,such as AOL.Competition allows for a good deal for the consumer, a choice,but The Bell/Rogers idea is to in a sense remove this and force ALL internet providers to go to usage billing through the dictates of the CRTC,whose members are appointed,SHOULD the government follow the ruling of the CRTC.So, who then really is the government watch dog,the CRTC really working for,Bell/Rogers, or Canadians?
This is not the first attempt at this,the Canadian government(Conservative at that time, and once again incumbent THIS time) reversed a controversial ruling that was seen as hurting Internet video and competition,which of course it is, especially forcing all internet providers to the same ends,as in applying usage billing.The policy, which would have then taken effect March 31, centered on the amount of data that consumers can view or download and for what expense. Not surprisingly, it’s the bigger ISPs that supported the new fees supported by the policy. Many have already been charging users in accordance with how much data they access – and now, the new law would have smaller ISPs do the same. That’s because smaller ISPs lease bandwidth from larger telecommunications firms such as Bell Canada, Rogers Communications, and Shaw Communications. Despite their small size, the lesser-known ISPs (Internet service providers) have typically been providing both greater bandwidth and lower fees than have the bigger ISPs such as Bell and TELUS. Following a Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission decision that would not only allow but in some cases require usage-based billing for independent Internet providers, the Conservative Party and Prime Minister Harper and Industry Minister Tony Clement had already settled on overturning the CRTC's new rule. The regulator would have a chance to do so voluntarily but would be forced to make the change if it disagreed.While the Conservatives have often been pro-business, the party is concerned enough about the anti-competitive nature of the ruling to take action. "A decision like this is clearly not in the best interest of consumers," the anonymous official said.Clement in a Twitter conversation with a CBC reporter suggested it was virtually certain the CRTC measure would have to go back to the "drawing board.",and so too it was and so too it did happen.
Public reaction also likely played a factor. A petition with over 200,000 signatures, along with tens of thousands of e-mails to Clement and increasingly high-profile media coverage, may have signaled broad public opposition. A federal election is considered a possibility this year and could have seen usage-based billing as a major platform issue. Both the opposing Liberals and New Democratic Party were the first to formally object to the CRTC's ruling.Imagine, all parties agreed that USB,Usage Based Billing was NOT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST.The Public, yes, I,you,me,we all Canadians,NOT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST,that said decision was monopolistic, anti-competition,not in the best interest of consumers,of we,the people.
Critics rightly argued that Bell/Rogers and other major ISPs have an anti-competitive incentive for usage-based billing rules. The approach prevents an independent provider from becoming a genuine competitor, even if it can fully afford to offer better service than its major rival. Incumbents have their own TV services and, after Bell's new CTV acquisition, now have their own TV channels as well. The conflict of interest can encourage them to impose artificially low bandwidth caps on themselves, and on independents,all done in efforts to make themselves appear more attractive,to the disadvantage of the independents and other competitive internet service providers.And so the decision was rejected, and sent right back to the CRTC where is was supposed to quietly die. But,strangely,the Jaberwocky still stalks the public,BELL/ROGERS have revived the dead monstrosity in CRTC committee and once again the CRTC is holding hearings.however.what has changed.not the arguments solidly presented against, not the government resolve,consider ALL THREE PARTIES ALREADY OPPOSED UBB,Usage Based Billing.
What really then is the point of these CRTC hearings,and yet another decision.The THREE PARTIES were firmly resolved,the government itself of the incumbent Conservatives had made a decision, taken a stand,and so too did the other parties, the opposition, the Liberals, and the New Democrat Party........so why must the Jaberwocky of USB be slain again..........quite simply regardless of the decision of the CRTC what with their second attempt, they simply HAVE TO BE TOLD MUST BE TOLD, UBB is dead.Quite simply Bell/Rogers are attempting the journey toward an Internet oligopoly or monopoly,in sum toto.
To understand the real impact, though, it is important to view UBB in context with other issues, which together:
jeopardize the sovereignty of our nation,
have a chilling effect on freedom of expression, and
threaten the privacy and democratic freedoms traditionally enjoyed in Canada.
“There is a huge conflict of interest here being seemingly ignored by the CRTC. Bell-Rogers are limiting their competitors’ ability to compete with their cable divisions, by using their Internet divisions to discourage increased Internet usage. Why is this not discussed more often? Maybe one company should no longer be allowed to own both?”
As we've been covering, Canadian regulatory agency the CRTC recently had their (or should we say Bell's) effort to impose usage-based billing (UBB) on Canadian wholesalers and consumers shot down by Canadian leaders for being anti-competitive, punitive, and generally just ridiculous. The review was demanded after immense public backlash to the concept of usage-based pricing, though the CRTC's inquiry is expected to be rather hollow.
The Harper/Reform/"Conservative" Party ,though it did state it would not allow implimentation of UBB,as too did the will of the other parties,Liberal and NDP,did nothing except send the decision back to the CRTC with instructions to review the decision,as in change their minds.But the time is now,to reaffirm that decision NOT to impliment or allow UBB,it is the time for the Conservatives, to, and for the Liberals and NDP Party to,force the reaffirmation of the original decision not to allow such UBB implimentation,in all direct honesty and integrity,it is the time for the government also to keep it's WORD, it's solemn vow,to the Canadian people.Opposition to the CRTC was massive.
The NDP’s digital-issues critic said any decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to allow usage-based billing threatens access to the Internet.
According to Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus, usage-based billing is unfair to consumers and could be used by large Internet service providers to limit competition from third-party ISPs and online media sources.
“We’ve seen this all before with cell phones,” Angus said in a press release today (January 20). “Allowing the Internet Service Providers to ding you every time you download is a rip-off. Canada is already falling behind other countries in terms of choice, accessibility and pricing for the Internet.”
Angus called for “clear rules that put consumers first”.
The NDP’s release was applauded by OpenMedia.ca, a nonprofit organization that’s been campaigning against usage-based billing, also known as Internet metering.
OpenMedia.ca has collected more than 34,000 signatures on an online petition against usage-based billing for Internet service.
In December, Vancouver city council voted to take a stand against usage-based Internet billing and call on the CRTC to reverse its May decision opening the door to the practice.What makes these UBB approaches noteworthy when viewed from a Canadian perspective is that in other countries, there is the free market system,free enterprise,and there is sufficient competition such that consumers in other countries can typically choose between unlimited or UBB capped plans,depending on the provider, and any provider must make itself attractive to consumers, or else adopt a different market plan approach to attract consumers, in short, they can choose, they are not dictated to.Should a provider imagine a UBB cap plan is attractive to a consumer at say $35 a month, versus a unlimited plan at $35 a month,well so be it.The choice is there, for the people,the consumer, and for the provider as well.That is the free market system, the proper method of free enterprise.
It is also pointed out the basic Bell/Rogers monopoly,the very root of this present evil,with access of internet by use of their phone line,they also have internet over their cable line,which is fair, in that their cable is a monopoly,do you suppose,or else it is somewhat skewed,and, then is it not.BUT there is internet by satellite, that bypasses both their phone monopoly, AND their cable monopoly.would CRTC see to it that a satellite provider was blocked BY GOVERNMENT from either beaming said service to Canada, AND/OR not following USB but rather a free usage internet through THEIR system................and so.........not....It is sadly pointed out that Satellite providers must have permission to beam their signals in to Canada, and the CRTC would subject THEM ALSO to being forced to use UBB also,AND that any such UBB would also be subject to the definition of the CRTC/BELL/ROGERS in what a "deal" they could submit to the Canadian consumer, the Canadian Public.so this all most assuredly,as it did before,and so too as it does now,points to a direct cash grab made available to the massive monopoly, the Bell/Rogers..........Let freedom ring!Let there be free enterprise, let there be a competitive system,let there be laissez faire,let there be a democratic economic system, Or not.
Here's my suggestion. Everyone everywhere needs to back off and let the internet progress as it needs to. Right now all these new laws and regulations are only meant to one thing,Put money into some monopolistic providers( BELL/ROGERS) pockets, and really that has no place in the supposedly free market,free enterprise,democratic Canadian financial and economic systems.LET FREEDOM RING!!In Poland,the internet is.......free.
Secret Squirrel On Canada Boycotting United Nations Conferences.
Secret Squirrel has decided to comment on Canada, a nation employing a strange political technique of the boycott,boycotting as in not attending, not attending social global interaction sporting events, and yet even United Nations conferences because the policies,politics, ideas,thoughts of other nations don't agree with their own. Canada employs the childish and ignorant technique of the boycott.Let us ponder Canada in its ridiculous boycotts,some of which are exampled here.
In 1980 Canada boycotted Moscow Olympics,(along with America) allowing other nations to garner the few medals Canada usually wins,and the large numbers America usually wins(not really wise for the Americans as there are a great many nations it doesn't like, and a greater number of nations which don't like it), shooting themselves in the foot there.The Canadians even yet boycotted an anti-racism conference in Durban,South Africa(along with America).......curious,anti racism,a conference to discuss anti-racism, and Canada chooses not to attend.
They,the Canadians,have also boycotted speeches by other world leaders,in and at The United Nations, unwilling to listen to them and their ideas, thoughts, perspectives and theories,in the free and open forum that is the gathered United Nations.Tch tch tch.....what if children boycotted schools, you know what that would lead to,what it has in Canada's government, idiocy.Canada's boycott of the Olympic Games 1980 was to protest the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.Perhaps Canada will now boycott(along with America), the Russia's 2014 Olympic Games at Sochi,will Canada boycott protesting it's(their) own invasion of Afghanistan? I think not.
So now Canada boycotts a UN arms meeting,because it disagrees that North Korea, whose turn it is to chair it,will chair it.Well, these disarmament conferences are mutual meetings geared to disarmament,trying to achieve it. Seems Canada is inclined to not to listen,heed the council of, nor respect the other nations of the world.In terms of peace and neutrality,Canada is not any of that,it has invaded militarily Afghanistan,presently also Libya,in short, it is on a belligerent course of action militarily,it is an aggressor nation,though it does nothing by itself,it does exhibit militarily pack behaviour.Canada cannot possibly say it has have every right, indeed the duty, to boycott a disarmament conference if the country chairing the meeting is North Korea,or any other for that matter. How is it possible to trust a country which claims it wants disarmament but won't discuss the issue?
Does Canada belong there in either case? No not really, they still haven't figured out how to successfully create an atom bomb for example,but if they actually ever do then they will pose a worse threat than the DPRK ever will, on the basis of their constant and continuing invasions of nations foreign to themsleves,whether or not they consider themselves liberators as that is the usual horn blown by all who belligerently invade.Should Canada ever chair such a meeting it would be “absurd” that one of the world’s worst offenders on foreign invasions should do so.The North Koreans invaded South Korea once,Canada has invaded foreign lands twice and counting. Canada claims that “North Korea’s chairmanship undermines the integrity of disarmament framework and of the United Nations, and Canada will simply not support that,” Canada will no longer “go along to get along” and will instead take principled stands on foreign policy, Canada will also press for reforms of the rotating presidency structure so countries like North Korea and Iran don’t have a chance at the seven-week helm,would it also push,perhaps, that Canada shouldn't as well.
Imagine Canada what with it's invasions of the Arab lands(for the oil supply of course),pushing some form a agenda at peace conferences!Could Canada be believed?Not really,no indeed.Canada is not a neutral,not a peace keeper, but really a belligerentnation(albeit not ever by itself).Canada is a member of NATO, a supposed defense alliance, but with recent invasions and activities in Arab lands, we see that this is really not so, NATO is, and has become, a repressive, suppressive attack alliance, garnered not to defense, but rather attacking lands, gaining political control of them, and then inexpensively sucking out the minerals and resources for their selective uses and applications,well under the guise of a fee charged for "liberating" the victim nation,Canada is part of such nations,a member of a group of such nations,and Canada is such a nation, yet they, the Canadians, condemn the North Koreans,the humungous kettle has called the tiny pot...........black.
Canada's presence actually undermines the integrity of any particular discussion on nuclear disarmament, and on any other military type of discussion due to its belligerent invasions of,presently, Arab lands.It is not for Canada to decide who
should host or who should not host any discussion forum in the United Nations in the first and any place, indeed all nations should in all equity,equality, and global fraternity be chairs at specific terms, whilst Canada should learn that chairs will
not be nations it specifically approves of and are within it's political and economic policy dictates.Canada has presently a pattern of driving a poorly defined agenda within international bodies such as the UN,when it should have a policy of toleration, respect and equality for all.You have to ask yourself what they’re trying to achieve here.After losing a bid for a UN security council seat Canada risks being further sidelined and more irrelevant by pursuing boycotts instead of showing
leadership on issues of any particular variety.Canada doesn’t seem to be definitive on issues that are going to get results and move things along – it seem rather to be blocking things that they don’t like or things they don’t appear to be in line
with,they're not providing what the alternatives are.The Canadian attitude seem to be, with the swelled head that the present government of Canada demonstrates,is a dictatorial attitude of it controlling the game, and not liking the direction the game takes, the sad snotty little nation takes it's ball and goes home.And,need we add,Canada ranks(really now), fourteenth (14th), in international arms sales.......
1. USA
2. Russia
3. Germany
4. France
5. United Kingdom
6. Netherlands
7. China
8. Spain
9. Italy
10. Sweden
11. Israel
12. Ukraine
13. Switzerland
14. Canada
15. South Africa
16. South Korea
17. Poland
18. Belgium
19. Norway
20. Brazil
Oh dear,North Korea didn't make the top 20.My,my...so should Canada be allowed to chair arms conferences?Why no, it would have to boycott itself.One simply must look at Canada now, the Canadian government, and its political position, as being
abusive,schizophrenic, and...racist, quite obviously.
BUT the game's afoot, and there is more than one ball in play in the game of international politics, and so, the game continues, without the sore looser.Canada seems stuck on North Korea having nuclear abilities, but rather curiously Canada
seems happy with the Pakistanis having it, the Israelis having it. Canada can never now have the ability to have a positive influence on these negotiations,it has a revealed agenda,nuclear bombs for nations it likes, not for those it doesn't like.By
withdrawing from the conference, Canada is abdicating its responsibility to act and to be heard on important issues such as nuclear non-proliferation and giving more radical countries like Pakistan,Israel,North Korea and Iran an even greater
influence on the outcome of the negotiations.Canada does not regard North Korea as a credible chair, but then the pot has called the kettle black, and Canada is by it's actions,also not a credible chair, just as it was not a credible chair for the
Security Council.Canada even yet argues that the UN has accused North Korea of selling weapons to Iran, Syria and Burma,other nations,not liking those nations, but does not complain about nations such as Israel,France,Britain,America and whatever and whoever also selling weapons round and about the world,to whomever they do, nor itself really, ranking,again, fourteenth in world arm sales.And need one add, it,The Canada, likes the nations it sells arms to.
It ,the UN,also said the country,North Korea,in it's arms sales, mislabeled shipping container contents, falsified information about the destinations of goods and used "multiple layers of intermediaries, shell companies, and financial institutions,which just goes to show you they have learned much from nations such as Britain,France,the United States,Israel.It is a global domination issue,a control issue, a subjugation issue,and Canada is itself a part of that very process,a very belligerent part of that process.Canada will resume its role on the 65-member body on 19 August, when North Korea's turn as president ends.And so the tardy child will have returned from truancy,to find that it has missed the the discussions, the educational enlightenment,the exchange of ideas and thoughts between nations, which took place while it was gone, and so,when the time comes for it to face its test, it will fail out of its own ignorance and stupidity,the ignorance and the stupidity of its own government which holds only its views and opinions in high regard and disclaims the views and opinions of other nations of the world in the global fraternal order of the United Nations, nation members in equality, equity, fraternity.Canada is a disgrace, it disgraces the United Nations, and it disgraces itself,by it's mere presence there.
In 1980 Canada boycotted Moscow Olympics,(along with America) allowing other nations to garner the few medals Canada usually wins,and the large numbers America usually wins(not really wise for the Americans as there are a great many nations it doesn't like, and a greater number of nations which don't like it), shooting themselves in the foot there.The Canadians even yet boycotted an anti-racism conference in Durban,South Africa(along with America).......curious,anti racism,a conference to discuss anti-racism, and Canada chooses not to attend.
They,the Canadians,have also boycotted speeches by other world leaders,in and at The United Nations, unwilling to listen to them and their ideas, thoughts, perspectives and theories,in the free and open forum that is the gathered United Nations.Tch tch tch.....what if children boycotted schools, you know what that would lead to,what it has in Canada's government, idiocy.Canada's boycott of the Olympic Games 1980 was to protest the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.Perhaps Canada will now boycott(along with America), the Russia's 2014 Olympic Games at Sochi,will Canada boycott protesting it's(their) own invasion of Afghanistan? I think not.
So now Canada boycotts a UN arms meeting,because it disagrees that North Korea, whose turn it is to chair it,will chair it.Well, these disarmament conferences are mutual meetings geared to disarmament,trying to achieve it. Seems Canada is inclined to not to listen,heed the council of, nor respect the other nations of the world.In terms of peace and neutrality,Canada is not any of that,it has invaded militarily Afghanistan,presently also Libya,in short, it is on a belligerent course of action militarily,it is an aggressor nation,though it does nothing by itself,it does exhibit militarily pack behaviour.Canada cannot possibly say it has have every right, indeed the duty, to boycott a disarmament conference if the country chairing the meeting is North Korea,or any other for that matter. How is it possible to trust a country which claims it wants disarmament but won't discuss the issue?
Does Canada belong there in either case? No not really, they still haven't figured out how to successfully create an atom bomb for example,but if they actually ever do then they will pose a worse threat than the DPRK ever will, on the basis of their constant and continuing invasions of nations foreign to themsleves,whether or not they consider themselves liberators as that is the usual horn blown by all who belligerently invade.Should Canada ever chair such a meeting it would be “absurd” that one of the world’s worst offenders on foreign invasions should do so.The North Koreans invaded South Korea once,Canada has invaded foreign lands twice and counting. Canada claims that “North Korea’s chairmanship undermines the integrity of disarmament framework and of the United Nations, and Canada will simply not support that,” Canada will no longer “go along to get along” and will instead take principled stands on foreign policy, Canada will also press for reforms of the rotating presidency structure so countries like North Korea and Iran don’t have a chance at the seven-week helm,would it also push,perhaps, that Canada shouldn't as well.
Imagine Canada what with it's invasions of the Arab lands(for the oil supply of course),pushing some form a agenda at peace conferences!Could Canada be believed?Not really,no indeed.Canada is not a neutral,not a peace keeper, but really a belligerentnation(albeit not ever by itself).Canada is a member of NATO, a supposed defense alliance, but with recent invasions and activities in Arab lands, we see that this is really not so, NATO is, and has become, a repressive, suppressive attack alliance, garnered not to defense, but rather attacking lands, gaining political control of them, and then inexpensively sucking out the minerals and resources for their selective uses and applications,well under the guise of a fee charged for "liberating" the victim nation,Canada is part of such nations,a member of a group of such nations,and Canada is such a nation, yet they, the Canadians, condemn the North Koreans,the humungous kettle has called the tiny pot...........black.
Canada's presence actually undermines the integrity of any particular discussion on nuclear disarmament, and on any other military type of discussion due to its belligerent invasions of,presently, Arab lands.It is not for Canada to decide who
should host or who should not host any discussion forum in the United Nations in the first and any place, indeed all nations should in all equity,equality, and global fraternity be chairs at specific terms, whilst Canada should learn that chairs will
not be nations it specifically approves of and are within it's political and economic policy dictates.Canada has presently a pattern of driving a poorly defined agenda within international bodies such as the UN,when it should have a policy of toleration, respect and equality for all.You have to ask yourself what they’re trying to achieve here.After losing a bid for a UN security council seat Canada risks being further sidelined and more irrelevant by pursuing boycotts instead of showing
leadership on issues of any particular variety.Canada doesn’t seem to be definitive on issues that are going to get results and move things along – it seem rather to be blocking things that they don’t like or things they don’t appear to be in line
with,they're not providing what the alternatives are.The Canadian attitude seem to be, with the swelled head that the present government of Canada demonstrates,is a dictatorial attitude of it controlling the game, and not liking the direction the game takes, the sad snotty little nation takes it's ball and goes home.And,need we add,Canada ranks(really now), fourteenth (14th), in international arms sales.......
1. USA
2. Russia
3. Germany
4. France
5. United Kingdom
6. Netherlands
7. China
8. Spain
9. Italy
10. Sweden
11. Israel
12. Ukraine
13. Switzerland
14. Canada
15. South Africa
16. South Korea
17. Poland
18. Belgium
19. Norway
20. Brazil
Oh dear,North Korea didn't make the top 20.My,my...so should Canada be allowed to chair arms conferences?Why no, it would have to boycott itself.One simply must look at Canada now, the Canadian government, and its political position, as being
abusive,schizophrenic, and...racist, quite obviously.
BUT the game's afoot, and there is more than one ball in play in the game of international politics, and so, the game continues, without the sore looser.Canada seems stuck on North Korea having nuclear abilities, but rather curiously Canada
seems happy with the Pakistanis having it, the Israelis having it. Canada can never now have the ability to have a positive influence on these negotiations,it has a revealed agenda,nuclear bombs for nations it likes, not for those it doesn't like.By
withdrawing from the conference, Canada is abdicating its responsibility to act and to be heard on important issues such as nuclear non-proliferation and giving more radical countries like Pakistan,Israel,North Korea and Iran an even greater
influence on the outcome of the negotiations.Canada does not regard North Korea as a credible chair, but then the pot has called the kettle black, and Canada is by it's actions,also not a credible chair, just as it was not a credible chair for the
Security Council.Canada even yet argues that the UN has accused North Korea of selling weapons to Iran, Syria and Burma,other nations,not liking those nations, but does not complain about nations such as Israel,France,Britain,America and whatever and whoever also selling weapons round and about the world,to whomever they do, nor itself really, ranking,again, fourteenth in world arm sales.And need one add, it,The Canada, likes the nations it sells arms to.
It ,the UN,also said the country,North Korea,in it's arms sales, mislabeled shipping container contents, falsified information about the destinations of goods and used "multiple layers of intermediaries, shell companies, and financial institutions,which just goes to show you they have learned much from nations such as Britain,France,the United States,Israel.It is a global domination issue,a control issue, a subjugation issue,and Canada is itself a part of that very process,a very belligerent part of that process.Canada will resume its role on the 65-member body on 19 August, when North Korea's turn as president ends.And so the tardy child will have returned from truancy,to find that it has missed the the discussions, the educational enlightenment,the exchange of ideas and thoughts between nations, which took place while it was gone, and so,when the time comes for it to face its test, it will fail out of its own ignorance and stupidity,the ignorance and the stupidity of its own government which holds only its views and opinions in high regard and disclaims the views and opinions of other nations of the world in the global fraternal order of the United Nations, nation members in equality, equity, fraternity.Canada is a disgrace, it disgraces the United Nations, and it disgraces itself,by it's mere presence there.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Secret Squirrel Makes The National Debt Work For You
Secret Squirrel has seen that there is a great problem what with the economics of the economythe,National Debt, not only that of the UK,that is Britain,(England), Northern Ireland,Scotland and Wales, but all other nations within what was the EEC (the European Economic Union) and is now known as The European Union,(the EU),problems it seems pointed out by the Americans,of course, they do enjoy pointing out other nations problems, that nations besides themselves are in danger of defaulting their debts and this displeases the Americans who are pleased to be in a similar situation,which the other nations seem not allowed to mention nor reference nor refer ,nor infer to, but in not mentioning it to anybody in particular, and America hopes that they,the other nations, and our government incumbent, won't notice,and don't,notice.A successful ploy it is too, workable, sadly. So we seem to be forced in to a situation of reducing our increasing meager national debt in order to please the Americans whose national debt of bloated and ever burgeoning to grotesque obscene rates. well, the governments,of the UK, incumbent and past,were and are unable to solve this problem with the Americans,and one is quite sure that if they,the governments of the UK, if they ever had an original idea, it would die of loneliness,and so we,I,myself,Secret Squirrel, you and the MRL, have a problem of what they call the National Debt.So lets look at our field position with respect to that.
The US debt lists at 54 trillion..............in printed currency,theirs,not ours.The UK debt lists debt at 1.1 trillion,in dollars, no doubt hoping that the Americans can count it,or perhaps miscount it,and England is handicapped and saddled what
with Northern Ireland,Scotland and Wales,so there is a lot to play with here, in terms of figures and data,mathematically speaking. Now how do we get money in to the hands of the people to fuel,fire up,run,drive and whatever, our economy.Well, let's give our retirees a break, and use them to help us.What we do is give each 1 million pounds for example on retirement.This will encourage early retirement, making more jobs available for the unemployed and so fuel the economy on the job scene, the fluid cash flow area. Let look at the figures involved in that.25000 retire each year, time s 1000000 gets 25000000000 or 25 billion each year, 1 trillion every 4 years,which is what that scheme would cost.............but at 500000 that'd halve all, 1 trillion every 8 years,so we have an option, a Plan A at 1 million pounds, on retirement, or a suggested Plan B, at half that, halving costs. But giving that to retirees would allow them to spend that and so would fuel the economy quite nicely.Also to be considered,on their deaths, the inheritances would pass on the available economic fuel currency.Now all that remains is can we economically finance it all to the satisfaction of the ever irritating nuisances in things of the global economy and the internal economies of all the nations of the world, aside from it,the Americans.
We can, consider this,the American system itself, working for them, as we will make it similarly work for us,not that the Americans like to work for anybody else.Face it the United States,has a huge ever growing, massively,economic debt,and we find that it actually fuels,errr, pays, it's debt, by printing up Treasury Certificates whenever it needs extra money what with all the where with all and wars and invasions it runs,and these Treasury Certificates have monetary values printed up on them, the money the United States government wants and whatever needs for whatever it wants. So the government goes to the Treasury Department,and gives them The Certificate to keep and put safely away.The debt figure is then simply incremented accordingly,to the Treasury Department, and thence the Treasury Department,through the United States Mint, prints up the
currency value demanded. That's how that works. Well,surely the UK could well do the same, never mind Europe. Currently the Americans were and are after respectively or not, Spain,Iceland, Greece etc concerning their debts and possibilities of default over there debts, never minding that America is about to default on its debt,and hence to escape must again print up more Treasury Certificates.That's politics, that's economics, the politics and economics of the United States with respect to the rest of the world in sum toto, which means directly, in it's entirety.
So why again, can the UK not simply print up said Treasury Certificates as it needs? Not part of The System?Well, it could be. under an MRL government we could simply print up Treasury Certificates as well,and lacking the American Treasury Department, we could simply present the Treasury Certificates to them, for them to print up the money required for us.Surely they wouldn't complain, but would be accommodating.Failing that, as is most likely with our fair weather friends, that being the Americans, well, we could have the Bank Of England do and adopt the same system with respect to the UK could we and they not?We could further assuage the Americans who for some reason might object as they object to the possible default of Spain,Ireland,Iceland,Greece etc and whatever et all,meaning including.
What we also could do, and I do mean also,at the very same time,is to generate yet more additional funds,meaningful funds, to actually take in currency,to please the Americans,by further reducing OUR national debt, is very simple in it's mechanism, so unique and so cunning it is yet no surprise it has not occurred to any incumbent and previous government aside from myself, and so hence the MRL,through myself.Quite simply put, the government dishes out the DOLE,not the pineapple,but welfare as it were, funds for doing nothing, funds for not working,not being gainfully employed etc and whatever.Well, they receive their dole, currency, from the government, which hands it out as THEY need it. Of course it is increased when those on the dole need or ask for it,which renders the immune to and from everything, including fuel purchases,heating costs,food purchases, electric uses and rates,clothing costs,rental costs and increases,water rates and uses etc etc etc etc.Well now, what about taxing said dole folk?Yes, you see we tax those on the dole, and at higher rates than those who are forced to work for their living and pay for it all, and those on the dole.We tax those on the dole, they can't really complain and grumble as they simply go to the government to pay for it all with money the government would give them to do so, and so the government would then take in monies and us it to proper use, such as reducing any accruing National Debt. Ah you see the sense and sensibility in it all now don't you! A system which actually works,works for you, not against you, works to paying off a national debt, and seeing to it you're comfortable in your age! Yes,indeed! All that remains is for you to get and have it all.....and the only way you can get it,is to vote MRL!!
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,(MP),Dunny On The Wold,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
The US debt lists at 54 trillion..............in printed currency,theirs,not ours.The UK debt lists debt at 1.1 trillion,in dollars, no doubt hoping that the Americans can count it,or perhaps miscount it,and England is handicapped and saddled what
with Northern Ireland,Scotland and Wales,so there is a lot to play with here, in terms of figures and data,mathematically speaking. Now how do we get money in to the hands of the people to fuel,fire up,run,drive and whatever, our economy.Well, let's give our retirees a break, and use them to help us.What we do is give each 1 million pounds for example on retirement.This will encourage early retirement, making more jobs available for the unemployed and so fuel the economy on the job scene, the fluid cash flow area. Let look at the figures involved in that.25000 retire each year, time s 1000000 gets 25000000000 or 25 billion each year, 1 trillion every 4 years,which is what that scheme would cost.............but at 500000 that'd halve all, 1 trillion every 8 years,so we have an option, a Plan A at 1 million pounds, on retirement, or a suggested Plan B, at half that, halving costs. But giving that to retirees would allow them to spend that and so would fuel the economy quite nicely.Also to be considered,on their deaths, the inheritances would pass on the available economic fuel currency.Now all that remains is can we economically finance it all to the satisfaction of the ever irritating nuisances in things of the global economy and the internal economies of all the nations of the world, aside from it,the Americans.
We can, consider this,the American system itself, working for them, as we will make it similarly work for us,not that the Americans like to work for anybody else.Face it the United States,has a huge ever growing, massively,economic debt,and we find that it actually fuels,errr, pays, it's debt, by printing up Treasury Certificates whenever it needs extra money what with all the where with all and wars and invasions it runs,and these Treasury Certificates have monetary values printed up on them, the money the United States government wants and whatever needs for whatever it wants. So the government goes to the Treasury Department,and gives them The Certificate to keep and put safely away.The debt figure is then simply incremented accordingly,to the Treasury Department, and thence the Treasury Department,through the United States Mint, prints up the
currency value demanded. That's how that works. Well,surely the UK could well do the same, never mind Europe. Currently the Americans were and are after respectively or not, Spain,Iceland, Greece etc concerning their debts and possibilities of default over there debts, never minding that America is about to default on its debt,and hence to escape must again print up more Treasury Certificates.That's politics, that's economics, the politics and economics of the United States with respect to the rest of the world in sum toto, which means directly, in it's entirety.
So why again, can the UK not simply print up said Treasury Certificates as it needs? Not part of The System?Well, it could be. under an MRL government we could simply print up Treasury Certificates as well,and lacking the American Treasury Department, we could simply present the Treasury Certificates to them, for them to print up the money required for us.Surely they wouldn't complain, but would be accommodating.Failing that, as is most likely with our fair weather friends, that being the Americans, well, we could have the Bank Of England do and adopt the same system with respect to the UK could we and they not?We could further assuage the Americans who for some reason might object as they object to the possible default of Spain,Ireland,Iceland,Greece etc and whatever et all,meaning including.
What we also could do, and I do mean also,at the very same time,is to generate yet more additional funds,meaningful funds, to actually take in currency,to please the Americans,by further reducing OUR national debt, is very simple in it's mechanism, so unique and so cunning it is yet no surprise it has not occurred to any incumbent and previous government aside from myself, and so hence the MRL,through myself.Quite simply put, the government dishes out the DOLE,not the pineapple,but welfare as it were, funds for doing nothing, funds for not working,not being gainfully employed etc and whatever.Well, they receive their dole, currency, from the government, which hands it out as THEY need it. Of course it is increased when those on the dole need or ask for it,which renders the immune to and from everything, including fuel purchases,heating costs,food purchases, electric uses and rates,clothing costs,rental costs and increases,water rates and uses etc etc etc etc.Well now, what about taxing said dole folk?Yes, you see we tax those on the dole, and at higher rates than those who are forced to work for their living and pay for it all, and those on the dole.We tax those on the dole, they can't really complain and grumble as they simply go to the government to pay for it all with money the government would give them to do so, and so the government would then take in monies and us it to proper use, such as reducing any accruing National Debt. Ah you see the sense and sensibility in it all now don't you! A system which actually works,works for you, not against you, works to paying off a national debt, and seeing to it you're comfortable in your age! Yes,indeed! All that remains is for you to get and have it all.....and the only way you can get it,is to vote MRL!!
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,(MP),Dunny On The Wold,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.
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