Odds and Sods pt2

Where was I?

Oh, yes…

Whilst on the subject of 9/11 and gaps in ‘official narratives’, kudos to Channel 4’s Darshna Soni. She was the journalist who reported the story that getting on for 60% of British Muslims who were polled believed that the government hasn’t told the truth about the 7/7 bombings.

I squawked at the time that this was a potentially divisive story which implied that British Muslims stood apart from everyone else on the subject of 7/7. I believed then, and I still believe, that to be meaningful and objective that 60% figure should have been reported in the context of what an average cross-section of the British public think about the ‘Official Narrative’ of 7/7.

My guess is that the proportion of sceptics would not be as high as 60% but still a healthy enough percentage to indicate that your average British Muslim isn’t as out of step with everyone else as Darshna’s report implied

However..

Darshna did take the point, has responded constructively to criticism she received after her report was broadcast and has included caveats such as the following in her subsequent writing on the subject…

‘And of course, it's not just Muslims who question the official version of events.’

She has also recently posted a piece on her blog on the subject of calls for an official inquiry into 7/7. She makes the point that even if there were an inquiry it would now be subject to the Inquiries Act 2005. A piece of legislation that was quietly enacted and didn’t receive a great deal of attention (from her colleagues in the ‘news’ business) at the time.

Under the terms of the Act the Home Secretary can…

• decide whether there should be an inquiry
• set and amend its terms of reference
• appoint its members
• restrict public access to inquiries
• prevent the publication of evidence placed before an inquiry
  

Now the thing is, I know a lot of people who are very hot under the collar about this particular piece of legislation and I can understand why. However, our current government has managed to stage some absolutely disgraceful inquiries even before the Inquiries Act became law so I’m not entirely convinced that it changes very much. Did many people think the inquiry culture in this country was straight before 2005?

But, like I said, kudos to Darshna for being one of the tiny handful of journalists who has actually acknowledged that public scepticism does exist about 7/7 and that any inquiry into 7/7 runs a real risk of being as crooked as a nine pound note.

It will be kind of interesting to see where she goes, or is allowed to go, from here now

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Um, what else have I been toying with?

Oh, yeah

I’ve commented on a few blogs that have been kicking around the subject of inheritance tax (IHT) and Conservative party proposals to abolish IHT if it won the next election

The reason why I mention this is that a lot of the Left-leaning people I know are labouring under the misapprehension that IHT is somehow a mechanism that ensures more equal redistribution of wealth, less economic inequality and therefore a ‘good thing’

Hmmm, maybe in theory

But what’s actually going on is that Forces of Darkness have always used the tax system and promises of wealth redistribution to yank Left Wing knob.

Our tax system, along with interest and inflation, is one of the key tools used to keep poor people poor and to prevent the slightly better off from accumulating any significant amounts of capital

And, right now, it's working a treat

You don’t have to be Planck Einstein to observe that, after ten years of rising taxation and supposed wealth redistribution, economic inequality in this country has actually risen sharply. And that will be even more evident when the credit bubble is popped and people can no longer make up for shortfalls in their income through borrowing




Taxes are what the poor and middle income earners pay, not the wealthy. If, as I believe, our system of government is bent, increased taxation simply leads to increased wealth concentration not redistribution

This is not a Left vs. Right issue. It’s about honesty vs. dishonesty, the 99% vs. the 1%.

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Um, what else?

Oh yeah, LWTC247’s blog included a post a few day’s ago which pointed out that whilst all that economic carnage was taking place over the last few weeks the price of gold, usually a safe haven in times of crisis, actually fell




Which is an indication, just an indication, that the ‘smart’ money may not have been taken that far away from the stockmarkets and was kept on hand to re-enter those markets once prices had fallen for a few days

The possible conclusion being that there were big hitters out there confident that this particular slide wasn’t the Big One so many people are expecting

I do believe that LWTC247 is suggesting that this recent slide was actually an example of market manipulation

Bloody Conspiraloons™...

Whatever is going on, it’s always worth remembering that the market price for gold is actually ‘fixed’ by the banks which gives them, how can I put it?, some leeway to fuck around a bit

And that’s the scary thing about this business. The entire global financial system is totally interconnected, controlled by a handful of interests which operate with zero transparency and accountability, and manipulated to serve that small handful of powerful interests

Or does anyone honestly believe that altruism is a key personal quality required to hold high office in the Banking System?

We are all serfs of that System and we could hold democratic elections every day until the end of the time and it wouldn’t change a fricking thing

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