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Panorama now on BBC1

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  • Don't expect the BBC reveal any truth regarding the massive lies propagated by all the mainstream media.

    They are happy to talk until the end of time about the economic crisis in confusing banking jargon which is just a mask to cover up the real answer why the world is in this mess. The media tells us the banks are irresponsible: we the borrowers were irresponsible, bankers were greedy, unregulated inter bank lending, the government "indulged" .... etc.etc.etc. How many times have we heard its a very "complicated" set of reasons.

    Let me take a step back. What is money?...seriously just what on earth is it really! There was a time when a US dollar could be exchanged at the bank for real gold. The dollar note was essentially a paper representation of a precious metal. It had real worth because it was backed by something tangible to which there was a finite amount in existence. This was the case until the federal reserve act of 1913 which gave the federal reserve, a private bank run by private individuals, total control over the countries' currency. You might think that the government controls the currency but this is wrong. It is the the central bank which controls the money in circulation and the government answers to them - not us!

    Before 1913, whilst the dollar was controlled by the american government, not a private central bank and when it was backed by tangible wealth, there was zero inflation for close to 300 years. think about that - the buying power of a dollar hadnt changed over all that time. Compared to 1913 the buying power of the dollar today is approximatly 25 times less.

    Why is that? Nowadays the dollar note is simply nothing but a piece of paper or an electronic digit. If the amount of dollars in circulation is increased then it simply dilutes the value of those already in circulation. Our central bank is of course the Bank of England. When Gordon brown bailed out our banks from financial meltdown, he had to go to the bank of england to secure a loan, which is payable WITH interest, to buy out the banks. The private central bank doesnt have to lend our government money - it has total control of the supply of money. It can make a whole series of demands and conditions for providing a loan. In other words the most powerful people in the world are the private owners of the central banks across the world who are not elected. Our money is only worth something as long as they decide it should be. They have the power, should they want to, to devalue a currency like the german Mark in 1923. Expect massive inflation as a result of a huge injection of more fictitous money.


    I put it to you all that this global crisis is engineered by the central banks, the global power elite. Now you wont hear that on the BBC! Somebody answer me this: why does the government, and therefore we as taxpayers, have to pay back the government borrowing WITH interest? It is this interest that makes us slaves to the central bank.

    I recommend watching the documentary " America: freedom to fascism "
  • Anyone know when its repeated, though like new world I havent trusted the bbc since they did a bad report on spaghetti trees
  • check bbc iplayer it will bound to be repeated on that.
  • BBC I-Player shows it as coming soon
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