Thanks for the feedback. I’m not affiliated with the CoR, or any other institution involved in the march. The post is aimed at trying to advise them to stay focussed on the specific issues in hand. Maybe they are saying that in order to balance the books the Gvt should cut specific parts of the defence budget (e.g. trident replacement) and spend on teaching and NHS instead. If this is the case then they are falling in to the very trap I was trying to get them to avoid. If they protest on these terms they are just going to look like “loony lefties”.

In the next few days I’m going to approach the CoR, UK UNCUT, 38 Degrees, and the Robin Hood Tax groups to put forward this advice. Without staying focussed on the root cause of the crisis, the protests will backfire.

@ Dayzero

Are you referring to the Positive Money event on Friday at Oxford?

I didn’t go but got some feedback from a friend who went. He said that the debate was a bit disappointing, as only Ben Dyson was mentioning Full reserve Banking. If you want more feedback then let me know.

Good to hear from you again! Shame you missed the film the other week. Will this end in Hyperinflation? Good question. There has been quite a lot of debate about Hyperinflation versus Deflation. This being the most intriguing:

Deflation / Hyperinflation debate – Stoneleigh versus Lira

Ultimately, purchasing power gets destroyed in both scenarios. If the world stays on a Fiat money system then we probably will see rapid inflation & hyperinflation. However, don’t rule out some form of asset backed world currency being unleashed at some point in the next 5-10 years. If that happens then we could see deflation, as the value of money is protected (e.g. through pegging to gold), but oh what a surprise the gold asset holdings are in the hands of transnational global elites.

Sorry bout getting your name wrong, but I still like the idea of an anti Murdoch site. He really is annoying, not least because all party leaders have to pay homage to him if they haven hope of being allowed to win an election. But also his support for the chinese regime really turns my stomach

Good luck

We need to blow away the smoke and smash up de mirra.

I feel a bout of reggae coming on.

No I am not sure I know how to set up a website although expect I could find out. I just thought it might make a good project so I paid $8.95 to register the name. I like the idea of a site devoted to agitating for people to stop buying Murdoch products ad revealing the cheapening and damage effect on our democracy and cultural values and our capacity to act in a coherent way.

Is the Sun still boycotted in Liverpool?

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I am not sure what you are advocating- more direct protest/action?
I guess protest is good but it is difficult to control protests.
I guess my attitude is that we must break the basic political consensus of labour/tory first.
Whatever happens, there eventually has to be a voting process and that process has to be instrumental. Part of the problem we are facing now is that voting is not instrumental- Labour and Tory simply accede to some higher principle from which the public are effectively excluded. Debate is constrained within a range which is common to both parties. Ultimately we have to create a debate that extends beyond that. We never see globalisation discussed except in some rather abstract way by those people who define the boundaries-technocrats.
I also think we are constrained by the principle that we 'do no harm', and exercising a vote is a safe way to 'do no harm'. Legality is another issue but breaking with legality unleashes other forces, which undermine and obscures the legitimacy of the protests.

is your murdofuckation.com up and running yet?

Anybody coming to the march must look about the They Live world and think about what their own brainfill advertising campaign will be.

MacPaddock, just because we vote them in doesn't mean they are there to do our bidding. If I own a share in Sony I don't have that much say in what the PS4 will be or where the company is heading in the future. We are listed as a company. If it was our choice we would have referendums all the time surely? That's why we're having a referendum on AV, because it doesn't mean feck all.

It makes sense to me that with the abundance of energy we've had they had to unshackle themselves being the addicts they are, seeing the possibilties and knowing that rallies don't last forever. They were on it like a ghetto kid on Reagan crack. I still can't figure out how they can come out in the daytime though

I found a TUC countdown widget HERE

20 days 21 hours 14 mins 00 secs

While our glorious leaders call for systemic destabilization, mob rule and military coups in the middle east [not that I'm an apologist for any regime]..

..They appear intent on destroying our own nation states with the usurious voodoonomics giga-heist ponzi plan…..

Great post btw. Hawkeye.

Am enjoying Debt Generation too.

I wonder how the debate at Oxford went?