Richard C Cook, Global Research
staff
Becky Barrow, The Daily Mail
Edmund Conway, The
Telegraph
Deprive banking and other financial
businesses of the income they gain from credit and debit card services, fees,
penalties and interest ... use Cash instead of credit and debit
cards.
Ellen Brown, The Huffington Post
Malaysia also stood up to IMF demands after the Asian crisis,
advised by money-reformers from the West.
Lucy Denyer, The Sunday
Times
People still haven't twigged, apparently,
that the big balloon has sprung a leak, and can't be reinflated.
property costs
claims UN advisorBut looked at from a broader perspective unemployment is not a problem of production but rather one of distribution.
Even if output goes down a little, as it has over the last year – putting more people out of work, our enormously productive technology still goes on churning out more than enough goods for us all. So we are not looking to find work for the unemployed because we need their labour to ensure we can produce enough. We are trying to find work for them so they can earn an income to gain access to the things that would be produced whether they were working or not. Wouldn’t it be simpler to just give it to them directly rather than go through this complicated process that results in so many negative side effects? (the marginalised unemployed, environmental problems of overproduction, the lack of fulfilment in trying to consume all this stuff, resources not being used where they are really needed – ie in ending hunger and poverty in the world for a start)
When I say – wouldn’t it be simpler to just give it to them directly – I’m not advocating having one section of the community sitting idly by while the rest of us work to support them. What I’m suggesting is that if we are already producing enough, we share the “less work” around equally and all work that much less while still having the same living standard as before. Paradoxically that would be an increase in living standard because the same living standard on less work is an increase in living standard.
(Our emphasis)
Read more at:
http://unemploymentisgood.wordpress.com/
Whose Money says:
Exactly!
Simon Briscoe, Financial Times
James Chapman, The Daily Mail
refuses to tackle
Britain's terrifying debt (that'll be someone else's problem)
For a start, we'd answer the (highly justified) accusation
that Mr Darling 
The benefits programme - indeed, the whole scale of rewards and
penalties - no longer makes any sense: and in order to return to sanity
nothing less than reform of the monetary system will suffice.
Tony Hazell, Tom Kelly and Becky Barrow, The Daily
Mail
The North East's green energy revolution received a welcome
boost as the Chancellor handed over £15m for the world's largest wind turbine
centre.
James Moore, The
Independent
Does this demand from the public mean
that people are turning back to cash, in an attempt to live within their
incomes, after being stung by heavy credit card charges?
bed because they have 'lost confidence in banks' says UK's chief
cashier
If I could do one thing this year it
would be to persuade people that second-hand and home-made presents are not in
any way second-rate. I have no concept that there is anything shameful about
them. 
There is no need for collapsing banks to destroy real wealth and
impoverish millions.
worse
Our hope is that when the next shock
brings the system crashing down beyond repair it will be replaced not by a
global dictatorship but by debt-free money in the form of national, regional and local currencies, controlled from the grass-roots up
by ordinary people throughout the world.
... Andy Street, managing director of
Whose Money? says: 
Last night we joined children from the schools of Whitley Bay to launch the Christmas season with the St Nicholas Festival.
For all twelve days, go to:
James Chapman, The Daily Mail - This Is
Money
Whose Money? says: 
James Chapman, The Daily Mail
David Blanchflower speaks again about the need to keep money
flowing through the real economy here: 
Royal Bank of Scotland directors were accused of holding
taxpayers to ransom last night over plans to pay huge bonuses. 
Daniel Pimlott, The Financial
Times
pay rise 
Large supranational governments like
the EU, and their henchmen in denationalised national assemblies, work with the corporate financial oligarchy to maintain a monetary and economic system which channels
purchasing power into fewer and fewer hands, effectively enslaving all but the
favoured few.
system
Wall
Street?
The House Financial Services Committee received so many phone
calls from constituents that it approved the Ron Paul/Alan Grayson bill to audit
the Fed and defeated the trojan horse alternate bill written by Mel Watt.
Indeed, I have heard from congressional sources that the only calls to support
the Watt alternate bill were from the Fed itself. And see 
... Lower down the scale, there is a
huge amount of hidden distress. This is being papered over by the banks because
they simply cannot crystallise the enormous, unrecognised potential property
losses sitting on their books without putting themselves right back on the
critical list. ...
Meanwhile, in Whitley Bay, life is finally stirring
in the abandoned Woolworth's building in the centre of town, as Wilkinson's move
in - and we hear that the boarded-up Co-op store and T & G Allan's are
also likely to be reoccupied by Christmas.
than last year
Long before the economic meltdown, the story of one woman
who tried to warn about the threat to the financial system. ... Before the
toxic assets poisoned the economy, she warned of their danger - and that made
her the enemy of a very, very large number of people.
Financial power must be decentralised and handed back to the
nation, with publicly-created, debt-free money spent into circulation via
investment in infrastructure, and a non-means-tested national dividend for all
adult citizens.
a week
If continent-wide, debt-based currencies become the norm,
eventually merging to form a single global exchange medium, local currencies
will be nothing but a band-aid, to keep the peasants in basic hand-to-mouth business, while
the transnational plutocracy continues to use its privileged access to
"leverage" to syphon off and control the world's real wealth.
You can buy Eric's book at 
Meanwhile, as workers in the
private sector prepare for another year of pay freeze (effectively a pay cut, as
there will be no freeze on tax and price inflation) they be joining those in a
similar plight in America, asking, in the works of the following
song-parody:
Mark McLaughlin, The Scotsman
We started the week celebrating the 20t anniversary of the
fall of the Berlin Wall. It was, everyone agreed, ironic to be marking the fall
of communism, when less than a year ago capitalism itself had seemed to be on
its knees.
Capitalism has survived. But it's not the capitalism we
thought we had. When you consider the scale and scope of government involvement
in most of the advanced economies right now, "free market capitalism" seems a
bit of a stretch.
What we advocate is not a new dogmatic system of economics,
but the simple provision of that publicly-created, debt-free money which would
permit businesses, families and individuals to make their own choices, while
both ensuring the availability of adequate, well-distributed purchasing power
and drastically reducing the rôle of the
state.
Britain's missing third
On top of this, when struggling families and individuals don't just miss out on a whole raft of means-tested benefits but end up seeing their disposable incomes actually reduced below the means-test level after paying out thousands in taxes and "National Insurance", and when these same families and individuals are required to fork out for services which come free to
those narrowly managing to qualify for assistance, is it any wonder that tips on how to get the
best deal out of a crazy system quickly go the rounds?
People would then be able to afford to work part-time or in low-paid
jobs while maintaining comfortable living standards,
fulfilling their domestic responsibilities and enjoying quality time with their children -
and, as an added bonus, the rôle of the state, with all the expense of its intrusive
bureaucracy, would be minimised.
Jane D'arista interviewed by Paul Jay on the Real News
Network
As long as banks retain their powers of money-creation, sooner or later rules will be relaxed or circumvented, and
ingenious minds will invent new ways to milk the real economy, with the assistance
of novel "financial instruments". 
Looking at the empty shops now appearing even in the centre of Newcastle,
this next tsunami is not likely to be confined to the States ...
BBC News
Liam Halligan, The Telegraph
Are, on the other hand, the savings of millions, representing
years of hard, productive work which actually increased the real wealth of the nation, to be considered as no more than "funny money", disappearing at the flick of the banking system's magic wand whenever its hocus-pocus goes awry?
It is not dollars that are being sold, or bonds, or agency
debt, or treasuries, or anything like that. Where is your government going to
get the money to pay off its creditors? It's not pieces of paper, or contracts
or computer bits that are being sold. There is only one thing that the
government has to sell. Governments have only one asset that they can use as
collateral. Your leaders are selling you.
Did we vote for all this debt? It's certainly never been included in an election manifesto!
Bailout
Society
I'm surprised, actually. And this is what makes it even a
bigger surprise. The reason I'm sort of waffling on your Obama question is that
he's only going to be as good as the rest of us. So we have to make Obama do
these things. We have to first identify what it is we want him to do and then
we have to organise to make him do it, because the other side is doing an
excellent job in organising to make him not do it. ...
A I would say that in order to get him to step up to the
plate we have to do what's been done in every other crisis in the history of
America. At some point or another, people get mobilised. Institutions that
represent the interests of the average person either form or re-emerge ... and
they start developing an agenda, they start going out and pushing for it, and
trying to get politicians to adhere to it ... You need a clear-cut agenda, and
sustained activity around it.
factory
for us all
Rowena Mason, The
Telegraph
Priming the markets for
tomorrow's big crash
Asset-price bubbles are a symptom of the
debt-money disease.
Interview with Peter Schiff
not America 
'When a country is trying to protect
itself, of course the predator is going to call it suicide. What is happening
is that the Swedish banks are a parasite on the back of the host economy,
Latvia. The parasite says, "It will be suicide if you throw us off your back."
The fact is, they're killing the parasite, not themselves. They will die if
they don't thrown the parasite off their back.'
demolished
If there is anything we are 
em 'not able to support recovery'
If you have an hour to spare, listen to this interview with
Edmund Conway, The
Telegraph
Edmund Conway, The
Telegraph
It seems
difficult to make it clear that the proposal for a National Dividend, which
would enable the products of our industrial system to be bought by our own
population, has nothing to do with Socialism, as that is commonly understood.
The main idea of Socialism appears to be the nationalisation of productive
undertakings and their administration by Government departments. Whatever merits
such a proposal may have, it does not touch the difficulty we have been
considering.
Here's what