Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Prince Of Darkness
Posted By johnmorton On October 4, 2008 @ 6:37 pm In John Morton
Mandy
Perhaps the most odious man in British politics (apart from all the other ones), is making yet another of his famous, ahem, “comebacks [2]” to Parliament. Well, accuse me of cynicism if you like, but something tells me this might just have something to do with his clash [3] with EU leaders over the failure of the Lisbon Treaty referendum in Ireland earlier this year.
It really says it all that a shady, burnt out, rent boy loving EU Kommisar would be welcomed back into the Cabinet of an increasingly degenerate and rapidly collapsing NuLabour mobocracy. Whatever else we might well be tempted to say about all this, quite clearly Mr Mandelson and his friends have real staying power [4].
Isn’t it comforting to know that no matter how much you screw up and tarnish the image of Great Britain with world-class sleaze, there will always be a place for you at Gordon Brown’s table.
No need to panic, folks. There’s a shiny new kid [5] on the block, promising “change, change, change” we can all believe in. I don’t know about you, but I just can’t wait for his government of, by and for champagne guzzling hedge fund spivs [6] and dodgy foreign donors. In the middle of the greatest financial crisis [7] in history, I am sure that they will all have the best interests of the British people, and public finances, close to their hearts. Yeah, right …
What a filthy disgrace this country has become under this cross (dressing?) party gang of malignant toe-rags!
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URL to article: http://www.ukcolumn.org/2008/10/04/prince-of-darkness/
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[2] comebacks: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7650013.stm
[4] staying power: http://propagandamatrix.com/alleged_pedophiles.html
[6] hedge fund spivs: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/dispatches/camerons+money+men/2471062
[7] financial crisis: http://larouchepac.com/news/2008/09/30/echoes-fall-house-bardi-wall-streets-new-dark-age.html-0
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Of Patriots, Kings and Scoundrels – Part 1
Posted By johnmorton On February 21, 2010 @ 3:14 pm In Article, John Morton
Part I: Of Patriots
A people may choose, or hereditary succession may raise, a bad prince to the throne; but a good king alone can derive his right to govern from God. The reason is plain: good government alone can be in the divine intention. God has made us to desire happiness; he has made our happiness dependent on society; and the happiness of society dependent on good or bad government. His intention, therefore, was, that government should be good… A divine right in kings is…a divine right to govern well, and conformably to the constitution at the head of which they are placed. A divine right to govern ill, is an absurdity to assert it, is blasphemy… The office of kings is, then, of right divine, and their persons are to be reputed sacred. As men, they have no such right, no such sacredness belonging to them: as kings, they have both, unless they forfeit them.
- Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke, “The Idea of a Patriot King”
Introduction
In the years between the “Glorious revolution” and the death of Queen Anne in 1714, England was a chaotic nation, wracked by political, religious and economic turmoil. The overthrow of the Stuart dynasty, while apparently relieving the nation of one particulary overt form of autocratic ruling tyranny, had also witnessed the birth of a far greater and more pernicious yolk around the necks of the people – the foundation of the Bank of England. Within a few short years, the nation was engaged in a long, debilitating war with France, against which, in 1711, Jonathan Swift savagely polemicised in his “The Conduct of the Allies”, taking the Duke of Marlborough and his Venetian “War Party” faction to task by name for their geopolitical schemes and profiteering from the sordid enterprise.
Unless They Forfeit Them…
Leaping forward to 2009, in the wake of the passage of the Treaty of Lisbon, and the rapid descent of much of Europe into a state of political ungovernability, our present predicament presses us most urgently to explore this particular chapter of our national history, and cast a new set of eyes over the people, events and political forces that laid the foundations of those fundamental constitutional structures to which we must now turn for our succour. For as this article series intends to prove, the essential nature of the political and economic calamities we face today can only be fully comprehended by tracing them back to their source, in the throes of the titanic struggle for the soul of the new nation of Great Britain that occurred during those short and turbulent years of the reign of Queen Anne and her loyal ministers. In doing so, I shall proceed as did Dr Swift himself, when, in his account of the last four years of the Queen, he wrote “Neither shall I mingle panegyrik or satire, with a history intended to inform posterity, aswell as to instruct those of the present age, who may be ignorant or misled ; since facts, truly related, are the best applauses, or most lasting reproaches.”
As the leading quote suggests, the motivation underlying this report serves a very specific purpose, towards the ends of which the gentleman in question strides boldly forth from the fog of these great historical intrigues, to offer some very valuable insight. But, while much has been written about Henry St John, as the adage “to the victor goes the spoils” cautions, we must be careful to examine such commentaries with an extremely critical eye, for there is a great deal that remains hidden from the casual observer. However, what is beyond debate is that his was a life spent immersed in political, literary and diplomatic battles which entangled the leading members of the wider European intelligensia, over issues of paramount importance to world history, and to the future liberty and wellbeing of the people of his own country.
It should therefore come as no great surprise that as I persued my investigation into the life and times of Lord Bolingbroke, I quickly found myself confronted with a lack of reliable contemporary biographical source material with which to work. I therefore resolved to refer only to primary source documents, personal letters and other political treatises, that are now availabe in the public domain. After some extensive digging, I finally settled on “Memoirs of the life and ministerial conduct of the late Lord Bolingbroke”, published in 1753, by his editor David Mallet, which gives a relatively balanced – although for reasons that will become apparent later in this series, not entirely above reproach - exposition of our noble Lord and his family history.
Our Noble Lord
According to Mr Mallet, the St John family date back to the times of William the Conqueror, where it is recorded in the Roll of Battle-Abbey that William de St John was Quarter-Master general of the army of William, Duke of Normandy. His younger brother was one of the twelve knights who, in the reign of William Rufus, undertook an expedition against the Welsh, by which he acquired the Castle of Falmont in Glamorganshire. In due course he became possessed of lands granted to the family in England, around Stanton in Oxfordshire. Many centuries later, in the reign of James I, Oliver de St John was enobled as the first Earl of Bolenbroke, a title which remained in one branch of the family or another from that point onwards. During the English civil war, the St John family had protagonists on both sides fighting for and against King Charles, with the patriarch of one branch of Royalists, John St John, losing three sons to the conflict. One of his surviving sons, was Walter St John, the grandfather of Henry St John, Lord of Battersea. It was here that his Son, Henry St John, later to be Lord Bolingbroke was born, on the 1st October 1678.
In his early years, young Henry exhibited much of the joi de vivre common to his class and station, accompanied with a healthy dose of rebellious licentiousness. As befitting an education at Eton, where he crossed paths with his future nemesis Robert Walpole, but also forged alliances with such as his friend and collaborator William Wyndham, Henry St John demonstrated a great genius for oratory and swiftly rose to prominence in literary and political circles.
A Nation is Born
Taking up the family seat of Wootton Bassett, Henry St John first entered politics in 1701, at the remarkably young age of twenty. Quickly, he became attached to Lord Robert Harley, and was tasked with the passage of the Act of Settlement through the Parliament, in which he was successful the same year. The Act itself had been necessitated by a crisis of the succession, resulting from the failure of the House of Orange to sire an heir, and the tragic deaths of all of the children of Queen Anne, the last of whom, Prince William, had died in 1700 aged eleven. Not least due to the chain of events that lead to the Act of Union in 1707, the Act of Settlement remains, as it was described by Henry Hallam “the great seal of our constitutional laws”.
With the change of ministry, from the Whig to Tory factions in 1710, Harley and Bolingbroke came to power and began in earnest their offensive on behalf of bringing an end to the war of the Spanish succession, and hostilities with France, which was finally concluded with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. During the course of these events, in a 1711 letter to the Earl of Orrery concerning the establishment of the “Brother’s Club” (which will include both Harley and Swift), Bolingbroke writes: ”I must, before I sent this letter, give your lordship an account of a club which I am forming, and which, as light as the design may seem to be, I believe will prove to be of real service. We shall begin to meet in a small number; and that will be composed of some who have wit and learning to recommend them; of others who, from their own situations or from their relations, have power and influence; and of others who, from accidental reasons, may be properly taken in. The first regulation proposed, and that which must be most inviolably kept, is decency. None of the extravagance of the Kit Cat [the Hell Fire crowd], none of the drunkeness of the Beefsteak, is to be endured. The improvement of friendship and the encouragement of letters are to be the two great ends of our society”. It was the establishment of this literary society, and its sibling, the “Scriblerus Club”, dedicated to the uplifting of the intellectual climate within the country, which was the source of much of the political intelligence that informed such timeless classics as “Gullivers Travels” and “The Memoires of Martinus Scriblerus”.
The Great Unravelling
However, despite these momentous achievements, it was not until 1715, and the accession of George I, of the House of Hanover, that the disastrous consequences of the 1700 succession crisis were to strike Bolingbroke and his collaborators with the full force of tragedy. For George I was no friend of the Tory faction, having openly gone over to the cause of Walpole, Godolphin and Marlborough, and their intended continuation of the wars with France, years before his accession to the English throne. Within days of the coronation, Bolingbroke was dismissed from office and returned to his estates in Bucklebury, where he set to writing a response to the charge of Jacobitinism that had been laid against him. Later, in March of 1715, on hearing of the intentions of the new Walpole administration to attack the instigators of the Peace of Utrecht, he fled to France, where he remained in exile for ten years, before returning to England in 1725.
It was during the early years of his exile, in a letter to William Wyndam, that Lord Bolingbroke was to write: “The Bank, the East India Company, and in general the moneyed interest, had certainly nothing to apprehend like what they feared, or affected to fear, from the Tories – an entire subversion of their property. Multitudes of our own party would have been wounded by such a blow. The intention of those who were the warmest seemed to me to go no farther than restraining their influence on the Legislature, and on matters of State; and finding at a proper season means to make them contribute to the support and ease of a government under which they enjoyed advantages so much greater than the rest of their fellow-subjects. The mischievous consequence which had been foreseen and foretold too, at the establishment of those corporations, appeared visibly. The country gentlemen were vexed, put to great expenses and even baffled by them in their elections; and among the members of every parliament numbers were immediately or indirectly under their influence. The Bank had been extravagant enough to pull off the mask; and, when the Queen seemed to intend a change in her ministry, they had deputed some of their members to represent against it. But that which touched sensibly even those who were but little affected by other considerations, was the prodigious inequality between the condition of the moneyed men and of the rest of the nation. The proprietor of the land, and the merchant who brought riches home by the returns of foreign trade, had during two wars borne the whole immense load of the national expenses; whilst the lender of money, who added nothing to the common stock, throve by the public calamity, and contributed not a mite to the public charge.”
And so, with this striking image of the problem we still face today in Great Britain, the conversion of a sovereign nation into nothing more than a base for the operations of international financial parasites, we shall return to our series and tell the tale of the battle royale within the court of Queen Anne, and its aftermath, in Part II.
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MacAskill’s Gagging Law
Posted By The Editor On February 21, 2010 @ 3:50 pm In Article, Hollie Greig, Mike Robinson
Kenny MacAskill, Scottish Justice Secretary and ex Levy & McRae lawyer, is apparently so scared by the rising tide of public ire surrounding his and his colleagues apparent cover up of the Hollie Greig scandal, that he has proposed amendments to the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill, which is going through the Scottish Parliament at the moment.
The amendments would help stop people “stalking” or “harassing” their “victims” by text or online – strangely enough the exact charges leveled at Robert Green and the UK Column as we have been attempting to shed light on the apparent perversions of the course of justice by Grampian Police, the Procurator Fiscal’s office, Elish Angiolini and Mr MacAskill himself.
At present, the only charge which the Scottish authorities can level in such a case is Breach Of The Peace, by coincidence the precise charge leveled at Robert Green last weekend following his arrest.
The powers provided under the new legislation would allow Scottish prosecutors to go after people campaigning using the internet, including email and websites such as Facebook.
Mr MacAskill said, “Stalking can be a deeply frightening crime for victims.”
Poor Kenny. Feeling the pressure are we?
Mr MacAskill is not the only politician attempting to attack free speech in this way. A source has alleged to the UK Column that David Cameron has stated that should he become Prime Minister, he will legislate to prevent campaigners from asking difficult questions on public forums.
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URL to article: http://www.ukcolumn.org/2010/02/21/macaskills-gagging-law/
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Aberdeen Fatwa?
Posted By The Editor On February 18, 2010 @ 1:38 pm In Article, Mike Robinson
We at the UK Column are very disturbed to discover that Peter Watson, of Scottish law firm Levy & McRae, has allegedly taken more threatening action in a vain attempt to prevent the Hollie Greig story from gaining an unstoppable momentum.
We have received an email from a whistle blower – a source we consider one hundred percent reliable.
The email reads:
Watch yourself. I think you may be next on the police/Angiolini hit list. I heard from a very reliable source that they are after all concerned with the Hollie Greig case. This is all being orchestrated by Peter Watson of Levy & McRae. Make sure you also make them a focus for the public, just as in their masters and their spin doctors. If Angiolini didn’t have the likes of Watson charging around like a bull she would be nothing. Watson and his troop generate fear and pull the police strings, such as what happened to Robert [Green] [1] last week. They arranged that interdict [2] so he wouldn’t know about it [3] and arrested him for effectively breaching it, although as formal service never took place, they had to arrest him on breach of the peace. I know all about it as a police source has told me the whole story. There was also a request granted to bug Robert’s phone, internet and email. You better tell him that. You might also be next, if its not already enforced. Thanks for letting me know about Tom. When you talk to Robert, give him my regards.
It has also been alleged through another whistle blower that Mr Watson is using resources outside the normal lawful process to achieve his aim of hushing this story up.
It has been suggested in the forums that we are sensationalising things. My aim here is not to sensationalise. It is to report what we are being told, and warned of. Whether or not there is basis to the warning, whether or not this is all just another attempt by Mr Watson to scare us all into shutting up, I would just like to state that we will not tolerate this kind of threatening behaviour.
Finally, I would ask everyone reading this to bear in mind that Hollie’s case is particularly nasty. People at the very top of the Scottish establishment seem to be implicated, either directly in the abuse, or in its cover up. There is already one highly suspicious death associated with it (Hollie’s uncle). The unlawful arrest of Robert Green, and the continuing threats, are just the most recent incident.
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URL to article: http://www.ukcolumn.org/2010/02/18/aberdeen-fatwa/
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[1] what happened to Robert [Green]: http://www.ukcolumn.org/2010/02/12/robert-green-in-grampian-police-custody/
[2] that interdict: http://www.ukcolumn.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/lemac4-attachment.pdf
[3] so he wouldn’t know about it: http://forums.ukcolumn.org/showthread.php?tid=1183&pid=4849#pid4849
Bank of England, Sterling and Government Treason
Posted By The Editor On April 14, 2009 @ 1:54 pm In Mike Robinson
Many people believe that the Bank of England is a privately owned corporation. Many people believe that it’s owned by the Rothchilds.
Neither of these beliefs is true.
The truth is much worse.
The story of the Bank of England is the story of the British Empire. The British Empire was never a political empire. It was always a monetary financial empire, as much a parasite on the people of Great Britain as the rest of the world. The idea of the Victorian’s British Empire bringing civilisation to the darkest parts of the world is one that needs real reconsideration by many Britons.
The Bank of England was originally set up as a core part of the British Empire – making huge profits from loans to the British East India Company and other tendrils of the Great British parasite. The mainstays of the trading activities of these companies were drugs, warfare and the looting of raw materials from poverty stricken nations.
As the banker to the Government, the Bank also did quite nicely from lending to the Treasury, thank you very much. In those days, the profits of the Bank went into the hands of the shareholders.
In 1844, the Rothschild inspired desire to take complete control of Britain came true with the Bank Charter Act. This gave the Bank of England the monopoly on the production of Sterling, and control of Britain’s money supply. In Northern Ireland and Scotland, where to this day commercial banks are allowed to print their own money, they must have one Bank of England note in reserve for every note of their own that they issue.
1946 brought the “nationalisation” of the Bank. At the end of WWII, Britain was more or less bankrupt, so it was agreed that instead of paying cash for the shares of the Bank, shareholders would receive 3% Treasury stock instead. With the 1946 Bank of England Act, all the Bank shares were transferred into the possession of the Treasury solicitor, and there they are to this day. It remains a corporation, not a government department.
In 1977, the Bank set up a wholly owned subsidiary called BANK OF ENGLAND NOMINEES LIMITED, (BOEN), a private limited company, no. 1307478, with 2 of its 100 £1 shares issued. According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are;-
“To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them….”
Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27(9) of the Companies Act 1976 , because, “it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders.”
Add that to the fact that the Bank of England is protected from prying eyes by its “Royal Charter” status and the Official Secrets Act. What have we got here?
In 1998, the final piece of the puzzle fell into place. In return for fixing the 1997 elections and getting New Labour into power, the Government enacted the 1998 Bank of England Act, which gave the Bank’s Court of Directors complete independence with regard to monetary policy.
So if we add this all together, we have a nationally owned institution which has the monopoly in the production of the national currency, and has independent control of the country’s monetary policy in the hands of a Court of Directors who serve the private banking system as they have since the Bank was established.
Think about it – private banking control of our currency and monetary policy, fully independent of government. When Gordon Brown signed away government oversight of the Bank, he committed Treason on a scale not seen in Britain since the Heath government took us into what would become the EU.
Since 1998 we have seen the Bank rapidly inflate the money supply, while at the same time relaxing regulation on how banks could lend. No longer were banks required to have cash in reserve for loans they made. Instead the vast majority of currency entering the economy did so as a result of commercial banks entering some numbers into a ledger – money out of thin air, literally.
Working for the private bankers, the Bank of England set things up to maximise the returns for their banking colleagues’ speculative activities, in the full knowledge that as a nationalised institution, it would be the UK taxpayer who was carrying all the risk, and not, as would have been the case before 1946, the shareholders.
The Court of Directors is working for the Anglo/Dutch/Saudi empire – the still-alive-and-kicking hidden hand behind the British Empire of the Victorian age. So it’s no surprise that the solution they provide to today’s manufactured monetary financial collapse is to print more money. Their aim is to destroy the last vestiges of British sovereignty; for a hyper-inflated and hyper-devalued Sterling to be replaced by a single, global, currency, under a single world fascist government.
Gordon Brown announced the new financial infrastructure at the G20. He announced the new global currency – to be issued and managed by the newly reinvigorated IMF.
This has to be stopped. It has to be stopped now. We want our country back, before there’s no country left. We want our country back from the parasites that use one square mile of London as their base of operations. Back in a way it hasn’t been for about 250 years. Join is in this fight – come to the next British Constitution Group conference [1] in London on the 13th June, and find out what you can do.
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URL to article: http://www.ukcolumn.org/2009/04/14/bank-of-england/
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[1] British Constitution Group conference: http://www.thebcgroup.org.uk/
A New World Order Is Emerging
Posted By The Editor On April 2, 2009 @ 11:26 pm In Mike Robinson
Those were the closing words of the new global chancellor of nothing yesterday, during his post G20 summit speech [1]. “These are not just a single collection of actions,” he said, “This is collective action; people at their best. I think a New World Order is emerging, and with it a new and progressive era of international cooperation. We have resolved that from today, we will together manage the process of globalisation …”
So there you have it. The much mooted New World Order takes another lurch forward with this G20 summit and (to quote Brown from a previous speech) “the greatest restructuring of the global economy the world has ever seen.” He just loves to brag, doesn’t he?
The content of the final communique [2] from the G20 makes the agenda clear for all to see. The financial collapse has been engineered to put every nation on this planet in such a dire situation that they must accept a new global financial dictatorship, or die. No nation state has any sovereignty as from this day.
The problem for Brown and his colleagues is that to get to this point they had to destroy the world’s financial system. Their financial system. What do they do now?
The answer lies with their intention to keep pumping hyperinflationary funny money into the system in an effort to keep the collapsing bubble inflated until such times as they can -
- organise the global warming scam into a new source of hot air for the bubble.
Pathetic, transparent, and did I mention pathetic?
These idiots really believe that the system can still be saved. They really believe that if they can just keep some air in the bubble long enough, that the gaping hole can be filled.
But the numbers just don’t stack up – an additional one trillion Dollars (making five in total) to support one quadrillion Dollars of unpayable derivatives debt.
Its a dangerous game they’re playing. One that I am determined to make sure they lose, as, I know, are most of you.
My immediate response to all this?
Just go to Hell, Gordon – and you will, sooner or later. Take your bailouts, your globalisation, your Free Trade and your New World Order with you.
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[1] post G20 summit speech: http://www.number10.gov.uk/
[2] final communique: http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page18914
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