Saturday, Jan 24, 2009
Minister throws toys out of pram
BBC News: Minister attacks banking bosses
According to Lord Myners, Banks and their "grossly over-rewarded" executives are partly to blame for causing the economic recession and added "I have met more masters of the universe than I would like to, people who were grossly over-rewarded and did not recognise that." The Brown government countered his comments with 'these were Lord Myners' private views, and were not the words of the chancellor or Treasury'.
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1. paul said...
This only shows up the Chancellor as out of touch with views, and too close to these financial 'geniuses'.
Good on the BBC for printing Lord Myner's comments. I think in the end, there will be nowhere for the government to hide on the matter of the mess these fat bankers produced.
2. letthemfall said...
paul
I think you're right. Good to see a govt minister speaking with such forthrightness. One thing that irritates me about GB is his flanneling language. Politicians will always avoid speaking plainly but when things are dire then it is time to be more open. But to give the Chancellor a bit of credit he did say we were facing the worst downturn for 60 years. He got stick for that but was right. So they can do it when they want to.
3. Laughingblacksheep said...
Ah yes as one of the wildly overpaid city members Myners should know. I wonder if he'll be putting any blame on the government after all attacking "overpaid bankers" is pretty much the definition of pandering to the crowd.
4. plato said...
Can only in all conscience support this kind of statement and its origin. A little late but better than the current leadership who continue to spin in circles.
5. icarus said...
Last week it was green shoots of recovery. This week it's bash the bankers. Next week?
6. down wave said...
When the price of a small box of Twinnings Tea Bags is £2.85, as I saw today, then you know for sure that, everyone is going to get seriously p**** off with New Labour, the banks, the milkman, dog, spot, bottle of pop, and anything that occurs after breakfast.
7. troy said...
I researched the whole evolution of psychiatry and discovered that it is in fact all about social control. I discovered that the Rockefeller Foundation played a key role in making respectable this fraternity by setting up the World Federation of Mental Health, and not for benevolent reasons. This was just after WW2.
I very quickly found myself heading up a human rights organisation for 'mental patients' specifically to expose psychiatry for the charlatanry that it is. It was during this time 1992-1997 that I got to know Dr Edward Hamlyn, who had already been researching the money system for many years and was already well aware of psychiatry's real purpose.
8. troy said...
He would constantly urge me to get an understanding of the money system as it 'underpinned psychiatry'. I eventually took the good doctor's advice, and read his book Money or Your Life and I began to see more of the big picture. I then began reading everything I could get on the subject, and quickly realised that virtually every social and global ill is either created by, or exacerbated by, the present money system.
The BAMR approach to monetary reform is perhaps unique in that we approach it as an engineer would approach a technical problem. That is: we have looked at what is, and discovered that we have a horrendously unjust monetary system. Then we look for the why and discover that King William sold out the responsibility of creating and issuing our currency 300 years ago, and since that time the banks have slowly but surely gained control of the whole world.
9. mrmickey said...
They won't be happy untill they've picked the last penny from the bones of the last taxpayer, then their work will be done.
10. troy said...
Then we look for the why governments are not repealing the Act of King William and restoring unto themselves the right and duty to create and issue their nation's money....
We discover that governments, particularly of the 'Western World' are unwilling to initiate any change in the system or even discuss it.
Unwillingness by politicians can only be reversed by a demand from the electorate. So why is there no demand from the electorate? There is no demand from the electorate because they have no knowledge of how they and the rest of the world are being defrauded by the banks....
And why have they no knowledge?
The electorate has no knowledge because no one is telling them, and they are educated in the belief that the monetary system is far too complex to be understood by anyone but the 'experts'. This perceived complexity is the present system's greatest protection against exposure.
http://www.prosperityuk.com/prosperity/views/robarnold_Int.html
11. S2r2005 said...
>I very quickly found myself heading up a human rights organisation for 'mental patients' specifically to expose psychiatry for the charlatanry that it is.
was it one of the ones that the scientologists were bankrolling? they really set up shop in the critical mental health movement in the 90s.
from wikipedia
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Main article: Citizens Commission on Human Rights
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), an institution set up by Scientology, also claims that the real nature of psychiatry is that of human rights abuse.
In 1966 Hubbard declared all-out war on psychiatry, telling Scientologists that "We want at least one bad mark on every psychiatrist in England, a murder, an assault, or a rape or more than one." He committed the Church of Scientology to the goal of eradicating psychiatry in 1969, announcing that "Our war has been forced to become 'To take over absolutely the field of mental healing on this planet in all forms.'"[20]
Not coincidentally, the Church of Scientology founded the Citizens Commission on Human Rights that same year as its primary vehicle for attacking psychiatry. CCHR still quotes Hubbard's above-cited statement that all psychiatrists are criminals: "There is not one institutional psychiatrist alive who, by ordinary criminal law, could not be arraigned and convicted of extortion, mayhem and murder. Our files are full of evidence on them."[4][5]
Like psychiatrist Peter Breggin, who has sought to distance himself from Scientology, CCHR has conducted campaigns against Prozac, against electroconvulsive therapy, against Ritalin (and the existence of ADHD) and against various health legislations. CCHR has also opened a permanent museum, "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death", in Hollywood, California.
12. will said...
Brown would defend the Bankers, Like Tony Blair, he will soon be on their payroll. The sooner we get rid off these so called leaders the better.
13. icarus said...
troy - "psychiatry is all about social control"...and conservation is all about the industrialised world's access to natural resources, especially minerals.