We are their tax-slaves.

The banking crash was devised. How could it not be - these people who lend massive sums to major banks, who have the money to break and then bail-out nations, are not fools.

Unlimited short term funds were made unrestrictedly available to banks in the UK, Europe, the US and elsewhere .

Rather than banks pass the opportunity to make profit from this abundance, any lending opportunity was taken; especially of-cause via packages of sub-prime debt from the US. A feeding frenzy ensued.

When, after several years and clear warnings aplenty, the international financiers pulled the plug on this trade, refusing to provide further 'rolling' short-term loans on the banks long-term liabilities. The outcome was that we see today. Stitched-up.

Our governments could have said these short term loans would not be paid, but mixed in with this debt was money from depositors of all sorts. Too many innocents would be ruined if the unravelling was not possible and immediate. Our banking and finance industry would be ruined forever. The UK economy, as we know it, would be dead.

And the government guarantee of banks is binding - the tax payers must foot the bill. That is the deal - hindsight about mixed banking does not wash. The only opportunity of escape from atonement to the liability would be default or to prove the international lenders deliberately caused the situation to occur or were wilfully negligent.

So it is the same international lenders who provide the 'bailout' funds now, just today underwritten by the tax payers, as provided the excessive and irresponsible liquidity that caused and fuelled the situation from the outset.

We are their tax-slaves. The fools we think can run our nation states, at best, have been played like a fiddle or, more probably, are complicit in the crime.

But of-cause every cloud does have a silver-lining. Normally this onerous level of national debt has been brought-about by vast and destructive war. History provides evidence that the self-same forces of international finance are the ones who previously caused these wars, provoked to produce the same outcome - interest on national debt.

Maybe dear Tony and Gordon are to be heralded as national heroes; saving us all the unpleasantness of war and just saddling us with the resulting national debt instead. Great.

If you cannot beat it; join it.

There will be a new EU agency to add to the list soon: the new EU Intelligence and Internal Security Unit (read 'Committee for State Security' or 'Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti' (KGB) to give it its proper title). Anticipated by one Olivier Luyckx, who's own experience appears to start and end at his graceful expertise for riding the EU gravy train.

Since MI6 hold the business end of all the strings attached to Baroness Catherine Ashton's every move (another prime gravy surfer) we can only hope they will truss-up too our new servant proposed to head the unit, Comrade Gilles de Kerchove.

One way out of this mess is to sink it through total non-cooperation; starting with keeping as much of your money out of the hands of 'the state' by every means possible. Another technique, though less robust, is to take it over from the inside.

If you cannot beat it; join it. Joint it and then beat it to death from the inside.

From The Horse's Mouth?

'Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When, through process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of the government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers.

These truths are well known among our principal men, who are now engaged in forming an imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance. It is thus, by discrete action, we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.'

Incorrectly attributed to Montagu Norman

What a State we are in

If my bus to work was hijacked by pirates I would not willingly pay the fare - only at the point of a gun.

To my mind, there is only one form of non-violent revolution we can undertake and that is withholding our cooperation with the state: in each and every way we can.

The state no longer represents the interests of the people (as if it ever did). No guilt should be felt in this process of revolution - that guilt is a false paradigm to which we have been endlessly trained.

The state must end: we will not change the state, it is irrevocably corrupt. This state has us in its grip and that grip looks to be only set to tighten, tighten till we become so weak we can struggle no more.

There are those who rest in ignorance of this truth - for now they are the many. There are those who would do the state's bidding, for their own gain. And there are the awake. The awake, few though they may be, outnumber the state's insiders more than ten to one - these insiders need to be, and rightly always have been, fearful.

We must dismantle the state before the installation of the mechanisms of totalitarian control are imposable to resist. Those who do not see this, I believe, are regrettably lost in denial.

Protest by denying the state your cooperation and your tithe wherever you can. How can you be breaking an honourable law if that law is one of an illegitimate state? Only when we refuse to respect the state's authority will its usurped power be defused.