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Money doesn’t smell of anything except money and wherever it comes from it gives off the same whiff of intoxicating magnetic attraction. Money, where some are concerned, is good wherever you get it from, but the only problem with that is there are times when the policies of some are in complete contradiction with that, but they soon give off some spin to show just how they are doing it the way they should be. Right now, one of those spin artists is the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the UK George Osborne and the British government along with it. Money has no smell for the Brits

UK Beliefs

David Cameron and the British government were one of the first in the EU to speak out about immigration and the dangers of allowing hundreds of thousands of people enter the country in the age-old discussion of the migrant mythological creature that stole our jobs and probably our women and was only here for one thing: money. He also stated that the migrants came for the British Welfare State, which in itself is nothing more than a patriotic belief.

  • The British might believe that they invented the concept of the Welfare State and the Social Security in 1910 with health freely available to all.
  • However, that is in itself not true since it was Chancellor Bismarck of Germany that did so in the 1880s; although the British were perhaps the first to destroy it.
  • Who would actually go to the UK to get treated on the British National Health System?
  • If you go to hospital in the UK, you have 50% more chance of dying because you are going to be badly treated than in any other country in the Western world.
  • You would have to go to emerging countries to find figures like that.
  • The British have 5 times more chance of dying from pneumonia in hospital than in the US and they will have twice the chance of been diagnosed with blood-poisoning.
  • Naturally, the immigrants are flocking to the white cliffs of Dover just to get into a British hospital.
  • There’s one thing being patriotic and then there’s downright proof of pulling the wool over your eyes.
  • The immigrants would go elsewhere if they had the chance of getting better treatment from a welfare state.
  • There are 70, 000 Brits that actually decide to go abroad every year to get treatment in other countries.
  • Immigrants would hardly go to the UK either to claim £55 per week on unemployment benefits when they could get it much better elsewhere (if that were the real reason they were going to a country).

On September 29th 2013 David Cameron gave an interview in the UK where he said that Muslim veils should be banned in schools and in courts and that he would back anyone up that wished to do it.

This is the man that stated that young migrants were not integrating into British culture and that the British had been too soft on agreeing to forego their cherished national identity (as many other nations also did after the financial crisis struck).

Scapegoating is always good for the polls. It takes the blame off the real people who are responsible, doesn’t it and diverts the attention of the public? Spin!

That is despite the fact that ‘national identity’ is a complete myth as no two British people will have the same notion of what identity is and anyway the majority of national identities were entirely constructed after the founding of the nation. They are based on invented stories or people that never existed and that have entered heroic status of the country such as King Arthur or Robin Hood for the UK; simply invented in order to provide origins that are so far off in the past that the British might believe that they were ‘the first’, that they have earned their right to be ‘here’ and that the traits that those people or places might embody (sharing, justice, valor, courage, etc.) should be espoused by the nation. Naturally, all British people are sharing and caring and they all respect justice and are brave souls.

British Contradiction

George Osborne and David Cameron now wish to establish the UK as the biggest Islamic financial center outside of the Islamic world: “the first sovereign to issue an Islamic bond outside the Islamic world” as stated by George Osborne in an interview with the Financial Times. He wishes to issue a $323 million sukuk (a bond that complies with Islamic Sharia law).

George Osborne is under the impression that the UK will be the first to do so outside of the Islamic world, whereas the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt did so in 2004 (issuing a bond worth $123 million).

Beyond the contradiction of condemning and perhaps even stigmatizing certain parts of the population in the UK and around the world, the British government has no qualms about becoming a financial hub for Islamic finance and banking.

Clearly, money has no smell.

But, it is true that Islamic finance and banking may have something that is very good in today’s bankster world: it is not linked to a tradable commodity and it has no value that is linked to time. Speculation is therefore discouraged, money is always linked to the economy (the real economy and not the virtual one). Prices would be less volatile if we used that sort of finance. Both profits and losses have to be shared by everyone, not just by one party.

  • The British have certainly cottoned on to the fact that Islamic finance is increasing 50% faster than traditional types of banking in the world.
  • Today Islamic banking only represents 1% of transactions that are taking place. But, that looks as if it is set to change.
  • Sharia-compliant assets around the world amount to $1.8 trillion today.
  • That is an increase from $1.3 trillion in 2011.

In other words, the subprime crisis would never have been possible. Sharia-compliant mortgages lend money to people, but the house remains the property of the lender. The buyer pays a rent until the property has been fully bought. There is no interest rate that can go up or down.

It is doubtful whether or not George Osborne is doing it for the good of the British economy or to get around the problems of speculation on the financial markets, or whether he is indeed under the impression that Sharia-compliant finance is better and the way forward. Whatever happens, it seems somewhat of a contradiction to pick n’ mix economic and national policies at will.

Money Has No Smell

It was the Roman Emperor Vespasian that first said that ‘money has no smell’ (pecunia non olet). He had passed a tax on tanners that used urine to cure their hides. He held a coin to his son’s nose asking him if it was offensive. His son replied ‘no’, to which Vespasian replied ‘money has no smell, and yet it comes from urine’. The British believe that money has no smell and you can just imagine George Osborne holding that British penny up to Cameron’shooter down at number 10. They are in contradiction of their policies believing immigrants to be (at least publically-speaking) the cause of all ills in the UK, rather than actually dealing with the problem itself of the economy.

They know full-well that it is easier to blame the migrants, since they will never be able to deport them all from the country. They will, therefore, never be able to solve the problem of their economic dilemma. Their predicament will last and their scapegoat will be present to constantly blame. End of story.

The migrants are the problem for the British government apparently, but their money doesn’t smell, does it?

 

Originally posted: Money Has No Smell for Brits

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Wed, 11/06/2013 - 09:36 | 4126402 strangeglove
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Shit we need hand Guilliteens now one for each institution.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 09:35 | 4126398 Shadow750
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http://www.infowars.com/dhs-to-hire-top-secret-domestic-security-force/

DHS to Hire “Top Secret” Domestic Security Force

Is the Department of Homeland Security building a mercenary unit?

Paul Joseph Watson

 Infowars.com

 November 5, 2013

The Department of Homeland Security is to spend $19 million dollars on a private security force in Wisconsin and Minnesota, an armed unit that must have a “Top Secret” security clearance according to an official solicitation.

According to a solicitation posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website, the Federal Protective Service, a sub-agency of the DHS, intends to hire “armed Protective Security Officer (PSO) services at various locations throughout the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin.”

“The project will have a requirement for the contractor to have a Top Secret facility clearance by the start of performance,” states the FPS notice.

Unlike previous solicitations, which normally detail how the guards will be deployed to protect government buildings, the document does not divulge what role the armed security force will undertake.

The fact that the contractors being hired must have a “Top Secret” security clearance clearly suggests that the DHS is not merely seeking to hire armed guards, but Blackwater-style mercenaries who will be engaged in some kind of clandestine activity.

 

The notion of an armed security force operating domestically under a “Top Secret” designation, something normally reserved for foreign spying and military operations, underscores how the DHS increasingly treats America like some kind of occupied territory.

The hiring of private mercenaries with Top Secret clearances also suggests the DHS may be planning on using the contractors as cutouts who will be involved in a variety of different operations outside the purview of public and Congressional scrutiny.

For some, the idea of an ever-expanding federal government turning to a private security force with a “Top Secret” clearance will stir memories of Barack Obama’s pre-election promise to build “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded (as the US military).”

The DHS’ purchase of over 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition over the course of the last 12 months has also prompted concerns that the feds are gearing up for trouble.

As we previously reported, the federal agency has spent large sums of money in recent weeks hiring large numbers of armed guards to protect government buildings, a development some have connected to the likelihood of civil unrest in America which could arise from food shortages linked to welfare cuts.

 

Fox News’ Neil Cavuto suggested that the Department of Homeland Security’s recent $80 million dollar outlay on armed guards to protect government buildings in upstate New York was related to potential food stamp riots.

The federal agency is also seeking to acquire 723,000 hours of armed guard services to protect government buildings in Arkansas and other areas.

The DHS also recently purchased half a million dollars worth of fully automatic pepper spray launchers and projectiles that are designed to be used during riot control situations.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 09:25 | 4126349 falak pema
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I would say that the money has a very cosmopolitan smell in London; as its all tax havened bank rent.

But yes, once its been white washed the smell goes, like cinnamon or ginger dust from Arabia or India, sashlyk or goulash smells from Russia or East Europe. Bourbon vapours from Usa and Yam or moimoi flavours from Nigeria or Africa.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 09:16 | 4126312 Amagnonx
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If you dont think mass immigration is a problem - then you understand nothing about culture.  A culture grows in a nation, and it can easily come under threat when govt apologists for bad behavior seek to make things 'equal' for new immigrants by undermining and destroying the culture that exists.

 

THe ravings of Cameron are just a populist smokescreen - he is invested in the destruction of the culture of the UK because a demoralized nation is far easier to control.  One that is internally at war can be lead around - and he has shown that he intends to lead it into the communist dictatorship of the EU.  He is talking out of both sides of his mouth, on the one hand - immigration is bad, on the other hand he encourages it and supports the destructive nature of mass immigration by undermining the UK culture with laws that shutdown political debate on the topic - and create a reactionary culture of political correctness, and connotations of racism for any who wish to rail against the destruction of that culture.

 

The problems of integration always revolve around culture - not race.  It is a matter of values and behaviors that do not conform between those who are rightful inhabitants, and those who are emigrating.  When a govt marginalizes the existing culture, and opens the door for a conflicting culture and inculcates it publicly, and backstops its more visible conflicts with laws - then it is clear the agenda is destruction of the national culture.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 08:54 | 4126255 Ar-Pharazôn
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  • "Who would actually go to the UK to get treated on the British National Health System?"

 

LOL perhaps 90% of the population of: Africa, India and Pakistan.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 08:27 | 4126206 Ghordius
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"There are 70, 000 Brits that actually decide to go abroad every year to get treatment in other countries."

yes. part of them go to the US. yet a sizable portion of them go where they live. which is the eurozone

three quarter of a million of reasonably well-to-do British pensioners live here. In several countries, like Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and of course Cyprus

this does not stop them hating the EUR for being "too damn hard", continue to bet on it's demise, or moaning about continentals, or voting for Tories or UKIP

the fun part will be when they will vote for BriXit and their freedom of movement inside of the EU gets rediscussed

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 09:13 | 4126304 Escapedgoat
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I am one that will vote to get the HELL OUT  of that fascist entity. And it has nothing to do with just the finance. Look at Italy, Where the first Party (25.5% of the electorate) of Beppe Grillo did not get the chance to Form a government. Second Greece where SomeAreAss Con the hell out of the Greeks, telling them that he will negotiate hard for the Memorandum with TROICA, and 30min. after Tsipras (he turned 180  degrees)  consided defeat without fully counting the votes, announced, that Signatures are respected, the Rape of the Country will curry on. In Ireland the people were conned as to what happened to their money. (Nicked by the Banksters' Cabal).Portugal, Spain wait till we find out what the scam is all about? We will all be dead by then.

I Will Tell you how we deal with you, Ghordius.

Cut the fucking EURO AND RUN.

I could go on about civilization in Western Europe, based on the combined cooperation of the Banking Rules (Venician, Double entry bookkeping) and their Viking Axe Wielding ENFORCERS.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 09:54 | 4126477 Ghordius
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my compliments for your vote decision. I have a crate of bottles of French Champagne waiting for BriXit day

btw, you do know that the UK does not have to join the EUR/eurozone, that the national Bank of England is nevertheless still a shareholder of the ECB and that the City of London is still the trading hub for the EUR, don't you?

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 09:32 | 4126377 Ghordius
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yes, look at Italy. that movement did not want to form a coalition - other forces did

meanwhile I don't even understand your further arguments. are you in favour of defaults by those countries? if yes, straight or by devaluation of national currencies? if the latter, have you looked at what the people in those countries want?

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 08:25 | 4126202 Jocko
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If you go to hospital in the UK, you have 50% more chance of dying because you are going to be badly treated than in any other country in the Western world.

 

Bullshit, You have 50% greater chance of dying under the nhs because far more people actually go to hospital due to healthcare being free at point of use. Ergo more people die because far more people actually get treatment rather than sitting at home with potentially fatal ailments because they cannot afford the sickcare or insurance premiums.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 08:34 | 4126223 Ghordius
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sound argument. for the statistics, an old man dying under the bridge because he has no money for healthcare is just a death. the same death in a NHS hospital is attributable to the hospital and the national health care system

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 08:20 | 4126192 Ghordius
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"This is the man (PM David Cameron) that stated that young migrants were not integrating into British culture and that the British had been too soft on agreeing to forego their cherished national identity (as many other nations also did after the financial crisis struck)."

yet the fundamental immigration question is not being solved at all, in the UK. freedom of movement inside the EU is the horse on which UKIP is riding. Poles, Portuguese, etc. up to now and Romanians, Bulgarians etc. soon is the bane. All white europeans, btw

what UKIP does not answer to is what kind of immigration the UK would get if David Cameron takes the UK out of the EU and reforges it's ties with the old imperial partners

cause then you have again Pakistanis, Indians, etc. on top of the rich Chinese that are anyway being welcomed

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 08:50 | 4126249 Max Damage
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UKIP want immigration controls. Full stop. In the EU we have none due to freedom of movement within the EU. As for non EU they are flooding in via the EU aswell. So your point is bollocks

Cameron is all talk and no action as per usual

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 09:07 | 4126285 Ghordius
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did you read my comment at all? yes, UKIP wants to take the UK out of the EU and is against immigration, "full stop". if they get what they want, they'll get moar Non-Europeans instead of Europeans. simple. same thing happened elsewhere

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 09:13 | 4126305 Max Damage
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Did you read what I said? Non Europeans are already coming to the UK today. UKIP want to reduce that and the EU migration. Typical EU nut job. You talk shite, and misread everything. Or are you saying we have ZERO non EU immigration - Lols

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 09:26 | 4126354 Ghordius
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yes. the UK has two doors open. one is blue with an EU sign on it. the other is the national one. if UKIP gets that blue one shut... the other will get moar traffic

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 08:19 | 4126191 logicalman
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Under Islamic law, usury is sinful.

Used to be the same in the Christian Bible, but was removed by TPTB of the time.

Kinda proves at least the Christian Church of today is just another tool of power and control.

I wonder who's benefit was being looked after with the current 'translation' most commonly used today 'The King James Bible'

There's a big clue there!

 

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 08:28 | 4126207 Bearwagon
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Not to disagree with you - but in fact the Christian Bible still says that. It has not completely been removed. But as long as so few people care to read the book themselves, it won't matter.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 08:54 | 4126253 Disenchanted
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From the Old Covenant:

 

 

19 " You shall not charge interest to your brother[fellow Jew] -- interest on money or food or anything that is lent out at interest.

 

20 "To a foreigner[Gentile] you may charge interest, but to your brother[fellow Jew] you shall not charge interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which you are entering to possess. (Deuteronomy 23:19,20)

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 08:58 | 4126262 Disenchanted
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And regarding the Old and the New Covenants...Take heed 'Christians'

 

 

It is important to note that most of the Scriptures[regarding usury] are from the Mosaic Covenant, a specific Covenant Yahweh made with a specific people (Israel) in a specific land for a designated time which ended when the New Covenant was established. The Mosaic Law was symbolic of higher truths and it is that which we must seek when looking at the Mosaic Law. If we are not to return to slaughtering animals and stoning our rebellious children, we must be careful about applying rules for living in Israel under the Old Covenant in an agricultural kingdom. We live in much different times. Read Galatians, especially chapters 3, 4, and 5 to see that we are NOT to mix the two lest we fall from grace and get under condemnation.

 

So much for that whole 'Judeo-Christian' bullshit...

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 09:21 | 4126330 Ghordius
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Christians? Well, medieval christians - in an age well before Reformation and the proliferation of Christian denominations, saw this applying to Christians as well as Jews. to the point that a loophole was found:

Christians would lend to Jews, which would then lend to other Christians. the origins of modern banking

which reminds me the loophole that Barcleys wants to have found on the EU law about bonus vs compensation ratio limitations: they'll give a third component to their top shots, and call it "allowances"

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 09:26 | 4126353 Disenchanted
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Wonder which of those came up with that loophole?  ;p

And isn't that part of "God's work?"

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 09:42 | 4126429 Ghordius
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actually the men to which that loophole was attributed were all stalwart defenders of the Christian Church. it was a scheme to which many kings subscribed, and many letters still exist where one prince asks the other to contact "his" Jews to see if a branch could be opened elsewhere

even the Republic of Venice had "bouts" about that. open ghetto, invite Jews. get inflamed, throw out Jews. find out that commerce suffers due to lack of liquid funds (gold and silver, of course), reopen ghetto and re-invite Jews. rinse and repeat

sorry, but as long as Jews were restricted to that trade in europe, they did get the dirtiest deals. and lots of persecution. if you want to find reasons against them, you have to start in a different, more recent age

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 08:13 | 4126182 Ghordius
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"In other words, the subprime crisis would never have been possible. Sharia-compliant mortgages lend money to people, but the house remains the property of the lender. The buyer pays a rent until the property has been fully bought. There is no interest rate that can go up or down."

well incapsulated why the sharia-compliant financing tools like the sukuk have a fundamentally sane view of the economy

a fixed return is more or less the only return you can't find in nature. a mathematical perfection, and a way to build in conflicts and defaults. though we live in an age where fixed returns are seen as the norm and defaults are not allowed to happen, a contradiction that haunts the current financial system

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 08:41 | 4126160 Disenchanted
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Money smells in 'The City'

edit: Maybe I should have said 'The City' smells the money...

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 07:52 | 4126156 Max Damage
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What the fuck was that?

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 07:24 | 4126133 herpderp
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This 'article' is totally bonkers.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 10:25 | 4126603 BigJim
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Yup, this Pivotfarm guy is an utter moron.

He can't write, either.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 07:11 | 4126122 Hobbleknee
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Remember in the old days when we got more for our money, and gas-station attendants pumped our gas for us?  That money always had a faint smell of gas, and it smelled good.

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