The convergence of the two threats comes as Britain is already on "severe" alert, meaning security officials believe an attack is highly likely.

Bankers are being warned to dress casually to deflect populist anger and luxury hotels are securing their perimeters.

Concern is particularly high because the last major summit in Britain - the G8 meeting in July 2005 at Gleneagles - was marked by suicide attacks on London's transit network that killed 52 people.

"We will be challenged. We will be stretched," said Simon O'Brien, a police commander responsible for the 7.2 million ($18 million) operation to secure the city.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators plan four days of protests at sites across London, threatening to overwhelm police and potentially leave the capital more vulnerable.

The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, said that while no specific plot against the G20 summit had been identified, terrorists could strike "without warning at any time".

Michael Clarke, head of the Royal United Services Institute think-tank, said small terrorist groups might use the cover of protests by environmentalists, antiwar activists and unions to mount an attack.

"The protests will cause uncertainty and chaos, and if they turn violent could complicate the lives of those police and security service staff who are looking for terrorists," said Clarke, who sits on the Government's National Security Forum advisory panel.

Police arrested five people in Plymouth yesterday under terrorism laws and recovered replica weapons, fireworks and activist material. Officers are investigating whether they planned to target the summit.

The investigation was sparked after a 25-year-old man was charged with spraying graffiti on a wall in Plymouth city centre, prompting officers to search his flat. They discovered a replica Kalashnikov assault rifle and several minor explosive devices made from fireworks.

About 5000 police - some armed with Tasers - will guard London, and an extra 35,000 will be on standby for the summit tomorrow night NZT. Some will be at the summit venue in London's Docklands, with others protecting posh hotels and the sleek glass towers of the financial district.

In the light of November's seaborne attack on Mumbai, India's financial centre, extra patrol boats will guard the Thames, and police frogmen will scour the river for floating bombs.

Police will tap London's network of 10,000 CCTV cameras to monitor protests, while an Army special forces unit will be on alert to respond.

Pepe Egger, a senior security analyst at Exclusive Analysis Ltd, said banks and hotels had prepared for attempted raids or sieges.

Unlike previous summits, most protests in London would be away from the actual meeting venue at the ExCel centre, he said.

"The interesting thing is that the protesters are unlikely to target the G20 delegates, their anger is not directed at the G20 itself. They will target the banks and financial district."

Anger at bankers is high in both Britain and the United States, where some of the bailout money for stricken banks was spent on staff bonuses.

Banks have told staff to dress in casual clothes today and tomorrow, to forgo cigarette breaks outside and cancel all but their most critical meetings.

"I'm pretty worried," said Luke Keyser, a 28-year-old at the Royal Bank of Scotland. "We've already been told to dress down. If we want to, we can work from home."

People living near the G20 venue in Canning Town have been advised to carry photo IDs to ensure they can pass through police roadblocks and get home.

- AP, INDEPENDENT

Solomon Star News
Friday, 20 February 2009

HISTORY is littered with commentaries by business, world leaders and academics on how the banking system is set up and what it was designed to do and has been doing ever since its creation.

It is fair to say that the masses may never know the real business of foreign banking. And yet, it is on the back of the masses that banks carry their successes in terms of profitability, year after year after year.

They make their money in a number of ways, including but not limited to charging phenomenal interest rates. In return they pay hardly anything to depositors.

Their practices border on daylight robbery – practices sanctioned by competent authorities and the legal system in every country.

Most, if not all, qualify for insolvency if they were to uphold the same rules imposed on ordinary folks.
But we will never know why they are allowed to continue in business.

And the reason we will never know about what banks do with your money [I don’t have any] is clear. No one in his right mind broadcasts the secrets of his success.

But history has been kind, leaving important indicators on the secrecy under which banks operate.
Many have left the door to banks ajar for those who care to peep in. People like Henry Ford, the man whose family name is synonymous with the United States auto industry.

Or Reginald McKenna, who was Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer and Chairman of the Board of the Midland Bank between 1915 – 1916.

Henry Ford, for example, once said of banks in the United States:
“It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning”.

Mr. McKenna said:
“I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money … Those who create and issue money and credit direct the policies of government and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people”.

As indicated in this column last week, these are some of the issues I wish to discuss this week in the hope of enlightening us to the reality.

For example, given the practices by the banks, what do we as a nation need to do?
More work and less talking. Any meaningful intervention in this murky area, however, has to be spearheaded by Government and its monetary policy.

It is in this light that one, Kelvyn Alp, a New Zealander, has provided the Government a “must read” document titled, Solomon Islands Economic Reform – Monetary System and Taxation.

Copies were widely distributed to Members of Parliament, particularly Government Ministers and Members of Government Caucus last year. It was provided as a Parliamentary Discussion Document.
The 36-page document was dated 8th November 2008.

It is a ‘must read’ if one were to understand the banking system here, the monetary system and taxation and what is urgently required to deal with these problematic areas.

In the preamble, Alp says the document “is an urgent reminder of the need to look beyond the established and ultimately flawed economic theories that have caused such devastation to nations the world over”.

“All too often there are those that are ever ready to give advice to developing nations like Solomon Islands, while at the same time, concealing the true nature and intent of that advice. Change will never come from systems that have been proven to fail time and time again.

“In this document, I shall deal with the truth and facts only,” he said.

Alp argued that many have studied and received degrees for subjects covered in the document, “yet have never comprehended the underlying mechanics of those lessons and how they relate to real-world economies”.
He urged readers to be willing to put the interests of the people and nation above their own.

“This must be done despite the constant pressure being applied by some to retain the status-quo and further have you implement disastrous policies that will place you, your family and the nation, in a continuous position of servitude,” the former military man turned businessman said.

An avid reader of a wide range of subjects, I must say I am fascinated by the clarity and indeed the message being conveyed in this document.

The more I read this revolutionary document, the more I want to be out there doing something. The feeling I have experienced will only be felt if one’s passionate about what needs to be done and fast.

For example, how do you feel about phrases such as “today’s money [is] created by private interests for private profit”.

Alp quoted Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a banker who in 1790 said and I quote: “Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes its laws”.

Many will probably recall reading somewhere that Rothschild was one of the founding fathers of what we know today as America’s Federal Reserve, the equivalent of our Central Bank.

The US Federal Reserve was never a Government institution. It’s an invention by businessmen who want to control the world’s wealth. And they do today. Only six per cent of the world’s population control today’s wealth.

Commercial banking, including those in Solomon Islands are merely an extension of the greed that has now thrown the global financial economy into tailspin.

Next week, I’ll take you through the banking system, the monetary reform and the many faces of money that banks “sell” us – faces fully disguised in deception and falsehood.


By ALFRED SASAKO

- Source

The credit crisis has been given many excuses, ranging from too many people spending beyond there means, to investments gone wrong and even failed trade agreements.

Put simply, it's the banks who loaned the credit (not money) and allowed it to that which could be given the exmaple of a drug addict to credit, to tick-up credit with the dodgy dealing bank, to get there next fix so someone could get a plasma, mortgage and car etc which the bank knows most of there applicants could not afford to pay back.

I mean an example is that most university students who make about $150 a week in N.Z from student allowance living costs, getting the bank saying here's a credit card for $5000, then another bank doing the same, then a finance company allowing around $2000 loaned, possibly more, so a total of $12,000 debt from one student. Did the bank assess this thinking the student would become a doctor or lawyer who could repay this? No, because most would take a part time job afterwards in some dodgy fast food place or call centre close to minimum wage in order to survive, and in turn these places hire and fire quicker than they over sales most of the time. They may end up at a WINZ office, and WINZ will push them onto anything other than unemployment to keep the unemployment benefit numbers down, so someone could then be falsifying a mental illness and be drugged up on med's to get by on direction from the government. I have interviewed many people like this or they pass uni and go oversea's only to come back not long after in a worse case and paying back IRD so much money and still the banks on the amount of thin air credit loaned and then interest to kill there wages.

This is the banks faults, its the big companies making a killing literally in some cases like weapons manufacturers, fast food outlets, oil companies and so on who market more and more there products and services which are made by P.R to look essential and con people into debt by credit.

Banks work from other deposits normal people make in good faith thinking 'we trust our bank', banks should be an optional service, not compulsory for your wages to be done as a commercial transaction, they (the banks) gain interest on the money in balance in there banks and loan out credit which is not based of there own books, but these deposits as some do know this harsh truth.

It's much the same with the reserve bank it has no real money but now will based on bonds, credit issued in the form of paper bills printed to the crown then passed to us. The national debt as its called.

To make the elite crash happen quicker everyone could withdraw all there money, buy a safe and store there own money and invest in gold, but remember last time people did this, the U.S government issued prohibition on gold, they did much the same on alcohol and tobacco. The N.Z government would likely follow, hence the guaranteed deposit scheme hoo-haa that most banker controlled states and nations of the western world are doing and have done.

Kiwibank currently is running somewhat anti-aussie-bank ad's, well Kiwibank is in debt if you look at logically, its government owned, which i would support nationalization as opposed to privatization of capitialist foreign powers,but anyway the crown owes the national debt, the citizens and persons who are registered with stock certificates as a security interest (birth certificates) vest debt based on liability to pay such things like compulsory taxes and fee's, foreign examples include insurances.

This in turn gives people less wealth and more wealth in the hands of the banks and governments as these are processed in N.Z prior to clearance, i mean tax is deducted before you can withdraw your pay, as is the case via PAYE, student loans, kiwisaver, ACC levies, other taxes, child support, court fines and possibly more examples. So the individual has alot less than what starts off, it puts wealth again to clarify out of the hands of the worker. Then to note this worker pays his or her bills and is expected to live, at this point they could be able to afford other things but if not a life on credit is led by a large flock of sheep in example. No one ever believed someone cried wolf, oops i mean banks.

Story source here

North Bergen, NJ -- To the chagrin of the government, I have obtained new "AMERO" paper currency notes! You know, the "AMERO" . . . . the new currency that is going to replace the US Dollar, The Canadian Dollar and the Mexican Peso? Yea, the new currency that all three governments claim doesn't exist. . . . I have it. Here's what a 50 Amero note looks like:

In September, 2007 - over a full year ago - I first broke the story about AMERO coins being minted secretly at the Denver Mint. After that story ran, the Denver Mint announced on its web site that they were closing public tours of the Mint for 10 - 14 days in order to make renovations to the tourist area of the mint.

My sources inside the Mint, however, reported Treasury officials were outraged that someone had leaked info about the AMERO to me and they closed the Denver Mint to the public so as to secretly move the AMEROS out of the Mint to prevent further leaks.

In October, 2008, I received word that the U.S. government shipped 800 Billion AMEROS to the China development bank. I did a story on that (here) and obtained an actual AMERO coin from that shipment!

I placed a video of the coin on YouTube, showing the coin and explaining that there is a deliberate effort underway at the highest levels of our government to intentionally exhaust the dollar as a currency. Over 600,000 people worldwide watched that video.

Two days ago, YouTube/Google notified me that my video had been deleted and my account permanently closed at the request of the United States Treasury Department. The Treasury department told YouTube/Google that my video was "destabilizing the U.S. Dollar and was thus a threat to national security."

Here we are, just two days later and my sources have once again come through; this time with proof the government is secretly printing new AMERO paper currency.

Not only do I have the 50 AMERO note, give look at the 20 and 100 AMERO notes below!

Not a single American citizen has been officially asked if they want a new currency. Not a single member of Congress has voted on authorizing a new currency. Yet a new currency is already being printed and quietly distributed around the world. This is being done without the consent of the American people, without a vote by Congress and has been intentionally covered up by every official who has been questioned about it.

The REASON they are creating a new currency has to do with how they plan to get rid of our national debt. On October 16, 2008, the "Global-Europe Anticipation Bulletin" told its subscribers that the present U.S. Dollar will be demonetized (it won't be "money" anymore) and a new currency imposed. "Old dollars" will be devalued by ninety percent (90%).

Think about that for a moment. A 90% devaluation. That means checking accounts, savings accounts, IRA's 401-K's, Pension plans, Certificates of Deposit. . . . are all worth ninety percent LESS than previously.

This AMERO currency will allow the government to literally grab 90% of all our life savings and owe 90% less than they presently do in one fell swoop! They get out of debt and the rest of us are left totally destitute. Broke. Busted. Poor. Helpless.

I believe the people perpetrating this secret currency change are in for personal visits of a violent nature. I think there are folks out here in real America who will not take kindly to having been deliberately lied-to.

I believe my fellow Americans might -- just might -- decide it is time to . . . . . "discipline". . . . . the public officials who have undertaken this outrage without our consent.

It's a tough thing to have to physically discipline a mis-behaving adult, but I say now, I'm up for doing just that.

There are officials in this country who deserve to get the shit kicked out of them and I really look forward to having the chance to do it. If they think their puny little Federal Reserve Police force can do anything about it, they're sadly mistaken.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS IMMEDIATELY. If they are already printing paper currency, the destruction of the US dollar cannot be far away. We are ALL in grave danger of losing our life savings to this currency scam.

Well Helen Clarke buys the rail asset back and names it KiwiRail, headed by ex-Nat Jim Bloger, who also happens to run most of our infrastructure like NZ Post and KiwiBank. Even so Kiwibank and the Reserve Bank are controlled by the international bankers like most Western and European based governments. Therefore the governments national debt by borrowing from the Reserve Bank, the upper echelon creates out of thin air money and makes interest on high repayments on money that never existed in the first place, as such credit.

Furthermore there are plans by some in Parliament to buy and control a nationalisation of public transport, so bus companies and the like. In turn real control to the upper grasp of the pyramid. Another plan is to build prison systems close or interconnecting to rail lines, thus the plan with either party (as they're both puppets in the equation) wants to build more prisons, give police greater powers and guns. This in turn gets arms and private rail contractors rich and the result of a more evident police state.

As for National the conservative facing puppet party, my review and Scoop.co.nz found the same info recently.

Australian insurance company investors are being advised they would reap large profits if the ACC scheme was privatised, but it would come at significant cost to New Zealanders, says ACC Minister Maryan Street.

"The confidential Merrill Lynch briefing to Australian investors, made public today, says National has given insurers a strong message it would privatise the $10.3 billion public asset if ever elected - although the party consistently refuses to provide any policy details to the New Zealand public.

John Key used to work for Merrill Lynch, as we have seen he can not speak well, mostly his speechs and refusal on policy is pre-written. A recent example; "I do condone that, oh no I don't condone that."

"The briefing says privatisation of ACC could be a "very positive development" for Australian insurers which should be able to "capture" what will become the New Zealand injury insurance market.

Brenda Pilott is a Public Service Association National Secretary, she says...

"National needs to tell ACC staff if it is putting their jobs on the line by privatising ACC."

"They also need to tell the rest of New Zealand if they are going to increase the cost of accident compensation, and line the pockets of foreign-owned companies, by privatising our accident compensation."

John Key's interests are those in the ploy of big business particularly banking and finance. Just as Helen Clark's is a capitalist socialism, like a enslaved soviet union pyramid scheme runs by freemasons and there like, classism divided, as race is not a factor as per the multiculurism structure of N.Z, the E.F.B proves pretty much dissent will be silenced or must be registered.

Everything must be registered or on record; cars, persons, assets, cash, your political affiliations, your children, marriage, death, other forms of finance and commerce, so it can be tracked, taxed and tallied. Sure some might say so they can better serve us, sure they are servants to the people, but do they represent us in the so called representative democracy, looks at our needs, i don't think they have done much to improve anything but the interests of the rich and powerful and elite. No liberty i can see clearly, just a decrease of it overall.

If only more people could see what the Direct Democracy Party of New Zealand had said prior to the oil, food and credit crisis came into public view, thus which all runs on money, thus the DDP monetary policy is of major-fold significance. Oilcrash.com said much the same also. People need to wake up the truth is closer now, but behind a web of deep lies and corruption.

Sign #1 Banks loaning more money. Finance companies going under and monetary control centralized into banking only, governments trying anything from Kiwisaver to new taxes (carbon etc) to make people have less but actually spend *cough, borrow more money from the banks, so debt increases. The servicing of debt in which the people are the BORROWER and the bank is CREDITOR to issue the money. See the video 'Money As Debt' here

Sign #2 Gold & Oil prices increase - which is good for some reasons, they continue to rise even today. Changing the value of paper money issued by the private controlled foreign corporations otherwise known as Reserve Banks, i.e BoE, BoJ.

At this stage some things need explaining for those not full awaken to whats is going on...

In these times governments and central banks have in the past worked together against the people to prohibit persons from; possessing gold, trading gold, storing gold, use for commerce and gains. This in effect locked down the control of money, thus wealth into the elite rich few, hence a pyramid extending out as it goes down was created, this enslaves the majority. In turn, the public are led to believe they are free in a so-called 'democracy', when in fact more and more laws and statues were and are continued to be created to limit such freedoms whether related to commerce and finance or not.
In this point drugs and oil whether legal or not are passed through a echelon ranging from intelligence agencies, a nations army down to the street corner (not always in this order directly). For those who do not believe this, I simply ask for you to look at U.S Federal Reserve issued currency, there's a pyramid symbol on it, with a detached zenith at its peak, with an Egyptian eye or to some the sign of Big Brother.
Also to note the CIA (Cocaine Imports of America) and the OSS, the Contra's & the Vietnam war plus many others being involved, this is not a conspiracy theory, there is proof!

I quote what they always plan, 'Anything that can be regulated and registered by control of the international bankers whether it be puppets fronting as government or otherwise will be regulated, registered and put into a form of law with or without consent from the people.

Now an article I found from the mainstream below....

The US Federal Reserve has announced an emergency cut in interest rates and taken more than US$30 billion ($37 billion) of Bear Stearns' assets; the US dollar has flopped to an all-time low against the euro, and hit a 12-year low against the yen; the Bank of England saw fit to lend a further 5 billion ($12.5 billion) to the banks; the Mumbai stock market was down 6 per cent, Hong Kong fell 5 per cent and Frankfurt 4 per cent.

Even President George W. Bush admitted: "We are in challenging times."

Is this the moment? The moment, that is, when the world economy slides into slump? The collapse of Bear Stearns is a signal of much worse to come.

Perhaps the most significant barometer of the economic health of the world today isn't the FTSE-100, the Dow or the Nikkei, dreadful though they were at times, nor even the free-falling dollar or the soaring value, yet again, of gold.

Rather it is the suddenness with which the situation is being compared with the 1930s, the most miserable decade in a century of economic history.

That may be an apocalyptic view, a typical product of the mood swings of markets suffering from bipolar syndrome; but the world economy is sick.

It is suffering from illnesses that are beginning to feed on each other, creating a vortex of downward spirals. Grim forces have gripped the world economy, a combination not seen since the Great Depression.

According to LEAP/E2020, the end of the third quarter of 2008 will be marked by a new tipping point in the unfolding of the global systemic crisis. At that time indeed, the cumulated impact of the various sequences of the crisis (see table below) will reach its maximum strength and affect decisively the very heart of the systems concerned, on the frontline of which the United States, epicentre of the current crisis.

Read the rest of this story here

The NZ Herald online (not that I like the mainstream media) is running an interesting thing here...

The Government's accounts have dropped into an operating deficit for the first time in almost 15 years. The Treasury has revealed the Crown's operating balance for the seven month period to January 31 was a deficit of $394 million -as much as $4.2 billion away from the forecast surplus of $3.8 billion. What is to blame for the disappearing Government surplus? Click here to see more.

Inland Revenue yesterday confirmed it was working with a number of overseas tax authorities to investigate alleged tax rorts involving the use of bank accounts in the tiny European country of Liechtenstein.

International pressure on Liechtenstein to lift the cloak of secrecy from its banks intensified this week as tax agencies across the globe widened probes into tax evasion involving some of its banks, including LGT, which is owned by the state's billionaire royal family.

The US said it was examining more than 100 American taxpayers it suspected could be hiding money in the principality and was co-operating with tax administrators in seven other countries including New Zealand.

A spokesman for the IRD yesterday confirmed there were "less than a dozen" New Zealand taxpayers involved in the alleged tax dodges.

"We are aware that some offshore activities and investments of New Zealand taxpayers are operated on the assumption that Inland Revenue may not be able to obtain information from sources in other countries," Inland Revenue commissioner Robert Russell said yesterday. "These assumptions are no longer safe in today's environment of international co-operation."

The US Inland Revenue Service has examined Liechtenstein bank accounts that contain amounts of up to US$100 million.

The Inland Revenue spokesman said early stages of its audit process suggested the amount of New Zealand tax involved was $1-$2 million.

The quiet mountain enclave of just 35,000 residents tucked between Austria and Switzerland has lured funds from thousands of wealthy investors from around the globe, earning it an unwanted spot on an international blacklist of tax havens.

German prosecutors have been leading the Liechtenstein crackdown prompting 91 people to admit their role and pay up nearly €28 million ($51.5 million) in back taxes. The probe has already forced the resignation of one of Germany's best-known business figures - Deutsche Post chief executive Klaus Zumwinkel.

- Adam Bennett

I believe give it until 2012, most economies globally look screwed, that is if there based off the bankers evil credit and servicing-off-debt systems with a corrupt-backed reserve central bank in place and not the people of the nation in control of there monetary system. I guess it's all part of there plan for digitalization and ID, the path to tyranny and ultimate police state enforcement.

Below is some mainstream media articles of some financial news...

The New Zealand dollar took a peek at US82c and then eased back as traders took profits.

It hit a new 23-year post-float high against the greenback of US81.83c but closed on US81.46c against US81.15c yesterday.

In the U.S, Federal Reserve vice chairman Donald Kohn said a weak economy was a bigger worry than inflation risks, suggesting a willingness to keep cutting rates from 3 per cent as the central bank tackles "difficult times".

Strong heating fuel demand in Europe and the United States in the midst of a cold spell and signals from Opec that the group will not raise production at its meeting next week added support to crude's gains, dealers said.

US crude gained $2.20 to a record $101.43 a barrel - close to the inflation-adjusted peak of $102.53 hit in 1980. London Brent crude rose $2.34 to $100.03 a barrel.rst level in five years while inflation soared among producers, sparking fears of stagflation.

While a weak dollar can sometimes trigger commodities buying as dealers seek to preserve nominal value in other currencies, worries about an economic slowdown have tempered oil's rally in recent weeks by dimming the outlook for global energy demand.

In the United States, crude oil supplies are forecast to have risen last week by 2.5 million barrels, the seventh increase in a row, as refineries undergoing maintenance have built up stocks.

A preliminary Reuters poll of industry analysts predicted US distillates stocks, including heating oil and diesel, were expected to maintain their seasonal decline due to cold temperatures and a dip in production and imports.

- NZPA & REUTERS

British finance minister Alistair Darling has announced the temporary nationalisation of troubled bank Northern Rock, which was hit by the global credit crunch in August.

"The government has decided to bring forward legislation to bring Northern Rock into a temporary period of public ownership," he said during a press conference at the Treasury in London.

Britain's fifth-largest mortgage lender already owes taxpayers 25 billion pounds ($49 billion) and has been put on the government's books as around 90 billion pounds of public debt.