From the Summit of the Moral High Ground

The second by-election of the current government has come and gone and the results are fascinating: George Galloway (Respect) 18,341 (55.89%, +52.83%) Imran Hussain (Labour) 8,201 (24.99%, -20.36%) Jackie Whiteley (Conservative) 2,746 (8.37%, -22.78%) Jeanette Sunderland (Liberal Democrat) 1,505 (4.59%, -7.08%) Sonja McNally (UKIP) 1,085 (3.31%, +1.31%) Dawud Islam (Green) 481 (1.47%, -0.85%) Neil Craig (Democratic Nationalists) 344 (1.05%) Howling Laud Hope (Monster Raving Loony Party) 111 (0.34%) Of George Galloway I know only that he was expelled from the Labour Party for being outspoken against the invasion of Iraq and has frequently spoken out against the Zionist occupation of Palestinian lands. He has the (Left-)Libertarian tendency undoubtedly and supports the freedom of religion which is a point of contention in Bradford. Mutual respect is a fundamental tenet of Libertarianism. It is comforting to note that the other Libertarian party UKIP also increased ...

I have started following the news not as reported by the British Media but by Russia Today. Just imagine how we see the news coverage of nations overseas, particularly of 'oppressive regimes'. How the poor downtrodden citizens of this country or that are brutalised by tyranny masquerading as the rule of law and then watch the following clips both dealing with UK police. Now clearly the staff of Russia Today will have their very own bias and will be looking to cover issues which are not covered by the Western Media, but I doubt that makes their reporting any less true. For us in Jersey it is left to those few dedicated bloggers to tell that part of the truth which the 'accredited media' deem to be inappropriate for publication, or rather anything that might reveal that the government of Jersey is actually clueless and spends most of its time desperately trying to cover up its mistakes. So we have beaten student protesters prosecuted whilst police th...

World leaders meet next week to discuss  the future of the US as the world's reserve currency One of the facts of life over the last 40 years has been that the U.S. dollar is the world’s sole global reserve currency. This is despite the fundamental factors underlying the U.S. balance of payments, which has been awful over that entire time. Nevertheless, the dollar ruled the global monetary system through these four decades and appears to be doing so still. But is that coming to an end? Next week there is a meeting of the BRICS nation over the use by the U.S. of the SWIFT system to block Iran from selling its oil. The BRICS nations are buyers of that oil. Their views on Iran’s nuclear policies do not go as far as refusing to buy their oil. The SWIFT system is the system used to make international payments and covers most acceptable currencies. This use of the international monetary system as a war machine has surprised and angered these nations who are meeting next week to d...

The Latest from the Land of the Free This year millions of Americans will be heading to the polls to cast their vote for the next US president, but many are concerned that millions of votes could be thrown away come election night skewing the results. According to reports, 2.2 million votes were lost due to voter registration problems in 2008. Back in 2011 Hilary Clinton criticised the Russians over their lack of democratic transparency which led to Vladimir Putin installing live streaming webcams on every ballot box during his recent re-election, well the Russians have now thrown down the challenge to the United States to do the same. But does it matter anyway, what will the winner do, will he keep his promises? Do we know who the winner will be? Well Obama has answered both those questions for us in the following clip courtesy of Russia Today. Obama tells the Russians 'After my election, I have more flexibility' I do not know why this has become such ...

The Certificate of Birth ('Short Form') belongs to the Man  Well the trial is over and I remain Not Guilty of course the question of my guilt or innocence has now been answered in open court. I was distressed to see a number of people pay up rather than take a day in custody... I am not entirely sure what a day in custody entails, but it would seem to me that it means that you walk straight out of Court. They count the day of your conviction as a full day and you cannot be held any longer than your sentence, they also only release at 9am on the morning of your release date. This of course means that if you have a two day sentence then you are released at 9am the next morning with £3 to get the bus back to town. Why anyone pays parking fines is beyond me. I refined my strategy, I really am not good in chaotic situations and I still don't see the benefit of stating the obvious (i.e. that I am a man not a person etc., etc.), nor do I enjoy making a scene or playing...

The Chinese Yuan Standard According to the International Monetary Fund by 2016 the economy of China will be larger than that of the United States, but recent research from the University of Pennsylvania now indicates that this has already happened. The proof that was presented is irrefutable that in real terms the US economy produced goods and services worth US$14.6 trillion in 2010 but China's GDP (gross domestic product) was US$14.8 trillion. The situation is set to worsen as the US is falling further behind, every day. US growth was 1.7% and China's is 9.2% in 2011. Beijing has become so powerful that it can now dictate economic policy to the US. China has approximately US$1.9 trillion of debt whilst the US has US$145 trillion. China's reserves are US$3.2 trillion, the US has nothing and borrows nearly 50% of all the money it spends from China. China's tax revenues grew 30% last year whilst the US revenues fell. China has 810 million workers, the US 145 m...

I was reading the blog of the Tax Justice Network the other day, whilst it remains my belief that fundamentally they are wrong in supporting bureaucracy, one cannot dispute that Richard Murphy and John Christensen are aware of issues which affect us normal people in our every day lives. The roof of your house caves in. It’s a huge job to fix it – and you get some builders in. They charge a fortune – but, well, what price a roof over your head? Then six months later, your roof caves in again! Time to sue the builder. Only there’s a problem. The building company has gone bankrupt. So you chase down the company owners – but find that the company’s registered in a tax haven. You go through the courts, and you’re delighted that your country has an agreement to share information with the tax haven! After a lot of work, you find out the names of the company’s directors, along with photocopies of their passports and even their shoe sizes.  Only now there’s another problem. And it’...

The World Food Summit of 1996 defined food security as existing “when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life”. Commonly, the concept of food security is defined as including both physical and economic access to food that meets people's dietary needs as well as their food preferences. In many countries, health problems related to dietary excess are an ever increasing threat, In fact, malnutrion and foodborne diarrhea are becoming a double burden. Food security is built on three pillars: Food availability: sufficient quantities of food available on a consistent basis. Food access: having sufficient resources to obtain appropriate foods for a nutritious diet. Food use: appropriate use based on knowledge of basic nutrition and care, as well as adequate water and sanitation. Food security is a complex sustainable development issue, linked to health through malnutrition, but also to sustainable economic ...

With my trial closing in I tried today to submit papers to the Court file regarding the case. I was refused permission to do so. I therefore publish it here. This is a matter of Public Record H.M. ATTORNEY GENERAL v. THE LEGAL FICTION, MR DARIUS JAMES PEARCE I, a Trustee of unlienable rights given to me by my creator, and sole authorised representative of the legal fiction DARIUS JAMES PEARCE, with God as my witness , make OATH and SAY, 1)       That on the 27 th February 2012 I attended at the Magistrate’s Court in order to represent the Legal Fiction, MR DARIUS JAMES PEARCE, but that I was unlawfully denied the opportunity to represent the aforementioned Legal Fiction, a legal fiction of which I am the sole authorised representative. 2)       That I existed before the aforementioned legal fiction MR DARIUS JAMES PEARCE and that as a result the two entities are clearly distinct and separate. We have distinct records...

Now you may wonder why everyone in Jersey is so interested in the goings on in Westminster when it comes to budget time, and the answer is simply because all our laws come from the UK, there has not been an original thought arising from the States of Jersey within my lifetime and for probably a century previous. I was listening for any further detail on the implementation of the changes to Low Value Consignment Relief but the Chancellor George Osborne did not even mention it in his speech. The details of the change can be found here . Nota Bene:  "Businesses without a UK establishment who make taxable supplies of goods or services in  the UK will be affected by the removal of the VAT registration threshold." The supply of goods is only taxable by those companies who make a VAT return, otherwise the VAT is payable by the purchaser on import. The first thing I notice is that there is no actual plans to cut spending... there is a plan to cut spending as a percentage o...

The trouble with Jersey is that many people have never left the island, they are long term inmates and they have become institutionalised to the 'Jersey way'. Philip Ozouf with Terry Le Sueur We must remember that nothing that happens in Jersey, happens by accident, the 'powers that be' carefully co-ordinate the media; they announce far in advance their plans and the sheeple take their instructions, which is dripped out like Chinese water torture, over a significant period of time. We of course can learn the truth by reading between the lines... So  Has Philip Ozouf been nominated to fall?  That is the question that I am asking after tonight's JEP coverage. We know that there will be some jostling at the next election, we have 10 senators vying for 8 seats and history has shown that at least one 'establishment' politician is unseated at every election - Guy de Faye, Freddie Cohen, so who is next? You may prefer to believe that Freddie Cohen w...

Well the shenanigans in the US electoral system continue to mount up as Minnesota becomes the latest state to show signs of unfair procedures.  Ron Paul has now gone as far as to describe recent events as 'shenanigans' but has not as yet made any complaint of unlawful behaviour. Establishment GOP leaders in St. Charles County, Missouri, shut down a caucus and had Ron Paul supporters arrested in order to avoid enthusiastic Ron Paul supporters from taking over the caucus March 17. Ron Paul on 'Shenanigans' "It definitely got wild," Eugene Dokes, the county Republican chairman, told the Associated Press after the aborted caucus, claiming that: "I had to tell a number of people not to approach me, not to come from behind me and not to scream at me. I think there was the possibility of someone trying to inflict personal injury or harm to me." There's no evidence Dokes was threatened in the more than dozen videos of the caucus that app...

Whatever the Government Says, times are getting tougher and it is the Government's fault The JEP has covered a story relating to the attempts of Alan MacLean to limit the population. Although the paranoid streak in me read the headline ' the population can be controlled ' in a slightly different way. With the end of the 'fulfillment industry' the economic future for 'Jersey' is going to need some rethinking, or maybe they will continue along their plough ahead regardless path as they usually do. You see to the government, 'Jersey' does not mean the people of Jersey, nor the island of Jersey, it means simply the government of Jersey. It is simply not important to me whether the plans for continued government expansion continue apace or not, in fact if I had my way the government would be shrinking and fast. The principle of subsidiarity  would hold that the smallest administrative unit possible should make the decisions. Now the smallest ...

The idea that the police are here to protect us is a lie. The police are here to enforce the tyranny of the State. The Police protecting a Citizen  Because “citizens” can start to revolt if things like murder and rape and arson aren’t dealt with, the police will make a token effort to deal with these things when they occur. Although they often complete these investigations poorly, often making no arrest, arresting the wrong person or simply mis-allocating man power depending on how politically connected the victim was. The vast, vast majority of the time the police uses is spent harassing and oppressing people. They break down people’s homes looking for “drugs” They pull people over and harass motorists for innocuous things; fining them, despite those very motorists paying their wages They spend time breaking up house parties They enforce the 1000s of ludicrous regulations that local and national governments impose on people’s property They confiscate your guns with...

Well the cockerels are crowing loudly about the end of LVCR, Richard Murphy  has publicly stated that it is the end of VAT avoidance. He is absolutely wrong, but it is the end of 1000's of jobs in the Channel Islands. The companies themselves will survive and prosper of course. Richard Murphy  I have had some delightful talks with the Welsh Development Agency and Amazon both of whom have offered me viable and more profitable alternatives to what is on offer in Jersey, but I think that I, as a small Jersey business, will not be affected in any case from what I read of the intended implementation of this change. I am happy just to make ends meet, I don't want to earn enough to have to pay tax or social security, thank you very much. I was more interested to see that Richard has banned from his blog - "Persistent comments from those promoting libertarian ideals" Richard and the Tax Justice Network refused to debate with the Centre for Economic Freedom and Pro...

Kill Me and I Die a Free Man  Having decided to embrace the Free Man philosophy and reclaim my rights under Magna Carta and the Common Law I have taken steps necessary to make a reality of what was previously an interesting area of study. So now in response to each letter I have received from a Government department I have simply replied stating that I will be delighted to respond to them or fill in their form for my standard fee of £250. I have been good enough to waive my fee in respect of the first response to each department. The response from departments has been different - Social Security replied to me once, Economic Development have left me alone, Treasury have left me alone. Social Security indicated that I had an obligation to comply, my reply was simply that if I do, I do not have an obligation to work for nothing. You may recall I decided that I was no longer going to be an employer or slave-master . This has now progressed to the stage where I have informed S...

Have Goldman Sachs ripped off the wrong people?  Goldman Sachs hit the mainstream news today following the publication of a resignation latter in the New York Times which amongst other things indicated that the executives of the company had referred to their customers as 'muppets'. Goldman Sachs though has been mentioned on numerous occasions on this blog. It is worth noting that when Lehmann Brothers collapsed in 2008 the second weakest bank at the time was none other than Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs famously donated to Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, CNN reports the total at $994,795 in 2007 and 2008. Perhaps that is why Goldman Sachs and not Lehmann Brothers got the bailout package from the Bank of America. CEO in 2007 John Corzine later became head of MF Global which filed for bankruptcy in Oct 2011. Under administration it seems that $1.6 billion is missing from clients funds. Today a lawsuit has been lodged against the executive for this impropriety and Gold...

Pride Comes Before A Fall Well the Dow Jones has re-established itself at its pre-2008 level based it seems on an increase in dividend from JP Morgan Chase. For me this has set alarm bells ringing. As we know (or hopefully you have been following the economics posts) the banks are all bankrupt and being kept afloat solely by the relentless printing of worthless money. The Central Banks have printed various amounts - in the US it is at least $3trillion, in the UK it is £1 trillion, even the Swiss central bank has been forced to print more money to prevent the damaging rise in the value of the Swiss Franc which was destroying exports. Just to go back over the basics... if the value of the UK was (say) £10 trillion and they then printed another £1 trillion pounds then the value of the UK becomes £11 trillion. The UK does not actually include anything different, there are still the same amount of assets, but the value of the assets is now split between that £11 trillion effectiv...

When Ghandhi composed the rules for Satyagraha (literally "insistence on truth") or civil disobedience they included assertions of individual responsibility including: "do not make your participation conditional on your comrades taking care of your dependants while you are engaging in the campaign or are in prison; do not expect them to provide such support". It is the techniques developed by Ghandhi and his fellow Satyagrahi which have driven all protest in the hundred years since he began his campaign for racial equality in South Africa before returning to India to protest British rule. It was his techniques that were employed throughout North Africa in 2011 and in Syria now. By contrast back in the land of the free and the home of the brave it is now illegal to exercise one's right to free speech in the USA, if the event you are protesting against is 'nationally significant'. People have been arrested and charged with felonies (seri...