The Tower of Basel: Secretive Plans for the Issuing of a Global Currency

This carefully research article by Ellen Brown was first published in April 2009. It sheds light on the current crisis of the World monetary system. (GR ed. M. Ch.)

In an April 7 [2009] article in The London Telegraph titled “The G20 Moves the World a Step Closer to

a Global Currency,” Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote:

“A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the [...]

Euro debt crisis looms again as Italians defy EU austerity demands

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
London Telegraph
February 26, 2013

In an earthquake result, the Five Star protest movement of comedian Beppe Grillo looked likely to emerge as the biggest single party in the lower house. The scourge of bankers and corrupt elites, Mr Grillo has campaigned for a return to the lira and a restructuring of Italy’s €1.9 trillion (£1.64 trillion) public debt.

The conservative bloc of ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi looked poised to win the senate, [...]

Britain’s credit rating downgraded from AAA to Aa1

James Hurley
London Telegraph
February 22, 2013

Moody’s announced on Friday night that it had cut the Government’s bond rating one notch from ‘Aaa’ – the highest possible level – to ‘Aa1’.

The move is a significant setback for Chancellor George Osborne, who has faced criticism that his strategy for dealing with UK’s huge debt burden is failing to deliver.

Moody’s pointed to “continuing weakness in the UK’s medium-term growth outlook, with a period of [...]

Japanese scientists develop humanoid to keep astronauts company

Julian Ryall
London Telegraph
December 3, 2012

The 13-inch android is scheduled to be completed by next summer and will be sent to the orbiting ISS shortly before astronaut Koichi Wakata arrives, according to officials of the Kibo Robot Project.

Currently being developed by a consortium of companies, including Toyota, Robo Garage Co. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the robot will weigh around 2.2lbs and be able to recognise Wakata’s facial features.

It will [...]

British have invaded nine out of ten countries – so look out Luxembourg

Jasper Copping
London Telegraph
November 4, 2012

Every schoolboy used to know that at the height of the empire, almost a quarter of the atlas was coloured pink, showing the extent of British rule.

But that oft recited fact dramatically understates the remarkable global reach achieved by this country.

A new study has found that at various times the British have invaded almost 90 per cent of the countries around the globe.

The analysis of the [...]

Mobile phones can cause brain tumours, court rules

Richard Alleyne
London Telegraph
Oct 19, 2012

Innocente Marcolini, 60, an Italian businessman, fell ill after using a handset at work for up to six hours every day for 12 years.

Now Italy’s Supreme Court in Rome has blamed his phone saying there is a “causal link” between his illness and phone use, the Sun has reported.

Mr Marcolini said: “This is significant for very many people. I wanted this problem to become public because [...]

Debt crisis: S&P downgrades 15 Italian banks

London Telegraph
August 4, 2012

“With Italy facing a potentially deeper and more prolonged recession than we had originally anticipated, we think Italian banks’ vulnerability to credit risk in the economy is rising,” S&P said in a statement.

“In this context, the combined effect of mounting problem assets and reduced coverage of loan loss reserves makes banks more vulnerable to the impact of higher credit losses particularly in the event of deterioration in [...]

Monti plans ‘Greek-style’ takeover of Sicily to avert default

London Telegraph
July 19, 2012

COMMENT: Prime Minister Mario Monti remains central to the banker-takeover of Europe and the world, which is now largely admitted. He is of course a long-term and frequent attendee at Bilderberg, and a senior international advisor to Goldman Sachs. His unelected rule by technocrats represents the future these globalists are working now to finalize, less the world stop them.

Mr Monti held an “urgent” meeting with the country’s president Giorgio Napolitano on [...]

Terrorised Chicago residents plead for stop and search as gang war murders soar

Philip Sherwell
London Telegraph
Sunday, July 15, 2012

Residents of the mainly black South Side want stop-and-search tactics brought back as gang murders plague President Barack Obama’s home city.

The mayhem, playing out within ambulance siren range of the Chicago home of Barack and Michelle Obama, has not just put a city on edge. It is also unleashing a passionate national debate on policing tactics.

For the upsurge in gang killings has followed a decision [...]

BOMBSHELL: Defected Syrian Ambassador Admits Role in Killing US Troops

Tony Cartalucci
Infowars.com
Sunday, July 15, 2012

Nawaf Fares, former Syrian Ambassador to Iraq who just recently defected and is now harbored in Qatar, admitted in an interview with the London Telegraph that he personally organized “Jihadi units” to fight US troops in Iraq. Fares maintains that he did so under orders by the Syrian government, and that a recent string of bombings in Syria were carried out by “Al Qaeda” in coordination with Syrian [...]

London 2012 Olympics: Games could need more troops, Lord Coe suggests

Jacquelin Magnay, and James Kirkup
London Telegraph
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Lord Coe, the chairman of the London 2012 Olympic organising committee (Locog), said on Friday that he could not rule out asking for the current deployment of 17,000 to be increased.

Asked if more troops will be required when the Games begin in two weeks, Lord Coe replied: “We are working on it at the moment.”

Ministers were this week forced to assign an [...]

Two-thirds of voters want an EU referendum

Rosa Prince
London Telegraph
July 10, 2012

The results are a blow to David Cameron, who last week said that while he was prepared to call a referendum at some point, now was not the time given the economic crisis facing the Eurozone.

He rejected a call by many Conservative backbenchers for the issue to be put to voters before or at the general election, which is due to be held in 2015.

The poll, [...]

Secret EU summit document shows first step to banking union

Bruno Waterfield
London Telegraph
June 20, 2012

The “limite” text – published exclusively by The Daily Telegraph, is secret, restricted for the “eyes only” of diplomats and officials preparing for the 28 and 29 June European Council in Brussels.

Most of the text, the annexed “Compact for Growth and Jobs”, are deals on project bonds and other small scale EU initiatives that FranCois Hollande is trumpeting as a €120bn “growth pact”.

The first draft is relatively [...]

WARNING: Possible NATO-FSA False Flag Attack in Syria

Tony Cartalucci
Infowars.com
Monday, June 11, 2012

RT has warned of a possible plot being fomented by Syrian rebels inside NATO member Turkey. The plot involves Syrian rebels deploying chemical weapons obtained in Libya against Syrian civilians, then blaming the Syrian government for the mass casualty event. This of course would provide the West the “casus belli” it has been searching for to circumvent the UN Security Council and implement its long-planned campaign of [...]

WARNING: Possible NATO-FSA False Flag Attack in Syria

Unconfirmed reports warn of possible plot to deploy chemical weapons, then blame Syrian government. 

Tony Cartalucci, Contributor 
Activist Post

RT has warned of a possible plot being fomented by Syrian rebels inside NATO member Turkey. The plot involves Syrian rebels deploying chemical weapons obtained in Libya against Syrian civilians, then blaming the Syrian government for the mass casualty event. This of course would provide the West the “casus belli” it has been searching for to [...]

BBC Caught In Syria Massacre Propaganda Hoax

News agency uses picture of dead Iraqi children to depict alleged government atrocity

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, May 28, 2012

The British media has been caught yet again with its pants down in the effort to sell a NATO-led attack on Syria, with the revelation that BBC News used a years-old photo of dead Iraqi children to depict victims of an alleged government assault on the town of Houla.

Click for enlargement.

In [...]

Burning Banks: Greece On The Brink Of Collapse As Bank Runs Hit Athens

London Telegraph
May 16, 2012

Europe’s financial crisis lurched into a perilous new phase as dire predictions emerged of a collapse in Greece’s economy, with a run on its banks bringing an inevitable end to its membership of the euro.

As leaders in Athens accepted the need for a new general election to end a national stalemate, the International Monetary Fund said Europe’s leaders should prepare for the possibility of a Greek departure [...]

Mother ‘died after drinking 18 pints of Coca-Cola a day

London Telegraph
April 19, 2012

Natasha Marie Harris, 30, died on February 25, 2010 in Invercargill on New Zealand’s south island.
Her partner Christopher Hodgkinson claimed it was a result of drinking too much Coca-Cola.

On Thursday he told the inquest Natasha had been unwell leading up to her death and had no energy, but the idea Coca-Cola caused the problem had never crossed their minds.

Mr Hodgkinson told the court that she had been [...]

London Telegraph: Israel would not be able to destroy Iran’s nuclear programme in a pre-emptive air strike with its current airforce, forcing its leadership to look for alternative means of attack, an influential defence report has concluded.

Thomas Harding
London Telegraph
Monday, April 9, 2012

Experts believe Israeli military planners options are restricted to high risk choices, such as a long range missile bombardment from Israel or a special forces raid involving troops attack facilities on the ground.

The authoritative military journal Jane’s Defence Weekly has also cast doubt on Israel’s ability to mount a successful operation saying it would face “substantial difficulties”

“The significant distances involved and hardened features of Iran’s [...]

Abort first, ask questions later: Britain’s problem with sex-selection abortion

March 13, 2012 (Pop.org) – Sex-selection abortions have been illegal in Great Britain since 1967. But that hasn’t been stopping British abortionists from performing them.

 

A far-reaching undercover investigation carried out by the London Telegraph found that doctors, counselors and medical staff across the country were not only perfectly willing to perform sex-selective abortions, but they were even willing to forge paperwork to cover up their crime.

 

According to The Telegraph, a [...]

Irish EU treaty vote threatens chaos

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
London Telegraph
February 29, 2012

Premier Enda Kenny said Dublin was acting on legal advice from Ireland’s attorney-general that “on balance” the fiscal compact requires a vote under the country’s constitution. “It gives the Irish people the opportunity to reaffirm Ireland’s commitment to membership of the euro,” he told ashen-faced members of the Dail.

All three major parties back the treaty but analysts say there is a high risk of rejection by [...]

Iceland’s Viking Victory: Fitch has upgraded the country to investment grade BBB – with a stable outlook

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
London Telegraph
February 19, 2012

The strategy of devaluation behind capital controls has rescued the economy. (Yes, I know there is a dispute about exchange controls, but that is a detail.) The country has held its Nordic welfare together and preserved social cohesion. It is slowly prospering again, though private debt weighs heavy.

Nobody is forcing the elected government out of office or appointing technocrats as prime minister. The Althingi sits untrammeled [...]

Irish social workers are horrified by their ruthless English counterparts

Families fleeing the interventions of social workers have been finding a far more humane approach across the water

Christopher Booker
London Telegraph
February 19, 2012

Such is the reign of terror now being imposed on innocent English families by social workers that scores of parents have been fleeing with their children to Ireland to escape their clutches. I have followed a dozen such stories over the past two years, and in all of them [...]

Iran Teams Up With Al-Qaeda, Claims Dubious Telegraph Report

While Israel openly directs US-backed Al-Qaeda linked terror group to carry out attacks in Iran

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Thursday, February 16, 2012

While it’s an open secret that Israel is funding US-backed terror groups with links to Al-Qaeda to carry out attacks in Iran, the London Telegraph now claims in a dubious report that Iran has teamed up with Al-Qaeda to carry out attacks in the United States, in a repeat of [...]

Mandatory Smart Meters Not Going Ahead in the UK

Rowena Mason
London Telegraph
February 1, 2012

The Government had promised that every household would have a smart meter by 2019 in a £12?billion programme to stop gas and electricity bills being estimated.

Officials are devising plans to allow people to reject the smart meters, which communicate remotely from households to energy companies.

The move is a victory for campaign groups and backbench MPs, who raised concerns with ministers that the devices emit electromagnetic radiation [...]

Director of Iranian nuclear program is assassinated

Adrian Blomfield
London Telegraph
January 11, 2012

Leaning out a hand, the motorcyclist attaches a magnetic explosive device – sometimes called a “sticky bomb” — to the door nearest the man he is trying to kill and then speeds off. Seconds later, the bomb is detonated by remote-control. It is so sophisticated that only the target is killed. Those sitting next to him, or in front or behind him, escape with just cuts [...]

Gov’t Report: Rioting arsonists should be shot by police

London Telegraph
December 20, 2011

The use of firearms could be justified given the ”immediacy of the risk and the gravity of the consequences”, legal advice published in the review said.

Plastic bullets and water cannon could also be used by officers facing riots similar to those seen this summer, the review by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) added.

Police need to be better prepared, trained and ready to protect the public if [...]

WAR CRIME: Hillary Clinton meeting with Syrian ‘opposition leaders’ in Geneva… Hillary is already plotting regime change with al-Qaida mercenary leaders in Geneva

Editor’s Note: Because the US and NATO members were not censured after their openly illegal war in Libya,  the same players are marching forward again in complete contravention of international law, taking sides and helping to escalate a civil war in Syria, will is a prelude to a planned attack on Iran. Hillary Clinton is acting in the official capacity as a US Secretary of State, and therefore cannot supply [...]

Portugal raids pension funds to meet deficit targets: Portugal has raided €5.6bn (£4.8bn) of pension fund assets.

Louise Armitstead
London Telegraph
December 5, 2011

The cabinet agreed to transfer the assets from four of Portugal’s biggest banks to the state balance sheet.

The assets will be used to bridge a gap needed to meet the fiscal deficit target of 5.9pc of GDP set by the terms of the country’s €78bn bail-out from around 10pc in 2010.

“This measure is more than sufficient to meet the budget deficit goal in 2011,” said Helder [...]

Apple iTunes flaw ‘allowed government spying for 3 years’

Christopher Williams
London Telegraph
Posted November 30, 2011

A British company called Gamma International marketed hacking software to governments that exploited the vulnerability via a bogus update to iTunes, Apple’s media player, which is installed on more than 250 million machines worldwide.

The hacking software, FinFisher, is used to spy on intelligence targets’ computers. It is known to be used by British agencies and earlier this year records were discovered in abandoned offices of [...]

Al-Qaeda Terrorists Airlifted From Libya to Aid Syrian Opposition

Weapons and fighters sent to support overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, November 28, 2011

The same Al-Qaeda terrorists who fought U.S. troops in Iraq and helped NATO overthrow Colonel Gaddafi are now being airlifted into Syria to aid rebels there topple President Bashar al-Assad.

Libya’s transitional ruling authority has agreed to send weapons and fighters over to Syria to help the Free Syrian Army fight government forces.

“There is something [...]

London Telegraph: The US and UK’s obsession with university degrees faced against record number of young unemployed

Emily Gosden and Neil Tweedie
London Telegraph
November 26, 2011

It is assessment day at the Warrington office of the recruitment company BMS, and a business studies graduate rises nervously from his chair. It is his turn to sell himself to an audience of his peers in 30 seconds, in what management types call an “elevator pitch”, a punchy summary short enough to be delivered to a superior or customer during a ride in a [...]

The U.S. Is Already Attacking Iran Through Terrorist Proxies

CIA admittedly finances groups blamed for bloody attacks aimed at destabilizing Tehran

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Friday, November 11, 2011

Tehran’s contention that the United States is carrying out terror attacks inside Iran in an effort to destabilize the Ahmadinejad regime in preparation for a military assault was largely ignored by the establishment media, but it’s an admitted fact that the CIA uses terrorist proxies to do precisely that.

“Iran has irrefutable evidence that [...]

Eurozone collapse ‘will send continent into depression’

Bruno Waterfield,
London Telegraph
Friday, November 11, 2011

The collapse of the eurozone would cause a crash that would instantly wipe out half of the value of Europe’s economy, plunging the continent into a depression as deep as the 1930s slump, the president of the European Commission has warned.

José Manuel Barroso issued his chilling warning as France began diplomatic overtures to create a eurozone vanguard, potentially with fewer than the 17 existing [...]

UK Conservatives ordered to vote AGAINST an EU referendum

Christopher Hope
London Telegraph
October 19, 2011

Even as MPs agreed to hold a Commons vote on a referendum, government sources made clear that the Tories would be whipped to vote against a poll.

Mr Cameron’s decision to impose a three-line whip has angered many MPs, since the vote was called under rules the Coalition promised would give backbenchers more freedom.

The back-bench business committee yesterday voted to hold a debate on the issue on [...]