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While the Government lockdown continues the abrogation of fundamental rights follows en suite, like an obedient dog leashed and two steps charging ahead but always under the control of his master.

Irish Food Aid is being covered in the media, the establishment cannot ignore us for long!

Made famous by the movie " A Man For All Seasons" ( 1966) starring Paul Scofield and Robert Shaw et al, the Latin maxim " Qui tacet consentire videtur" received renewed vigour and relevance in the public consciousness. 

Money is created out of thin air? OK? sounds a little strange but what real life impact has this process on me? I can still use this "miraculous" money to buy a new sofa, a new car or even a new house! Why worry about where it comes from? Life goes on, does it not?

From 1834 onwards the US had been aligned de facto to a gold standard and with the great gold rush beginning at Sutter's Mill in 1848 and all the flood of new gold inflation naturally occured. By 1861 treasury secretary Salmon Chase printed the first US paper currency and the Gold Standard Act of 1900 established gold as the only precious metal permitted to redeem paper currency and setting the value of gold at an initial 20.67 USD per ounce.

Continuing on from part 1, let me address how the creation of the US  federal reserve had implications beyond the borders of the United States of America.