Neither. I use a micro-chip inserted inside my body by the EU secret police.

Regarding your other comment, I’m much older than Corinne but I have another chip which keeps me young.

You have not upset me, but your empty assumptions annoy me somewhat. For example, I brought Naomi Wold into the scene only because I thought she spoke your language. Evidently, you lurk in some past age and there you will remain. Otherwise, let me assure you that Naomi is newer to this field than I am.

@ Antoine – you must be much older than Corinne. Do you jump high from inside your trench in order to capture your worldview, or do you use WWII periscope?

You pop up from time to time to enlighten the savages and then can’t understand why they don’t appreciate the riches you bring. So you gather your skirts about you and flounce off in a huff, flinging down your beaded necklaces and brass rods on the way out.

It doesn’t seem to occur to you that you might not be the first explorer the savages have encountered and they see you only as a source of temporary amusement. Has it occurred to you that your beaded necklaces and brass rods have no more value than the ones the savages have already appraised and discarded rather than piling them up in their longhouse?

I agree that it’s tough call for you, but you really need to relax. Frankly, I can’t understand why you’re so excited about this bumf anyway. It all sounds like a school essay on unsecured value that I wrote nearly thirty years ago. Have you only just discovered it yourself, perhaps when you stumbled across Naomi Wolf?

At this rate, you’ll be rattling on about the panopticon next. Now that’s a conspiracy theory you’d relish.

You’ve been living too long in Brussels. We’re having a hard time here getting micro-chips inserted in dogs’ bodies, let alone human ones.

I can understand your anguish (not being sarcastic, honest) if you’re imagining a sci-fi world where people are controlled by chips inserted in their bodies. Reminds me of The Prisoner (starring Patrick McGoohan and way before your time).

In the real world we inhabit that doesn’t happen and I cannot see it happening any time soon. We’ve hardly even started to have an e-ID.

But you are the one who could not even understand how banks lend money they don’t possess (to collect interests they don’t deserve). So if you are at that stage, I’ll opt not to waste much time here – to the bull you wrote, I suggest the following shit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMx2F41XD0

And if you see no connection with what’s going on, then tough! Clap your hands and praise the leaders you trust.

Digital money with no sound basis, eh? As opposed to what? Bank notes that are worth the paper they’re printed on? Gold bars under the bed? Conch shells and steel axes in a multi-centric Stone Age economy?

And what’s this about trust you are forced to afford to people you don’t know and never will? Do you really grow your own tofu and recycle your own sewage with your bare hands?

I think you need a new hobby. Your current one’s wearing you out.

Are you implying that HSBC is a local bank? It does sell itself as ‘the world’s local bank’ but that’s just an advertising slogan.

Your eulogy of Mintoff’s narrow-mindedness is too ridiculous to merit an answer but, for your information, besides HSBC and the three local banks, there are other 8 offshore banks operating in Malta. (http://www.worldoffshorebanks.com/Malta.html)

I do, however, agree with that bit where you confess to having an insular mentality and blame Mintoff for it.

You would also be singing praise to digital money with no sound basis except for the trust you are forced to afford to people you don’t know and never will.

The real power is in the hands of those who control the monetary system, not the marionettes you elect into government.

We import much of the food that is essential to our survival, and to the survival of one of our major industries (tourism), and use imported energy to drive the machinery needed to produce the food we do grow ourselves, to power our homes and to ensure we have water in our taps.

Need I go on?

Incidentally, Malta’s banking sector includes HSBC, Volksbank, Fimbank, Banif…none of those banking brands are Maltese or deal solely with Maltese-owned businesses in Malta. I can’t imagine their boards getting together and planning not to do business with ‘forriners’. Can you?