Kev, I don’t follow British papers so am not familiar with their political leanings. Would The Telegraph happen to have right-wing, eurosceptic, possibly anti-American tendencies? There’s this saying about pulpits and sermons, you know.

That is not a fact, and you have proved yet again that you are patronising.

Milone – Most of you here wouldn’t have a clue of what they’re talking about. That is a fact and you have just proved it.

Here, Antoine, measure your knowledge against what others in the know had to say on banking, money and freedom. All of this affects YOU directly, past, present and future: http://my.telegraph.co.uk/mattsta

(Wherever there’s a name without a description, it is either a former US president or a well-known American figure.)

“Most of you here wouldn’t have a clue of what they’re talking about.”

You’d be more persuasive if you weren’t so patronising.

Correction: Did you know that much of the income tax paid in the US consists of interest owed to the Federal Reserve?

Did you know that much of the income tax paid in the US goes to the Federal Reserve? Did you that the Federal Reserve is a private entity controlled by international bankers? Did you know that the US Treasury is headed by an ex-NY fed chairman and former Goldman Sachs executive (Geithner)? Did you know that when the US Treasury needs money it gets it in the form of a loan from the Federal Reserve, which creates the money out of thin air and expects not only the money back but the interest that goes with it?

Do you know what is going on in the US right now? Have you heard of the latest ‘federal reserve’ bill which will give absolute control of every US business enterprise to the Federal Reserve? Did you know that when the Fed’s chairman Ben Bernanke was asked in Congressional committee where the trillions (14 trillion dollars as reported by Bloomberg) of bailout money went he replied that they are not obliged to say because they were above the government? (…when in fact, according to the US constitution, Congress is to have sole supervision of the country’s money supply. To boot, the bailout money went to the same Wall Street banks that created the crisis in the first place, but which are “too big to fall”. The taxpayer will have to pay for it).

Do you know that there is another bill (HR1207), by Ron Paul, that is slowly collecting backers in Congress, this time to AUDIT the Fed (which would unravel the ponzy scheme)?

The audit bill is a first step to regain the country. The Federal Reserve is literally above the law, not to mention its parents, the IMF and the World Bank. These are the same people making a bid for a world currency, now that they know the dollar will have to lose its world-reserve-currency status. They create as much money as they want. They loan as much money as they want. And when interests are too high to pay, they enslave the debtors. California is soon to default and will be taken over by the Federal Reserve. The IMF has been doing this for decades now. Then we hear that the debt was forgiven to third world countries – in exchange for exclusive mining rights for, say, diamonds…

Do you know anything about the military/police state that is taking shape in the US? Have you read the new cyber bullying bill?

These are just a few facts. Are there any facts we should know about the euro? Do we have any investigative journalists in Europe, or are they all of the Salvu Balzam type?

How ridiculous you are, Antoine. Why don’t you read Rothbard”s book – you would learn something substantial for once.

That’s terrible, Kev. Let’s go back to using seashells as currency.

[Daphne – Donations to recognised charities are tax deductible, though the amount is capped. The list is generally appended to your income tax return form.]

I’m not sure how it works, but there are tax cuts for those who donate. Any accountants in the house that can explain it properly?

For if it is so, then the museums are paid for by tax money anyway, they just go straight to the museums, instead of going to the government first.