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    Living is now merely a gamble

    A lottery of sorts decides whether you live or die.

    You may not have noticed that when you put petrol in your car, most of the money you pay, feeds into a lottery where the only winners are those who gamble one way or another on the Stock Exchange.

    That Casino makes such huge profits from the business of providing insiders with fancy fortunes, that not even Tesco can buy the LSE.

    Gambling is in an upper strata of society compared to mere retailing.

    The man who retails petrol is on such a miserable pittance, that not even Tesco, can any longer sell petrol as a lost leader.

    Even the Oil Companies themselves, who have ringside seats amongst the insiders and cream off vast fortunes, only get a tiny bite of the cake, compared to really professional gamblers, like those who trade in futures and hedge funds.

    Somebody has to pay for their megabucks and it is you and I at the pump. How can any of us poor helpless, belly-up victims, of this golden fleece, do anything other than whimper.

    Plenty! Understand how and why this evil racket even exists.

    What is the unknown, that is a pure gamble and nothing else.

    Why?!. It is money of course. Why of course?, because money isn't money any longer.

    Once upon a time money was gold. Gold is no longer legal tender. Money today is largely credit, and the taxman will tell you that credit is not legal tender.

    How do we pay the tax on petrol and pay the VAT on the tax on petrol, when all you have to spend is credit?. The answer is simple, you go deeper into debt.

    No need! No need at all to have debts. Tell Government to outlaw the practice of private banks issuing new money as credit and restore to Government the sole right to create and issue new money and allow us to tell the Government how to do so correctly.


    Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB