Secret Squirrel Advises The American Government How To Reduce It’s National Debt To Zero AT ZERO Cost.

The America government, through not fault of it’s own, has not consulted with Secret Squirrel on it’s economy,nor has the British government for that matter……to their great detriment. However, in demonstrating Squirrel’s sheer economic genius, Squirrel has decided, as an example of his great mental cunning, fortitude, intelligence, nay need I say cosmic genius to solve America’s great national debt crisis.

Indeed Squirrel CAN SAY, and indeed does, that he has studied, directly ECONOMICS under John Kenneth Galbraith, writer of many many great economics works,and Economics advisor to President Kennedy, and under Dr. Sani, in Canada, one time Economics Advisor to the Canadian government. So knowing that you just know Squirrel has a solution to America’s debt crisis.

Firstly I must explain the American economic system,financial system, based on the US dollar, on which the world seems to be dependent and uses as a marker of value of their currency. Indeed secondly, nations build up debts, great debts, and due to various debt factors their using the US dollar as standard economically, their currencies fluctuate against the dollar, dropping against,it, but never rising above it…..since it is the standard used.

Now in America, they use The American dollar, now as the United States builds debts, it needs money to run itself, and of course, it’s very very many great foreign wars,pay for it’s massive military, pay for it’s massive government bulk etc, such that it cannot afford National Healthcare as other nations do. Well, when a government, the American government, runs out of money they have massively bloviationally fired crisis in government, in the end with much strainings and fartings, they agree……..and the Government then prints up Treasury Certificates, with massive dollar amounts on them, an I.O.U. really is what it is, it then approaches the Federal Treasury with it, the treasury takes it, looks at the amount, and prints up the stated amounts of US dollars.

The Treasury certificate is thence placed away on a pile of other such certificates.Of course, the figures printed up add to the National Debt. So How will America solve it’s now 19 trillion and mounting National Debt, how will it pay it off? With the printed certificate dollars GIVEN to other nations to pay off their debts?

No it seems not…..but that IS YET ONE WAY to pay off their national debt to other foreign nations, BUT the US government is loath to do this. So how is America to do it. Well in some ways exactly like that…….Now, figure this, there are 15 nations with debts in the TRILLIONS, the rest are in the paltry BILLIONS.

Now consider this, 19trillion, divided by the other debt ridden nations, over a trillion in debt,each, which total 14, gives 1.35trillion each.

Now picture this you American there, the American government goes to The Treasury……….not….what the government must do is go to each Nation of the 14 debt miscreants, and each MUST be told. This brings Hong Kong,Belgium.Australia to ZERO debt, Canada has then 100 Billion, Switzerland 300billion, China 380Billion, Singapore 400Billion, Spain 1 trillion, Italy 1.3 trillion, Japan 1.5trillion, Luxembourg 2.1billion, Germany 4.3trillion, France 4.4Trillion, UK 8trillion………all other nations keep their debts as they are.

All he has to do, really without bothering with the print up currency process, is just present each nation with the certificate, pronounce their debt reduced by 1.35Trillion, and take back the certificate, indeed he need not print up certificates for each, just use that one in line for each, thence return to The Treasury Department, pronounce America’s debt at ZERO, and burn all the existent and existing Treasury I.O.U. Certificates, and start again.

NOW all those 14 nations have been paid, their debts have been reduced, well they should be happy, and America, has really spent no money, and it’s debt is thence at zero, and it should be happy, and can commence to increase again by the same rate and whatever and where ever.

The Treasury department can thence simply burn all those I.O.U. which have thence been paid on return to the united States from those 14 foreign nations which have had their debts reduced, and thence the I.O.U. Treasury Certificates can ALL be burned, and the system entirely restarted. It works…………Squirrel has seen it. The USA now has ZERO debt having PAID out to those nations each 1.3 trillion lowering the US debt to absolutely zero…….The only problem the United States and it’s dimwitted government is to get those foreigners of those foreign governments to accept the 1.3 trillion payout towards their debt…………..BUT………………………..what?  Is the American government wise enough and intelligent enough to do it………..??

Well, for one thing the US government hasn’t had, no it seems shall ever have, the utter genius to think about that and just do it…….too easy is it……….sad sorry state of affairs it is in America’s government, getting worse every day, and gotten far worse and will get yet more ridiculously and laughably worse……Or will they sulk it having been Squirrel’s economic idea…..?

We shall see…we shall see…..we shall see….but any American government which doesn’t follow Squirrel’s advice………..is and must be utterly and completely………….mental.

Secret Squirrel,
MRL,MP,Dunny On The Wold,
Minister For Re-=Deranged re-Engineering.

Secret Squirrel Investigates The Really Worthless I.O.U. That Money Is.

Did you realize that banknotes are just I.O.U.’s, but they won’t

let us print up our own I.O.U.’s but then we’re using I.O.U.’s but they’re somebody elses, and we’re given these I.O.U.’s to use but

are never really paid? An IOU (abbreviated from the phrase “I owe

you”) is usually an informal document acknowledging debt. An IOU differs from a promissory note in that an IOU is not a negotiable

instrument and does not specify repayment terms such as the time of repayment. IOU’s usually specify the debtor, the amount owed, and sometimes the creditor. Which means all we really have and hold are debts,as a direct result.But the definition says that money

extinguishes all debt. IOU currency would put Greece in line to

quit the Euro……….which is in itself an IOU currency…but it

is being made worthless by more printing of it, whilst the USA

prints up more and more of it’s I.O.U. currency and so it increase

in value because it is U.S.A. currency, you see…no Euro nor Greek I.O.U. currency. A company’s IOU is counted as an asset on the balance sheet because another party owes that company money or goods.

 

When banks make loans, they create money. This is because

money is really just an IOU,so money is just an I.O.U. and the

banks are rolling in it. Now, government, such as the U.S.

government, when it wants money for The System, it prints up a

Treasury Certificate, which is ALSO, an I.O.U. promising to pay the

Treasury Department, whatever, whenever,however, IF it ever can,

the Treasury Department then prints up the money which is in fact

just I.O.U.’s.The government must create and then SPEND its dollars in order for the private citizens to earn the dollars they need to pay their taxes.

 

So, if government doesn’t need your tax dollars in order to spend,

does government tax at all?It is based on the insight that the

government DOES, in fact, need to collect taxes, but the “taxes” it

collects are not your “tax dollars.” Taxes drive money—in other

words, private citizens are willing to provide goods and services

to the government in exchange for government’s paper dollars

because they NEED those dollars (government I.O.U.s) to pay their future taxes. A paper dollar, printed by the sovereign U.S.

government, is nothing more—and nothing OTHER than—a tax I.O.U. which states, in effect: “The sovereign U.S. government owes the bearer one dollar of tax credit on the day taxes are due.”Because of this I.O.U. pledge, the government is able to use the paper dollar, in the MEANTIME, to purchase real goods and services from private citizens and businesses. The citizens and businesses are willing to exchange their real goods and services for the paper dollars because they will NEED the I.O.U.s (dollars) to present to the government on “tax-day”. When the government collects “tax dollars” it is NOT collecting something it “needs” but, instead, is simply collecting back (or cancelling) its own I.O.U.s (The ACTUAL taxes are the real goods and services it had prevIOUsly received in return for those I.O.U.s). A paper dollar is a tax I.O.U., what is a Treasury bond?

 

The common understanding is that Treasury bonds represent a “debt” which the government must “repay” in the future. But look how our new perspective requires that view to shift:a private citizen “buys” a Treasury bond. What takes place? The citizen exchanges say a hundred paper tax I.O.U.s for another piece of paper (the Treasury bond) which is…what? It is another government tax I.O.U. pledging to pay, at a specified time in the future, a hundred and SEVEN paper tax I.O.U.s (the original hundred plus 7 percent interest.) What is unique in this transaction is that, while it appears the government is in “debt” to the citizen, what it “owes” the citizen is nothing more than its own promise to accept these I.O.U.s (dollars) as tax payments.

 

In short, money as such is entirely worthless,just so much printed

paper, to promise payment of something or other,which does in fact not really exist at all as such……For some reason they system

has broken down in Europe, the Euro becoming and being regarded as worthless, which is in fact a reality, it is as worthless as the other currencies in Europe are or were, and the only currency solidly worth something and regarded as something is the American dollar, an I.O.U. based entirely on Treasury Certificates, which are I.O.U.’s which permit the printing of more I.O.U.’s and also Treasury Bonds which people buy with their I.O.U.’s and are a form of the Treasury Department collecting I.O.U’s such that it has something to show for it all. So what’s the problem with the Euro nations, they can’t seem to print up enough to satisfy demands…are there sufficient presses available to print up the I.O.U. money papers. What thence is the problem that makes Euro money paper worthless compared with the U.S.A. printed up I.O.U. money papers?

 

Or is it then that the I.O.U. money papers printed up in certain

locations are thought of being worth something or other much more than those printed up in their local area? So there we have it, the I.O.U. money converted to nothing or less than nothing or something depending if it’s regarded as being worth something or other of which we know not what,depending on where it is printed up. At least so it seems.

 

Secret Squirrel,

MRL,MP,(Dunny On The Wold),

Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.

Secret Squirrel’s Points On How To Win An Election In America,Or Nazi Germany For That Matter,It Worked For Adolf, It Can And Will Work For You.

Secret Squirrel has studied American election proceedings, and has noticed what they do to win elections…….at least those who will and do win, stand out amongst the rest, and here is why, what Squirrel has discovered is the key to success……..

1. Always try and read the opposing political person’s mind. Never wait until the other person (or country) explains itself.If that fails, try the Ouija board.
2. Judge before you are judged.
3. Never give the other side the benefit of the doubt.
4. Always jump to conclusions.
5. Never seek any outside assistance.
6. What you say is what you mean, even if that isn’t so.
7. Change your mind randomly and without notice.
8. Always treat the other side like they were mentally deficient if not criminally insane.
9. Impute evil intentions to every act of the other.
10. When all else fails, do not respond at all.
11. There are two possible meanings to everything, if in doubt, explain that they took it the wrong way.
12. Launch a public relations campaign disputing your opponents.
13. Predict dire economic consequences, and ignore the cost benefits.
14. Find and pay a respected scientists to argue persuasively against incumbent government environmental policies.
15. Use non-peer reviewed scientific publications or industry-funded scientists who don’t publish original peer-reviewed scientific work to support your point of view on matters of public health and environment.
16. Trumpet discredited scientific studies and myths supporting your points of view as scientific fact.
17. Point to the substantial scientific uncertainty, and the certainty of economic loss if immediate action is taken with respect to problems.
18. Use data from a local area to support your views, and ignore the global evidence.
19. Disparage scientists, saying they are playing up uncertain predictions of doom in order to get research funding when encountering global warming issues.
20. Complain that it is unfair to require regulatory action in Britain, as it would put the nation at an economic disadvantage.
21. Claim that more research is needed before action should be taken on things to do with public Health and Safety.
22. Refuse to answer questions.
23. Insult your opponents, totally, utterly and completely, even yet involve their immediate family members and friends.
24. Show your opponents all and total utter manners of disrespect.
25 Degrade your opponents, and members of the press,show them utterly no respect.
26. Anyone who from the crowd challenges your opinions, statements, policies et all, have them thrown out by security.
27. Show complete and utter disrespect and contempt for any and all regarded as immigrants, foreigners, those of foreign origins, them,their behaviour, their customs.
28. Don’t reveal nor display any comment or opinion of any sort with respect to any foreign policy matters, in short don’t reveal you don’t have any by refusing to answer questions concerning any foreign policy you might have, or not.if they persist, just insult them, the press and also your opponents.
29. Make yourself seem smart and educated, and try to appear so in public, at meetings at debates,belittle your opponents, claim they’re not educated properly, or used influence to obtain degrees, suggest their IQ’s are lower.
30. Showmanship, be loud,brash,brazen, provocative,disgusting,insulting to set you apart from your opponents,yell and scream a lot, appeal to the masses, let the masses hear what they want to hear, it worked for the insane and megalomanic Hilter you know, it’ll work for you too.
31. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis waged a modern whirlwind campaign in 1930 unlike anything ever seen in Germany. Hitler traveled the country delivering dozens of major speeches, attending meetings, shaking hands, signing autographs, posing for pictures, and even kissing babies..and you just know American politicians have followed this pattern ever since.
32. Offer the people they needed most, encouragement. Give them heaps of vague promises while avoiding the details. Use simple catchphrases, repeated over and over.
33. Begin each debate in low, hesitating tones, gradually raising the pitch and volume of voice then exploding in a climax of frenzied indignation,attack your opponents, attack those asking questions.
34. After a series of debates, refuse even to appear,belittling your opponents,showing contempt for the press, and……really the people, they just love being abused, they’re used to it you know,you’re rich,richer than they are……..all of them, they love it,secretly relishing such abuse.
35. Offer something to everyone: work to the unemployed; prosperity to failed business people; profits to industry; expansion to the Army; social harmony and an end of class distinctions to idealistic young students; and restoration of (American,British) glory to those in despair.
35. Promise to bring order amid chaos; a feeling of unity to all and the chance to belong. Make (America,Britain) strong again; end payment of war reparations to the Allies; tear up the treaty of Versailles; stamp out corruption; keep down Marxism/Communism; and deal harshly with the powerless immigrants.
36. Play up to the rich, and the industrialists, attack the trade unions.
37. Offer the working class protection for jobs,your protection, indicating yours is greater than that of the abilities of the weak and wimpering and useless unions.
38. To farmers offer increased prosperity, whilst at the same time promising people lower prices, neither will notice the other.
39. To the middle class offer restoration of law and order.
40. To women,offer emphasis on family, religion, and morals, never mind your comments, its YOUR family.

Secret Squirrel Suggests Ways To Solve California’s Lack Of Water

Now Secret Squirrel has been pondering California’s great water shortage. And, of course, Squirrel has solutions to the problem, solutions that the American government sadly is not obviously considering nor implementing. Now what is the OTHER MOST IMPORTANT thing in the world besides water…..t’is OIL! BIG OIL! Now each year America imports, in oil, in barrels,
160 million barrels from Saudi Arabia alone……now 1 barrel equates to 34.9723 IMPERIAL gallons,or 41.9 US,or 6,704,000,000 gallons……….now imagine if this was water imported from foreign nations sent in to California……

Now each Californian uses 181 gallons each day….which means 7,022,800,000 gallons consumed per year,by the sum total population of California, population figure being placed at 38.8 million, this makes a deficient of 318,800,000 gallons. Of course did I mention it’s JUST Saudi Arabia, and it’s oil? Well now what if these oil tankers were water tankers, then, you see water could be transported to California from foreign sources, and notice the tanker capacity in oil,thence transferred to ability to carry water, we see the NUMBERS of tankers necessary just easily matches the numbers of oil tankers, in short, all is possible. Now we DID see a total shortfall, BUT we didn’t include ALL foreign oil imports requiring tankers. So IF America built a huge tanker fleet comparable to the Big Oil tanker fleet, it COULD supply California with water from foreign lands…..but it doesn’t want to. Tch Tch Tch. Such laggardly government Americans suffer from.

What did America do and fund for the Saudis, and the Israelis who were also short water………it funded, and built………….salt water water desalination plants,many great numbers of them,in ever increasing sizes. Does the American government do this and fund this, for California and Californian? Nay it does not.

Now there have been ideas,proposed by Americans, when it was realized that the Saudis wanted water, that ice berg be towed to Saudi Arabia and there melted to supply them with water.
Well, Secret Squirrel, says, tow icebergs to California to supply California with water…..but does the American government do this, nor suggest this to itself…nay it does not. But what did it do in it’s place…..

What did America do and fund for the Saudis, and the Israelis who were also short water………it funded, and built………….salt water water desalination plants,many great numbers of them,in ever increasing sizes. Does the American government do this and fund this, for California and Californian? Nay it does not.

Squirrel also eyed BIG OIL’s pipelines, and suggested that California have pipelines built for it,funded by the US government as BIG OIL’s pipelines are,and pipeline in water from neighbouring states which have water!! Does the US government consider nor do this for Californians? Nay it does not.

So Secret Squirrel suggests to America to do all suggested water supply methods, for the Californians, for the government of the State Of California, for their fellow Americans. So says Squirrel. Why doesn’t America do this………”Forget it, Jake; it’s Chinatown”.

Secret Squirrel,
MRL,

MP,Dunny On The Wold,

Secret Squirrel Presents A Plan To Run Amtrak On Time.

Secret Squirrel knows considerable about the railroads, and indeed, America’s in particular. Squirrel romped about Europe, taking trains, in Germany, Squirrel made a 5 minute train exchange, as in 5 minutes BETWEEN trains,and Squirrel noted that German trains ran on time, like clockwork, arrival and departure,the Deutsche Bahn. Squirrel has taken trains in Canada as well,The Via Rail, not stolen of course, but has rode them, and they have been on time. Squirrel has noted that there are timing problems with trains in Britain, but they are all privatized, foreign owned as such and there really is willy nilly no real control over them beyond paying ever increasing rates the government said would’nt occur when they privatized British Rail.

However, America’s AMTRAK, does really have a central authority as the passenger trains,The Amtrak, is owned by and operated by, GOVERNMENT, the Americans didn’t,haven’t and have stated they won’t, PRIVATIZE The Amtrak, as they wished Britain’s rail privatized,thinking it wasn’t a good idea for THEM, but was for the British government. Squirrel suspects the American government was up to no good for the rails, and the people of Britain when it told the British government to privatize British rail. Well, so now there is a central authority to control things, idiot or not depending on your view of the American politicians,the government.

Now Squirrel knows, what happens in America, is that each and every freight train has priority over The Amtrak where ever the Amtrak is or runs, on all rail lines.The net result is The Amtrak waits on a siding for a freight to pass it,of course, increasing the time it is late. Well, Squirrel suggests timing The Amtrak, the different routes and noting the average late time,start to end. So, knowing that, we now redo the schedules,using the sensible actual time rates, and publish those for the Amtrak schedule. Now, there are times IT MAY,be still actually late, but nowhere’s near by as much now, and the schedule can be further modified to reduce even that. Also the train,The Amtrak, may now actually also arrive ON TIME or, even yet EARLY!, In deed the latter two have a 66% odds,or 33% each on chance early or on time! And only a 33% LATE!!Huzzah!

Huzzah!Huzzah!Hooray for Squirrel, solving The Amtrak lateness problems!No need for the American government to thank Squirrel, hands across the puddle eh whot!!! Of course Squirrel mentions, that the same could be applied in Britain for notably late,always late,British trains, but then Britain doesn’t own them,as the Americans do,so the British government can do nothing about it, UNLESS, the British Government, wisely follows The American lead, and PRIVATIZES British Rail, come now,the Americans can hardly object.
Secret Squirrel,
MRL,MP,(Dunny On The Wold),
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.

Secret Squirrel Ends Global Warming Problem By Creating More Fat People.

Secret Squirrel has seen the headlines screaming,such as “Global Warming! You’re Responsible! What You Can do”. Well,Secret Squirrel has pondered many scientific findings, and in doing so has usually
come up with rather interesting scientific and scientifically provable, and scientifically backed, facts, and, as always, has come up with a solution to the problem, in this case, the problem of global warming. Government is right, and government is wrong, but Squirrel is always right, scientifically provably right, and so cannot be wrong. Squirrel has discovered that the whole cause of global warming, and also yet the very cure to the problem of global warming, is …….. actually ……. FAT PEOPLE.

NOW, let Squirrel make this perfectly clear, Squirrel does NOT,in any way shape nor form, BLAME fat people …. nay not at all, Squirrel, does, in fact state that fat people can get us out of this global warming bind, the more, the merrier. Squirrel shall here go on to explain.

Of course, the entire global warming issue, and problems associated directly and indirectly with the issue of global warming, is also most directly encompassed by and most directly affected by three (3) most important things in life, for a person, fat or slim, affected  by 1) Dieting, 2) Exercising, 3) Eating.

The body stores the excess protein or carbs in a person’s diet in form of FAT, specifically, as triglyceride molecules, which consist of just three kinds of atoms: carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. For people to lose weight, their triglycerides must break up into building blocks, which happens in a process known as oxidation.

When a triglyceride is oxidized (or “burned up”), the process consumes many molecules of oxygen while producing carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) as waste products. Of course here entering in to the
equation also, involves the digestive generation of flatulence, fartings as it were and is,which, of course involves the direct food converted release of gas, warm gas in to the atmos thus directly increasing global warming and its effects. Of course, it is noted that those most guilty in the field
of fartings are, of course, Mexicans, due to their high bean diet. Here I cannot comment as to what would be better for the world, but fartings is certainly not one of them.

So, going on there, through the clouds of digestive scientific fartings, plainly put, to burn 10 kilograms (22 lbs.) of fat, a person needs to inhale 29 kg (64 lbs.) of oxygen. And the chemical process of burning that fat will produce 28 kg (62 lbs.) of carbon dioxide and 11 kg (24 lbs.) of water, the researchers calculated.The researchers showed that during weight loss, 84 percent of the fat that is lost turns into carbon dioxide and leaves the body through the lungs, whereas the remaining 16 percent becomes water. The calculations also show the frightening power of, for example, a small muffin over an hour of exercise: At rest, a person who weighs 154 pounds (70 kg) exhales just 8.9 mg of carbon with each breath. Even after an entire day, if this person only sits, sleeps, and does light activities,your typical couch potato, he or she exhales about 200 grams of carbon, the researchers calculated.

So,sadly, we all contribute to global warming, by merely eating and
digesting,however we must mention and make note of fat people, store far more efficiently and exhale, or whatever, far less of what they eat, so they are,in fact much more efficient.

However,consider, eating a 100 g muffin can cover 20 percent of what was lost, of course eating a full 10 recovers, easily ALL of what was lost. On the other hand, replacing one hour of rest with exercise such as jogging, removes an additional 40 g of carbon from the body, the researchers said. Even if one traces the fates of all the atoms in the body, the secret to weight loss remains the same: In order to lose weight, one needs to either eat less carbon or exercise more to remove extra
carbon from the body. What this all means, mostly, surely and directly, dieting,exercising INCREASE global warming most significantly AND FAT PEOPLE should never ever be allowed to diet nor exercise in any way shape nor form, and that forcing them to actually eat MORE will significantly DECREASE the amount of available carbon and thence carbon dioxide from the environment,PROVIDED that, they DO NOT DIET NOR EXERCISE, else they will significantly increase most greatly, available atmos carbon dioxide and hence result in an increase in global warming. So to maintain the present status quo in the world with respect to global warming, fat people must not exercise, must continue to eat, and must not exercise.Their further eating and lack of exercise will increase their bulk and so store much carbon dioxide which is now scrubbed from the environment and so safely stored.

They must avoid directly highly destructive dieting which can and will and shall cause the massive release of further grand quantities of carbon dioxide in to the atmos and so raise global warming to frightening levels.

To further decrease global warming, and its effects, we must therefor INCREASE the available amount of fat people. Doing so we shall most surely, and provably, all things not withstanding, rein in global warming, and ultimately, most easily control and finally end, global warming.

Yet what do we find, of course? Governments, most notably the American and The British government, actually are doing and encouraging the exact direct opposite. Yes, I shudder to think, but yet it is so, they encourage people to exercise, most severely. They encourage people to diet,they encourage people to reduce their body’s fat content, and they encourage people to eat far less such that we do not and cannot generate more of the very much needed and scientifically cherished, worldly important, worldly influencing, fat storage people,in plain layman’s terms really, simply put, fat people. A sad sorry state of affairs it is. But such is government, hardly the factual world, hardly the actual world, hardly the scientific world, hardly the world of sense and sensibility, hardly the world of Secret Squirrel.

Secret Squirrel,
MRL,MP,(Dunny On The Wold),
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.

Secret Squirrel Comments On Paying Off America’s National Debt In Coin.

 It has come to Secret Squirrel’s attention, that there has been a rather intriguing and interesting solution proposed to solving the great American debt crisis.Indeed it has been revealed, that there is another course of action, other than simply printing up Treasury Certificates for a required sum, presenting those to the Treasury Department, which takes said stated certificates, places them away, and then prints up and provides the stated sum the certificates are for, in short an
i.o.u. to oneself,one’s own nation, which,never gets paid off,really in point of fact.

A legal loophole allows the U.S. Treasury to mint platinum coins in whatever denomination it chooses – even $1 trillion.Speaking to the BBC’s Today
program, Mr Roche, founder of Orcam Financial Group and blogger at Pragmatic Capitalism, said the idea was being taken “somewhat seriously” in Washington.”I know it’s been spoken about at the White House and a number of prominent people, including congressman, are talking about it,” he said.
Mr Roche said the idea was an “accounting gimmick”, but noted it was just “one really silly idea being used to fight another silly idea”.

“The idea of the US willingly defaulting on debt is beyond crazy,” he said.”We started kicking the idea around a year ago and it was really a joke and the fact it’s become something sort of serious, well it’s a sad state of affairs that it’s become so dysfunctional in Congress that this is something we’re having to resort to.”

Writing in his New York Times blog, economist Paul Krugman, said that while he did not expect the Treasury to go ahead with this “gimmick”, there could be a case for it.”This is all a gimmick — but since the debt ceiling itself is crazy, allowing Congress to tell the president to spend money then tell him that he can’t raise the money he’s supposed to spend, there’s a pretty good case for using whatever gimmicks come to hand,” he said.

To mint or not to mint,that is question,will they mint or won’t they mint is another question.U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has the authority to mint platinum coins in the denomination of his choosing, and experts have said the
idea is being taken seriously in Washington.Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (left with President Obama in Oct. 2010) could mint a $1 trillion coin,said to be pondered to be an actual 1 ounce Platinum coin,which would in actual fact be valued in
it’s metal content at about $1,600 thereabout roundabouts. And, of course, intrinsicly valued at it’s stamped value of 1 Trillion Dollars. We won’t consider here that in ancient times, a coin’s value was appraised upwards if and due to a very
fine etched stamping or whatever was done to manufacture it.A White House petition advocating for the coin has garnered more than 5,000 supporters.Minting such high-value coins to pay the government’s bills would allow President Obama to
sidestep a showdown with Republicans over the federal debt ceiling.The proposal would involve the Treasury minting the coin and depositing it into its own account at the Federal Reserve, allowing the government to write down or cancel $1 trillion
of its $16.4 trillion debt.On the other hand, stamping say 17 or so would result in going past the zero debt level to a surplus!!The mind boggles here pondering yet greater numbers of these coins.Ever to poop a party, however,Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) said on Monday he will introduce a bill to prevent that maneuver.Walden, it turns out, has written legislation that would bar the executive branch from minting coins of any denomination. That would include the much-talked-about trillion dollar coin.Walden stated,“My wife and I have owned and operated a small business since 1986.

When it came time to pay the bills, we couldn’t just mint a coin to create more money out of thin air,” Walden said.Clearly there is much personal jealousy in his words,directed at the government of the people of America deligently trying to clear the national debt problem.BUT……take careful note, that by introducing legislation to ban such a maneuver, Walden is implicitly acknowledging that under current law, the trillion dollar coin is a perfectly legal and workable way to get
around the debt limit,and also as such, the actual entire national debt problem.Interesting an actual solution to America’s national debt and there are politicians willing not to allow it,clearly these aren’t lads to invite to your parties, nor to allow to use your toilet,by no means.So there you have it, a debt solution for all seasons, a debt solution for all the right reasons. However,you know and I know, politicians being what they are….they’ll then spend all their time for the
next century arguing over what designs should be stamped on the coin.

Secret Squirrel,
MRL,MP(Dunny On The Wold),
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.

Secret Squirrel Pays America’s National Debt By A Revolving Credit System

I,Secret Squirrel have solved the National debt of America,easily,quickly,efficiently, without needing The Houses of Congress and The Senate to agree,without the possibility of veto, or failure,by using a revolving credit plan.Credit card companies have
cheques that permit you to pay off another credit card company by using this cheque,paying credit card company A with a cheque
from credit card company B,then paying credit card company B.

I propose America use the same system, but in a form of revolving credit for the National Debt. In short,we pay our debt off
with national credit card company government accounts, with several such companies,without mentioning names, as we’re dealing with the financial mechanics of the system,say A,B,C,D,E,we pay A with B’s cheque,B with C’s cheque etc and on to, and then when arriving at E’s cheque,we pay A with E’s cheque, and so enter the system round about ever more, revolving credit revolves constantly, and so we maintain the national debt payments,fully, and so also garner an absolutely spotless credit rating, allowing America to borrow,print up, spend,whatever, yet more, as ever it needs yet more.America will never ever default on a debt payment ever again,since that condition cannot possibly ever arise again.

Everyone knows that such a burden of debt is far more easily borne when it’s kept constantly moving instead of sitting heavily
upon the nation. Mind you you do notice that none of the other existent political parties have mastered the financial economics
of debt management that I,Secret Squirrel, has.

Secret Squirrel On American And It’s Possible National Debt Default

Secret Squirrel has noticed the recent great suckings and blowings in America, sucking and blowing by well exercised wind bags, sucking and blowing about firstly, the debts of other nations and how defaults would bankrupt them,destroy them, et all,and veiled threats made to them of their inability to pay debts,bankruptcy etc etc etc, nations such as Spain, Iceland, Italy, Greece. Well it seems it is a case of The Great Black Kettle, calling the tiny pot,black.We now see an America, emblackened, emblackend with respect to IT now defaulting on it’s debt, but we see a different outcome drawn for America,by Americans,specifically it’s government, which made the admonishments and threats to the other nations, concerning their debts,et all, strangely enough.

The National Debt has Risen to $13.665 Trillion Under President Obama … “And then we’ve got to pay interest to China or whoever else is willing to buy our debt,”.interesting words, buy our debt.so what if no one wishes to buy our debt.Obama has just days before his crisis emerged, chastised Spain,Italy,Ireland, Greece about their debt saying he didn’t buy their debt, and wouldn’t tolerate, or whatever, their default……….well they didn’t default,they haven’t they won’t,they were bailed out by France,Germany,England, but it seems nobody seems to buy Obama, and his plan,nobody wants to bail him out,for whatever reason, and why,can we guess.Does it matter.Do you mind?What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.The government’s authority to borrow more money has expired, and the US risks a default on its debt if Congress and the White House cannot agree a plan by next Tuesday,to allow the government of the people of the United States, to borrow money,borrow from where who can say,borrow from whom, borrow from what,borrow money which doesn’t exist, or doesn’t yet exist.What started the borrowing crisis, and what happens to the US and the world economy if it cannot be resolved?

The US government has a legal limit on how much debt it can run up – $14.3tn at present. It reached the cap in May, which means it cannot borrow any more money.Well now, the US is in debt exactly to who and whom? To what nations?Shortly before this “crisis”,Obama was yelling and screaming at,and threatening, Ireland,Spain,Italy,Greece on being in debt, and possibly defaulting on THEIR debts.So, a few days later, Obama’s America debt problem arose. Now, who’s in debt to whom? Well, nations are in debt to other nations, in sum toto their imports exceed their exports,however this oddity seems to be the case for all
nations, so what goes around comes around, everybody is in debt to everybody else, and everybody else, in Europe for example, solves their problem by borrowing from other nations at any particular given time, for example, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Greece ,borrow from nations such as England,France,Germany, in Europe, as in a closed circuit.

Well now, America is in similarity to Europe,but we must regard the States as nation states, therfore Obama must find a rich state to borrow from.Sadly, this may not be the case, and now what?Will America borrow from France,Germany,England…seemingly no as they claim to be over extended at
this point, perhaps thence to compound America’s problem,in the light of global politics,so that solution,the number one solution, is out of the picture.

But is it a problem?Again, to whom exactly is America in debt to.Pondering this out, each nation being in debt to each other nation, we find that America’s problem is simply itself,it is it’s own problemHow did America pay it’s debts in the past?

Interestingly they have a different solution to that of Europe, rather America is in debt to itself, as such it simply has to raise it’s own debt limit,agaian, as it has in the past, and do what it always does.namely it prints up Treasury Certificates
for x billions or whatever is necessary, and it goes to the Treasury Department, which then takes the certificates, puts them away, and prints up the required currency versus and against the Treasury Certificates they were given. And so the problem is solve,that is the solution,the number two solution, it has been applied and has worked successfully for every other President before him.

So why then cannot Obama do the same thing?He seems to understand he must raise America’s debt ceiling,but that’s where Obama gets stuck.Underpants gnomes are also stuck, underpants gnomes are those who come in the night when you sleep,and steal your underpants. They have the understanding that this will lead to profit, but as yet they have not figured out how to make this profit.Studying
their problem, the missing step they haven’t yet fathomed is to sell said stolen underpants and hence make a profit. Here too Obama is stuck, he has no idea how to make America turn a profit. In the life of the world, Obama (America), has invaded foreign lands, the Arab lands,which contain oil,but that’s where he’s stuck, how to turn a massive profit? Well, now, as with the underpants gnomes, the trick is to turn a profit by selling what he has, they have underpants they have procurred and must said said underpants if they wish to make a profit. Obama has a pile of oil(versus the underpants gnomes underpants), but he doesn’t realize that he must now sell this oil he has procurred and hence make a profit. Problem solved. That is the other solution to things,the number three solution,but again, Obama does not realize this.He has happily invaded Arab lands, but is stuck in a now what condition.

So how has America been keeping afloat since then?Well,Treasury secretary Tim Geithner managed to stave off default by suspending payments into two federal pension funds, pledging to repay the money once Congress has approved a higher debt ceiling.This is wonderful as a solution, it is THE solution, the immediate solution.However, we hit a snag there in this reasoning, the logic is faulty, it will work, but it won’t,for example, why can he not simply do this now,as in repay the money now…quite simply he hasn’t got the money since he spent it,and won’t have it then either,regardless, as where can this money which doesn’t thence exist,come from.Well, pretzel logic dictates that it can’t, therefor this solution, the number four solution, won’t work,it can’t it doesn’t make sense.But then does government make sense,or is there no rhyme nor reason to politics,no sense nor sensibility.

There is another solution, the government can borrow the funds, provided Congress agrees,should all agree how to do it,quite simply, The Congress, and The Senate,Congress is Republican, the Senate Democrat, but from where will America borrow the funds that it can’t repay to pay it’s debts?Again, so Congress agrees,but from where can he borrow the money from which he can’t get the money without the permission of Congress,neither they nor he, nor we, can ever possibly know,beyond the fact he can’t ever pay it back again, so it’s all gone from wherever it came from and they’ll never see the money that they never had in the first place.All of which only serves to pint out that there is a problem existant because money at present doesn’t exist. Curious that Europe has no evident problem that Obama has, but then Europe doesn’t have Obama.What happens if a deal can’t be agreed by Tuesday,which happens to be August 2nd,2011?

The US treasury estimates that funds will dry up by then, which would leave the government unable to pay its bills – such as social security payments, Medicare, military salaries and debt interest payments. The Republicans claim that the government would get by for a few more days after 2 August, but there is no doubt that the two sides need to agree a deal soon.Or at least they claim this will solve the problem, but this doesn’t explain from where the money that they don’t have will come from,nor what basis said currency then has.Some analysts said however that recent strong tax receipts meant the United States could have
up to two extra weeks of cushion after August 2, offering a possible temporary reprieve before it could be forced to default.So the world’s richest nation default on its debt, with supposedly ruinous global results,because it has not been paying
its debts whilst they also have not been paying their debts,all merely acumulating yet more debts.Wonderful.So what would happen if the US defaults….‘Payments’ default would be accompanied by ‘default’ ratings of the US government or some of its debt issues by the major credit rating agencies. A downgrade of the short-term rating of the US government to ‘default’ would be highly likely, while the nature of the downgrade for the long-term debt looks more uncertain.Increases in US rates at all points of the curve are likely to be relatively large and to persist for years. The dollar could drop sharply and major disruption in the US and global financial system could cause private lending and borrowing rates to rise even more rapidly than the sovereign rates. Financial conditions could worsen sharply and interbank, credit and other funding markets are likely to ‘freeze’. As a result of the financial turmoil, the negative wealth effects, the increases in costs of capital and the substantial hit to sentiment, the US dives into a deep recession, taking the rest of the world with it,because they’re all in debt themselves.So it’s all a question of debt, isn’t it.Well let’s look at the national debt list by nations………..as a percentage of their GDP….let’s start, in first place is Japan, with a percentile of 225.80 percent of their GDP……

1     Japan
225.80 percentile debt of GDP

2     Saint Kitts and Nevis
185.00

3     Lebanon
150.70

4     Zimbabwe
149.00

5     Greece
144.00

6     Iceland
123.80

7     Jamaica
123.20

8     Italy
118.10

9     Singapore
102.40

10     Belgium
98.60

11     Ireland
94.20

12     Sudan
94.20

13     Sri Lanka
86.70

14     France
83.50

15     Portugal
83.20

16     Egypt
80.50

17     Belize
80.00

18     Hungary
79.60

19     Germany
78.80

20     Dominica
78.00

21     Nicaragua
78.00

22     Israel
77.30

23     United Kingdom
76.50

24     Malta
72.60

25     Austria
70.40

26     Netherlands
64.60

27     Spain
63.40

28     Cote d’Ivoire
63.30

29     Jordan
61.40

30     Cyprus
61.10

31     Brazil
60.80

32     Mauritius
60.50

33     Ghana
59.90

34     World
59.30

35     Albania
59.30

36     Bahrain
59.20

37     United States
58.90

38     Seychelles
58.80

39     Morocco
58.20

40     Bhutan
57.80

41     Guyana
57.00

42     Vietnam
56.70

43     Philippines
56.50

44     Uruguay
56.00

45     India
55.90

46     Croatia
55.00

47     El Salvador
55.00

48     Poland
53.60

49     Malaysia
53.10

50     Kenya
50.90

51     Argentina
50.30

52     Pakistan
49.90

53     Tunisia
49.50

54     Turkey
48.10

55     Norway
47.70

56     Denmark
46.60

57     Aruba
46.30

58     Latvia
46.20

59     Finland
45.40

60     Colombia
44.80

61     United Arab Emirates
44.60

62     Costa Rica
42.40

63     Thailand
42.30

64     Dominican Republic
41.70

65     Mexico
41.50

66     Serbia
41.50

67     Slovakia
41.00

68     Mozambique
40.80

69     Sweden
40.80

70     Malawi
40.40

71     Czech Republic
40.00

72     Panama
40.00

73     Bolivia
39.70

74     Bangladesh
39.30

75     Ethiopia
39.30

76     Yemen
39.10

77     Bosnia and Herzegovina
39.00

78     Ukraine
38.40

79     Switzerland
38.20

80     Montenegro
38.00

81     Lithuania
36.70

82     Slovenia
35.50

83     Romania
34.80

84     Cuba
34.40

85     Macedonia
34.20

86     Canada
34.00

87     Taiwan
33.90

88     South Africa
33.20

89     Senegal
32.10

90     Syria
29.80

91     Guatemala
29.60

92     Papua New Guinea
27.80

93     Indonesia
26.40

94     Trinidad and Tobago
26.40

95     Honduras
26.10

96     Gabon
25.80

97     Algeria
25.70

98     New Zealand
25.50

99     Venezuela
25.50

100     Moldova
25.00

101     Zambia
24.10

102     Korea, South
23.70

103     Peru
23.60

104     Tanzania
23.30

105     Ecuador
23.20

106     Paraguay
22.80

107     Botswana
22.60

108     Australia
22.40

109     Uganda
20.40

110     Angola
20.30

111     Namibia
20.00

112     Hong Kong
18.20

113     China
17.50

114     Saudi Arabia
16.70

115     Bulgaria
16.20

116     Iran
16.20

117     Luxembourg
16.20

118     Kazakhstan
16.20

119     Nigeria
13.40

120     Kuwait
12.60

121     Qatar
10.30

122     Cameroon
9.60

123     Russia
9.50

124     Uzbekistan
9.00

125     Estonia
7.70

126     Gibraltar
7.50

127     Chile
6.20

128     Wallis and Futuna
5.60

.
129     Azerbaijan
4.60

130     Oman
4.40

131     Equatorial Guinea
4.10

132     Libya
3.30

America is at 58 percentile of it’s GDP,made up of 50 states, Europe is at a similar cumulative percentile of GDP of the sum total of 27 nations in the European Union,collectively.China’s is only 17.50 percent,Australia only 22.40,not far ahead of them.I must snicker at this, Libya under Khadafi before his problems, had Libya at only 3.30 percentil of GDP debt. So, how are they collectively able to pay their debts,and why aren’t they in the position of defaulting on their debts?That is the other nations,who don’t seem to have the problem America is having,seemingly being able to solve their economic crisis in intelligent fashion?Now all nations continually add to their national debt, in short, their national debt keeps rising,each year,rather than falling, and so too has America’s.But Obama can’t solve his national debt problem, the problem of America’s national debt.

Now let’s consdier what the probelm is,the national debt, and how it will be solved, merely by raising the debt ceiling itself………according to….

http://politisite.com/2011/07/25/can-president-obama-use-14th-amendment-to-raise-the-debt-ceiling/

……… Although the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution does not say specifically that the President has the power to raise the debt limit, there is  a lot of talk recently that he may try to do so.  The Amendment says in Section 4.
“The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.” And Section 5. “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”Even so President Clinton said that he would use the Amendment to raise the debt Limit bypassing Congress.  The ability for the President to bypass Congress in an Amendment that gives the President certain powers but not in section 4…………………………
Clinton said he believed a deal would be struck before August 2, but if he were in charge, and both sides failed to reach an agreement, he would simply raise the debt ceiling himself using powers granted under the 14th amendment of the Constitution. The

amendment says that the validity of the public debt shall not be questioned. Clinton said he’d “force the courts to stop

me.”………..So that’s what Obama can try to do,IF? Congress allows him and says he can do it? Or not if they don’t?So what now,what was the other attempt…..The latest round of bargaining began on Monday when Mr Boehner and Senate Democrats offered competing plans to raise the debt limit and cut spending.The plans differed in size and scope, and neither would raise new tax revenue – a red line for Republicans.Mr Boehner’s plan would also require another debt limit agreement in about six months, something Mr Obama has publicly declared he will not accept.So,let me get this straight, all they have to do, is agree,and everything will be all right. So, why can they not agree, and will they not agree, for the good of the nation adn the people of the United States,they just have to agree,and the required debt ceiling will be raised, and the money borrowed from where ever in la la, or fantasy land, or never,never land and everything will be right and well..go figure,that’s the cure…….there’s more………seems America defaulting really only affects it’s credit rating, versus Obama’s threats,blustering and blundering with respect to Spain,Italy,Ireland or Greece defaulting would affect THEM to massive extents, but not the same for America, America defaulting has now been pushed to a ridiculous credit rating,borrowing ability shift downwards…..curious things not the same as his statements  about their debt
problem,defaulting……….bankruptcy…….so now the plot thickens,read on…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/8672159/US-debt-crisis-Republican-budget-proposal-passed-in-House-of-Representatives.html

US debt crisis: Republican budget proposal passed in House of Representatives
The House of Representatives on Friday night passed a bill designed to end the looming US debt crisis, but amid high level warnings that Congress was “playing with fire”, it faced almost certain defeat in the Senate.

By Alex Spillius, Washington

Hours after President Barack Obama called for Republicans and Democrats to put party politics aside, the Republican-controlled House scraped through a bill by just eight votes, even though Democrats, who control the Senate, had warned that it was unacceptable and “extremist”.John Boehner, the Republican Speaker of the House, gave an impassioned appeal to his colleagues in the House to approve his plan, slamming his fist on the podium several times.”I stuck my neck out a mile to get an agreement with the president of the United States,” he said, referring to failed negotiations with Mr Obama earlier this month”My colleagues, I can tell you I have worked with the president and the administration since the beginning of this year to avoid being in this spot,” he added. “A lot of people in this town can never say yes.”With the vote out of the way after two days of high drama, negotiations immediately started on a compromise bill that would be started in the Senate by Democrats and then go back to the House.It might then pick up enough votes across both parties to pass before Tuesday’s deadline to raise the so-called debt ceiling.There is a however real danger that Congress will not meet the deadline set by the US Treasury, which could mean that the US fails to pay its creditors for the first time.The government may also fail to fund state pensions, student loans, military salaries, contracts with businesses and a gamut of routine payments.World leaders have warned of the dire consequences for the global economy of a US default.There has been dismay at the dysfunction in Washington, with World Bank President Robert Zoellick saying the United States was “playing with fire”.”Whatever the logic about the tactics, it’s a very dangerous environment,” he told a meeting of the Society for International Development.”To be blunt, to have a debt default in the United States would not only be a financial calamity but should be an embarrassment for every American” he said.America’s largest foreign creditor, China, has repeatedly urged Washington to protect its dollar investments and its state-run news agency said the US had been “kidnapped” by “dangerously irresponsible” politics.Speaking earlier at the White House, Mr Obama warned that the country’s top credit rating was at risk after leading credit agencies said they were likely to issue a downgrade.”If we don’t do that, if we don’t come to an agreement, we could lose our country’s triple-A credit rating, not because we didn’t have the capacity to pay our bills – we do – but because we didn’t have
a triple-A political system to match our triple-A credit rating,” he said.”There are a lot of crises in the world that we can’t always predict or avoid – hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, terrorist attacks. This isn’t one of those crises. The power to solve this is in our hands,” he said.Opponents of a deal have accused the administration of scare tactics and questioned if the consequences of failing to raise the debt ceiling would be so dire after all.

Here ends to informational epistle from the Daily Telegraph.

So what happened in The Senate with the Republican bill? Well, the Democrats in the Senate, voted……….No.So now the

Democrats want America to default?Seemingly so.That’s politics?Suicidal politics?The politics of Russian roulette with ONE bullet removed?Curious,through the great embuggeration that is American politics,now the Democrats seem to want to allow America to Default,Obama’s Democrats…Crisis?What crisis? It seems it’s all so irrelevant wth respect to America,and all is as it seems,for Americaq,so we don’t mind.Do you mind?What is mind? No matter. What is matter?Does it matter?Never mind.

Secret Squirrel Sees A Major Need To Review The Extradition Act of 2003.

Secret Squirrel has had his attention drawn to an interesting development found in the news, the extradition of a student, one Richard Dwyer,a British subject,British citizen, British passport holding Briton, to the United States on violating the laws and dictates of the United States laws while living in Britain.Curious it all is but then here are the details as here
synopsed from the Daily Mail, found specifically at……..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005079/Student-TV-file-sharer-facing-extradition-U-S-arrest-running-site-providing-pirated-films-TV-shows.html?ITO=1490

Student TV file sharer facing extradition to U.S. after arrest for ‘running site providing links to pirated films and TV shows’

Undergraduate faces U.S. trial for copyright offences

By Daily Mail Reporter

Facing extradition: Student Richard O’Dwyer ran the TVShack website

A British university student faces being extradited to the United States for hosting a website which provided links to downloadable pirated films and TV shows.Undergraduate Richard O’Dwyer, a student at Sheffield Hallam University, was arrested late last month and is accused of criminal copyright infringement by U.S authorities.The 23-year-old could now be extradited to America to face trial there…………Mr O’Dwyer, who lives in student accommodation in Sheffield city centre, was first visited by U.S. officials last year when he ran the site TVShack.The website, which he has since shut down, provided links to other sites where users could download pirated films and TV shows like The Hangover and Lost.The student appeared before Westminster Magistrates Court this week for a preliminary hearing into the planned extradition, which he is strongly contesting.Still studying: Mr O’Dwyer is currently reading computer science at Sheffield Hallam University ,Jailed: The 23-year-old was made to stay overnight at Wandsworth Prison until his family could answer the £3,000 bail.His mother, Julia O’Dwyer, from Chesterfield, said the case was ‘beyond belief’ and the possibility of extradition was ‘madness.’……………..She said: ‘The first we knew about it was this visit from the police and the American officials in November…..
‘But then in May he had to spend the night in Wandsworth Prison as the court was too slow for us to sort out his passport and bail.’Mr O’Dwyer spend the night in jail and was only released after his mother paid a £3,000 bail fee………..Mrs O’Dwyer, a nurse, added: ‘Richard clearly has a talent for web design but was foolish in not understanding the implications of copyright.’Yet to try to haul him off to America for trial while he’s midway through his university studies is so utterly disproportionate it defies belief.’……………….The UK’s 2003 extradition agreement with the USA,  is thought to be at the centre of the latest row.The law currently contains no proviion for ‘forum’, a legal term referring to judges being allowed to consider whether a case is heard in the UK or abroad.Mr O’Dwyer’s family have argued that since the student has not been to America since he was a child and he did not have any copyright material on his website, the case should be heard in the UK.His barrister, Ben Cooper, told the preliminary hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court on Tuesday: ‘The computer server was not based in the U.S. at all.’Mr O’Dwyer did not have copyright material on his website; he simply provided a link.

(Squirrel’s note: The site is a search engine locating whatever etc. and providing download links to the sites which do house the whatever material,it does not site, nor house the material itself,quite similarly as I have provided the link herein to the Daily Mail which holds the informational material on the case in question.)

‘The contention is that the correct forum for this trial is here in Britain, where he was at all times.’
Legal fight: Mr O’Dwyers lawyers argued that the student should not be extradited the the U.S. as his site was not hosted no American servers.The student’s legal team will argue that he should not face extradition as the site he ran was not hosted on U.S. servers.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized the web address TVShack.net last July. Mr O’Dwyer moved it to TVShack.cc, but that was also seized later last year.Julia O’Dwyer said her son shut down the site after being contacted by police.

Here ends the Daily Mail synopsed article.

The is also yet more informationally to be found at…..

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/725/288/TVShack_Brit_Richard_O_Dwyer_Facing_Extradition_To_U.S._Over_Copyright_Infringement.html

TVShack Brit Richard O’Dwyer Facing Extradition To U.S. Over Copyright Infringement
Originally published on WebTVWire.com – a TV Technology

blog.(http://www.webtvwire.com/tvshack-brit-richard-odwyer-facing-extradition-to-u-s-over-copyright-infringement/)

Lock and ChainRichard O’Dwyer is facing going to prison in the United States for being the man behind the TVShack website. But the case against him and the extradition proceedings being sought are questionable.TVShack was a website linking to files hosted elsewhere on the Web which enabled the streaming on movies and television shows. Copyrighted movies and television shows which neither TVShack or the sites it linked to had permission to stream.The guy, a 23-year-old student by the name of Richard O’Dwyer, was arrested last November and is now facing charges of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and criminal infringement of copyright. Although O’Dwyer didn’t charge people to use the site he made money from advertisements on the site.The U.S. wants O’Dwyer tried in its court system, and if this happens he could face five years in prison.

The Legal Questions

There is an interesting legal debate to be had here for various reasons.

Firstly, O’Dwyer is a British citizen who was present in the U.K. all the while he was running TVShack.

Secondly, the TVShack server wasn’t based in the U.S.

Thirdly, TVShack merely linked to copyrighted material rather than hosting it.You could argue that the first two points don’t matter because the Internet is worldwide and the content being infringed upon was owned by companies mainly based in the States. But the third point is important.
It has consistently been shown that in Europe it isn’t illegal to link to copyrighted material or those who are hosting it.

In the U.S. things are a little more muddied. So whether O’Dwyer is tried in the U.K. or the U.S. could make a vast difference to his defense.

Conclusions

I cannot fathom how extraditing O’Dwyer makes any sort of sense. So I hope the case against him is heard in a British court of law. (Britain’s extradition treaty with the U.S. is already under review in light of the Gary McKinnon case, but that will not be concluded in time to help O’Dwyer.)

and here ends the Daily Mail/Webtvwire.com communal informational.

Well this pretty much states the case rather against the extradition of a student, one Richard Dwyer,a British subject,British citizen, British passport holding Briton, to the United States on violating the laws and dictates of the United States laws while living in Britain.He is in no way shape nor form and American citizen, therefor he is subject only to the laws of the UK while in the UK, and American laws whilst in America, yet he has never been to America, nor doing what
he did, and/or does, in America.His internet server isn’t based in the United States, and there have been cases tried where the argument that said server etc wasn’t within the sol called offended country has held true,legally true, according to the justice systems,and, most importantly, he was running what is a search engine, he did not himself host on his servers any
illegal material of any kind whatsoever, violating NOT British,nor America, nor anybody else’s laws at all.He ran a search engine, which happened to point to and locate material sought,or indexed to be found,much as, face it, Google,Bing,Yahoo and any other search engine does. Indeed, I myself, as in above, pointed to and referenced existing sites of the Daily Mail, and
Webtvwire.com,in similar fashion as would/did/does, any particular search engine. In all things everything the Mr. O’Dwyer did is open,above board, and not against the law,not even yet American law else Google,Bing, Yahoo et all of their search engines are also in violation,yet they aren’t,nor are they prosecuted,persecuted. The British law is also free and clear,yet Mr. O’Dwyer is subject to a massive amount, not of inconvenience,prejudicial behaviour, but also direct harassment,abuse, and judicial impropriety, costing him personal monies in defense against same. Obviously on failure, as it should fail, of the extradition processes,he should be monetarily compensated for all expenses and inconveniences and even yet receive additional monies to compensate him for the improper occurrence. Who should pay? Well, that is between the British government and the American government,in the very least the British government should compensate him, and thence attempt to recover said expenses for the improper judicial proceedings from the American government, rather than force him to directly sue the American government himself in Britain,for the conduct it directed against an obviously judicially innocent Briton,British subject, passport holding British citizen.

But here’s much yet more to this. What must also now be considered is the ridiculous Extradition Treaty between Britain, and America, as it was arranged by one Tony Blair, a rather smarmy,negligent, and obviously easily influence politician of dubious nature, who at the time of the treaty negotiation, was the Labor Prime Minister Of Britain,sad and sorry to say.What is occurring already, in advance of this,though this is a prime example of the inequality,inequity,iniquity involved in the treaty such that this incident is and has been allowed to have occurred in the first instance,there is a movement to demand  the treaty. Let us here study matter with respect to this yet further..here consider at..

http://38degrees.uservoice.com/forums/78585-campaign-suggestions/suggestions/1933719-repeal-us-uk-extradition-treaty-ban-extradition?ref=title

Repeal US-UK Extradition Treaty, & Ban Extradition without Contestable Prima Facie Evidence

The US-UK extradition treaty (signed secretly under Queen’s prerogative) and the Extradition Act (2003) effectively remove all protection from UK citizens against unjust extradition. Despite being denounced as an anathema to justice by Liberty, the ACLU and eminent legal consensus in the UK, and despite a series of resulting high-profile injustices, the Treaty & the Act are currently undergoing very expensive ‘review’ by the government to decide whether this blatantly unfair legislation is fair or not. The law as it stands means that anyone can be extradited to the USA and the recently publicized brutality of its prison system without a shred of contestable evidence – you don’t need to have committed a crime to be extradited.

here ends the epistle from 38degrees.uservoice.com

The government is not there to allow foreigners to play with the lives of Britons, nor disrupt them in any way………who will pay for the lawyers, the defense against the accusation false, and or improper,will the US government pay, and how much will it pay?Is it just,no.Is it justice?No. Not in either case at all.Can the US government be allowed to apply it’s laws against Britons in Britain?No, it should not be so. If the lad had committed a crime in Britain, then he would be tried in Britain against British laws, but it seems this cannot be so, hence he has not.But then why allow him to be extradited to the US to face trial since they believe their laws were violated by a
lad in Britain who is not subjected to them while in Britain? Curious is it not, but that is what it amounts to. The disruption to his life is massive, they will not even yet try him in the UK for what they claim to be violation of their laws,while he’s in the UK and a UK citizen to boot…quite literally as that is what is occurring to him, what the British government,itself in view of extradition being in their domain, allowing. The lad has no judicial problems in the UK with UK laws else he’d be tried in the UK against those laws…….no correct? Clearly there is much amiss here…..much injustice, inequity,iniquity,inequality, judicial and governmental impropriety, and it is the UK government allowing it.Quite clearly this must not come about.

Criticism of the treaty abounds in the United Kingdom on the basis that it is both unfair and unjust to UK citizens on the basis that the requirements needed to extradite a UK citizen to the United States are far easier to meet than those needed in order to extradite a United States citizen to the United Kingdom.This imbalance has come about as a result of two completely
separate issues which have combined to create what is largely regarded by informed commentators as one of the most one-sided, politically manipulative and unjust pieces of British legislation ever to make its way onto the Statute Book of the British Parliament.

So let us ponder here what has been said at

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=213253338695914

It is perhaps no coincidence therefore that the Extradition Act of 2003 was steered through Parliament by the same man who introduced the now notorious IPP sentence, former Home Secretary, David Blunkett.At the time this act of Parliament was introduced, both Tony Blair and Blunkett were keen to ingratiate themselves with the administration of the then US President,
George W. Bush. As it happens, they were both wasting their time for history shows that in the end, Bush didn’t care for either of them.One should not be tempted however to think that this criticism of the extradition treaty between the United States and the UK is anything new. It most certainly is not.

Controversy surrounds the US-UK extradition treaty of 2003 which was implemented in the Extradition Act 2003. Considered by some to be one-sided because it allows the US to extradite UK citizens and others for offenses committed against US law, even though the alleged offense may have been committed in the UK by a person living and working in the UK (for example the
NatWest Three) and there being no reciprocal right; and issues about the level of proof required being less to extradite from the UK to the US rather than vice-versa.

Among other provisions in Part 2 of the Act: Extradition to category 2 territories (non-European Arrest warrant territories) removed the requirement on the USA to provide prima facie evidence in extraditions from the UK, requiring instead only reasonable suspicion.This was necessary to redress the previous imbalance against the USA under the 1870 Act, as the UK did not have to provide the more onerous prima facie evidence to extradite from the USA. The requirement for the UK is to show probable cause – and although not exactly the same as reasonable suspicion, they are more equal than the 1870 Act and are about as equal as can be, given the differences in the two legal systems and without violating the US Constitution. .There is also concern at the loss of entitlement of UK citizens to legal aid for maintaining an adequate defense to criminal
charges once they are extradited to US jurisdiction where costs are largely met by the defendant’s private means. This has been a cause of controversy in cases where it has been perceived that the UK has suitable legislation for prosecuting offenses domestically.The manner of its implementation also caused concern because of alleged secrecy and minimal parliamentary scrutiny, a trait some believe to be associated with much of the legislation introduced by David Blunkett.

Indeed, the treaty is typical of the Blair government’s legislation as is the aforementioned IPP sentence which was equally controversial and which has caused enormous problems for the UK Prison Service and the Justice system as a whole and which also received very little parliamentary scrutiny. Now, just as the IPP sentence is under review, so there are of calls for an
equally robust examination of the 2003 extradition treaty.In essence, the problem with the treaty is that it does not treat UK citizens as fairly as it treats those from the United States.

One would expect under normal circumstances that the treaty would be reciprocal to both countries; that is, what applies in one country should apply in the other. The fact is however that the American constitution, which unlike the British constitution is actually written down, simply does not allow for a reciprocal arrangement of this type.Unlike the British constitution which is designed primarily to protect the organs of the state, the American Constitution is designed to protect the interests of the citizen. This fundamental difference means that American citizens cannot be pushed around and subjugated by the law in the same way that British citizens can.

There is however another element which must be considered when considering why it is that the British seem to be very much on the wrong end of this agreement and once again TheOpinionSite.org must make the point that the British government seems willing to do almost anything in order to please its American masters for fear of being criticized for not doing so.
As usual, and perhaps not surprisingly as the coalition is nominally led by a Conservative Prime Minister, the British government is more than willing to give in to the Americans to preserve the so-called “special relationship” which actually is no longer that special anyway. Ask any Prime Minister or head of state from any European country and they will tell you that they too have a “special relationship” with the United States.Despite being bad law in the first place, it seems
unlikely that the extradition treaty will be changed in any significant way, principally because to do so might upset our American cousins.

The fact that because of it some British citizens could end up spending the rest of their life in an American jail when in this country they would probably serve less than six years does not seem to be a problem for either Cameron or Clegg.When and if the 2003 Act is actually amended or changed, any modifications are likely to be insignificant and largely cosmetic. To do anything else would, as far as the British government is concerned, invite criticism that it does not take
terrorism, serious crime or other threats to the nation and the world seriously. This is of course total nonsense but the British government are quite willing to go along with it in order to save face with the Americans.The British Home Secretary, Theresa May has managed to hold up the extradition of Gary McKinnon, largely due to the public opposition to his extradition to the United States. Waiting in the wings however is another potential threat to the “special relationship”…That threat is of course the attempt by the United States government to extradite Julian Assange, the founder and leader of Wikileaks.

Although nothing official has yet been said and although Mr Assange is successfully using his lawyers to delay any extradition proceedings, it is likely that the United States administration is waiting to pounce on the Swedish authorities so that if Assange is extradited to Sweden, he can then be transferred to face charges in the United States.The cases of McKinnon and Assange have together instilled great distrust in the workings of the 2003 Extradition Treaty, at least from the point of view of the British public. Whether or not the British government is prepared to look again at the treaty however is a completely different matter.

TheOpinionSite.org believes that if the treaty is reviewed and possibly amended or modified, any changes that will be made are likely to be insignificant, largely irrelevant and unlikely to help those affected by what is accepted by most to be both an unjust and unfair piece of British legislation drawn up by a former Home Secretary whose only objective was to suck up to the US administration of the time in an attempt to benefit his own circumstances.

Here ends the epistle.

There is yet more comment at

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1308478/David-Blunketts-startling-admission-UK-US-extradition-treaty.html

David Blunkett, the Cabinet minister who signed Labor’s controversial Extradition Act, admitted yesterday that he may have ‘given too much away’ to the Americans.’I gave too much away’: David Blunkett’s startling admission on UK-U.S. extradition treaty .Critics say the Act is lopsided because British citizens are not given the same legal protection as their American
counterparts.If the U.S. government wants to extradite a UK citizen it needs only to outline the alleged offense, the punishment specified by statute and provide an accurate description of the suspect.But to extradite an American from the States, Britain must prove that the wanted individual has probably committed a crime, a much harder test…………………..
The admission could make it easier for the Coalition to change the Act. Ministers will be able to point out that even its own architect is now having misgivings.Speaking to the Mail, Mr Blunkett-also called for a debate over trying people in the UK if that is where most of their crimes were committed………..’This has left British citizens especially vulnerable and the treaty is all too often being used frivolously and not for the serious crimes we were led to believe it was intended for…………None must..hope the review of the one-sided Act, a focus of the Mail’s Affront to British Justice campaign, will unravel the mess created by Labor.UK courts are approving 89 per cent of U.S. extradition requests. By comparison, only seven in ten requests to the Americans by the British authorities are granted, according to analysis by the Liberal Democrats.

The Daily Telegraph has also commented on the treaty……

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/5912435/Home-Office-warned-six-years-ago-about-unfair-extradition-treaty.html

MPs told then Home Office minister Caroline Flint that it “could not have done a better job of failing to represent the interests of British citizens” by signing the treaty.The warning came from MPs on a standing committee which was set up to examine the detail of the treaty in December 2003, days before it was due to come into force in early 2004.The treaty was created to prevent terrorism suspects dragging cases out for years, but as disclosed in the Daily Telegraph on Saturday, has only seen one terrorism suspect extradited since the September 11 attacks in 2001.However, 56 other people have been extradited to America……….David Heath, a senior Liberal Democrat MP, told the minister during a committee hearing: “The treaty is extraordinarily asymmetric. In fact, many of us feel that a Secretary of State signing a treaty under duress could
not have done a better job of failing to represent the interests of British citizens. Mr Heath complained that MPs were not given enough time to study the treaty. It was only released to MPs on 21 May 2003, nearly two months after it was signed and the day before MPs went on their Whitsun holiday.Mr Heath continued: “That text stated that the treaty was intended to
‘modernise and simplify the UK’s extradition arrangements with the USA’.”There is modernisation and there is simplification. Minor tidying-up arrangements are sometimes proposed, but the proposals seem to change fundamentally the relationship between the UK and the US, replacing the old treaty of 1972 and the additional protocol of 1986.
“Anything that carries a sentence of more than 12 months in American or Britain now becomes an extraditable offence without a prima facie case being necessary.
“I do not think that it is a good thing. It is not a good thing when British citizens – or those in the United Kingdom and under our judicial protection-are not given a fair crack of the whip. That is an important matter.”Yesterday, Mr Heath, who is now the LibDems’ shadow leader of the House, told The Daily Telegraph that he was saddened he had failed to prevent the treaty becoming law.He said: “We have been proved right. But it was obvious to me and [LibDem MP] Sir
Menzies Campbell at the time. I find it upsetting that we did not get the issue out into the open at the first time of asking.”

Here ends the epistle from The Daily Mail.

To continue in a moral and ethical fashion,there is the question of the Citizenship of the person in question – some nations refuse to extradite their own citizens, holding trials for the persons themselves,but you cannot hold a trial for a person breaking a foreign law in his own country where his own country see no violation of it’s laws…………it amounts to a British citizen speeding along legally at say 60 km while the law in America is 55km .he obviously is not violating US law in Britain, but is IF he would be in America, but yet isn’t, however, Britain extraditing him to face trial in the US on exactly that charge, proven true or,thence not as the case may be.All democratic nations have the obligation to protect the rights of their citizens and uphold their national sovereignty.

According to The Independent…..

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/sophie-kemp–and-jill-lorimer-double-standards-shame-our-treaty-with-america-1765883.html

Last year, Heritage published a study of the treaty that concluded that, extradition from Britain was too easy, it was because the Labor government of Tony Blair wanted to make it easy to extradite individuals from Britain. Blair’s government therefore created low standards for extradition and applied them to many countries, including the U.S.it is less easy to
obtain justice in the US. Disparity of sentence – excessive pressure to take a plea – use of the evidence of convicted felons in return for a reduced sentence – pre-trial incarceration – no legal aid – inhumane prison conditions – privatized prisons – official acceptance of torture (waterboarding) – a death penalty mentality. The list is endless.According to a freedom of
information request to the home office – as of June 2010 only THREE individuals with American nationality (or dual nationality ) were extradited to the UK, while TWENTY-EIGHT British citizens were extradited to the US despite the fact that the US has more than five times the population. Which means that (per capita) FIFTY TIMES AS MANY BRITS ARE EXTRADITED THAN
AMERICANS!!!British people,themselves,irregardless of the idiocy and personal smarmyness of one Tony Blair, the miscreant responsible for the inequitable extradition treaty, have a strong sense of Justice which is why this extradition is just simply wrong and the extradition treaty as it stands is a betrayal of British people.the UK-US extradition treaty has been loudly denounced for many years by civil rights groups in both the US and UK (ACLU and Liberty respectively) on the grounds that it is one-sidedly counter to the interests of justice, by virtue of the fact that it removes all safeguards from UK citizens. Never mind ‘sovereignty’, the removal of the requirement for an extraditing country to present contestable evidence for their allegations is an assault on the notion of justice itself. Even a brief perusal of the reasons given by Liberty and ACLU for objecting to the treaty makes it clear that these are not idle or erroneous objections, but have a strong and valid basis.On the face of it, it appears that the US authorities need provide little more than the name of the accused person and a brief outline of the facts of the case.It is easy to understand the commonly held view that the US can demand the surrender of a UK citizen on a whim, while its own citizens are afforded a much higher degree of protection.However for a British judge to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person sought by the US, section 71 of the Extradition Act
2003 does require “evidence that would justify the issue of a warrant for the arrest of a person accused of the offense”. In other words, the judge is expected to apply the same standards as he or she would in respect of a person suspected of committing an offense in the UK. So there is no requirement to back up a request with any evidence. Perhaps the real issue is whether a British citizen should be extradited to stand trial in any foreign country without evidence first being presented to a British court to show there is a case to answer. The stress and expense of defending potentially unfounded criminal allegations in a foreign jurisdiction is a daunting prospect…..

(But this does not mean that the person has committed a crime in the UK applicable to UK laws, BUT a foreign government can acquire him to try it because they say he broke their law.while not being in America.)

David Cameron himself has said:

“The Extradition Act was put in place to ensure terrorists didn’t escape justice.” However, not on his side of things as we can further see here…….at The Foundry………

http://blog.heritage.org/?p=56809

Presumably too, the author is aware that Baroness Scotland herself(Patricia Scotland,Baroness Scotland of Asthal) (now disgraced,for employing an illegal immigrant) who was instrumental in negotiating the treaty, acknowledged at the time that these new extradition arrangements with the US were imbalanced, and that the bar to extradition from the UK was set very low – far lower than that in the opposite direction. As far as making extradition easier is concerned, I presume the author is aware of the somewhat immoral assurances (in letters disclosed under FOI) that B.Scotland gave to US Senator Feingold and others that the treaty would not be used to pursue suspected IRA terrorists who have sought (and found) safe harbour in the USA.

Here ends the epistle,

But to continue in this vein, and offer direct evidence,there is such a letter stating this and it  can in fact be read here supporting fully the claim…………..

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B5BPw-qqEV28ZDU3OTRjYTMtMzAzMi00ZTI5LWEzYTctMzg2MWI3ZDlhYjI5&hl=en

Let’s be honest here: the treaty may have been about extraditing suspected terrorists from the UK to the US (though in 7 years it hasn’t resulted in a single extradition in such circles), but it was explicitly about NOT extraditing suspected terrorists from the US to Britain.

Squirrel concludes,indeed in all fairness one must push for the present Coalition Parliament to effectively and equitably renegotiate the extradition treaty with America, and failing America’s willingness to do so, to simply declare the treaty to be nullified,ended,retracted,withdrawn,non existent and then force the Americans to the table to renegotiate it such that there is equity,equality,fairness,justice for all, citizens of both countries, and also to put an end to such improprieties allowing Britons to seemingly be innocent of crime in Britain, yet be so accused of and extradited to the USA for any such trial and travails.Secret Squirrel sees the need for justice for all,especially for those in Britain, and Squirrel also says no Briton must be made subject to any foreign law in his own land.