It appears that the Governments, banks and businesses around the world are pushing us towards a cashless society!
Why? you may ask yourself.
The argument is, it is convenient, but the truth is it is mostly about control and greed!
Cash is universal and it gives us some degree of privacy about our financial affairs. Also and more importantly, cash is an important safeguard against economic volatility. At times of distress, when confidence in the banking system erodes, people are likely to withdraw cash and hold it. If we have a cashless society, it eliminates the ability of bank account holders to withdraw cash from the bank in a crisis and could create a huge risk with banks holding too much power.
Also, if we went to a cashless society, the amount of unaccounted (black) money would inevitably be reduced and the tax base would increase significantly. By eliminating cash, all transactions have to be linked to a bank account which invariably makes it traceable by the tax departments, whether it be 'black', a gift or inheritance.
The most worrying aspect is, if you don't have a bank account then you have no money; a problem with the banking system, again no money; they block your and again no money.
At present it is estimated that over two billion people don't have bank accounts, so what will these people do? It could mean total exclusion from society for these people.
It would appear that the only real 'winners' from a cashless society will be the banks and Governments and NOT us as individuals as all the advertising suggests!
Wake up and protest against this creeping corporate corruption.

What a bunch of cnuts these muslims are!
Aside from the moronic minaret musical masterpieces at dawn, who else in their right minds has to ask for spiritual sustenance five times a day???
Muslims are like mushrooms.....kept in the dark and fed on shit!
The average intellect is roughly similar.
Who else would spend a month starving themselves from dawn to dusk and then pig-out (pun intended) during the night?
Mr Mohamed must be laughing all the way to the virgins bank knowing millions of followers are subscribing to his personal account.
Wake up wankers...and get a life instead of a death.

Soldiers of faith

Their murderous enthusiasm is what sets jihadists apart from our own soldiers

One of the things that strike us the most about Muslim combatants fighting for the Islamic State is their suicidal nature. We (erroneously, in my view) believe them to have the desire to die in the act they plan to perpetrate.
There are many facts supporting this mistaken view, such as for instance the death of six terrorists involved in the Madrid commuter train bombings of March 11, 2004. The survivors of that commando committed collective suicide inside a Leganés apartment when they found themselves surrounded by the police.
But obviously, nobody can tell us whether they would have committed suicide anyway. It may have been that just one of them activated the bomb mechanism that took them all out of this world, without consulting with his accomplices. If they had fled all the way there, who is to say that they would not have continued to flee until they reached physical, if not spiritual salvation?
Did the survivors of the Paris killings not flee to Belgium?
The one thing that is clear is that jihadist soldiers try above all not to be made prisoner. They have significant incentives for that, such as the promise of paradise, which will be filled not just with houris (beautiful virgins provided in the afterlife for faithful Muslims) but also with every other conceivable earthly pleasure.
Just like their former leader Bin Laden, terrorists who can do so return home safe and sound in order to enjoy their stay on earth without having to go through the bothersome formality of killing themselves. It remains a fact, however, that suicide is much more frequent among fundamentalist soldiers than among regular soldiers such as European ones.
In order to prepare their minds for the possibility of suicide as a “normal” way out, these individuals require significant psychological priming, which the mosques provide. A good imam offers the faithful troops an enormous amount of energy for the battle. That is why intelligence services are focusing much of their efforts on the religious hangouts of Muslims living in Europe. That should not sound so strange to us. In Spain, there is the not-so-far-off example of the Carlists (supporters of Don Carlos over Isabel II as heir to the Spanish throne) who used to mix religion and battle during the Civil War: “A Requeté who has received communion will attack a man” was a popular saying at the time.
So what distinguishes the Muslim soldier from the others is the fact that he is more enthusiastic about killing. He probably takes on greater risks than normal, but imbues his actions with a much greater homicidal impulse than, say, a police officer entrusted to defend democracy.
Otherwise, there are many elements that should allow us to identify the motives and feelings that move the jihadists. We can turn to a not-too-distant example: the international brigades that came to Spain to fight against fascism.
Many of those that came left comfortable lives behind. And they did it in exchange for nothing. Witnesses said that they were braver than anyone else in combat, honoring their condition as shock troops. Although they were not fighting for a religion, they were fighting for something almost as personally-significant; the vast majority of brigadiers were Communists who were laying their lives on the line for the future Stalin promised them. This is a simplification, but it comes very close to the truth.
On the other side, the most combative troops were those made up of Légionnaires and Moors, which in both cases were mercenary troops who were paid for killing.
So the jihadists who die too late, blowing themselves up with explosive belts after carrying out their murderous acts, are not much different from our own soldiers, except for their determination to kill. A soldier has to kill sometimes. A jihadist soldier has to kill as many infidels and unbelievers as possible.
 And while we’re at it, just think about the “animals” who commit suicide after engaging in gender violence – nobody can say that they killed themselves for any faith.
At the core of this whole story, of this legend that the jihadists have carved out for themselves in the last few years, is this aura they are creating for themselves as courageous fighters who are somehow superior to our own humble freedom-fighting soldiers.
That is simply not so. And understanding that is one of the steps to defeating them.

The highly intelligent and misrepresented crows, when they collect in numbers, are known by the collective noun as a 'murder' of crows!
Will you join me in my project to re-name them?
The collective noun 'murder will now be attributed to others -A 'murder' of muslims seems to be most appropriate.

Well, what more shock, horror, disgust and sadness can be expressed?
We have been aware for some time that the religious zealots have unleashed the 'dogs of war'and so we must now respond in kind.
NEVER use a muslim shop or any form of service provided by someone of this distorted, 'so-called' religion!
NEVER buy any known product produced by or for them!
NEVER even acknowledge their very existance.
Whilst carrying out these subtle actions, remember to write to your MP and demand action to remove them from our society/country.
Spread the word!
Be prepared!

And REMEMBER folks, Islam is a religion NOT a race!
Therefore, criticise at your will.....you are NOT being racist.

Syria has had a civil war for almost 5 YEARS. Why all the "refugees" NOW and why so all of a SUDDEN and why in such VAST NUMBERS?

With an Honors degree in History and a lifelong student of the subject, I smell a rat.

This is a highly organized, well oiled, mobilized invasion of Muslims and Jihadists into the Western World. It's been in their plan for a long time. Momar Gadhafi predicted and explicitly stated that Muslim domination of Europe would happen without a conventional war and he said it 30 years ago. 95% of these economic "refugees" many who have cellphones are men between the fighting ages of 20 and 40. Very few women and children from everything I've seen.

Odd that the 5 wealthiest Arab States including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait are taking "no refugees" thanks and feel quite self righteous about it. No guilt what so ever? They are even laughing at us for doing so.

Ask yourself, why would Germany Belgium, Holland, France, Sweden and others want to destroy their own cultures from within? It doesn't make any sense? If this keeps up Europe will be burning daily within a very short few years if not months. Civil war in the streets between civilizations. Muslims vs Kefirs, that is to say, everyone who is not a Muslim.

Unfortunately, the reality is that Muslims are just not like any other immigrants. They don't want to assimilate, they want to set up separate enclaves and implement Sharia Law. Another problem is that while the civilized West rightly abhors violence, conversely Muslims daily display their love of violence. They live it and embrace it. In many Muslim countries public beheadings and stoning to death for adultery for example. It's a part of their culture precisley because Islam is, dare I say it, a death cult.

Islam is a supremacist, totalitarian, bigoted, fascist political ideology masquerading as a religion. It literally means "submission". The Quran MANDATES death for blasphamy, for adultery, for apostasy, for family honor, for being gay, Jewish or a Kafer as well as ten other "crimes" many not even considered to be so in the West. Death for drinking alcohol or taking illegal drugs for example.

Why let in vast numbers of these brainwashed people especially men of that age when past experience has already demonstrated the tragedy, not to mention the financial, social, and political costs of rampant multiculturalism in Europe. Ordinary citizens are against this immigration but strangely, their governments are not?

Someone or some organization is pulling some strings here is what I see. Is this invasion part of the New World Order's plan to depopulate the planet? Maybe there's not even any such an organization but it's all over U-tube and other social media.

The major media are implicit in selling gullible citizens of the West the righteousness of the "refugees" cause and openly siding against Western culture. One drowned child's picture in the right places sparks outrage and sympathy world wide for the movement and resettlement of vast numbers of Muslims.

However the implementation of Sharia Law, No Go Zone ghettos in most countries in Europe and Muslim rape gangs go unreported. In radical Islamist countries honor killings, beheadings, stoning's, cutting off limbs, whipping and torture, pedophilia, child bride marriages, rape and misogyny go unreported DAILY and are dismissed as culturally ingrained.

Where is the indignity and the outrage over people doing this every day to their own populations? Yet a staged picture a drowned baby on a beach sparks a world outcry?

Muslim birthrates are 8 children per family while Europeans average 1.4. When these current millions bring in their multiple wives, children and extended families 85% of whom live on state benefits (England's experience) you can multiply their number by at least 10x, maybe 20x or even more.

By 2050 Europe will be Muslim dominated just by demographics alone. When their numbers are sufficient they will legally vote in their own kind and then Sharia Law.

Europe as we know it will be lost forever. Two thousand years of civilization will be destroyed by the same fanatical bearded, bigoted, brutal, boneheaded, belligerent bastards who are now slaughtering their own kind and blowing up ancient and irreplaceable world heritage buildings, monuments, books, manuscripts and other historically significant art treasures in Iraq, Syria and other conquered territories.

Canada should not get sucked into this quagmire of political correctness just to show how polite, civilized. politically correct and Canadian we are. We should learn a lesson from our Australian counterparts.

And THIS my friends, is what will be happening in the UK very shortly. Unless of course YOU do something about it. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3254582/ISIS-cut-healthy-captives-kidneys-corneas-drain-blood-transplants-forced-endure-daily-torture-reveals-prisoner-escaped-clutches.html

The current migrant/refugee is without doubt, invasion by stealth! The vast majority are Muslims who will settle, breed and outnumber us in a very short space of time! Soon, very soon, we will be a minority and murdered by the very people we are assisting. There is no such thing as a 'moderate' Muslim as you will see when the Ayatollahs, clerics and Imams order them from the mosque to carry out their Islamic duty and obligation to purge the world of 'unbelievers.

RELIGION: Religion

is a form of brain assault that is mental rather than physical but it is meant to damage the subjects perception of reality and is a deliberate act intended to damage the damage the mind of that individual. Certainly this is part of a religion but do not be deceived by that because, in my opinion, the organised religions have far lower standards of morality and ethics than the non religious and many things done in the name of religion involve cruelty and mental torture. There is no proof that there was ever supernatural influence on any book or doctrine but there is proof that such claims breach the laws of physics. So always ask why you should believe that and where is the proof. That it is in a book or someone told you so does not constitute proof of anything so nothing can be justified by any written words.

I do NOT accept that Islam is a religion of peace but instead seeks world domination, SO if we 'infidels' look on the Muslims with suspicion, that is their problem

Can anyone find anything slightly familiar in the text below that justifies

the shit we are getting from the muslims at the moment? http://www.barghouti.com/islam/lifecode.html

The term “Islamophobia” was invented and promoted in the early 1990s by the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT), a front group of the Muslim Brotherhood. Former IIIT member Abdur-Rahman Muhammad -- who was with that organization when the word was formally created, and who has since rejected IIIT's ideology -- now reveals the original intent behind the concept of Islamophobia: “This loathsome term is nothing more than a thought-terminating cliche conceived in the bowels of Muslim think tanks for the purpose of beating down critics.” In short, in its very origins, “Islamophobia” was a term designed as a weapon to advance a totalitarian cause by stigmatizing critics and silencing them. read more http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=777

Another senseless killing: humanist blogger Avijit Roy is hacked to death Another body on the streets of Dhaka. Fearless blogger Avijit Roy, described by his fellow blogger Asif Mohiuddin as 'the Richard Dawkins of Bangladesh', has been killed. His wife was also butchered, and is in a critical condition. We published a statement last week condemning the attack and also the Bangladeshi authorities, who according to the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) knew of credible death threats against Avijit. Avijit was not the first atheist blogger to die for his right to free of expression in Bangladesh. Ahmed Rajib Haider was killed the same way in 2013: cleavered and butchered in the streets of Dakha. In our statement, we urged greater international attention to the plight suffered by non-religious people in countries all over the world. This is something we have also been highlighting through the End Blasphemy Laws coalition, which points out that brave people like Anvijit are dying all the time not only at the hands of terrorists, but of states too.

The more I hear about that most illogical drivel they call Islam, the more I am inclined to fight against it! Not in a 'Fatwah' type of way but more of a Mahatma Gandhi style of reaction. I have decided that Islam and Muslims 'do not exist'. In practice, it's very simple, just ignore anyone who purports to be or is obviously a follower of the world's most corrosive so-called, religious element. Never again will I speak to or be spoken to by an obvious Muslim. Never again will I do any kind of business with a person who wears rags around their head, wears face covering or baggy trousers. (Apologies to Madness). By following this trend, we can, collectively, freeze out the undesirable elements who are making our lives a misery by their inability to think outside their chosen/instilled peculiar way of living. Join me if you will in our slow but effective degrading of the foundations that form part of their culture but NOT ours. A pox on the whole lot of them from Mr Allah, Mr Mohamed and all the others who follow.

Punishing drug users is pointless, says Home Office report!!!! What no body has ever done is to produce the actual figures on exactly how much 'ant-drug enforcement' costs! I would suggest that the cost of hundreds, probably thousands, of police chasing a few grams of class A or a bag of weed would be enormous. And for what? People will always try a 'little something' to relax or whatever, be it drinking, smoking or more extreme methods. This is a given throughout history and civilisation.(Prohibition in the USA being one of the more recent failures) Professor David Nutt was the government advisor who came up with the correct solution but the wrong answer for the government, and was summarily sacked for his comments about horse riding being more dangerous than ecstasy. Get a life and enjoy it to your own moral standards, NOT those thrust upon you by the idiots in power.

The squiggly bloke in the picture here must have been a right tosser! Listen to Pat Condell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJoxVkGHzI0

Reason not superstition. Ethics not dogma. Respect not worship. Courage not fear. Fact not myth. Morality not religion. Clarity not delusion. Good not god. Skeptic not cynic. Rationality not ideology.

“It is taboo, in our society, to criticize a person's religious faith.” “It's taboo to even to notice the differences among our religions. It's taboo, for instance, to even notice that certain religions lead to violence in a way that other religions don't. Certain religious doctrines promulgate violence. Now, what I argue in my book (The End of Faith) is that these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable but worse than that, they're getting people killed. This is really my concern, my concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse, our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization.” —Sam Harris