We're live at the G20 protests
We're in the City this morning - an area where in a couple of hours time we're expecting thousands of protestors to gather before marching to the heart of London's financial district, the Bank of England.
We'll be following one of the marches as it heads there and will be asking demonstrators what they want from the G20 leaders.
You can follow me on Twitter throughout the day. Look for vicderbyshire, and tell me who speaks for you - the demonstrators or world leaders.
Riot police cluster together
With someone dressed as a city banker
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I Know this might be going against the grain but our business is just picking up and all this talk of economic crisis just makes things worse. We need positive "vibes" as as far as I am concerned we have turned the corner!
Stop talking down the economy or talking to economists as they didn't predict the
it in the first place!!!!!!
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There is too much concentration on the potential for violence at today's protests. Please focus on the issues. Capitalism is flawed. Many of us are frustrated by it and want change. We create that change in small but significant ways in our daily lives. Just because there aren't 10 million on the streets does not mean there are not 10 million frustrated people. There is more to life than money and if our leaders don't realise this we are on the road to a human oblivion.
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Why did Victoria sound as if she was looking forward to violence? And why was she so badly prepared? A presenter who had done a bit of homework would have known about the police response to the May Day demonstrations and wouldn't have sounded so surprised.
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If i had these sad shaved hair at the side scarf round the face wearing middle class crusty loosers sneering in my face as i,ve just seen on tv i might get a tad annoyed, just give them a tyre on a rope and they should be happy enough. Or supply the police with live ammo!. job done.
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Capitalism cannot be reformed or regulated without contradicting its whole ideology!
Capitalism is capitalism, in other words firms within nation states have to make a profit and when those profits are threatened governments will cheat the ideology in order to protect their own 'national interests' by bailing out their banks or manipulating their fiscal and monetaary policy to supposedly make it easier for their companies to make profits.
This whole approach is flawed because it is competition and the rush for profits that creates overproduction, lower prices and unemployment etc. Consequently whilst its easy to blame US sub-prime mortgages as the genesis of the problem it was in fact low profits and the inefficiency of the system that encouraged banks and their national governments to resort to the excessive borrowing of credit to keep the masses oblivious to the true state of the economic system they live in!
This is why despite the intense security measures and razamataz this summit won't achieve anything because albeit some sort of 'get rich quick Newcastle Utd' type agreement will be cobbled to make it all look worthwhile the G20 leaders are wholly restricted to find some solution within capitalism which is the cause of the whole problem!
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I have been watching this mess unravel before me for quiet some time now and it is still unbelievable to me how we ( the general public) are being manipulated and brainwashed into thinking this is an unforeseen accident.I have had my own personal views and discontentment with the world I see for some time now and it is only during the past 18months I realised I wasn't the only person who could see the injustice of the world. I first realised there was a wave of dissatisfied citizens out there through a fairly well known American journalist Alex Jones who I will admit does border on the extreme at times but the basis of his whole ethos is very sound.
If you've never seen or heard alex jones just google the guy he's easy to find.
I wouldn't necessarily say this is the "whole truth" but he does give a very clear and concise lesson in how we got to where we are today and who is really responsible for this nightmare we have found ourselves in.
Back to the G20 its just a sham helping the propaganda machine keep us confused and bewildered by the "complexities of money". Lets face it if you don't understand the true nature of money then you've just got to trust the bankers. Something we really don't want to do. Try downloading "Modern Money Mechanics " from the Fed Reserve ( available in PDF) and read it, it will explain how bankers make money out of thin air and then charge extortionate rates of interest for doing this. this is totally illegal as the loan agreement is null and void the moment you sign it as the legal "consideration" ( consideration is the term used when two parties agree to put up a legitimate form of property) is not met by the bank as they do not actually put up any thing of their own but instead just make it out of thin air in the form of an entry into their books.This has historically been challenged and in 1969 a Minnesota court case ruled against the foreclosure of a gentleman's home on the grounds that the bank had not kept its side of the agreement. the judge said " as far as I am aware only God can create something out of nothing". Looks like monotheism is dead because we are all bowing down and hailing the thieves as though they are gods.
As for a solution to all this only time will tell if we are ALL willing to make the huge changes needed to get us out of this greed filled world but a viable option is out there, its flawed and raw but if you check out the "venusproject" it can give you an insight into a better way. Don't forget together we can make a difference the revolution is now people its our chance to do the right thing BIN CAPITALISM.Zeitgeist Addendum a must see for anyone with a conscience
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A question to anyone out there who might have a liottle more knowledge than me on such matters
Who gets the profit from the interest that the bank of england charged on the money its just loaned to the government to bail out the banks?
Remember thats the money we will all be paying back through our taxes.
Victoria as an investigative journalist maybe you have the resources to find this out for your self if you find out stick it in a blog for all to see I'm sure the rest of your listeners would love to find out who is really going to profit from this financial meltdown. Could it be the Bankers again
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Is there not an update for the 2nd?
I have just listened to the approach you took with DC and coming back time and time again to his policy "costings"
Do you have evidence that suggests that their policies have been costed? Is there something which you need to tell us about?
I am quite happy to believe that no one actually knows what the economy will look like until the next election winner takes a peek at the books. Do you have evidence that suggests otherwise?
Is it a line which you take because you know that it scores points?
I'm afraid I didn't find the line very useful, especially since we sat through Nicky on the breakfast programme allow Lord Mandelson to only give the information he wanted to.
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Hurra
the bankers are now saying they will be creating more debt over the next few months
Sorry did I say debt I meant credit. No I did really mean debt so don't take any of that Credit it will be the ruin of us all.
Remember resist the temptation to live beyond your means it aint worth it yours trully
Bankrupt
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