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Perhaps the greatest crime against Americans has been the debasement of our currency – though I am not talking about fiat money. What I am talking about is the debasement of our words and ideas.


 

I have yet to read the rest of the link above (beyond the quote above).

That quote is worth millions. Millions of lives. Millions of tears. Millions of fortunes. Millions of years.

It is the currency - stupid.

When the currency is designed to reach perfect information, then, the human species will survive - if possible.

The good war is the one defeating falsehood.

 
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I've read the rest of the link and as a result of my reading there now appears to be some confusion that can be worked upon in the effort to remove the confusion.

A very good explanation on the subject of 'collective' phenomenon is "Global Brain" by Howard Bloom. "Freedomness" is a collective product of many individual contributions of 'freedom'.

I think there is a real need to understand this phenomenon.

Example:

Roaches are free compared to rocks.

Human beings are free compared to Roaches.

Human beings may not survive the next huge meteor impact upon the planet earth.

Roaches may survive the next huge meteor impact upon the planet earth.

Does that make Roaches more free? What is the measure of 'freedomness' for roaches compared to human beings?

Human beings may be able to destroy the next huge meteor that will impact the planet earth.

Roaches can never destroy the next huge meteor that will mpact the planet earth.

How does the above words manage to measure the realtive 'freedomness' between Raoches and Human Beings?

If human beings do colonize another planet, then, will human beings import Roaches?

What is your personal level of 'freedomness' and how does  your personal level of freedomness add or subtract from the total level of 'freedomness' for the human species?

Anyone?

 

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Suppose that you knew in advance that the U.S. Federal Reserve (Limited Liability Corporation) DOLLAR value was going to plummet.

That may be a long stretch of imagination – a pie in the sky speculation – a tin hat conspiracy theory.

Suppose; however – that you did know in advance that the dollar was going to crash.

Suppose, further, that you have a retirement account that is denominated in dollars, so, logically you decide to reinvest that savings into something that was not going to crash and lose all the value stored (like electricity in a battery leaking out due to a short in the wiring).

Suppose all the above is a given – just for the sake of finding agreement (forget about arguing – no one wins – on purpose).

Suppose a person in such an imaginary situation as the one described above decided to cash in their savings and the following investments were set in motion:

A rural piece of land was purchased.

On the north boundary is a gas station mini-mart.
On the south boundary is an agricultural farm
On the west boundary is an industrial factory
On the east boundary is a small residential community

Upon your property you begin to assemble Solar Panels, Wind Mills, and Storage devices. You hook up to the existing grid. You assemble quick connections to each corner of your property (for direct hook up to all your neighbors in case the Electric Company does not purchase your oversupply).

You purchase 20 Electric Cars, Plug – in Cars, and/or Hybrid Cars.

You hire 10 drivers to drive your cars in the nearby town where traffic jams are often a problem at peak hours.

Each driver is given a stack of cards to advertise the re-sale of electric cars and advertise where their cars can be fueled up over night.

Now, for those who do have at least a cursory understanding of physics:

A.   How much fuel does an electric car waste while sitting in traffic?
B.   How much can be saved in fuel if all the traffic jam waste is added up?
C.   How much fuel is used up in transporting electric energy from the central electric plant to all the end points of consumption?
D.   How much fuel can be saved if all the transportation costs are added up?
E.   How much will your 401K savings be worth in 15 years?

Is it the currency? Am I the stupid one?

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However, the U.S. printed more dollars for which there was no gold backing. But the world was content to accept those dollars for more than 25 years with little question--until the French and others in the late 1960s demanded it fulfill its promise to pay one ounce of gold for each $35 they delivered to the U.S. Treasury. This resulted in a huge gold drain that brought an end to a very poorly devised pseudo-gold standard.  On August 15, 1971, Nixon closed the gold window and refused to pay out any of the remaining 280 million ounces of gold; but not without devising a new system for the dollar hegemony to spread.

An agreement was struck with OPEC to price oil in U.S. dollars exclusively for all worldwide transactions. This gave the dollar a special place among world currencies and in essence "backed" the dollar with oil.  In return, the U.S. promised to protect the various  oil-rich kingdoms in the Persian Gulf against threat of  invasion or domestic coup.  This arrangement  gave the dollar artificial strength, with tremendous financial benefits for the United States.  In November 2000 Saddam Hussein demanded Euros for his oil.  It was his arrogance that was a threat -- to the dollar; his lack of any military might was never a threat. At the first cabinet meeting with the new administration in 2001, as reported by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, the major topic was how to get rid of Saddam Hussein


 

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"He madethe ultimate mistake; he actually wanted to print their own money from the U.S. Treasury. Understand that the Federal Reserve Bank is neither Federal nor Reserve; they are the problem destroying our country. "

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Most Iraqis believe the invasion of 2003 was largely about oil.


 
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Lord don't they help themselves

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"China has accumulated a large sum of US dollars. Such a big sum, of which a considerable portion is in US treasury bonds, contributes a great deal to maintaining the position of the dollar as a reserve currency. Russia, Switzerland, and several other countries have reduced the their dollar holdings.

"China is unlikely to follow suit as long as the yuan's exchange rate is stable against the dollar. The Chinese central bank will be forced to sell dollars once the yuan appreciated dramatically, which might lead to a mass depreciation of the dollar," he told China Daily.

The threats play into the presidential electoral campaign of Hillary Clinton, who has called for restrictive legislation to prevent America being "held hostage to economic decicions being made in Beijing, Shanghai, or Tokyo".

She said foreign control over 44pc of the US national debt had left America acutely vulnerable.

 

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Economic policy is not ‘accidental.' The Fed's policies were designed to create a crisis, and that crisis was intended to coincide with the activation of a nationwide police state.... The Federal Reserve is a central player in a carefully considered plan to shift the nation's wealth from one class to another. And they have succeeded. Nearly 4 million American jobs have been sent overseas, the country has increased the national debt by $3 trillion dollars, and foreign investors own $4.5 trillion in US dollar-backed assets. While the Fed has been carrying out its economic strategy; the Bush administration has deployed the military around the world to conduct a global resource war. These are two wheels on the same axel. The goal is to maintain control of the global economic system by seizing the remaining energy resources in Eurasia and the Middle East and by integrating potential rivals into the American-led economic model under the direction of the Central Bank. All of the leading candidates-Democrat and Republican---belong to secretive organizations which ascribe to the same basic principles of global rule (new world order) and permanent US hegemony. There's no quantifiable difference between any of them.

 

Dear reader,

If you read the whole article (I am not done with it yet) and you run accross the following words, then, re-read something 'telling'.

Sorry to say, but all of this sound a whole lot like the current moment, and certainly everything enumerated here will only worsen, and Panzner admits as much in the final chapters as he presents a world of chaos, lawlessness, hunger, thirst, homelessness, inveterate wandering, and people with nothing to lose doing whatever it takes, in order to survive.

 

That is what I call Self-fullfilling Prphecy or The Dooms Day Parade. The following is telling something:

I do not believe that all social issues can be resolved if only we change how money works in the United States or the world, but I am profoundly aware of the role of economic issues-perhaps more than militarism, healthcare, education, politics, or any other institution, in the dead-ahead demise of empire.

 

Note the use of the word "Money". The accurate word in context is "Currency".

Money does not 'work'. Currency works. Currency flows. Currency does the WORK.

Money is the store or battery. Currency is the stuff that moves.

If currency is OIL, then, currency moves oxygen and turns oxygen into carbon monoxide.

If currency is Solar Energy, then, currency moves light into electricity.

Electricity is currency.

Replace the flow of oil with the flow of Solar (and wind) electricity and what happens to Social Issues?

A. Weath increases in proportion to the increase in the flow of Sunlight being converted into electricity.

B. Costs decrease

C. Prices decrease

D. People become Power - Independent

E. Less fear, less torture, less mass murder, and NO MORE LEGAL CRIMINALS.

What is the problem?

 

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We might go through an analysis of the whole business, and show the incalculable advantages of substituting inanimate machine in each department, but this would be tedious for me and the printer, a bare hint at each must suffice to set the reader fairly on the road to economy, and to show how much has been lost for want of such an improvement.

Do you want to see economy from a basic and principled viewpoint?

The principle is accuracy. If error is found, then, error is removed; that is a principle.

An opposing principle is one where error is found and error is utilized within the viewpoint.

Which is a more economical principle to use?

A. Accuracy

B. False

The concept of currency can be view from both principles.

A. Accurate currency

B. False currency

Currently the world is full of false currency flowing through the global economy like bad blood or polluted water.

Accurate currency strives to accomplish a specific utility or utilization aimed at accomplishing a specific task, on purpose, in time and space.

It is important to add time and space (distance between places).

Without time and space the utility of currency will not be accurate. Without time and space the accomplishment of currency will fail in proportion to the error.

The task given to accurate currency is to account for the creation of value and facilitate the equitable trade of value.

Example:

Person, city, county, state, corporation, business, or nation A creates 100 items per day.

Person, city, county, state, corporation, business, or nation B creates 200 items per hour.

A is 100 miles from B.

A needs the stuff made by A and B.

B needs the stuff made by B and A.

Currency accomplishes the transfer of the stuff from A to B accurately.

Currency accomplishes the transfer of stuff accurately when A sends as much as it can afford to send and receives as much as it can afford to receive and at the same TIME B sends as much as it can afford to send and receives as much as it can afford to receive.

When currency does not accomplish the equitable task of transferring the stuff accurately, then, A receives not enough or too much and, at the same TIME, B receives not enough or too much stuff.

When currency does not accomplish the job of equitable transfer accurately, then, A or B may work themselves to death while A or B does no work whatsoever.

Guess who has an interest in inequitable and inaccurate currency?

Why is accurate currency so difficult to accomplish?

A very likely answer is: Falsehood on purpose.

People have a vested interest in making sure that few, if anyone, can see, and spread, the concept of accurate currency.

It is very, very, easy to understand.

Currency need only account for the accurate amount of value created in time and space. That is all. That is enough. There isn't any reason to get more complicated.

This can clearly be seen from a viewpoint of modern banking.

Suppose the following products represented the major world economic supply of stuff.

A. Energy

B. Food

C. Water

D. Shelter

E. Clothing

F. Currency

Now add up the quantity of A through E produced today and transferred to the place of consumption.  Once that number is found (and it can be estimated and predicted for tomorrow based upon accurate statistical history), then, add up F.

If the sum of A through E is smaller than F, then, there is more currency required to facilitate the transfer of A through E.

Example:

A through E equals 1 trillion.

F equals 2 trillion.

F is twice as much as A through E.

Get this straight now.

TOTAL PRODUCTION AT THE POINT OF CONSUMPTION = 1 trillion

TOTAL CURRENCY = 2 trillion

That is global trade in one day from every point of production to every point of consumption.

In other words everyone managed to move everything needed from producer to consumer in that one day and the total currency supply was twice the amount of stuff moved.

What happens if the supplier of currency removes half the currency tonight?

This is an important question.

Remember: All the stuff moved today.

Tomorrow the supply of currency is cut in half.

What happens?

What happens if the supply of currency is RAPTURED tonight and tomorrow there isn't any currency at all.

If you cannot see this then perhaps I am not making myself clear. I am asking questions. This is clear to me.

If the entire world supply of currency is RAPTURED tonight where no currency existed on the planet earth, then, the stuff that moved with currency today will not move with currency tomorrow. People will need to replace the RAPTURED currency with something that will move stuff or stuff won't move.

This is easy to see. When you find something on E-Bay that someone else has you click some buttons on your keyboard and three days later the thing you want shows up at your door.

Currency does the facilitating job. Currency is the stuff that moves the stuff. If currency does its job, then, you get the stuff. You send stuff to get the stuff. What do you send? Where did the currency stuff come from? Do you need the currency stuff?

What does the currency stuff do?

Does the currency stuff do the thing it does well?

Is there enough currency?

Is there too much currency?

Is that not your problem?

What do you do when the electric bill is higher than your pay check?

Do you need more currency or do you need to make more stuff that you use to get currency?

What happens if you are the person, city, county, business, corporation, state, or nation that happens to be in the business of supplying the world with currency?

Do you make more currency whenever YOU want?

Do you make more of the stuff you make (even if you make laughs as a stand up comedian) or do you simply print more currency?

Can you force people to laugh?

Can you force people to use your currency if you continue to print much more currency than anyone needs?

If you are the one printing the currency (or adding zeros into a digital hard drive account), then, who do you credit with more zeros and who do you make sure that they get no more credit?

Did you know that hundreds of tons of 100 dollar bills were sent to Iraq and that these pallets of 100 dollar bills were lost; just like the hundreds of AK47s that were lost, somehow, in Iraq.

Come on people. Give credit where credit is due - please.

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Give credit where credit is due.

 

 

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The US writer Noam Chomsky talks about the mechanisms behind modern communication, an essential instrument of government in democratic countries – as important to our governments as propaganda is to a dictatorship.



By Noam Chomsky and Daniel Mermet

 

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Money is the sole criterion for all value including of ourselves. So we try constantly to show how ‘successful’ we are by showing how wasteful we can be. Contribution to society is not even in the reckoning any more. Sure, some of us, especially the new entrepreneurs are looking at ways to contribute. But in the same breath we idolize those who have institutionalized corruption in the land to such an extent that they actually have entire departments in their companies specifically dedicated for this purpose. We are a nation today where when 3000 innocent civilians were slaughtered in Gujarat, aided and abetted by the very government which they had elected, not one single industry head either raised his voice against it nor did he or she offer any aid to the victims who survived the heinous crimes committed against them,. Can you imagine this happening if Sardar Vallabhai Patel had been the Chief Minister of Gujarat?


We are today a nation where corruption in the Judiciary is called ‘Speed Money’ and is justified in that delay in project implementation would cost more. We are today a nation where murder by the state is called ‘Encounter Killing’ and the murderers are glorified by the name ‘Encounter Specialist’. We are today a nation where corruption is justified as a ‘reality’ that we have to face. By that we mean ‘accept’. After all, to fight corruption one would also have to face it, wouldn’t one? But that is not what we mean when we use the word ‘face’. We are today a nation where even lip service to poverty eradication is not fashionable any more. Instead even our communist party is killing farmers whose lands are sought to be ‘annexed’ to create walled fortresses called ‘SEZ’ for rich industrialists. Money talks. And nowhere does it talk louder than in India. For on this band wagon one can see some strange companions. Together are people who at one time ran organizations that were the symbols of corporate integrity and responsibility along with those who always stood for the axiom that ‘charity begins at home, so what’s good for me is good for the nation.’


 


Before I dive into the angle of view illuminated with the term "Speed Money" I'm going to link a Google Search on J. Krishnamurthy.


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=J.+Krishnamurti


http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/


http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/quotes/2007-07-20_The_world_of_relationship


If we do not understand the world of relationship and bring about a fundamental transformation there, we cannot possibly create a new culture, a different civilization, a peaceful world. So it must start with ourselves. The world demands an immense, a radical change, but it must begin with you and me; and we cannot bring about a real change in ourselves if we do not know the totality of our world of thoughts, of feelings, of actions, if we are not aware of ourselves from moment to moment. And you will see, if you are so aware, that the mind begins to free itself from all influences of the past. After all, the mind is now the result of the past, and all thinking is a projection of the past, it is simply a response of the past to challenge, so merely to think of creating a new world will never bring a new world into being.


 


Speed money

If the family of human beings can be seen as an organism and this unit is alive with a blood traveling through it, then, it is possible to view what happens to the organism when the flow of blood changes.

Before moving onto a view of change it must be a consideration to view what the flow of blood in humanities organism looks like before the change.

What does the flow of blood look like before it changes?

Example:

Suppose you are shopping on-line and your screen shows a new thing that you must have and this new thing is in India. You type in the required information and send that information somewhere. Three days later the new thing arrives at your door.

You send something. Something arrives at your door.

The blood of humanity flows.

We are looking at the blood of humanity flowing; before it changes.

Now add up all the exchanges occurring today where all the people connected in the network of human existence send stuff and receive stuff. Humanity is like a single body where blood flows through it.

Now take away all the blood.

What happens tomorrow?

Today the blood of humanity flows and tomorrow there is no blood.

That is a change.

That is a change from one day where you send stuff and you receive stuff to a change where you can't send stuff and you can't receive stuff.

One day there is blood in the organism called humanity and the next day there is no more blood.

The change went from a flow of blood to a no flow of blood.

The consequences of the change should be obvious.

What happens if the bloodless condition lasts only one day and on the very next day a new blood is added to the organism called humanity?

One day the blood flows. The next day there is no blood.

On the next day a new blood is injected into the organism called humanity.

Which blood is best?

Corrupt, innacruate, deceitful, poisonous blood

Accurate and intending to account for the facts blood

This is as simple as asking which is better between lies and truth.

If you are a criminal and your business in life is to live at the expense of other people, then, you must incorporate falsehood in your business. This is fact.

Which do you prefer?

If the blood in the organism called humanity flows too fast from those who produce and maintain the blood supply to those who cannot handle Speed Money without corupting their own personal lives, then, the organism empowered with the job of creating and maintaining the blood supply is failing to govern that supply accurately. The supply of blood becomes a poison.


 

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The fiscal imbalance meant the US was “on a path toward an explosion of debt”.
 

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18183.htm

When currency is monopolized (competition is outlawed) the cost of currency becomes debt.

Debt is man made.

Credit is man made.

The 'explosion of debt' is created ON PURPOSE.

The means to that end is 'legal tender' and the OPPOSITE is FREE BANKING.

Competition between currency suppliers will tend to reduce the COST (interest) of currency to a minimum as competitors vie for the largest market share.

If all the currency competitors get together and make a deal among themselves to end this crazy notion of competition, then, they can maintain their monopoly control so long as no new competitors compete (don't join the cabal).

When the CABAL becomes more powerful than any other group or organization, then, that CABAL may become corrupt to a point where the competition will be tortured and mass murdered JUST to maintain the currency monopoly.

It IS the stupid currency.


 

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So what can desperate citizens do in the face of a captured government?

 

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/160029976

Any competition in the business of supplying currency removes power from the people who are currently in power. Add all the power of all the people who will compete and what do you get?

You get, or earn, a power-less criminal gang of self-confessed torturing mass murderers and Self-Government by THE PEOPLE.

Who owns the currency?

Who has the power?

It IS the Stupid Currency - how stupid are you?


 

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In Washington, the old Iran-Contra death squad gang, back in power under Bush, fear the economic bridges Chávez is building in the region, such as the use of Venezuela’s oil revenue to end IMF slavery.

 

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The Times editorials also serve as conduits for propaganda. On August 13, a Times editorial jumped on China for “irresponsible threats” that threaten free trade. The Times’ editorialists do not understand that the offshoring of American jobs, which the Times mistakenly thinks is free trade, is a far greater threat to America than a reminder from the Chinese, who are tired of US bullying, that China is America’s banker.
 

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Think now:


A bank offers anyone a no interest loan to pay off their primary residence. The same bank offers a 1% interest loan for anyone using the loan to invest in Energy production or consumption (Making Electric cars and Solar Panels or Buying Electric cars or Solar panels as examples). 

The bank (internet start up business like E-Bay, PayPal, Google, E-Gold, etc.) can exist and offer these products (loans) so long as their costs (An internet connection) are lower than their income (1% return on all currency loaned).

 

Think a few minutes on that please.

 

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Cheney has dumped another (estimated) $10 to $25 million in a European bond fund which tells us that he is counting on a steadily weakening dollar. So, while working class Americans are loosing ground to inflation and rising energy costs, Darth Cheney will be enhancing his wealth in "Old Europe". As Blackburn sagely notes, "Not all bad news' is bad for everybody."

This should put to rest once and for all the foolish notion that the "Bush Economic Plan" is anything more than a scam aimed at looting the public till. The whole deal is intended to shift the nation's wealth from one class to another. It's also clear that Bush-Cheney couldn't have carried this off without the tacit approval of the thieves at the Federal Reserve who engineered the low-interest rate boondoggle to put the American people to sleep while they picked their pockets.

The Bush-Cheney team has racked up another $3 trillion in debt in just 6 years. The US national debt now stands at $8.4 trillion dollars while the trade deficit has ballooned to $800 billion nearly 7% of GDP.

This is lunacy. No country, however powerful, can maintain these staggering numbers. The country is in hock up to its neck and has to borrow $2.5 billion per day just to stay above water. Presently, the Fed is expanding the money supply and buying back its own treasuries to hide the hemorrhaging from the public. Its utter madness.

 

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Words are currency.

How about a riddle?

When does telling the truth result in torture?

 

 

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When the truth hurts.

 

 

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Of all the companies on my second list, KBR saw some of the biggest revenue gains from the Iraq war. It was No. 37 on the Defense Department's top-100 list of military contractors in 2002. By 2006, KBR had climbed to No. 6.

 

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Operation Iraqi Freedom, it turns out, was never a war against Saddam ­Hussein's Iraq. It was an invasion of the federal budget, and no occupying force in history has ever been this efficient. George W. Bush's war in the Mesopotamian desert was an experiment of sorts, a crude first take at his vision of a fully privatized American government. In Iraq the lines between essential government services and for-profit enterprises have been blurred to the point of absurdity -- to the point where wounded soldiers have to pay retail prices for fresh underwear, where modern-day chattel are imported from the Third World at slave wages to peel the potatoes we once assigned to grunts in KP, where private companies are guaranteed huge profits no matter how badly they fuck things up.

 

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This basically means, the more you share, the faster your downloads will go.

 

That is called 'velocity'.

Our species is evolving out of the old 'scarcity' economic meme into a new age of cost-less connectivity.

Sentences hardly manage to transfer the data intact.

You may want to play around with game theory some if you desire to get up to speed and know that game theory is being passed up too.

http://prisonersdilemma.groenefee.nl/

The basic principle is connectivity and as costs are reduced (anyone can connect with anyone instantly without any effort) accuracy is increased. Who, for example, will choose to be stupefied with falsehood?

The old way of thinking (do onto others before they can do onto you i.e. capitalism) is rapidly becoming both unnecessary and unwanted in favor of a new process of thought where profit is a net increase gained through sharing.


AGAIN:

This basically means, the more you share, the faster your downloads will go.

 

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The very thought of those innovations in technology promises to reshape the trading system that underpins 21st century capitalism, multiplying its revolutionary impact on the lives of the poor, giving them facilities once available to the rich only.
'Cyber' currency

 

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This in turn is tied to another of the chief war aims: the "oil law" that will open Iraq's sumptuous resources to predatory Western investors.

 

Oil is the stuff backing the currency known as 'dollars'.

Dollars are manufactured by the single (monopoly money) supplier of 'dollars' and that supplier is a limited liability corporation or otherwise known as 'Western investlors".

Dollar Hegemony is like Count De Monet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyw_o6P6-WQ

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Association of Iran with the SCO extends its inroads into the Middle East, where China has been increasing trade and other relations with the jewel in the crown, Saudi Arabia.  There is an oppressed Shi’ite population in Saudi Arabia that is also susceptible to Iran’s influence – and happens to sit on most of Saudi oil.  About 40% of Middle East oil is reported to be heading East, not West.[9] As the flow Eastward increases, US control declines over this lever of world domination, a “stupendous source of strategic power,” as the State Department described Saudi oil 60 years ago.

 

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Encouraged by the indifference of both the American media and Christian churches to the massive casualties inflicted on Iraqi civilians, the Bush administration will not be deterred by the prospect of its air attacks inflicting massive casualties on Iranian civilians. Last summer the Bush administration demonstrated to the entire world its total disdain for Muslim life when Bush supported Israel’s month-long air attack on Lebanese civilian infrastructure and civilian residences. President Bush blocked the attempt by the rest of the world to halt the gratuitous murder of Lebanese civilians and infrastructure destruction. Clearly, turning the Muslim Middle East into a wasteland is the Bush policy. For Bush, civilian casualties are a non-issue. Hegemony uber alles.


 

Dollar Hegemony

Count de money; it is called: being accountable.

 

 

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Where Did The Money Go?

By Geoff Pender

08/31/07 "
Sun Herald" -- - BILOXI -- It's hard for the average working stiff to contemplate a number as vast as the $23.5 billion the federal government has allocated to Mississippi for Katrina recovery.

Think of it this way:

It's enough money to buy two average-sized houses for each of the 65,000 families in Mississippi who lost their homes.

And, there would be enough left over to buy each family a brand-new Honda Accord to drive between their two $166,000 houses. That's the EX-L, V-6 four-door sedan Accord, with all the extras and navigation, not a base model.

It's enough to give each man, woman and child in the three southernmost counties $68,500 apiece. Or, to look at it another way, federal Katrina spending in Mississippi will cost each person in the United States about $94.

Just the $1 billion the U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates FEMA lost to "fraud, waste and abuse" within a short time after the storm would be enough to cover the city of Waveland's budget for 143 years, or buy more than 6,000 new houses.

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Explain the meaning of a few terms:

Trading with the enemy

Put Options

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Selling short

and

Assasination Politics

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Billions over Baghdad

Between April 2003 and June 2004, $12 billion in U.S. currency—much of it belonging to the Iraqi people—was shipped from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad, where it was dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority. Some of the cash went to pay for projects and keep ministries afloat, but, incredibly, at least $9 billion has gone missing, unaccounted for, in a frenzy of mismanagement and greed. Following a trail that leads from a safe in one of Saddam's palaces to a house near San Diego, to a P.O. box in the Bahamas, the authors discover just how little anyone cared about how the money was handled.

By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele

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You can watch that and be insulted if you wish. I've seen the first 10 percent of it and already I am inspired to pass it on right here where IT IS THE STUPID CURRENCY STUPID.

Any observation of 'truth' requires an observer.

Example:

Perception is reality.

No one can perceive that sentence above and claim it to be true - in fact - without accessing their power to perceive it.

In other words; if anyone is void of the power of perception, then, that someone is incapable of something real.

And these are just words.

If the idea is to seek a more accurate perception, then, a person must maintain a desire to question authority, or, in other words; a person must remain curious.

Perception is reality.

Someone might come along and twist the known and knowable into something false. If that happens, then, how can anyone recognize the lie before the lie injures someone or many people?

One thing, and only one thing, is known and knowable.

Perception

If you wish to expose my lie, or champion your truth, then you can and know (perceive) now and ever more (at least while you can perceive) that during your crusade you will perceive.

Anything more than that is faith based.

Perception is not reality.

Perception is reality.

Any effort to refute the fact that perception is the only known and knowable reality requires perception to prove or disprove this known and knowable reality. The word ‘only’ is contentious. I believe and can prove that perception is not the only known and knowable reality. I do this amazing feat every single time someone else perceives.


 

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So, in the Austrian School tradition, money is a product of the market. Coins or ingots of a fixed fineness and weight of some money metal are used by market participants to facilitate exchange. Receipts for these metals also are widely used as money substitutes. Mises always called these receipts money substitutes. He did not call them money.
Mises did not trust the state in monetary matters, so he called for free banking: some fractional reserves, in which more receipts to metals are issued by banks than are held in reserve. He trusted bankers and depositors to monitor the issue of money. Anything other than free banking, he argued, places too much trust in government. As he wrote in Human Action (Regnery, 1966),




But even if the 100 percent reserve plan were to be adopted on the basis of the unadulterated gold standard, it would not entirely remove the drawbacks inherent in every kind of government interference with banking. What is needed to prevent any further credit expansion is to place the banking business under the general rules of commercial and civil laws compelling every individual and firm to fulfill all obligations in full compliance with the terms of the contract. If banks are preserved as privileged establishments subject to special legislative provisions, the tool remains that governments can use for fiscal purposes. Then every restriction imposed upon the issuance of fiduciary media depends upon the government's and the parliament's good intentions. They may limit the issuance for periods which are called normal. The restriction will be withdrawn whenever a government deems that an emergency justifies resorting to extraordinary measures. If an administration and the party backing it want to increase expenditure without jeopardizing their popularity through the imposition of higher taxes, they will always be ready to call their impasse an emergency. Recourse to the printing press and to the obsequiousness of bank managers willing to oblige the authorities regulating their conduct of affairs is the foremost means of governments eager to spend money for purposes for which the taxpayers are not ready to pay higher taxes (p. 444).





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In contrast, Rothbard held to a system of 100% reserves, which he defended by an appeal to law: a prohibition against issuing receipts for which there was insufficient metal. He presented this view in his important essay, "The Case for a 100 Per Cent Gold Dollar": "In my view, issuing promises to pay on demand in excess of the amount of goods on hand is simply fraud, and should be so considered by the legal system. For this means that a bank issues 'fake' warehouse receipts – warehouse receipts, for example, for ounces of gold that do not actually exist in the vaults. This is legalized counterfeiting. . . . In short, I believe that fractional reserve banking is disastrous both for the morality and for the fundamental bases and institutions of the market economy" (In Search of a Monetary Constitution, edited by Leland B. Yeager [Harvard University Press, 1962], p. 114).





 


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WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?

In theory, there are two possible solutions, neither of which has any possibility of being implemented in my lifetime or yours.

One solution is free banking. This was Ludwig von Mises’ suggestion. There would be no bank regulation, no central bank monopolies, no bank licensing, and no legal barriers to entry. Let the most efficient banks win! In other words, the solution is a free market in money.

Another solution is 100% reserve banking. Banks would not be allowed to issue more receipts for gold or silver than they have on deposit. Anything else is fraud. There would be regulation and supervision to make sure deposits matched loans. This was Murray Rothbard’s solution. The question is: Regulation by whom? With what authority?

There would be no government-issued money. There would be no government mint. There would be no legal tender laws. There would be no barriers to entry into coin production.

There would also be no free services. There is no such thing as a free lunch


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TOUCH AND GO: WANTA SETTLEMENT OR WORLD CRASH?
In our report dated 18th July 2007 we indicated that the US authorities faced a simple choice: finally pay the Wanta Settlement, or face the prospect of a world financial and economic crash, which inter alia will destroy their own illegally accumulated, off-balance sheet, untaxed ‘fiat money assets’.

 

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In short, it is time for every central bank to stop doing anything. It is time for a free market to allocate credit, just as it allocates capital in the equity markets.    
Will the rate of interest rise? There is more than one rate of interest. Short-term rates will rise until recession hits. Then they will fall. Long-term rates will fall immediately. Why? Because stable money will produce price deflation. This will lower long-term rates. The inflation premium in long-term loans will disappear.  It will eventually go negative.


 
Negative inflation premium interest?
Price deflation?

In simple terms: 

If people are free to cooperate on their own terms, then, productivity increases. This is about as factual as sun shine.  

Imagine then a 'body politic' or 'society' or 'economy' as one unit and the one unit increases production from a low rate of production to a higher rate of production. It can be said that the unit becomes richer.

Example: 

How rich was the unit known as Europe during the inquisition, the black plague, the dark ages, WWI, and WWII?


How rich were those 'societies' as a whole? 

Like a math word problem.

Add up all the riches and divide by the number of people in the society and you get a rich ratio. 

Note: All the dead people make everyone look richer but the idea here is to look at PRODUCTIVITY and during those times the most productive product was dead people.

Producing more and more dead people has a economical cost in total productivity.  

Example:
6 (billion) people on the planet divided into 6 units of wealth (the total RICHNESS produced – including Ipods and low calorie Cheeseburgers).

6/6 = 1
 

Enter stage left: Double the rate of production (twice as many Ipods, Cheeseburgers, and every other unit of wealth = richer by two). 

12/6 = 2
 

Enter stage right: Wipe out half the population.

12/3 = 4

See how rich everyone is? 

A problem: Who is going to produce 12 units of everything now that all those innocent hard working honest people are dead? 

Answer: Wipe out more people to keep up with the lowering rate of production? 

Return to the Black Plague? 

No.

 

If the rate of production remains steady, then, the amount of riches (production) remains equal to the number of people. 

Again:

6 Billion Units of wealth divided by 6 Billion honest hard working and cooperating individuals.


6/6 = 1 

One is a rate of production that moves from producers to consumers and from consumers to producers in an economic cycle that is facilitated by CURRENT economic activity. 

The stuff flows. The stuff flows because people communicate their supply needs and wants and suppliers produce those wanted and needed supplies in a cycle of economic activity that MUST employ accurate information OTHERWISE too much of one thing is produced and not enough of something else is produced and hard working innocent honest people starve to death for want and need of accurate currency. 

One means ONE.

If anyone increases the supply of money (currency) and there is no increase in the rate of production, then, wealth becomes a POTENTIAL called CREDIT. 

Anyone can increase the supply of CURRENCY with a simple piece of paper with three words written on the paper: I Owe You. 

If the one increasing the supply of currency produces more wealth, then, the I.O.U. DEFLATES because the measure of wealth catches up to the measure of money (currency). 

See this?

6/6 = 1
Someone doubles the supply of currency.
6/6 = 2

 Actual wealth remains ONE. Currency increases to TWO. Before the increase in CREDIT the ratio of Wealth to Currency was 1 to 1. After the increasing in CREDIT the ratio of Wealth to Currency is 1 to 2, where, no increase in production is measured by twice as much currency. 

What happens to all that currency? 

Example:

6 Billion people cooperate and produce 6 Billion units of RICHNESS and 6 Billion units of currency flows through society to measure the amount of RICHNESS accurately.

6/6 = 1

1/1 = 1


Enter stage left: Increase the supply of CREDIT by a factor of 2 = double the money supply (currency).

Before

One unit of wealth divided by one unit of currency equals 1.

1/1 = 1 

After

One unit of wealth divided by two units of currency

1/2 = .5

That is PURCHASING POWER going down. 
 

Where once a Dollar can purchase one Cheeseburger it now costs two dollars to purchase a Cheeseburger because PURCHASING POWER reduced by .5 when the money supply doubled.

What happens if the CREDIT goes to innocent poor people who want to work and produce more cheeseburgers?


6 Billion people receive CREDIT and produce 6 more units of WEALTH increasing the total WEALTH to 12 units of WEALTH. 

12 / 6 = 2 

2 Units of Wealth divided by 2 units of currency equals 1 PURCHASING POWER. 

The Cheeseburger costs ONE DOLLAR again.


From 

Before

One unit of wealth divided by one unit of currency equals 1.

1/1 = 1 

After

One unit of wealth divided by two units of currency

1/2 = .5 

To

2/1 = 1

 

The problem is not “INFLATION”. The problem is a flow of wealth to those who commit crimes and this wealth comes from those who create wealth (making wealth creators less powerful). 

The fix is to give CREDIT to those who produce wealth (the only ones who deserve CREDIT for producing wealth). 

How do you give CREDIT to those who produce wealth? 

Answer: Accurate Currency 

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Someone, come to think of it, like Ron Paul.
Anyway, it would do my heart good to see the mainstream media have to work really hard once again for its money.

After all, separating a blue-collar worker from his silver dollars has never been easy.

 

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/herndon2.html

 

How?

 

Gold as currency can certainly shackle the agents who spend TAX wealth. Returning to gold and silver as 'legal' tender will end the abuse of currency fraud currently being committed by legal means.

Does the FIX outlaw any other currency?

In other words; will people be forced to pay taxes with gold and silver?

If that is a fact, a plan in the works, then gold and silver will increase in value after that fact.

Knowing about this fact, if it is a fact, will empower those who buy gold and silver now.

Do you understand how this works?

 

 

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Simple: If the supply of currency reduces (deflation) people will not have as much currency.

Why make it complicated?

If you don't know the simple answer, then, you are probably on the wrong end of the stick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea2PFayJBtk&mode=related&search=

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Who will get Iraq’s oil? One of the Bush administration’s ‘benchmarks’ for the Iraqi government is the passage of a law to distribute oil revenues. The draft law that the US has written for the Iraqi congress would cede nearly all the oil to Western companies. The Iraq National Oil Company would retain control of 17 of Iraq’s 80 existing oilfields, leaving the rest – including all yet to be discovered oil – under foreign corporate control for 30 years. ‘The foreign companies would not have to invest their earnings in the Iraqi economy,’ the analyst Antonia Juhasz wrote in the New York Times in March, after the draft law was leaked. ‘They could even ride out Iraq’s current “instability” by signing contracts now, while the Iraqi government is at its weakest, and then wait at least two years before even setting foot in the country.’ As negotiations over the oil law stalled in September, the provincial government in Kurdistan simply signed a separate deal with the Dallas-based Hunt Oil Company, headed by a close political ally of President Bush.


 

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The Bankers Impose Poverty

The information came to the knowledge of the English Bankers, and held their attention. They immediately took the necessary steps to have the British Parliament to pass a law that prohibited the Colonies from using their scrip money, and then ordered them to use only the gold and silver money that was provided in sufficient quantity by the English bankers. Then began in America the plague of debt-money, which has never since brought so many curses to the American people.


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Free banking

"Legal Tender"

Here too:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north512.html

We are in debt to Gary North - thanks.

 

 

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Peter Drucker years ago wrote that when a new technology reduces costs by 90%, it cannot be stopped. It will take over any market that has been maintained by an existing technology. The Internet has reduced communications costs – not counting our time – by far more than 90%. It cannot be stopped.

 

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Uncle Sam (Chester) hates competition.

 

 

 

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Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- The United Arab Emirates may link the dirham to a basket of currencies, ending its 30-year-old peg to the dollar, central bank Governor Sultan Bin Nasser al-Suwaidi said.

 

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That one is very well done.

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In the early 1930s the small town of Worgl in the Austrian Tyrol, suffering like every other town in Europe and America from the Great Depression, took the unlikely step of issuing its own currency.

 

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Yes; that is currency.

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-- ending the autonomy of Venezuela's Central Bank to reclaim the country's financial sovereignty the way it should be everywhere; today nearly all central banks are controlled by private for-profit banking cartels; Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul wants to end that status in the US and correctly explains the Federal Reserve Bank is neither federal nor does it have reserves; it's owned and run by Wall Street and the major banks;
 

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18755.htm

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Credit money / False Debt


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Who put the Dick back in Dictator?

 

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There are a host of things which analysts from every sector agree on. The US is in Iraq and will be there for decades. The attack on Iran complete with regime change is absolutely necessary for the U.S. to remain world Superpower. This war with Iran can not and will not be won without the use of Nuclear Weapons. Using nukes on Iran will cause a regional war in the entire Middle East which could last for decades. This will cause the current U.S. economy to collapse, causing a violent civil war and revolution (people against people and against the government) within the US. The prison camps will be filled to capacity with the poor and middle class who disagree with the government and ironically those who fight the system of military police state will be forced to work in military complexes building more bombs and weapons for their elected leaders to use for their protection from the ‘’Terrorists’’ who were created by the US government.
 

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Please read the above and note:

Chavez has nationalized the OIL industry and is currently financing economic activity with that CURRENCY.

The oil CURRENCY is energizing, fueling, and powering an increase in economic activity in a DIRECTION that defies DICTATES (in other words; the direction is voluntary in nature).

On the other hand; Iraq (and perhaps soon Iran) is suffering Oil "privitization" by DICTATE. The economy is being stiffled BECAUSE the currency flowing through that economy is poluted, false, destructive, and (you must see this by now) PROFITABLE for a select few AT THE EXPENSE OF EVERYONE ELSE.

The design of the currency is man-made. Oil, for example, is turned into gasoline.

Why can't people see that sunlight is now being turned into electricity and is therefore much more economically viable than OIL?

Some can - some can't.

 

 

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The most sophisticated media developed by technology, employed to kill human beings and to subjugate or exterminate peoples; the massive sowing of conditioned reflexes of the mind; consumerism and all available resources; these are being used today against the Venezuelans, with the intent of ripping the ideas of Bolivar and Marti to shreds.

 

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Iran has reduced its assets in dollars held in foreign banks and urged OPEC to take collective action to price oil in other currencies such as the euro, instead of the US currency which is used across the world at present.

 

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TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran and China's Sinopec on Sunday signed a two billion dollar contract to develop a major Iranian oil field, a crucial deal for the Iranian energy industry at a time of mounting international pressure.

 

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DC: There is much talk about the Chinese deliberately keeping their currency cheap in order to undercut U.S. and European manufacturers. And we are increasingly hearing discussions about layering on more tariffs aimed at the Chinese. We assume you are anti-tariff, so do you do anything at all about “unfair” competition or just let the global marketplace sort things out over time?

RP: The United States does not have the authority to tell China, or any other country, what to do with their currencies. The values of currencies should be set by the market. Instead of worrying about the speck in China’s eye, I would focus on the beam in our eye by reducing the national debt, restoring a market in currency by repealing the legal tender laws and ending the continued debasement of the American currency.

 

Note: Ron Paul advocates gold as currency and not a 'gold standard' dreamed up by greedy monopoly capitalists. See the part where 'restoring a market in currency by repealing the legal tender laws' is advocated. How can the laws change constitutionally when Ron Paul is president?

 

 

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I read most of the above and found it to be more of the same apologies for the Interest/Profit/Wage Paying System of DEBT/PUNISHMENT.

The opposite, by contrast, is Credit/Reward and Equitable Commerce (no interest/mutual profit/Equitable System).

See the difference?

If you don't, then, why don't you see the difference?

The Federal Reserve is deflating the money supply not inflating the money supply to The People. If, and this is a big if, the Federal Reserve Directors are adding zeros to accounts (inflating someone's money supply), then, they do so with a specific end in mind. Do they intend to reward 'good' behavior? Do they intend to punish 'bad' behavior?

Do they intend to 'save' the economy? Who's economy?

Can you or I receive money at no interest?

Why not?

If you or I can pay back every penny loaned based upon a very good credit history, then, why not give us the new money without interest if the idea is to 'inject' new money into the economy and 'save' the economy?

We could receive no interest loans to place Solar Panels on our homes and electric cars in our garages. Work out the numbers – please.

Suppose, for example, that 100,000,000 people (that is ONE HUNDRED MILLION) received enough new money (inflation of course) and those people are now generating their own electricity and powering their own vehicles and each one of those people SERVE the loan they borrow from THEMSELVES with honor. They pay back all the money loaned. The BANKER can even destroy the money when they get it back (deflate back to the pre-inflation supply total).

What happens to the economy?

Each of the One hundred million people save their entire electric bill and their entire gasoline bill which can easily pay back the loan AND net each of the One hundred million people extra purchasing power every month.

See this?

The new ENERGY (Solar) flows through the One Hundred million peoples accounts and POWERS the economy with that new POWER. A typical electric bill is 100 dollars per month and a typical gasoline bill is easily 400 dollars per month. That is 500 dollars per month where 400 dollars can SERVICE the loan (at no interest) while 100 dollars per month goes on the pockets of the 100 million people to do as they please (go to the movies, get that new television set, pay off the home mortgage earlier, start a college fund, increase insurance coverage, etc.) and everyone is happy except the people who are ‘supposedly’ getting the money quoted in the article at the start of this diatribe.

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On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve announced plans to lend $40 billion to banks. 

There it is in black and white just like my words only different. 40 billion dollars is 400 dollars for 100 million people. 40 billion dollars is 40 thousand dollars for a million people.

40 billion is 4,000 dollars for 10 million people.

If all that new POWER goes to the same people who loaned the money to desperate people who could not, most definitely could not, pay back the loan – then – will that new POWER be used to generate more POWER or with that new POWER be used to destroy credit; again?

What happens if the 40 billion merely goes into the accounts of the BANK officers and the BANK investors to be used to buy political influence?

What happens if the new POWER is used to create more POWER? How many Solar Panels can 40 billion dollars purchase? How many home mortgages can 40 billion dollars purchase?

It isn’t that tough to see. One solar panel can cost 800 dollars and that on solar panel will produce power for 25 years guaranteed.

How many?

40 billion divided by 800 equals 50,000,000.

50 million Solar Panels

How much POWER is produced by 50 million new Solar Panels and how much money does that POWER produce at today’s prices for electricity?

That is not an easy thing to answer. I should be very easy to answer. Before finding a reasonable answer it may be a good idea to see how many home mortgages are paid off (with no interest) if 40 billion is loaned (at no interest) to the people with the highest credit rating and the people with 100 thousand dollar homes.

40 billion divided by 100 thousand dollars

400 thousand is the number of people who can stop paying interest on their home loans with that ‘injection’ of Purchasing Power being supposedly injected into the economy.

Those 400 thousand people could pay off their homes early and then have no monthly mortgage payment or those 400 thousand people could pay less per month and have more monthly purchasing power.

Or the banks get the POWER. The banks who sell impossible loans (on purpose) get the POWER?

Back to the POWER generated by 50 million Solar Panels.

http://www.partsonsale.com/

Call For Pricing”

If the supply becomes scarce, then, the price goes up. If the supply becomes over abundant, then, the price goes down. Someone can make a killing if the supply becomes scarce. That is the essence of the Interest/Profit/Wage Paying System.

POWER stands that dynamic on its head because POWER reaching for oversupply will cause POWER to become cost-less and therefore Purchasing POWER increases.

If the supply becomes scarce, then, the price goes up. If the supply becomes over abundant, then, the price goes down. Someone can make a killing if the supply becomes scarce. That is the essence of the Interest/Profit/Wage Paying System.

POWER stands that dynamic on its head because POWER reaching for oversupply will cause POWER to become cost-less and therefore Purchasing POWER increases.

Why? Think about that please before we can find out how much POWER the 40 billion dollars worth of Solar Panels will generate (for 25 years guaranteed). Why will an increase in the supply of POWER (making POWER cost less) INCREASE purchasing POWER?

This is very easy to see if you can’t see it easily. What happens when the price of gasoline goes up? What happens when the price of gasoline goes down? What happens to your own personal bank account (your personal Purchasing POWER) if you inherit a house from your parents where the following is true:

Your inheritance is a house that has no mortgage payment and no mortgage interest and the house will not need any maintenance for 25 years.

Your inheritance is a house that generates enough electric power to power the whole house and power two electric cars and the Solar Panels will last 25 years.

Your inheritance is a house that has two electric cars that are part of the house and both cars will last 25 years.

You have no mortgage payment

You have no mortgage interest payment.

You have no electric bill (and no natural gas bill).

You have no car loan payment.

You have no car interest payment.

You have no gasoline bill.

How much of your monthly income is now saved?

Now add the gasoline bill because someone stole the electric car and you must get to work on time. You can only buy a gasoline car.

Now what happens to your income and your purchasing power if you must pay 2 dollar more per gallon of gasoline?

What happens if the sun stops shining because the POWER you send to the Criminals running the NATION STATE (limited liability corporation) nuke Iran and start a nuclear winter?

How much does 40 billion dollars purchase in new electric POWER in dollars and cents?

In other words; the 40 billion dollars is spent on something that generates more POWER rather than spending the ‘purchasing power’ on CRIMINALS?

50 million new Solar Panels will generate electric power for 25 years. How much new POWER will those Solar Panels generate for 25 years? How much power in dollars and cents?

How about a simple way to answer that question? How many Solar Panels are needed for one typical house? I used 800 dollars per solar panel based upon my memory.

A new investigation is needed at this time.


http://www.solar-electric.com/solar_system_costs.htm

Average installed cost of solar electric if you do it yourself is around $7 per watt, or $9 if you have it installed by a licensed contractor. That includes the cost of the panels, inverters, wire, mounts, and other hardware. It does NOT include anything else you might need to pay for, like inspections or extra watt meters by the electric company. So that system will cost you around $37,500. 
That is an 'average' cost to break even; or so the story goes. My electric bill is 100 dollars per month; 'average'. If it cost me about 40,000 to generate 100 dollars per month of electricity for 25 years, then, look at the math.

100 times 12 is the 'money' generated per year once the system is in place.

1,200 per year. Times that by 25.

I get 30,000

That is not good; however - I have a small house at 1,300 square feet living area so the 100 dollars per month 'average cost' figure may not translate to the 40,000 dollar 'average cost' of eliminating the 100 dollar 'average cost' of electricity.

What is needed is a link between the 'average price' of electricity in this case.


  • First, take number of KWH shown on your bill. Divide that by 30. That gives you your average daily usage. So if you use 700 KWH, that is 23.3 KWH per day.
  • Take that number. Divide it by the number of full sun hours you get per day on a yearly average. Multiply it by 1.15. That will give you a pretty close estimate of how many watts of solar panel you need. So if you get 5 hours per day, divide 23.3 by 5 - that gives you 4.66 KW, or 4,666 watts. Multiply that by 1.15, which gives you 5,360 watts of solar panel needed.
  • Average installed cost of solar electric if you do it yourself is around $7 per watt, or $9 if you have it installed by a licensed contractor. That includes the cost of the panels, inverters, wire, mounts, and other hardware. It does NOT include anything else you might need to pay for, like inspections or extra watt meters by the electric company. So that system will cost you around $37,500.
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     In that case the average cost of electricity was 5,360 watts needed based upon 23.3 KWH per day, so, how much does 23.3 KWH per day COST?

    What is the electric bill 'average cost per month' PRICE in this case? Please note that the whold COST/PRICE dynamic is a consequence of the Interest/Profit/Wage Paying System where PRICE is based upon SCARCITY rather than COST.

    http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/cost.html

  • 400 watts x 24 hours/day x 30.5 days/month = 292,800 Total Watt-hours
  • 292,800 Wh / 1000 Wh = 293 kWh
  • 293 kWh x 10¢/kWh = $29/mo.; $351/yr.
  • What is the electric bill 'average cost per month' PRICE in this case? Why is this so difficult?

    The average cost of residential electricity was 9.86¢/kWh in the U.S. in March 2006. The average household used 888 kWh/mo. in 2001 and would pay $87.56 for it based on the March 2006 average rate. (Dept. of Energy)

    The cost of electricity varies by region. In 2003 the price ranged from 5.81¢ in Tennessee to 12¢ in California, 14.314¢ in New York, and 16.734¢ in Hawaii. In Summer 2001, electricity was a whopping 20¢/kWh in parts of California.

     

    I am not zeroing in on the right questions. I need the Solar Panel example amount and the average price/cost per kWh.

    I'm going to round up to 10 cents per kWh.

    What was the amount of electric usage in the Solar Panel example?

    First, take number of KWH shown on your bill. Divide that by 30. That gives you your average daily usage. So if you use 700 KWH, that is 23.3 KWH per day.

     

    700 kWh per month COST in the Solar Panel example (where the COST of the Solar Panel System was 37,500 (do it yourself price?).

    How much at 10 cents per kWh was the montly bill for that example at 700 kWh per month?

    70 dollars a month.

    70 times 12 times 25 years will show total costs saved (if electricity price does not go up or down):

    21,000 dollars saved.

    37,000 dollar cost.

    That is a loss of 16,000 dollars - in that case.

    Why?

     See http://www.dsireusa.org for a list of Federal, state, and local rebates and tax incentives for your area. In some cases that can reduce your cost up to 50%.

     

    How much of the 'price' on a Solar Panel is a 'cost' sent to Federal, state, and local taxes by the people who manufacture Solar Panels?

    The 'rebate' or 'subsidy’ of 50% does what to the equation?

    First we need to use the non- ‘do it yourself’ cost since the 37,500 cost was computed at the 7 dollar per kilowatt rate. Let’s use the 9 dollar rate so specialists can install the stuff and the home owner simply picks up the phone.

  • First, take number of KWH shown on your bill. Divide that by 30. That gives you your average daily usage. So if you use 700 KWH, that is 23.3 KWH per day.
  • Take that number. Divide it by the number of full sun hours you get per day on a yearly average. Multiply it by 1.15. That will give you a pretty close estimate of how many watts of solar panel you need. So if you get 5 hours per day, divide 23.3 by 5 - that gives you 4.66 KW, or 4,666 watts. Multiply that by 1.15, which gives you 5,360 watts of solar panel needed.
  • Average installed cost of solar electric if you do it yourself is around $7 per watt, or $9 if you have it installed by a licensed contractor. That includes the cost of the panels, inverters, wire, mounts, and other hardware. It does NOT include anything else you might need to pay for, like inspections or extra watt meters by the electric company. So that system will cost you around $37,500.
  • 5,360 watts of solar panels needed (70 dollars per month cost).

    Times 5,360 by 9 (instead of by 7 dollars per watt):

    48,240

    Now cut that in half by the subsidy.

    24,120

    The 'cost' of electricitiy was:

    21,000

    That is still a loss of POWER despite the increase in power production; because - price is involved and not COST.

    See this? Power is spent on creating POWER producing Solar Panels. The bottom line is; how much POWER is spent and how much POWER is produced.

    If the POWER is spent on TAXES, for example, then the POWER goes to Washington and then to pay for prostitutes or torture or bombs or whatever and that can be very destructive. If the POWER is spent on bailing out BANKS who make criminal (certainly not economical) loans so that the BANKS can continue destroying economy, then, more desctruction occurs.

    If the POWER is spent on Solar Panels, then, POWER comes out of the Solar Panels installed on the houses who purchase the Solar Panels and the POWER is then saved by the person who spends the POWER on Solar Panels.

    The PRICE on the Solar Panels (including the work to install them) is too high compared to the PRICE of 'average' electricity. I have been paying 13 cents per kWh where I live.

    See what happens then:

    700 kWh per month COST in the Solar Panel example (where the COST of the Solar Panel System was 37,500 (do it yourself price?).

    How much at 13 cents per kWh was the montly bill for that example at 700 kWh per month?

    700 times 13 cents equals 91 dollars per month.

    91 per month times 12 months times 25 years is 27,300 dollars produced.

    Cost (call on the phone and have the Solar Panels Installed) was 48,240 dollars.

    Rebate/subsidy subtracted from the COST was 24,120 dollars.

    My cost at 13 cents per kWh was 27,300 dollars produced.

    My savings (assuming the 50 percent subsidy) 3,180 over 25 years of producing electricity.

    The principle here is independence. The interest here is dependence. The cost of electric POWER can go up if POWER becomes scarce.

    How much, for example, can a person 'charge' for electric power if the electric company turns off the POWER for 10 days?

    You, for example, have Solar Panels while your neighbor has no Solar Panels - for 10 days.

    How much can you charge if you have an electric car and a Solar Panel (and wind power) home if your neighbor has neither and the price of gasoline goes up to 5 dollars a gallon?

    I am missing something and I need to think about the right question.

    I am missing the connection between 'cost per kWh' for Solar Panels which was stated at 7 to 9 dollars per watt and 'cost per kWh' from the Grid which was stated at an average of about 10 cents per kWh.

    In the past that question led me to figure out the amount of POWER produced per Solar Panel installed and it was a POWERFUL answer.

     

     

     

     

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    1. The freedom to study the program's source code and then change it so the program does what you wish.
    2. The freedom to distribute exact copies to others, when you wish.
    3. The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others, when you wish.


    http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/3717476

    Software is currency

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    Once again, divide and rule; this time writ large for an entire region that is being arbitrarily redrawn to meet the needs of mega-corporations that want to secure “transit corridors for Caspian energy to Europe”.





     

    What is stuff flowing through a corridor?

    It's currency. Duh!

     

     

    That Bush idiot can't be serious

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    Does a frog have wings? heh heh

     

    He isn't serious (chorus)

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    Dick put the Dick back in Dictator

     


    http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/cheney_s_secrets.html


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                   Who wants some of this?

     

    Here; here Dick. I've got your Dick here Dick

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    "If this story gets any bigger, pretty soon they're going to have to tell the president." --David Letterman


     

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    Pssst:

    http://kucinich.house.gov/SpotlightIssues/documents.htm



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    It’s very simple. In a true democracy the people control the creation and management of money, also known as currency or legal tender[dollars].

     

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    What is the current story?

    A. The official misidentified and as yet unidentified terrorist pancake conspiracy theory.

    B. The suggested investigation into controlled demolition as an accurate identification of the cause of the controlled demolition and therefore an obvious exposure of the official lie fact being labeled a conspiracy theory


    C. When the offical version of 'truth' is terrible lies, then, follow the trail of that currency to the source if the idea is to find out who are the terrorists.

     

     

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    Another result of this process was that a specialized labor force had to the bused for this kind of work, and for cultivating the land necessary to grow food for those others who were specialized in crafts, public works, and trade. They had to be organized by the community and directed by the elite which did the planning, protecting, and controlling. This means that a much greater accumulation of surplus was needed than in the earlier Neolithic villages, and that this surplus was not just used as food reserve for times of need or growing populations, but as capital to be used for an expanding production. Childe has pointed to another factor inherent in these conditions of life in the river valleys – the exceptional power of the society to coerce its members. The community could refuse a recalcitrant member access to water by closing the channels leading it to his field. This possibility of coercion was one of the foundations upon which the power of kings, priests, and the dominant elite rested once they had succeeded in replacing or, ideologically speaking, “representing” – the social will. (The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm page 188 under The Evidence Against the Instictivist Thesis)

     

    http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Human-Destructiveness-Erich-Fromm/dp/080501604X/ref=pd_sim_b_img_5/104-1378235-6870328

     

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    Lies and half truths that cause torture and mass murder are forms of currency.

     

     

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    This website is but one resource to assist Citizens in identifying their rights and how to protect them. In short, our goal is, "Restoring the Republic...one Citizen at a time".

     

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    One of the most celebrated cases of community currency was that which occurred in the small town of Wörgl in Austria in 1932-33. In the midst of the Great Depression, the mayor of that little town took the bold step of issuing into circulation a local currency, the impact of which was heard round the world. Many journalistic accounts have been written and circulated, but few definitive descriptions have been found, and even fewer critical analyses. But, because it is so celebrated, and because it was apparently so successful, this is a case well worth studying.

     

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    “It’s like being 40 years old and playing basketball against a competitor who’s only 12 years old – but is already at your height,” Newman said. “You are a little better right now and have more experience, but you’re not going to squeeze much more performance out. The future clearly doesn’t look good for the United States.”

     

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    Much can be misunderstood about human prosperity including the accurate method of measuring human prosperity, so, it is past time to measure up. The idea of prosperity can be measured and is measured with terms like ‘Standard of Living’ and ‘Purchasing Power’. The later is the one that actually leads toward an increase in prosperity for posterity.

     

    The reader may be wondering why this article is being written, as a matter of fact, and to whom the words are addressed. Think, please, as if the idea is your own and the effort to see it will be that much easier to understand. The idea is to prosper rather than live miserably on purpose, see, is this not a good idea? The means by which prosperity is ensured is actually very simple and to suggest otherwise fulfills a dooms day prophecy, in other words, make it hard on purpose or make it easy on purpose. Again this is simple.

     

    Suppose a product were to appear whereby the person consuming this product is able to pay off his home mortgage and his business mortgage without having to pay interest. The reader must be able to imagine an easy way to prosperity for the human race, that is again the idea, and the reader is encouraged to think as if this idea originates with the reader. This is your idea so go with it – please.

     

    You and everyone else who is smart enough to purchase this product, a loan, now have a mortgage loan for home and office without interest. That alone will save you and everyone else the cost of that interest payment over 30 years or so and amounting to double the price on the home or business and know that this is true and it is your idea so, again, go with it.

     

    Do the numbers too. How much do you save? A one hundred thousand dollar mortgage saves one hundred thousand dollars (no need to over-confuse this issue), remember, it is your idea.

     

    This is not a hand out so don’t shoot your idea down right away. You, and everyone else, must pay back the loan and you must have good credit or you will have to pay interest on your loan. There really isn’t any reason to punish people with good credit so continue alone with your good idea moving human beings toward prosperity.

     

    Next up is a second product for anyone with good credit where the cost of the loan is now one percent on the loan; in other words anyone borrowing this stuff (purchasing power) has to pay back the whole loan and a charge of one percent more than the amount borrowed. This new loan allows you and everyone wanting to do this to begin generation your own independent power at home and at the office by any means you can. You can call up one of the business who install Solar Panels, Wind Generators, or whatever – so long as you begin to generate your own POWER at home and at your office. The one percent charge merely covers the costs of doing all the accounting required to process the loan and makes sure that people with good credit get the power to purchase good things.

     

    You may now realize that the power produced pays the interest on the loan so you don’t have to work any harder to cover the costs. The current ability to make home power production affordable is good enough and it is getting better; in other words the money you spend (borrow) will be returned in time with actual power (electricity). This is factual and anyone can check it out anytime they want – currently. So now you have more income because you don’t pay interest on your home and business mortgage and you also produce your own electricity and you can pocket some of the savings in electric costs if electric costs go up. If electric costs go down, then, that is another story. All things are relative. Your investment continues to generate electric power no matter what the relative cost is and the power company can’t simply pull the plug. That is called independence and it is a good idea – it is your idea. Independent people are the ones with good credit.

     

    Look now at the other end and do some numbers please. If almost everyone went for the new loan on mortgage without interest and almost everyone but not quite as many people also started producing their own power at home and at work, then, how much new power goes to the people who offer these loans to everyone? Remember that the loans for the mortgages do not generate any profit for the new bank but also remember that the new loans include a one percent return for independent home power production loans. How much is one percent of, say, one million dollars? How about one percent of one billion? Please know that the accountants keeping track of the flow of power will be well off.

     

    Now the third product on the new loan market is a two percent loan for anyone in the business of building new vehicles capable of weaning our species from dependence upon oil. Anyone buying an electric car can get this loan, if they have good credit, and the loan is at three percent interest. Anyone building a new and improved batter can get this loan and, again, everyone has to pay back the whole principle plus the three percent interest.

     

    Think about your new idea before you shoot it down and let this work on your mind as you work harder and harder for less and less. The idea is to work less for more and don’t forget it. Be independent minded. The solutions are not hidden in clear view. They are hidden from you by you. People profit from your inability to distinguish between good and bad so don’t allow this to happen at all – or ever.

     

    That is it for me today. How about you?

     

     

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    Speaking of political intelligence ... take a little stroll with Alice through the American wonderland ... just for laughs
    "This war [in Iraq] is the most important liberal, revolutionary U.S. democracy-building project since the Marshall Plan. ... it is one of the noblest things this country has ever attempted abroad." -- Thomas Friedman, much-acclaimed New York Times foreign-affairs analyst, November 2003[2]

    "President Bush has placed human rights at the center of his foreign policy agenda in unprecedented ways." --
    Michael Gerson, columnist for the Washington Post, 2007[3]

    The war in Iraq "is one of the noblest endeavors the United States, or any great power, has ever undertaken." --
    David Brooks, New York Times columnist and National Public Radio (NPR) commentator (2007)[4]

    If this is what leading American public intellectuals believe and impart to their audiences, is it any wonder that the media can short circuit people's critical faculties altogether? It should as well be noted that these three journalists are all with "liberal" media.

    And when Hillary Clinton says in the January 31 debate with Barack Obama: "We bombed them [Iraq] for days in 1998 because Saddam Hussein threw out inspectors," and the fact is that the UN withdrew its weapons inspectors because the Clinton administration had made it clear that it was about to start bombing Iraq ...

    Obama didn't correct her. Neither did any of the eminent journalists on the panel, though this particular piece of disinformation has been repeated again and again in the media, and has been corrected again and again by those on the left. Comrades, we have our work cut out for us. The chorus needs us. America needs us. Keep preaching.


     

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    http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger143.html

    Social Science:

    In his book Denationalisation of Money: An Analysis of the Theory and Practise of Concurrent Currencies, Hayek advocated a free-market monetary system of competing currencies.

     

    For decades, U.S. officials made it a felony offense for Americans to own gold. Why did they do that? To prevent Americans from protecting themselves from a constantly depreciating currency. Equally important, the price of gold has always been an easy way to gauge what politicians are doing to the money. They have never liked that

     

    Organized Crime

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    This vision – remarkably crass and ridiculous even as it is compelling and dangerous – is that the dollar, and Washington’s ability to keep printing it without anyone noticing the inflation, the lack of faith, and the criminality of it all, must be supported by the rest of the world.

     

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    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ITEX

    ITEX is the leading marketplace for cashless business transactions. Put your cash and credit cards away and buy and sell using ITEX dollars! With ITEX dollars, money will never be the same.

     

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    He issued his own money and that destroyed our power.

     

    See also:

    http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=904

    Ultimately, the State Bank threatened legal proceedings and on September 1st 1933, the experiment was terminated.

     

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    This medium of exchange should satisfy certain properties: it should be durable, that is to say, it does not wear out easily; it should be portable, that is, easily carried; it should be divisible into units usable for everyday transactions; it should be recognizable and uniform, so that one unit of money has the same properties as every other unit; it should be scarce, in the economic sense, so that the extant supply does not satisfy the wants of everyone demanding it; it should be stable, so that the value of its purchasing power does not fluctuate wildly; and it should be reproducible, so that enough units of money can be created to satisfy the needs of exchange.
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    To those who have an interest,
     

    Also - to those who may wish to censor my input on this forum please know that my comments are published on other sites too. The barriers are falling around you. If someone, anyone, feels injured by my defensive comments, then, consider the origin of that feeling. I intend my defensive comment to find only those who wear the shoe - if it fits. If the shoe does not fit, then, don't wear the shoe and don't censor me. See? 

    I'm reading Ron Paul and commenting - the above economic logic is contradictory. The reason why 'enough units of money' - 'satisfy the needs of exchange' is to 'satisfy the wants of everyone demanding it'.  The idea is to have credit in the hands of those who can utilize it productively when they can utilize it productively. There is no arbitrary need to make the currency ‘scarce’ for everyone (a broad brush or 'collective' and prejudicial edict or punishment) other than to avoid mal investment or the other ‘real reason’ whereby the supply is made scarce so as to command a higher price (high interest rate) and then only under monopoly or near monopoly control. 

    The mal investment problem is solved by charging interest against borrowers with a history of mal investment and then to invest that purchasing power into an insurance policy based upon accurate data concerning predictable loses (costs) associated with borrowers who fail to pay back loans (for any reason not limited to mal investment). The mal investment problem is exacerbated (made worse) by an arbitrary (collective punishment) decrease in the supply of currency to those who can and will pay back the entire principle plus the minimum interest charge (a charge that is charged to cover the costs of operating the currency supply business – including a competitive ‘profit’). When the competition is eliminated, then, the sky is the limit on the POWER to profit (at the expense of everyone in that enforced monopoly - including the legal criminals 'if they only knew').  

    The FREE BANKING proposal eliminates the ‘scarcity value’ reason for imposing what amounts to a TAX on qualified borrowers when a monopoly currency provider can charge whatever the market will bear (since no competition will offer a lower cost alternative). Please see this clearly and comment if your viewpoint is critical of this accurate viewpoint.  

    The idea behind making currency scarce during a currency monopoly is to increase profits flowing to the producer of currency. The higher the demand (due to scarcity) the higher will be the potential to charge more COST (pass on costs) to the buyer - as interest. This ability to control the supply at will (making currency scarce and then making currency abundant followed by making currency scarce again) causes the flow of purchasing power to increase toward the monopoly supplier (the one adjusting the supply) because the supplier has inside knowledge (accurate knowledge) measuring when and how much the supply will change. The flow of wealth is further increased toward the currency supplier when the currency supplier falsifies the published accounting of when and how much the supply will change; in other words - the Bankers say one thing and do the opposite so as to trick investors into poor investments while the insiders know in advance which investments will plummet and which investments will sky rocket because the people who control the 'scarcity value' cause investments and returns to fluctuate by that deception and control of currency supply. 

    See here: 

    http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Monopolists-Frederic-C-Howe/dp/0839807937


    So far Ron Paul expresses either a lack of understanding concerning the purpose of currency or my interpretation is reaching too far or not far enough. The point, again, behind making currency scarce (to qualified borrowers) is to rape them. Please know this. A qualified borrower does not mal invest or COST anyone anything, on the contrary, a qualified borrower is an investment earning entity who by his or her actions will lower costs and increase purchasing power generally; therefore – qualified borrowers borrow from themselves and by their actions they increase value as consumers, laborers, and otherwise add to total productivity (at lower costs). The idea that someone should profit from their investments (as a systematic approach toward financing) is taxing their ability to be productive and for what is this systematic approach designed to accomplish?  

    The answer is clearly a design feature intending to cause a flow of purchasing power from those who produce purchasing power to those who monopolize the ‘legal’ currency supply. Once that flow is set in motion the affect is to empower the ‘legal’ currency suppliers at the expense of the ‘borrowers’ (the ones who produce purchasing power) and the logical conclusion is best expressed by (in my opinion) Common Sense.  

    This:

    http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/sense2.htm

     
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    our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer
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    In other words our POWER (in the precise form of purchasing power) flows to those who steal our POWER making 'them' more and more POWERFUL at our expense. 
     
    The obvious link is monetary currency and the obvious design of the fraudulent monetary currency is extortion, on purpose, for profit. To suggest, if that is the suggestion, that the engineers of the fraudulent currency monopoly intend to 'save the children' or do anything other than rob, rape, torture, and mass murder goes beyond common sense and all the profuse evidence proving otherwise.  

    This is where I add my confusion concerning Ron Paul's stated stand on impeachment. Who is fooling whom? It is the congressmen (and women) who have the POWER to begin investigation concerning possible crimes and therefore it is not the congress people who decide guilt or innocence. If a congressman or congresswoman has yet to entertain the idea that the President or Vice President could, possibly, be guilty of some crime, any crime, then - said individual has his, or her, head stuck in the dirt or other place not as complimentary. 

    These, of course, are one person's opinion to be perused or ignored or otherwise handled as anyone judges on their own. Be my guest. I welcome logical criticism. How else have I arrived at this point in time and place otherwise? People exchange and that is our wealth producing activity which goes well beyond any capacity any human can command in solitude.  

    Moving on: 

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    At this country's founding, there was no government-controlled national currency. While the Constitution established the Congressional power of minting coins, it was not until 1792 that the US Mint was formally established. In the meantime, Americans made do with foreign silver and gold coins. Even after the Mint's operations got underway, foreign coins continued to circulate within the United States, and did so for several decades. (Ron Paul)
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    One of us has been duped.  

    http://www.ushistory.org/tour/tour_1bank.htm 

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    Up to the time of the bank's charter, coins and bills issued by state banks served as the currency of the young country. The First Bank's charter was drafted in 1791 by the Congress and signed by George Washington.
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    Perhaps something has been misunderstood concerning how and why The Constitution was created and subsequently enforced by people such as George Washington and Alexander Hamilton.  

    I can offer the following: 

    A revolution was fought to liberate the American continent from a currency monopoly imposed by the English STATE (legal criminals). The people, under the Articles of Confederation, voluntarily defeated the British. During the war a group of merchants invested in and profited from the conflict by loaning fraudulent currency to The People through the various States; however – under the Articles of Confederation the debts (investments) were precarious and the control of the flow of wealth through these ‘loans’ were insecure.  

    A false advertisement campaign was launched to ‘save the Union’ and adjust the voluntary association under the Articles of Confederation. Once the merchants gathered behind closed doors (Secret Meetings) a ‘dirty compromise’ was agreed upon whereby the Northern Interests and the Southern Interests agreed to throw out the voluntary association and usurp the POWER of voluntary association and instead a Limited Liability Corporate Nation State was written into law. Some of the ‘delegates’ “Smelled a Rat” and a last ditch effort to save Liberty (from a currency monopoly) was attached (The Bill of Rights) to the new ‘Contract’ known as “The Constitution”.  

    Sufficient proof of these facts are provided by George Washington’s own pen as he assembled a conscripted army to suppress the second of two major currency rebellions (the first being Shays’s Rebellion).  

    Here: 

    http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/whiskey/text.html

     
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    And whereas, it is in my judgment necessary under the circumstances of the case to take measures for calling forth the militia in order to suppress the combinations aforesaid, and to cause the laws to be duly executed; and I have accordingly determined so to do, feeling the deepest regret for the occasion, but withal the most solemn conviction that the essential interests of the Union demand it, that the very existence of government and the fundamental principles of social order are materially involved in the issue, and that the patriotism and firmness of all good citizens are seriously called upon, as occasions may require, to aid in the effectual suppression of so fatal a spirit;
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    In those days no one (not even the legal criminals) dared speak against ownership of the means of defense against Tyranny (Gun Control was 'off the table'). 

    Economic knowledge was 'on the table' and The People knew how to get around the currency monopoly. They used Whiskey as currency once the Gold left the country because of currency Mal Investment through The STATE (legal tender monopoly usurpation). 

    Two very good sources for that time period are: 

    http://www.amazon.com/Shayss-Rebellion-American-Revolutions-Battle/dp/0812236696
     
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    Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle
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    And:
    http://www.amazon.com/Whiskey-Rebellion-Frontier-Epilogue-Revolution/dp/0195051912/ref=pd_sim_b_title_2 

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    The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution
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    Moving on: 

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    On the desk in my office I have a sign that says: “Don't steal – the government hates competition.” Indeed, any power a government arrogates to itself, it is loathe to give back to the people. Just as we have gone from a constitutionally instituted national defense consisting of a limited army and navy bolstered by militias and letters of marque and reprisal, we have moved from a system of competing currencies to a government-instituted banking cartel that monopolizes the issuance of currency. In order to introduce a system of competing currencies, there are three steps that must be taken to produce a legal climate favorable to competition. (Ron Paul)
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    This post of mine is too large already and my rap up at this point (to be continued if possible) is to reiterate the logic as I know it to be concerning that last quote from Ron Paul’s message to Congress (The House). 

    When any product demanded is supplied by more than one source there will be a tendency to provide greater quality at a lower cost in order to gain market share and remain competitive because a failure to provide greater quality at a lower cost fails to gain market share.  

    Take, for example, the local fast food providers (a form of currency) and imagine having a choice between two rancid meals, one rancid meal at one establishment and another rancid meal at the other establishment, and both restaurants charge a months pay for one meal.  

    Know that 'our' currency is rancid and we pay, in the case of necessary shelter, twice the cost of the home for the 'privilege' of 'borrowing' currency FROM OUR SELVES.

    I'll close with one more link and a quote: 

    http://www.perfecteconomy.com/pg-parable-of-perfect-economy.html 

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    In restoring one such relationship after the war, Franklin explained the real cause of the American Revolution in a conciliatory letter to a friend in France:  

    "We would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters, had it not been that they took from us our money, which created great unemployment and dissatisfaction. Within a year, the poor houses were filled. The hungry and homeless walked the streets everywhere."
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    http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/bolshevik_revolution/index.html

    http://www.reformation.org/wall-st-hitler.html

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    http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=4

    The huge psychological gap between "almost zero" and "zero" is why micropayments failed. It's why Google doesn't show up on your credit card. It's why modern Web companies don't charge their users anything. And it's why Yahoo gives away disk drive space. The question of infinite storage was not if but when. The winners made their stuff free first.

    Traditionalists wring their hands about the "vaporization of value" and "demonetization" of entire industries. The success of craigslist's free listings, for instance, has hurt the newspaper classified ad business. But that lost newspaper revenue is certainly not ending up in the craigslist coffers. In 2006, the site earned an estimated $40 million from the few things it charges for. That's about 12 percent of the $326 million by which classified ad revenue declined that year.

    But free is not quite as simple — or as stupid — as it sounds. Just because products are free doesn't mean that someone, somewhere, isn't making huge gobs of money. Google is the prime example of this. The monetary benefits of craigslist are enormous as well, but they're distributed among its tens of thousands of users rather than funneled straight to Craig Newmark Inc. To follow the money, you have to shift from a basic view of a market as a matching of two parties — buyers and sellers — to a broader sense of an ecosystem with many parties, only some of which exchange cash.

    The most common of the economies built around free is the three-party system. Here a third party pays to participate in a market created by a free exchange between the first two parties. Sound complicated? You're probably experiencing it right now. It's the basis of virtually all media.

     

    That is the same thing I've been writing about concerning currency.

    Product one is free. A provider offers mortgage loans (for home and office) at no cost (no interest) and the revenue stream is generated on product two which is another loan at one percent interest for Power production and use.

    See here:

    http://www.groundreport.com/Arts_and_Culture/Confusion-on-Money_1

    The editors at that site edited my title from "Confusion on Money?" to their version. I would rather see my title, but the content of the article remains accurate so I let it slide.

     

     

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    The link may be confusing when the viewer considers how things work. Please think in terms of voluntary associations on one side and involuntary associations on the other side.

     

    There are few natural monopolies where a single provider of a monopolized necessity can arbitrarily raise and lower the supply and the demand of that single thing produced and exchanged. Please consider how the owner of the patent on oxygen, sunlight, food, shelter, clothing, and water could profit from those monopolies if someone or some group held that monopoly power.

     

    Think about how natural competition works. Suppose J.P. Monopoly Dude owned and supplied all the worlds’ oxygen and that power enslaved everyone who didn’t pay the price. J.P. Monopoly Dude would turn off your supply of oxygen the moment you failed to step out of line. Then, one fine day, some upstart began producing oxygen in a remote village; undetected by J.P. Monopoly Dude’s police force. Know that J.P. Monopoly Dude wouldn’t need a Gitmo torture chamber when J.P. Monopoly Dude has control of oxygen.

     

    The new upstart competitor to the oxygen monopoly invests a simple method of converting water into oxygen and this formula is uploaded on the internet. It spreads almost as fast as porn. The former slaves to the oxygen Monopoly free themselves and everyone lives happily ever after.

     

    The formula is very simple. The complexity is in place so as to dumb down the victims. Gold does work as a very stable currency. Paper currency does work so long as the issue is accurate and transparent. Digital currency is very efficient and it can also be very secure and accurate. Please don’t argue over the details of which currency is best; the natural competitive process finds the best currency and that is exactly why monopolies must eliminate or disenfranchise all competitors.

     

    The future is as bright as the people; not so bright if only a few people care.

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    Does the reader disbelieve?

     

     

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    And when you wanted me
    I came to you
    And when you wanted someone else
    I withdrew
    And when you asked for light
    I set myself on fire
    And if I go away I know
    You'll find another slave

    Cause now I'm free from what you want
    Now I'm free from what you need
    Now I'm free from what you are

    And when you wanted blood
    I cut my veins
    And when you wanted love
    I bled myself again
    Now that I've had my fill of you
    I'll give you up forever
    And here I go far away
    I know you'll find another slave

    Cause now I'm free from what you want
    Now I'm free from what you need
    Now I'm free from what you are

    Then the vision came to me
    When you came along
    I gave you everything
    But then you wanted more

     

     



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    'The small town of Worgl in the Austrian Tyrol, suffering like every other town in Europe and America from the Great Depression, took the unlikely step of issuing its own currency'
     

    http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=904

    Although the experiment was terminated in Austria, it was noted and tried elsewhere. In Canada, for instance, the government of the Province of Alberta set up a provincial depreciating currency in the mid-1930s in the form of Prosperity Certificates.

    The 'danger' of its success prompted the central government to ban it.

     

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    The implicit guarantee from the Fed is quickly becoming explicit, as those institutions deemed "too big to fail" are bailed out at taxpayer expense. Wall Street made a killing during the housing bubble, reaping record profits. Now that the bubble has burst, these same firms are trying to dump their losses on the taxpayers. This approach requires more money creation, and therefore debasement of all dollars in circulation.

     

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    This rule comes to mind: "When you're in a hole, stop digging." Why isn't Wachovia honoring it? I don't know about you, but my assessment is that option ARMs are really bad ideas today. I first heard of these loans 30 years ago. They were not called option ARMs. They were called backward-walking mortgages. They were written by sellers of homes who wanted to take back those homes after a hopeful buyer defaulted on his loan. It was an interim program to get a house sold when the seller expected the house's price to rise. He wanted a buyer to occupy the house. A renter usually does not take care of a house as carefully as a buyer does. So, house sellers used backward-walking mortgages to get a down payment out of a person who was virtually guaranteed to default. The person moved in, took care of the house, and was evicted right on schedule.

     

    The phenomenon is based upon a function that is criminal. The idea is to victimize the power-less. As power flows from victims to criminals the effect is a reduction in power 'to be had' from victims. Therefore the criminals have to 'spread the wealth' back out in order to 'fatten' the victims.

    There is a serious problem with this criminal element called: Competition.

    The fix, of that problem (competition), is something called: "honor among thieves".

    I'll find the relevant quote from the link posted:


     


    (2) to control entry of newcomers into the bankers' cartel (interlopers);

     

    If competition between thieves is a problem, see, the fix is cooperation among the thieves.

    We are theives.

    You are victims.

    How honorable can one get?

     

     

     

     

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    When they tell you the worst is over, batten down the hatches.

     

    When they tell you that Dooms Day is upon us, see opportunity.

    Get rid of The Dollar Hegemony, construct, maintain, and utilize an accurate currency based upon actual POWER like Electricity.

    Become Power-Indpendent sooner before it is too late.

    Example:

    http://www.groundreport.com/Business/Energy-Currency

    http://www.groundreport.com/US/Confusion-on-Money_1

    http://www.anarchism.net/forum/board_entry.php?id=15403&page=1&category=0&order=last_answer&descasc=DESC

    http://www.anarchism.net/forum/board_entry.php?id=26878

    http://forum.atimes.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12583

    http://www.restoretherepublic.com/component/option,com_fireboard/Itemid,27/func,view/id,863/catid,34/

     

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    With M-1 falling rapidly, this tells me that price inflation is remote. It could even go negative -- something we have not seen since 1955. This will produce downward pressure on long-term rates because of a reduced inflation premium in loans.

    Having the power to increase or decrease the money supply is the power to cause inflation and deflation.

    If you have that power and if you have the power to misinform people about the current rate of change you have inside information and those who are outside can be deceived into transfering more power to the inside.

    See this?

    You have the power to increase the supply of money.

    You have the power to decrease the supply of purchasing power (money).

    You have the power to misinform everyone as to the current increase or decrease of purchasing power units (money).

    You therefore have the power to create and use purchasing power (like having an unlimited credit card and having no obligation to pay back the money borrowed) while you have the power to take purchasing power away from everyone else - by fraud.

    That is unlimited financial power. You can buy anything that anyone sells.

    Can you trust someone to give you the true facts about the current rate of inflation or deflation if they have the power to misinform you?

    Wouldn't it be wise to get a second opinion? This is like asking the mugger to report his daily schedule.

     

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    I have yet to check that link out. It is from the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.

    They are seeing the link between free human beings and legal criminals: currency.

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    The State did not give away grain. It sold the grain back to those from whom the State had collected grain for seven years. Heads, the State wins. Tails, the State wins.

     

    The power to create 'purchasing power' and then sell this power (with interest) is one side of the coin. Power transfers to the currency fraud at a specific rate (interest rate).

    The other side of the coin is 'deflation' when those who 'borrowed' the power to purchase (and the additional charge of interest 'debt') are priced out when money becomes scarce (they can no longer afford to pay the loan back and can no longer afford to pay the additional interest payments) so the loan defaults (less money in circulation makes it hard to get money and that causes a solvent business to become insolvent) and 'title' (title to whatever was held as "collateral") transfers to the currency fraud operators.

    Two sides to the currency fraud:

    Side A = Inflation and Interest

    Create imaginary purchasing power and sell this purchasing power to initiate a transfer of purchasing power from those who earn it to the currency criminals.

    Side B = Deflation and default

    Remove imaginary purchasing power and foreclose on defaulted loans to gain title, possession, and control of the products produced by the imaginary purchasing power.

    Inflation makes currency cheap and easy to get as the supply of purchasing power reaches over-supply.

    Deflation makes currency expensive and hard to get as the supply of purchasing power reaches scarcity.

     

     

     

     

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    http://www.iea.org.uk/record.jsp?type=book&ID=431

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    In this groundbreaking work, first published in 1976, Friedrich von Hayek argues that the government monopoly of money must be abolished to stop recurring bouts of inflation and deflation. Abolition is also the cure for the more deep-seated disease of the recurring waves of depression and unemployment attributed to 'capitalism'.
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    The problem with data that is couched as 'groundbreaking' is the facts that show otherwise.

    Here are a few examples of ground being broken:

    http://www.amazon.com/Shayss-Rebellion-American-Revolutions-Battle/dp/0812236696

    That book offers data supporting the groundbreaking work in 1786 when former volunteers who fought against the British enforcement of the government monopoly of money fought against Massachusetts State enforcement of the government monopoly of money and the ‘rebels’, ‘insurgents’, and ‘out-laws’ lost the battle but won the war. The ‘rebels’ were punished and pardoned after their defeat while the Confederation re-acknowledged the spirit of liberty in money matters. In other words the use of state troops to squash tax revolts (currency fraud revolts) was against the law – at that time – under the Articles of Confederation. Massachusetts was extra-legal in its suppression of Shay’s Rebellion.

    http://tinyurl.com/5jvfga

    That book offers data supporting the groundbreaking work in 1794 when former volunteers who fought against the British enforcement of the government monopoly of money were re-inspired to fight the same battle against the new ‘masters’ imposing a new currency fraud under the newly formed Constitution of the Untied States of America. The “rebels”, “Rabble”, “Insurgents”, and “Tax Protesters” were defending the power they had to employ whiskey as currency since the currency fraud caused Gold to leave the former colonies that were now incorporated as one happy Nation State (limited liability).

    http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Proceedings-Debates-Constitutional-Convention/dp/1410203638

    That book offers data supporting the groundbreaking work of the people who failed to defeat the incorporation of the separate and sovereign confederated states into a single Union or Nation where the Nationalists pretending to be federalist created and then enforced a currency fraud upon the people living within the legal reach of the new Limited Liability Corporate Nation State.

    http://tmh.floonet.net/pdf/jwarren.pdf

    That book offers data supporting groundbreaking work (1849) in creating and maintaining a voluntary system of paper currency competing and winning market share against the legal currency monopoly fraud until legal means were employed to suppress the voluntary association.

    http://www.anarchism.net/scienceofsociety.htm

    That book offers supporting data recording the efforts in the 1840s onward to compete and win against the incorporated limited liability Nation State Currency Fraud.

    http://www.the-portal.org/mutual_banking.htm

    That book offers more groundbreaking work in 1850 specifically identifying a concept called “The Parasite City” to expose the illegitimacy of currency fraud.

    http://www.lysanderspooner.org/papercurrency.htm

    That book offers more groundbreaking work in 1860 specifically identifying a new form of paper currency based upon real estate property in direct competition with the current currency fraud at that time.

    http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=904

    That web page offers more groundbreaking work in early 1930s Austria where reverse interest currency was employed in direct competition with the current currency fraud at that time in that place.

    http://www.perfecteconomy.com/pg-parable-of-perfect-economy.html

    That web page offers more data on specific events in history concerning specific currency frauds while offering groundbreaking work competing against current government monopoly fraud.

    This particular quote sums things up well:

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    "We would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters, had it not been that they took from us our money, which created great unemployment and dissatisfaction. Within a year, the poor houses were filled. The hungry and homeless walked the streets everywhere." (Ben Franklin on the ‘Revolutionary War”)

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    Islamic finance has become the fastest-growing, most dynamic sector of global finance. Every Western-style financial product has its sharia, i.e. Islamic law, compliant instrument: microfinance, mortgages, oil and gas exploration, bridge building, even sponsorship of sporting events. Islamic finance is innovative, flexible, and potentially very profitable. “Operating in 70 countries with about $500bn in assets, it is poised to expand geometrically.” With more than one billion Muslims eager to support it, analysts project that this system will soon manage approximately 4 percent of the world economy, equivalent to $1 trillion in assets. Such figures explain the eagerness of Western banks to tap into sharia financial services. Citigroup, along with many other Western banking retailers, have opened Islamic branches in Muslim countries.
    Muslims compliant with sharia, the religious law that comes directly from the Koran. Islamic activists, intellectuals, writers, and religious leaders have always upheld the prohibition of riba, the interest charged by moneylenders, and denounced gharar, which refers to any type of speculation. Under this belief, money must not become a commodity in itself to create more money. Islamic finance thus shuns hedge funds and private equities, because they simply multiply cash by stripping assets. Money serves as a means or instrument of productivity as originally envisioned by Adam Smith and David Ricardo. This principle is embodied in the sukuks, Islamic bonds. Sukuks always link to real investments - for example, to pay for the construction of a toll highway - and never for speculative purposes. This principle springs from the sharia’s ban on gambling as well as on the prohibition of any forms of debt and activities that trade risk.
    Partnership is the heartbeat of Islamic economics. “Underlying the system is the philosophy of risk sharing: the lender must share the borrower’s risk, making the two in effect partners, injecting a strong social component into the financial system. This concept separates Islamic Finance from Western Finance, which seeks to maximize profits and minimize loss through diversification and risk transfer.” Also, money must be put to work. Because Islamic finance prohibits interest, it seeks revenues from rents, royalties, business profits, or commodity trading; a mortgage, for example, represents a “rent to buy” arrangement. Thus, conceptually, Islamic economics is the opposite of Western finance, which revolves around the individual’s self-interest.

     



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    Currency gain.

     

     

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    http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north624.html

    Here is how the game is played. The borrowing banks can place the borrowed Treasury debt on their books at close to face value. This looks as though the banks are meeting their capital requirements.

     

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    Discussion may have once been a means to an end. What is it today? I can offer, to anyone who has a working definition, that discussion is a relationship between people as people exchange accurate data. 

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=GIR20080511&articleId=8942

    Suppose people exchange inaccurate data and suppose someone claims that such an example of exchanging inaccurate data was or is an example of discussion. I offer that this would not be a case of discussion; rather, this would be a case of something else like a circle jerk perhaps. I can’t be the authority of language.

    Anyway: the power of the link, the data, and the context (the forum) exists. This is a factual perception. History records events like these as the data passed from person to person describing an imminent escalation of a current criminal invasion and occupation of territory already held by innocent people minding their own business. Consider, for example, how the German population passed the latest news concerning the move from Poland to parts south and west. German people read the news about new frontiers and they may or may not have discussed the ramifications of that news. 

    I can offer a measure of the historical record on that relevant point here: 

    http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Third-Reich-Oral-History/dp/0306805944 

    And here is a cause of concern (competition): 

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19818.htm 

    If the reader on this forum takes a peak, the reader may cringe at the cover art on that book. Perhaps that would be an example of a conditioned response. The book was written by a military officer who survived the war with horrible injuries. The book is merely a compilation of “voices” of regular people in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s: a historical time period. 

    Leading away from the history and onto the present I am going to link two more sources of data that can help explain the real reasons for the current criminal aggression being perpetrated upon a massive scale. I should be no surprise to everyone that the end desired is power and the means by which that end is gained includes lies and violence. The half truths will torture people, please understand that much.

    The first link is something I’ve picked up today as this data passes by me in our time and in our space.  

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/30/business/main4057490.shtml?source=related_story 

    Here is an imaginary dialog that I dream up for you to consider: 

    Hitler wannabe invader of nations, torturer, and mass murderer (GWB):

    “If I can’t have it, no one can.” 

    Now a quote from the data link: 

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    (AP) Iran, OPEC's second-largest producer, has completely stopped conducting oil transactions in U.S. dollars, a top Oil Ministry official said Wednesday, a concerted attempt to reduce reliance on Washington at a time of tension over Tehran's nuclear program and suspected involvement in Iraq.

    Iran has dramatically reduced dependence on the dollar over the past year in the face of increasing U.S. pressure on its financial system and the fall in the value of the American currency.

    Oil is priced in U.S. dollars on the world market, and the currency's depreciation has concerned producers because it has contributed to rising crude prices and eroded the value of their dollar reserves.

    "The dollar has totally been removed from Iran's oil transactions," Oil Ministry official Hojjatollah Ghanimifard told state-run television Wednesday. "We have agreed with all of our crude oil customers to do our transactions in non-dollar currencies."

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    Why, the reader may wonder, have I put words in the tyrants mouth and why did I choose those words? Please consider a look in the not too distant past concerning the previous invasion, occupation, torture, and mass murder (of our own soldiers, contractors, journalists, taxpayers, and government people as well as OUR victims – if we are The People that is) and to find that data I will type in a simple search for the following words: Iraq Oil Law.

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Iraq+oil+law 

    Here is a winner: 

    http://hightowerdownload.com/node/36 

    Why, after digesting the above, would someone, a rational human being, sign onto such evil crime? Why would anyone alive support torture and mass murder for profit? Did you read the book I linked? There are lessons in history that can answer these troubling questions. 

    People fear. People fear an end of their way of life. People fear the unknown. People fear higher oil prices. People fear an increase in their own work load. People fear the loss of their own power to purchase the good life. People fear recession. People fear depression. People fear helplessness. People fear powerlessness.  

    Now I am inclined to offer a very stark realization that many people will ignore or faint ignorance, reject, and refuse to consider almost as if the viewer, the reader, is a vampire looking at sunlight or a cross. Look away if you must. 

    People are inspired to give up their own power as people are inspired to fear their own power. This is trickery. The trick is to inspire people to fear a condition of powerlessness while people are inspired to give up their own power. The trick is to inspire people to work for and create just enough power to survive only when that power is transferred to the criminals. If someone does not transfer power to the criminals that someone becomes a TERRORIST by law.

    Repeat after me: “If you are not with us - you are a TERRORIST!”

     Fear the TERRORISTS 

    Fear being a TERROTIST. Come on people. By now we all know what happens to TERRORISTS.

    Back when America got rid of an invading army of terrorists the government was a defensive apparatus in place of organized crime. That is right. You can look away. Government was in place of organized crime. The idea was to ‘fill the void’ with a force to ‘keep out’ organized crime. People in those days were intimately aware of organized crime taking over the government of The People. When criminals (tyrants) take over the government of The People, then, the people knew it was time to abolish criminal governments. That was then. 

    Now the criminal governments are embraced as OUR protectors of OUR prosperity. Now the criminal governments are in place to govern us. This switch from defense to offense occurred in 1788 when the criminals took over. We the people have been governed ever since. They dictate who works, what is made, how much the product costs, how the product is made, how much is made, the quality of the product, the distribution of the product, the consumption of the product, and they dictate, as best they can, every possible power used in the process of life. The way that this power is utilized, the means, is by fraud and by force. The device, the power producing device, utilized in this process of organized crime (offensive government of the people) is monopoly money. Go ahead and laugh. Did you read the link on interest free money?  

    The power to produce legal money is the power that drives economic life among The People. You can laugh all you want about my version of this truth, meanwhile the organized criminals laugh all the way to their bank. That power to produce, distribute, maintain, and consume legal purchasing power (money) is the power to shape, regulate, dictate, and consume economic life. When you want to become something more than you are now what stands in your way? Who gives you permission to begin an economic venture? If you answer this question accurately you will follow the money to the top. You will bypass all the middle men and women. Go to the top. Who gives you permission to embark upon an economic venture? 

    Do you ask the people if they want what you intend to produce or do you ask the government? Who gives you the credit you need to begin producing economic value? How, if you do manage to begin producing economic value without gaining permission from The Government, how do you maintain that enterprise without gaining the permission of The Government? In other words: when the tax man arrives at your door how do you respond to the tax man? 

    “If you are not with us; you are a TERRORIST!”

    That, in so many words, is the missing link. This diatribe written by me intended to aid in the realization of impending power consumption: War with Iran. 

    The power consumed in bombing Iran is an investment strategy cooked up by the criminals who run the U.S. Government of The People (by the criminals). The investment strategy is one of domination or acquisition because the competition is gaining power. The bottom line is being threatened by the competition. Who is the competition? 

    The PEOPLE are the competition. We The People are gaining too much power all over the world. The criminals are throwing everything they have left at their self-created problem so as to destroy the competition. They, the criminals, have the power to tax The People. They must burn up that power in the destruction of The People.  

    Please see this and if you do not see this then please ask questions. I’d like to disprove my viewpoint and I can’t. This viewpoint is true. 

    How about a summation? 

    The People have proven to our-selves an ability to prosper without the “help” of organized criminals. This was proven by American pioneers, people from Europe, who began to populate and co-exist with native people on this land. The legal criminals running their extortion rackets with fraudulent currency were less powerful here in American Liberty. Those criminals did, in fact, try to insight conflict between The People of various cultures so as to create a demand for their ‘protection’; however that battle was won by The People up to the signing of The U.S. Constitution. That event was the beginning of the end of Liberty. That was when the currency fraud began to over-power the economic life of America. Government in place of organized crime was replaced by organized crime. Government of defense of liberty was replaced by government to subject the people, direct the people, economize the people, regulate the people, and use the people as capital for the criminals to profit. Power began to flow from the people to the criminals so as to empower the criminals to over-power the people.

    The link has been and continues to be money and not just any form of money. The link is legal money. Organized criminals steal purchasing power from The People with legal money. The people earn that purchasing power and the criminals steal that purchasing power through the creation, production, maintenance, and consumption of legal purchasing power (money or legal tender). Is this too complicated? Am I using too many words?

    That link, today, still exists however that link is severely threatened by the competition. The competition is between organized criminals and The People (the people who do not injure innocents for profit, on purpose, pre-meditated). The People are gaining power. The organized criminals are losing power. The organized criminals are intimately aware of their power deficit. The People are ignorant of the real deficiency. The organized criminals have had the power to deceive The People. That is the shift of power. The People are gaining the power of knowledge and the power to share knowledge. This is an exponential growth power. Think woman. Think man. When in your own history have you known so much true information concerning the criminals who are destroying our economic life? This advance in general knowledge toward greater accuracy, an expose, is a rapidly accelerating current phenomenon and the criminals are shaking in their boots. Please know this.

    The final battle, to tip the balance of power from the criminals back into the hands of the people (the people who do not, and will not, injure innocence, on purpose, for profit) is inevitable. The criminals want The People to believe that this coming battle will be a violent one, a miserable one, a torturing one, and a murderous one that will happen on a massive scale. It will not. This inevitable restructuring of the power structure will be peaceful. The power of oil will be replaced by the power of electricity. The power of legal currency will be replaced by open competition (voluntary capitalism) in currency markets (Free Banking) and Islamic currency may win that battle peacefully (no interest earning capability). The power of falsehood will be replaced by accurate data. The power of organized and massive violence will be replaced by organized and massive discussion.  

    The balance of power between the organized criminals and the people is rapidly moving away from the criminals and toward the people. The criminals are intimately aware of this factual present condition. In their eyes, please use sympathy; this is a clear and present danger to their power. Solutions that avoid lies and avoid violence are clearly threatening the power held and abused by those legal criminals.  

    Summation effort two: 

    The employment of the productive power of The People has been stolen, by extortion, and then that power has been mal-invested in the production of torturous products aimed at destroying innocent people. That power to punish, extort, and destroy is now held in a line drawn in the sand between Iraq and Iran. If the legal criminals get away with torturing and mass murdering the innocent people in Iran, to take their power, and abuse their power (oil) for more conquest, more torture, and more mass murder their crimes will have passed beyond tolerance. Please see this. I think the power held by the legal criminals has run its course. I don’t think Iran will be invaded as planned. I think it is beyond insane to do so at this time because the people are now watching and the people now know the score as never before in the history of The People.

    Even during Patrick Henry’s time, the time of Thomas Paine, The People were overly dependent upon a trust in The Government. Those days are thankfully evaporating. It is past time to distrust the lies told by legal criminals and trust in the fact that they are lying, they are stealing, they are raping, they are torturing, and they are mass murdering innocent people for profit.

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    That is the competition. That is a vital part of Free Banking.

     

     

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    AMY GOODMAN: What do you mean, Magna Carta?
     


    GORE VIDAL: Well, you know what Magna Carta means?


    http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north627.html

    As for those of us who want to buy some bargains, the times are good and will get much better.

     

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    The horror!

     

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    http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSDAH63024720080616

    "Part of Iran's assets in European banks have been converted to gold and shares and another part has been transferred to Asian banks," Mohsen Talaie, deputy foreign minister in charge of economic affairs, was quoted as saying.

     

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    http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/japan-to-cut-the-cost-of-solar-003262.php

    A boost in Japanese solar electricity output will help keep energy dollars within the Japanese economy that are currently leaving the country for the purchase of fossil fuels.

     

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    These defenses can help people who are about to lose their homes, but there is another class of victims in the sub-prime mortgage crisis: investors in MBS, including the pension funds and 401Ks on which many people depend for their retirement.  If the trustees representing the investors cannot foreclose, the lucky debtors may be able to stay in their homes without paying.  However, the hapless investors will be left holding the bag.  If the investors manage to shift liability back to the banks, on the other hand, the banks could go down and take the economy with them.  How can these tricky issues be resolved in a way that is equitable for all?  That question will be addressed in a followup article.  Stay tuned


     

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    http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,562291,00.html

    The textbook conclusion is that this will stabilize the value of money, because no one will dare demand higher wages or higher prices. But the macroeconomics textbooks are no longer worth much in the age of globalization. Modern inflation is driven by the global scarcity of resources. Nowadays purchasing power exceeds purchasing opportunity. Most of all, there is not enough oil, and too few raw materials and food products. These increasingly scarce resources are becoming the focus of disputes among many people and billions of dollars are at stake.



    This is why the price of a barrel of crude oil (159 liters) has increased from $25 (€16) in 2002 to $135 (€87) in 2008. And it is also why the price of corn has tripled in the same time period, while that of copper has almost quintupled.

    If the inflation introduced in the United States is excluded, a small miracle is revealed, namely something approaching price stability. Adjusted for inflation, prices are in fact rising by only 2.3 percent. If this were the extent of it, the Fed chief could simply blink like an old watchdog and go back to sleep. Instead, he is barking loudly, which is his job. But he has lost his bite, because the Fed's interest rate policy can do nothing about the scarcity of goods.

     

    That is false. Even if oil is not made scarce on purpose by people for their profits (at the expense of other people and due to a Cartel agreement or monopoly) the Credit that can BOOM a War Economy can BOOM a war on Energy Scarcity or a war on Falsehood. 

    See how this works; please. 

    Suppose that the National Government decided to issue currency (public money) again in competition with the Federal Reserve Limited Liability Corporate Money Issue (private money) and now suppose both forms of money were available to The People. 

    We are all intimately aware of how the private money works (Federal Reserve Corporation money) because The Dollar is the world’s reserve currency. We are not at all familiar with honest money insured by an honest government (public money). 

    While supposing how the competition between public and private money would work in reality there is a need to list the similarities and the differences between these two competitors in the public forum where people conduct business. There is also a need to list the similarities where both private and public money do the same things for everyone; where both competitors are sanctioned by our National Government and licensed by each State in the United States (not “The Union”).  

    The first and most obvious license afforded to both competitors would be that each form of money is legal tender and by that term: “Legal Tender” the property or characteristic of that form of money is tax payment ability. 

    Both competitors can be used to pay taxes.

    1. Federal Reserve Dollars can be used by anyone when anyone needs to pay taxes.
    2. Power Independence Script can be used by anyone when anyone needs to pay their own taxes.
    I use the term: “Power Independence Script” because that is what I would call the new money; the actual contract awarded by the National Government to produce a competitive Public Money would award the name making job to the competing corporation or association of people who actually issue the competitive currency – just like The Federal Reserve Corporation currently issues The Dollar to member banks from The Treasury. 

    The Treasury is PUBLIC while The Federal Reserve Corporation Central Bank (Limited Liability Corporation) is PRIVATE. 

    That is the second similarity that The People would know and see once the competition began; where The Government gave license, or awarded the contract, to actual human beings in order for actual competing money to begin flowing through society. 

    The Congress is PUBLIC while Power-Independence Script Notes (authorized by The Treasury and by order of The House of Representatives) is merely a contract sent out to the lowest bidder (The People who can produce and maintain the supply of Power-Independence Script Money) for the production and maintenance of the new money flowing through society in direct competition with The Dollar.
    1. The Dollar can pay taxes. The Dollar is a profit making business awarded to people by government.
    2. Power-Independence Script can pay taxes. People profit from this money making venture too.
    The most obvious difference between The Dollar and Power-Independence Script becomes very clear when the PUBLIC (The PEOPLE) begin to consume money. So far we have two obvious similarities between both competitors. Think of this, suppose this, to be a simple shopping expedition. The people needing money go to the money store to get some money. Before The Government (PUBLIC) allowed competition in MONEY MARKETS The Government made laws to place competition outside the law. Competition is now outlawed. Competitors are out-laws in MONEY MARKETS where money can pay taxes. Paying taxes is the most important characteristic of legal tender. Now, while supposing, we suppose that a person (one of “We The People”) needs money to pay taxes so this person goes to one or the other legal tender money store. 

    The person has a tax bill and other bills so the person goes to the money store to get (or deposit) money. Some people shop at Wal-Mart; while some people shop at Sears. If the prices at Sears are currently high and the prices at Wal-Mart are currently low the shoppers will tend to go to Wal-Mart (the ones who don’t have a lot of money). 

    The person looks for a money store and now there are two money stores instead of one Brand X. Now, we are supposing, there is Brand Y and Brand X money stores to choose from. Brand X is The Dollar. Brand Y is Power-Independence Script. Both can be used to pay taxes. Both are licensed by The House of Representatives, The Treasury, and The State Governments like California and The Terminator Governor State.  

    The person now has a choice between Brand X and Brand Y and here is where the person begins to see the differences between those two competitors. The person can purchase a Brand X loan or the person can purchase a Brand Y loan. The person wants high quality, of course, and the person wants the high quality purchased cheaply or, rather, at the lowest cost possible. Few people, both rich and poor, want less for more. Few people go into a store (even a money store) so as to give more and receive less like charity. Few people want to pay too much for poor quality stuff. Charity is fine when the people receiving the charity (The Federal Reserve Corporation receives charity when The People out-law money market competition) deserve charity.

    The Federal Reserve store of money is very poor stuff and that stuff they produce and maintain is nothing short of fraud. The person having a choice between the fraudulent stuff (not matter what the cost or price of it) and the good stuff will choose the good stuff. This is what is known as a NO-BRAINER. 

    If you are confused, then look in the mirror to see if the head staring back at you has a brain. I’ll wait. 

    What did you find? I’m going to assume that you found a brain and that you are now inclined to dust off that brain, borrow it back from whoever has been using it, and proceed with these simple suppositions concerning money market competition for legal tender. I know this can be tough stuff for the people who, like me, allowed their brains to wander from logic, reason, and careful thought and be infected with falsehood. We the people have been duped; it is pathetic. It is time to dust off the brain and use the brain that God (or whatever) gave you. 

    The next thing to do is to imagine the reality of having a choice between Brand X and Brand Y money for anyone currently living on the planet earth and then see how both products compete for your business while your business makes the producer of that money a lot of profit. The business that is sanctioned by The Government to make money does make money. Make no mistake about that business. Brand X will make money. Brand Y will also make money. Now, please, entertain the possibilities.  I am now going to describe two products at the Brand Y money store. You can then decide which money you want as you compare the competition between The Federal Reserve money store and one possible competitor. 

    Brand Y legal tender money offers two products. You go to the store and ask the person at the store if you can buy some money. The person replies to you, yes, you can buy some money. You ask if you can use this money to pay Federal or State taxes. The person says; yes. You ask if the stuff is worth anything. The person says; we sell two things because two things are the only two things Uncle Sam gave us license to sell. We sell two products and only two products; that is all we sell. 

    The person needs money to pay taxes. The person is looking for money. The person is not looking to store money. The person can find a store that stores money when the person has enough extra money to store. The person is looking to buy money to pay taxes. The person asks: how much does your money cost? The answer is: We have two products and the first product does not cost anything. The person says: How do you make any money? The answer is: We have two products and the second product is a money maker for us and the second product is a money maker for our customers. The sales man at the Power-Independence Script store goes on to say: We are going to make a lot of money, you can certainly join in on this money making venture. We like to share the wealth. 

    The person may get up and walk out since the person has been so deftly infected by propaganda as to abhor those words: Share the Wealth. The person persists and stays seated at the desk at the money store. The person, the potential customer, needs money to pay taxes so the person remains seated and asks: What is product number one? 

    Product number one, the salesman says, is a home mortgage or business loan to qualified buyers.  

    “How much does it cost?” asks the skeptical buyer.  

    “Nothing”; replies the money manager with the Federal License to issue tax payment money. “We make our money on product number two” and the manager or salesperson remains stoic or poker faced since this type of exchange has been going on all day. Some salespeople have given to laughter and others have been reduced to anger in frustration. 

    “What is number two and how much does it cost?” the buyer is, again, ready to walk out. 

    “Number two is a loan to qualified buyers for things like Solar Panels, Wind Generators, Solar Panel business loans, a New Electric Car loan, and things that fall into the renewable energy category type stuff” the salesman then adds “And the cost to you is one percent straight annual interest”. 

    The buyer really does need money, times are tough after all, so the buyer swallows his pride, or whatever it is that tends to inspire the feeling of disbelief, and the buyer thinks about these two products for a minute. Meanwhile the seller waits. 

    “You are saying, if I have this right, that I can buy a loan for my home…” The sales person cuts off the potential buyer.

    “…or business property.”

    The buyer corrects him or her self. “You are saying that I can buy a loan for my home or business property and you charge no interest on those loans?” 

    “Yes, we make our money on product two.” The money manager knows where the skepticism originates. 

    The buyer heard "The Fine Print" part so the buyer challenges this folly. “You said that these products are available to ‘Qualified Buyers’?”

    “Yes. No interest to qualified buyers and that means that we charge higher interest to people who have a history of failing to pay back loans; which is a reasonable thing to do. We can check your current credit rating right now if you would like. We are licensed by the Federal and Stage Governments.” The sales person knows, just by looking at this customer, that he or she qualifies and he or she (the money manager) would bet on it. The customer is just an average honest hard working person. The customer is skeptical of government and PRIVATE corporations, just like the money manager for hire. 

    “I have one of the highest FICO scores on my block therefore I should be “qualified” if anyone can be “qualified”, lets go ahead and check that now.” The customer uses both hands in mock quotation of “qualified” and it looks like Richard Nixon peace signs to the money manager. 

    “I’d bet on you being qualified.” says the money manager while he checks the computer database. 

    “You are qualified for both products, no problem.” The money store clerk states with an air of authority. 

    The buyer is dumfounded for a moment, just a moment, and then it hits her or him between the eyes. 

    “Who gets the title of my home?” Now this is a real challenge, the customer thinks, and now I’m going to expose this fraud for what it is – exactly. 

    “You buy the title of your home from whoever now holds that title now. You get the title; however we may be forced to take you to court to get that title if you fail to pay your loan back fraudulently. Your past credit history suggests that possibility to be a remote possibility; however we certainly know that hard times can make all of us desperate." The store clerk continues: "If your credit rating were low because you have a history of failing to pay back loans…” 

    “I pay back all my loans.” The customer cuts in. 

    Silence fills the space between customer demanding and supplier supplying. 

    “I get clear title of my home?” The customer breaks the silence just after it started. 

    “You get the title, yes; we may claim to have an interest in your title in court due to the loan that you purchase from us...” The supplier of money waves off a premature response from the demanding customer. “We do not plan on going to court in any case other than cases where the customer is clearly a fraud beyond any reasonable doubt…” another wave to stave off another response. “While customers who merely fall upon hard times will keep their homes and lose their good credit rating.” 

    More silence and then a break by the money manager. “We buy insurance with the money we make on product two, but that is probably not your concern.” 

    “I get my title when I buy product one from you and it doesn’t cost me any interest payments: What is my monthly payment to you?” The customer begins to warm up to the idea.

    “You can keep your current monthly payment and pay off your loan early or you can maximize liquidity, which means…” The customer breaks in. 

    “I know what you mean; I’m not stupid.”  

    “Yes, of course, your monthly payments can be lowered significantly depending upon the principle balance of your current loan. You may want to know, also, that California, being one of the most progressive States, has passed a law that voids prepayment penalties on existing loans in California. It seems that the Governator is banking on our success.” The money manager puffs out his or her chest in a show of pride and confidence. 

    The customer had another idea to expose the scam before him. “What happens if I do not purchase product number two; I don’t want it. You can forget about selling it to me. I am only interested in product number one.” The customer has this guy or gal by the private parts now – he or she is certain. 

    “No problem. We can proceed with the purchase of product one if you like, or you can go to Brand X if you like.” Here is where the manager knows not to be pushing something that will, inevitably, sell itself. 

    The silence proceeds and this time the silence continues like a Mexican Stand-off.  

    The customer breaks the silence again. “No sales job?” 

    “Nope” 

    “I’ll come back tomorrow.” The customer will then bring his or her significant other back to the bank. “Do you have any information on these loans?”

    “Here is product number one.” The money lender hands over a very small pamphlet while keeping product two in his or her hand, then the customer reaches out to get both pamphlets.  

    Product two produces economic prosperity for us and posterity.

     

     


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    Why USA and Israel Will Attack Iran?


     

    It is the currency - stupid.

    We may be set back, more or less, permanently.


    Why?

    If the dollar (petrol-dollar) crashes, why is that not an opportunity to produce and consume honest currency.

    Example:

    Two products:

    A. No interest loans to gain title of home mortgages and business mortgages to qualified buyers (low FICO score borrowers must pay 'insurance' for their high risk history in the form of increased 'unqualified' interest rates).

    B. One percent interest loans (qualified borrowers) to purchase power (such as Solar Power, Solar Panels, Wind Generators, Electric Cars, Electric Car manufacturing, Electric Car purchases, etc.)

    The new issue of currency flows to The People, to the mortgage companies, back to the issuer and throughout society almost like reverse interest script ([link=http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=904]stamp script[/link]).

    Why do people perceive of Dooms Day as if we the people must welcome such a Parade to be inevitable?

    Ask the criminals?


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    http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/is-helium-3-exp.html

    Ouyang Ziyuan, head of the first phase of lunar exploration, was quoted on government-sanctioned news site ChinaNews.com describing plans to collect three dimensional images of the Moon for future mining of Helium 3: "There are altogether 15 tons of helium-3 on Earth, while on the Moon, the total amount of Helium-3 can reach one to five million tons."

    "Helium-3 is considered as a long-term, stable, safe, clean and cheap material for human beings to get nuclear energy through controllable nuclear fusion experiments," Ziyuan added. "If we human beings can finally use such energy material to generate electricity, then China might need 10 tons of helium-3 every year and in the world, about 100 tons of helium-3 will be needed every year."

    Helium 3 fusion energy - classic Buck Rogers propulsion system- may be the key to future space exploration and settlement, requiring less radioactive shielding, lightening the load. Scientists estimate there are about one million tons of helium 3 on the moon, enough to power the world for thousands of years. The equivalent of a single space shuttle load or roughly 25 tons could supply the entire United States' energy needs for a year.

     

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    It's the Oil, stupid!

    By Noam Chomsky


     

    In fact, the whole invasion is a war crime — indeed the supreme international crime, differing from other war crimes in that it encompasses all the evil that follows, in the terms of the Nuremberg judgment. This is among the topics that can't be discussed, in the presidential campaign or elsewhere. Why are we in Iraq?

     

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    The libertarian investment guru on the future of Asia, and the death of the dollar and the US central bank.

     

    http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/021902.html

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    I suggest that you be aware of this threat. I suggest that you sit down with the family budget and outline what your response would be if the price of gasoline were $10 a gallon or $15 a gallon or $20 a gallon. What would you do? I know what you would do. You would drive less.

    I really like Gary North because he is the only one who has accurately proven how the money supply is now deflating (relatively speaking). That causes recession. The money supply (legal tender) is the blood of the economy. If the quality of the blood is high and the cost of the blood is low, the economy will live and thrive.

    If the blood is poison or absent the economy will suffer and die.

    I think Gary North is very well aware of how the legal tender supply affects a National economy as well as a Global economy. Gary North is one very smart guy; one of a very few who have managed to accurately identify the causes of economic trouble rather than merely pointing fingers at the symptoms of economic trouble.

    Please read the whole article and when the quote above is read, please use your own brain.

    Here:


    I suggest that you sit down with the family budget and outline what your response would be if the price of gasoline were $10 a gallon or $15 a gallon or $20 a gallon. What would you do? I know what you would do. You would drive less.


    I have sat down with my family, a micro-economic society, for years and my story remains the same for years. Any excess purchasing power should be employed toward the creation of more purchasing power.

    Example:

    One Solar Panel can pay for itself in one year according to at least one supplier of Solar Panels. One Solar Panel continues to produce power for 25 years according to many Solar Panel warrantees.

    That means that the investment cost is offset in one year and that means that the investment produces one more Solar Panel for every year onward (assuming that costs and prices do not change) for 24 more years – at least.

    My family economic strategy includes the purchase of electric cars. I can now order an electric car for 19,000 dollars and that car is advertised to cost 2 cents per mile, IF, I have to pay for electricity.

    If I do not have to pay for electricity because I have invested in the creation of more power, then my fuel cost per mile is zero cents per mile.

    Returning to Gary North, the wisest contemporary economist alive today, in my opinion, is his advice – again:


    I suggest that you sit down with the family budget and outline what your response would be if the price of gasoline were $10 a gallon or $15 a gallon or $20 a gallon. What would you do? I know what you would do. You would drive less.


    Choice A:
    Suffer at the hands of people who control the flow of legal tender and oil.

    Choice B:
    Invest power into the creation of power at home

    Why are people stupid despite their age, experience, education, and proven wisdom?

    I can’t answer that question. People refuse, absolutely refuse, to see the truth.

    Even if a zero percent interest loan were available to qualified buyers so as to own a primary residence and a business property without having to give up twice the value of that good in interest payments, even if that was as easy to do as clicking a few mouse buttons on the web, many people would refuse to do it.

    Why?

    Why is the truth invisible?

    I can’t say. I see it.

    I’m asking.

    http://gas2.org/2008/07/11/necessity-breeds-electric-car-innovation-on-the-gaza-strip/

    The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) has reported on two business partners in Gaza who have converted a 1994 Peugeot 205 into an electric car capable of going 110 miles on a single charge using 34 standard lead-acid car batteries.

    After more than a year of being blockaded by the Isreali government, Gazans find themselves facing out-of-sight prices for fuel.

    Instead of letting that get the better of them, civil engineers Waseem Khazendar and Fayaz Anan claim to have developed an electric motor that is different than other electric motors and allows for improved efficiency.


    What me worry?





    http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/07/11/iran/index.html

    Obviously the war lobby within the Republican Party and the Bush White House has lost neither influence nor determination, no matter how wrong its predictions nor how disastrous its policies have proved to be. When John McCain jokes that exporting cigarettes to Iran might be a "way of killing them," he isn't really kidding. Like his warbling of "Bomb bomb Iran" last year, that moronic remark represented a profound judgment that war is the only way to achieve American objectives in the Gulf region.

    The problem faced by McCain, Vice President Dick Cheney and their fellow hawks in Washington and Jerusalem is that their reign of error may well be coming to an end -- and that Barack Obama as president may be far more inclined to talk than bomb. The final months of the Bush administration are counting down, while its preferred successor McCain is achieving little electoral traction as his campaign founders. Meanwhile in Israel, the government of Ehud Olmert is sinking under charges of political corruption and military incompetence.

     

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    http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/07/beating-high-energy-and-food-prices.html

    One of the world's leading experts on trend forecasting says that producing our own energy for our homes and cars (called "micro generation") will become a huge trend in the next couple of decades.

     

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    It's pretty extraordinary that in a democracy, the political elite is able to render completely off-limits a view that the vast majority of Americans support. They actually render majority-held views unspeakable and then remove the issue entirely from what is debated.

     

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    The free transfer of information, uncensored, unlimited and untainted, still seems to be a dream when you think about it. 

     

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    Current information


    Diversify?

    https://www.everbank.com/?referid=12140&gclid=cjha6pxh25qcfseragodimwskw

     

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    Because it was a depreciating currency, it circulated with rapidity, boosting the local economy. Also, not only did people merely pay their current taxes in the currency, but also discharged their tax arrears. Further, many paid their taxes in advance because it was financially advantageous.

    Apart from the obvious employment benefits, physical assets were created. These included improvements in the main street and its drainage system, street lighting, new road construction, manufacturing of kerb stones and drainage pipes, construction of a ski-jumping platform, and fencing and construction of a new water reservoir.

    Although the Worgl money was unanimously accepted at the local level, there was great opposition from two centralist forces - the Tyrol Labour Party and the Austrian State Bank.

    In both cases, there seemed to be the fear of the experiment spreading, for the idea was copied by the neighbouring town of Kirchbichel. The town monies were valid in both places. Other towns in the Tyrol also decided on issuing depreciating money, but did not proceed because of threats from the State Bank.

    The experiment curtailed

    Ultimately, the State Bank threatened legal proceedings and on September 1st 1933, the experiment was terminated.


    http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/currency/news.php?q=1217011692

    Or so it seemed. Hitler and the National Socialists, who came to power in 1933, thwarted the international banking cartel by issuing their own money. In this they took their cue from Abraham Lincoln, who funded the American Civil War with government-issued paper money called "Greenbacks." Hitler began his national credit program by devising a plan of public works. Projects earmarked for funding included flood control, repair of public buildings and private residences, and construction of new buildings, roads, bridges, canals, and port facilities. The projected cost of the various programs was fixed at one billion units of the national currency.

     

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    Chávez thanked the private managers of the bank for having turned it into a very efficient institution, but added that the bank would cease to be a capitalist bank to turn into a socialist one: "Profits will not go to one private group, they will be invested in socialist social development. Socialism is stronger every day that passes!"

     

    What is the difference between "legal Tender Laws" and Socialism?

     

     

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    With the stroke of a pen, Mr. Kennedy was on his way to putting the Federal Reserve Bank of New York out of business. If enough of these silver certificats were to come into circulation they would have eliminated the demand for Federal Reserve notes. This is because the silver certificates are backed by silver and the Federal Reserve notes are not backed by anything. Executive Order 11110 could have prevented the national debt from reaching its current level, because it would have given the gevernment the ability to repay its debt without going to the Federal Reserve and being charged interest in order to create the new money. Executive Order 11110 gave the U.S. the ability to create its own money backed by silver.


     

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     As I have said for months, the FED is deflating. We should expect prices to follow.

     

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    Who are the bad guys?

     

     

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    Kirkpatrick and Aron, as with every topsy-turvy articulation from the AEI, have it exactly right – except for orientation. American interest in Georgia in the past decade is the result of neoconservative fear that Russia will bankrupt America’s heavily indebted and credit-dependent government.

     

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    This is precious; Mike Whitney (propagandist?) is being schooled.

    Here is Mike’s question:

    And how in the world is the Federal Reserve going to keep the banking system functioning when earnings can't even cover current liabilities? Do the banks have some secret source of revenue we don't know about or is the system headed for disaster?

    Here is the answer:

    The banks don’t have a secret source of revenue. It’s right out in the open. They will take their junk mortgages to the Federal Reserve and borrow the money at full face value. The government will be left with the junk.

    It then can either take over the bank, as the Bank of England did with Northern Rock when it went bankrupt early this year, or it can let the bank “earn” money by stiffing its customers some more.


    Do you have that understood; Mike doesn’t – it seems.

    Later Mike offers the tired old apology for usury:

    The Federal Reserve's low interest rates were the main cause of this unprecedented housing bubble

    Do you see that? Mike blames economic trouble on a failure to INCREASE interest rates.

    That claim followed this:

    So the principle here is “Big fish eat little fish.” Wall Street will be bailed out, and banks will be allowed to “earn their way out of debt” as they did after 1980, by exploiting retail customers, above all credit-card customers and individual borrowers. There will be a lot of bankruptcies, and people will suffer more than ever before because of the harsh pro-creditor bankruptcy law that Congress passed at the behest of the bank lobbyists.

    The claim that the economic problem (housing bubble) was caused by a failure to INCREASE interest rates followed this:

    Michael Hudson: The credit crisis derives from “the magic of compound interest,” that is, the tendency of debts to keep on doubling and redoubling. Every rate of interest is a doubling time. No “real” economy’s production and economic surplus can keep up with this tendency of debt to grow faster. So the financial crisis would have occurred regardless of wage levels.

    Quite simply, the price of home ownership tends to absorb all the disposable personal income of the homebuyer. So if wages would have risen more rapidly, the price of housing would simply have risen faster as employees pledged more take-home pay to carry larger mortgages. Stagnant wages merely helped keep down the price of houses to merely stratospheric levels, not ionospheric ones.


    This is obviously a case of the capitalist mentality fogging accurate perception. The creation of a currency monopoly enables the power to INCREASE interest, without the enforced monopoly there would be no power to increase interest or even charge interest for the use of money. Banking markets would compete to offer the highest quality SERVICE for the lowest possible cost in a FREE BANKING economy.

    Here is where it becomes precious:

    Mike (the capitalist) says:

    10 MW---The housing market is freefalling, setting new records every day for foreclosures, inventory, and declining prices. The banking system is in even worse shape; undercapitalized and buried under a mountain of downgraded assets. There seems to be growing consensus that these problems are not just part of a normal economic downturn, but the direct result of the Fed's monetary policies. Are we seeing the collapse of the Central banking model as a way of regulating the markets? Do you think the present crisis will strengthen the existing system or make it easier for the American people to assert greater control over monetary policy?
    The response: 

    Michael Hudson: What do you mean “failure”? Your perspective is from the bottom looking up. But the financial model has been a great success from the vantage point of the top of the economic pyramid looking down? The economy has polarized to the point where the wealthiest 10% now own 85% of the nation’s wealth. Never before have the bottom 90% been so highly indebted, so dependent on the wealthy. From their point of view, their power has exceeded that of any time in which economic statistics have been kept.

    Note: The answer above is true; however the answer is offered by someone who supports the anti-thesis solution. The anti-thesis to criminal capitalism is criminal socialism.

    The criminal capitalists are the 10 percent who control the power to commit legal crime. When the anti-thesis solution is implemented the same 10 percent who control the power to commit legal crime merely change the name on their sign in front of their false front.

    Out with the old boss and in with the new boss is called Hegelism or Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis; also known as “divide and conquer”.

    The old bad guys commit crime while in office where the old bad guys are supposedly defending things like liberty, justice, peace, and such things. The old guys pretend to champion the FREE MARKET when, in fact, their actions prove that they are enforcing an extortion racket that is only FREE from any moral sense of right and wrong; including the rightness of being honest. 

    Enter stage LEFT: The new bad guys claim that the FREE MARKET is to blame for all this trouble and therefore the new bad guys must control the power to enforce punishment against bad guys. How long does it take for the new bad guys to increase the rate by which the flow of wealth is extracted from honest working people by that interesting device called interest? 

    Right now there is a curious experiment going on in Venezuela where the power flow from the honest working people to the legal criminals is slowing down (less power is going to the legal criminals) and that measure of power flow can be accurately and simply measured by the price of oil (the price is lowering).  

    If the price on money can be known, then that flow of power in Venezuela can be even more accurately measured as power flows from the honest people who create power to the dishonest people who steal it. If the price (interst charge) on money lowers, then the flow of power lowers as the power flows from the honest working people who create power to the legal criminals who steal it.  

    What is the interest rate charged by Hugo Chavez with his new bank? Does Hugo Chavez offer a quality product for the price he charges? Is Hugo Chavez money better and less expensive money compared to the competition? 

    The dupes won’t know why it is importation to increase the quality of money. That is a simple way to discriminate between a dupe and someone who is not duped.

    I kept reading and found this:

    quote:

    In order for the American people or any other people to assert greater control over monetary policy, they need to have a doctrine of just what a good monetary policy would be. Early in the 19th century the followers of St. Simon in France began to develop such a policy. By the end of that century, Central Europe implemented this policy, mobilizing the banking and financial system to promote industrialization, in consultation with the government (and catalyzed by military and naval spending, to be sure). But all this has disappeared from the history of economic thought, which no longer is even taught to economics students. The Chicago Boys have succeeded in censoring any alternative to their free-market rationalization of asset stripping and economic polarization.

    My strong suggestion to the reader if the reader is inclined to favor one SIDE or the other in the argument between criminal capitalism and criminal socialism is the read the following with great care:

    http://anarchism.net/scienceofsociety.htm

    St. Simon and those types of people constituted the type of socialism that was expressly rejected by Engles in the communist manifesto.

    The anti-usury bunch figured out the whole racket and many of those people offered proven methods of avoiding the entire dynamic of dishonest power politics. The link I suggest to the reader as a very insightful work is but one of many similar ‘out of the box’ solutions to this power struggle we fact as a species.

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    http://news.cnet.com/Internet-traffic-begins-to-bypass-the-U.S./2100-1025_3-6246200.html?tag=newsLatestHeadlinesArea.0

     

    Claffy said that the shift away from the United States was not limited to developing countries. The Japanese "are on a rampage to build out across India and China so they have alternative routes and so they don't have to route through the U.S."

     

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    China, for instance, surpassed the United States in the number of Internet users in June. Over all, Asia now has 578.5 million, or 39.5 percent, of the world's Internet users, although only 15.3 percent of the Asian population is connected to the Internet, according to Internet World Stats, a market research organization.

     

    When the road blocks go up, the traffic flows around the road block.

    What is the path of least resistance?

     

     

     

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    You are not innocent any more...

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    http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11999307

    Behind these statistics lies a more profound social change. A couple of years ago, a favourite example of mobile phones’ impact in the developing world was that of an Indian fisherman calling different ports from his boat to get a better price for his catch. But mobile phones are increasingly being used to access more elaborate data services.

    A case in point is M-PESA, a mobile-payment service introduced by Safaricom Kenya, a mobile operator, in 2007. It allows subscribers to deposit and withdraw money via Safaricom’s airtime-sales agents, and send funds to each other by text message. The service is now used by around a quarter of Safaricom’s 10m customers. Casual workers can be paid quickly by phone; taxi drivers can accept payment without having to carry cash around; money can be sent to friends and family in emergencies. Safaricom’s parent company, Vodafone, has launched M-PESA in Tanzania and Afghanistan, and plans to introduce it in India.


     


    http://www.safaricom.co.ke/index.php?id=228

    M-PESA is a Safaricom service allowing you to transfer money using a mobile phone. Kenya is the first country in the world to use this service, which is offered in partnership between Safaricom and Vodafone. M-PESA is available to all members of the public, even if you do not have a bank account or a bankcard.

     

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    But at the deepest level of all, the “innovation” that created a rent-extracting loophole was the deception that making more and more bad-mortgage loans could continue for a prolonged period of time. The reality is that no exponential rise in debt ever has been able to be paid for more than a few years, because no economy ever has been able to produce a surplus fast enough to keep pace with the “magic of compound interest.” That phrase is itself a synonym for the exponential growth of debt.

     

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    When this time arrives, US interest rates will have to rise in order for the government to be able to continue to rely on foreigners to recycle the dollars acquired in trade to finance the US government’s annual budget deficit.
    The U.S. can offer two new financial products to anyone in the world.

    Product one is a no interest mortgage loan on property for people with a proven ability to pay back their loans.

    That would immediately relieve all the new customers (the people who recycled their 6% and higher mortgage loans for 0 % interest loans) of their interest payments to the new U.S. Bank (one that is not an organized legal extortion racket).

    All those new customers could then be offered a 1 % interest loan from the new U.S. Bank and this revenue generating loan is meant to finance power generating devices like solar panel manufacturing, solar panel sales, solar panel installations, solar panel maintenance, solar panel purchases, wind generator manufacturing, wind generator sales, wing generator installations, wind generator maintenance, wind generator purchases, wave generator manufacturing, wave generator sales, wave generator installations, wave generator maintenance, wave generator purchases, electric car manufacturing, electric car sales, electric car taxi services, electric car maintenance, electric car purchases, vertical green house farm unit manufacturing, vertical green house farm unit sales, vertical green house farm unit maintenance, vertical green house farm unit purchases, and other such productive and powerful business loans.

    Use your own brain for a minute, please.

    The new U.S. Bank could employ precious metals as the medium of exchange or paper certificates as the medium of exchange or even digitally encrypted accounts such as those already employed by PayPal, E-bay, and modern credit card companies. The new U.S. Bank could compete against the failing Federal Reserve Corporation, rather than bail them out again and again and again with the power earned by the people through taxes.

    Who would not turn in their Federal Reserve money (monopoly money) for new and secure money offered by the new U.S. Bank when you can get rid of your 6% home mortgage loan in exchange (recycled) for a 0% interest loan.

    If you do that, because you can, you now have more money each month or you pay off your mortgage in less than half the time it would take with a high interest loan.

    Please re-read the quote I just took out of the latest NEWS from The Dooms Day Parade:

     When this time arrives, US interest rates will have to rise in order for the government to be able to continue to rely on foreigners to recycle the dollars acquired in trade to finance the US government’s annual budget deficit.
    That is the same old tired extortion racket solution to the problem created by the same old tired extortion racket, where The Federal Reserve Corporation makes a killing off their money laundering counterfeit business and then The People bail them out, again, and again, and again, and again through taxes. 

    The People create the power that backs the money. The People can cut out the middle man and make their own currency, just like The People did way back in our colonial history. 

    We can afford to charge 0% interest on home and business property loans because The People who can pay back those loans will have more money to spend on things like solar panels, solar panel manufacturing businesses, solar panel sales businesses, solar panel installation businesses, solar panel maintenance businesses, solar panel electric production and sales of electricity businesses, electric car manufacturing businesses, electric car parts manufacturing businesses, and electric car taxi service businesses. 

    We can afford to charge 0% interest on home and business property loans because We The People can transfuse our social body with good blood, honest currency, at low interest rates, while the old and dishonest currency fades away. 

    We can cover all our own costs in this competitive currency business venture by charging 1 % interest to anyone who wants to employ our new money for the purchase or the production of powerful products like solar panels, wind generators, wave generators, electric cars, food producing green houses, algae fuel producing green houses, and any other product that produces more power compared to the power-less products that currently occupy much of the market share. 

    Do the numbers quickly and easily. 

    Suppose that half the population of America turned in their old dollar loans at 6 % and they now have no interest payments.   

    Suppose that number was even less than half because many people have bad credit and therefore many people would have to pay for their own bad credit by paying a higher interest rate to any bank that could cover a high risk; suppose the number of Americans not paying interest after the first new money loan issue is one hundred million people. 

    100,000,000 

    That is a one and eight zeros. 

    If all of those one hundred million people no longer paid 100 dollars per month in interest payments (their monthly mortgage payment goes from 1100 dollars per month down to 1000 dollars per month), then every month those one hundred million people would have 100 dollars more to survive on per month. 

    One hundred million people with one hundred dollars more per month looks like this: 

    10,000,000,000 per month more to use for survival 

    That is 10 billion dollars per month more money to use for survival because the interest rate on home and business property is eliminated to those people who have maintained good credit. 

    Those same people can now afford 100 dollars worth per month more on a new loan to place solar panels on their homes and two electric cars. That purchase eliminates the electric bill and the petroleum (gasoline) fuel bill. 

    If each new money loan customer had to pay 100 dollars per month in electricity and 300 dollars per month in gasoline, then each person has 100 (savings from the mortgage interest), 100 (savings from the electric bill), 300 (savings from the gasoline bill), and 500 total per month to survive on.  

    How much is the new solar panel and electric car loan per month at 1% interest? 

    http://www.bretwhissel.net/amortization/amortize.html

    http://www.bretwhissel.net/cgi-bin/amortize 

    I get 321.64 per month for a 100,000 dollar loan which is a 30 year loan. 

    If a person can get a Solar Panel installation and one electric car for 100,000 dollars (new money), then that person can save the rest of the money saved by eliminating the electric bill and the gasoline bill.

    The idea is not to spend the new money on poor investments so someone having the first loan may not hock the rest of their lives for solar panels and electric cars. Some people may just take the no interest loan, save 100 dollars a month in interest, pay off their house earlier, and take out a one percent interest loan to start a new business. 

    The point of showing the 100,000 dollar loan is to point to the method by which The People’s new bank generates revenue. 

    If only 10 percent of the 100 million people who take out new 0% interest loans also take out 100,000 new money dollars of The People’s money at 1% interest the flow of interest payments to the new bank would look like this: 

    321.64 x 10,000,000 = 3,216,400,000 

    3 billion 2 hundred million goes to the new bank every month. 

    People, the enormity of the crimes committed by the legal criminals with their banking extortion racket is unfathomable unless the falsehood is tripped away and the naked crime is staring you in the face. 

    If those people who supposedly represent you, the wage earner, the honest and productive human being, the law abiding tax payer, and the person who has maintained good credit because you produce power daily, each new day, over and over again, if that supposed representative of you cannot regain control of our money, then that person is as worthless as poison injected into your blood stream. 

    The problem is falsehood. The solution is found in the mirror. It is the currency, stupid.

     

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    http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD127/sec2.html

    That is a  description of something called The Dictator's Dilemma

    Here is the Prisoner's Dilemma:

    http://prisonersdilemma.groenefee.nl/

    Check out the applet.

    When the prisoner's dilemma is no longer controlled by the dictator's ability to censor the free flow of information between all the prisoners, the cooperators win.

    Do you see this?

     

     

     

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    http://mises.org/story/3060

    Services like PayPal can bring increased financial security to residents of countries where inflation is rampant. By having dollar-denominated accounts instead of accounts denominated in local currencies, individuals can reduce the annual percent inflation they suffer to the low single digits. With services such as e-gold and other commodity-denominated accounts, individuals no longer need to suffer inflation at all. They can, moreover, transfer money across borders without facing restrictions from their own governments. As Internet commerce develops, more individuals around the world will be able to work and exchange money online — bypassing the economic restrictions and regulations of some of the world's most oppressive governments.

    http://www.amazon.com/PayPal-Wars-Battles-Media-Planet/dp/0974670103

    The reading can be summed up as connectivity. Connectivity can be viewed as a solid block of copper where each copper atom is a human being. If one atom wants to connect with one other atom the path of least resistance will be a straight line between the two atoms.

     

    If a third atom is threatened by that connectivity the third atom can try to block the transfer of power between the two atoms. The two atoms are then able to bypass the one dictator atom, by going around the one dictator atom within the solid block of copper atoms. The Dictator can then solicit help from more dictator atoms so as to block the new path between the two cooperating atoms. The cooperating atoms then find a new path around the greater number of dictator atoms. The way the dictator atoms can completely block the free transfer of power within the block is to completely sever the block in half, or blow up the block into tiny fragments, otherwise there will always be a connection between free copper atoms.


     

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    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=e-gold&aq=f&oq=

    Douglas Jackson, the founder and director of the online payment service e-Gold and its parent company Gold & Silver Reserve, has ended a two-and-a-half-year battle with the Justice Department and pleaded guilty to charges pertaining to money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. He faces up to 20 years in prison on the money-laundering charge and up to 5 years in prison on the licensing charge.

    Jackson (at right) was indicted in April 2007, following a December 2005 Secret Service raid on his company's offices in Melbourne, Florida.

    He and two other senior e-Gold directors, who also pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, have also agreed to introduce user restrictions on e-Gold and to revamp the system to make it easier to detect money-laundering activities, fixing some design flaws that Jackson acknowledges allowed criminals to use the system for illegal purposes. The company has currently suspended the opening of new accounts.

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=e-gold&aq=f&oq=


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    Douglas Jackson, the founder and director of the online payment service e-Gold and its parent company Gold & Silver Reserve, has ended a two-and-a-half-year battle with the Justice Department and pleaded guilty to charges pertaining to money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. He faces up to 20 years in prison on the money-laundering charge and up to 5 years in prison on the licensing charge.

    Jackson (at right) was indicted in April 2007, following a December 2005 Secret Service raid on his company's offices in Melbourne, Florida.

    He and two other senior e-Gold directors, who also pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, have also agreed to introduce user restrictions on e-Gold and to revamp the system to make it easier to detect money-laundering activities, fixing some design flaws that Jackson acknowledges allowed criminals to use the system for illegal purposes. The company has currently suspended the opening of new accounts.




     

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    http://www.dailynewscaster.com/2008/09/28/marcy-kaptur-warns-there-are-domestic-enemies-to-the-republic/

    Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) warns the American people about Constitutional enemies of the Republic and the fraudulent trillion(s) dollar bailout…

    “My message to the American people don’t let Congress seal this deal. High financial crimes have been committed.”

    “The normal legislative process has been shelved. Only a few insiders are doing the dealing, sounds like insider trading to me. These criminals have so much political power than can shut down the normal legislative process of the highest law making body of this land.”

    “We are Constitutionally sworn to protect and defend this Republic against all enemies foreign and domestic. And my friends there are enemies.”

    “The people pushing this deal are the very ones who are responsible for the implosion on Wall Street. They were fraudulent then and they are fraudulent now.”

     

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    http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo151.html

     The Founding Father of Central Banking

    Hamilton is also considered to be the founding father of central banking since America’s first central bank, the Bank of the United States (BUS), existed primarily due to his efforts as Treasury Secretary. As William Graham Sumner wrote in his biography of Hamilton, however, "[A] national bank . . . was not essential to the work of the Federal Government." The real purpose of Hamilton’s bank, Sumner believed, was "the interweaving of the interests of wealthy men with those of their government." And interweave it did, providing cheap credit to business supporters of the Federalist Party, attempting to engineer boom-and-bust cycles to influence elections (called "political business cycles" in today’s parlance) and even financing the political campaigns of BUS supporters.

    The BUS was a disaster for the general public, however; excessive money creating by the BUS printing press caused 72 percent inflation in its first five years, from 1791 to 1796. It became so unpopular that its twenty-year charter was not renewed, but then the War of 1812 gave it a new life, and it was resurrected in 1817. It immediately caused the Panic of 1819, and did what all central banks have always done: generated boom-and-bust cycles for the next twenty years. The bursting of the housing bubble in our time is the latest example of this hoary tradition.

    Hamilton’s BUS was de-funded by President Andrew Jackson, and then a version of it was resurrected once again in 1863 by the neo-Hamiltonian Lincoln administration with several National Currency Acts. This, and other interventions of that period (50 percent average tariff rates, massive corporate welfare for the railroad industry, income taxation, pervasive excise taxation), led historian Leonard Curry to observe in his book, Blueprint for Modern America: Nonmilitary Legislation of the First Civil War Congress, that the interventions "ushered in four decades of neo-Hamiltonianism: government for the benefit of the privileged few."

    The record of Hamiltonian central banking from that time until the Fed was created in 1913 was summarized in a scholarly paper by economists Michael Bordo, Anna Schwartz and Peter Rappaport: "monetary and cyclical instability, four banking panics, frequent stock market crashes, and other financial disturbances." The Wall Street elite’s response to all this central bank-induced monetary instability was even more centralized banking with the creation of the Federal Reserve Board. It may have meant instability to the ordinary citizens, but was the source of great riches to the banking industry and other members of the politically well-connected class. Sound familiar?

     

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    "The harsh reality of the economic fallout isn't that Joe the plumber can't buy his business or that people's retirement funds are being lost or that unemployment is rising; the harsh reality is that people will die.

    Already, since food prices began to rise 100 million more people have been pushed into poverty, according to the World Bank, with as many as two billion on the verge of disaster. Almost half the world's population, let's remember, live on less than $2.50 per day. Millions die annually of hunger and starvation, and more than a billion do not have access to fresh water.

    These numbers are poised to rise dramatically with population growth, dwindling natural resources and higher consumer prices across all goods and services. So as the stock market tumbles and the world economy falters, it's important to remember that it's more than financial losses we are talking about, it's the loss of life.

    And increasingly it isn't just people in far-off places around the world who are succumbing to such extreme hardships. Note this: Job losses in the state of Indiana have caused the child poverty rate there to spike 29% since 2000. The wealth gap in the United States and around the world is at record levels -- and it has serious consequences.

    The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reported this week that the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger around the world, and that the U.S. is experiencing the biggest dichotomy.

    We are experiencing the largest wealth gap in history. Further erosion of the economic floor will only send more people plunging into destitution.

    This is why it's so important to fix the economic crisis -- now.

    We're all linked." (MarketWatch)

    The Bush administration has called for an economic summit to be held by the 20 largest economies sometime after the presidential elections. US and EU officials are hoping to stitch together another Bretton Woods wherein control of the global economic system was delivered to those same nations. It's likely, however, that the outcome will turn out considerably different than anticipated. Already, under China's leadership, 12 Asian nations have agreed to set up an 80-billion-dollar fund to protect their economies from currency-runs, capital flight or other financial disruptions. China has the world's largest reserves at $1.9 trillion followed by Japan at more than $1 trillion. Clearly the two richest nations will set the agenda and play a central role in deciding how best to deal with the global recession.

    The November summit in Washington could produce some unwelcome surprises which were hinted at by Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister, Olarn Chaipravat, who told Bloomberg News: ,

    "The message of this initiative is for China to consider whether or not China would open up its banking system and allow the strongest currency in the world, which is the Chinese yuan, to be the rightful and anointed convertible currency of the world."

    Surely, the present financial malaise which has its roots in Wall Street and at the Federal Reserve, has demonstrated that the dollar must be replaced as the world's "reserve currency" and that America must be deposed as the de facto steward of the global economic system. Leadership implies responsibility and the US must be held to account for its failings. It's time for a change.


     

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    http://firedoglake.com/2008/11/10/the-federal-reserve-is-refusing-to-identify-the-recipients-of-almost-2-trillion-of-emergency-loans/

    Apparently Bernanke, that wonderful bipartisan soul who is so competent and wonderful that everyone in the village thinks Obama should leave him in charge is refusing to identify who got almost 2 trillion dollars of Fed cash. Bloomberg News is suing to find out. Personally I really, really, really want to know. What exactly is Bernanke hiding? Who got the money he doesn't want us to know got the money?

    This is money that was loaned in exchange for "collateral", by which we mean "trash no one else but the Fed would buy for anything but cents on the dollar". Barney Frank, embarrassing himself yet again, claims the Fed should keep its clap shut because if people know how bad it is, well, there might be a run. I think Barney's missing the point, as long as people don't know how bad it is, they won't trust anyone who might be borrowing large amounts of money from the Fed with crap collateral, because they don't know how bad it is and they suspect it's really really really bad. As in 10 cents on the dollar bad.

     

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    Kirwan: We are just over two-weeks into the twilight zone that is the period between the election and the swearing-in ceremonies. This is the last chance we shall have to weigh-in on all the shit that’s coming down, in the process that is defining just how much more of this we’re going to have to put up with in the extension of Cheney-Bush that will be overseen by a different face, but by the same controllers that have been running this show since 1838: “The Rise of the House of Rothschild  “Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its law.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1838
     

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    Money is made possible only by those who produce.

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    http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/3994

    quote:

    Chávez also said the ALBA member countries must construct their own solutions to the world financial, food, and ecological crises. “We are not going to wait here with our arms crossed for the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to come and solve the problems for us,” said Chávez. “We have things to say, the South also exists.”

    “We will leave the Inter-American Development Bank and we will make our own bank, a bank that we ourselves manage,” said Chávez. “Can anyone imagine that the solution will come from Washington, from those who generated the crisis?”

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    http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1234543800.php

    Here is a list of 6 states (4 in the last month) and (2 states today) that have pending legislation to authorize the use of gold and silver to settle debts with its citizens and to provide them the legal means to avoid the devaluing of the dollar by having a parallel currency in light of massive bailouts and to protect them in the event of the dollars failure.

     

    Think in terms of how competition causes prices to drop while quality increases. The opposite occurs (higher costs and lower quality) when no competition is allowed to compete. If the law passes, then the dollar will either increase in quality (decrease cost) or the dollar will fail to compete and the "parallel currency" will win the competition.

     

    Why would anyone choose a higher cost and lower quality product if that product is on the same shelf as a lower cost and higher quality product?

     

     

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    http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4F0FC0AC39B3086A

    MATHEMATICALLY PERFECTED ECONOMY
    mike montagne explains his 1979 thesis of inherent monetary failure under the world's central banking systems... versus mathematically perfected economy (perfecteconomy.com).

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    http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22247.htm

    When Benjamin Franklin was called before the British Parliament in 1757 and asked to account for the prosperity in the American colonies. He replied, "That is simple. In the colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay to no one."

    It was the struggle for financial sovereignty that precipitated the American Revolution when the (Rothschild) Bank of England forced the colonies to give up their Scrip and intense poverty followed.

    That war never ended.


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    http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22273.htm

    The international bankers have succeeded in doing more than just controlling the money supply. Today they actually create the money supply, while making it appear to be created by the government. This devious scheme was revealed by Sir Josiah Stamp, director of the Bank of England and the second richest man in Britain in the 1920s. Speaking at the University of Texas in 1927, he dropped this bombshell:

    The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin . . . . Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with a flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again. . . . Take this great power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in. . . . But, if you want to continue to be the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.


     

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    http://www.timebanks.org/

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    Time Banks Weave Community One Hour at a TimeFor every hour you spend doing something for someone in your community, you earn one Time Dollar. Then you have a Time Dollar to spend on having someone do something for you. It's that simple. Yet it also has profound effects. Time Banks change neighborhoods and whole communities. Time Banking is a social change movement in 22 countries and six continents.

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    http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2009-04-05-scrip_N.htm

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    A small but growing number of cash-strapped communities are printing their own money.
    Borrowing from a Depression-era idea, they are aiming to help consumers make ends meet and support struggling local businesses.


    A history lesson is in order?

    http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=904

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    'The small town of Worgl in the Austrian Tyrol, suffering like every other town in Europe and America from the Great Depression, took the unlikely step of issuing its own currency'


    http://www.perfecteconomy.com/pg-parable-of-perfect-economy.html

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    "We would have gladly borne the little tax on tea and other matters, had it not been that they took from us our money, which created great unemployment and dissatisfaction. Within a year, the poor houses were filled. The hungry and homeless walked the streets everywhere."

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    Lincoln succeeded in restoring the government's power to issue the national currency, but his revolutionary monetary policy was opposed by powerful forces. The threat to established interests was captured in an editorial of unknown authorship, said to have been published in The London Times in 1865:

    "If that mischievous financial policy which had its origin in the North American Republic during the late war in that country, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without debt. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe."
    In 1865, Lincoln was assassinated. According to historian W. Cleon Skousen:

    "Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt become an established institution."
    The institution that became established instead was the Federal Reserve, a privately-owned central bank given the power in 1913 to print Federal Reserve Notes (or dollar bills) and lend them to the government. The government was submerged in a debt that has grown exponentially since, until it is now an unrepayable $11 trillion. For nearly a century, Lincoln's statue at the Lincoln Memorial has gazed out pensively across the reflecting pool at the Federal Reserve building, as if pondering what the bankers had wrought since his death and how to remedy it.


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    We can go two ways from here, one leads to greater prosperity and the other leads to greater misery, greater suffering, more work, less benefit, higher costs, harder, harder, and even harder life.

    I say that we can go two ways from here and when I say that we can go two ways from here I specifically mean that people who do not plan on injuring innocent people can go two ways from here and I don’t mean that people who plan on injuring innocent people can go two ways from here, because people who plan on injuring innocent people have already chosen the way to greater misery.

    We are the people who plan on avoiding injury to innocent people, we are the people who prefer to aid and help injured innocent people, and we can’t help anyone unless we are powerful enough to survive ourselves. We can NOT go on “helping” the people who plan on injuring innocent people much longer.

    I know that many people reading this will reject this process of thinking. Many people will begin reading this and they will begin the process of rationalization instead of thinking. This is a palpable, and a measurable problem. Each person who does this is another person who adds to the palpable and measurable problem, with each rationalization and each choice to avoid the process of thinking.

    This juncture that we are approaching and this place where thinking will occur and choices will be made is a place where we can choose prosperity, because we want it, because we need it, and because we will, by our power: prosper. This juncture is upon us, past us, and always under our noses, always approaching, always near, always ready, so long as we have the power to see it, and so long as we have the power to decide to take the prosperous path; without injuring any innocent people in the process.

    The process must include that qualifier at the end of that last sentence written above, if the idea is to prosper. If the idea is not to prosper, if the idea is to gain at the expense of some innocent victims, then now is a good time to accurately identify between the two choices, now is as good a time as any to discriminate between prosperity at the expense of no one and the other path, now is a good time to judge between right and wrong, and now is not the time to ask someone else to process this decision, this choice, and this work, now is not the time to pass on this cost to some nebulous higher authority.

    One choice leads to misery, and the other choice leads to prosperity. Failure to make the right choice is going to cause the wrong result. Many readers of this message will ignore this message. Many others will read similar messages and ignore those similar messages. That is an example of ignorance. That is an example of passing on the costs of thinking about where we are and what must be done at this juncture.

    Blind obedience will be the result of the failure to know where we are and failing to make the right choice at this juncture. I know that some people, or perhaps only one person, will read this message and begin to process the necessary information required to make the right choice, the right next choice, and the right choices that follow one after the other from this point on.

    Will the next choice injure some innocent person or will the next choice avoid injuring anyone? Where are you at, what choices do you have before you, are you following a path to prosperity or are you following a path of misery. Are you littering your path with victims or has your path grown more and more prosperous?

    Is it time to choose a different path, before that choice is no longer possible?

    Please see how this works in reality. The path where costs are passed-on to innocent people is the path to misery as power flows from the victims to the people who are on this path; again, this path is where costs are passed onto innocent people. The other path is the path to prosperity, where no costs are willfully passed onto innocent people on purpose for profit.

    The choice is never in the hands, within the power, of the innocent victims. The choice must therefore be a choice that is in the hands and within the power of the people who create those costs. Please understand how this works now, before it is too late to abandon this path, make this informed change of course now, so as to prosper instead of traveling down a continued existence that is earned at the expense of innocent victims.

    Each step offers a choice. Which choice is the right choice? How can you know if your mind is closed?

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13239


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    “Allow me to issue and control a nation’s currency, and I care not who makes its laws.”


    “When you understand that the BIS pulls the strings of the world’s monetary system, you then understand that they have the ability to create a financial boom or bust in a country.  If that country is not doing what the money lenders want, then all they have to do is sell its currency.”


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    "The Financial Barbarians at the Gate" with financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. Europe; worsening financial situation and indebtedness; the history of banking and the criminalization of the banking system; tax policy; real estate asset inflation; US imperialism via the monetary system; neoliberal/neofeudal economics; classical political economy; finance capital breaking away from industrial capital; the financial crisis leading to a political crisis; similarities with the Roman Republic; what measures labor should take.

     

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    And so it was that in May of 1787, “fifty-five […] men of considerable and varied property holdings, ranging from the possession of slaves and lands to investments in government securities and far-flung business enterprises” met in Philadelphia and “resolved to disregard the announced plan of submitting amendments” to strengthen the Articles of Confederation; instead, they decided “to prepare […] an entirely new frame of government.”  Unsurprisingly, this “new frame,” the U.S. Constitution of 1787, gave a new central government

    broad and far-reaching powers over the economic life of the nation. […] Congress was given exclusive authority to coin money and to regulate both foreign and interstate commerce.  Thus the stage was set for the abandonment of laissez-faire liberalism and the substitution of a policy of economic nationalism or government paternalism.

     

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exclusive

    http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761567422

     

    President Washington and Secretary Hamilton chose to make a fuss about Western Pennsylvania precisely because in that region there was cadre of wealthy officials who were willing to collect taxes. Such a cadre did not even exist in the other areas of the American frontier; there was no fuss or violence against tax collectors in Kentucky and the rest of the back-country because there was no one willing to be a tax collector.


     

    If anyone is wondering what all the links above mean, I can explain. The part above misses two points.

    A. Whiskey was a competitor for shares in currency markets.

    B. Those "rebels" were called "anti-federalists" when in fact those people were the true federalists (many of them).

    So...the first link in this post offers a very good account of truer history (truer than "school" book history), however, the account misses two vital points.

    The monopoly on money (legal tender) was the prize in view for Hamilton and the true Fascists (called Nationalists at the time) and their opposition was anyone who could effectively compete in money markets such as whiskey distilling federalists; so the way to eliminate the competition is to use fraud and force.

    The fraud part is to label the federalist as “anti-federalists” so as to confuse anyone who may wander into that accumulation of people, the power of numbers, rallied around free money markets and federalism (socialism, liberalism, individualism, anarchism, the left, or any voluntary association-ism).

    The violence part was a “conscripted” army created by the promise to punish anyone who refused to march against and destroy the whiskey competitors in money markets, those federalists who were against monopoly money and fascism (nationalism, despotism, the right, and involuntary association-ism).

    Why were those two points missed in the link at the top of the page? Those are vital links in understanding the legal crimes committed in history and to this day.

    If the Federalists were the first American conservatives, the Jeffersonians were the first American liberals.
     

    See the problem?

    The "Federalists" were NOT called "The Federalists". The Nationalists (Alexander Hamilton for example) were called "The Federalists". The true federalists (those who were for a voluntary association of separate and sovereign states) where called: "Anti-Federalists".

    Socialists who are for “Sovereignty” (free will, voluntary association, no willful injury to innocent people on purpose, etc.) are historically called “Socialists”, however, the word changes meaning over time, BECAUSE someone has an interest in confusing anyone who might wander into that band of people who are for freedom.

    Where can someone wander to?

     

    Can someone wander toward “socialism” to find freedom?

    How can that be possible if the current “Socialists” are really nothing more than legal criminals?

    How can a freedom loving peacenik wander toward “Federalism” to find a workable form of government based upon voluntary associations when, in fact, the “Federalists” took over that name, and did so to such a great extent, where even today the people who claim to know “revised” history fail to simplify the principles and interests of which people are which people.

    Here is the simple version:

    A.     People who plan on and follow through with the plan to association voluntarily and avoid injuring any innocent people in the process

    B.     People who plan on and follow through with the plan to injure innocent people.

    Take any one in history, an person, and place that person in either A or B, to see if this principled approach can generate any interest toward understanding – eh?


    There was also “military conscription, put into practice on a large scale for the first time in American history during the Civil War.”  
    That is not true according to sources reporting the effort to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion with a conscripted army.

    Please consider the possibility that the source of this “revisionist” history lesson has an interest in preserving his principle source of income – that being the flow of power to him by the creation and maintenance of a money monopoly. That author, of the work linked at the top of this reply, is from the “Austrian” school of economics – where the majority of those people support “The Constitution” and “The Gold Standard” and “Legal Tender”.

    Notice how the report misses the connection between Lincoln’s and the money monopoly where President Lincoln financed his war with a competitive currency (competing against the money monopoly of the day). The money monopoly of the day was implicated in the assassination of that president. I think the “Austrians” are the modern day “Federalist” (actually “Nationalists”) with their preference for “The Constitution” and “The Gold Standard” and “Legal Tender”.

    Use simple logic please. Who plans on and executes the plan to injure innocent people? How is “The Constitution” enforced? There are two shining examples.

    A.     The Whiskey Rebellion

    B.     The Civil War

     

    Lincoln and Washington planned on and executed their plans to injure innocent people, they just happen to be on different sides of the money monopoly fence.

    The “Austrians” (the ones who are most vocal, such as the author of the link at the top of the page) are on the “Constitution”, “Gold Standard”, “Legal Tender” side, the side where people plan on and execute their plans to enforce that money monopoly – if needed.

    Does that make sense?

    The “opposition” is on the same side. The true opposition does not plan on and then execute the plan to injure innocent people for a money monopoly, not one earned by fraud, not one earned by force of violence, threat of violence, or otherwise. The true opposition allows any form of money to compete in all money markets, because it is the right thing to do, the moral thing, and the economically viable thing to do – because competition increases quality and lowers costs over time.

    The experience of the corporate giants in creating cartels and other voluntary cooperative systems with their competitors was that it was impossible to establish and sustain a profitable monopoly in the American economy – unless government could be induced to do it.  So they thereupon set about building popular and political support for government action to create the monopolies they had sought but had been unable to achieve without the use of force. 

     

    The money monopoly is not recognized again, as I read this “revisionist” history account.

     
    Cleveland did manage to reduce the Republican tariffs, but not before they had played a part in plunging the nation into “the depression of 1893 to 1897, which sunk the Democrats.”
     

    Again, no mention of the money monopoly - the hidden elephant in the room - crapping and urinating on everyone.

    "It sure stinks in here, I wonder what makes all that stink?"

    "I don't know?"

    "Do you see that huge grey thing in the room?"

    "What thing?"

    "Nothing, nothing at all."

    But if they were extending the doctrine of liberalism even further, they must have been liberals, right?  They must have been men and women of the Left, not the Right – right?  John Moser reports of John T. Flynn that “[t]o the end of his life he never referred to himself as anything but a liberal […].  Flynn claimed that it was the American political climate that changed during his lifetime, not he.  Indeed, he believed that the very term liberal had been hijacked.”


     

    Hijacked?

    Why?

    Please understand why words are re-defined, why they are misused on purpose.


    Next up is a "positive" stream of information while the perceiver keeps in mind the above information - please.

    http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/615.html

    Note the fixation on "The Founding Fathers" and "The Constitution". Note the irony (if in deed it is ironic) of claiming to "wake up" while supporting a tyrannical document (The Constitution). Please see this for what it is, since The Constitution is like an evil sandwich on liberty bread; where The Declaration of Independence is the first slice of liberty bread and The Bill of Rights is the second slice of liberty bread and in between is the evil (involuntary association) Constitution (outlaws voluntary association).

    If those guys (Oath takers, Ron Paul, Alex Jones, and the "Info-warriors") are "positive" and their goal is stated (lied or falsified) to be Liberty while they support an involuntary association (The Constitution), then they become agents of tyranny by fraud or by willful desire depending upon their own level of understanding.

    A. They know that The Constitution prescribes Tyranny and the go along with it on purpose.

    B. They are tricked into going along with The Constitution because they confuse The Constitution with voluntary associations like The Declaration of Independence and The Bill of Rights.

    If the perceiver considers my perception on this to be too critical, too skeptical, or too precise, think please about the old saying: The Devil is in the Details.


    http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com/

    First up, is the active duty combat arms soldier who sounded off, amazed and outraged that he is considered a threat, and reminding the DHS personnel that they took the same oath that he did, to defend the Constitution.  

    Think about this old saying: Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it, think about that and know that The Constitution authorizes a draft where “draft dodging” is punishable by that “lawful order” that Constitution thing.

    Do you think that I am on crack? The fight against The British in the war from 1775 to 1783 was fought and won without a draft and without The Constitution. The “Nation” was then 13 separate and sovereign States, by law, and the law then was a voluntary association called: The Articles of Confederation. Think what you may about the word Confederate but know that The Articles of Confederation did not outlaw voluntary associations and know that The Constitution does outlaw voluntary associations.

    I can explain what is meant by “outlaw voluntary associations”. The separate and sovereign states could secede from The Articles of Confederation at any time, it was the law then. Any two States, or three States, or four States, or any number of States could join or leave “The (voluntary) Union” at will. If a State leaves “The (voluntary) Union” it can then make a new voluntary union with another State that leaves “The (voluntary) Union”.

    Think about that please. Suppose, for example, that one voluntary union begins to over tax the people, and that same “voluntary” union begins to execute aggressive foreign wars for profit at the expense of innocent victims, and that same “voluntary” union begins to conscript (enslave) an involuntary military army for suppression of rebellions at home. Think about that please.

    Can the voluntary union citizens secede from that “voluntary” union whereby the owners of that “voluntary” union become criminal torturers and mass murderers? If not, why not? Why would the owners of the supposedly “voluntary” union outlaw the refusal to be connected to, to associate with, to pay taxes toward, a fraudulent Union? The answer is clearly a need by the legal criminals to out-law people forming “A more perfect union”.

    Clearly the need by the legal criminals is to out-law competition. If two states, or three states, or four states, or many states succeed from the criminal union, where torture and mass murder for profit is not only lawful: it is common place, if those states that refuse to be connected to legal crime unite into “a more perfect union”, the fraudulent U.S.A will have to compete with the “more perfect union”.

    See?


     

     




     


     

     






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    Rep. Alan Grayson asks the Federal Reserve Inspector General about the trillions of dollars lent or spent by the Federal Reserve and where it went, and the trillions of off balance sheet obligations. Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is.

     

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    It is often said that the Federal Reserve System is the lender of last resort. This indicates a misunderstanding of the financial system. The Federal Reserve is the lender of next-to-last resort. Holders of money are the lenders of last resort.

    The lenders have no choice. They lend because there are two loan officers: Congress and the Federal Reserve. Congress collects the loans through direct taxation. The Federal Reserve collects it by indirect taxation: inflation.

     

    I am making time for commentary on this article before I read the whole thing. Readers can read that whole link, readers can read my commentary, the order of which is read first is up to the reader. I decide to write my commentary first.  

    Gary North is a person who may describe himself as a conservative, perhaps not. I describe Gary North as someone who reports facts in such a way as to promote his agenda. The facts are worth reading, the agenda is less worthy – in my opinion. 

    My agenda is called Power-Independence, and I make no secret of this fact.

    Power produced into a state of oversupply, the more the better, until the limit of power production is reached will cause a political and economic reality of which few people have a desire to imagine. 

    Why? 

    I can guess the answer and convey that answer to you, to Gary North, and to anyone who lives life based upon moral principle, and anyone who has an interest in preserving productive human life, happy life, on into the foreseeable future and possibly even further. 

    The principle behind a lack of interest in finding out just how much power our species can produce is crime. 

    That is my guess. 

    To further communicate the reasons for my guess I offer a definition for the word I use, that being crime. 

    Crime is the pre-meditated employment of brain power toward injury of innocent people and then the willful exertion of physical power to cause those injuries upon those innocent victims. 

    Innocence, if you can see what I see, is the state of being where the individual is not encumbered with power draining thoughts of guilt, remorse, and conscience destroying self-loathing. An innocent person is free to think in ways where creativity is possible, more likely, relatively speaking. 

    A person who is not innocent is a person who may fear being discovered, being hounded, being punished. How much time and energy (power) is left to access the creative realm of human being? 

    The principle behind crime, as far as I can tell, is to create more criminals or, perhaps the flip side of the same coin, the principle behind crime is to eliminate the competition. 

    The competition is populated by non-criminals, those innocent ones, the people who access creativity, the ones who produce, and the ones who create value out of stark naked physical reality.  

    So much for my mornings rant, I hope readers do read Gary North and I may also find the time to do so.


     While firms and families large and small around the country struggle to obtain financing or refinancing, and with the Fortune 500 companies' earnings down 85 percent on average (the worst performance in the ranking's 55-year history), the banks at the heart of the financial meltdown are beginning to report profits again. Bank of America, which received $45 billion in bailout money, reported $4.2 billion in first-quarter earnings. I'm certainly no financial whiz -- when the economy tanked last year, what money I had was sitting in a checking-savings account -- but who wouldn't be able to show a $4.2 billion profit after getting $45 billion in bailout money? 



     
    Next is the part describing how competition in legal money markets is punished, outlawed, or eliminated, (avenged) and how the monopoly, the cartel, or the "insiders" are rewarded (redeemed).

     

    In the Mosaic law, there was a peculiar office: the ga'al. The word means "redeemer." This office had two aspects: vengeance and redemption. The ga'al was both the blood-avenger and the kinsman-redeemer. He was the nearest of kin. When his closest relative was killed because of an alleged accident, the blood-avenger was legally allowed to pursue the suspect and kill him. The only way for the suspect to escape vengeance was to flee to a city of refuge. There, he would be tried by a court. If he was convicted of what we call manslaughter or criminal negligence, the ga'al could not legally kill him, unless he caught the man outside the gates of the city. He went completely free upon the death of the high priest (Deut. 19).

    The ga'al also had the responsibility of buying his nearest of kin out of slavery, if the kinsman went into slavery because of forfeiting on a debt (Lev. 25:48–49). A central bank is the unofficial ga'al of the fractional reserve banking system. It is an agency of vengeance. It pursues those banks and would-be banks that offer loans that are more competitive than the banking cartel has established through the central bank. It is also the agency of redemption. When a big bank gets into a crisis because of its pyramiding of debt, the central bank redeems that bank.


     

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    THE 19th century was dominated by the British Empire, the 20th century by the United States. We may now be entering the Asian century, dominated by a rising China and its currency. While the dollar’s status as the major reserve currency will not vanish overnight, we can no longer take it for granted. Sooner than we think, the dollar may be challenged by other currencies, most likely the Chinese renminbi. This would have serious costs for America, as our ability to finance our budget and trade deficits cheaply would disappear.

     

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    The News Stops with Making Bucks

     

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    Oh sure, we are likely to mistake an ounce of silver for the tin junk uttered and passed by the US Mint. The actual charge the feds care about is at the end, that the Liberty Dollar is "intended for use as current money," in direct competition with the state

     

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    Of US government paper China has plenty. Bond holdings alone tote to $768 billion. Other dollar-denominated assets in Chinese hands add another $700 billion or so. Despite this Newcastle in its vault, the US would like China to buy more coal.

    But lately, those dollar holdings have done poorly. Thanks, supposedly, to the economic rebound, the dollar has fallen against just about everything. Against gold, it is down 15% in 2009. Against oil, it is off 50%. As for copper, the dollar has lost 65% of its purchasing power. Thirty-year US Treasuries have fallen too – down about 27% since January. A rough guess is that China has lost more than $200 billion so far this year, thanks to the fall of the dollar and US Treasury bonds.

     

    http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner387.html

     

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    He identified the main subsidized sectors. The FED has thrown money at housing and the financial markets. It is now buying longer-term assets, including T-bonds. If we count all of the Federal Reserve Banks' balance sheets, the increase has been from $1 trillion to $3 trillion in less than two years (p. 2).


     

    I am going to write a short explanation of how an increase in the money supply causes an increase in prices. The idea here is to know what is going to happen as that increase in the money supply flows through the social body (the economy).

    If everyone woke up and repeated the same routine every day for 10 years, every single person on the planet, every day, the same thing, every day, for ten years, and the supply of money remained the same, every day, for ten years, the rate of inflation would be zero.

    The change of prices would not necessarily be zero.

    If the amount of money stays the same, inflation stays the same, because “inflation” is (technically) the change of (increase or decrease) the supply of money.

    If money is added to the economy (the social body), like a human being on a hospital bed being filled up with more blood through an intravenous plastic tube, the increase in money is “the rate of inflation”; and too much is as bad as not enough.  

    If too much money is added to the body, and the body does not change in any way, every cell in the body does exactly the same thing it does every other day, and then too much money is added to the social body, like too much blood, which makes the body bloat, swell, blow up, and become “inflated”, what happens to the body, what happens to each cell in the body?

    Why would anyone ever desire to “inflate” the social body? Why stick a needle into the social body and begin to pump more and more blood into the social body? 

    What happens to the body when someone decides to inject more and more blood into the social body?

    The answer is easy to see; if the viewer follows the money. Where does the needle stick into the social body? Where does the money go to when the money first enters the social body?

    Does anyone involved in that initial invasion of new blood sit around doing the same thing as before? Are any of the people, the cells, inspired to act differently when that new money begins to fill up their areas of influence? Do the cells pass on the new money or do the cells keep the new money in their own inflated bank accounts. 

    Imagine, please, the patient on the hospital bed, as the patient is being filled up with more and more blood. The doctor comes into the room. The patient is doubling in size, becoming much larger, as the blood begins to fill up the social body. Does the doctor then order a treatment of leaches and ticks, blood suckers, and vampire bats, to attack to the social body so as to drain that excessive blood as the doctor adds even more blood through the tube? 

    Where does all that money go? What happens if everyone does the same thing every day no matter how much money is ordered and then injected into the supply by the money doctors?

    The result, if everyone did the same thing, and no one did anything different, and the only thing that happened when more money pumped into the social body, doubling or tripling the supply of money, is an increase in prices by 2 or 3.


    Look at the quote.

     





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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nPbnQG-rcg

    That is Peter Schiff on The Daily Show.

    Peter claims that interest rates are too low. This is falsehood at its most devious. If anyone out there has an interest in knowing the truth - please speak up.

    Interest is an interesting subject, more so for some, less so for others, and the ones having an interest in interest include Peter Schiff, and the people who produce The Daily Show. Who, on the other hand, are less interested in interest?

    What is interest?

    Why are people saying that interest should be higher? Why would anyone say that; with a straight face?

     

     

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    After months of activism and lobbying by Congressman Ron Paul’s supporters, House Resolution 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, will move out of committee to be debated by the full House of Representatives.

    In a show of cross-party unity, Ohio Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich became the bill’s 218th co-sponsor, pushing it over the threshold for debate in Congress.

    The bill, which achieved its 222nd co-sponsorship on Thursday, has been in consideration by the House Financial Services Committee since Feb. 26.

    Congressman Kucinich, along with Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY), announced Tuesday that the House Financial Services Committee will subpoena the Federal Reserve to ascertain the details of the Fed’s agreements with Bank of America in the institution’s acquisition of Merrill Lynch.

     

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    "If the petrodollar collapses, and interest rates rise, the bubble will burst, and the stage is set for National bankruptcy.” 

    Why does the interest rate go up? 

    Why do people automatically assume that interest rates will rise? 

    “We had to pay in Euros…so we had to sell…” 

    Why is currency trading so mysterious? If I need Euros to buy Oil from Iraq, or Iran, or even Venezuela, do I have to change the currency? The answer is clearly no; I merely have to change the rate of payment. I have to add the cost of exchanging the rate of pay.  

    If the Euro is the currency chosen as the “rate of pay”, then the barrel of oil is sold for a price denominated in Euros. How much can someone afford to pay to get one barrel of oil? 

    Suppose the affordable price of a barrel of oil is 100 Euros in Europe and 100 Dollars in the U.S.A.  

    Now suppose that things stay that way for 10 years. People in Europe can afford to pay 100 Euros for 1 barrel of oil for 10 years and people can afford to pay 100 Dollars in the U.S.A. for 1 barrel of oil for 10 years. 

    Now suppose that the U.S.A. begins to print twice as many Dollars on the first day after that 10 year time period where 100 Dollars will buy 1 barrel of oil, and on that first day the Euro remains the same, where the same number of Euros are in circulation. 

    10 years go by like this:

    100 Dollars = 1 Barrel of Oil

    100 Euros = 1 Barrel of Oil 

    One day after 10 years of the above economic rate of pay the Dollar “inflates” while the Euro does not inflate: 

    200 Dollars = 1 Barrel of Oil

    100 Euros = 1 Barrel of Oil  

    If someone has inside information concerning “inflation” of the U.S.A. Dollar currency “rate of pay”, then someone would “peg” their sales on the stable currency and in so doing someone would avoid being “taken to the cleaners”. 

    If you were in the business of selling Oil and you were also in the business of “exchanging currency”, then you would have the inside information on which currency inflates (or at least know which currency inflates sooner rather than too late) and which currency does not “inflate”. 

    Think of it this way: 

    You are the U.S.A. and you want to buy one billion new barrels of oil from Iraq, you are also in competition with Europe because Europe also wants to buy one billion new barrels of oil from Iraq (the U.S.A. and Europe both know that the price of Oil is going up so they both want to get the Oil before the price goes up). 

    Europe does not decide to create 100 billion new Euros to pay for 1 billion new barrels of oil, because Europe prefers to have its currency stable (not inflating). Europe chooses to keep its currency “rate of pay” at 100 Euros for each barrel of oil. 

    The U.S.A. decides to create 100 billion new Dollars to pay for 1 billion new barrels of oil, because the U.S.A. needs the oil to invade Iraq, and seize the oil. 

    The Oil sellers sell 2 billion barrels of oil, 1 billion to the U.S.A. and 1 billion to Europe. What price do the Oil sellers use in exchange of Oil for Dollars? What price do the Oil sellers use in exchange of Oil for Euros? 

    If the U.S.A. is paid 100 Dollars for 1 barrel of oil while the U.S.A. “inflates” the supply of dollars (by doubling the number of dollars), then the Oil sellers will be selling Oil to the U.S.A. at half price if the Oil sellers also sell oil to Europe at 100 Euros for each barrel of oil and Europe does not inflate (increase the number of) Euros. 

    I’m going to watch the rest of this video on money (it is interesting).
     

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    The Currency War

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    At conference in Siberia, leaders of Russia, China, India, and Iran float idea of new 'supranational' currency. China offers $10 billion to neighbors.

     

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                                                    Dialogue with Joe

                                                              On

                                                    The Significance

                                                              Of

                                               Competitive Currency

                                                              In

                                              Voluntary Social Beings

                                                            From

                                                        Joe’s Law

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                                          Productive Power Perspective  

     

     

    Socrates:

    Welcome to today’s dialogue with the historical creator of the Socratic Method, me, Socrates. With us today is the creator of Joe’s Law; Joe. How are you doing Joe?

     

    Joe:

    I’m alright, but my conscience concerning the screams of agony from the tortured and mass murdered millions by the legal criminals running the U.S. Corporate Nation State are growing louder in my sub-conscience – encroaching further into my conscience daily. They need not suffer so.

     

    Socrates:

    You got that right. So what is all the hubbub about the current currency issue?

     

    Joe:

    Wow, dude, I really like the way you use the words “current” and “currency” in the same sentence like that, it really speaks of time’s nature; we are all stuck in the process don’t you know?

     

    Socrates:

    It pays to read.

     

    Joe:

    And write.

     

    Socrates:

    The question?

     

    Joe:

    Excuse me, I almost forgot the screams again: Current efforts to compete in the Global currency markets include combined efforts by the most powerful contenders to the throne of “Reserve Currency” status now held firmly by The Dollar Hegemony.

     

    Socrates:

    Please; in English, our listeners may not be able to swallow so much in such a short time.

     

    Joe:

    Right; the significance of competition is easy to understand from a consumers perspective. Suppose for example…

     

    Socrates:

    Oh yes; I do like the suppositions. Let’s suppose…

     

    Joe:

    Suppose that Joe consumer is at the currency store looking for some high quality and low cost currency…

     

    Socrates:

    Hold on.

     

    Joe:

    What?

     

    Socrates:

    Did you repeat yourself; say the same thing twice, with different words?

     

    Joe:

    Not exactly, I know what you mean though. Low cost is high quality, but don’t forget about accuracy. We all want the same thing – at the expense of no one.

     

    Socrates:

    OK, go on.

     

    Joe:

    Back at the currency store, the consumer has a choice, but only when competition is in force.

     

    Socrates:

    Enforced by The Dollar Hegemony?

     

    Joe:

    Are you being a smart ass?

     

    Socrates:

    I’m playing my part.

     

    Joe:

    No, and this is a very good point, The Dollar Hegemony expends great power toward the elimination of any competition at all, anywhere.

     

    Socrates:

    Seriously

     

    Joe:

    As serious as nuclear war, and the extermination of our species – so – the consumer is empowered by competition which is enforced by productive activity, not by fiat, not by dictate, not by destructive power, no, competition is a productive, collective, voluntary, and dare I say “anarchistic” power, enforced by every competitor who manages to offer a supply to any demand – in competition with – other suppliers. The force behind competition is strictly voluntary and quite the opposite of the typical top-down structure.

     

    Socrates:

    Another mouth full, again, we need to keep it simple – stupid.

     

    Joe:

    Consumers certainly know a good deal when the see one. Interest in having a demand supplied well, instead of a demand supplied poorly is consumer knowledge – by definition.

     

    Socrates:

    Back at the currency store?

     

    Joe:

    Yes, so the average Joe consumer goes to the currency store and on the shelf are two, instead of one, currency products. Joe prefers the higher quality product at the lower cost, no different than buying a lawn mower?

     

    Socrates:

    A dark skinned unpaid worker, or slave, to keep the grass trimmed neatly?

     

    Joe:

    Selling people is now a black market, and I hear that young white women are in demand. The times have certainly changed.

     

    Socrates:

    Perhaps not so much.

     

    Joe:

    Perhaps, but the lawn mower I intended to illustrate is an example of something on the shelf, and it is powered by gasoline or electricity, it is powered thusly: it is pushed around by Joe consumer himself, or by his son when Joe can get him to do something, anything.

     

    Socrates:

    Kids still don’t listen?

     

    Joe:

    Not much.

     

    Socrates:

    Go on.

     

    Joe:

    Would you buy a dirty, rusty, paint chipped, lawn mower with a missing wheel and a bent handle for 100 units of currency on the same shelf as a brand new lawn mower, with a money back guarantee, where the lawn mower is given away (so as to sell the gasoline or the electricity) – or would you go for the higher quality choice (at a lower cost)?

     

    Socrates:

    Where did everyone go?

     

    Joe:

    These days we have to speak in sound bites, or people walk away.

     

    Socrates:

    Until the enemy is at the gates?

     

    Joe:

    Or already inside.

     

    Socrates:

    In congress.

     

    Joe:

    Yup

     

    Socrates:

    As the world turns?

     

    Joe:

    We call it a soap opera, or, “The Business Cycle”

     

    Socrates:

    Monkey business?

     

    Joe:

    Legal criminals.

     

    Socrates:

    Ahhh

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    Hyperinflation: The Story of 9 Failed Currencies

     

    http://www.joelscoins.com/exhibger2.htm



     

    When first issued in January of 1922 this note was the highest denomination of circulating currency ever issued by the German government. It would soon become small change. The note is sometimes called the "Vampire Note" . If you look carefully, and have a good imagination, you will see a vampire on the neck of the German worker. This was said to represent the French sucking the blood from Germany through the war reparations.

     

    And how about something completely different?

    http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=904

    'The small town of Worgl in the Austrian Tyrol, suffering like every other town in Europe and America from the Great Depression, took the unlikely step of issuing its own currency'

     

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     It will be forced to increase taxes in order to pay down the debt, and the Fed will have to raise interest rates from its historic lows to suck money out of the system.

     

    Why is the increase of interest rates supposed to be a necessity?

    Can't you see this for its inherent falsehood?

    Why is the increase of interest rates supposed to be a necessity?

    How about an analogy? What would happen if a healthy person is tricked by a snake oil sales man into buying and then consuming snake oil for a supposed increase in health, and then the consumer of snake oil becomes sick, so the snake oil salesman makes a deal with a doctor to prescribe a doctor’s miracle cure for the new sickness, and the miracle cure is to suck the blood out of the patient, where there is no mention, at all, concerning the patients habit of consuming snake oil.

    The patient continues to consume snake oil. The patient’s health continues to deteriorate. The patient continues to have blood sucked out, and grows anemic, sicker, and on top of all that the patient has a snake oil bill to pay each month, a doctor bill to pay each month, and a reduction in productive work hours due to the combined sicknesses of consuming snake oil and blood sucking.

     

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    Eliminate competition

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    Introductory data A:

    http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/business/currency/news.php?q=1245363012

    ++++++++++++++
    China’s Got a New Currency… and It Sure AIN’T the Dollar
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    Introductory data B:

    http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north722.html

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    Pushing on a String
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    Introductory supposition from Joe:

    Consider an angle of view by which the observer intends to simplify the overly complex and confusing perspective on International Currency Markets.

    Angle of view:

    Suppose all new loans after midnight tonight worldwide include the following clause:

    The borrower will pay monthly payments denominated in the highest value currency for the month the current payment is due.

    In other words: The lender requires the borrower to pay back the borrowed “value” with the highest possible valued currency each month.

    With that supposition in mind, consider responding with a constructive understanding of what that supposition illuminates.

    Example:

    That clause on all loans would end the current practice of supplying and maintaining fraudulent currency since all loans would quickly find (by open market or “free market” competition) the highest quality currency at the lowest cost. In effect; that clause would force central banks to produce and distribute the highest possible value currency or lose market share.

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    Work on that one.

     

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    http://tinyurl.com/l7ueft





    Money as debt

    A film by Paul Grignon on the world banking system, its history and origin to present day. A vert important


     

    Take that above and add this below and what do you see?

     

    http://tinyurl.com/lzo7vh

     

    I see bank A beating up on its victims while bank B has an opportunity to offer the victims of bank A a better currency; however bank B takes the bank A crime spree as an opportunity to beat up on their own victims instead.  What do you see?

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    We may know that fossil fuels are destroying our ecosystem. We may be able to cite the statistics. But the oil and natural gas industry continues its flagrant rape of the planet. It is able to do this because of the money it uses to control legislation and a massive advertising campaign that paints the oil and natural gas industry as part of the solution. A group called EnergyTomorrow.org, for example, has been running a series of television ads. One ad features an attractive, middle-aged woman in a black pantsuit—an actor named Brooke Alexander who once worked as the host of “WorldBeat” on CNN and for Fox News. Alexander walks around a blue screen studio that becomes digital renditions of American life. She argues, before each image, that oil and natural gas are critical to providing not only energy needs but health care and jobs. 

    “It is almost like they are taking the most optimistic visions of what the stimulus package could do and saying this is what the development of oil and natural gas will bring about,” Ewen said. “If you go to the Web site there is a lot of sophisticated stuff you can play around with. As each ad closes you see in the lower right-hand corner in very small letters API, the American Petroleum Institute, the lobbying group for ExxonMobil and all the other big oil companies. For the average viewer there is nothing in the ad to indicate this is being produced by the oil industry.”

    The modern world, as Kafka predicted, has become a world where the irrational has become rational, where lies become true. And facts alone will be powerless to thwart the mendacity spun out through billions of dollars in corporate advertising, lobbying and control of traditional sources of information. We will have to descend into the world of the forgotten, to write, photograph, paint, sing, act, blog, video and film with anger and honesty that have been blunted by the parameters of traditional journalism. The lines between artists, social activists and journalists have to be erased. These lines diminish the power of reform, justice and an understanding of the truth. And it is for this purpose that these lines are there.

     

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    ROME, July 5 (Reuters) - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei said on Sunday the U.S. dollar would continue to be the world's leading reserve currency for years to come.

     

    A deal made?

     

     

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    It's been a tremendous time for Tesla Motors. In May, Tesla secured a $50 million investment and strategic partnership with Germany's Daimler, maker of Mercedes. We also delivered our 500th Roadster -- the only car in the world that offers performance with a clean conscience. In June, we were among the first automakers to get approval for Department of Energy loans. The $465 million in interest-bearing loans – entirely unrelated to the bailout of bankrupt automakers -- will help finance production engineering and assembly of the Model S, the all-electric sedan. The loans will also fund an assembly plant where we will produce electric vehicle powertrain components for affordable EVs, such as the Smart city car and other platforms.


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    "There is another way to arbitrage the difference between the market price of gold and its ZDV [Zero Discount Value] when the market price is less than the ZDV. Other central banks can borrow dollars, buy gold, and then issue currencies against it. With these currencies, backed by gold, they can repay the dollar borrowings and still have a profit. They can gain the arbitrage profits in precisely the same way that the FED might have or that private entrepreneurs might have."

     

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    That is Gary North describing currency (money).

    What is ideal currency?

     

     

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    it should be scarce

     

     

    Wrong

     
    In conclusion, Madame Speaker, allowing for competing currencies will allow market participants to choose a currency that suits their needs, rather than the needs of the government. 
    Ending the legal effort to destroy competition will force producers of money to supply the amount of money to an amount that is equal to the demand for it, not scarce, the right amount, becuase the amount of money is a quality of money, not too much, and not too little, so Ron Paul, why are you being stupid?

     

     


     

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    Unable to create a level competitive field for banking, the bank reform effort has now shifted away from cooperation to a master plan to take down the world’s economies and exercise complete control in the aftermath by introduction of a master plan to control banking and currency.

    According to Wiseman, the plan underway now is to intentionally "take down the United States and the U.S. dollar as the stable datum of planetary finance and replace it with something called a Global Monetary Authority" that will issue a single global currency via the world’s central bankers, who in turn distribute money to depository and investment banks.

    What Wiseman is talking about here is that a small group of less than a dozen central bankers are likely to rule the world via control of currency.

    As confirmation of Wiseman’s claim, the call for a "global monetary authority" was echoed by a Yale professor in the Financial Times in 2008.

    What looms is a single global currency, probably issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which will then exert control over the world’s banks. A more complete picture of what is likely being planned is provided here and here.

    The intentional take-down of the world’s economies and establishment of a world currency will be spawned out of planned chaos which would provoke the planet’s masses to beg for relief. The new currency and its new central bank will be offered up as the quickest solution to the world’s economic turmoil.

     

    Such plans, to usher in a one-world government and a single currency, were made decades ago by elitists and central bankers, but they were waiting for world events to be engineered in a manner to create the perfect storm that would cause Americans to give up their sovereignty, and their greenbacks, in exchange for a new type of play money and subservience to another rule of law outside the U.S. Constitution. Professor Carroll Quigley described this covert plan in the 1960s in his book entitled Tragedy and Hope: A History Of The World In Our Time. Another broad description of this plan is found here.

     

    What happens if people find a better currency to use instead of the false stuff?

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    The biggest game in town, depends upon the size of the town.

    http://taxretirement.com/


    http://www.cafrman.com/


     

     


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    The idea is simple: If enough people who have money in one of the big four banks move it into smaller, more local, more traditional community banks, then collectively we, the people, will have taken a big step toward re-rigging the financial system so it becomes again the productive, stable engine for growth it's meant to be. It's neither Left nor Right – it's populism at its best.

    Consider it a withdrawal tax on the big banks for the negative service they provide by consistently ignoring the public interest.


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    The Federal Reserve, a privately and anonymously owned and controlled corporation chartered with issuing the nations currency, were given the green light by themselves to transfer to themselves and their shareholders the people's wealth in the form of their future labor.

     

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    I have not yet listened to or read the above link, the message title is very important NEWS:

    Legalize Competing Currencies

     

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    Jesse Ventura Takes the Soaring Interest in Conspiracy Theory to TV – and Viewers Are Flocking to It

     

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    Accumulate/Default/Firesale

    And the big one:

    Debt Junkie

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    The viewer may mistake the above to be advocating free labor, if so then please consider reading this:

    http://tmh.floonet.net/pdf/jwarren.pdf

    If criminal money (legal pyramid scheme monopoly money) can be seen as a dirty baby being washed in water and if the first video link above can be seen as someone saying throw out the bath water, it may be a good idea to ask: "Do you want to throw the baby out with the bath water?"

    Money isn't' bad (the baby) because money can be a tool that helps people know which human labor needs to be done and when which human labor needs to be done so as to invest human labor towards the best possible production.

    Money that is designed by the people who use money to commit crimes (injure innocent people) is bad money, a dirty baby for sure.

    Here is a link to a book offered at the end of the video in the first link:

    The Babylonian Woe

    http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/the_babylonian_woe.pdf

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    The main failing with professional (and amateur) critics is that that particular vocation does not involve helping people and getting things done. It just involves tearing down things that might help, and stopping others from breaking free of Big Brother’s clutches-an occupational calling/hobby with a marginal sanity index. When you com across someone who is preoccupied with stopping this progress and saying how bad it all is, realize that the critic is a “company man,” obsessed with infecting all with the venom of statism, and does not have your best interests at heart-and likely never will. An honorable critic would bring forth another solution, i.e. another remedy for the situation at hand, rather than just sounding the general hue and cry and proclaiming that all (sheep) should stand stockstill and accept their fate as “part of life.”

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    Carbon Currency?

     

     

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    Big giveaway (fraud)

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    http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/how-congress-can-help-the-economy

    I have not read that link, yet. I may not.

    What interests me about that link is the viewpoint that competitive money, the best stuff, and the least expensive stuff, will be powerful stuff, and if that link is viewing money in that way, then I'm interested.

    If money is not competitive, if money is used to destroy competition, where the power of money is consumed in the process of eliminating all the better forms of money, so as to leave only the money that is used to destroy competition, then said money is not the best stuff, and certainly not the least expensive stuff.

    A. The best and least expensive money (forced toward better and less expensive due to the force of competition; where consumers choose better over worse and less expensive over more expensive during the process of choosing currencies among the many competitors who produce and offer money to the consumers of money)

    B. Monopoly money that pretends to be (is counterfeit) powerful money (the power of it is its ability to steal from the producers of wealth and transfer the power of money to the producers of money, the only producers of money, because all the competition has been destroyed).

    I think that electricity will be the best and least costly money - eventually.

    I think that the legal criminals know this; and they are offering a counterfeit version of electricity (as money) so as to maintain their power to destroy the competition.


     

     

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    The target of the first half of the speech was Ron Paul. It was a warning against Ron Paul's bill in the House of Representatives that would authorize the Government Accountability Office to audit the FED. The House's leadership has kept the bill from coming to the floor for a vote, despite the fact that a majority of the membership has officially supported it, and despite the fact that a majority of the House Financial Services Committee voted for it, 43 to 26, in November 2009.

    The FED has consistently opposed this bill. The official explanation is that this would in some way constitute interference with the FED's policy-making. This argument has never been clear. The fact that the General Accountability Office will verify the numbers in no way constitutes interference with FED policy, unless FED policy has been carried on under false numbers.

    Nobody at the FED will say what is really at stake: an independent audit of the government's gold holdings, which are officially held for the government by the FED for safekeeping. If the gold is gone, or if there are legal claims against it by foreign central banks as a result of FED swaps, this would constitute fraud on a massive scale.

    The real power in the FED has always been the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In all textbook accounts of the years leading up to the Great Depression, the focus is on Benjamin Strong, the President of the New York FED. He set policy, not the Board of Governors.

    The bulk of the world's gold holdings are stored in the vault of the New York FED. This includes most of the deliverable gold (99.9% fine) owned by the FED as trustee of the U.S. government's gold. The gold at Ft. Knox (probably coin melt, 90% fine) constitutes a second holding area, said to be 20% of the nation's gold. No one knows. It has not been audited since the early 1950's, not even by the private accounting firms that audit the FED on an annual rotation basis.

     

     The FED demands secrecy. It proclaims that it pursues transparency, but it does not on any issue of substance.

    Bloomberg News in November 2008 sued the Board of Governors under the Freedom of Information Act to find out which institutions received how much money in the October 2008 bailouts. The Board of Governors refused to comply on this legal basis: this would expose trade secrets of the recipient banks.

    Even though a district Federal judge in August 2009 ruled that the New York FED must turn over these records, the FED refused to comply. She gave the FED five days to comply. It did nothing for six months.

    Anyone who thinks that the Federal courts have operational authority over the Federal Reserve System is ignorant of the last century of American history.


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    http://www.woot.com/

    http://www.groupon.com/welcome_to_groupon

    http://www.hotwire.com/

    http://blippy.com/

    http://us.dubli.com/?gmt=480

    All those links were linked from the following:

    http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/marketing/article/the-5-most-innovative-new-online-business-models-in-2010-rohit-bhargava

    The relevance of the following economic (political/economic) study is measurable:

    http://tmh.floonet.net/pdf/jwarren.pdf

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    To Rob a Country, Own a Bank

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    Americans have a fundamental misunderstanding about the US/China relationship. China is not in the driver's seat and neither is the United States. There's a third party involved, but that party remains mostly invisible. And that's how they like it. Here's an excerpt from the Washington Post which explains the whole thing:

     

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    Thus these financial speculators seek out or - as has been suggested by various analysts - actually cause or precipitate financial and economic chaos. Like the Robert Duvall character in the movie “Apocalypse Now”, they “love the smell of napalm in the morning.”

     

    http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/JimBellAP.htm

    The connection exists - even if you desire not to see it.

     

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    I just started listening to this and I will take time to view the entire video. What is the link?

    Chavez reports a drop in oil prices, and a cut in oil production as a result; as an answer to the question concerning economic recession.

    Please think this through.

     

     

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    In response to the 2008 credit crunch, the Fed printed so many dollars that the People's Bank of China was forced to drive Chinese inflation into double digits to maintain the peg. The pain has fallen on China's workers, who have seen their wages stagnate while prices for everything from milk to apartments have skyrocketed. This week's move indicates that, regardless of its own policy motives, the Communist Party can no longer afford to keep pace with the dollar's devaluation. The result will be a shift in wealth from America to China, which may trigger a long-anticipated run on the dollar, while creating investment opportunities in China.

     

     

    What? Someone is very confused.

    http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henry_ford_3.html

     

    There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

     

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    We can’t address the economic crisis blighting neighborhoods throughout the United States without moving money away from war.

     

     

    Why not create a competitive money?

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    That is connected to this:

     

    http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/jimbellap.htm

     

    How?

     

    Listen to the first link and learn how power works.

    Note: "Wheat Futures"

    Accumulate huge piles of cash.

    Buy huge piles of long futures.

    "And this accumulation created a very odd phenomenon in the market. It’s called a "demand shock." Usually prices go up because supply is low, right? That’s the idea. There’s not a lot of supply, so the price goes up. In this case, Goldman and the other banks had introduced this completely unnatural and artificial demand to buy wheat, and that then set the price up. Now, a lot of people are saying, "Oh, it was biofuel production. It was drought in
    Australia. It was floods in Kazakhstan." Let me tell you, hard red wheat generally trades between $3 and $6 per sixty-pound bushel. It went up to $12, then $15, then $18. Then it broke $20. And on February 25th, 2008, hard red spring futures settled at $25 per bushel. This is completely beyond the pale, particularly at a— "

     

    The perception of scarcity (real or not) increases the price. People, actual people, not "Wall Street", but actual people cause an increase in the price of something because they buy a lot of it and control it and keep it and cause scarcity and cause the price to go up and cause more power to flow from their victims to them.

    Call it leverage, or replication, or whatever word describes the intricate details of how the crime is perpetrated, and it remains a crime, and the fact that it is a crime is perceptually less severe, the criminals are clever, innovative, etc.

    People use power (piles of money, and they can merely add zeros to their bank accounts whenever they want more purchasing power) to gain more power, at the expense of their innocent victims.

    These people who use their power are called "Wall Street". They are people. No one has a name for them, not in that Media stream - not in that link - just Wall Street.

    Wall Street does this, and Wall Street does that, and no names.

    Futures are claims, tickets, or debts, promises to pay, as well as ownership notes, and in practice it is the large number of these units that cause other people to act in specific ways. A huge number of these "futures" purchased cause other people to act in a different way than a small number of these "futures" purchased.

    That is a general but factual description of how the crime is committed.

    The media outlet claims that Wall Street is only interested in using money to gain more money. How can that be? Wall Street can add zeros to their accounts at will, whenever they want more money they can simply add zeros, if Wall Street includes The Federal Reserve - and failing to know if The Federal Reserve is connected to Wall Street is a huge failure.

    Wall Street is connected to The Federal Reserve, and the paper trail proves it, the connection is the dollar unit of legal money. Where does Wall Street go when Wall Street "borrows" money? Who loans Wall Street more money? How much does the lender charge Wall Street for a loan of more money? Where does The Federal Reserve go when it needs more money to loan to Wall Street?

    Wall Street isn't interested in more money. People desire more power, and then people (Wall Street people) use power to gain more power. If people have enough power, then people can use that power to starve millions. Starving people are people who have less power. Starving people are people who will pay more, and more, and more, and more of their remaining power to get food, so that starving people don't become dead people.

    People act differently when they are starving. Do you think, even for a minute, that Wall Street doesn't know this fact?

    The purchase of "futures" sets about a chain reaction whereby other people act in different ways compared to a process of life whereby the "futures" were not purchased.

    A. Life goes on as usual (Wheat prices at $3 per bushel.

    B. The decision to buy "futures" causes the price to go up to $20

    Futures purchases cause life to change. A big purchase of futures causes life to change in a big way. Power, including food power, flows one way when "futures" are not purchased. Power, including food power, flows another way when "futures" are purchased.

    The solution proposed in the media link was to control the flow of Wheat production so as to avoid the starvation of millions - because Wheat production was controlled in such a way as to cause the starvation of millions.

    Is that true or not true?

    Now moving onto the second link, involving another type of "Futures" market:


     
    Suppose a name was published on many media sources and the name for this person is John Doe Wall Street. John has a home in New York
    , and a phone number, perhaps John has a Facebook page too.

    Now suppose that John Doe Wall Street confessed, openly, to having ordered the purchase of all those futures that lead to all that starvation.

    Now there is a name of a real person, public knowledge, and this person knowingly, willfully, and proudly caused the starvation of millions so as to gain more power by that willful act. Again, John Doe Wall Street doesn't do this for money, since John Doe Wall Street
    can add as many zeros to his account whenever he wants, he just calls up The Fed, and more zeros are added to his account. John Doe Wall Street does this act so as to lessen the power of many of his potential rivals, as the power game goes, this is what the game is, and John Doe Wall Street confesses openly for all to see.

    That won't happen, not often, and not "under oath", but suppose it did, so as to connect the first link to the second link.

    Now suppose that you and I, and everyone else on the planet has a new power given to us, or a new power that we take for ourselves as we decide to buy futures concerning John Doe Wall Street.

    This power we have, I must say, will be as criminal in principle as the power given to, or taken by, John Doe Wall Street.

    John Doe Wall Street takes the power to buy futures and then John Doe Wall Street
     uses that power to do things - such as starve millions of people.

    You and I, and millions of people, take the power of futures and we use that power to do things, things we want done – for some reason.

    The reader has to read the link.

    This link:

    http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/jimbellap.htm

    If many people buy a ticket, a debt note, a future, and these notes are claims held by the owners, whereby the death of John Doe Wall Street will cause a lot of power to move to one person from many people, then such a process is the same type of crime as the one ordered into existence by John Doe Wall Street.

    The accumulation of a huge pile of money into one account can cause people to act differently if people can do things that cause that huge pile of money to be their own account, their money, and their power to purchase just about anything, when the pile of money is really huge.

    How much power does the person have, the one person, who is in charge of The Federal Reserve when he (or she) can merely add zeros to his (or her) legal dollar account?

    Armed with an infinite number of dollars, what other power can such a person gain when that huge pile of money is employed in the work of gaining more power from other people?


     

     

     

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    Some commentators on the U.S. economy and the European economy are predicting that there will be "quantitative easing" soon. This is a euphemism for central bank inflation.

     

    Quantitative easing was the FED's policy in October 2008, when it doubled the monetary base. That was to prevent a meltdown of the capital markets, especially big banks. This was the largest increase in the base money supply in one month in American history. The FED got no criticism.

     

    With commercial real estate assets down 40% and likely to fall a lot more over the next two years, what banker wouldn't be scared?

     

    As to what kind of deflation, the article did not say. Deflation of stock indexes, perhaps. Why there should be fear about lower prices is a mystery to non-Keynesian economists. Shoppers want lower prices. So what?

     

    If the FED senses a crisis brewing, it will inflate. Right now, it doesn't sense this.

    This gives us more time to allocate our capital in ways that will hedge against price inflation.

     

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    And one cannot exclude the possibility of an Israeli military strike on Iran in the next 12 months. If that happens, oil prices could rapidly spike and, as in the summer of 2008, trigger a global recession

     

     

    Read: How can more power be made to flow from the victims to the legal criminals?

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    But, they are digits with a twist. New bitcoins are generated via lottery within its proof-of-work system where the records of previous time-stamped transactions are hashed into a chain, which is verified by all the members of the P2P system. There is planned inflation of a known and slowing rate up to a point. After that, deflation is built into its structure. It is currently in this early phase of development. The longer the chain the more secure the system is by nature of the algorithms at work. For details, see the white paper. They are currently divisible to 8 decimal places. Transactions can be completely anonymous.

     

    How resistant to attack this is has yet to be seen. There is one underway right now. How successful can this be? I have no earthly idea and could care less. For me watching the rate at which new ideas are spawned when people are motivated to produce solutions to ancient problems is what is important.

    So, yes, digits, which I said I believe to be the future of money, sadly. But, these are digits whose movements are verified by hundreds of incentivized auditors 24/7/365. Hell, the FED won’t submit to a one-time audit by those for whom they supposedly work! Yet we are loath to stop using their product.


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    Why does someone, anyone, or any group of people, anywhere find that they are suddenly able to add zeros to their own bank accounts?

    How many would you add to your account if you happen to find yourself in the same place at the same time?

    There you are, just like those guys, you can turn your 10,000 dollar account into 100,000 dollars, by adding one little zero.

    Add two.

    How about adding 100 zeros?

    Here is a quote from the link:

    There was an outflow of gold from the Bank of England. Speculators thought the price of gold in pounds would have to be officially hiked. To keep this outflow from forcing the Bank of England to suspend payment, thereby confirming the forecasts of the speculators, the head of the Bank of England met with the head of the New York Federal Reserve in 1926 and persuaded him to inflate the dollar, so as not to make the dollar too valuable in relation to the pound. This would have caused investors to sell pounds and buy dollars. The U.S. government would then have sent pounds to Britain and asked for payment in gold. The New York FED did what the Bank of England asked. It inflated the dollar. The result was the stock market boom from 1926–1929.

     

    Here is another quote:

     
    Here, his tools of analysis fail him. Price deflation is no more a threat than emergency surgery is when someone has gangrene. Price deflation is the readjustment of prices to reflect the true conditions of supply and demand. But his outlook is universal, except inside Austrian School circles.
     

    That is where Gary North, the author of the piece, is sadly in error. It is an elitist error, an error of ignorance and stupidity to assume such a thing. One example of one other person who isn't in either of the two "schools" is me, and then there is Al to consider too.

    How about a list of people who are not framed in by Gary North's boundaries?

    Joe Kelley

    Albert Einstien

    Josiah Warren

    Stephen Pearl Andrews

    Lysander Spooner

    William Greene

    I'm sure there are more.

     

     

     



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    Chicago School economists, in their terror of deflation and their pragmatism, remained silent or grudgingly supportive when the Federal Reserve doubled the monetary base in October of 2008. They committed intellectual suicide. They accepted in fact what in theory monetarism denies: Federal Reserve tinkering with the monetary base. This was no 3% to 5% increase per annum.

     

    Listen people to significant things, please. Doubling the money supply is significant. In time that increase in the supply of money is the same thing as doubling the price of everything or more to the point it is the same thing as cutting the value of the dollar unit in half.

    That cutting in half of the value of each dollar (by doubling the supply of money) assumes that the new money is not increasing or decreasing the production of new valuable things that people will buy or exchange for that money (the dollar in this case).

    Example:

    If that money is used to bomb Iran into the stone age (with nuclear weapons on the table) and then all the oil in Iran is stolen and sold to consumers using dollars, then theoretically the value of the dollar would not be cut in half because the supply of barrels of oil would increase. To see that clearly use simple math.

    Suppose that Iran has enough oil to equal the amount of dollars (the supply of dollars) before that supply of dollars doubled.

    Now the legal criminals double the supply of dollars and with those dollars they buy all that oil (instead of stealing it by torturing and mass murdering Iranians).

    Now dollar consumers have twice the amount of dollars but dollar consumers also have twice the amount of oil or at least the dollar consumers have increased the supply of oil in proportion to the increase in the supply of dollars.

    If you don't see how the math works then know by experience what happens to the price of gasoline at the pump when there isn't enough oil for the consumers to buy. If you know that the price of oil goes up when oil becomes scarce, then you know, even if you don't think about it, that the price of oil drops when oil is "flowing like water".  If someone buys twice the supply of oil that dollar users consume, then oil prices can drop to half the price by that increase in the supply of oil. If at the same time the supply of dollars doubled, then the value of the dollar is cut in half at the same time that the price of oil is cut in half. The net change is zero. Oil prices drop by half at the same time as the value of the dollar goes down by half, the net result is that you have to work just as hard to exchange your work for a gallon of gasoline.

    Meanwhile, though, Iranians are tortured and mass murdered, and all the people who have the power to double the number of dollars gain power, because that is why they do that, and all the people who have the power to move armies to Iran (or Iraq or Afghanistan) gain power, if they "win".

    If they lose, they still gain power, since they hedge their bets, but that is another story.

     

     

     

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    The importance is that, as Mr. Durden says, “there is only one way to interpret this borderline revolutionary press release. China has now officially entered the gold market.”

     

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    Discussing the 1857 financial crisis, Marx showed how unthinkable anything like the 2008-09 Bush-Obama bailout of financial speculators appeared in his day. “The entire artificial system of forced expansion of the reproduction process cannot, of course, be remedied by having some bank, like the Bank of England, give to all the swindlers the deficient capital by means of its paper and having it buy up all the depreciated commodities at their old nominal values.” [15] Marx wrote this reductio ad absurdum not dreaming that it would come true in autumn 2008 as the U.S. Treasury paid off all of A.I.G.’s gambles and other counterparty “casino capitalist” losses at taxpayer expense, followed by the Federal Reserve buying junk mortgage packages at par.
     

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    FAITHFULNESS OR BETRAYAL?

    Ron Paul will wait until 2011 to introduce his gold audit bill. He seems to be assuming that Republicans will be in control of the House of Representatives in 2011. He also seems to be assuming that the House of Representatives will be more aggressive passing legislation that will embarrass the Obama administration, assuming that a House bill gets through the Senate.

    Obama will veto any bills that he does not like, which will be a lot of them if Republicans control both branches of Congress. If Republicans do take control, and if they are successful in getting such legislation onto the desk of the President, this will undoubtedly embarrass the President. Short of that, bills from the House can embarrass Democrats in the Senate.

    As part of positioning for the Presidential election of 2012, a bill to audit America's gold could play havoc with the Federal Reserve. The bill will not be seen as an audit of the FED's operations in general – only an audit of America's gold, which has been justified by the FED in its supposed capacity as a trustee. It is the issue of the FED as trustee, not the FED as a lender, that will be the heart of the audit.

    Will the House pass a bill to audit the gold that is supposedly held in Fort Knox and also in the vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York? Will Congressman Paul be able to gain support from the rest of the Republicans in Congress? If he can't, then it will be clear who is really in charge. But if he is able to get the bill passed, and if it somehow gets through the Senate, then Obama will veto it. Whether that will be a big deal politically remains to be seen.

    The problem that such a bill poses to the Federal Reserve is obvious. On paper, Congress has the right to audit the Federal Reserve. On paper, Congress also has the right to make certain that the gold reserves of the United States government are still available to be used by the United States government, should the United States government ever decide to do something with the gold.

    Any attempt by the Federal Reserve to argue that it must not allow the United States Congress to see if there is really any gold in its vaults is going to be a very difficult public relations exercise.

    It is one thing for the FED to say that a full audit will interfere with the privacy necessary for the conduct of central bank operations. Some voters might actually believe this. But it is something completely different to say that the Federal Reserve should not be required to prove that it still has possession over the gold that it purchased with the money created by the FED in 1933 and 1934. Its reports have always said that it does. If it doesn't, then there will be a huge scandal. "Who got America's gold?" That would force Congress to conduct a full-scale audit.


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    First off, I want to congratulate the reader for trying to anticipate the conditions that might mark the end of the gold bull market. Because, make no mistake, the gold bull market will come to an end – and when it does, it’s not going to be pretty for those who stubbornly stay too long at the party.

     

     

    But what happens if interest rates begin to move up based on credit concerns, and not in response to a noticeable uptick in price inflation? At that point, couldn’t we see positive real interest rates relative to CPI – therefore reducing gold’s appeal?

     

     

    All the talk published in the world on money can be discriminated accurately into two categories, of which most is in category A.

    A. Monopoly or "legal monopoly" money

    B. Not A

    An easy way to accomplish the task of accurately discriminating the "talk" is to "follow the money".

    If the money talked about is produced by a legal entity, and enforced by a legal entity, then the "talk" is in category A.

    Category B is the only place a person can go if the person desires knowledge concerning money, so as to be in a position to employ money, rather than being in a position to be subject to money.

    If you don't know what I mean, then you are probably subject to money - and very poor by that measure.

    I can explain in detail. No one wants to know, because:

    A. They like being poor

    B. They already know (and it's a secret)

     

     

     

     

     

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    The Fed then proceeded to buy the ‘toxic illiquid assets’ from the big banks. In all, it was about $1,250,000,000,000.00 in MBS (Mortgage Backed Securities) paper – give or take a few hundred billion. Where did they get the money? The Treasury printed it by increasing the debt by virtue of Treasury note issuance. Bear in mind that the Federal Reserve is a for-profit privately owned bank. Now they own a lot of bad paper. How did they complete the theft?

     

    Maybe I’ve got this all wrong but here is the way it seems to me. Going into 2009, the Fed had $700 billion to $800 billion on their balance sheet. The holdings were mostly Treasuries. Through the early months of 2009, they bought $1.75 trillion dollars of ‘toxic illiquid asset’ debt from America’s biggest banks. Where did the Fed get the money for the purchases? The conjured it from our Treasury, of course. So now the ‘toxic illiquid assets’ are ‘maturing’ or defaulting. If the garbage is maturing, the original notes are getting paid and the Fed is accumulating cash in place of the notes. If the garbage is defaulting, the Fed is losing money. If the Fed is getting repaid on the garbage, and they got the original money from the Treasury in the first place, shouldn’t they then return the money to the Treasury so the US government can pay down debt? If the Fed is losing money, isn’t that the chance they took? I guess that’s not the way a ‘stick up’ works!

     

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    The United States fired the first shot in the currency war and the rest of the world must be on guard for its deliberate strategy to devalue the dollar, a Chinese economist said in an official newspaper on Thursday.

    In a front-page commentary in the overseas edition of the People's Daily, Li Xiangyang described the United States as the conflict's "first maker of tomb figures," a Chinese idiom that means someone who creates a bad precedent.

     

    Li, head of the Asia department at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a top government think tank, said continued intervention in currency markets by developed economies would deal a blow to global economic recovery.


     

     

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26595.htm

     

    That means, the Fed has to persuade people they've “lost it” and are planning to destroy the currency via the printing presses. It's all baloney. The Fed won't destroy the dollar. They just want to use the element of surprise to give the economy a good jolt. Gold bugs think the Fed is steering the country towards hyperinflation, but they're mistaken. It's all part of a larger calculation.


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    A TRANSFER OF AUTHORITY

     

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    The power of the state has always rested on two pillars: Force and legitimacy. The Internet subverts them both. As for force, think about encrypted commerce, as for legitimacy (the more important part), think about the following:

    • It used to be that 98% of all news came out of two zip codes in Manhattan, produced by a more or less homogenous group of people. Now, it comes from everywhere. "Guys in pajamas" brought down the mighty Dan Rather.




    • When I began to wander among liberty people, not too many decades ago, the people who "got it" were mostly hyper-studious types in the largest American cities. Now they are found almost everywhere.




    • Events are recorded and can be verified across the globe in moments. The life-span of bad information is collapsing, and plenty of what used to be easy manipulation with it.




    • People are able to test their wild ideas in anonymous public conversations, shielded from shame. As a result, those ideas are improved, very many of which would never have been exposed without a protected place to speak from.




    • Collective identities and animosities ("those people are monsters; we must fight!") are collapsing as separated groups of people get to know each other via world-wide, nearly-free communication.

    This is all the result of the Internet, and all of it undermines the sanctity and urgency of the state. And since the operators of states are not stupid, they understand the threat and are moving aggressively to conquer the Internet.

    http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD127/sec2.html


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    The people who can produce legal currency by adding zeros to their bank accounts at will have a problem, and that problem is called competition.

    The Chinese government has that power, and so does the American government.

    The  American government sold that power to The Federal Reserve Company people - and they make the dollar.

    This may sound complicated but it is what it is and to fail this chore of understanding is to fail understanding NEWS like the link above - and to fail is to be subject to those who have not failed.

    It can help greatly to think in more personal terms before thinking in terms of China, The Federal Reserve, and America.

    Suppose you have the power to make dollars at will and no one else has that power. You alone can make as many dollars as you want, and anyone else who makes dollars is subject to jail time or worse when caught making dollars. In real physical terms you now have the legal power to produce purchasing power  - as much as you want whenever you want.

    You may think I'm crazy at this point, but these are the facts, and from where I sit anyone who fails to know these facts are weak, very weak, very poor, and very much less powerful than someone who does know these facts - so what does someone looking at me as if I am crazy look to me?

    The Federal Reserve has this legal power to create purchasing power at will, they hold the legal license - anyone else is guilty of counterfeiting.

    What do you think, now that you know this, could be the governing factor controlling how much money the Federal Reserve produces?

    Before answering please look here (again for anyone who has already looked here):

    http://www.usdebtclock.org/

    If you thought you had the right answer to the question concerning what governs the people at the Federal Reserve when they can and do produce as many dollars as their black hearts desire, and you thought your right answer was something alone the lines of common sense, whereby the good people at the Federal Reserve use common sense to govern themselves as they make more and more dollars then you are wrong.

    The people at the Federal Reserve are criminals, legal criminals, and the power went to their heads, they destroy the goose that lays the golden eggs and that National Debt clock measures that destruction in a very easy to read and very accurate way. Read it and weep - while knowing that for every dollar of debt there is someone who is owed that dollar. Who owes whom? Who is supposed to receive all those dollars of debt? What will those people do with all that money once they receive all that money from the people who owe all that money (purchasing power)?

    I'm going to post this here and there and then return to writing so as to sound bite the message here. 

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    Returning back to the personal, at home, reality check look, to make this grand idea into something more personal, where you pretend to have this power to make legal currency, legal money, now, now add another person, and this other person is a neighbor, and this other person has also gained this license to make legal money, and we can call this other person China.

    You pretend to be The Federal Reserve, and now you pretend that there is another person with the legal power to make as much legal purchasing power and this person is called China.

    You make dollars.

    China makes Yuan Renminbi, CNY

    Here is an exchange rate web page:

    http://www.x-rates.com/cgi-bin/hlookup.cgi

    You, The Fed, have a competitor in the business of producing unlimited purchasing power, to buy wars, to buy diamond mines in Africa, to buy politicians in El Salvador, whatever your black heart desires. What on earth stops you from buying up all that you ever dreamed of buying, or ever could dream of buying, so as to secure your license to keep producing legal purchasing power - what stops you in your tracks?

    Think about it, in this way, when you read the NEWS I post - please.

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    China and The Fed can make more purchasing power and with all such competitions the winner gains the most power.

    Who will win?

    That is the rock bottom base question - the gist of the story, among all the foreign jargon.

    Asia is booming, while things not Asian, things "Western" are busted - flat.

    No more American Dream for anyone but exceptions - roughly 10% of the population - while the rest are allowed to "eat cake" - as in "let them eat cake" which is a historical pronouncement of costly willful ignorance - the speaker may have lost her head soon after.

    If you think I'm on crack, check who made much of the things you own. Do they say "made in China"?

    Do you think that will change soon?

    What is made in America?

    I can offer an answer.

    The dollar.

    When the dollar is tied legally (enforced by a robust military) to Oil power, the dollar power is powerful.

    When the dollar is no longer enforced legally to Oil power - what happens?

    Gary North says nothing about the link between Oil and the Dollar. Gary North, despite failing to report on the key dollar backing feature, is an exceptional reporter on half of the big picture - money.

    While keeping the Oil backing variable in mind return back to the personalized look at what is happening as you pretend to be The Fed and someone else is pretended to be China.

    You can keep on creating more dollars, as much as your black heart desires, and you can buy whatever you wish, whenever you wish, up to a point.

    China can do the same.

    The point at which neither you or China can add more zeros to your money accounts is the point at which more zeros no longer add any more power to purchase, and the opposite occurs, and this fact remains a fact no matter how well or how poorly you understand it.

    If China buys new clean electric power generating plants, solar plants, wind plants, tidal wave plants, plants that turn human waste into electricity, and if China buys new factories that make electric cars, and solar panels for houses and business buildings, and if China buys fiber optic communication networks, and new roads, and mass transit, and state of the art hospitals, and if China buys more things that make wealth, or make making wealth less expensive, while you buy tanks, and mercenary troops, and if you finance both sides of a new war and stick all your troops in the middle of it, as China buys the things listed above, what do you think is going to happen with your power to make money out of thin air?


     

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  • As the Fed continues to drive down the value of the dollar, the government accuses China of deliberately devaluing its currency, and the House has passed legislation aimed at punishing China for this alleged devaluation.
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  • The instability in the international monetary system, the decreasing value of the dollar, and the large amounts of new US debt could lead the IMF and countries such as China, Japan, Russia, India, and Brazil to abandon the dollar and adopt a new multinational currency.
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    If all  the legal criminals were as honest as Ron Paul, and Dennis Kucinich, the world would be right side up, instead of racing to the bottom.

    They are, however, players in the legal crime game.

    Return to you pretending to be The Fed and know that you can manipulate (buy) anything that can be bought within the legal reach of your power - things tied to the dollar, such as Oil.

    China can do the same.

    What can happen, with this type of legal crime, is two major things, or two paths taken by the players in the legal crime game.

    You and China can cooperate and agree to perpetuate your power to commit these crimes against your victims within your turf.

    You think I'm on crack still?

    What happens at the local High School where the drug dealer has a ready supply of victims to injure when a competitor comes along and sells drugs cheaper, and sells higher quality drugs in your turf?

    You don't know?

    Pretend that you are the Drug dealer working the local High School, this isn't that difficult. You give away the drugs at first, and then once the victims are hooked you jack up the price until the victims will do anything, literally anything, so as to get a fix.

    You have complete control over your victims now, at least until the ugly head of competition shows up.

    Now you have a choice. Deal with the new competitor.

    Do you agree to split up the High School into two separate turfs, or do you start a currency war?

    I'm not the one on crack, wishing for another economic boom to occur, fawning over politicians who promise good times, if we can just win this war on terror - etc.

     

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    http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/1-global-plans-to-replace-the-dollar/

     

    To fund the permanent war economy, the US has been flooding the world with dollars.

     

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    The bottom line there is the same thing as following the money to it's source.

    The case of "The Dollar" the money, the dollar, is followed to "The Treasury" at U.S.A. Inc. and this is where "The Money Supply" is increased as "The Fed" buys "Treasury Bonds".

    Bear with me here and please consider using your own brain to figure this out too, I have not worked on this in awhile, so the puzzle pieces are scattered again.

    Piece number one should be, and this piece must fit in somewhere, and it must fit in the right place, or the picture won't be recognizable, piece number one is the power to produce things that the power to purchase can purchase.

    1. Power to produce

    That is piece number one and failure to have that piece in place, at the start, may be a beginning of confusion as all the other pieces are dumped out randomly.

    Number two on the list is the power to purchase and this power has to be powerful or it isn't a power, this power only becomes a power to purchase when it measures up in that capacity.

    2. Power to purchase

    Since Gary North gave you the "pot at the end of the rainbow" with is humorous phone call article from China to "The Fed" chairman in good ole' U.S.A Inc., since Gary North did that, he accomplished the "follow the money (power to purchase)" chore to the source of it - where the power to purchase is produced.

    The power to purchase is produced at The U.S. Treasury. They, at the U.S. Treasury, produce Treasury Bonds - which have the power to purchase. That is the story there, and that is what I call "The Magic Check Book" which is a term I got from this link:

    Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, know the answer to this question.

    How can those people, those people who are at the end of the money trail, the "follow the money" to the source money trail, how can those people not be in the same game as the "follow the money" trail leads back to "the people who get the debt payments for The National Debt"?

    The saying "we owe it to ourselves" is often regurgitated by people.

    The National Debt of U.S.A Inc is a known amount of "dollars" owed by someone to someone, and at this time I'm throwing out one more piece of the puzzle.

    1. Power to Produce (control this and you control the power to produce money)

    2. Power to Purchase (otherwise known as money)

    3. Competition (China can be seen as a competitor, so can Europe, and U.S.A. Inc)

    4. Deception (also known as falsehood and "joined at the hip" is violence - falsehood and violence are linked forever together as one - might as well be one)

    If you can control deception you can control competition, and if you can control competition you can control the power to produce, and if you can control the power to produce you can control the power to produce the power to purchase or you can produce money - The Magic Check Book.

    Gary North gave you a look at The Magic Check Book, and so did Robert Newman.

    If you can control deception (and don't forget the inevitable twin of deception which is violence), if you can control the use of deception (and therefore the use of violence) you can eliminate all but one form of competition.

    You can fool (with deception) or destroy (with violence) the competition with deception (and the twin of deception which is violence).

    U.S.A Inc. can destroy China or visa verse, and then there is only one left standing - one Magic Check Book.

    If there are two Magic Check Books, if U.S.A Inc doesn't destroy China or visa verse - then it may be a good thing, right here and now, to look at what competition does.

    If competition exists, if it is a piece of the puzzle, if it is in the picture, if it works, then it does two things (if it isn't destroyed or deceived out of existence):

    3. Competition

    A. Increases quality

    B. Lowers cost (price)

    If U.S.A Inc. produces "money" then U.S.A Inc. produces something that has the power to purchase, if it doesn't have the power to purchase then it isn't money - even toilet paper can have some power to purchase in some situations.

    There is the measure of money and therefore there is the "quality" of money.

    If completion is working (free from deception and the twin of deception which is violence) then the quality of money goes up - money can purchase more, and more, and more, and more, and more, as the quality of money goes up - because completion forces the quality of money to go up.

    If the "Dollar" is a better competitor compared to any other competitor, such as the Chinese Yaun, or the European Euro, or the Russian Ruble - then the "Dollar" can purchase more than those competitors.

    How can someone, anyone, know which producer in the money completion is winning?

    You have to measure the power to purchase by the unit; 1 dollar unit can purchase X. 1 Euro unit can by less than or more than X.

    Competition forces the best competitor to produce the most powerful money; where the winning competitor has 1 unit that can buy more than 1 unit of any other competitor.

    1 dollar can buy 2 Euros.

    If that was true, then the dollar would be twice as powerful as the Euro.

    Competition does more, much more, as a human force, as a living force, as a physical power in the known universe (remember things like Evolution).

    Competition not only forces quality up, competition also forces cost (otherwise known as prices) down.

    If the "Dollar" had a price tag on it where someone buying a dollar had to pay 2 dollars tomorrow for 1 dollar today - then the price would be very high on the "Dollar' competitor.

    In 5 days time the Euro would look much better than the dollar if the Euro charged no price (no interest rate).

    This may seem like I have placed too many pieces of the puzzle on the table. I'll wind this up, and you can see for yourself if you bear with me a moment longer.

    Person A buys a dollar from the producer of dollars at a high interest rate of 1 dollar today must be paid back with 2 dollars tomorrow.

    Person B buys 10 euros from the producer of euros at a low interest rate of nothing, the payment of the purchase could be set as "debt", to be paid back, and time is now measurable as a price, "a rate of interest", and for now let's use 10 days.

    Person A has one day to make the dollar purchase something that will produce something more than 1 dollar - at which time Person A will have to pay back 2 dollars - or be guilty of failing to pay a debt.

    OH MY!

    Person B has 10 days to dream up and then execute a plan by which 10 euros are used to purchase something that ends up producing 10 euros.

    Which money is better?

    Who wins the competition?

    You can print your own checks right now. What will you buy? How much can you get away with, when you write zeros on your Magic Check Book account?

    This much:

    http://www.usdebtclock.org/

     

     

     

     

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    Hi All, or anyone interested,

    That is one of the very few PEAK OIL NEWS items I read these days. Awhile ago I read about peak oil and from the first look I began looking deeper, and deeper, and deeper into peak oil.

    To sum up, if you don't want to read the latest NEWS on peak oil, I can say that the age of Oil is passing into history and a new age, with less, and less, and less oil USE is on the way in.

    As to the reasons for the passing of the OIL AGE into history there are many and much of the NEWS explaining these reasons are contradictory - in the extreme.

    Go to the gas station, I know you will, and fill up your car, or your truck, and know, just know it, know that you are paying more per mile than what you would pay if you were filling up your electric car with electricity.

    That is the bottom line here, and 10 cents per mile is 80% higher than 2 cents per mile which is the current average savings from Oil power to Electric power.

    Fill up your car.

    Know the facts.

    Before long everyone will know the facts, as the NEWS become real, and as Oil production lowers so as to cause Oil prices to go higher.

    I didn't read the rest of the NEWS linked above before beginning this writing project, but I am confident that it won't spell out the facts as I am doing right now.

    How much time did it take for human beings to stop traveling with horses and begin traveling with cars?

    How much time will it take for human beings to stop traveling at a cost of 10 cents per mile and begin traveling at a cost of 2 cents per mile?

    Oil prices will go up, sure, that is the NEWS. Every step of the way up is another step pushing the move from Oil power to Electric power and the margin of VICTORY for Electric power is already 80% cheaper.

    Then, if you are thinking in terms of the stability of the price of Electricity, you can know the facts here too.

    Right now the Electric Companies in our Fascist Dictatorship (behind the thin veil of "democracy") sell Electricity at very high prices because they own the monopoly. They can price whatever they want, and you have to pay it. You can't choose BRAND X. You have to choose BRAND Y.

    The proof of this involves making electricity at home, with your own Solar Panels, or your own Wind Generators, and then trying to sell excess Electric power to your neighbor - at half price.

    Try it.

    That is competition in action and that causes the price of electricity to go down - not up.

    Not only does higher Oil prices drive the Electric car market faster and faster, not only that, the Solar Panel (and Wind, which is solar) market drives Electric power prices down - so the gap widens as time goes by.

    Right now there are a number of start up companies selling Solar Panels to people who want to pay less for Electric power. You call them up, you pay less for electricity - guaranteed. That is now happening because Solar Electric Power is cheaper BY FAR compared to Electric power produced by the Fascist State Dictatorship stuff - unless, and this is a big possibility, the Fascist State Dictatorship stuff is still very cheap to make, but the price is way, way, way, and way above the cost to produce it - in other words they could be raping the consumers by jacking up the price - because they can - because they have a monopoly (sort of) and because they have the license for raping the consumer.

    LLC, or Limited Liability Corporation, has one legal meaning for regular people (consumers, workers, whatever makes a regular  person regular) and another meaning for PG and E or Edison, or Goldman Sacks, or The Federal Reserve (LLC).

    That is called: Dictatorship - that is not what was once known as democracy (where political power was once known as everyone is the king, and no one is legally above anyone else, "king in his castle" stuff - once upon a time, and I can show you the proof, the evidence, and the accurate historical record - it is an up side down world these days - black means white, good means bad, etc.).

    So, read the link, I'm going to finish it, and see if you find the whole truth, or if you find some things, vital things, missing.

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    Someone unfamiliar with the Global Power Struggle (I use the term: Legal Crime or Legal Organized Crime Business Turf Battle) may think: "What, the Russians used Dollars and now they are "ditching" the dollar? How can that be?"

    Take a few minutes and prepare for an entertaining look at how that works here:
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5267640865741878159#

    When Russia (the organized legal crime ring - not everyone within their turf) can no longer afford to trade dollars for things (like oil) the Global Power Struggle is heading for a big "adjustment".

    This is big news, the kind of "NEWS" that could be Front Page news - but it isn't - and that alone should tell you something important about your local "government" (you own legal crime ring).


     

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    And just a year ago Time magazine named current Fed chairman Ben Bernanke as “Man of the Year” with a long-winded congratulatory piece about the chairman’s response to the challenges of the Great Recession. The article failed to mention, of course, that the prime cause of the Great Recession was the same cause of the Great Depression — expansion of the money supply by the Fed — and also failed to mention that Bernanke, for all of his touted knowledge about the failings of the Fed during the 1930s, failed to see the Great Recession coming.

     

    What they fail to mention is the reduction of the money supply by half that causes the bust. They only mention the cause of the boom - this is a HUGE omision.

     

     

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    On Thanksgiving eve the English language China Daily and People’s Daily Online reported that Russia and China have concluded an agreement to abandon the use of the US dollar in their bilateral trade and to use their own currencies in its place.  The Russians and Chinese said that they had taken this step in order to insulate their economies from the risks that have undermined their confidence in the US dollar as world reserve currency.

     


    If that is true: the human species is entering a new age. The passing age is domination of the species by the U.S.A., also known as "The Dollar Hegemony". Before that group dominated the human species the greatest power on earth was a group called The English Crown or some other such label.

    The dominant group can be measured by following the money, more or less, it depends on who measures the value of the money being followed, how it is measured, and this is an important distinction. You can't just follow any money to find the dominant group.

    The dominant group collects power (money is the power to purchase or it isn't) from the many as power flows to them from the many; including all the less powerful groups, all the groups that are dominated by the dominating group.

    This is fact, like looking at the Sun will burn out your eyes, and like sticking your hand in the fire will burn your hand. You can trick the truth told to you, here, by saying such things as: "You are not telling the truth here, in fact, I look at the sun often, and my eyes are not burned out."

    What is the point?

    My point, is to point out, how a new age is dawning.

    This is a fact, it is occurring in your time.

    The people who are dominated by U.S.A Inc. (AKA The Dollar Hegemony) include the people who are called "the tax payers". This group includes all the people who use Dollars, and you think I may be Joe King.

    I'm not.

    The Russians and the Chinese leaders, their spokespeople if nothing else, no longer want to pay taxes to the dominant group, The Dollar Hegemony.

    Within the tax paying group are those whose options are less powerful, less numerous, and in this group are all the people who reside within the boarders of the legal entity (legal fiction) known as U.S.A. (LLC).  These tax payers have two options when dealing with the choice of tax payments: A. Pay, or B. Leave

    The people within the boundaries of U.S.A Inc. (LLC) are known throughout the rest of the world, if you care to look, as torturing mass murderers, much in the same way as the people within the boundaries of U.S.A. look at the people who lived in Nazi Germany.

    I'll leave you with a look back, which may help in knowing what is on this road:

    http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Third-Reich-Oral-History/dp/0306805944

    That is a book by a German Fighter Pilot, not a political person, the German Air Force was not a political power, it was (and I suppose it still is a military power which is a distinction worth discriminating in much greater detail), where the idea was to document the thinking done by many people in Germany during the Nazi reign of political power. The Nazi political power never dominated the human species, not like The English Crown, and not like The Dollar Hegemony.

    The book can serve as a warning to anyone who "believes" in the rightness of what The Dollar Hegemony is doing today. Such as invading other places, such as Iraq, and such as Afghanistan, torturing, mass murdering the innocent, for profit - or just for fun. Any rational human being now knows that the excuses told by the spokespeople for The Dollar Hegemony, the Bushes, and the Obamas, any of them, are lies - lies covering the truth.

    The power to "believe" in those lies will vanish in time.

    I'm pointing out how the time when belief in those lies is powerful, able, capable, real, and present, is evaporating.

    The people, the group, no matter what name they have written on their stationary, who dominate are the ones who dictate what is to be believed by the people they dominate.

    Know or don't, I can't dictate understanding - that is within your power.




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    There is a great video by a pair of Good Old Boys who make very effective use of a video clip of Bernanke uttering his Congress-paralyzing line. If you have not seen this video, you have a real treat in store.


     

    Real treat?

    First thing to understand, if you are to borrow my many years of unraveling this great deception, is to know that an alternative to any Doom associated with The Dollar crisis (created on purpose) is not only possible, it is easy, as easy as is the concept of competition.

    Competition is an easy concept.

    Producer A produces crap and charges a very high price.

    Producer B produces high quality stuff and charges a very low price.

    Product A (crap at a high price) and Product B (high quality stuff at a low cost) are on the same shelf and you are there to buy one of those products.

    How simple can it get?

    You may scoff, and call me a nut, but why would you jerk your knee that way?

    I've unravelled this scam, and it is as easy as I am telling you. Any complication serves the people who make DOOM, that is what they make, they produce DOOM, it is their business to do so, they have a vested interest in creating and maintaining DOOM, as Doom is half of their "business cycle", the other half is another thing that they create, and that other thing that they create is called BOOM.

    Two links for you to help you understand this very, very, very well:

    http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/books/bolshevik_revolution/

    http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/

    The criminals (legal criminals) buy stuff - what do you think they buy?

    As serious as it gets.

    The thing to watch for now, it seems to me, is where the power goes from here, as the power goes to the new "investment", and that new place where the power goes appears to be Asia.

    If you wonder why workers in Asia are willing to work for so little, and if you wonder why people in America (U.S.A. Inc. LLC) are paid so much more for doing less, then use that questioning to know what it will be like when power shifts from U.S.A. Inc LLC to whatever will be the new monopoly power (by any name is smells the same) in Asia - or wherever the power (to steal with a banking monopoly) shift to - from The FED.

    The fix, the way to avoid becoming the desperate people who will work almost any job (or any job) for less than a living wage, is a medium of exchange that avoids criminal manipulation by criminals (legal or otherwise).

    A competitive currency product is the easy solution.

    Product A is crap, and it costs a lot, and that product has a measure of both quality and cost here:

    http://www.usdebtclock.org/

    The simple fix is not a worse product that cost more, as some people may lead you to believe, to buy into, to swallow whole.

    The simple fix is a connecting medium, an honest one, an accurate one, one that avoids manipulation by criminals, a high quality product, and a product that is less expensive to use, and there are many examples of these types of products in history, in actual use, and there are many examples of these types of products as yet to be used as such - prototypes, on the drawing board, or just ideas as yet to be produced.

    If The Dollar loses its value it will be replaced by something more valuable as a medium of exchange used by a large number of people - this is what is happening - these days.

    This is as NEWS worthy as the green traffic light ahead of you, while driving, as it turns yellow.


    http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/books/bolshevik_revolution/

     

     

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    My viewpoint on that is not all DOOM. The Power to create BOOM from DOOM, and DOOM from BOOM is also called: The Business Cycle - which deserves an explanation while moving into the topic of CAFR.

    CAFR is Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.

    Briefly:
    City, County, State, and Federal governments keep books.

    On one set of books are:
    Net income
    Net expenses
    Net balance

    On the second set of books are:
    Budget projection
    Budget shortfall
    Public knowledge (brainwashing propaganda)

    Since World War II, in America, where U.S.A. Inc. LLC rose up from under some rock, the ability of the people here to make more than they consume has been stolen by a complex scam involving the use of monopoly money creation POWER to move all titles of properties from those who create power to those who steal it.

    Those who steal power, from those who create power (create more than they consume), cause a BOOM to happen - such as the BOOM following the DOOM called The Great Depression.

    World War II was a BOOM - and a big one. Germany was made to BOOM first. From DOOM, where there wasn't any "money" around - for some strange reason.

    Somewhere the viewer has to step into the cycle and look forward as the cycle plays out, so I won't go backwards at this point and point out, in detail, how The Great Depression was constructed - looking forward at the BOOM called World War II, one can see America making many, many, many, many things, thousands upon thousands of airplanes - for example.

    Who gained many of the titles for all the stocks, bonds, interest earning loans, mortgages, and real estate properties, and other properties during that Depression preceding that Boom?

    Many, many, many people had to sell off farms, homes, stocks, titles, valuables, properties, and Gold was confiscated by the government, in those days, and even Cows were ordered to be killed and buried, crops where ordered to be burned, and where did the power of control over all the excess production go to?

    Depression = sell off by the desperate.

    Who bought all that stuff up at basement prices?

    Then BOOM.

    Who profited off all that production of airplanes being sold to the government as the government conducted World War II?

    Look into CAFR - those books, as far as I know, are the only books that ever were discovered by The Public, where the net incomes, net expenses, and net balances are documented.

    You may say, because you're taught to say, all those profits went to private individuals.

    All the people in all the governments are private individuals. You should know this fact, why don't you?

    You may argue, at this point, because you know how you should handle someone like me, and your argument is this: Some people are not private individuals, some people are "public servants".

    Now is a good time to expunge such brainwashing from your brain - use facts to clean out the waste.

    When The Business Cycle is used it is used to move titles, ownership, and control of excess production (production over and above consumption) also known as surplus value.

    A BOOM is created and accelerated by injecting more and more money into a social network and the result is greater production above consumption and increasing prices.

    If everyone knew exactly when a BOOM will go BUST then everyone knows exactly when to sell titles to property at the top of the BOOM, when prices are highest, and everyone then has lots of CASH to use while the BOOM goes BUST and then everyone knows when to buy all those titles back; when prices are at rock bottom - often less than the cost needed to replace the things that have titles.

    Everyone doesn't know, and why doesn't everyone know when a BOOM is going to end and a BUST is going to begin, or when a BUST is going to end and a BOOM is going to begin?

    Everyone doesn't know that public servants are lying criminals - either - and there is a correlation.

    On one set of books are:
    Net income
    Net expenses
    Net balance

    On the second set of books are:
    Budget projection
    Budget shortfall
    Public knowledge (brainwashing propaganda)

    Net balance is hidden from the public, not advertised, not disseminated, not a part of public knowledge, because the so called public servants no better than to let the public in on such things as net balance.

    What is force fed to the public is the Budget shortfall. Public servants say: We are broke.

    Believe one of those public servants, who may be honest, if not knowledgeable about such things as net balance, when they say "we are broke" and they can't afford to pay the rent - themselves. Some are public servants to a degree; all must have some self interest, or the self becomes too weak to give any more.

    Why would you believe someone who says: "we are broke", as they drive off in a limo to their summer home for vacation?

    Here again:

    http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

    Every dollar is owed to someone. If that someone happens to be connected INSIDE the FED group, they don't need money, they can make dollars by adding zeros to their bank account any time they wish.

    They use money to take control of the property, the surplus wealth, and to take control of the people who produce it.

    Without that connection to them, or without that connection by them to us, there would be a different connection connecting all of us, and what would that connetion be - better or worse?

    Again:

    http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v105/__show_article/_a000105-000002.htm

    The DOOM is connected to The Dollar producers, no different than DOOM is a connection between a Heroin addict and a Drug Pusher.

    The medium of exchange moves power from the Heroin addict to the Drug Pusher - it is a one way street. You can claim that the Heroin addict volunteers, eagerly, to be connected to the Drug Pusher. What happens when a second Drug Pusher tries to take over the turf, to own the addict? It isn't voluntary, far from it.

    You must pay taxes with dollars, and that is how the FED maintains control over its turf. No matter what else you may use as money you still have to buy dollars to pay taxes, and try buying groceries with a personal check. How do you open an account without dollars?

    If everyone in one State, in America, this U.S.A. Inc. LLC started using a different money what would happen?

    What do you think caused The Civil War?

    What do you think caused The Revolutionary War?

    How about words from someone who was at The Revolutionary War?

    http://21stcenturycicero.wordpress.com/fraud/how-benjamin-franklin-made-new-england-prosperous/

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    The Parasite City

    More modern version:

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27083.htm

     

     

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    There is a fix, a simple one, and it removes the power held by criminals, such as these, over their victims.

    The simple fix is also the most powerful fix because the simple fix connects all the most powerful people together into one powerful group.

    The simple fix is easy to understand, not easy to accomplish, but that is because political power in the hands of those who are adamantly, vehemently, and even violently, against the simple fix, is greater.

    The political power struggle includes the power a group of people have over another group due to an imbalance of knowledge. Group A, the more powerful political group, knows: while Group B, the less powerful political group is ignorant.

    In this case the more powerful political group have control over the power to create money, and from that power they then have the power to spend money. The less powerful political group pays all the costs associated with any purchases executed by the more powerful group.

    The less powerful group include all the people who think these words are false, inaccurate, or even misleading.

    There is no greater political concern that this one and the more powerful group knows this fact, while the less powerful group is literally ignorant of this fact.

    So, the simple fix is simple, and easy, but not likely to be implemented because the more powerful political group knows that the simple fix will work, and the less powerful group is ignorant.

    The ignorant masses of less powerful victims can judge for themselves, or if not, remain both ignorant, and less powerful.

    The simple fix to be implemented by the less powerful group is to regain control of legal money, to arrest it from the legal criminals who now abuse this power.

    The measure of the abuse, by the people who abuse this power over legal money, is exemplified by the News Report linked above, and this:

    http://www.usdebtclock.org/

    Now, to help illuminate the simplicity of the workable, and powerful, fix to the problems that have grown to such an incredible proportion by these measures, I can move onto a more detailed version of how the fix can be implemented - in reality.

    If U.S.A. Inc. (LLC) also known as The Federal Government were to offer The People (meaning everyone who pays Federal Taxes to U.S.A. Inc. LLC), two new financial products, then The People would fix this problem from that day onward.

    Product 1:
    No interest mortgage loan on the primary residence and/or a business interest (a second Real Estate Property in addition to the primary residence).

    Product 2:
    One percent interest earning loans for the purchase of any product that is proven to be a more efficient consumer/producer of physical power (such as Solar Panels, Electric cars, Wind Generators, Modular vertical farming units, etc.)

    The complexities that can occur during the implementation of this fix include all the complexities generated by all the people who are out to get something for nothing, at any cost, and these types of people plan on passing on those costs to someone else - as a rule.

    Example:

    Someone known to borrow money and then refuse to pay it back, even though they are able to pay back the loan, are people who create complexities associated with the simple fix; however, there is already in place an easy and effective remedy for such problems, and that remedy is known as a FICO Score.

    http://www.myfico.com/crediteducation/

    I'm going to hit a work limit soon, so I'll have to post this much and then continue on another post.

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    The less powerful political group happens to be the most powerful economic group, and the reader may well learn Joe's Law better, if this is a confusing concept.

    The producers of wealth, power, economic power, are the most powerful economic group and they happen to be the less powerful political group, due to a curious human characteristic; whereby honest people make the best cooperative producers of wealth, and dishonest people make the best criminals/politicians.

    Not all politicians are dishonest; exceptions to the rule include:

    Ron Paul
    Dennis Kucinich
    Mike Gravel

    Everyone is capable of dishonesty, the point is that some people employ dishonesty in the crime business, and that includes legalized crime, such as a Money Monopoly Power used to transfer all the wealth from the producers of wealth to the legalized crime bosses.

    And, again, if you the reader think these words are inaccurate, false, or misleading, which group are you in?

    A. More powerful political group
    B. Less powerful political group

    Are you on the receiving end or the "giving" end of the National Debt?

    Net balance accounting, please, not the second set of books - please.

    Back to the simple fix and the two products that could be on the financial shelf at every franchise store where they sell monetary products.

    Think in terms of Wallmart if you don't understand what a franchise is, and then think in terms of any Bank being a franchise too.

    Banks sell money.

    The simple fix is two new money products, for the consumers of money products.

    You have to shed a lot of brainwashing to be in a position to conceive of, let alone implement, the simple  fix.

    Product 1 is the no interest mortgage loan offered to anyone with a good FICO score, anyone who has earned a good credit rating, anyone who prefers to get a higher quality product, at a lower cost, and Product 1 can thereby compete against every other mortgage on the planet Earth.

    You have a good credit score, you earned a good credit score, you have an income, and now you want a home and a business building, what are your choices now?

    Product 1 offers a choice whereby no money, no credit, no wealth, no power to purchase will transfer from the borrower to the lender: no interest, none whatsoever.

    How many wage earners, workers, people who produce wealth will turn in their old mortgages, even move out of their old homes, and get a new mortgage, one that does not transfer any power from them to anyone else, once this product hits the shelves at the local money franchise?

    You could even open up your own Money Franchise business on Main Street with your Product 1 loan - and pay no interest.

    Now, the people reading this may have stopped  reading this, and so be it, I've heard the accusations of accuracy, falsehood, stupidity, on this type of thinking, and what comes next addresses some of those accusations - for those who read on - soldier on.

    In business there is a concept that can be expressed as: Give away the razor to sell razor blades.

    Product 1 is the give away, and product 2 is the way that the lender makes money to cover all costs including the cost of living for all the workers in the lending business.

    Product 2 charges 1 or 2 percent interest and here is where some numbers help illuminate 2 things.

    1 thing that numbers help illuminate is the power that is, and the number 2 thing illuminated is the power that was: transferred from the producers of power to those who managed to get it.

    Where did all the power to produce, in America, go?

    Think about that, some.

    Suppose, now, that an easy number of people in America buy Product 1 and that easy number is 1 Hundred Million People.

    Like this:

    100,000,000

    That is a lot of loans to process by all the people who will be processing these new loans.

    30 years later, at an average of 10% interest, how much money transfers from those 100 million people, to the people who  have the money loaning franchise?

    Are you the least bit curious?

    How about an easy way to compute this, without too much effort?


    http://www.mlcalc.com/#loan-100000-30-10-12-2010-year

    Suppose that the average home price was 1 Hundred thousand dollars.

    Roughly: the cost of the home plus two more homes are sent from the buyer of the home to the people running the legal money monopoly business.

    Exactly:
    100,000 borrowed
    10 percent interest
    30 years
    315,925.77 paid by the borrower to the lender

    Now times that by 1 hundred million

    I don''t have enough room in by brain to accurately know the full impact of that number.

    To be fair, if possible in these types of political games, use the number 200,000 dollars to represent the money sent to the lenders from the buyers that is above the actual cost of the home.

    So: 200,000 times 100,000,000

    200,000 dollars (units of legal money) per home
    100,000,000 people buying homes with loans

    These are only zeros, so the math is very easy, just add the zeros:

    20,000,000,000,000

    Have you ever seen such a number?

    That is the number that represents the wealth that has transferred from the people who earn an honest living and the same wealth that has transferred to those who squeeze every last dime from that scam - not the workers behind the desks at the local offices.

    It does not cost double the price of a home to process a loan - know that much.

    I'll post and then return to elaborate more on Product 2, where the people selling product 1 and product 2 earn their living - honestly.

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    Product 2 may not be for everyone, yet, but few people can afford to pay more for less now, why pay more for less now, when you can't afford to - now?

    Math is so simple, and this math can be proven - simply.

    Solar Panels can now be purchased by a home owner who wants to lower the price paid for each watt of electricity used - that is a documented fact.

    Facts should definitely be questioned for validity so I can offer a simple observation - without a link to a seller.

    The sellers are now guaranteeing a lower electric bill to the buyers of Solar Panels.

    Check it out.

    If the idea can be understood; however, then the idea must be understood as a check on any loan that qualifies as a  product 2 loan. The collateral of the loan includes this ability to save on power costs.

    Then, for another example, look at the cost per mile on electric cars which are now reported as:

    Electric: 2 cents per mile
    Petroleum: 10 cents per mile

    A buyer of product 1, with a much lower monthly home mortgage payment, may also buy a product 2 loan to start a new taxi service in his, or her, home city, and how competitive can this new taxi service be if he, or she, also starts producing his, or her, own motor fuel in the form of home grown electricity?

    Local Taxi service A:
    Petroleum cars at 10 cents per mile

    Local Taxi service B:
    Electric cars at 2 cents per mile

    How can you not see this, I ask myself, when, in fact, Local Taxi service A may also be mathematically illustrated as such:

    Local Taxi service A (without product 1 or 2):
    Petroleum cars at 10 cents per mile
    Home mortgage at 5 to 10 percent interest
    Business mortgage at 5 to 10 percent interest
    Electric costs higher by approximately 10 percent

    Local competitor resulting from the easy fix Taxi service B:
    Electric cars at 2 cents per mile
    Home mortgage at 0 percent interest
    Business mortgage at 0 percent interest
    Electric costs (fuel for the cars) at 10 percent less cost

    Is that too simple?

    What power do you think is behind the power that complicates any fix to the supposed problem?

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    http://blogs.forbes.com/michaelpollaro/2010/12/20/monetary-watch-december-2010-the-money-supply-a-triple-from-here/

    Third, and most important, private banking institutions are not only continuing to print money, but appear to be doing so at an accelerating rate. In fact, Uncovered Money Substitutes, i.e., bank deposit liabilities not covered by bank reserves, the issuance of which is the result of the banking systems’ efforts to lever up its loans and investments on top of what is currently a mountain of excess reserves, is growing at a year over year rate of 19.9%, a post credit crisis high.





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    End The Fed - really?

    Many types of banking systems can work, and have worked, to accomplish many specific jobs, as the bankers employ banking systems toward the work of accomplishing the jobs that the system is designed to accomplish.

    Please, please, please understand that much; before moving on to any other inspection of any banking system.

    Banking is a tool.

    What is the tool used for, and who must have it, or without this tool the goal cannot be accomplished?

    Put on your thinking caps and go along with me as I describe an end result that I want to accomplish and while I describe this goal you, the reader, can begin to think up a method by which this goal can be accomplished - and from this work we can see if we are looking at something worth having.

    I want to transfer as much power as I can from everyone else to me. I want to make the power I have greater, at the expense of everyone else, and I want this transfer of power to continue indefinitely, even to a point where I have everything and everyone else has nothing, even to a point where everyone else must ask me for permission to breath; failing to ask permission is death by suffocation.

    Failure to ask me for permission to eat is death by starvation.

    Failure to ask me for permission to drink is death by dehydration.

    What tool can I construct so as to arrive at my stated goal, and I'll give you a few minutes to dream up a tool first - then I'll tell you what that essential tool is, and we can see who has offered a more competitive tool - a tool that will do the job better - OK?

    Meanwhile I am going to find and link a neat link someone else sent to us, and I watched the video on the link:

    Not break it more

    What did you think up as you thought up a device by which everyone else sent you power up until the point where you have all the power and no one else has any?

    If you thought up a device similar to a State Banking Monopoly, then I can compare that idea to mine.

    Here is mine:

    Falsehood

    You can't implement your idea without mine, and I'll tell you why in case you haven't already understood why - like understanding how breathing is necessary to stay alive, and how sticking your hand in a fire may cause you to say ouch.

    Understanding can be intuitive, as well as reasonable.

    If you make this thing and you use  things thing to accomplish your goal how can you do so if your victims are fully aware of it before you even begin to use it?

    A. You have a goal and the goal is to transfer all the power to you, from everyone else.

    B. You design a State Banking Monopoly as the tool you are going to use to accomplish your goal.

    C. You begin to connect everyone to you with this tool.

    How do you go about the work of making the C job above happen, in real time, in real reality?

    A. You tell the truth

    B. Not A

    Really?

    Do you really want to vote for someone who wants to construct and then perpetuate a State Banking Monopoly device?

    What does this person say when this person describes what this thing is supposed to do, what does this State Banking Monopoly do, what is the goal in mind for this State Banking Monopoly thing; why is it constructed, what is it's purpose?

    I won't get any answers; because I know the reason, and I can expose all the lies that have and will be constructed to make such a thing work.

    Falsehood is necessary to make such a thing work, without falsehood the power no longer flows from the many to the few in that way - the scheme ends.

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    So, let us begin. First and foremost, a government-guaranteed gold standard is a rotten idea. It is just a little better than a fiat-money standard. But advocates of "the gold standard" almost always mean "a government-guaranteed gold standard." Therein lies the problem. Governments lie. They cheat. They steal.
    http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north924.html

    Gary North is an authority on economics, even by my standard; however I see a very serious error in those words above, and I'm going to explain why, from my view, those words express a very serious error.

    Then I want to explain my view of a problem with a "gold standard", and then I'll read the rest of the report by Gary North - and comment if inspired.

    Governments don't steal. People steal.

    Blaming anything, or any one, other than the one who steals, for stealing, is a transfer of power from affective defense against theft to that one thief who stole, by letting him, or her, get away with it - again.

    If anyone is less inclined to defend against theft by the thief who stole, and more inclined to defend against theft by something incapable of theft (such as a government), the power shifts by that exact measure.

    There may be greater shifts of power as more and more people are weakened by this type of misdirection, and as more and more thieves steal, and go unrecognized, unaccounted for, and allowed to continue stealing perpetually.

    The error is very serious, as it builds the curtain, it builds the false front, and it maintains the illusion covering the crimes committed by the criminals upon their clueless victims.

    Power that could be expended toward a non-criminal government is lessened by the false identification of "government" as a thing that steals.

    Government is nothing without a person operating it. If a lying, stealing, torturing, and mass murdering person operates it, what can be expected?

    Blame the government?

    That is a fools errand.

    Don't be fooled, it can cost you everything.

    On to a Gold Standard, in my own words, and then I'll read the rest of the article by the economics authority.

    A gold standard may result from a competition of many different forms of money whereby gold becomes the highest quality money, at the lowest cost, and all the other competitors fail at winning this competition because all other competitors are lower in quality and cost more, over time, as the competition perpetuates, and gold remains to be, despite all competition, the highest quality money, at the lowest cost; thereby establishing, and maintaining, a gold standard.

    That must be what Gary North is saying, and I just use my own words to introduce the rest of the article by Gary North.

    If Gary North doesn't say that, then what force is the force that causes a gold standard to be - in force?

    As soon as one person begins to accumulate large amounts of gold, during a gold standard, is the moment that gold becomes more scarce, and as someone, or some group, continues to accumulate more and more gold, will be the moment that gold scarcity increases.

    What happens when gold is accumulated to a point where one group owns most of it and everyone else has very little of it?

    Answer:
    The quality of gold as money shifts dramatically in this way:

    Part  1

    Gold as money becomes a very high quality for those who have accumulated it - to them it is no longer scarce.

    Gold as money becomes a very low quality for those who can't get it, and therefore they will look for money they can get, and the money they can get will be higher quality because they can get it.

    Part 2

    Gold as money becomes a very low cost to those who have it, because they accumulate it, and thereby control it, and they can then sell gold to other people, and charge other people to use gold, and the charge is called: interest.

    Gold as money becomes a very high cost to those who don't have it and in order to get some of it they have to pay the price, pay the interest payments, and if any other money charges less interest, they will buy the less costly money instead.

    Cost is a quality, quality is a cost.

    If the people who accumulate the gold and do so to a point whereby these people can charge interest to other people who "borrow" the gold, then a competitor (black market) will emerge.

    This has happened in history.

    As far as I know: Gary North does not claim that gold can generate interest, or produce interest, or inspire interest, and therefore I am curious about what Gary North has to say about this non-government gold standard.

    I'll read on.

    I read the rest and am happy to report that Gary North, despite the misdirection, maintains authority on economic understanding - in my opinion.

    The only force that would, if it could, create and maintain a gold standard is competition - not lying, thieving, torturing, and mass murdering people running a criminal government.

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    The government would specify the form of acceptable currency for the payment of taxes -- nothing else.
    ++++++++++++

    Hold on; that can be trouble. If the people running the government demand payment in one, and only one, form of money then that one form of money is thereby made exceptionally more valuable than any other competitor. Such an error would transfer power from the people who create wealth to the people who demand payment of taxes with that one single form of money.

    The demand for only that one money, by the people who run the government, create a monopoly, and destroy competition, they effectively nullify the force that forces quality higher and they effectively destroy the force that forces cost lower.

    Why would they do that?

    Why would the people running the government want to destroy the force that forces quality higher and cost lower?

    Why would they seize the power that forces quality higher and costs lower, and why would they then destroy that power by creating and enforcing a single money monopoly?

    Gary North is wrong, or ambiguous to a point of inaccuracy.

    If government out-laws competition, and government ( the people running it) demand only one form of money as payment of taxes, what do you think will be the result of such a demand upon the people who create wealth?

    Think about it - please.

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    Now, if I can just persuade the self-doubters of the legitimacy and wisdom of the free market. . . .
    +++++++++++

    Competition may be the thing (the force) that Gary North has in mind when he types the term "free market" - I can't know unless he tells me, and I'm not on his list of correspondents.

    Competition is easy to understand when anyone ever has a choice between a product that is of poor quality and high price next to a product that is of high quality and low price on the same shelf.

    Competition forces the producer of the low quality product to a higher quality - or their product stays on the shelf while the higher quality producer continues to produce enough high quality products to fill the same shelf.

    Competition can also inspire the producer of the low quality stuff to a criminal act, such as the willful injury of the competition, so as to eliminate the competition.

    That is what criminals do, they eliminate competition, they eliminate the force that demands higher quality and lower cost.

    This is easy to see once a person can dig their way out of the falsehoods that bury them.

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    The OZ Warning

    I started watching that Award Winning Documentary and I stopped immediately. I stopped to write something as a warning to anyone who may also be inclined to watch that Award Winning Documentary.

    If the DOOM on the horizon is seen as inevitable by enough people it will be so. If enough people know that honest working people, the people who actually produce wealth, and therefore the people who actually raise "the standard of living", if enough of these people REALize that the DOOM is a result of a specific, not an ambiguous connecting medium between those who create wealth and the legal criminals who steal it, then all those wealth creating people can, easily, very easily, sever that connection, and avoid that specific demise.

    Here is the connecting medium - in score board form:

    http://www.usdebtclock.org/

    On to the documentary - and I may return here to comment after viewing.


    Comment:

    I heard this:

    "You can't borrow your way out of debt" and "You can't drink yourself sober".

    Please know something, and this is very, very important. A person, or any number of people working cooperatively (voluntary association = free from crime), can most certainly borrow their way out of debt, and to think otherwise is very foolish.

    I will offer two analogies after a short explanation concerning this "half truth" propagated by that quote (above).

    The person propagating the half truth claims that a person can no more borrow their way out of debt than a person can drink themselves sober. That is true if a person fails to invest the borrowed stuff into actions that result in the production of more stuff; whereby the value, or the power, of the stuff created is greater than the value, or the power, of the stuff borrowed.

    A = stuff borrowed
    B = investment

    A < B

    Failing to recognize, realize, understand, and know the other half of this half truth is  a very serious failure - please understand this much.

    Analogy 1:

    A group of prosperous people (voluntary association of honest productive people: free from crime) manage to survive for time span X, a number of years, or a number of centuries, never needing debt. Suddenly the weather changes and the people must work harder to gain the same standard of living because more economic power is required to deal with the severe weather - to avert famine.

    These people borrow themselves into debt, to have the power to adapt to the change in weather, to dig themselves out of a dust bowl.

    Then a nearby group of criminal people conduct an Aggressive War for Profit against the prosperous people who have borrowed themselves into their own debt, so as to dig themselves out of the dust bowl that a change in weather has caused.

    Do these people who are being targeted as victims by perpetrators of an Aggressive War for Profit borrow even more money from themselves so as to have the power to purchase defensive military hardware, defensive military employees who must fight the defense against the Aggressive War for Profit, or do these people give up, because they can't "borrow their way out of debt"?

    Analogy 2 (closer to home?)

    Person A borrows money because his taxi business just spent one year in the red due to a large increase in the price of gasoline. Before the large increase in the price of gasoline Person A was "making money", now Person A is "going into debt".  So person A borrows money to buy a fleet of electric cars to replace the gasoline powered cars and the savings in fuel costs is 80% on day one, and the savings in fuel costs increases to 85%, or more, as gasoline prices increase.

    Now Person A has borrowed his way out of debt, because the monthly payments on the loan (plus interest = so long as interest isn't too far above cost = too expensive) are less than the monthly gains (investment) due to lowering the cost of powering the cars in the taxi business.

    What happens if the cost of electricity goes up? The analogy continues with another loan, to "borrow his, or her, way out of debt" whereby the Taxi business owner buys Solar Panels and cuts down the cost of buying electricity by 5% on day one, as soon as he, or she, begins to produce his, or her, own electricity at home, or at his Taxi Business property. And, and this is a big "and", the investment pays even more as the price of electricity, from the power company, increases - for whatever reason.

    There are now plenty of analogies for the reader to ponder when considering the whole truth concerning borrowing. Think, please, as to what the actual human action is, this borrowing stuff, and know that the same actions can be called credit as well as debt. Credit is the same thing as borrowing in the present time; while the future time is a process, or procession of actions, whereby the borrower earns by producing more stuff, and producing enough extra stuff to pay back the loan, and then some.

    A = the stuff borrowed
    B = investment process resulting in a measure of stuff

    A < B

    That is called an investment. If A > B, then why would someone call it an investment? Borrow stuff, work, and end up with less stuff, and then borrow more stuff, and then end up with less stuff, and then borrow more stuff, and then end up with less stuff, and do that again, and again, and again, and again, until someone, somewhere realizes, hey, this can't go on forever.

    Who is the stupid one?

    When will it be a good time to look in the mirror?

    KNEE JERK warning:

    At a point in the documentary a photo of a starving child sitting on a chair is shown and statements are made claiming that starvation can be eliminated - simply.

    The KNEE JERK reaction will be something alone the lines of "overpopulation" whereby the viewer has been trained, conditioned, and modified, through propaganda to think in terms of "overpopulation" such that "if you feed them" they will "reproduce" and we are all DOOMED by "Overpopulation".

    If you think that - go look in the mirror. If you don't think that, then you have not been subjected to enough false propaganda to cause that KNEE JERK reaction.

    The fact is, and this can be a very accurate accounting process, or this can be less than a very accurate accounting process, and this fact will remain a fact, even if the people doing the accounting fail to account accurately: Africa, or any continent on the planet Earth, is full of very valuable natural resources (including the indigenous native people) and thereby fully capable of becoming a highly competitive example of human prosperity within the geographical boundaries of that continent. Whomever claims otherwise, it seems to me, is someone whose accounting procedures are false, on purpose, they have cooked the books.

    One other point I wish to address while watching this documentary is a point concerning the legitimate (morally defensible) process of charging interest for borrowing anything, money, power, labor, anything. The legitimate reason for charging interest is such that a high risk loan, whereby the odds are that the loan will not be paid back, inspires the lender to raise the price charged to the high risk borrower, and in doing so the cost of paying for bad loans is shared by both borrower and lender.

    Example:

    Lender can loan X to either Person A or Person B.

    Person A offers a plan that is seen by the borrower as a sure deal, no risk, and Person A happens to be a relative of the lender, someone known, someone honest, someone who always pays back every penny borrowed. How much interest does the lender charge?

    Person B is an old drinking buddy, now hooked on crack, and person B shows up to borrow money for a fix. How much interest does the lender charge?

    This type of thinking, this legitimate charge of interest, is the same type of thinking that inspires such things as "credit scores". The idea here is that a person earns a lower interest rate, and this is very similar to someone earning a low insurance premium - but that is a story I think I can refrain from exploring at this time.

    Back to the documentary for me.



     

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    Let the real debate begin - someday?

    I've got news for people. There hasn't been a debate between the proponents of Public money and Private money - one doesn't exist.

    The closest thing to a debate on Public versus Private money are one sided reports, like the link above, whereby a proponent of one thing voices an opinion, and sometimes a voice will pretend to know the other viewpoint.

    1. Public

    2. Private

    Anyone, please, tell me how private money can compete with public money, and if you do this, and do this accurately, reasonably, logically, and even morally, how can the subject of taxes be avoided during that expressed viewpoint?

    Before I finish that report above, with that opinion, I'm already detecting the absence of reason, whereby the writer avoids any mention of the connection with money and taxes.

    Wishing away taxes, as if taxes don't exist, and as if money isn't used to pay taxes, a legalized money, a specific money, that a tax payer must have to pay taxes, does not make taxes vanish into thin air.

    Taxes exist.

    People, real people, people with guns, will enforce the payment of taxes - and no amount of wishing will make the tax man go away. It takes a whole lot of resources, a whole lot of power, physical power from the physical world, and a whole lot of mental power from the world where thoughts exist, to manage, somehow, to avoid the payment of taxes, and therefore avoid the requirement to get legal money with which to pay those taxes.

    I'll read the report and comment.

    This is simply central planning.

    This writer appears to be demonizing the effort by Dennis Kucinich to fight against the criminal exploitation of innocent people by the criminals running the Federal Reserve Extortion Racket.

    Dennis Kucinich has a plan of attack, and the member of Congress is doing what he can do to implement that plan - true or false?

    So the plan, being implemented by Dennis Kucinich, is Plan A.

    The writer says that Plan A is "simply central planning".

    That is "Free Market" dogma. That means nothing. It is a dogmatic cue for the proponents of legalized capitalism to reject anything done by whomever agrees with, supports, or aids in the effort to implement Plan A - because it is "simply central planning".

    Plan A is being rejected because Plan A is "simply central planning".

    What is the alternative to "central planning"? Is the alternative "random occurrence"?

    I'll read on, and my guess is that this person has a Plan, which can be called Plan B, and in no way are we, the readers, to recognize the fact that Plan B is also "simply central planning".

    Plan B is "random occurrences"?

    Plan B, more than likely, is a plan to legally re-establish a Gold Standard.
    When dogmatists like this guy begin to use those catch phrases, like "central planning", they are building a house of cards, a Man of Straw, and a cover-up, a cloak, smoke, mirrors, a curtain, a veil, they are creating falsehood.

    A Free Market is one that is free from criminals, legal criminals, or non-legal criminals, what is the difference?

    A. Crime sanctioned and subsidized by the law power
    B. Crime not sanctioned and subsidized by the law power

    The criminals define the crimes they commit by willfully committing those crimes, not by telling their victims that what they are doing is legal, or "for their own good".

    Truth does not work that way. Falsehood works that way. Deceit is the tool used to make victims believe in the good of being victims.

    If this dogmatist, writing this report, demonizing Dennis Kucinich, get's away with this crime, then it will be despite this effort to expose such a fraud, in progress.

    A Free Market must have, by whatever means possible, a process by which crime is less powerful than the Free Market.

    Criminals do not enforce a Free Market into existence. That is a lie. A Free Market will over power crime, or crime will over power a Free Market - in each case.

    So, what is the source of power, where does the power come from, where this power overpowers the force of crime that does exist, and will continue to exist, so long as victims remain powerless?

    1. Power produced by honest working people who do not plan on and then follow the plan to injure innocent victims

    2. Power stolen from honest working people who do not plan on and then follow the plan to injure innocent victims.

    Where does the power to defend come from, and where does the power to steal come from?

    I will continue reading the report by the dogmatist who wrote this:

    This is simply central planning.

    That is dogma.

    Instead of money being placed in the hands of multitudes of entrepreneurs via bank loans, this bill calls for loans to be made by the government.

    Dennis Kucinich is not stupid. This writer appears to either be stupid or an outright liar, a fabricator of falsehoods. My guess is that Dennis Kucinich is proposing to create a nonprofit government loan fund.

    Do you know what that can be?

    People send money to a central collection of individual contributions and then that collection of money (money isn't money if it doesn't have the power to purchase) is loaned back to individual people. No interest. Non-profit.

    Tax amount X is loaned to person A.

    Loan A, by person A, is paid back into the fund in the amount of X.

    How is that any different from anything done by any other group of people pooling their power to purchase, and then having a plan to re-distribute those funds by some planned calculation of some kind?  

    If the difference is such that people in case A are forced to add money to the fund and people in case B are not forced to add money into the fund then that is a legal battle over the concept of law and that is a legal battle over the concept of government being either a voluntary association or otherwise. That is a legal battle concerning the legality of enforcing tax payment.

    If government is a voluntary association, show me this thing. If it is not one, then there will be a fund, a collection point, a place where taxes are collected, by force, or else.

    Obey

    What happens to people who do not pay taxes?

    Those who have enough money, denominated in dollars, in the U.S.A. don't have to pay taxes. Who doesn't know this fact?

    If they don't have to pay taxes, why should anyone have to pay taxes?

    That is not the fight here, the fight here assumes that taxes exist and there is a tax fund from which to spend that power to purchase by some legalized method, some calculation of some kind.

    The fight here isn't a fight over the legitimacy of tax enforcement. The fight here, by Dennis Kucinich is a fight over who controls the tax spending, and how tax spending is done, since a tax fund does exist, and no one I have ever talked to has ever failed to understand that this existing tax fund is enforced by real people who really will enforce it.

    And everyone I know, really, knows that political power buys your ticket out of the tax paying membership.

    A. Those who actually pay taxes
    B. Those who do not pay taxes
    C. Those who receive (and spend) tax collected purchasing power.
                   a. And do so by a legal prescribed method
                   b. And do so at will, accountable to no one, no greater power at all.

    Since taxes are collected, if I have Plan A understood, and I didn't read it, then, taxes will be available to tax payers in the form of legal loans.

    My guess is that Dennis Kucinich does not out-law loans by any other means, using any other form of money, whatsoever, and that appears to be what this writer is suggesting.

    My guess is that Dennis Kucinich is acting in a manner that an elected representative of the people would do with the money that the people are required to send to a central tax fund, and thereby offering a competitive supply of available capital, in the form of money loans, legal money loans, to people by some process, and specifically not a case where Dennis Kucinich is planning on outlawing competitive loans made by any other producer and seller of loans.

    While I think, the writer will suggest, that Plan B is going to be some form of law that makes only Gold legal money, and thereby eliminate, by law, any competitive form of money, by that legal means.

    In either case, the power to eliminate competition, is the power to enforce only one money used when select people are forced to pay taxes.

    If there is a Plan C, where people send portions of their earnings, in the form of purchasing power money, to a fund, an insurance fund, or lottery, a company stock, or any central collection of many individual contributions of money, and this Plan C is strictly voluntary, having nothing to do with the involuntary tax fund, then such a plan can't be denominated in dollars, since dollars are connected to the U.S.A legal tax fund intimately.

    I'll read on.


    The executive branch has gained and continues to gain enormous power. The executive branch now wages wars at will, this bill would give even more power to control the entire economy. "He who has the gold" or in this case, paper money, makes the rules.  This is simply mind boggling. It is giving the exeecutive branch the power to declare  a great economic war over its own citizens.  


    I do not know why Dennis Kucinich would support such a thing - either. My guess is that he is desperate and the idea is to give a president enough rope to hang himself with or enough rope to actually do something productive. I don't know.

    Someone, or some group, who are not well known, and are not held accountable, and who have power, and the power commanded includes the power to increase and decrease the number of legal dollars, and this person, or this group of people, use that power to gain power at the expense of other people - this is a knowable fact.

    If everyone knows that this power to increase or decrease the number of legal dollar is a power held by a president, then people will know who to blame, or who gets the credit for, what happens when dollars are increased in numbers or when dollars are decreased in numbers.

    People should already be intimately familiar with the current score board on the past decisions to increase and then decrease the number of legal dollars produced by the people who have that legal power.

    That score board is right here:

    Dollar manipulation score board

    Who is to blame for that score?

    Who get's the credit for that score?

    Who has to pay, and pay, and pay, for that score?

    Who has the power to give themselves credit for that score?

    Do you know his name?

    Do you know their names?

    Do you know who has the legal power?

    Do you know which law authorizes that legal power?

    Does your representative know?

    What is the plan that your representative has for dealing with that score board?

    Have you read it, and does that plan have a snow balls chance in hell of moving the power you earn from the legal criminals who take it, back to you?

    I'll read-on.

    Bottom line: We have an entire set of people who believe that money printing itself creates wealth. They somehow don't get that production of goods and services is the only thing that creates wealth. They want to take power away from the way Fed as it is now structured as a fractional banking system--which should be done because the Fed does print money and thus distorts the economy in favor of the banking elite. But they don't see the money printing as part of the problem, just how it is now done. For them, printing more money is going to mean, by itself, more cars,education, healthcare and homes, as starters.

    I do not know enough about what the bill is to say what the bill will cause. I do now that there is a fundamental cause and effect involved in the current legal money monopoly, where a group of people called: The Fed, have the legal power to increase and then decrease the supply of legal dollars.

    Fundamentally such a thing will lead to lower quality money and money that cost more to the consumers or users of money, anyone other than the producers of that money.

    The producers of that money are no different than the producers of electricity, or the producers of water, or food, or gasoline, or anything powerful. If they have a monopoly on it, and it is something needed, then they will always have customers, they have a captive consumer base, and without competition they can, and they will, decrease the quality, and they will increase the price.

    The monopoly, or cartel, or cabal, of producers have no force, no power, no cause, no interest, and no desire to keep quality higher than the competition, and keep prices lower than the competition - there isn't any competition, and their interest, their power, and their force is concentrated, focused, and expended toward eliminating competition.

    Denis Kucinich may not be offering a much higher quality competitive plan, and the price tag may not be much lower, but as far as which plan is best, and for whom it is best, I can't say - not with any real authority.

    I can say that Plan A is, obviously, intending to compete, and therefore Plan A is a force that will work to force The FED people to produce a higher quality product at the lowest price, or, The FED people will eliminate Plan A, because it is a competitor.

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    Another measure of quality currency: autonomy

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    The cable, titled "Shin Bet Talks Gaza Economics," was written by David R. Burnett, Economic Counselor in the US embassy in Tel Aviv. It describes a briefing given to Embassy officials by senior members of the Israeli Shin Bet*, on how Israel uses the banking system in Gaza to increase the political influence of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Gaza, by attempting to starve the Hamas government of cash.

    The report further elaborates that the circulation of Israeli Shekels (NIS) in Gaza is increasing, while foreign currency supplies are dwindling. This is clearly a direct result of the almost total ban on exports from Gaza (although Gazan merchants may still import certain products) - yet the Shin Bet kept silent regarding the reason for the shortage in foreign currency.

    This document demonstrates that the Israeli government is in fact strangling the Gazan economy in order to turn Gaza into a captive market for Israeli products and maintain demand for the Israeli shekel - all in the name of "fighting terrorism." It also demonstrates that the international community - and especially the US - have allowed this policy to continue.

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    Criminals hate competition

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    The Dollar Hegemony

    The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries sets the price of oil in dollars. The dollar is the currency of denomination of half of all international debt securities. More than 60% of the foreign reserves of central banks and governments are in dollars.

    Finally, there is the danger that the dollar's safe-haven status will be lost.

    In this new monetary world, moreover, the U.S. government will not be able to finance its budget deficits so cheaply, since there will no longer be as big an appetite for U.S. Treasury securities on the part of foreign central banks.
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    Eliminate competition

    Competition is the force that forces quality up and cost down.


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    Monetary Sterilization

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    And then there are the states. The other week Utah became the first to take advantage of an opening left to the states by Article One, Section 10 of the Constitution to make gold and silver coins legal tender. The Constitution prohibits states from coining their own money and/or making anything other than gold or silver coins a tender in payment of debts. Now, spurred by the American Principles Project, at least a dozen states are at least tentatively exploring doing just that.
    In Utah's case, what it has done is not only make gold and silver coins legal tender but remove the state capital gains tax on any gain persons in Utah might get from holding gold and silver coins. There are those who set down the gesture as irrelevant and even flaky. But if several other states actually pass laws similar to what Utah has done it will add up to a remarkable vote of no confidence in the system that has been creating the money that we call dollars.

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    Failure to obey

    According to the IMF, Libya's Central Bank is 100% state owned. The IMF estimates that the bank has nearly 144 tons of gold in its vaults. It is significant that in the months running up to the UN resolution that allowed the US and its allies to send troops into Libya, Muammar al-Qaddafi was openly advocating the creation of a new currency that would rival the dollar and the euro. In fact, he called upon African and Muslim nations to join an alliance that would make this new currency, the gold dinar, their primary form of money and foreign exchange. They would sell oil and other resources to the US and the rest of the world only for gold dinars.

    What is done when someone fails to obey?

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    The going got even nastier when one learned that on March 19 the Washington/London/Paris financial elites authorized the Central Bank of Benghazi to have its own - Western dictated - monetary policy, unlike the state-owned, and fully independent, Libyan national bank in Tripoli; Gaddafi wanted to get rid of both the US dollar and the euro and switch to the gold dinar as an African common currency - and many governments were already on board.
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    This social network would allow open exchange of currency via alternative currency without feeding the grid - and those corporations that wish to strangle the average citizen's wages without a conscience. The people would generate their own currency and wage via alternative energy means such as wind, solar, and geothermal energy - and then any excess can be used for gain using a barter/trade system via the social network anonplus without fear of being penalized like ebay or other similar networks do.

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    09-08-2011

    Listening to Alex Jones rebroadcast, it is early am for me.

    Alex points to a Global money monopoly as American, European, and Asian money competitors merge into one, or some such expectation; creating SDRs, or something.

    I do not see this. There will always be a pretend competition, so as to keep the targeted victims divided and fighting each other, which sounds confusing but only when the viewpoint is duplicitous.

    Think in terms of the lessons offered by the book 1984.

    3 is a significant number, so as to keep people on a false schedule, today we are good, tomorrow we are bad, next day we are on deck, then we are good again. Duplicity requires a short memory, and if there is only one thing that the victims focus on then there is no way to forget the one thing, it is always there, but with 3 things the fake competition can trick people into a false belief in one being the winner, the good guys, until those good guys become so obviously horrible, they are then exposed as being bad, while the actual power shifts to the new false front, from Eastasia, to Eurasia, then to Oceania, and by the time Oceania is know to be really, really, bad, the victims forgot how bad Eastasia was, the actual Legal Criminals move operations back to the new good guys.

    Anyone caught remembering is left without a leg to stand on, since all evidence is censored down into the memory hole. That tactic happens right here on this forum; for example the GeoLlibertarian member finds a competitive perspective challenging his lies, so what does he do, he erases history, but I keep my own records, so his tactic doesn't work.

    There is no real competition, on purpose, but there is a false competition propped up so as to keep the targeted victims thinking that there are reasons for their steadily increasing costs of living, and their steadily declining standards of living, since the false competitors are doing what they can, but the competition is so much better, or the competition is so bad, the competition is criminal, it is the competition that cause our trouble, and if only we could copy what the competition is doing, etc., on and on, but to no avail, for some strange reason things are not working, when in reality the force of competition does not exist, as each of the three leadership groups are in on the joke, each of the three false competitors are in on the gag, and the actual Legal Criminals hire puppets to run each fake competitor, where the fake competitors can have someone who believes in their sides competitive power up to a point, and if that point is exceeded, a lone gunman appears out of nowhere.

    What would happen if one of the three competitors invented, produced, and maintained a steadily improving legal money system? Even going back to gold as money is a huge improvement compared to the best legal money on the planet at this time. Why, please answer the question, why are the legal currencies that are worst for the honest productive people the same legal currencies that dominate the global markets?

    How is this not as obvious as the nose on your face?

    You have no choice as to which money you are paid, because you have no choice as to which money you must have to pay taxes.

    If it was not true, if there is true competition, then the quality of money will increase, by the force of competition, and the cost of money will decrease, yet, obviously, and measurably, the fake competitors are actually cooperating to keep the quality of money low, and the cost of money high, as money is used, in each of the fake competitor "nations", to move the surplus value from those who create it to those who steal it, with their money monopolies that work as monopolies withing their own boarders.

    The three major competitors work as one cartel, and if the victims knew it, they would see only one enemy, not three.

    It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
    Henry Ford

    Are you still confused?

    How about another angle of view?

    What would happen if this place, this thing we are told is U.S.A., became a working Democratic Federated Republic, instead of one Nation State?

    What would happen if one, and then two, and then three, of the State governments decide to use any of the many currencies made throughout the world instead of just one money?

    Is that too tough to imagine?

    Pick one State to start with, and then work it out.

    I'll pick California because I live here, and then I'll pick New Jersey since I lived there when young.

    First California decides to allow competition in money markets and the people hired to run California change the laws so that anyone can pay taxes in whatever currency they find to be the most powerful currency at the lowest cost.

    How does that work from your own viewpoint?

    Any of the tax payers in California can begin to demand payments, for what they are selling, in Euros, or Yuan, or dollars, or gold, or silver, or whatever they think is the best money, and then they pay their taxes in the worst money they know to be worst, and everyone is thereby working in currency speculation.

    You go to work and you are paid, by your decision, in gold, say, or silver, or whatever today is the best money, today, and you go home with that money, you earn that money. You keep piling up your best money, and you have to pay for things you want with the best money demanded by those who sell you stuff, but when you pay taxes, you exchange your best money for the worst money that you know to be the worst money on the day you pay taxes.

    I, you, your neighbor, and soon everyone in California, then New Jersey demands payment in gold, or silver, or whichever money I, you, or your neighbor thinks is the best money, and that is the income you get, when you trade what you sell for money, and then before you pay California tax payments, you sell your gold, or silver, or whatever you think is the best money, for units of the worst money, that worst money you know to be worst, and that is the money you use to pay tax debt in California, or later in New Jersey when the people hired to run New Jersey change their laws too.

    Since it is now a working Democratic Federated Republic and no longer a single Nation State, the people running the Federation no longer tax The People directly, instead the people hired to run the Federation can only get their tax payments from each State in the Federation. California, being smartly run by their hired governors, pay the people running the Federation in Federal Reserve notes, as they too work on currency speculation, as they get whatever currency that The People send to them as tax payments, and they then take those currencies and buy dollars to pay the Federation what the Federation wants as payment. Right now the supposed Federal government demand dollars.

    Got that?

    You demand the best money to be paid to you for what you produce. You then buy the worst money to pay your State taxes, and you have no Federal tax payments, because now we live in a Federation, not a Nation State. The people you hire to run your State take the worst money they send you and they buy dollars, because dollars are demanded by the people hired to run the Federation.

    How does that work for you?

    Why don't the people running the Nation State demand gold as payment for tax debt instead of dollars printed by The Federal Reserve System of Extortion?

    Is that not a self-evident truth?

    The answer is that the pyramid scheme won't work if there is competition, such as gold, which is a very competitive, powerful, money, when compared to the fraudulent stuff.

    A one world currency won't work, the victims will no longer volunteer to provide the means by which they suffer, they will be clued in when the lie is one lie, the one lie will be too obvious.

    Work on it some, you may get it, before it is too late.

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    Utah Gold as money Law

    Earlier this month, Minnesota took a step closer to joining Utah in making gold and silver legal tender. A Republican lawmaker there introduced a bill that sets up a special committee to explore the option. North Carolina, Idaho and at least nine other states also have similar bills drafted.

    Raw Utah Gold story

    "We're too far down the road to go back to the gold standard," Galvez told the AP. "This will move us toward an alternative currency."

    Too far?


    The Constitution is very specific about what our government can and cannot issue as coins and currency. It states what the Federal Government do as far supplying money as well as the States. It specifically says nothing but gold and silver coinage shall be used as payment for debt. That means not only are States allowed to issue gold and silver money for payments, it is the only thing it can issue and accept. This makes not current Dollar not only worthless as it is back up by nothing, it makes it unconstitutional.


    No results on Minnesota on a Google Search at this time:

    Minnesota gold currency law
    North Carolina


    Idaho

    Then there is the hard-money plank, which might have come right out of a Goldline ad on talk radio: "We believe Idahoans need to protect their savings from the ravages of inflation, which is hidden taxation, and encourage citizens to participate in a systematic acquisition of precious metals which represent real value as opposed to paper currencies."


    Why it matters.

    Although to some it may seem extreme, we do need to prepare for the possibility that there may come a day that the dollar’s buying power will be drastically reduced. And the truth is, Utah is not alone in their concern. According to State Representative Galvez, House sponsor of the bill, 11 states have either passed currency related legislation or have legislation in process. Other states passing or considering currency related legislation include: Montana, Missouri, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington…

    For those who do not believe that the U.S. dollar may be in trouble, please consider the following: according to The China Daily, China and Russia have used a number of currencies in the past, but especially U S Dollars for “bilateral trades”. However according to a report in The China Daily in November 2010, “China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade”. The formal announcement was made by Premier Wen Jiabao and Russian Vladimir Putin.

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    When currency is made scarce?

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    When you get right down to it, Washington’s tough talk is nothing but a silly pointless provocation of Washington’s largest creditor. What if Washington’s idiocy causes China to worry that Washington and its UK and European puppets will seize its bank balances and refuse to honor China’s holdings of $1 trillion in US Treasury bonds? Will China pull its balances from the weak US, UK, and European banks? Will China decide to strike first, not with nuclear weapons, but by selling its $1 trillion in Treasury bonds all at once?
    It would be cheaper than war.
    The Federal Reserve would have to quickly print another $1 trillion dollars with which to buy the bonds, or US interest rates would shoot up. What would China do with the $1 trillion in newly printed paper? In my opinion, China would dump it all at once in the currency market, because the Federal Reserve cannot print euros, UK pounds, Japanese yen, Swiss francs, Russian rubles, and Chinese yuan with which to buy up its newly printed currency.
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    Please recall the 2008 doubling of the total U.S. Dollar supply, and as Gary North has reported the extra money is being held up as reserves by the Federal Reserve Policy of paying a reward for holding cash in reserve - for some reason.




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    Oil Currency

    The fewer cargoes produced, the easier the underlying market is to manipulate.
    The power to make oil scarce is a power that can increase, so as to make oil even more scarce, increasing that power even more.

    Why?

    Because power is essential for life on Earth, make it scarce, and people will do anything to get some of the scarce power, rather than none.

    The same formula applies to all powers, such as water, sunlight, warmth, shelter, clothing, defensive weapons, communication, food, electricity, and accurate information.

    I also proposed root and branch reform of global energy market architecture, which in my view can only come from producer nations and consumer nations collectively, because intermediary turkeys will not vote for Christmas.
    Advise the Legal Criminals to steal less and what do you get?

    If Honest Productive People had their own money, disconnected from the Legal Monopoly Fraud Money, those "Traders" would not have acquired the vast power that is required to construct those gambling games, where the stakes are high, not just playing for fun, not just using worthless pieces of paper, not just worthless digitized numbers on a program in a computer network. They, the Legal Criminals, would have to ask the workers to work, and move the oil, and the steel, and the cooper, and the food, and the water, and the Legal Criminals would have to offer something valuable in return, if the Legal Criminals, without their Legal Money Monopoly Fraud, wanted something of values, something to collect, to store, and to build, and build, and build into a vast supply, to then use wastefully, on gambling, or anything under the sun.

    Without the power to take, by way of fraud, and by way of threats of violence, the vast sums of collected power required to create, produce, and maintain all those gambling games, called "markets" euphemistically, what would the Legal Criminals have as a means to collect such vast sums of power?

    This is easy to see by knowing that those "markets" are denominated in dollars. Suppose there were another legal currency produced in direct competition with the dollar, and all the honest people used that competitive money instead of the dollar, having nothing whatsoever to do with any dollar accounts at all.

    How would those Oil Companies pay their workers? If they paid in dollars, then how would the Oil workers pay for anything made by any other worker, any other worker that uses the competitive money?

    Just, simply, remove all the dollar accounts from everyone except those who are invested in dollar accounts. Every single person who can, is a person who does, invest into the competition, by using a money other than dollars, and picture now those two groups.

    A. Those invested in dollars
    B. Those invested in a competitive legal money

    Whatever is done by those invested in dollars is of no interest to anyone who is no longer connected by dollars to those who are doing whatever they are doing with dollars.

    Now you can understand the significance of enforcing an Oil Monopoly that requires the payments of oil in dollars.

    What can the competitive legal money people do if they have no dollars, want no dollars, and therefore cannot buy oil, and therefore have no oil, what can they do instead of consuming oil power?

    What competitive power is available instead of oil?

    There is sunlight. There is no way, short of Nuclear Winter, or some other Global catastrophe, to make the sun scarce, on purpose, to manipulate the Sun market, and thereby make people who need the sun pay more for it.

    The ‘inflation hedging’ meme gradually gained traction and a new breed of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and structured investment products were created to invest in commodities.
    Try to understand something simple concerning "investment" opportunities. Very few people have money to burn on investments. The number of people who earn more than they owe is small. The number of people who owe more, and even much more, than they can ever earn, in a life time, is large.

    Here is the score board:

    I owe, I owe, so off to work I go

    There is no such thing as investment in a Legal Crime Fraud Network such as The Dollar Hegemony. It is rigged from the top down. There are a very few number of people who have the power, the say so, the control, over the production of new dollars, and they can simply add zeros to their own bank accounts.

    If you cannot grasp the significance of that fact, then how can you ever understand those things they call "markets", which are things that can be observed, things that can be measured, and things that can be known, as well and any other thing that a person can know.

    People at the top buy something with the money they create; otherwise they would not create more money. They buy control over other people, and they buy control over what other people do, and therefore they, those few people, invent, produce, and maintain those markets, those markets that are denominated in dollars, those markets, are the property of those people, because they have the power to control them.

    Give unto Cesar that which is Cesar's.

    Those markets are the properties of those people, those people who have money to burn. What about the rest of humanity?

    Where do you think those few get their power to burn?

    They have to attach themselves to the rest of humanity, and that attachment is the money.

    If the rest of humanity refused to use the fraudulent money, and if the rest of humanity invented, produced, and maintained a competitive alternative, or two, or three, or four competitive alternatives, then the Legal Criminals would eat each other until there were none left, or they too would have to go find honest work.

    There was (and still is) no piece of news which cannot be interpreted as a reason to buy crude oil.
    The other connection, besides money, that connects the Legal Criminals to the targeted victims is the various forms of "news" which isn't news, it is false advertizements, or behavioral modification media, or response conditioning media, or brain washing, or false propaganda, or in those words quoted above, it is control, in other words.

    Those who are controlled are owned by those who do the controlling.

    The motivation of the investors involved was not greed but fear. The Fed had been busily printing another trillion in QE dollars to buy securities and the sellers, and other investors aimed not to make a dollar profit but rather to avoid a dollar loss.
    Who has the single, monopoly, and only one, license to create dollars from nothing?

    What is this Fed thing?

    Why can't they use words that convey accurate meaning, such as extortion, or counterfeiting, or theft, or fraud, when they do things, and they use words to label the things they do? Why do they used terms like QE instead of using the word Fraud?

    What is QE? What is Quantitative Easing?

    That must be understood. Failing to understand that is a root failure, leading to nothing but confusion from that root failure onward.

    Quantitative Easing, or QE, is a process by which a very few people decide to create more dollars, out of nothing, and then they buy something.

    Some people are then led to believe that those few people are buying something with that new supply of new dollars that is good for everyone, according to those few people, and then there are other people who understand that those few people are actually committing fraud, and those few people are not buying something that is good for everyone.

    This is the root of the destruction that plagues our species, this that is definable as deception. This vast deception leads to much destruction. What those few people are buying is, in fact, more deception, and more destruction, and it just so happens that those few people also buy the best food that money can buy, for themselves, and the best places to live, that money can buy, for themselves, etc.

    This is not rocket science. You don't need a degree in Economics to figure it out, and it may be a good idea to start thinking about inventing, producing, and maintaining a competitive legal money, or two, or three, so as to be in a position of power sufficient to sever the link to those few Legal Criminals, and then, you will have less power stolen, and you will have more power to use so that you can invest your power into the purchases of things that make more power flow to you, instead of having your power stolen through that link, which is dollars.

    Dollars connect you, and your power to earn, your power to produce, to those Legal Criminals who use your power to make them more powerful.

    Cut the credit card.

    Cut this:

    Credit Card

    Those who produce, and earn, and do so honestly, productively, are the true lenders. Those who deceive, and destroy, are the borrowers. The borrowers have been able to make believe that they are the lenders, and who listens to such folly?

    Can you count to one?

    The price spiked to $147 per barrel, and then declined over several months all the way to $35 per barrel or so, as many of the index fund investors pulled their money out of the market in late 2008 and joined a stampede to the safety of US Treasury Bills. What was happening here was that the Dark Inventory which had been created flooded back into the market, and overwhelmed the market’s capacity to absorb it.
    There is where the ultimate, top tier, fraud is at play. The insiders who know when The Dollar Hegemony is going down, also know that US Treasure Bills are far from secure, they are going to be blow up, burst, in time. Those few insiders will already have their titles to property denominated in whatever new Legal Monopoly Currency takes over after The Dollar Hegemony bubble is burst.

    In other words: the dollar has been the money used to buy oil, and it has been the "reserve currency" of the world, and therefore it has been The Dollar Hegemony, since World War II, when The Dollar replaced The British Pound as the one Legal Monopoly Currency. World War III is the name of the events that will result in a new Legal Monopoly Currency to replace The Dollar Hegemony.

    In other words: U.S.A. Inc. (LLC) is a corporation (fascist government legal fiction) that is being raided right now.

    Who are the corporate raiders who are raiding U.S.A. Inc. (LLC), gutting it, siphoning off all the value that isn't nailed down, and even leaving the earth scorched as to what is nailed down?  Who are they, what are they doing with all that value, that surplus wealth that was once held by all those Honest Productive People in America?

    What will be the new World Reserve Currency after World War III is done and in the history books, written by the winners, if there are any left, in bunkers, or walking on the surface?

    That is information that is on a need to know basis. I don't have that inside information, and the person who wrote the article I'm reading now may not have that information either, or that person does have that information, but he, or she, or they, aren't giving up that trade secret.

    They know when to get out, because they cause the reason to get out, and all that can be called The Business Cycle, and all that depends upon that connection between them and their targeted victims, which is the one Legal Money Monopoly Fraud.


    But there is very considerable debate among economists about the effect of derivative contracts on this spot market price, and whether it is the case that the futures market converges on the physical market price or vice versa.

    Now, in the case of a deliverable exchange futures contract, a price is set for delivery of a standardised quantity of a particular specification of a commodity at a particular location within a specified period of time. If that contract is held open until the expiry date and time then there will indeed be a spot delivery and payment against documents at the original price. In accordance with the exchange’s contractual terms.

    Again, that has to do with people who have money to burn, there is a group, and you are not in it, and that group consists of people who have vast sums of power, they have much more power than you will ever earn in your entire life, and they play with that power, they have that power, and they play with it, they are gaming, they can afford to play with that much power, they have control over that much power, and they play by the rules that are within that network of people who have vast sums of power.

    You don't.

    Why would you ever have enough interest to figure out how those rules work, within that network of very powerful people; curiosity?

    If you have the slightest bit of power earned, saved, kept, stored, in reserve, in case of emergency, then, you have your own interests concerning how to keep that reserve from loosing power, from evaporating, or going bad, or being stolen, or lost, or devalued in any way.

    If you could buy something that used the power you had stored to make more power out of less power, then that would be a powerful thing to buy, would it not?

    Suppose you too began having an interest in doing something with an amount of savings that you accumulate into one fund, one bank account, one pile of valuable, powerful stuff, so you too begin to dive into the game of monetary investment.

    Why not suppose?

    Who, and how many, out of all the people on the planet, are in that position, that position of having money to burn, that position of having a sum of power in reserve, a store of wealth that is more than they consume; how many of the species human are those owning, and controlling surplus wealth?

    The number is very few, and that number is move to a smaller numbers, so long as the power that does exist does not make more power, or is not used to make more power.

    What do you buy if you want the power you have to make more power?

    A gun?

    A lie?

    That is one way.

    What is the other way?

    There are examples of the other way.

    A farm is one example.

    Power is spent, consumed, and the end result is more power, more power after the farm works, compared to the power that existed before the farm was invented, produced, maintained, and began making more power out of less power.

    A Solar Panel is another example of power being used to make more power.

    This is not rocket science, and people do not have to believe in anything concerning these simple facts. If something makes more power than the power required to make the thing, then what is that thing?

    What, for example, is a farm?

    What, for example, is a Solar Panel?

    How much measurable power goes into it?

    How much measurable power is produced by it before it is no longer capable of producing any more power.

    There is a way to measure power. Power can be measured as Watts,  and power can be measured by converting other measures to Watts.

    How many watts of power are required to cause a farm to start producing, and to keep a farm producing power.

    Calories can measure power too.

    How many calories are needed to make a farm start producing food?

    How many calories are produced by the farm before the farm completely wears out?

    A. Cost
    B. Benefit

    Is A less that B or is A more than B?

    If A is more than B then the farm idea, the farm "meme" would have never taken hold of the interests of human beings.

    B is more than A.

    More power is produced from the expense of a measurable sum of power.


    With interest rates at zero per cent, and with the Federal Reserve Bank printing dollars through QE, a tidal wave of money flowed into equity and commodity markets purely as an alternative to the dollar, and they did so through a proliferation of funds set up by banks.

    Note here that the beauty of such funds for the banks is that it is the investors who take the market risk, not the banks, and the marketing and operation of funds has become a very profitable use of scarce bank capital.

    Those words convey what I call a Patented Absurdity, or a self contained contradiction.

    When a power exists then it exists, it doesn't become scarce while it exists. It is, therefore it is, when it isn't anymore, then it is gone. The Federal Reserve has a limit, but what is that limit?

    What is that limit?

    The people at the Federal Reserve increased the supply of dollars by double in 2008.

    So, that is a clue as to the limit of the power held, and used, by those people.

    Is that much power not enough power to be labeled as plenty of power, or an abundance of power, or a lot of power, or anything but the opposite, which is "scarce" power?

    What is meant by that person writing that article when that person claims that there is this thing called scarce bank capital?

    What does that mean?

    Scarce Bank Capital

    The bankers are starving?

    The bankers are dying of thirst?

    The bankers can't afford to lose one more drop of blood?

    What is scarce?

    Exactly what is scarce? I think that you will find, as I have, that knowledge is what is scarce, not bank capital. If the Fed can double the entire supply of dollars, then bank capital is not scarce.

    When the dollar is no longer worth anything, then doubling the supply of dollars is an expense, or a reduction in bank capital, since someone has to actually give up the opportunity to do something productive so as to press those keys on that keyboard where the number of dollars are then doubled.

    Dollars are not worthless, yet, so where is this supposed scarcity of bank capital?

    Someone is playing someone else for a fool with that false statement.

    I could be reading that message wrong too. Vital questions, like what do you mean by scarce bank capital, require accurate answers from the author - absent that there is guess work.

    I guess that scarce bank capital is not scarce, and the word was misused.

    Iran ‘crisis’ is in my view being hyped for all it is worth to entice yet more unwary speculators into the oil market so that other producers may sell their production forward at high prices while they last before the inevitable and imminent collapse.
    Is that selective perception? When people are being tortured, and people are being murdered, it is a crisis to them, and either those injuries and deaths are real or they are part of the false "crisis".

    Before Iraq was invaded it was sanctioned, and the result of those sanctions were millions of torturous deaths. Was that a time of "crisis" too?

    If there is no further military invasion of Iran, and no further injury and death, for reasons that may include causing or not causing the supply of oil to become scarce or abundant, then those potentially injured, or those potentially murdered people can be happy about that fact.

    There is a very large amount of power being consumed in this stage show that can be called the Iran "crisis", how much does that add up on the scale of "crisis"?

    Who pays that bill?

    History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme, and my forecast is that the crude oil price will fall dramatically during the first half of 2012, possibly as low as $45 to $55 per barrel.
    The Legal Criminals may yet make sunlight scarce, so as to jack up the price - and call it a tax for our own good.




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    Who owes who what?

    So called "governments" can deal with other so called "governments" to demand payments from tax payers, or each other, but where does the actual value backing the money come from?


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    In response to false currency.

    Something competitive

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    "The settlement does not release individuals from civil charges, nor does it absolve Bank of America, its current or former subsidiaries and affiliates or any individuals from potential criminal prosecution."

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    The Trapped Flea Principle - John Taylor Gatto - AERO - 2005

    Weapons of Mass Instruction:
    1. Trapped Flee, beat them into obedience, keep them from their natural independence
    2. Horse sense, isolate them from the wisdom of the herd
    3. Short Answer Tests, destructive to the minds capacity to think in terms of wholes
    4. Constant stimulation (not the wisdom of the herd, instead a counterfeit) remove the capacity to concentrate
    5. Misdirection, keep people from seeing bodies of data or insight that will change their lives: example fact based history of Gun Boat "Diplomacy" Perry/Japan
    6.

    Time 1:26 or so...

    What Gatto calls "overproduction" is what I call managed scarcity.

    "There is about 90 times the amount of capital [purchasing power] circulating planet Earth at this moment as there is all the goods available for purchase and all the services available for hire, that means that if everybody simultaneously said "I'm going to go to the movies. I'm going to buy a car. I'm going to buy a home. I'm going to send my kid to college." No they wouldn't. One point one percent of them would find a service or product, all the rest, the money would be as it was in King Midas, there would be nothing to buy."



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