Dutch Barter System Challenges Bankers

This article is about possibly the most effective regional currency put in circulation – juxtaposing it against the key thinkers and systems around: the right analysis, the right motivation and thus the right governance. May it succeed and serve as a model!

Petition on Money Creation

Here is a well written petition to the Prime Minister asking to make the Bank of England the sole creator of money in our economy.

Debt peonage in Latvija

This video is a talk by Dr. Michael Hudson explaining the advice he has given to the government of Latvija in Riga.

It illustrates how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank (ECB) play the tune to which governments are expected to play and let German and Swedish banks live rather than the local Latvijan economy.

Dr. Hudson calls it “debt peonage” and “neo-colonialism”.

Michael Moore supports public banking

In the wake of Michael Moore’s latest film Capitalism: a Love Story, he proposes 15 things every American can do right now.

Point 4 says: each of the 50 states must create a state-owned public bank like they have in North Dakota (and like there were in Germany before WWII).

The public banking option has recently been described by Ellen Brown as Reviving the Local Economy with Publicly-Owned banks.

Good to read GOOD NEWS in the plethora of  ‘crisis news’!

Monetary inflation is not price inflation

As I am writing a book in German about national debts, I am deepening not only my understanding of our debt-based monetary system, but also the way language is used to impose the system through organisations and institutions.

And thus I have discovered this article that distinguishes between “monetary”, i.e. currency-related inflation and “financial”, i.e. price-related inflation.

The value of a currency in relation to other currencies feeds into the mechanism of controlling other nations, besides feeding the fever and zeal of traders and investors.

The value of products, services and labour feeds into the mechanisms of exploiting planet and people.

Who controls whom?

Who controls the controllers?

What can you and I do? Let’s just love the internet that allows us to express our thoughts and to connect with likeminded people. They are EVERYWHERE.

“End the Fed” in the FT

This article entitled “New monetary target” looks like a real surprise to me for the FT, and I wonder what is behind this publication. But for the moment, let’s enjoy that we have such a good “co-publisher” of our ideas!…

The Fed has been questioned by more and more people. One of the best videos can be viewed here. End the Fed is a major campaign across the US.

With “sceptical smiles”,

Sabine [nearly always in Cassandra mode...]

Anne Belsey’s Money Reform Party

This is the latest account of the extraordinary commitment by an (extra)ordinary woman:

Money Reform Party

e-Newsletter September 2009

Dear Money Reformers,

I write to you in the middle of the political conference season, mindful that the Bromsgrove conference is less than a week away. I regret that I shall not be there this year, so I thought to update you with news of my own activities.

Knocking on doors

I now spend a big part of each day knocking on people’s doors. This takes place in either the historic cathedral city of Canterbury (Motto: Ave Mater Angliae), the picturesque harbour town of Whitstable or one of the surrounding villages set in deepest rural Kent.

‘Hello, I am here to ask for your support at the general election. My name is Anne Belsey and I represent the Money Reform Party.’

At this stage, or earlier, about a quarter of all the people I address say something along the lines of ‘No, thank you.’

But three quarters don’t. Three quarters listen to what I say and I give them what has become something of a ‘practised’ spiel about the nature of the money supply and the need for debt-free money. Getting a 30-second lecture on the causes of the credit crunch/ recession and the solution to it must come across like a bolt from the blue, and I sometimes wonder whether sheer British politeness keeps them listening.

The eyes are the give away. They tell me whether someone is listening and just how interested they are and whether or not they want to say something. I always let them say their piece and a few want to have a good old natter, before I bring want ever subject onto which they have ventured back to money reform.

Most people are only mildly interested, some very much so, and some just congratulate me on simply making an effort. One chap said that he would vote for me as I had a nice face. (Every vote counts!) Quite a few remark that they had had no clear idea about their voting intentions, but that I had given them something to consider. I get the view that support for all the major parties is very lukewarm.

I find that I can only do three or fours hours a day; it is quite tiring; and I can only manage to speak to about 25 to 40 people a day. On this basis, assuming I can keep this up for say 150 days between now and the election (allowing for bad weather and Christmas), I hope to speak to about 5000 people, or I should say, 5000 households, which is about 10% of the constituency.

My hope is that sufficient number of the people I talk to directly will pass on some indication of support, if not booklets and DVDs, to friends and neighbours, and word will begin to spread.

I have no idea what impact this might have, or how many votes I will accrue, but I think that talking to people will definitely have a greater impact than merely pushing leaflets through doors.

Concentration of effort

When I set up the MRP, I envisaged that we might field half a dozen or a dozen candidates at the next general election. As things stand, I think that I am going to be our only candidate, but I am not worried about this. Indeed, I think that I would positively dissuade from standing anybody who is not prepared to put in 20 hours a week knocking on doors for the next six months or so.

What I think matters in this election is not the number of votes we achieve, but the proportion that we achieve in any one constituency. My target is 10%. This might prove to be wildly optimistic, but I think that this will be sufficient to make the major parties take note.

In other words, I think that 10% in one constituency will have more impact than 1% or 2% achieved in each of ten constituencies. 1% or 2% will not be worth noting, but 10% in the only constituency that the party contests might make the major parties think that the people of Canterbury and Whitstable have a viewpoint that is held across the country.

This should be sufficient evidence that there are clearly votes to be had in money reform, and the party that adopts money reform to its bosom can expect to reap that 10% across the country at the next election.

That’s my thinking. Shoot me down, if you think I am talking rubbish.

A one-woman campaign

I do not expect any help with my efforts. I had members/friends/supporters delivering leaflets for me at the last, local elections, but giving a brief lecture to a complete stranger on their doorstep and then being ready to answer their questions, confidently and fluently, is quite another thing.

This is not like normal canvassing, where one is encouraging people to turn out and vote for something they already know about. This involves telling people about a party that they have (usually) never heard of, an issue they barely understand, and a solution which they assume to be already in place, but which they are told isn’t.

Also, with so many people being turned off the major parties, with their slick spin and hype, presenting myself as a plucky little one-woman band will do me no harm at all. (Oh, the cynicism of it all!)

I can do this campaigning. I can’t say that I enjoy it, but I am prepared to do it, and when the election comes (in less than 9 months), I can stop doing it and then forget about money reform for a year or two to recover my sanity. And I have to admit that if I don’t do it, and the economic mess gets worse, as I expect that it will, I will not be able to reconcile any lack of effort with my conscience.

So I want to put in the maximum effort, distributing leaflets, booklets and DVDs as I go around knocking on doors. I have enough leaflets (I have them, I might as well deliver them where I get no answer), but I want to be able to buy more booklets and DVDs, which will cost money and I am running a bit short.

All contributions welcome

I do not normally like asking for money, but I would be very grateful for any contributions that members of the party can make. The more booklets and DVDs that I can distribute as I talk to people, the more votes I am likely to win, and the higher proportion of votes that I win the more likely will the major parties adopt money reform.

Many wars are won on a single battlefield. Could we win the campaign for money reform on the single political battleground of the Mother of England?

It has got to be worth a try.

(Cheques payable to ‘The Money Reform Party’ to 34, Berkeley Close, Dunkirk, Faversham, ME13 9TR)

Regards,

Anne

The Obama Deception or Wall Street Oligarchs

This full length (1h 53m) video spells it out:

• the historic American battle against Central Bankers running their country
• the Presidency as a “puppet post”
• Anglo-American Imperialism behind the New World Order
• the Financial Elite as a Global Dictatorship, obliterating National Sovereignty and National Parliaments
• the mechanisms of power behind closed doors as the “Shadow Government of the World”:

1. the Bilderberg Group
2. the Trilateral Commission
3. the Council on Foreign Relations
4. “fear mongering” among politicians
5. “financial terrorism” by threatening with “economic crises” unless their demands are met.

The true agenda of the globalists:

1. bring the US under the control of a “superbank”
2. under the pretext of climate change, taxes will be levied on fossil fuels, animals and thousands of products
3. a “No Fly” list will be established for “terrorists”
4. speech will curtailed – also on the net
5. healthcare will be federalised to “rationalise care”
6. set up more US troops overseas and dominate Africa
7. expand federal control over family farms and ranches
8. accelerate the merge between the US and Canada
9. Obama must pretend that the bucks stops with him – to hide the “criminal elite”
10. Obama’s job is to sell the gloabalists’ agenda to the general public.

The alternative? NO to corruption and tyranny, NO to World Government.

You can also see End the Fed demonstrations as part of this most remarkable video.

National banking and “illegal money”

There is a remarkable petition to the Prime Minister which spells out in a nutshell what monetary reformers have been saying, writing and videoing about for decades:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Stop the Bank of England from producing illegal money, stop fractional reserve banking and create a nationalised bank.

Whilst promoting it, I was asked about “illegal” and spelled my analysis out as part of the Enforcement of the Bank of England Act 1694. The act was written with the intent “not to oppress Their Majesties’ subjects!”

It seems that this good intention has not been translated into reality over the three centuries since…

Tackling the Oppression of HM Subjects

In 1694, the authors of the Bank of England Act anticipated that the power to create currency may be abused to oppress HM subjects. Hence they foresaw punishment at least for the Corporation.

What they did not foresee is the punishment of all the institutions that depend on the Bank of England.

One such institution is the London School of Economics where Her Majesty asked recently: why didn’t anybody see it coming? Well, here is an interesting answer from Thomas Palley who advocates Economics for Democratic & Open Societies.

Meanwhile we all endure this nearly 100% dependency on central bankers in general and the BoE in particular: everybody needs money that banks, under the supervision of the BoE, issue as interest-bearing credit. We need money to survive, as we don’t find our own food. We need money from jobs, but institutions and corporations are failing us, even pension funds.

Self-employment or entrepreneurship is advocated in theory but not in practice. (I write from bitter experiences.)

And thus we end up not only being oppressed by the Bank of England but by all the institutions that use Sterling to finance jobs.

And that’s when power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely: in addition to bankers, lawyers, solicitors, judges, insolvency practitioners abuse the law and get away with white collar crime not only to oppress but to exploit and be violent.

Once upon a time a wise Lord said that the UK has not had a revolution because the Lords always beeing thinking long term… Well, the City has succeeded in making them disappear, too.

What next?

We can only help each other to be vigilant and supportive. Hence we started to collect “evidence of oppression” by the banking system on www.3dm1297.info.

Of course they are only symbolic and indicative of the tip of an iceberg of unprecedented economic violence and institutional injustice. But at least they are there. May they encourage others to follow suit.