Steven Zarlenga, AMI: Welcome Message

Hälsa på Steven Zarlenga, direktör på American Monetary Institute, i Chicago USA. Se och lyssna på hans tankar och du inser att dagens finansiella problem är en enkel match för mänskligheten bara vi följer hans goda råd. Zarlengas bok The Lost Science of Money är en guldgruva för vem som helst som vill förstå varför kunskapen om pengarna försvunnit. Boken är dock något dyr 60 dollar + 22 flygpost.



Här har du en link till Richard C. Cooks recension av Zarlengas bok.

Ett utdrag därifrån:

Stephen Zarlenga, the director of the American Monetary Institute, has written a book entitled The Lost Science of Money, which is one of the most important books published in the world in the past 200 years. Someday it will be recognized for the classic that it is. The fact that many of the ideas seem unfamiliar only shows how lost the science of money really has become. This review will demonstrate that monetary reform along the lines Zarlenga recommends could transform the economy of the world into a system that would benefit everyone, not just the monetary plutocrats who preside over the globalistic cannibalism that runs amok today.

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Today everyone in public life or academia takes it for granted that the monetary system nominally presided over by the Federal Reserve is the only one ever conceived by the mind of man that is safe, functional, worth having, or even possible. I suppose we assume that the near-panic that grips the minds of millions of people every time the Federal Reserve contemplates an interest rate hike is the way Almighty God intended human beings to live on this good earth. But then again, maybe not. In his book, The Lost Science of Money, Stephen Zarlenga has proven once and for all how wrong these assumptions are, how rotten and ill-conceived this system really is, and how a few basic reforms could make an enormous difference in the life of the people of our nation and the world.

Sydsvenskan: Utan nytänkande kommer det att hända igen

Fin insändare i Sydsvenskan:

http://www.ekonomiskreform.se/files/Sydsvenskan_17_nov_08.pdf

http://www.ekonomiskreform.se/index.php?page=artiklar

Vädjan för global ekonomisk demokrati

Från Richard C Cooks blog: Dandelion Salad

Se även: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/crisis

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The International Monetary System Should Serve the People of the World, Not Enslave Them

We have noted with deep interest and concern that leaders of the G20 are meeting in Washington, D.C., November 15th for the “Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy.” Such a summit is surely needed, but not just to fix the catastrophically failing world financial system. No matter how much tinkering around the edges the leaders might engage in or how many bailouts are provided to financial institutions, we all recognize that nothing worthwhile will have been accomplished without a paradigm shift in the relationship between finance and the daily lives of the citizens of the globe.

The world today is suffering under the crushing burden of a debt-based monetary system operated by privately owned banks. The system’s main characteristic is to channel wealth upward from those who work for a living into the hands of those who lend money. Financial profits are then supposed to work themselves downward through investment and spending. We know it in the U.S. as “trickledown” economics, and it has failed. This system by its nature is unjust and is the root cause of today’s crisis.

We demand that this system be changed into one that reflects real economic democracy. In the words of President Abraham Lincoln in his December 3, 1861, address to Congress: “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” The monetary system should reflect these truths through the following changes:

● Monetary systems should be controlled by sovereign national governments, not the central banks which mainly serve private finance. The main economic function of the monetary system should be to assure adequate purchasing power to consume an environmentally sustainable and optimal level of production whereby the basic needs of every person in the world community are satisfactorily met.

● Income security, including a basic income guarantee and a national dividend, should be a primary responsibility of national governments in the economic sphere. A right to adequate purchasing power should be part of every national constitution.

● The primary function of international finance should be to assure fair transferability of value among national economic systems, utilizing, to the extent possible, fixed and transparent exchange rates. Speculative attacks on sovereign currencies should be outlawed.

● Private creation of credit for speculative purposes should be abolished, and capital markets should be regulated to assure fairness, openness, and freedom from predatory practices.

● Every national government should have the right to spend lowcost credit directly into existence for public purposes—including infrastructure, environmental protection, education, and health care—without incurring new debt.

● The physical backing for every currency in existence should be the actual production of national economies.

● National governments should treat credit as a public utility — like clean air, water, or electricity — and should assure its availability to all citizens as their social heritage and as a basic human right.

● National credit policies should favor the development of sustainable local and regional economies, of small business, and of family farming.

● Credit should be regulated in order to encourage maximum ownership of property by individuals without artificially inflating its price.

● The private banking system should be utilized to provide liquidity for business operations but should not be needed in a properly constituted system to finance consumption or capital formation.

● There should be an immediate worldwide moratorium on home foreclosures and recognition of the right of each person to a secure home.

● An International Debt Settlement Commission should be formed and charged with producing a clean financial slate by reviewing all existing public and private debt and determining through due process what can reasonably be repaid, restructured, or forgiven.

It is time to assure that the world financial system is no longer operated for the benefit of the few over the many and that it reflects the spiritual principle that the natural resources of the Earth belong to all of humanity and must be rationally distributed to every individual, such that no one is left behind on the path of human progress.

Ett alternativt förslag till penningreform i USA

Denhär idén är självklart nog också tillämpbar i andra länder - speciellt de Nordiska. Men hinder finns på vägen. De som skulle förlora delar av sin nuvarande makt och sitt inflytande skulle troligen försöka hindra en revolutionerande reform av denhär typen.
Denna kallas Monetary Reform Act och hittas via Money Masters hemsidor. Jag postar den första delen av den här nedan. Notera att man rekomenderar att införa 100% kassareserv ch betala bort hela statsskulden samt ger kontrollen över pengarna tillbaka till statsmakten.

Monetary Reform Act - A Summary (in four paragraphs)

This proposed law would require banks to increase their reserves on deposits from the current 10%, to 100%, over a one-year period. This would abolish fractional reserve banking (i.e., money creation by private banks) which depends upon fractional (i.e., partial) reserve lending. To provide the funds for this reserve increase, the US Treasury Department would be authorized to issue new United States Notes (and/or US Note accounts) sufficient in quantity to pay off the entire national debt (and replace all Federal Reserve Notes).

The funds required to pay off the national debt are always closely equivalent to the amount of money the banks have created by engaging in fractional lending because the Fed creates 10% of the money the government needs to finance deficit spending (and uses that newly created money to buy US bonds on the open market), then the banks create the other 90% as loans (as is explained on our FAQ page). Thus the national debt closely tracks the combined total of US Treasury debt held by the Fed (10%) and the amount of money created by private banks (90%).

Because this two-part action (increasing bank reserves to 100% and paying off the entire national debt) adds no net increase to the money supply (the two actions cancel each other in net effect on the money supply), it would cause neither inflation nor deflation, but would result in monetary stability and the end of the boom-bust pattern of US economic activity caused by our current, inherently unstable system.

Thus our entire national debt would be extinguished – thereby dramatically reducing or entirely eliminating the US budget deficit and the need for taxes to pay the $400+ billion interest per year on the national debt - and our economic system would be stabilized, while ending the terrible injustice of private banks being allowed to create over 90% of our money as loans on which they charge us interest. Wealth would cease to be concentrated in fewer and fewer hands as a result of private bank money creation. Thereafter, apart from a regular 3% annual increase (roughly matching population growth), only Congress would have the power to authorize changes in the US money supply - for public use -not private banks increasing only private bankers' wealth.

Krav på penningpolitisk reform anno 1943

Intressant brev från 1943. Plockat från wake up from your slumber.

A very prophetic letter from 1943.

www.scribd.com/doc/6489388/Demand-for-Monetary-Reform-1943-letter

Demand for Monetary Reform: 1943 letter

"...This has led to the gradual rise of a form of national, international and supra- national power, dominating through its monopolisaton of the National social credit all the basic creative activities of mankind. Thus, in this as in other countries, it has become impossible to obtain publication in the press, or to broadcast on the radio, the truth concerning this economic enslavement which holds the peoples of the world in thrall."

"...But the real danger, well understood in every preceding era of history, is the undermining of all lawfully constituted authority by the creation and destruction of money carried on in secret for private gain and the acquisition of power."

"...But the issue and destruction of money by the money-lender is not a service, but a weapon which can be and has been used to perpetuate poverty amidst abundance, which renders individuals and nations powerless to protect themselves, and which may even be perverted to serve vast designs for the complete subjugation of the human race to tyranny, exploitation and the powers of darkness and evil."

www.scribd.com/doc/6489388/Demand-for-Monetary-Reform-1943-letter

Kanske den viktigaste filmen du kommer att se i hela ditt liv.

Se och lär dej hur pengarna kommer till i banksystemets skrymslen.
Paul Grignons 47-minuter långa videofilm Money As Debt berättar det på ett enkelt sätt med mycket grafik och skisser.
Den är mycket underhållande och har ställvis roliga små inslag. Bara att sätta sej ner och titta.

Småningom inser även Du hur litet de flesta egentligen vet om pengarna och deras ursprung. Denhär har blivit publicerad tidigare här på bloggen, men som jag ser det behövs det flera gånger till. Jag slutar inte innan man börjar höra antydningar om att en samhällsdebatt är på gång. En behövlig debatt om pengar, skuld, ränta och vem som egentligen kontrollerar situationen idag. Den diskussionen leder automatiskt till frågan om hur vi egentligen borde ha det ordnat....fundera på det även Du.



Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it ... all » is being created.

En synpunkt på Ron Pauls kampanj

Hittade en intressant synpunkt på Ron Pauls valprogram.
På engelska förstås och på Justin Raimondos blogg:

"Ron Paul has some very sensible policies that would appeal to many people but he also has a few insane ones. The craziest one is his desire to go back on the gold standard.

He is right to say the FED - 12 privately owned banks belonging to the bankers - should be closed down. He is right to say that the US Dollar is a fiat currency backed by nothing just like all currencies. But this is most certainly not the answer.

Who would benefit from this? The bankers would because they have most of the known gold stocks and also control most of the production. Known gold stocks total about 2.5 trillion dollars of which the US government does not have a single ounce. The US GDP alone is nearly 11 trillion dollars. To want to back your own currency with something that you do not have any of is insane.

The money system needs to be totally reformed. It is a debt based system that just keeps creating more and more debt and the only way people already in debt can pay their debts back is if yet more debt is created.

The government should control the money supply not the bankers. And usury should be banned. If he starts to really address the money system then Paul will be worth considering."

Kommentar: Ja jag har nog själv funderat lite i samma banor måste jag erkänna. Dvs just på det där med guldmyntfot och BNP och vem som har lagt vantarna på guldreserverna i världen.
Ron Paul citerar troligen från den Österrikiska ekonomiska skolans läroböcker. (austrian school of economics) Mises teorier är bara så gamla att de troligen inte kan tillämpas mera idag på denhär punkten. Link till Mises on Money av Gary North.

Comic strip om pengar & banking 1-14

Här följer en fjortonsidor lång serieteckning som visar avigsidorna med dagens bankingsystem samt hur allt kunde göras bättre om man följde andra helt möjliga politiska priciper. Stort nölje ! Enjoy !
Serien är lånad från sajten: http://canadianactionparty.ca/comic.html