This is Not Democracy

There are no genuine democratic countries in the world today. ‘America’ has been hijacked by the cabalists and ‘democracy’ there is like a deadly virus they hope to spread everywhere. It is hard to determine when, in a long time, in human history there existed any genuine Democracy. The ‘democracy’ of today is but a sham in which people are enslaved to serving the diktats of OT. The cabalists have come close to winning their game, but they will not as many of us have started to awaken to their activities.

The cabal’s 9-11 attacks on America was a replay of creating similar conditions that allowed the Nazi’s an excuse to push for fascist control of Germany. The cabal ambitiously combined the 1933 burning of the Reichstag (German parliament) and the 1938 Kristallnacht in an attempt to assert control over the world’s sole superpower to initiate their agenda of an old world order of domination (typically these bozos call it a ‘new’ world order -- it’s the virus hiding itself in doublespeak).

Do some research on America’s so-called Patriot Act instigated conveniently by the 9- 11 ‘terror’/Terrror attacks, and what the Nazi’s initiated in those fateful years of the 1930s. The papers of the day in Germany described the attack on the Reichstag as a “most monstrous act of terrorism”. The fire was blamed on Communists whom the Nazi’s wanted to counter so as to gain a parliamentary majority and thereby start their plans for fascist domination of Germany. So the official account of the Reichstag burning played along the terrorist lines to stoke up fear among Germans and send them into the arms of the Nazis (italics mine):

“The burning of the Reichstag was intended to be the signal for a bloody uprising and civil war. Large-scale pillaging in Berlin was planned.... It has been determined that ... throughout Germany acts of terrorism were to begin against prominent individuals, against private property, against the lives and safety of the peaceful population, and general civil war was to be unleashed....” (this and the German newspaper quote above are from the Wikipedia)

Hitler, who was just made chancellor weeks before the fire, managed to coerce through the Reichstag Fire Decree which effectively curbed most civil liberties of the Weimar constitution, and the preamble of the act stated that (bold and italics mine):

“On the basis of Article 48 paragraph 2 of the Constitution of the German Reich, the following is ordered in defense against Communist state-endangering acts of violence:

Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom [habeas corpus], freedom of opinion, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications. Warrants for House searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.” (taken from Wikipedia)

Does this have a familiar ring in post- 9-11 ‘America’?

But this was the tip of the iceberg: what Hitler and his hooligans were aiming for was to get their Enabling Act through which would allow him and his chief thugs to make dictatorial laws without the approval of the Reichstag, thereby establishing a fascist state.

With the Enabling Act passed, Hitler would be given the control that developed into his dictatorial powers as he could do what he wanted through decrees that bypassed the Reichstag nor his having to discuss anything with other political players.

The 9-11 attacks were not a terror attack but a Terror attack by OT. It was hoped that this act of high treason would start the effective move of America away from civil liberties and the total undermining of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights (whatever is already left of it). This would place the cabalists in control of the world’s sole superpower and to do as they pleased anywhere. The FEMA CCs which thrive on the term ‘emergency’ -- which was what the Nazis also used to justify their tyrannical takeover of Germany -- is the logical extension of the cabal’s attempt to control things thereby giving them the leeway to target those they would prefer to get rid off/contain (including masses of people who could protest the eradication of their civil liberties).

Then there was the Kristallnacht of 1938. With the murder of a German diplomat in Paris that year by a Jewish youth (as reprisal to the over night expulsion by Hitler of thousands of Polish born Jews from Germany), the Nazis instigated a nation wide anti-Jewish pogrom. Jewish homes and businesses were ransacked and destroyed in the thousands which not only resulted in deaths but the start of mass deportation of Jews and other ‘undesirables’ to CCs. The ‘Night of Broken Glass’ was the staged vendetta of the Nazis against their opponents. It was also the first steps towards all the horrors associated with the Nazis and terrors of the CCs.

The transfer of people to CCs and the systematic mass destruction of human beings was all part of an organized wave of terror that merged with “forcible coordination’ as part of the overall concept of Terror.

This ideology of Terror is precisely what the cabalists of today also want to enhance throughout the world. Create the materiel you need for the material world and force a planned obsolescence of culling people so that the ‘wealth’ of plunder that comes from war and from the formulation of so-called lebensraum (Nazi thought is very much alive today) ensuring economic/political incursions into the sovereignty of other states for one group which results in the death/slavery of another. Zero-sum all the way.

So the current cabalists in a fit of ambition and, what to them must appear as use of the imagination, decided to combine the Reichstag burning and Kristallnacht through pulling off the 9-11 Terror attack. They launched perhaps the mother of all false flag operations in recent times to blame the destruction of the twin towers in New York on terror groups (who would form the kernel of the ‘enemy’s’ identity, that is anyone who is Muslim); this was the Reichstage fire aspect of things except that the cabal’s work that September day was far more violent.

The cabal ambitiously used 9-11 as a Kristallnacht too and (since Americans were also killed in the attacks) as a platform for reprisal against not just certain targets in the Muslim world (the nutcake Saddam being a prime example), but to initiate instability world wide through the move into Afghanistan and raising the general ire of Christians and Muslims around the world who saw this more as an extension of the old drawn out drama from the Crusades of yesteryear.

All this was dissonant music to cabal’s ear as spreading instability and creating a scenario of divide and conquer kept all of us even closer to the ground with faces shoved into the troughs of not only daily survival, but now fear, anxiety, loathing and anger against one another. Yet the cabalists wanted to go the whole hog this time, so they ‘imaginatively’ tried to go for the CC idea of their revived Nazi ideology by raising ethnic/religious issues within America.

Not long after 9-11 the Bush appointed Peter Kirsanow head of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights nicely stated that “if there’s another terrorist attack and if it’s from a certain ethnic community or certain ethnicities that the terrorists are from, you can forget about civil rights in this country.”

Kirsanow eloquently added that if there was yet another attack, there could possibly be internment camps (CCs) such as those built to hold Japanese Americans in World War II. But the man was on a roll, so he had to continue with, “Not too many people will be crying in their beer if there are more detentions, more stops, more profiling…There will be a groundswell of public opinion to banish civil rights.” Hell, yeah. (Quote taken from: here)

I ask you, not so bloody minded gentle reader, would a democracy (forget Democracy) have created CCs for its Japanese American citizens many of whom were just decent patriotic folk anyway?

Then just in case you thought this was all just a…coincidence with 1930s Germany, please bear in mind that there were deportations of Muslims, seizures and interrogations of American Muslims by the FBI, as well as thousands of American Muslims being told that their jobs in the US, particularly within the civil service couldn’t be guaranteed now that we know conclusively (it would appear) that it was a bunch of Muslims who did 9-11.

All this frenzied activity sounds a trifle, uhm,…terroristic upon ordinary people, won’t you say?

To think that some outstanding universities and institutes of learning exist in America – but wait, Germany had even more to offer like Beethoven, Goethe, Kant, Marx (ah, the fella was Jewish) – yet, all decent and rational thought was suspended in subservience to “forcible coordination”.

But let us not underestimate the cabalists; if you’re visionary you go all the way, so the cads came up with plans for a subsidiary of Halliburton KBR to be given a US$385 million contract by the (Right Honourable) Department of Homeland Security to build detention centres in America. These centres might be used for illegal immigrants, to house victims of disasters like Hurricane Katrina, or perhaps those who start protesting against the cabal if ever their plans were seen through (part of this could stem from riots breaking out due to the collapse of the cabalist capitalist economy).

So the whole idea of the CCs apart from taking care of ‘undesirables’ was to also boost the gDp by increasing expenditure on camps which would go to companies run by the cabal (yup, them Halliburton guys are it). This attitude of cannibalization and going into any part of the world using force or threats and getting whatever materiel needed to expand gDp, and to exercise control and spread ‘American democracy’ or “forcible coordination” is truly the bedrock of much ‘American’ foreign and trade policy today.

This is the zero-sum winner take all and death-and-damnation-to-all-else attitude that is also the skull and bones foundation on which all feudal and capitalist systems are based. The whole idea of such an approach is to ensure that humans see their existence as nothing more that an animated pile of dust that returns to the ashes that issues forth from crematoriums.

Our entire economic edifice is built on such a system at the moment that fits in with the cabal’s way of thinking. Just go through all the quotes from Sofsky mentioned here and you will see that the Terror promoted in the camps, and the sense of constant surveillance and control, fear and anxiety that such a system promotes is the extension of what the Nazis did in the 1930s to establish their OT.

Right till today, through political, economic and social control with the triumph of the will of materialism the cabal hoped to destroy anything of a spiritual nature in humans by creating their ultimate goal: the world as a concentration camp writ large. But they are not going to be able to do it as we have started to finally wise up.

It is almost a scenario out of H.P. Lovecraft where the cabal are like beings from another planet unleashing everything that we know is inhuman and inhumane, as they turn our world upside down. And it is no surprise that the Nazi idea of a ‘master race’, and many other practices and symbols used by them, have occult roots. Do some research to see how they used dark forces that seem to be the underlying template of Nazi ideology.

And in case there are still those who are recalcitrant in their beliefs that ‘America’ is a democracy and that there is Democracy on planet earth, please remind yourself about what took place at the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo camps, and ponder if that is reflective of democracy. Whatever the excuses or rationalizations, the horrors of CCs worldwide throughout history may project many things, but they are not representations of Democracy. If you say that such instances cannot be helped because of the way things are, the response is: precisely, there is no democracy or Democracy today, and we have not in living memory have had any actual experience of it.

Delusional Democracy

What we call ‘democracy’ today is nothing close to any idea, much less an ideal, of Democracy that a decent person would like to see in the world. How can there be Democracy in a world that is at war with itself, under the constant threat of ‘terror’, real and imagined, and the sway of Terror (real, not imagined). We are stuck in a world where people are burdened by debt and meaningless work cycles of ‘productivity’ that seem to get us nowhere (for the vast majority) within an economic system of greed, exploitation and total non-sustainability. How can a world scenario like this ever give rise to Democracy?

What of the current system in so-called western ‘democracies’? By and large that system is represented by the image above this section. We have less developed countries (yes, they are responsible for their own problems too) which have been consistently exploited and kept in debt by inequality and coercion as represented by most world bodies of which the WTO and World Bank are prime examples. The commodities from poorer states are made through cheap and mercilessly exploited labour to support a silly and self indulgent lifestyle of people too busy to consider the morality of their actions, usually spending their leisure welded to their TVs and engaged in other mind and soul numbing activities like shopping for what you don’t need (but told is necessary by advertising and marketing), and voting in people who are beholden to big business and banking cartels.

Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell speech at the White House had the iconic reference to the military-industrial complex that is behind ‘America’. But some research will show that Eisenhower had wanted to mention Congress too, which would have been the devastatingly accurate statement that ‘democratic America’ was beholden to a military-industrial-congressional complex, and so it is (the US Federal Reserve was the missing link in the chain).

Kennedy famously talked about the secret government and the reprehensible idea of government by secrecy. He had plans to stop the US involvement in the burgeoning conflict in Vietnam as well as introduce a hard currency backed by precious metals (contra the useless fiat money of the US Fed) which were to be called US Treasury notes. These hard currency notes were conveniently recalled from circulation soon after JFK’s murder. It is no surprise, in retrospect, that he was eliminated before he could do further harm to the ‘democratic’ interests controlling ‘America’.

It is also no secret that Kennedy said after the CIA's Bay of Pigs fiasco that he would "smash the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds". There was no love lost between him and the cabal.

The entire structure of the state in so many ‘democracies’ is designed to protect those who run the corporate, financial, and war mongering apparatuses to keep the so-called voters mind-numbed through fear/anxiety saturation using unending world wide conflicts, the daily grind of work and constant debt/mortgage through an economic flow that promotes crazed credit expansion through borrowing beyond what you can pay. This entire rotten and crumbling ‘golden calf’ is supported gleefully by the media so that it can also sustain itself and the fluff work of not reporting the actual state of affairs of the world.

Sure, this is part of the actual state of affairs of the world: ‘a bomb has gone off in…”, “China has recalled its envoy from…”, “the newest strain of the H1N1 virus has led to the WHO asking…”. The second half of the news may include: “Tiger Woods says he’s sorry…again…”, “Stephen Hawking has decided that God doesn’t exist…”, “Is the hair of XYZ celebrity for real…?”

What you don’t hear, because it would throw the present disgraceful and immoral morass of a world economic system into its widely deserved grave, is “Steps to reconfigure the entire world banking systems are being unveiled, experts finally get off their a**e* to discuss how…”, “More and more Americans and people all over the world are demanding a reinvestigation as to whether the September 11^th attacks were a false flag operation – coming up after the break…other examples of possible false flag operations by major governments of the world…”, and how a couple strive to survive in these times through forming a cooperative with their close friends.

There can be more human interest stories that show how people overcome adversity or how the human spirit shines through normal daily activities, but the main items always play into the cabal’s hands to keep the world hostage to a self created drama of violence and mayhem. Of course, disasters must be covered and people given advisories etc about trouble spots, but the entire mainstream media is mostly aping and competing with one another to see who can be the most bloody minded in its reporting: and this poppycock reporting is given the misnomer journalism (this offers serious competition as to who are the real bozos).

More people, including those who are asserting their discernment again in the US, have come to realize that most of the characters they vote into political office are serving interests other than that of the people. So many politicians in the sole superpower on earth tend to openly support the cabalists monstrous structure of deceit, greed, exploitation and violence.

How much longer is it going to be before people across the globe take back their power and the planet? We are indeed like the prisoners in Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’ from his great work, The Republic. In his famous analogy, Plato explains how people are chained into a certain direction facing the wall of a cave and made to believe the shadows cast on it from objects and light behind them are real. From time to time, someone from the outside of the cave comes in and breaks a prisoner free, and drags him out kicking and screaming (he’s unwilling as he prefers his comfort zone of indoctrinated ‘truth’) to see the world outside.

There is pain of adjustment to the eyes as the newly freed prisoner turns his focus to the world outside of the cave and sees an incredible vista filled with the light of the sun and the objects as they are rather than their shadows. He rushes back to tell his fellow prisoners about this, and they of course think he is bonkers, and start to regard his claims as a threat to their comfort zone engendered by the slavery to the puppet masters casting shadows on the wall. Sometimes the prisoners are so incensed by the ‘nonsense’ of the guy who came back to help free them that they would rather kill him than face the truth about the false world they live in.

It is not that difficult to think of some spiritual and other leaders who have been murdered because they tried to do the same. The cabalists are the shadow masters who operate away from light and transparency; they thrive with cloaks and daggers. So many of us are still prisoners in the cave. But we can still make the journey out together with courage and effort and with the help of those who have slipped out of the cave – thinking through their ideas like those of Plato and Kant; heeding the examples like that of Gandhi, Mandela and Mother Theresa of Calcutta; and observing the leadership of some like the Brothers Kennedy.

We have to leave the shadow play behind on the wall of illusion and take on the difficult task and challenge of breaking free from what is considered ‘normalcy’. Our very survival and that of the planet rests on our forcing ourselves away from the delusional images we are coerced to watch on the wall of the cave (think mainstream media) glorifying fears, anxiety, violence and excessive self indulgence.

We have been force fed a homogenized genetically modified murderous diet to convince us that the world we live in is one of despair and that we are mainly material and negative beings who need control and who only can end up as a handful of dust. But this is where the cabal has seriously miscalculated. Because when the human species starts to wake up, it cannot be stopped, and we can all -- if we work collectively on this -- make it up the slope from the innards of the cave: back into the light from which all life originates.

What Needs to be Done

We have to throw away preconceptions and what we’ve been indoctrinated with from birth through most of our adulthood – that we are not spiritual beings and that material needs can never be met if we prioritize our lives by giving equal weight to our material and spiritual needs. Let each person decide for themselves who reads this what being a spiritual being means for them, and see if by extension some of the points raised below includes what is needed to provide for our material well being and spiritual growth thereby creating a balanced and sustainable world in which war, poverty and the slave-type labour of our working world imbued with “forcible coordination” can be finally eradicated.

We would be looking to achieve:

1. Move away from the largely capitalist driven mind set that growth = gDp which means mainly a monetary measurement for what is economic growth. With the premise that we are spiritual beings first who happen to have physical bodies that need support, we then need a measurement of growth that reflects this as part of our well being. We take the quality of life into serious consideration, not just the quantitative aspect of things. Some of these ideas have been explored in earlier posts at this site

2. That all living things should be respected including the Earth which is clearly a living entity. The Earth is alive because no life can be supported, nor would evolution occur, if the planet is but a large pile of dust. Life comes from life, not death-like inert matter despite the bizarre ideas of those who claim to be scientists (who are in fact promoters of occult beliefs that there are mysterious forces floating out there like ‘gravity’ that just happen to conveniently arrange themselves into ‘natural laws’). If the Earth is a living entity, then we must have a measurement of growth that respects this and includes this notion of protecting and enhancing its eco-systems thereby ensuring the survival of our own economic and social eco-systems, through ethical, responsible and sustainable living and production

3. This means channeling resources away from war and destruction (contra the aim of the cabalists) into positive ideas and green technology to forge a new way of energy creation, productive activities, and commodity exchange throughout the planet among different communities/societies/states. Some resources will be kept for security needs but if war can be lessened and the cabalists taken to task, peace can takeover the planet

4. End the idea of separation through language, religion and race and see the Oneness of all life. Whatever we do bear in mind the golden rule of doing unto others what we want others to do unto us: this implies a system of shared responsibility, tolerance, understanding, mutual support, help and respect – in a word, reciprocity

5. Reciprocity would entail a just and fair economic and political system which will lead us closer to the citizen empowerment that can help form the base and driving force that will help us not only recreate what Democracy means, but help us to try and finally realize a democratic system of citizen involvement, responsibility and consultation in local and national governance

6. Not to be sidetracked by the confusion that rights mean rabid individualism at all cost. All rights imply the duties of respecting the rights of everyone, that is, rights operate within the context of our duties to one another. For unless we have a duty towards others, or reciprocity, how on earth do we have a right to anything since nobody has a duty to respect the rights we claim for ourselves

7. Recognize the fact that we are co-creators of our world and reality. That every invention and commodity we bring out should reflect this for the betterment and highest good of all

8. A system of smaller and manageable businesses and economic enterprises that reflect a community base form (which can cross borders and will not be multi-nationals but multi-communals). No shareholders except those who are of the businesses and these entities, as far as possible, should be owned by all who are of the enterprise and have a transparent system of profit sharing that ensures growth (in a manageable way) and sustainability of the enterprise and all who work for it. Profit will be a term that will belong to the past where a win-lose scenario is envisaged. We are going here for a win-win situation at all times as far as is possible and one of sustainability

9. The complete reinvention and rejuvenation of the world financial and banking scene with community banks taking a leading role. This would work in tandem with the return to hard currency backed by gold and precious metals for all countries thereby giving real value for money

10. That money is seen as a resource that can be re-cycled back as donations and trusts after the death of mega wealthy individuals (e.g., Warren Buffet, Bill Gates who have decided so) to help the underprivileged and raise environmental consciousness

11. Have healthy competition that involves cooperation and collaboration among all towards support for all life as far as possible as the underlying principle of growth, not the destructive kind of competition that hinges on mindless profitability and unbridled exploitation, or zero-sum situations

12. The realization that the world is abundant in what it has to offer us if we channel our learning, science, technology and natural intelligence, not to mention common sense, to come up with ways to produce what we need to support us best we can while giving back to the Earth and maintaining the natural balance of its diverse and miraculous ecosystems

13. That we see ourselves mainly as caretakers of the Earth and caregivers to one another so that our education system starts with these premises and builds societal, regional, international and global responsibility towards one another. So we start with the initial conditions of education with the children outside of ‘the cave’ and get them used to the light soonest – they don’t need to be taught the shadow play we were stuck with but the way of light which is working with one another so that we all gain and benefit

14. A new and responsible media that highlights what is positive, what works for the well being of all and what brings us forward boldly into the new paradigm of getting things right. The so-called bad news will still be there, but balance it for what it is…the aberration in a world that is growing up and maturing into civility. This takes the sting away from those who remain from the cabal who may want to re-assert the old destructive ways

15. That the practice of calming and breathing exercises, meditation and connection to nature be a common aspect of life in schools and the work places. This would be the start of increasing trust, goodwill and even high work output among people. With fair and decent remuneration all round (as opposed to furthering excess and indecently high salaries), the daily work world can be transformed into one that a person can look forward and contribute to willingly and purposively

16. A work/economic paradigm that is successful as it is even joyful because what is being provided and created is for the benefit and highest good of all involved and the world at large

17. Understand and respect the sanctity of all life

Naturally, the nay-sayers will claim that this is not possible in many instances because of the ‘way things are’ (a motto of the cabal) and ‘human nature’ (the cynical view of which the cabal hopes will continue). If that is the case, then these people who claim this are supporters of a dismal determinism where there is clearly no free will; in which case they are already and always will be slaves even if they pretend they are not.

If there is free will, then we can choose. But the fact that we can indeed choose and have ideas of what is good and what isn’t, and that many of us see spiritual dimensions to things, is sign enough of a greater power at work than the limited and childish human ego. We need to start to learn to let go of our limitations and blinkers of controls that have been placed upon us, to create the new paradigm and history of the Earth.

The question then arises so what else can we do now to hasten the positive changes and get rid of the ungodly yoke of the cabal? Perhaps three basic things may be useful here: first, see the economic collapse that is upon us as a good sign and actively find ways to enhance new economic models that are green and people friendly, as mentioned above.

Next, do all we can (this applies to those of us who are not US citizens but affected by the cabal’s ‘American’ policies) to encourage Barack Obama to get going with the arrest of the cabalists behind 9-11 (email the guy, he needs to know that people everywhere are behind him: link). This is the thin end of the wedge that will bring about either simultaneously, or consecutively, the eradication of the US Federal Reserve which is the stronghold of the cabal and its worthless fiat money, as well as the bringing to justice of the key cabalists for Terror against humanity. This will get the ball rolling and the cabal’s operations will start to shut down and operatives throughout the world will be rounded up by various other governments and forces within them (not all are under control by the cabalists) who are waiting for the signal from ole Barry.

If it still isn’t clear, let me for the hell of it just say: we are all in this together, big time.

Finally, we all need to just commit acts of gratuitous kindness, decency, compassion and just plain civility in all situations at all times as is humanly possible. This above all is the start of the People of the world uniting and coming together as a gathering of light that will dispel the cabal’s Terror forever. There can be, if we create it, governments of the People, by the People, and for the People and the Planet that can never perish.

Also, the obvious should still be stated that this post is not the answer to all our problems; we are also creating solutions as we go along and react to events; rather, it is an energetic transfer to the ether and collective consciousness in support of other co-creators who want to see a new and blessed world for us and the next generation to live in.

To those who see how real and how much within our grasp most of the ideas here are that will allow us to create our own destiny, to those who have the courage to turn away from despair and see that there is Divine grace in all life and within ourselves to get rid of the cabal’s influence and create cities of light in a world of light, and for those who have decided that being human is a compliment to what is good in the universe, I can only say with the utmost gratitude:

Thank you for taking back your power.

And peace be with you.

 

[Many thanks for the creative work to all the artists whose pictures, graphics and videos are presented here and on this site]

End of Poverty interview

Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’

The Overdue Sunrise

Bailouts are not the answer. It is time to go beyond economics as usual and look into the metaphysical ideas which can take us out of the current economic quagmire. And we can get out of this mess.

For now, there seems to be no end to it. There seems no end to attempted bailouts for industries and attempts to fix a tail spinning US and world economy through lowering interest rates, and pumping in more money. The solution for banks, big businesses and governments (3BG) seems to be that when there is a problem, throw money at it and maybe it will go away. The ideas in this piece will look at how we got into this mess and a possible scenario of getting out of the quagmire.

The first part looks at our three dimensional economy (3D), which reflects the world as we live it. This analysis will be done under the auspices of Karl Marx’s ideas. This is not an apologia but a use of Marx’s ideas as a platform to bring forth my own.

The second part will look at what is termed a fifth dimensional (5D) economy. The 3D economy is an ego based one which we have been weaned onto since birth and have been led by the nose to believe is the only way to live. The 5D economy is a heart based one, in which we go beyond the claptrap that has held back the species and the planet all these years. In the latter, basic spiritual and metaphysical ideas will be looked at to help give a different perspective to where we can be heading, if we so choose, in our economy and our lives.

Please read this piece in order of Part 1 first and then Part 2, as the 5D ideas will sound like they are the product of hallucinogens that Coleridge may have used when writing Kubla Khan -- which they are decidedly not -- unless the reasons for the collapse of the 3D model have been examined.

The point of this piece is that we are not due for an apocalypse if we choose to create the reality that reflects the better angels of our nature.

The Economics of the Third Dimension

Marx has been misunderstood. Seriously. And I am convinced that he, above all other political thinkers, had seen right through the veil of ignorance of what a capitalist system based on its foundation of scarcity finally leads us to. Neither the hardcore capitalists nor diehard communists (those who are still alive) have any notion of what the Big M was up to. Marx was a philosopher who turned a devastatingly critical and accurate eye on what was happening around him.

Watch these wonderful films by the great Charlie Chaplin, and have an idea from film what Marx was on about: Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux, A King in New York. In the first one you see man becoming a cog in the whole system of the assembly line of industrialization. In the second you see how industry and the vast maximization of capitalism works hand-in-hand with fascism. In the other two, see how trying to stay alive in the capitalist system means you have to live off the life of others (literally at times), and how the system is a natural bedfellow for all forms of dishonesty and hypocrisy. (The films are also very funny and entertaining.)

But does the world have to be this way? Chaplin gives some of his responses in his films, whereas Marx hits you with a velvet gavel via his great work. Most of the ideas in this piece are based on a reading of Marx’s major works: his biography written, and selected works edited, by David McLellan; Marx’s Grundrisse ("Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy"); his ineluctable Vol. 1 of Capital (and parts of Vol. 2 and 3); An Outline of the History of Economic Thought by Screpanti and Zamagni, and all major works of George Orwell.

Basically, what Marx was on about was this: that the neo-classical economists who come up with dandy ideas of supply and demand, and all those wonderful little curves and bizarre calculations have perpetrated one of the greatest frauds of all time (that was a euphemistic paraphrase of Marx). That notions of land, labour and capital as economic entities and products that, if juggled right, would lead us to utopia are what has gotten us, in many ways, into the rut we are in. Rather than focus on the unrealistic assumptions and nature of neo-classical economics, let’s look at the real thing.

Marx essentially claims that anything to do with the world of a human being has to do with human nature and human interaction with one another and the environment. The economy is a purely human affair because it has man in the centre, at the beginning and at the end. The whole purpose of an economy is to serve as a means for humans to deal with one another in a balanced and meaningful manner so as to lead fulfilling lives. So any aspect of an economy must be examined by its human relational aspect. This seems like common sense.

So the economy is all about how we relate to one another. The system of economic production used and the products that come from it are the result of human interaction; and how we relate to one another impacts how we lead our lives; that in turn coupled with the way we perceive the world etc determines our existence and the way the world operates. So it starts with man and ends with man.

However, the capitalist system is a different animal altogether. This is a system which with the connivance of 3BG has created a mechanistic behemoth of using land, people (labour) and capital as that which is turned into the cog of an industry (which includes the service industry) which then churns out a product that is thrown out for people to consume. This is then regurgitated back via income earned into more spending so that the whole glorious cycle can be repeated.

Some call this life, Marx calls it Capitalism, the rest of us call it the disaster unraveling all around us.

But Marx’s point was that when people as workers/labour are treated as a means to an end, as is what capitalism prides itself in doing, then there are consequences in terms of our relations to one another. Because what happens is that women and men who are supposedly born free to fulfill their destiny are now here to fulfill the destiny of capitalist production.

When the economic perspective is framed by capitalism then this is what occurs: all aspects of production, including human beings, are mere instruments for production for that which is meant for consumption. But this is a process that allows for labour (people) to be treated as instruments and dehumanized by the bosses/superiors/capitalists as functional tools in an industry (media, food, cars, education, health, military, etc).

Taking a different tack: I have taught at tertiary/college level institutions where teachers/instructors are told that they are hired to produce a product for the consumer/client/customer, that is, the student. If this is the attitude of education in many places today, do we still wonder why the world is where it is at? Many of the students I have taught say they wanted to go into ‘business’ (the ‘business’ of ‘business’ being ‘business’), or the ‘medical business’, or the health and education ‘business’ or the media ‘business’. When asked why they chose these fields, most honestly said: to make a lot of money -- the kind that today you can use as a substitute currency in your Monopoly game.

And as Marx rightly points out, what happens is that as in the education ‘industry’ or ‘business’ the relations between students and teachers change due to their mode of production. So I was told by my superiors back then to deliver a product (lessons) to my customers (students), and fill in forms to satisfy bureaucratic structures and feedback mechanisms as to how the product delivery went. The only thing missing here was the Ford motor assembly line.

In other words put on the work apron, and to hell with the students, their welfare and whether they learn anything, much less if they become ‘educated’ (what on earth does that mean today?); just churn out the stuff, make sure it meets the industrial ISO standards, do and say the right things to get my capitalist-inspired bonus for churning out as many courses, lesson plans, extra school/curricula activities, and (if I can be popular with the students at the same time) perhaps get some good feedback from my customers.

This has led to teachers becoming indifferent to their students, and simply seeing them as a means to an end, that is, their salary or rather their wage. There is hardly any concern for what happens to the student than a guy doing the rivets for a car in an auto manufacturing plant (those that are still open) cares for who owns and drives the eventual vehicle made, or how it is used.

But it cuts both ways for I have heard many students in the past complain to me about their other teachers and say that they do their readings or assignments because they choose to do so and depending on whether they like a teacher (!). And that the teacher should adapt to them, and not them to whatever ideas (which may be demanding) the teacher is trying to bring across because they pay the teachers’ wage/salary via their tuition fees.

Look at your own workplace and environment and see how working conditions and attitudes from this capitalist system makes people unreasonably competitive, confrontational, unforgiving and egomaniacal. This is the price we pay for an ego based system of reality that Marx warned us about.

For the capitalist system, it is not about people, our societies or the world, it is about our egos. And what would 3BG do without it. The cornerstone of the capitalist system is the feeding of egos, creation of scarcity, fear mongering, and enslaving of labour (people) in order to create more and more capital. For further insight into this please see The Economy of Scarcity.

Capital begets capital and all human relations are force fed into this structure of production which creates havoc among people relating to themselves and others. This in turn creates class, in which people seek to belong to a controlling situation or position which allows them to exercise power over others. This has little to do with putting a good person in charge to does things competently, fairly and reasonably. For Marx, the need for capital accumulation and results can change a decent person into a megalomaniac.

But this does not mean that no good ever came out of capitalism. It has provided great material wealth, and in modern societies many have acquired this material wealth. But capitalism’s unending, unthinking, knee-jerk reaction of continuing to voraciously expand itself via greed and the need to sustain itself has reduced humans to being desensitized to acts of violence between themselves.

The Capitalist Grind Mill

How exactly is the worker/woman/man/child dehumanized by the process of capitalism. Marx shows that labour loses out twofold via unjustified surplus value extraction and theft of the product of labour. A person is paid a wage that is sufficient for him to live and reproduce himself (as in supporting a family).

This is a minimal or necessary wage. The wage system is a reminder to a person that he has sold his labour power to someone who gives him money in return. This is like being paid to lick stamps in that your bodily fluid (for Marx labour power) of saliva has been sold for a service provided. This is a process of alienation for the individual from his human essence when he parts with something that he was born with and is to all intents and purposes sacred, but has been de-sanctified because it can be purchased and traded for money.

And people have been led to believe that this is the only way to live. The capitalist system as Marx keenly points out is really a snazzy version of feudalism, which for us means some credit cards and mobile phones thrown in.

The feudal lord owns the land and he determines who does what for whom and how, for what it is worth. The serfs, peasants, tenants or what you will, serve at his pleasure. He in turn is supposed to ensure their welfare in that they have enough to get themselves and their family through the day and reproduce themselves; this is important because the class of serfs must be maintained and kept in their place to continue serving the ruling class of landlords.

Bring all this forward to the industrial and information revolution and see how the feudal system of production has been reproduced in the form of capitalism which we have been indoctrinated to believe from birth is how the world is. Marx’s point, and that of any clear thinking individual, is that it is not the way it is or has to be, but how we have been brainwashed into accepting to keep the status quo.

Remember, when you a born, you come into a flow of time and activity which has preceded you in this master-slave relationship and your parents, family, society, and government all take it as a natural progression of things mostly out of ignorance. But the manipulators of the world know that the only way to keep the master-slave class structure is to control the financial and banking industry and buy over support through coloured paper that is printed willy-nilly as fiat currency.

That is why we need a comic genius like Chaplin to show how funny and ridiculous we are in accepting the agenda of manipulators and dictators.

Democracy today by any name is largely a capitalist master-slave relationship. We have been conned into accepting it by the illusion of material wealth that provides us and the world anything but peace, security and happiness. Because as Marx points out, the capitalist mode of production of alienation of our labour and labour power through a system of wages, takes away most people’s creative drive and sacred core by making them serve capital accumulation so as to accelerate it even further. Can this really be living?

Now we can take a closer look at the two fold deception that capitalism has used on us as Marx would put it. A person is made to work long hours and over time, as far as possible, to squeeze the maximum out of his time and effort thereby allowing for maximum product creation that can then be sold for as much profit as possible. This has got nothing to do with leading a balanced and fulfilling life.

First, there is the profit made from the surplus value of labour as explained by Marx. After all the costs of production are deducted including the wage paid, the capitalist makes a profit based on value gained from labour power, that is, the surplus value of labour. This means the exploitation of what labour can produce via a minimal wage paid to abstract its profit creating output. This is the only way for the capitalist to make a profit through the exploitation of variable capital, that is, labour. Labour is variable because it is born, can grow sick, old and die and needs constant reproducing to keep the machinery of production humming.

Most people are also eminently suited for manipulation (variable) and can be made to do more for less. It is hard to make a profit if labour is paid fairly for what it is worth for it needs exploitation to ensure value from which profit can be drawn.

Another classic example of surplus value extraction is the use of domestic maids. Take a situation of a maid coming from a third world country who will be paid in a currency of a richer country for her services. She comes to a household and, depending on how she is treated, in effect comes under a master-slave relationship with her employers. The maid is caught in a 24 hour cycle of being at the beck and call of her employers.

She not only cleans the home, she markets for them, washes the car daily, waters the plants, does baby sitting, cooks, washes up, endures the baiting of badly brought up kids, looks after the family invalid, and is taken to the employer’s business or relative’s home to do even more work.

Hey, maximization of the buck.

Now if different people were hired to do all this work, imagine the cost: in other words the fair wages that would have to be paid. But for a fistful of dollars, and a few dollars more thrown in as an annual Christmas bonus, the master-slave relationship ensures that the surplus value of the maid is exploited to the hilt thereby making it a profitable enterprise for her bosses.

Rank capitalism in a nutshell.

Sure, more people today are enlightened in their treatment of maids, but only after human rights groups caused government intervention in many instances of abuse. [This does not in anyway exonerate maids/employees who themselves have been guilty of nefarious conduct while at work]

Also look at the busy executives of today. Many have the favour returned for the way they treat their subordinates. The person is on call a lot of the time via email or mobile phones. There is an almost 24 hour work cycle to produce things. All technology produced is but a tool to impinge on labour in producing products for capital, since the nature of capital is to keep growing insatiably until its own collapse -- as is happening now.

Virtually everyone is exploited in one way or another as it is the nature of the capitalist beast to do so. So time and effort of labour is stolen to maximize production, hence, surplus value. The so-called ‘market pay’ (not that of top CEOs) for most people are usually less than what they are worth, and if they get what they think they deserve, they are worked to the bone to get every drop of surplus value out of them to maximize their firm’s production and profit margin.

Second, the product made by labour is in effect stolen from it. Here Marx uses his concepts of use and exchange values to explain how this sleight-of-hand is pulled off. Anything manufactured under capitalism is considered a product if it has a use value. So widget X is a product because it can do Y number of things deemed useful.

Exchange value is what is given in return for something, namely, wages paid to labour are an exchange for its labour power in production. So when the capitalist pays the minimum amount it can get away with (a.k.a ‘market rates’) to labour to produce, it has bought labour power to produce something. This is the transfer of cause and effect -- you buy something in return for something.

But, Marx points out, earnings that come from the sale of the produce of labour is a separate thing altogether. The sale of widget X for profit is not only sloughing off from surplus value, but getting paid for something for its use value. So the product of/from labour has exchange and use value, but while the capitalist provides some compensation in terms of wages for labour’s time and effort via wages (exchange value), he steals the product of labour for widget X (use value) by selling it for his own gain and profit.

It is testament to the great propaganda and brainwashing that we have undergone that most people -- never mind the economists who justify and perpetrate this scam -- will say ‘Wait a minute, but that’s how it works. The boss pays you, you work the machines, computers, phones and paper to get widget X out and he sells it, and gets his keep from it.”

No, not at all, says Marx. And he is spot on. Widget X could not be created if not for labour. You can get all the machines, and capital together, throw in a few MBA types and then say “Wallah!” But guess what, no widget X! To get the latter you need people/human beings/homo sapiens to put in their power to create widget X by working the capital and resources. And in most cases, people have surrendered without blinking an eyelid their product to the capitalist, which is the direct result of their time and effort and slaving away. This is a consistently ego based good thing for the capitalist.

What this means is that while the capitalist is entitled to some form of remuneration for his so-called work in getting everything together to ‘make it happen’ so to speak, he no more owns the produce of labour which he sells (widget X), than does the line manager who supervises production. Only the people who put their shoulders to the wheel can rightly say that widget X is the product of the sweat of their brow, everyone else just played a supporting role.

It needs to be said again and again: Widget X cannot exist without labour power, and if the capitalist claims neither could it without his role thrown in, then he is welcome to put his shoulder to the wheel and see what widget comes out of it. The workers/people can always till the land and grow things to eat and sell and survive as was done since time immemorial, or form a cooperative venture of their own to create a just and equitable system of work, and profit sharing based on their own use of their surplus value for themselves without exploitation.

But the list goes on. Marx further explains that labour in this system becomes alienated (as discussed above) by the capitalist system of production which is simply designed for a utilitarian result oriented approach irrespective of the harm it does to the individual, families, societies, the environment or the world. It is about making and accumulating things never mind how and what the consequences are.

Marx makes the powerful but subtle point that people are born, live their lives and die based on the capitalist and industrial demands of how they should fit into the world, follow a wage system that inordinately rewards greed, and the excessive and wasteful bonuses of ‘managers’ who have not done an honest day’s work in their life in the sense someone says of his parent: ‘my mom or dad wasn’t very rich, but she/he was an honest hardworking nurse or postal worker’; as opposed to ‘my dad works the politicians, nightlife, golf course, stock markets and earns tons for making sure that everyone else who supports that fat cat life of his continues to live on a minimal amount’ (hey, someone’s got to make those profits to give back to shareholders, man!).

People are alienated in their work and their lives. They clock in, clock out, and pay their bills and wonder what it’s all about: welcome to capitalism.

Man’s alienation from his work, from his colleagues and the class structure set up in making him jump to everything the boss says is a sign of a human being who has abrogated his or her right to be just that, a human being. The capitalist system of production produces relations that denigrate a person’s dignity to living in subservience, and fear with an entire legal system and state structure supporting it, thus spake Marx.

Not only because the system may not know better, but it’s a means of controlling people. The capitalist system of scarcity mongering, unhealthy competition, confrontation and instilling the fear of losing work and being unable to survive unless you are cog in the machine earning a ‘market decided’ wage is the reductio ad absurdum of undermining what it was meant to serve – human interest.

And this is done, as Marx pointedly notes, by having a large reserve army of unemployed out there to ensure that the system can throw out those who demand what is fair, and hire those who are more accommodating and willing to accept a lower wage, produce more, create more surplus value from which to abstract more profit: look and behold the wonders of globalization!

But the more capitalism exploits people to keep wages low, profits high, and CEOs and shareholders’ returns stratospheric, the more it creates problems in having consumers who increasingly end up joining the ranks of the unemployed reserve; and people become ravaged by the system, and they soon can no longer afford the products they once made.

This in turn leads to more fiat currency churned out via low interest rates, sub-prime lending mortgages, and credit card promotions to increase borrowing and spending. And if industry needs a hand, just give a billion dollar bailout and add that to the taxpayers bill. So in addition to all this, labour/people are saddled with currencies that fluctuate in value and taxes that sooner or later have to be paid, all in the name of capitalism.

Which brings me to one of the final insults to all decent people -- that labour, after its shortchanging, gets paid in funny money that is debt based in which the currency is backed by nothing other than a dollar that is but an IOU for nothing (no gold backs it to give it any value). And you can tell its funny money because its value changes all the time. Please see New Money to End All Money: Part 1 and Part 2.

And it does not stop there.

The Formula that has Brought us to the Brink

With his characteristic trenchant insight Marx describes beautifully how the general formula for capital works. There is, first, the process of C-M-C in which commodities are produced in exchange for money which is in turn used to acquire more commodities. This is the natural process of a healthy economy in which, e.g., crops are grown which are then sold and the money gained from that is used to get seed, fertilizer, animal feed etc. It is a sustainable process that keeps the economic cycle going.

But the capitalists opt for M-C-M in which money is used to gain commodities so that their sale can generate more earnings in dollars. So the economic cycle in capitalism is one that ensures that what was a means of exchange – money -- is used to create commodities for the sole purpose of accumulating more money. The focus of an economy is no longer on the production of commodities that best suits people as much as a means of churning out goods and services to materialize more money out of thin air (and banks abet in this activity with alacrity), so as to lead to even more money being produced.

The sole purpose of an economy becomes one in which the financial markets, speculation, manipulation of interest rates, faulty and shady loan and investment schemes bubble up from the cauldron of greed which has thrown into it: human dignity, sanctity of life and respect for the environment stirred into a witch’s brew of capital accumulation and financial meltdown. If this sounds bewitchingly familiar, it is because that is exactly where we are at.

Marx was prescient in saying that why even bother with having the C in the M-C-M formula, one might as well as remove the C and just look for M being created to generate even more M. And this is, sadly, precisely what has happened with the capitalist system of interest rates and fiat currencies. If in doubt in a capitalist system:

a. lower interest rates

b. lower it even further

c. find if it’s possible to just print and give out money, don’t bother paying it back because we ‘need to jumpstart the economy’

d. cut taxes to increase spending (especially for corporations and high income earners)

e. multibillion dollar bailouts that mean injecting more money to chase more money around (somehow the idea of more effective and meaningful production of commodities seems secondary)

f. forget Gresham’s law of bad money chasing out good money, you now have money chasing its own tail until it collapses from fatigue-neurosis and results in massive currency devaluation (a.k.a. inflation)

g. if necessary start another war, a great way to ‘jumpstart’ spending and create bombs and, even better, employment for people by sending them out to fight; and a little population control from this would even make Malthus proud – keep excessive human growth in check, after all balance is everything.

Today the inversion of Marx's dictum holds: a capitalist is a miser gone mad and a miser is but a rational capitalist.

When will we start to wake up?

Interlude: Reverse Engineering

Let us still hold on to the idea of the ego based self-first-everyone-else-last-approach-of-capitalism’s 3D economy. Even within the 3D system, we can see a way to stem the downward spiral and turn things around. Look at the C-M-C formula again. This is the approach that is needed. This starts with a massive restructuring of the monetary system and cold-turkey cure out of the addiction caused by the M-C-M drug.

The C-M-C approach is one which promotes commodity generation as opposed to $ generation as the purpose of an economy is to provide things of use and value for people, not hoard money as a means of greed, domination and manipulation of others. So every monetary transaction, as Marx explains, is a circuit that starts with the sale of C and ends in the purchase of C. The M is given to one person who gives it to another. That is the end of the transaction.

In the C-M-C approach, money is part of a transactional process, it cannot be used as a basis to generate further fictitious amounts by lending institutions or banks that leads to hoarding and speculation of it on financial markets.

If $100 is out there for something, then it returns back as $100 and remains as such. It started out as $100, it remains $100. It does not become $1000 from the vagaries and shenanigans of fractional reserve banking.

What is recommended here is that any investment made should be dealt with in a green friendly and win-win manner which will be looked at in the later section. In other words, honesty is the policy of the day (and for every other one after that).

What does this mean in concrete terms. It means looking seriously at creating a four tiered monetary system and the use of local/complementary currencies as explained in New Money to End All Money: Part 3.

What else would follow from this:

a. establish a gold standard (or something similar) for national currencies

b. use international and regional currencies that involve the use of (a) but are convertible into a basket of natural resources and social commodities which bring wealth back to people, societies and the environment

c. local or complementary currencies (as explained in link on “New Money” above)

d. international and governmental policies that see to it that ideas, resources and effort are channeled into production to ensure Green and People Friendly (GPF) solutions (see Genuine Progress Indicators for details)

e. establishment of interest free-ethical banks (see JAK Bank of Sweden) and those that use innovative methods and ethical policies (see the UK Cooperative Bank for details). It is also useful to have a look at Islamic banking guidelines which disallow the charging of interest and insist on an ethical framework for doing business.

f. no more financial markets (essential in removing the M-C-M equation from the system) but have saving and investment opportunities involving GPF activities with yields in terms of gold backed national currencies or local currencies. The yields/rewards from these investments can also be in term of points that can be transferred or created into local currencies.

g. creation of local, community, national and international job banks and data centres (which will also create employment opportunities) to facilitate transnational job placements for people and families (where necessary). This would be in line with GPF solutions that will also ensure a smooth and legal fast track in clearing immigration matters for qualified people on the move. This is NOT globalization, but global realization of a fair and just system of employment (to be looked at in later section). Governments and people will have to grow up and get past paranoia and prejudice to get things rolling on this score.

This is well within our grasp. It is time for people to wake up, get real, take their lives into their own hands and pressurize their governments to start in this direction. There is really no need to wait till some ‘doomsday’ scenario kicks in before we kick ourselves into action.

hi folks,

Part of changing mindsets of people for the better is to change the way the economy works, and how we view and live in it.

We can do this when each of us does our part in spreading some form of good work.

There are new ways to measure and view economic growth beyond GDP. What's missing are things like GPI (Genuine Progress Indicator) and even GNH (Gross National Happiness).

This is not to say that GDP does not have its uses. But it is a highly inaccurate and misleading way to capture growth and success in an economy.

A GDP valuation includes all money generated by a country including for eg, the cost of a war, car accidents, oil spillage etc.

This means that rather than reflect what is a 'plus' in the ledger, the GDP includes all 'minuses' as well (ie, money lost and spent on wasteful and harmful activites).

For eg, if you have your own firm and you factor in all the money you earn at the end of the month. Then you minus all the debits you have from it, like maintenance costs, cost of education and food for your children etc,

Whatever's then left from your earnings is your profit. That's common sense.

But a GDP, believe it or not, takes all your earnings and expenditure including your minuses and rolls that up to a grand figure and says thats what an economy has made. It's counterintuitive because you shouldn't add your losses as growth, but economies do that. Which is why most growth indicators are misleading.

Expenditure is not equal to growth. Growth is much more than dollars spent/generated.

That is why you can have GDP growth but unemployment/or marginal employment (because you can grow a GDP by expensive govt projects which is not the same as getting people decent jobs that allow them to lead a decent life).

Web searches on this and on "Green Economy" will help put many of these things in context. Many of these ideas can also be gleaned from Economia by Geoff Davies and The Economics of Happiness by Mark Anielski

Check out: http://www.anielski.com/

Countries like Bhutan use the GNH, and local and even the federal govt. in Canada now use GPIs.

The GPI captures the quality of life. That is what economies are really about.

How it is done is basically to have a plus and debit system for an economy and you do the right thing by subtracting the negative effects of losses to the economy and their negative impact: like building more cars, and creating larger roads to contain them, or demolishing green spaces and community areas for larger shopping malls and more $ banks, or a greater armament industry.

The GPI can be used together with the current GDP as a better and fair basis of capturing economic growth.

One of the measurements used in GPI, and not in GDP calculations, are activities that are not given monetary value but are nonetheless of great value.

For eg, a value is given to what a stay home parent contributes, to social and volunteer workers' contributions, to social and community contributions by companies, or activities by civil and civic society.

If a person takes time off work to look after an ailing parent or family member, or even a good friend, this may be added or captured by GPI.

This is part of the pluses added to the GPI calculation.

If a society becomes less gracious due to rapid urbanisation and harmful economic competition, this would be captured as a minus under GPI.

Studies have shown that since the end of WW2, while the GDP has grown greatly in the US (for instance) its GPI has eroded drastically.

Which explains why material wealth doesn't equate in many people's view to genuine wealth and what gives meaning to their lives.

And on the innovative use of cooperatives in this scheme of things check out Emilia-Romagna in Italy which also produces apart from fine food, wine, the automative industries of Ferrari, Ducati, Lamborghini, and Maserati (perhaps they might go Green...?).

Part of the need for a new economy is due to the failure, increasingly evident, of our current debt based monetary system that is now reeling from corporate malfeasance, priorities given to the banking industry and a near collapse of financial loan institutions: the fallout of which the US and many other countries are starting to face now.

Witness the recent desperate rate cuts by the US Fed and the buying of stakes by Singapore's sovereign wealth funds into international banking organisations -- all a result of a failing debt based economic system.

This impacts all of us: that's why mainly middle class people find that they all have to work harder, longer, get more depressed and stressed and still find that the genuinely rich get only richer, as everyone else slides into more debt, poverty and frustration.

Never mind the lower income groups who are desperately trying to find just breathing space.

The imbalance of things, and unacceptable level of inequity that the current debt based economic system generates is ruining our quality of life.

Part of this has to do with the monetary system we have: eg, a debt based system in which banks issue paper money based quite literally on nothing. They actually do create money out of thin air.

The monetary system of debts and interest rates only create the economic slavery that all hard working people (and increasingly unemployed people) find themselves in.

One of the things we need are interest free banks.

Check out: Anielski Report

Another way is to also start a split barter system where money is used but in a limited form. These ideas can be read up on and I believe Emilia-Romagna uses some form of this system.

Many thanks for your time.