INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN URUGUAY, APRIL 2009 The Executive Power prepares details for a new system of payment which will be adopted to stimulate micro and small businesses. In two months, the government will release a new way of payment, a transaction network, which will allow micro and small business to interact among themselves, through a new alternative currency, and at the same time to face their obligations with the State. This was announced recently by the Minister … [Read more...]
Dee Hock’s MiniMaxims
I like Mamading's quotes website Quotessence. I've already pointed him at Dancing with Systems and Permaculture Principles, encouraging him to include the wisdom they contain. Now I want to share Dee Hock's MiniMaxims from his great book, Birth of the Chaordic Age. [amtap book:isbn=1576750744] "Particularity and serparability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe" "Desire to command and control is a death wish. Absolute control is in the coffin" "Only fools … [Read more...]
In Debt We Trust
In America's earliest days, there were barn-raising parties in which neighbors helped each other build up their farms. Today, in some churches, there are debt liquidation revivals in which parishioners chip in to free each other from growing credit card debts that are driving American families to bankruptcy and desperation. IN DEBT WE TRUST is the latest film from Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector," director of the internationally distributed and award-winning WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception), … [Read more...]
What Would Jesus Buy?
An examination of the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse (the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt.) The film also delves into issues such as the role sweatshops play in America’s mass consumerism and Big-Box Culture. From the humble beginnings of preaching at his portable pulpit on New York City … [Read more...]
Zeitgeist – The Movie: Federal Reserve
This is part 3 of the original Zeitgeist Movie (see some of my thoughts on that here), all about money, banking and the Federal Reserve in the US. … [Read more...]
The Money Masters
This very long (215 minutes) money documentary has lots of interesting history in it about the battle over the control of money and banking in the US. If I remember rightly the presenter proposes going back to the gold standard, but whilst that might be better than what we've got now, it doesn't really make much sense either (as nicely explained in Money as Debt) "The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in … [Read more...]
The Matrix – A Poem by Paradox
I know Paradox from the London party scene. He's a good chap :) Here is a great poem he wrote about money and banking... The Matrix … [Read more...]
Money
Here you will find links to all the great money resources on this site :) Basic Info: Money Today A Brief History of Money Money Books: Money Books More money books see also Money downloads Money Videos: Money as Debt The Matrix - A Poem by Paradox Zeitgeist Addendum Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve The Money Masters New American Currency see also https://delicious.com/uniteddiversity/money+video Money Downloads: Money downloads More … [Read more...]
Money downloads
Linked from this page are a whole bunch of useful online documents and downloads related to money: Introductory reading Ecology of Money and Short Circuit by Richard Douthwaite Community Currency Guide (pdf) by Bernard Lietaer and Gwendolyn Hallsmith Interest and Inflation Free Money by Margrit Kennedy Extract of Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender (pdf) by Tom Greco Draft of Healthy Money Healthy Planet:Developing Sustainability through new Money Systems by … [Read more...]
A Brief History of Money
Contrary to popular belief, when banks make loans, they are not lending out money that people have deposited with them, but are instead creating completely new money, out of nothing. Absurd as this may seem, the fact is that 97% of our current money supply is created in this way - by private banks, out of nothing. What's more, in order to make a guaranteed profit, the banks create money out of nothing, lend it to us at interest, and then demand we pay back more money than exists! Collectively … [Read more...]