The Ecology of Money

"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. We are no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." - Woodrow Wilson (1919)

WHAT DON'T YOU KNOW ABOUT THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM AND THE IRS? (click on google button below for larger screen).



“From coin to paper currency, and from currency to credit card there is a steady progression toward commercial exchange as the movement of information itself. This trend toward an inclusive information is the kind of image represented by the credit card, and approaches once more the character of tribal money. For tribal society, not knowing the specialisms of job or of work, does not specialize money either. Its money can be eaten, drunk, or worn like the new space ships that are now designed to be edible. “Work,” however, does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.”
From Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, p. 137-8.

Links on the ecology of money:

THE STRUCTURE OF OUR CENTRALIZED, PRIVATELY-OWNED AND MANAGED, DEBT-BASED MONEY SYSTEM

1. The Federal Reserve System is neither federal (it's privately owed), nor has any reserves (prints money out of thin air and sells it to the government at interest), nor is a system (it's a cartel)! Read Eustice Mullins' classic "Secrets of the Federal Reserve"

2. a Ludwig von Mises Institute film, "Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve"

3. Carolyn Baker, “The Valley of the Shadow of Debt”

4. Federal Debt Relief System

5. Stephen Zarlenga, “Abbreviated Monetary History of the US”

6. Jas Jain, “Peak Debt”

7. Ludwig von Mises, “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”

8. Murray Rothbard’s lectures on monetary theory and economics


…and NOW DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE!


9. "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

10. Catherine Austin Fitts, “Narcodollars for Beginners”

11. and also Fitts’ comprehensive analysis of the ‘Tapeworm economy’

12. Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee

13. US Treasury Missing $ Trillions

14. Jane Stillwater, “The dollar’s evil twin: Exploring the Bush bureaucracy’s private monetary system”

15. William Clark, “Petrodollar Warfare: Dollars, Euros and the Upcoming Iranian Oil Bourse”

16. Krassimir Petrov, “The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse”

17. John F. Kennedy knew a lot more than we realized


…and now SOME INSPIRING, REALISTIC SOLUTIONS!


18. Thomas Greco, Jr., "Money"

19. Bob Swann and Susan Witt, “Local Currencies: Catalysts for Sustainable Regional Economics”

20. Former central banker from Belgium explains the promise of local money

21. Sarah van Gelder, “Beyond Greed and Scarcity: An interview with Bernard Lietaer”

22. Bob Swann, “Building a Community Banking System”

23. Opemmoney LETS system

24. Open Capital and Co-ownership

25. Ryan Fugger, The Ripple P2P money project

26. Sepp Hasslberger, “Social Credit”

27. James Turk, “8 Things Everyone Should Know about Gold”