Bathmate

Using your background and extensive research you are giving us the big picture as well a valuable ideas for real solutions. Few commentators today (mainstream or alternative) are offering as much.

As a student of your writings, I am particularly interested in this statement: “trade and commerce will come to serve human freedom”. I hope you will continue to expand on this in future articles.

The current Federal Reserve monopoly of money creation is the most powerful weapon of the war being waged by the global elite. Their goal is to destroy liberty so they may gain total control.

The first question to ask of any monetary reform proposal should be: Does it serve human freedom?

I beg to differ with some of your observations not because they are regressive but simply because they are reactive.

1. System of money as public utility is also the concept of Karl Marx, erstwhile USSR and current China. But having said that, do they really practice it?
2. How different will the “money as public utility” be from the current system of a democratically elected government controlling the use of money through legislation and central banks?
3. When one says public, it does not mean the 300 million plus population of the US deciding the use of money. It simply means some people who represent those 300 million plus. Back to the same scene as we are today – whether in the US, India or elsewhere.
4. And whenever it is “some” people representing the entire population – it means concentrated power and hence corruption, bias, favoritism etc. etc.
5. Today we are denouncing the government, tomorrow others will denounce us when we have the power. It is a never ending game.
6. The problems that the world is facing today by means of lack of financial resources has just one cause – GREED. If we can take care of that then all is taken care of.
7. We are greedy with the resources and hence consume them without saving anything for the future – be it money (zilch savings), be it natural resources (water, oil, minerals, air, global temperature(?) …). The result is that we face recession, depression and global warming and then we sit up and try to find solutions. The only farsightedness we need is to be less greedy and conservative while spending.

As Mahatma Gandhi said,there is enough in the world for everyone’ need, but not for everyone’s greed.

The problem itself has a solution in it, we just need to see it and implement it.

Regards

Sanjeev Sharma

This was a very insightful article. I have only begun to pay attention to economic issues over the past few years, so I am very new to this arena. However, the suggestions you have given seem to be practical, and I want to know if the “Cook Plan” can really be used?

Excellent article.

For contrast, see “The Sperry Plan” that was published May 19th on http://www.opednews.com. Found here: http://www.opednews.com/articles/SuperCapitalism-The-Sperr-by-mac-Sperry-090517-196.html
Also to be found on my website: http://www.howtorescueamerica.org

Best Regards/mac

“I know of the operations of this network because I studied it for twenty years, and was permitted for two years in the early 1960’s to examine its papers and its secret records. I have no aversion to it, nor to most of its aims, and have for much of my life been close to it, and many of its instruments.” {pg. 64 Cantelon}

“He says in effect, that now it is too late for the little people to turn back the tide. In a spirit of kindness, he is therefore urging them not to fight a power that is already established. All through his book, Dr. Quigley assures us that we can trust these benevolent well-meaning men who are secretly operating behind the scenes. They he declares are the hope of the world. All who resist them represent tragedy hence the title of his book.” {ibid}

Strange isn’t it!? Certainly makes one wonder.

Jerry

PS. By the way is it just me or has there been a marked increase in the amount of scientific experiments being conducted these days. It seems like almost every other week a new satellite or space shuttle, etc. etc. is being launched with more and more equipment for this and that. Where is all of the money coming from to pay for all of this? We are not talking about a drop in the bucket here folks but rather billions if not trillions of dollars surely?

Mark
editor@dgcmagazine.com

In the next few months or perhaps a year a total economic blowout will hit all of humanity. Our investments, properties will be rendered worthless overnight.

We are standing on the abyss of total chaos, starvation and pestilence.

The only thing that will save the world is to recharter the American National Bank. A bank for the people and by the people.
Cancer the debts and start over, and start putting us all back to work growing food and producing essential goods for the benefit of mankind.

Money itself is an “Abstract receipt of labor.”

Mr. Cook has pointed out that even with smaller numbers of folks in the labor force, productivity has increased in the last year by 5%.

Technology is increasing productivity and enhancing labor in a continuous manner, and has the potential to produce as much as is needed.

Rather than jobs, it is clearly the income issue that is what needs to be put into the spotlight. His “Cook” plan, for the payment of $1000 a month for everyone in the nation sounds real good. Puts money into circulation and helps absorb some of the excess capacity available to industry and helps ordinary people at the same time.

Punitive actions against the central bankers and their clique would send us in the wrong direction. Punishment is retrograde.

Merely taking control of the power to issue money will head us in the correct direction, it will allow us to fund the shut down of the nuclear war machine and retire its operators. That needs to be at the top of the list of things to do.

Mr. Cook has also suggested the creation of an equal branch of government along with the Legislature, Executive and the Judiciary, a department of economics. That sounds like another winner useful for the long term stability and expansion of the economic structure.

The U.S. economy shows no signs of coming back, with no economic driver emerging that could bring it back. For all the talk about alternative energy, there has been no significant growth of any home-grown industry that could possibly make up so much l…

It used to be that once investment in this country meant borrowing money to increase manufacturing capacity, research and development, improve distribution etc. All of these efforts created wealth for the companies, and ultimately the nation.

Now investment monies are used for mergers and acquisitions that create no wealth. They create immense riches for those involved in the process, but nothing for the nation. Our financials no longer invest, they gamble. They make their profits not on growth, but by selling high and buying low, manipulation through massive naked shorting, computerized mass trades, access to client trades just before execution, derivatives, and other fraudulent and unproductive endeavors.

Your call for implementing change by changing the money system makes a lot of sense.

BEWARE: there is a potential threat lurking that may take this corrupt system to an even higher level. The Supreme Court is getting ready to rule on whether corporations have the same freedom of speech rights as individuals. If they rule that they do, then there will be no limit to corporate meddling in our political system. if you things are bad now with limits, wait until the corporate donations have been “deregulated”.

If this happens, this will prove one of those defining crossroads where a nation takes a turn for either the better or the worse. It is obvious, which such a decision would bring.

Starting community banks is a good idea. Seems though the whole thing hinges upon congress and the senate to get the ball rolling. However, Doesn’t the Elite Banksters have them by the short hairs?

My limited brain has pondered the “what can be done?” scenario as well…

I think we ought to burn them out and take from them all ill gotten gains; all their family jewels piled up for over three centuries.

Those who can and have the means should terminate the global control the elites have with extreme prejudice… This must be grass roots effort as all military and government is under control of those who own the system…

It’s war… I didn’t start it. I just see it.

I totally understand you desire to do things without undo violence… but, keep in mind these elites have created and funded every major war in the last 300 years… Hundreds of millions dead is nothing to them.. and I have read where more death is on the way via population control..

Take Care~Mark, P.S. these ideas are only ideas, I am way too old to do anything except think and bullshit…

“Progressives” who think we can wish our way to a more sensible, more peaceful world, subscribing to simplistic jargon and formulae like “change we can believe in” (just what the hell does that mean?) have succumbed to the hypnosis of the mass media and are victims of their own ignorance–willful and pathetic. We cannot separate our political system from our money system: money subsumes all else.

Cook is a small-”d” democrat: an idealist the way Thomas Paine, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, and, for that matter, Jesus Christ, were idealists: he knows we are all siblings in the adventure of life and that we have a moral obligation to assist one another.

His moral tutelage would be sufficient in itself to elevate his work to the highest consideration of those who understand: life is real; life is serious; and the goal is not the grave. With the addition of his reasoned, pragmatic advice and programs for monetary reforms, we profit from an intellect daring to ask big questions, disentangle the many strands of our confusion and tie those strands together again into a global Weltenschauung that is humane and feasible, even salvational, connecting each to each and all to all.