Esoteric Christianity and The Signs of the Times — Part I of III
By Richard C. Cook
© 2008 by Richard C. Cook.
From the article originally published in New Dawn Magazine No. 122 (Sept.-Oct. 2010). www.newdawnmagazine.com Click Here
Part I: Christianity and the Scientific/Technological Era; Did the Spiritual Revolution of the 20th Century Leave Christianity Behind?; Reaction of the [...]

Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was an Austrian philosopher and esotericist and founder of one of the key modern spiritual movements in the West. He is best known for his books and lectures before and after World War I, when he founded the Anthroposophical Society with its present-day headquarters in Dornach, Switzerland. After World War I, Steiner [...]

By Richard C. Cook
While skeptics mockingly point out that the “end of the world” has been prophesized over and over again for centuries with nothing happening—the latest being Y2K, they say, and another likely bust coming up when the calendar hits 2012—it’s obvious that mankind faces an increasingly unsustainable future.
The world’s economic, technological, agricultural, and [...]

A new book is available from Global Research with a chapter by Richard C. Cook on “Democratization of the Monetary System.” ORDER HERE

This is a six-part professional-quality video that is over two hours in length. Each part consists of a lecture by Richard C. Cook on the economic crisis and its solution. The video was made on March 16, 2009, in the Maryland Room of the Prince George’s County Library, Hyattsville, MD. This is the most in-depth [...]

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From Globalization To Re-Localization
By Megan Quinn Bachman
23 April, 2010
Ecowatch Journal http://www.countercurrents.org/bachman230410.htm
Using less, cutting back, saving resources, conserving energy, reducing impact—such actions, though vital responses to our planetary peril, conjure up images of a strictly proscribed and rather austere future.
When our only goal is minimizing consumption, it’s easy to imagine the imposition of draconian [...]

This is an interesting short book published sometime in the 1990s by Cornelius Karl Veith. CLICK HERE
Following is the Dedication:
“This book is dedicated to the memory of Jefferson Jackson, Lincoln, and those venerable Americans who opposed economic slavery and foreign domination, and who taught that the Government should use Constitutional money for the common welfare [...]

Many thanks to Denis Bach for sending me Major C.H. Douglas’s classic work on Social Credit in the 1934 edition. I consider this one of the most important books on economics and social policy of the 20th century. Read, learn, and enjoy!
CLICK HERE

No one can seriously doubt that the huge amounts of borrowed federal dollars poured into the economy since Barack Obama became president has prevented even more jobs from being lost than might otherwise have been the case in the current devastating recession. It’s impossible, however, to come up with a “real” number, because no economist [...]

A friend asked me at brunch recently about the situation in Iceland. Here is a commentary:
The small nation of Iceland–population 320,000–can’t produce much of anything that is in demand in the international markets. During the 60s and 70s Icelandic Airlines had a pretty good business running the cheapest flights you could find between the US [...]

Richard E. COOK

NEWPORT NEWS – Mr. Richard Edward Cook, of Newport News, passed away at 4:40 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, at Riverside Hospital after a short illness. He was 86 years old.
Mr. Cook was born on Jan. 7, 1924, in Oklahoma City, Okla. His mother was Carolyn Hill of Kingfisher, Okla., and his father [...]

Lately an incredible quote from President Andrew Jackson’s 1837 farewell address has been circulating on the internet. For all those who have begun to see the evils that have befallen our nation since it was taken over by the banking oligarchy this is a MUST READ.
. . . In reviewing the conflicts which have taken [...]

Thanks for your recent emails.
Yes, the distinction between earned and unearned wealth is indeed critical. And yes, I agree with your identification of monopoly control of resources as being at the root of the problem.
Of course the chief monopoly is that of creation of money which governments share with the international banking oligarchy. It is [...]

I have been writing for the last two years or so that the strategy of the Federal Reserve has been to engineer a “soft landing” from the horrendous financial bubbles that were created during the disastrous presidency of George W. Bush. Since President Obama came to power in January 2009, his administration has been partners [...]

A “run on the dollar,” or any currency, for that matter, takes place when the currency is losing its value. This happens when a country’s debt becomes so great that there is danger of a major default–that is, large scale or even national bankruptcy. At that point, people whose wealth is in that currency, or [...]

In response to a question from a reader I sent this out today:
Yes, I think a run on the dollar is coming. A lot of people are saying this, including a man named Dmitri Orlov who recently came out with a book entitled “Reinventing Collapse” that compares the crash of the Soviet Union in the [...]

After the collapse of the Soviet Union caused it to split up into its components, the newly-established nations each faced an economic crisis. In Russia the crisis lasted for a decade. Inflation had destroyed the currency. There was no banking sector to speak of. And the central government had failed to monetize the nation’s potential [...]

We recently discovered an interesting and important blog named “The UsuryFree Eye Opener.” This is how it describes itself:
“The UsuryFree Eye Opener is the electronic arm of the UsuryFree Network. It seeks active usuryfree creatives to help advance our mission of creating a usuryfree lifestyle for everyone on this planet. Our motto is ‘peace and [...]

From Private Enterprise Money by E.C. Riegel (pub. 1944)
The present money system has three basic evils:
a) It permits money to be issued privately, only by a limited number of persons and corporations who have bank credit, and makes such credit subject to fee. Thus it establishes credit as a privilege rather than a right, and [...]

Steven Pearlstein, business columnist for the Washington Post, published a column on January 6 entitled, “Recession Over? Not Unless We Make a Major Shift.” The problem is that the “major shift” Pearlstein writes about won’t solve the problem even if it takes place.
So is the recession ending? The professional cheerleaders from Wall Street think so, [...]

If you want to get an idea of what America once was like, read the poems of Walt Whitman.  Whitman was born in Long Island in 1819 and grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. His family was poor, but even though he left school at the age of 11 he gave himself an education by reading [...]

While Congressman Ron Paul’s Free Competition in Currency Act is not a workable proposal, it points to a deeply serious problem with the Federal Reserve System that must be faced if the U.S. economy is to have a future.
Over the last 40 years the Federal Reserve, with the acquiescence of Congress and the executive branch, [...]

The crisis of 2008-2009 exposed the U.S. financial system as being unstable, subject to abuse, and tending to favor the rich while putting everyone else deeper into debt.
The housing bubble was based on the biggest credit inflation in history. [...]

The United States does not control its own destiny. Rather it is controlled by an international financial elite, of which the American branch works out of big New York banks like J.P. Morgan Chase, Wall Street investment firms such as Goldman Sachs, and the Federal Reserve System. They in turn control the White [...]

It’s too late for anyone to pretend that the U.S. government, whether under President Barack Obama or anyone else, can divert our nation from long-term economic decline. The U.S. is increasingly in a state of political, economic, and moral paralysis, caught as it were between the “rock” of protracted recession and the “hard place” of [...]

Life is a gift bestowed by God upon man.
Therefore each of us must adopt an attitude of giving in relation to all other men. This attitude must include activities involving the economic life of individuals, nations, and the world. Economics is not just a search for efficiency or profits.
Such are among the lessons to be [...]

What is the purpose of money?
This question has many theoretical answers but only one practical one–it’s to get what we want.
So the question really is what do we want.
And what we want depends on what kind of person we are.
If we are greedy, violent, and selfish, we will do many underhanded and dishonest things to [...]

Response to a Reader:
The question is always the same–how to finance the National Dividend, which would be somewhere in the range of $2-$3.5T U.S., depending on whether it is taxed and if there is an allowance for children.
To be brief, blunt, and brutal–the government would print it and give it away. When people stop swooning, [...]

This morning I went to a nearby urban public school to read a story to the kindergarten class my wife teaches.
The story was Hansel and Gretel, one of the classics of European folk culture. It was a nicely illustrated edition. A majority of the pupils in the class were Hispanic. The rest were black, with [...]

The world’s population is huge and growing. It currently stands at 6.7 billion. In some quarters there is a virtual state of panic over how many people there are and the effects of so-called overpopulation on the earth and its resources.
But no one knows how many people the earth could support because we don’t have [...]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported two days ago (May 8), that the U.S. lost 539,000 more jobs in April 2009. Unemployment now stands at 8.9 percent, twice the level of two years ago. This does not include “discouraged workers” who have stopped looking for work or part-time workers who want to work full-time.
Nor does [...]

On Thursday, April 23, 2009, Stephen Zarlenga, director of the American Monetary Institute (AMI), delivered two briefings on Capitol Hill on the American Monetary Act that AMI drafted and that may be introduced as legislation during the current congressional session. This single measure has the potential of bringing together the tens of millions of people [...]

Since I began to write on economics and monetary policy I have argued that we should abolish our bank-centered, debt-based monetary system and replace it with a system where credit is viewed as a public utility. This would lead to money controlled by the people’s elected government and issued both for common needs, such [...]

“This new book is an edited collection of articles by the author, published on websites in the last two years, on the causes of the developing “credit crunch” and its implications for the future. Each article covers a different aspect of his subject.
“Cook has a background of service in the U.S. administration, including as a [...]

Do you remember the TV cartoon show “Pinky and The Brain”?
The show was about two white mice. Pinky was a gangly nutcase who talked like the Walt Disney character Goofy, with a similar personality. The Brain was this little conniving, scowling kind of guy who woke up every morning with his latest plan to take [...]

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