Following are comments made to an on-line exchange with reference to an activist contemplating suicide due to discouragement:
Each of us has some kind of leadership role to play where we are an example to the rest of the world, including those in our immediate circle. No matter how discouraged we may become, suicide is never [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Many thanks to those readers who have stayed in touch with me and continued to follow my blog as my wife and I continue packing for our move to a location in the Southern Appalachian mountains.
Lately our reading has included many interesting topics. We are currently studying The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (Penguin, [...]

TEXT OF READING 281-13 from One Source Healing with Dr. Moses Nasser

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 19th day of November, 1932, in accordance with request made by Edgar Cayce himself.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [...]

As the world slides closer daily to what the Shivapuri Baba described as a 6,000-year societal catastrophe, it is certainly curious to observe how those who fancy themselves the rulers of mankind continue to attempt to gather all power, authority, and wealth into their hands.
Instead of attempting to devise a rational program to ameliorate the [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Sent January 14, 2010:
It is incredible to me that the federal government would even consider restrictions on access to the internet.
Big business should leave the internet alone. The FCC should assure that they do. The internet is a public utility that belongs to everyone–not just a handful of global giants who would destroy free access [...]

Recently I have been corresponding with a reader who goes by the name of “Sir Burton.” Besides running an interesting and worthwhole blog at http://sirburton.wordpress.com/ he says he is starting an intentional community in Laos and invites others to join him. Following is his recent letter to us. His email address is whitemirror13@yahoo.com.
Here’s the letter:
In [...]

Isaiah 42
The Servant of the Lord
1 “Here is my servant, whom I uphold,
my chosen one in whom I delight;
I will put my Spirit on him
and he will bring justice to the nations.
2 He will not shout or cry out,
or raise his voice in the streets.
3 A bruised reed he will not break,
and a smoldering wick [...]

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, [...]

A new era for the human race has clearly begun. When I compare the state of people’s awareness today with what it was just a few years ago, remarkable changes are taking place.
People are finally waking up to the fact that the world of big money, big media, and big business is taking them absolutely [...]

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 [...]

I have always had a strong interest in nutrition but, like most people, have often been bewildered by the overwhelming amount of information and general lack of focus of what there is to be learned.
I take the GNC supplements for men over 50. It certainly has a lot of stuff in it, but in regard [...]

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 [...]

It’s a gorgeous spring morning here just up the road from the University of Maryland where thousands of young men and women will be receiving their college degrees in a couple of weeks and starting life in a world with so much uncertainty. Still, both the beautiful spring weather and the upcoming graduation events show [...]

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 [...]

Today, amidst the flowers of springtime, all I really want is to be able to listen to the Silence.
Silence is the place from which every created thing originates.
Silence is the source of “the peace that passeth all understanding.”
Silence is the space between thoughts.
Being in Silence is the greatest of all freedoms.
Life and death are [...]

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 [...]

Omna Last is an Australian mystic and author affiliated with the Richard C. Cook website. His great mystical work, “The LITE in the Heart,” has arrived in the U.S. and is now available on this website for $15 + $4 S&H. Order by using the “Donate” button. Please include your mailing address. The book will [...]

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