Money & Business
US Debt Put Into Perspective (2011)US national debt has now passed the $15,000,000,000,000 mark (15 trillion dollars). That said, this number is so large that it does not really mean a lot to most people. Now there is a website at usdebt.kleptocracy.us that gives graphic representations of these sorts of numbers, showing what stacks of $100 bills adding up to these debt figures would look like in comparison to world markers. For example, the image on the right is what 15 trillion dollars worth of $100 bills would look like stacked by the Statue of Liberty. What is worrying is that this debt is continuing to grow and there has to reach a point eventually when foreign banks and governments who own the US debt start calling in their loans.
Sherry Jackson Fund Challenges Tax Legality (Dec 2009)As a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner, Sherry Peel Jackson worked as an Inland Revenue Agent in Atlanta from January 1988 to May 1995. While she was at the IRS she won numerous awards for her work. After leaving the IRS to become a wife and mother, Jackson started investigating the legality of the US tax system after reading an advert in USA Today by We The People Foundation that offered $50,000 to anyone who could show hot to file a federal income tax return without waving one's 5th amendment rights, and to identify the section of the Internal Revenue Code that makes workers liable to pay income tax in the first place. Jackson found that the whole US tax system was a fraud, and that compulsory taxation had no legal backing for most workers. As a consequence, Jackson started educating people on her findings and withheld paying tax until the government could show her the legal basis for her doing so. As a consequence she was punished with a 4-year sentence and denied medical treatment for Graves Disease which she suffers from. For more info, and to donate to her legal fund, visit www.sherrypeeljackson.com.
The Enslaving Federal Reserve Scam (Dec 2009)The Federal Reserve or FED is a private for-profit business organisation that has a monopoly on creating, out of thin air, US dollars and then lending this money to the US Government with interest — the interest making up the Federal Debt. The US Government's 1999 Federal Debt repayment, for example, was $1.7 trillion dollars. In other words, just about all the tax collected is being given to the organisation that manufacturers America's money. The question is, why doesn't America manufacture its own money like other countries do, and who owns the Federal Reserve? Because remember, whoever owns the FED actually owns the USA, and in this ridiculous system the repayment of the fictitious Federal Debt ends up enslaving every taxed American citizen in The Land of the "Free". For more info, visit www.themoneymasters.com.
Top 50 companies recorded $433 billion profits in 2006
Many corporations now have more financial clout than entire countries, allowing the corporate sector to seriously compromise global democracy and social justice. And how does this happen? Our politicians sell us out every step of the way, feathering their own nest by courting the corporate sector at every opportunity, kissing the steel hand that strangles the life from communities and the ecosystem and from every community. The freedom that wealth affords the rich is paid for by the slavery of the working classes and future generations. The question is: How much social and ecological devastation is it going to take before we wake up to the fact that our politicians don't have our best interests at heart? For until we come to this uncomfortable realization, we are just a silent accomplice to the enslavement of the human species and the rape of the Earth. How do we stop this madness? Stop waiting for permission to live in a better world — join alternative trading and social systems that bypass Big Daddy altogether. It is time to grow up and leave home!
Many corporations now have more financial clout than entire countries, allowing the corporate sector to seriously compromise global democracy and social justice. And how does this happen? Our politicians sell us out every step of the way, feathering their own nest by courting the corporate sector at every opportunity, kissing the steel hand that strangles the life from communities and the ecosystem and from every community. The freedom that wealth affords the rich is paid for by the slavery of the working classes and future generations. The question is: How much social and ecological devastation is it going to take before we wake up to the fact that our politicians don't have our best interests at heart? For until we come to this uncomfortable realization, we are just a silent accomplice to the enslavement of the human species and the rape of the Earth. How do we stop this madness? Stop waiting for permission to live in a better world — join alternative trading and social systems that bypass Big Daddy altogether. It is time to grow up and leave home!
If you are American, should you be paying income tax?
Accord to many experts, income tax for average Americans is unconstitutional. If you would like to see a good presentation of the issue, take a look at The 861 Evidence.
Accord to many experts, income tax for average Americans is unconstitutional. If you would like to see a good presentation of the issue, take a look at The 861 Evidence.
Time To Switch to
New Money
In this modern world of corporate rule, in which the interests of the people is no longer the primary concern of governments, it is time for us to by-pass their control by using new money systems. Of all the ways to protest, of all the ways to stop ecological destruction, and of all the ways to bring peace, prosperity and happiness to the majority, whatever their nationality and their creed, adopting new money systems if the MOST effective. Please read The Money Game and start using alternative money. There are plenty of people doing this right now with fantastic results. There are even websites that will help us setup these systems yourself and that give us the software to run them. By switching to alternative money, we will transform our communities and our nations by no longer contributing our wealth to governments who only use it for staring wars, destroying the environment, subsidizing big business and lining their own pockets. Its time to stop playing The Money Game.
In this modern world of corporate rule, in which the interests of the people is no longer the primary concern of governments, it is time for us to by-pass their control by using new money systems. Of all the ways to protest, of all the ways to stop ecological destruction, and of all the ways to bring peace, prosperity and happiness to the majority, whatever their nationality and their creed, adopting new money systems if the MOST effective. Please read The Money Game and start using alternative money. There are plenty of people doing this right now with fantastic results. There are even websites that will help us setup these systems yourself and that give us the software to run them. By switching to alternative money, we will transform our communities and our nations by no longer contributing our wealth to governments who only use it for staring wars, destroying the environment, subsidizing big business and lining their own pockets. Its time to stop playing The Money Game.
News: The
Mechanics of Empire Building (02 Jan 2005)
Democracy Now! has just released a mind-blowing interview with John Perkins, a former American international banker, covering the release of his new book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Perkins tells the story of how he was groomed by the international banking community, to hard-sell Third World countries large development loans which they would invariably default on, handing over their resources and economies to the United States in repayment schemes. To ensure that these countries would fall for the bait, Perkins would show these governments wildly optimistic repayment forecasts, making the loan far more attractive than it actually was, and they would also bribe governments into signing up. This cheated developing countries out of trillions of dollars and built the US the most powerful empire in history: with less than 5% of the world population, the US now commandeers 26% of global resources, and has enslaved many Third World economies and peoples. Only two leaders, in the interests of their people, resisted the temptation of these loans — Jaime Roldós, president of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, president of Panama. Both were killed in plane crashes set up by the CIA, and it is to these two men of principle that Perkins dedicates his book.
Democracy Now! has just released a mind-blowing interview with John Perkins, a former American international banker, covering the release of his new book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Perkins tells the story of how he was groomed by the international banking community, to hard-sell Third World countries large development loans which they would invariably default on, handing over their resources and economies to the United States in repayment schemes. To ensure that these countries would fall for the bait, Perkins would show these governments wildly optimistic repayment forecasts, making the loan far more attractive than it actually was, and they would also bribe governments into signing up. This cheated developing countries out of trillions of dollars and built the US the most powerful empire in history: with less than 5% of the world population, the US now commandeers 26% of global resources, and has enslaved many Third World economies and peoples. Only two leaders, in the interests of their people, resisted the temptation of these loans — Jaime Roldós, president of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, president of Panama. Both were killed in plane crashes set up by the CIA, and it is to these two men of principle that Perkins dedicates his book.