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Before Babylonian money magic can take over, all popular knowledge of sound money must be suppressed. 500 years ago, English speaking people knew that usury was a sin and wealth was a sign of this sin. The people who believed this were called dissidents against the moneyed Anglicans, who all owned stock in the Dutch India Company and the Hudson Bay Company. This was the root of the corporate era of evil that now dominates our realm. This anti-usury attitude had to be eliminated so that slavery could take hold. The stock corporation has about a 500 year history. It has been a history of forgetting the ethics of freedom. This is why the Puritans and the Quakers came to the USA in the first place. They were being hunted out by the bankers and their Anglican church. Their way of maintaining independence was cottage industry, where they produced dyed wool cloth that could bring a pretty penny in the marketplace. This is how they funded their independent families and maintained their freedom and ethics. We can do the same thing.

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Raised as a spiritual descendant of the Puritans, I can tell you they were not the noble people you describe.

Firstly, they were more or less evicted from Europe (even by the historically tolerant Dutch) due to their rigid religious views.

Secondly, they were not the kindly people portrayed in Thanksgiving narratives. Remember, they murdered people for specious superstitious reasons, 19 in Salem village alone.

Thirdly, once in the New World the Puritans denied others the right to follow their own consciences, hence the Quakers going to Pennsylvania.

My own ancestor arrived here from England in 1588, landing at New Haven, Ct. He later moved across to Long Island, before dying in Rye, NY. His descendants became Methodists, even a few entering ordained ministry.

I was raised in the United Church of Christ (before it became woke), which is an amalgamation of the Congregationalists (Puritans), Dutch Reformed and German Evangelical Churches. I learned the good (hiding the Liberty Bell from the British) and the bad (Salem) while attending this denomination.

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When the Puritans were in England they were one of the sects that dissented against Anglicanism. Your ancestor was one of them. That is exactly the right time period. If you take the worst examples from any society you can make that society appear like utter barbarians. I don't believe the Puritans were evil people in general. The Quakers certainly hated them once they got to America and Hawthorne has some good stories about that. They were very religious people, and I don't mean that as a complement. Human sacrifice and witch burning are what happens when religious superstition takes over.

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While I can't say for certain what my ancestor's religious affiliation was when he left England (or even why he left England, for that matter), I don't believe he was a Puritan. If so, he would most likely have stayed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Yes, the Puritans dissented against what they saw was a growing "popism" in Anglicanism, hence Oliver Cromwell (among other reasons for the English Civil War).

My ancestor left England during the interregnum between the death of the "Lord Protector" and the Stuart Restoration of Charles II. Something tells me the political instability of this time may have played a role in his emigration.

I've read Hawthorne, and understand fully his contempt for Puritanism. At the very best it was rather ignorant ("bundling"), and at the worst it was rather misogynistic. (Please understand I am not some "radical feminist") I've been to Salem as a child, and it's impression has never left me. I've read "The Scarlet Letter," and watched the Daniel Day-Lewis adaptation of "The Crucible," in addition to researching the period. Both illustrate vividly what prejudice and vengefulness will wreak in a community.

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Stories from an Old Manse, or Hawthorne's Collected Short Stories will have a lot more relevant stuff. The Scarlet Letter is not my favorite of the four romances and I think it scares people away from his more charming work. I think the same about Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.

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It was called 'Babylonian money-magick' back in the day (before the time of Christ), and it was what gave the Khazarians their power. It has worked for thousands of years, but it must be enforced by the power of law. End those laws and independent and free monetary arrangements will arise spontaneously.

Leave the laws in place, and [they] will come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who develops an alternative system to the point of challenging them. First the laws must be changed. Then We the People can get to work.

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One change would make a huge difference. Eliminate the legal tender laws. We shouldn't have to accept any currency as payment, and pretend that it has value, even though we know that it doesn't.

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Tender is just something offered in a trade. There is no law forcing anyone to accept tender they don't want in a trade. On American fiat notes, it says this note is legal tender..., and it is, but so is a barrel of butter, or car tires, or anything else that the other party will accept in a trade. In the USA, many businesses have signage saying that they will not accept anything over a 20$ note. Even though your fiat notes have a sign that says they are legal tender, the businesses are not required to accept those notes (because they are just like any other legal tender that you might trade--the other party has to want what you are tendering). So the sign on our fiat notes saying that it is legal tender is pointless and misleading.

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Very misleading, if that's the case.

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Yes. That and the laws prohibiting 'counterfeiting' which is interpreted as anything having value as a means of exchange. Not just facsimile currency, anything that threatens [their] monopoly on money.

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From my friend Justin O Smith

The Wolves Are Eating the Sheep

The Federal Reserve System -- "the Fed," is the central bank of the United States. It was created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system.

The Fed’s responsibilities include:

"Conducting the nation’s monetary policy by influencing money and credit conditions in the economy in pursuit of full employment and stable prices.

Supervising and regulating banks and other important financial institutions to ensure the safety and soundness of the nation’s banking and financial system and to protect the credit rights of consumers.

Maintaining the stability of the financial system and containing systemic risk that may arise in financial markets.”

The Fed is an independent company, owned by member banks. Their bank regulatory responsibility, to keep our financial system safe means “regulating themselves.” The Fed is a conflict of interest between the wolves (banks) and the sheep (us). For example, Greg Becker, SVB president and CEO also served as a director of the San Francisco Fed when the bank failed.

Thomas Jefferson warned us:

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered

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Interesting article!

While I found Mr. Perkins' Ted Talk very illuminating, he naively maintains the climate change myth while denying the culpability of the IC, and the clowns in particular.

As for Bitcoin, I find these digital "currencies" to have no more value than the petrodollar. I prefer a commodity backed currency, such as the BRICS nations are developing. Is is any wonder more are looking to join them?

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BTC is a fiasco... Runs on a network that the modern slaves do not CONTROL (just like the FIAT paper stuff!) and is dependent on the tools of the Monetary System to operate.

The biggest negative aspect is that the network can be easily controlled to screw us slaves even more. In short a very huge scam because in reality there is no decentralization!

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The MAIN SYSTEM (The Monetary System) is CONTROLLED by the Secular Ruling Families with the help of a few selected Billionaires... They use it for Command & Control of Their Civilization.

We, the herds of modern moron slaves, do not want to even try to destroy such System. We prefer to keep slaving around and doing fun stuff.

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I do not claim to know everything about WW2, but after watching "Europa: The Final Battle," I believe we have not been told the whole story. Specifically, Hitler was fighting against banksters in the early 1930's and he brought Germany out of poverty by replacing their "Babylonian" system with sound money. Now, I can't help but question the intelligence of anyone who still believes the mainstream account of WW2.

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STEAL THIS IDEA!…PLEASE.

ART WORKS for COMMUNITY CURRENCY

K-TAW = Kindly-Tizing ArtWork :: a kind of funny money

ArtWork backed by community spirit of exchange

MISSION: We are artists banded together in partnership with businesses and community to exchange Art-Works in support of the local economy.

METHOD: Beyond permaculture currency. Barter. Banter. Build.

De-centralized. Organically local. Open Source. Bank on yourself.

PURPOSE: Dollar-sized ArtWorks used as advertising and gifted into the local economy. To be used by businesses and citizenry … to trade.

CONSUMER Instructions

1.  Use ArtWork as you would cash for dinner, coffee, soda, tips, a massage, health care, child care, & more. Ask the community business if they take the ArtWork.

2.  You may receive ArtWork in your change when buying a product locally, as a gift for a birthday, as a tip for a job well done, & more.

3.  Closer to the expiration date (find date on the ArtWork), turn it back to the owner of the ArtWork and they will give you cash or more-than-equivalent services or products.

4.  The more ArtWork is passed for exchange in the community before it is turned in, the more sustainable the community economy!

Get real…. Spend ArtWork…. Go local.

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OWNER::BUSINESS instructions

Why use ArtWork as local exchange in Advertising:

   --Get people talking about what you are doing.

   --Use your advertising budget locally.

   --Subtract the cost of your ArtWork as advertising.

   --Watch people smile & laugh when “playing” with your “funny money”.

How to get started:

   --Pay a small amount to a local artist for the ArtWork. Or make your own.

   --Set aside an amount of cash to pay the “reward” for the return of the ArtWork. (You also may barter for the ArtWork with services or product.)

   --Write or pay a writer to add:

      1. Your business & slogan & offerings.

      2. Your area of “good within ___miles of your place of business”.

      3. Expiration date. Usually 3-6 months.

   --Give your ArtWorks away.

      1. You can only spend ArtWork other than your own.

      2. Offer as a thank you to: Regulars, High pay customers, Bonuses &

Perks, Friends & Family, Lovers.

When the ArtWork is presented back to you

   --Give cash or

   --Give services or

   --Give a product.

Keep gifting it out until closer to the expiration date.

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ARTIST instructions

1. You may

   --Make your own ArtWork to advertise you and your business.  OR

   --Be commissioned to make ArtWork for someone else to advertise.

   --Do one or the other because the Kindly-Tizing ArtWork is Open Source, meaning the ArtWork is not copyrighted. K-TAW believes in a gift society and a healthy local economy.

2. If you are commissioned to produce an ArtWork for someone else:

   --You may sell your labor and supplies. Once a business, person, or a not-for-profit owns the ArtWork then the ArtWork totally belongs to them. They must set aside the “reward money” to exchange by the expiration date.

3. If you create the ArtWork for yourself to advertise yourself:

   --You are the owner. When you own the ArtWork, you are the one who must set aside the “reward money” to exchange by the expiration date. The Owner must give ArtWork away as a gift to the community economy.

   --You may take the cost of ArtWork off your income for advertising.

4. The Owner of the ArtWork must give/gift it away during the time period.

   --Because if you sell the ArtWork, you

      1. must pay taxes on the sale and

      2. cannot deduct ArtWork as advertising.

5. ALL THE POINTS FOR THE BUSINESS OWNER APPLIES. 

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