MONEY AND DEPRESSION THE COMING CHANGE

What is money? I can't define or fully explain it, but current events demand we think about money. A year ago, the Congress and many state governments were aglow, discussing plans for the(ir) surplus money. Since then, we've had the 9-11 terrorism and the discovery some people or companies made money from those attacks via the stock market. That has led to our war policy of attacking the country of "fill in the blank," but currently being waged in Afghanistan. Then we've had the Enron company collapse, leaving over 40 billion dollars of debt. Now Argentina teeters on the verge of defaulting on its 132 billion plus dollar foreign debt. The United States slides from being awash in wealth to being on the brink of depression within weeks. These and other financial events don't seem linked, but the citizen had better consider money and be concerned that these events aren't only linked, but are part of a plan.

Money is nothing, it is many things and it is important. Those three confusing thoughts will impact every idea expressed in this article. The concept of money is almost liquid. One must grasp each idea based on what the concept of money is being discussed. That's difficult as one concept can easily flow into another as perspectives change. Money's dependent on honorable people or power depending on one's perspective. Money, if left alone in a free market, is a medium that allows the fair exchange of labor for produced goods. It's dependent on a honest strong king, or state, so all men know the worth of their labor relates to a specific amount of money. They don't have to trade the product of their labor directly, but can use money to exchange that labor for goods as they see fit. Gold and silver remain fixed in relationship to land and produced goods, but money, or your labor, can be manipulated by the evil and unwise.

The 9-11 attack has prompted President Bush to lead us into a limitless war against a nebulous enemy. The costliest requirements the nation must bear are: additional limits on our Constitutional freedoms, the acceptance of nationalizing state and local police forces, having foreign troops tread on our soil and allowing military forces to patrol our streets. The USA going from flush to broke occurring in weeks isn't an accident. The nationalization of our police, another act the founders warned us of, isn't an accident, but part of the plan. We won't have it explained, but the implications are clear. When the depression is here, in effect, the super-rich reducing our worth and the value of our previous labor and savings by eighty percent, they'll have the police forces ready to control us. That is the next step as they've already placed us in serfdom via our tax policy. There's no difference in paying yearly taxes to be allowed to stay in your home and on your land than when the noble lord came and collected what he wanted of your wealth.

Today's money is nothing. It is valueless paper or the very thing the founding father's forbid. It's best to keep the working and/or real value of gold and silver in mind when trying to think about money. Money was originally based on gold and silver. Assume your great-great-great-grandfather in 1800 or even under Julius Caesar had enough gold to purchase a piece of land, but didn't. Instead he passed the gold along to you. With one caveat you could take that same amount of gold and purchase the same piece of land today. The relative value of the gold, land and the labor involved in gathering the gold would have all held their value in the same relationship to one another. The gold could not be deflated or inflated in value against the worth of the land or labor, but with paper money the leaches, crooks and/or politicians among us can manipulate the value of your labor or land via money, or governments can change making people realize money and waste paper are equal. The single caveat concerning the same gold purchasing a selected piece of land over hundreds of years is if the land changes. The land itself could change in worth if a house is built there, if a road or railroad track is built to it, or if it's location makes it more valuable for housing instead of farming. The point is, no group of men could manipulate the gold and land to make money off of your or your grandfather's sweat. They do that continually by playing with the paper money we use.

If this seems complex, then use the simpler example of when American's had real money less than fifty years ago. In 1950 one could plunk a single Mercury dime down and purchase two Coke-Colas. However, we've moved to unredeemable paper money and fake coinage. Now if one walks into a store they may need from forty cents to the better part of a dollar to purchase a Coke. Those Mercury dimes had silver in them. If one threw a 1950 dime into a drawer and took it out today, it could be exchanged for enough of today's script to purchase two Cokes. The silver kept it's relative value to labor and product over the years, while the big boys manipulated our sweat and saving with paper money.

The founders warned us against national banking systems and international banking. They didn't want banking controlling the money, manipulating the money or any possibility of banking, (i.e., the super-rich) being able to control/pay our soldiers and police. If times get really tough and you're a policeman or American soldier, do you work for your masters who manipulate money, so you can feed your family while others starve? Under such a choice can you stand against them as they further loot other citizens, rob the population of its Constitutional rights and reduce people to serfdom and slavery?

What have we as a nation done? We've allowed international bankers and corporations to control our money. We've allowed our government to borrow against the future without any controls. We've created a Federal reserve and allowed it to operate in secrecy and be headed by an unelected dictator within our democracy.

Let's look at what money (uncorrupted by the manipulators) really is. It's not the root of all evil. It is only evil when a thief or government official forces it from you through taxation backed up by the threat of police action. It's only evil when enough non-producers organize and are willing to steal the sweat and labor, via taxation, from those who produce things of value. Money left alone is a mechanism for exchange. It can't exist unless there are goods produced by men able to freely produce them. Money isn't necessary in the slave state. The principle behind money is that honest men can give value for value. However, when evil takes the government and corporation X is taxed at twenty-five percent and you at fifty percent, the leaches and non-producers are slowly sucking your wealth, sweat and lifeblood from you.

How do our masters operate? They manipulate corporations and countries. Either the 9-11 terrorist attack was organized by them or they waited for such an event before springing their plans. They've now collapsed a giant corporation, Enron, tied to the Clinton's and Bush's, destroying many average peoples accumulated worth. They have Argentina teetering on collapse. If that country defaults, it carries down the line collapsing other economies, and totally ruining the middle class everywhere. The Bush administration has taken steps to circumvent the American judicial system, nationalize the police and has foreign planes flying overhead. This could be the time of the crisis they want. Some seventy percent of Americans are now so afraid they are willing to surrender rights their ancestors won from the English Crown. Many elements are in place for a total loss of freedom and sovereignty but the super-rich may be testing us to see if now is the time to strike for what is termed the new world order.

The money we have left in our wallets, invested in our homes and possessions are tokens of honor. It is the mechanism of honor that says, I will work ten thousand hours to gain enough money to purchase the house you own or the hour I'll work to pay you for cutting my hair. It's our promise to one another so we can function in a civilized and fair manner. It allows us and our children to escape serfdom or slavery. It is a mechanism so we don't have to bend a knee to any man or organization. It allows us to determine how we exchange items with one another.

Yet, the leeches say, "Oh, but you don't need all the value of your sweat. There are people less fortunate or less able than you. I'm a more noble person than you, so I'll decide to take some of your work and distribute it where I choose." These are the same vampires that have made themselves wealthy stealing from Social Security and other government trusts while leaving IOUs. They're the same bloodsuckers that manipulated money so you paid a higher percentage of taxes than their friends. And now there's no money for your pension. It's time for them to move the troops into place in case you realize while I was honorable with your money the masters weren't.

Money/wealth is made only by honest men who can think, produce or do both. It's not made by government. Products and wealth are only limited by government. While you and I deal honorably with money, the manipulators don't. The schemes of the moochers to take your wealth are many. (See my article "The Minimum Wage: A Stealth Tax" in the Ether Zone archives to discover one way government robs us, especially the elderly.) Ask why the government would tax an honorable rich man a million dollars to create ten jobs when leaving the money to him to invest would create a hundred jobs. Such poor choices aren't accidents. Our leaders aren't stupid. They now govern mainly by non or extra-Constitutional means. Such actions indicate they have plans they don't want us to know.

Money unmanipulated by bankers and government means every person is the owner of exactly what he or she produces. Money in this sense means no power can dictate the value of your labor, whether mental or physical. Money allows each of us to obtain what other people are willing to voluntarily exchange for our labor. Our labor has a real value and we can obtain the correct amount of goods for our labor and no more. If I produce tacky Christmas ornaments to sell this year and you make better quality ornaments, we'll each be rewarded through the exchange of money for our labor. Left alone money will allow each of us to be rewarded fairly. With ornaments you'll do better than I, unless I purchase some elected leeches and have a government manipulator tax you differently.

There's nothing accidental in the financial and political world. Over the years, I've visited many third world countries. Most were countries caught between a modern economy and feudalism. I've always noticed they had far more levels of police than the United States. As I've gotten off the plane, I've taken note of the troops armed with M-16s throughout their airports. Before the 9-11 attacks, I worried our country was suddenly springing up with different levels of police that were never here before. Seen the transportation police along the interstates? Seen the police lights on the dog catcher and trash patrol cars and jeeps yet? How about their spiffy semi-military uniforms? It reminds me of the endless levels of police in Mexico. I'd guess they are strengthening their hands before bringing on the depression, but perhaps it's just a diversity idea to help make the illegals feel more at home.

Since the September attacks we have troops in our airports. The reality is flashing in neon if only the public would quit following the bin Laden saga to look. The only question is when do they act. When the public realizes our retirements aren't going to purchase fifty pounds of food a week as we'd planned and saved for, but ten pounds because the manipulators siphoned off our saved wealth it will be too late. Yet, there will be a reaction. But don't worry if you're a coward, for the police state is set up. If you stay indoors, you won't get hurt when the few men that still have balls finally stand up and fight the looters, moochers and thieves.

William Kaliher is a free-lance political columnist and a staff writer for the Ether Zone. He can be reached at wkaliher@mindspring.com

(This is the letter I emailed to the author of this article:)

Very good work. OK, I agree with it. I can't help but feel a bit angry with anyone who disagrees. More than likely this is because they have a vested interest in the scam.

Just for the record, here are a few posts of mine: Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 (my article follows the initial, short news summary at the start of the thread) Article 4 . Admittedly, I have lots to learn, but thanks to some pretty smart folks that always oppose me this is forcing me to improve my debate. Nothing has changed my mind, I just simply get better at making my case and debunking the other side. The difficult part in this is most of the thinking behind the existence and actions of 'manipulators' cannot be 'proven' by the smoking gun standard. This is why they can do anything they want. We see the effect, but we are too stupid, and/or too uninformed as to the cause to make reasonable provisions to change the game. Changing the game, imo, means a formal reassertion of the original constitution, and nullification of every court decision still standing and having any effect. I also include in this eliminating all amendments past the 10th.

From there, the Congress needs to go through the slow process of re-amending the constitution with the amendments lost, leaving the possibility that some might not make the cut the second time around. The congress could also pass new amendments to cover disposed of ajudicated law, if desirable. Of course, I would want the type of congress in there, as well as state governors, as well as an administration that are on the same page as the founding fathers.

The effect of this is the same as re-installing the operating system on my computer. Periodically, because I use it often, my computer will get completely bugged out, it slows down, crashes too often, etc. many system files get corrupted, and I am sure other people from the internet have nosed into my computer while I was on-line and did some weird thing to it. So after a while, I get tired of working with the thing, and I find that some programs just do not work the way they used to. The best solution is to simply re-format the drive (erase everything) re-install the original system, and carefully, methodically, slowly add the choice programs that I know i definitely need and want. It is amazing how well that works. I just did that, and my slow screwed up computer works incredibly now. No crashes, files work, starting up takew a few seconds, and getting web pages at 56K is twice as fast as it was before. I know the computer is squeaky clean, the registry file only has in it exactly what it needs, and there are no other funky programs screwing things up.

This is exactly what our country needs, in my view. We need to get a fresh start. Go back to the foundation. Add back the critical amendments, and get rid of the junk. The amazing thing is I must have erased 1 gigabite of files, programs, documents, etc that I do not miss at all. And I bet there were a lot of those files that had no business being on my computer, that, in fact, I did not even know they were there! These same files were the very files that were likely causing all the trouble, but I not being much of a computer expert, have no idea where they are, what they are, when, why, or how they got there.

If you ever take the time to open up your Windows and System folder (just for starters) you'll see thousands of files. Truly the Lord only knows what they all do. After adding programs, visiting web sites, and doing all sorts of miscellaneous work on the computer over time, these two folders (just to name two, I am not even going to get into the registry file) mushroom to gargantuan size. And the thing is if you try to get rid of one, even if it is one you do not want, you find it inter-connected to all these others that you don't want, but you can't figure out where they are, and you find that your computer becomes even more screwed up! That is when I just say "Screw this! I am trashing everything, and re-installing the system"

And you know what? It works! The files and folders I mentioned are 1/10 the size. Hundreds and hundreds of files are missing than what was there before, but my computer works 100 times better and faster, and I have not yet missed a single one of them.

I think you can see the obvious parallel. The govt is loaded up with so much crap, and crappy law, that our entire infrastructure of self-governing liberty has been completely screwed up. There are 'corrupted-files' of certain law, with their advocates and beneficiaires, digging into our 'registry' file and causing these annoying, periodic 'crashes', which can translate into any number of screwy things that come down that result from malevolent mishandling by people empowered by some arcane stupid freedom encroaching law, a law that was cooked up to screw a certain sector of the population for the benefit of another sector. We both know that the law is loaded up to the sky with that kind of junk, and i can tell you right now, except for the creeps who benefit from the corruption, most of us would not even know the law had come and gone. We would not miss it at all.

A 'system' re-installation, my re-assertion of the US Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, would have the delicious effect of abolishing the central banking system, and fiat money. If there were anything that we, as Americans should do, is to abolish the fat money system, and go back to a bi-metallic money standard -- silver and gold. Yes, history has shown us that even when we do have that standard, the creeps find a way to slither in there and manipulate and jerk. But my response to that is we ought to legislate in such a way as to take advantage of that history, and create legal barbed wire to keep those x ers paws of the system. An honest money supply, based on something God created, makes it much more difficult for sleazy SOBs in govt to jerk and screw for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many.

I truly believe there should be a crusade in this country to educate Americans on exactly what money is all about. Honest money, and an honest money supply, means a limited, comparitively more honest govt, and comparitively much greater liberty for the citizens, and a comparitively much more peaceful world, as the govt would lose its ability to engage in nefarious imperialistic plots that can be quickly, and oh so easily financed by fiat money.

An attack against fiat money, central banking, and the return of gold and silver for money is a direct attack on the Beast, a sharp knife to the jugular. Yes, the beast will never die, but it can be cut down to size, so that it can be managed by a free people, instead of it managing us.

People say that if we slay the Beast (get rid of fiat money) there will be financial havoc. Yes, they are right. No heroin addict getting off of junk finds it an easy task. But once the poison is out of the bloodstream, life becomes oh, so much sweeter. The lie is that in the long run, returning to gold/silver as money will ruin us. That is a total, utter, and complete lie. In fact, it is clearly the other way around. The fiat cartel of global aristocrats have done more for the cause of misery than anyone, or anything else in world history. Life is hard enough and fraught with its own organic perils. We do not have to get into the business of shooting ourselves in the foot by encumbering ourselves with the dictates of the fiat aristocracy.

The time has long since past for these pieces of trash to go. If there is a God, and this God is merciful, in His time, hopefully sooner, rather than later, He will find away to expose these people, and help our ailing nation to become freed of their grip. Getting back to an honest money supply does not guarantee success for anyone. It doesn't mean that life will be perfect. However, it does mean that once you have succeeded at something, you get to keep the value of your success, and it cannot be stolen from you by fiat manipulation. It also means that the govt cannot recklessly pursue a policy of taxation w/o representation to expand indefinitely at will. The recent expansion has resulted in an illegal war against the country of Afghanistan. That means, Mr. and Mrs. America, your son or daughter's life is put at risk for reasons that may have nothing to do with the legitimate defense of the country.

Govt expansion is, in short, expensive and deadly. It may come to pass that, yes, the need truly is pressing, and the cause is just, and we, as a people, decide to participate in funding a venture for the best interest of the USA. But we ought to consider the truth that an expansion of govt to facilitate the 'cause' will cost us dearly, so we better be sure the cause is just, and worth the sacrifice.

I think most people just don't get this stuff. The ruling elite prey on the ignorance of the masses. In fact, one thing that to me really tells the whole story, is that while lurking at the freerepublic.com, I noticed a thread about the perpetual virginity of Mary. OK, so maybe Mary was a perpetual virgin. Like, really, does that matter? Man, some people ... Here's the point. Most of these threads might get 50 - 300 posts, the thread dies, and we are on the the next thing. But not on the debate of the perpetual virginity of Mary. Ohhhhh noooooo. Over 1000 posts in two days! I have posted some fairly respectable posts concering the fiat fraud, and one thread garnered 300 posts, despite the fact of some typos, and still in process thinking on my part. I have the right idea, but I still have many blanks to fill in. But sheesh, 1000 posts!

That tells me that people just don't get it, and they really do not care to get it. The ruling class takes advangage of these people, whose religion tells them to divorce themselves from the nuts and bolts of life. Their reward might be great in heaven, and I am not trash talking heavenly rewards, but, hey, even by God's standard, He determined that the lifespan of a man is to be 120 years. Sure, most of us get to 80 if we are lucky (or unlucky, depending on what kind of life you are having), but my point here is that we do live just long enough for these earthly things to matter. While we live in real time, you know what? 80 years is a long time. That is a long time to feel pain, sadness, oppression, disease, etc.

I believe the Lord is very definitely into nuts and bolts for this exact same reason. Even Jesus said, "Whatever you have done unto the least of these you have done unto me" when talking about visiting people in prison, feeding the hungry, clothing the poor, etc. My thinking is that there are systemic causes that can lead people unnecessarily into poverty, hunger, prison, and oppression. If I work to do something that will erase systemic causes of dis-ease, this then gives people the opportunity to live freer, healthier, and happier. What people do with that freedom is up to them. But we ought to have a social construction of liberty that removes unnecessary obstacles to our pursuit of happiness.

This is why the original idea the framers had was so revolutionary, and so successful for the ordinary man or woman. OK, ordinary is a bad word. I think what I am saying is someone who was not by the chance of birth born into great wealth, or a family of great power. It is tragic, imo, that this unprecedented success story for the un-rich born, which is the success story of the USA, which is intimately connected to its constitution, form, and system of government, which at root carries a delightful disdain for aristocracy, has been corrupted, and effectively ruined by the modern global aristocracy. What is worse, is this aristocracy put a pen in our legislators hand, and forced into law the Federal Reserve Act, and act that came into existence because of the deceptive practices and subtrefuge of greedy, power hungry, and ambitious-for-all-the-wrong-reasons men.

Getting back to my computer, yes, it is all cleaned up, and works great. But it is only a tool. I still have to use it properly to bring value to my life. The computer cannot do that for me. But with God's help, and a few good ideas, and a subdued beast cut down to size that is out of my reach, and I out of it's, I can, will, and do.

In a way, none of this would matter so much if I did not have four kids. But having children makes me feel responsible for their future. I do not want them living in a world corrupted by a bunch of snakes who have an illegitimate claim to power, and worse, power funded by the very earnings my children will be making when it is their turn to pursue their life, liberty, and happiness.

It is not the destiny of a free man to finance the schemes of evil men, schemes which bring a curse. It is the destiny of a free man to procure a blessing, and bless others according as the free man sees fit, and not as someone sees fit for him.

Kindest Regards

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