Quote: "Morgan created a third party, called the Progressive or Bull Moose Party, and ran Teddy Roosevelt to divert some of Taft’s votes"
I had seen it reported that Wilson was Jacob Henry Schiff. No contradiction here, both Morgan and Schiff were connected to the City of London
Quote: "Rice yields are down 10-20%, wheat production is down 3%, and corn crops have lost 13% of their yield. Scientists at Stanford and the University of Washington predict that by mid-century harvests will fall by 20-40% due to rising temperatures."
I believe that a major cause could be the fact that indigenous seeds which had adapted over the centuries to specific regions, soils and climate, have been replaced by GMO seeds and extensive use of pesticides which are detrimental to both health and soils.
Quote: "But there is one thing we do produce, which goes back to E.D. Morel’s clues to invisible slavery abroad: we produce weapons. Lots of weapons."
One of the few positives of neoliberalism's detrimental impact on society and particularly on education, is that the quality of these weapons is deteriorating irreversibly compared to Russia, China and even Iran in some weapon systems.
Quote: "the modern family needs both parents working, since they are bidding against other two-income families for a house"
Excellent way of explaining housing inflation.
Quote: "SubSaharan Africa, which is the poorest part of the world, is paying $25,000 every minute to northern creditors. Well, you could build a lot of schools, a lot of hospitals . . . you could make a lot of job creation if you were using $25,000 a minute differently from debt repayment. So there’s this drain and I think people don’t understand that it is actually the South that is financing the North . . . to the tune of about $200 billion every year."
Excellent!
Quote: "He compares the American people to the children of a Mafia boss who don’t know what their father does, nor do they want to know, but are shocked that someone would throw a firebomb through their window."
Inflation is caused by excessive printing of Bank Notes or as some like to call it , Quantitative Easing. If you or I did this we would be put in jail and this is another form of theft [ Taxation ] .
In the particular case of housing, prices are strongly influenced by interest rates. But the most important factor is demand.
Let's say you are buying pots and pans that are manufactured in China, then if demand is very high, the importer will just order more of them and impact on price would be marginal if any.
But lets say you wish to buy a house you find to be nice in a neighborhood you like, then there is a limited number of such houses, and they cannot be churned out like manufactured goods.
Now lets say you offer $400,000 for the house, and someone else offers $425,000, he will get the house. So house prices are function of supply and demand.
The more people have money, the higher the house prices, but not the pots and pans ;-)
So when families moved from single worker to two workers, naturally families had more available money to bid on houses, which will naturally increase the price :-)
I agree with supply and demand being a factor in the price of an item, but purely from a bank point of view what they have done is caused the purchasing power of cash to become less and less. For example at the turn of the century a family man only working earned $6,000 to have the same purchasing power to day he would need to earn $100,000.
You are 100% correct. I will give you an actual example to note how impoverished society has become since the Nixon Shock of August 1971.
In 1971 Mr. Collins a blue collar worker bought a family house in a nice area in Brooklyn near my uncle's house. The Collins family had a single income, that of Mr. Collins.
House price 1971: $35,000 - 1000 oz
Salary 1971: $14,000 - 400 oz
House price 2025: $1,500,000 - 500 oz
Salary 2025: $80,000 - 27 oz
Real house value 2025 vs. 1971: Dropped by 50%
Real labor value 2025 vs. 1971: Dropped by 93%
Today, Mr. Collins Jr. and his working wife have no chance of buying an equivalent house.
Neoliberal economy = Enslavement of producer class
I can't disagree with your point, David, since I write in this chapter, "The purchasing power of a dollar in 1913 would buy an item in 2013 that cost less than 5 cents, if such an item still existed. It’s as if 95 cents in trade value was leached out of every dollar and diverted to the banks. The rate of inflation over the century came to 1000% of its 1913 value. To picture this, if one’s great-grandparents made $5000 a year in 1913, one would need to make $100,000 a year in 2013 in order to have the same purchasing power."
"It’s not just that food and goods that go in one direction and money in the other; all three flow in the opposite direction of the weapons."
I'm directionally challenged by this passage :-) . Let's say food and goods are going east, and money is going west (the opposite direction). In what direction are weapons going, such that it would be the opposite direction from food and goods AND money?
You're right, Mark, as usual. And you're making more work for yourself ;-)
I think it could be fixed by taking out the word 'just'. It's really that food, goods and debt money flow from the global South to the global North. But weapons flow from the US to the south.
I understand now. What confused me was "money in the other [direction]" , but you're saying that it's DEBT money, and that it's actually going in the same direction as food and goods.
To David, Mark certainly knows this since he's not only read my book but has been painstakingly proof-reading and putting it in multiple e-book formats. He therefore also knows that the Supreme Court did agreed that the mortgage is void as a contract because the banks have put in nothing of value, but ruled that it would disrupt everything to acknowledge that. It's in my book.
His confusion was over the so-called national debts that keep the third world impoverished and producing for our benefit, not theirs, which I'll be explaining more in later chapters.
I just listened to an interview Tom Cowan did with someone representing that we create the money with our IOU--even if it's not backed by repayment with money we earn over time or repossession of the house if we don't pay. The interviewee was saying we can have our own bank and create money out of nothing just like them, backed by nothing.
While I agree on the problem, I think this solution is simplistic. Tom asked good questions like, how do you decide who gets the property if we're just making up numbers? What if someone wants to buy 10 houses with made-up numbers? I didn't think the interviewee had good answers to that but I put in a request for an interview so I could explain how my system does solve the problem.
To me this is the most important story that the world should know and everyone should have read either of the two books below. There are many tentacles that connect this story, please see the list of some of them below. ALL war are Banksters wars , without huge sums of money from the Zionist Banksters none of the know wars would have ever started; see my link to the BRADBURY POUND.
The secrets of the Federal Reserve. The London Connection.
It is beyond my comprehension as to how this act even surfaced. The USA has a well documented history of allowing Private Banks to print money and know it is a complete DISASTER for the American people, banks and politicians have fought tooth and nail over this point in the past.
The irony of this is Republicans introduced this act, the Democrats opposed it all the way.
The video below shows how and why the OLYMPIC not the Titanic was deliberately sunk and a Royal Navy ship watch it sink failing to give assistance.
The most impotent part of this story, numerous people were warned not to sail on the " Titanic ", this left THREE Bankers who were opposed to the 1913 Act to be drowned
The Titanic Conspiracy - The Great Deception [ John Hamer ]. His book is a good read.
At the beginning of 1914 England was virtually bankrupt. The Banksters stepped in and said that the The Bank of England should print and issue Debit Free Money ; THE BRADBURY POUND and after the war coerced them to stop this and revert back to their usury system as they had not made a profit from the war.
This information was kept secret for a very long time , until he received an an anonymous telephone call and was advised to find information on the Bradbury pound.
I invite you to clarify my interpretation of your ideas and to ask questions, as I will, about how we might arrive at worthwhile assumptions, reasonable principles, and practical solutions.
Let's learn.
The point of your podcasts seems to be that most people around us are off on the wrong foot, culturally, politically, and/or economically.
The principle you seem to stand on is that there is a need for an economic system that promotes sharing and caring and can build eventual abundance from initial scarcity. Your focus is on small local communities.
Activities like...
Barn raising, Ubuntu networking, Permaculture practices, local man-hour banking, community gardening, farmer's market...
...might fit the local economies you envision.
How flexible is your economic plan? How expandable is it? What is the longest long-term idea you are considering?
What do you think about these things? What are your priorities? Who are your heroes? How well maintained is your crap detector?
I am a happy hermit introvert. I exercise social intelligence by joining music groups and participating in large extended family gatherings. I also love solitude, where I exercise curiosity, imagination, and creativity.
I have many creative ideas about helping to change the course of our cultural/political hell-bound hand basket. Among other things I think we (humanity) should regularly worship the sacred, celebrate philosophers, celebrate poets, and create art. I think we should cherish our relationships with people and nature and the divine.
Hmmm, Mark. It's seeming to me that, rather than you reading what I've written about my purpose, principles and economic system, you want me to summarize them for your convenience in a comment box. And then respond to you in a one-on-one rather than communicating to the audience who HAS listened to my episodes, read my book and done their homework to understand my ideas.
The point of my podcasts is to teach myself something new, usually in the realm of socio-spirituality: taking a hard look at the reality in the world while questioning the reality of the world. My principle is to love the person, challenge the ideas. My only belief is that I'm no better than anyone else. The hypothesis I choose to live is that people are inherently good and, when they behave badly, system and stories are to blame.
My economic system is NOT based on sharing and caring and abundance. It's a system of small scale sovereignty backed by the mortgages that enables a calibrated reciprocity in the exchange of services and goods. Sharing and caring are individual choices. When systematized, they steal from the masses and enable centralized control.
Either there is no such thing as a miracle, or we are immersed in an infinite sea of miracles we are largely blind to.
I believe the latter.
Homework? Human nature? Economic systems? Reality?
What are we talking about?
Systems of human community living?
In one context, money is a tool that facilitates earning a higher standard of living. In another context, money is a tool of top-down control through debt slavery. Who will issue the money of your system and how can they be held accountable for managing their script or currency or rules for negociable instruments?
First things first: what are you talking about and what are you saying about it?
"the reality in..."
"the reality of..."
Did you mean to say you wish to look at reality while questioning its mainstream narratives? You use phrases like "taking a hard look at the reality in the world" and, at the same time, you say you want to be "questioning the reality of the world." Is some reality "in" the world while some other reality is "of" the world? I supposed that when you said "of" you might be referring to stories, like newsreels, TV news, or so-called news broadcasts. Am I right?
In my experience, news reports, written and broadcast, have been largely biased, limited, inaccurate, or some combination of those three. If you agree, and if your intention is to question news reports so as to arrive at the truth of the matter, then I applaud your efforts.
your idea
I infer that you claim to have an economic system. You seem to claim that it is not based on sharing and it is not based on caring, yet your own words seem to contradict this.
Let's take "sharing" first. You say your system "enables a calibrated reciprocity." That sounds to me like fair sharing by exchanging things of equal value, like here's ½ of my PBJ sandwhich to be shared with you as you share ½ of your tunafish sandwhich with me. Aren't we both sharing?
Now let's take "caring." Let's examine what is required in order to exercise sovereignty, individual or "small scale" or otherwise. Fir example, my individual sovereignty might be an exercise of my freedom of speech. In that case I would have a concern about whether or not my speech was tolerated or punished. Isn't having a concern for consequences the same as caring? If consequences don't matter to me, that means I don't care. If consequences do matter to me, that means I care. A small group acting together, freely participating in mutually beneficial contracts, seems to require that the participating individuals *care* about the consequences of good or bad contracts. They must also be concerned, and therefore *care,* about whether or not the contracts are fair or not. Also, I assume that the necessary results of good contracts over time brings an abundance of variety snd wealth to all concerned (small scale or otherwise).
Further, I'd say that if either sharing (fair exchange) or caring (accountability) or abundance (wealth) were eliminated, the attempted economic system would reasonably be considered a failure by definition.
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws"
Mark, I can't do this. Do you ask every author to rephrase their books and posts as a direct response to you, or only women? You write, "I infer that you claim to have an economic system." Then you tell me what my economic system is based on, that you see as merely my 'claim' to even exist.
If you are an actual person and not a time-wasting bot, of which I'm not sure, I suggest that you comment on the thread when the next chapter of my book comes out, later this week. That way other people can engage with you when you address things I've already covered--like Rothschild's self-evident quote.
Or at least when I answer you, it will be among people who do value my time.
Examining Significant Limitations, Contradictions, and Inconsistencies¹
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Tereza,
You wanted to know whether I expect *every* author to rephrase and/or fully explicate the ideas in their publications. You might be wondering whether I cross-examine and/or challenge the author of *every* new idea I study.
Do I?
Short answer, yes.
Every presentation of writing and/or audio recording, claiming certainty, that I wish to seriously consider, gets subjected to my own personalized self-education methods. Hence I question, challenge, and attempt to verify every significant claim I find. I take copious notes while questioning, paraphrasing, cross-referencing, and underlining.
In a similar fashion, I also may consider other paths to truth such as mythologies, fictional narratives, and poetic metaphors. I attempt to walk in the shoes of the author. I try on the world view of the author as best I can in order to gain literal understanding as well as metaphorical comprehension. I read between the lines. I apply many different means of finding the beauty, goodness, and truth of the matter, including intuition and imagination as well as scientific theorizing and logical reasoning.
Herein please find some authors I've recently considered:
•John Taylor Gatto (<2018)
•Stephen Monday
(local health officer I challenged publicly in the op-ed page of our local newdpaper, concerning his unfounded reasons for public ORDERS to wear masks)
(lecturer on the Trivium I criticized for failing to use Trivium Logic concerning the determination of cause of death during an alleged pandemic)
•Richard Grove (& Tony & LD)
(podcasters who sensibly changed their format after I criticised them for contradicting their own principles by falsely claiming expertise regarding "virology" and "gene therapy")
•James Corbett
•Mark Passio
•Michael Tellinger
•Quan Le (人間)
•Matt Ehret (husband)
•Cynthia Chung (wife)
•Sam Bailey (wife)
•Mark Bailey (husband)
•Tom Cowan
•Mike Holmes (& extended family)
•Iain McGilchrist
•Tom Shaw
•Lluvias Trozzi (OTTY founder)
•Oliver Anthony (troubadour & activist singing "Rich Men North of Richmond")
•Catherine Austin Fitts
•Tereza Coraggio
¹An actual
human
individual,
•mark spark
[ :-)
PS
If you feel it is a waste of your time to respond to my comments, simply ignore them. I respect your time and intend no malice.
How about Michael Tellinger's weapon to fight back, using central banker style "negotiable instruments"? Has anyone got real relief from bankster slavery that way?
Has home education, unschooling, or deschooling (a la Ivan Illich) helped any communities reverse oligarch slavery systems?
mark spark
PS
Alternate helpful sources offering a way out of our globalist terrarium tend to evaporate from search results and common media. Have you found any antidotes?
Hi, Mark. Out of curiosity, what source still had the first edition subtitle? I did change that in the next version, thanks to a friend who said, "I don't think this is what you think it is." But I've chosen to keep many ideas in my book on which I've changed my mind. I think that recognizing where we've been wrong, and knowing there are things we're wrong about now, is an important part of not judging others.
The overarching metaphor I use for my economic system is regenerative agriculture, which both supports local sovereignty and transfers carbon in the air into the building block of life in the soil. I still think that animal husbandry as a way of restoring nutrients and grasslands is better than petrochemicals. And it creates self-reliance, which we need for economic sovereignty.
I certainly agree, from this vantage point, that climate change has been weaponized as a tool of global control. Is there truth to it? I don't know. Either way, my solution is the opposite of one-world government, it's micro-economies feeding themselves. So I don't spend time on the question because my answer stands either way.
But yes, my friend was right that the 'green new deal' wasn't just a nice catch phrase for people restoring the land and getting the pollution out of the water and skies (much more now with geo-engineering.) It was a psyop, an agenda with an ulterior motive to use our love--for nature, for animals, for people--against us. Those who never cared about those things didn't fall for the psyop. And the next psyop is that we should allow corporations to do whatever they want. Is that better?
I going to mull over these ideas, review my notes, and return with a more substantial response.
I greatly appreciate your apparent striving for beauty, goodness, and truth.
Godspeed.
I intend a similar striving. In general I study and sing. I attend to family and nature and God.
I ask myself about what's really going on. Since about 2011 I've decided to study extensively. I've developed my own methods since I have been thoroughly schooled.
I find I must unschool myself in order to get serious about educating myself.
If there is any way I can help you with your dialectic path, I'd be grateful to participate.
Your podcast presentations, the more I listened, seem to indicate that you would not willingly participate in any false flag agenda or gaslighting. So this subtitle struck me as a strange contradiction.
(Here are some paraphrases of fictional chatacters I admire.)
I am merely an egg. I wish to grok you in fullness.
(grok = intuit and comprehend the principles of)
There is good in this world, and it is worth striving for.
Thanks for alerting me to that, Mark. I'm not sure if Goodreads is picking that up from the Amazon listing or from the barcode registration. I'm going to be updating the version on Amazon soon and putting out a kindle version and a new cover. It's a good reminder to update the barcode reading or change it to a new one with the new cover. Appreciate the mix-up, that was helpful.
Funny paraphrase ;-)
Good mulling and I look forward to your more substantial response when you're done.
My book is a geo-economics primer so, yes, it does look to do with economics what Gatto does with the history of education in the first two sections. The next two present the current state of economics and foreign policy. And the final two lay the groundwork for my solution.
This chapter concluded the second section on history, but your questions were jumping to the final two sections on solutions. I wouldn't say the problem is debt money, it's who's issuing the debt. Ben Franklin's system in this chapter is what mine is based on: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/05-the-short-eventful-life-of-sovereign money.
I debunk community currencies in my book and look at the other things you mention in subsequent chapters. But any global economic system that can be explained in a soundbite isn't worth the pixels to display it. On my recent post, I have a detailed discussion with Fadi Lama, who's also written a geo-econ primer, on the nuts and bolts of it. If you want to jump into the thick of it, here it is: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/shanghaied-cities/comment/101926516.
Superb!!!!
Quote: "Morgan created a third party, called the Progressive or Bull Moose Party, and ran Teddy Roosevelt to divert some of Taft’s votes"
I had seen it reported that Wilson was Jacob Henry Schiff. No contradiction here, both Morgan and Schiff were connected to the City of London
Quote: "Rice yields are down 10-20%, wheat production is down 3%, and corn crops have lost 13% of their yield. Scientists at Stanford and the University of Washington predict that by mid-century harvests will fall by 20-40% due to rising temperatures."
I believe that a major cause could be the fact that indigenous seeds which had adapted over the centuries to specific regions, soils and climate, have been replaced by GMO seeds and extensive use of pesticides which are detrimental to both health and soils.
Quote: "But there is one thing we do produce, which goes back to E.D. Morel’s clues to invisible slavery abroad: we produce weapons. Lots of weapons."
One of the few positives of neoliberalism's detrimental impact on society and particularly on education, is that the quality of these weapons is deteriorating irreversibly compared to Russia, China and even Iran in some weapon systems.
Quote: "the modern family needs both parents working, since they are bidding against other two-income families for a house"
Excellent way of explaining housing inflation.
Quote: "SubSaharan Africa, which is the poorest part of the world, is paying $25,000 every minute to northern creditors. Well, you could build a lot of schools, a lot of hospitals . . . you could make a lot of job creation if you were using $25,000 a minute differently from debt repayment. So there’s this drain and I think people don’t understand that it is actually the South that is financing the North . . . to the tune of about $200 billion every year."
Excellent!
Quote: "He compares the American people to the children of a Mafia boss who don’t know what their father does, nor do they want to know, but are shocked that someone would throw a firebomb through their window."
Lovely analogy
Inflation is caused by excessive printing of Bank Notes or as some like to call it , Quantitative Easing. If you or I did this we would be put in jail and this is another form of theft [ Taxation ] .
I agree about excessive printing in general.
In the particular case of housing, prices are strongly influenced by interest rates. But the most important factor is demand.
Let's say you are buying pots and pans that are manufactured in China, then if demand is very high, the importer will just order more of them and impact on price would be marginal if any.
But lets say you wish to buy a house you find to be nice in a neighborhood you like, then there is a limited number of such houses, and they cannot be churned out like manufactured goods.
Now lets say you offer $400,000 for the house, and someone else offers $425,000, he will get the house. So house prices are function of supply and demand.
The more people have money, the higher the house prices, but not the pots and pans ;-)
So when families moved from single worker to two workers, naturally families had more available money to bid on houses, which will naturally increase the price :-)
I agree with supply and demand being a factor in the price of an item, but purely from a bank point of view what they have done is caused the purchasing power of cash to become less and less. For example at the turn of the century a family man only working earned $6,000 to have the same purchasing power to day he would need to earn $100,000.
You are 100% correct. I will give you an actual example to note how impoverished society has become since the Nixon Shock of August 1971.
In 1971 Mr. Collins a blue collar worker bought a family house in a nice area in Brooklyn near my uncle's house. The Collins family had a single income, that of Mr. Collins.
House price 1971: $35,000 - 1000 oz
Salary 1971: $14,000 - 400 oz
House price 2025: $1,500,000 - 500 oz
Salary 2025: $80,000 - 27 oz
Real house value 2025 vs. 1971: Dropped by 50%
Real labor value 2025 vs. 1971: Dropped by 93%
Today, Mr. Collins Jr. and his working wife have no chance of buying an equivalent house.
Neoliberal economy = Enslavement of producer class
I can't disagree with your point, David, since I write in this chapter, "The purchasing power of a dollar in 1913 would buy an item in 2013 that cost less than 5 cents, if such an item still existed. It’s as if 95 cents in trade value was leached out of every dollar and diverted to the banks. The rate of inflation over the century came to 1000% of its 1913 value. To picture this, if one’s great-grandparents made $5000 a year in 1913, one would need to make $100,000 a year in 2013 in order to have the same purchasing power."
Can’t wait to read your book, Tereza. Swamped right now but soon! 🤓
you are asking the right questions...
One more nitpick: I looked up the Dr. Who episode, and it's called "Planet of the Ood" (not "Oods").
Another great chapter - very well researched and enlightening. Thanks.
"It’s not just that food and goods that go in one direction and money in the other; all three flow in the opposite direction of the weapons."
I'm directionally challenged by this passage :-) . Let's say food and goods are going east, and money is going west (the opposite direction). In what direction are weapons going, such that it would be the opposite direction from food and goods AND money?
You're right, Mark, as usual. And you're making more work for yourself ;-)
I think it could be fixed by taking out the word 'just'. It's really that food, goods and debt money flow from the global South to the global North. But weapons flow from the US to the south.
I understand now. What confused me was "money in the other [direction]" , but you're saying that it's DEBT money, and that it's actually going in the same direction as food and goods.
To David, Mark certainly knows this since he's not only read my book but has been painstakingly proof-reading and putting it in multiple e-book formats. He therefore also knows that the Supreme Court did agreed that the mortgage is void as a contract because the banks have put in nothing of value, but ruled that it would disrupt everything to acknowledge that. It's in my book.
His confusion was over the so-called national debts that keep the third world impoverished and producing for our benefit, not theirs, which I'll be explaining more in later chapters.
I just listened to an interview Tom Cowan did with someone representing that we create the money with our IOU--even if it's not backed by repayment with money we earn over time or repossession of the house if we don't pay. The interviewee was saying we can have our own bank and create money out of nothing just like them, backed by nothing.
While I agree on the problem, I think this solution is simplistic. Tom asked good questions like, how do you decide who gets the property if we're just making up numbers? What if someone wants to buy 10 houses with made-up numbers? I didn't think the interviewee had good answers to that but I put in a request for an interview so I could explain how my system does solve the problem.
Actually my confusion was about the directions, and which ones were the opposites of each other. It's a geek/math thing, I guess :-) .
You may not believe this , but when you ask for a loan from the banks .
It is you that are creating the cash , not the bank, they just tap out numbers on a computer, Fresh Air Money OR create a debt.
They never had anything of value in the first place such as Gold , Silver, Cash.
As they have not loaned anything of value it makes the contract void.
This has been through the courts and judges have agreed , but Kept very quiet about it.
Remember Governments are doing this on a grand scale every day, billions and Trillions.
To me this is the most important story that the world should know and everyone should have read either of the two books below. There are many tentacles that connect this story, please see the list of some of them below. ALL war are Banksters wars , without huge sums of money from the Zionist Banksters none of the know wars would have ever started; see my link to the BRADBURY POUND.
The secrets of the Federal Reserve. The London Connection.
https://ia903207.us.archive.org/27/items/mullins-e.-c.-secrets-of-the-federal-reserve-1991/MULLINS(E.C.)-Secrets_of_the_Federal_Reserve_(1991).pdf
The Creature From Jekyll Island A Second Look At The Federal Reserve. https://archive.org/details/the-creature-from-jekyll-island-a-second-look-at-the-federal-reserve_202304/page/n1/mode/2up
It is beyond my comprehension as to how this act even surfaced. The USA has a well documented history of allowing Private Banks to print money and know it is a complete DISASTER for the American people, banks and politicians have fought tooth and nail over this point in the past.
The irony of this is Republicans introduced this act, the Democrats opposed it all the way.
The video below shows how and why the OLYMPIC not the Titanic was deliberately sunk and a Royal Navy ship watch it sink failing to give assistance.
The most impotent part of this story, numerous people were warned not to sail on the " Titanic ", this left THREE Bankers who were opposed to the 1913 Act to be drowned
The Titanic Conspiracy - The Great Deception [ John Hamer ]. His book is a good read.
https://archive.org/details/youtube-zOca_wTZ5BQ
At the beginning of 1914 England was virtually bankrupt. The Banksters stepped in and said that the The Bank of England should print and issue Debit Free Money ; THE BRADBURY POUND and after the war coerced them to stop this and revert back to their usury system as they had not made a profit from the war.
Bankers, Bradburys, Carnage And Slaughter On The Western Front. https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/bankers-bradburys-carnage-and-slaughter-western-front
This information was kept secret for a very long time , until he received an an anonymous telephone call and was advised to find information on the Bradbury pound.
Justin Walker take back Bradbury Pound On the 7th August 1914, in order to avoid a run on the banks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhPlg0Z_w0U
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Tereza,
Philosophy Dialectic
22 MAR 25
I invite you to clarify my interpretation of your ideas and to ask questions, as I will, about how we might arrive at worthwhile assumptions, reasonable principles, and practical solutions.
Let's learn.
The point of your podcasts seems to be that most people around us are off on the wrong foot, culturally, politically, and/or economically.
The principle you seem to stand on is that there is a need for an economic system that promotes sharing and caring and can build eventual abundance from initial scarcity. Your focus is on small local communities.
Activities like...
Barn raising, Ubuntu networking, Permaculture practices, local man-hour banking, community gardening, farmer's market...
...might fit the local economies you envision.
How flexible is your economic plan? How expandable is it? What is the longest long-term idea you are considering?
What do you think about these things? What are your priorities? Who are your heroes? How well maintained is your crap detector?
I am a happy hermit introvert. I exercise social intelligence by joining music groups and participating in large extended family gatherings. I also love solitude, where I exercise curiosity, imagination, and creativity.
I have many creative ideas about helping to change the course of our cultural/political hell-bound hand basket. Among other things I think we (humanity) should regularly worship the sacred, celebrate philosophers, celebrate poets, and create art. I think we should cherish our relationships with people and nature and the divine.
But what do I know?
mark spark
[ :-)
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Hmmm, Mark. It's seeming to me that, rather than you reading what I've written about my purpose, principles and economic system, you want me to summarize them for your convenience in a comment box. And then respond to you in a one-on-one rather than communicating to the audience who HAS listened to my episodes, read my book and done their homework to understand my ideas.
The point of my podcasts is to teach myself something new, usually in the realm of socio-spirituality: taking a hard look at the reality in the world while questioning the reality of the world. My principle is to love the person, challenge the ideas. My only belief is that I'm no better than anyone else. The hypothesis I choose to live is that people are inherently good and, when they behave badly, system and stories are to blame.
My economic system is NOT based on sharing and caring and abundance. It's a system of small scale sovereignty backed by the mortgages that enables a calibrated reciprocity in the exchange of services and goods. Sharing and caring are individual choices. When systematized, they steal from the masses and enable centralized control.
Here's an early episode on the overall philosophy, if you call it that: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/socio-spirituality-and-small-scale sovereignty
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Tereza.
Either there is no such thing as a miracle, or we are immersed in an infinite sea of miracles we are largely blind to.
I believe the latter.
Homework? Human nature? Economic systems? Reality?
What are we talking about?
Systems of human community living?
In one context, money is a tool that facilitates earning a higher standard of living. In another context, money is a tool of top-down control through debt slavery. Who will issue the money of your system and how can they be held accountable for managing their script or currency or rules for negociable instruments?
First things first: what are you talking about and what are you saying about it?
"the reality in..."
"the reality of..."
Did you mean to say you wish to look at reality while questioning its mainstream narratives? You use phrases like "taking a hard look at the reality in the world" and, at the same time, you say you want to be "questioning the reality of the world." Is some reality "in" the world while some other reality is "of" the world? I supposed that when you said "of" you might be referring to stories, like newsreels, TV news, or so-called news broadcasts. Am I right?
In my experience, news reports, written and broadcast, have been largely biased, limited, inaccurate, or some combination of those three. If you agree, and if your intention is to question news reports so as to arrive at the truth of the matter, then I applaud your efforts.
your idea
I infer that you claim to have an economic system. You seem to claim that it is not based on sharing and it is not based on caring, yet your own words seem to contradict this.
Let's take "sharing" first. You say your system "enables a calibrated reciprocity." That sounds to me like fair sharing by exchanging things of equal value, like here's ½ of my PBJ sandwhich to be shared with you as you share ½ of your tunafish sandwhich with me. Aren't we both sharing?
Now let's take "caring." Let's examine what is required in order to exercise sovereignty, individual or "small scale" or otherwise. Fir example, my individual sovereignty might be an exercise of my freedom of speech. In that case I would have a concern about whether or not my speech was tolerated or punished. Isn't having a concern for consequences the same as caring? If consequences don't matter to me, that means I don't care. If consequences do matter to me, that means I care. A small group acting together, freely participating in mutually beneficial contracts, seems to require that the participating individuals *care* about the consequences of good or bad contracts. They must also be concerned, and therefore *care,* about whether or not the contracts are fair or not. Also, I assume that the necessary results of good contracts over time brings an abundance of variety snd wealth to all concerned (small scale or otherwise).
Further, I'd say that if either sharing (fair exchange) or caring (accountability) or abundance (wealth) were eliminated, the attempted economic system would reasonably be considered a failure by definition.
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws"
— Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
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Mark, I can't do this. Do you ask every author to rephrase their books and posts as a direct response to you, or only women? You write, "I infer that you claim to have an economic system." Then you tell me what my economic system is based on, that you see as merely my 'claim' to even exist.
If you are an actual person and not a time-wasting bot, of which I'm not sure, I suggest that you comment on the thread when the next chapter of my book comes out, later this week. That way other people can engage with you when you address things I've already covered--like Rothschild's self-evident quote.
Or at least when I answer you, it will be among people who do value my time.
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Examining Significant Limitations, Contradictions, and Inconsistencies¹
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Tereza,
You wanted to know whether I expect *every* author to rephrase and/or fully explicate the ideas in their publications. You might be wondering whether I cross-examine and/or challenge the author of *every* new idea I study.
Do I?
Short answer, yes.
Every presentation of writing and/or audio recording, claiming certainty, that I wish to seriously consider, gets subjected to my own personalized self-education methods. Hence I question, challenge, and attempt to verify every significant claim I find. I take copious notes while questioning, paraphrasing, cross-referencing, and underlining.
In a similar fashion, I also may consider other paths to truth such as mythologies, fictional narratives, and poetic metaphors. I attempt to walk in the shoes of the author. I try on the world view of the author as best I can in order to gain literal understanding as well as metaphorical comprehension. I read between the lines. I apply many different means of finding the beauty, goodness, and truth of the matter, including intuition and imagination as well as scientific theorizing and logical reasoning.
Herein please find some authors I've recently considered:
•John Taylor Gatto (<2018)
•Stephen Monday
(local health officer I challenged publicly in the op-ed page of our local newdpaper, concerning his unfounded reasons for public ORDERS to wear masks)
•Kevin Cole https://www.unityofthepolis.com/about/
(lecturer on the Trivium I criticized for failing to use Trivium Logic concerning the determination of cause of death during an alleged pandemic)
•Richard Grove (& Tony & LD)
(podcasters who sensibly changed their format after I criticised them for contradicting their own principles by falsely claiming expertise regarding "virology" and "gene therapy")
•James Corbett
•Mark Passio
•Michael Tellinger
•Quan Le (人間)
•Matt Ehret (husband)
•Cynthia Chung (wife)
•Sam Bailey (wife)
•Mark Bailey (husband)
•Tom Cowan
•Mike Holmes (& extended family)
•Iain McGilchrist
•Tom Shaw
•Lluvias Trozzi (OTTY founder)
•Oliver Anthony (troubadour & activist singing "Rich Men North of Richmond")
•Catherine Austin Fitts
•Tereza Coraggio
¹An actual
human
individual,
•mark spark
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If you feel it is a waste of your time to respond to my comments, simply ignore them. I respect your time and intend no malice.
("•" = Menschen, not AI)
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Roger that.
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Tereza Coraggio,
Yes, we are so like children of mafiosos.
Yes, debt money is the big scam.
What ifs...
Community ledgers with community currency? Any success stories of that kind you see?
Establishing legal standing as living men and women a la David Straight?
https://youtu.be/xh_ZbLjNd7Y
Is that working?
How about Michael Tellinger's weapon to fight back, using central banker style "negotiable instruments"? Has anyone got real relief from bankster slavery that way?
Has home education, unschooling, or deschooling (a la Ivan Illich) helped any communities reverse oligarch slavery systems?
mark spark
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Alternate helpful sources offering a way out of our globalist terrarium tend to evaporate from search results and common media. Have you found any antidotes?
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Well, Mark, I could write a book in answer to your questions. In fact, already have.
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Wait one. Re (2020)
Tereza Coraggio,
Did I read your subtitle of "How to Dismantle an Empire" correctly?
"...and fund the green new deal"?
Is this the GND "green new deal" intended to address "climate change"?
Is this about promotong renewable energy?
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Hi, Mark. Out of curiosity, what source still had the first edition subtitle? I did change that in the next version, thanks to a friend who said, "I don't think this is what you think it is." But I've chosen to keep many ideas in my book on which I've changed my mind. I think that recognizing where we've been wrong, and knowing there are things we're wrong about now, is an important part of not judging others.
The overarching metaphor I use for my economic system is regenerative agriculture, which both supports local sovereignty and transfers carbon in the air into the building block of life in the soil. I still think that animal husbandry as a way of restoring nutrients and grasslands is better than petrochemicals. And it creates self-reliance, which we need for economic sovereignty.
I certainly agree, from this vantage point, that climate change has been weaponized as a tool of global control. Is there truth to it? I don't know. Either way, my solution is the opposite of one-world government, it's micro-economies feeding themselves. So I don't spend time on the question because my answer stands either way.
But yes, my friend was right that the 'green new deal' wasn't just a nice catch phrase for people restoring the land and getting the pollution out of the water and skies (much more now with geo-engineering.) It was a psyop, an agenda with an ulterior motive to use our love--for nature, for animals, for people--against us. Those who never cared about those things didn't fall for the psyop. And the next psyop is that we should allow corporations to do whatever they want. Is that better?
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Tereza,
I going to mull over these ideas, review my notes, and return with a more substantial response.
I greatly appreciate your apparent striving for beauty, goodness, and truth.
Godspeed.
I intend a similar striving. In general I study and sing. I attend to family and nature and God.
I ask myself about what's really going on. Since about 2011 I've decided to study extensively. I've developed my own methods since I have been thoroughly schooled.
I find I must unschool myself in order to get serious about educating myself.
If there is any way I can help you with your dialectic path, I'd be grateful to participate.
mark spark
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Old subtitle with mention of green new deal was found near the top of my initial search using duckduck.go ...
This was the book search result on "Goodreads" ...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57624890-how-to-dismantle-an-empire-and-fund-the-green-new-deal
Your podcast presentations, the more I listened, seem to indicate that you would not willingly participate in any false flag agenda or gaslighting. So this subtitle struck me as a strange contradiction.
(Here are some paraphrases of fictional chatacters I admire.)
I am merely an egg. I wish to grok you in fullness.
(grok = intuit and comprehend the principles of)
There is good in this world, and it is worth striving for.
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Thanks for alerting me to that, Mark. I'm not sure if Goodreads is picking that up from the Amazon listing or from the barcode registration. I'm going to be updating the version on Amazon soon and putting out a kindle version and a new cover. It's a good reminder to update the barcode reading or change it to a new one with the new cover. Appreciate the mix-up, that was helpful.
Funny paraphrase ;-)
Good mulling and I look forward to your more substantial response when you're done.
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Woah mark, she has evolved from the sub title implications of the first edition.
See
https://open.substack.com/pub/thirdparadigm/p/how-i-became-who-i-am?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1tuvbq
OK. My bad.
I was ready to skip it, but now I'm interested in that book again. I think it might be reminiscent of
(1971) "Deschooling Society"
-Ivan Illich
After John Taylor Gatto's "Underground History of American Edication"
(2003)
I decided there is a back story to history that can't be found in textbooks.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Underground-History-of-American-Education:-A-of-Gatto/e6befc13e5caa41fdf981bc9bb9c1da8fd4bc23d
See also (John's interview)
https://youtu.be/IZBdv2yznmI
See also (Norman Dodd explains underlying conspiracy via tax exempt foundations as investigated by the Reese Committee in 1953)
https://youtu.be/SByy_qikgpQ
mark spark
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Gatto is someone I've long admired, and I have the books you mention. From a quick search on my site, I have these that talk about him:
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/reinventing-education
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/six-levels-of-political-reality
Also love and quote from Ivan Illich.
My book is a geo-economics primer so, yes, it does look to do with economics what Gatto does with the history of education in the first two sections. The next two present the current state of economics and foreign policy. And the final two lay the groundwork for my solution.
This chapter concluded the second section on history, but your questions were jumping to the final two sections on solutions. I wouldn't say the problem is debt money, it's who's issuing the debt. Ben Franklin's system in this chapter is what mine is based on: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/05-the-short-eventful-life-of-sovereign money.
I debunk community currencies in my book and look at the other things you mention in subsequent chapters. But any global economic system that can be explained in a soundbite isn't worth the pixels to display it. On my recent post, I have a detailed discussion with Fadi Lama, who's also written a geo-econ primer, on the nuts and bolts of it. If you want to jump into the thick of it, here it is: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/shanghaied-cities/comment/101926516.