From birth to death…
Here’s another nice little vid, which is hard to argue with; called “your life according to the Government”. You’d think with Australia’s natural advantage, of being able to watch the Americans so we don’t have to tread in the same pile of shit every time, we’d do better. Continue reading From birth to death…

I’ve just watched a great video on the incredible swindle which is our banking system.
“The secret of OZ”

This vid by Bill Still and family demonstrates once again the criminality of the fractional reserve system, and gives a history lesson on how it all came about. I don’t know how real the symbolism in the Wizard of Oz is, and frankly I’m sceptical; it looks to me like another case of wishful thinkers putting more into a story than the storyteller himself ever intended. Nevertheless, the background is good, and the defence against the Gold Standard is well reasoned.

The only real advantage of a gold standard is that it is a limited commodity, which makes it difficult for a government to overspend -and thereby cause inflation. This is currently appealing to many in the current circumstances, when we are facing government run inflation on an unprecedented scale.

The disadvantage, of course, is that in being a scarce -and therefore valuable- commodity, all the power of money remains firmly in the hands of the very rich.

As this movie stresses, currency must be considered to be part of the Common Wealth, and therefore controlled by Common People -AKA the democratically elected Government.

Humans have a remarkable propensity for accepting what is, no matter how ludicrous, and being dubious of what isn’t or could be, no matter how sane.

The vast bulk of our money isn’t printed by our governments; it’s borrowed into existence, through our privately owned banks. If you had a license to print money, who would you pay first?

Why does anything more need to be said?