An Idea

You know this New World Order thing, something that by the way is always taken in a negative context. Remember, its origin don’t start with Bush senior or any politician but the Mayans.

However, that’s another story.

New World Order.

The plans of a handful of unseen puppeteers who have pulled the strings of government and finance for over a century.

Make no mistake about these men. They are not in the NOW business for the money. They know what money is, and it’s not a thing of value. It’s a thing of control.

Besides, they come from families that have had all the money they could want for generations, so acquiring more wealth is pointless.

No, the NWO, one world government, one world currency, one world army and police, is all about power.

Power over us.

Humanity.

It’s a game of King of the Castle. Top dog. Elitism in its purist form.

Money is simply a way of making people focus on getting by, of managing, and of not noticing while the world changes around them. Until it’s too late and it has changed and they’re stuffed.

The conspiracy theories of mass genocide and the world population being reduced to a billion or so, is scary, but if you think about it, it makes sense. Less people can be controlled easier. Its management planning, very much like downscaling a business, which is if you think about it, exactly what it’s all about. It’s the viewpoint that these men view the world from. Ethical dilemmas and moral choices would simply not be an option.

Like organised crime. It’s nothing personal. Its business. BIG business!

Except in this dark prediction, it’s not a case of sacking a few workers, it killing 80% of the Earth population.

But, back to money.

If money is the name of the game here, and these individuals use money to control people, the wage slaves so to speak, then money is important, oh not for its value because it has only the value that people place in it. Money is the Emperors New Cloths, and people only really value it because it’s constantly being taken away from us. Its perceived value is totally down to its scarcity.

So, money is the heart of the system, and the big players rely on our perception of monies value to control us, to distract us, to give us our false hopes.

This means, they rely on money as much as we do.

It’s their only true power over us.

As it is our overwhelming preoccupation, it is their overriding problem. Without it, they have no control, and our distractions are gone.

Another means of our control is the fact that we no longer perceive that we have any say in what our governments do? They decide things and some may protest, some may just resign themselves to the thought that they just have to put up with it. We have more important things to think about like earning enough to pay the rent or feed our children. We feel powerless, when in fact. We have all the power that we could ever need.

Because what is the one thing that governments need?

Yep, you guessed it. Money!

And where does that money come from?

People.

Oh, we all know about the Factional reserve system and how money is created. That’s not the point here. The point is that governments fund their actions through the taxes that people pay as they earn.

If people weren’t contributing, they couldn’t just print up a load of money and use that. That’s not the way the game works.

People work to earn enough to live on, and the governments tax them for earning and then use the money to pay for things, that only some of the time, benefit the people who pay those taxes.

A great example at this moment in time is Britain’s Trident Nuclear missile programme.

A huge proportion of the British people don’t want it.

But in the same week as the CBI have declared that students should be paying more cos the recession is hitting the government hard, that same government is proposing to update the Trident system to the tune of around £70 billion pounds.

And for what.

What is this system actually protecting us from?

Terrorists?

Believe me, a bloody great missile is no match for a determined suicide bomber. And apparently its terrorists that are the main danger at this moment in history.

Some might say rogue nations like Iran, who don’t actually have a nuclear military potential, but have made no bones about wanting one. Well, let’s look at the facts here.

Iran has only really had any military clashes with its neighbours, and they have no nuclear weapons.

AMERICA has on the other hand thousands of nuclear weapons and has spent the majority of the time since America was created, engaged in wars. Now who should we be worried about?

So, the British government is more concerned with spending vast sums of money on a system that is totally pointless, than on using that money to fund the education of its children.

And I say pointless in totally honesty, because lets face it, if the bombs were ever to start dropping, the ability of this country to fire back will be of absolutely no consolation to most of the population, cos we would be dead!

And the point here is that that £70 billion will come from the taxes of the UK’s population.

But like I said, you can’t just stroll into parliament and say ‘Excuse me. The general public would prefer you spend this money on education and health services, and not nuclear bombs, if you don’t mind.’

In fact, you could write it on a board and stand outside of parliament, but that’s not possible anymore because it’s illegal to even wear a political T-shirt out there, and you would be arrested inside of ten minutes.

So, people feel disempowered and our government remain unaccountable.

Or so we think.

Because as I said earlier. If we stop playing the game, they start paying attention, because they need us as much as they tell us we need them. Which of course we don’t’

They only get away with that because we think we need them.

But, put aside the conspiracy and rumour of shadowy secret groups, meeting in equal secrecy to discuss and direct the course of world events.

All that is by the by.

If you have to focus on something, focus on this one simple thing. That money has on one hand no value, while on the other hand may be the most valuable thing we have. Not for what we can purchase with it, the life style of the rich, but more for the fact that money it is not only our addiction, but the world’s addiction. The addiction of both the poor and the rich.

And we are the only true supplier. It’s our monopoly and if we opened our eyes enough, we would see that our ultimate power is to cut that supply.

There are many claimed origins for the word sabotage. My favourite is that it derives from the Netherlands in the 1400 when workers would throw their sabots (wooden shoes) into the wooden gears of the textile looms to break the cogs.

No matter your preference in etymology, the outcome remains the same. An action or in fact, lack of action, that causes something to breakdown, for a machine to stop functioning.

The financial system is a machine. The world is a business, a factory. Nothing has really changed since the early heights of the Industrial Revolution, except that the factory floor is now global.

And throwing our metaphorical clogs into the machine?

Quiet frankly this could be accomplished purely by enough workers, deciding en masse to stop work, to down tools and leave the machine to grind to a halt. If only for a while.

But trust me, that would be enough for our governments to pay attention.

There is no law stating that we must work.

We work because we have to.

So, perhaps the ultimate show of force is to throw that concept of need aside, even temporally and walk away.

I hasten to add, this approach to empowerment is not appropriate for some jobs. Nurses, emergency services, these careers come with additional responsibilities and those who engage in them are fully aware of this. This act would be best served by the almost three quarters of the population who are employed in consumer industry. Shops, commerce, banks and the like would be the places of employment whose sudden and abrupt stop would cost the government the most.

How much profit, how much revenue would be lost in just a single 24hrs period?

This might sound like science fiction.

But I have actually witnessed this.

I was in India when in public protest, the majority of almost 66,396,000 people simply stopped work for a day. No buses ran, no taxis, no shops were open. An area with the population of the UK simply stopped in protest.

And more importantly, it worked.

In India this is derived from Satyagraha, a form of "Civil Resistance." developed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. (Also known as "Mahatma" Gandhi) Satyagraha theory also influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. during the campaigns he led during the civil rights movement in the United States, and many other social justice and similar movements.

Although I must add that there is much more to the true form of Satyagraha than simply civil resistance or non-compliance. And in a Western society, the pure form would not be possible, because a level of spirituality must be a founding part of all who engage in it.

In the West, this is not viable because we no longer act or are driven to act through a sense of spirituality.

In the Western version, it must be driven by a collective agreement that the continued actions of government no long represent the best interests of those being governed.

It must be a message, stating that we know the game, and it will be the people who will chose when to play it. And that government must start listening to the will of those they claim to represent.

Something sadly lacking in modern times.

But before anything of this importance and empowering were to take place, the most important part of the process, is to make people understand that they have power.

This will call for education and allowing people to understand.

Government Investment in Alternative Energy - BELIEVE

Government Investment in Alternative Energy -

BELIEVE

If you are to look at the big picture, of the world as it stands right now, at this very moment in history, you must do so with a full appreciation of irony.

The irony being that all the really nasty things that grace our TV and PC screens day in, day out, are totally pointless.

Well, pointless to us.

Not pointless to those who have a financial stake in their continued existence.

The ultimate illustration of this is alternative energy.

We have the ability to create a total energy resource. That’s right now!

If you look at the energy ideas in Zeitgeist Addendum, you can actually check out those mentioned, and see for yourself the level of technology we are at now, and how easy it would be to enhance those methods, to that if properly implemented, the whole planet could have limitless power, with only the bare minimum of risk to our environment. It would be so abundant that even with the present monetary system, it is easy to image that its cost to the consumer would be tiny. In a Resource based economy, it would be totally free.

That’s unlimited energy, without a price tag.

Now, the more cynical amongst you might throw question on recent armed conflicts around the world. I know I do! The theory is the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan etc are all about bringing democracy and freedom to the poor, downtrodden masses. That’s bringing with it of course Western style consumerism, capitalism and the opportunity to rape their country of resources which are then used to make profit for the big corporations. Leaving the people of that country….well….screwed!

But that’s all part of ‘freedom’* we are told.

Most of the time though, it’s simply about resources and above all about OIL.

It’s a finite resource that the more powerful nations on Earth desperately need and will throw ethics, human rights and morality out of the window (if they have ever really existed in a world run by big business) in order to get a piece of the rapidly dwindling pie that is oil.

The irony is that if those same powerful nations actually and earnestly invested in alternative energy, rather than just trying to look energy conscious and vaguely greenish, we actually wouldn’t need oil at all.

But the oil industry and the car manufacturers, the air, sea and land transport industry, the power industry, and in fact everyone who uses oil products in any shape or form, have a vested interest in keeping the use of oil going.

Oh, they already know about

So wars will continue, dodgy deals with countries who have supported terrorism, who ignore human rights and who according to the Bush legacy, are our apparent sworn enemies, will continue, just to keep the black stuff coming and so feeding an economic addiction that has nothing but bad effects on our lives and our environment.

So, putting commonsense aside, a country will invest billions of dollars to send and support troops to go to a foreign country where they consume military resource (creating more demand for military hardware and so making profit for arms manufacture) and ultimate do what the obvious outcome of being a soldier. To die!

If a country embraced a total investment in alternative and sustainable methods of producing energy, making its population free of the need for oil products, then there would be no reason to go to resource based conflicts, and so there would be no reason to even have armies in the first place except in self defence. If all the countries of the world did the same, self defence would also be pointless because no one would want to invade you for your resources because they would have all they wanted themselves. And so there would be no deaths from this type of conflict, albeit military or civilian.

Civilian deaths ALWAYS being vastly more than military casualties.

As of 02/09/09 101,000 or more civilian casualties have been documented in Iraq. That is a third of the total recorded British military deaths for the entire duration of World War 2. That’s almost half the civilian death toll of France for the same period.

Wars are without a doubt, good for business, and as long as there is money to be made, there will never be an end to poverty, war, arms manufacture and innocent lives being lost. FACT!

And as long as oil is required to power our society, there will never be a true investment in clean, sustainable forms of energy production. FACT!

And as time goes by, and fuel reserves slowly dwindle to scarcity, the cost of those oil based products will constantly increase and to cost to the consumer will go up and up and up, because lets face it, what choice have we got but to pay? FACT!

*Have you noticed how words have funny meanings when you put them into a commercial or financial context. Like the word Free.

adj., fre·er, fre·est.

1. Not imprisoned or enslaved; being at liberty.
2. Not controlled by obligation or the will of another.
1. Having political independence.
2. Governed by consent and possessing or granting civil liberties.
3. Not subject to arbitrary interference by a government.
3. 
   
1. Not affected or restricted by a given condition or circumstance.
2. Not subject to a given condition; exempt.
4. Not subject to external restraint.

Adj., freed, free·ing, frees

1. To set at liberty; make free: freed the slaves.

2. To relieve of a burden, obligation, or restraint.

3. To remove obstructions or entanglements.

But in a commercial context, it becomes

5. Costing nothing; gratuitous, offered without a monetary price.

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The Price of Having a Price - Lost Potential & Global Poverty

Think of your potential.

Think of all the aspirations and dreams you once had, but have been unable to achieve due to lack of money. (That’s not things like being rich, or winning the lottery. No one truly aspires to being rich. They aspire to doing things that are possible if they’re rich.)
Would you be the person you are today if you had had the opportunity to have made those things happen?
How would it have benefited not only you but those you love and share your life with?
How might those things have benefited your community?

Now multiply that potential benefit by 6.781 billion.

That is the hopes, dreams, aspirations and human potential of every person on this planet.
Do you honestly believe that the world would be a worse place if every living person on this planet were actively encouraged equally to reach their potential?

The effect of global poverty due to the misallocation of global resources (The 'Whats mine is mine, whats yours is mine cos you owe me!' approach of globalisation) is that 80% of the world population, (Thats 5.424 billion people at least) live in poverty at some level, albeit Absolute or Relative. And thats not just in the Third or 'developing' World. That includes the Western countries, although obviously theyre a damned sight better off than someone who doesnt have clean water to drink, adequate sanitation, enough to eat, a roof over their head, or who has to exist on less than a £1 a day.

Child and maternal death rates are highest in the poorest, most disadvantaged places. Nearly all under-5 and maternal deaths (99 percent) occur in developing countries in settings of poverty, where children are most vulnerable to diseases and malnutrition. The highest rates are in Africa and South Asia.

A good example that illustrates this is The Miniture World project.




The estimates might be relative, but the basic facts remain a constant.

This is the world that the present monetary system has created and supports.

How many of those millions of lives, could benefit Humanity as a whole if allowed to reach their potential, to be supported and given the opportunity to florish? But they never will while we cling to the present monetary system.

ABOLISH MONEY - WHY?

The main driving argument against removing money from our lives and turning to a resource based economy is that without money as a motivator, people simply would just sit about and do nothing. If people had everything they wanted or needed, they wouldn’t strive for anything.

Well, let’s ask the most obvious, question that these arguments brings to mind.

Does money really motivate us?

Well, in times past, a whip was a pretty good motivator, but no one could say that slaves would have chosen it.

We strive to acquire money because we have been brought up over centuries to value it, despite the sad irony that money itself is of little practical value in reality, unless we need something to burn or we practice origami.

And the truth is that we value money purely because others are constantly trying to take it away from us.

It’s like a infant hanging on to a rattle which another infant is trying to take from it. The rattle isn’t really a thing of value, but we covet it because others covet it too, and there are so many ways of them taking it from us, through taxation to pay for the spending habits of our governments, fines and penalties for being bad, and expenses because we like the humble opportunity to eat, have a roof over our heads, and to keep warm.

There is a line in the Zeitgeist Addendum movie that sums up our present condition so profoundly that I will quote it here. Forgive me if I paraphrase.

‘Traditional slavery required that slaves be fed and housed.

Modern(Economic) slavery requires that slaves feed and house themselves!’

So, money doesn’t motivate us, doesn’t make us want to strive and better ourselves, for any other reason than if we don’t try to continually acquire it, through work and labour, we will suffer!.

Just in the same way as whips.

Do this or you starve, do that or you will suffer.

So, in a way, money is a threat! Because along with its continued existence comes the fear of not having any.

Our basic instinct is to survive. Money says ‘Keep striving to acquire me and you will have a better chance than those who don’t.’

But the Resource Based Economy says, ‘You don’t need to strive to survive, because given the right implementation of both technology and resource management, everyone has the opportunity to live, not simply strive to exist. Everyone can have everything they need to live. And with money out of the way, the world will change in a huge way.

There is a big difference between existing and living.

But just as money is a threat, a fear, it is ironcially also a potential power source for the common people. Because just as we are all convinced that we need it, so do the people who have power over us. They rely on our reliance on money, the value we have been conditioned to place on it. They need us to believe to maintain their position, their privilage.

Take a shadowy world banker. He may have billions, he may have a dozen houses, a dozen cars and a dozen drivers to drive those cars. Hemay have a £30 million yacht anchored off some expensive resort in the Med. He may have servants to do everything for him. He may have all the things and more, that we associate with power and wealth. BUT, take his money away and what is he?

A single old man.

Nothing more!

In the UK recently, there was a huge uproar about MP's expenses, and ministers spending tax payers money to benefit themselves. The sad fact is that this has been going on for decades, probably since there were MP's. Its all about privilage and inequality. Now the Bristish people were insensed by this, the opposing parties (probably the instigators of the exposure in the first place) all tried their to get some credibility from the present governments shameful activities. You know, the usual thing.

But not much really happened.

Why?

Well, because the changes that were made, were all decided by guess who? Yep, the MP's, the government, the very people who had been benefiting from this system. Basically, they got caught with their hand in the cookie jar, and so in good faith, they moved the cookie jar to a higher shelf. But the jar still existed. The cookies are still there. And the jar is still in reach.

And for the most part, people were either satisfied or just lost interest.

Like I mentioned, people who have money, rely on everyone else believing in its value, to maintain their control, their position, and their privilages.

All the British people needed to do, was as a whole, or a bloody large amount at least, was to say ok. You've been fiddling the system and basically taking the piss. So, we're not going to pay our community tax until you have scrapped the system and we're happy.

If people were unahppy with the banks screwing up the whole system and then getting bailed out by the governments.* All the people had to do was say, fine, you've screwed up the system, we're not going to pay our mortgages or credit cards, or loans back until you've sorted it out and we're happy.

Because without the money that we earn, and that governments and banks take from us, in taxes and interest charges, the governments and banks are POWERLESS.

They dont pay the money, we do!

The MP's scandal was the ultimate illustration of that principle.

The monetary system that they created and that they support relies TOTALLY on us.

Could a credit card company realistically enforce penalties for not paying on millions of people?

They would go out of business long before even a fraction of the court cases were ever heard.

Could a government legally prosecute millions of people?

The courts arent big fast enough, the prisons arent big enough!

If enough people decided to use this form of consumer protest, we could tell our governments to do anything we wanted. In fact they would start asking us for permission before doing anything. That would include everything that requires public funds (tax payers money) to do.

Including going to war.

After all, its us who pay for the bombs, bullets and military hardware that gets used in such things. Yep, sorry people, a missile hits a 'target' in Afghanistan and kills a load of civilians. You paid for that missile!

So, if you look at it this way. Money needs to go, but until then, and if the population of this world actually wised up, and stopped being distracted by spin and fear and division, money can actually help us reach a world where we dont need it.

Its all about changing our mindset.

Money has no value.

* Governments theoretically have to bail out banks. But, because of the way the monetary systems works, they are not actually bailing out the banks as such. The central banks (in the UK its the Bank of England, in the US its the federal Reserve) are calling in loans that they gave to the government in the first place, and then supporting the other banks. Its like the big brother of some kid you borrowed money off, turning up at your door and demanding it back.

The ultimate irony, is that just in the same way as Lincoln did with the banks of the US and Europe, it is entirely peasible that a government could say, 'You know what. I dont think we will pay back any money that the central banks gave us, cos lets face it, they made it out of thin air in the first place. They screwed up, they can pay the consequences.'

What could a bank do? Stop making money out of thin air to lend to the government? Their only power is the value people and governments place on money? Take that concept of value away and they have ZIP!

Resource Based Economy - Some Benefits

Resourced Based Economy - Some Benefits

The positive outcomes of the instigation of RBE are rather obvious if you think about it.But, as with all such huge concepts, let’s look at it in smaller bits.A World Without Money -Well, if you take money out of the picture, there are a number of profound benefits. Below are just a few of the most obvious results of the RBE system.

a) NO MORE financial based crime - What is the point of robbing a bank, or mugging someone for their wallet of their possessions, if the resources exist to provide people with everything that they might want?

b) NO MORE financially based conflict (wars) - If like me, you're rather cynical about the agenda behind many modern conflicts, then the reason for those conflicts would be as pointless as financial crime. If all resources are available to everyone, then manipulating other countries through financial debt or armed conflict would be as pointless as mugging someone for their possessions.

c) NO MORE working for a living - The need to work for the majority of our lives to pay our living costs, our debts, our housing costs, for food and all the things that we are made to feel we need to be fulfilled in our lives.

d) THE RESTRUCTURING OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS - Schools have for decades been institutions that train and focus children on competing and gaining employment. They are not about what a child may be good at, not about promoting individual ability and creativity. A simple example would be a child who excels at art. They cannot aim to simply leave school and create art. They are encouraged to train for a career in art, so they can make a living. In a RBE society they would be fully supported and allowed to create for the sake of creation, not to earn a living.

e) NO MORE poverty - At this moment in time, tens of thousands of children die each day in 'developing' countries due to malnutrition, and preventable diseases. Every person on this planet would have the chance to live and flourish and create and benefit humanity as a whole.

f) NO MORE risk of sexual exploitation for financial gain - Lets face it, on the whole, woman (and men too) wouldn't be having sex with strangers if there wasn’t any need for financial gain from such an activity. This would also have a similar effect on sex tourism. So, no more Asian girls working in bars in the vague hope of meeting that Western man who will take them away from it all and let them send money home for their families, or Cambodian children being sold to brothels. There would also be a knock on effect on the sex industry, with less people looking at it as a way of making money.

g) A MAJOR EFFECT on substance abuse - Let's face it, a lot, and I mean A LOT of substance abuse is an inappropriate coping mechanism caused by life’s pressures. Ironically, the most common being money problems or issues deriving from money problems. If everyone had the opportunity to not worry about these things, the chances of turning to drink or drugs is vastly reduced. Not to mention the effect the removal of financial gain would have on the drug trade as a whole.

h) ORGANISED CRIME - Why would it exist in a world where there was no need for financial gain or the opportunity to profit from crime?

i) AN END to Planned Obsolescence - The process of a product becoming obsolete and/or non-functional after a certain period or amount of use in a way that is planned or designed by the manufacturer. Planned obsolescence has potential benefits for a producer because the product fails and the consumer is under pressure to purchase again, whether from the same manufacturer (a replacement part or a newer model), or from a competitor. The purpose of planned obsolescence is to hide the real cost per use from the consumer, and charge a higher price than they would otherwise be willing to pay (or would be unwilling to spend all at once). In a RBE society, technology would be made to have a vastly longer operational life span and even when required to be upgraded, would be done so without charge, making sure that everyone would have the best that technology can provide at any given time.

j) The chance for all individuals to reach their potential - And this would be supported fully by the system. People would have the unrestricted opportunity to contribute to the overall advancement of Humanity as a whole. There are children alive today, who may have the ability to contribute, but will never have the opportunity because their family is poor and can't afford to fund their further education, or their training in a particular area. RBE would remove this profoundly wasteful fact of life.