Today we present the fresh release of the trailer for our recent book, Why What We Use as Money Matters, a reflection on current systems of finance and governance and how they may be throwing the earth wildly out of balance.
Could it be that it is not how, but what we use as money matters when searching for the root cause of Climate Change and other Global Problems? These nine volumes are a thought provoking exploration of modern financial and political systems and their effects on both people and the land.
We were fortunate to have the video below brought to our attention recently. As you can see, this brilliant video presentation of what is wrong with the current monetary system does in 30 minutes something that we have taken lengthy stabs at expressing via the written word over the past three years, and it does so with some nice animation to boot!
Enjoy this presentation of “How Currency is Made, How Debt is Created, and How you are Impoverished,” the fourth video in a series on the monetary system courtesy of Liveleak.com:
We are especially fond of the scene where the workers shovel the currency into the piggy bank, only to have a large bird swoop down, pick it up, and fly it to the offices of the tax authority. It is truly something that nearly all of our fellow taxpayers can related to, and this depiction drives the point home.
For better or worse, this is the monetary and taxing regime in which we live. Getting out of it is as simple as changing your mind with regards to such matters. The difficult part is changing the minds of others so that meaningful advances towards monetary freedom can be made. For if you act alone, you are merely a prepper, but if you act in concert with all of those in your community and circle of trade, you are a history maker.
One way or another, we will all find ourselves in the latter camp, but, like campsites on the fourth of July weekend, the best spots will go to those who get there early. Will you be one of them?
The New Year has come according to the Gregorian calendar, and we wish our fellow taxpayers a happy and healthy 2014. We can hardly contain our excitement, as the calendar change seems to have awoken the slumbering giants of economic progress who have been holed up the past five years.
As an aside, if you are in the Portland area, tomorrow evening at Good Samaritan Ministries in Beaverton there will begin an important series of Bible classes at 6:30 pm. For those who are just now joining us, at the beginning of each calendar year, we choose approximately ten books of the Bible to be taught on and teach one of them each Wednesday evening until the 10 are complete, wrapping up the series of classes sometime in March.
The classes are unique in that each year we are opening the Bible as if we have never opened it before, throwing out preconceived notions and opinions and letting the Bible study us, not the other way around as is the common practice in much of Christendom, where the faithful study the Bible, as if we had something to add to it or the Bible required our approval. It is a simple juxtaposition of subjects that makes all the difference. We do not study the Bible, the Bible studies us.
Starting from this place, the teaching is fresh and earth shattering every time, for all who are in attendance become both teacher and student in this unique format. Again, the series begins tomorrow evening, January 8th at Good Samaritan Ministries in Beaverton. Our assignment this season is on Deuteronomy, and we will be allowing it to study us in mid February.
Its 2014: Just do it
Janet Yellen becomes the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve
2014 is setting up to be an extremely prosperous year, and, now that Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the Federal Reserve’s first Chairwoman, what could possibly go wrong?
The answer, of course, is many things. The world’s economy is built upon a shaky premise and the obligation to use debt-based currency brings with it a whole slew of unknowns that may become known over the next several months, such as, “what happens when borrowing and lending of a debt based currency become so disjointed that trading in said currency becomes not just unpalatable, but nearly impossible?” or “what happens when a $2.2 trillion dollar corporate cash hoard gets deployed all at once?”
The answers to these and other burning questions are likely to reveal themselves over the next several months.
Here at The Mint, we have been busy churning out proposals and other documents in hopes of attracting a portion of the downpour of cash that awaits those of us just beyond the spigot of the Federal Reserve System, hence the lapses in our faithful correspondence.
As we alluded to above, it will be an exciting year and one in which our broad advice is once again best encompassed in the three words made famous by a neighboring company:
Just do it.
If there is something you have put off, a dream, an idea, a plan, 2014 seems like as good of a time as any to execute it, the wind is at your back in terms of monetary measures. There is more than enough of it to go around, and were the money supplies of the world not centrally managed in what is an essentially Socialist system, it would be more evenly distributed throughout the economy by now.
As this is decidedly not the case, prepare to see large scale dislocations exacerbated by the widespread confusion surrounding the newest provisions of the health care law taking effect which will be most noticeable in the fact that getting an appointment with a medical provider will simply not be as easy as it has been in the past.
In other words, you can give everyone the right to health care but you can’t create doctors and nurses to provide said care out of thin air.
For this reason, we drink to the health of all our fellow taxpayers as the earth begins its latest run around the sun on the Gregorian calendar. The odds are it may be the only thing one needs to maintain in order to prosper this year.
Pick up your copy today and stay fresh!
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