tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post811582963592461567..comments2024-03-27T16:08:30.313-05:00Comments on The Great Change: Giving Thanks is a Revolutionary ActAlbert Bateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17627996921976501534noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-3868529474118916162016-12-01T12:09:04.685-06:002016-12-01T12:09:04.685-06:00Beautiful piece Albert, thank you, I will share it...Beautiful piece Albert, thank you, I will share it, and will point out a critical component that I think needs to be better integrated into the effort. As you say funding is a problem and realistically that has a distinct possibility of getting worse due to the world's debt problem. As you say, "it means radically altering, even abolishing, industrial civilization in favor of Civilization 2.0." I completely agree and it also means we have to end the private creation and control of capital (money) in favor of the public creation and control of money in order to provide the kind of investment necessary becasue the debt-for-money system has reached its ecological limits to growth and is now devouring itself. Fortunately the American Monetary Institute has identified the problem/solution and the people of Iceland, Switzerland, Netherlands, UK, Germany and a dozen other nations have embraced it forming movements to reclaim the sovereign right of nations to create their own money and control their own economies for the benefit of their people, something that is currently denied the nations of the world's by the top 20 global banks of which the private banks who own "our" FED are a part. You told me that Steve Keen taught you all you needed to know about money but he has yet to come out in support of sovereign money systems, the only solution to funding solutions for the multiple crises upon us. The DAPL confrontation is a stark reminder of the violent system we are up against. Dante called Usury the "Anti-art, an extraordinarily efficient form of violence by which you do the most damage with the least effort." This doesn't seem likely to change unless the light of awareness exposes the private control of our money (thus everything else) and illuminates the solution that has so long been held at bay by the world-around private monopoly of our money. We can change this system from an Economics of Usury to an Economics of Care seamlessly if allowed. Like the way the heavy stone money of YAP is exchanged, we would be just changing the ownership of the money. We would be, for the first time in history, putting our money on a sound footing and establishing a Democracy. Any government that does not issue their own money, and none do, is controlled by those who do and regardless of what they call it, it is not democracy. That system has to change from private to public or we will continue to watch the nightmare unfold regardless of the many efforts around world that you point out are showing us where some serious public investment would really make a huge difference fast along with the economic localization/decentralization of the production of food, fuel, energy, housing etc. as Helena Norberg-Hodge (and you, me etc.) describes to put us on a path to thrival.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14146510259857273001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-48240571357822722302016-11-29T08:47:00.683-06:002016-11-29T08:47:00.683-06:00Great read. Thanks for being so active Albert! Sen...Great read. Thanks for being so active Albert! Sent $200 to Plenty for Standing Rock and prayers with love and light daily. sulynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185522168046713647noreply@blogger.com