Refocussing Monetary Reform Agenda from the WHY and the WHAT to the HOW
From: Project Humanbeingsfirst.org <humanbeingsfirst@gmail.com>
To: American Monetary Institute [ http://www.monetary.org/ ]
Cc: Ellen Brown [ http://www.webofdebt.com/ ]
Date: August 24, 2010
Subject: Refocussing Monetary Reform Agenda from the WHY and the WHAT to the HOW
Dear Sirs and Madams at AMI,
In response to your 6th annual monetary reform advocacy conference 2010 which will once again traverse the familiar grounds of WHY the need for monetary reform, and to replace it with WHAT, FYI, the following refers to the real challenges to such reforms which I hope can be made the focus of your conference instead:
FLASHBACK: The Missing Link of Monetary Reform – How? By Zahir Ebrahim
Such a refocus in your august forum with many more rebellious stellar minds examining the issues will squarely betray the necessity of not pursuing misanthropic “effects” in isolation for reform, of which the present monetary system of legal debt enslavement is one such effect. It will be acutely realized that shrewdly homing into the common primemover cause behind all the misanthropic effects – the real DNA which stays hidden in plainsight leaving its effects the focus of attention by the ‘malcontents’ – can have more efficacy than idealistically chasing the Holy Grail of The Ten Commandments. Even Moses couldn’t change a thing with his lofty moralizing.
The HOW to pursue reform given the all pervasive oligarchic rule with its unstoppable impetus for world government – a rule which hides behind the mask of elected peoples’ representatives who in turn afford it legal cover, permit it to hide its vast wealth in tax-exempt foundations with which it formulates and enacts into law its preferred policies, underwrites social and scientific research in its preferred direction, and molds public opinion with its vast ownership of the news media and the myth-making infotainment industry – is the core unanswered reform challenge for plebeians rising to disaffirm and disarm the oligarchic rule.
Without the pursuit of the HOW in the face of these ground realities, the monetary reform agenda will continue to remain stillborn, a platitudinous run on the treadmill of inefficacy, just as it has been for the past 100 years.
Sincerely,
Zahir Ebrahim
Source URL: http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2010/08/letter-to-american-monetary-institute.html
FLASHBACK: The Missing Link of Monetary Reform: How?
CBS 60 Minutes: “Is that tax money that the Fed is spending?”
Ben Bernanke: “It’s not tax money. The banks have accounts with the Fed much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank. So to lend to a bank, we simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account they have with the Fed. So it’s much more akin, although not exactly the same, but it’s much more akin to printing money then it is to borrowing.”
CBS 60 Minutes: “You’ve been printing money?”
Ben Bernanke: “Well effectively, and we need to do that because our economy is very weak, and inflation is very low. When the economy begins to recover, that’ll be the time we need to unwind those programs, raise interest rates, reduce the money supply, and make sure that we have a recovery that does not involve inflation.”
— Question to monetary reformers: how many falsehoods are in Ben Bernanke’s utterance above?
— Question to the public: wouldn’t it be great if the public too can get to have monopoly money magically appear in our bank accounts every once in a while, like the banks do? What powers of persuasion do you think the Fed wield upon the government that they can make counterfeit money – just printing it whenever they want – and it magically becomes legal tender? But you and I can’t print our own money whenever we want without going to jail for 100 years? How did that happen? How are such skilled powers of persuasion of the banksters to be effectively countered?
— Reality check: Is there even any point to all this talk of monetary reform when absolutely no one among the who’s who of reform will speak to the real issues of power that actually prevents all reform? The monetary reform agenda today is largely an academic conversation piece, to be debated in conferences, on websites, and a source of livelihood for the often indigent authors peddling their favorite solution on paper. Instead of all coming together on one singular platform, of taking the power of coining money away from private banksters gratuitously getting fat on usury, they energetically bicker among themselves on what solution to replace it with!
— Challenge: Why not come together on what’s common ground? And instead of pitching one’s own new-and-better “mouse-trap”, create an unbiased monetary commission of monetary reformers and rebellious economists to look into all the proposals on the table, chartering them to come up with a recommendation, or series of recommendations or advocacies if you will, which in turn can be put on the ballot in each state for public adjudication? This is where perhaps all the conferencing, books, websites, speeches, television talk-shows, grass-roots activism to educate the public on the monetary commission’s recommendations, can be made fertile pursuits rather than the present infertile conversations in conferences. That’s how one builds up counter-power in a system where, as Hitler had aptly put it, “when the voting papers of the masses are the deciding factor; the decision lies in the hands of the numerically strongest group”. One has to work the system – unless one is working on overthrowing it! The former sometimes entails withholding the votes entirely to show the system’s illegitimacy when both political parties and its electees represent the same corrupt oligarchic ruling interests, and other times it entails gathering the votes to show the same. That requires uniting on a common platform in order to gather enough votes!
Response to American Monetary Institute’s 2009 National Conference on Monetary Reform , Chicago, September 24-27, 2009
California, September 14, 2009
My principal problem with modern monetary reformers is that they typically act like prima-donnas telling the ignorant public what is the best solution for them. Each one thinks they have just descended from the mountain with the tablet. Unless the implementation issues wrestled with in “Monetary Reform: Who will bell the cat?” and “The entrenched notion of Public Debt in America – will take a gestalt shift to overcome!” are addressed head-on, just more pipe-dreaming words from the mighty reformers applying the think-system invented by the “Music Man”. The following Huxley statement sums up my consternation with the present crop of monetary reformers completely:
“Well this is the real problem. Nothing is easier than to formulate high ideals, but few things are more difficult than to discover the means for by those ideals might be implemented, and the categorical imperatives which spring from them can be a pain. This is the real problem. I mean one has to dream, but one has to dream in a pragmatic way to consider how… Merely preaching to people doesn’t have much effect, people have been preaching for an awefully long time and we are still pretty much where we were.”
The respected Prophet-Reformer of mankind, Moses, too had a great plan for his flock three millennium ago – “thou shall not kill” – but few have found the means to implement the glorious Ten Commandments even millennia later.
Watch below Ron Paul* candidly describe the unmatched legal power of the Federal Reserve and the American Elite way back in 1988 which makes even the mighty United States Congress powerless before them. This was reaffirmed 20 years later in the 2008 Bailout Bill!
Given the tortuous reality of the “Monetary Conspiracy for world Government” rapidly progressing towards fruition, how do the monetary reformers plan to counter it?
Do they think that the banksters and the elite will simply roll over and play dead so that a bunch of conscionable rebels can get their reforms passed in a Legislature and Executive which is entirely controlled by the oligarchs?
As was truthfully observed once before: ‘Ah – but what if the “criminals” were to write the laws and the statutes themselves? Then, the conniving and conspiring isn’t legally defined as a crime, nor the “criminals” called criminals. In fact, most are called bankers (emperors previously), and their instruments today, foundations (fleets previously)! Isn’t that just peachy?’
What is the implementation plan, the How, to counter this entrenched legal power that gives the present monetary system its raison d’être – apart from “faith” and “hope” that is, that a “Jesus” will magically be found to throw the moneychangers out of the temple?
A rather straightforward challenge to monetary reform proponents.
Zahir Ebrahim
Suggested Further Readings:
- *Also see Ron Paul Related: My beef with the stellar congressman Hon. Ron Paul
- Monetary Reform Related: Response to Ellen Brown’s ‘How to Resolve the Credit Crisis
- Monetary Reform Related: Towards a Common Standard Benchmark for evaluating all Monetary Reform Proposals
- Monetary Reform Related: Response to ‘Sign Petition for a Monetary System That Puts People First – Open Letter to G-20′
- Economic Reform Related: Letter to Editor: Response to ‘G7 sets sights on new world economic order’ February 15, 2009
- Other Reform Related: A challenge to the aspiring reformers of the Journalism Profession
- Monetary Reform Related: US treasury seeks action against Iranian banks, PressTv, October 6, 2009 (Tortuous Reality Check on Monetary Reform is repeatedly thrown in one’s face for anyone not entirely lost in the immanent spaces of their ivory tower. The owners of the present monetary system wield a power so gargantuan, that they can strangulate the dissent of entire nations, and those whom they must, as the threat made by the US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, betrays. What of monetary reform conversations by a handful of overzealous reformers? Only indigenous institutions and nations banding together in Full Spectrum Alliances to reject the present hegemonic monetary system of the oligarchs – that is coercing all nations into the shared predicament of one-world government – and with real teeth to back their common stance in Full Spectrum Deterrence, can there be any power in monetary reform. The first order of business therein must be to get rid of the corrupt indigenous rulers and politicians who eagerly share in these inequities, who suffer from a surfeit of avarice and cowardice, and therefore, have no incentive to affect any reform. In the United States Congress, the present crop of Honorable office bearers could not even muster sufficient chutzpah to defeat the 2008 banksters bailout bill when almost the entire American nation was overwhelmingly with them!)
- Monetary Reform Related: Letter to Ellen Brown on Monetary Reform. October, 16, 2009
- Monetary Reform Related: Response To Steve Lendman’s Abolish the Fed and Return Money Creation Power to Congress December 06, 2009
- Monetary Reform Under Global Governance Related: Tutorial: The Brilliant Construction of World Order – Or a children’s bedtime story December 2009
- Monetary Reform Related: Letter to MIT Professor and former IMF Chief Economist, Simon Johnson, March 17, 2010
- Monetary Reform Related: ‘One thing is true – there is no substitute for critical thinking. If that leads to a real “paralysis”, then either the formulation of the problem or the approaches to solving it were faulty, but not the act of thinking. And if critical thinking indicates something is clearly suspicious, of dubious character, a Machiavellian red herring, then, not wishing to run on that treadmill surely cannot be considered “paralysis”! Furthermore, not knowing a solution for how to counter the great evil before us ought not to goad the well-intentioned to mindlessly run fast on treadmills in fear of otherwise “nit-pick[ing] ourselves into paralysis”. The realpolitik solution to “paralysis” is potency that can lead to efficacy, not more placebos whose only efficacy is psychological. I am forwarding this article to some others and may include it in my running compilation of the Missing Link of Monetary Reform (hence I have edited your good name out). That repository is just that – an unarguable demonstration that realpolitik is missing from the isolated pursuits of ‘end the fed’, ‘break the bank’, ‘state owned banks’, etc., of almost all the well-intentioned Monetary Reformers. The recognition of the massive global forces rapidly leading to Global Governance has been masked out by the idealists pushing reforms. That force whose effect is felt all around us but which cannot be seen, like the force of gravitation, prevents escape from Alice in Wonderland – unless “escape velocity” can be instrumented for that endeavor. And that can’t be engineered if the force of gravitation remains unknown, never mind quantitatively taken into account (the escape velocity on Jupiter is different than on Earth)! When the foxes are arguing alongside the chickens that the world needs to have better coops to protect the chickens, to not see a problem with that – I only wonder if that might be considered a problem in itself? Seems to me that the foxes are counting on that very psychological cataract! They even call it a “beneficial cognitive diversity” – remember Cass Sunstein, today President Obama’s Information Czar in the White House?’ Response to a correspondent on Breaking up the Big Banks April 23, 2010
- Monetary Reform Related Self Defense: ‘It is the (self-defense) responsibility of every denizen of the world to understand how humanity is being herded into global debt-enslavement and a centrally managed world-government, baby-step at a time, by manufacturing deliberate crisis and then proposing the next baby-step as its solution or fait accompli. Each baby-step erodes away some aspect of national sovereignty. 911 helped setup the global police state as a proposed solution to ‘terrorism’ – a manufactured product – to create the sine qua non mechanisms for world-government. “World government could only be kept in being by force”, as Bertrand Russell had put it. The latest financial crisis is designed to systematically create a central world-banking system, as a proposed solution to ‘bad loans’ – again a manufactured product – to be managed by a global banking cartel under legal sanction. “Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws”, as the Rothschild banking scions boldly narrate in almost every generation. “We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.”‘ – Statements of fact in the Monetary Reform Bibliography
Source URL: http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/09/response-ami-monetary-reform-conf.html
The author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley (patents here), and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden 2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org. He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org. Verbatim reproduction license at http://www.humanbeingsfirst.org#Copyright.
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FLASHBACK: The Missing Link of Monetary Reform: How? By Zahir Ebrahim
