THE AMERICAN WAY EXPANDED

Three-part series presented by School Sucks Podcast: Education Evolution

PART 1: The Gasoline-Soaked House

Topic: The American way... What is this way? Where does it come from? And where does it lead?

In this show: Philosophy In school we are led to believe that we are all living in an ideal vision of what society should be... But who's vision is it? And what were their ideals?
-Objectivism vs. German Idealism
-Immanuel Kant
-George Hegel
-Johann Fichte
-Friedrich Nietzsche



PART 2: Pyromania

In this show: Power, Obedience and Collectivism
-The Milgram Experiment
-Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment
-Immanuel Kant
-The Threat of Losing Control
-Carl Von Clausewitz and Total War
-Marxism
-Fabian Socialism and Gradualism



PART 3: The Matches

In this show: The Chronology A meandering monologue covering 1000 years of German history.

-The Holy Roman Empire and Biblical Prophecy
-Otto Von Bismark
-The Franco-Prussian War
-German Unification
-The Welfare State
-Imperialism
-Woodrow Wilson and Edward House
-WWI and the Treaty of Versailles
-The Great Depression
-The Rise of Nazism
-Policies of the Third Reich
-The Real Hitler


  Then, listen to a follow-up discussion with Brett Veinotte of the School Sucks Podcast by Tragedy & Hope guests, Richard Grove and Tony Meyers, hosting the Corbett Report.

Peace Revolution

[This is the second of two posts which make comparisons between The Reformation that came on the heels of the Gutenberg Press and The Internet Reformation taking place today. ]

Exploring Media / Educating Ourselves to Live vs. Amusing Ourselves to Death

This episode is hosted by James Corbett (www.CorbettReport.com) joined by James Evan Pilato (www.MediaMonarchy.com) and Richard Grove (www.TragedyandHope.com) to discuss Media: Who created it, What it is, When it began, Where its going, Why its important- and How we can shape it in our image. It's an overview of the history of media, its various uses and misuses, and how to make sense out of what you see, hear, and read everyday; leaving the audience with the tools necessary to cut through the nonsense and realize useful facts which can be communicated to others.

“The UsuryFree Resolution” -

  Honouring The 11th Anniversary!!

By Tom J. Kennedy aka Tommy UsuryFree Kennedy

The UsuryFree Resolution was officially launched by The UsuryFree Network on May 13, 2001, at 13:13:13 - hours/minutes/seconds. The UsuryFree Network had been founded in the latter years of the 20th Century, as vehicle (a) to expose the design flaw of usury as the evil and immoral function on our orthodox, economic system of usury-based, debt money and (b) to promote the usuryfree community currency movement as our last, best hope to save ourselves (the debtors) from future financial enslavement.

Details of the launch of The UsuryFree Resolution are posted here. Some of the links may be broken and some of the information posted may be outdated, BUT the background information and the purpose of The UsuryFree Resolution is clearly explained and on May 13, 2012 - we are 11 years closer to experiencing the reality of UsuryFree Living than we were on May 13, 2001.

On May 13, 2012, we are honouring the 11th Anniversary of The UsuryFree Resolution, but we are not yet celebrating any heroic victory for usuryfree living, as debtors everywhere are still suffering severe, economic pain. The good news is that the usuryfree, time currency movement is slowly gaining momentum as more and more debtors awaken to the lies, deceits and deceptions being foisted upon them by the controllers of our orthodox, economic system of usury-based, debt money.

Indeed, it is the exacting of usury (interest) by creditors (the banking corporations), on loans and/or mortgages to debtors (individuals, families,  small to medium-sized businesses, major, trans-national corporations, provinces, states, cities, towns, municipalities and even countries) that causes devastation, destruction, poverty, scarcity, lack and even death - both locally and globally.

The evil and immoral impact of the function of usury (interest) on our orthodox, economic system of debt money has been causing havoc for debtors everywhere, simply because debtors cannot possibly survive financially in a rigged game - where there is a forever shortage of usury-based, debt money.

For lack of knowledge, debtors are agreeing to sign impossible contracts (promissory notes) when they apply for loans and/or mortgages from financial institutions. Unknown to most debtors, the creditors (banking corporations) are only issuing into circulation, the principal of any loan or mortgage when any loan or mortgage is granted to the debtor. The usury (interest) portion of any loan and/or mortgage is never created and issued into circulation by the creditor (the banking corporation) simultaneously with the principal portion of the loan or mortgage. 

Therefore, there is by design an ever-present shortage of money in this rigged game of financial chairs, whereby adult debtors are the willing players - who apparently have forgotten about the game of musical chairs which they played as children, whereby one child was knocked out of the game when the music stopped because there were less chairs than children. 

Applying that analogy to the adult debtors game of financial chairs and one realizes that, in fact, the creditor (the banking corporation) is risking absolutely nothing while the debtor is risking his/her asset by virtue of his/her signature on the promissory note. The result is obvious - bankruptcies, foreclosures, poverty, scarcity, lack and even death - are evident everywhere on planet earth. 

On my recent visit to the Philippines, it became evident to me that while in Canada, our social system makes a gallant effort to hide the visual effects of usury (interest), in the Philippines, the evidence of poverty, scarcity and lack is forever in your face as you travel in either urban or rural areas. This article titled "The Manifestation of Real Crisis and Its Deadly Effects To All," authored by Eric V. Encina, a native Filipino is compulsory reading for anyone who wants to understand the severity of the economic crisis in the Philippines.

It is unfortunate, that debtors, for lack of knowledge, continue to sign impossible contracts (promissory notes) drawn up by creditors (banking corporations) - who with the support of a corrupted Justice (JUST-US) system constantly swindle and steal real property and wealth from debtors who for any multitude of reasons, are unable to make the monthly payments for usury (interest) and principal on their respective loans and/or mortgages.

In English, the word for a house loan is mortgage. The French translation of mort-gage is death-gamble. The usual French word for a mortgage is “une hypothèque” - because the real meaning of the word “mortgage” is too obvious and the astute, French debtors would ask too many questions and question the answers.

It is true, that debtors everywhere, who are seeking house loans (mortgages) are being cajoled and coerced to sign contracts (promissory notes) prepared and presented by the creditors (banking corporations). For the most part, these ill-informed debtors are  actually gambling that they will successfully manipulate their local, economic marketplace, so that they will earn sufficient money to be able to repay both the principal and the usury (interest) portion of their house loan (mortgage). 

Indeed, judging by history, those debtors who hustle a little more than other debtors and given a bit of simple good luck, they may be able to pay back both the principal and the usury (interest) portion of their mortgage. Other debtors who learn to lie a little bit, cheat a little bit, and/or steal a little bit from the system, and maybe learn to be just a little bit greedy - just to survive financially, may come up with enough dollars to repay both the principal and the usury (interest) portion of their mortgage. But guaranteed, not all debtors will be able to repay both the principal and usury (interest) portion of their mortgages - simply because by design, there is a shortage of dollars in the economic system of debt money. The evidence of the shortfall of money is all around us - both locally and globally.

Most debtors in this world are what you might describe as “usury-burnt.” In almost every country on planet earth, you will find hordes of disgruntled, usury-burnt debtors who are pested and plagued by the ultimate effects of the function of usury (interest) on our local and global debt money systems - which are directly and/or indirectly controlled by the killer machine of usury (interest).

I repeat, debtors everywhere are uneducated and unaware that they are being deceived as they are cajoled and coerced to sign impossible contracts with creditors (banking corporations) when they seek loans and/or mortgages. Ask any debtor this simple question: “Where do you think the creditor (the banking corporation) got the money to lend you for the loan or mortgage?” The most likely answer will be: “The creditor (the banking corporation) got the money for my loan or mortgage from “depositors’ funds.” Nothing could be further from the truth.

For clarity and a better understanding about modern money creation, John “The Engineer” Turmel, originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada offers two essential lessons of required study by debtors everywhere:

Lesson 1: LETS Banking Systems Engineering Math Banking System Blueprint

http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/bankmath.htm

Lesson 2: The Big Lie Of Economics: Inflationgate: 

http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/biglie.htm

As I mentioned earlier, you see the devastating effects and general destruction of usury (interest) everywhere, BUT it is much more obvious in the countries of the so-defined “third world.” The whole society of planet earth stinks and rots because of the immoral and evil effects of the design flaw of usury (interest) on our faltering and failing, orthodox, economic system of debt money.

As we enter our 12 year for The UsuryFree Resolution, let’s learn to create and spend our own usuryfree time currencies in our respective, local communities. Let’s learn from and follow the examples of Tamworth Hours (a project in Tamworth, Ontario, Canada, temporarily shelved) and Ithaca Hours, (a proven model in Ithaca, New York, U.S.A., that has been functioning since 1991 - that’s 21 years of success) and Mountain Hours (a more recent project in Summit County, Colorado, U.S.A.,launched earlier in 2012). Indeed, there are other successful model of usuryfree time tokens that I am not aware of. Readers are invited to share links to other working models of usuryfree time tokens in the comments section below this article.

BTW - there are various samples of usuryfree community currency posted at this link.

By the time we reach our 13th year for The UsuryFree Resolution, let’s aim to have multiple thousands of usuryfree, time token, economic systems fully functioning and enhancing the “shop local” movement. Let’s do it NOW!

When we have multiple thousands of local communities, scattered all around planet earth whereby local consumers are negotiating trades/exchanges with local entrepreneurs, while acquiring the truth about modern money creation, we will create that shift in consciousness. Mathematicians have explained that when 3% of the population, grasp and move ahead with an idea, the other 97% will soon follow. 

The knowledge and resources of how we-the-people can create and spend our own usuryfree, time tokens are readily available from experienced time-traders who have proven that the time-trading model is the optimal model to adopt - both locally and globally - simply because one hour of time (labour) have a value of 60 minutes on every continent.

So, instead of continuing to rely of their (the banking corporations’) money and paying them a fee - usury (interest), let’s learn to create and spend our own time tokens for FREE!

Astute debtors will no longer be subservient to creditors (the banking corporations) - that have been relying on lies, deceits and deceptions to trick the debtors into signing impossible contracts whereby the usury (interest) portion of loans and/or mortgages is never created and issued into circulation simultaneously, when the principal portion of the loan and/or mortgage is created and issued into circulation. 

Re-educated debtors everywhere, will unite when empowered and our ultimate reslove will be The UsuryFree Resolution - without the Revolution!! We simply resolve to promote and foster proven, economic models of usuryfree living, thereby allowing the broken model of usury-based, debt money to eventually collapse and disappear. The end result will be that usury (interest) will be abolished forever, and there will be peace, prosperity and abundance for every individual - anywhere on planet earth.

And we will forgive the former usurers. We will offer them amnesty, anonymity and a free credit line in out new economic model of usuryfree time tokens, therefore there will be no acts of revenge, nor will there be any bloodshed in a revolution for monetary reform. It will simply happen as the shift in consciousness evolves from “Life With Usury” to Life Without Usury.”

As the UsuryFree Resolution evolves to completion, two ways to mitigate the negative impacts of the design flaw of usury is to seek ways to immediately evade usury (interest) and avoid taxes. Yes, it is still legal to evade usury (interest) and it is still legal to avoid taxes, though it is illegal to evade taxes. It is important to avoid taxes simply because the majority of tax dollars extracted from one’s daily/weekly/monthly/yearly earnings goes directly to pay debt service for the various levels of government. Debt service is correctly defined as usury (interest).

If as a society, we-the-debtors evaded usury (interest) to the best of our ability and avoided taxes by implementing creative strategies, the entire world would lighten up and we could experience “peace and plenty by 2020.” Way back in the mid-20th Century, Buckminster Fuller predicted we could achieve that goal, so let’s do it NOW!

An example of a creative strategy to avoid taxes would be for every employee to launch a part-time, home based enterprise and thereby as an active entrepreneur s/he qualifies to deduct legitimate business expenses, not commonly available to employees. The Tax Benefits of an SDI Enterprise explains many ways that part-time, SDI entrepreneurs can legally avoid taxes - especially during the early years on any business launch. The additional benefit for becoming a part-time entrepreneur is that one would have access to products and/or services at wholesale prices. 


These products and/or services could then be listed on our participating databases of active time-traders who are negotiating trades/exchanges using a combination of usury-based, debt money and usuryfree time tokens during these transitory times. I recommend that debtors everywhere learn about the SDI (Self Directed Income) Industry - as the optimal sales and marketing industry of this 21st Century. There is an abundance of information about the SDI Industry at the blog titled - The SDI Eye Opener. This article titled: “Analysis, Projections, Observations & Proposals For The SDI Industry”  is perhaps the best starting point to learn about the SDI industry.

After becoming familiar with the SDI Industry, then make your choice on which company’s products you would like to add to your Portfolio for the purpose of bartering/trading with other participating time-traders in your local community.

Furthermore, as active time-traders we can divert any earnings of usury-based, debt money that is now saved on a monthly basis to (a) paying off any outstanding debts - for it is the growth of outstanding debt that causes the greatest economic pain and/or (b) donating to groups or charitable organizations that will use them to promote and foster the growth and development of the usuryfree time token movement in our respective local communities.

The restoration of usury-burnt debtors will help to re-vitalize local economies first and global economies later. Let’s make a gallant effort to re-educate our fellow-debtors who are evidently usury-burnt. In turn, when re-educated, they will first empower themselves and then they will reach out and empower others in their respective circles of influence.

We, the active usuryfree creatives have lots to do before the 12th Anniversary of The UsuryFree Resolution.


NOTE: Donations/gifts of (a) usury-based, debt money and/or (b) any usuryfree community currency gratefully accepted to help advance the mission to achieve usuryfree living for everyone on planet earth. 

The Paypal account for The UsuryFree network is: tom@cyberclass.net

Otherwise donations can be mailed to: 

The UsuryFree Network, P. O. Box 9333, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada  K1G 3V1

Read more  of The UsuryFree Eye Opener

Internet Reformation

 [This is the first of two posts which make comparisons between The Reformation that came on the heels of the Gutenberg Press and The Internet Reformation taking place today. ]

The Internet Reformation is the culmination of the power and glory of Western civil society and free-market thinking. It is the apogee of all that is best in a sweep of history that began with the ancient Greeks and has culminated in the hearts and minds of millions of young men and women who industriously add to its impact every day via additional code, non-mainstream news or fundamental scientific commentary.

It is NOT an "Internet Revolution." The Internet Revolution is a standard "pat" phrase of the powers-that-be about the so-called empowering effects of technology. The Internet Reformation is a much more deeply disruptive concept. It is truly a revolutionary one, affecting every aspect of human society and human relationships with modern elites. It is focused around the insights generated by the Internet itself.

This concept is based on what happened during the era of the Gutenberg press. Almost from the beginning, the Gutenberg press was a revolutionary technology. As soon as people used the press to print Bibles, readers began to discover that the Holy Word differed considerably from what they'd been taught by the Catholic Church.

Until then, Bibles had been fairly rare. They were printed in Latin or Greek, and copied down by hand with elaborate engravings. The Catholic Church and its important functionaries and bureaucrats possessed Bibles. Priests performed Mass with their back to the congregation. The ceremony was a highly Romanized one, as the West had come to conceive of Rome within its most corrupt and centralizing phase, and highly controlled.

But printing Bibles in moveable type changed the power relationship entirely. Now, anyone could own a Bible and they were easily reproduced and increasingly inexpensive. Almost immediately, then Bibles began to be translated into "vulgate" and eventually the King James Version (English) would become a dominant variant. But in the meantime, the damage was done. First came the Renaissance and then the Reformation and finally the Age of Enlightenment, three powerful rolling waves of free-thinking that transformed the face of human society, first in the West and then around the world.

The changes ushered in by the Gutenberg press were fundamental. The Renaissance began the reconfiguration by allowing for the rediscovery of the scientific orientation of Greece and Rome. This set in motion a series of events that has not yet ceased to reverberate.

The fundamental motivating force of the Renaissance was to emphasize natural observation, and this can be seen in the obsession with great artists such as Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci who returned to the original source of knowledge whenever possible. This led both artists to dissect corpses rather than to rely on the standard anatomy books of the day, such as they were. Da Vinci's great scientific speculations were based on first-hand observation not sterile theory argued in debating halls.

The Reformation launched a second wave of attacks on the West's business as usual. But it actually involved the same animation. The Gutenberg press allowed readers to examine source material by making the sources available. This was the revolutionary act. The Renaissance emphasized conclusions derived from that fundamental inspiration. The Reformation in its way emphasized sources too. It sought, in its most radical incarnations, to strip out the interpretative layer of Church doctrine by emphasizing the Word of the Bible itself.

Martin Luther began this process in 1517 by publishing his Ninety-Five Theses attacking much of the ecclesiastical structure of Catholic Church. Interestingly, the Reformation's initial phase is seen as ending in 1648 with the Treaty of Westphalia that put a stop to the religious wars by emphasizing the primacy of the nation state. The Treaty of Westphalia was overturned by the Security Council of the United Nations in 2005, when that body adopted R2P, which mandates that the "West" in aggregate interfere with a nation's sovereignty to "protect" citizens. The powers-that-be have therefore launched a counterattack on national sovereignty even as the Internet Reformation begins to gather power and undermines business as usual.

The Reformation was also known as the Protestant Reformation because despite its formal end-date of 1648, its ripples continue to spread and ultimately gave rise to the establishment of the New World, and the American and French Revolutions. Each wave of the so-called Protestant Revolt further deconstructed the formalized church and suggested doctrine that brought man closer in touch with God.

This process eventually led to the most radical sects such as the Quakers and "Shakers" that did away with Church trappings entirely and simply allowed the individual worshipper to communicate with God as he or she saw fit. The Quakers sometimes used to shed their clothes and worship nakedly in a penultimate effort to remove barriers to the spiritual conversation.

All across the world, the modern Internet Reformation is beginning to reshape the way people relate to power in the modern age. While it is not so obvious as during the era of the Gutenberg press, there is formal doctrine accepted by Western societies that is beginning to shatter. That formal doctrine may be termed regulatory democracy and it has been leavened with numerous assumptions that on closer inspection turn out not to be true. It is the Internet itself that allows for information to spread that undermines the various precepts of regulatory democracy.

Every social order needs a formal elite to organize and animate it. In the high Middle Ages, the hierarchy consisted of the Catholic Church leaders along with Royal families throughout Europe, as well as powerful merchants and bankers. In the modern era, the hierarchy is much less obvious and consists, from available evidence of the great banking, modern banking families led by the Rothschilds based in the City of London along with attendant Zionist influences and abetted by corporate interests and the so-called Dark Nobility and Dark Church.

It is this hierarchy that promulgates regulatory democracy and its various dominant social themes – the fear-based promotions that the Western power elite uses to control the conversation and to further centralize power and authority worldwide. Just as the Catholic Church leaders dreamed of one Pax Romana around the world, so does today's power elite dream of one world order driven by regulatory democracy.

The fear-based themes are many and include many scarcity memes among them. The world is commonly held to be running out of food, water, oil and energy. It is in imminent danger of plagues, unusual weather and asteroid strikes. In these and many other instances, the solutions that are heralded are focused directly on additional governmental agencies, preferably global ones. An entire global infrastructure is gradually being erected that includes an international court, a global legislature (UN), a global military (NATO) and various international agencies to adjudicate trade disputes and the like.

At the center of the new global order is central bank itself, printing money-from-nothing, perpetually devastating the economies of nation states through monetary (and price inflation) and through its ruin, creating the necessity for a global currency and a single global central bank, presumably the IMF. Within this latter meme, gold and silver are held to be barbaric elements, not needed anymore in a fiat money world.

In fact, what the Internet is increasingly showing us is a way to return to basic freedoms. The Internet in its various incarnations has already distributed information showing many of the precepts of regulatory democracy to be false. There is likely plenty of oil and gas around the world and it may be abiotic and reoccurring as well; its availability has simply been manipulated by the powers that be. Alternative sources of energy have likely been suppressed, but over the next decades may become available. Global warming has been shown to be another elite promotion and does not exist as popularly promulgated. Food and water, also supposedly in short supply, are being manipulated by the power elite within its highly controlled global markets. The War on Terror that the elites have begun is an evident and obvious falsity and the Internet reveals this in various ways every day.

Like the radical information that spawned from the Gutenberg press, the impact of the information available to counteract elite modern memes is not immediately visible but over time has a devastating effect. Human beings do have a kind of Hive Mind (via intimate communications between families and friends and various cultural exchanges) and once additional information is made available, that Mind incorporates it.

There are downsides. The power elite profits from the centralizing effects of technology. Spymasters and dictators profit from aspects of technology as they always have. And yet the positive elements are likely unstoppable as well. There is little possibility at this point of the Internet being shut down as simplistic formulations might have it. Instead, as with the Reformation itself, the Internet Reformation will continue to advance, undermining the memes of the powers-that-be and even creating, perhaps, a critical mass of decentralizing influences.
It is decentralization that the modern power elite fears most because decentralized spheres of influence are impossible to control. Unfortunately the Renaissance and Reformation were all about the decentralization of control built on the availability of real knowledge and a return to primary sources that undermined the "experts" of church and state.

The same process is occurring today. It may not be that any one Martin Luther emerges to create a formal Reformation but the larger evolution continues. (There is apparently some evidence that Luther himself was sponsored by a Venetian banking faction of the day to split the power of the church.) Essentially, however the power of the information being unleashed is what will carry the day in numerous manifestations. It is impossible for power elite memes to stand against the availability of information now presented online. It is beyond control, beyond collecting, beyond dampening.

Tomorrow's knowledge base may look much different than today's – and in fundamental ways. Ironically, the 20th century so celebrated by the centralizers must at least to some degree give way to a decentralized Renaissance in the 21st. Yes, the powers-that-be will fight back as they already are via wars and social chaos, just as the Catholic Church responded with its Counter-Reformation; but eventually they may be forced to take a step back as they have before.
Ironically, the proverbial dye was likely cast when America's DARPA dark-technologists invented the Internet but did not foresee, apparently, the evolution of the personal computer that would utilize it to allow average individuals to gain access to all the knowledge of the world. This may stand as one of the great miscalculations of the modern elite. It helped create a second wave of modern information technology that has already begun to undo a myriad of world-centralizing plans.

A new city (predicted in ancient Indian prophecies) has been discovered underwater off the coast of India – though the news has been much suppressed. Humankind is thousands of years older than the Western powers-that-be maintain. The current apogee of human achievement may not be the current one and certainly not the best-of-all-possible worlds. As the underlying certainties crumble, so do the building blocks of the modern elite themes – and the certainty of ongoing centralization.

In fact, the European Union is failing, various serial wars of conquest are not going well, the fear-based memes of the elite are continually being debunked by an Internet that adds more to humankind's real knowledge base every day. It will take decades if not centuries to control the damage that has already been done (from an elite standpoint), and what has been done cannot be undone.

There is a new Reformation taking place throughout the world, led by electronic communication technology. It is not being commented on by the nightly news, nor written about in the mainstream media. But if you understand the trends and look closely, you can see it playing out every day in every part of human culture. It is already convulsing the world. Out of these labor pains a new and freer society is being born.

A new enlightenment is taking place – a fundamental reforming of societies' knowledge base. It is far more important and fundamental than a "technology revolution." It is rewriting the basic relationship that human beings have with their knowledge base and with its impact on their lives. The centralizing architecture erected by the Anglo-American elites is even now being undermined. The darkness is lifting as it lifted long ago during the Renaissance. An Internet Reformation is coming. It will have numerous unpredictable ramifications. In fact, its dawn is already here.  READ MORE. . .

WHO's REALLY TO BLAME?

You see, Doctor,

God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her
and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs.

If God saw what any of us did that night, He didn't
seem to mind. From then on, I knew. . . .

God doesn't make the world this way.

We do.   [SELAH]