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A Partial Jubilee Isn’t Enough

October 4, 2011 in Finance

Henry Garmin from the Spirit of Jubilee website commented on my previous post where I suggested that all debt be forgiven. He said, “The debt that needs to be canceled is the usurious portion of debt, fraudulent debt, compounded debt that everyone knows will never be repaid.

“Debt incurred for productive purposes, debts between businesses, debts of love between friends, families, lovers, debts owed to those creating positive solutions need to be maintained. Debt is simply obligation and agreement.

“Agreements can be amended. Better agreements, better covenants can be initiated. New systems of credits, debt-free money for productive, life enhancing innovations need to be created to take the place of an abusive debt system that is getting increasingly desperate. It’s time to jubilate. Keep shifting into the new way of thinking.”

Mr. Garmin and I have since traded emails. He is clearing his plate of current responsibilities so he can encourage a jubilee declaration in 2012. I’ll keep you posted on his progress.

By the way, he isn’t the only person calling for a jubilee. Numerous people are pushing for the removal of odious and usurious debt. My opinion is that they don’t go far enough.

That’s why I call my idea a “Grand Jubilee” and call for the removal of all debt. Here is my thinking.

Freedom jubileeA Grand Jubilee that forgives all debt would, by necessity, force the creation of a new currency. The reason is simple. The United States Dollar, the world’s dominant currency, is built upon debt. If all debt is forgiven, the dollar would become worthless overnight because it is a Federal Reserve Note, a debt instrument.

This would allow a gentle transition through something that many financial experts believe is inevitable: the collapse of the dollar as a currency system. Many economists speculate that a sudden collapse would produce severe inflation. They assume it will cause great catastrophe as stores run out of food, transportation systems break down, and people starve to death.

However, if we carefully planned this collapse through a Grand Jubilee, we could transition without the drama. We could put shock absorbers on the reboot of our current economic system.

The cancelling of just some of the debts is too close to our current paradigm of operation. Someone will have to make the decision of which debts are odious and usurious. All lenders will think their loans are fair. All borrowers will think theirs are odious and usurious. This is not a change for our current situation.

I have a simple two-step proposal.

I propose all lenders forgive all debts. This would reboot the money system.

I propose all borrowers determine a fair way to repay them. The new trade system would come out of this. It may be barter. It may be gold. It may be something we haven’t thought of today.

Whatever it is, it would come out of the Spirit of Jubilee and I think that would be better that what we have today.

What do you think? Leave your comments below.

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The Answer to My Sunny Puzzle

October 4, 2011 in Future

After reviewing the video of the Full Moon and the picture of the Sunspots, I wanted to ask for clarification. I thought about posting on the PoleShift Ning but I knew this would question the accuracy of the Zetas’ message. I could blame Nancy for misinterpreting the Zeta’s message. However, I knew this would be frowned upon too.

In addition, I knew the PoleShift Ning moderators think that NASA uses Sunspots as disinformation to discredit the Zetas’ message of Planet X. Therefore, they usually remove any discussion of Sunspots that includes another point of view.

I had previously posted something that I thought actually supported the Zetas message. The site moderators quickly removed my post and warned me about posted “debunking information.” Therefore, I decided to initiate a conversation with another Zeta contact to see if he could give me some insight.

(I should stop here and say that my intent in telling this story is not to discredit anyone. It is to point out that those in leadership positions must master the skill of defenselessness in communicating their messages. Otherwise, they may miss key insights into their growth and the growth of our world community. There are ways that work and ways that don’t work. I’ll let the reader draw their own conclusions regarding this situation.)

Egyptian Winged DiskI reached out to Chris Thomas, the host of the PoleShift Survival Network Ning. Even though the name of his Ning is similar, it is not the same. (His Ning has a longer name.) I had read his newsletters for a couple of months and noticed that he was more interested in educating and less interested in protecting from attack. In addition, on September 25th, he had posted a beautiful picture on his website, taken by one of his readers, which showed the same Sunspots as the NASA photograph.

We traded emails for about a week. He was initially stumped. At first, he thought NASA was countering ZetaTalk. I think he would have gone with that opinion except for two things. First, he had posted the Sunspot picture on his site. Second, the Moon wasn’t approaching full on September 25.

He thought that the video of the Moon wasn’t the Moon. It had to be the Sun. He contacted the person who posted the YouTube video and confirmed this.

We had a pleasant exchange as we discussed the possibilities, did research to explore those possibilities, and formed an opinion based on that information.

In the meantime, the moderators went ahead and published the ZetaTalk newsletter with the picture of the “Full Moon” that was taken on September 25, 2011, just two days before a New Moon. The newsletter made fun of NASA for bad science.

The moderators of the PoleShift Ning did one more thing too. They cancelled Chris’ membership without explanation. He knows why they removed him. He had previously been a moderator on the site and they became angry with him when he started his own site. He didn’t do this to compete with them. He did this to serve those that were treated poorly on the original site.

In his words, “I used to watch as emails would come in from innocent people pleading for their membership back, while hardly a glimmer of compassion would be shown by some admins… The Sunspots post at my ning was the “straw that broke the camel’s back.””

I certainly understand the religious zeal of Nancy and the moderators. They believe fully that the Planet X message delivered by the Zetas is accurate. However, their techniques have taken them away from their stated goal of helping humans prepare for the upcoming PoleShift. In this case, it has caused inattention to detail on a simple matter: one that gives their opponents the opportunity to discredit their entire message.

I’ll continue to look over their shoulders and hope they do better with future information.

In an upcoming article in the Future section, I’ll update you on the Mayan Calendar. Some experts say it ends THIS month.

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The Price of a Three Dollar Beer

October 4, 2011 in World

The criticism of the Occupy Together Movement has begun. Many of these critics are naïve and uninformed. For example, Jonathan Hoenig of SmartMoney claims that, “In earlier generations, civil disobedience like the Montgomery Bus Boycott or women’s suffrage movement used nonviolent protest to combat blatant violations of individual rights.” He goes on to imply nothing comparable is happening today.

He couldn’t be more inaccurate.

Civil rights are violated daily throughout the world and within the United States. Most of those stories don’t make the news because reporters generally get their news from those violating the rights. As we have previously reported on Peace of Mind News, those with the larger weapons control our society. All it takes is a minor dispute for someone to be charged with a crime, have his property seized, have to post bail, and then pay to acquire the impounded property, if he is able to retrieve it at all.

A friend posted this on Facebook a couple days ago.

Police lights“PLEASE READ I was arrested 9/30/11 booked and thrown in jail. I went to a Giant Minimart in Santa Fe to buy a bottle of beer. I had not been drinking. The cashier asked for my ID. I presented my ID but refused to let them scan it. I told the women she could manually input the date of birth but she refused. I told her I’m 66 years old and I’ve shown you my ID. She took the beer so I went and got another beer laid 10 dollars on the counter for the 3 dollar beer told her I had already presented my ID and to keep the change. I walked out of the store and was immediately arrested and booked into county jail for larceny. My truck was then towed and impounded. I had never been arrested before in my life. The scanning of your Driver’s License is an invasion of your privacy. What a trip more to come.”

My friend is a veteran. I shot pool and shared a meal with him over the 4th of July holiday last summer when he visited our home. Those who know him better than I have told me numerous stories of his generosity and kindness.

After hearing his story, I did some research and, much to my surprise, discovered that many stores now require the scanning of a photo ID for the purchase of alcohol. I understand the arguments for this practice. It gives stores proof they didn’t sell alcohol to minors. It tells authorities where a drunk driver may have purchased alcohol.

My friend was charged with larceny, probably because he didn’t comply with the terms of the transaction by allowing his ID to be scanned. However, he paid ten dollars for a three dollar item and showed the ID that proved his age so he complied with the law. While his actions may have been inconvenient to the store, were they illegal?

I don’t know the answer to that question. More importantly, I don’t know why we even have to ask it.

The frustration over this and similar issues is what Occupy Together is expressing. My friend’s trip to purchase a three dollar beer will turn into at least a several hundred dollar expense by the time he pays bail, removes his truck from the impound lot, and pays his legal expenses.

This type of thing happens daily. Those who have never experienced this think the protestors should take a less confrontational approach. What those critics haven’t experienced is the police state forcefully coming down upon them, hindering their ability to make a living through domination when conversation is a better solution. Occupy Together is attempting to peacefully reopen the conversation.

The response of those with the guns will determine what happens next. The world waits… and watches.

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