So the psychopaths got their majority. Now they can start dismantling all those remaining hated social democratic aspects of our society and turn us into a Third World country - now we can be just like the USA, the Harpercrits long term dream. Now they can freely terrorize cannabis smokers, impose crack pot religious ideas upon us, glory in war and corporate welfare, destroy the CBC, slowly privatize health care and so forth. But at the same time one must remember that only 40% of the population supported this wrecking crew, and most of that group are old, alienated and ignorant. The young do not support the far right, period. A sad commentary on our pseudo-democracy that 40% can bully the other 60%. What a sad commentary on our pseudo-democracy that all the major papers but one backed the Cons.
At the same time, this election marks a sharp turn to the left with the NDP making huge gains and the Greens apparently electing their first MP. Furthermore, much of this left comes from Quebec and while the rest of the country are candy- asses, the Quebecois will fight back and then some. We are in for a rough ride boys and girls. There are going to be some real brawls ahead. Judging by what our Fuehrer did at the G20 we can count on violence being done to us.
There is one other positive aspect to this otherwise nightmare scenario. When the global economy does its double dip, when the Canadian real estate bubble pops, the Harpercrits will be the ones holding the bag. The country will then become ungovernable.
Monday, May 2, 2011
MONETARY HISTORY CALENDAR May 2-8
MAY 5
1821 – DEATH OF NAPOLEAN BONAPARTE
“Money has no motherland, financiers are without patriotism or decency; their sole object is gain”
MAY 7
1873 – DEATH OF SALMON P. CHASE, US TREASURY SECRETARY
“My agency in procuring the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly that affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed. But before this can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other in a contest such as we have never seen in this country."
Note: The National Bank Acts of 1863 was known originally as the National Currency Act and updated the following year. The Act established chartered national banks that could issue bank notes which were backed by the United States Treasury. These notes existed side by side to public “Greenbacks” (directly issued by the government). Bankers supported the Bank Acts as a means to eventually supplant Greenbacks and once more gain full control of the US money system.
Why this calendar? Many people have questions about the root causes of our economic problems. Some questions involve money, banks and debt. How is money created? Why do banks control its quantity? How has the money system been used to liberate (not often) and oppress (most often) us? And how can the money system be “democratized” to rebuild our economy and society, create jobs and reduce debt?
Our goal is to inform, intrigue and inspire through bite size weekly postings listing important events and quotes from prominent individuals (both past and present) on money, banking and how the money system can help people and the planet. We hope the sharing of bits of buried history will illuminate monetary and banking issues and empower you with others to create real economic and political justice.
This calendar is a project of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee. Adele Looney, Phyllis Titus, Donna Schall, Leah Davis, Alice Francini and Greg Coleridge helped in its development.
Please forward this to others and encourage them to subscribe. To subscribe/unsubscribe or to comment on any entry, contact monetarycalendar@yahoo.com For more information, visit http://www.afsc.net/economiccrisis.html
1821 – DEATH OF NAPOLEAN BONAPARTE
“Money has no motherland, financiers are without patriotism or decency; their sole object is gain”
MAY 7
1873 – DEATH OF SALMON P. CHASE, US TREASURY SECRETARY
“My agency in procuring the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly that affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed. But before this can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other in a contest such as we have never seen in this country."
Note: The National Bank Acts of 1863 was known originally as the National Currency Act and updated the following year. The Act established chartered national banks that could issue bank notes which were backed by the United States Treasury. These notes existed side by side to public “Greenbacks” (directly issued by the government). Bankers supported the Bank Acts as a means to eventually supplant Greenbacks and once more gain full control of the US money system.
Why this calendar? Many people have questions about the root causes of our economic problems. Some questions involve money, banks and debt. How is money created? Why do banks control its quantity? How has the money system been used to liberate (not often) and oppress (most often) us? And how can the money system be “democratized” to rebuild our economy and society, create jobs and reduce debt?
Our goal is to inform, intrigue and inspire through bite size weekly postings listing important events and quotes from prominent individuals (both past and present) on money, banking and how the money system can help people and the planet. We hope the sharing of bits of buried history will illuminate monetary and banking issues and empower you with others to create real economic and political justice.
This calendar is a project of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee. Adele Looney, Phyllis Titus, Donna Schall, Leah Davis, Alice Francini and Greg Coleridge helped in its development.
Please forward this to others and encourage them to subscribe. To subscribe/unsubscribe or to comment on any entry, contact monetarycalendar@yahoo.com For more information, visit http://www.afsc.net/economiccrisis.html
Sunday, May 1, 2011
May Day! Our Unemployment Crisis
There may be no better day of the year than May 1 (May Day) to call attention to the plight of the unemployed...and to demand dramatic actions from our public officials to create jobs.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the March U-6 unemployment rate was 15.7%. The U-6 rate includes total unemployed, plus persons unemployment no longer looking for work, plus total part time employed for economic reasons. Rates for people of color and youth are much higher. The unemployment rate during the Great Depression, by comparison, was 25%.
Fewer employed means less money in the pockets of millions of people who, as consumers, form the backbone (70%) of the US economy. Fewer dollars to spend translates to fewer purchases, fewer businesses who produce goods and services and fewer workers in those businesses. It’s a vicious circle. Conditions are dire when even Wall-Mart is having a hard time – an April 28 report says shoppers are purchasing less at the end of each month as money is running out at a faster clip.
We can thank both corporate and government policies for the rise in unemployment.
On the corporate side, the movement of corporate capital abroad has left tornado-like wreckage in community after community – including many in Ohio – as companies moved production facilities to low-wage and low-regulation nations. Investment in technology is the other major corporate cause for unemployment. Machines of all shapes, sizes and sophistication yielded more production with fewer workers. Productivity has never been higher. The number of workers needed to produce so much stuff has never been lower.
On the government sides, tax policies that favor the wealthy over everyone else has resulted in a rich-poor gap of near historic proportions. Sociologist William Domhoff in his recent update of Who Rules America documents that the richest 10% people in this country own 98.5% of all financial securities. The rich, super-rich and super-duper-rich squirrel away and speculate their riches. No matter how many Lexuses, yachts, mansions and Guccis purchased, they don’t come close to the collective purchases of middle and lower class people with the same amount of dollars in their pockets. Fewer overall consumer purchases translates to fewer workers needed in the real economy. Federal spending to bail out banks and other financial institutions in the trillions (that’s with a “t”) at the expense of homeowners and spending on unnecessary military weapons, foreign military bases and wars and occupations in an ever growing number of foreign nations are both massive misuses of funds that provide fewer jobs per dollar spent than on just about any other federal program. Compounding these causes were Federal Reserve monetary policies that scraped regulations, encouraged bank leverage, and actively promoted bank speculation using money created as debt by banks out of thin air. The resulting economic collapse caused millions of home foreclosures and pink slips to workers.
Coxey’s Army
On May Day in 1894, Jacob Coxey stepped onto the grounds of the US Capital in Washington, DC. A day earlier, this businessman and social reformer along with 500 unemployed laborers completed a march from Coxey’s home in Massillon, Ohio. “Coxey’s Army,” as it came to be known, had marched for jobs. The economic Panic of 1893 was followed by a severe depression. Coxey and his fellow marchers had waged a “petition in boots” war against unemployment, demanding a federal public works jobs program.
The means for funding the program by this “petition in boots” was unique.
- It didn’t call on the government to raise taxes.
- It didn’t advocate for shifting funds from one part of government to another.
- Nor did it call for the government to borrow the cost of the program, $500 million, from bankers – which would have to be repaid with interest – lining the pockets of the bankers.
Coxey and his Army called, instead, for the US Treasury to directly print and issue $500 million to employ 4 million people. Specifically, they proposed two bills. The first, a "Good Roads Bill," would help farmers through $500 million issued by the federal government in legal tender notes, or greenbacks, to construct rural roads. The second, a noninterest-bearing bonds bill, would empower state and local governments to issue noninterest-bearing bonds to be used to borrow legal tender notes from the federal treasury. This money would be used to build urban libraries, schools, utility plants and marketplaces.
"Money exists not by nature but by law," Aristotle said. Unbeknownst to most people, the colonists issued “”Continentals” and the Lincoln Administration “Greenbacks” to fund the Revolutionary and Civil wars respectively – all debt and interest free. More than 200 prominent economists during the Great Depression developed and endorsed “The Chicago Plan” – which declared that only the government should create money – to address the economic crisis.
Whatever is used as money attains its worth and credibility when it’s accepted by society. "We the people” should have ultimate democratic authority to issue and circulate money, not banks or bankers. The issuance of money should be democratized. Inflation won’t result if public money is spent on needed goods and services (as opposed to wars and financial speculation).
Unfortunately, our current money system is privatized and corporatized. Private banks and the Federal Reserve create more than 95 percent of all our money. It is created literally "out of thin air" by banks and bankers as loans (debt) for their own gain, regardless of society's needs. Banks can loan $10 for every $1 held in reserve. We see how well they’ve done in this dictatorial money system.
Call for Nationwide Jobs Program
May Day 2011 is a fine time to (re)think and (re)commit to creating jobs. Current political fixation on deficits and debts are diversions from our unemployment crisis. Rising stock markets and corporate profits mean nothing if millions who want a job don’t have one. The corporate sector isn’t creating the jobs necessary to remedy unemployment.
A bold plan to create a public program of good paying jobs is called for. Funding for it can come from three sources.
1. Increased taxes on the wealthy.
2. Cuts in the military budget.
3. Issuing public money.
Much in progressive circles have been written on the first two options but little on the third.
US Rep. Dennis Kucinich in the last Congress introduced the National Emergency Employment Defense Act, HR 6550. Public issuance of $2.2 trillion to hire millions of people to repair our nation’s infrastructure is one of the 3 major provisions of the bill. The other two are to democratize the Federal Reserve by moving it under the authority of the Treasury Department and ending the ability of banks to create money out of thin air.
The beauty and irony of Kucinich’s bill, to be reintroduced this year, is that these three provisions would institutionalize what most of the public believes already exists – that the Federal Reserve is public, that banks only loan money that they possess, and that the government creates our money.
Encourage your Congressperson to learn about and cosponsor Kucinich’s bill when it is reintroduced this year. Ask your two US Senators to contact Rep. Kucinich about becoming a Senate sponsor. Your Senators and Congressperson need to know about this bill.
Reordering our tax and spending policies are certainly important avenues for freeing up resources for job creation and moving us toward a more sane and humane society. But don’t ignore our monetary system. Democratizing our money system is not only important to remedy unemployment. It’s critical as well in taking democratic charge of our entire economy. And without real economic justice, political justice is unattainable.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the March U-6 unemployment rate was 15.7%. The U-6 rate includes total unemployed, plus persons unemployment no longer looking for work, plus total part time employed for economic reasons. Rates for people of color and youth are much higher. The unemployment rate during the Great Depression, by comparison, was 25%.
Fewer employed means less money in the pockets of millions of people who, as consumers, form the backbone (70%) of the US economy. Fewer dollars to spend translates to fewer purchases, fewer businesses who produce goods and services and fewer workers in those businesses. It’s a vicious circle. Conditions are dire when even Wall-Mart is having a hard time – an April 28 report says shoppers are purchasing less at the end of each month as money is running out at a faster clip.
We can thank both corporate and government policies for the rise in unemployment.
On the corporate side, the movement of corporate capital abroad has left tornado-like wreckage in community after community – including many in Ohio – as companies moved production facilities to low-wage and low-regulation nations. Investment in technology is the other major corporate cause for unemployment. Machines of all shapes, sizes and sophistication yielded more production with fewer workers. Productivity has never been higher. The number of workers needed to produce so much stuff has never been lower.
On the government sides, tax policies that favor the wealthy over everyone else has resulted in a rich-poor gap of near historic proportions. Sociologist William Domhoff in his recent update of Who Rules America documents that the richest 10% people in this country own 98.5% of all financial securities. The rich, super-rich and super-duper-rich squirrel away and speculate their riches. No matter how many Lexuses, yachts, mansions and Guccis purchased, they don’t come close to the collective purchases of middle and lower class people with the same amount of dollars in their pockets. Fewer overall consumer purchases translates to fewer workers needed in the real economy. Federal spending to bail out banks and other financial institutions in the trillions (that’s with a “t”) at the expense of homeowners and spending on unnecessary military weapons, foreign military bases and wars and occupations in an ever growing number of foreign nations are both massive misuses of funds that provide fewer jobs per dollar spent than on just about any other federal program. Compounding these causes were Federal Reserve monetary policies that scraped regulations, encouraged bank leverage, and actively promoted bank speculation using money created as debt by banks out of thin air. The resulting economic collapse caused millions of home foreclosures and pink slips to workers.
Coxey’s Army
On May Day in 1894, Jacob Coxey stepped onto the grounds of the US Capital in Washington, DC. A day earlier, this businessman and social reformer along with 500 unemployed laborers completed a march from Coxey’s home in Massillon, Ohio. “Coxey’s Army,” as it came to be known, had marched for jobs. The economic Panic of 1893 was followed by a severe depression. Coxey and his fellow marchers had waged a “petition in boots” war against unemployment, demanding a federal public works jobs program.
The means for funding the program by this “petition in boots” was unique.
- It didn’t call on the government to raise taxes.
- It didn’t advocate for shifting funds from one part of government to another.
- Nor did it call for the government to borrow the cost of the program, $500 million, from bankers – which would have to be repaid with interest – lining the pockets of the bankers.
Coxey and his Army called, instead, for the US Treasury to directly print and issue $500 million to employ 4 million people. Specifically, they proposed two bills. The first, a "Good Roads Bill," would help farmers through $500 million issued by the federal government in legal tender notes, or greenbacks, to construct rural roads. The second, a noninterest-bearing bonds bill, would empower state and local governments to issue noninterest-bearing bonds to be used to borrow legal tender notes from the federal treasury. This money would be used to build urban libraries, schools, utility plants and marketplaces.
"Money exists not by nature but by law," Aristotle said. Unbeknownst to most people, the colonists issued “”Continentals” and the Lincoln Administration “Greenbacks” to fund the Revolutionary and Civil wars respectively – all debt and interest free. More than 200 prominent economists during the Great Depression developed and endorsed “The Chicago Plan” – which declared that only the government should create money – to address the economic crisis.
Whatever is used as money attains its worth and credibility when it’s accepted by society. "We the people” should have ultimate democratic authority to issue and circulate money, not banks or bankers. The issuance of money should be democratized. Inflation won’t result if public money is spent on needed goods and services (as opposed to wars and financial speculation).
Unfortunately, our current money system is privatized and corporatized. Private banks and the Federal Reserve create more than 95 percent of all our money. It is created literally "out of thin air" by banks and bankers as loans (debt) for their own gain, regardless of society's needs. Banks can loan $10 for every $1 held in reserve. We see how well they’ve done in this dictatorial money system.
Call for Nationwide Jobs Program
May Day 2011 is a fine time to (re)think and (re)commit to creating jobs. Current political fixation on deficits and debts are diversions from our unemployment crisis. Rising stock markets and corporate profits mean nothing if millions who want a job don’t have one. The corporate sector isn’t creating the jobs necessary to remedy unemployment.
A bold plan to create a public program of good paying jobs is called for. Funding for it can come from three sources.
1. Increased taxes on the wealthy.
2. Cuts in the military budget.
3. Issuing public money.
Much in progressive circles have been written on the first two options but little on the third.
US Rep. Dennis Kucinich in the last Congress introduced the National Emergency Employment Defense Act, HR 6550. Public issuance of $2.2 trillion to hire millions of people to repair our nation’s infrastructure is one of the 3 major provisions of the bill. The other two are to democratize the Federal Reserve by moving it under the authority of the Treasury Department and ending the ability of banks to create money out of thin air.
The beauty and irony of Kucinich’s bill, to be reintroduced this year, is that these three provisions would institutionalize what most of the public believes already exists – that the Federal Reserve is public, that banks only loan money that they possess, and that the government creates our money.
Encourage your Congressperson to learn about and cosponsor Kucinich’s bill when it is reintroduced this year. Ask your two US Senators to contact Rep. Kucinich about becoming a Senate sponsor. Your Senators and Congressperson need to know about this bill.
Reordering our tax and spending policies are certainly important avenues for freeing up resources for job creation and moving us toward a more sane and humane society. But don’t ignore our monetary system. Democratizing our money system is not only important to remedy unemployment. It’s critical as well in taking democratic charge of our entire economy. And without real economic justice, political justice is unattainable.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
VIDEOS OF CORPORATE POWER: THE LEGACY OF SANTA CLARA
April 20, 2011 – Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, Columbus
Corporate Power - Racial Equality - The Supreme Court
This video features some moments from an event called, "Corporate Power -The Legacy of Santa Clara" that took place on 4/20/2011 at The Ohio State University, Moritz Law School, Saxbe Auditorium. The event was sponsored by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.
http://www.youtube.com/user/laurenmichellekinsey#p/a/u/2/03yZHZAd_XQ
Corporate Power v. Citizen Representation In Government
Jennifer Brunner, attorney at Brunner Quinn and former Ohio Secretary of State, addressing some of the effects of corporate power on the election process and what we can do about it.
http://www.youtube.com/user/laurenmichellekinsey#p/a/u/1/2OXcmazzUuM
Corporate Power and Unfair Taxation
"The logical consequence leads us to Senate Bill 5, where the budget is ostensibly to be balanced by curtailing human rights of workers, by making them cheaper. This downward pressure and the narrative that supports it comes from a powerful community, it's backed by the Chambers of Commerce, it's backed by the corporate 'persons' that have gained in ascendancy..."
http://www.youtube.com/user/laurenmichellekinsey#p/a/u/0/S6KLYBbEnA4
Corporate Power - Racial Equality - The Supreme Court
This video features some moments from an event called, "Corporate Power -The Legacy of Santa Clara" that took place on 4/20/2011 at The Ohio State University, Moritz Law School, Saxbe Auditorium. The event was sponsored by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.
http://www.youtube.com/user/laurenmichellekinsey#p/a/u/2/03yZHZAd_XQ
Corporate Power v. Citizen Representation In Government
Jennifer Brunner, attorney at Brunner Quinn and former Ohio Secretary of State, addressing some of the effects of corporate power on the election process and what we can do about it.
http://www.youtube.com/user/laurenmichellekinsey#p/a/u/1/2OXcmazzUuM
Corporate Power and Unfair Taxation
"The logical consequence leads us to Senate Bill 5, where the budget is ostensibly to be balanced by curtailing human rights of workers, by making them cheaper. This downward pressure and the narrative that supports it comes from a powerful community, it's backed by the Chambers of Commerce, it's backed by the corporate 'persons' that have gained in ascendancy..."
http://www.youtube.com/user/laurenmichellekinsey#p/a/u/0/S6KLYBbEnA4
Monday, April 25, 2011
MONETARY HISTORY CALENDAR April 25-May 1
APRIL 27
2009 – COMMENT BY DICK DURBIN, US SENATOR, ILLINOIS
“And the banks -- hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created -- are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.”
APRIL 29
1913 – PRINTING IN CONGRESSIONAL RECORD OF 1891 MEMO FROM AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION
"On Sept, 1, 1894, we will not renew our loans under any consideration. On Sept. 1st we will demand our money. We will foreclose and become mortgagees in possession. We can take two-thirds of the farms west of the Mississippi, and thousands of them east of the Mississippi as well, at our own price… We may as well own three-fourths of the farms of the West and the money of the country. Then the farmers will become tenants as in England …"
1947 – DEATH OF IRVING FISHER, PROFESSOR AND ECONOMIST
"Thus our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess. "
MAY 1
1871 -- KNOX V LEE US SUPREME COURT DECISION
The Supreme Court reversed Hepburn v. Griswold (1870) -- declaring that making paper money legal tender through the Legal Tender Act did not conflict with the US Constitution (Article 1)
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Why this calendar? Many people have questions about the root causes of our economic problems. Some questions involve money, banks and debt. How is money created? Why do banks control its quantity? How has the money system been used to liberate (not often) and oppress (most often) us? And how can the money system be “democratized” to rebuild our economy and society, create jobs and reduce debt?
Our goal is to inform, intrigue and inspire through bite size weekly postings listing important events and quotes from prominent individuals (both past and present) on money, banking and how the money system can help people and the planet. We hope the sharing of bits of buried history will illuminate monetary and banking issues and empower you with others to create real economic and political justice.
This calendar is a project of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee. Adele Looney, Phyllis Titus, Donna Schall, Leah Davis, Alice Francini and Greg Coleridge helped in its development.
Please forward this to others and encourage them to subscribe. To subscribe/unsubscribe or to comment on any entry, contact monetarycalendar@yahoo.com For more information, visit http://www.afsc.net/economiccrisis.html
2009 – COMMENT BY DICK DURBIN, US SENATOR, ILLINOIS
“And the banks -- hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created -- are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.”
APRIL 29
1913 – PRINTING IN CONGRESSIONAL RECORD OF 1891 MEMO FROM AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION
"On Sept, 1, 1894, we will not renew our loans under any consideration. On Sept. 1st we will demand our money. We will foreclose and become mortgagees in possession. We can take two-thirds of the farms west of the Mississippi, and thousands of them east of the Mississippi as well, at our own price… We may as well own three-fourths of the farms of the West and the money of the country. Then the farmers will become tenants as in England …"
1947 – DEATH OF IRVING FISHER, PROFESSOR AND ECONOMIST
"Thus our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess. "
MAY 1
1871 -- KNOX V LEE US SUPREME COURT DECISION
The Supreme Court reversed Hepburn v. Griswold (1870) -- declaring that making paper money legal tender through the Legal Tender Act did not conflict with the US Constitution (Article 1)
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Why this calendar? Many people have questions about the root causes of our economic problems. Some questions involve money, banks and debt. How is money created? Why do banks control its quantity? How has the money system been used to liberate (not often) and oppress (most often) us? And how can the money system be “democratized” to rebuild our economy and society, create jobs and reduce debt?
Our goal is to inform, intrigue and inspire through bite size weekly postings listing important events and quotes from prominent individuals (both past and present) on money, banking and how the money system can help people and the planet. We hope the sharing of bits of buried history will illuminate monetary and banking issues and empower you with others to create real economic and political justice.
This calendar is a project of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee. Adele Looney, Phyllis Titus, Donna Schall, Leah Davis, Alice Francini and Greg Coleridge helped in its development.
Please forward this to others and encourage them to subscribe. To subscribe/unsubscribe or to comment on any entry, contact monetarycalendar@yahoo.com For more information, visit http://www.afsc.net/economiccrisis.html
Monday, April 18, 2011
MONETARY HISTORY CALENDAR April 18 - 24
APRIL 20
1868 – BIRTH OF JOHN HYLAN, MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY, 1918-1925
'The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen....At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties."
APRIL 22
EARTH DAY – CREE INDIAN PROVERB
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money."
Seems an appropriate quote on this day.
APRIL 23
384 BC – BIRTH OF ARISTOTLE (THE DATE IS UNCLEAR. HE MAY HAVE BEEN BORN ON APRIL 16)
"The most hated sort of wealth getting is usury which makes again out of money itself and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money...of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural."
"Money exists not by nature but by law."
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Why this calendar? Many people have questions about the root causes of our economic problems. Some questions involve money, banks and debt. How is money created? Why do banks control its quantity? How has the money system been used to liberate (not often) and oppress (most often) us? And how can the money system be “democratized” to rebuild our economy and society, create jobs and reduce debt?
Our goal is to inform, intrigue and inspire through bite size weekly postings listing important events and quotes from prominent individuals (both past and present) on money, banking and how the money system can help people and the planet. We hope the sharing of bits of buried history will illuminate monetary and banking issues and empower you with others to create real economic and political justice.
This calendar is a project of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee. Adele Looney, Phyllis Titus, Donna Schall, Leah Davis, Alice Francini and Greg Coleridge helped in its development.
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1868 – BIRTH OF JOHN HYLAN, MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY, 1918-1925
'The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen....At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties."
APRIL 22
EARTH DAY – CREE INDIAN PROVERB
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money."
Seems an appropriate quote on this day.
APRIL 23
384 BC – BIRTH OF ARISTOTLE (THE DATE IS UNCLEAR. HE MAY HAVE BEEN BORN ON APRIL 16)
"The most hated sort of wealth getting is usury which makes again out of money itself and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money...of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural."
"Money exists not by nature but by law."
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Why this calendar? Many people have questions about the root causes of our economic problems. Some questions involve money, banks and debt. How is money created? Why do banks control its quantity? How has the money system been used to liberate (not often) and oppress (most often) us? And how can the money system be “democratized” to rebuild our economy and society, create jobs and reduce debt?
Our goal is to inform, intrigue and inspire through bite size weekly postings listing important events and quotes from prominent individuals (both past and present) on money, banking and how the money system can help people and the planet. We hope the sharing of bits of buried history will illuminate monetary and banking issues and empower you with others to create real economic and political justice.
This calendar is a project of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee. Adele Looney, Phyllis Titus, Donna Schall, Leah Davis, Alice Francini and Greg Coleridge helped in its development.
Please forward this to others and encourage them to subscribe. To subscribe/unsubscribe or to comment on any entry, contact monetarycalendar@yahoo.com For more information, visit http://www.afsc.net/economiccrisis.html
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Corporate Power: The Legacy of Santa Clara
Wednesday, April 20 at Noon
Saxbe Auditorium
Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University
55 West 12th Avenue
SPEAKERS
Santa Clara and the 14th Amendment: john a. powell, Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law, and executive director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Corporate power and elections: Jennifer Brunner, attorney at Brunner Quinn and former Ohio Secretary of State
Corporate power and taxation: Wendy Patton, Senior Associate, Policy Matters Ohio
Corporate power and privatization: Stephen Menendian, Attorney/Senior Legal Research Associate, Kirwan Institute
Moderator: Greg Coleridge, Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee
THE EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Sponsored by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University
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The Citizens United vs FEC Supreme Court decision in 2010 was NOT the first time the high court ruled that corporations possessed the same constitutional rights (called “corporate personhood”) as human persons . The court has made numerous decisions over the decades establishing and expanding corporate personhood. It began 125 years ago on May 10, 1886 in the Santa Clara vs Southern Pacific RR decision when corporations were granted 14th Amendment equal protection rights. The 14th Amendment was intended to provide equal protection and due process rights solely to freed slaves.
Attend this important forum to learn about what happened, how it happened, the impact of the Santa Clara ruling, and current initiatives in response to expanding corporate constitutional rights.
THIS EVENT IS ONE OF SEVERAL ACROSS THE COUNTRY OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS TO MARK THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SANTA CLARA DECISION.
Saxbe Auditorium
Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University
55 West 12th Avenue
SPEAKERS
Santa Clara and the 14th Amendment: john a. powell, Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law, and executive director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Corporate power and elections: Jennifer Brunner, attorney at Brunner Quinn and former Ohio Secretary of State
Corporate power and taxation: Wendy Patton, Senior Associate, Policy Matters Ohio
Corporate power and privatization: Stephen Menendian, Attorney/Senior Legal Research Associate, Kirwan Institute
Moderator: Greg Coleridge, Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee
THE EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Sponsored by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University
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The Citizens United vs FEC Supreme Court decision in 2010 was NOT the first time the high court ruled that corporations possessed the same constitutional rights (called “corporate personhood”) as human persons . The court has made numerous decisions over the decades establishing and expanding corporate personhood. It began 125 years ago on May 10, 1886 in the Santa Clara vs Southern Pacific RR decision when corporations were granted 14th Amendment equal protection rights. The 14th Amendment was intended to provide equal protection and due process rights solely to freed slaves.
Attend this important forum to learn about what happened, how it happened, the impact of the Santa Clara ruling, and current initiatives in response to expanding corporate constitutional rights.
THIS EVENT IS ONE OF SEVERAL ACROSS THE COUNTRY OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS TO MARK THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SANTA CLARA DECISION.
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