In this edition of Spanish Face of the Week, meet Ada Colau, the anti-evictions activist who decided not to throw her shoes at her political enemies by Alex Dunham (The Local) • Action group shuts door on home evictions (26 Feb 13) • Firemen help hose down eviction plans (22 Feb 13) So who is Ada Colau? She’s a 38-year-old […]
Every day, all over England & Wales the international bankers are unlawfully evicting. We the People from our homes, in what has to be one of the biggest scandals currently facing this country. In 2011 alone at least 36,000 repossessions were executed by the banks. However, as you will see, they do this based on a gigantic criminal scam. On the 31st May […]
Soon the Foreclosure Floodgates Will Open and Prices Will Plunge by Mike Whitney Anyone who buys a house in today’s market should be aware of the risks. They should know that current prices are not supported by fundamentals, but by unprecedented manipulation by the Fed, the Obama administration, Wall Street Private Equity investors, and the nation’s biggest banks. If any of […]
Greek Government Shuts Public Broadcast Station by Christoph Dreier On Tuesday night at 11:11 p.m. Greek police forces stopped the transmission of the public broadcasting service ERT, cutting the power supply to its antennas. Workers responded by occupying the station’s main building in Athens suburb of Agia and broadcasting a protest program via satellite and internet. Thousands of sympathizers gathered […]
by Positive Money George Osborne’s Help to Buy scheme ‘stands head and shoulders above most of the stupid economic policies I have seen implemented during my 30 years in this business’, according to a leading City analyst, reads the Guardian, 4th June 2013 Albert Edwards, who heads the global strategy team at Société Générale said the chancellor’s flagship Help to […]
It’s the elephant in the room. The United States is utterly bankrupt and has been living off of borrowed money since 1971, when it defaulted on its loans — though of course, it wasn’t worded like that. Not even an income tax of 100% is enough to cover the expenses, and the US is about to go the way of […]
The Way the World Really Works by Damon Vrabel (CSPER) Damon has had two fairly different lives—one as an overachiever serving the financial empire, and another as a hopeful advocate for the victims of the empire: local community, indigenous population, the American republic, and the individual heart. He graduated from the United States Military Academy, served as an officer in […]
Renaissance 2.0 is an educational video course by Damon Vrabel (CSPER) Its worth reading Damon’s conclusion to his year long publishing experiment – it’s included here after the video. Renaissance 2.0 assumes you have a basic understanding of the monetary system and the problem of exponential growth. Lesson 1 – Revisiting American History: Documents the conversion of the US into a monolithic […]
This operations manual—written by an anonymous collec- tive of resistors, defaulters and allies from Strike Debt and Occupy Wall Street—is for all those being crushed under the weight of debt. It aims to provide specific tactics for understanding and fighting against the debt system so that we can all reclaim our lives and our communities. It con- tains practical information, […]
Exposing the truth about money creation by Brian Leslie (Sustainable Economics) “As one of the United Kingdom’s most advanced monetary thinkers, he see’s the fraudulent debt-money system as the key issue preventing reform toward a peaceful, socially just and sustainable future for humanity. His talk will connect money reform to the various other crucial issues which require urgent reform” – […]
Why not return to gold as the national currency? by Ellen Brown Since that question has come up often on Ellen Brown’s blog, a chapter from “Web of Debt” addressing it is posted below. Chapter 37 THE MONEY QUESTION: GOLDBUGS AND GREENBACKERS DEBATE “You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.” – William Jennings Bryan, 1896 Democratic Convention At […]
We all use money, we all rely on money. But do we know how money works? Where does money come from? How is money created? More than 97% of all the money that exists is created by banks when they make loans. When people first hear this, they often find it hard to believe. But we don’t want you to […]
