Who creates your money?

Imho, the video documentary titled, MONEY MASTERS viewable on KENSOLAR's and other video clip sites really support your report. I urge everyone to watch this video. If you watched ZEITGEST 2007 OFFICIAL RELEASE on Google Video, MONEY MASTER (a 2,000 year history of currency)  is something that you will understand.

Thus, imho, it is key that we all support co-op credit unions (like Vancity)  to get to the root cause of most of humankind's problems, including wars, inflation, and the economy.

"Anybody Can Make Energy" is what we demonstrate in a fun way to kids from 6 to 60

I explored this subject (money) from another perspective - development of global movements (yin-religions) and the "tension" points to them (yang-power,money)to work out, in my own mind at least, the valuable contribution of the "negative" position in moving the species to a higher level of conscious living. In my thinking, I need to move between the problem, or issue, it's politics, economics, causes etc. back to the individual, and then walk back through the issue. For example, having done all my "homework" - talking to people working with or on behalf of the homeless, city councils who consider the infra-structure required and long term financial impacts, to union representatives who appear to have the longest list and strongest opposition to proposed solutions, I then asked myself why I was not inviting the homeless person to live in my spare room until they got on their feet. What came up for me - right or wrong - fears, smells, "babysitting", my respect (if any) for their decisions, their respect for my decisions or apparent affluence (if any), and that led me down the path of how I chose to live when I was collecting bottles to keep the kids in soceer, no car, no money, no home. I made it important to leave the places we stayed (tent, cabin, friends etc.) in better condition than when we arrived, I hauled buckets of water from the creek to wash in, and more to scrub clothes in etc. Whether by choice or circumstances one does the best one can. Therefore, my thinking went, if you find yourself "on the street", (excepting mental illness) you have choices about what kind of street - do you pick up the garbage or add to it? Do you help out, or shut out? Do you find the piles of materials thrown out and re-make them into a shelter? Do you ask for tools to look after yourself, or for hand-outs? Are the "service agencies" victimizing you by telling why you can't help yourself, pointing fingers at "the government", or supplying you with the tools YOU have decided you need? My primary source was George - downtown eastside, Vancouver - injured logger, alcoholic - forthright about how to "play the system", what would work, what never would. What I learned big time, and what is evident in so many areas of social inequitites, is that if we don't stop to ask instead of telling and "giving", it is inevitable that the problem will continue. As a wise man once said - give them a fish and feed them for a day, whow them how to fish and feed them for a lifetime (paraphrase). So that developed into another essay on each roadblock that would come up, who would bring it up, what solutions would work etc. And now, back to the yin/yang (religions, power & money). It was a sarcastic little piece describing to my "sister" in Nepal who had never been outside her small mountain village, what the actions of North American society said about what we worshipped, how we worshipped, and why we were so religious. Banks were our churches, churches were where we went to to show how well we worshipping at our banks, how children, elderly, etc. etc. were discardable and in contravention of our religion. I conclude that our actions tell us what our true intentions and beliefs are. Every person I know, when spoken to one on one, whether in business or governments, believe that we are truly human when we are supporting and caring for our communities, not one will leap from that to confrontation of the "religious" belief system we have around "money". Why? Fear. We are leaving people on the streets, children in poverty and abusive homes & schools, elderly alone, because we have been taught that money and our personal security is more imporant than they are. Let's start undoing that myth thread by thread and regain the balance (tension) needed for a healthy, positive yin/yang. In love, and freedom, Dee Read

The Money Masters - A truly entertaining piece of fiction. Full of incorrect historical information, misplaced/out of context statements and creative fabrication from dubious sources. There is some truth in the underlying message but other than that it is hard for the viewer to really know what is fact or fiction without a fairly thorough investigation of what is being stated. Please don't compare my work to this movie or other movies like Aaron Russo's "From Freedom to Fascism".

One of the biggest problems with this topic is that much of the information on the internet is copied from feeble sources; it then becomes amplified like a rumor (ie: If you read something in enough places, it will start to seem true, even if they are all originally taken from the same unreliable source).

Billy the Quid