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JAMES ROBERTSON - WORKING FOR A SANE ALTERNATIVE
For a free download of James Robertson and Joseph Huber's book Creating New Money, see our Books section, below.
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Isitfair was started in October 2002 by Christine and John Melsom as a local action group in Hampshire. They were incensed about the proposed huge increase in Council Tax bills for the year 2003/04.
The aims of the campaign are twofold:
- The fair distribution of Government Grants to all Local Authorities
- Replace the present Council Tax system with one that is based on ability to pay (from disposable income)
Christian Council for Monetary Justice
enquiring deeply into the nature
of Jubilee and Structural Justice
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The Committee on Economic and Monetary Reform
http://www.comer.org
Creating New Money,
By Joseph Huber and James Robertson
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"The book is a very thorough presentation of the authors' case including chapters on implications for public finance, banking, and, especially useful, replies to suggested objections. At only 92 pages, it is also easily and quickly read." -
Alistair McConnachie, review for Prosperity
Order here (other James Robertson books also available):
http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/z_sys_PublicationDetail.aspx?PID=81
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The Grip Of Death
by Michael Rowbotham
A study of modern money, debt slavery and destructive economics This lucid and original account of where our money comes from explains why most people, businesses and countries are so heavily in debt. It's all about subjects very close to home: mortgages, building societies and banks, food and farming, transport, worldwide poverty, and what's on the supermarket shelf.
It explains-
-why virtually all the money in the world economy has been created as a debt; why only 3% of UK money exists as 'legal tender'; and why in a world reliant upon money created as debt, we are kept perpetually short of money.
-how and why mortgages are responsible for almost two-thirds of the total money stock in the UK, and 80% in the US.
-why business and corporate debt is at its highest level ever.
-why debts mean that a small farm can be productively very efficient, but financially not 'viable'.
-why national debts can never be paid off - without monetary reform.
-how debt fuels the 'need to grow', revolutionising national and global transport strategies, destroying local markets and producers and increasing waste, pollution and resource consumption.
-how 'Third World debt' is a mechanism used by the developed nations to inject ever-increasing amounts of money into their own economies, and why debtor nations can never repay the debts.
-why politicians who rely on the banks for money can't fund public services.
-why 'debt-money' is undemocratic and a threat to human rights. The author proposes a new mechanism for the supply of money, creating a supportive financial environment and a decreasing reliance on debt. Michael Rowbotham is a teacher and writer.
(UK) £15 pbk + £3.52 pp 1 897766 40 8 Published by Jon Carpenter, 1998
Jon Carpenter Publishing, 2 Spendlove Centre, Charlbury, Oxfordshire, OX7 3PQ
Tel/Fax: 01608 811969. E-Mail: joncarpenterpublishing@compuserve.com
(US) $29.95 Available from: Paul and Company. Tel: (978) 369 3049
E-Mail: paulinc@tiac.net
WHAT OTHERS SAY
"A masterpiece of controlled, logical but readable passion which draws the reader on in spite of the complexity of the subject matter." David Boyle, Resurgence
"A radical, shocking and eye-opening expos‚ of how our money system really works. . A clear and passionate writer.' New Internationalist
"A scholarly, radical appraisal of how modern money systems are squeezing the life blood out of our societies.' John Papworth, Fourth World Review
"Few books have pointed to how to move forward to a money system for a sustainable and inclusive future. This is one of the best there is." Ed Mayo, New Economics Foundation
"An incisive and readable book: it opens up in a very fresh way what money is and how it works (and doesn't work)." Rt Rev Peter Selby, Bishop of Worcester
'A powerful, well documented case for treating today's debt-based money supply system as "the single most important area of reform confronting us". A good book about a key millennial issue.' James Robertson, Turning Point
"Forget everything you thought you knew about money. In terms the lay person can understand,
myth buster Rowbotham fearlessly reveals deeply disturbing truths about our debt-based money
system that befuddle bankers, economists, and politicians. An essential self-education tool for
anyone interested in creating a world that works, pushing the issues further and posing the
implications more bluntly than I have seen anywhere else."
David C. Korten, author, When
Corporations Rule the World, and board chair, The Positive Futures Network
"A trenchant analysis of the current arrangements for credit creation, a powerful indictment of
their baleful consequences, and a persuasive case for reform."
Prof. Bryan Gould,
Vice-Chancellor, University of Waikato
Read the first chapter here.
By Michael Rowbotham
In this analysis of the true costs of Third World debt, the author raises a warning flag on a problem that he thinks can, potentially, have a devastating effect on the American economy. He cites the system that brought debt in the first place, and offers strong remedies for reform.
Review by a reader:
The injustice of Third World debt is exposed in this incisive and penetrating work by the brilliant author of The Grip of Death.
He warns that the Third World debt trap is an extreme case of the same debt trap that all working families face in our own economies.
You may think Third World debt is a distant problem for distant lands. Think again. This book shows that the mechanisms pushing the Third World into permanent poverty are the same as those that are deferring your retirement and pushing your children into permanent debt with no hope of escape. Like docile frogs slowly being boiled alive, we are slowly being impoverished by the major banking institutions we trust. This book shows how.
Please read this important work.
The Lost Science of Money
By Stephen Zarlenga, of the American Monetary Institute
Dr. Michael
Hudson wrote:
"The history of
money is critical to understanding the greatest problem the third
millennium will face. Stephen Zarlenga's Lost
Science of Money book
provides the needed background for seeing the basic structural issues
at work.”
“This book looks marvelously helpful and has some stunning historical vistas of the whole concept of media of exchange.”
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From
the Lost Science of Money book Jacket: WHAT’S GONE WRONG? Unheard of wealth concentrates into very few, largely undeserving hands. Americans work harder and produce more than ever but increasingly fall into debt and bankruptcy while corruption rules, and predators plunder society by merely shuffling papers. Less than 1% of the population now owns about 50% of the wealth, and receives 17% of the income! The Lost Science of Money shows how a false concept of money allowed it to happen, and tells how to reverse it. SECRET
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A GENERATION MISLED The gates protecting America have been left undefended. September 11th demonstrated only one aspect of this problem. Our people have been under monetary attack from within and from abroad for most of our history, and the physical, financial and psychological damage has far exceeded the terrible losses at New York’s Twin Towers. An entire generation has been led astray into market worship and other forms of religious fundamentalism. A dysfunctional media focuses on the elections and sex habits of politicians while the real outcomes in society are determined behind the scenes by the structure of the nation’s money system. This problem goes much deeper than accounting and stock fraud, and even beyond the graduate schools of business that have inculcated such criminal behavior. The deeper cause lies hidden in the structurally corrupt core of our monetary and banking system and our schools of economics. It arises from the falsehoods they have spread on the nature of money, allowing their patrons to control the money power, and in turn to dominate our society, deforming humanity in the process. Those who really want to get to the bottom of the problem will find this book’s message timely and valuable. See the Table of Contents below. |
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The author at 26, and now. Though a bit more seasoned, he keeps a youthful attitude.
For table of contents, see:
VIDEOS AND DVDS TO BUY ONLINE:
This is a brilliant DVD charting the emergence of the present debt-based financial system. It's account of the American people's determined resistance to privately controlled central banking is particularly interesting. Did you know, for instance, that Benjamin Franklin claimed that it wasn't just taxation, but the British government's refusal to let the colonists continue printing their own debt-free money, which precipitated the American War of Independence? And that President Andrew Jackson's proudest boast was, "I killed the bank"?
Pat Carmack and Bill Still, the producers of this video, are also good on the issue of gold-backed currencies versus fiat money.
Order at:
http://www.themoneymasters.com
MONEY AS DEBT - DVD
Order at:
or watch it free here http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279 and then buy a copy as a present for a heavily-indebted friend. Remember, Paul Grignan put a lot of time, effort and money into making it!
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