Money as debt video

[Bushpig]

Great overview of the global economic con game we are all subject to.  What money is, and how it rules us.  45 mins

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 2583451279


Boooshpig

[Stonehenge]

Cash not backed by gold or silver is fiat money. It's worth what people say it's worth. I put some money into gold and I'm glad I did.

[Cassie]

Also a 'must see'. I watched 'The Money Masters' which is on the same theme and I believe the banking families are going to be so exposed that they will start giving back for fear of being universally hated.

[Azarius]

both great videos, i esp. like the Money as Debt one (tho the Money Masters is useful in its comprehensivity)!!

Not quite on the same level, but still intresting is The Capitalist Conspiracy - kindof like a shortened, cartoon version of the Money Masters...

unfortunately everything in all these videos seems to be true :/

[Azarius]

I believe the banking families are going to be so exposed that they will start giving back for fear of being universally hated.

if only... unfortunately they seem to thrive on being hated... i dont believe they would ever start giving back anything voluntarily... theyre not like bill gates or sthng

[Stonehenge]

Bill Gates is a jerk. He is putting his money into Africa and other third world nations instead of here where he made his money. He gives vaccines and food to the over populated people there. What happens when the food runs out? Who is going to feed all the kids they raise? It's like putting kerosene on a fire.

[Syd]

Bill Gates is a jerk.

He is also rich therefore, he is a jerk? When will we as teh people of Earth stop thinking of the poor of Africa and the poor of the USA are any different? Are we not all humans?

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[Azarius]

hey, im no fan of mr. gates either... i was just using him as an example of a rich person who at least apparently donated some of their money to something supposedly beneficial; in contrast to the banking families.

He is putting his money into Africa and other third world nations instead of here where he made his money. He gives vaccines and food to the over populated people there. What happens when the food runs out? Who is going to feed all the kids they raise? It's like putting kerosene on a fire.

If over-population is a problem it is a global one, not just over 'there'... remember the current 'prosperity' and relative technological superiority of developed nations is partly due to circumstances resulting from historical (and ongoing) exploitation of other countries e.g. Africa.

[Stonehenge]

Gates isn't as bad as some of them. I'll give you that. At least he is trying to do some good even if it's misguided.

What I'm asking is first of all, why doesn't he spend his money over here? Charity begins at home. Secondly, all those vaccines for children who would die mean that the over population problem gets worse. They are starving now, save more kids and the problem gets even worse. That's what good intentions will lead you to.

[Syd]

all those vaccines for children who would die mean that the over population problem gets worse.

Granted its a problem, ill agree with you there, but how does letting them die because it would be a worse problem if they didn't die, make it a better 'solution' in your mind?

[JRL]

I agree, Syd. Pretty off the wall, if you ask me.

[laughingwillow]

Just more of the same mindless, heartless drivel, to me. I didn't know I was going to have to read another of stoney's gems of wisdumb when I clicked on this thread.

lw

[Stonehenge]

Lets all have a group boo hoo then. Feel better now? Someone explain to me how sending handouts to people who crank out too many babies helps the world? We should send them condoms. No, they'd just use them for water balloons or something.

You send vaccines and feed all the starving brats and they grow up and crank out 5 more brats per person. That is the rate over there, I'm not making it up. Dying off is nature's way. It's not our responsibility to take care of someone else's mistakes. Even less so when that just leads to more of the same.

After we have fed all the starving brats over here and all our hungry people are taken care of, then we can think of doing stupid things in other countries. lw, are you saying we should let our kids starve so we can feed kids in africa? JRL, are you saying that? If so, explain.

No, neither of you have anything positive to contribute on the subject. You just want to snipe at me.

[JRL]

Well, maybe so. But I do believe the problem isn't in the amount of resources, but in the distribution of them. I think that its a crime that there are hungry people here as well as anywhere. Call me a dreamer.

[Bushpig]

One needs to take more careful consideration of what the vaccine programme is really doing over in Africa ( and the globe in general).  A

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