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GeldÜberlebenssicherung
BW 200


 

Goldmünze 1914

 

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist,
Hamlet, Act 1 scene 3


 

Geld – die erste Prüfung


Euromünzen

Der Umgang mit Geld gilt als die erste Prüfung. Spirituelle Berater berichten, dass die beiden wichtigsten Problemkreise ihrer Klienten Finanzen und Beziehungen sind.

 

Geld, Essen, Sex und andere Mittel und Ausdrucksformen, die für das physische Überleben notwendig sind, schwingen auf einem Bewusstseinsniveau von BW 200-205 und höher. Sie sind im Wesentlichen neutral und an sich mit keiner oder sehr wenig Wirkmacht ausgestattet. Die mit ihnen verbundenen Intentionen können entscheidende Folgen nach sich ziehen.

 

Wahres Kapital drückt sich nicht in Geld, sondern in Genius aus, dem der Geldfluss zu gegebener Zeit folgen wird.

 

Im 20. Jahrhundert waren Geld, Statussymbole und Ruhm die äußeren Kennzeichen des Erfolgs.
Im das neuen Paradigma ist Integrität der Ausdruck des Erfolgs.

 

Das Verlangen, (die Sucht) nach Geld, Prestige oder Macht, bestimmt das Leben vieler Menschen, die nicht vorwiegend von Angst getrieben werden. Die Bedürftigkeit nach Geld und Bekanntheit ist problematisch. Es gilt, selbst jene Quelle zu werden, die Überlebensmittel, Beliebtheit und Einfluss anzieht.

Geld kann dir erkaufen ...

Mit Geld kannst du dir ...
        * Sachen kaufen, doch keine Essenz.
        * ein Haus kaufen, doch kein Zuhause.
        * eine Versicherung kaufen, doch keine Geborgenheit.
        * Werbung kaufen, doch keine Wahrheit.
        * ein Image erkaufen, doch keine integrität.
        * einen Rang erkaufen, doch keine Wuerde.
        * Werbung [Propagada] kaufen, doch keine Wahrheit.
        * Günstlinge und Komplizen kaufen, doch keine Freunde.
        * Sex kaufen, doch keine Liebe.
        * eine künstliche Befruchtung kaufen, doch keine Kinder.
        * Drogen kaufen, doch keine Freude.
        * eine Uhr kaufen, doch keine Zeit.
        * ein Buch kaufen, doch kein Wissen.
        * ein Bett kaufen, doch keinen [natürlichen] Schlaf.
        * einen Arzt kaufen, doch nicht [dauerhafte] Gesundheit.
        * Blut kaufen, doch kein [ewiges] Leben.

Zitate zum Thema Geld / Money

Zitate von D. Hawkins

  • Die Wahrnehmung eines finanziellen Drucks ergibt sich, wenn sich unser Leben zu schnell ausdehnt. Das schafft die Illusion von Geldmangel. Die Antwort ist nicht finanzieller Art, sondern eine von Geduld. […] Wenn man sich ungeduldig Dinge wünscht, geht man als Folge davon, zu schnell vorwärts, um sich dabei noch wohl zu fühlen. Lerne Wünsche von Bedürfnissen zu unterscheiden. Lerne, Kreditwürdigkeit mehr zu schätzen als Bargeld. Großes wie auch kleines Vermögen kann über Nacht zerstört werden, doch Kredit, der auf Vertrauen beruht, bleibt das ganze Leben lang bestehen. Die Kosten des Lebens sind Zinsen. Von Bargeld zu leben, kostet das Stammkapital. Bargeld ist Bequemlichkeit, Kredit Sicherheit. Das All-sehende Auge, S. 391

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Zitate (engl.) von D. Hawkins

  • Desire motivates vast areas of human activity, including the economy. [...] The desire for money, prestige or power runs the lives of many of those who have risen above fear as their predominant life motif. Desire is also the level of addiction, wherein it becomes a craving more important than life itself. […] Want can start us on the road to achievement. Power vs. Force, Kapitel IV

 

  • A valid spiritual organization may make nominal charges to cover ordinary expenses in that everyone contributes for the common good. The Eye of the I, S. 37

 

  • Question: Sex and money are the temptations that are emphasized by many spiritual groups as the traps to be avoided.
    Answer: That tradition has value but also ambiguous results. First, it creates an aversion and a sense of sin or guilt about the issues. It also inflates their importance, thereby creating a fear. It is not sex and money that are problems but the attachments to them. In the nonattached state, there is neither attraction nor aversion. […]
    Inasmuch as greed and desire calibrate below 200 (they are at 125), avoidance was an attempt to forestall attachment. However, the desire for sex or money stems from within and can remain within the ego, even though it is not indulged in or acted upon. At beginning levels of spiritual training, avoidance may well be the best course because desires are so strong. The mere willingness to sacrifice sensual pleasure or worldly gain is already of value in learning how to transcend attractions and instinctual drives, and the intensity of spiritual commitment is enhanced. I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 239

 

  • The true source of capital is the creativity, of the mind from which the accumulation of money is the inevitable consequence or the automatic result of creativity, genius, inspiration, dedication, hard work and often grueling self-sacrifice, and effort, as well as discipline and resourcefulness. Truth vs Falsehood, S. 162

 

  • The incorporation of spiritual values should be for its own sake rather than for some imaginary gain or control that paradoxically counters and obstructs the primary intention. Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man, S. 194

 

  • Making money was sufficient during the early part of the last century through this century; success was money and fame, and all those things. And now the focus of society is integrity and what is the truth. Interview Truth vs. Falsehood, Miriam Knight i. A., New Connexion.net, September 2004

 

  • We've crossed over LoC 200 collectively and now we're really moving from force into power. You see, the new paradigm of success is not money, as in the last century. Anybody can make money. To double your income, all you have to do is get a second job. The new sign of success is integrity. Interview with David R. Hawkins, presented by US magazine Holistic Networker, Gina Mazza Hillier, 13. August 2005

 

  • What's happening with our economy is a reorganization based on  values other than just making money. The economy is really based on greed: every product is an effort to make money. And making money doesn't infer anything having to do with responsibility. Now, we're bringing up responsibility. As citizens, we're asking, "Should these companies reveal what they know?" So there's disorganization based on a current lack of clarity about values. Interview with David R. Hawkins, MD, PhD, presented by US magazine Holistic Networker, Gina Mazza, 17. June 2009

 

On poverty and the world wide pollution issue

  • The first integrity that would bring any good to mankind is some responsibility about reproduction. Unless there is a possibility about reproduction all these [environmental] efforts are futile.
    You can't solve poverty with money. […] In fact, trying to solve it with money makes it worse. Why? Because it raises the reproductive rate.
    The basis is lack of responsibility. Lack of responsibility can be relieved by education. Truth vs. Falsehood. The Art of Spiritual Discernment, Nightingale-Conant, CD disc 3 of 6, Discerning how to make the right choices, track  5, 2006

 

  • Pray you don't get left $50 million — most people can't handle it. It takes a lot of lifetimes to handle it. Sedona Seminar Emotions and Sensations, 17. April 2004

 

  • You need to be right, you need to make money, you need to be successful – it's the neediness that’s the problem. Instead, become that which attracts those things. Sedona Seminar Identification and Illusion, 14. August 2004

 

  • Historically, the true capital of society is not money. It's genius, though the world doesn't want to say that. Money is an automatic consequence of genius. Sedona Seminar Identification and Illusion, 14. August 2004

 

  • Wealth is having all that you need. For some people, millions of dollars won’t do it. For others, a simple life does it. Wealth is having abundance of that which you feel you need. The less you crave or desire, the more wealthy you become. If you have $5, you are wealthy! When you have two apples, you can only eat one. What are you going to do with the other one?! Sedona Satsang Q&A #5, 13. September 2006

 

  • The business world and spiritual world – don’t see it as a conflict. In the business world, you get to test how far you have gotten spiritually. In the spiritual world, you get to influence the business world by virtue of that which you have become. In spiritual alignment, you may decline certain business opportunities that others might avail themselves of. You would say, "I can't do that," but make sure you understand you are declining for the good of the company and not for your own benefit. Sedona Seminar God vs. Science. Limits of the Mind, 17. February 2007

 

  • Money is an interesting point of reference throughout the spiritually focused life. […] You can look at money as a gift from God. Ignoring money is a false attitude, because you can't live in this world without money. Find a balance. The effort for making money is okay. However, don't dedicate your life to it. [paraphrased] Sedona Satsang Q&A, 8. November 2008

 

  • Raise the level of consciousness is what you can do for the poor; giving them money makes it worse. Prescott Seminar What is the World?, 28. February 2009

Zitate von anderen Quellen

Niemand kann zwei Herren zugleich dienen. Er wird den einen vernachlässigen und den anderen bevorzugen. Er wird dem einen treu sein und den anderen hintergehen. Ihr könnt nicht beiden zugleich dienen:
Gott und dem Geld.
Matthäus 6, 24 (NT)

 

  • Almosen sind eine Beleidigung für die Armen. Sie sind mutige Unternehmer und Unternehmerinnen, sobald wir ihnen nur das elementare Recht auf Kredit einräumen. Wir verleihen letztlich nicht Geld, wir verleihen Würde. Muhammad Yunus, bangladeschischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Gründer der Grameen Bank, die Mikrokredite an Arme vergibt, Friedensnobelpreisträger seit 2006

 

 

 

  • Was du wünschst, musst du selber sein! […] Das ist das Geheimnis. Was du wünschst, das sei.
    Nicht Geld sei, Reichtum sei, reich sei, Reichheit sei. […] Wer reich ist, leidet keinen Mangel. Denke nicht Mangel, sprich nicht Mangel. Safi Nidiaye, Den Weg des Herzens gehen

 

  • Eigentlich ist es gut, dass die Menschen unser Banken- und Währungssystem nicht verstehen. Würden sie es nämlich, so hätten wir eine Revolution vor morgen früh. Henry Ford (1863-1947)

 

  • Ich wünschte, ich wäre nicht der reichste Mann der Welt. Davon kommt nichts Gutes. Bill Gates (*1955) Milliardär, Mitgründer und -besitzer von Microsoft, Antwort auf Frage des TV-Talkshow-Meisters Donny Deutsch, Interview-Show, Fernsehsender CNBC, Microsoft online Werbekonferenz, Redmond, April 2006

 

  • Wenn diese Finanzkrise uns etwas lehrte, so das, dass wir keine florierende Wall Street haben können, während der Durchschnittsbürger (Main Street) leidet. Dieses Land steht und fällt als eine Nation, als ein Volk. Barack Obama, 44. US-Präsident, Oktober 2008

 

  • Rund 40 Prozent unseres gesamten Wachstums war im Finanzsektor. Jetzt merken wir, dass vieles an dem Wachstum nicht real war. Es war Papiergeld. Barack Obama, 44. US-Präsident, Jay Leno Late Night Talkshow, Dienstag, 16. März 2009

Zitate (engl.) von anderen Quellen

It is not wealth and power that enslave a man, but the cleaving to them.
He who possesses wealth, and uses it rightly, will be a blessing unto his fellow beings.
Buddha to his disciple, Anathapindika

 

  • Even billionaires who have plenty of money and are therefore quite influential are very unhappy persons. I also have met some of them. Deep inside those powerful leaders have much anxiety, much fear, much distress. H.H. Dalai Lama, Peace Summit, clip 2 of 4 last section, minute 14:53-17:59, Vancouver, Sunday 27. September 2009

 

  • 1. Money or wealth failed to bring inner peace.
    2. Modern education [science] failed to bring inner peace.
    3. Technology also failed to bring inner peace.
    ..................................................................................................
    4. In the 21st century we need to promote human values, ethics, compassion and affection.
    Women are more sensitive to pain or suffering of others. […]
    Therefore, [women of the Western world] please take a more active role.
    H.H. Dalai Lama, Peace Summit, clip 2 of 4 last section, minute 14:53-17:59, Vancouver, Sunday 27. September 2009

 

  • Poverty is not created by poor people. There is something lacking in the system that creates and perpetuates poverty. […] Poor people are Bonsai People, without a base, the Bonsai trees are stunted and cannot grow. Prof. Muhammad Yunus, professor for economy, Chittagong University, founder of the Grameen Bank, Bangladesh, Nobel Prize winner (2006), lecture on Financial Services and Psychology, Sigmund Freud University (SFU),Vienna, 24. May 2009, article by John Morris, Using psychology to tackle the roots of poverty, Austrian Times, 31. May 2009

 

  • The collectively owned The Grameen Bank reversed the basic principles of privately owned conventional banks [resulting in a Peace Nobel Prize in 2006].
    - Profit maximising for self versus social business [caring economics] for others.
    - Borrowing money from outside / government versus self-sufficiency [a banking phenomen]
    - Ownership: Somebodies – a few rich men versus Nobodies – many of the poorest women. [97% of the borrowers and owners of the Grameen bank are women.]
    The less you have the more attractive you are. If you have nothing you get the highest priority.
- Big credits to haves [ocean tanker] versus microloans to havenots [dingy boats on shallow waters].
- Deficiency principle versus trust principle.
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Digging in the past / credit histories versus trust in the future / building of the borrowers.
- Collateral principle versus no credit guarantees.
- Social banks do not engage lawyers. They create a new legislation / banking laws.
- Social banks start with unexperienced, uneducated borrowers without a business plan.
- Concepts: One-dimensional money making human being versus the multidimensional complete human being.
- Classism, power gap, poverty, debt system versus inclusivity, ending of poverty by 2030.
Excerpted from video presentation by Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, founder of The Grameen Bank, Creating a World Without Poverty, explaining the "social business" model addressing social issues through entrepreneurship, mainly chapter 4, 5:55 minutes (minute 10:11-16:00) presented by Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, CA, non-profit educational organization, and Link TV, recorded by ForaTV, 1:02:52 minutes duration, 1. May 2008

 

  • To study the Way, first of all, you learn poverty. After having learned poverty and becoming poor, you will be intimate with the Way. From the time of Shakyamuni, up to the present day, I have never seen or heard of a true student of the Way who possessed great wealth. Shobogenzo-zuimonki

 

  • Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Eric Butterworth, Seniorpastor der Unitarierkirche, New York, USA (von 1961-2003)

 

 

  • I wish I wasn’t the world’s richest man. There’s nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it. Bill Gates (*1955) multibillionaire, co-founder and owner of Microsoft, in answer to TV host Donny Deutsch, interview show on CNBC television, online advertising Microsoft conference in Redmond, April 2006

 

 

  • Material gain allows individuals in the lowest economic strata to avoid the innumerable problems associated with economic deprivation, including depression, anxiety, compromised resistance to disease, and higher mortality rates.
    For those in the middle classes and above, however, the association between money and happiness is weak or nonexistent.
    What makes us happy is the quality of our romantic bonds, the health of our families, the time we spend with good friends, the connections we feel to communities. When our jen ratios are high in our close relations, so are we. Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology, Berkeley, USA, Born to Be Good. The Science of a Meaningful Life, W.W. Norton & Co., 12. January 2009
    cited in: Born to Be Good, NYT, pg. 5 of 6, 18. January 2009

 

 

  • When the capital development of a country becomes the by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. John Maynard Keynes, well-known English economist, quoted in Peter L. Bernstein, Against The Gods

 

  • Everywhere do I perceive a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage under that name and pretext of the commonwealth. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, author, and statesman

 

  • There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt. John Adams, US president

 

  • If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. [...] The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. [...]
    The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating. Thomas Jefferson, US president

 

  • I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. Thomas Jefferson, US president, 1802

 

  • It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson, US president

 

  • The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) 32nd President of the United State, Letter to Col. Edward Mandell House, 21. November 1933; quoted in F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945, pg. 373, edited by Elliott Roosevelt, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1950

 

  • All people during their lifetime stumble across the truth; however, most simply pick themselves up and carry on as if they had never ever stumbled across it in the first place! Winston Churchill, British prime minister

 

  • When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. Ron Paul

 

  • In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. Alan Greenspan

 

 

  • I don't give any weight to the social consequences of my actions, because in an efficient market there's always somebody else who is ready to take your place at only a marginally different price. George Soros, US American currency speculator, stock investor, businessman, philanthropist, political activist

 

  • As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process. George Soros, US American currency speculator, stock investor, businessman, philanthropist, political activist

 

  • Will money for instance completely disappear? I think the answer to this is that money will disappear to the extent that it no longer chains the world to the past. In practice, this probably means that all thinking about profitable investing etc. is somewhat beside the point, since the emerging new world is not likely to be a growth economy based on the drive for accumulation of abstract values. More likely, the new world is going to be one based on sharing and care-taking of all members of society as the unity consciousness of the Universal Wave Movement, presumably after much turmoil, eventually is established. Carl Johan Calleman Ph.D., Swedish biologist, time researcher, The Final Mayan calendar steps to 2012 – 8. November 2009, the beginning of the Sixth NIGHT, 31. October 2009

 

Englische Texte – English section on Money

Income’s Differential Influence on Judgments of Life Versus Affective Well-Being – Gallup survey, USA, 2009

Below an annual income of 60.000 $ people are progressively unhappy – above 60.000 $ income per year feelings of happiness do not rise.


 

Neither a borrower nor a lender be

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

William Shakespeare, Polonius, Hamlet Act 1, scene 3, 75–77

Money can buy you...

Money can buy you ...
        * stuff, but no essence.
        * houses, but no home.
        * insurances, but no trust.
        * advertisement, but no truth.
        * an image, but no integrity.
        * a rank[ing], but no dignity.
        * minions and accomplices, but no friends.
        * sex, but no love.
        * sperm, but no children.
        * drugs, but no happiness.
        * clocks, but no time.
        * books, but no knowledge.
        * mentors, but no wisdom.
        * blood, but no [eternal] life.
        * beds and sleeping aides, but no [natural] sleep.
        * doctors, but no [lasting] health.

Summarized Table of Approaches to the Systemic Economic Crisis


Five Possible Options for Solving the Systemic Banking Crisis 2008+

The world wide banking crisis (2008) is of a simultaneous, global nature.
It challenges nations to solve an unprecedented convergence of the four planetary issues
financial instability, climate change,
unemployment, and shortage of provisions for of an aging society

possibly within only one decade.

To meet the globalized challenges a colossal integral leap in consciousness is required on a world wide scale.

#ApproachBankersTaxpayers /
Central Governments
Local
Governments
2d WaveSystemic Dilemma
1.Do nothing
(As in 1929-1932)

Disaster

Disaster

Disaster

Disaster

Unaddressed
2.Conventional
Nationalizing
Problem Assets

Preferred

Most Expensive
(no leverage)

Unaddressed

Delayed

Unaddressed
3.Nationalizing
Banks

Equity dilution

10 x leverage

Unaddressed

Delayed

Unaddressed
4.Unconventional
Nationalizing
Money Creation

promoted by
Ellen Hodgson Brown

End of current
business model

Long term solution
(but inflation?)

Unaddressed

Governments spend
money into existence

Unaddressed
5.Complementary
Currencies

promoted by
Bernard Lietaer

End of money
creation monopoly
  
Long term solution

Long and short
term solution

Long and short
term solution
  
Systemic solution

 

Legend:
HEART Degree of solution or preference
LIGTHNING  Degree of problem or dislike
STOP SIGN  Unaddressed, not dealt with in any way

 

Source: White Paper on All the Options for Managing a Systemic Bank Crisis,
Bernard Lietaer, Center for Sustainable Resources, University of California at Berkeley;
Dr. Robert Ulanowicz, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory;
Dr. Sally Goerner, Integral Science Institute, Chapel Hill, NC;
30 pages, downloadable PDF document, Crisis solutions, issued October 2008

 

Audio teleseminar with Bernard Lietaer, solution oriented economist and author, former co-designer of the European € currency at the Central Bank of Belgium, professorship of International Finance at the University, Louvain, Belgium, research fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources, University of California at Berkeley, co-founder of ACCESS Foundation, websites: Lietaer.com and Transaction.net/money, discussing New Money for a New World, presented by Institute of Noetic Sciences, Shiftinaction.com, host Matthew Gilbert, 1:07:22 duration, filmed and uploaded 14. February 2007

Index: Geld / Money – Bücher von D. Hawkins

Englische Werke

Index: Audio- und Videomedien (engl.) von und mit D. Hawkins

 

Links zum Thema Geld / Money

Literatur

Literatur (engl.)

Externe Weblinks

  • Wikipedia-Einträge Geld, ?

Externe Weblinks (engl.)


Audio- und Videolinks

Audio- und Videolinks (engl.)

  • Audio interview with Jacob Needleman, Ph.D., US American professor for philosophy and religion, UCSF, about the dealings with money,  Are you obsessed about MONEY?, host Ann Mesics, Webradio Podcastdirectory.com, spring 2006
  • Video interview with Hollis Polk, MBA in economics, NLP practioner, healer, intuitive seer, Opportunities in our Financial Future, presented by Conscious Media Network, host Regina Meredith, 37:26 minutes duration, posted May 2006
  • Audio teleseminar with Bernard Lietaer, solution oriented economist and author, former co-designer of the European € currency at the Central Bank of Belgium, professorship of International Finance at the University, Louvain, Belgium, research fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources, University of California at Berkeley, co-founder of ACCESS Foundation, websites: Lietaer.com and Transaction.net/money, discussing New Money for a New World, presented by Institute of Noetic Sciences, Shiftinaction.com, host Matthew Gilbert, 1:07:22 duration, filmed and uploaded 14. February 2007
  • Video presentation by Hans Rosling, Swedish professor of global health, medical doctor, data visionary, New insights on poverty and life around the world, presented by TED Talks, 18:57 minutes duration, filmed March 2007, posted June 2007
  • G. Edward Griffin (*1931) Certified Financial Planner, US American film producer, author, and political lecturer,
  • Google video presentation by G. Edward Griffin (*1931) Certified Financial Planner, US American film producer, author, and political lecturer, founder of Freedom Force International, Creature From Jekyll Island A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, produced by America Media, Realityzone.com, filmed 2005, 42:15 minutes duration, posted 14. November 2007
    previous presentation The Creature from Jekyll Island. A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, produced by America Media, Realityzone.com, audio presentation dated 18. November 1994, Los Angeles, Google video, 1:11:11 duration, posted 24. September 2007
  • Ellen Hodgson Brown, attorney practicing civil litigation, author, Web of Debt, Web of Debt, The Shocking Truth About Our Money System, YouTube film, 10:27 minutes duration, posted 31. May 2008
    How money is created by the banks using an illusion? How the coming economic meltdown can be fixed?
  • Ellen Hodgson Brown, attorney practicing civil litigation, author, Web of Debt, It's the derivatives, stupid!, Thom Hartmann Show via "Air America", 9. October 2008, 16:06 minutes duration, posted 1. November 2008
    A 300 years old monetary pyramid scheme came to fail in 2008. The Bank for International Settlements reported in October 2008 that total derivatives trades exceeded 1.13 quadrillion dollars (1,000 trillion $). It is 16 times more than the gross domestic product (GDP) of all the countries in the world is (amounting about 60 trillion $).
    The US banks alone have 180 trillion $ in outstanding derivatives (bets, sold as a form of insurance). The national debt of USA is 11 trillion $ end 2008 leading into bancruptcy when it fails to pay interest.
    US billionaire investor Warren Buffett called derivatives weapons of financial mass destruction.
  • Audio interview with Ellen Hodgson Brown, attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles, author, Thom Hartmann Show, "Air America", MP3, 29. October 2008
  • TV Documentary presented and narrated by Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., British Harvard and Oxford financial historian, The Ascent of Money, The Ascent of Money, producers ChimericaMedia and Educational Broadcast Corporation for Channel4.com, Google video, rated *****, 47:44 minutes duration, posted 2. December 2008
  • Videotaped lecture by Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., British Harvard historian specialising in financial and economic history, author of The Ascent of Money. A Financial History of the World, Conversations With History. The Ascent of Money, produced by ucTV University of California Television, Series: Conversations with History [12/2008], host Harry Kreisler, filmed 22. October 2008, 59:09 minutes duration, YouTube film, posted 11. Dezember 2008
  • Video presentation by Ellen Hodgson Brown J.D., attorney practicing civil litigation, author of Web of Debt, Financial Meltdown Why it Happened and How it Can Be Reversed, Part  1 of 5, Conference on Michigan's Future: Energy, Economy, Environment, Thomsonville, MI, USA, 14.-16- November 2008, YouTube film, 9:58 minutes duration, posted 19. January 2009
    • Part 2 of 5, 9:58 minutes duration;
      American colonists issued money, govenor of Massachussetts printed it to pay soldiers and workers, in Pennsylvania the govenor lent money to the farmers for 5% interest (micro loan)
    • Part 3 of 5, 9:47 minutes duration;
      Goldsmiths kept the gold deposited, made paper money loans. They discovered that only 10 % of the deposits were requested back. President Abraham Lincoln issued his own paper money and it worked. There are 12 Federal Reserve banks in US.
    • Part 4 of 5, 9:40 minutes duration; Australian and New Zealand government lent successful money to themselves without interest – during the Depression.
      *
      Homeowners faced with foreclosure have a good defense, as the trustees do not have the required documents.
      *
      Bailing out bad banks with taxpayer's money. Inflation became serious since the Federal Reserve Bank appeared.
    • Part 5 of 5, 5:21 minutes duration;
      North Dakota owns the Bank of North Dakota; ND is fiscally sound whereas other states are going bancrupt. Take interest out of the equation.
  • Video discusssion with Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman on Reflection on the Financial Crisis, sponsored by Digital – Life – Design (DLD), Munich, Germany, presented by Fora.TV, 59:08 minutes duration, filmed 27. January 2009
  • Video interview with Thomas Tom H. Greco Jr.,  US American community and monetary economist, networker, consultant, director of the non-profit Community Information Resource Center, author of The End of Money and the Future of Civilization, June 2009 on Reinventing Money, sponsored by Praxis Peace Institute, The Economics of Peace Conference, Sonoma, CA, 18.-23 October 2009, presented by Conscious Media Network, host Regina Meredith, 38:35 minutes duration, posted December 2009
  • Video interview with Stephanie Rearick, musician, "When Cash is no longer King" blog, time banking activist with Dane County Time Bank, on the practical aspects of |Time Banking, location Peace Conference, Sonoma, California, sponsored by Praxis Peace Institute, presented by Conscious Media Network, host Regina Meredith, 41:22 minutes duration, posted January 2010

 

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