#0: FOURTH VALUN INCEPTION POINT REACHED

PNG image showing the price of gold over the last 6 months.  This chart will change with the price of gold and will be updated by goldprice.org

Lowest exchange rate for the proposed international standard value unit - Valun - rises from $2.20 to $2.21

  
NOTE: There is no such thing as a Value Unit (Valun) either as a trading vehicle or a circulating currency. These estimated values represent the results of an experiment only.

We had a few near misses since third inception, but finally today the price of gold has just closed above the 3rd Valun inception point. At 14 April, 2020, the third inception exchange rate for the Valun was set at $2.20. Since that date the price has risen to inception on 17 May but never closed above the third inception. So let it be known that on 23 June, 2020, the price of gold closed above the close on 14 April, 2020, so a new inception point, always higher, never lower is henceforth adopted. All contracts that would be in force during the 3rd inception period have now been raised 1 cent American to $2.21. No Valun will ever trade for anything lower from now on.

What will gold continue to do? We may see another inception point reached higher than this one in a matter of days because we see further upward pressure on precious metals. However we do not control these markets, THEY do.  It may suit THEIR purposes to have the precious metals retreat to some lower trading range for years to come.  Right now, the trends favor upward pressure and we expect silver to do better than gold in terms of exchange rate and value. What of a massive collapse in banking and finance? Everyone wants to know, but we will watch and see what happens. Of course, should gold resume lower trading ranges, and silver too, the present value of the piece of purchasing power at this inception becomes even heavier in dollars.  The new hypothetical top, which no Valun will ever reach because gold would never be worthless, is $4.42.

It is part of this blog's experiment to keep the Valun exchange rate measurements up to date with the current prices of gold and silver.

#0: THIRD VALUN INCEPTION POINT REACHED

PNG image showing the price of gold over the last 6 months.  This chart will change with the price of gold and will be updated by goldprice.org

Lowest exchange rate for the proposed international standard value unit - Valun - rises from $2.17 to $2.20

NOTE: There is no such thing as a Value Unit (Valun) either as a trading vehicle or a circulating currency. These estimated values represent the results of an experiment only.

At or near inception, the two highest points on the chart above show the 2nd and 3rd inception points for the Valun, however the chart will be updated as the price of gold changes.  The price of gold has just closed above the 2nd Valun inception point a few days ago on 9 April, 2020. At 14 April, 2020, the third inception exchange rate for the Valun was set at $2.20. No Valun will trade for anything lower from now on.

What will gold continue to do? If it marches on higher yet, a fourth inception comes into force. We will watch and see what happens. Of course should gold resume lower trading ranges, the present value of that piece of purchasing power at inception becomes even heavier in dollars. A new top exchange rate for the Valun is also set at $4.40, a limit that will not be reached because gold will never be worthless.

It is part of this blog's experiment to keep the Valun exchange rate measurements up to date with the current prices of gold and silver. We note that silver did rise above the level it had at 2nd inception, but this is a gold based alternative value measurement, not one based on silver, although we would take silver as well as gold in exchange for Valuns when they eventually come into being.

#0: SECOND VALUN INCEPTION POINT REACHED

PNG image of the price of gold over the last ten years.  This chart covers the entire time period since 1st inception point for the Valun on 1/2/2011.  This chart will change over time and be updated by goldprice.org

Lowest exchange rate for the proposed international standard value unit - Valun - rises from $2.16 to $2.17

NOTE: There is no such thing as a Value Unit (Valun) either as a trading vehicle or a circulating currency. These estimated values represent the results of an experiment only.

It was bound to happen eventually. The price of gold has just closed above the 1^st Valun inception point. At 2 November, 2011, the first inception exchange rate for the Valun was set at $2.16. Since that date, the price has risen above inception, but those were points early in the Valun's existence as an experimental unit of purchasing power, so we kept the original inception point all this time and have not needed to revise it upward until now. 

For most of the period between 1^st inception and now, gold was under the 1^st inception's bid price so there was no need to raise it. On 9 April 2020, the price of gold closed above the close on 2 November 2011, so a new inception point, always higher, never lower, is henceforth adopted. All contracts that would be in force during the 1^st inception period have now been raised 1 cent American to $2.17. No Valun will ever trade for anything lower from now on.

What will gold continue to do? If it marches on higher yet, a third inception comes into force. We will watch and see what happens. Of course should gold resume lower trading ranges, the present value of that piece of purchasing power at inception becomes even heavier in dollars.  A new top exchange rate for the Valun is also set at $4.34, a limit that will not be reached because gold will never be worthless.

It is part of this blog's experiment to keep the Valun exchange rate measurements up to date with the current prices of gold and silver. We note that silver did not rise back to the level it had at 1^st inception, but this is a gold based alternative value measurement, not one based on silver, although we would take silver as well as gold in exchange for Valuns when they eventually come into being.

#123: God and Mammon

"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Mammon (money).” Attributed to Jesus Christ - Matthew 6:24

Another quote, attributed to Mark Twain was, “it is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have already been fooled.”

Whether either of these quotes are properly attributed or not, as far as I am concerned, they are both true. If you aren't interested in truth, but would rather be content with the confused lies of your sworn enemies, who would rather that you did THEM a favor and went off somewhere and died quietly, then you can stop reading right now.

This is going to be a “take no prisoners” article. It probably should have been among the first published here. The reason it wasn't is that E. C. Riegel and we as Americans, familiar with the genuinely democratic and liberal American social fabric (understanding that our enemies have appropriated BOTH of these attributes to themselves to fool us, for THEY are neither liberal nor democratic), understand that not everyone who would adopt the Valun and the proposed exchange network, would necessarily have to belong to any particular church, sect or even believe in God. Participation is left open to all who can fulfill the minimum requirements of membership: age, domicile and dues.

Nevertheless, like it or not, we're going to address service to God and service to money head on. We expect that many who read what we have to say here may be annoyed or even made downright angry. Emotional reactions are natural without proper foundations. For those who aren't Christians, perhaps you can or would skip this post. That's up to you.

I am going to address head on a few attitudes peculiar to Christians in particular about money, because it is time to kick Mammon into the ditch where he belonged a few hundred, nay a few thousand years ago, and make sure that nobody ever thinks anything more of money than one thinks of a common garden shovel when this post is done.

Readers are also admonished that I intend on brooking no accusations, criticisms or attempts to blunt what has always seemed to me perfectly obvious. You can have it your way, and continue to serve Mammon, or see it my way and begin serving God. Again, the choice is yours.

The quote attributed to Mark Twain, whether he said it or not, remains valid. One of the things this blog has consistently attempted to do is WAKE PEOPLE UP to the very subtle ways THEY have deliberately used words, ideas, concepts to put into your mind to fool you. THEY HAVE SUCCEEDED IN FOIOLING YOU and have been at it for thousands of years and yet people put up with it and even defend their own brainwashing against any attempts to convince them otherwise. Why? Because Mark Twain or whomever said it was correct.  Those who have already been successfully fooled are not as easily convinced that they are already brainwashed.  So, up to this point in history THEY have won; the better to steal from you. Simple as that.

Do you know what repentance is? It's to turn away from error, stupidity, the breaking of God's laws, etc. Repentance includes turning away from THEIR definitions of things and begin to see things as they really are, including the words that come out of your mouth. When I hear an ordinary person living from paycheck to paycheck extol capitalism without any comprehension of free PRIVATE enterprise, and they are NOT the same at all, I know I'm dealing with a fool. Regurgitating the common LIES in school might have won you high marks from your teachers, but never guaranteed that you could think straight on your own or even grasp the underlying meanings in the words you use. Part of the waking up process is to turn away from THEM, THEIR word usages, meanings, ideas, ideologies, etc. in order to see better (that eye salve mentioned in Revelation required to see where you truly are in this world).

In the last few days, I have for example tried to explain what capitalism is in its essence, to bring to the fore free PRIVATE enterprise as everyone's divinely appointed right, whereas capitalism is just a rich man's itch with his excess money, to make more of it without his having to produce any tangible good or service. We need and want champions who recognize what genuine free PRIVATE enterprise is as opposed to mere capitalism. Yet the usual responses have been to bend back the popular definition of capitalism to include all the self employed entrepreneurial businesses out there, whether these have any capital associated with them or not.

There is also the completely expected by THEM automatic knee jerk reaction – if you don't support capitalism, you must be a socialist. Sure, fall right into THEIR dialectic; either capitalism or socialism. THEY want you to think there's nothing else. THEY are laughing at you from behind the curtains of society when THEY deserve to be called out as LIARS and worse and shown where THEY truly belong and where a great many of THEM are going; straight into the lake of fire! Where will Mystery Babylon go when it is finished? Perdition, Hell, the lake of fire! Destruction!  Understood?

The idea expressed by the famous quote attributed to Jesus Christ of course deserves thoughtful attention. First of all, we consider this statement authoritative; we wouldn't even consider questioning it. You either serve God or you go your own way and may serve Mammon or any other false god of your choice. That's always been up to you. It's what freedom is all about; you can choose what to think, do, be or how to act. We will attempt to expose how perception, action and reality affect this situation in basic terms between service to God and service to Mammon. It's not very difficult.

Let's begin with Mammon, a false god, often identified with money. Mammon, commonly thought to mean money, material wealth, an entity that promises wealth or associated with the greedy pursuit of gain, may be identified with an ancient Syrian deity; a god of riches or perhaps in the Punic language with gain, profit, increase or that in which one trusts, in this particular instance, instead of trusting in Almighty God.

We want to examine this whole business very closely. We can only do so by laying bare the obvious concerning THEIR money, all of it, from precious metals to cryptocurrencies and all the rest of THEIR STOLEN fiat national and supranational currencies, because right now, that is all the money that exists. We have none of our own that clearly belongs to us, because we didn't issue it. We will compare THEIRS, all of which we regard as illegitimate to begin with, though it certainly is money, because it performs the tasks required of money, to split barter, with ours as proposed in this blog.

So, to begin with, what do all of THEIR brands of money have in common? Scarcity! All of THEIR money is a scarce commodity. THEIR economics, a mixture of obvious reality and equally obvious lies, would have you believe that the scarcity of anything at any instant in time is what determines the value of anything and the relative value of everything; determination of prices. Carried to the ultimate extremity, there is only so much and there are too many people that want that stuff, so we need wars, killer diseases and other means to reduce the excess population; the obvious message is that after all you aren't worth anything in and of yourself, you have no will to decide for yourself either, so why don't you just do your betters a favor and go off somewhere and die quietly, so you would help restore the “balance of Nature” to planet Earth. THAT is what THEY have taught all of us since forever. It's time to stop it! The first thing you do is admit that you have been fooled. Stop believing that you know anything because THEY told you so, etc. THEY deliberately fooled you so THEY could continue to rob you of what is rightfully yours.

What would happen in a world of abundance? What about THEIR conception of wealth vs. our conception of wealth? What about value? What if the innate value of each individual natural person were much more than THEY ever consider? How would our relations with money change were there never any further need to worship something instead of merely using it as another tool at our disposal? We will want to examine greed too, exactly what it is, how it can be spotted, understood and ultimately defeated. How about gluttony, excessive materialism, and unjust worldly gain? What in our proposal defeats much of this?

What E. C. Riegel and the efforts to continue this proposal intend is to free mankind from the worship of money, so that more important pursuits could get our full attention, like serving Almighty God, taking care of each other and like developing our own abilities and discovering and building our own wealth.

In a previous post we examined something about the intended mechanism for each one of you to monetize yourself using your own money and make it in the form of a contract that you have with the Valun trading community. We suggested that a standard high school diploma would be worth a thousand Valuns. We will consider what other diplomas, degrees or armed service experience would be worth as well. I know of no other alternative to THEIR system that ever considers any of this. Yet when I was once a technical recruiter, among the highest rated individuals were those with a good armed service record (veterans) and those with degrees from second or even third rate technical schools. Some employers told me to eliminate from consideration anyone who graduated from an ivy league school. Apparently, it was known the kinds of attitudes and ideas these places propagated and employers were not interested in having them among their employees.

Was that discrimination? Let me slap a few of you right upside the head; we are all entitled to free association with anyone we choose and can decide not to associate with whomever we choose for any reason whatsoever. THAT is what the 1^st Amendment is all about and is the bedrock of American social understanding. Any so called law that infringes on those rights is automatically unconstitutional, whether said law has ever been tried or tested before a court of law or not. Period!

Let's go back and take a look at that famous painting of Mammon. He has a bag of coins in his right hand, held aloft and yet away from the woman who pleads with him for them. She is willing to give him whatever he wants for those coins. He wants her worship and whatever else he can get from her for the few coins he bestows upon her. You can bet that he intends on lending them to her at interest to be taken from money that isn't in that bag too. So where does she get that money that never existed? From some other equally poor struggling person. THAT is the essence of all THEIR money. If you thought that maybe this blog and its proposal were just another way to become rich without contributing anything to the rest of society, you've come to the wrong place. Might as well go be a speculator on the FOREX exchange that cheats all the local people to ensure that some “world leaders” have stable prices. THEIR economics tells you that speculators and usury are both economic necessities. So are taxes. Some politicians expect you to vote for them even though they promise to raise your taxes. These are people who live off the productivity of others and consider it their right to do so; literal satanists, those who believe they have a right to live off of or feed from others, who don't even have to believe in a personified Satan.

THEIR economics will tell you that all you need to have inflation – rising prices – is to print more of THEIR money; too much money chasing whatever store of goods and services exists. But not every unit of THEIR money is chasing all of those goods and services at the same time, so the issue with inflation also concerns whatever measures some government might be doing that frustrates and even destroys productivity causing fewer goods and services to be offered for sale. We are living under such a reality right now. What was done in every country experiencing hyperinflation? Too much money was issued and less and less was produced at the same time. That leads to a Weimar meltdown every time it's tried; Zimbabwe and Venezuela being among the latest countries to experience this.

How about deflation? That's where money is taken out of circulation or more of it dies in depreciation of assets than can be stored up or saved, so prices fall. Deflation also affects labor, because there isn't enough money to pay for higher valued labor, so fewer people have work. What would THEIR economists have to say about it? There's an excess population that should just go away somewhere and die quietly.

Our response is simple; PEOPLE (natural persons), not things, ideas or machines, have value. In fact we are the ONLY basis for value at all, since WE decide what to buy and when to buy it or what to sell and when to sell it. A hundred years or so ago when horseless carriages began to make their appearance, the era of horses and buggies came to an end and with it a whole lot of related industries and activities. Overnight in some instances, these things lost their value almost entirely. Nobody wanted them anymore except for a few Amish families scattered here and there.

Therefore, if any machine, activity, system or idea does not serve us, it has no value! Is THAT understood? We can and will relegate any robotics or AI or anything like crony capitalism, as if there is any other kind at the moment, to the dustbin of history. Likewise any Marxism, collectivism, socialism, communism, etc. only serves THEM not us and therefore belongs in the same trashcan. Is that absolutely clear? These complementary ideas, capitalism and socialism, were all developed by the same people who regard you and me as “the masses,” not people and have the ruthless temerity to regard a lot of us as “useless eaters” when THEY in fact would have nothing without us. While we're at it we can jolly well dump Keynesianism and the so called “Austrians” as frauds too, just two sides of the same coin. We can and will develop our own economics based on simple applications of the production function and the limitations of scale for any enterprise and begin to have things our own way, not THEIRS. If not, we will be THEIR slaves and things will pretty soon get much worse for most people. I remind you all, THEIR stated objective is to have most of you dead.

Yet finance, the ability to buy things we can't afford, does have its uses and must be considered within the framework of any proposed alternative to THEIR monetary bondage. This proposal includes means to set up HONEST finance businesses that must rent the money they have to lend and charge for it, but must do so from money that already exists, not from non existent money, as usury demands. Only then will capitalism be rescued from THEIR pernicious and evil grip.

Money with intrinsic value? Says who? Speculators no doubt. These are generally shifless people in far away places that you don't even know who would rather gamble than pursue any honest work. Precious metals? If you buy a silver eagle, make sure it's clean and put it in a pitcher of water and drink from that pitcher. Leave your coin there. The silver will disinfect that water. Of course you will use filtered water only, as you do not want to drink “packaged” water; water straight out of the tap. That's a reasonable use for a chunk of silver. We're not sure a chunk of gold even has that much usefulness. Then why base the exchange rate for our money on gold? Because we intend on defeating the lure of gold and thereby killing Mammon! Understood?

Now we're going after all the 501(c)(3) organizations, especially churches. A 501(c)(3) organization is a corporation, trust, unincorporated association, or other type of organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code. It is one of the 29 types of 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the US. Let's consider what this means. It means that your organization isn't supposed to make any money or produce or build any wealth. Recall what we have consistently said on this blog concerning wealth. If it doesn't produce income, it isn't wealth, it's just stuff. What does an organization that organizes itself this way give up besides income taxes? That's right, someone outside the organization has power over it to tell it what it can and cannot do, can and cannot teach, can and cannot acquire, etc. etc.

What were churches in the beginning? They were assemblies of ordinary people (natural persons) who came together to worship God, to read and study scriptures and to help each other find work and even lodging and further their businesses, whatever they might be. In various parts of the Greek and Roman world, churches were more like motels, where traveling believers could find food and shelter, usually for a price too. The apostles were all skilled in whatever they did to earn a living; Peter and Andrew were fisherman, Paul a tent maker and Matthew was a lawyer. Luke was a physician. Remember, we are not adverse to the proper practice of law on this blog and believe strongly that like it or not, society is far better served with lawyers than without them. Matthew might have been a tax collector too, so he was no doubt an accountant and accountants and various others who must keep numerical records do actual work. The same for physicians, nurses, etc.

Another matter that needs to be faced head on is literacy. In ancient times, few people could read and write. Those who could were called SCRIBES and every great ancient empire had special schools and training for scribes. These days, more people can read and write and so we have taken these literacy skills for granted. Yet in the past and even in some instances today, people who know how to read and write are employed in various ways to inform and help those who can not read, can not write and may never be able to do so. There are quite a few out there who cannot do simple arithmetic, cannot count, cannot deal with numbers. Various claims that up to 90% of any population is literate are bogus by the way, just another common lie told to make politicians and their often inhuman ideas seem more popular and reasonable.

So let's really get into it. When you go to church, they pass the plate and ask for tithes and offerings. An offering is whatever you want to give to the assembly and that's fine, but there are those who claim that one must pledge ten percent of one's income to a church or one is cheating God! This is claimed FALSELY as tithing. Tithes go back into ancient times and have their origins in the idea of a family trust; a fund of money that an extended family puts aside to benefit family members in need, or to raise money for a family related project. Tithing could and did also involve the idea of a dowry given to a husband who married a women to take care of her. The dowry didn't belong to him, but he was responsible for taking care of her therefore the dowry was entrusted to him. A tithe was ALWAYS taken out of an increase rather than out of a steady income. If a business had a particularly good season above the usual income for that enterprise, the excess was tithed to the extended family's trust. Contracts involving tithes go back at least 4,000 years in practice. Whenever I hear any clergy make such claims, that someone refusing to give 10% of their regular income is cheating God, I stand up and walk right out. I will not stand for being lied to or extorted in this way by anyone. How dare you!

So we have two counts against this widespread erroneous teaching; tithes were always within an extended family, NOT a wider assembly and therefore had nothing whatsoever to do with any pledge system set up to maintain a church and secondly they were NEVER extorted from a regular income but ONLY given from an increase ABOVE the level of regular income. So is it any wonder that churches have become lukewarm toward God and ineffectual toward many of their congregations? The first issue is control by some unaffiliated government official or bureaucrat in what any 501(c)(3) can do, including what they teach and the second is that churches are thus driven to extortion schemes claiming that to do otherwise cheats God. Honestly, God does not want or care about any of Mammon's money. When someone needed tax money, Christ had a fish retrieve it for them. Why isn't this more obvious? Because THEY have hoodwinked us once again. What's the solution? Churches had better consider themselves operating members of the local business community or give it up. Serve God rather than THEM or in this instance serving Mammon.

Let's deal with greed now. Supposedly greed is the intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food. But this definition hides the obvious. We have a precise definition on this blog for selfishness. To us a selfish person deliberately takes advantage of someone else for their own benefit, including the satanist who may even resort to devouring someone else. The definition of greed presented here ignores the most obvious observation; a greedy person is never satisfied.

A recent drive viewing various for sale signs on houses included some larger places, even estates and mansions that had been for sale for a longer period of time. Many are attracted to the idea of having some large place, but can't imagine what it takes to actually keep such a place up. They usually require that the owner have access to servants who may live on the property along with the owners. The most common kinds of servants were housekeepers and gardeners.

How much is enough? Why aren't the owners satisfied to live more modestly? What happens when the cost to keep up such a place exceeds their income, means or other real wealth? How many abandoned properties have you seen on various videos that circulate out there where people break into them and find these places loaded with an abundance of things, but nobody lives there anymore because these places were subject to many actual laws which have FORCE behind them? One is the diminishing returns to scale law. Remember that one? Every greedy person in the world eventually becomes subject to that one. Hoarders may acquire mountains of stuff that due to the sheer magnitude become useless and worthless. Greed is the apparent symptom of something worse, the greedy individual, or group, cannot or will not be satisfied.

There's also Stein's law. Remember that one? If an activity cannot continue, it will stop. If the process of acquisition becomes unsupportable, it will stop. This applies to corporations, nations, families, groups, individuals. Again, back in ancient times, one could employ a servant, but there was a limit of seven years. After that, if a servant wanted to remain for life, there was some kind of brand put on them and they were slaves for life. People also became slaves if they were captured in war or if they were sold into slavery for some other good or service. This is where literally a body of a natural person became money. This accounts for what was done to many who came from Africa. Serfdom is where slaves actually came with the property, so when the property changed owners, the people went along with it and had to serve and obey the new owner, like it or not. No serf could ever leave the property or travel about.

All of this applies directly and indirectly to the appearances of greed as the result of the inability to be satisfied. In any crisis, panic buying usually occurs whether the buyer is aware that they may never need as much as they have bought. Nevertheless there are natural laws. You can pile up as much as you can without dealing with the obvious, that something is wrong with you that you can never be satisfied. Is greed a spiritual issue? You bet it is. Still want to be serving Mammon?

This is a serious proposal, not like anything THEY have in mind because after all THEY already replaced THEIR precious metals with THEIR STOLEN fiat credit instruments and have nothing more in THEIR minds than another brand of the same thing. What did Catherine Austin Fitts just tell us? That cryptocurrencies were not currencies, but control mechanisms. What have we said about ALL of THEIR money? That it's STOLEN fiat; THEY have stolen your will to contract which includes issuing your own money to satisfy your barter requirements. Barter has never gone away and no transaction using money is ever completed until goods are traded for goods, services for services or some combination of the same.

All STOLEN fiat currencies are based on nothing except the authority of the issuer, a bank, to have their chief debtors, governments, FORCE repayment; they are borrowed into existence and become valuable only due to some government, acting as the enslaved best credit risk of the issuing bank, to FORCE people to use them. Eventually they revert to their true value which is nothing. What is the value of a proposed Valun? It is a piece of purchasing power at a particular point in time that cannot be purchased for anything less than that initial value. [Right now, 17 April, 2020, that's $2.20 because a two new inception points for the Valun have been reached.]  No proposed international standard value unit or Valun will ever trade for under that amount in dollars. If the price of gold eclipses the inception price, a new inception price is reached and the Valun trades for more dollars. Ultimately those dollars are used to buy gold. We'll only take gold for them too, so eventually most of the circulating gold will fall into possession of the Valun exchanges where it belongs, with the people, so that no Mammon can ever arise again!

So during these weird times, be as safe and secure as you can out there. You know what to do. Remember that the original basis for society was LIFE, LIBERTY and PROPERTY not LIBERTY, EQUALITY and FRATERNITY which are the three evil frogs spoken of in Revelation. Protect and love each other. Those who believe can pray for God's deliverance and help spread the news and views of this proposal widely. Nothing comes from nothing, therefore everyone must consider what they need to do to make this proposal a working reality. We do this in service to God and in order to defeat Mammon once and for all.

David Burton
dpbmss@mail.com

#0: Catherine Austin Fitts - We are Dealing with a Spiritual War

Catherine Austin Fitts - We are Dealing with a Spiritual War

Few know THEIR system better than Catherine Austin Fitts.  Unfortunately all that she discusses is still THEIRS not ours.  History has shown that THEY never care about anyone but THEMSELVES.  She calls THEM criminals and criminals THEY always have been, for centuries.  This is an epic moment in human history.  We're looking for people to join together in the millions to JUST SAY NO to anything further that gives THEM more power over We The People.  There's only one alternative; our own money that we actually issue and own that is based on a different economics that is NOT just an appologetics for THEIR system.  In the meantime, take her advice, but over the long haul, this proposal stands way ahead of ALL others.  Remember, ALL the money out there including precious metals and cryptocurrencies are THEIRS and can NEVER be ours.  Be seeing you

#0: A Murder Most Foul - Bob Dylan

A Murder Most Foul - Bob Dylan

You're probably wondering why I decided to post this here.  I'll tell you.  This represents a marker in time for all to recognize and deal with.  If your operating system wont let you view this, find one that does.  Many deeply hidden secrets are coming to light during these troubled times.  Those who were alive on 22 November, 1963 as were those alive on 11 September, 2001 will understand the significance.  Those who are familiar with the works of the Apostle Paul, were they to be able to get accurate translations, and even so, would easily comprehend the significance.  Far be it for anyone outside his direct orbit to even guess at what motivated Bob Dylan to put this out at this time.  But it certainly is a signpost to us concerning where we have been and where we are at the present time.  Be seeing you.  

[Verse 1]
It was a dark day in Dallas, November '63
A day that will live on in infamy
President Kennedy was a-ridin' high
Good day to be livin' and a good day to die
Being led to the slaughter like a sacrificial lamb
He said, "Wait a minute, boys, you know who I am?"
"Of course we do, we know who you are"
Then they blew off his head while he was still in the car
Shot down like a dog in broad daylight
Was a matter of timing and the timing was right
You got unpaid debts, we've come to collect
We're gonna kill you with hatred, without any respect
We'll mock you and shock you and we'll put it in your face
We've already got someone here to take your place
The day they blew out the brains of the king
Thousands were watching, no one saw a thing
It happened so quickly, so quick, by surprise
Right there in front of everyone's eyes
Greatest magic trick ever under the sun
Perfectly executed, skillfully done
Wolfman, oh Wolfman, oh Wolfman, howl
Rub-a-dub-dub, it's a murder most foul

[Verse 2]
Hush, little children, you'll understand
The Beatles are comin', they're gonna hold your hand
Slide down the banister, go get your coat
Ferry 'cross the Mersey and go for the throat
There's three bums comin' all dressed in rags
Pick up the pieces and lower the flags
I'm goin' to Woodstock, it's the Aquarian Age
Then I'll go over to Altamont and sit near the stage
Put your head out the window, let the good times roll
There's a party going on behind the Grassy Knoll
Stack up the bricks, pour the cement
Don't say Dallas don't love you, Mr. President
Put your foot in the tank and then step on the gas
Try to make it to the triple underpass
Blackface singer, whiteface clown
Better not show your faces after the sun goes down
Up in the red light district, they've got cop on the beat
Living in a nightmare on Elm Street
When you're down on Deep Ellum, put your money in your shoe
Don't ask what your country can do for you
Cash on the barrelhead, money to burn
Dealey Plaza, make a left-hand turn
I'm going down to the crossroads, gonna flag a ride
The place where faith, hope, and charity died
Shoot him while he runs, boy, shoot him while you can
See if you can shoot the invisible man
Goodbye, Charlie, goodbye, Uncle Sam
Frankly, Miss Scarlett, I don't give a damn
What is the truth, and where did it go?
Ask Oswald and Ruby, they oughta know
"Shut your mouth," said a wise old owl
Business is business, and it's a murder most foul
 
[Verse 3]
Tommy, can you hear me? I'm the Acid Queen
I'm riding in a long, black Lincoln limousine
Ridin' in the back seat next to my wife
Headed straight on in to the afterlife
I'm leaning to the left, I got my head in her lap
Hold on, I've been led into some kind of a trap
Where we ask no quarter, and no quarter do we give
We're right down the street, from the street where you live
They mutilated his body and they took out his brain
What more could they do? They piled on the pain
But his soul was not there where it was supposed to be at
For the last fifty years they've been searchin' for that
Freedom, oh freedom, freedom over me
I hate to tell you, mister, but only dead men are free
Send me some lovin', then tell me no lie
Throw the gun in the gutter and walk on by
Wake up, little Susie, let's go for a drive
Cross the Trinity River, let's keep hope alive
Turn the radio on, don't touch the dials
Parkland Hospital, only six more miles
You got me dizzy, Miss Lizzy, you filled me with lead
That magic bullet of yours has gone to my head
I'm just a patsy like Patsy Cline
Never shot anyone from in front or behind
I've blood in my eye, got blood in my ear
I'm never gonna make it to the new frontier
Zapruder's film I seen night before
Seen it thirty-three times, maybe more
It's vile and deceitful, it's cruel and it's mean
Ugliest thing that you ever have seen
They killed him once and they killed him twice
Killed him like a human sacrifice
The day that they killed him, someone said to me, "Son
The age of the Antichrist has just only begun"
Air Force One comin' in through the gate
Johnson sworn in at 2:38
Let me know when you decide to throw in the towel
It is what it is, and it's murder most foul

[Verse 4]
What's new, pussycat? What'd I say?
I said the soul of a nation been torn away
And it's beginning to go into a slow decay
And that it's thirty-six hours past Judgment Day
Wolfman Jack, he's speaking in tongues
He's going on and on at the top of his lungs
Play me a song, Mr. Wolfman Jack
Play it for me in my long Cadillac
Play me that "Only the Good Die Young"
Take me to the place Tom Dooley was hung
Play "St. James Infirmary" and the Court of King James
If you want to remember, you better write down the names
Play Etta James, too, play "I'd Rather Go Blind"
Play it for the man with the telepathic mind
Play John Lee Hooker, play "Scratch My Back"
Play it for that strip club owner named Jack
Guitar Slim going down slow
Play it for me and for Marilyn Monroe
 
[Verse 5]
Play "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
Play it for the First Lady, she ain't feeling any good
Play Don Henley, play Glenn Frey
Take it to the limit and let it go by
Play it for Carl Wilson, too
Looking far, far away down Gower Avenue
Play "Tragedy", play "Twilight Time"
Take me back to Tulsa to the scene of the crime
Play another one and "Another One Bites the Dust"
Play "The Old Rugged Cross" and "In God We Trust"
Ride the pink horse down that long, lonesome road
Stand there and wait for his head to explode
Play "Mystery Train" for Mr. Mystery
The man who fell down dead like a rootless tree
Play it for the reverend, play it for the pastor
Play it for the dog that got no master
Play Oscar Peterson, play Stan Getz
Play "Blue Sky," play Dickey Betts
Play Art Pepper, Thelonious Monk
Charlie Parker and all that junk
All that junk and "All That Jazz"
Play something for the Birdman of Alcatraz
Play Buster Keaton, play Harold Lloyd
Play Bugsy Siegel, play Pretty Boy Floyd
Play the numbers, play the odds
Play "Cry Me a River" for the Lord of the gods
Play Number nine, play Number six
Play it for Lindsey and Stevie Nicks
Play Nat King Cole, play "Nature Boy"
Play "Down in the Boondocks" for Terry Malloy
Play "It Happened One Night" and "One Night of Sin"
There's twelve million souls that are listening in
Play "Merchant of Venice", play "Merchants of Death"
Play "Stella by Starlight" for Lady Macbeth
Don't worry, Mr. President, help's on the way
Your brothers are comin', there'll be hell to pay
Brothers? What brothers? What's this about hell?
Tell them, "We're waiting, keep coming," we'll get them as well
Love Field is where his plane touched down
But it never did get back up off the ground
Was a hard act to follow, second to none
They killed him on the altar of the rising sun
Play "Misty" for me and "That Old Devil Moon"
Play "Anything Goes" and "Memphis in June"
Play "Lonely at the Top" and "Lonely Are the Brave"
Play it for Houdini spinning around in his grave
Play Jelly Roll Morton, play "Lucille"
Play "Deep in a Dream", and play "Driving Wheel"
Play "Moonlight Sonata" in F-sharp
And "A Key to the Highway" for the king on the harp
Play "Marching Through Georgia" and "Dumbarton's Drums"
Play "Darkness" and death will come when it comes
Play "Love Me or Leave Me" by the great Bud Powell
Play "The Blood-Stained Banner", play "Murder Most Foul"

Words and music by Bob Dylan 2020  

PS: There is a documentary series floating around that goes by The Cabal, Deep State and QAnon by Dutch researcher, Janet Ossebaard.  Some episodes have been removed by YouTube but can be viewed elsewhere.  This is not a game.  This proposal is a serious one, but requires concerted organization to succeed.  Why wouldn't that be the case?  Because we are telling you that you must take an ownership position in your own monetary system as a natural extension of your own autonomous will.  In order for your will to matter, it must be honored and respected by others who of course will exercise their own will.  Ossebaard merely points out the depths of the depravity that we are admonished to leave, depart from, cease from supporting by our will, unless of course compelled to do so by the law of FORCE.  But with each passing day, more and more relevant data flows forth until eventually what is coming cannot be stopped.  It is all up to each one of you.  Thanks and best.   

#122: A Conversation With A Troll

This happened a few hours ago. I just wanted it recorded here to give the supporters of the proposal some idea of what to expect from some quarters when discussing it. Trolls come in a variety of flavors, but they all have a few characteristics in common. As you read the rest, notice how the attempt is made to SMEAR anyone who doesn't agree with THEM. I have no idea whether this was a real natural person or a bot, but it really doesn't matter because the usual techniques betray the intentions of the troll; to suggest that technology is more important than people, to suggest that anyone not going along with THEM is somehow stupid, misinformed or otherwise less than themselves, to suggest that unless we can provide all the underlying evidence for THEM, then we don't have any arguments against THEM. Where will this ultimately lead? I believe we are experiencing it already.

I posted my comments under a podcast or series of podcasts intended to extol the virtues of cryptocurrencies. This particular troll was a bitcoin fanatic. A fanatic is as Churchill reminded us, someone with a one track mind who wont change the subject. When fanaticism gets too strong a grip on a personality, perhaps they can't change the subject, even if they wanted to, not for an instant.

I began by posting one of my usual messages to get people to come here and read this blog to find out about what we really need to do instead of expecting or relying on anything from THEM:

2 concrete reasons to stay completely away from all cryptocurrencies:

1) NONE of the cryptocurrencies are OUR money because we did not issue them.

2) They are all creatures of the internet, which also doesn't belong to us and renders ALL internet based solutions irrelevant to our needs. And -

3) ALL cryptocurrencies are based on the FRAUDULENT scarce commodity as money paradigm, which only benefits speculators not producers. Cryptocurrencies ALL behave exactly as buy and hold securities investments, which are all subject to the whims of people who are beyond the reach of the average person, again go back to point 1 above.

So it's time to cut out all the foolishness, get out from under all THEIR intended social credit evil and the rest of it. Blockchain isn't even new. It was the basis for virtual machine operating systems on mainframe computers back in the 1960s. We refuse to be fooled anymore. We need our own money and nothing else will do – with a link back to here.

Someone other than the troll responded and said this:

Complete bullshit. Free people use whatever they want as money. [Presumably whole barter is intended, but some other means of monetary payment might be intended as well] Slaves argue for their own enslavement. Government is organized crime. Their money is shit.

This blog never advocated holding our governments in contempt, nor THEIR money. The role of a government is to enforce law, which is FORCE, upon all those under their jurisdiction. We have on the contrary advocated a deeper understanding of governments' perilous positions as “best credit risks” for THEM.

The question implied is the same as E. C. Riegel asked; can anyone unwilling to arrange payments for themselves using whatever they can agree to as money, be said to be free? Can there be ANY of the other freedoms understood in the Bill of Rights of the American Constitution (without which the rest would NEVER have been accepted) without economic or financial freedom? So, we agree with Riegel that we are all still slaves to whoever owns the money, which is THEM: globalists, BANKERS, elitists, technocrats (we think this particular troll is one of these), satanists, pederasts, scribes and Pharisees.

The first thing the troll says is that I need to do something to dispel the “delusion” that any of the foregoing criticisms of any and all of THEIR money are not suitable to replace THEIR stolen fiat paper currencies, which are always and everywhere recorded in accounts whether they be written in books or recorded on computers. He tells me:

You need to put some study time to dispel this delusion and learn about Bitcoin

I don't equivocate with anyone about ANY of THEIR money, so I responded: Since you are wrong, I won't even bother! Bitcoin and all cryptocurrencies are complete and utter trash! Be seeing you

One would normally expect that would be the end of it. But we have a fanatic on our hands here:

You wear your ignorance proudly, good on you.

It may have been a backhanded compliment from someone who insists on having the last word as a means of settling an argument; just outlast your opponent and you win. I'm not playing that way, so I responded:

Some things deserve to remain ignorant of on purpose. Cryptocurrencies are in that category. BTW, I was just told by someone who would know such things, that supercomputers are being used, actively and in future, to break all blockchain cryptocurrencies. If the Deep State cannot have its way, all the cryptocurrencies will revert to what they are worth, which is 0. Thanks and best

I thought that would be the end of it, but no:

No evidence of practical quantum computing exists, but little doubt many cryptos could be gamed to zero. They are not Bitcoin.

True fanatics are always oblivious to the obvious. What's the most obvious thing about ALL of THEIR money? IT'S NOT OURS! That's the first thing anyone needs to recognize about money, ANY money. So of course, I countered:

Just curious, are you a bot or a real natural person? I'm NEVER going to be interested in ANY cryptocurrency.

1) None of them are ours since we did not issue them
2) They are ALL based on a FALSE basis for money,
3) They are ALL internet based when most people do not want anything to do with the internet,
4) Bitcoin was developed by the CIA and everything said about it is a flat out LIE and
5) Bitcoin has been a vehicle for illicit trafficking networks.

Do you expect me to be impressed? Blockchain is not new. We were using it to run mainframe computers back in the 1970s. By far the most important DELUSION concerning Bitcoin and all the rest is that it could ever be ours. Be seeing you

Then the usual argumentum ad hominem attacks get going in earnest:

I can tell you have no interest in Bitcoin by the absolute rubbish you spew. Such breathtaking ignorance on display with an utterly uninformed opinion, and that's all it is since it is fact free without reference. I'm sure you can point me to the evidence for a cryptographically secured distributed blockchain utilising proof of work to secure it in 1970s, and the CIA's role in Bitcoin's creation. How can you in good conscience reveal your stupidity when you clearly don't even have a rudimentary understanding of the technology?

Was I even interested in the technology? Of course not! THIS IS ABOUT PEOPLE NOT MACHINES! So I let him have it!

Incredible! You have the impertinence of a savage dog! Get thee hence from me! You have no idea who I am or what I know, which is considerably more than you would even imagine. I'm sure you'll impress plenty of people with your imperious attitude! Disgusting!

Most would take heed and flee from anything further. But fanatics are NOT nice people to begin with:

Just as I thought, not a shred of empirical evidence in support of your deranged snowflake feelings. You are a part of what's wrong with this world, get a life man baby.

Isn't it wonderful how some people can just jump to whatever conclusion suits them? I responded:

I don't do research for other people especially strangers. The available data is out there. Do your own work, and try hard not to treat other people as badly as you have treated me. You might get further in life. Be seeing you.

Since I wouldn't expect this troll would quit, after all he has a lot invested in his fanaticism, I did him a favor and deleted my post so this is the only place for serious people to read the exchange. I usually admonish everyone not to feed trolls, but on the other hand most trolls are bullies who never got what they truly deserved because they have no respect for anyone but themselves and their stupid misuses of technology. Bottom line, most of these kinds hate other people. We on this blog like, value, respect and love others. Choose which way you would prefer to be treated. You'll see this has far more to do with everything else besides money.

Thanks and best

David Burton

dpbmss@mail.com