Bêste freonen,
A few days of rest is a good ocasion to think back to all the wonderful discussions we have had at Puerta del Sol. Because discussion is another amazing feature of our movement. People are not talking about lipstick no mear, of oer the latest application for your iPhone, or about MTV’s hottest one-hit-wonders. No, people talk about things that really matter.
Mei comrade Ronaldo we besprutsen de 'economy', for example, and the paradox of the term. It literally means something like 'frugality'. But the prevailing ideology of our time is the exact opposite. Consumption and waste.
In Holland no direkt there’s a lot of talk about lending to Greece or not. The discussion is all about money. So allow me talk about money as well, for a change.
How is it possible, I wondered, with all the wealth and prosperity that ús wrâld produsearret, dat all countries, rich and poor (except perhaps China), binne weighed down by debt?
In fact, that’s not possible. All those debts, the whole crisis, is ien huge scam.
The reason that all countries have debts is due to the phenomenon of interest. The classical economic model is based on goldbecause gold is scarce, and therefore it has value. Pminsken wend wêze bring their gold to the bank. There it was safe. The banker would give the depositor a receipt. Dizze receipts would become bank notes. Sy ferwidere the value of the gold they represented.
So far everything is okay. Things only started to go wrong when the bankers noted that people hardly came back to claim their gold anymore. They were content to use bills in their daily money exchange. So what die the bankers do: they started to emit more ‘receipts’ than they had gold in their vaults to cover it. These receipts were loaned at interest. If the bank lien one hundred bills, then a year later they would want a hundred and ten notysjes in return. But those ten additional notes did not even exist, omdat de bank nea sette harren into circulation op it earste plak! That’s why there is always more debt than money to repay it mei. And so that’s why all countries (except China) binne yn debt and altyd wil be. "Bankruptcy is part of the system."
But it gets even weirder. For while the amount of paper money far exceeds the amount of gold on hokker it wie initially based, the amount of electronic money is still far greater than the total of paper money.
That money is created out of nothing by the banks. Dus ikf a simple working man or woman puts a hundred dollars in the bank, the bank is entitled to lend it out tenfold, Se gewoan meitsje njoggen hûndert dollars from th air. It's creative accounting at its best, and it's legal too. And although this money is purely fictitious, it can be used as if it weere real. So if the bank invests these nine hundred euros in another bank, the latter can consider it 'real' money and use it to create even more money. And so on and so on. Mar the trick is that every time money is lended, there is rinte to be payed. Sa no matter how much money there is in circulation, it will never be enough to cover all the outstanding debts.
Mar it bêste diel fan dit scam is noch altyd de gold story.
Histoarysk gold was the pillar of the whole monetary system. But at a certain point people came to realise that gold wie no longer needed at all. The gold standard has been abandoned years ago. The safes are wierskynlik empty. After the cornerstone wie west fuorthelle it turned out that the whole castle could stay up in the air by itself.
Comrades, the revolution can only succeed if people become bewust of all the lies that they have been accustomed to accept as truth.
It idee fan 'jild' yn dit ljocht is heul gelyk oan it idee fan 'god' in the Middle Ages.
Almost everyone believes in money hjoeddedei. Just like everyone believed in god during the Middle Ages. It was inconceivable that people did not believe in god back then. Hjoed is bankers would have been the priests. They útstjitten 'god', and they could print as much of him as they liked. Tdei bedriuwen would have been the nobles. They borrowed 'god' fan the priests, en mei 'god' on their side they were entitled to exploit the peasants. The poor peasants themselves were screwed. They had to work like oxen all week long, so that every Sunday in church they would receive a little bit of 'god’, just enough to carry on another week.
Ferfange god with money and the idee remains the same. Both god and money are fictional concepts rjochte op ensuring social cohesion. But god is dead, gelokkich. And money will die as well, ien dei. We will look back at our time with amazement, and we will describe our society as in 'monetary theocracy'.
Puerta del Sol has proven that money is not needed. Cash donations were not accepted. People were amazed hjir oer. "How can this society oerlibje all these weeks withút money?" visitors would ask.
It antwurd is ienfâldich.
Goodwill.
Goodwill is wearde infinitely more than all the billions of euros used by the bigwigs to buy countries like Greece. Goodwill is the only thing mei hokker we, as humans, kinne save ourselves and each other.
It bêste,
Oscar
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