only just stumbled upon your substack through one of Cynthia Chung's incredibly valuable articles. your remark that speaking of "banksters" does not imply anti-Semitism gave me a sparkle of hope: ordinary, modest folk have no beef with Jews and our historical periods of anti-Semitism have always been mandated top-down by power-greedy rulers.
in addition to your remarks about the early Rothschilds and their financial power a snippet from an article by Mat Ehret, concerning a Venetian Senate law from 945 CE that prohibited "....any ship to Asia from carrying a Jew. Laws were soon passed across Europe on Venice’s direction forbidding Jews from owning land, joining trade guilds of weavers, dyers, carpenters or blacksmiths or owning any trade companies. Other laws like the 1181 English Assize Laws forbade Jews from owning weapons, serving in military or even farming [.... In Venice...] Jews were relegated to a small neighborhood called the Ghetto and were excluded from any normal form of profession being forced to either deal in old rags, pawn broking or money lending for (nominally) Christian oligarchical families who used them as HofJuden servants....." - https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/12/27/the-forgotten-jewish-christian-muslim-alliance-and-chinas-silk-road/
I enjoyed very much some of your other writings and am looking forward to your next installment (subb'd).
Thank you Mary Lou for this comment and the link. Matthew Ehret and Cynthia Chung's work is great. The powers that should not be have used "divide and conquer" to keep their power and control for much too long. Our task is to show that there is a "golden thread of perennial wisdom teachings" that runs through the Abrahamic faiths. The essence of this is that money and banking be used as a medium of exchange and not wealth accumulation (so no usury) and that the earth is to be fairly shared by all as a birthright. There are practical solutions (Public Banks, tax shift to land value tax / commons rent) that we can put in place now. That is, when enough people of good will who happen to think that "we are all human beings with a right to exist" can work together effectively. Thanks again for your comment.
The ecocide, inequality and stressful competition is inherent in the method of creating money with interest. Its unrelated to the race or religion of the issuer, its mathmatecally inevitable in the the idea of privatised money creation without Jubilees. Its inevitable that society returns to fuedalism. Only publically generated money can save us (e.g. as in Japan, China, Russia)
Thanks Liz for your comment, I agree with much of it, but not that it is inevitable that society returns to feudalism. We can reverse course with Public Banks and Commons Rent public finance. And this depends on whether enough people are actually doing something to move in this direction, not just being armchair intellectuals. If you want to work with either of these movements please let me know.
Thanks for that. The history of Rothschild was most interesting and valuable. I was not aware.
only just stumbled upon your substack through one of Cynthia Chung's incredibly valuable articles. your remark that speaking of "banksters" does not imply anti-Semitism gave me a sparkle of hope: ordinary, modest folk have no beef with Jews and our historical periods of anti-Semitism have always been mandated top-down by power-greedy rulers.
in addition to your remarks about the early Rothschilds and their financial power a snippet from an article by Mat Ehret, concerning a Venetian Senate law from 945 CE that prohibited "....any ship to Asia from carrying a Jew. Laws were soon passed across Europe on Venice’s direction forbidding Jews from owning land, joining trade guilds of weavers, dyers, carpenters or blacksmiths or owning any trade companies. Other laws like the 1181 English Assize Laws forbade Jews from owning weapons, serving in military or even farming [.... In Venice...] Jews were relegated to a small neighborhood called the Ghetto and were excluded from any normal form of profession being forced to either deal in old rags, pawn broking or money lending for (nominally) Christian oligarchical families who used them as HofJuden servants....." - https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/12/27/the-forgotten-jewish-christian-muslim-alliance-and-chinas-silk-road/
I enjoyed very much some of your other writings and am looking forward to your next installment (subb'd).
Thank you Mary Lou for this comment and the link. Matthew Ehret and Cynthia Chung's work is great. The powers that should not be have used "divide and conquer" to keep their power and control for much too long. Our task is to show that there is a "golden thread of perennial wisdom teachings" that runs through the Abrahamic faiths. The essence of this is that money and banking be used as a medium of exchange and not wealth accumulation (so no usury) and that the earth is to be fairly shared by all as a birthright. There are practical solutions (Public Banks, tax shift to land value tax / commons rent) that we can put in place now. That is, when enough people of good will who happen to think that "we are all human beings with a right to exist" can work together effectively. Thanks again for your comment.
just to be sure: is it 'golden threat' or 'golden thread'? blessings and respect to you too.
thanks for pointing out my typo, I corrected it!
The ecocide, inequality and stressful competition is inherent in the method of creating money with interest. Its unrelated to the race or religion of the issuer, its mathmatecally inevitable in the the idea of privatised money creation without Jubilees. Its inevitable that society returns to fuedalism. Only publically generated money can save us (e.g. as in Japan, China, Russia)
Thanks Liz for your comment, I agree with much of it, but not that it is inevitable that society returns to feudalism. We can reverse course with Public Banks and Commons Rent public finance. And this depends on whether enough people are actually doing something to move in this direction, not just being armchair intellectuals. If you want to work with either of these movements please let me know.