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Life Inc. The Movie from Douglas Rushkoff on Vimeo.

Richard C. Cooke, author of the book “We hold these truths, The hope of monetary reform”, has just released a six part video series titled “Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis”. The 2 ½ hour video series (linked below) provides a clear overview of the processes and practices that have resulted in the global financial collapse and proposes a new economic model to help transform economies and take back control of money from the corrupt banking institutions.

This series is a must watch if you want to understand how we got here and why the bailouts can not and will not work. As the global economic system is firmly controlled by the same banking cartels that caused the collapse I would recommend this video series to all viewers from all nations. The monetary system we all suffer under is inherently flawed and can not be fixed. It needs to be replaced with a democratic and just monetary system that benefits all people equally. The Cook plan is one proposed solution.

Part one - Our Early Political Leaders Warned Us Against the Banking Interests
In this part Cooke discusses the early years when the founding fathers worked to free the nation from the control of private banking interests.

Part two - The Federal Reserve System: The Bankers Take Over
Examines the ill effects of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 which resulted in the United States becoming a nation dominated by the financial elite, bankers and the debt-based monetary system which resulted and is still in control today.

Part three - The Collapse of the Financial System
Discusses how the abuses in the FIRE economy (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate) lead to the national and global economic situation currently facing the world.

Part four - What is Credit and Who Should Control It?
Examines the concept of credit and why credit should be defined as a public utility and not as the bankers private property.

Part five - The Gap Between Prices and Income
Discusses Keynesian economics and how it helped cause the collapse due to inherent flaws in the model.

Part six - The Greenback and National Dividend Solutions
Proposes the “Cook Plan” which calls for the complete overhaul of the current monetary system to create a non-inflationary democratic currency model.

For further information see: http://www.richardccook.com

In a talk presented at the “Lawful Rebellion” conference on the 24th of January 2009 John Harris raises some interesting facts that are all too familiar - especially to those of us living in so-called democratic countries.

Even though he is discussing the situation in the UK I believe the points he makes are just as pertinent to people in the US, Canada, UK, New Zealand, Australia and add your country here. The similarities in are just too startling to be ignored.

We are all indentured from birth.
Everything we do requires a permit, license or contract.
We are not PERSON’s as defined by THE LAW - we are people.
We are all in this together.
We are waking up.

Do the research, know the truth, and resist peacefully.

The Zeitgeist Movement has made available two new downloads. The Activist Orientation Guide (pdf) and a video presentation of the same material. I don’t necessarily agree with all their ideas, especially around AI, but at least these guys are thinking.

For those who want to know why the current systems are failing and what could be done if…

More info here: http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com

I realise there are reasons for the restrictions imposed on remote XUL in Moz, Firefox and XULRunner, however, if they are to live up to their promise they need to support remote XUL in a user controllable fashion enabling Intranet and trusted sites access to chrome, local storage and system services when permitted in a user definable manner.

Single Site Browsing and Prism look like they are heading in the right direction but Prism seems to have gone underground leaving bits of itself in 3.1b2. But why have yet another extension? Why not define the settings we need and the access we want to allow at the browser? Or is that the direction of Prism or FF3.1+?

I and many others have been frustrated by remote XUL not quite working the way we’d want when sourced from a remote site. All those who agree say aye!

The security restrictions currently imposed are extremely valid and should be enforced, however, I believe we need to provide user overrides at the browser to allow trusted applications access to data and system services. The browser has access to these services so why not trusted Intranet apps and sites?

Please ladies and gentlemen can we make this work?
If not why not?