Iceland... 그 섬에 가고 싶다

It has been rarely reported in the mainstream media outlets what has been going on in Iceland especially since so-called 'Kitchenware Revolution' occurred in the wake of the Icelandic financial crisis.

An interesting posting titled "ICELAND. No news from Iceland? ... Why?" gives us the answer.

How come we hear everything that happens in Egypt but no news about what’s happening in Iceland:

In Iceland, the people has made the government resign, the primary banks have been nationalized, it was decided to not pay the debt that these created with Great Britain and Holland due to their bad financial politics and a public assembly has been created to rewrite the constitution.And all of this in a peaceful way. A whole revolution against the powers that have created the current global crisis. This is why there hasn’t been any publicity during the last two years: What would happen if the rest of the EU citizens took this as an example? What would happen if the US citizens took this as an example.This is a summary of the facts:

2008. The main bank of the country is nationalized.

The Krona, the currency of Iceland devaluates and the stock market stops. The country is in bankruptcy

2008. The citizens protest in front of parliament and manage to get new elections that make the resignation of the prime minister and his whole government.

The country is in bad economic situation.

A law proposes paying back the debt to Great Britain and Holland through the payment of 3,500 million euros, which will be paid by the people of Iceland monthly during the next 15 years, with a 5.5% interest.

2010. The people go out in the streets and demand a referendum. In January 2010 the president denies the approval and announces a popular meeting.

In March the referendum and the denial of payment is voted in by 93%. Meanwhile the government has initiated an investigation to bring to justice those responsible for the crisis, and many high level executives and bankers are arrested. The Interpol dictates an order that make all the implicated parties leave the country.

In this crisis an assembly is elected to rewrite a new Constitution which can include the lessons learned from this, and which will substitute the current one (a copy of the Danish Constitution).

25 citizens are chosen, with no political affiliation, out of the 522 candidates. For candidacy all that was needed was to be an adult and have the support of 30 people. The constitutional assembly starts in February of 2011 to present the ‘carta magna’ from the recommendations given by the different assemblies happening throughout the country. It must be approved by the current Parliament and by the one constituted through the next legislative elections. 

 So in summary of the Icelandic revolution:

• resignation of the whole government
• nationalization of the bank.
• referendum so that the people can decide over the economic decisions.
• incarcerating the responsible parties
• rewriting of the constitution by its people

Have we been informed of this through the media?Has any political program in radio or TV commented on this?

No! The Icelandic people have been able to show that there is a way to beat the system and has given a democracy lesson to the world

Recently, IMF's mission chief to the country, Daria V. Zakharova, said in an interview that:

“Iceland has made significant achievements since the crisis, .... We have a very positive outlook on growth, especially for this year and next year because it appears to us that the growth is broad based.”

It is translated that IMF admits that Iceland's approach was right. What was Iceland's approach, then? Jeff Neilson gives us the clear answer in his recent post in street.com:

To do the exact opposite of everything the bankers running our own economies told us to do.

• The bankers (naturally) told us that we needed to bail out the criminal Big Banks, at taxpayer expense (they were Too Big To Fail).  Iceland gave the banksters nothing.



• The bankers told us that no amount of suffering (for the Little People) was too great in order to make sure that the Bond Parasites got paid at 100 cents on the dollar. Iceland told the Bond Parasites they would get what was left over, after the people had been taken care of (by their own government).

• The bankers told us that our governments could no longer afford the same education, health care and pension systems which our parents had taken for granted. Iceland told the bankers that what the country could no longer afford was to continue to be blood-sucked by the worst financial criminals in the history of our species. 

And he also casts doubt on the sincerity in the media's surprise and applaud:

One can only assume that neither the Corporate Media nor their Banker Masters would have allowed this clear acknowledgment that Iceland was right and we were wrong to appear within its own pages, unless it felt secure in the knowledge that all the remaining Debt Slaves had been crippled beyond their capacity to ever escape this economic oppression.

Here, the purpose of this Bloomberg propaganda was not to praise Iceland's government (when both the bankers and Corporate Media despise Iceland with all of their considerable malice). Rather, the goal of this disinformation was to manufacture a new Big Lie.



The real message here for readers is that when an economic strategy of People before Parasites succeeds that there is nothing the least-bit "surprising" about this. As with all the remainder of the world around us, promoting the health of Parasites is only good for the Parasites themselves.

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노래야 울려퍼져라~~

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식탁에 둘러 앉아

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저녁이 있는 삶

면허없이 은행을 연 사나이! "Bank" of Dave

아래는 Thomas H. Greco의 블로그 Beyond Money에서 소개된 동영상입니다.

이 동영상은 내노라하는 대형 글로벌 은행들의 작태 (금리조작, 검은 돈 세탁 등)가 폭로되고 있는 상황에서 '돈의 문제 (즉, 신용, 부채, 은행)'와 관련한 시사물로 2개의 인터뷰 꼭지로 구성되어 있습니다.

첫번째 꼭지에서는 두 분의 전문가와 나와서 문제의 핵심을 아래와 같이 진단합니다. 

• 신용의 창출이 은행가의 키보드 입력으로 마술처럼 창출된다는 점 (Money is created out of thin air!)
• 그 신용의 창출이 감독 관리 되고 있지 않다는 점
• 그 신용이 이자를 지급해야 하는 부채의 형태로 창출된다는 점

두번째 꼭지에 출연한 분은 Dave Fishwick라는 영국의 한 사업가인데, 이분이 정말 걸작입니다! 문제를 바라보는 시각도 매우 단순 직관적이며, 그에 대한 해답 역시 단순 직관적입니다. 

"우리가 은행을 털면? 당연히 감옥에 갑니다. 그런데, 은행이 우리를 털면? 그들은 보너스를 받습니다. 이런 '수정과 위의 잣'같은 일은 중단되어야 합니다." ("When people rob banks, they go to prison. When banks rob people, they get bonuses. That has to stop!")

"대마 불사라고요? 그건 애초에 있어서는 안되었다는 것을 의미할 뿐입니다!" ("If a bank is too big to fail, it's just too big to exist. It should'n be there in the first place!") 

결국 Dave는 팔자에도 없는 은행가가 되고 마는데, 그 사연은 영국의 Gaurdian지에 실린 <나는 왜 'Bank' of Dave를 세웠는가 Why I opened the 'Bank' of Dave>에 잘 설명되고 있습니다.

원래 Dave는 Burnley라는 영국 랭커셔의 작은 도시에서 미니버스 판매업을 하던 사업가였습니다. 2008년 불어닥친 금융위기로 자신의 고객사들이 어려워지자, 자신의 미니버스 매출도 덩달아 줄어들었고, 평화로운 도시는 "TO LET" (세 놓음) 간판으로 매일 도배되고 맙니다. 이때 Dave는 자신이 벌어 놓은 돈으로 자금난에 시달리고 있는 고객사들에게 빌려주면 지역경제에도 도움이 되지 않겠냐는 생각으로 이미 신뢰가 구축되어 있던 고객사들에게 돈을 빌려주기 시작합니다.

이 과정에서 Dave는 은행업이라는 것이 얼마나 간단한 일인가를 깨달게 되고, 이윤 추구가 아닌 '지역사회에 기여'를 목적으로 하는 아주 작은 은행을 세우면 어떨까하는 생각을 하게됩니다.  그러나, 수백만 파운드의 자본금이 요구되는 은행업 면허를 취득하는 것은 Dave에게는 현실적으로 불가능했고,  설립 취지를 설명하기 위한 면담 조차도 금융당국 관련자들은 응하지 않을 것이라는 것을 그는 잘 알고 있었습니다.

그래서 그는 금융당국의 면허가 아닌, 자신의 비젼에 동조하는 지역 사회 구성원들의 성원과 협조를 얻어 2011년 9월에 Bank on Dave을 설립하게 됩니다. (영국의 금융당국인 Financial Services Authority의 규제를 받지 않는 '소비자 신용업' 면허로 운영). 현재 매주 평균 약 2만 5천 파운드의 대출업무를 수행하고 있고, 그 수익은 보너스 지급이 아닌 지역 사회 발전을 위해 전액 기부된다고 합니다.

제 꿈은 제가 세운 은행과 같은 작은 은행들이 우후죽순으로 생겨나서, '보너스'가 아닌 '사람'이 그 중심에 있는 은행 시스템으로 돌아가도록 하는 것입니다. 이 과정은 마치 절벽위에서 점프를 한 후 낙하하는 와중에 비행기를 만들어 착지하는 것과도 같습니다. 허나, 이제까지 제가 깨달게된 바로는, 다른 사람들 역시 저마다의 도구를 들고 뛰어내릴 것이라는 것입니다.
My dream is for small "banks" like mine to spring up all over the country, and to go back to a system of banking that's focussed on people, not bonuses. This whole process has felt like jumping off a cliff and building a plane on the way down. Hopefully, thanks to what I have learned, other people will at least have some of the tools to change how we bank in Britain.

The Great Dictator 아 ... 채플린!

In the midst of brutality in Syria; and of racketeering of the criminal global financial elite; and of smell of gunpowder toward WWIII, I recall the great speech of The Great Dictator, a comedy film directed and produced by Charlie Chaplin.
The film and the speech was released and addressed in 1940, more than 70 years ago, but still finds an echo in my heart! How about yours? We, all and each, are and should be the Great Dictators in our lives and in this world!

1940년에 제작 상영된 찰리 채플린의 희극 <독재자>의 마지막 연설 장면입니다. 70년이라는 시간이 흘렀음에도 여전히 현재형으로 와 닿는 위대한 연설이자 선언문입니다.
천부적 권리와 권력을 그 어느 누구에게도 위임하거나 양도하지 않은, 우리 개개인 각자가 이 세상의 위대한 독재자가 되는 그날을 꿈꾸며!

.......

We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone. 
The way of life can be free and beautiful. 
But we have lost the way. 
Greed has poisoned men's souls;
 has barricaded the world with hate; 
has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

....... 

To those who can hear me, I say "Do not despair!" The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers, don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.
 Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate, only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty. 
In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke, it is written: 
"the kingdom of God is within man." 
Not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men, in you, the people. 
You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfill their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. 
Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!

........ 

Hanna, can you hear me? Wherever your are, look up, Hanna! The clouds are lifting. The sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world, a kindlier new world where men will rise above their hate, their greed and brutality.
 Look up, Hanna! The soul of man has been given wings, and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow, into the light of hope, into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up, Hanna. Look up!

런던 올림픽, 그리고 시리아 사태 Olympics and Wars

We the people have two different international wars at the same time in England and in Syria. 

The battles in England are well reported and broadcasted by state-of-art technologies. How about the other in Syria? 

I would like to strongly recommend to read the following articles to get a clearer picture and truth on 'Syria' in the tide of misinformation by the mainstream media outlets.

• What is Really Happening in Syria? by Jack A. Smitt

• The Syrian Intelligence War: A Tale of Two Security Headquarters by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

런던 올림픽 열기가 한창입니다. (제가 있는 곳에서는 저작권 문제로 한국 방송을 통해 한국 선수들이 선전하는 모습을 시청하지 못해 아쉽습니다) 이 열기에 가려진 또다른 열전의 장소가 있으니, 다름 아닌 시리아입니다.

거리 상으로 약 3천 5백여 킬로미터 떨어진 두 지역에서, 한 쪽에서는 스포츠를 통한 평화의 축제가, 다른 한 쪽에서는 총포에 의한 피비린내 나는 전쟁이 벌어지고 있습니다.  

‘시리아 사태’라는 제목으로 언론에 보도되는 이 전쟁의 인식틀(frame)은 아래와 같습니다. 

• 시리아 사태는 '폭정을 일삼는 시리아 정부군과 이에 저항하는 반란군 (Free Syrian Army)간의 내전'이며,
• 시리아 민주화를 염원하고 지지하는 서방 국가들이 시리아 현 정권의 교체를 위해 인도주의적으로 개입하고 있으나,
• 러시아, 중국 등의 비협조로 교착 상태가 지속되고 있어 죄없는 시리아 인민들만 고통당하고 있는 상태

아주 간단합니다. 이와는 달리 위에 언급된 두 글은 이 전쟁을 아래 두 진영이 지정학적 이해관계에 따라 충돌하고 있는 냉열 혼합전으로 읽어야 사태를 제대로 이해할 수 있다고 충고하고 있습니다. 

• 미국-NATO-이스라엘-사우디 등 GCC(Gulf Cooperation Council)아랍국가들
• 러시아-중국-이란-이라크-시리아 

전 세계 이슬람 인구는 약 20억명으로 추정되고 있고, 그 중 약 87%가 수니파 (Sunni)이며 나머지가 시아파(Shia)라고 합니다. 이란이 가장 많은 시아파 인구를 가진 국가이고 그 다음이 이라크라고 합니다. 시리아는 인구의 다수가 수니파이나 소수파인 시아파가 정권을 잡고 있고, 이라크의 경우는 이라크 전쟁 전까지는 소수파인 수니파가 정권을 잡고 있었으나 미국의 '이이제이' 에 따라 다시 시아파가 권력을 잡게되었습니다. 아직 공식적으로는 미국과 서방의 '관리'하에 있지만, 종교적으로는 친이란이 되어버린 것이죠.

석유라는 전략적 자원이 매장되어 있는 중동과 북아프리카 지역에서 미국과 그 후견인인 이스라엘의 통제 밖에 있는 국가는 현재 시리아와 이란입니다. 

페르시아의 이란, 아랍의 이라크와 시리아. 이 세 나라가 벨트를 형성해 연합을 하게된다면 미국과 이스라엘이 꿈꾸는 Great Middle East 전략은 물론 대 중국 및 러시아 전략에도 심각한 영향을 끼치게 됩니다. 따라서 미국과 이스라엘 입장에서는 시리아에 반드시 '봄'이 와야만 합니다.
현금($)과 총탄의 세례, 그리고 미디어를 통한 심리전 공세에 얼마나 버틸 수 있을지...

Karezza: Sex without orgasm!

Karezza is a lovemaking technique of "gentle intercourse" in which affection, connection and relaxation are the goals, rather than orgasm.
Practitioners of Karezza say they feel energised and full of positive energy after their orgasm-less sexual play, possibly because gentle, loving touch without orgasm subtly raises levels of dopamine and oxytocin, neurochemicals which create pleasure and feelings of closeness, romance and peace.

Please see this.

And please don't hesitate to contact me if there is any women who want to practice Karezza with me.^^

Syria: Washington’s Latest War Crime

Whenever I read Dr. Paul Craig Roberts' articles, I am wondering if 'Paul Craig Roberts' is an individual or a group of genii.

Syria: Washington’s Latest War Crime by Paul Craig Roberts

One wonders what Syrians are thinking as “rebels” vowing to “free Syria” take the country down the same road to destruction as “rebels” in Libya. Libya, under Gaddafi a well run country whose oil revenues were shared with the Libyan people instead of monopolized by a princely class as in Saudi Arabia, now has no government and is in disarray with contending factions vying for power.

Just as no one knew who the Libyan “rebels” were, with elements of al Qaeda reportedly among them, no one knows who the Syrian “rebels” are, or indeed if they are even rebels (Antiwar.com). Some “rebels” appear to be bandit groups who seize the opportunity to loot and to rape and set themselves up as the governments of villages and towns. Others appear to be al Qaeda. (Antiwar.com)

The fact that the “rebels” are armed is an indication of interference from outside. There have been reports that Washington has ordered its Saudi and Bahrain puppet governments to supply the “rebels” with military weaponry. Some suspect that the explosion that killed the Syrian Defense Minister and the head of the government’s crisis operations was not the work of a suicide bomber but the work of a US drone or missile reminiscent of Washington’s failed attempts to murder Saddam Hussein. Regardless, Washington regarded the terror attack as a success, declaring that it showed the rebels were gaining “real momentum” and called on the Syrian government to respond to the attack by resigning. (reuters.com)

The following is from a leaked intelligence document describing a previous Western terrorist intervention in Syria just in case any reader is so naive as to think that “our government would never do that.”

“In order to facilitate the action of liberative (sic) forces, …a special effort should be made to eliminate certain key individuals. …[to] be accomplished early in the course of the uprising and intervention, …

Once a political decision has been reached to proceed with internal disturbances in Syria, CIA is prepared, and SIS (MI6) will attempt to mount minor sabotage and coup de main (sic) incidents within Syria, working through contacts with individuals. …Incidents should not be concentrated in Damascus …

Further: a “necessary degree of fear .. frontier incidents and (staged) border clashes”, would “provide a pretext for intervention… the CIA and SIS [MI6] should use … capabilities in both psychological and action fields to augment tension.” (Joint US-UK leaked Intelligence Document, London and Washington, 1957) (globalreasearch.ca)

Obama has not said why his government is so desperate to overthrow the Syrian government. The current president was an eye doctor in London who was brought back to Syria to replace his father, who had passed away, as president of the country. Washington is reticent about its real motives, which it masks with high-sounding humanitarian rhetoric, but Washington’s motives are transparent.

One motive is to get rid of the Russian naval base in Syria, thus depriving Russia of its only Mediterranean base.

A second motive is to eliminate Syria as a source of arms and support to Hizbullah in order that Israel can succeed in its attempts to occupy southern Lebanon and acquire its water resources. Hizbullah’s fighters have twice defeated the Israeli military’s attempts to invade and to occupy southern Lebanon.

A third motive is to destroy the unity of Syria with sectarian conflict, as Washington destroyed Libya and Iraq, and leave Syria to waring factions to dismember the country, thus removing another obstacle to Washington’s hegemony.

Syria, a secular Arab state, like Iraq was, is ruled by a political party composed of Alawis, more or less Shia Muslims. The Alawis comprise about 12% of the Syrian population and are regarded as heretics by the Sunni Muslims who comprise about 74% of the Syrian population. Thus the orchestrated “uprising” appeals to many Sunnis who see the opportunity to take over. (In Iraq it was a Sunni minority that ruled a Shia majority, and in Syria it is the opposite.)

The divisions among Arabs make Arabs vulnerable to Western interference and rule. The Sunni-Shia split makes it impossible for an Arab country to unite against an invader or for one Arab country to come to the aid of another. In 1990 the Shia Syrian government lined up with the US against the Sunni Iraq government in the First Iraq War. Neither Lawrence of Arabia, Nasser, nor Gaddafi succeeded in creating an Arab consciousness.

Washington’s cover for its violent overthrow of other governments is always moralistic verbiage. First the target is demonized, and then Washington’s naked aggression is described as “bringing freedom and democracy,” “overthrowing a brutal dictator,” “protecting women’s rights.” Any assortment of cant words and phrases seems to work.

Hillary Clinton has been especially strident in advocating the overthrow of the Syrian government. The silly woman even issued threats to Russia and China for daring to block Washington’s attempt to use a UN resolution as cover for invading Syria. Washington misrepresents the Syrian government’s resistance to being overthrown as a government conducting terror against its own people. But Washington had no condemnation for the terror attack, whether its own or that of a suicide bomber, that killed high-level Syrian government officials. Washington’s double standard prompted the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, to accuse Washington of having “a sinister position.”

Indeed, Washington does. But what is surprising about Washington’s sinister position after Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Pakistan? Undoubtedly, after Syria is overthrown, Washington will move on to Iran. Russia itself is already being surrounded by US missile bases, and the Russian government has a disloyal and traitorous political opposition financed by American money. 
China is confronting a rapid buildup of US air, naval, and troop bases in the Pacific. How long before China’s government has a disloyal opposition financed by Washington?

The hegemon is on the march, but what Syrian Sunnis see is a chance to overthrow the Alawite Shia. The Syrian Sunnis will ally with Washington despite the fact that Washington overthrew the Iraqi Sunnis. Few Arabs, it seems, mind being puppets of a foreign regime that hands out billions of dollars.

Washington loosely refers to Syrian President Assad as a “dictator” or “brutal dictator,” but obviously if Assad is a dictator he is not very effective in that role. Normally, dictators don’t permit an opposition to rise, much less arm itself. It would be more accurate to say that the ruling party is authoritarian, but the ruling party has introduced elements of democracy with the new constitution.

As Iraq has proved, Arab governments have to be authoritarian if their Sunni and Shia populations are not to be constantly engaged in civil war. Both Bush and Obama claim that Washington brought “freedom and democracy” to Iraq. However, the ongoing violence in Iraq is as intense or more intense than under the American occupation. Here are the reports for the last three days:

July 23: “A wave of bomb attacks and shootings in Baghdad and north of the capital has killed at least 107 people. At least 216 were wounded.”July 24: “A second day of intensified attacks left at least 145 Iraqis killed and 379 more wounded.”July 25: “Attacks continue across Iraq: 17 killed, 60 wounded.”

This is what Washington did for Iraq. Far from bringing “freedom and democracy,” Washington brought endless mayhem and death. And this is precisely what Washington is in the process of bringing to Syria.

rEvolution in thinking on money!

언론이 LIBOR 금리 조작에 호들갑을 피울때, 중앙은행이 금리를 조작하는 것에도 물음표를 다시는 분들. 

"풍요 속의 빈곤"이란 결국 풍요를 누려야할 주체들에게 그 소비 수단(= 돈)이 주어지지 않았기 때문에 기인한다는 것에 동의를 하시는 분들. 

신용 창출은 은행의 고유한 권한이 아니라 바로 우리 개개인에게 천부적으로 부여된 권리라는 사실에 가슴이 뛰시는 분들! 

그 분들과 함께 E. C. Riegel (1879 ~ 1953)의 가르침을 탐구하고 싶습니다.

E. C. Riegel의 주요 저작물과 사상에 대해서는 아래 사이트에서 참조하실 수 있습니다.

Reinventing Money  

The New Approach to Freedom

아래는 맛보기입니다.

MONEY POWER IN YOU

There is a treasure buried in your consciousness. If you will dig it up from the debris of superstition and fear that covers it you will gain a freedom and self—mastery that will lift your life to a higher plane. This is the money power in you. The power to create money with which to purchase wealth, health and happiness actually lies dormant within you. You have thought of the money power as something remote from you and beyond your grasp. You have dreamed of the good you could and would do if you had money power. You have blamed others for not accomplishing this good. You have blamed them for evil economic and political conditions; for unemployment, for poverty, for crime, for war. It is quite logical to blame these maladies upon the malfunction of the money power, but you have not suspected that the money power resides in you and because of your failure to exert it the world is afflicted with miseries. You have the power; you have the responsibility. The power and responsibility to banish poverty, unemployment, insecurity, misery and war rests entirely with you. You, in cooperation with other intelligent persons, can drive economic and political evils further and further from the area of your life and ultimately they may be driven from the face of the earth. You can do this by the money power in you, expressed first in your own prosperity and happiness, and radiating to others. You can do it and you must do it. There is no power outside of you that can bring these blessings to you. Petitioning the Government is like writing to Santa Claus. You need no laws — there is a law, a natural law that governs your money power. You need no government aid. You need only cooperation with and from persons who, like you, have resolved to exert the money power inherent in us all. This power in each of us needs only the recognition and respect of our fellows to spring forth and exert its blessings. We need not petition Congress and we need not waste time to denounce bankers, for they can neither help nor hinder our natural right to extend credit to each other, and this is the perfect basis for a money system.

우리의 의식 속에는 엄청난 보물 하나가 묻혀 있습니다. 미신과 두려움의 잔해들로 덮힌채 파묻혀있는 이 보물을 잘 캐낼 수 있다면, 우리는 자유와 절제를 얻게되고, 나아가 우리의 삶의 질을 한 단계 더 높은 수준으로 끌어올릴 수 있습니다.  그 보물은 다름아닌 우리에게 천부적으로 주어진 "money power"입니다. 돈을 찍어낼 수 있는(신용을 제공할 수 있는) 이 힘으로 우리는 우리 안에 잠자고 있는 부와 건강 그리고 행복을 살 수 있습니다.

이제까지 우리는 이 힘을 '우리가 통제할 수 없는, 우리의 통제로부터 벗어나 있는 어떤 것'으로만 여겨왔습니다. 우리는 '돈만 있다면 할 수 있는 모든 훌륭한 일'들을 꿈꿔왔습니다. 그리고 이 훌륭한 일들을 해내지 못한다며 우리 자신이 아닌 다른 사람들을 비난해왔습니다. 우리를 둘러싼 작금의 사악한 경제적 정치적 조건들, 실업, 가난, 범죄, 전쟁 등에 대해 우리 자신이 아닌 '그들'을 비난하고 있습니다.이 모든 병폐들이 money power의 잘못된 사용에 있다는 비난은 꽤나 논리적입니다. 허나 단 한 번도 우리는 그 힘이 우리 안에 있다는 사실과 우리 자신이 그 힘을 사용하지 못하고 있기 때문에 이 세상이 이렇게 비참하게 굴러가고 있다는 사실에 대해 의심을 품지 않고 있습니다. 가난, 실업, 전쟁... 이 모든 비참함을 몰아낼 힘과 책임이 우리에게 있고, 우리는 우리 안에 그 힘을 갖고 있습니다. 번영과 행복이라는 축복을 우리에게 가져다 줄 힘은 결코 우리 외부에 있지 않습니다. 정부에 탄원을 하는 것은 산타클로스에 편지를 보내는 것과 다름없습니다. 의회에 탄원을 할 필요도 없고, 은행가들을 욕하는데 시간을 낭비할 필요도 없습니다. 필요한 것은 그저 우리들의 형제자매 이웃들을 '고립된 타인'이 아닌 '상호 연결된 주체'로 인정하고 섬김으로써, 상호간에 신용을 공여할 수 있는 천부적 권리를 회복하는 것입니다.

I Am the Valun by E. C. Riegel 

I am the valun, the universal money unit. 나는 valun이라고 하며, 보편적으로 통용되는 화폐단위 입니다. 

My mission is to unite all men on the economic plane, regardless of their political differences, and to enable them to govern government. 내 임무는 지구상의 모든 경제주체들을 -- 그들이 추구하는 정치체제와 무관하게 -- 하나로 묶어주고 그들이 정부를 통치할 수 있게끔 해주는데 있습니다. 

I bring to trade a common language and thus make commerce homogeneous. 나는 상거래에 공통의 언어를 부여하여 등가교환을 가능케 해줍니다. 

I liberate the artisan and the trader from political money control and thus defeat authoritarianism. 나는 장인, 수공업자, 상인 등 모든 경제주체들을 '정치화폐(political money)'로부터 해방시켜 권위주의가 발을 못 붙이도록 해줍니다. 

I deny to government the power to finance war without the people’s direct and conscious financial support and thus fortify their will to peace. 나는 정부가 인민의 직접적이고 의식적인 재정적 지원이 없는 전쟁을 수행하지 못하게 함으로써 평화를 공고히 합니다.

I facilitate trade, induce technological improvement, increase wealth and leisure. 나는 상거래를 촉진시키고 기술적 개선을 유인하여 부와 여가의 증진을 가능케 합니다.

I conserve the profit motive in the production of wealth but deny it in the creation of money. 나는 부의 생산에 있어서의 이윤 동기는 옹호하지만, 화폐발행에 있어서의 이윤 동기는 용납하지 않습니다.

I am the creature and servant of every man who would render service useful to his fellows. 나는 자신의 유용한 서비스를 다른 사람들에게 제공하려는 모든 사람들의 종이자 피조물입니다.
From his pen I spring, but by the monetary exploiter or the state I cannot be generated. 나는 오직 그의 펜을 통해 탄생할 뿐이며, 그 어떤 국가도 그 어떤 통화 착취자도 나를 만들어낼 수 없습니다.

I am homogeneous because I am homo-generated. 

I guarantee to everyman freedom to labor and the full rewards thereof with preservation of his right to freely choose his vocation and with full respect for the dignity of his personality. 나는 모든 사람들이 자유롭게 일하고 그에 대해 보상 받을 수 있도록 해주어, 직업 선택의 자유를 보장하고 개개인의 존엄함이 훼손되지 않도록 해줍니다.

I am the implement of freedom, prosperity and peace to all men throughout the world. 나는 자유 평화 번영의 도구입니다.

I am the surprise weapon against the enemies of private enterprise and human rights — the friend of the individualist, the foe of collectivist.   나는 private enterprise와 인권에 반하는 적대세력들에 대항할 놀라운 무기입니다. -- 친 개인주의, 반 집산주의.

Are These Propositions Correct?

1. Money is a means of facilitating trade by splitting transactions in halves, giving the buyer value and the seller a claim for equivalent value upon any one or more traders in the community of traders.
2. The issuance of money arises out of a purchase and sale transaction requiring tender and acceptance. Therefore, it is a bi-lateral function that can be exerted only by a buyer and a seller and there can be no money issue on behalf of another. Therefore governments cannot issue money on behalf of their constituency.
3. Implicit in the act of issue is the agreement of the issuer (in common with all others in the trading community) to accept the issue in exchange for value when tendered. Therefore, only one who is prepared to accept money in exchange for value, when tendered, is qualified to be a money issuer and all persons so qualified to accept are ipso facto qualified to issue. Thus the power to issue is inherent in all traders.
4. Money circulation is a cycle wherein the money passes from issuer to acceptor and from acceptor to acceptor until finally accepted by the issuer and thus retired. The money system is therefore a bookkeeping system whereunder money springs from a debit and is retired by an offsetting credit. The instrument evidencing the bookkeeping process need have no intrinsic value.
5. Money is actually backed by the value surrendered by the seller and potentially backed by the value in possession of the next seller. Therefore, all “reserves” such as precious metals or other values are purely gratuitous and irrelevant.

Conclusion

If the above propositions are correct, we must conclude that a true money system, not only may, but must be established as an integral part of the private enterprise system and the issuing power must be denied to all except private enterprisers, the exclusion to include all governments and non-profit institutions. The true money system must be based upon voluntary cooperation of the participants. Therefore no legislative or political action is required. Therefore, without political sponsorship or boundaries, the true money system is potentially universal and uniting all traders with one monetary language.

천부경을 영역하면?

Barbara Marx Hubbard의 Birth 2012 and Beyond: Humanity’s Great Shift to the Age of Conscious Evolution을 읽으면서,  <천부경>을 영어로 옮길 수 있지 않을까 하는 생각이 계속 머릿속을 맴돌고 있습니다. 

일단 제목은 The All-inclusive Universe Story. 
그리고 부제는 "From No Thing at All" has come "Everything That Was, Is Now, and Will Be."