Citizen Reform

The conditions that support a happy life on planet Earth are deteriorating rapidly. A financial armageddon will soon be fought. Our current debt-based financial system is imploding as debt servicing costs devour an unsustainable share of our GDP. Taxation can no longer support government borrowing costs and household interest costs are displacing other consumer spending.

When the system crashes the magnitude of the damage will be greater than anyone can now imagine. The crisis will return us to the laws of the jungle, the survival of the fittest and usher in a totalitarian, dictatorial takeover of the entire Earth and all of humanity.

The financial solution that they will attempt to force on us will end freedom as we have known it. An unelected, self-appointed global technate will create restrictive rules that we must all follow without question or resistance. Our freedom of choice will be limited to obey or die. Free speech is already being criminalized for allegedly inciting fear or hatred. We must prepare now while we can still communicate and organize freely for what is coming.

Most importantly, we need a solid, agreed upon, citizen-led plan for a new money system that will strip the financial and economic power away from the wealthy elites who disrespect us and want us dead. It will be too late once the crisis hits to prepare any alternatives. The chaos will be so severe that governments will invoke the emergency powers necessary to implement the changes they desire. The economic and financial new world order they are developing will make slavery seem like a holiday.

Here are a few basic financial and economic concepts that you need to consider and discuss with your family and friends to prepare for what is coming. Free-market capitalism no longer exists. Monopoly finance now rules the planet. We can do better than this. Life doesn’t have to be this hard. We just have to get rid of the cancer of greed, self-interest and dependency that we have allowed to corrode our responsibility and moral restraints.

Money Creation: As a measure of value, money should be nothing more than a receipt for value added to society. That value must be genuine socially productive value that benefits someone other than just the individual who creates (or invents) the value. Socially productive labour itself should automatically create new money that is denominated in the time actually taken to provide the labour. Contributions of socially productive labour alone would create the money supply. No government, bank, or corporation should have the power to create any new money. With this system of money creation purchasing power always matches market prices exactly. There would no longer be any need for debt. When labour credits are spent, they are extinguished. They do not re-circulate and can not accumulate beyond the actual labour contributions of an individual.

Custodial Line-of-credit: Businesses would no longer need their own money upfront to pay employees. The money to reward employees would be created automatically as a credit by their contribution of socially productive labour. Businesses would also no longer need their own money upfront to order external production inputs like raw materials, supplies, energy, etc. Legitimate, approved businesses would operate on a custodial line-of-credit that tracks the value of the goods and services they acquire to produce. Like the credit lines we use today, each business would have a credit limit that prevents abuse of the custodial system. Since businesses would no longer pay for any labour or production input costs, they would not “own” the products and services that their workers create and would not be entitled to add mark-up, profit or any subjective imaginary value added. Prices would simply be the sum of all accumulated costs as goods and services move along a chain of production, distribution and sales.

Usership: The only reason people are required to pay 100% of the value of durable asset like homes, vehicles, etc is to sustain the artificial, but profitable, need for debt financing. Major assets need only be paid for at their actual rate of depreciation. Upfront money for down payments on mortgages would no longer be required if consumers simply paid the ongoing depreciation costs that their use of any asset, like a house, caused. Any vacant property could be occupied by anyone who agreed, and had the means, to pay the normal monthly depreciation costs that are based on manufacturers' product durability ratings. Assets would no longer be purchased or owned, they would simply be used. No one would own the assets that society creates together, not the government, not the corporations, not even the workers who contribute a portion of the total cooperative efforts that makes society run. Labour credits would enable workers to use any of the unused products and services that are available. Users who honoured their promise to pay depreciation costs would have all of the same rights to enjoy their private, exclusive use of an asset without any fear of trespass or confiscation of the property they use.

In a Nut Shell: The total amount of money (credit) in society would always match production values minus depreciation values (consumption) exactly. Without debt, interest and profit inflation would be extinct. Since everyone alive has talent and time, money creation would be accessible to everyone. Time is already a universal standard that cannot be manipulated by human greed. There are only 24 hours per day everywhere in the world and it hasn’t changed since the beginning of time. Money would finally become a stable, inflation-free, global measure of value that would eliminate the need for exchange rates.

Please think seriously about these ideas. Yes they are radically different from the monetary and economic systems that are now imploding… but that’s a good thing. You can’t solve problems by simply rearranging the broken pieces. When the economy implodes we need to resist and insist on a solution of our own that serves the natural rights and interests of all living things. People matter more than money and profit, and the criminals running society now… need to be arrested.

Are Ya Ready?

Mandatory taxation has to go. Expropriating wealth from taxpayers has to stop. Income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, estate and inheritance taxes, energy taxes,… and 100s more ALL have to end. The government has no legitimate right or authority to steal involuntary payments from the people. Taxpayers subsidize all of the crooked, corrupt and immoral activities of the state which empower war, violence, treason, illegal activities and crimes against Creation.

We have been indoctrinated to believe that, without government, chaos and anarchy would run amuck and destroy our peaceful existence. This is simply an idea designed by those in power to create fear and submission. Every program run by government is carried out by individual workers and private sector companies. We already run society ourselves. We simply allow the government to take credit for it. Our taxes already pay for everything the government does so there would be no extra cost if everything was provided privately. There would however be huge cost savings from eliminating the endless self-serving bureaucracies and agency dictatorships that now control our lives.

Without our implied consent and cooperation the government is powerless. It has used psychological weapons, created by experts and deployed through mass media, to maintain its control. It has built a criminal justice system to protect itself from public liability and responsibility. It believes it is “too big to fail” and ignores the public’s demand for accountability, fairness and morality.

It is time we showed all levels of government that they are wrong. We don’t need them and we don’t need to be ruled.

Although the transition to voluntary, social relationships may be bumpy at first, we certainly have the capacity to build better private, voluntary social systems to replace any government mandated services. Getting rid of their debt-based money system will liberate the repressed potential of millions of citizens. At first, nothing at all need change. People can still go to work for their current employer and live as they always have. Those who are dependent on government income to survive can continue to receive income from public sources… just not from tax revenues.

Now before you throw your hands up into the air and say this idea is ridiculous ask yourself, “How should basic living expenses be made available to those unable or too old to work?” Is expropriating the working income of others really necessary? Consider that currently government interest payments exceed all current social income benefits paid directly to individuals. Can you spot any opportunities for a better financial system here?

It is definitely time to take back our lives from the jaws of destruction that our current world leaders are closing around our rights and freedoms. True liberty is in peril and the present political system doesn’t care. The only solution is to defund the government and withdraw our labour from executing their commands. The police and the military need to get on the right side of this battle… on the side of their families, friends and loved ones. On the side of the next generation and a healthy, living planet.

Would you be willing to participate in a movement to abolish mandatory taxation if your involvement required nothing more than registering an anonymous “yes” vote on a securely encrypted web portal? No personal information would be requested. No login or password required. The only data collected and stored would be an IP address and permanent cookie to prevent repeat “yes” submissions from a single individual who might try to inflate the number of positive responses. No advance notice of your support would reach the government. Not until the campaign was launched and you withdrew your tax submissions (and collections if you are an employer or operate as a sales tax collector) could you be identified as one of the millions of participants (and by then tax enforcement would be impossible).

If a sufficient number of people confirm their willingness to participate in a complete tax boycott that would begin on a certain future date, that was done simultaneously by xx million people, then a concrete agenda could be developed cooperatively and communicated via a secure offline portal (ie. not on the internet).

Let’s start here and see if there is any support for this solution. Add your comments here.

Why spend time regurgitating the betrayals of the past and wallowing in the depressing consequences. Put it aside, you know the truth now, and focus on building the solutions. Harnass the new positive energies derived from love, respect and natural liberty and join together locally with others to build a better social operating system.

There are many good initiatives going on. Reach out to others who already understand and are taking the responsibility for direct positive action seriously. It is the best cure for depression that I have discovered. Here are three innovative projects you should investigate to help get you started.

hOur World
https://hourworld.org/index.htm

We are Social Architects who believe that people are the true wealth of the world as their talents gracefully flow out to the benefit of all. We are grounded in the principles of simplicity and abundance and in the the joy of giving and receiving. It is our desire to help in the reclamation of local community prosperity by providing our gifts of time, training and tools in a pay it forward model within the Hour Exchange networks of hOurworld®.

We strive to remove all barriers to entry and membership in the time banking movement so that all may have the opportunity to contribute their time and talents and feel connected to their local community. As individuals we each participate in the community currency movement and we honour all the good people who have contributed to this system of service to others. We pay special tribute to the seven women that originally founded time banking in the United States.

hOurworld® exists to welcome and connect all varieties of time banks, mutual aid networks and local credit exchanges under one roof. This allows interaction between member exchanges everywhere, as their interests and needs arise. The hOurworld® Train the Trainer program teaches the fundamentals for organizing, building and enriching new and existing time banks. This model provides a recipe for program nurturing and growth towards maturity. As each new exchange develops it can seed another through the sharing of resources. And that exchange will seed another... and another...

A brief 3 minute video about the history of Time and Talents, the software that supports hOurworld, an international network of service exchanges (time banks) where people provide services, bank their hours, then spend those hours to get their own needs met!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMiKkfxUSY0

One Small Town
https://www.onesmalltown.org/landing_page.php

Imagine a beautiful world filled with harmony, joy, peace and abundance. The kind of world we have all dreamed of. We are creating this world for ourselves, for our families and our communities. Not at some stage in the distant future, but now, in our own lifetime.

If you are tired of working like a slave just to make ends meet; If you believe there is a better way for us to live and thrive; If you know that cooperation and collaboration creates prosperity; the ONE SMALL TOWN initiative is the place for you.

We Are Creating Communities Where:
• People work in cooperation and collaboration for the wellbeing of the entire community, contributing their skills and talents for the benefit of all.
• Everyone only has to contribute 3 hours per week towards our community owned businesses and projects - Where we share everything we have grown, built and created for free, between all our members equally.
• Where everyone is an equal shareholder in all of the businesses that belong to the community.
• Where everything we need to survive is provided by ourselves for ourselves, including food, housing, services, education, healthcare & more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49bdwVBu-g&t=89s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE6hlM8sTfY


UBUNTU Contributionism is a socio-economic philosophy and proposed social structure developed by South African author Michael Tellinger, detailed in his book UBUNTU Contributionism: A Blueprint for Human Prosperity. 

It proposes replacing the current money-based capitalist system with a community-driven model based on the ancient African principle of Ubuntu, roughly translated as “I am because we are” or “unity within community.” 

Key tenets of the philosophy include:
• Abolition of Money: Tellinger argues that money was not naturally evolved from barter but was maliciously introduced by ancient priest-kings and modern banking elites as a tool of control and enslavement. Contributionism aims to systematically remove money from society to achieve freedom from financial tyranny. 
• Contribution-Based Economy: In an Ubuntu Contributionist society, individuals contribute their skills, talents, and labor to the community. In return, the community provides for all basic needs, including food, shelter, healthcare, and education, through collective effort and shared resources. 
• Community Prosperity: The system emphasizes cooperation over competition, aiming for unlimited prosperity and abundance for all members. While money may still be used for external trade with non-contributing entities, internal community transactions operate without currency. 
• Political and Social Action: The philosophy underpins the Ubuntu Party, a minor South African political party founded by Tellinger in 2012, which advocated for closing the South African Reserve Bank, establishing a people’s bank, and eliminating the need for government by achieving 100% employment and self-sufficient communities. 
• Global Movement: Tellinger’s ideas have inspired the global UBUNTU Movement, which has members in over 215 countries and promotes localized, sustainable living through principles of sharing and contribution, akin to the Transition Towns movement or time-banking initiatives. 

• Philosophy and plan of action: Dealing with the root of all our misery. The UBUNTU Party will participate in the South African Elections on 7 May 2014. (check out this revolutionary party platform)

This is a historic moment because our entry into the political arena was paid for by the people through a global crowd-funding campaign, which clearly indicates the global support for our simple philosophy of UBUNTU Contributionism. The people want something NEW.
Every South African feels the dire economic hardship on every level, but most people do not know the true cause of our deepening misery. Unless we address the source of the economic war against the people, we will never solve the economic problems.
No politician or government can achieve this by using the tools that created the problem in the first place -- those tools are:
1) The private banks;
2) The SOUTH AFRICAN RESERVE BANK; and the
3) PRIVATE MONEY they create out of thin air.
The fact that our government is aware of this, and has been keeping this hidden from the people, means that we have been betrayed by our leaders who can no longer be trusted.
UBUNTU Believes that the country belongs to its people -- that the mineral wealth and the energy creation belongs to its people -- and that the government is appointed as the servant of the people, by the people -- to serve the needs of the people on every level of our human endeavour. Based on these simple principles we plan to do the following.
1. Restructure the entire banking system to serve the people and not enslave the people.
2. Create a PEOPLE's BANK that creates money for the people by the people, tax-free and interest-free, with 100% employment, and stop the financial enslavement of our people by the privately owned RESERVE BANK. This will immediately free the people of South Africa from debt slavery -- the same way that Abraham Lincoln did with his Greenback, and JFK did with his United States Note in 1963, which replaced the Federal Reserve Note. For this, UBUNTU has been joined by Stephen Goodson, a former director and shareholder of the SARB, with insider knowledge of how the banking institutions have exploited the people and continue to control our government at every level.
3. Let our scientists and inventors deliver a renewable source of Free Energy for every South African.
4. Support our traditional healers and research scientists in finding alternative cures for all disease and prevent the drug cartels from hiding such cures from the people.
5. Support our farmers on every level to escape the grips of Monsanto to grow organic food and plant gardens across the nation to ensure that no South African ever goes hungry again.
6. Decentralise the government so that people can govern themselves in their own communities -- taking care of their own needs immediately, supported by the new People's Bank every step of the way.
7. Restructure the judiciary and the legal system, to be written by the people for the people, unlike the unjust legal system we face in our courts today, which holds the rights of corporations above those of living breathing human beings.
The path to economic freedom is an exciting new era in human history, which is linked to the age of information, where corrupt corporations can no longer hide their crimes against humanity from the people. The solutions are simple and everyone knows what needs to be done in their hearts -- all we have to do is to take the first brave step.
We plan to introduce the simple principles of UBUNTU and the philosophy of Contributionism as outlined in detail in the book UBUNTU Contributionism -- A Blueprint For Human Prosperity. I urge everyone to read the book for the background on our troubles and to see how simple the solutions really are. Please join the UBUNTU movement on our website and tell everyone.
THE COUNTRY BELONGS TO ITS PEOPLE -- NOT TO THE GOVERNMENT OR ANY OTHER CORPORATION THAT HAS LAID CLAIM TO IT.

In pure truth
Michael Tellinger
Founder & leader of the UBUNTU Liberation Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1RZzegNYfU&t=60s

The Conscious Resistance Network
https://theconsciousresistance.com/

Being free goes deeper than just seeing the problems in the political arena. Consciously Resisting is to engage in self-reflection, and pursue knowledge of the self. Without knowing our own doubts, hopes, fears, dreams, insecurities, and strengths we can not truly know what freedom means to us as an individual. To become conscious, and aware of one’s actions is one of the most important steps towards claiming your own freedom.
Motto: “Leading by example and helping others in their pursuit of Freedom.”
Originally The Conscious Resistance website revolved around the work of journalist Derrick Broze. However, in November 2013 Derrick and Neil Radimaker partnered up and relaunched the brand as The Conscious Resistance “Network”.
The Conscious Resistance Network is now an independent media organization focused on empowering individuals through education, philosophy, health, and community organizing. We work to create a world where corporate and state power does not rule over the lives of free human beings.

The Freedom Cell Network
https://freedomcells.org/

Freedom Cells are local, self-directed peer to peer groups of approximately 8 people.
Cell members organize themselves in a decentralized manner with no member having authority over other participants. The cells work towards empowering one another and the network as a whole. Through education, peaceful non-compliance, and the creation of parallel institutions. Think of it as your activist support network.
Local cells work together to accomplish common goals, including but not limited to:
• hosting skill shares
• ensuring food storage 
• setting up encrypted communications
• creating emergency plans 
• learning self defense methods
All the while, cell members make themselves readily available to render mutual aid to their tribe, in whatever form that may come.
As the group expands beyond the initial 8 members, or the “inner cadre”, they begin to organize themselves into additional cells. These individual cells form organically and may be focused on special interests (parenting, crypto, prepping),  geographic location, or creating alternative institutions. For example, a cell might start a local marketplace for exchanging goods or parents in a cell may pull their kids out of government school and form a homeschool coop. Freedom Cell members are encouraged to build parallel institutions so as to create resiliency and independence within the network
Through building and supporting alternative systems such as local food networks, health services, mutual defense groups, counter-economies and communication networks, Freedom Cell members will be able to decouple themselves from the state and other institutions they deem unworthy of their support.
Once groups become large enough in numbers, it becomes possible for participants to opt out in mass and provide for their common wants and needs through the new systems they have created. 
The ultimate goal of the network is to build the parallel systems capable of securing the freedom of community members for generations to come. We are building our own free society.