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Guest Post: The Alternative Market Project Has Been Launched!
Submitted by Giordano Bruno of Neithercorp Press
The Alternative Market Project Has Been Launched!
Why choose to participate in a system that doesn’t work? A system
that is designed to drain the people of wealth instead of enriching them
and their lives? A system that is constructed upon irrational
principles, faulty laws, and unstable values? A system on the verge of
collapse?
This is the question that the Alternative Market Movement (AMM) poses
to the American citizen. Why continue living under an economic
structure that is poised to erupt, threatening you, your family, and
your ability to provide a meaningful future for them? Would anyone
voluntarily choose to live under the barrel of a gun their entire lives?
The only plausible answer is that most people participate in our
current destructive financial system because they feel there are no
other options. AMM plans to change this by offering a new choice, one
which presents a solid foundation, an honest and legitimate sense of
community, self sufficiency, and sound trade backed by tangible
commodities instead of unsustainable debts. We will work to help each
and every individual achieve greater independence and to connect with
other like-minded participants in a newer, liberty based market. This
market will be facilitated and administrated by communities themselves,
away from bureaucracy, corporate influence, and overt regulation. It
will serve the interests of the average man and woman, and not the
interests of globalism and elitist hierarchy.
We believe wholeheartedly in the framework of Constitutional Law, and
that no government or supranational entity has the right to overstep
Constitutional boundaries for any reason, regardless of supposed
intentions or mandates. We do not recognize the self proclaimed
authority of corporately created and managed entities such as the
Federal Reserve, the IMF, or the World Bank. We are fully opposed to
the practice of fractional reserve banking, fiat currency, central
banking, and other fraudulent financial Ponzi schemes. We stand against
the forced centralization of countries and cultures and the erasure of
national sovereignty. We believe that the first step in defending
against such economic and political manipulation is to create an
alternative system that safeguards the values of free markets and free
peoples. We are a natural extension of the Liberty Movement which is
already making great headway in American society today.
Our goal is not to centralize authority in this movement, but to
encourage individual awareness, and individual action. We hope to
provide the knowledge and tools necessary to make it possible for
anyone, from the average working American, to the successful private
business owner, to become their own leader, taking actions in their own
neighborhoods and towns with the purpose of forming viable trade
networks, eventually decoupling and shielding themselves from the
diseased economy currently in place.
The root ideology of our mission could be expressed as follows:
Provide for yourself and others those human necessities which the corrupt establishment cannot or will not.
Through this, you make the damaging system unneeded and obsolete.
Eventually, the establishment will have to come after you, openly
exposing its tyrannical nature, or it will have to conform to you. In
either case, you benefit.
To help Americans forward with this strategy of self determinism and
economic independence, we are launching the Alt-Market website. We hope
it will become a useful medium for the expansion of trade networks as
well as a source of in-depth knowledge on numerous practical skills
which are valued in a poor economic environment. Ultimately, we plan to
move our efforts away from the internet and into cities across the
country, where we will hold workshops and conventions designed to give
people hands on training, as well as a forum to meet other like-minded
free market proponents face to face.
Visit us at Alt-Market, and set a higher economic standard for
yourself, your town, your state, and your country. It all begins when
our participation in rigged establishment system ends…
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I don't have it in for the World Bank so I don't really understand the dig actually. On the other hand the idea of "requiring the Federal Reserve to become a publicly traded company" does have appeal. Needless to say they have changed the word "law breaking" to "mandate" and "I am confused by this" since the law cannot be "any clearer." Anywho--demand they play by our already ridiculous accounting..."whatevers" and "see if that lead balloon floats." Sound reasonable?
Since you GUYS are promoting free economy, why we need a user name and password to express our views on http://www.alt-market.com/forum ? You need to think a little bit more before you start promoting some thing.
Gold is the answer.
Well, that is an interesting choice, but their market is their property. If you think another way is better, you can always set up your own. That's what free markets are all about. :)
How do you manage to post without a username and password on ZH?
The site would be flooded with spam and ads moments if it allowed anonymous membership to their forum.
Disc.: I'm not associated with that site
There is a pain when you start some thing new. It goes away with time if your direction is right.
here is a address if you like to try BitCoin.
http://freebitcoins.appspot.com/
this gentleman will give you 0.05 cents just for trying it. here is my address if you like to try a transaction. I promptly send money back to you or some one you like me to send.
1E8P5AAAUpKyMtUnfPR17s7VN7Sbu4jWiw
there is no transaction fee, and fun to do.
I checked out the alt-market website. It is, I suppose, a noble and commendable effort and at least someone is trying to provide a avenue for by-passing (at least in part) the corrupt and counterfeit system under which most of us all forced to operate. I was disappointed to see that monetary support was solicited through donations to Paypal. Paypal epitomizes everything that is corrupt about our system and it brought the truth home to me...there is no escape from this system. We will all be its victims, alt-markets or not.
I agree, but I suppose it's a matter of convenience (which is why I continue to use it).
On the other hand, it's not much work for someone truly dedicated to stick an ounce or two of silver in a padded envelope and send it off using the subsidized government courier monopoly.
I am Chumbawamba.
Chumba,
You contradict yourself.... Further on up you said you use cash, now you say you continue to use paypal? Which is it?
Ok, Mr. Literalist.
Yes, I use some forms of plastic by which to utilize my cash. I use PayPal only to facilitate online payments of stuff where using cash is inconvenient or impossible. The money in my PayPal account is cash. Otherwise, if I can pay with the paper stuff, I do that.
I am Chumbawamba.
How about using BitCoin. A Step toward the right direction.
http://www.bitcoin.org/
To break this down, you need to understand not only the double coincidence of needs, but also store of wealth, both of which are served by money. If you examine anything from Craigslist to Freecycle.com, you see what a great job that internet search does for the double-match game, what it doesn't serve practially is the store of wealth.
The powers that be know this and that's why they're proposing a new "divorced" system that creates a transactional currency with no fractional reserve component while mitigating systemic risk combined with a gold-backed system which serves the wealth component by glittering with a percentage of gold.
Here we introduced the idea of the "Coincinet (tm)" which serves the double-match game using technology rather than ubiquitous currency. http://tradewithdave.com/?p=5310 This still leaves the wealth component of money systems. Money doesn't only satisfy wants, and in particular, fractional reserve money satisfies wealth accumulation and multiplication for growth assuming the confidence game holds (a big assumption, I know). Of course, you have the interest/scarcity problem which creates built-in failure equal to the interest payments, but it's a big motivator in a non-rigged system and essentially developed the West in short order.
Once the double coincidence of wants is resolved, that just leaves the wealth building component. Now, with gold for example, you have issues of human consciousness (i.e. why do we value gold exactly?) in regard to it's apparent lack of marginal utility. So gold has provided a base in the past, but it's link with consciousness is undeniable, even by the experts, so that sends you in a search for sustainable wealth or alchemy. Unless you uncover alchemy, your journey sends you right back to the earth, clean water, healthy agriculture and straight back to your community ending your search in a very "Tolstoy-ian" manner right where you began.
There is more, but I'll spare you for now, but leave you with a hint. There's a reason why the golden rule, is the golden rule, but you would probably be surprised to discover that it had any connection to economics or the ability to crush the definition of economics (based in scarce distribution) without some consistent reinvention of Marxism (ala Sunstein/Thaler's Nudge) which continually puts forth false dichotomies and continues to fail its leaders and its people.
Dave Harrison
tradewithdave.com
P.S. Alt-market.com's willingness to "get local" satisfies many of the aspects of free will which we would be forced to abandon in a centralized model such as the one proposed by the movie Zeitgeist: Moving Forward which is reviewed here: http://tradewithdave.com/?p=5282 One man getting local runs headlong into the space/time continuum and counts on each of us to spend less time as "be the ball" and more time as "be the meme."
I believe a shadow banking system with a backed currency (see research done at http://www.berkshares.org/) and an underwriting structure that is more consistent with risk management & free markets, it will have appeal. I'd say, start with a simple platform of only lending to employee owned companies & all companies must pass financial audits with real risk management, environmental audits without long term impacts, & must not do business with any government (foreign or domestic).
Is it possible to patent an idea for a market structure?
"Current Fed policy is in the interest of the world’s economy." -- William Dudley (Goldman Sachs), president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and vice-chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), paraphrased by Zero Hedge 02.28.11
Dudley et al. are among the people openly steamrolling the people of the United States into accepting a single world monetary system.
Dr. Carroll Quigley in his book Tragedy and Hope (1966) notes that the goals of the powers of finance is to establish “a world system of financial control in private hands,” and once achieved, to enable these few “to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.”
Professor Quigley was Bill Clinton’s mentor at Georgetown University.
In the early 1970s, CFR Zhigniew Brzezinski, in his book Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era, heaped praise upon Marxism for being “a victory of reason over belief,” contending that America’s “obsolescence” called for a “community of nations” to be built “piecemeal … through a variety of indirect ties and already developing limitations on national sovereignty.”
For as many people here who claim to be interested, there are few who signed up for the free risk-free site. More talk and no action.
Nothing is free of risk or free. And I'm not a joiner.
an "Ignore This A$$hole Button" for some of the users would not be a bad option.
Certainly would not offend any of the "non-a$$hole types" that I know of anyway.
+1 Bitchez!
I think I'm going to actually give this project a fair chance.
The current economy is a bankers' suicide endgame anyway.