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Also read the expose by several ex-CIA officers and US army officers stating that the CIA and Pentagon are the World’slargest terrorist organization working for the Wall Street Feudal Lords (Military-Congressional-Industrial Complex asexplained by President Dwight Eisenhower) and discussing about the various CIA murders of World leaders and bribing ofothers, the CIA death squads, etc. Economic Hit Man John Perkins described “We Have Created the World’s First TrulyGlobal Empire” Wednesday, February 15th, 2006, on the US radio show “Democracy Now”http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/15/1436221&mode=thread&tid=25 . Perkins explains the factsbehind the US and other Governments being controlled by the international corporate barons and why no changes evercome about, even when the Party in power changes...There is a common thread that is woven into the fabric of thegovernments so tightly that no changes in the bureaucratic structure can penetrate its weave! It has one goal...OneWorld fascist government under the aegis of the Feudal Elites behind the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex asPresident Eisenhower had warned everyone on public television in 1961. The interview reveals the proverbial offerpoliticians cannot refuse and if they refuse, they will be terminated by the CIA, etc...if you’ve seen George Clooney’smovie Syriana, and Hotel Rwanda and Good night and Good luck, you’ll get the picture John Perkins is describing, hear itfrom the horse’s mouth! John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," reveals about his former workgoing into various countries to try to threaten leaders into creating a policy favorable to the U.S Corporate Lords. Perkinsformerly worked for an international consulting firm and describes himself as an “economic hitman” for the World’sbanking and corporate dynasties.However, in spite of their control of information, they realize many citizens are learningthe truth. There are several millions of Americans who now know the truth including former congressmen, former revenueagents, ministers, businessmen, economists and many others.As an example, here is an interview with Bernard Lietaer by Sarah Van Gelder, editor of YES!: A journal of positivefuture http://www.futurenet.org/ . Few people have worked in and on the money system in as many different capacitiesas Bernard Lietaer. He spent five years at the Central Bank in Belgium, where his first project was the design andimplementation of the single European currency system. He was president of Belgium's Electronic Payment System, andhas developed technologies for multinational corporations to use in managing multiple currency environments. He hashelped developing countries improve their hard currency earnings and taught international finance at the University ofLouvain, in his native Belgium. Bernard Lietaer was also the general manager and currency trader for one of the largestand most successful offshore currency funds. He is currently a fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources at theUniversity of California at Berkeley and is writing his seventh book: The Future of Money: Beyond Greed and Scarcity.YES! editor Sarah van Gelder talked to Bernard about the possibilities for a new kind of currency better suited to buildingcommunity and sustainability. He can be reached to discuss this topic via an Internet conference at:http://www.transaction.net/money/. --- Start of Interview – edited - (Sarah in bold)Sarah van Gelder of YES!: Why do you put so much hope into the development of alternative currencies?Bernard Lietaer: Money is like an iron ring we've put through our noses. We've forgotten that we designed it, and it's nowleading us around. I think it's time to figure out where we want to go--in my opinion toward sustainability andcommunity--and then design a money system that gets us there.So you would say that the design of money is actually at the root of much else that happens, or doesn'thappen, in society?That's right. While economic textbooks claim that people and corporations are competing for markets and resources, Iclaim that in reality they are competing for money - using markets and resources to do so. So designing new moneysystems really amounts to redesigning the target that orients much human effort. Furthermore, I believe that greed andcompetition are not a result of immutable human temperament; I have come to the conclusion that greed and fear ofscarcity are in fact being continuously created and amplified as a direct result of the kind of money we are using. Forexample, we can produce more than enough food to feed everybody, and there is definitely enough work for everybody inthe World, but there is clearly not enough money to pay for it all. The scarcity is in our national currencies. In fact, the jobof central banks is to create and maintain that currency scarcity. The direct consequence is that we have to fight witheach other in order to survive. Money is created when [private] banks lend it into existence [see article by Thomas Grecoon page 19 of this issue]. When a bank provides you with a $100,000 mortgage, it creates only the principal, which youspend and which then circulates in the economy. The bank expects you to pay back $200,000 over the next 20 years, butit doesn't create the second $100,000 - the interest. Instead, the bank sends you out into the tough World to battleagainst everybody else to bring back the second $100,000.So some people have to lose in order for others to win? Some have to default on their loan in order for othersto get the money needed to pay off that interest?That's right. All the banks are doing the same thing when they lend money into existence. That is why the decisions madeby central banks, like the Federal Reserve in the US, are so important --increased interest costs automatically determine alarger proportion of necessary bankruptcies. So when the bank verifies your "creditworthiness," it is really checkingwhether you are capable of competing and winning against other players - able to extract the second $100,000 that wasnever created. And if you fail in that game, you lose your house or whatever other collateral you had to put up.That also influences the unemployment rate?It's certainly a major factor, but there's more to it. Information technologies increasingly allow us to attain very goodeconomic growth without increases in employment. I believe we're seeing one of the last job-driven affluent periods in theUS right now. As Jeremy Rifkin argues in his book, The End of Work, jobs are basically not going to be there anymore,even in "good times." A study done by The International Metalworkers Federation in Geneva predicts that within the next30 years, 2 or 3 percent of the World's population will be able to produce everything we need on the planet. Even ifThe Hidden History Of Money & New World Order Usury Secrets Revealed at last! Page 100