"Money has been privatized by stealth, the greatest privatization in history has gone unnoticed, it's time to take from the banks the power to produce money", Ben Dyson writes in his article published a few days ago by the Guardian. "You know, my son, it's really unbelievable how stupid one can be when his job depends on how stupid he can become", mama said to Forest Gump who browsed through the pages of the largest national daily newspaper - ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections - filled with invitations and promises in which desperate workers and farmers have invested all their hopes. "Well, mom", Forest replied, "if banks are evil, and if we're all angry and facing bankruptcy, then let's switch to alternative currency"!

Crom Alternative Exchange Association
Viska 14, 52100 Pula, Croatia
association[at]cromalternativemoney.org

There was once the first day. Thousands of years have past since then. Called as needed and depending on circumstances, slavery, feudalism, communism, capitalism, socialism or for example democracy, the problem of mankind is always one same thing: 1% of the world's population owns everything, 99% of the population owns nothing. The good people tried, even the less good people tried, enemies made reforms, so did the good people, but nothing new is happening, all stories always end in the same sad way. We changed religions, we changed flags, we changed laws, presidents, governments and religious leaders - despite great effort, still nothing new on the horizon - power and resources always remain in the same hands. Even though it was always the most important factor in everything, the activator and terminator of all activities, the foundation of individual and collective existence - money - or better said the method of creating and distributing money has to this day never occured to any human being as a thing which can be changed, despite the fact that humanity is dancing on the edge of the abyss very long - too much time. Due to a mysterious reason, even though being a slave to a constant chronical shortage of so called "money" is the only option from birth to death, the wider population suffers anaphylactic shock at any mention of monetary reform.

It's not necessary to remind ourselves that absolute power corrupts absolutely. How many times and in how many places have we been bombarded with the conclusion that things have always been this way and that they cannot be changed? The compass needle has, however, turned in the direction of "An Alternative Currency For The Well-Being Of Society". Better living standard in the current consumer society means only one thing - greater purchasing power. How to earn more money and preserve its value? Here is the Stargate toward the realization of your dreams. But a sustainable community is not compatible with our lifestyle. Please do not panic, Star Trek is in line with the environment and natural resources.

So you would like to try to use alternative currency, or to build some sort of your own community currency system... Why? And How? "Ireland, please do the world a favor and default," that's the title you can often find at alternative media sources these days. It is explained that by choosing bankruptcy instead of economic slavery, Ireland would save the entire world from the global financial elite's jaws. Therefore, default would essentially represent a big favour to humanity.

Economics and economists are best known as buying something you can't fit within the laws of mathematics and physics. And because of that, the whole modern world is built on false foundations. Not only does the government lie to us, we lie to ourselves, too. Have you already forgotten about swine flu pandemic? What could be the reason that for Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, European Union is a fascist organization? Or take for example so-called global warming. What ever happened to global warming? Just think for a moment, first it was the greenhouse effect, then global warming, and finally climate change has become just another tax!

Emergency meetings in these days on markets and banks are still stuck in the same stage where central bankers and politicians are discussing over how to create out of nothing a few more trillions of Euros and Federal Reserve banknotes for the rotten system at the taxpayer's expense. I don't have to put a lot of effort into making their ideas seem ridiculous; according to figures released in the BIS September 2009 quarterly review, the total notional amount of outstanding financial derivatives in all categories rose 15% to impressive amount of epic proportions, $596 TRILLION as of December 2007.

According to EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso—who is known for spending his holidays aboard the yacht of the wealthiest man in Greece, Spiro Latsis, and who organized a bailout package for the latter's bankrupt bank—the European nations are threatened with an Apocalypse, civil wars, and military coups in several states, if the funds available for further bailout packages are not increased, and if citizens keep on demanding the social benefits they are used to. All euros are backed by the European Central Bank, but ECB is an idea backed only by confidence. Who will prevent apocalypse in bankrupt Europe?


The secret to the amazing increases in productivity in the American economy is finally out. Companies in the US are not hiring full-time workers. They are gambling that they can keep their margins high by keeping a vast part of the workforce, perhaps millions of people, unemployed. Unemployed people, it turns out to no one’s surprise, will work for very little. And, they will work without benefits, without job security, and without complaint.

In less than six months since its introduction, Ron Paul's bill HR 1207 to audit the Federal Reserve has caused emergency on high positions.