By Nick Egnatz. Introduction. The author is a former small businessman who has spent the last decade as an activist for peace and social justice. About five years ago he discovered that our monetary system is not what the people had been led to believe it is. More specifically: 1. The Federal Reserve System is … Continue reading “Surgery Prescribed for the Debt Money Disease: Fighting for the NEED Act”
Author: Govert Schuller
The NEED Act Erases Big Steel’s Claimed Need for Worker Concessions
What do infrastructure repair and a looming steel strike have in common? The American Society of Civil Engineers 2013 Infrastructure Report Card says $3.6 trillion needs to be spent by 2020 to bring our infrastructure up to modern standards. Congress has been quite clear that it will neither increase taxes or borrowing to accomplish this. … Continue reading “The NEED Act Erases Big Steel’s Claimed Need for Worker Concessions”
An Open Letter to Greens & Progressives
By Nick Egnatz There is certainly much to like in Jill Stein’s Power to the People Plan, yet it will fail to create the “deep system change” it calls for unless it endorses Monetary Reform (Greening the Dollar) in the Green Party Platform, voted on and adopted by the Green Party National Committee. “Deep … Continue reading “An Open Letter to Greens & Progressives”
Celebrating 10 Years of Resistance to Banker’s Wars
By Nick Egnatz Celebrating 10 Years of Resistance to Banker’s Wars Saturday, August 1, 2015 Hwy of the Flags Vets Memorial SE Corner Indianapolis Blvd & Ridge Rd, Highland, Indiana 46322 Noon-1PM Vigil Party to follow at 8340 Baring Ave, Munster, Indiana 46321 Food and beverages will be served. Not sure on the menu yet. … Continue reading “Celebrating 10 Years of Resistance to Banker’s Wars”
By Way of Husserl: A Phenomenology of Duchampian Art
Introduction. This paper is about the French painter and conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp, who created a series of very influential conceptual event-objects. In the beginning of the twentieth century he shocked and revolutionized the artworld. He did so with art objects trying to capture the phenomenon of motion and with already fabricated, found objects, called … Continue reading “By Way of Husserl: A Phenomenology of Duchampian Art”
Linking Social Justice to Monetary Reform
By Nick Egnatz. PDF version; Spanish translation in anthology; Portuguese translation at AMI. Social Justice is the struggle to make society work for the vast majority of people. The comprehensive monetary reform of the NEED Act is the necessary first step on the path to realization of this struggle. The following ten points are the … Continue reading “Linking Social Justice to Monetary Reform”
The Tibet Images of the Theosophists
Dreamworld Tibet: Western Illusions Martin Brauen (Trumbull, CT, USA: Weatherhill, 2004) First published as Traumwelt Tibet: Westliche Trugbilder (Berne: Verlag Paul Haupt, 2000) Part 2 In Search of ‘Shambha-la’ and the Aryan Lamas: The Tibet images of the theosophists, occultists, Nazis and neo-Nazis (excerpt; pp. 24-37; pagination in square brackets; footnotes and relevant bibliography … Continue reading “The Tibet Images of the Theosophists”
Bilderberg 2014: A Secretive Elite Wonders if Privacy Exists
If you are interested in studying parapolitics–i.e. the practice of attaining political ends through secrecy and covert operations by intelligence agencies, think tanks and private networks (Scott)–there might be no better group to look into as the “Bilderberg”, the annual three-day conference in which the cream of the crop of the Atlantic power elite … Continue reading “Bilderberg 2014: A Secretive Elite Wonders if Privacy Exists”
Fountain and Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp: What was that all about?
Introduction This essay will try to formulate a coherent statement about the connection between two influential ‘conceptual event-objects’ created by the French avant-garde painter and conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). The two items under discussion are Fountain (1917; Fig. 1) and Large Glass (1913-1925; Fig. 2). Maybe to call them provisionally ‘conceptual event-objects’ might be … Continue reading “Fountain and Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp: What was that all about?”
Entertaining, Type-II Error-prone, Axiomatic Skepticism: An Incomplete Form of Systemic Doubt
Review of “The Perks of Paranoia” (Video; 2013; 3.30 mins) by Christopher Griffin. Though the creator of the entertaining video, Christopher Griffin, used the fruitful idea of “hyper-active threat detection” derived from evolutionary psychology to explain the tendency of some hyper-active brains to see conspiracies where there are none, he is only giving a part … Continue reading “Entertaining, Type-II Error-prone, Axiomatic Skepticism: An Incomplete Form of Systemic Doubt”