----- Forwarded Message ----- From: AMI <[email protected]> To: AMI <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, 7 July 2013, 6:03 Subject: "Fourth" of July message Dear Friends, Each year we send out our Fourth of July message partly to remind everyone that from the beginning our nation has faced difficult challenges. Indeed just about all worthwhile reform will appear, and be difficult to achieve. But is this a reason to cower back from working for real and lasting change? Just the opposite! The process of being human requires doing the right thing. You are invited to join the American Monetary Institute in this effort. Please do recirculate and forward this message to your email contacts if you wish. A July 4th message to friends of the American Monetary Institute, Dear Fellow Americans, and friends around the Earth, This 4th of July, as we have proudly celebrated our declaration of independence from the tyranny of a mad Brit King, lets remember the victory a small group of dedicated, courageous men and women achieved against the world's most powerful military of their time. It was a victory that appeared extremely improbable at best, as they pledged their lives and fortunes to fight for its success. And as events and battles were fought, the possibility of a favorable outcome grew even smaller. But at the right moment, help from France turned the tide and the British were defeated. Defeated militarily, but not monetarily. For soon after the Constitution was ratified, in 1791 the 1st Bank of the United States, a privately owned and privately controlled central bank was put through Congress by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, modeled on the private Bank of England. The gang around that bank were more dangerous than King George the 3rd; and the Hamilton people thereby insinuated into the New World forces representing the most evolved secular form that evil had attained in the Old World. Thanks a lot Hamilton! (Folks all it takes to screw up our nation and end up with what we have now, is to follow and promote Hamilton's views.) Jefferson fought the bank, helping to bring it down and Burr killed Hamilton over public insults; but using bank debt for money had gained a foothold in America. It's still here, in control of our monetary system. It's the root cause of most of our social and economic problems, and regularly plunges us into a crisis! Whenever it caused crises in the past, our government has had to come to the rescue. It's latest atrocity is the current monetary, banking and economic crisis, that has brought pain and hardship to millions of our people! It still threatens to take the entire world economy down into depression, and destroy the lives of billions of people in the process. Isn't this the right time to work to end it? This crisis gives us our only opportunity to reform our monetary system and to eliminate using debt as the basis for money. To absolutely eliminate the privilege banks have to create our money supply when they extend loans,  That is the key. Its easy to do that with simple bank accounting rule changes, studied and known for decades. Those trying to block reform - for whatever sick reason always assert that credit/debt money is a beneficial thing, and necessary. It is not! Today they pretend to agree with reform, but argue it would be too difficult to achieve. Don't fall for that! The most recent example of the needed changes were formulated by Congressman Dennis Kucinich in 2011 when he introduced into the 112th Congress - the N.E.E.D. Act, the National Emergency Employment  Defense Act; HR 2990. This was derived from the American Monetary Act of our Institute. See a description, and videos at http://www.monetary.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/HR-2990.pdf The American Monetary Institute has published its research results in the book The Lost Science of Money (drawn from a study of over 800 monetary books and sources). The first 23 chapters focus on the monetary case studies from Aristotle forward. Then Chapter 24 summarizes what those studies teach us and how that can be applied to solving today's dilemma. The American Monetary Act puts that plan into legislative form. See http://www.monetary.org  HR2990 fundamentally reforms the CREDIT/DEBT system now wrecking our nation, replacing it with a government MONEY system. It will solve about 80% of the problems our country faces. The Green Party decided to support the key elements of that Act in recent years. You see, just about ALL the reforms the Greens want are both worthy, AND difficult to accomplish - so most Greens are not so easily scared away by BS about "you'll never succeed!" How does HR 2990 work? The Federal Reserve becomes incorporated into the U.S. Treasury. Banks no longer have the accounting privilege of creating our money supply. All their previously issued credit is converted into U.S. Money through an elegant and gentle accounting change, which has been described as brilliant by a former officer of the NY Fed. The banks are held accountable for this conversion. New money is then introduced by the government spending it into circulation for infrastructure, starting with the $2.2 trillion the engineers tell us is needed to properly maintain our infrastructure over the next 5 years.Infrastructure will include the necessary human infrastructure of health care and education. Banks are encouraged to continue lending as profit making companies, but are no longer allowed to create our money supply through their loan making activity. Quite simply, they have to loan money, not debt. Thus, The American Monetary Act nationalizes the money system, not the banking system.  Banking is not a proper function of government, at any level, but providing the nation’s money supply is a key function of government. No one else can do it properly. Any questions - don't hesitate to ask. Really. Despite modern day prejudice against government, most people are surprised to learn that history shows government has a far superior record in controlling the money system than private controllers have. And yes that includes the continental currency, the Greenbacks and even the German Hyperinflation; which by the way took place under a completely privatized German central bank! (See The Lost Science of Money book) Each September (19th - 22nd in 2013) we hold a monetary reform conference at University Center in Chicago where advanced monetary researchers and activists present talks on monetary reform. We will extend the June 21st Discount ($285 instead of $395) for registrations made in the next few days by telephone to 224-805-2200. Take a look at the speakers brochure now at http://www.monetary.org/2013schedule.html I mentioned that the French played a key part at the start of our nation. Today their gift to us of the Statue of Liberty still plays a crucial role for us and for humanity. The liberty she symbolizes does not exist in our nation. It never really has. The Statue has always been a symbol encouraging us towards the possible. I love that statue and when I stayed in New York, I often anchored under it, and some of my fondest memories are of those times as the sun set over New Jersey, still reflecting off the Twin Towers; or anchored under the spectacular fireworks display there during the bicentennial celebration. Friends, we are all under pressure in this environment. Stress will cause illness unless you act. Action will destroy fear! Good action towards truth will change the world. Join with us to understand the nature of our money system, how it should be structured and how we citizens can effect such change. Thats what our country's founders would be doing now if they were of our time. Thats what men and women of good will, can be doing now! Please support The American Monetary Institute, organized in 1996 as a publicly supported charitable trust and help us in our educational work with our fellow Americans on this crucial problem. Thanks for your attention. I hope you have had a good Fourth of July! Stephen Zarlenga AMI "Over time, whoever controls the money system controls the nation." Stephen Zarlenga Director American Monetary Institute To receive notices for free AMI materials, sign up for our email list at www.monetary.org (224) 805-2200