The Cash in Your Pocket. Or not.

The cash in your pocket.

Or not.

It looks as though I didn't finish this up:

The careful observer will have noted that I've been very slow in offering the fifth and final part on the five mechanisms* that capitalism uses to immiserate all of us (the Capitalists and their Praetorian Guard included) and to turn the planet into a toilet.

I had hoped to type a preliminary piece in drudgery**, but the misery and drudgery associated with this 'pandemic' has got in the way.

Grrr!

* The five TRIP-Up mechanisms (Theft, Rent, Interest, Profits-to-shareholders and Unequal-pay for work).

**As pictured, for example.

So: Unequal-pay-for-work arises, it seems, from the Theft of Position.

Back in Tudor England, low-income aristocrats would 'petition' Kings and Queens for preferement: to be granted Pensions to be allowed Monopolies over, say, Customs Duties, etc.

The granting of these Pensions always came with a kick-back to the King or Queen, of course, so the Petitioner, as one of the King or Queen's Praetorian Guard would have to squeeze us, the 88% for cash.

By taxing us.

Of course, the King's and Queens were, themselves, being squeezed for cash. Not only by the expenses of Monarchy (Swans for dinner, Wars against the French, Pardons from The Pope, etc) but, also, by the Usurers.

Now, at one time I believed that Feudalism was different from Capitalism.

I imagined that, in Feudal Times, the Then-Mafia (The Kings and Queens) used land as a means of getting more land (land means hay and oats, hay and oats means more war horses and Knights, etc).

But, now, I'm coming to the view that all that was secondary: that Feudalism was the servant of Capitalism.

In other words, those Mafia 'bosses', The Kings and Queens of Europe were the servants of Usury.

This is a thesis and one that I hope others will rebut, develop or confirm.

Thus, to take 1066 as a case in point.

It would seem that William of Normandy brought his Rouen Bankers with him.

Those Rouen Bankers seem to have been, prominently Jews (yes, not all Jews are Bankers and not all Bankers are Jews: no captious whingeing, please).

And, to my surprise, William's successful army didn't go straight on to lay siege to London (after suppressing Kent, in order, presumably to secure Dover?), but, rather, tracked clockwise around London a proto-M25, to Berkhamstead in Hertfordshire, from where he sent emissaries to negotiate with, perhaps?, the Bankers in The City of London.

Now, why?

It would seem that a cash economy - Capitalism (which is best defined at Theft + Usury) was, even then, the essence of the European Economy.

It would seem (and oh! for some good historians writing on this) that that essence was, very largely a slave trade: from northern Europe to the Islamic World, where the Ruling Mafiosi in Islam, paid Gold for Slaves: including Eunuchs to guard their Harems.

Such Slaves were purchased, in part, using Silver Pennies and, thus these two money flows, Silver and Gold, needed to be maintained, monitored and managed. And, for us, now, researched and understood.

As an adjunct, after some lobbying at his father's death-bed, William's youngest son, name now forgotten by me, was given, not England or Normandy, which had already been grabbed/allocated/bequeathed to his oldest two sons, but, rather seven thousand Pounds-worth of silver.

Which he, prudently, demanded, before his father passed on.

Now, even today, that seven thousand Pounds-worth of silver would be described as wodge!

And then . . .!

So, that's why there's no cash in your pocket, or do little.

Indeed, what appears to be so is fraudulent, devalued, devious, harmful rubbish:

A). You pay Rent, Interest and Profits to the 2%: the Uber Thieves, the Capitalist families

B). You *have* to pay Taxes, to Their Praetorian Guard, the 10% who have higher-than-average, higher-than-fair, higher-than-just or -justifiable incomes for doing work that often, oddly, start with the letter P: Prison Guards, the Police, Politicians, professions, generally, Professors, Popes, Prelates, Priests, Pimps generally, Publicists, all Parasites, etc.

C). While you, the 88% do the d-jobs: the dirty, dangerous, disagreeable, dispiriting, drudgery, deemed beneath the dignity of our highers and betters, the sin-mongers, they.

So you, the 88% get paid in debt-created, Fractional Reserve generated, Interest-bearing,
Non-reality electronic 'money', but not enough to live on (due to the Parasites' Rent, Interest, Profit, Tax, Rob-steal-murder actions.

And, even, the cash that you might get is no longer silver, gold or, even copper: those coins are now electroplated steel.

Get a magnet, try it.

Woe!

So, more TRIP-Up!

No more RIP-OFF!

No more Theft + Usury!

Ie, no more Capitalism.

True Socialism, True Democratic and True Co-operative Socialism instead!

By Tuesday!

Ie before Tuesday!

The best, for all,

For The Common Good,

John

Sorted!

Brutality

Rain in Littlehampton today. Good for the Allotments.

Day five hundred and sixty-four thousand, nine-hundred and thirty-four, or thereabouts if the lockdown, lockout, shut-out, shut-down , shunned as though infectious. For me.

This brainbashing assault, for me started on 21st October 1994, or thereabouts.

And it was voluntary.

I could have stayed in Canada.

I might have, after a contact extension that was offered, been given a full-time, permanent position with the Canadian Research Council in Canada, with all the catastrophic developments that ensued, but, rather, I chose, at the age of forty-three, to come back to an unemployed existence in England, to be closer to my estranged wife, to be closer to our kids and to become Prime Minister of the UK.

The latter is clearly a work in progress.

It had never occurred to me that I would be unemployed for long: something will turn up for me.

It didn't.

From then that six-hundred and whatever thousand years of being rejected as unsuited and unsuitable to be 'in community' has been my lot.

In truth, I had odds and ends of paid work, appropriate to a worked-class man, in a factory, in shops, trying to sell newspapers by phone, part-time in offices and, even, thanks-be one winter, being paid CDN$400 per time to write the five monthly magazine articles that, now, constitute the CCPA Reader on Co-operative Socialism (available as a PDF, for individual and/or group study work, in the papers' section at www.interestfreemoney.org).

But, in the end, the unemployment did for my second marriage: even my new sisters- and brother-in-laws excluded me from their homes.

Apparently because, 'I wasn't trying hard enough to find a job.'

They and their children, eventually, could, so why not me.

Well, I had a PhD.

And, likely, a secret services' file for being a socialist.

Who knows?

So here I am again, lonely, bereft and with no intimate beloved. And me, with all the love *I have to give*.

And all the intimate love I *need* to share.

Ah well.

It's stopped raining now.

And that's the ray of sunshine.

Perhaps our Allotment taters *will* start to grow: all my fault, the rain, 'cos I went up to our Allotment yesterday, as posted to water the new fruit bushes and trees: all doing well!

And, had it not been raining, I would have gone up again, to scythe down the excellent winter green manure plants, as a first crop prior to putting in frost-intolersnt veg (beans etc).

Of course, I had been wondering how I could get the bean poles into the bone-dry no-dig soil.

Had been . . .

Best and love to you all!

And to all, in All, for all,

John

The next sequence has been planned.

Hence the ousting of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell.

It is remarkable, not?, that a perceived anti-Corbyn candidate was elected by 56% of The Labour Party membership, when only three years' ago, Jeremy was re-elected Leader with an increased vote.

One might say that the sequence described below, with Elaine's helpful additional was applied (not 'applied' but 'was applied').

Ie:

Depress, Divide, Rule, Rob, and, now, through 'voluntary' resignations, Elaine's Silent Genocide.

Watch out for the frighteners being put on anyone that even mentions the leaked, unredacted, internal Labour Party report on factionalism and the *deliberate* work to ensure Labour Party defeats at the 2017 and 2019 General Elections by an internal faction of Labour Party 'employees' infiltrated as Trojan Horses by the NWO/Zionist darkness.

Google:

Peter Mandleson Geoffrey Robinson Mortgage

Ps Mortgage = The Grip of Death = Capitalism = Theft + Murder.

And does anyone doubt the cause of the attempted murder of Jesus.

Who was recovering in Jerusalem two millennia ago.

And of JFK, Robert Kennedy, Steve Biko, MLK, etc, etc nameless pacifists, democratic and Co-operative Socialists throughout the ages.

If people don't act now, individually, then socially, then collectively, our children, grandchildren, nephews, neices, elders, aunts, uncles, neighbours and, then, us, with be part of the *Silent* Genocide referred to above.

Its next move will be to impose 'Vaccinated-and-Compliant' Mobility-permitted, Chipped ID cards.

And, then Chipped RFID inserts.

Crazy?

Not!

keeping Going

You may reasonably ask, 'Why am I writing this piece?'

Well, the short answer is that, as with everything I write, I'm trying to help. Not harm.

So I never write fiction, with the risk of an unpleasant surprise at each page turn.

Nor am I writing as an act of self-indulgence. Rather I'm either writing to analyse a circumstance or, as best I can, report a circumstance.

So, what am I saying this time?

Put briefly: this pandemic of isolation and boredom will have, is having, a deeply depressive effect on the entire population.

I know this because for twenty-two years of my working-age life, I was unemployed. And for the past four years of my retirement life I've had to live a solitary, and, increasingly lonely life.

And that has driven me, day by day, closer to suicide.

Not that I have ever attempted suicide, nor do I expect to do so, despite my scientists' knowledge that that possibility exists.

No, my writing this is an attempt to offer my survival-strategy experience.

It, of course, is unique to me, because we are all a different mix of four personality types and, along with that mix, each of us is a blend of extravert (social-needing) and intravert (solitary-needing) personalities as well (that gives us eight possibilities: the Meyers-Briggs Personality typing even doubles this up to sixteen personality possibilities, but I consider that the science of this is still in its infancy, so let's just say that, despite our common needs, our detailed personalities are all different).

So, how have I survived twent-six years of loneliness and inactivity? To say nothing of the shunning that the unemployed and other low-income people face. And, yes, other forms of shunning, too.

Again, put briefly, my security has come from two sources: a) I know that this suffering is deliberate, it's a necessary, designed-in, monitored and managed part of capitalism; capitalism needs unemployment as 'A price worth paying' in order to keep those who are employed in paid-work 'under the thumb', or 'under The Iron Heel'.

Secondly, b), I know that 'better is possible'.

Because I'm a Quaker and a Christian (defined on my terms), I rejoice in the possibility of 'Thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven'.

But we are not going to jump, I don't think, in one bound from The Kingdom of The Devil, as capitalusm is properly termed, into The Kingdom of Heaven.

Rather, we can move from capitalism to a better place by implementing a better alternative: the plan I call 'Co-operative Socialism'.

Now, that will elicit push-back.

Not only from the fans of capitalism, but, as Edward Pease' 'History of The Fabian Society' points out, from people who also call themselves socialists.

It's odd that the human tendence to say, 'Yes, but' is so ardently developed among socialists. So much so that the frustration of eternal 'Yes, but' or, even, 'No, and' leads to Authoritarianism and, so, back to that same Kingdom of The Devil.

So, for me, my survival strategy, during nearly thirty years as a shut-out, rather than shut-in, has been to always, every day, promote that better alternative.

Hard as that has been.

But necessary!

All Profits Are Theft

And, thus, we come to the letter P in the TRIP-Up aide-memoire for the five mechanisms that capitalism uses to kill people and trash the planet.

Recall that T stood for Theft (of economic resources), R for Rent (from the Theft of the Land), I for Interest on debt (from the Theft of The Law) and, now, P.

P stands for Profit: sometimes referred to a Dividends* since Dividends are Profits distributed to Capitalists-as-shareholders ie Thieves.

*(as in 'Capitalism RIP' = Capitalism Rent, Interest, Profits, Rest in Peace or 'Let's get RID of Capitalism = Rent, Interest, Dividends).

So, if the Theft of land provides Rent and of The Law, Interest, what is stolen to provide Profits?

I suggest that the answer is the smorgasborg called (by The Theives) 'Intellectual Property': things like Patents, Business 'Know-how', Proprietry Knowledge, etc.

And now Data on Consumers . . .

This, last, observation related to a succession that I've mused on before:

Data - Information - Knowledge - Understanding - Wisdom

As in:

   Drowning in Data

   Inundated with Information

   Bereft of Knowledge

   Desperate for Understanding

   Seeking Wisdom

So, capitalism allows the Theft of what God knows and which we seek to dis-cover: Truth.

That intangible (not holdable) reality, Truth, is appropriated (Stolen) by capitalism in order to generate Profits: to the inevitable weakening of The Common Good.

Even to the bizarre extent that life-forms can be Patented (for Profit).

Bizarre!

In a true Co-operative Commonweal, all knowledge is freely given: just as was the case when I was a research chemist and (by invitation: what an honour!) to be a peer-review referee for academic papers submitted to the various Journals of The Chemical Society (later, in a dispicable despoilation, renamed as 'The Royal Society of Chemistry': yuk! A clear case of the words written by the 'winning' side: grrr!).

So, next, the 'Up' part of TRIP-Up.

No more TRIP-Up!

Love, instead!

Human Needs: Weal-th not Ill-th!

Our friend, Gregory Mocsary asked me to explain why capitalism produces poverty.

Let me start by asking if we agree that poverty exists?

And, if a reasonable definition of poverty is that condition when an human being's needs are not met.

Not necessarily wants and dreams but needs.

I've listed, from the Four Needs essay (in the papers' section at www.interestfreemoney.org) what those four need sets are:

Two 'Selfish Need' sets:

   1) Clean air and water and a sufficiency of nutricious, varied food, and,

   2) Appropriate, warm clothing and shelter.

And two 'Social Need' sets:

   3) Our 'Intimacy Needs': Love, Sex, Romance, Friendship. And,

   4) A constructive activity.

The two terms, 'Selfish Needs' and 'Social Needs' warrant a few comments before we move on.

First, I use the term 'Selfish Needs' to denote the physical needs to sustain 'the self': the individual body in wihich the individual resides.

It is a challenging term, but one that bears the point which will follow after a note on the other term, 'Social Needs'.

Clearly, our 'Intimacy Needs' are social, but the 'Constructive Needs' at first sight, doesn't appear to be, necessarily, 'Social'. I suggest, however, that all Activities, be they Constructive or Destructive, are Social in that they all occur in a context that is, inherently, environmental and, that, that environment, again inherently, contains other individual humans and other individual life forms (to say nothing of The Creator present within The Creation, if we are to include matters religious and spiritual).

Now, to add that linking comment: at first sight, and if we glance at Maslow's Hierarchical Theory of Needs (or of Motivations, as sometimes so-termed), it might be thought that we 'need' to be Selfish (in order to survive) *before* we are social. I suggest not so.

To survive, or better yet, to be fully human, we must have all our needs met, or, to repeat, we live in poverty. 'And are that poverty', to repeat the observation of others.

So, since 'No-one loves a selfish git', we *all* must willfully, put our Social-selves as more important than our Selfish-selves.

And, hence, my abhorrence of, and repudiation of, capitalism.

Now, all the analytical-above collapses into two actual observations: first, as the evidence in 'The Spirit Level' unequivocally demonstrates, our needs are only met when we live in a state of economic equality: specifically, income equality.

Secondly, that, as above, all Wellness is Socially-produced: our needs are met in society, in other words, 'All Wealth is created socially', as is All Ill-th (see the science of epidemiology, upon which 'The Spirit Level' is based, for the truth of that: Spanish Flu, War, the Ecocide, SARS, Foot-and-Mouth Disease, Corona Virus, Crime, Child Sexual Abuse, Poverty, etc, etc).

So, to round this out, one diagram from 'The Spirit Level'.

This shows that human economic activity, or 'Wealth Production', even if measured only crudely by Gross Domestic Product, must occur for Human Needs to be met: foid must be grown or gathered, shelter must be built and furnished and so on.

But, once a sufficient amount to human activity ('Wealth Creation') occurs, more activity contributes nothing to human well-being (as this diagram shows). Rather, it adds only to ill-th: to the generation of ecological pollution (as we already observe) and to the paramount anti-social ill-th, economic inequality: specifically, income inequality.

Hence the plan for wellness: the plan for true Co-operative Socialism.

Or, put plainly, Socialism.

So, Gregory, the present economic system, capitalism produces ill-th, including poverty *for us all*.

As Robert Owen, 'The Father of Co-operation', observed and demonstrated practically, even if paternally, at New Lanark: man's condition is created for him. The task is for man to create his condition by him.

Or us.

Co-operatively!

Socially!

Money, banking and finance, Income policy, too.

Simon Andrew kindly asked about first steps for an incoming Labour and Co-operative Socialist government.

Here's what I offered:

Money, banking and finance and incomes policy are two parts of the plan for Co-operative Socialism.

So, when a Party, or Parties, are elected to implement that plan, three things need to happen.

First exchange controls need to be reintroduced.

Secondly, the law permitting usury needs to be repealed and replaced by one that transforms the money, banking and finance system into one that is interest- and charges-free and which operates on a non-profit motive basis.

The best model for that is the Public Library, Public Education and NHS model: ie, Community-provided, Free-at-the-point-of-use.

The third immediate action is to institute a process whereby, at the end of the first year (at the very latest) of the new Government's term of office a guaranteed, not-mean(s) tested 'Living Income for Everyone' will be introduced.

These steps are outlined in the CCPA Reader on Co-operative Socialism, available as a free PDF in the papers' section at www.interestfreemoney.org