Thrive Page #13

We need to:
stop any more bailouts of banks or corporations,

dismantle the Federal Reserve,

withdraw taxpayer support from central banking agencies,

such as the IMF and World Bank

allow development of alternative currencies and independent banks

and refuse international taxes.

My main emphasis is on solutions in the U.S., because that's what I know best,

But just as the predicament is global,

so are the principles on which the solution strategies are based.

Here is some tactical actions, that we can take as individuals,

that don't take much time or money, to make a real difference right now.

What can I do?

Get informed, speak up and connect with others!

Bank locally!

When we move our money out of the big centralised banks,

and it's in locally owned banks and credit unions,

we defund the problem and fund the solutions, all in one move.

Buy and invest responsibly!

Every dollar you spend sends a message.

Join the movement to audit and end the Federal Reserve!

It's robbing us!

Join the coalition to keep the Internet fair and open!

Don't let anybody take control over!

Support independent media!

Get your information from diverse sources

and think about, who's funding the news you get!

Support organic non-GMO farming!

Join movement to bring about honest elections,

including traceable paper ballot

and campaign finance reform.

Congress can only be accountable to us,

when corporations stop funding them.

Advocate for renewable and new energy technology!

Bring the conversation about free energy out into the open!

It will transform the power dynamic on this planet

faster than anything in recorded history.

Sign up for critical mass action!

It's a strategy to leverage our power

by waiting until a huge number of us agrees to participate,

before taking an action.

Imagine a million of us acting in unison!

Then again, imagine even more!

I've been inspired by how many grounded solutions

and real life problem solvers there actually are.

Aqeela Sherills is one person whose work has specially touched me.

He helped broker a gang truce between the Crips and Bloods.

One of the things that we discovered in the process of waging peace in the neighborhood,

was that conflict is healthy.

It's unresolved conflict, that actually leads to violence.

When we first launched a peace treaty,

we had a lot of success in the first year.

Gang homicides dropped 44% in the neighborhood based upon our actions.

Aqeela describes what happened,

when two rival gang leaders finally met after the truce.

The brother came and told me, "I know you got some hard feelings for me

maybe I got some hard feelings for you,

but because of this truce,

I'm willing to put all of that to aside. "

And he stuck out his hand

he hugged him and he said he closed his eyes,

because he was prearing for a sharp knife to enter his back.

He was waiting for a bullet,

to be shot in his stomach.

But after a few moments

he realized that ...

it was genuine.

I belive that having a clear picture of our potential,

is as important as uncovering, what stands in its way.

So I want to take you to a possible world of the future.

It's a world the elite would have you believe is an impossible pipedream,

but I'm convinced it's a world that is utterly within our grasp.

We can create a world where people can thrive

where we can feel safe and secure.

The air, water and food are clean.

A world were communities are capable producing their own energy and food

and trade is open and fair.

Rather than focusing on punishment,

instead justice restores lives and losses.

Insurance pays doctors to keep people healthy.

Education is voluntary,

serving the needs of individuals instead of corporations.

We get honest feedback from independent media.

There are no subsidies and no bailouts.

Imagine that with an honest money system, little or no taxes

and low electric or fuel bills,

you would have the money to pay off your home and car

and be free to save and invest.

You would enjoy more wealth, freedom and security.

All while working the same or propably less.

Let's say I started a mutual fund for my neighborhood

and all the neighbors had stock.

And, so they heal the environment and their stock went up in value.

So instead of getting drained financially, they're making money.

They're making money from things that make their kids safer

and prevent the planet from dying.

So you kind of have one's cake and eat it too.

Instead of working all week to make money

and then coming home and trying to save the planet on the weekends,

you can spend Monday to Friday making money saving the planet

and then go to the beach.

This vision of a thriving world,

is based on what could be called the liberty perspective.

There's a simple principle that underlies this approach:

of non-violation.

Nobody gets to violate you or your property

and you don't get to violate anyone else,

exept in genuine self defense.

This is the one rule I found, that every single person agrees with,

at least for themselves.

I believe that non-violation is the true north of humanity's moral compass

and our core navigating insight.

This insight can guide us and protect each and every individual

as we set up voluntary self-sustaining systems.

It is a way of living that I can stand for wholeheartedly and without reservation.

I've been profoundly influenced by the work of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises,

who developed a whole philosophy and an economic system,

based on the core ethic of non-aggression.

Motivated by having witnessed the ravages of communism and fascism in Europe,

he commited his life to finding a just way.

He recognised, that those systems

as well as socialism and even democracy,

wrongly assume, the rights of the collective, or the group

to be more important, than those of the individual.

I had always gone along with the view, that more people will thrive,

if we consider the group's needs above the individuals,

but when I took a closer look,

I found that doesn't really work that way.

In the name of what's best for the group,

governments have been responsible for most of the war,

death and destruction on the planet.

More than 200 million individuals were killed in the twentieth century alone.

So how would applying the principle of non-violation change this dynamic?

It would take us from incremental change of a fundamentally flawed system,

to a complete transformation,

where not just some, or even the majority,

but everyone could truly have the opportunity to thrive.

In order to impliment the principle of non-violation,

it makes sense to me to honestly re-examine our past,

because it doesn't work to try to build a healthy living system

on top of an unhealthy one.

We have to go back to the most fundamental acts of injustice,

upon which the country was founded.

In the seizure of the lands of the people

and the slaughter of their women and children,

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