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Fourth Corner Exchange Inc. Create your money. YES! Magazine Theme Guide :: The New Economy. Regional Economic Communities - Grok theory. The Grok:A user-emitted secured interest-free complementary currency with demurrage. Let's look at that bit by bit: user-emitted There are only two basic ways for any currency to appear in circulation: The currency users issue (emit) it themselves as required (Grok, LETS etc.); A currency issuing authority emits it (Dollar, Euro, Pound etc.). In the former case the question of how the emitted currency can come into the possession of its users cannot arise, since they emit it themselves. In the latter case it by nature must arise.

Again, there are two basic ways to answer this follow-on question: Money being loaned into circulation as debt, normally with interest; Money creation being implemented as a public service, e.g. governments spending new money into circulation debt-free via public expenditure. In two of these three paradigms (user-emitted and public service) we have currency which is not debt and can be interest-free. Is the Grok actually a mutual credit system? Yes and No.

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How to Create a Community Currency using Silver Barters - bartercoins. On The Money: How to design successful Community Currencies : DGC Blog. Resources for Community Currency Activists. Direct link to the book... The War on Freedom This book, on many levels, is a miracle, not unlike the mysterious process of Birth, and revives our collective aspirations for Hope, Peace, Justice, Joy and Life to prevail against those in power who scream for War. Piercing the smoke and mirrors of propaganda, misinformation, the largest psychological “Special Operation” ever pulled on humanity, the book calmly, carefully, meticulously examines the facts, the evidence of the crime of the century, and documents the clear need for a real, open, public inquiry of 9-11.

Much of the C.I.A.’s budget is devoted to controlling the public mind, for there is no greater threat, today, to the powers that be, than an informed American public. Enormous resources have been squandered to distract, mislead, deflect, frighten attention from a deep understanding of the events of September 11th, what actually happened, why it happened, who has benefited, and who is paying the price.