Help create a symbol for peace and freedom here.
Update! — 2 peace-liberty organizations use logos with a similar theme — a natural? See their sources in the link above.
As the federal health care bill, like some gargantuan asphalt spreader, oozes its two-thousand pages of regulations over the health care industry, check out the contrast with physicians revolutionizing the system doctor by doctor, in the video below. Here is hope that the health care industry can recover from viral bureaucracy, and Americans can become a healthy people again.
Physicians for Reform Forum – Brian Forrest, MD from Lawson For Congress on Vimeo.
Many Choosewings articles feature local action to help stop destructive government policies. Here’s one town that’s challenging the devastating cost of aggressive US wars:
Matt Ryan, the mayor of Binghamton, New York, is sick and tired of watching people in local communities “squabble over crumbs,” as he puts it, while so much local money pours into the Pentagon’s coffers and into America’s wars. He’s so sick and tired of it that, urged on by local residents, he’s decided to do something about it. He’s planning to be the first mayor in the United States to decorate the facade of City Hall with a large, digital “cost of war” counter, funded entirely by private contributions. To read the full article click HERE. And to see the astonishing costs rising every second, view a digital cost of war counter HERE.
“The European Union and the United States should consider the successful freedom model of Swiss confederation government rather than the failed top down examples of other nations and empires. Few would question that Switzerland is the most secure, stable, and freedom-oriented nation in the world but it is time to ask what is so unique about the Swiss…” to read the rest of this article, click here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/holland/holland14.1.html
Photo by Neil Meyerhoff
How many of you can grow your own food, purify water, create your own job to earn a living? How many understand economics, or keeping your savings secure? How many understand why life is so tough today? After generations of capable Americans built a prosperous economy, why did people become helpless and unable to manage? How can we regain the knowledge and skills for independence and prosperity once common in America?
silver peace dollar
Most people don’t know that in 1933, FDR made it illegal for citizens to use gold money instead of paper; and in 1971 Nixon ended the gold-backed dollar, leaving us only faith-based currency. Every president since then betrayed us, devaluing the dollar through inflation . With dollars buying less, families needed more than one wage earner and still couldn’t keep up. Most went into debt.
To see how much our government has robbed us, today you’d have to pay over $18 to buy ONE silver dollar that once exchanged evenly with a paper dollar. A 1 0z. gold coin once exchanged evenly with a » Read more: #1 lesson in US Schools: Dependency
Bernard Lietaer studied world-wide complimentary currencies and found they st
rengthen communities and provide a buffer to the vacillations of official currencies.
People naturally develop barter and trade when times are tough, and alternate currencies often make the difference between ruin and success. In this article, he tells of the fureai kippu system in Japan which provides elder care to cover gaps in the national care system. A survey of elders showed near-universal preference for the time-based fureai kippu care to the yen-based national care. In the time based care, relationships of provider-elder is more positive, and the provider can use the time credits to insure his/her own care in elder years — or even transfer the credits to an older family member or friend.
Another system mentioned is in Bali, where an age-old time currency has built a society of strong » Read more: Lietaer shows local currencies improve community spirit