Tag: usury
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Dutch-based financial reformer Anthony Migchels returns to The Stark Truth. His blog is http://realcurrencies.wordpress.com/. (more…)
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Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya was born in New York City. (more…)
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June 18, 2013 Simon Lote
Selection by Lot in Florence
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The other major use of sortition practiced in the Italian city-states was the “scrutiny,” which to a greater or lesser extent governed Florentine political life for 300 years. Similar schemes were practiced in Orvieto, Siena, Pistoia, Perugia, and Lucca. The scrutiny was different than the brevia. Whereas the brevia used sortition to determine the composition of an electoral college, the scrutiny was an inversion of this, using voting first to create a short-list of acceptable candidates and then applying sortition in the final stage to draw at random a candidate from this pre-vetted pool.[1]
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June 11, 2013 Lord Byron
The Age of Bronze, 1823 (Excerpts)
XIV.
Alas, the country! How shall tongue or pen
Bewail her now uncountry gentlemen?
The last to bid the cry of warfare cease,
The first to make a malady of peace.
For what were all these country patriots born?
To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
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Robert Stark interviews interest-free currency activist Anthony Migchels. His website is Real Currencies.
Topics discussed include:
- The essence of capitalism (more…)
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Gottfried Feder
Manifesto for the Breaking of the Financial Slavery to Interest
Foreword by Rodney Martin
Translated with a Preface by Dr. Alexander Jacob.
(Uckfield, Sussex: Historical Review Press, 2012)This volume by Feder is the first of a series of small books by the important, albeit now obscure German campaigner against usury. (more…)
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Editor’s Note:
In commemoration of the death of Ezra Pound on November 1, 1972, we are reprinting chapter 7 of Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, published by Counter-Currents.
“A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.”—Ezra Pound[1]
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October 31, 2012 Ezra Pound
America, Roosevelt, & the Causes of the Present War
1944
The main events dealt with in this pamphlet are:
(1) The suppression of the paper-money issue in Pennsylvania, A.D. 1750. (more…)
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Counter-Currents has republished four of Ezra Pound’s works on economics. These texts were already available online. (more…)
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“The earth belongs to the living.”
— Thomas JeffersonDefinitions
Increment of association: Advantage men get from working together instead of each on his own, e.g., crew that can work a ship whereas the men separately couldn’t sail ships each on his own.
Cultural heritage: Increment of association with all past inventiveness, (more…)
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Editor’s Note:
Stan Hess’s “Eur Hour” will now appear on Counter-Currents Radio. Welcome, Stan!
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Editor’s Note:
T. S. Eliot was born on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. In honor of his birthday, we are publishing this essay by Kerry Bolton, the second and final part of which appears below.