Ending Banks' Control of the Economy
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HELSINKI TIMES BUSINESS 24 FEBRUARY – 2 MARCH 2011 9 pends on whether or not we can collect the 5,000 sup- porter cards in one year – Ending banks’ control 365 days. We started in July last summer. To register a new party, you have to get 5,000 cards signed. It has of the economy to be a physical piece of pa- per with a specifi c weight – INTEGRATION 120 grammes/m2 – and size A new movement wants to end private banks’ control of money cre- A6L. Then you can send them to the Department of Jus- ation, circulation and their control of the economy as a whole. tice and they register you as a new political party (laughs) – it’s like the horse and bug- TANIA ANDERSON money. Then we have reces- state wouldn’t have to borrow gy times! It should just be a HELSINKI TIMES sions and big public defi cits, money, tax or collected fees! “click” away. Our people can and then we need to cut ser- It could just create the money, however be found among COUNTRIES and people alike vices and close schools and issue it and spend it. the candidates of other par- paddle in an ever-spiralling make things lousy. People ties in the 2011 elections – whirlpool of debt, resolved to don’t know what the banks Q: What is the main opposi- mainly in Piraattipuolue (the get through it as unscathed are doing. People think that tion that Talousdemokratia Pirate Party) and Muutos as possible without ever se- the banks just lend other faces in Finland? (Change). Job hunting seminars riously embracing the pos- people’s money. They don’t A: The “bankers’ party” is sibility of another reality. know that banks issue com- the main opposition because Q: How do you see Talous- 2 March at 14-16 One man in Finland is strug- pletely new money. Banks the bankers will protect demokratia’s future? Tony Eichholz workshop: Pimp my CV gling to put forward this oth- have a right to create it out their privilege. They have A: As every country gets Maximum 12 participants. Bring your CV along to have an expert comment and er reality to the nation. Lars of nothing! I suppose the this tremendous power to is- deeper and deeper in debt, give advice on how to improve your it. Österman, an economics main problem is the indif- sue money – it’s such a pow- I think there will be a social Register by 1 March. teacher at several vocational ference of the people. People er that they won’t easily give demand for change and we colleges, is setting up a new are indifferent, people are it away to anyone and they can offer a solution. Every 29 March at 14-16 political party called Suomen not educated, they’re kept don’t even admit that they single party in Finland thinks What’s an open application? Talousdemokratia (Economic busy and lazy. You should have this power! So the bank- that to make money the state Mia Ingman fropm Arcada explains open application procedures for economists Democracy Finland), which somehow be able to get peo- ers will back and give money has to borrow money, col- and job seekers with a technical degree. proposes “a change in para- ple to march on the streets to politicians to help banks lect taxes or charge fees. But Register by 28 March. digm” for the monetary sys- like in Egypt or in Tunis. It’s protect their privilege. this is not sustainable. It will tem – and, indeed, for life as very hard to get Finns out on lead to a fi nancial crash and 14 April at 14-16 we know it. the streets. Q: Will Talousdemokratia people will suffer. So Talous- Tony Eichholz lecture: The next step - job interview be running in the upcoming demokratia is a solution for How do you prepare for a job interview? Eichholz gives useful advice. Q: How did the idea of cre- Q: What economic and po- elections in April? any country anywhere who Register by 13 April ating a new political party litical reforms does Talous- A: It’s too soon, as our own wants to prevent this crash occur? demokratia suggest? party. Perhaps in 2015. It de- from happening. Hygiene profi ciency test A: After reading many books A: We need to get a debate go- on the subject, I learnt that ing: Is it right that the state – 19 March at 10 the problems we have with the people – has to bow down Do the Hygiene profi ciency test public fi nance are just policy. and borrow money created Come and do the hygiene profi ciency test with Therese Meriheinä, We really don’t have to have out of nothing from private a certifi ed Profi ciency Examiner. Fee 20€ to be paid on the spot. these problems. It’s a poli- banks? To quote Damon Vra- MOILANEN LAURI Register by 18 March. cy! A deliberate policy. It was bel, “This is the civil rights is- quite shocking to realise that sue of the 21st century”! The Culture programmes we live in a world where some state needs to take back the people deliberately want it power to issue money. They 6 April at 16:30-18 to be this way and that they can control the level of mon- Culture on your way home are in power. I noticed that ey through spending and Interview with the author Monika Fagerholm by Hufvudstadsbladet’s Philip Teir. there was nothing written taxation. Our party also ad- Monika Fagerholm is a Finland-Swedish author who has published several novels. She in Finnish about these things vocates the “basic income” received the Runeberg Award in 1994 and the Swedish August prize in 2005. Come and so I started a blog, Suomen programme. The basic in- learn more about the author and her literary work. Languages: English and Swedish. Talousdemokraattinen Puol- come would be paid by the Register by 4 April. ue. The blog attracted a lot of state to everyone. Some peo- people and we shared ideas. ple think that this would 12 April at 17 In 2009, we got a small group make people lazy. It’s a fl aw City Tour around Tölö bay together and decided to form in the thinking if you always Stefan Johansson (SFP), member of Helsinki City committee of the City Planning, an association, Suomen expect everyone to run like will take you on a tour around the Tölö bay. Helsinki has many plans for the area Talousdemokratia ry. I had hell in the hamster’s wheel. and it will undergo many changes in the future. Languages: English and Swedish. this vision that it should be The basic income would Register by 10 April. a political party so that it mean fewer social problems, would be noticed. When you less shop-lifting, less vio- 4 May at 14 read about the Money Re- lence, fewer alcohol-related Exkursion till Ateneums standardutställning form Party in the UK, the Ca- problems, less stress, fewer Luckan ordnar en guidad tur till Ateneums standardutsällning på lättförstådd nadian Action Party and the psychological problems. svenska. Luckan organises a guided tour in the standard exhibition in Ateneum. New Zealand Democrats for Lars Österman is the brains behind the new political party The guide will speak an easily understood Swedish. Social Credit, you realise that Q: How should Suomen Talousdemokratia (Economic Democracy Finland). Register by 27 April. there have been many similar money be created? Admission fee: 8€. Place: Ateneum, Brunnsgatan 2, Helsinki. www.ateneum.fi things happening around the A: It should be a sovereign world. I wanted to raise some state’s right to create mon- More info: Language courses attention to these things in ey. Not the private banks’. As http://talousdemokratia.blogspot.com Finland. to whether money should be Wednesdays at 14-16 www.talousdemokratia.fi 13, 20 and 27 April and 11, 18 and 25 May backed by something… There www.democrats.org.nz Q: What are the main prob- are people who are still total- Swedish language conversation course lems with the current eco- ly brainwashed by the gold Language teacher Reidar Wasenius off ers six lessons where participants get to nomic and political system? standard. They think that practice Swedish through conversation. The course is free-of-charge. A: The main issue is that Fin- every single cent not backed Register by 1 April and mention at which level you have been studying Swedish. land does not have the sov- by gold debases the value of ereign right to issue money. the currency and causes infl a- ARE YOU IN FINLAND TO All registrations to [email protected] or call 040-485 9636 It has to borrow it from tion and all of this nonsense. WORK OR STUDY? some bank. All of the money I don’t think so. If the state Are you looking for a job, study place, in circulation is somebody’s creates the money and peo- language course or a hobby? bank credit. And it will only ple work, creating value for We off er assistance. circulate as long as you still the money, there is nothing owe the bank something. wrong with giving the state’s INFORMATION When you have paid off your money for the value creat- ON ACCOMMODATION, loan, the money disappears. ed, is there? It can be backed Unless somebody else bor- by the workforce and skills FINNISH LESSONS rows money, the level of of the people and the nation.