... in R. Judah's opinion even the half against which he holds a pledge is also cancelled! But [if so,] what is the purpose of the pledge? — As a mere record of fact.3 R. Kahana was given money [in advance payment] for flax. subsequently flax appreciated, so he came before Rab. 'Deliver [the goods] to the value of the money you received,' said he to him; 'but as for the rest, it is a mere verbal...

... resentment against him? Since he took possession thereof, he has a monetary claim upon him! Hence it must certainly mean that he did not [first] take it from him. Which proves it.25 A certain man gave money for poppy seed. Subsequently poppy seed advanced in price, so he [the vendor] retracted and said, 'I have no poppy seed: take back your money.' But he would not take his money, and it was stolen. When...

... they came before Raba, he said he him: Since he said to you, 'Take back your money,' and you would not, not only is he not accounted a paid bailee.26  but he is not even a gratuitous bailee. Thereupon the Rabbis protested before Raba: But he [the vendor] would have had to submit to [the curse] 'He who punished'!27  — He replied: That is even so.28 R. Papi said: Rabina told me, 'One of...

... Tannaim respectively. I.e., to prove the fact of the debt — presumably this refers to a verbal loan. Though the Mishnah states that he who does not stand by his word will be punished, that is only when his word is substantiated by the payment of money, which, though not legally, is morally binding. But where no money has been paid, a transaction can be cancelled without any scruples. Lev. XIX. 36...

... cannot retract. Who is responsible for theft. And possibly he would not have submitted, in which case it was his money that was lost. He must either submit thereto, in which case he is free from further responsibility, or deliver the goods. [H] = cavern. This is told by R. Tabuth. He was the vendor referred to in the story of the poppy seed. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference Baba Mezi'a 49b...

... "No," I answered. "Then let me entrust this money to you," he replied, "as it is growing dark,"1  "The house lies before you." I replied; so he deposited it in the house, and it was stolen. When he came before Raba, he ruled: In every case of "The house lies before you," not only is one not a paid bailee,2  he is not even a gratuitous trustee.' Thereupon I observed to him,3  'But the...

... Rabbis protested to Raba: He would have to submit to [the curse] "He who punished";4  and he answered, "That is a pure fiction".'5 R. SIMEON SAID: HE WHO HAS THE MONEY IN HIS HAND HAS THE ADVANTAGE. It has been taught: R. Simeon said: When is that?6  If the vendor has both the money and the produce. But if the money is in the vendor's hand, and the goods in the vendee's, he [the vendee...

...] cannot retract, since the money is in his hand. [You say,] 'in his hand'!7  but it is in the vendor's! — Say then, because his money's worth is in his hand.8  But that is obvious!9  — Said Raba: The circumstances here are, e.g., where the vendee's loft was rented to the vendor.10  Now, why did the Rabbis institute meshikah? For fear lest he say to him, 'Your wheat was...

... burnt in the loft'.11  But here it is [already] in the vendee's ownership; should fire accidentally break out, he will take the trouble to save it — 12 A certain man gave money [in advance payment] for wine. Subsequently he learnt that one of the men of the Field-marshal13  Parzak intended to seize it — Thereupon he said to him, 'Return me my money:I do not want the wine' &mdash...

... stated: Rab said: We learnt, A sixth of the [true] purchase price. Samuel said: A sixth of the money [actually] paid was also taught. Now, if that which is worth six [ma'ahs] was sold for five or seven, all agree that we follow the purchase price.18  Wherein do they differ? If something worth five or seven [ma'ahs] was sold for six. According to Samuel, who maintained that we follow the money paid...

... a sixth on one side, it is fraud.22 We learnt: FRAUD IS CONSTITUTED BY [AN OVERCHARGE OF] FOUR SILVER [MA'AHS] IN TWENTY FOUR, WHICH IS A SELA', [HENCE] A SIXTH OF THE PURCHASE. Surely that means that one sold something worth twenty [ma'ahs] for twenty-four. which proves that a sixth of the money paid was also taught? No; It means that twenty-four [ma'ahs] worth was sold for twenty. Then who was...

... RULED IN LYDDA THAT FRAUD IS CONSTITUTED BY EIGHT SILVER [MA'AHS] IN TWENTY-FOUR, WHICH IS A SELA', [HENCE] A THIRD OF THE PURCHASE. Surely that means that one sold something worth sixteen [ma'ahs] for twenty four, which proves that a third of the money paid was also taught?24  — No: it means that what was worth twenty-four was sold for sixteen. Then who was overreached? the vendor! But...

... six — who was defrauded? The vendee. Therefore the vendee has the upper hand, [and] he can demand of him [the vendor] either, 'Return me my money', or, 'Return me the overcharge'.26  If he sold him - To Next Folio - Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files The Sabbath was about to commence. To be responsible for theft. Rabina to the Rabbi who related this story...

.... Which shows that a sale was in question. Lit., 'the thing never happened'. That one can withdraw. Which grammatically refers to the vendee. I.e., he has already received the goods. That the sale cannot be revoked once the purchaser has taken possession, and even the Rabbis admit it. And the goods were stored therein. V. p. 282, n. 7. This assumes that by Biblical law the delivery of money alone...

...: even the defrauding party too can declare the sale null in these circumstances (infra 50b). Since it is only a seventh of the true purchase price, the vendor is regarded as having foregone part of his due. I.e., whether we regard the true purchase price or the money paid. Which is returnable, whilst the sale is valid. Since the article is no longer in his hand, he can retract whenever he finds that...

... usage arose as the result of the Baraitha which was taught.4 R. 'Anan said in Samuel's name: Orphan's money may be lent out at interest.5  R. Nahman objected: Because they are orphans we are to feed them with forbidden food! Orphans who eat what is not rightfully theirs may follow their testator! Now tell me, said he, what actually transpired?6  — He replied: A cauldron, belonging to...

... men, since he [the owner] stands the loss of wear and tear, for the more the copper is burnt, the greater is its depreciation.8 Rabbah b. Shilah said in R. Hisdah's name — others state, Rabbah b. Joseph b. Hama said in R. Shesheth's name: Money belonging to orphans may be lent on terms that are near to profit and far from loss.9 Our Rabbis taught: [One who invests money on terms] near to...

... profit but far from loss is a wicked man; near to loss but far from profit is a pious man; near to both or far from both — that is the arrangement of the man in the street.10  Rabbah asked R. Joseph: What is done with orphan's money? — He replied: It is entrusted to Court, and paid out to them in instalments.11  But surely the principal will disappear! he urged. What then would...

... you do? he asked. — He replied: We seek out a man who possesses broken pieces of gold,12  take the gold from him,13  and entrust to him the orphan's money on terms that are near to profit and far from loss. But an object which bears an identification mark14  cannot [be taken as a security]15  lest it was [merely] entrusted to him, and its owner may come, state the mark...

... [which proves his ownership] and take it away. R. Ashi demurred: That is well if you find a man who possesses broken gold; but if you do not, is the orphan's money to be frittered away? — But, said R. Ashi, we seek out a man whose property is secure,16  who is trustworthy, obedient to the law of the Bible,17  and will not suffer a ban of the Rabbis,18  and the money is given to him...

... Samuel, but must have deduced it from some incident. V. p. 405, n. 2; the same reasoning applies here, and therefore he concluded that interest may be taken on orphan's money. Though the hirer pays for actual loss of weight, yet even the rest loses in value the more often it is placed upon the fire, and therefore the hiring fee is not interest. I.e., the orphans taking a share of the profit, but none...

... of the loss. Though this is forbidden to adults as indirect interest, the Rabbis permitted it in the case of orphans who, being unable to earn money themselves, might soon be reduced to penury if not permitted to put out their money on advantageous terms. 'Near to both' — taking more than half the profit, and standing more than half the loss; 'far from both' — less than half the profit...

... or loss. Lit., 'coin by coin.' Then they are certainly his, for when money is given into the safe-keeping of others, only proper coins are given — i.e., a wealthy person is sought. [Omitted in some texts, v. Rashal and D.S.] I.e., any object which a person may claim as his own on the strength of identification marks. [Or, as proof of wealth.] I.e., whose ownership thereof is universally...

... acknowledged. [MS.M. rightly omits 'of the Bible', there being no distinction between Rabbinic and Biblical law in regard to the obedience expected of a man to be entrusted with orphan's money.] Who will obey them rather than come under their ban. That he may be duly impressed with the solemnity of his obligations (Asheri). Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference Baba Mezi'a 70b MISHNAH. ONE MAY NOT...

... ACCEPT FROM AN ISRAELITE AN 'IRON FLOCK' [INVESTMENT WITH COMPLETE IMMUNITY FOR THE INVESTOR], BECAUSE THAT IS USURY. BUT SUCH MAY BE ACCEPTED FROM HEATHENS.1  AND ONE MAY BORROW FROM AND LEND TO THEM ON INTEREST. THE SAME APPLIES TO A RESIDENT ALIEN.2  AN ISRAELITE MAY LEND A GENTILES MONEY [ON INTEREST] WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GENTILE, BUT NOT OF THE ISRAELITE.3 GEMARA. Shall we say that...

... thereof: since if he [the breeder] did not render the money,8  the heathen would come and seize the cow [entrusted to the breeder in the first place], and should he not find the cow, seize the young, it is a case of 'the hand of a heathen coming in the middle',9  and wherever that is so, there is exemption from the law of firstlings: He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance...

... [further] raised an objection: ONE MAY BORROW FROM AND LEND MONEY TO THEM ON INTEREST, AND THE SAME APPLIES TO A RESIDENT ALIEN!18  — R. Hiyya, the son of R. Huna, said: This [permission] is granted only [up to] - To Next Folio - Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files V. p. 405, n. 3. Heb. [H], one who, for the sake of acquiring citizenship in Palestine, renounced...

... the agreement. I.e., the heathen retains certain rights therein. Prov. XXVIII, 8. Shapur I, King of Persia, and a contemporary of Samuel (third century), with whom he was on terms of intimacy. He took money from the Jews and made grants thereof to poor heathens. (Rashi: To heathens, who are poor in that they have no fulfilment of precepts and good deeds to their credit.) Deut. XXIII, 21. V. p. 363...

... - that was the year of the Democratic Convention in Chicago in '68. And so my club became a hangout for the hippies, because they wanted to go to Chicago and protest what was going on. And I was having a concert at my club one night, to raise money, and the police raided the nightclub - my club - for no reason at all. And I was standing outside in my office over-looking the street, and I saw all these...

... each one will cost you that much money a month. "Which one do you want?" AJ: What was the Super Deluxe? AR: That was the one I took. That was the two-thousand-a-month plan. And I took that plan, and I paid them $2000 a month, and they left me alone. And whenever they were going to raid the club they would call in "We going to have a phony raid tonight, just to look good for the people in the...

... things. Finally, what happened for me was, one day they came to me and said "Look. We can't take your money any more." I said: Why? What's up? What's going on? They said "We have to close your club; there's elections coming, and the aldermen in the neighborhood don't want you open any more. So, we can't take your money." So I had to go to court and fight them, and they were trying to close the club...

... respect if somebody else did them. And what's the point of living if you don't like who you are? You can have all the money in the world, and if you look in the mirror and you don't like what you see there, what's the point of it? So to me the most important thing is that I like who I am, and that I take actions that I would respect if somebody else did them. And you live a life of character, honesty...

... they've taught everybody we're a democracy, which is not true. So then in 1913 they bring the Federal Reserve System into being. Now they have this Federal Reserve System which in 1913 got the right to create money for the government, when before that the government could create its own money. [8] Now the government, when it needed money, had to borrow from this private bank called the Federal Reserve...

..., which is a private bank, owned by individuals, incorporated in Delaware. [9] And so what happens is, now the government borrows money from them, to fund the government, then the government says "Well, we have to pay these people interest. How are we going to pay them interest? Let's impose a tax on the labor of the American people-" which never existed before "-to pay the interest to the bankers." [10...

...] Not one nickel goes of your personal income taxes goes to the infrastructure of the country AJ: In fact in 1980 Ronald Reagan said not one red cent of your income tax money goes to run the country, it all goes to the Federal Reserve. AR: Well, it was the Grace Commission Report that said that "not one nickel goes to the infrastructure of the country." [11] [AJ: "I guess Reagan quoted that then...

...."] Right. But the point I'm trying to make is that by creating this Federal Reserve System, the government now became dependent on these private banks for money. And they started taxing us. And so now what happens is, in 1935 Social Security started, and they gave you these Social Security cards, said "not to be used for identification". Social Security number, right on the card. And through Social...

... Security, they started deducting money out of your paycheck. That was the first time they were ever to take money out of your paycheck. Of course, people agreed to it because they thought it was going to their retirement fund. And so then when they instituted the income tax again, they start taking money out of your paycheck, because Social Security could do it. And then they could do it again. You see...

... Federal Reserve System, the government has become vested in these bankers, and they get their money from the bankers, and so then they impose a tax on us, which makes us more slaves, and makes it more difficult for us to survive. Right? Giving them more profits. And now what's happened is that through the Federal Reserve System the bankers have pretty much taken control of our government, it doesn't...

... trying to do it in America with the North American Union. And they want to create a new currency called the "amero". [13] And the whole agenda is to create a one-world government where everybody has an RFID chip implanted in them. All money is to be in those chips - there'll be no more cash. And this is given me straight from Rockefeller himself; this is what they want to accomplish. And all money will...

... be in your chips. And so, instead of having cash, any time you have money in your chip, they can take out whatever they want to take out whenever they want to. If they say "you owe us this much money in taxes," they just deduct it out of your chip, digitally. [AJ: "Total control."] Total control. And, if you're like me or you, and you're protesting what they're doing, they can just turn off your...

... chip. And you have nothing. You can't buy food. You can't do anything. It's total control of the people. AJ: And that chip's connected to a database that has your purchasing records, what you do- AR: Everything! Everything is in there. And so, they want a one-world government, controlled by them, everybody being chipped, all your money in those chips, and they control the chips! And they control...

... you can for you and your family. What do the rest of the people mean to you? They don't mean anything to you. They're just serfs, they're just people." It was just a lack of caring. And that's just not who I was. It was just sort of cold, you know? And I used to say to him: What's the point of all this? You have all the money in the world that you need. You have all the power need. What's the point...

... now" [18]. But this isn't the socialism the public thinks it is, where the government robs from the rich to give to the poor. Actually it's always the big banks, the elites throughout history, that fund socialism. They want to use the middle class's money to basically domesticate the working class and expand the size of government so it can basically, in the endgame, eradicate the middle class, and...

... take men away from them - look at what they did with black families. You only had about ten percent illegitimacy 50 years ago, in black communities, and now it's over 90 percent. And look at welfare: "We're going to give you some money, but you can't have a man in the house." And so that was further to degrade the family. Totally destroyed. And now illegitimacy's over 50 percent in the general...

... population. AR: Well, see the whole thing is that these people control the money, so they make all the rules. You understand? And they put whatever the rules they want into effect. And the truth is America has really become a socialistic, communistic country. And everybody says its a capitalistic country, it's not a capitalistic country. How can it be capitalistic when you have a central bank? That's first...

... - it can't be! [AJ: "It's a planned economy."] It's a planned economy, it's a phony! If they want to create prosperity, they just print dollars, they just make dollars, or put digits into the economy. And then now you have prosperity. You don't have real prosperity, you don't have real manufacturing, you just have money being injected in, it's an infusion of credit. AJ: Which only makes the...

... government go into more debt. [AR: "Into more debt."] * * * AR: The Federal Reserve is poison to our country. Of course it is. It's poison. Whoever makes the money makes the rules. Rothschild said that. And they make the money! Why are we allowing these private bankers to make the money for our country? It makes no sense! Why are we paying interest to these banks, to make make money for us, when the...

... government can do it itself without paying interest? And without all that debt. There's no answer to that question and it's the question no politician will raise. Everybody talks about "America's debt" - how much debt we're in - we're in debt because we have to borrow money, and we don't have to borrow money. [AJ: "They designed it so we go into debt."] Exactly. We can create the money and back it by gold...

... so they can't create too much of it, so you don't have the inflation, and do what the founding fathers gave us. But instead, the bankers make the money, they control the government, they buy the politicians, they tell us who gets into office - they have computer voting, that's a fraud. They do whatever they want to do to us. They do whatever they want to do to us. And it has to stop. * * * AR: My...

..., to what it's supposed to be, get the bankers out of our government. Get the bankers out of our government: government should stop borrowing money from the banks. Government should make its own money, restore the republic, individual freedoms. That's what this country's about. And until we do that, we're going to be slaves. * * * AR: I see people like Bill O'Reilly on television. And I see how much...

... dollars, and setting up Israel in the state of Arizona. [AJ: "Unbelievable."] To end that problem, because that's a problem that they're not in charge of, in a sense. They're not controlling that problem. [. . .] They're very arrogant, they can do whatever they want to do. We've given these people the authority to create money out of thin air, and through that device, they control everything. And if you...

... want to win the battle to stop that, you have to deny them the ability to create money. It's only because they can make money that they have all this power. [AJ: "They literally have the money machines."] They have the money machines, they can print it, they can do whatever they want to do. They own everything. AJ: Aaron, we'd take over pretty quick, if we were the guys that issued the money, and...

... everybody had to come to give us real assets for the use of this money we just printed up. AR: I tell people: Why in the world does the American government borrow money from the banks when they have the ability to create it themselves without borrowing it and paying interest on it? Why? And nobody can answer that question. Not one politician ever raises that. Why does the American government borrow money...

... you're getting massive debt. So with the Federal Reserve you have inflation and debt. Now if the American Government made the money, backed by gold, which limited the amount they could make, you wouldn't have debt and you wouldn't have inflation. [22] AJ: But inflation was only about 50 percent from the 1780s - I've looked it up - until the late 1800s. And then we have the central banks already trying...

... to cause some panics which they then used to push the Federal Reserve. And if we look at inflation since 1913 until 2007, it's exponential, and in fact a dollar is worth about two pennies of what it was worth in 1913. Former Federal Reserve Chairman doubled the money supply from 2000-2006, and then [Ben] Bernanke, the new Fed chief, came in and said he's going to double it again in the next two...

... years. And then he said I'm now going to make the money supply numbers secret, and so now we don't even know, but the evidence is they are just - I mean in the curve of inflation, it just gradually grows, and then suddenly a point goes straight up [23] - and it seems we now- AR: It's parabolic, yeah. But the thing is - the only thing I disagree with you on - from early 1800 to 1913 there was no...

... inflation, other than during the Civil War, you know, when Lincoln was President. [AJ: "Well I'm talking about how much a dollar was worth."] A dollar never changed. There was no inflation. For a hundred years, there was no inflation. People knew what their money was worth, they could retire, they knew what it would cost them to live their lives out, there was no problem. It was only since 1913 when the...

... Fed came in that we've created massive inflation and massive debt. AJ: So, then what you said earlier, then there really wasn't inflation? [AR: "There was no inflation."] So you don't get inflation when the government issues money, at least in the U.S. History? [AR: "Not if it's backed by gold."] Exactly. But I'm talking about - and I did look this up - and I believe that if you look after the...

... country was set up - and some of the things back with Andrew Jackson and the rest of it - there were points when it spiked, and there were manipulations- AR: There were points, mostly during the Civil War. [AJ: "Yeah. And that's because Lincoln printed so much money."] Exactly, exactly. That's right. But once that ended, basically there was no inflation other than during that short period of time. I...

.... It's all because of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Reserve System, these bankers, are responsible for the demise of America. And if we ever want to win this battle, you must shut down the Federal Reserve System. And we must shut down these bankers, and restore sound money to this country. AJ: Would you talk a little about some of the families that own the private Federal Reserve? The...

.... A lot of people in Hollywood know the truth, and they're not willing to stand up and speak about it. I know many of them see my movie, and they know I'm right, and they won't talk about it - because everybody's afraid. Everybody's afraid because they think that this money they get, these Federal Reserve Notes, are really money, and they think they have a comfortable life-style, and they're afraid...

... take it any more." * * * AR: Well, I think if you analyze the situation, and if you realize that since the Federal Reserve has come into being in 1913, illegally, without a Constitutional amendment, by bribing a few Senators during Christmas vacation, they turned over the most important power that the American government has - the creation and issuance of money - to a private bank. Through that...

... private bank issuing money, they have destroyed this country. They have destroyed the purchasing power of the money, in this country. They've created social programs that are destroying this country. * * * AJ: Thanks to the work of Aaron Russo, and Ron Paul, and many others, folks are starting to find out who the real enemy is: offshore, private banking corporations that have engaged in a hostile...

... money to win - they make sure who gets the money. * * * AJ: The most important point is they control both parties. And public continues to only focus in on the distraction of the left puppet and the right puppet instead of looking at the puppet-master. In fact, more and more of this is coming out: "Top Senate Democrats: 'Bankers Own the U.S. Congress,' Senator Dick Durbin on Chicago radio station last...

... doing the right thing. I think a lot of them think they're doing the right thing. Not the top elite, but people within the system. But I think that it's all about, as Nick said to me, it's about control, and power. They have all the money they want, they can make all the money they want. They have a machine that can make all the money. It's not about money. It's about control. It's about their vision...

... game: the bank always wins, it has unlimited money, it's not the people playing on the board. [AR: "Exactly."] The bank owns the board, the box, [AR: "Right."] the shelf it's sitting on. AR: So that's because you gave them the ability to make the money. You have to take that away from them. [AJ: "You need to take the bank away from the private bankers."] Exactly. You have to take the creation of...

... money away from the private bankers and you'll solve 95 percent of your problems. AJ: Well, look at America. Ten percent growth rates every year like China's having right now. The US had ten percent growth rates until the Federal Reserve took over. And then if you look at that, it all starts really going downhill from there. AR: Well they destroyed the American worker. What they've done - here's...

... what's happened: The Federal Reserve has created this massive inflation in America. Which means that the American worker has to keep making more money to keep up with the cost of living. The more money they make to give it to cost of living, the less competitive they become in the world economy. So now what happens is we have to pay our workers so much to keep up with the cost of living, say "Well...

..., screw the American worker, let's go overseas now and get the cheap labor." AJ: But really that's a war being waged against the middle class. [AR: "Of course it is."] The bankers print the money - I mean really this is a war being waged against the middle class. The bankers print the money. Everything they're doing is about destroying any private pools of wealth or independence. AR: Yeah. But what I'm...

... the same way. And I don't know what's going to come out of- AJ: I mean, I don't have that much money, but I've got some money and it's like "What more do I need?" I can go on a trip if I want, I can help pay for my kids to go to school, and be happy. My wife's comfortable. How do I have to go out and screw some people so I can have some more junk? AR: Well, you know money's a funny thing. I was...

... talking to Michael Eisner one day and I said to Michael: You may have a billion dollars, Michael, but they're all dollars. You know? If the dollar goes bad, how much money are you going to have? And that's the thing. Everything is denominated in dollars. Everybody thinks in terms of dollars. But the dollar has no value. And some day, everything "returns to the mean". AJ: Well, really, the whole universe...

... says something, they let it die. But they keep perpetuating War on Terrorism. They keep perpetuating all these things that are lies. And it's because we've given them the money-making power - they control the media, they control the government, and they're all in bed together. So you're fighting all this propaganda all the time. And it's a very difficult fight. * * * AR: Americans: mobilize. Stand...

... libertarians, and I do not generally fault anyone too harshly for not being able to actually source the quotes of their heroes, although in the interest of being accurate and correct, I believe we should not continue to misattribute them. [8] I would say that Aaron Russo has it wrong here, when he says that the government issued its own money prior to the Federal Reserve Act. No, only during Lincoln's...

... "greenback" adventure and the Continental currency days did the government issue its own money. And the currency ended up in hyperinflation both times within the span of a few years. The US Government was getting its money from Treasury bonds bought by banks and investors (lent to the Government by banks and investors) before the Federal Reserve Act. The Federal Reserve System just institutionalized a...

... loses no money. The banks can always dump bonds for cash on the Fed. So the Fed can save the banks by buying the bonds and hyperinflation will still result as if the Government had been printing its own money. [9] Is the Federal Reserve a private bank, owned by individuals, incorporated in Delaware? Put just that way, oversimplified as it is: no, no it is not. But let's address various parts of the...

... streams for the repayment of bonded debt is vital to prevent hyper-inflation under this system. This is just speaking to the mechanics of money-from-bonded-debt, and leaves alone the issue of derivative contracts abstracted from bond debt (derivative contracts are abstracted from many "underlying" things or assets). Without people paying their debts, monetization of unpaid bonded debt will lead to hyper...

...://www.ocregister.com/articles/dmv-189719-police-confidential.html [21] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-F-zmTNuk4 http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bill+o%27reilly+sunsara+taylor+world+can%27t+wait [22] The question of "what should our money system be?" is a very tricky one. It is a mistake to imagine that a gold standard is only a good thing, or even the best thing. I intend to describe the down-sides of...

...: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. ONE EVENING AS SHICHIRI KOJUN WAS RECITING SUTRAS A THIEF WITH A SHARP SWORD ENTERED, DEMANDING EITHER HIS MONEY OR HIS LIFE. SHICHIRI TOLD HIM: 'DO NOT DISTURB ME. YOU CAN FIND THE MONEY IN THAT DRAWER.' THEN HE RESUMED HIS RECITATION. A LITTLE WHILE AFTERWARDS HE STOPPED AND CALLED: 'DON'T TAKE IT ALL. I NEED SOME TO PAY TAXES WITH TOMORROW.' THE INTRUDER...

... GATHERED UP MOST OF THE MONEY AND STARTED TO LEAVE. 'THANK A PERSON WHEN YOU RECEIVE A GIFT,' SHICHIRI ADDED. THE MAN THANKED HIM AND MADE OFF. A FEW DAYS AFTERWARDS THE FELLOW WAS CAUGHT AND CONFESSED, AMONG OTHERS, THE OFFENCE AGAINST SHICHIRI. WHEN SHICHIRI WAS CALLED AS A WITNESS HE SAID: 'THIS MAN IS NO THIEF, AT LEAST AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED. I GAVE HIM THE MONEY AND HE THANKED ME FOR IT.' AFTER...

... just on the right hand of God - then who is going to be next to him? Their worry comes out of their greed and comes out of their fear. They are not much concerned that Jesus is going to be crucified tomorrow, they are much concerned with their own interests. All other religions are based in very ordinary greed and fear. The same greed that you have for money one day becomes transformed into the greed...

... for God. Then, God is your money; now, money is your God - that's the only difference. Then God becomes your money. Now you are afraid of the state, of the police, of this and that - and then you start being afraid of hell, and the supreme court, the suprememost court of God... the last day of judgement. The so-called Christian saints, even in their last moments of life, are constantly trembling...

... do it perfectly, it is impossible. It cannot be done really, he can only pretend. And then some times or others when he is not pretending, when he is a little relaxed - he is in a holiday mood and he is on a picnic - the reality asserts. Then you think you have been deceived; this man is a deceiver. You were thinking he is good, and today he has stolen money from you. And for years you have been...

... thinking he is good, he is a saint - and now he has stolen money from you. You think he has deceived you? No, it is your labelling that has deceived you. He is moving according to his reality. Enough he tried to fit within your frame - but one day or other one grows out of the frame. One has to do things one wants to do. Nobody is here to fulfill your expectations. And only very cowardly people try to...

... MONEY OR HIS LIFE. SHICHIRI TOLD HIM: 'DO NOT DISTURB ME. YOU CAN FIND THE MONEY IN THAT DRAWER.' THEN HE RESUMED HIS RECITATION. No condemnation, no judgement. Simple acceptance - as if a breeze has come in, not a thief. Not even a slight change in his eyes - as if a friend has come, not a thief. No change in hi. attitude. He says, 'DO NOT DISTURB ME. YOU CAN FIND THE MONEY IN THAT DRAWER. Can't you...

... see I am reciting my sutras? At least you should he that much respectful, not to disturb a man who is reciting his sutras, for such a foolish thing as money. You go and find it yourself! And don't disturb me.' Now see: he is not against the thief because he has come to steal. He is not against the thief because he is after money, obsessed with money - no, nothing of the sort. A simple acceptance...

... will trust you. He simply said: 'DON'T TAKE IT ALL. I NEED SOME TO PAY TAXES WITH TOMORROW.' THE INTRUDER GATHERED UP MOST OF THE MONEY AND STARTED TO LEAVE. 'THANK A PERSON WHEN YOU RECEIVE A GIFT. Now, see the compassion of the man. He does not call it theft; he says, 'Thank a man when you receive a gift.' He is transforming; his vision is totally different. He does not want this man to feel guilty...

..., AMONG OTHERS, THE OFFENCE AGAINST SHICHIRI. WHEN SHICHIRI WAS CALLED AS A WITNESS HE SAID: 'THIS MAN IS NO THIEF, AT LEAST AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED. I GAVE HIM THE MONEY AND HE THANKED ME FOR IT. ' You see the point? How respectful! What immense respect! What unconditional respect towards a man - towards a thief! If this Shichiri was a Christian saint, he would have threatened him to be ready to...

... suffer hell - and hell for eternity. If he was a Hindu saint, he would have preached him a long sermon on no-theft, and he would have made him very frightened that he will be thrown into hellfire. And he would have painted a very nightmarish picture of hell. And he would have preached the uselessness of money. Look: the Zen master does not say anything about the uselessness of money. In fact, instead...

... he says, 'Leave a little for me; in the morning I will need it.' Money has a purpose. One need not be obsessed, this way or that, for or against. Money is utilitarian. You need not be only living FOR money, and you need not be against money. It is just utilitarian. That's why my attitude towards money is: Money has to be used. It is very very instrumental. In the world of religion, money is...

... condemned very much - the religious people are very much afraid of money. That fear is nothing but the greed standing on its head. It is the same greed which has now become afraid. If you go to Acharya Vinoba Bhave with money in your hand he will close his eyes. He closes his eyes, he will not look at the money. So much fear of money? Why should you close the eyes? And he goes on saying that money is dirt...

... - but he never closes his eyes when he looks at dirt. This is very illogical. In fact, if money is dirt he should have to keep his eyes closed twenty-four hours, because dirt is everywhere. Money is dirt? Then why be so afraid of dirt? What is the fear? Zen has a totally different and a very fundamental approach. The master does not say that money is dirt and you should not be looking for other...

... people's money. What does it have to do with people? Money is nobody's. So to say to somebody, 'You are a thief,' is to believe in private property. Is to believe that somebody can have it rightly and somebody can have it wrongly, somebody has the RIGHT to own it and somebody has no right. Stealing is condemned because of the capitalist mind in the world; it is part of the capitalist mind. The capitalist...

... mind says money belongs to somebody - there is a right owner, and nobody should take it away. But Zen says nothing belongs to anybody, nobody is the right owner. How can you own this world? You come into this world empty-handed, you go out of it empty-handed - you cannot own it. Nobody owns it; we use it. And we are all together here to use it. That is the message: 'Take the money! but leave a little...

... for me too. I am also here to use it, as much as you are here to use it.' Such a practical, such an empirical attitude! And so free of money! And in the court he said, 'THIS MAN IS NO THIEF...' he has turned this thief into a friend. He says '... AT LEAST AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED. I don't know about others - how can I know about others? This much I know: I gave him the money and he thanked me for it...

... known that in this hut lives a master, he would not have dared at all. He had come only for the money; he had stumbled upon the master by accident. But even if you meet a Buddha by accident, it is going to change you utterly. You will never be the same man again. Many of you are here just by accident. You were not searching for me, you were not seeking for me. By a thousand and one accidents you have...

... fight with darkness, just light a candle. The master lighted a candle in the man. Exactly the same, but a little more Zen, there is another story out another master - almost the same, but still more Zenish. One midnight when Master Taigan was writing a letter a thief came into his room carrying a big naked sword. Looking at the thief, the master said, 'Which do you want - money or my life?' Now, this...

... is more Zen - he does not give a chance to the thief to say anything. Shichiri at least gave him the chance; with Shichiri the thief asked: A thief with a sharp sword entered into Shichiri's room DEMANDING EITHER HIS MONEY OR HIS LIFE. Taigan has improved upon it. Maybe Taigan followed later on - he must have come across Shichiri's story. He does not give that much chance to the thief. He says to...

... this thief, 'Which do you want - money or my life? Both are irrelevant - whatsoever you need, you can take. It is your choice.' 'I came for money,' replied the thief, a little afraid. This man - he has never come across such a dragon - he says, 'What do you want? - money or my life?' And so ready to give: 'You can choose.' No condemnation, nothing of the sort. Even if he had chosen his life, Taigan...

... would have given it. All that has to be taken, it is better to give it. And one day or other even life will disappear - so why worry about it? Death is coming: let this thief enjoy a moment. 'I came for money,' replied the thief, getting a little bit afraid. The master took out his purse and handed it to the man, saying, 'Here it is!' The master then returned to writing his letter as if nothing had...

... the giving of] money.51  R. Nahman b. Isaac said, and so did R. Joseph the Zidonian recite at the school52  of R. Simeon b. Yohai: An analogy is drawn between the two forms of the root 'to lay'.53 R. Jeremiah raised the question: What is the ruling54  where [the husband] hired them55  with a piece of land?56  What [if he hired them] for a sum less than a perutah?57 ...

... witnesses. MS.M. 'Zaidana of the school'. [Probably of Bethsaida]. V. supra p. 262, n. 13ff. According to R. Judah who laid down that a husband incurs no penalties unless he has hired the witnesses. The witnesses (v. supra p. 262, n. 12). Does R. Judah include land also under the term of 'money', or does he, since his ruling was deduced from the law of interest, restrict the price of the hiring to...

... movables only, such as money and foodstuffs, which are specifically mentioned in connection with the laws of interest, (v. Ex. XXII, 24 and Deut. XXIII, 20). V. Glos. Who remarried his wife after he had once divorced her. Who was under the obligation to contract levirate marriage with his deceased brother's wife (cf. Deut. XXV, 5ff). The last. Deut. XXII, 16. I.e., the husband. Sc. the penalties...

... EFFECTED] BY MONEY,3  DEED4  OR INTERCOURSE;5  HE IS ENTITLED TO ANYTHING SHE FINDS AND TO HER HANDIWORK; [HE HAS THE RIGHT] OF ANNULLING HER VOWS6  AND HE RECEIVES HER BILL OF DIVORCE;7  BUT HE HAS NO USUFRUCT8  DURING HER LIFETIME.9  WHEN SHE MARRIES, THE HUSBAND SURPASSES HIM [IN HIS RIGHTS] IN THAT HE HAS10  USUFRUCT DURING HER LIFETIME,11  BUT HE IS ALSO...

... UNDER THE OBLIGATION OF MAINTAINING AND RANSOMING HER12  AND TO PROVIDE FOR HER BURIAL. R. JUDAH RULED: EVEN THE POOREST MAN IN ISRAEL MUST PROVIDE13  NO LESS THAN TWO FLUTES AND ONE LAMENTING WOMAN. GEMARA. 'BY MONEY'. Whence is this14  deduced? — Rab Judah replied: Scripture said, Then shall she go ant for nothing without money,15  [which implies that] this master16 ...

...; receives no money17  but that another master does receive money;18  and who is he? Her father.19  But might it not be suggested that it20  belongs to her?21  — Since22  it is her father who contracts23  her betrothal, as it is written in Scripture, I gave my daughter unto this man,24  would she take the money!25  But can it not be suggested that this26...

...  applies only to a minor27  who has no legal right28  [to act on her own behalf], but that a na'arah29  who has such rights30  may herself contract her betrothal, and she herself receives the money? — Scripture stated, Being in her youth in her father's house,31  [implying that] all the advantages of her youth belong to her father. [Consider], however, that which R...

... twelve and a half years and one day. Sc. the money belongs to him. The receipt of the deed by him effects his daughter's betrothal. It is within his rights to allow such an act to have the validity of a kinyan (v. Glos.). V. Num. XXX. 4ff. If she was divorced during her betrothal before attaining her adolescence (v. Glos. s.v. bogereth). Of property that came into her possession from her mother's side...

.... Such property passes into the possession of a father as heir to his daughter only after her death. In addition to the privileges enjoyed by a father. Cf. infra 65b, Kid. 3b. If she was taken captive. For his wife's funeral. That the money of the betrothal belongs to her father. Ex. XXI, 11, referring to a Hebrew maidservant. To whom a father sold his daughter (v. ibid. 7). When she leaves him on...

... becoming a na'arah (v. Glos. and cf. Kid. 4a). When, on marriage, she passes out of his control. Since beside the master spoken of in the Scriptural text (cf. Ex. XXI, 8) the daughter of an Israelite has no other master but her father. The money of her betrothal. The implication of the text cited merely indicating that, unlike the case of the liberation of an Israelite maidservant, her passing out of her...

... father's control at betrothal is attended by money, without necessarily meaning that this money goes to her father. Lit., 'now'. Lit., 'accepts'. Deut. XXII, 16. Of course not. Hence it must be concluded that it, as stated in our Mishnah, belongs to her father. A father's right to the betrothal money of his daughter, as implied in the Scriptural text cited. Though the Scriptural text referred to deals...

... entitled to his daughter's handiwork. And, therefore, no deduction from it can be made in respect of handiwork. Similarly, here also, no deduction from it could be made in respect of a father's right to his daughter's money of betrothal. The previous question, therefore, arises again. That a father is entitled to his daughter's money of betrothal. From the law of the annulment of vows. As the fine...

... prescribed in Deut. XXII, 19, belongs to her father so does the money. Which belongs to her father (v. supra 40b). From the case under consideration. As a father has the right to dispose of the indignity and blemish of his daughter while she is still a na'arah, by allowing any sort of person to marry her, he is also entitled to compensation for any indignity or blemish anyone inflicted upon her without his...

... consent. The question, whence is it deduced that the money of betrothal belongs to her father, thus arises again. Why deduction may be made from Ex. XXI, 11 (cf. supra p. 266 notes 13-20, and text). Cf. supra p. 266 notes 15-18 and text. V. supra p. 266, n. 17. As in the original it is the master, and not the maidservant, who, in the absence of the specific text to the contrary, would have received the...

... money for the latter's redemption, so in the implication it must be the father (who corresponds to the master), and not his daughter, who is to receive the money when she passes out of his control at betrothal (v. Rashi). [Now since we learn that her father is entitled to her betrothal money, it follows that the right to effect her betrothal is vested in him, Tosaf.]. Lit., 'but that'. Lit., there...

..., nn. 3-4) by these two methods. Deut. XXIV, 2; and becometh [H]. [H] lit., 'beings', 'becomings', of the same rt. [H] as that of [H] (v. supra p. 268, n. 15). As betrothal by money is entirely in the hands of the father (to whom the money belongs, as has been shewn supra) so is betrothal by deed or intercourse. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference            ...

... not particular [as to the exact amount of money], he [the former] acquires it, for it partakes of the nature of barter. 'Nevertheless, he has a claim of fraud against him,' — because he had said to him, 'Sell it me for these coins.'2  R. Abba said in R. Hunas name: [If A said to B.] 'Sell [it] me for these coins,' he acquires a title thereto, and he [the vendor] has no claim of fraud...

... against him.3 Now, it is certain [if money or an article is delivered as] payment, but he [the recipient] is not particular [that the value shall correspond] — then we have just said that he [the giver] acquires title, for it partakes of the nature of barter. But what if it4  is delivered as barter, and he [the recipient] is particular?5 — Said R. Adda b. Ahaba: Come and hear: If...

....' Shall we say that in R. Huna's opinion coin may effect a barter? — No. R. Huna agrees with R. Johanan, who ruled: Biblically speaking, [the payment of] money effects a title. Why then was it said that only meshikah gives possession? As a precautionary measure, lest he say to him, 'Your wheat was burnt in the loft.' Now, the Rabbis enacted a preventive measure only for a usual occurrence, but not...

... possession therewith'?28  'With a utensil' — that rejects the view of R. Shesheth, who maintains: A title may be effected by means of produce. 'That is valid' — this excludes Samuel's dictum, viz.: Possession can be obtained To Part b Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files If the money is less than the value of the article by a sixth, the vendor can claim the...

... cancellation of the transaction (v. infra 49b). 'Sell' would imply to the vendor that the coins approximated to the value of the object. R. Abba holds that no particular significance attaches to the word 'sell' in such circumstances. Any other object except money. That the object given in symbolical delivery shall have a certain value. Is it still regarded as barter, and therefore the transaction is...

... consummated by this symbolical delivery: or perhaps, since he insists that it shall have a certain value, it is the equivalent of money, and therefore does not effect a title? And the values tallied. Although it may be regarded as the equivalent of money. When the ass died. Lit., 'proper'. V. p. 276. n. 4. the transaction under discussion is likewise most unusual. As above. I.e., you are in doubt whether R...

... money, i.e., buying the animal back (since substitution is separately dealt with, as the Talmud proceeds to shew); thus here too, by 'redeeming' selling for money is meant. Ibid. 10. Thus we see the same dispute here as between Rab and Levi. I.e., produce cannot be employed as a symbol of acquisition. Which he translates, for to confirm with all things — i.e., any article can confirm a...

... redeemed with coins that are presented as tokens at the baths.12  But, said R. Johanan. What is 'asimon'? A disk.13  Now, R. Johanan follows his views [expressed elsewhere]. For R. Johanan said: R. Dosa and R. Ishmael both taught the same thing. R. Dosa: the statement just quoted. And what is R. Ishmael's dictum? — That which has been taught: And thou shalt bind up the money in thine hand...

...;14  this is to include everything that can be bound up in one's hand — that is R. Ishmael's view. R. Akiba said: It is to include everything which bears a figure.15 E. G., IF [A] DREW INTO HIS POSSESSION [B' s] PRODUCE, WITHOUT PAYING HIM THE MONEY, HE CANNOT RETRACT, etc. R. Johanan said: By Biblical law, [the delivery of] money effects possession. Why then was it said meshikah effects...

...; only if the purchaser was defrauded. Whence do I know it if the vendor was cheated? From the phrase. 'or acquire aught…ye shall not defraud.' And Resh Lakish?26  — He learns both therefrom.27 We learnt, R. SIMEON SAID: HE WHO HAS THE MONEY IN HIS HAND HAS THE ADVANTAGE. [This means,] only the vendor can retract, but not the purchaser.28  Now, should you say that [by Biblical...

... law the delivery of] money effects possession, it is well; therefore the vendor can retract, but not the vendee.29  But if you say that [the delivery of] money does not effect a title [even by Biblical law], then the purchaser too should be able to retract!30  — Resh Lakish can answer you: I [certainly] did not state [my view] on the basis of R. Simeon's opinion, but according to the...

... dictum of R. Hisda, whilst the Rabbis agree therewith. We learnt: BUT THEY [SC. THE SAGES] SAID: HE WHO PUNISHED THE GENERATION OF THE FLOOD AND THE GENERATION OF THE DISPERSION, HE WILL TAKE VENGEANCE OF HIM WHO DOES NOT STAND BY HIS WORD. Now, if you say that the delivery of money effects a title, it is well: hence he is subject to the 'BUT etc.'. If, however, you maintain that money does not effect...

....] For this purpose cancelled or defaced coins were used. M. Sh. I, 2. I.e., 'coins that are presented etc.' is not a separate clause, but a definition of 'asimon'. Tosaf. observes that on this hypothesis 'or' (coins etc.) would have to be deleted. 'Ed. III, 2. [H] Jast: circular plate or ring used as weight and as uncoined money. Deut. XIV, 25. I.e., a stamped image; [H] is connected with [H], 'to...

... holds good when the vendor is the victim, and since 'hand' is written in conjunction with 'acquirest' rather than with 'sell', we learn that the acquisition is made by passing the purchase from hand to hand. I.e., when the purchaser has paid the money, the vendor, who holds it, has the advantage of being able to retract, but not the vendee. For, when the vendee delivers the money, ownership rests in...

... delivery of money consummates the sale by Biblical law, and therefore the vendee cannot retract, whilst in the view of the Rabbis meshikah is a Scriptural requisite, and therefore both the vendor and the vendee can retract. Probably on the score of equitableness. For, notwithstanding the reasoning stated on p. 283. n. II (q.v.), there would be a distinct feeling of unfairness if only one could retract...

... money or inheritance will be subject to the payment of a stamp progressive tax. Any transfer of property, whether money or other, without evidence of payment of this tax which will be strictly registered by names, will render the former holder liable to pay interest on the tax from the moment of transfer of these sums up to the discovery of his evasion of declaration of the transfer. Transfer...

..., proceeding from State sources, will blind the working class firmly to the interests of the State and to those who reign. From these same sums also a part will be set aside as rewards of inventiveness and productiveness. 15. On no account should so much as a single unit above the definite and freely estimated sums be retained in the State Treasuries, for money exists to be circulated and any kind of...

... stagnation of money acts ruinously on the running of the State machinery, for which it is the lubricant; a stagnation of the lubricant may stop the regular working of the mechanism. 16. The substitution of interest-bearing paper for a part of the token of exchange has produced exactly this stagnation. The consequences of this circumstance are already sufficiently noticeable. 17. A court of account will...

..., and are interested only in their own and not in the common interests of the State. 20. Economic crises have been producer by us for the goyim by no other means than the withdrawal of money from circulation. Huge capitals have stagnated, withdrawing money from States, which were constantly obliged to apply to those same stagnant capitals for loans. These loans burdened the finances of the State with...

... the payment of interest and made them the bond slaves of these capitals .... The concentration of industry in the hands of capitalists out of the hands of small masters has drained away all the juices of the peoples and with them also the States .... (Now we know the purpose of the Federal Reserve Bank Corporation!!). 21. The present issue of money in general does not correspond with the...

... requirements per head, and cannot therefore satisfy all the needs of the workers. The issue of money ought to correspond with the growth of population and thereby children also must absolutely be reckoned as consumers of currency from the day of their birth. The revision of issue is a material question for the whole world. 22. You are aware that the gold standard has been the ruin of the states which adopted...

... it, for it has not been able to satsify the demands for money, the more so that we have removed gold from circulation as far as possible. GENTILE STATES BANKRUPT: 23. With us the standard that must be introduced is the cost of working-man power, whether it be reckoned in paper or in wood. We shall make the issue of money in accordance with the normal requirements of each subject, adding to the...

... quantity with every birth and subtracting with every death. 24. The accounts will be managed by each department (the French administrative division), each circle. 25. In order that there may be no delays in the paying our of money for State needs the sums and terms of such payments will be fixed by decree of the ruler; this will do away with the protection by a ministry of one institution to the...

... a double sum, in sixty - treble, and all the while the debt remains an unpaid debt. 31. From this calculation it is obvious that with any form of taxation per head the State is baling out the last coppers of the poor taxpayers in order to settle accounts with wealth foreigners, from whom it has borrowed money instead of collecting these coppers for its own needs without the additional interest. 32...

.... So long as loans were internal the goyim only shuffled their money from the pockets of the poor to those of the rich, but when we bought up the necessary person in order to transfer loans into the external sphere, all the wealth of States flowed into our cash- boxes and all the goyim began to pay us the tribute of subjects. 33. If the superficiality of goy kings on their thrones in regard to State...

... affairs and the venality of ministers or the want of understanding of financial matters on the part of other ruling persons have made their countries debtors to our treasuries to amounts quite impossible to pay it has not been accomplished without, on our part, heavy expenditure of trouble and money. 34. Stagnation of money will not be allowed by us and therefore there will be no State interest-bearing...

... paper, except a one per- cent series, so that there will be no payment of interest to leeches that suck all the strength out of the State. The right to issue interest-bearing paper will be given exclusively to industrial companies who will find no difficulty in paying interest out of profits, whereas the State does not make interest on borrowed money like these companies, for the State borrows to...

... paper of tribute by loan operations will be transformed into a lender of money at a profit. This measure will stop the stagnation of money, parasitic profits and idleness, all of which were useful for us among the goyim so long as they were independent but are not desirable under our rule. 36. How clear is the undeveloped power of thought of the purely brute brains of the goyim, as expressed in the...

... fact that they have been borrowing from us with payment of interest without ever thinking that all the same these very moneys plus an addition for payment of interest must be got by them from their own State pockets in order to settle up with us. What could have been simpler than to take the money they wanted from their own people? 37. But it is a proof of the genius of our chosen mind that we have...

... the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply. - Nathan Rothschild Banking and Finance Iceland's peaceful revolution and imprisonment of bankers Global media blackout story Icelandic anger brings record debt relief in best crisis recovery story. Source: http...

... newspapers for two years. What happened? Why won't the papers and TV tell us how the bankers successfully crushed or minimized another rebellion? Because. THEY DIDN'T! This time, the people won. The people of Iceland have overwhelmingly risen up and forced their government puppets of the banks to resign. Primary banks have been nationalized. The debt scam imposed by Great Britain and Holland money printers...

... responsible parties, and -a rewriting of the Iceland Constitution by its people This is significant stuff. Have we been informed about this through the main stream media? Has any political program on radio or TV commented on this? Not that I've seen. The Icelandic people have demonstrated a way to beat the international money printers and controllers of information. The last thing entrenched usurers would...

... precarious birth in 1948 it channeled an estimated four billion dollars in donations into the country. "Following the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the Zionists raised another $730-million in just two years. This year, 1970, the movement is seeking five hundred million dollars. "Gottlieb Hammar, chief Zionist money raiser, said, 'When the blood flows, the money flows.'" (Lawrence Mosher, National Observer, May 18...

..., 1970) Banking and Finance 103 The First World War brought to Eduard Rothschild more than 100 billion dollars. (Count Cherep-Spiridovich) Banking and Finance 104 Mrs. Nesta Webster cannot escape the conclusion that international financiers put up the money (for revolutions and wars.) More it is the Jewish financiers who supply the funds; it is Jews who have been the agents-provocateurs of revolutions...

..., Executive Vice President, IRN/USA Radio News, Monetary and Economic Review (Winter 2008/2009) Banking and Finance 107 "Wall Street is Washington, D.C. and Washington, D.C. is Wall Street." -- Gerald Celente, FOX Business TV (June 2009) Banking and Finance 108 The Money Power When questioned about the ways in which the Jews have gained power, Mr. Rosenthal said: "Our power has been created through the...

... manipulation of the national monetary system. We authored the quotation. 'Money is power.' As revealed in our master plan, it was essential for us to establish a private national bank. The Federal Reserve system fitted our plan nicely since it is owned by us, but the name implies that it is a government institution. Our purpose was to confiscate all the gold and silver, replacing them with worthless non...

... gimmick. It's our method through which we take money and give only paper in return." Can you give me a example of this? we asked. Stupidly called money "The examples are numerous, but a few readily apparent are the stocks and bonds market, all forms of insurance and the fractional reserve system practiced by the Federal Reserve corporation, not to mention the billions in gold and silver that we have...

... gained in exchange for paper notes, stupidly called money. -- Harold Wallace Rosenthal, a top Administrative Aide to one of this nation's ranking senators, Jacob Javits R-NY, in a tape recorded interview by Walter White, Jr., which was conducted in 1976. From the book "The Hidden Tyranny". The Hidden Tyranny - Harold Wallace Rosenthal interview Banking and Finance 109 475 "Ma'aser is the tenth part of...

... their offices and honorary positions." (Encyclopedia Judaica) Banking and Finance 110 547 "There is a Jewish conspiracy against all nations; it occupies almost everywhere the avenues of power - a double assault of Jewish revolution and Jewish finance, revolution and finance. If I were God, I'd clean this mess up and I would start with cleaning the Money Changers out of the Federal Reserve. He does say...

... in His Word that the gold and silver will be thrown in the streets. Since they aren't using money in Heaven now, we won't need any when He gets here. It will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Oh, I do thank God for that! Hallelujah! I'll bet you haven't heard this much praises, ever." (La Nouveau Mercure, Paris 1917, Rene Groos) Banking and Finance 001 The Disconto-Gesellschaft, the Rheinish...

... bankruptcy of nations." (Frederic Morton, The Rothschilds) Banking and Finance 003 "The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings... He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of... every enterprise that will demolish...

...." (The World At The Cross Roads, Boris Brasol, pp. 71-73). Banking and Finance 005 "Under the pressure of international finance the atmosphere in Europe became very congested. Instead of using the huge money resources for cultural purposes, the international banking houses urged unlimited armaments of European States, and sometime deliberately precipitated military adventures. In this connection it is...

... of the Russian Government into American money markets, and to this day stave them off. Think of it! Who, as I, have been foremost in the past for agitation and insisted to the President of the United States; as some of you must know, that our treaty with Russia must be abrogated." (New York Times, June 5, 1916. Articles entitled, Jacob Schiff Quits Jewish Movements." The Federal Reserve Banking and...

... control of American industry and organize it into cartels. Where did these bankers get the money? For over 200 years, European bankers have been able to draw on the credit of their host countries to print it! In the Seventeenth Century, the moneylenders and the aristocracy made a pact. If the king would make paper currency a liability of the state, the moneylenders would print as much as he liked! Thus...

.... Prescott Bush (W's grandfather) was head of Brown Brothers Harriman, which financed the construction of the Nazi war machine. Naturally if you can create money out of thin air, your first instinct is to buy tangible assets with it. There is a powerful impulse to use debt to control nations and take over their real assets. This is the essence of the so-called Third World Debt crisis. Dedicated to owning...

... wars. Their word could make or break Empires. (Chicago Evening newspaper, December 3, 1923) (Rothschild Dynasty, John Coleman) Banking and Finance 013 848 SOMBART, WERNER. 20th century German economist: "Capitalism was born from the money loan. Money lending contains the root idea of capitalism. "Turn to the pages of the TALMUD and you will find that the Jews made an art of lending money. "They were...

... taught early to look for their chief happiness in the possession of money. They fathomed all the secrets that lay hid in money. They became Lords of Money and Lords of the World... Banking and Finance 014 189 "Their kingdom is at hand, their perfect kingdom. The triumph of those ideas is approaching in the presence of which the sentiments of humanity are mute, the thirst for truth, the Christian and...

... national feelings and even the common pride of the peoples of Europe. "That which is coming, on the contrary, is materialism, the blind and grasping appetite for personal material well-being, the thirst for the accumulation of money by any means; that is all which is regarded as a higher aim, such as reason, such as liberty, instead of the Christian ideal of salvation by the sole means of the close moral...

... Jewish bankers continued to destroy America with the debts they created through the war. Beyond that, the Jewish bankers attacked Lincoln's Greenbacks, which had saved the nation and which gave the American People the power to create their own debt-free money. Given that Ron Paul represents the bankers' interests, it is little wonder that he seeks to discredit Lincoln. Maj.-Gen. Count Cherep...

... 300 men) are glad of, for slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborer, while the European (read 'Rothschildian') plan led on by England (i. e. the Rothschilds) is for capital to control labor by controlling wages. 'THIS CAN BE DONE BY CONTROLLING THE MONEY. THE GREAT DEBT THAT CAPITALISTS WILL SEE TO IS MADE OUT OF THE WAR must be used as a means to control the...

... volume of money. 'To accomplish this the BONDS must be used as a banking basis. We are now waiting for the Secretary of the Treasury to make his recommendation to Congress. It will not do to ALLOW the GREENBACK, as it is called, to circulate as money any length of time, as we cannot control that.' Thus the order of the Rothschilds was clear: 'Capitalists WILL SEE TO IT that a DEBT is MADE out of the...

...,' (Mrs M. E. Hobart in her 'The Secret of Rothschilds,' p. 54.) Two more issues of $150 million each, with the 'Except clause' were authorized in July, 1862 and in March, 1863, m ing in all $450,000,000. They bore no interest. When these issues were exhausted and necessity arose for additional money the bankers demanded that Treasury Notes should no longer be made in the form of DOLLARS, but in the...

... form of BONDS: bond draws interest, the dollar does not. A gigantic war costing seven billions was carried through without gold. Why? Because everything was supplied at home and American money, the 'greenbacks' were gladly accepted. 'How then was it that this government, several years after the was over, found itself owing in London and Wall Street several hundred million dollars to men who never...

... law by the aid of American congressmen, who were their paid hirelings or their ignorant dupes. 'That this crime has remained uncovered is due to the power of prejudice which seldom permits the victim to see clearly or reason correctly: 'the Money power prolongs its reign by working on the prejudices.' (Lincoln). 'Every means has been employed to deceive the masses. Ridicule and derision have been...

... "Mysteries" Explained, The Anti-Bolshevist Publishing Association, New York, (1926), p. 68. http://antimatrix.org/Convert/Books/Spiridovich/Secret_World_Government/Secret_World_Government_Spiridovich.htm Banking and Finance 017 056 "Under the pressure of international finance the atmosphere in Europe became very congested. Instead of using the huge money resources for cultural purposes, the international...

...: The office of the banking house M. Warburg has opened in accordance with telegram from president of Rheinish-Westphalian Syndicate an account for the undertaking of Comrade Trotzky. The attorney (agent) purchased arms and has organized their transportation and delivery up to Luleo and Varde. Name to the office of Essen & Son in Luleo, receivers, and a person authorized to recieve the money...

... contract with Adolph Hitler who subequently received sums of money amounting to 27 million dollars up to January 30, 1932, and still another seven million thereafter, enabling him to finance his movement.'" Gold Gold 001 "We come now to the libel involving the gold, the Jewish gold. This is obviously why the present case is being tried close to the Aurelian Steps. It is because of this particular charge...

..., Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President later this year. 1933 On March 4th, during his inaugural address, President Roosevelt made the following statement, "Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men ... The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization." However, later that year...

... by Lord Bryce, Lord Bryce "Democracy has no more persistent and insidious foe than money power ... questions regarding Bank of England, its conduct and its objects, are not allowed by the Speaker (of the House of Commons)." Louis T. McFadden, Republican Congressman and Chairman of the House Banking & Currency Committee from 1920 to 1931 stated, "Through the Fed the people are losing their...

... per ounce. The only catch was that only foreigners could sell their gold at the new higher price. Where is the world price of gold set? Since 1919, in the same room of private bank N. M. Rothschild & Sons in London, at 11:00 a.m., on a daily basis. Therefore Warburg and his banking friends who put their money into gold at $20-66 before the stock market crash and shipped it to London, could now...

... ship it back and sell it to the United States Government for the new higher price. The money changers have a golden rule, "He who has the gold, makes the rules." President Roosevelt orders the building of a new gold bullion depository to hold the vast amount of gold the United States government had illegally confiscated. That depository was Fort Knox. Fort Knox 1936 On October 3, Republican...

... pretext of promoting monetary stability, it has caused three major economic downturns including the Great Depression. As Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman put it, "The stock of money, prices and output was decidedly more unstable after the establishment of the Reserve System than before. The most dramatic period of instability in output was, of course, the period between the two wars, which...

... by the body politic - this is the key political argument against an independent central bank ... To paraphrase Clemenceau money is much too serious a matter to be left to the central bankers." Milton Friedman would also state, "I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money, and equally of no sharp decline in the stock of...

... money that was not accompanied by a severe depression." 1941 Sir Josiah Stamp, director of the Bank of England during the years 1928-1941, made the following statement with regard to banking, "The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin...

.... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again ... Take this great power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks...

... and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit." Bank for International Settlements (The History of the "Money Changers" By Andrew Hitchcock) What are you going to do about it? Your browser does not support iframes. var sc_project=10522331; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="bd867308"; var scJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol...

... understand me at all, who must be a newcomer. The Indians think they are the most religious people in the world; all bullshit. They are the most irreligious people in the world - they just have an egoistic idea that they are very religious. If you are really religious, you will be ready to pay for your meditation with everything, even with your life. What is money? If you pay five rupees for something, and...

... if you earn ten rupees a day, then you have paid with half the day. Money is just a symbol that you have devoted half your day's labor for it. You go to the movie and you pay ten rupees for a ticket; you earn ten rupees per day. You are saying that this movie is worth it - "I can stake one day's labor for it." But you are not ready to stake anything for your meditation, prayer, for...

... life. Those few rupees that you have to pay are very symbolic, just symbolic, just token - they indicate something. If you are ready to pay something, then I know you will be persuaded to pay more. By and by, one day you will be able to stake your whole life for it. If you are not ready to even pay five rupees, it is impossible for you to stake your whole life. Gurdjieff used to ask much money for...

... his lectures; and not only money, he would create all sorts of obstacles. For example: no lecture would be declared beforehand. If the lecture was going to be this morning at eight o'clock, early - in the wee hours, at five o'clock - you would receive a phone call: "At eight o'clock reach a certain place" - and the place would be twenty miles or thirty miles or fifty miles away - "and...

... interested only in the few sincere seekers. They have to show their mettle. And, the money that you have to pay is just the beginning. It is just the alpha; by and by I will persuade you to pay with your life. Unless you have that much courage, nothing is going to happen. Religion is not cheap, certainly not free. But the Indian mind is very money-minded: they talk about being religious but they are very...

... money-minded people. Their whole outlook about things is money. No westerner has ever asked this; they understand: the ashram has to be maintained, the place has to be ready for you, some musician has to prepare for the music, somebody has to conduct the meditation, the gardens have to be looked after, the buildings have to be built. All needs money - from where is it going to come? And you know well...

... that I don't do any miracles. There are only two ways. One is: somebody else should donate for you. But why should somebody else donate for you? You will meditate and somebody else will donate for you? Why? If you want to meditate, you pay for it. And if you really want to meditate you will be ready to pay for it; there should be no hitch about it. If you don't have money, go and earn it. If it is...

... mean much. You have to show that you are sincere, you have to show that you are not just here out of curiosity. What is the way to check a person? The easiest way is money... because the greatest greed is for money. The greatest greed is for money, so whenever you have to lose your money you have to lose a little part of your greed. When you pay five rupees for entry, you are paying by dropping a...

... little greed. The money is not the problem, the problem is greed; you are dropping a little greed. And this is just a beginning - because meditation can happen only when all greed disappears. A slight greed inside you and meditation is not possible. For a greedy mind there is no meditation; meditation happens only in a non-greedy mind. If you don't have money, then work. Pay by your work and show your...

... sincerity. But the person who has asked must have money, otherwise he would not have been allowed to enter here. He must have paid... must be greedy, must want to have everything free - at least about God. Because nobody bothers about God. I have been moving in the masses for years. I have not decided in a hurried way to drop out of the mob - I saw that it was absolutely absurd: you go on talking to...

... it ends in death. And there is nothing else to do. You have become aware. the fourth question: Question 4: MY GREED FOR MONEY, TO HAVE MONEY AND TO SEE THAT I AM ABLE TO MAKE MONEY, WHAT DOES IT MEAN? It simply means that you are greedy. There is no need to go into great philosophy about it. It does not mean anything else than what it means: you are greedy. And greed says that you must be empty, so...

... you want to stuff yourself with something or other. Money is a way to stuff oneself with things. Money can purchase everything, so money becomes very important. Then you can stuff your emptiness with everything: you can have as many women as you want, you can have as many palaces as you want, as many cars, airplanes - whatsoever you want. You can go on stuffing yourself with things. You are empty...

... will not increase. In fact it may start decreasing - because each time you run after money you lose some soul. It is a great risk. By losing your soul you earn money; by destroying your inner purity, your inner virginity, you go on selling your inner for the outer. You go on exchanging. In the end you have piled up much money and many things, but suddenly you realize that inside you are a beggar. The...

... inner can be fulfilled only by the inner. I am not saying to renounce your money; that too is foolish. To continuously run after money is foolish, to renounce money is also foolish - because nobody can fulfill his inner emptiness with money, and nobody can fulfill it by renouncing money... because both are outside. Whether you accumulate any money or renounce, both are outside. That is not looking...

... into the problem directly. You are empty inside: something has to be done there. A prayer has to fill it, a meditation has to flower there - only God's fragrance will be able to give you a fulfillment. So I am neither for money nor against money. Money can purchase many things: all that is outside can be purchased with money, there is no problem about it. But money cannot lead you to the inner...

... contentment... and that is the problem. You have to work for that. My own observation is this: that the more money you have, the more is the possibility of becoming aware of the inner emptiness, because the contrast makes things very clear. A person who is poor inside and poor outside does not know his inner poverty. That's why poor people look more happy, beggars look more happy than rich people, than...

.... So I am not against money. In fact, my whole approach is that only rich people can be religious. A poor person cannot be. It is very difficult for a poor person to be religious. To be poor and to be religious needs great intelligence, very great intelligence, unique intelligence. Only then can you be religious. To read something written with white chalk on a white wall you need very penetrating...

... they remain greedy; even DEATH does not make them aware. Solomon and Irving were both partners in the dress business. They had the worst season of their careers, and were at a complete loss as to what to make that would sell. There was not a dress to be cut in their cutting-room. They both decided: the only way out to leave their families any money was to agree to a suicide pact. They drew straws and...

... kicked him and pushed him into the gutter. Finally he got up, brushed himself off, and said to a man at the end of the line, "If they do that once more, I am not going to open the store." Still he is ready to open the store! They have thrown him in the gutter! But people go on rushing, almost insane. Greed is a sort of insanity. Use money, but never be greedy. As a means money is perfectly...

.... Ika said: They are satisfied with the extra discount they receive.6  Wherein do they differ? — In respect of a new trader.7 In Sura four [se'ahs] went [to the zuz]; in Kafri,8  six. So Rab gave money to the carrier,9  accepted himself the risks of carriage, and received five [se'ahs per zuz]. But why not take six?10  — For a man of great repute it is different.11 R...

..., since he repays more than it is worth where he receives it, it is usury. For it is as though they were immediately transferred to the lender, and if they appreciate, it is the lender's which appreciates. Lit., 'ass drivers.' They receive money in the dearer place to supply provisions at a later date at the lower price of elsewhere. For through the ready money they thus have in hand they are recognised...

... as traders and receive credit, and this is ample repayment for their labour of bringing the provisions at their risk from one place to another (Rashi). Tosaf. in name of R. Han.: They are satisfied by being kept informed, by those who advance them money, of any rise in the market price in the dearer place during their absence, and thus aided in their sales. [In consideration of the fact that they...

... informed thereon). But on the second view, being new, they lack the farmer's confidence, who may not believe that they are supplying the produce in the dear place at cheap rates, and hence receive no additional discount. Therefore the transaction is forbidden, for his labour of carriage is merely on account of the money advanced, and thus partakes of the nature of usury. [South of Sura, Obermeyer, op...

... in other merchandise the prices are more stable, which disposes of the first reason as explained by Tosaf., and the demand is less constant, and hence he is not likely to receive a greater discount, for the demand having been satisfied, it will not recur for a considerable time; nor is he, for the same reason, likely to receive recognition as a trader. Rashi: 'vineyard'. I.e., to advance money at a...

... the other hand he may lose it. V. supra 30a top. Hence there is a greater element of risk which converts it into a speculation. [Tosaf.: Cattle breeders (who buy the offspring before it is born) since the risks are great.] Rashi and Jast. Tosaf.: who advance money for loads of faggots, to be delivered at vintage time. Lit., 'who cut grapes or branches.' Lit., 'turn over.' On which the grain grows...

... you until you are paid out'.6 Raba of Barnesh7  said to R. Ashi: See, Sir, the Rabbis enjoy8  usury. For they advance money for wine in Tishri, and receive choice quality in Tebeth!9  He replied: They too pay their money for wine, not vinegar, and from the very beginning, wine is wine, and vinegar, vinegar;10  it is then [when they pay] that they select choice wine.11 Rabina gave...

... money [for wine] to the residents of Akra dishanwatha,12  and they supplied13  a liberal addition.14  So he went to R. Ashi and asked him: Is it permitted?15  Yes, he replied; they but forego [their rights] in your favour.16  But, said he, the land is not theirs!17  — The land is pledged for the land tax, he replied, and the king has decreed: He who pays the land...

... tax is entitled to the usufruct. R. Papa said to Raba: See, there are some scholars who advance money for people's poll tax and then put them to much service! — He replied: I might have died, without telling you this thing. Thus said R. Shesheth: The surety18  of these people lies in the king's archives, and the king has decreed that he who does not pay his poll tax is made the servant of...

... brethren the children of Israel [likewise].20  I might think that this is so even of one who behaves in a seemly fashion; therefore it is taught, but over your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.21 R. Hama said: If a man gives his neighbour money to buy wine for him, and he negligently fails to do so, he must compensate him as it is sold in the market of...

..., conceived before conversion and born after, and was therefore called by his mother's name. For the coming year, but not for the past. Therefore I was entitled to live rent-free in the house. V. supra 67b. Lit., 'make (the creditor) quit. Lit., 'until I cause you to quit by (payment of) money,' i.e., until I compel the heathen to repay you. This was not forbidden as usury, since not Raba but the heathen...

... owed him money (Rashi). [Near Matha Mahasia, a suburb of Sura, Obermeyer, op. cit. p. 297.] Lit., 'devour'. Whereas had they taken it in Tishri, it might have turned sour by Tebeth. Thus in return for their advancing the money before the receipt of the goods the vendor takes the risk of deterioration, which is usury. Now, though it was stated, supra 72b, that one may buy wheat ahead if the buyer has...

... stock when the money is paid, Raba of Barnesh thought that wine is different, because it is liable to turn sour. (Rashi). I.e., good wine remains good; if it turns now, it was poor from the very beginning, already containing the germs of deterioration, as it were, but its faultiness was not then discernible. And they insist on receiving it, because only if it is sound now was it sound then. [Fort of...

... Shanutha, 4 parasangs west of Bagdad, and identical with Be-Kufai; v. B.B. (Sonc. ed.) p. 120, n. 8, the former being the Arabic, the latter the Aramaic name of the Fort, Obermeyer, op. cit., p. 268.] Lit., 'they poured'. [So Jast. Others: an additional jug, measure.] Or is it usury for having paid the money in advance? The right of giving you exactly the stipulated quantity. By paying the land tax on...