About
My name is Anthony Migchels. I live in Arnhem, the Netherlands. I am married and we have twin sons.
Waking up to the Money Power after 9/11, I started the Gelre, the first regional currency in the Netherlands.
This blog raises awareness of monetary matters, most notably the nefarious implications of interest, as a way of empowering people and the commonwealth in their struggle against the Money Power.
My basic statements are these:
On Interest
Usurious Usurpation
The Few Banks that Own All
The Goal of Monetary Reform
Disconnecting from the System
Mutual Credit, the Astonishingly Simple Truth about Money Creation
All of my articles and most of my actions can be understood in the light of these.
A comprehensive critique of Austrian Economics can be found at ‘Faux Economics’. We syndicate critiques of Austrianism at Recovering Austrians.
The solutions are discussed at ‘Interest-Free Economics’.
You can contact me at infoATgelre.org.
Thank you for visiting Real Currencies!
Hoi Anthony,
Ik heb zojuist je laatste artikel Babylon = Usury gelezen. Helemaal in de roos, de spijker op zijn kop. En wellicht gaat het nog veel verder dan dat jij zelfs beseft. Ik heb een artikel op Argsusoog staan wat je even zou moeten lezen om mijn achtergrond te begrijpen:
http://www.argusoog.org/niet-co2-maar-luchtvervuiling-is-de-oorzaak-van-klimaatverandering/
Door DNA beschadiging vanwege vervuiling bij geboorte ben ik zeer gevoelig voor vervuiling. In mijn zoektocht naar de oorzaak van mijn ziekte kom ik na 10talle jaren uit bij de dezelfde oorzaak: Usury. Naast Woekerrente is er een andere oorzaak dat zijn woekerwinsten oftewel winstmaximalisatie.
Ik woon intussen 8 jaar in Noord Oost Thailand, maar daar gaat het ook niet goed meer vanwege de vervuiling uit China. Gelukig is door de economische crisis de vervuiling wereldwijd wat afgenomen. Op dit moment ben ik 3 maanden op vakantie in Australie, omdat het zuidelijk halfrond aanzienlijk minder vervuiling heeft dan het nooerdelijk halfrond.
Ik zou graag eens met je spreken. Op de alternatieve websites wordt enorm veel geschreven, maar helaas begrijpt 99.999% nog niet dat “woeker de moeder aller problemen is”.
Er moet toch een simpele manier zijn om de massa aan het verstand te peuteren dat ze bijna al hun inkomen afstaan aan rente, belastingen en woekerwinsten en dat dit totaal onnodig is.
Groet, Richard
I think you need to be more careful about clearly defining the line between what you stand for as far as alternative local and regional currencies, and what the central bankers are working to do on the same front. The line currently is not clear. You are aligned, philosophically, on many of the same ideas as the central bankers. Are you working for them? Social engineering for Communitarianism?
What is your biography and personal history? What “clubs” do you belong to? What is your political direction? Who have you worked for in the past? Who is your mentor?
Really? That I don’t judge the CB’s in the same way as the austrians does not mean I don’t want to get rid of them John, but I like to stick to facts and not silly demonization which is the norm even in the Alternative Media.
If you can explain to me how my stance against usury, the boom bust cycle, power centralization and materialism is compatible with (central) banking, then I’d be most interested to hear it.
My proposals are quite transparent and simple: End the state monopoly on money. Have the state print some interest free cash, preferably in the form of interest free credit or (second choice) Social Credit and have national money complemented with usury free regional currencies.
“If you can explain to me how my stance against usury, the boom bust cycle, power centralization and materialism is compatible with (central) banking, then I’d be most interested to hear it.”
If you know anything about social engineering or Fabian socialism, you might then know that it is common practice to mix factual truth with disinformation in order to distort, confuse, and redirect energies. These tactics are regularly successful. For example, Glen Beck or Alex Jones educating people about the NWO, but then redirecting their energies into completely useless activities. These “change agents” are numerous.
You may very well be capturing our attention by giving us some degree of truth. Then you plant the seed of the idea of alternative regional and local currencies within us, to redirect our energies back to the agenda of the central bankers.
This is why it is so very important to lay out your personal history for all to see. For all we know, you are receiving funding to run this web site. You certainly receive a lot of online publicity for your efforts. If I ran such a blog, it would be buried without a lot of money and time to promote it. Where do your resources come from? You need to be more transparent if you are legit.
I don’t receive any funding. I’m happy to hear that you think I get a lot of on-line publicity, but I’m not really sure that’s correct: my blog does not even rank with the first million at alexa (although it was for short while). Rense never posts my work, neither does Jones. Only Mike Rivero sometimes does and of course Rixon Stewart.
My main ally (and in some respects mentor) is Henry Makow, who is an independent just like me, his site is major and he’s given me a platform. But Henry has many enemies in the alternative media, because he’s actually independent. All the people I work with are basically guys using their own brain.
I’m not averse to sharing more, but I first want to ask you where you get the idea that regional and local currencies are a banker operation. I’m very positive they are quite the opposite: the main threat to their supremacy.
I believe we will eventually have new, virtual local and regional currencies, and these will be tied to our carbon emissions at the individual level.
Here is a good place to start –
http://www.iftf.org/search/?id=1026&L=0&tx_solr%5Bq%5D=currency&=Start+search
Note that the Institute for the Future recives funding from George Soros. Soros co-owns Cede & Co, better known at the DTC, which is branch of the Federal Reserve central bank in the US.
Also, from the World Shift Network, also known as the Club of Budapest, which is one of the primary NGOs providing guidance to the UN (IMF and World Bank) –
http://www.worldshiftnetwork.org/action/subsistence.html
“We support the development of sustainable, decentralized—that is local—high-tech production, combined with local use of local resources. and the redesign of our monetary system according to a fourfold model: 1) economy of gifting (a basic matriarchal feature), 2) counter-trade (barter) economy, 3) complementary local monetary systems for regional trade, and 4) unified currency (for example called “terra”) for interregional and global trade.”
Related information…
http://p2pfoundation.net/Social_Credit_System
“In essence, the idea of a social credit economic system is based on people being allowed more bandwidth of resources relative to the reputation they build in the society as whole, this reputation digitally tracked life-long, and the public opinion of a particular activity they are engaged in. It’s sort of like having a system that Googles your name regularly to see how many people know you on-line and how positive their opinions of you and then assigns you a credit rating based on that on the premise that what you do has a certain greater than average value to the society.
…From this would come the notion of digitally tracking reputation and socially beneficial activity as a way of anticipating the demand for the similar activities such people are likely to need such extra resources for in the future and assigning resource credit accordingly. In effect, the system -just like when it was a commodities exchange market- automatically economically speculates on your socially progressive behavior! And so we arrive at a system of social credit economics. This might sound like a kind of communism but there are no political parties or bureaucratic institutions or nation-states here.”
Which is the same as resource-based economics (promoted by Zeitgiest and the Venus Project).
http://www.thevenusproject.com
“The term and meaning of a Resource-Based Economy was originated by Jacque Fresco. It is a system in which all goods and services are available without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude. All resources become the common heritage of all of the inhabitants, not just a select few. The premise upon which this system is based is that the Earth is abundant with plentiful resource; our practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter productive to our survival.”
Oh, I forgot: close all banks, dishonor all derivatives and other magic and prosecute all senior bankers or at least get them in front of a Truth tribunal
Ah so i get it now you are proponent H.C Douglases social credits good on you. I wasnt really sure where you were coming from before. Have you heard of Jeremy Lee hes an Australian fellow that believes in much the same thing.
What happened to the Tolkein post?
It was a little experiment: WordPress allows making quotes a post so I tried to see how it looked, but I didn’t like it.
Why?
I got the update, but when I checked it out, it had gone. It occurred to me that you might have been persuaded to withdraw the post.
Brilliant Anthony
Hi Anthony,
First of all, to convey a positive feedback I wish to thank you for your initiative to inform about the importance of understading the currency and concepts related to it, for I’ve found – until recently including myself – how little most of us know of the processes involved in money creation, wealth distribution, interest on currency and money power.
Given the outrage many people feel, especially nowadays during the times of awakening and discovery of enormous proportions of the unfairness in this area (bailout bonanza – be it the Fed or ECB for example) I realize that more than ever such enlightening teachings and practical, viable and fair alternatives have to be made known if the reforms and changes are to take place anywhere.
Even more staggering is how little interest people show in this matter, squandering at the same time their rage against the “machine” by not recognizing the core issues and finally when being compelled to do something about it they voice their support – in good faith – for people or organizations who promise the change but essentially not addressing those core issues.
I’ve stumbled upon your blogg due to “intuitive surfing” through Henry Makow’s site and that’s how I found about your work. I also enthusiasticly feel that I have to catch up with all what you’ve wirtten, especially about your regional currency project (amazing! brilliant and commendable! aren’t competitive currencies outlawed in many countries?). I find your articles to be so well versed that I shall make sure some of my more open minded friends will make the time to “stumble upon” your blogg, for it’s absolutely shocking that such vital teachings receive little or no publicity in the mainstream media (at least here in Stockholm or in my home country Poland).
Thanks again and keep up the good work!
/ Blazej
Thanks very much Blazej, heartwarming.
All help in getting the message out is most welcome!
I am interested in locating the book by Polgar, “How to Create a Genius”. It is not available on bn.com, amazon.com, or ebay.com. Any ideas?
Susan Polgar lives in NY and can be located via the Internet. Maybe you can contact her?
Hi Anthony,
I noticed you’re hanging around with that vagabond Les Visible…
You can get in a lot of trouble like that!
I’m looking for a collaborator in something, but who knows what.
All I know is I’m tired of being ripped off. Any input appreciated.
Something is going down and I’m part of it.
Steve Berry
not THAT Steve Berry
Congratulations on your project!
Please check out:
http://bibocurrency.org/stability%20video%20v%207.1.pdf
I think the world needs to know that there exists a standard passive stable currency spec that provides all the functionality of money without the headaches.
Marc
voor een 13 jaar oude indruk:
http://members.tripod.com/~poetpiet/bibliography_and_index_thereof.htm
i have met greco, zube and lots of related folks, own 3 boxes of rare, related material, am interested in collabs on reading groups, councils, courses and kindred efforts of which real currencies should be as ineluctable a part as permaculture and self-building, on all of which i have literature set up in temporary facilities (over the next half a year or so) near R’dam.
a similar offer to omslag.nl brought zippo response .. like a similar effort here months ago. sigh…
anybody visiting here http://www.lantaren-venster.nl/36-1807-Dutch_Environmental_Film_Festival ought to really swing by since i want to pay for a jumpstart in youtoofoottubage matters (rather than figuring all that out myself).
My book collection is a work of art and if the pics i have collected digitally could be printed and weatherized along with the 20 years of mag and newspaper cuttage we’d have a 2 prong roadshow.
@ Marijus & JT,
I’m still working on the software development for the Gelre. It is not going quite as easily as I hoped, but we are making good headway. It’ll take a few more months, but it is coming!
Thanks,
Anthony
Hi Anthony
I was fascinated the first time I read about what you are trying to accomplish. Are you still in operation?
You now have my email and I would like to get some additional info.
How is your Gelre project?
Hallo Anthony!
Goed initiatief van jou!
Is er een soort modus operandi van de Gelre?
Zodat er meer lokale valuta in andere delen van Nederland ontwikkeld kunnen worden?
Thanks Bernhard!
Jazeker. De bedoeling is absoluut dat het systeem verder wordt uitgerold. Daarnaast pleit ik sowieso voor allerlei verschillende soorten initiatieven om alternatieven verder te ontwikkelen!