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Alternative Banking

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There are two subgroups to Alt Banking right now. In the first, the goal is to explore and, if possible, establish alternative banking systems, that might replace the current system. In the second, the goal is to […]

There are two subgroups to Alt Banking right now. In the first, the goal is to explore and, if possible, establish alternative banking systems, that might replace the current system. In the second, the goal is to broadly understand and educate people about the current financial system, as well as come up with short and long term plans to improve it.

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    reno posted an update in the group Group logo of Alternative BankingAlternative Banking 21 hours, 40 minutes ago

    SIMPLE ORGANIZING FOCUS THAT WOULD REAP HUGE DIVIDENDS
    The confluence of the Teflon Jamie Dimon’s loud fight against Banking Regulations with JP Morgan’s Whale explosion constitutes the best opportunity so far for grassroots organizers, OWS, the country, the world, to begin meaningful banking and finance change. Fall 2008, we weren’t out there en…[Read more]

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    reno wrote a new blog post May Day Photos in the group Group logo of Alternative BankingAlternative Banking: 2 days, 22 hours ago

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    JZ started the forum topic Video: Good to see this (Carne Ross) in the group Group logo of Alternative BankingAlternative Banking 4 days ago

    http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-gambling-with-your-money/

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    Mosheh Eesho Muhammad Al- faraj Thezion replied to the forum topic notes on usury laws in the group Group logo of Alternative BankingAlternative Banking 4 days, 1 hour ago

    interest based lending…. is in violation of god’s law… because it is criminal… it uses a fake thing.. like money… to enslave others to fake things like debt…….
    that is why money was […]

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    Tonia Loconte replied to the forum topic notes on usury laws in the group Group logo of Alternative BankingAlternative Banking 4 days, 15 hours ago

    Here are the notes from our last discussion of usury laws. I don’t know yet if the next usury discussion will be tomorrow (May 13th).

    Notes from April 22, 2012 discussion on Usury Laws and Credit Card […]

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    B Comenius started the forum topic Useful information for us to dig into re: money supply conditions today in the group Group logo of Alternative BankingAlternative Banking 1 week, 4 days ago

    http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/BASE

    http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/TOTBKCR?cid=101

    We need POV on what these conditions have meant in history in other countries, what they may mean […]

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    Mosheh Eesho Muhammad Al- faraj Thezion replied to the forum topic ripple/villages in the group Group logo of Alternative BankingAlternative Banking 1 week, 5 days ago

    I see many who want to live without money…. like family… like brothers…
    well… in family.. there IS NO TRADE… WE SHARE…. AND CARE…

    You need… an ARDD system… to go with no money…. […]

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    Mosheh Eesho Muhammad Al- faraj Thezion replied to the forum topic ripple/villages in the group Group logo of Alternative BankingAlternative Banking 1 week, 5 days ago

    Time??? would be based on our time…. as such, you could never pay off the national debt unless you enslave all the people to pay it with labor….. labor to the elite who will trade gold for time…. I am sorry to […]

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    Daniel Levy replied to the forum topic ripple/villages in the group Group logo of Alternative BankingAlternative Banking 1 week, 5 days ago

    This is the best alternative to fed notes i have found!! it’s Awesome!

    Villages is an interconnected trust network using RipplePay tech that can be implemented by people, immediately! The unit of measure in […]

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    Mosheh Eesho Muhammad Al- faraj Thezion replied to the forum topic Public Banking Proposals Nationwide in the group Group logo of Alternative BankingAlternative Banking 1 week, 5 days ago

    Steve… you clearly… DID NOT READ MY PROPOSAL…. AS MY PROPOSAL.. DOES NOT END BANKING.
    You.. are confused. (or are a banker who loves interest and enslaving people to debts!)

    Moses… for example… […]

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    Steve Letsfixit replied to the forum topic Public Banking Proposals Nationwide in the group Group logo of Alternative BankingAlternative Banking 1 week, 5 days ago

    Mosheh, as I read your concerns and dissatisfaction with public banks, they often seemed too idealistic. GDP recognizes goods and services. Services, whether typing and answering a phone, as a secretary or […]

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    Mosheh Eesho Muhammad Al- faraj Thezion replied to the forum topic new documentary about how banking and money systems work in the group Group logo of Alternative BankingAlternative Banking 2 weeks, 1 day ago

    do you want a solution?
    see –> http://mosheh.org/A-New-Deal_2012.html

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    B Comenius started the forum topic new documentary about how banking and money systems work in the group Group logo of Alternative BankingAlternative Banking 2 weeks, 1 day ago

    Entitled “97% owned” referring to that part of the money supply that is not coins or paper bills, but resides in computer digits and is privately-owned by […]

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    Neo Solomon posted an update in the group Group logo of Alternative BankingAlternative Banking 2 weeks, 4 days ago

    Too Big To Stop Growing: Largest USA Banks Get Bigger

    Osprey Flyer » Too Big To Stop Growing: Largest USA Banks Get Bigger
    http://bit.ly/JAiFvV
    Osprey Flyer » Too Big To Stop Growing: Largest USA Banks Get Bigger

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      Urbaned replied 2 weeks, 4 days ago

      this has got to stop

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    Nathan Cedric Tankus wrote a new blog post The lastest "N plus 1 Occupy Gazette" has been released in the group Group logo of Alternative BankingAlternative Banking: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

    see here. HIghlights include an article by Occupy SEC member Alexis Goldstein

    and an article by Doug Henwood (who runs the left business observer) that is critical of the move your money campaign.

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      DirekConek (aka Dallas) replied 2 weeks, 5 days ago

      @alexis loved your article, BTW.

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