- This is a subject not unlike the chicken-egg story. What
exactly IS "ownership?" We'll look past the obvious fiat currency
(Federal Reserve Notes) everyone carries in their pocket. But before we
really delve into this subject, let's see what the "mainstream"
thinking is about this word. After all, everything you have from the chair
you're sitting on to the computer you're reading this with, to the roof
over your head - all hinges on the *perceived* security of ownership. Even
renting may be perceived as a form of ownership. While you're the tenant
you have control of an apartment or house and you define who can come and
go, who can stay with you, etc... until your lease expires. The past five
years have seen new restrictions and laws quietly placed on renters and
property owners.
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- The Merriam-Webster's dictionary definition of "ownership"
with just one small sentence: "the state, relation, or fact of being
an owner." [1] Isn't that a real fountain of information to answer
our question!
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- However, Britannica does a far better job of defining
"ownership:"
- "the legal relation between a person (individual,
group, corporation, or government) and an object. The object may be corporeal,
such as furniture, or completely the creature of law, such as a patent,
copyright, or annuity; it may be movable, such as an animal, or immovable,
such as land. Because the objects of property and the protected relations
are different in every culture and vary according to law, custom, and economic
system and the relative social status of those who enjoy its privileges,
it is difficult to find a least common denominator of "ownership."
Ownership of property probably means at a minimum that one's government
or society will help to exclude others from the use or enjoyment of one's
possession without one's consent, which may be withheld except at a price."
[2]
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- Now we have something more definitive to look at. It
describes a "legal relationship" between a person and an object
which can be anything like an intangible or non-physical asset such as
a patent or intellectual property, to having real estate. It's interesting
the phrase "creature of law," which seems to imply law has a
life of it's own. But for ownership, it is the law that defines what you
are and are not allowed to own. Some things come and go in popularity.
For example, ammonium nitrate isn't a material anyone should brag about
owning. A large volume of it can bring on a storm trooper visit from the
men in the black suits. The last phrase indicates that ownership isn't
a certainty, by stating that "probably" the government or society
will defend your right to ownership by excluding use by others. Certainly
no one can own the simple right to privacy anymore. That wasn't just recently
taken away, but it happened decades ago. The government is just now getting
around to let you know this, and how good it is for you.
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- What's quite fascinating about all this is how money
makes it possible to do illegal acts - legally! For example, going fishing
or hunt without a license. Sooner or later a you'll hear a voice behind
you in the woods saying, "Game warden - let me see your license."
Having a license for anything - whether it be driving a car, hunting, fishing,
boating or many other activities will make that illegal act OK! Makes perfect
sense, right? So what does this have to do with ownership? Actually, quite
a bit. Because the common denominator for both licenses AND owning anything
is the use of money to pay for all licenses. No other means of payment
will be accepted. And that money of course, is the infamous Federal Reserve
Note. Remember that although the note states "legal tender for all
debts..." it absolutely doesn't mean that anyone else can pay a debt
in full simply by handing someone a note. A "note" implies debt.
Period. The privately run "Federal Reserve" has illegally been
given the right to do this against Constitutional law, which has created
this defacto standard way of creating money out of nothing more than rags,
special paper and thin air.
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- But wait a minute - those notes you use to pay for everything
you "own" are worthless. What then? This is where is gets even
more interesting. The entire American economic system (and probably those
of other countries even though not publicly stated) are based on NOTES.
These glorified "IOUs" are backed by absolutely nothing tangible.
The note trick is nothing new - the Knights Templar hundreds of years ago
started this by issuing notes to travelers. At the start of a long journey,
travelers went to a local Templar and in return for giving him all their
cash, he issued the traveler a note and provided protection where needed
during the trip. At the end of the journey the traveler cashed it and got
their money back, minus a fee. This was the first version of a traveler's
check! If somehow the traveler was robbed on the highway, he/she would
have no money to lose. The Templar note would be useless to anyone else.
Today we're still using notes - but with a big difference. We CANNOT cash
them in for real money! If you walk into any bank and ask a teller to give
you change or real money for a "legal tender" $100.00 bill, you'll
be handed more fake notes in exchange for your fake note! The same is true
for checks, too. You cannot cash anything in no matter what, since notes
are used to pay for notes. You can use the notes to buy gold, but gold
is no longer considered legal tender to pay debts. You'll have to convert
the gold back into a useless note to use it!
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- One doesn't have to be an economic wizard like Joseph
Stiglitz to see the giant house of cards this scheme represents.
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- Now let's assume that somehow you could obtain REAL currency.
Some think the Euro dollar is real money, since it's "supposedly"
backed by gold. But to date, there have been no photos of the skyscraper-sized
pile of gold this would require to back all the Euro currency in the world
for all of Europe. Someone right now is yelling "you idiot, the gold
is scattered all over the world in banks and vaults!" Yes, that MAY
be true. So I say, show me ONE big gold pile shrink wrapped in plastic
with a sign on it "Reserved for Backing the Euro - cannot be sold
or traded."
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- Personally, I think the Euro is just another *note* without
real backing, just like the US dollar is. The Europeans are simply not
telling anyone about it, or perhaps are lying. Of course, in today's mindset
people think only the US government will lie and no other governments will
(except dictatorships.) There was a highly successful business organization
better known as the Knights Templar, which grew in wealth to back the Holy
See and monarchies of Europe. Can we believe that this highly profitable
organization became extinct? After a just a few years in business proving
travelers an important service, these men were perceived as threatening
and too powerful. Eventually Philip the Fourth attempted to exterminate
them.[3] Many historians believe they just went underground. After almost
1,000 years, now they may be running the entire planet's currency - keeping
it based on notes.
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- So let's forget the Euro dollar and think bigger by using
real GOLD to pay debts. If you could get the bank to accept gold (and not
notes which is the only "legal tender" today) can you really
own your home free and clear, and live there for free the rest of your
life? No. There are the endless taxes "levied" every year on
your home. These are really just rent to allow you to live there, even
if you own it free and clear. One can also look at it as a form of RENT
paid to the state. You can own your home AND the land it sits on free and
clear of any mortgage - but you still must pay yearly taxes (i.e. rent)
forever.
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- There's no way to call a house moving company and remove
the actual "land" (i.e., the top 10ft. of soil) and the land
that your home is actually attached to, separating it from the dirt below.
Of course, you could move just the home itself. But that will cost you
at least $20,000+ to move it a few feet or hundreds of feet. But now what?
You'll have to move that house down the road - to yet ANOTHER piece of
land for which you will have to pay taxes (i.e., rent.) This will accomplish
nothing.
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- You may own an automobile like millions do. But you need
a registration to drive it! And a state inspection sticker, too. (Really
just another license.) And to drive? You'll need a license for that, too.
It's completely illegal to drive anything on the road, but buying a license
(and filling out endless forms) makes it legal for awhile until it expires.
Therefore, you actually need at least three licenses just to drive the
car you "own" down the road. In fact, you just might end up paying
more concealed rent - disguised as a fee at a toll booth.
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- OK, let's forget about trying to own or rent a home.
Do what the late Chris Farley screamed at the rebellious children in a
famous SNL skit - "you're gonna be livin' on a steady diet of government
cheese, in a van .....down by the river!" What if you did live down
by the river? You'll still have to buy soap to wash your clothes on the
rocks and purchase toilet paper. Leaves will make you chaff in no time
when fall comes. You'll need monopoly fiat notes to pay for that river
life - including the toilet paper.
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- Although everything is now purchased using worthless
notes - the principal still exists that you can never actually be debt-free
until you settle up for ALL the notes you ever used in your life to buy
things with. That's the principal behind debt forgiveness with NESARA.[4]
Paying off all these notes in your pocket with real money is IMPOSSIBLE
for anyone to accomplish. There is no known form of payment that the Federal
Reserve will take for these notes. Why? Simply because they were worthless
to begin with, and taking payment for them would make the Federal Reserve
guilty of fraud. Every bank loan is fake "money" created out
of thin air when the document is signed by a bank officer.
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- So what's the bottom line? It doesn't matter whether
you work at a job or receive investment or interest income to live on.
You still receive a fiat note when you cash in your checks, make a withdrawal
or receive a direct deposit. But about that employer or investment house
who just paid you? They owe for their notes just like you do! So you are
paid with worthless paper since none of it can ever be paid off. This is
why at the beginning of this article I called this the chicken-egg syndrome.
President Kennedy wanted to stop this madness - and he was quickly rewarded
with lead poisoning.
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- BEYOND NOTES
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- But we're not done yet. Think about what ownership really
is...and what it REALLY means outside of the note problem. At one time
there was a payment system that worked well for centuries. People exchanged
something valuable for something they needed to have. You cannot really
OWN anything forever even if its paid for - because when you die everything
stays behind. And then a relative or friend takes possession of it until
they die or give it away, too. (Now you know the secret of yard sales -
junk passing from one yard sale to another. Just like the dreaded fruit
cake showing up at Christmas time.) The one thing you own and we all have
used is toilet paper. A single-use item no one wants to take home. You
can be certain that after you die your possessions will be picked through
by teary-eyed vulture-relatives. But if a substantial amount of toilet
paper is still on a roll, at least one enterprising person will take that
unused roll home with them. It might even "surface" at their
next yard sale. Then it can be sold (using yet another note) to someone
else.
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- In the final analysis, everything you own can be considered
as simply borrowed. Whether you own it or not, that doesn't matter. The
same is true of any item like a car, furniture or computer, regardless
of how many payments you made. If you die before the lease term is up,
then the item must go back to the store. And all those payments you made
all your life by paying for notes with notes? The bottom line is that it
was all for nothing. Ownership truly is simply a disguised rental.
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- You can move to Africa or South America, and live in
the jungle to try and escape it the problem. But that won't work either,
as in most tribes no one really owns anything - and everything must be
shared. Did you say you are going down there and you are MARRIED? Oh, I
am sorry to hear that! You might want to re-think that decision and consider
the implications of sharing your spouse with others.
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- Perhaps it's far better to simply not to be a materialist
in the first place...
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- Ted Twietmeyer
- www.bookonmars.info
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- [1] http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
- [2] http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9057809/ownership
- [3] http://www.templarhistory.com/history.html
- http://www.knightstemplar.org/
- [4] http://www.nesara.us/pages/home.html
- (The NESARA website is frequently attacked and may go
offline from time to time)
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