. . Subject: LEAP/E2020 think-tank -> truth + lies = lies . . . . . This LEAP stuff is some kind of front-organization for some kind of effort to create a global nation state. They seem to bait certain groups with their apparently critical analyses of the capitalist catastrophe that's plagued the world after the feudal system(s) (Europe at least), only to use that attention to put before the audience mistakes policy choices. For example they (are reported to) say that after an economic collapse there would suposedly be 3 options: - hyper-inflation - high taxation - total bankruptcy. That is false. The obvious solution that is absent ? Throwing off the yoke of the bourgeoisie, whether that be a capitalist bourgeoisie or a socialist one it doesn't matter. Elite, thugs in the top, it doesn't matter how it's called. Why hyper inflation: if you don't have the courage to default on all debt as a government while retaining sovereignty (using the sovereign right to declare the debt void, therefore *not* going in receivership or some idiocy like that which is not for a sovereign to do, sovereigns do not go into bankruptcy, they declare the debt non-existent that's all) ... then the agents holding that debt will be in trouble. *They* can be declared bankrupt, no problem. High taxation can be a trick to pay off excessive Government debt. Total bankruptcy is a trick to do the same, as likely the credit givers (playing with stolen money mostly) will will demand future taxes to cover for the problem. But this is just not understanding what sovereingty is. A sovereign does not go bankrupt. For a sovereign to accept bankruptcy is to give up its sovereignty, thus it falls back to where it originated and the Government is no more the Government - it holds no claim to sovereignty, which is what Government is supposed to take responsibility for. In any case: the proper method for this deteriorated world economy is: a new currency in each nation, a restructuring of private wealth somewhere between giving everyone the same to start off a new economy totally from scratch (!), or to restructure it based on existing ownership where the economies are not too deteriorated to make that a necessity, while doing a vast reduction of wealth for the (super) rich. After that, running 4 major programs: - Democratization of Government. - Nationalization of investment credit. Setting up a new finance network nationally (I prefer a fiat currency under a 0% inflation policy, and using the implementation of that currency to collapse the monotary wealth of the super rich and crime networks). - Distribution of economic valuable soil to all, a use-right. Not an ownership/sale right but a use/rent-out right. - The ownership of companies not belonging to their original starter is to be given to the employees there, if there is more then 10 full time of them (or 30, transition model). These employees will have to declare how their corporation will be run, and how that is decided will be part of the law of the land (a corporation is not a sovereign entity). For exact details on all these programs: http://www.socialism.nl (all free) In particular notice: http://www.socialism.nl/gov.html Because that is the new Government system I'm proposing for all nations which might work a lot better then the neo-roman model, and that's then the entity which is can prosecute the above mentioned 4 programs. Once these programs and side-programs have taken effect, then that's the end and the nation should stabilize in a comfortable rule of law situation which is getting more and more familiar and therefore more and more finetuned. -- The choice is yours, choose wisely. The neo-Greek, neo-Romen model (again!?), or the above model, or something else entirely.