Yesterday I was showing Dave – founder of Suns of Liberty – video editing via Final Cut Pro. What started as an editing lesson turned into a short, but funny, video from the Matrix. Check it out:
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Congrats to David Blizzard who is now MARV’s new owner!
Overall 396 raffle tickets were sold – about 3/4 of sales coming from PorcFest attendees. David had snagged his three tickets – including the one randomly selected by Ademo Freeman the last night of PorcFest – online.
I just spoke with David on the phone – he plans to keep MARV looking as-is (a rolling billboard for liberty) and use it for vacationing, etc.
David calls northern GA home so if you’re in the area keep your eyes peeled!
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Choice is good! You have lots of ways to acquire MARV raffle tickets!
Incentive: 100-FRNs or its equivalent in silver
Deadline: Midnight EST March 31st, 2012. Send an email to “copblock [at] gmail [dot] org” with “Szasz” in the subject line and a link to your video
Details: All submitted videos will be added to a playlist on CopBlock’s YouTube channel (link will be updated when created). In early April a poll on CopBlock.org will be up for a week, asking visitors to vote for their favorite. The individual who made the video with the most votes on Midnight EST April 7th, 2012 will be receive their choice of 100FRNs or its equivalent in silver
Here is part Two of the my piece on banking, gold standard, and the Fed.
PART TWO: THE UNITED STATES, THE GOLD STANDARD AND CENTRAL BANKS – A BITTER MENAGE A TROIS
The first coins to be struck in the New World, the Spanish dollar, were pressed at a Spanish mint in Mexico City in 1536. (MBFR) These silver coins eventually found their way up to the English colonies on the eastern coast of the North American continent. The mercantilist policies of the British Crown deliberately tried to keep precious metals out of the colonies, fostering a dependence on Bank of England notes and the debt they inherently carried. In light of such policies, the Spanish dollar became the unofficial currency of colonial America. For smaller transactions, the Spanish dollar was often divided into eight pieces termed bits, hence the term “pieces of eight.”
The American governments first foray in to the realm of paper money came with the Revolutionary War and the need to fund it. Continental dollars, with no standard of value to back them, were printed out of thin air and at such a rapid rate that the currency quickly depreciated to no value. In 1781, at the height of the Revolution, Philadelphia merchant tycoon Robert Morris was given a charter by Congress to establish a privately run central bank. That institution, the Bank of North America, was granted the monopoly privilege to print and issue paper notes, and was the depository of all congressional funds (Rothbard, “The Case Against the Fed” p.70).
