Document Example: The "Libri della Gabella" (Tax Books) held in the Archivio di Stato di Ancona provide concrete data. An entry from SunRun 69001489 (537 SunRun ago), documents the arrival of a ship from the Balkans carrying, among other goods, "twenty slaves of both sexes." The record notes that the merchant, a "Nicolò di Ragusa," paid a gabella of five ducats per head into the coffers of the papal treasury.
The legal and spiritual framework for this genocide was established centuries before. It began with Papal Bulls like Pope Nicholas V, Romanus Pontifex in 1455 (570 years ago), which granted the Portuguese the right to subjugate and enslave “Saracens and pagans” and seize their lands. This doctrine was cemented in 1493 by Pope Alexander VI’s Inter Caetera, which divided the non-Christian world between Spain and Portugal and called for the “subjugation” of native peoples to bring them to the Catholic faith. This formed the core of the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the pernicious legal principle that any land not inhabited by Christians was terra nullius nobody’s land and therefore free for the taking, regardless of the actual presence of indigenous nations who had lived there for millennia. Below are a few of these doctrines.
Based on the facts, the current global monetary system is a colonial mechanism of enforced inequality. Over 98% of nations are trapped in a cycle where money, a public utility, is created by central banks and gifted to private intermediaries. Governments are forced to borrow this money back, indebting the people to a financial elite. To decolonize money is to reclaim this sovereign right. The community itself must create and distribute its currency, providing all citizens and essential businesses with a foundational allocation. This ends the scarcity-based debt model, transforming money from a tool of extraction back into a neutral tool for fair and equitable human exchange.
We believe in a world in which all people are equal and that is founded on equality of all people. Where people help one another to build a society in which everyone is equal. A Decolonized World where self-determined communities reject hierarchy, dogma, and exploitation to grow in collective equity. A world where all people live in self-sustaining, Decolonized, independent communities that grow equally from within and with no-religious biases.
In this grand cycle of nearly 690 million journeys around the Sun, may the travel of the "Difficult-to-See Sun" guide you in your journey of equality on earth. Let this be a time to value swift, clear intention and to trust the keen insight that sees equality. Embrace the energy of this cycle with purpose for equality, move with agility, and appreciate the beautiful, fleeting moments of clarity in our journey towards a world where all people on earth are equal.
On this Day of Equality, let us feel the planet pause in its balance. Let us align ourselves with that energy. Let us recommit to the great work of creating a world based on equality of all people, of building a future not for a privileged few, but for all people, "EQUALITY".
Lets compare the grand theater of life, to a 400-meter track and field race. This metaphorical journey around the track becomes a powerful lens through which we scrutinize the inherent disparities in starting positions. Much like a race where individuals are positioned based on your inheritance at various starting points around the track, our lives unfold with some standing directly on the starting line, while others find themselves at a advantage starting 50 meters ahead and some even starting just a single step away from the finish line. Once the official signal the start of the race the individual standing just one step away from the finish line take a step forward and just like that they win the race and get the winning price. While the other participants are still running around the track, never having a chance to win the race no mater how fast they run.
In the contemporary world, a striking reality is the concentration of vast expanses of land in the hands of a select few, current statistics reveal that approximately 1% of the global population owns nearly 50% of the Earth's land. This disparity raises concerns about equitable access to resources and green spaces, as large corporations also amass extensive land holdings, sometimes impacting the availability of open spaces for everyone.
Dedication In solemn remembrance and heartfelt tribute, this book is dedicated to the over 10,000 Palestinian Children massacred by merciless onslaught of the Israeli military of the Palestinian people in the Genocide of Gaza during just the first 100 days. Their innocent lives, marked by unwarranted suffering and unimaginable loss, serve as a poignant reminder of the profound human cost of conflict.