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Bernard von NotHaus

Bernard von NotHaus – Biography


Bernard von NotHaus, one of the world's foremost experts on private currencies and alternative economics, retired six years ago after 25 years as the Mintmaster at the Royal Hawaiian Mint. His work has been cataloged over the past three decades in television, radio, and print medias and featured in Super Structures: Making Money on The Learning Channel, Paul Harvey's News & Comment, Forbes Magazine, the L.A. Times, and numerous books and publications.

Von NotHaus studied Art and Architecture at Kansas State University for six years. Since 1974, when he wrote, To Know Value - An Economic Research Paper, von NotHaus has studied economics and monetary history. In 1997 von NotHaus wrote Free Market Currency and proposed the world's first working model for an Organic Monetary Standard. In 1998, with the support of other concerned Americans, he introduced the Liberty Dollar to exemplify the principles of a free market, value-backed, private currency that is free from government control.

In 2003, he wrote The Liberty Dollar SOLUTION to the Federal Reserve, a 500-page treatise. He is well known in the numismatic community as an original thinker who relishes the type of complex problems he encountered while designing and developing the Liberty Dollar, a money owned by the people, not the Federal Reserve.

Currently he is the Monetary Architect at NORFED a non-profit, free enterprise corporation that to date has distributed $10 million Liberty Dollars to a network of over 100,000 people and postulates Bernard's Law: "When the people own the money they control the government. When the government owns the money, it controls the people."

Participants by Country

Count of participants by country. Updated daily.

Country Participants Country Participants
None 0 Korea 5
Afghanistan 2 Lebanon 2
Albania 2 Libya 1
Algeria 2 Lithuania 1
Angola 1 Luxembourg 1
Antarctica 1 Macao SAR 1
Antigua and Barbuda 1 Malaysia 5
Argentina 6 Malta 1
Australia 45 Mexico 12
Austria 2 Micronesia 2
Bangladesh 7 Moldova 1
Belgium 10 Morocco 2
Belize 1 Nepal 2
Bolivia 1 Netherlands 17
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 New Caledonia 1
Brazil 29 New Zealand 13
Bulgaria 3 Nigeria 15
Cambodia 4 Norway 9
Canada 146 Oman 2
Chile 6 Pakistan 10
China 12 Peru 2
Colombia 2 Philippines 14
Costa Rica 2 Poland 18
Croatia (Hrvatska) 1 Portugal 5
Cuba 1 Puerto Rico 3
Cyprus 2 Qatar 1
Czech Republic 8 Romania 4
Denmark 13 Russia 18
Dominican Republic 1 San Marino 1
Egypt 1 Senegal 1
El Salvador 1 Serbia and Montenegro 2
Fiji Islands 1 Seychelles 1
Finland 5 Slovakia 1
France 34 Slovenia 1
Georgia 1 South Africa 11
Germany 27 Spain 17
Ghana 1 Sudan 1
Greece 3 Sweden 36
Greenland 1 Switzerland 2
Guam 2 Taiwan 1
Guatemala 1 Thailand 4
Hong Kong SAR 2 Tonga 1
Hungary 1 Turkey 7
Iceland 1 Uganda 1
India 43 Ukraine 6
Indonesia 6 United Arab Emirates 2
Iran 4 United Kingdom 104
Ireland 8 United States 13473
Israel 9 Uruguay 1
Italy 9 US 18
Jamaica 2 Venezuela 2
Japan 7 Viet Nam 2
Jordan 1 Virgin Islands 1
Kenya 1 Zimbabwe 1

Endorsements

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Richard Boddie

Biography:
of
Richard Benjamin Boddie

Dick Boddie is the President and Founder of The Motivators, a professional speakers bureau in Huntington Beach, is also an adjunct professor in Political Science (which by the way, is not a science by any stretch of the imagination) and History at Coastline Community College in Costa Mesa and Garden Grove, California, in addition to being an Independent Associate with Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. (NYSE), and well known raconteur.

[Among a whole host of other groups, companies, affiliations, and associations, past and present such as: "Citizen Advocate" a Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS) sponsored television ombudsman show on WCNY-TV in Syracuse, NY; Eastman Kodak Company; New York Life Insurance Company; Wells Fargo Bank; Xerox Corporation; National Center For Dispute Settlement - American Arbitration Association; was the first Director of Admissions at the new Chapman University School of Law in Anaheim, California; hosted a talk radio show "Black To White" on WAXC-AM in Rochester, N.Y.; was a New York State Administrative Hearing Oficer, ...]

Richard was born (in Elmira, N.Y.) and raised in "upstate" New York (which means "NOWHERE NEAR New York City", Long Island, New Jersey or Connecticut...) in the once famous city of Rochester. The son, grandson, and great grandson of Baptist ministers, he has the honor and distinction of having been the first black youth to ever achieve the rank of Eagle Scout (BSA) in Rochester, and was also the first African American to become a bank executive in that city's history.

[which by the way was also the home of two great American activists: women's suffragette, Susan B. Anthony, and the dynamic Abolishionist, Frederick Douglass, Boddie's "spiritual mentor"]

As both a former Democrat and former Republican, Richard B. Boddie** is quite well known for his political activism over the years, having been the president of the Student Bar Association while in law school, an anti war activist, and community organizer in the 60s; Congressional aide, and executive with the American Arbitration Association in the 70s; a motivational speaker and political activist; a fund raiser and road manager for the 1984 Libertarian Party Presidential candidate, and he himself also sought that same position in 1991 for the 1992 Presidential race. Richard did run for the U.S. Senate in 1992 and 1994 in California, and for Congress in the 46th District of CA in 2000, and served as Chair the Orange County Libertarian Party 1996 - 1998, and was also the Press Secretary for the Steve Kubby for Governor campaign in California in 1998.

Dick Boddie is a graduate of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and holds a law degree from Syracuse University (also in "upstate" NY, where it gets VERY cold each winter, a major reason why he lives in Orange County CALIFORNIA today).

* Boddie is pronounced "body"

** For the record, in the Rev. Jacob Benjamin Boddie clan or "downline", there are (were) four (4) different men with the name Richard: Rev. Richard Edward Boddie (son of JB), Richard Benjamin Boddie (herein above), Richard Grant Boddie (son of Richard Edward), and Richard Edward Boddie, II (son of Richard Grant).