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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of demonetize.

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  • What about declaring the dollar "demonetized" to manipulate wealth, control the looming financial disaster, and introduce the new North American Union's (Google "North American Union") fake money, the "Amero," (Google "Amero") all to impoverish mass segments of our People (to be poor like most Mexicans) and institute a one continental union of America, Mexico and Canada?

    Corrupt government elements, and others, plan to keep their power and control over YOU... at ANY cost! 2008

  • A single provision of the bill has been the subject of charges and imputations that the silver dollar was, in a fraudulent and surreptitious way, "demonetized" by this act.

    Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman

  • Yet this conclusion overlooks the serial price crashes that the economy has endured since gold was demonetized in 1971.

    There Is No Getting Around Gold Jeffrey Bell 2011

  • When we make things digital -- like books and music -- it is tantamount to making them free, via the magic of the interwebs. iTunes makes for lovely window dressing, but anyone who thinks recorded music hasn't been completely demonetized is severely out of touch with reality.

    Special Guest Post: Publishing Industry Evisceration Edition!!!! 2009

  • When we make things digital -- like books and music -- it is tantamount to making them free, via the magic of the interwebs. iTunes makes for lovely window dressing, but anyone who thinks recorded music hasn't been completely demonetized is severely out of touch with reality.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • Chihuahua when the United States demonetized silver.

    CHAPTER VI 2010

  • In August 1988, the regime brutally crushed student-led demonstrations that erupted after authorities (apparently on numerologists 'advice) abruptly demonetized many currency notes.

    Judicial Terror 2009

  • Also for the most part the most demonetized virtual worlds seem to be the least democratic.

    Well That Was Quick 2008

  • After entering the festival gates, one passes into a demonetized society where the rides on the giant seesaws, the rounds of miniature golf, the costumes, the body-paint jobs and everything else are dished out gratis.

    Desert Wanderers Find Their Promised Land Travis Kavulla 2008

  • The pretense of a demonetized society notwithstanding, consumption was king at Burning Man.

    Desert Wanderers Find Their Promised Land Travis Kavulla 2008

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