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bretigne-shaffer's picture
Jan.16.2013
  This is something I wrote (gulp!) more than 20 years ago.  I'm re-posting it here because I think it is instructive regarding the financial problems we are facing here in the US 21 years later.  When I visited Vietnam in 1990, the country was suffering from sporadic bouts of...
michael-seidel's picture
Aug.14.2012
Thinking about ideas and a short in progress, I began thinking of currency, the means of exchange.  Does every relationship have its own currency? I think it does. Currency is about have the means of exchange to acquire what you need. Goods, services...emotions...validation...love...sex.... We...
sherrie-theriault's picture
Jul.02.2012
              July 2   CURRENCY OF FEAR     Fear pays the way for my disease to enter.  Once inside fear seats itself front and center.  Fear is the currency that allows entry to the far reaches.  The coinage is ancient and steeped in...
mariette-ana-papic's picture
Sep.16.2011
It's time to shake my tree, time to get my feet moving again, so today I started a new series on my blog called, Street Signals. I figured it's time to organize my website and all the crazy types of writing I put on there. I pity those people who try to keep up with my untamed mind and have decided...
enoch-john's picture
Jan.21.2011
China should consider the following salient points if she wants to be accepted as a world power by other nations. [1]Free a certain Nobel Peace Prize winner immediately! [2]Allow the Dalai Lama to return to rule his country  . [3]Give Taiwan what she wants-her freedom. [4]Work assiduously on your...
lynn-henriksen's picture
Sep.25.2010
Memories are currency in more ways than one. What are we without memory? And what will happen to the important memories of our lives and the lives of those around us, if we don’t write them down? On a scrap of paper I recently came across on my cluttered desk, I’d written down a thought about...
enoch-john's picture
Jun.08.2010
After careful consideration, I have decided that I should share  my letter which I have sent to Queen Elizazbeth II. This is a serious letter and it concerns events that transpired in my country during the 2010 General Elections.Seeing that Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is sheduled to visit...
john-michael-greer's picture
Oct.07.2009
What do you have when you put 100 economists on a desert island with $1 million each but no food or water? A good start, some might suggest, but from another perspective you've got an uncomfortably close analogue to the modern world's predicament at the end of the age of cheap oil. The latest post...
rosy-cole's picture
Dec.07.2008
...to cite but one!   'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up...