Author: Mark Gilmore

I was depressed last night so I called Lifeline.

I got a call center in Pakistan.

I told them I was suicidal.

They got all excited and asked if I could fly a plane.

Susan Sontag was someone who had astonishing insights into our collective situations. Here is one that I read recently.

I just installed a freezer, bought my first lamb and quarter calf from
two local farmers, and joined the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund
through the Weston Price Foundation where Solari is already…

I have just added Micheal Moore’s documentary Sicko to my list of favorite recent documentaries.Sicko is a home run.

Thanks, Mike.

They were laying new power cables which were strung on the ground for miles. The moose are rutting right now and very agitated. He was thrashing around and got his antlers stuck in the cables. When t…

Sh** Happens in World Religions:

Taoism
Sh** happens

Confucianism
Confucius say, “Sh** happens.”

Buddhism
If sh** happens, it’s not really sh**.

Zen-Buddhism
What is the sound of sh** …

Pete McCormack has taken my Financial Sense Newshour Interview
and provided detailed links and documentation to help the reader understand the relationship between finances and freedom and the finan…

Daily Updates ~ Ron Paul 2008
A day for the record books!

There is much talk about the impact on Wall Street and the banking system of the dramatic drop in the price of mortgage backed securities. Last week I heard a presentation that estimated that 94% of a…

I just returned from Anchorage, Alaska. What a wonderful place filled with wonderful people.

The following enterprises in Alaska/relevant to Alaska government and investment flows or mentioned in my …

Stroger’s $888 Million Tax Hikes
By Mickey Ciokajlo – Chicago Tribune (17 Oct 2007)

Housing Downturn Takes Toll on Cities’ Revenue
By Monica Davey – New York Times (18 Oct 2007)

~ An inquiry and Catherine’s response:

Hello Catherine:

I stumbled onto your site quite serendipitously a few months back and have subsequently read almost everything posted here, including your es…

Catherine was interviewed on the Talk of Alaska radio show on Tuesday, October 16. You can listen to, or download this great interview by navigating to the Alaska Public Radio Network website:
http://…

I am someone who is critical of the Wall Street Journal. That means, it is important to say something when they hit a home run. They have published an outstanding editorial that is worthy of your cons…

The Chattanooga Declaration was drafted and approved by delegates to the Second North American Secessionist Convention on 4 October 2007.

The deepest questions of human liberty and government fac…

I am occasionally asked where my donations go.

One of the things I have done for many decades is to gift directly to individuals. Indeed, I believe the practice saved my life. In 1997, when I was tar…

Barrick Gold Named to Dow Jones Sustainability Index
Marketwire – Barrick Gold Corporation

Peak Gold! – A Primer on True Hedging, Part Four
By A.E. Fekete – Goldseek.com (20 Sep 2007)

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I was dismayed to open my latest netflix and see an ad for Showtime’s show Dexter: The Return of Americas…

The Green Party has launched a new campaign, Moving the Money to Main Street. We hope to do all that we can to support their efforts and hope you do too.

I was reminded tonight that I met a very dear friend as a result of 911. I have been thinking about how many wonderful people have come into my life as a result of the unanswered questions of 911.

I …

Thanks to a very special member of the Solari Action Network, we have been able to post the documentation at the Solari – The Missing Money related to then Secretary of Defense statements regarding $2…

Well the fool (or morals tutor as he prefers) over at gifthub.org has done it again. For some reason, he thinks philanthropy is supposed to be REAL. It is one thing to out the criminal enterprise of h…

RE: Federal Mandate for “Pasteurization” of Almonds

To:
Secretary Mike Johanns
United States Department of Agriculture
1400 Independence Ave SW
Whitten Building Suite 200A
Washington, D.C. 20250
gse…

We face real challenges in maintaining liquidity in the mortgage market by “dropping” money out of central banking “helicopters.” It is one thing to keep the price of an asset inflated. It is another …

I have been developing a methodology for Solari to determine the total economic return (impact on both investor and living ecosystem) of a mining operation. I have been inching along as my understand…

To paraphrase Utah Phillips, the sub-prime mortgage market is not crashing. Rather, the families and communities induced to borrow and invest are being killed. And the people killing them have names a…

Thanks to wonderful allies Nan Garrett (Georgia Green Party) and Katey Culver and Howard Switzer  (Green Party of Tennessee) I had the opportunity to speak to the Green Party national convention in…

I highly value recommendations from Phil Cubeta at gifthub.org. He recently recommended Family Wealth: Keeping It in the Family – How Family Members and Their Advisers Preserve Human, Intellectual, an…

I have a habit of trolling through discounted DVD bins at truck stops and out of the way local video stores. Such bins are great sources of aging B grade movies that illuminate real politics and cover…

Several people have asked me for names of documentaries I enjoyed/found useful recently. Here are some of my favorites (in no particular order) from the last two years.

Scoop Media is my top source for news on current U.S. government and political events. Yes, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have far more writers and more resources. Yes, the London pap…

Our favorite Fool at one of our favorite blogs, Gift Hub: Blogging Philanthrophy has done it again. Check out “Why Laundering Drug Money through Philanthropy is Good for America.” It takes a Master Fo…

The Federal Trade Commission is opposing Whole Food’s acquisition of Wild Oats on anti-trust grounds? I don’t think so.

I am sitting here in the middle of the country trying to figure out how I can g…

Thanks to Progressive Review for bringing the following to our attention. If you are looking to understand what is holding up the stock market, here is an item for your consideration:

70% OF CLASSIFI…

The following in today from Secrecy News: a Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy – as described in a recent posting, provides insight into one of the flows of government mon…

I am in the middle of Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near I am not sure what I think of it yet. The gist of it is clear — change will continue to accelerate. Today a quick video called Shift Happe…

I just had one of my most favorite activists tell me that he never heard of the Yes Men. Goodness! This is one team and DVD that you do not want to miss.

Tom Greco made a comment on why he believes that there is no role for gold and silver in community currencies. Franklin Sanders and I jump in on Tom’s Blog to make a comment . In the process I visited…

The other night, someone sent me a link in an e-mail entitled “Greg Palast discredits 911 Truth.” Clicking on the link, I found myself at 911blogger.org watching an INN Report interview of Greg Pala…

This week James Altucher published a column, Profit From the Plight of the Honeybees, on how to profit in the stock market from the disappearing honeybees. I have posted several stories on the disappe…

Several years ago, I went to California to do a speaking tour and to raise money to help me through the most difficult part of eleven years of litigation resulting from my efforts to prevent corruptio…

In the early 19th century, the little British Channel island of Guernsey faced a problem. Its sea walls were crumbling. its roads were too narrow, and it was already heavily in debt. There was little …

I have said all along that reading or watching anything to do with Presidential politics is not an effective use of time.

Senator Mike Gravel’s performance during the recent Democratic Candidate Deba…