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	Money & Markets – Week of 11.02.08Adjusted Monetary Base Now Going at 785.7% 
 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (6 Nov 2008)+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMF Urges Radical Action to Fight Global Recession 
 The Telegraph (07 N…
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	Money & Markets – Week of 11.02.08Adjusted Monetary Base Now Going at 785.7% 
 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (6 Nov 2008)+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMF Urges Radical Action to Fight Global Recession 
 The Telegraph (07 N…
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	Paulson’s Swindle RevealedFrom William Greider’s recent article: “Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson agreed to invest $125 billion in the nine largest banks, including $10 billion for Goldman Sachs, his old firm. But, if you loo… 
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	Paulson's Swindle RevealedFrom William Greider’s recent article: “Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson agreed to invest $125 billion in the nine largest banks, including $10 billion for Goldman Sachs, his old firm. But, if you loo… 
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	Geopolitical – Week of 11.02.08U.S. Government Finally Exacts Revenge on Iran/Contra Whistleblower Cele Castillo 
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	Life – Week of 11.02.08The GM Genocide: Thousands of Indian Farmers are Committing Suicide After Using Genetically Modified Crops 
 Mail Online (03 Nov 2008)Live Architecture: Grow Your Own Home 
 amazing.com (28 Aug 2008)H… 
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	Quote du JourThe most fundamental, essential element, without which any community would fail, boils down to interpersonal skills. The glue that holds any group together is the ability to put aside your own persona… 
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	Money & Markets – Week of 10.26.08Bailout Funds Being Spent in Ways Congress Never Foresaw 
 McClatchy (30 Oct 2008)Bernanke Says the U.S. Needs to Maintain a Role in Mortgage Securities 
 Wall Street Journal (1 Nov 2008)GMAC Aims to … 
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	Money & Markets – Week of 10.26.08Bailout Funds Being Spent in Ways Congress Never Foresaw 
 McClatchy (30 Oct 2008)Bernanke Says the U.S. Needs to Maintain a Role in Mortgage Securities 
 Wall Street Journal (1 Nov 2008)GMAC Aims to … 
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	Geo-Political – Week of 10.26.08States in Trouble Due to Economic Downturn 
 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (24 Oct 2008)State Revenues Plummet – July-September Revenue Numbers Are Worst in Years 
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	Precious Metals – Week of 10.26.08Mints Struggle to Meet Metals Demand 
 GATA (27 Oct 2008)Gold Sales Pick Up Phenomenally in India 
 GATA (26 Oct 2008)
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	Life – Week of 10.26.08Judge Rules Ohio Homeless Voters May List Park Benches as Addresses 
 Columbus Dispatch (28 Oct 2008)Gun Sales Thriving in Uncertain Times 
 MSNBC (27 Oct 2008)
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	Financial Permaculture Chautaqua?Tonight, Liora Adler, Andy Langford and Albert Bates gave a presentation on Transition Towns. Andy reviewed his estimates of what happens to the local economy each year in Lewis County as all the youn… 
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	Financial Permaculture Reaches Oceania!Here’s a live wire coming through the global information grapevine – Last night I blogged here about Eric Wagoner’s incredible LocallyGrown.net, a stunningly simple software solution to the cha… 
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	BiocharThe ethanol team at the Financial Permaculture conference is amazing. I was in their session last night led by Pat Therrien who manages to combine encylopedia-like knowledge with a sense of humor. S… 
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	Catherine on the 2008 ElectionThis Tuesday evening, November 4, Catherine Austin Fitts will be on Coast to Coast AM Radio with host, George Noory, to discuss the 2008 Presidential election. The show starts at 9PM Pacific Time. G… 
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	Financial EcosystemsView Catherine’s slide show on Financial Ecosystems here. Also review Catherine’s handout: Starting and Financing a Business Checklist (1). Here is the Ethanol Project Development Checklist, as well… 
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	Financial Permaculture – Natural HomebuildingGreat News! Howard Switzer and Katey Culver are going to present the history of natural homebuilding on Saturday evening during the open space presentations. Howard and Katey have a thriving business … 
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	Financial Permaculture – Meet The Green Incubation TeamThe challenges we face today are global in scope, but the solutions remain concrete. Our opportunity is to address them in sustainable, profitable ways. Companies can be conceived, launched, and sust… 
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	Financial Permaculture Goes ViralAn offering from Gifthub.org… 
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	Financial Permaculture in Hohenwald – Final ScheduleClick to access the final schedule (page 1, page 2) for the event: Financial Permaculture: The Greening of A Rural American Community, October 24-28, 2008 in Hohenwald, Tennessee. Click HERE to view … 
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	Financial Permaculture: Finance Team SimulationsThe Finance Team is doing two simulations on Saturday, October 25. Here are two of the handouts for the first simulation that Catherine will be leading: Financial Team Simulation: What Does a Local I… 
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	Financial Permaculture – Local Venture Capital StructuresRecently we published a review of independent media capital structures. This analysis looked at shareholder structures that divided investors between voting and non-voting shares or otherwise organiz… 
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	Financial Permaculture – Got a Comment?If you have a comment about Financial Permaculture or the Financial Permaculture workshop in Hohenwald, Tennessee October 24-28, 2008, and are not sure where to put it, please place it as a comment to… 
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	Principles of Financial PermaculturePrinciples of Financial Permaculture 
 By Jennifer Dauksha-EnglishView or download this document as a PDF Financial Permaculture has been a part of the overall concept of Permaculture as it has cropp… 
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	The Health of Our WaterI can’t think of any issue more important to the health and well-being of a community than the health of its water. Here is a quick piece from a member of the Solari network to help you think about yo… 
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	Franklin Sanders’ Weekly Market CommentaryThis commentary has been re-printed with Franklin Sanders’ permission: Well, well, here’s a surprise: another week you’ll never see again in your life — oddly enough, something like the week before…. 
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	Franklin Sanders' Weekly Market CommentaryThis commentary has been re-printed with Franklin Sanders’ permission: Well, well, here’s a surprise: another week you’ll never see again in your life — oddly enough, something like the week before…. 
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	Money & Markets – Week of 10.19.08Aggregate Monetary Base Now Going at 341% 
 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (23 Oct 2008)GM Suspends Payments Into 401K Plans 
 Reuters (23 Oct 2008)Russian Default Risk Tops Iceland as Crisis Dee… 
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	Money & Markets – Week of 10.19.08Aggregate Monetary Base Now Going at 341% 
 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (23 Oct 2008)GM Suspends Payments Into 401K Plans 
 Reuters (23 Oct 2008)Russian Default Risk Tops Iceland as Crisis Dee… 
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	Jon Rappoport: Now Versus ForeverThe following has been re-printed with Jon Rappoport’s permission: NOW VERSUS FOREVER The space of the NEW WORLD is here. To move into it, a person needs to have some idea of FOREVER. It isn’t jus… 
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	Precious Metals – Week of 10.19.08Will the IMF & Co. Let Gold Crash? 
 MineWeb (23 Oct 2008)Central Bank Warns of Risks in Illegal Gold Futures Speculation 
 China View (23 Oct 2008)Embry Warns of Failure of December Gold Contract 
 GAT…
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	Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.19.08Building Flawed American Dreams 
 NY Times (18 Oct 2008)
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	Life – Week of 10.19.08Organic Farming Could Feed Africa 
 The Independent (22 Oct 2008)Your Privacy is an Illusion: UK Attacks Civil Liberties 
 arstechnica.com (18 Oct 2008)Govindappa Venkataswamy 
 wikipedia.orgBlack Fa… 
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	Financial Permaculture – Meet the Food Coop LeadersThe leaders of the food coop team at Financial Permaculture are pretty incredible. Check out Eric Wagoner from Athens, Georgia and Robert Waldrop from Oklahoma. Bob organized and leads the Oklahoma Fo… 
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	Blogging Financial PermacultureFrom Phil Cubeta at Gifthub.org: The Prospects of Financial Permaculture Greg Landau at Gaia Emerging responds… 
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	We Welcome Your Help…Overview of Legal Structures for Small Businesses Financial Permaculture Conference We wrote up a list of enterprise legal forms for the recommended reading list for the entrepreneurs in Hohenwald. T… 
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	A Solari Report – Can Our Own Communities Serve as Financial Safe Havens in Troubled Times?By Catherine Austin Fitts and Carolyn Betts, Esq. Download a PDF version of this article The fall in global stock market prices over the last year has had a significant impact on most Americans’… 
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	Andrew Jackson and the Central Bank“The Bank is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.” 
 — President Andrew JacksonPresident Andrew Jackson of Tennessee was the 7th President of the United States. Jackson’s efforts to shut down the … 
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	Defense Contractors & Your InvestmentsDid you realize that many of the stocks and bonds you and your community invest in are highly dependent on government contracts and purchases? Check out Government Executive Magazine for the latest ra… 
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	Defense Contractors & Your InvestmentsDid you realize that many of the stocks and bonds you and your community invest in are highly dependent on government contracts and purchases? Check out Government Executive Magazine for the latest ra… 
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	In from the Solari NetworkThis came in from the Solari network today. It turns out that the common folk do indeed understand mortgage backed securities! Forrest Gump Explains Mortgage Backed Securities: “Mortgage backed Se… 
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	Factors Driving the Stock Market DownThere are numerous factors driving the stock market down. Here are a few important ones: 1. Debt overhang: We have issued far more debt than we can pay back. This is being used, among other things,… 
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	John Rappoport on The Money GameThe Money Game and the New World 
 by Jon RappoportThe people on this planet who run the money game at high levels have managed to put themselves into a hole. In retrospect, it was inevitable it would… 
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	Conscious Parallelism?Thank you to the audience member of Bill Bowsher’s show on SciZone in Cincinnati who wanted to know if the bailout was an example of a conscious parallelism: conscious parallelism n. 
 An undiscussed …
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	Did the U.S. Government Snoop on Americans’ Phone Calls?Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers: “The Senate Intelligence Committee is examining allegations by two former U.S. military linguists that the super-secret National Security Agency routinely e… 
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	Did the U.S. Government Snoop on Americans' Phone Calls?Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers: “The Senate Intelligence Committee is examining allegations by two former U.S. military linguists that the super-secret National Security Agency routinely ea… 
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	Catherine on Coast to Coast RadioThis Thursday evening, October 16, Catherine Austin Fitts will be on Coast to Coast AM Radio to discuss sustainable businesses, money cycling, local investments, and other ways we can join together to… 
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	Who’s Zooming Whom?During the Clinton Administration, four trillion dollars disappeared through the back door. Rather, than get it back, the Bush Administration has decided to simply hand out more through the same banks… 
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	Who's Zooming Whom?During the Clinton Administration, four trillion dollars disappeared through the back door. Rather, than get it back, the Bush Administration has decided to simply hand out more through the same banks… 
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	Bailout Bumper StickersThe bumper sticker brainstorm continues with more than 300 posts. Today’s favorite is: NO BANKER LEFT BEHIND Thanks, Lizanne! 
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	Money & Markets – Week of 10.12.08Fannie, Freddie to Buy $40 Billion a Month of Troubled Assets 
 Bloomberg (11 Oct 2008)Fears of Lehman’s CDS Derivatives Haunt Markets 
 GATA / The Telegraph (17 Oct 2008)Daily Bank Borrowing from Fed… 
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	Money & Markets – Week of 10.12.08Fannie, Freddie to Buy $40 Billion a Month of Troubled Assets 
 Bloomberg (11 Oct 2008)Fears of Lehman’s CDS Derivatives Haunt Markets 
 GATA / The Telegraph (17 Oct 2008)Daily Bank Borrowing from Fed… 
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	Precious Metals – Week of 10.12.08CFTC ‘Looking Into’ Gold Market as Well as Silver 
 GATA (13 Oct 2008)GoldMoney’s James Turk Reports on Getting Real Metal 
 GATA (10 Oct 2008)
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	Geopolitical – Week of 10.12.08Secret U.S. Mission Hauls Uranium from Iraq 
 MSNBC (5 July 2008)Toxic Pellets Found in Russian Rights Lawyer’s Car 
 NY Times (16 Oct 2008)Mind Control by Cell Phone 
 Scientific American (7 May 2008…
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	Life – Week of 10.12.08Best and Worst Bang for the Buck Cities 
 Yahoo Finance (15 Oct 2008)
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	Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.12.08Fannie to Buy $40 Billion in Junk Mortgages Each Month 
 GATA (11 Oct 2008)American Planners Recognize 30 Great Neighborhoods, Streets, and Public Spaces 
 planning.org (8 Oct 2008)Preview Catherine’… 
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	The Silent Financial Coup d’étatAn Interview with Catherine Austin Fitts by Jorge Nascimento Rodrigues, editor of Janelanaweb.com. QUESTION: Which are the roots of the ongoing financial crisis? A group of Wall Street’ criminals, o… 
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	AIG Spa Trip Fuels Fury on Capitol HillThis piece about lavish spending by AIG executives after the $85 billion federal bailout is worth reading. It points out the impossibility of reviving a real economy under the leadership of people who… 
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	Quote du Jour“I am genuinely proud that when I was chairman of the Association of Mining Analysts we held two gold seminars at which the much-reviled Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee spoke. What they said about th… 
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	Scoop Election Integrity Campaign – How To HelpAbout the Scoop US Electronic Election Integrity Campaign 2008 What is it? 
 A Pro-Bono (Free) advertising campaign to support the US Election Protection movement and its many diverse groups and partic…
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	Quote du Jour“We want to put down the foundations of a capitalism of the entrepreneur and not of the speculator. We want transparency. We want moralization. We want the creation of value. We want people to have co… 
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	An E-Mail to a Member of the Research Team at Goldman SachsHarry: Thank you for the opportunity to be on your e-mail list. I appreciate your generosity and hard work. I am writing to ask you to unsubscribe me from your list. I value your research reports. H… 
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	Money & Markets – Week of 10.5.08Britain to Sue Iceland Over Frozen Funds 
 GATA / The Telegraph (9 Oct 2008)Tight Money Markets Show More Action Needed 
 MarketWatch (9 Oct 2008)Hedge Fund Finds Itself on Defense 
 NY Times (7 Oct 200…
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	Money & Markets – Week of 10.5.08Britain to Sue Iceland Over Frozen Funds 
 GATA / The Telegraph (9 Oct 2008)Tight Money Markets Show More Action Needed 
 MarketWatch (9 Oct 2008)Hedge Fund Finds Itself on Defense 
 NY Times (7 Oct 200…
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	Geopolitical – Week of 10.5.08Races to Watch IX: Wall Street’s Favorite Candidates 
 OpenSecrets.org (9 Oct 2008)Did US Government Snoop on Americans’ Phone Calls? 
 Truthout.org (9 Oct 2008)Secret Bush Admin Plan to Suspend US … 
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	Precious Metals – Week of 10.5.08GATA Currency-to-Metal Converter Added to 24hGold 
 GATA (9 Oct 2008)Central Banks All But Stop Lending Gold 
 Financial Times (7 Oct 2008)GATA: CNBC Airs Prediction of Default in Paper Gold 
 GATA and …
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	Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.5.08Illinois Sheriff Scolds Banks for Evictions of ‘Innocent’ Renters 
 CNN (9 Oct 2008)Mortgage Crisis Is Foreseen in Housing Owned by Private Equity Firms 
 NY Times (5 Oct 2008)
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	Food & Health – Week of 10.5.08Doctor’s Files Impounded 
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	Food & Health – Week of 10.5.08Doctor’s Files Impounded 
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	Life – Week of 10.5.08Pictures of Hurricane Ike Juan Diego Florez Sings Granada — High-Quality Video/Sound YouTube 
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	Quotes du Jour“We are now in the golden age of thieves. And where I come from we put thieves in jail, we don’t bail them out.” 
 – Congressman Pete Visclosky, Democrat, Indiana“I believe that banking institut… 
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	Our Next Brainstorm: Let’s Bail OUT OF Wall StreetOUR NEXT BRAINSTORM: WHAT ACTIONS CAN WE TAKE TO BAIL OUT OF WALL STREET? The time has come to purge these people from our lives. How do we do it? Since our readers had such great ideas on the bumper… 
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	Our Next Brainstorm: Let's Bail OUT OF Wall StreetOUR NEXT BRAINSTORM: WHAT ACTIONS CAN WE TAKE TO BAIL OUT OF WALL STREET? The time has come to purge these people from our lives. How do we do it? Since our readers had such great ideas on the bumper… 
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	Ten Reasons NOT To Bail Out Wall Streetby Catherine Austin Fitts and Carolyn Betts, Esq. (1) Crime that pays is crime that stays. There is reason to believe that Wall Street and those they represent are holding loans without collateral, … 
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	Introducing Lesta FrankI love Lesta Frank’s watercolors. You can learn more about Lesta and how to purchase watercolors, prints and cards at her website and blog. She has kindly granted me permission to share some of them w… 
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	Goldman Sachs Goes Net Long Gold on TOCOMBy Adrian Douglas In the September 29 session on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) Goldman Sachs COVERED 13 short contracts and bought 495 long contracts to bring their long position to 2,525 cont… 
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	Avalon Acres – Financial PermacultureAnother reason to come to Financial Permaculture is to hook up with one of the fastest growing CSAs in Tennessee, Avalon Acres Farm in Hohenwald, Tennessee. – 
 Visit Avalon Acres website >>>
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	A Solari Report – How to Influence Your CongresspersonBy Carolyn Betts, Esq. WHAT CONGRESS IS GOOD FOR THESE DAYS Not much, it seems, given that we have what essentially amounts to a single-party system (i.e., the corporatist party). However, the Bus… 
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	Treasury Conference CallPlease seed and spread around! http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/09/mussolini-style-corporatism-in-action.html This is an audio recording of the conference call with the US Treasury Department, gi… 
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	Paul Newman: 1925 – 2008A great man died today—he left us with a family, movies, businesses and gifts that will bring joy for centuries to come. Let’s take a minute to give thanks for his life and say a prayer for him and … 
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	Wall Street to Main Street: Who Needs You?Fed Pumps Further $630 Billion Into Financial System 
 By Scott Laman & Craig Torres – Bloomberg.com (29 Sep 2008)Adjusted Monetary Base – 25 Sep 2008 
 St. Louis Federal ReserveFinancial Sense Ne… 
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	Main Street to Wall Street: Drop DeadU.S. House Rejects $700 Billion Financial-Rescue Plan 
 By Allison Vekshin & Laura Litvan – Bloomberg.com (29 Sep 2008)
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	Bumper Sticker BrainstormOne of our network members is keen on producing a bumper sticker to express our opposition to bailouts and the institutions engineering them. We could use your help in coming up with a pithy slogan fo… 
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	Rumi and BatesSit down and be quiet. 
 You are drunk, and this is the
 edge of the roof.
 ~ Rumi
 This wonderful quote from Rumi was brought to our attention by the amazing Albert Bates. Albert is one of the reasons why…
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	Money & Markets – Week of 9.29.08Hidden in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 
 Daily Paul (2 October 2008)Franklin Sanders: Somebody’s ‘painting the tape’ with gold and silver 
 GATA & The MoneyChanger (2 Oct 2008)… 
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	Money & Markets – Week of 9.29.08Hidden in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 
 Daily Paul (2 October 2008)Franklin Sanders: Somebody’s ‘painting the tape’ with gold and silver 
 GATA & The MoneyChanger (2 Oct 2008)… 
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	Sorghum Festival, October 4thI went down to Burton’s Sugar Farm in Northern Mississippi outside of Memphis this weekend. This is my third visit to the Sugar Farm and each time I come away thinking that was the finest catfish and … 
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	Mortgage Markets – Week of 9.29.08Sub-Prime as a Black Catastrophe 
 By Melvin L. Oliver & Thomas M. Shapiro – American Prospect (22 Sep 2008)Produce The Note “How-To” 
 The Consumer Network Warning – Video Collection
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	Geopolitical – Week of 9.29.08Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government (Pt.1) 
 ManageableAnts Blog (2 Oct 2008)
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	Precious Metals – Week of 9.29.08‘Unseen’ and ‘Unprecedented’ Demand For Bullion By Rich 
 By Javier Blas – Financial Times, London (30 Sep 2008)SNB Completes Planned Gold Sales, No More Due 
 By Emma Thomasson – Forbes.com (29 Sep 200…
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	Life – Week of 9.29.08Alaska 101 for presidential candidates 
 Indian Country Today (2 Oct 2008)U.S. spacecraft poised to fly past Mercury next week 
 Reuters (2 Oct 2008)Do We Live in a Giant Cosmic Bubble? 
 Live Science (…
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	Food & Health – Week of 9.29.08What is Permaculture? 
 How to Boil a Frog—A Short Interview with Albert Bates
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	Food & Health – Week of 9.29.08What is Permaculture? 
 How to Boil a Frog—A Short Interview with Albert Bates
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	Ode To Big BankersA network member requests that we offer up a place to post limericks and songs to lift our spirits in a dire hour. Here is her contribution: Ode to Big Bankers & Politicians Enjoy yourself, you … 
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	Radio New Zealand Interviews Alastair ThompsonAlastair Thompson: Politics and Pilgrimage 
 Scoop Independent News (20 Sep 2008)For more on Scoop’s Campaign >>> For more on Alastair’s recent Pilgrimage >>> 
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	Final Bailout White PaperProposed $700 Billion Bailout Is Too Little, Too Late to End the Debt Crisis; Too Much, Too Soon for the U.S. Bond Market 
 By Martin D. Weiss & Michael D. Larson (24 Sep 2008)
 Submitted to U.S. Con…
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	A Comment on the Bailout BillBy Carolyn Betts, Esq. I agree with every point in Bernie Sanders’ proposal but have a suggestion. I worked with lead counsel to the RTC (the government entity that served as receiver for defunct sa… 




































































































 
			