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  1. Michel:

    I know of Bernard LIetaer and have read one of his earlier books. I get the latest and take a look. I agree that he comes very highly recommended.

    Thanks!

    Catherine

  2. Dear Catherine,
    Many thanks for your wonderful spirits and for the depth of information of your reports.

    About our monetary system, have you ever come across the writings of Bernard Lietaer or met him?

    The recent report of the European chapter of the Club of Rome is about debt money monopoles and the crisis. It is available in English from Triarchy Press.

    The Author Claims that modern money is the missing link that fully explains, and could solve, our economic problems. I should like very much to hear your comments on this subject if you can find the time to read the full report or the executive summary (about 10 pages).
    Perhaps you might also wish to inteview B. Lietaer, another rare monetary expert who thinks “out of the box” and an outstanding communicator on the subject.

    With best regards
    Michel Ickx

  3. I have a book suggestion and a possible guest for the Solari Report, which might shed brighter light on some recurring themes and memes on the Solari website: Joseph Tainter – His seminal book is worth a second read, even if you do not share an interest in archaeology. This book is worth a second read, even if you do not share an interest in archaeology. Tainter explores the socio-economic causes of collapse in a variety of cultures, from the Harappan Civilization of the Indus Valley to the Western Roman Empire. Apparent causes – Resource Depletion, Energy Shortage, Catastrophes, Intruders, Mismanagement, Social Dysfunction, and Mystical Factors – may mask real causes of societal collapse. Mark Twain said it well, “History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

    Tainter, Joseph A (2003. First published 1988), “The Collapse of Complex Societies”, New York & Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-38673-X. I prefer the depth of this book to Jared Diamond’s well-written 2005 book, “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed”.

    1. Charles: This sounds very interesting. We will pass this suggestion on to Cathierine.

  4. Confirmation of Catherine’s suspicion that Federal Disaster Areas are really hidden quantitative easing: http://edegrootinsights.blogspot.ca/2012/07/mother-nature-doesnt-care.html

    Here’s the money quote: The government has declared one-third of the nation’s counties — 1,297 of them across 29 states — federal disaster areas as a result of the drought, which will allow farmers to apply for low-interest loans to get them through the disappointing growing season.

    1. Thanks for this insight, Doug! Catherine and I have been without power and phone service due to ugly rainstorms in Cincinnati, with trees down and electrical wires across the front lawn! This is the second time this month and there’s another on its way. I don’t recall weather conditions like this in this area in my lifetime.

      — Carolyn Betts

      1. Reading through the comments in 2014… I am from Middletown, Ohio, and we have had rainstorms like that ever since I can remember… (born in 1950). Maybe there was a lull for a period during which you were either born or moved there. I can still remember just getting my driver’s license and trying to drive through one of those storms with my younger sister and her friend in the car. Trying to dodge trees and power lines all the way home from swimming. There were many times on the farm when we had to wait until all the branches came down before we could venture out to see if the animals were all right…

        I think there is an element of weather manipulation but frankly there is also a lot of bad weather that occurs naturally across this country.

  5. Topic: Food and Health

    Just made a major change, switched from vegetarian to paleo. Get Nora’s book http://www.primalbody-primalmind.com/ It is fascinating, horrifying, enlightening. I thought I knew everything. Nice to know that I can still learn something.

  7. I just saw a wonderful film Money & Life by Katie Teague at a Whiidbey Island Institute money conference near Seattle. I would love for you to see it Catherine. It’s a very accessible film that brings what is happening to consciousness and I am hoping it will become available for everyone (for cab drivers) to see.

    http://www.moneyandlifemovie.com/

    There were also great sessions beamed in by Hazel Henderson, President of Ethical Markets Media and author of Beyond Economics and also John Fullerton of the Capital Institute.

    Mayuri

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