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1. Permaculture Community Investment Bank

   The following is an idea for setting up a local Investment Bank that would finance small business start-ups under a Brand such as “Permaculture Enterprise Network.” This Bank would provide training and mentoring for its borrowers, as well as an ethical basis for its businesses: “Earth care, people care, fair share,” from Bill Mollison’s “Permaculture, A Designer’s Manual”(1988). Permaculture is a way of designing place-based ecological economies. It is capable of providing sustainable water, soil, food, fuel, and shelter while generating community along the way. Permaculture is intelligence-dense and capital-light. It is a whole systems approach to designing environmentally regenerative support structures for human nurturance.
   Under the Bank’s auspices, business plans would be written by prospective owners for specialties such as rainwater harvesting, edible landscaping, firesafing, alternative energy, fertility and energy crops from marginal lands, water sequestration using earthworks for ponds, swales and keylining, aquaculture, natural building, sustainable forestry, constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment, small scale dairies, food processing and preservation, among other things. These are basic capacities that make a place prosperous –capacities that add up to real productivity and local security.
   There are many proven techniques, not difficult to master, that young people willing to work, could pick up and get good at. The Bank would sponsor the basic permaculture design certification course, an established 72-hour curriculum with a hands-on design project pass-fail requirement, which would be a prerequisite for a basic business management course in which students would learn to write, with expert coaching, the well-thought-out, customized-to-place business plan most appropriate to their abilities. The Bank would retain majority ownership and provide ongoing mentoring for enterprises selected for support until the business passed a financial assessment proving viability, whereupon, with ample cash flow, the owner could realistically buy out and become fully independent. Maintenance contracts for installed systems, since many of the techniques are new, would be a common feature offered, providing ongoing employment and developing experience until systems maintenance for these new approaches has become as familiar and mainstream as maintenance of private autos, septic systems, lawns, homes, and major appliances are today.
   The Bank, in its function as small business incubator, would provide bookkeeping and marketing services for its start-ups. These are the tasks business-owners starting out have the hardest time with. The Bank would provide training, loans for equipment (each start-up not very capital-intensive), mentoring, legal services, accounting, as well as customers for each new business. The moral support supplied by such an arrangement would be a powerful insulator against the high failure rate common to small business starts in the mainstream economy.
   The Bank, in its function as promoter of permaculture solutions, would lobby local government to remove regulatory obstacles. It would set up specially permitted model projects to demonstrate quality standards. It would obtain economies of scale in purchasing materials and equipment. It would coordinate flows, one enterprise’s waste becoming fuel for another’s production. It would also help with allocating labor between enterprises seasonally as needed. The different specialties once launched, might form their own associations, interact with experts in their fields, sponsor research, and nurture ongoing innovation in their area of expertise. Competencies would be developed and best practices established.
   The Bank would be a conduit for philanthropy as well as a source of information about available subsidies and tax credits. In its function as an investment vehicle, The Bank would provide a secure home for local investors to place their money into shares of locally productive, visible hard assets generating income streams. In its function as holder of an ethical mission, The Bank would assure the customers of its protégés monitored, high quality services. As a part of its ethical mission, The Bank would demonstrate financial transparency, for the purpose of building trust.
   An apprenticeship program would develop ongoing expertise. It would provide a sense of belonging to a challenging and meaningful mission as well as a structure to stimulate inventiveness among the young. People care services could be integrated with these activities, such as child care, allowing adults in their most productive years maximum convenience and peace of mind as they work.
   In the current economy people are losing their jobs, just as a great deal of work needs to be done to get alternative support systems in place. The time for this is ripe. Due to the hole made in the mainstream economy by a falling house of cards, state and local governments, pension funds, financial institutions, even the federal government, are rapidly becoming insolvent and are already being forced to cut services. It looks like communities are going to be left on their own. Investment vehicles that only a year or two ago were fine, now seem uncertain: stocks and bonds, real estate, even bank accounts no longer seem as secure as they once were. Investment in real-world productivity, building local skills and basic self-reliance using the best knowledge available, would leverage investors’ assets into practical systems for maximum community-based long term security.
   The organization described here could start with where we are today, doing those projects which are legal, productive, and financially viable now, while remaining observant, adaptable, and open to evolutions as conditions change. It could safeguard an ethical basis for ecological human nurturance. Permaculture’s whole systems perspective is capable of revealing efficiencies which can then be designed in to highly effective systems for prosperity in a given place.
   The Bank would also be an appropriate venue for the creation of a LETS –Local Energy Trading System: an alternative currency. Once a community of small businesses got production for local needs up and running, a local currency could protect an area from inflation, deflation, supply disruptions, and failures in the existing financial system. In prosperous areas, the network of businesses would be integrated with the regular cash economy, and evolve as needed. In low income areas with high unemployment, it could operate under work-trade or other types of barter arrangements.
   This is an idea that is not very hard to do, not very expensive, can start small and grow, and can end up with local prosperity capably building up in a climate of trust and cooperation, with a fair and understandable moral foundation.

2. Dear Catherine,

   As I move to a small town in western Washington in another two weeks,
   thoughts of what is to come for this country flood my mind and I, like so
   many others, am deeply concerned.

   I have never had much of a stomach for politics but that may all be changing now.
   Long story short, one of the first ways I would like to enter the
   political arena is by writing a letter to, say, both the governor of the
   state and the mayor of the town I will be moving to. I have no hope for
   the federal government at the moment and only some hope for state
   government. Thus, my concentration will be on the governing powers of my
   own “neighborhood” for now (with a letter to the governor for “good
   measure”).

   What I would like the letter to do is essentially explain to the
   powers-that-be how our current economy really works and then explain how
   it NEEDS to work, both for the sake of continuity and simple integrity. (I
   would like, for example, to introduce and push for the concept of local
   currency.) The only problem with this endeavour is that, in spite of
   (what I would consider) my above average intelligence, I haven’t the
   slightest clue as to what to say.

   The letter I would end up writing:

   Dear Governor/Mayor X,

   Our economy is really corrupt. We need to change that. One way we could do
   that is by having local currency. Can we put this plan into action?

   Sincerely,

   Dufus

   Would you mind writing a form letter that has many more “teeth” to it,
   much more substance (but which is still understandable to those without a
   PhD), and maybe posting it on your website for others to use as well?
   Something that provides all the necessary details but which us “little
   people” could also “tweak” a little bit here and there, in keeping with
   our own local situation and personal thoughts and so forth?

   I THINK that would be a really helpful way for grassroots movements to
   really get something going unto saving at least their local economies, if
   not their state’s also, and I would be forever endebted to you if you
   could do me this favor. 🙂

   Thank you so much for all that you do for God and country. It is so
   necessary and very much appreciated.

   Greg Beattie

   Seattle, Washington

3. With the upcoming election and all of the confusing and troublesome events in the financial markets and economy, I decided to release some of the results of research I have done over many years. I am releasing this so that Americans can better understand what is happening and hopefully find it useful for their own personal decisions. I am also releasing it so that people of other countries can also understand what is happening and better understand the bizarre behavior of the United States these last years.

   Catherine, I love the quality of your work.

   Here are the links:

   The link to the webpage is:

   http://www.classicsoftware.com/signalspace/newcycle.htm

   A link to a pdf file is :

   http://www.classicsoftware.com/signalspace/newcycle.pdf

   You can get to the pdf from the web page as well.

   Sincerely,

   Ed Moran
   Signal Space, Inc.

4. Catherine might want to put this in perspective. The Tapeworm mechanism has been a part of the American landscape as far back as the Constitution and even George Washington blessed it by making an early tapeworm’s major architect an appointee to the Supreme Court. It is so acceptable in DC because the history is long and deep.
   You might want to read this article by Michael Hudson. What’s changed is the degree and of course the danger thanks to OTC derivatives.

   http://www.counterpunch.com/hudson09232008.html
   A Cautionary Tale About Politicos and Financiers
   Henry Paulson and the New Yazoo Land Scandal
   By MICHAEL HUDSON

5. Tap the county employee’s retirement plan money’s which are segregated to the county level in some states, and develop a track record of investing this within the same county or at least same region of the street.

6. Winter House

   Amos 3:15 “And I will smite the winter house with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end.”

   Yosef sat before the fire, a storyteller beneath Tcha Ti Mon Wi, the place where the spirits gather. It had been long since one so adept had recorded a story in stone for future generations. The stones in the medicine wheel lay flattened in a spiral, the opposite of the spiral energy from stars arrayed above. As the coals in the pit glowed, the rock was ready to receive those images that any seeker could invoke.
   He began: When a warrior challenges his enemy, he must first warn of his intention. That is a law of this universe. In the Twenty First century of haste, the Aristocrats knew this law, but had forgotten one small detail, a detail so important that all the warrior would attempt rested upon its premise. Thirty-one years before, he had arrived on October 18th, 1987 as a glittering sword to the Old Men Rockefellers. Their mansion was upon a knoll overlooking Sleepy Hollow to the west, and New York City to the south. The warrior approached along the Seven Bridges Trail. He greeted each bird and plant in his passing. Within, he observed youthful lust still lingering from his home in White Plains. He sat quietly in meditative pose facing the Rockefeller mansion several miles distant. Rothschilds were the power behind the Rockefellers, though that was scarcely important in this point in time. As he stilled, a four-point buck approached, acknowledging the warrior. The man then stood, moving along more public trails toward the mansion. Ladies and gentlemen sat their carriages, and others rode their horse solitary.
   Off to the left a field of corn was being harvested. Crows were raucously vying for the leavings. Above them, a red-tailed hawk soared, circling over the approaching warrior, and passing toward the mansion. His attention was focused upon a large double-trunked maple, in its golden glory. Quietly moving behind the tree where no one could see, he began to invoke an ancient ritual. Trees record the history of a land, but unlike stones, can only preserve it for the span of their life. He saw over two centuries, the rise of Rockefeller power, drawing from the land, to wage war with commerce. The verdict: guilty.
   Hearing the galloping of a horse, he came from his trance. To the west were public lands. Behind the maple, where he stood, was a wrought iron gate, open into the private Rockefeller estate. A young woman glanced from the horse, asking of his health.
   “I am fine, thank you,” he replied. In a matter of seconds, during this exchange, she galloped by into the estate. In fact this was a psychic communication, not subject to the strictures of time. The next day, the stock market crashed in one of its largest declines in recent memory. They had been warned.

   The President of the United States, George W. Bush, was a complete and utter incompetent. He had one gift – a folksy delivery. That was the reason the Rothschilds at the Bank for International Settlements in Basle had chosen George. Inwardly, they fumed at his address. “The damn fool kept rubbing the mike and creaks and groans accompanied each statement as it was delivered live to the Nation.” Any psychoactive piggybacking of his address was successfully countered by this miscue. This was the moment they had carefully orchestrated through Henry Paulson, the U.S. Secretary of Treasure, and Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman. The nation must be convinced that $700 billion was needed to keep the nation afloat. Most had forgotten Catherine Austin Fitts, the meddling chick financier, who blew the whistle two years before. The Rothschilds had let her story remain public because the relevant information was buried in Chapter 9 of a 125-page diatribe.
   The warrior remembered. On September 25, 2008, the day after the President’s address, he carefully extracted the relevant passage – $.7 trillion missing from HUD – unaccounted for. This was the bribe money Rothschilds had used to position themselves in the U.S., stolen directly from U.S. taxpayers, and now Congress was being herded to convince the public to pay for their sins.
   What Rothschilds had forgotten was the warning thirty-one years before. Of course they had noted an adept, but had forgotten with the passage of time. That same warrior had remained debt free beyond the finely meshed scheme by financiers to embed everyone within the sin of greed. The warrior was allowed to speak with Power according to the Laws of the Universe. Like the Rothschilds secure in their European chateaus, the warrior lived far distant from the chaos of New York City. As he sat upon Tcha Ti Mon Wi, he reflected on this journey, embedding the images within the heated rocks.
   Ironic, that it would be the very stones crying out that would bring the Aristocrats to their knees. They had sought to destroy the lifeforce of the Earth before its time. Now they must vanish in smoke. The prophecy in Amos foretold this with certainty. The winter house in Hebrew meant the autumn house of harvest. The harvest had just been completed where the warrior lived beneath Tcha Ti Mon Wi. The house of ivory in one translation meant houses of man. Would humans or just the Aristocrats be forced to leave Earth? That remained uncertain.
   Carefully, layer upon layer, the warrior typed the story onto the Internet, contacting presidential contender Obama, his campaign headquarters, and regional offices. Others were networked as well, a Chinese intelligence officer for the CIA, a financier, and business adviser stretching across the portal of the Internet – speaking Truth to power. The bluff of Bush to stampede the cattle into one more acceptance of theft was revealed. Congress would not pass the bailout of $700 billion.

   Peter

7. The PRE-PLANNED Financial/Economic 911 of 2008

   WHAT: A pre-planned collapse of the US (and global) financial and economic systems.

   WHO: The same characters who perpetrated the original 911.

   WHERE: New York City & DC, of course. Plus a sideshow in Washington state.

   WHEN: The days surrounding September 11, naturally.

   HOW: Instead of painted drones, missiles with wings & big fins, and fake airplanes, they used the much more stealthy short seller.

   WHY: To remake the economic/financial order of the world into a “PPP”.

   WHY Really: Think about it ! And then ask yourself, “Cui bono?”

   The 911 blueprint worked so magically for the world controllers that they were compelled to use virtually the same playbook. “If it ain’t broke, why fix it?

   So, what’s the real deal here?

   By analogy, let’s take a quick look at the 911 timeline and stack it up against the new 2008 Financial “911”, as it began to unfold earlier this year.

   1. The Bear Stearns collapse that began in March 2008 is analogous to the 1st World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Just a warm up. This was preceded by a little failure back in January featuring Countrywide – the largest US mortgage lender.

   2. The nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac marks the beginning of the new 911. Both in the DC area, they were the first to come down this time. Just as they struck at the heart of the military complex, this time they went for the jugular of the national real estate market. Remember – this is a financial 911.

   3. Next came this year’s version of the twin towers, building 7 and other assorted NYC landmarks in the form of Lehman Brothers, AIG, Merrill Lynch, as well as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs in their “new & improved” form. Basically took out the whole of American investment brokerage, heh?!

   4. And, of course, we still have Washington Mutual out there in the boonies just like the one that “crashed” in a PA farm field. Update: WashMu is now history! As is another “little” bank by the name of Wachovia.

   5. Their MO! What else, but controlled demolition? Throughout 2008, and especially this month of September, we have seen some of the world’s largest banks, brokerage houses, mortgage lenders, insurance companies and investment brokers go bust, as each of them fell perfectly into their own footprint faster than you can say: C O N T R O L L E D D E M O L I T I O N ! ! !

   6. The 700 billion dollar Bailout Plan is just like the Patriot Act, isn’t it? Only this time it’s maybe a 1 or 2 page document (in its original form) that conferred absolute authority on the Executive Branch to do just about anything they want with the taxpayer’s money. And they want it rubber stamped now. Not tomorrow. NOW!!! Without discussion, or unnecessary congressional debate. Talk about Shock & Awe being used against the American people, and their elected representatives!?! “The Greatest Depression” never sounded more like “Weapons of Mass Destruction”, eh?!?!

   7. Now we know we can expect further gyrations, panics and precipitous declines in the market and elsewhere, just as we had anthrax attacks in the Capital, beltway snipers in Maryland in October of ’02, the 3/11/04 train bombings in Madrid, and the 7/7/05 bombings in London. Not to mention the 50+ other synthetic terror events staged throughout the world to enforce compliance and create distraction.

   8. The sudden and dramatic downfall of NY Gov Eliot Spitzer can also now be seen in its proper light. Having left the reservation one too many times, he simply could not be trusted to go with the flow. He had their numbers, their signatures (especially their MO’s), their addresses — the whole ball of wax, as well as his own reputation to burnish. Eliot, to seal his fate, wrote a masterful expose on the subprime mortgage fiasco/fraud that was published in the WashPo just weeks before his public humiliation. He had recently testified before Congress in great revelatory fashion as well. The elimination of John O’Neil, Head of Security at the WTC complex, is quite similar, except that John O. – a great patriot – died on 911, having just been given the job.

   9. To date, the most obvious and glaring example of this manipulated takedown is the case of a NY Senator. His letter to the FDIC contained confidential information that triggered the IndyMac bank collapse in July. California AG Jerry Brown was called to review the entire affair after the OTS Director explicitly blamed the letter for causing a run on the bank (3rd largest bank failure in US history). This episode is eerily reminiscent of Larry Silverstein’s order to, “Pull it.” just prior to the expertly controlled demolition of Building # 7on 911.

   10. Just as 911 was perpetrated as a cover for: inaugurating the War on Terror, overtly advancing the NWO regime globally (in contrast to this previously covert operation), imposing a police state (Homeland Security) in the US (by gutting the US Constitution), UK and elsewhere, dominating and securing oil/gas reserves in the Middle East and Cacaucus (to include running energy pipelines through Afghanistan and stealing Iraq’s oil wealth via military invasion), jump starting the Afghan opium trade, etc., the ECO/FIN 911 of ’08 is a cover for many of these same agenda items. However, there is one little item that is particularly high on the current agenda. And that concerns the derivatives market, which in its totality approximates somewhere between 750 trillion and 1 quadrillion dollars of instruments as of 2008. In fact, the sub prime mortgage defaults are just a tip of the tip of the iceberg when compared to the real megilla – DERIVATIVES. This is what they’re really worried about, and having to cover for. Except this is a quadrillion dollar megilla that can’t be covered without unraveling the entire capitalistic system, and its fascist corpocracy and kleptocratic oligarchy.

   11. And then there is the teenie-weenie matter concerning the Federal Reserve, and its collection agency – the IRS. The man standing behind this curtain has a lot at stake, especially in the form of mountains of evidence that will indict, and convict, the entire system. Lots of evidence was destroyed during and after 911, as will happen after many of these Wall Street firms are taken over, nationalized, liquidated, merged and disappeared. The veil, however, has already been lifted.

   Does anyone see a pattern here?!

   The real lesson to be gleaned from this analysis is that events of such enormity and consequence are rarely spontaneous and unchoreographed. Especially when they happen just weeks from an era defining presidential election. They have obviously been planning this one for a long time, and it has been fastidiously engineered to have a very definite effect and desired outcome – a permanent planetary plantation (PPP).
   The execution, thus far, has been flawless. Even for those of us who stood there on the 1st 911, and knew it was a fraud while the buildings were coming down, this one is exceedingly more difficult to penetrate. However, penetrate we will, until every last conspirator is sitting before the TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION spillin’ the beans. The ultimate and lasting effect of these inquiries will be a New World Order of our making, not theirs. The only remaining, $64,000 question will undoubtedly be, “What do we do with them after we head them off at the pass?”
   For the uninitiated, it may take quite a lot to wrap your mind around this extremely complex and convoluted plot, but, please, just be patient. As this drama plays out, the true intentions of the primary perpetrators will become manifest as they unwittingly reveal themselves by their handiwork. As Eliot Spitzer, no – Eliot Ness, nee – Sherlock Holmes once alluded to – a fingerprint inadvertently left as evidence is impossible to erase.
   You see, the short sellers, unlike the “airplanes”, are still with us. Each one had a target to take down which they did with amazing speed and dexterity. And the myriad transactions that converged to topple their prey are all preserved somewhere, in some huge database, with multiple backups to serve as confirmation of trades of staggering amounts. AHHH! Nothing like computers, especially when they’re not confiscated and shipped off to China for permanent disposal.

   May all financial wizards and economic soothsayers, henceforth, be inspired to stare into their crystal ball and divine the upcoming financial and economic events of global proportions with the keenest of acumen and sleuthing. As we shine the LIGHT of our collective awareness on these rapidly unfolding schemes, we will serve as beacons of revelation, and hope to the world.

   Remember – we now know the script. We know the major players involved. We know their MO: Controlled Demolition. We are able to watch the crimes being commit-
   ted in real time. Each of us has now been thusly notified, and empowered, to serve as a vector of dissemination of this critical information. So —–> LET’S GET BUSY ! ! !

   T. Anthony Michael 9/22/08

   TAnthonyMichael@gmail.com

   Permission is expressly granted to copy, email, scan, attach, forward or post this article.

   Special Message to the Market Oracles and Money Masters of the Universe

   Our “PRE-PLANNED” scenario delineated above in no way ignores the true state of the national economy, international finance or global economic picture. In fact we are, and have been, fully cognizant of the fact that the true state of every market – real estate, equity, bond, commodities, currency, derivative, etc. has been in shambles for many years, just waiting for the Perfect Storm to come around and blow it all away.
   It has been obvious to many of us that each of these markets have operated according to the whim of a very few individuals with extremely concentrated power to manipulate. Therefore, all markets can be artificially inflated, as we have seen time and time again. Likewise, they can be artificially deflated, sometimes rather quickly for effect, as we have seen. “The Invisible Hand” of the market is just that – a very carefully hidden hand that makes a complete and total mockery of every economic and financial theory ever advanced. Time for a lot of us to accept this fact of modern economic life.
   Perhaps we should now take off our blinders and admit that while, yes, all of the indicators are, and have been, there for a catastrophic economic meltdown & financial cataclysm, these events are still completely controllable. All of us have seen bubble after bubble grow and balloon, and merge and overlap, and inextricably interpenetrate each other, until all we have is one massive bubble ready to pop. But, when will it pop?! It will pop when the confidence level is sufficiently undermined by the very same MEDIA that controls the flow of the relevant information. And who, pray tell, controls the media, if not the Invisible Hand? Clearly, the real Market Oracles are not a part of that MSM juggernaut. Therefore, it is incumbent upon each oracle to get it right, since they are the very best sources of pertinent financial and economic data/information.
   The inevitability of self destructive capitalism does not preclude the process of controlled destruction. As the system eats itself, there are those who are eaten, and those who eat. We are witnessing this devolution in living color, as we both write and read these words. The “strong” at the top of the pyramid have always done the eating, as the “weak” at the bottom provide the bone for the stew. The only major difference at this particular, and final, feast is that the internet has allowed for an unprecedented explosion of true and accurate information in real time. Therefore, the playing field has been leveled like never before. The little guy or gal, for the first time ever, has the opportunity to take back a little, or a lot, of his/her power (WEALTH), should he/she so choose.
   Even as the Wall Street gangs team up with the opportunistic political class, as well as the numerous corporate/legal jackals and lobby parasites, to effectuate the most massive redistribution of wealth (aka in your face THEFT) in recorded history, something has profoundly and fundamentally changed. There is a dynamic at work which can alter the game just enough to potentially turn the pyramid upside down. This, however, requires a no nonsense, “look in the mirror with raw honesty” approach. Then we (the oracles) will not deign to render a judgment that is not fully baked. And the recommendations we make are more likely to be issued in the best interest of ALL, especially for those who are in a position of class disadvantage, financial ignorance or structured powerlessness.
   So, we have made it clear that all the forces have been put into place for the upcoming monetary apocalypse. But even these forces are controlled, each and every one of them, all the way up to the top. It’s probably a very good time to contemplate just who it is that resides at the peak of the global financial decision-making process. And, their agenda ?!?

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