MCR wrote:

THIS HAS BEEN ON THE MAP FOR A LONG TIME
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49K0VH20081021

I loved Dmitry Orlov when Dale Allen Pfeiffer introduced me to himabout five years ago. FTW was the first to publish him. So, if it looks like collapse; walks like collapse; smells like collapse; and there's some collpase s--t laying around...

Do ya think???

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JO wrote:

The Secret War With Iran

According to the Federation of American Scientists, this is a new book translated from the Hebrew and based on interviews with Israeli intelligence officers which contains new information including the following:

Hizballah, acting as a proxy for Iran, temporarily refrained from taking American hostages between June 1985 and September 1986 in support of the arms sales deal between the U.S. and Iran that later became known as the Iran-contra affair.

The CIA is credited with 'brilliantly' dismantling the Abu Nidal Organization, 'sewing discord among its members by getting them to believe that they were being robbed by other operatives.'

Money as Debt
Video introduction to how the economy works

Central Banks All But Stop Lending Gold
The Seventy-Five Minute Market Rescue
Tongue-in-cheek article by John Crudele, intrepid gumshoe on the trail of the Plunge Protection Team.

Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Warren Buffett
A supposedly tell-all biography which is anything but.
GOP in Push to Erase Voters; Purges ACORN in Drive to Register Low Income
Flow
Film about water

Jerome Corsi Deported from Kenya



Plus.......

Permacultre: Beyond Green

This Friday October 24, 2008 at 6:30:

Henry George School of Social Science,
121 East 30th Street
between Park Ave and Lexington


Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environment. On one level, it deals with plants, animals, buildings and infrastructures. However, permaculture is not about these elements themselves, but about the relationships we can create between them by the way we place them in the landscape.

The aim of permaculture is to create systems that are ecologically sound and economically viable, which provide for their own needs, do not exploit or pollute and are therefore sustainable in the long term. Permaculture is based on the observation of natural systems, the wisdom contained in traditional farming systems and modern scientific and technological knowledge.

With Mr. Philip Botwinick and Ms. Sharon Kimmelman of Local Energy Solutions (a Not For Profit organization educating about the interconnectedness of Energy, Economy and Food)


The Two Faces of Money

Saturday October 25, 2008 at 7pm

Park Slope Food Coop,
782 Union St.
(btw 6th and 7th Ave)


Food and Money have a long history. In fact, up until World War II, tea bricks were used as money in Siberia. Today, unfortunately, neither system is sustainable, but thankfully that’s beginning to change – for food at least. Money is a daily part of our lives too, but why is there no movement for a sustainable monetary system, worse yet, few people understand it. Join us for an opportunity to better understand our current monetary system – its origins, evolution, the current economic crisis, and how a sustainable monetary system is possible.