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Catching up

by Paula | 20 December 2008 | permalink | comments
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I’m back after an insanely busy couple of weeks.

For anyone who’s interested, I’ve significantly upgraded my company’s product — no more open source for Rabbit Mountain LLC, we’re an application service provider now. If you are considering launching a new web business or getting serious about technology for your existing business, we can help you. Check it out »

Also, I’ve added a few more items to the Amazon widget on the right hand side of this page, including a very interesting DVD called The Trigger Effect. It’s a study in the interpersonal chaos that ensues when the power grid goes down… an accidentally prescient mainstream movie.

I’ve been absent from my blog but still keeping up with the news:

Downturn Spurs ‘Survival Panic’ for Some in the US @ CNBC — “Survival panic” in this case is not what many of us would think. Instead, the CNBC article refers to a loss of identity that comes with the loss of shopping ability, since so many people derive their identities from what they buy. Personally, I think the implications of this are far graver than the CNBC article admits. Taking Americans’ shopping ability away is literally on par with destroying some other culture’s ability to practice its religion. The shakeout could easily lead to widespread violence.

End of Work, End of Affluence V: Government—Reinvention or Insolvency @ Charles Hugh Smith’s blog — Government has long milked small business to feed its own vast luxuries. If the milking continues, it is going to kill the cow. Amen, brother, especially when there’s no credit to hand over to the taxman.

The Milwaukee Community Currency Story @ Cryptogon — Kevin tells it like it is:

Oh sure. And what currency will the business owners use to settle up with the maniac fascist tax authorities? Not Humboldt Gold or Milwaukee Cheddar Heads or Eugene Tofu Flake Bucks. If they want to avoid having guns pointed at their heads, they will pay the IRS in Federal Reserve Notes.

So yeah, let it rip with your local currency schemes, if it makes you feel good. Let’s just not get confused about the reality of what’s actually happening here, which is, the Matrix doesn’t care what made up script you use as long as Federal Reserve Notes come out the other end. Devise a system where people are actually conducting commerce outside of the tax framework and watch what happens. The second the Feds get wind of it, look out.

Stories like this are meant to make you believe that once you’re thinking outside the box, you’re out of the box. Actually, what you find outside the box is another box.

All the time, dumbshits accuse me of being negative; not seeing the good side of things. (With this Obama pathology, especially.) If pointing out the underlying nature of a thing makes me a negative person, why are you reading this site? Go away. Please, close your browser window and stop reading Cryptogon. Go drive your Prius to the icecream collective and buy a double hemp seed rebellion cone with your Lick Bush Bucks.

I would suggest working within the food complex first of all. In areas where people raise their own animals, grow their own food and save their own seeds, this happens automatically. These people know that governments are simply running protection rackets for crooked corporate middlemen. There is a very healthy skepticism of government in these circles and idiotic laws are often ignored with contempt and prejudice. If you’re ever lucky enough to buy outlaw meat from an unregistered home kill operator, as I have, drop to your knees and kiss the dirt. Know that you’re in a good place.

And in that great tradition of (ahem) “balanced” journalism, from Guillaume’s Blog comes: Brazilian community currency helps generate local wealth and jobs — “Access credit does not require documents, but only requires that local resident voucher for the loan. In other words, instead of relying on high-tech PhD risk analysis algorithm, CDS, securitization, and the likes, credit risk analysis is socialized.” My question: why is the government, the World Bank, and other organizations with a vested interest in creating poverty allowing this currency to move forward?

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