As I look at the aspects of sovereignty, I see three that must go hand in hand if VT is to prosper in the coming years: public banking, food sovereignty and local generation of energy. I am not suggesting isolationism, as bioregionalism is an important factor in all this. I am suggesting preparedness. Sovereignty, in the political sense, puts the discussion on the table, but no politician today is willing to meet that head on. (Though they have done so in Ohio via the nullification of the mandatory insurance premiums.) Let us move foreward in the knowledge that being ready is not quite the same thing as jumping in all the way.  John Ford's fiscal preparedness bill is the first cautious step. And it has not come a moment too soon as Irene...

Mike Krause has written about Harrisburg PA, but Harrisburg is just the beginning, and I predict that other cities will follow suit. Mike wrote to me that the legislature in PA has little regard for the Harrisburg population. I suspect that their only interest is bond ratings, which is the only indication we need to know they are not thinking about helping the people of PA. In VT we have at least two legislators who are actively working on monetary reform, and John Ford and I will be talking around the state about public money, warrants, and a state bank. Drowning in sea of debt Pennsylvania to Harrisburg: "Sorry."  By Mike Krause Harrisburg is going under, drowning in a sea of municipal debt. Like many American cities, the Pennsylvania...

Reason . . . It was ever so. Adelard of Bath (c. 1080 -1142) Catholic Philosopher “It is through reason that we are men. For if we turned our backs on the amazing rational beauty of the universe we live in we should indeed deserve to be driven therefrom, like a guest unappreciative of the house into which he has been received. William of Conches  (c.  1080 - 1154)  Catholic Philosopher “Because they are themselves ignorant of natures’ forces and wish to have all men as companions in their ignorance, they are unwilling for anybody to investigate them, but prefer that we believe like peasants and not inquire into the causes. However, we say that the cause of everything is to be sought . . . . But these people . . . If they know of anybody so...

 Let’s Do It. Let’s Sink the Fed.   Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it.  Let’s do it. Let’s sink the Fed.   Sponges they say do it. Folks way down in Uruguay do it.   Let’s do it. Let’s sink the fed.   Some Argentines without means do it,    not to mention Chavez. Greeks in their dreams do it,    so the IMF says.   The Japanese and the Swiss do it,    so does Guernsey I think. Italian towns do it, states should do it.    See North Dakota’s black ink.   Ben, in his prime, did it   In Philadelphia PA. Iceland, just in time, did it.   Watch them start to make hay.   Saddam Hussein did it. Abe did it,   Andrew Jackson and John. Muammar in Tobruk did it.   What will happen to...