Items of Interest, 16 October 2011

C4SS: Alternative Currency: Coming to Stores Near You?

Yes Magazine: Less is More: 5 Steps to Redefine Making a Living
Check out the New Livelihoods issue.

John Robb, LINKS: October 16, 2011

Lindsay Curren, OccupyWallStreet From Your Home and Targeting Banks in the Broad Light of Day

After the Storm: The Instability of Inequality by Nouriel Roubini (via the localizer blog)

Conservatives, Politics & Culture: A Response to Claes Ryn by Gerald J. Russello

Peter Gemma reviews Pat Buchanan's Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? Mr. Buchanan is scheduled to appear on the Diane Rehm show on Tuesday, October 25.


Alternative Right:
The Conservative Canon
Columbus Day and Us
The Sage of Cupertino by William Fankboner

More on Steve Jobs: A god of our age (via Insight Scoop - see this post)

Welmer, Entitlement Mentality Prompts Women to Put Themselves in Harm’s Way

Something on AG Holder and Fast and Furious - he didn't know anything and this wasn't meant as a ploy for stricter gun control laws? Really?

Will the US Military ever adopt maneuver warfare? Fabius Maximus: Attritionist Letter #7 – “Trust one another” is the motto (“trust be damned” is often the reality)

Catholic:
Jeffrey Tucker, Solesmes and Gregorian Rhetoric Revisited

Medievalists.net: The Friar of Carcassonne: Revolt against the Inquisition in the Last Days of the Cathars By Stephen O’Shea

Items of Interest, 29 September 2011

Lewis McCrary, Facebook as digital passport?

As the earth turns: Going global with perennial polyculture agriculture
by Robert Jensen


Welcome to the Social Reporting Project! by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)

A Barn Full of Bats by Gene Logsdon (EB)

Green economy: fix our 'ends' not just our 'means' by Olivia Bina (EB)

Liquidity Networks: local trading systems using a debt-free electronic currency
Graham Barnes (EB)

Where Does Money Come From?



Facing economic insecurity together by Thomas Atwood

Paleo diet or 'caveman' diet gains traction despite controversies; 'This is not Fred Flintstone'



Benchmade’s Newest Battle Blade Is Ready for Abuse

Basic Training: The Making of a Soldier, React to Contact

Basic Training: The Making of a Soldier, React to Contact from Fort Benning Television on Vimeo.

English Baroque Soloists
The Project
Sir John Eliot Gardiner: The British conductor on his Bach Pilgrimage with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists

Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies by Carl Etnier (EB)

mp3

Good luck to him!

South Carolina lawmaker wants separate currency for state

Boston Globe

His webpage.

A Day in the Life of a BerkShare
What’s it really like to deal in regional currency?
by Bill McKibben

(How New England can change the World: A bang for your buck in the Berkshires - EB)

See also: The abandonment of technology
Cameron Leckie, The Oil Drum: Campfire (EB)

Items of Interest, 20 July 2010

Miss Korea contestants take part in a fashion show organized to support Pyeongchang's bidding for the 2018 Winter Olympics at the resort city in Gangwon Province on Friday. (Chosun Ilbo)

Something on Shifu Cloth. (via World Fair Trade Organization FB.)
10 Standards of Fair Trade

Rob Hopkins, A Review of Local Money by Peter North

Daniel Larison, Realist Roots and Romney and Palin

Lawrence Lew, O.P., Videos on Dominican life

Allan Carlson, Centralization (via The Western Confucian)

Stewart J. Lawrence, Why Obama's "Secure Communities" Program May be More Dangerous Than Arizona

Tim Hetherington On The Injuries at Rock Avalanche

A piece on Count Helmuth James von Moltke.
Jerry Salyer, “The Gestapo and the SS Have Done Us An Appreciable Service”: Egalitarian Western Liberals & The July 20 Plot (originally published at Brussels Journal)

Chosun Ilbo:
Miss Korea Has Universal Ambitions
Korean Songs Replace Dramas as Latest Fad in Japan

Korea Times:
F-22 Raptor to join naval drill in Korean seas
Charice, from girl-next-door to diva
Dispute over corporal punishment hits school

Asia News:
Religions united for the environment against Four Major Rivers Restoration Project
by Theresa Kim Hwa-young
Catholics, Protestants and Buddhists are working together to stop the project. Strongly backed by the South Korean government, the scheme could destroy the ecosystem of the country’s major river systems. Masses, demonstrations and prayer vigils are held for strictly religious reasons.

Licence to practice not renewed for lawyers who defend human rights or Falun Gong
Each year, Chinese lawyers must have local bar associations renew their licence to practice. Last year and even more so this year, renewal has been often rejected or made very difficult for lawyers who defend Tibetans, pro-rights activists or Falun Gong members.

Patriarch Kirill’s visit to Ukraine with an eye on the Vatican by Nina Achmatova

Asia Times:
Sex vs God in the Philippines
The long-standing debate about sex education in the Philippines is heating up, with the government and Catholic Church at loggerheads over plans to integrate discussions on human reproduction into elementary and high school curriculums. Muslims have also joined the opposition, while supporters say issues concerning the country's runaway population growth should be paramount. - Jennee Grace U Rubrico

Amid war talk, arms buildup continues
Talk of an Israeli strike against Iran won't go away, despite the latest rounds of sanctions placed on Tehran aimed at avoiding just such an offensive. In Lebanon meanwhile, where Israel still has unfinished business, Hezbollah is reported to be acquiring a large number of game-changing missile launchers. - David Moon

Iran blames US for mosque attack
After at least 30 people were killed at a Shi'ite mosque in the latest in a series of bloody attacks, Iran pointed the finger at US backing for Jundallah, the Sunni group that claimed responsibility for the double bombing. United States officials have long denied Washington supports the group. To some analysts, their denials are unconvincing. - Jim Lobe

The folly of common currencies
Europe should not be surprised at the difficulty it faces in maintaining a common currency across widely divergent economies. The examples of Argentina and Hong Kong in their efforts to peg their currencies to that of another country should have been lesson enough. - Henry CK Liu

Items of Interest, 26 May 2010

An Interview with Peter North (original)
Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture

Pete North's new book "Local Money: how to make it happen in your community" will be formally launched at the 2010 Transition Network conference and will be available to order here at the end of this week. The latest book in the Transition Books series, "Local Money" is a comprehensive overview of local currencies, and how to plan and implement such a scheme.

Sustainable Medicine: An Issue Brief on Medical School Reform (original)
Dan Bednarz, Health after Oil

This issue brief calls for changes in medical school culture, primarily curriculum, research and clinical practice, as a conscious response to the simultaneously ongoing fiscal/economic crisis and what E.O. Wilson has termed the Bottleneck of ecological dilemmas, shown most prominently but not exclusively as the worldwide peak in crude oil production. Together these forces will reconfigure modern society, particularly health care.


Irony In Garden Farming (original)
Gene Logsdon, OrganicToBe.org

It says in the books that hens have to eat commercial mash to lay a profitable number of eggs. All the farming tradition they know about or been taught says you have to feed mash. Momma fed mash so don’t you dare insult her memory. Ditto for papal infallibility.

Deepwater Horizon: This is what the end of the Oil Age looks like by Richard Heinberg

Mark Weisbrot, The Eurozone's Self-Inflicted Crisis