But the Usurers Are in Control

A Time fo Reconsidering the Catholic Prohibition of Usury
by John Buchmannhttps://t.co/0mzwvs3V2F

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Salazar's Portugal

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If ‘integration from within’ is really possible, then what went wrong in Portugal?

— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) January 22, 2021

Good Luck Taking on Those Who Benefit from Usury

The sins that cry to heaven are sins against fraternal justice.https://t.co/eXZkgMspPT

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) October 29, 2020

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Michael Hudson's New Book

The Delphic Oracle Was Their Davos by MICHAEL HUDSON AND JOHN SIMAN
A Four-Part Interview With Michael Hudson About His Forthcoming Book The Collapse of Antiquity

Usury makes the world go around. Heaven's vengeance is on the way.

Not Suprisingly, From One of the Authors of The Hobbit Party

Did the Church Change Its Doctrine on Usury? Jay W. Richards

Does money serve the whole community? Or just those who have lots of it?

The Church and the Usurers is probably better...

But Cash Back/Airline Miles is Tempting

10 Reasons I Don’t Have a Credit Card by Ralph Nader

Pope Francis Condemns Usury

Zenit: Pope Denounces Usury as Inhuman

Any criticism of unproductive loans, especial in the home real estate market, forthcoming?

Usury, Usury

It’s the interest, stupid! Why bankers rule the world by Ellen Brown (via Resilience)

Items of Interest, 22 April 2012

Thomas Fleming, The Rationality of Anders Breivik

Fabius Maximus: Rome speaks to us. Their example can inspire us to avoid their fate.

New Book: Forgotten Conservatives in American History by Winston Elliott III (the new book is by Brion McClanahan and Clyde N. Wilson)

Edmund Burke and Natural Rights

Sound the Alarm to the People: James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and the Principles of 1798

Paul Gottfried, Throwing People Under the Bus to Stop a Runaway Vehicle

Justin Raimondo, Problems of Empire and Race and Empire

US Pushing Libya Model for Upcoming Syria War

Ron Unz, China's Rise, America's Fall

Let's be clear - the ruling intellectual elite are psychotic, not ignorant
Hawaiian Libertarian, Escape the Zoo

How democracy devolves into tyranny by John Milbank

Andrew Haines, Cohabitating is Bad
Cohabitation and Happily Ever After: A Response to Meg Jay

Obama's Birth Certificate a Forgery?
Obama Officially Ineligible
Tom O'Halloran
Daily Paul

Economics and Sustainability:
Life Without Usury
Let's Build a Future Without Cars
Health Care: An Anarchist Approach
Permaculture Magazine #72
John Medaille, Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money
Recovered Economic History: “Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious”
By Yasha Levine

Dan Barber: foie gras parable: TED TALKS: documentary,lecture,talk


Catholic:
Music for Private Devotion, Not Liturgy
What's Wrong With NFP
Thomas More: True Enlargement of Mind
Rasing the Bar: Christianity and Liberal Arts in the University by Randall B. Smith

Orthodox:
Greek Orthodox Church Collapsing Due to on Impoverished Government

Feminism:
Young Women Are More Career-Driven Than Men Now - James Poulos asks why.
Eliminate Feminism Forever

The Battle Against Nature’s Sexism by Mary Rose Somarriba

Thomas Hibbs reviews Damsels in Distress.

Diet and Health:
Karen De Coster, Searching for the Perfect Human Diet
8 Natural Cold Remedies to Improve Immunity
Ask The Low-Carb Experts (Episode 13): ‘Low-Carbing Women & Weight Lifting’ | Dr. Cassandra Forsythe (mp3)
Natural Remedies for Seasonal Allergies
Coconut Oil Reverses Dementia in 100 Year-Old Woman

Music:
Fiddler Mark O'Connor is changing how people play the instrument
Striggio Mass In 40 Parts by Wendy Gillespie (mp3)

Breaking: U.S. Army places order for 24,000 M4 carbines with Remington

New Prometheus Viral Video Arrives
First Look At Anthony Hopkins' Hitchcock
For Sacha Gervasi's latest

Items of Interest, 18 November 2011

Catholic:
Adam DeVille, Not Clerical Celibacy Again
A piece by Robert Stove on Evelyn Waugh: A Grief Unobserved
Usury Revisited
An article on Holy Resurrection Monastery.

Distributism:
Rod Dreher, Smirking at Distributism
Ruin of the Small Store Owner
Occupy the Future

Relocalization:
The Need to Relocalize Our Economies
The Post-Carbon Institute issues a statement of purpose: What we are for  by Richard Heinberg (EB)

It's fine until you get to the part about family planning.

Home-grown food in schools for a green economy by Kei Otsuki (EB)
John Robb, Productive Landscaping and RC JOURNAL: Reclaiming Dead Soil through Hugelkultur

OWS:
Occupy Educated

Economy:
1 through 30 - The Coming US Financial Crisis by the Numbers
‘Going Galt’: Hedge Broker Shuts Down Firm With Chilling Letter About the Market (Vox Populi, VFR)
  
Leviathan:
Ron Paul on Politics and Freedom
An interview by Alberto Mingardi and Carlo Stagnaro
What A Little-Known Colonial Pamphlet Tells Us About the Constitution
LoS: Why Do You Hate America (via Rebellion)

Texas Medical Board again tries to destroy Dr. Burzynski with new lawsuit to revoke his medical license


Diet and Health:
I Went To Wise Traditions 2011 And Got a T-Shirt
Cold Hands and Feet
The LLVLC Show (Episode 516): Chris Kresser’s ‘Healthy Baby Code’ And The Indefinable Castle Grok (mp3)

Education:
Matt Bianco Interviews David Hicks (author of Norms and Nobility)- mp3
Literacy's Last Hurrah by Linda Schrock Taylor

Misc:
URI AVNERY, Weimar Revisited

Economics for a Sunday

David W. Cooney, The Errors of the Economists: Usury
Allan Carlson, The Family-Centered Economy

Brian McCall has a series on usury at The Distributist Review: Usury: Profit on a Loan Part I and Usury: Part II. This reminds me that Roger Scruton has a piece at the new webzine Big Questions Online, Muhammed Was Right About Debt. Some have asked why Mr. Scruton would write such a piece if he is a "conservative"; I think that the audience of BQO is not intended to be conservative but more inclusive, and so maybe Mr. Scruton is trying to appeal to liberals and multiculturalists. Or maybe he is simply writing against expectations.

If our political economy is built upon usury here and abroad, the injustice of such exploitation demands redress.