I love Lesta Frank’s watercolors. You can learn more about Lesta and how to purchase watercolors, prints and cards at her website and blog. She has kindly granted me permission to share some of them w…

By Carolyn Betts, Esq.

WHAT CONGRESS IS GOOD FOR THESE DAYS

Not much, it seems, given that we have what essentially amounts to a single-party system (i.e., the corporatist party).  However, the Bus…

A great man died today—he left us with a family, movies, businesses and gifts that will bring joy for centuries to come. Let’s take a minute to give thanks for his life and say a prayer for him and …

One of our network members is keen on producing a bumper sticker to express our opposition to bailouts and the institutions engineering them. We could use your help in coming up with a pithy slogan fo…

I went down to Burton’s Sugar Farm in Northern Mississippi outside of Memphis this weekend. This is my third visit to the Sugar Farm and each time I come away thinking that was the finest catfish and …

A network member requests that we offer up a place to post limericks and songs to lift our spirits in a dire hour. Here is her contribution:

Ode to Big Bankers & Politicians

Enjoy yourself, you …

Alastair Thompson: Politics and Pilgrimage
Scoop Independent News (20 Sep 2008)

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For more on Alastair’s recent Pilgrimage >>>

Proposed $700 Billion Bailout Is Too Little, Too Late to End the Debt Crisis; Too Much, Too Soon for the U.S. Bond Market
By Martin D. Weiss & Michael D. Larson (24 Sep 2008)
Submitted to U.S. Con…

Note from Catherine:

I think biodynamic farming is an area with a great past, present and future. So when a network member told me that Spikenard Farm was looking for someone to help them with fundr…

From our friend Alastair Thompson (Scoop Independent News co-editor)

In the month of May this year my wife Wendy and I went on a pilgrimage across Northern Spain, walking 810kms from the village of …

(Continuation of previous blog post: Scoop’s Ad Campaign for US Electronic Election Integrity)

In January 2002, I sent an e-mail to the Solari network list posing 20 questions designed to illuminate …

Did you ever notice that there is an inverse relationship between the health of people and the environment and the Harvard endowment’s profits?

Return of 8% for Harvard Endowment
By Geraldine Fabrika…

A network member points out that Don Coxe of BMO Financial Group, one of our favorite market analysts, has commented that we have now deleveraged everything that was doing well to help prop up the ban…

An Anniversary Prayer — September 11, 2008

Lord, we gather in prayer on the seventh anniversary of 9-11;
We thank you for the many blessings you have given us,
among them the gift of life;
Let our …

Dear Readers:

If you have comments to Catherine’s talk on Coast-to-Coast radio last night, please place them as a comment to this post.

Thanks!

Anais
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Affordable Housing Exists, If You Know Where to Look
By Prashant Gopal – BusinessWeek (4 Sep 2008)

1. Indianapolis-Carmel, Ind.
Median home price: $108,000
Median household income: $65,100
Share of h…