Wall Street is not the only system that crashes:
Due to the immense amount of interest in financial permaculture and the upcoming workshop in Hohenwald, TN the www.financialpermaculture.com server crashed. The crash was triggered by an appearance on Coast to Coast radio by Catherine Austin Fitts, Albert Bates and Debbie Landers to discuss financial permaculture.
Ethan Roland has a bit more at his blog: Permaculture Designs
The server is back up and running!
The Financial Permaculture event will be blogged live by bloggers from Gaia University.
What is it all about? At its simplest the idea is to withdraw time, money, and attention from Wall Street and DC and to invest locally among family and friends in start-ups that do business the old fashioned way - without fraud, graft, lobbying, malfeasance, fuzzy math accounting, or even a think tank. The event teaches people in rural communities how to start homely green businesses in niches like Ethanol, Incubation, Farm and Food, or Building. You can learn more here.
You have heard the conservative slogan, "Starve the beast?," meaning to starve government of taxes? Well, on this new view, the Beast has one omniverous paunch and two heads, one a corrupt government, the other a corrupt Wall Street. The two heads not only have one stomach, but their long necks twine and intertwine like snakes, the mouths pressed against each other in an unending lover's kiss, nauseating even to contemplate. Now, the hope is in the hinterlands to starve both the monster's mouths. What would happen, if, in our desire to make the world a better place for ourselves, our children, and our community, we all just turned off the tv, ignored the marketing hype and USian propaganda, and invested our funds and life energy with people we know and trust in our face to face, or mission related, networks? No more Richard Fuld.
No more Fuld-Philanthropy. No more
Goldman Alums running trillion dollar government bailouts of their pals while doing magnificent philanthropy for the little people, as a mighty dragon might fertilize with its dung the field its mouth strips bare. Instead, let's plant and harvest our own crops, and let the connected Wall Steet philanthropists drink the sorrow-share in prison, or wherever their journey from Success to Significance may take them.
