Archive for May, 2009

A Monetary Reformer in Kindergarten

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

This morning I went to a nearby urban public school to read a story to the kindergarten class my wife teaches.
The story was Hansel and Gretel, one of the classics of European folk culture. It was a nicely illustrated edition. A majority of the pupils in the class were Hispanic. The rest were black, with [...]

Give the Money to People, Not the Banks

Monday, May 11th, 2009

The world’s population is huge and growing. It currently stands at 6.7 billion. In some quarters there is a virtual state of panic over how many people there are and the effects of so-called overpopulation on the earth and its resources.
But no one knows how many people the earth could support because we don’t have [...]

Employment vs. Income Security

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported two days ago (May 8), that the U.S. lost 539,000 more jobs in April 2009. Unemployment now stands at 8.9 percent, twice the level of two years ago. This does not include “discouraged workers” who have stopped looking for work or part-time workers who want to work full-time.
Nor does [...]

Urgency of the American Monetary Act

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

On Thursday, April 23, 2009, Stephen Zarlenga, director of the American Monetary Institute (AMI), delivered two briefings on Capitol Hill on the American Monetary Act that AMI drafted and that may be introduced as legislation during the current congressional session. This single measure has the potential of bringing together the tens of millions of people [...]

Challenger Disaster

In January 1986 Cook became the first NASA official to testify publicly on the space agency's prior knowledge of flaws in the solid rocket booster O-ring joints that destroyed Challenger and took the lives of its seven astronauts. He told his story in the book Challenger Revealed, published in 2007. Publisher's Weekly wrote of the book: "Easily the most informative and important book on the disaster."

The Cook Plan

What I am calling the 'Cook Plan' is to pay each resident of the U.S. a dividend, by means of vouchers for the necessities of life, in the amount of $1,000 per month per capita starting immediately as our fair share of the resources of the earth and the productivity of the modern industrial economy. The money would then be deposited in a new network of community savings banks to capitalize lending for consumers, small businesses, and family farming.

Omna Last

The Lite in the Heart can be experienced when there is enough Love awareness and a strong enough energy field for consciousness to enter deep within the Heart to the place where the Atma lives, shining more brightly than a million Suns.