not only hasn't it made Matthew rich, it has rather made him very poor ... to be clear, Matthew is working his ass off for a better world, and fully engaged through personal sacrifice.

as much as I appreciate your technical expertise, it seems to me there is an underlying tendency to personalize the criticisms as flaws in the person that is critiqued, for example assuming that Ellen Brown was financed by the banking cartel, while nothing could be further from the truth ..

I think we can air our grievances and critiques without necessarily imputing ill will to those we disagree with ... (I'll make an exception for the banksters myself <g>, in view of overwhelming evidence ... but I haven't seen evidence of malfeasance in people like Ellen and Matthew)

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Devin Balkind <devin@sarapisfoundation.org> wrote:
Tadit.  I'm surprised at your response.  First, the CommunityForge people have built a workable, free/libre/opensource tool set that makes it easy for groups to start a gifting network and LETs exchange using the popular Drupal CMS.  I don't think it's made them rich.  Second, the author's idea is general and is basically saying that protesters should start printing currencies and using them as a tool to create discussion around our monetary system.  Sounds good to me. 

I've read your posts on this list and recognize that you have a very thoughtful opinion about these issues so I wonder if you could dig a little deeper and explain your response to the group.


On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:04 AM, <ideasinc@ee.net> wrote:
This is to my eye a piece of massive opportunistic self promotion by the
"Community Forge" people who operate out Geneva, Sw. They press for the
variety of community currencies which they run their business by hosting
one single variety of community currency, and it is as debt based as the
federal debt based currencies that they are promoting as "protest
currencies." If all that is available to advocate for such
non-alternatives is that there a tenuous validation by an asserted
association of "Protest" with the rising of resistance, this is a fraud at
its core.

Tadit






On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:37:49 -0400, Michel Bauwens
<michel@p2pfoundation.net> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:31 AM
> Subject: "protest currencies" ?
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> http://matslats.net/protest_currencies
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