We need a social economy, not a hyper-financialized plantation economy
A perspective on building local economies in a digital world. By Charles Hugh Smith November 12, 2015 — The key to broadly distributing capital and reversing inequality is to nurture the source of social capital: the community economy. We all know what a hyper-financialized economy looks like — we live in one: central banks create […]
Tasch argues for slow money, local economy in Chattanooga
People who “trade” in local economy gather around tables at the Ooltewah nursery near Chattanooga. (Photo Ooltewahnursery.com) By David Tulis In October 2014 an erroneous order to transact shares totaling F$617 billion — greater than the size of Sweden’s economy — were piped into the Japan stock exchange. The requests for 67.78 trillion yen were […]
Chief Fletcher stirs against prison industrial complex
Fred Fletcher, Chattanooga police chief, joins with other top cops and prosecutors ind opposing penal industrial system and its statutory feeder mechanism, of which he is a vital part. (Photo Chattanooga Police Department on Twitter) By David Tulis Chattanooga police chief Fred Fletcher has joined a group of prosecutors and police bosses to urge an […]
Richards tells of growing Five Guys burger franchise in Chattanooga
Jim Richards, who owns Five Guys franchises in the Chattanooga area, explains his business model and how he shifted from a restaurant chain employee to owner. (Courtesy Hot News Talk Radio AM 1240) Tweet Pin It
Simulator teaches ‘necessity’ of police violence as Fletcher argues against gulag
Nancy Mason, surrounded by seven sheriff’s deputies, was tased during booking at Hamilton County, Tenn., jail. (Photo wrcbtv.com) TV9’s Latricia Thomas prepares for police simulator training to make clear how dangerous is the trade of cop. (Photo Newschannel9.com) To this day if I see a policeman, do you know what it does to me? I […]
Sen. Gardenhire’s fallacious claims about mass schooling
Sen. Todd Gardenhire The rooster crows immediately before sunrise, therefore the rooster causes the sun to rise. — Sample of poplar fallacy By David Tulis The marketplace in educational services has been stifled in Chattanooga for decades thanks to a taxpayer-subsidized cartel that is loaded down with corporate hangers-on and profiteers. But others support public […]
Could ‘Uber cop’ have chased, arrested carjacking suspect?
As the modern corporate state fades, so will its police departments. (Photo Police the Police on Facebook) By David Tulis Police in Chattanooga are chasing after a white Ford Focus along lamp-lit city streets after dark two days after a carjacking at UTC. Inside are three men, aware that a cruiser is behind them. They’d […]
Tow truck driver indicted for bringing rational thinking into marketplace
An animal shelter parking lot starts to flood in Summerville, S.C. (Photo WVIC TV abcnews4.com) Robert Andrew Boland By David Tulis A towtruck driver has been indicted in South Carolina on charges that he violated a statute that prohibits “unconscionable prices during times of disaster,” and makes it a misdemeanor to raise prices during events […]
Jets dim sun over U.S. by spraying plumes of coal ash, scientist says, sickening people
Tennessee is the target of an intense program of artificial cloudmaking for which has been made “no public admission, no understanding, no academic investigations, no informed consent, and no disclosure as to the nature of the toxic substances being dispersed into the air,” a critic asserts. (Photo Tennessee Skywatch Facebook) The skies over Chattanooga are […]
Keep 1 in the chamber: Local economy vs. jihadis
College killer Mercer admired jihadis, & Sheriff Jim Hammond in Hamilton County warns of future bloodlettings by Muslims. Paul Sutliff, expert on civilizational jihad, explains how Islamic system allows deceit, hatred, sexual slavery, progressive destablization of victim states such as Tennessee. Does a local economy solution exist to Muslim acts of war? (Courtesy Hot News […]