‘Let every man be armed’ a concept that boosts local economy, autonomy
Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga is a gun-free zone, and so it had a terrorism practice Wednesday in which the only defense for participants was flight, locked doors and barricades. (Photo wdeftv.com) Tommy Wiggonton of Memorial Hospital says had a drill Wednesday been a real “active shooter” event, 30 people would have been killed. The day […]
Worried about terror risk this holiday? Shop at small businesses
St. John’s is a little restaurant downtown Chattanooga owned by Josh Carter. Local economy eateries and shops are less likely to draw the interest of a national brand-conscious terrorist. (Photo St. John’s Restaurant) By Duke Cumbelich There are so many reasons to shop at your local small businesses. You are helping your fellow neighbors by supporting […]
Free market, biblical arguments favor arrival of refugees
Refugee children and their parents seek to enter Tennessee and other of the 50 U.S. states to live and prosper. (Photo Peacechild.org) Hannah Fletcher-Paige and hundreds of others demonstrated in Nashville on Monday, urging acceptance of refugees from the Mideast. (Photo Facebook) By Joel McDurmon There simply is no biblical reason to refuse legitimate refugees. […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
Obama uses language of liberty, free enterprise, but rejects local economy ideal
Broad and Main streets are of little interest to the U.S. president, who in a speech to the U.N. favors global economy and global “management“ of human society. (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis The arguments for local economy and free markets sometimes cannot be heard for their breathlessness, their being stifled by more powerful […]
Rebuilding your local economy
Franklin Sanders explains how if we develop local economy we insulate ourselves from the disaster ahead in the state-run and debt-based national economy. He is a trader in precious metals and publisher of The Moneychanger newsletter. His talk is given at the the Fayette County courthouse in Somerville, Tenn., and coincides with many arguments developed […]