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		Guardian Unlimited ^Votes:0 Please click here if you are not redirected to the Guardian Unlimited site. Read More Go to Site


		Creating Community Currency ^Votes:0 Home \| Resources \| 9-11 \| Events The Difference Between Money and Real Wealth Creating Community Currencies The Latest News-Activist Update-Carol Brouillet's blog Latest Entry- November 22, 2007, Thanksgiving more current than this page. Impeachment Demonstration Tuesday 11/27 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm Rep. Zoe Lofgren's San Jose district office 635 N. 1st St. (accross from the IHOP restaurant). Questioning the War on Terrorism September 11- Unanswered Questions Questioning the 2004 Presidential Election 911Truth.org On Mondays, 7-9 pm Pacific Time, Carol Brouillet is hosting a weekly two hour radio show, entitled hosted on We The People Radio Network. Past shows are archived. Last Monday's November 19th The Growing Threat of Martial Law Show was with Frank Morales , a central leader of ny911Tr Read More Go to Site

		Digital Cash and the Development of the Apolitical Currency ^Votes:0 Digital Cash and the Development of the Apolitical Currency John Michael Makoto Dykes Paper for MIT 6.805/STS085: Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier, Fall 1995 There will come a further and final evolutionary stage towards a single overarching monetary system in which convertibility into legal tender ceases to be a condition for electronic money; and electronic money will thereby become indistinguishable from. . . .other, more traditional sorts of money. Money will be money whether it is constituted as a string of digits or a piece of paper or an entry in a ledger. Some electronic money might be backed by governments, some by private issuers; if so, private issuers that were properly regulated, or enjoyed the absolute confidence of the market, might prove to have a better "name" tha Read More Go to Site

		Electronic Money, or E-Money, and Digital Cash ^Votes:0 Electronic Money, or E-Money, and Digital Cash "The money screamed across the wires, its provenance fading in a maze of electronic transfers, which shifted it, hid it, broke it up into manageable wads which would be withdrawn and redeposited elsewhere, obliterating the trail." Nest of Vipers , a banking thriller by Linda Davies . Money was originally a physical substance like gold and silver. It could even be alive - cattle were one of the oldest forms of money. Today, although much of the money used by individuals in their everyday transactions is still in the form of notes and coins, its quantity is small in comparison with the intangible money that exists only as entries in bank records. Perhaps coins and banknotes will become as obsolete as cowrie shells. A major change in the nature o Read More Go to Site

		International Journal of Community Currency Research ^Votes:0 Please note that the IJCCR has a new home at http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/ijccr/ Please be sure to update your bookmarks accordingly. Read More Go to Site

		Ithaca HOURs Online: Home Page ^Votes:0 home \| intro \| successes \| currency \| how-to book \| publicity \| other hours \| archives Ithaca HOURs Online Welcome to site maintained by the founder of Ithaca HOURS. Paul Glover is now available as a consultant and speaker for community economic development. paul5glover@yahoo.com (215) 805-8330 OFFICIAL HOURS WEBSITE AT ITHACAHOURS. ORG FOR LIST OF HOW TO SPEND HOURS, how to contact the HOUR board of directors (Steve Burke, President), how to obtain HOUR loans or grants: Here's why we print our own money! HOUR Resources Go to Visiting Ithaca to connect to seeing Ithaca HOURs in action. It's also a good way to get to know Ithaca. Since 1991, other HOUR systems have begun. Purchase Hometown Money to learn how to begin a local currency program in your own community. Commentary on community ec Read More Go to Site

		Liberty Dollar ^Votes:0 American Liberty Dollar Liberty Dollar \| GET \| SPEND \| EXCHANGE \| Get Started \| Information \| FAQs \| Real Money Articles \| In The News \| Press Kit \| Federal Reserve \| Links Home Liberty Dollar About the Liberty Dollar Intro to Liberty Dollar List of Supporters Color Brochure Why use Liberty Dollars Liberty Dollar Story Media says Users say Audits Audit Statement --> FAQ / Liberty Dollar Inflation thru History Vocabulary Unofficial Discussion Group History Private Liberty Dollars Liberty Dollar DOUBLES Digital Liberty Dollars Get Liberty Dollars Gold at 5%! Become an Associate Shopping Cart Digital Liberty Dollars RCO Search Map Spend Liberty Dollars Liberty Merchants How to use it Success Stories Newsletters Sign Up Archive Success Stories How to use it Legal Issues Lawsuit US Mint Warning Read More Go to Site

		Money Team ^Votes:0 Alternative Money Systems This NCN Alternative Money System team was created to collect information on what schemes already exist, to discuss the prospects of doing away with money systems and using a resource-based system instead, and ways of financing new civilization projects, implementing experimental schemes, and more. Articles on Alternative Money Systems Monetary System for the New Millenium - by Roger Langrick. Scarcity Money Abundance Economics Proactive Money Free Resources Economy - how the money system works. Profit Reframed Notes on a new economic system - by Steve Moyer. Global Resource Bank - proposal to U.N. conference. The Econony of Ideas by John Perry Barlow, on intellectual property. David Chaum from DigiCash to House of Representatives on electronic cash. David Chaum o Read More Go to Site

		The E. F. Schumacher Society • Local Currencies ^Votes:0 Home \| Donate \| Mailing List About the Society Events Local Currencies Community Land Trusts SHARE Microcredit Training Seminars Library Publications Newsletters MANAS Journal Additional Resources Membership Contact Local Currencies BerkShares (www.berkshares.org) are a local currency for the Southern Berkshire region of Massachusetts. They were issued on September 29, 2006 by BerkShares, Inc. in cooperation with the E. F. Schumacher Society and the Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce. BerkShares are exchanged for federal dollars at participating regional banks and circulate at a wide variety of local businesses. View international, national, and regional press coverage by clicking here . Widely used in the United States in the early 1900s, local currencies are a legal, but underutilize Read More Go to Site

		The Potential of Local Currency ^Votes:0 from the pages of July/August 1995 Communities The Potential of Local Currency By Susan Meeker-Lowry People have always traded and bartered with each other. As economies became more complex, money was created as a more convenient means of exchange. In those early days, money was generally a commodity -- something valued by the people who agreed to use it. Iron nails were used as money in Scotland, dried cod in Newfoundland, sugar in some West Indies Islands, salt in ancient Rome, wampum by Native Americans, corn in Massachusetts in the 1600s. Sometimes money was backed by a commodity: the first Latin coins were stamped with the image of a cow and could be redeemed for cattle. Paper money was created in the 1700s. It was basically an IOU backed by gold and silver but these standards were ab Read More Go to Site

		ZDNet Technology News ^Votes:0 On TechRepublic: 10 embarrassing grammar mistakes CNET Networks Business: BNET \| TechRepublic \| ZDNet Members login \| Site Assistance Newsletters RSS Feeds Home News Blogs White Papers Downloads Reviews Security Networking Hardware Software Web Technology IT Management OSes Photo Galleries All News home / ZDNet news News Page One all of ZDNet in Blogs in News in Downloads in Reviews in Whitepapers in Dictionary Go! Top Story Image Galleries Talkback Videos Memory test - Firefox 2.0.0.9 vs Firefox 3.0 b 1 Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Does Firefox 3.0 beta 1 do a better job of handling memory than earlier versions? We put the Firefox 3.0 beta up against Firefox 2.0.0.9 in a memory showdown. The memory test - Firefox 2.0.0.9 vs Firefox 3.0 b 1 Paula Rooney: Firefox 3 Beta 2 aimed to be code comple Read More Go to Site

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