On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]>wrote:
> Alternative currency systems in the U.S. get you a visit from the SS and > the FBI. Don't forget the IRS. > > > On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:23 AM, ornamentalmind < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> “You have much more than your bank account says. You have your mind >> and your hands.” >> >> You won’t likely see it headlining The Drudge Report, making its >> rounds in talk radio, or featured for discussion on cable news panels, >> but the October 1st New York Times story covering the emergence of a >> barter, trade, and alternative currency economy in Greece is one of >> the most important stories of our day. >> >> The Silver Circle Movie is a story about a band of rebels who vow to >> take back their freedom amid the economic and political ruins of a >> catastrophic monetary collapse, but our fictional movie’s predictions >> for America’s not-so-distant future are the real world economic >> realities in Greece right now, and the New York Times piece tells the >> story of real-life rebels taking their future, their prosperity, and >> their economic freedom back into their own hands, bucking the >> Eurozone’s fiat monetary system in favor of providing real value in >> exchange for real value: >> >> “The first time he bought eggs, milk and jam at an outdoor market >> using not euros but an informal barter currency, Theodoros Mavridis, >> an unemployed electrician, was thrilled. >> >> ‘I felt liberated, I felt free for the first time,” Mr. Mavridis said >> in a recent interview at a cafe in this port city in central Greece. >> “I instinctively reached into my pocket, but there was no need to.’ >> >> Mr. Mavridis is a co-founder of a growing network here in Volos that >> uses a so-called Local Alternative Unit, or TEM in Greek, to exchange >> goods and services — language classes, baby-sitting, computer support, >> home-cooked meals — and to receive discounts at some local >> businesses.”... >> >> for the rest of the article...(only a few paragraphs more), go to: >> >> http://silverunderground.com/2011/10/truly-revolutionary-greek-city-starts-rebel-barter-economy-and-alternative-currency/ >> >> for the original New York Times article of 10/1/11, to go: >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/world/europe/in-greece-barter-networks-surge.html?pagewanted=all >> > >
