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Sometimes in parlous times simple ideas are the most radical of all.

A Community Exchange is an internet tool that allows Buyers and Sellers to record their transactions for all to see. As a Trader you list a series of "Offerings" which can be a product, a service, or a skill you can teach. A buyer accepts your offer and when he/she is satisfied with value received credits your account using "Mountain Bux" in the agreed upon amount. You may now use your accumulated M$ to trade for other offerin… Continue

Copy/paste from John Robb's excellent site Global Guerrillas
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
OPEN SOURCE INSURGENCY THROUGH SOFTWARE TOOLS

Many people that want to organize groups online, typically attempt to do this through a site dedicated to a specific topic, an inflammatory article/video, etc. This is a fairly arduous and suboptimal process. A better approach is to build a site that enables people to ac… Continue

Leveraging The Internet To Make Money Locally


Just as no dark cloud fails to have a silver lining, so to are economic crashes fraught with opportunity. By extrapolating a bit from current trends we can deduce where the cash flow will be heading in the near term and a little hustle can place us under the money funnel when it gets there.

Before we start let me define cash flow as broadly as possible here. I don’t mean just the exchange of dollars, but include all manner of “value.” A bar… Continue

"The nation's economic crisis has catapulted the number of Americans who lack enough food to the highest level since the government has been keeping track, according to a new federal report, which shows that nearly 50 million people -- including almost one child in four -- struggled last year to get enough to eat."

America's economic pain brings hunger pangs
USDA report on access to food 'unsettling,' Obama says
By Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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OK, things are bad and getting worse. That means that we have a wonderful opportunity before us if we only grasp it firmly.

The economy of the United States, as well as most of the Globe is on a downslope that is taking on some of the aspects of an avalanche, and it is becoming nakedly obvious that the Kleptocracy of the Federal Government and Wall Street are scrambling to finish looting the treasury before the lights go out. 36 million honest Citizens are on food stamps with no recourse in the… Continue