SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2009
Gold is Money
http://fofoa.blogspot.com/2009/10/gold-is-money.html

http://twitter.com/IvoCerckel/status/4966504466
Money is fundamentally about politics. Required moral training arises only if one spent years considering what justice & virtue consist in.

The latter sentence was Socrates’.

From The Times
October 19, 2009
Discovering if we learnt the lessons of Black Monday
Gerard Lyons, chief economist at Standard Chartered, Economic view
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article6880225.ece

As Sathnam Sanghera puts it today, the fact is there are situations where complaining is pointless and inadvisable. I, Ivo,  was born 1962. As far, as I can remember, that is the 1973 oil crisis, following Nixon breaking Bretton Woods, “we” have always been in crisis. Later I learnt to call this a “-ession”-thing. “Rec-ession”, they said. Let the real, and indeed the Greater, D-thing now come,

From The Times
October 19, 2009
A national need to whinge is cause for complaint for any right-thinking person
Sathnam Sanghera: Business Life
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article6880002.ece

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting anyone whom I meet after my manner, and convincing him, saying: O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens, care so much about laying up the greatest amount of MONEY and honor and reputation, and so LITTLE ABOUT WISDOM AND TRUTH AND THE GREATEST IMPROVEMENT OF THE SOUL, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not ashamed of this?, asked Socrates in Plato’s Apology

The Men of Athens were not interested in what money is. Only in grabbing the paper.

Owning wealth aside from official money units is nothing new. Building up one’s storehouse of a wealth of things is the way societies have advanced their kind from the beginning, says the Gold Trail which explains FreeGold http://www.usagold.com/goldtrail/archives/goldtrailfive.html

The Men of Athens were not interested in owning wealth aside from official money units.

The unexamined life is however not worth living, so concluded Socrates.

The English word “money” dates to c.1290, “coinage, metal currency,” from old French moneie, from Latin monēta “mint, coinage,” from Monēta = “she who warns”, a title of the Roman goddess Juno, as money was coined in or near the Capitoline Temple of Juno in Rome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_money#Etymology

Juno Moneta warned of instability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneta

And she was the guardian not only of money and but also of wealth. http://irelandsown.net/june.html

Sounds familiar for FreeGold advocates?

Ivo Cerckel
honestmoney@maktoob.com
http://twitter.com/ivocerckel/