The gamblers are ecstatic: the stock
market is having its best quarterly rally since 1933!! . . . you know, when the
country was on the skids, there was high unemployment, Keynesian economics was
artificially inflating prices by backing money with enormous amounts of
government debt and concentrating economic power in the State, the Spanish
Civil War was about to start, the Japanese were about to invade Manchuria, Hitler
had just come into power, and the country was about to enter the “Depression
within the Depression” . . . what was there to worry about?
Okay, plenty, but here are some news
items that might brighten your day:
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| Join us in the Happy Revolution. . . |
•
Mark Your Calendar:
Gather with students, grassroots leaders and
concerned citizens on Friday, April 22, 2016 in
Washington, DC, for the 12th annual demonstration at the Federal Reserve in
Washington, D.C. Co-hosted by the Coalition for Capital
Homesteading and the Center for Economic and Social
Justice, the rally will run from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM,
starting on the mall side across the street from the Constitution
Ave. entrance of the Federal Reserve Building (between 20th and
21st Streets, NW).
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| . . . and sign up for Smile while you're at it. |
•
Amazon Smile
program.
To participate in the
Amazon Smile program for CESJ, go to
https://smile.amazon.com/.
Next, sign in to your account.
(If you don’t have an account with Amazon,
you can create one by clicking on the tiny little link below the “Sign in using
our secure server” button.)
Once you
have signed into your account, you need to select CESJ as your charity — and
you have to be careful to do it
exactly this way: in the
space provided for “Or select your own charitable organization” type “
Center for Economic and Social Justice
Arlington.”
If you type anything
else, you will either get no results or more than you want to sift
through.
Once you’ve typed (or copied
and pasted) “
Center for Economic and
Social Justice Arlington” into the space provided, hit “Select” — and you
will be taken to the Amazon shopping site, all ready to go.
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| President Reagan with the Task Force Report |
• On Wednesday of this week Norman Kurland and Dawn Brohawn
attended a presentation on “Central America in Focus: Insights on Migration and
Sustainable Development.”
A significant
number of the participants and speakers appeared to be greatly interested in
the potential of the Just Third Way for Central America.
This is hardly surprising, given that Central
America and the Caribbean Basin were the focus of the Presidential Task Force
on Project Economic Justice in the mid-1980s.
Both President Ronald Reagan and His Holiness Pope St. John Paul II
spoke favorably of the Just Third Way when presented with copies of the
orientation book and task force report,
Every
Worker an Owner, and
High Road to
Economic Justice, respectively.
• On Thursday of this week Norman Kurland attended an event
at Georgetown University, “The Myth of a Universal Islamic State.” Speakers concentrated on demonstrating that,
according to the Quran, there is no mandate for a universal caliphate or
anything else such as radical Muslim extremists are demanding. This makes sense, for even the concept of a
Nation-State is a relatively new concept on the political scene, being a little
over two hundred years old at most. A
number of the people there sounded very interested in the Just Third Way.
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| Dr. Norman Bailey |
• At noon, EDST, on March 21, 2016, CESJ Board of Counselors
member Dr. Norman Bailey Professor of Economics and National Security at the
University of Haifa, Israel, will be participating (via video) in a Heritage
Foundation event, “
The
Grand Strategy That Won the Cold War: Architecture of Triumph.” You can
either attend in person, or watch on the internet.
• This past week we received a copy of Redmond FitzGerald’s Cry Blood, Cry Erin (1966). It wasn’t exactly what we were expecting —
it’s an early “coffee table book” — but still very useful as it provides photos
and other illustrations dealing with the struggle for an independent Ireland.
• The first draft of our book dealing with a Just Third Way
“take” on the Easter Rising in Dublin, Éire, in 1916 is finished, and is now in
the first revision stages.
The working
title is
What th’ Hell are Th’ Up to Now?,
from playwright Seán O’Casey’s description of the “attack” on the General Post
Office in Volume III of his memoirs,
Drums
Under the Windows (1945), in which he recalls an old man muttering, “half
to himself and half to an elderly, thin lady beside him . . . ‘What th’ hell
are th’ up to now? . . . Somethin’ brewin’?
Ma’am, there’s always somethin’ brewin’.
I’m seventy, an’ I’ve never known an hour that
I didn’t hear tell of somethin’ brewin’.’”
• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 52 different countries and 52 states and provinces in the United
States and Canada to this blog over the past two months. Most visitors are from
the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, India, and Sudan. The most
popular postings this past week in descending order were “Thomas Hobbes on
Private Property,” “Aristotle on Private Property,” “The Purpose of
Production,” “The Crisis That Need Not Be, I: A System Designed to Fail,” and “Socialist
Delusions, Capitalist Illusions, XII: Popular Capital Formation.”
Those are the happenings for this week, at least those that
we know about. If you have an
accomplishment that you think should be listed, send us a note about it at
mgreaney [at] cesj [dot] org, and we’ll see that it gets into the next
“issue.” If you have a short (250-400
word) comment on a specific posting, please enter your comments in the blog —
do not send them to us to post for you.
All comments are moderated, so we’ll see it before it goes up.
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