"Usury is a cancer, Finance a disease" (Intro to The Econ. Nature of U.S., also in Sel Prose 146). Wayne ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:55:27 -0400 >From: Alphaville Books <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: With usura hath no man a house of good stone & the Home Mortgage Crisis >To: [log in to unmask] > >Usury age old and age thick/ >Mr. Paulson, tear down this Wall Street > >Pound is one of the few poets in recorded history whose poetry has any >bearing on the current ‘crises’ precipitated by Wall Street greed and >avarice. What would Pound think of the current ‘Bail Out’ of Wall Street >or, in general the world of debt we now float on? > >What do the current debt crises have to tell us about ‘usury age old and >age thick.’? I know you’ve thought about it. > >Pound is no longer here to instruct us on the negative consequences of >the latest debt instruments, so it’s up to those who have studied his >writings to take the opportunity and re-articulate his position in light >of current events---to re-articulate both the nature of usury as Pound >intended its expression but also the nature of evil. > >FlashPoint Magazine http://www.flashpointmag.com/ would like to extend >the opportunity to the Pound community to submit pieces on Pound and the >Current Debt Crises. C’mon and pitch in. How many times at parties were >you forced to defend Pound from charges that his economics was ‘just >wacky.’ But whose economics is wackier---Pound’s or the Street? Now really. > >Its a new version of the old Nazi bugaboo, where Pound who actually >killed no one is pilloried by the very people that brought hundreds of >Nazi murderers into the US after the war and made at least one head of >NASA, who trilled "I aim for the stars and sometimes I hit London" and >his Peenemunde pal, Dornberger. > >We plan a new issue of FP sometime next spring just about the time the >next wave of white collar felonious behavior is due to be ‘uncovered’ by >are ‘free and unfettered press.’ > >Actually, the plan for this issue is to focus on Finnegans Wake and we >already have a number of pieces committed. So if you’d like to submit a >piece on Pound and the Wake, we can include it in that issue. If we get >few pieces on Pound and the Street, we’ll addend them to the Wake issue. > >However, if the request for pieces on Pound and Wall Street results in a >'wealth' of submissions we will immediately do a more timely Special >Issue focusing on the usurious s/henanigans/ of our wacky, Wall Street >brethren. > >FP currently has over 800,000 thousand title page hits and literally >tens of millions of page hits. These numbers may mean little to >taxpayers facing a $1,000,000,000,000,000 bailout which the bankers and >the Street will promptly turn around and steal, but you will be read at FP. > >If you’re interested contact me, Carlo Parcelli at >[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Pieces >can be of any length and any energy level.