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  • From: venaurafarm <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Unforgiven: Charles Walters: (ACRES, USA, Walters was a founder of the natural agriculture movement 1950 --->)
  • Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:51:13 -0500

On 11/21/2012 10:04 AM, Lawrence London wrote:
Unforgiven: Charles Walters: 9780911311679: Amazon.com: Books
http://www.amazon.com/Unforgiven-Charles-Walters/dp/091131167X

Unforgiven: Charles Walters: 9780911311679: Amazon.com: Books
Book Description
Publication Date: July 1, 2002
Revised and updated second edition. Charles Walters recognized the
national and international implications of applied raw material economics
as revealed in the analyses of the U.S. economy by Carl H. Wilken, Charles
B. Ray, John Lee Coulter and J. Carson Adkerson. They demonstrated how all
new wealth enters an economy as raw materials provided by Nature. By fairly
monetizing these raw materials, an economy is diverse, balanced, and free
of debt.

*Unforgiven* is derived from Walters' research and in-depth interviews with
Wilken, conducted shortly before Wilken's death in 1968. The crisis that
this book addresses has become even more pronounced in the years since it
first appeared — an increasing wealth gap, a crumbling internal economy,
human and economic harm inflicted upon our trading partners, millions of
family farmers driven from their land, and small, privately owned
businesses becoming extinct, ultimately leaving millions of Americans
either directly or indirectly dependent on government handouts for
existence. Wilken feared the concentration of power "in a few strong hands"
as the deadliest enemy of a free society and saw the demise of independent
enterprise and the family farm as the final curtain for the most dramatic
social experiment in history: the American Dream.

Walters presents not only the causes and effects of our continuing rural
and urban decay, but also a way to stop it — the construction of an economy
operating in tune with the laws of physics.

About the Author
The son of a poor Kansas farmer, Walters' childhood was marked first by the
Dust Bowl, then by the Great Depression. He came of age doing military
service in the waning days of World War II, and earned a master's degree in
economics on the G.I. Bill. He gained experience as editor for the National
Farmer's Organization (NFO), a group dedicated to the idea of using
collective bargaining to obtain a better deal for the family farmer. In
1970 he began his own monthly publication *Acres U.S.A,* as a voice for
eco-agriculture. In his spare time he authored thousands of articles and
numerous books on the technologies of eco-agriculture.

A tireless traveler, Walters journeyed to Egypt, Cuba, Australia, and
Brazil (among others), always returning with long, insightful articles
about the rural culture and agricultural practices he found and the people
he met.

Now semi-retired in Kansas City, Missouri, Charles Walters still
contributes articles and essays to the journal he founded, which his son
Fred Walters now runs out of Austin, Texas.
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Product Details

- *Paperback:* 413 pages
- *Publisher:* Acres USA; 2 Revised edition (July 1, 2002)
- *Language:* English
- *ISBN-10:* 091131167X
- *ISBN-13:* 978-0911311679
- * Product Dimensions: * 8.8 x 6 x 1.1 inches
- *Shipping Weight:* 1.2 pounds
- *Average Customer Review:* 5.0 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the True Hidden Gems of Our Time November 3, 2007
By Jere L. Hough
It is a sad commentary of our times that this book has not been widely read or reviewed.

The book is a prophetic explanation of many, if not most, of the reasons for the imminent collapse of an unsustainable Western Economic System centered in the USA and the UK.

Charles Walters spells out many of the detailed reasons behind the economic booms and busts, wars, depressions, and the overall erosion and wasting of the economic health and wealth of the American people during the 20th Century, and the opening pages of the 21st.

At the risk of oversimplifying his work, he lays the blame on the erosion of farm price parities and the dismantling of the family farm, along with "globalization" and "Free Trade" (rather than "Fair Trade") agreements such as the WTO, NAFTA, etc. This, in turn, was caused by deliberate decisions by the international central banking fraternities to take over our nation's money supply in 1913, so that all new money came in the form of interest-bearing debt, rather than by direct government issue as was decreed in our Constitution. This, in turn, has resulted in a systematic transfer of "real wealth" of our nation from the "people" to the most wealthy of the investment classes, a dismantling of the small farmer and businessman and of the middle classes in general.

Walters clearly shows with overwhelming evidence that times of sound, interest-free money and proper protective tariffs have been prosperous, and times of privately circulated, interest bearing money and so-called "Free Trade" have been ruinous to the middle classes of farmers and producers, and a prelude to panics, recessions, and depressions. He conclusively shows that a service economy is unsustainable, and must eventually become a slave-economy.

IMO, this is one of the "must reads" for anyone hoping to comprehend what is happening to and in our world today, the replacement of democracy with plutocracy (rule by the wealthy) or oligarchy (rule by power cliques). Other sources of understanding are: Carrol Quigley's "Tragedy & Hope, AB Jones' "How the World Really Works", David C Korten's "When Corporations Rule the World" , GE Griffin's "The Creature from Jekyll Island", Stephen Zarlenga's "The Lost Science of Money" and "The Urantia Book". Trust me, they are all worthy of your serious attention.

The poem, "Unforgiven" is the source of the books somewhat strange title, and is quoted in the Foreword:

"The people" is a beast of muddy brain
That knows not its own force, and therefore stands
Loaded with wood and stone; the powerless hands
Of a mere child guide it with bit and rein;

One kick would be enough to break the chain;
But the beast fears, and what the child demands,
It does; nor its own terror understands,
Confused and stupefied by bugbears vain.

Most wonderful! with its own hands it ties
And gags itself-gives itself death and war
For pence doled out by kings from its own store.

Its own are all things between earth and heaven;
But this it knows not; and if one arise
To tell this truth, it kills him unforgiven.

by Tomasso Campanella, as translated from the Italian poem,
"The People," by John Addington Symonds

Jere L Hough





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