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On 11/21/2012 10:04 AM, Lawrence London wrote:
> Unforgiven: Charles Walters: 9780911311679: Amazon.com: Books
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> 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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>     - *Paperback:* 413 pages
>     - *Publisher:* Acres USA; 2 Revised edition (July 1, 2002)
>     - *Language:* English
>     - *ISBN-10:* 091131167X
>     - *ISBN-13:* 978-0911311679
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>     - *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