Alakef is a distributor out of Duluth. The coffee shop’s name is the Village Emporium.

The book Bruce mentioned, “The Lost Science of Money,” is to my knowledge an unprecedented historical work on the history of money going back to Ancient Greece and Rome. Covers the thinking of Aristotle and later Aquinas and the Scholastics. While this author makes a critical comment about religion, he states that he thinks the late John Paul to be one of the smartest economists in delclaring the jubilee and cites a trail of Church opposition to the Federal Reserve.

In an interesting twist, Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich married the secretary of his monetary institute and has taken up the cause to nationalize the Federal Reserve. Such a move would take the Reserve out of the hands of corporate control. Not an anarchist by any means. A concrete change, if it were to happen, would revolutionize home mortgages, drastically altering “usurious” lending practices for a cost-plus system. The part that makes sense is that it would curb runaway debt expansion. I can’t determine cause and effect as he does, but people that study with him cite the monetary problem as a principal cause of the war in Iraq and a potential looming war with Iran. If you want to learn more, search for American Monetary Institute on the web.