We're soon off
the TOES 98 in Birmingham, England. I always feel
it a great honor to visit the land of
King Henry the First and Best
King England ever had. King Henry's invention
of government "tally-
money" ushered in an era of interest-free
stability which permitted
Europe to not only provide employment
for all but enough leisure to
build the greatest cathedrals and have
the most holidays. Of course,
with LETS Tallies, the Queen could do
the same.
I'm sad to report
that there might be no mention of LETS on the
official TOES 98 agenda. You'll remember
last month when I posted the
information from Sara Murphy at sara.murphy@neweconomics.org
on TOES
and my two requests for time and space
to make a presentation on the
Petition for National LETS. Several weeks
later, I had still received
no response and wrote again.
sara.murphy@neweconomics
has been disconnected.
Luckily, Sabine
telephoned Sarah who said she had informed me
that there was no more room in the workshop
for my presentation.
Last year had
5 speakers on LETS. I'm quite ashamed there weren't
even more let alone no LETS presentations
on this year's agenda. I
think it's a mighty public slap that this
year there's no room at the
local currency panel for the engineer
who derived the 1/s local
currency equation.
Fortunately,
any unoccupied room will do and was easily found for
my second last-minute presentation last
year and can be again. So I'll
guess we'll have to tag on a session called
TOES "Turmel's Other
Economic Summit" for those interested
in the only public discussion of
LETS which the other two Economic Summits
seem to have missed. I'm
betting the Petition for National LETS
might still make LETS the talk
of both the TOES and the G8 Summits.
After visiting
as many LETS as we can, I'm sure we'll have many
stories to tell when we get back.
Stay tuned to
G8 demonstration stories and you might see the
"Abolish Interest Rates" "with National
LETS" placard of the most
losing and persistent Anti-Debt-Slavery
Abolitionist politician in the
world.