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Dreamland’s resident psychic medium Marla Frees has had some truly mind-bending encounters with animal spirits, including some that belong to her own beloved pets. So she’s the perfect interviewer for Dawn Baumann Brunke, the author of Shapeshifting with Our Animal Companions, a highly unusual and profound exploration of the deep and largely unexplored spiritual connection between us and the animals we love, the ones we eat, and the ones who are going extinct.

Dawn?­s website is Animalvoices.net.

Marla Frees?­ website is MarlaFrees.com.

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Anne Strieber is a cat person, and she takes her cat ghosts seriously, and so does Dawn Baumann Brunke, an Alaskan with a love for and deep understanding of animals. Here, they talk about their personal animal companions in a way that is calculated to warm your heart while it also inspires your interest in the mystery of animal-human communication. Later in the interview, they get into a very deep and unusual discussion of just how our minds and even our souls are changed by the animals we eat. This will forever change your understanding of ?you are what you eat.?

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Richard Daughty (aka the acerbic “Mogambo Guru”) is general partner and COO for Smith Consultant Group, serving the financial and medical communities, and the editor of The Mogambo Guru economic newsletter – an avocational exercise to heap disrespect on those who desperately deserve it.

Oct 4, 2008

Fed up with Fed credit By The Mogambo Guru.

The national debt, more correctly known as Treasury Gross Public Debt, shot up US$141 billion last week! Yikes! Don’t multiply $141 billion by 52 weeks because you will plotz at the answer, and we are so freaking doomed that I cannot chug raw tequila fast enough to dull the rising feeling of doom or the rising taste of vomit tinged with blood.
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As of yesterday, the U.S. commercial paper market has failed. You won’t read or hear much about this, because so few people understand financial markets, but you will see its effects in your life, and they are going to be dramatic, and probably come at you like a runaway train.

Commercial paper is the means by which companies raise working capital to produce the goods and services you use every day. Last week, $95 billion less commercial paper was sold. Instead, the money went into US Treasuries. In the past three weeks, the commercial paper market has contracted by $200 billion. Bond experts are calling the contraction “astounding,” and it is not clear that the bailout will help recharge this crucially important market.
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