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science manifesto
by Michel Bauwens 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

http://sciencecodemanifesto.org/ Hi Alessandro, could you mention this on the blog? and if I may ask, also on the wiki? hope it's possible, as I'm about to go off 20 days!! -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Multitude movement and its infrastructure
by Michel Bauwens 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tiberius Brastaviceanu <tiberius.brastaviceanu(a)gmail.com> Date: 2011/10/17 Subject: in case you missed this post... To: multitudeproject <multitudeproject(a)googlegroups.com>, Multitude movement and its infrastructure (putting the Occupy Everywhere in perspective) * http://multitudeproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/multitude-movement-and-its.html * please provide feedback -- t!b! <http://www.google.com/profiles/tiberius.brastaviceanu> co-founder of SENSORICA <http://www.sensorica.co>, an open, decentralized and self-organizing value network (an open enterprise) founder of Multitude Project <https://sites.google.com/site/multitude2008/> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Re: [P2P-F] money as debt. 3
by Michel Bauwens 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

Dear Tadit, please note that when I spoke of monetary pluralism it explicitely excludes private for-profit players, we are talking about local communities or virtual communities. Of course, they should be fully accountable to the public. can you explain what you mean exactly by debt-free ? my understanding of LETS and such was that you get the money by performing a task, not by lending it ? in your scenario, would the sovereign just 'give' the money? (basic income?) Michel On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:09 PM, <ideasinc(a)ee.net> wrote: > Michel, > > I will need to reply to this in chunks or as issues to a volume. On Keen, > and thereby MMT, the counter point is MMT. With Keen you are seeing the > analytical side of the econometrics and his approach is to a strong degree > about his use of the methodologies to identify dys-functional financial and > fiscal policies. The simple identification that the finance sector doe not > have a neutral effect/voice in either the political or economic commons. It > is by the monitoring these sort of metrics that we can choose principles and > practices to move us toward a different set of objectives assuming that the > ends are privatized as in toward sustainable economics. > > The current set of pretexts of neo-classical/privatization/**enclosure of > the currency and thereby our economy are continuing to include more oiled > fictions as rhetoric to support appearance. At one level the more generic > difference is between positivist sciencism (ie faith based) and dialectical > science as a socializing process. Keen's focus and methodology is rigorously > and passionately mathematical. I don't recall him speaking much toward the > alternative policy discourse which had Lerner and Lowe. Keen is describing > the means and mechanisms to set different objectives. Perhaps implicit is > that a takeaway from Keen is that the particular varieties of dys-function > relative to the public interests and high functionality relative to a more > selected profile and influence, the .01% . The instability is intentional > not accidental, as in the US Trader recently and eloquently described for > the BBC his clients make "money" on the way up and on the way down. In fact > there are massive incentives to promote economic instability. > > > > On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:07:30 -0400, Michel Bauwens < > michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> wrote: > > This is a difficult debate for me Tadit, as I have never truly studied >> MMT, >> and what kind of money is best. >> >> I'd like to posit some general principles as to what a commons/p2p >> friendly >> policy would be ... >> >> - first of all, I think monetary freedom is important, which for me means >> that next to sovereign money that is governed by the collective, and we >> need >> at least a national and global level, we also must accept >> community-driven >> 'socially sovereign' money ... so repression of successful local money by >> the state is not acceptable >> > > > Tadit: Here again comes my story about the "Free Banking" period in the US, > which had relatively speaking the highest levels of fraud and embezzlement > as US history up until about 2000. The front side of the story is that the > Second National Bank of the US was as big a fraud as was the First National > Bank of the US. Pres. Thomas Jefferson allowed the charter of the First > National Bank of the US, which caused a very angry visit by Mayer Amschel > Rothschild to the British War Department, which then became the US British > war of 1812, which oddly seemed to be more about burning down the national > capital as a symbolic act, than the occupation of territory. Anyway Andrew > Jacksonbecame convinced that the people behind the Second US National bank > were frauds and thieves due to evidence of illegal activities. The other > side of the process is that the bank was buying up politicians at a rapid > rate, such his veto on any renewal of that charter could be over-ruled by > congress given enough unregulated campaign funding. What Jackson did to > destroy the Second US National Bank was to move the funds of the US > government to other banks. Beyond Jackson's anger at the Second US Bank, he > was also a strong state's rights/local rule advocate. His solution was in > effect to let each state to work out their own banking processes. This began > what is known as the "Free Banking Era in US history from 1832 to 1860 the > US as a sort of economic confederacy had over 7,000 local currencies, > generally issued by local banks. The level of banking and currency fraud was > enormous. In effect Jackson had a serious and legitimate problem with the > practices of the Second National Bank of the US, but he proposed effectively > the wrong solution, and it was in some large degree a "free market" bit > deregulation which became a different major problem. > > The US Greenbacks and various currency sovereignty details were established > and then later in Lincoln's administration the US Banking Acts of 1863 and > 1864 established some national standards, and it also created more problems > which lead to a different story. > > I have two main points relative to the proposal of local currencies. One > major problem is the entire field has no standards of transparency or > accountability. The second you are already familiar with the distinction > between a sovereign fiat currency issued on the basis of debt(often masked > as "credit" because is sounds more positive, but in the detail of practice > it makes no difference between "Debt" and "Credit") and a privatized > franchise to "print" money. > > Treating an exchange association as an LLC and as a cooperative has its > advantages in part by familarity of the model, by member capitalization, by > patronage rebates, by internal revolving loan funds, other forms of > incubation, and more. > > > > > >> - money should be a commons, I'm not sure exactly what that means, but it >> should not be subjected to speculation, and is a public utility that >> should >> > > Tadit: Speculation can be eliminated to a large degree at least formally > > be protected from private misuse ...; how exactly can we make money into a >> commons, that is an important question for me, in which I would like to be >> educated ; instinctevely I'm against the private for-profit creation of >> money as it is currently practiced >> > > Tadit" IF and this is some degree a big IF, if the process of governance is > not also controlled as a commons based democracy by performance, then it is > unlikely that this will happen except by autonomous initiatives such as the > CRX. MMT/FF tends to relatively neutral and instrumental toward objectives > defined with regard to democratic outcomes, not by an electoral system > chained to a stacked deck of "legitimate" choices. > > > >> - third, money has a design, and that design should be a design that does >> not permit excessive accumulation, nor require infinite growth >> > > Tadit: money circulation and management does define money by how it can be > used and controlled. The package of fictions related nominally legitimating > the monetary defaults. Understanding reserve accounting how it is currently > used is critical to how that process can be simply turned to the benefit of > the commons and commoners in several ways > > >> before encountering MMT, the people I listened to were: >> >> * Bernard Lietaer, because of his recognition of all the levels, and his >> effort to have an answer for each level >> > > Tadit: The notion of complementary currencies is all useful, and still > Lietaer operates within a debt based standard. I am sure that the > complementary innovations could also be implemented under a debt-free > currency process. > > > >> * Thomas Greco, and his idea for local credit commons, based on the real >> interactions of local players; weakness here is that it can't be applied >> rapidly enough in national crisis situations >> > > Tadit: For me this is an external process which can be worked in other > ways. The CRX explicitly has the capacity to develop internal revolving loan > funds either through the CRNs or through the accumulation of Federal Reserve > Notes aka Dollars.There is no intrinsic positive to a debt based currency, > imo. > > > > >> and this is why I liked the approach of Ellen Brown, because of her >> insistence, with many documented examples of the past, that >> people-friendly >> governments can issue money as a productive investment, and that it is not >> inflationary in such circumstances >> > > Tadit: Ellen Brown's argumentation is weak and her history is weak, but > placing the proposal for state banking as utility banking with in the > context of the needed monetary reform as recently suggested by Michael > Hudson is completely agreeable as an element. Using the "success" or lack of > offensive behavior in a state of less than 700,000 residents in total is not > exactly a good reason to expect that the banking culture in NYC or > Washington DC will change in the least. In fact it is likely that state > banking in such places will have the character of the banking culture that > we are generally blighted with. > > > >> to summarize: >> >> - a pluralist money system that can operate on local, regional, national, >> and global levels, issued by either sovereign states or local or affinity >> communities >> >> - conceived as a commons / public utility that cannot be manipulated by >> private interests >> >> - designed in such a way that it does not create negative social and >> natural >> externalities (counter-example: bitcoin is socially sovereign but has the >> wrong design) >> >> Perhaps if you have time one day, you could write about how you see money >> as >> a commons, and how MMT stacks up against these contemporary 'p2p' driven >> demands >> > > Tadit: it is something I have been thinking about. I know that there is a > natural proclivity between the two domains. Perhaps what I have at the > moment is that the MMT/FF can be applied in an autonomous fashion. On the > negative social externalities these have to be addressed through practice, > and this one reason I thread in the form of worker and consumer cooperatives > as a more familiar model. I see these details to be fairly small bumps > normal to establishing a self sustaining economic process. > > > >> One question for MMT, what kind of government would want to implement >> this? >> > > Tadit: It is intended to work in a range of democratic cultures. Let's turn > this all upside down and shake it a bit. What we have now is effectively an > MMT/FF process which is operating with an anti-democratic and even criminal > agenda. > > > >> Michel >> >> >> >> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Money created out of thin air...Radio Four!
by robert searle 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

If I recall correctly I heard as a last section of the Today Programme just before 8.am this morning that most of the EUs money in its rescue package would be created "out of thin air." Whether this would be mainly repayable, or non-repayable, or one or the other was not said. If all this is true it raises the question why should the EU members bother to contribute to the IMF at all if it can be created ex nihilo? This is also a big moral question which no one cares to answer....? The "insanity" of it all.....! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00kpnd1 Also, the BBC have also been giving some coverage on the Occupy Movement. RS. RS.

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Truth about the Banker Bailout
by robert searle 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

Maybe of interest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIRYWDGqp90&feature=player_embedded

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Fwd: New bibo currency site
by Michel Bauwens 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marc Gauvin <marc(a)icseg.org> Date: Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:06 AM Subject: New bibo currency site To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Hi Michel, Just letting you know that we have a new web at www.bibocurrency.org. Please take a look and all comments are welcome. Best regards, Marc -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: free books as a policy of sharing
by Michel Bauwens 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Petz <ravenwyn(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:04 PM Subject: free books as a policy of sharing To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>, Suvituulia Huotari < hyperokhe(a)gmail.com>, Vesa Lehtinen <sproutleaf(a)gmail.com> http://www.bookdepository.com/free -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Re: [P2P-F] JStewart Video
by Natalie Golovin 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

Your name and address appeared on the message. All I did was respond. I didn’t intend to breach your privacy but P2P isn’t about privacy-it’s about sharing. From: Nicolás Mendoza Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 9:13 AM To: Natalie Golovin Subject: Re: JStewart Video who are you? why are you sending me unrequested email? how did you get my email? On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Natalie Golovin <10natalie(a)cox.net> wrote: Nothing wrong with that video. It wasn’t aimed against the protest-it targeted irresponsible protesters. -- Nicolás Mendoza 0432111382

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really important: citizen testing groups find very high radio-activity in Tokyo, at Chernobyl levels
by Michel Bauwens 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/world/asia/radioactive-hot-spots-in-tokyo… Sepp, this is rEALLY important, especially as it involves citizen sensing, can you discuss this on our blog, sooner rather than later there is support material, such as the Caldicott video, at http://www.delicious.com/mbauwens/P2P-Energy+P2P-Japan -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: THRIVE - Magazine of the GLobal Economic Symposium - the online version
by Michel Bauwens 16 Oct '11

16 Oct '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ulrike reinhard <ulrike(a)ulrikereinhard.com> Date: Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:30 PM Subject: THRIVE - Magazine of the GLobal Economic Symposium - the online version Hi everybody, here we go with the online version of THRIVE! Enter the magazine using the GES-Grid (http://ow.ly/6GY6V) or our map of global citizens (http://ges-dialogue.org) Open innovation is here;-) http://ges-dialogue.org/06_**open_innovation.html<http://ges-dialogue.org/06_open_innovation.html> Please promote and spread the word if you like! Best as always, u* -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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