November 2011 - P2P-Foundation - lists.ourproject.org

Zac Goldsmith...
by robert searle 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

The following maybe of interest... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9649833.stm

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Fwd: A Call to Action and the Endorsements
by Michel Bauwens 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

dear friends, has anyone objections that we endorse this as p2p foundation (I can also do it in personal capacity) Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kamran Mofid <k.mofid(a)gcgi.info> Date: Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 4:39 PM Subject: A Call to Action and the Endorsements To: michel(a)p2pfoundation.net Dear Freinds, Please see below: A Call to Action and the Endorsements. *A Call To Action* *The world is riveting toward a possible turning point and we hope that you are able to stand with us in this call to action* ** ** Hundreds of thousands of people, young and old, employed and unemployed, black and white, men and women, have come together in a continuing and lasting global unity, partaking in a dialogue of civilisations, faiths, cultures and peoples in consideration for the common good. This global movement has risen in a thousand cities on six continents: from Tahrir Square to Alexandria and Tunisia; Rio de Janerio to Bogota; Santiago, Chile to Barcelona; Zuccotti Park to Oakland; Wall Street to St. Paul’s; Frankfurt to Brussels: Rome to Athens; Toronto to Vancouver, Chicago to Philadelphia, Sydney to Brisbane and more, rejecting neo-liberalism and its prevailing economic and business models, demanding a better, kinder and more humane world. The crises of ecological devastation and glaring social and economic inequality are pushing the planet to the brink of catastrophe. We, the undersigned, co-authored the document noted below- A Call to Action- and sought the support of interested parties, by asking them to consider endorsing it. As the current global crises have clearly shown, the whole world is waking up to the value of co-creation and the harnessing of knowledge from diverse sources, disciplines, experience and expertise. We are gratified by the level of enthusiastic support for the Call. We also received wise arguments and sincere suggestions on how to make this more inclusive, so that many more can join and sign the petition. We have acknowledged these suggestions and have incorporated them into the Call to Action. The final document and the list of our endorsees are noted below. It goes without saying that we are most grateful for all your ongoing support. It is only when we work together that we may change the world for the better. ** *Kamran Mofid PhD (ECON), *Founder, Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative (UK) *Jamshid Damooei PhD (ECON), **Co-director, Centre for Leadership and Values, **School of Management**, **California** Lutheran University, **USA* ***Steve Szeghi PhD (ECON), *Dept of Economics, Wilmington College, Ohio, USA To Read the Call to Action: See below *A Call To Action: Endorsements* *Hans Christof Graf von Sponeck, Germany, former UN Assistant Secretary-General and UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, New York, USA *Prof. Johan Galtung, Founder, TRANSEND, France and the European University Centre for Peace Studies (EPU), Austria *Luk Bouckaert, Emeritus Prof. Centre for Economy and Ethics, Catholic University Leuven, and President, European SPES-Forum , Belgium *Paul Shrivastava, David O'Brien Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, and Director, David O'Brien Center for Sustainable Enterprise, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and The 50+20 Steering *Committee *(A project to transform management education worldwide) *Fred Dallmayr - Packey J. Dee Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, USA and Co-Chairman, World Public Forum, Dialogue of Civilizations, Russia and Austria *Prof. Hans Kochler, Chair, Political Philosophy, University of Innsbruck, Austria, and President, International Progress Organisation (I.P.O), Vienna, Austria *Nancy Roof, Founder, Kosmos Journal, Co-Founder Values Caucus at United Nations, Co-Founder Spiritual Caucus at United Nations, USA, and many more See the complete list of endorsements and the Call to Action: http://gcgi.info/news/139-a-call-to-action- Kamran Mofid PhD (ECON) Founder, Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative(GCGI) www.gcgi.info Adjunct Professor, Dalhousie School of Business, Dalhousie University, Canada http://sba.management.dal.ca GCGI 2012 Conference, Dalhousie University, Canada http://management.dal.ca/news/CommonGood/ Member of the International Coordinating Committee (ICC), the World Public Forum, Dialogue of Civilisations http://www.wpfdc.org/ Founding Member, World Dignity University, and Global Advisory Board, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies http://www.humiliationstudies.org/education/education.php#foundingmembers -- 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: Neutral Grounds - for Christmas Truce ? - Live and Let Live
by Michel Bauwens 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:23 PM Subject: Neutral Grounds - for Christmas Truce ? - Live and Let Live To: econowmix(a)googlegroups.com http://www.truth-out.org/vacant-or-occupied-where-do-99-percent-go-when-nat… The restaurant serves as something of a neutral ground, where protesters and policemen are able to switch off the suspicion and hostility born of the power relationship they find themselves in when the latter are specifically charged with supervising the former. "Suddenly," says Wilkins, "they're really courteous to you. They can see you're a protester; you've walked in there with a cardboard sign. But if they bump into you, they apologize." Policemen have seen footage of protesters tossing barricades, and protesters have seen footage of policemen tossing occupiers, but none of this footage has been set in McDonald's. "Everybody needs a break," says Wilkins, inadvertently recalling the fact that McDonald's used to ask whether you'd had yours today. it reminds me : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce The *Christmas truce* was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceasefire> that took place along the Western Front<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Front_%28World_War_I%29> around Christmas of 1914, during the First World War<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World_War>. Through the week leading up to Christmas, parties of German<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire> and British<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland>soldiers began to exchange seasonal greetings and songs between their trenches; on occasion, the tension was reduced to the point that individuals would walk across to talk to their opposite numbers bearing gifts. On Christmas Eve<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Eve> and Christmas Day <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Day>, many soldiers from both sides – as well as, to a lesser degree, from French<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Third_Republic> units – independently ventured into "No man's land<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_man%27s_land>", where they mingled, exchanging food and souvenirs. As well as joint burial ceremonies, several meetings ended in carol-singing. Troops from both sides had also been so friendly as to play games of football<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football> with one another.[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce#cite_note-0> The truce is seen as a symbolic moment of peace and humanity amidst one of the most violent events of modern history. ... The truces were not unique to the Christmas period, and reflected a growing mood of "live and let live<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_let_live_%28World_War_I%29>", where infantry units in close proximity to each other would stop overtly aggressive behaviour, and often engage in small-scale fraternisation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternisation>, engaging in conversation or bartering for cigarettes. In some sectors, there would be occasional ceasefires to go between the lines and recover wounded or dead soldiers, whilst in others, there would be a tacit agreement not to shoot while men rested, exercised, or worked in full view of the enemy. However, the Christmas truces were particularly significant due to the number of men involved and the level of their participation – even in very peaceful sectors, dozens of men openly congregating in daylight was remarkable. -- 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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Fw: The Wisdom of Melville
by robert searle 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: John Fullerton <jfullerton(a)capitalinstitute.org> To: Robert Searle <dharao4(a)yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 0:30 Subject: The Wisdom of Melville To forward this email, click here. The Wisdom of Melville "If your banker breaks, you snap." - Herman Melville, Moby Dick During the summer between the day I resigned from JPMorgan after eighteen years, and the horror of witnessing 9-11 up close and personal, I joined a couple of friends on their fifty foot sailboat in an attempt to sail across the Atlantic Ocean. What better time to read Moby Dick, I thought. One thousand miles into the journey, about a third of the way to England, we were struck by a humpback whale, destroying our rudder and leaving us floundering on the Atlantic." Read more at the Future of Finance Blog. Profit-making Over Charity?Last Friday, a New York Times article on program-related investing highlighted the $10 million equity stake the Gates Foundation took in Liquidia Technologies. Some in the foundation world are concerned that the investment blurred the lines between profit-making and charity. We and our Braintrust advisor Stephen Viederman say foundations should blur those lines as long as they use their endowment assets to do so. We would argue that foundations should use all of the tools available to them to meet their mission and purpose: grants, program-related investments and, most powerfully, their endowment assets. Read more about how foundations should invest their endowments here. Financial Transactions Tax: Update In the past month, a number of high-profile individuals have joined the international call for a Financial Transaction Tax. Former Vice President Al Gore, British Hedge Fund Magnate David Harding, Philanthropist and Business Leader Bill Gates, and American Political Activist Ralph Nader have all boldly stood up for the tax. Nader's support for the tax was most publicly expressed on the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal in a piece titled "Time for a Tax On Speculation." In the piece, he cited Capital Institute as one of the leading voices supporting the tax and used an argument made in John Fullerton's blog post "Why We Need a Financial Transactions Tax." A number of leading bloggers, including Angry Bear and A Taxing Matter picked up on this reference and covered the Capital Institute portion of Nader's op-ed. We are proud to have impacted the debate by influencing a number of these voices. We will continue to provide critical commentary on the FTT and make arguments rooted in complexity theory, a deep understanding of how financial systems function, and the connection our financial decisions have to the real economy and the natural world. Read all of John's FTT blog entries here. What We're Reading Carla Sequist wrote a fascinating piece this week on the striking similarities between Jon Corzine's as CEO of MF Global (and Wall Street titans in general) and Captain Ahab. She calls on Wall Street to learn the critical lessons of humility, prudence, and cooperation. Brush Up On Your Melville Quote of the Week "Today's free-marketers need to re-learn the wisdom of Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman, whom they praise but don't read." Jeffrey Sachs, Fairness and the Occupy Movement Revisited Comment of the Week "It is such a relief and delight to read 'A National Strategic Narrative' from the perspective of a Chinese student in the U.S., in a time when China-bashing is (again) the new fashion in Washington. I have always believed that the competition between US and China is not a zero sum game, just as the competition in the ecosystem keeps all parties adaptive and healthy." -Zilong Wang, The Joint Chiefs of Staff and OWS... Who Knew? To unsubscribe from this email list, click here. 73 Arch Street, 3rd Floor Greenwich, CT 06830 United States

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Apocalypse, 4Chan, WikiLeaks and the silent protocol wars
by Michel Bauwens 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/a-tale-of-two-worlds-2 hi nicolas, could you represent this article to the p2p blog, anytime after dec 1? many thanks!! -- 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] networked activism vs. the state
by Michel Bauwens 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

thank you David!! On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:47 PM, David Bollier <david(a)bollier.org> wrote: > > Interesting piece on the "silent protocol wars" of the Internet vs. the > market-state: > http://www.radicalphilosophy.**com/commentary/a-tale-of-two-**worlds-2<http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/a-tale-of-two-worlds-2> > > --David > > > > David Bollier > david(a)bollier.org > Now blogging at www.Bollier.org > Commons Strategies Group > www.viralspiral.cc > > 511 Old Farm Road > Amherst, MA 01002 USA > 413-259-2009 > > > -- 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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Fw: [endthefed] The eurozone really has only days to avoid collapse - Wolfgang Münchau
by Natalie Golovin 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

From: Aaron Krowne Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 4:31 PM To: endthefed-list(a)meetup.com Subject: [endthefed] The eurozone really has only days to avoid collapse - Wolfgang Münchau This pretty much wraps it up. The European countries are going to have to agree to a pan-European Treasury and purse, as well as limitless printing, if the euro is going to survive. Side note: it sure is interesting how gold and silver seem downright agnostic to this level of crisis in the euro. I'm sure that's just free market forces at work, though! LOL! http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d9a299a8-1760-11e1-b00e-00144feabdc0.html#ax… Unless something very drastic happens, the eurozone could break up very soon. Technically, one can solve the problem even now, but the options are becoming more limited. The eurozone needs to take three decisions very shortly, with very little potential for the usual fudges. First, the European Central Bank must agree a backstop of some kind, either an unlimited guarantee of a maximum bond spread, a backstop to the EFSF, in addition to dramatic measures to increase short-term liquidity for the banking sector. That would take care of the immediate bankruptcy threat. The second measure is a firm timetable for a eurozone bond. The European Commission calls it a “stability bond”, surely a candidate for euphemism of the year. There are several proposals on the table. It does not matter what you call it. What matters is that it will be a joint-and-several liability of credible size. The insanity of cross-border national guarantees must come to an end. They are not a solution to the crisis. Those guarantees are now the main crisis propagator. The third decision is a fiscal union. This would involve a partial loss of national sovereignty, and the creation of a credible institutional framework to deal with fiscal policy, and hopefully wider economic policy issues as well. The eurozone needs a treasury, properly staffed, not ad hoc co-ordination by the European Council over coffee and desert. ... [Merkel's] own very public opposition to eurobonds has now become a real obstacle to a deal. I cannot quite see how the German chancellor is going to extricate herself from these self-inflicted constraints. If she had been more circumspect, she could have travelled to the summit with the proposal of the German Council of Economic Advisers, who produced a clever, albeit limited and not yet fully worked-out-plan. They are a proposing a “debt redemption” bond – another candidate for this year’s top euphemism award. The idea is to have a strictly temporary eurobond, which member states would pay off over an agreed time period. At least this proposal would be in line with the more restrictive interpretation of German constitutional law. ... Italy’s disastrous bond auction on Friday tells us time is running out. The eurozone has 10 days at most. -- Please Note: If you hit "REPLY", your message will be sent to everyone on this mailing list (endthefed-list(a)meetup.com) This message was sent by Aaron Krowne (akrowne(a)gmail.com) from National Ron Paul End The Fed Meetup Group. To learn more about Aaron Krowne, visit his/her member profile To unsubscribe or to update your mailing list settings, click here Meetup, PO Box 4668 #37895 New York, New York 10163-4668 | support(a)meetup.com

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Fw: [New post] Military Detention Bill Considered Today
by Natalie Golovin 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

WordPress.com From: In Context Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 7:13 AM To: 10natalie(a)cox.net Subject: [New post] Military Detention Bill Considered Today New post on In Context Military Detention Bill Considered Today by Ken Today, November 28, 2011, the U.S. Senate is to consider a bill which would authorize the President to order the U.S. military to arrest and imprison indefinitely without charge or trial any persons, including U.S. citizens in the U.S., who engage in terrorist activities defined in the bill. The bill was drafted in secret and passed in a closed door Senate committee meeting without a single hearing. The military detention provisions are included in S. 1867, a much larger bill to authorize appropriations for the U.S. Department of Defense for fiscal year 2012. You can read the relevant provisions, Sections 1031 and 1032, at pages 395-364 in the pdf of S. 1867 at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s1867pcs/pdf/BILLS-112s1867pcs.pdf We urge you to contact your U.S. Senators to express your views on the military detention bill. Ken | November 28, 2011 at 11:13 am | Tags: 1031, 1032, al qaeda, authority, bill, charges, citizen, civil rights, constitution, detainee matters, detention, due process, indefinite, military, national defense authorization act, president, s 1867, sections, Senate, subtitle d, taliban, terrorism, terrorist, trial, U.S., without, world battleground | Categories: Democracy, War | URL: http://wp.me/p11IzQ-9Z Comment See all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://incontextreport.com/2011/11/28/military-detention-bill-considered-to… Thanks for flying with WordPress.com

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Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B - Bloomberg
by 10natalie＠cox.net 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-28/secret-fed-loans-undisclosed-to-co…

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Memo to the Occupy Protestors......
by robert searle 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

Maybe of interest. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100119741/memo-to-the-occupy…

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