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Fwd: Who do you know in London?
by Michel Bauwens 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bernie Mitchell <bernie(a)berniejmitchell.com> Date: Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:43 AM Subject: Who do you know in London? To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Hola Michel! Be a love and share our OuiShare London event OuiShare Facebook page here <https://app.nimble.com/api/v1/messages/tracking/click/4ea5dca87834d85e56000…> with people you know in London. We are hosting Ali from LiftShare <https://app.nimble.com/api/v1/messages/tracking/click/4ea5dca87834d85e56000…> for a Q&A at our coworking space and have over 50 people coming ;-) Love Bernie x Have a remarkable day Bernie J Mitchell 0777 204 2012 Are you listening to my podcast? www.berniejmitchell.com Sent from my mobile device *Unless we agree otherwise, this email conversation is confidential. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Re: [P2P-F] confirmation!
by Michel Bauwens 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

Merci Julien 2016-01-19 9:28 GMT+07:00 Julien Cantoni <cantonijulien(a)gmail.com>: > Bonjour, > Je vous recommande la lecture de ce post de Simon Sarrasin sur son blog. > Bien à vous. > Julien > > http://simons.fr/2015/05/la-renaissance-des-communs-invite-a-reinventer-la-… >

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Fwd: Brussels second most cosmopolitan city in the world ? ( 62 percent born outside of Belgium )
by Michel Bauwens 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: 2016-01-19 9:42 GMT+07:00 Subject: Brussels second most cosmopolitan city in the world ? ( 62 percent born outside of Belgium ) To: "econowmix(a)googlegroups.com" <econowmix(a)googlegroups.com>, " op-n-m(a)googlegroups.com" <op-n-m(a)googlegroups.com> http://www.lesoir.be/1096590/article/actualite/monde/2016-01-18/bruxelles-e… *Dubaï se hisse à la tête du classement avec 82 % d’habitants nés à l’étranger. Bruxelles occupe la deuxième position avec 62 %.* https://infogr.am/top_15_des_villes_les_plus_cosmopolites -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: "Financial Engineering" : 1995-96 Russian "Grabification" and "Loans for Shares" scheme
by Michel Bauwens 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:05 AM Subject: "Financial Engineering" : 1995-96 Russian "Grabification" and "Loans for Shares" scheme To: "econowmix(a)googlegroups.com" <econowmix(a)googlegroups.com>, " op-n-m(a)googlegroups.com" <op-n-m(a)googlegroups.com>, " agile-vortex(a)googlegroups.com" <agile-vortex(a)googlegroups.com> Or How Financial Engineering is used, again and again, to enable a coup and transfer property to a small elite ... Below, the post sovietic Russian case , or "loans for shares" scheme of 1995-6 : http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-a-russian-oligarch-2013-3?IR=T *" The oligarchs are the product of the privatization of state companies after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Russian economy was in disarray and the government wanted to redistribute badly managed state-owned companies in just about every industry you can imagine in an effort to move towards capitalism.In 1994, executives at Russia's only Swiss Central Bank accredited bank, Oneksim Bank came up with a plan to help then-President Boris Yeltsin and his administration raise some cash while distributing the companies.The plan was called "loans for shares." Russian banks lent the government money in exchange for temporary stakes in state-owned companies. If the government defaulted on its loan, the banks got to keep their stakes.Of course, the government did default, and those with the capital to take advantage of this fire sale, like Oneksim Bank's then-president and Russia's 4th richest man Vladimir Potanin, became wealthy beyond belief. "///* Also see : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatization_in_Russia *" Voucher privatization took place between 1992-1994 and roughly 98 percent of the population participated. The vouchers, each corresponding to a share in the national wealth, were distributed equally among the population, including minors. They could be exchanged for shares in the enterprises to be privatized. Because most people were not well-informed about the nature of the program or were very poor, they were quick to sell their vouchers for money, unprepared or unwilling to invest.[citation needed] Most vouchers—and, hence, most shares—wound up being acquired by the management of the enterprises. Although Russia's initial privatization legislation attracted widespread popular support given its promise to distribute the national wealth among the general public and ordinary employees of the privatized enterprises, eventually the public felt deceived. "* -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [xnet-news] FCForum‬ Outcomes, Roadmap for next fights in 2016
by Michel Bauwens 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alfa Xnet <alfa(a)xnet-x.net> Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 6:45 PM Subject: [xnet-news] FCForum‬ Outcomes, Roadmap for next fights in 2016 To: xnet-news(a)listas.xnet-x.net Good morning, We launch the Outcomes of the Free Culture Forum 2015, our roadmap for the next civil society fights in 2016: *Index* - *Net Neutrality* <http://2015.fcforum.net/en/net-neutrality/> http://2015.fcforum.net/en/net-neutrality/ - *Freedom of Expression and Right to Information VS Trade Secrets* <http://2015.fcforum.net/en/freedom-of-expression-and-right-to-information-v…> http://2015.fcforum.net/en/freedom-of-expression-and-right-to-information-v… - *Copyright Positive Agenda* <http://2015.fcforum.net/en/copyright-positive-agenda/> http://2015.fcforum.net/en/copyright-positive-agenda/ - *Transparency & Privacy* <https://xnet-x.net/en/transparency-vs-privacy/> https://xnet-x.net/en/transparency-vs-privacy/ - *Right to Privacy and Encryption VS Mass Surveillance* <https://xnet-x.net/en/right-to-privacy-and-encryption/> https://xnet-x.net/en/right-to-privacy-and-encryption/ Thanks for your help spreading them: TW: <https://twitter.com/X_net_/status/689011642873573376> https://twitter.com/X_net_/status/68901164287357337 <https://twitter.com/X_net_/status/689011642873573376>6 <https://twitter.com/X_net_/status/689011642873573376> FB: <https://www.facebook.com/RedX.Net/posts/757961230970333> https://www.facebook.com/RedX.Net/posts/757961230970333 Developed in collaboration with: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), European Digital Rights, La Quadrature du Net, Bits of Freedom, Access Now, Initiative für Netzfreiheit, Web We Want y Gaelle Krikorian --- Other recent actions we have supported: - *Open letter to the world’s governments: Encryption isn’t a security problem. It’s a security solution* <https://xnet-x.net/en/securetheinternet/> https://xnet-x.net/en/securetheinternet/ - *Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg on Net Neutrality advocacy in India* <https://xnet-x.net/en/letter-to-zuckerberg-net-neutrality-in-india> https://xnet-x.net/en/letter-to-zuckerberg-net-neutrality-in-india --- *XNET* https://xnet-x.net/ https://twitter.com/X_net <https://www.facebook.com/RedX.Net>https://www.facebook.com/RedX.Net If you do not want to receive information about Xnet activities please let us know in an email with the word DELETE in the subject. Sorry for any inconvenience. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Democratic Money and Capital for Commons
by Michel Bauwens 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pat Conaty <pat.commonfutures(a)phonecoop.coop> Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 8:04 PM Subject: Democratic Money and Capital for Commons Find at the link below a new report that Michel Bauwens and the Commons Strategies Group initiated as a two day intense discussion event in Berlin and held last September and with some folks you will recognise. http://www.bollier.org/blog/democratic-money-and-capital-commons David Bollier and I have edited in this report summaries of presentations and the outcome of the debate and discussion. What makes this report different is that we seek to join up the parts that diverse experts are working on. If any of you could promote this report via your networks Michel and I would be grateful. The plan being hatched is to set up a Home Site for the report and try to promote Socially Usefully Money Organisations (SUMO) keen to find ways of uniting the jig-saw puzzle parts into a cohesive whole that can be co-developed. Block chain technology is neutral and can be used abusively or democratically, socially and ecologically. There is also a key role for governments viz. democratic money systems. Michel and I look forward to getting your feedback. Pat -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [members] FLOSS, POLICY & NETWORK FOR CBPP - Barcelona March
by Michel Bauwens 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mayo Fuster Morell <mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu> Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 12:25 AM Subject: [members] FLOSS, POLICY & NETWORK FOR CBPP - Barcelona March To: members(a)lists.p2pvalue.eu Hello! Today we had a very productive chat in order to prepare the FLOSS, POLICY & NETWORK FOR CBPP event in Barcelona March 12th and 13th. Attendance: Primavera, David, Stacco, Samer, Bernamin and Mayo. Key concept of the event: We are planning to organize a workshop following up the FLOSS4P2P you attended last year in London, but this time we want to mix people from Policy with FLOSS developers, in order to build three specific outcomes: (1) policy recommendations for the EC concerning the regulation of the collaborative economy; (2) technical guidelines to build software platforms for collaborative communities; (3) creation of a network around the commons-oriented model of collaborative economy and increase its visibility. It's an opportunity for policy people to interact directly with the technical teams of P2P platforms and to get in contact with the more social-oriented side of collaborative economy, and for these to express their needs and problems. Thus, it'll be more interdisciplinary and less technical than the London one. It's also directly connected with P2Pvalue work on these issues. It will happen in Barcelona, March 12-13. On March 11th, there will be a locally-organized event also promoted by the Barcelona City Council. We have very short time to finish preparing it. We will have a second call next Wednesday 20 of January at 11h (CET) to finalize the call to participate and the list of international invited people. Please P2PF people, could you do a save the date basic announcement on P2Pvalue website and social networks etc. Mayo The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited without the express permission of the sender. If you received this communication in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: FYI: Venkatesh Rao on the life of the corporation
by Michel Bauwens 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nurul E. <ne_atl(a)onebox.com> Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 4:47 AM A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 By Venkatesh Rao http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-brief-history-of-the-corporation-160… "..We are not used to viewing world history through the perspective of the corporation for the very good reason that corporations are a recent invention, and instances that had the ability to transform the world in magical ways did not really exist till the East India Company was born. Businesses of course, have been around for a while. .. ..[Many commentators] have talked about how the traditional corporate form is getting obsolete. But in digging around, I found to my surprise that nobody has actually attempted to meaningfully represent the birth-to-obsolescence evolution of the idea of the corporation. Here is my first stab at it (I am working on a much more detailed, data-driven timeline as a side project).. " -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Why We Consume: Neural Design and Sustainability (GTN Discussion)
by Michel Bauwens 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Great Transition Network <gtnetwork(a)greattransition.org> Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 12:09 AM Subject: Why We Consume: Neural Design and Sustainability (GTN Discussion) To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com >From Igor Matutinović <Igor.Matutinovic(a)gfk.com> ------------------------------------------------------- Following Paul Ray and Richard Wilk's comments, I would like to support a view that our behaviors, including those that relate to personal consumption, are to a great extent socially constructed. Social construction of reality and social imprinting shapes and ordinates individual values and beliefs about the world at large or its particular aspects, like the natural environment. We can call this social construction of reality a dominant worldview - a set of beliefs, symbols, values, and segments of objective knowledge that are widely shared in a given society in a given period of time. Using subsumptive hierarchy relationship we can wrap it up as: {dominant worldview {individual values and beliefs {attitudes {intentions {behavior}}}}} meaning that individual behavior is to a great extent constrained by a dominant worldview. In that sense many of us have the propensity to “compulsively” consume because our culture shapes us in that particular way. But this does not exclude the impact of our neural wiring and primary rewards mechanisms on our behaviors, as Peter argued in his text. We are chemical and biological entities, and therefore, constraints to our behavior arise at lower levels as well: {material world {biological world {social world}}} → {chemical dynamics {organism dynamics {social dynamics}}}. In that sense, I see the connection between the constraints that arise from our biochemistry and our worldviews, which is well expressed in Peter's text: “... as capitalist social organization shrinks the diversity of primary rewards to the realm of material consumption, they become predictable and less satisfying. Limited to a few sources of primary reward, we consume them more intensely as the circuit adapts, and eventually they become addictions.” And his final inference—“Therefore, social policies should follow the precept “Expand satisfactions!” We should re-examine and enumerate the myriad sources that were alienated under capitalism”—in my view is a call to reexamine and change our dominant worldview. Igor Matutinović ----- Original Message ----- Transition Network [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 5:08 AM Igor (GfK) We Consume: Neural Design and Sustainability (GTN Discussion) >From Paul Ray ----- Richard Wilk's comment resonates with my experience doing values and lifestyles research for 25 years. In several hundred studies, we found that cultural differences in values and worldviews were vastly better predictors to consumer behavior, than learning of the kind mentioned in neural research, or than the kinds of variables used in conventional behaviorist or personality psychology. Values state what is most important in life, and worldviews state beliefs about how life works. The key discovery that gave rise to the Cultural Creatives research findings was that this is grows out of cultural change processes, and psychological variables are not correlated with that. In fact, in numerous studies in Japan, Western Europe and the United States, competition among three competing subcultures organize cultural changes in consumption and in sustainability-related behaviors. These are Traditionals, Moderns, and Cultural Creatives (who are the leaders in creating change toward sustainable culture). Each of the three subcultures is very similar in pattern to its cognate type in the other developed nations. In a comparison of Cultural Creatives in the Netherlands and the U.S., we found that they are more similar to each other than they are to their countrymen in the other two subcultures. This was especially true for sustainability-related products, and any kind of 'green' behaviors, or attitudes in 'green' public issues. And there was better leverage for change by working off of values and lifestyle preferences, and interpreting consumption changes in terms of worldviews. Values and worldviews simply lie at a deeper level in consumer behavior than attitudes and opinions, and are more accessible to influence through interpersonal contact. Paul H. Ray ************************************* Wednesday, January 13, 2016 >From Richard Wilk ----- As I have said in past writing on the origins of consumer culture, there is nothing "hard wired" in our brains that makes us consume. I have been working on this issue for more than 30 years, and I can tell you that the majority of human societies on this planet, for the last 1.5 million years, have not been consumer cultures. Any basic reading in anthropology will show this. Looking at brain structure for an explanation is therefore pointless. I have personally lived in a non-consumer culture of subsistence farmers, and have documented how they started to become consumers. People often like neurological explanations to problems because they can be less “messy” than culture and society, but it is culture and social organization that we must focus on if we are to change consumerist behavior. Richard Wilk ******************* Saturday, January 2, 2016 >From Paul Raskin ----- GTN Colleagues: The point of departure for our JANUARY DISCUSSION is the new GTI Viewpoint “Why We Consume: Neural Design and Sustainability” by Peter Sterling. Please find it and read it at www.greattransition.org/publication/why-we-consume. A recurrent theme of recent discussions has been the growth imperative of the capitalist system and ways to transcend it. But growth in output would have been a recipe for overproduction and stagnation (“realization crises”) had the demand side of the economic equation not expanded apace. Indeed, Keynes, Schumpeter, and Marx—for different reasons—all believed productivity increases would outpace demand growth, thereby subverting the long-term viability of capitalism. Keynes welcomed that destiny as an opportunity for fashioning a post-scarcity society, Schumpeter rued it as an inevitable segue to some kind of state socialism, and Marx saw deep structural crises as fuel for proletarian revolution. Of course, history has not been kind to these prognoses. Despite episodic stagnation crises, consumer demand kept ballooning, postponing the day of reckoning. What drives this seeming insatiability of wants beyond basic material needs? As a neuroscientist, Peter Sterling draws on contemporary research to diagnose the roots of consumerism in the way the brain works, and to limn lessons for the project of transcending it. Now, a number of you have been looking at the problem of consumerism—and prospects for “sustainable consumption”—through complementary windows of perception, stressing, inter alia, sociological pressures, psychological needs, cultural influences, and economic manipulations. What resonances or dissonances do you see between your own perspective and Sterling’s emphasis on neural design? IN PRAISE OF BREVITY: GTI exchanges benefit enormously from expansive comments, but concise, pointed comments or questions are equally appreciated! Please do not hesitate to weigh in. Comments are welcome through FEBRUARY 2. Friends, 2015 witnessed some hopeful developments for a GT, but also all too many reminders that “we have no time for the tranquilizing drug of gradualism” (Martin Luther King, Jr.). Perhaps our dialogue will ripple out further and faster in the coming year, and enrich the multifarious efforts of this remarkable assemblage. All of us here wish all of you a healthy and meaningful New Year. Looking forward, Paul Raskin GTI Director NOTE ON GTI’S PUBLICATION CYCLE: GTN discussions occur in ODD-NUMBERED months, and GTI publishes in EVEN-NUMBERED months. Each discussion takes up a new essay or viewpoint prior to its publication. After the discussion closes, GTI publishes and distributes the piece, along with comments drawn from the discussion and a response from the author. You can review all GTN discussions at www.greattransition.org/forum/gti-forum. ----- Hit reply to post a message Or see thread and reply online at www.greattransition.org/forum/gti-discussions/172-why-we-consume-neural-des… Need help? Email jcohn(a)tellus.org ------------------------------------------------------- Hit reply to post a message Or see thread and reply online at http://www.greattransition.org/forum/gti-discussions/172-why-we-consume-neu… Need help? Email jcohn(a)tellus.org -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Pour une assemblée des communs à Brest, rencontre le 15 février
by Michel Bauwens 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

news from france: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Briand Michel <Michel.Briand(a)telecom-bretagne.eu> Date: 2016-01-16 16:54 GMT+07:00 Subject: Fwd: Pour une assemblée des communs à Brest, rencontre le 15 février To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Bonjour Michel Voila j'ai mis un article invitant à une première rencontre à Brest en reprenant des éléments de nos échanges En parallèle du Temps des communs <http://tempsdescommuns.org/> qui a rassemblé cet automne 500 initiatives francophones est né l’idée de créer des assemblées des communs <http://p2pfoundation.net/Assembl%C3%A9e_des_communs> qui réuniraient les personnes soucieuses de faire avancer les communs sur un territoire. Voici une proposition de rencontre sur Brest à la Cantine numérique le 15 février 2016 à 17h30. Lire la présentation ici http://www.a-brest.net/article18674.html amicalement -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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