COMMENT ALWAYS WELCOME from all our friends in the Table’s wide network
MATTERS IN THE AIR …. WELCOMING NEW COMERS – Reminding each other of opportunities before us. Reporting on current surge in action
– The implications of the KLCMJ with Rodney Shakespeare
– Keep up with the Forum for Stable Currencies – http://www.forumforstablecurrencies.org.uk
– Simon Mouatt’s edited book is now out – ref herewith – including a ref to the chapter that Simon, Rodney and I put together: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4D3SqoM0-05fyBeyz3dIQthF8wDGDZgIuiCaaPIgmM/edit?hl=en#
– Positive News [Tabled] – Winter 2010 – ELF – Well-Being – Renewable energy etc
-‘Independent Commission on Banking – Submission acknowledged and will be published in Jan.
– CCMJ basic papers – ’14 considerations’ – Mouatt Papers –
– Coalition for Economic Justice, Report of the June 24 seminar to 80 invitees
– The new Innovation Lab we are adding to the Fin Lab – drafting ‘a briefing’
– Latest from AMI after Kucinich launches NEED in Congress 17-12-10 https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12d3e04b48603ad1
– Update on GlobalVision 2000 see – http://www.globalvision2000.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=391&pid=2771#pid2771
– READ LATEST CITIZEN’S INCOME NEWSLETTER AT http://www.citizensincome.org/
PERTINENT PICKINGS from the week
– Thatcher and the bankers – Debtonation By Ann Pettifer I have argued in the past that we are governed effectively by bankers, and that we Brits and Americans live within ‘bank-owned states’. Many might dismiss this point of view as hyperbole. But the latest documents released under the … Debtonation: The Global Financial Crisis – http://www.debtonation.org/
– Earthlink – the ‘holistic science’ journal that friends at Schumacher College have recently set up: http://www.earthlinksall.com/journal
– Richard Smith, “If Herman Daly has a better plan, let’s hear it”, real-world economics review, issue no. 55, 17 December 2010, pp 120-123 – http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue55/Smith55.pdf
– Ellen Brown “Central Banking 101: What the Fed Can Do as Lender of Last Resort” http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22445 – AUSTERITY FAILS IN EUROLAND: TIME FOR SOME “DEFICIT EASING”? – http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22488 – Ellen Brown – http://www.webofdebt.com/articles
– *Can* *Spirituality**, Social Justice, and Economic and Political ** Democracy* find ‘synergy’ and ‘synthesis’ in a fair and equitable manner? * http://EconomicDemocracy.Shows.it/
– Western Civilization and Classical Economics: The Immorality of Austerity By Prof. John Kozy URL – http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22379
– listen/watch a lecture by Stewart Wallis NEF at this year’s E.F. Schumacher lectures held in New York in November – http://vimeo.com/channels/150944#17196025
– New website: http://www.catholicsocialteaching.org.uk – is from the livesimply network. Catholic Social Teaching (CST) covers the interlocking areas of community and participation, care for creation (people and planet), life and work, peace, and human solidarity.
– A version of the Common Wealth statement has appeared as a guest editorial by gaston and Steven Shakespeare in the latest ‘Political Theology’ http://www.politicaltheology.com/PT/issue/view/835/showToc
-Western Civilization and Classical Economics: The Immorality of Austerity Prof. John Kozy http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22379 • http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=o8b4necab&et=1104078818493&s=31629&e=001qKDZZ_nelM7O9nim7tq6S_K_f90XaCzn3tsZfyzJBmRT