MATTERS IN THE AIR
in which all may share as our networking prospers the cause of inclusive justice…
EVENTS – relevant contributions to or reports from such events would be welcome
Saturday September 11-14 PEACE FESTIVAL at Rickmansworth
London – Wednesday 23rd September 2015 “THE UNITED NATIONS AT 70 – What Prospects for Peace?” Keynote speaker: Clare Short – Former UK Secretary of State for International Development. The lecture will focus on the UN’s successes, failures and future prospects for peace. Most importantly it will explore how UN can pursue its Charter goals of ending the scourge of war, promote sustainable development, protect Human Rights, mitigate climate change, build peace and justice for all. After the lecture there will be opportunity for the audience to have interactive Q&A session. “Now, we have to go forward in the giant undertaking of building democratic United Nations to make the real world safe, just and sustainable for all its children” – Erskine B. Childers. Venue: Hilton London Euston, 17 – 18 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0HT
Saturday October 10th 10-6 FESTIVAL OF WELLBEING – from economic growth to growth in wellbeing. Booking: info@networkofwellbeing.org Reports would be welcome from anyone attending.
NEXT CONVENTION ON CONFEDERATION – NOVEMBER 7TH 10-4 at St. Andrews Church Hall Short St SE1 [ south off the Cut] Register with peterchallen@gmail.com
NEW ASSOCIATES POSSIBLY ATTENDING: Pam Grearly; Rosemary Hadfield, Richard Anderson and Raeto West
REPORTS: always invited : in this week from some of our associates in the quest for inclusive justice.
REPORT ON 2015C ‘TAKING STOCK’
Ellen Brown to join Bernie Sanders at Conference The Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity will hold its first annual conference in Ohio on October 2-3. Public banking author and advocate Ellen Brown will join Senator Bernie Sanders and other speakers for this important event. Read about it here. Ellen will be with us at the Global Table on September 23rd
Frances Hutchinson : Autumn 2015 issue of The Social Artist (incorporating The Social Crediter) in two pdf formats, one for reading on screen, the other for printing out as a booklet. You may prefer simply to follow the link: http://douglassocialcredit.com/publications.php Electronic copies of The Social Artist can be freely circulated to colleagues and friends. Hard copies can be ordered via the Publications Page of the website, www.douglassocialcredit.com.
Prem Sikka: Corporate welfare has become a major cause of austerity and public debt. I have an article which explains how corporations are making massive profits from taxpayer-funded contracts through manipulation of interest rates, tax avoidance and charging vast amounts for mundane things. The article is titled “PFI is still crippling our public services” and is available at http://leftfootforward.org/2015/09/pfi-is-still-crippling-our-public-services/ . The article calls for an independent investigation of all PFI contracts so that the unfair profits, some which are also fraudulent, can be returned to public services.
“People’s Quantitative Easing” Going Mainstream? Jeremy Corbyn, the leading figure of Britain’s Labour Party, is calling for banks to create money to ease personal debt and financial hardship. This is remarkably similar what groups like Positive Money and even the Public Banking Institute have called for. Now it’s gone mainstream. Read more here.”People’s Quantitative Easing” Going Mainstream? Read more here. Follow Richard Murphy’s comments.
John Bunzl SIMPOL latest: Deficit Reduction vs. Growth Stimulation: a false dichotomy in a globalised world. The government says deficit reduction, the opposition says go for growth. Doing the former, Chancellor Osborne tells us, will keep interest rates low and so, i…
Michel Bauwens – 3 -9-15 = free currencies embody this fundamental and universal claim that any citizen, any community, any organization has the right to create tools for wealth to flow. No individuals, no community should be dependent on monopolistic and private currencies, unless they have decided so. [1] This section’s theme are generally the monetary aspects of P2P trends, and more specifically, aspects of monetary reform, that aim to make the monetary system into a participatory resource that more broadly benefits larger sectors of the world population.Human and social wealth is never reducible to its translation in money, see the Wealth Typology.A very good summary of: What’s Wrong with the Current Monetary System, by Mark Joob. Recommended experts: For Credit Commons oriented solutions at the local level, see Thomas Greco [2]. For Public Credit and credit-free financing solutions at the national level, see Modern Monetary Theory and Ellen Brown. For solutions relating to a global monetary commons, see Bernard Lietaer. For Money of the Commons, see Andrea Fumagalli: How Can Crypto-Money Become a Money of the Commons
Charles Eisenstein – http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/dont-owe-wont-pay-everything-youve-been-told-about-debt-is-wrong/
Michael Hudson – 0n company share buy-backs which fuelled stock-market rises but which indicate financial engineering has become the dominant activity, rather than investing in production, owing to the availability of cheap money. Behind the Market Crash: The Smoke and Mirrors of Corporate Buybacks “We’re in a debt deflation now. The 99 percent of the people are so busy paying off their debt that what is counted as savings here is just paying down the debt. That’s why they don’t have enough money to buy goods and services, and so sales are falling. That means that profits are falling. And people finally realized that wait a minute, with companies not making more profits they’re not going to be able to pay the dividends.” Markets have been riding a roller-coaster, plummeting early in the week followed by sharp rallies in the last two days. Given the banks propensity to manipulate markets, it’s worth rereading Matt Taibbi’s excellent The Great American Bubble Machine which provides insights into how bankers profit from crashing markets to buy assets on the cheap from distressed sellers. Crashing markets plunged the world into chaos in 2008, since when the global economy has been on “life -support” in the form of cheap money which has inflated asset prices and speculative bubbles. Unless the power of the banks to create money at will is removed, the spiral into collapse will continue.
Trickle Down Economics: The Greatest Lie Ever told? http://renegadeinc.com/trickle-down-economics/#autoplay. LONGER VERSION: http://renegadeinc.com/four-horsemen-feature-documentary-official-version/
Reclaiming the Economic Surplus by Liberating the Economic Commons – P2P Foundation – http://p2pfoundation.net/Reclaiming_the_Economic_Surplus_by_Liberating_the_Economic_Commons
RUNNYMEDE GAZETTE – AUGUST 2015 A Journal of the Democratic Resistance
MOTHER PELICAN September 2015: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv11n09page1.html
WE CONTINUE REFLECTING on the value of these three perspectives in our quest for inclusive justice?
1. The Christian Council for Monetary Justice [CCMJ] – examining enduring wisdom and contemporary evidence about money and its effect on society – utilising resources of the enduring wisdom like current evidence, scriptures, histories, valued publications http://www.ccmj.org
2. London Global Open Table [LGOT] – providing an open forum for serving a wider network with a point of weekly reference. All are welcome to send items for ‘Matters in the Air’ to indicate where our dialogue and action might take in this particular week: http://www.globaltable.org.uk/wp
3. The 2015Constitutionalists – advancing a targeted initiative by ‘principled pragmatism’ to take viable, if difficult, steps towards weaving politics and economics – governance and vital trading – into a Peoples Political Economy of Trusteeship, set in Harmony with Nature. NEWSCASTS each Monday on http://www.2015Constitutionalists.uk alternate between understanding systemic change and reporting on issues that must find hard-coding for their inclusive contribution to the whole system. TheNewscast appears on the Home page on Mondays and is then also on Youtube.
Aug 17 ‘Why are those People so Small’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y524EBziqhQ
Aug 10 Newscast: ‘Principled Pragmatism’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXN8ONFTkYs See list of podcasts to date: 2015 CONSTITUTIONALISTS NEWSCASTS
The 2015 Constitutionalists Charter is an incremental, imperfect process of evolving a People’s Political Economy of Inter-Generational Trusteeship for the Earth in a context of Ecology and Evolution. See the Introduction to the Project, which is subject to ongoing amendment. See also the latest draft of the 2015C Compendium of Constitutionalists thinking and Glossary of words and their usage: http://www.2015constitutionalists.uk/resources/compendium/ – please respond with suggestions to improve this..
Inevitably there is overlap between each mode of approach. Each and all add richness to our searching and our action in the public arena.
