London Global Table: April 28th 2010
The Global Table meets Wednesdays 12noon-2pm at the School of Economic Science, 11-13 Mandeville Place, W1U 3AJ. From Bond Street tube, turn left/west into Oxford Street, when you see GAP on the other side, cross over and go right/north along James Street – after a couple of blocks you will come to it on the left.
This Open Table monitors and encourages a wide range of activities in the realms of inclusive justice and the systemic redesign of the economic systems. The Table agreed a ten minute rule on initial contributions so that discussion of matters raised and other interests can have their share. I encourage people to report in advance the essence of any matter they wish to bring to the table. It would enhance the value of this network if regular readers of key books, journals or sites could make brief reports of any significant findings.
As both dangers and opportunities mount rapidly, we should all keep alert to companions in the way. So at the bottom I’ll add some boxes that mark particular areas of persistent activity.
MATTERS IN THE AIR …. Reminding each other of opportunities before us:
1. Election matters
2. Further drafting of a definition of debt-free and interest-free issuance.
3. CEJ and June conference on contributions to system redesign. NEF dialogue – a report.
4. www.call4reform.org – Ben Dyson with us this week – preparing for the launch.
5.. Caux Initiative on Banking and the The Finance Lab – Challen notes revised
6. We urge you to sign the official petition to the Prime Minister to support LVT on the Number 10 Downing Street website: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/TaxLess4more/
7. Three sites for amazing eye-opening excursions into CHAOS, CONSCIOUSNESS and ECO-LITERACY: A) The Secret Life of Chaos – do find the time – it’s staggering. B) Jeremy Rifkin – The Empathic State: www.youtube.com/watch?v=omVXo3qYSt0. C) Eco-Literacy – MUST visit and explore www.eco-labs.org – see especially ‘Steady State Economics’ graphic.
8. AN ALTRUISTS COMMUNITY – Robin Upton at the Table April 14 or 21st. Working for love not money. We are an optimistic, positive community with members from both the under- and the over-developed world. We are united by our commitment that a money-centred struggle for personal gain is no way to make the world a better place. We try to ignore money but put people at the heart of what we do, concentrating on what will be of real benefit to others. www.altruists.org.
9. Norwich Conference May 1/2 ‘Post-Usury Economy’ – RvandeW, PC, AD and CC – details: http://www.norwichconference.com
10. The World Bank-IMF spring meetings in Washington ended yesterday, and the Bretton Woods Project brings you a wrap-up of the meetings and their outcomes. See attachment. This was: WB-IMF april 2010.docx – could not retrieve due to its format. See later upload: INTERNATIONAL MONETARy FUND – Annual Report 2010: ar10_eng
11. A campaign for ending compound interest in Credit Cards.
COMPANIONS IN THE ENDEAVOUR:
* A Manifesto for Accountants. Richard Murphy: http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2010/04/25/a-manifesto-for-accountants/
* Ellen Brown : “HFT, Goldman, and How to Save Free Markets” – http://seekingalpha.com/article/200478-hft-goldman-and-how-to-save-free-markets •
“Computerized Front Running and Financial Fraud,” http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18809 • “The Growing Movement for Publicly-owned Banks” http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/the-growing-movement-for-publicly-owned-banks
* Keep up with Ann Pettior on her blog http://www.debtonation.org/
* Harrison’s new book at election time. THE INQUEST – http://www.the-free-lunch.blogspot.com/
* Have you read and then signed the Charter for Compassion? – http://www.charterforcompassion.org
• A huge resource to visit and absorb: http://sabinemcneill.blog.com/forum-for-stable-currencies/ – Sabine McNeill, Organiser, Forum for Stable Currencies, advocating Economic Democracy through Freedom from National Debt Blogging on behalf of Voters and Taxpayers • Public Debts with Vested Interest Payments – a 300-year old mechanism with seriously oppressive long term effects • Enforcement of Bank of England Act 1694 – an Early Day Motion for grouping cases of oppression, to change the law – 3,100 views • Petitioning HM The Queen: Stop the Oppression of the British people – on behalf of victims of our financial, legal and judiciary system • Petitioning the Treasury Select Committee: Stop the Crash Crumble to Equalize the Credit Crunch! – 230 signatures and over 10,500 page views, and • Financial Fairness for Voters and Taxpayers, please! 44 signatures and over 3,000 page views.
A NEW PUBLICATION:
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Very few people can say with any certainty what money is, exactly how the financial system operates, or why finance dominates policy formation throughout the social order. This has not always been the case. During the inter-war years of the 1920s and 1930s countless ordinary men and women conducted an informed debate on the flawed economic thinking which led simultaneously to war, waste and poverty on an unprecedented scale. The worldwide Social Credit movement of this period gave rise to a practical political venture Alberta.
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Drawing upon the writings of key twentieth-century social thinkers, including Clifford Hugh Douglas, Rudolf Steiner and Thorstein Veblen, Frances Hutchinson moves beyond negative critiques of global corporatism to suggest a transformation in our understanding of the relationship between fmance and the three spheres of society: the cultural, the political and the economic.
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