12.00 – 14.00 at the SES, 11-13 Mandeville Place, London W1U 3AJ

Bill Still’s Outlook for 2014  http://www.activistpost.com/2013/12/bill-stills-outlook-for-2014.html Can we persuade Bill Still to integrate the ‘rent and money’ effect in his brilliant weekly international reports?

[RIP, Margrit Kennedy to whom we owe such a debt of interpretation on debt/money matters].

  ‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’

We seek ways to communicate the significance of

• LAND:    The economic rent of all nature provided resources to be the source of public revenue
•    MONEY:    The currency of society is to be issued on behalf of the people of that society interest free [given agreed costs].
• ·  A BASIC MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD for all    A welfare security provision in the form of a living income is to be sourced for every citizen as of right—unconditionally.

This replaces the current means-testing bureaucratic arm of the state.

1. IMMEDIATE SUPPORT FOR ACTIVISTS

a] The Brand/Mandela/Pope Francis Challenge & developing collaboration – around stolen Commons – ill conceived & distributed credit – the need for basic livelihood – REPORT TO BE GIVEN  see also this next item……………..

b] Watch the Ten Theses unfold on the NEW WEBSITE  www.sharetherents.org  &  Homage to Henry George –

Theses Index:

• #1: Dynamics of the Statecraft of Greed
• #2: The Cheating State
• #3: Divine Right & Betrayal of the Covenant
• #4: Mortal Taxes or a Life of Liberty
• #5: The Pathology of Money
  • #6: The Art of Political Rip-offs

#6: http://www.sharetherents.org/thesis/art-political-rip-offs/    (2013 December) Video: Fred Harrison Asks “Can We Really Scrap Taxes?”

c]  LONG FINANCE conference Jan 16 This event below on monetary Evolution or Revolution that Co-operatives UK is involved with may be of interest and to others on this list. http://www.longfinance.net/component/content/article.html?id=828

d] BASICS OF BITCOIN in a 4 min Utube Basics of Bitcoin

 2. EVIDENCE OF MOUNTING DANGERS and OPPORTUNITIES

a] Alanna Hartzok reports on being at the United Nations in the Trusteeship Council, participating in the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals proceedings on Human Rights to the Earth

b] Siren Servers’ as the Matrix December 25, 2013 | By WakingTimes | 

3. AREAS FOR DEEPER INVESTIGATION – REPORTS FROM COLLABORATIVE 

AGENCIES

a] Positive Money Conference booking now – https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1430553286c3fcb9

b] Note   CCMJ appraisal March 9th – register with Peter please so we can decide venue.

 

c] RUNNYMEDE GAZETTE November’s Runnymede Gazette is packed with interesting articles covering the ruling elites, corporate lobbying, state surveillance and economics. Runnymede Gazette November 2013

d] CRITICAL THINKING – If you want to Comment on today’s Daily Pickings go to:  http://freecriticalthinking.org/daily-pickings/732-red-is-not-always-progressive

e] TAXPAYERS AGAINST POVERTY- Paul Nicolson www.facebook.com/pages/Taxpayers-Against-Poverty/299911526728884

f] SIMPOL -In this Huffington Post article, John Bunzl, offers Brand an answer.  Looking back through my posts in this group and on the Simpol page, the powerful influence of destructive international competition is only too clear to see. What a shame then, that so few people are able or willing to see it… yet. Perhaps 2014 will be the year that starts to change…Mark Horler

g] Mario Molinari’s seminal work ‘START WITH FOOD’. To download: startfood.

h]  FT – ‘A new economics: Teaching of discipline needs to rely less on abstract models’:  http://www.gcgi.info/blog/497-a-comment-on-a-financial-times-editorial-november-12-2013 PS: You may also be interested to see: Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value http://www.gcgi.info/blog/495-try-not-to-become-a-man-of-success-but-a-man-of-value-albert-einstein

i] Mother Pelican – December report  http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv09n12page3.html

J] BASIC INCOME – This conversation with David Graeber and Barb Jacobson highlights many benefits which would accrue from universal basic income. David Graeber & Barbara Jacobson on: Unconditional Basic Income (50 minute podcast)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pd-gBlKE8c&feature=youtu.be

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THERE ARE BASIC PAPERS ON GLOBAL TABLE LINKS  

– Initiatives with which we engage   http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/?page_id=373
– Fundamentals of a sane economy http://globaltable.org.uk/wp/?page_id=376

……..Up-dates for entries are always welcome from the Table’s associates.

Associates’ LETTERS TO PRESS –  ETC.

 From Michel Bauwens ;  The idea that money tokens have a time value is deeply embedded in economic thinking and analysis. I… 

b] the framing of the commons economics transition plan in Ecuador:  http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan

c] Brave New Year “We can, if we so desire, refuse to cooperate with the blind forces that are propelling us.” –Aldous Huxley

Jan 2014

Let this year be a time remembered

for,

– the awakening of a new reverence for the Earth

– the firm resolve to achieve resource replenishment,

– the quickening of the struggle for inclusive justice,

– showing there is no way to peace, for peace is the way,

and for,

– the joyful celebration of life.

David Graeber & Barbara Jacobson on: Unconditional Basic Income