{"id":7721,"date":"2018-08-06T09:06:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T09:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltable.org.uk\/wp\/?p=7721"},"modified":"2023-10-13T15:54:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T15:54:40","slug":"matters-in-the-air-8th-august-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltable.org.uk\/wp\/archives\/7721","title":{"rendered":"Matters in the Air: 8th August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

These notes are\u00a0posted\u00a0at\u00a0http:\/\/globaltable.org.uk\/wp\/<\/a>, to contribute background\u00a0information for associates of the\u00a0Global\u00a0Table and its offspring. The\u00a0Open Research Group<\/strong>\u00a0hosts Global Table meetings on\u00a0Wednesdays from 12noon to 2 pm at the School of Economic Science, 11-13 Mandeville Pfreelace, W1U 3AJ,\u00a0open to all on\u00a0a drop-in basis.\u00a0This weekly forum is a persistent focal point for many who cannot often get to\u00a0London\u00a0but are encouraged in bold initiatives by association and collaboration. We all continue to foster the public sense of the search for inclusive justice. We are trying to sense the richness of our networking without overburdening with detail. We collaborate in order that action may flow BOTH in specified targeted initiatives AND in acknowledgement of our shared commitment to ending exploitation \u2013 usury \u2013 now exponentially rampant!\u00a0\u00a0Contact the\u00a0Open Research Group \u2013\u00a0info@globaltable.org.uk\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Notes of Open Research Group meeting on 4th July 2018:\u00a0OpenResearchGroup-180704<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Report from\u00a0UK Commons Gathering on 20th July\u00a02018:\u00a0LETSlink-Commons-180720<\/a>
\n<\/a>Forthcoming Events:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.globaltable.org.uk\/wp\/forthcoming-events<\/a><\/p>\n

FROM ASSOCIATES AT THEIR POINTS OF WITNESS:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Peter Diamandis:<\/strong> \u00a0Singularity Hub:<\/strong> \u00a0In the Future, We\u2019ll Know Everything\u2014Thanks to This Tech<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019re rapidly approaching the era of abundant knowledge\u2014a time when you can know anything you want, anywhere you want, anytime you want. An era of radical transparency. By 2020, it\u2019s estimated we\u2019ll have 50 billion connected devices, which will generate over 600 zettabytes of information. The global network of connectivity, drones, and satellites are not [\u2026]<\/p>\n

Tue 4th Sept 2018: PEP Conference<\/strong> –\u00a0Finance and Sustainability with Nick Silver, Author and Green Bond Expert and Marloes Nicholls from the Finance Innovation Lab<\/a>. And then Friday 28th Sept 2018<\/strong> \u2013 The Mint\u2019s half day conference to launch our Interdisciplinary Network for Collaboration on Understanding Economic Dynamics (in-clued !).\u00a0Details\/Booking<\/a><\/p>\n

In Tikkun Daily, Rabbi Kirk J. Schneider<\/strong> argues that, if we are to change politics in the U.S., we must shift from the polarized mind\u2013\u2013”a fixation on a single point of view to the utter exclusion of competing points of view”\u2013\u2013to a more flexible mode of thinking. Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.tikkun.org\/tikkundaily\/2018\/08\/03\/the-coarsening-yet-hope-of-the-american-mind<\/a><\/p>\n

Prem Sekka:<\/strong> \u201cToo many bean-counters: How an \u2018accounting curse\u2019 is hurting the UK economy\u201d, and it may interest you. It is available at\u00a0https:\/\/leftfootforward.org\/2018\/08\/too-many-bean-counters-how-an-accounting-curse-is-hurting-the-uk-economy\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Richard Murphy<\/strong> (Tax Justice UK):\u00a005 Aug 2018 says:\u00a0Labour needs to get back to its purpose<\/a>\u00a0–<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CCMJ: the open Christian Council for Monetary Justice (www.ccmj.org<\/a>) \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Usury\/exploitation lies at the heart of global distress. Things aren\u2019t getting any better because so few are addressing what\u2019s really wrong – a foundational fault requiring inclusive system change. What we accept today as interest was once called usury, and that through most of history almost everyone was against it.\u201d All the great faith traditions forbade usury for thousands of years. The Christian Church emphasised it until, in Calvin’s time, \u2018Interest\u2019 was watered down to \u2018Excessive Interest\u2019. Usury then became exponentially disproportionate in undermining justice throughout the human community. Reports on tackling this \u00a0prime issue are always welcome: \u00a0CCMJ and ICUK continue to probe and propose a model of genuinely inclusive\u00a0Public Policy\u00a0that involves an integrated social-political-economy that includes the introduction of Annual Ground Rent [ use of theh Commons], the abolition of Usury, a universal right to basic living, and the curtailment of those permanent hierarchies exercising exploitative power over others.\u00a0www.ccmj.org<\/a>\u00a0 – recent updates are on:\u00a0\u00a0www.ccmj.org\/wp<\/a>\u00a0Eg\u00a0 Be humble about our knowledge.CCMJ\/ORG\/ICUK<\/strong>\u00a0fora have considered important aphorisms that help the development of dialogue and takes us into new understandings of the co-operative task. We revisit those guiding thoughts regularly and always value responses about their use, or about any other enduring wisdom relating to collaboration as they flow in around us.\u00a0And we welcome new examples of creative collaboration in our search for inclusive justice.\u00a0OUR RANGE OF NETWORKS:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nCOMMONS and CO-OPERATIVE SOCIALISM\u00a0–\u00a0<\/strong>this\u00a0non-hierarchical alternative to capitalism and totalitarianism,\u00a0<\/strong>continues to campaign for a non-usurious, fair-world approach to the economy, taking forward ideas promoted by\u00a0CCMJ<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Spirit Level<\/a>\u00a0– for background see the papers section of\u00a0www.interestfreemoney.org.<\/a>\u00a0 The campaign\u00a0website – in development – includes videos by John Courtneidge explaining the proposal: \u00a0http:\/\/www.co-operativesocialism.org<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 See\u00a0latest update on the Co-operative Sector:\u00a0http:\/\/www.letslink.org\/forum\/commons-and-co-operatives-update\/<\/a><\/p>\n

FREE CRITICAL THINKING:\u00a0<\/strong>meets most\u00a0Tuesdays 7-9pm (last meeting of term 2nd December)\u00a0– see\u00a0Events Listing<\/a>\u00a0at The\u00a0London School of Mosaic in the Basement Studio (down ramp),\u00a073-96 Ludham,\u00a0Southampton\u00a0Road, Lismore Circus, London, NW5 4SF\u00a0(Gospel Oak overground \/Belsize Park tube):\u00a0http:\/\/www.freecriticalthinking.org<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 Critical Thinking\u2019s scope:\u00a0http:\/\/freecriticalthinking.org\/9-general\/1518-hierarchy-and-the-political-economy<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0in pithy summary:\u00a0\u201cHierarchy, theft of the\u00a0Commons\u00a0and\u00a0Usury\u00a0are the fundamental drivers of poverty, wars, environmental destruction and the enslavement of humanity.\u00a0Once we understand<\/a>\u00a0that, we\u2019re on the road to recovering humanity.\u201d \u00a0See Clive Menzies’ paper in the\u00a0Islamic Economics Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Reform Proposals in the Monetary System for Attaining Global Economic Stability:\u00a0http:\/\/iei.kau.edu.sa\/Files\/121\/Files\/153872_30-02-09-Clive-3.pdf<\/a>.
\nDaily Pickings: July\/Aug 2018:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2022 Mon 30th:\u00a0Khazarian Mafia<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 Tue 31st:\u00a0British Brainwashing Corporation<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 Wed 1st:\u00a0Rothschild crime syndicate<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 Thu 2nd:\u00a0Further layers to 9\/11<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 Fri 3rd:\u00a0Amusing ourselves to death<\/a> \u2022 Sat 4th:\u00a0Basic income is the bait<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 Sun 5th Aug:\u00a0Destructive chaos<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Link to\u00a0Co-Creative Learning:<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/cocreativelearning.org<\/a><\/p>\n

INDEPENDENT CONSTITUTIONALISTS UK (ICUK)<\/strong>: recognises the necessity of dealing with BOTH the need for many urgent palliatives within a dying system, AND a systemic curative re-design by participative democratic application of an\u00a0integrated political-economy of trusteeship in the co-evolution of planet earth. It concentrates on the Meta-Narrative within which the UK could shape all its independent but mutually accountable communities.\u00a0Curative change to the political-economy like \u201cpoetry happens in two stages, like sculpting; first the imagination, then the chisel.\u201d\u00a0The specific pursuit of an integral model for public policy originated at the London Global Table\u00a0and\u00a0is now pursued as the emergence of\u00a0‘A PEOPLE’S INTEGRATED SOCIAL-POLITICAL-ECONOMY OF TRUSTEESHIP IN THE CO-EVOLUTION OF PLANET EARTH.’\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>The CURATIVE structural change advocated in the ICUK\u2019s Declaration of Purpose is set within PRINCIPLED-PRAGMATISM. It provides an integrated, and therefore interdisciplinary, context for human response-ability. All specialist Disciplines must be seen to make their contribution to this dramatic description of cognitive behavioural therapy applied to public policy and purpose.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>MP\u00a0[For those using philosophical and theological studies as an aid, the curative represents a modern perception of bringing the Kin[g]dom into all aspects and language of public policy.\u00a04<\/sup>].<\/em>\u00a0An update of its website is now evolving:\u00a0http:\/\/www.icuk.life<\/a>.\u00a0 An informal Strategy Forum meets in central\u00a0London every Wednesday between 12 and 2pm \u2013 you are invited to contact Peter Challen \u2013\u00a0peterchallen@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 for latest developments anDd meeting venue.<\/p>\n

LETSlink<\/strong>\u00a0is working on much-needed\u00a0national and regional hubs\u00a0to enable\u00a0dedicated training for\u00a0individual LETS groups. Newly online groups are being encouraged to work on a county-wide basis.\u00a0 The main website sets out theory and enables enquirers to connect with local groups: \u00a0http:\/\/www.letslinkuk.net\/uk-map.htm<\/a>. See PP\u00a0presentation –\u00a0Local Exchange Trading Schemes:\u00a0<\/strong>Integrated\u00a0Community Currency Model\u00a0–\u00a0ICCmodel<\/a><\/strong>See record of origin of LETS in the UK via a paper by\u00a0David Weston<\/em>, “Green Economics: The Community Use of Currency,” paper presented at\u00a0The Other Economic Summit<\/em>\u00a0at the\u00a01984 TOES Conference<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>as recorded by Paul Ekins in “The Living Economy: A New Economics in the Making”, 1986.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>See\u00a0LETSlink Forum<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

LONDON COMMUNALISTS,\u00a0<\/strong>coordinated by John McCone,\u00a0are engaged in discovering a politics of citizenship based on shared public concern. See notes on\u00a0Communalism\u00a0<\/strong>based on\u00a0Murray Bookchin’s: \u201cThe Next Revolution\u201d –<\/strong>\u00a0CommunalismProject00-A4<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0They meet 6pm-8pm on the third Monday of each month in the reading room of 88 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1DH\u00a0–\u00a0dates on the\u00a0Events page<\/a>.\u00a0See\u00a0John McCone’s written evidence<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Land Value Capture\u00a0<\/a>submitted to\u00a0the\u00a0Housing and\u00a0Communities and Local Government Committee<\/a>.\u00a0Feedback welcomed to\u00a0John McCone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

POSITIVE MONEY<\/strong>\u00a0has branches all over the UK to campaign for debt-free issuance of currency, which are often listed on our Events page. \u00a0They\u00a0campaign for a fairer, more democratic and more sustainable economy.They held a seminar in association with RSA on Monday 18th Sept 2017 – see report:\u00a0PositiveMoney-RSA-170918<\/a>\u00a0– see also Positive Money’s\u00a0latest video about the:\u00a0Bank of England<\/a>\u00a0and a new paper, published in January 2018:\u00a0Escaping-Growth-Dependency-final_print<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 Recently\u00a0screened by Greenwich & Lewisham branch is Michael Oswald\u2019s film\u00a0The Spider’s Web : Britain’s Second Empire<\/a>, portraying\u00a0Britain\u2019s role in creating a global network of tax havens.\u00a0\u2022 See Latest Message from Positive Money, which we have been asked to forward to our contacts: \u00a0<\/strong>Dear friend,\u00a0I\u2019m a supporter of Positive Money. We\u2019re a people-powered movement to reform the money and banking system so that we can have a fairer, more democratic and more sustainable economy.\u00a0There are lots of important campaigns we can choose to support. But this one is all about changing the root causes of many of the things that are important to me and to our society: our housing crisis, soaring inequality, protecting our environment, an unstable economy.\u00a0I support Positive Money\u2019s work because I believe reform of the money and banking system will mean a better world for all of us, and I think you should too! Please\u00a0click here<\/a>\u00a0if you\u2019re interested in signing up to Positive Money\u2019s fortnightly newsletter too:\u00a0You\u2019ll hear about campaign and research updates, events, and what activities you can get involved in to help. The more of us who join this movement – simply by signing up to their campaign online as a starting point – the closer we\u2019ll get to changing things for good. So please will you consider joining me and signing up to Positive Money\u2019s fortnightly newsletter now? Just\u00a0click this link<\/a>\u00a0and it will take you less than 30 seconds:\u00a0Thanks,<\/p>\n

Further Reports are invited from our associates in the quest for inclusive justice to stir our awareness and effect change through both palliative and curative means.<\/em><\/p>\n

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PUBLICATIONS & BLOGS<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 reviews always welcomed:-]<\/p>\n

The Summer 2018 issue of\u00a0The Social Artis<\/strong>t<\/em>\u00a0(incorporating\u00a0The Social Crediter<\/em>)\u00a0in two pdf formats, one for reading on screen, the other for printing out as a booklet. These are also available on our website:\u00a0www.douglassocialcredit.com<\/a>\u00a0. Two different and valuable reviews of Jeremy Lent’s\u00a0‘The Patterning Instincts -A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for meaning’\u00a0‘<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

RENEGADE INC: Monday 6th August 2018:\u00a0The art of revolution:\u00a0<\/strong>It\u2019s always assumed that social change starts in politics. But what if that assumption is incorrect and social change actually begins in the arts? Throughout history, it is the artist \u2013 not the politician \u2013 who is better equipped to show how humanity can make the next big leap forward and transcend problems that the political class is often powerless to resolve.
\nHost Ross Ashcroft is joined by composer and conductor Keith Burstein, who has been successfully using opera over the last 13 years to highlight the issues that affect all our lives: https:\/\/www.rt.com\/shows\/renegade-inc\/435188-art-social-change-history\/<\/a><\/p>\n

MONEY BOX: Economics with Subtitles – Series 1: 8th August: How Buying Cocaine Helps the Government:<\/strong> The surprising story of GDP and whether it’s time to change how we measure our economy. BONUS PODCAST: The Moneybox podcast is on it\u2019s summer holiday but fear not, for the next four weeks, you will get a brand new podcast instead. Economics with Subtitles is your everyday guide to economics and why you should care. In this edition, Ayeisha and Steve look at how we quantify economic success. Should dodgy drug deals be included? What is Steve\u2019s contribution to GDP? And should we ban people who pinch too many of your crisps? Producers: Simon Maybin & Phoebe Keane, Presenters: Ayeisha Thomas-Smith & Steve Bugeja: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p06gcg0t<\/a>
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The term \u201cperennial philosophy\u201d . . . refers to a fourfold realization: (1) there is only one Reality (call it, among other names, God, Mother, Tao, Allah, Dharmakaya, Brahman, or Great Spirit) that is the source and substance of all creation; (2) that while each of us is a manifestation of this Reality, most of us identify with something much smaller, that is, our culturally conditioned individual ego; (3) that this identification with the smaller self gives rise to needless anxiety, unnecessary suffering, and cross-cultural competition and violence; and (4) that peace, compassion, and justice naturally replace anxiety, needless suffering, competition, and violence when we realize our true nature as a manifestation of this singular Reality. The great sages and mystics of every civilization throughout human history have taught these truths in the language of their time and culture.<\/em>\u00a0\u2014Rami Shapiro [1]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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