{"id":8138,"date":"2018-12-09T15:10:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T15:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltable.org.uk\/wp\/?p=8138"},"modified":"2019-08-01T13:12:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T13:12:59","slug":"matters-in-the-air-december-12th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltable.org.uk\/wp\/archives\/8138","title":{"rendered":"Matters in the Air: 12th Dec 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 Open Research Group. This 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, plus the theft of the Commons and Institutional Drag!\u00a0\u00a0Contact the\u00a0Open Research Group \u2013\u00a0info@globaltable.org.uk\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Forthcoming Events:\u00a0<\/strong>www.globaltable.org.uk\/wp\/forthcoming-events<\/a><\/h3>\n

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FROM ASSOCIATES AT THEIR POINTS OF WITNESS:
\n<\/strong>the stream is gathering force:<\/em><\/p>\n

Richard Murphy<\/strong>\u00a0“I was a little surprised to be asked to write for International Banker magazine\u00a0recently.\u00a0\u00a0But it did not take long to write a few hundred words, and this is what I wrote:\u00a0Long live auditing<\/a>.\u00a0 and\u00a0\u00a0I hope Thomas Piketty\u2019s tax manifesto is not as the Guardian is reporting it<\/a>\u00a0\u00a009 Dec 2018<\/p>\n

A fascinating set of 9 pieces on rethinking the Human Rights Declaration of 1948<\/strong> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/dec\/08\/universal-declaration-human-rights-turns-70<\/a><\/p>\n

Bertrand Russell<\/strong> asserted that the key to growing old contentedly is to\u00a0\u201cmake your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life,\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Beyond GDP<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Joseph Stiglitz<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0blames deficient policies in many areas on inadequate metrics, but says that help is on the way.<\/p>\n

The Charter for Compassion Education Institute\u00a0\u00a0A Universal Christmas.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Christmas is a sacred holiday and a transformation with plenty to offer to Christians and non-Christians alike. It comes during the gap between darkness and sunlight \u2014 the perfect time, traditionally, to stop being normal and to begin experimenting with alternative ways.\u00a0This December to take delight in the deeper meanings and wonders of Christmas. Christmas is for everyone and need not be limited to a special community of believers. We sort ourselves out not by officially belonging to a group but by living the Gospel philosophy of love: based on appreciation for humanity, all of life, and the community of the world.\u00a0 By learning skills to calm our bodies and mind, becoming more emotionally aware, learning to practice compassion for ourselves and others, as well as engaging with compassion in complex systems, we can build towards compassionate integrity: the ability to live one\u2019s life in accordance with one\u2019s values with a recognition of common humanity, our basic orientation to kindness and reciprocity.<\/p>\n

\u201cCreative-tension<\/strong> is usually a precondition for creativity. A humble but self-confident science and open-minded faith in the flow of cosmic energy that takes the critiques of postmodernism seriously, while firmly refusing to turn aside from the quest to learn real things about the objective world, would be a creative thing indeed.\u201d Which is why \u2018Factfulness\u2019<\/strong> by Hans, Ola and Anna\u00a0 Rosling is an important study of the extent of our culturally conditioned, limited perspectives on the complexity of global reality.<\/p>\n

Prof. Jem Bendell<\/strong> on \u2018DEEP ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE BREAKDOWN: http:\/\/iflas.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/new-paper-on-deep-adaptation-to-climate.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Trying to grasp Quantum Economics<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 David Orrell\u00a0 in 80 PAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n

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COMMONS 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 Tuesdays\u00a0 to its own timetable – 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>.
\n\u2022\u00a0Link to\u00a0Co-Creative Learning:<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/cocreativelearning.org<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Daily Pickings:\u00a0<\/strong>December 2018: Mon 3rd: Global warming testimony<\/a> \u2022 Tue 4th: Perspectives on civil war<\/a> \u2022 Wed 5th: The Irish holocaust<\/a> \u2022 Thu 6th: Jeffrey Epstein and The Finders<\/a> \u2022 Fri 7th: Statecrafty<\/a> \u2022 Sat 8th: I don’t know<\/a> \u2022 Sun 9th: Political economy 101 for yellow vests<\/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 social-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 SOCIAL-POLITICAL-ECONOMY OF TRUSTEESHIP IN THE CO-EVOLUTION OF PLANET EARTH.’\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 multi-disciplinary, 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.” 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>].\u00a0<\/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 and 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>.\u00a0<\/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.\u00a0Positive Money is the civil society organisation fighting for a banking system that works for people:<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0www.positivemoney.org<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Recent Articles:<\/em>\u00a0The History and Future of QE\/<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Bank of England on Climate Risk\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Worrying New Data on War on Cash\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Results of Swiss Referendum on Sovereign Money<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Local Groups<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>see also<\/em>\u00a0Forthcoming Events<\/a><\/strong><\/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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\nPUBLICATIONS & BLOGS<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 reviews always welcomed:-<\/p>\n

RENEGADE INC: Monday 10th December 2018: Why you can\u2019t afford a home:<\/strong> The average Briton is only ever about two sentences away from discussing house prices. Why? Because the British land market is utterly dysfunctional. When Thatcher resuscitated the idea of a \u2018property owning democracy\u2019, not even she could have imagined the scale of inequality that those three words would drive. So, we ask how did we get here and why, in the world\u2019s fifth largest economy, can so few people afford to buy their own home? Ross Ashcroft is joined by the Valuation Specialist at the Bank of England, Dean Buckner, and writer and economist Josh-Ryan Collins: https:\/\/www.rt.com\/shows\/renegade-inc\/446043-uk-house-prices-inequality\/<\/a><\/p>\n

THE KEISER REPORT: Tuesday 11th December 2018: Predatory lending as the way to respectability:<\/strong> In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss the otherwise progressive apologist for a predatory lender who Obama wanted to run for President in 2020. They also look at the story of a drug smuggler turned predatory lender who is using the justice system to seize assets from his \u2018clients.\u2019 In the second half, Max interviews Michael Pento of PentoPort.com about the latest in markets and yield curves: does the inverted yield curve even mean anything? https:\/\/www.rt.com\/shows\/keiser-report\/446136-predatory-lending-respectability-way\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Guardian Review:\u00a0<\/strong>THE NEXT LEFT – Ben Tarnoff: Away from Brexit and trump Headlines, the revival of socialism in the UK and US remains striking. Can Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders make it count?\u00a0The_Next_Left<\/a>.<\/strong>
\nPeter Challen comments: This article attached has valuable comparisons and indications of the difference between bold palliatives and a radical curative. Worth noting our ICUK bid to go deeper into Democracy.<\/em>
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