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2015: A Pivotal Year for Economic and Financial Crises and Wars?

Phi Beta Iota: The US Government is the war-monger and making decisions on the basis of corruption and ideology. China is the richest country in the world, has more gold than any other (Russia is second), and China has no reason to provoke war with anyone; the US dollar is about to crash, taking Wall Street with it, and has little gold to supplement a new currency. As a consequence, China is very serious and determined to have peace. It has no navy to speak of, it’s army is dedicated to internal security,and its industry would be badly damaged if there was a war. China is converting its hoard of dollars (and dollar debt) into Euros and other currencies, and in all probability will make the Yuan the common currency of Asia soon, and the world eventually. At root, how a government provides for its public determines whether that government is sustainable or not.

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2015/01/032015/01/03

Berto Jongman: Fatal Capitalism — 10 Point Global Paradigm Revolution — Economic Crisis in 2015?

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

The “Cancer Stage of Capitalism”: The Ten-Point Global Paradigm Revolution

Breaking Out of the Invisible Prison

Professoor John McCurtry, Global Research, 2 January 2015

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2014/12/20

Michel Bauwens: Open Cooperativism for the P2P Age

#OSE Open Source Everything, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Non-Governmental

Open Cooperativism for the P2P Age

Our recommendations for the new era of open cooperativism are:

1. That coops need to be statutorily (internally) oriented towards the common good

2. That coops need to have governance models including all stakeholders

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2014/12/16

SchwartzReport: Joseph Stiglitz on The Chinese Century – PBI: BRICS + Poor + Open Source Everything

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Read this article. This is the most important geopolitical essay I have read in 2014, in both the academic or general media. I absolutely agree with this assessment. The decisions we make in the next two years concerning China may define the next generation of the world. If we go the Theocratic Rightist way we are doomed. If we choose policies that are compassionate, inclusionist, and life-affirming stressing wellness, America will continue to enjoy a position of world leadership and the world will be more peaceful.

The Chinese Century

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2014/12/08

Yoda: Trebor Scholz on Platform Cooperativism

#OSE Open Source Everything, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics

Way ahead, this is.

Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy

The Bad: Sascha Lobo and Martin Kenneyrecently introduced the term platform capitalism, which I’d define in reference to subcontracting and rental economies with big payouts going to small groups of people. Occupations that cannot be off-shored, the pet walkers or home cleaners, are now subsumed under platform capitalism.

The Good: Worker-owned cooperatives can offer an alternative model of social organization to address financial instability. They will need to be · collectively owned, · democratically controlled businesses, · with a mission to anchor jobs, · offer health insurance and pension funds and, – a degree of dignity.

2014/12/082014/12/08

Jean Lievens: Want to Hurt Wall Street? Displace the Lending Industry with BitCoin and P2P Lending!

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Ethics, Money

This bitcoin alternative is a threat to Wall Street

Peer-to-peer loans imperil banks, and cryptocurrencies may finish the job

EXTRACT

Digital currencies circumvent the fees and roadblocks to access that come with traditional financial services. The possibilities, especially in the underdeveloped world, are enormous. As much as $9.6 trillion in assets locked out of the global economy could be freed up, according to the International Monetary Fund.

2014/11/172014/11/17

Michel Bauwens: P2P Future Scenarios

Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

Four scenarios for the inevitable P2P Future

P2P and networked technologies are here to stay, are expanding, and will become the dominant technological format. Yet, that doesn’t mean at all that the future is a foregone conclusion. Around these technologies we will see political and social struggles that will involve ownership and governance (control), and also their mobilization by social forces having their own worldviews, interests and agenda.

To distinguish various futures, I have produced a impromptu four quadrant structure according to two axes:

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