Jean Lievens: The Sharing Economy Will Thrive Only If Government Doesn’t Strangle It
03 Economy, Commercial Intelligence, Design
The Sharing Economy Will Thrive Only If Government Doesn't Strangle It
R. J. Lehmann
Reason.com, 2 August 2014
We're unlocking unthinkable amounts of capital and lawmakers stand in the way.
The so-called sharing economy is many things to many people. To Wall Street and Silicon Valley, firms like Uber and Airbnb offer tantalizing market capitalizations, the likes of which have not been seen since the go-go '90s. At the same time, political operatives see the emerging debates over regulation of ride-sharing and space-sharing as a potential opening for the libertarian right to assert their world view in urban politics for the first time in a long time.
See Also:
Five Principles for Regulating the Peer Production Economy
Regulation won't kill the sharing economy — we just need new rules.
Laurence Brahm: YouTube (12:54) Himalayan Consensus
Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Peace IntelligenceSchwartzReport: Loss of Wildlife Increases Child Slavery – Holistic Analytics and True Cost Economics Absent
03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 11 Society, Earth Intelligence
This report illustrates that all life is interconnected and interdependent.
How Loss of Wildlife Leads to Child Slavery
NIINA HEIKKINEN and CLIMATEWIRE – Scientific American
What do child slavery in Ghana, Somali piracy and the illegal global ivory trade have in common? Their root causes can all be traced back to declining wildlife populations.
At least that's the theory of a group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, who looked at how wildlife loss impacts conflict in places where people depend on wildlife to survive.
Justin Brashares and his colleagues say that the way governments and international organizations respond to crimes like poaching often do not address the full “ecological, social and economic complexity of wildlife-related conflict.”
“We thought it was critical to connect the dots” among disciplines, said Brashares, the lead author of a paper published recently in the journal Science.
“If we don't provide people with livelihoods, if we don't change market dynamics, then we aren't going to win.”
Berto Jongman: No Drinking Water by 2040? Need Global Energy Paradigm Shift! Privatization is NOT the Answer
03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, 12 Water
‘There Will Be No Water' by 2040? Researchers Urge Global Energy Paradigm Shift
Reports: World Faces ‘Insurmountable' Water Shortage
Common Dreams, 30 July 2014
The world risks an “insurmountable” water crisis by 2040 without an immediate and significant overhaul of energy consumption and demand, a research team reported on Wednesday.
“There will be no water by 2040 if we keep doing what we're doing today,” said Professor Benjamin Sovacool of Denmark's Aarhus University, who co-authored two reports on the world's rapidly decreasing sources of freshwater.
Richard Stallman: Free Software Supporter Issue 76, July 2014
IO Newsletter Free Software
Issue 76, July 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FSF congratulates UK Government on choosing Open Document Format
- Interview with Tox.im
- Introducing Tyler Livingston, a summer Licensing Team intern
- Tell the FCC: Net Neutrality is crucial to free software
- Seattle free software event this fall: Call for Participation now open
- Welcome Jessica Tallon, GNU MediaGoblin’s second full-time hire
- European Commission distorts market by refusing to break free from lock-in
- LibrePlanet featured resource: Community toolkit
- GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 18 new GNU releases!
- GNU Toolchain Update
- Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events
- Thank GNUs!
- Take action with the FSF!
Eric Zuesse: Evidence Is Now Conclusive: 2 Ukrainian Government Fighter-Jets Did Shoot Down that Malaysian Airliner. No ‘Buk’ Missile Ground-Shot
07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Military
We'll go considerably farther than has yet been revealed by the professional intelligence community, to provide the actual evidence that conclusively shows that (and how) the Ukrainian Government shot down the Malaysian airliner, MH-17, on July 17th.
The latest report from the intelligence community was headlined on August 3rd by Robert Parry, “Flight 17 Shoot-Down Scenario Shifts,” and he revealed there that, “Contrary to the Obama administration’s public claims blaming eastern Ukrainian rebels and Russia for the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, some U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded that the rebels and Russia were likely not at fault and that it appears Ukrainian government forces were to blame, according to a source briefed on these findings. This judgment — at odds with what President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have expressed publicly — is based largely on the absence of U.S. government evidence that Russia supplied the rebels with a Buk anti-aircraft missile system that would be needed to hit a civilian jetliner flying at 33,000 feet, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.”
It's actually based on lots more than that; it's based not on an absence of evidence, but on positive proof that the Ukrainian Government shot the plane down, and even proving how it was done. You will see this proof, right here, laid out in detail, for the first time.
