The following list are must-read essays for anyone trying to understand the various aspects of the emerging peer to peer paradigm.
Jean Lievens: P2P Core References
03 Economy, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural IntelligenceSchwartzReport: Political Corruption = Child Poverty
01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Government
I think this is an excellent essay on the state of voting and voters in the election coming up. I find political ads offensive, ads in general come to that and mute the sound, maybe you do the same. But I have come to realize the truth in John Cassidy's essay. Some very significant fraction of Americans has just tuned out or, perversely, just votes a party ticket without understanding the truth about the candidates or the issues. That is the only explanation I can see for the continuing voting that occurs in Red value states, even though the policies they are voting for are horribly damaging to their lives. This also explains I think how people like Louie Gohmert or Steve King, or Ted Cruz remain in office.
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Jean Lievens: Unionizing 53 Million Freeland Workers — One Third of the US Workforce
03 Economy, 06 Family, 09 Justice, 11 SocietyUnion leader turns eyes on freelance workers
… independent contractors aren't eligible for such things as unemployment benefits and they don't fall under the National Labor Relations Act.
Jean Lievens: The sharing economy – make it sustainable
03 Economy, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, Earth IntelligenceThe sharing economy: make it sustainable
Damien Demailly; Anne-Sophie Novel
Studies N°03/2014. Iddri, 2014. 32 p.
Is the sharing economy a tool for ecological transition? The main objective of this report is to analyse the environmental potential of the sharing economy, considered in its full diversity, and the conditions for the realization of this potential.
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Berto Jongman: Capitalism in Crisis
03 Economy, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government
The Zombie System: How Capitalism Has Gone Off the Rails
The data expose a dangerous malfunction in capitalism's engine room. Banks, mutual funds and investment firms used to ensure that citizens' savings were transformed into technical advances, growth and new jobs. Today they organize the redistribution of social wealth from the bottom to the top.
By Michael Sauga
Spiegel, 23 October 2014
Mini-Me: Ebola Wrap-Up — Robert Steele on Alex Jones at 6 PM EST Sunday
02 Infectious Disease, 03 Economy, 07 Health, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Officers Call
SUMMARY:
At the meta-level, the Ebola crisis is a perfect case study of why the UN (including the out-of-control Specialized Agencies such as the World Health Organization — WHO), the European Union (EU), and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) need their own internal intelligence (decision-support) capabilities, and how corrupt intelligence has become at the Member State level — the US, specifically, lacks intelligence with integrity on Ebola, and no one in the White House or Congress has the intelligence — or the integrity — to see this as “core.”
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Owl: Dmitry Orlov on Ebola and Five Stages of Collapse — Financial, Commercial, Political, Social, Cultural
02 Infectious Disease, 03 Economy, 07 Health, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude, Officers Call
Dmitry Orlov on Ebola and the Five Stages of Collapse
Orlov is one of the best futurists writing on society collapse, having witnessed and personally experienced the collapse of the Soviet Union. His book, Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Collapse-Experience-American-Prospects/dp/0865716854, is one of the best ever written in the collapse genre and necessary reading for anyone who is interested in this theme.
In 2008 he came up the a taxonomy of collapse, which he says occurs in 5 stages. The full article is here, http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2008/02/five-stages-of-collapse.html and he has a book on it too.
Below is a summary of his five stages of collapse:
