Sepp Hasslberger: Swiss Citizen’s Initiative to Take Money Creation Away from Commercial Banks

03 Economy, 11 Society, Money
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Citizens' initiative in Switzerland to take money creation away from commercial banks. Next step is debate and then a referendum of all Swiss citizens.

Swiss citizens’ initiative collects 105,000 signatures, triggers referendum on Money Creation

With the full power of new money creation exclusively in the hands of the Swiss National Bank, the commercial banks would no longer have the power to create money through lending. The Swiss National Bank’s primary role becomes the management of the money supply relative to the productive economy, while the decision concerning how new money is introduced debt free into the economy would reside with the government”, reads the official website of the initiative.

Ty Simpson: USG Acknowledgess Cannabis Kills Cancer Cells

07 Health
Ty Simpson
Ty Simpson

Government-Run Cancer Institute Quietly Acknowledges That Cannabis Kills Cancer Cells

The National Cancer Institute is an organization mandated by U.S. law to educate Americans about cancer and the latest research efforts. According to its website, NCI is touted as “the U.S. government's principal agency for cancer research.” And recently, it quietly admitted that cancer cells have been killed by cannabis in a lab setting.

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Berto Jongman: The Real Terrorists Are…Farm Animals

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 11 Society, 12 Water, Earth Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

There’s a population crisis all right. But probably not the one you think

While all eyes are on human numbers, it’s the rise in farm animals that is laying the planet waste

EXTRACT

Human numbers are rising at roughly 1.2% a year, while livestock numbers are rising at around 2.4% a year. By 2050 the world’s living systems will have to support about 120m tonnes of extra humans, and 400m tonnes of extra farm animals.

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Koko: Groundwater in Crisis as Snowpack Water Diminishes

12 Water, Earth Intelligence
Koko
Koko

Study: Earth's groundwater mapped, quantified

The groundwater map is based on 40,000 groundwater models comprising data from nearly a million watersheds.

Their findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, suggest the planet holds 23 million cubic kilometers of total groundwater — roughly 5.5 million cubic miles. Only six percent of that water will be replenished over the next fifty years. In other words, most of Earth's hidden groundwater reserves are nonrenewable.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Water Desalination with Shock Waves

12 Water
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

A new, less complicated method of purifying water of salt and contaminants… could become very useful.

Research team invents efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water

Now a team at MIT has come up with an innovative approach that, unlike most traditional desalination systems, does not separate ions or water molecules with filters, which can become clogged, or boiling, which consumes great amounts of energy.

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Michel Onfray: French Joined the Americans in War on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Mali…Reap As Ye Sow…

02 Diplomacy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence
Michel Onfray
Michel Onfray

Michel Onfray : « La France doit cesser sa politique islamophobe »

Point: After the announcement of the attacks of November 13, you wrote on twitter: “It was the [Western] Right and Left  who sowed the war against political Islam and we are now reaping blowback from that war against political Islam. “Do not you feel like you are trying the victim rather than the culprit?

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Ayesha Khanna: The Economist Explains Blockchain Systems of Trust Building

03 Economy, Advanced Cyber/IO
Ayesha Khanna
Ayesha Khanna

The trust machine

The technology behind bitcoin could transform how the economy works

To understand the power of blockchain systems, and the things they can do, it is important to distinguish between three things that are commonly muddled up, namely the bitcoin currency, the specific blockchain that underpins it and the idea of blockchains in general.

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