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Corbett Report: Wayne Walton on Hour Money

Money

Monetary reform activist Wayne Walton of MtnHours.com joins us to talk about the hour money system and how it can be used as a dollar/yen/Euro/peso alternative to foster local business and rid the economy of usury and manipulation. We discuss the ideas presented in his Kindle book (2.99), Hour Money Jubilee: How to create immediate abundance for humanity,  and how people can apply this in their own community for a positive, solutions-based approach to getting at the root of the money problem.

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Ancient wisdom reveals solutions for immediate abundance for humanity. This book uses sacred economics to create a victory plan not phony austerity measures and fear mongering. History repeats and we face the same debt problems which existed throughout ancient history. Powerful, actionable solutions are available without displacement, despair and hardship. We just need to ignore loyal opposition gate keepers who are hired to protect the status quo.

Real revolution requires usury-free money creation and lending. Interest based economics creates an un-payable debt Ponzi. Jews, Christians and Muslims all forbid usury before being corrupted by the “money power”. We will actually have far more money, lending and banking without interest.

Discover how interest is a mathematic fraud like a Ponzi. Discover how usury-free societies offer a 15-25 week work year. Learn this information yourself so that you are no longer deceived by the “money power”. Bring this message of hope and abundance to your family, neighbors, friends and countrymen. Become the leader that you were meant to be.

HourMoneyJubilee.com

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Jean Lievens: What is a BitCoin?

Design, Economics/True Cost, P2P / Panarchy
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

What is Bitcoin?

Monedial.com

To answer this question, we need to clarify specifically what is being asked.  Almost everywhere you look when searching for the answer to this question, you won't find the answer to what a Bitcoin is, but rather what it does, or otherwise how bitcoins work in conjunction with one another as a system.  What most people are asking however when first introduced to Bitcoin, is really what Bitcoin is at its most granular level.  Most often, it is this step of the explanation that is missed resulting in a stumpling block to understand how bitcoins work together as a system.  So what is a bitcoin?  The answer to this question is that, at its most basic fundamental level, an individual bitcoin is simply a computer record.  You can think of a bitcoin as a computer file such as a word document, an email, or a photo image.  What makes a bitcoin file special, and makes it different from any other files that you might have on your computer, is that once a bitcoin file is created, the original record can always identified within the bitcoin user community.

So why does everywhere else I look say that Bitcoin is a new kind of money?

When you generally attempt to find the answer to what bitcoin is, you often find answers such as “Bitcoin is a decentralized Crypto-currency”, “It's a peer-to-peer virtual money”, or “It's a open-source revolutionary digital comodity.”  Rather than identifying what an individual bitcoin is however, such answers are describing how bitcoins are used.  These descriptions are not describing what an individual bitcoin is, but rather how the bitcoin network or system is used to create a digital currency.  Of course, the purpose for the creation of bitcoins was, in fact, to create such a monetary system, however to properly understand Bitcoin as a system, it is necessary to first understand what bitcoin is at it's most basic level.

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John Robb: Community Supported Everything

Design
John Robb
John Robb

Community Supported Everything!

By John Robb

How do you build resilient infrastructure in the 21st Century?

One good answer:  make it opt-in. It's already happening.

Farmers are doing it with CSA programs.  Businesses and artists are doing it with Kickstarter.

We're finding that once you cut out the middleman (Wall Street and Big Box Retail) and connect with customers directly, we end up with much more choice, innovation, quality, and success (the people doing the innovating/making actually get paid, an event that is actually quite rare in this economic system).

Here's a smart spin on this concept that may work.

This little fashion company called Gustin got its start on Kickstarter.  Gustin is now using this customer/community supported approach to sell everything.

Here's how it works.

  • They design something.
  • They ask the community if they want to fund it.
  • If a sufficient number of people buy into it, they make it.

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Owl: Mexican Revolution Begins — Pilot for US Revolution?

Crowd-Sourcing, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Security
Who? Who?
Who? Who?

Uprisings Taking Place “All Over Guerrero” in Mexico

Utterly pervasive and deep police and political corruption always leads to rebellion, and it's happening in Mexico now, according to Raimondo:

“The people of Tierra Colorada, in Mexico’s Guerrero province, have had enough. On March 28, 1,500 armed citizens took to the streets, set up roadblocks, and arrested local officials. Tierra Colorada sits on a major road which runs from the popular tourist city of Acapulco, less than 40 miles away, to Mexico City. Armed citizens have set up checkpoints along the road, stopping cars, taxis, and other vehicles, as well as searching homes for known criminals. They have also arrested the former mayor, the chief of police, and 12 officers. The charges: murder, and collusion with criminals. The force’s spokesman, Bruno Placido Valerio, said: “We have besieged the municipality, because here criminals operate with impunity in broad daylight, in view of municipal authorities.”

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Patrick Meier: Digital Humanitarians and The Theory of Crowd Capital

Crowd-Sourcing, Economics/True Cost, Innovation, Knowledge
Patrick Meier
Patrick Meier

Digital Humanitarians and The Theory of Crowd Capital

An iRevolution reader very kindly pointed me to this excellent conceptual study: “The Theory of Crowd Capital”. The authors’ observations and insights resonate with me deeply given my experience in crowdsourcing digital humanitarian response. Over two years ago, I published this blog post in which I wrote that, “The value of Crisis Mapping may at times have less to do with the actual map and more with the conversations and new collaborative networks catalyzed by launching a Crisis Mapping project. Indeed, this in part explains why the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) exists in the first place.” I was not very familiar with the concept of social capital at the time, but that’s precisely what I was describing. I’ve since written extensively about the very important role that social capital plays in disaster resilience and digital humanitarian response. But I hadn’t taken the obvious next step: “Crowd Capital.”

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Jean Lievens: Sharing is Caring

Crowd-Sourcing, Design, Economics/True Cost
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Sharing is Caring

The S(e)oul of Asia aims to become a ‘Sharing City’. Forbes Magazine refers to it as an ‘unstoppable force’, replications of AirBnB or TaskRabbit pop ups as mushrooms and 2013 is named as the year of the Sharing Economy – Seoul bandwagons the trend and sets out the be the ‘Sharing City’.

South Korea is a key country when observing the rising trends in social innovation and social entrepreneurship in East- and South East Asia. The passing of the Social Enterprise Act in 2007 and the election of Park Won-Soon for Seoul mayor in 2011 are only two amongst other milestones that have indicated the embracement of social entrepreneurship as guideline in addressing the societal issues arisen in the wake of the financial crisis in 1997.

Park Won-Soon is the founder of South Korea’s first social enterprise The Beautiful Store and a think-tank known as The Hope Institute (the South Korean SIX Asia partner) and now a strong supporter of the initiative to establish Seoul as a ‘Sharing City’

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Rickard Falkvinge: Swarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. Chapter Three.

Crowd-Sourcing

Rickard Falkvinge
Rickard Falkvinge

Swarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. Chapter Three.

Swarm Management:  If the last chapter was about the first six to eight days of the swarm’s lifecycle, this chapter is about the first six to eight weeks.

While the effective swarm consists almost entirely of loosely-knit activists, there is a core of people – a scaffolding for the swarm – that requires a more formal organization. It is important to construct this scaffolding carefully, paying attention to known facts about how people work in social groups. Without it, the swarm has no focal point around which it can… well, swarm.

Swarmwise chapters – one chapter per month
1. Understanding The Swarm
2. Launching Your Swarm
3. Getting Your Swarm Organized: Herding Cats (this chapter)