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2011/12/11

Michel Bauwens: Crowdfunding Nation eBook $2.99

Crowdfunding Nation: The Rise and Evolution of Collaborative Funding includes articles on crowdfunding’s history, future, and its usefulness for social movements, how-to guides exploring the best practices for launching a campaign, the legal considerations of crowdfunding and, case studies of innovative and inspiring crowdfunding projects, and an interview with Kickstarter’s Daniella Jaeger. $2.99 now available …

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2011/12/07

Michel Bauwens: Reclaiming the Right to Insolvency

Reclaiming the Right to Insolvency Michel Bauwens 5th December 2011 Excerpted from Franco Berardi: “A new concept is coming out from the fogs of the present situation: a right to insolvency. We’ll not pay the debt. The European countries have been obliged to accept the blackmail of debt, but people are refusing the concept …

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2011/11/30

Michel Bauwens: Occupy and P2P

I strongly recommend watching the whole program, it’s an excellent discussion: “How does the Occupy Wall Street movement move from “the outrage phase” to the “hope phase,” and imagine a new economic model? Occupy Everywhere: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein on Next Steps for the #OccupyWallStreet Movement See Also: Michel Bauwens – Setting the broader context …

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2011/08/19

Michel Bauwens: Trending Now, Ethical Economics

Ethical Economy is trending now. Core Concept: “That a generalized, technology-enhanced capacity for manifold cooperation has become the main productive force means that there is no longer any contradiction between ethics and economics. On the contrary, the ethical ability to open up to and share with others has become the most fundamental quality of a …

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2011/08/19

Michel Bauwens: Moody’s Analyst on Core Corruption

Dan Gillmor originally shared this post: Wow. Henry Blodget has discovered and pulled out incredible stuff from a document filed with the SEC by a former senior employee at Moody’s, one of the big-3 securities ratings agencies. Moody’s is partly owned by a company in which I’ve owned stock for many years: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire …

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2011/07/132011/07/13

Michel Bauwens: Israel Uses Facebook to Identify and then Block Incoming Protesters from Europe

Israel used Facebook to stop European pro-Palestine activists IntelNews.Org, 12 July 2011 Joseph Fitsanakis Israeli intelligence services managed to stop dozens of European pro-Palestine activists from flying to Israel, by gathering open-source intelligence about them on social media sites, such as Facebook. According to Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor, intelligence gathered on Facebook formed the …

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2011/07/08

Michel Bauwens: Integrity & Regional/Global Change

Integrity is becoming part of the global agenda. I especially recommend Christian Arnsperger and Mark Whitaker for interesting takes on this. Toward a Bioregional State (Online Summary) Whitaker argues that the basis of environmental degradation is not capitalism or market relations. Environmental degradation is supremely caused by unrepresentative state elite decisions and how they manipulate …

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