The Money Myth in TED Talk
9 November, 2011An excellent talk on TED about Money: Jem Bendell is a professor and the owner-director of Lifeworth Consulting, providing solutions for systemic change towards sustainable development. For 16 years he has consulted with business, United Nations (UN) and civil society, while writing over 100 publications on the social responsibility of organisations. In TEDxTransmedia he denounces [...]
Report on Newcastle MeetUp
8 November, 201127 October 2011 25 people came along to the first Positive Money MeetUp in Newcastle in a room in the Medical School at the University. This was a very good turnout considering that the weather that night was awful. Attendees included those who were already convinced of the Positive Money analysis, to those who were [...]
Report on Belfast Meetup
8 November, 2011Written by the organizer of this meetup Donald Dietrich We have had another successful meetup on the 26th of October. The meetup started with a general chat about time banking and other alternitives to our monetary system. At 7:30 we started the video "Its all about the money". We watched the first part about the [...]
Was it Just a Banking Crisis?
7 November, 2011A really good article was published on St.Paul's Institute website, written by Rt Revd Peter Selby - President of the National Council for Independent Monitoring Boards and former Bishop of Worcester. Here is an extract: With more or less reluctance the proposals to reconstruct the banking sector are being accepted as either desirable or inevitable. Increasing the [...]
An Extraordinarily Misleading View of the Role of Banks
4 November, 2011An extraordinarily misleading and patronising view of the role of banks and what their consequent responsibilities are was published in Guardian on 3rd Nov 2011 (an extract from an inaugural BBC Today Business Lecture!) Bob Diamond - Group Chief Executive of Barclays bank - is in this lecture on banking not just missing the point, but being [...]
Clear Solution Proposed at Landmark Positive Money Conference
3 November, 2011It's Our Money! Conference Saturday 29th October 2011 in London Rarely does one get the opportunity to attend a Conference where you can leave with a clear idea about the analysis and the solution proposed. Too often, such Conferences leave you up in the air, puzzling about what you have just heard. But those of [...]
G20 – People In, Corporations Out.
3 November, 2011Following is the campaign of Avaaz that you might be interested to support: It's unbelievable. The G20 -- the most powerful summit of world governments -- meets today to discuss the global economic crisis, and who is sponsoring the meeting? Banks and corporations! No wonder the site of the meeting -- the French city of [...]
The Debt Trap Time Bomb
1 November, 2011With Britain's households now owing £1.5 trillion in mortgages, overdrafts, loans and credit cards, the day of reckoning nears, warns Jeff Randall, Telegraph 31st Oct 2011 It is the scandal of which we no longer speak. Like a mad aunt in the attic, the problem is not going away, indeed it can only get [...]
Flyers & Video Editing
26 October, 2011Update 26th October 2011 1) “Occupy” protests + Flyers to download 2) Upcoming Meetups & Events 3) Help wanted – Video editing + animators 4) Latest from the Blog ----- 1) “Occupy” protests + Flyers to download Starting from “Occupy Wall Street” the movement demanding social justice is spreading rapidly all over the world including [...]