Re: Bell: More corporate madness (fwd)

He writes for the Toronto Star, a Liberal party organ. At 10:56 PM 13/01/99 -0400, Michael Gurstein wrote: >-- Forwarded message -- >Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:51:52 -0800 >From: Ed Deak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Bell: More corporate madness > >Dalton Cam

Re: Fwd: Controversy over genetically modified organisms (fwd)

from donor species, in the process of "curing" human diseases. In the quest for perfection - but more realistically in the quest for new markets - many new problems (with which we will have no experience) will be introduced to complement the old ones that we are familiar with. Da

Fwd: FW: Faith & Economy (Canada)

>Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 23:08:15 -0500 >From: joy kogawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: FW: Faith & Economy (Canada) >Sender: joy kogawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Hans Bathija <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Burman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Sandra Cam

petition against corporate takeover

Mill Valley CA 16. Scott Catamas, Bel Air, CA 17. Chris Toussaint, Valley Village, CA 18. Cristina Berio, Agoura Hills, CA 19. Michel Beluet, Valcourt, Quebec, Canada 20. David Burman, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Fwd: Request allowance to send email

>Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 22:34:23 -0500 >From: joy kogawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >-Forwarded Message- > >From: INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED], INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hi > >As the Keynote speaker at the money conference in Palo Alto during the weekend January 30 / Febr

Fwd: Re: advertising barter feeding internet growth

Dear futurework people. This is about a community response to the Y2K problem. Is this an important issue? I admit to not having paid it much attention. David >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.2 (16) >Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 09:05:56 >Subject: Re:

LETS benefit concert

Dear all, This Friday, at 7:30 Eastern standard time, a concert to raise funds for LETS development, and for the launch of a new Toronto currnecy, the Toronto dollar, will be braodcast over the web. the address is: www.syntac.net/imagecast/ The performers are:

Re: DANGEROUS CURRENTS

have engineereed and supported the trade agreements which clearly act in their short term interests to reduce government interference. It is hypocritical then to blame govenments for not imposing sufficiently high costs of doing business. It's a bit like blaming the poor for being unemployed.

Fwd: URGENT: Forum on the UofT "Smart" Card

This is an issue for the future of work - the human technology interface David >Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 09:51:31 -0500 >From: Eric Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: URGENT: Forum on the UofT "Smart" Card >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >From:

Fwd: DEMOCRACY FOR SALE, Korten 17 Oct, 1998

>Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:45:31 -0500 >From: joy kogawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: DEMOCRACY FOR SALE, Korten 17 Oct, 1998 something else that FWers might find interesting. David >Sender: joy kogawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >-Forwarded Message- > "democracy is

Re: DANGEROUS CURRENTS

ainst the tide. David Burman At 06:11 PM 22/10/98 -0400, Victor Milne wrote: > >While I have to agree with Ed Weick's earlier comment that people will >inevitably "do economics"-- I do after a fashion, and I'm no professional >economist -- nevertheless Jay Hanson

Fwd: US Withdraws Suppor for United Nations Population Fund

This will be of interest - posted on the Health Promotion List David >X-BlackMail: 192.139.37.12, newmail.web.net, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=6153, 192.139.37.12 >X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 16:07:54(EDT) on October 21, 1998 >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; U) >Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:

Re: FW: BEWARE: Phone Scam

I was about to forward this to everyone I know, then then thought about all the virus warning hoaxes that I'd unwittingly spread around the planet. So, I checked this with Bell Canada and although they have been getting requests to verify this report, they say it is not applicable to their phones.

Fwd: Re: BOUNCE transform@igc.apc.org: Approval required:

This is an initiative which comes from an association of facilitators in Washington State, and based on the work of futurist, Robert Theobold. Check out the website - it's got definite possibilities. David Burman LETS Toronto >X-BlackMail: igc7.igc.apc.org, igc7.igc.org, [EMAIL P

Re: Basic Income

Keith hudson describes in his first paragraph the rationale for local currencies. A locally administered economy => networked with all others to prevent isolation and permit global trade <= creates economic incentives and rewards at a basic social level (maybe 5,000 people?) which allows for socia

Basic Income

y the old one was perfectly good before He/Her/It was usurped by the false Marketplace god) David Burman >So now we come to crux of my inquiry. How can we allow the most talented, the most acquisitive, the most creative, the most entrepreneurial, to be motivated to their maximum ability? I bel

Re: Basic Income

I read with interest Thomas's sun god analogy, which I think is brilliant. I would only add that perhaps our sun god is "the Marketplace" with its "invisible hand." The work ethic is more like an archaic ritual habit in service of this god. The habit, like all habits, formed when our northern Euro

Re: chimpanzeehood and human nature

e clans and in the clan mothers who chose and still >> > choose the members of the council. Only they can depose a leader and in my >> > nation only the "beloved woman" can declare war. In my two divorces the wife got >> > all of the property and left me only with w

Re: chimpanzeehood and human nature

Riane Eisler, in her books "The Chalice and the Blade" and "Sacred Pleasure", which report and interpret up-to-date interpretations of palaolithic archeology, shows that violence and domination are far from being natural human traits. On the contrary. The evidence strongly suggests that our orig

Re: FW: Re: Creation of Money, War Finance and Government Spending(fwd)

In the last Canadian federal election, Paul Hellyer, former minister of defence in the Trudeau cabinet, formed a party to argue exactly that: there is always money to fight a war - why not fight a war on unemployment, increase our tax base, and get prosperity going for the whole country, increasin

Re: Nomadery and the Supreme Duality

It's a pleasure to have Ray back as an active participant on the list. I'm sorry you pulled your back, but if it frees you up to lend us your insights, it enriches my perspective. We immigrants to / invaders of this country have so few roots to the land and its inhabitants that it's no wonder tha

FWD: All Point Alert: NTM (MAI) LIVES!

Dear all, This came across my screen from France. It may be of interest to all those who have been battling the MAI at home. David >X-BlackMail: venise.magic.fr, venise.magic.fr, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 195.115.16.4 >X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 11:58:55(EDT) on May 09, 1998 >Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 17:

Re: automation and jobs (minds and hands)

I think that with concerns for personal autonomy vis a vis the collective, especially given the "automated work" scenario that Rivkin proposes, local economic systems which include personal money become more important. Rather than deceptively simple concepts, personal money systems like LETS are e

Fwd: Latest news from France

>X-BlackMail: 195.99.86.4, venise.magic.fr, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 195.99.86.4 >X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 11:29:59(EST) on March 23, 1998 >Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 17:20:36 +0100 (MET) apologies for cross postings. Here's some important news on MAI from France. >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified

Re: Re FW Some hard questions about Basic Income 1

As a dentist, I can't resist this one! Tooth decay is a product of capitalist "civilization." While the results of tooth decay could be severe (abscesses could lead to death), before there were refined carbohydrates (like white flour and sugar) tooth decay was relatively rare. In fact, before mass

Re: Satanic mills

At 10:12 AM 2/10/98 -0500, Ed Weick wrote: snip > > >I believe we are now moving into something new and different. We are not >sure of what it is, but we have labeled it "globalization". It too would >appear to be the product of a critical change in technology - technology >which has permitted

rich-poor gap

Harry wrote: >The more Capital we have, the more trade we have, the more wealth is available for all of us. But it doesn't reach everybody, either in the US or in the third world. >For heavens sake, ask why? OK, why? David

Re: Response to Ed Weick

ities issue their own currencies, accept local taxes in local and pay for services in same, to save hard won "hard" currency for "imports?" Experience indicates that those which followed that route would prosper indeed. I hope I've made my thinking a little more clear on this. respectfully, David Burman

Re: Response to Keith Hudson

At 05:41 PM 2/4/98 -0500, Ed Weick wrote: > >I'm not quite sure of what to make of this, but it strikes me as being a >supreme example of assigning a single cause to a multi-faceted problem. >Many populations have benefitted from increased trade. Others have not - >for example, Sub-Saharan Africa

Response to Keith Hudson

Keith Hudson wrote: >Well said. The "modern" debate about free trade, globalisation and so forth >is merely today's equivalent of the debate about usury that went on for a >thousand years in the Middle Ages (and before that in Greek and Chinese >times). Every time free trade resumes and prosperi

Re: FW To David Burnam re Alternative Money

Thomas, thanks for your reply. There are several sources worth checking out. One that I've written appears as Chapter 5 in "Eco-city Dimensions: Healthy communities, healthy planet," edited by Mark Roseland of Simon Fraser U (New Society Publishers, Gabriola Is. BC, 1997). Tom Greko has self pub

Re: FW: Re Financial Times article on MAI

The track record of governments resisting the transnational agenda has not been good so far. Is there any evidence (besides this) that the pendulum is beginning to swing in the other direction? At 01:42 PM 1/22/98 PST, pete wrote: > Michael Gurstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> forwarded: > >>From: Andr

No Subject

#x27;ve been told he will be floored by the concept. Time is very short on this dizzying array of meetings, schmoozings, and dinners, so I have to go. As I mentioned, don't respond to me personally until February - my mailbox is likely jammed already. Sincerely, Chris Hohner Peterborough LE