Surviving progress BBC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeEPfiaeRA0

Guess Jeffrey Sachs read my essay ?

     I am not an economist,not a scientist, have a very different view on poltitics than the one we are "using" now, I'm not even a "green activist" , just let me say,in the words of a great friend, I am a sponge! I suck up massive amounts of information which I think is valuable for me and build my vision.  ... Sometimes my vision is fortified by the vision of someone a bit higher in the foodchain...
After Mr Stiglitz , now there is J.Sachs, Link to article below, I emphasized parts of the extractions where we share our vision ...


http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/rio-20-jeffrey-sachs-business-democracy

Big business, he says, is not responsible only for destroying the American democratic system, but has also transformed citizens into consumer addicts.


Not only is Sachs clear that the old economic paradigm, which is based on a fixation of GDP growth, is leading us to disaster, but that we need to find a completely new way of measuring the success of society.

His particular interest is in developing a measure for wellbeing and happiness and he recently co-organised a major conference on the subject at the UN in New York, in partnership with the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.

"Money matters and especially for the poor. But once you reach a certain level of wellbeing, the additional gains are very small and perhaps not there at all

While social networking has the power to break the existing power structures, Sachs also recognises its power to enslave us further to consumerism.

"We have gotten into a self feeding cycle which is extremely dangerous. We are being sold things that are not raising our wellbeing and are often lowering it.

"I did not have this concept in my mind when I was younger," he says. "I was an economist and was asked go and solve a problem, trying to end hyper inflation in Bolivia, and I quickly realised that any real problem is so far beyond your own discipline.

"I found there are great answers around if you step outside your discipline but it is in compartments

Toffler again !

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/06/21/up-to-95-million-low-skill-workers-in-danger-of-being-left-behind/

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Emperor's New Clothes,...my favorite FT , ... when I'm getting fed up by so much "incompetence" or "ignorance" whatever the reasons for it, I alway think of this song , but even more I think of the FT itself ,..:-)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFpregq5eJ4

Everyone can see what's going on
They laugh `cause they know they're untouchable
Not because what I said was wrong

Whatever it may bring
I will live by my own policies
I will sleep with a clear conscience
I will sleep in peace

Through their own words
They will be exposed
They've got a severe case of
The emperor's new clothes

Elinor Ostrom,maybe you'll listen to her :-)

http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1223&view=1

Honors code for the EU ? For Greece...Art 7

Could we use the French foreign legion's honors code as a Honors code for EU ?

 

Zouden we de Code d'Honeur niet kunnen uitroepen als erecode voor EU ? La Grèce, je ne vous oublié pas !!!

Art. 1 - (Légionnaire) Citoyen d'Europe tu es un volontaire, servant L'Europe (la France) avec honneur et fidélité.
Art. 2 - Chaque (Légionnaire) Citoyen d'Europe est ton frère d'armes, quelle que soit sa nationalité, sa race ou sa religion. Tu lui manifestes toujours la solidarité étroite ...qui doit unir les membres d'une même famille.
Art. 3 - Respectueux des traditions, attaché à tes chefs, la discipline et la camaraderie sont ta force, le courage et la loyauté tes vertus.
Art. 4 - Fier de ton état de ( Légionnaire) Citoyen d'Europe , tu le montres dans ta tenue toujours élégante, ton comportement toujours digne mais modeste, ton casernement toujours net.
Art. 5 - (Soldat) Citoyen d'élite, tu t'entraînes avec rigueur, tu entretiens ton arme comme ton bien le plus précieux, tu as le souci constant de ta forme physique.
Art. 6 - La mission est sacrée, tu l'exécutes jusqu'au bout et si besoin, en opérations, au péril de ta vie.
Art. 7 - Au combat, tu agis sans passion et sans haine, tu respectes les ennemis vaincus, tu n'abandonnes jamais ni tes morts, ni tes blessés, ni tes armes.

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Links to liberation&...

http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/text.php