I recently returned from a holiday in Costa Rica, a country I’d wanted to visit for some years. I bought two T-shirts there. One has an image of an automatic rifle with a flower sticking out its barrel and the words “NO ARMY” written across it in the colour of blood. The other T-shirt has an image of an artillery piece, with the words “No army since 1948” on it.
Former Basque politician Nekane Txapartegi, Sept. 2016 | Photo: Berria teleSUR | March 23, 2017 Swiss officials announced on Thursday they would extradite a former Basque politician and purported ETA activist to Spain after denying her request for asylum given allegations she was brutally tortured while in a Spanish prison. Nekane Txapartegi had fled to […]
What happens when a scientist at CERN asks musicians to make an album about the Large Hadron Collider? You get a pulsating piece of psychedelic concept rock called "Patterns Of Light" by long-running Michigan band, His Name Is Alive.
Demurrage
Demurrage is part of the wider system called EnMo economics. In this model the main business of the state is ensuring that people have enough of everything they need of essential goods and services. To this end the state ensures that anyone who wants to work is able to do so, helping to provide those essential goods and services.
There are a couple of basic concepts to understand before explaining a little detail about demurrage.
Xi Jinping makes historic speech in Davos.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
— from “The Sermon on the Mount”
RT | November 26, 2016 Fifteen European countries, headed by Germany, have issued a statement pushing for the reopening of “a new structured dialogue” with Russia aimed at preventing a possible arms race in Europe, according to the German foreign minister. The countries, all belonging to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), […]
Tensions between Russia and Europe remain high.
4.85/5 (13) As I noted earlier this week, it has been a week of geopolitical news that has left my email articles folders failry well stuffed to thegills with articles of world-goings-on that has made final…
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Brexit to Texit, Omar updates and reality sElections + this day in history w/West Virginia Day and our song of the day by Peter Bjorn and John on your Morning Monarchy for June 20, 2016.
