Cheap solutions to world problems - Plasma Energy Power Units

We will be hearing more about a ‘Plasma Energy Power Unit' designed by Keshe Foundation.  We will read about it on the internet - but maybe not in the mainstream media.  

These 'world-changing' units are designed  to be affordable. For about $200 a home can generate power and be less reliant on power companies. For those who cannot afford the unit funding will be available from many sources, especially in the developing countries.

A unit will maintain a heating system and cooling system in our homes. A consistent room temperature will be available no matter how hot or cold it is outside.  Units will also be available for cars therefore also saving us thousands of dollars in fuel costs. 

The Keshe Foundation was started by Professor Mehran Tavakoli Keshe, an Iranian plasma physicist and nuclear scientist. It has offices in China and California.

He also started Keshe Foundation Spaceship Institute, or KF SSI, located in Bari, Italy. It was set up to teach industry, organizations, and individuals, how to develop systems and technologies based on the Keshe Foundation knowledge. The Institute hopes to become a central hub for the spread of plasma technology and knowledge.

The KF SSI is primarily an organization dedicated to understanding of space, and learning all aspects of survival in space.

Mehran Keshe repeatedly says that plasma units will go out for worldwide distribution. Keshe says that within the next 6 to 12 months things will change dramatically for the better as manufacturing will have created enough units for the entire world.

When Mehran Keshe gives his plasma reactors to delegates at a Peace Conference in Rome on October 16th, we can anticipate fuel price starting to drop permanently.  

So October 16th, 2015 could be a significant date for everyone and the planet. It could be another turning point towards a more enlightened way of operating and loving our planet.  It is something that many have been working toward for centuries. 

That's him - on the right.

Obama was reputedly given a plasma unit on September 24th of this year.  North America will hopefully go after cheap energy, as an alternative to what people have been saying for twenty years - 'War is not an Energy Plan'.   

There is no copyright and in fact Keshe made sure that it cannot be copyrighted.  People around the world will accept peace and cheap energy - which will change everything.

The Keshe Foundation Spaceship Institute claims that, "for the first time we have managed to create atomic hydrogen and carbon as gas and as solid matter at room temperature."  

Technical notes:

This new method uses atom-thickness layers, and multiple layered carbon, i.e., graphene.  Several international patents with over 300 potential uses have been filed in past years.

Graphene has the same composition as what we find at the core of pencils but is structured differently.  Until now this has only been produced at temperatures of 700° to 800°C.

Keshe is excited about the healing powers of this technology and how it produces a force field that protects against nasty psycho-tronic devices that have made misery of people's lives.

He claims that how we interact with the plasma is dictated by our overall vibration at the time.  Somehow the unit is sensitive to our vibrations.  That should be interesting if we wake up feeling grumpy.  It should give new meaning to phrases like stay positive, or, be happy!

Check out www.keshefoundation.org .

Movements help us get around rigid monopolies

At the last event we discussed how the present economic system will not serve many of today's youth and how young adults are organizing in parallel economies outside of the established channels.  We focused on promising methods of organizing as a society that suggest a way forward.

For society to be organized requires predictable structure and movements for change - like a Snakes and Ladders board.  Movements have always been the main way to get around rigid monopolies.  Movements, such as human rights, have drawn our attention to the need for change whenever some of us find it difficult or impossible to get ahead socially and economically.

We will meet again on Wednesday March 11th. at 7p.m in the library of the beautiful Columbus Centre.  Take the elevator to the second floor and follow the signs.

The Columbus Centre is an Italian cultural centre just west of Dufferin on the south side of Lawrence. 

 
(Use the Allen Expressway or take the subway to Lawrence West Station and take a bus a few blocks west to Dufferin.)

Leslie Ann Coles will be our visiting speaker sharing with us her inspiration for starting the Female Eye film festival.  (See below for more information.)

This Social Creator event is free with light refreshments catered by Mama D'Aleandro. 
Let Nick or I know if you are attending.  Bring a  friend.

 


Its time to fill out the Snakes and Ladders board for a post-2012 era. We will look at immediate economic opportunities and set educational objectives so that we learn to become more fulfilled. 

Our session we will go beyond logic and we will learn to use tools for insight.

 

There will be lots for everyone to talk about after selecting various breakout groups to discuss visions and educational objectives:

1. empowering ourselves for a More Lively and Loving Toronto,
2. a proposal to organize Neighbourhood TV,
3. influencing food quality and freshness,
4. influencing how the health industry operates,3. an income model for these and other proposals.

The Female Eye film festival is ranked one of the world's "Top 50 Festivals" by Movie Maker.  See: http://www.femaleeyefilmfestival.com.  Read more, below this email...

We will also have a draw for free passes to some of the films.

​Leslie Ann Coles (above) has been an actress and producer since 1997.

In 2003, the Female Eye Festival launched the script development program.
In 2004, FeFF produced the first Dec. 6th program with films that pertained to issues of violence against women.
In 2005, FeFF traveled to the UN Headquarters to present films on International Women’s Day.
In 2006, FeFF launched a photo exhibit and produced the first Young Filmmaker Development Workshop.
In 2011, Jules Koostachin became the director of FeFF's Aboriginal Filmmaker Series. 

What happens after the World Economic Collapse in 2008?

You probably missed news of evidence of massive bank fraud if you only follow the mainstream media.  We will never understand what happened when the world's economy almost tanked in 2008 and ruined so many lives unless we turn to other sources. 

Banks have paid huge fines to stay out of court and stop the rest of us finding out about their actions. 

A Canadian woman, Alayne Fleischmann, gave an exclusive interview on DemocracyNow.com.  She is the whistleblower who helped the Justice Department of the US make JPMorgan Chase pay one of the largest fines in U.S. history for its role in the world economic financial crisis.

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/1/matt_taibbi_and_the_9_billion

The Rolling Stone article they refer to is at:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106

No-one at any of the banks has been prosecuted.  We could conclude that the Department of Justice never really went after the people who practically wrecked the world economy.

Eric Holder, as head of the US Justice Department, justified his forgiving attitude towards banks when testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2013, by suggesting some banks are "too big to jail." 

The bank that Alayne Fleischmann worked for seems unchanged.  The board of JPMorgan Chase gave their CEO a 75% salary increase after the collapse.


After so many people lost their homes, powerful people in government felt the need to help banks keep news and evidence of vast banking fraud away from the public. In the DemocracyNow,com interview we hear that Eric Holder used to work for a legal firm which had JPMorgan Chase as a client.  He worked his way up from being a corporate lawyer defending companies like JPMorgan Chase before becoming head of the Justice Department.

We now know that the main message Occupy Wall Street had to offer us, about the way the world is run, has proven correct. In the DemocracyNow,com interview we hear that a Wall Street CEO can phone the head of the Justice Department and ask for favours, like not prosecuting, and negotiating getting help with hushing things up if there were massive fraud.

Should we be thankful that the government did not aggravate a bad situation?  In the DemocracyNow.com interview, reporter Matt Taibbi goes through reasonable courses of action the Justice Department could have taken but decided not to.

Eric Holder was severely criticized for his statement on "too big" to even prosecute let alone jail. 

He resigned from the US Justice Department in September 2014.  Obama said that Holder served the people well.

So how do we begin to live with this news?  Do we resolve this within ourselves by looking for whose naughty and whose nice?

Mainstream media work are a big part of this story.  In a big media company we work together at a similar steady and reliable pace as the rest of business and governance as we have known it.  A lot of emphasis is put on 'naughty and nice'. 

Naughty is coming to mean the same thing as 'disruptive'.  Some of us operate at a pace that the rest of us find disruptive.  Yet the future of our economies has depended on disrupting what went before.

So naughty has become an issue of pace of operation.  In some parts of society pace of operation or functioning is called 'frequency'.

Creation exists as a long series of stages within a larger evolutionary progression.  Specific people and animals are representative of each stage.   

Collectively the entire range of stages has introduced and extended higher functioning into the material dimension including worldly events. 

Each stage works, much like an electrical transformer, to reduce the frequency of vibrations.  The frequency at which each creature functions and operates is either suited to that creature or the creature cannot be sustained within the larger being we call Life.  

A person will get ill and die relatively early if they operate at a frequency that disagrees with them.   

No-one can make a person that is able to thrive wrong.  We learn to live with what others do without denying the reality of the situation.

People used to learn to live by imposing fear and intimidation on one another.   As a way of daily functioning this caveman or clan-like mentality is very low on the scale.  

The vast majority of us are happy to live beyond that level of functioning.  It is a familiar reaction to rationalize wanting to lash out at others in the face of overwhelming emotions.  Today we recognize this is only a defense mechanism that buffers the immediate shock.

Then there is the stage of negotiating when the reality and the pain that goes with it re-emerge.  We use some form of logic to justify what we do.  The intense emotion is deflected from our vulnerable core.  We redirect or 'project' the emotion of anger on to others even complete strangers when we have no idea what motivates their actions.

Many in the Occupy movement were concerned citizens.  They wanted us all to stop for a while and learn a more functional way of living with one another. 

I like to discuss higher levels of functioning on another website:  betaDigest.wordpress.com.

Changing to a Culture of Mutual Fulfillment

We are all heavily influenced by the various cultures we move within and perpetuate: corporate culture, industrial  culture, popular culture, media culture, school culture - you name it.  Cultural activity is ongoing at the office, in factories, homes, and schools.  This activity reinforces what we believe, think, do - and ultimately, what we have been taught to value.

There is a crisis in society currently.  So many of the things we have been programmed to like and want can be immediately satisfying but we soon find that these things do not fulfill our longings.  This crisis can be addressed as we change the culture.

In the same year as the first moon landing, Swiss philosopher and child psychologist, Jean Piaget said -

"The principle goal of education is to create men (sic) who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."  

So education is key to breaking from our programmed behaviour instilled in us by the dominant cultures.  The goal of education can be to get us outside or 'see beyond' our cultural conditioning.

The tendency in institutions when changing a culture is to focus on, or emphasize instilling new values in people.  People are instructed on 'how to place more value' on things that were less important to the institution in the past.

However, different values are somehow registered in the heart of each individual.  We formulate our values, perhaps based on individual life experiences or heart-felt longings from childhood.

No-one can dictate what we value and the longings that we strive to fulfill.  We can only agree to promote or espouse values that we may not actually hold deep within us.  We can talk in terms of values we don;t necessarily hold if we want to justify establishing new goals and strategies.

There is little evidence of education fulfilling the goal of changing the industrial culture of the 20th century.  Offices and schools are still run like factories within an industrial production line culture.

Offices and schools are still laid out with separate facilities depending in what someone decides should be produced there - a product, service, or a young mind.  Each facility is run based on different standards of what is acceptable not what is going on in our hearts.

To make a shift in a culture we change our habits of thinking and our observable habits in terms of how we interact with others.  We also positively influence the effects that a prevailing culture has on us by changing the physical surroundings where we learn and do things. 

Within effective approaches to cultural change we observe a cycle of steps (a, b, c, d, a, b...):

b. Beliefs

                                                 a. Habits                            c. Heart-felt values

d. Physical
surroundings

This goes against the traditional approach of starting with c, focusing on changing other people's values.  This is instruction, literally 'to strike', 'build with' or in order to impose or leave a deep impression.  It comes from Middle English, and from Latin in- + struere to build.

We influence or change a culture when we begin to focus on our habits.  This means looking at beliefs that we take for granted.  Hence the important role of eduction which literally means to educe or draw from within, or from 'our hearts'.

The more we focus on our habits the more likely we are to examine our beliefs.

To change our habits, first we examine why we are doing things.  For example, in education, endless attention is given to deciding how we educate ourselves.  Little if any time is spent on time questioning why we educate ourselves.

Are we educating ourselves to prepare for fully benefiting from today's economies, or are we still caught up in the old manufacturing economy?  Is education meant to promote making healthful food choices and well being?  Is it to make ourselves resourceful and imaginative people?

d. What kind of physical surroundings would contribute to questioning our habits in terms of why we do the things we do?

a. What kind of new habits in education can draw out our current beliefs?

b. What new understanding can support getting in touch with our heart-felt values?

c. How can we find people who share individual values and express them within our surroundings in ways that remind us to adopt new heart-felt habits.

Is this how we develop a culture of mutual fulfillment in our lives rather than short-term satisfaction.

Future of Media

'Future Media' is the book title that jumped out from the shelf at me while I was sitting at the library today.  The back cover explained what to expect between the covers:

"Combining their prescient nonfiction and fiction, Future Media showcases ... innovative explorations of the mass media...  Both cautionary and optimistic, this groundbreaking anthology offers challenging, engaging predictions of a future that will not be ignored."

It sounded great except for the bit about 'mass media'.

Because of the internet, mass media will continue to disintegrate even further beyond the 1000-channel cable bundles.  Ultimately the outcome is decentralization of the power to influence and persuade.

What will be new about the media in future will be a YouTube channel for every neighbourhood featuring the work, aspirations and needs of entrepreneurs.  You will check out interviews with local entrepreneurs and know who you want to connect with and help in some way.

We have seen the rise of social entrepreneurs who have missions of supporting a new kind of society.  People are making money out of entrepreneurs who deeply want to support neighbourhoods.  Centres or hubs for social entrepreneurs provide services and venues for gathering and collaborations.

City councilors and economic development departments understand and support this concept of a home for entrepreneurs to incubate projects.  It's another aspect of building management.

There are other trends in business besides social missions. Entrepreneurs have started to get into energy supply, ecological clean-up / recycling, re-purposing of material that would otherwise go to landfill, education, and community animation. 

What has been missing in all this innovation is ways for neighbourhoods to support entrepreneurs.  That's where neighbourhood YouTube channels come in, that link video interviews to wish-lists.  Neighbours can find ways to support the local start-ups instead of waiting for the start-ups to support them during times of increasing instability.

Changing the world will continue to involve a massive number of new initiatives.  It is not a mega project.

We can create a future that benefits everyone when we help business start-ups that we feel warrant our support.  Media can help us make those decisions.  

We need building managers for entrepreneurs.  Help for entrepreneurs in other forms are also necessary.  To find out more - here is a link to the QUEEN EAST Agency website.  I hope you will recognize that the future of media is partly local, and partly a means for us to help create a new kind of world. 

Inclusive Capitalism

In May, 2014 , Prince Charles said in a speech at the Inclusive Capitalism conference:

"We can choose to act now before it is finally too late, using all of the power and influence that each of you can bring to bear to create an inclusive, sustainable and resilient society”. 
 
The Prince was addressing an audience of 200 business leaders including Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, and chief executives of multinational companies such as UBS, GlaxoSmithKline and Unilever. 

Here are more quotes from the article appearing in the UK's Telegraph newspaper.

“I remember when the Iron Curtain came down there was a certain amount of shouting about the triumph of capitalism over communism. Being somewhat contrary, I didn't think it was quite as simple as that. I felt that unless the business world considered the social, community and environmental dimensions, we might end up coming full circle.” 

He called on businesses to focus on the long-term and make “an authentic moral commitment to acting as true custodians of the Earth and architects of the well-being of current and future generations”. 

“It is only by adopting a broader sense of value that our finances will be sustained and we can find new sources of profit,” he said. 

The Prince suggested that companies must do more to put “young people properly at the heart of companies' employment practices and planning strategies, in order to tackle more effectively the world's growing youth unemployment crisis”. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-charles/10859230/Prince-Charles-reform-capitalism-to-save-the-planet.html 

Ed Miliband, UK's Labour leader, has also called for “responsible capitalism”. 

Organizing for Understanding Freedom and Sustainability

We had a spirited session at the Intro Evening on Tuesday, October 29, 2013. 
 
Thanks to those of you who came to one or both meetings in October, and for your interest.

We have since launched a website for an agency where members of our association will represent us and our projects.  Our sponsored ad for the Intro Evenings ran in the first issue of Rapture - a newspaper dedicated to bridging spirituality, science and art.

Starting on November 11 at noon we will have the first Interim Meeting at the same location, (25 Sandale Gardens in Toronto near Sheppard and Bathurst - see Googlemaps for detailed directions ) and will begin identifying the best means to become an association that takes advantage of opportunities for –

1. moving the world agenda forward based on members’ existing projects and spheres of influence,
2. determining a self-sustaining and integrative direction for humanity where all can contribute and no-one is left behind,
3. promoting innovation in terms of how society adopts new learning and insights,
4. revealing convincing means for society to understand the consequences of actions taken,

At this Interim Meeting November 11, I am looking forward to showing you and discussing the actual business model - as developed to date - on how we organize as a self-organizing system.

Some of us have contacts in other parts of the world that are working on great projects and who could benefit from collaboration.  Consider bringing an outline of these projects on November 11.

At the moment we are -

a mutual support network that looks at areas of overlap amongst what we are already doing to advance scientific, spiritual, business, and psychological understanding.

I hope you can make it out for part of the day on November 11.  Let me know if this works for you by emailing ucitytoronto @ gmail.com.

There will be two further Intro Nights on Wednesday November 13, and Thursday Nov 28 to which you are free to invite friends with projects for a society that works  for everyone.

Neighbourhood Campuses update

We had the first of our pre-launch parties for the Neighbourhood Campuses on October 18. 

It was a special salon with socializing, food, fun, sharing of ideas and news of gestating the trillion-dollar holistic framework I developed for neighbourhoods over the years - starting at Yonge-Wellesley in downtown Toronto.  I presented a comparison of old-style business based on project management, and business that includes flow - Ecstatic Business Practices - or EBP.

Fellow originators of the Yonge-Wellesley campus, Miss Suzette and Ava Goodman gave us a taste of what a more creative and fulfilling neighbourhoods will be like. 
There were very soulful live musical numbers by the incomparable Ethelrida Zabala-Laxa of WISER International.

An enthusiastic, Norman Waite of the local neighbourhood association (Bay Cloverhill Community Association, or BCCA) welcomed everyone and shared some local news of breakthroughs regarding a local park on publicly-held land.  He promised to be our biggest fan and to promote awareness of the Neighbourhood Campus Norman also offered us a table at the neighbourhood's annual general meeting on November 14, 2012.  This event, held at the YMCA, will attract over 100 of our local movers-and-shakers.

A huge thank you to our gracious volunteers, Adam, Alfredo, Diane, Marie, and Paul for video, greeting, registration, dishes, food service, photography, clean-up.  You name it, and they were able to deliver.

Thank you to 6 St. Joseph House for providing the venue and refreshments.  Our other local business partners, Biryani House and Freshslice Pizza, received a rousing applause when we thanked them for the food. 

Outcomes:
We now have proposals for courses for children and adults, in computer assembly kits (Arduino,) and robotics, stop-motion animation for cinema, plus offers for sessions in creative writing, drawing and sculpture.

We announced offers by participants that evening who wanted to supply venues for upcoming courses free of charge.  In this way we can present the salon in new neighbourhoods - Yorkville-St Jamestown, and Lawrence-Dufferin. 

We have been referred to someone at the University of Toronto who may book us into additional venues for upcoming courses. 

And representatives from other neighbourhoods who attended are excited and will be getting back to us with opportunities in their areas.

We don't know how things could have gone any better, but we will try at our upcoming salons in November and December.

Fighting over a Faint Glow on Screens

Media reporting and non-reporting on the broader implications of the US debt crisis generally contributes to mounting confusion.  This posting attempts to bring some clarity about what is going on in the world, behind the headlines.

The last blog posting introduced the phenomena of currency wars.  Earlier we looked at how the job of government is to ensure that everyone has a way to contribute and benefit from society.  Now engaged in an international society should we have governments going after one another with sanctions that suck life out of society?

Currency wars are an example of how removed some of us have become from mutual benefit and bringing goodness to society.  

Storehouses of Gold in Asia

Since well before the American Revolution of 1776, China has supported the US in becoming a Western power.  This was not pure altruism.  This was self-interest.  China wanted to create another Western power strong enough to balance the European empires of England, Holland, Portugal.  Therefore Chinese, and what are now Taiwanese families took gold from their underground storehouses and lent huge amounts of gold bullion to the US.
Source:  David Wilcock’s team of researchers. 
http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1022-lawsuit-end-tyranny-ii

Recently China balked at the thought of funding attacks against itself and its neighbouring countries.  The families asked for the gold they lent to be returned. The major banking clans that, in effect, own the Federal Reserve, were apparently required to appear in court within the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in September 2010.  The BIS was set up as the international arm of the Federal Reserve.   

The court case was about gold contracts going back hundreds of years.  

The gold owners won, and the judgment totaled the astronomic amount of 286-trillion dollars in today’s dollars. This was reported by Benjamin Fulford who used to be the chief Asia correspondent for Forbes business magazine.  Because the BIS court was set up to be a secret world court it does not issue records to the public.  However, reports surfaced that the Federal Reserve has delayed making the big payout.  The Federal Reserve bankers are either unable or unwilling to return the trillions they owe and have taken a dismissive attitude.  

In November of 2011 some of the gold owners filed a lawsuit in New York State courts for a much smaller amount.  This time there is a public record of the case that is still awaiting a court hearing.
http://divinecosmos.com/media/Keenan_complaint_11-23-2011_SDNY.pdf 

We get an idea of the sheer magnitude of the smaller amount from this Fox News report.  We see it is up there with the amounts that the US owes it's major national creditors.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ttSmZknU9mI

According to the National Defense Authorization Act passed into law on New Year’s Eve of 2011, the US debt is now the biggest threat to American security.  The act clearly states that the US will reposition more military power into the West Pacific.  We saw American marines repositioned into Australia (and therefore China's backyard,) three months later.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NbbKivB2LM 

The traditional Eastern US protectorates, Asian countries that are beneficiaries of US military might, are dumping or considering dumping the US dollar as an international exchange currency, along with US military protection. See the previous Social Creator blog, and 7-minutes into  http://rt.com/programs/keiser-report/episode-271-max-keiser/

The Old World Economy

The Bretton Woods Agreement came out of the 1944 meeting to establish rules for a post WWII global economy.  

West Germany was the first to unilaterally get out of it, in May 1971.  It was simply unwilling to devalue the Deutsche mark in order to prop up the dollar.  Within three months the West German economy rebounded, and the dollar declined 7.5% against the Deutsche mark.

The US had gone into debt for the first time in the 20th century in 1971, because of the Vietnam War.  The heavy debt combined with a negative U.S. trade balance.  

Other nations followed West Germany and began to demand their gold, based on America's "promise to pay" – that is, to redeem their dollars for gold.  Nixon changed US law in 1971 allowing the Federal Reserve to legally refuse to honour contracts that required the US to pay in gold.  Nixon introduced 'fiat' money, literally backed only by hot air, by declaration.  Fiat money is based on law.
Google the definition of 'fiat currency'.

Looking behind Today's News Headlines

What does today's situation look like, as a currency war scenario? 

We have other countries joining the US military to enforce respect for numbers electronically stored in Federal Reserve and BIS computers.  These computer entries are displayed as lights on screens.  

The entries were meant to create a faint glow.  However they are used to create vast consequences in terms of human misery. 

These ciphers must be taken seriously.  They represent dollar amounts backed by legal contracts.  These Fed and BIS ciphers are abstractions.  They cannot be redeemed for the delivery of gold, food, water, a collaborative labour force, or anything else of value since 1971.  

The earlier blog posting on BRICS countries suggested that a currency backed by a lot of Asian gold could take it's place.  Forces allied within NATO might ensure the dollar cannot be dislodged from the centre of today's international currency exchanges. 

Without NATO military in place to enforce other countries to accept the ciphers, our notions of vast dollar amounts of national debts would probably quickly cease.  We might experience large scale renewal and abundance around the world.  

We would see big changes in the Federal Reserve and Bank of International Settlements abilities to control the world's economy, and control currency exchanges.

For more on currency wars since Roman times until the present, see this article by John Perkins. He has advised the World Bank, United Nations, IMF, U.S. Treasury Department, Fortune 500 corporations, and countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He worked directly with heads of state and CEOs of major companies. His books on economics and geo-politics have sold more than 1 million copies:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27967.htm 

Evolution within Economies

You may have noticed that all the manufacturing jobs have gone to China, Brazil, India, and other 'developing nations'.  As a result, for example, Ontario is no longer the industrial engine of Canada.  Ontario is apparently now a lowly province compared to oil-sands sucking Alberta.  However, Albertan people engage in bringing devastation of their province through oils sands exploitation, in effect reverting to large scale extraction industries as the main sources of revenue.  

Humanity came up with large scale extraction, soon after agriculture.  Extraction led to urban centres, (see the transition from a farming culture in Egypt to building cities and pyramids, about 4,500 years ago, for example).  Then look at England in the late 1800's when manufacturing factories were first introduced, when businesses made loaning of money safe, and capitalism possible.  Service businesses like banking and law made it safe for people to lend the large amounts of money necessary to build a factory.  

Its a long story.  But Ontario is now firmly post-extraction, and post-industrial.  And service industries like retail are in decline. So what do you imagine the 'developed world' is up to these days?

Some people are referring to 'what's next' as a transition into a creative economy reliant on arts-based professionals.  These are the people that provide entertainment, architecture, and run hotels, for example.  

You've read it here first, in earlier blogs, and you'll read it again:

All 'developed nations' have entered the beginning of a coordination-based economy which delivers savings on
time, money and resources through mutual fulfillment.  

Manufacturing required service businesses like advertising that conditioned us to consume more goods.  However mutual fulfillment requires that we release some of that conditioning and be in touch with 'what we stand for' or simply, our knowing our individual principles and values.

Pointers to Our Near-term Economic Future

'Developed nations' are rapidly leaving the manufacturing economy behind.  What can we expect from our near-term withdrawal from the old economy?  


The BDI tells you a lot about what to expect.  It is an indicator of international trade of raw materials.  Look at the graph  from the 1980's to the present on the page linked below and decide whether what has happened in the last year is 'significant':


http://www.alt-market.com/articles/540-baltic-dry-index-signals-renewed-market-collapse


And what to expect in the Eurozone.  This is dictated by the US-based banks that will continue to make themselves look as good as possible for as long as possible.  


Ellis Martin of www.EllisMartinReport.com talks about the impending undeclared default of five of the major US banks.  Whether the banks have officially run out of money all depends on the very powerful International Swaps and Derivatives Association.  This association is run by some of the same banks.  Listen to this January 30, 2012 audio interview:


http://www.jsmineset.com/2012/01/30/the-impending-undeclared-default-of-5-major-us-banks/

We don't have a say in terms of what goes on in the global economy.  It makes us feel powerless to act.  Maybe the fact that the global economy was designed and is run by un-elected officials in international banks and economic institutions suggests that it was designed to disempower... Who knows?

This is important to understanding and attempting to anticipate our near-term economic future.


The creative economy has become increasingly important.  And its rooted in your neighbourhood, where you have some say in what is goes on.  Adapt accordingly.