Which will be the meetings with the most impact for humanity in 2007? - one of the most critical years of the decade of truth our future historians, economists, entrepreneurs and internationalists forecast 2005-2015 would need to be if the networking revolution is to integrate a sustainable globalisation rather than one that terminates future generations?
http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html

Our FutureHistory affiliates wish both Davos' oldtimer World Economics Forum (WEF) and newcomer Brazil-Kenya's(WSF) well.

http://futurehistorian.tv http://futurehistory.jp
In WEF's early days before it was famous , my dad helped out as a speaker more than once. However, absent of reformation, WEF has to be reviewed as potentially slipping out of relevance compared with meetings that did not even exist when the millennium began.

First there's the league of inspirational intiative meetings such as
Clinton Global , http://changeworld.net/_wsn/page5.html
microcreditsummit, http://microsummit.tv http://thegreenchildren.com
ted.com http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page3.html
whose world citizen research rankings we maintain here http://sustainabilityclub.com/_wsn/page4.html

Second, this year it appears have become subject to a triple whammy of coincident events. Afirca's first ever world social forum; and India taking the lead with a sustaianbility forum that has bagged that most intriguing duo of climate 007: Nicholas Stern and Gordon Brown. Against which WEF's Lord Browne of BP and Blair look more like history's wisdom than the searching future's - unless this pairing is going to stand up and offer a converted view than any of they have previously mailed us.

Third unlike recent years when a key theme had been clarified and new data collected, and moreover a key speaker from another side of the world made extraordinary challenging contributions, WEF's pre-conference web this year sent me to sleep when I started reading the PCW 90-page knowledge concierge document (in transparency I must admit to potential bias: when I was employed by what became PCW in the early 1990s it was both the most boring and least entreprenurial career move on my vitae)

Nobody will be more delighted than us if WEF pulls a rabbit out of the magiician's tophat. Klaus is an a-list good sort, and whilst media coverage of economics was a subject entrepreneurially concerned with transparently investigating progress for all humanity WEF was the most exciting way to begin every New Year (apart from what each family chose to celebrate on January 1) We will be watching the WEF website http://www.weforum.org which is potentially a hidden jewel as a platform compared with all other meeting formats

Meanwhile, we've been frantically busy trying to sign up a quorum of world citizen future reporters from the World Social Forum in Kenya. What we don't care about is getting the scoops from the next 7 days. what we do care about is identifying the lasting comon actions troughout 2007 and how they connect with other extraordinary events being celebrated later in 007 both:
in Africa such as http://www.ted.com/tedglobal2007/
in the 5 years Passports to Sustainability http://passports.jp being launched as a round the world countdown to London's Olympic year with the goal of persuading the BBC that sustain ability's league heroes demand every bit as much hourly programming of the leading public broadcaster and world service channel as sports. After all's said and done, if we play any more inconvenient games with Truth on climate or the jigsaws of peace there will be no sports for future generations

Should you wish to keep linked in to the very occasional future events preview our networks will be issuing, please go and register at http://groups.google.com/group/maclink/topics?lnk=li&hl=en

Chris Macrae, info@worldcitizen.tv

This week Jancis Roberston broadcast on public sector US tv (Charlie Rose) said :the British people will not fall for a media trickster like Tony Blair again. We think of him with that feeling of betrayal of a lover who cheats on you. It seems that he was driven mainly or solely by a vain attempt to make his mark on history. And yes because of that he became President Bush's poodle compounding tragic consequences for peoples and cultures around the world .So where was the BBC?

Haven't the British people in my life-time invested billions in public sector tv to openly question and represent all views not to be controlled by media tricksters and commercial image makers? The BBC was near to being the first to find out that the chances of there being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were very low, but then Blair ordered it to be silent like a naughty child sent to see the headmaster. Nor did the BBC need to muzzle its main correspondents of nature until we got to the stage the Stern report of HM Treasury now confesses that 1% of GDP will be need to be wholly invested in new ways if climate crises are not to lose 20% of GDP.

In the spring of 2005, I remember one of the greatest tragic-farces I have ever attended as a media expert. There was I representing one of the 300+ charities of Make Poverty History. I objected to being told that the 20 second advertisement on Make Poverty History would need a hundred thousand of media spend out of charities' coffers on commercial TV. Partly because the amount of awareness you get with that amount of money is negligible. But mainly because why wouldn’t the BBC carry that humanitarian message - one child dying every seconds you click you finger - for free. Isn't world service freedom of speech something we the British people invested in. I was told to shut up. Particularly because the Make Poverty History web was being designed on the cheap by the Red Nose Day team who are the BBC's one and only charity that gets lots of air time. From that second on I realised that the traditional Western NGO is part of the problem. It no longer questions the grassroots crisis but in its own currying of favours with philanthropists dares not ask politicians the questions that would reveal the deepest of transparency crises.

It is way beyond time that the British people took back the BBC from politicians. The number 1 job of public sector broadcasting is to mentor peoples and childrens to be media literate so that we are not led by poodles. The aunty of all media crises is at the moment the BBC needs mentoring in how to do that job. Worse I know for a fact that in the early nineties the same global accountants that knew nothing about how wealth and health compounds went in and chained the BBC to reallocating its spends away from smart tv programming towards commercial trivia. The BBC no longer has a public sector dna and sustainability goals that differentiate it from the dumbing down culture that excessive commercial tv operates. The kind of tv which has editorial instructions like do not show news that tries to learn because this can cause viewers to switch channel.

WE ARE AT BROADCAST MEDIA'S FINAL TIPPING POINT

We the people need to go to the streets to refuse to pay the licence fee until it is written into every governor's job and agreed by every MP that the primary job of the BBC is never to be gagged from questioning politicians or commercial vested interests. Sustainability offers no other way to save ourselves from addictions like that of petroleum economics that has brought the world to the final precipice of climate meltdown at least 24 years after it needed open debates propagated on weekly shows so that nightly news tacitly dared to ask innovative question rather than being so silent that it brainwashed the majority of Britons into a state where we no longer knew how to learn anything of vital human import. It is not saving 20% that is now at issue, it is saving 100% of species before poodles and media make George Orwell's scrip look like heaven on earth. http://crisiseconomics.tv

DOUBLE LOOP CRISIS OF HUMAN IDTo terminate our species because we did not know how to question media so as to ensure media is used to explore and question rather than accept sponsorship of monopoly views by global market sectors interested only in getting bigger is an epic mistake of the sort that dinosaurs - or bleared civilisations or bush-whacked nations - make.

the worst 6 years of English Language Governments

It is by now impossible for me (and you?) to look back at what has compounded over the last 6 years during the presidency of Bush in USA and the PM of Blair with any other verdict

WE have been sent into a war on a muddle if not multiple lies; those to do with weapons of mass destruction could have been clarified if the BBC had been left to do its job of representing the people questions not the Prime Minister's vested interests; the war has perpetuated risk to citizens everywhere; the reconstruction of a safe and fair Iraq was never on the cards both because it is clear that none of Bush, Rumsfeld or Cheney have any deep understanding of cultures beyond their own; and now we hear that there were a few months after the topling of Saddam when the vast majority of Iraqi's wanted America and Britain to put them on an even keel but almost all of the 23 billion dollars earmarked for reconstruction did not get spent that way; indeed what it did get spent on is a mystery which may even make Enron's financial black holes seem plain

At the same time we are told that government has so failed to understand what the climate was compounding that we are at a final tipping point where 1% of GDP needs to be invested to save 20%

A research team I am a member of is coming up with scary stuff too on how far we have destructed our children's learning, and cross-cultural empathies

There is 1 thing that Mr Blair can do before he goes. Make it clear that no government of any party is ever again to have any more right to influence the BBC than any other individula citizen has. The BBC is the people's investment, and should have been questioning all these compound crises fearlessly.

I feel that there is something that Mr Brown ought to do too. But I guess with a BBC on the peoples side we can determine what true Scots and economists like Adam Smith and James Wilson would recommend with the light of day.

Jill Abramson previewed some remarkable stories that will be in the 9/11issue of the New York Times
Fudged facts puts 'path to 9/11' on a slippery slope

ABC tinkers with 9/11 TV drama assailed by Clinton Reuters
Clinton... Other Democrats Assail ABC Docudrama 'Path to 9/11'...
ABC Gets More Pressure to Toss 9/11 Film Forbes
9/11 has spurred only modest changes in New York.... ...
New York Times, United States - 1 hour ago
... So far, though, 9/11 has not been a turning point for code revision, in the way past disasters were — like the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911. ...

Full house as leading 9/11 conspiracy theorist has his say

An Open Letter to Mr Blair

On your retirement from PM, if you take a job with Murdoch or any commercial media, we the people will pursue you until you are dishonoured or the British equivalent of impeached. Actually a visit to Guatemala Bay would be to good for your furure

We know your errors of judgement, of which one published today at Yahoo, were not ill intended. You had a very 20th C view of how to manipulate mass media instead of how to empor people.

If conversely you go work with the Gates Foundation on ideas like the one you help to conceptualise of Africa Progress panel, we'll wave cheers through world citizens for your recovery

The choice is yours

WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein regarded al-Qaida as a threat rather than a possible ally, a Senate report says, contradicting assertions President Bush has used to build support for the war in Iraq.

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Saddam told U.S. officials after his capture that he had not cooperated with Osama bin Laden even though he acknowledged that officials in his government had met with the al-Qaida leader, according to FBI summaries cited in the Senate report.

"Saddam only expressed negative sentiments about bin Laden," Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi leader's top aide, told the FBI.

The report also faults intelligence gathering in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion.

As recently as an Aug. 21 news conference, Bush said people should "imagine a world in which you had Saddam Hussein" with the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction and "who had relations with Zarqawi."

Your sincerely
Chris Macrare
Macrae.nets
Grand #404, Rockvile, MN20852, USA, tel 301 881 1655

The impact of cafes (one hour open meetings but on particular crisis invitations - ie truncated open spaces) where invitations are past through all changemakers networks has never been higher. Especially in London as a model for the future of all open cross-cultural cities and villages as social sub-networks - a reconciliation of enduring urgency forced on us by 7/7 and the recognition that government over many years has failed to wholly integrate cultures at the grassroots in ways that people and local communities must take charge of.

This is such a huge subject that I neither have time nor space in this weblog medium to do justice to all the questions that live cafes have raised and how all the major crises of lost sustainability and distrust between different local and global groups of peoples are being made ever more conflicted by national government- whose monopoly rule over public service budgets in the most vital areas like safety, media, health, education, peace is disastrous when most of the challenges facing us are as world citizens (interlocal waves that are made worse wherever a Blair of Bush make decisions like a Canute) or wherever 2 party politics one-dimensionalises issues that need 360 degree diversity of transparent public dialogue

We will have a special series of cafes in the Islington area all of sept 11-15 - email me for a full calendar; and if you only read this after sept 15: I will be happy to after action debrief on you what we learnt from the dialogues and where next we will be restaging them. I will also be putting a lot of the learnings from our cafe series at these weblogs which are inter-related . chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

http://worldcitizen.tv - this looks as ways we citizens can perform communications experiments to show that huge investigative journalism contexts are being missed (biased out) by the BBC, and debates how to rectify this

http://worldentrepreneur.net which focuses on the source of good news out of America in terms of supporting the world's poorest with 30 years of mapping what social projects have resolved crises in one local community and can be replicated as interlocal franchises

http://worldeconomist.net pulls together these latest practical banks of learnings and connects this back with my father and my future history book on death of distance in 1984 which forecast that economics as a worldwide discipline would need transforming between 2005-2105, as much if not more than when James Wilson founded The Economist to keep questioning how economics could sustain peoples through the industrial revolution

We also has http://worldapprentice.com given that folk of every age need to start blueprinting a revolutionary new curricula and modalities of education for all our children if we are to time warp through sustainability's inconvenient truths. At time of writing I am still waiting to hear whether I will get accepted into the first wave of 2000 people being trained by Al Gore on how to present his inconvenient truth slides. This first wave rehearsals and start of an amazing change network takes place In Nashville towards the end of September
http://www.theclimateproject.org

The RSA's and Starbucks and BBC action network coffeehouse challenge in 2006 has been much more interesting in London this year as its been permitted to brew as a summer long festival rather being constrained to a one-month (May schedule)

CAFES & OPENSPACERACE 1 2
God bless all who host and attend cafes - seeds and real-people crossroads to the huge virtual networks that can be multiplied if each person's social network can be interfaced with each other person united in hi-trust and wish to raise questions about a global crisis context before we rush for any open answer

Unless they live up to our next post, Scots should rebel against Blair & Brown - B&B (&B) have destroyed the practices and integrity of Scottish Economics. They have shredded its hi-trust system for sustaining people, and they have failed to prevent numbers whose assumptions begger belief in humanity from taking over so thatwe entre the Orwellian/Einstein nightmare of a hi-tect age in which only the big get bigger. Their censorship of the BBC has brought the world within a few years of irreversible loss of sustainability, and all because they do not listen to people, abuse education of our children and believe their top down judgements are superior to true public service

This is the letterhead I am now using in the survey of Economist Shareholders.
Of course it’s quite a condense introduction to 9 ways that change the world's sustainability by loving all 6 billion beings provided they connect every which way with one another. You don't have to be at the "latitude" indicated to play but every change the world method does have its epicentre and network hub-bub

Take social entrepreneurs; latitude 7 is the epicentre due to Bill Drayton (Arlington Virginia) who coined the phrase circa 1978 and mapped 2000 social entrepreneurs over the last 30 years. The number 1 transformation needing to happen simultaneously in the next 2 years is Transparency. Led out of latitude 4 (Peter Eigen, Transparency International, Berlin); this is also a collaboration in Latitude 7 with Drayton: Mary Robinson (RealizingRights) and Kofi Annan (Global Compact), New York, and Bill Gates who is funding the Africa Progress Panel on which Peter Eigen and Kofi Annan co-chair at the request of the reformed Tony Blair who found that 2005's was in danger of separating media from reality. Now with 2000 networking friends of humanity and one last heave-ho for the future of his legacy - if he will admit he was utterly wrong to censor the BBC from inquiring about Iraq's likelihood of owning weapons of mass destruction, and that promises on behalf of all future British governments never again to stop the governors of the BBC from letting journalists asked the biggest questions that serve the world when they are transparently debated, we can finally start to bring latitude 5 back into play as indeed Queen Elizabeth asked us to do in her end 2005 broadcast asking everyone to debate : "Is Humanity Turning on Itself", and if so what top-down systems are compounding this end of sustainability.

Whereas, Skoll the billionaire host of the oxford world championship is actually at latitude 9 with www.participantproductions.com which both sponsors 8 (the film of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth) and 7 the six most micro to macro social entrepreneurs Bill Drayton as so far discovered. These include two from Bangladesh: Microfinance's Grameen's Yunus and Abed's BRAC. My father Norman Macrae, who deputy edited The Economist for 4 decades, has an intriguing story about Sylvet the town where BRAC was founded. He was in the region that is now called Bangladesh during the second world way. Sylvet was the only large city in the region where all cultures seemed to happily support each other through the trials of such a time. Strange it is if the world is to prove to be sustainable, a city called Sylvet may have more to do with planting that than anything people at the top of White House will ever again command. But then it’s amazing how few economists or shareholders of The Economist understand the Scottish school of economics:

they misquote Adam Smith on Free Markets

they fail to live up to James Wilson's founding reasons for The Economist

they do not debate the BBC in why it is not covering either natural quests like how to prevent global warming or human quests like how social entrepreneurs invite peoples from every community to franchise stuff that can change the world so that public service is restored to being for and by the people, and corporations and professions who do not include compounding human sustainability in their business case or devalued like Enron or Anderson; MBA's have a lot to do with that too; burn any lecturers scripts that do not truly represent Adam Smith or James Wilson http://er100.blogspot.com

James Wilson - final paragraph of prospectus that launched The Economist around 1843

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And lastly—if we required higher motives than bare utility, to induce that zeal, labour, and perseverance against all the difficulties which we shall have to encounter in this work—we have them. If we look abroad, we see within the range of our commercial intercourse whole islands and continents, on which the light of civilization has scarce yet dawned; and we seriously believe that FREE TRADE, free intercourse, will do more than any other visible agent to extend civilization and morality throughout the world—yes, to extinguish slavery itself. Then, if we look around us at home, we see ignorance, depravity, immorality, irreligion, abounding to an extent disgraceful to a civilized country; and we feel assured that there is little chance of successfully treating this great national disease while want and pauperism so much abound: we can little hope to improve the mental and moral condition of a people while their physical state is so deplorable:—personal experience has shown us in the manufacturing districts that the people want no acts of parliament to coerce education or induce moral improvement when they are in physical comfort—and that, when men are depressed with want and hunger, and agonized by the sufferings of helpless and starving children, no acts of parliament are of the slightest avail. We look far beyond the power of acts of parliament, or even of the efforts of the philanthropist or the charitable, however praiseworthy, to effect a cure for this great national leprosy; we look mainly to an improvement in the condition of the people. And we hope to see the day when it will be as difficult to understand how an act of parliament could have been made to restrict the food and employment of the people, as it is now to conceive how the mild, inoffensive spirit of Christianity could ever have been conceived into the plea of persecution and martyrdom, or how poor old wrinkled women, with a little eccentricity, were burned by our forefathers for witchcraft.

Would Scotland's number 1 economist have approved of Brown's Jiggery Pokery

Unless you have other votes, Scotland's number 1 economist was James Brown - read all about what he did for trust in this statistical discipline

This extract from the traditional Labour newspaper Socialist Worker analysing a new Oxfam report seems to make jiggery pokery a rather polite term for trying to look good in the present by destroying future progress for the poorest. Oh have I misunderstood what this fabulous media duo have topped even their own standards for image-making divorced from compound reality-making conseqeunces

The Jubilee Debt Campaign calculates that over 60 countries will fail to reach the Millennium Development Goals unless their debts are fully cancelled. Even when the 2005 deal is fully implemented it will only stretch to 40 countries.”
Moreover, Oxfam argues that the debt cancellation is being used artificially to boost the official figures for development aid to the Global South. “Aid from the G8 has increased massively, by $21 billion, or 37 percent over its 2004 levels.
“However, the overwhelming majority of the increase (80 percent) is made up of one-off debt cancellation deals for Iraq and Nigeria – it is not actually new money in the fight against poverty. Together these two deals add up to $17 billion of the $21 billion increase.”
Development
This double-counting is very important. The G8 promised at Gleneagles to boost development aid by $50 billion annually by 2010. According to Oxfam, “this is only half of what the UN calculates is required by 2010 to reach the Millennium Development Goals”, which aim to halve extreme poverty, introduce universal primary education, and so on by 2015.
Now we discover that the G8 is seeking to meet this already inadequate commitment by including the Third World debt it is writing off. It’s pretending that ceasing to take money from poor countries in the form of debt repayments is the same as giving them more aid.
This is particularly ridiculous in the case of Iraq. Cancelling its debt has nothing to do with reducing the desperate poverty there. It’s about propping up the US client regime.
Oxfam points out that including the debt cancellations will massively boost the G8 aid budget in the next couple of years, but any benefits the poor countries get will be spread over a much longer period. It calculates that, “once the Nigeria and Iraq deals are deducted, overall aid from the G8 rose by 9 percent in 2005.”
Once debt cancellation is excluded, British development aid actually fell by 2 percent in 2005. This is a particularly damning given how Brown has been parading around Africa proclaiming the virtues of his policies for the world’s poor.
Brown is a notorious massager of figures. So it’s not surprising that the Guardian reported last week that the circulation of a draft version of the Oxfam report provoked a row in Whitehall.
Under pressure from the treasury and the Department for International Development, Oxfam dropped a plan to “name and shame” Britain, France and Germany, whose aid fell in 2005, and added a footnote explaining away the cut in British aid.
None of this alters the fact that the little that was promised the world’s poor at Gleneagles is gradually being withdrawn. It seems more inexplicable than ever that Oxfam and its partners should have disbanded Make Poverty History.

is Mr Blair game for Africa MPH 2.0

Back in 1984 it was easy to write death of distance future histories from the Economist and other places that lived up to the greatest entrepreneurial revolutions humanity needed. Timing is not an exact quarterly art but give a take or year or two our 1984 forecast was 2005 would be mankind's peak risk year of globalsiation going off on an unsustainable exponential destroying humanity a few generations out, and the antidoe was change economics until you make poverty history . Read our 1984 pens.

On the maps of Macrae-nets, our number 1 heroes in making poverty history between 2005-2015 were neither the separate typologies of top-down governments or corporations innovating global market sectors but their fusion with global village entrepreneurial networks, now more commonly known as social entrepreneurs 1 2 or citizens organisations

CLICK to 2006 -and if what you read below sounds OK why not come join us at the map of AfricaMakePovertyHistory suffiently far in advance of Keny'as january hosting of the World Socila Forum that or networks can collaborate around humanity as one world citizen system of hi-trust orgasnaitional transparency and compound sustainability.

Here is how I tried to answer a question someone asked me earlier today on how could she verify whether social entreprenurs are truly doing what they say civil society needs to connect around, goodwill reality-politics if you will


I would like to answer your questions but I am not sure I understand what sort of verification exercise you are used to conducting, and maybe I coming from a different networking place with http://project30000.blogspot.com and our 30 years of scoring which entreprenurial revolutionaries are really doing stuff for humanity that I would be proud to storytell to my 9 year old daughter and her teachers http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com http://er100.blogspot.com

That said: if we visit the world's most experience network of social entrepreneurs - we will see that ashoka's 1500 members have a lifelong biography filed at http://www.ashoka.org; the site's navigation is a bit clunky but fairly easy if you are taking a country slice like Brazil (which the lady had mentined). It has 221 elected fellows http://www.ashoka.org/global/aw_la_brazil.cfm

It's my understanding that each member's defining lifelong project is filed at time they are elected in locally. So may be a bit out of date but confirms what their unique or grassrooted gravity was compared with the other 1500. However Ashoka works at various levels:

Once you are elected , your project is supported. Funds for those who live up to top social entrepreneur standards were once a problem but at the moment corporations with a future valuation are falling over themselves to go beyond the greenwash http://asinworld.blogspot.com
As an SE, you are expected particularly to network locally and by a mosaic theme - for example if yours is a people's health project, your mosaic would be a health for all projects jam as recently co-spondored by omidyar.net
Over the 30 years Bill Drayton has chartered the SE brand at least 15 of these mosaic clusters (an area omidyar is sponsoring at http://www.changemakers.net) have been discovered, as well some globalisation system-changing needs: his world academy prioritises how these revolutionary interventions are being waved with a team of 6 leaders sponsored by skoll and with these 16 dvds whose foci includes:
Brazil's focus due to Grajew in the 2 areas - corporation responsibilities for world sector visions being sustainable - eg the Toy industry should naturally colaborate around no exploitation of child workers and world social forum open spaces and civic movements; ...
other global social entrepreneur cheerleaders are Yunus Microfinance; Eigen end corruption and get the global compact on track with its 10 millennium principles by 2015; etc see omidyar thread http://www.omidyar.net/group/foodchain/news/87/or ashokastore thread http://www.ashokastore.org/store/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.display&page_id=18 click any of the 16 square icons for more details

As always my main focus is on banging networks heads together until they hurt, or better collaborate; if you find social entrepreneurs have a weakness (I know of one or two that I am trying to investigate!) tell me so I can try banging near an appropriate place with it; due to the monstrous over-expectations that Scots Blair and Brown created last year with G8 Make Poveryt History in Africa- Brits are quite happy to do a lot of banging of our governments heads over Africa at http://www.frappr.com/africamph - a question is does any other richer nation feel like giving their own public servants a head bang until they live up to their promises on Africa

UK Excercise: Debate whether Oxford is the most social entrpreneurial goodwilled city for humanity in Britian and why other cities are failing to stand up and collaborate around its lead.

Hey I love David Attenborough - transparency declaration: when I was a nine year old his son was in the same school class as me. But how on earth is it that the BBC's senior observational reporter on nature, has left it so long to come out and question climate change http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5012266.stm extract : Sir David:when we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing far more steeply than can be accounted for by the natural oscillation of the weather."

Sir David, whose distinguished broadcasting career spans more than half a century, says everyone has a responsibility to act: "What people (must) do is to change their behaviour and their attitudes.

"If we do care about our grandchildren then we have to do something, and we have to demand that our governments do something.

His comments came as a UK parliamentary body, the All-Party Environment Group, issued a report labelling the government a "climate laggard" for its record on reducing emissions.

Sir David, whose natural history programmes have been watched by millions of people around the world, is the latest high-profile figure to say the world is facing a climate crisis.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams; the government's chief scientist Sir David King, and former Royal Society president Sir Robert May have all expressed public concern on the issue.

This week, former US Vice President Al Gore (all, news) has been at the Cannes Film Festival to promote a documentary on climate change.

Mr Gore told festival goers that the world was facing a "planetary emergency" due to global warming.

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It is not David's fault that aftre 54 years as BBC's nature correspondent, but it is the disgrace of the BBC's system. Every journalist who could be capable of far the deepest questions of what's going on around humanity's world is muzzled by two forces:
never get into a political debate; this is the monopoly preserve of left versus right national politics. What XXXing nonsense; left versus right do not have any interest in the 10 greatest human crises impacting all peoples today; because like global warming they are worldwide and long term exponential crises where the people who are making 4 yearly left and right judgements within national bounadries are both the least rewarding and the least deep people on earth to want to hear a monopoly of answers from

the other muzzle is global business; that great externaliser of industry's deepest compound risk onto whatever community of people has least knowledge about the risk or can curry the least favours with the political powers that be

as a Scot I feel betrayed that the BBC funded by the peoples money should muzzle its deepest correspondents - the one's who can ask the biggest questions which the lives of our children most need open debates on; Tony Blair, who declares himself a media literate person, has to take the wooden spoon of shame (unless you have other nominations to post) for increasing the muzzle on the BBC - help us write to the governors and take back the BBC to be the world service for the people; and never muzzle a David again however greedy or speculative the golliaths may be

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resources:
algaeworld maps
macrae-nets - launching a new colaboration community to (log and lob) question the world needs answering every month
sustainable map co-edited by Scanadaniavia's most missionary sustainability entrepreneur
social entrepreneur olympics and changemakers world-for-all web jam contests
choose your club of city to collaboratively journalise for humanity out of
train up with Einstein's nomination of number 1 global village champion - your gandhi

Mr Missed Opportunity

One of the most insidious things about a prime minster who spends a whole term defending a war game is that it distracts the whole cabinet from investing in youth. I would fire all UK parties until they make sure that whatever else cabinets do they have 25% time on revolutionising education for all are young, to be the most inspiring cross-cultural invitation at every age from 9 to 16 our country's commun ities are capable of weaving. We need alterantive experiments to fine tune, but this pathway is vaguely right in the 30 years I have been keeping an eye on it. What's inexcusable is under Tony Blair not one top person in government has even epsent one day looking at this soirt of approach. Or if they have where are tyhe bookmarks and seeds for debate in every town; where is the BBC quiz on the sate of the nation's revolution in education.? Do tell me I am at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk or do pledge to write to governors of the BBC when I can find a thousand other parents or parents to be concerned to have the cross-culturale feredoms to explore how different education networks could be in the 21st C from the top-down examination systems we have inherited from 100 yrars ago.

1-2-3 of Learning how to become a star or the best you can be

1 Hunting for the terminology or those who are facilitating the practices of this

This is what excites me most about studies of (action) learning. But I don’t know the jargon- what terms do I need to search for educators who study or structure mentoring to help people achieve this. Where are the practice communities that I can listen to or converse in

2 Examples of who’s truly facilitating this are easy for me to spot

You want an example whose bookmark you can look at http://www.twlc.org/ – try the revolutionary apprenticeship format that Tiger Woods is experimenting with, and open sourcing
Less famous examples: are wherever someone in an inner city starts saying they want to see young hubs next to schools. That welcome adolescents cross-culturally and as project mobilisation centres where they help choose the projects. For example, Sofia’s teams aim to facilitate this in London –project Turn Up the Courage. http://searchtheresa.blogspot.com

What’s the best metric. Drucker’s colleagues at Claremont are nearest at this in my view. They measure what % of time is someone spending at the edge of experiences that improve their own deepest competences. I would hypothesise that if you can get a child and peers all having an intense experience of this for a few months (the self-confidence and discovery of a skill they can develop) then that’s the most magical piece in education for say a 10-15 year old. In this context facilitation processes like open space are the clearing house process you need to mix and match discovery and co-mentoring

Oddly when reality tv programmes are at their best , you get a brief glimpse of someone discovering their action learning exponential

3 How did I come 2?

In sports I was lucky to watch great amateurs developing – in tennis (I was born in Wimbledon and when I was 7 you could go down after school and watch amateurs developing). The only team I ever really loved spectating went all the way from amateur to top professional division. In theatre or talent contests, I have loved festivals eg Edinburgh or stages eg Rada and pub theatres in London where you can got and spot a start being born.

However, my first job was 3 years in the UK’s national development program in computer assisted learning 1973-1976. We did enough experiments for me to be convinced this is the great possibility of computers in learning. It ca free up a teacher’s time so they can study who’s great at what, and then put them on customised mentoring programs even if these need to involve a lot of personal tutoring at the confidence building stage before a kid can go off and search the knowledge, project experiences and mentors they need.

related resources:

http://universityofstars.blogspot.com

http://ninenow.blogspot.com/1999_12_01_ninenow_archive.html

http://www.frappr.com/younghubs

Governance Structure of A*B*C:
A)Sustainability*B)Transparency*C)Gravity of True Purpose

Q1 Is it possible to govern the A*B*C of the local and global networks of civil society without this molecular structure?

continue the debate and finetune the details at http://civil-society.blogspot.com or discuss with me at C.M.Macrae.72@cantab.net (CM1)

To celebrate today's start of the Social Entrepreneur World Championships (University of Oxford hosted by Skoll Foundation) we are starting a survey and campign for the inauguration of social entrepreneur olympics. Why should the deep pursuits of social entrepreneurs get any less media coverage than sports? Which SE arenas are you most excited by? Where do you get a chance to spread the word on how humanity's future depends on these greatest of all collaboration games? Do mail us at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you want any help in starting up a dialogue script on this (we're into our 22nd year of making connections)

chris macrae wcbn007@easynmet.co.uk

Breaking Views from ClubofLondon current #1 in collaboration knowledge city bookmarks (votes over 40 million)

This week saw world water day come and go with less than a ripple. Did Londoners know how they could have contributed more news on this around the world? no matter

Next week is arguably the biggest in the calendar for gifts to the world Londoners as number 1 collaboration knowledge city can start up, and make the next 6 years marathon of make poverty history connect all around the world

With Al Gore visiting the twin cities of London and Oxford, we cannot imagine a better time to Launch the Social Entrepreneur Olympics. The game is to have got 30 gravity pursuits of social entrepreneur world champions into the public consciousness by 2012 as much as the top 30 sports.

All we need is love and courage to cheerlead cross-cultural creativity's waves:

The Livingstone has got us off to a great start; he has declared there will be no sporting Olympics in London in 2012 unless they are carbon free - turn up the heat on every politician since only photosynthesis innovations can produce clean energy of that sustainability magnitude. Make sure all those who host Al Gore events debrief him as the clock to 2012 counts down

The lessons to be learnt from Make Poverty History from pop stars down can be an epiphany if University of Stars and the BBC turn their minds to the greater transparencies (eg end all country corruptions) needed if Make Poverty History is to be a reality network not just an image-making one

So that's 28 more gravity pursuits we need to celebrate around social entrepreneurs with as much gusto as the 20th Century hailed sporting stars

We are reminded of one Harrison Owen story I should tell because open spacing education is a social entrepreneur pursuit every family can stand up for whereas we cannot all help on the ground with projects in Africa or in the roofs that algae use to convert the sunshine into cleansing energy banks.

He was studying to be a priest around the Washington Dc area. It was a time when Martin Luther King was having a dream. Harrison can't recall quite how it happened but he was standing in a civil rights field in a crowd of African Americans - one tall lanky white man. The police were beginning to charge on the crowd and Harrison was feeling quite scared. That is until a 7 year old black girl came up to him - and said Mister will you hold my hand

Since that day, Harrison gave up the priesthood to the chagrin of most of his family. And is one of the handfuls of people who most interconnects conflict resolution facilitators around the world. Their networks criss-cross all religions that believe in golden rules of reciprocity such as so unto another what you want done unto you. They also connect mathematically - if Einstein is correct here at http://clubofdc.blogspot.com - to Gandhi as the greatest inventor of peaceful social entrepreneurial revolution that 144 years of The Economist's coverage of this most productive of all professions.

If some of this post makes sense to you, why not re-edit the parts you like and send it to the board of Governors of the BBC, and should you wish Tony Blair or another politician well with their legacy why not copy them in to. We the British people, not any of our political representatives own the BBC. We have invested way over 50 billion pounds in this corporation. On a personal note to all scots- may I ask whether you feel the inventor of television would feel proud of a television where every big debate is framed one dimensionally around short-term left and right rivals or whomever is looking fore a job with big business if the party does not turn out Trumps for their apprenticeship to network power.

It is high noon for the BBC with its 10 year licence determined by and for the people in the year of 2o06. Please could our world service be one of British Character we can feel both pride and humility in searching for. Please free your journalists for humanity to take a fearless lead in realising this open source script from 1984 , so that trust across peoples everywhere begins to flow through every documentary inquiry that has anything to do with world peace or nightly newscast on poverty's challenges through 2012 - and through these communications help the British to get to know 30 gravity pursuits of Social Entrepreneurs with as much joy and attention as the 30 sports it spend most public licence fees on. Hey when Brits helped to invent most of these sports we surely never intended they would take over from greater British realities of world service, through believing in CommonWealth principles and our Queen's higher order right to ask us as she did in her end of 2005 broadcast to unite in preventing globalisation from turning humanity on itself.

For the same of deeper democracy blossoming and connecting every coordinate on earth, you can also play a jigsaw mapping game aimed at sustaining 2 million global villages. Here's part of my family's tree which may open up some useful connections- what connections could your family tree or that of your peer networks open source. If you can make a "peer or family tree" picture why don't we play the mixed networking games of swap and snap. If we are going to turn around globalisation’s exponentials sustainably in time, we are all going to have to work with whatever grassroots community contexts up we can help each other navigate. No lead is too small as long as it is one you intend to gravitate transparently around as part of you lifelong learning mission. We need to help change children's education now so that the core human rights of freedom and happiness have a chance to breathe nature's clean waters, airs and energies everyone human beings sing her praises. Let's all turn up the courage through every family in the land and into wherever co-mentoring networks in internet space may take A B C D E F you

World's Biggest Secrets Archives? we would love to know what you think of them

where? http://clubofdc.blogspot.com
But if that's too far away! we can extract any relevant bits New Yorkers want in this blog)

What?
We've put a lot of time reviewing our 2 original sources for life-critical ideas that just don't seem to be getting leadership attention and list a few clues why?

source 1 Death of Distance - we wrote the first in this future history genre (now aka "world is flat") 22 years ago; lots that could have benefitted from 22 years work as forecast back in 1984 has barely started - eg 1984 billed 2000-2010 as world's most dangerous decade; we believed people would want photosynthesis abundant clean energy by now ( as innovations go its not a big problem to solve just a very contextually detailed one that could have been so much simpler if research had not been blocked until 2006's Union speech on ending petroleum addiction came out of the storm) ; we believed kids & sustainability of future generations deserved a total different education both in terms of curriculum (yes Augustine converted make science as fun as celebrity fashion) content and modalities of learning (less examining separte factors more training in how to network to find your own best embtors through life and help others likewise)

source 2 30 years old- Entrepreneurial Revolution Trilogy published by my father in The Economist; neither the word entrepreneur nor revolution is understood in the most valuable compounding senses; which is a pity because one way to make the world a better place is to extend the family tree of entrepreneurs into many different subspecies but that's not going to work whle we started with the wrong end of the stick of what E & R greatest leadership trusts are

If you do have time to visit http://clubofdc.blogspot.com our open source deal is - cut and paste anything you like to start conversations with; ask us questions here if relevant or at our worldwide roundmap at http://www.frappr.com/entrepreneur

Not sure if The Economist's cover is a bit premature to suggest we are into Blair's final days as PM

I suppose its never too early to play the game of what job will he do what to the world with next? After the outstanding examples of former top people being exemplified by Bill Clinton and Ireland's former President Mary Robinson, it really would be good it he'd pick up an old Scot's trail - David Livingstone - and have another go at helping Africa. Dream on McDuff, I hear you say

As long as he does not take a media job which in any way plays off against the BBC. That would be just one camel's broken back too many for my friends and I

There was last night an eyeopening Charlie Rose debate on US public sector tv on the war 3 years on. Well worth the 99 cents google replay if you love the peoples or Iraq.

further references mentioned on the program:
Assassin's Gate
Fukuyama
Brits have so much to atone for from Iraq and Palestine through to Africa regarding future blind decisions we made as we cashed out the chips of Empiredom. To have 80 years of mess compound from such artificial alotments of peopels and boundaries is a crying shame

a question to the 21st C: will those on top of the world leave the peoples to suffer through all the troubles?

The death of distance future history we wrote in 1984 (the final book of a trilogy whose first 2 episodes were published as surveys in The Economist 1976 1982 ) predicted the next decade would revolve round reconciling this risk. In a networked age the people at the top are not as smart as connecting what we could all observe, question, collectively knowledge work around.

If this decade 2000-2010 fails in this globalisation reconciliation, 1 we will have failed our children's generation and started mankind's destruction of the earth. Call that the George Orwell scenario or which ever scifi apocalypse tomorrow you have had the closets encounter with. If however we succeed in mapping a way through so that the top listen to the people and use media to ask the next big questions rather than to image over reality, then we forecast that the 21st C will be the age when humankind finally grows up in the greatest collaboration and civilisation imaginable.

OUR MISSIONS at MACRAE.NETS

WE will keep circulating our scripts on Death of Distance and Entrepreneurial Revolution for Open Debate wherever people sources linkin or netizens co-blog A B C D

We will develop a website valuetrue.com where all transparency communities are invited to map out hi-trust relationships and transparencies between the boundaries of one place and another, or one competitive corporation and another, or one management profession and another. We will update any trouble stories that appear in the hope that out of conflicts pattern rules higher order harmony can be facilitated. This reflects the number 1 learning about innovation and peace of open space in its first 50000 rehearsals that Harrison Owen's worldwide alumni began about the same time as we started issuing earth of distance debating scripts. May all your good's love unite around large scale people meetings wherever the souls and spirits are trying their best to love one another.

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valuetrue - a cross-sectional sample or troubles- March 2006
March 06 - ClubofPakistan continues to search through how the world could help with people's desperate needs; we hear a lot from Spiral Dynamists and Integral System theorists but clearly their roadshow in Denmark a few years back didn't nurture enough worldwide understanding among the media and cartoon communities; system mapmakers have no business to offer methods that do not open up interfaces with other system methods in cross-cultural ways; we applaud Brainjams for its intent to move its open space roadshow on the deepest possibilities of silicon valley and web2.1 to disadvantaged cities, New Orleans next stop; Oh Paris you are the love and terror of my life and Brussel Sprouts are the one food whose knowledge you are the worst in the world maitre D'

OPEN SPACE RACES
FRAP! & globalcharters: we are starting to map the who's concerned who of waves all over the world - clean energy, education, knowledge, brand
August 05 - Sarajevo's story from Paul -Thank you. I have been here for three days. It is one of the most intense places I have ever been. Sarajevo is itself exquisitely beautiful, with architecture dating from the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires while at the same time everywhere the scars of war are evident. Also, everyone has a story of pain. Together, it is almost too much to bear. The task of reconciliation is certainly a massive one!

Appreciating other's places

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How we announced MyWorldAtlas to The Open Space Community whose shared listserve is as inquisitive for humanity's sake as any yet known to valuetrue transparency communities and ASIN emerging at BBCican.

I have been piloting this systemic construct's components for quite a long while now, and feel confident enough to expose it to your advice. Doubtless it needs huge improvement. I have long believed an open networking world needs a whole new atlas to take economics above zero-sum extraction - our dream journey begins at global university with helping people to develop a different map for every humanitarian agenda that replicates globally but requires active resolution locally. Oddly, as I begin to network professionally with sustainabilty investment analysts - defined to be those whose prime concern is mathematically quantifying future exponentials - I believe that service and knowledge community businesses could learn from this paradigm too. See through maps of how key relationships of productivities and demands win-win-win make a company's most attractive (unique founding) purpose sustainable if it a company is prepared to make its reputation an open gateway to better futures for as many people as possible (an old fashion view of why people commit working lives to organisation). This seems to be acutely true in transformation contexts needing appreciation of Harrison's Triple-C : Conflict-Chaos-Confusion template for reconciliation. The first component of MyWorldAtlas is literally to issue an invitation to a person or people in a network who appear to have a common gravity that I would hope to mutually multiply trust around. In issuing such invitations, its often unclear who needs to co-mentor who first- that is part of the exploration permit or open space dialogue. I am sure, since Open Spaces are the greatest invitation gatherings around, you could edit a better invitation but the one our (1) MyWorldAtlas network uses currently is approximately this Typical Co-Navigation Opening Offer Between Deep Context MyWorldAtlas Cartographers The more I read of your ideas and concerns , the more I would like to work as virtual partners on a deep joint project By a deep issue context I mean: any one that you will be passionate about over the next 7 years and need some joint open searching, linking, promotion, facilitation, action project prooftesting and global replication. I don't particularly mind whether a nomination is commercial or wholly humanitarian as long as it does not close off collaborative learnings and transparency work I try to do with many others and other networks. The bigger the challenge the better as long as you know some of your time/passion will compound around its action learning curve. I have been piloting a rough idea which I call MyWorldAtlas that I can illustrate better to show how to iteratively connect around a context, but I would need to hear or rehearse with you what the deepest context you are interested in from where you observe and experience life and sustainable value development. One reason why big actually helps me is that I mail coordinators of powerful networks with expressions of interest of people I link with giving them a menu which test out whether their network is actually up for action. One example of a target I want to test over the next 6 weeks is (3) clintonglobalinitiative.com - I get to hear of a new one of these almost monthly, and whilst I expect 11 out of 12 won't listen, (4) At Interlocal I later publish the gist of the letters I wrote and so discover who is prepared to work all the way with the people everyplace and who is just in a summit world of their own kind any players? chris macrae , wcbn007@easynet.co.uk - London & Washington DC, Project30000

Our official journalist biographer of Transparency Mapping's first 5 years of learning from all our communal members has just sent me a complete draft of chapters.

If you want to peak at some, say which

1 Intro 235k

2 Maps & Mapping 646k

3 The Secret of Mediocrity 219k

4 Millennium Bug 76k

5 Dog that didn't bark 638k

6 Mind Forged Manacles 838k

7 Building momentum 712k

8 Some outline maps 855k

We ask that however short, you post a comment back to us after reading any chapter. Your comments will not be named anywhere unless we receive your permission

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Can we simultaneously learn from New Orleans, 77/7, Tsunami, 9/11...? We profile New Orleans here because it may have the most learning loops all the way down from superpower to communities whose fragility may be cause by nature's extremities on man's more selfish divides compounded over many periods of government. In most situations, we have local disaster clubs continuing action learning and regeneration from their epicentre of crisis- ask wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you want or can help guiding transparent learning from these situations. Thanks

Exploring New Orleans Future : Doublequotes is full of tense clues

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Sep 16, 2005 — President Bush said Friday that the Gulf Coast must be rebuilt with an eye toward wiping out the persistent poverty and racial injustice plain to all in the suffering of the black and the poor in Hurricane Katrina's wake.

"As we clear away the debris of a hurricane, let us also clear away the legacy of inequality," Bush said during a national prayer service with other political leaders and religious figures from the affected region at the National Cathedral."

Also Friday, White House officials said that taxpayers will pay the bill for the massive reconstruction program for the hurricane ravaged-Gulf Coast and that the huge expense will worsen the nation's budget deficit.

Before Bush's remarks, Bishop T.D. Jakes, head of 30,000-member Potter's House church in Dallas, delivered a powerful sermon in which he called upon Americans to "dare to discuss the unmentionable issues that confront us" and to not rest until the poor are raised to an acceptable living standard.

"Katrina, perhaps, she has done something to this nation that needed to be done," Jakes said. "We can no longer be a nation that overlooks the poor and the suffering, that continues past the ghetto on our way to the Mardi Gras."

Bush, faced with continuing questions about whether help would have been sent more quickly to the storm zone if most victims had not been poor and black, echoed those themes in his brief remarks.

"Some of the greatest hardships fell upon citizens already facing lives of struggle, the elderly, the vulnerable and the poor," he said. "As we rebuild homes and businesses, we will renew our promise as a land of equality and decency and one day Americans will look back at the response to Hurricane Katrina and say that our country grew not only in prosperity but in character and justice."

vt says- lets make as start with some Washington DC cafe circles (and share ideas across other cities like London &...) discussing these intents and also survey what are the most valued humanity networks that invite volunteers to activate thier joint concerns

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Top Billing for Grassroots Testimonies eg this - please email wcbn007@easynet.co.uk others of similar depth or diversity

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The Washington Post of Sept 11 carried a complete calendar of breakdowns between all major organisations in the first 2 weeks of Katrina's disaster. Even more clearly than the tragedy 4 years earlier, this shows how the prosperity of human beings everywhere is declining unless we can learn to value transparency as the new vital dynamic of our networked globe and communities everywhere.

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valuationUSA
What if we explore governing America transparently: as a network of states where people's cultures flourish- we feel that a more human way can be found of sustaining states like Louisiana and cities like New Orleans than today's short-term power-brokering. We have a dream perhaps, but backed up by networking economics we began work on in 1984 that cherishes community-up transparency and enabling people to make a difference and seeks to resolve conflicts of sustainability systemically ahead of time. If this might be a discussion group you want to be in join our egroup valuationUSA here.

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In our networked worlds and interlinking economies & societies 1 2 3 4 5, over-reliance on one system’s command and controls is every being’s greatest risk.

What do New York, New Orleans, Phuket Island, London, Baghdad & Various African States have in common? Were they one-offs or will their compound root causes recur in other cities (or geographically people-tied places)?

Quite simply, we can see that all these geographies of citizen networks (aka societies) were devastated by terrifying acts of man or nature. Some unprepared for a single destructive stroke, many degraded by compounding distrust or short-term monetisation.

Analyse these system crises more deeply for common patterns - and warn yourself by asking would you want your family's future to rely solely on 20th C -pre-networked, pre-global&local - ideologies like these:

National governance – much more local contextual resilience is needed

Nightline, ABC Sept 1: To hear federal & local authorities discuss the plight of New Orleans today is to know that one is seriously out of touch or incapable of confronting the truth

Left versus right short-term constitutions of voting and mass media soundbiting – investment decisions that truly could have saved or ameliorated situations were long-term, structural ; not just about money but deeper human relations investments such as trust in human cooperation, open spaces and learning curves of social capital, cultural harmony and trust as money.

Valuing global corporations' future impacts separately from local societies- any state that perpetuates this governance error will depressingly make globalisation less & less human

Blocking Interlocal exchanges of learning across networks that go beyond national or other geographical boundaries- for example, as human beings are composed mainly of water, we should demand education about whole system learnings to do with water and climate ecologies. Make sure these go beyond nations and other geographical boundaries-indeed when a network of systems times systems sustains the overall value or health being compounded over time, boundary separation is like any other apartheid the area of greatest human risk.

Ignoring nature's cultural order: healthy society is a necessary condition for compounding strong economic growth and sustaining learning cultures, not vice versa

Utellus other learnings from these or other world’s citizens most urgent concerns for humanity

Open Networks that can help share pattern rules of World Citizen Simultaneity include:

Simpol ...1

Global Reconciliation Network...1

Open Space Alumni

Life Synthesis- Photosynthesis Energy Inventor Network

Verna Allee's Expert Alumni of Value Exchange Theory -one of the core advances in valuation/network economics understanding around which all valuetrue cartography and compound risk reduction auditing is based

Tomorrows Global Company

Royal Society of Arts cafe propagating dialogues -most current being : Global Citizenry & Sustainability

European Knowledge Management Survey openly sponsored by Emotional Intelligence Networks on the 5 productive multiplying systems of the companies that are best for sustaining the world and human trust-flows
Utellus of other networks or ask for guiding links around the networks tables

Utellus of summits where top people most need to include the systemic patterning intelligence in their action planning or media informing

September 05

Clinton’s Global Initiative

Tomorrow Global Company’s Wilton Park & Global Compact Networking

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Citizens testimonies worldwide -Utellus who to feature

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1 Sept 2005- UK Channel 4 Snowmail:

New Orleans: Anarchy hits US storm relief
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The news out of New Orleans is getting harder to believe every hour. The world's only superpower seems to have lost control of the situation. Thousands of people are still stranded without food, water or medicine. Tens of thousands more homeless.

Lawlessness is spreading around the city with police and national guard trying to control things but ambulances and rescue helicopters have been shot at by armed thugs. Those stranded at centres like the sports stadium are in appalling conditions with grim sanitation and supplies. There are attempts to get a few thousand people a day out of the city as the Mayor has ordered the forced evacuation of everyone, but it is pitifully slow and the people have little or nothing to go to. As for the bodies - there is still no reliable estimate of those dead. But now the Mayor and a senator have put it in the thousands.

People are starting to ask whether or not the warning and evacuation was mishandled. If people are being forced to leave now then why not at the weekend before Katrina struck? And there are increasing voices emerging about the warnings that were ignored.

Federal funds were denied to strengthen the levees. Was America so obsessed with fighting terror that it forgot what homeland security really means? And does the demographic breakdown of those worst hit - predominantly poor and black have anything to do with how little was done to help them?

It is worth noting that George Bush's new chief of Homeland Security was out launching September as National Preparedness Month. You couldn't make it up. --------------------
Sept 1 New Orleans mayor speaking on radio: I've spoken to them all from George Bush down. I keep hearing help is coming- this is BullShit man, I ask where’s the beef? We need Greyhound Buses form everywhere, they offer a few school buses. There's too much small thinking- I am saying this may the biggest catastrophe ever seen in a modern American city. Let me tell you there is one John Wayne character I trust a General Honore. He's the one gift the nation's top has sent us. I want him to have all the operating authority, then we could perhaps save some people.

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How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

"It is seldom, in the modern day, that one comes across a book with an impact like 'Collapse - how societies choose to fail or survive', by Jared Diamond (an Allen Lane imprint of Penguin books, 2005. HBK ISBN 0-713-99286-7; PBK ISBN 0-713-99862-8). Diamond combines the most rigorous research with a light and engaging writing style that turns this potentially weighty topic into an informative and delightful read. He charts the lessons of past societies such as those of the Easter, Pitcairn and Henderson Islands, the Maya, the Vikings in Greenland, and Papua New Guinea. He contrasts these with modern experiences in Montana (USA), Rwanda, Haiti, China, and Australia. Diamond then provides a compelling synthesis and puts forward practical suggestions as to what governments, corporations and individuals can do to learn from the past and thereby endeavour to secure the best possible future for our world. I thoroughly recommend this book as a thought-provoking read".

William GORDON, co-author of Brand Manners (John Wiley, 2001)

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Tales of 2 Cities

New Orleans News Wires (Several links require free registration to Boston Globe) Katrina's death toll will be way above 9/11 Sept 2 CNN news : Unconfirmed 100 perish in one place while 1500 wait to be bussed-Governor of Louisiana broadcasts today's biggest question: what can we do when network of civilisation falls apart? Journalists report reaching places days before National Guards, Red Cross & Other Resources on US Homeland Security. Convention centre testimony: there is genocide going on around here. Journalist: authorities are using responses designed for the aftermath of a terrorism attack and finding that response needed to a natural catastrophe is wholly different. From catastrophe to chaos: Gunfire, corpses left in the open, and a slow exodus out Analysis: Politicians failed storm victims Katrina will have broad economic reach Foreign governments line up to help after Katrina Miss. struggles to deal with dead bodies New Orleans doctors plead for help Congress to vote on $10B Katrina package Americans open homes to refugees Senate approves $10.5B in hurricane aid Gasoline supplies tighten, prices rise Fats Domino apparently rescued by boat Sewage in floodwaters carries disease From web report of B Kirkman:issues that led to the tragedy in New Orleans will become apparent: 1. After 9/11 the Federal Emergency Management Agency shifted from 75% of its efforts being focused on natural disaster planning, preparation and drills to 75% being terrorism event reaction grants administration and terrorism event planning and preparation. Despite what one might think, there is little overlap between the two kinds of events. There has been a major departure of experienced FEMA managers with knowledge in natural disasters due to the focus on terrorism, and their replacement by terrorism experts. 2. All across the US there is a terrible lack of coordination in issues related to flood control projects between the Federal, state and local government. There is also a lack of coordination between the construction of projects and their day-to-day operational management. In particular, in Louisiana is up to local officials to decide if volunteers will be recruited to stay in flood control stations when major storms approach, at the risk of of the volunteers dying if the stations are destroyed. New Orleans did not ask for such volunteers. Adjoining suburban areas did. The volunteers in adjoining areas were able to activate back-up generators and keep pumps working that helped to avoid catastrophic flooding in the suburbs. In New Orleans the stations were unmanned. The power went out -> the pumps went off ... 3. There had been proposals for over 20 years to build stronger flood control stations and barriers in the New Orleans area. It was not supported by short-term taxation logics. 4. The evacuation plans were all designed on individuals and families driving their own cars out of New Orleans. No consideration was made for the approximately 20% of the city that was dependent on public transportation. No one with knowledge of public transportation usage was involved in designing the evacuation plan until it was very late.

London Former teaching assistant turned bomber slaps the policy of British Prime Minister Edgware bomber kills marketing genius who tried to save the world 1 London becomes test case for future of all open multicultural cities Discuss RSA Speaker's Papers: Sustainability - Discussion Global Citizen - Discussion Restore every person's voice to World's Largest Public Broadcaster

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In 2002, The New Orleans Times featured a 5-part award winning series written by John McQuaid & other journalists: Surging water is a huge threat to New Orleans. The Red Cross says that there will be a very high death toll if a levee breaks unless all citizens are evacuated in time- something more than likely if a category 4 hurricane hits New Orleans directly. Update CNN Sept 2 interview with McQuaid: the response we needed to this problem requires sustained attention and investment from every level of authority. Clearly that response was not achieved within the 3 years since this report.

UK Channel 4 Sept 5: This is the biggest displacement of people since the American Civil War and it must have political consequences as the people are being scattered across the US.

US Washington Post: Sept 8 - Leaders Lacking Disaster Experience- how FEMA's top became jobs for the boys

The New Space Races of Bush 2.1

FEB06, blairband: Come back to Washington Tony - a new American Revolution is happening - one that could change your legacy for ever if you help join all Brits aboard

Take a quick virtual trip to Bethesda or have a look at the bottom section of the revolution being planted across Europe now peoples of 25 countries are simultaneously waking up to how their piublic funds have been misinvested in machines before people, an everpresent danger while politicians suck up to the kind of global accounting system that denies the beginning of service and learning economies by insisting that machines can be entered into the boardroom's books as invetsments but that people are always costs, never investments. ( Dear Tony - if you could change such Humpty Dumpty rules of corporate goverance tomorrows global company would be worthy of people's lifetimes instead of a system for deskilling and robbing society of pensions and trust in innovation and science)



Intro: Which of these connected coordinates of open productivities of knowledge and work do you want to cross-examine first:

K1*(individual being) K2*(group being - eg team)K3*(one systems gravity of leadership) K4* (global business sector's future for all peoples) K5* (how sustainability of local societies interacts with global sectors)

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The Networks of Messrs DeSkilling .. tell us at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk which searches you most value in this blog eg Drucker Love Commonwealth .. Are European leaders announcing any space races as revolutionary and imaginative as those of President Bush (version 2006)?

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How the EU turned against Human KM -a case study in compounding economic destruction by investing in machines and power, whilst cutting down people and transparent networks.

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Most of my learning (or knowledge exploring) around the value multipliers of peoples economics comes from reading my father's thousands of leaders at The Economist- many of these are freely useable today (eg the death of distance series are causing a new American Revolution as you click, whereas the Entrepreneurial Revolution catalogue were used as early as 1976 by Romano Prodi in leadership roundtables across Italy) to open up future history debates we could describe that flow into this weblog as being inspired by what Drucker meant by knowledge work and co-working and social ecology and against the kind of manager who empires over people with the IT budget or spreadsheeted numbers. Then my mother's family brings several generations of links with medicine and constitution of India and British Raj - not least that she would have been classified as Indian not British in nationality if my grandfather hadn't been responsible for doublechecking integrity of the constitutional laws which Britain drafted for India's independence. Kemp and Kemp: My mother's brother was also a lawyer whose crust was earned as a mediator of big business disputes; but whose hobby -or passion for good law - was to write up the precedents of compensation for people who suffered lifelong personal injury's. One of David's last crusades for individual rights provides the networking lead that unseated the British Lord Chancellor who almost destroyed personal injury compensation because his own understanding of compound arithmetic of lifetime costs was not as future-deep as it needed to be. Strangely to my mathematician's eyes for truth-testing connectivity: it is this misunderstanding of exponentials and potential risks to humanity due to compound loss of transparency mapping that is the weakest link and today globalization's greatest people risk wherever we cannot see wholy enough because lawyer or economist failed to sustain the highest trust by imposing rules that may have perfectly fit their past but were mathematically wrong to try to be precise about for evolving all our future's goodwill.
Others may want to understand the more nuanced leadership dialogues of 30 years of debates around Entrepreneurial Revolution (watch out for 2006 30th birthday parties, or help co-create one); Death of Distance network wires and future history scripts (22nd year young including humanity's sustainability Project30000 being collaboratively co-edited by bloggers at Club of Village * City * Country); or are latest professional work of goodwill mapping of global sector exponentials (where the future is upcurving or downcurving) due to contextually fit governance connecting the trust-flow of intangibles, network transparency across organisational boundaries, and global*local sustainability interactions which require a simultaneous end to economics of externalities being indulged by every top 10000 organisation. These are all dynamics that value exchange 1 2 mapping of valuetrue trasnparency communities can open source around any global industry context or network leader.Hi-trust investment over a generation returns 100 fold to investors but only by multiplying ever more value for society.

Blair Scrooge, Brussels Sprout - 8.2 billion pounds for an Xmas Brussels wave of milk, but nowt for the poor of the world

When we map the decaying exponentials of globalisation's impoversihment of Third of World (and consequent destruction of humanity) yes of course every Brit should have joined in surrendering 2.7 bn +5.5 billion pounds if that was the price to pay so that world trade of agricultural policies spun viciously out of Brussels & Paris were transformed for ever so that poor countries like Africa could trade what they grow instead of being drowned by all the butter mountains, milk waves, and 100 other food dumps that mad cows and slefish politicians compound.

But instead : is 8.2 billion pounds being given away in the Blair Band's latest need for partying with leaders? in spite of 8 years of terrifying choices of leaders partied with? Does there come a time when glory me image-making is a treason to the world if not to Britain? This breach seems nigh, unless early reports of lack of any change in paris and brussels's agricultural intent are wrong, in which case Tony you are a boy genius. You can be sure that Intercitizens will be watching- 21 years on the beyond nations revolution cannot come to soon for some -or many - of us ordinary beings.

Of cabbages and kings

With thanks to Lewis and the lucid interpreter here, sometimes the only innoculation to global madness is local fantasy

English logician, mathematician, and novelist, best-known for his classic fantasy novels ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865) and its sequel THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS, AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE (1871). Carroll used the surrealistic settings of his fantasy world to question the commonly accepted ways of thinking. Unlike other children's books of the time, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland did not try to teach a moral message. Carroll also wrote poetry which have remained open to all explanations of meaning.

--"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "because I'm not myself, you see."
--"I don't see," said the Caterpillar.
--"I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly," Alice replied very politely, "for I can't understand it myself top begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing."
--"It isn't," said the Caterpillar.
(from Alice in Wonderland)
Lewis Carroll was born at Daresbury in Chesire into a wealthy family. He attended a Yorkshire grammar school and Rugby. At Christ Church, Oxford, he studied mathematics and worked from 1855 to 1881 as a lecturer (tutor). Carroll also wrote humorous verse, such as The Hunting of the Snark and mathematical works. And he was a rather exceptional student of Aristotelian logic.

During one picnic - on July 4, 1862 - Carroll started to tell a long story to Alice Liddell (died in 1934), who was the daughter of Henry George Liddell, the head of his Oxford college. The Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was born from these tales. - (SEE ALSO: Other adventures inside the Earth - Giacomo Casanova's Icosameron, 1788; Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth.) The story centers on the seven-year-old Alice, who falls asleep in a meadow, and dreams that she plunges down a rabbit hole. She finds herself first too large and then too small. She meets such strange characters as Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the King and Queen of Hearts, and experiences wondrous, often bizarre adventures, trying to reason in numerous discussions that do not follow the usual paths of logic. Finally she totally rejects the dream world and wakes up.

The sequel Through the Looking Class, appeared in 1871. It is perhaps more often quoted than the first, featuring the poems Jabberwocky and The Walrus and the Carpenter. The artist John Tenniel refused to illustrate one chapter in Through the Looking Class because he thought that it was ridiculous. The chapter was published later in 1872 as The Wasp in a Wig. Carroll himself always wished to be an artist and as a boy he illustrated all the manuscript magazines, which he made for his younger brothers and sisters. Carroll's original drawings for Alice's Adventures Underground were published in 1961.

The author's life and work has become a constant area for speculation and his exploring of the boundaries of sense and nonsense has inspired a number of psychological studies and novels - and perhaps also the famous English philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. The humor of Joseph Heller's famous war novel Catch-22 (1961) is much in debt to Lewis. In Catch-22 the story centers on the USAF regulation, which suggests that willingness to fly dangerous combat missions must be considered insane, but if the airmen seek to be relieved on grounds of mental reasons, the request proves their sanity. The same laws dominate the Wonderland: "'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'"

Modern physicists have often compared the world of Lewis Carroll with the incredible phenomena of quantum reality - such as cats that are both alive and dead at the same time ('Schrödinger's cat') or with particles that change their identities for no apparent reason. They are against Alice's common sense: 'I can't believe that!' said Alice. '... one can't believe impossible things. But the White Queen has her own principles: "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.' (from Through the Looking Glass)

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax -
Of cabbages - and kings -
And why the sea is boiling hot -
And whether pigs have wings."
(from 'The Walrus and the Carpenter')

sorry about the mess- here's that part of blairband1.0

sorry about the mess- here's that part of our blairband 1.0 -what we've been able to retrieve since Google melted down 100 of our blogs today -not all liknks below here are repaired yet!

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1 The white band is the worldwide symbol of makepovertyhistory 1..2 To Be or Not to BeWhich story willthe future remember Blair for?(or tell us another)
LEFTMr Blair armed up for joininggreatest band in every townIt made poverty history.Blair's contributions for Africawere the best a Brit(actually a Scot)did since Livingstone
RIGHTBlair Met Bush at 1...B said to B 2...B replied to B 3...B&B did 4...The World Said 5...Consequences were 6...based on the Englishgame of "Consequences"
Sunday, December 31, 2006

To Be or Not to BeWill the left or the right be the way the future remembers Blair?(or tell us another future history )PS please feel free to fill out Q&A 1-6 a worldwide story of the way we were
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Friday, December 02, 2005

Updates from Global University on Prime Minister Singh's 50 years economics research into Underclass Reconciliation
Literature & practice review of social maps of Make Poverty History tracked worldwide over 3 , 25, 50, 75 years by Future Historians 1 2 , Economists and Other Systemic Visualisers
First a live case Catalytic Communities and the only one that is connected with internet execution - if anyone has advice at any time on how to fine tune www.catcomm.org - a gift to the world from Brazil, please say (to group or me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk) I am doing pro bono work on this one as part of Global University of Poverty's interests http://www.valuetrue.com/home/community.cfm?startrow=25&intClassID=-1
My overall deadline on this and other stuff in this post is 2007 when I hope to report back to the worldwide meeting of Gandhi alumni being hosted by the Indian government to celebrate one of his conflict resolution theory's landmarks
The valuetrue.com bookmark also explains the origins of a journalistic research circle founded at The Economist London into make extreme poverty history globally one the internet evolves with the final deadline being 2010 as discussed in our 1984 book. Of course we never have a complete plan, but we have been looking for systemic pieces of this jigsaw of which about 100 interfacing components are openly catalogued. They also overlap with an English view of Drucker's lifelong areas of advocacy including social ecologist, knowledge work privititisation,... My father was eg in Russia in the mid 30s the same time as Peter, or born in nearby cities, as well as following a 10-year younger career path that asked the similar big questions as a writer on very long and big learning curves (such as webbing every local society's ethical right to participate in global networking, and ensuring as far as humany possible that too large power in one man's hands never corrupts or blow us all up especilally as agency of mass destruction become distributed by this here net or nature's destabilised waves http://theageofwaves.blogspot.com )
Going back 50 years, my father studies of economics at Cambridge University almost overlapped with the Indian Prime Minister Singh (12 years my father's younger). In a recent alumni letter of Cambridge University, Prime Minister Singh renewed his appeal for the number 1 agenda of our life and times - how to ensure that no nation compounds an underclass. My father recognises how Prime Minster Singh has been working on that economics and social theory for 50 years - incliuding corectly being very critical of the teachers of social economics in Cambridge 50 years ago. The relevance of this research goes through the doube caste system of India's Untouchable & Britain Upper Class raj, to terrible compound consequences on nomads http://nomadworld.blogspot.com, to today's tensions between East Muslim and Western Bush*Cheney*Blairs. But even if you support one side on that, you can also see Underclasses exposed by katrina's nature or paris's riots. Or the need for microfinance many areas of womenworld (1) or children world with dire need for deep democracy in many African communities where parents have been cut down by HIV. Utter compound failure or risks of waves and by performance management of global knowledge of economic and political constitutions of many nations as well as United Nations.
75 years ago we have as good a body of knowledge on truth testing, trust protocol infrsatructures of sustainability investment in grassroots commmunities as has even been produced - author Mahatma Gandhi. Some may know that no less than Einstein appraised this work as mathematically and practically outstanding http://valuegandhi.blogspot.com
If you know of any institutes around the Washington DC regions particularly who might want to double check that our 75 year breakthrough sources and theirs connect in some deep way, I would love to hear of that. Again I can swap with you the list of instritutes my father or I have already contacted on this matter at top levels of coordination. As well as provide a list of co-reviewers of my father's work which amongst others have included a younger Romano Prodi who translated 1976 Entrepreneurial Revolution into Italianhttp://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com
http://www.normanmacrae.com/friends.html
http://globalnow.blogspot.com
http://therebeleconomist.blogspot.com
sincerely
chris macrae, London & DC ( 301 881 1655)
wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

What Noble Cause?Words and music by John SchaeferWas it love?Was it trust?Was it Freedom or justYour compassion?Was it rights for all womenOr choice of religionOr peace?Was it hope?Was it faith?Was it honor or graceThat compelled you?Was it prayers to Our Father in HeavenWho taught us to love one another?Well I must tell you, sir, That I don’t see these things in your actions.And I don’t understand Where you’re leading this landTell me, pleaseChorus:What Noble Cause did they die for?What Noble Cause do I now cry for?And What Noble Cause did you lie for?Why did you lie?Why did they die?Well you talk about familyAs your children partyIn safety.While ignoring a motherWhose son gave his life At your whim.And I must tell you, sir, That the families you’ve broken are angryAnd together they standAt your fence and demand A replyChorusReply to this motherIn her noble causeCopyright © 2005 John SchaeferCredits:John Schaefer: vocals, music and lyrics for What Noble Cause?My talented friends:Thomas Symczak: our awesome guitaristDarren Otero: fantastic rhythm section (bass and drums)Lynn Kowal: Produced and Recorded WNC for Curly Girl Music Studios, West Hollywood, CA http://curlygirl.com/Nancy Matter, Moonlight Mastering: Expert MasteringMatt Kennerson: Web Design for Flash Enhanced DesignEric Yang: Additional DesignRay Indolos: Pencil SketchGwen Young: Publicity and Communications Consulting, Young Communications, Inc. www.youngcomms.com.
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Sunday, October 30, 2005

Beyond Branding (oct 30 issue) Commentary on Blair:Global accountants and those professions who have sold out their business cases to this power have become short-term spreadsheeting's masters of untruth and unfairness, and as Ackoff explains when professionals stick to a decaying system instead of bridging to the new one, the harder they try to be perfect in the old way the more damage they do. In particular, they divorce leaders at the top of big organisations from having true information to make the riskiest decisions.This applies to all forms of largest organisations on earth from global corporations to national governments.As thousands of simpol netwoorkers ask : please let's suspend monopoly rule by left versus right judgement. Instead, why not review whether your national leader's recent train of decison-making has helped or hindered the most risky situations your citizens and ours have found systemised around them. For example in Britain, our Mr Blair career-built as a most brilliant media actor, unfortunately this is precisely what we don’t need the more true information needs distributing for all the people to work with. Londoners did not need 7/7 while he was hosting Gleneagles. Britons did not need the BBC muzzled while B&B wargamed. if Mr Blair tries through peeked pride or Murdoch to pollute the BBC's licence (and 50 billion pound investment in world service by the British people) he will need to be impeached. But otherwise we all forgive him, its the system that's gone so terrifyingly wrong not the man's intended people missions. He is as far as we can see a good man gasping for clean air in a polluted badwill system of globalsiation that all peoples including our royals and our religious ones must help him turn round.It is not Tony's fault, all his decisions at the top of power are being spun by the old system instead of the new. This fable is being simultaneously replayed in our connected world through an estimated 90% and rising of the world's 1000 largest organsaitional idnetities. Devaluing the 21st C's integrity as sustainability as you read this.
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Monday, September 19, 2005

Tony Blair est-il un homme de Rupert Murdoch? Voilà une question intéressante Belgium18 septembre 2005 — Il arrive qu’un coin du voile soit levé, souvent par inadvertance ou indifférence, parfois par maladresse, parfois par légèreté — parfois même par provocation? C’est le cas (le coin du voile levé) avec l’affaire de Tony Blair vilipendant la BBC pour sa couverture soi-disant “anti-américaine” de Katrina, pour l’oreille complaisante de Rupert Murdoch. (Quant à la raison : inadvertance ou indifférence, maladresse, légèreté, sadisme ou provocation, la question reste ouverte.) L’incident? Selon The Observer : « Tony Blair has denounced the BBC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina as 'full of hatred of America' and 'gloating' at the country's plight, it was reported yesterday. Blair allegedly made the remarks privately to Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, which owns the rival Sky News. » Plus loin, The Observer donne des précisions qui permettent de mesurer le caractère extraordinaire de cette intervention de Murdoch : « Murdoch, a long-standing critic of the BBC, was addressing the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York. Chuckling, he said: “I probably shouldn't be telling you this” before recounting a recent conversation with Blair. He said the Prime Minister was in New Delhi when he criticised BBC coverage of the catastrophe in New Orleans: “He said it was just full of hatred of America and gloating at our troubles.” » (Dans le reste de son article, The Observer cite surtout des journalistes ou proches de la BBC, qui réfutent les accusations d’anti-américanisme lancées par Blair contre la BBC, pour la couverture de Katrina.) The Independent d’aujourd’hui a, pour sa part, un solide ensemble de textes sur l’incident, mais surtout sur ses ramifications dans le passé. La même version de l’incident par The Independent met en évidence le caractère étonnant de l’intervention de Murdoch (« In an extraordinary disclosure that will acutely embarrass Mr Blair, the world's most powerful media mogul revealed details of a private conversation that took place in New York on Thursday. »). Elle nous renforce accessoirement dans la nécessité de nous interroger sur les motifs, ou simplement la cause de l’intervention de Murdoch qui met dans l’embarras le plus grand un homme qui, à son poste de Premier ministre du Royaume-Uni, lui est fort utile. Nous pencherions, peut-être nous-mêmes par goût de la provocation, pour une explication passant notamment par la provocation, en gardant l’indifférence en seconde explication : c’est à mesure de l’estime que Murdoch doit porter à la conscience morale du Premier ministre britannique. Dans un autre article qui prend prétexte de cet incident pour en proposer les ramifications, The Independent lève son coin du voile à lui sur le personnage de Tony Blair et ses rapports avec Murdoch : « It may have been a throwaway remark during a private conversation with Rupert Murdoch, but what Tony Blair said about the BBC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina speaks volumes about where the Prime Minister's loyalties lie. » Not with the publicly funded BBC, an old established corporation that has served Great Britain through peace and war — obviously. » There are, rather, two transatlantic special relationships that have dominated Tony Blair's 11-year leadership of the Labour Party. One is with the US government; the other is with the naturalised US citizen Rupert Murdoch. » Cette affaire doit d’abord nous rappeler que le New Labour (Blair, Brown, Mandelson, etc.) est sans aucun doute, au Royaume Uni, l’ensemble politique le mieux pénétré et le plus manipulé par les réseaux d’influence américains, — plus même que les conservateurs. On pourrait même avancer que l’arrivée du New Labour (l’élimination, au milieu des années 1990, de la vieille structure et direction du parti travailliste traditionnel, son remplacement par les “jeunes loups” type-Blair, admirateurs de Clinton et partisans de la communication) est finalement une création entièrement américaniste, directement ou par l’influence, pour éliminer une force d’éventuel freinage, pourtant bien tiède, (*) de la politique pro-américaine du Royaume-Uni. (Pour avoir une documentation sur la chose, il faut relire un texte détaillé du magazine Wake-Up, texte présent sur ce site.) The Independent, qui estime manifestement tenir, avec cette affaire, un méchant baton contre Blair et (surtout) Murdoch, enchaîne avec des révélations d’un passé plutôt trouble, du temps de la formation du New Labour: « In one comment — that the BBC reports illustrated it is “full of hatred of America” — the Prime Minister managed simultaneously to tell Murdoch something that he wanted to hear, send out a message of succour to his friend George Bush, and whack the BBC. Again. » The remark was uttered less than a week after the PR consultant Tim Allan leaked to The Times a transcript of indiscreet political remarks made by the BBC journalist John Humphrys. The Blair-supporting Times is, of course, owned by Murdoch. Allan used to work for BskyB, controlled by Murdoch, having gone into that job directly from Downing Street, where he was deputy to Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's press adviser. The many threads connecting Murdoch and New Labour go back to the day Blair ascended to the party leadership in 1994. Before this, the picture was very different. » Twenty years ago, Murdoch's journalists were banned from Labour Party press conferences, in solidarity with the printers and other employees sacked when Murdoch moved his operation to the its current headquarters in Wapping. » It was party policy that a Labour government would break up the Murdoch operation by forcing him to sell at least one of his national daily papers. The only contact between the Labour leader Neil Kinnock and Murdoch's largest-selling daily, The Sun, was through libel writs. » The paper retaliated by setting out to destroy Kinnock, ending with its famous boast, after the 1992 election, that “It was The Sun wot won it”. That all changed one day in 1994, when a car glided into Wapping taking Blair's advisers, Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson, to a secret meeting with the editor of The Sun. The following July, Blair and senior aides flew across the world and back to address an annual conference that Murdoch and his senior executives were holding at the Australian resort of Hayman Island. » He had also struck up a friendship with the columnist Irwin Stelzer. Stelzer is so close to Murdoch that — as the political editor of The Spectator, Peter Oborne, memorably put it — he “stands in the same kind of relationship to Murdoch as Suslov did to Stalin”. » Soon after one of Stelzer's many visits to Downing Street last year, Blair made the unexpected announcement that Britain would not sign up to the proposed EU constitution until the people had voted for it in a referendum. Stelzer has denied that he was sent by Murdoch to give Blair his marching orders. » Les révélations de The Independent éclairent d’une façon révélatrice nombre d’aspects de la politique britannique ces dernières années. Nous ne sommes plus à l’ère des special relationships forgées et inaugurées par Churchill. Les conservateurs avaient mis en place, d’une façon indépendante, une politique d’alignement inconditionnel qui était le contraire de l’indépendance, — paradoxe bien britannique, et qui en dit long sur la psychologie britannique. Pour autant, on ne peut parler d’une corruption accomplie comme, semble-t-il, on puisse en avancer l’hypothèse pour le cas du New Labour. Dans le schéma qu’expose The Independent, Murdoch, s’il agit pour lui, agit dans le sens d’une politique américaniste à laquelle il veut accrocher le New Labour, de la même façon qu’il agit aux Etats-Unis, où il a organisé son réseau de maîtrise de cette politique au travers de diverses entreprises de presse comme Fox News et des groupes idéologiques financés par lui comme les néo-conservateurs (leur organe de presse, le Weekly Standard, appartient à Murdoch). Cette situation générale est très possible aux USA où, depuis le début des années 1980, le secteur privé des affaires joue un rôle dirigeant dans un système politique qui a perdu toute substance politique. Plutôt que dire que Murdoch “travaille” pour la politique américaniste, notamment la politique belliciste actuelle, on dirait qu’il contrôle celle-ci en bonne partie et l’oriente dans le sens extrémiste qu’on voit. (Par ailleurs, la publication d’une version non expurgée dans The mail on Sunday des mémoires d’un ancien assistant en communications de Blair (Lance Price, avec son livre The Spin Doctor's Diary) apporte d’autres révélations dans le sens de ce que nous dit The Independent. Lance Price affirme que Murdoch disposerait auprès de Blair d’un véritable “droit de veto” sur la décision de faire entrer le Royaume-Uni dans l’Europe : « Tony Blair promised Rupert Murdoch that he would be consulted on any change to Britain's policy towards Europe », selon The Independent.)
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Censors Strokes
Guardian: Yesterday, the Mail on Sunday reported that Downing Street tried to intervene to have some of the book's more embarrassing revelations removed. Serialising the book, it said that the cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell, tried to prevent its publication and accused its author of "betrayal".Under civil service rules, Price was obliged to submit his manuscript to the government for clearance. He was then asked to make cuts. The newspaper claimed that one of those cuts was an account of Mr Blair's mood when he sent British bombers on joint raids with the US over Iraq in 1998 during Operation Desert Fox. "I couldn't help but feeling that TB was relishing his first blooding as PM, sending the boys into action. Despite all the necessary stuff about taking action 'with a heavy heart', I think he feels it is part of his coming of age as a leader," read Price's original version.The censored account read: "I couldn't help feeling that TB had mixed emotions about sending the boys into action. He said he did it with a 'heavy heart', but at the same time he must have known it would happen sometime and maybe it's part of his coming of age as a leader."Price also sheds light on the close relationship between Mr Blair and the media proprietor Rupert Murdoch.The Mail on Sunday claims he wrote: "Apparently we've promised News International we won't make any changes to our Europe policy without talking to them," and that the Downing Street censors came back with this wording: "Apparently, News International are under the impression we won't make any changes without asking them."
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Wales: Not a good day for Tony Blair Sep 19 2005THE prime minister and the man who was both his former education and home secretaries, David Blunkett, are unlikely to have enjoyed reading the papers yesterday. According to diaries just published of a onetime, self-proclaimed "spin doctor" - and not denied by Downing Street - Mr Blair not only "relished" sending British troops into Iraq,, he also feared Ken Clarke becoming Tory leader and used some choice language to refer to electors who threatened to inflict a Labour defeat in the first Welsh Assembly. His odious "chief policy adviser" Alastair Campbell treated him with contempt and there's a claim that Downing Street agreed not to make any changes to European policy without first consulting the owner of a newspaper group. This is interesting because that same media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch, betrayed a confidence over the weekend that Mr Blair had told him last week how appalled he'd been at the BBC's reporting of Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans (and by extension President Bush's tardy response). Mr Blair's hatred of the BBC is not news but this wholly unfair and inaccurate attack - voiced to a commercial rival of the BBC - provides renewed evidence of at least three of the prime minister's worst character failings: vindictiveness, poor judgement of others' characters and an almost nauseating cosying up to powerful and wealthy businessmen. The fact that he needs the support of Mr Murdoch's newspapers to retain political power himself makes the relationship even more sordid. So, not a good press day for the PM
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Another google meltdown was a blogspot we started for the year of Africa trying to do a sort of good food guide of members reports of grassrots projects all over Africe

You can see a sample (not all links now operational) of where were heading below; for the future it seems wiser to transfer this project log to 30000 projects - this permits all in one search possibilities, and this time we'll back up this blog's whole contents in case of Google Gremlins

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CONGRATULATIONS AFRICA -Journalists for Humanity report 3-day HabitatJam 1-3/12/05

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Who cares most deeply about remedying extreme poverty and other Human/Communal Rights around Africa?

The format of this timeless blog is as follows:

each month represents a different country; higher dates in the calendar are local charity/social network contacts;lower numbers international contacts. Two exceptions: Here at Dec06 we make announcements that index across the whole of our guide to Africa. Nov06 catalogues some multinational organisations whose support specifically makes interlocal connections across African nations.

Locally reported networks in black font are personally vouched for by one or more of the co-editors as far as we can possibly know (in a changing world), or someone who can be directly contacted if you have more detailed queries on how to interconnect with the network's needs or capabilities

We also welcome UtellUS additions. We insert these in a different color font, until one of the co-editors has also met you and affirmed your intent to be an open contact node.

Starting with heroines of African nations

If Africa is the forgotten continent, African women are at risk of being doubly so. Because of deeply impressive women's network leaders we have met from Nigeria, and Somalia that's where we have started our guide round Africa.

Who Cares Africa & People For Public Broadcasting warmly welcome this BBC initiative anounced at Clinto Global SummitThe African Media Development Initiative Organization: BBC/BBC World Service Trust Partner Organizations: DFID, Internews, Reuters Foundation, Article 19, Media Institute of Southern Africa, PANOS, West African Media Foundation, Rhodes University School of Journalism Commitment: To increase free and independent media in Africa over a five-year period. Details here

Here is AI's shortlist of Africa Investor awards for 2005. It will take us some time to click around to see what's spinning. If you have any personal thumbs up or down on the nominees, let's hear them

short list is given below. Smart Regulation Award UNCTAD - Blue Books Commission for Africa - Investment Climate Facility Botswana IFSC Central Bank of Nigeria

Infrastructure Deal of the Year FMO - Financing of the Limbe Power Plant in Cameroon European Investment Bank - Berg Water Project Fieldstone Africa - Umeme - Uganda energy utility Celtel

Investment Promotion Agency of the Year Seychelles Investment Bureau Tanzania Investment Centre Uganda Investment Authority IMC South Africa

Best Initiative in Support of Millennium Development Goals Umgemi Water GlaxoSmithKline Barclays Kenya Microsoft Pathfinder Programme BAT Nigeria Foundation

Privatisation Programme of the Year Virgin Nigeria Uganda National Insurance Corporation Angola Privatisation Unit Ghana International Airlines

Venture Capital Deal of the Year Actis - Bank of Rwanda Artmus Group Inc - Mtwara EMP Global - Orascom Telecom Algeria Aureos East Africa - Uganda Microfinance Union

Financial Consultancy of the Year African Investment Corporation Afrinvest Fieldstone Africa Loita Capital Partners PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Kenya

Bank of the Year Barclays Bank of Africa, Benin Guaranty Trust Bank, Nigeria Zenith Bank, Nigeria Standard Chartered Group

Sustainable Investment in Africa Award Chevron Eskom Barclays Nedbank

Business Report Award Nestle Eskom Nedbank Unilever

Best Initiative in Support of SME Development IFC - SME Solutions Centre CaféDirect - Producer Partnership Programme Shell Foundation - Grofin East Africa SME Finance Facility Barclays

Business Woman of the Year Award Suzanne Ravenell, Beyond Outsourcing Gugu Maloi, Umgemi Water Dr Ndi Okereke Oniyude, Nigeria Stock Exchange Dr Runa N Alam, President and CEO, Kingdom Zephyr Africa Management

Employer of the Year Barclays Oracle Chevron Nigeria SOMAADIA Africa investor (Ai) supplies investors and policy makers with information on Africa's investment environment and sheds light on issues that inform investment decisions.

Ai is a quarterly magazine read by 20,000 decision-makers, a web-portal (http://www.africa-investor.com) that gives access to African business information, and organizes the only pan-African investment awards.

Greatest Musical Event in History part 2

20th Anniversary of Live Aid: takes place on 13th July and will draw the public's attention back to issues of poverty in Africa and encourage western governments to take urgent action. The original Live Aid has been described as the greatest musical event of all time and the simultaneous concerts in London and Philadelphia raised millions for famine relief.

What made the original Live Aid so special? Will it have as large an impact on 13 July 2005? How can people help make sure it does?

inspiring examples being set by Africa's youth

Alongside Africa's heroines, examples being set by Africa's youth represent extraordinary networks to encourage & benchmark. We turn first to teams being trained to support communities afflicted with HIV. Out of the tragedy, extraorinary examples of community and cooperation being networked by youth deserve far more recognition

we particularly admire the training support by UNAIDS and the Salvation Army, and a local team leader we've met hails from Kenya, so a country featuring next...

where Livingstone's Spirit lives on today

We find inspiration in the stories and the newtork links through time all the way back to Livingstone. Perhaps they also provide clues on local networks to get in contact with. Anyway that's why you will see a links track to Livingstone stories in the right hand column of this blog. The first of which is the content of this bookmark

Livingstone's companions Susi and Chuma have been written about who trekked 11 months to take the body of the explorer Livingstone back to the Tanganyika, now Tanzania, coast after his death on May the 1st 1873.

David Livingstone first came to Africa in 1841 and established many schools and hospitals.

There is an aspect of this story that is overlooked each time it is related. In the 1850's there were 6 slaves rescued in the East African waters by the Royal Navy. The slaves were taken to Nasik Mission, which was about 100 miles from Bombay, and there they were brought up with a "British" education and disciplines. The latter included cricket. The six were Mathew Wellington, Benjamin Rutton, Richard Rutton, Mabruki and Jacob Wainright.

Chengwimbe was of Yao tribe of Nyasaland now Malawi and re-christened at Nasik Mission to be called Mathew Wellington. Mathew Wellington as a freed slave had employment in India embalming bodies. The group of 6 was called the "Bombayans" and were later returned to Kenya. The group returned to the CMS Mission at Freretown and whilst at the mission were recruited there on Stanley's instigation, to take stores and medical supplies to Tabora where Livingstone waited with his party. This relief party reached Livingstone and joined his safari when on August the 21st he set off for Lake Bangwendu. It was a long trek through the worst of weather conditions for 6 months. By now the missionary was so ill he was carried in a litter and so the expedition arrived at the Ilala district near a village named after its Chief: Chitambo.

Here Livingstone died. After 3 days of mourning it was decided to embalm the body and carry it to the coast. Carrus Farrar and a Swahili named Farjalla removed the heart and viscera. The removed parts were put into a tin and buried under a tree. The embalming was left to Mathew Wellington and as his Great Grandson said, "that preserving bodies was an art completely unknown to Africans, as they had fears of dead bodies and would not preserve them". The process of pickling the body with brandy, salt and the sun maturing took Mathew Wellington 15 days to preserve the body. The body was finally wrapped with sailcloth for transportation. Mathew Wellington's Great Great Grandson was still living in Mombasa in 1981 and is called Hedley Douglas Mokwena.

In February 1884 the 60 men transporting Livingstone's body, reached Bagamoyo after an incredible journey through rivers, swamps, desert and hostile territory. The Livingstone's body with the attendant Mathew Wellington were carried by a RN warship to Zanzibar, where later Livingstone's body was transshipped to London, to be buried and put to rest in Westminster Cathedral.

Mathew Wellington was rescued by another missionary and brought from Zanzibar to the CMS Mission in Freretown, adjacent to Mombasa Island in Kenya, where he married and had children.

The Friends of Mathew Wellington were a Westminster Cathedral English Church group that collected funds to support Mathew in his old age.

The CMS Mission in Freretown rang its bell every time the slavers left Mombasa Island to warn all to hide.

My Father was engaged to the Missionaries daughter (Mary Rambley), who cared for Mathew Wellington, for 7 years.

July 16 1929 the Kenya Government was not sympathetic to a suggestion that Mathew Wellington who was the last surviving link with Dr. Livingstone should now receive a state pension to relieve his practically destitute situation. The Chief Native Commissioner said Wellington had never been a Government servant and was not entitled to be maintained by public funds!

One Villages interlocal Africa: Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana

Interlocal is a key way to go and network action learning of greatest usability, with issues that are challenges worldwide but with locally severe urgencies. One Village sounds like a good model for responding to the communal challenge of HIV. First recommded to me via Janet.

oct06=Nigeria

Ms Abiola and her women's network kind are extraordinary source of good sense on behalf of women in Nigeria, and would likely know any parallel women's networks. Their patron suporters include American Lynne Twist whose 25+ years stewarding the worldwide hunger project developed grassroots women's networks in many countries in the Asian region particularly

epicenters by THP Do you agree?

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Sustaining Africa's Future involves Making Poverty History by

Ending Wars

Ending corruption by national bureaucrats or global industrial sector chieftains

Planting transparent constitutions and media and network wherewithal

Ending rich country protectionism in sectors most vital to Africa's natural wealth (eg end EU agri-policy dicsrimination against all Africa)

Restore health & commons wisdom, encouraging deep community diversity and respecting grassroots leaders wherever they develop peace

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Commission for Africa 1

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ALERTS from Troubled Places:

Togo miltary coup Feb05

Darfur

Reuter's Humanitarian Alerts
Tracking SPIRITS & Network links live on

Livingstone: 1,,UtellUS

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some charities we'd like reports on to understand their local specialities

World Vision

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