<blockquote>'The room looks nothing like your standard windowless detention room. Instead, it's filled with lamps, decorations, and plush purple pillows. Misbehaving kids are encouraged to sit in the room and go through practices like breathing or meditation, helping them calm down and re-center. They are also asked to talk through what happened. .. One study, for example, sby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>The way we work is no longer working- most of the work done today is post-industrial, but we still organize ourselves in hierarchical and rules-based ways that were developed when the brains doing the thinking and the hands doing the work were kept separate. We know there are better ways to structure work. They’re tried and tested, and we’re here to bring them to you. We oby ProjectC - Project C
'..I sometimes ask myself the question, “Which of these products will still be around in a Teal society”? If you play the game, you might find the answers surprising. (I certainly find them ironic, as advertising and malls might well be among the casualties.) In the shift to Teal, whole industries are likely to dis-appear, helping us reduce our ecological footprint. And we are likely to witnby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>‘..the “group” .. debt..’ – Frans Veldman (Context: Affective Introspection, 'A judgment of value .. a man's affective response to definite conditions of the universe..' - Ludwig von Mises)</blockquote> '..China, once supported by strong household savings, is on a debt binge..' <blockquote>'..the government cannot and will notby ProjectC - Project C
'It is becoming increasingly clear that many if not all the phenomena observed in the cosmos are most readily explained from the viewpoint of electrical physics and engineering. Those investigators who cling to the classical belief that gravity is the only significant force are at a rapidly growing disadvantage. This is because gravity only attracts whereas electric and magnetic forces bothby ProjectC - Project C
'..Thankfully, a few privately funded projects in the US and elsewhere are pursuing p–11B and other concepts. Although more difficult from a physics standpoint, those concepts do not appear impossible, and such systems might stand a chance of being sufficient.' '..in 1994 a special panel of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) identified three major criteria for fusion pby ProjectC - Project C
'..My motive is to be of service to others, particularly over the complete market cycle. Most of what I’ve made in my lifetime has gone to philanthropic efforts, and the rest is invested in our value-conscious, historically-informed, full-cycle discipline. I’ll continue to follow our discipline on behalf of those who trust my work, whether others agree or not.. .. One of the challengesby ProjectC - Project C
'Behavioral economics is very congenial to top-down approaches to social problems. It is viewed by deep skepticism with people like me who believe that the knowledge problem; emergence and the law of unintended consequences; and the deforming effects and perverse incentives of power (to name just three things) make top down solutions disastrous in most cases.' <blockquote>'by ProjectC - Project C
'..Central banks have inflated the greatest Bubble in history, a Bubble that created only greater excesses and global imbalances. Already deep structural maladjustment worsened, and vital financial and economic reforms were forestalled.' 'Quality contemporaneous analysis is valuable for providing a historical account to be called upon in the future to counter historical revisionby ProjectC - Project C
'..Rajoy may also be in breach of Spain’s obligations under EU and international law.' <blockquote>'Rajoy’s weekend police action is being investigated for human rights violations by the Catalan authorities, and possibly the UN too. Spanish national laws may have been broken. And Rajoy may also be in breach of Spain’s obligations under EU and international law. Respectby ProjectC - Project C
'But one New Jersey fusion startup company is taking a very different tack: “Guide the plasma’s instability; don’t fight it,” says Eric Lerner, president and chief scientist at LPPFusion, based in Middlesex, N.J.' <h1>Startup: LPPFusion Embraces Instability</h1> <h3>Rather than fighting to control plasma, this startup’s device exploits instabilities to fuse atoms&lby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>'NEW YORK: A new business campaign designed to fast-track the uptake of electric vehicles (EV) and infrastructure..' - Multinationals launch global program to speed up switch to electric vehicles, september 19, 2017</blockquote> '..'EV100 is a global initiative bringing .. accelerating the transition to electric vehicles..' <blockquotby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>'..a liquidity-driven crash similar to 2008-2009 does not seem likely. Instead, my model suggests we face a long drawn-out decline over many years similar to events in Japan.' - Mike “Mish” Shedlock, Stock Market “Crash” Unlikely: It’s the Debt, Stupid, September 22, 2017</blockquote> <blockquote>'..I'm far more worried about deflation heaby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>'The Fed is wed to the Phillips Curve.' - David Rosenberg, (Source, August 25, 2017)</blockquote> '..In any event, the notion of an “inflation-unemployment tradeoff” rests on a misunderstanding of Phillips’ work, and a disregard for historical evidence.' <blockquote>'There’s an apocryphal story that in 1787, during the journey of Eby ProjectC - Project C
'..to phase out vehicles running on fossil fuels.' 'China, seeking to meet its promise to cap its carbon emissions by 2030, is the latest country to unveil plans to phase out vehicles running on fossil fuels. The U.K. said in July it will ban sales of diesel- and gasoline-fueled cars by 2040, two weeks after France announced a similar plan to reduce air pollution and meet targetby ProjectC - Project C
'SAFIRE is the story of a small group of engineers, scientists and scholars who attempt to do what has never been done before – build a sun on Earth, a miniature but perfectly functioning replica of the sun in the sky. If the premise underlying the SAFIRE project proves correct it will open wide the floodgates to countless new streams of scientific enquiry.' - SAFIRE film &by ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>'..the expression “free market” is shorthand for the somewhat long-winded “social cooperation conditioned by the respect of private property rights,” the meaning of inflation is that it extends the nominal money supply through a violation of property rights..' - Jörg Guido Hülsmann (The Ethics of Money Production - '..the care of souls.' - 'The pointby ProjectC - Project C
'Putin’s Russia has been given many labels, from kleptocracy to Mafia state, but the most analytically helpful may be among the oldest: feudalism. “It is not a metaphor but a very exact definition of the system,” Andrey Movchan, a banker and finance expert in Moscow, said. If in the Middle Ages the chief feudal currency was land, in today’s Russia it is hydrocarbon wealth. Movchan explainedby ProjectC - Project C
'The 2008/09 financial crisis should have concluded an incredible era of dangerous risk misperceptions and flawed calculations. But the Federal Reserve and global central bankers Doubled-Down. Instead of the markets reverting back to more traditional (stable) views of risk, massive QE liquidity injections, zero rates and aggressive market liquidity backstops pushed risk analysis and perceptiby ProjectC - Project C
'..America's pension crisis is a big part of the $400 trillion pension time bomb threatening the global economy and it is deflationary and bond friendly.' - Leo Kolivakis, America's Corporate Pension Disaster? August 4, 2017 'In order for the Maestro to be right, US inflation expectations have to pick up in a significant way. This won't happen and to underby ProjectC - Project C
'..If you can’t see this next crisis coming, you’re not paying the right kind of attention..' <blockquote>'This Fed has already engineered the next crisis, just as Greenspan kept rates too low for too long, ignored his regulatory responsibility, and engineered the housing bubble and subprime crisis. If you can’t see this next crisis coming, you’re not paying the right kindby ProjectC - Project C
'In Germany, for example, Deutsche Post has started building its own electric vans and will soon start selling them to other companies..' <blockquote>'The clock may be ticking for petrol and diesel-powered cars, but it's vans, trucks and buses that are driving the electric vehicle revolution on the world's roads. This week the UK government followed France inby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>'..The Netherlands and Norway previously said they wanted to get rid of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2025 and Germany and India announced similar plans ahead of 2030.' - Chloe Farand, France will 'ban all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040', July 6, 2017</blockquote> '..Dirty air has been linked to cancer, asthma, stroke and heart disease,by ProjectC - Project C
'..But after a decade of unprecedented expansion of government debt and central bank Credit, the stage has now been set for a more systemic 1929-like financial dislocation.' <blockquote>'June 27 – Reuters (William Schomberg, Marc Jones, Jason Lange and Lindsay Dunsmuir): “U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Tuesday that she does not believe that there will be aby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>We came from the North, and we came from the South with picks and with spades and a new kind of order showing no fear of what lies up ahead They'll never see the likes of us again Can you hear me? Can you see? Don't you hear me? Don't you see?</blockquote> <blockquote>Genesis - Driving the last spike Leaving my family behind me notby ProjectC - Project C
Those who make dreams come true get noticed - Aldowa (A Semco Style Company) 'Leading Wisely is a podcast series by Ricardo Semler about the search for wisdom in organizations. In discussions with business leaders such as Zappos' Tony Hsieh, Basecamp's Jason Friedman and David Heinemeier Hansson and with other experts on the topic such as Frederic Laloux, he challenges asby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>'FORGET fuel-powered jet engines. We’re on the verge of having aircraft that can fly from the ground up to the edge of space using air and electricity alone. .. Berkant Göksel at the Technical University of Berlin and his team now want to fit plasma engines to planes. “We want to develop a system that can operate above an altitude of 30 kilometres where standard jet eby ProjectC - Project C
'..the "CityTree", a mobile installation which removes pollutants from the air, has been popping up in cities around the world, including Oslo, Paris, Brussels and Hong Kong.' <blockquote>'(CNN) Air pollution is one of the world's invisible killers. It causes seven million premature deaths a year, making it the largest single environmental health risk, acby ProjectC - Project C
<blockquote>'VIENNA — In response to the alarming rise of tensions involving nuclear-armed governments and their allies, the Global Zero movement has formed an international Nuclear Crisis Group dedicated to preventing these flashpoints from escalating to the use of nuclear weapons. The NCG will launch May 5-6 at the United Nations in Vienna at the first preparatory meeting of the 2020by ProjectC - Project C
'Leaders from the City of Portland and Multnomah County have committed to 100 percent clean energy by the year 2050. In an announcement earlier this week, authorities said that their goal was to meet the community's electricity needs with renewables by the year 2035 and to move all remaining energy sources to renewable ones by 2050. .. Multnomah County is the most populous counby ProjectC - Project C