Sean Howard heeft naar aanleiding van  een artikel van Saul Kaplan een ebook geschreven met als onderwerp “the Passion Economy”, en deze gratis ter beschikking gesteld. Het ebook heeft hij echter niet alleen geschreven, hij heeft diverse mensen gevraagd een bijdrage te leveren en dit uiteindelijk gebundeld in het ebook.

Het ebook is voorzien van een aantal interessante quotes waaronder:

“If your organization is determined to resist change, move out of the way because
the wisdom of crowds has learned how to mobilize behind a compelling passion. These new purposeful networks will not be stopped.” 

“Passion-based organizations stop at nothing to accomplish their goals and are able to attract people and resources to their causes. A passion economy can arise that unleashes both a new era of prosperity and solutions for the big issues of our time.”

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Vandaag kondigde Saab aan uitstel van betaling te hebben aangevraagd, tevens hopen ze zelfstandig verder te kunnen, los van General Motors.

Tijdens de persconferentie werd onderstaande song op subtiele wijze afgespeeld. De song heeft de toepasselijke titel “Release Me” en wordt uitgevoerd door de zweedse band “Oh Laura”

Songtekst:

I am the wilderness locked in a cage
I am a growing force you kept in place
I am a tree reaching for the sun
Please don’t hold me down
Please don’t hold me down
I am a rolling wave without the motion
A glass of water longing for the ocean
I am an asphalt flower breaking free but you keep stopping me

Release me
Release me

I am the rain that’s coming down on you
That you shielded yourself from with a roof
I am the fire burning desperately but you’re controlling me

Release me
Release me

De minister van financieen van Japan is stomdronken op de G-7.

Het einde van het economisch systeem…. bijna dan.

In onderstaande video, op 2 min. 20 sec. zegt Paul Kanjorski erg bijzondere dingen.

Wat zegt Paul nu precies?

On Thursday, at about 11 o’clock in the morning, the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous drawdown of money market accounts in the United States to a tune of $550 billion being drawn out in a matter of an hour or two.

The Treasury opened up its window to help. They pumped $105 billion into the system and quickly realized that they could not stem the tide. We were having an electronic run on the banks.

They decided to close the operation, close down the money accounts, and announce a guarantee of $250,000 per account so there wouldn’t be further panic and there. And that’s what actually happened.

If they had not done that their estimation was that by two o’clock that afternoon, $5.5 trillion would have been drawn out of the money market system of the United States, would have collapsed the entire economy of the United States, and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed.

Within 24 hours all world markets would have followed suit leading to a complete global economic collapse.

Now we talked at that time about what would have happened if that happened. It would have been the end of our economic system and our political system as we know it.

Nu gratis af te halen, in Dubai, meer dan 3000 auto’s:

Mumbai/DUBAI - JAN 14: It’s the great escape by Indians who’ve hit the dead-end in Dubai.
Local police have found at least 3,000 automobiles — sedans, SUVs, regulars — abandoned outside Dubai International Airport in the last four months. Police say most of the vehicles had keys in the ignition, a clear sign they were left behind by owners in a hurry to take flight.

The global economic crisis has brought Dubai’s economic progress, mirrored by its soaring towers and luxurious resorts, to a stuttering halt. Several people have been laid off in the past months after the realty boom started unraveling.

On the night of December 31, 2008 alone more than 80 vehicles were found at the airport. “Sixty cars were seized on the first day of this year,” director general of Airport Security, Mohammed Bin Thani, told DNA over the phone. On the same day, deputy director of traffic, colonel Saif Mohair Al Mazroui, said they seized 22 cars abandoned at a prohibited area in the airport.

Faced with a cash crunch and a bleak future ahead, there were no goodbyes for the migrants — overwhelmingly South Asians, mostly Indians - just a quiet abandoning of the family car at the airport and other places.

While 2,500 vehicles have been found dumped in the past four months outside Terminal III, which caters to all global airlines, Terminal II, which is only used by Emirates Airlines, had 160 cars during the same period.

Another such victim of the meltdown said he bid goodbye to his car in a small bylane near the airport and hailed a cab. “I was scared because a number of us were doing the same and did not want to be questioned by the police. There was no way I could afford to pay the EMI of 1100 Dhirams for my Ford Focus,” he told DNA on condition of anonymity.

When contacted, the dealer for Asgar Ali cars in Sharjah said, “We are helpless and do not know how to tackle this issue. A large number of such owners are from Indian, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and other South Asian countries.”

bron: daijiworld.com

Een tijd van massa-ontslagen, afname in vacatures en een toename in werkelozen en warempel de chinese economie die tot stilstand komt.

Tijd om de roze bril eens af te zetten en het nieuws van de afgelopen dagen even op een rijtje te zetten:

• intel schrapt 6000 banen en sluit 4 fabrieken
• ericsson schrapt 5000 banen
• sun microsystems schrapt 6000 banen
• Digg ontslaat 10% van de werknemers
• Microsoft ontslaat 5000 werknemers (minimsft heeft hier wat aan toe te voegen)
• Warner Bros. ontslaat 800 werknemers
• Electronic Artis schrapt 1000 banen en sluit zeker 1 studio
• Clear Channel schrapt 1850 banen
• Plantronics schrapt 900 banen
• logitech schrapt 550 a 600 banen 
• AMD schrapt 1100 banen
• usg people schrapt 540 banen in zuid europa
• Bose schrapt 1000 banen
• Circuit City is dood, 34.000 banen geschrapt
• motorola schrapt 4000 banen (in 2008 werden er al 6700 werknemers weggestuurd)
• Seagate schrapt 8000 banen
• TDK schrapt 8000 banen
• Dell schrapt 1900 banen en sluit fabriek in Ierland
• lenovo schrapt 2500 banen
• OLPC schrapt 50% van het werknemersbestand
• Sotheby’s schrapt 60 werknemers, 2/3e van het personeelsbestand

techcrunch heeft een layoff tracker. Ze houden deze bij vanaf 27 augustus 2008, stand per vandaag is bijna 196.000 ontslagen