Occupy Nederland!! deel 4

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Op woensdag 26 oktober 2011 18:48 schreef Revolution-NL het volgende:

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Ik las dat de geregistreerde occupy domeinen op internet bijna allemaal te verleiden waar naar de UN.
Mijn motto is "don't believe the hype"

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Op woensdag 26 oktober 2011 18:48 schreef Revolution-NL het volgende:

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Ik las dat de geregistreerde occupy domeinen op internet bijna allemaal te verleiden waar naar de UN.
Mijn motto is "don't believe the hype"

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Op woensdag 26 oktober 2011 18:53 schreef Generalissimo het volgende:
Weet sinds gister wat de NWO is en ben helemaal geobsedeerd Hadden jullie dat ook toen jullie hierover voor het eerst lazen? En dat in mijn tentamenweek

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Op woensdag 26 oktober 2011 18:55 schreef Erasmo het volgende:

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Waar las je dat?

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Op woensdag 26 oktober 2011 18:54 schreef Ali_Kannibali het volgende:

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Interessant! Waar heb je die informatie vandaan?

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Op woensdag 26 oktober 2011 18:55 schreef Erasmo het volgende:

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Waar las je dat?

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The capitalist network that runs the world

As protests against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

The study's assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist say it is a unique effort to untangle control in the global economy. Pushing the analysis further, they say, could help to identify ways of making global capitalism more stable.


The 1318 transnational corporations that form the core of the economy. Superconnected companies are red, very connected companies are yellow. The size of the dot represents revenue (Image: PLoS One)

The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like news to New York's Occupy Wall Street movement and protesters elsewhere (see photo). But the study, by a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is the first to go beyond ideology to empirically identify such a network of power. It combines the mathematics long used to model natural systems with comprehensive corporate data to map ownership among the world's transnational corporations (TNCs).

"Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it's conspiracy theories or free-market," says James Glattfelder. "Our analysis is reality-based."

Previous studies have found that a few TNCs own large chunks of the world's economy, but they included only a limited number of companies and omitted indirect ownerships, so could not say how this affected the global economy - whether it made it more or less stable, for instance.

The Zurich team can. From Orbis 2007, a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide, they pulled out all 43,060 TNCs and the share ownerships linking them. Then they constructed a model of which companies controlled others through shareholding networks, coupled with each company's operating revenues, to map the structure of economic power.

The work, to be published in PloS One, revealed a core of 1318 companies with interlocking ownerships (see image). Each of the 1318 had ties to two or more other companies, and on average they were connected to 20. What's more, although they represented 20 per cent of global operating revenues, the 1318 appeared to collectively own through their shares the majority of the world's large blue chip and manufacturing firms - the "real" economy - representing a further 60 per cent of global revenues.

When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly knit companies - all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity - that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. "In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network," says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.

John Driffill of the University of London, a macroeconomics expert, says the value of the analysis is not just to see if a small number of people controls the global economy, but rather its insights into economic stability.

Concentration of power is not good or bad in itself, says the Zurich team, but the core's tight interconnections could be. As the world learned in 2008, such networks are unstable. "If one [company] suffers distress," says Glattfelder, "this propagates."

"It's disconcerting to see how connected things really are," agrees George Sugihara of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, a complex systems expert who has advised Deutsche Bank.

Yaneer Bar-Yam, head of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), warns that the analysis assumes ownership equates to control, which is not always true. Most company shares are held by fund managers who may or may not control what the companies they part-own actually do. The impact of this on the system's behaviour, he says, requires more analysis.

Crucially, by identifying the architecture of global economic power, the analysis could help make it more stable. By finding the vulnerable aspects of the system, economists can suggest measures to prevent future collapses spreading through the entire economy. Glattfelder says we may need global anti-trust rules, which now exist only at national level, to limit over-connection among TNCs. Bar-Yam says the analysis suggests one possible solution: firms should be taxed for excess interconnectivity to discourage this risk.

One thing won't chime with some of the protesters' claims: the super-entity is unlikely to be the intentional result of a conspiracy to rule the world. "Such structures are common in nature," says Sugihara.

Newcomers to any network connect preferentially to highly connected members. TNCs buy shares in each other for business reasons, not for world domination. If connectedness clusters, so does wealth, says Dan Braha of NECSI: in similar models, money flows towards the most highly connected members. The Zurich study, says Sugihara, "is strong evidence that simple rules governing TNCs give rise spontaneously to highly connected groups". Or as Braha puts it: "The Occupy Wall Street claim that 1 per cent of people have most of the wealth reflects a logical phase of the self-organising economy."

So, the super-entity may not result from conspiracy. The real question, says the Zurich team, is whether it can exert concerted political power. Driffill feels 147 is too many to sustain collusion. Braha suspects they will compete in the market but act together on common interests. Resisting changes to the network structure may be one such common interest.

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Op woensdag 26 oktober 2011 18:53 schreef Generalissimo het volgende:
Weet sinds gister wat de NWO is en ben helemaal geobsedeerd Hadden jullie dat ook toen jullie hierover voor het eerst lazen? En dat in mijn tentamenweek

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Op donderdag 27 oktober 2011 17:17 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Nee. NWO is desinformatie.

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Op woensdag 26 oktober 2011 19:15 schreef mymoodfentje het volgende:
Ik was vandaag dan maar eens gaan kijken op het damrak, wou het toch met mijn eigen ogen zien. Vond er maar een raar sfeertje hangen, echt van die radicalen en de weedlucht kon je goed ruiken. Er waren totaal geen "normale" burgers, eerder van die krakers en hippie's. Vond het er maar smerig en onveilig om eerlijk te zijn. Dan vind ik de beelden uit Occupywallstreet er nog wel iets beter uit zien, waar je nog wel redelijk "normale" burgers ziet.

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Op woensdag 26 oktober 2011 19:17 schreef Revolution-NL het volgende:

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Deze thread
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1673232/pg1

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Op donderdag 27 oktober 2011 17:17 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Nee. NWO is desinformatie.

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Op donderdag 27 oktober 2011 17:21 schreef oompaloompa het volgende:

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Ik heb een application lopen bij het NWO

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Op woensdag 26 oktober 2011 19:15 schreef mymoodfentje het volgende:
Ik was vandaag dan maar eens gaan kijken op het damrak, wou het toch met mijn eigen ogen zien. Vond er maar een raar sfeertje hangen, echt van die radicalen en de weedlucht kon je goed ruiken. Er waren totaal geen "normale" burgers, eerder van die krakers en hippie's. Vond het er maar smerig en onveilig om eerlijk te zijn. Dan vind ik de beelden uit Occupywallstreet er nog wel iets beter uit zien, waar je nog wel redelijk "normale" burgers ziet.

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Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2011 13:13 schreef Lavenderr het volgende:

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Ik heb het ook gezien in Amsterdam, twee weken geleden. Het was meer een festival van hippies dan een demonstratie. Alleen de borden deden aan een demonstratie denken. Vooral tegen de VVD. Een enkel bord tegen Bilderberg en verder was het bellen blazen, lekker aan de weed en een gemoedelijk sfeertje.
Nu hoorde ik gisteren dat de tentjes die er staan gewoon leeg blijven 's nachts, dan liggen de occupiers lekker thuis in hun warme bedje te ronken.
Nee, ik vind dat je Nederland niet met Amerika kunt vergelijken, vind het eigenlijk een beetje misplaatst hier.

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Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2011 17:13 schreef Summers het volgende:
Hypocriet filmpje Obama

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