While most people
are quite properly focused on the remarkable series of natural disasters that
have occurred over the past week — the “law of the urgent over the important” —
we have been able to make some progress in advancing the solution to more
manageable problems, such as war and the economy:
• The Just Third Way Hour. This
past Monday Dr. Norman G. Kurland made his ninth appearance on “The Just Third
Way Hour” to people in fifty-one countries in Asia, the Pacific Rim, the Middle
East, and Africa. The audience size
nearly doubled from last week, up to nearly 60,000 — 58,627, to be exact. As can be seen from the graph to the right, the
audience size is still increasing dramatically, and we haven’t tapped into
North America or Europe yet. Of the “Top
Five” groups of listeners, most came from China (12,589), followed by the
Philippines (7,001), Russia (2,891), Taiwan (2,012), and India (2,007). CESJ is currently exploring the possibility
of producing a podcast aimed specifically at a North American audience that
could also be picked up in Europe and provided to radio stations as free
educational and public affairs programming from a Just Third Way perspective.
• Own or Be Owned. This past
week CESJ received a copy of “Failures of Privatization and Attitudes toward
Ownership: A Counterfactual Consideration of Capital Distribution in Ukraine”
by Eliza Riley of Brigham Young University, a paper prepared for presentation
at the American Political Science Association (APSA) annual meeting, San
Francisco, August 2017. Obviously we
don’t have room to do more than mention that the paper was presented and it is
an important advance in the Just Third Way movement and it cites Dr. Norman
Kurland eight times in thirty-two pages.
We will be requesting permission to post the paper on the CESJ website,
if that is permissible.
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| Dr. Robert "Bob" Crane |
• Conferences in Dubai and India.
CESJ Counselor Dr. Robert Crane is organizing conferences intended to
include Just Third Way elements in Dubai and India. He is also currently preparing a major
article for the Armonia Journal, which he edits.
• Red Star Over Bethlehem. The
first draft of Red Star Over Bethlehem
(and there may be a contest to see if there is a better title out there,
somewhere) is almost complete, and may be finished this week. The final chapter brings together the need
for expanded capital ownership as the principal support for individual
sovereignty and the dignity of the human person, and the financing techniques
that do not rely on the accumulations of the rich — and therefore
redistribution or confiscation — as the source of financing.
• The CESJ Annual Event is now
scheduled for September 23. More details
to come.
• A new CESJ intern from Brigham
Young University starts Monday, September 11, and bodes well to continue the
long tradition of high caliber interns from that school.
• Here’s the usual announcement
about the Amazon Smile program,
albeit moved to the bottom of the page so you don’t get tired of seeing
it. To participate in the Amazon Smile
program for CESJ, go to https://smile.amazon.com/. Next, sign in to your account. (If you don’t have an account with Amazon,
you can create one by clicking on the tiny little link below the “Sign in using
our secure server” button.) Once you
have signed into your account, you need to select CESJ as your charity — and
you have to be careful to do it exactly this way: in the
space provided for “Or select your own charitable organization” type “Center for Economic and Social Justice
Arlington.” If you type anything
else, you will either get no results or more than you want to sift
through. Once you’ve typed (or copied
and pasted) “Center for Economic and
Social Justice Arlington” into the space provided, hit “Select” — and you
will be taken to the Amazon shopping site, all ready to go.
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| The Just Third Way spans the globe |
• We have had
visitors from 34 different countries and 43 states and provinces in the United
States and Canada to this blog over the past week. Most visitors are from the
United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and India. The most popular postings this past week in
descending order were “Happy Capital for Labor Day,” “Crypto Currencies: Coin
or Con Game?” “Universal Basic Income,” “News from the Network, Vol. 10, No. 35,”
and “A Taxing Problem: Rule of Law.”
Those are the happenings for this
week, at least those that we know about.
If you have an accomplishment that you think should be listed, send us a
note about it at mgreaney [at] cesj [dot] org, and we’ll see that it gets into
the next “issue.” If you have a short
(250-400 word) comment on a specific posting, please enter your comments in the
blog — do not send them to us to post for you.
All comments are moderated, so we’ll see it before it goes up.
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