Localism

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• The Inevitable Return Of The Great White Dope

  
  NeoShinka — Authority: 128
  A Natural Process ~ Needless E18 Hierarchical structure of Feudal Japan In Japan, merchants were seen as the lowest class of citizens as they lived off others’ labour. Often they were made to live in separate parts of the village and were not allowed to consort with other classes except when doing ...
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• Who wants a nuclear power station next door?

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 814
  Greg Clark is a thoughtful chap: the sort of chap who contemplates his subject from all angles before pronouncing. If he reckons we need more nuclear power stations, that’s good enough for me. Greg is also a sound localist – one of the original supporters of Direct Democracy - and he wants local communities to ...
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• Same-Sex Marriage, Abortion, and the Limits of Localism

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 132
  Kearneysville, WV. Last week I published a piece suggesting ten positions that might serve to constitute a platform for those who are disillusioned by both major political parties and who long for an alternative that includes, among other things, a reversal of the concentration of power in Washington. Conspicuously ...
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• Ambient Intelligence Takes Social Networking To The Next Level …

  
  New Web 2.0 Magazine — Authority: 453
  Sharing small snippets of information about your daily life is a key feature of the online social networking revolution. Soon status updates and other social information could be generated automatically.
  2 days ago

• How to keep moving by not travelling

  
  Living with rats — Authority: 485
  Ive been working in Portsmouth this week, on a project looking at what happens when the military decides it doesnt want its land anymore. A few years ago it was relatively easy: developers eyes would light up, and to a background of imaginary cash tills theyd draw up plans for penthouse flats and swanky stores. Its ...
  4 days ago

• If You Like FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd and Van Jones, Youll Love Free Press Co-Founder Robert McChesney

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 834
  We wrote Monday of Leftist, George Soros-funded "media reform" outfit Free Press, and their extensive relationships with people currently in power at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and in the White House - up to and including President Barack Obama. With current FCC Chief Diversity Officer ...
  5 days ago

• Localism with Teeth

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 132
  “I never saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing one another by argument.  I have seen many, on their getting warm, becoming rude, and shooting one another.” –Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson Randolph “Anyone who observed us would conclude the purpose of all academic ...
  5 days ago

• We must have a referendum – and not just on the EU

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 814
  It’s not chiefly about Europe – it’s about democracy. Regular readers will know that I have always seen the repatriation of jurisdiction from Brussels as a means to an end. Having got the powers back, we should pass them down to local authorities or, better yet, to individual citizens. I want decisions to be ...
  6 days ago

• Leftist Media Reform Outfit Free Press and Their Marxist Co-Founder Robert McChesney

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 834
  Robert McChesney, Enemy of Free Speech The broader public is finally being introduced to Leftist "media reform" outfit Free Press and its co-founder, avowed Marxist Robert McChesney. ( I appeared on the October 7, 2009 edition of the Glenn Beck television show to discuss one and all.) Founded ...
  1 week ago

• FCC Senior Advisor to Chairman to Study Media Change and a Workshop on Media Financing for Small Business - Looking to Reinvent the Broadcast Industry?

  
  Broadcast Law Blog — Authority: 510
  The Commission is worried about the future of the broadcast media, and they are trying to figure out what they can do.  The last two weeks have been full of news about actions being taken by the FCC which may or may not lead to a reshaping of broadcasting as we know it.  We wrote about the discussion of ...
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• Who is accountable? Giving power away in a centralised political culture

  
  BASIC CRAFT — Authority: 91
  Photo courtesy of He She It They I We are all localists now. So starts a new research report by IPPR exploring the political consensus around decentralisation and the barriers to achieving it in practice – Who’s accountable? The challenge of giving power away in a centralised political culture . The ...
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• Americas localist future

  
  Crunchy Con — Authority: 706
  Joel Kotkin says that more Americans are staying put than at anytime since the Second World War -- and that thats a good thing. Youre thinking, "Well, duh; if nobodys hiring, people arent going to be able to move." Kotkin...
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• The Government Inspector

  
  Burning our money — Authority: 593
  Ofsted are coming - were doomed! Autocratic regimes always employ legions of government inspectors. Their job is to tour round the various outposts of the centralised state and put the fear of God into local bureaucrats - to remind them whos boss. It was back in 1836 that Nikolai Gogol wrote his classic ...
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• The Stories We Tell…

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 132
  Philadelphia, PA.  If you have read just one of Wendell Berry’s novels or short stories, then you have glimpsed this Kentucky farmer’s love for family, place, and story.   In a contemplative section of his 2004 novel, Hannah Coulter , Berry entwines these three enduring parts of the human experience.  With ...
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• Long Live the Luddites

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 132
  Rock Island, IL Having been called a “Luddite” by a few confused souls who fancy they’ve scored a point when in fact they’ve paid me a very high compliment, and having also been called a “prudish, technophobic, sexist, homophobic, misanthropic and an ahistorical anti-modernist elitist”—this by someone ...
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• Lobby your MP for public spending accountability

  
  JamesCousins.com — Authority: 471
  Tomorrow (Wednesday) sees an opposition day debate on ‘local spending reports’. These were introduced by the Sustainable Communities Act 2007 and were intended to detail all the public spending in a borough. You might think that already exists. For example it’s easy to identify what the council is spending in ...
  2 weeks ago

• The "New Localism"

  
  New Hampshire Public Radio — Authority: 599
  Americans are putting down roots and avoiding relocation at a growing rate.
  2 weeks ago

• What’s Local?

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 132
  Hillsdale, M I. A Mormon friend of mine once argued that the LDS prohibition of alcohol was right and proper not only because it was revealed, but because he had tried alcohol once and had ended up puking in the gutter. My grandparents voted for the Prohibition Party candidate every presidential year from 1896 to ...
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• Are Americans Becoming Less Nomadic?

  
  Alpha.Sources blog — Authority: 112
  As a puny yet honest attempt to show you that I actually read other things than plain economics I thought that I would share this piece with you on declining nomadism amongst Americans; it is written for Newsweek by author Joel Kotkin. I am not quite sure whether he believes the ageing of the population to be the ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Cell Phone Technology Boosts Mobile Government Services In EU …

  
  CTRL-F5 — Authority: 461
  Software developed by European researchers allows citizens and local governments to exchange official documents over mobile phones.
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