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• Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

  
  The Melangerie — Authority: 125
  The BBC reports, Private police provoke concern The growing number of private security companies policing UK streets is a worrying development, senior police figures say. [On on estate in Darlington,] residents pay between £2 and £4 a week to have their homes included in regular patrols and to receive an instant ...
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• A Global Mea Culpa

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 133
  I screwed up but I don’t know how to apologize to the parties involved. In this age of global communication, highspeed networks, and outsourcing, the people who I offended are simply first names in far away places. Good manners are seldom mentioned as one of the victims of globalization. As a localist, I should ...
  2 days ago

• Localism and assemblage theory

  
  UnderstandingSociety — Authority: 532
  Several earlier posts have described the idea of "methodological localism" ( post ).  This is part of an argument I want to defend in support of the idea that we need new and better ways of thinking about the "stuff" of society. We need to thoroughly question and rethink the assumptions we make about social objects ...
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• Methodological localism

  
  UnderstandingSociety — Authority: 532
  I offer a social ontology that I refer to as methodological localism (ML).  This theory of social entities affirms that there are large social structures and facts that influence social outcomes.  But it insists that these structures are only possible insofar as they are embodied in the actions and states of ...
  3 days ago

• “And the Disciples Were Called Krustians First In …” —Acts 11:26, RSV (Revised Suburban Version)

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 133
  … updated for these, our modern times, in which we live … Rock Island, IL In a former treatise , O Theophilus, I suggested assigning a new name to certain expressions of Christianity. I made a little attempt—an attemptchen , as the Krauts might put it—to say a thing or two about the dangers of living ...
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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: 797
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Same-Sex Marriage, Abortion, and the Limits of Localism

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 133
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• 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.
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• How to keep moving by not travelling

  
  Living with rats — Authority: 460
  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 ...
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• 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: 825
  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 ...
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• Localism with Teeth

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 133
  “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 ...
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• We must have a referendum – and not just on the EU

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 797
  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 ...
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• Leftist Media Reform Outfit Free Press and Their Marxist Co-Founder Robert McChesney

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 825
  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 ...
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• 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: 506
  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: 103
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Americas localist future

  
  Crunchy Con — Authority: 714
  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: 592
  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: 133
  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: 133
  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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