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• in Politics
  A New World With Social Credit Philosophies
  At the start of the last century C.H. Douglas may have been ahead of his time in proposing a social credit system - maybe the time is right to accept some of his ideas if we ever expect to move forward economically and socially
  by robertabud / on Feb 28, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “social policy”

 

• Santorum Victories Set New Tempo for GOP Race

  
  American Power — Authority: 637
  Wow, what a night! At Los Angeles Times , " Rick Santorum wins Republican votes in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado ": Republican long shot Rick Santorum poked holes in Mitt Romneys aura of inevitability Tuesday night with a trio of upset victories that shifted the dynamic of the 2012 presidential contest. The ...
  2 days ago

• Wired’s Embarrassing Whitewash of Foxconn

  
  naked capitalism — Authority: 706
  Wired’s Joel Johnson has written a stunning bit of PR for Foxconn, now-controversial supplier to the consumer electronics industry, duly wrapped in credibility-enhancing guilt over Western materialism. The article, “ 1 Million Workers. 90 Million iPhones. 17 Suicides. Who’s to Blame? ” pretends to be about ...
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• A New Question of Internet Freedom

  
  Bits — Authority: 785
  The European activists are hoping to use American-style Internet pressure to stop the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, which is meant to clamp down on illegal commerce in copyrighted and trademarked goods, reports David Jolly of The New York Times. Opponents say that it will erode Internet ...
  4 days ago

• Evaluating the Evidence on Non-School Interventions

  
  Thoughts on Education Policy — Authority: 399
  Ive been meaning to finish writing this piece for six weeks, and now I finally have.  Enjoy. One of the most e-mailed articles in the NY Times shortly before Christmas was  this piece by Helen Ladd and Edward Fiske on social class and educational achievement, in which the authors call for more non-school ...
  4 days ago

• Property Rights and Growth: Lessons from Slavery

  
  naked capitalism — Authority: 706
  I’m running this video because I like it and I hope you do too. I happen to know Suresh; he’s a member of the Alternative Banking Group of Occupy Wall Street. He discusses a clever and potentially important bit of research he is conducting on slavery in the US (the brutal 1800s kind, not our modern watered down ...
  1 week ago

• Punishing cuts to key preventative services will exacerbate unfairness of criminal justice system, warns IPRT

  
  Irish Left Review — Authority: 420
  A very valuable report called The Vicious Circle of Social Exclusion and Crime: Ireland’s Disproportionate Punishment of the Poor was launched today by the Irish Penal Reform Trust with Community Platform. The details of the report are outlined below, but there was a couple of examples of the uneven nature of the ...
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• Daily Report: Facebook Makes More Millionaires

  
  Bits — Authority: 785
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• Which Candidate Can Save White People for David Brooks? [White People]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 832
  David Brooks is concerned about white people: theyre unemployed, theyre not married, theyre fat. But which presidential candidate can save them? Perhaps the official American Enterprise Institute "are you authentically white" quiz can help us find out. More »
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• Michael Hudson: Banks Weren’t Meant to Be Like This

  
  naked capitalism — Authority: 706
  By Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College A shorter version of this article in German will run in the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung on January 28. 2012 The inherently symbiotic relationship ...
  2 weeks ago

• For Online Protests, Throwing Spaghetti Against the Internet

  
  Bits — Authority: 785
  Illustration by The New York Times People changed their Twitter avatars to show their displeasure with the Stop Online Piracy Act. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Share Share ...
  3 weeks ago

• Not Our Debt

  
  Maman Poulet — Authority: 475
  Launched today a new campaigning network of local and global justice organisations, Debt Justice Action . Next week we via our government are paying €1.25 billion in the latest payment of an unsecured Anglo bond. This will be followed by numerous other payments. Repayments not of home loans or debts that the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Examining the impact of the Family Violence Option on women’s efforts to leave welfare

  
  SAGE Insight — Authority: 101
  From Research on Social Work Practice In 1997, while reforming federal welfare programs, the U.S. Congress established the Family Violence Option (FVO) to prevent reforms from adversely affecting those welfare recipients who are domestic violence victims. This research investigated if known domestic violence ...
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• Bloomberg News Joins the “Inside Job” Team, Objects to Economics’ Inadequate Conflict of Interest Standards

  
  naked capitalism — Authority: 706
  It’s surprising and refreshing to see Bloomberg News, via an editorial , take on the way the economics profession has failed to clean up its act not simply in the wake of a massive intellectual failure but after the movie Inside Job highlighted some examples of corruption in the ranks of Famous Economists. As the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Martin Luther King v. Mitt Romney

  
  naked capitalism — Authority: 706
  A revealing juxtaposition, and a belated MLK Day item:
  3 weeks ago

• Discord Among Conservatives as Romney Picks Up Steam

  
  American Power — Authority: 637
  At New York Times , " Discord in G.O.P. as Conservatives Air Differences ." MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — With new calls on Monday for Republicans to rally around Mitt Romney as their presidential nominee, some conservatives showed new signs of fracturing despite a vote over the weekend by religious leaders to coalesce ...
  3 weeks ago

• Newt Gingrich Schools Juan Williams on Food Stamp President

  
  American Power — Authority: 637
  This was an interesting moment at the debate in Myrtle Beach. Newt hit that one out of the park. At Los Angeles Times , " Gingrich defends calling Obama the food stamp president ."
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• Rick Santorum Goes Up With Merciless Ad Attacking Mitt Romney in South Carolina

  
  American Power — Authority: 637
  Oh boy, this is harsh, via Mark Helperin and Memeorandum : And at The Hill , " Santorum calls on Romney to release tax returns ."
  3 weeks ago

• Occupying MLK Day

  
  RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY — Authority: 112
  Paul Harvey Over at Religion Dispatche s today , Kerry Pimblott, Anthea Butler, Edward J. Blum, and myself participate in an  online forum/dialogue in which we offer some reflections on MLK and his legacy. I conclude that:  It is impossible to conceive of the civil rights movement without placing black ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ron Paul Debate Flushes Out Gender-Baiting Right Wing Opportunists Masquerading as Progressives

  
  naked capitalism — Authority: 706
  The intense debate precipitated by a post on this site, “How Ron Paul Challenges Liberals,” and follow up posts by Glenn Greenwald and here serve to prove their simple yet frequently misrepresented thesis: that Ron Paul’s anti-war, anti-Fed positions expose fault lines among those traveling under the ...
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• The smoke and mirrors of laissez-faire localism

  
  Living with rats — Authority: 95
  Yes, Mr Shapps - Im feeling better already! Imagine a health service where nobody bothered to share learning nationally or internationally about which treatments worked and why. Imagine a health service where it was considered entirely unnecessary to explore the causes of sickness, as long as local GPs and ...
  3 weeks ago

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