my argument is that humans are more
relational, ‘gift-exchanging animals’ who are naturally disposed to cooperate
for mutual benefit. In the following I will attempt to show how such an
alternative anthropology can translate into a ‘civil economy’ and
transformative policy ideas: rebuilding our economy and embedding welfare in
communities.
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If YOU Think The Birthers Are Crazy THINK AGAIN! - YouTube - 0 views
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OBAMAGATE
Voter fraud? You ain't seen nothin' yet! - 0 views
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MORE VOTER FRAUD
Obama Lies about Wiretapping and Spying - 0 views
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Edward Snowden has given us the opportunity to see this by sacrificing his daily life. He may never see the U.S. again. Let us not be wasteful in what another person has given us.
Building a civil economy | openDemocracy - 6 views
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In the wake of Marcel Mauss’ work on the gift, this model emerged as a legitimate way of rethinking economics: humans are naturally social animals with dispositions to cooperate in the quest for the common good in which all can partake.
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Building on Polanyi and G. D. H. Cole’s guild socialism, one can suggest that an embedded model means that elected governments have the duty to create the civic space in which workers, businesses and communities can regulate economic activity and direct the ‘free flow’ of globally mobile capital to productive activities that benefit the many, not the few.
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From Israel to Iran: a look at critics raising their voice over push toward nuclear deal - 0 views
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Iran needs U.S.-led sanctions rolled back again, and Western nations and some others request to limit Iran's capacity to enrich uranium to ranges that could guide it closer to producing nuclear weapons. But negotiators experience resistance from Western allies these kinds of as Israel and Gulf states towards any pact that retains Iran's nuclear program normally intact and dissent inside Iran from hard-liners opposing any nuclear concessions or diplomatic outreach to Washington.
Joseph A. Palermo: Defeating the Bailout Looks Like Another Republican Ploy - 0 views
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House Republican leaders did not put much pressure on their rank-and-file members to back the rescue package." John Boehner, Roy Blunt and other "leaders" of the House Republicans thought they could strike a public pose as if they really cared about the credit seizure that looms over the country while secretly hoping to pin the bill's passage on Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, (and by association, Barack Obama).
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They wanted Speaker Pelosi to pass the bill without much Republican cover so they could tell their constituents that the Democrats were just "picking the taxpayers' pockets again."
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I agree with the critical flaws in the bill that Dennis Kucinich articulated this morning on Amy Goodman's show, Democracy Now! I don't believe in a government welfare program for Wall Street swindlers who had the audacity to pump up the paper value of one of their hidden, unregulated derivatives, "credit default swaps," from $631 billion in 2001 to $62 trillion in 2008! I think some people should be indicted; some people should go to jail.
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Prop 8 - Black v Queer - critical analysis - 0 views
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The rhetoric, once again, masks racism through comparative oppressions - the prevailing misrepresentation of how the black vote, and also the Hispanic vote, supported anti-gay policies on the day that black history would be irrevocably altered.
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Gay is the New Black
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Offense #1: It presumes that, because we made significant racial progress through the election of Obama, somehow racism has been conquered while homophobia has not been. Obviously, racism hasn't been conquered, or that slogan would have never emerged in the first place.Offense #2: Such a slogan is designed to pit two marginal groups against each other, conveniently ignoring the fact that certain fundamental religious organizations whose congregations are overwhelmingly white were instrumental in enacting Proposition 8 in the first place.
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Hef does it again! - 1 views
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Hugh Hefner engaged to 24-year old Crystal Harris.
Income Inequality and the 'Superstar Effect' - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Yet the increasingly outsize rewards accruing to the nation’s elite clutch of superstars threaten to gum up this incentive mechanism. If only a very lucky few can aspire to a big reward, most workers are likely to conclude that it is not worth the effort to try.
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It is true that the nation grew quite fast as inequality soared over the last three decades. Since 1980, the country’s gross domestic product per person has increased about 69 percent, even as the share of income accruing to the richest 1 percent of the population jumped to 36 percent from 22 percent. But the economy grew even faster — 83 percent per capita — from 1951 to 1980, when inequality declined when measured as the share of national income going to the very top of the population.
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The cost for this tonic seems to be a drastic decline in Americans’ economic mobility. Since 1980, the weekly wage of the average worker on the factory floor has increased little more than 3 percent, after inflation. The United States is the rich country with the most skewed income distribution. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the average earnings of the richest 10 percent of Americans are 16 times those for the 10 percent at the bottom of the pile. That compares with a multiple of 8 in Britain and 5 in Sweden.
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(Part 2 of 2 - see first part below) What impact do the incredible salaries of superstars have on the rest of us? What has changed, technologically and socially, to precipitate these inequities? This article also offers a brief look at the relationship between income inequality and economic growth, comparing the US throughout its history and the US vis a vis several European countries.
Safe and Legal Pot - 4 views
You can say that I love to party and get high occasionally. But, then again getting addicted to the real thing is a big NO NO. Gladly a friend of mine introduced me to Kronic. It is a brand of herb...
In place of smear | Ed Mayne | LabourList.org | April 2009 - 0 views
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But if he hadn't done it, someone else would have got there eventually. It's up to all of us now to stop this happening again. Some people tell me that blogging is the future of politics. If this is the case, I very much hope it gets more mature with its increasing importance.
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We can all agree that censorship is not the route to go down. Therefore all political parties and all press and media outlets have a responsibility to regulate themselves
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Mayne fears that blogs have dragged politics into the gutter and threaten democracy. I hope not, but I'll wait for more evidence.
Election Canada-Third Time Lucky - 0 views
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Liberals v.s the Conservative Tea Party of Canada....as Harper tries to defend why he broke the law and received the contempt of Parliament. A disgraceful man who runs a dictatorship that destroys democracy.
Getting High Legally! - 1 views
After getting out of rehab, I still cannot shake off my need to get high. However, I vowed not to resort to illegal drugs again. After consulting a friend about it, he introduced legal drugs and ma...
Catalonia, Spain and Independence - 0 views
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The opponents of Catalan independence have accused the move of racist or elitist people, and they argue that the majority of the public in Catalonia does not support the self-sufficiency
Ruling Party Jubilee's Majority Whip Irungu Kangata speaks for Sissy-President Uhuru ag... - 0 views
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