Merry Fool's Day and Tax Day, along with Earth Day. As the
northern hemispheres goes green, your cohorts have been pushing up new
shoots. Enjoy the read. And if you know anyone who'd happily be a
reader, please put them in touch.
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CONTENTS:
1. News: Geo-location apps to star at South by Southwest
2. Numbers: Land prices smash records in Beijing property frenzy
3. Good Press: High Traffic Sites Get the Words
4. Movement Progress: New article and Webcast interview
5. Letters: Oz Newsletter; SCI, ICEHG, Jock Coats
6. Obituary: Memorial service notice from The Harriss Family
7. Likable links: Stiglitz; City Solutions
8. What You Can Do: Fix wikipedia; Sign petitions; Get book;
Attend conference
9. At the Margin: Quips and Quotes
10. Publication affairs: Contributors, About the Georgist News
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1. News: Geo-location apps to star at South by Southwest
Does sex sell? Not always, or at least not as much hoped for. But
location still always does. The more things change...
"Sex.com goes on auction block"
http://www.progress.org/2010/internet.htm
To keep up with the latest in the world of economic justice, try
visiting the daily news site, the Progress Report, where such articles
appear.
To establish a shared frame of reference for a discussion about how to
solve economic issues with friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers,
try sending them the progress.org link, see how it goes.
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2. Numbers: Land prices smash records in Beijing property frenzy
Want all the current indicators in one place? Periodically, The
Progress Report publishes just such a digest. To give readers greater
breadth, depth, and the most salient facts, many articles at the
Progress Report are not single articles but compilations on one theme,
offering a compendium of data on one sector:
Rulers around the world capture the worth of Earth, either
indirectly via kickbacks or directly via ownership.
"11-Year-Old Spends $44 Million in Dubai"
http://www.progress.org/2010/stateown.htm
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3. Good Press: High Traffic Sites Get the Words
The Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania - Forum, January 29, 2010
http://www.lppa.org/smf/index.php?action=printpage;topic=34275.0
Political Forum.com, February 8
http://www.politicalforum.com/budget-taxes/38069-fairtax-49.html
City-Data.com, February 9
http://www.city-data.com/forum/great-debates/890132-taxation-2.html
Reddit
http://tinyurl.com/yf3g79m
Guy Fawkes' Blog, February 11
http://order-order.com/2010/02/11/tories-rebut-labour-mumsnet-campaign/
Smart Taxes Network, February 13
http://smarttaxes.org/2010/02/13/the-new-marshall-plan-for-europe/
All had posts urging taxes to recover rents and dividends to share
them, read by - at least many thousands (some sites say how many
replies) - if not millions (most sites don't say how many viewers).
More endorsements of Georgist ideas from all media appear throughout
the month at The Progress Report.
If you note an article you want the world to read, send it to us,
we'll reprint it, and since we get over a million readers a year (the
first Georgist website to achieve that plateau), then major search
engines such as Google will find it yet again. Utilize the news site
that exists to serve you.
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4. Movement Progress: New article and Webcast interview
by Scott Baker - Author, Community Activist, IT Director, Common
Ground - NYC, March 19, 2010
I wrote a new Georgist article on Op Ed News: Have Conditions in the
Laboring Class improved from Henry George's Time to our Own?
My introductory article was moved to here:
http://tinyurl.com/ydphwsj
In addition to that, I was also interviewed on Max Keiser's webcast
show:
http://tinyurl.com/ybzsf4q
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5a. Letter: Latest Oz Newsletter
by Karl Fitzgerald, k2 at earthsharing.org.au, March 28, 2010
In the Earthsharing Australia email newsletter of March, read about
"Urgent Lobbying call; Media Wars, Speed Renters", and more. To see
it, write the e-ddress above.
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5b. Letter: New powerpoint - saving communities
by Ed Dodson, ejdodson at comcast.net, March 16, 2010
My latest slide show is up. To see it, on the web go to authorstream.
Next hit the "BROWSE" button on the home page, then enter "Edward
dodson" in the search line. All of the Powerpoints I have so far
developed will come up.
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5c. Letter: IHG Director's Blog Comments Jan-Feb 2010 by Paul Martin,
Director of the IHG Managua Nicaragua, ceihg at ceihg.org, March 11,
2010
Available are my comments posted Jan-Feb, 2010 to online articles such
as on Truthout.org (posted as "HG"), or to the IHG blog
(econsolucnica.blogspot.com), as well as my comments posted to my
Facebook page or my own personal blog (paulmart10.blogspot.com). Most
of the posts are good Georgist propaganda, some are more my own
personal opinion. All are best taken in the context of the article and
the other readers' comments to which I am responding.
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5c. Letter: Landlines
by Ann LeRoyer, March 30, 2010
The April 2010 issue of the Land Lines quarterly magazine (vol.22,
no.2) is now posted on our Web site
http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/1769_Land-Lines--April-2010
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5d. Letter: UK based Georgist academics
by Jock Coats, jock.coats at altoxford.org, March 15, 2010
William O'Brian at Warwick University's Law department describes
himself as a "left-libertarian" and a Georgist. Anyone know of him?
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6. Obituary: Memorial service notice from The Harriss Family
by Nadine Stoner, March 20, 2010
A Celebration of the life of C. Lowell Harriss, 1912-2009, will be
held Sunday, April 11, 2010, from 10:00am to 12:00 noon. The location
will be at the Kellogg Center, 15th floor of the International Affairs
Building, 420 West 118th Street, Columbia University in the City of
New York. RSVP to econ-rsvp at columbia.edu or to Martha Harriss (212)
666-9005. Gifts in honor of Lowell Harriss may be sent c/o Leah Cohen,
Columbia University, 622 West 113th Street, New York, NY l0025.
For those who did not get a chance to sign the funeral home's one line
guest register, you may send sympathy cards to:
The Harriss Family
23 Village Lane
Bronxville, NY 10708
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7a. Likable link: Stiglitz forced to mention George to roomful of
non-Georgists by David Harrell, March 1, 2010
Stiglitz spoke at the International House auditorium. I didn't really
pay attention to the attendance, beyond noting that the room and
balcony were packed. I spoke to him briefly before the lecture, told
him I work with the HGS in Chicago and handed him one of our
attractive postcards. He expressed mild surprise that Henry George
Schools still existed, but aside from that, didn't seem very curious
about what we were up to and volunteered no information about how
George figured in his scheme to save the world economy. His mention of
Henry George came afterward in the Q+A, and only because I
specifically asked. At most, he may have mentioned "resource rents"
once during the lecture. http://cis.uchicago.edu/events/wbh/
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7b. Likable link: Solutions to government fiscal crises
by Josh Vincent, Executive Director, Henry George Foundation
USA/Center for the Study of Economics, February 16, 2010
What can a city (or state) do about a budget gap? See what
Philadelphia can do... Cities and states will have to ask that
question for at least the next five years (bets accepted). Is there a
right way, a wrong way or a third way? What our sister site's -
OurCommonWealth - editor Barbara G Maloney wrote, tied in all aspects
of this vexing question.
http://www.ourcommonwealth.org/news/philadelphia-budget-gap-solution
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8a. What You Can Do: Fix Wikipedia Entry for HG
by Josh Vincent, Executive Director, Henry George Foundation
USA/Center for the Study of Economics, March 29, 2010
I fixed what I could. Follow the link and fix what you can. Thanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George
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8b. What You Can Do: Utilize Petition and Newsletter
by David Brooks, davidsb1 at bigpond.com, March 24, 2010
Please look at http://petition.prosper.org.au/
And give it your consideration and perhaps sign it.
Also, I trust you enjoy reading the Guardian newsletter.
Please write for a copy.
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8c. What You Can Do: Sign Petition
by John Burns, March 25, 2010
There is a petition at Downing St to get LVT implemented. Anyone can
sign on-line: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/TaxLess4more/
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8d. What You Can Do: See Good New Book
by Phil Anderson, March 21, 2010
As the next cycle unfolds, the geographic area that will see the
biggest boom will be the region(s) where stock markets enter into all
time new highs. The earlier this happens in the real estate cycle, the
bigger the likely boom. The places to look for that; clearly China and
India. Also Brazil. We don't actually need to have an opinion as to
how regions will perfom in the coming several years, the region's
stock markets will tell us. If you have read through Secret Life of
Real Estate and Banking, you should then be able to immediately see
through the limitations in the banking system.
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8e. What You Can Do: Attend AMI Conference
by
The 6th Annual AMI Monetary Reform Conference will be at Roosevelt
University in Chicago. A great lineup of speakers is taking shape now,
including some surprises. The Conference will focus on what
participants can do to make a difference. The normal registration fee
of $395 is reduced to $225 for early registrations postmarked by April
30th. (Please see the registration form at
http://www.monetary.org/2010conference.html.)
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9. the Margin: Quips and Quotes
"The Declaration of Independence, the words that launched our nation
- 1,300 words.
The Bible, the word of God - 773,000 words.
The Tax Code, the words of politicians - 7,000,000 words - and
growing!" - Steve Forbes
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but
there must never be a time when we fail to protest. - Elie Weisel
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10. Publication affairs: Contributing to this issue
Along with those acknowledged above with each blurb,
Editor: Jeffery J. Smith
Assistant Editor: Caspar Davis
Archivist: Stewart Goldwater
Owner: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
Founder: Adam Monroe
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The Georgist News, Volume Twelve, Number Ten, April 1, 2010