US Surveillance Firm’s Charm Offensive to UK Councils and Police Forces
US surveillance firm Fusus wants to bring supposed state of the art ‘real-time crime centres’ to the UK – with one being trialled this month
Read more...Category Archives: Social values
Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth
Workers adjust their immediate labour supply in response to the income effects caused by changes to future pensions.
Read more...Will ‘Poor Man’s Cocaine’ Fuel the Next U.S. Drug Crisis?
The cheap and highly addictive cocaine-like stimulant Captagon shows signs of following in the opioid fentanyl’s footsteps.
Read more...Doing the Marriage Thing Again
Even though bringing up kids with two parents is generally better than one, the analyses nvestigating the pro-marriage hypothesis are lousy.
Read more...House GOP Unveils Budget With Trillions in Cuts to Medicaid, Food Benefits, and More
The new proposal underscores the Republican Party’s “thirst for cruel budget cuts,” said Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle.
Read more...California Democrats Double Down on Efforts to Involuntarily Commit the Homeless
Sacramento wraps up its legislative session with efforts to disappear the homeless.
Read more...Social Security Overpays Billions to People, Many on Disability. Then It Demands the Money Back
The Social Security Administration is trying to reclaim billions of dollars from many of the nation’s poorest and most vulnerable.
Read more...How Public Pianos Decorated by Artists Came to Dot Portland’s Streets and Parks
Portland provides pianos as a public amenity.
Read more...‘This Is Our Defining Moment’: UAW Launches Historic Strikes Against Big Three Automakers
The once-feared UAW is flexing some muscle. Complaints about expenses are disingenuous v, the cost of stock manipulation, aka buybacks.
Read more...Davos Man Says ‘Total Transparency’ For You
The word transparency is being defined in an effort to further prevent citizens from demanding it of governments, NGOs, and major companies.
Read more...The Rise and Fall of Signaling and Performativity
On the role of signaling and performativity in our increasing elite dysfunction.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: TECHNOFEUDALISM – What Killed Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis’ forthcoming book examines our changed economic system, which he callls “technofeudalism.”
Read more...On Not Thinking Like a Liberal in the 21st Century
“Liberalism is the solution to nothing we face in this changing world that Liberalism hath wrought.”
Read more...Desperately Seeking Entertainment
Why entertainment is not what is used to be.
Read more...The Ancient Patterns of Migration
Today’s hot-button issue is actually as old as the human race.
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