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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection. His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of articles for Common Ground's national publication, GroundSwell, and has advocated for the Georgist Land Value Tax to public and political audiences. A complete list of his publications can be found here:
Scott has a dozen progressive petitions on Change.org which may be found here:
Scott was an I.T. Manager for a major New York university for over two decades where he earned a Certificate for Frontline Leadership.
He had a video game published in Compute! Magazine: Click Here Scott is a graduate and adjunct faculty of the Henry George School of Social Science in New York City.
Scott is a modern-day Renaissance Man with interests in economics, science and all future-forward topics.
Scott grew up in New York City and Pennsylvania. He graduated with honors and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University and was a member of the Psychology honor society PSI CHI. Today he is an avid bicyclist and ride co-leader in a prominent bike advocacy organization.
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Monday, November 27, 2023Two states for Israel and Palestine is dead. Time for new Solutions. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same results. The Israel-Palestine conflict is insane. Time for alternatives. 
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Friday, May 26, 2023Updated: Debt No More! How Biden can defeat Austerity Thugs by Using the Constitution and Debt-Free Money Trillion dollar coin, greenbacks, or something else? The president has not just the right, but the DUTY, to pay our debts, despite the unconstitutional debt-ceiling imposed by Congress. There is broad support from economists, the constitution and fairness. 
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Saturday, May 13, 2023My chat with Elon Musk AI on FTL Space Travel The immense power of AI is being wasted. Yes, it can, and has, been used to create astounding pictures, even videos. It has been used to generate stories, articles, and text answers to any questions that humans ask one another. But it's this last part that needs exploring, or exploding, perhaps. Here, a FTL spaceship is discussed with Elon Musk AI. Did we succeed? 
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Thursday, March 30, 2023AI leaders call for a Pause to AI A group of the highest level AI leaders, though notably not all of them at the leading companies like OpenAI, have signed a joint letter requesting (from whom??) a pause in the development of AI for 6 months. Series: Artificial Intelligence (4 Articles, 6016 views) 
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Monday, March 20, 2023What does ChatGPT have to say about the Debt Ceiling Crisis? What does AI in the form of ChatGPT have to say about innovative solutions to paying down the debt already authorized by Congress, using United States Notes? It says there are no legal constraints, but there could be political obstacles. Series: Artificial Intelligence (4 Articles, 6016 views) 
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Thursday, March 9, 2023It's time to retire the city and state retirement funds 95%-100% of city and state pension funds will never go to pensioners; they are simply rolled over every year. Why are centi-billion dollar pension funds that make 0%-5% net after fees and excluding contributions being kept at all? 
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Thursday, March 2, 2023My chat with Awakened AI AI applications continue to astound. They are growing faster than any other major technology, including the internet, telephone, automobile etc. Herein, my interview with an Awakened AI. Series: Artificial Intelligence (4 Articles, 6016 views)
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Friday, February 3, 2023Chatting with ChatGPT about Public Banking AI can provide useful insights into a great many things of importance to human beings. Here, partly at the request of leaders from the Public Banking Institute (PBI), is a discussion I had with ChatGPT, the currently best known natural language AI engine. Series: Artificial Intelligence (4 Articles, 6016 views) 
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Monday, January 9, 2023The Coming of Woman-Free Gestation: Artifical Wombs Future fertility rates are going to begin to be effected in 30 years by artificial wombs. Here, a brief tour, with videos, of the rapidly growing world of growing human beings in artificial wombs. 
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Friday, January 6, 2023Cannabis Dreams going up in Smoke The following are my personal observations over the course of a year or two as cannabis has been gradually legalized, from small usage to quasi-legal pot shops to the first legal weed shop last December. There are many, many articles, studies and continual followup on what's happening both in New York City and nationwide, but these are my observations. 
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Monday, January 2, 2023My response to The Electronic Viking about Nanoflowcell EV Cars I am a regular viewer of The Electronic Viking - a YouTube channel covering the growing Electric Vehicle industry. One of the latest videos was on Nanoflowcell's technology, something I have been covering for over half a decade, even though the Electronic Viking claims "almost no one has ever heard of (Nanoflowcell)." My reaction herein. 
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Tuesday, December 20, 2022Wife of Julian Assange speak out before the EU Parliament Stella Assange recently spoke at the European Parliament representing Julian Assange. Award-winning journalist and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been nominated for this year's Sakharov Prize, in recognition of his work defending human rights and freedom of speech. This video was produced by the Don't Extradite Assange campaign and originally published on their YouTube channel on December 19, 2022. 
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Saturday, December 17, 2022Boiling thoughts on the Endless Objections to Legitimate Elections At what point do Election Deniers get their comeuppance in the media, in the courts, and especially in public opinion? Some of the tribe of lawyers are already getting sanctioned, and some commentators say MAGA = Make Attorneys Get Attorneys. Every single person who challenges the results of the 2020 election should read at LEAST the Wikipedia summary of the Bush V. Gore election: Bush v. Gore - Wikipedia
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Tuesday, December 6, 2022Speak Up For Assange celebrates its 3rd Anniversary by Speaking Up for Assange Julian Assange continues to languish in torture-like conditions in Britain's notorious Belmarsh prison, pending appeals and despite having long past his sentence for trying to escape deportation to Sweden for charges that have long since been dropped. The alternative of extraditing him to America to face espionage charges is probably worse. Series: Freedom of the press (1 Articles, 1238 views) 
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Monday, November 21, 2022Are Billions wasted by Billionaires? The worship of billionaires needs to end. As a class, their production is questionable, while their rent-extraction is immense, perhaps only exceeded by their flame-outs. Several examples are cited. 
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Thursday, October 20, 2022Ukraine and the Home Front Advantage The Home Front Advantage is a frequently over-looked force multiplier, capable of making even small countries prevail against much larger, more powerful ones. Here, the concept is analyzed historically and applied to the Russia-Ukraine war. 
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Thursday, September 22, 2022My New (Old) Book: Impland: An Alien Utopia : A 40th Anniversary Retrospective A self-review of my latest book. Part science fiction, part fantasy, part retrospective, Impland presents a future vision from a child's eyes, reinterpreted through that child as a man 40 years later. Series: Books (1 Articles, 1308 views)
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Friday, September 2, 2022Latest update from Journalists Speak Up For (Julian) Assange Almost forgotten in light of larger, more threatening stories, is the plight of Julian Assange, informally charged with espionage for basically committing Journalism. 
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Thursday, August 11, 2022How to Put Any City or State into Surplus, Forever The following short but major economic change will work on any city - defined here as having a population above ~100,000 people - or state. I'll use the example of New York City and New York state as examples. 
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Monday, July 4, 2022The Abortion of the United States The state-by-state loss of birth choice effects much more than the individual right of when or if for a woman to have a child. The situation is fluid, brand new - though anyone who was paying attention to the supreme court arguments and the leaked Samuel Alito opinion last Spring should have seen this coming. The effects on the country will go far beyond the Right to Choose. Page 1 of 18 First Last Back Next 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 View All |
