Politics

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Scotland

Edinburgh

National

BBC Democracy Live Scotland
BBC Brian Taylor Political editor, Scotland
Scottish Information Commissioner - Facebook
The Electoral Commission: Scotland

Social media

Policy

http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/

Parties

News

http://www.scottishleftreview.org/

Forums

UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/

Pirate Party UK

Pirate Party UK forum
- Pirate Party UK forum (Scotland)

EU

Scottish MEPs
EurActiv EU news & policy debates

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4755.en.html

World

http://www.transparency.org/

Philosophy / policy

to break out http://www.rudebaguette.com/2012/07/02/dragonbox-learning-algebra/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=hackernews&utm_campaign=hackernews

http://raikoth.net/libertarian.html via andy ducker

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/stop-churches-marrying-anyone-says-bisexual-british-political-leader080113 - secularism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriarchy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5359458

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/why-chemotherapy-that-costs-70000-in-the-us-costs-2500-in-india/274847/ - patent reform

Law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence

Democracy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_democracy - before the Commies screwed it up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliberative_democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_democracy

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/289947-republican-proposes-letting-lawmakers-work-from-home

Radical

focus on individuals and bottom-up group association, better social process ownership

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

trend in anarchist circles to hate communists because their style of process fucked up leftism in russia and thus for people other places, though they really just hate big C communists, and this is somewhat legacy groupthink. see the existence of libertarian communists