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In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

  
  The Alberta Social Credit Party
Lavern Ahlstrom, leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party, intends to resign his position as Party Leader at the next Social Credit Annual General Meeting to be held on Friday night, November 2, and Saturday, November 3, 2007, in Red Deer.
An oral submission was presented on behalf of the Alberta Social Credit Party at a public meeting of the Oil Sands Multistakeholder Committee in Calgary on April 24, 2007.
The Social Credit Party mourns the passing of Art Dixon, former Social Credit Speaker of the House and Calgary MLA, at the age of 87 years.
www.socialcredit.com   (1491 words)

  
  Social Credit Party of Alberta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Social Credit Party of Canada was originally strongest in Alberta, before developing a base in Quebec when Réal Caouette agreed to merge his Ralliement creditiste movement into the federal party.
The BC Social Credit Party formed the government for many years in neighbouring British Columbia, although this was effectively a coalition of right wing and centrist forces in the province that had no interest in social credit monetary policies.
Social Credit remained in the Legislature as the Official Opposition until the 1982 election, and then nearly disappeared from Alberta politics until the 1993 election.
www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Social_Credit_Party_of_Alberta   (921 words)

  
 Social Credit by Major Clifford Hugh Douglas
From those beginnings, the Alberta Social Credit Party was formed in 1935, with popular educator and radio preacher William Aberhart as its leader.
Under a "social credit" system, the extra dollars would be divided up and given to all citizens in equal portions as a "dividend".
Alberta's several attempts to implement some form of Douglas Social Credit failed when the Supreme Court of Canada repeatedly held that Alberta lacked the constitutional authority to implement such monetary and banking laws: those, it held, were laws that only the federal government had the authority to make.
www.mondopolitico.com /library/socialcredit/socialcredit.htm   (964 words)

  
 Book Reviews - Social Discredit: Anti-Semitism, Social Credit and the Jewish Response.
Stingel's Social Discredit is constructed as a parallel history of two organizations: the Social Credit Party in Alberta (and beyond) and the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC).
The reorganization of the CJC in 1934, in response to heightened levels of nationally organized anti-Semitism, roughly corresponded to the origins of Social Credit in Canada (in 1935).
Social Discredit is traditional organizational history in that it is based heavily in the archives of the two organizations, on the public press and on the organizations' own media.
www.quasar.ualberta.ca /css/Css_38_1/BRsocial_discredit.htm   (977 words)

  
 Social Credit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is rather the community's Cultural Inheritance, by which he meant the combination of gifts of nature and the accumulated knowledge and technique, handed down to each generation by countless previous generations of scientists, engineers, inventors, artists and others who have contributed to each generation's ability to produce more with less labour input.
Social Credit therefore proposes that the authority, currently exercised by commercial banks in the creation of most of the money supply, be returned to the state under carefully defined rules.
F.Hutchinson and Brian Burkitt, 1997., The Political Economy of Social Credit and Guild Socialism, Routledge Studies in the History of Economics, Routledge, London and New York.
www.douglassocialcredit.com /socialcredit/background.htm   (810 words)

  
 Articles - Social Credit Party of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Of the 20 Social Credit MPs elected in Quebec in 1963, 13 joined Caouette's Ralliement, five of the remaining seven ran in the next election as independents, and two joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
The death of the Social Credit candidate in the riding of Frontenac, Quebec, resulted in the postponement of the election in that riding to March 24, 1980.
The true believers in social credit monetary theories continued to promote their beliefs through the short-lived Canada Party in the 1993 election and subsequently in the Canadian Action Party.
www.gaple.com /articles/Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada   (2134 words)

  
 SOCIAL CREDIT. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
To solve these difficulties Douglas proposed a system of issuing to every citizen dividends, the amount of which would be determined by an estimate of the nation’s real wealth; the establishment of a just price for all goods would be the result.
The program became highly influential in Alberta during the depression years, and the Social Credit party, led by William Aberhart, won a resounding victory in the provincial elections of 1935.
The Social Credit party that continues in British Columbia diverged from the doctrines of the original party early on.
www.bartleby.com /aol/65/so/SocialCr.html   (208 words)

  
 The Social Credit Party In British Columbia, 1950-2000.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The actual theories of Social Credit were ignored during the campaign and from then on became irrelevant to the party itself, which preached itself as a free-enterprise alternative to socialism and the CCF.
Social Credit was reduced to seven as the NDP took office with fifty-one ad the resurgent Liberals became the official opposition with seventeen.
Social Credit had ended as quietly and ineffectually as it had began despite nearly forty years of uninterrupted and generally successful reign in British Columbia.
www.angelfire.com /bc/hinterland/wkquiz.html   (3236 words)

  
 The Alberta Social Credit Party - Reading Material
Following is a list of books that provide an excellent background of politics, economics and the social credit movement in Alberta.
Click here for an extensive list of strictly social credit literature that has been vetted by experts of the original social credit.
Social Credit Co-ordinating Centre, Printed by J. Ward and Co., 1922
www.socialcredit.com /reading.htm   (478 words)

  
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Attention is also given to the philosophical base of social work practice as reflected in the ethics and values of the profession.
A study of the interaction of hereditary factors and social factors in the formation of personality factors in the functioning of individuals, families and groups.
The primary purpose of this course is to prepare students for generalist practice with individuals and diverse populations from the micro perspective.
www.selu.edu /Academics/Education/dhd/swcurriculum.htm   (783 words)

  
 Social Credit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Social Credit is an economic theory and a social movement which started in the early 1920s.
The Canadian social credit movement was by far the most notable, but the ideas also gained some lesser success in other countries.
Social Credit theory proposes that because the amount of money available under capitalism is necessarily lower than the total cost of goods produced, there will always be insufficient money to pay a realistic, sustainable price.
www.infothis.com /find/Social_Credit   (1256 words)

  
 Social Credit
If banks were put under social control, this under-consumption could be remedied by distributing a "cultural dividend" to all citizens, also known as a social credit, thus giving the ordinary citizen greater usable income.
The Social Credit party was decisively rejected in the 1971 Alberta election, in favour of Peter Lougheed's Conservatives.
By 1978, Social Credit had ceased to be a serious contender in Alberta provincial elections.
www.mta.ca /faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/study_guide/roots/social_credit.html   (496 words)

  
 Social Credit Party - The Women of Aspenland
He abandoned many of the party's social credit policies, purged the party of the "Douglasites" (many of whom were starting to express anti-Semitic leanings) and transformed it into a more right-wing party.
In line with his Social Credit theories, he argued that the patriarchal system had failed to protect women and their private sphere and, therefore, women had the right, and even the duty, to enter the public sphere and fight for a more caring, maternal world.
In addition, he explains how the ideal image of the Social Credit woman became that of the wife of the Social Credit man; the epitome of which was Mrs.
www.albertasource.ca /aspenland/eng/society/activism_politics_socred.html   (1227 words)

  
 Home Page for SOCIAL CREDIT SCHOOL OF STUDIES
SOCIAL CREDIT comprises interlocking concepts of economics and politics which deal with the just relationship between Man and the Society he lives in.
Unlike orthodox economics, Social Credit identifies the major factor in this situation as the Cultural Heritage, the accumulated knowledge derived from generations of scientists, engineers and inventors which underpins the mechanisation, robotisation and computerisation in industry, commerce and agriculture.
Social Credit stands against the political party system; the existing financial system; and the concentration of power over individuals, whether economic or political, or in any other form.
www.ecn.net.au /~socred   (628 words)

  
 Anti-Semitism, Social Credit by James Pitsula   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Social Discredit examines anti-Semitism in the Social Credit movement and the Jewish response to it, particularly that of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
Social Credit was based in Alberta, and most Jews in Canada lived in Toronto and Montreal.
Social Discredit is full of intriguing episodes, but typically the documentation is more complete on the Congress side than on the Social Credit side.
www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/711/jewish113.html   (638 words)

  
 Bruce Bartlett Opinion Editorial: Social Security Credit For Delayed Retirement To Increase
The idea of the credit is to encourage workers to stay in the labor force and not retire the minute they become eligible for benefits.
That is because the delayed retirement credit will rise to 8 percent in the year 2008 (for workers born in 1943).
The delayed retirement credit is important because the nation is facing a critical shortage of skilled workers and cannot afford to have so many of them in retirement, out of the labor force.
www.ncpa.org /oped/bartlett/nov0199.html   (524 words)

  
 Household Workers
Your household employee may be eligible for Social Security and Medicare some day—if you deduct Social Security and Medicare taxes from his or her wages, pay the taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and report the wages to the Social Security Administration.
How many credits workers (including household workers) need to qualify for Social Security depends on their age and the kind of benefit they might be eligible to receive.
Younger people need fewer credits to be eligible for disability benefits or for their family members to be eligible for survivors benefits when they die.
www.ssa.gov /pubs/10021.html   (873 words)

  
 Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal: Social Discredit: Anti-Semitism, Social Credit, and the Jewish Response. (Book ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal: Social Discredit: Anti-Semitism, Social Credit, and the Jewish Response.
Social Discredit: Anti-Semitism, Social Credit, and the Jewish Response.
Macpherson's Democracy in Alberta, the classic account of the rise of Social Credit in Alberta, documented the fanatic anti-Semitism of Major C. Douglas, the founder of Social Credit doctrine.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:85047544&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (167 words)

  
 NEWS ANALYSIS / Unpopular options underlie ideas to fix Social Security / Credit-card culture leaves U.S. unwilling to ...
The solvency of Social Security and private accounts are separate issues, although Bush often fudges the distinction.
Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system in which payroll taxes collected from today's workers pay for the benefits of current retirees.
Robert Pozen, chairman of MFS Investment Management and a former member of Bush's Social Security Commission, warned that no changes will be possible once the 76 million members of the Baby Boom generation begin retiring in large numbers.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/07/MNGU8B751D1.DTL   (1183 words)

  
 Ryan Social Credit Debate April 1999
>Presently, this credit is usurped entirely by the *financier* acting >in his perceived self-interest, or supplemented within national >economies by the aggressive exporter achieving a "favorable" balance >in trade, and has little correspondence to the wishes of either >entrepreneurs or consumers or even governments as reflected by their >spending or saving decisions in free markets.
Furthermore, I was not only a member of the Social Credit Party of Canada who was evicted from the party for protesting too forcefully leader Martin Hattersley changed the party policy to condone 6% interest but I then formed and led the Social Credit Party of Ontario which continued to advocate 0%.
As the Social Credit engineer Major Clifford Douglas said, be democratic all you want in deciding where you want your bridge but once that's decided, then leave the building of it up to the dictatorial civil engineer.
www.cyberclass.net /turmel/ryan1.htm   (11141 words)

  
 Social Credit Party --  Encyclopædia Britannica
French Parti du Crédit Social minor Canadian political party founded in 1935 by William Aberhart in Alberta and based on British economist Clifford Douglas's Social Credit theory.
Social and intellectual changes taking place in Japan were as important as those in politics.
Vander Zalm, William N. (born 1934), Canadian public official, born in Noordwykerhout, Z.H. Holland; elected mayor of Surrey 1969; elected provincial legislator 1975 (Social Credit); appointed minister of human resources 1975; appointed minister of municipal affairs and minister responsible for the Urban Transit Authority 1978; appointed minister of education and minister responsible for...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9068441?tocId=9068441   (743 words)

  
 The Alberta Social Credit Party - Constitution
The name of the Society is "The Alberta Social Credit Party", and is referred to herein as "The Party" or hereafter as "Social Credit - The Alberta Party".
To promote the election of enough candidates of the Social Credit Party to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta to form the government and thus make possible the implementation of Social Credit principles.
To study and extend the knowledge of the Principles of the Alberta Social Credit Party and their application in Alberta;
www.socialcredit.com /constitution.htm   (395 words)

  
 Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta. by David Laycock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He contends that C.H. Douglas's Social Credit theory is a coherently collectivist, radically interventionist doctrine, and that Aberhart's adaptation of this doctrine in 1935 was responsible for much of the support garnered by the Social Credit League.
And his account of Social Credit's statist interventionism leads him to seriously underplay the cross-class appeal of Aberhart's promise to deliver the people from 'poverty in the midst of plenty' with monthly dividends and accessible credit.
Bell closes his book with a five-page 'general theory of social movements' that he claims is warranted by his analysis of Social Credit in Alberta.
www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/783/social2.html   (678 words)

  
 EPIC, U.S. PIRG Answers to Chairman Shaw's Questions on Social Security Number Privacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cate may be correct that the SSN is not a major factor in credit card fraud, but that form of identity theft is less serious from the victim's perspective, and legislative effort to prevent the crime should focus on impostors who obtain new accounts or credentials in the victim's name.
Credit cannot be granted unless three identifiers from the application match those on file at the credit bureau.
Social Security numbers are attractive to identity thieves because the numbers are abundant and provide access to a victim's private information.
www.epic.org /privacy/ssn/ssnanswers7.2.04.html   (5942 words)

  
 Social Credit on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Identity violations spur changes to Fair Credit Reporting Act: large-scale thefts of Social Security numbers and credit report data have been making the national news lately as identity crooks become more...
Credit reports now available for free in Southern states.
SCF is helping to improve household resources through income generation schemes and credit networks for poor rural families.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/SocialC1r.asp   (630 words)

  
 Social Credit Party Of Alberta - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta (State and Economic Life)
Social Discredit: Anti-Semitism, Social Credit, and the Jewish Response (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)
The Progressive Party in Canada, (Social credit in Alberta; its background and development)
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /social_credit_party_of_alberta.htm   (78 words)

  
 192.168.0.1: Credit report social engineering?
If you get turned down for a credit report in the US, you are given all information used to base their decision.
This will make the credit card company believe that your victim has recently moved and is applying for a credit card.
Since there is only a name and address on the application it will be denied and all the person's credit information will be mailed to the new "current address" or better known as your p.o.
dosshell.blogspot.com /2005/01/credit-report-social-engineering.html   (656 words)

  
 Course Descriptions--51 Science and Technology Studies--Social Sciences Credit--Rensselaer Catalog 97|98   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The theory and practice of sustainability is explored in three parts: through an examination of the concepts, actors, and processes of society-environment interactions; through an analysis of environmental philosophies and models for action; and by addressing the problems and prospects for building sustainable societies.
Effects of science and technology on social life are examined in specific contexts, such as agriculture, mining, factory and office work, and the home.
Both topics are the focal concern of the course, which surveys the influence of mental heuristics and biases, social context, and affect on judgment and choice.
www.rpi.edu /dept/catalog/97-98/Courses/51.html   (3046 words)

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