Christopher T. George
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Editor, Loch Raven Review
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The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
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Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
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The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
Save Liverpool Docks and Waterways - Click
Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
Giving Liverpool a full Metro - CLICK
Rapid-transit rail: Everton, Liverpool & Arena - CLICK
Save Royal Iris - Sign Petition
Christopher T. George
Editor, Ripperologist
Editor, Loch Raven Review
http://christophertgeorge.blogspot.com/
Chris on Flickr and on MySpace
When Henry George, the creator of LVT, died in 1897 in the USA, 100,000 people turned up for his funeral. A man the rich and powerful have tried to air-brush from history. His views are getting stronger and stronger around the world.
Most people have heard of economist Keynes, few have heard of Henry George. Economists have though.
In the 1800s Henry George witnessed mass poverty and slums in New York. Like many, he was puzzled by the wealth creation, great technical advances and mass production and how many people being a part of this wealth creation lived lives of abject misery. The system clearly broken to allow this to occur. The proceeds of production were clearly not fairly distributed. Karl Marx and Engels studied this too around the same time and came out with their views of how to fairly distribute the fruits of production.
Henry George looked at it in rather simplistic and brilliant way. He saw that land ownership was a big problem by people not using the land for anything productive but taking rent. This he saw was the root cause of the problem with many cascading negative effects in society. George came up with Land Value Tax as a method of distributing the production of society more fairly and seamlessly easy. A system that did not change the behaviour of people, business or ownership. No state ownership, no nationalisation of land or anything. Just a tax on the value of land. He said "the solution was under his feet all the time".
There are many organisations pushing his views strongly today. Even the Labour and LibDems have LVT lobby bodies. I'm sure not about the Tories - I doubt they ever would being funded a number of large landed gentry. Although I have met a few that are strong supporters.
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The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
Save Liverpool Docks and Waterways - Click
Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
Giving Liverpool a full Metro - CLICK
Rapid-transit rail: Everton, Liverpool & Arena - CLICK
Save Royal Iris - Sign Petition
Christopher T. George
Editor, Ripperologist
Editor, Loch Raven Review
http://christophertgeorge.blogspot.com/
Chris on Flickr and on MySpace
The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
Save Liverpool Docks and Waterways - Click
Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
Giving Liverpool a full Metro - CLICK
Rapid-transit rail: Everton, Liverpool & Arena - CLICK
Save Royal Iris - Sign Petition
Sirob, just wondering if you'd had chance to scan anymore of your fab pics of the clc extension to Southport. Would love to see more!
Some more Co-op terracotta decoration, plus a 1936 advert. Was this the facade used?
You take them for granted - until one day they're gone!
Here are pics of the 1971 Grand National, which proves that you get a better view on the telly!!!
You take them for granted - until one day they're gone!
Excellent as usual Sirob. Very fitting for the day.
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Keeping it real!
LIVERPOOL OLD POSTCARDS AND PHOTOS HERE http://s197.photobucket.com/albums/a...To%20Download/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKmGi...eature=related
http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/
What a dump the course was in those days.
The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
Save Liverpool Docks and Waterways - Click
Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
Giving Liverpool a full Metro - CLICK
Rapid-transit rail: Everton, Liverpool & Arena - CLICK
Save Royal Iris - Sign Petition
You can say that again Waterways! I was an extra in the film about Bob champion,in the early 80's, and I was at Aintree for about 6 days. I couldnt believe what a decrepit dump it was, and I was being told,this is the home of the most famous horse race in the world? Well,it certainly didn't show! The course now looks worthy of that title![]()
These have probably already been posted, but I couldn't see them when I had a quick look so here ya go...
Liverpool Postcards
Some old Liverpool pics I found
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Some interesting pic's thereSS,especially the one's of St.John's gardens,with the railings still up!![]()
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