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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:
http://www.americaisnotbroke.net/

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:

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He is also New York State Coordinator and Senior Advisor for the Public Banking Institute

Click Here, which seeks to promote Public Banking. The PBI is chaired by another OEN blogger, Ellen Brown. Scott has appeared on TV/Radio and in in-person Presentations to explain the principles of Georgism, Greenbacking, and State Banking. These may also be found on his personal blog: http://newthinking.blogspot.com/

Scott has a dozen progressive petitions on Change.org which may be found here:
http://chn.ge/10nUAmJ

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.
He has been called an "adept syncretist" by Kirkus Discoveries for his novel, NeitherWorld - a two-volume opus blending Native American myth, archaeological detail, government conspiracy, with a sci-fi flair http://amzn.to/10nUoDV

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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366 Articles, 1482 Quick Links, 3939 Comments, 41 Diaries, 3 Petitions, 33 Series, 7 Polls

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(41 comments)        Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Enforce the Oath of Office and Force a vote on SCOTUS nominee   SHARE More Sharing The Oath of Office Congress took is not "optional," it is binding and violation of it is a Constitutionally punishable felony. The Senate must be held legally accountable for violating it.
(1 comments)        Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Commemorate President Lincoln's Assassination with 1 Billion Debt-Free Lincoln $5 Bills   SHARE More Sharing To honor President Lincoln on the 150th anniversary of his assassination, let's issue one billion $5 commemorative United States Notes. The original United States Notes were issued by president Lincoln in 1862-1863 and totaled $450 million, or 40% of the Northern currency at the peak of the Civil War. With Congress' cooperation, Lincoln was able to take this emergency measure because of the constitution's coinage clause
(9 comments)        Wednesday, August 22, 2012
End the Debt Crisis with debt-free United States Notes!   SHARE More Sharing Money should belong to the people, not the banks, and should be issued in sufficient quantity to meet the productive capacity of the nation, not withheld from circulation by banks that did nothing to deserve it.

6 Petitions Signed

Signed on Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Enforce the Oath of Office and Force a vote on SCOTUS nominee

Signed on Saturday, January 30, 2016
Petition: Tell the DNC to Dump Undemocratic Superdelegates and that you won't Donate to DNC until they do.

Signed on Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Commemorate President Lincoln's Assassination with 1 Billion Debt-Free Lincoln $5 Bills

Signed on Monday, December 3, 2012
Petition: Reject Susan Rice As Secretary of State. She is a Nightmare of liberals and progressives

Signed on Thursday, October 25, 2012
Petition: Bring International Election Monitoring to the 2012 Ohio Elections

Signed on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
End the Debt Crisis with debt-free United States Notes!

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