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Politically incorrect: Dr. Ben Carson’s right-wing medicine show … – Arizona Daily Sun
Posted: June 8, 2017 at 10:43 pm
The Trumpeters are fully embracing the right-wings imperious disdain for poor people, blaming them for creating their own economic distressa convenient ideological fabrication for a government intent on destroying our nations social safety net.
And who better to mouth this moral rationalization of a patently immoral policy than Trumps Housing Secretary, Dr. Ben Carson? Raised in poverty, he became a renowned and very wealthy surgeon, so other impoverished Americans should do likewise. Carson recently spoke to this, explaining that poverty is just a state of mind. See, its simplesimplistically-speaking.
Of course, poverty is actually a state of money (i.e., the lack thereof). Its also a state of joblessness of miserly minimum wages of being disabled of limited education of a prison record and of many other hard-knock realities. Carson offers bootstrap babble about poor people having the wrong mindset, adding that Americas safety net has made poverty too cozy for the poorall of which is a plutocratic fantasy to make Trump & Company feel righteous about trying to cut off the helping hand.
One cut whacks $6 billion out of Carsons own agency, including a vital program helping five million very-low-income Americans rent apartments. Nine-out-of-ten of them are either elderly, people with disabilities, veterans, or working poor people with children. Slamming the door in their faces condemns most of them to living on the streets. How does that Make America Great?
Its time to say the obvious: The likes of Trump and Carson are incompetent ideologues, operating as if gutting government programs will magically make our countrys complex problems go away. They simply dont know what theyre doing, dont know how to govern a great democracy, and theyre making a great mess.
Jim Hightower is a best-selling author, radio commentator, nationally syndicated columnist and editor of The Hightower Lowdown, a populist political newsletter. He has spent the past four decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers that ought-to-be: consumers, working families, small businesses, environmentalists and just-plain-folks. For more of his work, visit http://www.jimhightower.com.
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Ice Cube calls out Bill Maher on use of N-word – The Mercury News
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Ice Cube took umbrage to Bill Mahers use of the N-word on Real Time with Bill Maher last week, adding that you gotta know when to shut up.
The Check Yourself rapper is slated to appear on the show Friday, as the New York Daily News reported, and instead of pulling out he has decided to guest on Mahers show and discuss the use of the racial slur.
He knows thats a bad word to a lot of people. Now, the question is: Why did he think he could be that comfortable with saying that? What makes you think you can say that? Why did you think you could get away with that?
The famously politically incorrect Maher, 61, invoked the explosive term during an interview with Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, who had just invited him to visit the state and work in the fields. The host retorted: Senator, Im a house na.
The 47-year-old rap star, who came to fame as part of the the seminal rap group N.W.A, has been known to use the N-word in his rhymes. But he felt that Mahers usage showed an inaccurate understanding of the history of slavery in America.
He wants to talk about house n-s, like they had it so much better? Ice Cube said in the interview. Its like, please. It wasnt a cakewalk for a so-called house na, either, unless you like being raped. Sometimes, you gotta know when to shut up. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Sen. Al Franken, who was also scheduled to appear on the show, has canceled, calling Mahers words inappropriate and inoffensive.
For the record, Maher has issued apologies but the conversation surrounding his use of language continues.
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WWSB ABC 7 | Dick Smothers on Comedy and Censorship WWSB ABC 7 SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB)--In recent weeks we've seen comedians such as Bill Maher, Kathy Griffin and Stephen Colbert face backlash for using certain language, images, and jokes. Legendary comedian, musician and actor Dick Smothers spoke to ABC7 at ... |
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US ‘acts outside the law’ & harms its national security with Syria airstrikes Ron Paul to RT – RT
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The US-led coalition continues to conduct airstrikes against Syrian government troops, claiming it is necessary to protect its unilaterally-declared deconfliction zones. Libertarian Ron Paul says such actions have no justification in international law.
On Thursday, the US conducted yet another strike against President Bashar Assads troops in Syria. It targeted two pickup trucks with weapons that were judged to be posing a threat to coalition and allied forces near Al-Tanf, Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Ryan Dillon said during a briefing.
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It was the third set of strikes the US has conducted in response to the alleged direct threats posed to coalition forces operating out of Al-Tanf in the last three weeks.
Although the US has claimed that the strikes were necessary responses to troops or military equipment entering an agreed-upon deconfliction zone, Moscow has rejected the justification for launching attacks on areas the Americans have unilaterally declared as safe zones.
Im not aware of the deconfliction zones the Pentagon is referring to, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. Maybe there are zones that have been established unilaterally where the [US-led] coalition thinks it can do whatever it wants. We dont recognize such zones.
The only de-escalation zones that Russia recognizes are those that were agreed to by Syria, Iran, Turkey and Russia, Lavrov added. Anything else is considered not legitimate.
This view is shared by Paul, a former Republican congressman from Texas and GOP presidential candidate.
I think its all a gimmick on our part to try to distinguish between what Russia did along with the Syrian government, Paul told RT. Of course, they were trying to de-escalate, and then the United States went in there and decided to have their own zone and demanded it not be violated, which, of course, I strongly oppose.
The US airstrikes could be hurting Washington more than they are helping American interests, journalist Alaa Ibrahim told RT. They not only undermine the fight against terrorism in Syria, but also increase tension between the US and Russia.
Like Ibrahim, Paul believes that the United States actions is compromising its fight against terrorism. The US has not respected the sovereignty of the Syrian government by backing anti-government forces and conducting strikes without Assads approval, he said.
Our position is sort of bizarre because at one moment were against ISIS, the next moment we do things that actually helps ISIS, Paul said. The recent attacks actually, were helpful to ISIS, so therefore I think its a bad policy on our part, and doesnt help the situation in Syria.
Instead, the US should join efforts with Russia to resolve the six-year civil war, he said, noting that he has long advocated for the two former Cold War adversaries to work together in the international sphere.
By working with the governments in Syria, Iran and Turkey to create official de-escalation zones, Russia has international law on its side, unlike the US with its unilateral safe zones, Paul said.
Were acting outside the law, he told RT. We weren't endorsed by the United Nations and not by international law. And, as far as Im concerned, it doesnt serve our interests, it doesnt serve the United States national security.
Paul was hoping that President Donald Trump, who initially had a much healthier attitude with Russia, would change US policy on Syria. Hes been disappointed thus far, however, with Trumps seemingly lack of a clear plan.
I havent been able to figure out exactly, you know, what is going on and what his position is because he has shifted his viewpoints, and hes closer now to our neoconservatives who sort of are in charge of our foreign policy than he was when he was elected, Paul said.
But then again, he hints at maybe we should have better relations with Russia. That, of course, is what I encourage.
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The case for libertarianism in American politics – The Hill (blog)
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Libertarianism is not conservatism, nor is it an offshoot of conservatism, a subset, or even a relative of common extraction.
Conservatism, as such, is and must be anathema to libertarianism (at least libertarianism properly understood), because libertarian political philosophy is best understood as a radicalization of traditional liberalism.
While this formula is not perfect, both of its componentsradical and liberalsuggest the incompatibility of conservatism and libertarianism. The radical, going as she does to the root, hopes to provoke change at the deepest sub strata of society, motivated by the conviction that the political and economic status quo is fundamentally unjust.
Thus, by definition, libertarians cannot adopt a posture of deference to the past but must instead agitate for a revolution, albeit a peaceful one (libertarian Josiah Warrens The Peaceful Revolutionist is widely considered Americas first anarchist periodical).
If anything, then, the philosophy of liberty belongs on precisely the other side of the political spectrum assuming, that is, that we must submit to a confused, often unhelpful left-right spectrum squarely opposing the forces of reaction and conservatism.
At least a short consideration of intellectual history is necessary to the task of properly categorizing todays libertarianism.
Certain strands of aborning nineteenth-century socialism were very clearly related to, even outgrowths from, the Enlightenment liberalism that had sprung up in the previous two centuries.
The common heritage of socialism and classical liberalism is underappreciated today, in part because the salient features of the latter (among them free trade, individual rights, private property, and a government limited in both its role and size) are now associated with conservative, not liberal, thought.
Historian Larry Siedentop goes so far as to argue that [n]othing reduces the value of discussion about modern political thought more than the simplistic and misleading contrast between liberalism and socialism.
And, as Siedentop notes, many of the concepts and modes of argument long credited to socialism were in fact introduced by liberal thinkers, making the common contrast particularly unfair to liberalism.
For example, libertarians have been quick to call attention to the fact that early French liberals developed a pre-socialist (or perhaps proto-socialist) class theory, embedded in which was an argument for radical laissez-faire.
In Britain, the political economist Thomas Hodgskin similarly defied the crude contemporary contrast between socialism and liberalism.
Historian and Hodgskin biographer David Stack correctly argues that Hodgskin can be adequately understood purely as a radical, his ideas submitting a penetrating free-market attack on the use of legal privilege to attain wealth.
By the end of the century, liberalism had all but abandoned its earlier meaning, as a philosophy centered on the freedom of the individual from state oppression. It had embraced a new meaning, the state having taken on a new democratic spirit, as least in theory.
As Stack observes, Liberalism became the language of government, and sounded the death knell of radicalism. If liberalism did not always connote the growth of government, then neither did socialism, at least not necessarily.
In America, individualist anarchists like Benjamin Tucker explicitly identified themselves as socialists even as they advocated a perfectly free market, in which only force or fraud would be out of bounds.
Tucker spent much of his life arguing in the pages of his libertarian journal Liberty that the conduct of capitalists generally is condemned, not glorified, by genuine free-market principles.
The capitalist, for Tucker, was guilty of criminal invasion, of violating the central libertarian law against the use of aggression against the non-invasive individual. He worried that many of those employing what seemed libertarian-sounding language had actually become the mouthpieces of the capitalistic class. That class had achieved wealth and power not by competing for consumers hard-earned dollars, but by abolishing the free market, by using the coercive power of the state to artificially limit the range of competition.
Throughout the 20th century, some stalwart proponents of the peaceful, cosmopolitan order produced by free trade and respect for private property rights have continued to identify as liberals.
The economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, with whom modern libertarianism is so often associated, were such committed liberals, dependably opposed to conservatism and, in Hayeks works, its propensity to reject well-substantiated new knowledge. As a philosophy of universal individual rights, libertarians contemplates a deep break with centuries-old orders of power and privilege, in which a handful of political and ecclesiastical authorities made the rules and reaped the rewards.
The lazily constructed straw-man version of libertarianism, which treats it as a subsidiary of conservatism, ignores both the tangled history of radical thought and the beliefs and representations of actual libertarians.
Because the dominance of todays corporate powerhouses rests largely on government privilege, and thus violencenot voluntary, mutually beneficial trade the anti-corporate rhetoric of progressives rings hollow; they emphasize wealth inequality and economic justice, yet they would expand the very power on which corporate abuses now rest.
American political history finds self-described progressives among the most reliable guardians of corporate welfare.
Libertarianism is a principled alternative to conservatism and progressivism, both of which, at base, represent authority against liberty.
David DAmato, an adjunct law professor at DePaul University, is a policy advisor at the Heartland Institute.
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The life and curiosity of Sir Hans Sloane – The Economist
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Glendale police respond to viral Facebook post about human … – Fox 6 – fox6now.com
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GLENDALE Glendale police have taken to social media to respond to a Facebook post thats going viral.
Police said Thursday, June 8th: We have had several citizens reach out to us about the following Facebook post that is going viral regarding human trafficking at Bayshore Towne Center.
The post reads as follows:
At tonights banquet, a detective from MPD spoke and she told us that Mayfair Mall and Bayshore Town Center are very popular spots for human trafficking. Girls as young as 12 are being snatched up and sold into prostitution rings. I thought this information is worth sharing. So be careful letting your girls go out alone and talk to them about this. Also, if you shop in or frequent these areas keep your eyes open, you could make a huge difference.
Glendale police said We want to assure everyone that while human trafficking is a very real issue in our country and you should always remain aware of your surroundings, we have had no reports of this at Bayshore nor are we currently investigating anything related.
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Nice portfolio, shame about the human running it: James Saft – Financial Post
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The problem with Modern Portfolio Theory, the basis for most diversified investment approaches, is that the often irrational human investor in charge is a major point of failure.
In other words, nice theory but shame about the monkey who is running it.
Modern Portfolio Theory, originated by Harry Markowitz in 1952, is the idea that portfolios, by diversifying, can maximize returns for a given level of risk, or volatility. This allows investors to get a higher return than they otherwise would since the assets blended together will give a smoother ride, achieving what is often called the only free lunch in investing. Since different assets perform differently in various circumstances i.e. are not perfectly correlated mixing them together improves results.
The problem isnt with the theory, which won Markowitz the Nobel prize in 1960, but, according to money managers at Newfound Investment Research, with the way it fails to take into account the impact that behavioral flaws and biases can have on how an investor actually does.
In MPT, volatility, how much and how quickly an asset goes up and down in price, is used to measure risk. As shown repeatedly in times of crisis and stress, however, different asset classes have a nasty tendency to become more correlated, to all go down together, at the worst possible time.
This increases the chances that an investor will lose nerve and bail out during extreme market conditions, turning what might be a passing downdraft into a permanent loss.
We often say that risk cannot be destroyed, only transformed. Beyond the free lunch of traditional diversification, most reductions in one type of risk come with increases in other types of risk. For example, holding a higher cash allocation will reduce volatility but will lead to more inflation risk, Corey Hoffstein, Justin Sibears and Nathan Faber of Newfound write in a study.
A significant amount of effort can go into providing an investor with an optimal portfolio under the MPT framework, only to see it discarded before the end goal has a chance of being realized. An investors behavior can be one of the biggest risks facing a successful investing.
Asset class returns are not evenly distributed, and investors, who have difficulty measuring the talent of the people theyve hired to advise them, may face long periods when their investments are not performing as theyd planned.
Investors hate two things above all else: losing money and missing out. The tension between the two, the fear of loss and the fear of doing less well than ones neighbor, drives much behavior in financial markets.
It is psychologically painful to lose money. Psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman demonstrated that losing a dollar is about 2.25 times more painful than gaining a dollar is pleasurable. Holding on during market falls is hard, and looking at a supposedly evenly distributed graph of returns does little to give the average saver comfort.
At the same time, humans are animals who naturally compare what they have to what others get, not just to what they had before. Go to a Wall Street trading floor the day bonuses are announced to see how this works out in practice.
This means that investors are sensitive not simply to how they are doing relative to their goals, but also relative to the Smiths down the street. This fear of missing out, and its flipside, pain at lagging, can cause investors to take on too much or too little risk if they observe the stock market, often wrongly conflated with an index, going up faster than their own holdings.
While volatility stands in for risk in MPT, it doesnt fully drive loss aversion or FOMO (fear of missing out), both of which can drive investors to make costly mistakes.
MPT is engineered for end results but investors exult and suffer minute by minute all along the trip.
A slavish devotion to maximizing return for risk can put an investor into a portfolio she cant tolerate, leading to either selling at the wrong time or getting greedy and buying at the wrong time.
In some ways, all of this simply argues for process and for advice.
Part of the value in having a process is not that it is perfect and always achieves best results but that it can guard against the worst mistakes.
And while that process can certainly be run by a solitary investor, given the right skills, another message here is that a good deal of the value of wealth managers is serving as a guard rail against sudden lurches one way or another.
Low-cost off-the-shelf portfolios work well in theory but are followed less often, perhaps, than ones which also have a hand-holding advisor involved.
(James Saft is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own)
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Elon Musk: The Rocket That Will Eventually Take Humans to the Moon Will Launch in 4 Months – Futurism
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In Brief In a tweet today, Elon Musk said that the highly anticipated Falcon Heavy launch would take place within the next few months. The rocket will transport the first space tourists, and it could take humanity farther in space than ever before.
Elon Musk is having a rather goodweek. He put on an excellent showing at Teslas annual shareholders meeting,and today, the news broke that Teslas stock price has surged. The company is listed on the Fortune 500 list for the first time ever. But of course, we cannot forget about another of Musks revolutionary outfits: SpaceX.
Musks space company has a number of milestone eventplanned for the coming months. Case in point, afew moments ago, a question from a Twitter user sparked an update from Musk on the companys plans to launch the Falcon Heavy, SpaceXs massive rocket that will one day take humans to the Moon.
In the tweet, Musk confirmedthat we will beseeing the rocket launch in just four months, at theend of the summer.
The Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful rocket in the world, capable of launching 54 metric tons (119,000 lb) of cargo and crew into space. The rocket will be used to boost the first space tourists to the Moon in a launch expected to take place in 2018. The entire journey is expected to take about six to seven days.
The Falcon Heavy will likely also play a role in preparing SpaceX for the highly anticipated first manned missions to Mars, set to happen by 2025.
We look forward to the upcoming launch and all the promise that its success will bring.
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New Discovery of the Oldest Known Human Remains Will Change the Narrative of Human Evolution – Futurism
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In BriefScientists have just discovered the oldest human fossils inMorocco. This find alters the narrative of human origins and helpsfill in missing details in our evolution as a species. Rediscovering Ourselves
On Wednesday, scientists reported they had discovered the oldest known remains of Homo sapiens in Morocco.The bones and other remains are approximately 300,000 years old. This revelation provides new insights into the origins of humankind: a consequence of such findings would be that human beingsevolved earlier than had previously believed. The fossils also indicate that despite fundamental differences in the brains of modern humans and early Homo sapiens, our faces strongly resemble those of our early ancestors.
Until this remarkable find at Jebel Irhoud, the oldest human fossils only dated back 195,000 years. These new fossils make experts believe that our species evolved not in Eastern Africa (specifically near Ethiopia) where later fossils were found, but across the continent in Western Africa where modern Morocco is situated.
We did not evolve from a single cradle of mankind somewhere in East Africa, paleoanthropologist Phillipp Gunz, a co-author of the two new studies on the fossils, told The New York Times.
Before now, fossils found in different places made paleoanthropologists believe that Homo sapiens arose in East Africa and then moved across the continent. However, mysterious human fossils from other parts of Africa didnt seem to fit in with this story, and caused scientists to wonder where they fit into the Homo sapiens puzzle. The remains discovered in Morocco will helpsolve these mysteries, even as it suggests new questions for further research.
For example, the recent finds at Jebel Irhoud confirm that Homo sapiens had flatter faces, similar to ours today. National Museum in London paleoanthropologist Christopher Stringer speculates that the flattened faces of early Homo sapiens may be related to the advent of speech. We really are at very early stages of trying to explain these things, Dr. Stringer told theThe New York Times.
The larger, rounder brain of modern humans is a more recent development. Dr. Gunz indicates that the human brain may have evolved into a rounder shapeduring a later phase of human existence. Two areas of the brain in particular the cerebellum and the parietal lobe, both toward the back of the head seem to have adapted over thousands of years. That being said,scientists dont yet know how the rounder brain changed how humans think.
Flint blades from around the same time have been found elsewhere across Africa, and the Jebel Irhoud fossils suggest that they may have been made by early humans. Dr. Gunz and his team believe that is this is true: Homo sapiens may have evolved across the continent as a network of groups. The only way well ever know for sure and resolve other questions these findings may bring up will bethrough additional research, which will require adequate funding.
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