To some young libertarians in the liberty movement, this might come as a total shock after all, wasnt Ron Paul a constitutionalist and a former member of congress? But to those who understand the true origins of the Ron Paul Revolution, and in particular the influences of Ron Paul himself, such remarks should come as no surprise.

First, Ron Paul was a close ideological ally of Murray N. Rothbard, the renowned Austrian economist, historian, and political theorist. Murray Rothbard, the author of twenty five books and literally thousands of articles, is considered by many as one of the most important and prolific libertarian scholars in history. Furthermore, grounding his libertarianism in natural law theory, Rothbard came to the conclusion that government, even if limited in size, represents an intolerable moral evil. The State, Rothbard would argue, violates the natural law by merely existing, seeing as even basic state activities, such as national defense, must be funded though theft, i.e., through compulsory taxation.

Of course, while Paul has certainly not embraced the anarcho-capitalist vision of a stateless society, Murray Rothbard has had a profound impact on Ron Paul, who admired Rothbards writings tremendously. According toRon Paul:

It would be difficult to exaggerate Professor Murray N. Rothbards influence on the movement for freedom and free markets. He is the living giant of Austrian economics, and he has led the now-formidable movement ever since the death of his great teacher, Ludwig von Mises, in 1971. We are all indebted to him for the living link he has provided to Mises, upon whose work he has built and expanded.

Furthermore, Ron Paul not only recognized the important contributions set forth by Murray Rothbard, but also declared that Rothbard was an essential figure in his conversion to Austrian Economics and Libertarianism. He writes:

Years before I ever thought of running for Congress, I came across Rothbards Americas Great Depression. Before reading it, my thinking was clouded by the temptation to divide these issues and ideas in partisan terms. Rothbard fixed that. Americas Great Depression was a key book in my conversion to pure free-market, libertarian thinking. The confidence I gained with ammunition supplied by Rothbard encouraged my entry into politics, since I needed the reassurance that my intuitive allegiance to liberty was shared by great thinkers. Rothbard taught me to always keep the distinction between peaceful market activity and State coercion in my mind. It served as a constant guide once I was in office.

1. Natural Law

One clear example of Pauls Rothbardian roots, then, can be illustrated by his opposition to the income tax on the ground that it is a form of involuntary servitude. When Ron Paul claims that the income tax is theft, moreover, his opposition is not grounded in a cost-benefit analysis, i.e., that the costs outweigh the benefits. On the contrary, he understands it to be a moral issue above anything else. The income tax should not be abolished because it is fiscally irresponsible, whatever that means, but because it is a form of morally reprehensible robbery.

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NAZI Transhumanist Agenda: Robots perform live on stage // R$E – Video

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First report of long-term safety of human embryonic stem cells to treat human disease

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New research published in The Lancet provides the first evidence of the medium-term to long-term safety and tolerability of transplanting human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) in humans.

hESC transplants used to treat severe vision loss in 18 patients with different forms of macular degeneration appeared safe up to 3 years post-transplant, and the technology restored some sight in more than half of the patients.

"Embryonic stem cells have the potential to become any cell type in the body, but transplantation has been complicated by problems including the risk of teratoma formation and immune rejection," explains lead author Professor Robert Lanza, Chief Scientific officer at Advanced Cell Technology in the USA. "As a result, immunoprivileged sites (that do not produce a strong immune response) such as the eye have become the first parts of the human body to benefit from this technology."

In the two phase 1/2 studies, hESCs were differentiated into retinal pigment epithelium cells and transplanted into nine patients with Stargardt's macular dystrophy and nine patients with dry atrophic age-related macular degeneration, the leading causes of juvenile and adult blindness in the developed world, respectively. No effective treatments exist for either condition, and eventually the light-receiving (photoreceptor) cells of the retina degenerate leading to complete blindness.

All participants were injected with one of three different doses of retinal cells (50,000, 100,000, and 150,000 cells) into the subretinal space (under the retina) of the eye with the worse vision.

The hESC-derived cells were well tolerated for up to 37 months after transplantation. No safety concerns (eg, hyperproliferation or rejection) in the treated eyes were detected during a median follow-up of 22 months. Adverse events were associated with vitreoretinal surgery and immunosuppression, but none were deemed to be related to the hESC-derived cells.

Follow-up testing showed that 10 out of 18 treated eyes had substantial improvements in how well they could see, with 8 patients reading over 15 additional letters in the first year after transplant. Visual acuity remained the same or improved in seven patients, but decreased by more than 10 letters in one patient. Importantly, untreated eyes did not show similar visual improvements.

According to co-lead author Professor Steven Schwartz from the Jules Stein Eye Institute, Los Angeles, USA, "Our results suggest the safety and promise of hESCs to alter progressive vision loss in people with degenerative diseases and mark an exciting step towards using hESC-derived stem cells as a safe source of cells for the treatment of various medical disorders requiring tissue repair or replacement."

Writing in a linked Comment, Anthony Atala, Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA says, "The work by Schwartz and colleagues is a major accomplishment, but the path to get to this point has not been smooth. Since the discovery of hESC in 1998, much has transpired, including political, ethical, and scientific debates, with an overall push to achieve the promise of human therapies. Now, we have follow-up that extends to longer than 3 years in patients treated with hESC-derived stem cells, showing both safety and apparent efficacy...Much work remains to be done before hESC and induced pluripotent stem cell therapies go beyond regulatory trials, but the path is now set in motion.

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Wernher von Braun Predicted We'd Send Men to Mars No Sooner Than 2050s

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Student researchers at MIT have concluded that given current technology, any colonists to Mars would die after about 68 days. Mars One, the company that hopes to put people on Mars by the 2025 (and film a reality TV show there, so you know they're legit) insists that the MIT researchers are wrong. But as any student of paleo-futurism would know, even the most optimistic space prognosticators of the past century would side with the MIT students.

To take just one example, let's look at the April 30, 1954 issue of Collier's magazine, which featured a splashy feature article dedicated to the future of exploring Mars. It was quite optimistic, and no doubt inspired countless kids to think that they might live in space stations by the time they were adults. But when it came to Mars, space pioneer (and former Nazi scientist) Wernher von Braun didn't mince words. It would be "a century or more" before humans set foot on the red planet.

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Will man ever go to Mars? I am sure he willbut it will be a century or more before he's ready. In that time scientists and engineers will learn more about the physical and mental rigors of interplanetary flightand about the unknown dangers of life on another planet. Some of that information may become available within the next 25 years or so, through the erection of a space station above the earth (where telescope viewings will not be blurred by the earth's atmosphere) and through the subsequent exploration of the moon, as described in previous issues of Collier's.

Any time people insist that we'll go to Mars in the near future, I always think about Wernher von Braun's 1954 predictions for manned trips to Mars. We often think of people in the 1950s and 60s as taking for granted the most outlandishly optimistic predictions for the future. But as we're continually reminded, people of the past weren't stupid. Or, at least, they were no more stupid than the people of today.

Images: Illustration of a Martian exploration by Fred Freeman, scanned from the April 30, 1954 issue of Collier's magazine; Spaceship to Mars by Chesley Bonestell, scanned from the April 30, 1954 issue of Collier's magazine

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Interview with a Futurist: Future Cities – Video

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Here futurist Klaus Mogensen (Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies) discusses what to consider when designing cities for the future.

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Tomorrow is Now–Futurist Jack Uldrich to Keynote the American Sportfishing Summit

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San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) October 16, 2014

This year, the 2014 American Sportfishing Summit is being held October 15-17, at the Hotel Contessa in San Antonio, Texas and Jack Uldrich, renowned global futurist, and best-selling author will be a featured keynote speaker, along with political pundit Charlie Cook.

Uldrich will be delivering his talk, "The Big AHA: How to Future-Proof the Sports Fishing Industry." As the son of John Uldrich, one of the founders of Vexilar, a sonar detection system for fish and game forecasting, Jack Uldrich grew up in a world surrounded by sportfishing. Jack's father along with Robert Knutson, both avid hunters and fishermen, founded Vexilar Engineering Inc. in 1960. Their first product in the fishing arena was Deptherm - a unique and simple tool for finding depth and temperature. In 1965 they acquired an electronic temperature sensing device from Honeywell Inc. which also served as a depth finder. Although no longer in production, it did put Vexilar into the marine electronics sector relating to fishing and opened the door to sonar equipment which they first imported from Japan.

Jack Uldrich is the founder and Chief Unlearning Officer of The School of Unlearningan international consultancy designed to assist organizations in succeeding tomorrow by unlearning today. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics pertaining to future trends and his specialty of "unlearning." He will address the American Sportfishing Association (ASA), the sportfishing industrys trade association, on how they can begin future-proofing the industry of marine electronics, and live into their 2014 Mission of "Today was Then,Tomorrow is Now."

As the nations recreational fishing trade association, ASA supports the interests of hundreds of businesses, agencies and organizations and is the champion for the sportfishing industry. ASAs members include sportfishing and boating manufacturers and their representatives, allied manufacturers, independent and chain outdoor retail stores, state fish and wildlife agencies, conservation organizations, federal land and water management agencies, angler advocacy groups, outdoor media groups and journalists all of whom will be audience members for Uldrich's talk on "The Big AHA."

"The pace and scale of tomorrows change begs the obvious question: How does a business leader prepare for a constantly changing future?" Jack Uldrich says, "The answer can be found in a simple acronym: AHA. It stands for Awareness, Humility and Action." He goes on to say, "Leaders must become aware of the extraordinary changes taking place across todays global landscape. For example, advances in nanotechnology are leading to the creation of new materials that can out-compete copper in terms of conductivity and steel in terms of strength. And soon, some of these exotic nanomaterials will even compete on price."

But Uldrich goes beyond simple trend forecasting and extends his keynote into helping his clients learn, or rather unlearn, in order to embrace all the new trends coming their way. "Once a leader is aware that the only 'constant' in todays world is change, and is humble enough to accept that unlearning will be as important as learning, in the future what is he or she to do?" In order to find out, go hear Uldrich speak, or take a look at one of his best selling books, like "Foresight 20/20" which will see its second publication with new editions in the coming weeks.

Uldrichs work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek,Forbes, The Futurist, Future Quarterly Research, the Wall Street Reporter, Leader to Leader, Management Quarterly, and hundreds of other newspapers and publications around the country. Jack is also a recurrent guest of worldwide media, having appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and National Public Radio on numerous occasions and he is featured as a guest commentator on James Woods "Futurescape."

Parties interested in learning more about Jack Uldrich, his books, his daily blog, or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his website. Media wishing to know more about this event or are interested in interviewing Jack can contact Amy Tomczyk at (612)343-0660.

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International Space Station U.S. EVA 27 (time lapse) – Video

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International Space Station U.S. EVA 27 (time lapse)
Time lapse of the NASA TV feed of the extravehicular activity (EVA), or spacewalk, performed from the Quest U.S. airlock module module on the International Space Station (ISS) by NASA astronaut...

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