One aspect of the decline of the middle class is that more and more young people continue to live at home.
| Study: Record Number 21 Million Young Adults Living With Parents |
| CBS News (D.C.) |
Chuck Spinney: The Politicization of Science — Neo-Nazi Eugenics Rampant
06 Family, 06 Genocide, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government
My good friend Pierre Sprey emailed me the attached article by Jonathan Latham along with his introduction. While this truly frightening critique applies to genetics, the politicization of science is a widespread phenomenon that is now undermining our contemporary culture. It can be seen many fields ranging from defense science to climate science. With Pierre's permission I am his forwarding introductory comment and as Latham very important essay to you.
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I commend to you this excellent article, a most interesting example of negative marginal returns in science research:
The third and fourth paragraphs from the end are particularly telling:
“Not sufficiently understood by outsiders is the fact that most of science is essentially now a top-down project. There persists a romantic notion (retained by many scientists) that science is a process of free enquiry. In this view, the endless grant applications and the requests for applications are merely quality control measures, or irritants imposed by bureaucrats.
But free enquiry in science is all but extinct. In reality, only a tiny proportion of research in biology gets done outside of straightjackets imposed by funding agencies. Researchers design their projects around funding programs; universities organize their hiring around them, and every experiment is carefully designed to bolster the next grant application.
The consequences of this dynamic are that individual scientists have negligible power within the system; but more importantly it opens a route by which powerful political or commercial forces can surreptitiously set the science agenda from above.”
Needless to say, the article in toto is a reminder that the despicable Progressive penchant for eugenics–so fulsomely admired by Hitler and so eloquently excoriated by Alexander Cockburn–is once again flourishing among us.
Can it be a coincidence that this eugenic resurgence comes just when our ever-present native American fascist undercurrents are rising on a perigean spring tide of metasticizing secret surveillance, police aggrandizement, corporate kleptocracy, Judeo-Christian fanaticism and racist xenophobia?
Pierre Sprey
Science as Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda
By Jonathan Latham, Independent Science News | News Analysis
Thursday, 01 August 2013 10:41
SmartPlanet: The world peaked in 1978
03 Economy, 06 Family, 11 Society, SmartPlanet
A new study of global wealth says prosperity peaked around 1978, and we’ve been heading downhill ever since. New Scientist reports.
Governments have tended to build economic policies around gross domestic product (GDP), the sum of all monetary transactions in an economy. GDP has risen fairly steadily — and often dramatically — since the second world war, implying the world has become more prosperous. Critics point out, however, that GDP only tells part of the story.
For a more comprehensive measure — one that accounts for social factors and environmental costs — economists started using the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI). It adjusts expenditure in 26 ways to account for costs like pollution, crime and inequality, and for beneficial activities where no money changes hands, such as housework and volunteering.
Sepp Hasslberger: Vaccines do Irreparable Harm + Vaccine Harm RECAP
03 Economy, 06 Family, 07 Health, 11 Society, Academia, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Media
When will government health departments start paying attention?
Vaccines Do Irreparable Harm: Study from Poland
A new scientific review from Poland discusses irreparable harm done by vaccines.
This review addresses the issue in terms of adverse effects, immune system effects, neurological symptoms following vaccination, and a history of vaccines demonstrating little benefit. It centers mostly on studies not often referenced in the western world, providing fresh and broad-ranging information.
An honest reading of the study can leave little doubt that harm done may be extensive and often permanent.
Read full article detailing adverse effects.
Continue reading “Sepp Hasslberger: Vaccines do Irreparable Harm + Vaccine Harm RECAP”
Owl: YouTube (8:00) Corrupt US Media Blacks Out Israeli Torture of Palestinian Children as Investigated and Documented by the United Nations
06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Military
UN Accuses Israel of Torturing Palestinian Children
This Real News Network report discusses two human rights violations against Palestinian children that were first publicized by an Israeli organization and have since been investigated by the UN: abusive confinement and prosecution, and using them as human shields.
Phi Beta Iota: The US Media may well be the most corrupt in the world — apart from not being honest about war crimes, the mere fact that Bloomberg Business Week reports without question the false economic and employment statistics of the US Government should alarm all who hold the illusion that the US Media is worth anything at all.
SchwartzReport: Only 47% of US Adults Have Full-Time Job — CAN YOU HEAR US NOW? Robert Steele Comments + REVOLUTION USA RECAP
03 Economy, 06 Family, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IneptitudeHere is some good news and some bad news. More jobs were created, but they are generally low level jobs, and 53 per cent of adult Americans still don't have jobs. We cannot have a prosperous democracy when over half the adults don't have secure full-time employment.
Only 47% of Adults Have Full-Time Job
MIKE FLYNN – Breitbart
EXTRACT:
Of the 144 million Americans employed last month, only 116 million were working full-time. Friday's report showed that 58.7% of the civilian adult population of 245 million was working last month. Only 47% of Americans, however, had a full-time job.
Berto Jongman: Hans Rosling on Future Energy and Why Two Billion Poorest Matter
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Hans Rosling Illustrates Future Energy Consumption with Legos
June 25, 2013, 3:01 PM
Here is the most low-tech explanation you will see on population growth, infant mortality and energy consumption, courtesy of the Swedish professor of global health, Hans Rosling. In the video below, Rosling makes strikingly clear through his lego demonstration that sustainable growth is only possible if we raise the living standards of the bottom two billion.
While the solution to this problem is elusive, there are few illustrations that you will find that present this global challenge in such clear terms as this video.
