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Tuesday Sept 20 - Mitch: I listen to your show almost every day and it usually informative. However, today I am listening to you giving enormous air time to Dorothy Roberts with a demonstrably idiotic, anti-scientific argument. She relies on the human genome project, a fairly primitive analysis of human genes, to prove (her claim) that there is no basis in genetics for racial differences.
It is a settled fact that two black Africans will have a child immediately identifiable as being a black African. Ditto with northern Europeans or Japanese or Pacific Islanders. Race is present in genes. End of discussion. Anyone who disputes that is pushing a political agenda unrelated to genetics. For example, Gregor Mendel did early work on genetics a hundred years ago without the benefit of knowing the human genome. The locus of race in the genome will undoubtedly be discovered when biologists become more sophisticated. Your guest is desperate to try to prove that night is day using bogus arguments.
On the other hand, there is ample room for opposing the use of race for political purposes. KPFA discusses this all day long every day. If she were to make arguments ideally separating race from politics, she would at least be honest. But as her argument stands it is dishonest and wrong.
As a scientist, I am sorry that you choose to grant this fraudulent faux science such a commodious forum, particularly when actual science goes begging in this society. Even KPFA has only a single science based show (Explorations) which, while wonderful, is still prominent in its isolation on the dial.
I enjoy listening to Robert Reich but was surprised today that he was
disingenuous about the Federal Reserve System which is a private banking
scam that is privately owned and operated for profit of it's owners most of whom
are foreign people and entities whose goals and interests are contrary to that of the people
of the USA.
The nature of the FRS was kept mum for many years but the cat is out of the bag.
The late great Eustace Mullins wrote the first book that exposed the FRS scam.
Mr. Reich persists with hiding the key fact that it -the FRS-is privately owned and operated for profit with no process for oversight or control by the US government.
Also Reich suggest a false dichotomy that it is either FRS with fiat FRS notes or US money backed by precious metals. But the US could and should issue debt free mony backed by this nation, it need not be backed by precious metals--nor borrowed through the FRS scam--.
I am disappointed in Mr. Reich. I hope he is not, like Professor Wolf, an advocator for Socialism.
Socialism is a system with a small oligarchy in control of everyone else; the endgame of communism. Capitalism is not incompatable with it as it lends itself to monopolies and cartels and to a plutocracy that then created the vision of socialism for it's goal.
The people of the US benefit from SocialSecurity Insurance and Medicare which are not icompatable with free enterprise and freedoms -especially freedom of speech -recognized in the Bill of Rights. Socialism, envisioned and birthed by a hostile elite, is definitely not compatable with a free people. We have but to look at the Utopia they created in the USSR, albeit rarely mentioned, and the 100 million citizens killed in peace time by a hostile elite who created the Utopia there and then created a daughter Utopia in Palestine.
2011/12/31, Mike Whitney
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/30/ron-paul-and-the-killing-machine/
2011/12/31, Glenn Greenwald
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/31/progressives_and_the_ron_paul_fallacies/...
this article is filled with background links, video footage of RP, and Greenwald's trenchant commentary.
2011/12/29, Robert Scheer (Truthdig)
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/marginalizing_ron_paul_20111229/P0/
2011/12/29, Matt Stoller (worked for former Rep. Alan Grayson)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/matt-stoller-why-ron-paul-challen...
2011/12/27, Dave Lindorff
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/27/why-the-establishment-is-terrifie...
2011/08/24, Clancy Sigal (writer, screenwriter)
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/24/in-praise-of-ron-paul/
2011/04/28, Charles Davis (journalist)
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/04/28/is-ron-paul-more-progressive-than...
A focus, as in today's program, on conflict with police is a completely bogus issue.
Let's concentrate on real issues.
The police are not the enemy.
When large, armed people in uniform give an order the best action is to move on, not fight. Fighting is counterproductive and distracts from the important issues of the day.
well, sort of... What it does, though, is explain the vulnerability of the system's walls against us - its laws, its armies...
Most of us are afraid to stand against THeir militaries - we have a choice-ish here on U.S.'s streets at demonstrations. Most people have no choice when they come to our doors and take us away - well, you know ...
Meanwhile, don't miss the loud raising of the important issues of the day we're always doing, fighting police, marching where we'not allowed, as well.
what was the name of the book and the guests who spoke about the income gap? Thank you for this show and others. I learn so much and like how you interview guests bringing out their wisdom and connections to politics.
hello Zeva, it doesn't look like anyone responded to your message, so i thought i would -- the guests from the UK, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, were talking about their book called The Spirit Level. It has a slightly different subtitle in the US vs the UK -- s.t. about how equality make a society "stronger" (US) vs. "do better) (UK). (I didn't look this up, so am not sure of my spelling) It sounds extremely well -researched and actually just makes a lot of sense --the more inequality you have, the more you break down the ties of community that make for a good society. Sounds like an excellent and important study -=- one we should all take note of.
By the w;ay I had heard someone who lived in Brazil say something similar -- that even the very rich there are not really secure; they have to have bodyguards and so on bec there is so much poverty. Take care.
As they face each other more Maggie starts feeling the discontent from her relationship with Jordan and begins to re-evaluate the whole thing. Another character in the movie is that of Nathaniel Messinger played by Dennis Franz who is another patient at Maggie's hospital. He somehow sees Seth and starts to help him out in his mission of becoming human. Nathaniel teaches Seth of human feelings and emotions and their wishes and desires.
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