A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.--de Tocqueville
The pioneer psychologist G. H. Lewes, wrote, “[T]here is a co-operation of things of unlike kinds. The emergent is unlike its components . . . and it cannot be reduced to their sum or their difference.” Emergence is order of a new kind out of chaos. Birds, with no instinct to flock as individuals, flock in groups.
Emergence is central to a Hayekian understanding of spontaneous order and properties of the price system. In the market, prices are "of human action, but not of human design" - they emerge from the buying and selling of the many individuals at the micro level, but settle on values that balance the quantity demanded with the supplied of a particular good.
On June 29, the Russian Defense Ministry announced it was purging the entire senior and mid-level command of the Baltic Fleet. “It was a dramatic move that suggested deep structural problems within the fleet command. “In total, 50 officers were dismissed from their post, including the fleet commander, Vice Admiral Viktor Kravchuk, and his chief of staff, Vice Admiral Sergei Popov,” The Moscow Times report reads. “Not since Stalin’s purges had so many officers been ousted at once.”
The pioneer psychologist G. H. Lewes, wrote, “[T]here is a co-operation of things of unlike kinds. The emergent is unlike its components . . . and it cannot be reduced to their sum or their difference.” Emergence is order of a new kind out of chaos. Birds, with no instinct to flock as individuals, flock in groups.
Emergence is central to a Hayekian understanding of spontaneous order and properties of the price system. In the market, prices are "of human action, but not of human design" - they emerge from the buying and selling of the many individuals at the micro level, but settle on values that balance the quantity demanded with the supplied of a particular good.
The essence of emergence is that it can not be reduced to components.
The federal government spends more than half a trillion a year on "income security" programs -- food stamps, welfare, subsidized housing and the like. This year, outlays will total $525 billion, according to Obama's Office of Management and Budget. That's up 24% since 2008.
The Obama administration’s sales pitch for the new government mandate to raise overtime pay is the prediction that a government-imposed hike in employers’ costs of employing workers will cause employers to further economize on the employment of those workers. So employers respond to higher labor costs by further economizing on the use of those workers who are now more costly to employ. Labor made more costly will used more sparingly. Yet this correct Obama administration prediction is wholly at odds with the administration’s – and with countless pundits’ and professors’ – insistence that raising the minimum wage does not cause employers to economize on the use of the workers who, because of the higher minimum wage, become more costly to employ.
If Hillary Clinton’s ‘mistakes' and carelessness justify her escape from criminal prosecution for the manner in which she arranged to receive and send e-mails during her time as Secretary of State, surely this same incompetence, inattention to detail, and gross carelessness render her utterly unworthy to be trusted with the enormous powers that now are entrusted to the President of the United States. At least the erratic Trump seems less of a risk.
The Obama administration’s sales pitch for the new government mandate to raise overtime pay is the prediction that a government-imposed hike in employers’ costs of employing workers will cause employers to further economize on the employment of those workers. So employers respond to higher labor costs by further economizing on the use of those workers who are now more costly to employ. Labor made more costly will used more sparingly. Yet this correct Obama administration prediction is wholly at odds with the administration’s – and with countless pundits’ and professors’ – insistence that raising the minimum wage does not cause employers to economize on the use of the workers who, because of the higher minimum wage, become more costly to employ.
If Hillary Clinton’s ‘mistakes' and carelessness justify her escape from criminal prosecution for the manner in which she arranged to receive and send e-mails during her time as Secretary of State, surely this same incompetence, inattention to detail, and gross carelessness render her utterly unworthy to be trusted with the enormous powers that now are entrusted to the President of the United States. At least the erratic Trump seems less of a risk.
Obama is having a lot of trouble with this racial violence because he has a respect--as a community organizer might--for public demonstration as an expression of some suppressed truth. But, as always, there is a curve. The Tea Party was never seen as a "public demonstration of truth" and was aggressively attacked in the Press--and by Federal agencies.
A very recently published Harvard study on racial bias in police use of force finds that, as the mainstream narrative proffers, black men and women are treated differently in the hands of law enforcement. However, in what the (African-American) author of the study calls "the most surprising result of my career," when it comes to the most lethal form of force - police shootings - the study finds no racial bias, contradicting the mental image of police shootings that many Americans hold.
As The NY Times reports, the study did not say whether the most egregious examples — the kind of killings at the heart of the nation’s debate on police shootings — are free of racial bias. Instead, it examined a much larger pool of shootings, including nonfatal ones. It focused on what happens when police encounters occur, not how often they happen. (There’s a disproportionate number of tense interactions among blacks and the police when shootings could occur, and thus a disproportionate outcome for blacks.) Racial differences in how often police-civilian interactions occur have been shown reflect greater structural problems in society.
A very recently published Harvard study on racial bias in police use of force finds that, as the mainstream narrative proffers, black men and women are treated differently in the hands of law enforcement. However, in what the (African-American) author of the study calls "the most surprising result of my career," when it comes to the most lethal form of force - police shootings - the study finds no racial bias, contradicting the mental image of police shootings that many Americans hold.
As The NY Times reports, the study did not say whether the most egregious examples — the kind of killings at the heart of the nation’s debate on police shootings — are free of racial bias. Instead, it examined a much larger pool of shootings, including nonfatal ones. It focused on what happens when police encounters occur, not how often they happen. (There’s a disproportionate number of tense interactions among blacks and the police when shootings could occur, and thus a disproportionate outcome for blacks.) Racial differences in how often police-civilian interactions occur have been shown reflect greater structural problems in society.
| Vox populi: n: 1. the voice of the people; popular opinion. Usage: Polls are certainly useful devices for plumbing the depths of the vox populi.-- James D. Williams, "Detroit News Poll Not Quite What It Seems," The Crisis, June–July 1992. Ety: Vox populi is of Latin origin, and is often found in the maxim vox populi, vox Dei meaning "the voice of the people is the voice of God." It entered English in the mid-1500s. |
| Who is....Ludwig von Mises? |
This racial problem is just getting worse and worse. One significant problem is how it is assessed by self-appointed experts. A segment on GPS, Zacharia's CNN show, had a panel on the U.S. racial issue. The question was raised about Obama's election; how could a racially bigoted nation elect Obama? The answer? It gave white America license to be bigoted afterward. They compared it to binging on ice cream after exercise. Nothing white America does is right.
On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion ripped through the sky over the Tunguska region of Siberia, flattening trees nearly 31 miles around. The blast is thought to have been produced by a comet or asteroid hurtling through Earth's atmosphere, resulting in an explosion equal to 185 Hiroshima bombs as pressure and heat rapidly increased.
A new busybody frontier: Agriculture consumes 80 percent of water in many developed countries. Meat requires much more water than plants So......China, which consumes half of the world’s pork and more than a quarter of its overall meat, announced new dietary guidelines last week that advises the average citizen to reduce their meat consumption by one-half. That country’s meat consumption has increased by nearly five-fold since 1982, even though their population has only increased by 30 percent during that time. Denmark went a little further in May. The Danish government is considering a recommendation from its ethics council that all red meats should be taxed. Red meat accounts for 10 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, and the council argued that Danes were “ethically obliged” to reduce their consumption. Ah. "Ethics."
The object likely entered the atmosphere at 9-19 miles per second, and would have been extremely fragile, destroying itself roughly six miles above Earth. Any remaining traces would be cosmic dust, BBC explains, making them extremely difficult, as they could be just a millimetre in size. The blast sent shock waves as far away as England, and even people in Asia saw the sky glowing until midnight – bright enough to read a newspaper outdoors. But, with no impact crater and little evidence of such an object ever found, scientists remain perplexed as to what truly caused the event in which 'the sky was split in two' - and a new study has "failed to reach a conclusion." This was the topic of a terrific book, The Fire Came By.
Federal spending on drug treatment programs has more than doubled since Obama took office, going from $14.8 billion to $30.6 billion.
A new busybody frontier: Agriculture consumes 80 percent of water in many developed countries. Meat requires much more water than plants So......China, which consumes half of the world’s pork and more than a quarter of its overall meat, announced new dietary guidelines last week that advises the average citizen to reduce their meat consumption by one-half. That country’s meat consumption has increased by nearly five-fold since 1982, even though their population has only increased by 30 percent during that time. Denmark went a little further in May. The Danish government is considering a recommendation from its ethics council that all red meats should be taxed. Red meat accounts for 10 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, and the council argued that Danes were “ethically obliged” to reduce their consumption. Ah. "Ethics."
The post war period was filled with adventure, expansion, creation. One was the search for the norm. "Norma" was designed to represent the "ideal" female form, based on measurements collected from 15,000 young adult women. The statue on display at the Cleveland Health Museum was the creation of a gynecologist, Dr. Robert L. Dickinson, and his collaborator Abram Belskie.
Venezuela's government said that it will seize a factory belonging to Kimberly-Clark Corp. after the U.S. personal care giant said it was no longer possible to manufacture in this crisis-wracked South American nation. President Nicolas Maduro accused Kimberly-Clark of participating in an international plot to damage Venezuela's economy and said his socialist government would provide public funds to the workers at the plant. Speaking on television and radio, Maduro also announced that U.S.-based Citibank, which has handled some of the state's international transactions, notified authorities that it would close the accounts of the Central Bank of Venezuela in 30 days. He linked both actions to the economic war on Venezuela, calling it "the new imperialist inquisition" of U.S. President Barack Obama. An important quality in government leaders is the ability to keep a straight face.
On June 29, the Russian Defense Ministry announced it was purging the entire senior and mid-level command of the Baltic Fleet. “It was a dramatic move that suggested deep structural problems within the fleet command. “In total, 50 officers were dismissed from their post, including the fleet commander, Vice Admiral Viktor Kravchuk, and his chief of staff, Vice Admiral Sergei Popov,” The Moscow Times report reads. “Not since Stalin’s purges had so many officers been ousted at once.”
Golden oldie:
The gun-related homicide rate of 3.6 deaths per 100,000 population in each of the years 2010, 2011 and 2013 makes those recent years the safest in at least 20 years, and possibly the safest in modern U.S. history." Yet gun ownership rates soared 50% from 1993 to 2013.
The U.S. Border Control is proposing adding a new line to the form travelers fill out when visiting in the U.S. for under 90 days without a visa. According the Guardian, the line would be added to both the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (Esta) and I-94W forms and would read, “Please enter information associated with your online presence—Provider/Platform—Social media identifier.” The Office of the Federal Register states that “collecting social media data will enhance the existing investigative process and provide DHS greater clarity and visibility to possible nefarious activity and connections by providing an additional tool set which analysts and investigators may use to better analyze and investigate the case.”
While TSA is learning our Facebook passwords, the Venezuelans are learning how not to run a country. Current government price controls are such that it costs more to grow the ingredients for maize flour, cooking oil, rice and beans--the basics of the local diet--than it is legal to sell them for. Thus people don’t. And those fixed prices are also lower than the global prices of those things. Thus people cannot and will not import them. In response to the government induced shortages, President Nicolas Maduro has just put the Army in charge of the food distribution system. Is that because the army knows how to grow and transport food? Control seems to be its own reward.
"Without the reestablishment of freedom of migration throughout the world, there can be no lasting peace."--This is a very revealing line from the writing of the libertarian Ludwig von Mises‘s 1935 essay “The Freedom to Move as an International Problem.”
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, real spending per pupil climbed roughly 5% from 2002 to 2013 -- to an average of more than $11,000 per student. New York City spends more than $20,000 per pupil, Philadelphia, $19,000.
AAAAaaaaaannnnnnnddddddd......a picture of the "Norma," on display at the Cleveland Health Museum was the creation of a gynecologist, Dr. Robert L. Dickinson, and his collaborator Abram Belskie:
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