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Republicans assuming the role of Christian Taliban makes it easier for Democrats to impose right-wing economic class-war and get away with it–political theater of the macabre >:/
Posted: 2014/01/24 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: Class War, propaganda
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Coming to Understand Abrupt Climate Change ~ Paul Beckwith
Posted: 2014/01/24 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: climate change
http://www.boomerwarrior.org/2013/08/paul-beckwith-after-i-talk-with-him-on-the-phone/
Paul Beckwith ~ I have been telling people for over 2 years about the Arctic albedo collapse reducing polar to equator temperature gradients, physically causing the slowing, waving out and stalling of jet streams, causing extreme weather events to skyrocket. For example, my CMOS presentation in January 2012 was seen by >70,000 (by Aug/2012) and still counting. I have given multiple talks to the public, politicians, scientists. I’ve incessantlytweeted (1200 followers) and facebooked (4000 friends) about these connections. I started blogging frequently with Sierra Club Canada about a year ago, as well as with Arctic News, the Elephant Journal, BoomerWarrior, Canadian Daily, World Daily. Also I have YouTubevideos and radio podcasts (EcoShock radio, Gorilla radio, etc.). I have also educated about 200 students on these connections within my climatology & meteorology classes over the last 2 years. In total, I’ve have reached at least 1 million people with this Arctic – jet stream – extreme weather connection.
The public is really coming to understand that we (collectively) are in great trouble…
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Casual versus Causal Inference: Time series edition
Posted: 2014/01/23 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/Video
In January 2014, a funny thing seems to have happened. Parts (though not all) of the econoblogosphere forgot why time series econometrics fell out of favor in the early 1990s when it comes to analyzing minimum wage policies. Besides the fact that there is a lot more variation in minimum wages than just the federal (or average) minimum wage in the U.S., the timing of the minimum wage increases is very uneven. For example, U.S. minimum wage increases tend to occur more frequently during the late phases of the business cycle (see Figure 4).
Now this timing issue makes trouble even for state panel studies, but it really wreaks havoc on time series analysis. By not having a control group, time series evidence has to rely solely on changes in trends around the time of minimum wage increases, as this blog post by Kevin Erdmann most recently tries to…
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FUCK THE POLICE FUCK THE POLICE FUCK THE POLICE
Posted: 2014/01/23 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: justice, police brutality, prison-industrial-complex, racism, stop and frisk, violence
http://politicalblindspot.com/stop-and-frisk-of-african-american-teen/
A 16-yr-old African American boy was sexually assaulted by a police officer during a “stop and frisk” pat-down. The assault was committed with such violence that the youth’s testicles were literally ruptured.
Now, Darrin Manning of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania may never be able to father children, according to thedoctors who performed surgery on his virtually destroyed testicles.
Darrin was a star basketball player with no criminal history to speak of. He was a straight-A student who never got into any sort of trouble. He was with his teammates heading to a game right after school when he encountered an officer who decided he was “suspicious” and needed to be subjected to local “stop and frisk” procedures.
All of the boys with Darrin had scarves covering the lower parts of their faces. But this was simply due to the extreme cold weather that had swept the region, with record-low temperatures that day.
Veronica Joyner, the Principal of the high school the teens attended, said that she herself had given the boys scarves to wear to keep warm in the freezing temperatures. Twenty minutes later, she was informed of Darrin’s “arrest.”
Darrin was put in handcuffs. When the officer began “frisking” him, they grabbed hold of Darrin’s genitals so hard, pulled and twisted, that the teen’s genitals literally tore off.
“I felt the officer reach and grab my butt. Then the officer grabbed my testicles and squeezed again and pulled down. And that’s when I heard something pop, like I felt it POP,” Manning said.
Keon Gerow, Pastor of Catalyst for Change Church, said “We want to have some questions answered and some accountability. We want the entire public to be aware, not only of the Darrin Manning situation, but the entire issue of police brutality.”
This story is without question one of the most severe cases of documented police abuses of power, brutality and sexual assault. Watch the video below and SPREAD THE WORD! There is no excuse for staying silent about this!
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Follow-up: get through the initial fluff and listen to Chris Hedges
Posted: 2014/01/22 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/Video
If you see this first then please check out my previous post here: https://punkonomics.org/2014/01/22/guillotine-is-too-good-for-some-people/
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