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Jackbooted Thuggery By Transit Cops
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Written by James Landrith
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
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Finding a multiracial identity, in small numbers
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Saturday, 16 August 2008
var sburl7292 = window.location.href; var sbtitle7292 = document.title;var sbtitle7292=encodeURIComponent("Finding a multiracial identity, in small numbers"); var sburl7292=decodeURI("http://jameslandrith.com/content/view/3203/"); sburl7292=sburl7292.replace(/amp;/g, "");sburl7292=encodeURIComponent(sburl7292);digg_url = 'http://jameslandrith.com/content/view/3203/';Finding a multiracial identity, in small numbersBy Mike SwiftMercury NewsArticle Launched: 08/16/2008 01:30:14 AM PDTClick photo to enlarge  Sarah Gaskins and husband Lam Do, sit with their children Luke Do, 8, and... ( David M. Barreda )123»When 18-month-old Luke Do was diagnosed with leukemia and needed a bone marrow transplant, doctors told his parents that his chances of finding a matching genetic donor were "slim to none.""I had no idea it was so difficult for multiracials," said Luke's mother, Sarah Gaskins of San Jose, who is Japanese and Irish, while Luke's father Lam Do is Vietnamese.Gaskins thinks the census should have a specific "multiracial" category. It would increase the profile of a group with distinct needs, and would encourage people to acknowledge their full racial heritage, she said.In 2000, when the federal government started allowing people to choose all applicable racial categories on the census, many predicted an explosion in the number of people who would identify as multiracial. Some called it the beginning of the end of single-race classification.It hasn't happened.Despite the rapid growth in mixed marriages and relationships producing more children like Luke Do, the number of people checking off more than one race on census surveys has dropped this decade, prompting some to say the nation's racial statistics are not capturing the full measure of its evolving diversity.That criticism was highlighted this week, when the U.S. Census Bureau released new population projections that predict that as far into the future as 2050, just 3.7 percent of the U.S. population would categorize themselves as being members of more than one race.Racial beliefs Despite the prominence of multiracial figures like Barack Obama and Tiger Woods, some demographers say that many people's views about race continue to be shaped by old beliefs.About 2.4 percent of the U.S. population checked more than one racial category on their 2000 census forms. But University of Michigan demographer Reynolds Farley's analysis found that by 2005, that share had gone down to 1.9 percent."I think most people in the United States assume that individuals are in one, and one only, racial group," Farley said.The state of California is more racially diverse than the nation. But projections by the California Department of Finance say multiracial people will be just 2.4 percent of the state's population in 2050.The multiracial issue encompasses the difference between two of the best-known such individuals in the world - Woods and Obama.In 1997, Woods caused a firestorm when he said he did not want to be pidgeonholed in a single racial box - black. The former Stanford University student, whose late father was black and whose mother is Thai, famously described how he made up the word "Cablinasian" to incorporate his full heritage of Caucasian, Black, American Indian and Asian.Obama talks extensively about being the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, but consistently describes himself as African-American.The government's racial and ethnic statistics are a combination of how people define themselves within contemporary society, and the choices government offers to record those perceptions.Obama was born before a crucial event in America's racial history, the Supreme Court's 1967 Loving vs. Virginia decision, which struck down state laws that banned interracial marriage."He's pre-Loving," said James Landrith, a 37-year-old blogger and founder of The Multiracial Activist. "It's the younger generation that is becoming more aware that these lines don't make sense. They don't want to be put in a box and told, 'You have to conform to this identity; you have to embrace this identity, or you're a race traitor.' "Different racial groups see a different Obama. A 2006 Zogby poll found that while 66 percent of African-Americans see Obama as black, a majority of whites and Hispanics see him as biracial. The Obama campaign would not say how he answered his 2000 census form.Obama effectHow Obama labels himself racially makes little political difference, said John Kenneth White, a political scientist at the Catholic University of America."I don't think this is something he can simply say through words if he says, 'I'm biracial,' or 'I'm half-white,' " White said. "I think what he will do is tell his story again at the convention, in a way that says this is not a story about race; this is a story about America."Obama may change how others perceive themselves."The visibility of Barack Obama may lead more people to identify with multiple races," Farley said.The history of the U.S. census is littered with anachronistic terms like "mulatto" and "quadroon" that were once official government categories for multiracial people.The first census in 1790 broke race into "free whites" and "slaves." By 1930, the census defined "Mexican" as a race. Today, Mexicans are part of the "Hispanic or Latino" ethnicity, a government-created label that includes people whose descent is from Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe. They can be of any race.While the census allows people to check as many racial or ethnic categories that apply, there is no "multiracial" box. There are no plans to include one for the 2010 census.'Our own slice'A "multiracial" category would bolster consciousness of the group, said Susan Graham, executive director of Los Banos-based Project Race, a national multiracial group."We want our own slice of that pie chart," Graham said.Groups like the Alameda-based Asian American Donors Program say a multiracial category could raise the group's profile. Luke Do, his mother said, was "extremely, extremely fortunate" to find a Seattle policeman six years ago who was a suitable marrow donor. The boy is alive and well today."The difficult thing about the multiracial community is that there is no community," said Asia Blume, recruitment director for the program. "They exist, but there's not many organizations dedicated to them."Contact Mike Swift at \n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or (408) 271-3648.http://www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_10222743 Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (8) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 108
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Per the Norm, Mainstream Media Gets It Wrong On Rape
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Written by James Landrith
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
var sburl1232 = window.location.href; var sbtitle1232 = document.title;var sbtitle1232=encodeURIComponent("Per the Norm, Mainstream Media Gets It Wrong On Rape"); var sburl1232=decodeURI("http://jameslandrith.com/content/view/3202/"); sburl1232=sburl1232.replace(/amp;/g, "");sburl1232=encodeURIComponent(sburl1232);digg_url = 'http://jameslandrith.com/content/view/3202/';Melissa McEwan of Shakesville on "lol your ugly ":"So there's this woman, Bernann McKinney, who was recently in the news for paying to have five puppies cloned from her dearly departed pet pit bull. Thing is, she is likely the same person as a woman known as Joyce McKinney, who is a fugitive alleged to have kidnapped and raped a man 31 years ago.""The AP is trying to unravel the whole story (and engaging in their usual disgraceful habit of euphemizing rape: "[I]investigators say he was repeatedly forced to have sex with McKinney before he was able to escape and notify police"), and reveal Joyce McKinney to be a deeply disturbed and dangerous woman who is not only an alleged kidnapper and rapist, but an alleged stalker and repeat criminal who seems to wreak havoc upon other people wherever she goes."Sex is not rape. Rape is not sex. Rape is a violation of one's sovereignty over their own body and an assault on the emotions and psyche of the person victimized in the process. It is not simply "forced sex."According to the Associated Press, James Stamey, husband of the woman McKinney is alleged to have stalked and threatened said, "She's ugly as sin now" in reference to McKinney's alleged former good looks.McEwan goes on to point out:"what every sophisticated and intelligent news reader wants to know about any woman at the center of any news story is whether she's fuckable."While I could care less about Ms. McKinney's feelings about being called ugly (the same as a I would for a male rapist) or her physical appearance, I am disgusted at the AP for both making it about her looks and trivializing this rapist's actions by describing it as "he was repeatedly forced to have sex".When you force someone, that person is not engaged in sex. That person is being raped, regardless of legalistic attempts to make it seem like some women cannot be miserable, disgusting, horrible, worthless, rapist scum.Ann of Feministing comments further on the issue outlining some of TIME's offensive idiocy with regard to this case:Defines an act of sexual assault as a "sex scandal." The headline should read "Cloner dogged by sexual assault." A sex scandal is what John Edwards is experiencing right now, in the wake of his consensual affair. It is distinct from sexual assault, which is what Time is talking about in this article.Uses the phrase "had sex with" in lieu of "raped" or "assaulted." (We've discussed this before...)Perpetuates the totally false idea that because the victim did not try to escape, that means the act was consensual. (Cara has written about this a lot.)Names the victim.It is not a joke. It is not funny. It is not a "sex scandal." It is rape - PERIOD. The shaming and re-victimization directed at all rape survivors who speak out is disgusting, inhumane and quite telling about the true nature of the individual participating in such. And I know firsthand just how hard it can be to read it. The mixture of pain, shame, anger, rage and embarrassment at being ridiculed, emasculated, laughed at and told you "must have wanted it" was overpowering when I first told my story. It is still hard to read the hateful remarks a month later.So, from a male rape survivor of a female rapist, thanks again to Melissa and Ann. You both got it right and I'm grateful that at least two more people have not bought into the sexist social programming that labels all men as walking penises, incapable of offering consent or feeling violation.Related Links:Shakesville - lol your ugly: http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/08/lol-your-ugly.html Feministing - TIME conflates sex with rape: http://www.feministing.com/archives/010283.html Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (20) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 280
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Obama’s $1000 Rebate Plan Won’t Work
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Monday, 11 August 2008
var sburl3135 = window.location.href; var sbtitle3135 = document.title;var sbtitle3135=encodeURIComponent("Obama’s $1000 Rebate Plan Won’t Work"); var sburl3135=decodeURI("http://jameslandrith.com/content/view/3201/"); sburl3135=sburl3135.replace(/amp;/g, "");sburl3135=encodeURIComponent(sburl3135);digg_url = 'http://jameslandrith.com/content/view/3201/';Obama’s $1000 Rebate Plan Won’t Work August 11, 2008Art CardenDemocratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama has proposed a plan to ease the pain of high gas prices by granting an “emergency” $1000 tax rebate to consumers. Intending to finance it with a “windfall profits” tax on oil companies, Senator Obama’s plan may be astute politics, but it is bad economics.Obama’s proposal was designed to counter Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain’s plan to expand offshore drilling. He has criticized the McCain plan, which would ultimately increase the amount of oil available and therefore reduce gas prices. In contrast, basic supply and demand analysis shows that Obama’s plan is likely to have little if any effect on the burden of high prices. In fact, demand for gas after the rebate will lead to a price increase, all other things equal, which is the opposite of what Obama is intending to achieve.As our take-home pay increases, our demand for certain goods and services will increase while our demand for others will decrease. People tend to drive and consume more when they have additional money, so gas is one of those goods for which demand is likely to rise. When taken at face value, Obama’s plan to offer a $1000 tax rebate is not necessarily objectionable, but it will only increase our demand for gas. And of course, it will increase gas prices.With the federal government facing a half-trillion dollar deficit, there is little room for further entitlements. The tax rebates have to be “financed” either through spending cuts or tax increases. Curiously, Obama proposes fixing high gas prices by making it more expensive to supply gasoline. He proposes taxing oil producers, who are precisely the people you don’t want to tax if your end goal is to lower gas prices. On net, Obama’s plan will subsidize gas consumption by taxing gas production. This plan will not reduce gas prices. All other things equal, it is a recipe for higher gas prices and greater “pain at the pump.”This is not the first time in this election season that a presidential candidate has proposed a “solution” to high gas prices bound to be ineffective at best. During the primaries, Hillary Clinton and John McCain independently proposed suspending the federal tax on gasoline between Memorial Day and Labor Day in order to ease consumers’ fuel cost burdens. Economists of all ideological persuasions went on record to correctly point out that because the supply of and demand for gasoline are inelastic in the summers—meaning that they are relatively unresponsive to price changes—the tax rebates would not translate into lower prices. When pressed on the issue, Clinton chose to disparage these economists instead of reexamining her proposal. While Obama’s ideas on oil have drawn similar criticism from economists, how he will respond remains to be seen.Perhaps more importantly than basic supply and demand, policies like those proposed by Obama create an institutional climate in which investment is less attractive than it otherwise would be. Such proposals reduce the expected profitability for people entering industries such as oil and gasoline. In the long run, they will result in less economic development and higher prices, as firms are less willing to invest in extra production. As economic historian Robert Higgs argues, anti-market, anti-business rhetoric created the “regime uncertainty” that facilitated the unnecessarily long lasting Great Depression. If we aren’t careful, we may allow similar rhetoric to guide our decisions and stifle our economy. Quite obviously, proposing policies that will make us all poorer is no way to promote economic growth.Inadvertently, Senator Obama has inspired a homework assignment and a test question for Econ 101 this fall: “Using appropriate diagrams, show how a tax on gasoline production and a subsidy for gasoline consumption will affect gas prices.” Here’s a hint: the answer isn’t “prices will go down.”Art Carden is an Adjunct Fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California, and an assistant professor at Rhodes College (Department of Economics and Business).Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (15) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 151
The U.S. Government Is the Real Bioterror Threat
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Written by Ivan Eland
Friday, 08 August 2008
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Remember the CIA’s creation of the 9/11 threat by supporting the most radical Islamist groups fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan during the 1980s and then the U.S. government’s provocation of terrorist attacks from those same militants by its non-Islamic military presence in Islamic Persian Gulf countries in the 1990s, which had continued unnecessarily subsequent to the first Gulf War.Similarly, in the case of bioterrorism, the threat from the government is greater than from foreign groups such as al Qaeda. Although U.S. intelligence has created fear among the U.S. public by saying that al Qaeda has made efforts to obtain biological weapons, the capabilities of small terrorist groups to make, handle, weaponize, and disperse biological agents is very limited. Even Aum Shinrikyo, a well-funded Japanese terrorist group that hired Ph.D. scientists, could not successfully carry out a biological weapons attack. (Even their chemical attacks, which are technologically easier to accomplish, were ham-handed and did not result in mass deaths.) The sophisticated weaponization and dispersion of biological agents are difficult for technologically challenged and relatively poor terrorist groups to master; they usually require the resources and technology of governments.Whether Bruce Ivins, a government bioscientist, is the real culprit in the anthrax attacks or not, it seems that the FBI has traced the perpetrator to the U.S. government’s own research facility, which has plenty of people qualified to carry out such an attack. And apparently some employees would have a motive to do so. The FBI insinuated that Ivins had a motive because his anthrax vaccine research program was in trouble. What better way to get more money for your project that to generate a non-hypothetical threat to combat?It’s true that the vast majority of people on the government’s payroll working on lethal biological agents would not stoop to perpetrate such a heinous crime. Yet the 9/11 attacks and the anthrax attacks the same year had the effect that Ivins allegedly desired. An avalanche of government funding went into countering the minimal threat from a terrorist group capable of using biological weapons. To capture some of the governmental windfall, many medical and infectious disease programs tried to tie their efforts to battling bioterrorism. It worked.Before 9/11, only five laboratories existed that were equipped to study the most lethal bioagents—biosafety level 4 labs. Now there are fifteen in operation or being built. Combined, there are now 400 biosafety 3 and 4 facilities, which can produce lethal anthrax. In all, nationwide, 14,000 scientists can work on such lethal biological agents, many of which are researchers at non-governmental universities.According to experts, security at such facilities is lax; the government merely requires them to have locked doors but no video surveillance. And government background checks of employees would not prevent a person who had homicidal tendencies or a sociopathic personality—allegedly exhibited by Ivins—from working in them. Even if Ivins is not the perpetrator of the anthrax attacks, he made homicidal threats to a therapist a year before the attacks and was allowed to continue to work in a lab with dangerous bioagents for years after he exhibited mental problems. (Not to mention that the FBI seems to have ignored such information for years while erroneously pursuing an innocent suspect.)Thus, to combat a minimal bioterror threat from ragtag terrorist groups, the government has actually dramatically increased the probability of another bioattack from a trained scientist—whether because of malicious criminal intent, mental illness, or a desire to increase funding for his or her antidote or vaccine program—who could competently carry out such an attack. This counterproductive effect resembles what the government did to remedy coordination problems among security agencies that caused a failure to detect and prevent the 9/11 attacks: its creation of the Department of Homeland Security and reorganization of the intelligence community added more bureaucracy, thus making coordination even more difficult. In short, the anthrax case illustrates few security problems exist that the government doesn’t create or make worse. Ivan ElandSend emailIvan Eland is Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute. Dr. Eland is a graduate of Iowa State University and received an M.B.A. in applied economics and Ph.D. in national security policy from George Washington University. He has been Director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, and he spent 15 years working for Congress on national security issues, including stints as an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Principal Defense Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. He is author of the books, The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed, and Putting “Defense” Back into U.S. Defense Policy.Full Biography and Recent Publications New from Ivan Eland!THE EMPIRE HAS NO CLOTHES: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed (Updated Edition)Most Americans don’t think of their government as an empire, but in fact the United States has been steadily expanding its control of overseas territories since the turn of the twentieth century. In The Empire Has No Clothes, Ivan Eland, a leading expert on U.S. defense policy and national security, examines American military interventions around the world from the Spanish-American War to the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Learn More »»Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (13) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 109
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