Date: March 14, 2018
01) Sanders & Warren Call Out Democrats that Voted to Deregulate Wall Street
“After 16 Democrats and one Democrat-leaning independent went along with Senate Republicans to proceed on a bill that aims to deregulate Wall Street, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren finally took the gloves off and called them out publicly.
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Date: March 15, 2018
“In 1992, Shewmon was asked to consult on the case of a fourteen-year-old boy who, after falling off the hood of a moving car, had been declared brain-dead. The boy’s family was religious and insisted that he remain on a ventilator. His physicians, certain that his heart would soon fail, acceded to his parents’ request. He survived for sixty-three days and began puberty. “This case flew in the face of everything I had been taught regarding the universality and imminence of somatic demise in brain death,” Shewmon later wrote. “It forced me to rethink the whole thing.” Shewmon began researching similar cases, and found a hundred and seventy-five people, many of whom were children or teen-agers, who lived for months or years after they were legally dead. The longest survivor was a boy who had been declared dead after contracting meningitis, when he was four. His heart beat for twenty more years, during which time he grew proportionally and recovered from minor wounds and infections, even though he had no identifiable brain structure and the outside of his brain had calcified. In 1997, in a paper called “Recovery from ‘Brain Death’: A Neurologist’s Apologia,” Shewmon disavowed his earlier views. He acknowledged that “dissenters from the ‘brain death’ concept are typically dismissed condescendingly as simpletons, religious zealots or pro-life fanatics,” and announced that he was joining their ranks. Shewmon’s research on what he calls “chronic survival” after brain death helped prompt a new President’s council on bioethics, in 2008, to revisit the definition of death. The council’s report referred to Shewmon’s research thirty-eight times. Although it ultimately reaffirmed the validity of brain death, it abandoned the biological and philosophical justification presented by the 1981 President’s Commission—that a functioning brain was necessary for the body to operate as an “integrated whole.” Instead, the report said that the destruction of the brain was equivalent to death because it meant that a human being was no longer able to “engage in commerce with the surrounding world,” which is “what an organism ‘does’ and what distinguishes every organism from nonliving things.” In a personal note appended to the end of the report, the chairman of the council, Edmund Pellegrino, expressed regret regarding the lack of empirical precision. He wrote that attempts to articulate the boundaries of death “end in some form of circular reasoning—defining death in terms of life and life in terms of death without a true ‘definition’ of one or the other.” Very long article…covering a lot… …This is both amazing, and unnerving. |
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Date: March 14, 2018
“World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. He died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday, his family said. The British scientist was famed for his work with black holes and relativity, and wrote several popular science books including A Brief History of Time.”
“It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.” – Stephen Hawking “My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” – Stephen Hawking “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” – Stephen Hawking “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose, and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.” – Stephen Hawking
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Date: March 13, 2018
I think she’s still putting out music…Wonderful music… |
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Date: March 14, 2018
01) Matt Dillahunty VS Stephen Woodford on Compatibilism
“Within this conversation / debate Matt Dillahunty responds to my recent video dedicated to his views on free will. As I’m sure you’ll agree, it was a fruitful, honest and intriguing conversation.”
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Date: March 14, 2018
“A Belfast law graduate has called for new legislation to curb vigilante paedophile hunters after he was wrongly identified as a sexual predator and falsely accused of grooming children. The Queen’s University graduate was left confused following a sudden influx of friend requests on social media, before it became apparent that he shared the same name as one of the vigilante group’s targets. A barrage of profane abuse soon followed. … The wrongly-identified man voiced his “vehement” opposition to those presenting themselves as “protectors of the community” and branded their online activities as an incitement of “citizen led violence”. He warned that online outrage quickly morphs into calls for “justice outside the law” from members of the public and accused those in the group of falsely claiming that their chief concern is children’s welfare. “These groups, in their quest to publicly shame individuals, are self-serving attention seeking bullies and thugs more concerned with tabloid and online social media titillation than they are with the protection and safeguarding of children,” he wrote on Facebook. … The unsuspecting target of online hate made clear he was not defending anyone who commits sexual offences, but rather their right to due process, and said there is no point trying to reason with his critics. “Unfortunately it doesn’t matter what you say, you’ll never convince these types of people that what they are doing is wrong,” he said. The innocent victim is now calling for legislation to curtail vigilante groups who he warned could accuse anyone and have the potential to destroy lives.” |
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Date: March 12, 2018
01) Did Progressives Win In Texas Primaries? w/Kyle Kulinski
Date: March 12, 2018
01) Nancy Pelosi Endorses Anti-Abortion & Anti-Gay Democrat Dan Lipinski
“What do you call a socially conservative Democrat? A Republican. But effectively being a Republican and consistently voting with them doesn’t matter to House Minority Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who decided to endorse one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress: Dan Lipinski. She chose to endorse him over a true progressive like Marie Newman, who’s also running in the same district.
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Date: March 12, 2018
“–Memphis Meats and other companies are engineering lab-grown meats that are expected to be made available to the public as soon as 2021 https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/companies/lab-meat-to-transform-meat-industry-in-2021-12750778“ |
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Date: March 11, 2018
“This is Jordan Peterson’s Truth Debunked (the first in my series debunking Jordan Peterson’s religious beliefs).” Jordan Peterson’s Archetypes Debunked: |
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