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I'll do everything to end the war on drugs. … The war on drugs has become the most racially disparate outcome that you have in the entire country. Our prisons are full of black and brown kids. Three-fourths of the people in prison are black or brown, and white kids are using drugs, Bill, as you know … at the same rate as these other kids. But kids who have less means, less money, kids who are in areas where police are patrolling … Police are given monetary incentives to make arrests, monetary incentives for their own departments. So I want to end the war on drugs because it's wrong for everybody, but particularly because poor people are caught up in this, and their lives are ruined by it.
Rand Paul, speaking to Bill Maher, 2014-11-15.
November 25, 2014
QotD: Rand Paul and the war on drugs
November 23, 2014
Working and middle class pushback against Obamacare
At Mother Jones, Kevin Drum looks at some of the reasons Obamacare is not being embraced by the working and middle classes the way many expected:
Here's an interesting chart that follows up on a post I wrote a few days ago about Democrats and the white working class. Basically, I made the point that Democrats have recently done a lot for the poor but very little for the working and middle classes, and this is one of the reasons that the white working class is increasingly alienated from the Democratic Party.
I got various kinds of pushback on this, but one particular train of criticism suggested that I was overestimating just how targeted Democratic programs were. Sure, they help the poor, but they also help the working class a fair amount, and sometimes even the lower reaches of the middle class. However, while there's some truth to this for certain programs (unemployment insurance, SSI disability), the numbers I've seen in the past don't really back this up for most social welfare programs.
Obamacare seems like an exception, since its subsidies quite clearly reach upward to families in the working and middle classes. Today, however, Bill Gardner points me to a Brookings paper from a few months ago that suggests just the opposite. The authors calculate net gains and losses from Obamacare, and conclude that nearly all its benefits flow to the poor. If I interpolate their chart a bit, winners are those with household incomes below $25,000 or so, and losers are those with incomes above $25,000.
October 24, 2014
QotD: Poverty in the West is not like poverty in the rest of the world
What is it, in terms of physical goods and services, that we wish to provide for the poor that they do not already have? Their lives often may not be very happy or stable, but the poor do have a great deal of stuff. Conservatives can be a little yahoo-ish on the subject, but do consider for a moment the inventory of the typical poor household in the United States: at least one car, often two or more, air conditioning, a couple of televisions with cable, DVD player, clothes washer and dryer, cellphones, etc. As Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield report: "The home of the typical poor family was not overcrowded and was in good repair. In fact, the typical poor American had more living space than the average European. The typical poor American family was also able to obtain medical care when needed. By its own report, the typical family was not hungry and had sufficient funds during the past year to meet all essential needs. Poor families certainly struggle to make ends meet, but in most cases, they are struggling to pay for air conditioning and the cable-TV bill as well as to put food on the table." They also point out that there's a strong correlation between having boys in the home and having an Xbox or another gaming system.
In terms of physical goods, what is it that we want the poor to have that they do not? A third or fourth television?
Partly, what elites want is for the poor to have lives and manners more like their own: less Seven-Layer Burrito, more Whole Foods; less screaming at their kids in the Walmart parking lot and more giving them hideous and crippling fits of anxiety about getting into the right pre-kindergarten. Elites want for the poor to behave themselves, to stop being unruly and bumptious, to get over their distasteful enthusiasms, their bitter clinging to God and guns. Progressive elites in particular live in horror of the fact that poor people tend to suffer disproportionately from such health problems as obesity and diabetes, and that they do not take their social views from Chris Hayes — and these two phenomena are essentially the same thing in their minds. Consider how much commentary from the Left about the Tea Party has consisted of variations on: "Poor people are gross."
A second Xbox is not going to change that very much.
Kevin D. Williamson, "Welcome to the Paradise of the Real: How to refute progressive fantasies — or, a red-pill economics", National Review, 2014-04-24
September 9, 2014
QotD: The Iron Law of Redistributionism
[P]olicies intended to "help" the poor are invariably hijacked by a rentier class that fattens on the rising diversion of income. Result: help never arrives, much wealth is destroyed, growth is strangled, and the poor get poorer.
Eric S. Raymond, Google+, 2014-09-06.
August 21, 2014
Ferguson authorities issue an average of "about 3 warrants and 1.5 cases per household"
The relationship between the Ferguson police and the residents of the municipality seem to have been on a weird footing long before the current face-off, as Walter Olson points out:
Reading through this Newsweek article on the troubled relations between police and residents in Ferguson, Mo. before this month's blowup, this passage jumped out at me:
"Despite Ferguson's relative poverty, fines and court fees comprise the second largest source of revenue for the city, a total of 2,635,400," according to the ArchCity Defenders report. And in 2013, the Ferguson Municipal Court issued 24,532 arrest warrants and 12,018 cases, "or about 3 warrants and 1.5 cases per household."
My first reaction – maybe yours too – was "is that a misprint?" Three arrest warrants per household in Ferguson last year?
Now let's stipulate that some of those warrants were written against out-of-towners, especially in matters arising from traffic offenses, tickets being a key revenue source for many municipalities in St. Louis's North County. Yet here's a second statistic some will find surprising: while reported property-crime rates in Ferguson have run well above the national average for years, violent-crime rates have not. After a high period that lasted through 2008, they have declined steadily to a point where last year Ferguson had about the same rate of violent crime as the nation generally.
What seems clear at this point is that Ferguson – while in some ways a nicer and safer town than some have imagined – does suffer from a unusual degree of antagonism between police and residents, an antagonism that crucially involves race (the town is an extreme outlier in its now-famous extent of black underrepresentation in elected office) and yet has other vital dimensions as well.
Update: Alex Tabarrok says this is an example of the return of debtor's prisons in modern America.
How does a stop for jaywalking turn into a homicide and how does that turn into an American town essentially coming under military control with snipers, tear gas, and a no-fly zone? We don't yet know exactly what happened between the two individuals on the day in question but events like this don't happen without a deeper context. Part of the context is the return of debtor's prisons that I wrote about in 2012:
Debtor's prisons are supposed to be illegal in the United States but today poor people who fail to pay even small criminal justice fees are routinely being imprisoned. The problem has gotten worse recently because strapped states have dramatically increased the number of criminal justice fees….Failure to pay criminal justice fees can result in revocation of an individual's drivers license, arrest and imprisonment. Individuals with revoked licenses who drive (say to work to earn money to pay their fees) and are apprehended can be further fined and imprisoned. Unpaid criminal justice debt also results in damaged credit reports and reduced housing and employment prospects. Furthermore, failure to pay fees can mean a violation of probation and parole terms which makes an individual ineligible for Federal programs such as food stamps, Temporary Assistance to Needy Family funds and Social Security Income for the elderly and disabled.
You don't get $321 in fines and fees and 3 warrants per household from an about-average crime rate. You get numbers like this from bullshit arrests for jaywalking and constant "low level harassment involving traffic stops, court appearances, high fines, and the threat of jail for failure to pay."
If you have money, for example, you can easily get a speeding ticket converted to a non-moving violation. But if you don't have money it's often the start of a downward spiral that is hard to pull out of
August 11, 2014
Ordinary British life before August 1914
The Telegraph has an interesting series of short articles drawn from their 1914 archive, showing ordinary life in Britain before the start of World War One. This isn't the upper-crust's way of life we tend to see in TV and movie presentations of the immediate pre-war era:
A month before the outbreak of war Henley Regatta opened in "brilliant fashion", The Daily Telegraph reported, with record crowds and "perfect" weather. It presents an image of Edwardian Britain as we fondly imagine it to have been, before the sudden cloudburst of August 1914.
Of course, the reality was far different for the 99 per cent of people who did not own land, collect rents or vacation at Biarritz and Marienbad. Most Edwardians worked in dark, noisy factories, cut hay in fields, toiled down dirty and dangerous mines; had bones bent by rickets and lungs racked by tuberculosis. Life expectancy then was 49 years for a man and 53 years for a woman, compared with 79 and 82 years today. They lived in back to back tenements or jerry-built terraces, wore cloth caps or bonnets (rather than boaters, bowlers and toppers) and they had never taken a holiday — beyond a day trip to Brighton or Blackpool — in their entire lives.
The country was a seething mass of social tension and violent confrontations. It was a land torn and dislocated by the struggle of increasingly militant suffragettes; strikes in mills, mines and on the railways; the constitutional battle between Lords and Commons; and the threat of civil war in Ireland.
Readers of the Telegraph — as a glance at the archives will reveal — were far better informed about the true state of their nation and the world than our sugary sentimental view allows us. In a dramatic scoop, the paper had published an exclusive interview with Kaiser Wilhelm II in October 1908 in which the Kaiser had expressed alarmingly frank — and hostile — views about his mother's native land (the Kaiser's mama, Empress Victoria, was Queen Victoria's eldest daughter). In this interview the Kaiser accused "you English" of being "mad, mad, mad as March hares" for fearing that the construction of Germany's High Seas Fleet was aimed at challenging the Royal Navy's command of the world's oceans. Implausibly, he claimed that Germany's real target was the rising sun of Japan.
H/T to Marian L. Tupy for the link.
July 22, 2014
23% of US children live in poverty … except that's not actually true
In Forbes, Tim Worstall explains why the shocking headline rate of child poverty in the US is not correct (and that's a good thing):
The annual Kids Count, from the Annie F. Casey Foundation, is out and many are reporting that it shows that 23% of American children are living in poverty. I'm afraid that this isn't quite true and the mistaken assumption depends on one little intricate detail of how US poverty statistics are constructed. This isn't a snarl at Kids Count, they report the numbers impartially, it's the interpretation that some are putting on those numbers that is in error. For the reality is that, by the way that the US measures poverty, it does a pretty good job in alleviating child poverty. The real rate of children actually living in poverty, after all the aid they get to not live in poverty, is more like 2 or 3% of US children. Which is pretty good for government work.
However, this is not the same thing as stating that 23% of US children are living in poverty. For there's a twist in the way that US poverty statistics are compiled.
Everyone else measures poverty as being below 60% of median equivalised household disposable income. This is a measure of relative poverty, how much less do you have than the average? The US uses a different measure, based upon historical accident really, which is a measure of absolute poverty. How may people have less than $x to live upon? There's also a second difference. Everyone else measures poverty after the influence of the tax and the benefits system upon those incomes. The US measures only cash income (both market income and also cash from the government). It does not measure the influence of benefits that people receive in kind (ie, in goods or services) nor through the tax system. And the problem with this is that the major poverty alleviation schemes in the US are, in rough order, Medicaid, the EITC, SNAP (or food stamps) and then Section 8 housing vouchers. Three of which are goods or services in kind and the fourth comes through the tax system.
July 10, 2014
Argentina's economic woes – tourist edition
How bad is the Argentinian economy right now? So bad that middle class Argentine tourists in Brazil eat at soup kitchens, according to the Wall Street Journal's Miriam Jordan:
The state-funded Citizen Restaurant in downtown Rio is accustomed to serving a balanced meal at an unbeatable price to about 5,000 poor residents of this city each day. During the World Cup, however, this cafeteria has been catering to another clientele as well: middle-class Argentines.
"We serve homeless people, drug addicts, blue-collar workers and retirees," said Jose Barbosa, Rio de Janeiro state coordinator for food security. "This World Cup we have been welcoming Argentine soccer fans, too."
With the value of the Argentine peso deeply eroded amid the country's economic woes, many Argentines who have flocked here to root for their soccer team […] say they're counting every Brazilian real they spend — and hunting for bargains. On Monday, dozens of Argentines lined up alongside Brazilians to buy lunch at the cafeteria, where a meal of black beans, white rice, salad and choice of meatballs or chicken sausage cost 1 real, or about 40 U.S. cents.
"Rio is very expensive — that's why I am here," said Fernando Castillo, a 24-year-old bartender from Buenos Aires. With gusto, he dug into his plate of food, which sat on a plastic-blue tray beside a cup of guava juice and a fresh orange for desert, both included in the price. "This is perfect," he said, "especially at this price."
"The generous portion keeps us filled all day," added his cousin, Thomas Castillo.
To save on accommodations and flights, many Argentines drove to Brazil. In Rio, their campers and cars occupied prime beachfront parking spots until the city evicted them.
It then allowed them to park vehicles and pitch tents in a vast parking lot downtown that abuts the permanent bleachers where Rio's samba schools perform during the annual carnival celebrations.
Word spread quickly at these parking lots that Citizen Restaurant, within walking distance of the Argentine encampment, offered good Brazilian fare at a bargain-basement price in a clean, safe environment. "It started with 10 of them one day, then 50 of them came and now we're seeing about 200 Argentines each day," said Ricardo Chaves, the eatery's administrator.
June 25, 2014
QotD: The difference between money and wealth
… it is a mistake to use "money" and "wealth" as synonyms. Money is not wealth (though it is often a signifier of wealth). Wealth is a concept far greater, deeper, and more complex than mere money can encompass. Money is a tool; wealth is a state of being, an environment, a continuum in which we conduct our lives. When the left speaks of inequality in purely monetary terms, they are engaging in a puerile and futile kind of reductionism.
Consider a man with a wife and three teenage daughters, who lives in a house with only one bathroom. This man wouldn't need a million dollars to feel wealthier; he'd just need a second bathroom. A chance to have a hot shower in the morning and have a clean space on the sink for his shaving gear. Wealth to this man is not the money it would take to build the extra bathroom; wealth is the time and comfort the new bathroom brings. Wealth is comfort he gains, his improved state of mind, the increased peace in his household, his improved quality of life. The marginal utility of the additional bathroom is great indeed (the utility of additional bathrooms would be less). The wealth of that additional bathroom is much greater, proportionally, than if this man and his family lived in a huge mansion with fifteen bathrooms. (In fact, the huge house might decrease his happiness due to the expense of upkeep and maintenance. Who knows?)
You don't make a poor person wealthy by giving them money; history is full of lottery winners who ended up just as poor as when they started, and many's the dissipated scion of a rich family who frittered away the family fortune. Wealthy people tend to have a lot of money because money is correlated with wealth (but does not cause it). Income, investments, assets — all can generate money for a wealthy person.
But wealth is more than just stuff. A loving spouse and healthy, happy children are treasures. Running a successful business can mean more than just the profits it generates; there is deep satisfaction in conducting a successful enterprise. A deep love of art or music can enhance and enrich a life. The company of good friends is truly priceless, and something that wise people learn to value more as time goes by.
Money gives access to some of those things, but all the money in the world can't buy an appreciation of those things.
But to speak of wealth even in this broadened sense is misleading, for in America even "poor" people are wealthy beyond the dreams of people in many places in the world. And compared to people in most ages of the earth prior to the 20th century, there are no poor Americans. It's amazing to consider how much better life for an average person is now compared to past times. We have food in amazing abundance and variety. Every house has a big-screen television, central heating and air-conditioning, and a refrigerator and range. Everybody has at least one car. Everybody has a cellular phone, and most people have a computer. Few of us work more than eight hours a day to afford all these things, leaving plenty of free time to relax. Medical technology has extended our lifespans, and made our tour upon the earth far more pleasant than in former times. We live healthier, more active, more stimulating lives than at any point in our history — wealthier lives.
Monty, "Wealth as an end and wealth as means to an end", Ace of Spades HQ, 2014-06-24.
June 24, 2014
Fairtrade loses the moral high ground
Following up on an article from earlier this month on Fairtrade's business and ethical problems, Rossa Minogue talks to Professor Christopher Cramer who lead the investigation on which the report was based:
I ask Cramer if he was surprised by the study's findings. 'Yes and no', he says. '[Fairtrade] perpetuated this fantasy of rural Africa being full of small, family farmers with roughly the same amount of land as each other. Unless there was an extraordinarily benign trickle-down effect, you wouldn't really expect things to be much better [on Fairtrade farms]. But to find that the wages were worse and that most of the working conditions were worse, that did surprise me — and it's a puzzle.'
The study's findings were certainly disconcerting for Fairtrade's supporters. They showed that farm labourers often make less on Fairtrade farms than non-Fairtrade farms, while many smallholders live in abject poverty. So, does Fairtrade benefit anyone in Third World agriculture? Cramer tells me that, during his four years of field research, his team realised that what Fairtrade defined as 'smallholders' covered everything from owners of farms of half a hectare to 130 hectares. The owners of bigger farms, he tells me, 'are the ones who capture most of the direct benefits. They also tend to control the leadership of the cooperatives.' So it seems that the larger farms, the ones that would presumably be doing alright anyway, are the only ones that reap the rewards of Fairtrade — a programme allegedly aimed at helping the poorest of the poor.
Cramer's report is definitely a damning indictment of Fairtrade, which is why Fairtrade is doing all it can to smear its findings. When I wrote about Cramer's findings a few weeks ago, I was informed that people who had tweeted my piece received direct tweets from Fairtrade UK, dismissing the article as sensationalist and untrue. Naturally, Cramer has borne the brunt of this hostility: 'There was a legal threat made against us when [Fairtrade officials] saw the first draft of our press release', he says. 'They've also sent me hostile letters.'
In the West, people are often puzzled as to why rural Africans give up what is sometimes perceived to be a poor but idyllic existence in the countryside to live in the slums on the outskirts of cities. However, this puzzlement ignores the harsh realities of rural poverty. For many, moving to the city, where they can at least eke out a living, is the only rational choice. So what is the best path out of poverty for the farmhands of Africa?
'That's a big question. The focus must be on increasing agricultural productivity and that involves a lot of things, including infrastructure and investment. I don't buy into the small-is-beautiful paradigm. My research shows that if you're interested in driving up quality and enhancing productivity, as well as the lives and prospects of the poorest people, large-scale production has its advantages. Betting on the strong can also be betting on the weak.'
June 15, 2014
QotD: Shut up – it's your right and (for some) your privilege
"Privilege" is a term that's overused and misused in modern political discourse. Too often it's used like a crass "shut up, I win" button in an argument. But "privilege" is sometimes an apt descriptive term of a human phenomenon: a person's evaluation of a situation (like interaction with law enforcement) is colored by his or her own experiences, and those experiences are usually circumscribed by that person's cultural identity and wealth. Any criminal defense attorney who has served affluent clients is familiar with this: such clients often conclude that they are a victim of a conspiracy, or of a "rogue cop" or "loose cannon prosecutor," because their life experiences lead them to assume that the system can't possibly treat all people the way they are being treated. By contrast, clients who have lived in poverty (or clients who are African-American or Latino) tend to recognize outrageous conduct in their case as the system working the way the system typically works — business as usual. In my post about the prosecution and death of Aaron Swartz, I argued that Swartz' community showed such privilege in its reaction to his prosecution, seeing some sort of singular conspiracy where others saw the banal grinding of the system's unfeeling wheels.
My advice to shut up is colored, in part, by privilege. I was reminded of this yesterday when Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies searched Justin Bieber's house. I praised Bieber for shutting up and declining to talk to the cops, and joked that criminal defense attorneys could shame clients into better practices by asking why they aren't smarter than Justin Bieber.
But Justin Bieber and I — and many of my clients — share a crucial quality: we're affluent and fortunate. This privilege makes us better able to endure the potential downside risks of shutting up. If we get arrested on a petty or bogus charge by a pissed-off cop, we can make bail. We won't spend weeks or months in custody on that bogus charge because we can't scrape together a few thousand dollars. Maybe we'll spend the weekend in jail, because cops love to arrest you Friday afternoon, but we'll get out in a few days at most, and in the meantime we won't lose our jobs. Because we have families and support systems, if we do get thrown in jail on a bogus job by an angry cop, the Department of Child and Family Services won't take away our children, plunging us into another broken system we have neither the money nor the knowledge to navigate. If the cops tow or impound our car, we can afford to pay the few hundred to few thousand dollars to get it out, and we won't lose our jobs for lack of transportation. Even if we do lose our jobs because of a bogus and retaliatory arrest, we have savings, and families with savings, and we won't swiftly lose our homes. If the police choose to retaliate against our silence with petty tickets and infractions and fines rather than arrest, we can fight them or absorb them.
That's a privilege. Poor people don't have it. Poor people live on the razor's edge, and a bogus retaliatory arrest can destroy them. Retaliatory and capricious enforcement of petty crimes and infractions can destroy them financially. Police wield disproportionate power over them, and the criminal justice system and its agendas (like the War on Drugs) disproportionately impacts them. Police are more likely to use force against poor people and for the most part can do so without any significant risk of discipline.
When you and I weigh the downside risks of shutting up against the downside risks of talking, our downside risks are milder, and can be endured. People without our resources face a must starker choice: talk, and incriminate themselves, or shut up, and face an array of consequences they may not be equipped to survive.
Ken White, "The Privilege To Shut Up", Popehat, 2014-01-15
June 10, 2014
The Catholic case against libertarianism
First, let's talk about the evils of the free market and how God wants to abolish free exchange of goods for our spiritual and moral welfare, shall we?
Something strange happened in Washington last week: A panel of Catholic intellectuals and clergy, led by His Eminence Oscar Andrés Maradiaga, was convened to denounce a political philosophy under the headline "Erroneous Autonomy: The Catholic Case against Libertarianism." The conference was mainly about free-market economics rather than libertarianism per se, and it was an excellent reminder that the hierarchy of the Church has no special grace to pronounce upon matters of specific economic organization. The best that can be said of the clergy's corporate approach to economic thinking is that it is intellectually incoherent, which is lucky inasmuch as the depths of its illiteracy become more dramatic and destructive as it approaches coherence.
The increasingly global and specialized division of labor and the resulting chains of production — i.e., modern capitalism, the unprecedented worldwide project of voluntary human cooperation that is the unique defining feature of our time — is what cut the global poverty rate in half in 20 years. It was not Buddhist mindfulness or Catholic homilies that did that. In the 200,000-year history of Homo sapiens, neither of those great religious traditions, nor anything else that human beings ever came up with, made a dent in the poverty rate. Capitalism did. One of the great ironies of our times is that so many of the descendents of the old Catholic immigrant working class have found themselves attracted to an American Buddhism that, with its love of ornate titles, its costumes, its fascination with apostolic succession, and its increasingly coddled professional clergy, is a 21st-century expression of Buddhism apparently committed to transforming itself — plus ça change! — into 15th-century Catholicism. Perhaps it should not be entirely surprising that it has embraced the same intellectual errors.
Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga and likeminded thinkers, stuck as they are in the hopelessly 19th-century distributist model of economic analysis, apparently are incapable of thinking through the implications of their own dogma. The question of how certain goods are "distributed" in society is a second-order question at best; by definition prior to it is the question of whether there is anything to distribute. To put it in Christian terms, all of the great givers in Scripture — the Good Samaritan, the widow with her mite, Joseph of Arimathea — had something to give. If the Good Samaritan had been the Poor Samaritan, with no resources to dedicate to the stranger's care, then the poor waylaid traveler would have been out of luck. All the good intentions that we may muster are not half so useful to a hungry person as a loaf of bread.
Those who put distribution at the top of their list of priorities both make the error of assuming the existence of some exogenous agency that oversees distribution (that being the Distribution Fairy) and entirely ignore the vital question of what gets produced and by whom. Poverty is the direct by-product of low levels of production; the United States and Singapore are fat and happy with $53,101 and $64,584 in per capita economic output, respectively; Zimbabwe, which endured the services of a government very much interested in the redistribution of capital, gets to divide up $788 per person per year, meaning that under circumstances of perfect mathematical equality life would still be miserable for everybody. Sweden can carve up its per capita pie however it likes, but it's still going to be 22.5 percent smaller than the U.S. pie and less than two-thirds the size of Singapore's tasty pastry. You cannot redistribute what you don't have — and that holds true not only for countries but, finally, for the planet and the species, which of course is what globalization is all about. That men of the cloth, of all people, should be blind to what is really happening right now on the global economic scale is remarkable, ironic, and sad.
June 3, 2014
"Fairtrade [is] a Western vanity project that impoverishes those it's meant to benefit"
Rossa Minogue on the image and reality of Fairtrade:
The world's ethical shoppers are still reeling this week after a report revealed that Fairtrade programmes are of little benefit to those working on farms in the developing world.
The government-funded study published by SOAS, a part of the University of London, was conducted over a four-year period in Uganda and Ethiopia. It showed that labourers on farms that are part of Fairtrade programmes are usually paid less and are subject to worse working conditions than their peers on large commercial farms, and even other small farms that are not part of Fairtrade programmes. Professor Christopher Cramer, the study's main author, said: 'Fairtrade has not been an effective mechanism for improving the lives of wage workers, the poorest rural people.'
The study also found that the 'social premium' incorporated into the price of Fairtrade products, which is meant to be used to improve infrastructure in poor communities, is often misspent. In one instance, researchers found that modern toilets built with this premium were in fact for the use of senior farm managers only. The report also documented examples of health clinics and schools set up with social-premium funds that charged fees that were too high for the labourers they were intended to benefit.
Of course, nobody needed the clever people at SOAS to tell us all this. From its very inception, the concept of Fairtrade was rooted in maintaining low 'sustainable' horizons for the poor by those who consider people in Africa and other parts of the Third World to be intrinsically different to the rest of us. The movement did not originate with the poor farmers of the developing world, but with Western NGOs and their army of gap-year do-gooders intent on imposing their reactionary 'small is beautiful' values on an Africa desperate for change.
May 22, 2014
Dickens 2.0 – debt prisons of the 21st century
At Outside the Beltway, James Joyner calls attention to the widespread practice of sending minor offenders to prison for failing to pay minor fines:
NPR's "Morning Edition" has been running a series called "Guilty and Charged," chronicling the plight of Americans forced to go to jail because they're unable to pay the court fees and fines associated with very minor infractions. The Supreme Court ostensibly outlawed the practice three decades ago but left the determination as to whether defendants are truly to poor to pay or simply unwilling to trial court judges. Not shockingly, perhaps, they almost invariably presume the latter.
You can listen to Tuesday's segment, "Unpaid Court Fees Land The Poor In 21st Century Debtors' Prisons," at the link. Unfortunately, they only have the audio and not a transcription. Aside from what I've already written in the introduction above, what really stood out to me was the sheer contempt judges displayed to indigent defendants. Despite being highly educated professionals supposedly trained in the law and selected for their ability to dispassionately way evidence and reach just results, those featured on the program were positively knee-jerk and sneering. It was as if they'd plucked some random yahoo from a Denny's, dressed him in a black robe, and had him preside over the trial.
Today's follow-up, "Supreme Court Ruling Not Enough To Prevent Debtors' Prisons," was if anything more infuriating. It dove deep into the case of Kyle Dewitt, an Iraq War vet who went to jail and got caught up in an unending series of problems with the law over catching the wrong species of bass at the wrong time of year.
I've long been of mind that we ought to do away with fines as a means of punishment altogether. Whether paying $150 for exceeding the speed limit (almost always some nominal fine for the offense and a much higher amount for "court costs," owed even if one just mails in the fine and never goes to court) is a deterrent depends entirely on one's financial circumstances. It was a big deal when I was in college; it's a nuisance now. Further, those with the means will often spend far more than the fine plus court costs to hire an attorney to plead it to an offense that doesn't come with points that go against their license or their insurance record. It's incredibly inequitable.
May 15, 2014
The real Havana, outside "Cuba's Elysium"
Michael Totten lied to Cuban immigration officials to get into Cuba. Then he went outside the area of Havana that the foreign tourists see. The movie Elysium is supposed to be about a dystopian LA in the future, where the plutocrats live in vast luxury aboard a satellite, looking down on the squalor of those left behind. Totten says this is a pretty accurate description of Cuba today:
Outside its small tourist sector, the rest of [Havana] looks as though it suffered a catastrophe on the scale of Hurricane Katrina or the Indonesian tsunami. Roofs have collapsed. Walls are splitting apart. Window glass is missing. Paint has long vanished. It's eerily dark at night, almost entirely free of automobile traffic. I walked for miles through an enormous swath of destruction without seeing a single tourist. Most foreigners don't know that this other Havana exists, though it makes up most of the city — tourist buses avoid it, as do taxis arriving from the airport. It is filled with people struggling to eke out a life in the ruins.
Marxists have ruled Cuba for more than a half-century now. Fidel Castro, Argentine guerrilla Che Guevara, and their 26th of July Movement forced Fulgencio Batista from power in 1959 and replaced his standard-issue authoritarian regime with a Communist one. The revolutionaries promised liberal democracy, but Castro secured absolute power and flattened the country with a Marxist-Leninist battering ram. The objectives were total equality and the abolition of money; the methods were total surveillance and political prisons. The state slogan, then and now, is "socialism or death."
Cuba was one of the world's richest countries before Castro destroyed it — and the wealth wasn't just in the hands of a tiny elite. "Contrary to the myth spread by the revolution," wrote Alfred Cuzan, a professor of political science at the University of West Florida, "Cuba's wealth before 1959 was not the purview of a privileged few … Cuban society was as much of a middle-class society as Argentina and Chile." In 1958, Cuba had a higher per-capita income than much of Europe. "More Americans lived in Cuba prior to Castro than Cubans lived in the United States," Cuban exile Humberto Fontova, author of a series of books about Castro and Guevara, tells me. "This was at a time when Cubans were perfectly free to leave the country with all their property. In the 1940s and 1950s, my parents could get a visa for the United States just by asking. They visited the United States and voluntarily returned to Cuba. More Cubans vacationed in the U.S. in 1955 than Americans vacationed in Cuba. Americans considered Cuba a tourist playground, but even more Cubans considered the U.S. a tourist playground." Havana was home to a lot of that prosperity, as is evident in the extraordinary classical European architecture that still fills the city. Poor nations do not — cannot — build such grand or elegant cities.
Cubans in the hotel industry see how foreigners live. The government can't hide it without shutting the hotels down entirely, and it can't do that because it needs the money. I changed a few hundred American dollars into convertible pesos at the front desk. The woman at the counter didn't blink when I handed over my cash — she does this all day — but when she first got the job, it must have been shattering to make such an exchange. That's why the regime wants to keep foreigners and locals apart.
Tourists tip waiters, taxi drivers, tour guides, and chambermaids in hard currency, and to stave off a revolt from these people, the government lets them keep the additional money, so they're "rich" compared with everyone else. In fact, they're an elite class enjoying privileges — enough income to afford a cell phone, go out to restaurants and bars, log on to the Internet once in a while — that ordinary Cubans can't even dream of. I asked a few people how much chambermaids earn in tips, partly so that I would know how much to leave on my dresser and also to get an idea of just how crazy Cuban economics are. Supposedly, the maids get about $1 per day for each room. If they clean an average of 30 rooms a day and work five days a week, they'll bring in $600 a month — 30 times what everyone else gets. "All animals are equal," George Orwell wrote in Animal Farm, his allegory of Stalinism, "but some animals are more equal than others." Only in the funhouse of a Communist country is the cleaning lady rich compared with the lawyer. Yet elite Cubans are impoverished compared with the middle class and even the poor outside Cuba.


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This weekend (Saturday, May 9) is the amazing Houston, Texas Art Car Parade, where you can see the sorts of cars that I described in an earlier post, Baby You Can Drive My (Art) Car.
I'm actually going to be in the Houston area that day but I'll miss it, because I'll be climbing around the battleship Texas on a special below-decks "hard hat tour," doing some research for an upcoming article in Texas Highways magazine (the publication also has an excellent Texas travel blog.)
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Dale Oehler '75 Inducted into the N.J. Lacrosse Hall of Fame
Last month, the New Jersey Lacrosse Hall of Fame announced its inductee class of 2013. On that list was a name that greatly impacted the sport in Central Pennsylvania.
Dale Oehler '75, a former business administration major, was a four-year letter winner and a team captain in his senior season, but he will forever be known on campus as someone who fought to revive the program for more than two decades when it was cut in 1985.
"I played in the early '70s after being recruited out of Wilson High School in Connecticut," Oehler said. "My high school coaches told me about all these different places and the schools where I could go and start right away. LVC at the time was nationally ranked. We played a really hybrid schedule at the time before there were Divisions I, II, and III in the NCAA. That came in the middle of my college career. We played Gettysburg, Franklin & Marshall, Villanova, Lehigh – some of which are now big D-I programs."
After graduation, Oehler played on teams across the U.S. while developing the skillset that led to his current position as senior vice president of Time Warner Retail in New York City. When he was able to make his way back to the East Coast and found out that the program had been cut, he hit the phones.
"We were a good program that beat a lot of good teams. It was a great disappointment to a lot of us, so when I got back, I started calling and talking to people about getting lacrosse reinstated," Oehler said. "When they came to New York, where I work, I would have lunch with whoever was president at the time."
Lacrosse returned to LVC in 2010 and has continued to grow ever since.
"LVC restarted the program the right way. They brought in a nationally recognized coach, and it showed the commitment that the College was making," Oehler said. "It was a difficult thing for someone as proud as me to be asked, 'Where'd you play lacrosse?' and not have anybody recognize the name Lebanon Valley College. It's nice to have the school back up and playing. Now the name rings a bell for people."
Oehler still returns to campus for athletic department events. He and some of his college friends attend the department's golf tournament each year and tour campus to see all of the physical changes that have taken place over recent years. He also checks in with men's lacrosse head coach John Haus and athletic director Rick Beard.
In New Jersey, Oehler works with youth and high school teams to grow the sport. He coached the Rumson-Fair Haven travel team for 12 years and was instrumental in the township's high school approving a varsity team. In the mid-1990s, he helped reconstitute the N.J. chapter of U.S. Lacrosse. Since then, he has served on the board of the New Jersey South Chapter and was elected its president.
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Rob Anderson is the Vice Chancellor for Educational Access and Success at the University System of Georgia (USG), and has served in higher education administration in West Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina. In both his scholarly work and his duties with the USG, Anderson has focused on student readiness and access, as well removing barriers to postsecondary education and financial aid. In this role, he oversees the USG's Complete College Georgia initiative, educator preparation, and Georgia's science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) initiatives.
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Colonel Thomas J. Tickner serves as the Commander and District Engineer for the Savannah District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Tickner is a product of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) and has pursued a stellar military career, earning him the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal and many others. He has held command in various assignments and deployed as the Operations Officer and Executive Officer for the 52nd Engineer Battalion (Combat Heavy) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In addition to his military achievements, Tickner holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in civil engineering, as well as a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University.
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3d animation:Konstantinos Gratsas(student of University of Fine Arts of Florina, Greece)
a short slow motion lego spiderman run and jump test. I'm working on the other characters to : lego superman, spiderman, batman, catwoman, wolverin, ...
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this is my demoreel ... modeling texturing rigginge animation rendering and composite by me ..
my final for 3d animation. a spiderman like animation.
My first animation reel at Takhshaa.
Spider-man animation.
stick fight starring spiderman.
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I thought I'd toss out this question to see what the experts can think up.
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Mankrik's wife.
i think deathwing, onyxia, and nefarian are dead now. I think kaelthas is truly dead as well. Arthas died, lich king is still chillin' though.
Ragnaros and Al'akir also, seem major to me as they were powerful elemental lords and we defeated them at their plane.
Going to McDonalds for a salad is like going to a brothel for a hug.
Deathwing, Sinestra, Arthas, Nefarian, Onyxia.
The demons are a bit harder to say. Much easier for them to be brought back and have it make some sort of sense.
Oh Rag and Al'Akir like above me said^ Good call.
Illidan and arthas(especially considering we have a new lich king)
Cairne, Grom, Uther (although players do communicate with his spirit), Krasus, Terenas, Kael'thas, Malygos, Neltharion, Archimonde, Ner'zhul, Arthas, Mannaroth, Onyxia, Ragnaros, Al'Akir, Xavius, Anub'arak.
Though Blizzard could always write any of them back in if they wanted to. I was going to put Teron Gorefiend down but I'd like to see him again and he doesn't seem to care much for death anyway.
they mentioned it at the last Blizzcon.
Metzen's said he'd be disappointed if they didn't leverage his character properly.
Broxigar's pretty definitely dead yeah, but maybe we'll see some tortured form return whenever we go after Sargeras as a nod to character's fans.


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Heart Your Parts event held by the Wellness Centre
On Feb. 26, University of Guelph's Wellness Centre, in association with the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health, held an event called, "Heart Your Parts" at Branion Plaza.
"Heart Your Parts is an event which raises awareness [for] sexual health, and getting tested for any sexually transmitted infections," explained Wellness Centre member Erin De Jong. "The objective of this presentation [was] to put a positive, upbeat light on sexual health."
Jong also discussed the importance of the event, stating that it draws attention to protecting yourself from risks associated with sexual behaviour.
"Being sexually active is a basic human right; people just need to be aware of the risks and how to stay healthy and protected."
The event provided information on various health related issues such as HPV and cervical cancer, and featured free hot chocolate for students stopping by. Members of the Wellness Centre stood by to answer any questions passers-by may have had. There were many pamphlets and resources available to students at this event as well, including some dedicated to the LGBTQ community. They toted slogans such as "PAPs matter – no matter who you have sex with," and "Regular STI testing and yearly physicals are essential in maintaining good health; no matter whom you love."
"This is to explain to people that it doesn't matter who you have sex with – everyone needs to be protected and visit their doctors to get tested," said another Wellness Centre member, Kimberly Lyons.
PAP tests for females are another very important health procedure, which many females overlook. This is a medical test to check for cervical cancer in females. If you are over the age of 21 or have had any sexual intercourse then you are eligible for a PAP test.
Students with more questions on health-related issues, including mental health and sexual health can visit the Wellness Centre, which is located on the second floor of the J.T. Powell building on campus. The centre is a valuable resource available to students that can provide them with one-on-one support, workshops, information kits and various events, such as Heart Your Parts.
All the members of the Wellness Centre are trained to provide students with the best resources and support available for their varying questions and concerns, as well as information on how to contact a healthcare professional. The Wellness Center is always hosting many health related events, and students can visit the centre for more information on upcoming events hosted at the university.
The event made it clear that students should stay positive and smart about sexual health, heart their parts, and get tested.
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Jack White Proves He Can Smile AND Enjoy Baseball
Jack White threw out the first pitch at a Detroit Tigers game today and did it with a beautiful smile on his face. »
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Because, like our grandparents, Beyonce's people apparently assume cell phones can only make calls.
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Manny was great last night wonder why we get rid of all our good players. Manny ended up number one in face offs. The GM Howson just likes to trade all our good players and get nothing in return.
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Forget the iPhone 5. The must-have personal-tech item for the holidays could be LeBron X sneakers, named for Miami Heat star LeBron James. That's an exaggeration, but not much. Nike's latest kicks come packed with almost as much gee-whiz technology as Apple's latest smartphone, and with a price to match—$270, making the sneakers among Nike's most expensive.
High Heat: Nike's high-tech sneakers, named for Miami Heat star LeBron James, come with one of its steepest price tags. William Waitzman for Barron's
Christopher Svezia of Susquehanna Financial says the sneakers will sell. "The timing couldn't be better," he says, as basketball had an exciting season in which James' Heat won the championship. Nike reportedly plans to sell only about 50,000 pairs of the shoes, which recently hit shelves, and 200,000 of the entire LeBron X line.
Fully loaded LeBron X sneakers sport sensors measuring jumping and running; the data can be analyzed and shared using a mobile app. A cheaper version without sensors sells for $180.
Though LeBron X probably won't move Nike's bottom line, the shoes burnish its rep as innovation leader. Barron's has been a long-term fan of Nike, but it has high near-term hurdles; first-quarter earnings showed lower gross profit margins. Still, Nike's a stock for the long run. One big plus: double-digit sales growth in North America. Score!
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Monday 1
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks at 12:30 on questions about the Fed.
Kraft Foods spins off its global snack business under the name Mondeléz.
The Bank of Japan issues its monthly tankan index of business sentiment.
The deadline for Xstrata's board to decide whether to endorse Glencore's GLEN.LN 3.957334982222909% Glencore PLC U.K.: London GBP336.25 12.8 3.957334982222909% /Date(1416609438000-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 83777895 P/E Ratio 0.22193534235159396 Market Cap 44308519309.1595 Dividend Yield 2.1649814150163063% Rev. per Employee 1309570 More quote details and news » sweetened $36 billion takeover bid.
LightSquared seeks bankruptcy-court approval to keep control of its case, until at least next summer.
Flotek Industries FTK 0.532150776053215% Flotek Industries Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD22.67 0.12 0.532150776053215% /Date(1416607663827-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 649418 AFTER HOURS USD22.67 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 100 P/E Ratio 25.471910112359552 Market Cap 1222797115.43571 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 873721 More quote details and news » meets investors.
China's markets are closed all week. Also closed: South Korea, Australia, and Israel. Hong Kong markets are closed through tomorrow.
Plains All American PAA -0.09194556822361162% Plains All American Pipeline L.P. U.S.: NYSE USD54.33 -0.05 -0.09194556822361162% /Date(1416607213360-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 7500424 AFTER HOURS USD54.33 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 87147 P/E Ratio 23.621739130434783 Market Cap 20212607715.5164 Dividend Yield 4.8591938155715075% Rev. per Employee 9144490 More quote details and news » splits its shares, 2-for-1, after the close.
Signet Jewelers SIG 1.0113468179575729% Signet Jewelers Ltd. U.S.: NYSE USD122.85 1.23 1.0113468179575729% /Date(1416607323153-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1039855 AFTER HOURS USD122.91 0.06 0.04884004884004884% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4044 P/E Ratio 26.94078947368421 Market Cap 9854412177.71149 Dividend Yield 0.5860805860805861% Rev. per Employee 253996 More quote details and news » holds an investor day.
Tuesday 2
Look for a small decline in September vehicle sales, says Barclays.
Eastman Kodak renews its bid for a quick, favorable bankruptcy-court ruling in its patent dispute with Apple. AAPL 0.1375634081334365% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD116.47 0.16 0.1375634081334365% /Date(1416607204671-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 56293765 AFTER HOURS USD116.34 -0.13 -0.11161672533699665% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 885533 P/E Ratio 17.989589608142964 Market Cap 683077903760.791 Dividend Yield 1.6141495664119516% Rev. per Employee 1969180 More quote details and news »
LifeLock plans to sell 15.7 million shares at $9.50 to $11.50 each.
The annual socially responsible investing conference, SRI, begins.
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Berry Plastics seeks to raise as much as $529 million in its initial public offering.
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The first presidential debate between Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney begins at 9:00 p.m. EST.
ADP issues its payroll survey.
Thursday 4
The Fed releases minutes of its September meeting.
September chain-store sales reported.
The ECB is likely to hold rates steady, as is the Bank of England, says High Frequency Economics.
Challenger, Gray & Christmas issues its September job-cut tally.
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Hovnanian presents at Credit Suisse's global credit-products conference.
Friday 5
Look for September nonfarm payrolls to rise 100,000, which should keep the jobless rate steady, says Barclays.
After a recent surprise increase in quantitative easing, the Bank of Japan is likely to stand pat, says HFE.
Sunday 7
Venezuela holds a presidential election.
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