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Recently on "19 Kids and Counting," Michelle Duggar was seen giving women a handout on the "7 Basic Needs of a Husband," a document produced and distributed by the Advanced Training Institute –the Duggar's "homeschool group." She also gave out the group's "Character Qualities" chart, which I discussed in an earlier post, The 49 Character Qualities of the Duggars.
The 14 Basic Needs of Jim-Bob and Michelle Duggar: How they meet each other's 7 Basic Needs:
7 Basic Needs of a Husband:
- A man needs a wife who is loyal and supportive: Obviously, Jim-Bob picked the right wife! Michelle has been there with him, supportive to the max, thru years of small businesses, scrimping and buying used and saving the difference to achieve his (well, their) dream for their family. She's put up with a two bedroom house on a car lot keeping 4 or 5 small children quiet while Daddy made a car sale. She's sold cars herself with babies underfoot, gone out to tow cars on her own and kept all the family fed, clothed and healthy throughout it all. That was the early years.
Today Michelle is beside Jim-Bob at every possible moment—even on the Santorum Campaign trail when possible. While she has Grandma Duggar and the big girls to take up much of the day-to-day running of the family, caring for Jim-Bob is her responsibility and she obviously takes it seriously. Her rapt attention when he is speaking shows her love for him.
- A man needs a wife who honors his leadership: Michelle honors her husband by taking any opportunity to praise him as a father, speaking lovingly of love of family fun, of making a careful response to problems and of modeling the behavior he wants to see in his children. She openly admires his vision for the family and his business acumen. When he is speaking she is completely focused on him.
- A man needs a wife who develops inward and outward beauty Michelle has kept herself in very good shape considering all the years of pregnancy she's endured. She honors her husband's preference for long hair at an age when most wives have long since cut theirs for convenience. She maintains her composure in difficult situations and tries always to speak in a loving voice. She laughs easily and her smile at that time is lovely. She is a very outgoing lady.
- A man needs a wife who will make appeals, not demands. While we cannot know what goes on when the cameras are off, it does not appear that Michelle is a very demanding of her husband. She does not complain about him dragging home an antique harp or buying a new bus—she's used to his whims and trusts his business sense. She knows him well and lives easily and happily with him.
- A man needs a wife who understands his need for time alone with God. While we have not been shown Jim-Bob's "quiet time" on the show, I'm sure when it happens Michelle actively protects his privacy. She is very supportive of family Bible Time and this support has paid off—we have seen Josh Duggar having devotions with his own family and have heard John David say he had his "Bible and his music" and that was all he needed!
- A man needs a grateful wife. Michelle openly and sincerely expresses her gratitude to her husband. She obviously enjoys being married to him.
- A man needs a wife who will be praised by others. Michelle has been recognized by like-minded people as a model wife and mother. That's pretty high praise!
7 Basic Needs of a Wife:
A wife needs a husband who demonstrates spiritual leadership. In their times of crisis, such as Josie's birth, Jim-Bob's taking time to pray with Michelle was an obvious comfort to her and helped her to become calmer.
A wife needs to know she is meeting her husband's vital needs. Well, she only has to look around to see how she's meeting the most intimate of his needs! Joking aside, she clearly seems to know, as most wives do, those things that set Daddy off and tries to minimize them.
A wife needs a husband who cherishes her: Jim-Bob beams with affection for his wife. Few wives have had a husband bungee jump yelling "I love you!" Michelle has to be one of the most publically adored wives in history. When the Duggars had their wedding vow renewal ceremony, Jim-Bob showed his love for his wife by wanting her dressed in a modest, but beautiful dress and expressed a preference for the styles of their youth—a very touching moment. Jim-Bob is very physically affectionate to Michelle—much more so than to their children.
A wife needs a husband who protects her. Jim-Bob proved in the very early years of their marriage that Michelle's life was more precious to him than his own. When a break-in occurred at their car-lot home he begged the armed intruder to not harm his sleeping, pregnant wife. The man agreed. This was part of the reason Jim-Bob visited in the man in prison and forgave him. Jim-Bob consistently shows his concern for Michelle by praying in times of crisis.
A wife needs to have intimate communication with her husband. Jim-Bob tells his wife he loves her over and over again. It's a hallmark of the show. The Duggars model active listening with each other. When one is talking the other is giving full attention to listening, to watching the facial and body language and to modeling respect by not interrupting except in fun. We've seen occasional times of slight irritation on Michelle's part though—such as when preparing to go on stage in Big Sandy, Texas, she asked rather sharply what they were speaking about so they would be on the same page. Still, her tone may have been prompted by something we didn't see or by her husband's anxiety about speaking to a crowd. She may also have felt she dropped the ball on this occasion by not making time to prepare for the talk. When listening to Michelle, Jim-Bob often appears impatient or even a little angry, but this may just be his "listening" face.
A wife needs a husband who honors her: Recently, Jim-Bob took a day to manage the household to remind himself of how much his wife and daughters do for the family. He acknowledged how hard they all work and that he does not cope with it all as well as they do. While Jim-Bob honors Michelle with his words of affirmation and by giving examples of what he likes about her, he has also said negative things such as publically discussing his wife having a dating "past" that to most people would be nebulous. While his words may have been badly edited by those in charge of the show, they seemed disloyal, mean-spirited and bitter—in no way a model of God's grace and forgiveness.
A wife needs a husband who invests in her life. Jim-Bob invested in Michelle in the early years by working in partnership with her to build their businesses. Later on he invested in her as wife and mother by building the house she needed to comfortably raise and organize their children. Recently he has invested in her by encouraging her to speak to wives and mothers and by providing exercise equipment and joining Weight Watchers with her to improve her health. He takes her out for date nights and they occasionally get away together as a couple which is good for any marriage. Jim-Bob encourages Michelle's friendships with other women, too. All of this is well and good, but limiting family size (especially after the trauma of Josie's birth) would have been a much stronger statement of concern for her and her well-being.
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Dow Soars 286 Points in Broad Rally
Stocks jumped Wednesday as investors read remarks by central bankers in Europe and the U.S. as a signal that more monetary stimulus is to come. Bob O'Brien has details on The News Hub. Photo: Reuters.
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Volume 24, Number 9
September 2004
Gold, Now More Than Ever
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
In a growing economy with sound money, the purchasing power of your money should and would be always on the rise. Your dollar would buy more this year than last year, not only in terms of quality improvements but also in terms of price. This is another way of saying that prices would constantly fall for most goods and services just as they have for goods offered by the technology sector.
Today we demand that the price of computers and bandwidth fall month by month but we oddly expect the prices of many other goods to constantly rise (houses, education, health care, taxes). And so we adjust our expectations accordingly. It takes some imagination to see how the system would work if we were guaranteed our right to deflation.
The newest price data raise serious concerns that we are being robbed (that is what inflation is) by this government more than we know. In some ways, the return of constant upward price pressures on a level exceeding economic growth is a telling act of destruction, and a testament to the power of government to create messes where none need exist.
Our intuition tells us that falling prices are great for our pocketbooks because they leave more left over for savings or other forms of consumption. It is just as good for society at large. Our money becomes worth more and more, and hence our remunerative labors grow in value too. If inflation works as a stealth tax, deflation works as a tax refund.
Falling prices are a gift that the free market grants to all people, provided that the market's natural benevolence is not thwarted by central bankers and government officials. The market does this through technological innovations that make production more efficient, and a widening division of labor due to the much-derided phenomenon of globalization. We all benefit from computers and from trade with newly opened economies in Europe and Asia.
Socialists used to talk about working together as a community but global trade shows that the best way to work together as a community is to work separately and exchange to our mutual benefit. In this way, all people of the world can unite in the effort to raise productivity, increase efficiency, and—hugely important—drive down prices now and forever.
Thanks to the Federal Reserve and its monetary spigot, the value of our money continues to decline overall rather than increase as it should. We now face the largest increase in consumer prices in two and a half years. Since 1982, the dollar's value has fallen by half—this during a period usually described as low inflation!
As inflation has "returned," the Fed promptly assured everyone that it would swing into action to prevent inflation from getting out of control. But it said nothing that would indicate that it might bear the responsibility for existing inflation. This familiar posture has been compared to the driver who watches only the rearview mirror but assures his passengers that all is well up ahead.
In the most recent inflation report, overall prices are climbing: 7.5 percent annualized and 5.5 percent in the last quarter. Within the structure of the index itself, however, we find wide variety, with many prices falling but enough rising to generate a rapidly rising index (there is no such thing as an "inflation rate" as a scientific measure).
The big increases were in food and energy, particularly dairy and gasoline. So getting from place to place costs 5 percent more now than it did the same time last year (12.4 percent annualized from 3 months ago!). Medical care is still outpacing everything but food and energy. Housing too is rising.
Given productivity increases, globalization, technological improvements, and the world dollar standard that permits a seemingly limitless export of paper, it is darn difficult these days to cause across-the-board price increases. All pressures run the other way. These very pressures have enabled the Fed to keep interest rates at rock bottom, pump the money supply whenever they saw the need, and otherwise provide backup for the massive amount of debt that is being created by the federal government.
Food and apparel are two sectors that have benefited enormously from the impact of globalization, with constantly falling prices, despite monetary pressures for higher prices. Housing can't benefit from globalization, energy production is hugely shackled by state controls, and everyone knows how viciously government intervenes in medical markets.
The point is not to say that regulations and market impositions cause inflation, but rather that inflation will tend to hit sectors the least where free markets are working to push prices down, as they have in the apparel industry. The more the pressure for lower prices, the less impact the Fed's relentless inflation will have on the industry (at least in the short term).
In the same way, there are additional factors contributing to the high price of medical services and energy. Socialism has inflated the demand for medical services and government restrictions have artificially limited supply. The insane War on Iraq, coupled with sanctions before that, has had a lot to do with restricting supply relative to demand for oil—and this exists alongside environment regulations, government land and water ownership, and taxes that limit profit opportunities from production.
And yet, despite all of this, the real culprit behind the price increases that have stolen your right to deflation is the Federal Reserve. The bout of money-supply increases began after September 2001 and soared above trend line for the two years following. Finally, late last year, the Fed pulled back a bit and the money supply even fell for a time. But now we look again to find that this real deflation was only temporary. The money supply is currently rising again. Since 2001, the money supply has risen above its trend by more than $400 billion.
Inflation robs us of our savings, redistributes wealth from savers to debtors, reshuffles property from consumers to those connected to the government, makes conducting business more difficult, and subsidizes short-term thinking at the expense of long-term planning. It drives people into the workforce who would otherwise not be there of their own choosing, and prevents the market economy from working its magic of raising living standards every year.
So how do we guard our future against future inflation? We could wish for better central-bank managers and more responsible presidents, but our founders hoped that we would not become a government of men. Instead consider again the ideal method for securing the value of money against the depredations of state power: the gold standard. It takes away from the state the right to create money and forces those who rule to live according to their means.
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute (firstname.lastname@example.com).


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As you may have noticed, Apple announced the iPad mini today. Soon after, of course, came the analyst perspective – if there's a strong demand for the iPad mini device, we may see serious supply issues. This has been rumored already in regards to the aluminum back for the new iPad mini, but this is the first report that a shortage of display units may also have a role to play.
"We're now starting to see the issues that [Apple] is having with Samsung," said Richard Shim, an analyst at NPD DisplaySearch, in an interview with CNET.
Samsung is not supplying displays for iPad mini, according to the analyst, which leaves only two suppliers to make the smaller iPad mini for Apple.
Of the two suppliers that are making the displays for iPad mini, LG Display and AUO, only one is producing the needed volume of units. "The problem is that AUO is a new supplier, and they're not able to get to the volumes that Apple needs. So, essentially, there's just one supplier," Shim said.
According to an earlier blog post, Shim reports that AUO is having yield issues, shipping just over 100,000 units. This may seem like a lot until you realize that the plan is to produce 400,000 units this month, twice that many in November, and a cool 1 million units in December. In contrast, LG Display was able to ship 300,000 panels for the iPad mini last month, with plans to ship 1 million this month and 3 million in December.
"The new low price point is expected to appeal to a wider audience and drive up demand," Shim wrote on his blog. "However, panel supply chain indications point to an even more than typical tightness in the market for the iPad Mini."
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"One of the striking aspects of American military power is how little serious attention is spent on examining the key elements of its total cost by war and mission, and the linkage between the use of resources and the presence of an effective strategy. For the last several decades, there has been little real effort to examine the costs of key missions and strategic commitments and the longer term trends in force planning and cost. Both the Executive Branch and the Congress have failed to reform any key aspect of the defense and foreign policy budgets to look beyond input budgeting by line item and by military service, and doing so on an annual basis."
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Should you stay on your career path or risk everything to follow your passion?
This question is not an uncommon one for students and adults alike, but it is almost always a complicated one to resolve.
Whether it's expectations from family, friends, or society or the very real concern for how leaving a stable job could impact your or your family's future, abandoning a career to pursue a dream venture, while appealing, can be frightening and challenging.
But Daron K. Roberts did just that.
We interviewed Roberts to learn more about his story.
After three years as a law student at Harvard University, Roberts made a big and unexpected pivot in his life plan: from lawyer to NFL coach.
According to Roberts, the shift happened after a friend asked him to go with him to a football camp. From that moment, Roberts knew that coaching wasn't just something that it was passionate about. "I immediately knew that coaching was my purpose, and that's what really compelled me to leave Harvard and pursue it."
For Roberts, that was enough.
And the decision for him wasn't a difficult one –– though it also wasn't one his classmates immediately understood.
"I think it surprised a lot of them," Roberts recounts, "they would kind of say 'hold on, we're at one of the most prestigious institutions in the world, why would you throw all of that away to coach football?' But for me, I went to Harvard Law School to be able to take chances like that. I didn't go to a place like Harvard to box myself into a profession."
For Roberts, taking that chance was worth it. After throwing all his efforts at finding a coaching internship with NFL teams, he finally landed one with the Kansas City Chiefs and worked his way up to being an assistant coach for a number of years.
Now, in Roberts' new book Call An Audible he's passing on that resistance to being boxed in and using his own experience to help people make that big life pivot.
"The context is football, but the learnings can apply to anyone looking to make a big pivot in their life to help them navigate and find success in that space."
And that includes entrepreneurs.
For most aspiring entrepreneurs, there will be a moment where they have to look at their diverging paths and say "Do I go on to grad school or try to start my venture?" or "Should I quit my job?" or "Is it worth the risk?"
According to Roberts, when it comes to your purpose, it's always worth the risk. But when people gear up to take that risk they can find themselves on the fence for months or even years trying to figure out what pivot points they need to make or how to get started.
"There is really a gap in the literature that I'm trying to fill. It's easy to find motivational books or articles that tell you to follow your dreams, but it's harder to find resources that tell you how to implement a strategy to get there."
And some ways for them to start?
As part of his blueprint for successfully following your purpose, Roberts laid out some practical ways to get started and reduce risk:
"In my book I really talk about how, as you're entering a new sector or a new work environment, what the tools are that you need to gain a competency in that chosen area in a very short period of time.
I personally didn't have much of a grace period because there were a lot of coaches who were skeptical of me going into my internship with the Kansas City Chiefs.
I had to learn very quickly the ins and outs of the NFL and coaching. And that kind of learning curve exists in almost every transition that an entrepreneur is trying to make. Entrepreneurs should be prepared for that and they should take advantage of resources that would help them through that process to become experts in their own right.
From a financial standpoint, all the research tends to support the belief that it's actually better to moonlight for a period instead of quitting a job cold turkey and just moving in another direction. I think there are many benefits to moonlighting and fueling your desire while working.
Because over time you can track the time that you spend on the outside venture to find out if it's something that's fleeting or is it something that is purposeful and that you can't get enough of.
Tracking that time –– whether it's for six months or a year –– to see if it is consistent and sustainable helps you know whether a venture or enterprise is something that you think is important and want to devote time to. I'm also a believer that you have to save six months worth of expenses to float you through that period in which you quit your job. There are a lot of people out there who say 'quit your job and pursue your passion' I think people really need to deep-dive into the granular steps that you need to take. I believe in a six month cushion. And that includes all the fixed costs associated with your life. I think this is also a test of commitment for people, and shows how badly they want to make this venture to work."
But none of that is to dissuade people from going out and take the risk.
"I actually want to be able to help get people off the fence and onto a path towards action. Get them from that state of equivocation and uncertainty.
I know that mortgages and children and car payments complicate the matter, but the one commonality we all have is that we are going to die at some point. And it is going to be sooner for some of us than others, so I think there isn't much time to waste. I'm a fan of picking smart gambles in the short term and doing everything we can to realize the goals we want now vs. later."
And, at 3 Day Startup, so are we.
Taking that leap can be difficult, and it isn't for everyone. But if there is an idea you can't stop thinking about or a passion that gets you out of bed and working everyday, even when you're tired or busy, then maybe it's time to bring it to the forefront and start making it your path for the future.
To read more of Daron K. Roberts' pivot points, check out "Call an Audible." To get started on your own entrepreneurial journey, see how you can bring a 3 Day Startup program to your community today.


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The White House says Obama will present the medal to survivors of Richard Etchberger on Sept. 21.
According to the White House, the Hamburg, Pa., native showed "conspicuous gallantry" on March 11, 1968, when he deliberately exposed himself to enemy fire to help his wounded comrades into rescue slings so they could be airlifted to safety.
Etchberger was fatally wounded by enemy fire as he was being rescued. His three sons are expected to join Obama at the White House to commemorate their father's sacrifice.


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In 1971 DOD analyst and RAND Corporation employee Daniel Ellsberg leaked The Pentagon Papers - the DOD's Top Secret history of the Vietnam War. This is one of the biggest and most famous leaks in history, but there remain huge questions about why this happened. Was Ellsberg a genuine whistleblower? Or were the Pentagon Papers leaked as part of a distraction and disinformation campaign?
In this episode I present an alternative history of the Pentagon Papers, arguing that if this was an officially-sanctioned leak then the purpose was to distract people not only from the CIA's crimes in Vietnam but also from the idea that there was anything wrong with the Gulf of Tonkins incidents, the very basis for the full scale war. Using a recently declassified NSA history as a guiding post, I consider whether there was more to these events than one ex-CIA, DOD and RAND guy suddenly growing a conscience.
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ISLAMABAD, Oct 20 (APP): Finance Minister, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar on Thursday reviewed arrangements for international events planned for the next week including 15th Ministerial Conference of Central Asian Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) and visits of senior officials of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Asian Development Bank (ADB).
The officials of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs Division briefed the Finance Minister who chaired the meeting in this regard on the overall arrangements for the CAREC Conference and visits of Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Ms.Christine Laragrde and President, Takehiko Nakao, Asian Development Bank in a befitting manner.
The Finance Minister said that the CAREC conference would provide member countries an important opportunity to further collaborate in areas of mutual interest to improve regional cooperation.
The delegations from CAREC states including Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Georgia would participate in the CAREC Ministerial conference.
Senator Ishaq Dar said that the high profile visits as well as CAREC conference was the proof of the confidence of the international development partners in the strength of Pakistan's economy.
He said that the government was committed to ensure that the growth rate is sustainable as well as inclusive and that Pakistan become a destination of choice for international investors.
He directed that the relevant ministries and departments should coordinate closely to ensure success of the planned international events.
The meeting was attended by senior officials of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs Division.


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Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), a Merck & Co subsidiary, has announced the opening of its office in Lagos and has also launched one of its HIV-treating antiretroviral drugs in Nigeria
The office in will be run by 19 employees and underscores MSD's plans to expand its footprint and address health challenges in Nigeria and neighbouring West African countries such as Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia and Equatorial Guinea.
"At MSD, our commitment is to get the right medicines to the right people in the right place, and we will achieve this by focusing on bringing medications and vaccines to Nigeria to address unmet medical needs," said Kingsley Okeke, commercial director, MSD West Africa.
"We have an excellent relationship with the Nigerian government and we have set ourselves the ambitious goal to be the number onehealth care partner in Nigeria in scaling up access to healthcare services and medicines."
MSD announced the launch of its antiretroviral (ARV) medicine ATRIPLA® in Nigeria recognition of World AIDS Day on December 1.
"Each of the components in ATRIPLA has been shown to be effective and has a well-established tolerability profile in HIV patients," said Dr. Ernest Ekong, director of the Department of Clinical Services at the Institute for Human Virology of Nigeria (IHVN).
"This one-pill-a-day treatment for HIV is already globally available and represents a simplification of dosing, which is important as patients remain on therapy longer."
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Rock-Eating Microbes Found in Buried Antarctic Lake
The subglacial lakes in Antarctic are home to at least 3,931 species of microbes, a finding that resolves earlier controversies over whether life can exist in the dark, subzero temperatures.
A large and diverse family of hearty rock-eating bacteria and other microorganisms live in a freshwater lake buried a half-mile beneath Antarctic ice, new research confirms.
The finding not only adds another extreme environment where life thrives on Earth, but raises the prospect that similar species could have lived or are still living on Mars.
NASA's ongoing Curiosity rover mission, for example, already has found that the planet most similar to Earth in the solar system once had the chemical constituents needed to support microbial life.
PHOTOS: Google Unveils New South Pole Views
The new research, published in this week's Nature, confirms initial studies 20 years ago that found microbes in refrozen water samples retrieved from Lake Vostok, the largest subglacial Antarctic lake.
Scientists at that time were not on a life-hunting expedition and the indirect sampling process later raised questions about those results.
"People weren't really thinking about ecosystems underneath the ice. The conventional wisdom was that they don't exist, it's a place that's too extreme for this kind of thing," Louisiana State University biologist Brent Christner told Discovery News.
For the new study, Christner and colleagues analyzed samples directly retrieved from another subglacial lake, known as Lake Whillans, which lies beneath about a half-mile of ice on the lower portion of the Whillans Ice Stream in West Antarctica.
The lake is part of an extensive and evolving subglacial drainage network, Christner noted in the Nature paper.
BLOG: Massive Flood Hits Antarctic Lake
Scientists discovered at least 3,931 microbial species or groups of species in the lake waters, many of which use inorganic compounds as an energy source.
With little surface melt in the area, it is unlikely that water has made its way through the half-mile of ice to reach the lake. Instead, scientists believe the water comes from geothermal heating at the base of the lake and through frictional melting during ice flows.
Any microbes in the water, therefore, most likely survive on energy and nutrients from melting ice, crushed rock, sediment beneath the ice and recycling of materials from dead micro-organisms, glaciologist Martyn Tranter, with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, wrote in a related paper in Nature.
"What I find about icy environments on Earth is that, potentially, they are very similar to other icy environments, for example on Mars," Tranter told Discovery News.
"Conditions are right (on Mars) for there to be liquid water at the bed. The right types of rocks are present which contain reduced (compounds) and if there are oxidizing agents present, then microbes can make a living shuttling electrons between reduced compounds and oxidized compounds," he said.
NEWS: Russia Finds 'New Bacteria' in Antarctic Lake
Mars scientist Christopher McKay, with NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., isn't convinced.
"I don't like to be unenthusiastic about these results but I don't see much of any implication for Mars or the ice-covered oceans of the outer solar system," McKay wrote in an email to Discovery News.
"First it is clear that the water sampled is from a system that is flowing through ice and out to the ocean. Second, and related to this, the results are not indicative of an ecosystem that is growing in a dark nutrient-limited system. They are consistent with debris from the overlying ice -- known to contain micro-organisms -- flowing though and out to the ocean," McKay said.
"Interesting in its own right, but not a model for an isolated ice-covered ecosystems," he added.
Scientists don't know how long ice sheets have covered Antarctica. "Some folks think that within the last half-million years maybe the West Antarctica ice sheet melted away to not very much," Tranter said.
PHOTOS: New Antarctic Vent Community Found
Since Lake Whillans is at the edge of the West Antarctic ice sheet, sections could have been open to the atmosphere within the last half-million years.
"It's possible that microbes, which are blown everywhere by the wind, were dropped onto a much-reduced West Antarctic ice sheet, since covered by ice, and they've managed to (exist) under the ice every since," Tranter said.
"It's also possible that the type of microbes found in marine sediments ... carry on regardless of whether there is an ice sheet on top of them or not," he added.
Scientists plan additional studies to try to determine how the organisms came to exist in the cold, dark waters beneath Antarctica.
Lake Vostok location in Antarctica.
Though aerial drones have been banned from U.S. national parks, a tourist in early August dropped one right into Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone in Wyoming. Park officials are unsure whether the crash could damage the iconic multicolored spring.
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produced by California wildfires that can spread smoke and pollutants across large areas. Ironically, the clouds can trigger thunderstorms that help extinguish wildfires.
Scientists from NOAA, in a partnership with the
, are learning to use 360-degree camera technology to map U.S. marine sanctuaries. The technique resembles Google's street view, and will allow people to remotely view sanctuaries from home. Above, divers explore Florida International University's Aquaruis Reefbase in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
NEWS: Google Street View Visits Caribbean Coral Reefs
Novatak and East Novatak are among many glaciers in southeastern Alaska that have seen significant ice loss in the last 25 years. Novatak has retreated by about 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) and East Novatak has moved back by twice that.
Hawaii got a 1-2 hurricane punch in early August, when Hurricane Iselle (above) and Hurricane Julio brewed in the Pacific simultaneously. Iselle made landfall on the Big Island, and was downgraded to a tropical storm. Several days later Hurricane Julio passed north of Hawaii.
A thick plume of dust blows from the dry interior of Sudan and across hundreds of kilometers of the Red Sea, with smaller plumes also visible over Saudi Arabia and Eritrea.
A plane appears to fly across the supermoon, surrounded by a Madrid skyscraper. The moon appeared 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than the typical full moon, and another will appear in the sky on Sept. 9, 2014.
PHOTOS: Spectacular Supermoon Seen Around the World


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To access the books you already downloaded is very simple: on the home screen, just touch the Astronaut to enter My Space and your books will appear in the section Available Offline, as in the images below.
If you can not find the book you are looking for, there are two things:
- It was downloaded with another profile. Tap the Swap Profiles icon and choose another user to see if that's what happened.
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Vintage Steig
From Mike Lynch's blog, courtesy of Dick Buchanan's treasure trove of cartoon art, "William Steig Gag Cartoons 1946 – 1965" — see them all here. (above: from Look magazine, February 17, 1959).
A Richard Decker Self Portrait and One More Kovarsky!
And speaking of Dick Buchanan, an interesting tear sheet containing a Richard Decker self portrait is the subject of today's Attempted Bloggery post. See it here (a portion shown above). And while there scroll down to see an auctioned Anatol Kovarsky drawing, along with commentary by Mr. Kovarsky's daughter.
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Richard Decker's entry on the Spill's A-Z:
Richard Decker (pictured above) Born, Philadelphia, Penn. May 6, 1907. Died, November 1, 1988. New Yorker work, 1931 – 1969, over 900 drawings, and four covers.
Anatol Kovarsky's entry on the Spill's A-Z:
Anatol Kovarsky (photo above, NYC, 2013. By Liza Donnelly) Born, Moscow. Died, June 1, 2016, NYC. Collection: Kovarsky's World (Knopf, 1956) NYer work: 1947 -1969. Link to Ink Spill's 2013 piece, "Anatol Kovarsky at 94: Still Drawing After All These Years"
William Steig's entry on the Spill's A-Z:
William Steig (photo above) Born in Brooklyn, NY, Nov. 14, 1907, died in Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2003. In a New Yorker career that lasted well over half a century and a publishing history that contains more than a cart load of books, both children's and otherwise, it's impossible to sum up Steig's influence here on Ink Spill. He was among the giants of the New Yorker cartoon world, along with James Thurber, Saul Steinberg, Charles Addams, Helen Hokinson and Peter Arno. Lee Lorenz's World of William Steig (Artisan, 1998) is an excellent way to begin exploring Steig's life and work. New Yorker work: 1930 -2003.


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Constant Pressure, Endlessly Applied
Thirty two years ago a group of surfers in Malibu, California decided to take action when environmental risks posed by coastal development threatened the state of their favorite surf spot. Concern became action and the Surfrider Foundation was born.
Since its humble beginnings in 1984, Surfrider Foundation has established itself globally in the U.S., Europe, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Argentina, Japan & Morocco. It has grown into one of the largest sea-roots organizations with a volunteer-activist network committed to the protection and enhancement of the world's oceans, waves and beaches.
1991: Surfrider Foundation Australia is Born
Surfrider Foundation Australia's story begins in 1990 when founder, Brad Farmer, witnessed 5,000 surfers demonstrate against the proposed sewerage outfall at South Straddie under the banner of GASP. Inspired by his travels throughout Europe, along with a personal connection with Tom Curren founder of Surfrider Europe, Brad returned home and in July 1991 he founded Surfrider Foundation Australia on the Gold Coast with the help of many other dedicated ocean lovers.
The People
Filled with times of uncertainty, it hasn't been easy. Surfrider Foundation Australia's long-term success and growth is a tribute to its founder's vision, that taking on an environmental battle may not be easy, but with constant pressure, endlessly applied, it can be won. And the key to this is what makes the organization unique has always been the people.
Surfrider Foundation Founding members first meeting on the 19th of July 1991
Founding Members: Brad Farmer, Peter Garrett, Richard Jones M.L.C, Mark Richards, Trevor Hendy, Lisa Curry, Grant Kenny, Rusty Miller, Dr Bob Brown, Paul Neilson
A Network of Branch Organisations
Surfrider Australia opened the first branch on the Gold coast due to surfers' concern to protect Australia's coastal environment. The National office opened in Burleigh Heads, Queensland.
Shortly after, a network of branches was established throughout Australia. Branches are made up from active volunteers who campaign on local issues and participate in on-the-ground projects that make a difference through C.A.R.E. Conservation, activism, research and education projects.
On the 6th of December 1991, Surfrider Foundation was incorporated as an Association under Australia's Old Association Incorporation Act of 1981. At that point, the major aim was to put together an Education package & video for schools in 1992 and decrease pollution by 1995, by creating awareness of problems and alter behaviour and attitudes of people in Australia.
Awareness of Surfrider Foundation Australia picked up when the first issue of our national newsletter 'coastlines' was printed and distributed around Australia later that summer. Surfing legends Wayne Lynch and Peter Garrett contributed letters to this first issue.
Surfrider Foundation Australia became the largest representation of any community group on the Commonwealth Government's Coastal Zone Inquiry.
The first inaugural SURFRIDER FOUNDATION NATIONAL CONFERENCE was held at the Coastal Environment Centre, North Narrabeen, NSW. With guest speaker Glen Henning, one of the founders & president of Surfrider Foundation USA at the time.
Created and coordinated the inaugural National Ocean Care Day during the first Sunday of December with on ground activities in every State and Territory. This event was hugely successful in the early years with events and activities around the country. Subsequently, ocean care day was taken over by the Commonwealth Government.
State of our Surf Report (SOS), a project involving the creation of an environmental database of Australian Beaches completed by Surfrider's Michael Legge Wilkinson.
Launched on the steps of the Parliament House, Sydney, the report attracted nationwide attention.
Hundreds of interviews with print, television and radio from around the country were conducted. Recommendations from the report were screened nationally on ABC National News with various state and local governments forced to respond to issues raised.
Surfrider Foundation gained a position on the national implementation committee who established the Government's Ocean Care Programme.
Active campaigning continued to build around the country against ocean outfalls, oil pollution and other direct threats to marine and coastal environments.
Don't Spoil with Oil
Surfrider Foundation's Victoria branch led the protests against proposals to restart an oil transfer facility in Westernport Bay at Crib Point.
The rally on the steps of the Parliament House in Melbourne, the first ever by surfers in Victoria, attracted over 200 people along with a paddle out held at Crib Point 3 days later.
Campaign won! Plans for the oil transfer facility were shelved indefinitely as a result of Surfrider's fight.
State of Our Surf Report resulted in the government allocating $10 million to cleaning up PattaWoolunga river in Adelaide. The report also ended up influencing the NSW government to introduce fishing bag limits on intertidal invertebrates on Sydney's Northern beaches.
Surfrider Foundation partnered with the federal ocean rescue 2000 program and secured a seat on the national implementation committee of the Marine and Coastal Community network.
Surfrider Foundation stopped a development at Blue lagoon on the the NSW central coast.
Gold Coast branch launches CoastCare program in partnership with LandCare Australia.
Direct campaigning by National Office and branches leads to NSW and QLD Governments creating legislation that banned the construction of new ocean outfalls in those states.
Surfrider Foundation Victoria branch held the NUCLEAR FREE PACIFIC RALLY, at Geelong, Victoria with 150 people attending against water contamination.
From this a movement was sparked and Surfrider Foundation Australia coordinated No Nukes protests around the country.
Furthermore, Surfrider's continued fight resulted in a two-year moratorium on offshore drilling in the Great Australian Bight.
The NUCLEAR FREE PACIFIC RALLY continued in Sorrento, Victoria and raised national media attention, giving Surfrider Foundation even more support.
Surfrider Foundation Gold Coast branch receives $20,000 Water Watch Grant after 3 years of negotiations with federal and state government. Water Watch is a government partnership program dedicated to providing resources to communities in order to foster lifelong learning about waterways, catchments and sustainable living.
Surfrider Foundation holds its Annual General Meeting and National Conference at the Bondi Pavilion, Bondi. Hosted by Eastern Beaches branch.
Surfrider Foundation National office releases LOCAL ENVIROGROUP Manual, a guide for groups wishing to form their own branch or environmental group. Authored and published by WET PAPER.
In March Surfrider Foundation Victoria branch launches the POINT IMPOSSIBLE REVEGETATION project in partnership with the local Aboriginal community and the local foreshore committee. This project is conducted from 1996-1998 and includes extensive Archaeological work and major revegetation work at Point Impossible near Torquay.
After five years of intense government lobbying, Surfrider Foundation Coffs Harbour branch is able to celebrate a huge victory in the proclamation of the Solitary Islands as a Marine Park.
In November, Surfrider's "Human Impacts on Australian Beaches" report is launched by Peter Garrett (from Midnight Oil) and Project Author Michael Legge-Wilkinson at the Bondi Pavilion, Sydney.
This report is the follow up to the first State of Our Surf report released in 1993, and gains significant national and international media attention nationally and worldwide including feature reports on BBC London and USA Today.
It is estimated that the media coverage reached approximately 120 million people.
Surfrider Foundation holds the National Conference and annual general meeting (AGM) in Jan Juc, Victoria. The aim, to discuss the organization's future goals. This AGM is attended by over 40 Surfrider representatives from all around Australia and joined by guest speaker Larry Manson from Surfrider Foundation USA.
Surfrider Foundation Surf Coast branch hosts the first NOT SO CLEAN WATER CLASSIC surf contest at Point Impossible, Victoria as a campaign against ocean pollution from the nearby Black Rock Sewage Treatment Plant. Surfrider Foundation Australia moves its Head National Office to Manly.
Surfrider Foundation Australia calls for phasing out Australia's 160 ocean outfalls over a twenty-year period in their submission to the development of Australia's Ocean Policy.
The call demands for a national approach to coastal zone management in light of the pollution seen along Australia's coast as a result of municipal and industry marine discharge.
Surfrider Foundation Victoria Branch launches a Marine Parks poster to support the public campaign for the establishment of a Marine National Park at Bells Beach.
- Early April -
Surfrider holds their National Conference and AGM in Byron Bay, New South Wales. Themed: 'Spirit Of The Ocean'.
- March -
Surfrider Foundation National Conference and AGM is held in Masonic Bowling Club, King Edward Park in Newcastle. The conference is joined by Larry Manson from SF USA, and Yoko Koji Yasuhara from Surfrider Foundation Japan.
Sydney Water, Australia's largest water utility, agrees to install a disinfecting system at Warriewood Sewage Treatment Plant after years of intense lobbying by Surfrider Foundation Northern Beaches Branch supported by the surf community.
Greg Howell (National Administrator) and Fairlee Andrew (National Director) travel to the US to address the inaugural International Surfrider Foundation Summit held in California.
- November -
Surfrider's Gold Coast branch launches the HOLD ONTO YOUR BUTT campaign with the support from David 'Rasta' Rastovich and Michael 'Munga' Barry.
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NO SO CLEAN WATER CLASSIC surf contest held by SF Surf Coast at Point Impossible near Torquay to highlight local ocean outfall issues.
- March -
Surfrider Foundation National Conference and AGM held on the Gold Coast. Official welcome by Wayne 'Rabbit' Bartholomew.
- June -
Inaugural SPIRIT OF SURFING GATHERING held at Broken Head, New South Wales. Hosted by Peter Cuming with support from Surfrider and Surfing Australia.
Surfrider Foundation Northern Beaches branch launch their own version of the Surfriders Code under guidance of Neil Lazarow.
Surfrider Foundation Mid North Coast branch runs three rounds of the RESPECT THE BEACH junior surf coast funded by CoastCare.
After five years of lobbying from Surfrider Foundation Northern Beaches branch, Sydney Water agree to upgrade Warriewood Sewage Treatment Plant to tertiary level treatment standard.
Surfrider Foundation Surf Coast branch celebrate the proclamation of a Marine National Park at Bells Beach after five years of lobbying and consultation.
Surfrider Foundation Surf Coast partners with Wathaurong Aboriginal Corporation, Surf Coast Shire, Surfing Victoria, SANE and Torquay Boardriders Club to install the SPIRIT OF SURFING stones at Bells Beach.
North Narrabeen:Line in the Sand campaign at Narrabeen prevents the Narrabeen seawall from being constructed.
Surfrider Foundation National Conference in Torquay, organized by Surfrider Foundation Surf Coast branch.
Surfrider Tasmania member Matt Dell wins 2004 Coca-Cola Community Environment award for his Marine Debris Clean Up program in Tasmania.
First International Surfing Day initiated by Surfrider globally, celebrating surfing and coastal conservation on the 20th of June.
Save Bastion Point campaign from dredging and boat ramp development begins supported by Surfrider Foundation branches from around the country.
Unfortunately, this campaign is lost in 2014 when the breakwall was constructed by the local council, a large rocky structure was placed right on the point through the surf zone.
Surfrider Foundation Surf Coast branch campaign to stop the dredging and surf break destruction of Corsair surf break in Victoria.
Surfrider Foundation Australia campaign for an extension to the Marine Park in Ningaloo National Park, Western Australia.
Surfrider Foundation Australia campaign to protect Belmont Wetlands successful when area is declared a State Park.
Surfrider Foundation Australia organises 26 rings of remembrance for the people lost in the 2004 boxing day tsunami. Surfrider establishes partnerships with SurfAid International and Lhoknga Aid Building Project.
The campaign funnels almost $500,000 of aid to these organizations following the tsunami.
Catherine Hill Bay, NSW - A heritage coastal surfing town is saved from developers proposals.
Surfrider Foundation National Conference and AGM held in Coffs Harbour, NSW in November. Hosted by Surfrider Foundation Coffs Harbour branch.
Surfrider Foundation Australia launch 'I SURF I VOTE' sticker to raise awareness with local, state and federal politicians about beach issues which have been ignored.
The Gardens, South Narrabeen – temporarily saved from sea wall construction plans by the 'Line in the Sand' campaign.
16th annual Surfrider Foundation Australia National Conference
Sandon Point – saved from excess foreshore encroachment and beachfront housing.
Smoking banned at all beaches along the Surf Coast in Victoria after proposal from Surfrider Foundation Surf Coast branch. First smoking ban on Victoria beaches.
This initiative is a finalist in 2009 Victorian Coastal Awards.
- August -
Surfrider Foundation Tasmania opposes boat ramp being constructed at Georgetown.
- Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th November -
Surfrider Foundation National Conference and AGM held in Hobart, Tasmania.
International Rise Above Plastics campaign commences.
At The Farm, Shellharbour – Surfrider Foundation South Coast branch campaign saves this beach from developers. It is now a National Surfing Reserve.
Surfrider Foundation unveils a new international logo.
In January, Surfrider Foundation Australia releases a revised National Environmental Policy, still serving us today.
Saved,Alexandra Bay - In 2011 campaign by Surfrider Foundation Sunshine Coast branch stops a one kilometre seawall proposal.
Surfrider Foundation Margaret River and No Oil for SW Beaches Alliance organizes 20,000+ submissions from community members in opposition to an offshore drilling proposal approved by the government.
Renown for its massive A-frame peaks and formidable local sharks, the Margaret River has been a popular surf break for over 40 years and hosts several annual competitions. With an immense amount of support from No Oil for SW Beaches and the greater whole of WA, Surfrider successfully halts the proposal in s tracks!
Surfrider Foundation National Conference & AGM hosted by Surfrider Foundation Margaret River branch.
First Surfrider Foundation Eco Challenge organised by the Surfrider Foundation Sunshine Coast branch. The event shows coastal communities how to live and breath a zero emissions surf lifestyle. Since 2011, the Eco Challenge becomes an annual event on the Sunshine Coast, and has spread to the Gold Coast since 2015.
South West WA - Surfrider branch campaigning leads to Cape Ngaris State Marine Park promise with 10 special surf zones between Dunsborough and Augusta.
Surfrider Foundation launches national Endangered Waves campaign. Continuing to encourage local and national action to ensure that Australia's surf breaks and unique coastal environments are protected from threats such as destructive coastal development, erosion, water pollution and impeded access.
At the start of the campaign, Surfrider identified nine waves throughout Australia under imminent threat:
Bastion Point (Mallacoota, Victoria)
The Other Side, TOS (South Stradbroke Island, Qld)
Bells Beach (Vic)
Kirra Point (Gold Coast, Qld)
North Narrabeen (Sydney, NSW)
Capricorn Coast (Qld)
Ball Bay (Norfolk Island)
Westernport Bay (Vic)
Tam O'Shanter Bay (Tas)
In May, Surfrider Foundation Surf Coast branch launches the video, CLIMATE CHANGE AT BELLS BEACH, on Youtube. The sequence illustrates the impact of climate change on oceans, waves and beaches around the world and uses Australia's popular Bells Beach as an example of the serious issue. Upon release, the video attracted thousands of viewers worldwide.
Following the launch of the video, intense campaigning by Surfrider Foundation Surf Coast branch in partnership with local groups succeeds in stopping overdevelopment of Bells Beach Surfing Reserve for tourism.
Early 2014 kicked off with a gathering of 2,500 surfers and beach lovers from and around the Gold Coast at North Kirra to call on Premier Campbell Newman to provide greater protection for the Gold Coast beaches and public land. This event is supported by a petition signed by over 36,000 people against a proposed cruise-ship terminal and tourist resort on this iconic break.
Surfrider Foundation National and Gold Coast-Tweed branch launch campaign against another proposal in early March aiming to prevent the transformation of the Broadwater at The Spit into a cruise ship terminal.
In media, Surfrider Foundation Australia Chairman Brendan Donahue describes the development as a "zombie threat.. kill it off and it resurfaces 8-10 years later".
Still, Surfrider Foundation is determined to protect the surf break as development proposals are continuously reoccurring.
Surfrider Foundation Surf Coast branch partners with SANE (Surfers Appreciating Natural Environment) , Torquay Boardriders and Bells Beach Preservation Society in October in order to launch a campaign to stop people from crapping in native vegetation areas at Bell's and Winki Pop.
A follow up video produced by the Surf Coast Branch featuring Maurice Cole receives hundreds of views and raises a tremendous amount of awareness on the issue.
Surfrider Foundation Australia launches a Vimeo channel with 'We Love The Waves, we love the beaches!" which showcases surfers talking about why they love the ocean and why being a member of Surfrider Foundation is important to them.
June 20th marks the 10th Anniversary of International Surfing Day, an event SF hosts at 200 branches worldwide. The purpose of the event is to celebrate Surfrider's successes, trials, and the goals for the future.
In May, over 250 volunteers come together and descend on Double Island Point for an annual Beach Clean Up organised by Surfrider Foundation Sunshine Coast branch. Now, the event takes place twice a year, in fall and spring.
In March, Surfrider Foundation Gold Coast Tweed branch celebrates the launch of the Gold Coast Surf Management Plan. A world's first in recognizing waves and beaches, surf amenity, as a major contributor to the Gold Coast, as recognized by the council and state government under the Ocean Beaches Strategy.
This plan came forward as a response to use best practice for coastal management and enhance and preserve the city's surf amenity.
The launch of the Surf Management Plan coincides with the dedication of the Gold Coast World Surfing Reserve, from Burleigh Heads to Snapper Rocks.
Bell's Last Stand.
A local landowner in the hinterland immediately surrounding the globally iconic Bells Beach submits a development proposal for tourist accommodation after community and local shire council opposition. With the online petition a staggering number of people were reached to support Surfrider's campaign.
Today, Surfrider Foundation Australia is stronger than ever. We are supported by 17 active branches around Australia, all run by people that are passionate about finding innovative ways to protect our oceans, waves and beaches for everyone's enjoyment.
Protect what you love today, tomorrow and for generations to come.
Visit surfrider.org.au to learn more and get involved.


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Sen. Cory Booker talks about politics in grand, even spiritual terms.
Speaking to NPR about his run for the presidency, the New Jersey Democrat used phrases like "coalitions of conscience," "sacred honor" and "courageous empathy."
But those hopeful ideas pose a major challenge for Booker: how to translate his aggressively optimistic view of American democracy into any sort of policy action, especially with such gaping differences between the two parties on a wide range of policy areas.
He's the first of the 2020 presidential candidates whom NPR's Morning Edition spoke to in a series of conversations to explore their core campaign messages called Opening Arguments.
Host Steve Inskeep interviewed Booker about not only what he wants to accomplish as president, but also why he thinks large (and often progressive) policy leaps are possible.
Creating consensus
"The founders were imperfect geniuses. They wrote a lot of our bigotries into [the Constitution]. ... If you think about how we have overcome those things, it's always been by creating, first, calls to consciousness, speaking truth about the injustices, and then bringing together those uncommon coalitions."
"We are a nation of conscience, and I found partners on the other side of the aisle who agree with me on these issues. And we can build from there. In fact, when I first came to the Senate, people laughed. I had people telling me, 'There's no way you're going to get a comprehensive criminal justice reform bill done.' "
Underlying many of Booker's points is a firm belief that it's possible to create bipartisan consensus, even while the partisan divide in America seems to grow ever wider.
Booker argues that he's the man to create that consensus because of his record as mayor of Newark, where he at times worked with Republican Gov. Chris Christie; his work passing the bipartisan FIRST STEP Act on criminal justice; and legislation he worked on with Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., to create "opportunity zones." The basic idea is that investors would get a tax break for putting their recent investment gains into projects in low-income areas.
Booker acknowledges that building bridges between Republicans and Democrats will be difficult. He told NPR the story of a Midwestern farm family that at first refused to meet with him.
"They call the person that was showing me around and said, 'Hey we're a Christian family. We can't have Cory Booker in our home.' Because we have these outrage machines that are making the highest corporate profits they've ever made, because of their telling us to hate each other so much," Booker said.
In the end, however, Booker said he won the family over via "dad jokes" and finding some common areas of agreement on farm policy.
Criminal justice
"This is a system that just grinds people into it who are the most vulnerable. You know, you can judge a lot by a country by who they incarcerate.
"There are some countries that incarcerate political opposition, some countries that incarcerate the media ... but if you look at our prisons and jails we incarcerate overwhelmingly the addicted, mentally ill, low-income, low-income, low-income folks ... and then disproportionately people of color."
Criminal justice reform is one of Booker's key policy areas in his presidential policy platform — he often cites the statistics that the U.S. has 5 percent of the world's population but 25 percent of its incarcerated population. He was a key force behind the FIRST STEP Act, which President Trump signed into law. Among other things, that law ends the "three-strike penalty" that gave some offenders automatic life sentences, it helps judges avoid imposing mandatory minimum sentences, and it gives prisoners more access to rehabilitation programs.
Booker will soon introduce what he calls the Next Step Act, a package of further criminal justice changes. It includes provisions that would legalize marijuana at the federal level, eliminate the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine, and give felons the right to vote.
This is one big area where Booker would likely have an uphill battle with Republicans. A recent Florida measure to give felons the right to vote faced stiff GOP opposition, though it passed and went into effect in January.
Health care
"We were one vote shy from bringing down Medicare eligibility to 55. One vote shy. I'm going to fight for that one vote when I'm running in 2020, because what would that have done?"
Booker is one among several 2020 presidential candidates backing Bernie Sanders' Medicare-for-all bill. However, he stressed in this interview that he has also backed other, less-sweeping health care proposals, like reducing the Medicare eligibility age to 55, from the current age of 65.
He also said that despite pressure from some on the left, he would not eliminate the Senate filibuster to pass a health care overhaul like Medicare-for-all.
His reasoning is that without the filibuster, "the kind of things they could have done in the first two years of the Trump administration would have been so damaging to people."
"And we need to understand that there's good reason to have a Senate where we're forced to find pragmatic bipartisan solutions," he added.
Silicon Valley
"Why do we need to universally condemn entire sectors of our society, as opposed to talking about what's happening within them that is in violation of values and creating regulations and rules that make sure that they are affirming what's in the best interest of our country?"
Booker has close ties to the technology industry, even while he has co-sponsored greater regulation on tech companies. A recent piece from Recode's Theodore Schleifer detailed the tension at the heart of this relationship. As tech companies are at the center of discussions about privacy, political misinformation and hate speech, Booker's past friendliness with the industry — and potential for taking donations from the Silicon Valley elite — could turn off some progressive voters.
Booker is staking out positions critical of tech companies, saying that he supports more regulation on privacy and security issues. He said too few companies control too much of the industry to expect them to self-regulate, and he criticized practices like contracting low-wage jobs, instead of providing corporate benefits to those workers.
Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker says he wants to unite a divided nation.
CORY BOOKER: I love rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't get us to the moon. It didn't beat the Nazis or Jim Crow.
INSKEEP: He says collective action did. Booker is a senator from New Jersey. He's centered his presidential campaign on unity and love. He's the former Democratic mayor of Newark, N.J., who collaborated with former Republican Governor Chris Christie. His presidential announcement video was filled with diverse Americans drumming and playing in marching bands.
BOOKER: In America, we have a common pain. But what we're lacking is a sense of common purpose.
INSKEEP: OK. But many politicians say things like that. Who does Booker mean to bring together, and how? We asked when he came by our studios accompanied by a single aide. It is the first of our Opening Arguments - talks with prominent declared presidential contenders.
BOOKER: It wasn't Strom Thurmond that ran to the Senate floor and said one day, it's time for those negro people to have some rights. No, it was blacks and whites, Christians and Jews, Democrats and Republicans who joined in uncommon coalitions of conscience to deal with injustice.
INSKEEP: So is it not exactly a progressive coalition? It's a coalition of conscience is the phrase that you just used.
BOOKER: You know, these labels that we slap on each other and then dismiss each other because we're - have different labels aren't helping our republic. And I'd like to start talking about shared values and shared ideals.
INSKEEP: Let me throw a hypothetical voter at you. And I've interviewed voters very much like what I'm going to describe - blue-collar guy, Lordstown, Ohio, just lost his job at a GM plant that is closing, voted once for President Obama but also found President Trump attractive, voted for him once, thinking about it again. Is that guy in your coalition?
BOOKER: That guy needs to - we need to speak to his pain. Our politics need to speak to his pain and be able to address the real concerns he has at the kitchen table. I went out to the Midwest, to the heartland and met with Republicans in Missouri, in Kansas and Nebraska on farms. And one of those families didn't even want me in their home when they researched me on their part of the Internet. They called the person I was - who was showing me around and said, hey. We're a Christian family. We can't have Cory Booker in our home.
INSKEEP: What made you unpalatable to a Christian family so described?
BOOKER: Whatever they were told by their trusted media - and we all have it. But the friend asked him to come - for me to go see him. I met him at his door. Then we went into his home and found so much common ground because we both agree that the corporate consolidation is killing the independent American family farmer.
INSKEEP: We should note that plenty of Republicans in the Senate have indicated that they like you. But what happens if it's 2021, you've been elected president the United States? Like President Obama, you try to transcend partisanship. But the political calculation of the moment for Republicans is they need to oppose you on everything. That's the only way they get back in power.
BOOKER: You know, look. If I was going to surrender to cynicism about our nation in that way - I think cynicism is a toxic spiritual state.
INSKEEP: But I mean, it happened once. What do you do when it happens again?
BOOKER: Yeah. I went to Newark, N.J., at a time that people were so disrespecting, disregarding that city. I mean, it was literally being made fun of by late-night talk show hosts. And people told me, oh, we've tried these things before. It doesn't work. And we got incredibly creative. And at times, I reached out to conservatives I could find coalitions with - Christian evangelicals - not on everything. But I found common ground. And we got things done.
If you go to Newark, N.J., right now, we've gone through our biggest economic development period in 60 years. We have - our schools were just shown to be the No. 1 beat-the-odds school system in America - high poverty, high performance. This is an election. We have a chance to have a revival of civic grace. And we need leaders that are going to be committed to those ideals and dealing with the cause of injustice in our country.
INSKEEP: Suppose you win the election. Democrats win the Senate. It's a really good 2020 for Democrats. You go out there and push for "Medicare-for-all" - goes to the United States Senate and Republicans feel it's socialism and filibuster it. Do you, at that point, urge Democrats to get rid of the filibuster?
BOOKER: No. I've heard some good arguments since February when people started getting into my face about, we've got to get rid of the filibuster. People on the left feel very strongly about it. I'm willing to listen to more arguments. But we need to understand that there's good reason to have a Senate where we're forced to find pragmatic, bipartisan solutions. Let's be a country that operates from that sense of common purpose.
INSKEEP: President Bush tried to bring together a consensus on immigration - couldn't get it done. President Obama tried to bring together a consensus on immigration, couldn't get that done, eventually took executive action. President Trump had a very different agenda for immigration, couldn't get his program done either and has just taken executive action. If you're in that same situation as the last three presidents, facing the problems with immigration right now, do you take executive action?
BOOKER: You do what you can on the powers of the presidency allow, and I will do a lot of that. I mean, what's happening with DACA kids - deferred action children, the DREAMers, as they're called, is - violates the values of people on both sides of the aisle. You have President Trump, even rhetorically, saying he supports those children. You do everything you can to affirm the values of our country. And what you don't do is what we see coming from the presidency, which is rank racist rhetoric.
INSKEEP: Was President Obama's move to, effectively, legalize, for two-year periods, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals people - was that constitutional?
BOOKER: I believe it was constitutional. I believe it was not just constitutional. It reflects common sense.
INSKEEP: Meaning that if you're president and it hasn't been taken care of yet, you might just flip it right back the way Obama had it.
BOOKER: I will do everything I can to ensure that DACA children, that DREAMers, who are Americans in every way except for a piece of paper - I had a DACA kid that came with me to the State of the Union address a year or two back. She'd started an Internet platform that helped to give employment opportunities to hundreds of people. We're going to deport her. When there's an injustice, people have to understand that often, the opposite of injustice is silence and indifference and apathy.
INSKEEP: Is Silicon Valley - the firms there, where you have lots of connections. You went to Stanford, which is nearby. Is Silicon Valley part of the coalition you want to bring together behind you?
BOOKER: You know, we need to bring this nation together. It doesn't mean we forgive what I call bad actions or bad actors. We need to make sure that whether it's Silicon Valley or the pharma industry or the big ag, we need to hold people accountable for their actions.
INSKEEP: Recode, which looks into tech stuff, wrote a long article about you. And they dug up a tweet from 2009. And you, apparently, had had an exciting day in Silicon Valley. Quote, "from green tech to social media, inspiring meetings today. Incredible Silicon Valley leaders who are literally changing, empowering the world." Do you think that's still true?
BOOKER: I mean, I don't know. We're sitting in front of each other, so I'm about to pull out...
INSKEEP: Looks like an iPhone.
BOOKER: It looks like an iPhone. And, you know, there's a democratization that's going on that technology allows. I've used it in Newark. Let's use just one platform, which is to help people get access to capital. There's so much good that is coming from technology and innovation. At the same time, though, as I lift my phone up again in front of you, do I want one of the big tech firms to be taking my data from me and doing things that are violative of my values?
These are things that are wrong. And so why do we need to universally condemn entire sectors of our society as opposed to talking about what's happening within them that is in violation of our values and creating regulations and rules that make sure that they are affirming what's in the best interest of our country?
INSKEEP: Senator Booker, thanks so much for coming by.
BOOKER: I appreciate you. Thank you.
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