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Ron Paul preaches the truth! GOP Debate Cartoon. (1/2) – Video

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Worlds Funniest Lip Reading 2 – Video

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Papantonio: Santorum Still Living In The Dark Ages – Video

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Ron Paul: Vices Aren’t Always Crimes – Video

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Ron Paul Warns Tax Reform is Useless Without Spending Reform

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Recently, Republican leaders in Congress unveiled a "tax reform" plan that they claimed would provide the American people with a simpler, fairer, and more efficient tax system. While this plan does lower some tax rates and contains some other changes that may make next April a little less painful for Americans, there is little in it to excite supporters of liberty.

Taxes may even increase under this plan for some Americans, as it eliminates some of those tax deductions labeled loopholes. When I served in Congress I opposed bills that closed loopholes because closing loopholes is just a fancy way of saying raising taxes. Anything that leaves more money in the hands of the people is beneficial to both liberty and economic efficiency. As economist Thomas DiLorenzo put it, "...private individuals always spend their own money more efficiently than government bureaucrats do, therefore sound economics, as well as a concern for liberty, requires opposition to any proposal to "let government bureaucrats spend more of the people's hard-earned money.

Tax reformers also stray from sound economics when they endorse a tax system that is designed to direct consumption and savings. I share the concern that the current tax system distorts peoples behavior by discouraging savings. However, the solution is not for the government to create a tax code that punishes consumption in order to encourage savings. A truly efficient market is one where individuals are completely free to determine how to allocate their incomes between consumption and savings. No politician or bureaucrat can know the proper allocation of savings and investment that meets the needs of every individual, and government policies designed to cause individuals to devote more of their income to savings than they otherwise would distorts the market just as much as policies that encourage excess consumption.

The Republican tax plan adopts what is called dynamic scoring. Dynamic scoring is designed to recognize that tax cuts, by incentivizing work and investment, can increase revenue to the government. This is the argument of the famous Laffer curve. It has always seemed odd to me that a supposed free-market economist would argue for tax cuts on the grounds that it would enrich the state's coffers. After all, the more money the state has the greater its ability to violate our liberties. Does this mean that those concerned with liberty should vote against tax cuts? Of course not; the solution is to make sure tax cuts are big enough that they cost the government revenue.

Sadly, politicians in Washington refuse to consider any tax plan that would decrease government revenue. This is because the prevalent attitude in DC favors protecting the welfare-warfare state over protecting our liberties. As the obsession with the Laffer curve shows, even many alleged supporters of the free market only pretend to support liberty as a means to enhance the well-being of the welfare-warfare state.

Many politicians in Washington also forget that deficit spending is itself a tax. When the government runs deficits it uses money that could be more efficiently used by the private sector. Deficit spending also leads the Federal Reserve to monetize debt, thus burdening people with the inflation tax.

Instead of worrying over the latest plan to enable the government to more efficiently take our money, people who want to advance liberty must focus on breaking the intellectual and political consensus in support of the welfare-warfare state. Only then can we radically reduce all taxes, including the most insidious and regressive of taxes -- the inflation tax.

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How a Rare Medical Condition Could Help Extend All of Our Lives

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A handful of girls seem to defy one of the biggest certainties in life: ageing. Virginia Hughes reports.

Richard Walker has been trying to conquer ageing since he was a 26-year-old free-loving hippie. It was the 1960s, an era marked by youth: Vietnam War protests, psychedelic drugs, sexual revolutions. The young Walker relished the culture of exultation, of joie de vivre, and yet was also acutely aware of its passing. He was haunted by the knowledge that ageing would eventually steal away his vitality that with each passing day his body was slightly less robust, slightly more decayed. One evening he went for a drive in his convertible and vowed that by his 40th birthday, he would find a cure for ageing.

Walker became a scientist to understand why he was mortal. "Certainly it wasn't due to original sin and punishment by God, as I was taught by nuns in catechism," he says. "No, it was the result of a biological process, and therefore is controlled by a mechanism that we can understand."

Medical science has already stretched the average human lifespan. Because of public health programmes and treatments for infectious diseases, the number of people over age 60 has doubled since 1980. By 2050, the over-60 set is expected to number 2 billion, or 22 per cent of the world's population. But this leads to a new problem: more people are living long enough to get chronic and degenerative conditions. Age is one of the strongest risk factors for heart disease, stroke, macular degeneration, dementia and cancer. For adults in high-income nations, that means age is the biggest risk factor for death.

A drug that slows ageing, even modestly, would be a blockbuster. Scientists have published several hundred theories of ageing (and counting), and have tied it to a wide variety of biological processes. But no one yet understands how to integrate all of this disparate information. Some researchers have slowed ageing and extended life in mice, flies and worms by tweaking certain genetic pathways. But it's unclear whether these manipulations would work in humans. And only a few age-related genes have been discovered in people, none of which is a prime suspect.

Walker, now 74, believes that the key to ending ageing may lie in a rare disease that doesn't even have a real name, "syndrome X". He has identified four girls with this condition, marked by what seems to be a permanent state of infancy, a dramatic developmental arrest. He suspects that the disease is caused by a glitch somewhere in the girls' DNA. His quest for immortality depends on finding it.

It's the end of another busy week and MaryMargret Williams is shuttling her brood home from school. She drives an enormous SUV, but her six children and their coats and bags and snacks manage to fill every inch. The three big kids are bouncing in the very back. Sophia, ten, with a mouth of new braces, is complaining about a boy-crazy friend. She sits next to Anthony, seven, and Aleena, five, who are glued to something on their mother's iPhone. The three little kids squirm in three car seats across the middle row. Myah, two, is mining a cherry slushy, and Luke, one, is pawing a bag of fresh crickets bought for the family gecko.

Finally there's Gabrielle, who's the smallest child, at just 12 pounds, and the second oldest, at nine years old. She has long, skinny legs and a long, skinny ponytail, both of which spill out over the edges of her car seat. While her siblings giggle and squeal, Gabby's dusty-blue eyes roll up towards the ceiling. By the calendar, she's almost an adolescent. But she has the buttery skin, tightly clenched fingers and hazy awareness of a newborn.

Back in 2004, when MaryMargret and her husband, John, went to the hospital to deliver Gabby, they had no idea anything was wrong. They knew from an ultrasound that she would have club feet, but so had their other daughter, Sophia, who was otherwise healthy. And because MaryMargret was a week early, they knew Gabby would be small, but not abnormally so. "So it was such a shock to us when she was born," MaryMargret says.

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Here come the rice-grain-sized brain implants: Stanford discovers way of beaming power to microimplants deep inside …

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Stanford electrical engineer and biological implant mastermind, Ada Poon, has discovered a way of wirelessly transmitting power to tiny, rice-grain-sized implants that are deep within the human body. This could well be the breakthrough that finally allows for the creation of smaller pacemakers, body-wide sensor networks, and a new class of electroceutical devices that sit deep in the human brain and stimulate neurons directly, providing an alternative for drug-based therapies for depression, Alzheimers, and other neurological ailments. There will of course be the potential for elective, transhumanist applications as well.

The key to this discovery is a new method of wirelessly transmitting power, dubbed mid-field powering. As the name implies, mid-field power transfer uses radio waves that sit between near-field (tens of gigahertz) and far-field (tens of megahertz). Near-field radiation can penetrate human flesh, but can only effectively transfer power over a short distance (millimeters). Far-field waves can transfer power over longer distances, but are unfortunately scattered or absorbed by human skin. To create mid-field waves, Poon created a patterned antenna (pictured below) that generates special near-field waves. When these special waves hit the skin, they turn into mid-field waves that can then penetrate a few more centimeters of flesh.(For more on how wireless power transfer actually works,read our explainer.)

Mid-field power transfer, using a special antenna

Currently, as theres no good way of (safely) wirelessly transmitting power through human flesh, implants generally need to contain a large battery, which in turn makes the implant way too large to embed deep within the body. As a result, most implants so far have been either large-battery pacemakers that sit just under the skin (with long electrodes that reach into the heart), or cochlear (ear) implants that are near enough to the skin that near-field power transfer is feasible.With the advent of mid-field power transfer, Poon and her friends at Stanford have created rice-grain size implants that can be embedded directly into the heart to function as a pacemaker, or attached to a nerve bundle.

Poon has tested the technology in pigs and rabbits, and humans are next. Stanford says that independent testing has shown the radiation produced by mid-field power transfer is well within safety limits for human exposure. In short, the prognosis for human testing of these microimplants is good. [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1403002111 - "Wireless power transfer to deep-tissue microimplants"]

Current implants (here the implant powering a retinal prosthesis) are rather large.

The question is, what might we do with such microimplants? Both heart and brain pacemakers (for Alzheimers) are the obvious first port of call. Beyond that, though, microimplants would make great sensors; you could implant them all over your body (brain, heart, liver, gut) and have them regularly report that organs health back to your doctor (or smartphone app). As we begin to learn more about the brain, we might attach these implants to specific nerve channels in the brain, to boost or degrade specific neuron behavior. We might boost the ability of the hippocampus to create long-term memories, to improve learning but block the signals that tell synapses to uptake serotonin, mitigating depression. (Read: Do we need a bill of rights for our future, implanted brains?)

Or maybe, in some kind of utopian transhumanist future, wed just have a bunch of implants dotted around the brain, so that we can use our smartphone to trigger the release of various hormones at any time. Feeling down? Here, have some oxytocin. Need a boost of energy? Just push the adrenaline button. Need to chop your hand off or commit some kind of high-risk, armed felony? Slide the endorphin bar all the way to the right.

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Steve Acunto presents "Italian Futurism" at the Guggenheim – Video

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Synergy: Global Futurist Jack Uldrich to Headline Verizon Wireless' Connected Technology Tour in Memphis

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Memphis, TN (PRWEB) May 20, 2014

Talk about synergy: Global futurist Jack Uldrich is regarded as one of the worlds leading technology forecasters and strategists--he aids his clients and audiences in learning how to tap technological trends, like the Internet of Things, social media and grasp new business opportunities, while also delivering a powerful message on how to "unlearn" old patterns that inhibit their growth. And, Verizon's Connected Technology Tour is providing a platform where machine-to-machine (M2M) specialists and strategic solutions providers will demonstrate how the "Internet of Things" can empower their audience to increase operational efficiencies, enhance safety and security and generate new revenue streams. To that end, Verizon has selected Uldrich to kick off their Tour in Memphis on May 20th.

Dubbed the nation's "Chief Unlearning Officer" Uldrich's entertaining, down to earth style blends thought provoking insights with practical, action oriented ideas. In addition to speaking on future trends, emerging technologies and innovation, Uldrich also speaks on change management and leadership to a variety of organizations, Uldrich is a leading expert on assisting businesses adapt. He has served as an advisor to Fortune 1000 companies and is noted for his ability to deliver provocative, new perspectives on competitive advantage, organizational change and transformational leadership.

Uldrich's keynotes have been described as, "inspiring, thought provoking, motivational, and practical all at oncewith a huge dose of practicality intricately added to the mix." He is highly skilled at delivering custom designed presentations, addressing both relevant trends and providing powerful, constructive tips for audiences, helping them leverage the latest technological trends into a competitive advantage.

Uldrich has also spoken at several other Verizon events across the U.S. since March and will follow up with stops in Nashville and Los Angeles as well. He has also addressed a vast array of clients such as Wells Fargo, Fiatech, GE, General Mills, the American Medical Association and the Theatre Communications Group.

Parties interested in learning more about Jack Uldrich, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his School of Unlearning website. Media wishing to know more about either the event or interviewing Jack can contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.

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Jack Uldrich, futurist, to speak at RDEDC annual meeting celebration

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On an annual basis, the Racine County Economic Development Corp. sponsors our Annual Meeting Celebration. The event is open to the public and is a great opportunity to hear more about local economic development initiatives, as well as network with hundreds of business and government leaders from throughout the community.

The highlight of this years event is our guest speaker, best-selling author, acclaimed global futurist and the iconoclastic chief unlearning officer, Jack Uldrich. Uldrichs most recent book is titled Foresight 20/20: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow. Uldrichs talk will have something for everyone as he addresses the forces transforming tomorrow, including the Internet, social networks, crowd-sourcing, gaming dynamics, new information and communication technologies, robotics, biotechnology and nanotechnology. And, the convergence of these forces to transform everything from agriculture, energy, education and law enforcement to health care, manufacturing, retail and transportation.

We are also honored that Odinn Johnson will join us to present the Sam Johnson Volunteer of the Year Awards. This award recognizes special and unique efforts to improve our community. This years individual recipient is retired executive director of the United Way, Dave Mauer. The Runzheimer Foundation will receive the Sam Johnson organization award for its continued commitment and investment in the Racine County community. Since 2000, the foundation has supported more than 400 organizations in their focus areas of education, community, the environment and people in need.

Tom Shinners, vice president of finance and human resources at Poclain Hydraulics, will receive the private-sector Tony DiCastri Award. Shinners served as a RCEDC board member from 2007-2013 and executive committee member from 2010-2013, serving as president from 2011-2013. In addition to guiding continued expansion of Poclain Hydraulics, Shinners presided as RCEDC president during the development and implementation of the first Jobs for Racine County campaign that netted 3,900 new and retained jobs, and $306 million in private investment.

Julie Anderson, director of Racine County Public Works and Development Services, will receive the public-sector Len Ziolkowski Award. Anderson has served on the RCEDC Board of Directors and Executive Committee since 2003. She is the representative of Racine County on the Racine County Economic Development Plan relative to development of the Interstate corridor, and also serves on the Project Management Team for the RootWorks Redevelopment Initiative in the City of Racine. Andersons office has facilitated countless successful development projects throughout the county and done so in a cooperative effort with the RCEDC.

This years Annual Celebration will mark 31 years of service by the RCEDC to the community and youre invited! Dont miss your chance to attend this great event to be held on June 4 from 4:30-6 p.m., with an appetizer and networking reception to follow. This years meeting will be held at the Burlington Veterans Terrace, 589 Milwaukee Ave., in Burlington. Please register at http://www.racinecountyedc.org or call Lynn Beauchesne at 262-898-7432. Seating is limited and the registration fee is $25.

Jenny Trick is executive director of the Racine County Economic Development Corp.

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