Tag Archives: San Diego

May 06

BALANCED VIEW OF NEWS-Try it now…

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 Full Show: Between Two Worlds — Life on the Border
May 4, 2012
No writer understands the border culture between Mexico and the United States more intimately than Luis Alberto Urrea, whose life is the stuff of great novels. Son of a Mexican father and Anglo mother, Urrea grew up first in Tijuana and then just across the border in San Diego. Over the years he has produced a series of acclaimed novels, including The Hummingbird’s Daughter, The Devil’s Highway, and his latest, Queen of America — each a rich and revealing account of the people of the borderlands that join and separate our two nations.
Three of Urrea’s books were among scores of others removed from classrooms earlier this year when the Tucson school district eliminated Mexican-American studies on the accusation it was “divisive.” But there’s no ban on ideas in Bill’s studio, and Urrea talks with Bill Moyers about that episode as he unfolds the modern reality of life on the border.
For more click on:  http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-between-two-worlds-life-on-the-border/    to read or print it, click on “Transcript” on same site.
Aug 19

WHY WE NEED WHISTLE BLOWERS AND REGULATORS…….

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MANY YRS AGO WHEN I WAS A STUDENT PASTOR I had a member who called me about once a week after midnight.  His family had gone to bed and  left him up drunk.  After a few visitations I asked him what he drank and where he got it.  He was too proud to go to a liquor store but told me a old man down the road bought liquor during the day, put it in a old bag, tied a long transparent fish line to it and a tree near his pond and hid it there so he could sell it at night.  Did I call the SBI in NC and let them know about the old man with the sack?
Why do we rant and rave when poor families may be getting a little too much welfare, but remain silent when the big moneyhandlers steal us blind and we say nothing? Why do we lock a poor man up when he may steal something small but turn our heads when a rich person steals millions?~mackie
OVER 9,000 SEC DOCUMENTS DESTROYED…..
A staff member at the Securities and Exchange Commission has complained to Congress that thousands of investigative documents have been destroyed by the agency.
Longtime SEC staffer Darcy Flynn says some of those missing papers relate to huge investment banks under the spotlight for their role in the 2008 mortgage crisis.
Flynn is asking Congress to protect him from retaliation after blowing the whistle on document destruction that he says stretches back for 20 years. Some of the missing files involve early-stage inquiries the agency made into the workings of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Lehman Bros.
“The same big banks that delivered us the 2008 financial crisis,” says Gary Aguirre, a lawyer in San Diego who brought Flynn’s allegations to the attention of Congress.
Aguirre, a former SEC whistle-blower himself, is one of many people who are calling for more accountability on Wall Street and for more action from the SEC.
“I just think that when you’ve destroyed 9,000 files of investigations, it makes sweeping under the table a lot easier,” he says.
Aug 17

SINGING, SIGNING, SPEAKING: HOW IT DEVELOPED…

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What you are reading now are just a collection of symbols.  Your brain decodes theses symbols into meaning.  Your brain has developed a knack for reading language, and that has given you a major advantage over other species.

 Yet scientists still don’t know when and how we began using language.

“The Earth would not be the way it is if humankind didn’t have the ability to communicate, to organize itself, to pass knowledge down from generation to generation,” says Jeff Elman, a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. “We’d be living in troops of very smart baboons,” he says.

 Instead, language has allowed us to cooperate in groups of millions instead of dozens, he says. It also lets us share the complex ideas produced by our brains, and it’s flexible in ways you don’t find in the communication systems of other species.

 Bees, for example, use an elaborate communication system to tell one another precisely how to get from the hive to a source of pollen, Elman says. “But that’s all it does,” he says. “They can’t talk about politics. They can’t talk about who’s having an affair with what other bee — and these are things that we can do.”

To read or hear much more click on:

 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129155123

 

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