Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Drug Shortages, not Just for Death Penalty, but also for Surgery
By their frivolous lawsuits and oppressive, anti-scientific regulations the lawyer has driven drugs for anesthesia and for the death penalty off the market.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Thank the Lawyer: Now He Qualifies for Involuntary Treatment
Paranoid schizophrenics murder about 2000 people a year. This is thanks to the Supreme Court decision of 1976, taking over the practice of psychiatry.
NY cops: Man who stabbed boy wanted to kill a kid
AP – Mon Oct 11, 3:26 pm ET
WESTBURY, N.Y. – Police say a man accused of repeatedly stabbing an 8-year-old boy at a New York restaurant had been hunting for a child to kill for weeks.
Says Nassau County Police Sgt. Vincent Garcia: "His intent was to kill a child."
Evan Sachs of Merrick is due back in court Wednesday to face attempted murder charges.
Police say Sachs crept up behind a child playing a video game Friday at a Dave and Buster's restaurant on Long Island and plunged the 4-inch blade of a hunting knife into his back five times. The victim is expected to survive.
Sachs' attorney, Charles Rosenblum, told reporters his client has been under psychiatric care and recently had medications changed. The lawyer did not return a call on Monday.
Sachs was being held without bail.
NY cops: Man who stabbed boy wanted to kill a kid
AP – Mon Oct 11, 3:26 pm ET
WESTBURY, N.Y. – Police say a man accused of repeatedly stabbing an 8-year-old boy at a New York restaurant had been hunting for a child to kill for weeks.
Says Nassau County Police Sgt. Vincent Garcia: "His intent was to kill a child."
Evan Sachs of Merrick is due back in court Wednesday to face attempted murder charges.
Police say Sachs crept up behind a child playing a video game Friday at a Dave and Buster's restaurant on Long Island and plunged the 4-inch blade of a hunting knife into his back five times. The victim is expected to survive.
Sachs' attorney, Charles Rosenblum, told reporters his client has been under psychiatric care and recently had medications changed. The lawyer did not return a call on Monday.
Sachs was being held without bail.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
OK. What About Research and Development? China Will Beat Us at that, Too. Thank the Lawyer.
"Unburdened by social and legal constraints common in the West, China's trailblazing scientists are also pushing the limits of ethics and principle as they create a new -- and to many, worrisome -- Wild West in the Far East." We desperately need to arrest, try, and execute the lawyer hierarchy, so that our growth rate can also be 9%, and the money wasted on lawyers, can be transferred to research development, the sole possible savior of our economy.
THE OTHER SUPERPOWER
China pushing the envelope on science, and sometimes ethics
Chinese researcher and data analyst Zhao Bowen in the lab of BGI, which has insulated itself from the government's dictates.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 28, 2010
SHENZHEN, CHINA -- Last year, Zhao Bowen was part of a team that cracked the genetic code of the cucumber. These days, he's probing the genetic basis for human IQ.
This Story
Zhao is 17.
Centuries after it led the world in technological prowess -- think gunpowder, irrigation and the printed word -- China has barged back into the ranks of the great powers in science. With the brashness of a teenager, in some cases literally, China's scientists and inventors are driving a resurgence in potentially world-changing research.
A decade ago, no one considered China a scientific competitor. Its best and brightest agreed and fled China in a massive brain drain to university research labs at Harvard, Stanford and MIT.
But over the past five years, Western-educated scientists and gutsy entrepreneurs have conducted a rearguard action, battling China's hidebound bureaucracy to establish research institutes and companies. Those have lured home scores of Western-trained Chinese researchers dedicated to transforming the People's Republic of China into a scientific superpower.
"They have grown so fast and so suddenly that people are still skeptical," said Rasmus Nielsen, a geneticist at the University of California at Berkeley who collaborates with Chinese counterparts. "But we should get used to it. There is competition from China now, and it's really quite drastic how things have changed."
China has invested billions in improving its scientific standing. Almost every Chinese ministry has some sort of program to win a technological edge in everything from missiles to medicine. Beijing's minister of science and technology, Wan Gang, will visit the United States in early July and is expected to showcase some of China's successes.
In May, for example, a supercomputer produced in China was ranked the world's second-fastest machine at an international conference in Germany. China is now in fourth place, tied with Germany, in terms of the number of supercomputers. China has jumped to second place -- up from 14th in 1995 -- behind the United States in the number of research articles published in scientific and technical journals worldwide.
Backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Chinese medical researchers, partnering with a firm in the United States, beat out an Indian team last year to develop a new test for cervical cancer that costs less than $5. The goal is to test 10 million Chinese women within three years.
Chinese engineers have significantly improved on Western and Soviet coal-gasification technology as part of a multibillion-dollar effort to create green Chinese energy.
THE OTHER SUPERPOWER
China pushing the envelope on science, and sometimes ethics
Chinese researcher and data analyst Zhao Bowen in the lab of BGI, which has insulated itself from the government's dictates.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 28, 2010
SHENZHEN, CHINA -- Last year, Zhao Bowen was part of a team that cracked the genetic code of the cucumber. These days, he's probing the genetic basis for human IQ.
This Story
Zhao is 17.
Centuries after it led the world in technological prowess -- think gunpowder, irrigation and the printed word -- China has barged back into the ranks of the great powers in science. With the brashness of a teenager, in some cases literally, China's scientists and inventors are driving a resurgence in potentially world-changing research.
A decade ago, no one considered China a scientific competitor. Its best and brightest agreed and fled China in a massive brain drain to university research labs at Harvard, Stanford and MIT.
But over the past five years, Western-educated scientists and gutsy entrepreneurs have conducted a rearguard action, battling China's hidebound bureaucracy to establish research institutes and companies. Those have lured home scores of Western-trained Chinese researchers dedicated to transforming the People's Republic of China into a scientific superpower.
"They have grown so fast and so suddenly that people are still skeptical," said Rasmus Nielsen, a geneticist at the University of California at Berkeley who collaborates with Chinese counterparts. "But we should get used to it. There is competition from China now, and it's really quite drastic how things have changed."
China has invested billions in improving its scientific standing. Almost every Chinese ministry has some sort of program to win a technological edge in everything from missiles to medicine. Beijing's minister of science and technology, Wan Gang, will visit the United States in early July and is expected to showcase some of China's successes.
In May, for example, a supercomputer produced in China was ranked the world's second-fastest machine at an international conference in Germany. China is now in fourth place, tied with Germany, in terms of the number of supercomputers. China has jumped to second place -- up from 14th in 1995 -- behind the United States in the number of research articles published in scientific and technical journals worldwide.
Backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Chinese medical researchers, partnering with a firm in the United States, beat out an Indian team last year to develop a new test for cervical cancer that costs less than $5. The goal is to test 10 million Chinese women within three years.
Chinese engineers have significantly improved on Western and Soviet coal-gasification technology as part of a multibillion-dollar effort to create green Chinese energy.
Monday, June 21, 2010
China to Make More than the USA
The US remained the world’s biggest manufacturing nation by output last year, but is poised to relinquish this slot in 2011 to China – thus ending a 110-year run as the number one country in factory production.
The figures are revealed in a league table being published on Monday by IHS Global Insight, a US-based economics consultancy.
Last year, the US created 19.9 per cent of world manufacturing output, compared with 18.6 per cent for China, with the US staying ahead despite a steep fall in factory production due to the global recession.
That the US is still top comes as a surprise, since in 2008 – before the slump of the past two years took hold – IHS predicted it would lose pole position in 2009.
However, a relatively resilient US performance kept China in second place, says IHS, which predicts that faster growth in China will deny the US the top spot next year.
The US became the world’s biggest manufacturer in the late 1890s, edging the then-incumbent – Britain – into the number two position.
Hal Sirkin, head of the global operations practice at Chicago-based Boston Consulting Group, said the US should not despair too much at the likelihood that it would lose the global crown in manufacturing to China.
“If you have a country with four times the population of the US and a tenth of the wages, it is fairly obvious they will pull ahead at some time in productive capabilities,“ he said.
Last year, according to IHS, goods output by the US totalled $1,717bn, ahead of China at $1,608bn.
However in 2011, on the basis of IHS’s estimates, China’s factory output will come to $1,870bn, a fraction ahead of the projected US figure for the year.
The figures are revealed in a league table being published on Monday by IHS Global Insight, a US-based economics consultancy.
Last year, the US created 19.9 per cent of world manufacturing output, compared with 18.6 per cent for China, with the US staying ahead despite a steep fall in factory production due to the global recession.
That the US is still top comes as a surprise, since in 2008 – before the slump of the past two years took hold – IHS predicted it would lose pole position in 2009.
However, a relatively resilient US performance kept China in second place, says IHS, which predicts that faster growth in China will deny the US the top spot next year.
The US became the world’s biggest manufacturer in the late 1890s, edging the then-incumbent – Britain – into the number two position.
Hal Sirkin, head of the global operations practice at Chicago-based Boston Consulting Group, said the US should not despair too much at the likelihood that it would lose the global crown in manufacturing to China.
“If you have a country with four times the population of the US and a tenth of the wages, it is fairly obvious they will pull ahead at some time in productive capabilities,“ he said.
Last year, according to IHS, goods output by the US totalled $1,717bn, ahead of China at $1,608bn.
However in 2011, on the basis of IHS’s estimates, China’s factory output will come to $1,870bn, a fraction ahead of the projected US figure for the year.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Venezuela, Overlawyered, Sees Doubling of Murder Rate
The left wing lawyer protects and immunizes the criminal because it generates government make work sinecures. The crime victim generates nothing for the lawyer, and may rot.
Venezuela murder-rate quadrupled under Chavez -NGO
11 Mar 2010 17:49:08 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Caracas most violent capital in Western Hemisphere
* Chavez's popularity affected by crime wave
CARACAS, March 11 (Reuters) - Homicides in Venezuela have quadrupled during President Hugo Chavez's 11 years in power, with two people murdered every hour, according to new figures from a non-governmental organization.
The Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV), whose data is widely followed in the absence of official statistics, said the South American nation has one of the highest crime rates on the continent, with 54 homicides per 100,000 citizens in 2009.
That rate is only surpassed in Latin America by El Salvador where 70 in every 100,000 citizens were murdered last year, the OVV said, citing official statistics from that country.
Crime repeatedly comes first on Venezuelans' list of worries. It has also begun to drag on Chavez's traditionally high approval ratings as well as scare tourists who come to Venezuela.
"The problem is not so much the criminals, but rather the government's inaction and lack of policies," OVV director Roberto Briceno Leon told Reuters.
Chavez says he is doing his best to combat crime, which he blames on wealth inequalities caused by former governments.
He accuses foes of exaggerating the problem to foment fear, and has recently hiked pay for police officers, as well as launching a new national force.
The Interior Ministry, which last gave official crime statistics in 2004, declined comment on the OVV's new figures.
Briceno, a criminology professor at the Central University of Venezuela and at the Sorbonne in Paris, blamed a weak judicial system and ineffective and corrupt policing in Venezuela, where he said 91 percent of crimes go unsolved.
He collates his figures from police sources and media reports. When Chavez came to power in 1999 there were 4,550 homicides whereas in 2009 there were 16,047, the OVV said.
That means Venezuela experiences every month about as many deaths as occurred in the Gaza Strip during Israel's early 2009 offensive, Briceno said.
With a murder rate of 140 per 100,000 citizens, Venezuela's capital Caracas has the highest murder rate in South America, only exceeded in the hemisphere by Mexico's Ciudad Juarez.
Venezuela murder-rate quadrupled under Chavez -NGO
11 Mar 2010 17:49:08 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Caracas most violent capital in Western Hemisphere
* Chavez's popularity affected by crime wave
CARACAS, March 11 (Reuters) - Homicides in Venezuela have quadrupled during President Hugo Chavez's 11 years in power, with two people murdered every hour, according to new figures from a non-governmental organization.
The Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV), whose data is widely followed in the absence of official statistics, said the South American nation has one of the highest crime rates on the continent, with 54 homicides per 100,000 citizens in 2009.
That rate is only surpassed in Latin America by El Salvador where 70 in every 100,000 citizens were murdered last year, the OVV said, citing official statistics from that country.
Crime repeatedly comes first on Venezuelans' list of worries. It has also begun to drag on Chavez's traditionally high approval ratings as well as scare tourists who come to Venezuela.
"The problem is not so much the criminals, but rather the government's inaction and lack of policies," OVV director Roberto Briceno Leon told Reuters.
Chavez says he is doing his best to combat crime, which he blames on wealth inequalities caused by former governments.
He accuses foes of exaggerating the problem to foment fear, and has recently hiked pay for police officers, as well as launching a new national force.
The Interior Ministry, which last gave official crime statistics in 2004, declined comment on the OVV's new figures.
Briceno, a criminology professor at the Central University of Venezuela and at the Sorbonne in Paris, blamed a weak judicial system and ineffective and corrupt policing in Venezuela, where he said 91 percent of crimes go unsolved.
He collates his figures from police sources and media reports. When Chavez came to power in 1999 there were 4,550 homicides whereas in 2009 there were 16,047, the OVV said.
That means Venezuela experiences every month about as many deaths as occurred in the Gaza Strip during Israel's early 2009 offensive, Briceno said.
With a murder rate of 140 per 100,000 citizens, Venezuela's capital Caracas has the highest murder rate in South America, only exceeded in the hemisphere by Mexico's Ciudad Juarez.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Thank the Lawyer. Almost All Acts Will Be Criminalized
Because most of these laws have no scientific validity, they are a bunco operation by the lawyer in rent seeking. Rent seeking is a synonym for an armed robbery. Pretextual laws should be crimes themselves. They are theft. The legislators, the judges, and the prosecutors, even the jurors involved in their enforcement should be subject to arrest, and to tort litigation. Because pretextual use of the law is really an intentional tort, exemplary damages should apply.
If torts is a substitute for violence, then the obverse, self-dealt lawyer immunity justifies violence. If there is no legal recourse against these crooks (there isn't, at present), then the public self-help should begin with a boycott by all product and service providers. If they fail to learn, the lawyers should be driven out of town. If they persist, the public must protect our nation from these predators by any means necessary.
"Cato Policy Report, January/February 2010
The Criminalization of Almost Everything
When laws grow so voluminous and vague that they oppress those who live under them, society can become as unlivable as if it were lawless. Subject to the arbitrary scrutiny of prosecutors overcome by ambition for their own 15 minutes of fame, ordinary citizens face the horrors of becoming criminal defendants. At a Cato Book Forum in October, Harvey Silverglate, author of Three Felonies a Day, and Tim Lynch, editor of In the Name of Justice and director of Cato's Project on Criminal Justice, discussed the growing threat of federal criminal law.
HARVEY SILVERGLATE: An average, busy professional gets up in the morning, gets the kids to school, goes to work, uses the telephone or e-mail, has meetings, works on a prospectus or bank loan, goes home, puts the kids to bed, has dinner, reads the newspaper, goes to sleep, and has no idea that, in the course of that day, he or she has very likely committed three felonies. Three felonies that some ambitious, creative prosecutor can pick out from that day's activities and put into an indictment.
In his foreword to my book, Alan Dershowitz discusses his time litigating cases in the old Soviet Union. He was always taken by the fact that they could prosecute anybody they wanted because some of the statutes were so vague. Dershowitz points out that this was a technique developed by Beria, the infamous sidekick of Stalin, who said, "Show me the man and I'll find you the crime." That really is something that has survived the Soviet Union and has arrived in the good old USA. "Show me the man," says any federal prosecutor, "and I can show you the crime." This is not an exaggeration.
How does this play out in the United States? To some extent, the weapon is aimed at unpopular citizens and groups. It isn't the primary impetus, but it is certainly a tool, for example, for going after Muslims or any political opponents who seem to be standing in the way of a prosecutor's political ambitions. For the most part, though, these prosecutions are random. They sometimes have to do with the ambitions of prosecutors and sometimes there are prosecutors who think it's their job to clean up the world or country. But, fundamentally, I don't understand the motives behind the use of these weapons. I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a psychiatrist or psychologist, I can just tell you that these weapons are sprung with alarming and increasing frequency.
I predict that we will see, in the next couple of years, a tidal wave of prosecutions growing out of the financial crisis. Different people from different perspectives have different explanations of why we had a crash. But the Department of Justice is going to have figured it out: fraudulent individuals caused all this. It had nothing to do with government regulation. It had nothing to do with culture. It was individuals who have committed crimes that caused all our woes.
Take an example of what I think is comic: During the height of the crash, bank officers, bank presidents, and brokerage officers talked to the press around the clock, because the press was inquiring: "Is your bank about to go?" "Are you sufficiently liquid?" These bank officers and presidents kept saying, "As far as I can tell right now we are liquid, we'll make it through this, I think we're going to be okay." There will be a lot of prosecutions of bank officials because they had the temerity to predict that their bank was going to make it through okay — when, of course, it didn't."
"TIM LYNCH: It is my unhappy responsibility to inform you that things are even worse than Harvey Silverglate says.
But let me back up and ask a basic question. What do we want from our criminal justice system? Boiled down, we want the government to have enough power to identify and remove criminals from peaceful civil society, but not so much power that it oppresses the rest of us. But that seems to be what is happening today.
The power wielded by police and prosecutors is immense. We have to remember that all it takes is one raid on a home or a business, one high profile arrest, or an indictment that's announced on the steps of a courthouse, and a person's life can be changed forever. Reputation gone. Jobs gone. Friends gone. And that's even before one gets the opportunity to defend himself in a court of law. And once you find out how much it's going to cost you to defend yourself in a court these days, you'll find that you're facing financial ruin. Retirement savings gone. Children's college fund gone. And, most likely, house gone."
If torts is a substitute for violence, then the obverse, self-dealt lawyer immunity justifies violence. If there is no legal recourse against these crooks (there isn't, at present), then the public self-help should begin with a boycott by all product and service providers. If they fail to learn, the lawyers should be driven out of town. If they persist, the public must protect our nation from these predators by any means necessary.
"Cato Policy Report, January/February 2010
The Criminalization of Almost Everything
When laws grow so voluminous and vague that they oppress those who live under them, society can become as unlivable as if it were lawless. Subject to the arbitrary scrutiny of prosecutors overcome by ambition for their own 15 minutes of fame, ordinary citizens face the horrors of becoming criminal defendants. At a Cato Book Forum in October, Harvey Silverglate, author of Three Felonies a Day, and Tim Lynch, editor of In the Name of Justice and director of Cato's Project on Criminal Justice, discussed the growing threat of federal criminal law.
HARVEY SILVERGLATE: An average, busy professional gets up in the morning, gets the kids to school, goes to work, uses the telephone or e-mail, has meetings, works on a prospectus or bank loan, goes home, puts the kids to bed, has dinner, reads the newspaper, goes to sleep, and has no idea that, in the course of that day, he or she has very likely committed three felonies. Three felonies that some ambitious, creative prosecutor can pick out from that day's activities and put into an indictment.
In his foreword to my book, Alan Dershowitz discusses his time litigating cases in the old Soviet Union. He was always taken by the fact that they could prosecute anybody they wanted because some of the statutes were so vague. Dershowitz points out that this was a technique developed by Beria, the infamous sidekick of Stalin, who said, "Show me the man and I'll find you the crime." That really is something that has survived the Soviet Union and has arrived in the good old USA. "Show me the man," says any federal prosecutor, "and I can show you the crime." This is not an exaggeration.
How does this play out in the United States? To some extent, the weapon is aimed at unpopular citizens and groups. It isn't the primary impetus, but it is certainly a tool, for example, for going after Muslims or any political opponents who seem to be standing in the way of a prosecutor's political ambitions. For the most part, though, these prosecutions are random. They sometimes have to do with the ambitions of prosecutors and sometimes there are prosecutors who think it's their job to clean up the world or country. But, fundamentally, I don't understand the motives behind the use of these weapons. I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a psychiatrist or psychologist, I can just tell you that these weapons are sprung with alarming and increasing frequency.
I predict that we will see, in the next couple of years, a tidal wave of prosecutions growing out of the financial crisis. Different people from different perspectives have different explanations of why we had a crash. But the Department of Justice is going to have figured it out: fraudulent individuals caused all this. It had nothing to do with government regulation. It had nothing to do with culture. It was individuals who have committed crimes that caused all our woes.
Take an example of what I think is comic: During the height of the crash, bank officers, bank presidents, and brokerage officers talked to the press around the clock, because the press was inquiring: "Is your bank about to go?" "Are you sufficiently liquid?" These bank officers and presidents kept saying, "As far as I can tell right now we are liquid, we'll make it through this, I think we're going to be okay." There will be a lot of prosecutions of bank officials because they had the temerity to predict that their bank was going to make it through okay — when, of course, it didn't."
"TIM LYNCH: It is my unhappy responsibility to inform you that things are even worse than Harvey Silverglate says.
But let me back up and ask a basic question. What do we want from our criminal justice system? Boiled down, we want the government to have enough power to identify and remove criminals from peaceful civil society, but not so much power that it oppresses the rest of us. But that seems to be what is happening today.
The power wielded by police and prosecutors is immense. We have to remember that all it takes is one raid on a home or a business, one high profile arrest, or an indictment that's announced on the steps of a courthouse, and a person's life can be changed forever. Reputation gone. Jobs gone. Friends gone. And that's even before one gets the opportunity to defend himself in a court of law. And once you find out how much it's going to cost you to defend yourself in a court these days, you'll find that you're facing financial ruin. Retirement savings gone. Children's college fund gone. And, most likely, house gone."
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