O

• Keith Olbermann (born 1959) – news anchor, political commentator, and sports journalist.
• Mary White Ovington (1865–1951) – NAACP founder ^[3]

P

• Bob Packwood (born 1932) – U.S. Senator from Oregon (1969–1995)
• John Palmer (1742–1786) – English Unitarian minister
• David Park (1911–1960) – West coast painter. ^[3]
• Isaac Parker (1768–1830) – Massachusetts Congressman and jurist, including Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1814 to his death. ^[65]
• Theodore Parker (1810–1860) – Unitarian minister and transcendentalist^[4][5][66]
• Linus Pauling (1901–1994) – Nobel Laureate for Peace and for Chemistry ^[3]
• Randy Pausch (1960–2008) – computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Author of "The Last Lecture" ^[67]
• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979) – astronomer and astrophysicist. ^[3]
• Laura Pedersen (born 1965) – American author, journalist, playwright and humorist. Books and plays with humanist themes. Lifelong UU, Interfaith minister.
• Melissa Harris-Perry (born 1973) – professor, author, and political commentator on MSNBC hosting the Melissa Harris-Perry (TV program). ^[68][69]
• William James Perry, (born 1927) – former United States Secretary of Defense
• William T. Pheiffer (1898–1986) – American lawyer/politician ^[70]
• Utah Phillips, (1935–2008) – American singer, songwriter and homeless advocate
• William Pickering (1910–2004) – space explorer ^[3]
• James Pierpont (1822–1893) – songwriter ("Jingle Bells") ^[71]
• Daniel Pinkham (1923–2006) – composer ^[3]
• John Platts (1775–1837) – English Unitarian minister and author
• Van Rensselaer Potter (1911–2001) – global bioethicist ^[3]
• Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) – discoverer of oxygen and Unitarian minister^[4]
• George Pullman (1831–1897) – Universalist ^[12]

R

• Mary Jane Rathbun (1860–1943) – marine zoologist^[3]
• James Reeb (1927–1965) – civil-rights martyr^[18]
• Curtis W. Reese (1887–1961) – religious humanist ^[3]
• Christopher Reeve (1952–2004) – actor and Unitarian Universalist ^[18][72]
• James Relly (c. 1722–1778) – Universalist ^[5][12]
• Paul Revere (1735–1818) ^[4] – American silversmith, industrialist and patriot
• David Ricardo (1772–1823) – British classical economist noted for creating the concept of comparative advantage
• Malvina Reynolds (1900–1978) – songwriter / singer / activist ^[3]
• Elliot Richardson (1920–1999) – often listed as "Anglican" but was a member of a UU church near Washington, D.C. for many years Lawyer and public servant ^[3]
• Mark Ritchie (born 1951) – Minnesota Secretary of State (2007–) ^[73]
• Francis Ronalds (1788-1873) – English inventor of the electric telegraph ^[74]
• Benjamin Rush (1745–1813) – very active in the Universalist movement, although never technically joined a Universalist congregation^[12]

S

• Mary Safford (1851-1927) – Unitarian Minister and leader of the Iowa Sisterhood. ^[75]
• Leverett Saltonstall (1892–1979) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts^[3]
• Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1831–1917) – one of the Secret Six who funded John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry; social scientist and memorialist of transcendentalism.
• May Sarton (1912–1995) – poet ^[3][18]
• Ellery Schempp (born 1940) – physicist who was the primary student involved in the landmark 1963 United States Supreme Court case of Abington School District v. Schempp, which declared that public school-sanctioned Bible readings were unconstitutional. ^[76]
• Arthur Schlesinger (1917–2007) – American historian ^[3]
• Richard Schultes (1915–2001) – explorer of the Amazon jungle ^[3]
• William F. Schulz (born 1949) – former executive director of Amnesty International USA, former president of the Unitarian Universalist Association ^[77]
• Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) - Nobel Peace Laureate 1953,late in life unitarian; honorary member of the Church of the Larger Fellowship (Unitarian Friend) ^[3]
• Pete Seeger (1919–2014) – folk singer and song writer ^[3][18]
• Roy Wood Sellars (1880–1973) – philosopher of religious humanism ^[3]
• Rod Serling (1924–1975) – writer; creator of The Twilight Zone television series.^[3][78]
• Lemuel Shaw (1781–1861) – Unitarian and chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Under his leadership, the court convicted Abner Kneeland, a former Universalist, of blasphemy.^[5]
• Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) – colonel of the 54th Massachusetts, first regiment of free blacks in the Union Army. ^[79]
• Ferdinand Schumacher (1822–1908) – one of the founders of companies which merged to become the Quaker Oats Company. ^[80][81]
• Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) – Nobel Laureate in Economics 1978, artificial intelligence pioneer ^[3]
• Rev. William G. Sinkford (born 1946) – seventh president of the Unitarian Universalist Association ^[82]
• Vanessa Southern, minister of the Unitarian Church in Summit ^[83]
• Catherine Helen Spence (1825–1910) – Australian suffragette and political reformer^[84]
• Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) – American abolitionist and anarchist.
• Pete Stark (born 1931) – U.S. Representative, D-California. ^[85]
• Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879–1962) – Arctic explorer and champion of Native American rights ^[3]
• Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865–1923) – Prussian-American electrical engineer and mathematician ^[3]
• Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) – Illinois governor, and Democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956^[3]
• Joseph Story (1779–1845) – United States Supreme Court Justice from 1811 to 1845. ^[86]
• Dirk Jan Struik (1894–2000) – mathematician ^[87]
• Jedediah Strutt (1726-1797) – pioneer cotton spinner and philanthropic employer.
• Margaret Sutton (1903–2001) – author of the Judy Bolton series and other children's books^[88]

T

• William Howard Taft (1857–1930) – President of the United States (1909–1913)^[4][23]
• Robin Tanner - American Unitarian Universalist Minister and advocate for LBGT rights and voting rights.
• Clementia Taylor (1810–1908) – women's activist and radical ^[89]
• Clyde Tombaugh (1906–1997) – American astronomer^[90]
• John G. Trump (1907 - 1993) - engineer, professor of Physics

V

• William Vidler (1758–1816) – English Universalist and Unitarian minister
• Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) – writer ^[18][91]

W

• George Wald (1906–1997) – Nobel Laureate in Medicine 1967
• Zach Wahls (born 1991) – LGBT activist
• Caroline Farrar Ware (1899–1990) – historian and social activist^[3]
• William D. Washburn (1831–1912) – Universalist American politician and businessman ^[92]
• Daniel Webster (1782–1852) ^[23]
• Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) – poet, singer and songwriter (Unitarian Universalist and Muslim) ^[93]
• Alfred Tredway White (1846–1921) – housing reformer and philanthropist ^[94]
• Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) – philosopher (Unitarian Friend) ^[3]
• Willis Rodney Whitney (1868–1958) – the "Father of Basic Research in Industry" ^[3]
• Thomas Whittemore (1800–1861) – Universalist Minister, author and publisher
• David Rhys Williams ^[3] (1890–1970) – American Unitarian minister
• Edward Williams (bardic name Iolo Morganwg) (1747–1826) – Welsh antiquarian, poet, collector, forger
• William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) – physician and author ^[3]
• Samuel Williston (1861–1963) – dean of America's legal profession. ^[3]
• Edwin H. Wilson (1898–1993) – Unitarian Humanist leader ^[3]
• Ross Winans (1796–1877) – inventor and railroad pioneer
• Joanne Woodward (born 1930) – actress, wife of Paul Newman ^[95]
• Theodore Paul Wright (1895–1970) – aeronautical engineer ^[3]
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) – among Wright's architectural works were Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, and First Unitarian Society in Madison, Wisconsin. ^[3][4][96]
• Quincy Wright (1890–1970) – author of A Study of War ^[3]
• Richard Wright (1764–1836) – English Unitarian minister and missionary
• Sewall Wright (1889–1988) – evolutionary theorist. ^[3]
• N.C. Wyeth (1882–1945) – illustrator and painter^[3]

Y

• Owen D.Young (1874–1962) – president and chairman of General Electric. Foun-der of Radio Corporation of America which helped found National Broadcasting Company. Drafted the Young Plan after World War I. ^[97]
• Whitney M. Young (1921–1971) – social work administrator ^[3]

Risto Juhani Koivula kommentoi_ 22. marraskuu 2016 01:59

Kysyin asiantuntijalta, Nokian-insinööriltä tuosta tutkan kaikuluotainominaisuudesta, että tutka myös "kaikuluotaa" eli heijastaa takaisin osin just samaa säteilyä, jota on lähetetty, josta sitten voidaan jokin esine havaita. Tarkempan tunnistamiseen saate- taan tarvita muutakin,tämän indusoimien virtojen aiheuttamaa säteilyä,kuten Wikissä on selitetty.

IDEOLOGISET VASTUSTAJAT

http://aamulehdenblogit.ning.com/profiles/blogs/h-ps-ht-neet-v-r-ss-olevat-ja-haistapaskantieteilij-t-r-htiv-t

Richard Dawkins and Other Prominent Scientists React to Trump’s Win

What the election results mean for science, in gut responses from Scientific American’s Board of Advisers

• By Andrea Gawrylewski on November 10, 2016
• 

This week the U.S. elected businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump as its 45th president. As Scientific American has reported in the run-up to the election, Trump's views on science,health and medicine appear unformed at best, ignorant and destructive at worst. To get an idea of what top minds in science, health and re-search are thinking, we reached out to Scientific American's Board of Advisers to get their quick-fire reactions to the election outcome. The excerpts, some of them edited for length, appear below.

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RJK:

Dear New Zealand,

The two largest nations in the English-speaking world have just suffered catastro-phes at the hands of voters - in both cases the uneducated,anti-intellectual portion of voters.Science in both countries will be hit extremely hard:In the one case,by the xe-nophobically inspired severing of painstakingly built-up relationships with European partners; in the other case by the election of an unqualified, narcissistic, misogynistic sick joke as president.In neither case is the disaster going to be short-lived:in Ameri- ca because of the nonretirement rule of the Supreme Court; in Britain because Brexit is irreversible.

There are top scientists in America and Britain - talented, creative people, desperate to escape the redneck bigotry of their home countries.Dear New Zealand, you are a deeply civilized small nation, with a low population in a pair of beautiful, spacious islands.You care about climate change,the future of the planet and other scientifically important issues. Why not write to all the Nobel Prize winners in Britain and America, write to the Fields medalists, Kyoto and Crafoord Prize and International Cosmos Prize winners, the Fellows of the Royal Society, the elite scientists in the National Academy of Sciences,the Fellows of the British Academy and similar bodies in Ame-rica. Offer them citizen-ship. The contribution that creative intellectuals can make to the prosperity and cultural life of a nation is out of all proportion to their numbers. You could make New Zealand the Athens of the modern world.

Yes, dear New Zealand, I know it’s an unrealistic, surreal pipe dream. But on the day after U.S. election day, in the year of Brexit,the distinction between the surreal and the awfulness of the real seems to merge in a bad trip from which a pipe dream is the only refuge.

Yours,

Richard Dawkins, founder and board chairman, Richard Dawkins Foundation

RJK: Notorisen äärioikeistolainen mutta kuitenkin tähän asti hyvällä tahdolla tulkiten tieteen rajoissa pysytellyt genetiikan tutkija ja biologian- ja yhteiskuntafilosofian tutki- ja ja popularisoija, tunnettuja teoksia mm. Geenin itsekkyys ja Sokea kelloseppä.  Meemiteorian isä.Joskus esittänyt hullunkurisiakin ideoita,jotka kuitenkin ovat kokeil- tavissa. (Mutta sitten kun on kokeiltu, eivätkä tulokset ole olleet odotettuja, ei ole puhuttu mitään.)

Nyt ei voi kuin sanoa, että "vanhuus ei tule yksin"...

Dawkinsista on tullut vanhemmiten pelkkä meediapelle, eikä hän tunne ollenkaan Donaldin jengin ja myös hänen sukunsa/perheensä tieteellistä traditiota!

http://aamulehdenblogit.ning.com/.../donald-trumpin...

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President-elect Trump's upset election caught many by surprise. We have not heard very much from him or his colleagues on his views on science and basic research so I can only say that I hope that he recognizes the long-term value of basic research investment and will support the agencies of the U.S. government that support and pursue it, including the National Science Foundation.

— Vint Cerf, chief internet evangelist, Google

RJK: No comments.

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Like many, I was caught off guard by these election results. It is the will of the U. S. people, and given the polarity of the power,we can anticipate a number of significant and long-lasting changes. I do think that given the reality of today’s world and the checks and balances built into America, that exactly how these changes will play out is to be determined.  anticipate that many will be surprised by what can be done, and what cannot be done within government. I personally was born into poverty,and eve-rything I have accomplished I did on my own. The best way to maximize professional success and rewards is to work hard;to maximize society is to be charitable; to maxi- mize equality is to be ethical;to maximize peace is to be peaceful.I see myself taking more personal responsibility for the welfare of others close to me, and continue to be the best possible scientist, for what we are and what we will be is largely governed by the scientific discoveries that we apply to move humanity forward.

— Harold “Skip” Garner, director, Medical Informatics and Systems Division and professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech

RJK: Ei havaintoa. Wikisivut näyttäisivät vihjaavan, että puoskari.

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A smaller than projected voter turnout (approximately seven million Democrats and two million Republicans less than the 2012 election) was likely the cause of the out- come. Unexpected outcomes are part of scientific life and we are experts at learning from them.

— Michael Gazzaniga, director, Sage Center for the Study of the Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara

RJK: Haistapaskantieteilijä pahinta sorttia, tahdon ja tietoisen ajattelun kiistäjä väittäen sellaisten olevan "Keenistä lähtevän) toiminnan jälkikäteistä rationalisointia".

http://hameemmias.vuodatus.net/lue/2011/09/filosofi-jyri-puhakainen...

Oikeat ja haistapaskantietelijät eivät tee koskaan yhteisjulkaisuja AINAKAAN TIETEESTÄ tai edes TIEDEASIOISTA! Yksi munaa koko kirjan!

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Fundamental research, dealing with climate change and the environment, nuclear weapons treaties, international relations, women’s rights, health and welfare, and more generally, public policy based on empirical reality, all have been dealt a blow.

The president-elect has expressed disinterest or disdain for the results of scientific analyses relevant for public policy, and the vice president-elect has been an open enemy of science.

It remains to be seen how this will play out, but a Republican congress seems unlikely to put many checks on this.

— Lawrence Krauss, director, Origins Project, Arizona State University

Väärässä oleva (ilmeisesti), mutta yritteliäs ja terävä kosmologi, Dawkinsin aisapari kansainvälisenä tietynlaisen tieteen puolestapuhujana ja popularisoijana.

Oli Stephen Hawkingin ja Lee Smolinin ohella johtava Higgsin bosonin epäilijä ennen tunnettuja kokeita, jotka näyttäisivät osoittavan, että sellinen hiukkasparvi kuitenkin on olemassa.

Julkaisi Scientific Americanin numerossa 3/2008 ("Obaman vaalinierossa") teorian ns.sipuli(nkuori)versumista,jonka mukaan gravittatio olisi peräisin eri alkupaukusta kuin muut fysiikan,standardimallin perusvoimat,samassa numerossa muuten kuin  R. Douglas Fields julkaisi otsikolla "White Matter Matters" koetuloksensa pavlovilasen ehdollistumisen biofysikaalisesta mekanismista.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-end-of-cosmology/

Tähän kampanjaan osallistuminen ei hänen luotettavuuttaan lisää ainakaan minun silmissäni...

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Very, very surprised.

— Robert S. Langer, David H. Koch Institute professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


RJK: Ei sano mulle mitään, mutta MIT on puoskariopisto! Noam Chomsky, Staven Pinker, jne.

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First, I think that the forecasting capability of the media and others involved in study-ing elections and the interaction of the social sciences is flawed. That's clear. Re-gardless, this is a strong country, a strong democracy with great intellectual capacity and good will, with a deep sense of human rights and social justice shared among the people.I think at the end of the day the American people, as a whole, will provide a good balance of judgment.

I think the issue of American international competitiveness in science, technology and arts research will continue to be a centerpiece of policy considerations going for-ward. Importantly, a number of Supreme Court justices will likely be appointed during the next administration, and with one party governing all aspects of the government - the legislative, judicial and executive - the influence on the judicial system and future development of a progressive social policy is of concern.

America's prominence and international influence is largely based on the prestige and trust the U.S. enjoys, in part a result of the last century’s contributions to advan-cing science, medicine, technology and the pursuit of social justice. Our position as trusted members of the global community must be maintained and improved if we are to positively impact global development for the benefit of our own citizens as well as those of the world.

— Robert E. Palazzo, dean, University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences

RJK: Taideyliopistosta

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At this moment, November 9, 2016, I am sick in heart and spirit, bereft of even a shred of optimism.

All the ideals of the enlightenment on which our country was founded, all the prin- ciples of reason and open-mindedness that undergird the practice of science that we so fervently cherish,and to which we can rightfully attribute our progress in improving the welfare of humankind, have been effectively and thoroughly repudiated. The significance of the result of the election - that those opposing these beliefs will now either control or greatly influence every branch of the U.S. government - cannot be overemphasized.

It's a shutout.

In such a moment it’s natural to search the past for lessons. All successful civiliza-tions throughout history have ultimately perished. Further, the evolution of our count-ry's democracy is following an ancient script: the seeds of Trump's philosophical vic-tory can be found in the very multicultural,multi-viewpoint, open-armed inclusiveness of the democratic ideal America has pursued since its beginnings.

In his article in New York Magazine,Andrew Sullivan finds in Plato's Republic, written 2,400 years ago, the view that a “rainbow-flag polity” is the most inherently unstable, and that “tyranny is probably established out of no other regime than democracy.” It does indeed make you wonder if last night wasn’t inevitable.

My deepest worry is that this transition really could signal the end of the American Republic and the light it tried for 240 years,at least on paper,to shine on all the world.

What it means for the practice of science in this country,the rights of women and minorities, the future of our planet’s health,the survival of all the creatures with whom we share the Earth and for our relationships with other nations, I have no stomach to predict. But it does very much seem right now that the winning faction of the U.S. populace has decided that the Earth really is flat,and that will be the guiding principle for governance from this moment on.

— Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Team leader; visiting scholar, University of California, Berkeley; director, CICLOPS, Space Science Institute

RJK: Joku kuvitustyöryhmän johtaja

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What is there to say? It's especially scary that there won't be separation of powers. It's also shocking (if the numbers are accurate) the percentage of women (and men) who voted for Trump. And of course science, climate, you name it ... you have to wonder.

— Lisa Randall, professor of physics, Harvard University

Säieteoriasta ei ole saatu yhtään ainokaista vahvistvaa (tai kumoavaa) koetulosta minun tietääkseni...

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The one “plus” from this result is that reducing poverty may move higher on the agenda of the right as well as the left. But it should scare us Europeans into develo-ping stronger and better coordinated pan-European policies to offer countervailing power to the U.S.

— Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and emeritus professor of cosmology and astrophysics, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge

RJK: Royal Societylle tarvitaan uusi puheenjohtaja...

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This administration may be the least science- and science education-friendly one in generations. One possible nominee for the education department, Ben Carson, is a young-Earth creationist. Vice President[-elect] Pence has supported antievolution legislation in Indiana and has even pronounced evolution as unscientific on the floor of the House of Representatives. At the National Center for Science Education, we found that creationists are emboldened to act locally and at the state level when the “bully pulpit” of the presidency favors them - even if the federal government has little or no role in determining local curricula. Nominees for Energy [the Department of Energy], EPA [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency], NIH [National Institutes of Health], NSF (National Science Foundation] and other agencies are likely to be equ-ally problematic and, of course, many members of the administration have declared their rejection of climate change. Should they and their appointees act upon that belief, agreements made with China and other nations by the current administration are at risk - which means that the future of the planet is at risk. Science and science education did not come out ahead in this election.

— Eugenie Scott, founding executive director, National Center for Science Education

Säätiösäätäjä, haistapaskan hallintotantta!

Ämmä valehtelee kuin harmaantunut ruuna: missään ei ole sanottu, että tohtori Ben Carson olisi Nuoren Maan Kreationisti. Kyseinen oppi on vuodelta 1923, eikä se ole sellaisenaan minkään uskotokunnan välttämätön tunnutuksellinen dogmi, mutta sitä pidetään sallittuna ainakin Luterilaisessa,Baptistisessa, Episkopaalisessa ja Kalvinis- tisessa kirkossa sekä seitsemännen päivän Adventisteissa (joka on tuo oppia paljon vanhempi kirkko),jonka jäsen Ben Carson on kuten 18 miljoonaa muutakin, eli se on kuusi kertaa suurempi kuin Donald Trumpin PCUSA-presbyteerikirkko.

Varapresidentti Michael Pence EI OLE ESITTÄNYT MITÄÄN ANTIEVOLUUTIO- LAINSÄÄDÄNTÖÄ MISSÄÄN eikä kukaan muukaan! Kyseinen termi on (pöpöjä näkevien piirien valematerialistipiirien ("amerikanskeptikoide") vääristely Academic Freedom bill -lakiehdotuksista. Pence uskoo "evoltuution taustalla" vaikuttavaan "ohjaukseen".

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Science was sidelined during the presidential campaign and we will have to wait to see the science policy of the new administration with an open mind.

— Terry Sejnowski, professor and laboratory head of Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Laskenyteoreetikko. Varmaan saisikin Uudesta Seelannista jonkin viran... Eisiintynyt epämääräisissäkin yhteyksissä ja julkaisuissa (muissakin kuin tässä).

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When it appeared Trump would win, the Dow plunged 800 points in after-hours trading, and pundits predicted [Wednesday] would be the worst economic collapse since 9/11 and the 2008 meltdown. As I write this, the Dow is up 265 points, the NASDAQ up 43 points. Predictions are hard to make, especially about the future, particularly in elections and economics. With that caveat I predict:

Markets will be fine and economic growth will continue steady and may even improve one half to 1 percent in 2017.

No wall will be built on the Mexican border (and Canadians will not build a wall blocking us!).

We will not change our nuclear policies, we will not adopt “no first use” policy (as Obama did not either), and we will go another four years without using nuclear weapons.

North Korea ...oh who the hell knows what that wingnut will do,but very likely nothing will change and eventually the country will go out of business with their failing econo- my, and North and South Korea will reunite just like East and West Germany did.

Putin will hesitate to challenge NATO or take further territory in eastern Europe.

ISIS will be completely eradicated before the end of 2017,but global terrorism will not be, as no president or government can reduce it to zero, but it will continue to fail as a means of bringing about political change.

Tensions in the Middle East will continue as they have since I was in college and voted for the first time in 1972. Some things never change.

Stay calm everyone.We have a strong republic that will continue growing stronger. We have lots of checks and balances in place to prevent any extreme actions taken by anyone, and as Pres. Obama has been reiterating this past year to those pessi- mists who think things are bad and getting worse, this is and will continue to be the best time there has ever been to be alive.

— Michael Shermer, publisher, Skeptic magazine; monthly columnist, Scientific American; Presidential Fellow, Chapman University; author of The Moral Arc

Skeptikko/höpstikköliikkeen tappi (varmman sikäläinen Jukka-Pekka Häkkinen)...

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Advancement of science transcends partisan boundaries and is fundamental for hu-man health,and is a bedrock for US.technological advances and the economy. Hope- fully, this will continue under any new administration. Although there is a rise in natio-nalism around the world, I think it is important that the international open-ness of science,its collaborations and its benefits be maintained for the benefit of all.

— Michael Snyder, professor of genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine

RJK: En ymmärrä. Voi olla vaikka haistapaskantieteilijä.

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The main questions are whether Trump/Pence will 1) support science research as a core to the economic engine and American competitiveness and 2) use science outcomes to inform policymaking.

The rhetoric on the campaign trail implies “no” on both counts,but the desire to make good on campaign promises to promote our economic interests implies that they should.

— Michael E. Webber, co-director,Clean Energy Incubator, and associate professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

RJK: Mekaniikkainsinöörikollega. Emme päätä tieteen suunnasta.

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It took the U.S. two decades to go from climate obstructionist to climate leader, and one ugly season to throw it away. Now we will see if we are truly a nation of laws and due process, or as weak as we tend to characterize some dictatorships.

I am embarrassed for my generation and am having trouble facing a younger generation that have very basic questions about our selfishness.

If there is a “silver lining” it is that we are a nation of strong institutions and now we shall see, are our ideals up to the task? My state of California - hardly popular to the Trump voters - offers a hopeful perspective.

The problem today is that the U.S. has truly “hit its stride” on climate, and, while also far from perfect, was progressing. Now, advocates of sustainability and intra- and international equity and partnership must re-tool, but without any buffer or luxury of time.

Above all, this new strategy and route to integrate and partner must evolve fast, and must find common ground with an electorate infused with the sad anger and pessimism that led to the Trump victory.

What California - and Morocco,Kenya, Denmark,Bangladesh,The Vatican, Germany, Nicaragua,and others - offer are imperfect but very real examples that show that our energy and material system can actually evolve much faster than previously thought. It takes steadily evolving technology. But more important is the development of a coherent plan.

What we have just done is to steal from our children's future — and personally from my two dear daughters.

- Daniel Kammen, founding director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, University California, Berkeley

This article has been updated to include comment from Daniel Kammen. 

RJK: Ilmastotaistelija Al Gore

Trump esitetään yksikäsitteisesti tunnetun, kiistellyn meediapastorin, -puoskarin ja kirjailijan,"positiivisen ajattelun" profeetan,American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry -organisaation perustajan, kään-nynnäisen (metodismista) predestinaatiokalvinistin,"menestyksen teologin" (sikäläisen "mersulähetyksen") johtajan, Manhattanin kalvinistisen Marmorikirkon pastorin Norman Vincent Pealen (1898 - 1993) opetuslapsena,

VAIKKA SEKÄ TRUMP ITSE ETTÄ MARMORIKIRKKOSEURAKUNTA OVAT TÄMÄN KIISTÄNEET kerta toisensa jälkeen, kun muut ovat sellaista tuputtaneet!

" Marble has said that though Trump has a longstanding history with the church and that he is a  Presbyterian, he is not currently an active member of Marble's congregation. ^[5] "

Norman Peale oli kyllä Trumpin isän ihailema ja tutkima henkilö ja hän on vihkinyt Marmorikirkossa Donaldin tämän ensimmäisen vaimon Ivana Zelníčkován kanssa. Donaldissa hän ihaili tämän maallista menestystä.

Donald oli kuitenkin varhaisteini-ikäisenä Sotilasakatemian oppilaana valinnut omasta aloitteesta tuon toisen, huomattavan erilaisen kirkon ja on aina ilmoittanut olleensa TÄHÄN valintaansa tyytyväinen!

Myös Trumpin Presbyteerikirkon nimi tarkoittaa "sielunhoitajakirkkoa".

Mutta sen erilaisempaa sielukuvaa tuskin voisi olla kuin calvinistisella ja  USA:n Presbyteerikirkolla ja sen perustajapatriarkoilla!


http://aamulehdenblogit.ning.com/profiles/blogs/ylen-usa-n-presidenttiehdokkaat-dokumentti-valehteli-h-rskisti

Paavi on sanonut,että hän ei pidä Trumpia kristittynä.Uhkaus rakentaa aita katolisen Meksikon suuntaan (jossa nytkin on hyvinvartioitu raja) ei kuitenkaan riitä tuollaisen "tuomion" teologiseksi perusteeksi katolisessa kirkossa .Sen sijaan monien presbyteerien unitarismi (areiolaisuus, Unitarism, Arianism) pyhän kolminaisuuden kiistäminen usko pelkkään Pyhään henkeen kyllä riittää (joskaan ei pakota) ...

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Ulkolinja: Clinton vastaan Trump

TV1 torstaina 27.10.2016 klo 22.50 - 23.50 ja torstaina 3.11. klo 22.00 - 23.00, uusinta keskiviikkoisin klo 23.05

Yle Areenassa 90 päivää

Yhdysvaltain presidenttiehdokkaat Hillary Clinton ja Donald Trump jakavat äänestäjien mielipiteitä enemmän kuin ketkään muut ehdokkaat aikaisemmin.

Ulkolinja esittää uunituoreen Clinton vastaan Trump -dokumentin, joka hahmottaa kahden erilaisen kandidaatin henkilökuvaa. Millaisen presidentin amerikkalaiset valitsevat?

Kahdessa osassa nähtävässä dokumentissa katsotaan otsikoiden taakse ja tutkitaan sitä,mikä ehdokkaita on ihmisinä muokannut,mistä he ovat tulleet, miten he johtavat ja miksi he haluavat tulla valituiksi vaikeimpaan kuviteltavissa olevaan työtehtävään.

Ohjelmaa varten on haastateltu kymmeniä ehdokkaat parhaiten tuntevia ihmisiä – ys-täviä,perheenjäseniä, neuvonantajia ja vastustajia – sekä myös kirjailijoita, toimittajia ja politiikan sisäpiiriläisiä.

The Choice 2016. Tuotanto: PBS, USA 2016.

Lisää aiheesta:

TV1 keskiviikkona 9.11.2016 Ulkolinja: USA:n uudet vaikuttajat
Yle seuraa USA:n presidentinvaaleja
Yle Uutiset: USA:n vaalit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump

" Religious views

Trump is a Presbyterian.[561] He has said that he began going to church at the First Presbyterian Church in the Jamaica neighborhood in Queens as a child.[562] Trump attended Sunday school and had his confirmation at that church. [562] In an April 2011 interview on The 700 Club,he commented: "I'm a Protestant,I'm a Presbyterian. And you know I've had a good relationship with the church over the years. I think religion is a wonderful thing. I think my religion is a wonderful religion. " [563] [564]

Trump told a 2015 South Carolina campaign audience he attends Marble Collegiate Church, where he married his first wife Ivana in 1977.

Marble has said that, though Trump has a longstanding history with the church, he is not an active member of Marble. [562]

Trump has said that although he participates in Holy Communion, he has not asked God for forgiveness for his sins. He stated, "I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don't bring God into that picture." [565]

Trump calls his own book The Art of the Deal (1987) "my second favorite book of all time," and has told campaign audiences: "Do you know what my first is? The Bible! Nothing beats the Bible."[566][567] Declining to name his favorite Bible verse, Trump said "I don't like giving that out to people that you hardly know." [562] However, his religious knowledge was questioned after a speech he gave to Liberty University, in which he referred to Second Corinthians as "Two Corinthians," eliciting chuckles from some in the audience.[568]

Trump maintains relationships with several prominent national Evangelical Protes-tant and other Christian leaders,including Tony Perkins and Ralph E.Reed Jr. [569] During his 2016 presidential campaign, he received a blessing from Greek Orthodox priest Emmanuel Lemelson.[570] Trump has ties to the Jewish-American communi-ty. [571] At an Algemeiner Journal awards ceremony honoring him with the Algemei-ner Liberty Award,he was asked about having Jewish grandchildren. In reference to daughter Ivanka, who converted to Judaism before her marriage to Jared Kushner, Trump said:"Not only do I have Jewish grandchildren,I have a Jewish daughter; and I am very honored by that...it wasn't in the plan but I am very glad it happened."[572]

Controversy involving the Pope

In February 2016, while on his way home following a visit to Mexico,

Pope Francis said the following when asked about Trump:

A person who thinks only about building walls — wherever they may be — and not building bridges, is not Christian.

...I'd just say that this man [Trump] is not Christian if he said it this way.

...We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt. [573]

Trump responded that it was "disgraceful" for the Pope to question his faith, sugges-ting that the Mexican government was "using the Pope as a pawn" for political pur-poses,"because they want to continue to rip off the United States." [574][575] Trump added that "if and when" Islamic State attacks the Vatican, the Pope would have "wished and prayed" Trump were President because under his leadership such an attack would not happen. [575]

The following day, Director of the Holy See Press Office Federico Lombardi insisted that the Pope was not launching an attack on Trump nor trying to sway voters by de-claring that someone who advocates building walls isn't Christian.[576][577] After the clarification by Lombardi, Trump downplayed his differences with the Pope, saying "I don't think this is a fight." [578] "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Vincent_Peale

" Norman Vincent Peale (May 31,1898 – December 24, 1993) was an American mi- nister and author (most notably of The Power of Positive Thinking) and a progenitor of "positive thinking".

His ideas were not accepted by mental health experts. ^[1]"

The Difference Between Donald Trump and Norman Vincent Peale

 

Early life and education

Peale was born in Bowersville, Ohio, the oldest of three sons of Charles and Anna (née Delaney) Peale. He graduated from Bellefontaine High School, Bellefontaine, Ohio. He earned degrees at Ohio Wesleyan University (where he became a brother of the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta) and Boston University School of Theology.

Raised as a Methodist and ordained as a Methodist minister in 1922, Peale changed his religious affiliation to the Reformed Church in America in 1932 and began a 52- year tenure as pastor of Marble Collegiate Church in New York City. During that time the church's membership grew from about 600 to over 5,000, and he became one of New York City's most famous preachers.

American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry

Peale and Smiley Blanton, a psychoanalyst, established a religio-psychiatric outpa- tient clinic next door to the church. The two men wrote books together, notably Faith Is the Answer: A Psychiatrist and a Pastor Discuss Your Problems (1940). The book was written in alternating chapters,with Blanton writing one chapter,then Peale. Blan- ton espoused no particular religious point of view in his chapters.In 1951 this clinic of psychotherapy and religion grew into the American Foundation of Religion and Psy-chiatry, with Peale serving as president and Blanton as executive director. ^[2] Blanton handled difficult psychiatric cases and Peale, who had no mental health credentials, handled religious issues. ^[3]

When Peale came under heavy criticism from the mental health community for his controversial book "The Power of Positive Thinking", (1952) Blanton distanced him-self from Peale and refused to publicly endorse the book.Blanton did not allow Peale to use his name in "The Power of Positive Thinking" and declined to defend Peale publicly when he came under criticism. As scholar Donald Meyer describes it: "Peale evidently imagined that he marched with Blanton in their joint labors in the Religion-Psychiatric Institute. This was not exactly so." ^[3]:266 Meyer notes that Blanton's own book, "Love or Perish, (1956), "contrasted so distinctly at so many points with the Peale evangel", of "positive thinking" that these works had virtually nothing in common. ^[3]:273

Radio, television, writing and organizations

In 1935, Peale started a radio program,"The Art of Living", which lasted for 54 years. Under sponsorship of the National Council of Churches he moved into television when the new medium arrived. In the meantime he had begun to edit the magazine Guideposts and to write books. His sermons were mailed monthly. ^[4] During the de- pression Peale teamed with James Cash Penney, founder of J.C. Penney & Co.; Arthur Godfrey, the radio and TV personality; and Thomas J. Watson, President and Founder of IBM to form the first board of 40Plus, an organization that helps unemployed managers and executives.

In 1945,Peale,his wife Ruth Stafford Peale and Raymond Thornburg,a Pawling, New York businessman, founded Guideposts magazine, a non-denominational forum for celebrities and ordinary people to relate inspirational stories. For its launch, they raised US$1200 from Frank Gannett, founder of the Gannett newspaper chain, J. Howard Pew, a Philadelphia industrialist, and Branch Rickey, General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Criticism and controversy

Peale's works came under criticism from several mental health experts, one of whom directly said Peale was a con man and a fraud.^[13] These critics appeared in the early 1950s after the publication of The Power of Positive Thinking.

Hard to substantiate

One major criticism of The Power of Positive Thinking is that the book is full of anec-dotes that are hard to substantiate.Almost all of the experts and many of the testimo-nials that Peale quotes as supporting his philosophy are unnamed, unknown and unsourced. Examples include a "famous psychologist", ^[14]:52 a two-page letter from a "practicing physician",^[14]:150 another "famous psychologist",^[14]:169 a "prominent citi-zen of New York City",^[14]:88and dozens,if not hundreds,more unverifiable quotations. Similar scientific studies of questionable validity are also cited. As psychiatrist R.C. Murphy exclaimed, "All this advertising is vindica-ted as it were, by a strict cleaving to the side of part truth",and referred to the work and the quoted material as "implausible and woodenly pious." ^[15]

Concealed hypnosis

A second major accusation of Peale is that he attempted to conceal that his tech- niques for giving the reader absolute self-confidence and deliverance from suffering are a well known form of hypnosis, and that he attempts to persuade his readers to follow his beliefs through a combination of false evidence and self-hypnosis (auto-suggestion), disguised by the use of terms which may sound more benign from the reader's point of view ("techniques","formulas," "methods," "prayers," and "prescrip- tions.").One author called Peale's book "The Bible of American autohypnotism."^[3]:264

While his techniques are not debated by psychologists, Peale said his theological practice and strategy was directed more at self-analysis, forgiveness, character development, and growth^[16] much like the Jesuits of the Catholic Church. ^[17]

Psychiatrist R.C. Murphy writes "Self knowledge,in Mr. Peale's understanding is un- equivocally bad: self hypnosis is good." Murphy adds that repeated hypnosis defeats an individual's self-motivation,self-knowledge, unique sense of self, sense of reality, and ability to think critically. Murphy describes Peale's understanding of the mind as inaccurate, "without depth," and his description of the workings of the mind and the unconscious as deceptively simplistic and false:"It is the very shallowness of his con- cept of 'person' that makes his rules appear easy ... If the un-conscious of man ... can be conceptualized as a container for a small number of psychic fragments, then ideas like 'mind-drainage' follow. So does the reliance on self-hypnosis, which is the cornerstone of Mr. Peale's philosophy.'" ^[15]

Psychologist Albert Ellis,the founder of cognitive therapy and influential psychologist of the 20th century,compared the Peale techniques with those of the hypnotist Emile Coue,and Ellis says that the repeated use of these hypnotic techniques could lead to significant mental health problems.Ellis has documented in several books the many individuals he has treated who suffered mental breakdowns from following Peale's teachings. Ellis' writings repeatedly warn the public not to follow the Peale message. Ellis contends the Peale approach is dangerous,distorted, un- realistic. He compares the black or white view of life that Peale teaches to a psychological disorder (border- line personality disorder), perhaps implying that dangerous mental habits which he sees in the disorder may be brought on by following the teaching. "In the long run [Peale's teachings] lead to failure and disillusionment, and not only boomerang back against people, but often prejudice them against effective therapy." ^[18] 

(Ellisin omiakaan käsityksiä ei aina voi maailman kestävästi tieteellisimpinä pitää: hän on mm. sanonut ihmisten olevan "sitä terveempiä (psyykkisesti), mitä enemmän he harrastavat seksiä"...)

Praise

The Reverend Billy Graham said at the National Council of Churches on June 12, 1966 that "I don't know of anyone who had done more for the kingdom of God than Norman and Ruth Peale or have meant any more in my life for the encouragement they have given me."^[31]

Upon hearing of Peale's death,U.S. President Bill Clinton had this to say: "The name of Dr.Norman Vincent Peale will forever be associated with the wondrously American values of optimism and service. Dr.Peale was an optimist who believed that, what-ever the antagonisms and complexities of modern life brought us, anyone could pre-vail by approaching life with a simple sense of faith. And he served us by instilling that optimism in every Christian and every other person who came in contact with his writings or his hopeful soul.In a productive and giving life that spanned the 20th century, Dr. Peale lifted the spirits of millions and millions of people who were nou-rished and sustained by his example, his teaching, and his giving. While the Clinton family and all Americans mourn his loss,there is some poetry in his passing on a day when the world celebrates the birth of Christ, an idea that was central to Dr. Peale's message and Dr. Peale's work.He will be missed". ^[32]

Donald Trump claims to attend Marble Collegiate Church, and Trump has repeatedly praised Peale and cited him as a formative influence, though Peale's son has said he wishes he would not.^[33][34]"

Clintonit ovat siis ylistäneet kyseenalaista mm. hypnoosin systemaattisesta väärin-käytöstä ja mielenterveysongelmien AIHEUTTAMISESTA syytettyä "sielunhoitajaa" suunnattomasti enemmän kuin ihailijanaapurin toisuskoinen poika Donald Trump!

USA:N PRESBYTEERIKIRKON OIKEAT TIEDEMIEHET MUKAAN LUKIEN PAT-RIARKAT VUOSISATOJEN TAKAA OVAT SEN SIJAAN NÄYTTÄNEET NÄRHIN MUNAT ERILAISILLE MUILLE USKONNOLLISILLE JA VALEMATERIALISTISILLE SIELUN- JA MIELENPUOSKAREILLE KATSOMUKSIEN TIETEELLISYYDESSÄ:

Doku väittää valjeellisesti, että Trump olsi puoskareiden talutusnuorassa kulkeva puoskareiden hyysääjä, vaikka nimenomaan HILLARY JA BILL OVAT SITÄ TODELLISUUDESSA!

Mutta nyt tulee uutta pahaa puoskarijuttua (mulle entuudestaan tyystin vierasta, vaikka olen titeenfilosofian kannlta seurannut "alaa" kauan...):

http://vidmax.com/embedvid/147748-BREAKING-Clinton-Foundation-CEO-E...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_R._Braverman

http://www.quackwatch.com/11Ind/braverman/overview.html

http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/nancy-grace/episode-4568690/518629/

First Aired: March 29, 2005

The Terri Schiavo situation is discussed with CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta; Dr. Eric Braver-man, director of PATH Medical; and Dr. Joseph Deltito of New York Medical College. Also,the Michael Jackson trial is discussed with a panel that includes Jim Moret (“Inside Edition”); defense attorney Renee Rockwell; psychologist Caryn Stark; and defense attorney Mercedes Colwin.

http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=7889&page=18

Got it liz, thanks. from Nancy Grace:

GRACE: Dr. Eric Braverman, are we convinced that Terri Schiavo feels nothing? I find it hard to believe that -- taking someone off a ventilator, that`s one thing, but allowing them to starve to death?

DR. ERIC BRAVERMAN, DIRECTOR OF PATH MEDICAL: I appreciate your em-pathy, but Terri has been dead for a very long time,essentially.And she has gone to God. And what you have there is a brain essentially filled with water and a flat line EEG of a persistent vegetative state.

And you need to understand that the empathy is being misplaced. We have a brain health crisis in this country,and this person has been essentially brain dead. Nobody has any hope of function - even if it was MCS, a minimally conscious state, she would never recover. What you`re looking there is a corpse and an embalmed individual that is being preserved unnaturally, a waste of medical re-sources, a misunderstanding of false hope that`s been projected. It is a tragedy.

GRACE: Dr. Braverman, have you ever actually seen Terri Schiavo?

BRAVERMAN: I have spoken with Dr.Cranford.Actually,doctors don`t need to see the patient. The video analysis is a deception.What doctors need is to know a flat line EEG. I`ve kept hamster brains alive and guinea pig brains alive for ten hours in a dish and they had more EEG activity. You have to understand...

GRACE: Sanjay...

BRAVERMAN: You have to understand. She has less brain activity than animals. She has a brain filled with water or cerebral spinal fluid.

GRACE: Let me go very quickly to Dr. Gupta. Response, Sanjay?

GUPTA: First of all,you know,she doesn`t have a flat EEG. And I think that every-one who initially said that has disagreed that she has a flat EEG.Calling her brain dead just is not right.

And whether or not she`s in a persistent vegetative state, or a permanent vegeta- tive state, or a minimally conscience, you can argue those terms,but I think it`s irresponsible probably to keep saying that she is brain dead. Because clearly you can look at that person and see that she`s not brain dead.It doesn`t add anything to the argument here, Nancy.

Braverman is using the "shorthand" of saying the EEG is flat because there was one dead section of her brain.The leads measuring activity in those sections would be flat although leads in other areas measuring involuntary activity would not be flat.Gupta ob-jects because there are other sections of her brain that are not dead. Describing her as "brain dead" is wrong because she still had functioning brain matter that was not flat on an EEG. That functioning brain matter governed involuntary activity such as breathing and blinking.


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Steve Bannon sai potkut Trumpin Turvallisuusneuvostosta

• Kirjoittanut Risto Juhani Koivula (6. huhtikuu 2017, 15:30)
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Kukas nyt on "hirveä rasisti"...?

http://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/201704052200097858_ul.shtml

Steve Bannonin pesti Trumpin turvallisuusneuvostossa päättyi

Keskiviikko 5.4.2017 klo 19.31

Valkoisen talon mukaan Bannonin paikka turvallisuusneuvostossa oli alun perinkin vain väliaikainen.

Steve Bannon ei osallistu enää Trumpin turvallisuusneuvoston kokouksiin. (EPA / AOP)

Yhdysvaltain presidentin Donald Trumpin läheisimpiin neuvonantajiin kuuluva hallinnon päästrategi Steve Bannon, 63, ei osallistu enää Trumpin turvallisuusneuvoston kokouksiin.

Trumpin päätös nimittää Bannon turvallisuusneuvostoon heti virkakau-tensa alussa herätti Yhdysvalloissa paljon närää, koska turvallisuus-neuvostossa ei aiemmin ole ollut poliittisia neuvonantajia samassa asemassa kuin Bannon.

Bannonin suurta roolia Trumpin hallinnossa vastustettiin muun muassa presidentille osoitetulla postikorttikampanjalla.

Valkoisen talon edustajan mukaan Bannonin pesti turvallisuusneuvos-tossa oli alun perinkin vain väliaikainen.

Turvallisuusneuvoston kokoonpanoa muokattiin Bannonin lähdön lisäksi samalla enemmänkin takaisin alkuperäiseen suuntaan.

Lähteet: Bloomberg, CNN

JUHO RISSANEN

Vastakkaisia käsityksiä Donad Trumpin ideologiasta...

In Search of Trump’s Ideology

" Trump is not a rightwing ideologue because he is not an ideologue at all. "