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Russian President Vladimir Putin has never hidden his nostalgia for the days of the Soviet Union. He worked as a spy at the KGB, lamented the end of communism, restored lyrics chosen by former Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin to the Russian national anthem, and marshaled Soviet-style military parades in Moscow. He's even restarted a national fitness program founded by Stalin.
The program, which began in the 1930s, would "pay homage to our national historical traditions," Putin said in March.
His most direct praise of the old Soviet Union came in 2005, when he shocked the west in a speech to the Russian people. He told them that the end of the USSR was essentially a mistake.
America First did not automatically oppose German Imperialism. A World War followed.
America First does not automatically oppose Russian Imperialism. We will see what follows.
Poland is rearming. Germany is considering it. Maybe they know something.
The very same inanity that preceded WW2 is happening now.
"America can stay out of it."
"It is Europe's Problem."
"We will not send American boys to die for Czechoslovakia."
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Peloni: The fact that any American Jew would submit to such requirements as meeting in secret to demonstrate their affiliation with an organization, whose brute squads are the cause for them to have to hide in the first place, demonstrates a serious pathology of the mind. This example of Stockholm Syndrome is very sad, very troubling, and yet, very revealing. I hope that the majority of American Jews take the fact of this matter to heart, and realize that the Democratic party, which they seem to believe defines them, has no interest in providing them with safety, liberty, nor equality, all of which are the basis for which govt is intended to exist, and for ALL Americans.
“After 50 years fighting antisemitism in America, I could not have imagined a time -Jews would have to meet in secret locations in Chicago at DNC,” former ADL leader Abe Foxman tweeted.
It’s almost impossible to find a “pro-Palestinian” rally that isn’t drenched in antisemitic rhetoric, anti-Jewish venom, or stereotypical tropes. They chant “from the river to the sea”, which means the complete annihilation of the Jewish state. They have called on Hamas and Hezbollah to inflict more death and destruction on Jews living in Israel. They have called for violence against Jews in the diaspora. These rallies clearly reveal a veiled antisemitism under the guise of being "pro-Palestine."
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Victor Davis Hanson is discussing Trump's media strategy. He thinks Trump is being out played. I'm not seeing it that way.
Victor does not understand the current media environment. Trump's is not a conventional media strategy. The Ds depend on the Big Five. Trump is going with hundreds of little guys. Given the five are bleeding to death - he is the future. The word on Kamala/Walz is getting out. Not in ads but in commentary videos. He has hundreds of voices. Benny Johnson talked of meetings with Trump. No one is covering this aspect.
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"Make" and "sense" only have "e" in common. So you can't make "sense" out of "make".
And you can't make "sense" out of "it" at all.
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"Potential for Abuse" is one of the ways drugs are categorized for legal purposes. The underlying assumption is that drugs cause addiction depending on their "abuse potential". This is not medically possible. Let me explain:
American Medical Schools teach addiction is a symptom of PTSD. Dr. Lonny Shavelson in his book "Heroin" said that 70% of female heroin addicts had been sexually abused in childhood.
Drugs fill receptors. What empties receptors (injury, PTSD) causes a desire for drugs. Drugs CAN'T cause addiction. Pass it on. (The DEA is currently selling 'Habituation" as 'addiction'. They are different. Detox fixes Habituation. It does not fix addiction.)
More simply: People in chronic pain chronically take pain relievers. Hard to believe, isn't it?
Receptor theory is over 100 years old. I knew enough about endorphin receptors 50 years ago to write what I have currently written on the subject of receptors and 'addiction', had I just given it some thought.
The current method of classifying drugs "of abuse" for purposes of law is incorrect. Since drugs don't cause 'addiction' (pain does) drugs can't have an addiction potential. Or given the laws currently in effect the number is zero for ALL drugs.
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It is why Blacks are flocking to Trump. The Lawfare they are victims of is Nixon's War On Blacks - the Nixon Drug War. It is one of the last vestiges of systemic racism still functioning.
"Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue...that we couldn't resist it."
- John Ehrlichman, White House counsel to President Nixon on the rationale of the War on Drugs.
"[Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks" Haldeman, his Chief of Staff wrote, "The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to."
And now you know why persecuted Blacks are backing Trump. They have seen Lawfare up close and personal.
Trump will owe them. He has known their issue for over 30 years. The Drug War. He now has a reason in addition to his others to bring the people it finances down. And the backing to do it.
"We're losing badly the war on drugs," he said. "You have to legalize drugs to win that war. You have to take the profit away from these drug czars." - Donald Trump at the Miami Herald 1990 Company of the Year Awards Luncheon
But things are even worse than that. "Drugs cause addiction" is a biologically false statement. Biologically drugs CAN'T cause addiction. A short discussion of the biology in simple layman's terms: Better Proof - The Government Is Lying About DRUGS
The tldr; version ==>
Drugs fill receptors.
Injury empties receptors. PTSD empties receptors.
Empty receptors are painful.
Filling empty receptors makes you feel good.
Empty receptors create a desire for drugs.
Drugs can not create a desire for drugs.
Think of all the Government Agencies dependent on the Drug War. It is very expensive.
Drugs fill receptors. What empties receptors (injury, PTSD) causes a desire for drugs. Drugs CAN'T cause addiction. Pass it on.
If they can get you to ask the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. - Thomas Pynchon.
Update: 24 May 2024 10:56z
Systemic Racisn gets a mention starting at 53 seconds in to the video.
In this video Matt Fogg, a Black DEA agent, explains Drug War Racism policy. And yes. Racism is DEA policy. Matt does introductions for the first minute and a half of the video.
And you also have Joe Biden, the architect of the racist 1994 Crime Bill. People who prefered crack cocaine over powder (Blacks) got punished 100 times more. Congress later reduced that to only 18 times the punishment. Prison quotas need to be maintained.
Update: 25 May 2024 11:45z
I added - Drugs fill receptors. What empties receptors (injury, PTSD) causes a desire for drugs. Drugs CAN'T cause addiction. Pass it on.
Putting so many Black men in prison has ruined the Black family. Which was Nixon's intention. No fathers for Black kids. - 13:25z
I just posted (19 June 2024) - "Potential for Abuse" - about one way Drugs are classified.
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I believe the "Hush Money trial" zeitgeist has changed. The judge today denied a critical prosecution objection At about 11:40 of the video. "Was Davidson extorting Trump" - ordinarily that is an easy "sustained". It was overruled. I think the calculus has changed from "get Trump convicted" to "get Trump away from the cameras".
Here is my thinking: A conviction will require sentencing. The Democrat operatives are now desperate to avoid the bump in the polls that would give Trump. No more 3 times a day press conferences. No more Congressional delegations backing Trump. No appeals - to remind people of the disaster. Shut it down. He can't give a directed verdict - that makes the sham way too obvious. What is left? Jury instructions for the judge. No more witnesses for the prosecution. Costello (Cohen's former lawyer) will be allowed for the defense. The cross examination of Costello will be weak.
i.e. they are on the horns of a dilemma FJB if they do, FJB if they don't. But mainly - stop giving Trump all that free publicity. The trial is over. Totally.
The jury instructions will be key. Who do they favor?
Update: 1 June 2024 0226z
Guilty on all 34 counts and Trump and his supporters are energized. I think we will see a significant boost in the polls by Monday or Tuesday.
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Since I have been writing so much about Drugs lately, I thought a 4/20 recap of some of my most interesing posts might be in order.
At the top of the list is: Better Proof - The Government Is Lying About DRUGS. A short discussion of the biology of the endorphin system in layman's terms.
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The following discussion is for the endorphin system, whose receptors accept endorphins, opiates, and indirectly alcohol. However there are other routes to dopamine production. But the drugs we have the most trouble with are opiates and alcohol so to keep things simple I'll focus on those.
When it comes to the endorphin system the normal human condition is for the system to have some empty receptors. If the system has all full receptors it grows more. The DEA calls this growth of receptors "addiction". It is not. But we will get to that in a bit. The receptors in the endorphin system are called pain receptors because when enough receptors are empty you feel pain. But it is a continum from bliss - all receptors full, to extreme pain - all receptors empty. The normal human condition is some empty receptors - mild depression - so you can tell if something good happens. More receptors empy causes discomfort and depression. Do something! Then heavy depression. Then pain followed by screaming pain. Do something RIGHT NOW!!! Pain is a continum. And in that vein fillng an empty pain receptor reduces pain - even if it feels like something else (depression).
PTSD is a disorder that amonts to a continuous leak to the endorphin system. The initial trauma can last a lifetime and that means the receptor leak can be long lasting as well. What do people do who feel depressed? They look for relief. People in chronic pain (empty receptors) chronically take pain relievers (opiates, alcohol). Addiction is not caused by drugs. It is caused by pain. What is caused by drugs is Habituation. If you keep your receptors full by continuous drug taking your body will grow more. But that takes weeks and months. Empty receptors is much faster: milliseconds to minutes for the initial trauma and then hours, days, or weeks for the PTSD leak to have an effect. I do have an example.
Drugs fill receptors.
Injury empties receptors. PTSD empties receptors.
Empty receptors are painful.
Filling empty receptors makes you feel good.
Empty receptors create a desire for drugs.
Drugs can not create a desire for drugs.
In America we have a pain problem. A problem with long term pain (PTSD). A problem with child abuse. A problem with soldier and civilian trauma (PTSD). We don't have a Drug problem. That, like Alcohol Prohibition, is a Government caused problem. Denying pain relief is not viable politically or socially or even morally. People will go to great lenghts including defying government to get pain relief.
Other drugs of abuse seem to work similarly but have different pathways. They all affect the dopamine system ultimately.
A better popular understanding of the biology will help end the war on people in pain. Please pass this around. Help end the persecutions.
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Alcohol exerts numerous pharmacological effects through its interaction with various neurotransmitters and neuromodulators. Among the latter, the endogenous opioids play a key role in the rewarding (addictive) properties of ethanol.
Increases in mesolimbic dopamine transmission are observed when animals are treated with all known drugs of abuse, including cannabis, and to conditioned stimuli predicting their availability. In contrast, decreases in mesolimbic dopamine function are observed during drug withdrawal, including cannabis-withdrawal syndrome. Thus, despite general misconceptions that cannabis is unique from other drugs of abuse, cannabis exerts identical effects on the mesolimbic dopamine system.
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Drugs fill receptors.
Pain empties receptors. PTSD empties receptors.
Filling empty receptors makes you feel good.
Empty receptors create a desire for drugs.
Drugs can not create a desire for drugs.
Currently, if obvious pain inducers (a wound, xray images of damage, history of a wound) causes your pain you can be prescribed drugs for the duratoion of your pain as long as the pain does not last too long. If your pain lasts too long you might be an addict, and for addicts pain relief is not allowed. Because sometimes the pain never ends and using drugs for never ening pain is bad. You could be an addict. And addicts are bad because addiction is bad. Drugs, don't you know? There is nothing wrong with doing bad things to bad people. Denying them pain relief say. Or putting them in jail if they disregard the limits (zero) on their pain relief.
If your pain comes from PTSD drugs are not allowed. You might be faking it and just using the drugs for a good time. But drugs are only a good time if your receptors are empty. If your receptors are full they have no effect other than physiological (breathing, digestion, etc.). And if your receptors are empty you are in pain. Because they are the same receptors.
So not only is it impossible for drugs to cause addiction, there are no such things as recreational drug users. The 'recreation' is pain relief.
The topper for all this? Alcohol is a drug used for pain in America without remark. We gave up persecuting alcohol addicts over 90 years ago. But we make no effort to switch them to safer drugs. We don't want no more stinkin drug addicts, do we?
My prescription? Stop making criminals out of people in pain.
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Drugs fill receptors. Filling empty receptors makes you feel good. What empties the receptors drugs fill? Pain and possibly other things. Drugs can't cause a desire for drugs.
Medical schools in America teach - addiction is a symptom of PTSD.
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The title refers to a theory of mine - Woke is a parade of abused children. Child abuse and child sexual abuse are known to cause the abused to have deviant sexual desires. It is also known to cause drug abuse for pain relief.
If they are abused children then the various 'Bibles' calling for their murder are depraved, as are all the followers of those Bibles. There are nothing but false teachers everywhere. That level of schadenfreude is totally amusing to me, besides being beyond belief. All these 'Godly' people calling for the murder of innocents because they currently can't conform due to abuse. Punished twice.
Christians are going to have to repudiate the Torah - the 'Old Testament'. I can tell you Jews already have - it goes something like "You need two hundred witnesses to be sure. Even one less than that and there is doubt." The 'crime' is still on the books. It can't be prosecuted.
It will be nice having religions that actually match the needs of the human condition. Christianity will need re-inventing (the loving heart of Jesus heals - could be a starting point). Islam is toast.
The changes coming are inevitable. Abused child PTSD is the key to civilization. Currently (covert) and in the future (open).
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Everyone in the public eye is an abused child with PTSD and narcissism. Normal people like privacy. - I fit that model.
To become useful I changed a few things. I gave up the anger. I opened my heart. I'm no longer a control FREAK. I don't CRAVE power. I can use it when I have it.
I probably should ammend that to say I have toned those things down a bit. Especially the anger and blackheartedness. I'd still like to be rich and famous.
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If you pay me enough and promise to cover my lawyers fees I may say something nice about you. Or I may not. Enough is generally more than you can afford. Unless you have a a really really big bank account or more that a few large gold bars under the mattress.
If you do pay I expect to be transported to a country with no extradition treaty with the US.
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