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Wednesday, October 2. 2019Wednesday morning linksA New Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved - A neuroscientist on how we came to be aware of ourselves. Men with breast cancer more likely to be undertreated and not survive Eat Less Red Meat, Scientists Said. Now Some Believe That Was Bad Advice. - The evidence is too weak to justify telling individuals to eat less beef and pork, according to new research. The findings “erode public trust,” critics said. The Church: CDL. BURKE: REVOLUTION IS THE GOAL The Myth Of Imminent Environmental Collapse Scientists tell UN climate summit there is no emergency As we approach the 150th anniversary of Lenin’s birth, understanding him grows ever more important. How Rent Control Laws Hurt Tenants - California is about to get a real world lesson in how rent control laws can't solve a housing crisis. A US Victory at the Universal Postal Union Intel Community Admission Of Whistleblower Changes Raises Explosive New Questions - In a press release issued late Monday, the intelligence community inspector general admitted it changed its policy and its whistleblower form after an anti-Trump complainant alleged that Trump broke the law during a phone call with the Ukrainian president. Biden sidesteps questions about his son's foreign business dealings but promises ethics pledge More than 130,000 Sephardic Jews apply for Spanish citizenship by deadline Trackbacks
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Consciousness is what lets you report to the attending health professional that you are conscious now.
“Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities”--why, that's just crazy talk!
The Church: CDL. BURKE: REVOLUTION IS THE GOal:
This problem has been building at least since the new Pope. Here are just 2 articles about the changes being pushed: http://koinonianews.com/2019/02/06/pope-francis-signs-an-historic-inter-faith-agreement-in-abu-dhabi/ https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/32245-pope-francis-calls-for-end-of-sovereignty-and-establishment-of-global-government All the institutions we rely on for our survival and well being have been under a relentless attack for the last few decades. They reside in the gutter and show little hope of getting out of the gutter any time soon. Perhaps Burke can help drag the church out of the mire and Trump can help reform the political landscape.
Red meat: "Despite flaws in the evidence, health officials still must give advice and offer guidelines, said Dr. Meir Stampfer, also of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health."
No, not really. That government experts have to weigh in on what we should do is a theory of government I don't subscribe to. re Despite flaws in the evidence, health officials still must give advice and offer guidelines, said Dr. Meir Stampfer, also of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health."
If they weren't busy issuing guidelines for the little people, how would they justify their jobs? Oh wait . . . In 30 years of surgical practice, I saw a male breast cancer about once a month. The area where I practiced had a retirement community and most were in elderly men but not all. The youngest was a 28 year old body builder who denied anabolic steroid use but I wondered.
Stage for stage they do as well as women but delay in diagnosis is the problem. One case I saw was bilateral male breast cancer, which is a worry as gynecomastia is bilateral and the usual mistake in a male is to assume that is what the lump is. He ultimately had a bone marrow transplant but was alive 5 years later. The findings "erode public trust" in government and health officials, which is the appropriate result of a reading of the available science.
They should do better in order to regain the public's trust. Exactly. Also: they essentially instructed millions of people how to develop adult onset diabetes with that horrible “all carbs all the time” nutrition advice. No accountability or ownership of the cost of these mistakes, whatsoever.
It's ironic isn't it, that the secret to Lenin's success in a supposedly egalitarian society, was to repeal the Golden Rule, effectively by forbidding any comment on the hypocrisy of the rulers - thus removing the most powerful means of assuring egalitarianism.
Shut down criticism, forbid discussion, ship to the gulags. Sounds very familiar doesn't it? De-platforming is our modern gulag. Oh, I'm sure they'll come up with something physical. Why, there's LOADS of space in Nevada...
Things Bill Nye DOESN'T want parents to teach their own children:
- Creationism - Abstinence - Scientific skepticism Things Bill Nye DOES want to teach your children: - The earth is on fucking fire and mass death is on the horizon - Group sex is fun - Hey kids, did you know you can pick your own gender?! Whistleblower changes in the intel community....the intel community IG collects complaints on those in the jurisdiction of the DNI (director of national intelligence) but Trump is not under the DNI jurisdiction as the DNI is under his jurisdiction. It wasn't legal for the whistleblower complaint to even be made. The IG is a deepstater.
Re: How Rent Control Laws Hurt Tenants
Reason Magazine used to be pretty good. Now it's just a leftist piece of trash. "California" isn't doing anything. A State is not a person. So who decided on rent-control? What's his name? Where is his phone number? These "journalists" like Steven Greenhut are paid tools of the State. They have been instructed never to name any actual government employee. That's how the State maintains the illusion that citizens are not part of the decision-making process. A B-17G Has crashed and burned near Hartford CT.
Very sad. https://heavy.com/news/2019/10/bradley-airport-plane-crash/ If there ever IS an anthropogenic ecological catastrophe, a non-negligible part of the blame will belong to the wolf-criers and the give-up-your-cars-so-we-don't-have-to-give-up-our-private-jets-ers.
Our lawmaker are proposing a red flag law that will take your 2nd amendment rights away without due process and even without evidence of proof of a risk. We should demand that they write a red flag law that allows citizens to accuse them of violating the constitution. Once accused they should lose their right to serve in an elected or appointed position in government ever again. Now that is a red flag law I can suppor.
Lenin posting
If don't want to be depressed, don't read the Lenin posting. Robert Service has been my long time source on Lenin, but Service is inadequate if this is half true. How noble of Biden to agree to sign an ethics pledge after his grift already paid off. It's like the eco-warrior, Tom Steyer, now lecturing us all on fossil fuels after he made hundreds of millions of dollars investing in them.
Wonder how many landlords are sequestering their properties for future uses other than rentals because of the caps. You want less of something just start heavily-regulating it. regarding link . "Scientists tell UN climate summit there is no emergency" ... some background on CLINTEL
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/26/co2-is-plant-food-australian-group-signs-international-declaration-denying-climate-science |