[Brighteon] Mark McDonald MD is a psychoanalytically trained psychiatrist from L.A. who has written a remarkable and thought-provoking book, The United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis.
This book is not a takeoff from the theories of Desmet and Malone—McDonald’s book about mass delusional psychosis was published November 11, 2021, and Desmet’s book came out more than six months later on June 23, 2022. This and many other issues are discussed in depth—including the risks associated with diagnosing groups of people.
Dr. McDonald was among the earliest of the heroic physicians to stand up for health freedom and is well-known among the pioneers. His substack is available as Dissident MD.
Last night, Mrs. Bobby and I were watching a recent episode of NCIS - Los Angeles, which featured a sidebar story on a double amputee given a second chance (by the NCIS commander) who helped resolve the episode's crisis. Toward the end, Mrs. Bobby said, "We have to go back to the beginning, to see who portrayed that guy."
I started the show again, and she said, "That's him, Gregory Gadson. I remember the name from when we lived in Fairfax. He was the Commander of Fort Belvoir and featured in a newspaper article when we lived there (now ten-plus years ago)."
She then began to read from Wikipedia, I think: Gadson made his acting debut in Battleship, a 2012 American science fiction naval war film, playing a war veteran who regains his appetite for the fight when Oahu is threatened by an alien attack. Director Peter Berg, having seen news articles about Gadson, decided to cast him as an army officer trying to recover from the loss of his legs.
She noted, On May 7, 2007, he lost both his legs to a roadside bomb in Baghdad. He became one of the first military personnel to use a next-generation powered prosthetic knee with technology to make it possible for amputees to walk with confidence and with a more natural gait. She then zipped through his many awards, including three Bronze Stars, tabulated at the Wikipedia link. He was involved in everything from Bosnia to Iraq.
Several of the recent NCIS - Los Angeles episodes of late have been tiresome, but this one featured a recent Afghani immigrant woman trying to break out of the traditional arranged marriage. Her relations in Afghanistan felt honor-bound to make her keep their commitment to marry someone she'd never met. The double-amputee, portrayed by Gadson, was just a sidebar, but worthy of mention here, I thought.
Never fear - the bad dudes were terminated and love triumphed!
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[ZERO] Shortly after the coordinated cancellation of 'Dilbert' cartoons from numerous media outlets, Elon Musk responded on Twiiter to the media's clear bias in reporting the events.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, Musk replied to tweet summarizing the debacle around Adams' comments: "MSM verdict: Adams is a racist, but not the 20 million black people who thinks it’s not OK to be white."
Sort of got the hint when they stopped showing pictures or videos of perps to violent crimes because they didn't want people to know the truth about the community where the majority of them were from.
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"Transparency" had a very short time in vogue. Now, it's all stuff they'd prefer you not know disinformation.
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Now we see the "other conversation" that has been going on for sometime in a culture that has been for far too long overlooked and marginalized simply because of the color of their skin: "interact with individuals, avoid groups."
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The ghost of George Wallace is laughing his ass off, as increasingly the civil rights movement seems to endorsed his worldview,just from the other side!
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Adams cartoons ceased to amuse me many years ago, I disagree with him on many issues, and the points he was trying to make are easy to dismiss because of his very poor delivery. The poll results are both problematic and consistent with what I continue to experience in the real world. I see racial distrust that can only be overcome on a person to person basis. I would like to see a decrease in racial distrust, but increasing hatred has been profitable for a parasitic political class. Woke is the culmination of their work to divide us. Now the best assumption is that anyone you meet is an enemy until they prove themselves to be friendly. This tribalism in our society is what perpetuates the influence of the bad actors.
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I have never followed 'Dilbert.' I can't even recall having ever read one of the cartoons. Until someone sent me the article, I had honestly never heard of Adams. I respect his opinion however and his right to voice it. Arguing against his thesis is a Flat Earth advocates view. Just my 2 farthings worth.
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Most of those who were employed in software development in the last 20 years is very familiar with Dilbert whether they followed or not. Dilbert was always about that unique environment and how it extrapolates to "civlized society". It was a niche humor element that given the times, rose to the greater consciousness even though that was never the target audience. Remember that the next time some SW Dev is forced to apologize for wearing a Hawaiian shirt his girlfriend made for him.
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One additional point if I may. The migration (over the past 40+ years) of white families from the vicinity of Virginia Ave. in Atlanta, South down the I-85 and I-75 corridors was not brought about by airplane noise or environmental concerns. It was brought about by the survival instinct.
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^ And there's the rub. Soon, Blue state won't be satisfied to simply continue taxing those who've escaped their gulag - reparations will also be extracted. They're not just signalling...they're shouting at the top of their lungs that there is no end to the torture. None.
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I think some interesting court cases might arise from any state trying to tax former residents.
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^ NY State already does. CA next up and I'm most concerned that CA Dems will move on this before me n the rest of Clan Mundi can get out. Note well that less a full blown case before SCOTUS, this will be the new model to keep the normies fixed and in place. Mobility = Victory.
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Being taxed by a state you departed just doesn't pass the common sense test.
Another reason why this compact of several states will disintegrate within ca. 15 years.
LOL if France didn't control them they'd just use their own currencies and they'd print trillions of new dollars and ruin their economies with hyperinflation.
I like how they dismantled the power grid of the one country who refused to sign up with them, then funded rebels. Idiots...
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Hey, as long as they have their carbon emissions in line with the UN and WEF, then I don't think anybody cares.
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An anecdote I read many years ago, Supposedly...
When France was rolling back its colonial empire they presented their former possessions a bill for all of the colonial 'improvements'. Chutzpah R Us the Gallic Edition. Unless the new countries joined the 'Francozone' and were happy little satellite states from then on. As the story goes one colony refused and the French rolled up all the telephone and electrical cables, boxed the transformers and took all the faucets and doorknobs from the public buildings.
A 'Too Good To Check' story, true, but I still find it amusing.
[American Thinker] Practically within minutes of January 6, the Democrat establishment, both politicians and the media, had their narrative in place: It was a violent insurrection that justified the biggest FBI manhunt in history, saw Democrats conduct a kangaroo congressional hearing to cement the narrative, deprived hundreds of people of their constitutional rights, and cowed Biden’s opponents into silence lest they too be accused of "insurrection." For those same two years, the Democrat establishment resisted making public 14,000 hours of video footage showing J6 events in and around the Capitol, claiming that to do so was too dangerous. Now, though, with Kevin McCarthy having made the footage exclusively available to Tucker Carlson, the media are singing a very different tune.
One of the sure things about Democrats is that they firmly believe that, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.... With consistency a great soul simply has nothing to do." Or, put another way, when you’re a narcissist, the one consistent point when it comes to "truth" and "narrative" is that both must always serve your needs. (I’ve never had a high opinion of Emerson, and I have a very low opinion of Democrats.) Nothing shows that more clearly than the "turn on a dime" response in the media regarding the 14,000 hours of video.
For the past two years, the media have insisted that the 14,000 hours of video footage are irrelevant and that making the footage public would permanently endanger those who work (and posture) in the Capitol. Even more disgracefully, the DOJ has had the same attitude, refusing to make exculpatory footage available to J6 defendants and doing so selectively only when the court’s applied force.
However, when it comes to footage that advances the narrative, the DOJ and the media have been thrilled to squeeze out a little here and there. A few months after events on January 6, the media became positively orgasmic when the DOJ released small, carefully curated snippets intended to show that a group of unarmed people, mostly elderly, waving flags and taking pictures, was about to take down the entire American government.
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Withholding possibly exculpatory evidence from defendants is neither legal nor is it Constitutional - those ought to be the same thing.
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Skilled editing was crafted to create an apparent visual proof of an attempted coup. 14,000 hours of Americans, unarmed, almost entirely peaceful, often freely admitted to the nation's capital, seeking redress for grievances and to question a very, very sketchy election, makes that lie abundantly obvious.
The depths of vile deception by demokrats to subvert the Republic never ceases to amaze me. Such things must not be forgiven or forgotten, there is a huge Pipers bill to be paid for this, one way or the other.
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Practically within minutes of January 6, the Democrat establishment, both politicians and the media, had their narrative in place:
Wrong. They had the narrative all ready to go well before January 6, 2020. Talking heads at all of the legacy networks and cable outlets knew exactly what to say and were all on the same page as the events unfolded.
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^ Yes. Agents provocateurs implies an amount of premeditation.
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The Deep State had a gut full of Trump rallies and rally goers. If you wanted to orchestrate an anti-Trump sting operation, what better venue for total law enforcement and punitive judicial cooperation than a D.C. Trump rally ?
BTW, (not to be mistaken as military personnel) that cluster of fat arssed recent Quantico Academy grads is one of my personal Agent Provocateur favs. Those arsses been sit'n in some swivel chairs.
Yea you, Joe 'Oakely' Boy... with the banana in your pocked. We're taking a happy-snap of you !
[NPASyria] The catastrophic aftermath of the February 6 earthquake did not dampen The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... ’s ability to commit human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations. For more than five years, Turkey has attacked the people of northern Syria under the pretext of fighting terrorism, beginning with the invasion of Afrin in 2018, and continuing with the assaults on Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad in 2019. Together, they have caused the forced displacement of more than 700,000 people. Turkey has since then established control over much of northern Syria and built dozens of military bases there.
Turkey’s violations against civilians and the bombing of infrastructure have not ceased. It has killed hundreds of people, including women and kiddies, and destroyed hundreds of homes and dozens of vital facilities.
OTTOMAN TURKISH VIOLATIONS AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE
On February 6, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Syria and Turkey, killing more than 50,000 people. Many cities in both countries were declared disaster zones. The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... called for a ceasefire in Syria to facilitate the delivery of assistance, but Turkey has not adhered to it nor has it ceased its bombing of northern Syria.
Since then, the Monitoring and Documentation Department of North Press has recorded 14 strikes against 10 targets in northern Syria by Turkey, including three through drones. The countryside of Ain Issa, Kobani, Tel Rifaat and Qamishli were all targeted. The attacks caused the death of four people, two civilians and two SDF members, and the injury of another person.
At the same time that Turkey was targeting sites in the earthquake-affected areas, residents of those areas were sleeping on the street, fearing the collapse of their houses. Turkey, aware of the general situation in Syria, did not consider the humanitarian situation.
It has continued to violate human rights, causing terror and fear, and targeting civilian infrastructure. International humanitarian law prohibits the targeting of civilians, as does Article 147 of the Geneva Convention of 1949. It is also criminalized by Article 25 of the Hague Regulation of 1907. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... targeting civilians during the catastrophic circumstances surrounding earthquakes may also violate international human rights standards.
Turkey did not limit its aggression to unlawful indiscriminate shelling against regions of North and East Syria. It has also assaulted Syrian asylum seekers. Since February 6, the Department has recorded the death of four people and the injury of 11, including a woman on the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border. Ottoman Turkish border guards assaulted and beat them while trying to cross Ottoman Turkish border illegally.
A child was also injured in front of his house in Kobani. Acts committed against asylum seekers on the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border are in violation of international humanitarian law and human right laws, which prohibit forcing back asylum-seekers at the border or exposing them to the risk of persecution, torture or threats to life and liberty. Turkey is bound by these laws and is prohibited from subjecting anyone to inhuman or degrading treatment.
Janine Uhlmannsiek, Amnesia Amnesty International’s European expert in Germany, said, "Governments must be reminded of the duty to comply with international human rights standards even in times of crisis." Turkey has so far not adhered to it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Brighteon] Mark McDonald MD is a psychoanalytically trained psychiatrist from L.A. who has written a remarkable and thought-provoking book, The United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis. 
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[ZERO] Shortly after the coordinated cancellation of 'Dilbert' cartoons from numerous media outlets, Elon Musk responded on Twiiter to the media's clear bias in reporting the events.
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
