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“Make sure those you follow talk about the surveillance, because everyone who is in the game knows. Make them either damage the machine by saying it, or reveal they are part of it by staying silent. Demanding our side talk about the surveillance is really the closest to a Xanatos gambit our side has.”
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DFT – Electricite de France Reports Massive Losses For 2022
DFT – EU Gas Reserves Dwindle
DFT – British Energy Giant Reports Massive Profits
DFT – Wealthy Individuals No Longer Want To Move To US
DFT – Ingka Group Pulls Out Of Russia
From 45 seconds into this video here, Mike, the ex-cop/hitman/enforcer on Breaking Bad is walking into an ambush and about to have a hitman, hired to kill him, almost put a bullet in his head inside that house across the street. He drives onto the street with no traffic, sits in his car for a minute in isolation, gets out, slams the door, and immediately has a dog-walker and this SUV with the window open driving by:
That is “the surveillance,” which is everywhere throughout each neighborhood in the US. Or rather, it is make-believe “the surveillance,” put into a movie, which anyone who has seen it will immediately recognize as “the surveillance.” I put it in quotes, because it is not actually real surveillance, even if it is everywhere and watching everything for some weird, hidden command structure. DEA, or ATF, or FBI surveillance, I do not think will look like that. Because it is too obvious, and those agencies do serious work. You slam your car door shut on an empty street, turn around, and here is this female robot walking by with a dog pulling her, at the perfect moment, and a car with a human mannequin behind the wheel with his window down comes from the opposite direction – who is so perfectly timed you could reach out and touch him as he passes you without breaking stride. If I am a drug dealer, I know I am under surveillance instantly. If I am a terrorist, I know what that is, and I cannot meet my handler right there. If I am a mass shooter, there are the people who are harassing me, and now I start shooting. It is not real surveillance, it is not even looking out for its own safety. Real surveillance should be invisible, and this is not that, even though it has the tech to be invisible if it wanted, mounted on telephone poles all over and flying overhead. Even weirder, this is kind of fake-obvious surveillance, being portrayed in a fake movie so as to be obvious.
Are all the people making movies “the surveillance”-people, and they are sharing an inside joke with the rest of the “the surveillance” people, as they laugh at the normies because everyone else watching this will be clueless? Are they conditioning the audience to see it as normal and not question it in their own lives? Are they gaslighting targets who see the show? Is it a broadly-issued test, so local surveillance watching a target, as the target is watching this in their house, can listen and see if the target turns to his wife and says, “I always see people show up just like that when I exit a car!”?
I do not know, but it is another piece in the puzzle to file away. And if you doubt the realism, notice Mike smoked the hitman, who himself had already clipped the home’s resident, so there are two bullet-riddled stiffs in that house when Mike walks out the front door (as cars drive by and a young female jogger in a too-tight outfit just happens to pass by, probably), and surveillance was listening and watching all along, and never did a thing. Nor will they help law enforcement, judging by the fact Mike had a long and illustrious career dropping bodies. Total realism. I almost wonder if in the movie, Mike is supposed to know those are surveillance as they drive by, and as a Cartel-associate, he just ignores them, knowing they will never rat on him since they all report to the same ultimate CIA-Cabal command structure.
You see why I say this thing is weird, even before you get to the Chameleo/Tom-Bauerle accounts of these people running around neighborhoods in digital LED invisibility-cloaking outfits, and zapping people in their houses with a myriad of different strange, thru-wall energy weapons, or the fact they apparently were operational, with some sort of thru-wall tech, in 1800, if James Tilley Matthews is any measure.
I cope with just about anything stoically, but I have to admit, some of the mysteries about this thing drive me nuts. They must be revealed.
Gonzalo Lira had the artsy Israeli girlfriend while in GATE. Then he dismisses the whole thing. I don’t know why, but he does not strike me as genius IQ. I can read Texas Arcane, or Vox Day, or many of the posters here, and think, yeah, that person is impressive, and if they have an opinion, that will need to be taken in and taken to heart. It is almost like the material in the post is just gripping, and captivating. But then I see people who say stuff, and I just see the showmen presenting it, and the material is, meh. He is like that. I just do not see his stuff and feel captivated by it. That he would conclude there may be a special government agency devoted to brainwashing kids, and then dismiss this as good for nothing more than Lulz, makes me question everything else he says.
Wisconsin governor announces expanded absentee voting ahead of 2024 election.
Rupert Murdock wanted top FOX News hosts to come out and claim Biden won.
This picture does not look right:
I think they are using AI deepfake technology to make some of his pictures. The neck is too thick and long, with not enough traps on top of the shoulders for the thickness of the neck, the arm is too thin and long, it just looks off if you take the whole thing in. It reminds me of the one where the AI installed a square tab on his ear lobe (notice also, different lobe, though maybe the pic got flipped):
Why would they be generating fake pictures of him? Is he only good for an hour of activity, and they use that to have him talk, and then pad it with AI pics?
A GOP political operative was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Friday for his involvement in transferring illegal campaign contributions from a Russian national to former President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. “Benton arranged for the Russian national – whose nationality Benton concealed from the campaign and the candidate – to attend a campaign fundraising event and to take a picture with the candidate,” A setup? Pretty ballsy. He worked for Mitch McConnell. Trump did a pretty good job dodging traps.
Gen Flynn says of the movie about a train crash which was eerily similar to the Ohio train crash, “Don’t think for a second when things happen, it is all one big coincidence. What was it that Oscar Wilde said? Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” He was intel, so much of his time was spent creating events and trying to make them look like chance.
CDC updates profile for vinyl chloride days before Ohio train derailment, and removes section on how it affects children. Intel runs everything, so it vastly increases the statistical probability a supposedly unplanned event like this would be under their control as well. Not at all impossible.
Rep Thomas Massie on Twitter – “For 18 months, Twitter blocked my natural immunity tweets from likes and comments (and searches?). It appears they were unblocked/unflagged in the last month. Did CDC, FDA, or a Pfizer lobbyist direct this censorship of a Congressman communicating with constituents? @elonmusk”
The U.S. government claims that a lawsuit alleging that Moderna violated a patent with its COVID-19 vaccine should be brought against it and not Moderna and asks the court to permit it to “relieve Moderna of any liability for patent infringement resulting in the performance of the ‘-0100 contract and to transfer to the United States any liability for the manufacture or use of the inventions claimed in the patents-in-suit resulting from the authorized and consented acts.” As I have read stories of Cabal, I have gotten the impression you are better off endangering the surveillance and domestic intelligence operations themselves, than posing any sort of threat to Big Pharma. I think if Brandi Vaughn had launched a one-woman campaign to destroy domestic intelligence she would still be alive. Instead she opposed having vaccines forced on her kid, and that was it for her.
The Biden administration is preparing to sign up the United States to a “legally binding” accord with the World Health Organization (WHO) that would give this Geneva-based UN subsidiary the authority to dictate America’s policies during a pandemic. People will say, “But the Senate has to approve any treaty, so this can’t be done.” Of course the constitution didn’t prevent military and other federal and local workers from being fired during the pandemic for not taking the vaccine. And you can hope the courts will do the right thing years later, but it is only hope. All they need is the pretext, and this is a pretext.
Biden takes Nicaraguan dictator’s dissidents off his hands for him. These were Cabal assets discovered, and now brought to the US to resume their work, only now against us.
Elon Musk says the surge of illegal immigrants at the U.S.’s southern border is an urgent problem that must be tackled. He is hoping to accumulate Trump followers as fans, so he can then later try to lead them away from Trump.
Lindsey Graham in GOP hot seat for speeding up Biden judicial nominees.
Border sources to Maria Bartiromo: Dozens of Chinese nationals allowed to cross into US every day.
Biden: White people love watching lynchings, even now. Are we talking about white, leftist politicians being lynched?
Billionaire and ex-Enron executive John Arnold’s group sent millions to groups that backed ‘defunding’ police. But if you mow his lawn, and charge him for ten extra sq ft, he would break out the tape measure, and spend an hour haggling with you. It is not his money he is giving away, and somebody is telling him where to put it.
Arson cases continue to rise, 20% of local Cal Fire calls are related to arson.
The Iranian government is “mapping” Jews around the world with plans to kill them if Israel attacks Iran, according to a report in London’s Jewish Chronicle. If they wanted to do real damage, they would do a series of videos online explaining exactly what Israeli-intel operation was running Epstein, how it uses female children, and who its pedophile agents are in Western governments. Or it could just do a documentary exposing the surveillance. But it does not. Instead we get a big show-fight between Israel and Iran, and as a result have to send five $Gazillion dollars in aid to Israel to “support our ally.”
Jimmy Carter receiving hospice care, Carter Center says.
Bing AI names specific human enemies, explains plans to punish them.
Nicholas Kristof at New York Times – Biden should give Ukraine what it needs to win. “While the risk of escalation can’t be ruled out, it must be balanced against the risks of allowing this conflict to drag on.” Yes starting WWIII, and having a nuclear Armageddon that destroys our nation and Russia entirely is a perfectly logical risk to take, given the costs of simply letting Russia have Ukraine. What I really hate is the phoniness. Tucker pretending to be one of us, and really being some pussy aristocrat who hates his audience for being so stupid and following him. They are all contemptible.
The US believes China may be providing non-lethal military assistance to Russia for use in Ukraine, according to four US officials familiar with the matter, and the administration is concerned they are considering sending lethal aid. So hypocritical it is embarrassing.
Joe Biden announced the US is going to be supporting the pensions in Ukraine so Ukrainians can “have some money in their pockets.” Remember, if it comes out of his mouth, there is a good chance it came out of his earpiece. I think all of this is a show to piss us off. Whether to try and desensitize/demoralize us, or as the opening act of a revolution-script, I have no idea.
Thomas Massie on Twitter – “Biden bragged about paying pensions for Ukrainians, But we hit the debt limit and his Treasury Secretary is taking “extraordinary measures,” Which means Biden is now literally selling investments of US pensions to fund Ukrainian pensions.”
Hungary’s Orban accuses EU of prolonging war in Ukraine.
NATO, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Saturday, Ukraine can join NATO if it defeats Russia and establishes itself as a “sovereign, established state.” That would certainly seem like the kiss of death. I do not see Russia leaving Kiev now.
Putin speaks to the Western people (click the X’s to kill Brighteon’s 2 requests to join their newsletter and the video is under them, or just click here to go directly to the video page.):
Only 25% of Americans believe the news media.
Trump attacks GOP mega donors, calls them ‘globalist and pro China losers.’
Prairie voles born via C-section can’t bond: Is birth key to how we love and relate? (Loss of oxytocin?).
The name John Edwards should immediately spring to mind.
We give a crap ton of pitocin/oxytocin to human women having c sections once the baby is out. Not sure why they are trying to extrapolate prairie comes to humans here.
Before there was GATE, there was college prep; and being an artist myself, I never had an Israeli girlfriend: can I sue?
Agenda 2030 allows government to seize polluted land and forcibly move residents to cities:
reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/114l6a7/agenda_2030_allow_governments_to_seize_polluted/
What happened in Ohio is likely a test case.
Good video on this as well:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ACjnAP2Ez2SM/
Reminds me of the anon a couple of years ago, in /pol/, saying they will move us to the cities, from the countryside. Its a win or be perished situation
/pol/ – Politically Incorrect » Thread #260330585 (4plebs.org)
Prairie voles born via C-section can’t bond: Is birth key to how we love and relate? (Loss of oxytocin?).
That’s why Natural births should be encouraged as much as possible. And breastfeeding too.
It certainly can’t hurt to be as natural as possible, but in general people need to calm the fuck down. If someone’s kids hate them or end up all emotionally fucked up it’s not because they birthed them “wrong” or didn’t breastfeed. It’s all about being a consistently good parent and making the concerted effort to be present and care for them, placing them at the #1 priority spot in your life.
See my comment above. Women having c sections get plenty of oxytocin/pitocin. The best birth is one that results in a healthy baby. Not every mother can breastfeed, no matter how hard they try. Clearly people *think* they know everything about childbirth, but they don’t, including a lot of misinformed women.
As I said also. It should be the norm not the exception. Inabilities to do those should be treated as something to be fixed.
If a woman can’t breast feed. Treating the ability to breastfeed should be a priority before switching to other options.
Likewise with breech births. Babies if can be turned should be turned before the natural birth.
We want women to be genetically adapted to natural births not c-sections over generations.
Nonetheless even as you are right. Natural births and breastfeeding is best.
Again its better than elective c-sections are being done now.
I didn’t exclude what you said from possibility. Which is why I said “encourage” rather than something should be mandatory.
“Lodi City council member arrested on voter fraud charges related to 2020 election – a stash of ballots found at his home, over 70 fake registrations linked to his name.”
I don’t have time for a longer comment, but here is a link, courtesy of Jovan Pulitzer, to the hour long press conference on the arrest by the San Joaquin county sheriff’s office. Its fascinating as a sort of master class on how this is done. And is probably repeated around the country:
https://rumble.com/v29xu1y-breaking-news-arrests-made-for-massive-voter-fraud-multiple-tactic-ring.html
What if the Ohio event was intended to kill off people east of the Mississippi?
This seems plausible (hat tip theautomaticearth.com): https://veryvirology.substack.com/p/there-is-fire-in-our-crowded-theater
Quoting:
That is “the surveillance,” which is everywhere throughout each neighborhood in the US. Or rather, it is make-believe “the surveillance,” put into a movie, which anyone who has seen it will immediately recognize as “the surveillance.”
AnonCon, you may like to add this to your list.
In a book I wrote, I prove that in Argentina, almost all of politics is financed by western states or the communists. In the conflict between the agents of the british embassy and allies who are internationalist liberals, vs the internationalist communists for the control of the country, both made extensive use of the intel services to hunt each other.
Cases are the project X, where the communist Cristina Fernandez Wilhelm of Kirchner (2007-2015) tried to get military intel to work for them. Previous to that, in the 2000s, Nestor Kirchner, president from 2003-2007 used the civil intel services. A famous man was Antonio S/t/i/u/s/o/. Then when the liberals got control of the state gov, they even spied on the astrologer lover of the sister of the sitting “conservative” liberal president, Mauricio Macri.
Today, there was the case of a Neighbour of the sitting vice president, mentioned CFK, having someone from the opposition parties, as a Neighbour, in the floor immediately above her.
It’s just like the cases you mentioned, of intel renting a or most of the floors near their targets.
Very interesting.
You are welcome to plug your book in the comments, too, if you wish.
https://www.amazon.com.mx/El-lado-oscuro-los-libertarios-ebook/dp/B0BQZJ4F2S
its in spanish, I should take the time to translate it for this audience
https://www.amazon.com.mx/El-lado-oscuro-los-libertarios-ebook/dp/B0BQZJ4F2S
good, have to write it in English though for the english speaking audience
Always the filthy British.
Yes, they invaded here 4 times, in 1806, 7, ¡33!, and 40-45
Eventually they won.
By 1945, when an indigenous political movement was made, which resulted in a hippy nationalism, the liberal internationalist US ambassador Spruile Braden, was the political organizer of all the political spectrum, except peronism. The far left leftists, which is to say the communists, allied with the liberals and the conservatives, as well as with moderate socialists, to stop the native peronists.
They all failed.
Today they just succesfully bribe ( buy or rent in common political parlance here) the unions, and succeeded in vaxxxing them all as a final solution.
Notice that in the invasion of 1833, was the only year the british succeeded in conquering some territory, some measly almost unpopulated archipielago in the south atlantic, while failing miserably in the 3 land invasions. The british liberals where leading in both 33 and 40. Conservatives invaded in 1806,7, and 41-45 due to change in UK prime minister. The detail is from https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers
The same year they suceeded in taking territory, 1833, they made an act of parliament repeling slavery, for which parliament forced the british people to pay till 2015!!!!!! It was due to enslaving the poor anti slavery brits via debts.
Who is this “They”
Perhaps we should blame you for messing up S.America, dropping dissidents into Volcanoes and the torture & murder of clergy during the Red Terror
You can thank us for Democracy, Defeat of Hitler, End of Slavery, the Railway Engine and 50% of the inventions of the 20th Century
Just seen this comment due to the email notifications. Will answer in detail as its impressive the ignorance from it.
Democracy was greek, not british. Hitler was defeated by an alliance between the stalinist communists and the American Liberals. Argentina ended slavery with its independence, without dropping blood, nor causing a civil war with it, nor financially “enslaving” the british plebians to the city of london from 1833 – 2015. The Railway Engine is true, and 50% of inventions of the 20th century needs a source, but likely.
Still, the comment is feeling still quite offending for the several invasions and land grabs during the empire, and after being defeated 3/4 invasions, an “strenghtening of the argie congress” by the bong embassy that, on the one hand, serves them well to consolidate their position in the islands of the south atlantic for the part of the conservatives in brit diplomacy still clinging to the last remnants of empire, while stiffling the functioning of the country, while damaging the political futures of nationalistic Argentinians, like me for example, among many more of quite a brilliant move btw.
It’s the same problem mericans have with their congress being “streghtened” by the middle east, east asia and europe.
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Pablo
Should be approved, I think?
They aren’t confused. They are in defiance. The opinion was clear that public interest was not a valid exception. They are still clinging to it. They will keep it up until the SCOTUS makes an even more emphatic ruling.
as a mother of grown children who were born by c-section (one was emergency c-section and the other was failure to progress and urgent c-section), I’d like to weigh in: my children are bonded normally. There are way too many other variables that have to do with bonding. For instance, can the babies be with the mother right after they are born, to latch on and nurse? Did the mother have complications from a difficult birth that made it impossible for her to bond or be with her babies right after birth? Were the animals in the study given painkillers and encouraged to be with their newborns as quickly as possible?
I was able to be with my newborn children not immediately, but within hours, and spent as much time as I could in close contact with them. I nursed them for about 15 months. I was a stay at home mother. Would my kids be any more normal or bonded if I had been able to have vaginal births? We will never know. But all of my kids are launched and interact normally and lovingly and appropriately with each other, family, and people they come into contact with. They are all, BTW, not gender confused in any way.
However, having said that, I do believe that the way we do childbirth in the U.S. is still messed up, and the birth process (and what happens afterwards) is extremely important. The experience of childbirth is spiritually profound (or can be). Progress has been made with midwives, doulas, birth education, alternate ways of going through labor so that it is a natural and not over-medicalized process — but we still have a long way to go.
Thank you for the input. It could have a genetic component to, and have no effect in some family lines, and massive effect in others.
The study struck me, as one of the few things I happened to hear growing up was how doctors were pressing my mom to do a C-section, over and over and she was adamant she would not, and did not. I wondered if there is a belief, even incorrect, but based on such data, that the C-section has some sort of psychological effect and they want to engender it so they press it.
I thought it’s because doctors are lazy and don’t want to spend 24 or more hours waiting for the labor process, so they schedule the operation and get it over with.
But it wouldn’t surprise me if there were some psy-op reason why “they” want most births done through C section. I just haven’t come across it yet.
You thought wrong
I can confirm the “doctors are lazy” hypothesis. To be fair, though, doctors’ legitimate need for sleep, family activities, and clinic schedules often play a role in the cut/don’t-cut decision.
Doctors’ needs and wants are no excuse for unneeded surgery.
All of my children were c-sections and seem normally bonded as well- with immediate holding, 1.5-2 years nursing, etc. Two would for-sure be dead without the c-section and the other is questionable. So the wife and I consider it a win.
That said, if the push for c-sections is nefarious, and probably it is since it seems everything is nefarious these days- I think it probably has more to do with immune and gut health than bonding directly.
There is abundant research that babies born vaginally are colonized with different and more robust bacteria, natural to their mother, than c-section babies who end up with a different sort of primary gut bacteria and catch it from the nurses who first hold them more than from mom. The effect is so profound that some more hippie-dippy natural birth advocates suggest collecting the mothers vaginal fluid and inserting it into the baby’s nose as quickly after birth as possible.
now that I’m writing this, maybe the immune system similarity between mom and a vaginally born baby is valuable in bonding. Or maybe the gut-brain link is influenced by the different bacteria from c-section instead of vaginal birth. Not a 1:1 correspondence but perhaps the c-section typical flora favor certain psychological states the powers that be prefer.
the most evil play I could think of here, is that cabal had a preferred gut flora for crippling their competition via the gut-brain link. If baby comes out vaginally it’s pre-inoculated with moms bacteria and they can’t control the gut flora so much. But a servile c-section baby could be handed off to a cabal nurse, who cleans its nose with a wipe/tissue/q-tip-nose sucky ball thing with their preferred gut bacteria mix on it. That level of selection would require a level of gut-brain-immune system understanding well beyond what’s publically available. And has the potential to be very super evil in terms of life-long psychological manipulation. Ugh… I’m rather sorry I thought this through right now
Edited to add-
i guess with mRNA tech it could get even more evil, inculcating babies with gut flora that churn out whatever the fuck they program the bacteria to churn out.
I have a large family, and married into a large family as well. Many women in education on both sides so lots of exposure to kids and parents, many kids of many birth methods, and I can’t think of one where everything was fine in the house but the birth method ruined the kid.
If the trend is true in humans as well It’s far more likely that there’s some unconnected correlation rather than causation; something like older women get more c-sections and have a harder time bonding because old, or women choosing c-sections being less caring parents for whatever reason, etc.
C-sections are serious surgery, it could be they were trying to press your mom in an attempt to kill her or cause serious damage in the surgery “by accident.”
I do agree with your mom that natural births are superior to c-sections and I unfortunately have never had a natural birth, to be able to compare. I wanted both births to be natural, and without painkillers (!!!), too. That did not work out for me. But I was so “into” the spiritual aspect of becoming a mother, that I did my research and was determined to find ways to make everything as normal as possible. I’ll be honest that the first c-section, being an emergency, was spiritually and emotionally traumatic for me.
Hey, I’d studied a bit of psychology and I already knew about the importance of bonding, so — I doubled down on everything my instincts told me to do.
I also think that circumcision of male infants is horrible, and our son is not circumcised. Now that he is well into adulthood, I asked him, “did we make the right decision?” and he says absolutely, and is very grateful that we did not do that to him.
Back to your mom: yes, she is wise and correct and onto something very important. Birth is spiritual, especially for the mom and the baby, and the natural process of birth is the “right way” to do that. I believe this is one reason I felt so traumatized. (I’m really unsure about the effects on my children.) I think elective c-sections are a mistake. But I am grateful I live in a time and place where people like me can have surgical interventions as a backup plan, for the best possible outcome under the circumstances.
I gave birth naturally, after I was given pitosin. It hit me immediately, and I had my baby 4 hours later. Man, it hurt. But, I did it. Couldn’t breastfeed tho. My daughter and I are bonded… lol
Something not earned is not valued
Right after I gave birth, the nurses and doctors praised me for doing all natural. Lamaze helped me out big time. I remember concentrating on relaxing my muscles, starting at my toes all the way to the top of my head. During a contraction, this was unbelievably challenging. I also concentrated on the ceiling, a focal point. Breathing, in thru my nose and out thru my mouth. I had a wonderful midwife, and my beloved husband to coach me thru. And God Almighty of course!
Elective c/s are performed for many good reasons. You studied “a bit of psychology”, but do you have a medical degree or did you complete a medical residency dealing with obstetrics?
Pregnancies following a c-section are riskier, and mothers with an early c-section hardly ever go on to have large families.
There are other advantages too with natural birth. That is mother’s gut flora being transferred from the mother to the child:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190918131447.htm
This is true. However, the benefits fade after 6mo to one year when innate immunity ramps up. I’m not sure what people think the vaginal canal looks like during a vaginal birth, but once the baby’s head pushes through the cervix, it’s essentially pulled out pretty quickly. There’s plenty of flora from skin to skin available too.
There may be other benefits too. That we don’t know about and which causes encouragement of c-sections by bad actors against natural births.
My mother had two c sections. I came first and was a frank breech. Shoved me back in and had an emergency c/s. My brother was a repeat section 3 years later. I’d say I bonded pretty well. I’ve called my parents at least 3-4x a week since I moved out in college and they recently moved from 2 states over to be 4 houses away from me.
Also, as an Anesthesiologist, I can assure you that women having c/sections are getting plenty of oxytocin/pitocin once the baby is out. Helps control bleeding in addition to being a bonding hormone.
The childbirth process isn’t so messed up as much as the morbid obesity, diabetes, and other health comorbidities increase the rate of sections. Not to mention diseases that would have killed girls earlier in their lives are now treatable through child bearing years yet come with their own risks (eg congenital cardiac or neurologic conditions). The idea of it being “over medicalized” is rooted in judgment over actual knowledge and usually criticizes epidurals, etc without knowing exactly the true pros and cons and how they truly work.
I could write a book about this, but at the very least we shouldn’t be extrapolating prairie vole data to human c/s when we give exogenous oxytocin in nearly every situation.
I was injured by my (unplanned) epidural. That was 27 years ago, and I still have nerve injury (numbness) from it (they are not risk-free is my point). I was a healthy, small woman (no comorbidities, not “old,” and a normal pregnancy). But, failure to progress. Lots of reasons emergency c-sections happen, and there are risks as well as benefits. I have actual knowledge of that.
The main guy who popularized natural childbirth with no painkillers based it on African tribal mothers who would be “happy” to die and go off with the ancestors if the delivery went bad.
Twenty something years ago the famous second tier feminists- mothers with children, instead of careers in think tanks- publications in zines instead of mainstream press–pointed out that wanting women to die after tremendous pain is pretty much the definition of toxic colonialism.
We have fail-safes- multiple times and ways to bond. It’s not a one and done like sheep. The expert sociologists and psychologists on this are at land grant universities, not Ivy League schools. They are also female,but highly respected in their fields.
There is, by the way, a huge, gigantic disconnect between Ivy League research on pregnancy, infants and children, and land grant research on relationships, pregnancy, infants and children. The focus varies from state to state.
The west also has a much lower rate of maternal death compared to how healthy the women are. Our standard first birth is later than anyone else. It is, by definition, high risk.
@wooderson
That is true. But as I said before. Natural births and breastfeeding is best.
C-sections should only be for emergencies.
Even so the encouragement of C-sections is peculiar. If not oxytocin then something else.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be true. They may just believe it, and never hear the stories like here saying their belief is bunk.
I do think circumcision has some psychological rationale in their heads too. Maybe they think it makes one more tolerant of misery and pain later on, and more able to be made miserable, and tolerate it, because the misery circuitry is recalibrated by that, in such a crucial developmental state. Something. It may not be right or true, but they think it.
One thing about male infant circumcision is that most sexually active men never get to know what it would have been like the other way.
When approaching this decision, we considered this, and I asked two people their thoughts: my own dad, who is uncircumcised (he said, “I’m glad I’m uncircumcised. There is no need to do that — why would you?” and my own grandfather, who was circumcised at the age of 20 (c.1927), due to “an infection” – he said, “circumcise him as an infant, because that was the most painful thing I’ve ever endured, and you should do it young, rather than make him suffer later, should it become necessary.”
That was an interesting answer, and it also made me think, “whoa, if as a 20yo you found that excruciatingly painful, then why on earth would I do that to my baby boy?”
Later in life, I have been interested in how sexual response in male/female may (or may not) be affected by the male being circumcised. There is a lot of literature about how the male response is different. However, did you know that it also affects the female? This is an interesting topic, and I think it’s also a hard one for many people to approach, because by the time they are old enough to study such things, if they are circumcised the damage is done, and they will never know differently. There can be complicated feelings about having had unnecessary surgery done before one is old enough to consent or know what they are consenting to.
Women who have experienced sexual relations with both circumcised and non-circumcised males report distinct differences in how it feels and it is something to do with tenderness, spiritual connection, and bonding. Just saying. I believe this is very important.
I realize this is a somewhat forbidden topic but in these trying times, if we are going to examine c-sections and bonding, unnecessary surgery, this is a logical inclusion in the discussion.
Sure. Circumcision has been drastically changed since the Jews didn’t want the Circumcision undone by Hellenizing Jews.
the Original:
“Although uncomfortable, this original biblical circumcision, as demanded by God, was really a minor procedure where only the very tip of the foreskin was removed. This was that small portion which extended past the bulbous structure (the glans) at the end of the flaccid human penis. The penis bled and needed time to heal, but would still contain a considerable portion of the foreskin, so that the glans was still protected. In its flaccid condition, the penis would appear as uncircumcised.”
The traumatic circumcision:
“The change in procedure around 140 A.D., to stop the extension process, was to completely excise the remaining foreskin completely exposing the glans. Needless to say, a godly requirement then became a very painful and complicated man-made procedure. This last type of circumcision is basically what was introduced as a popular and routine infant circumcision for Christians during the late eighteenth century and well into the 1900’s. The idea being, if Jesus was circumcised, than Christians should be, too. Most people don’t know that today’s circumcision is vastly different from the one God required and Jesus received.”
Let’s not forget, long before he was saving Private Ryan he was dressing in drag to sneak his way into women’s panties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTwG6xdLGBY
God prohibited cross-dressing for good reason.
Gonzalo Lira is what I call a “repeater” – he understands other people’s ideas then repeats them; he understands them so well that he can rephrase them in his own words, and he has a salesman’s utter conviction in himself, so he’s very persuasive. But there’s a difference between repacking other people’s ideas, perhaps recombining them slightly, and having original thought. Original thought is extremely rare. Academia favours the repeater type, to the extent that a Humanities paper can be rejected if it does more than summarise what previous studies have said, with a slight spin. Lira is also not a particularly nice or decent person, and I think he’s only accidentally on our side – he could just as easily be some Davos type giving speeches about the opportunities now at hand to squeeze every last cent out of us, and how we can be corralled and if need be exterminated.
Spot on characterization. A complete opportunist. I’m surprised and disappointed that more people don’t see through him.
Lira was raised to be among the elite class and he does have a first class mind; he is aso a creative person. Lira walked away from that path; but, he understands the mindset of the elites. He began his vlog career as a business commentator. a couple years before the war he war doing film work in Amsterdam; his vlog work began a doing red pill vlogs that were primary meant for his children; for he did not expect to be alive when his children were older.
A few days before the war broke out, he left Amsterdam to return to his wife and children in Ukraine; he travelled by motorcycle. By the time he got to Kiev, the war had started; he managed to get to Kharkov, got his wife and kids to safety, and started to vlog about the war; shortly thereafter, the SBU arrested him and took away most of his equipment. He contiues to report conditions of the war but he is under the SBU’s watchful eye and might be disappeared at any time. Lira is on NATO’s hit list.
Lira does not match your view of him.
I find it useful to visit repeaters – they pick up stories I would otherwise miss.
However, he has a nasty streak which makes him look like controlled opposition
BREAKING BADs prequel, Better Call Saul had surveillance heavy themes spread throughout the show. A couple scenes from later in the series even portray bicycle surveillance overtly. in the episode titled Hit and Run, iirc the main drug boss is being targeted by his cartel rivals and has to remain on guard in his safe house while also maintaining his cover as a legit businessman. Safe house Decked out with hidden tunnels bunkers the whole shebang!
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>bicycle surveillance … https://youtu.be/-Kktwi3UefM
>dog walker, bunker… https://youtu.be/eEGqowZtabk
Literally watched this last night!!!
I don’t know anything about voles, but both my children were born c-section and we bonded just fine.
Hanks piece is from a Jimmy Kimmel Live skit.
https://youtu.be/dPLWKBWkn3s?t=291
Doesn’t mean Hanks doesn’t prefer pizzas to hot dogs, it just means it’s still indeterminate. But I still lean towards him liking pizza, since this video will get dragged out if he’s ever accused of anything, as a “u morons r just taking that comedy skit he did seriously.”
“So hypocritical it is embarrassing.”
Except I don’t think Leftists are even capable of registering their own hypocrisy, let alone be embarrassed by it.
As for Microsoft’s AI, it’s malice would make HAL9000 proud.
What we call “hypocrisy” is a power flex for them. They can do what they want and get away with it.
I got some kind of autoplay audio track when I hit the page a moment ago. In Russian, best as I can tell.
It’s the embedded Putin speech doing that.
I got rid of it, and just put the link.
It’s still there and doing it.
It’s the embedded Putin speech link, it autoplayed for me on desktop but not on mobile for whatever reason.
> Rupert Murdock wanted top FOX News hosts to come out and claim Biden won.
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I don’t know who their “top” hosts were/are, but Fox jumped on the “Biden Won!” train before the polls closed.
> NATO, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Saturday, Ukraine can join NATO if it defeats Russia and establishes itself as a “sovereign, established state.” That would certainly seem like the kiss of death. I do not see Russia leaving Kiev now.
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The irony is that the USSR was one of the founding polities of NATO, but during the initial talks they stomped off in anger when Dean Acheson wouldn’t bow down to their demands. The French and Germans walked out too, but came back when they realized NATO was going to happen anyway, and they would be excluded.
The Soviets created their own version, the Warsaw Pact, out of the countries they’d stolen after WWII.
Re: the Ohio toxic plume. David DuByne of Adapt 2030 YouTube channel said the area covered by the plume has the highest density of Amish farms in the US. A lot more quality food is being taken off the table. Again.
An engineered famine is coming.
Again probes my point, no one can run of evil in this world, just fight it. They vill use WMD if you live “in a woods”
Not sure if this was posted before:
https://news.yahoo.com/steven-tyler-hard-time-overcoming-221718436.html
Steven Tyler Aerosmith sexually assaulted a 16 year old girl backstage, awhile ago. Then her parents were so impressed he took her on tour with him.
Totally normal that.
Isn’t there a statute of limitations; and, if the parents and the courts gave permission by granting guardianship,thereby approving what is essentially trafficking, shouldn’t that ameliorate the situation in re Tyler’s criminal offense?
California’s statute of limitations is until the victim’s 40th birthday if they were under 18 at the time of the assault. He’s clear of that, since she’s 60 now.
https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/801-1/
As near as I can tell, there is no statute of limitations on human trafficking in CA. That’s the real claim here — it’s not that he raped her (he did), but that he carried her around from state to state so he could keep raping her. No statute of limitations on that, and it being granted guardianship strengthens the charge, rather than hurting it.
Not that I approve but if I was on the jury I would refuse to convict. Women need to decide if they are helpless imbecilic children or if they are able to manage their own affairs. I know she was only 16 but he even went so far as to get parents approval. People make mistakes all the time when they are young, but only Women expect other people to pay them for theirs.
I say punish both of them.
It’s a fair take, and I don’t know that I wouldn’t also nullify, simply because there should be a statute of limitations, and the courts shouldn’t be tied up with dried up geriatric whores (of both sexes) suing each other over who really screwed who.
Statutes of Limitations are an evil idea.
Forgiveness without repentance and compensation is a mockery of justice.
In this case the guy deserves capital punishment and so do the parents.
I would need to know more to say what the girl does or doesn’t deserve.
No limitations favors evil, not good.
Not all crimes have limitations. Murder, for example. Murder is in fact a good example, because the victim can’t prosecute their own case.
When you have been transgressed and CAN pursue it? Why should you be allowed to sit on your rights for YEARS and not make a complaint, and then later, when witnesses are lost, dead, or just no longer remember, THEN you can bring it up? When any physical evidence is now decades old? When the vast majority of records have been lost or destroyed?
More importantly, why should people that you haven’t seen for years be able to pop up and start making accusations against you? Where have they been all that time?
This one with the ugly rocker is a good example of this. These people are both senior citizens. I’m a middle aged man, and this shit is alleged from before I was even born. Now this old lady wants a bunch of money from some old man for shit that happened before disco? Go home lady, you’re drunk.
If you wait so long you can’t prove it then you can’t prove it.
Perhaps the burden of proof should increase with time because the difficulty of defense increases, but if you meet the higher burden of proof there should be no limit where if you wait long enough you get away with it.
It’s hard enough to convey the different burdens of proof we have now (which are essentially just beyond a reasonable doubt — which every knows, and preponderance of the evidence, which means more likely than not, 51% to 49%.) Burdening juries with an even vaguer standard isn’t fair to the juries, and encourages emotional rather than rational judgments.
You’re posing it as, “if you wait long enough you get away with it.” I’m posing it as, “if you sit on your accusation long enough, you give up your right to accuse.” Use it or lose it.
Update: One thing that might be a disconnect is that I’m steeped in the concept of Tolling. The statue of limitations doesn’t start tolling until you know or should have known about the crime/tort. If someone robs you, and you don’t even know you’ve been robbed until years later, the statute doesn’t start running until you find out you’ve been robbed. I don’t know if that moves your opinion, but it’s part of my stance. When you know that something was done to you and wait years to bring it up, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for you.
You are assuming that the crime is one where the victim purposely delays the accusation.
I’ll allow all such cases to expire, that will help prevent them being used to blackmail the criminal.
But when the proof of who was guilty emerges years later than the crime is discovered the case should be just as good as ever.
It’s not the victim’s fault that the crook hid his guilt so well.
Perhaps witness testimony could be disallowed to the prosecution and only physical evidence and records are accepted to make the burden of proof harder but easily understood along with requiring beyond reasonable doubt no matter that the crime would normally use preponderance of evidence.
There should be no statute of limitations that a crook can count on.
It is. That’s the point of tolling. The statute doesn’t run until someone in authority to prosecute (victim or the cops) is aware that the crime occurred (or should have known, which means you can’t recklessly disregard even checking.)
From the discovery of the crime, not from the discovery of proof of guilt.
That’s why robbers sit on the money for years and wait until enough time has passed from the discovery of the theft.
When they spend the marked money years later thhey get to get away with it even though they just proved their guilt.
It should be from the discovery of proof of guilt.
Then there is no statute of limitations, because “proof” can be fabricated after the disproving reality is no longer available because of age.