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Posted on June 19, 2021 by Ken

**The Importance of Your Brain’s Unique Neural Signatures** 🙂

You’re unique and this uniqueness imprints its own “fingerprints” on your brain. Every thought, every experience, every sensation, and everything you’ve imagined leaves your own particular neurological signatures on your brain. We’ll look into this phenomenon in detail.
People are made up of cells, tissues, a beating heart, and outer skin. However, we’re also made of memories. What’s more, our experiences create the brain’s neural signatures, to such an extent that no two brains are exactly alike.

**Each of us is unique and exceptional.**
We could say that the real you isn’t only based on everything you’ve experienced.
It’s how you remember each of those experiences that makes you who you are. You live inside a self that’s shaped by memories, by everything you’ve felt, and also the way you interpret these things, and store them in your extensive memory banks.

This specific, complex, and transcendental process is what makes us all so different. Yes, it’s true that the organization and architecture of the brain is something that’s common to us all. However, in its depths, and, above all, in the way it’s organized and the connections it makes, it’s unique and draws its own neural signatures on every one of us.

**An illuminated brain: Your unique neural signatures.**
Despite the fact that neuroscience is increasingly giving us more answers
and information about how the brain works, we still have many questions.
So much so, that this organ is shrouded in nearly as many mysteries as the universe itself.
For example, we still don’t know how to repair or heal memory loss in an Alzheimer’s patient. We know what to do to heal a broken leg, but we don’t know how to fully recover the abilities of a patient with a severe head injury.

Neither do we know how to help heal a child with a severe autism spectrum disorder. We can only try to improve their quality of life and rehabilitate them to a certain extent. We still don’t know how to return their brain to complete normality. In spite of this, we continue to make progress.
There’s now a palpable hope that we may reach that goal in the future. Recently, the University of Rochester in New York took another step in
that journey to understand the enigmas inscribed on the human brain.
Thanks to their research, we now know that each one of us has our own neurological signature that defines much of who we really are.
The brain networks that make up your memories and sensations create your neurological signature
The research, led by Dr. Andrew James of the University of Rochester, was published in November 2020 in the scientific journal Nature Communications. Some of their conclusions were: Each person builds their own memories, using the brain regions that are specific to those processes. However, the brain creates networks, that is, different neural connections, based on the way we assimilate each memory.

For example, every experience and sensation is also filtered through our emotional world. Sometimes, these images or experiences from the past are covered by specific emotions in which colors and smells are also integrated.
All this creates its own distinctive neural signatures. In other words, each experience shapes brain organization networks that form a kind of imprint on the brain, almost like a fingerprint, or “brainprint” in this case.

*And these “fingerprints” are unique to each individual.*

**The challenge of knowing how we each organize our memories.**
One of the challenges neuroscience is currently facing is to get to know more about these “fingerprints”, these neural signatures of the brain. This is also where cognitive science comes in, which seeks to understand how we organize and manipulate those memories.

**But how could all of this benefit us?**
Through magnetic resonances, we can observe each person’s brain
activity when it comes to organizing memories. Being able to identify those “fingerprints” would allow us to obtain a neurological profile of each person,
a kind of brain ID card if you like. As we age, many of these **“fingerprints”** become blurred. Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, act as an “eraser”, weakening, blurring, and eventually eliminating those neurological signatures.
Knowing how each patient’s brain is connected and organized would allow us, in the future, to develop drugs that would allow us to preserve those original architectures. On the other hand, the brain’s “fingerprints” can allow us to make faster diagnoses to identify everything from dementia to schizophrenia and even severe depression. Something like this will make it easier for us to create more effective and individualized therapies.

**Neural signatures and the importance of creating new memories.**
Memory isn’t a video camera that records and stores every event as a perfect frame. Memory is an active process involving the interaction of several factors, such as personality, state of mind, and life experiences. Each one of us does it our own way, and that models our brain on a daily basis.
Nothing is as decisive for psychological well-being as continuing to solidify
and affirm memories and to continue to experience them. In every experience, every conversation held, every book read, every trip enjoyed, and every new thing we learn, new “fingerprints” are created in the brain. These new “signatures”, or nerve connections, improve our brain’s architecture.

All of this produces cognitive reserve, mental agility, and the ability to preserve our true selves as we grow older. Experiencing and learning are synonymous with better living. Directing your life towards physical, and especially mental, activity, and remaining curious and eager to interact with your surroundings will go a long way towards guaranteeing happiness.

It might interest you…
The Modular Theory of Mind: How Our Brains Process Information – Exploring your mind

**UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF CHIROPRACTIC**
AUTHOR // John Minardi, D.C.

Why do so many women become pregnant under chiropractic care, when they were never able to become pregnant before? Why are so many women seeking out chiropractic care in pregnancy in preparation for safer, easier births? Why are so many birth care providers referring pregnant mothers to chiropractors? How is it that babies who cannot breastfeed or are experiencing symptoms of digestive distress undergo significant changes with feeding and digestion? What does the chiropractic adjustment do to restore normal physiology and improve function?

Chiropractors claim to have a direct influence on a person’s nervous system through the chiropractic adjustment. We further claim that people who remain subluxate (having a misalignment in the spine which causes a distortion in the communication of the nervous system) will have some form of neurological dysfunction. However, most people are not aware of the global health changes that can occur under chiropractic care, nor do they understand the complex neurological changes that occur with adjustments.

Many people who have been to a chiropractor understand chiropractic from the classic “nerve pressure” theory. In a nutshell, the theory implies that a bone, or some other structure, moves from its normal position and places pressure on a neighboring nerve. The pressure leads to the nerve not functioning properly, which can result in a host of problems. People under chiropractic care visualize this explanation and can easily understand it. However, if this is the only explanation we give them, they will understand only a very small piece of the power of the chiropractic adjustment.

We know that chiropractic adjustments in the upper cervical spine (upper neck) significantly decrease an individual’s hypertension. There is no peripheral nerve connection from the neck to the structure that controls blood pressure, so the nerve pressure theory cannot be the explanation, yet these changes still occur. I contend that the nerve pressure theory is a very small piece of what is taking place inside the body. In my opinion, the most powerful connection between a chiropractic adjustment and a person’s global health changes is the direct effect the adjustment has on the brain and central nervous system.

**So how does a spinal subluxation affect the brain and nervous system?**
The subluxation acts as both a physical stressor, due to the strain of the supporting structures connecting to that vertebra, and a chemical stressor,
due to accumulation of inflammation inside the joints. These physical and chemical stressors flood the brain with negative information from the body. The negative stress information is the neurological connection between the subluxation and the limbic system, which launches the stress response. The stress response activates two systems: The sympatho-adrenal system (SAS), and the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis (HPA).
The SAS activates the sympathetic nervous system, which in turn releases hormones into the circulation. Once these hormones reach the adrenal glands, the adrenal glands release adrenaline into the bloodstream.
Adrenaline supplies energy to the muscles and heart to prepare for the stress; however, it takes this energy from reproductive organs and the gastrointestinal tract. The HPA axis activates the area of the brain that releases additional hormones into circulation. Once these hormones reach the adrenal glands, the adrenals release cortisol. Cortisol supplies energy to the muscles, but it takes this energy from reproductive organs and the immune system.
This stress response is a normal response, provided the stressor is removed within a short period. However, when the stressor is not removed quickly, this chronic release of stress hormones negatively alters the immune, reproductive, and gastrointestinal systems, triggering a cascade of disease and illness.
By removing the stressor (the subluxation) via chiropractic adjustment, we help stop the chronic stress response and allow energy to be reallocated to the centers that promote growth, expansion, and health.

In a nutshell, each time a chiropractor adjusts someone’s spine, we replace
the negative information that is flooding the brain with positive information. This recalibrates the brain to help stop the release of chronic stress hormones and allows overall health and healing to occur. Every time a person receives a chiropractic adjustment, it positively affects the brain and nervous system.
This positive effect on the brain promotes a state of ease and well-being within the body. Even this is a small piece of the puzzle, but it gives us better insight on how chiropractic adjustments have a profound neurological effect on the central nervous system.

**Understanding this neurological effect:**
can help us better identify how an adjustment changes the body’s stress response patterns and restores a state of ease. This knowledge enhances our understanding of how a woman can become pregnant under chiropractic care when she was unable to do so in the past. It opens up an important dialogue about how pregnant women under regular chiropractic care may experience greater resilience to modern stressors and have easier pregnancies and births. It may also shed some light on how breastfeeding and digestion in infants improve under chiropractic care. As chiropractors, we do not claim to have a cure for infertility, colic, or any other ailment. What we do is assess and adjust spinal subluxations to help the brain and body adapt and heal. The adaptation and healing process is as unique to each person as their own brains are!

SOURCE: Understanding the Power of Chiropractic | Chiropractic (pathways to family wellness.org)

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” ― George Orwell.

Tired of ‘Social-distancing’, Coronavirus talk, and politicans who whine like little beeotches

☆If you want something you’ve never had before, you have to do something you’ve never done before.☆

“Don’t be so open minded that your brains fall out”. Common sense is rare nowadays. Leftists have none.

Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice, only the willingness to
make it when necessary.

“United, We Stand, Divided, We Will FAIL

Flag of United States — **The Importance of Your Brain’s Unique Neural Signatures** 🙂

You’re unique and this uniqueness imprints its own “fingerprints” on your brain. Every thought, every experience, every sensation, and everything you’ve imagined leaves your own particular neurological signatures on your brain. We’ll look into this phenomenon in detail.
People are made up of cells, tissues, a beating heart, and outer skin. However, we’re also made of memories. What’s more, our experiences create the brain’s neural signatures, to such an extent that no two brains are exactly alike.

**Each of us is unique and exceptional.**
We could say that the real you isn’t only based on everything you’ve experienced.
It’s how you remember each of those experiences that makes you who you are. You live inside a self that’s shaped by memories, by everything you’ve felt, and also the way you interpret these things, and store them in your extensive memory banks.

This specific, complex, and transcendental process is what makes us all so different. Yes, it’s true that the organization and architecture of the brain is something that’s common to us all. However, in its depths, and, above all, in the way it’s organized and the connections it makes, it’s unique and draws its own neural signatures on every one of us.

**An illuminated brain: Your unique neural signatures.**
Despite the fact that neuroscience is increasingly giving us more answers
and information about how the brain works, we still have many questions.
So much so, that this organ is shrouded in nearly as many mysteries as the universe itself.
For example, we still don’t know how to repair or heal memory loss in an Alzheimer’s patient. We know what to do to heal a broken leg, but we don’t know how to fully recover the abilities of a patient with a severe head injury.

Neither do we know how to help heal a child with a severe autism spectrum disorder. We can only try to improve their quality of life and rehabilitate them to a certain extent. We still don’t know how to return their brain to complete normality. In spite of this, we continue to make progress.
There’s now a palpable hope that we may reach that goal in the future. Recently, the University of Rochester in New York took another step in
that journey to understand the enigmas inscribed on the human brain.
Thanks to their research, we now know that each one of us has our own neurological signature that defines much of who we really are.
The brain networks that make up your memories and sensations create your neurological signature
The research, led by Dr. Andrew James of the University of Rochester, was published in November 2020 in the scientific journal Nature Communications. Some of their conclusions were: Each person builds their own memories, using the brain regions that are specific to those processes. However, the brain creates networks, that is, different neural connections, based on the way we assimilate each memory.

For example, every experience and sensation is also filtered through our emotional world. Sometimes, these images or experiences from the past are covered by specific emotions in which colors and smells are also integrated.
All this creates its own distinctive neural signatures. In other words, each experience shapes brain organization networks that form a kind of imprint on the brain, almost like a fingerprint, or “brainprint” in this case.

*And these “fingerprints” are unique to each individual.*

**The challenge of knowing how we each organize our memories.**
One of the challenges neuroscience is currently facing is to get to know more about these “fingerprints”, these neural signatures of the brain. This is also where cognitive science comes in, which seeks to understand how we organize and manipulate those memories.

**But how could all of this benefit us?**
Through magnetic resonances, we can observe each person’s brain
activity when it comes to organizing memories. Being able to identify those “fingerprints” would allow us to obtain a neurological profile of each person,
a kind of brain ID card if you like. As we age, many of these **“fingerprints”** become blurred. Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, act as an “eraser”, weakening, blurring, and eventually eliminating those neurological signatures.
Knowing how each patient’s brain is connected and organized would allow us, in the future, to develop drugs that would allow us to preserve those original architectures. On the other hand, the brain’s “fingerprints” can allow us to make faster diagnoses to identify everything from dementia to schizophrenia and even severe depression. Something like this will make it easier for us to create more effective and individualized therapies.

**Neural signatures and the importance of creating new memories.**
Memory isn’t a video camera that records and stores every event as a perfect frame. Memory is an active process involving the interaction of several factors, such as personality, state of mind, and life experiences. Each one of us does it our own way, and that models our brain on a daily basis.
Nothing is as decisive for psychological well-being as continuing to solidify
and affirm memories and to continue to experience them. In every experience, every conversation held, every book read, every trip enjoyed, and every new thing we learn, new “fingerprints” are created in the brain. These new “signatures”, or nerve connections, improve our brain’s architecture.

All of this produces cognitive reserve, mental agility, and the ability to preserve our true selves as we grow older. Experiencing and learning are synonymous with better living. Directing your life towards physical, and especially mental, activity, and remaining curious and eager to interact with your surroundings will go a long way towards guaranteeing happiness.

It might interest you…
The Modular Theory of Mind: How Our Brains Process Information – Exploring your mind

**UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF CHIROPRACTIC**
AUTHOR // John Minardi, D.C.

Why do so many women become pregnant under chiropractic care, when they were never able to become pregnant before? Why are so many women seeking out chiropractic care in pregnancy in preparation for safer, easier births? Why are so many birth care providers referring pregnant mothers to chiropractors? How is it that babies who cannot breastfeed or are experiencing symptoms of digestive distress undergo significant changes with feeding and digestion? What does the chiropractic adjustment do to restore normal physiology and improve function?

Chiropractors claim to have a direct influence on a person’s nervous system through the chiropractic adjustment. We further claim that people who remain subluxate (having a misalignment in the spine which causes a distortion in the communication of the nervous system) will have some form of neurological dysfunction. However, most people are not aware of the global health changes that can occur under chiropractic care, nor do they understand the complex neurological changes that occur with adjustments.

Many people who have been to a chiropractor understand chiropractic from the classic “nerve pressure” theory. In a nutshell, the theory implies that a bone, or some other structure, moves from its normal position and places pressure on a neighboring nerve. The pressure leads to the nerve not functioning properly, which can result in a host of problems. People under chiropractic care visualize this explanation and can easily understand it. However, if this is the only explanation we give them, they will understand only a very small piece of the power of the chiropractic adjustment.

We know that chiropractic adjustments in the upper cervical spine (upper neck) significantly decrease an individual’s hypertension. There is no peripheral nerve connection from the neck to the structure that controls blood pressure, so the nerve pressure theory cannot be the explanation, yet these changes still occur. I contend that the nerve pressure theory is a very small piece of what is taking place inside the body. In my opinion, the most powerful connection between a chiropractic adjustment and a person’s global health changes is the direct effect the adjustment has on the brain and central nervous system.

**So how does a spinal subluxation affect the brain and nervous system?**
The subluxation acts as both a physical stressor, due to the strain of the supporting structures connecting to that vertebra, and a chemical stressor,
due to accumulation of inflammation inside the joints. These physical and chemical stressors flood the brain with negative information from the body. The negative stress information is the neurological connection between the subluxation and the limbic system, which launches the stress response. The stress response activates two systems: The sympatho-adrenal system (SAS), and the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis (HPA).
The SAS activates the sympathetic nervous system, which in turn releases hormones into the circulation. Once these hormones reach the adrenal glands, the adrenal glands release adrenaline into the bloodstream.
Adrenaline supplies energy to the muscles and heart to prepare for the stress; however, it takes this energy from reproductive organs and the gastrointestinal tract. The HPA axis activates the area of the brain that releases additional hormones into circulation. Once these hormones reach the adrenal glands, the adrenals release cortisol. Cortisol supplies energy to the muscles, but it takes this energy from reproductive organs and the immune system.
This stress response is a normal response, provided the stressor is removed within a short period. However, when the stressor is not removed quickly, this chronic release of stress hormones negatively alters the immune, reproductive, and gastrointestinal systems, triggering a cascade of disease and illness.
By removing the stressor (the subluxation) via chiropractic adjustment, we help stop the chronic stress response and allow energy to be reallocated to the centers that promote growth, expansion, and health.

In a nutshell, each time a chiropractor adjusts someone’s spine, we replace
the negative information that is flooding the brain with positive information. This recalibrates the brain to help stop the release of chronic stress hormones and allows overall health and healing to occur. Every time a person receives a chiropractic adjustment, it positively affects the brain and nervous system.
This positive effect on the brain promotes a state of ease and well-being within the body. Even this is a small piece of the puzzle, but it gives us better insight on how chiropractic adjustments have a profound neurological effect on the central nervous system.

**Understanding this neurological effect:**
can help us better identify how an adjustment changes the body’s stress response patterns and restores a state of ease. This knowledge enhances our understanding of how a woman can become pregnant under chiropractic care when she was unable to do so in the past. It opens up an important dialogue about how pregnant women under regular chiropractic care may experience greater resilience to modern stressors and have easier pregnancies and births. It may also shed some light on how breastfeeding and digestion in infants improve under chiropractic care. As chiropractors, we do not claim to have a cure for infertility, colic, or any other ailment. What we do is assess and adjust spinal subluxations to help the brain and body adapt and heal. The adaptation and healing process is as unique to each person as their own brains are!

SOURCE: Understanding the Power of Chiropractic | Chiropractic (pathways to family wellness.org)

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” ― George Orwell.

Tired of ‘Social-distancing’, Coronavirus talk, and politicans who whine like little beeotches

☆If you want something you’ve never had before, you have to do something you’ve never done before.☆

“Don’t be so open minded that your brains fall out”. Common sense is rare nowadays. Leftists have none.

Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice, only the willingness to
make it when necessary.

“United, We Stand, Divided, We Will FAIL

<<<<<<<<<<…. >>>>>>>>>>

Admiral Ace James Lyons speaks THE TRUTH 🙂 at a private meeting held

in Washington DC on February 11, 2015. 🙁

Reviewing History Where Our Leaders Failed Us Watch Till THE End

This Will Give You Some Needed Insight….

I AM A Man that Loves GOD and the USA!!! But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you Matthew 6:33God has a plan for us all.. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for a good man to do nothing.” -Edmund Burke Candle In The Wind by Sam Bailey

Never fading with the sunset and when the rain sets in #Rapture #Grace #KJV Galatians 5:1, Romans 8:38, Romans 5:8 John 1:17 ,

John 1:1 #JesusIsGod

《°♡Jesus is my Lord & SHINING ARMOUR ♡°》

I wonder when (if ever) black America will wake up to the psychological warfare

and perpetual brainwashing to believe everything isn’t Racism.

Like when China starts talking Black Lives Matter…

How is it not obvious that ~ we are ALL BEING PLAYED as political pawns?

A growing number of Republicans are refusing to acknowledge that the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection was an insurrection — More than 465 people have been mainly arrested across nearly all 50 states in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department announced — Out of the tens of thousands in the crowd — making us all white supremacist : a person who believes that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over other people.

While Biden is purposely killing jobs while increasing the cost of living to make people more dependent on the government than they already are. That’s their plan.

Everyone sees WHAT COMMUNISM/SOCIALISM IS?

Please Do Not Disturb Cat Graphic Casual T Shirt — #LeftismIsAMentalDisorder

Trump Won… MAGA Believer Patriot

Proud #MAGA Back the Blue Stand for the Flag

In God we trust #SAVEAMERICA

Our Country needs Congressional term limits, to Remember911, BenghaziHillary. Question everything and form your own opinions ~ but don’t change mine!

It is NOT about a . . . . DEMONcrates are evil, and the AntiChrist!

Leadership 101 “Don’t tell the enemy which sites not to attack.” Some keep bringing up the fact Our President is incompetent & want him impeached. While forgetting we would then have #CacklingKamala & #DrunkNancy at the wheel. Honestly, not sure what’s worse 🙁

Become AWAKEN #bidencheated #StopHatePeriod.

HOWEVER, NOBODY WILL GET OFF THEIR LAZY ASS AND

DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT

#BackTheBlue #AllLivesMatter #DepopulationAgenda #Abortion=Murder

Forgive others, Forgive yourself.
Love unconditionally in this upside down world…
Stop blaming yourself for your sorrow and start
claiming your much deserved happiness.
Could this phony be any more un-American?

“Making light of less sins makes way for greater,
and those that endeavor to extenuate other
people’s sins will but aggravate their own”
John 1:35 (ESV) – Biblia.com

Do you believe in the power of prayer?

THANK YOU 4 YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT #Trump2024

How every state’s population compares to countries around the world

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SHIFTING THE PARADIGM

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Ken

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Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Ken

UN Report Warns There’s a Different Type of ‘Pandemic’ Coming For The World (msn.com)

‘Potentially the worst drought in 1,200 years’: scientists on the scorching US heatwave (msn.com)

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The Blood Pressure Solution

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Ken

This is great for your cardio playlist – it’s pushed me through runs and riding my bike! ‎My Body (2020 Remaster) by Young the Giant on Apple Music

Earth has TWICE as much heat trapped than it did in 2005, NASA warns

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TRUMP was right about everything.

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Ken

CNN ‘Surprised’ By Success of Hydroxychloroquine, Drug Originally Suggested by Trump.

Study finds hydroxychloroquine helped coronavirus patients survive better. – Bing images

By Maggie Fox, Andrea Kane, and Elizabeth Cohen, CNN **7/3/2020**
A surprising new study found that the controversial antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine helped patients better survive in the hospital.

A team at Henry Ford Health System in Southeast Michigan said Thursday its study of 2,541 hospitalized patients found that those given hydroxychloroquine were much less likely to die.
Dr. Marcus Zervos, division head of infectious disease for Henry Ford Health System, said 26% of those not given hydroxychloroquine died, compared to 13% of those who got the drug. The team looked back at everyone treated in
the hospital system since the first patient in March.

“Overall crude mortality rates were 18.1% in the entire cohort, 13.5% in the hydroxychloroquine alone group, 20.1% among those receiving hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin, 22.4% among the azithromycin alone group, and 26.4% for neither drug,” the team wrote in a report published in
the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
It’s a surprising finding because several other studies have found no benefit from hydroxychloroquine, a drug originally developed to treat and prevent malaria. President Donald Trump touted the drug heavily, but later studies found not only did patients not do better if they got the drug, they were more likely to suffer cardiac side effects.

The US Food and Drug Administration withdrew its emergency use authorization for the drug earlier this month and trials around the world, including trials sponsored by the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health, were halted.
“Our results do differ from some other studies,” Zervos told a news conference.
“What we think was important in ours … is that patients were treated early.
For hydroxychloroquine to have a benefit, it needs to begin before the patients begin to suffer some of the severe immune reactions that patients can have with Covid,” he added.

The Henry Ford team also monitored patients carefully for heart problems,
he said. “The combination of hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin was reserved for selected patients with severe COVID-19 and with minimal cardiac risk factors,” the team wrote. The Henry Ford team said they believe their findings show hydroxychloroquine could be potentially useful as a treatment for coronavirus.
“It’s important to note that in the right settings, this potentially could be a lifesaver for patients,” Dr. Steven Kalkanis, CEO of the Henry Ford Medical Group, said at the news conference.

Kalkanis said that their findings do not necessarily contradict those of earlier studies. “We also want to make the point that just because our results differ from some others that may have been published, it doesn’t make those studies wrong or definitely a conflict. What it simply means is that by looking at the nuanced data of which patients actually benefited and when, we might be able to further unlock the code of how this disease works,” he said.
“Much more work needs to be done to elucidate what the final treatment plan should be for Covid-19,” Kalkanis added. “But we feel … that these are critically important results to add to the mix of how we move forward if there’s a second surge, and in relevant other parts of the world. Now we can help people combat this disease and to reduce the mortality rate.”

Zervos said hydroxychloroquine can help interfere with the virus directly and
also reduces inflammation. Researchers not involved with the study were critical. They noted that the Henry Ford team did not randomly treat patients but selected them for various treatments based on certain criteria.
“As the Henry Ford Health System became more experienced in treating patients with COVID-19, survival may have improved, regardless of the use of specific therapies,” Dr. Todd Lee of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Canada, and colleagues wrote in a commentary in the same journal.

“White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is leading a Trump administration effort to demand the FDA reverse course,” the *Washington Post* reported.
“A reversal (on hydroxychloroquine) would be widely seen as bending to the political will of the White House,” the *Washington Post* quoted Steven Joffe,
a medical ethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, as saying.
As the agency will take the lead in approving a vaccine for the coronavirus
in the country, “Health experts say it is important for the agency, which was criticized for its initial decision to okay hydroxychloroquine in March, to guard its credibility as it prepares to make these landmark decisions for a public sometimes skeptical of vaccines,” the report warned in The controversial study.

However, the new study, which Navarro is armed with and suggests hydroxychloroquine effective in treating COVID-19, has been widely criticized as flawed by scientists. Led by a research team from Henry Ford Health System in southeast Michigan, U.S., the study looked at 2,541 hospitalized COVID-19 patients between March 10 and May 2 and found that those who took hydroxychloroquine had a “significantly” lower mortality rate.
Dr. Todd Lee said the results of the Henry Ford study were relevant with the use of steroids, which was found effective in reducing the risk of death among severe COVID-19 cases.
The research also excluded 267 patients who had not been discharged from the hospital, which might make the drug “look better than it really was,” said Eli Rosenberg, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University at Albany.
Organizations like the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health have also halted relevant trials of the drug, saying it produces little or no effectiveness to hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

“Finally, concomitant steroid use in patients receiving hydroxychloroquine
was more than double the non-treated group. This is relevant considering the recent RECOVERY trial that showed a mortality benefit with dexamethasone.” The steroid dexamethasone can reduce inflammation in seriously ill patients.

The Henry Ford team wrote 82% of their patients received hydroxychloroquine within the first 24 hours of admission, and 91% within the first 48 hours of admission. They wrote that in comparison, a study of patients at 25 New York hospitals started taking the drug “at any time during their hospitalization.”
But patients in that New York study, published in May in the Journal of the American Medical Association, started taking hydroxychloroquine on average one day after being hospitalized. “Maybe there’s a little bit of a difference, but it’s not like patients in New York were being started on day seven.

That’s not what happened,” said Eli Rosenberg, lead author of the New York study and an associate professor of epidemiology at the University at Albany School of Public Health.
Rosenberg also pointed out that the Detroit paper excluded 267 patients — nearly 10% of the study population — who had not yet been discharged from the hospital.
He said this might have skewed the results to make hydroxychloroquine look better than it really was. Those patients might have still been in the hospital because they were very sick, and if they died, excluding them from the study made hydroxychloroquine look like more of a lifesaver than it really was.

Both the Detroit and New York studies were observational: they looked back at how patients did when doctors prescribed hydroxychloroquine. While helpful, observational studies are not as valuable as controlled clinical trials. Considered the gold standard in medicine, patients in a clinical trial are randomly assigned to take either the drug or a placebo, which is a treatment that does nothing. Doctors then follow the patients to see how they fare.

Two clinical trials on hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19, one in the US and one in the UK, were stopped early because their data suggested hydroxychloroquine wasn’t helpful. The US trial, run by the National Institutes of Health, enrolled more than 470 patients. The UK trial, run by the University of Oxford, enrolled more than 11,000 patients.

“We have concluded that there is no beneficial effect of hydroxychloroquine in patients hospitalized with COVID-19,” the Oxford doctors concluded. But a White House official praised the Henry Ford team’s study.

Peter Navarro, the White House trade adviser, said the study shows hydroxychloroquine works if given early enough. “This is a big deal,” he told CNN. “This medicine can literally save tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds
of thousands of American lives and maybe millions of people worldwide.”

“Social distancing may have weakened children’s immune systems,”
experts say… “End of social distancing and mask-wearing could
leave children vulnerable to common bugs?”

Scientists are concerned that measures to combat Covid-19 have weakened
the immune systems of young children who have not been able to build up resistance to common bugs, leaving them vulnerable when mask-wearing and social distancing eventually end. Contact with viral pathogens happens on a fairly regular basis and although it does not always lead to sickness, the exposure helps shore the immune system against the threat should the bugs
be encountered again.

Over the past 14 months or so, protracted restrictions on mixing and travel, alongside mask-wearing and social distancing, have not only reduced the risk of Covid but other respiratory bugs such as the flu – cases of which were basically nonexistent last winter, according to surveillance data largely encompassing England compiled by the Royal College of GPs (RCGP).

However, virologists are concerned about RSV, a virus that can cause serious lung infections requiring hospital admission, and sometimes even death, in children under the age of one – and for which there are no approved vaccines.

“Flu worries me, but there is a vaccine – and so the most vulnerable will still have access to the vaccines,” said Dr. Catherine Moore, consultant clinical scientist for Public Health Wales. She warned that RSV currently has no vaccine. “Whereas what Covid has done has caused a big issue in our adult ICUs, we may see conversely problems in our pediatric hospitalizations and intensive care,” she said.

Pre-Covid, most children encountered most seasonal viruses before they turned 18 months old. But the biggest influx in pediatric hospital wards each winter are babies under the age of one who have for the first time been infected with RSV – because their lungs are not well developed, their bodies struggle to fight off the infection, explained Moore.

Scientists are worried that if life begins to go back to pre-Covid normality, respiratory viruses that typically circulate every winter will return alongside
the coronavirus. Moore said she was particularly worried about the risk of
RSV in young children. “We’ve got two cohorts now of children who’ve never met the virus, so they are susceptible, but there’s two years’ worth of them!”

Before the pandemic, data suggested more than 30,000 babies and children under five were admitted to hospital every year in the UK because of RSV. Assuming “normality” resumes later this year, “we are preparing for a significant impact in pediatrics”, said Moore. According to the RCGP, a few cases of RSV were detected last month, which is atypical given the virus normally circulates in the winter in the UK.

“Late May RSV is very unusual,” said Deenan Pillay, a professor of virology
at University College London and a member of the Independent Sage group.
It may be a reflection of more immunological susceptibility, the fact that some Covid restrictions have been relaxed, or indeed a change in the seasonal behavior of the virus in response to the persistent collective effort to address Covid, he said.

But there are many unknowns and it is hard to predict exactly what will happen in the winter with RSV and other pathogens, said William Irving, a professor of virology from the University of Nottingham. “We didn’t see the flu last winter so if it comes back this coming winter, it may be particularly nasty.”

However, there is a flu vaccine that could stave off a considerable chunk of disease, the scientists said, acknowledging that they are hoping the experience of Covid will enhance the uptake of the flu vaccine. “I would think that it would be a good idea to maybe combine a flu vaccine with a booster dose of the [Covid] vaccine,” said Irving. Efforts to develop a Covid-flu combination vaccine are already under way.

CDC announces that “social distancing may have weakened children’s immune systems…”

  No shit Sherlock…

Social distancing, masks, locked in homes no school will have done unrepairable damage to immune systems mental health and education for generations to come.
As More and more Covid info will be coming out, proving how absurd the handling of it has been… using all that hand sanitizer. Which they found that out in the seventies when everybody was doing that more people getting sick they’re killing all the germs that you need to build your immune system.
So does wearing a mask because of all the carbon dioxide exhaled, then inhaled again.
These geniuses are way behind the curve!!!
If only the human body had a way to learn how to fight off diseases. Well, no shit!
It’s like parents who keep their kids home because there is a family history of asthma.
Good GOD ALMIGHTY… YOU gotta build up an immune system.

It’s not good to screw with Mother Nature!

Virtue signaling at all levels needs to stop.

Virtue Signaling WILL Destroy The Environment

It has become popular to describe certain behavior as ‘virtue signaling’.
By this people mean, in the words of James Bartholomew (who helped to popularize the term, and who I like very much in every other respect),
writing or saying things ‘to indicate that they are virtuous’. As popular as it is, it’s a stupid term that misuses the concepts it invokes, it encourages lazy thinking, and it’s hypocritical.
The term signaling does not mean the same thing as ‘saying’ or ‘showing off’ when it is used by economists or biologists. Signaling means *credibly* giving information that is difficult to prove just by saying it. For example, banks used to have very grand buildings. Any bank could claim to be safe, but only a bank that had lots of money could afford a grand office.

Education is a classic example of signaling.
It’s difficult to show to a potential employer that you’re smart and hard working, but only smart and hard working people can get a good university degree (in theory). Good university degrees might be partially about signaling ability to potential employers.
That’s what signaling is. It’s a very useful concept. It means exactly the opposite of what virtue signaling means – it’s credible and honest. The whole point of virtue signaling is that it’s disingenuous and cheap. A better term would be ‘showing off’. How many times where the term virtue signaling has been used would ‘showing off’ not have just as accurately sufficed? It’s not exactly a novel concept.
For something to actually be virtue *signaling*, rather than just showing off, it would need some sort of sacrifice, like a sacrifice of knowledge by pretending some obvious falsehood is true.

The other problem with the term is that it assumes your opponents are disingenuous.
This is of course very common but it is probably the single worst thing about political debate. It comes from an underlying assumption that the world is straightforward and your views are *obviously* correct.
To many people it’s *obvious* that letting Syrian refugees in to Britain is a bad idea, because if even a few of them are terrorists we’re endangering our own people’s lives. The people who ignore this are most likely trying to show off how much they care and what good people they are – hence virtue signaling.
To many people it’s *obvious* that welfare cuts are cruel and unnecessary, and indeed hold back the recovery by taking money out of the economy. If you support those cuts you’re putting ideology ahead of real people, and that makes you a heartless scumbag.
But it’s possible to disagree honestly and sincerely about complicated questions with lots of different moving parts. In a world as complex as libertarians say, it would be astonishing if the truth was obvious about almost any contentious policy issue. Disagreeing with me and being a bit right-on does not mean you are disingenuous. Voting Labor while not spending your life doing volunteer work doesn’t either, nor does being a libertarian but not signing up to join an anarcho-capitalist sea stead.

Giving money to wasteful charities might count as virtue signaling,
but only if you know that the charities are wasteful. I suspect most virtue signaling accusers assume that it’s obvious that groups like Fairtrade are wasteful or harmful. In fact it probably doesn’t even cross most people’s minds that that might be the case.
Accusing others of virtue signaling encourages you to not interrogate your
own beliefs. If you think people only disagree with you because they’re trying to show off how nice they are to their mates, why would you even consider that what’s *obvious* to you might actually be wrong? As well as being rude and stupid, virtue signaling gives people another mental shortcut to dogmatism.
Finally, saying virtue signaling is hypocritical. It’s often used to try to show that the accuser is above virtue signaling and that their own arguments really are sincere. Of course, this is really just another example of virtue signaling!Dismissing other people’s false beliefs as virtue signaling means you won’t consider them properly and means they have every right to do the same to *your* beliefs, which as far as they’re concerned are also obviously false. Sometimes beliefs are honestly, sincerely held, however stupid they seem to you, and if there’s any value to debate at all it requires that we at least consider the possibility that we might be the stupid ones.
At best, virtue signalling is a pretentious way of saying ‘showing off’.
At worst, it is mental armour against self-doubt. People should stop saying it.
When the entire world is having the exact same issues at the exact same time and you still can’t see what is happening….WAKE UP!

More dangerous ‘delta’ strain now classified ‘variant of concern’ in U.S.—
here’s what that means for you.

Video: Fauci: Vaccine might not get US sufficient level of immunity.

How long do you think it will take for the government to do a backflip and ban the Corona-Virus vaccine ?

When the death toll from the vaccine surpasses rona’s total,
at the rate people are dropping….sadly it won’t be long…

***Alina Chan, a top virus and virologist*** at the Silver lab at the Harvard School of Medicine admits ‘Lying to American Public’ for months on likely Wuhan Lab Leak Theory because they didn’t want to be associated with President Trump. HCQ was no secret. Fauci, in league with the CDC, quashed it to promote the pandemic scare for the purpose of easily corrupted mail-in voting.

He killed hundreds of thousands to achieve his leftist agenda.
In 1947 Germany he’d be on the gallows. Fauci is also heavily invested in vaccine manufacturers and they couldn’t get emergency use authorization to sell their vaccines if a treatment existed, so he stood to make a LOT of money by denying the efficacy of HCQ, in addition to making the orange man look bad.

In part. It was more about big $$ bucks. An effective treatment would have prevented the EUA which in turn would have meant no fat profits for Fauci & his drug pals. The CDC has been exaggerating flu deaths for decades to push the flu vax. Nothing new here.
**Dr Lee Merritt: If you’re younger than 39 and get vaccinated, you are 260 times more likely to die from COVID-19.** ‎  #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CrimesAgainstHumanity
Anthony Fauci Ignored Email from Physicist Claiming Hydroxychloroquine
Could Help Battle Coronavirus – True Pundit – WITSNEWS

The Most Iconic & Cringe-Worthy Moments in Late-Night Talk Shows’ History.

Clown face — CNN ‘Surprised’ By Success of Hydroxychloroquine, Drug Originally Suggested by Trump.

Study finds hydroxychloroquine helped coronavirus patients survive better. – Bing images

By Maggie Fox, Andrea Kane, and Elizabeth Cohen, CNN **7/3/2020**
A surprising new study found that the controversial antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine helped patients better survive in the hospital.

A team at Henry Ford Health System in Southeast Michigan said Thursday its study of 2,541 hospitalized patients found that those given hydroxychloroquine were much less likely to die.
Dr. Marcus Zervos, division head of infectious disease for Henry Ford Health System, said 26% of those not given hydroxychloroquine died, compared to 13% of those who got the drug. The team looked back at everyone treated in
the hospital system since the first patient in March.

“Overall crude mortality rates were 18.1% in the entire cohort, 13.5% in the hydroxychloroquine alone group, 20.1% among those receiving hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin, 22.4% among the azithromycin alone group, and 26.4% for neither drug,” the team wrote in a report published in
the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
It’s a surprising finding because several other studies have found no benefit from hydroxychloroquine, a drug originally developed to treat and prevent malaria. President Donald Trump touted the drug heavily, but later studies found not only did patients not do better if they got the drug, they were more likely to suffer cardiac side effects.

The US Food and Drug Administration withdrew its emergency use authorization for the drug earlier this month and trials around the world, including trials sponsored by the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health, were halted.
“Our results do differ from some other studies,” Zervos told a news conference.
“What we think was important in ours … is that patients were treated early.
For hydroxychloroquine to have a benefit, it needs to begin before the patients begin to suffer some of the severe immune reactions that patients can have with Covid,” he added.

The Henry Ford team also monitored patients carefully for heart problems,
he said. “The combination of hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin was reserved for selected patients with severe COVID-19 and with minimal cardiac risk factors,” the team wrote. The Henry Ford team said they believe their findings show hydroxychloroquine could be potentially useful as a treatment for coronavirus.
“It’s important to note that in the right settings, this potentially could be a lifesaver for patients,” Dr. Steven Kalkanis, CEO of the Henry Ford Medical Group, said at the news conference.

Kalkanis said that their findings do not necessarily contradict those of earlier studies. “We also want to make the point that just because our results differ from some others that may have been published, it doesn’t make those studies wrong or definitely a conflict. What it simply means is that by looking at the nuanced data of which patients actually benefited and when, we might be able to further unlock the code of how this disease works,” he said.
“Much more work needs to be done to elucidate what the final treatment plan should be for Covid-19,” Kalkanis added. “But we feel … that these are critically important results to add to the mix of how we move forward if there’s a second surge, and in relevant other parts of the world. Now we can help people combat this disease and to reduce the mortality rate.”

Zervos said hydroxychloroquine can help interfere with the virus directly and
also reduces inflammation. Researchers not involved with the study were critical. They noted that the Henry Ford team did not randomly treat patients but selected them for various treatments based on certain criteria.
“As the Henry Ford Health System became more experienced in treating patients with COVID-19, survival may have improved, regardless of the use of specific therapies,” Dr. Todd Lee of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Canada, and colleagues wrote in a commentary in the same journal.

“White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is leading a Trump administration effort to demand the FDA reverse course,” the *Washington Post* reported.
“A reversal (on hydroxychloroquine) would be widely seen as bending to the political will of the White House,” the *Washington Post* quoted Steven Joffe,
a medical ethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, as saying.
As the agency will take the lead in approving a vaccine for the coronavirus
in the country, “Health experts say it is important for the agency, which was criticized for its initial decision to okay hydroxychloroquine in March, to guard its credibility as it prepares to make these landmark decisions for a public sometimes skeptical of vaccines,” the report warned in The controversial study.

However, the new study, which Navarro is armed with and suggests hydroxychloroquine effective in treating COVID-19, has been widely criticized as flawed by scientists. Led by a research team from Henry Ford Health System in southeast Michigan, U.S., the study looked at 2,541 hospitalized COVID-19 patients between March 10 and May 2 and found that those who took hydroxychloroquine had a “significantly” lower mortality rate.
Dr. Todd Lee said the results of the Henry Ford study were relevant with the use of steroids, which was found effective in reducing the risk of death among severe COVID-19 cases.
The research also excluded 267 patients who had not been discharged from the hospital, which might make the drug “look better than it really was,” said Eli Rosenberg, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University at Albany.
Organizations like the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health have also halted relevant trials of the drug, saying it produces little or no effectiveness to hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

“Finally, concomitant steroid use in patients receiving hydroxychloroquine
was more than double the non-treated group. This is relevant considering the recent RECOVERY trial that showed a mortality benefit with dexamethasone.” The steroid dexamethasone can reduce inflammation in seriously ill patients.

The Henry Ford team wrote 82% of their patients received hydroxychloroquine within the first 24 hours of admission, and 91% within the first 48 hours of admission. They wrote that in comparison, a study of patients at 25 New York hospitals started taking the drug “at any time during their hospitalization.”
But patients in that New York study, published in May in the Journal of the American Medical Association, started taking hydroxychloroquine on average one day after being hospitalized. “Maybe there’s a little bit of a difference, but it’s not like patients in New York were being started on day seven.

That’s not what happened,” said Eli Rosenberg, lead author of the New York study and an associate professor of epidemiology at the University at Albany School of Public Health.
Rosenberg also pointed out that the Detroit paper excluded 267 patients — nearly 10% of the study population — who had not yet been discharged from the hospital.
He said this might have skewed the results to make hydroxychloroquine look better than it really was. Those patients might have still been in the hospital because they were very sick, and if they died, excluding them from the study made hydroxychloroquine look like more of a lifesaver than it really was.

Both the Detroit and New York studies were observational: they looked back at how patients did when doctors prescribed hydroxychloroquine. While helpful, observational studies are not as valuable as controlled clinical trials. Considered the gold standard in medicine, patients in a clinical trial are randomly assigned to take either the drug or a placebo, which is a treatment that does nothing. Doctors then follow the patients to see how they fare.

Two clinical trials on hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19, one in the US and one in the UK, were stopped early because their data suggested hydroxychloroquine wasn’t helpful. The US trial, run by the National Institutes of Health, enrolled more than 470 patients. The UK trial, run by the University of Oxford, enrolled more than 11,000 patients.

“We have concluded that there is no beneficial effect of hydroxychloroquine in patients hospitalized with COVID-19,” the Oxford doctors concluded. But a White House official praised the Henry Ford team’s study.

Peter Navarro, the White House trade adviser, said the study shows hydroxychloroquine works if given early enough. “This is a big deal,” he told CNN. “This medicine can literally save tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds
of thousands of American lives and maybe millions of people worldwide.”

“Social distancing may have weakened children’s immune systems,”
experts say… “End of social distancing and mask-wearing could
leave children vulnerable to common bugs?”

Scientists are concerned that measures to combat Covid-19 have weakened
the immune systems of young children who have not been able to build up resistance to common bugs, leaving them vulnerable when mask-wearing and social distancing eventually end. Contact with viral pathogens happens on a fairly regular basis and although it does not always lead to sickness, the exposure helps shore the immune system against the threat should the bugs
be encountered again.

Over the past 14 months or so, protracted restrictions on mixing and travel, alongside mask-wearing and social distancing, have not only reduced the risk of Covid but other respiratory bugs such as the flu – cases of which were basically nonexistent last winter, according to surveillance data largely encompassing England compiled by the Royal College of GPs (RCGP).

However, virologists are concerned about RSV, a virus that can cause serious lung infections requiring hospital admission, and sometimes even death, in children under the age of one – and for which there are no approved vaccines.

“Flu worries me, but there is a vaccine – and so the most vulnerable will still have access to the vaccines,” said Dr. Catherine Moore, consultant clinical scientist for Public Health Wales. She warned that RSV currently has no vaccine. “Whereas what Covid has done has caused a big issue in our adult ICUs, we may see conversely problems in our pediatric hospitalizations and intensive care,” she said.

Pre-Covid, most children encountered most seasonal viruses before they turned 18 months old. But the biggest influx in pediatric hospital wards each winter are babies under the age of one who have for the first time been infected with RSV – because their lungs are not well developed, their bodies struggle to fight off the infection, explained Moore.

Scientists are worried that if life begins to go back to pre-Covid normality, respiratory viruses that typically circulate every winter will return alongside
the coronavirus. Moore said she was particularly worried about the risk of
RSV in young children. “We’ve got two cohorts now of children who’ve never met the virus, so they are susceptible, but there’s two years’ worth of them!”

Before the pandemic, data suggested more than 30,000 babies and children under five were admitted to hospital every year in the UK because of RSV. Assuming “normality” resumes later this year, “we are preparing for a significant impact in pediatrics”, said Moore. According to the RCGP, a few cases of RSV were detected last month, which is atypical given the virus normally circulates in the winter in the UK.

“Late May RSV is very unusual,” said Deenan Pillay, a professor of virology
at University College London and a member of the Independent Sage group.
It may be a reflection of more immunological susceptibility, the fact that some Covid restrictions have been relaxed, or indeed a change in the seasonal behavior of the virus in response to the persistent collective effort to address Covid, he said.

But there are many unknowns and it is hard to predict exactly what will happen in the winter with RSV and other pathogens, said William Irving, a professor of virology from the University of Nottingham. “We didn’t see the flu last winter so if it comes back this coming winter, it may be particularly nasty.”

However, there is a flu vaccine that could stave off a considerable chunk of disease, the scientists said, acknowledging that they are hoping the experience of Covid will enhance the uptake of the flu vaccine. “I would think that it would be a good idea to maybe combine a flu vaccine with a booster dose of the [Covid] vaccine,” said Irving. Efforts to develop a Covid-flu combination vaccine are already under way.

CDC announces that “social distancing may have weakened children’s immune systems…”

  No shit Sherlock…

Social distancing, masks, locked in homes no school will have done unrepairable damage to immune systems mental health and education for generations to come.
As More and more Covid info will be coming out, proving how absurd the handling of it has been… using all that hand sanitizer. Which they found that out in the seventies when everybody was doing that more people getting sick they’re killing all the germs that you need to build your immune system.
So does wearing a mask because of all the carbon dioxide exhaled, then inhaled again.
These geniuses are way behind the curve!!!
If only the human body had a way to learn how to fight off diseases. Well, no shit!
It’s like parents who keep their kids home because there is a family history of asthma.
Good GOD ALMIGHTY… YOU gotta build up an immune system.

It’s not good to screw with Mother Nature!

Virtue signaling at all levels needs to stop.

Virtue Signaling WILL Destroy The Environment

It has become popular to describe certain behavior as ‘virtue signaling’.
By this people mean, in the words of James Bartholomew (who helped to popularize the term, and who I like very much in every other respect),
writing or saying things ‘to indicate that they are virtuous’. As popular as it is, it’s a stupid term that misuses the concepts it invokes, it encourages lazy thinking, and it’s hypocritical.
The term signaling does not mean the same thing as ‘saying’ or ‘showing off’ when it is used by economists or biologists. Signaling means *credibly* giving information that is difficult to prove just by saying it. For example, banks used to have very grand buildings. Any bank could claim to be safe, but only a bank that had lots of money could afford a grand office.

Education is a classic example of signaling.
It’s difficult to show to a potential employer that you’re smart and hard working, but only smart and hard working people can get a good university degree (in theory). Good university degrees might be partially about signaling ability to potential employers.
That’s what signaling is. It’s a very useful concept. It means exactly the opposite of what virtue signaling means – it’s credible and honest. The whole point of virtue signaling is that it’s disingenuous and cheap. A better term would be ‘showing off’. How many times where the term virtue signaling has been used would ‘showing off’ not have just as accurately sufficed? It’s not exactly a novel concept.
For something to actually be virtue *signaling*, rather than just showing off, it would need some sort of sacrifice, like a sacrifice of knowledge by pretending some obvious falsehood is true.

The other problem with the term is that it assumes your opponents are disingenuous.
This is of course very common but it is probably the single worst thing about political debate. It comes from an underlying assumption that the world is straightforward and your views are *obviously* correct.
To many people it’s *obvious* that letting Syrian refugees in to Britain is a bad idea, because if even a few of them are terrorists we’re endangering our own people’s lives. The people who ignore this are most likely trying to show off how much they care and what good people they are – hence virtue signaling.
To many people it’s *obvious* that welfare cuts are cruel and unnecessary, and indeed hold back the recovery by taking money out of the economy. If you support those cuts you’re putting ideology ahead of real people, and that makes you a heartless scumbag.
But it’s possible to disagree honestly and sincerely about complicated questions with lots of different moving parts. In a world as complex as libertarians say, it would be astonishing if the truth was obvious about almost any contentious policy issue. Disagreeing with me and being a bit right-on does not mean you are disingenuous. Voting Labor while not spending your life doing volunteer work doesn’t either, nor does being a libertarian but not signing up to join an anarcho-capitalist sea stead.

Giving money to wasteful charities might count as virtue signaling,
but only if you know that the charities are wasteful. I suspect most virtue signaling accusers assume that it’s obvious that groups like Fairtrade are wasteful or harmful. In fact it probably doesn’t even cross most people’s minds that that might be the case.
Accusing others of virtue signaling encourages you to not interrogate your
own beliefs. If you think people only disagree with you because they’re trying to show off how nice they are to their mates, why would you even consider that what’s *obvious* to you might actually be wrong? As well as being rude and stupid, virtue signaling gives people another mental shortcut to dogmatism.
Finally, saying virtue signaling is hypocritical. It’s often used to try to show that the accuser is above virtue signaling and that their own arguments really are sincere. Of course, this is really just another example of virtue signaling!Dismissing other people’s false beliefs as virtue signaling means you won’t consider them properly and means they have every right to do the same to *your* beliefs, which as far as they’re concerned are also obviously false. Sometimes beliefs are honestly, sincerely held, however stupid they seem to you, and if there’s any value to debate at all it requires that we at least consider the possibility that we might be the stupid ones.
At best, virtue signalling is a pretentious way of saying ‘showing off’.
At worst, it is mental armour against self-doubt. People should stop saying it.
When the entire world is having the exact same issues at the exact same time and you still can’t see what is happening….WAKE UP!

More dangerous ‘delta’ strain now classified ‘variant of concern’ in U.S.—
here’s what that means for you.

Video: Fauci: Vaccine might not get US sufficient level of immunity.

How long do you think it will take for the government to do a backflip and ban the Corona-Virus vaccine ?

When the death toll from the vaccine surpasses rona’s total,
at the rate people are dropping….sadly it won’t be long…

***Alina Chan, a top virus and virologist*** at the Silver lab at the Harvard School of Medicine admits ‘Lying to American Public’ for months on likely Wuhan Lab Leak Theory because they didn’t want to be associated with President Trump. HCQ was no secret. Fauci, in league with the CDC, quashed it to promote the pandemic scare for the purpose of easily corrupted mail-in voting.

He killed hundreds of thousands to achieve his leftist agenda.
In 1947 Germany he’d be on the gallows. Fauci is also heavily invested in vaccine manufacturers and they couldn’t get emergency use authorization to sell their vaccines if a treatment existed, so he stood to make a LOT of money by denying the efficacy of HCQ, in addition to making the orange man look bad.

In part. It was more about big $$ bucks. An effective treatment would have prevented the EUA which in turn would have meant no fat profits for Fauci & his drug pals. The CDC has been exaggerating flu deaths for decades to push the flu vax. Nothing new here.
**Dr Lee Merritt: If you’re younger than 39 and get vaccinated, you are 260 times more likely to die from COVID-19.** ‎  #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CrimesAgainstHumanity
Anthony Fauci Ignored Email from Physicist Claiming Hydroxychloroquine
Could Help Battle Coronavirus – True Pundit – WITSNEWS

The Most Iconic & Cringe-Worthy Moments in Late-Night Talk Shows’ History.

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TAKING NOTHING FOR GRANTED

Posted on June 16, 2021 by Ken

After bouts with COVID-19 and breast cancer,
actor RITA WILSON now has a new lease on life.
  about (ritawilson.com)

In March of 2020, RITA WILSON and her husband, Tom Hanks, announced they’d tested positive for COVID-19, making them among the first celebrities to go public with the diagnosis. Their decision to come forward was heroic in its own way, given the fear associated with the virus. The revelation removed some of the stigma surrounding COVID-19, and emboldened other celebrities to reveal their own diagnoses.

On March 29, shortly after she’d recovered, Wilson posted an Instagram message in which she wrote, “I am so thankful for my health.” As it happened, the date marked another mile stone—5 years had passed since her medical team declared her breast cancer-free. In the same post, she expressed gratitude for “the doctors, nurses, friends and family who got me through that time.” Wilson was originally diagnosed with lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS), abnormal cells in her breast’s milk-producing glands, called lobules.
LCIS isn’t cancer, but it increases the risk for invasive breast cancer.

The LCIS eventually turned into pleomorphic lobular carcinoma in situ (PLCIS), a form doctors believe is more likely to turn into PHOTOGRAPHY: JIM JORDAN cancer than LCIS. After Wilson had lumpectomies (surgery to remove the abnormal tissue), her doctor told her she didn’t have cancer, but
“I had a gut feeling,” she says. “Some fraction of patients who are diagnosed with LCIS will eventually go on to develop an actual cancer, either from that original site or somewhere else in the breast,” says V.K. Gadi, MD, PhD, professor and director of Medical Oncology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. (He did not treat Wilson.)

It turned out Wilson was one of them. When she got a second opinion,
she learned that her PLCIS had progressed to invasive lobular carcinoma. Suddenly, she saw that cancer was no longer a disease that only happened
to other people. “Once you have something happen to you, you realize that you’re just a statistic,” she says. “There’s nothing that protects you.”

**SURVIVING CANCER**

The months following Wilson’s cancer diagnosis were filled with a series of critical tasks needed to plan and carry out her treatment. Therapy for invasive lobular carcinoma can involve a lumpectomy or a mastectomy. Wilson opted for a double mastectomy, followed by breast reconstruction surgery. Staying focused on the process of surviving left her little time to dwell on the enormity of having cancer. “Once I had the permanent implants put in and the surgery went well, then I could start feeling a bit more relaxed,” she says.
Mindfulness meditation helped her get through that dark time.
She made it a permanent part of her post-cancer lifestyle, along with other healthy habits like swimming, walking, and practicing yoga.
She began to eat less red meat, replacing it with more fish and grains.
And she cut back on alcohol, which some studies suggest can increase the risk for breast cancer recurrence.
“These things are now a part of my life. They’re not going to change,” she says. “Once you’ve had a health crisis, you don’t want to mess around with it.”

**“THROW ME A PARTY”**

Before Wilson was pronounced cancer-free and could begin to feel a sense of relief, she had moments of anxiety and fear. The uncertainty of not knowing whether her cancer would cooperate with treatment, or if she’d survive her surgery, led to a discussion Wilson never expected to have in her 50s. “I was having a conversation with my husband, which was about if I should go before him, certain things that I’d like to have happen. One of them was, ‘I’d like you to throw me a party. And I want to have all of my friends there,’” she recalls.

“I wanted it to be something that allowed people to celebrate my life.” She captured her request in the song, “Throw Me a Party,” featured on her 2019 album, Halfway to Home. One line goes, “I always lived like there wasn’t enough time.” Cancer brought a keen awareness that time is a resource in limited supply. “The choices that I made after that were that I only wanted to do the things that I really love … and do the work that I feel is really meaningful,” she says.

**WHAT DO I WANT?**

The discovery of her life’s meaning came relatively late. Her acting career
had already spanned more than 30 years, with memorable roles in films like Sleepless in Seattle, Runaway Bride, and Jingle All The Way. In 2005, Wilson had a soul-searching moment when she finally asked herself, “What do I want?” The impetus for the question came from an interview with Oprah Winfrey she’d read in the Los Angeles Times. The multimedia icon attributed her success to her ability to find clarity about her purpose in life.

“I ask people what it is they want,” Winfrey said in the article, “and you would be amazed at how few of them know… If you focus on what you want, things clear up. If you don’t, you get stuck in this muddled, fuzzy place.” Wilson had been so caught up with her acting career and family (she has two sons with Hanks), that she hadn’t even considered what she wanted. But once she stopped to think about it, the answer was clear. “It was music,” she says.
“I feel like people have things inside them that they want, that are yearnings … something that they feel is a true part of who they are.

For me that was always music, but I had become an actor at such a young age and that took off, and I never really looked back.” In 2012, she released an album of cover songs called AM/FM, but she secretly yearned to be a singer-songwriter. Without the ability to read music or play an instrument fluently, Wilson figured it was out of the question. Then, a chance meeting with producer/songwriter Kara DioGuardi landed her a mentor. “Kara asked me, ‘What do you want to do?’

I said, ‘I’d give anything to write a song like you.’ She said, ‘Well, why can’t you do that?’” DioGuardi offered to write the first two songs with her. Her first original album, the country/pop-inspired Rita Wilson, came out in 2016. It included collabo rations with a roster of top songwriters/producers (Kristian Bush of Sugarland, Richard Marx, and the Warren Brothers, among others). She followed it up in 2018 with Bigger Picture.

**COVID DAYS**

Wilson now counts herself among the members of two survivor communities—breast cancer and COVID-19. She and her husband fell ill with the virus and recovered in Queensland, Australia, where Hanks had been filming a Baz Luhrmann movie about the life of Elvis Presley, and Wilson had performed a concert at the Sydney Opera House.

It’s an experience she doesn’t want to relive. “It was about 10 days of very
bad [symptoms]. I had a relatively high fever. I was extremely nauseous. I had vertigo. I had stomach issues, achiness, and a headache that would not go away. I lost taste and smell. All of these things, combined with this unbelievable shivering,” she says. “I never want to get it again.” If there could be any upside to her two-week long quarantine in Australia, it was the surprising collaboration that came out of it.

On March 22 of last year, Wilson posted an Instagram video of herself rapping along with Naughty By Nature’s 1992 classic, “Hip Hop Hooray.” She’d learned the tongue twister of a song for the 2019 film Boy Genius, a process that she compares to “learning Shakespeare, but if you’ve never spoken English.” COVID-19 had left her feeling a little “fuzzy.” She recorded herself performing the song to see if her mind was still limber enough to remember the
lyrics.

“I thought, maybe I’ll post it to let people know I’m doing OK,” she says. “And it became crazy viral.” The hip-hop trio loved it so much that they teamed up with Wilson on a remix. All profits from the song go to support the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund, which helps musicians affected by the coronavirus pandemic. “It was so much fun!” she says. “They invited me to do it live with them when they go back on tour. You know I’m going to do that!”

**GIVING BACK**

Wilson found another way to put a positive spin on her COVID-19 ordeal. Both she and Hanks plan to donate their plasma (the liquid portion of their blood) to UCLA (as of our interview date), in the hope that the antibodies their immune systems produce against the virus might help others who get sick. Researchers there are studying immune responses against the virus, as well as the effectiveness of convalescent plasma therapy, an experimental treatment for severe COVID-19.

“The hope is that the antiviral antibodies in the plasma could reduce the effects of the virus, assist in recovery, and hopefully reduce mortality,” says Otto Yang, MD, professor of medicine and associate chief of infectious diseases at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine.
Yang’s team is looking at the level of antibodies in people who’ve been infected, and how quickly those antibodies drop over time.

Theoretically, antibodies could provide protection against future infection with the virus.
He appreciates the awareness Wilson and Hanks have brought to UCLA’s research efforts. “They’ve been supportive and have publicized this project and a couple of others,” he says. Wilson says she and her husband were more than happy to help. “We knew that it would be incredibly helpful to people,” she says.

**TAKING NOTHING FOR GRANTED**

Living through two major health scares has left
Wilson with a profound sense of gratitude.

She has a lot to be thankful for—not only good health, but also several musical projects she’s launched since getting over COVID-19. In 2020, she released the songs “When This Is Over,” a collaboration with country artists Jimmie Allen and the Oak Ridge Boys, “What I Would Say,” about dealing with a loved one’s addiction, and “Everybody Cries” for the war drama The Outpost, which has been generating some Oscar buzz.
She’s also collaborated with country music legend Dolly Parton, as well as Monica, Jordin Sparks, and Sara Evans, on the single [Official Lyric Video] ‘PINK’ Song:
The inspiring song from Wilson and the powerhouse group of country, pop and R&B superstars dropped on Thursday (Oct. 22), and benefits the Susan G. Komen breast cancer organization.
“Someday/ Pink will just be a color/ Not a ribbon to remember/ A best friend or a mother/ Someday/ You won’t have to put a wig on/ And a baseball cap will just be a hat/ Not somethin’ to hide under/ ‘Cause your hair is gone/ Some day’s comin’ any day,”
Parton and Monica sing in the opening verse.

Rita Wilson – PINK | Live at the Grand Ole Opry
Rita Wilson performs “PINK,” along with Victoria Shaw and Erin Kinsey, as part of the Grand Ole Opry’s “Opry Goes Pink” live broadcast on Saturday, October 24th, 2020.
Wilson also performed at the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday (Oct. 24) as part of the 12th annual Opry Goes Pink show along with Lauren Alaina, Little Big Town, and Victoria Shaw with Erin Kinsey.

**Talks Pandemic-Themed Music: Watch**
“The song is not just for someone who is a survivor or going through breast cancer treatment, it is for anyone who loves someone who has been impacted by breast cancer. That’s what I love about the song, and I’m so excited to return to the Opry to sing it live,” Wilson, a breast cancer survivor, said in a statement.
Breast cancer kills more than 42,000 women and men annually in the U.S., with 1 in 8 women facing a diagnosis at some point in her lifetime. The Opry show will air at 8:00 p.m. ET on Circle and Gray TV stations as well as DISH Studio Channel 102, Sling TV, and other TV affiliates in addition to a livestream hosted by four-time CMA nominee Carly Pearce on Circle All Access Facebook, YouTube and Twitter; The Opry can also be heard on 650 WSM-AM, wsmonline.com, and SiriusXM: Willie’s Roadhouse.

According to the release, an in-venue audience of 1,100 is expected for the show, in compliance with Nashville Public Health Department guidelines for socially distanced seating, mandatory masks for all guests and staff and enhanced cleaning practices.
“We are extremely honored that these amazing artists have lent their immense talents to help us give a moment of hope and inspiration to everyone touched by breast cancer,” said Paula Schneider, CEO of Susan G. Komen, in a statement about the song (written by Kinsey, Jodi Marr and Shaw). “As a breast cancer survivor who lost my mother to metastatic breast cancer, I know first-hand the toll this disease takes on entire families.
There is life before breast cancer and life after. We all dream of a world when pink is just another color.” A portion of the proceeds will support Susan G. Komen’s mission to save lives from breast cancer. “What I learned was that each day is so precious and so valuable, and life is so fragile. I really do not want to live one day not telling the people I love that I love them, not finding joy in everything I do, and not without a huge sense of gratitude that I get to be creative, that I get to write music, and produce movies, and act, and do the things that I love to do,” she says. “It’s really about not taking anything for granted. Not one thing.”  AprilMayJune_Digital.Ads.highresR3.pdf (webmd.com)

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Image result for Rita Wilson Had performed A Concert at the Sydney Opera House.. Size: 165 x 160. Source: www.dailymail.co.uk — After bouts with COVID-19 and breast cancer,
actor RITA WILSON now has a new lease on life.
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In March of 2020, RITA WILSON and her husband, Tom Hanks, announced they’d tested positive for COVID-19, making them among the first celebrities to go public with the diagnosis. Their decision to come forward was heroic in its own way, given the fear associated with the virus. The revelation removed some of the stigma surrounding COVID-19, and emboldened other celebrities to reveal their own diagnoses.

On March 29, shortly after she’d recovered, Wilson posted an Instagram message in which she wrote, “I am so thankful for my health.” As it happened, the date marked another mile stone—5 years had passed since her medical team declared her breast cancer-free. In the same post, she expressed gratitude for “the doctors, nurses, friends and family who got me through that time.” Wilson was originally diagnosed with lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS), abnormal cells in her breast’s milk-producing glands, called lobules.
LCIS isn’t cancer, but it increases the risk for invasive breast cancer.

The LCIS eventually turned into pleomorphic lobular carcinoma in situ (PLCIS), a form doctors believe is more likely to turn into PHOTOGRAPHY: JIM JORDAN cancer than LCIS. After Wilson had lumpectomies (surgery to remove the abnormal tissue), her doctor told her she didn’t have cancer, but
“I had a gut feeling,” she says. “Some fraction of patients who are diagnosed with LCIS will eventually go on to develop an actual cancer, either from that original site or somewhere else in the breast,” says V.K. Gadi, MD, PhD, professor and director of Medical Oncology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. (He did not treat Wilson.)

It turned out Wilson was one of them. When she got a second opinion,
she learned that her PLCIS had progressed to invasive lobular carcinoma. Suddenly, she saw that cancer was no longer a disease that only happened
to other people. “Once you have something happen to you, you realize that you’re just a statistic,” she says. “There’s nothing that protects you.”

**SURVIVING CANCER**

The months following Wilson’s cancer diagnosis were filled with a series of critical tasks needed to plan and carry out her treatment. Therapy for invasive lobular carcinoma can involve a lumpectomy or a mastectomy. Wilson opted for a double mastectomy, followed by breast reconstruction surgery. Staying focused on the process of surviving left her little time to dwell on the enormity of having cancer. “Once I had the permanent implants put in and the surgery went well, then I could start feeling a bit more relaxed,” she says.
Mindfulness meditation helped her get through that dark time.
She made it a permanent part of her post-cancer lifestyle, along with other healthy habits like swimming, walking, and practicing yoga.
She began to eat less red meat, replacing it with more fish and grains.
And she cut back on alcohol, which some studies suggest can increase the risk for breast cancer recurrence.
“These things are now a part of my life. They’re not going to change,” she says. “Once you’ve had a health crisis, you don’t want to mess around with it.”

**“THROW ME A PARTY”**

Before Wilson was pronounced cancer-free and could begin to feel a sense of relief, she had moments of anxiety and fear. The uncertainty of not knowing whether her cancer would cooperate with treatment, or if she’d survive her surgery, led to a discussion Wilson never expected to have in her 50s. “I was having a conversation with my husband, which was about if I should go before him, certain things that I’d like to have happen. One of them was, ‘I’d like you to throw me a party. And I want to have all of my friends there,’” she recalls.

“I wanted it to be something that allowed people to celebrate my life.” She captured her request in the song, “Throw Me a Party,” featured on her 2019 album, Halfway to Home. One line goes, “I always lived like there wasn’t enough time.” Cancer brought a keen awareness that time is a resource in limited supply. “The choices that I made after that were that I only wanted to do the things that I really love … and do the work that I feel is really meaningful,” she says.

**WHAT DO I WANT?**

The discovery of her life’s meaning came relatively late. Her acting career
had already spanned more than 30 years, with memorable roles in films like Sleepless in Seattle, Runaway Bride, and Jingle All The Way. In 2005, Wilson had a soul-searching moment when she finally asked herself, “What do I want?” The impetus for the question came from an interview with Oprah Winfrey she’d read in the Los Angeles Times. The multimedia icon attributed her success to her ability to find clarity about her purpose in life.

“I ask people what it is they want,” Winfrey said in the article, “and you would be amazed at how few of them know… If you focus on what you want, things clear up. If you don’t, you get stuck in this muddled, fuzzy place.” Wilson had been so caught up with her acting career and family (she has two sons with Hanks), that she hadn’t even considered what she wanted. But once she stopped to think about it, the answer was clear. “It was music,” she says.
“I feel like people have things inside them that they want, that are yearnings … something that they feel is a true part of who they are.

For me that was always music, but I had become an actor at such a young age and that took off, and I never really looked back.” In 2012, she released an album of cover songs called AM/FM, but she secretly yearned to be a singer-songwriter. Without the ability to read music or play an instrument fluently, Wilson figured it was out of the question. Then, a chance meeting with producer/songwriter Kara DioGuardi landed her a mentor. “Kara asked me, ‘What do you want to do?’

I said, ‘I’d give anything to write a song like you.’ She said, ‘Well, why can’t you do that?’” DioGuardi offered to write the first two songs with her. Her first original album, the country/pop-inspired Rita Wilson, came out in 2016. It included collabo rations with a roster of top songwriters/producers (Kristian Bush of Sugarland, Richard Marx, and the Warren Brothers, among others). She followed it up in 2018 with Bigger Picture.

**COVID DAYS**

Wilson now counts herself among the members of two survivor communities—breast cancer and COVID-19. She and her husband fell ill with the virus and recovered in Queensland, Australia, where Hanks had been filming a Baz Luhrmann movie about the life of Elvis Presley, and Wilson had performed a concert at the Sydney Opera House.

It’s an experience she doesn’t want to relive. “It was about 10 days of very
bad [symptoms]. I had a relatively high fever. I was extremely nauseous. I had vertigo. I had stomach issues, achiness, and a headache that would not go away. I lost taste and smell. All of these things, combined with this unbelievable shivering,” she says. “I never want to get it again.” If there could be any upside to her two-week long quarantine in Australia, it was the surprising collaboration that came out of it.

On March 22 of last year, Wilson posted an Instagram video of herself rapping along with Naughty By Nature’s 1992 classic, “Hip Hop Hooray.” She’d learned the tongue twister of a song for the 2019 film Boy Genius, a process that she compares to “learning Shakespeare, but if you’ve never spoken English.” COVID-19 had left her feeling a little “fuzzy.” She recorded herself performing the song to see if her mind was still limber enough to remember the
lyrics.

“I thought, maybe I’ll post it to let people know I’m doing OK,” she says. “And it became crazy viral.” The hip-hop trio loved it so much that they teamed up with Wilson on a remix. All profits from the song go to support the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund, which helps musicians affected by the coronavirus pandemic. “It was so much fun!” she says. “They invited me to do it live with them when they go back on tour. You know I’m going to do that!”

**GIVING BACK**

Wilson found another way to put a positive spin on her COVID-19 ordeal. Both she and Hanks plan to donate their plasma (the liquid portion of their blood) to UCLA (as of our interview date), in the hope that the antibodies their immune systems produce against the virus might help others who get sick. Researchers there are studying immune responses against the virus, as well as the effectiveness of convalescent plasma therapy, an experimental treatment for severe COVID-19.

“The hope is that the antiviral antibodies in the plasma could reduce the effects of the virus, assist in recovery, and hopefully reduce mortality,” says Otto Yang, MD, professor of medicine and associate chief of infectious diseases at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine.
Yang’s team is looking at the level of antibodies in people who’ve been infected, and how quickly those antibodies drop over time.

Theoretically, antibodies could provide protection against future infection with the virus.
He appreciates the awareness Wilson and Hanks have brought to UCLA’s research efforts. “They’ve been supportive and have publicized this project and a couple of others,” he says. Wilson says she and her husband were more than happy to help. “We knew that it would be incredibly helpful to people,” she says.

**TAKING NOTHING FOR GRANTED**

Living through two major health scares has left
Wilson with a profound sense of gratitude.

She has a lot to be thankful for—not only good health, but also several musical projects she’s launched since getting over COVID-19. In 2020, she released the songs “When This Is Over,” a collaboration with country artists Jimmie Allen and the Oak Ridge Boys, “What I Would Say,” about dealing with a loved one’s addiction, and “Everybody Cries” for the war drama The Outpost, which has been generating some Oscar buzz.
She’s also collaborated with country music legend Dolly Parton, as well as Monica, Jordin Sparks, and Sara Evans, on the single [Official Lyric Video] ‘PINK’ Song:
The inspiring song from Wilson and the powerhouse group of country, pop and R&B superstars dropped on Thursday (Oct. 22), and benefits the Susan G. Komen breast cancer organization.
“Someday/ Pink will just be a color/ Not a ribbon to remember/ A best friend or a mother/ Someday/ You won’t have to put a wig on/ And a baseball cap will just be a hat/ Not somethin’ to hide under/ ‘Cause your hair is gone/ Some day’s comin’ any day,”
Parton and Monica sing in the opening verse.

Rita Wilson – PINK | Live at the Grand Ole Opry
Rita Wilson performs “PINK,” along with Victoria Shaw and Erin Kinsey, as part of the Grand Ole Opry’s “Opry Goes Pink” live broadcast on Saturday, October 24th, 2020.
Wilson also performed at the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday (Oct. 24) as part of the 12th annual Opry Goes Pink show along with Lauren Alaina, Little Big Town, and Victoria Shaw with Erin Kinsey.

**Talks Pandemic-Themed Music: Watch**
“The song is not just for someone who is a survivor or going through breast cancer treatment, it is for anyone who loves someone who has been impacted by breast cancer. That’s what I love about the song, and I’m so excited to return to the Opry to sing it live,” Wilson, a breast cancer survivor, said in a statement.
Breast cancer kills more than 42,000 women and men annually in the U.S., with 1 in 8 women facing a diagnosis at some point in her lifetime. The Opry show will air at 8:00 p.m. ET on Circle and Gray TV stations as well as DISH Studio Channel 102, Sling TV, and other TV affiliates in addition to a livestream hosted by four-time CMA nominee Carly Pearce on Circle All Access Facebook, YouTube and Twitter; The Opry can also be heard on 650 WSM-AM, wsmonline.com, and SiriusXM: Willie’s Roadhouse.

According to the release, an in-venue audience of 1,100 is expected for the show, in compliance with Nashville Public Health Department guidelines for socially distanced seating, mandatory masks for all guests and staff and enhanced cleaning practices.
“We are extremely honored that these amazing artists have lent their immense talents to help us give a moment of hope and inspiration to everyone touched by breast cancer,” said Paula Schneider, CEO of Susan G. Komen, in a statement about the song (written by Kinsey, Jodi Marr and Shaw). “As a breast cancer survivor who lost my mother to metastatic breast cancer, I know first-hand the toll this disease takes on entire families.
There is life before breast cancer and life after. We all dream of a world when pink is just another color.” A portion of the proceeds will support Susan G. Komen’s mission to save lives from breast cancer. “What I learned was that each day is so precious and so valuable, and life is so fragile. I really do not want to live one day not telling the people I love that I love them, not finding joy in everything I do, and not without a huge sense of gratitude that I get to be creative, that I get to write music, and produce movies, and act, and do the things that I love to do,” she says. “It’s really about not taking anything for granted. Not one thing.”  AprilMayJune_Digital.Ads.highresR3.pdf (webmd.com)

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Posted on June 16, 2021 by Ken

**Bee** **The Change for Peace on Earth**

After Humanity, but 6 months later.

Bee Extinction Facts: Why The Extinction of Bees Would End Humanity?
In May 1965 a French periodical about nature and animals called, **Achat La Vie Des Bêtes,** Et L’ami Des Bêtes. stated that Einstein had calculated a grim four year time limit for humanity if bees disappeared.
This was the earliest evidence known to QI of a connection between Einstein who died in 1955 and the dire deadline.

Honey bees (a phenomenon attributed to everything from global warming
to insecticides to radiation from cell phone towers, and now thought to be the result of a fungus) have seen a resurgence in repetitions of a quote attributed
to Albert Einstein, citations claiming the noted scientist once said If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.

This truly sounds alarming: Bees are disappearing for reasons we cant yet explain and a certified genius such as Einstein noted long ago that if all the bees disappeared, we’d soon be following them into extinction. If the intent
of propagating this quote is to get our attention, it’s certainly been working. Did Einstein sagely foresee an environmental crisis we’re only just now beginning to notice?
To answer that last question (without denying the importance of the honeybees), we have to consider the related question of “Did Einstein really
say this?” First off, searches of Einstein’s writings and speeches and public statements, as well as of (scholarly) compilations of Einstein quotations reveal nary a reference to the “four years” phrase or any other statement mentioning bees (save for a brief comparison between humans and colony insects such as ants and bees). The compiler of *The New Quotable Einstein* also found no Einsteinian source for this quote and lists it as “Probably Not by Einstein.”
Riding the High Life in a Zombie Apocalypse – Days Gone

This remarkable story describes a time of great fear on
**the planet, the cold war.**

It tells how the simple and profound act of passing a torch of peace around
the world in partnership with the United Nations engaged the participation of millions of people, the world’s political leaders, and through the media, an estimated 20% of the planet’s population. It is a story of how the impossible became possible, creating transformative ripples out into the world.

First Earth Run: A Catalyst for Hope on Vimeo & Bing video

In 1986 at the height of the cold war, a torch of peace was passed around the world. The First Earth Run, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund, directly engaged 25 million people and 45 heads-of-state in 62 countries. Twenty percent of the planet — a billion people — watched the torch circum – navigate the globe via the media. For 86 days, wherever the Torch of Peace went, all wars stopped and the world was united as one.

The Torch of Peace was lit in a sunrise ceremony on the grounds of the
United Nations on September 16, 1986 — the International Day of Peace in the International Year of Peace. At that ceremony, Grandmother Caroline, a keeper of the Hopi Prophecy, shared these prophetic words: The Torch of Peace launched from this Great Hall of Mica marks the great turning toward 1,000 years of peace. Pay attention to the signs as they will help guide its journey. Since then, this modern-day mythic story embodying humanity’s noblest aspirations for peace on earth has continued to be told all over the world.
Now the signs indicate that it’s time for the Torch of Peace to be reignited to fulfill its prophetic mission of creating peace on earth. The planet’s wisdom-keepers tell us that when ½ of 1% of humanity (40 million people) wholeheartedly believe peace on earth is possible, there will be enough coherence of thought and emotion to shift our collective consciousness to make this a reality. But to create this future we need to believe it is possible. What we believe becomes our reality for better or worse. To shift humanity’s belief system requires a new story — and the means to attain it.

That new story is called Peace on Earth by 2030. To achieve this, we are building a 40-million-person movement of DreamKeepers empowered with the seven actions that enabled the First Earth Run to unite the world and create peace on earth over its 86-day journey. These seven actions are designed as a global game that will take place between 2020 and 2030.
On September 21, 2020 — the International Day of Peace and 34 years after the Torch of Peace circumnavigated the globe — we’ll launch the
seven actions to create peace on earth – by 2030 and the Second Earth Run! In this case, a 12-month virtual Earth Run that will take place annually over the decade. With the reach of the internet, we don’t need to literally run around the world to inspire and empower people with this vision of hope and possibility.
The goal of the annual Earth Runs is for teams playing the game to create Peace on Earth (POE) Zones in their communities where these seven actions are practiced. The POE Zones established each year will be honored through a global musical celebration of our collective achievement. With the torch held high, we will experience the world we most want in our hearts coming into existence and witness the dawning of a new future for humankind!

Be the *CHANGE* you *WISH* to see in the *WORLD!!!*

At this critical time when we are becoming more and more divided,
this game serves as deep medicine to heal that which separates us. The First Earth Run’s seemingly impossible achievement of peace on earth for 86 days became possible. Because the world was so divided it needed light to remind us of the oneness of our humanity. It is time to build on this base camp achievement for humanity and make the full ascent to peace on earth in one decade!
We know in our soul as a species that we are primed for deep transformation to occur at this time. There are so many people of good will connected through social networks that with the right spark we can ignite a global fire that empowers humanity to fulfill its deepest dream. These seven actions for creating peace on earth have proven they can ignite such a global fire.
Is peace on earth humanity’s destiny? It can be if enough of us say: “I am willing to be one of the DreamKeepers and carry the torch to make it a reality.” We invite you to be one of the planet’s DreamKeepers and a sacred torch bearer for our future as a species!
May those of us living in the 21st century be known in the history of our planet as the heroic generation that brought goodwill to all of humanity and established peace on our beautiful Earth!

***To learn about the game***, click here.
David Gershon conceived and organized the First Earth Run. Co-founder
and CEO of Empowerment Institute, David has been called “the number one expert on social change.” He applies his visionary leadership and social change expertise to designing second-order change solutions for cities, countries,
and the planet that enable the seemingly impossible to become possible.
He’s the author of 12 books, including the award-winning Social *Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World* and the bestselling *Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life as You Want It*.

Based on his decades of transformative social change knowledge and experience,
he’s architect a bold plan to change the world called Reinventing the Planet.

The “Peace on Earth by 2030” game plays a central role in this grand
strategy. Drawing on his three decades in the trenches of large-scale societal transformation, David Gershon–founder and president of Empowerment Institute, and described by the United Nations as a “graceful revolutionary”–offers an original and comprehensive roadmap to bring about fundamental change in our world. His goal is to empower change agents to tackle pressing social problems or unmet social needs by providing them with strategies and tools to effect transformative change at any level of scale.

From his initiation as architect of the United Nations-sponsored First Earth Run–a mythic passing of fire around the world symbolizing humanity’s quest for peace on earth that drew tens of millions of participants, the planet’s political leaders and, through the media, over a billion people at the height of the cold war–to his recent climate-change work helping citizens, cities, and entire states measurably reduce their carbon footprint (using his book *Low Carbon Diet*), Gershon offers readers strategies to evolve an effective new model for social change.

**Just because something is hard doesn’t mean it’s impossible.**

***Question everything and form your own opinions but don’t try to change mine! It is NOT about a virus!***

When I was learning about World War II from my father,
I remember thinking how grateful I was that society had finally matured to the point in the intervening years that war no longer ever broke out. Today I can hardly remember what bizarre thought process led me to conclude that people had actually become less barbaric with time.
I do remember I also believed racial prejudice had died out decades ago and that the pronouncement of guilt or innocence by our justice system reflected actual guilt or innocence.
But I’ve forgiven my earlier self this embarrassing naivete because I think his conclusions weren’t based entirely on ignorance as much as on a hope for how things could be. And though for many years I scoffed at the notion, I have to confess now that I’ve become convinced world peace is indeed possible.

**WHAT IS THE TRUE CAUSE OF WAR?**
Countries don’t go to war. The *leaders* of countries go to war.
They marshal their reasons, stir up the public, dehumanize the enemy
(as I wrote about in an earlier post, The True Cause Of Cruelty), and send out their forces. The number of people actually responsible for the decision to go to war can usually fit comfortably inside a single large-sized room.
Leaders, of course, only occasionally represent the best of what humanity has to offer so they usually exhibit the same failings and weaknesses as the rest of us. They get angry when they shouldn’t, let their egos motivate them more than they should, and are entirely too concerned with doing what’s popular rather than what’s right. They suffer from the same three poisons as the populations they lead: greed, anger, and stupidity.
The true cause of war lies in the unchecked rampaging of these three poisons through the hearts of individual people. Though the situations confronting world leaders that lead them to decide to wage war often seem complex, the only way in which they’re different from conflict that erupts between two people standing in a room is that they occur on a larger scale. But if in civilized societies we expect people to work out their differences amicably (whether themselves or with the help of the courts), why don’t those same expectations apply to differences between civilized countries?

**IS WAR EVER NECESSARY?**
In a world in which tyranny continues to exist, war may in fact sometimes be justified. In the same way it’s necessary to fight to defend oneself when attacked, so too it’s sometimes necessary to go to war to put down injustice, or even the possibility of injustice when its likelihood is great enough. Rarely, however, is this given as a primary reason. Even democracies seem to be roused to war only by self-interest.

Fair enough. But when any leader chooses war, *he or she should do so*
*with a heavy heart*. As the original Buddha, Shakyamuni, once said when asked if killing was ever to be permitted: “It is enough to kill the will to kill.” In other words, we should strive to kill the the *idea* that killing others should be anything other than the very last action we ever permit ourselves to take. Shakyamuni was a realist. He knew the world would always be filled with people bent on committing evil, people whose ideas about how to live involved oppressing and killing others, and though he felt compassion even for them would speak loudly and passionately about the necessity of standing against them in concrete, practical ways.

**EXPERT HUMAN BEINGS**
To achieve world peace—to create a world in which war ceases to break
out—seems impossible because of the sheer number of people who haven’t yet mastered themselves, who haven’t tamed their ambition to raise themselves up at the expense of others, and who haven’t learned to start from today onward, letting past wrongs committed by both sides remain in the past. In short, it seems an impossible dream because we’re in desperately short supply of human beings who are *experts at living*.
An expert at living isn’t a person who never experiences greed, anger, or stupidity but rather one who remains in firm control of those negative parts (which can never be entirely eliminated), who’s able to surmount his or her darkest negativity, and displays a *peerless ability to resolve conflict* *peacefully*. What generates this expert ability to resolve conflict?
Wisdom and joy. Wise people are happy people, and happy people are wise.
If enough people in the world’s population became happy and wise, violence would be used far less often to solve conflict. If this pool of experts at living became large enough, we’d start seeing some of our leaders being picked from among them. And if enough leaders were experts at living, war, too, would be used far less often to solve conflict and further the interests of nations.

I’m no Pollyanna.
I fully recognize that as long as there remain inequities between classes, as long as people feel they have little hope for a good life and remain unable to tolerate others believing differently than they do about important issues, violence and war will continue. Which means the real path to world peace can’t be found in the passing of more laws, in diplomacy, or even in war itself. It can only be found in the actions individual human beings take to reform the tenets they hold in their hearts in order to become experts at living. Some argue human nature being what it is precludes the possibility of world peace, but I would counter that human nature doesn’t need to change—it only needs to be managed. Haven’t countless numbers of us already learned to do this every day, denying our baser impulses in order to contribute to solutions instead of problems?

**THE REAL BARRIER TO WORLD PEACE**
The reason most scoff at the notion of achieving world peace is because
if you buy the principle that individual human revolution is the real solution, then literally some *billions* of people would need to actively embrace the notion of devoting themselves to continual self-reformation. But—if you buy the principle that enough people becoming experts at living would create world peace, then you can’t argue world peace is literally impossible—just extraordinarily unlikely.
I don’t believe world peace will be achieved in my lifetime. But I do believe
it won’t be achieved in any lifetime after mine unless I make causes for it to happen now. How can I-and you-make those causes? As Gandhi famously said, by becoming the change we wish to see. Strive to become an expert at living.
Be good to those around you in concrete ways. Create an island of peace in your own life. If you do, it will spread. If enough of us do this, our islands will meet, ceasing to be islands and becoming whole continents. World peace exists literally in the actions each one takes in our own lives.

The most significant obstacle to achieving world peace isn’t the extraordinary difficulty involved in becoming a genuine expert at living, though. It’s those most in need of reforming the tenets they hold in their hearts, who most need training in how to be an expert at living, *are those least interested in it*, a point well articulated here.
The only real lever we have to pull with such people is their desire to become happy. We must convince them to follow our lead by becoming so happy ourselves—so ridiculously, genuinely happy—that they decide on their own they want to be like us, that they want what we have. And then we have to show them how to get it. Good ideas are our weapons. When people come to deeply believe in notions that promote peace, peace will follow like a shadow follows the body.

**To say this strategy is long-term would be an understatement.**
But all other solutions seem to me even less likely to succeed than the one
I’m proposing here. You may think me as hopelessly naive as my younger
self thought war had already been eliminated for continuing to hope that widespread, lasting peace is possible, but as John Lennon famously sang,
I’m not the only one. The ultimate dream of every Nichiren Buddhist is the accomplishment of world peace by the achievement of individual happiness.
We need to summon the courage to even voice a commitment to the goal. We can’t worry about if it can be done at all, or how long it might take. It can be done. It will take a long, long time. But the argument that it *can’t* be done and therefore shouldn’t be attempted is the argument of cowards. If there weren’t people throughout our history who refused to listen to that logic, we’d all still be living in caves. Look again at the last word in the title of this post.

STEVE JOBS: Stanford Commencement (English Subtitles)

Be the Change for Peace on Earth…
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Honeybee — **Bee** **The Change for Peace on Earth**

After Humanity, but 6 months later.

Bee Extinction Facts: Why The Extinction of Bees Would End Humanity?
In May 1965 a French periodical about nature and animals called, **Achat La Vie Des Bêtes,** Et L’ami Des Bêtes. stated that Einstein had calculated a grim four year time limit for humanity if bees disappeared.
This was the earliest evidence known to QI of a connection between Einstein who died in 1955 and the dire deadline.

Honey bees (a phenomenon attributed to everything from global warming
to insecticides to radiation from cell phone towers, and now thought to be the result of a fungus) have seen a resurgence in repetitions of a quote attributed
to Albert Einstein, citations claiming the noted scientist once said If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.

This truly sounds alarming: Bees are disappearing for reasons we cant yet explain and a certified genius such as Einstein noted long ago that if all the bees disappeared, we’d soon be following them into extinction. If the intent
of propagating this quote is to get our attention, it’s certainly been working. Did Einstein sagely foresee an environmental crisis we’re only just now beginning to notice?
To answer that last question (without denying the importance of the honeybees), we have to consider the related question of “Did Einstein really
say this?” First off, searches of Einstein’s writings and speeches and public statements, as well as of (scholarly) compilations of Einstein quotations reveal nary a reference to the “four years” phrase or any other statement mentioning bees (save for a brief comparison between humans and colony insects such as ants and bees). The compiler of *The New Quotable Einstein* also found no Einsteinian source for this quote and lists it as “Probably Not by Einstein.”
Riding the High Life in a Zombie Apocalypse – Days Gone

This remarkable story describes a time of great fear on
**the planet, the cold war.**

It tells how the simple and profound act of passing a torch of peace around
the world in partnership with the United Nations engaged the participation of millions of people, the world’s political leaders, and through the media, an estimated 20% of the planet’s population. It is a story of how the impossible became possible, creating transformative ripples out into the world.

First Earth Run: A Catalyst for Hope on Vimeo & Bing video

In 1986 at the height of the cold war, a torch of peace was passed around the world. The First Earth Run, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund, directly engaged 25 million people and 45 heads-of-state in 62 countries. Twenty percent of the planet — a billion people — watched the torch circum – navigate the globe via the media. For 86 days, wherever the Torch of Peace went, all wars stopped and the world was united as one.

The Torch of Peace was lit in a sunrise ceremony on the grounds of the
United Nations on September 16, 1986 — the International Day of Peace in the International Year of Peace. At that ceremony, Grandmother Caroline, a keeper of the Hopi Prophecy, shared these prophetic words: The Torch of Peace launched from this Great Hall of Mica marks the great turning toward 1,000 years of peace. Pay attention to the signs as they will help guide its journey. Since then, this modern-day mythic story embodying humanity’s noblest aspirations for peace on earth has continued to be told all over the world.
Now the signs indicate that it’s time for the Torch of Peace to be reignited to fulfill its prophetic mission of creating peace on earth. The planet’s wisdom-keepers tell us that when ½ of 1% of humanity (40 million people) wholeheartedly believe peace on earth is possible, there will be enough coherence of thought and emotion to shift our collective consciousness to make this a reality. But to create this future we need to believe it is possible. What we believe becomes our reality for better or worse. To shift humanity’s belief system requires a new story — and the means to attain it.

That new story is called Peace on Earth by 2030. To achieve this, we are building a 40-million-person movement of DreamKeepers empowered with the seven actions that enabled the First Earth Run to unite the world and create peace on earth over its 86-day journey. These seven actions are designed as a global game that will take place between 2020 and 2030.
On September 21, 2020 — the International Day of Peace and 34 years after the Torch of Peace circumnavigated the globe — we’ll launch the
seven actions to create peace on earth – by 2030 and the Second Earth Run! In this case, a 12-month virtual Earth Run that will take place annually over the decade. With the reach of the internet, we don’t need to literally run around the world to inspire and empower people with this vision of hope and possibility.
The goal of the annual Earth Runs is for teams playing the game to create Peace on Earth (POE) Zones in their communities where these seven actions are practiced. The POE Zones established each year will be honored through a global musical celebration of our collective achievement. With the torch held high, we will experience the world we most want in our hearts coming into existence and witness the dawning of a new future for humankind!

Be the *CHANGE* you *WISH* to see in the *WORLD!!!*

At this critical time when we are becoming more and more divided,
this game serves as deep medicine to heal that which separates us. The First Earth Run’s seemingly impossible achievement of peace on earth for 86 days became possible. Because the world was so divided it needed light to remind us of the oneness of our humanity. It is time to build on this base camp achievement for humanity and make the full ascent to peace on earth in one decade!
We know in our soul as a species that we are primed for deep transformation to occur at this time. There are so many people of good will connected through social networks that with the right spark we can ignite a global fire that empowers humanity to fulfill its deepest dream. These seven actions for creating peace on earth have proven they can ignite such a global fire.
Is peace on earth humanity’s destiny? It can be if enough of us say: “I am willing to be one of the DreamKeepers and carry the torch to make it a reality.” We invite you to be one of the planet’s DreamKeepers and a sacred torch bearer for our future as a species!
May those of us living in the 21st century be known in the history of our planet as the heroic generation that brought goodwill to all of humanity and established peace on our beautiful Earth!

***To learn about the game***, click here.
David Gershon conceived and organized the First Earth Run. Co-founder
and CEO of Empowerment Institute, David has been called “the number one expert on social change.” He applies his visionary leadership and social change expertise to designing second-order change solutions for cities, countries,
and the planet that enable the seemingly impossible to become possible.
He’s the author of 12 books, including the award-winning Social *Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World* and the bestselling *Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life as You Want It*.

Based on his decades of transformative social change knowledge and experience,
he’s architect a bold plan to change the world called Reinventing the Planet.

The “Peace on Earth by 2030” game plays a central role in this grand
strategy. Drawing on his three decades in the trenches of large-scale societal transformation, David Gershon–founder and president of Empowerment Institute, and described by the United Nations as a “graceful revolutionary”–offers an original and comprehensive roadmap to bring about fundamental change in our world. His goal is to empower change agents to tackle pressing social problems or unmet social needs by providing them with strategies and tools to effect transformative change at any level of scale.

From his initiation as architect of the United Nations-sponsored First Earth Run–a mythic passing of fire around the world symbolizing humanity’s quest for peace on earth that drew tens of millions of participants, the planet’s political leaders and, through the media, over a billion people at the height of the cold war–to his recent climate-change work helping citizens, cities, and entire states measurably reduce their carbon footprint (using his book *Low Carbon Diet*), Gershon offers readers strategies to evolve an effective new model for social change.

**Just because something is hard doesn’t mean it’s impossible.**

***Question everything and form your own opinions but don’t try to change mine! It is NOT about a virus!***

When I was learning about World War II from my father,
I remember thinking how grateful I was that society had finally matured to the point in the intervening years that war no longer ever broke out. Today I can hardly remember what bizarre thought process led me to conclude that people had actually become less barbaric with time.
I do remember I also believed racial prejudice had died out decades ago and that the pronouncement of guilt or innocence by our justice system reflected actual guilt or innocence.
But I’ve forgiven my earlier self this embarrassing naivete because I think his conclusions weren’t based entirely on ignorance as much as on a hope for how things could be. And though for many years I scoffed at the notion, I have to confess now that I’ve become convinced world peace is indeed possible.

**WHAT IS THE TRUE CAUSE OF WAR?**
Countries don’t go to war. The *leaders* of countries go to war.
They marshal their reasons, stir up the public, dehumanize the enemy
(as I wrote about in an earlier post, The True Cause Of Cruelty), and send out their forces. The number of people actually responsible for the decision to go to war can usually fit comfortably inside a single large-sized room.
Leaders, of course, only occasionally represent the best of what humanity has to offer so they usually exhibit the same failings and weaknesses as the rest of us. They get angry when they shouldn’t, let their egos motivate them more than they should, and are entirely too concerned with doing what’s popular rather than what’s right. They suffer from the same three poisons as the populations they lead: greed, anger, and stupidity.
The true cause of war lies in the unchecked rampaging of these three poisons through the hearts of individual people. Though the situations confronting world leaders that lead them to decide to wage war often seem complex, the only way in which they’re different from conflict that erupts between two people standing in a room is that they occur on a larger scale. But if in civilized societies we expect people to work out their differences amicably (whether themselves or with the help of the courts), why don’t those same expectations apply to differences between civilized countries?

**IS WAR EVER NECESSARY?**
In a world in which tyranny continues to exist, war may in fact sometimes be justified. In the same way it’s necessary to fight to defend oneself when attacked, so too it’s sometimes necessary to go to war to put down injustice, or even the possibility of injustice when its likelihood is great enough. Rarely, however, is this given as a primary reason. Even democracies seem to be roused to war only by self-interest.

Fair enough. But when any leader chooses war, *he or she should do so*
*with a heavy heart*. As the original Buddha, Shakyamuni, once said when asked if killing was ever to be permitted: “It is enough to kill the will to kill.” In other words, we should strive to kill the the *idea* that killing others should be anything other than the very last action we ever permit ourselves to take. Shakyamuni was a realist. He knew the world would always be filled with people bent on committing evil, people whose ideas about how to live involved oppressing and killing others, and though he felt compassion even for them would speak loudly and passionately about the necessity of standing against them in concrete, practical ways.

**EXPERT HUMAN BEINGS**
To achieve world peace—to create a world in which war ceases to break
out—seems impossible because of the sheer number of people who haven’t yet mastered themselves, who haven’t tamed their ambition to raise themselves up at the expense of others, and who haven’t learned to start from today onward, letting past wrongs committed by both sides remain in the past. In short, it seems an impossible dream because we’re in desperately short supply of human beings who are *experts at living*.
An expert at living isn’t a person who never experiences greed, anger, or stupidity but rather one who remains in firm control of those negative parts (which can never be entirely eliminated), who’s able to surmount his or her darkest negativity, and displays a *peerless ability to resolve conflict* *peacefully*. What generates this expert ability to resolve conflict?
Wisdom and joy. Wise people are happy people, and happy people are wise.
If enough people in the world’s population became happy and wise, violence would be used far less often to solve conflict. If this pool of experts at living became large enough, we’d start seeing some of our leaders being picked from among them. And if enough leaders were experts at living, war, too, would be used far less often to solve conflict and further the interests of nations.

I’m no Pollyanna.
I fully recognize that as long as there remain inequities between classes, as long as people feel they have little hope for a good life and remain unable to tolerate others believing differently than they do about important issues, violence and war will continue. Which means the real path to world peace can’t be found in the passing of more laws, in diplomacy, or even in war itself. It can only be found in the actions individual human beings take to reform the tenets they hold in their hearts in order to become experts at living. Some argue human nature being what it is precludes the possibility of world peace, but I would counter that human nature doesn’t need to change—it only needs to be managed. Haven’t countless numbers of us already learned to do this every day, denying our baser impulses in order to contribute to solutions instead of problems?

**THE REAL BARRIER TO WORLD PEACE**
The reason most scoff at the notion of achieving world peace is because
if you buy the principle that individual human revolution is the real solution, then literally some *billions* of people would need to actively embrace the notion of devoting themselves to continual self-reformation. But—if you buy the principle that enough people becoming experts at living would create world peace, then you can’t argue world peace is literally impossible—just extraordinarily unlikely.
I don’t believe world peace will be achieved in my lifetime. But I do believe
it won’t be achieved in any lifetime after mine unless I make causes for it to happen now. How can I-and you-make those causes? As Gandhi famously said, by becoming the change we wish to see. Strive to become an expert at living.
Be good to those around you in concrete ways. Create an island of peace in your own life. If you do, it will spread. If enough of us do this, our islands will meet, ceasing to be islands and becoming whole continents. World peace exists literally in the actions each one takes in our own lives.

The most significant obstacle to achieving world peace isn’t the extraordinary difficulty involved in becoming a genuine expert at living, though. It’s those most in need of reforming the tenets they hold in their hearts, who most need training in how to be an expert at living, *are those least interested in it*, a point well articulated here.
The only real lever we have to pull with such people is their desire to become happy. We must convince them to follow our lead by becoming so happy ourselves—so ridiculously, genuinely happy—that they decide on their own they want to be like us, that they want what we have. And then we have to show them how to get it. Good ideas are our weapons. When people come to deeply believe in notions that promote peace, peace will follow like a shadow follows the body.

**To say this strategy is long-term would be an understatement.**
But all other solutions seem to me even less likely to succeed than the one
I’m proposing here. You may think me as hopelessly naive as my younger
self thought war had already been eliminated for continuing to hope that widespread, lasting peace is possible, but as John Lennon famously sang,
I’m not the only one. The ultimate dream of every Nichiren Buddhist is the accomplishment of world peace by the achievement of individual happiness.
We need to summon the courage to even voice a commitment to the goal. We can’t worry about if it can be done at all, or how long it might take. It can be done. It will take a long, long time. But the argument that it *can’t* be done and therefore shouldn’t be attempted is the argument of cowards. If there weren’t people throughout our history who refused to listen to that logic, we’d all still be living in caves. Look again at the last word in the title of this post.

STEVE JOBS: Stanford Commencement (English Subtitles)

Be the Change for Peace on Earth…
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion #NoMoreLockdowns #NoNewNormal

Stay strong with your views, be mindful of others.

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Critical Thinking

Posted on June 16, 2021 by Ken

**She started attending Columbia University, pictured, in 2016 and said she thought she was going to learn how to think critically but was instead ‘forced to think’ a certain way,**

By MELISSA KOENIG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
**PUBLISHED:** 21:55 EDT, 14 June 2021 | **UPDATED:** 06:44 EDT,
15TH June 2021

Many of the classes at Columbia, she said, would teach the students about
how white men have ruined everything, despite leaders like Mao Zedong
killing political dissidents.

‘Because I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like’ Yeonmi Park
said, adding that she saw people dying of starvation by the time she was 13.
‘These kids keep saying how they’re oppressed, how much injustice they’ve experienced,’ Park said of her fellow students. ‘They don’t know how hard it
is to be free.’
‘I literally crossed through the middle of the Gobi Desert to be free,’ she continued, ‘but what I did was nothing – so many people fought harder
than me and didn’t make it.’

*Yeonmi Park is a **strong** and **courageous woman** who shows the world that anyone can overcome any barrier that stands in their way.*

*Yeonmi Park was born in the North Korean city of **Hyesan**, close to the Chinese border, and brought up in the brutal and paranoid atmosphere*
*of the Kim dictatorships.*

But, she said, here in America people ‘are just dying to give their rights and power to the government.

‘That is what scares me the most,’ she said, adding: ‘Power can corrupt,
that’s just the nature of power.’

*In an interview with FOX News, Yeonmi said she saw similarities between her homeland of North Korea and American educational institutions.*

‘North Korea was crazy, but not this crazy’: Columbia student, 27,
who escaped Stalinist dictatorship warns wokeism is stifling freedom
of speech at US universities just like in her homeland.

– **Park and her mother fled North Korea to China over the frozen Yalu River in 2007 when she was just 13-years-old**.
– **From there, the two were sold into slavery by human traffickers, but were ultimately rescued by Christian missionaries who helped them flee to Mongolia**.
– **They trekked across the Gobi Desert to find refuge in South Korea, where Park went to school until she transferred to Columbia University in 2016**.
– **She said she was expecting to learn how to think critically but instead was ‘force to think the way they want you to think.’**
– **She also said she was confused by people claiming they were oppressed when they went to the half-million dollar school.**

A woman who fled North Korea when she was a teenager and is now
attending Columbia University said she is seeing a lot of similarities
between the totalitarian regime she grew up in and the education she
is now receiving in the United States.
Yeonmi Park and her mother fled North Korea to China over the frozen
Yalu River in 2007, when she was just 13, and the two were sold into
slavery by human traffickers.

They were ultimately able to flee to Mongolia with the help of Christian missionaries and trekked across the Gobi Desert to eventually find refuge in South Korea, where Park, now 27, attended college before transferring
to Columbia in 2016.
‘I literally crossed the Gobi Desert to be free and I realized I’m not free, America’s not free,’ she said.
‘I expected that I was paying this fortune, all this time and energy to learn
how to think,’ she told FOX News. ‘But they are forcing you to think the way they want you to think.’
‘I realized, ‘Wow, this is insane,” she recounted, ‘I thought America was different but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that
I started worrying.’
Park said that her professors would give them ‘trigger warnings’ and allow them to opt out of readings and discussions.
‘Going to Columbia, the first thing I learned was ‘safe space,” she told the
New York Post.
She explained that when she started school at Columbia, she was excited to learn more about history, a subject she said was discouraged in her homeland.
But when her teacher, discussing Western Civilization, asked if students had an issue with the name of the class topic, most did, saying there was a ‘colonial’ slant.
‘Every problem, they explained to us, is because of white men,” she said, reminding her of her home country where people were categorized based
on their ancestors, according to the Post.

During her orientation, a professor asked the class who liked classical books, like Jane Austen. ‘I said, ‘I love those books,’ Park said in an interview with FOX News. ‘I thought it was a good thing.’ ‘Then she said, ‘Did you know
those writers had a colonial mindset?
They were racists and bigots and are subconsciously brainwashing you.’
From there, she said, her classes were filled with ‘anti-American sentiment, reminding her of her childhood in North Korea, where students were constantly taught about the ‘American bastard,’ which was the only way they were allowed to refer to Americans.
‘The math problems would say: “There are four American bastards, you kill
two of them, how many American bastards are left to kill?,” Park recounted, saying 7-year-olds in North Korea would have to respond with ‘two American bastards’ to that question.
‘I thought North Koreans were the only people who hated Americans, but it turns out there are a lot of people hating this country in this country,’ she said.
She said she was also confused by students’ use of ‘preferred pronouns.’
‘English is my third language – I learned it as an adult,’ said Park, who published a memoir about her time in North Korea in 2015.

‘I sometimes still say ‘he’ or ‘she’ by mistake,’ she said, noting that she is not trying to be disrespectful to her colleagues, ‘and now they are going to ask me to call them ‘they.’
How the heck do I incorporate that into my sentences?’
‘It felt the regression in civilization,’ she said.
Eventually, she said she ‘learned how to just shut up’ so she could get good grades and graduate, but, she said, ‘Even North Korea is not this nuts.’
‘North Korea was pretty crazy,’ she said, ‘but not this crazy.’
‘I don’t know why people are collectively going crazy like this or together
at the same time.’
‘In North Korea, I literally believed that my Dear Leader was starving,’
Park said, referring to Kim Jong Un.
‘He’s the fattest guy – how can anyone believe that? And then somebody showed me a photo and said ‘Look at him, he’s the fattest guy. Other people
are all thin.’ And I was like ‘Oh my God, why did I not notice that he was fat?’ Because I never learned how to think critically.’
‘That is what is happening in America,’ Park concluded. ‘People see things,
but they’ve just completely lost the ability to think critically.’

She said she did not understand how that could happen in the United States.
‘North Koreans, we don’t have the Internet, we don’t have access to any of these great thinkers, we don’t know anything,’ she said. ‘But here, while having everything, people choose to be brainwashed. And they deny it.’
‘You guys have lost common sense to a degree that I as a North Korean cannot even comprehend.’
Now, she says, she fears America is going to become like North Korea.
‘Where are we going from here?’ she asked, rhetorically. ‘The future of our country’s as bleak as North Korea’s if we do not rise up right now.’
‘There’s no rule of law, no morality, nothing is good or bad anymore,
it’s complete chaos.
‘I guess that’s what they want,’ she said,’ to destroy every single thing and rebuild into a communist paradise.’
In her memoir, In Order to Live, Park warned that Americans were censoring and silencing each other through canceled culture.
‘Voluntarily, these people are censoring each other, silencing each other,
no force behind it,’ she said.
‘Other times (in history) there’s a military coup d’etat, like a force comes in taking your rights away and silencing you. But this country is choosing to be silenced, choosing to give their rights away.’

**Read more:**
Columbia student who escaped North Korea says she sees similarities in the US | Daily Mail Online

North Korean defector says ‘even North Korea was not this nuts’ after attending Ivy League school | Fox News

North Korean defector slams ‘woke’ US schools

Lest anyone forget that everything including all of the laws in the Old Testament!

Point to the message of the cross in the New Testament. Jesus fulfilled all 613 rules of that obsolete Mosaic Law (or Torah) which includes the Ten Commandments brought down from Mount Sinai by Moses as well as everything mentioned by the O.T. prophets (Matthew 5:17-20 — He didn’t ABOLISH any of it but rather FULFILLED all of it.

See John 1:17, Ephesians 2:14-18, 2 Corinthians 3:4-11, Hebrews 7:18-19, Hebrews 8:6, Hebrews 8:13 and Hebrews 13:9.).)
It’s only The Holy Spirit Who can guide into all truth (John 14:26, John 16:13, 1 Corinthians 3:5-9).
Apart from the law, sin is dead (Romans 7:8, Galatians 2:16).

Simply rejecting Jesus (Judaism) or trying to blend Mosaic Law and Calvary (Hebrew Roots Movement) are in themselves causing people to sin despite trying to do something about a sin problem. Interesting how in John 12:32 Jesus said He will draw all men to Himself when He is lifted up from the earth, then fast forward 7 chapters to John 19:30 when He said, “It is finished,” making forgiveness possible.

THAT’s when the A.D. Era began, not where your Bible says “THE NEW TESTAMENT” (see Matthew 4:4 for more information).

That “whosoever will” principle in John 3:16-17, John 5:24 and Romans 10:13 is self-explanatory.

One is either in Jesus (100% forgiven – “Sheep”) or in Adam 0% forgiven – “Goats”). There is no such thing as a “Geep”: No one is ever “50% forgiven”. Both testaments are blood economies but this new one is permanent. There will never again be another Calvary. No need. It was effective the first time. (Also see John 6:29, and John 6:29.1 and John 6:29-1 and John 3:23 and John 3:23-24 and John 3:23-1 and John 5:6-12 for more information.)

Good morning dear brothers & sisters: It is so wonderful to know that we have left Egypt (the world) behind us, and are passed the journey of our wondering in the wilderness, and have entered into the good land, flowing with milk and honey, which represents Christ to us, in all that He is to us, and in all that He has done for us, is doing and will do for us, so that we are supplied with Christ as the Spirit, within all that we need to fully capture all the enemies in our daily battles, so as to gain the Christ of God, the good land, flowing with milk and honey! Our Lord Jesus Christ not only goes before us in our battles, but also goes with us to fight for us against our enemies, in order to save us unto a full and an eternal salvation! He truly is the Captain of our salvation. …

“When you go forth into battle against your enemies, and you see horse and chariot, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not fear them; for the Lord your God is with you, He who has brought you up out of the land of Egypt. (2) And when you draw near to the battle, the priest shall approach and speak to the people, (3) And he shall say to them, Hear, O Israel! (Hear, O church of the Living God.)

You are drawing near to the battle against your enemies today. … (This is the day that the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it, for He is our Victorious Captain, leading us on to victory!) … Do not let your heart fail; do not be afraid or alarmed or terrified of them. (4) For it is the Lord your God who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.” (Deuteronomy 20:1-4) …

Have a blessed day and week ahead of you; for it is the Lord your God who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to save you! … Glory! Hallelujah! Thank You Lord Jesus! Praise You, O Lord, our Captain and Savior God! Amen! ✝ …