At Ballsbridge Physiotherapy Clinic, we believe that any pain and discomfort experienced during pregnancy should be treated effectively with the appropriate physiotherapy treatments.
Pregnancy is a wonderful and exciting time for expectant mothers. However, the changes that your body goes through during this period can play havoc on both your muscles and bones. We specialise in the treatment of many issues experienced during pregnancy such as lower back pain, diastases recti and especially, pelvic floor problems.
General aches and pains are often thought to be part and parcel of pregnancy. In reality, there is much that can be done to minimise the effects of hormonal changes and a growing bump. 80% of women experience low back or pelvic pain during their pregnancy and 20% experienced moderate to severe pain (Mens et al (2012)).
Why do we experience symptoms?
High heels increase the load on your lumbar spine and should be avoided. However, flats such as pumps do not provide sufficient support either. Supportive, comfortable footwear is the key.
Exercise during pregnancy is recommended but seek advice from your chartered physiotherapist or ante-natal clinic before commencing a new form of exercise. Inactivity decreases your fitness making life more difficult in the later stages.
Firstly, being pregnant does not protect you from common musculoskeletal injuries such as; ankle sprains, neck pain etc. These should be treated promptly to minimise any knock on effects. The normal physiological changes in pregnancy must govern treatment of any musculoskeletal injuries and any chartered physiotherapist at Ballsbridge Physiotherapy clinic with their extensive medical background are best placed to manage these problems. Specific management of low back or pelvic girdle pain is recommended. The increased load that your pelvis is exposed to during pregnancy can result in an imbalance. The good news is that these changes can be managed quickly and effectively through specific exercise (Stuge et al (2004)), manual therapy and advice. In our experiences, this problem is managed effectively and safely with early intervention.
Your uterus is not only part of your body that has to stretch to accommodate your growing baby. During the 2nd trimester your rib cage has to expand as the baby sits high in the uterus. This can result in rib or mid back pain. If you work at a desk this section of your spine is often quite stiff and the resulting rapid expansion can cause significant discomfort.
Thoracic pain is a common problem in pregnancy and it can be quite disabling. The most common symptoms are pain on turning your trunk/deep breathing or coughing. This pregnancy symptom can be safely and effectively treated by our chartered physiotherapists here at Ballsbridge Physiotherapy Clinic. Manual therapy and exercise will resolve the problem quickly and easily. Thoracic pain is less common in the later stages as the baby descends in the pelvis.
Watch your posture at your desk. Avoid over reaching and regularly changing position.
Heat applied between shoulder blades or to the muscles of the neck/shoulder area can give a lot of relief. Watch the temperature of the hot water bottle and your posture when you are using it. Do not apply heat over your bump.
The pelvic floor muscles act as a broad sling between your legs. These muscles stretch from the pubic bone at the front of your body to the base of your spine at the back. They have a supportive role helping to hold your bladder, uterus (womb) and bowel in place. These muscles also give you control over when you empty your bladder or move your bowels.
During pregnancy, these muscles will change due to increasing laxity and the weight and position of your baby. As a result, you may find you leak a little urine (stress incontinence) when you cough or sneeze. This problem can carry on after your baby is born.
If done properly, pelvic floor exercises can help to protect you from leaking urine when you're pregnant and after your baby is born. While weaknesses in your pelvic floor muscles is common during pregnancy, it does generally recover completely within 12 weeks of having your baby. If you are concerned about your pelvic floor, contact our continence specialist, Aileen MaGuire. Being able to contract and release your pelvic floor muscles is of equal importance. The physiotherapist will assess your exercise technique and prescribe an appropriate exercise programme. If you are experiencing symptoms after having your baby early intervention is key to prevent any long term issues.
Many myths surround the topic of exercise and pregnancy: from Victorian times where in the wealthy classes being pregnancy called for an extended "lying-in" period to today's social media bombardment of blogs and vlogs of super fit pregnant mums.
Pregnancy is deemed established at 12 weeks so avoid taking up a new or vigorous exercise until you pass this point.
In general, low impact activities such as walking, Pilates, yoga and water-based programmes are beneficial but ensure your instructor is aware that you are pregnant.
Listen to your body: If you feel tired that is not the time to push yourself, it's time for rest.
Keep hydrated and wear sensible footwear.
If your exercise is limited by persistent pain or discomfort seek advice from us; specific exercise programmes are of benefit.
When should I return to pregnancy post-birth? If you have had a normal birth you should be able to start back when your body feels ready. Guidelines recommend that you should not commence high impact exercise until at least six weeks post-partum. However, a more realistic guideline is 12-16 weeks due to the impact your pregnancy has had on your pelvic floor muscles.
Pilates is a great way to regain your body shape and strength. We have small Pilates classes (5-6 participants) led by a chartered physiotherapist, which is an ideal way to return to exercise. These classes are perfect post pregnancy to target your core muscle groups, regain strength, stability and balance.
Perhaps you have returned to high level sport and are starting to experience some symptoms; such as low back ache, dragging sensation in your pelvic region or pain over your symphysis pubis. Restoring stability and correct recruitment of the pelvic floor muscles is crucial to enable a safe return to sports such as running, tennis and hockey.
Diastasis recti can be defined as a separation of your outer most abdominal muscles. These muscles are called rectus abdominis and their job is to help support your back and organs. During pregnancy, this separation occurs in order to accommodate the growing uterus. Other causes of diastasis recti include weight gain in the abdominal area or doing abdominal exercise incorrectly.
When the muscles separate, the connective tissue that joins them stretches sideways. The more it stretches sideways. The more it stretches sideways the thinner and weaker it becomes. A small widening of the midline is totally normal during pregnancy, in fact, about 30 – 40% of all pregnancies will result in diastasis.
Depending on the degree of separation, you may require a support for the muscles. Correct exercise prescribed by your chartered physiotherapist is important in maximising recovery and building a strong abdominal wall. Poor recovery is a risk factor in developing back pain at a later stage.
Our physiotherapist, Olive McCafferty has a special interest in helping you retrain these muscles to full function. Her training in Pilates with a Master's in Sports Medicine adds to her knowledge base in this field.


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President Biden and
Prospects for Immigration Reform
A Wising Up Citizen/Scholar Report
Charles D. Brockett, PhD
In his first days and weeks in office President Joe Biden issued a series of executive orders reversing many of the highly controversial immigration policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump. He also sent to Congress an ambitious comprehensive immigration reform. His legislative proposal represents a sharp break with the prior administration. It is ambitious not only because of its scope but also given the failures of the three preceding administrations to gain approval for their immigration legislative initiatives. Will President Biden succeed where they failed?
Current public preferences concerning immigration provide sound guidance for the construction of a resilient compromise on many aspects of the 2021 immigration debate. These include legalization of the status of both the "Dreamers" (young people brought to the country without authorization when they were children) as well as the millions more of adult undocumented immigrants. Given the political reality that the Democrats' control of both chambers of Congress is so slim, other reforms supported by the public provide opportunities for the compromises necessary to gain approval of a comprehensive immigration reform. These include enhanced border security (but not the wall along the border with Mexico) and changes to policy governing legal immigration, such as leaning away from family unification toward a more merit-based system and better limiting overall immigration levels.
President Biden and Prospects for Immigration Reform draws on the results of a wide variety of questions asked of the public about immigration across the broadest time spans possible, in some cases stretching over decades. These results are presented in 21 easily read graphs, many of which extend into late 2019 and some through 2020. This report also relates these trends in public opinion to their broader context, such as the successful immigration reforms of 1965 and 1986 and the failures during the administrations of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. The often sharp differences between Democrats and Republicans that are portrayed through the report highlight the difficulties that face compromise in this area. But it can be done if we let the public show the way.
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Moses and Wiz make it rain in the official music video for "Bag".
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Top 4 Concerts in Toronto May 2016
by Ben Labenski | May 10, 2016 | Concerts, concerts in toronto | 0 comments
Spring has sprung. Get ready for our top concerts in Toronto May 2016. With it comes t-shirt weather, patio drinks, can't-miss shows and the early days of festival season. We've done our research at Mighty and broken down our top concerts in Toronto May 2016. We were busy during Canadian Music Week so we're a little late. Without further ado, lets dig in!
May 10, Floating Points at the Mod Club
Definitely the most interesting and off-the-board choice in this monthly feature, Floating Points is the moniker of Manchester, England-born Sam Shepherd, whom is also a neuroscientist in addition to being an electronic musician.
Do NOT disregard this artist or show due to the mention of 'electronic music', as Floating Points incorporates beautiful ambient layering, deep house bass grooves and – to my personal pleasure, technically sound jazz drumming to keep it all together. Shepherd's debut album as Floating Points, Elaenia (released late 2015) featured album artwork he created with fibre-optic cables, not to mention rave reviews for the actual music contained on the debut from well-reputed music blogs and critical platforms (85/100 Metacritic aggregate score, featured on numerous year-end Best-of-2015 lists). Normally I don't find myself attending electronic concerts, save for when at a festival or for a few personal standouts such as Jon Hopkins (whom is a strong comparable to Floating Points), Jamie XX or Four Tet, but I would be quite intrigued to see how Shepherd performs Elaenia in a live atmosphere. I'm confident that we can give him the benefit of the doubt, seeing as he's clearly a brilliant musician and visual artist on top of being a neuroscientist by day.
When: Tuesday, May 10, 2016, 8:00 PM
Where: 722 College Street, Toronto, ON
Buy Tickets: SOLD OUT, Remaining tickets at Rotate This & Soundscapes
May 24-28, Wolf Parade at Lee's Palace
'Wolf Parade Week' in Toronto is a two-fold can't miss event. I say its two-fold because – well for starters, you're obviously not going to want to miss these Canadian indie legends, and additionally because they're literally playing 5 nights in a row at Lee's Palace. You couldn't miss all 5 shows if you tried – though tickets will still be difficult to come by since these Montreal-via-British-Columbia dudes have been on hiatus for the last 5 years!
I have to admit, Wolf Parade have been all around me in one form or another for the last 5 years, but I didn't dive head-first into their discography with a concerted effort until I discovered the indie 'super-group' Divine Fits, who feature Wolf Parade's own Dan Boeckner. As you can probably imagine from the previous statement, I have been a huge Spoon fan since I started listening to good music. Since I believe that anything Britt Daniel has a hand in will be worth the listen, I gave their lone album, A Thing Called Divine Fits, a solid listen and shortly thereafter found a legitimate reason to dive into Wolf Parade's discography, which was a truly pleasant surprise! They're sound is not so different from earlier, raw Modest Mouse, and I would be enthused to hear how they've changed up the live sound since returning from a 5 year absence.
When: Tuesday-Saturday, May 24-28, 2016, 8:00 PM
Where: 529 Bloor Street W, Toronto, ON
Buy Tickets: SOLD OUT
May 29, Bloc Party at the Phoenix
Most consider Bloc Party to be a band well past their creative peak. Though I would generally agree with the sentiment, one has to admit that it's difficult to live up to the hype that follows a cataclysmically epic debut album, as 2005's Silent Alarm was.
I'll always argue for their sophomore release in 2007's A Weekend in the City as a criminally underrated follow-up that was overshadowed by the debut album, but I definitely began to lose interest with the path they chose towards electronic music on 2008's Intimacy; a path that I feel stepped on the toes of former drummer Matt Tong's capabilities. My disappointment with Intimacy, combined with the 4 year break between then and 2012's Four resulted in a lost connection with Bloc Party. I have yet to give their newest album, 2016's Hymns, a solid listen, though I'm already confident that I will long for the void left in Matt Tong's absence.
All of the above being said, I was lucky enough to stumble across a Bloc Party concert on two separate occasions – at Osheaga 2012 and Field Trip 2013. Obviously, both of these shows were quite a while after I had moved on from the band, yet both provided a nostalgic punch in the gut and a ridiculously entertaining, upbeat performance. I did not expect that seeing Bloc Party in the pouring rain at the Green Stage would be my fondest memory of Osheaga 2012, yet here we are. That performance resulted in myself making a point of seeing them at Field Trip 2013 the next summer, and they once again did not disappoint!
All in all, just because a band may be past their creative peak in one fan's opinion, it doesn't mean that they've lost their uncanny ability to throw a banger of a performance while mixing in a few oldies on the way. This show would certainly be worth the price of admission on both the fun and nostalgic scale.
When: Sunday, May 29, 2016, 8:00 PM
Where: 410 Sherbourne Street, Toronto, ON
May 30, Courtney Barnett at the Danforth Music Hall
Probably the hottest ticket in town this month, and a great way to cap off May. Hard to come by a better way to welcome the warm weather than with an Australian rock trio featuring surf-rock toned Fender Jaguar riffs and an overall summertime vibe. Courtney Barnett burst onto the scene around this time last year with the release of her debut full-length album, the satirically titled Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit.
At first glance, one might consider such a ridiculous album title as a nonchalant and, downright careless decision by Courtney Barnett – but it would be prudent to make such an observation without listening to the album in its entirety. Barnett's melodramatic lyrics constantly dabble with 'first world problems' that modern society's 20-somethings demographic can certainly relate all too well with. Whether it's a chorus hook stating that 'I want to go out, but I want to stay home', or begging a conversation partner 'Don't stop listening, I'm not finished yet', I'm confident as a 24-year-old that I'm not the only listener who can completely relate to Barnett's lyrical sentiments.
Barnett's lyrics are certainly contemporary and relatable, but it would be improper to omit the musicianship of Courtney Barnett and her band. Barnett is a lefty shredder, with the full Fender arsenal at her disposal (Jaguar, Telecaster, Stratocaster), with nice touches of crunch, overdrive and muff to give her shredding a lovely hint of garage / low-fi sound. It suits the upbeat nature of the majority of her songs, with loose but powerful drumming from Dave Mudie to hold it all together. The blend of Barnett's lyrics and the always-fresh garage rock sound shows off an obvious comparison to Weezer, whom I would bet is one of Barnett's key inspirations. Her debut album also has an eerily similar feel to Best Coast's debut album, 2010's Crazy For You, yet with an Aussie sunburst version of garage rock, instead of the breezy Cali garage rock feel offered from Bethany Cosentino and company. I like to believe that Courtney Barnett's sound encapsulates young-adult Australian society in the same manner that Best Coast's sound does just that with 20-something's across California. Regardless, Barnett and company should host an absolute banger of a party (and show) when they play at the Danforth Music Hall.
When: Monday, May 30, 2016, 8:00 PM
Where: 147 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON
Ben Labenski
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Author of Tail of the Dragon, The Symposium of Justice and the upcoming Gunfighter's Guide to Business
Keith Kinnunen and Liberals: There are a lot more mentally depraved people in the world which requires us all to be armed to defend ourselves from
Not that it's a surprise, but we now know that the shooter of the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas was Keith Kinnunen—a loser who had managed his life poorly who targeted that church because they had given him food instead of money. This instance reminds me of many of my personal run-ins with homeless people. Once at the Kenwood Mall a homeless person was on the side of the highway exit looking for food, but what he really wanted was money. My wife and I went to the food court and bought him a bag of Arby's for which he immediately threw to the ground. I've tried to help people like that since, but often with the same result. It doesn't surprise me when people who find they can't live in the world due to their lack of mental development (which is almost 100% of the time their own fault) or because they have drug addictions, that this loser Keith Kinnunen was upset that the church only gave him food instead of money, and sought to take his rage out on them due to his own radical ideas of self-indulgence.
When Kinnunen pulled out a 12-gauge shotgun to kill parishioners at that church, he managed to kill a few people before Jack Wilson pulled out his own gun and shot the assailant dead in seconds, as concealed carry holders are supposed to do. Its always sad to see anybody lose their life, but this case had a happy ending, a lot more people were able to return home to their families due to a good guy with a gun shooting a bad guy with a gun. The problem with the case is that liberals put their own two cents into this case by suggesting that instead of focusing on the success of Wilson's actions that we should be looking at eliminating the need for gun violence in the first place, which is an astonishing statement considering that it is the liberal view of the world that caused the conditions.
Kinnunen was a troubled person his entire 44-year life, as a guy who had been married two times with ex-wives available to tell plenty of stories of his crazed anger and drug abuse, the guy was so irresponsible that he was just another homeless person. Many have pointed out that he wasn't mentally healthy which is obvious. The burning question in this case and all of them for that matter is what the cause of mental illness is, which I often say the entire Democrat party could be guilty of. Trying to decide what is mental illness and what isn't is where liberals have a hard time because their entire lives could be said to function out of some mental depravity not that unlike the killer in this Texas church case. They support drug abuse, do not believe in family structure and have a sense of entitlement which suggests that the world owes them something. They are not much different at face value than Kinnunen getting angry with the church because they gave him food instead of money.
This is entirely why most all liberals are opposed to open carrying of firearms because they see themselves in killers like Kinnunen. They want to believe that they are mentally healthy people, but when the facts come out on the kind of people who perform these mass killings in nearly every case, its not just a case of mental illness, but are the products of liberalism in our society—drug abuse, lack of personal responsibility for actions, and a sense of entitlement. Whether that entitlement comes in the form of federal workers demanding higher taxes to cover their inflated pensions, or whether its some loser like this Kinnunen guy who expects people to feel sorry for his bad decisions in life and to give him money for drugs so he can forget about his problems—that he himself created. Liberals sympathize with these killers because they see themselves in the mirrors of their existence—and they certainly wouldn't want to have an armed society that could protect themselves from liberal incursions, which are frequent if left unchecked.
There are tens of thousands of liberals who are not much healthier than Keith Kinnunen functioning right now in our schools, our BMVs, even at the post office. The only reason they have not become homeless people running around food kitchens looking for free money is because we overpay them to be government leeches. Most of them are about one paycheck away from becoming assassins like Keith Kinnunen. Not that they would go out and shoot someone tomorrow, but they think about it. Believe me they do. It took Keith Kinnunen 44 years to get to that point, so its not like people become killers that fast, but the thought is in their heads and they want desperately to hide it from the rest of us. That is why they are against an armed society. Its not what they fear in people like Jack Wilson, its in a loss of a safety net to catch them if they should fail in life like Kinnunen did. Because they have more in common with the killer than they do a church going do-gooder.
Without question we could have put a suit and tie on Keith Kinnunen and stuck him on MSNBC and called him a political pundit and if he talked about global warming instead of cash from church food giveaways, we'd accept his positions as rational. But its all extremism and rooted in beliefs that need others to fill them for sustenance. Kinnunen was self-righteously religious and likely took Bible verses rooted in socialist sentiment too far and believed that people owed him a living, whereas the global warming crowd requires others to believe in a complete fiction to validate their point of view. Both ideas are rooted in collectivism requiring many sane minds to drop away their logic to accept the premise of lunacy.
We accept logically that liberals can use the IRS to steal our money for their own government theft, and that the power of government can be used to overthrow elections such as the impeachment case against Trump, but that there is some invisible line that separates the actions of Keith Kinnunen from demanding money at a church instead of food, and when a shootout breaks out over the issue liberals want to prosecute the gun owners. When in truth it was a failure of liberalized society that allowed a guy like Keith Kinnunen to live outside of jail, on and off the streets as a drug addict and a violent person to more than one spouse. We all knew Kinnunen was dangerous, but our society failed to recognize that threat because honestly, he was too close in behavior to most Democrats. So, he continued in paralysis until he eventually pulled out a gun to kill people of his own sense of entitlement. His insanity is really the responsibility of a society that did not set him right at an early age and allowed him to become a menace as a grown adult. That is why our future will require more people to carry guns in more places, because this guy isn't the end by far. There are many just like him ready to snap and they are listening to the liberal dog whistles to fetch them on society as a menace. And it is then that we must defend ourselves.
Rich Hoffman
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The Real Lisa Page: What the world looks like outside the bubble
It was sort of lost to the events of the moment, but I think it was the biggest story of 2019 and should be the last thing we think about before we usher in the new year. Impeachment after all is a very tactical decision for a Democrat party that has no other choice really. They are a loser political group looking for supporters as each day they fall further behind the trends of the times. But for all honesty the noise of the year especially from Democrats was to cover the terrible FBI scandal that sought to put an end to the Trump presidency by manipulating the law to their advantage at the expense of the rest of us. So, it isn't surprising that on December 17th when Lisa Page went on Rachel Maddow's show on MSNBC to give her first live interview, the story was washed out before it even hit the airwaves. Impeachment was all anybody was talking about, and the new Star Wars movie was hitting theaters giving people a much-needed distraction from the perils of reality. And of course, there was Christmas and the need to get last minute presents. All the big names in the media were going on vacation, so Rachel put on a fellow Democrat to try to clear her name and repair her own brand by "fighting back" as she calls it. The results were fascinating, and worth a last look before we enter 2020.
What Lisa Page showed of herself by opening up a public exchange on Twitter and by doing this interview was a woman lost in a bubble that collapsed right on her face as she got caught not only messing around on her husband, Joe Burrow, the aspiring opera singer and current educator with a power hungry Georgetown University FBI agent married to a woman who has seen better days in the mirror—but they were both caught attempting to stage a coup against a sitting president and overthrowing an election. Now to be fair, they were not alone, but they were certainly attempting to shape history and abuse their access to power, for which Lisa Page obviously regrets. We've heard her lover's response in public in front of Congress when Peter Strzok showed what an out of touch loser he really was as a registered Democrat that thought the rest of the world was the way he and his circle of friends were, institutionalists who could name all the current popular wines, and books that they are talking about at Martha's Vineyard on a Sunday afternoon, but not a single reason of understanding why anybody would have even wanted to vote for President Trump.
Even on her best behavior on the Maddow show, Lisa Page showed outside the academic halls of a law school, or in a opera hall where her husband might sing away the day, as she and her friends sip wine in the foyer and contemplate the universe from the perspective of Georgetown society she reflected precisely the sentiments of their director of the FBI at the time, James Comey who thought of the presidency as an extension of some "higher order" for which the FBI was protecting. Some relationship with a pagan god and the heathens of a desired monarchy, for which America had rejected long ago, yet the memos never made it to the academia of Washington which lived joyously in that bubble of social construct for which they were the architects. These FBI agents are defending an American way of life that doesn't exist, but is rather an extension of Europe and all the dirty cobblestone streets that still haven't been repaired from the Middle Ages.
Yet Lisa Page is tired of being a caricature of the "right" as she stated it, and she is going to start fighting back because she thinks the rest of the world is with her. Apparently her husband understands the affair with Peter Strzok, perhaps he even sang a song about it as she sipped on a vintage wine of immaculate dating and sent text messages to the Strzoks inviting them over for dinner and a book review of a mutual friend recently found on the New York Times Bestseller list, pinky out. Perhaps James Comey was available too as they could all discuss what a disgusting reprobate the American people were for voting for Trump into the White House. Affairs, what are those? What's wrong with sharing good times with friends, until that friend falls in love with you as Peter Strzok did with Page. But to their minds it was all just a little fun, it didn't show any bad judgement regarding their character.
And so it went during the Maddow interview that Lisa Page continued to be bewildered as to why people have made a caricature out of her, and she tried to explain her text message statements with a context that presented her case in a more beleaguered way. Watching her speak to what Lisa Page thought of as a friendly audience was a window into how all these people think when they are alone with their own kind. They are wanna' be royalty trying to impose a standard of living that America rejected long ago, only they never got the memo. And they missed the memo because they hang around the wrong places and learn from those equally tarnished. Affairs in France are normal, and the people in Georgetown and around the greater Washington D.C. area strive to be more like dirty Europe and its topless beaches and free-thinking lack of physical possession marital commitments. What was missing from Page's interview was any kind of understanding that the whole purpose of throwing off English rule was to get away from the very kind of people she was and desires to be. And to answer the question, Trump was elected to undo their influence over the rest of us, not to strengthen it.
Unfortunately, I know a lot of people like Lisa Page, James Comey and Peter Strzok. I live in Liberty Township, Ohio where it was founded as a direct spawn of the American Revolution but these days these leftists spawn like Gremlins that have eaten after midnight and had water spilled on them breeding like popcorn. They are everywhere, but that doesn't make them right. It makes them simply as a form of insanity born in a bubble where natural predators have been staved off to allow them to grow. And to see Lisa Page's face in that interview, it is the face of a young lady who has used her sex to attempt to shape the world in an image she understands instead of trying to live in the world that is. Instead she sought to use her sexuality to control the mind of the investigating FBI agent on the case of Hillary Clinton to free her candidate to control the course of the nation to her whims. Opera is all about just those types of powerplays and from her point of view, it was all very normal, and exciting. But she got caught and now she is on the front page of everything and it bothers her to know that she is not the mainstream. Her version of fighting back is to try to rebrand herself as a victim of abuse, but people see through her to the truth, she is just another slut using sex to control events in the world. And there is no way to spin that rugged truth, even on the very liberal Rachel Maddow Show.
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Donald Trump is Fighting Back the way Teddy Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson did
First of all, we are not a democracy, so dying in darkness has nothing to do with the current situation regarding President Trump and his declassification of the documents used against him politically by Democrats to attempt an overthrow of his election. We are a republic which requires smart people to prevail at the end of the day in a representative fashion to manage a country. This concept of "rule by the people" doesn't work because not all people are smart or good at movement. A simple majority vote simply leads to communism then anarchy and really aren't conducive to good government, which is really what is behind the attempt to destroy the Trump administration at the outset. Because people who essentially wanted to destroy the American Republic and replace it with something more socialist knew that Trump represented a turn away from the typical Democrat. So they did everything they could to destroy him and anybody connected with him.
I am happy every day these days, most of them anyway. Trump is running the country the way I have wanted for my entire life. He does and says what I've always wanted to see because anybody who looks could see what kind of game was going on in Washington D.C. They weren't working for us as American taxpayers, they considered themselves above our station and that their political view of the world was rooted in making the presidency into a kind of king's court for which they were members. The rest of us were mere peons, which I never accepted as a reality, and is the root of my political interest. I've always been interested in presidential politics, going back into my grade school days. While a lot of kids were trying to sneak of copy of Penthouse from the local bookstore that they were too young to purchase themselves, I was reading presidential biographies about life in the White House. They only ones who ran the presidency the way I thought it should be done was Thomas Jefferson and then later Teddy Roosevelt. I never personally had an interest in a president who just wanted to get along with everyone. I wanted someone who wanted to fight for a small government appetite at the top office, and Trump has clearly offered himself to perform that task so I feel a need to be protective of his efforts. As I talked about here many years ago, the Edmund Morris Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy which took many years to produce is one of the best collections of books on Roosevelt ever produced. I think President Trump however is far better than Roosevelt. But I was reminded of how important Roosevelt was with the very recent book by Dan Abrams called Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense which was just released a few days ago. It was a great book about the kind of character Roosevelt was and why he was important to American life at a critical time in our history.
And it will go down in history what a great president that Trump has been. Once the cameras get cold and forget about their daily ambitions to over-throw the country one news story at a time, Trump will be remembered as one of the best American presidents without question. And one of the most heroic moments of it won't be the way he stood up to world leaders looking to sap us all dry anyway possible, but that he rooted out insurrection attempts within our own government. As Jefferson said, "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny in government." Or how about this little gem of a thought, "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious." Or on the nature of republic government as opposed to just flat rate democracy, "Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." And this one is one of my favorites, "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
I think we can all agree that Thomas Jefferson was hardly a crazy radical and was one of the greatest American presidents. Jefferson was well read and very interested in being a top contributor intellectually to the spirt of American government. And Roosevelt was much the same, he loved to read and was very, very educated. But while Jefferson liked to think and philosophize, Roosevelt liked to fight. He just thrived off conflict with other people which really improved our government for a while. He liked to fight so much that he stepped away from the Republican Party just to spite the party boss at the time and went on to help found the Progressive Party to get back at his rivals—which turned out to be a disaster. But that's a story for another time. What matters is that he brought the will to fight and a vast intelligence to the White House and that held our government together at a critical time. Trump isn't crazy about reading, but he is very smart and was excessively accomplished before he ever came to office and his love of fighting is very much an important attribute to his election. People like me voted for him not out of any desire for racism, or ignorance. I doubt there are many people on the political left who are as accommodating of ambition no matter what country it comes from as I am. And I seriously doubt many of them read as many books as I do, or write about the benefits of our republic as me. And I will say gladly that the insurrection against President Trump can't go unmatched. He has to kick some ass, I expect him to, as do millions of his supporters. That's why we elected him. Its better to have the fight legally through elections than with guns in the streets, which is where we were headed. I have no intention of accepting any form of socialism in our government. What we do have I consider unacceptable. More of it simply isn't an option.
This is exactly the moment I talked about a few years ago, where I stated that the Democrat Party likely would come to an end. They can only rule by force, and by cheating because the American people who are actually smart are not with them, regardless of political ideology. Even with the incubation contributors of colleges toward liberalism, and our horrendous public education system which is essentially a 12 year advertisement for socialism, there were enough people who supported Donald Trump for president because of all the reasons we knew of regarding a government that had lost touch with what they should have been doing as elected representatives all along. The Democrats had lost that connection more than anybody, and as I said, I don't think they'll survive. And with how they all collaborated to remove Trump from office, there were many crimes committed, and that will bring them all to a much-deserved end. And the beginning of that end was the Trump declassification of the documents that prove all their plots of insurrection to be true. Now William Barr has the green light to bring the Justice Department down on those insurgents and they will get everything they deserve, because we elected a president who wouldn't just take it. But would fight back the way we have always wanted to.
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What Trump has in Common with 'The Shape of Water': learning the nature of villians and the hopes of the good
"It turns out to be true now, that the Department of Justice and the FBI, under President Obama, rigged the investigation for Hillary and really turned the screws on Trump, and now it looks like in a corrupt & illegal way. The facts are out now. Whole Hoax exposed. @JesseBWatters
What we are seeing isn't specific to a particular political party or even a specific point in time. I can say that it's always been something I have been keenly aware of. I remember as a little kid staying up way too late to watch the Academy Awards in 1983 to see if E.T. The Extraterrestrial would win Best Picture and feeling terribly deflated when Gandhi won instead. That's when I learned the hard way that institutions are not in pursuit of goodness, but the status quo in almost every category because it allows the people working within those organizational frameworks to live modest, safe lives seldom challenged by any exceptional expectations. I was actually blown away and physically sick that E.T. failed to win Best Picture. Clearly there wasn't any justice in the world as at that time I only ever wanted to be a film director when I grew up. In the year prior, I had gone through the same ceremonial castigation, Raiders of the Lost Ark was poised to win Best Picture and lost to the film Chariots of Fire. Something was very wrong and now almost 40 years later I sat watching the Academy Awards knowing full well there was a major liberal spin to the whole show, which is why I wasn't a film director and no longer had a desire to be, when The Shape of Water won best picture essentially because it featured a female hero, she had nude scenes in it including masturbation, but in most other respects was a modern update to E.T. It was a stunning revelation that remained consistently bad, and points to a much deeper, darker problem.
And in so many ways, even in the serious world of politics, we are seeing the same thing that went on with E.T. at the Academy Awards in 1982 and 1983, happening now with the FBI and Justice Departments of the Obama Administration playing the same role. Even though I would argue that The Shape of Water could have easily have been made without the sex and nudity, or the F words in a film that children would have benefited from seeing in the theaters, the government agent in the film was wonderfully representative of the kind of parasitic order for which those modern institutions function. Richard Strickland in that film epitomized the ambitions of institutional control and in maintaining an order where the exceptional are locked away and tortured so that the stagnant expectations of below the line thinking could remain unchallenged. In that way The Trump administration under the direction of the FBI and DOJ were treated as the amphibious creature from The Shape of Water, tortured just for being there and seeking to be destroyed because the potential for life changing inspiration was something that institutions couldn't allow to happen otherwise, they'd all be expected to increase their expectations for their own lives by default.
The crimes against not only Trump but against his supporters, most of whom are just as innocent as my 13-year-old self-staying up on a school night to hope beyond hope that justice would give the movie E.T. The Extraterrestrial the Best Picture award, are profound. There is so much more to the story than just the sad attempts at using the law as a weapon to beat down inspiring change, but in the abundant mechanisms for which all institutions function to preserve their salty ambitions anchored to the ground well below any above the line expectations. The corruption in society as a whole was deeper than any ocean on earth and the hopes and dreams of all mankind had been tossed to the bottom and kept their by the hostile depths too hard to dive by any mechanical means, or even the yearnings of the superhuman efforts, because sharks of every kind protect that bar from ever being raised to a level where the masses might ever be expected to perform from the merits of goodness.
A world where an Academy Award is given to a film that features a woman masturbating in a bathtub "a lot" is the same world castigating Trump for wanting to build a border wall, to create a dividing line between value and a lack of value, between a capitalist culture that has expectations of performance and a socialist one that informs people to not stick their heads up too high otherwise they will be beat down in response. That same world looks at Melania Trump and endlessly criticizes everything she wears and how she wears it but when Michelle Obama wears boots on national television that would make the Wicked Witch from The Wizard of Oz blush, she is hailed as an expert on fashion. The reason is that the static order doesn't want little girls to grow up to be like Melania, a woman who is as close to a perfect "10" as anybody might find in our current culture. But to be like Michelle Obama, an average looking woman filled with personality flaws and genetic mutations. Melania is attacked because she is too good, she as a change agent has raised the level of expectation among the voting population and the institutions are not happy about it.
Many years later I realized that instead of trying to make things work as a film director in a liberal town that certainly didn't want to deal with a midwestern conservative that I'd turn toward business. When I was paid a salary instead of an hourly wage to officially announce that I was no longer just a floor worker, the expectations were quite severe on me to work within the parameters of a static order. I typically had always worked 12 hours a day or more but now that I was working with as a salaried member of management—and this was many years ago—but I was supposed to assume a certain order of conduct understanding that I work only what I was paid for. And salary people were only paid for 8.5 hours of their work day. So at precisely 5 PM I was expected to drop everything and go home. But when I didn't do that and instead continued to work as I always had, until 7 PM or even 8 PM the other salaried staff were very angry with me. They would watch closely what time I clocked in and when I clocked out and eventually built up the courage to ask me why I was trying to make them look bad. My answer of course that I wasn't, and that if they looked bad it's because they weren't willing to fulfill the parameters of expectation for which production required. Well, those were fighting words and long rivalries filled with animosity percolated from that time on, yet I never changed my behavior because I was simply not going to surrender my capability to the Academies out there that would pick Gandhi over E.T. or the FBI over President Trump. Those were simply not options.
The case against Trump isn't about justice, or even politics—its about expectation. Trump as a change agent is being attacked to preserve the right of below the line thinking that has defined Washington D.C. culture in general and politics specifically. Much the way the sea creature in The Shape of Water was tortured and abused just for existing, Trump represents a raising of the bar for all future expectation, and the static order has demanded his destruction with all the animated ambition as Richard Strickland. The world cannot hold both characters, and traditionally the good have been beat down so that the bad do not have to rise to any occasions. And that is a dark little secret that continues to permeate all our lives, and the yearning to change it is certainly there. Even the Academy of Arts and Sciences can be touched by such hopes even if the medicine to make it go down are sex scenes and nudity. But the showdown between Trump and the FBI is not about legalisms, it's about the hopes and dreams of all mankind, and that battle is happening right now. And for the first time in history, hope is winning out over stagnation, and that is very interesting to watch for me. I am rooting for hope and increased expectations, perhaps this time the villains won't win.
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So You've Played Red Dead Redemption 2 and Loved it: Be a gunslinger in real life, join the Cowboy Fast Draw Association
As much as I talk about other things, I am not completely lost like a lot of people my age might otherwise be on the magical world of video games and their relatively new impact on global entertainment. But let me just say to my usual readers, its big business. I finally finished the story mode of Red Dead Redemption 2 after around 100 hours of game play, taking my time when I could and I have to say that I was absolutely amazed by the result. The game is such an astonishing technical achievement and it is by far the best thing that could have ever happened to the entertainment format of the American Western. As a story and experience it really is like taking a real-life cowboy experience like the movie City Slickers and placing them into a 1960s spaghetti western with all the high drama of something like Game of Thrones. It is big, bold and beautiful in so many ways. And I knew that as I completed the game and all the epilogue missions that there was going to be a Red Dead online coming at the end of November. I planned to revisit the game at that time but wasn't expecting much. But let me say that I have been pleasantly surprised. It looks like as massive as Red Dead Redemption 2 is as a game with sales well over a billion dollars already and something like 20 million copies sold before the Holiday season, that the purposed of the online play is to use the game as a kind of training experience for the online world that they have created. It is just vast and ultimately never-ending in what it allows players to do and interact with one another.
For those who love Red Dead Redemption 2 you can actually love it for real. Ask me how. #videogames #reddeadredemption2 #nra #guns #shootingsports #life
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I couldn't help but think as I was playing missions with other people the other day, most of them much younger than I am, that this game is really their only experience with a real American western and for many they are very touched by it. The game itself is a very moral story about good and bad and the many quandaries of the critical decisions that went into exploding life across the American frontier. But at its core it's about gunfighting and is clearly one of the best arguments for the real-life problems of the Second Amendment. A lot of young people may not be paying attention to the real political problems going on in the outside world, but they sure care a lot about earning enough money in the game to purchase upgrades for their guns and dress in the coolest gunfighting outfits. But I couldn't help notice that many of them probably didn't know that they could do all the things they are doing in Read Dead Redemption in real life with Cowboy Fast Draw as seen at the following link:
http://www.COWBOYFASTDRAW.com
Belonging to the Cowboy Fast Draw Association is one of the groups I am most proud to affiliate with, they are really a good group of people who meet all over the United States to compete in real life fast draw competitions using real guns. It's what I think of as one of the coolest sports in the world right now as other countries are trying to participate but have too strict of gun laws to actually do it. But in the good ol' United States it is much easier to participate in. Yet I have noticed that most of the members are well over 40, largely because guns and holster rigs are expensive so it takes a little upfront investment to get involved. But once you do, it is infinitely rewarding. I enjoyed the original Red Dead Redemption enormously and getting my own fast draw rig was always something I had planned to do. But raising a family every last dollar that I made went into family needs, a car was always breaking down, a kid always needed a school fee or band instrument. Someone needed braces of a family member across the country wanted us to visit them, so there was always something for like twenty years that kept me from getting my own fast draw gun rig.
I ran across a substantial amount of money for a big job I had been working on so I treated myself to my gun rig and have been practicing at Cowboy Fast Draw for several years now, and am getting pretty good at it. After probably 30,000 to 35,000 shots at a fast draw target, I am starting to feel good about my speed and accuracy. It did take a while. It was something that had been on my mind well before I ever played the first Red Dead going way back into my twenties when I was going through a really tough time. Westerns and western music really kept the zest for life alive in me. On their most basic foundations westerns are about the meaning of life so they always had great appeal to me so when I grew up I wanted to be as much of a gunfighter as society could endure. Ironically, I had acquired my gun rig and some advanced fast draw skill before Red Dead Redemption 2 came out which had even more meaning for me because of the new hobby I had.
Traveling around the online world it has become very obvious that many young people are deeply touched by Red Dead Redemption 2 and likely would like to have a similar experience as I have. So let me put this little invite out there. If you are unsure of how to get involved in Cowboy Fast Draw because you are enjoying playing Red Dead Redemption but would like to take everything up a notch, don't hesitate to ask me. I can help you get started on something that would be infinitely rewarding. While my regular audience here is much older than the people playing Red Dead Redemption 2 I would personally love to see more young people getting involved in Cowboy Fast Draw. It really isn't any different from what you do in the game, but that it never ends. While the content of Red Dead Redemption does eventually run out, the challenges in real life never do.
In the Cowboy Fast Draw Association, you get to dress up as a gunslinger for real, and have a reason to do it. You have a reason to buy fancy guns for real and learn to take care of them. And the scoring format is safe and fun. Its one of the most satisfying things I've done in my life and I would recommend it to anybody. I had been thinking that membership in the cowboy sports may just flicker away because new generations just do not have many positive western entertainment venues that are cool enough to hold their attention, that is until Red Dead Redemption 2 came along and inspired millions of people to live in that world quite authentically. And for those who just want to climb into the world of Red Dead Redemption for real and live it in real life I'd point you to the Cowboy Fast Draw Association at the link shown here. If you have any questions, just ask. I'd love to help as many new people get involved in the sport as possible. While I personally love the world of Red Dead Redemption, it is no match for having a real fast draw rig on your hip which is an experience I have every day. And wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.
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The Media and Me: Why all the hate?
I generally am not a vindictive person, I let people do what they want and think what they will so long as they don't try to impede on my life. Generally. And this is certainly true of the media. About ten years ago I was friendly with most of the media in both Cincinnati and Dayton and I did a lot of radio on WLW and was on television quite often. Back then also I was going to film festivals and doing some work in Hollywood because at the time I still thought I might end up doing work in the entertainment industry. I was always a conservative and everyone knew it, but there wasn't a need to be contentious and fight about everything. After all, these were the days of a soft George Bush presidency and the early years of Obama, so the political left largely propped up and controlled by our media culture felt comfortable, and even entitled. So a guy like me wasn't a threat to them. Newspapers would quote me often, television news outlets would seek my opinion and I'd write occasional pieces for national magazines and everyone was happy—except for me. One thing I never liked about that system was that I had a lot more to say about everything and editors and producers would never give me enough time to put together a complete story on a given topic. So in 2010 I decided to become my own publisher so to speak and start this blog, Overmanwarrior's Wisdom. I never meant for it to become an endeavor of consternation, but what I have found out over the eight years since is that all media outlets hate it, and therefore don't like me as a result.
New media is destroying old media and that has left a lot of resentment. pic.twitter.com/WTxb1z8KuP
— Rich Hoffman (@overmanwarrior) November 13, 2018
I especially heard about how much the media doesn't like me during this 2018 election. I'd get reports from people who associate with the press and elements close to the press who actively want to discredit everything I do, as if they were the gatekeepers of knowledge. But in reality, I write about so many things in so much detail that essentially nobody can keep up and that is the root of their anxiety. Media types are like any other worker out there, they are held to very confined standards and are certainly not free to write what they want. In the beginning I never thought of this as being a problem, but after talking to a Cincinnati Enquire reporter way back in 2011 just a year into it I realized just how jealous they were over my blog. It didn't make much sense to me because anybody could start a blog, even them. Blog sites were free, anybody in the world could do one, so I didn't consider what I was doing to be a threat to anybody. Just supplemental material. People would read what I'd say in newspapers and on the radio and they'd come to the blog to get more information. Since in media they don't give you unlimited time to make your point, but just skim the highlights of any given topic.
And that is where the problems started and ended, the media never wants to solve a problem, they are perpetually the old Don Henley song "Dirty Laundry" where they need chaos, panic, and mayhem to generate the ratings they feel they need to survive, and my blog offered more than that to readers. As a writer I don't think anybody in the United States or Europe can touch me for content and volume. I can write about more topics in quantities that often rival published books than anybody else, and that makes Overmanwarrior's Wisdom very unique in any published venue. I didn't set out to do that on purpose, I just let my natural inclinations take me where I felt things needed to go and I turned loose the ideas. If I want to publish articles about a reptile civilization that controls global politics and to deal with the pros and cons of that conspiracy theory, I do it and people enjoy the material. Or if we want to get into the weeds of actual political occurrences, we can do that too. Information and ideas are never bad, yet the media culture that we have had only want the headlines, never the substance. They never want a solution, only to ask the questions to provoke emotional results.
It is for that reason that I stepped gradually away from most of my media contacts. This blog did it for me. All I ever wanted to do was communicate ideas that were interesting to people who might enjoy exploring those concepts. Whether one person likes the topic or thousands really doesn't make a difference to me. But that is also why reporters generally do not like my blog site, because it contains in it a freedom they simply don't have. I love to read and write and I contribute to my blog in the old-fashioned way that any writer would, out of love and passion for the topics. But I would say that my efforts are similar to personalities from the past like Benjamin Franklin who did lots of things in his life, including being a publisher. I do other things in my life for money, so I have no reason to sell my published works. And that makes what I do vastly different from what all other media do and there resides the rub.
It was bound to happen sooner or later; the old modes of media would have to give way to the new. And within the new, if some publisher such as myself might come along and provide vast amounts of content out of the passion of doing it as opposed to prostituting it out like most media personalities must, then so be it. I have written millions and millions of words on a vast array of subjects but to me they all connect in very precise ways. Yet to the traditional media that can't keep up with someone like me jealousy is their dominate emotion and that kind of thing came out dramatically on several fronts after the election of 2018. Feedback I received was nothing short of hate—that publishers like me are "ruining" the world. Well, I would ask, "from whom." The world as we have all known it is going away, and I'm happy to see it leave. I never liked it to begin with. The age of Trump has been propelled by many people like me, but in the sheer effort of content offerings even though I am heavily restricted by Facebook, Google and Twitter, and have been for many years, the work still gets out to the people I intend for it to. If not a mass audience, a very targeted audience of people who are thinking people who are very smart. Popular mass media just have no control over this new age and they hate it. Information has been decentralized and that is a reality for the future. They could have embraced it, but they didn't. Instead the have decided they hate me, which is their prerogative. But in the end it's no skin off my back. I don't need them, but they do need people like me and it was they who alienated themselves. The world will march on without them in it, and that is purely their choice to make.
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How Republicans Should Address Health Care: Dealing with the future to have a real plan
Warning, this may be the most important thing you read and see in your life, proceed with that understanding:
Now that the election is over its time for Republicans to announce to the world what their health care plan is, which of course in the short-term will have to be a more competitive free market option. But everyone knows that the old days of drug induced medicine are over, just as stage coaches were replaced by automobiles. We are at a point where the medical industry is under a complete overhaul, as provided in the example in the video below by the Japanese proposal of using AI to produce new healthy cells to replace damaged or diseased tissue within a body. The solution to all medical problems is in cell repairs, not surgeries or chemical medicines. So, any health care plan must look at where human civilization is headed, not where it's been before anything can be seriously considered, so the Republican plan needs to incorporate that reality. If you want to make the heads of Democrats explode, tell them that you want to solve health care as a detrimental condition instead of just throwing drugs at people. Tell people who you can actually fix them instead of just numbing their pain and the leverage of the whole health care issue changes.
The trouble with regenerative medicine is purely in human psychology and this is why politicians have not yet touched the issue, but they ultimately will have to. President Trump is just the kind of president who could do it, but what must be overcome by the public is the desire of approximately 85%, maybe more, of the population to believe in the cycle of life and death which has been with us since the beginning of all recorded history. I would argue that like the Vico cycle, the themes of life and death were always meant for human minds to solve which is why specifically it is our species with their vast imaginations that have been born and have evolved to solve these types of complicated problems. Death and disease are literally solvable problems and they are at our doorstep in this current time to carry mankind well into the future. Yet because most people don't know any better, they are resistant to change. Like most dysfunctional sentiments, they would rather die than change their minds about things, because they have literally been programmed from their birth to always look for an end to it all at some point.
I would not call myself a transhumanist, but as people who know me understand, the name of this site is "Overmanwarrior's Wisdom." There has never been a part in my life where just being human was acceptable. Even in my earliest memories I have always wanted to be superhuman. I never have said, I am too tired to work, too tired to think, care for my family or anything. I often stay up all night working and reading and all day working without any sleep at all and I love every day of my life. If I lived for the next ten thousand years, I can say that I would never be bored for one minute of that entire time and I would be very happy to do and learn and live for even longer than that. If the Vico cycle politically states that humans have always went through various cycles of theocracy, aristocracy, democracy then anarchy, all elements that we see today around the world at various stages always in combat with each other, then all our lives and the religions we have invented to deal with the problems of life and death are essentially the same. There isn't any mythology or philosophy that properly deals with the possibility of a life stimulated by regenerative medicine. Humans just didn't see the possibilities of regenerative medicine coming and the artists and philosophers that still construct our social context are still rooted in ancient ways of viewing death.
I was reminded of my twenties lately while watching an episode of Josh Gates' Expedition Unknown where he took a vision quest with some shaman in Peru using ayahuasca to induce the hallucinogenic journey of what they call the journey of life and death. I was very hungry to learn more about these shaman trips while I was reading Primitive Mythology by Joseph Campbell in Waffle Houses at 4 am in the morning when I was around 23 years old. I was always impressed with how shaman were able to step into the mind of the sick and help them recover from whatever it was that had a grip on their souls, so I think there is some merit to these techniques. But what Josh Gates went through is a supercharge on his brain and all the experiences and thoughts he had experienced over his lifetime. The shaman were able to journey with him on a kind of quantum realm that they had learned to tap in to. But the nature of a soul and life itself does not need to be defined by life and death, only by existence and the amount of contribution that it makes to higher dimensional realities, whether on the very small-scale such as those that shaman likely tap into by using the artificial stimulant ayahuasca or on the scale of the huge, where entire universes are as common as cells in our body, and the one we live in is just one. All those realities intersect with each other in ways we still don't understand and I think the key to grasping them is that humans need to step away from the cycle of life and death to help in some way the reasons for our birth. Obviously there is a reason for intelligent life, for beings like us who can think and conceptualize and to solve the riddles of the universe and all the quantum realms that connect it we must step away from the cycle of life and death that requires each generation to learn just a little from the previous one, but only gives professional observers about 50 years to crack a code, which isn't enough time.
What is coming out of Japan and the Mayo Clinic in America are options for a completely new way of living and understanding our role in the universe. While ayahuasca may stimulate a brain in hyper charged ways typical shaman and other religious leaders view the results in the context of their religions which are formed around observations of birth and death. While the observations are interesting, the context is the variable, and that is essentially the case behind the health care debate. If we are talking about keeping a system in place that supports pharmaceutical companies and the economy they have built on delaying death as long as possible that's one thing and is at the heart of the Democrat desire for a single payer socialist system. As we know from history, politicians whether they be church leaders or village shaman use their connection to the afterlife to control populations. And Democrats are attempting to control people's fear of death and the pain that leads to it as a way to control their voter base. And like most people, many people are willing to die if at some point in their life they can hold great power over others. That is why health care is the number one election issue. But think of what Republicans could do in the future if they could change the view of healthcare without the conservative base getting too freaked out about it? It's only a matter of time before politics, art and science catch up to the ambitions of the imaginations of the human race. The question is, who will do it, and what benefits will come their way as they redefine the entire game? If anyone can do it, Trump can and these new Republicans coming together under his leadership. Truly, the future is what we make it and that reality is happening much sooner than most people realize.
If these concepts are new to you, feel free to watch all the videos contained here in their entirety. This is the future, we might as well align ourselves with it now rather than later.
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Site da Graça, Rodrigo J., Oda, Fabrício H., Lima, Flávia S., Guerra, Vinicius, Gambale, Priscilla G. & Takemoto, Ricardo M., 2017, Metazoan endoparasites of 18 anuran species from the mesophytic semideciduous Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil, Journal of Natural History 51 (13 - 14), pp. 705-729: 713 713
Site Scholz, T., Aguirre-Macedo, M. L. & Salgado-Maldonado, G., 2001, Trematodes of the family Heterophyidae (Digenea) in Mexico: a review of species and new host and geographical records, Journal of Natural History 35 (12), pp. 1733-1772: 1753 1753
Site Sokolov, Sergey, Frolov, Evgeniy, Novokreshchennykh, Semen & Atopkin, Dmitry, 2021, An opisthorchiid concept of the genus Liliatrema (Trematoda: Plagiorchiida: Opisthorchioidea): an unexpected systematic position, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192 (1), pp. 24-24: 24--1 24--1
Hemiptera sp. nov. Shcherbakov, Dmitry E., 2011, New and little-known families of Hemiptera Cicadomorpha from the Triassic of Central Asia—early analogs of treehoppers and planthoppers, Zootaxa 2836, pp. 1-26: 15 15
Hemiptera gen. nov. Shcherbakov, Dmitry E., 2011, New and little-known families of Hemiptera Cicadomorpha from the Triassic of Central Asia—early analogs of treehoppers and planthoppers, Zootaxa 2836, pp. 1-26: 15 15
Lepidoptera Chandra, Kailash, Mazumder, Arna, Sanyal, Abesh Kumar, Ash, Anirban, Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Mallick, Kaushik & Raha, Angshuman, 2018, Catalogue of Indian Notodontidae Stephens, 1829 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea), Zootaxa 4505 (1), pp. 1-84: 16 16
Lepidoptera Schmidt, Olga, 2014, Comparison of the structure and musculature of male terminalia in the tribe Cidariini Duponchel (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae) once again throws into doubt a sister relationship with the Xanthorhoini, Zootaxa 3856 (3), pp. 399-418: 402 402
Prostigmata new species Krantz, Gerald W., 1957, Dolichocybe keiferi, a new genus and new species of pyemotid mite, with a description of a new species of Siteroptes (Acarina: Pyemotidae)., Annals of the Entomological Society of America 50, No. 3, pp. 259-264: 262 262
Prostigmata Khaustov, Alexandr A., 2011, Nomenclature changes in the mite families Neopygmephoridae and Pygmephoridae (Acari: Heterostigmata: Pygmephoroidea) with redescription of two little known species, Zootaxa 2809, pp. 47-57: 53 53
Prostigmata Khaustov, Alexander A., 2015, Two new species of the genus Pediculaster (Acari: Pygmephoridae) from Western Siberia, Russia, Zootaxa 3926 (3), pp. 413-429: 425-426 425-426
Pediculaster Khaustov, Alexander A., 2020, Three new species and new records of Pediculaster (Acari: Pygmephoridae) from Western Siberia, Russia, Acarologia 60 (2), pp. 317-337: 318 318
Prostigmata new species Kirchner, Leopold, 1864, Die Milben (Acari) Böhmens., Lotos 14, pp. 125-126: 125 125
Prostigmata comb. nov. Khaustov, Alexandr A., 2011, Nomenclature changes in the mite families Neopygmephoridae and Pygmephoridae (Acari: Heterostigmata: Pygmephoroidea) with redescription of two little known species, Zootaxa 2809, pp. 47-57: 53-55 53-55
Prostigmata Khaustov, Alexander A., 2015, Two new species of the genus Pediculaster (Acari: Pygmephoridae) from Western Siberia, Russia, Zootaxa 3926 (3), pp. 413-429: 414 414
Pediculaster bisetus sp. nov. Khaustov, Alexander A., 2020, Three new species and new records of Pediculaster (Acari: Pygmephoridae) from Western Siberia, Russia, Acarologia 60 (2), pp. 317-337: 328-331 328-331
Pediculaster rarus sp. nov. Khaustov, Alexander A., 2020, Three new species and new records of Pediculaster (Acari: Pygmephoridae) from Western Siberia, Russia, Acarologia 60 (2), pp. 317-337: 332-334 332-334
Pediculaster tjumeniensis sp. nov. Khaustov, Alexander A., 2020, Three new species and new records of Pediculaster (Acari: Pygmephoridae) from Western Siberia, Russia, Acarologia 60 (2), pp. 317-337: 318-328 318-328
Trombidiformes Khaustov, Alexander A. & Frolov, Andrey V., 2018, A new species, new genus and new records of heterostigmatic mites (Acari: Heterostigmata) phoretic on scarab beetles of the subfamily Orphninae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), Zootaxa 4514 (2), pp. 181-201: 182 182
Pediculaster camerikae Khaustov, Alexander A., 2020, Three new species and new records of Pediculaster (Acari: Pygmephoridae) from Western Siberia, Russia, Acarologia 60 (2), pp. 317-337: 336 336
Pediculaster dudinskyi Khaustov, Alexander A., 2020, Three new species and new records of Pediculaster (Acari: Pygmephoridae) from Western Siberia, Russia, Acarologia 60 (2), pp. 317-337: 335 335
Prostigmata sp. nov. Khaustov, Alexander A., 2015, Two new species of the genus Pediculaster (Acari: Pygmephoridae) from Western Siberia, Russia, Zootaxa 3926 (3), pp. 413-429: 414-420 414-420
Prostigmata Kontschán, Jenő & Hornok, Sándor, 2019, New records, a completed list and identification key of mites (Acari) associated with the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) (Diptera: Muscidae), Acarologia 59 (1), pp. 3-11: 7 7
Pediculaster montanus Khaustov, Alexander A., 2020, Three new species and new records of Pediculaster (Acari: Pygmephoridae) from Western Siberia, Russia, Acarologia 60 (2), pp. 317-337: 336 336
Dineutus sitesi Suksai, Benjamart, Gustafson, Grey T., Sites, Robert W. & Sangpradub, Narumon, 2021, The Gyrinidae (Coleoptera) fauna of Thailand: Key to tribes and genera, with new records and keys to species of Dineutini and Gyrinini, Zootaxa 5071 (1), pp. 97-117: 104-106 104-106
Squamata sp. nov. Avila, Luciano Javier, Olave, Melisa & Perez, Cristian Hernan Fulvio, 2013, Molecular phylogenetic relationships of the Liolaemus rothi complex and a new species of lizard from Auca Mahuida Volcano (Squamata: Liolaemini), Zootaxa 3608 (4), pp. 221-238: 225-235 225-235
Hemiptera n. sp. Herrera, Federico & Springer, Monika, 2014, New species of Potamocoris Hungerford (Heteroptera, Potamocoridae) from Costa Rica and a key to the species, Zootaxa 3884 (5), pp. 492-496: 493-495 493-495
Hemiptera NEW SPECIES Reynoso-Velasco, Daniel & Sites, Robert W., 2019, Descriptions of four new species of the Ambrysus signoreti Stål species complex (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Naucoridae), Zootaxa 4615 (2), pp. 285-302: 298-301 298-301
Hemiptera NEW SPECIES Vitheepradit, Akekawat, 2017, A new species of Namtokocoris Sites (Hemiptera: Naucoridae) from Thailand, Zootaxa 4320 (3), pp. 592-596: 593-595 593-595
Dineutus sitesi sp. nov. Gustafson, Grey T., Hájek, Jiří & Miller, Kelly B., 2016, Description of two new species of Dineutus sensu stricto from Southeast Asia (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae) with a key to the known species of the subgenus, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (2), pp. 629-643: 637-640 637-640
Coleoptera sp. n. Short, A. E. Z. & Swanson, A. P., 2005, A revision of the Oocyclus Sharp of Thailand with description of six new species (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae), Zootaxa 1078, pp. 1-24: 13-16 13-16