Obama in his 3rd terrm and his sophomore quips about 'Walls'.

Obama, still hob nobbing with the great and the good, makes his sophomore type quip
about walls while he is in Germany, these comments are jejune and superficial are over the last 8  years are many of his soi disant intelligent contributions.

On the subject of walls both brick and metaphorical  what about his 'wall' his 'red line' in Syria
which was so easily breached and drew the usual supine reaction from the 'educated' one.

The pathology of liberal eliteness and their belief they are 'educated'.

 Post Brexit and Trump, the 'liberal elite' has been writing articles, having radio and TV discussions, giving sermons (literally) and making speeches in which it has struggled to understand those strange creatures: ordinary people
who voted for Brexit and Trump. The elite is bemused by what drives these people to make perverse decisions about Brexit and Trump. Are they racist, narrow-minded or just stupid? The must be uneducated surely

But let’s do a paradigm shuffle -  explain to ordinary people what drives the liberal elite.
For the he elite persists with some very strange and disturbing views. Are its cogregatiom - although secular they are religious in all but name -  brainwashed, snobbish or just so remote from real life that they do not understand how things work? What is the pathology of liberal eliteness?

Why would anyone support Hillary Clinton — a ruthless, charmless Washington insider or Barack Obama after 8 years his legacy was Trump

Obama he of the beloved pauses to inject gravitas when he is reading from his autocue, now an ex-president he hob nobs with Richard Branson on his yacht and make speeches at half a million and hour.  Thank you Harvard (the self styled 'educated' ones) is this the best you can produce?

In the UK why do lawyers, churchmen, the BBC and, indeed, most so called 'educated' people support the EU — an organization as saturated with smug self-righteousness as it is with corruption; one which created the Euro, which in turn has caused millions of people to be unemployed; an organization which combines a yawning democratic deficit with incompetence over immigration and economic growth? Run by unelected educated bureaucrats

But what ‘educated’ mean today? It doesn’t mean they know a lot about the world. It means they have been injected with the views and assumptions of their teachers. They have been taught by people who themselves have little experience of the real world. They have been indoctrinated with parti pris ( preconceived opinion : prejudice) thinking about how their students should think.. 

The academic world is overwhelmingly left-wing as are the textbooks.

There is no analysis of counter-arguments. In fact, no data is offered on which a counter–argument could be based. This is not education. It is not teaching children to challenge ideas and think for themselves. This is anti-education: teaching them what they must think. It is as prescriptive as education in the Soviet Union. At least in the Soviet Union, many understood that they should not trust what they were being told.  Remainers assumed that Brexit must equal insularity. It offended their view of themselves as internationalists ie planting themselves above 'them' on mount Moral, yes, the anointed ones, the 'educated'
class.

It’s noticeable that quite a lot of the most original minds, such as George Orwell and Pascal, never went to university.

Let’s try to understand why members of the elite get so cross when others don’t take the same view of Brexit and Trump as they do. It’s partly a sense of entitlement. People talk of a culture of entitlement among those who live on benefits/food stamps, but the elite has its own entitlement culture. They think that because they studied English literature at Durham or Cornell (who produced the sneering Bill Maher)  they understand the world better than a carpenter in Croydon, or a plumber in Des Moines. They think they are superior and therefore their view should prevail. They also think they are morally superior because they hold to the views which they were told were virtuous. Anyone who appears not to subscribe to these views must, of necessity, be a sinner or else appallingly misled by the Daily Mail or Fox News or some other evil force. 

Government Agencies / Bureaucracies at all levels are heavily packed with indoctrinated left leaning manipulators, who in turn are for the most part indoctrinating more followers. School textbooks and curriculum is being written for the purpose of Leftist indoctrination.

The left leaning liberals have an agenda that has nothing to do with teaching children how to think and everything to do with teaching them what to think.

So the liberal consensus go on believing that because the have been 

tutored for years by a teaching community wholly liberal they have the intellectual whip hand.  Studying a Shakespeare Sonnet, or a John Cheever novel

does not make one educated....life....and its travails makes one 'educated'.

Is Angela Merkel unstable as she endeavours to exorcise German guilt

Angela Merkel 'is showing signs of a mental breakdown' and 'narcissism' over her 'stubborn' refusal to reverse her migrant policy, warns celebrated German psychiatrist

• Dr Hans-Joachim Maaz calls Angela Merkel a classic overachiever
• Says praise for open borders has fed Chancellor's 'narcissism'
• Angela Merkel is childless but now she has a lot of children
• 1.1 million at last count never need one feel barren again
• if that is the psychological state and never need one as a
• German feel guilt again after her most noble deluded gesture
• let them all come in  all are welcome

Quite frightening stuff, no doubt the German people will

reelect her. 

After Maceroon that cheeky young banking chappy being elected in France - with a wife old enough to be his mother
(surely this is a psychological statement) you just throw your hands up in despair at supine electorates.

OBAMA, does he ever stop campaigning looks like his third term has begun. Our Republic is in danger.

OBAMAGATE: EXPOSING THE OBAMA DEEP STATE

Obama’s third term has begun. Our Republic is in danger.

March 7, 2017

 

Daniel Greenfield

 

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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

After Trump secured the nomination, Obama’s people filed a wiretapping request. As he was on the verge of winning, they did it again. After he won, they are doing everything they can to bring him down.

It was always going to come down to this.

One is the elected President of the United States. The other is the Anti-President who commands a vast network that encompasses....who knows...

Obama is an ultra left-wing,who isn't laughed at by the general population primarily because the mainstream media liberals said nice things about him for 8 years out of fear that they'll end up in a social gulag if they're too harsh. Of course, we don't have gulags, but reporters who criticize Obama would be snubbed by their peers at cocktail parties in Manhattan and Old Town, which seems almost as bad to liberals. 
This is how a narcissist who scores at "Nixon after Watergate" on the presidential likability scale can be perceived by much of the public as a long suffering, bipartisan nice guy. The real picture is less 
Rembrandt and more like a slashing Jackson Pollock

In the UK at one time there was the theory that more jobs would mean less benefits/food stamps but mass immigration broke that

There are two major problems with contemporary British society, according to David Goodhart in The British Dream, and both are primarily caused by immigration.

 The first problem is economic: the plight of the white working class, especially the young, and the decline of social mobility.

There is an  argument  that low-skilled immigrants have taken jobs from unskilled natives, leaving them languishing on benefits, while high-skilled immigration reduces both the incentives and opportunities for ambitious and talented natives to move up the ladder.

To have millions of long-standing residents sitting at home on benefit while poorer foreigners come in and take the jobs that they should be doing makes no sense for the country as a whole;

Well done you politicians;  a winning point  for Donald Trump is that he is not a 
politician, look at them being trundled out on television  it is if they have been chipped in the brain
and therefore they must speak their strange incestuous language.

There is a  belief that if immigrants get ‘more’ of something (jobs, education, opportunities, political power), natives (or whites) must get less.

Think about it this way. Suppose you’re poor, young and white: where in the UK do you want to be? 

To put it bluntly, if you’re going to be white, British and poor, all the statistical evidence suggests you’d be better off anywhere in London, surrounded by immigrants, with a Muslin Mayor and now the white indigenous population vastly outnumbered.  Does anyone find such a  reality quite frightening?

Does a sliver of fear run through one in the face of that fact and if that being the case are we then to expect more urban Manchesters?

You know that television anchor people are in a bubble, they need to get out more, as there are areas in London which are now
almost wholly Muslin with Sharia Courts Stratford in East London being one such place.

Brexit was a voice,  a population crying out enough, that is enough immigration.

Trump a twitter type Luther, how history repeats itself, well, kind of.

Moving on from 1517 and Martin Luther pinning his edict to a church door Donald Trump pins his twittering to the world (twitter denotes inane chatter, how Silicon Valley just love to infantalise us)

Pettegree, a specialist in the history of printing, observes how surprising it was that a middle-aged lecturer Martin Luther who had never published a book should suddenly discover a genius for popular writing. Luther’s combination of direct vernacular style and aesthetic sense created a product which, just at the right moment, hit a newly emerging market: a lay reading public. These were people with a few spare coins and enough facility for reading to use and enjoy printed texts, and maybe read them to friends and neighbours who were not quite as skilful. This was a social media revolution. Printing was nearly a century old in Europe by 1517, but Luther suddenly made it exciting. Polemical printing was as transformative in its effect on Western behaviour as our own experience of Facebook and the rest

Luther’s fruitful alliance with some of Europe’s most accomplished printer-publishers as a way of spreading his message

Luther and Cranach (an illustrator of some genuis) between them worked out a brilliant formula for spreading Luther’s message: short pamphlets in vigorous German, but also and crucially, fronted by what looked like deluxe title pages. These title pages were something new for a pamphlet: designed for immediate impact, with intricate decoration conveying its own visual messages, but framing a central compartment in which Luther’s name was prominently displayed, under a snappy headline with a longer subtitle. Only the most expensive books had enjoyed anything like this before. Once Wittenberg imprints showed how well this device sold books, printers the length of Europe (particularly Protestant Europe) seized on the idea.

The print, with a surrealist fantasy worthy of Lewis Carroll  transforms Luther’s hammer applied to the Wittenberg door into an enormous pen, whose stem stabs backwards across the picture to pierce the ear of an understandably furious lion (representing the pope of 1517, Leo X) before unceremoniously knocking the papal tiara from the head of the current pope, Paul V. Such images were close allies to the torrent of words emerging from the printing presses, the technology which made the words seem novel, even while assuring the reading public that they were older than anything the contemporary church could offer – for they were the Word of God.

The difference between a Friar and a Monk

We fortunate Anglophones are given a nudge by the very strong difference between the words ‘monk’ and ‘friar’ that there is something important to attend to here. Monks predate friars, and their name comes from the Greek for ‘single’ or ‘solitary’, not because most monks were hermits, but because their communities were intended to withdraw from the everyday world to concentrate on prayer. To achieve this, they were expected to be self-supporting, relying economically on their own landed estates, to minimise contact with disruptive secularity. The movement which produced the friars in the late 12th century represented a criticism of this expectation and of the separateness of the monastic way of life, which many felt led to laziness and self-indulgence. The new reforming orders of friars made sure they would never be tempted to withdraw in the same way by the simple 



structural device of forbidding their communities to hold property.

Friars consequently could only survive by begging for their living from the laity (hence Bettelmönch), and that would necessarily bring them into everyday contact with the whole of European lay society. Laypeople would only go on funding friars if they received benefits in return: these spiritual consumer services were principally preaching the Christian message and hearing confessions, but since such services brought the friars much esteem, friary churches also became greatly in demand for intercessory masses in the purgatory industry. Because the friars rapidly became the Western Church’s specialists in preaching, they needed to be intellectually alert and well informed, so they quickly moved to university towns to get the best intellectual training they could, and produced many academic stars before Martin Luther.

The US and the complacent myths about their founding fathers.

They might be Prime Ministers, Presidents and Chancellors in their own countries, but when the 27 Nato leaders lined up to listen to Donald Trump outside the alliance’s new billion-euro headquarters in Brussels, they looked like naughty schoolchildren at assembly.

For this was the Headmaster speaking there was 

the odd giggle from Macron but then he has always been cheeky in class I mean if you marry your teacher etc...

EU leaders had promised to mount a charm offensive with Mr Trump, but the ever-forthright US president was clearly in no mood for niceties as he took the podium beside a twisted fragment of wreckage from New York’s Twin Towers.

Mr Trump had come to Brussels - a city he infamously referred to as a “hellhole” - to make plain that America is fed up with picking up the tab for Europe's security: some 70% of all Nato spending comes from Washington.  As they lined up did they feel like parasites with their shining new building paid for by the US I mean dear Europeans if you had paid your bills would you have had the money to build such 

a 'thing'

I have been to Brussels recently it is a thoroughly

frightening place

Manchester England signyfying the death of Europe

I have a close relative who is studying in Manchester at 2am unable to sleep I turned on the the radio to hear the alarming news of the bombing in Manchester; it took me from 2am to 3am to locate her
and that was the longest hour of my life. The horrific imaginings one goes through it is a kind
of unspeakable angst.

At 3am I locate her and I weep with relief.

Ceremony after such an horrific event is very important in its cathartic effect
and one grieves for those afflicted  and with them but SOMETHING MUST BE DONE

FOR IF THEY ATTAIN CHEMICAL WEAPONS OF SUCH DESTRUCTIVE LIKE WEAPONS
THEY WILL DESTROY CITIES NEXT AND THE TOLL WILL BE 50,000 OR 100,000

Is this scare mongering one can hear liberal anoninted soul searching to do the right thing
after all not all Muslims are like that .....of course that is  a given but having said that
and appeased your liberal heart what do you propose to do?

There is the Trump advocacy of 'bomb the fuck out of them'
and the smooth talker Obama 'talk talk talk' (well done Harvard you do turn them out)
I think (excluding Brexit and Trump) are cowed France after electing Hollande who went a good way
to destroying what is left of that beautful country now choose a maceroon (sorry I meant Monsieur Macron; Holland equally cowed and Austria the electorate are frightened they want the safe option.

How do you deconstruct the problem?  Can the finger be pointed at capitalism and it insatiable
and pathological slave cheap labour  (but if they go who is going to make your breakfast pancakes, tend your garden, pick you fruit, one hear this inane argument by respected lefties on TV.
and one's jaw drops at the blindness.

There are a few people up there repeatedly popping there head above the trenches
but they can be counted on one hand, Milo, Anne Coulter, Fox news Katie Hopkins
and watch the liberal endeavour to undermine these dissenting voices on a daily basis
(see the recent Harvard Study that found the media are 95% biased in their reporting against Trump.

Manchester with the premeditated attack on teenage girls was the step too far

Why oh why didn't the UK intelligence pick up this loser who had two days before had returned from
Libya an had been on a watch list and members of the public years back had infomed that he was one to watch.

Think of the untold grief for loved ones gone on the cusp of their lives.

What will happen?  I think Trump will bomb the fuck out of them

Less draconian if there x number of suspects then round them up and intern them for the safety of teenage girls

Daydreaming your way to success

 

This is an extract from an article in the New Scientist 25/05/17

How to daydream your way to better learning and concentration

Daydreaming need not be the enemy of focus. Learn to do it right and you could reap the benefits from more successful revision to more motivation

  By Caroline Williams

YOUR exams start in less than a month. Or there’s that make-or-break meeting next week that you need to prepare for. But no matter how hard you try to focus, you just can’t. The clock is ticking, but the sun is shining and, oh, is that a barbecue you can smell?

If losing concentration sometimes feels inevitable, that’s because it is – your brain is hardwired to give in to distractions and take you away with the fairies. To make matters worse, science has long backed up the idea that a wandering mind is the enemy of productivity. Failing to focus has been linked to lack of success, unhappiness, stress and poor relationships. It’s enough to make you give up and head for the beach you were just daydreaming about.

But don’t. Recently, psychologists have been having a rethink. If we spend so much time in a state of reverie, they reason, it’s probably not some psychological mistake. It turns out that there are several kinds of mind-wandering, and they don’t all make you unhappy or unproductive. A wandering mind could even be a key weapon in your cognitive arsenal – if you know how to use it.

To master mind-wandering, you first need to understand what’s happening in the brain when you try to pay attention. Broadly speaking, we have two attention systems that constantly keep track of what’s going on around us. One, the bottom-up system, snaps our focus to anything that stimulates the senses: a loud noise, an email notification or someone tapping

Mind wandering has long been thought of as the enemy of concentration, but that’s not always true – the right kind of daydreaming can actually help you focus (see “How to daydream your way to better learning and concentration”). Read on to discover how to take control of your wandering mind, and other simple ways to stay sharp when deadlines are looming.

1. Give your mind more to do

Give your mind more to do: Research by Nilli Lavie at University College London has found that adding deliberate distractions – a jazzy border on a page or a bit of background noise – actually reduces distractibility. Her “load theory” proposes this works because attention is a limited resource, so if you fill all the attentional “slots” in your mind, it leaves no room for other distractions.

2. Bribe yourself

The prospect of a treat can keep people focused, but only when it is well-timed, studies show. Offering people small rewards throughout a boring task didn’t stop them from losing focus, but the promise of a larger reward that they would receive at the end of the task kept them alert. This approach probably works best with an accomplice to keep you from caving early, says Michael Esterman, at the Boston Attention and Learning Laboratory, who did the research. “It’s hard to fool yourself.”

3. Test yourself

We’re currently finding that there’s more than one way your mind can wander, and that knowing how to navigate your daydreams could save you come exam time. One trick is to make sure your mind is wandering about the stuff you need to learn. To do that, test yourself often. People retained more of a boring lecture if they paused to test what they remembered every 5 minutes. Their minds still wandered, but wandered on topic, rather than anything but.

4. Daydream during breaks

Stopping every now and again to give your mind a chance to wander can invigorate focus, says psychologist Paul Seli of Harvard University. “If you say to yourself, now I’m going to think about something unrelated, maybe problem-solve something else that is on your mind, and then come back to your task. That can definitely be beneficial,” he says.

5. De-stress

You might think that an adrenaline boost would focus the mind, but stress actually stimulates the release of hormones, including noradrenaline, which bind to receptors in the cognitive control circuits. This in turn makes it harder for them to keep tabs on mind wandering.

6. Get some zeds A lack of sleep hammers mental performance in general, and reduces our ability to resist both internal and external distractions. And there’s an added bonus – sleep is also important for memory consolidation. In fact, recent research suggests that if you have an hour spare before an exam, a nap could be a more effective use of your time than spending it revising.

7. Doodle

In one study, people forced to listen to a boring voice recording were able to remember more afterwards if they were allowed to doodle. But content is important. Doodling about something related to what you are trying to remember is more likely to qualify as intentional mind wandering, which can help you focus on the task at hand. Don’t be too elaborate, however – if your doodles become too engaging, the whole thing might backfire

Employing language as a successful means to brain intervention

By Dan Jones in New Scientist

DURING the second world war, the US government found itself wrestling with a meaty problem. It was trying to encourage citizens to eat offal so that better cuts of meat could be shipped to the troops abroad. But the message wasn’t getting through.

So the government recruited some serious brainpower: renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead and the father of social psychology, Kurt Lewin. Instead of telling people that eating offal was a patriotic duty, Mead and Lewin tried to understand their psychological resistance to eating it in the first place. They found that offal was stigmatised as the food of the poor, and also that people were unsure how to cook it. And so they launched a new campaign to rebrand offal “variety meat” and teach the public how to prepare it. As more people experimented with it, offal lost its stigma and became a dietary mainstay.

It may sound like a straightforward marketing campaign, but for today’s psychologists the initiative has gained near-legendary status. Many cite it as a forerunner to something they call “wise psychological interventions” – apparently simple actions that produce long-lasting changes in behaviour.

Spooky entanglement

Spooky action at a distance was Einstein’s phrase for a quantum effect called entanglement. If two particles are entangled, then measuring the state of one particle seems to instantly influence the state of the other, even if they are light years apart

An entangled system is defined to be one whose quantum state cannot be factored as a product of states of its local constituents; that is to say, they are not individual particles but are an inseparable whole. 

In entanglement, one constituent cannot be fully described without considering the other(s). 

Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa

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Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa

The last common ancestor of chimps and humans was an eastern European, claims team that analysed fossils of a 7-million-year-old ape from Bulgaria and Gree

So you thought you were free of ideoligies

Ideology is a term that refers to the labyrinthine system of values and beliefs each of us ascribes to about the world, the way it operates, and our place within it.  

Think of it as a sophisticated "filter" through which we view, ponder and interact with the outside world, thus giving us a way to make sense of it. Our ideologies incorporate our prejudices (racism, sexism, nationalism, ethnic intolerance, greed, desire for and abuse of power, etc.), our ideals (justice, progress, liberty, equality, the pursuit of happiness, democracy, the pursuit of wealth, etc.), as well as our hopes and dreams.   

Ideological values are sometimes referred to as "assumptions."   This is due to the fact that ideological beliefs and values are so fundamental to our self-image (both as individuals and as cultures), that they are taken as "natural and" "inevitable." 

 In other words, we generally assume that the tenets we hold are true, natural, and universal.  Indeed, there are ideologies that uphold the status quo and thus are deemed "dominant" ideologies. On the other hand, there are also ideologies that are not mainstream, and these are sometimes labeled "alternative" or, in a pejorative light,  "subversive.")  

 However, because each of us is unique, no set of ideological beliefs is absolute

But in a world ruled by fictions of every kind – mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the pre-empting of any original response to experience by the television screen, social media; we live inside some kind of enormous novel.