Punched, Brutalized, Spit On: ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ Leads to International Violence

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Angry transgender activists surrounded a Canadian conservative and punched his throat; in America, LGBT demonstrators physically or verbally harassed conservative counter-protesters; and two Christian schools canceled classes due to violent threats issued in the shadow of a mass murder. These scenes of mayhem played out as a spate of violence, intimidation, and threats spanning at least two countries marked the annual “Transgender Day of Visibility” held each March 31 by and on behalf of those who identify as members of the opposite sex.

In Vancouver, men dressed as women swarmed Chris Elston, a conservative activist known as “Billboard Chris” for the pro-children’s rights placards he wears, flashing Elston the middle finger while chanting, “F— you!” When Elston raised his phone to capture the perpetrators on video, he brushed against a man dressed as woman who punched Elston in the throat, grabbed the back of his head, and hurled him to the ground. A female officer later told Elston the altercation “seemed like a consensual fight,” and a male law enforcement officer accused him of “looking to be confrontational with me,” because he refused to stop recording his interaction with police.

The Vancouver Police Department later announced that it had launched an investigation into the incident. “Police believe at least two people were assaulted,” the department noted in an appeal to eyewitnesses.

In the United States, comedian Alex Stein had coffee thrown on him during a rally in New York City’s Union Square on Friday, shortly after he voiced his opposition to cross-hormone injections and body-altering surgeries for minors. “Children cannot consent!” Stein told a crowd of LGBT activists, who promptly surrounded him, grabbing his phone and stealing his hat. Video shows one of them throwing coffee on Stein.

“They throw water on me. They assault me. You got the cops here — they don’t do anything about it,” Stein told the camera, which captured someone in the surrounding mass of humanity spit on him. “They just literally spit on me,” Stein continued.

On the West Coast, members of the radical group Trans Rights Activists (TRA) congregated at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in Los Angeles on Friday, blocking passing cars and chanting, “Whose streets? Our streets!” Conservative activist Storm Robinson described being surrounded, “shoved and shoulder checked several times by several different ANTIFA members.” He also identified one potential leader as Jasmine “Abdulluah” Richards, who told Robinson she was affiliated with Black Lives Matter. Richards served 90 days in jail after being convicted of felony lynching in 2016.

Between the two coasts, two Christian schools in the same town — Resurrection Christian School and Loveland Classical Schools in Loveland, Colorado — canceled classes Friday after receiving multiple threats.

“Early this morning, LCS and a number of other schools in the region received anonymous tips via the State’s Safe2Tell program, which is designed as a way for students, parents, and community members to notify schools of possible concerns to student safety or threats impacting schools,” said Loveland Classical Schools executive director Ian Stout on Facebook. “Given external variables and the short timeframe, we opted for the safest course of action for our students, teachers, and staff.”

The alerts came less than a week after a 28-year-old woman who identified as a man murdered six people, including three young children, inside a Christian school in Nashville. At least one group of transgender activists had redubbed the day the “Transgender Day of Vengeance” despite the mass shooting. “Hate has consequences,” stated the Trans Resistance Network about the Nashville Covenant School massacre. Mass murderer Audrey Hale “felt [s]he had no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others.”

Loveland Police Department later verified the reports of potential anti-Christian violence. “We have received two Safe2Tell threats against Christian schools today,” an officer told the Loveland Herald-Reporter. “We take all threats seriously and are taking extra safety precautions and measures to enhance our presence in and around schools throughout Loveland.”

Stout later ascertained the report did not qualify as “a valid or substantiated threat,” adding that the original comments had not been “directed at LCS specifically with clear intent.” Still, “if the LCS administration is not able to verify 100% that we are safe given the information available to us, we will make the overly-cautious decision regarding the status of school for the safety of our students, staff, and entire community.”

Despite killings and future threats of violence, President Joe Biden issued two statements celebrating this year’s “Transgender Day of Visibility,” proclaiming, “Transgender Americans shape our [n]ation’s soul.”

A potent source of violence against the LGBT community is the LGBT community, conservatives point out. “The dirty little secret is that trans people are the ones victimizing each other,” said Catholic League President Bill Donohue.

The Williams Institute, an LGBTQ think tank based at UCLA, took note of studies showing high rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) or intimate partner sexual abuse (IPSA) among people who identify as transgender. A total of “31.1% of transgender people and 20.4% of cisgender people had ever experienced IPV or dating violence,” said the institute, showing that people who identify as the opposite sex are 50% more likely to be abused by their loved ones.

“Findings of lifetime IPV among transgender people from purposive studies range from 31.1% to 50.0%,” the institute continued. “Three studies provided findings of lifetime IPSA prevalence among transgender people, which range from 25.0% to 47.0%.”

“We know one thing for sure,” said Donohue. “It is not white, heterosexual Christian men who are roaming the streets looking for trans people to beat up — it is trans people who are committing the lion’s share of the violence.”

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Crazy People Are Running the Pentagon

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A new report concludes the U.S. military is in decline and places the blame for the fall squarely on the Pentagon’s Woke politics.  Public confidence in the military, recruitment, and retention are all down.  The report says ‘creeping politicization’ has a ‘corrosive impact’ on the military’s war-fighting capabilities.

Look at some of the crazy people running the Pentagon and you can see why.  In their rush to push ‘gender-affirming care’, Pentagon doctors claim that 7-year-olds are perfectly capable of making life-altering decisions about sex change drugs and surgery.  That’s just nuts.  How can 7-year-olds make decisions like that when 17-year-olds can’t even consent to a car loan?

Our crazy Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin can’t get it through his thick head that allowing drag queen story hours for children on military bases shows support for that activity.  Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley promised to get rid of them, but we’ll see if he actually follows through.

Kelisa Wing – the Pentagon’s diversity, equity, and inclusion chief until recently – tweeted in 2020 she was exhausted from hearing “white folx” saying black people can be racist.  Under her theory, black people can’t be racist because they aren’t the majority.  This is in line with critical race theory which holds that only people who have power can be racist.  So I ask you, who has more power – House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries who is black, or me – just some little grassroots white guy?

Follow the money here because Kelisa Wing is accused of promoting her own books on defunding the police, white privilege, and Black Lives Matter at military events, in a conflict of interest.  The Pentagon is spending $86.5 million on diversity and inclusion activities.  The Air Force is also paying diversity managers $82,000 to $180,000 a year.  None dare call it reparations.

This lavish spending comes at the same time Joe Biden’s military budget proposes to cut the size of the Navy by another two ships, showing you the nation’s priorities have gone completely haywire.  The Secretary of the Navy is giving top priority to fighting climate change – “we are accelerating and broadening those efforts,” he said recently.  “This is an all-hands-on-deck moment.”  Crazy as a loon.

Talk about crazy, the military is still trying to fire service members who refused the COVID vaccination even though the military vaccine mandate was lifted in the last defense bill.

Along with the Pentagon’s phony narratives come the speech codes to enforce them.  Air Force Academy students are being told not to use the terms ‘mom and dad’ and, more seriously, they’re also being told not to call terrorists ‘terrorists’.    How can you fight the enemy if you’re not allowed to even name the enemy?  Pretty crazy.  Service members are afraid to speak out against these narratives for fear of being labeled ‘racist’ or ‘sexist’.

Free speech is not the only casualty of the Woke Pentagon’s narratives.  The Air Force has a pilot shortage.  One observer attributes the shortage to the Air Force’s new emphasis on recruiting minorities to become pilots, making it difficult to retain mid-career pilots who are, in effect, being told they’re not wanted and are now a detriment to the mission.  There’s that Woke-induced retention problem again.  As for the Woke-induced recruitment problem, the military is now accepting recruits with ADHD and other behavioral challenges.

The Pentagon’s Woke narratives are producing weakness.  It is folly to call diversity and climate change ‘strategic imperatives’ that are ‘mission critical’.  I assure you America’s adversaries like China and Russia who openly say they want to displace us aren’t sitting around navel-gazing like this.  As former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld used to say, “Weakness is provocative.”  To deliberately make yourself weak, now that’s really crazy.

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Boston Children’s Hospital Director Calls for Drastic Increase in Capacity for Gender Surgeries, Castrations, Sexual Mutilations for Children

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But, but, but, they said this wasn’t happening.

Facts:

  • The child sex change industry is massive and growing, and children undergoing cross-sex treatments can bring a massive cash influx to hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and others in the medical industry.
  • From 2017-2019 at least 56 genital surgeries and 776 mastectomies were performed on minors as part of the gender transition process in the U.S., but even this figure is outdated and vastly underestimates the scope of the child sex change industry by excluding certain patients.
  • “There is no question that financial rewards play a role in the adoption of gender affirming care. Hospitals and physicians generate substantial payments from insurers or self pay patients when children enter into the transition protocols,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, board chair of Do No Harm and former Associate Dean for Curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Boston Children’s Hospital director calls for drastic increase in capacity for gender surgeries for minors

The director at Boston Children’s Hospital said medical school students should learn transgender surgeries in residency programs

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Detransitioned teen Chloe Cole: I’m afraid my generation will be led astray

Former transgender kid, Chloe Cole, shares the complications she deals with every day as a result of medical interventions she was subjected to after being diagnosed with gender dysphoria. “I’m not sure whether it’ll even go away,” she said.

Boston Children’s Hospital co-director at its Center for Gender Surgery called for a drastic increase in capacity for what he called “gender-affirming care” (GAC), including surgeries, for kids as GOP states enact bans on the practices.

Oren Ganor is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who specializes in gender-affirming surgeries. He has previously stated in an email that the hospital is “slightly flexible” when it comes to the age of transgender girls seeking genital surgery,” according to a local outlet. The policy had not been finalized, he said, “because of the issue around consent for sterilization.”

The children’s hospital clarified to Fox News Digital that it does not provide genital surgeries on kids. A patient needs to live in their new gender for 12 months before the genital surgeries are considered.

In a March 14 article he co-wrote with a medical school student, Shawheen J. Rezei, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, he said that the capacity for gender surgeries for kids needed to be increased.

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‘Age Is A Number’: Gender Clinic Offered Puberty Blockers To Kids As Young As 8, Surgery Referrals At 14

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  • The Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) Gender and Sexuality Development Program offers medical interventions to children as young as eight as part of the medical transition process, according to documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. 
  • Clinic employees have publicly advocated for certain cross-sex surgeries for minors, along with hormones and puberty blockers, and have downplayed the seriousness of the infertility which is a known consequence of some of these interventions. 
  • “I think it’s really important to remember that age is a number,” clinic co-founder Dr. Nadia Dowshen said. “But as an adolescent medicine and developmental specialist, we know that where a child is cognitively and socially is more important than that exact number of their age.”

The Gender and Sexuality Development Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) offers drastic medical interventions as part of the gender transition process to children as young as eight, according to statements and documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

CHOP’s youth gender clinic, one of the first in the U.S., is a major trans medical provider in Pennsylvania and has strong ties to Rachel Levine, a former trans activist who currently serves as the U.S. assistant secretary for health. The clinic recently came under fire for holding seminars where teachers were instructed to hide students’ trans identities from their parents. Clinic employees also promoted cross-sex procedures for children while downplaying the risks, documents and statements reveal.

The clinic has referred children as young as 14 for “top surgery,” a euphemism for mastectomies or breast construction, though most referrals are for patients aged 16-18, Dowshen told lawmakers at a Pennsylvania House of Representatives Health Committee hearing in 2020.

The clinic’s co-founders, Dr. Linda Hawkins and Dr. Nadia Dowshen, advocated for “top surgery” for minors in a 2021 paper published in Pediatrics, the medical journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

“We observed consensus that chest dysphoria is a major source of distress and can be functionally disabling to transmasculine youth. MCS performed during adolescence, including before age 18, can alleviate suffering and improve functioning,” they wrote in their paper.

The clinic worked to secure surgical referrals for minors and even employed a social worker who served as a “surgery advocate,” collecting letters of support on behalf of gender dysphoric minors in order to persuade insurance companies to cover their surgeries, according to a 2021 report from CHOP. A staffer had previously pushed for such a position to be funded with the help of then-acting secretary of health for the state, Rachel Levine, and argued that the position would yield a high return on investment.

“I think it’s really important to remember that age is a number,” Dowshen said at the hearing. “But as an adolescent medicine and developmental specialist, we know that where a child is cognitively and socially is more important than that exact number of their age.”

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CHOP professionals laid out the gender clinic’s guidelines for sex change procedures in a webinar on the clinic’s standards of care, which the hospital created in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services and the DCNF obtained through a public records request.

The clinic advised “affirmation” of a child’s gender identity and social transition to the opposite sex for kids under the age of eight, who are too young for medical interventions under the clinic’s guidelines.

For medical interventions, patients must experience long-lasting gender nonconformity, which emerged or worsened at the onset of puberty, and have any coexisting medical, social and psychological issues addressed prior to the onset of medical treatment, according to the webinar.

Dr. Zachary McClain, webinar host and former adolescent specialty provider at CHOP, claimed there was “no regret” among patients who undergo cross-sex hormones during his webinar lecture.

“What are the long-term outcomes after starting hormone replacement therapy?” he said. “These are all really great. No regret to transition. Despite some of the lay press that’s out there, the medical literature does not support that at all.” He also claimed hormones resulted in “significant or complete resolution of gender dysphoria.”

It’s impossible to gather long-term data on regret rates for individuals who underwent hormones and other procedures in recent years amid the massive surge in transgender identification and the explosive growth of transgender clinics, since most of those patients are only a few years into their medical journeys. But numerous detransitioners have come forward to express regret over undergoing cross-sex procedures in their youth, including hormones.

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The clinic prescribes puberty blockers after the onset of puberty, which the webinar says can occur in children as young as eight. Dowshen also stated that children were placed on blockers as young as age eight or nine in her testimony to state lawmakers.

“For kids who are going through puberty at normal ages, that could start as early as 8 or 9 … we’re making a decision to start the blocker based on when that child hits puberty,” she said. “We have a series of tests that we do, as well as the main thing being our physical exam to understand when a child is starting to have, for example, testicular development or breast development to clue us in to when they’re starting puberty. And we would start the puberty-blocking medications at that time.”

“We look to a few organizations to guide us in medical care for the youth,” McClain said in the webinar, explaining that CHOP’s guidelines follow standards of care developed by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the Endocrine Society and the UCSF Center for Transgender Excellence. “There are currently no medical interventions recommended prior to the onset of puberty. That brings us to our second block, which is pubertal or eight to 14 years old. And the eligibility … to start [pubertal] suppression is they must have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and have started puberty.”

The use of puberty blockers as part of the gender exploration process is an off-label use of a prescription drug developed to delay premature puberty in young children; it’s been linked to serious health problems, and some experts have argued that blockers can cement a transgender phase that most children would otherwise outgrow.

“The benefits are that it can delay irreversible secondary sex characteristics,” Dowshen told an audience during a 2018 lecture at a women’s health seminar series hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “The other benefits of the blockers are that they are fully reversible, and this allows some time for the young person to mature and be ready to make decisions that may be more irreversible.”

The irreversibility of puberty blockers has been called into question by numerous experts, including 31 psychologists, neuroscientists and hormone experts who urged further study on the drugs in a 2020 paper that concluded “the full consequences (both beneficial and adverse) of suppressing endogenous puberty are not yet understood.”

“If the brain is expecting to receive those hormones at a certain time and doesn’t, what happens?” Dr. Sheri Berenbaum, head of a gender research lab at Penn State and one of the authors of the paper, told The New York Times. “We don’t know.”

Puberty blockers cost up to $49,000 for an 18-month implant, and insurance covers it about 72% of the time, according to the webinar. McClain acknowledged that the drug is not FDA-approved for use in kids with gender dysphoria and that it is not associated with a decrease in gender dysphoria — the sense of deep discomfort with one’s body that drives some individuals to transition to the opposite sex. (RELATED: ‘Horrifying’: Huge Proportion Of Children Pursuing Gender Transitions Are Actually Autistic, Experts Believe)

The CHOP webinar recommended the administration of cross-sex hormones and “gender affirming surgeries” in the post-pubertal phase of development, which it defines as occurring at age 14 and up. For natal females, taking testosterone is tied to clitoral enlargement, severe acne, insulin resistance and an increased risk of heart disease and cancer, while for natal males, estrogen causes lower libido and increased risk of blood clots, according to the CHOP webinar; both can cause infertility and emotional changes.

Dowshen acknowledged the fertility risks associated with these drugs to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Health Committee in 2020, but downplayed concerns about patients being unable to start families after undergoing cross-sex procedures as children.

“Questions about fertility, these are important ones that we discuss with patients and families early on and often,” she said. “What’s interesting is that the field of assisted reproductive technology is rapidly evolving and our understanding of the impacts of these medications on biological fertility are also evolving.”

“I also want to take a step back for a second to say that … there are other ways to build families beyond having a child biologically. Folks can adopt as well, and many transgender children and adolescents are interested in having biological children and many are not interested in having children at all or are interested in adopting,” she said.

Dowshen, Hawkins, McClain and the CHOP gender clinic did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

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Mental Illness: Does it Truly Exist?

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Man is a triune being, a being consisting of the spirit, the soul and the body, created in the image of Jehovah God. This was known in ancient times by men who understood God and His word. A close study of God’s word will reveal to the diligent researcher just how true the above statement is.

As humans, we all must relate to our environment, and to each other, using the five physical senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching, and anything, any sickness or disease, that detracts from our ability to use those five senses in this life is inherently evil.

All data incoming through those senses go through our onboard computer, the human brain. That magnificent organ receives the data and, through collaboration with our NON-physical parts, our spirits (the true being consisting of the true life) and our souls (mind, will and emotion) make the decisions on how the data received is to be interpreted and used.

The Difference Between the Body and the Other Attributes of a Man

All of man’s physical bodily parts, from the outer layer, the skin, and inward to the hidden organs that work together to keep the body alive and functioning normally, are subject to attack by evil forces capable of causing physiological disease and death; these are all a result of Adam’s sin which activated the ‘law of sin and death’ (Romans 8:2 KJV) and brought death into the world. Since that time untold billions of people have fallen victim to those forces and have lost their physical lives as a result. All the world is well acquainted with sickness and death and have lived their lives somewhat in fear of those evils.

The Human Mind and Its Function

In this current age, we hear much about mental illness, especially when reports of mass shootings and other violent events occur. Indeed, reports of violent behavior due to “mental illness” issues are rampant in the news. Murders, even mass murders, are listed as a consequence of “mental illness”. Sometimes, the people who are charged with murders will claim to be innocent by reason of “insanity”, or what they term mental illness.

If the reports are true and factual, then this type of illness is even more prevalent than cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other maladies of the physical body and are even more horrifying because the symptoms, or outward signs of such ‘disease’ are difficult, if not impossible to see. Only the results of the ‘disease’ are visible due to the decisions and actions of people who reportedly are mentally ill and allow it to manifest in illegal, sometimes catastrophic, actions.

The physical infirmities that affect men and women are much easier to diagnose and treat than mental illness mainly because the physical body can be observed with the naked eye or with radiological instruments that allow a peek into the inner workings of the body.

Science has proven that many of the diseases we encounter in our lives are spread from human to human through some type of physical contact or through the bodily fluids that we all have and sometimes share. It would seem then that, if we could insulate ourselves from all bodily contact with other humans, we could eliminate all disease and sickness. But that would indeed be an impossibility; and even if it were possible, what would life be like if we could not touch a loved one, hug our child or kiss the love of our lives? Would life even be worth living under those conditions? Hardly. But the good news is that, when a person has a healthy immune system, the system that God designed for our use, most diseases can be fought off and defeated, with the added benefit that an immunity is then created in the body that helps to protect against any future attack of that disease.

In the physical realm, the human body which can be seen and touched, and the brain, like all the other physical organs of the body, though hidden from sight, are all ‘flesh and blood’ and are subject to the infirmities that can and do affect all humans at one time or another. When that occurs, there are definite ways to treat them in the physical realm. But the body/brain of a man, and the spirit/soul of a man are two distinctly different things. The first are ‘natural’ and function in the natural realm, while the spirit/soul are supernatural and cannot be seen with the eyes; they function in a much higher, spiritual realm and as such, they are subject to attacks in that higher, spiritual realm.

Since the term ‘mental illness’ refers to a sickness that seems to originate in the mind, NOT the brain, a closer look at mental illness in light of God’s word is needed.

So, What IS Mental Illness and Where Does It originate?

Satanic Attacks/Spiritual Warfare

Satan knows very well how the human being is constructed and how  God designed it to work. He longs for a human body so that he can function as does the man that God created. But, Satan is a spirit, NOT a flesh and blood being so he is limited in how he can bring attacks on people.

The Holy Spirit, through the Apostle Paul, has spoken much about our battles with evil, where they originate and how we are to deal with them. He said in Ephesians 6:12, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Notice that all the entities with whom we do battle are NOT flesh and blood beings, but ARE ‘spirit beings’ and they attack us in the non-physical areas, the mind, the will and the emotions (the soulish realm), with their deception, lies and evil suggestions, in order to engage us in battle in hopes of stealing everything God has given to us. Even though we are in flesh and blood bodies, the REAL persons in those bodies are spirit beings, living in the physical bodies that God prepared for us when He created Adam and Eve; as spirit beings, we have the ability, AND the authority, to do battle in the spirit realm, but we can only be successful in battle by using the spiritual armor God provided. Only through the proper knowledge of, and use of, that armor will we be guaranteed success.

And in 2 Corinthians 10:3-5,

“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”.

 Notice in the above passage that we have been given a command from God to get violent in that spiritual realm in order to defeat Satan.

Protecting Our Minds

As important as it is to properly nourish and care for our bodies, the proper care of the mind is even more important.

The story of Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king who defeated the Jewish people and carried Judah into captivity is one of several accounts of ‘mental illness’ that offers great insight into the cause of mental illness (Daniel 4). Because of the wickedness and pride of Nebuchadnezzar, giving himself all the credit for his kingdom and his accomplishments, refusing to give that glory to God, He was afflicted with demonic possession as the ‘heart’ of Nebuchadnezzar was changed from that of a man to that of a beast, and his demonic possession lasted seven years. During that time, the Babylonian king acted as a beast and lived as a beast, doing beastly things.

Think of a human brain, which definitely IS a part of the physical human body, as a preprogrammed computer, or at least a computer that is being constantly programmed and reprogrammed. The data stored in the brain is a result of the input from the computer ‘operator’. The operator not only programs the computer, but constantly accesses the data stored there. So, in essence, the operator/programmer, though not an integral part of the computer, is absolutely necessary for any part of the computer to be utilized for any significant function of the human body.

So, who then is the operator of the computer? That would be the human mind which, though NOT a physical part of the physical human body is as necessary as the human brain for a human being to function rationally, logically and with any positive outcomes.

So, to sum up, if the human mind is NOT physical, just what is it? It has a direct connection to, and is a communication link between, the human spirit and the human body. The human spirit is the TRUE being without whose presence the human body would die, or cease to function on its own, and when the body dies, the mind, being a part of the spiritual man, lives on eternally; being a part of the human spirit (the mind, the will and the emotions), it is always alive, whereas the human brain dies shortly after the human spirit departs the body.

Proper Care of the Human Mind

The believer should have a different ‘mindset’ from that of the world. God did not leave us in the dark regarding the proper care of the mind. In fact, in Romans 12, the Apostle Paul told us what we must do to keep our minds in top condition, always ready for battle:

“ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”

Please note that your physical body will NOT present itself a ‘living sacrifice’; in fact, the body, even that of a true believer, will constantly resist sacrificing anything. The fallen human nature is always at war against the spirit and wants total dominance over all. The sacrifice Paul mentions is the function of the real person, the human spirit, using the mind as the communication interface with the body. In fact, the human physical body will mostly  try to do whatever is against the spirit. Paul stated so when he said,

“But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.” Romans 7:23-25

Paul’s point is that, in order to keep the body under the control of the spirit, one MUST constantly provide the nourishment it needs, which is God’s word.

What does it mean to ‘lose one’s mind?

The world assumes that the human mind can be ‘lost’, but what they likely mean is that it has become under the control of a spirit other than the human spirit. If so, then the mind, being controlled by another spirit, though still able to access the stored data in the brain, will attempt to use that data for evil purposes rather than good, logical rational and righteous purposes. In effect, the evil spirit that has gained control of the mind also now controls the brain and, through that control, the body is able to work evil and create havoc.

Rather than ‘losing one’s mind’, the truth is that one allows a foreign agent to assume partial, or even total, control of one’s mind, leading to what the scientific world calls mental illness, or insanity, but which is actually demonic influence or demonic possession.

Conclusion

The deceived and lost world offers what they believe to be a rational explanation for what they call ‘insanity/mental illness’, but is actually evil and demonic influence or outright demonic possession. They will likely NOT admit to the existence of evil demon spirits since to do so would be to admit the existence of the fallen angel Lucifer, Satan, the devil (use whichever you want, they are all interchangeable) as ‘the god of this world’. They refuse to recognize that what they call “mental illness” is actually the result of human beings being influenced by demonic spirits. Their refusal makes the current chaotic condition of the world seem easier for them to accept and explain. After all, illness can and does ‘happen’ to all humans, right? So why should we separate ‘mental illness’ from all other diseases.

Just as there are varying degrees of physical illness, some mild and merely inconvenient, others are almost immediately life-threatening, so there are degrees of mental illness/demonic influence. And as the degrees of physical illness are indicated by the severity of the  symptoms, so are the degrees of demonic influence.

In the Gospel of St. Mark, chapter 5, we find the account of Jesus, who had just arrived in the country of the Gadarenes, encountering a man who was possessed of a multitude of evil spirits and who dwelt among the tombs (it seems that demons love the dark places where death reigns). This man would make crying noises and cut himself as he roamed the mountains and the tombs. He was obviously a danger to himself and eventually would have been to others, since in verse 4, we are told that the demon possession gave him exceptional physical strength so that he could break any chains or fetters that had been used to bind him. The poor possessed man ran to Jesus and knowing Who He was, worshipped Him and begged Him to not send them (the legion of demon spirits) away out of the country.

Jesus, having mercy on the man possessed, ordered the demon spirits to leave the man and the spirits begged Jesus not to send them out of the country, but to allow them to enter a herd of swine feeding nearby. Jesus did and the demons left the man and entered the swine, causing them to run into the water and drown.

The people of that region were well aware of the man who was saved by Jesus and they also knew he had been possessed by unclean spirits for a long time. They did NOT call a psychiatrist to heal him of his “mental illness”. But when Jesus arrived, the man himself, knowing he was possessed, approached Jesus and received his cleansing.

After witnessing the destruction of the herd of swine caused by the devil spirits that entered into them, and seeing that the possessed man was sitting calmly, clothed and “in his right mind”, they were afraid, (Mark 5:15 KJV) and they implored Jesus to leave their coasts.

How ironic that they were afraid of the One who brought deliverance to the possessed man, but were willing to live with him in their area while possessed by the truly evil spirits.

When was the last time you heard of a Christian commanding a devil to leave a person who was influenced or possessed by evil? I thought Christians were supposed to be ‘Christlike’, but it now appears the Church has become afraid of acting like Christ and willing to accept as ‘normal’, a condition they prefer to call ‘mental illness’ instead of what it truly is: demonic influence or possession.

When will the Church begin to recognize what is happening and refuse to allow themselves to be deceived into accepting evil as a normal state? Instead of commanding the demons to flee from those people who have been plagued with the, the Church now seems more afraid of Jesus and ready to cozy up to those who are demon-possessed…uh, I mean “mentally ill”.

Selah……

Maranatha

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Testimony: BioTech Admits Gate’s GMO Factory Food IS a Gene Therapy

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Now the truth comes out. Please read this column about GMO foods and Bill Gates.

Renz Missouri House Testimony – BioTech Admits Gate’s GMO Factory Food IS a Gene Therapy

This has been a monumental week for the truth and freedom movement in our ongoing war against the WEF/CCP/Gates Foundation/etc. Here are just a few highlights:

  1. I had an opportunity to get incredibly important information about the DoD involvement with the creation of SARS-COV-2 and the vaccines on the official record in the state of Missouri;
  2. I was able to put on record that the DMED data has yet to be refuted under oath or where a penalty of perjury would apply by the DoD it accuses of killing it’s own soldiers;
  3. Daniel Horrowitz (if you do not follow Daniel’s work please do – he is an incredible journalist) uncovered and reported that the CDC expected over 1000 adverse events per day to be reported to VAERS per a FOIA document (see the article here). How much clearer can it be that the CDC and big pharma worked together to push a product for profit despite the fact that these products were incredibly dangerous? This is even more damning when you consider that these same people intentionally stoked fear in the public over a disease roughly as dangerous as the seasonal flu;
  4. Redfield has admitted that, not only was SARS-COV-2 created in a lab using gain of Function research but also that this research is going on and WILL be the cause of the next great pandemic. He also called Fauci a liar (see this article for a summary); and
  5. The biotech lobbyists admitted that GMO food like the type Bill Gates wants to manufacture in factories WILL actually alter your genetic code!!!

Here is the press release posted on www.TomRenz.com & www.Renz-Law.com regarding this testimony:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Biotech lobbyists in Missouri opposed to the HB1169 Gene Therapy Disclosure & Informed Consent Bill ADMIT that GMO food like the type Bill Gates is pushing to manufacture in factories WILL alter your genetics – ARE THESE FOODS GOING TO BE THE NEXT mRNA VACCINES?

HB1169 in Missouri would require disclosure of any product that would produce impacts on the human body similar to a gene therapy drug as well as requiring informed consent disclosure to include all risks and benefits – including adverse events of special interest. The language of the bill can be found at https://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills231/hlrbillspdf/2467H.01I.pdf. Naturally, big Pharma and their associates oppose disclosure and informed consent.

During official testimony in the Missouri House on the bill the lobbyists for BioTech and WashU (I believe) in Missouri went on record to admit that GMO foods do in fact impact people’s genetic code. They actually opposed the bill on the basis that this law would require them to admit that all of their GMO products ARE in fact impacting people’s genetic code. There was no discussion as to how substantial the impact was or what studies were being done to ensure these modifications were not causing long-term health effects.

This SHOCKING admission is critical in light of the Gates Foundation/WEF push to begin producing all meats and dairy products in factories. If a basic GMO food can cause modification of our genome what could an entirely manufactured food do? Further, do we trust the same people to ensure these products are safe and effective that told us the COVID vaccines would stay in the injection site, have minimal side effects, and prevent the spread of COVID despite admitting to the European Union that they never studied the vaccine’s ability to stem the spread of COVID?

Also in this testimony Renz was able to include discuss the DMED data, DoD involvement with the development of COVID, the DoD involvement with the COVID vaccines, and MUCH more.

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MINNESOTA: Elementary School Hosts ‘Gender Resource Fair’ Featuring A ‘Drag Story Hour’ For Kids

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Not even half the students at this school are proficient in reading or math….but sexualizing illiterates is the priority.

Elementary School Hosts ‘Gender Resource Fair’ Featuring A ‘Drag Story Hour’ For Kids

By: Reagan Reese, Daily Caller, March 28, 2023

A Minnesota elementary school is hosting a “gender resource fair” for children and their families featuring a “drag story hour,” according to a school website.

Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) is putting on an April 13 event for transgender and non-binary children at Loring Elementary School featuring local gender non-conforming resources, a bounce house, games and dinner, according to the St. Paul Public Schools website. The elementary school event includes a “drag story hour” for kids.

“We’re hosting a gathering for families and their gender creative young ones,” a flyer for the event, promoted by the local teachers union, read. “Join us for community resources, entertainment, food, games and more.”

Dr. Angela Kade Goepferd, the medical director of Children’s Minnesota Gender Health Program who uses they/them pronouns, is the guest speaker for the event, the flyer showed. The Children’s Minnesota Gender Health Program serves as a “resource” for transgender minors and their families while providing “compassionate and comprehensive care” for the “gender-diverse youth,” the hospital website read.

Very cool event happening next month for families and their gender-creative kids at Loring Elementary! pic.twitter.com/prAovbDM7p

— MFT 59 (@MFT59) March 23, 2023

Across the country, school districts are pushing to promote gender identity lessons to elementary students; an elementary school principal in Minnesota suggested kindergarten through second grade students read “Jack (Not Jackie),” a story about a young girl who realizes she prefers to act like a boy. In Pennsylvania, an elementary school held a training for educators to teach them how to create a “gender-inclusive” classroom and affirm LGBTQ identities.

In the 2021-2022 school year, at Loring Elementary School, 42% of students are proficient in math and 42% of students met grade-level expectations for reading, according to U.S. News and World report, the nation’s largest ranking system.

“Not even half the students at this school are proficient in reading or math and yet somehow the priority is to partner with a local gender clinic and host an event that promotes gender confusion in young children and includes drag queen story hour?” Erika Sanzi, director of outreach for Parents Defending Education, a parental rights group, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Another red flag is that the local teachers’ union is promoting it. This whole thing is ideological in nature and has no place in an elementary school.”

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Pamela Geller

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‘Bouncy Houses’ and ‘Goodie-Bags’: Inside the Military’s Drag Queen Events for Kids

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The U.S. military under President Joe Biden has hosted numerous drag queen events for children on military bases, advertising the story hours alongside promises of “bouncy houses,” face painting, and “goodie-bags.” After public backlash, one base’s spokesman called gender-bending events “essential” to military morale and readiness.

Now, a conservative Republican congressman plans to hold the Biden administration’s feet to the fire after its top military advisor said drag queen events for children “shouldn’t be happening.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) raised the issue of the “deeply unserious things” the administration has foisted on America’s fighting forces with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

“How much taxpayer money should go to fund Drag Queen Story Hours on military bases?” Gaetz asked Lloyd.

“Drag Queen Story Hours is [sic] not something that the Department [of Defense] funds” or “supports,” asserted Austin.

“Wait a second, that’s actually not what the record seems to suggest,” corrected Congressman Gaetz, pointing to four drag-themed events on U.S. military institutions.

  • Germany’s Ramstein Air Force Base planned to celebrate Pride Month by hosting a “Drag Queen Story Time” for soldiers’ children inside the base library last June 2. The event was canceled after Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) called the decision “completely insane” in a letter to U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall. Since “decisions over children and their bodies should be left to moms and dads serving our nation, not mediated through publicly funded propaganda,” wrote Rubio;
  • Although that event was canceled, Gaetz highlighted another example of cross-dressing men reading to minors at Malmstrom Air Force Base in deep-red Montana. “To celebrate pride, the Mister Sisters will be hosting a Drag Story Time and a Drag Show, June 30,” 2021, the base announced on Facebook. “The reading will be held at the Base Library at 2 P.M. and the first 25 children will be gifted goodie-bags”;
  • The Army and Air Force’s Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia announced two on-base drag performances last July 30. The base-wide “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Summer Festival” advertised the dance stylings of “Harpy Daniels — the Navy Drag Queen” alongside “bouncy houses and face painting for the children”; and
  • The Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas — once described as offering the “most demanding advanced air combat training in the world” — hosted “Drag-u-Nellis,” a privately sponsored drag show for officers, at an on-base facility on June 17, 2021. Nellis AFB Spokesman Col. Bryon McGarry described LGBTQ-themed spectacles as “essential to the morale, cohesion, and readiness of the military,” adding he remains “committed to providing and championing an environment that is characterized by equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion.”

Confronted with the evidence, Austin replied, “I stand by what I just said.” Gaetz quickly parried that Austin’s sworn testimony is “belied by the evidence” and “doesn’t comport with the facts.”

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley asked for copies of the articles Gaetz had entered into the Congressional Record, saying, “I’d like to take a look at those, because I don’t agree with” drag events for children. “It shouldn’t be happening.”

“Thank you for that admission,” Gaetz replied.

“To their credit, they said if I brought them examples of where this was happening on installations, that they would use their power to stop it,” Gaetz told “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” shortly after the hearing. “In a world of divided government where Joe Biden’s the president, I guess that counts as a win for the day.” But he advised conservatives to “remain diligent that in the name of ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion,’ we don’t create a more divisive and less welcoming fighting force.”

Some of the men who put on cross-dressing events defend their propriety and accuse Republicans of pouncing on the issue. “There’s nothing sexualized about a drag queen reading a book to a group of children,” insisted Daniels Hays, a federal employee who gives cross-dressing performances under the name Muffy Blake Stevens. “Politicians of any stripe [are] using drag queens as their wedge issue to try and ignite their base and say, somehow, we’re coming for” their children. In reality, “none of us are on a crusade to change anyone,” he contended.

But the official Drag Story Hour (DSH) website declares, “DSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.”

“Elementary school is the perfect time” to introduce children to extreme gender theory, before children “develop a stable understanding of their gender identity,” one LGBTQ activist told teachers and administrators of schools located on U.S. military bases.

Gaetz’s revelations come on intensifying concern over the Biden administration teaching children transgenderism, “global citizenship,” and equity-tinged critical race theory in the global complex of military-run schools. “The new military education aims to detach military brats from their families and their country, all the better to make them global citizens. It seeks to disrupt stable sexual identities,” wrote Ryan P. Williams and Scott Yenor of the Claremont Institute. The U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), teaches more than 66,000 students in 160 schools spread over seven states and 11 foreign countries.

Biden’s dogged promotion of gender nihilism also coincides with one of the worst years of military recruitment on record, a failure Gaetz and others chalk up to the Democratic Party’s determination to replace toughness with liberal social engineering. “The American South [and] the American Southeast make an oversize contribution” to the ranks of enlisted soldiers. “When values are presented that are antithetical to the values that a lot of people grow up with, then I think that can really have an impact on readiness.”

While transvestite events have taken place on military bases for years, official government approbation is a relatively new occurrence.

Navy drag queen “Harpy Daniels,” whose real name is Joshua Kelley, discussed performing drag shows for his fellow sailors in a 2018 interview, in which he also admitted he joined the service to get enough money to keep performing in women’s make-up. “With drag being my number one passion, it quickly became costly,” Kelley said. “The Navy became a great option to get myself situated” financially. Kelley also became an officer in the Gay, Lesbian and Supporting Sailors association chapter aboard a carrier named for Ronald Reagan.

Gaetz asked “Washington Watch” listeners to share examples of wokeness in the military with him via his website, “so we can bring it forward, highlight it, and then defund it” and “get rid of the authorities that even allow this nonsense — whether it’s dividing people on gender or on race or on belief.”

“One of the remarkable things about our military is that they are in a community of common fate,” Congressman Gaetz told Perkins. “Included in that is a common sense of mission and patriotism and love of country,” which the commander-in-chief should not undermine by promoting radical theories on transgenderism, race, or COVID-19 vaccination status.

“It is absolutely important that our military focus on its mission, and that is fighting and winning wars, not promoting drag queen story hours and the rest of this woke agenda,” said Perkins.

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White House To Host ‘Roundtable On Affirming Transgender Kids’

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The White House will host a “Roundtable on Affirming Transgender Kids” Friday as part of its observance of “Transgender Day of Visibility,” according to a fact sheet.

The roundtable is part of a push from the administration to support transgenderism, including childhood medical transitions, in the wake of numerous red states restricting the procedures. The discussion will focus on the experiences of children who identify as transgender and their parents in states that have restricted child sex changes, according to the White House.

“Over half of transgender youth say they have seriously considered suicide in the last year because of the discrimination and rejection they face. In the face of these challenges, research shows that, when transgender youth are affirmed and supported, they thrive,” the fact sheet wrote, citing no evidence for either claim.

The suicidality rates of transgender individuals are vastly exaggerated, according to experts in the field, some of whom believe that overemphasis on the suicide narrative can become a self-fulfilling prophecy that encourages young people with gender identity issues to contemplate suicide. Additionally, studies suggesting that cross-sex medical procedures improve mental health are riddled with bias, confounding variables and methodological errors, according to multiple Daily Caller News Foundation reviews.

The White House also issued what it called a “landmark report” on ways to support LGBT youth and issued new guidance for “gender identity inclusion” for public servants.

The White House did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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Real Men are Irreplaceable

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Elizabeth A. Mitchell: The role of real men on the front lines of the culture war is irreplaceable because the battle is for the soul of humanity.

My father was a boy during the London Blitz.  My grandfather recounts how one day he drove into London to find his office building in rubble.  No files, no reports, no nothing of what was so important just the day before.  My grandmother served as black-out warden for their neighborhood, an hour outside of London.  She recalls how from the end of their road they could see the London skyline burning.  Planes returning to the airbase near their home would pass overhead, and shrapnel, bombs, and long nights spent under the stairs, or in their Anderson shelter, were routine.

In those days of the dogged fight for Western civilization, heroes walked among us.  Soldiers, airmen, seamen, reconnaissance operatives, and brash world leaders with resolve for the fight.

Today, we are in a different kind of battle.  We are in a battle for the soul of humanity itself, and the battle is taking place one household at a time, one neighborhood at a time, one human being at a time.  We are in a fight to retain truth, objective reality, selflessness, and the enduring human spirit.

And, in this battle, acts of greatness must be noticed, affirmed, and encouraged.  Why?  Because the younger generation is watching us.  They are watching us to understand how they should define themselves.  They will be as great as the example we give to them; they will follow the model we set for them.  And they will hope to see us asking them for their very best.

Take my two neighbors, Bob and Brendan.  Bob is a baby boomer, the unelected mayor of our block.  If it snows, Bob is first out with his plow.  He does not define his task as finished when he reaches the end of his own driveway.  A good father and a good neighbor, he does not see life in terms of property lines, but in terms of families helping one another.

Brendan is a successful Millennial, able to work from home or go to the office, able to define a great deal of his reality.  And in the generational transition from Bob to Brendan, the example of Bob is paramount.  Just this morning, we had a magnificent snow day.  No school, no obligations, and plenty of heavy, wet white.  I ventured out with my trusty shovel, and who should come plowing up the driveway?  Brendan.  With his awesome, new Craftsman snowplow.  “It was a wedding present,” he proclaimed proudly.  “I am glad to be able to use it.”

While the evening news is telling us that the new generation of men don women’s swimsuits and win medals at female sporting events, the real men are out snowplowing.

Just last Sunday, on my way home from Mass in a depressed downtown area, where the most beautiful churches in many cities are located, I hit a pothole.  The PSI on my front right tire fell to 1, then 0.  Indecisive, I called my brother, a priest at the seminary, who offered to come and assess the situation.  Just then, I heard shouting.  Freddy, a man standing at the curbside bus shelter, was flagging me down.

“Mam!” he shouted, waving his arms like an airplane ground controller.  “Mam!  You can’t drive that car!”  I pulled to the curb and rolled down my window.  He shouted at me again that I could not drive my vehicle.  So, stuck between the reality of my distress and the fear of trusting a stranger in an unfamiliar area, I took a deep breath and followed Freddy’s instructions.

Like a guardian angel straight from Central Casting, Freddy took care of everything.  Joined at this point by his friend, Anthony, who also appeared out of nowhere, the two men taught me where to place the jack on my car frame, removed my flat tire, put on the spare, and sternly warned me how to make it safely home.  My brother joined them, and the three chatted and exchanged tire analysis and time and effort.  Freddy, it turns out, grew up in Mississippi and learned mechanics in his father’s machine shed.  Anthony stood guard and imparted wisdom.

Freddy and Anthony.  My brother.  Real men.

While the evening news is telling us that the men in the inner city are proving their manhood by lighting dumpsters on fire and expressing rage through violence, the real men are out helping others, unseen by the cameras.

The world, the culture, the nation: these are not collective, faceless entities.  They are made up of individuals.  The qualities and values of our world, our culture, and our nation, individually, comprise the whole.

In the years leading up to the Nazi persecution, St. Edith Stein, who died in Auschwitz, wrote about the menacing and intentional shift of her society from a community to an association.  While a community comes together as subjects for a shared meaningful relationship, an association interrelates as objects for a transactional purpose.

The danger, which lurks in the dark societal redefinition of the Third Reich, is the replacement of communities with associations.  When our view of other human beings becomes de-personalized and merely transactional, the humanity of the whole is lost.

And so, our real men matter a great deal.  As they led a generation to defend Western civilization, so now they can lead a generation in what it means to be a male.  To serve, to protect, to sacrifice, and to ennoble the human condition, are all critical contributions of our best men.

The battle depends upon each one of us.  And the role of our men on the front lines of that battle is irreplaceable.  The fight for our civilization is a battle for the soul of humanity.  One human being at a time.

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VIDEO: Objective Reality Is Required for a Free Society

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In this edition of Conversations That Matter with The New American’s Alex Newman, Linda Goudsmit, author of multiple children’s books on critical thinking and “reality-testing”; multiple books on education philosophy; and the upcoming book Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier, Reality Is; confirms how education in America is being weaponized to create generations of people unable to distinguish between objective reality (what really is) and subjective reality (feelings). She emphasizes that, in order to have a truly free society and constitutional republic, it is critically necessary to agree on what is objectively real.

Transcript:

1. Alex, we are a world at war, whether people acknowledge it or not. It is globalism versus the nation state. The globalist war on the nation state is a culture war fought without bullets, that targets the nation’s children, because children are the future of every society on Earth. And the classroom is globalism’s chosen battlefield, because whoever controls the educational curriculum controls the future. Why is that true?

Because children live what they learn. Education is an industry, and like all industries, it produces a product. The goal of America’s enemies is to produce an unaware, compliant citizenry for the planned globalist Unistate. The war on America’s children is both informational, and psychological warfare.

2. The globalist social engineers are skilled strategists who are busy applying wartime psychological tactics to “change the hearts and minds” of American children. Their strategic goals are to replace parental authority with government authority, and to move society from objective reality to subjective reality. I want to be clear about the meaning of these two terms.

Objective reality is the adult world of facts, subjective reality is the childish world of feelings. So, in subjective reality, little Johnny may be convinced he is a bird and can fly, but in objective reality, if Johnny jumps off a tall building he will fall to his death, because gravity is a fact of life in objective reality, regardless of Johnny’s feelings.

Interfering with a child’s developing ability to reality test, is a staggering deceit, and a monstrous abuse of power.

3. Recently, you interviewed a friend of mine, Deborah DeGroff, who wrote a stunning book titled Between the Covers: What’s Inside a Children’s Book? Her extraordinary research on content and reading levels, exposes the deceit, and truth of illiteracy in America today. In the past, when children were told that every student was a butterfly, the children knew it wasn’t true, because they could see that some students were really smart, and others weren’t–––no matter what the teacher said. At that time, children were still learning to read with phonics. It was a time before sight-words and whole-word instruction became ubiquitous, and well before Hi-Lo reading even existed.

I had never heard of Hi-Lo reading before reading Deborah’s book. Basically, instead of teaching children to actually read with phonics, a deceitful system was developed to adapt to the alarmingly low reading levels across the country. Hi-Lo is a reference to the fact that the content is considered upper grade (high school interest level), but the actual reading level is lower grade – sometimes a second or third grade level!!

So, instead of improving reading skills by teaching phonics, the education industry dumbed-down the books, and embraced Hi-Lo reading. They moved the goalpost, and disingenuously marketed Hi-Lo in glowing terms as an attempt to encourage “reluctant readers.”

In her book, Deborah quotes Andrew Wooldridge, from Orca Book Publishers, one of the largest suppliers of Hi-Lo books saying, “We don’t use the term hi-lo because it has a bad connotation, we call the books fiction for reluctant readers or struggling readers.”

4. In reality, Hi-Lo reading is a system that presents great literature as summaries, like Cliff’s notes, or even as comic books deceitfully labeled “graphic” novels. So, students today who are functionally illiterate because they never learned to read with phonics, are offered summaries and comic book versions to read instead of the original text.

For me, the horror of Hi-Lo reading goes far beyond the deliberate illiteracy it supports. The most devastating effect is that students actually BELIEVE they are all butterflies – the students are living in subjective reality – in the world of feelings – not the world of facts.

5. You see, moving the goalpost and changing the names of things does not change the objective reality of that thing, but it can change the hearts and minds of individuals responding to that thing. So, telling children they are all butterflies, does not change the fact that some students are really smart, some are not, some can read, and some cannot. But it can change the children’s response, which means that in subjective reality, it no longer matters whether you can read or not, whether you are reading a classic text or a comic book. In subjective reality literacy and illiteracy are equivalent.

6. The American educational industry has replaced meritocracy with educational indoctrination, and facilitates deliberate dumbing down through destructive sight-word instruction, and fraudulent Hi-Lo reading. The industry’s informational warfare is facilitated by its psychological warfare, because parents and students actually BELIEVE the student has read Moby Dick – not the dumbed-down comic book version! That is the essence of my new book, Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier–Reality Is! Woke parents and students are living in subjective reality, where comic books and summaries are accepted as great literature. In objective reality there is no equivalence. Original works of literature are never substituted for comic books or summaries, and they are never deceitfully presented as equivalent!

7. Why is this so important? Because a free society of ordered liberty in a constitutional republic can only exist if there is agreement on what is real. The ideological moorings of ordered liberty require agreement on what is real. This is no small thing. Language is based on agreement of what is real. Laws are based on agreement of what is real. Without agreement on what is real, there is no social order, only social chaos. Civil society and the laws that govern it, are based on the acceptance of objective reality by its citizens.

Senator Patrick Moynihan famously remarked, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” What he is saying is, opinions are based on the subjective reality of feelings, facts are based on the objective reality of actuality. Feelings are not facts.

Feelings are the foundation of beliefs. So, Johnny’s feelings that he is a bird that can fly, cannot compete with the fact that Johnny is a human being who cannot fly. The safety lessons we teach our children are rooted in the acceptance of objective reality. Do not touch a hot stove. Do not run in the street. Do not jump out a window or off a ledge. We teach our children the difference between fantasy and reality to keep them safe.

The ability to distinguish between fact and fantasy is an essential human survival skill. So, we help our children learn the difference, and we help them develop critical thinking skills to evaluate facts.

In the past, the measure of an individual’s mental health was how in touch that individual was with objective reality. Let’s consider for a moment, what would happen if there was a movement that deliberately rejected the teaching of objective reality, and taught subjective reality instead. What is the political purpose of driving a society insane?

Critical thinking is the analysis of facts to form a judgment, and is the foundation of rational thought. Critical thinking is necessarily judgy, because one must evaluate the facts in objective reality, to form a judgment. Judgement is judgy! Critical thinking is required in an adult society. The insistence upon objective reality is what made America the greatest, freest, most powerful, country on Earth, and also what made us undefeatable in WWII.

Here is the problem. At the end of the war, America’s enemies did not go quietly into the night. They reconstituted themselves to fight another day, in another way.

They put down their guns, picked up their books, and studied the psychology of the human mind. They decided to exploit the existence of the unconscious, and took aim at America’s children – at America’s future. Our enemies decided to bring America down psychologically, by interfering with children’s ability to reality test. They did it, and continue to do it, in American schools.

If Johnny believes that reading a comic book version of Moby Dick, is actually reading the classic Moby Dick, then Johnny is living in subjective reality. But that’s not all.

8. Deborah DeGroff’s exploration of the content of children’s books, exposes the shocking, pervasive, inappropriate, pornographic, and confusing sexual content of books in classrooms K-12, and school libraries. For me, Deborah’s research documents how, weaponized education targets children’s most primary identity, their sexual identity.

In every country and every society anywhere in the world, the first words spoken when a baby is born are, “It’s a boy!” “It’s a girl!”

The campaign to destabilize and destroy a child’s sexual identity is a particularly insidious effort to destroy the child’s individual identity. It is catastrophic to the child, and to freedom in a society of ordered liberty.

The globalist social engineers are trying to redefine what it means to be human, by attacking the biology of maleness and femaleness, and insisting that gender is a choice––a child’s choice. Globalism’s war on children is a long-term, well-planned, well-funded, well-executed mass casualty campaign. The attack on a child’s sexual identity is a catastrophic assault on humanity itself.

In schools, libraries, homes, movies, games, churches and synagogues, transgender role models are presented as normative. The most bizarre aspect of this particular assault on biology and objective reality, is that so many parents actually believe that supporting this false, destructive, and confusing sexual narrative is compassionate!

If parents understood that this is psychological warfare, they would be empowered to hold onto their common sense, their authority, and be able to protect their precious children. Parents would reject any ideology that denies objective reality, because its purpose is mass destruction.

Globalist Bertrand Russell, the infamous British aristocrat, articulated the current globalist plan for weaponized education in 1952 in his classic book, The Impact of Science on Society:

Education should aim at destroying free will so that pupils thus schooled, will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished. . . . Influences of the home are obstructive; and in order to condition students, verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. . . . It is for a future scientist to make these maxims precise and to discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely, without the need of armies or policemen.

Our nation’s children are being groomed to become compliant, submissive wards of the managerial state, where they will have no individual rights, no freedoms, and no personal or sexual identity. They will be fodder for technocracy and transhumanism without the need of armies or policemen.

We are at the tipping point of psychological warfare in society. If men and women are convinced that being a man or a woman is a choice, and not a biological reality, then society has been convinced that snow is black. If that happens, then society is no longer moored to objective reality––it has embraced the realm of subjective reality. Society will have willfully accepted insanity as its foundation – precisely as Bertrand Russell and his globalist social engineers planned.

Globalism’s war on the nation state is a war of attrition. My patriot generation of grandparents is dying, my children’s generation of woke millennials is transitional, it is my grandchildren’s generation of propagandized surviving children that will ultimately become property of the globalist managerial state, unless the globalists are stopped.

9. My goal has always been the transfer of information. So, I want to conclude and summarize by reiterating that space is no longer the final frontier–reality is! Weaponized education is being used to destroy the nation from within, by changing the hearts and minds of America’s children. The globalist battle for supremacy is being fought in schools, inside your children’s minds, for your children’s minds.

10. The world is at war, and we must never forget that war is deceit. Globalist psychological warfare is deceitfully destroying your children’s minds, by interfering with their developing ability to reality test, and by replacing objective reality with subjective reality. The ability to know what is real is, and always was, the most basic element of mental health.

America’s weaponized education industry is not teaching Johnny to read or to write, it is teaching Johnny that he is a butterfly–a bird who can fly–and a boy who can become a girl if he chooses. Take a moment to imagine a society of Johnny’s, and then you will understand how destroying a child’s ability to reality test, is a weapon of mass destruction.

Author bio:

Linda Goudsmit is the devoted wife of Rob and they are the parents of four children and the grandparents of four. She and Rob owned and operated a girls’ clothing store in Michigan for forty years before retiring to the sunny beaches of Florida. A graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Linda has a lifelong commitment to learning and is an avid reader and observer of life. She is the author of the philosophy book Dear America: Who’s Driving the Bus? and its political sequel, The Book of Humanitarian Hoaxes: Killing America with ‘Kindness’, along with numerous current affairs articles featured on her websites lindagoudsmit.com and goudsmit.pundicity.com. The Collapsing American Family: From Bonding to Bondage completes Linda’s trilogy of insightful books that connect the philosophical, political, and psychological dots of the globalist war on both American and individual sovereignty.

Linda believes the future of our nation requires reviving individualism, restoring meritocracy, and teaching critical-thinking skills to children again. Her illustrated children’s book series, Mimi’s Strategy, offers youngsters new and exciting ways of solving their problems and having their needs met. Mrs. Goudsmit believes that learning to think strategically rather than reacting emotionally is a valuable skill that will empower any child throughout his or her life. Plus, in Linda’s words, “I have yet to meet the child who would prefer a reprimand to a kiss.”

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Today is ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ after a very visible week for trans activists

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President Joe Biden has issued an official proclamation establishing March 31 as a holiday to be known as “Transgender Day of Visibility”. His declaration comes at the end of a conspicuously visible week for transgender activists.

It all began last Saturday, when women’s rights advocate Kellie-Jay Keen, also known as Posie Parker, was forced to cut her visit to New Zealand short after her rally in Auckland was overrun by aggressive transgender protesters.

One of the activists, who doused Keen and her security detail in a litre of tomato juice, has since flown to Australia and is now en route to the United States in an apparent attempt to evade New Zealand authorities.

Eliana Rubashkyn justified the assault by claiming the tomato juice represented “the blood of the people [Keen] is trying to kill,” and accused Keen of “advocating for our genocide”.

“I did assault her and I will do it again,” Rubashkyn said in a later statement. “And if I need to be 10 years in prison I’m happy to be 10 years in prison.”

Then on Monday, a 28-year-old woman who had recently began identifying as a man perpetrated the latest US mass shooting, gunning down three staff and three young children at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

One of the victims, Hallie Scruggs, aged nine, was the daughter of Rev. Chad Scruggs, who pastors the school’s adjoining church, Covenant Presbyterian.

Asked if the killer’s transgender identity was behind her motive for the attack, Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said, “there is some theory to that”. He likewise confirmed that the shooter’s choice of the Christian school — since revealed to be her alma mater — was “targeted”.

Drake also told reporters of a manifesto left behind by the killer that included “a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place”. According to the New York Post, the manifesto will be released once the investigation is complete.

The Biden administration is yet to express condolences to the community targeted in the attack — namely, Christians. But they have voiced sympathy for the transgender community, with Biden’s Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, this week stating, “Our hearts go out to the trans community, as they are under attack right now.”

In the days since the mass shooting, progressive activists have stormed two state capitols, in Kentucky and Tennessee respectively.

Nearly two dozen transgender activists were arrested in Frankfort, Kentucky, and cited with criminal trespassing after they attempted to halt the signing of a bill banning sex-change surgery for minors in the Bluegrass state.

The Kentucky “transurrection”, as it has been dubbed, even had its own horn-bedecked shaman — apparently now a fashion accessory for US capitol stormings.

In Tennessee, hundreds of progressive protesters gathered outside the statehouse in Nashville to call for greater gun control, with crowds later swarming the building and heckling lawmakers from the gallery. At one point, a crowd of protesters clashed with police who were clearing a way for house members to exit.

Early social media posts claimed the protest was staged by transgender activists but this assertion has been challenged by fact-checkers. The event was apparently organised by AWAKE Tennessee, a DEI-compliant “grassroots nonprofit organization with a mission to advocate for the advancement of women and kids in Tennessee”.

A “Trans Day of Vengeance” had also been scheduled for this Saturday at the US Supreme Court, organised by the Trans Radical Activist Network. Following strong criticism for its associations with violent activism (apparent or otherwise), the event has now been cancelled.

In making his “Transgender Day of Visibility” announcement, President Biden declared that “transgender Americans shape our nation’s soul”.

This week, at least, Biden’s words ring true, though sadly not for the reasons he intended.

AUTHOR

Kurt Mahlburg

Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate… More by Kurt Mahlburg.

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The Graves of Academe: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Queer and Trans Studies

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The Graves of Academe: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Queer and Trans Studies

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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

I’ve been intermittently visiting – sometimes with amusement, always with horror —  a website where academic jobs are advertised. I do this not  for myself, but to help keep tabs for a friend’s son, who has been looking for permanent employment in a university for several years. His problem is that he is, in every possible way, wrong, just wrong. He’s a white male. White males are so…well, you know. There are just so many – far too many — of them in the groves of academe. It’s only fair to put a hiring freeze on the entire category – no more white males,  until everything evens out. He studies European history. Europe is so…yesterday. Something has to be dropped, after all, to make room for Pan-African Studies, Islamic Studies, North African Studies, Qaddafi Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Black Queer Studies, Black Feminist Queer Studies,  Reparations Studies, Palestinian Diaspora Studies, Interpersonal Preference Theory, Psycho-Psychology, Latinx LGBTQ Studies, Scheduled Caste Studies, Identity Studies, und so weiter. He knows à fond four, or possibly five, languages, acquired at great effort. And he can do research in another three. But languages are out. Who needs them, now that we all have Google Translate? He’s attended – received high degrees from — several of the most famous universities in England and America. His doctoral thesis was a brilliant piece of work. So what? He has one book coming out this year, and another in 2024. Who cares?

What I have learned is that the Gods of the Copybook Headings are Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Sometimes the elements are rearranged, like those famous deck chairs on James Cameron’s doomed ship, just for fun, even though we all know it will soon be sinking. University X wants to hire only those convinced of the deep need for Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, while University Y, on the other hand, wants to hire only those who positively pant to prove their worth in furthering Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity.  University Z, the most tradition-bound of the three, hopes to employ only the most enthusiastic coney-barker promoters of that tripartite panacea for all our woes, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Did I mention Gender? Did I mention Race?

I don’t think I can take much more of this.

Framingham State UNIVERSITY  “Six Higher Education Excellence In Diversity Awards”

At FSU, we are deeply committed to inclusive excellence and strive to promote a culture of antiracism, encouraging a challenging yet collaborative learning environment, and providing culturally relevant education. FSU is designated as an emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities and also belongs to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence community, providing national leadership in science education and exploring strategies that will lead to more inclusive science education. We are honored that our commitment earned FSU six Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Awards from INSIGHT Into Diversity. We encourage applications from those who share our commitment to promoting a diverse, welcoming, and inclusive community.

University of Richmond: “Developing A Diverse Workforce”

The University of Richmond is a private university located just a short drive from downtown Richmond, Virginia. Through its five schools and wide array of campus programming, the University combines the best qualities of a small liberal arts college and a large university. With approximately 4,000 students, an 8:1 student-faculty ratio, and more than 90% of traditional undergraduate students living on campus, the University is remarkably student-centered, focused on preparing students “to live lives of purpose, thoughtful inquiry, and responsible leadership in a global and pluralistic society.”

The University of Richmond is committed to developing a diverse workforce and student body, and to modeling an inclusive campus community which values the expression of difference in ways that promote excellence in teaching, learning, personal development, and institutional success. Our academic community strongly encourages applications that are in keeping with this commitment. For more information on the department and its programs, please see history.richmond.edu.

Loyola University: “Diversity Reading Groups” and “Best Practices for Hiring”

“With a newly established Office of Equity and Inclusion headed by our Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer, we are committed to providing an environment where everyone can learn, grow, and thrive. Key efforts include faculty development programming, opportunities for learning (e.g., Diversity Reading Groups), investment in pedagogical resources for differential instruction (e.g., Fellows Programs), affinity faculty and staff groups, and following best-practices for hiring.

Loyola University Maryland strongly values the benefits that diversity brings to the workplace. In accord with its Ignatian values, the University is committed to creating and promoting a community that recognizes the inherent value and dignity of each person. Loyola University Maryland does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military status, or any other legally protected classification.

University of California, Berkeley: “Equity, Inclusion, And Belonging”

“Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are core values at UC Berkeley. Our excellence can only be fully realized by faculty, students, and academic and non-academic staff who share our commitment to these values. Successful candidates for our academic positions will demonstrate evidence of a commitment to advancing equity, inclusion, and belonging.

“The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see: http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct

Beloit College: “Critical Identity Studies”

“We welcome candidates from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, as well as those who can contribute to programs in Justice and Rights, Critical Identity Studies or Environmental Studies. Teaching responsibilities include survey courses in modern U.S. history as well as introductory and upper-level courses in the candidate’s area of expertise. The successful candidate will share Beloit’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and will demonstrate an ability to support students from historically underrepresented backgrounds.

Because equity and inclusion are central to our students’ liberal education and vital to the thriving of all members of our residential learning community, Beloit College aspires to be an actively anti-racist institution. We recognize our aspiration as ongoing and institution-wide, involving collective commitment and accountability. We welcome employees who are committed to and will actively contribute to our efforts to celebrate our cultural and intellectual richness and be resolute in advancing inclusion and equity. We encourage all interested individuals meeting the criteria of the described position to apply.

Located in a diverse community close to Madison, Milwaukee, and Chicago, Beloit is a selective undergraduate liberal arts college that attracts students from across the United States and the world. The college emphasizes excellence in teaching, learning beyond the traditional classroom, international perspectives, and collaborative research among students and faculty. It is recognized as one of the Colleges That Change Lives. AA/EEO

Rutgers University: “Racial Justice Work”

The Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University—Camden invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship, renewable for a second year, to commence September 1, 2023. The position will be funded by a Higher Learning grant awarded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the “Rethinking Race and Justice Through Childhood Studies” initiative. This initiative seeks to support emerging scholars of race and childhood, provide institutional support for racial justice work in the field, and demonstrate the justice and career potential of humanities training through civically engaged childhood studies.

The department has hosted several major international conferences, sponsors an array of lectures and symposia, including our speaker series in Centering Black Childhoods and workshop series on anti-racist pedagogy, and annually welcomes visiting scholars from around the world.

Applicants must have earned the Ph.D. in Childhood Studies or another humanities-related field, such as English, History, African American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies, Film/Media Studies, Education, Geography, or Cultural Studies

Rutgers University—Camden’s Department of Childhood Studies is committed to fostering diversity within its community. We are eager to further diversify our faculty and encourage Black, Indigenous and people of color, persons with disabilities and persons of any sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression to apply.

Wesleyan University: “Non-Position-Related Criminal Record”

Wesleyan University invites applications for an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in African American Studies beginning July 1, 2023. We seek candidates with expertise in research areas concerning the African Diaspora, particularly Latin America and/or the Pacific, with substantive research and teaching interests in Black feminisms, Afro-Atlantic history, disability studies, queer studies, and/or environmental studies. The successful candidate will offer courses originating in the African American Studies Department.

“In the cover letter, applicants should describe how they will embrace the college’s commitment to fostering an inclusive community, as well as their experience working with individuals from historically marginalized or underserved groups.

Wesleyan University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious practice or creed, age, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, marital status, ancestry, present or past history of mental disorder, learning disability or physical disability, political belief, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or non-position-related criminal record.

Northern Arizona University: “Focus On Queer And/Or Trans Studies and Transnational Feminisms”

“We are looking for a teacher-scholar with a PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies or a related field. We especially welcome applicants who focus on queer and/or trans studies and transnational feminisms, and who demonstrate engagement with intersectionality. The ideal candidate will have a record of effective teaching in classes related to the WGS Queer Studies Minor, as well as WGS introductory, core, transnational or global feminisms, and other elective courses. Successful candidates should have experience in or attentiveness to working with underrepresented groups.

University of Winnipeg: “Preference Given to Indigenous Persons and Members of Racialized Communities”

The Department of History at the University of Winnipeg acknowledges that we live and work in the ancestral and traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, Anishininew, Assiniboine, Cree, Dakota, Dene, and the heartland of the Métis nation.

We invite applications for a tenure-track position in Indigenous History at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning July 1, 2023, subject to budgetary approval. The successful candidate will have, or be close to completing, a PhD in Indigenous History or a directly related field, such as Indigenous Studies, with a specialization in Indigenous Peoples whose homelands are located in part or wholly within the modern boundaries of Canada and the continental USA. This can include those with a transborder specialization encompassing the present-day US-Mexico borderlands. This position is open to all with a preference given to Indigenous Persons and members of Racialized Communities.

“In the cover letter the applicant is strongly encouraged to provide a description of their relationship to the study of Indigenous History which might include (but is not limited to) family lines and relationality, community relationships, connections to place, Indigenous Identity, or organizational affiliations.

University of Hamburg, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin bzw. Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (w/m/d) in Literaturwissenschaft/Wissenskulturen und Interdisziplinarität § 28 Abs. 3 HmbHG,

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University of Innsbruck, Universitätsprofessur für Germanistische Mediävistik mit Schwerpunkt Spätmittelalter und Frühe Neuzeit (15.05.2023)

That means you too, Innsbruck.

AUTHOR

HUGH FITZGERALD

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The Claim That ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Saves Lives Is Falling Apart

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Monday’s tragic shooting at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian private school in Nashville, Tennessee, is exposing the sobering reality that what is being marketed to the public as “gender-affirming care” is not doing what we were told it would do­­­­ – alleviate mental health issues and gender confusion.

In the past few years, several mass shootings have been carried out by members of the transgender-identifying community. This is a rather alarming statistic, given that only 0.1% of the population experiences gender dysphoria, according to the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V-TR. So, what is going on here?

At one time, gender dysphoria was considered a mental disorder, but now, due to the increasing prevalence of a worldview shaped by gender identity ideology, it has morphed into a human rights issue. The ideology borrows from the mental health aspects of gender dysphoria in order to justify medical “intervention.” It claims that the elevated mental health issues in the transgender-identifying community can be pinned on the social discrimination these individuals face. In the simplest terms, the transgender-identifying person’s mental well-being is based on having the right external circumstances, such as being called by the “correct” pronouns, undergoing all the desired plastic surgeries, having access to the opposite sex’s hormones, and having others affirm their internal idea of reality. What could possibly go wrong with that approach to life?

In the aftermath of The Covenant School tragedy, we can be assured that discrimination will be offered up as an excuse for a transgender-identified person carrying out a mass shooting. But if facing discrimination is cause for someone to commit such a heinous act as mass violence, then we ought to adjust how we flag potential perpetrators and offer other mental health interventions to gender-affirming care, such as ones that help people develop stronger internal loci of control rather than be subject to the changing tides of their circumstances.

Advocates of gender-affirming care insist it is both lifesaving and evidence-based health care for those who identify as transgender. But the research used to make such a claim is full of methodological errors and can be easily disputed as a research body that is incomplete. In just one example, it is well known that the trans-identifying community has experienced a high rate of childhood traumas. It is also well-known that trauma victims have high suicide attempt and completion rates. The problem is that the supposed scientific research on the transgender issue doesn’t explain how researchers have differentiated those in the transgender community who are suicidal because of the influence of childhood trauma from those they claim are suicidal because of the lack of affirmation and pharmaceuticals.

Not only are the currently published studies problematic, but there is a lack of ongoing and long-term follow-up reports that address the impact of cross-sex hormones and surgeries. Most of us have seen the commercials in which the lawyer announces a class action suit against a pharmaceutical company for a particular drug’s side effects that were discovered later. Why did the suit come about? It was a result of continual study and monitoring of a particular drug to understand if the harms of taking that medication outweigh the benefits.

In our current climate, there is no sensible monitoring of the psychological effects of minors or adults taking cross-sex hormones or engaged in any aspect of gender-affirming care. We don’t know the long-term psychological effects of social transition (e.g., adopting the opposite sex’s name and pronouns) either. Although we don’t know if the perpetrator of the March 27 shooting was on cross-sex hormones, we do know that she was in counseling and, given the state of the profession, was most likely encouraged to identify as the opposite biological sex.

To address this unscientific and dysfunctional approach to treating gender dysphoria, bills have been proposed across the country to place age requirements on the physiological aspects of gender-affirming care. Although most of these proposals require a person to be 18 years old before they can receive cross-sex hormones or undergo surgical procedures to change their sexual organs, the evidence to support these “interventions” isn’t good for any age.

Unfortunately, the tragedy at The Covenant School proves to be one more big piece of evidence suggesting that gender-affirming care (whether social or physiological) is not doing what it set out to do — treat mental health issues. On the contrary, the evidence shows that those who take these drugs are 19 times more likely to commit suicide. There is also mounting evidence that those who have detransitioned have experienced compounded psychological complications as a result of what they went through under “gender-affirming care.” Now, we face the tragic reality of a transgender-identifying biological female, who, against the normative profile, committed an act of mass murder.

We do not understand the long-term psychological ramifications of the so-called gender-affirming approach to mental health care, but we do have growing evidence that this sort of “affirmation” is not a remedy for mental health problems.

One thing this tragedy has confirmed is that our leaders and legislators should focus on saving lives and invoke a moratorium on these risky, baseless “gender affirming” interventions.

AUTHOR

Dr. Jennifer Bauwens

Dr. Jennifer Bauwens is the Director of the Center for Family Studies at Family Research Council.

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Elon Musk, Apple Co-Founder, Tech Experts Issue Warning on ‘Giant AI Experiments’: ‘Dangerous Race’

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There is so much the general public does not understand about AI or its risks to society and civilization.

Imagine it in the wrong hands.

Elon Musk, Apple co-founder, other tech experts call for pause on ‘giant AI experiments’: ‘Dangerous race

Musk, Wozniak, other tech innovators sign open letter urging temporary pause in the development of AI systems more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4, citing risks to society and civilization

By Chris Pandolfo | Fox News

Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and a host of other tech leaders and artificial intelligence experts are urging AI labs to pause development of powerful new AI systems in an open letter citing potential risks to society.

The letter asks AI developers to “immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.” It was issued by the Future of Life Institute and signed by more than 1,000 people, including Musk, who argued that safety protocols need to be developed by independent overseers to guide the future of AI systems. GPT-4 is the latest deep learning model from OpenAI, which “exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks,” according to the lab.

“Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable,” the letter said.

The letter warns that at this stage, no one “can understand, predict, or reliably control” the powerful new tools developed in AI labs. The undersigned tech experts cite the risks of propaganda and lies spread through AI-generated articles that look real, and even the possibility that Ai programs can outperform workers and make jobs obsolete.

“AI labs and independent experts should use this pause to jointly develop and implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced AI design and development that are rigorously audited and overseen by independent outside experts,” the letter states.

“In parallel, AI developers must work with policymakers to dramatically accelerate development of robust AI governance systems.”

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ‘GODFATHER’ ON AI POSSIBLY WIPING OUT HUMANITY: ‘IT’S NOT INCONCEIVABLE’

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and more than 1,000 tech leaders and artificial intelligence experts are calling for a temporary pause on the development of AI systems more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4, warning of risks to society and civilization.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and more than 1,000 tech leaders and artificial intelligence experts are calling for a temporary pause on the development of AI systems more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4, warning of risks to society and civilization.

The signatories, which include Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, researchers at Alphabet-owned DeepMind, as well as AI heavyweights Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, emphasize that AI development in general should be not paused, writing that their letter is calling for “merely a stepping back from the dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities.”

According to the European Union’s transparency register, the Future of Life Institute is primarily funded by the Musk Foundation, as well as London-based effective altruism group Founders Pledge, and Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Musk, whose electric car company Tesla uses AI for its autopilot system, has previously raised concerns about the rapid development of AI.

Since its release last year, Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT has prompted rivals to accelerate developing similar large language models, and companies to integrate generative AI models into their products.

Notably absent from the letter’s signatories was Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.

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Pamela Geller

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