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After the Cold War, America had an opportunity to be a normal nation — and blew it!
Posted by M. C. on December 16, 2024
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Court Packing? Jurisdiction Stripping? No! Optimize Quality
Posted by M. C. on December 16, 2024
Design quality into judicial processes, get informed when appointing judges, and summarily impeach judges who fail to support the Constitution.
Progressives want to advance their agenda by remaking courts:
- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse sponsored and the current senate’s judiciary committee passed a bill that would create a process to solicit ethics complaints against supreme court justices, and use inferior courts to investigate the complaints.
- Current president Joe Biden and vice president Kamela Harris called for term-limiting justices by only letting them hear appeals for 18 years.
- Senator Ron Wyden introduced a bill that would add 6 justices in 12 years, block justices from using their power to offset congresses unless two thirds of justices agree, require justices to submit to IRS audit and publication of their tax returns, and let litigants motion for recusals and require that justices reply in writing.
- Harris called for Democratic senators to enact such bills by bypassing the 60-vote filibuster cloture rule. (Filibuster cloture is unconstitutional, but Harris wanted to end it in order to then defy the Constitution.)
- Now senators Peter Welch and Joe Manchin have introduced a constitutional amendment to freeze the number of supreme court justices at nine, limit terms to 18 years, and override appointment of chief justices by promoting the most-senior justice.
Conservatives want to advance their agenda by limiting courts:
- Jurisdiction stripping has been advocated to legislatively remove some judicial power, for example over immigration and marriage.
Politicians are playing politics here and there, not protecting individuals’ rights overall.
Like the Constitution defines processes to secure individuals’ life, liberty, and property, judicial regulations should got the next step deeper here by defining processes to speedily produce just opinions.
Word processors, databases, clerks, friends of the court, and legacy practices produce overwhelming discovery, complex argumentation, long delays, and severely-throttled throughput. Critical legal cases becomes like Omnibus bills—complicated by design, and unjust. Bundling the government censorship of social media case Missouri v. Biden into its current ponderous mass has denied swift relief to each litigant and has victimized millions more.
Under current legislative controls, the judicial process strips litigants of property and unduly deprives them of rights for years. Many others can’t get any justice at all.
Justice—or injustice—is an emergent property of a system that encompasses all of society.
Justice needs to begin with generally good behavior, and with limited, clear, just statutes. Just and equitable remedies require good investigations, prosecutions, defenses, judges, and juries.
Justice is produced under government monopoly control currently. There are no customers supervising producers of justice’s components and selecting for ever-better producers.
Instead, justice producers need to be disciplined internally, by having government people use their offsetting powers to make exceptions and regulations and constitute inferior tribunals, to appoint, and to summarily impeach.
Justice is produced, or not produced, like any product: by completing projects, and on each project applying scarce resources to optimally trade off between time, cost, and quality.
Justice would be produced better by making and utilizing the following regulations:
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Boston Children’s “Gender-Affirming Chest Surgeries”
Posted by M. C. on December 16, 2024
The unmooring of the medical mind at Boston Children’s Hospital
You are paying for this in case you have forgotten.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/boston-horror-show
When I went to college in Boston back in 1989-1993, I was fascinated by what I thought of as the Yankee Enlightenment — that is, the 19th century advancement of medicine in Boston by guys such as Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and William T.G. Morton.
In 1843, Holmes published his essay “The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever.” Like Professor Ignaz Semmelweis in Vienna—who made the same observation around the same time (I am not sure if he read Holmes’s paper)—Dr. Holmes was initially ridiculed, but later vindicated, for his findings.
William T.G. Morton made history on October 16, 1846 at Massachusetts General Hospital when he successfully anesthetized a patient to undergo a surgery without feeling any pain.
I used to stop before the Ether Monument, erected in the Boston Public Garden in 1868, and marvel at how much pain and suffering had been spared by the development of anesthesiology.
I imagined that T. S. Eliot—as an undergraduate at Harvard in the years 1906-1914—had also visited the Ether Monument, which he might have been thinking about when he wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in 1911, with its vivid opening lines:
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
I thought of this strange and somewhat disturbing image this morning when I read a paper titled A Single Center Case Series of Gender-Affirming Surgeries and the Evolution of a Specialty Anesthesia Team. The authors are all apparently true believers that it’s a good thing to treat so-called “gender dysphoria” in minors by surgically removing their healthy body parts.
Their paper boasts the following:
The Center for Gender Surgery (CfGS) at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) was the first pediatric center in the United States to offer gender-affirming chest surgeries for individuals over 15 years old and genital surgeries for those over 17 years of age. In the four years since its inception, CfGS has completed over 300 gender-affirming surgeries.
I found the paper’s second author—Elizabeth R. Boskey—to have an especially conspicuous profile.
Short Biography
Elizabeth Boskey (she/her). PhD, MPH, MSSW is currently the research lead for the Center for Gender Surgery. She received her PhD in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University in 2000 and her MPH from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 2001. Dr. Boskey also holds a Masters of Science in Social Work from the University of Louisville (2015). Dr. Boskey is a licensed independent clinical social worker, an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator, a Certified Health Education Specialist, and is WPATH GEI SOC 7 Certified. Her research interests are focused on ethical and access issues in transgender care as well as more general sexual and reproductive health issues for sexual and gender minority populations. She is currently a member of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health; American Public Health Association; and the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists.
How does one get to be “the research lead for the Center for Gender Surgery” at one of the most prestigious Children’s Hospitals in the world?
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Seven Countries in Five Years
Posted by M. C. on December 16, 2024
The Arabs have always been their own worst enemy, and now they have managed to destroy the Arab world with only Saudi Arabia remaining. Recently, the Israeli Zionist government added a large part of Saudi Arabia to the map of Greater Israel.
Paul Craig Roberts
he media brothel has presented the HTS terrorist/democratic opposition as Syria’s rescuer promising peace and friendship. But videos emerging reveal a campaign of violence, hangings and machine-gunning of people. It is Muslims killing Muslims, Arabs killing Arabs. The reason Arabs are powerless is that they had rather kill each other than fight against their common enemies. The borders of Arab countries were created by European colonists like the countries in Africa that combined hostile tribes into a country. So Middle Eastern countries contain Shia and Sunni populations. The two sects have been at sword’s point for centuries, enabling the West to use one against the other. Here are a few of the videos of the democratic opposition’s brutal violence.
The truth is in the videos, not in the media staged scenes of Syrians celebrating the downfall of Assad:
Iran is largely Persian, not Arab and more unified. But there are progressive, pro-Western elements, and among the young there is desire for lessening of religious restraints. There are always those who prefer sin to righteousness. The US works on the progressive elements and now Iran has a reform government.
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Importing Ancient Hatreds Undermines Liberty
Posted by M. C. on December 14, 2024
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Tax Junk-Food To Lengthen Children’s Lives, UK Chief Medical Officer Says
Posted by M. C. on December 14, 2024
Government food Fauchi. What could go wrong?
by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Dec 14, 2024 – 07:00 AM
Authored by Rachel Roberts via The Epoch Times,
Professor Eric Robinson of the University of Liverpool, one of the authors, said: “Foods classed as ultra-processed which are high in fat, salt and/or sugar should be avoided, but a number of ultra-processed foods are not.
“We should be thinking very carefully about what advice is being given to the public, as opposed to providing simplified and potentially misleading messages that grab headlines.”
The wide-ranging report into the urban landscape and public health, released on Thursday, urges the government to do more to tackle what Whitty terms “healthy food deserts” in cities, which the report finds is a major cause of unhealthy eating.
Whitty, who became a well-known and controversial figure during the COVID-19 lockdown era, also points to the cost of food as a key factor impacting poorer people the most, finding that per calorie, healthy food “is almost twice as expensive as unhealthy food.”
Children and families in inner city areas are less likely to have access to healthy, affordable food choices in local shops, restaurants, and takeaways, and are “disproportionately exposed to unhealthy food advertising,” the 430-page report finds.
Four out of five outdoor billboards in England and Wales are in poorer areas, with many advertising junk food, while poorer regions are often “saturated with fast-food outlets,” both physically and online, the study found.
Targeted Food Taxes
Whitty said that businesses must be made to play a part in encouraging healthier eating habits, with proposed solutions including healthy food sales targets, specific taxes on unhealthy foods, and making it mandatory rather than voluntary for firms to report on what types and volumes of food they sell.
“Such measures could level the playing field for large industry actors, pave the way for progressive business and improve accountability for those who hold huge influence over children’s health,” the report said, finding that “meaningful change to food environments is possible.”
Research highlighted in the study shows that, for seven of the 10 biggest global food and drink businesses operating in the UK, more than two-thirds of their packaged food and drink sales came from products classed as high in fat, sugar, or salt.
While “past and present governments have recognised the importance of reformulating the recipes of food and drink options to reduce the amount of fat, salt and sugar in products,” the “failure to mandate this approach” and instead leave it up to industry has led to a lack of meaningful progress, Whitty said.
A number of different groups are quoted in the report, with solutions including an “excess profits” tax on retailers or producers of products with high sugar and salt content.
Supermarkets and shops, especially those where families on lower incomes shop, are often “saturated” with unhealthy food choices, which the report found was exacerbating health inequalities.
Health Inequalities
“Food-related ill health is not experienced equally by children, families and communities across the country, with children and families living in more deprived areas more acutely affected by a food system where the unhealthy options are often the most available,” it said.
The report added that the most deprived fifth of the population would need to spend half of their disposable income on food to meet the cost of the government-recommended healthy diet, compared with just 11 percent for the wealthiest fifth.
It said: “The food environment in parts of cities entrenches inequalities in health and promotes obesity.
“Healthy food deserts combine with junk food advertising to set children and adults up to live a shorter and unhealthier life through obesity and the diseases it causes, particularly in the more deprived areas of our cities.”
Chief Medical Officer Sir Chris Whitty photographed giving a media briefing during the COVID-19 lockdown era. Jack Hill/The Times/PA
The report also looks at how food is produced in the UK, finding that almost as much land is dedicated to growing sugar (110,000 hectares) as to growing all of the nation’s vegetables combined (116,000 hectares).
Humans are “genetically wired to crave calorie-rich food,“ Whitty said, so it is “unwise to think we can rely on education and willpower alone to curb our appetites and to prevent the many diet-related diseases that constitute some of the biggest threats to public health.”
Advertising Ban
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Some Thoughts On The Mystery Drones
Posted by M. C. on December 14, 2024
The US government is either knowingly lying to the public about its own UAVs or those of a US defense contractor, or it somehow legitimately does not know what these aircraft are, who they belong to, or where they are taking off from and where they are landing. It’s hard to imagine how the latter scenario could possibly be the case after all these weeks with all the technology the world’s most powerful government has at its disposal for monitoring objects in the sky — but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not true.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/some-thoughts-on-the-mystery-drones
Okay I need to jot down some thoughts on the “mystery drone” thing because it’s way too interesting a story to ignore.
For those who aren’t aware, since mid-November people have been sighting large drones all over the east coast of the United States, and what makes this so interesting is that the US government is claiming they don’t know anything about them. Don’t know who owns them, where they’re taking off from or where they’re landing.
They’re either lying or telling the truth about this, and either way it’s a major story. Either the US government is keeping secrets from the public about huge numbers of drones that have spent weeks flying over populated areas, or they somehow legitimately don’t know what’s going on with these sightings. Contemplating either of these possibilities should widen your eyes a bit.
And to be clear there really does appear to be something up there. Many of the sightings that are being reported are just the result of a fun news story causing people to look up from their smartphones into the night sky for the first time in years and see things they’re not familiar with like planes and stars — but there are also large, hovering aircraft of uncertain origin.
The clearest footage I’ve seen of these mystery drones so far was presented by NewsNation’s Rich McHugh, who actually turned and pointed to one of the craft in the air behind him while reporting out of central New Jersey. It must have been fairly low down because they got a great shot of the thing; it had fixed wings and blinking lights like a plane, but was reportedly only eight to ten feet wide.
McHugh said he and his crew saw some 40 or 50 of the aircraft in the hour they were on location. He interviewed officers from the Ocean County Sheriff’s Department, who told him the drones evade detection because they don’t give off heat like normal drones, and that one vanished when they tried to pursue it with a police drone. A sheriff named Michael Mastronardy told McHugh that one of his officers reported seeing fifty of these drones flying in off the ocean all at once, after which the US Coast Guard reported seeing a number of the same craft over the water.
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“Terrorist Organization” Means Whatever The US Wants It To Mean
Posted by M. C. on December 11, 2024
So according to one narrative Syria has been liberated by brave freedom fighters and that’s wonderful, but according to another concurrent narrative Israel obviously needs to invade Syria because the nation has just been taken over by evil terrorists, and by yet another concurrent narrative those evil terrorists aren’t evil terrorists anymore because they’re going to be running a US puppet regime.
These are the kinds of contradictions you run into when your policies are guided by the blind pursuit of planetary domination instead of by truth and morality.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/terrorist-organization-means-whatever
The US government is simultaneously (A) justifying Israel’s land grab in Syria by saying the nation has been taken over by terrorists, and (B) talking about removing those same forces from its list of designated terrorist organizations.
The US podium people have pivoted seamlessly from celebrating the liberation of the Syrian people in the removal of Assad to citing the fact that the nation is now overrun with terrorist factions in defense of Israel’s rapid move to militarily occupy large swathes of Syrian land while hammering Syria with hundreds of airstrikes.
At a Monday press conference, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said these moves by Israel “are temporary to defend its borders” and that Assad’s ouster “potentially creates a vacuum that could have been filled by terrorist organizations that would threaten the state of Israel and would threaten civilians inside Israel.”
“Every country has the right to take action against terrorist organizations,” Miller added.
During a Tuesday press conference Miller further clarified the US position on Israel’s land grab, saying, “What precipitated their move into the buffer zone was the withdrawal of the Syrian armed forces, which, as I said yesterday, creates potentially a vacuum that could be filled by any one of the numerous terrorist organizations that continue to operate inside Syria that have sworn to the destruction of the state of Israel.”
During the same Tuesday press conference Miller also stated that “there is no legal barrier to us speaking to a designated terrorist group” such as HTS, the group which led the run on Damascus whose leader has been an official in both ISIS and al-Qaeda.
And as it happens the US government has now taken a sudden interest in removing HTS from its listing as a designated terrorist organization, with Politico reporting that there is now “a furious debate playing out in Washington” as to whether or not the group should be removed from the list immediately. Somehow I doubt the debate is actually all that “furious”.
So according to one narrative Syria has been liberated by brave freedom fighters and that’s wonderful, but according to another concurrent narrative Israel obviously needs to invade Syria because the nation has just been taken over by evil terrorists, and by yet another concurrent narrative those evil terrorists aren’t evil terrorists anymore because they’re going to be running a US puppet regime.
These are the kinds of contradictions you run into when your policies are guided by the blind pursuit of planetary domination instead of by truth and morality.
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Secrecy and the Divine Right to Deceive
Posted by M. C. on December 7, 2024
Politicians guarantee that Americans are left clueless on the most controversial or dangerous federal policies. The government is creating trillions of pages of new secrets every year. The total is equivalent to “20 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with double-spaced text on paper,” according to The Washington Post. If those cabinets were laid end to end, they would stretch almost to the moon. The feds have accumulated the equivalent of hundreds of pages of secrets for each American, blighting any hope for citizens to learn of their rulers’ rascality.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/secrecy-and-the-divine-right-to-deceive/
by Jim Bovard
Secrecy and lying are two sides of the same political coin. The Supreme Court declared in 1936, “An informed public is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment.” Thus, conniving politicians have no choice but to drop an Iron Curtain around Washington.
Politicians guarantee that Americans are left clueless on the most controversial or dangerous federal policies. The government is creating trillions of pages of new secrets every year. The total is equivalent to “20 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with double-spaced text on paper,” according to The Washington Post. If those cabinets were laid end to end, they would stretch almost to the moon. The feds have accumulated the equivalent of hundreds of pages of secrets for each American, blighting any hope for citizens to learn of their rulers’ rascality.
“All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers,” George Orwell wrote in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. This is where government classification—i.e., secrecy—comes in handy. The more information government classifies, the easier it becomes for politicians to dupe the American people. In Washington, deniability is better than the truth.
Secrecy was usually not a grave peril to most Americans’ rights, liberties, and safety until the U.S. government began warring in the 1940s and on into this century.
Secrecy helped deliver a death warrant for tens of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese. President Lyndon Johnson fabricated claims about an alleged North Vietnamese attack in the Gulf of Tonkin to sway Congress to give him unlimited authority to attack North Vietnam. Johnson assumed he was entitled to deceive Americans to vastly expand the war he decided to fight to boost his 1964 presidential election campaign. But other federal officials claimed a prerogative to blindfold the American people. When Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester visited Saigon in 1965, he hectored American correspondents covering the Vietnam War: “Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you’re stupid. Did you hear that? Stupid!” Sylvester declared that he expected the American press to be “the handmaidens of government.” Most of the American media has followed orders regarding foreign reporting most of the time since then.
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Biden’s Parting Shot at America
Posted by M. C. on December 7, 2024
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