thelibertybeacon--2020-07-14--Peter Hitchens: The Authoritarian Left Never Rests – Why We Should Fear Them [VIDEO]

ER Editor : This short 11-minute video piece comes from a longer conversation that took place in early 2019 between Daily Mail columnist and ex-Bolshevik , Peter Hitchens and former Australian politician and deputy Prime Minister , John Anderson .
It got recently passed around on Twitter given its very timely message .
This Youtube video is introduced thus : The video below should take you immediately into the conversation ; however , if you open them fresh on Youtube , you have to suffer through two globalist commercials , in which the elite , authoritarian left is heavily invested… @ @ @ @ @ @ @ public mind that Hitchens refers to below .
Here are some big ideas Hitchens mentions : • The Left actively suppresses freedom of speech based on a personal conviction of being right and being virtuous .
• The elites in most of our countries hold to this belief in their own virtue .
• The opposite view is thus regarded as ‘ evil ’ and ‘ bad ’ .
• The Left well understands the Bolshevik , Soviet experiment failed but they haven ’ t given up on the ambition to create paradise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the civilized working classes of Europe wouldn ’ t swallow what the old Left was proposing unless there was a cultural/moral revolution first .
• The idea has always been to control the public mind through the education system , universities , media , etc .
in order to achieve the desired result , • The Left has learned a lot , but they haven ’ t learned that they ’ re wrong – we should fear them .
• The great bulk of people are very easily misled by the media – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It takes a lot of nerve not to run with the crowd .
• Why aren ’ t more academics – the so-called smart people – pushing back against some of these ideas which haven ’ t just proven disastrous in theory but in practice , too ?
Hitchens : academics aren ’ t selfless and need to fit in to have a career .
• The easy religion of selfism has replaced the religion of Christianity with its more difficult concepts .
• The Left ’ s strategy has been to push @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in order that Conservatives will attack them .
Thus , the larger goal has been to create the impression that conservatives are bigots who wish to make other people miserable , and with this type of strategy , the Left has been successful .
But overall , topics like gay marriage are merely trivial side issues .
What does it matter if 10,000 or 20,000 gay people can get married when the real issue has been to destroy tens of millions of heterosexual marriages and the family promoted by state policy over the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Liberty Beacon from EuropeReloaded.com The Liberty Beacon Project is now expanding at a near exponential rate , and for this we are grateful and excited !
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ER Editor: This short 11-minute video piece comes from a longer conversation that took place in early 2019 between Daily Mail columnist and ex-Bolshevik, Peter Hitchens and former Australian politician and deputy Prime Minister, John Anderson. It got recently passed around on Twitter given its very timely message.
This Youtube video is introduced thus:
The authoritarian left, through political movements such as Black Lives Matter, is on the rise around the Western world. Peter Hitchens uses his experience as a young Bolshevik to make sense of the danger it poses to what he sees as an increasingly gullible society.
The video below should take you immediately into the conversation; however, if you open them fresh on Youtube, you have to suffer through two globalist commercials, in which the elite, authoritarian left is heavily invested… Which well illustrates the capturing of the public mind that Hitchens refers to below.
Here are some big ideas Hitchens mentions:
The Left actively suppresses freedom of speech based on a personal conviction of being right and being virtuous.
based on a personal conviction of being right and being virtuous. The elites in most of our countries hold to this belief in their own virtue.
The opposite view is thus regarded as ‘evil’ and ‘bad’.
The Left well understands the Bolshevik, Soviet experiment failed but they haven’t given up on the ambition to create paradise on earth.
They know that the civilized working classes of Europe wouldn’t swallow what the old Left was proposing unless there was a cultural/moral revolution first.
unless there was a cultural/moral revolution first. The idea has always been to control the public mind through the education system, universities, media, etc. in order to achieve the desired result,
etc. in order to achieve the desired result, The Left has learned a lot, but they haven’t learned that they’re wrong – we should fear them.
The great bulk of people are very easily misled by the media – they’re very gullible.
It takes a lot of nerve not to run with the crowd.
Why aren’t more academics – the so-called smart people – pushing back against some of these ideas which haven’t just proven disastrous in theory but in practice, too? Hitchens: academics aren’t selfless and need to fit in to have a career.
The easy religion of selfism has replaced the religion of Christianity with its more difficult concepts.
The Left’s strategy has been to push ideas such as homosexuality and gay marriage in order that Conservatives will attack them. Thus, the larger goal has been to create the impression that conservatives are bigots who wish to make other people miserable, and with this type of strategy, the Left has been successful. But overall, topics like gay marriage are merely trivial side issues. What does it matter if 10,000 or 20,000 gay people can get married when the real issue has been to destroy tens of millions of heterosexual marriages and the family promoted by state policy over the last 50 years?
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thelibertybeacon--2020-07-14--Arrested for wearing a mask!

Arrested for wearing a mask!

I ’ m somewhat embarrassed to report that I got myself in a bit of trouble with the law this morning , which resulted in my arrest followed by a conviction for breach of the peace , a £1000 fine and a 6-month sentence suspended for three years .
Personally , I blame the government .
While I am grateful for its efforts to give me something to erroneously feel superior to , I really do think it is time we demanded that it make a better job of doing our thinking for us .
And what was my offence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good citizen !
I took on board all the conflicting advice about wearing a mask and decided I would use my ingenuity and create one of my own that really covered all the bases .
The problem with the masks most people wear is that while they fulfill their primary purpose of achieving herd mentality , they are not really well designed when it comes to protecting us from germs .
Masks are going to be important until the day dawns when we have the entire planet thoroughly sterile but the current masks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the nose and mouth .
While that is great for suppressing individuality or smiling , it leaves the eyes , ears and scalp open to attack .
One can not be too careful with this virus , which is sneaky and can infect you without you even knowing you ’ ve had it and fool you into thinking you are not ill by not having any symptoms !
And I know at least two people on Facebook who think they probably might of had it and my friend Simon ’ s Uncle George @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of it last Tuesday and he was only 94 with the rest of his life ahead of him !
What a waste !
The poor man suddenly developed a cough that wouldn ’ t let up and before anybody knew it , he ’ d pretty much coughed himself to death !
He had COVID19 right there on the death certificate – although Simon thinks that smoke inhalation might have contributed in Mr Gupta ’ s case – due to him have set fire to his mattress after falling asleep whilst smoking in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ right , we ’ re being hit by the worst epidemic in history , an epidemic so serious that it is the first one Prime Ministers have gone on TV to talk about .
Yet NOBODY , even politicians , is talking about it how it affects the brain !
It has rendered millions of people unable to agree on anything and made millions more prone to holding two contradictory ideas at the same time : whilst believing that one can not trust the press or government one iota they also believe everything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ press !
It has also rendered governments incapable of communicating coherently or keeping accurate statistics , although many believe it has merely exacerbated a pre-existing condition .
So I made a mask that is lightweight , made of a fine mesh so I can breathe and , as the virus can get you through your eyeballs , ears or scalp , I made it so it covered my whole head , but was cleverly see-through so I could still see where I was going .
Even better , I was even able to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the bin so it cost me absolutely nothing to achieve full protection from the neck up .
I proudly wore my mask for the first time this morning when I went out to the shops .
having of course first checked to ensure I had permission from the government to leave my house .
I think people were impressed as I got a lot of admiring glances .
My first port of call was the bank as I had a couple of cheques to pay in .
That ’ s when the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through the ruddy door people started freaking out , a pretty young cashier by the name of Karen started having hysterics , a siren started blaring and I was rugby tackled to the floor by some have-a-go neanderthal named Dennis .
Then the cops arrived .
.
.
All that fuss over a mask !
I wish the government would make up its mind .
First they tell you to wear one , then they arrest you for wearing one !
Anyway , that ’ s me done with masks .
Never again @ @ @ @ @ @ @ badly for the crime of doing my civic duty to propitiate the government , which is every citizen ’ s birthright after all !
But make up your own mind .
Click here for a pic of me wearing my mask , which was taken by the security cameras just before I was rugby tackled .
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by Steve Cook
I’m somewhat embarrassed to report that I got myself in a bit of trouble with the law this morning, which resulted in my arrest followed by a conviction for breach of the peace, a £1000 fine and a 6-month sentence suspended for three years.
Personally, I blame the government. While I am grateful for its efforts to give me something to erroneously feel superior to, I really do think it is time we demanded that it make a better job of doing our thinking for us.
And what was my offence? Trying my damnedest to be a good citizen!
I took on board all the conflicting advice about wearing a mask and decided I would use my ingenuity and create one of my own that really covered all the bases. The problem with the masks most people wear is that while they fulfill their primary purpose of achieving herd mentality, they are not really well designed when it comes to protecting us from germs.
Masks are going to be important until the day dawns when we have the entire planet thoroughly sterile but the current masks are flawed in that they only cover the nose and mouth. While that is great for suppressing individuality or smiling, it leaves the eyes, ears and scalp open to attack. One cannot be too careful with this virus, which is sneaky and can infect you without you even knowing you’ve had it and fool you into thinking you are not ill by not having any symptoms!
And I know at least two people on Facebook who think they probably might of had it and my friend Simon’s Uncle George’s tobacconist Mr Gupta probably died of it last Tuesday and he was only 94 with the rest of his life ahead of him! What a waste! The poor man suddenly developed a cough that wouldn’t let up and before anybody knew it, he’d pretty much coughed himself to death! He had COVID19 right there on the death certificate – although Simon thinks that smoke inhalation might have contributed in Mr Gupta’s case – due to him have set fire to his mattress after falling asleep whilst smoking in bed. So that proves it all right, we’re being hit by the worst epidemic in history, an epidemic so serious that it is the first one Prime Ministers have gone on TV to talk about. Yet NOBODY, even politicians, is talking about it how it affects the brain! It has rendered millions of people unable to agree on anything and made millions more prone to holding two contradictory ideas at the same time: whilst believing that one cannot trust the press or government one iota they also believe everything they are told by the government and press! It has also rendered governments incapable of communicating coherently or keeping accurate statistics, although many believe it has merely exacerbated a pre-existing condition. So I made a mask that is lightweight, made of a fine mesh so I can breathe and, as the virus can get you through your eyeballs, ears or scalp, I made it so it covered my whole head, but was cleverly see-through so I could still see where I was going. Even better, I was even able to fashion it from common-or-garden material I found in the bin so it cost me absolutely nothing to achieve full protection from the neck up. I proudly wore my mask for the first time this morning when I went out to the shops. having of course first checked to ensure I had permission from the government to leave my house. I think people were impressed as I got a lot of admiring glances. My first port of call was the bank as I had a couple of cheques to pay in. That’s when the trouble started. The moment I walked through the ruddy door people started freaking out, a pretty young cashier by the name of Karen started having hysterics, a siren started blaring and I was rugby tackled to the floor by some have-a-go neanderthal named Dennis. Then the cops arrived . . . All that fuss over a mask! I wish the government would make up its mind. First they tell you to wear one, then they arrest you for wearing one! Anyway, that’s me done with masks. Never again. I think I was treated very badly for the crime of doing my civic duty to propitiate the government, which is every citizen’s birthright after all! But make up your own mind. Click here for a pic of me wearing my mask, which was taken by the security cameras just before I was rugby tackled. The above article is from The Daily Scare Visit the Daily Scare and disconnect from reality The above was featured on UK Reloaded
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thelibertybeacon--2020-07-14--Princeton Student Reportedly Denied Job for Defending Free Speech

Roughly two dozen Princeton University students recently signed an open letter in defense of academic freedom and free speech .
The letter opposes a list of demands issued on June 22 , 2020 by students of the School of Public and International Affairs ( “ School ” ) .
The demands include starting a process for the payment of reparation “ to the descendants of people enslaved by the University ’ s presidents and donors , as well as the historically Black neighborhood of Witherspoon-Jackson destroyed by the Universities ’ actions.
” It also included a demand for anti-racist training @ @ @ @ @ @ @ faculty ( including tenured professors ) , staff , preceptors , and administrators .
Like the original letter , the countervailing letter contains positions and rhetoric that I disagree with .
However , the thrust of the letter is to object that the demands reflect encroachments on academic freedom and free speech .
It also foreshadowed the response to the letter : “ To brand one side of these important debates as ‘ racist , ’ ‘ offensive , ’ or ‘ harmful ’ and seek the ‘ training ’ of those who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is to rig the game well before it has begun and weaponize the administrative apparatus of the University against those who would doubt , question , or challenge the reigning orthodoxy of the day and age .
This would strike a fatal blow to the very heart of higher education , the first principle of which is that there ought to be no safe space or shelter at a university ‘ in which any member of the community is ‘ safe ’ from having his or her most cherished values challenged.
’ ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ free speech and academic freedom , we are more focused on the ability to voice such views than the relative merits of the two opposing positions .
There is a rising orthodoxy on our campus where dissenting voices are being subjected to abuse or retaliatory actions .
Universities are quick to issue statements of support during these protests but have been conspicuously silent as conservative or libertarian or simply contrarian students are attacked for their views.In this case , the students signing the letter have reported that their pictures and backgrounds have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
We have seen this repeatedly on campus where students and faculty have sought to silence those with opposing views by labeling them as racists or preventing them from speaking .
They have been called “ racists ” and “ fascists ” on Princeton listservs and social media .
Of particular concern is report that one of the 22 signers , Jack Warden , lost a potential internship with a major business firm after his contact at the company heard about his signing the letter .
The College Fix states that it read @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s commitment to “ social justice ” and “ rooting out bias.
” It would not however respond to the media inquiry on whether it punished a student for voicing his position and whether the company ’ s committee to social justice is accompanied by a commitment to free speech .
Once again , as with Georgetown , I am most concerned about the silence of Princeton as its students report a campaign of abuse and lost opportunities .
Would Princeton and its faculty remained silent if the students who signed the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or reportedly denied jobs ?
Administrators and faculty have stood by silently in the face of such abuse rather than risk any criticism or campaign targeting them .
It is a choice of silent acquiescence to avoid any personal or institutional costs for standing in defense of free speech .
These students are just treated as expendables .
As I have said before , I have never seen the current level of intimidation and fear among faculty in thirty years of teaching .
These campaigns have worked .
Students and faculty alike have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called racist or the subject of another petition campaign .
They have chosen to remain silent pedestrians as colleagues and students are abused .
The fact that Princeton ( an institution with one of the largest endowments in the world ) has remained silent is particularly chilling .
If Princeton is cowed by these pressures , it is hard to imagine other schools summing up the courage to defend free speech or academic freedom .
Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
He has written over three dozen academic articles that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals at Cornell , Duke , Georgetown , Harvard , Northwestern , University of Chicago , and other schools .
After a stint at Tulane Law School , Professor Turley joined the George Washington faculty in 1990 and , in 1998 , was given the prestigious Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law , the youngest chaired professor in the school ’ s history .
In addition to his extensive publications , Professor Turley has served @ @ @ @ @ @ @ notable cases in the last two decades including the representation of whistleblowers , military personnel , judges , members of Congress , and a wide range of other clients .

Recently, we discussed how a Georgetown University student was denounced as a racist by the Student Government for writing an opinion column criticizing the Black Lives Matter organization — an attack on a student that did not prompt even a statement of caution or concern from the university. While we have been following attacks on faculty who state opposing views of police shootings or aspects of the current protests, the risk is even greater for students. As the Georgetown student senators knew, the labeling of a student as a racist can cause long-standing problems for educational and employment opportunities. Now, the site College Fix is reporting that a Princeton student was denied a job and his fellow students submitted to a campaign of harassment after they signed a letter supporting academic freedom and free speech on campus. Again, the university has not issued a statement. Universities and faculties have felt no obligation to protect such students as they are subjected to abuse and harassment for expressing their views . . . even of the value of free speech.
Roughly two dozen Princeton University students recently signed an open letter in defense of academic freedom and free speech. The letter opposes a list of demands issued on June 22, 2020 by students of the School of Public and International Affairs (“School”). The demands include starting a process for the payment of reparation “to the descendants of people enslaved by the University’s presidents and donors, as well as the historically Black neighborhood of Witherspoon-Jackson destroyed by the Universities’ actions.” It also included a demand for anti-racist training at least once per semester for all faculty (including tenured professors), staff, preceptors, and administrators.
Like the original letter, the countervailing letter contains positions and rhetoric that I disagree with. However, the thrust of the letter is to object that the demands reflect encroachments on academic freedom and free speech. It also foreshadowed the response to the letter:
“To brand one side of these important debates as ‘racist,’ ‘offensive,’ or ‘harmful’ and seek the ‘training’ of those who hold alternative or ‘unacceptable’ views is to rig the game well before it has begun and weaponize the administrative apparatus of the University against those who would doubt, question, or challenge the reigning orthodoxy of the day and age. This would strike a fatal blow to the very heart of higher education, the first principle of which is that there ought to be no safe space or shelter at a university ‘in which any member of the community is ‘safe’ from having his or her most cherished values challenged.’”


thelibertybeacon--2020-07-14--Children … In Sadistic Covid Captivity

Children … In Sadistic Covid Captivity

Of all the depressing sights witnessed during this insane process of Covid home imprisonment , stupid social distancing and mask madness , the regimentation of children into predesignated playground /classroom ‘ chalked-off zones ’ is the one I find the most blood chilling .
There are a number of factors about this Covid-19 event that stand-out .
Firstly , that it is an entirely fake event .
Secondly , that it is utterly manipulative .
And thirdly , that it reflects an essentially anti-life agenda using fear as its predominant tool of repression .
That may seem like a pretty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can not go on to speak about the way children have become a sacrificial element in this nightmarish agenda without first revealing the sheer manipulative audacity of the entire Covid master plan .
While the situation is slowly changing , the underlying psychology of ‘ obedience to the rules ’ is not .
This obedience has been taken to a new low as many schools and kindergartens have tried to apply the social distancing regulation to young school children .
This has taken the form of chalking out two metre spaced circles or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and ordering children to stay in them .
Young children have been told to sit or stand alone in what amount to individually tailored exclusion zones and psychological prisons .
Children , medical advisers say , who are not even at any risk from catching CV-19 .
Nevertheless , there they are , sitting with sad faces as the politically correct mask clad teacher gives them their daily school instructions .
The misery on the faces of these children deeply expresses the sense of horror surrounding the entire operation .
A child instantly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reaction .
Under what kind of extreme conditions might such a regulation be considered supportive of the health and welfare of children ?
I can think of no situation , however potentially serious , in which innocent young boys and girls should be treated with such sickening disdain and lack of humanity .
To do it even when there is no valid case for taking such a step , is truly shocking to behold and should be categorized as a criminal action .
At the beginning and end of the school day , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through the school gate or door – keeping distance – with the teacher not being allowed to touch the child .
Such are the instructions coming down from some perverted ‘ leaders ’ at the World Health Organisation – and then blindly followed by government officials , teachers and parents .
It is ‘ sanitary preparation ’ for life in the sterile ‘ smart cities ’ that are just around the corner , if the same people retain control over the daily workings of this world .
The second Covid nightmare scenario to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and parents , is ‘ e-education ’ .
Sticking children behind computers for hours on end is never recommended , for obvious health reasons .
But that is what is called-for in ‘ e-education ’ , in which parents are also forced to be complicit by being instructed to take over the role of teacher ‘ in the home ’ .
The tools of this trade comprise pre-designated ‘ e ’ tech software programmes that are essentially agents of stereotype mind control .
To grow up healthy , a child needs the pleasurable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alone behind a flickering screen having their heads loaded with state education programming .
What a shockingly heartless way to conduct the learning process !
Technology gives the illusion of providing a means to an end , and is often associated with acquiring ‘ freedom ’ .
More accurately , the acquisition of more and more technology is a road to slavery .
The technology traps its users into dependency on a virtual reality world , while the real world is ignored or categorized as boring .
A sure receipt for impaired mental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ here ?
It all starts with the education system itself .
The verb ‘ to educate ’ comes from the Latin ‘ e-ducare ’ meaning ‘ to lead out from ’ .
Now ‘ to lead out from ’ is very different than ‘ to push into ’ , which is the format imposed by formal education having the ambition to brainwash the pupil into accepting ‘ verbatim ’ a whole lot of facts about that which is deemed necessary in order to eventually get a job and make money .
Contrast this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from ’ .
Something which exists in all children is creative potential – in bucket loads .
Drawing this creativity out – and thereby opening up the genius which lies at the heart of all innocent hearts and minds – is the true role of the teacher .
One way closes down the life force and the other opens it up .
But if you do decide to go with ‘ e-ducare ’ you are not going to find it in the formal school programmes that have been designed and set under government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ next generation conform to exactly the same patters of thinking , behaving and conforming as the current and previous ones .
Or , to put it more bluntly , to ensure that people remain slaves to ‘ the system ’ whose controller ’ s ambition is to keep as many as possible in a state of hypnosis , unable to use their abilities for anything other than furthering the various facets of a dying status quo .
There are some exceptions to this standard dumbing down orthodoxy .
For example , Rudolph Steiner @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and secondary school ages , and Maria Montessori ’ s creative behavioural encouragement in young children .
There are other experimental schools in existence , as well as the possibilities of teaching from home , but that still has to conform to the state programme .
The sight of depressed children being manipulated to sit quietly in their chalked out separate boxes for fear of infringing ‘ the law ’ would never be possible if our education system as a whole didn ’ t already start from this same position of fundamental suppression @ @ @ @ @ @ @ resulting from its abject failure to follow the guidelines implicit in the origins of its name .
Children are the bright lights of pure spirit .
Behind their deep and beautiful eyes lies a whole new future for the human race .
A true teacher recognises the presence of a stream of vivid imagination and helps it emerge ; nurturing its formation into evolving channels of creative/artistic expression .
This is a vocation of the highest merit .
Like handling an infinitely precious gem stone .
And because of what this gem might @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to realise one is ultimately , during the ongoing development of this relationship , likely to land-up as the pupil .
In building the New Society that must emerge out of the debris of this calamitous civilisation , the way we treat children will emerge as a critical factor in setting the standard for all that follows .
There is a child at the centre of every one of us ; if one is in doubt about the way to treat it , one is in doubt about one ’ s purpose for @ @

By: Julian Rose
Of all the depressing sights witnessed during this insane process of Covid home imprisonment, stupid social distancing and mask madness, the regimentation of children into predesignated playground /classroom ‘chalked-off zones’ is the one I find the most blood chilling.
There are a number of factors about this Covid-19 event that stand-out. Firstly, that it is an entirely fake event. Secondly, that it is utterly manipulative . And thirdly, that it reflects an essentially anti-life agenda using fear as its predominant tool of repression.
That may seem like a pretty brutal assessment of CV-19, but one cannot go on to speak about the way children have become a sacrificial element in this nightmarish agenda without first revealing the sheer manipulative audacity of the entire Covid master plan.
While the situation is slowly changing, the underlying psychology of ‘obedience to the rules’ is not.
This obedience has been taken to a new low as many schools and kindergartens have tried to apply the social distancing regulation to young school children. This has taken the form of chalking out two metre spaced circles or squares on the classroom and playground floor and ordering children to stay in them.
Young children have been told to sit or stand alone in what amount to individually tailored exclusion zones and psychological prisons. Children, medical advisers say, who are not even at any risk from catching CV-19.
Nevertheless, there they are, sitting with sad faces as the politically correct mask clad teacher gives them their daily school instructions. The misery on the faces of these children deeply expresses the sense of horror surrounding the entire operation. A child instantly recognises a lie and exhibits the appropriate reaction.
Under what kind of extreme conditions might such a regulation be considered supportive of the health and welfare of children? I can think of no situation, however potentially serious, in which innocent young boys and girls should be treated with such sickening disdain and lack of humanity. To do it even when there is no valid case for taking such a step, is truly shocking to behold and should be categorized as a criminal action.
At the beginning and end of the school day, parents must ‘deliver’ their child through the school gate or door – keeping distance – with the teacher not being allowed to touch the child. Such are the instructions coming down from some perverted ‘leaders’ at the World Health Organisation – and then blindly followed by government officials, teachers and parents. It is ‘sanitary preparation’ for life in the sterile ‘smart cities’ that are just around the corner, if the same people retain control over the daily workings of this world.
The second Covid nightmare scenario to have been imposed on school children, and parents, is ‘e-education’. Sticking children behind computers for hours on end is never recommended, for obvious health reasons. But that is what is called-for in ‘e-education’, in which parents are also forced to be complicit by being instructed to take over the role of teacher ‘in the home’.
The tools of this trade comprise pre-designated ‘e’ tech software programmes that are essentially agents of stereotype mind control. To grow up healthy, a child needs the pleasurable interaction with other children – not sitting alone behind a flickering screen having their heads loaded with state education programming. What a shockingly heartless way to conduct the learning process!
Technology gives the illusion of providing a means to an end, and is often associated with acquiring ‘freedom’. More accurately, the acquisition of more and more technology is a road to slavery. The technology traps its users into dependency on a virtual reality world, while the real world is ignored or categorized as boring. A sure receipt for impaired mental stability.
What actually is going on here?
It all starts with the education system itself. The verb ‘to educate’ comes from the Latin ‘e-ducare’ meaning ‘to lead out from’. Now ‘to lead out from’ is very different than ‘to push into’, which is the format imposed by formal education having the ambition to brainwash the pupil into accepting ‘verbatim’ a whole lot of facts about that which is deemed necessary in order to eventually get a job and make money.
Contrast this with the idea of ‘leading out from’. Something which exists in all children is creative potential – in bucket loads. Drawing this creativity out – and thereby opening up the genius which lies at the heart of all innocent hearts and minds – is the true role of the teacher. One way closes down the life force and the other opens it up.
But if you do decide to go with ‘e-ducare’ you are not going to find it in the formal school programmes that have been designed and set under government supervision with the purpose of ensuring the next generation conform to exactly the same patters of thinking, behaving and conforming as the current and previous ones.
Or, to put it more bluntly, to ensure that people remain slaves to ‘the system’ whose controller’s ambition is to keep as many as possible in a state of hypnosis, unable to use their abilities for anything other than furthering the various facets of a dying status quo.
There are some exceptions to this standard dumbing down orthodoxy. For example, Rudolph Steiner’s anthroposophic teaching method for primary and secondary school ages, and Maria Montessori’s creative behavioural encouragement in young children. There are other experimental schools in existence, as well as the possibilities of teaching from home, but that still has to conform to the state programme.
The sight of depressed children being manipulated to sit quietly in their chalked out separate boxes for fear of infringing ‘the law’ would never be possible if our education system as a whole didn’t already start from this same position of fundamental suppression of the life force. A suppression resulting from its abject failure to follow the guidelines implicit in the origins of its name.
Children are the bright lights of pure spirit. Behind their deep and beautiful eyes lies a whole new future for the human race. A true teacher recognises the presence of a stream of vivid imagination and helps it emerge; nurturing its formation into evolving channels of creative/artistic expression.
This is a vocation of the highest merit. Like handling an infinitely precious gem stone. And because of what this gem might reveal, one must be humble enough to realise one is ultimately, during the ongoing development of this relationship, likely to land-up as the pupil.
In building the New Society that must emerge out of the debris of this calamitous civilisation, the way we treat children will emerge as a critical factor in setting the standard for all that follows.
There is a child at the centre of every one of us; if one is in doubt about the way to treat it, one is in doubt about one’s purpose for living.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-07-14--Dispatches from the War: Trump and Fauci  [Jon Rappoport]

Dispatches from the War : Trump and Fauci , a marriage made in the Beelzebub Room of the White House There ’ s a reason MY contract tracing led to you , Mr. Trump .
You ’ re the only one left in the menagerie .
You ’ re the only political animal who could offer a shred of a sliver of a slim ray of hope .
To push back the invaders .
Several times you ’ ve said , “ It ’ s no good if the cure is worse than the disease.
” Surely you understand by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The H-bomb that went off in the middle of the economy was and is the whole point of the invasion , which has been taking place under your nose .
With your assistance .
As a result of your failed marriage to Tony Fauci .
Let ’ s put aside the gloss , Mr. Trump .
You understand the real effects of the lockdowns .
The effects the networks refuse to lead with , on the evening news .
There is the symbolic economy , represented by the careening up and down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ real thing—the businesses and lives destroyed .
Nixon and Kissinger .
Bush and Cheney .
Bill and Hillary .
They don ’ t hold a candle to you and Fauci .
You allowed Fauci to become head of the coronavirus task force , and to remain in that position , spreading vast clouds of overblown lies about the “ pandemic ” and the fascist measures needed to stem it .
That ’ s a crime you ’ ll have to live with .
But you can do something about it .
The governors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t .
Believe me , I ’ ve looked high and low to find someone other than you , to whom I could send these dispatches .
Some noble figure in the American landscape with power , who could turn the tide in the economic war against the people .
I don ’ t see one .
You ’ re the default choice .
You sat in the Oval , when Fauci slithered up to you with the absurd computer projections Neil Ferguson authored , and that psychopathic freak , Bill Gates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of deaths Ferguson predicted .
Two million in the US .
You never had your people investigate Ferguson .
In an hour , they would have discovered he had a long track record of abysmal failures .
Failure is his whole story .
Yet , you took those numbers and allowed Fauci to run with them .
Leading the nation into a crushing economic dead-end .
So you see , you ’ re actually part of the war against the people .
If you ’ re going to be a General now , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
You ’ ll have to fire Fauci and stand up straight and reclaim your own soul .
If hundreds of thousands or millions of Chinese soldiers were encamped in cities and towns across USA right now , smashing the American engines of production , don ’ t you think you ’ d be justified in sending in the troops ?
To liberate the people ?
Would anyone is his right mind cite Posse Comitatus to try to stop you ?
Well , the US governors and mayors and public health officials are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and are the war .
So send in the Army and liberate those towns and cities .
Forcibly .
Open the American economy all the way .
Permanently .
Tell your opponents , THE CURE IS WORSE THAN THE DISEASE .
Tell them 50 million Americans out of work is intolerable .
You ’ re supposed to be the riverboat gambler .
So shove in all your chips on this one , Mr. Trump .
Crack the media delusion that all is well in America , if we just “ stick together , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ masks and the distancing and the dehumanizing and the isolating and the tracing and the testing and the vaccinating and the shredding of the economy .
As you know , COVID is one supermax lie .
Nothing worse than a flu season is happening in the world .
Of course , I ’ m out of my mind .
I must be .
Who could imagine sending in the Army to liberate the people , so they could live free ?
Better to huddle in fear .
And wait .
For the keeper @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
So we can go out for a little while .
Until the next time , the next wave , the next crisis—tomorrow .
( TLB ) published this original article from the blog of Jon Rappoport with our appreciation for his contribution to raise health and freedom awareness .
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He maintains @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power .
Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize , he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years , writing articles on politics , medicine , and health for CBS Healthwatch , LA Weekly , Spin Magazine , Stern , and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe .
Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics , health , logic , and creative power to audiences around the world .
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Dispatches from the War: Trump and Fauci, a marriage made in the Beelzebub Room of the White House
Welcome to Let’s Pretend. Let’s pretend everything is OK and Nice and Polite are going to win the day, and no one is going to have to give up his position in life or his security. The missiles fired into the heart of the economy will have no lasting effects. Politicians who can’t find their asses with both hands will put things right. Fascist governors and mayors will soon abdicate their power and never lock down their populations again, no matter what. It was all just a bad dream. A cloud passing over the sun for a few minutes.
Jon Rappoport
There’s a reason MY contract tracing led to you, Mr. Trump.
You’re the only one left in the menagerie. You’re the only political animal who could offer a shred of a sliver of a slim ray of hope. To push back the invaders.
Several times you’ve said, “It’s no good if the cure is worse than the disease.” Surely you understand by now, the cure IS the disease. The H-bomb that went off in the middle of the economy was and is the whole point of the invasion, which has been taking place under your nose.
With your assistance. As a result of your failed marriage to Tony Fauci.
Let’s put aside the gloss, Mr. Trump. You understand the real effects of the lockdowns. The effects the networks refuse to lead with, on the evening news.
There is the symbolic economy, represented by the careening up and down stock market. Then there is the real thing—the businesses and lives destroyed.
Nixon and Kissinger. Bush and Cheney. Bill and Hillary. They don’t hold a candle to you and Fauci.
You allowed Fauci to become head of the coronavirus task force, and to remain in that position, spreading vast clouds of overblown lies about the “pandemic” and the fascist measures needed to stem it.
That’s a crime you’ll have to live with.
But you can do something about it. The governors won’t. The mayors won’t. Believe me, I’ve looked high and low to find someone other than you, to whom I could send these dispatches. Some noble figure in the American landscape with power, who could turn the tide in the economic war against the people. I don’t see one. You’re the default choice.
You sat in the Oval, when Fauci slithered up to you with the absurd computer projections Neil Ferguson authored, and that psychopathic freak, Bill Gates, bankrolled. You accepted the numbers of deaths Ferguson predicted. Two million in the US. You never had your people investigate Ferguson. In an hour, they would have discovered he had a long track record of abysmal failures. Failure is his whole story. Yet, you took those numbers and allowed Fauci to run with them. Leading the nation into a crushing economic dead-end.
So you see, you’re actually part of the war against the people. If you’re going to be a General now, you’ll have to admit that. You’ll have to fire Fauci and stand up straight and reclaim your own soul.
If hundreds of thousands or millions of Chinese soldiers were encamped in cities and towns across USA right now, smashing the American engines of production, don’t you think you’d be justified in sending in the troops? To liberate the people? Would anyone is his right mind cite Posse Comitatus to try to stop you?
Well, the US governors and mayors and public health officials are our enemies, and their lockdowns were and are the war. So send in the Army and liberate those towns and cities. Forcibly. Open the American economy all the way. Permanently. Tell your opponents, THE CURE IS WORSE THAN THE DISEASE. Tell them 50 million Americans out of work is intolerable.
You’re supposed to be the riverboat gambler. So shove in all your chips on this one, Mr. Trump. Crack the media delusion that all is well in America, if we just “stick together,” which means bowing down to the masks and the distancing and the dehumanizing and the isolating and the tracing and the testing and the vaccinating and the shredding of the economy.
As you know, COVID is one supermax lie. Nothing worse than a flu season is happening in the world.
Of course, I’m out of my mind. I must be. Who could imagine sending in the Army to liberate the people, so they could live free?
Preposterous.
Better to huddle in fear. And wait. For the keeper of the cage to open the door.
So we can go out for a little while.
Right, Mr. President?
Until the next time, the next wave, the next crisis—tomorrow.
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(TLB) published this original article from the blog of Jon Rappoport with our appreciation for his contribution to raise health and freedom awareness.
Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-07-14--Soros-backed orgs received millions in PPP loans

Soros-backed orgs supported by invite-only club of billionaire donors received millions in PPP loans More than a dozen groups backed by the donor network Democracy Alliance , co-founded by George Soros , sought and received millions of dollars in Paycheck Protection Program loans during the coronavirus shutdown .
The 18 groups received as much as $ 20 million among them .
The partner-founders of the Democracy Alliance recently plotted out a $ 275 million spending plan ahead of the 2020 elections .
Notably , Soros-backed liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America received a loan of $ 1 million to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ receiving nearly $ 15 million in contributions on its most recent tax filings .
Many of the other Soros-backed groups that applied for and accepted the forgivable government loans run multi-million dollar , anti-Trump networks .
The Center for Popular Democracy , for instance , which received $ 1 million to $ 2 million in PPP funds , leads an $ 80 million anti-Trump network .
Members of the Democracy Alliance pledge to donate a minimum of $ 200,000 annually to organizations backed by the club .
While organizations involved with the group @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years , members of the Alliance remain secret for the most part .
The club is invite-only and has been connected to billionaires Tom Steyer , Donald Sussman , as well a real estate investor Patricia Bauman and Scott Wallace .
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Soros-backed orgs supported by invite-only club of billionaire donors received millions in PPP loans
Democracy Alliance backed groups accepted up to $20.7 million in PPP funds
By Sophie Mann
More than a dozen groups backed by the donor network Democracy Alliance, co-founded by George Soros, sought and received millions of dollars in Paycheck Protection Program loans during the coronavirus shutdown.
The 18 groups received as much as $20 million among them. The partner-founders of the Democracy Alliance recently plotted out a $275 million spending plan ahead of the 2020 elections.
Notably, Soros-backed liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America received a loan of $1 million to $2 million. Media Matters reported receiving nearly $15 million in contributions on its most recent tax filings.
Many of the other Soros-backed groups that applied for and accepted the forgivable government loans run multi-million dollar, anti-Trump networks. The Center for Popular Democracy, for instance, which received $1 million to $2 million in PPP funds, leads an $80 million anti-Trump network.
Members of the Democracy Alliance pledge to donate a minimum of $200,000 annually to organizations backed by the club. While organizations involved with the group have become more publicly known in recent years, members of the Alliance remain secret for the most part. The club is invite-only and has been connected to billionaires Tom Steyer, Donald Sussman, as well a real estate investor Patricia Bauman and Scott Wallace.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-07-14--Nature’s “A Primer in Autism” Ignores Pain & Illness of Individuals With Autism

Nature ’ s “ A Primer in Autism ” Ignores Pain and Illness of Individuals With Autism .
Katie Wright Sounds Off !
I just read an atrocity labelled “ A Primer in Autism.
” It is anything but .
It is agenda-driven , sloppy , autism research rubbish masquerading as science .
It is astounding that a journal as prestigious as Nature would feature such inferior work .
The authors of this piece seriously contend that there has been NO actual increase in autism over the past 30 years .
These are extraordinarily conservative autism researchers who do not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the archaic idea that autism is a static genetic brain disorder and that the explosion we have seen over the past 30 years is merely a result of greater awareness and better diagnosing .
I know .
It insults anyone ’ s intelligence to even entertain such nonsense .
The following authors should all be ashamed of themselves .
It is a who ’ s who of has-beens and incrementalists !
The American contributors have all been generously funded by the NIH ( naturally ) yet have accomplished little for people with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ going-nowhere , helping-no-one , basic science .
I explored the work of these authors .
This team bets on the wrong idea so often one wonders if they ever get it right !
So many of their closely held beliefs have been incorrect .
Take a look at just some of their most researched work : • None We will be able to subtype autism via genetics .
Wrong !
• None We will be able to develop treatment interventions via genetics .
Wrong !
• None Clinicians will become familiar with and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Wrong !
• None Tuberous Sclerosis , Retts , Angelman ’ s have also been great autism research models , yielding actionable treatment ideas .
Wrong !
• None ASD people have little problem getting MRIs or EEGs .
We need to subject more ASD people to more of this research .
Wrong !
• None High levels of maternal criticism predicts increased behavioral problems in ASD children .
In essence , this places the blame on the mother as the primary cause of severe problems .
Nice work !
This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of mother to ASD child buffers effect of stress on maternal depression .
This study implies that a “ good relationship ” with one ’ s ASD child will help prevent stress and depression .
The implication here is that better parents who are more loving to their ASD children experience less stress .
Wrong !
These researchers have done a tremendous disservice to the entire autism community by ignoring hundreds of studies indicating that , conservatively , at least half of the increased prevalence in ASD is real .
By misrepresenting the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ greatly needed sense of urgency , minimize the nature of this national health crisis , and irresponsibly ignore myriad environmental triggers .
Oh , wait !
Of course , this team does promote some environmental research !
They blame autism parents for being old and fat , thereby helping to cause their children ’ s autism .
Thanks for that !
The Primer ’ s authors begin by describing autism in a manner that would have been dated in 2000 .
They present autism as solely a genetic brain disorder affecting social interaction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reality , in 2020 , we know autism is a whole-body disorder which is largely immune driven , with a genetic predisposition and environmental triggers .
Excluding those who are healthy with very high-functioning ( HF ) autism ( a tiny percent ) , autism is NOT a neck-up disorder .
Half of the people with ASD have severe GI problems , 25 % ( Buie ) experience intractable seizures , 40 % ( Devinsky ) develop typically and regress into autism , and 27 % ( Poling ) have mitochondrial abnormalities .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( unlike virtually all other disorders ) do not reproduce .
The number of people with autism should be dramatically dropping , not rising .
It ’ s absurd to write about the true prevalence of autism worldwide with certainty .
I would bet that somehow the prevalence of autism in Ethiopia is pretty low .
Poorer countries have no time for this or do not have enough professionals in this field to do this work .
Other countries do not strictly follow the DSM .
In countries like Sweden , any smart @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In Denmark , my husband ’ s home country , to be described as autistic is practically a compliment .
Regressive autism , so common in the USA , is extremely rare in Denmark and Sweden .
Additionally , regressive autism is especially common among the migrant Somali population in Minneapolis .
It is research folly to extrapolate data from other countries and apply the findings to the USA .
For example , say one in 20 Americans identifies as gay , and the number of Ugandans who identify as gay is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s number reflect reality or social norms ?
Let ’ s get real and focus on the USA .
We have real data for the USA and lots of it .
This paper epitomizes group think science .
I read all the footnotes and found the contents laughable .
The authors consistently quote themselves and their co-authors ’ work .
Ha !
Why bother with the footnote at all ?
Just say , “ I think ” instead .
To make matters worse , “ team yesterday ” barely ventures into the present @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do mean “ their ” as in quoting themselves ) citations are a decade plus old , while more recent and comprehensive science on the issue at hand is ignored .
They never venture outside their little cabal .
The authors use a small organization called “ The Global Burden of Disease ” as their source of autism prevalence data .
It looks similar to the Red Cross organization , not an entity with any expertise on autism .
Their autism prevalence info is based on the data collected from 145 countries .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ reporting autism data when many don ’ t have enough clean water or food or diagnostic experts ?
Somehow , I doubt it .
Why just examine 20 years when you are charged with studying past 30 years ?
To minimize the increase of course !
There would be a bigger increase if they actually did their job and measured prevalence data until 2020 .
Here on planet Earth , the rate of autism in the USA went from one in 2,500 in 1990 to one in 54 in 2010 .
The USA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ relevant data .
Another autism prevalence issue these researchers get wrong is via their insistence that the rate of migrant children with autism is no different than that of native-born children .
As evidence , Brugha bizarrely cites an old and obscure study on Caribbean immigrants .
Meanwhile , there are dozens of very recent studies demonstrating that autism among migrant children is both significantly more common and more severe than autism among native-born children .
This is NOT due to greater awareness because these foreign-born parents are usually unaware of autism and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ found autism rates among migrant children to be three times that of native-born Swedish children .
Similarly , the University of Minnesota found that one in 32 Somali immigrant children has autism vs. one in 48 native-born children .
Now for the “ Primer ’ s ” assertion that 10 % of all people with autism have Fragile X or Tuberous sclerosis .
Talk about artifact !
Probably 1 % of people with ASD actually also have FX .
Geneticists probably eat up 50 cents of every autism research dollar .
They shoehorn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hundreds of studies and claim the findings will relate to idiopathic autism .
They never do .
This team never learns .
They are like the amyloid crowd in Alzheimer ’ s , refusing to give up on their failed idea .
When one looks closely , these FX so-called autistic kids rarely stand up to diagnostic scrutiny .
More researchers are acknowledging that autism is vastly over diagnosed in children with rare genetic disorders by well-meaning pediatricians .
Parents of FX kids often ask for the diagnosis in hopes their child will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these are often the wrong services for these kids .
FX , Williams Syndrome and Angelman Syndrome children overlap far more with Downs syndrome than autism .
Children with FX , Williams and Angelman are often exuberantly social , talkative and affectionate .
Does that sound like your ASD child or ANY person with ASD you have ever meet ?
Dozens of massive clinical trials on autism treatment medication have failed .
The research entities all use FX kids as a model .
None of the treatments developed for the “ FX ASD @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A Primer author , Jeremy Veenstra-VanDerWeele , has been a longtime supporter of the “ FX as ASD ” model approach .
One only wonders how long he can remain in denial .
Over the past 12 years , hugely expensive “ FX ASD ” drug trials have been conducted by Seaside Therapeutics , Rob Ring ’ s Autism Speaks ’ PACT program , Novartis , and Roche .
All have been failures .
The model itself has been a total failure and it ’ s time to move on .
This Primer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on this dead-end research .
The Primer includes a lot of humorous discussion about gene therapy for autism .
Ha !
More talk of “ translational genetics.
” Ha !
The authors postulate that an MRI ( costing over $ 5K ) could be a diagnostic tool .
Ha !
There are promises that once the correct neurological pathways are found , medical intervention is around the corner !
Ha !
Yeah , we have been hearing those promises for close to 20 years .
Come on , get real .
What isn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in promoting that more EEG and MRI research be performed upon people with autism .
I speak from experience when I say such research studies are often traumatizing for people with ASD .
At no time do the authors acknowledge this .
We are dealing with children and adults with serious sensory issues .
Putting them in tight tubes or gluing a hundred wires to their heads equals a horrible experience for all but the most high-functioning people on the autism spectrum .
Less of this research should be done , not more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Quality of Life ” issues .
There is almost no discussion about the emotional trauma and financial strain endured by families with a severe ASD child .
These families often have siblings who watch their ASD brother bang his head with a closed fist .
Parents and siblings sometimes endure hours of screaming meltdowns while frantically trying to soothe the child with autism .
Many autism families go months and sometimes even years without a normal night ’ s sleep .
These families live difficult , isolated lives .
Socializing is often @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a restaurant or park can quickly go from good to bad , necessitating an immediate , nerve-rattling departure .
The finances of these families are drained by out-of-pocket ASD related expenditures .
Near death experiences because of seizures or drowning are frighteningly common in those with severe autism .
Parents often live in a permanent “ fight or flight ” mode .
Careers are curtailed , marriages ruined , vacations not taken , and siblings ’ college plans go unfunded .
This is how the Primer describes life for ASD families : Half @ @ @ @ @ @ @ PTSD .
I can not wait to give them the good news that living an isolated life , being broke and having PTSD gives their lives meaning .
Thanks , Primer !

Nature’s “A Primer in Autism” Ignores Pain and Illness of Individuals With Autism. Katie Wright Sounds Off!
Commentary by Katie Wright
I just read an atrocity labelled “A Primer in Autism.” It is anything but. It is agenda-driven, sloppy, autism research rubbish masquerading as science. It is astounding that a journal as prestigious as Nature would feature such inferior work. The authors of this piece seriously contend that there has been NO actual increase in autism over the past 30 years. These are extraordinarily conservative autism researchers who do not live in reality and are tightly wedded to the archaic idea that autism is a static genetic brain disorder and that the explosion we have seen over the past 30 years is merely a result of greater awareness and better diagnosing. I know. It insults anyone’s intelligence to even entertain such nonsense. The following authors should all be ashamed of themselves.
Catherine Lord
S. Brugha
Tony Chapman
James Cusack
Guillaume Dumas
Emily J. Jones
Rebecca M. Jones
Andrew Pickles
Matthew State
Julie L. Taylor
Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele
“ Going-nowhere, helping-no-one, basic science”
It is a who’s who of has-beens and incrementalists! The American contributors have all been generously funded by the NIH (naturally) yet have accomplished little for people with autism. They have produced so much going-nowhere, helping-no-one, basic science. I explored the work of these authors. This team bets on the wrong idea so often one wonders if they ever get it right! So many of their closely held beliefs have been incorrect. Take a look at just some of their most researched work:
We will be able to subtype autism via genetics. Wrong!
We will be able to develop treatment interventions via genetics. Wrong!
Eliminating the Asperger’s category was a great idea. Wrong!
Clinicians will become familiar with and use the Social Communicative Disorder diagnosis instead. Wrong!
Regressive autism is very rare. Wrong!
Fragile X is a great autism research model. Wrong!
Tuberous Sclerosis, Retts, Angelman’s have also been great autism research models, yielding actionable treatment ideas. Wrong!
ASD people have little problem getting MRIs or EEGs. We need to subject more ASD people to more of this research. Wrong!
High levels of maternal criticism predicts increased behavioral problems in ASD children. In essence, this places the blame on the mother as the primary cause of severe problems. Nice work! This is absolutely incorrect.
Relationship quality of mother to ASD child buffers effect of stress on maternal depression. This study implies that a “good relationship” with one’s ASD child will help prevent stress and depression. The implication here is that better parents who are more loving to their ASD children experience less stress. Wrong!
… in 2020, we know autism is a whole body disorder which is largely immune driven, with a genetic predisposition and environmental triggers.
Autism and it’s prevalence
These researchers have done a tremendous disservice to the entire autism community by ignoring hundreds of studies indicating that, conservatively, at least half of the increased prevalence in ASD is real. By misrepresenting the prevalence of autism, they undermine a greatly needed sense of urgency, minimize the nature of this national health crisis, and irresponsibly ignore myriad environmental triggers. Oh, wait! Of course, this team does promote some environmental research! They blame autism parents for being old and fat, thereby helping to cause their children’s autism. Thanks for that!
The Primer’s authors begin by describing autism in a manner that would have been dated in 2000. They present autism as solely a genetic brain disorder affecting social interaction, communication and intellectual ability. In reality, in 2020, we know autism is a whole-body disorder which is largely immune driven, with a genetic predisposition and environmental triggers. Excluding those who are healthy with very high-functioning (HF) autism (a tiny percent), autism is NOT a neck-up disorder. Half of the people with ASD have severe GI problems, 25% (Buie) experience intractable seizures, 40% (Devinsky) develop typically and regress into autism, and 27 % (Poling) have mitochondrial abnormalities.
The vast majority of people with autism (unlike virtually all other disorders) do not reproduce. The number of people with autism should be dramatically dropping, not rising.
It’s absurd to write about the true prevalence of autism worldwide with certainty. I would bet that somehow the prevalence of autism in Ethiopia is pretty low. Poorer countries have no time for this or do not have enough professionals in this field to do this work. Other countries do not strictly follow the DSM. In countries like Sweden, any smart and quirky loner can be labelled autistic. In Denmark, my husband’s home country, to be described as autistic is practically a compliment. Regressive autism, so common in the USA, is extremely rare in Denmark and Sweden. Additionally, regressive autism is especially common among the migrant Somali population in Minneapolis. It is research folly to extrapolate data from other countries and apply the findings to the USA. For example, say one in 20 Americans identifies as gay, and the number of Ugandans who identify as gay is one in 10,000. Does Uganda’s number reflect reality or social norms? Let’s get real and focus on the USA. We have real data for the USA and lots of it.
Many of their citations are a decade plus old, while more recent and comprehensive science on the issue at hand is ignored! Many of their citations are a decade plus old, while more recent and comprehensive science on the issue at hand is ignored!
This paper epitomizes group think science. I read all the footnotes and found the contents laughable. The authors consistently quote themselves and their co-authors’ work. Ha! Why bother with the footnote at all? Just say, “I think” instead. To make matters worse, “team yesterday” barely ventures into the present. Many of their (and I do mean “their” as in quoting themselves) citations are a decade plus old, while more recent and comprehensive science on the issue at hand is ignored. They never venture outside their little cabal. The authors use a small organization called “The Global Burden of Disease” as their source of autism prevalence data. It looks similar to the Red Cross organization, not an entity with any expertise on autism. Their autism prevalence info is based on the data collected from 145 countries. Again, all those countries are accurately reporting autism data when many don’t have enough clean water or food or diagnostic experts? Somehow, I doubt it.
The Primer makes ridiculous and sweeping statements:
“Many individuals and groups presume the rates of autism are increasing over time based on administrative (American data, i.e. the CDC data) vs. community-based data (the mysterious Global Burden of Disease). Indeed, after accounting for methodological variations (no explanation to what that is) between studies, there is no clear evidence of a change in the prevalence of autism between 1990 and 2010.” (Emphasis mine.)
Why just examine 20 years when you are charged with studying past 30 years? To minimize the increase of course! There would be a bigger increase if they actually did their job and measured prevalence data until 2020. Here on planet Earth, the rate of autism in the USA went from one in 2,500 in 1990 to one in 54 in 2010. The USA has by far the best and most relevant data.
Another autism prevalence issue these researchers get wrong is via their insistence that the rate of migrant children with autism is no different than that of native-born children. As evidence, Brugha bizarrely cites an old and obscure study on Caribbean immigrants. Meanwhile, there are dozens of very recent studies demonstrating that autism among migrant children is both significantly more common and more severe than autism among native-born children. This is NOT due to greater awareness because these foreign-born parents are usually unaware of autism and its symptoms. A recent Swedish study found autism rates among migrant children to be three times that of native-born Swedish children. Similarly, the University of Minnesota found that one in 32 Somali immigrant children has autism vs. one in 48 native-born children.
Fragile X and Autism
Now for the “Primer’s” assertion that 10% of all people with autism have Fragile X or Tuberous sclerosis. Talk about artifact! Probably 1% of people with ASD actually also have FX. Geneticists probably eat up 50 cents of every autism research dollar. They shoehorn countless marginally-ASD kids with genetic conditions into hundreds of studies and claim the findings will relate to idiopathic autism. They never do.
This team never learns. They are like the amyloid crowd in Alzheimer’s, refusing to give up on their failed idea. When one looks closely, these FX so-called autistic kids rarely stand up to diagnostic scrutiny. More researchers are acknowledging that autism is vastly over diagnosed in children with rare genetic disorders by well-meaning pediatricians. Parents of FX kids often ask for the diagnosis in hopes their child will qualify for more services. Sadly, these are often the wrong services for these kids. FX, Williams Syndrome and Angelman Syndrome children overlap far more with Downs syndrome than autism. Children with FX, Williams and Angelman are often exuberantly social, talkative and affectionate. Does that sound like your ASD child or ANY person with ASD you have ever meet?
The ‘FX as ASD’ model has been a total failure … time to move on. The ‘FX as ASD’ model has been a total failure … time to move on.
Leonardo Abbedoto:
“Autism in ‘FX ASD’ children is a vastly different condition than that of idiopathic autism and probably not autism at all.”
Dozens of massive clinical trials on autism treatment medication have failed. The research entities all use FX kids as a model. None of the treatments developed for the “FX ASD” helped kids with idiopathic autism. A Primer author, Jeremy Veenstra-VanDerWeele, has been a longtime supporter of the “FX as ASD” model approach. One only wonders how long he can remain in denial. Over the past 12 years, hugely expensive “FX ASD” drug trials have been conducted by Seaside Therapeutics, Rob Ring’s Autism Speaks’ PACT program, Novartis, and Roche. All have been failures. The model itself has been a total failure and it’s time to move on. This Primer naturally advises that we waste more money on this dead-end research.
Less of this research should be done, not more. Less of this research should be done, not more.
The Primer includes a lot of humorous discussion about gene therapy for autism. Ha! More talk of “translational genetics.” Ha! The authors postulate that an MRI (costing over $5K) could be a diagnostic tool. Ha! There are promises that once the correct neurological pathways are found, medical intervention is around the corner! Ha! Yeah, we have been hearing those promises for close to 20 years. Come on, get real. What isn’t funny is all the casualness in promoting that more EEG and MRI research be performed upon people with autism. I speak from experience when I say such research studies are often traumatizing for people with ASD. At no time do the authors acknowledge this. We are dealing with children and adults with serious sensory issues. Putting them in tight tubes or gluing a hundred wires to their heads equals a horrible experience for all but the most high-functioning people on the autism spectrum. Less of this research should be done, not more.
The end of the paper discusses “Quality of Life” issues. There is almost no discussion about the emotional trauma and financial strain endured by families with a severe ASD child. These families often have siblings who watch their ASD brother bang his head with a closed fist. Parents and siblings sometimes endure hours of screaming meltdowns while frantically trying to soothe the child with autism. Many autism families go months and sometimes even years without a normal night’s sleep. These families live difficult, isolated lives. Socializing is often impossible. Family events or trips to a restaurant or park can quickly go from good to bad, necessitating an immediate, nerve-rattling departure. The finances of these families are drained by out-of-pocket ASD related expenditures. Near death experiences because of seizures or drowning are frighteningly common in those with severe autism. Parents often live in a permanent “fight or flight” mode. Careers are curtailed, marriages ruined, vacations not taken, and siblings’ college plans go unfunded.
This is how the Primer describes life for ASD families:
“Although the journey (parenting an autistic child), can be challenging for many parents it can be incredibly rewarding and a source of life meaning.”
Half of the ASD Moms I know have PTSD. I cannot wait to give them the good news that living an isolated life, being broke and having PTSD gives their lives meaning. Thanks, Primer!
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