BPPV is the most common cause of vertigo, and one of the most common things I see misdiagnosed. It can be diagnosed and treated in the office – but if you go to the hospital with “dizziness,” you’ll get a CT scan and a prescription for meclizine. Every ER doctor, neurologist and PCP needs to learn the Dix-hallpike and Epley maneuver!
NEW YORK (AP) — The former chief financial officer of The Epoch Times, a conservative multinational media company, interrupted jury selection at his money laundering trial on Thursday to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge in a $67 million fraud scheme.
Weidong “Bill” Guan, 63, of Secaucus, New Jersey, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court, admitting his participation in what prosecutors described as a scheme to launder fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits and other funds through the New York-based media company’s bank accounts and related entities.
The conspiracy charge relating to illegal financial transactions carries a potential prison sentence of up to 10 years in prison, but the deal with prosecutors spares him from the possibility that he would be convicted of other charges at trial and face the chance of more than a decade in prison.
When a significant portion of society loses trust in the police then that society is in serious trouble. In that direction lies the rise of protection rackets and the collapse of a unified society. This is precisely what has happened in the UK since 1999 and the MacPherson Report which accused the police of “institutional racism” based mainly on its mishandling of the murder of a Black teenager in London in 1993. Since 1999, the police have effectively been inculcated with the idea that their purpose is to protect ethnic minorities from the native population, that nothing is worse than “racism,” that any allegation of it must automatically be taken extremely seriously and that, in effect, the White man must be assumed to be guilty. It’s gone so far that I’ve now had my own run in with the UK police.
Two recent examples serve to illustrate the state of the British constabulary. In December 2025 in Southampton, a White student called Henry Nowak was stabbed by a Sikh. The Sikh then rang the police and dishonestly accused Nowak of having made racist remarks. When the police turned up, Nowak was lying on the ground bleeding to death. “I’ve been stabbed,” he mumbled. Such was the police’s contempt for him that the male officer replied, “I don’t think you have, mate” before arresting him and even handcuffing him. The Sikh, who was ultimately convicted of murder, was at no point handcuffed, even when he was eventually arrested.
Film has emerged, taken in June in Birmingham, of a young White man being beaten up by a group of Blacks. The Blacks are seen dispersing as a young, short female police officer rushes in to attack the White man as he gets up from the ground. Clearly disorientated and not knowing it’s a police officer he strikes back, knocking off her hat. She arrests him, adding, “Walk to the fucking car, you dick!” The police initially denied that anything was wrong with this incident—before putting out another press release claiming that the arrestee had been the victim of an assault and they were now looking for the suspects, whom they’d permitted to run away.
If it wasn’t for members of the public filming these things, and putting them on Twitter, we would never know about this police corruption — this Two-Tier Policing, as it’s commonly termed — so it is no wonder that the British government is interested in restricting social media access under the pretence of protecting children from “harmful content.” Studies on the kinds of people who become police officers indicate that they are not very intelligent (their IQ is about average) and that they are relatively high in Narcissistic traits (which would predict their wanting power and authority over people).
One of the ways in which we can expect them to deal with their understandable insecurity about their intelligence and status is to proclaim that they are more “moral” than others; to take the current morality — Woke — and strongly believe it and signal it in order to reassure themselves that they matter. This is precisely what we see with the UK police. In the 1990s, they weren’t trusted by the Black minority and they were widely regarded as “racist.” This has now been completely reversed. They are an arm of the Woke Deep State and are not trusted by White people or, at least, not be politically conservative White people.
Decent article but too much emphasis on psychology of the police and presumed trepidation of the authorities above them, when a more inclusive analysis would include what appears to be happening all across Europe and the West — an anti-White, anti-Western replacement mass migration invasion. The invasion is literally an act of war with abundant corroborating evidence at every level of European policy. It’s not just a bunch of dumb cops and a mesmerized police force. It is terrible, deeply compromised European ‘leaders’ whose super-narcissistic psychologies are being manipulated through bribes, blackmail, flattery, and banishment if they refuse. ABN
Proprioception means “one’s own” or “ones’ individual” (Latin proprius) “perception.”
We normally use this word to refer to our physical position in the world—whether we are standing or sitting, how we are moving, and how much energy we are using.
When we dream, our capacity for physical movement, with rare exceptions, is paralyzed. But we still do a sort of proprioception in dreams—a semiotic proprioception, or proprioception within the semiology of the dream.
In dreams, we grope through semiotic associations and respond, gropingly, to them. People and things often look smaller in dreams, or distorted, because we do not have either the need or the capacity to calibrate our physical proprioception as we do in waking life.
Dreams move from one semiotic proprioception to another via our individual four-dimensional (3D plus time) groping/associative function. In one short segment of a dream we are at home, then we go through a door only to find ourselves on a boat in the ocean. Our 4D semiotic proprioception within dreams readily accepts groping, associative shifts like this.
Much of what we perceive when we are awake is memory. We glance at a room we know well and call up our memory of it rather than actually look closely at the room.
I am fairly sure that the memories we call up to aid perception while we are awake are much the same as the groping proprioception we experience in dreams. A major difference is when we are awake we can and do check our waking proprioception with the people and objects around us, while in dreams the associative function has a much freer range.
Notice how dreams move from scene to scene rather slowly. Things can go quickly, but normally dreams grope somewhat slowly along the 4D path of semiotic proprioception.
In waking life, our dreamy use of memory and association to aid perception of the world happens constantly.
When we speak with another person, we use this function to make groping associations concerning what we think they are saying. We grope and respond to them as in a dream while at the same time searching for clues that indicate we are both in the same dream.
These clues that two people may sort of “agree on” while speaking are normally standard public semiotics that belong to whatever culture(s) they share. By “agreeing” on them, we form a sort of agreeable camaraderie with whomever we are speaking, and this can be satisfying, but if we only get this, it can also become deeply unsatisfying.
The four dimensional groping/dreamy function of our mind is far richer than any standard collection of public semiotics. In our public lives—professional, commercial, based on organizations, etc.—we have, at present, little recourse but to accept normal public semiotics, to agree with them and manifest agreement.
We can express some deviation from them and sometimes make jokes about them, but we are generally fairly bound to the semiotics of the culture or organization that generates the context of our speaking. Consider how people in the same church or school are bound by the semiotics of those institutions.
In our intimate relations, however, we do have recourse to investigate and understand how our groping, 4D semiotic proprioception works. This is what FIML does. It allows partners to observe, analyze, and understand the semiotic proprioceptions of their minds as they are actually functioning during interpersonal communication.
If you constantly avoid FIML types of investigations, you will be stuck with a mix of dimly shared public/private semiotics that will tend to become highly ambiguous, even volatile, or very shallow.
Modern surface temperatures are an echo from the past. The Earth is an ocean planet, driven by a pulsating 1,000-year conveyor belt known as Thermohaline Circulation. We are witnessing a planetary memory in the oceans operating on a scale humans struggle to imagine — where deep currents are only now responding to thermal signals set in motion during the Roman Warm Period (250 BC–400 AD).
Indeed, a landmark study by Jake Gebbie (Woods Hole) and Peter Huybers (Harvard) found that the deep Pacific lags so far behind the atmosphere that it is still actively cooling from the later Medieval Warm Period, and only just beginning to digest the climate shift of the Little Ice Age.
The top 3.5 meters of the oceans hold the same heat capacity as the entire global atmosphere. The 3,700 meters below, is the Earth’s thermal vault of all retained heat energy. Oceanic inertia – or momentum – smooths out atmospheric hot and cold spikes.
The oceans absorb and retain 90% of the system’s excess heat while the atmosphere is simply a gaseous envelope, thin and reactive, largely a passenger on the back of the massive oceanic flywheel.
Carlson actually says the quote in the headline but Bowden fully agrees. She has been very good all along and deserves our respect and support. At great cost to herself, she spoke and still speaks the truth about covid, covid masks, and most of all, the covid vax. People like her have innate bravery and love of truth. From a Buddhist POV, that’s morally and spiritually exemplary. That’s what life is all about. ABN
The polio vaccine ‘horror curve’ can serve as a reasonable precedent to the cancer curve which is showing up following mass covid-19 mRNA injections. With the polio vaccine, we can probably believe the claim that the SV40 (Simian Virus 40) accidentally contaminated the product. I do not see how repeating that same contamination in the covid-19 vaxxes can be considered ‘accidental’. This is yet another reason to suspect the covid mRNA injections were and still are bioweapons. ABN
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