Negative side-effects of SSRIs are not included. Written Exposure Therapy is a kind of psycholinguistic engagement and seems to work OK. If people with PTSD can find a way to do FIML, I am confident many will be helped. The biggest obstacle for most people to doing FIML is having a good partner who can and will engage. That right there is the cause for most emotional disorders. If you are reasonably intelligent and have a good partner, do FIML. You both will benefit enormously. ABN
During the Mesolithic, Western Europe was inhabited by a population known as Western Hunter-Gatherers/WHG. This genetic cluster first appears toward the end of the Upper Paleolithic, replacing earlier groups such as the Gravettians, Solutreans, and Magdalenians – populations with whom the WHG shared both close genetic affinity and likely descent.
One of the sites inhabited by WHG groups during the Mesolithic was Star Carr in North Yorkshire, England, dating to around 9300-8500 BC. It is one of Britain’s most important prehistoric sites, as exceptional preservation allowed organic materials – wood, bone, and antler – to survive. Excavations uncovered Britain’s oldest known structure, numerous antler tools, and the famous red deer stag-skull headpieces, which may have been used for ritual or hunting. Other finds include barbed bone points, wooden artifacts, and a decorated shale pendant – one of the earliest known examples of Mesolithic art in the UK.
WHGs were Protoeuropoid, with robust cranial structures and stocky builds, averaging about 165 cm in height for males. Many lacked the skin-lightening genes typical of modern Eurasian populations, yet they also lacked the skin-darkening variants common in equatorial groups. WHG almost universally carried alleles associated with blue eyes, reflecting their small and bottlenecked founder population. Modern Europeans can trace up to around 30% of their total autosomal ancestry to WHG groups.
I believe the out-of-Africa hypothesis has been thoroughly debunked by modern gene analyses.
Recreations like this one involve considerable talent and artistry.
They help us imagine the distant past, and are especially valuable today since there has been so much DEI-style lying about Europe’s past (and not just Europe’s). ABN
Israeli government officials, along with their state aligned partners, are commissioning the Sunday School literature, shaping the small-group curricula, and guiding the theological education of American evangelicals. Pastors are bribed, congregations are mapped, young believers are digitally targeted, and study materials are packaged as discipleship while promoting the interests of a foreign state. The American church has become a delivery system for narratives conceived in government offices overseas. What began as emotional support for Israel has evolved into a pipeline of influence that reaches straight into the pulpit and the classroom. The deepest scandal is simple. Evangelicals thought they were blessing Jews. Unbelieving Jews, instead, have been discipling them.
The Israeli government has spent years building this disciplined influence system that reaches from cabinet offices in Jerusalem to the Sunday school classrooms of the American church. From curated pastor tours to geofencing campaigns, it’s all because a foreign state has learned how to speak fluent evangelical. Sadly, key Christian leaders have become accomplices.
Ask a typical American evangelical why they support Israel and you will hear the same script every time. It is about the Bible. It is about blessing Abraham. It is about standing with the people of God. They imagine their loyalty rose naturally from their reading of Scripture and from a vague sense of shared morality. They picture it as a grassroots conviction, not as the end product of a coordinated program. In their minds there is no architect. There are only sincere believers, grateful Israelis, and a relationship that just happened.
What I’m about to reveal to you at Insight to Incite is that behind the sentimental language lies a set of institutions that treat evangelical support as a strategic asset. The Israeli state does not look at tens of millions of politically engaged Christians and see only prayer partners. It sees a voting bloc that can make or break policies in Washington. It sees donors, influencers, university boards, and megachurch networks that can normalize whatever Israel needs normalized in American life. They’ve built an influence infrastructure in America that’s astounding, once you see it.
It’s no surprise a foreign government wants to influence us. What’s so astounding is the way that planning reaches directly into American churches. The engine sits inside the government, not on the fringe. The messaging is not primarily run by romantic Christian tourists with a love for the Holy Land. It is guided by cabinet level offices, national ministries, and government aligned entities that track evangelical sentiment and adjust tactics when support starts to slip.
For years the church has been told to think about Israel in prophetic terms. What it has not been told is that Israel thinks about the church in strategic terms. That asymmetry is exactly what this series is meant to expose. To do that honestly, you cannot start with famous pastors or emotional trips to Jerusalem. You have to start at the top. I’ll put the words, names, and titles in bold that you need to remember.
In replies to this Grok analysis, Ethical Skeptic says: With each new confirmation, comes the thrill of a successful model prediction – and then follows the existential reality that it makes this tin-foil hat theory, not only plausible, but a looming possible reality.
The U.S. intelligence community should monitor global supply chains as part of a sweeping goal to decouple the nation’s economy from foreign adversaries and advance American economic interests, according to the Trump administration’s newly published National Security Strategy.
Published late on Thursday, the 33-page strategy document adds to Trump administration direction to federal agencies to treat economic policy as a national-security matter.
U.S. spy agencies “will monitor key supply chains and technological advances around the world to ensure we understand and mitigate vulnerabilities and threats to American security and prosperity,” the strategy reads.
Security and defense agencies have long monitored or sought to bring awareness to supply-chain issues to ensure operational security and the protection of U.S. forces; more comprehensive monitoring would require vaster efforts to discover and track where American companies and foreign rivals ship, produce and stockpile their goods and services around the world.
Straight up ad hominem attack on a pioneer journalist producing better work than all of US Big Media combined.
Owens is establishing a new paradigm for journalism; one that draws on crowd-sourcing and direct feedback from the public.
Her podcast is booming because it’s very good and her audience can sense this is the right way to do news in today’s super-connected world.
She is a talented rhetorician to boot.
My guess is her main opponents savaging her are being paid, directly or indirectly, by the real perps; are part of the psyop themselves; are simply envious of her swift rise to global prominence due to her talent and content.
Rational and reasonable speculation is real content in the real-world in real-time.
Actively hunting for the truth is the most fundamental content everyone wants.
Candace has established a new formula, guys — crowd-sourcing, which yields tons of info and is deeply engaging; reasonable, focused content, including speculative content and queries; immediacy, authenticity and talent.
Since Kennedy’s piece is behind a paywall, I was not able to read it, but the headline, which itself is truly evil, is so bad I think it makes my fundamental point vividly:
No one else is producing bold, up-to-date content on Kirk’s murder, and that is what the public wants.
Not government, not Big Media, not TPUSA, not $7,000 podcasters.
Only Owens is doing the real work modern civilization deeply wants and requires. ABN
While the publicly released NSS calls for the end of a “perpetually expanding NATO,” the full version goes more into the details of how the Trump administration would like to—quote—“Make Europe Great Again,” even as it calls on European NATO members to wean themselves from American military support.
Working from the premise that Europe is facing “civilizational erasure” because of its immigration policies and “censorship of free speech,” the NSS proposes to focus U.S. relationships with European countries on a few nations with like-minded—right-wing, presumably—current administrations and movements.
Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland are listed as countries the U.S. should “work more with…with the goal of pulling them away from the [European Union].”
“And we should support parties, movements, and intellectual and cultural figures who seek sovereignty and preservation/restoration of traditional European ways of life…while remaining pro-American,” the document says.
The C5
Over the summer, President Trump made headlines when he lamented the expulsion of Russia from the Group of Eight—now the Group of Seven—as a “very big mistake.” He even suggested that he’d like to see China added to form a “G9.”
His national security strategy proposes taking this a step further, creating a new body of major powers, one that isn’t hemmed in by the G7’s requirements that the countries be both wealthy and democratically governed.
The strategy proposes a “Core 5,” or C5, made up of the U.S., China, Russia, India and Japan—which are several of the countries with more than 100 million people. It would meet regularly, as the G7 does, for summits with specific themes.
First on the C5’s proposed agenda: Middle East security—specifically, normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
“Hegemony wasn’t achievable”
The full NSS also spends some time discussing the “failure” of American hegemony, a term that isn’t mentioned in the publicly released version.
“Hegemony is the wrong thing to want and it wasn’t achievable,” according to the document.
In this context, hegemony refers to the leadership by one country of the world, using soft power to encourage other countries to consent to being led.
“After the end of the Cold War, American foreign policy elites convinced themselves that permanent American domination of the entire world was in the best interests of our country,” the NSS states. “Yet the affairs of other countries are our concern only if their activities directly threaten our interests.”
The White House has denied this document, claiming: ‘No alternative, private, or classified version exists’ of the publicized National Security Strategy.
If it looks like a rose and smells like a rose, it probably is a rose. I hope this is US policy, declared or otherwise. ABN
Reports from media outlets based on Taiwan have reported that the Japanese military leadership has been highly unsettled, to the point of being “freaked out” in the exact words used in one report, by the results of two engagements between Chinese J-15B and Japanese F-15 fighters on December 6.
Chinese J-15B Fighters and J-15D Electronic Attack Jets During Carrier Operations
Citing senior Japanese defence sources, it was reported that after J-15Bs operating from the aircraft carrier Liaoning locked onto F-15Js, the American-supplied aircraft’s radar warning receivers were only able to notify pilot of the threat after a weapons lock had already been formed.
It was assessed on this basis that in the event of a clash between the two fighter types, the F-15J would have already been close to being destroyed before Japanese pilot had time to react.
Japanese sources have reportedly observed that the F-15J’s radar can track the J-15B at ranges of around 100 kilometres, while the Chinese fighters are estimated to be able to detect the F-15s at ranges of 170 kilometres at the very least.
The incident has thus been described as a “sobering awakening” for the Japanese military apparatus.
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