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Biden Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine: We need to “empower” kids to go on puberty blockers and get sex reassignment surgery.
Originally tweeted by RNC Research (@RNCResearch) on July 18, 2022.
There should have been a line drawn long before we got to this. There is no way that trans surgeries or drugs should be allowed for children, let alone encouraged. ABN
It’s now been essentially a month since the FDA inexcusably authorized the mRNA vaccines for children aged 6 months to 5 years old.
…According to recent data, only 2% of children under 5 across the country have been vaccinated for COVID.
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Incidentally, shame in Buddhism is considered essential for the cultivation of wisdom for without shame we do not recognize our own mistakes and learn from them. It is not right to dwell on shame, but feel it and contemplate it long enough to fully mend your ways. Rather than pretend there is no hypocrisy in her words, Ardern would do better for herself and others to simply admit her mistakes, take her lumps and move on. ABN
See this for my comment from a few days ago on this topic. ABN
Dr. James Thorp OBGYN. Pregnancy robust state, negligible risk for serious outcomes with Omicron. Easily treated early. Risks of WIV genetic code for the Spike protein include thrombosis/hemorrhage, fetal loss, malformations, no assurances infant/child safety over longer term.
Originally tweeted by Peter McCullough, MD MPH (@P_McCulloughMD) on July 13, 2022.
(1) Check this out (I'm venting):
”With the economy clearly in excess demand, inflation high and broadening, … the Governing Council decided to front-load the path to higher interest rates,” the bank said.
(2) ”With the economy clearly in excess demand"… That's the view of inflation, and justification, from the Bank of Canada.
Economic demand is just too strong. The economy is just too great. So, we must increase interest rates.
Think about it.
(3) No western economy is suffering from too much demand. However, the central banks and monetary policy makers are all pretending demand is driving inflation in order to justify rate increases.
One big collective game of f**king pretending.
Continue reading “‘The reality of Western leaders collective decision to radically transform Western Energy Policy, post-pandemic, is the origin of our current inflation crisis; and that admission must be avoided at all costs by the ideological pretenders’”Tucker Carlson On The Biden Family Selling Out America
“The real story is that the Biden Family was getting rich from business with our enemies. They were selling access to the U.S. Government to China. And that is a crime, it’s certainly a moral crime.”
Originally tweeted by The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) on July 12, 2022.
2016: Chloe said that she became exposed to transgender activism at age 11 on Instagram and Tumblr which influenced her thinking on her own gender.
2018: At age 14, Chloe began taking puberty blockers and testosterone injections, that were administered by her mother. That same year she begins going by the name Leo.
June 2020: Chloe goes under the knife for the first time at 15 when she has a double mastectomy
Almost immediately, she regrets the surgery as she was confined to her bed for that summer as she healed from her surgery
May 2021: Following a biology class during which she came to the realization that she would never be able to feed her baby, Chloe said that she stopped taking testosterone injection
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Pretty much any hard-held identity is delusional in Buddhism. I do not see any way a Buddhist can honestly support surgical or hormonal transgender treatments on children, who obviously are too young to make these decisions for themselves. Not sure I see any reason to support treatments like these for adults either. Clinging to any mundane identity is the core delusion of the Second Noble Truth, the truth of the cause of suffering. Sexual orientation alone is not important enough to base an identity on. Surgically or chemically changing your body just to conform to some notion of what your “real” gender identity is is clearly excessive, not the Middle Way. As Buddhists, we do not reject people who do this just as we do not reject out of hand anyone who makes even very serious mistakes. But not rejecting is not the same a condoning or encouraging behavior that furthers delusion and suffering and does not lead toward greater wisdom. ABN
You thought the treatment of folks going bare-faced in 2020 was intense? Wait until you see how unvaccinated people still wearing a mask – in good faith and according to CDC guidelines – are ostracized as dangerous pariahs in 2021.
[For Buddhists, this and virtually all things covid illustrate the First and Second Noble Truths with exquisite clarity. ABN]
Continue reading “How the unvaccinated were treated in 2021”The JP part of this clip ends at 11:30 min. It’s a tease for a longer podcast but probably enough for most viewers. ABN
I found this video mildly interesting. It is a big area—among many other big areas—that modern societies need to reckon with and talk about more. A core problem in this area, as I see it, is morality and ideals are too often used as weapons to denigrate other kinds of morality and ideals. I do not believe it is impossible to sort that out but in the real world, discussions like this tend to become messy and offer few conclusions. Social (and moral) dissolution in the past has always led to order imposed by an autocrat. ABN
McCullough is a magnificent example of Christian bravery, of religious bravery that transcends denomination and transcends even human language. He is not only a great Christian he is also, probably without knowing it, a better Buddhist than most Buddhists. Moreover, McCullough shows that deep religious conviction can fit perfectly with deep scientific conviction. There is no contradiction between science and religion in a mature spirit. ABN
for more clips of Peter McCullough…
Continue reading ““Pull all the vaccines off the market. Figure out what went wrong. And start to in earnest evaluate safety” – Dr Peter McCullough”
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