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Category Archives: Abuse
Eyes Wide Open
A writer using the pen name Yggdrasil wrote in the 1990s about the 1964 film by Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb: Kubrick’s very argument is that the all of the … Continue reading
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I Don’t Think Jeffrey Epstein Is A Magic Key To Anything
ChatGPT says: There is no magic key in the Epstein story. It’s ugly people doing ugly things with money, access, and weak guardrails. It’s predictable. It’s depressing. It doesn’t open any secret door to how the world works. It’s just … Continue reading
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JP: Shocking testimonies of ritual sexual abuse revealed in Knesset committee meeting
This does not sound credible to me. Remember Vicki Polin on Oprah? The Jerusalem Post posts: ‘Doctors, educators, police officers, and past and present members of the Knesset were involved in these abuses,’ survivor says. A number of women gave … Continue reading
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YULA Boys Guidance Counselor Julie Tichon Slept With Boys Say Police
KTLA reports Sep. 24: Police are looking for possible other victims of a high school counselor in West Los Angeles who is accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy. Julie Tichon, 37, committed a “series of sexual assaults” against the … Continue reading
NYMAG: Tell Me Why It Hurts – How Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives
From New York magazine, July 31, 2023: * It’s bad news when your university creates a committee to ensure that you don’t publish any research papers without its approval. It’s worse news if the only other person facing similar scrutiny … Continue reading
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Under the Heel of the Liberal Jackboot (7-11-22)
00:50 Tucker Carlson asks why would China unleash a deadly virus on the world? 27:00 Is Tucker a CIA asset? 28:00 Decoding the Gurus analyzes Lex Fridman, Jonathan Haidt, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/lex-fridman-jonathan-haidt-the-techno-monk-the-social-scientist 33:00 Green energy destroyed Sri Lanka 1:01:00 Dispelling the Myth … Continue reading
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Child Abuse Began In 1962
Stephen Turner writes in his 2013 book The Politics Of Expertise: “Ian Hacking’s classic paper on child abuse (1991) is an example of this kind of argument involving expertise in this sense: here the triumph of an expanded concept of … Continue reading
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Haredi children’s author Chaim Walder kills himself (12-28-21)
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Rabbi Used Martin Buber’s I-Thou Philosophy To Seduce Women
From the Forward: A senior leader of the Reform movement whose rabbinic privileges were briefly suspended two decades ago for “personal relationships” that violated ethical codes in fact sexually harassed or assaulted at least three women, including one who was … Continue reading
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The Trauma Trap
Frederick Crews writes for the New York Review of Books in 2004: In the 1980s, as McNally relates, day care workers risked prosecution and imprisonment on the coerced testimony of bewildered and intimidated three-year-olds who were prodded to “remember” nonexistent … Continue reading
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