Genocide Joe, it's time to go (Covid-19)

The exit's that way, Joe. Follow Dr. Jill B.

Nearly from the moment Pres. Joe Biden walked off the Atlanta debate stage three weeks ago, Senator Peter Welch of Vermont has been trying — first gently, then much more directly — to get him to end his reelection bid. He now believes that effort is working.

“I think it’s happening,” he told me [MSN] by phone this morning. More than 20 House Democrats have publicly pushed Biden to withdraw. For now, Welch is the only senator calling for him to step aside. But the party is rapidly turning against Biden.

AOC says Kamala has to go with him. Get out

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) yesterday paused plans to nominate him early by virtual roll call, and last night reports emerged that a trio of party leaders — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi — each told Biden in separate private conversations that his nomination would jeopardize the Democrats’ chances to beat Trump this fall.

Kamala Harris vs. Mrs. Michael Obama

Former Pres. Barack Obama, perhaps Biden’s most helpful ally to this point, has reportedly told Democrats that Biden needs to reconsider his candidacy.

Shortly before I spoke with Welch this morning, a House Democrat told me, on condition of anonymity, that party leaders were encouraging members to go public with their concerns about Biden’s viability. More

• [Read: The end of Biden’s candidacy approaches]

Biden says he would drop out of 2024 race if diagnosed with medical condition

Anti-Biden Democrats' committee plots to push the president out (axios.com)

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(Axios) Pres. Biden said in a new interview that he would consider dropping out of the 2024 presidential race IF a doctor diagnosed him with a "medical condition." [Is Covid-19 medical enough?]

Why it matters: Biden is battling a growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers [and voters] calling on him to step aside after his disastrous debate performance last month sparked renewed worries about his age and [mental] fitness for office.

Biden delivers prime-time address to nation in Oval Office of White House in Washington, DC, US, on Sunday, July 14 (Erin Schaff/NYT/Bloomberg via Getty)

A pre-taped interview with BET [Black Entertainment TV] News is the latest in a series of [horrible] media appearances the president has made since the debate to try [salvage his career] and assuage concerns about his mental acuity [and evident decline].

The interview will air tonight at 10:00 pm (ET) on BET. The cable network released excepts in advance of the broadcast.

The latest: Hours after the excerpt from the interview was released, the White House confirmed that Biden tested positive for COVID and was experiencing mild symptoms.

The big picture: Asked what would make him re-evaluate his reelection campaign, Biden said he would do so "if I had some medical condition that emerged," according to an excerpt released by the network. 

But Jill ordered me to stay! I have to stay!!

"If doctors came to me and said, you got this problem [senile dementia] and that problem [a pandemic disease]," he added.

Biden also acknowledged that he had run for the presidency as a "transitional candidate" and that he had expected to "pass it on to somebody else [like his handpicked hottie Kamala, whom he thought would be easier to handle than Tulsi]."

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Who's older, Jagger or Joe? - One year difference

However, he said he hadn't expected how divided the U.S. would become. "There's more to do and I'm reluctant to walk away from that," he said.

State of play: Since the June debate, Biden has repeatedly insisted he is staying in the race and denied that top Democrats and average voters want him out of the race [when they so obviously do]. More

• Ivana Saric (axios.com), 7/18/24; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The punk rock of the Dead Kennedys (video)

Dead Kennedys via RadioRin and The Punk Historian; Seth Auberon (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Dead Kennedys had a good message? - Many good messages.

Jello is passionate about politics

I (RadioRin) did not make this music, but we can all support the people who did, the Dead Kennedys with animated frontman Jello Biafra (itunes.apple.com/us...).

However, I put these videos together using a program I did make. See it here: github.com/RustyRin/Music2Video.

No offense to Kennedy clan, who decay (DK) like US

(The Punk Historian) Radical anti-government critics the Dead Kennedys

The irreverent escapades of the Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys women's tee-shirt

(The Punk Historian) Let's have a history lesson on San Francisco's punk rock pioneers the Dead Kennedys along with added trivia and thoughts from yours truly. Spotify Playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/3rp...

CHAPTERS

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:39 - Formation
• 4:39 - "California Über Alles" hit song, early tours, and singer Jello Biafra's political [spoiler] campaign
• 7:55 - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables album
• 12:00 - Black drummer D.H. Peligro joins the band and they release the great album In God We Trust Inc.
• 14:20 - Plastic Surgery Disasters
• 16:03 - Alternative Tentacles (Jello's record label) expands
• 17:25 - Frankenchrist album and government lawsuits to destroy them
• 19:19 - Bedtime for Democracy album and post-DK endeavors
• 21:41 - Royaly lawsuits
• 23:05 - DK reunion and Jello's response to a revival
• 24:03 - Legacy
• 27:13 - Closing thoughts

7 dimensions of depression explained (video)

Various speakers, Big Think, 2/14/21; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

7 dimensions of depression, explained: Dr. Daniel Goleman, Johann Hari, Pete Holmes, more

(Big Think) According to the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), more than 264 million people suffer from depression. It is the leading cause of disability and, at its worst, can lead to suicide. Unfortunately, depression is often misunderstood or ignored until it is too late.

• Psychologist Dr. Daniel Goleman
• Researcher Johann Hari
• Dr. Julie Holland, MD
• Comedian Pete Holmes
• Neuroscientist Dr. Emeran Mayer
• Psychiatrist Dr. Drew Ramsey, and more

outline several of the social, chemical, and neurological factors that may contribute to the complex disorder and explain why there is not a singular solution or universal "cure" that can alleviate the symptoms.

From gaining insight into how the brain-gut connection [where most neurons reside] works and adopting something closer to the Mediterranean Diet, to seeking help from medical or spiritual practitioners, depression is a personal battle that requires a personalized strategy to keep it at bay, as well as more research and understanding.

Check Drew Ramsey's book Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety: Nourish Your Way to Better Mental Health in Six Weeks

TRANSCRIPT

JOHANN HARI: When I feel depressed, like loads of people, I say I feel down, right? And as I was learning about the causes of depression and anxiety for my book, "Lost Connections," I started to realize, I don't think that's a metaphor. There is this amazing professor at Stanford called Robert Sapolsky who in his early 20s went to live with a troop baboons in Kenya. And it was his job to figure out when are baboons most stressed out. So his job was to hit them with little tranquilizer darts and then take a blood test and measure something called cortisol, which is a hormone that baboons and us release when we're stressed. And baboons live in this hierarchy, so the females don't interestingly but the men live in a very strict hierarchy. So if there's 30 men, number one knows he's above number two, number two knows he's above number three, number 12 knows he's above number 13. And that really determines a lot. It determines who you get to have sex with, it determines what you get to eat, it determines whether you get to sit in the shade or you're pushed out into the heat. Yeah, it's a really, really significant where you are in the hierarchy. And what Professor Sapolsky found is baboons are most stressed in two situations. One is when their status is insecure. So if you're the top guy and someone's circling which comes for you, you will be massively stressed. And the other situation is when you feel you're at the bottom of a hierarchy, you've been kind of humiliated. And what Professor Sapolsky found is when you feel you've been pushed to the bottom, what you do is you show something called submission gesture. Baboon will put its body down physically or put its head down, it will put its bottom in the air and it will cover its head. So it clearly seems to be communicating, "Just leave me alone, you've beaten me. Okay, you've beaten me." And what lots of scientists, people like Professor Paul Gilbert in Britain and Professor Kate Pickett and Professor Richard Wilkinson also in Britain have really developed is this idea that actually what human depression is in part, not entirely, but in part, is a form of a submission gesture. It's a way of saying, I can't cope with this anymore, right? Particularly people who feel they've been pushed to the bottom of hierarchies or who feel remember the other stressful situations when you feel your status is insecure it's a way of just going, "Okay, can I retreat?" "I don't want this fight anymore." "You've beaten me." It's a kind of very strong evolutionary impulse where you feel you're under attack to just submit in the hope that the stress and anxiety will then go away. The sources of the stress and anxiety will then go away. And one thing that is so important, Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson really developed this, is they've shown so as inequality grows, depression and anxiety grow. They've shown, this is very robust effect, right? This helps us to explain it. One in five Americans will take a psychiatric drug, one in four middle-aged women in the United States is taking a chemical antidepressant in any given year. And I began to think, could it really be that just so many people are just mysteriously lacking a specific chemical in their brain? Why does it seem to be rising so much if that's the cause? If you live in Norway, your status is relatively secure, right? No one's that high, no one's that low, movement between where you are is not so extreme. If you live in the United States, especially today which is...

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The Decline of Western Civilization (punk rock)

Penelope Spheeris via ChannSkhoreultra; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly


The Decline Of Western Civilization

The Decline of Western Civilization is an American documentary filmed through 1979 and 1980. The movie documents the Los Angeles punk rock scene. An intimate look at the punk subculture of the '80s, this documentary by Producer Penelope Spheeris captures more of the ambiance of the time than outstanding examples of the music subculture itself.  The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of the film with performances by the Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, FEAR, Germs, and X.

How to DECALCIFY the pineal gland (video)

Nicky Sutton (Spiritual Awakening, Nov. 1, 2016); Crystal Quintero (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Music: "Feather Waltz" by Kevin MacLeod (licensed under a Creative Commons License Attribution), source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: incompetech.com.

How to decalcify your pineal gland and what to eat/take/do/avoid to detox and cleanse the pineal

Nicky Sutton

How can we decalcify and detoxify our pineal gland (third eye)? How can we begin to eliminate calcified deposits?

The pineal gland is the physical manifestation of our third eye. These are only suggestions. Fluoride's harmful role, and a host of other chemicals, will be examined in depth.

What is "brain sand"? What we eat, take, and do can start the cleansing process, decalcifying the pineal gland and releasing it from a stone/bone-like casing.

 

My body feels much lighter and free!

There are substances to avoid, not just toxic fluoride [and Prozac]. Calcium carbonate and others types of stone play a big role, as do other halides such as chlorine and bromide.
 

Taking natural iodine and magnesium are very likely the way forward. I explain how and why. But first, why decalcify the pineal gland? Doing so will help us to creativity and the infinite intelligent energy therein.

David Wilcock (Edgar Cayce) on Weston A. Price for Indigenous People

The whole body can be served by decalcification (deossification) to be young and supple again, free of excess concretions like gallstones and such. We are raising the mass vibration with spiritual information:

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Dr. Drew and Mike LIVE in Pasadena

After the death of Loveline we thought the good doctor and his vile sidekick were off the air. But they just moved from KROQ FM to KABC AM. Listen weekdays at 12:00 pm to "Midday Live with Dr. Drew and Mike Catherwood."

It's funny, informative, usually about sex and modern problems of our affluent and totally f'd up society with great guests thanks to Drew's openmindedness and broad spectrum approach to politics, economics, and most everything else.

If you want inarticulate pretense and masturbation-f*rt jokes, hey, that's what Mike's here for. A cast of characters (thanks to Mike) like Rudy Cisneros, KISS singer Simmons, and  Swoll Patrol buff guy really round out an entertaining few hours. Come watch it live at the Ice House. More @ drdrew.com

Mental decline starts in the late-20s

"Age-related mental decline starts in the late-20s"

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Declining mental function is often seen as a problem of old age, but certain aspects of brain function actually begin their decline in young adulthood, a new study suggests.

The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions -- including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed, and puzzle-solving -- started to dull as early as age 27.

Dips in memory, meanwhile, generally became apparent around age 37. On the other hand... More>>

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