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Saturday, May 7, 2022

Links — 7 May 2022 Part 2

RayMcGovern.com
Only If the News Fits [the Narrative], Do We Print [It]
Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, and retired 27-year career CIA whose tasks included preparing and briefing The President’s Daily Brief and leading the Soviet Foreign Policy Branch
https://raymcgovern.com/2022/05/07/only-if-the-news-fits-do-we-print/

CaitlinJohnstone.com
Ukraine Alone Makes Biden The Worst US President In A Long Time (maybe ever. What other president has been so cavalier about nuclear war?)
Caitlin Johnstone
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/05/08/ukraine-alone-makes-biden-the-worst-us-president-in-a-long-time/

Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairs
Déjà-vu all over again: Western companies exit Russia en masse
Gilbert Doctorow
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/05/07/deja-vu-all-over-again-western-companies-exit-russia-en-masse/

The Last Refuge
Mexican President Calls Out Hypocrisy of Biden Sending $33 Billion to Ukraine While Doing Nothing to Support Central America Which Would Stop Illegal Migration
Sundance
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/07/mexican-president-calls-out-hypocrisy-of-biden-sending-33-billion-to-ukraine-while-doing-nothing-to-support-central-america-which-would-stop-illegal-migration/

Popular Resistance
https://popularresistance.org/u-s-police-trainers-with-far-right-ties-are-teaching-hundreds-of-cops/

Common Dreams
Lula Launches Campaign to Unseat Far-Right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro
Jake Johnson
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/07/lula-launches-campaign-unseat-far-right-brazilian-president-jair-bolsonaro

Business Standard (India)
'Would have never agreed' to US military bases in Pakistan: Imran Khan
https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/would-have-never-agreed-to-us-military-bases-in-pakistan-imran-khan-122050800040_1.html

PsyPost
Eric Dolan
https://www.psypost.org/2022/05/psychologists-found-a-striking-difference-in-intelligence-after-examining-twins-raised-apart-in-south-korea-and-the-united-states-63091



8 comments:

  1. Why do they say nature versus nurture when it's not a competition?

    When we mix paint, we don't say it's one colour versus another.

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  2. Blaming brain-addled Biden for Washington's machinations is naive. Cast a wider net, please.

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  3. Why do they say nature versus nurture when it's not a competition? When we mix paint, we don't say it's one colour versus another.

    Because there is an ongoing debate about their relative influence on development. This study provides some interesting evidence owing to the unusual circumstances. It would be unethical and probably illegal to set up an experimental study along these lines of physically separating a family.

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  4. Blaming brain-addled Biden for Washington's machinations is naive. Cast a wider net, please.

    Presidents come to decisions based on advisors and some decisions are not made at the presidential level but by appointees and sometime even bureaucrats. Andrei Martyanov calls this "combined Biden" and "combined Putin," for example.

    In addition, the decision maker can only use information that is made available by the staff and therefore the staff and even lower admin officials can influence the decision making process through the selection of information and its manner of presentation.

    In countries where there is a strong leader, the final decision rests with the leader. Those countries include the US and Russia and many others. In this sense, these decisions are monarchical. Harry Truman had a sign on his Oval Office desk, "The buck stops here."

    But the reality is that it's complicated.

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  5. “ Why do they say nature versus nurture when it's not a competition?”

    BA in Psychology… always have to see it as a dialectic opposition…

    Rather than just subject the process to truth or accuracy…

    “Survival of the fittest!” , “were out of money vs were not out of money” etc…

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  6. Because there is an ongoing debate about their relative influence on development.

    What is there to debate?
    Whether nature/nurture is a 50/50 split or a 65/35 split?
    Will these ratios be broken down by category?

    When South Korea has a higher suicide rate than other countries, is anyone arguing that this is genetic?

    Psychology is a pseudo-science. All it can do is make generalizations. Treating individuals on a one-size-fits-all method is not optimal.

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