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/
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/
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/
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/
Julia Harte & Alexandra Ulmer, Reuters
https://popularresistance.org/u-s-police-trainers-with-far-right-ties-are-teaching-hundreds-of-cops/
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
'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
Psychologists
found a “striking” difference in intelligence after examining twins
raised apart in South Korea and the United States (nature v. nurture)
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
Why do they say nature versus nurture when it's not a competition?
ReplyDeleteWhen we mix paint, we don't say it's one colour versus another.
Blaming brain-addled Biden for Washington's machinations is naive. Cast a wider net, please.
ReplyDeleteWhy 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.
ReplyDeleteBecause 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.
Blaming brain-addled Biden for Washington's machinations is naive. Cast a wider net, please.
ReplyDeletePresidents 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.
“ Why do they say nature versus nurture when it's not a competition?”
ReplyDeleteBA 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…
Because there is an ongoing debate about their relative influence on development.
ReplyDeleteWhat 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.
3-minute video, well worth watching.
ReplyDeleteJordan Peterson | The Most Terrifying IQ Statistic
Jordan Peterson, eugenicist?
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