Monday, August 31, 2026

Revolutionary Origins of Human Language book will be out this November! Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis

 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300289206/the-revolutionary-origins-of-language/

The story of the social and sexual revolution responsible for the emergence of our most prized skill—the ability to speak

Speech is unprecedented in the natural world. Yet human infants can learn the grammar of their native tongue so quickly, it is as if they knew the basics already. How did such a unique ability evolve, and what does it reveal about the nature of our species?

Drawing on evolutionary and social anthropology, behavioural ecology, archaeology, and linguistics, Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis unearth the political and social origins of our capacity to speak. What they discover points to the revolutionary role played by women at every stage. It seems that formidable coalitions of women used laughter, song, and dance to restrain the male potential for violence. In so doing, women established extraordinary levels of community-wide trust—precisely what was needed for linguistic creativity to flourish.

The Revolutionary Origins of Language is a bold and surprising assessment of the complex conditions which produced our most prized skill.

In Vienna: 50% of the housing is public housing and rent is limited to 20% of your income

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wWBGBac2Ps

 Richard Wolff gives a great lecture!! In 1911, the SPA won election to about 1,141 local offices in total

  • Around 1911 to 1920, over 300 cities and towns across the U.S. had elected socialist officials, with Socialist Party members holding office in roughly 340 cities at its peak. More than 130 specific mayoral victories occurred during the broader 1901–1960 era. [1, 2]
  • Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee had a famous 40-year run of socialist mayors—Emil Seidel, Daniel Hoan, and Frank Zeidler—who governed from 1910 to 1960. They focused on public infrastructure, parks, and honest, efficient administration. [1, 2, 3]
  • Other Notable Cities: Schenectady, New York (under George Lunn in 1911), Butte, Montana, and Murray, Utah, all elected socialist mayors who built public works, improved sanitation, and ran municipal utilities. [1, 2]
Core Focus of Municipal Socialists
  • Public Ownership: They pushed to municipalize local waterworks, gas, and streetcar lines.
  • Public Health & Welfare: They created public health systems, expanded school systems, and built extensive city park networks.
  • Clean Government: Their platforms heavily emphasized ending political corruption and modernizing city management

 

James R. Norman business journalist exposing the fraudulant Oil Market: The Oil Card and the Money Surveillance System

 New interview with James (Jim) R. Norman! Thanks Trineday

The oil corporations "get dragged along by the state...the way we busted the Ruskies was driving down the price of oil" - his book was published in 2008 when Oil prices hit $150 a barrel up from $10 a barrel. 

.... kind of like Cargill (food) is interwoven with "the state."  

 https://empoweredinvestor.com/cw-471-jim-norman-oil-card-economic-warfare/

Jim Norman – Economic Warfare & The Oil Card with Journalist and Editor for Forbes & Business Week

  • Journalism: He worked as a reporter and writer for Forbes, BusinessWeek, and the Ann Arbor News.
  • Investigative Work: He won an award for investigative reporting at the Ann Arbor News after exposing an oil and gas scam.
  • Energy Reporting: He later served as a contributing writer for McGraw-Hill's Platts Oilgram News
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  • He probably knows my old buddy from Hampshire College... 
  •  Challenging the conventional wisdom surrounding high oil prices, this compelling argument sheds an entirely new light on free-market industry fundamentals. By deciphering past, present, and future geopolitical events, it makes the case that oil pricing and availability have a long history of being employed as economic weapons by the United States. Despite ample world supplies and reserves, high prices are now being used to try to rein in China—a reverse of the low-price strategy used in the 1980s to deprive the Soviets of hard currency. Far from conspiracy theory, the debate notes how the U.S. has previously used the oil majors, the Saudis, and market intervention to move markets—and shows how this is happening again. This compact and unorthodox analysis will appeal to a broad audience—from energy consumers puzzled by intractably high oil prices to producers wondering how long windfall prices can defy gravity.
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    About the Author

    James R. Norman is a veteran business journalist and energy reporter. He is currently a contributing writer for McGraw-Hill's Platts Oilgram News. He has also written for Forbes, BusinessWeek, and the Ann Arbor News, where he won an award for investigative reporting on an oil and gas scam. He lives in New York City.

     

    In this book it explains why oil is not at market price. A report was given to Ronald Reagan on how to destroy the Soviet Union. Their main export was oil. So if the United States could make the price on oil low enough, the Soviet Union would collapse. But how can you make the price of oil less than it should be. In the 70s the price of oil skyrocketed. Therefore their would have been stockpiles of oil.

    The U.S. would simply get rid of their stockpiles, making the price of oil, less for the time being. Once the Soviet Union went bankrupt, the price of oil, went way up. So why is it so high now. Because, China's currency is undervalued. Because it is undervalued that's how they can export more than they import. But China is affected more by the price of oil than the U.S. Its been used as a bargaining chip, that if they will make their currency what it should be, the U.S. will stop playing this oil game.

     how the US and the Saudis conspired to drive oil prices so low in the mid 1980's, it crucified and nearly bankrupted the Soviet Union. And that is just the tip of the iceberg in this tomb that is filled with more facts and figures than any book deserves to be - took me a week to read this, and I couldn't put it down, but my head was spinning with statistics when I got done. The author is an editor for Platt's Oilgram, so he knows his subject intimately.

     Platts Oilgram is a daily industry publication and benchmark price reporting service for the global petroleum and energy markets, launched in 1923 by Warren C. Platt.

  • Acquired by the McGraw-Hill group in 1953, which later evolved into S&P Global.
  • Centenary: Celebrated its 100th anniversary in June 2023
  •  https://docs.preterhuman.net/INTERVIEW_WITH_DEBRA_VON_TRAPP,_by_Sherman_H._Skolnick
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    I
    know that I was interviewed both by Jim Norman of *Forbes* magazine
    during my first revelations over Xerox and Aldrich Ames and Shugart,
    in the, I guess around '90 and '91. And his story was killed at *that*
    time. He was told to remove his records from his office and forget
    that he talked to me. And ironically, he interviewed me last week
    about this and the same thing happened to him two days ago.
    
    SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
    In other words, Mr. Norman had interviewed you several years ago?
    
    DEBRA VON TRAPP:
    Yes. I have my original documents of our communication.
    
    SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
    And then the story about a division of Xerox in the spy business was,
    his magazine killed that story a couple of years ago?
    
    DEBRA VON TRAPP:
    Yes.
    
    SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
    And you believe that his current story that he's working on, about a
    company called Systematics, is likewise gonna be killed?
    
    DEBRA VON TRAPP:
    Yes. And I was specifically informed two days ago that his interview
    of me, regarding the Oklahoma City bombing, which I had announced from
    my firm to a news service in Washington, the day before it happened...
    
  • Saturday, August 29, 2026

    The Great American Rail to Trail from Washington State to Washington D.C.!

     

     https://www.traillink.com/great-american-rail-trail/

    More Than 3,700 Miles Between Washington, D.C., and Washington State

    The Great American Rail-Trail promises an all-new American experience. Through 12 states and the District of Columbia, the trail will directly serve nearly 50 million people within 50 miles of the route. Across the nation—and the world—only the limits of imagination will limit its use. Explore the Great American by state.

    The preferred route of the Great American Rail-Trail connects 145+ existing rail-trails, greenways and other multiuse paths spanning more than 3,700 miles. These trails are hosting the Great American through their communities, making possible this grand vision of a nation connected by trails. And with more than 52% of the route already on the ground, now is the time to experience the Great American Rail-Trail! Explore the Great American Rail-Trail map above to learn more about the route and to find trails you can visit today.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Wednesday, August 26, 2026

    the diagnosis of ‘cannabis psychosis': self-medicated Cannabis use causes paranoid "schizoid" traits especially in males

     Schizophrenia Bulletin vol. 41 no. 2 pp. 391–399, 2015
    doi:10.1093/schbul/sbu098
    Advance Access publication July 16, 2014© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center.
    This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/),
    which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
    How Cannabis Causes Paranoia: Using the Intravenous Administration of
    ∆9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) to Identify Key Cognitive Mechanisms
    Leading to Paranoia

    Cannabis paranoid Schizoid 

     Conclusions Initiating cannabis use for self-medication
    is associated with higher average THC consumption, and
    increased anxiety, depression and paranoia.

     In four cross-sectional studies from the general population, the odds of displaying paranoid symptoms in cannabinoid users was higher than in non-users (OR: 1.75, 95 % CI, 1.43–2.07, PPI: 99 %), with effects increasing with the percentage of males in the sample. The pooled effect was not significant in studies recruiting patients with psychiatric disorders. Results of three prospective studies also suggest that cannabis is associated with the subsequent onset of paranoid symptoms. 

     https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763425002702

     the diagnosis of ‘cannabis psychosis' as a distinct clinical entity.

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/abs/psychiatric-symptoms-in-cannabis-users/CFC8BA3F34C6A972118607202046CB3F 

     https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0091305796004261

    Towards a Cannabinoid Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: Cognitive Impairments Due to Dysregulation of the Endogenous Cannabinoid System

      significant causal associations between CUD and an increased risk of emotionally unstable PD (EUPD; ORIVW = 1.228, 95% CI 1.069–1.411), overall PD (ORIVW = 1.186, 95% CI 1.065–1.321), and schizoid PD (SPD; ORIVW = 1.644, 95% CI 1.131–2.39

    https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1411587/full 

    https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4755&context=honors_theses 

     https://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3614&context=etd

     

     

     

    Debunking the Corporate Big Pharma propaganda that Schizophrenia is inherited

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165178123006418

    https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/psychiatric-yeti-schizophrenia-genetic/ 

     Sullivan and colleagues’ 81% schizophrenia heritability estimate should be disregarded in the context of a proposed re-evaluation of behavioral twin studies and their underlying assumptions. More than six decades of failed DNA-based attempts to identify genes that cause schizophrenia support this conclusion.

    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10892680261428409 

    Of course Big Pharma wants people to believe their propaganda despite the science stating otherwise. In fact what "schizophrenia" is largely can be debated as well.

     

    Tuesday, August 25, 2026

    David Crawford book: A Manual for the Dead

     David Crawford's book (newly published by Trineday) is a fascinating, riveting and quick immersive well-written work. He marries a lady who is deep into Franz Bardon, a Rosicrucian-type Western alchemy teacher. At the end of the book Crawford recommends Bardon saying the astral archons explained by Bardon are very real. Since I had already read Bardon then I could definitely tell the influence of Bardon on the text. This paper summarizing Bardon's teachings I think well describes the level of practice David Crawford was explaining from his own "near-death experience."

    The ninth and tenth movements concern the orientation of the whole trained system toward the highest conceivable ideal. The practitioner meditates on four divine qualities, power, wisdom, immortality, and presence, and their relationship to the four elements, until the practitioner's own being gradually becomes identified with each quality in turn. The destination is named explicitly: Einswerden mit seinem Gott (becoming one with his God). This is elaborated in Section 9.

     https://philarchive.org/rec/KEPTSS

    What is fascinating about Crawford's teaching is his claim that spirit is impersonal and the fire element of reality. This equates with the "Yuan Shen" in Daoist Neidan alchemy. The "spirit of no spirit" or what in buddhism is called the "clear light." Crawford trained in Zen padamasana yoga meditation also.