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Welcome Peerpocalypse 2021

Please use email address valia.modern@gmail.com to contact me with questions related to the Display table. I am often free to talk during the conference, and otherwise click the link above for “Links and Presentations” for a Zoom link to one of our rooms while the table is open, or text 541-579-9022 to arrange a time to talk. All inquiries are welcome.

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DJ Jaffe: A study in social oppression and "media" malfeasance.

DJ Jaffe: A study in social oppression and “media” malfeasance.

On December 24, 2016 an “opinion” article was published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by forced treatment advocate D. J. Jaffe, praising the “21st Century Cures” passage in Congress and praising its inclusion of all of the elements of the formerly stalled mental health bill by Congressmen Tim Murphy. The title of the piece was “Mental Health Malfeasance: Donald Trump should make sure he ‘drains…

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Clinton and the Illusion of Change...

Clinton and the Illusion of Change…

I will vote for Clinton without hesitation (and by the way her emails that were leaked recently were both mundane and boring, so much so that I wonder if she is truly evil enough to be President) though one thing stands out about all of this… that our politicians, our media, and the wealthy are getting only a little of the outrage they deserve in the accusations and directness of the Trump…

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"Game Changing" In The Public Dialogue About Emotional Health

“Game Changing” In The Public Dialogue About Emotional Health

The Difference A Phrase Makes: “Instead of removing the (intolerable social) conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them anti-depressant drugs.”  – Bernie Sanders Someone finally suggests that depression or our cultural pre-disposition to medicate people is not simply a pathology, instead it has something to do with “intolerable social conditions.”   When I was a child I…

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Mental Health Advocacy In An Age Of Fear And "Experts To Power"

Mental Health Advocacy In An Age Of Fear And “Experts To Power”

Congressman Schwartz: I simply said to one of my aides, “I think my phone is tapped and I am not going to vote for even one more restriction on anyone’s rights…” and they put me here until the Glaxo Smith Kline representative could talk some sense into me. Mental health is only terrifying when you realize that even a Deputy Director of a mid size mental health agency has an almost complete…

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The Constitution and Guns.

The Constitution and Guns.

THE RIGHT TO DEFEND YOUR HOME  IS NOT A RIGHT IF YOU HAVE TO ASK THE GOVERNMENT TO USE THAT RIGHT.  If you have to register to use a right… then it is not a right — it is a regulated government intervention which allows you that right on terms they control. I am not a republican or a gun owner, though absolutely I would rather have criminals have access to the guns they already have access to…

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Even If Corporations Are 'People,' They Still Are Not Good Citizens

Climate change is beginning to go past the point where my grandchildren may not have a wholly habitable planet, (addressing climate change actually started in 1979 and we have done nothing, btw. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Climate_Conference The ownership class and 1% have vacuumed up every drop of increased productivity and wealth, and has done so only to use their leverage to make yet…

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Rights and Religion. Silent Bigotry, Silent Arguments.

Rights and Religion. Silent Bigotry, Silent Arguments.

I support gay rights!  I support the complete immersion of every possible exercise of human existence in the protections of our constitution, and a world free of prejudice.  Though I wish they would return or at least share the “Rainbow” logo to-or-with the environmental movement and Jesse Jackson, who also need it for bio- and racial/ethnic diversity )))…

From symbolic logic models… “A truth…

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Oregon's and Everyone Else's Efforts at Mental Health Reform

Oregon’s and Everyone Else’s Efforts at Mental Health Reform

“I read an article that seems to point out that Oregon is still conceptualizing and talking about the “transformation” needed to change the delivery system and reverse long-term trauma effects. I think the “Oregon is not there yet” phrase captures best the not-yet-seen functional changes. I worry that Oregon may again be wiling to be satisfied with changes in wording and system tinkering while the…

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CONSEQUENCE AS A MEASURE OF INTERPERSONAL DISCRIMINATION

CONSEQUENCE AS A MEASURE OF INTERPERSONAL DISCRIMINATION

(note: this is part of a brief that is to be filed today in the 9th circuit court of appeals, it articulates a point about discrimination and the manipulation of the law by judges)

CONTRASTING DEFERENCE AND SOCIAL REALITY WITH CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES

“… [the] resulting jurisprudence has been a quagmire that defies characterization despite the valiant efforts of various courts and commentators.…

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North Korean Dictator Invited to the Russian Celebration of the End of World War II

North Korean Dictator Invited to the Russian Celebration of the End of World War II

Kim Jong-un, a fascist in a world of his own, is invited by Vladimir Putin to Russia’s 70th Anniversary Celebration of the winning  of the “Great Patriotic War” in May of 2015.

When I saw this monument and began to think how many people died so horribly. Hundreds of thousands died because they refused to be enslaved by Hitler’s army… and died of brutal winters, hunger, and sporadic attacks from…

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The Damage Caused By Racism, Greed, and the Redefinition of America

Greed, Fear, Stupidity, and Self Serving Corporate Ideologies Have Destroyed Our Legacy of Freedom (and it just got another palsied vote of confidence in our free election process btw)

Horrified at politicians who “distanced themselves from the President” so as to give up even moderate ideas that they do not have the political courage to support, I cannot say enough -bad- about how the…

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Congressmen Lieutenant Commander Christopher Murphy's Mental Health Bill

Congressmen Lieutenant Commander Christopher Murphy’s Mental Health Bill

An Opinion of the “Helping Families In(to a more unresolved) Mental Health Crisis” Act

It is terribly terribly unfortunate that people cannot simply accept that this bill, no matter how seemingly well intentioned the paving of the road to its hell is, should be thrown away and abandoned as hysterically misdirected.

Like many efforts to capture a subject for the public dialogue, this legislative…

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Economy and Deficit is Obama's Fault? Only if he cannot get big business to use 'our' money to invest in America and pay the deficit off.

The Fed has given almost unlimited free credit to America’s largest business institutions. American businesses currently have about 2.5 trillion in cash sitting around on the sidelines, IE not being invested or being put to “work” or “creating jobs”.

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Income Inequality? Look No Further Than the Successful Selling of the False Picture of the Economy.

A woman bravely stood up at a recent public presentation about legislation raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10  put on by Senator Tom Harkin (IA) and Representative George Miller (CA).  She posed a question, which was predictably ignored… no one…

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Where Is Robin Hood? Five Years Later the "Middle Class" and "Jobs" Rhetoric Is Officially Useless.

No More Waiting For Someone To Vote Their Interests, I Am Rooting For Robin Hood

Mindless Talking Points and Dialogue Litter The Harvard Educated Political Landscape

Respectfully, (and perhaps because I am overdosed on C-Span this week)  articles decrying…

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Cliche Patrol: MORTGAGING OUR FUTURE.

Though Shouldn’t Wall Street and the Mortgage Lenders Pay Their Real Share of the Misery?

When someone says, “We are creating a debt that our children will be burdened by for many years to come…”  

I still don’t find this an adequate description of the…

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