#Ilya Feoktistov

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Since the 1980s, social psychologists like Paul Rozin, his celebrity student Jonathan Haidt, Mark Schaller, and many other brilliant people began to look closer at why humans experience disgust. Since then, the field has grown to include hard bioscience data, which corroborate and elaborate the psych findings. Fundamentally, the results show the emotion of disgust evolved to protect from communicable diseases by activating the body’s pathogen avoidance reflexes, such as recoiling, purging, and social distancing—defined collectively as the “behavioral immune system.”

The behavioral immune system, like the fear-driven “freeze-fight-or-flight” reflex, is autonomously controlled, independently of rational thought, by subconscious processes prone to false alarm. Its reactions to disgust stimuli are “immediate and compelling even in the face of their apparently irrational nature.” It causes a profound shift from attraction to repulsion, seemingly in an instant, with little rational basis therefore apparent to the unaffected observer.

George Orwell wrote that four words revealed the real secret of class distinctions in his time: “The lower classes smell. . . . It is when members of the in-group are “brought up to believe that [members of the out-group] are dirty that the harm is done,�� Orwell wrote. Disgust, perhaps more so than fear or greed, appears to be the primary source of most human conflict.

To ease a society’s shift toward stratification and autocracy, disgust activates profound personality changes. Exposure to disgust stimuli lowers individualism, tolerance, extraversion, and openness to new experiences. At the same time, disgust increases obedience, ethnocentrism, sexual puritanism, and conformity.

Before modern medicine, disgust researchers argue, “the prevention of infection depended substantially on superstitious adherence to local rituals and other cultural norms,” as invented and enforced through moral condemnation by a local in-group elite. Such personality changes can make superstition the new norm in a formerly rational society.

New data collected since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic accord with disgust research predictions. Pre-pandemic disgust sensitivity in individual subjects neatly tracks with their reported anxiety during the pandemic. Previously measured disgust sensitivity levels in Americans, Poles, and Australians have significantly increased since lockdowns began.

Instead of sounding the alarm, however, the disgust field seems to be largely missing the significance of its own predictions. This may be due to an unfortunate taste among some liberal psychologists and psychiatrists for diagnosing those they identify as conservatives with having various mental weaknesses relative to liberals, including a higher sensitivity to disgust.

The “disease theory of democracy” authors, for example, oddly concluded that collectivism is a conservative value and that liberals are rugged individualists. Before the pandemic, Haidt condescended: “Conservatives react more strongly than liberals to signs of danger, including the threat of germs and contamination, and even low-level threats such as sudden blasts of white noise.”

After “conservatives” generally did not react this way to COVID-19, but “liberals” did, Vox’s Ezra Klein interviewed Haidt for an article that asked: “Why are liberals more afraid of the coronavirus than conservatives?” Haidt blamed it on Trump. “Liberals were acting out of care, not fear,” Klein paraphrased another liberal psychologist’s voxplanation. . . .

Right before COVID-19 emerged, Yale University historian Frank Snowden noted how early modern European campaigns against the bubonic plague “marked a vast extension of state power into spheres of human life that had never before been subject to political authority.” In “Epidemics and Society,” a history book that now reads like prophecy, Snowden wrote that in the Age of Absolutism ushered in by the Black Death, “the unanswerable argument of a public health emergency” justified “control over the economy and the movement of people,” “surveillance and forcible detention,” “the invasion of homes and the extinction of civil liberties.” The future looks similarly grim.

There is, however, one major aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic that prevents a return to autocracy from becoming an entirely foregone conclusion. Compared to past pandemics, the coronavirus is not exactly virulent. There are no bodies in the streets. Statistically, many people do not personally know anyone who died of the disease. Most, however, know someone who caught it and recovered.

COVID-19 risk salience is largely constructed by received “expert” wisdom, in the form of media reports and government lockdown orders. In many ways, both the risk and the wisdom now appear to be illusory. From CDC to CNN, public trust is cratering from low to none, and even the skeptics might hope the illusion will soon fade away.

Folk wisdom archetypes, like “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” and “Chicken Little,” educate children to recognize fearmongering by both rational and irrational actors, as well as to guard against the false alarms fear often causes. No such explicit advice yet exists for disgust. In light of recent science and history, however, society would be well advised to stop feeding its disgust mongers.

[arcticdementor]

Shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, a group of public school history teachers in the posh Boston suburb of Newton pledged to reject the “call for objectivity” in the classroom, bully conservative students for their beliefs, and serve as “liberal propagandist[s]” for the cause of social justice.

This informal pact was made in an exchange of emails among history teachers at Newton North High School, part of a very rich but academically mediocre public school district with an annual budget of $200 million, a median home price of almost half a million, and a median household income of more than $120,000. Read the entire email exchange here.

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The guidelines asked teachers to remain objective while teaching about historical and current events; and to treat all students, regardless of political opinion, with respect. Teachers were told: “For current controversial issues (health care, immigration, environmental policies, gun laws), teach students that there are different perspectives and present the reasoning of those who hold those different perspectives.”

Ibokette was having none of it. He typed this reply: “I am concerned that the call for ‘objectivity’ may just inadvertently become the most effective destructive weapon against social justice,” and sent it to the members of Newton North’s history department.

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Much worse yet is Bedar’s display of extreme political intolerance toward the views of millions of his fellow Americans, among whom are, presumably, a number of his own students. Support for immigration law enforcement is by no means a fringe political perspective, even in Massachusetts. It is certainly not some sort of taboo that must be expunged from classroom debate, and Newton North guidelines explicitly tell teachers to teach about the reasoning behind different perspectives on immigration.

Yet, in remarkable language, Bedar demanded that the school allow him to propagandize against it, and to do so without any professional consequences: “I have an obligation to teach civic duty and teach kids right and wrong, and about social justice. . . . This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t actually think we should have the option of not discussing [social justice] issues. I feel responsible for doing so. . . . We can help kids interpret the lessons of the past better than anybody. I feel like a phony when I’m not doing that. . . . But..this is hard. I don’t want to get fired for being a liberal propagandist” (emphasis added).

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All of this is not to argue over birth control, deficit spending, and which ideologies are responsible for what travesties. Rather, it is to say that history, politics, and ideology are complicated things. Yet, in the history lessons they teach, propagandist teachers like Bedar insist on reducing all of this complexity to a Manichean struggle between “right and wrong,” the essence of which they insipidly correlate with “Democrat and Republican.”

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The year after the Soviet Union fell, I entered fifth grade at State School No. 8 in the Siberian city of Tomsk, where I was born at the beginning of the end of that evil empire. Usually, Soviet children started learning the history of Russia in fifth grade, but my teacher told the class that she had nothing to teach us anymore.

“The old history books are useless now,” I distinctly remember her telling us. “They were full of Communist Party lies.” Just like that, the entire monument of official Soviet history, built upon an ideological foundation of lies and held together by despotism, crashed as soon as the coercive power that had kept it upright for 74 years disappeared in an instant.

Undaunted by the failures of their comrades in the Soviet Union and other socialist hell-holes, left-wing activists are dug in at all stages of the American educational process from preschool to graduate school, where they seek to replicate the Soviet Union’s abuse of its children’s minds with lurid lies.

Even science education is facing a hostile takeover by progressive luddites with scientific degrees who insist, as one biology PhD student did recently, that “to think there are universal truths perpetuates a particular kind of able bodied white cisgender male logic.” The result of all this left-wing obscurantism is a brainwashed Generation Z that inhabits a false reality colored in stylized black and white by leftist dogma—the same false reality that Soviet school and preschool battered into me as a child.

[gettothedancing]

“May a thousand class actions bloom, and may we all get the right to breathe free.” (A Look At Scientific Evidence Suggesting Face Masks Damage Your Health)

People who say businesses have a right to ask you to wear a mask I think have lost all perspective on the objective invasiveness of it. If all businesses said you had to shave your head to come in; or cut yourself at the entryway to show them fresh blood, it would hardly be weirder to the eye of a person from 10 years ago.

[eretzyisrael]

Last year, Bedar attended a five-day summer teacher training course on how to teach about “the dynamics of the Middle East,” provided by a Massachusetts-based organization called Primary Source. Primary Source claims to work “to advance global and cultural learning in schools,” and has partnerships with more than 50 schools and school districts in New England.

It is funded by four foundations. Two are Massachusetts government agencies, the Mass Cultural Council and Mass Humanities. The third, the Cummings Foundation, is one of the largest private foundations in New England. The fourth is Qatar Foundation International (QFI), an arm of the Qatari ruling family’s Qatar Foundation. Through QFI since 2009, according to the Wall Street Journal, Qatar’s Al Thanis have given more than $30 million directly to American K-12 public schools, and an untold amount to teacher training outfits like Primary Source.

To get a sense of the Qatar Foundation’s perspective on things, it is helpful to know that recipients of its largesse include hate preachers who spew ISIS-style ideology, Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader and so-called “Theologian of Terror” Yusuf Qaradawi, as well as the Hamas politburo chairman, Ismail Haniyeh.

As Somali-American scholar Ayaan Hirsi Ali has written for Stanford University’s Hoover Institution: “Powerful foundations such as the Qatar Foundation continue to grant financial support and legitimacy to radical Islamic ideology around the world.”

They also just might be training your kid’s history teacher without your knowledge. In this age of concern over foreign influence on American politics, Al Jazeera videos are slapped with this warning label on YouTube: “Al Jazeera is funded in whole or in part by the Qatari government.” Primary Source makes no such disclaimer for its training materials, and neither do the teachers who use them.

[goalhofer]

2019-20 H.C. Dinamo Minsk Players By Nationality

American: 2 (Shane Prince & Drew Shore)

Belarussian: 24 (Artyom Anosov, Daniil Bokun, Artem Demkov, Pavel Denisov, Dmitri Deryabin, Ivan Drozdov, Roman Dyukov, Nikita Feoktistov, Kirill Gotovets, Vyacheslav Gretsky, Mikhail Karnaukhov, Andrej Kascicyn, Siarhiej Kascicyn, Alexander Kitarov, Alexander Kogalev, Ilya Litvinov, Igor Martynov, Alexander Osipkov, Andrei Pavlenko, Alexander Pavolvich, Mikhail Stefanovich, Vladislav Yeryomenko, Aleh Yevenka & Dmitri Zhnakharenko)

Canadian: 3 (Stefan Elliott, Marc-Andre Gragnani & Francis Pare)

Russian: 2 (Evgeni Kovyrshin & Andrei Stepanov)

Swedish: 1 (Jhonas Enroth)

Finnish: 1 (Teemu Pulkkinen)

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A Short History Of How Anthony Fauci Has Kept Failing Up Since 1984

A Short History Of How Anthony Fauci Has Kept Failing Up Since 1984

https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/13/a-short-history-of-how-anthony-fauci-has-kept-failing-up-since-1984/ The media buried long-standing scientific concerns 同位语从句that Anthony Fauci had been ‘sucking money away from work to understand and counter natural disease outbreaks.’By Ilya Feoktistov In 2003, terrorism was a more immediate national danger than infectious diseases. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s…

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A NEW ERA : Russia NT gets ready for the World League

The Russian National Volleyball new coaching staff team has released the expanded list of 21 players for the 2017 FIVB World League.  Russia NT coach once stated that the team that he picked will be “rejuvenated”. Lots of young players combined with the experienced ones. And it is, just as advertised.  Here’s the 21 players list:

Setter : Sergey Antipkin (Dinamo Moskva) Dmitriy Kovalev (Ural Ufa) Pavel Pankov (Kuzbass Kemerovo)

Opposite : Konstantin Bakun (Dinamo Moskva) Maxim Zhigalov (Belogorie Belgorod) Aleksandr Kimerov (Fakel Novy Urengoy) Aleksandr Chefranov (Gazprom Yugra Surgut)

Middle Blocker : Ilya Vlasov (Fakel Novy Urengoy) Vadim Likhosherstov (Fakel Novy Urengoy) Ilyas Kurkaev (Lokomotiv Novosibirsk) Igor Filippov (Dinamo Moskva) Dmitriy Shcherbinin (Dinamo Moskva)

Outside Hitter : Denis Biryukov (Dinamo Moskva) Dmitriy Ilinykh (Dinamo Moskva) Dmitriy Volkov (Fakel Novy Urengoy) Egor Kliuka (Fakel Novy Urengoy) Egor Feoktistov (Ural Ufa) Alexey Spiridonov (Yeniset Krasnoyarsk)

Libero : Artem Zelenkov (Dinamo LO) Valentin Krotkov (Zenit Kazan) Roman Martynyuk (Belogorie Belgorod)

Coach : Sergey Shlyapnikov Source : Volley.ru

Now while I’m still baffled at some of the names here, I get his point to pick some guys who aren’t used to be on the list before. And after the last Olympics, Russia NT might want to look somewhere new — in Shlyapnikov’s word — to rejuvenate themselves. Well at least this is only for WL and not the EuroVolley. Anyway, good luck to the new coaching staff. Here’s wishing for a good run in the World League and hope these guys would have some fun. 

[the-firebird69]

They do this over and over think we are affected we are but they fight you over stuff

Then we drop it then it fills with losers then we drop it.

It's a cycle we need

We accelorate it now

Thor

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Women and Children Need to Get off the Left's Titanic, Terror in the Cradle of Liberty and Therapy Counseling – Banned.

Women and Children Need to Get off the Left's Titanic, Terror in the Cradle of Liberty and Therapy Counseling – Banned.

  Women and Children Need to Get off the Left's Titanic

Terror in the Cradle of Liberty: How Boston Became a Center for Islamic Extremism.

Therapy Counseling – Banned

  Women and Children Need to Get off the Left's Titanic

THE ANDREW KLAVAN SHOW

Leftism isn't good for the ladies and kids. Nov 6th, 2019

    Terror in the Cradle of Liberty: How Boston Became a Center for Islamic Extremism.

Dennis Prager talks to Ilya Feoktistov, Executive Director of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, a Boston-based national security non-profit organization that investigates and confronts threats to civil society in America. His new book is Terror in the Cradle of Liberty: How Boston Became a Center for Islamic Extremism. Nov 14, 2019 

  Therapy Counseling – Banned. 3 min.

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Therapy/Counseling - Banned (AMA)

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Dennis Prager notes in a quick segment that the American Medical Association (AMA) is calling for a nation-wide ban on convertion therapy. What is it? Does it work? Here is an honest article on the issue, as, the author of it went through a version of it: "If We Don’t Ban Fortune Tellers, We Shouldn’t Ban ‘Gay Conversion Therapy’" (FEDERALIST: https://tinyurl.com/rs7ys6l). There are gay men and women who hear the call of the Lord and want to serve him in various ways. One is to live as commanded by Scripture, with a family of their own (see my "Gay Christians" - https://tinyurl.com/y24umaej). THEY cannot choose therapy but in a back-alley? We are going to have "back-alley counseling sessions"? (taken from "back-alley abortions"). Prager is right, the Left is not about liberty. _________________________________ For more clear thinking like this from Dennis Prager... I invite you to visit: http://www.dennisprager.com/ ~ see also: http://www.prageruniversity.com/ Donate to these two wonderful causes: https://www.prageru.com/donate | and | https://www.adflegal.org/donate

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  The Rational Bible: Exodus by Dennis Prager  

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Dennis Prager has put together one of the most stunning commentaries in modern times on the most profound document in human history. It's a must-read that every person, religious and non-religious, should buy and peruse every night before bed. It'll make you think harder, pray more ardently, and understand your civilization better." — Ben Shapiro, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" "Dennis Prager’s commentary on Exodus will rank among the greatest modern Torah commentaries. That is how important I think it is. And I am clearly not alone... It might well be on its way to becoming the most widely read Torah commentary of our time—and by non-Jews as well as by Jews." — Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, bestselling author of Jewish Literacy Why do so many people think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is outdated? Why do our friends and neighbors – and sometimes we ourselves – dismiss the Bible as irrelevant, irrational, immoral, or all of these things? This explanation of the Book of Exodus, the second book of the Bible, will demonstrate that the Bible is not only powerfully relevant to today’s issues, but completely consistent with rational thought. Do you think the Bible permitted the trans-Atlantic slave trade? You won’t after reading this book. Do you struggle to love your parents? If you do, you need this book. Do you doubt the existence of God because belief in God is “irrational?” This book will give you reason after reason to rethink your doubts. The title of this commentary is, “The Rational Bible” because its approach is entirely reason-based. The reader is never asked to accept anything on faith alone. As Prager says, “If something I write does not make rational sense, I have not done my job.” The Rational Bible is the fruit of Dennis Prager’s forty years of teaching the Bible to people of every faith, and no faith. On virtually every page, you will discover how the text relates to the contemporary world and to your life. His goal: to change your mind – and then change your life.

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Now the kicker: It was a gay Jewish leader, together with the New England branch of the ADL, who put Baker up to visiting the ISBCC and embracing its homophobic, anti-Semitic, Hamas-connected imam. Jeremy Burton, the openly homosexual executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC), and Robert Trestan, the executive director of the ADL’s New England branch, let Fahmy come speak at the JCRC and ADL’s memorial service to the victims of last year’s Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooting. Baker was invited, and claims Fahmy’s emotional speech there against anti-Semitism moved him to visit and embrace Fahmy at the ISBCC.

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Earlier that February day, Bedar sent an email to fellow Newton North history faculty, accusing President Trump and his supporters of “nativism, xenophobia, homophobia, etc.,” and objecting to the following “don’ts” that the Newton North principal had asked teachers to avoid:

“Assume that all students agree with us. . . .”

“Assume that all students feel comfortable disagreeing with us. . . .”

“Present facts or logic that support only one side of a current controversial issue. . . .”

“Present our own personal opinion on a current controversial issue as more right than another viewpoint. . . .”

These guidelines seem like Pedagogy 101, and are foundational to correctly applying logic and reason. Yet Bedar, who holds a master’s in teaching from the prestigious Duke University, admitted to his colleagues:

Personally, I’m finding it really difficult in the current climate to teach kids to appreciate other perspectives. . . [T]he ‘other viewpoint’ might not really be an argument ‘about which reasonable people can disagree’ and might not lead to any kind of intellectual, policy debate; it might just be blatantly racist. . . . [I]t feels wrong to not call out ideas that I know will offend many of my students and create a hostile and potentially unsafe environment. . . . I’m worried that as a school we’re so focused on making all kids feel safe and being PC that we’re not showing enough concern for [immigrant] students whose very rights to attend this school and receive an education are being seriously threatened. . . . I don’t feel good about protecting [a nativist] student’s right to a so‐called ‘political’ view. . . Do I really have to avoid saying ‘I think nativism is bad?[‘] The eugenics movement was based in large part on immigrants destroying our country.

[gettothedancing]

Louis Shenker, a 21-year-old junior at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, just wanted his MAGA hat back from the graduate student who ripped it off his head on campus. He wore the hat to a December 6, 2018 protest organized by the university’s graduate student union against Trump and local police. Video shows that when Louis, who is 5’6’’ and 140 pounds, arrived wearing the MAGA hat and holding a large sign, he was immediately surrounded by a hostile mob of older grad students cursing at him and calling him a white supremacist. A woman lunged from the mob and snatched Louis’s MAGA hat. Careful not to get caught on camera hitting Louis with their hands, they instead mobbed him like a colony of enraged penguins, using their bodies to push him from all sides, occasionally pecking at his head with their cardboard signs, and chanting in unison: “THE PEOPLE, UNITED, WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED.”

“Get the f**k out of here, you shouldn’t be in an anti-racist march!” screamed the hat thief. A soft-spoken professor in the crowd warned Louis: “It’s actually dangerous for you to come by yourself like that.” As the protesters began to march and Louis tried to keep up while pleading for his hat, many of them, including several graduate student union members dressed in United Auto Workers gear, elbowed Louis into walls, lampposts, and other obstacles. “You act like a Nazi, you’re going to get treated like a Nazi,” a female protester yelled at the Jewish grandson of Holocaust victims.  Louis left without his hat.

A month later, Louis was horrified to recognize the woman who stole his MAGA hat as Beth Peller, a 36-year-old grad student who would be teaching his mandatory freshman writing class. Louis could not change his schedule, so he shaved his head and mustache, prayed that she would not recognize him, and wrote the essays she assigned with the correct leftist opinions she all but demanded. Beth regaled her students with war stories about her time organizing violent anarchist movements, but never recognized the seemingly complaisant student as her victim from the protest. Louis got an A.

On November 12, 2019, Louis found himself sitting behind Beth Peller at an anti-Israel event, called Criminalizing Dissent, organized by the head of his university’s communications department, Professor Sut Jhally. Featuring Linda Sarsour and terrorism supporter Omar Barghouti, who was skyped in from Ramallah, the event promoted the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The university’s chancellor criticized the conference, warning that it “could very well alienate many of our Jewish students,” but did nothing to stop it.

A proud Zionist Jew, Louis let university police know that he planned to challenge the speakers at an appropriate moment. Just before he stood up in protest, he put on his new “Keep America Great” hat, and Beth, who had been smiling at him until then, looked at him with the shock of realization. He told her he knew who she was -- that she was the person who had stolen his MAGA hat, and that he still wants it back. He made his brief protest, thanked the police for letting him do it, and left.

Louis soon learned that he had poked an entire hive of leftists at Amherst and the surrounding Hampshire County. 

[eretzyisrael]

The Washington Post hasn’t learned much since 2002, when it tried to sell Anwar Al Awlaki, the top al-Qaeda leader Obama droned in Yemen in 2011, as a kindly spiritual man who said things like: “There’s always this association between Islam and terrorism, when that is not true at all – I mean, Islam is a religion of peace.”

Now it prints this gem by Donahue: “Webb aims to make classical Islam relevant to modern Americans and to help a hate-addled world see that, if the prophet Muhammad were alive today, he’d be politically in sync with Bernie Sanders. He’d be tolerant of gays and abortion, and he would, like Webb’s long-ago rap idols, be sickened by the systematic racism pervading America.”

Ironically, Webb first came across the FBI’s radar when he showed up with Awlaki at a 2001 California fundraiser for convicted cop killer, Islamist radical, and black nationalist Jamil Al Amin, a.k.a. H. Rap Brown. The FBI, which was surveilling Awlaki due to his relationship with the 9/11 hijackers, noted that Webb and Awlaki raised $100,000 for the murderer that night. Recently, Webb has apologized to ISIS for “speaking ill” of it, which didn’t stop ISIS from putting out a kill fatwa against him.