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  MOVIE REVIEW; SILENCE (A story about Faith, Martyrs, Apostates, and Stupidity)

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  silence (movie review)_________.

  unless you are a catholic, ex-catholic, an evangelical christian, or a total apostate to your former religion or church--this film is not for you!_____.

  martin scorsese has wrought a filmwhich no 2 eyes will see in the same way.. on the surface, it is about the clash (the push back against christianity and priests by buddhists and officials particularly in nagasaki) resulting from catholic evangelism inside japan.

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  Warning: Yes, this is State Department propaganda about Japan and the Japanese created during WWII in the U.S.
  It is racially insulting, of course. That's how it was done in pre-political correctness times.
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  This is a very interesting documentary on the history of Japan in terms of ideology and religion and the part this played on making the peasant Japanese soldier a real force to be reckoned with.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvLT8U0-_lI
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  I was Kidnapped!

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  __________________i was kidnapped today ____________.

  a rainy day in ft. worth is bad news day for terry.

  my elective transportation is 100% bicycle and i can get through just about all weather except rain.

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  WingCommander : So Terry got a ride he'll never forget.

  
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  Had Dorothy been a hundred years younger, I might not have minded at all.
  This is going to sound creepy but...she had a great figure!
  I'm sorry I noticed.
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  I was Kidnapped!

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  __________________i was kidnapped today ____________.

  a rainy day in ft. worth is bad news day for terry.

  my elective transportation is 100% bicycle and i can get through just about all weather except rain.

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  Juan Viejo2
  
  Wow! That's a great story.
  I worked for Tandy Corp. too. My first wife (JW) did also.
  I've known JW's who could get away with anything while others couldn't.
  I just don't know how they do it. A gift of personality and innocence, I suppose.

  Thanks for sharing that. Great stuff.
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  I was Kidnapped!

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  __________________i was kidnapped today ____________.

  a rainy day in ft. worth is bad news day for terry.

  my elective transportation is 100% bicycle and i can get through just about all weather except rain.

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  SPLASH said: A passenger by the name of Henriette Yvois drowned at the age of 24 when the Titanic sunk!
  
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  YOU ARE YANKIN' MY CHAIN! How can you possibly know that?
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  I was Kidnapped!

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  __________________i was kidnapped today ____________.

  a rainy day in ft. worth is bad news day for terry.

  my elective transportation is 100% bicycle and i can get through just about all weather except rain.

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  Juan Viejo 2 Viejo 3 Viejo...(rinse and repeat)
  I worked at Tandy Center in downtown Fort Worth (hey, Terry! what do they call that now?)
  
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  They call it gone forever!
  Charles Tandy, a local billionaire, created and built Tandy Center, Dillards, Mitchell's Department stores, Radio Shack, Tandy Leather, Pier One Imports, House of a Thousand Frames, and a Christian Bookstore chain which is now gone, etc.
  
  The man died of cancer and his empire split into fragments and disappeared through bad management. Pier One went from over 50 locations to only one I know of.
  The skating rink and the subway were closed down and then businesses started to dry up and blow away.
  The important billionaire in Fort Worth now is Richard Rainwater and I don't think he hangs around much. He has renovated downtown along with the other billionaires, the Bass brothers, who built Bass Hall and created a downtown pavilion with a dancing fountain and a light show.
  Tarrant County had a population of 356,268 when I left in 1974. Ten years later when I returned, it numbered one million.
  My excursion with Dorothy the looney took place on Loop 820.
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  I've always been a kind of Asperger's personality.
  I'm quirky and shy unless I really decide not to be by a determined act of willpower.
  Around women, unless I really want to be with them or talk to them, I'd rather hide under a porch.
  I have a tendency to be challenging on purpose. It sorts them quickly :)
  
  I do better with Crows than old crows.
  
  
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  I was Kidnapped!

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  __________________i was kidnapped today ____________.

  a rainy day in ft. worth is bad news day for terry.

  my elective transportation is 100% bicycle and i can get through just about all weather except rain.

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  Thanks all for the kind words.

  If you've ever been in a situation where you are stuck with a drunk who wants to talk but has no comprehensible message you'll know how it felt.

  Only later, when you tell about the predicament can you jigger the sense of it and turn it into a comic tale.
  
  
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  I was Kidnapped!

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  __________________i was kidnapped today ____________.

  a rainy day in ft. worth is bad news day for terry.

  my elective transportation is 100% bicycle and i can get through just about all weather except rain.

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  __________________I WAS KIDNAPPED TODAY ____________

  A rainy day in Ft. Worth is bad news day for Terry.
  My elective transportation is 100% bicycle and I can get through just about all weather except rain. However, I had run out of coffee! This is not good--in fact--it's worth dodging downpours to ride a few blocks to Panera's.
  
  

  Once inside, I order a mug o’ coffee and the waitperson at the counter waves me away with these words,
  “That’s okay. Just grab one of the cups at the end of the counter.”
  Is this generosity or is it because I am sporting earbuds that are 9mm bullet cartridges?
  I walk to the end of the counter and scan for cups.
  The waitperson behind the counter gives me a peculiar look.
  
  “Is the light bad in here?”
  “No, it’s fine.”
  
  I’m really not slow on my feet. This time I was. She was making a snarky remark about my hesitation!
  She was saying, “Are you blind, you old fool?”
  Or maybe not. I decided to smile with dumb gratitude and go about my day.
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  A steaming mug of hot hazelnut java in my hand, I sat down and wrote a few movie reviews and rebutted a witless remark on the BRIMSTONE movie thread.
  After a bit, I decided not to push my luck. I packed everything in my backpack and stood up.
  Outside the window, I saw a deluge, a gully-washer, a downpour of Old Testament proportions in progress. I groaned.
  That’s when I heard a woman's voice behind me.
  
  “I can offer you a lift in my truck.”
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  Now begins my tale of kidnapping!
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  I turned with eyebrows raised.
  The lady was about 5’5’’, white hair, crinkled eyes, a mauve, antique blouse with lacework, blue jeans, sneakers and a very old-fashioned, gaudy diamond cluster wedding ring.
  Her face was grinning. Her eyes? I couldn’t see them through the puffy slits. Her demeanor appeared innocent and cordial.
  So I thought.
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  I can’t say what her age is--I have no way of knowing. I’m 70 and she looked to be about the age of God’s granddaughter. Who knows?
  In the South, in Texas, older women have been reared with Southern charm and neighborly tendencies toward Good Samaritan behaviors. At least, I persuaded myself of this.

  “Oh, thank you for the kind thought. I’ll just wait till it passes.”

  Looking back on the events which followed, I’m convinced I had some kind of intuition buzzing in the back of my head--a foreknowledge of premonitory hesitancy.

  “I won’t take ‘no’ for an answer. I can see you’re ready to go. Don’t be shy. I won’t bite.
  Just lift your bicycle in the bed of my truck and you’ll get home without getting soaked to the bone.”
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  Have you ever been at a crossroads where you are whipsawed between practical and obvious good judgment and a squirmy feeling of discomfort?
  I’ve been caught in the rain outside on my bike a couple of times. I hated it! It is horribly uncomfortable, dangerous and blinding. For one thing, the brakes won’t work! Also, once you get soaked you start shivering and can’t stop.
  I tell you all this to justify my poor decision to accept this lady’s offer.
  Was it a stupid decision?
  Well, Duh!!
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  An hour and a half later, I knew things about my benefactor which I can relate to you now. These are things she divulged while driving me in the wrong direction. These are things she needed to tell somebody.
  She ignored my directions, appearing as though she wasn’t doing anything against my will.
  At first, I just thought she was a bit dotty.
  Hers was a manner of speaking and acting which reminded me of a cross between Blanche Dubois in Streetcar Named Desire and Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.
  Was she senile? Alzheimer’s?
  It was as though I had been taken captive and handed a script which MUST be played as written.
  Her part was a soliloquy. My role was to protest impotently now and again.
  We were on the freeway and I wasn’t going to jump out.
  So--that’s the situation. I don’t know what you’d have done.
  I decided to pay attention and remember as many details as I could. It would all make a great story for later.
  I hoped.
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  “What’s your name? Mine is Mrs. Harry James Carter Raymond.”

  “Terry...Uh, you’re going the wrong direction--it’s the other way.”

  “It's best I go the way that’s familiar.”

  “You’d have to know WHERE I lived--wouldn’t you?”

  (Crinkled smile.) Ignoring me.
  
  “My husband died in 1996. He was very wealthy. He never told me anything about his business affairs or anything. We lived in what you’d probably call a mansion. His lawyers told me I was broke. Harry had spent all his assets on quack cures for his condition. I was in a state of shock, I’ll tell you. I had nothing. I couldn’t pay the taxes. I didn’t know where he kept his money and I never once had a checking account. He would always put an envelope with cash in the drawer next to my bed.”
  
  

  “We need to get off here and turn around. You are heading for Aledo. I live three blocks from Panera’s!”

  (Crinkled smile.) Ignoring me...
  
  

  “Unless somebody knocked it down and rebuilt it, that house--my house--our house still stands with everything in it, just as he left it.”

  “You missed the turnoff. Exactly where are we headed? Could you just let me off on the side of the road, please?”
  
  “Don’t be silly, it’s raining. You’ll catch your death.”

  Note: I didn’t like that phrase at all!
  
  

  “Harry never wanted children. There was nobody to help me. I just signed everything Harry’s lawyers put in front of me. I was told I needed to vacate and was given an envelope--just as Harry always did. I knew how to drive because my Daddy taught me when I was 14. I jumped into Harry’s car with just the clothes on my back even though the lawyer was shouting at me to stop. I drove away and never looked back.”

  “Let’s take the next exit, why don’t we, hmmm? It looks like a wonderful exit--maybe the best exit on the entire freeway…”

  (She flashed a petulant look and ignored me.)
  
  

  “I drove and drove. I didn’t know where to go or what to do. I ran out of gas. I sat in the car and watched the sun setting. A highway patrolman came by and was extremely courteous. He drove me to get gas. He poured it in my tank and got the car started for me. I thanked him and kept driving.”

  “Here is the exit--right here--RIGHT HERE--YOU NEED TO … you missed the exit!”
  (She acted as though I hadn’t said anything.)
  
  

  "I arrived in Fort Worth and checked into the Y.W.C.A. I was still a member! I stayed and stayed until they made me leave. I counted the money in the envelope the lawyer gave me.”
  “Excuse me, Ma’am, but I would like for you to drop me off or take me back, PLEASE.”
  
  

  “Oh, don’t call me Ma’am! That’s for old ladies! Call me Dorothy. Like the actress, you know, Dorothy Dandridge.”

  “I’m sure if Dorothy Dandridge were driving, she’d have taken me straight home by now.”
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  My mind was racing. Wouldn’t yours be? Was this a comical situation I’d fallen into or a dangerous one? I’m a go-with-the-flow sort of person. I knew I ought to be more worried and pissed off. For some reason, I was enjoying my situation. I can’t explain it. I think because it was cinematic and extremely interesting. If she got violent, I think in a fistfight, I might be able to beat her. Maybe. Maybe not. I really didn’t want to find out.
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  “My sister died when she was 24. She drowned. Henriette was traveling 2nd class. She probably would have survived had she gone, 1st class. The Titanic was a class conscious vessel, let me tell you. She was the one who had introduced me to Harry. For some strange reason, he liked my name.
  He kept saying it over and over. ‘Dorothy Yvois...Dorothy Yvois…’ and he made me laugh. He told me, ‘Yface is beautiful and so is Yvois.’
  Henriette would have been my bridesmaid and it would have been a double wedding with Harry’s brother. Oh dear--I can’t remember what we called him…”
  
  

  And so it went. On and on she drove and talked and talked. In and out of any discernible context. She was making no point. I gave up trying to persuade her to turn around. I decided to get tricky.
  
  

  “I’m getting hungry, aren’t you? Why don’t we stop and have lunch?”
  “Open the glove box. There should be some chips in there. I don’t know how old they are.”
  “No thanks.”
  

  “Ha ha ha. You think I’m stupid, don’t you?”

  “What does that mean?”

  “I’m nobody’s fool.”

  “I’m sure you aren’t. Are you hungry? I am.”

  She ignored me again and drove along with knitted eyebrows. I couldn’t tell if she were angry or just confused.
  
  

  Then, without any change of conversation, she turned off the freeway and crossed a bridge to the other side. We were heading back to Ft. Worth. My anxiety was lessening. I grew a bit more friendly, to encourage her to accommodate my longing for freedom.
  
  

  “The rain has stopped. I’m glad there wasn’t any hail.”
  She was pursing her lips, deep in ancient thoughts.

  “Henriette was jealous of my engagement. What’s-his-name, Harry’s brother wasn’t good looking at all. Harry was always pleasant and dressed well. When she drowned, I cried for weeks and Harry was wonderful. He bought me a sable coat. His brother...oh what was his name? Anyway...OH! Tighe--that’s it! Tighe was his name. It took me forever to say it right. It rhymed with 'oblige'. That’s how I got it right. Tighe was sullen and indifferent when Henriette died. He didn’t come to her funeral! I had nothing to do with him after that.”
  
  

  I was sitting on the passenger side calming down now that we were going east instead of west. Then, it hit me. The math was all wrong! Her story couldn’t be true!
  
  

  “Your sister was 24 when she drowned? Was she younger than you or older?”
  “A gentleman would never ask a lady her age.”

  “I’m the kidnap victim, I don’t have to be a gentleman. I don’t think your sister could have died on the Titanic. That was 1912. If she were 24 in 1912 and you were her younger sister…”

  “Oh, did I say the Titanic? I meant the Lafayette. I was thinking of the Normandie and forgot it was changed to the Lafayette. I got confused with the Titanic.”

  “I’m pretty confused myself.”
  
  

  “Harry and I married a year later. We had a good marriage. I never wanted for anything. I stayed home and he went off on business trips. I collected silver and China and played Mah Jongg at the Ladies Auxiliary on Wednesdays. Harry liked Whist. I didn’t, but it pleased him if I joined in on Sundays.”

  “Okay Dorothy, this has been...um..well I kind of enjoyed our little chat. Now, in a few minutes, we’ll be back to where we started and I’d like you to let me off back at Panera’s. The sun is shining and I’d like some more coffee. Would that be okay with you?”

  “Harry caught pneumonia. The only exercise he ever got was riding his bicycle. He was caught in a spring rain.”
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  She turned off on Hulen and dropped me in front of Panera’s. I pulled my soaking wet bike out of the bed of her truck and waved to Dorothy. She rolled down the window and spoke cheerily.

  “Don’t get soaked. You’ll catch your death.”
  
  Then, she straightens in her seat and drives away. Just like that--gone.
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  I hadn’t wanted her to see where I lived. That’s why I had her drop me off at Panera’s.
  I sighed a huge sigh of great relief.
  What the hell was that all about?

  Robert Louis Stevenson would be so proud.

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  Re: CONFUSION TECHNIQUES CAN CONTROL MINDS

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  this article references another article:https://freedomofmind.com/confusion-techniques-can-control-minds/____________________________________.

  re: confusion techniques can control minds.

  i have yet to meet anyone confused about donald trump.i haven’t met anybody who failed to have a precise understanding of what sort of person he is or what he stands for.

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  Re: CONFUSION TECHNIQUES CAN CONTROL MINDS

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  this article references another article:https://freedomofmind.com/confusion-techniques-can-control-minds/____________________________________.

  re: confusion techniques can control minds.

  i have yet to meet anyone confused about donald trump.i haven’t met anybody who failed to have a precise understanding of what sort of person he is or what he stands for.

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  This article references another article:
  https://freedomofmind.com/confusion-techniques-can-control-minds/
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  Re: CONFUSION TECHNIQUES CAN CONTROL MINDS

  
  

  I have yet to meet anyone confused about Donald Trump.
  I haven’t met anybody who failed to have a precise understanding of what sort of person he is or what he stands for.
  On the street, the word on Trump has been consistent for many decades.
  He’s an attention-hungry buffoon.
  
  Going back as far as the 1990’s, Trump has been characterized in the Press and other media (without pushback on his part) as flamboyant, cocksure, crude, coarse, disingenuous, and arrogant. Few people are surprised to hear how a rich playboy surrounded himself with young, beautiful women, and often asserted his sexuality in shockingly inappropriate advances.
  
  

  Like many other billionaires, Trump believes everybody is entitled to hear his opinions. Especially on subjects about which he possesses no expertise other than to repeat outrageous scuttlebut and conspiracies.
  
  Having said all the above, it is difficult for me to accept the premise of any article which posits as its premise any suggestion the public at large is confused about the character, disposition or intentions of Donald Trump.
  
  Indeed, we don’t have to wonder about possible sources of confusion.
  Who is confused and who confused them?
  
  Let’s begin with the question: HOW did a person of Trump’s low character and disposition successfully become President of the United States?
  The losers have come up with a laundry list of self-contradictory explanations.
  Their reasons kept changing.
  
  Instead of blaming rigged primaries, the Democrats blamed Talk Radio.
  Instead of blaming policies on Globalization which sent jobs overseas, they blamed

  Jill Stein voters and miffed Sanders fans who chose to remain angry.
  
  

  Instead of blaming policies on Big Bank bailouts without prosecutions for fraud, they blamed blue collar workers as “deplorables, racists, bigots, white supremacists,” as though those people would ever turn around and vote for them after that smear.
  
  Instead of blaming F.B.I. director Comey for casting shade on Hillary’s possible prosecution for destroying subpoenaed evidence, they should have run an honest candidate, Bernie Sanders.
  
  They famously blamed the Russians and suddenly cast doubt on the legitimacy of Trump’s Presidency, threatening to impeach him while never accepting any real culpability for any failures on the part DNC leaders.
  Confusion?
  The losing side is the source of any confusion as to how this happened!
  
  

  Let’s look at who else has confused us and put Trump in the White House.

  
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  MEDIA
  
  For one thing, without the one-sided coverage of Trump day and night on TV, free of charge, the public at large would have found themselves looking at standard candidates with appropriate backgrounds and experience as well as impressive credentials for the job.
  But no-o-o-o-o…

  Media fell in love with the public spectacle of Donald Trump as click bait. A means of revenue enhancement.
  (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/all-three-networks-ignored-bernie-sanders-speech-tuesday-night-promising-trump-would-be-speaking-soon_us_56e8bad1e4b0860f99daec81)
  
  Newspapers, cable news outlets, network TV--in short, mainstream media pumped Donald Trump into the bloodstream. Every pair of eyes 24/7 was treated to outrageous comments, scandalous insults, name-calling, transparent and often malicious ad hominem day and night--then, reaped the profits as their ratings soared higher and higher.
  Ask yourself how the American public got accustomed to Trump and his ill-mannered behavior if not for constant exposure to it UNTIL IT BECAME NORMALIZED like the sound of a wailing infant in the next room.
  
  Is that confusing?
  
  
  Perhaps a source of confusion is the very fact such professional journalists, media executives, newspaper Editors and owners failed so miserably to exercise prudent oversight for the sake of their integrity and the public good. For revenue, MEDIA created free publicity the size of which money can’t buy.
  Were they exercising Mind Control for profit?
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  Democrat Party
  
  Should we be confused why the Democrat Party exercised undue influence against the very popular alternate candidate Bernie Sanders?
  Was the DNC exercising mind control to sway voters?
  
  According to the NYTimes in July of 2016, “Top officials at the Democratic National Committee criticized and mocked Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont during the primary campaign, even though the organization publicly insisted that it was neutral in the race…”
  
  

  Bernie Sanders was wildly popular with college age voters and had generated astounding cashflow with grassroots small donation contributions. Yet, the DNC opposed him privately and sought shady methods of disrupting his campaign to give Hillary a clear path to the nomination even if illicit means were applied.
  Confusing?
  
  

  Perhaps confusion should arise in the minds of Democrats as to why the chair of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, suggested targeting Bernie Sanders for a smear as “an atheist” to help Hillary in Kentucky and West Virginia with the Christian communities there. Is that an effort at Mind Control?

  
  Perhaps confusion should arise in the minds of Democrats as to why the chair of the DNC scheduled candidate debates between Clinton and Sanders at the least viewed weekend hours to minimize Sanders chances of showing Hillary up in front of voters.

  
  

  Perhaps confusion should arise in the minds of Democrats as to why Bernie Sanders’ complaint to the DNC about unfair treatment and their collusion with Clinton in fundraising, was met with false denials and pushback, later shown to be lies, accusing Sanders of saying false and harmful statements about the Democratic party.

  (Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/24/here-are-the-latest-most-damaging-things-in-the-dncs-leaked-emails/)
  
  Perhaps the American public should be confused about why the DNC rejected Bernie Sanders and colluded to push a far less popular candidate, Hillary Clinton, when the polls as early as May 09, 2016 showed:
  

  • IBD/TIPP, April 28: Sanders defeats Trump by 12 points

  • USA Today/Suffolk, April 24: Sanders defeats Trump by 15 points

  • CNN/ORC, May 1: Sanders obliterates Trump by 16 points

  (Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-brasunas/sanders-crushing-trump-in_b_9862708.html)

  
  

  Indeed, we should all be confused when polls demonstrated later that same month:
  According to Real Clear Politics, Bernie Sanders defeats Donald Trump in an average of polls by 10.8 points while Hillary:

  According to Real Clear Politics was LOSING to Trump!
  
  Didn’t Democrats WANT TO WIN? That should confuse all of us!
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  Contempt for Voters

  
  We should all be confused that even as Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned from the DNC for getting caught undermining Bernie Sanders (and the American people), Neither President Obama, nor candidate Clinton offered an apology or even acknowledgment that it was wrong of the DNC to rig the election against Senator Sanders. Instead, Hillary praised the disgraced Debbie Wasserman Schultz and gave her a new job. ON HER CAMPAIGN! This contempt for Bernie voters and blatant playing of favoritism created ill will and further enforced the consensus opinion of Clinton as highly unpopular for good reason.
  Meanwhile, the essential identity of Liberals as being for “little people” had succumbed to dry rot and the corruption due to money in politics had ruined the Democrat brand.
  The Democratic Party made itself vulnerable to Donald Trump’s insurgency by cultivating Wall Street, wealthy political donors, and other financial elites despised by the American public.
  (See:http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/14/13535716/democrats-hillary-clinton-corruption)

  
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  Overconfidence and Sycophancy

  Should we be confused that newspapers, magazines, journalists, commentators, and so-called expert Pollsters predicted success for Clinton?

  Were all these highly educated elitist professionals held in thrall by the Mind Control expertise of Donald J. Trump? Or, were they ass kissing the one candidate from whom they had the most to gain?
  
  

  CNN MONEY U.S. confidently declared:
  Clinton is expected to get 332 electoral votes, while Trump is predicted to get just 206, according to the Moody's Analytics model, which is based on three economic and three political factors.
  (Source: http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/01/news/economy/hillary-clinton-win-forecast-moodys-analytics/)

  Trump’s Svengali mind powers must have been extraordinary to fool these experts!
  
  To the contrary!
  When polls clearly demonstrated Hillary Clinton was “hated” and seen as an inveterate liar and corporate shill, the media stepped in and exaggerated her chances.
  This is called “confirmation bias”.
  “the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.”
  
  The argument went like this:
  “Hillary is a liar”
  “Yes, but Trump is worse.”

  Hillary was going to be the winner simply because she wasn’t Trump. There were no articulated policy reasons or a clear vision of how to help America.

  Elite media pundits simply self-confirmed what they wanted to believe: Trump had practically no chance at all at beating their personal favorite: Hillary. So, this became “True” by willpower alone not by Trump’s mind control talents.
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  POPULIST TRENDS IGNORED

  In August of 2016, a Harvard research paper titled,
  Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism: Economic Have-Nots and Cultural Backlash appeared. (https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?Id=1401)
  It begins with these words:
  “Populist leaders like Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, Norbert Hofer, Nigel Farage, and Geert Wilders are prominent today in many countries, altering established patterns of party competition in contemporary Western societies.”

  The research paper goes on to describe an awakening of middle class and low income citizens who worked hard but found that, under Liberal policies, they were continually losing ground. World wide, these were people who were sick of being lectured to by Elites with money, power, prestige, and who chided them to speak in “politically correct” language whether they liked it or not.
  Indeed, the Democrat Party was particularly Tone Deaf. Not listening to disaffected voters is not only stupid and self-defeating, it leads to consequences!
  Was there any demonstrable warning to Democrats?
  Sure! But they weren’t interested in changing--no matter if they won or lost!
  That is confusing!
  
  Consider what impact this obstinacy had on Democrat success in winning elections:
  Under President Obama’s Liberal policies, Democrat liberals lost more than 1,030 seats in state legislatures, governor's mansions and Congress!
  (Source:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4063898/As-Obama-accomplished-policy-goals-party-floundered.html)
  
  This is called a TREND.
  This is the voice of Democracy. It is not Russians tampering or white supremacy.
  
  Who was controlling the minds of the middle class around the world and making them vote against what Liberals were offering?
  Liberals themselves were destroying their own chances.
  Elites think they know what’s best for everybody. They do not listen. They lecture you!
  
  The Democrat Party refused to even consider for one small moment they had a problem with their own corruption which had caused them to work against the very constituency they took for granted. Inside the LIberal mindset, Progressives and Bernie Sanders should have represented the SOLUTION but the DNC saw them as a pain in the ass PROBLEM. Bernie was scorned privately as we have seen above.
  
  The same feckless party leaders maintained a stranglehold on the money and power and the rank and file Dems liked the slop at the $$ trough too much to reform their losing streak.
  
  If anybody was using undue influence to confuse people’s minds it was the corporate Democrat leaders.
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  A PERFECT STORM
  
  

  The voters in tossup states were expected to vote against their own economic interests by choosing Democrats. Why? “Because nobody in their right mind would elect Donald Trump.”
  As bad as Hillary was--Trump was worse. THAT was the strategy for winning.
  Really?

  The 3:45 YouTube video demonstrates a manic mindset of a convinced, intelligent Liberal who is so delusional she simply can’t even imagine one winning scenario for Donald Trump.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzzhBk8GNFE
  Some people called it “Trump Derangement Syndrome”. I call it smug confirmation bias.
  Rachel Maddow is not only ridiculously wrong, she is convincing potential Democrat voters THEIR VOTES DON’T MATTER!
  Now that, my friends, is Mind Control!!

  AFTER THE ELECTION

  Democrats had not been prepared by their experts, their media, their pundits or ruling elite to consider Donald Trump as a possible winner over Hillary Clinton. Why? They willed themselves into a mindset of false belief. The tone deaf overconfidence and refusal to self-examine led to hubris. The voters disabused them of their guaranteed win.
  Is that confusion or mind control? No. It is ordinary stupidity.
  Instead of leaders coming together in the Democrat party and asking the right questions, “What did we do wrong and how can we change?”
  Instead, everybody had a meltdown. This emotional display was butt hurt ego rather than cool analysis.
  
  The blame shifting and accusations began, none of which improved the Democrats chances for 2018 or any other future election. Instead of changing, instead of listening, the same old loser leaders were put in charge yet again! Who should be the leader of the Democrat Party? Hmmm, maybe the most popular Democrat? Maybe, hmmmm Bernie Sanders? NO WAY!
  
  A coach of a losing team is fired and replaced. The coach of the Democrats on a losing streak is rehired promising to do it all over again the same way. If you are caught cheating and publicly disgraced, no big deal (or accountability.)

  Is that confusing? It should be.
  
  Bernie Sanders as the nominative leader--that was the rational way to prevent having to complain about Donald Trump’s lying and confusing style of leadership.
  Trump is exactly where the Electoral College says he is supposed to be. Why?
  Instead saying, “At least Hillary isn’t Trump”, the voters said, “At least Trump isn’t Hillary.”

  
  Analysis of Trump’s psychiatric tendencies won’t do a damn bit of good for anybody now that the harm has been done by Media, DNC, and elite hangers-on. Nothing is going to change until the culprits change. Why?
  To solve a problem, you must first IDENTIFY THE PROBLEM.

  The problem is not Donald Trump. The problem is the rotten alternative given the American voter.

  The confusion comes because Democrat Leaders don’t lead with policies which promise to address the needs of Middle Class voters and young people. The leader of the Democrat Party should be Bernie Sanders because he was winning before he discovered the candidacy race was never going to be a fair contest.
  The problem with Trump is that, for all practical purposes, the Democrat leaders, the Mainstream Media, the Elite experts, the Politically Correct academics, guaranteed Trump would win by looking the other way and closing their ears as Voters were refusing to approve Liberal Democrat candidates.
  
  Change the Democrats and Trump automatically goes away.
  Why? A real promise of Hope instantly beats a lying promise of Hope.
  
  The only people confused and mind controlled have been the very people who should have backed Bernie Sanders. Democrats can’t cram the wrong candidates down the voter’s throats. They must listen and change.
  For the last five months, Democrats are pretending the removal of Donald Trump solves all problems.
  This is typical. The Democrat leaders have nothing to offer to replace Trump which will unify Americans and solve their economic problems with Healthcare’s spiking costs, student debt, the working poor, and vanishing blue-collar jobs. Getting rid of Trump is simply a noisy deflection from their failed policies over the last eight years.
  There is an old saying which is pragmatically true:
  “If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem”.
  
  Here was Donald Trump’s message. It was the only ad he ran in some states for the past two weeks of the campaign. It did not mention Republican tax plans. It contained no attacks on Obamacare. It didn’t touch on the Muslim immigration ban.
  “Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people.”
  
  Are you listening, Democrats?
  
  The MOST IMPORTANT advantage Trump had was his message of Populism at the very time of the rise of ordinary people against Global Elitism.
  
  

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  “More than 60 percent of Americans did not believe that Clinton would remove money's influence from politics, according to Quinnipiac polling. Just 15 percent of Americans thought she'd even try to rein in Wall Street, says Tyler Creighton, senior media associate at the nonprofit ReThink Media. One extensive MSNBC report found that during the Republican primary, Trump’s attacks on special interests and political money were the single biggest reason voters thrilled to his candidacy.”
  
  Our confusion as to why Donald Trump became President should end here.
  The data, the facts, the trends, the voice of disaffected voters spoke. Trump won not because he had any qualifications, or respectability. He won because he listened to what people wanted to buy.
  A good salesman fills a need.
  A bad politician ignores it.
  As the Vox article put it:
  
  “Hillary Clinton could never credibly attack the political and financial establishment

  The Democratic Party could have gone another way this year.

  Bernie Sanders made standing against special interests and rich donors in politics a key plank in his campaign. He famously refused to accept corporate campaign contributions or those from "millionaires and billionaires." He built a campaign fueled entirely by small-dollar donors (famously contributing an average $27). It all fit naturally with his message that the 1 percent had come to control the US government — and that only someone outside of it could puncture its corrosive hold.”
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  Trump VS Bernie would have solved all our problems.

  The Democrats refused to allow us to make such a choice.

  End of Confusion.

  
  
  

  
  
  

  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  

  
  
  
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  ARC - Case Study 54 - All Exhibits have been released

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  all exhibits for case study 54, jehovah's witnesses and watchtower, have been released by the arc.. http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/exhibits/10908a67-70c5-4103-94cc-dac096fdb585/case-study-54,-march-2017,-sydney.

  exhibit list.

  joint statement of o'brien and spinks.

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  TerryWalstrom

  This video demonstrates REAL WORLD consequences of having abused

  children face their accusers and how serious the matter should be regarded.

  It's outrageous that secular worldly people have more good sense and compassion

  than "true Christians" under the benevolent direct of His Governing Body.

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  Congressman Trey Gowdy speaks out about the impact of Pedophiles on their victims when asked to testify
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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKdn7SQ7V0A