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Why Are So Many Jews Leading Trump's Impeachment Parade?
Posted in Diary Entry, tagged (RNS), 2016 election, Appropriations Committee, Brad Sherman, Daniel Krygier, Democrat, Elaine Luria, Eliot Engel, Elissa Slotkin, Forward, George Soros, Haaretz, House Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives, Impeachment, impeachment hearings, Jewish activists, Jewish billionaire, Jewish Democrat, Jewish Democratic Council of America, Masons, Max Rose, Mormons, Muslims, NextGen America, Nita Lowey, Norm Eisen, president of the United States, Republican, Steve Cohen, super PAC, synagogues attacks in Pittsburgh and San Diego, The Jerusalem Post, The Jewish Telegraph Agency, The Religion News Service, The Times of Israel, Tom Steyer, World Israel News on December 12, 2019| 2 Comments »
Donald Trump's been one of the most pro-Israel and pro-Jewish presidents in American history.
"Indeed, when it comes to Israel and what truly matters to most non-leftist Jews worldwide, Trump has already secured a place as one of the most pro-Jewish presidents to inhabit the White House." — Daniel Krygier, World Israel News
That said, a disproportionate number of leftist and moderate Jews have been working feverishly over the past two-and-a-half years to impeach him.
The first article of impeachment was filed in July 2017 by Brad Sherman a Jewish Democrat representative from California. Sherman accused the president of "obstructing investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election."
A month later, Steve Cohen, a Jewish Democrat Representative from Tennessee, filed articles of impeachment for comments President Trump made in the aftermath of the violent clash between far-left and far-right thugs at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In January 2018, Jewish Billionaire Tom Steyer decided to forego a run for president and campaign for Trump's impeachment instead.
"I said last year that I'm willing to do whatever I can to protect our country from this reckless, lawless and dangerous president. Therefore, I will be dedicating 100 percent of my time, effort and resources working for Mr. Trump's impeachment and removal from office. I am not running for president at this time." — Tom Steyer, Jewish Billionaire
Steyer poured 30 million (of the 50 million dollars he spent in 2018 to impeach Trump) into his super PAC, NextGen America to help Democrats take over the House of Representatives. Steyer dumped another $40 million into his impeachment efforts this year.
Initially only leftist Jews called for the president's impeachment. To get the impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives off the ground, moderate, centrist, and pro-Israel Jews had to board the impeachment train, too.
In July 2019, Jewish Democrat Representative Eliot Engel of New York, an influential moderate and leader among pro-Israel lawmakers, joined the left in calling for Trump's impeachment.
Then another influential mainstream Jewish Democrat from New York, Nita Lowey, chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, added her voice to the chorus calling for impeachment.
Engel and Lowery had opened the door for other moderate and centrist Jewish Democrats to join the impeachment chorus. Representatives Max Rose of New York, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, and Elaine Luria of Virginia voiced their support for an impeachment inquiry in the House.
Luria's support for impeachment was noteworthy because she belonged to a group of moderate, centrist, and pro-Israel Jewish Democrat lawmakers who initially opposed the impeachment of the president.
To explain her about-face, Luria released an unusual video that was most likely directed towards Jews. The video shows Luria multiple times holding as a prop a white Hebrew bible inscribed with her name reciting the oath of office.
Tom Steyer wasn't the only Jewish billionaire dumping his money into impeachment efforts. Billionaire left-wing activist George Soros also bankrolled the impeachment drive.
Soros has "literally paid the bills" for Norm Eisen who questioned witnesses during the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearings. Soros also backed a "dark money" group's multi-million-dollar ad blitz urging swing-district Republican representatives to support the Jewish-lead impeachment inquiry.
The prominence of Jews leading and cheering the impeachment parade of a duly elected President hasn't gone completely unreported in the U.S. The Religion News Service (RNS) did point out and identified the "disproportionate number of Jewish actors in this drama."
Nonetheless, RNS is the exception. America's media hasn't acknowledged the impeachment's "elephant in the room."
It's readily apparent that Jews are the driving force to remove Trump from the presidency, and it's also apparent that only Jews in the Israeli media can say it.
Israeli news outlets have not shied away from the "elephant in the room." The articles below have appeared in The Jewish Telegraph Agency, The Times of Israel, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, and Forward respectively:
The Trump-Ukraine controversy, and the Jews involved, explained
The Tell: The Jewish players in impeachment
The Jewish players in the Trump impeachment hearings
These Jewish Lawmakers Helped Open the Door to a Trump Impeachment Inquiry
Jewish Democrats express support for impeachment inquiry against Trump
The Jews Of The Impeachment Showdown: A Visual Guide
Why are so many Jewish activists, politicians, representatives, lawyers, ambassadors, and committee chairmen and witnesses trying to impeach the President of the United States and overturn the 2016 election?
And why does the chairman of the Jewish Democratic Council of America blame the president for the increased violence and antisemitism in the country; and why does nearly 60% of Jews blame him for the terrorist attacks on the synagogues in Pittsburgh and San Diego?
It's not bigoted or racist to ask questions and look for answers to find out what's going on. If there were a disproportionate number of Mormons, Muslims, or Masons doing what the Jews are doing to oust a sitting president, Americans would take notice.
When all three committee chairman, their lawyers, their witnesses, and nearly everyone involved in these impeachment hearings are Jewish, it's not anti-Semitic but patriotic to call attention to the "elephant in the room."
DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION, DON'T AMEND IT
Posted in Latest Commentary, tagged Arthur Goldberg, Article V, Article V Convention, Article V Convention for proposing amendments, Barack Obama, Bill of Rights, Charles & David Koch, Con con, Constitutional Convention, Convention of States, Convention of States (CoS) Project, CoS, CoS Project, Dangers of an Article V Constitutional Convention, Daniel Webster, George Soros, Grover Norquist, Henry Kissinger, historical miracle, KrisAnne Hall, Lawrence Lessig, leviathan, Mark Levin, Mark Meckler, Miami Herald, Michael Farris, Peter Boyce, Thomas Jefferson, transform America, U.S. Constitution, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, US Constitution on January 6, 2016| Leave a Comment »
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free … it expects what never was and never will be."— Thomas Jefferson
Many Americans are too intellectually lazy to act as vigilant citizens, so they have deferred that responsibility to lobbyists and activists promoting an Article V "Convention for proposing Amendments," a.k.a. the Convention of States (CoS) Project.
Article V of the Constitution establishes two ways for proposing amendments to the Constitution: "whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states."
The CoS Project wants to convene a convention to propose amendments that will "impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress."
The problem is America's tyrannical federal government did not arise due to a defect in the Constitution; leviathan arose because the Constitution is not being enforced and obeyed. That is to say, the Constitution is not flawed but the enforcement of its provisions is. And quick-fix repairs offered under the guise of "reining in the federal government" could backfire and open up the Constitution to revisions or wholesale rewrites.
"One of the most serious problems Article V poses is a runaway convention. There is no enforceable mechanism to prevent a convention from reporting out wholesale changes to our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Moreover, the absence of any mechanism to ensure representative selection of delegates could put a runaway convention in the hands of single-issue groups whose self-interest may be contrary to our national well-being."—Arthur Goldberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, op-ed Miami Herald, 1986
We don't need a cadre of politicians, pundits, media personalities, and establishment elites to "fix" our Constitution with their words and amendments when the Constitution is not broken. The Constitution should be preserved, protected, and defended from tinkering by these tinhorns and their moneyed interests.
Our Constitution is a historical miracle and a one-of-a-kind document that is the envy of the world. To convene a convention to alter it is not only foolhardy but it is tempting fate.
"Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world."—Daniel Webster
In "Dangers of an Article V Constitutional Convention," the 55 minute video below, KrisAnne Hall and Peter Boyce explain the problems with the Convention of States idea.
"For one to fundamentally transform America, it would take structural changes to the Constitution."—Peter Boyce
A CoS would provide the structural changes that are needed to complete Barack Obama's transformation of America. Listen carefully and weigh the arguments presented by Hall and Boyce to understand the inherent dangers of the CoS Project
Americans need to realize that once the CoS application triggers an Article V Convention for proposing amendments, the entire Constitution will be subject to amendment. The truth is a Convention of States will destroy our Constitution if it is not stopped now.
BLACK LIVES MATTER (especially when there's money involved)
Posted in The Musings of I.M. Kane, tagged Black Lives Matter movement, Gateway Pundit, George Soros, leftist billionaire George Soros, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment, MORE, ocialist group, racist group, racist Socialist group, racist Socialist groups, Resource Generation, The Washington Times on May 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Jerry A. Kane
Last Thursday black protesters gathered for a sit-in protest outside the office of MORE (Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment). They claimed that white groups had collected tens of thousands of dollars in donations off the Black Lives Matter movement, and they were there to "f*ck up" the white organizers if they didn't cut them in on the action.
The Gateway Pundit has reported that paid activists were flown to New York City, Wisconsin, and even the West Bank to sow racial discord, initiate violence, and attack police across the country since August, and some of the activists received upwards of $5,000 a month for their community organizing efforts.
According to The Washington Times, leftist billionaire George Soros funneled $33 million into the violent Ferguson protest movement. Resource Generation, another racist Socialist group, also ponied up a million dollars to the organizers.
For more on the story, see BREAKING: #Ferguson Protest Leaders Paid $5,000 a Month to Disrupt & Instigate Violence and George Soros funds Ferguson protests, hopes to spur civil action.
AMERICA UNDER SIEGE: "How" vs "Why"
Posted in Guest Commentary, tagged 11.OBAMACARE, 2nd AMENDMENT, 8.MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, 9.SYRIAN RED LINE, Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Obama, BENGHAZI, BERGDAHL, Bill Ayers, Cloward–Piven strategy, Declaration of Independence, Democracy Alliance, Democrat Party, Divine Providence, FALLUJAH, FAST & FURIOUS, Frank Marshall Davis, George Soros, HERNDON ALLIANCE, Institute For Policy Studies, IRS TARGETING CONSERVATIVE GROUPS, ISLAMIC TERRORISTS, Jeremiah Wright, Judeo-Christian heritage, Karl Marx, Lloyd Blankfein, Mainstream Media, Masters of Audacity and Deceit, MOSUL, Muslim Brotherhood, NSA INTRUSION, Progressive, RAMADI, Saul Alinsky on August 7, 2014| 1 Comment »
By Bill Been
As an American who values our country second only to God and family, it is difficult to understand why the vast majority of the leaders and spokesmen for our country consistently voice a lack of understanding as to why Barack Obama either does or does not do certain actions that would be viewed as adding value or preserving America. Whether it be elected officials, political experts, talk-radio, or fair and balanced discussions, it seems that the typical responses when asked "Why?" are "I don't know" or "It is incompetency" or "Obama is inexperienced" or "Obama is just a community organizer" or "inept" or "does not have the will" while ignoring the fact that Barack Obama told America exactly what he was going to do and he is closely following his stated direction.
The purpose of this document is not only to demonstrate that the answer to the "Why?" question is very straightforward, but to also demonstrate that the wrong question is being asked further masking the anti-American agenda of Barack Hussein Obama.
My book, Masters of Audacity and Deceit, clearly describes why Barack Obama is acting in a fashion that is opposing America and the fundamental principles upon which America was founded. At the time the book was written, the concerns that are reality today were presented as threats created or supported by the National Democrat Party that need to be understood and confronted by all citizens. These same threats provide the explanation for Barack Obama's apparent "incompetence" and can be summarized in one statement as follows:
Barack Obama is simply carrying out his transformation objectives and direction that he promised five days prior to his election to the presidency in 2008 by following the ideology and teachings of Cloward & Piven, Karl Marx, Saul Alinsky, and Jeremiah Wright as interpreted by a host of communists including his mother, Frank Marshall Davis, and the admitted small 'c' communist Bill Ayers, and far left groups epitomized by the Institute For Policy Studies while drawing financial and ideological support from wealthy liberals led by George Soros and the Soros Democracy Alliance group, the anti-American Progressive groups, and Wall Street executives such as Lloyd Blankfein under the protective cover of a totally compromised Mainstream Media and the corrupted modern day Democrat Party that is populated by leaders who lie, cheat, distort, and politicize events for their self-serving objectives without regard for either America or the American people.
That Barack Obama has succeeded in reaching his objectives is evident from the following list of his "accomplishments" during his first six years:
FAST & FURIOUS AND 2ND AMENDMENT
NSA INTRUSION INTO PRIVACY AND FREEDOM
IRS TARGETING CONSERVATIVE GROUPS
IRAQ-RAMADI, FALLUJAH, AND MOSUL IN CONTROL OF ISLAMIC TERRORISTS
36,000 ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINALS RELEASED INTO USA POPULATION
BERGDAHL FOR 5 TALIBAN WAR PRISONERS
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SUPPORTED IN EGYPT
SYRIAN RED LINE
LIBYA IN CHAOS AS EXAMPLE OF "RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT"
OBAMACARE-HERNDON ALLIANCE—"YOU CAN KEEP YOUR PLAN"—FAR LEFT, MOVE-ON, SOROS
90,000 IMMIGRANT CHILDREN AND PROPOSED $3.7 BILLION PLUS TO RESOLVE THE CRISIS
BLATENT DISREGARD FOR ISRAEL AND CHRISTIANS IN FOREIGH COUNTRIES (CONVERT, TAX OR DIE)
One special accomplishment that is an active work in process of Obama and his administration is to establish that "America is not a Christian nation" while declaring that Islam was instrumental in the establishment of America. This fallacious and false representation of American history was clearly debunked in a recent Fourth of July sermon that spoke to the charters of the Original Thirteen Colonies and why these people had left their homelands for the freedoms available in the New World. These charters tell the real American story and the success in downplaying this Judeo-Christian heritage is the most repulsive and scandalous accomplishment of Barack Hussein Obama. These charters are presented with the hope being that some people will awaken and come to the rescue of America before Barack Obama and his anti-American allies complete their destruction of the greatest country on earth. Quotes from the charters follow:
Virginia – to help in "propagating of Christian religion…"
Plymouth – "…to advance the enlargement of the Christian religion to the glory of God Almighty."
Delaware – one purpose is "…the further propagation of the Holy Gospel."
Maryland – first settlers motivated by "…pious zeal for extending the Christian religion."
Massachusetts – bring "the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Savior of mankind."
Rhode Island – "Commits its people to the true Christian faith and worship of God."
Connecticut – "to help preserve the liberty and purity of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ."
New Hampshire – "…do in the name of Christ and in the sight of God…"
In addition, when the Declaration of Independence was written, the last words were "…under the protection of the Divine Providence." This was followed some years later by George Washington, after his first inauguration, leading the members of the House and Senate to St. Paul's Church in New York to seek guidance and to commit America to God.
In conclusion, the answer to the "Why?" question is very simply stated above if one understands the various transformation objectives that Barack Obama has clearly articulated throughout his lifetime. If this is understood, the need for the "Why?" question no longer exists, and the correct question can then be asked which is: "How do current events and crises fit into the Barack Obama transformation objectives and direction.?" Without this question being asked and answered, the American people will continue going to the next election never understanding why our great country is being diminished at home and abroad!!!!
Email Bill at webeen@zoominternet.net or webpatrioticservices.com
Get his book at http://www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-61346-370-3 or
http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Audacity-Deceit-William-Been/dp/1613463707/ref=sr_1_1_title_1_pp?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1318642270&sr=1-1
THE LEFT'S CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING NARRATIVE
Posted in The Millstone Report, tagged Alex Jones, George Soros, Glenn Beck, Global government, leftist, Leftist agenda, Mark Levin, Michael Savage, Narrative, New World Order, One World Order, Ought to be Headlines, progressive agenda, progressives, Rush Limbaugh, The Millstone Diaries, The Millstone Report, true believers on April 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Leftist progressives have an agenda their pushing. The agenda has nothing to do with presenting facts or news; it has to do with raising people's consciousness to accept global governance and a new world order.
This 8:49 youtube video is taken from The Millstone Report web cast at the Resistance Radio Network.
The show aired Friday, January 3, 2014. TMR is broadcast live M-F from 10:00 am — noon on channel 2.
To see the full two-hour show, go to the Ought to be Headlines web page. Join the resistance and make a difference before it's too late.
NRA ENDORSES DEMOCRATS OVER REPUBLICANS IN CENTER-RIGHT DISTRICTS
Posted in Latest Commentary, tagged 23rd Congressional District, Allen Boyd, Betsy Markey, Bill Owens, Blue Dog Democrats, Bobby Bright, Brad Ellsworth, Charlton Heston, chief lobbyist Chris Cox, Chris Cox, conservative democrats, conservative gatekeeper, David Horowitz, Dede Scozzafava, Democrat Party, Dennis Cardoza, Disclose Act, Doug Hoffman, Eric Erickson, George Soros, Glenn Beck, GOP candidates, Great American, gun control advocates, gun-rights only, Heath Shuler, Jim Marshall, Joe Manchin, John Barrow, Larry Kissell, loss of liberty, Mark Critz, Matt Doheny, Matthew Sheffield, Mike Acruri, Mike Ross, moderate democrats, National Rifle Association, NRA, NRA endorsement, Republicans, Rush Limbaugh, Sanford Bishop, Scott Murphy, Sean Hannity, Second Amendment, Shadow Party, Wayne LaPierre on October 7, 2010| 1 Comment »
NRA Supports Dems' Bid to Keep Congress
The headline is not a transposed "R" in place of an "E." Yes, it's the National Rifle Association and not the National Education Association that is supporting Democrat candidates to keep Republicans from retaking the House. The NRA has endorsed 39 House Democrat candidates even though their Republican challengers champion the Second Amendment. To add insult to injury, the organization is endorsing them in center-right House districts that Republicans could win. The NRA endorsement gives the so-called "Blue Dog" Democrats credibility that they wouldn't have otherwise.
"[A]s long as the conservative rhetoric is coming from the Democrat candidates themselves, the voters aren't buying it. However, when the NRA … endorses that Democrat for reelection over their 2nd amendment champion Republican opponents … [it] give[s] credence to their claims of being born again conservatives. The sad thing is that the NRA is endorsing Democrats in the very districts that we must win in order to obtain 39 seats."—Daniel Horowitz
Right-to-life groups have three criteria candidates must meet to get their endorsement, Americans for Tax for Reform have candidates sign a pledge, but the NRA doesn't require candidates to meet certain criteria or a sign pledge to uphold the Second Amendment for its endorsement; it's a purely subjective judgment call.
For example, in last year's special election for New York's 23rd Congressional District, the NRA supported leftist Republican Dede Scozzafava over Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. Scozzafava eventually dropped from the race and endorsed Democrat Bill Owens over Hoffman. Now, the NRA endorses Owens over Republican Matt Doheny in November.
Even though the NRA supports Republicans and has given 71 percent of its political action committee's contributions to GOP candidates, that percentage is down compared to previous election cycles. The Democrat Party is the problem plaguing America and ignoring that problem is a fatal mistake.
A lot of so-called conservatives avoid discussing how the NRA is undermining the conservative movement and Republican efforts to oust George Soros' Shadow Party Democrats from power. "Great Americans" Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, et al either won't mention the NRA's undermining activities or they dance around them when they're pointed out and never openly criticize the organization.
Major on-line conservative gatekeeper publications aren't much better. They have been treading lightly over the NRA's underhanded endorsements of Democrats, as if they're trying their level best to remain in the good graces of the organization.
The NRA hides behind the one-issue, gun-rights only claim, and endorses Democrats to ensure participation in future elections. The organization didn't oppose Eric Holder for attorney general and waited until the last minute to come out against Obama's leftist Supreme Court nominees. It signed on to the Disclose Act, which was a carefully crafted Democrat scheme to impose onerous disclosure requirements on over 100,000 nonprofits and activist groups to prevent them from engaging in any effective political speech during campaign season. Such tactics are a fool's game for those who feed the crocodile believing they will be the last to be eaten.
Face it; this hypocritical "arrogant and elitist" organization has more in common with Chuck Schumer than it does with Chuck Heston. Much like the leftist, race-baiting poverty pimps Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, who fuel the race issue for relevance and money, the NRA's Wayne LaPierre and chief lobbyist Chris Cox don't seem too anxious for the gun control issue to go away. They appear to be more concerned with preserving their six-figure salaries than with upholding the Second Amendment and defeating the one party that unambiguously has been behind all gun control legislation.
"There are few organizations purportedly on the side of freedom that aggravate me more than the National Rifle Association. In fact, these days I cringe when I see good conservatives with their lifetime member sticker from the NRA on the back of their cars."—Eric Erickson
From the late 1960s through the late 1980s, the NRA zealously fought gun control advocates in the United States when Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand buckled under and lost the individual's right to firearm ownership and self-defense. But today's NRA is merely a shell of what it once was, living off its past reputation. This once mighty 4 million-member, $307 million organization is no longer indispensable because it doesn't understand what the fight is about. It has become a tool used by the Democrat Party to destroy this Republic and its Constitution. Its leaders are now too timid to uphold freedom and all too willing to sit at the table with the leftist elites in Washington, DC.
The political climate and the Democrat Party have irrevocably changed; conservative and moderate democrats are an extinct species. When Pelosi or Reid need votes, the so-called Blue Dog Democrats will line up and vote against Second Amendment protections as ordered.
The loss of liberty is looming, and America stands in the path of danger. Freedom shivers in the cold shadow of true peril as the irresistible siren summons the common man to muster resistance against politicians everywhere who would subvert those freedoms.
"So, as we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those fighting words for everyone within the sound of my voice to hear and to heed, and especially for you, [Messrs. Cox and LaPierre]: 'From my cold, dead hands!'"—Charlton Heston
To keep Republicans from winning the House, the NRA is endorsing the following Democrats:
AL-2: Bobby Bright
AR-4: Mike Ross
Ca-18: Dennis Cardoza
CO-3: John Salazar
CO-4: Betsy Markey
FL-2: Allen Boyd
Ga-2: Sanford Bishop
Ga-8: Jim Marshall
Ga-12: John Barrow
IA-3: Leonard Boswell
IL-11: Debbie Halvorson
IL-12: Jerry Costello
IN-Senate-Brad Ellsworth
IN-2: Joe Donnely
IN-8: Trent Van Haaften
IN-9: Baron Hill
KY-6: Ben Chandler
MD-1: Frank Kratovil
MI-1: Gary McDowell
MN-1: Tim Walz
MS-1: Travis Childers
MS-4: Gene Taylor
MO-4: Ike Skelton
NC-7: Mike McIntyre
NC-8: Larry Kissell
NC-11: Heath Shuler
ND-At Large: Earl Pomeroy
NM-1: Martin Heinrich
NM-2: Harry Teague
NM-3: Ben Lujan
NY-20: Scott Murphy
NY-23: Bill Owens
NY-24: Mike Acruri
OH-Gov. Ted Strickland
OH-6: Charlie Wilson
OH-16: John Boccieri
OH-18: Zack Space
OK-2: Dan Boren
OR-5: Kurt Schrader
PA-4: Jason Altmire
PA-10: Chris Carney
PA-11: Paul Kanjorski
PA-12: Mark Critz
PA-17: Tim Holden
SD-At Large: Stephanie Sandlin
TN-4: Lincoln Davis
TN-8: Roy Herron
TX-17: Chet Edwards
UT-2: Jim Matheson
VA-2: Glenn Nye
VA-5: Tom Perriello
VA-9: Rick Boucher
WI-3: Ron Kind
WI-8: Steve Kagen
WV-Senate: Joe Manchin
WV-3: Nick Rahall
For more on this story, see NRA may stop GOP from taking the House? by Matthew Sheffield and The NRA is Helping Preserve the Anti Gun Democrat Majority by David Horowitz.
The Democrats Must Go This November
Posted in Latest Commentary, tagged $787 billion, 1933, 2010 midterm election, Adolf Hitler, American health care system, Arizona, Astroturf, Barack Obama, belly of the beast, but verify, cash-for-clunkers program, chancellor, Chicago-style politics, Chrysler dealerships, Cosmo Kramer, Czechoslovakia, deficit, Democrat talking points, Democrats, Democrats Must Go, eftist elite, fascist, fascist state, First World War, food stamps, Freedom Celebration for We the People, General Keitel, General Motors, George Costanza, George Soros, George W. Bush, Germany in the early 1930s, grass roots, Great Depression, Great Depression of 1929, Gulf of Mexico, health insurance, Indiana, Indiana County Court House, Internet, iron-fisted union, July 31 1932, Justice Department officials, leftist ideologues, living space, manage the nation's decline, Maxine Waters, Mein Kampf, Midterm election, moratorium, moratorium on off-shore drilling, nanny state, nationalized, Nazis, neoconservative, New Black Panther Party, off-shore drilling, overreaching regulations, Pelosi, Pennsylvania, People's Republic of Maryland, political speech, porkulus, President Hindenburg, radical agenda, recession, Reichstag, Reid, RINO, RINO Republicans, rising tyranny, Ronald Reagan, saved jobs, saved or created, September 1938, socialist dictator, special interest, stimulus, student loan industry, talk radio, TARP funds, Tea Party, Tea Party movement, Tea Party Rally, teacher unions, Tgrass roots base, The Millstone Diaries, the unnecessary war, thugocracies, transform America, true believers, trust, union supporters, United Nations, unnecessary war, voter intimidation case, Voting Rights Act, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Winston Churchill, World War II, Yes We Can on October 3, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The following speech was delivered at "Freedom Celebration for We the People" Tea Party Rally Saturday on the steps of the Indiana County Court House in Indiana, Pennsylvania October 2, 2010.
How yuns doin'? Living in the belly of the beast and in the People's Republic of Maryland for the past twelve years makes me long for Western Pennsylvania and use that plural pronoun again.
I.M. Kane, I write social and political commentaries and report goings-on at my blog, The Millstone Diaries. I'm married with three kids in their thirties, three grandchildren, and one wife who thinks I make George Costanza an appealing catch and Cosmo Kramer a towering intellect. So there's really only one reason why you should pay any mind to what I have to say here today, and that is it's the truth.
Now that I've dispensed with the pleasantries, let me say upfront that I'm not a motivational speaker, nor am I here to ingratiate myself to any political party or even to the tea party movement for that matter. Think of me as someone back from a reconnaissance mission with information that describes the situation at hand. Therefore, if you find what I say offensive, remember to keep the message separate from the messenger. That is, don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player, not the piper who makes mice dance.
In 1933, Winston Churchill tried in vain to alert his countrymen to the dangers of the charismatic corporal and the Nazi Party that had come to power demanding German "living space" from neighboring countries. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis built super highways and affordable cars for the common man and won the affection of many Germans. But at the same time, he was building munitions factories, tanks, ships, submarines, and airplanes in preparation for war.
Churchill repeatedly warned his government and the British people to prepare for war against the rising tyranny, but he was derided by Parliament and mocked by the media. The majority of the British people were weary from fighting the First World War and worn out from striving to survive the Great Depression of 1929, so they denied the truth about what Hitler and the Nazis were planning and refused to confront the approaching tyranny.
Today, a majority of Americans are weary from the war on terrorism, worn out from the worst recession since the Great Depression, and live in denial much like the Brits of the early 1930s. A majority of Americans reject the truth about Barack Obama and the Democrat Party and refuse to confront the approaching tyranny.
You heard it right. I am comparing the current situation in the United States to Germany in the early 1930s and Barack Obama and the Democrat Party to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and for good reason.
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party could have been stopped July 31, 1932, in a special election had a majority of Germans read Mein Kampf and comprehended the outline of what he planned to do. But not enough did, and the Nazis won 230 seats and became the largest political party in the Reichstag.
On the basis of that special election, Hitler demanded to be appointed chancellor in control of the state, and six months later President Hindenburg met his demands. What's interesting is that the Nazis never captured more than 37 percent of the national vote or gained a majority of seats in the Reichstag. However, with Hitler in the chancellery they were able to consolidate power and take control of the government with relative ease.
Hitler and the Nazi Party were driven to change Germany and that change brought down the republic and established a fascist state and dictatorial rule. The Germans instinctively knew that Hitler and the Nazis were bad news; they just didn't know how bad the news would be.
Obama and the Democrat Party are on a mission to transform America, and that is bad news; yet far too many Americans remain clueless to the significance of that fact. Back in 2008, they heard the word change and turned the nation over to Barack Obama and the Democrat Party to take the country in a different direction from where George W. Bush and the neoconservative, RINO Republicans had been taking it.
They just assumed that Obama and the Democrat Party meant to change the direction of the country; they didn't stop to think about the parsing of "is" during the Clinton years or Ronald Reagan's signature phrase—trust, but verify.
Now they know that change didn't mean direction; it meant speed. Obama and the Democrat Party haven't changed the direction of the country; it's still on the road to ruin. Only the arrival time has changed and the throttle shifted from impulse power to warp drive. But not to worry, dutiful Democrats have promised to manage the nation's decline every step of the way.
So let's rummage through Obama and the Democrats' management handiwork over the past 18 months:
They managed to push through the largest spending bill in history, an unread $787 billion porkulus package purported to jump-start the economy and create jobs; however, it served only to jack up the national debt 23 percent to $13 trillion. The bill failed badly, but that hasn't stopped them from boasting that the stimulus "saved or created" 3 million jobs even though economics offers no quantifiable way to calculate the number of "saved jobs."
They managed to nationalized General Motors and the student loan industry, and meddled in the closings of thousands of General Motors and Chrysler dealerships.
They managed to transform the American health care system in a way that harms taxpayers, health care providers, and quality patient care, and administer a stranglehold over the health care industry, forcing every American to buy health insurance.
They managed to increase government control over tobacco and food, and under the pretense of fairness have been ruthless in their efforts to regulate political speech over talk radio and the Internet.
They managed to seize TARP funds meant to bailout the banking system and redirected them to Congresswoman Maxine Waters' husband's bank that didn't qualify, the cash-for-clunkers program, teacher unions, union supporters, and blue states that supported Obama.
They managed to increase federal control over finance and mortgages causing housing prices to plummet wiping out equity and making it harder for people to move and take a job in a different city or state
They managed to place a moratorium on off-shore drilling that is destroying the oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico and wreaking havoc on the region's economy.
They managed to add jobs in the public sector while jobs in the private sector declined.
They managed to foster an environment where more Americans are now working for the government or are on food stamps than ever before.
They managed to quadruple the deficit and spend the nation to the brink of bankruptcy.
They managed to have Justice Department officials sue the state of Arizona for passing an immigration law that mirrors the federal immigration law, and turn over the sovereign state of Arizona to the United Nations for prosecution of potential human rights abuses.
They managed to allow Justice Department officials to dismiss an open-and-shut voter intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party and to adopt a no-prosecution policy for blacks who violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
In 18 short months, the policies implemented by Barack Obama's Bread and Circuses Salvation Sideshow Administration and the legislation passed by the Democrat-controlled Congress have made the current Democrat Party the greatest enemy of economic liberty and personal freedom in American history, and this is why the Democrats must go this November.
Now I realize that the Tea Party movement prides itself on being nonpartisan, but neutrality in this environment is a heinous word. Obama and the Democrat Party will not stop their relentless pursuit of power. You can write letters, sign petitions, and rally in DC til the cows come home, but the combined efforts of your angry protestations will never persuade them to abandon their radical agenda to transform America. The truth is the Democrat Party is controlled by leftist ideologues and led by true believers.
Our country's future is imperiled because too many patriots in the Tea Party movement refuse to draw a clear distinction between the two parties and blame both parties equally for the problems America faces.
Granted, the Republican Party's neo-conservative/RINO wing deserves some blame, but the Party does have a conservative-leaning, libertarian-minded grass roots base; whereas the Democrat Party doesn't have a conservative/libertarian wing and its Astroturf base consists of labor unions and leftist-leaning, statist-minded special interest groups.
In other words, the Democrats act like gangsters, and the Republicans like bad cops on the take. So the question before you this November is which of the two parties can be reformed?
George Soros and the leftist elite have invested too much time and money and are too close to transforming the U.S. into a fascist state under a socialist dictator to allow grass-root commoners from the Tea Party movement to gain control of their Party. Besides, real reform needs a party base to support and carry it out, and there's no chance of that happening as long as iron-fisted union and special interest thugocracies rule the base. Like it not, the answer is the Republican Party by default.
The 2010 midterm election is as vital for the survival of our Republic as the 1932 special election was to Germany's. Had the German people put aside their differences and united to defeat the Nazis in that election, the world would never have known one of its worst mass murderers and the Nazi Party would have faded into the shadows.
Churchill called World War II the unnecessary war because he believed it could have been prevented had the European democracies not backed down from the tyrant. When Hitler threatened to seize Czechoslovakia in September 1938, he told General Keitel that he would not enter the country unless he was convinced that France and England would not intervene.
The French and English forces were vastly superior and outnumbered those of Germany at the time. Hitler was the typical tyrant. He preyed on weakness and respected superior force. Had the French and English people not been led by weak and fearful leaders willing to appease Hitler, he would have backed down. But instead they fed the crocodile hoping they would be the last to be eaten.
World War II is the greatest tragedy of the modern era for it could have been averted if the German people had voted against the Nazis in that '32 election or the British had heeded Churchill's warning about the rising threat in '33.
However, a worst catastrophe awaits us if we fail to learn the lessons from that election and Churchill's warning. I submit that you are here today because you sense that the upcoming November election is not politics as usual, that something terrible is about to happen to our country if we don't prevent it.
You have such a sense of urgency and foreboding that you can almost feel the enveloping inhuman repression crushing you. You sense that the dreams from Obama's father are really nightmares for America. Inwardly you're screaming, "Stop the madness … the Chicago-style politics … the overreaching regulations … the overbearing nanny state."
You approach the media for redress of your grievances, and they report that you are too stupid, too uninformed, and too uneducated to understand the nuances involved in all that Barack Obama and the Democrat Party are doing to transform America.
The truth is the American media have been reduced to a gaggle of crippled weaklings controlled by fear serving up Democrat talking points and Party propaganda. They won't recognize wickedness and immorality unless it's to denounce those who do. You trust them at your own peril.
So the battle lines have been drawn. It remains to be seen whether or not the electorate will be fooled with Democrat attack ads, appeals to petty distractions, or cries of independent-mindedness. They are running from Obama, Pelosi, and Reid now, but never forget the cheers of "Yes We Can!" when they passed the stimulus bill, and they yelled it even louder when they passed ObamaCare, and they will scream it at the top of their lungs when they cram cap and trade and immigration reform down our throats if they are not stopped this November.
If Churchill was right in saying that "Democracy is based on reason, a sense of fair play, and freedom and a respect for other people" and "is not some harlot in the street to be picked up by some man with a Tommy gun" then the Democrat party is anything but democratic for it has shown nothing but contempt for democracy.
America is special, a unique country worth saving. It is not just another nation; it embodies the ideal of man's inalienable rights. If America is to survive, it must undergo a major change in the balance of power. Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the Democrat Party have plundered this nation's wealth and destroyed its free market system long enough.
November begins the reckoning, and "we are the guardians of causes so precious to the world, that we must … 'Lay aside every impediment.'" After all, what is the use of the tea party if it is not to strive to uphold the American ideal for those who will live in these United States after we are gone?
Wake up, Tea Party patriots. You are the hope of America.
Thank you and God's speed.
THE MANAGERS OF AMERICA'S DECLINE
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Talk radio personality Jim Quinn of "The War Room with Quinn and Rose" addresses the faithful at the Indiana Armstrong Patriots tea party rally in Kittanning, Pennsylvania.
The following speech was delivered at an Indiana Armstrong Patriots Tea Party Rally at the John P. Murtha Amphitheater in Kittanning, Pennsylvania April 24, 2010.
I'm here today to elaborate on the Democrat Party's management of America's decline, and to tell you that the fate of this nation is in your hands because the founding Spirit of America has awakened you to resist the tyranny at her doorstep.
This is why the Tea Party movement identifies with America's first revolt against tyranny, the Boston Tea Party, and why many in the movement dress in colonial garb and brandish the country's founding symbols such as the "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden flag and Benjamin Franklin's snake cut into eight parts depicting the danger of disunity.
As Franklin's drawing was a call for patriots to unite against the tyranny of the British monarchy, to those same ends I call upon the tea party patriots today to set aside political differences and unite against the tyranny of the progressive oligarchy.
America's Founders had the wisdom to recognize their common enemy, to put aside their political differences, and to hang together to keep from hanging separately. Today, however, too many tea party patriots don't recognize the progressive enemy and far too many are blinded by their pet political issues to see the overarching socialism that is destroying this country.
For the many who have not yet figured it out, the "change" that Brother O promised during his campaign involves the dissolution of the Republic and the imposition of a socialist state, and from the outset of his coronation in January 2009, his Bread and Circuses administration and the Democrat Party have been working feverishly to that end.
I've heard radio talk show hosts and so-called conservative leaders who identify with the Tea Party movement blame corrupt politicians and America's two-party system for her demise, but if truth be told, the blame lies squarely at the feet of the Democrat Party and the piper who calls the tune, George Soros—the party's billionaire benefactor and creator of the Shadow Party, which is a nationwide network of more than 60 unions, 527 groups, and think tanks designed to ensure Democrat dominance in the electoral process and to achieve one-party rule in the United States.
The background of the world's thirty-eighth richest man is replete with effecting political "change." He helped finance the 1989 "Velvet Revolution" that brought Vaclav Havel (Vass lass Have vule) to power in the Czech Republic. He also helped to engineer coups in Slovakia, Croatia, Georgia, and Yugoslavia.
Before effecting political change in a country, Soros first establishes a shadow government, which is a fully formed government-in-exile, ready to assume power at the opportune moment. The Shadow Party control center that he created inside the Democrat Party is patterned after the shadow governments that he created in other countries before instigating a coup.
To bring change to America's political system, Soros had to limit the ability of the political parties to raise money. So in 2002, he engineered campaign finance reform complete with a loophole for private 527 organizations such as MoveOn.org that could collect soft money.
Once the McCain-Feingold campaign finance laws were established, Soros assembled a coalition of political strategists, activists, and major Democrat donors at his Southampton beach house in Long Island, New York, in 2003, and there he built the Shadow Party to circumvent those very laws that he engineered.
To test the political waters, Soros dumped more than $300 million in Democrat coffers, and created Americans Coming Together or (ACT), a group made up of big government and teacher unions to coordinate media ads and carry out the ground war. ACT gathered 100,000 campaign workers and collected large amounts of money to knock on doors and get people to the polls.
When his candidate John Kerry lost the presidency in 2004, Soros assessed what went wrong then assembled 70 plutocrats in Scottsdale, Arizona, to form the Phoenix Group in the spring of 2005, and there he laid out a five-year plan to create a network of think tanks, media outlets, and training centers to promote his progressive-socialist-Marxist politics.
The Shadow Party is the center of power of the Democrat Party; certainly no Democrat can be elected without tapping into its constellation of organizations. Actually, the Shadow Party is the Democrat Party. It works behind the scenes pushing a radical socialist agenda and few Democratic voters know it even exists.
In December 2004, the Executive Director for MoveOn.org declared the Democratic Party George Soros's property: "Now it's our Party. We bought it, we own it …" And in 2006, Joe Lieberman discovered the accuracy of that statement when the three-term incumbent U.S. senator and former vice presidential nominee of the Democrat Party was ousted from the Party by an unknown in the Democratic primaries.
Soros views America's free enterprise system as the greatest obstacle to world justice and stability, so he's on an ideological mission. He's assembled a coalition of billionaires, giant unions, street radicals, and seasoned political operatives, never before seen in American politics, to subordinate America's interests to global interests; her sovereignty to global government; her law to global courts; her wealth to global taxation; and her productivity to global redistribution schemes.
For Soros to realize his mission, the Democrat Party will need to remain in power through the November Midterm election. Last September Vice President Joe Biden said that if the Republicans take back control of the House, it's "the end of the road for what Barack and I are trying to do," in other words, doomsday for their socialist agenda.
He went on to say that the November election is the "one shot" Republicans have at stopping the Democrat agenda, and if they don't "the dam will break and a new era of bipartisanship will begin." Biden's "era of bipartisanship" will end America's experiment in representative democracy and usher in the dawn of a new age of progressive socialist governance and dictatorial one-party rule.
In 1932, the German people were afforded a rare opportunity to vote the Nazi Party from power. They had the chance to save their republic from a socialist dictatorship but chose instead to remain divided and cling to their petty political differences. Because the majority of the German people wouldn't unite to defeat their greater enemy, the Nazis stayed in power with 42 percent support and every German shared in the guilt of Hitlerism.
Unlike the German majority in '32, we have the luxury of hindsight. We know that a government that's big enough to supply our every need is also big enough to take away everything that we have. Friedrich Hayek and Ronald Reagan warned us that big government destroys individual liberty, personal freedom, free enterprise, and the rule of law. And socialism is big government squared; it is a profoundly un-American system that provides a ruling oligarchy with the power to control all aspects of human life from cradle to grave.
Winston Churchill said: "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Simply put, socialism, also known as progressivism or leftism or statism, is America's natural enemy.
The socialist beast that fully controls two of the three branches of America's government is analogous to the nine-headed Lernaean (ler knee ian) Hydra in Greek mythology. As the story goes, each time Heracles would destroy one of the monster's heads, two more would spring up in its place. He discovered that the only way to kill the beast was to find and sever its one immortal head.
Heracles' discovery regarding the vulnerability of the Hydra also applies to the socialist monster governing America. As Andrew Brietbart's investigative reporters proved by exposing the corruption at ACORN, it is possible to take down and neutralize the effects of a Soros-funded organization. However, like the heads of the Hydra, when one is destroyed more will emerge to take its place, and in the case of ACORN it will be more groups bearing different names and acronyms.
Metaphorically speaking, the only way to destroy America's governing monster is to sever its immortal head, and the Democrat Party is that immortal head. And whether we like it or not, the Republican Party is the only weapon in our arsenal that can remove the socialist monster from power. Supporting Libertarian, Green, or even lesser third parties will only diminish the power of the electorate and ensure Democrat rule and a socialist dictatorship.
Those who claim there's not a dimes worth of difference between the two parties either aren't paying attention, or they have some other agenda for parroting such misinformation. Take for instance the charge that the president and the Congress won't listen to the will of the people and apply it to the previous administration:
What happened when George W. Bush and the Republicans tried to push through the Dubai Ports deal? The people rose up in anger, flooded the White House and the Congress with letters, phone calls, faxes, and e-mails, and Bush withdrew deal.
What happened when Bush and the Republicans tried to push through the controversial Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Myers? Again, the people rose up in anger, flooded the White House and the Congress with letters etc, Bush withdrew the nomination.
And what happened when Bush and the Republicans tried to push through the McCain-Kennedy Immigration Reform Bill? Once again, the people rose up in anger flooded the White House and the Congress with letters etc, and the amnesty bill was abandoned.
Now apply the same charge to the current Bread and Circuses administration:
What happened when Brother O and the Democrats tried to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, that massive Keynesian waste product commonly referred to as the Stimulus Bill? The people rose up in anger, flooded the White House and the Congress with letters, phone calls, faxes, and e-mails, only this time Congress passed the bill and Brother O signed it into law.
What happened when Brother O and the Democrats tried to push through controversial Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor? Again, the people rose up in anger, flooded the White House and the Congress with letters etc, but this time the nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate and she's an Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court.
And what happened when Brother O and the Democrats tried to push through the health care reform bill, known as ObamaCare? Once again, the people rose up in anger, flooded the White House and the Congress with letters etc, only this time Congress passed the bill and Brother O signed it into law.
Still think the parties are the same? Answer these questions:
Which political party has tried to discredit the tea parties?
Which political party has been slandering tea party activists?
Which political party has called tea party protesters Astroturf and has falsely accused them in the national media of shouting racial invectives and of spitting on congressmen?
And which political party stereotypes tea party activists as racists, homophobes, and bigots?
Now if memory serves me well, didn't the Congressman, for whom this amphitheater is named, stereotype his very own constituents as racist rednecks over the national media in 2008?
What's more, I can name several libertarian and conservative Republicans who champion those very principles the tea party movement supports: free markets, fiscal responsibility, limited government, the original intent of the Constitution, and the sanctity of the rule of law, but I can't name even one congressional Democrat who values those principles. Can you?
Denial is not just a river in Africa, it's also counter-productive. If Republicans don't take back control of the House and Senate in the Midterm Election, Soros' Democrat Party has plans to fix subsequent elections to permanently control America's democratic process:
First, they will grant amnesty to illegal immigrants and speed up their citizenship status to add millions of new Democrat voters.
Next, they will use survey sampling instead of an actual head count for the census to increase the population figures for northeastern cities so their states will get more congressmen and more electoral votes to offset the population shift of the sunbelt states.
Then they will eliminate the secret ballot in union elections to add more unions, which means more union members to vote Democrat.
Finally, they will silence dissent over the Internet through Net neutrality regulations and over talk radio by establishing community advisory boards consisting of local political activists who will monitor radio programming for the FCC and rate whether the content meets community needs. The FCC will levy hefty fines and revoke licenses for low ratings.
Under the guise of progress and compassion, socialism concentrates all the wealth in the hands of an oligarchy in the name of social justice; it reduces people to misery in the name of sharing resources and to ignorance in the name of science; it creates inequality in the name of equality and constructs a network of concentration camps in the defense of liberty.
With disaster looming, are you going to wait until freedom is gone before you understand what freedom means? Are you going to wait until you have no future before you discover the purpose of life? It's time to decide whether you will be free men or slaves.


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Autoatualização (em língua inglesa, self-actualisation; em língua alemã, Selbstverwirklichung) ou tendência para a autoatualização designa, em diferentes teorias psicológicas, geralmente de maneiras diferentes, a tendência de um organismo de desenvolver todas as suas possibilidades de crescimento. Aplica-se sobretudo ao desenvolvimento do si mesmo, designando a tendência do indivíduo de desenvolver-se e crescer como pessoa. O termo foi originalmente introduzido pelo teórico organísmico Kurt Goldstein para o motivo de se realizar todo o potencial de um indivíduo: "a tendência de se atualizar o mais plenamente possível é a pulsão básica ... o impulso da auto-atualização". Importantes autores para o desenvolvimento desse conceito foram Carl Rogers, que similarmente escreveu "a força curativa da psicoterapia - a tendência do homem de se atualizar, de se tornar suas potencialidades ... de expressar e ativar todas as capacidades do organismo"; e Abraham Maslow.

Popularização do conceito por Abraham Maslow
O conceito foi destacado na teoria da hierarquia de necessidades de Abraham Maslow como o nível final de desenvolvimento psicológico que pode ser alcançado quando todas as necessidades básicas e mentais são essencialmente atendidas e a "atualização" de todo o potencial pessoal ocorre. Maslow definiu a autoatualização como "o desejo de autoplenificação, ou seja, a tendência para que ele [o indivíduo] se atualize no que é potencialmente. Essa tendência pode ser expressa como o desejo de se tornar cada vez mais o que se é, tornar-se tudo o que se é capaz de se tornar." Maslow usou o termo autoatualização para descrever um desejo, não uma força motriz, que poderia levar à realização das capacidades de alguém. Ele não sentia que a autoatualização determinasse a vida de alguém; antes, ele sentiu que ela dava ao indivíduo um desejo ou motivação para alcançar ambições a brotarem. O uso do termo por Maslow é agora popular na psicologia moderna quando se discute a personalidade a partir da abordagem humanística. Uma definição básica de um livro texto típico de faculdade define a autoatualização de acordo com Maslow simplesmente como "a realização completa do potencial de alguém" e do "verdadeiro eu".

Kurt Goldstein
A psicoterapia adleriana clássica também promove esse nível de desenvolvimento psicológico, utilizando a base de um modelo terapêutico de 12 estágios para satisfazer realisticamente as necessidades básicas. Isso leva a um estágio avançado de "metaterapia", vida criativa e atualização de si/outro/atualização de tarefas. A terapia Gestalt, reconhecendo que 'Kurt Goldstein introduziu pela primeira vez o conceito de organismo como um todo', baseia-se no pressuposto de que "todo indivíduo, toda planta, todo animal tem apenas um objetivo inato - se realizar como é". O livro de Kurt Goldstein, The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man (1939), apresentou a autoatualização como "a tendência de atualizar, tanto quanto possível, as capacidades individuais [do organismo]" no mundo. A tendência para a autoatualização é "a única unidade pela qual a vida de um organismo é determinada". No entanto, para Goldstein a autoatualização não pode ser entendida como um tipo de objetivo a ser alcançado em algum momento no futuro. A qualquer momento, o organismo tem a tendência fundamental de atualizar todas as suas capacidades e todo o seu potencial, como está presente naquele exato momento, nas circunstâncias dadas. Sob a influência de Goldstein, Abraham Maslow desenvolveu uma teoria hierárquica da motivação humana em Motivação e Personalidade (1954).

Carl Rogers

Carl Rogers usou o termo "autoatualização" para descrever algo distinto do conceito desenvolvido por Maslow: a atualização do senso de "eu" do indivíduo. Na teoria de Rogers da terapia centrada na pessoa, a autoatualização é o processo contínuo de manter e aprimorar o autoconceito do indivíduo através da reflexão, reinterpretação da experiência, permitindo que o indivíduo se recupere, desenvolva, mude e cresça. A autoatualização é um subconjunto da tendência atualizante geral organísmica, e começa com a criança aprendendo a diferenciar o que é "si mesmo" e o que é "outro" dentro de seu "campo perceptivo total", conforme sua autoconsciência gradualmente se cristaliza. Interações com outros significantes são essenciais para o processo de autoatualização:Como resultado da interação com o ambiente, e particularmente como resultado da interação avaliativa com os outros, a estrutura do eu é formada  como um padrão conceitual organizado, fluido, mas consistente, de percepções de características e relações do 'eu' ou do 'mim', juntamente com os valores associados a esses conceitos.O processo de autoatualização é contínuo à medida que o indivíduo amadurece para uma autonomia socialmente competente e interdependente, e continua ao longo do ciclo de vida. Quando há tensão suficiente entre o senso de si do indivíduo e sua experiência, um estado psicopatológico de incongruência pode surgir, segundo Rogers, "os indivíduos são culturalmente condicionados, recompensados, reforçados, para comportamentos que são de fato perversões das direções naturais da tendência de atualização unitária ". Na teoria de Rogers, a autoatualização não é o ponto final; é o processo que pode, em circunstâncias propícias (em particular a presença de autoestima positiva e a compreensão empática dos outros), levar o indivíduo a se tornar mais "plenamente funcional".

Abraham Maslow
O livro de Abraham Maslow, Motivação e Personalidade (1954), iniciou uma revolução filosófica a partir da qual cresceu a psicologia humanista. Isso mudou a visão da natureza humana de um ponto de vista negativo - o homem como sendo um organismo condicionado ou redutor de tensão - para uma visão mais positiva na qual o homem é motivado a realizar todo o seu potencial, o que se reflete em sua hierarquia de necessidades e em sua teoria da autoatualização. A autoatualização está no topo da hierarquia de necessidades de Maslow e é descrita como se tornar "'completamente humano' ... maturidade ou autoatualização". É considerada parte da psicologia humanista, que é um dos vários métodos usados na psicologia para estudar, entender e avaliar a personalidade. A abordagem humanista foi desenvolvida porque outras abordagens, como a psicodinâmica tornada famosa por Sigmund Freud, focavam em indivíduos não saudáveis que exibiam comportamento perturbado; enquanto a abordagem humanista se concentra em pessoas saudáveis e motivadas e tenta determinar como elas se definem, maximizando seu potencial. A partir desse ramo da psicologia, decorre a hierarquia de necessidades de Maslow. Segundo Maslow, as pessoas têm necessidades de ordem inferior que, em geral, devem ser atendidas antes que as necessidades de ordem superior possam ser satisfeitas: 'cinco conjuntos de necessidades - fisiológico, segurança, pertencimento, estima e, finalmente, autoatualização'.

Teoricamente, uma vez atendidas essas necessidades, um indivíduo é preparado para a autoatualização. No entanto, Maslow sugeriu mais tarde que existem mais duas fases pelas quais um indivíduo deve progredir antes que a autoatualização possa ocorrer. Elas incluem "as necessidades cognitivas", nas quais uma pessoa desejará conhecimento e compreensão do mundo ao seu redor, e "as necessidades estéticas", que incluem a necessidade de "simetria, ordem e beleza". Uma vez satisfeitas todas essas necessidades, o estágio final da hierarquia de Maslow - autoatualização - pode ocorrer. Maslow também acrescentou mais um passo além da autoatualização, que é a autotranscendência. A autotranscendência ocorre nos "níveis mais altos e mais inclusivos ou holísticos da consciência humana".

Os escritos de Maslow são usados como recursos inspiradores. A chave para os escritos de Maslow é entender que não há rotas rápidas para a autoatualização: ao invés, ela é afirmada no indivíduo que tem suas necessidades de deficiência menores atendidas. Depois que uma pessoa passa por sentir e acreditar que é deficiente, ela naturalmente procura se tornar quem é, ou seja, a autoatualização. Em outros lugares, no entanto, Maslow (2011) e Carl Rogers (1980) ambos sugeriram atitudes e/ou atributos necessários que precisam estar dentro de um indivíduo como pré-requisito para a autorrealização. Entre eles, há um desejo real de ser elas mesmas, de ser totalmente humano, de realizar-se e de estar completamente vivo, além de uma disposição de arriscar ser vulnerável e descobrir aspectos mais "dolorosos" para aprender sobre/crescer através e integrar essas partes de si mesmas (isso tem paralelos com o conceito ligeiramente semelhante de individuação de Jung).

Embora seus estudos fossem inicialmente centrados biologicamente (ou focados na natureza própria psicológica mais comum), Maslow (2011) e Rogers (1980) tornaram-se mais abertos à "espiritualidade" e cresceram para aceitar uma concepção mais aberta e "espiritual" do homem antes do fim de suas vidas. Além disso, tem havido muitas semelhanças e referências cruzadas entre várias escolas ou grupos espirituais (principalmente as formas espirituais orientais) nos últimos 40 anos. A descrição de Sri Ramana Maharshi, de que a autorrealização completa e espiritual é caracterizada por "ser" (sat), "consciência" (chit) e "felicidade" (ananda), pode ser vista como um reflexo do pensamento humanístico; a experiência de uma pessoa autoatualizadora participa dessas coisas em algum grau: "ser", "consciência" e "felicidade significativa", mesmo que se possa ir além da autoatualização para a autotranscendência.

Hierarquia de necessidades de Maslow

Como observou Abraham Maslow, as necessidades básicas dos seres humanos devem ser atendidas (por exemplo, comida, abrigo, calor, segurança, senso de pertença) antes que uma pessoa possa alcançar a autoatualização. No entanto, Maslow argumentou que atingir um estado de verdadeira autoatualização na sociedade cotidiana era bastante raro. Pesquisas mostram que quando as pessoas vivem vidas diferentes de sua verdadeira natureza e capacidade, é menos provável que sejam felizes do que aquelas cujos objetivos e vidas coincidem. Por exemplo, alguém que tem potencial inerente para ser um grande artista ou professor pode nunca perceber seus talentos se sua energia estiver focada em atingir as necessidades básicas dos seres humanos. À medida que a pessoa sobe na hierarquia de necessidades de Maslow, ela pode finalmente chegar ao cume - autoatualização. A hierarquia de necessidades de Maslow começa com as necessidades mais básicas consideradas "as necessidades fisiológicas" nas quais o indivíduo buscará itens como comida e água e deve ser capaz de desempenhar funções básicas, como respirar e dormir. Uma vez que essas necessidades sejam atendidas, uma pessoa pode passar a satisfazer "as necessidades de segurança", onde tentará obter uma sensação de segurança, conforto físico e abrigo, emprego e propriedade. O próximo nível é "as necessidades de pertencimento e amor", onde as pessoas se esforçam por aceitação social, afiliações, um sentimento de pertencimento e ser bem-vindo, intimidade sexual e talvez uma família. A seguir, estão "as necessidades de estima", nas quais o indivíduo desejará um senso de competência, reconhecimento de conquista pelos pares e respeito pelos outros.

Uma definição mais explícita de autoatualização, de acordo com Maslow, é "crescimento intrínseco do que já está no organismo, ou mais precisamente do que é o próprio organismo ... a autoatualização é motivada pelo crescimento, e não pela deficiência". Essa explicação enfatiza o fato de que a autoatualização normalmente não pode ser alcançada até que outras necessidades de ordem inferior da hierarquia de necessidades de Maslow sejam satisfeitas. Enquanto Goldstein definiu a autoatualização como uma força motriz, Maslow usa o termo para descrever o crescimento pessoal que ocorre quando as necessidades de ordem inferior são essencialmente atendidas, um corolário em que, em sua opinião, "autoatualização ... raramente acontece. .. certamente em menos de 1% da população adulta." O fato de "a maioria de nós funcionar a maior parte do tempo em um nível inferior ao da autoatualização", ele chamou de psicopatologia da normalidade.

Embora a teoria seja geralmente retratada como uma hierarquia bastante rígida, Maslow observou que a ordem na qual essas necessidades são atendidas nem sempre segue essa progressão padrão. Por exemplo, ele observa que, para algumas pessoas, a necessidade de autoestima é mais importante do que a necessidade de amor. Para outros, a necessidade de realização criativa pode substituir até as necessidades mais básicas.

Em vez de focar no que está errado com as pessoas, Maslow queria focar no potencial humano e em como alcançamos esse potencial. Maslow (1943, 1954) afirmou que a motivação humana é baseada em pessoas que buscam satisfação e mudança através do crescimento pessoal. Pessoas autoatualizadas como aquelas que se tornaram plenas e fazendo tudo o que eram capazes. Refere-se ao desejo da pessoa de se autocompletar, a saber, a tendência de se atualizar no que é potencialmente. "A forma específica que essas necessidades tomarão variará, é claro, de pessoa para pessoa. Em um indivíduo, pode assumir a forma do desejo de ser uma mãe ideal; em outro, pode ser expresso atleticamente; em outro, pode expressa em pintar quadros ou invenções ".

Características de autoatualizadores segundo Maslow
Um autoatualizador é uma pessoa que vive de forma criativa e plena usando seus potenciais. O que um homem pode fazer, ele deve fazer. Refere-se ao desejo de autoplenificação, ou seja, à tendência para que ele se atualize no que é potencialmente. Maslow baseou sua teoria parcialmente em suas próprias suposições ou convicções sobre o potencial humano e parcialmente em seus estudos de caso de figuras históricas que ele acreditava serem autoatualizadas, incluindo Albert Einstein e Henry David Thoreau. Ele considerou que as pessoas autoatualizadoras possuíam "uma habilidade incomum de detectar o espúrio, o falso e o  desonesto na personalidade e, em geral, julgar as pessoas de maneira correta e eficiente". Maslow examinou a vida de cada uma dessas pessoas, a fim de avaliar as qualidades comuns que levaram cada uma a se autoatualizar. Em seus estudos, Maslow descobriu que os autoatualizadores realmente compartilham semelhanças. Ele também acreditava que cada uma dessas pessoas havia conseguido, de alguma forma, encontrar sua natureza central que é única para elas e que é um dos verdadeiros objetivos da vida. Famosos ou desconhecidos, instruídos ou não, ricos ou pobres, os autoatualizadores tendem a se encaixar no seguinte perfil.

As características autoatualizantes de Maslow são:

 Percepções eficientes da realidade. Os autoatualizadores são capazes de julgar as situações correta e honestamente. Eles são muito sensíveis ao falso e desonesto, e são livres para ver a realidade 'como ela é'.
 Aceitação confortável de si, dos outros e da natureza. Os autoatualizadores aceitam sua própria natureza humana com todas as suas falhas. As deficiências dos outros e as contradições da condição humana são aceitas com humor e tolerância.
 Confiante em experiências e julgamentos próprios. Independente, não se baseia na cultura e ambiente para formar opiniões e pontos de vista.
 Espontâneo e natural. Fiel a si próprio, ao invés de ser como os outros querem.
 Centralização de tarefas. A maioria dos pacientes de Maslow tinha uma missão a cumprir na vida ou alguma tarefa ou problema "além" de si (em vez de fora de si) a ser perseguido. Considera-se que humanitários como Albert Schweitzer possuíam essa qualidade.
 Autonomia. Os autoatualizadores não dependem de autoridades externas ou de outras pessoas. Eles tendem a ser engenhosos e independentes.
 Contínuo frescor de apreciação. O autoatualizador parece renovar constantemente a apreciação das coisas boas básicas da vida. Um pôr-do-sol ou uma flor serão experimentados tão intensamente como foram da primeira vez. Existe uma "inocência da visão", como a de um artista ou criança.
 Relações interpessoais profundas. As relações interpessoais dos autoatualizadores são marcadas por laços amorosos profundos.
 Conforto com a solidão. Apesar de terem um relacionamento satisfatório com os outros, as pessoas autoatualizadas valorizam a solidão e se sentem confortáveis em ficar sozinhas.
 Senso de humor não hostil. Isso se refere à capacidade de rir de si mesmo.
 Experiências de pico. Todos os sujeitos de Maslow relataram a ocorrência frequente de experiências de pico (momentos temporários de autoatualização). Essas ocasiões foram marcadas por sentimentos de êxtase, harmonia e profundo significado. Os autoatualizadores relataram sentir-se em harmonia com o universo, mais forte e mais calmo do que nunca, cheio de luz, beleza, bondade e assim por diante.
 Socialmente compassivo. Possuir humanidade.
 Alguns amigos. Poucos amigos íntimos e não muitos relacionamentos superficiais.
 Gemeinschaftsgefühl. Segundo Maslow, os autoatualizadores possuem "Gemeinschaftsgefühl", que se refere ao "interesse social, sentimento da comunidade ou um sentimento de unidade com toda a humanidade".

Crítica

Maslow observou cedo sua impressão de que "a impulsividade, a expressão irrestrita de qualquer capricho, a busca direta por 'ser bacana' e por prazeres não sociais e puramente privados ... muitas vezes são incorretamente rotulados como autoatualizações". Nesse sentido, a "autoatualização" é pouco mais do que Eric Berne descreveu como o jogo de "'Autoexpressão' ... baseado no dogma 'Sentimentos são bons'".

Críticas mais amplas da psicologia humanística ao conceito de autoatualização incluem o perigo de que "a ênfase na tendência de atualização; ... possa levar a uma visão altamente positiva do ser humano, mas estranhamente não-relacional". De acordo com Fritz Perls, há também o risco de confundir "autoatualizar e autoimagem se atualizando ... a maldição do ideal". Para Perls, combinando-se "a virtude da autoatualização e a realidade da autoatualização", a última torna-se apenas mais uma medida para o "manda-chuva" - a consciência incômoda: "Você me diz para coisas. Você me diz para ser real. Você me diz para ser autorrealizada; ... não preciso ser tão boa!" Barry Stevens comentou:Segundo Paul Vitz, isso pode estar relacionado à acusação de que "Rogers e Maslow ambos transformam a autoatualização a partir de uma noção descritiva em uma norma moral". Embora, se ela é de fato uma realidade tão boa quanto eles pretendem, então uma certa ansiedade em sua comunicação é compreensível.

Em geral, durante o início do século XXI, "a utilidade dos conceitos do si mesmo e de autoatualização continua a atrair discussão e debate".

Além disso, pode haver um sentimento comum de que a possibilidade de 'autoatualização' é reservada para aquelas pessoas que tiveram sorte na vida e não precisam lutar pela sobrevivência do dia a dia em um emprego sem saída. Não obstante, Maslow (2011) sugeriu que era muito sobre a atitude que o indivíduo trouxe à sua vida que pode ser o catalisador crucial de para onde a vida e o autocrescimento da pessoa vão. Existem muitos exemplos de quando as pessoas estão basicamente nas mesmas circunstâncias, mas se mostraram muito diferentes, o que pode indicar que a atitude pode ter uma enorme influência sobre o destino de alguém; no entanto, sempre há a pergunta: o que torna a atitude diferente de pessoa para pessoa?

Ver também
Autoconhecimento
Autocumprimento
Autorrealização
Autorreflexão
Desintegração positiva
Filosofia do self
Humanismo
Individuação
Iluminação espiritual
Perfeccionismo (filosofia)
Personalidade
Potencialidade e atualidade
 Teoria da personalidade

Leitura adicional
 Harrington, Anne: Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler, Princeton University Press, 1999. (Includes a comprehensive chapter on Kurt Goldstein and his work.)
 Heylighen, Francis. (1992). A cognitive-systemic reconstruction of Maslow's theory of self-actualization. Behavioral Science, 37(1), 39–58. doi:10.1002/bs.3830370105
 Kress, Oliver (1993)."A new approach to cognitive development: ontogenesis and the process of initiation". Evolution and Cognition 2(4): 319-332.
 David, R. W. (2011). Montessori, Maslow, and Self-actualization. Montessori Life, 23(4), 16-21.

Psicologia da personalidade
Motivação
Desenvolvimento pessoal
Comportamento humano
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Domino's Pizza has filed a complaint at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) after failing to secure a .pizza domain name.
The international franchise company did not register the dominos.pizza domain during the sunrise period for .pizza registrations, which closed on November 29.
The domain was then registered by an individual called CJ Sculti on December 7.
But in a complaint filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy at the NAF, Domino's has attempted to wrestle the domain back from Sculti.
Domino's paid $1,300 to file the complaint.
Sculti appears to be chief executive of a hosting company called Data Wagon.
The .pizza generic top-level domain is managed by domain name registry Donuts. According to the Donuts website there are currently 3,257 registrations for .pizza addresses.
Brian Winterfeldt, partner at law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman, said it was surprising that Domino's did not register the domain given the "clear nexus" between the gTLD and its business.
"Even if Dominos had no intention of using this domain actively in connection with its business it seems to be a clear candidate for a defensive registration to avoid precisely the kind of cybersquatting that has occurred here," he added.
But nevertheless Winterfeldt said Dominos was "essentially certain to prevail" in the UDRP given the clear trademark rights, the lack of any legitimate rights or interest in the name by the registrant, and the high probability that the domain was registered in bad faith.
"This kind of incident, unfortunately, is a common occurrence, illustrating the challenges for all famous brands posed by the new gTLD program, and demonstrating why it is so important for brand owners to partner with trademark counsel knowledgeable about ICANN matters," Winterfeldt added.
David Taylor, partner at law firm Hogan Lovells, speculated that the failure to register the domain may have been a conscious decision "given the costs of many applications across many gTLDs".
"We have clients who are securing their main brands in relevant new gTLDs and others who are waiting to see if their brand is registered by unscrupulous third parties and then taking action. It does cost more to enforce on a specific domain name, but then multiple sunrise applications across new gTLDs also is a significant burden on brand owners," he said.
Taylor added: "There is no right or wrong strategy and it depends on many factors. In any event, I would think it highly likely that Domino's will succeed in recuperating the domain as it is clear that the registrant must have had the pizza company in his mind when registering the domain name."
Domino's told TBO it would provide a comment but had not done so at the time of publication.
Sculti has been contacted for comment.
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Perhaps the baby has the cord around it's neck? He has to help to remove it? Or the baby isn't breathing and while the nurse works on the mother he gives CPR? Breaths the life back into the baby?
I don't know if you HAVE to experience the emotions but for some intense emotions I believe it does help. Grief is one of those emotions that comes differently to each person. The journey is different for each one.
I'm so glad that your story is knocking on your subconscious again. I feel like it will help you through your journey.
Breathing life into the baby could be symbolically powerful. I'll consider that. Also, the cord wrapped around its neck is a good image. I might be able to do first the cord, he cuts it with his flint, then breathes life into the baby while the nurse continues to work with the mother.
They had done nothing to deserve imprisonment except fall victim to the capriciousness of their former owners. The snakes, lizards, and tortoises had grown too big. The seeing-eye dog had gone blind. Last year's Easter chicks had become unfluffy chickens. The cute little puppies had grown large and ugly. The supposedly spayed cat had gotten pregnant. The tropical birds grew too raucous. The potbellied pig lost its charm. The Colorado River toad lost its appeal when its owner got sick after licking it to get high. A few, like the European barn owl with the broken beak and the Australian frilled lizard with the bad leg had belonged to zoos until they became infirm.
I guess I could have called them pre-owned, but my hero does not believe humans have the right to own animals.
Sounds intense and fascinating. And inspiring. Like a good kick in the pants. Thanks, Pat.
The first thought in my head – a dangerous birth because the cord's too short.
Sounds panicky. I wonder if I could write it? It would make for a bit of drama.
I like the breath of life symbolism, too. Many people believe the soul of the child arrives on the first breath.
My own experiences with emotions make it easier to write about them; well, easier in some ways. In ways, harder, since I'm reliving what I went through when I write the scene.
That's kind of what I'm afraid of, reliving the grief as I write it. It would seem that the smart thing for me to do would be to write the grief scene now while I'm living it so I don't have to relive it later.
Written now, your scene might have a sharper edge.
Now all I have to do is take that first big step and actually begin writing again! I'm not sure I have the courage or the confidence.
Pat, no one needs to know if you start or not. Maybe do it in a diary form or stream of consciousness. Though, I'm not a big fan of SOC myself.
Jan, you're right, no one needs to know. However, I do seem to lead my life online, so it's a bit difficult to ignore that I'm not writing. At least, not writing fiction. I do stream of consciousness writing for myself to help get me through this sorrow.


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Welcome back to our monthly blog series, Check Up with Blum! Each month, we are discussing a topic about canine health that affects your Chicago pet! Join us as we cover these topics with Blum Animal Hospital's co-owner Dr. Natalie Marks, and learn about how you can help keep your best friend healthy and happy in the big city!
This month, we are talking about thunderstorm and firework phobia in dogs. With Independence Day (and other summer festivities) along with our sometimes-unpredictable Chicago weather coming up this season, it can be a difficult time for dogs with noise sensitivity. Read on to see what you can do to help your pooch feel more at ease with all of summertime's loud activities!
First, what is it about thunder and fireworks that scares dogs?
According to Dr. Marks, scientists are not completely sure on the true underlying cause of thunderstorm and firework phobia in dogs. Some experts believe that dogs are reacting to the lightning, some say they react to the noise, and others claim that dogs may sense changes in the air prior to the beginning of a storm.
From a training perspective, some people believe that these dogs may have had a lack of exposure to storms early in development, that a dog's owner may have unintentionally reinforced a fear response (by acting a certain way every time a thunderstorm happens and inadvertently letting the dog know that acting fearful is the correct response to the storm), and/or that these dogs have a genetic predisposition to anxiety. So there may be several reasons why your dog is afraid of thunder or fireworks!
Is there anything that can make a dog more prone to fearing thunder, fireworks, and other loud noises?
Herding dogs and hounds tend to be more thunder-phobic than other dog breeds.
Rescued dogs have a higher incidence of thunderstorm phobias than the rest of the dog population.
While any dog can have this phobia, it is important to know if your dog might be more likely to develop it bases on their breed or history.
When will dogs start showing fear of loud noises, and what is happening physiologically in those fearful moments?
Most dogs who are sensitive to storms and other noises will start to display signs between 1 to 2 years of age according to Dr. Marks.
None of these things are good for your dog, so it's important to help them feel calm!
Now that we know some reasons why your dog might be fearful of thunder and fireworks and what happens to them when they're fearful, let's learn about how to help them feel more at ease!
What is recommended to help your noise-phobic dog feel better at home during thunderstorms and when fireworks are going off?
Safety and security are the key concerns for dogs with noise phobias. Not only can they run away from the home due to intense fear, they can easily injure themselves inside or outside of the home. So it is important that the methods you use are helping your pup feel safe first and foremost!
Some dogs prefer to go into a "safe place" in the home like a bathroom or even in the bathtub itself because those surfaces significantly decrease the electricity in the air. If your dog prefers a space in the bathroom, in a crate, or in a closet or other enclosed space, let him be there as long as he is not hurting himself.
Gentle massage and brushing can sometimes be helpful to reduce stress in your dog.
Some owners find "natural" options like Rescue Remedy, valerian, melatonin, and Adaptil collars, sprays, and diffusers to be very helpful.
There are a few "clothing" items that can be helpful: the Anxiety Wrap and Thundershirt are like dog "coats" that swaddle the dog and calm many of them. (It is similar to swaddling babies!) The Calming Cap is another calming clothing item—it covers the head and works like blinders on a horse.
There are some dogs who seem to respond favorably to ambient noise or other comforting music during a thunderstorm. The theory behind this is that the positive sounds/music "drown" out the sound of the thunderstorm. The response in dogs is quite variable.
If an owner has more time, systematic desensitization to the fearful noises can be very beneficial. This is the theory of very slowly exposing your dog to a trigger that causes fear and increasing the intensity with time as long as the dog stays relaxed. Dr. Marks gives this example: an owner can play sounds of thunderstorms on his or her smart phone at a very low volume and give simultaneous rewards if the dog is calm.
There are anti-anxiety medications that can be discussed with your dog's veterinarian that can be helpful as well.
Additionally, well before a storm begins, an owner can try to redirect a dog's focus by teaching a trick or focused behavior (a mental task like sit or down) and rewarding with a high reward treat (like chicken or cheese) to hold his or her attention on something positive. Please note that this is not something that can be worked on after a dog is fearful or anxious, so do not try to start doing this during a storm!
If you know your dog is afraid of storms or fireworks, is it okay to leave them at home alone when one of those things is happening?
Dr. Marks said that many dog owners wonder if it is recommended to stay home with a noise-phobic dog during a thunderstorm or firework display. She says this decision really depends on the severity of the dog's phobia in addition to the preparation the dog's owner has done ahead of time to help relieve fear, anxiety, and stress and make the environment as safe as possible. Making sure the dog is in a safe space is just as important as knowing the severity of your dog's fear, so do not skip that step if you need to leave home!
If you are outside on a walk when fireworks or a thunderstorm begins, what should you do?
Dr. Marks let us know that there are a few dogs who actually feel better outside during these storms or fireworks events. If that is the case with an individual dog, the owner should make sure that the dog is in a very secure collar or harness, on leash, and equipped with ID tags.
If your dog is not one who can tolerate being outside during thunderstorms or firework displays, you should definitely still have them secure on their leash and harness and get them back inside as soon as possible.
Now that we know all about what happens when a dog is fearful of loud noises, when should you consult your vet about your dog's fear?
Thunderstorm and firework phobia can be difficult for dogs at any time, but especially during the summer! Follow some of these tips from Dr. Marks, and you can help your dog feel better this season and all year long!
Thank you to Dr. Natalie Marks at Blum Animal Hospital for her insight into thunderstorm and firework phobia in dogs! We appreciate her hard work in making sure that every Chicago pet has the best life possible!
Blum Animal Hospital is located at 3219 N. Clark Street and has been caring for Chicago's pets since 1952. They have been accredited by the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) since 1972. To learn more about Blum, their Fear Free certification and the calming techniques they use, check out their website!


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Many of us grew up with the idea that a career was for life: you go to university or college, learn a profession or occupation, get a job in a good company and with some effort, time and luck, you'll get promoted up the career ladder until is time to retire.
Until only a decade ago, that was the usual pattern, you would change jobs once or twice, anything more than that may even sound suspicious, unless you were moving to another country. Careers and jobs were very stable.
That is no longer the case: while a majority of traditional jobs and careers continue to follow that pattern, the Gig economy is increasingly changing the way we see careers, jobs and even formal studies.
In this series, prepared for my upcoming workshop at the 2017 B.C. Career Development Association (BCCDA) Conference, I will be sharing what I have researched and learned from this trend, how it affects job seekers and how to make the best out of its uncertain promises.
But first the first: what is the Gig Economy?
The Gig Economy is made up of freelance, part-time, contract and temporary jobs. While these have always existed, what was once a six percent of the total workforce is now 43 percent and growing.
For employers the Gig Economy allows them to save money, become more efficient and ensure highly skilled workers working when they are most needed. They save on vacation, insurance and other benefits, and in some cases, they also save on rent and supplies. The Gig Economy allows them to get workers when they are needed and not checking social media or hanging around the coffee break spot with no project in hand (but still being paid).
For workers, the Gig Economy can be really challenging: always in the look for a new "gig" or contract/project, unsteady income, no benefits, no pension and the chance to be taken advantage of.
There is, however, a bright side on it: if planned, the Gig Economy can lead to real life-work balance, enabling workers to take time off between gigs, re-assess their concept of success and quality of life, use diverse skill-sets instead of just one, connect with interesting people and projects and participate in a more sustainable and strong local economy that in the long term creates more job opportunities and quality of life for all in the community they live.
According to author Diane Mulcahy (The Gig Economy, Amacom, NYC 2016), there are 10 rules to succeed in the Gig Economy: 1) Define your success; 2) Diversify; 3) Create your own security; 4) Connect without networking; 5) face fear by reducing risk; 6) take time off between gigs; 7) be mindful about time; 8) be financially flexible; 9) think access, not ownership and 10) save for the traditional retirement…but don't plan on having one.
In the upcoming months, I will be writing a series of articles and blog posts about these "rules" and how they apply to real people, especially to newcomers, youth and seniors and what are your options to navigate this roller-coaster and not perish.
I will also be open to questions from readers, please contact the editor for more details.


SALT LAKE CITY – The father of a Utah mother who has been missing for two years said Monday that he will fight the release of pages from her diary. But the family of her husband, Josh Powell, who is under a cloud of suspicion in her disappearance, said the pages show she had tried to commit suicide as a teen and could have walked away from her family, as they suspect.
The debate comes days after authorities searched a sprawling network of abandoned mines outside Ely, Nev., but didn't reveal any new evidence.
Chuck Cox, Susan's father, and Steve Powell, Josh's father, argued loudly in front of reporters and television cameras in Puyallup on Saturday. The families are scheduled to meet in court today, with Josh Powell seeking a restraining order against Cox.
The family of Josh Powell, whom authorities have called a person of interest in his wife's disappearance, is backing up assertions that Susan ran off with another man in December 2009, leaving her husband and two sons, by saying that pages from her diary prove she had a history of erratic behavior. The family initially released the documents to KTVX in Salt Lake City.