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Category Archives: Daybook
There are effective treatments for trauma.
One of the good things about the Cochrane review is that it is available to the public, and the summaries are written in fairly plain English. This review of psychological treatments for PTSD — which is the rubric under many … Continue reading
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The storm is a coming…
The Key government has an agenda. They want to move New Zealand towards a small government — less intervention — lower tax position. However, their party (the gNATs) was scarred by the backlash to Ruth Richardson in the aftermath of … Continue reading
We are now considered a PIIG.
We are spendiing more that we take in. The government is trying to balance debt in a neo-Keynesian manner. It did not work for Muldoon. It will not work now. Today’s tender of Treasury bills by the Debt Management Office … Continue reading
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The Tea Party speaks for the workers.
Half Sigma uses a class analysis on the tea party. He argues that it is indeed a Marxist movement responding to the proletariat or workers. I have quoted almost the entire post, but it is good. go read it. The … Continue reading
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This is what a therapy for abuse looks like.
The SST has a long article about how the eevilll doctors are stopping them working. Now, the problem is, that they don’t say how they work. And this is not how therapy research works. You describe your methods, including the … Continue reading
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The precious petals…
Today the ethos is let’s break the rules of logic. Firstly, the SST has an article about Felicity Goodyear-Smith, who has a 20 year research career on abuse invalidated because (thirty years ago) her husband was a member of a … Continue reading
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Katy is on form today.
Topic is someone subvocalising comments: it is deemed impolite to say the truth out loud in Canukstan. Some of us “mutter under our breath” because they want to be spared the fate of those like me who refuse to “mutter” … Continue reading
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Very true
This applies to any capital in the Anglosphere. The political elite are acting to preserve their power. One of my favorite quotes is from Joseph Schumpeter who said “everyone has elites the important thing is to change them from time … Continue reading
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ouch
arts of our financial system and many property owners have been in a zombie-like state for much of the last two years, hoping that the lending will start again and the deals will return. No one wants to sell for … Continue reading
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Divorce
I spent some of this week reviewing the situation around the boys visiting their mother. (Yes, they live with me.) I’m divorced. I hate the fact that I’m divorced. It has been painful, and expensive. However, given the situation my … Continue reading
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