When is a think tank not a think tank?

Britain not only panders to the elite, they are supported through giving these organisations charitable status and media organisations such as the BBC hang on their very word. (I misspelled that as weird and maybe should have kept it).

The ‘Global Warming Policy Foundation’ is a paid shill for vested interest and headquartered in Tufton Street in London.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/15/tories-reform-net-zero-climate-science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation

The Linda Lindas - Racist, Sexist Boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5AhU5Q7vH0

We rebuild what you destroy
You are a racist, sexist boy

Live at the LA Public Library

I thought I had a bit of a break until next show in December, but I just realized that I'd forgotten one in September. And a smaller group show in July. Instant panic, then I spend an hour tidying up the greenhouse.
#MastoArt #PastelArtist #denial

Apropos... To today's #evil, #cult worship, #tribalism, #denial, & abeyance to authority / false #belief / #propaganda

http://www.fenichel.com/evil.shtml

A pithy & relevant report, a symposium on

" EVIL, HATE, AND HORROR:
A Conversation with Aaron T. Beck, Philip G. Zimbardo, and Frank Farley '

Here, several #psychology legends /icons discuss "evil". Still worth consideration, as clearly we're still prone to mass enabling &/or #denial
[My article]

In particular, there's a focus on "belief".

A report about the TWO factors involved in a mad authoritarian rising to power

https://www.rawstory.com/one-striking-personality-trait-shared-by-trump-supporters-researchers-find/

Look beyond the figurehead dictator - mad Toddler King in this "dangerous case of Donald Trump" - but at the #cult of followers/deniers/enablers making it all possible.

From Hitler Youth to Charles Manson to Sir #TrumpVirus, an emperor with the most terrific #cognitive clothing. ("Perfect, really")

#truth #denial #propaganda #fascism #StockholmSyndrome #psychology #psychopathology #evil

Hello, anyone noticing yet?

#media #cult #GQP || #disinformation
#denial vs. #Truth - "So much winning"....

The Emperor's 'new' #cognitive clothes

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Governments love to cover up their errors - unforced or otherwise, especially when admissions might mean compensation. See similar for British testing in Australia, the US on its own soil and no doubt others.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/france-spent-90000-countering-research-into-impact-of-pacific-nuclear-tests

In one 1974 test alone, 110,000 people could have received a radiation dose high enough to qualify them for compensation if they later developed one of 23 different cancers.

It's hard for the South to get things right from the start, because, ever since the Civil War, it has taught itself to equate righteousness with losing. "We must be right, y'all, because everyone else is against us." In my seventy-two years I have heard Southerners offer this excuse for everything from segregation to miscegenation laws to the 'religious liberty' currently invoked in the name of subjugating gay people. And in every instance, when the Supreme Court reminds them that decent people don't act this way anymore, they haul out the states' rights flag and brandish it in a Rebel-gray fog of amnesia.
-- Armistead Maupin (Logical Family)

#Wisdom #Quotes #ArmisteadMaupin #Denial #Racism #TheSouth

#Photography #Panorama #Sunset #LakeSantaFe #Florida

“Investors suing NHS-embedded UnitedHealth for authorising TOO MUCH treatment”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour

“Health insurer that says its role is to avoid healthcare spending and paid nursing homes not to send old people to hospital relaxed refusals policy slightly after CEO shot in street”

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/05/23/investors-suing-nhs-embedded-unitedhealth-for-authorising-too-much-treatment/

The U.S. Under #Trump: Alone in Its #Climate #Denial

The administration is not only allowing more greenhouse gases. It is undermining the nation’s ability to understand and respond to a hotter planet

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/climate/trump-climate-denial.html

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/c... The correct word to describe this is " #corruption " and not " #denial ." #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

The U.S. Under Trump: Alone in...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/climate/trump-climate-denial.html

The correct word to describe this is "#corruption" and not "#denial."

I don't want to surrender
my precious time
to the Monday morning impending

As long as I stay awake
it's still Sunday night
and if I don't sleep at all
the tomorrow I am dreading
will never come

In completely unrelated to anything news, Donald Trump today said that Moody's are "a bunch of losers", and that he barely knows them, and that no one cares what they think.

#status #ontology #musing #deepmind Is re-structuring my directories the late middle aged equivalent of 'tidying my sock drawer'. #denial #avoidence #psychotherapy Asking for a friend obviously

"Joe Rogan & Other Top Podcasts Spread Climate Disinfo, Research Finds"

https://sentientmedia.org/joe-rogan-other-podcasts-spread-climate-disinfo/ @sentientmedia
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Remember last November, when Elon Musk joined Joe Rogan on his podcast, and the two dismissed meat production as “irrelevant” to the climate crisis? Or last December, when fellow podcaster Russell Brand, once a committed vegan for ethical and environmental reasons, posted about eating steak at Mar-a-Lago with President-elect Trump? New research from Yale finds that the leading podcasters are increasingly serving up misinformation about climate change and the impact of eating meat, with a side of charisma.
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I've been thinking of the best way to explain this phenomenon, and it's something between: 1/3

#socialmedia the opiate of the masses is failing to effectively extricate people from #reality

If enough reality leaks into the fantasy #revolution will take place.

I wonder what will come next? The govt would, if they were permitted, drug the public.

Work. Consume. Sleep. Repeat.

If you know how to #think ignoring reality is impossible.

Self #denial may make you happy but it's offensive to your intellect.

We have to do better.