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Psychopathy

Inevitable?

What happens when an economy (national or global) is based on a system that promotes psychopathic behaviors? If one doesn’t believe that corporate capitalism favors psychopathy, one has not been reading headlines of late or one has a very short and selective memory. Review: ▪  A Plague of Psychopaths? at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/05/a-plague-of-psychopaths.html▪  Capital Punishment at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2015/10/capital-punishment.html▪ […]

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ConCERNing CERN

I wonder if any one at CERN* appreciates the irony. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is allegedly mankind’s greatest achievement, yet a weasel1 (out of all possible creatures!) shuts it down.2 That monstrous, multi-billion dollar, man-made machine—generating blasts of (hey, let’s-see-what-might-happen!) energy—succumbed to the teeth of a small Mustela. Could this event carry a message?

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The Face of Servitude ?

ser•vi•tudeNOUN1. slavery or bondage of any kind: political or intellectual [or spiritual] servitude.2. …Synonyms: bondage, bonds, chains, confinement, enslavement, obedience, peonage, serfdom, serfhood, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom, vassalage, yoke,(Source: Dictionary.com) In this latter-day, when the “promises” of power and gain have again captivated the imagination of most of the world and ALL of the powers that

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Capital Punishment ?

Capital punishment … is punishment by death. The sentence is referred to as a death sentence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally “regarding the head” (referring to execution by beheading).1 In light of recent corporate crimes

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Washout ?

(Re-viewing psychotropic drugs) Washout 4. (informal) 1. a total failure or disaster 2. an incompetent person (http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/wash-out) 3. dose tapering of medication to more safely discontinue its use or to (ostensibly) eliminate its effects before commencing a different treatment regime (source: industry idiom1) But perhaps we should expand the meaning of “washout” as we consider:

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