Anonymous ID: 0da87e Nov. 21, 2018, 11:56 a.m. No.3986231   🗄️.is 🔗kun

TECHNOCRACY: A CITIZENS’ PERSPECTIVE

 

34 page PDF is attached

 

Technocracy is dangerous and ugly, anathema to democratic self-government. Empowering a largely invisible and largely unaccountable elite to make policy is nothing short of the abdication of our responsibilities as citizens’ (Craig, 2014, p. 32)

 

''The European crisis has caused a renewed debate around citizens’ attitudes towards the political institutions that make up the European democratic landscape. A number of studies have focused on the ailing image of political parties and the European Union or on extreme parties, but less on the ‘winners’ of the Eurocrisis: the technocrats. There is little knowledge of what citizens’ attitudes towards those actors are, and how they relate to those towards ‘traditional’ partisan or representative actors and institutions. Using survey data from the European Values Survey the paper tests a series of hypotheses about the determinants of citizens’ favourable attitudes towards technocracy. Combining country level institutional characteristics with individual data on political attitudes, this paper offers an integrated

macro-level and micro-level analysis. It confirms the traditional view presenting technocracy and democracy as a zero-sum game, whereby citizens who are less satisfied and trustful of their democracies will tend to regard technocracy under a positive light. It also articulates the relationship between technocracy, political trust and support for democracy in a more complex, nuanced way, accounting for national contexts.''

Anonymous ID: 0da87e Nov. 21, 2018, 12:11 p.m. No.3986363   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>3986122

 

It's because POTUS has access to NDA eavesdropping data, and they have active FISA warrants that allow eavesdropping on a number of Cabal movers and shakers. They know that in phone conversations, these powerful people referred to Page as "uhgly as sin" and Nellie Ohr as "got a face that looks like it was hit by a freight train".

 

So this is a backhanded way of telling the Cabal, "we've been listening to you" and it puts pressure on them to make more mistakes.

 

And when the prosecutor sits down with Page or Ohr, proposing a plea bargain and gets refused by the loyal Cabal puppet, the prosecutor then plays this recording and says, "why are you protecting people who treat you like shit" and that is how they flipped these two. So Trump is letting the Cabal know how they are the masters of their own downfall and shot themselves in the foot.

Anonymous ID: 0da87e Nov. 21, 2018, 12:26 p.m. No.3986500   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>3986031

Study suggests abused children carry trauma in their DNA

CHILDHOOD TRAUMA IS already known for following us into our adult lives — and even to the grave. Research has shown that children with profound stress are more at risk of developing autoimmune diseases, obesity, mental health disorders, and heart disease.

 

But now, a preliminary study from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the University of British Columbia suggests that abused children literally carry their darkest experiences with them in their DNA.

 

Researchers gathered sperm samples from 34 adult men, some of whom were abused as children, and examined the chemical markings on their genome. These markings basically turn certain genes on, off, up or down — a process known as epigenetics — and are believed to affect the way our bodies and minds work.

 

“A lot of people ask, ‘How does child abuse get under the skin?’” said Andrea Lynne Roberts, one of the study’s authors and a research scientist in the Harvard public health school’s Department of Environmental Health. “We’ve learned that children who are abused have physical and mental health issues during their whole life. Epigenetics, or these marks on DNA, is one hypothesis for how that happens.”

 

Roberts and her colleagues found that study participants who experienced child abuse had noticeably different DNA markings than those who did not. In other words, child abuse might be altering our very DNA — and for adult men, there’s a possibility that these changes could be passed onto their children when the father’s sperm meets the mother’s egg.

 

“It’s plausible to think that, if an experience in the dad has affected his DNA, that [changed] DNA is what will make a new baby,” said Daniele Fallin, a professor and chair of the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who was not involved in the study. “That is the argument that’s being made . . . And it’s probable that it can impact the child because we know epigenetic markers in our DNA in early life can affect our health.”

 

In the future, scientists could potentially use these chemical markings as supporting evidence during trials involving abuse allegations. However, researchers have not yet been able to distinguish different types of child abuse (for example, emotional versus physical) — and still, this study needs to be repeated with a larger sample of adult males.

 

“It’s convenient to think that we are all masters of our own destiny, but research shows there’s a lot of generational passing of physical and mental heath,” Roberts said. “We don’t come into this life on an even playing field — that’s one takeaway.”