Mahler's Prodigal Son

Anyone who has even remotely followed Trump in his almost 100 days in the White House, will not be surprised by how 35 psychiatrists have diagnosed Trump .     Dangerous is one word which immediately comes to mind. "35 psychiatrists this week gathered at a conference at Yale to sound the alarm on what they believe is President Donald Trump’s “dangerous mental illness.” Per  The Independent , the psychiatrists met at Yale’s School of Medicine on Thursday to talk about Donald Trump’s mental health, which they warned was frighteningly unstable. “We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump’s dangerous mental illness,”  said Dr. John Gartner , a practicing psychotherapist who advised psychiatric residents at Johns Hopkins University Medical School and who has in the past warned Trump is a “psychiatric Frankenstein monster.” Gartner and other psychiatrists at the conference argued that Trump suffers from a particula...

Whilst Trump pulls back on anything to do with climate change - borne out of ignorance - now comes news that we can expect rougher and bumpier flights because of climate change. "Keep that seat belt buckled ? it could be a bumpy flight. New research predicts that severe clear air turbulence in the stratosphere could increase by 149% because of climate change. That is because global warming, driven in part by the colossal fossil fuel consumption of today’s massive global jetliner fleet, is expected to generate stronger wind shear within the stratospheric jetstreams. Paul Williams, a meteorologist at the University of Reading in the UK, reports in the Advances in Atmospheric Sciences journal that he used supercomputer simulations to test the rise in rough rides and scary moments at altitudes of 9,000 metres across the Atlantic if carbon dioxide ratios in the atmosphere double ? as they could this century, unless drastic action is taken to reduce emissions. Light tur...

The West has courted Turkey mainly because, amongst many other reasons, in the case of the US, it has military bases in the country.   There has been ongoing discussion about Turkey joining the EU. The country is clearly steering toward a dictatorship.    The election today is another example of the President acting more like a dictator. Read the story of one doctor as reported in The New York Times ..... "At present, several pieces of evidence can suggest that you may be a member of FETO, including having had an account at Bank Asya, which was founded by Gulenists; running the ByLock encrypted communication app on your phone (thought to have facilitated planning for the coup attempt); possessing those F-series dollar bills; sending your children to a school associated with Gulen; working at a Gulen-affiliated institution (a university, say, or a hospital); having subscribed to the Gulen newspaper Zaman; or having Gulen’s books in your house. One action i...