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2011-12-28

#9-11 #ControlledDemolition #asbestos#cancer#purges

11.21: mis.health/controlled demolitions for jet strikes 
release a lot of asbestos and other carcinogens:
. they still haven't solved the problem:
one white guy breezes through security,
and a jet goes into a tower,
that tower is likely to have the same
fire-suppressions systems as the WTC:
if the fire is small asbestos is on all the steel girders;
if the fire is huge then the controlled demolition happens,
and asbestos is all over the city .
11.28:
. who pushed the button on all those fire fighters?
. what button? terrorists did it .
. what about the 3rd building's collapse?
(full of survival gear, oxygen, and fuel -- collapsed
after it simply caught fire from falling debris?)
. cheer up,
how about a 3rd-degree terrorism war?


2011-10-01

equal free #pol'speech #GetMoneyOut

10.1: news.pol/equal free #pol'speech #GetMoneyOut:
. there's a petition at GetMoneyOut for
a constitutional amendment based on this:
"( No person, corporation or business entity
of any type, domestic or foreign,
shall be allowed to contribute money, directly or indirectly,
to any candidate for Federal office
or to contribute money on behalf of or opposed to
any type of campaign for Federal office.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
campaign contributions to candidates for Federal office
shall not constitute speech of any kind
as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution
or any amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Congress shall set forth a federal holiday
for the purposes of voting for candidates for Federal office.)
. I signed this pretty easily,
and was asked to tweet the following:
"(I just signed a petition to #GetMoneyOut of politics
via @DylanRatigan )*
but while deciding how I would re-word it,
I realized I had no idea how they intended to
fund our federal election campaigns;
so, I researched and wrote this essay .
. the implied idea here is public funding
where every candidate has equal access to
eno' money to speak to the public;
and, run a debate through advertising .
*:
@DylanRatigan refers to The Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC

2011-09-23

is it #underemployment or #overpopulation ? #pol

8.16: web.pol/purges/number of purged in usa:

intro:

. my definition of the practically purged
includes all forms of societal outcastings
whether it be to prisons or the streets .
. my definition of the homeless poor
are those in such poverty they can't even afford
a warm, safe car to sleep in
(insured, registered, and licensed),
and those having such meager social relations
that they would rather ask a charity shelter for bedding
than seek a place with family or friends:
this segment tripled from 1980 to 1990 .
. often the research on homelessness
will define the homeless as
not living in a house;
but 59% of those "(homeless) were car campers .
. even if cities have a war against car camping,
a person who has the income to do that
and finds somewhere to get away with it,
is not homeless in a warm, locked car .
[9.5:
. it is often conjectured that
many homeless are voluntarily unemployed;
but we should consider overpopulation:
if employees were always scarce,
we could easily find the money
to reserve the loner jobs for loners,
and the easy jobs for the slow;
we could be more generous with
subsidies for the challenged .
. most of a city's quality standard rules
(car-camping bans, maximums on number of
persons at one residence, ...)
are really more concerned with
suppressing overpopulation
than they are with actual safety .
. when you volunteer for employment in our economy,
you volunteer to do the work of 3 men
in order to pay for the wildly inflated
housing made scarce by overpopulation,
and pay taxes to support police & inspectors
that are primarily there just to
suppress overpopulation by
raising the cost of construction
(eg, building codes with min'size requirements,
or bans on factory-built homes)
and enforcing the inflated living standards
with bans on car-camping
(maximises property taxes paid by rents).
. you gotta problem finding a job to
pay for all this?
step across any of our bureaucratic lines
and you're easily purged to prison!
-- we're all about purging; because,
you're all about abundant-life free parenting .]

summary:

. out of 307M usa citizens, there are
2.3M prisoners
+ 0.124M chronic homeless .
-- thus our actual numbers of purgables
may be equal to our entire
year-1790 population! (3.9M) .
. our number of "corrected"
-- under correctional supervision --
is the size of our entire
year-1810 population! (7.2M) .

2011-06-29

mired if the savior succeeds

Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World6.29: pol/obamanomics/
we're mired if the savior succeeds:

. Obama spoke to the people about the
repub's obstructing a debt limit raise
for this strange low point involving
both a depression needing gov jobs,
and a jobs-saving bail out of many industries
who were mass-rolled by an unregulated,
shark-tanked finance sector .
. he spoke of congress as if they were
Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics (Economics in the Obama Presidency)one entity -- ignoring the usa habit of
punishing one party by
voting in the opposite party .

. that opacity was to substantiate his
next point:
the debt limit is not an issue of
what to buy;
these are bills that one congress
has already agreed to pay;
and now the issue with this limit is
Europe's Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope in an Insecure Agewhich bills would they prefer to pay ?

. bond interests to chinese loans?
or social security checks?
-- that kind of choice
( this example could be reminding us
that we could avoid these chinese loans
by agreeing to pay more taxes;
but there's no use asking for taxes now:
a good gov gets a surplus in good times
and these times are not those times).

Depression For Dummies. doing more to promote employment
would ease our unemployment costs
and contribute to the tax base;
conversely,
if markets become spooked by news of
a usa who suddenly won't pay its bills,
that could be very bad for jobs .

. Obama is not addressing
the main issue:
repub's are trying to force a smaller fed
by strangling its income:
both taxes and loans are being restricted
at a time of depression in which
the only savior in town would be
the gov taking out loans to create jobs .
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
. yet the conservatives may be
indirectly correct:
what if there really is
no savior possible because
if you dig us out of this depression
we'll only worsen the main problem:
it's a fluff economy trying to
fig-leaf an overpopulation problem .
. free parenting must think we asked for
more free employees
or revolutionaries .
Taboo
pop'con strike you as
racist or commy?
. free capitalists already have
what they want,
so how could the next revolutionaries
possibly be up to some good?
. what is there to want
after you've asked for free capitalism ?
. we desperately need help with
either lowering population growth
or distributing wealth .
. lowering population growth is so taboo
that conservatives can't even mention it;
any time they want to say something like
"(conservatives will put pressure on
lowering population growth)
they instead speak about
how liberals must be kept from
distributing wealth .
Response to Occupational Health Hazards: A Historical Perspective (Industrial Health & Safety). any time conservatives want to say
"(conservatives will now engage in
acts of lowering population growth)
they remind us that conservatism is about
reducing gov regulation and oversight
of occupational hazards,
foods that cause cancer and heart disease,
energy sources that raise mercury levels,
and a get-em-movin' traffic light system
Traffic fatalities and economic growth [An article from: Accident Analysis and Prevention]that kills 40,000 per year
when they could instead use
a rotary or roundabout
see how that works
for conservatives?
spend tax dollars this year
or kill an entire usa town
every year ... .
. conservatism may also be big on wars
but they aren't the only ones;
and, being giants of high-tech,
our wars hardly put a dent
in our population growth .

. there's a popular delusion that
strong family values built this country;
in fact,
the overcrowding in our mother countries
was landing desperadoes into a huge land
with no recognizable people in it !
the luck of the pilgrim was
nothing more than instant depopulation:
resources per person were infinite;
everyone had a job packaging resources .
. but a capitalism that is run well
should run us out of all jobs
within a century (welcome home).
. the next big thing will be
floating cities on oceans,
and defending the land-based cities
with solar-energized robotics .

2011-06-19

FUH-cake! psilocybin is almost respectable

Mushroom Wisdom: How Shamans Cultivate Spiritual Consciousness6.17: web.wealth/psilocybin:

17/06/2011 (2000 GMT) bbc world service:
listen:
. the last segment (at minute:46) is
"(what makes mushrooms magic)
about a new study by Roland Griffiths, PhD,
contradicting doctrine by the war on drugs
(he shows psilocybin has therapeutic value).

. the newscaster, Julian Marshall,
was very angry at the end!
(it's barely audible in the replay version).
. well, he always sounds angry,
but he was actually cussing the researcher!
. this is a UK reporter;
and UK law had been strengthened in 2005
to make possession of even unprepared mushrooms
a schedule I offence .

. here is the end of the interview:
JM: think it should be legal for therapeatic uses?
Dr: that would be premature,
we're just know resuming experiments;
regulatory approval would need more scientific data backing it
JM: FUH-cake! (sounding quite like "(ache)
and a certain forbidden 4-letter word ).

. so what was that about?

Dr Griffiths' study in J.Neuropsychopharmacology
. at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dr. Griffiths, is Professor of Behavioral Biology,
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences,
and, Professor of Neuroscience,
Department of Neuroscience .
. the study was partly funded by the
Council on Spiritual Practices .
Doses were based on body size and were 5 mg, 10 mg, 20 mg,
or 30 mg for every 154 pounds of body weight.
About 40% of study participants, or seven out of 18,
reported feeling extreme anxiety and fear
while they were on the two highest doses of the drug.
Six of the seven, however, experienced the fear while on
the highest dose of the drug.
Only one person reported negative fear effects on the 20 mg dose.
nearly 3/4 of people on the highest psilocybin doses
rated their experiences as mystical, transformative,
and highly beneficial.
graphic details at motherjones:
. 20mg per 70kg body weight was the
optimal dose for persisting positive mood
and increased well-being or life satisfaction .
. best working up from lesser doses
rather than starting with the target dose .

he did a similar study in 2006:
Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Roland Griffiths,
in a landmark 2006 experiment
published in Journal of Psychopharmacology
has 36 volunteers on 30mg psilocybin
who hadn’t previously taken the drug.
-- 30mg is [very]roughly equivalent to five grams
of dried psilocybe cubensis mushrooms .

. That study was the first in 40 years
to test a hallucinogen on people
in a clinical setting in the United States.
Formerly the focus of academic and government inquiry,
hallucinogens were abandoned by researchers
in the aftermath of the Sixties .
lib's for psilocybin info:
beckleyfoundation.org
drugwarfacts.org
council on spiritual practices
wiki
2008 psychiatric controls of shrooms

history of Psilocybin law:
The usa law that specifically banned psilocybin and psilocin
was enacted on October 24, 1968.
The latter substances were said to have "a high potential for abuse",
"no currently accepted medical use"
and "a lack of accepted safety".
On October 27, 1970, both psilocybin and psilocin
became classified as Schedule I
-- no known therapeutic benefit --
and were simultaneously labeled "hallucinogens"
under the “Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act”
(section "Controlled Substances Act").
Most national drug laws have been amended to
reflect this convention
(see US Psychotropic Substances Act,
the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971,
and the Canadian Controlled Drugs and Substances Act),
with possession and use of psilocybin and psilocin
being prohibited under almost all circumstances,
and often carrying severe legal penalties.
[ in the UK you can get 7 years with the FUH-cakes .]
However,
in many national, state, and provincial drug laws,
there is a great deal of ambiguity about
the legal status of psilocybin mushrooms
and the spores of these mushrooms,
as well as a strong element of
selective enforcement in some places.
Additionally,
there has been a general shift in attitudes
regarding research with hallucinogenic agents .
. after a long moratorium,
many countries are revising their positions
and have started to approve studies to
test their physiological and therapeutic effects .
Magic mushrooms ban becomes law (2005)
. while dried mushrooms were illegal
fresh mushrooms were not;
The [UK] Drugs Act 2005 ends that loophole
and makes them a class A [usa`schedule I] drug

Exceptions will be made for people who
unknowingly pick the mushrooms in the wild
or find them growing in their garden,
and critics have argued
that the act will be difficult to police.

. use of the fungi has risen 40% in a year:
2002/03: 180,000
2003/04: 250,000
-- especially since the internet age,
and 400 "headshops" around the country.
. the vast majority of mushrooms sold [in 2005]
came from mushroom farms in Holland.
The law change does not affect
Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)
another, much more rarely used magic mushroom .
paddos in the netherlands
. risk assessment for paddos (mushrooms)
containing psilocin and psilocybin .
. the [Amsterdam] Coordination Centre
for the Assessment and Monitoring of new drugs .

. psilocybin and its metabolite psilocin
can be found in Psilocybe ssp.
Psilocybe semilanceata, Psilocybe cubensis,
Conocybe, Panaeolus and Inocybe, ...)
-- Psilocybe, is easily confused with
the highly nephrotoxic Cortinarius spp .

. of those under 24 who had tried it,
50% had done so only once or twice;
most youth are into socialable party drugs,
not religious experiences .
. regular users wait 3 weeks between doses
due to drug tolerance .

Amsterdam and the border regions
contain a relatively high number of
grow shops, and head shops,
in addition to smart shops,
esp'ly in the Red Light District .

. the sale of paddos makes up
50% of smart shops turnover.
--[ it appeared from their vague language
that this had to do with its being illegal;
ie, it was the shops themselves -- not the product --
that was turning over! ]

. biological variation of the active ingredient
is between 1% and 3.5% (usually higher in wilds,
and inactivated at temperatures above 50°C).
Usual dose is 1 gram of dried mushroom
= 10 grams of fresh mushrooms;
. approx. 6 – 12mg of psilocybin
is the typical hallucinogenic dose .
[6.18:
. according to the recent study, this might
simply be a safe starting dose for a batch
since the potency is so varied .]

. it causes an increase in serotonin in the brain
and a temporary reduction in
noradrenaline, dopamine and histamine.
. sideaffects:
. dilated pupils, loss of balance,
parestheses (pins and needles all over the body),
muscle relaxation, accelerated heartbeat,
dry mouth and nausea.
Psychological symptoms:
. many hallucinogenic compounds can cause
long-forgotten memories to resurface
and leave a deep impression on users.
[. the long-term psychiatric complaints
"(flashbacks, panic attacks)
are consistent with schiz'ia;
ie, the people who are smart eno' to
keep their schiz'ic delusions a secret
(involuntary thought broadcasting? loser!)
will complain only of flashbacks, panic,
anxiety or depression .]

Adrenergic blockers (such as neuroleptics and propanol)
generally act as imperfect antagonists.
6.17: the Silk Road
. speaking of room for shrooms,
here is an anonymous drug sales network:
http://ianxz6zefk72ulzz.onion/index.php
-- that's a TOR address;
the transactions are done in Bitcoins,
a potentially anonymous online currency .
To avoid seizures Silk Road recommends
using vacuum packing
and creative disguises to send goods.
6.18:
. one of the Bitcoin developers, Jeff Garzik, wrote:
"(Attempting major illicit transactions with bitcoin,
given existing statistical analysis techniques
is not very smart );
however,
there are methods of using Bitcoin in a fairly
anonymous manner .
not tying your Bitcoin address to any known alias that you use.
“washing” coins could be done via
many small transactions to various addresses
or by sending them through “laundering” services .
You could also have fresh coins
that you have “mined” yourself
which will not yet have a real trail
in the transaction log.
6.18: welcome to the underworld:

. after seeing the underworld links on tor
(ianxz6zefk72ulzz.onion - silk road (drugs)
627kx22vati6uqkw.onion
That's a guy who steals **** for you.
vms43o4cqysakvyb.onion - buy bitcoins via cash
am4wuhz3zifexz5u.onion
****-ton of books/other things to read.
Fo mah niggaz a bunch of PDF downloads on
building firearms and firearm training:
http://p2uekn2yfvlvpzbu.onion/
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide... )
at first I thought
all this anonymity makes it seem like
our law enforcement job is hopeless;
but did you see our computer security?
how could those guys be that dumb?
I suspect industry is in bed with the law:
deliberately creating security holes .
Cybercrime and Espionage: An Analysis of Subversive Multi-Vector ThreatsSecrecy Wars: National Security, Privacy, and the Public's Right to Know
 

2011-04-09

glenn beck -- may he be confined to hate radio

4.8: news.pol/glenn beck radio's word on religion:
"(... anyone else living under the illusion of
a true Democratic Party
-- what are you smoking?
The Democrats don't exist anymore.
They were eaten by the progressives --
the labor unions, the communists, the radicals,
the globalists, George Soros -- yes ...)
-- Glenn Beck 2010 may 12
. Glenn Beck is big on anti-communism
and reminding us what a destructive mess
the fed's made of the south .
. today, and on Beck's show today,[4.8]
liberals are synonymous with totalitarian communism;
(they are both about freeing the labor class
at the expense of capitalists
-- and even the middle class);

. the 1800's civil war fed's can be thought of as
being the first communists here in usa;
because, the crux of communism is
labor rights vs capital owner's rights;
and, in the 1800's southern usa,
slavery and land was the primary capital;
however,
slavery was hardly a liberal vs conservative issue,
since the northern christians were conserving
evangelical christian values,
and defending usa`honor against attacks on
the sincerity of "(all men are created equal)
after rebelling against slave drivers
only to make a mint promoting slavery .

. the religion that southerners were conserving
was certainly the more popular one:
straight out of the roman empire,
should any one think it ever declined
-- human trafficking thrives to this day
and will continue as long as we support
privacy as an inalienable right .
praise be to the feds:
. still, you have to agree
that the fed's made a mess of the south;
we were fine splitting up once (with britain),
never again?
the least we could have done was
give the ex-slaves their own western reservations;
perhaps the trick to being a good capitalist
is making sure the competition is not ?

. speaking of reservations,
Glenn Beck must agree the feds can be useful
at least any time your religion needs to
keep some Jews in Palestine; [christian zionism]
here again, anyone with any religion at all,
would suggest the jews should accept a usa reservation,
otherwise,
they are sure to start the next world war,
just as the Nazi's hoped for
when they allowed their Jews to leave only if they
moved to {Palestine, Zion, Israel} .
. Hitler called Zionism "a great movement";
in fact,
it was his acquaintance with Zionism
that coalesced his view that
one cannot be both a German and a Jew;
Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, had also claimed
"(the world's twin evils) are
--[evil# from below:
too little competition]-- Communism
--[evil# from beside:
too much competition]-- Judaism.

. Hitler's Zionism obviously differs from Glenn's
if only because Glenn is quite tolerant of Jews;
nevertheless,
when the bible's G-D gives a prophesy like
"(you'll eat this fruit I warned you about
and then start dying)
do you really think this is a good time to
praise the power of prophesy
and eat the fruit from that tree?
likewise,
when G-D is whispering that bad things
will happen in Palestine,
believers might want to start thinking about
what they can do to make other places
more inviting .
[4.9:
. usa's Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
has 245 million surface acres,
-- 13 percent of the total usa land surface
and more than 40 % of all fed land .
. in order to replace Israel,
you need:
. 20,700 sq.km (5 million acres),
which hopefully includes
445 sq.km (172 sq mi) of inland water,
and some coastline (Israel boasts 273 km of that).]
breaking news from American Jews:
. over 10,000 petitioned Fox News
to fire Beck last fall,
and it recently happened [4.6] .

. as Glenn Beck was selling his newsletter, [4.8]
he said curiously:
"(I'm a capitalist;
I'm not asking for a handout).
--[4.9: . my first fallacious impulse, unfortunately,
was to brand him as a slaver proponent
(a whip-cracker asking for handouts)
when, in fact, he's only
objected to the way fed's handled the slavers .
. then again,
when are good capitalists not slavers?
The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Lifewell, when they're good eno' to automate
(or in Glenn's case, be self-employed);
really,
between the stampede of free parents
just dropping us off
-- with our very numbers and desperation
so devaluing our worth as a human resource
that we set our wages at "(under the table) --
and Free Capitalists automating away jobs,
capitalists are getting handouts
whether they accept them or not !]
Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big GovernmentBroke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and TreasureThe Overton WindowGlenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas PaineAn Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest ProblemsThe Five Thousand Year Leap: 30 Year Anniversary Edition with Glenn Beck Foreword

2011-02-23

usa's chocolate-boxed high-tech education

2.8: pol/edu/gump's chocolate-boxed:
news:
. even while college grad's cry about unemployment,
the high tech industry (this time biotech)
is again complaining they have shortages
of "(qualified) applicants .
pos:
doesn't it seem like a waste to have
everyone piling on spendy college attempts
Stress Wienerjust so these wieners can take the cream
and send the rest home to be dishwashers?

. much of what industry needs
just takes persistent parenting
(ie, with village backup)
rather than specialized schooling .
. if the kids started earlier,
they would have eno' of a background
that industry could easily train them .

. the way to rapidly evolve tech workers
is to support free high-level edu:
# do more with kids earlier:
much of the problem is just motivating kids .
. make motivation cheap:
use any welfare cases as teacher assistants .
. require people imprisoned for drug offenses
(the ones that can read)
to be manning online help centers for tutoring kids .
# free internet:
. put all the college textbooks online
in a place that grabs the attention of kids; [2.23:
this is already happening in wiki's;
now all we have to do is
replace most of the expensive teacher-time
with a free internet edu-portal workstation for every child .]
# volunteering:
. find other ways to allow people to
show how hard they can study
without paying for colleges .
. one can show off papers offered;
wiki contributions, blogs, etc .

[2.23: title: derived from [forrest gump].movie`qoute
"Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get."
]

2011-02-20

fig-leafers and web 0.1

2.18: relig/fig-leafers/the web 0.1 of sociology:
. in the context of sociology or religion,
web 0.1 is the policy of information hiding:
anything that shouldn't be doable
shouldn't be mentionable (webbable) either;
. that strategy does have a valid psychological impact:
it is a constant reminder that some acts are so bad
you can't even think about them!
-- and it even has no side-affects,
if your dogs don't talk much anyway .

. it's meant to complement a traditional
representative form of gov':
one that lets elders do all the policy negotiations;
this is efficient because elders are
less tempted by the mere mention of unmentionables;
. it also enhances political security
by practicing the principle of least privilege:
ie, give subordinates only those powers that are
absolutely essential to doing their assigned function .

. web 0.1 is the real frontline
in the liberal vs conservative debate;
when they argue about biblical interpretation issues
(eg, creationism vs evolution):
it is about defending the fundamentalist's right to
practice the principle of least privilege .
[2.19:
. the term "(fig-leafer) is referring to the
Genesis story (3:7):
"( Then the eyes of both of them were opened,
and they realized that they were naked.
So they sewed fig leaves together
to make themselves loincloths. )
. "(fig-leafing) has previously described the idea
that worshipping privacy rights
is the original sin that spawns all others;
ie, we could insure proper childcare by
insisting on non-private (communal) parenting;
but we'd lose all our church members!
instead we lose many children
to devils both secret and bold .
. as the Great Rabbi noted (Luke 18:16-17):
without spending our whole life guided
-- starting from early childhood --
we cannot enter the Kingdom of God at all!
. he then mentions that no men are good; (Luke 18:19)
so, why are we maximizing our trust of them?
because, privacy -- our fig leaf --
is the root of all evil .
(life's not all bad;
as some of the bible's prophets remind us,
the devil and god are really the same
(it just depends on
which end of the holy gun you're on!);
for instance, all the hurts that men cause
will only insure that men also devlope
the war technology that will secure our
eternal survival in this physical universe
-- where new stars are being born eternally:
all we have to do is travel to empty space,
and by the time we get there
we'll have a fresh solar system waiting for us!
then our robots can charge up,
and grow some living brains
on a computer's stimulation matrix
allowing us to live inside a
dream synthesizer .)

. web 0.1 can actually be seen as
a variation of fig-leafing;
because, both privacy rights and unmentionables
are relying on information hiding
in order to secure domains of authority;
and, coincidentally, they are both
instruments of a religious military machine
whose economics are too overwhelmed with
out-breeding the enemy
to properly fund a careful debriefing
of what's been going on here,
and why it has to keep going on that way .
. privacy and information supression
are both part of an authoritarian hierarching
that will minimize authority conflicts,
and maximize group cohesion .

. the term "(occult) (hidden) is used by fig-leafers
ironicaly, to identify those who reveal the hidden .
(we usually think of occults as doing evil secretly;
but they are given that name by secret-keepers
for devilishly not keeping things secret!)
. for instance, prayer is an acceptable way
to interact with the supernatural;
other ways are secret (forbidden and unmentionable),
and therefore the domain of "(occults).

. the practice of denying women education
has sometimes been seen as fig-leafing;
but I'm betting it's really a combination of
30% protecting girls from unwed pregnancy,
and 70% an exciting atmosphere of sexual slavery .
. as an aside,
it's often assumed that islamic polygamy
is really about sexually enslaving women;
in fact, polygamy was the idea of the Prophet's wife
seen as a way to get the crude masses
to care for widows
-- the many widows made by perpetual wars
(so you might say it's more about enslaving
militant christians).]