Interesting article there about the Elizabeth Warren critiques and political purity. I don't agree but interesting.
I'll have to read it further, just waking, but no, if Elizabeth Warren believes in U.S. imperialism then I don't give a fuck
what she thinks about Social Security and the Minimum wage.
(Just trying to avoid the old groupthink thing)

And kudos about Elizabeth Warren...she's one of the few voices left in the Democratic Party that makes sense.

[Video Credit: Teresa Ghilarducci: The Retirement Crisis, INETeconomics, YouTube, 19:10 Minutes]

She is one economist who speaks out against the high fees that are charged by many brokerage houses on 401Ks, etc.

She also supports changing the Medicare eligibility age to '60.'

Mollie

Good morning, afternoon, read a little bit of the groupthink pdf and will do so later. Can't quite concentrate on the Warren stuff yet.

Unfortunately my mind is occupied with the question of "what kind of medical mental health condition the co-pilot of the Germanwing flight that he crashed into the Alps" was having, was hiding and what it will be categorized at. I am compulsively checking on updates. Bad compulsion that's for sure.

The co-pilot had apparently a long-time on and off mental health condition, which is not simply a depression. It might have been part of a condition that goes beyond that. It's now shown that during his training he took off for a longer time and was also at that time categorized as "unfit to fly". It would be nice to know, who made the decision back then to categorize him that way and for what reasons? That was years ago.

He was continuously in treatment for "the condition" and he did not reveal that to his employer. A doctor had written him "sick and unable to work" from the 16th to 29th of march. The way it works in Germany, you can simply choose your therapist and if you feel really bad, you go and discuss it with your therapist. If the therapist decides you need to get a break and are not fit to work, the doctor writes a note, which usually a person has to provide his employer with, if he misses more than two days of work. This doctors note was found, shredded, in a waste basket at his home. Now, I would say what makes this more serious is the fact that the co-pilot also checked himself in at the Duesseldorfer Hospital and get checked out for said unknown condition on March 10th. The way things work in Germany, you don't go into a huge and well-known quality hospital, if you don't have something going on that a "over the counter" private doctor/therapist" couldn't handle.

This is very disturbing. Especially the fact that it could be hidden by the co-pilot.

There have been more things retrieved from his and his parents homes, which is said to probably give more clues as to what was "going on with the mind of Lubitz".

I was asking myself, if there is a way the hospital's doctors and his private doctors could deny access to the medical records, and if the doctors and family members and friends can refuse to be interrogated. It will take one or two more days probably to understand what they in addition could retrieve from his computer and or other things they seem to have but didn't describe the nature of.

To read reactions to this terrible monstrosity of a murder/suicide is a study in itself. And it's hard to really differentiate between suicide, murder-suicide, terrorist action, depression, may be a compulsive-obsessive disorder of recurring thoughts.

I wonder - as flying, gliding is such a sought-after experience among young students - what kind of "high" do people get when gliding in a glider plane. It was a dream of the co-pilot as a teen already. I read answers that the power to control the plane alone remaining in the air is THE exitement? Having power over the stick. But usually you would think with the exitement goes the pride to be able to maintain the plane in the air and land safely. So what else could go on? Could a person have recurring compulsive thoughts of "not being able, or not wanting to keep the plane up in the air"?

As you can see I can't wrap my mind around other issues and I would like to find an answer. I hope they will honestly and openly reveal what mental issue the co-pilot had. As he was treated and checked even in a hospital for it, that should be a "defined" condition he had.

Ok, sorry. Don't know where else to talk about it.

And thanks for offering great issues in your open thread. Good fellow.

in order to allow him to pretty much take over the position [prior to the election].

(Per Mike Menoli, LA Times, etc., on POTUS with Mason.)

Mollie