04/22/21 Thu: Earth Day; Chauvin Fallout; Shutdown Suicide

April 22, 2021 / James Hake

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The Hake Report, Thursday, April 22, 2021

SONGS: Furthermore: Daydreaming, We Need to Talk.
Communist Earth Day, Deb Haaland's daughter…
GREAT CALLS!
Romans 12: Don't think too highly of yourself.
Suicide and shutdowns: Terrible stories!

Also see Hake News from JLP's show today.

CALLERS

Rick from Hampton, VA talks about the Chauvin trial and public perception.
Zach from Columbus, OH recounts a controversy with black and white teachers in his area.
Louie from Idaho is not "all there" after waiting so long! He calls out Maxine Waters.
Joe from Phoenix, AZ on Calvin and Hobbes, Jobama, and Floyd's medical report
Jay from Phoenix, AZ says Chauvin is the fall guy; he did things according to training!
Nick from Maryland says Chauvin is not the same Chauvin, and it’s the money changers!
Anthony from Brooklyn, NY is Syrian/American and it’s not just about blacks and whites.
Bobby from Texas calls out the ridiculousness with this trial and controversy.

TIME STAMPS

0:00 Thu, Apr 22, 2021
0:57 Daydreaming, Furthermore
4:36 Hey, guys!
5:39 Earth Day, COMMUNISM
17:24 Deb Haaland's daughter
22:22 Tease: Bible, Suicide
23:34 Rick, Hampton, VA
38:59 Free George Zimmerman
45:45 Romans 12
52:45 Zach, Columbus, OH
59:45 Tease: Jobama, stories
1:00:25 Intro another song
1:01:07 We Need to Talk, Furthermore
1:04:23 Song feedback
1:06:14 Shutdown suicide
1:22:53 Louie in ID
1:24:38 Calvin and Hobbes Tee
1:25:57 Joe, Phoenix, AZ
1:35:12 Ted Nugent caught it!
1:38:50 SD Gov Noem
1:40:29 False start with Nick, MD
1:40:57 Jay, Phoenix, AZ
1:45:17 Super Chats
1:47:27 Nick in MD
1:50:47 Anthony, Brooklyn, NY
1:57:27 Bobby in TX
2:00:02 Thanks, all!

SHOW NOTES

Lots of stuff…

Furthermore: Daydreaming, We Need to Talk
Earth Day, Deb Haaland
Romans 12
Suicide and shutdowns

EARTH DAY

It’s lame "Earth Day" –

(Wikipedia) In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be observed on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations. A month later a United States Senator Gaylord Nelson proposed the idea to hold a nationwide environmental teach-in on April 22, 1970. He hired a young activist, Denis Hayes, to be the National Coordinator. Nelson and Hayes renamed the event "Earth Day". Denis and his staff grew the event beyond the original idea for a teach-in to include the entire United States. More than 20 million people poured out on the streets, and the first Earth Day remains the largest single day protest in human history. Key non-environmentally focused partners played major roles. Under the leadership of labor leader Walter Reuther, for example, the United Auto Workers was the most instrumental outside financial and operational supporter of the first Earth Day.[3][4][5] According to Hayes, "Without the UAW, the first Earth Day would have likely flopped!"[6] Nelson was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (*OBAMA) award in recognition of his work.[7]

The first Earth Day was focused on the United States. In 1990, Denis Hayes, the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international and organized events in 141 nations.[8][9][10]

On Earth Day 2016, the landmark Paris Agreement was signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and 120 other countries. This signing satisfied a key requirement for the entry into force of the historic draft climate protection treaty adopted by consensus of the 195 nations present at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.

DEB HAALAND

I have pics of her daughter’s social media omg!

ROMANS 12

(Bible Gateway) Romans 12 KJV

Verse 3 I say...to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly…

9 Let love be without dissimulation.

10 … in honour preferring one another;

11 Not slothful in business

14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

19 ...avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

SUICIDE: COMMIE SHUTDOWN MADNESS

After Son Takes His Own Life, Father Warns Against Extended Pandemic Lockdowns

(The Epoch Times) NORTHBROOK, Ill.— On Jan. 7, 18-year-old Dylan Buckner took his own life due to depression exacerbated by the state’s pandemic lockdown measures. Dylan entered a hotel not far from his home and jumped to his death.

Chris Buckner, Dylan’s father, told The Epoch Times there is “no doubt in his mind” that the school closures and the state’s extended stay-at-home order aggravated and worsened Dylan’s mental health to the point of no return.

Chris said his wife, Karen, now sometimes sleeps on Dylan’s bed, likely a way to cope with the grief of losing their son.

Chris said his son showed no visible signs of depression.

BUT THERE’S MORE TO THIS STORY!

On the afternoon of Jan. 7, Dylan’s friends warned his parents about a possible danger. Karen used location services to track her son’s location on his phone—it showed he was at a nearby hotel. Chris frantically drove to the location, but he knew he was too late when he saw the police cars.

While Dylan had some level of depression before the pandemic, his parents had no idea their son was suffering. He had none of the stereotypical symptoms and hadn’t reached out to his parents about any of his struggles.

A high school senior, Dylan was a star quarterback and sported a 4.7 grade point average and multiple offers to play football at Division III schools; he was planning to go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. However, in recent years, depression had started to take hold before the aspects of his life that once gave him joy were abruptly taken away.

NOT HIS FIRST TIME!

Dylan’s suicide in January was actually his second attempt. His first was in September last year when he jumped off a bridge.

“I thought he had the perfect life until he made his first suicide attempt … up until that point, we really had no inkling at all that he was struggling,” Chris said. “He was popular. … he was an excellent student, very athletic, and good at anything he tried to do.”

After Dylan’s first attempt on his life, his parents did everything they could to try to help him. There was extensive inpatient and outpatient therapy in the months that followed, and they tried many, if not all, of the common anti-depression medications for children. He also had traditional talking therapy, among other services.

But at the end of the day, the drugs and psychotherapy “weren’t really effective for him,” Chris said.

“It’s made me realize that mental illness for Dylan was much like many forms of cancer, where we just don’t really know the cure, or we don’t really have effective treatments,” he said.

Mental illness, according to Chris, might be similar to substance abuse in that teens are going to try to hide it from their parents. Part of the symptoms of feeling depressed and suicidal is thinking that you’re a burden. Hence, telling your parents about these troubles might exacerbate that feeling.

After they received the call from police in September when Dylan made the first attempt on his life, Chris thought the authorities had called the wrong number—they didn’t think it was possible. In Dylan’s case, there was no clear interpersonal crisis, such as a sign of a breakup.

“We did everything we could, and nothing worked for him,” Chris said. “I know that’s the case for a lot of people that battle, and ultimately lose their battle, with mental illness.

“The idle minds do the devil’s work stereotype … I think absolutely applied,” he said.

GROPING IN THE DARKNESS

The family is also worried about Dylan’s younger brother, Ethan, and the added struggles he has now. Chris said Dylan was “a great big brother” to his younger sibling.

Chris has a message for other teens suffering mentally: It’s OK not to be OK, and things will get better. What these teens are feeling “is not unique to you” and that parents “will love you unconditionally.” He encourages any children who are struggling to talk with their parents or some other trusted adult.

“Don’t be embarrassed by it,” he said. “You didn’t do anything wrong. … So get help.”

More resources need to be invested into treating mental illness and depression, he said. Talking about these conditions also needs to be normalized in order to eliminate any associated stigma.

Three months have passed since his son’s death, but Chris said the pain the family feels is constant. The day before the interview, Chris had attended a Zoom meeting with other parents who had lost their children, and someone on the group was still battling grief 20 years after losing their child to suicide.

“It’s just very hard to imagine a pain worse than the loss of a child through suicide,” he said. “The person that commits suicide only dies once but the survivors die 1,000 deaths reliving it, wondering why and what they could have done differently or what caused it.”

BIGGER SUICIDE STORIES

Other stories like Dylan’s have emerged in recent months. One mother in Illinois, Lisa Moore, is now suing Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, citing the state’s restrictions as the “proximate cause” of her son’s death.

Nicole Avena, assistant professor of neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and a visiting professor of health psychology at Princeton University, told The Epoch Times last year that mental health problems should “absolutely” be treated as a national health crisis.

“People are worried about a possible second wave of the virus, but I can guarantee we will have a second wave of mental health crisis, which is already unfolding with increased suicides, drug overdoses, and alcohol use,” she said.

New York-based psychiatrist Dr. Zlatin Ivanov has witnessed firsthand a recent spike in clients suffering from anxiety, telling The Epoch Times that “cases of depression went through the roof” last year. Ivanov said many are struggling from missing out on their daily routines and other seemingly small pleasures.

PRE-PLAN-DEMIC

Before the pandemic, suicide was already a problem for youth. In 2018, it was the second-leading cause of death “among individuals between the ages of 10 and 34,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That year, the suicide rate among males was nearly four times higher (22.8 per 100,000) than among females (6.2 per 100,000).

NUMBERS HARD TO FIND

While data linking teen suicides to the pandemic or school closures is scant and is a subject of debate among experts, there has been a clear rise in mental health problems. The New York Times reported in January that an early warning system among schools in Nevada had tracked 3,100 mental health episodes since March 2020 and by December, 18 students had taken their own lives, prompting schools in the area to push for reopening.

Among 5,412 Americans surveyed at the end of June last year, 41 percent reported at least one adverse mental or behavioral health condition, according to an Aug. 14 Morbidity and Mortality report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The number is higher among young adults between the ages of 18 and 24, with 75 percent of respondents reporting experiencing at least one adverse mental health condition. THE EVIL LOVE THAT.

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