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INFJ Trauma: How INFJs Deal with and Respond to Past Trauma

Scott Stafford

INFJ Trauma: How INFJs Deal with and Respond to Past Trauma

When it comes to experiencing trauma everyone has their own ways of handling and coping with what they go through. Of course it often requires certain help from others and serious trauma can also require therapy to find tools and ways to move through it. There are so many different types of trauma, some happen so subtly that we don't even realize we have endured a truly traumatic experience. It can be difficult to process, especially when you are still involved in the trauma which is bringing you down. This is something which can affect someone's behavior long-term, and make certain personality types behave in ways which don't seem to really fit who they normally are. This is why it is important to understand the different ways that trauma can change someone or alter their behavior.

When it comes to experiencing trauma this can certainly alter the behavior of an INFJ and cause them to appear different from their norm. INFJs can certainly bottle up this trauma, since they have a tendency to bury negative feelings. They struggle to fully process these instances, and can try to push forward as if nothing has even happened. INFJs don't like feeling as if they are a burden and can even experience immense guilt from their trauma. This is why it can be hard for them to recognize when something is truly wrong, and will want to cover this up with distractions and other intentions. INFJs who spend their lives not dealing with their trauma can certainly become more toxic versions of the type, which is why it is important to understand the difference. Having gone through something like this, the INFJ might not behave like themselves, especially if they do not have the means of seeking help and bettering their situation.

INFJ Childhood Trauma

INFJs who have endured trauma from childhood can really struggle to process or move on from this. They likely hold onto those feelings, and will blame themselves when things go wrong. It can also cause the INFJ to fear being abandoned, and so they continue to pretend like they don't have this trauma sitting on their chest. For the INFJ child who has gone through something traumatic it often becomes easier to bury and forget that pain. They repress those feelings and attempt to override them, which can cause it to fester and hurt them even more. The INFJ child can appear like an "old soul" and this makes it easier for people to forget that they are actually still a child. They need to be cared for and they need to have people who will help them express those emotions and feel safe doing so.

How Trauma Changes The INFJ

The INFJ who has been through trauma can be somewhat toxic when it comes to relationships. They are likely to have a hard time with abandonment issues, and don't want to lose the people they love. This type of INFJ might latch onto people who understand and appreciate them, not wanting to lose what they have found in this person. They can show toxic behaviors towards them, trying to find any way possible to keep that person in their lives. This is not something that a healthy INFJ will do or express, and so their trauma likely causes their more manipulative talents to express themselves. The INFJ doesn't do this to be cruel, they just feel a sense of pain and need, and want to keep that person in their lives in order to bring them comfort. Since they haven't found a way to process their trauma, they often don't realize what makes them feel uneasy just being with themselves.

The INFJ who has experienced trauma can also find themselves in their shadow, which makes them much more reckless. Instead of trusting in their intuition this INFJ will rely on things that feel good in the moment. They seek out ways to reward themselves, not really thinking about what will happen in the future. They aren't as good at seeing around the corner and figuring out how to accomplish their goals and improve their lives. Instead they focus on things that feel good and might even struggle to keep track of their own mental and physical health in the process.

INFJ Coping with Trauma

INFJs can often have a go-to response of burying negative emotions, and seeking out ways to help others instead. They don't find it easy to really process this pain, since spending too much time on themselves can feel selfish. INFJs don't like forcing themselves to be the center of attention, and vulnerability can actually be frightening for them. INFJs who have endured trauma can start to feel like they aren't good enough, and will attempt to find ways to fit into some sort of perfect image. The best way for the INFJ to cope with their trauma is to take note of it, and to stop drawing towards people who allow them to abandon their own needs. Their fear of abandonment is likely to become worse because of this trauma, and so the idea of sharing it with someone is frightening. INFJs need to be okay with accepting help, both from their loved ones and from a professional. Sometimes having that outside perspective can give them a sense of not being so alone, as well as recognizing that they deserve to take time for themselves as well. Putting their own needs first is not a bad thing, and even helps them to become more compassionate and rewarding friends and loved ones. For the INFJ coping with trauma is something which can take time and even space to themselves, or else they become too fixated on helping those around them. Having someone who has been through something similar (especially if it's another INFJ), can really help guide the INFJ through the process and make them feel like they are not strange or alone.

Gates Funds China’s Scientist Recruitment Project

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Bill Gates Funds China's Scientist Recruitment Project

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving money to the Chinese regime amid the regime's bid to tempt foreign scientists into the country.

Bill Gates's foundation issued a $100,000 grant in June to the Foreign Talent Research Center (FTRC) of China's Ministry of Science and Technology, according to the Gates Foundation's website, the National Pulse first reported.

The funding is to help the Chinese regime organize a forum hosted by Zhongguancun—China's state-sponsored Silicon Valley—on "pandemic preparedness and response." The forum has featured top leaders of the regime as speakers including, in its 2021 event, regime leader Xi Jinping.

While the 2022 forum will feature discussion topics such as global health and supporting pandemic-impacted "disadvantaged populations," the agency affiliated with the Communist regime that's sponsoring the event, FTRC, oversees the hiring of foreign talents in science and engineering for China's strategic goals such as military-civil integration.

Meanwhile, the forum's objectives go beyond talking about technology and health topics: as the organizers say, they aim to "necessary to earnestly study and understand the spirit of the General Secretary's [2021] speech" and build a technological hub in "serving the national strategy."

Warnings of China's Threat

The foundation's commitment to bolstering China's scientific advancement came amid mounting warnings of the threat the regime poses to the United States and the West.

Leaders from the UK and U.S. domestic intelligence agencies delivered a rare joint statement on July 6, warning that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the greatest threat to the international order.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said the greatest challenge to the international order is the CCP, which seeks to undermine the United States, its allies, and its partners.

Meanwhile, MI5 Director General Ken McCallum detailed threats posed by the CCP in relation to covert theft, forced technology transfers, research exploitation, and cyberattacks that target virtually every sector of society.

U.S. officials have also warned that the Chinese regime uses recruitment programs, such as the "thousand talents plan," to lure foreign academics to work in China, a process that facilitates the transfer of technology and know-how to the country.

The Trump administration launched the "China Initiative" in 2018 to combat the Chinese regime's state-sponsored espionage and theft of trade secrets. The program led to the prosecution of some two dozen U.S. academics, most of them of Chinese origin, who were alleged to have concealed funding ties with Chinese institutions and state-backed recruitment plans.

The Biden administration shut down the program in February amid criticisms of the program as racial profiling. Thus, chilling scientific exchanges between the United States and China surged.

Ties With Beijing

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation set up its Beijing office in 2007 and has since worked with the Chinese government on several domestic projects in the country, as reported by CNN.

Over the past three decades, Gates has visited China at least "a dozen times," forging friendly relations with its top leaders.

In 2015, Xi met with Gates. Last year, Xi wrote a letter to Gates, thanking him for his efforts in combating the virus that started in the country Xi presides over. 

"I deeply appreciate the act of generosity of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and your letter of solidarity to the Chinese people at such an important moment," the letter read.

It came after the foundation committed to funding up to $100 million for the global bid to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak.

The foundation at the time informed that it would allocate $20 million to organizations like the World Health Organization, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Protection, the National Health Commission of China, and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Andrew Thornebrooke contributed to this report.

Hannah Ng is a reporter covering U.S. and China news. She holds a master's degree in international and development economics from the University of Applied Science Berlin. 

Paxlovid Paxlovid Paxlovid Paxlovid Paxlovid Paxlovid AAUUGGHH!!!!!

If only they would consume themselves….to experience their own toxicity….

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Fauci Likely to Birth His Own COVID Variant After Paxlovid

Pfizer's Paxlovid was granted emergency use authorization to treat mild to moderate COVID-19 in December 2021.¹ The drug consists of nirmatrelvir tablets — the antiviral component — and ritonavir tablets, which are intended to slow the breakdown of nirmatrelvir.²

What started out as a slow rollout — only 40,000 or fewer prescriptions were written for the drug in the U.S. each week through April 2022 — has gained steam, with more than 160,000 Paxlovid prescriptions now being issued each week.³ As of June 30, 2022, 1.6 million courses of Paxlovid have been prescribed in the U.S. since its emergency use approval in December.⁴

Yet, this increase in prescribing could be contributing to one of the significant downfalls of the drug — the creation of selective pressure on SARS-CoV-2, which promotes mutations that could make it resistant to the drug.⁵ The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also issued a warning to health care providers and public health departments about the potential for COVID-19 rebound after Paxlovid treatment.⁶

This recently happened to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), who experienced a return of COVID-19 symptoms after taking Paxlovid. He then took a second course of the drug, which could trigger even more mutations in the virus.

Paxlovid Triggers Fauci's COVID-19 Rebound

Fauci said he tested positive for COVID-19, with only minimal symptoms. As his symptoms increased, he took Paxlovid for five days, after which he tested negative for three consecutive days. On the fourth day of testing, he tested positive for COVID-19 again, with symptoms worse off than they were the first time.

"It was sort of what people are referring to as a Paxlovid rebound," he said. "… Over the next day or so I started to feel really poorly, much worse than in the first go around."⁷ He was then prescribed a second course of Paxlovid.

On June 30, he stated, "I went back on Paxlovid, and right now I am on my fourth day of a five-day course of my second course of Paxlovid. Fortunately, I feel reasonably good. I mean, I'm not completely without symptoms, but I certainly don't feel acutely ill."⁸ In the CDC's health advisory regarding COVID-19 rebound after Paxlovid treatment it's stated:⁹

"Recent case reports document that some patients with normal immune response who have completed a 5-day course of Paxlovid for laboratory-confirmed infection and have recovered can experience recurrent illness 2 to 8 days later, including patients who have been vaccinated and/or boosted …

These cases of COVID-19 rebound had negative test results after Paxlovid treatment and had subsequent positive viral antigen and/or reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing."

COVID-19 Still Spreads During Paxlovid Rebound

People who take Paxlovid can still transmit COVID-19 to others, even if they're asymptomatic, according to a preprint study.¹⁰ Study author Dr. Michael Charness of the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Boston told CNN, "People who experience rebound are at risk of transmitting to other people, even though they're outside what people accept as the usual window for being able to transmit."¹¹

The CDC¹² and Pfizer¹³ have suggested that sometimes COVID-19 naturally comes back after a person tests negative, implying that COVID-19 rebound is spontaneous and not necessarily linked to Paxlovid. However, Charness and colleagues didn't find this to be the case. When they analyzed 1,000 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed among members of the National Basketball Association — none of whom took Paxlovid — no cases of COVID-19 rebound were found.¹⁴

Research published in Clinical Infectious Diseases¹⁵ looked into why Paxlovid may be leading to rebound symptoms and suggests it could be the result of insufficient exposure to the drug.¹⁶ "Not enough of the drug was getting to infected cells to stop all viral replication," UC San Diego Health reported. "They suggested this may be due to the drug being metabolized more quickly in some individuals or that the drug needs to be delivered over a longer treatment duration."¹⁷

Pfizer Seeks FDA Approval for Paxlovid

Despite the many questions regarding Paxlovid's association with rebound infections, Pfizer is moving ahead and seeking full approval of the drug from the FDA.¹⁸ The drug's emergency use authorization restricts who the drug can be sold and marketed to. Once full FDA approval is granted, Pfizer can market the drug directly to consumers.

Paxlovid's emergency use authorization allows it to be prescribed for adults and children ages 12 and older who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19.¹⁹ Pfizer estimates that up to 60% of the U.S. population meets these criteria and has at least one risk factor for severe illness, such as obesity or diabetes, making them eligible for the drug.²⁰

However, concerns have risen over whether Paxlovid, which is said to cut the risk of hospitalization or death by 86% in high-risk patients, when taken within five days of symptoms starting,²¹ is effective in people who are not high-risk.

In fact, Pfizer stopped a large trial of Paxlovid in standard-risk patients because it didn't show significant protection against hospitalization or death in this group.²² According to a news release from Pfizer:²³

"In previously reported interim analyses, the company disclosed that the novel primary endpoint of self-reported, sustained alleviation of all symptoms for four consecutive days was not met, and a non-significant 70% relative risk reduction was observed in the key secondary endpoint of hospitalization or death (treatment arm: 3/428; placebo: 10/426).

An updated analysis from 1,153 patients enrolled through December 2021 showed a non-significant 51% relative risk reduction (treatment arm: 5/576; placebo: 10/569). A sub-group analysis of 721 vaccinated adults with at least one risk factor for progression to severe COVID-19 showed a non-significant 57% relative risk reduction in hospitalization or death (treatment arm: 3/361; placebo: 7/360)."

Is Paxlovid Triggering SARS-CoV-2 Mutations?

Initial reports have suggested that SARS-CoV-2 is not mutating and becoming resistant to Paxlovid, but some experts believe it's only a matter of time before this occurs — and emerging research suggests it's already happened.

David Ho, a virologist at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Columbia University, was among the first to document resistance mutations in HIV 30 years ago and believes the same may be coming with SARS-CoV-2.²⁴ He's also experienced post-Paxlovid COVID-19 rebound firsthand. Bloomberg reported:²⁵

"Ho said he came down with COVID on April 6 … His doctor prescribed Paxlovid, and within days of taking it, his symptoms dissipated and tests turned negative. But 10 days after first getting sick, the symptoms returned and his tests turned positive for another two days.

Ho said he sequenced his own virus and found that both infections were from the same strain, confirming that the virus had not mutated and become resistant to Paxlovid. A second family member who also got sick around the same time also had post-Paxlovid rebound in symptoms and virus, Ho says.

'It surprised the heck out of me,' he said. 'Up until that point I had not heard of such cases elsewhere.' While the reasons for the rebound are still unclear, Ho theorizes that it may occur when a small proportion of virus-infected cells may remain viable and resume pumping out viral progeny once treatment stops."

Studies Show COVID-19 Virus Developing Paxlovid Resistance

Two separate studies cultured SARS-CoV-2 in a lab and exposed it to low levels of nirmatrelvir, which would kill some, but not all, of the virus. "Such tests are meant to simulate what might happen in an infected person who doesn't take the whole regimen of the drug or an immunocompromised patient who has trouble clearing the virus," Science reported.²⁶

One of the studies revealed that SARS-CoV-2 developed three mutations after 12 rounds of nirmatrelvir treatment — "at positions 50, 166 and 167 in the string of amino acids that make up MPRO."²⁷ The mutations amounted to a 20-fold reduction in the virus' susceptibility to nirmatrelvir.²⁸ The other study²⁹ also found mutations at positions 50 and 166, revealing that when they occurred together, SARS-CoV-2 became 80 times less susceptible to nirmatrelvir. According to the study:³⁰

"Reverse genetic studies in a homologous infectious cell culture system revealed up to 80-fold resistance conferred by the combination of substitutions L50F and E166V. Resistant variants had high fitness increasing the likelihood of occurrence and spread of resistance."

Lead study author Judith Margarete Gottwein with the University of Copenhagen told Science, "This tells us what mutations we should be looking for [in patients]."³¹ Ho, who was not involved in these studies, agreed that it appeared mutations were an inevitable outcome.

He told Science, "when you put pressure on the virus it escapes … Given the amount of infections out there, it's going to come."³² It's also completely unknown what may happen when two courses of Paxlovid are taken in quick succession to treat COVID-19 rebound — as occurred with Fauci. It's possible that ever-mutating COVID-19 variants could be created.

Other antivirals on the market to treat COVID-19 have also led to concerns over mutations. Molnupiravir (sold under the brand name Lagevrio) was developed by Merck and Ridgeback Therapeutics and approved by the FDA for emergency use December 23, 2021, for high-risk patients with mild to moderate COVID symptoms.

However, not only might it contribute to cancer and birth defects, it may also supercharge the rate at which the virus mutates inside the patient, resulting in newer and more resistant variants.³³

Other Early COVID-19 Treatments Ignored

Using drugs that cause high rates of organ failure, like remdesivir, and drugs that cause the virus to rebound with a vengeance, like Paxlovid, and potentially trigger mutations don't seem to be in the best interest of public health. The fact that U.S. health authorities have focused on these drugs to the exclusion of all others, including older drugs with high rates of effectiveness and superior safety profiles, sends a very disturbing message.

An investigation by Cornell University, posted on the University's preprint server January 20, 2022, found ivermectin outperformed 10 other drugs against COVID-19, making it the most effective against the Omicron variant.³⁴ It even outperformed Paxlovid, yet it's been vilified by health officials and mainstream media.

Remdesivir costs between $2,340 and $3,120,³⁵ and nirmatrelvir costs $529 per five-day treatment,³⁶ while the average treatment cost for ivermectin is $58.³⁷ Do you think this has anything to do with ivermectin's vilification?

Paxlovid alone has cost U.S. taxpayers $5.29 billion,³⁸ while safe and less expensive options exist. Dr. Pierre Kory, who is part of the group that formed the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Working Group (FLCCC) to advance early treatments for COVID-19, pleaded with the U.S. government early on in the pandemic to review the expansive data on ivermectin to prevent COVID-19, keep those with early symptoms from progressing and help critically ill patients recover — to no avail.^39,40

However, if you'd like to learn more about its potential uses for SARS-CoV-2, FLCCC's I-MASK+ protocol can be downloaded in full,⁴¹ giving you step-by-step instructions on how to prevent and treat the early symptoms of COVID-19.

Originally published July 13, 2022 on Mercola.com

Sources and References

• ^1, 19 U.S. FDA December 22, 2021
• ^{2, 3, 5, 22, 24, 26, 28, 31, 32} Science June 29, 2022
• ^{4, 18, 20, 21} Forbes June 30, 2022
• ⁶ U.S. CDC May 24, 2022
• ^7, 8 CNN June 30, 2022
• ^9, 12 U.S. CDC, COVID-19 Rebound After Paxlovid Treatment May 24, 2022
• ¹⁰ Research Square May 23, 2022
• ^11, 13, 14 CNN May 31, 2022
• ¹⁵ Clinical Infectious Diseases June 20, 2022
• ^16, 17 UC San Diego Health June 21, 2022
• ²³ Pfizer June 14, 2022
• ²⁵ Bloomberg April 29, 2022 (Archived)
• ^27, 29, 30 bioRxiv June 7, 2022
• ³³ Revyuh May 1, 2022
• ³⁴ Cornell University, January 20, 2022
• ³⁵ AJMC June 29, 2020
• ³⁶ Precision Vaccinations, November 19, 2021
• ³⁷ JAMA 2022;327(6):584-587
• ³⁸ Reuters November 18, 2021
• ³⁹ FLCCC Alliance, Ivermectin & COVID-19
• ⁴⁰ Mountain Home May 1, 2021
• ⁴¹ FLCCC Alliance, I-Mask+

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'Sadly,' Gift of Mobility wheelchair giveaway program to end

Phil Pavone stands with some of his collection of motorized wheelchairs at the storage site for his Gift of Mobility program Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Pavone has announced that after 14 years and giving away more than 900 wheelchairs, he is ending the program. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Philip Pavone, owner of AZ Pawn in Norwich said he is being forced to end the program after 14 years.

Norwich – The phone never stops ringing at AZ Pawn as desperate people, sometimes sobbing, pleading for a motorized wheelchair, handicapped ramp or even a wheelchair van.

For the first time in 14 years, the answer will be, "Sorry, I can't," from owner Philip Pavone, founder of the Gift of Mobility program that has offered free motorized wheelchairs to people who cannot afford them and whose insurance will not cover the cost.

Pavone, 73, announced this week that he is ending the groundbreaking volunteer program that has provided more than 900 motorized wheelchairs, three handicapped vans, five handicapped ramps and hundreds of regular wheelchairs, walkers, shower chairs, hospital beds, canes and other assistance items, Pavone said.

"I have some health issues I've had for over a year," Pavone said Wednesday. "It's getting to the point that it's so busy it's overwhelming. I've probably given away 75 motorized wheelchairs so far (this year). … Right now, my stamina is not there."

He started the program 14 years ago, after he initially could not get rid of two motorized wheelchairs brought to AZ Pawn. He placed a newspaper ad asking people in need to tell their stories. and he would choose the recipients. He received about 60 letters.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gift of Mobility would host packed-house events each December at Holiday Inn. With much fanfare, each recipient received a new chair and lessons on how it worked.

The pandemic ended the large gatherings, so Pavone shifted to year-round, taking about 10 calls a day for requests and donations of chairs and batteries. Chairs weigh over 250 pounds, so collecting them is complicated, he said.

The chairs need repairs and must be matched with the right recipient based on needs, height, weight and abilities to work the controls.

Pavone posted on his Facebook page Monday that, "sadly," he is ending the program once he matches the 25 remaining chairs with recipients. He has one van ready to go at Superior Auto, where staff volunteer time to get vans in working condition. One last van is on the way.

"We just gave away a handicapped ramp," he said. "I got about nine calls yesterday. I said, 'I'm sorry, I can't take anymore requests.' They say, 'OK, where can I go?' And I say, 'The sad thing is, I'm it.'"

For all the heartwarming stories and local, state and national media attention – on CNN, the Today Show, Women's World magazine and other outlets – Pavone could not break through to lawmakers.

He has written to presidents, governors and lawmakers to push for laws mandating insurance coverage for motorized wheelchairs. He finds it unfathomable that veterans who are missing arms or legs cannot qualify for motorized wheelchairs. He said he has delivered chairs to people who cannot get out of bed, or who have been home bound for years.

He shouted his frustration in all capital letters in his Facebook post.

"We are so free to send other countries billions, let people enter our borders, provide them with food, housing etc.," Pavone, a Vietnam veteran, wrote on Facebook, "…. Leave our homeless Veterans living on the street.... Totally UNACCEPTABLE!!"

He said no political leaders have contacted him to explore how the program works and how it could be implemented nationwide.

"I am one person," Pavone said. "My client base here is probably within a 40-mile radius. To give away 900 chairs and have 40 letters from people who are desperate, how many are out there in the state, in the nation? The ironic thing is all these people need these chairs, and there are hundreds and hundreds of chairs out there in basements or garages that people no longer need. All you have to do is get someone to collect them."

State Sen. Cathy Osten, D-Sprague, said she has introduced a bill each year in the Connecticut General Assembly to require insurance companies regulated by the state to cover the cost of motorized wheelchairs. She will keep trying, she said.

"This service was a super service," Osten said. "A lot of this came out of his own pocket. Truly, this is something important."

Osten said she remains confident the bill eventually will pass. She said a network of partners could take on the task of collecting and refurbishing donated chairs, including workforce training programs, educational institutions and even the Department of Corrections job training programs for inmates. She envisioned the state Department of Developmental Services coordinating the service, with insurance companies covering it.

But the bill would only be for Connecticut, she said.

"It is truly a tragedy to not have Phil there," Osten said. "He is truly someone who cared, saw a problem, and said, 'I can do this.'"

Norwich Mayor Peter Nystrom praised Pavone as someone who recognized the need and tackled the problem.

"I am extremely grateful for his charitable work," Nystrom said. "He's just an amazing man."

Pavone said sometimes, people ask how they can help run the program. He explains the difficulty of needing volunteers with trucks and the ability to pick up 250-pound chairs, repair the chairs, charge batteries and match them with recipients.

Mostly, he said, they respond, "Oh, no, I can't do that."

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Fact Check: Did Elon Musk Inherit Apartheid Money

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Fact Check: Did Elon Musk Inherit Apartheid Money From His South African Father?

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, grew up in South Africa and made his way via Canada to the U.S. as a transfer student before attending the Wharton School and becoming the billionaire tech founder he is today.

With a net worth of $37 billion, Musk hopes to revolutionize transportation on Earth and in space, bringing fully-electric vehicles to the mass market through his auto manufacturing company, Tesla. SpaceX, his rocket company, is valued at $20 billion-plus. He also co-founded PayPal, which means — a Twitter user said — "The WHOLE bank on the internet was started by him (yes, your credit card as well)". Other companies started by Musk include Neuralink, which is working on developing implantable brain–machine interfaces.

Born in 1971, Musk grew up in Pretoria, South Africa. He's the son of Maye Musk, a model and dietitian from Canada, and Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, and sailor. Maye and Errol divorced in 1980 when Elon was about 9 years old. After the divorce, Elon lived mostly with his father until he left South Africa at age 17 — partly to avoid conscription in the South African army. He attended Queen's University in Canada.

A recurring theme on social media is the claim that Musk's father owned an emerald mine and paid for his son's "privileged upbringing and education." Musk has denied that story. Errol made money by consulting and developing properties, Forbes reported.

The emerald mine story, reported in 2018 in Business Insider, tells how, in the mid-1980s, Errol acquired a "half-share in a Zambian emerald mine, which would help to fund his family's lavish lifestyle of yachts, skiing holidays, and expensive computers."

"It was that lifestyle, Errol says, that turned Elon into the kind of merchant adventurer who would later break the rules of the motoring business with Tesla, then go on to change spaceflight with SpaceX," BI reported.

Errol talked about Elon's fascination with computers when they first came out in the mid-'80s, during an interview on radio station 702 in Johannesburg, as reported by Forbes. Elon may have been 6 or 7 years old at the time and begged his dad to get him a ticket to a very early computer conference in South Africa. At the conference, Elon talked to some professors who told Errol, "This boy needs to get his hands on one of these computers.

"So we got one, thank God at a discount, and with that computer he taught himself, using Disk Operating System, which is DOS, to program," Errol said.

Rolling Stone reported in 2017 that "Errol was, by his own account, making money in the often dangerous worlds of construction and emerald mining –at times so much that he claims he couldn't close his safe."

In December 2019, Elon denied the emerald mine-and-lavish-lifestyle story on Twitter, saying it was a lie.

"This is a pretty awful lie," Elon tweeted. "I left South Africa by myself when I was 17 with just a backpack & suitcase of books. Worked on my Mom's cousin's farm in Saskatchewan & a lumber mill in Vancouver. Went to Queens Univ with scholarship & debt, then same to UPenn/Wharton & Stanford."

In a follow-up tweet, Elon said his father "didn't own an emerald mine & I worked my way through college, ending up ~$100k in student debt."

Errol owned one of the largest homes in Pretoria and took his children on many overseas trips, according to the book, "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future," written by Ashlee Vance. 

Elon and other family members have opened up about years of living in debt after they left South Africa. Soon after Elon left for Canada, his mother, Maye, moved there too, along with Elon's brother, Kimbal, and sister, Tosca.

Elon tweeted that he had $100,000 debt after college. His mother Maye responded on Twitter in December 2019 in defense of Elon.

"To add to the truth, we went to Boston Chicken in Philadelphia for Thanksgiving because we couldn't afford a turkey. And we spent three weeks making our rent-controlled apartment livable in Toronto," Maye tweeted.

All the Musk siblings did well, Forbes reported. Kimbal is a millionaire who owns restaurant chains and spearheads a nonprofit education program, The Kitchen Community, which grows vegetables in the U.S. Tosca is a film producer and director.

But the emerald mine story keeps coming back.

@Keewa tweeted on May 9, 2020, "Remind: Elon Musk inherited money from his father's apartheid emerald mine, that doesn't mean he's clever"

Several respondents on social media disputed the emerald mine and privileged-lifestyle story, defending Musk's intelligence and questioning the intelligence of the person who started the thread.

Jack @lets_gobaby tweeted, "Ok but how does inheriting money mean you aren't smart?"

Bridges to Italy tweeted, "Yeah, he's not that bright, just like the guy who started this thread. They're the same, except for the fact that he is a billionaire, started multiple successful companies and doesn't live in his mother's basement. Aside from that he's just dumb".

@spylinen tweeted, "The mine was in Zambia, which became independent of the UK in 1964. The share in the mine wasn't acquired until the 1980s. Musk may not be a great guy, but I fail to see any apartheid link to his father's emerald mine."

@grard97 tweeted,

"Remind: Elon Musk owns an electric and autonomous car company
A private space landing rockets company
An AI company
A Neuroscience company
A Solar Panel and energy storage company
The WHOLE bank on the internet was started by him (yes, your credit card as well)"

@C49015142 tweeted,

"I thought I read in Malcolm Gladwell's book David and Goliath that his company received $500 million from the US government, so we are all subsidizing him"

Chromatica Warrior @DebbieTweeted "Can he be held responsible for his dad's ethics tho? To me, he sure is trying to make the world better right now, and that's the best thing he could do with his father's money".

Not all the tweets were supportive of Elon. Former Tesla employees have reported racist behavior and attempted to sue over it.

luis carruthers @orthereaboot tweeted,

"When the same pattern of racist behavior happens at all $tsla locations, it's the company that's racist, and the fish rots from @elonmusk's head."

Former Tesla employee Marcus Vaughn, who worked in the Fremont, California, factory in 2017, alleged that the company's production floor was a "hotbed for racist behavior." Supervisors regularly used the "N word" around Black workers and he said he was fired after complaining to human resources about workplace harassment. "Although Tesla stands out as a groundbreaking company at the forefront of the electric car revolution, its standard operating procedure at the Tesla factory is pre-civil-rights-era race discrimination," Vaughn wrote in his complaint, according to a Daily Beast report.

In a 2017 email to employees which the company later released in response to one of the lawsuits, Elon warned against "being a huge jerk" to members of "a historically less represented group." He also wrote, "if someone is a jerk to you, but sincerely apologizes, it is important to be thick-skinned and accept that apology."

"But by many accounts, the issues at the Tesla factory go beyond the need for a thick skin," New York Times reported.

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Not Just Border-Jumpers

Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 60

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Summary

Some two million people have illegally crossed over the Southwest border and settled in the United States since President Biden's inauguration. Americans see the images and are justifiably concerned.

But unseen by Americans are the estimated 40 percent of the illegal immigrant population that arrived legally, then overstayed their visas. The extent of the overstay problem became apparent after the 1993 World Trade Center terror attack (three of the seven 1993 terrorists were or had been visa overstayers) when Congress mandated an annual report on overstays. Today's episode of Parsing Immigration Policy highlights the key findings of the most recent overstay report, which contains FY 2020 data. It was not released to the public until 2022, after several members of Congress questioned DHS Secretary Mayorkas about the delay in releasing it.

In 2020, approximately 684,000 people did not leave the country when their authorized stay was over. The most concerning news is that short-term visits – such as for tourism or business trips and which generate more than half of all overstays – worsened significantly. The report details, by number and rate of overstay, the countries and categories that remain a problem.

Jessica Vaughan, the Center's Director of Policy Studies and a former Foreign Service Officer with the State Department, voices concern over the lack of a commitment to address the problem and offers recommendations, for agencies and for Congress, to address the persistent problem of visa overstays. In his closing commentary, Mark Krikorian, the Center's Executive Director and host of Parsing Immigration Policy, discusses the Biden administration's use of the courts to generate what he calls a "stealth amnesty". To address the over two million-person backlog in the illegal immigration court system, the Biden administration is simply dismissing cases.

Mark Krikorian, the Center's executive director and host of Parsing Immigration Policy, moderates this rebroadcast of the Center's recent panel.

Host

Mark Krikorian is the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

Guest

Jessica Vaughan, the Center's Director of Policy Studies.

Related

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Intro Montage

Voices in the opening montage:

• Sen. Barack Obama at a 2005 press conference.
• Sen. John McCain in a 2010 election ad.
• President Lyndon Johnson, upon signing the 1965 Immigration Act.
• Booker T. Washington, reading in 1908 from his 1895 Atlanta Exposition speech.
• Laraine Newman as a "Conehead" on SNL in 1977.
• Hillary Clinton in a 2003 radio interview.
• Cesar Chavez in a 1974 interview.
• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaking to reporters in 2019.
• Prof. George Borjas in a 2016 C-SPAN appearance.
• Sen. Jeff Sessions in 2008 comments on the Senate floor.
• Charlton Heston in "Planet of the Apes".

Fwd: Biden v. Texas: Main Issue Is Unresolved

Double talk, incomprehensible policy that makes our government look STUPID while it ass-punches us, its citizens, children, veterans, immigrants all…

"How these issues are decided are of utmost importance all right, to their PRO-grasses. It's the inverse law all over, here. 2% goes to the 98% that really need ii, while the other 98% goes to the SYSTEM.

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Share Tweet Share Want more details? For interviews please email mrt@cis.org.   Biden v. Texas: Remain in Mexico May End, But Main Issue Is Unresolved Washington, D.C. (June 30, 2022) - The Supreme Court's decision in the Remain in Mexico case leaves the main question unresolved. The Court finds that the Biden administration may end the program (formerly known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, or MPP) and the lower court's injunction against it is invalid. The case now goes back to the circuit court to decide whether the program was terminated properly. More important: The lower court also has to decide whether federal law's detention mandate for illegal border-crossers is really a mandate and whether DHS is violating the law by releasing most illegal aliens instead of detaining them. In other words, the plaintiffs' argument is that the law requires either detention or Remain in Mexico for border-jumpers, with the limited exception of parole in extraordinary cases. The Biden administration has made that exception the rule and is releasing almost all illegal border-crossers (who aren't expelled under Title 42, which it is also trying to end), and that is the central issue, still to be decided. How these issues are decided is of great importance, given the unprecedented growth in the illegal population under the Biden administration. Census data suggests the illegal-alien population grew by 1.4 million since inauguration day 2021, while administrative data suggests the growth may be as large as 2 million. Ending Remain in Mexico, as well as the Title 42 orders, will only supercharge the flow of illegal immigration across the southern border (not to mention visa overstayers). Visit Website Donate Related Articles: SCOTUS to Hear Most Significant Immigration Case – Ever: Does the president have the power to ignore law? Biden Has Released Nearly 1.05 Million SW Border Migrants into the U.S. Copyright © 2022 Center for Immigration Studies, All rights reserved.  Our mailing address is: Center for Immigration Studies 1629 K St., NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20006 USA Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. View this e-mail in your browser. This is the Center for Immigration Studies CISNews e-mail list.