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Archive for the 'Personal log' Category

Apr 25th, 2010

Summary: Scores of Afghan schoolgirls in Kunduz were “knocked unconscious” or made ill this weekend by “suspected poison gas attacks” on their schools and authorities are blaming insurgents who oppose educating girls. However, according to clinical political psychologist Aubrey Immelman, Ph.D., “authorities would be well advised to investigate the alleged poison gas attacks as a possible case of mass hysteria, or mass psychogenic illness.” … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on April 25, 2009, Aubrey Immelman reported that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee created a Web site devoted to U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s false and controversial statements, intended as a virtual “truth squad” to expose Bachmann’s “fantastic claims and lies … that can quickly be disproven.”


Dec 24th, 2009

Summary: Tracking Santa Claus on his journey around the world on Christmas Eve. … Official NORAD Santa Tracker. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on December 24, 2008, Aubrey Immelman reported that the Iraqi parliament, in its final session of the year, forced out its abrasive speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani and authorized non-U.S. foreign troops to stay in the country for another six months.


Nov 11th, 2009

Summary: Video from the 2009 St. Cloud-area Veterans Day Parade. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on November 11, 2008, Aubrey Immelman featured NBC Today’s “American Story with Bob Dotson” from Arlington National Cemetery, where mothers remembered their veteran sons who lost their lives in combat.


Oct 23rd, 2009

Summary: The 2009 St. Cloud-area Veterans Day Parade and Social. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on the fifth day of his write-in campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman, in line with his focus on national security, reported on ongoing violence in the Iraq war. He also noted that Chuck Norris, in an article published Oct. 21, 2008 at HumanEvents.com, cited research conducted at Immelman’s Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics.



Summary: On the fifth day of his write-in campaign against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Aubrey Immelman noted that Chuck Norris, in an article published Oct. 21, 2008 at HumanEvents.com, cited research conducted at Immelman’s Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics.