Man On Fire: February 2014

28 Feb 2014

The Inhuman Israelis Have Bombarded The People Of Gaza Again

The apartheid Israeli regime has launched another airstrike against the people of the Gaza Strip in the north of the besieged enclave.

UK BANNED Press TV: On Friday, an Israeli drone fired a rocket on a farmland near the city of Beit Hanoun with no immediate reports of injuries or material damage.
The attack took place right after a Palestinian was shot and injured by Israeli troops in the east of the town of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.
On Monday, an Israeli airstrike hit a base belonging the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah on the Lebanon-Syria border near the village of Janta.
The resistance movement said on Wednesday that it would “choose the appropriate time and place as well as appropriate means to respond.”
The Israeli regime launched a war of aggression on the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah in 2006. The conflict killed about 1,200 Lebanese people and 160 Israelis.
Gaza has been blockaded since June 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the standards of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.

Hungary Kicked The IMF Out And Supports Russia On Ukraine + Ukraine Set to Ignite in Civil War

Morris: Russia is building a multi billion $ nuclear plant in Hungary. Joaquin Flores

By Karen Straughan (aka GirlWritesWhat): Well, the article at The New Republic is up, and it’s a mixed bag. Which generally means mostly awful (and offal, heh), but with a few pleasant surprises.
For my part, my over 42-and-change minute interview on a number of different topics was condensed into a single quoted sentence fragment, and a two sentence soundbite about false accusations.
If anyone is interested in hearing what Ms. Matchar and I actually talked about for over 40 minutes, feel free to click here.
Issues we discussed:
Why I got involved in the Men’s Rights Movement. Whether culturally propagated rape myths (such as the myth that ordinary, otherwise decent guys will commit rape if they have the chance, an unwillingness to accept the empirical evidence that 90% of rapes of women are committed by a small percentage of men who are recidivists, and frequent comparisons between the attrition rate for rape with the conviction rate for other crimes) coupled with a near-constant public emphasis on the “re-victimizing” of women by the system and how difficult reporting is, discourages women from reporting.
Whether men should be considered rape victims when women have sex with them against their will, through use of threats, force, or drug/alcohol incapacitation. Currently, in statistical data such as that gathered by the CDC, for whom feminist Mary Koss acts as a consultant, such men are not considered rape victims, even if they have been forced into sex.

FreeStateProjectNH: Gender discrimination has been a fixture in our history from suffrage through to equal pay and other rights under the law. Historically equality movements like feminism have had a hugely important role in achieving equality but many people believe modern third wave feminism focuses on gender exceptionalism rather than egalitarianism. Additionally policies typically suggested by modern feminism aim to use government force to correct the remaining problems they perceive within society. This panel examines the role feminism currently has in society and asks if it is necessary to support egalitarian objectives or if it has just become another adjunct for statists to advance their goals.

Mens Rights Activists vs Crazy Feminists

felix femhater: Joe Rogan and Stefan Molyneux start with the incident in Canada about Warren Ferrell that was disrupted by feminists. They soon coming to the conclusion, that feminists are not really for equality and human rights as they claim to be.

By Lucian Vâlsan: The European Parliament has accustomed us to anti-free speech legislation and with regulations that defy even the most basic notions of common sense in many areas. But what happens when the EU’s zealotry meets the Swedish State’s distaste for individual freedom? Well, it’s now happening and feminist lies are at the point of contact.

Background information and timeline:

In order to understand the issue we need to understand how deep the rabbit hole goes as it pertains to the EU. The beginning of the current problem goes back 17 years, to 1997, when Sweden was still a new member in the EU.

In 1997, the European Parliament passed a resolution on the need to establish a EU-wide campaign for zero tolerance of violence against women[1]. That document was the beginning of the implementation of the insane laws morphing the EU into the huge feminist State that it is now, all under the guidance of the UN – especially CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women) which has gained clout over gender issues in the UN. That was the first time Europe had seen transnational pieces of legislation of this nature[2]:

Urges Member States which have not already done so to make violence against women on the basis of the CEDAW definition a criminal act and to carry out a policy in line with all the obligations laid down in the Convention;

MGTOW 101: Female Quotas + Arguments

GCHQ And NSA Intercepted Yahoo Users' Private Photographs

RT: British and American surveillance agencies teamed up to develop a system that collected millions of images from the webcams of unsuspecting and innocent internet users, new leaked documents reveal.

By Wolf Richter: China’s rapidly aging 1.3 billion folks are all trying to make it in the modern world, and they’ll see to it that their country will have major economic and political heft in the future. So in practically no time, China has become the second largest economy in the world. OK, its credit bubble of strenuously obfuscated magnitude will require a miracle, or else the noise of hot air hissing out of it will be deafening.
One of the long-term goals of consecutive Chinese governments has been to make China number one in just about everything. Including its currency. Displacing the dollar as the world’s reserve currency would be nice, and that’s certainly on the list, but first the yuan must become the most used payment currency. How long would that take, barring the accidental annihilation of the dollar as the Fed yanks on yet another experimental lever with unknown consequences?
Not that other currencies haven’t already tried to trounce the dollar, most notably – don't laugh – the euro. At the time of its invention, the thinking went that it would be the common currency of the entire European Union, a concept anchored in the treaties that each member state signed. There are 28 of them, now that Croatia has joined the ever expanding group. The next candidates have been cooling their heels for years, namely Iceland, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Turkey. OK, Turkey, whose membership has been hung up in discord since 2004, has hit some big speed bumps recently. But hey. A slick regime change, and off we go.

By Michael Snyder: Russia will never, ever give up Crimea without a fight. Anyone that thinks otherwise is just being delusional. The Russian Black Sea fleet's main base at Sevastopol is far too strategically important. In addition, ethnic Russians make up approximately 60 percent of the population of Crimea, and most of the population is rabidly pro-Russian. In fact, many prominent Crimean politicians are already calling for reunification with Russia. So if you have been thinking that Russia is just going to fold up shop and go home now that pro-European protesters have violently seized power in Kiev, you can quit holding your breath. The truth is that Russia is more than willing to fight a war over Crimea. And considering the fact that vitally important pipelines that pump natural gas from Russia to the rest of Europe go right through Ukraine, it is not likely that Russia will just willingly hand the rest of Ukraine over to the U.S. and the EU either. If the U.S. and the EU push too hard in Ukraine, a major regional war may erupt which could ultimately lead to something much larger.

Russia and Ukraine have very deep historical ties. Most Americans may not think that Ukraine is very important, but the Russians consider Ukraine to be of the utmost strategic importance.
As an American, how would you feel if another nation funded and organized the violent overthrow of the democratically-elected Canadian government and replaced it with a government that was virulently anti-American?

Copernicus On The Energy Crisis - RAP NEWS

thejuicemedia: Like many others who preceded us, our "civilisation" faces an Energy Crisis of megawattic proportions, which threatens to bring an end to our brief joyride. But our dirty little secret is seldom mentioned in the news, let alone connected to economic instability or to environmental effects on our planet.

Yes The Government Is Spying On You Through Your Webcam – Another “Conspiracy Theory” Proven True

By Michael Krieger: I still remember many years ago in response to becoming aware of the possibility that my computer webcam could be accessed remotely I decided to put a piece of duct tape over the camera. I also remember the look on some of my friends’ faces upon seeing this. They thought I was nuts. It wasn’t even a conversation I was comfortable having since the idea that the government or NSA could or would peep on innocent Americans through their webcams was beyond preposterous for the vast majority of people

This topic is not exactly new, and I addressed it last April in my piece: A Look into the Malware the FBI Uses to Spy Through Webcams.

Now, thanks to Edward Snowden, we know more. Much, much more.

From the Guardian:

Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal.

MGTOW 101: The Patriarchy + Be Loud + The Man Cave + The Matriarchy

"...on the second Tuesday of every month all the men get together in secret man caves to figure out ways to put themselves above women..."

‘Good Father’ - Prentice Powell

The Arsenio Hall Show: Prentice Powell makes his third appearance on Arsenio's show with an extremely powerful and emotional performance of "Good Father." Powell didn't leave a dry eye in the place.

By Clint Carpentier: Usually I don’t have to put up with stupid shit. As most of you now know, I’m very introverted, so my encounters with “the real world” are few; but the last few of weeks have blown my mind, and I’m not even living in a major city center, I live in a “hick” city. This is spurred on by a video (below) the Youtuber Sandman posted, it had a single line in it which was just too much for me to ignore, and I spent the afternoon at work obsessing over the last few weeks. This is the resulting rant.
I turned up at the flooring shop a couple weeks ago to grab some supplies, banter with the staff, and make off like a bandit (it was payday). There was this guy at the counter, well kept younger guy. From what I gathered, he owns a jewelry store, is about to get married, and is about to sign off on flooring bill.
The saleslady dealing with him obligatorily asks, “And you’re sure this is the one you want?”
He responds rather off-handedly, “It’s the one she picked. Whatever makes her happy, right?”
And the saleslady says something like, “It’s usually for the best.”
The female manager couldn’t resist adding her two cents in, “What do they say? Happy wife, happy life.” And he grins ecstatically.
I cannot express enough, the sheer stupidity of this encounter. I was mentally screaming at him, but I could not say a thing, because my job relies on men like him. Single men and single women, do NOT buy flooring. Married women buy flooring, with the money of these walking wallets. Being a jeweller, he should have seen the irony of his situation; men have no use for jewellery, and single women won’t spend their own money on expensive jewellery. Jewellers and flooring guys like us would starve if women never got married to blue-pill morons.

Triangle Of Fraud - Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert with Andrew Spooner

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the 'cling-ons' unable to afford to live in London, while in Texas, Rex Tillerson of Exxon, the man most responsible for pushing fracking across the nation, refuses to have it happen in his backyard.

Talking Gaza and Education - Wide Awake Radio

Ry Dawson: Ukraine - This is the epicenter of the latest cold war eruption. A gang of thugs backed by Russia is contending with another gang of thugs backed by the US and the EU for control of this bankrupt, historically problematic former Soviet republic. As the gateway to the oil rich steppes of Central Asia, Ukraine is a big prize in the battle for control of energy production and distribution and neither side shows any sign of backing down.

House of Cards: What They Aren't Telling You!

Stefan Molyneux: The hidden meanings and unspoken history behind the Netflix series House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey.

The Earth is still doomed, but Greece is just fine. Allegedly.

By John Ward: Hang on to your hats…here comes the latest climate warming ‘new factor’ – volcanoes. The LA Times has this to say:
‘Adding the volcanic activity into calculations effectively reduced the discrepancy between observed temperature trends and the models that underpin the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s reports on climate change attributable to human activity. Those models assumed that the additional aerosols pumped into the atmosphere by such events at the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines would eventually subside to zero.“That’s not what happened in the real world,” said said Benjamin D. Santer, a climate scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who was lead author of the new study. “Effectively, the real world has experienced a partial cooling effect associated with this uptick in volcanic activity.”
But it won’t last, we’re told. Oooooh no, it won’t because you see, we’re doomed.

RT: A heretofore inexplicable fatal, chronic kidney disease that has affected poor farming regions around the globe may be linked to the use of biochemical giant Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide in areas with hard water, a new study has found.
The new study was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Researchers suggest that Roundup, or glyphosate, becomes highly toxic to the kidney once mixed with “hard” water or metals like arsenic and cadmium that often exist naturally in the soil or are added via fertilizer. Hard water contains metals like calcium, magnesium, strontium, and iron, among others. On its own, glyphosate is toxic, but not detrimental enough to eradicate kidney tissue.
The glyphosate molecule was patented as a herbicide by Monsanto in the early 1970s. The company soon brought glyphosate to market under the name “Roundup,” which is now the most commonly used herbicide in the world.
The hypothesis helps explain a global rash of the mysterious, fatal Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown etiology (CKDu) that has been found in rice paddy regions of northern Sri Lanka, for example, or in El Salvador, where CKDu is the second leading cause of death among men.

Apartheid Israel's WB Butchery Amounts To War Crimes: Amnesty

Amnesty International says unlawful killing and injuring of Palestinian civilians by Israeli green shirts in the occupied West Bank amounts to war crimes.
UK BANNED Press TV: "The report presents a body of evidence that shows a harrowing pattern of unlawful killings and unwarranted injuries of Palestinian civilians by Israeli forces in the West Bank," Philip Luther, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at Amnesty International, said in a report on Thursday.

By Michael Krieger: Before the U.S. gets too far behind the curve on this important topic, I urge the regulators to work together, act quickly, and prohibit this dangerous currency from harming hard-working Americans.
- Senator Joe Manchin, in his letter calling for a ban on Bitcoin
Whenever you hear a politician say he or she wants to do something to “protect hard-working Americans,” you know this person is so full of shit that whatever proposal being peddled should be treated with extreme skepticism. It’s incredible to me that this sort of infantile and transparently superficial language actually still works on people, but apparently it does.

MHRA: I No Longer Plan On Attending The Feminazi Forum

MensRights Edmonton: Looks like I should sit this one out. The town square effect... "They know that we know that they know we know!"

By Amith Nirgunarthy: While Bitcoin sceptics are gloating over the shutdown of Mt. Gox, proponents are more bullish than ever. Many see the downfall of Mt. Gox as exactly what’s needed to incite a massive leap forward in the evolution of Bitcoin and policy makers agree. Benjamin M. Lawsky, Superintendent of Financial Services for the State of New York, said in a statement, that “these developments underscore that smart, tailored regulation could play an important role in protecting consumers and the security of the money that they entrust to virtual currency firms.”

By F F Wiley: After our recent article showing the history of non-defense budget balances for large, developed countries, some readers wondered how our results might change with defense spending included.

Here’s a new chart showing total budget balances:

As in the first chart, we started in 1816 with four countries (the U.S., U.K., France and Netherlands) and then added seven more at different points in time, while weighting each country by its GDP.

By Michael Snyder: According to a stunning new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly a third of all food produced in the United States gets wasted. We are probably the most wasteful society in the history of the planet, and we are also one of the most gluttonous. More than 35 percent of all Americans are considered to be officially "obese" by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Unfortunately, this era of gluttony and taking food for granted will soon be coming to an end. Thanks to crippling drought in key growing areas and other extremely bizarre weather patterns, a massive food crisis is beginning to emerge all over the planet. If you don't think that this is going to affect you, then you simply are not paying attention. Approximately half of all produce grown in the United States comes from the state of California, and right now California is suffering through the worst stretch of drought on record. Food prices are going to start soaring, and that is going to affect the household budget of every family in America.

Needless to say, a time is coming when Americans will not waste food so recklessly. But for the moment, we still have a tremendous amount of disrespect for the value of food. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, we waste a staggering 133 billion pounds of food each year...

Trust In Troika Wavers As Loans Fail To Revive Economies

RT: The group of wankers known as the Troika are back in Greece to discuss the terms of yet another bailout loan. Harsh austerity measures imposed in the country in exchange for previous credits has failed to stabilise the economy. Peter Oliver reports, this has caused the Troika's credibility to plummet.

Advocating Spousal Murder

johntheother: Mainstream feminism's 25 year enterprise, as revealed by Feminist Law Professor Elizabeth Sheehy. Yes, she wants women in abusive relationships to kill their partners, and not to leave. Because, patriarchy, and reasons.

By Wolf Richter: Those who benefited from the phenomenal money-printing binges by central banks in the US, Europe, China, Japan, the UK, and other countries over the last five years have coagulated into a very thin, richly textured layer at the top of the heap. With ballooning incomes and new-found confidence that central banks will forever take care of them and bail them out, they’re spending money on luxury goods, and they’re buying opulent digs in London, New York, San Francisco, and other trophy cities, and they’re acquiring works of art, farmland, and stocks, and they’re driving up asset prices along the way. These data points have made it into GDP and have perked it up a tiny bit.
But how are the people doing who’ve suffered the consequences of these policies, the workers and retirees, the middle class, the lower 75% of society? On January 31, Walmart shed some light on their plight. It warned that fourth quarter profits would take a hit, amid slower-than-expected sales in the US. It blamed reductions in food-stamp benefits and the marauding polar vortices – there not being any corporation that can pass up an opportunity to blame lackadaisical government spending and the lousy weather.
But apparently food stamps have been cut in other parts of the world too, and polar vortices have messed things up even in Latin America and Asia, or something. Because that seems to be what Walmart International, with over 6,400 stores in 26 countries outside the US, has smacked into.

Financial Death Shriekers - Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert with Jan Skoyles

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the shriek factor in financial markets and the whirlpool of money death at MtGox.

Why I'm Suspicious Of Kate Berger

6oodfella: My thoughts on the latest patient to be admitted to the feminist nut house.

RT: The former cyber advisor under President George W. Bush had some harsh words for the United States National Security Agency during an address in California on Monday: "get out of the business of fucking with encryption standards.”
That was the recommendation that famed cyberczar Richard Clarke made while speaking earlier this week at the at the Cloud Security Alliance summit in San Francisco.
Clarke, 63, served as a counterterrorism advisor for President Bill Clinton in the 1990s and later assisted his successor, Mr. Bush, as the special advisor on cybersecurity for that administration through 2003. Most recently, though, Clarke was assigned to a five-person panel assembled by Pres. Obama late last year that was tasked with assessing the NSA’s operations in the midst of ongoing and ever-damaging leaks disclosed by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. In December, that group suggested 46 changes for the Obama administration to consider in order rein in the secretive spy agency.
Speaking during Monday’s conference, however, Clarke opened up about some of the more personal suggestions he has for the NSA, and even some insight about what the future may have in store for the agency if they continue to collect intelligence from seemingly all corners of the Earth.
"In terms of collecting intelligence, they are very good. Far better than you could imagine," Clarke said. "But they have created, with the growth of technologies, the potential for a police state."

By Michael Snyder: Bitcoin is a virtual currency that has no intrinsic value. The only thing giving bitcoin value is the faith that people have in it, and now that faith has been shattered. This week, the most prominent bitcoin exchange in the entire world, Mt. Gox, totally collapsed. At one time, Mt. Gox boasted more than a million accounts and it accounted for approximately 25 percent of all global bitcoin trading. But now the website has been taken down, there are rumors of catastrophic losses, and many investors are concerned that they will lose all of their money. In fact, according to one report, investors could be facing total losses of up to 367 million dollars. The collapse of Mt. Gox is also affecting other bitcoin exchanges. As I write this, the market value of bitcoin had fallen to about $470, but just three months ago it was trading close to $1,200. Needless to say, a lot of bitcoin investors are going to be licking their wounds tonight.

This Man’s $600,000 Facebook Disaster is a Warning For All Small Businesses

By Michael Krieger: It continues to amaze me how people are completely ignoring what appears to be an incredible amount of shadiness inherent in Facebook’s business model. Whether or not this is intentional click fraud, it is clear that advertisers are not getting what they think they are getting. They won’t be fooled forever, and once they wake up to the money being wasted on fake “likes” and “clicks,” I’m curious to see what happens to their revenue.
The following article from SF Gate is a perfect followup to my post from a couple weeks ago: How Much of Facebook’s Ad Revenue is From Click Fraud?
Perhaps the most shocking passage from the entire article is the following:
Naturally, Brar began disputing his bill with Facebook. He wanted his clicks audited by a third party, to see how many were genuine. Then he discovered that Facebook’s terms of service forbid third-party verification of its clicks. That’s something all advertisers should be aware of before they spend a penny on Facebook.

The Israeli parliament has passed a new law giving Muslim and Christian Arab communities separate representation on an employment commission.

UK BANNED Press TV: The law, which was passed on Monday, expanded the equal opportunities commission from five to 10 members, and gave separate seats to representatives of Christian and Muslim Arab workers' groups.
It was sponsored by Yariv Levin of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party.
The Israeli daily Haaretz quoted Levin as saying that Israelis and Christians “have a lot in common,” adding, “They’re our natural allies, a counterweight to the Muslims.”
The Palestinians slammed the new Israeli law with Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi saying in a statement that the new law seeks to create a new division among Palestinians “based on religion.”
The Israeli regime has been committing human rights violations and pursuing a policy of systematic discrimination and genocide against the Palestinians since 1948, and the latest move also bears similarity to the policy of the apartheid regime of South Africa.

By Diana Davison: Conor Oberst made a mistake. On February 19th, the lead singer and founder of the band Bright Eyes filed a $1M lawsuit against Joanie Faircloth for falsely accusing him of rape. Faircloth had made the accusation in the comments section of an XOJane article about domestic violence and on her Tumblr page. (All are now deleted)
She claimed that Oberst’s brother got her backstage after a concert ten years ago and that the singer stole her virginity after ignoring her protests when he started touching her sexually. Brief investigation shows that Joanie Faircloth is an Oberst fanatic who, until recently, claimed that attending the concert was the “Best memory ever!”
Either she’s lying about the assault or rape just isn’t what it used to be.
Faircloth refused to retract her statements after Oberst’s lawyers contacted her, leaving Oberst limited options to clear his name. His press statement, printed in Rolling Stone, also announced that “Oberst intends to donate the proceeds of this suit to charities benefitting the victims of violence against women.”
And there is the mistake. Not just the misspelling of the word “benefiting”.
Faced with false rape allegations you’d imagine Oberst would want to help other men who have been falsely accused. Most likely, the idea was to show that he cares about actual victims of rape but, as it turns out, the women’s charities don’t care about him. And they don’t want his money. Emily Davis, the spokesperson for Right to Speak Out demanded Oberst drop his lawsuit because he’s scaring the womenfolk. Her reasoning goes like this:

"We are devaluing the Mediterranean ...towards Third World status" - Using The Crisis To Build A Fascist United States Of Europe

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Transcript:
"Well, I've sat here this morning feeling like the odd man out. I mean, to me it's beyond parody for the Greek finance minister, Mr Kourkoulas, to come along here and tell us our fortune.

This is What a Feminist Looks Like

By AVfM: “Remember kids, privilege is the new original sin, and you must redeem yourself in the eyes of the Mother Goddess if you hope to be saved. Convert your local male to indefinite servitude in the name of equal treatment!”
Victor Zen encountered a real feminist promoting tyranny with a smile. Zen oppresses her in the way only a ginger can: by hurling enough bricks of logic to entomb her arguments on impact.

Rape Culture Culture, and Creeps

By JtO and Janet Bloomfeld: Sexual Assault is a slippery phrase. Not simply due to the continued misapplication of the words by gender ideologues, but because the definition of sexual assault is subjective. Consider the question: When has a sexual assault occurred?
If we are to ask social justice warriors or similarly squirrel-brained solipsists – the answer might be: Sexual assault occurs any time a female feels sexually assaulted.
This is, of course, stupid.
Consider a campaign from the university of Nova Scotia, called More Than Yes:

“Sexual consent is more than just a yes. It must be loud and clear.”

Do you get that, guys? Yes DOES NOT MEAN yes. It means maybe. Depends how she feels about it the next day.
If she wakes up and thinks, “Oh my god, what a whore I am!” then, according to the squirrel factory, all her “okays”, “yeses” and “oh god, uh, uh don’t stop’s “ will be re-imagined post facto in the legal record as “No! Stop! I’m being raped! Police! Take him away!”
Continuing, the squirrels have more to say:

“Real consent is mutual and sure. It is not muted, frail, hesitant, or afraid. It is never uncertain, assumed, or silent.“

Have these people ever actually had sex?

The Conspiracy Theory Is True: Agents Infiltrate Websites Intending To "Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy Reputations"

Submitted by Tyler Durden: In the annals of internet conspiracy theories, none is more pervasive than the one speculating paid government plants infiltrate websites, social network sites, and comment sections with an intent to sow discord, troll, and generally manipulate, deceive and destroy reputations. Guess what: it was all true.

And this time we have a pretty slideshow of formerly confidential data prepared by the UK NSA equivalent, the GCHQ, to confirm it, and Edward Snowden to thank for disclosing it. The messenger in this case is Glenn Greenwald, who has released the data in an article in his new website, firstlook.org, which he summarizes as follows: "by publishing these stories one by one, our NBC reporting highlighted some of the key, discrete revelations: the monitoring of YouTube and Blogger, the targeting of Anonymous with the very same DDoS attacks they accuse “hacktivists” of using, the use of “honey traps” (luring people into compromising situations using sex) and destructive viruses. But, here, I want to focus and elaborate on the overarching point revealed by all of these documents: namely, that these agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself." Call it Stasi for "Generation Internet."

A Day In The Life Of The Monarch - The BBC Sucks O Cocks News

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The Dollar And The Deep State

By Charles Hugh Smith: If we consider the Fed's policies (tapering, etc.) solely within the narrow confines of the corporatocracy or a strictly financial context, we are in effect touching the foot of the elephant and declaring the creature to be short and roundish.
I have been studying the Deep State for 40 years, before it had gained the nifty name "deep state." What others describe as the Deep State I term the National Security State which enables the American Empire, a vast structure that incorporates hard and soft power--military, diplomatic, intelligence, finance, commercial, energy, media, higher education - in a system of global domination and influence.

By Martin Armstrong: There has been the typical strategy to label anything that questions government’s ethics as the “conspiracy theory” so that it may still exist in plain sight. In most cases, there is a tool to further that goal of disinformation to allow corruption to exist in plain sight, yet denied. They use people who spin whatever real issue there is into something much larger to discredit the actual practice allowing it to still exist. We are all born ignorant, but it takes a lot of work to keep looking the other way to remain stupid.
There is the “black box” in cars that records where you have been and how fast you have ever driven. The abuse of this is off the charts just as they can not only tap your phones, but actually obtain data from your phone company that shows every call you received and the number it came from. These things exist. Smart phones not only tell Google where you are, but the police capture people by knowing where they are based upon their cell phone location. That sounds fine for violent people, but what about political prosecutions or taxes? However, the existence of such tools opens the doors for others to use them for nefarious reasons like hacking into your personal data or robbing your home based on the fact they know you are not there.

ABC 20/20 Returns to the MHRM, Doping Boys and CA SB 967

Paul Elam: After a less than scrupulous attempt at "covering" the men's movement, a backlash from that and an online petition urging the media giant to start giving men's issues fairer treatment, ABC News 20/20 is now reaching out again the men's rights community.
This time, 20/20 producer Sean Dooley wants to talk to men who have been in physically abusive relationships. Dooley says they are "looking for a few brave individuals to come forward and discuss their experience."

Pathei Mathos - The Male Experience

By John Hembling (JtO): Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) is one of the most significant elements of the Men’s Human Rights Movement. This is not a matter of dispute; the only possible dispute is whether MGTOW is just /one/ of the most significant, or, THE most significant aspect of the MHRM.
For members of the general public outside this human rights movement, terms like “the marriage strike,” failure to launch,” “Peter Pan Syndrome,” and other appellations reveal that whether misunderstood and reviled or not, the blue pill public is sharply aware that a small but growing segment of the male population are stepping off that old societal treadmill of protect, provide, serve, and die.
Men refusing to marry is big news. It’s the compliant, reliable and long-disposable dog’s-bodies of empire, refusing to be used and exploited anymore. It’s the quiet slave revolt.
And the slaves, revolting as the blue pill world finds them, are forging a wholly new path for male self-determined identity in the 21st century. That would be we revolting fellows who call ourselves MGTOW. Men, going our own way.
For a great many MTGOW men, rejection of the gynocentric and coercive institution of marriage, along with other societal male obligations, is about reclaiming control over their own lives. And as powerful and important as this motivation is, this revolution of male identity is utterly dwarfed in importance by the wider cultural impact of MGTOW.

Why Are You Still Arguing With Women And Feminists?

ThinkingApe-TV: No point rinsing and repeating.
"...the nagging principal right, what is feminism but in some sense a giant nag? They're nagging the world and particularly men to pay attention to their demands."

Americans Rising Up Against Government: Column

Three examples of pushback against the ruling class.

By Glenn Harlan Reynolds: America's ruling class has been experiencing more pushback than usual lately. It just might be a harbinger of things to come.

First, in response to widespread protests last week, the Department of Homeland Security canceled plans to build a nationwide license plate database. Many local police departments already use license-plate readers that track every car as it passes traffic signals or pole-mounted cameras. Specially equipped police cars even track cars parked on the street or even in driveways.

The DHS put out a bid request for a system that would have gone national, letting the federal government track millions of people's comings and goings just as it tracks data about every phone call we make. But the proposal was suddenly withdrawn last week, with the unconvincing explanation that it was all a mistake. I'm inclined to agree with TechDirt's Tim Cushing, who wrote: "The most plausible explanation is that someone up top at the DHS or ICE suddenly realized that publicly calling for bids on a nationwide surveillance system while nationwide surveillance systems are being hotly debated was ... a horrible idea."

Make Up Your Mind - MGTOW

Sandman: I came across a story about how women perceive male facial hair. Someone did a scientific study and asked women if they preferred a man with facial hair or a man without facial hair and the vast majority of women choose neither of the two options. Instead they said that they found men the most attractive if they had a 5 o'clock shadow or more substantial facial stubble. A simple yes and no answer is turned into something that was far more complicated then it should be. Everywhere you look in society you see many women unable to make up their minds. What they have is never good enough.

By Robert St. Estephe: You have been lied to.
Your neighbors have been lied to and your children, if you have or will have them, are being lied to – and the lies are broadcast for a specific purpose: to alter society in a manner that will conform to the misguided, unscientific, collectivist ideals of those who would rule you.
There is a fairytale propagandizing of the “political correctness police” that seeks to obscure crucial information about the history of the sexes which has been censored from education. Though the narrative has been manipulated, the historical records which counter that narrative have not been completely erased.
Instances of female sociopathic personality disorders are, it is well-known, underrepresented in statistics due to the fact that the behavior which is considered normal for women (superficial charm, manipulativeness, predilection of indirect rather than direct communication, relational aggression, histrionics) is similar to that which, in men, would be considered noticeably abnormal and problematic. Yet, when you’re a woman, living in a land ruled by the principle of female privilege, many allowances are given.

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