Man On Fire: 12/21/16

21 Dec 2016

Putin, Hacking & Conspiracy

Max and Stacy discuss the ‘birthering’ of the Democrats as Keith Olbermann turns xenophobe, and conspiracy theories flourish in the media. They also discuss Russia’s latest gold purchases. In the second half, Max interviews former Assistant Treasury Secretary under Ronald Reagan, Paul Craig Roberts, about the attempted Electoral College coup on Trump, and the differences between the last Cold War and the new one.

Crazy Academic Feminist Thinks Carbon Fibers Are Misogynistic

By Rachael Lefler: Because when you’ve talked about everything from movies and video games to glaciers and fluid dynamics, what left is there that hasn’t been declared sexist? Academic feminism is the rotten, deluded root from which all the “leaves,” your average young feminist college girls, get their ideas. The sad thing about it is how influential it is. University professors are rarely censored or fired for teaching ideas that are so crazy and unfounded in logic and common sense. This is the kind of thing our tax dollars are funding, apparently:

CARBON FIBRE MASCULINITY
The TL;DR version: Carbon fiber technology is anti-woman. I know. I couldn’t even get through the abstract to this article without laughing the hardest I’ve laughed so far this year (and it’s late September). I mean, it’s astonishing to me how just absurd their ideas are. But amid the laughter I got from reading this stupid article, I also noticed a lot of misandry and anti-male biases in the language the author uses that I think is worth pointing out. I mean, while in an art history course on museum studies, I had to read something called “Teddy Bear Patriarchy” that claimed that museums and collections of objects, in general, were rooted in some kind of masculine psychological dominance drive,

J4MB Confront Dr. Joseph Spitzer Of Stamford Hill, London, “Known Genital Mutilator”

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5 Arrested After Egyptian Police Bust Staged Photo Shoot Of "Wounded Aleppo Children"

By Tyler Durden: Readers who have been following the crisis in Aleppo have seen media reports of videos and photos allegedly originating from innocent children victims, pleading against the advance of the Assad forces. And while there have been various accusations that these clips, like the infamous "chemical attack" YouTube clip from 2013, were staged, such reports were promptly slammed by the mainstream media as "fake news" and roundly ignored. However, if one ever needed a reason to be skeptical of claims, photographs, and/or videos coming out of the region, and the MSM's appeals to readers emotions based on fabricated facts, Egyptian authorities have just provided it.