Apple Comes Out With A Watch, And Look What Happens

Total Dominance over the Media

By Wolf Richter: Some companies excel in getting their name into the media. “Buzz,” it’s called. The media plaster adulatory articles, pics, and videos all over the place. It doesn’t last forever, but it can go on for a long time before the media finally get disenchanted, and the whole thing turns sour.

Tesla – or rather CEO Elon Musk – used to excel at it. For years, every news outlet bombarded its readers or viewers with some fawning piece on Tesla whose electric cars would change the world into a better place. And if it wasn’t Tesla itself, it would be something like the Hyperloop or the Gigafactory or something.
But now even the media has figured out that these $75,000+ small-batch production cars that few people can afford don’t amount even to a rounding error in global car sales. Manufacturing and selling a lot of cars at a profit is really, really hard. And making losses into the future as far as the eye can see, according to Musk himself, isn’t the ideal business model for an automaker.
Until that unfortunate turn of events, Tesla used the hype to extract a few billion dollars from investors. And it’s now busily burning through this money.
Media adulation is in part based on gravity-defying shares. In early August last year. Tesla shares traded at nearly $300, giving the company a market valuation of $37 billion. This is what media adulation can accomplish.

In Great Britain, Powerful Pedophiles Are Seemingly Everywhere And Totally Above The Law

A newspaper editor was handed startling evidence that Britain’s top law enforcement official knew there was a VIP pedophile network in Westminster, at the heart of the British government. What happened next in the summer of 1984 helps to explain how shocking allegations of rape and murder against some of the country’s most powerful men went unchecked for decades.
Less than 24 hours after starting to inquire about the dossier presented to him by a senior Labour Party politician, the editor was confronted in his office by a furious member of parliament who threatened him and demanded the documents. “He was frothing at the mouth and really shouting and spitting in my face,” Don Hale told The Daily Beast. “He was straight at me like a raging lion; he was ready to knock me through the wall.”
Despite the MP’s explosive intervention, Hale refused to hand over the papers which appeared to show that Leon Brittan, Margaret Thatcher’s Home Secretary, was fully aware of a pedophile network that included top politicians.
The editor’s resistance was futile; the following morning, police officers from the counter-terror and intelligence unit known as Special Branch burst into the newspaper office, seized the material and threatened to have Hale arrested if he ever reported what had been found. – From the Daily Beast article: How Thatcher’s Government Covered Up a VIP Pedophile Ring
By Michael Krieger: Sexually molesting extremely small children is one of the most heinous acts a person can commit while existing as a human being on this planet.

Greeks Face First Product Shortages As Cash Runs Out, "It's Worse Than In 2012"

Submitted by Tyler Durden: Just when you thought it was getting better (or so you would believe if you listened to the mainstream media's punditry) Greece faces what ekathimerini reports is a "situation worse than in 2012." From well-known Belgian beer to electronics equipment, the first occurrences of shortages in imported goods and raw materials have arisen as a result of Greek enterprises’ inability to pay with cash in advance.

White Police Shot Black Teen Dead As Obama Marked Historic Civil Rights March - Lame-Stream Headlines Kardashian's Hair Instead

Russell Brand's reaction to news that another un-armed African-American teenager was shot dead by white police on Friday, as Barack Obama marked the 50th anniversary of the Selma civil rights march in Alabama ...and the lame-stream media decide to focus on Kim Kardashian's new hair colour.

Max Keiser Interviews George Galloway MP On Successful Crowdfunding

"Labour has their thumb up their ass." George Galloway MP

You Have Maker Privilege

"The most female excluding group in the space is feminists." HoneyBadgerRadio

Zen And The Art Of MGTOW Maintenance

Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) is an act of strength but it is subject to many points of attack, not least of which is the challenge to your sanity and self image. Feminism LOL

Smoke & Mirrors - Cyclonious & Chairman MAF

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China-Russia Partnership Mature & Stable, Not Targeting ‘Third Parties’ - FM Wang Yi

RT: The strategic ties between China and Russia are mutually beneficial and based on trust and a tradition of supporting one another, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, emphasizing that the cooperation is mature and not targeted at third parties.
Describing China-Russia bilateral relations as stable and mature, the Chinese Foreign Minister has stated that Western political and economic pressure on Moscow will not affect mutual cooperation.
“The China-Russia relationship is not dictated by international vicissitudes and does not target any third party,” Wang Yi said at a press conference Sunday, in response to a question from Russia’s Sputnik news agency.
“The practical cooperation between China and Russia is based on mutual need, it seeks win-win results and has enormous internal impetus and room for expansion,” Yi said, adding that as “comprehensive strategic partners of coordination, China and Russia have a good tradition of supporting each other.”
The Chinese minister also stressed the historic importance of trust that has developed between the two nations, and the need for both states to coordinate efforts to insure international stability – particularly through the UN Security Council, where they earlier used their veto powers to block questionable Western initiatives.

It’s Our Money - Ellen Brown with Paul Craig Roberts

Ellen Brown Interviews Paul Craig Roberts About The Greek, Russian, and US Situations: History Explained From Reagan To The Present
Things are frequently not as they appear, there being a veil of secrecy and intrigue around matters of finance and state. Few people know better than this week's guest Dr. Paul Craig Roberts what is, and was, going on behind the headlines of global developments.  A former member of the Reagan Administration, editor of the Wall Street Journal and noted author, Ellen talks with him at length about what's happening with global finance and the shaking foundations of the EU. Source

Greek Student Confronts Bankster Eurogroup Capo Di Tuti Capi Dijsselbloem

By keeptalkinggreece: Greeks are everywhere. And they ‘bother’ Eurogroup head Jeroed Dijsselbloem wherever they see him. So was the case at the Delft University in the Netherlands, where Dijsselbloem held a speech
The dialogue between a Greek student and the Eurogroup head in short:
“4000 people have comiting suiside, ...you keep on giving loans to Greece from one loan shark to another, you continue to give loans to Greece to pay other loans. You know the situation very well. For the last five years you promote austerity here and in Holland. […] And at the same time, you allow the press to claim that every Dutchman has given 700 euros directly to the Greeks through the bailout packages, ” said the student

Gender Attitudes Towards Domestic Violence

By Si Victim: I’ve often commented on the attitude of some women towards Domestic Violence and have been contemplating this for a while.  As a victim, survivor and now as a supporter of those experiencing DV, I’ve spoken to many survivors of both genders and have seen a pattern emerge between the attitudes of genders going through Domestic Abuse.   I hope that this piece proves insightful as I share my conclusions.  There will always be some exceptions, however the vast majority of people that I’ve encountered have exhibited the attitudes I describe. 
This was true for me and for other men I have spoken with.  I was a victim of Domestic Violence, but at the time of my abuse, I didn’t consider myself as such.  In fact, I didn’t even recognise what was happening to me was abuse.   Other men have said similar to me.  Is this because the societal messages subconsciously convince us that only men can commit domestic abuse against women?  Even now, the lobbyists keep promoting ‘Violence against Women and Girl’ parliamentary bills and campaigns which keep influencing society to believe that only women can be victims of domestic violence with men generally the abusers.  THIS IS FAR FROM THE REAL TRUTH.  Out of every 5 victims of Domestic Violence, 2 will be male.