Sunday’s Vote Will Determine Liberty Or Serfdom

By Paul Craig Roberts: According to history books, democracy originated in Greece. Of course, historians could be mistaken, but this is the prevailing view among Western populations with enough awareness to be interested to know.
What we are witnessing today, July 2, 2015, is that after 2,500 years in the Western World only the current Greek government is interested in democracy. The Greek government, to the surprise and consternation of every other European government, has called a referendum for the Greek people to decide the fate of Greece. For resorting to democracy, the Greek government has been universally denounced in the Western World.
So much for Western democracy.
The greatest and most successful propaganda scam in history is the one that convinces the world that they are nobody if they are not part of The West, the indispensable peoples, the exceptional peoples. If you are not part of The West you are nobody, nonexistent, a nothing.
This prevailing propaganda might prevail in Greece on Sunday, in which case a fearful and intimidated Greek population might vote against the only government that, instead of accepting a payoff from Greece’s enemies, fought for the welfare of the Greek people.
If the Greeks vote for their oppressors and against their own government, democracy in the EU will cease to exist.
2,500 years ago Greeks saved their independence from the Persian Empire. Sunday’s vote will tell us whether Greeks have again served liberty or whether they have succumbed to Washington’s Empire.

Don’t Cut Your Son

Congratulations! It's a BOY! And that means...      happy baby       He's got a penis! Which means... He's got a foreskin!           Now, it may happen that his father doesn't have a foreskin, but don't worry, your son's foreskin is not some kind of python that's going to rise up and strangle him. About 90% of the males in the world (about 3 billion men and boys) have them, and they're very trouble-free. In fact many men say they greatly enjoy having one and would not willingly part with it. There are several good reasons for this.  First, let's look at what his foreskin is. You've probably heard it called just "a flap of skin covering the end of the penis". Well, there's more wrong than right about that expression:      It is the end of his penis, an integral part, not some kind of optional extra,     It's not a flap, but a double-walled tube with, later on, a unique rolling action,     It's not just skin, but also nerves, sensitive nerve-endings, a thin layer of muscle, and on its inner side, the same kind of surface as the lining of your mouth     And it's remarkably big - especially when he's grown up, but even as a baby. Unfolded, an average man's foreskin is as big as a 3"x5" filecard.     So what does his foreskin do?  Some people say "Mankind used to need it when we ran around naked, but no more." Well, it still protects the surface of the head (glans) of his penis and keeps it soft. Clothing doesn't do that - on the contrary, clothing rubbing his glans hardens it, the way walking barefoot hardens your feet.  While he's a baby, it also protects his urine-tube (urethra) from bacteria entering, acting like a kind of flap valve; that's why a baby's is so long. Babies who don't have a foreskin are more likely to get ulcers around the opening in the head where the urine comes out, which causes it to close. Then they have to have surgery to fix that.  There is some suggestion that the cells of the inside of his foreskin are part of his immune system.  All those nerves, some 20,000 of them, will probably have a sexual function when he grows up: they're in the right place and they're of the right kind. If his father doesn't have a foreskin, what's the most sensitive part of his penis? The underside, just behind the head (the frenulum), right? Well, there is a ring of tissue, just as sensitive as that, running right around inside your son's foreskin. Sadly, for men without foreskins, the frenulum is all that is left of that.     Now here's a question for you: Whose foreskin is it, anyway?  Why, his of course! Who else? Why do you ask?  Because now, at last, it's time to use the "c" word -  Circumcision  Which is...?  Cutting off his foreskin. But you probably knew that.  You may not know, though, that when he is born, the inside of his foreskin is closely attached to the head of his penis. Before it can be cut off, the doctor has to run a blunt probe around between his foreskin and his glans to separate them. That hurts like hell, as you can imagine, and leaves the surface of his glans bloody and raw. There's a real risk that the raw edge of his cut foreskin will heal back on to the raw surface of his glans, forming a "skin bridge". These are not at all uncommon in circumcised men, and they can form little tunnels where it's very hard to clean - which defeats one of the purposes of circumcision.  In fact, damage of various kinds is not all that uncommon, it just often goes unreported. A surprising number of men have a scar across the head, a stray tag of skin hanging off their penis, or ugly lumps where the two kinds of skin healed together and where the veins had to find their own new routes.  The pain of circumcision is now known to be excruciating, and can only partly be deadened with drugs. Better not to give babies drugs anyway. The shock of circumcision makes breastfeeding harder to establish.  Worse things can go wrong with circumcision. You may have heard of the man in Winnipeg, Canada who was raised as a girl after his penis was accidentally burnt off or the boy in Washington state who's brain-damaged. Babies sometimes die from circumcision - very rarely, but that's small consolation to their parents.     So why does anyone do it?  Good question. Cutting off part of boys' genitals goes back to the dawn of time, probably to Africa, but it was invented independently in Polynesia and Australia. It seems to have arisen as some kind of magical attempt at taking control of sex. Maybe it was to make the penis look like an erect one all the time, giving magical potency. Or maybe the shedding of the baby's blood was a sacrifice, perhaps in imitation of women's shedding of blood that gave them the power of birth. In various parts of the world it's still a tribal rite. Once started, circumcision seems to be a habit that's hard to break.      Its modern secular practice began in the 19th century to "cure" masturbation. (It didn't work, of course.)     When that lost credibility, men came back from the First World War with sexually transmitted diseases and circumcision quickly attached itself to that. (Studies show any difference is marginal at best. One found only circumcised men had the commonest STD, chlamydia.)     Then Dr Abraham Wolbarst thought he had shown that circumcision protected men against penile cancer. (All he really found was that older men, born before circumcision was fashionable, are more likely to contract penile cancer. Penile cancer rates are much lower in some countries that do not circumcise {such as Denmark}, than in the US.)     During the Second World War, men were circumcised when they caught VD (maybe as punishment) but they told their families their foreskins had got infected, and many babies were circumcised to prevent that.     About this time, Dr Benjamin Spock recommended it, which really set the bandwagon rolling. (He later changed his mind.)     Then came cervical cancer (in the men's partners). (These studies compared populations with many other cultural differences as well as circumcision.)     Urinary Tract Infection. (Girls are more likely to get UTIs than any boys, and they of course are treated with medicine, not surgery. Boys born prematurely are more susceptible to UTI and are more often left intact. Some studies failed to correct for this.)     And now almost inevitably, HIV/AIDS. (The randomised trials in Africa are not as conclusive as is often claimed. Other African studies compared men of different cultures, and the virus is rampant there. The AIDS rate in Europe and Scandinavia, where hardly any men are circumcised, is much lower than in the US. Even if the studies are correct, circumcising would be a very ineffective way of preventing HIV in the developed world.) It would be very foolish for anyone to rely on his circumcision to protect him against HIV.  So it's reasonable to be skeptical of each new claim that circumcision protects against the disease of the day.  Circumcision used to be as fashionable in the rest of the English-speaking world as it is in the US, but it's virtually obsolete there now - and there have been no epidemics of foreskin-related diseases since it stopped.     But shouldn't a boy look like his father?  When the boy sees his father's penis, what he'll notice most is its hairyness and size. When he notices the other difference, his dad can explain in simple language what happened to him. Your son will almost certainly say, "Boy, I'm sure glad you didn't let them do that to me."     Circumcision never harmed me!  Perhaps it didn't, perhaps you were just lucky. A baby's penis is tiny, and how much and exactly what is removed is very much a matter of chance. Your son might not be as lucky as you.     Isn't it cleaner?  There's much less to clean with a boy than a girl. He just needs to wash the outside until it pulls back easily (probably not till he's talking) and then wash the inside as well, but only with very mild soap if any. (The very small amount of stuff inside is called "smegma" which is Greek for soap - it washes out easily) The best person to decide when he's ready to do that is him. It's very important not to force his foreskin back before it's ready. That can cause tearing and damage (which can almost always be fixed without circumcision, though).     Won't he worry about looking different?  Circumcision is no longer nearly universal anywhere in the US. He'll certainly find others like him, and may even be in the majority: it could be the circumcised boys who'll feel different, and they won't have the consolation that he has, that he's got something more than they have. If his brothers are circumcised, it need not be a big issue between them: just tell them, "They used to tell us it was a good thing to do, now they don't think so."     It's very important to our family/congregation/community that he be circumcised.  Again, whose penis is it? You'd fight to the death if some stranger tried to grab your baby and cut off part of his or her genitals. What difference does it make to him if this time it's people close to you?  Circumcision is a human rights issue. Where it's a religious matter, there are movements within those communities to end the practice. The great religions of the world celebrate kindness, compassion and the integrity of the individual. Why should the treatment of a baby's genitals be an exception?  Cutting of a girl's genitals for any reason at all except medical need is outlawed in the US and many Western countries. That includes even token cutting and pricking, far milder than male circumcision. Why should boys go unprotected?     It takes a brave man to admit that his sexuality might not be all that it could be.  It takes a strong man to grant his son something that was taken from him.     Congratulations on your baby!  He's wonderful.  All of him.

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Charleston Evidence Does Not Add Up

"Within four days of the banning of the confederate flag, they were also selling the General Lee Dukes of Hazard car without the confederate flag! ...we are up against a well financed well organised enemy hat has gotten control of the main stream media, intelligence services, the military and the government, ...out weapon is the truth." James Perloff.

On the Verge of Despotism

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss how it is that Aristotle predicted this day of financial and economic despotism. In the second half, Max interviews Nozomi Hayase about bitcoin and blockchain technologies enabling evolution of the human species which is presently kept enslaved by financial weapons.

Female Inmates - MGTOW

"Orange is the New Black." I've seen all three seasons so far, and all I've noticed is how every woman in prison is there because a man messed up her life, as if they were not to blame for their crimes. I also notice how they openly talk about how money and material objects are most important above all else, and they usually say this after someone says how love is actually important. Maybe that's what love is to a woman? Anyways, do you believe that major hit shows like this one will continue to spread their gynocentric messages, or do you believe that someday, hopefully soon, people will start to speak out against these man-hating messages in all these tv shows and movies?

US Federal Judge Of 17 Years Repents - Compares Damage Done By “War On Drugs” To Destruction Of World War II

By Michael Krieger: The “war on drugs” is one of the most irrational, idiotic and destructive public policy failures in American history, and that’s saying a lot. I’ve covered this topic many times, but nothing spells it out like the repentant words of a former federal judge, who admittedly ruined countless lives for no reason.
From the Atlantic:
ASPEN, Colo.—Former Federal Judge Nancy Gertner was appointed to the federal bench by Bill Clinton in 1994. She presided over trials for 17 years. And Sunday, she stood before a crowd at The Aspen Ideas Festival to denounce most punishments that she imposed.
Among 500 sanctions that she handed down, “80 percent I believe were unfair and disproportionate,” she said. “I left the bench in 2011 to join the Harvard faculty to write about those stories––to write about how it came to pass that I was obliged to sentence people to terms that, frankly, made no sense under any philosophy.”

IMF Bolsters Greek "No" Vote, Says Country Needs Debt Haircut

If the IMF were a Greek citizen, it would vote "No" in this weekend's referendum.

Submitted by Tyler Durden: According to a report prepared prior to capital controls and the banking sector meltdown, any deal that included creditor concessions on fiscal reforms would mean Greece's debt load would have to be written down. 
This underscores the IMF's long-standing position that EU creditors will ultimately need to write down their holdings if Greece has any hope of returning to a situation where the country's debt-to-GDP ratio is "sustainable," and suggests that Syriza is indeed making a smart move by holding out. 

• COMPREHENSIVE DEBT OPERATION IS REQUIRED TO RETURN GREECE TO ECONOMIC HEALTH
• GREECE NEEDS EITHER A DEBT WRITE-DOWN OR MATURITY EXTENSIONS UNDER LATEST CREDITOR PROPOSAL
• GREECE'S ADDITIONAL FINANCING NEEDS THROUGH 2018 TOTAL ABOVE EUR60 BILLION

How Men Show Love: George Thorogood And Bo Diddley

By Dean Esmay: Men love music, both listening to it and creating it, just like women–and I would hazard a “sexist” guess that in general men are more obsessive about creating music than women are, although there are any number of fantastic female musicians out there. And frankly, as an MRA, I’m sick of being stereotyped as a stick figure man with his “raging misogyny” and bitterness and whatnot, so I freely talk about other interests, in my case things like music and video games and comics, Ty Henry is into things like sports, and so on. We’re three dimensional human beings who show it to the world–and that is one of many things that those who hate us do not want us to do.
As it happens my tastes are eclectic but run very heavily to classical blues from the early 20th Century in the Mississippi Delta all the way to the blues-rock artists who emerged in the United States and the UK in the 1960s and 1970s. Yes it’s old stuff, but so what? I was in diapers or not born when most of it was made, but I love it, and I love exploring the history of it all, as do many of the greatest musicians. I laugh at people who call Motown “roots music.” Don’t get me wrong, I fucking love Motown, I’m just saying, many of my favorite artists were dead before Berry Gordy graduated from school.

Feminist Julie Burchill’s Son Jack (29) Has Killed Himself

By Mike Buchanan: I was deeply saddened to learn that Julie Burchill’s son Jack (29) committed suicide earlier this week. The Telegraph piece on the matter is here. Hopefully Ms Burchill now has more sympathy for young male suicide victims than she displayed in a callous Guardian article in 1999 – here. My thanks to Dave for the link to the Guardian piece, which ends:

To ask me to feel sympathy with suicides after witnessing this (the death of her father from asbestos-induced cancer) is, I suggest, just as unfeeling and ignorant as my callousness must appear to you – like asking a starving African to sympathise with an anorexic. In a society still beset with the most vicious social deprivation and rampant cruelty to the very young, the very old and the very weak, the voluntary exits of a few hundred able-bodied young men each year are best dealt with as private tragedies rather than a public concern. Let them go.

Suicide is the leading cause of death of British men under 50, and the male:female suicide differential has more than doubled in 30 years, from 1.7:1 to 3.5:1.

Greece Again Can Save The West

'The Persians Darius and Xerxes had the same view as Washington and the EU.'

By Paul Craig Roberts: Like Marathon, Thermopylae, Plateau and Mycale roughly 2,500 years ago, Western freedom again depends on Greece. Today Washington and its empire of European vassal states are playing the part of the Persian Empire, and belatedly the Greeks have formed a government, Syriza, that refuses to submit to the Washington Empire.
Few people understand that the fate of Western liberty, what remains of it, is at stake in the conflict, and, indeed, the fate of life on earth. Certainly the German government does not understand. Sigmar Gabriel, a German vice-chancellor, has declared the Greek government to be a threat to the European order. What he means by the “European order” is the right of the stronger countries to loot the weaker ones.
The “Greek crisis” is not about debt. Debt is the propaganda that the Empire is using to subdue sovereignty throughout the Western world.
The Greek government asked the collection of nations that comprise the “democratic” European Union for one week’s extension on the debt in order for the Greek people to give their approval or disapproval of the harsh terms being imposed on Greece by the EU commission, the EU Central Bank, and the IMF with Washington’s insistence.

The answer from Europe and the IMF and Washington was “NO.”

New Embassy In Cuba - But Will Congress Kill The Deal?

President Obama announces today that the US and Cuba will restore full relations. It is a good start, but many pitfalls remain. Will Congress block funding for a US embassy in Havana? And what about the travel and trade embargo? RonPaulLibertyReport

Even In Privilege, We Are Still Victims

"It's not the job of the lame-stream to uplift you. It's your job to uplift yourself. ...Fuck em and get money! ...you need to be an adult." That Guy T