Is The Troika About To Lose Control Of South-Western Europe?

By Don Quijones: Passos Coelho, who was until Tuesday Prime Minister of Portugal, knew “what to do.” After signing along the dotted line for a €78 billion bailout he embraced the Troika’s austerity agenda with abandon. Public spending was slashed, taxes were hiked, wages were cut, and a whole gamut of public assets and services were privatized.
As they say in Brussels these days, no pain, no gain. After four years of excruciating belt-tightening, Portugal was apparently back on the mend, despite its public debt almost doubling since 2008. Its economy had been through the grinder but it had come out the other end in much leaner shape. The public deficit had shrunk from 11% in 2011 to 3% today.
Unemployment had also fallen, and kept falling month after month, to the point where it was getting monotonous. Until two months ago, that is, when it shot back up over 14%. Then came the bomb shell: the country’s Ministry of Statistics announced in a rare moment of candor that unemployment, in an “extended sense,” was actually around 22%. As Deutsche Welle reports, the Portuguese government had been doctoring the figures to keep the European institutions (i.e. the Troika) happy:

Luxury London Real Estate Prices Plunge 11.5% Year-Over-Year

By Michael Krieger: Two months ago I published a piece titled, Luxury London Home Sales Plunge 26% – Has this Mega Real Estate Bubble Finally Burst?. I wrote:

It appears the music may have finally stopped for one of the world’s largest luxury real estate bubbles: London.
It’s well known that foreign oligarchs love London real estate as a means to launder funds, typically “earned” by soaking their host countries dry via corruption and fraud. This has caused absurd and irrational spikes in high-end residential real estate in the English capital, as well as a flood of new construction.
With emerging markets now completely collapsing, the seemingly endless flood of foreign money is drying up, and with it, London real estate.
So has the London real estate bubble popped? Probably.

Now we see the following from Bloomberg:

London’s most expensive homes and apartments have slumped in value as the government’s stamp duty sales tax damps demand.

Feminism Part 3: Blame The French - MGTOW

The continuing saga of feminism. In this video I expose the Frenchness of feminism along with the major players dating back from the French Revolution. In addition, I outline the tools feminists use to make their insane ideas sound sane in academia.

Great Men Under Siege

Professor Fiamengo discusses the ease with which small-minded feminists can destroy the lives of great men with a trivial petty complaint. Fiamengo uses the examples of Larry Summers, Timothy Hunt, and Matt Taylor.

M.D. Doesn't Mean Mutilate Dicks

At the American Academy of Pediatrics Convention in DC, street theatre artist Danielle Cruzen acts out the part of the dutiful, simple-minded, bloodthirsty nurse, who willfully assists in mutilating the genitals of infants. Bonobo3D

MCCaskill: Men Should Hate Women

"A sitting politician basically saying men and women should be enemies!" johntheother. Senator Clair McCaskill promotes MGTOW - and she probably knows it. 

Methods For Fighting Back Against Collectivist Tyranny

By Brandon Smith: In any examination of historical precedence, it is easy to see that the sheer number of collectivist and tyrannical systems have far outweighed any experiments in individual liberty. I have explored the reasons for this in numerous articles, including recent pieces such as “How To Stamp Out Cultural Marxism In A Single Generation” and “The Tools Collectivists Use To Gain Power.” To summarize, there is a driving desire among weaker-minded people to seek control over other people in the name of arbitrary standards of safety as well as arbitrary standards of “civil” conformity. While such people proclaim publicly that they do what they do for the “greater good,” in reality they seek only to satiate a private lust for power.
In the darkest corners of their souls, many people have personal aspirations to attain godhood in their own little worlds. And if they cannot achieve such godhood outright on their own, then they will join a mob with similar aspirations so that they can at least feel omnipotent through vicarious tyranny.
This is why collectivism and individualism are mutually exclusive.

Mike Buchanan And Some Ridiculous Feminists Interviewed About The 'Tampon Tax'

Angelo: Bloody well done Mike [pun intended]. ;-)

Mike Buchanan: We recently posted a piece about a Labour MP, Stella Creasy, being a blithering idiot, because she claimed in a House of Commons debate that while sanitary products are taxed at 5% - under EU rules, the government cannot change that - razors were zero-rated for VAT, when in fact they're taxed at 20%.

‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’: The Desperation For A Feminist Victory

By August Løvenskiolds: I really didn’t want to review the new CW television show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. The title is self-evidently anti-feminist and the entire premise of the show sounded unpleasant to me: First, it is a musical romantic comedy. Ick. My apologies to my stereotypical gay pals but musical rom-coms make me want to blame those Canadian Uncle Fuckers for loosing Satan on Earth. You know what I mean.

Second, years ago I was stalked by a crazy ex in an omnipresent Honda. She got my then new girlfriend fired from her job; I was happy to return the favor, after which crazy finally stopped messing with me. A lot of men find the MRM after a bad experience like mine and I was in no rush to rehash that.
Third, the scrappy CW Network has a lot of kooky, off-the-wall shows that appeal to nerdy guys, and I was willing to grant them one misfire.
But then; this mouth-breather misandrist named Samantha Allen at The Daily Beast wrote a bullshit review, “‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Is Smart, Sexy, Unapologetic Feminist TV,” that desperately tried to frame “Crazy” as a worthy feminist show despite it being a direct parody of everything feminist.
I have no choice: this “Balrog” shall not pass unchallenged.

Snowden Vindicated As Judge Shuts Down NSA Bulk Spying In Epic Smackdown

By Claire Bernish (ANTIMEDIA): On Monday, a federal judge ordered a halt to the NSA’s bulk metadata collection program in a reiteration and confirmation of a previous ruling that found the practice “unconstitutional” — and even “Orwellian.” “This court simply cannot, and will not, allow the government to trump the Constitution merely because it suits the exigencies of the moment,” stated Washington, D.C. District Court Judge Richard Leon in his mordant 43-page ruling.
Edward Snowden immediately hailed the decision, pointing out significant passages from the court to his millions of Twitter followers. Of particular importance — and, indeed, at the heart of both known and potentially unknown domestic spy programs — remains the impossible reckoning between Fourth Amendment protections and the government’s claims of a national security imperative. Snowden tweeted: 
“Moved by whatever momentary evil has aroused their fears, officials — perhaps even supported by a majority of citizens — may be tempted to conduct searches that sacrifice the liberty of each citizen to assuage the perceived evil. But the Fourth Amendment rests on the principle that a true balance between the individual and society depends on the recognition of ‘the right to be let [sic] alone — the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men,’” the ruling stated, with emphasis added by Snowden.

Jewish Terrorists Kill Young Palestinian In Al-Khalil Hospital

Israeli land thieves [aka settlers] have sneaked into a medical center in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil [aka Hebron] and fatally shot a young Palestinian man hospitalised there for gunshot wounds sustained during clashes in the occupied Palestinian territories some weeks ago.

Press TV: On Thursday morning, a group of 21 Jewish terrorists [aka settlers] made their way into the al-Ahli Hospital in al-Khalil under the disguise of the relatives of a pregnant woman, and went inside the room where injured Azzam Shalaldeh was resting, the Arabic-language Palestine al-Yawm news agency reported.
The Jewish assassins then took out pistols with silencers on and fired shots at Azzam, who died on the spot.

“The Populist Upsurge Is Real” - A Liberal College Professor Finds Common Ground With The Tea Party

People are going to be pissed off no matter who wins this [US] election and that is a very important social dynamic I believe is vastly under appreciated by the majority of mainstream pundits and analysts out there.  This is also very distinct from the environment that prevailed in 2008.  Four years ago, the financial markets were crashing and the economic future of America was circling the toilet bowl, yet a majority of Americans embraced the potential of a young, inexperienced biracial politician from Illinois who was saying all of the right things.  Despite the gigantic disappointment he has proven to be as President, there is no denying that he had all of the Democrats and most Independents under his spell on this day four years ago.
Fast forward to 2012 and the county isn’t “divided” as mainstream media talking heads like to say.  The country is pissed off.  Genuine and legitimate frustration permeates the land from sea to shining sea and rightly so.