Can Switzerland Save The World?

Switzerland: Far from Flawless, but still a Unique Country – An Interview with Claudio Grass
Our friend Claudio Grass has discussed Switzerland in these pages before, and on one of these occasions we added some background information on country’s truly unique political system (see “The People Against the Establishment” for  the details). People are generally aware that direct democracy in the form of frequent  referendums is a major characteristic of the Swiss system, but how many people know that the country’s executive is essentially modeled after the system established in the city states of ancient Greece?

Claudio was recently interviewed by Jeff Deist of the Mises Institute on what we can learn from Switzerland, which despite its undeniable flaws, continues to stand out among European nations states as a beacon of liberty. As the introduction at the Mises Institute notes, political life in Switzerland differentiates itself by its strongly pronounced degree of subsidiarity and the major limitations it places on central political power structures at the federal level:

Switzerland is no libertarian paradise. It has bureaucrats and a wayward central bank. But it remains an astonishing modern example of the principles of federalism and subsidiarity in action.

Putin To Western Elites: You Flunked!

Putin: "Instead of working together to deal a real blow to terrorism ... some of our colleagues are doing everything they can to make the chaos permanent."
By Dmitry Orlov: By far the most popular article I ever published on this blog was titled Putin to Western Elites: Play-time is Over.
It came out almost exactly three years ago, after that year’s Valdai Club conference, and was based on the speech Putin gave at that conference.
It garnered close to 200,000 page hits—more than twice more than the next most popular one—because it pointed out something very significant: a sea change in international relations had occurred, heralding the end of America’s unipolar moment when it could dictate terms to the entire world.
Essentially, in that speech Putin signaled to Western elites that they were no longer qualified to play the game of international relations of today and had to go back to school for retraining. And now, three years later, Putin has issued them a final report card, giving them an F in every category: they have learned nothing.
The following excerpt from my article of three years ago details how the rules had changed:

Have We Turned A Blind Eye To Sexual Harassment?

By Mike Buchanan, J4MB: Our thanks to ctguitarguy, for comments he’s posted in response to the video on our YouTube channel of my Sunday Morning Live appearance:

I don’t believe a land whale like Dawn Foster, who has to be one of the most unattractive creatures I have ever seen has been “sexually harassed”. She wishes.
Love your work Mike. Thought I would add to the discussion because the data shows it’s even worse for males than even you stated. In 2010, the Centers for Disease Control added a new category of to its definition of sexual assault and called it “being made to penetrate.”

50/50 Podcast With Matt Orchard

karen straughan: The format of this interview is 15 minutes of softball and 15 minutes of hardball. Hope you guys enjoy. I'll be chatting with Matt again in the next few days, and will upload the results with his permission again.

Athens And Jerusalem - Gilad Atzmon At Reading International Festival - With Reading Friends Of Palestine

Gilad Atzmon: In this talk (22.10.2017), Gilad Atzmon delves into the crucial dichotomy between Athens and Jerusalem. Atzmon argues that the dystopia in which we live is the direct outcome of a Jerusalemite set of 'correct ideas' over the Athenian search for reason, essence and logos. Tyranny of correctness, Identitarian divisiveness, the battle against historicity are symptoms of Jerusalemite thinking, they did little but derail the Western ethos. To rescue ourselves and what we believe to be our civilisation, Athens must be reinstated.

Despite some relentless Zionist institutional efforts to cancel the talk (CAA, BOD, JC, local rabbi etc) both RISC and the Local Council stood firm and made sure freedom and tolerance were sustained.

Political Bologna - William Banzai7

Rochester LGBTQ 'Gun Group' Prepares For The Next American Civil War, ...Against White Men

"They have one clear message and one queer clear message only, this is a quote..."

SBA: Division in America has become so evident in the past few years that many people including Rochester LGBTQ group can foresee what is coming: American Civil War 2.0. 

Logical Woman Attacks Feminists With Facts

Rekt Feminist Videos

Brohibition Now!

HoneyBadgerRadio: Men are pursuing bromances to avoid being regulated by and for women? REGULATE THE BROMANCE!

"Men are damned if they do damned if they don't!"

The Harmful Effects Of Antifa

By Diana Johnstone: An historic opportunity is being missed. The disastrous 2016 presidential election could and should have been a wakeup call. A corrupt political system that gave voters a choice between two terrible candidates is not democracy.
This should have been the signal to face reality. The U.S. political system is totally rotten, contemptuous of the people, serving the corporations and lobbies that pay to keep them in office. The time had come to organize a genuine alternative, an independent movement to liberate the electoral system from the grip of billionaires, to demand a transition from a war economy to an economy dedicated to improving the lives of the people who live here. What is needed is a movement for the pacification of America, at home and abroad.
That is a big order. Yet this approach could meet with wide support, especially if vigorous young people organized to stimulate popular debate, between real live people, from door to door if necessary, creating a mass movement for genuine democracy, equality and peace. This is as revolutionary a program as possible in the present circumstances. A moribund left should be coming back to life to take the lead in building such a movement.
Quite the opposite is happening.

If You Want To Understand The Next 10 Years, Study Spain

By Michael Krieger: Some of you may be confused as to why a U.S. citizen living in Colorado has become so completely obsessed with what’s going on in Spain. Bear with me, there’s a method to my madness.
I believe what’s currently happening in Spain represents a crucial microcosm for what we’ll see sweep across the entire planet over the next ten years. Some of you will want to have a discussion about who’s right and who’s wrong in this particular affair, but that’s besides the point. It doesn’t matter which side you favor, what matters is that Madrid/Catalonia is an example of the forces of centralization duking it out with forces of decentralization.
Madrid represents the nation-state as we know it, with its leaders claiming Spain is forever indivisible according to the constitution. Madrid has essentially proclaimed there’s no possible avenue to independence from a centralized Spain even if various regions decide in large number they wish to be independent. This sort of attitude will be seen as unacceptable and primitive by increasingly large numbers of humans in the years ahead. Catalonia should be seen as a canary in the coal mine. The forces of decentralization are rising, but entrenched centralized institutions and the bureaucrats running them will become increasingly terrified, panicked and oppressive.

Russians Have Invented Flying Motorbikes - The Dubai Police Use Them

The Dubai Police Force has just bought them and will introduce them into their operations.