Hierarchy Of Needs

Max and Stacy discuss what happens to a society when physiological needs cannot be met and why that matters in this day and age when Jeff Bezos can claim to be worth $150 billion. In the second half, Max interviews a banker-turned-blogger Michael Krieger of LibertyBlitzkrieg.com about political derangement in the days of Trump and why Google has turned to its dark side in China.

The BBC Is A CIA Asset

Nothing else can be said for what was once
a media organization.

RT: BBC’s Newsnight will air a special on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hosted by journalist John Sweeney, despite what the #FreeAssange campaign say are tweets in “clear breach” of the BBC objectivity standards by the journalist.

“John Sweeney put in charge of tomorrow's Julian Assange special despite (because of?) malicious tweets in clear breach of BBC code,” the #FreeAssange campaign tweeted.
The campaign, which has more than 790,000 followers on Twitter published a list of tweets in which the BBC journalist repeatedly mocks and calls the Wikileaks founder a “Russian agent,” a “Kremlin asset” and Vladimir Putin’s most “useful idiot”. But, despite Sweeney’s personal feelings about Assange being on full display all over Twitter, he will still host the special on the whistleblower.
The #FreeAssange campaign has traded barbs with Sweeney on Twitter in recent days, calling the BBC employee a “UK state TV propagandist”. Sweeney responded to say that the campaign’s characterization of him was “twaddle”.
Assange has been living inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London for six years and fears extradition to the United States over millions of leaked documents and classified US military footage.

Feminism Is A Religion, With Its Myths Of Creation, Sin And Salvation

By Janice Fiamengo: “I often joke with people that feminism has been like a born-again religion for me—that once I found it and let it into my life, my entire perspective shifted in such a way that suddenly, everything made sense—and that I feel compelled to spread that gospel,” writes Melissa Fabello in Everyday Feminism.

Fabello says she is joking—but is she? In creed and conduct, belief and behaviour, isn’t feminism actually a secular religion? 
Religion is a belief system that explains the origin and purpose of life, posits a spiritual or supernatural dimension to human existence, involves faith in what cannot be definitively known, and results in the radically changed understanding and behaviour of the believer.
Feminists do not usually define feminism as a religion but as a social science. Feminism postulates that most societies, and certainly all western societies, have been structured to reflect male perspectives and experiences while marginalizing female perspectives and experiences. Feminism thus presents itself as an evidence-based analysis of society and relationships.

Male Suicide: Why Are Men Leaving? Part II

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss glares back into you.”¹ — Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

By John Davis: Part II - Clinical Depression in Men

In the first article in this series, we gained a brief view of the the problem of Men committing suicide in our modern age. We pointed to some of the most important factors that cause suicide — clinical depression, and willful indifference to men committing suicide. We also discussed how society’s misandry (hatred of men) accelerates the causes of suicide in men.

Our institutions are designed to abandon men and encourage them to die

In this second part, we are going to take a look at some of the science that applies to men committing suicide.

How "Get Woke, Go Broke" Is A Way Of Fighting Back + High-Flying Women Refusing To "Marry Down"

Raging Golden Eagle: I'm getting a bit annoyed at all the people claiming that we are "giving up" when we allow companies that get woke to go broke. What other option do we have once they turn on us? Keep giving them money for garbage?

Pakistan's New Leader Is A Democratically Elected Populist-Visionary

Authored by Andrew Korybko: Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, which translates to the Pakistan Movement For Justice and is commonly known by its abbreviation as the PTI, came out on top in the latest elections after campaigning on a strong anti-corruption platform, but it was nevertheless a supposedly “controversial” victory because of the opposition’s claims of “military rigging” and the West’s efforts to “delegitimize” the vote.
To briefly explain, the Supreme Court disqualified former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office last summer and he has since been arrested for corruption, but instead of lauding this as a positive move in the right direction by an emerging democracy, it was condemned by some domestic political forces and foreign countries as supposedly being a “military-driven conspiracy” to tilt the future elections to Khan’s favor.
The narrative that his opponents have propagated is that he’s therefore nothing more than a “stooge” of the Pakistani “deep state”.
That’s not the case, however, because Pakistan’s democracy is continually improving, and the only way for it to achieve anything sustainable of significance is for the highest law of the land to be upheld irrespective of the polarized political feelings surrounding the Supreme Court’s ruling last year.

Behind The Scenes At The Twitter Purge - With Peter Van Buren and Scott Horton

Ron Paul: Sunday's suspension and banning of antiwar and libertarian Twitter users Peter Van Buren, Scott Horton, and Daniel McAdams is all over the media today, including on Drudge and Zero Hedge. In today's special report we will bring all three together to tell what really happened...and more importantly, what it means to the future of social media and free speech.

C&O Canal & Disposability Of Men + Reality, Relationships And The Red Pill, #2 Family Of Origin, Know ThySelf

Men Are Good!: The nearly 200 year old canal that runs from Cumberland Maryland to Washington DC has been transformed into a National Historical Park. Tom takes a walk on the canal and looks at the canal's history and the connections with men's issues today.

Emerging & Declining Superpower

Max and Stacy contrast the situation with China, a perhaps emerging superpower, to the United States, a possibly declining superpower. As the US grew powerful as an empire of debt, extracting resources and equity from economies colonized by their debt rather than their military armies, what happens when China begins doing the same? Lots of complaints from U.S. officials who want American lenders to take over debt markets the U.S. has overlooked in the past few decades. They look at the case of Africa where Chinese mobile phone manufacturers and tech entrepreneurs are radically altering the telecom landscape left wide open to them after the departure of Nokia. What happens when the African consumer becomes wealthy enough to transform the Chinese global power play?

The Satanic Nature Of The Atomic Bombings Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki

"Ahab is forever Ahab, man.  This whole act’s immutably decreed.  ‘Twas rehearsed by thee and me billion years before this ocean rolled.  Fool!  I am the Fates’ lieutenant; I act under orders.” Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint…But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.” C. S. Lewis, author’s preface, 1962, The Screwtape Letters

By Edward Curtin: American history can only accurately be described as the story of demonic possession, however you choose to understand that phrase.  Maybe radical “evil” will suffice.  But right from the start the American colonizers were involved in massive killing because they considered themselves divinely blessed and guided, a chosen people whose mission would come to be called “manifest destiny.”  Nothing stood in the way of this divine calling, which involved the need to enslave and kill millions and millions of innocent people that continues down to today.

Bird-Brains Engage In Scholarly Debate: The Owl And The Nightingale

By Author Douglas Galbi: The Owl and the Nightingale, a Middle English poem dating probably to about 1200, provides under-appreciated insight into the social positions of women and men. An owl and a nightingale throughout the poem debate widely their relative merits as birds. Both birds are “unanimous in their sympathy for women both inside and outside of marriage.” The birds are “extravagantly partisan” in support of women; they engage in “patent partisanship for women.”[1] Modern scholars of medieval literature have been united in praise for the The Owl and the Nightingale. But lacking the deep literary self-consciousness of medieval poets, modern scholars haven’t understood what they are praising.
The Owl and the Nightingale mocks shallow and pretentious scholarly thought about why men commit adultery. Regarding husbands’ sexual fidelity to their wives, the nightingale declared:

It seems to me quite stark and shocking
how any man, for any cause of behaving,
could turn his heart to the life
of doing it with another man’s wife.

Amnesia, Drugs And Rape: Narratives For Disaster

By Trudy Dare: We’re all aware of the narrative of victimization via date rape drug. It depends on claims that certain drugs, usually GHB or Rohypnol, cause amnesia. So, rather than explore narratives or he-said she-said in individual cases, let’s discuss the tools and effects central to this type of crime.
Two drugs share the nickname date rape drug, Rohypnol and GHB. This reputation as an amnesia trigger is strong enough that Rohypnol has been administered to block patients’ memory of a medical procedure.
Rohypnol, aka flunitirazepam, is the best selling benzodiazepine in Europe, even though it has never been approved for sale in the U.S. Even importing it with a prescription has been illegal since 1996.
A Swiss study published in 2016 collected users’ descriptions of the effects of benzodiazepines alone and in combination with alcohol and other drugs on memory and behavior. This study mentions both Rohypnol and GHB. The abstract notes Rohypnol’s reputation for triggering violent criminal behavior and severe memory disturbances, but also states, “However, data from investigations of this relationship are scarce and have been primarily derived from forensic institutions, where there may be a reporting bias.”
Twenty-five of the 41 subjects reported anterograde amnesia, the loss of memory for events subsequent to the trigger of the amnesia (as opposed to retrograde amnesia, a disturbance of prior memories).