Chivalry In The Raw

By Doug Mortimer: With all the hubbub surrounding the distaff Captain Marvel movie, it’s worth remembering that attendance is not compulsory.  You do have alternatives.  Consider the movie Arctic.  There’s only one man in the movie and his situation is extraordinary.  Yet he represents all men.
The man in question is Overgård (played by Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen), and he is in a heap of trouble.  His cargo plane has crashed above the Arctic Circle.  The good news is he survived, the bad news is he’s stranded.  He’s scratched out a large “SOS” that can be seen from above but it hasn’t been spotted yet.  Given the ubiquitous ice and snow, dehydration is not a problem.  Ice fishing provides him with protein, fish oil, and whatever other nutrients one gets from fish.  Though death is not imminent, his life is decidedly unpleasant – his toes appear to be in the early stages of frostbite.
Overgård didn’t choose to be a plane crash survivor, but given Mads Mikkelsen’s stoic, stolid persona, he appears well equipped to rough it.  If anybody can survive this situation, it’s Overgård.  We assume he is a bachelor, as we never see him take out any pictures of a wife or family.
When the movie begins, we don’t know how long Overgård has been there.  We know it’s been long enough to develop a routine.  Every day he checks his trot lines and takes his catch back to the downed plane’s fuselage, which provides him shelter from the elements.

Fabrication Art Exhibition

Ft Deek Jackson , A Ross & Dylan Jackson

We're Living In 'The Groundhog Show'

In which our leaders make the same mistakes over & over...

Authored by Chris Martenson: It's said that truth mirrors fiction. I'm finding this to be the case more and more these days. Take the 1993 comedy Groundhog Day. Bill Murray wakes up each day to relieve the exact same daily circumstances and interpersonal interactions. He relives the same day, February 2, over and over again.
No matter what he does, the repetitive cycle won't break.  He goes to sleep, wakes up to his alarm, and it's the morning of Feb 2 again.
Likewise, in The Truman Show, Jim Carrey lives in a simulated environment where everybody's an actor in a popular TV show except him.  For him, it’s his real life.  But although he doesn't realise it, everything around him is completely scripted and fake.
If merge these two movies together, they perfectly describe the world in which we live today.  Welcome to Groundhog Day meets The Truman Show.   Let’s call this mash-up The Groundhog Show.
In this composite story you, the plucky central character, wake up every day in a world where the same mistakes are made over and over again by our so-called "leaders".

Roger Waters: Hands Off Venezuela Richard Branson! Venezuelans: Trump Wants Our OIL!

Representative Press: This Roger Waters video adds details to show why he’s right on Venezuela and Richard Branson is wrong. See Venezuelans saying they don't want Trump 's agenda for Venezuela.

George Carlin: Men

DoctorRandomercam: (Part 1 of 2) To anyone who likes this guy & won't hear a bad word said of him: I am exactly as sorry as a robotic terminator suckerpunching you in the cerebellum. Awakenings are rude. Deal with it.

War On Venezuela Is Built On A Lie

By John Pilger: In this analysis, John Pilger looks back over the Chavez years in Venezuela, including his own travels with Hugo Chavez, and the current US and European campaign to overthrow Nicolas Maduro in a 'coup by media' and to return Latin America to the 19th and 20th centuries.

Travelling with Hugo Chavez, I soon understood the threat of Venezuela. At a farming co-operative in Lara state, people waited patiently and with good humor in the heat. Jugs of water and melon juice were passed around. A guitar was played; a woman, Katarina, stood and sang with a husky contralto.

"What did her words say?" I asked.

"That we are proud," was the reply.

The applause for her merged with the arrival of Chavez. Under one arm he carried a satchel bursting with books.  He wore his big red shirt and greeted people by name, stopping to listen. What struck me was his capacity to listen.

Anti-Semitism Is Hasbara Cover For A Much Deeper Divide In Britain's Labour Party

Breakaway MPs hope that smearing Corbyn
will obscure the fact that they are remnants
of an old political order bankrupt of ideas

By Jonathan Cook: The announcement by seven MPs from the UK Labour Party on Monday that they were breaking away and creating a new parliamentary faction marked the biggest internal upheaval in a British political party in nearly 40 years, when the SDP split from Labour.

On Wednesday, they were joined by an eighth Labour MP, Joan Ryan, and three Conservative MPs. There are predictions more will follow.

With the UK teetering on the brink of crashing out of the European Union with no deal on Brexit, the founders of the so-called Independent Group made reference to their opposition to Brexit.   

The chief concern cited for the split by the eight Labour MPs, though, was a supposed “anti-semitism crisis” in the party.

'Corbyn, it should be noted, is the first leader of a major British party to explicitly prioritise the rights of Palestinians over Israel’s continuing belligerent occupation of the Palestinian territories.'

An Ocean Of Lies On Venezuela: Abby Martin & UN Rapporteur Expose Coup

Empire Files: On the eve of another US war for oil, Abby Martin debunks the most repeated myths about Venezuela and uncovers how US sanctions are crimes against humanity with UN Investigator and Human Rights Rapporteur Alfred De Zayas.

Male Feminist Goes On A Date

Shoe0nHead:

An epic tale.

NPR Reporter Defends One-Sided Report On Ilhan Omar

'Democrats periodically call out conservative lobbies; Republicans do the same for liberal ones. This is considered politics as usual. That’s what Omar did.'

By Alison Weir: In response to an email I sent complaining that NPR had aired a one-sided, slanted report on the Ilhan Omar controversy, reporter Susan Davis replied that their coverage was “fair.” She emailed that the controversy was Omar’s fault, calling it “a self-inflicted PR mess by a sitting member of Congress.”
The report had been aired on NPR’s All Things Considered program, reportedly “the most listened-to, afternoon drive-time, news radio program in the country.”
Let’s look at what constituted Omar’s alleged “self-inflicted PR mess”: she mentioned the influence of a special interest lobby on politicians’ stances.
This is a widely understood reality. Politicians and others frequently discuss the influence of the NRA, the pharmaceutical lobby, and other special interest groups. Democrats periodically call out conservative lobbies; Republicans do the same for liberal ones. This is considered politics as usual.

That’s what Omar did.

Modern Democrats Are Defined By Identity Politics

"...so identity politics is a tactic designed
to prevent conversations dangerous to
the ruling class, obviously.
...Instead of a common American culture, Democrats see only tribes. ...men not a favoured group."
Said Tucker Carlson.

Men’s Rights Music

By Robert Brockway: Themes relevant to men’s rights sometimes appear in popular music. Sometimes these are positive themes, inline with our advocacy, but more often they are negative themes – precisely the problems that the men’s rights movement is talking about. Either way they comprise Men’s Rights Music. A few selected examples are presented here. This article is offered as a bit of fun and to get people thinking about the application of misandry in art.

All that she wants (is another baby)

Ace of Base

She leads a lonely life
She leads a lonely life

There’s always the cats.

She’s the hunter you’re the fox
The gentle voice that talks to you won’t talk forever
It is a night for passion
But the morning means goodbye
Beware of what is flashing in her eyes
She’s going to get you