Recent surveys paint what might seem like an apocalyptic picture: In the US, around 45% of men ages 18-25 do not approach women anymore to engage in dating or relationships. Over 42% of all men have no interest in seeking out women for relationships or casual dates. Around 30% of men over 40 years old have never been married and are not necessarily seeking marriage.
In light of ongoing concerns about population decline around the world, the first thing most people might say is that men need to “step up” and fulfill their role in order to save the human species from a “Children Of Men” movie scenario. However, this suggests that it’s men’s fault and that checking out of the current system is a bad thing. It’s a narrow minded view.
To be clear, the narrative of the “male loneliness epidemic” is a propaganda fantasy designed to shame men into returning to the liberal fold. The truth is, men are not lonely, they are deliberately refusing to participate in order to make a point. What we are witnessing is perhaps the most substantial mass boycott of liberal ideology in history as men go more conservative. It’s a boycott the establishment media does not want to acknowledge.
I’m 72 years old. When I was a teen, we had dances in the school cafeteria on a regular basis. We dated … dinner, movies, dances, a concert. Then we picked the ‘right’ girl and got married. I know a 40 something man who has never married. His reasons? He’s looked around at those in his age group who have and sees divorce, financial ruin, and separation from their children. Why? Feminism. So we’re surprised that the new male cohort is simply giving up?
Another incident occurred in New York involving mysterious groups of people thought to be foreign, are entering and exiting manholes in the dead of night
From the police bodycam footage, when police arrived at the scene (probably 5-10 minutes after the injury), Henry was conscious enough to speak quite loudly. He was therefore not yet in a terminal state. After his arms were twisted behind his back and he was cuffed, it most likely caused the vein to stretch, the clot to tear, and a sudden intensification of bleeding. Within just about three minutes he lost consciousness and died.
People with suspected internal injuries should never be violently moved or jerked – such action can destroy the natural clot and lead to massive internal hemorrhage.
Instead of immediately calling an ambulance team and handing the patient over to paramedics, the police cuffed him. If paramedics had been the first to arrive on scene, Henry’s chances of survival would have been significantly higher. ‘50%’ – writes Dr Magier.
Paramedics could have quickly set up a drip, administered fluids to increase circulating blood volume and tranexamic acid to stabilize the clot, and if necessary performed needle decompression (inserting a thick and long needle into the lung), because the problem was not so much lack of lung function but compression of the blood-filled lung on the heart and mediastinum, which blocks circulation.
What is worse, the incident took place just a few minutes’ drive by car (2-3 minutes by ambulance on blue lights) from Southampton University Hospital – a regional Major Trauma Centre with full specialist backup, procedures and equipment. ‘I am convinced that if Henry had arrived there alive, the doctors would not have let him die’ – writes Dr Magier.
In summary: aggressive police intervention, instead of saving a life, led to death through inappropriate handling of a severely injured person, even though top-class care was within reach of a few minutes. ‘I fear that the Judge and pathologist were too lenient towards the police’ – writes Dr Magier.”
I don’t know … but … the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki could have been incendiary and caused the same effects. And … don’t governments always lie to us? So … another ‘conspiracy theory.’ Whether or not real nuclear weapons exist will, I suppose, be revealed in time. Vox Day does, at least, have a plausible argument.
81 years of global fear, and 40+ years of neocon warnings, threats, and hissy fits may have just gone up in smoke during a single telephone call:
I have not been given access to NSA Sigint, but I have confirmed that the phone call last week between Iranian President Pezeshkian and Pakistani Prime Minister Shariff was over a non-secure line. I am reliably informed that this was done deliberately by the Iranians and Pakistanis — i.e., the Iranians and Pakistanis were counting on the Americans and the Israelis to be listening in. The key part of the conversation between Pezeshkian and Shariff was this:
President Masoud Pezeshkian communicated a formally structured, three-step strategic ultimatum if US strikes continued:
Immediate Withdrawal from the ongoing nuclear peace talks.
Total Abandonment of the prospective Nuclear Treaty framework.
The Detonation of a Nuclear Device on Iranian soil—executed not as a weapon of war, but as an undeniable demonstration of sovereign capability and ultimate control over the escalation ladder.
When Marco Rubio was called an hour or so later by Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Ishaq Dar, and received the same message, the White House knew that the information was legitimate. While the US intelligence community probably cannot confirm that Iran actually does have a functioning nuke, the Pakistanis believe the Iranians do. The intercepted chat between Pezeshkian and Shariff, followed by Rubio’s conversation with Ishaq Dar, convinced Trump and his advisors that Iran was not making a hollow threat.
Now we know why there has been a dramatic change in Trump’s rhetoric towards Iran… Hell, he downplayed yesterday’s missile dust up in the Persian Gulf, which left Kuwait’s International Airport on fire from an errant PAC3 Patriot missile.
I am very skeptical that nuclear weapons exist in the form we have been told that they do. Whether they don’t exist at all, which is what I think is the most probable state, or whether they simply aren’t stable to keep ready for more than a week or two, I don’t know. But I’m entirely confident that the whole concept of a “nuclear arsenal” that involves weapons being preserved in a metal shell and ready at the push of a button for decades is a fictional one.
So what Iran “possessing a nuclear weapon” actually signifies could mean that Iran is now willing to end the nuclear charade that ensured US military dominance for the last 70 years, and that it has the permission of China and Russia to do so.
This might explain the need for “alien disclosure” once the threat of nukes and global holocaust is gone.
From Huter der Irminsul (Guardian of the Irminsul)
I’m a classic migraine sufferer. For many years, my first instinct was to reach for pharmaceutical medication. That was the obvious thing to do, because migraines can rob you of your entire day and make every little thing a burden.
However, some time ago I came across an interesting approach: a large glass of water with a heaping pinch of Himalayan salt. To be honest, I was skeptical at first.
Nevertheless, I tried it – and was surprised. In my case, it actually helped. What particularly astonished me was that after taking medication, I often felt a slight pressure in my head that sometimes lingered for several days. With the salt water, this feeling disappeared much faster.
Of course, I can only speak from my own experience, and what helps one person won’t necessarily work for everyone. Migraines are a complex issue with many contributing factors.
Nevertheless, this experience reminded me that not every answer has to come from the pharmacy. Sometimes the simplest things are closer than we think. Water and salt are among humankind’s oldest companions. Our ancestors already knew their value—not as miracle cures, but as fundamental elements of life.
In Norse-Germanic tradition, we repeatedly encounter the idea that the forces of nature are more than mere resources. Springs, rivers, and the sea were considered places of special power. Water symbolized life, renewal, and healing. Salt, in turn, was so valuable for centuries that in some places it almost held the status of currency.
Perhaps therein lies a small reminder for our modern times: Not everything that helps has to be complicated. Sometimes, a path that works for you can be found somewhere between high-tech medicine and ancient wisdom.
Sometimes we look for solutions in the most complicated ways and overlook what has been right in front of us for centuries. Our ancestors trusted the forces of nature not out of superstition, but out of experience. Water, salt, herbs, and observing their own bodies were part of everyday life for a long time.
For me, this simple glass of water with a pinch of salt was worth more than many a pill. I can’t say whether it helps everyone. But it showed me that the simplest ways can sometimes be the most effective.
As the old Norsemen said: Not all strength comes from the sword—some springs from the source.
No, I have not been given access to NSA Sigint, but I have confirmed that the phone call last week between Iranian President Pezeshkian and Pakistani Prime Minister Shariff was over a non-secure line. I am reliably informed that this was done deliberately by the Iranians and Pakistanis — i.e., the Iranians and Pakistanis were counting on the Americans and the Israelis to be listening in. The key part of the conversation between Pezeshkian and Shariff was this:
President Masoud Pezeshkian communicated a formally structured, three-step strategic ultimatum if US strikes continued:
1. Immediate Withdrawal from the ongoing nuclear peace talks. 2. Total Abandonment of the prospective Nuclear Treaty framework. 3. The Detonation of a Nuclear Device on Iranian soil—executed not as a weapon of war, but as an undeniable demonstration of sovereign capability and ultimate control over the escalation ladder.
When Marco Rubio was called an hour or so later by Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Ishaq Dar, and received the same message, the White House knew that the information was legitimate. While the US intelligence community probably cannot confirm that Iran actually does have a functioning nuke, the Pakistanis believe the Iranians do. The intercepted chat between Pezeshkian and Shariff, followed by Rubio’s conversation with Ishaq Dar, convinced Trump and his advisors that Iran was not making a hollow threat.
Now we know why there has been a dramatic change in Trump’s rhetoric towards Iran… Hell, he downplayed yesterday’s missile dust up in the Persian Gulf, which left Kuwait’s International Airport on fire from an errant PAC3 Patriot missile.
President Trump just signed a new executive order to align the pediatric vaccine schedule with best practices from other developed countries.
At first glance, President Trump’s new Executive Order appears to be about childhood vaccines. It is not. It is about who governs public health in America. The Order represents an attempt to shift authority away from an insulated public health bureaucracy and back toward elected officials who are accountable to voters…
The administration is effectively saying that vaccine policy should not be dictated by a self-perpetuating network of advisory committees, professional associations, and pharmaceutical stakeholders operating behind closed doors. Instead, it argues that elected officials, accountable to voters, have the authority to establish policy objectives and direct agencies accordingly.
Whether courts ultimately agree remains to be seen. The legal challenges will continue. But the constitutional argument is clear: agencies exist to execute policy, not create it independently.
For decades, vaccine policy has been largely insulated from democratic accountability. ACIP recommendations automatically trigger insurance coverage requirements, Medicaid obligations, participation in the Vaccines for Children program, school mandate discussions, and physician practice standards. A relatively small group of experts has wielded extraordinary influence over national health policy.
The problem is not vaccination itself. The problem is regulatory capture.
Vaccines are among the most important public health tools ever developed. Smallpox eradication alone stands as one of humanity’s greatest achievements. Polio, measles, diphtheria, tetanus, and other diseases caused enormous suffering before effective vaccines became available.
Malone here is committing the same fallacy as Daniel Dennett, Immanuel Kant, David Ricardo, and a whole host of others who fail to understand that X is not, and can never be, Not-X.
In fact, the more we see these fallacious appeals to “smallpox eradication” the more dubious I become that the smallpox vaccine ever actually worked; one wonders if the whole story about Dr. Jenner and the cowpox will hold up if one looks at other changes in technology, and hand-washing practices, and sewage systems that are responsible for the huge decline in deaths from previous causes of mortality.
But we know that vaccines didn’t even put a dent in the reduction of the harm caused by “polio, measles, diphtheria, tetanus, and other diseases” because the order of historical events absolutely precludes that. The massive decline in deaths in the USA, in England and Wales, and everywhere else that historically kept track took place before the first vaccine was even invented. It’s not just a lie, it’s a retarded and obviously false one.
We are living through an age that has abandoned the dedicated pursuit of truth. Our politicians and news personalities talk about “the narrative.” Our academies teach young minds to accept “expert opinion.” Our philosophers argue that truth is “subjective.” Social theorists argue that truth is an “illusion” that powerful people use to control others.
Whenever I hear Democrat Senator Cory Booker all riled up on television, he’s talking about “her truth,” “his truth,” or even “their truth” – as if a hundred conflicting descriptions of the same event could all be truthful.
“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” At that moment, President Clinton proved to Americans that he had no interest in truth.
Politicians lie. That’s hardly breaking news. What is newsworthy, though, is that our society does not even pretend to pursue truth anymore.
We’re fifteen years into this gender-bender madnessduring which “experts” (including too many with M.D.s) claim that biological sex is not real and that what we perceive as male or female is nothing more than a self-imposed social construct. People who have refused to play this delusional game have been fired from jobs. People looking for jobs tell obvious lies.
Our society does not doggedly pursue truth. It pursues ideological compliance.
“The hardest thing is not to change course, not to change policy, but first and foremost to change the way we think.”
— Edgar Morin
The real crisis of our time is not economic, social, or partisan in nature. It is intellectual. For generations, people have been conditioned to fear freedom and mistake dependence for security.
Anyone who observes the political and media developments of recent years will recognize a recurring pattern: For every problem, there are calls for more government. For every bureaucratic failure, there are demands for even more government. For every restriction of freedom, the next restriction is presented as the solution.
The state lives on a fundamental belief: that some people have the right to rule over others. This claim is rarely questioned, even though it is not based on any moral principle that could apply equally to all people. Actions that would be forbidden to an individual are suddenly considered legitimate as soon as they are carried out in the name of an authority, a parliament, or a government.
Domination does not begin with violence. It begins in the mind. It begins the moment a person believes others have the right to dispose of their life. Every political order ultimately rests on this inner consent.
A majority does not make injustice right. Millions of votes do not transform coercion into freedom. A ballot box possesses no magical power that overrides moral standards.
Modern statism presents itself as reason, but in reality, it is the systematic disenfranchisement of the individual.It replaces personal responsibility with regulations, self-organization with control, and voluntary cooperation with political administration. Its greatest achievement is not to liberate people, but to convince them that they could not exist without it.
This development is particularly evident in language. Those who define people solely through administrative categories replace living identities with political constructs. Language becomes a tool of administration, no longer an expression of cultural reality.
Freedom does not arise from new laws, new parties, or new rulers. Freedom arises where people stop looking for rulers. It begins with the realization that no human being has an inherent right to dispose of another.
A free person does not disobey because they want to rebel. They disobey because they understand that responsibility cannot be delegated. They act out of insight rather than fear, out of conscience rather than subservience.
Anarchy does not mean chaos. Chaos arises where people relinquish their responsibility. Anarchy means the absence of domination and the presence of personal responsibility. It is not a political utopia, but the consistent rejection of any claim by one person to power over another.
The crucial question, therefore, is not: Who should rule us?
The crucial question is: Why should anyone rule at all?
From Vox Popoli: Steve Keen points out how the economic models that Western military strategists are using are outdated and incorrect Neoclassical economic models that are going to make the ramifications of the war in the Middle East considerably worse regardless of the outcome for the US military:
The Trump-Epstein-Netanyahu War could cause more deaths than any war in history, including World War II. This will not be via its direct casualties, but via deaths caused by its economic and agricultural consequences across the planet. For someone who exalts in superlatives, Trump may be responsible for causing more deaths than any previous tyrant in human history.
This is because the world economic system resembles Trump himself: its self-image is one of robust power, but its inner nature is one of incredible fragility. One month ago, many people would not even have heard of the Strait of Hormuz—which Trump, in his bravado, has just referred to as “the Strait of Trump”. Now everyone knows where it is—if not precisely why it matters. We are about to learn the hard way, via the consequences of cutting off this vital artery in the global economy’s circulatory system.
This should have been common knowledge. But, just like Trump himself, our understanding of the global economy is based on an elaborate set of delusions. I am looking forward to the howls from mainstream “Neoclassical” economists when they hear that I blame most of those delusions on them.
Neoclassical economics has always lulled us into a false sense of security by its asinine assumption that most industries are “competitive”, as they define competition. A “competitive” industry, according to Neoclassical economics, is one in which there are a multitude of producers producing a homogeneous product. This definition is doubly delusional: most industries are dominated by a small number of very large firms; and all products are highly differentiated.
In the Neoclassical world, taking out a few producers would have only a trivial impact on total production, because there are thousands—millions!—of producers, and every producer’s output is a perfect substitute for all other producers’ output. In the real world, most industries are dominated by a handful of large firms, and one firm’s output cannot be easily substituted for another.
We are now finding this out the hard way in the TEN War: Venezuelan oil cannot replace oil from the Persian Gulf, and the key facilities which have been damaged—such as Qatar’s LNG processing plants—can only be repaired by a handful of companies.
Worse, those repairs will take years, whereas the canonical “supply and demand diagram” of Neoclassical economists completely ignores time. In the Neoclassical world, if you want to produce higher output, just increase the price and, hey presto, you move up the supply curve and produce a higher quantity.
In the real world, if you are 25 percent below the desired level of output of LNG—as the world is now, with not only the wartime destruction Qatar’s plants, but also the impact of tropical cyclone Narelle on Australia’s LNG plants—then it will take several years to move up that “supply curve”.
It’s insane to go into what is an industrial war of attrition with knowingly faulty strategic models, because it guarantees that no matter what decisions you are making, they are going to be suboptimal at best, with real potential for catastrophe.
Viral images of a grand classical arch and a twisted modernist one reveal the unbridgeable divide between leaders who celebrate America’s heritage and those who seem determined to replace it with something cold, crooked, and alien.
The contrast could not be clearer or more deliberate. On one side stands towering marble, golden eagles, and inscriptions evoking “One Nation Under God.” On the other, a bent, leaning metal structure that looks like a giant wire hanger or a failed piece of iron work. One lifts the spirit. The other drains it.
One draws from the classical traditions that built the great monuments of Washington. The other embraces the brutalist and deconstructivist styles that have produced so many unloved public buildings in recent decades.
The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, set to open its doors this month, has long been criticized for its looming tower and heavy, fortress-like forms.
It has been described as a “Tower of Doom,” an eyesore that clashes with its surroundings and burdens taxpayers while delivering questionable public value.
We’ve hit another doldrums phase of international conflicts, as Trump’s promises to end both the Ukraine and Iranian war have fallen flat, with all hope now lost.
NYT managed to get a bead on this development, noting that both the Russians and Iranians have essentially “tired” of Trump’s wiles and the US’s tricks in general, preferring to take their chances in war than continue the pointless bad-faith negotiations with a deceitful and decrepit American regime:
The authors note that virtually all Trump’s “peace” initiatives have flunked and floundered, including the Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ which was just revealed as essentially being bankrupt, with not a single monetary pledge or active initiative:
More and more experts have remarked on the “limits of American power”, which have been oh-so blatantly revealed of late. But this is not simply military power, it is soft power, political influence, and even everything in between. America has simply lost its time-honored credibility because its appointed agents of persuasion—i.e. biliously bad-will billionaire bagmen—have increasingly been a most shoddy and reprehensible lot; you’re only as good as your global representatives.
Part of the reason for the collapse of global trust is the continued egregiousness with which US leadership openly lies and ignores the legitimate concerns and demands of its negotiating rivals. Everyone has grown exhausted with Trump’s daily issue of statements which are rank insults to the intelligence of any respectable observer.
