The flame of creativity flickers dangerously. Prometheus’ punishment, was it all in vain?This is the information age. Information, information, everywhere. Constantly assaulting your senses. Information is mainstream. Access to information has never been higher. But it is not the same as access to knowledge. A lot of this information is actually anti-knowledge. The advent of the search engine led to an explosion of information available to the everyman. As did social media. A hundred...
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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus AureliusIn Meditations, Aurelius distills the central pillars and tenets of stoic philosophy. Although it was essentially a journal and never intended for a general readership, it has become one of the most widely read philosophy works in the world. I wanted to elucidate six key concepts of stoicism represented in icons, starting with the four pillars:Courage, or fortitude, is the first pillar of Stoicism. It...
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Barbie Movie births a Political ManifestoFar from being a flippant male-bashing rant, I thought the Barbie movie did an excellent job of framing deep questions, smashing idols of simplistic reasoning, and equal opportunity lampooning of the stupidity inherent in either ideological position. Here, I don’t intend to give a detailed review and analysis of the movie, even though I think it is deserving of one. I want instead to point out one scene that I think frames the gender wars cleverly and...
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Mort de Tiberius Gracchus, 133BCIn the history of Western Civilization, tensions have nearly always existed between the power and authority of the citizens and that of the State. It's easy to forget that Rome began as a Republic and only later transitioned into the Roman Empire. Power transferred, as if on a great Pendulum, from the people to the Caesar. For Rome, this move toward autocracy was due primarily to the life and death of one...
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‘None of the 15 institutions rated annually managed to repair their images, with many remaining at or near their all-time lows.’Recent Gallup polls Normally, votes cast at elections are reflections of citizens’ values. But the infantilization of western citizens in recent decades makes it fair to wonder if voting has become as much a scramble at the pork barrel as an expression of social values. The exception is Europe, where the steady shift to the political hard-right in response to...
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Just for fun: one of the interesting things about ‘the information environment’ in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1997, when I was living there, was the simple fact that everyone who wasn’t a card-carrying member of The Party of The Dictatorship knew that everything was a sham. The vaunted ‘tiger nations’ economy, the press, the tedious speeches, the parliamentary proceedings, the flags and songs, the wide range of pro-regime organizations – all bogus. But as you were getting about on the...
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The Party LineDear Friends,It seems to me, the first amendment’s right to free speech is studiously enforced… as long as you agree with the State. Take the example of Jordan Peterson. Does anyone believe that if he was pushing the official party line, climate alarmism, trans rights and depopulation… the regulating body would have demanded he undergo reeducation? Of course not! Only a fool would believe that. A double standard. If Peterson was a good post modernist expert, he would be lauded...
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‘Racism in American still survives among the left and the right, and especially at the extreme fringes of both.’Taminad Crittenden ‘Racism . . . survives [on] the left’ – this is an admirably astute insight: the political left is racist. But whether you’re being called ‘racist’ or ‘proto-fascist’ or ‘fascist’ or ‘revisionist’ or ‘counter-revolutionary’ or ‘menshevik’; or it’s ‘inauthentic preferences’ or ‘pre-revolutionary consciousness’ or ‘internalized homophobia’; or you’re an...
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Dr. Miriam Grossman Destroys Gender Ideology in 5 MinutesTo oppose Drag Queen Story Hour for kids, go here https://tfpstudentaction.org/petitions/drag-queen-story-hour-protest Dr. Miriam Gro
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Modern Crimes Against HumanityDear Friends,It seems to me, the elite today appear to be guilty of some mighty serious crimes against humanity. The circumstances, were the suspect you or I, would be sufficient to get us charged. Moreover, as the crimes go unpunished, they get worse and more blatant. The election of Donald Trump seems to have been the trigger for the real insanity. During his inauguration progressive agitators burned down most of Washington DC, to the silence of the media,...
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Conservative journalist Katie Hopkins, the most banned woman on the planet, tells us what the harsh sentences being given to the January 6 defendants are really all about:“The whole purpose of what’s being done to the J6 defendants is to serve as a warning, to serve as a message. The reason has nothing to do with the law. The reason is it’s a message: “Don’t you dare play up. When we lock you down and we shut you down to force Biden through in 2024, don’t you say a word. Don’t you take to the...
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‘Genghis Khan was among many recorded warlords who would often employ the mass, indiscriminate murder of men and boys he felt threatened by regardless if they were soldiers, civilians, or simply in the way.’ ‘The Mongol army conquered hundreds of cities and villages and killed millions of people. One estimate is that about 11% of the world's population was killed either during or immediately after the Mongol invasions, around 37.75–60 million people in Eurasia.’ Was sitting in the garden just...
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End of Life Ireland (EOLI), a group campaigning for the legalisation of euthanasia, held a public meeting in Dublin last week to present their views. It was a revealing insight into their objectives and how to get there.The main speaker was Greg Mewett, a palliative care doctor from Australia who believes that patients have a right to end their lives. He admitted that this view is quite “heretical” among palliative care circles. (The Irish Association for Palliative Care is opposed to...
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President Biden meets with General Secretary Xi**It's been a half-century since President Richard M. Nixon set the United States firmly on the path to globalism. The date was February 28, 1973, when the President sat down with Premier Chou En-lai of the People's Republic of China and signed the Shanghai Communique. Named after the city, they were meeting in, this was merely an agreement to talk. But it was the most revolutionary economic statement of the Twentieth Century.The Communique would...
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SufferingDear Friends,It seems to me…How many hours do you spend worrying about suffering? Are you missing what the world is offering? As you spend hours at ease. Doing whatever you please. Then when you finally look back, your whole life at, will you remember the pain or playing in the leaves?We all need a modicum of afflict. Else we won’t grow up even a bit. Maturing never. Adulthood to sever. Because without something to endure, we simply can’t mature, and will remain children forever.Even...
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"Dreamer's Lullaby" by Thomas Bramel performed by Petros BourasThe piano solo Dreamer's Lullaby was composed for and dedicated to Petros Bouras in celebration of his newborn baby boy. It was premiered by Petros in the St. Gilles City Hall in Brussels, Belgium on February 5, 2018. Petros comments about this performance: "I decided to perform at the ed
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The term ‘neoliberalism’ is being used by the new generation of left-wingers in the same way that the last generation would have used the term ‘capitalism.’ Recall that we’ve discussed at length ‘devolution’ – how a revolutionary program can be run within the structure of an existing nation-state (rather than a communist party outright seizing control of that nation-state in a revolution). Now consider the reformist left. It taxes capitalism rather than seizing control of it. It regulates...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the most impressive politician I have seen in a long time. And he comes in our hour of urgent need, running for the White House in 2024. Therefore, today I am doing my part to help a man possessed of integrity and wise leadership to win the most powerful office in the world, and so usher in a new era of peace, prosperity, justice and freedom for a troubled world. Even if you are not American, you are human and so touched by the US president’s hand. Here I present 33...
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Modern economies struggle to contain inequality. Headlining most political manifestos, the fight to halt, or at least subdue, the flow of wealth from the bottom to the top, while promoting the advancement of humanity, is a universal aim. Despite the application of copious cognitive capacity, and repeated, interminable political speeches on the subject, the rich get richer while the poor get poorer.This concept was dubbed ‘The Matthew Principle’, named for the book of the Bible in which Jesus...
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Dereliction of Duty in American Politics “They should rule who are able to rule best.” – Aristotle Remember when in 1974, the Watergate scandal, forced Republican President Richard Nixon to resign? Let’s not forget the Democratic Presidential nominee Gary Hart’s scandalous extramarital affair with Donna Rice in 1988. Reaching a new low and not to be outdone, Democratic President Bill Clinton, in 1998 with one of the most embarrassing of all for “not having sex” with cigars and intern Monica...
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In recent weeks our proud Teal Independents have been busy showing their feminist credentials by supporting student activists seeking to force universities “to do more” about sexual assault on campus. "All of us women who have attended tertiary facilities in Australia know someone who has been raped while at university," pronounced Dr Monique Ryan. Well, perhaps in your circles, Monique.Wentworth’s Allegra Spender was on ABC radio jumping on board the ABC's latest questionable claim - that...
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Criminal GovernmentDear Friends,It seems to me, while some people are criminals, all governments are criminals. By criminal I mean breaking the classic laws of any nation, murder, theft, and fraud. In fact, most people don’t engage in any of those things, yet all government’s do. What’s war but State murder? What are taxes but State theft? Moreover, if I lie to my government it’s a felony, but if my government lies to me it’s politics. A government agent rarely opens his or her mouth without...
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President George HW Bush and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in HelsinkiOn this day, September 11, 1990, the American President announced the beginning of the New World Order. Appropriately enough, it was President George HW Bush who made the announcement. After all, he was its chief architect. Before a special Joint Congress session, Bush outlined his vision for this New Order of the Ages.It was a time of extraordinary global turmoil. The United States was putting in place the men and...
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WAVE RIDERS ASSEMBLE!Last Christmas I gave you my heart, no that wasn’t it, last Christmas I had a deep-ass conversation with fitness and lifestyle don Dr. Dan Go for his podcast. Then weeks went by, and it didn’t come out, and I forgot about it. Well, 9 months later, IT JUST CAME OUT, so you can go listen. Since it was recorded so long ago, I literally don’t remember a single thing we spoke about, so I had Jayson EVA and Letitia listen through it to make some clips and remind me what the...
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‘a study that is still having repercussions today' If you found famed sex-researcher Dr. John Money in a basement, doing to children what he did to the Reimer twins, you’d call the Kiddy-Sex Police. But because he was a bleeding-edge ‘behaviorist’ at a time when such anti-human-nature perspectives were very much in vogue, he got away with a very great deal: ‘Postwar, in any case, there was a move away from people being innately, biologically, inherently anything . . . . We'd just seen Nazism,...
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Since my girlfriend broke up with mei have more time to do things, and more money to spend on whatever.Whats the point though?
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It’s me, I’m the guy they talk about, I’m the one who did his own research. I am an amateur virologist. I have no credentials to display and no achievements to boast of, and no one will write me a recommendation. I cannot find work in virology and never will, I will always be an amateur. Direct at me whatever slings and arrows the amateur virologist is due, for I am one.But I am an amateur virologist with an acute appreciation for the professional virologist. I do understand the difference. I...
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When I got my first record deal in 2005 I managed to convince the label (which took a lot of finagling) to give me a chunk of the recording budget directly (rather than it all going to their recording studios), and used it to buy a bunch of equipment and make my own home studio.This came in very useful a year later when they decided they didn't want to release the album I'd recorded for them as it was - due to lyrical content they objected to - and I decided I didn't want to change it, so I...
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"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus AureliusIn Meditations, Aurelius distills the central pillars and tenets of stoic philosophy. Although it was essentially a journal and never intended for a general readership, it has become one of the most widely read philosophical works in the world. Here's a free online version if you want to check it out.So I tend to overthink things. My ability to make decisions is sometimes paralyzed by my consideration of...
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The daily argy bargy of trans vs. anti-trans should be ‘moored,’ but is not ‘moored,’ to an understanding that All This is utopianist. Radical feminism, open-ended affirmative action, Californian reparations for slavery, rampant nanny-statism, financial stimulus in response to GFCs and Covid lockdowns, the elimination of university-entrance exams, gender theory – these are all, in one way and another, not about making the world a better place, but about making the world a perfect place. So, a...
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WTI Crude Oil Prices are up 30% since June. Something that's bound to hit us in the wallet.**At 8:30 a.m. this morning, Eastern Time, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the most important economic report of the month, guaranteed to be the report that has the most impact on our financial well-being. It is the announcement of last month's change in Consumer Prices. As the cost of almost everything in our country is constantly rising, we consider this one of the best measures of...
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Constitutional ConsequencesDear Friends,It seems to me, the reason breaking a law has consequences, is because a law without teeth is a mere suggestion. What would happen if a bank robber who was caught… only had to give back the money that they hadn’t already spent? Everyone would rob banks. It would be stupid not to. The same holds true of constitutions and constitutional law. There are no consequences for violating our Constitution, in the most vile of ways, so our elites violate it all...
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When the philosophy of America is no longer about building up but of tearing down, the “Great Experiment” is over. This situation is the major reason that Obama won in 2012 (aside from massive voter fraud, of course). His comment about voting being the “best revenge” startled and horrified older Americans who still view the nation according to its founding principles of opportunity and liberty. But Obama wasn’t speaking to them. He spoke to the voters who gave him the White House: the young...
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Magic mushrooms are one of the most potent plant medicines in the world, when used responsibly they can be a highly effective treatment for many different mental health issues, such as addiction, depression and anxiety, just to name a few. They do not mask symptoms or temporarily numb pain but can potentially assist people in overcoming and conquering their mental health issues for good. Organically grown magic mushrooms do not contain any artificial substances which means that they do not...
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The other day I heard this idea that had no name to it.It goes something like this.Nobody lives more than 120 years. Essentially every 120 years we are all replaced by a new batch.Everyone alive today, from the oldest person to the newborn baby will not be alive in 120 years.I had also recently seen the movie, "Oppenheimer" and there was a scene of the bomb being dropped in the dessert- the bright light enveloping everything in its radius. I thought of the idea that we are all going to...
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HomelessThese are the most difficult days for Cities in America, ever. Daily, we see the symptoms of their struggle with crime, the homeless, and the drug-addled on their squalid sidewalks. The internet is full of videos of the "trank" addicted in Philadelphia, the muggings and fights on New York Subways, and the "Shooting galleries" in San Francisco. It's not a pretty picture. Most of us, myself included, are overwhelmed...
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Experts Deference To ExpertsDear Friends,It seems to me, there’s a devilish nature to the excuse du’jour of the progressives, that they can’t answer a basic question because they aren’t experts. Like, they can’t discern a boy from a girl, because they aren’t doctors. That answer sidesteps the question, distracts and gives the false impression, experts are always right. Historic evidence of their being wrong most of the time notwithstanding. When asked their intentions, good people tell them,...
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The world is growing more and more “humanitarian” every day. In fact, being a “human” has taken precedence over being a man or a woman or a citizen or an Asian. It is on a cosmopolitan plane that the modern man in search of his soul seeks his identity. Anything on a less macro level is seen as a “label”. A label to be put on as a costume at will, or ripped off like you would a bandaid, as an act of liberation, even if it takes some of your skin along with it. The usage of the word ‘human’ has...
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Everybody loves conventions. But do they? The Consumer Electronics Show. Comic-Con. DreamHack. Oatakon. ValleyCon. The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. The Atlanta Scout Show. The Wanenmacher Gun Show. The North American International Auto Show.
There’s some kind of convention for everyone, right? So why do I get dirty looks when I wear my favorite convention shirt? They get to have their conventions. Why can’t I have mine?
Bringing up a Convention of States always draws very...
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In the first Post on As Nature Made Him, we noted that ‘No matter how badly the whole thing ends, none of the zealots admits any error.’ The dates here, concerning the Reimer case, extend from the 1960’s to the turn of the century. But it gets very interesting if we compare those to some dates in Brunskell-Evans’ Inventing Transgender Children. By 1998, piles of data that contradicted Money’s claims were coming to light. But by 2005, groups like ‘GIRES’ and ‘Mermaids’ were already major...
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Genesis, the Biblical story of creation, seems to be founded on the twelve signs of the zodiac. Each day of creation is made of two opposing signs. Six polarities. Six days of creation. The order of appearance, follow the three crosses of the zodiac, the Cardinal Cross, the Fixed Cross, and the Mutable Cross. The zodiac is made of four trines and three crosses. Each trine connects the three crosses, and each cross is made of a point from each four trines. Each of the four trines of the zodiac...
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The Mechanism Of ImpeachmentDear Friends,It seems to me, our elites are using the impeachment, like Pericles used the ostracism… to do the opposite of their reason for existing. Pericles, the ancient Athenian ruler, exploited his arbitrary power to get any would be rival, ostracized. Like the progressive faction uses the impeachment to go after political dissidents, to establish a one party state. Both examples use a power given to limit the power of the elite to oligarchy, and especially a...
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The Mechanism Of ImpeachmentDear Friends,It seems to me, our elites are using the impeachment, like Pericles used the ostracism… to do the opposite of their reason for existing. Pericles, the ancient Athenian ruler, exploited his arbitrary power to get any would be rival, ostracized. Like the progressive faction uses the impeachment to go after political dissidents, to establish a one party state. Both examples use a power given to limit the power of the elite to oligarchy, and especially a...
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The view from "Top of the Rock," Rockefeller Center**For much of my career, I spent most of my time meeting with clients and prospects at their offices, representing our investment firm to financial companies, banks, insurance companies, and brokers in various cities. Generally, I worked out of two offices, one in New York. The other is in San Francisco. I want to introduce you to those two cities as I saw them.**First Office in New York's Rockefeller CenterI like to arrive early to the...
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Self-DefenseWhere should I start?The SourceSep 18, 2023“Amateur’s talk hardware (tools and techniques). Professional’s talk software (mindset).” – Lt. Col. Dave GrossmanWhen it comes to learning self-defense, almost universally, people start by learning a technique (i.e. move, strike, block. etc.) or how to use a tool (i.e. gun, knife, pepper spray, etc.). However, when you really think, would it not be better to begin with learning how to recognize and avoid a conflict before you might need...
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One: we’ve neglected to note that perhaps the primary reality of ‘trans’ is that most people have no idea what is really going on, and don’t much care anyway. Two: an increasingly visible group is that of women – academics, journalists, conservatives, concerned mums, and feminists (both heterosexual and lesbian) – who are bravely publicizing the negative impacts that trans is having on women and girls -- ‘erasure’. So, do we not welcome their efforts? Three: some Bud-Light-boycott...
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Hi Thinkspot! I hope everyone is doing well!I am back after a lengthy break. There's a lot going on right now in the world and I will try my best to catch up quickly.After Greece, I was immediately ready to get back to the grind.I have been working on self-discipline and have recently (finally) discovered Akira the Don and his Jocko/Jordan Peterson tracks. LIFE-CHANGING.It's forcing me to upload a picture and I have no storage space left (probably time to fix that). Here is a picture of my...
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It is not the case that a concern with the minutiae of ‘trans’ is the same as being soft on trans. It may be the case that the most ardent opposition to trans is undertaken by those who think that some sliver of individuals are ‘trans’ in some definable way.
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‘Detransitioners speak of trauma from experimental drugs and surgeries, of having been manipulated and deceived by adults, and of being abandoned by adults when they detransitioned. I have seen them abused and defamed on social media, accused of being transphobes and liars, and of trying to keep genuine trans people getting the treatments they need. In fact, most are simply urging caution, and have no desire to stop others living as they wish.’ ‘[The detransitioners] bought into an ideology...
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The UN's Sustainable Development, Worth The Investment?I confess that I'm an "Annual Meeting" fanatic. I enjoy attending these once-a-year meetings of management and shareholders. It's the recap of the past 12 months, the best opportunity I know of to get to know the people who run the organization: to catch a glimpse of their personalities and what they have planned for the future.Just such a meeting occurred on Monday, although it needed more structure and detail provided at the Annual...
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Javier Milei is predicted to win Argentina’s presidential election on October 22nd, and after checking him out I am very impressed with his presence and his principles. His recipe to reverse the staggering economic decline of his nation is to shrink the state and restore its resourcres and power to the people. For liberty is the core and foundation of not only our happiness but also peace and prosperity. Unfortunately, governments all round the world have become ever more controlling and...
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Print, Spend And RegulateDear Friends,It seems to me, no amount of Federal Reserve tightening will lower inflation, as long as the federal government increases spending, five dollars for every dollar the Fed wrings out of the private sector. Add to the drastic increase in the money supply, driven by print and spend policies, the supply reducing effects of over regulation, bans and cronyism, and you have the perfect equation to cripple the private economy with inflation, while canceling public...
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‘Autogynephilia is the arousal that comes from
imagining yourself in the role of the opposite sex.’ ‘If you had asked, “are you a woman inside?” I would
have replied, “I don’t think so,” ’ she says. What I always knew is that I
wanted to have a woman’s body.’ If you are just passing though, welcome! Readers, we’re going to bracket off autogynephilia. It’s written about in Joyce’s
Trans, Murray’s The Madness of Crowds, and Stock’s Material Girls. However, the notion is hotly contested; and as...
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When BHP Billiton’s CEO Andrew Mackenzie addressed shareholders at the 2016 annual meeting, he told them that achieving a 50% female workforce within the decade was a “moral imperative” for the company.This sanctimonious claim was all the more sickening given that his big announcement neatly diverted attention from ongoing protests by Brazilians affected by the collapse of the company’s Samarco dam a year earlier, which killed at least 19 people and devastated the local environment.It...
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Managed DeclineDear Friends,It seems to me, the elite want to manage America’s decline, and will brooch no exception to that paradigm. There’s a ton of money to be made riding the US into the ground. Then the global administrative state that comes after will be glorious. That’s why the idea of America in ascendance, is not just unthinkable, but infuriating to the elite. Those who seek to stop the decline are therefore, enemy number one, even as those who seek America’s fall are allies by...
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For months, the Biden Administration and the Federal Reserve have told us that this economy is just like Goldilocks. The tale of the little girl who has found that breakfast has been served. And what’s more, it’s “just right.” Like the Economy, it’s not too hot, and it’s not too cold. President Biden tells us that we’re “building back better.” Over at the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell tells us that endless monetary tightening will solve the inflation problem without causing undue slowing in...
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