While the Corporate Media headlines are stirring up this week's outrage here in the Prozac Nation---which currently is over football jerseys and supposedly sexist girls' clothing---important developments are happening in more emotionally stable countries. Most notably the G-20 Economic Summit, hosted in China this year.
President Xi Jinping opened the conference with an inspiring speech outlining China's innovative approach to the global marketplace. Now in the 2016 elections, globalism, like social justice, has become a taboo subject. The Chinese President made some interesting remarks on this phenomenon, expressed in an interesting editorial in China's official party newspaper The Global Times.
When we speak of globalism in economic theory, it is really the classical free-market model actually practiced by the United States from the post-Civil War Era to the 1980s which we are discussing. The new course that China is following in global economics is similar in its pattern to our former one. The Chinese currency is backed by gold, as ours formerly was, enabling China to create the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank---an alternative to the IMF and World Bank. The New Silk Road Project is based on bilateral trade agreements---unlike NAFTA or the EU models which feature inflexible politically-motivated bureaucracies.
Contrary to the heated rhetoric thrown about in the Government-Media Complex, global free trade is not a bad thing. As Xi pointed out, the real source of Western discontent with international trade is that the West's own economic policies---which it has pursued since the 1990s---has failed.
The early 1990s saw Reagan-Era prosperity in the US break down---due largely to the 1st Bush Administration's abandonment of Reaganomics. At the same time, the Soviet system in Russia and the Maoist system in China were abandoned. A technology revolution brought the US economy from the brink of collapse, but it also left the US the world's lone Superpower. This has been the geopolitical premise the US has followed since roughly 1989. The so-called Pax Americana: world domination by the economic, political, social, and military American elite permeates the thinking of nearly all American policymakers and pundits. And this is essentially how Western thinking understands globalism.
This same policy has been applied domestically as well as abroad; and we see in the West the same elites benefitting through a network of cronyism and corruption while unemployment and underemployment swell against a backdrop of sluggish economic growth and inflation. The civil unrest this situation has caused led to the urban street riots and the rise of the Alt-Right here---and the rise of chaos and terrorism in countries like Iraq and elsewhere that US elites have occupied.
As the Chinese article points out, "The West has never recovered from the 2008 financial crisis and shows no signs of doing so. Policy response in both the US and Europe has been grossly inadequate, where monetary policy and quantitative easing have failed to stimulate growth."
Arguably, we have never really recovered from the financial crisis of 1991-92. The technology industry provided a stimulus, but our infrastructure and our agricultural and industrial base has never recovered. The dollar has continued to be devalued and public debt is running out of control unabated since that period. The response has not only been inadequate---it has been nearly nonexistent. American politicians have mostly engaged in window-dressing augmented by considerable Corporate Media propaganda keeping the public in a state of denial about any of this.
China, meanwhile, has become the unquestioned leader in the world economy, which is why this G-20 Summit may be the most important in history. The balance of power is clearly shifting in China's direction---because it's leadership is facing problems and solving them, unlike ours. As China's Xinhua News reported: "As Xi stated, this sought-after world economy should be established through exploring new sources of growth, expanding space for development, joining forces, and laying the foundations for win-win solutions." Contrast that with the gloomy rhetoric of Trump and Clinton: who talk of building border walls or expanding the welfare state.
The worst-case scenario is that US elites will react to Chinese economic dominance the only way they know how: start a shooting war, an idea that some Neocons are already floating. It would make a lot more sense to abandon our failing economic policies; focus on becoming internationally competitive again; and working with, not against, China because they've proven that they can get the job done without destabilizing governments or launching airstrikes.
But until the Ameroboob pulls his head out of the Hookah Lounge and stops worrying about sexist t-shirts and racist football jerseys, China will go on to world leadership in global economics.
Labor Day, like many holidays here in the Prozac Nation, has largely been hijacked by the Cultural Marxists. The American political Left fancies itself the defenders of the working man. Very few of the Liberal leadership has ever engaged in productive work in the private sector, they are supported mostly by the historical reputation of the late 19th to mid 20th centuries---when the Democratic Party actually did work in the interests of Labor.
For this extended weekend, we recommend a television series about a tough man with three tough jobs: I Led 3 Lives. The series was syndicated on independent stations from 1953-1955, and is one of the few television series ever based on an autobiography. I Led 3 Lives also has the distinction of being the first popular and highly-rated espionage dramas on television. For reasons that will become obvious, the Postmodern Cultural Marxists in the media have an especial dislike for this series and it's rarely ever seen on television today.
I Led 3 Lives is based on a best-selling 1950 autobiography of Herbert J. Philbrick of the same title. Philbrick was a married owner of a small advertising business and a local leader, which gave cover for his double life as a mid-level member of a Communist cell group engaging in various plots against the United States. That in turn gave cover for his triple life: a special operative for FBI Counter-Intelligence. The stories and character follow the book fairly closely. The real-life Philbrick was part of the late 1930s anti-war movement, who became intrigued about Communism after hearing some speeches. He joined a Communist cell, but being an honest and intelligent man, the scales soon fell from his eyes, and he saw Communism for what it really was. A devout Christian, Philbrick was disgusted with the Communists' intolerance for religion; hatred for the traditional family; and contempt for democracy and the rights of the individual. He exposed their activities to the FBI; and an agent---called Jerry Dressler in the series---enlisted Philbrick's services as a counterspy. Philbrick served his country in this capacity until 1948.
Needless to say, a series which portrays the Far Left in its true colors is not going especially well-received among today's media elites. One does not have to watch too many episodes of I Led 3 Lives before some very uncomfortable comparisons start becoming quite apparent. The Communist leaders in this series are, in their words, behaviors, and attitudes, so closely parallel to the modern Politically-Correct Left that it's somewhat frightening. For example in one episode, Philbrick meets an attractive female courier, who in turn reports him to the Party for "seeing her as an attractive woman and not a fellow-Communist". Philbrick gets a scolding and a reprimand that there is no gender difference in Communism.
A scenario which sounds all too familiar in today's PC social climate.
Even more troubling are the various Communist plots Philbrick breaks up---which aim at infiltrating and spreading Communist social values in the schools, media, and churches. (Again, does this sound familiar?) In many ways, I Led 3 Lives has a strangely prophetic tone about it.
There's also a lot of traditional espionage in this series: breaking up spy rings, intercepting secret plans, and preventing assassination attempts---all based on real-life stories. As was true of Golden Age espionage dramas in general, I Led 3 Lives relied heavily on realism and Philbrick has to operate on his own initiative and by his wits continually. Other than Agent Dressler, only Philbrick's wife knows of his secret identity---though she appears infrequently in the series, she stands by her man like a true heroine.
Like the espionage series Blue Light, which we reviewed here earlier, the realism in I Led 3 Lives, shows an especial emphasis upon the real-life impact the activities that the forces of evil and haters of human liberty has on real people. I Led 3 Lives, though not as violent a show as Blue Light, nonetheless does not glamorize the subject or mitigate in the slightest the truly evil nature of those who hate---and wish to destroy---the traditions and freedoms we collectively used to respect.
From the perspective of 2016, I Led 3 Lives is the portrait of an era where men and women were fighting to prevent our culture from turning into what it, unfortunately, largely has turned into. There's probably no other series that runs so counter to the modern politically-correct myth that the so-called Progressives represent long-standing American historical traditions. I Led 3 Lives shows these people for what they did, what they are now doing, and what they intend to do---with no obfuscation of the truth.
Watching a captivating and engrossing series based on real-life adventures---and aggravating the PC Left at the same time---what better way to spend a long weekend? Better still, most of the series is available for free viewing on Youtube, and available on DVD as well. The quality of the episodes are all very well-preserved.
As most of us are aware, the US Corporate Media ceased to be an actual journalistic enterprise sometime ago. Most of what is promoted as news is actually editorial commentary, and intentionally slanted commentary at that. The level of outright propaganda and corporate cronyism in the media has gotten so bad that private companies are now openly offering services to ghostwrite editorial content on the behalf of interested parties.
Keybridge Communications, a Beltway-based PR firm, claims on its own website that it "specializes in writing and placing op-eds." Keybridge's founder, it is said was a former writer for the Wall Street Journal. Now, the company goes on to boast that,
"With some of the country's most influential trade groups and global corporations as clients, we run many of the major op-ed campaigns in the US. We place roughly 3,000 op-eds per year."
So here we have an open admission that---if you're a reader of American op-ed pieces--- chances are you've read one actually penned by Keybridge. And their services aren't limited to writing op-eds: their advertising brochure for prospective clients gives an extensive price list of everything from arranging from radio talk-show interviews to blog management. And they even provide a sample of five op-eds written for the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Daily News, USA Today, and Newsday.
Nothing that Keybridge is doing is actually illegal (although it certainly ought to be). As David Swanson, the activist who exposed Keybridge states: "Paying $5,000 for this service is not simply about paying for research and editing. It's paying for the unfair advantage of having your op-ed pitched by people who've built cozy relationships with editors and in some cases used to be op-ed page editors themselves...it's part of the corruption of a thoroughly corrupt communications system. It's part of the rigging of everything that builds cynicism and resentment."
While we don't usually agree with Swanson on a lot of issues, he's absolutely correct here. This is the same Corporate Media who lectures us every day that countries like Russia are run by corrupt Oligarchs who spread disinformation through their controlled media. And very likely some group like Keybridge was paid to tell us so. That is not as remote a possibility as one might think: as we've seen in the recent Soros Foundation Scandal that George Soros and his gang of Wall Street freebooters set up media-public relations campaigns on a regular basis.
Our 1st Amendment to the Constitution obviously does not give any group the right to monopolize the avenues of communication and access to information. It guarantees the right to freedom of these things; and a corporate oligarchy controlling the press is essentially no different in principle than having an outright State Ministry of Propaganda controlling it. In either case, it's vested interests---and not the people---who benefit from this type of monopoly.
And it's also very likely the case that Keybridge is not the PR firm engaged in this kind of mass-media manipulation. In any event, it should be painfully obvious even to the somnambulant American public that our Fourth Estate is in desperate need of some serious reform. As uncomfortable a fact as this may be, it is becoming painfully obvious that media deregulation is not working. The laws regulating the mass-media instituted by the Truman Administration need to be brought back, as well as Anti-Trust and Conflict of Interest laws being enforced on the Corporate Media. All one has to do is compare the mass media of the Truman Era to today's media to see which system worked and which does not.
Brazil broke out in a series of riots yesterday and the governments of Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia withdrew their ambassadors in protest of a parliamentary coup overthrowing the elected president, Dilma Rousseff. Michel Temer, a politician with a shady past and a 6% approval rating among Brazilian citizens was sworn in as the new president.
Brazil is a member of the BRIC economic union and during the last decade has moved steadily out of the Beltway/Wall Street's sphere of influence.
We have seen the same pattern in the Brazil coup before in Ukraine. An elected pro-Russian government in a country with access to huge oil reserves; followed by foreign provocateurs organizing the largest-ever so-called 'Gay Pride Rallies'; followed but sudden and well media-hyped 'protests' against the current government. And the new 'popular leaders' like Temer---who meet with high-level US political and economic interests before seizing power---suddenly reversing national course in favor of pro-Western democracy. Temer's first speech, predictably, pointed out his commitment to supporting the LGBTQ Agenda.
"The first day of Temer's Administration made it clear that Neoliberalism is back in Brazilian politics." said Aline Piva, a Rousseff supporter. "Temer's Administration has moved to offset or revoke existing Latin American commitments, the developing world, and with Russia and China in favor of a push towards US-centered trade deregulation."
Temer himself was under investigation by the Rousseff Administration---as were many of the politicians instigating Rousseff's 'impeachment---after allegations surfaced of corruption and bribery around Brazilian oil company, Petrobras. Audio files have been leaked to the press already of Brazilian officials agreeing to Rousseff's impeachment in exchange for ending the corruption probe.
The Obama Administration was quick to applaud the coup, of course. Obama's spokesman Josh Kirby stated to the Corporate Media that Obama was satisfied that the coup followed the Brazilian Constitution and that he was "confident that we will continue the strong bilateral relationship existing between the two countries." To put a finer point on the issue, the US Ambassador to Brazil (who coincidentally was formerly ambassador to Paraguay during a coup there) wrote an op-ed for the pro-Temer news outlet O Globo:
"Brazil is an essential market for US corporations, and a must-play for US business."
A statement strangely reminiscent of the Soros-engineered press releases following the Ukraine coup in 2014. And Obama's toady in the UN, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon also endorsed Temer. Hardly surprising: the Rousseff Administration was moving Brazil away from the IMF and World Bank and supporting China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as an alternative. Only a year ago, the current politicians leading the coup met with IMF and World Bank leaders at the time the first anti-Rousseff 'protests' were being organized and orchestrated.
"Temer has already talked about massive austerity programs" said Peter Koenig, a geopolitical analyst and former World Bank official, in an interview with Sputnik News, "The pattern is well-known. The World Bank will make certain that the debt level is so high that privatization of debt assets becomes unavoidable."
Koenig also stressed that Brazil, as a member of BRIC has greater security since Russian and Chinese currencies are tied to a Gold Standard, unlike the US.
It appears that, once again, the freebooters and political criminals in our own government have instigated a regime change, that will probably end in disaster as the previous attempts have. But the average American is too concerned about doing drugs and surfing internet porn to care very much. As long as our Corporate Media focuses on the need for regime change everywhere but here, the Wall Street freebooters will go on looting country after country and keeping the Ameroboob well-insulated from feeling uncomfortable about any of it.
Exporting American Exceptionalism to Brazil
Two of the chief characteristics of a religious cult are that they make claims that the mainstream religion is corrupt; and then in turn import concepts alien to that faith in opposition to it. We have written here at length about the cultish aspects of the Manosphere Alt-Right movement called 'Game'. This cult has largely co-opted the Men's Rights Movement during the 2010 decade. It preys upon alienated Western males who have fallen victim to the Cultural Marxist sociopolitical attacks upon our common heritage. Like most movements of its type, it focuses on scapegoating rather than solutions; and offers quick-and-easy solutions to complex human social interactions. The Cult, thus, is gaining a significant following.
Both the Game partisans and its critics are abuzz about an article published today by one of the cult's leaders who calls himself The Rational Male. In a long tome, this author argues a common Game theme that modern religion---Christianity in particular---has become corrupted by Feminism, which he obliquely refers to as the Feminine Imperative. This latter term is a Game Cult doctrine, a notion though essentially borrowed from Radical Feminism, can be loosely defined as the theory that the natural male instinct to protect and provide for females is artificially socially programmed. What the Feminist revisionist historians term Patriarchy; according to the Gamers (who've adopted the same historical perspective) was a period under which men regulated and controlled all of these supposed negative feminine tendencies, which the Gamers claim to be at the root of Western society's ills.
"For the past five generations," says the Rational Male, "there has been a concerted re-engineering of religion (and not just limited to Christianity) to better suit the ends of the Feminine Imperative. Just as men are sold the idealism of the 'old set of books' while living in a social context that confounds them, religion has been co-opted by the feminine. The 'old-books' religion has either been replaced wholesale by a feminine-interpreted, feminine-directed religion that places women as its highest authority; or has been restructured or re-written to serve the same feminine-primary objectives."
This is all nonsense, of course. Assuming that the author is referring to the major Western religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam---there certainly has been no coordination between them to feminize their faiths. The last major meeting between Christian and Islamic leaders that we know of had to do with organizing and coordinating humanitarian aid to the Middle East. Certainly women and children probably benefitted most from this aid, but this hardly proves a pro-feminine collusion between Christian Popes and Patriarchs with Islamic Ayatollahs.
During his recent trip to Poland, Pope Francis made several strong speeches supporting the Church's positions on gender polarity and stressed the importance of male governance of the Church, as supported both by Scripture and Doctrine. Francis denounced the Feminist/ Cultural Marxist tendencies in the West towards gender neutrality and androgyny.
The author cites the Game Cult leader, The Voice of God, who has apparently taken on a Twitter account with the very Christian-sounding name of The Supreme Dark Lord. The Dark Lord opines that "Churchians bewail their emptying pews, then continue to preach their false gospels that drive men and nationalists out of the church."
It may come as news to 'The Voice of God', but Nationalism is not a part of Christian Doctrine. The word Catholic in fact comes from a Latin word meaning universal. Even today, negotiations are underway between the Vatican and China; and two of the main obstacles are that the Chinese government objects to foreign appointments of bishops and that the Vatican recognizes Taiwan as an independent diocese.
What is actually causing American church attendance to decline is the breakdown of the family and the anti-Christian bias of the US Corporate Media and Academic Mafia. The Game Cult, prudently ignores these problems because they share the same objectives as the Cultural Marxists: to subvert traditional religion.
"Church culture" he continues---as though all non-Game churches think exactly alike---"is now openly hostile to any expression of conventional masculinity which does not directly benefit women or condition men into becoming gender-loathing Betas."
This statement comes from a writer who teaches his disciples a series of Iron Rules. Let the reader ask himself why he supposes that the following things are not taught in churches:
#7: "It is always time and effort better spent developing new, fresh, prospective women than it will ever be in attempting to reconstruct a failed relationship."
#3: "Any woman who makes you wait for sex, or by her actions implies that she is making you wait for it, is never worth the wait."
#6: "Women are utterly incapable of loving a man in the way he expects to be loved."
#5: "Never let a woman be in control of childbirth."
The curious reader can look up others, but they continue in the same vein. As Christ taught "By their fruits you shall know them", and the fruit of the Game Cult is toxic to both Faith and Manhood.
Few Americans even know of the exotic Middle Eastern island of Bahrain. This small, oil-rich sheikdom, was once an idyllic and peaceful island in the Persian Gulf. It had little-known but active tourist trade along with its abundant oil reserves. But today, things have changed in Bahrain, and not for the better. Today, Bahrain is a police state with one of the world's worst human rights records.
Not surprisingly, Bahrain's problems began when Postmodernist America brought its exceptionalism to the island. Bush Junior established Bahrain as the headquarters of the US 5th Fleet; and the Bahraini government moved into the Wahhabi ideology promoted by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States. The majority of Bahraini citizens are Shia Islamists and have been denied participation in their country's government. And, as in Okinawa, the US base provoked a number of outrages among the local populace.
During the so-called Arab Spring, Bahraini Shiites began protests against the Wahhabi Regime. But the Bahrainis learned what the world now in hindsight: some 'Arab Springs' are more equal than others. Obama and Clinton turned a blind eye, as the Wahhabi government imported Saudi and UAE troops to crush the demonstrations. The Shiites have been subject to the most brutal repressions ever since; with a wink-and-a-nod from Washington.
In June, the Wahhabis revoked the citizenship of Bahrain's top Shiite cleric and have closed the Shiite Mosque in Diraz. This week, the Wahhabis banned Shiite Friday Prayer Services (Friday is the Islamic Sabbath day). These crackdowns have been intensifying during the last several months, with an unknown number of Bahraini Shiites killed by Wahhabi police death-squads, and others thrown into prisons. Bahrain's prisons are known for their inhuman conditions, and torture is practiced there.
The Bush and Obama Administrations support the Bahraini Regime on the pretext that the Shia population is pro-Iranian. Iran was dubbed by Bush Junior as part of an Axis of Evil and a State-sponsor of Terrorism by Obama---in spite of the fact that not a single terrorist act against Americans has ever been linked to Iran. Also in spite of the fact that the Wahhabis---whom the Iranians consider apostate Moslems---have been linked to nearly all of them. Wahhabi coalition partners of the US in the Middle East are also known supporters of Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra, Boko Harum, ISIS, Al-Shebaab, and the Taliban, among others.
The US Navy in Bahrain has also engaged in several confrontations with the Iranian Navy, the most graphic of which ended in the shameful capture of ten of our brave men and women in uniform last January. The Ayatollahs have long denounced the interference of the US Navy in this region with Iranian efforts to suppress the weapons, narcotics, and slave-trafficking known to be originating from the Wahhabi Gulf States. Although suppressed by the Corporate Media, Singapore's unraveling of the so-called Fat Leonard Scandal gives considerable support to Iran's charges. That scandal---which has led to the arrest of a prominent US defense contractor and a sitting American Admiral so far---hasn't caused a ripple of controversy here in the Prozac Nation, although it fairly clearly points to Pentagon complicity in international smuggling operations.
The suffering of the Bahraini people is another reminder that the activities of these gangs of provocateurs and international crooks have real-world consequences on innocent people. These gangs, too, supported with US tax dollars and cash from Wall Street freebooters. Unfortunately, the average Ameroboob, is too worried about some NFL player's controversial statements on race relations or a sex scandal in Minnesota---both of which are at the top of today's headlines---to care very much.
Predictably, the Manosphere's Game Cult has erupted into a recent outburst of race-baiting; apparently feeling emboldened by the Corporate Media's focus on the Alt-Right. In spite of their deep dislike for Western women, the Gamers are also paradoxically opposed to interracial relations. That's another of many strange contradictions which characterize the thinking of this peculiar group.
During the weekend, the Corporate Media ran a non-story fomenting outrage over some NFL player who protested the National Anthem; and several Red Pill bloggers have pounced on it. It seems the player in question is a Mulatto, who was adopted and raised by white step-parents. This naturally is an outrageous situation for the Gamers. From the 'Chateau Heartiste', from whence the cult largely originated, we have this post (reprinted in its entirety):
"What Colin Kaepernick and Barack Obama have in common: both are examples of the commonplace phenomenon of the bitter Mulatto who spites his white mother's heritage and yearns for his missing black daddy's love. Keepin' it real, yo."
His loyal followers, delighted that Heartiste would deign to speak so much as two sentences to them, responded with around 200 fawning comments, spiked with some of the most vile and repugnant racial slurs that their imaginations could conceive. That aside, however, it would be interesting to inquire just how commonplace the phenomenon of which he speaks actually is.
What the President and Mr. Kaepernick really have in common is that both are products of our corrupt and debased Academic system; which instills in young men a hatred of our common culture and traditions. That hatred is especially pronounced among minorities because the Academic Mafia equates Western Civilization and American Culture with White Supremacy. It's not Evolutionary Psychology that produces such men; it's Cultural Marxism that is responsible.
Not to be outdone, the Game guru The Voice of God, cited a story of the brutal killing of a white girl by some black thugs. He titled this article with an obvious reference to lynching. "More white parents need to tell their daughters precisely what they are risking when they sneak out of the house and get picked up by the Da'Shauns and Kaynes of the world." Vox cautions.
His commenters display about as much humanity as Heartiste's do, cracking jokes about the murder and comparing Blacks to cannibals, et cetera. In fact, the woman in this case was abducted; she didn't sneak out of her parents' house, though she did conceal where she was actually going.
The Red Pills are generally notorious for complete ignorance of history and anthropology. If they knew anything about either one, they would know that racial intermixture actually made societies stronger. Even ancient cultures knew this; the Greeks, Romans, and Persians freely married among other races and grew great empires. So did early America: most Indian tribes never married among their own peoples.
We also have examples of cultures who strictly enforced racial marriage. The Egyptians, who never expanded much beyond the Nile Valley and eventually sank into a cultural quagmire of religious superstitions come to mind. The same fate met the Aztecs. Mediaeval Europe and Mediaeval Japan were stagnant societies; both closed to outsiders. And it is also no accident that the cultures with the most racial mixing were also the among the freest.
In our Postmodern Age, however, the personal is political. Nothing is more personal than one's race or gender; hence the Cultural Marxists and the Red Pills are obsessed with both. One's race or gender, though, is not a mark of political affiliation. The fact that it is so considered illustrates the low intellectual levels under which the Far Left and Alt-Right are functioning. The Red Pills and the Alt-Right claim to be Nationalists, but their racial theories demonstrate that they are operating on tribal, not national, ideals. The same is also true of the Left, with their pretenses to Globalism.
So why would the Red Pills---who claim to be about Men's Rights---not champion the rights of all men? It's because their movement is no more about empowering men than Feminism is about empowering women. The Gamers are about empowering the leaders of their cult; and obviously a cult is much stronger when it's racially homogenous.
The fact of the matter is that DNA research has proven that Civilization grew by incorporating and blending various peoples. Family units tend to impart the best, not the worst, traits of its culture in its offspring. As a society, we need to focus far more on building families, educating the young, and standing for universal principles than coalescing around this or that ethnic group.
