"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

THOMAS PAINE

They virtue signal on how "stunning and brave" they are as they fight the "Patriarchy". They tend to be the worst version of women who abuse everyone for attention. They always becry, #BelieveAllWomen on Twitter. Adult women acting like spoiled children throwing a tantrum.

In the "Culture War" we mock the "Progressives" because they're snowflakes. They can't handle factual arguments or pointing out their stupidity such as "Defund the police" which sends them into an emotional meltdown.

Yeah, I'm referring to the Grasshopper species.

They've had a major locust swarms spread through Africa and into the Middle East. Don't know if the swarms have been contained yet. Real bad stuff going on in 2020.

"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."

TACITUS

"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint."

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Insects are one dimensional creatures, animals are two dimensional creatures and humans are three dimensional beings. We have as much in common with an oak tree as we do a dog. this is because we are subjected by the forces of reality being carbon based life form. A christian philosophy has it as, "After God made everything he ran out of ideas so he took pieces of everything to make people."

Locus Effect is what I call it. There's to many people in this world of ours now. The friction of other locus causes a frenzy of destruction. We have many political factions trying to destroy and/or control the world. People like Trump are wrecking the plans of puppet masters so must be torn apart. Power corrupts and Trump would be as the puppet masters if he had power which they do.

Bleeding Hearts make others bleed (suffer) so they feel better about themselves. Look at what happened in Seattle. It was perfectly fine for the mayor to let people get raped, murdered, robbed and the rest until the mob was at her doorstep.

I'm glad I never had children. Which was a choice I made back when I was 16.

Feminine earns to be appreciated just as Masculine earns respect.

"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately."

SENECA

Every so often some clown pops up asking for forgiveness because of the harm they done. Dr. Spock, Grace Slick and a number of others I don't remember off-hand. My response is, "Screw yourself into the dirt." Causing direct or indirect harm to others goes beyond forgiveness on their scale, Is my stance.

Environmentalist Issues Apology for Misleading ‘Climate Alarmism’

Pandemic puts climate ‘crisis’ into perspective, says climate expert

ALAN MCDONNELL

Renowned author, environmentalist, and climate activist Michael Shellenberger has formally apologized to the public for the “climate scare” he says climate alarmists have forced on the public over the past 30 years.

An environmental advocate for 30 years and a climate activist for 20, Shellenberger has previously been invited to provide testimony on climate issues to Congress, and says he has served as an expert reviewer of an assessment report from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). However, he now says he feels obliged to apologize “for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public.”

Shellenberger made his apology on the Forbes website on June 28, though the article is no longer available. In a statement emailed to The Epoch Times, the company wrote that “Forbes requires its contributors to adhere to strict editorial guidelines. This story did not follow those guidelines, and was removed.”

However, Shellenberger’s apology was subsequently published on June 30 by online magazine Quillette, which says it aims to provide a platform for “the free exchange of ideas.”

“I am as guilty of alarmism as any other environmentalist,” Shellenberger writes in his article. “For years, I referred to climate change as an ‘existential’ threat to human civilization, and called it a ‘crisis.’” However, Shellenberger now says climate change is “not even our most serious environmental problem.”

What’s Actually Happening to Our Climate?

According to Shellenberger, “Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world.” For that matter, human activity is not causing mass extinction, and neither is climate change making natural disasters worse, he says.

Shellenberger says that contrary to the assertions

of “the climate disinformation campaign,” wildfires have been declining worldwide for the past 17 years, and that the actual cause of forest fires in California and Australia was the buildup of wood fuel in forests. He says that just as in the United States, carbon emissions are declining in most wealthy nations, and that France, Germany, and the UK have watched their emissions fall since the 1970s.

According to Shellenberger, ‘Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world.’ For that matter, human activity is not causing mass extinction, and neither is climate change making natural disasters worse.

Moreover, the most critical factor for human survival on earth— producing enough food to feed mankind as the population continues to grow—will get easier as temperatures slowly rise. The biggest threat to the wide variety of animal species on earth is habitat loss and hunting, he says.

Shellenberger says that these assertions come from the best scientific studies available, including studies accepted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the IPCC, among others.

The author says he felt compelled to write a book when he felt climate alarmism had gone too far. He cites as his motivation Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) statement, “The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,” and British environmental group Extinction Rebellion’s claim that “climate change kills children.”

Shellenberger’s book, “Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All,” makes assertions such as that factories and modern farming methods are key to environmental and human progress, and that 100 percent renewable energy “would require increasing the land used for energy from today’s 0.5 percent to 50 percent.”

The book also claims that vegetarianism reduces an individual’s greenhouse gas emissions “by less

than 4 percent.”

What’s Behind Climate Ideology?

Shellenberger says that the ideology behind climate alarmism is a modern version of Malthusianism, named after the 18th-century British economist Thomas Malthus. According to Shellenberger, Malthus believed that “there were too many poor people out there ... and that the ethical thing to do was let them die.” Indeed, Malthus welcomed plagues and starvation to reduce the population of the needy poor, he says.

Shellenberger states that he remains hopeful for the future, however. “Nations are reverting openly to self-interest and away from Malthusianism and neoliberalism,” he said. “The evidence is overwhelming that our high-energy civilization is better for people and nature than the low-energy civilization that climate alarmists would return us to.”

The Left Pushes to Finally Take Down America

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MICHAEL WALSH

Decades in preparation, the future United States of America that the international left intends to fashion is near at hand. Since the arrival of the Frankfurt School of Marxist philosophers, cranks, crackpots, and creeps on our shores in the 1930s, the Enlightenment foundations of our nation have been under constant attack.

Wielding their pseudo-intellectual doctrine of Critical Theory as a battering ram, men like Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm, and Wilhelm Reich saw it as their duty to undermine every legal and social American institution, from the family, to traditional sexuality, to academe, pop culture, government, and even the military. Nothing was safe from their iniquitous inquisition.

At first, they seemed vaguely ridiculous, a bunch of nutty professors with Dr. Strangelove accents. But don’t be fooled.

Reich, a Freudian psychiatrist who often treated his patients in the nude, invented the “sexual revolution,” later popularized by Hugh Hefner in the pages of Playboy. His quack theories about sexuality were called “a fraud of the first magnitude” by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and he died, intermittently psychotic, in federal prison in 1957. Adorno, who had been a “modern music” composer and critic back in Germany, moved to Los Angeles and hated everything about it, including the weather.

Worst of all was Marcuse—whose pomposity was gleefully skewered by Joel and Ethan Coen in their 2016 comedy, “Hail, Caesar!”—a social destabilizer who first penetrated the Office of Strategic Services (the OSS, forerunner of the CIA), then corrupted generations of American college students at Columbia University (where the expat Frankfurters first found refuge), Harvard, Brandeis, and finally the University of California at San Diego.

It was Marcuse who invented the theory of “repressive tolerance,” which might best be described as tolerance for me, but not for thee: “The realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed.”

What he didn’t mention was that tolerance toward such inimical aberrations as Marxism would only last until it triumphed, after which “tolerance” would be abolished.

(For more on Critical Theory, and the Frankfurt School and their wholly deleterious effects on American and Western civilization, please see my 2015 book, “The Devil’s Pleasure Palace,” and its 2018 sequel, “The Fiery Angel.”) And so we’re experiencing now the full fruition of the Frankfurt School’s cultural revolution and what the German communist Rudi Dutschke, referencing Mao, famously called “the long march through the institutions.”

What the Soviet Union failed to do economically and militarily during its losing 20th-century confrontation with the West, cultural Marxism has come close to realizing: the collapse of Western Civilization via the destruction of what the Russian communists used to refer to as the “principal enemy”—the United States.

Setting Kindling Ablaze

Having drilled several generations of students in Marxist cant—whenever you hear words like “systemic,” “struggle,” “structural,” “change,” “fundamental transformation,” et al., you know you’re dealing with Marxists—the tinder was laid, and all the new left needed was a match.

The election of Donald Trump four years ago at first shocked and then galvanized them, birthing the “resistance” and unleashing the “Russian collusion” hoax, the Ukrainian impeachment

charade (Lt. Col. Vindman, anybody?) and, with the death of an ex-con named George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody in late May, an unchained Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, along with its largely white auxiliaries (and Marcuse’s bastard children), Antifa.

Presto; the national media now marches in Stalinist lockstep with the shibboleths of BLM, beginning with the demonstrably false accusation that cops are targeting young black males for extinction.

In a trice, riots have broken out, monuments to American heroes, including some of the Founding Fathers, have been pulled down a la Saddam Hussein after the first Gulf War, and whole areas of American cities are suddenly occupied by violent anarchists. How quickly the illegal COVID-19 lockdowns were forgotten in the name of “social justice”—and yet how long their unconstitutional effects have lingered.

It is as if somebody had given the signal, and suddenly, in “blue” cities across the land, not only BLM and the Antifa punks have risen to show their true colors, but the politicians who run those cities as well.

The white mayor of Seattle, Jenny Durkan, has been content to watch her city burn, its downtown illegally designated as the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” or, latterly, the “Capitol Hill Organized Protest”—although she now says it will be taken back by the authorities.

Meanwhile, the black mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, seems indifferent to the weekly death toll of young black Americans, murdered by other young black Americans. On June 22 alone, 41 Chicagoans were shot, six of them fatally. Apparently their lives don’t matter, as they serve no political purpose.

‘White Supremacy’

Make no mistake: This assault has been planned and coordinated for years to strike America where she is weakest: in her innate sense of rightness and fair play. Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights movement was heavily penetrated by the Soviets, who cynically felt they could manipulate American emotions while appealing to the better angels of our nature. But how quickly we have moved from King’s plea that we judge a man by “the content of his character” and back to “the color of his skin.”

How quickly we have moved from

King’s plea that we judge a man by ‘the content of his character’ and back to ‘the color of his skin.’

Marxists see the world in categorical terms: You are not an individual ( individuals are too difficult to control), but a member of a group (mobs are easy), subgroup, or even many subgroups (hence the proliferation of sexual categories from the genuine 2 to 46, by one recent count). Meanwhile, the enemy remains the same: the white, probably Christian, male.

Accordingly—and with astonishing rapidity— Western civilization from Aquinas to Mozart to Ronald Reagan now effectively equals “white supremacy,” and therefore must be destroyed.

Monuments to Washington, Jefferson, Francis Scott Key, and even Teddy Roosevelt have fallen or been marked for removal. Never mind that Roosevelt was the first president to host a black man, the great Booker T. Washington, at a dinner party in the White House (an event memorialized in Scott Joplin’s now-lost ragtime opera, “A Guest of Honor.” Joplin, who was black, also saluted Roosevelt in his rag, “The Strenuous Life,” after Roosevelt’s 1899 speech of the same name). He must go.

Which is also why statues of both Robert E. Lee, who led the principal Confederate force, the army of Northern Virginia, and the man Abraham Lincoln selected to crush him, the Ohio-born heartlander Ulysses S. Grant, are both being pulled down. It doesn’t matter that they were antitheses in

life. What matters is that they are both significant figures from the past of a country that in the left’s eyes has no future, because it doesn’t deserve one.

‘Critical Theory’

Don’t look for logic in the Marxists’ selection of targets. “Critical Theory” seeks to undermine our self-knowledge and cultural self-confidence by insisting that everything is a “construct,” a plot by the “privileged” against the “oppressed.”

It holds that there is no received tenet of civilization that shouldn’t be questioned (the slogan “question authority” originated with the Frankfurt School), attacked, and destroyed. Our cultural totems, values, and taboos are declared either arbitrary, or the result of a longago “conspiracy,” steadfastly maintained down through the ages.

But where is the pushback? Republicans, the heirs to Lincoln and Grant, have fled the field. Led by the feckless

(Left) A 1970’s-era poster of activist Angela Davis hangs at a boarded up and closed Seattle police precinct in Seattle June 21, 2020, where streets are blocked off in what has been named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone.

former House speaker and failed vice presidential candidate, Paul Ryan, the Republicans ceded the lower chamber to the Democrats in 2018.

Partly as a result, President Donald Trump is in the fight of his life. Should he lose to the semi-animated hologram of a gibbering Joe Biden, and the Democrats recapture the Senate (very possible), who will be left to defend the nation?

Something to think about as we head into campaign season. Michael Walsh is the author of “The Devil’s Pleasure Palace” and “The Fiery Angel,” both published by Encounter Books. His latest book, “Last Stands,” a cultural study of military history, will be published in December by St. Martin’s Press.

"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."

CALVIN COOLIDGE

You think your money is devalued now. We'll make it worthless. So, don't you worry none on that count. It'll all be just a blip on a vid screen.

Will the Digital Yuan Challenge US Hegemony?

Imminent debut of world’s first national cryptocurrency has very serious implications for US, the world

JAMES GORRIE

China is now testing its digital version of the yuan after five years of development.

It will be the first nation in the world to begin a digital currency rollout, but certainly won’t be the last. According to the Federal Reserve, central bank digital currencies are already on their way, including the possibility of some form of a digital dollar.

Replacing Bitcoin?

Bitcoin, you may recall, was the original digital currency, leveraging the highly innovative distributed ledger technology known as blockchain. Not only has Bitcoin’s more than a decade of existence and growing use around the world demonstrated the power of digital currency, but Bitcoin has continued to enjoy dominant, first-mover advantage in the cryptocurrency space.

As of yet, however, no nation has issued a digital currency. But China will likely be the first to do so. If the test run is successful, China’s “digital yuan” may well replace the paper one sooner than later.

It may even challenge Bitcoin.

There may be, of course, some adjustment period in the transition to digital currency from paper, but for the Chinese, that actually may not be such a radical change. Large numbers of Chinese citizens already pay for many transactions with smartphones linked to their bank accounts. In 2018 alone, China had more than $37 trillion in mobile transactions, or about 16 percent of transactions.

For this reason, the transition to a digital yuan would probably be relatively smooth. The exception would be those who rely on cash transactions in order to avoid detection from China’s vast surveillance state. The digital transition likely will be a very unwelcome change.

China’s First-Mover Advantage

But more importantly, the digital yuan is likely to set the pace for other nations and organizations. In fact, China’s transition to digital currency could well give it some first-mover advantages, such as enabling it to challenge U.S. global leadership in a variety of critical areas.

Such a shift could even trigger a major shift in the global balance of power.

The most obvious area of leverage for China would be the global financial system. As the world’s second-largest economy, as Forbes noted recently, “If companies doing business in China are forced to adopt a digital yuan, it will certainly erode the dollar’s primacy in the global financial market.”

Such an occurrence would also threaten the dollar’s position as the world’s reserve currency.

China’s transition to digital currency could well give it some first mover advantages, such as enabling it to challenge U.S. global leadership in a variety of critical areas.

Over the past 70 years, the dollar-based system has given the U.S. dollar tremendous advantages and American foreign policy unrivaled power and influence over other nations. About 80 percent of all transactions on the global market use dollars in one way or another. That fact alone has made dollars a necessity for international commerce.

The oil–dollar nexus, is another example. For the past 45 years, oil has almost always been priced in dollars. This requirement has helped sustain global demand for the dollar over all other currencies and has enabled the U.S. government to run enormous deficits while selling its Treasury bonds to creditor nations around the world. The digital yuan would likely help end the petrodollar.

But the implications go much further than trade and finance.

Undercutting US Foreign Policy

The dollar-based financial system also gives the United States tremendous power to persuade, reward, and punish countries around the world. Russia, Iran, and North Korea, for example, are all currently under U.S. sanctions. Consequently, they have very limited access to the global financial system and is at least a partial reason they are all under economic duress.

A digital yuan would be able to bypass the dollar-based financial system alto- gether and perhaps greatly diminish the global demand for dollars. It could give China and its trading partners such as Russia, Iran, North Korea, and other anti-U.S. regimes a way to avoid U.S. economic sanctions and currency restrictions to a much greater extent.

A digital currency would enable China to sell more arms, more sophisticated technology, and other embargoed items on the world market and to nations adversarial to U.S. interests.

But it’s not just rogue states that could benefit from the emergence of the digital yuan. Shifting Financial Gravity to Beijing

Given China’s preeminent trading status with the European Union, its digital yuan backed by economic might—and, as some speculate, gold—may well help shift the global center of financial power to China from the United States. Whether intended or not, the digital yuan may quickly challenge the dollar as the world’s preferred currency.

The result of such a shift could be very destabilizing very quickly. If the dollar is suddenly out of favor with major trading nations of the world, the United States would no longer be able to afford to finance its hegemonic role in the world.

What’s more, if the United States is no longer able to minimize threats with financial levers, then it must do so by other means. Arise in the frequency and intensity of cyberattacks, for example, could be one outcome. That alone could lead to significant escalation and disruptions in cyber systems related to trade, defense, and other critical systems.

Targeting US Hegemony

As a result, naval embargoes

or perhaps other physical or military responses to threats against U.S. interests may be necessary. When the current order and all that supports is removed or greatly weakened, as is happening in the wake of the CCP virus pandemic and expansionist Chinese foreign policy, global instability and overt competition over resources, markets, and territory would seem to be a direct or indirect consequence.

China’s move to a digital currency is by no means the cause of the rising tensions between Beijing and Washington. The Chinese regime’s longstanding goal has been to dethrone the United States and replace it as the global leader.

The digital yuan is but one more weapon aimed directly at the dollar and American hegemony. James R. Gorrie is the author of “The China Crisis” (Wiley, 2013) and writes on his blog, TheBananaRepublican.com. He is based in Southern California.

You need to have the same core belief as your life partner/spouse/soulmate or which ever.

SparklingCrystal ,

That's nice. Or do you want me to go on? You know as well as I do I'll get kicked off this site or just have my posts removed for "Mansplaining".

The enchant Chinese refereed to this as "Walking the path of the Devin". In the west it's known as "Living according to Reality".

Contrariwise cat, you expect more from a man and yourself as well by this standard. After all, he'll be responsible for your life as will you be for his.

What's not to understand? Although, I didn't mention talking with younger women who have no clue what feminine is or how it works. Also younger guys who find those women repose and visa versa.

Just because you're born male doesn't make you masculine. It's the same for females that you aren't feminine. These are inherently natural potential biological traits that need to be developed. Over thousands of years people found living by this rule aloud for a person to have a more satisfying life.

Five feminine traits are:
Faithfulness
Reputation
Personality
Understanding
Nurture

Five masculine traits are:
Loyalty
Honor
Character
Compassion
Cherish

As you can see the traits are similar but not exactly the same. Masculine is Yang(action) and feminine is Yin(conclusion). Masculine builds a house and feminine takes that house making it a home. Instead of a father selling his daughter or buying a wife for his son, modern relationships are based on self worth.

The nihilism lots of people embrace these days has lead to the destruction of feminine. Or should I say, "Got women to reject their feminine". Some women have run themselves into the ground. Just like men becoming pansy-boys.

"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

CONFUCIUS

Some time back I heard on the radio that West Texas is the sexiest American accent. Jersey was number eight. Have no idea what one's they were talking about because there's a few. Like mine is a "Je'sey Ci'y" one that's been modified because I lived in North and South Jersey after leaving Jersey city when I was 10. Slowed down my speaking because everyone was constantly telling me, "You talk to fast". Jersey City has the fastest speak patron in America. Or at lest it was at 80 or so words a minute.