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Political Feminism: A Dead Lady Walking.

2010-05-23T20:34:00.004+09:00

Greetings comrades!

It's been a while since I've written anything, and I apologize for the delay.

However, I wanted to sit back and think about current events. I wanted to see if the flurry of daily happenings were just random in nature, or if they formed potential trends that could be used to construct a forecast that might be useful to MRAs around the globe.

After much contemplation, I believe that my long standing thesis still stands: Political Feminism as we know it today is on its last legs. The deathgrip they currently have on economics, politics, and the court of public opinion is weakening, in spite of desperate Leftist efforts to solidify their socialist policies at the highest levels of government.

Perhaps they didn't get the memo: the days of one ideological faction utilizing the mechanics of command and compulsion to push their social agenda forcibly upon the masses are rapidly coming to a close.

World events, and even the very heavens have decreed that the age of deception and ideologically sanctioned devastation will soon end. However, MRAs should be advised that the final outcome will most likely surprise all of us, and that the final product will be years in the making. My personal guess is that we will see a "new normal" with respect to social arrangements. I think that a return to 1950's style family values is unlikely, and that new arrangements will be made to conform to new realities.

Which is fine with me, because the age of men as beasts of burden and corporate wage slaves will be put firmly behind us, and this is a good thing. Victory for men, in my mind, includes freedom to pursue our personal goals and objectives, freedom from Misandry and prejudice, respect and honor for all things masculine, and a new public policy where rights and responsibilities are upheld for men and women alike.

As we go forward, let me say that this post is my opinion and speculation only, and that I do not claim my positions are 100% right on the money. These are my educated guesses about the future, which is unknown and uncertain. But I hope you enjoy them nonetheless!

The Big Picture.

Kirigakure has numerous forecasting tools at his disposal, one of which is traditional Western Astrology.

Please see the following videos hosted by Northwatuppa:

The Astrologer's bottom line: times are changing, and political ideologies which have driven policy (and ran roughshod over the rights of Men, children, and others), will soon be broken down.

My take: Men should continue to push for change, as conditions are ripe for us to right wrongs, and create something new that works a thousand times better than the corrupt system we live under today.

Current events seem to confirm that a massive restructuring is underway as we speak.

Barometer of change: Killer California.

California has a well deserved reputation of being a Leftist, Socialist paradise. For decades, the State has embarked on a number of Leftist social actions, including No Fault Divorce:

California No-Fault Divorce

California was first in nation to approve 'irreconcilable differences' as grounds for divorce

Historically, divorces in California could only be granted within specific parameters, such as adultery and mental cruelty. Those limitations were removed in 1970. Today, a divorce is granted on the grounds of "irreconcilable differences." Irreconcilable differences are any grounds the court determines to be substantial reasons for the marriage not to continue. (A marriage may also be dissolved on the grounds of incurable insanity -- but only if the husband or wife can prove by competent medical or psychiatric testimony that the insane spouse was incurably insane at the time of the marriage.)

California was the first state to implement the concept of a "no-fault divorce." In effect, this means a married person may terminate the marriage even if the other person disagrees. California no-fault divorce acknowledges that both husband and wife have contributed in some way to the marriage's breakdown, so one party is no longer "punished" -- financially and otherwise -- for being solely to blame for the marriage's failure.

California No-fault divorce acknowledges that both husband and wife have contributed in some way to the breakdown of the marriage, so one party is no longer "punished" -- financially and otherwise -- for being solely to blame for the marriage's failure...

Interestingly enough, we now have a petition sponsored by Mr. John Marcotte that would eliminate No Fault Marriage. Check out his website here.

Will it pass? Probably not, at least this time around. But the very idea of No Fault Divorce, the most sacred of Feminist public policies, coming under attack (perhaps even in jest in this case) in the most impregnable bastion of Political Feminism speaks volumes about the hate movement's future prospects.

The time will soon be ripe for Political Feminist gains to be repealed, and I expect the debate about Political Feminist public policy to intensify as economic conditions worsen and force individuals to consolidate in order to survive, similar to shrewd moves being made by Japanese women to ride out the economic storm that looms on the horizon.

Speaking of legal action, committed organizations such as Fathers and Families continue to slowly undermine Political Feminist public policy in California and other states.

The Fathers and Families website tells us that:

Fathers & Families Is 5 for 5 so far in Current California Legislative Session
May 11th, 2010 by Glenn Sacks, MA, Executive Director

Fathers & Families has co-sponsored and/or been instrumental in introducing and working for the passage of five family court reform bills in the current California legislative session. Our bills address child custody reform, child support reform, protection from family court financial abuses, and others. Below is our progress:

1) SB 1188–Passed Senate Judiciary Committee by unanimous consent

2) SB 1355–Passed Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously

3) AB 2416–Passed Assembly by unanimous consent, passed Assembly Judiciary Committee by unanimous consent

4) SB 578–Passed Senate Judiciary Committee

5) SB 580–Passed Senate Judiciary Committee

These victories did not happen by accident. They are the result of months and years of planning and lobbying by Fathers & Families’ legislative representative Michael Robinson and assistant legislative representative Nicole Silverman.

As we’ve repeatedly seen, California family law has an enormous impact on the laws of other states–California victories are national victories. F & F is creating real, tangible family court reform today, but our deep, professional involvement in Sacramento requires money–contribute to the organization which fights for you by clicking here.

Again, for feminists to suffer such political defeats on their home turf confirms their terminal illness. All that remains is for the Perfect Storm to erupt and crush the ship of Political Feminism; and sent it to the bottom of the sea forever and ever.

So what's driving all of these changes? There are many answers to that question, but the looming bankruptcy of the State of California definitely plays a part.

From Mish:

L.A. Controller Says City Could Run Out of Cash by May 5

Los Angeles is in deep trouble. The situation has gotten so grim that the city controller says L.A. to Run Out of Cash in a Month.

Los Angeles will run out of cash on May 5, city Controller Wendy Greuel said today in a release in which she requested a $90 million transfer of reserve funds to pay bills.

“The question I have been asked most often during the budget crisis is, ‘When will the city run out of money?” Greuel said in the e-mailed release. “Unfortunately, we finally have the answer.”

From the Independent Voters Network:

California budget crisis: it's worse than you think
by Bob Morris
Mon, May 17th 2010

Last Friday, Gov. Schwarzenegger detailed the brutal budget cuts coming, saying the state doesn’t have the money, and that the current system is broken and must be repaired. Further, he said he will not sign a budget that does not contain substantial pension, budget, and tax reform.

He singled out CalPERS, the public pension system, as needing reform. By law, CalPERS can force the state to make up any shortfall, and for the coming fiscal year, that will amount to almost $7 billion.

Among the cuts Schwarzenegger proposes is to completely eliminate (not just cut back) welfare, cutting pay for state workers even further (many already have furlough days, which essentially are pay cuts), eliminating subsidized child care for all children but pre-schoolers, cut in-home care for the elderly and disabled, and more...

The San Francisco Chronicle chimes in:

Open Forum: Budget cuts reduce opportunities for California's women and families

By Judy Patrick and Sande Smith

The governor's revision to the state budget is unconscionable. By completely eliminating CalWORKS, California's welfare-to-work program, along with all child-care assistance, it unfairly saddles working mothers and families with balancing the budget and thwarts opportunities for low-income women to move themselves and their families out of poverty.

CalWORKS has had a life-changing effect for people like Deborha Valarde. A single mother of two, she is a full-time student at Chabot College, where she is working on her degree in human services. CalWORKS assistance has helped her to get her education, provided critical supports so that she can hold down a job, and put her on the path to self-sufficiency. "CalWORKS has enabled me to start to get back on my feet again. If the CalWORKS program ends, a lot of single parents, including myself, will be left with nothing and nowhere to turn."

The California Budget Project's report, "How the Other Half Fared: The Impact of the Great Recession on Women," finds that from 2006-2009, the unemployment rate for Californiaâ€™s women doubled from 5 percent to 10 percent -- its highest level in a generation.

California's single mothers were hit particularly hard, with their unemployment rate rising to 15 percent. In addition, job losses among men meant that married women, whose incomes were often secondary and smaller than their partners, increasingly became the sole breadwinners for their families.

Yet where will these families turn? California's safety net is already shredded. While the recession has cast millions into prolonged unemployment, the social services and cash assistance that provided critical lifelines to those who have lost their salaries and health insurance have been steadily cut.

Then there's this from KPBS.Org:

California’s Domestic Violence Shelters Lose All State Funding

MAUREEN CAVANAUGH (Host): I'm Maureen Cavanaugh, and you're listening to These Days on KPBS. Former San Diego City Attorney Casey Gwinn had harsh words for Governor Schwarzenegger in a reaction to news that all funding had been cut for the state's domestic violence shelters. Gwinn, now CEO of the National Family Justice Center Alliance said, quote, this is life and death and the governor has chosen death in the name of fiscal responsibility. The cost of one domestic violence murder in San Diego County will far exceed the money he will save by cutting the budgets of all the shelters, unquote. In a line item veto last month, the governor eradicated all domestic violence shelter funding in an effort to balance California's troubled budget. The shelters were expecting a reduction from the state but the 100 percent cut was shocking. A few of the state's shelters will have to close. Most of the others will struggle to hang on but experts in the field of domestic violence are warning the impact of the cuts will be felt throughout our community. My guests to discuss the issue are KPBS health reporter Kenny Goldberg. And welcome, Kenny.

KENNY GOLDBERG (KPBS Health Reporter): Hi.

CAVANAUGH: Heather Finley is CEO of the YWCA of San Diego. Heather, welcome to These Days.

HEATHER FINLAY (CEO, YWCA of San Diego): Thank you very much.

CAVANAUGH: Heather has brought with her a former client from one of the shelters who we will call Sarah. And good morning, Sarah.

SARAH: Good morning.

CAVANAUGH: And later we'll speak with State Senator Leland Yee, a Democrat from San Francisco. But first, Kenny, let me start with you. Tell us what happened to the state funding for the domestic violence shelters. How much money has been eliminated from the budget?

GOLDBERG: Well, we're talking about more than $20 million, about $20.4 million, to be precise, and that was all the state funding for 94 domestic violence shelters statewide that the governor wiped out when he signed a line item veto.

CAVANAUGH: And what are the ramifications here? We're talking about 94 shelters but how many in San Diego?

GOLDBERG: Well, there's at least five that I'm aware of in San Diego and I'm told that most of them will probably survive although they're probably going to have to cut some of their services. I mean, these aren't just overnight homes for battered women and their children. They provide traditional housing, legal advice, counseling, a whole lot of other services. What I'm told is that some of the domestic violence shelters in more rural parts of California that are more dependent, more wholly dependent, on state funding probably will have to close.

CAVANAUGH: Now you recently did a feature on KPBS about the defunding of the shelters and for that feature you visited a shelter called Carol's House in North County. Tell us a little bit about that shelter and what it's like...

A quick Google search confirms that funding for domestic violence shelters in Killer Kali have yet to be restored.

It seems that Political Feminism is suffering on all fronts, and as California goes, so does the nation. Looking around the country, States such as Illinois are so broke that they can't even pay their bills!

As time goes on, the funding needs of the States will be so great that they will demand that the Federal government print up billions of new dollars to bail them out. And while Fedgov might indeed come to their aid, the time is coming soon when not even Uncle Sam will be able to continue throwing good money after bad.

There's nothing like a bond crisis to focus the mind, and once the Government is cut off from the debt markets, the entire nation will be forced to conserve any and all financial resources available. That means, on the Federal level, that multi billion dollar programs such as VAWA will be on the chopping block.

Governments will have to "outsource" the responsibilities of child rearing, child care, and child education back to the biological parents of each and every child that lives within its borders.

In order to insure that children have the best possible start in life (and to prevent the expenditure of scarce resources), governments and societies will relearn the simple truth that that marriage is the basis for a healthy, happy, prosperous and just society.

Uncle Sam and the Several States will soon find that they can no longer support a Harem of single mothers and children. Instead, they will soon realize that it is far less costly to encourage and support a marriage culture, instead of destroying and undermining it at every possible opportunity, as is the case today.

Make no mistake, the transition from feminism to a normal marriage culture will be painful for many single mothers with children, but such change is inevitable. Political Feminism is dying, so it would be best for everyone if these women flee the sinking ship starting today!

Indeed, many of these women would be wise to follow the example of their Japanese sisters referenced above, as well as to actively work to create a social and legal culture where Men feel secure in marrying single mothers and helping to raise their children.

If women foolishly continue to defend and uphold Political feminist law and custom, they will suffer mightily during these rapidly changing times.

Also in the near future, governments will need to reduce their law enforcement, incarceration, and judicial budgets [a][b][c]. Consequently, we will see certain laws either ignored or repealed outright, such as the failed "War on Drugs," legislation, or Political Feminist inspired domestic violence laws.

These governmental entities will be forced to make double damn sure that only real crimes and offenses enter the criminal justice system, which means that Political Feminist sacred cows, such as restraining orders and the like, will be either reformed or repealed entirely. In any event, the power and influence of Political Feminism will be brought to heel in a major way, and the humbling of the Political Feminist Hag might come sooner than we expect.

The Breakdown.

For a very long time, we as a people have consumed more than we have produced. We depended on governments, academia, religious organizations and corporations to mold our minds and shape our agendas, even as these agendas were harmful to our real health, wealth, spirituality and happiness. We allowed the values of discipline, entrepreneurship, self reliance, and other old school virtues to exit our minds, run down our spines and be flushed out through our behinds.

There are many causes to our current malaise, including our refusal to obey the Universal Laws that govern creation. As an example of our cultural ignorance, we as a society refuse to accept even the basic and simple truth that men and women are two parts of a opposite, yet complementary whole.

When the basis of a society (the family unit) is marked for termination, then all other institutions of that society will rot away and crumble. As the civilizational decline picks up speed, governments borrow, tax, and spend, corporations profit, religious leaders preach sermons about trivial things while ignoring the real issues, and academia educates the citizenry to believe that failed policies and theories are in fact the only true and correct ways to approach the many problems the civilization faces.

Markets and economies are composed of people that employ physical, educational, and financial capital. People acquire these forms of capital from various places, but the bedrock of all forms of capital is the family unit. It has been proven beyond doubt that family formation controls for educational achievement, financial and capital formation, health, and social skills.

So it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if the family units of a nation are producing inferior human, financial, and educational capital, then that nation will not have a vibrant economy, financial system, social system, religious system, or legal system. It becomes clear that as the family is attacked and destroyed systematically, the consequences of that action flow through the entire society like a cancer.

However, current events cannot continue as they are. We will reach the tipping point, and tough decisions will have to be made going forward.

As I see it, all the indicators point to the end of Political Feminism. The feminists, try as they might, cannot avoid their fate, and, as Men rebuild the a new social order from the ashes of the old, the feminists will find their power and influence greatly diminished.

We are seeing this process unfold before our very eyes.

Fear not gentlemen... the end of Political Feminism is at hand!

Kirigakure.

The Money Show.

2010-03-14T23:22:00.007+09:00

Greetings Friends!

Today's post is going to focus on money. What it is, what it does, who controls it, how it finances feminist public policy [a][b], and what can be done to fix our monetary system so it contributes to maximum wealth, health, freedom, and happiness.

What is Money?

This is probably one of the most hotly debated topics in Economics and Finance. The two main schools of thought can be more or less divided into two camps:

1) Supporters of Fiat currencies issued by governments

2) Supporters of commodity backed money chosen by either free markets or by a government to serve as money.

To further your understanding of these two types of systems, I would refer you to Ellen Brown's webpage with respect to Fiat money, and I would refer you this podcast from Mises.org in support of commodity money.

Just so everyone knows where I stand in this great debate, I side with the Austrian School and its theory of Commodity money. The biggest problem I have with fiat money is that there is no basis underlying the electronic and paper money that governments circulate in a purely fiat regime.

For example, while many Libertarians such as myself favor money backed by gold or silver, the writings of Murray Rothbard clearly state that the commodity used doesn't matter.

He wrote:

4. The Monetary Unit

We have seen that every good is "in supply" if it can be divided into units, each of which is homogeneous with every other. Goods can be bought and sold only in terms of such units, and those goods which are indivisible and unique may be described as being in a supply of one unit only. Tangible commodities are generally traded in terms of units of weight, such as tons, pounds, ounces, grains, grams, etc. The money commodity is no exception to this rule. The most universally traded commodity in the community, it is bought and sold always in terms of units of its weight. It is characteristic of units of weight, as of other metrical scales, that each unit is convertible into every other. Thus, one pound equals 16 ounces; and one ounce equals 437.5 grains, or 28.35 grams. Therefore, if Jones sells his tractor for 15 pounds of gold, he may also be described as having sold the tractor for 240 ounces of gold, or for 6,804 grams of gold, etc.

It is clear that the size of the unit of the money commodity chosen for any transaction is irrelevant for economic analysis and is purely a matter of convenience for the various parties. All the units will be units of weight, and they will be convertible into pounds, ounces, etc., by multiplying or dividing by some constant number, and therefore all will be convertible into one another in the same manner...

And, extrapolating from Mr. Rothbard's analysis, it doesn't matter what the commodity is, so long as it meets certain attributes that societies have traditionally looked for in a monetary unit.

What does matter, in my opinion, is that the monetary unit (i.e. gold and silver) is the basis for whatever transactions take place. It is the ultimate unit of account. If you asked an accountant what is the basis of any given transaction, he would immediately tell you that the source document is the bedrock of whatever financial event took place.

In other words, if a check was cashed for $100,000, the accountant who would audit that transaction would request to see the check that was cashed. He's looking for signatures. He wants to hold the tangible document in his hand. If there is no source document, then there is no basis for the transaction.

And this is the strength of commodity money, and the great weakness of fiat money. There is no tangible item of value that backs up millions, billions, or trillions of paper dollars if the system is a purely fiat one.

China, as an example, has over two trillion dollars worth of foreign currency reserves. All of these promises are in fiat tender. Almost all of these reserves are in debt based, not asset based money.

Since the reserves China has are nothing more than promises to pay from the Central Bank that issued the dollar, yen, Euro, or whatever in the first place, what happens if the countries involved simply defaulted on their obligations? What if the Central Banks simply press a few buttons and create (see Case Against the Fed, p. 139 onwards.) trillions of additional dollars, Euros, or Pounds Sterling?

What is the basis of the reserves China has? What guarantees its value? How can China guard against the dilution of their reserves' purchasing power?

Under our present system, there is nothing that individuals or states can do to preserve the value of their holdings over time. There is nothing behind each individual piece of paper to back them up. Nations can never keep score, as unlimited amounts money can be created. Money, in this event, becomes worthless.

So, in my opinion, Fiat money is not real money because it does not meet all three of my tests of what money is supposed to be:

1) A store of value over time

2) A medium of exchange

3) A stable unit of account and economic calculation.

Because Fiat money is only good as a medium of exchange, Fiat money, in my view, is an EPIC FAIL.

What Does Money Do?

As alluded to above, money has multiple functions. It is a yardstick for financial transactions, performance and value. It is a means to transport wealth over time and space. It is the oil of commerce, and makes indirect exchange possible. Without money, economic and financial activities would be extremely difficult, time consuming, and inefficient.

Money is also like voting. In a free market, consumers spend money on the goods and services of their choice. If consumers aren't willing to spend money on a good or service, it acts like a vote of no confidence and the good or service goes away. In a sense, consumers in a free market, by spending money, tell producers and entrepreneurs how they should be directing their time, energy and resources.

This is why it is important for any monetary unit to be able to perform all of the functions of money listed above without interference or distortion inherent in such movements such as Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Corporatism, Unionism, and yes, Political Feminism.

This is why Fiat Money and inflation are so disastrous, as they impede the free market (i.e you and me) from pulling the levers of economic activity. Inflationism leads to bad decision making on the part of producers. It also robs savings from everyday people, which isn't good because savings is the foundation of capital formation. It's my contention that billions of individual people, each acting in their own economic best interest, can determine and regulate the economy much better than any small group of people acting in collusion to advance their own limited agendas.

Who Controls Our Money?

In a perfect world, consumers and citizens would control their money through their personal saving and spending activities. They would also create governments that would protect the rights of consumers and citizens to maintain control over their personal financial and economic decisions. Laws would be passed outlawing fraud, force, theft, and most importantly, monetary debasement. These laws would be strictly enforced.

Unfortunately, we live in a world of Fiat money, Wall Street Shenanigans, and massive government bailouts. Capital is NOT finding its way to its most productive uses... it's finding its way into the pockets of the well connected global elite.

And so, we need to discuss who really controls our money supply.

There are two institutions that control the economic resources of American citizens:

The Federal Reserve and the Bank of International Settlements.

Please visit these links to learn more about the Fed:

Goldseek radio (skip to 1:00:16)

Mises.org's numerous criticisms of the Fed

Secrets of the Temple

Secrets of the Federal Reserve

Even more.

Links on the Bank of International Settlements:

Articles by Joan Veon

Bilderberg.org resource page

Interestingly, the Bank of International Settlements has a much lower profile than our local Federal Reserve. In any case, please take some time to visit these links. You'll quickly understand who really controls our money supply and why.

Fiat Financing and Feminist Public Policy

Among other economically draining activities, such as endless wars, fiat financing makes feminist public policy possible. The fact of the matter is that our Matriarchal Fempire requires a vast amount of time, energy and resources.

The Federal government alone will dole out $438 million (see here, page 16) if the Congress fully funds 2011 proposed spending levels.

Lets look at the big picture.

According to Transform Communities.org, 1.6 billion dollars was spent in VAWA related programs from 1994 to 1999.

So, assuming that we have an average spend of $320 million per year ($1.6 billion/5 years), over a fifteen year period (1994 to 2009), we can roughly guestimate that 4.8 billion ($320 million * 15 years) was spent, at the Federal Level, on VAWA initiatives. We should probably assume that massive quantities of money have been spent at the state and local levels, and we should add in the massive costs of divorce that legislation such as VAWA has generated directly and indirectly.

Let's make some assumptions.

If, over a fifteen year period, we have spent $4.8 billion on VAWA programs, and we have spent $1.7 trillion ($112 billion * 15 years) for divorce related expenditures, and we assume that state and local government spent 30% of whatever Fedgov directly contributes in grant dollars (not a hard number but a best guess based on this Congressional Budget Office report), then we can guess that state and local governments have spent ($4.8 billion *.30) $1.4 billion on feminist public policy projects.

Based on all of this rough back of the envelope analysis, I would guess that, over this fifteen year period, the total cost for all this would be a cool $1.731 Trillion dollars. Going forward, assuming no major changes to spending levels, I would say that an average $115 billion dollars a year will be spent to maintain feminist public policy. Note that I am not taking inflation into account, so the true cost is and will be much higher.

By the way, it should be noted that annual expenditures for the negative outcomes VAWA contributes to add up to a much larger number than the so called "savings" that some claim that VAWA legislation has brought about.

On an annual basis, alleged VAWA annual average savings come out to: ($14.8 billion/ 5 years) $2.9 billion per year.

$2.9 billion "saved" - $115 billion spent = -$112.1 billion dollars annually.

Soo... where are all these dollars coming from? 1) Borrowing money from abroad and 2) Printing money.

All things are possible through Fiat Financing. Under a free market system of sound money, such expenditures by governments would be heavily scrutinized and watched like a hawk. In an inflationary fiat money regime, such as ours... nobody cares.

Spend all you want... We'll borrow and print more!

What can we do to fix the problem??

Most everyone knows by now that we have serious monetary problems. So what to do about them?

There seem to be two schools of thought.

Ellen Brown and Steven Zarlenga seem to be heading the charge for a pure fiat currency that is issued and managed directly by the government instead of the private Federal Reserve.

Listen to their ideas on Gnostic Media.

Financial Commentator Richard C Cook also has some interesting ideas for Monetary Reform that lean towards the Brown and Zarlenga position.

On the other side, there are the followers of classical sound money economics, such as Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, and others who advocate private banking, asset backed money, and the abolishment of the Federal Reserve.

Click here, here, here, and here for more information.

I'll leave it to you, dear reader, to decide which path of reform you will champion.

As for me, I personally prefer the ideas proposed by Ron Paul and others, but I am open minded enough to propose that we take the best of both worlds, put them to the test in the real world, keep what works, and jettison what doesn't.

In later posts, I will explain in detail my own ideas for reform. But the important thing for now is to spend some time with the information provided, and think of your OWN ideals for a new way forward.

It is my opinion that the current system will collapse under its own unsustainable weight, and all people will need to be prepared to join the debate and make double damn sure that our new economic system provides the maximum amount of wealth, prosperity, happiness, and leisure for all people, instead of just serving the interests of a few well connected businessmen, academics, and politicians.

Thanks for reading,

Kirigakure.

Goldbug! and the Financial Report of the United States 2009.

2010-03-01T01:09:00.007+09:00

Comrades,

During my brief hiatus, I have been keeping my eye on events in Europe and its current financial crisis.

I believe that the problems Greece is currently experiencing is a dress rehearsal for the massive bond market collapse that America will experience in the near future.

To that end, I wanted to share these powerful and disturbing interviews of Mr. James Dines as he talks about his latest book, Goldbug [1][2][3].

It's my opinion that Mr. Dines gets to the heart of our looming financial disaster in a very compact and easy to understand manner. Must listen material!

Financial Report of the United States Government 2009.

Speaking of American indebtedness, I'm pleased to report that the 2009 Financial Report of the United States Government is out. Click here to read it for yourself.

Case in point: Page vii of the report states:

2 The Federal Reserve is an independent organization and not considered a part of the Federal reporting entity. As such, their financial results are not consolidated into the Government’s financial statements.

Nice to see that Fedgov is admitting what many have known for years: The Federal Reserve is a private, for profit enterprise.

Anywho, if you compare this year's report to the last few years (which I have linked on my sidebar under Finance and Economics), you will quickly realize that the Government is bankrupt, and we have incurred massive debts that we can never possibly repay without debt default or the massive printing of money.

Either way, it's good to be a Goldbug!!

Happy reading,

Kirigakure.

The Lost Art of Discipline VIII - End.

2010-02-07T23:39:00.018+09:00

(Image courtesy of Daikinbakuju.)

Greetings Ladies and Gents,

Sorry about the massive delay. In between working, studying, child rearing and investing, I completely upgraded all of my home office equipment, which involved a lot of set-up time.

Now that a former bedroom has been completely transformed into a fully functioning office, I'm ready to rock!

Since I've been known to prognosticate, let me just say that I believe that telecommuting from home, based on current internet and computer technologies, will be the new wave of the future.

Why commute, waste fuel, and blow money on office space when your workforce can submit industrial strength reports, spreadsheets, etc from anywhere in the world via email, skype, web-based ERP systems or Google Apps?

Not only can individuals and organizations save a ton of money, folks will quickly realize that one can do a tremendous amount of work in a very short period of time. Will the Four Hour Workweek become the norm rather than the exception? Indeed, is the end of work itself virtually upon us??

Only time will tell.

In any event, I'll stop digressing... 'cause Kirigakure is back at you with that real talk!! Today's post is the last in a series [1][2][3][4][5][6][7].

Previously, we've talked about discipline as a virtue, why it is a much needed ingredient in any successful relationship, how feminist public policy has outlawed discipline between man and woman, how the lack of discipline is destroying relationships across the Western world, and why good girls hook up with the bad boys who give them a twisted version of the discipline they crave.

All of this leads us to today's subjects: 1) Further exploration of why good girls like bad boys, 2) why women test men to see if the man is going to give them the discipline they need, want, and desire, 3) and what must be done to reintroduce discipline as a virtue into modern relationships.

Why Good Girls like Bad Boys, Continued.

Mr. F Roger Devlin, in his thought provoking paper, Rotating Polyandry and Its Enforcers, writes:

Women often speak of seeking "commitment” from men, but this would seem to imply a preference for marriage-minded men over others. (Michelle) Langley observed the very opposite tendency in her interviewees:

They often form relationships with men who are emotionally inaccessible. Instead of choosing men who are interested in developing a relationship, these women choose men who make them feel insecure. Insecurity can create motivation and excitement. Women who seek excitement in their marriages (and many do) will often forego the possibility of real relationships for the excitement of fantasy relationships…. It’s not uncommon for women to pine for men who shy away from commitment, while they shun the attention given to them by men who are willing and ready to make a commitment.

If we replace the word "excitement" with manliness or thumos, then we have another observation that supports my contention that women seek and desire a man who is stronger than they, and is able to express his manliness through thought, word, and deed. I would also add that a woman needs to feel respect for her man, and be secure in the knowledge that he is prepared to discipline her as circumstances warrant.

Mr. Devlin continues:

... Langley distinguishes, based upon her interviews, four typical stages in marital breakdown.

1) The wives begin to feel vaguely that “something is missing in their lives.” Then they experience a loss of interest in sexual relations with their husbands.

Part of that missing something, would be the manliness that initially attracted her to him in the first place. As discussed previously, a man, under pain of legal sanction, must keep his emotion and his thumos firmly under wraps. As his woman loses respect for him, the magic sex factory shuts down.

Getting back to the essay:

Like other observers of the contemporary scene, the author notes the pervasiveness of female anger. “It’s impossible…to understand anything about women in this country today, unless you understand that a) they’re angry, and b) their anger is directed at men. Women today aren’t seeking equality. They want retribution-revenge."

At this point, I would like to share a passage written by Dr. Robin Skinner:

Men must stand up for themselves instead of cowering in a corner, hoping the women's movement disappears like a bad dream, and international family therapy pioneer, Dr Robin Skynner, said yesterday.

Women around the world were waiting for men to engage in the debate and fight back like real men, Dr Skynner told the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists conference in Wellington.

"For the family to work well, men still need to retain some aspects of the traditional male role and fathering functions," he said. "Women seem to desire this too, and appear to feel sexually repelled, or certainly not attracted, if the man ceases to retain some element of his assertiveness"...

... In family therapy, women were encouraged to spell out their men's faults, and for a while the men would stonewall but eventually fight back.

"Women were always pleased when their men at least fought back and became men."

Letting the anger out also freed up the positive feelings they had for each other and often revived their sex life.

"Women don't want men to fizzle away," Dr Skynner said. "They want men to be men still. They want a man who's a man, and sticks up for himself in more ways than one. If he doesn't they despise him. That's what men have to do, they have to fight it out."

Unfortunately, men are prohibited by law and custom from taking the appropriate actions to confront and dissolve female anger, complacency, and boredom. Our entire culture, from television broadcasting to feminist public policy, literally brainwashes us to avoid taking the appropriate actions that would prevent much infidelity, discord, and strife. It seems that our society has mandated an all or nothing approach that helps to produce complete male passiveness and female resentment, or, in some cases, drives women and men alike to commit heinous acts of violence against one another as tempers flare and things get out of control.

Either way, political feminists win, and men and their families lose.

Mr. Devin informs us that:

Much of this [female anger] is due to feminist indoctrination. An ideological regime (and feminism may now, I think, legitimately be called a regime) paints the past in the darkest colors possible in order to camouflage its own failures...

No arguments there. The author continues:

It should also be pointed out that the very terms “retribution” and “revenge” imply that husbands have wronged their wives somehow. If this is not the case, and Langley admits that today it mostly is not, the proper terms for the women’s behavior would be “wanton cruelty” or “sadism.” This supposition is strengthened by some of the author’s own observations: “I’ve noticed that once a woman reaches a certain point, not only does her anger persist, she wants to continually punish and inflict pain on whomever has angered her…. The men that I talked to often used the word evil to describe the behavior of their wives...”

If someone is attacking you in a cruel and sadistic manner, the ordinary response would be to fight back, either in a physical or a literal sense. And, on a larger scale, liberal governments have traditionally defended its citizens against wanton acts of cruelty whether it be libel, slander, or assaults against property and person, and supported those who defended themselves by legal, intellectual, or physical means.

Unfortunately, in our time, men and men's natural rights are fair game. Men have no rights, property, reputation or honor that are worthy of defending in the face of female onslaught.

Consider rumors surrounding Tiger Woods' marital dispute at his home [1]. Contemplate the now proven FACT that Rhianna started her now infamous domestic battle royale with singer Chris Brown [2]. Note the fact that these two men have been widely mocked and dragged through the mud as enemies of women. Note that the women involved in these incidents (allegedly, in the case of Elin Woods), have been absolved of any potential blame, responsibility, or accountability for any actions that could be considered acts of domestic violence.

After all, there is NO EXCUSE for domestic violence... except when the perpetrator is a woman.

Indeed, as E Belfort Bax pointed out, back in 1913, Western law and culture has failed to uphold a man's honor in the face of female accusation.

It goes without saying that, when one class of humanity has the right and privilege to abuse and oppress another class with impunity, they will cheerfully do so. And naturally, the oppressor will despise the oppressed for their weakness, and for their acceptance of cruel and sadistic torment.

Men will receive no respect unless and until they stand up for themselves, as well as for one another, and impose much needed discipline upon their wayward female counterparts, as well as upon the politicians and institutions that are abusing their power and using their high offices to enslave the male masses. Unless and until we do so, women will become even more angry, and government, business, and academia will become more controlling, usurping, and totalitarian.

After all, what politician respects the rights of a class of people, if the downtrodden group accepts their second class status?

Getting back to our article, Rotating Polyandry and Its Enforcers, we read that:

... Women may want men to make them happy, but they do not say, and probably do not know themselves, how this might be accomplished. “Women want men to read their minds—or, more accurately, their emotions—because it’s what they do, easily…. Females want males to anticipate their needs and desires.” (Obeying their every command is not enough.)

And here is the crucial point. The Wise man must know and understand female behavior in order to survive in a long term relationship as defined at the beginning of this series. Dating is one thing... marriage with children is quite another.

However, feminist propaganda has taught men that they should obey their wives' every command, say "Yes Dear" as a response to everything, and avoid conflict at all costs. The fact of the matter is that men must know and understand HOW WOMEN REALLY ARE, WHAT THEY REALLY NEED, AND WHAT THEY REALLY WANT. And, the politically incorrect truth is that women need men that are unafraid to correct them and put them in their place when their hormone driven minds decide to embark on foolish, selfish, or self destructive behavior.

(More on the Female Brain.)

(Even more.)

This is the cold reality that political feminist society and political feminist public policy refuse to acknowledge. Indeed, as many Men's Rights commentators have pointed out, men themselves refuse to recognize the truth because it is much easier to "love 'em and leave 'em" than to put in the sometimes difficult and dangerous work of inter-relationship conflict management.

Whoever said that men seek "Patriarchal Domination" as a matter of course must not have lived with a woman for very long. Any man who has successfully dealt with the full fury of female insensibility will tell you that it is extremely stressful to deal with the difficult, moody, or demanding women in their lives. Be it tongue-lashings, the silent treatment, or small objects hurled through the air with the greatest of ease, women have a profound ability to drive a man absolutely crazy, even if he is the most knowledgeable and Zen like gentleman to ever walk God's green Earth.

The path that I and others like me have chosen, i.e. Male Headship of one's household, is NOT easy by any means.

Indeed, it is much, much easier to let sleeping women lie than to enter the Lion's Den!

But I digress.

Mr. Devin proceeds to detail for us what men SHOULD NOT be doing in the face of irrational female behavior:

... most men blamed themselves and “beat themselves up” for the things they thought they had done wrong in the marriage. Their initial response to their wives’ stated unhappiness was to try to make them happy. “In most cases, their husbands launched futile attempts to make their wives happy by being more attentive, spending more time at home and helping out around the house.

Regardless of these women’s past and present complaints, the last thing they wanted was to spend more time with their husbands.” (Langley notes that wives do often complain that “my spouse doesn’t pay attention to me,” but calls this code for “I want another man.”)

In fact, wives often became angry precisely over their husbands’ efforts to please them, because this increased their own feelings of guilt for infidelity. Some also perceived the similarity between this behavior and their own earlier efforts to get their husbands to “commit;” women know better than anyone that efforts to please can be a form of manipulation.

The women sometimes responded with a kind of countermanipulation: “they thought if they were cold and treated their husbands terribly, the men would leave, or ask them to leave.” Sometimes this happens—which, incidentally, explains why divorce initiation statistics can be misleading. A significant portion of the roughly thirty percent of divorces which are formally male-initiated result from the wife deliberately maneuvering her husband into taking the step...

But it is not always easy for women to obtain a divorce in this manner: “Some of the women couldn’t believe the things their husbands were willing to put up with.” (So much for men not being committed.) The author recounts cases where women deliberately tried to provoke their husbands into striking them because they calculated it would be to their advantage in the looming child-custody dispute.

One reason husbands may be so difficult to provoke today is that they realize the only result will be a jail term for “domestic abuse” or a restraining order preventing them from seeing their children.

Most of the men didn’t have anyone to talk to other than their wives, which is why I believe they tried so desperately to hold on to them…. Some of the men were so dependent on their wives, they didn’t think they could live without them, but one thing all the men shared was a fear of losing their children.

The men I interviewed feared losing their family, but the women didn’t seem to have that fear. The women thought of it as losing their husbands, not their family. More often than not, the men were forced to move out of their homes and away from their kids. They lost all of their attachment bonds and felt as though they were losing their whole identity.

Many of the men became suicidal when their wife left and remained so for a long time afterwards. A few of the men said that they felt homicidal.

On the other hand, “the word used by the majority of women I interviewed to describe their husbands [was] ‘pathetic.’” When the full extent of their husband’s emotional dependence upon them comes out, women are not moved or gratified; they feel contempt for what they see as weakness.

This is powerful stuff gentlemen... I would urge you to download and read Mr. Devin's writing in its entirety, as he has much more to say on this topic.

For our purposes however, let us understand that the typical woman, as defined at the beginning of this series, HATES A WEAK MAN, AND RESPECTS A MAN THAT IS STRONGER THAN SHE. This is the cold truth, and all the political feminist propaganda in the world will not change this important fact. Once respect has been lost, the relationship is, without a major miracle, doomed to Splitsville.

In our modern political feminist landscape, the vast majority of men who refuse to obey political feminist social graces are the "bad boys", the pimps, and the Playas. Their very unwillingness to bow down and conform to the rules of political feminist social intercourse is what makes them so appealing to so many women in our day and age. And, incidentally, I care not if a woman says she disagrees with this thesis... the actions of the 80% (i.e. the majority) of her sisters speaks much louder than mere words of protest.

It doesn't matter what women say. It does matter what women actually do.

Testing a Man's Resolve.

And now, we get to the heart of the matter. What's a man to do, once he comes into the understanding of what woman is, and how she really wants to be treated?

To start our discussion, let's begin with this tract from website Fondly and Firmly.com:

Without giving examples or going into detail, a recurring theme is women who nag or taunt their men. For those men who negotiate, plead or try to avoid this taunting, the process may seem to be interminable. In fact I believe it is not interminable at all: those men who respond decisively find that this stops the woman's troubling behaviour immediately. This deliberately annoying, frustrating, unpleasant and anti-social behaviour by women is what I now call the "test the man's resolve mode". It is an all-too-common feature of man-woman relationships - though I know of some relationships, including some of my own in the past, where the woman did not behave like this at all.

This "test the man's resolve mode" is not necessarily done deliberately or consciously. Unless the man does respond decisively, the taunting can lead - over time - to irrevocable breakdown and loss of love. It can also cause the man to loose control and hit the woman in a dangerous fashion - in a way which is entirely out of character. This is a decisive response - although not the cool, controlled, authoritative physical response which would best have satisfied the mental processes which were driving the woman's nagging, taunting or occasionally violent behaviour.

The "test the man's resolve mode" is usually emotional taunting, complaining about things not being right, complaining about his behaviour or attitudes, pestering him to do something impossible or pointless. Sometimes - according to some surveys, quite often - the woman initiates physical violence.

Whatever the barbs directed at the man, lets assume for the purposes of this discussion that the provocation is without any rational justification. It is however keenly pursued by the women, who feels that it is her right or that she has not alternative but to combat or pressure her man as best she can...

Many women cannot abide men who do not stand their ground. Many women fall out of love with a man who doesn't deal decisively with the shit a woman can dish out.

Men who may be emotionally ready to deal properly with this crap - thanks to their biological inheritance and perhaps what they have learnt from their father - may not in fact act demonstratively since they are trying to be nice sensitive guys. Things can then develop rapidly along tragic lines - with a spiral of more provocation and violent outbursts and quite likely destruction of trust and/or the relationship.

This in-built, instinctive "man testing" mechanism, (Lord forgive them for they know not what they do) is obviously an evolutionary advantage since women need a man who can defend her and her children against wild animals and the Hun. She does not want to find out that her man is weak when the Hun come over the horizon - the automatic test method has evolved to detect signs of weakness during ordinary life, when the Hun are likely to be far away and while she has time to seek out another man. (A successful quest leads to the most dangerous manoeuvre in a woman's life - buttering up the new man, without arousing aggression in the first and then leaving the first one for the second without getting killed in the process - but this is getting off topic.)

So she leaves the man who does not act decisively and falls in love with the biggest brute she can find, often dreaming that she can win his heart and make him tender and caring towards her, but remain a pushy bastard towards everyone else. Such a bloke, if he is truly the leading, action packed man she seeks, won't take any nonsense when she (instinctively and non-deliberately) taunts him...

So here we are. We know that the women in our lives are going to test us, whether we like it or not. The challenge is, how do we manage these inevitable conflicts in an appropriate and responsible way? How can men deal with these tests without resorting to wanton and unwelcome violence, or without indirectly contributing to total relationship breakdown?

These are thorny questions, but we need to start asking them and start coming up with solutions that will enable marriages and long term relationships to survive and thrive in the 21st Century.

As I will discuss in future posts, I believe that political feminism is on its way out, and that social, economic, and political upheaval will be the main drivers of evolutionary change.

As we speak, Bond market bubbles around the world appear to be ready to burst. I believe that when sovereign debt defaults begin in earnest, it will force widespread and massive social and political change.

Ultimately, I think that strong families are going to be the bedrock for peace and economic prosperity in a new age. And, in order for man and woman to live together in harmony, virtues such as discipline, long legislated out of the social compact, will need to be relearned and revitalized. As I have detailed over eight postings, discipline is a vital component that cannot be ignored any longer.

Someone is going to have to take the lead in the typical family, and in 80% of couples, that leader is going to be the man. Most women, consciously or unconsciously, aren't going to have it any other way, as we have plainly seen.

So then, what tools should the Average Joe keep in his toolbox?

At the present, there isn't much a man can do when faced with a woman that seeks to test his resolve. He is in an inferior social and legal position, and he should therefore avoid hazardous situations such as these as best he can. Until feminist public policy finally implodes upon itself, the safest and best thing a man can do is to avoid marriage and family AT ALL COSTS, or relocate to a jurisdiction and culture that respects marriage and manliness.

But, for the sake of argument, lets assume that feminist public policy is completely overhauled. When this actually happens, then the Wise Man should observe these guidelines:

1) Don't be afraid to express yourself, and don't hesitate to engage your woman in verbal debate when she is clearly in error.

As we have seen, there is no way to avoid conflict. Consequently, men should not hesitate to state their minds and show their emotions with the goal of bringing harmony and balance back to the relationship. And, when correction is needed, a man must bring the argument to his woman. Even if you lose the debate (which happens sometimes), your lady will still respect you for standing your ground.

If you observe women interacting with one another, you'll quickly notice that they don't hesitate to speak up when someone has done them wrong, or when someone violates the unspoken rules that the group has laid down. Women tend not to give other women a pass on rude or disrespectful behavior... and neither can you.

2) Be prepared to listen to her issues, and recognize that you don't have to take them seriously all the time.

Sometimes, women say things just to say it, or to express their emotional state. Just because a woman says something, doesn't mean that her man has to move Heaven and Earth to correct the situation. Sometimes, men have to tolerate their woman's insane babbling just like one would humor their 98 year old grandmother. Just nod your head, smile, say "un-huh," and resume your online Halo deathmatch. All is right in the world.

3) Lay down the law, and be prepared to enforce it.

This policy, Dear Reader, is why negotiation during the early stages of any relationship is absolutely critical. You MUST know what rules your potential mate is living by. You must know what programming drives her behavior. If your requirements are diametrically opposed to what your woman is looking for, then you are doomed to difficulty before your marriage even begins.

One must negotiate, in advance, what the rules are going to be, and, perhaps more importantly, what is going to happen if these rules are violated.

If you tell your future wife, in advance, that you are going to be the leader of the family, and if, after you get married, she attempts to usurp your headship position, what is the penalty? Are you going to move out for a while? Get a divorce? What are you going to do?

The enforcement side of things is the most individual and difficult aspect of any relationship, and is something that both sides need to discuss and agree to in advance. Unilateral creation and enforcement of "rules" almost always leads to epic relationship failure, and the failure to establish rules and penalties for their violation at the beginning of one's partnership leads to massive amounts of misunderstandings, frustration, and total breakdown in the long run.

Something else to remember... failure to uphold the rules previously agreed to by both parties is a glaring sign of weakness. And, as I said before... the typical woman hates a weak kneed man. Too many public displays of weakness, and your marriage or relationship will not be long for this world.

Conclusion... Sort Of.

Please understand, Dear Readers, that there are many more valid rules of the road than the three guidelines stated here. There are many diverse approaches to this sensitive subject. The good folks at Taken in Hand have examined this issue in depth, and I would urge you to check out what they have to say.

And, as I move towards getting out of the recommendation business, I would encourage you to do your own independent research, and formulate your own best practices that help you and others to create and maintain successful and satisfying relationships.

As an aside, I have been on a personal truthseeking quest for over three years now. Based on the massive quantities of information I have come across in my travels, I've come to the conclusion that the world is too big, and the truth is too varied for me to form a singular thesis that says, THIS ALONE IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH TO ALL THINGS.

There are, of course, such things as right actions, and wrong actions. Correct action bring success, while incorrect actions bring failure. However, in the scheme of things, there are many potential right answers, and these answers will vary based on the situation, people, and environment involved. The trick is to set one's course in the right direction, and be flexible enough to make adjustments along the way. The ideal is to focus on what works, and discard approaches and ideas that don't work and have been proven beyond doubt to be epic failures.

Actions taken must be appropriate for the given situation at hand.

This same principle is true regarding any of the issues that we discuss on this blog, and I believe this flexible approach is the one that will help us defeat Political Feminism, and restore the rights of Man.

My attitude towards blogging, and the Men's Rights Movement has shifted dramatically from when I first came into this truth. At first, I thought that I needed to beat it into people's heads what must be done, and that, based on my "superior" understanding, that all men and women needed to act in one certain way. Then and only then would Peace, Prosperity, and Enlightenment come to the land.

Nowadays... all I can do is laugh at myself.

Here's the thing. There are real issues that men have to face. And certain actions (such as getting married in the West) will lead to really negative outcomes (involuntary divorce, financial enslavement, loss of liberty, etc). Because of this, it is necessary for men to sidestep these potential issues. No marriage and children (and increasingly, no contact) with Western women, no problem.

But...

Not every man wishes to forsake marriage and family life. Not everyone is willing to marry a foreign woman, or relocate to a foreign land. What about these men, who, like me, are brave enough (or foolish enough) to take the risk of raising a family in the West?

Not only do I write for hardcore MRAs, or against Political Feminist wenches, but I also write for the man who simply wants to know what Political Feminism is, and what are the consequences of our feminist public policy.

Because I have these diverse readers, I will simply say that I am changing my role from wanna-be instructor, to intrepid investigative reporter. I am not going to tell you what you should ultimately do, or how you should do it.

My new role, as I see it, is to simply gather and report relevant information. I will make recommendations based on my knowledge and experience, but ultimately, the path you take is up to you. Just be sure to fully understand the legal and spiritual pros and cons that come with any decision you make.

Finally, getting back on topic...

When it comes to the Lost Art of Discipline, each individual man and woman must decide how they are going to arrange themselves to meet future challenges, and to seize future opportunities. How you enact and enforce said Discipline within your relationship is up to you. Just recognize, Dear Reader, that Discipline is a vital ingredient that must be present if a long term relationship is to survive... and to thrive.

Peace and Hair Grease,

Kirigakure.

My first Youtube video.

2010-01-25T06:31:00.001+09:00

Check it out gents:

Feedback is definitely encouraged... it will help me in my quality control efforts!

Kirigakure.

Happy New Year 2010! - あけましておめでとうございます！

2010-01-11T01:09:00.004+09:00

忍びキリガクレただいま参上！

みんあさん、

あけましておめでとうございます。去年ありがとうございまして今年にも、よろしくお願いいたします！

Everyone,

Your man Kirigakure is back in the house.

Happy New Year! Our family appreciates all of the valued readers who visited this blog last year, and we hope you continue to visit in 2010.

Today's post will be a short one.

First up, I want to share with you my vision for the blog in 2010.

As we speak, I have created a youtube account, and I have all of the equipment I need to start making podcasts and youtube videos. I plan to start posting videos within the next two weeks.

Please bear with me, however, as my knowledge of youtubing and podcasting is very limited. It will take a little time for me to work out some of the kinks and put out quality content, which is always my goal.

By expanding into multimedia, I want to add my voice to the chorus of Men's Rights, Libertarian, and Sound Money advocates who are spreading the message of freedom, wealth, and true prosperity to the people. I would be honored to participate in breaking down the walls that Globalists, Socialists, and Feminists have erected to keep the masses enslaved, destitute, and demoralized. Because of my unique background, training, and life experiences, I believe that I can add fresh insight to the challenges that the nation, and indeed the world faces.

Speaking of background and training, it's time for me to share more of what I know. Up until now, I've held back a little bit, for fear of offending some of my readers, or presenting information and analysis that might seem a bit odd to the average person.

But, I've come to the conclusion that my job is to provide the information, not to prejudge whether or not you, as the reader, will accept or reject it. Therefore, expect to see more references from a wide variety of perspectives and traditions.

From Astrology to Quantum Physics, your author receives and processes information that leads to greater wealth, health, happiness, protection from danger, and spiritual awareness from a wide variety of sources.

Going forward, I will do my best to gather and report this data. What you do with it, Dear Reader, is up to you. Feel free to accept or reject my findings at your discretion. Please do not take anything I write as Gospel... at all times, research any and all themes, trends, and contentions for yourself. Remember, we want to become enlightened human beings. Once of the first steps towards that end is being mindful of what we see, hear, and accept as reality.

It is our hope, Valued Reader, that you will find what we write to be thought provoking, relevant, and insightful, even if you may not agree with all aspects of what we bring to the table.

(The Kirigakure Household)

In this, the Year of the Tiger, our family hopes to provide a level of analysis and synthesis that is unmatched. It is our goal to apply our ancient wisdom and esoteric knowledge to break down issues of importance, and bring little known facts to light.

Only in this way can the remnants of outdated and obsolete ideologies such as political feminism, globalism, and banksterism be swept aside.

Once these limiting factors are permanently out of the way, humanity can be free to build societies that are unimaginably happy, healthy, productive and wealthy, with, ironically, much less expenditure of time, energy, and resources.

It takes a lot of work, after all, to sustain a system that is illogical, inefficient, and unnatural.

Links to get you started.

At this juncture, I would like to share a few links that are, in my opinion, the most important trends to watch in 2010 and beyond:

I) Financial Sense Newshour forecasts [1][2][3]

II) King World News Forecast [4]

III) Jim Willie CB: Gathering Storm Clouds.

IV) Dollarcollapse: On Healthcare.

V) The Bond Market Bubble, courtesy of Seeking Alpha and Zero Hedge.

VI) Politics: See Market Oracle.UK. They have political commentary that is very hard to find anywhere else.

VII) Libertarians strike back: Peter Schiff and Rand Paul. I'm betting that they will both win their respective elections. If they do, this will open the floodgates for Ron Paul like candidates to run and win elections nationwide.

VIII) Speaking of Ron Paul...

IX) 2010 Congressional Midterm Elections [a][b]

X) Men's Rights [a][b][c][d]

Other items of interest:

And there you have it... things to watch for in 2010 and beyond.

Conclusion.

New year, new possibilities.

From all accounts, 2010 is going to be a year of change and upheaval, economically, politically, socially and spiritually.

I believe that the next few years will be ones of transition, and that many aspects of our current way of life are going to morph dramatically.

Take political feminism, for example. It is my opinion that this reactionary movement, conceived in deceit and born in error, is crumbling, ever so slowly. And this year will be like other years for MRAs; a year to marshal evidence and attack the very foundations of political feminist thought. It may seem that our efforts are for naught, and that conditions are only getting worse for men.

This is the common perception, and indeed massive abuses are happening to men on a daily basis. However, I see glimmers of hope. The Berlin Wall of political feminism is starting to come down. Across the country, men are beginning to see more justice. Favorable outcomes for men do happen... but most victories for men are simply off the radar screen and don't receive a lot of airplay in our sensationalist-blood'n guts-lamestream media.

Organizations such as Media Radar, Fathers for Justice, ACFC, and Fathers and Families are making headway. And then there is the invisible legion of men who congregate at the office water cooler, the online message forum, or the halls of government. They are talking to one another, and the word is getting out... trust me on this.

Someday I will be able to tell you all about what those in political office really think about political feminism... but that's another story for another time.

All in all, the future is bright for Men and Men's rights. The trick is to avoid getting ensnared in the present system until the corpse of political feminism is heaved off the side of the cliff for good. Marriage or Cohabitation in feminist friendly countries is definitely not encouraged right now.

Is 2010 going to be the magical year when all wrongs are put to right? Probably not.

I do believe, however, that 2010 is going to be a year when good work is done, when the rock solid foundation will continue to be laid for the liberation of not just men, but of all people.

For you see, the powers that hold us down aren't just fixated on men alone. When we see the fulfillment of true and correct political, social, economic, and spiritual reform, reform that respects the rights of all, promotes special rights for none, and compels all to live up to their freely entered into obligations, then the race of Men will be free to achieve goals that are currently at the fringe of our imagination.

2010, the Year of the Tiger, is the year to discover where true power really lies, and to depend upon that power for one's daily bread. Those who follow the old paradigm and continue to depend exclusively upon outside institutions, governments, politicians, or gurus will not survive and thrive in the years ahead.

For where is the Kingdom?

If you know the answer to this question... you are almost there.

Sincerely yours,

Kirigakure.

Grass Eating Men, Eye of the Tiger, and the Return of the Patriarchy.

2009-12-13T23:59:00.011+09:00

Greetings friends and colleagues,

Hopefully you are in fine spirits this day.

We have a lot of ground to cover in this post. Before I do so, however, I need to let sensitive folks know that I am going to most likely offend or upset with this missive. I am going to take it upon myself to say what quite a few peoples are thinking but would never admit in polite society.

And so, without further ado, lets get to work.

Rise of the Grass Eaters.

The nation of Nippon (日本）, otherwise known as the J-Land, is my second home. My name appears in the Kyoto registry, and can be found if one should visit the Kyoto local government office.

I spend a lot of time in Tokyo and the Kansai region, and I have many valuable and beloved friends and family living on the Island nation.

So it would make sense that I keep a close eye on the latest developments that transpire in the Land of the Rising Sun. And it seems that Soushoku Danshi （草食男子）, or Grass Eating Men, is the talk of the town. In addition to a slew of English and Japanese language articles covering the phenomena, my buddies and I have had many manly discussions about who is or isn't a Grass Eater over bottles of beer and sake.'

According to Slate.com:

The Herbivore's Dilemma

Japan panics about the rise of "grass-eating men," who shun sex, don't spend money, and like taking walks.
By Alexandra Harney

Ryoma Igarashi likes going for long drives through the mountains, taking photographs of Buddhist temples and exploring old neighborhoods. He's just taken up gardening, growing radishes in a planter in his apartment. Until recently, Igarashi, a 27-year-old Japanese television presenter, would have been considered effeminate, even gay. Japanese men have long been expected to live like characters on Mad Men, chasing secretaries, drinking with the boys, and splurging on watches, golf, and new cars.

Today, Igarashi has a new identity (and plenty of company among young Japanese men) as one of the soushoku danshi—literally translated, "grass-eating boys." Named for their lack of interest in sex and their preference for quieter, less competitive lives, Japan's "herbivores" are provoking a national debate about how the country's economic stagnation since the early 1990s has altered men's behavior.

Newspapers, magazines, and television shows are newly fixated on the herbivores. "Have men gotten weaker?" was one theme of a recent TV talk show...

... In this age of bromance and metrosexuals, why all the fuss? The short answer is that grass-eating men are alarming because they are the nexus between two of the biggest challenges facing Japanese society: the declining birth rate and anemic consumption. Herbivores represent an unspoken rebellion against many of the masculine, materialist values associated with Japan's 1980s bubble economy. Media Shakers, a consulting company that is a subsidiary of Dentsu, the country's largest advertising agency, estimates that 60 percent of men in their early 20s and at least 42 percent of men aged 23 to 34 consider themselves grass-eating men. Partner Agent, a Japanese dating agency, found in a survey that 61 percent of unmarried men in their 30s identified themselves as herbivores. Of the 1,000 single men in their 20s and 30s polled by Lifenet, a Japanese life-insurance company, 75 percent described themselves as grass-eating men.

Japanese companies are worried that herbivorous boys aren't the status-conscious consumers their parents once were. They love to putter around the house. According to Media Shakers' research, they are more likely to want to spend time by themselves or with close friends, more likely to shop for things to decorate their homes, and more likely to buy little luxuries than big-ticket items. They prefer vacationing in Japan to venturing abroad. They're often close to their mothers and have female friends, but they're in no rush to get married themselves, according to Maki Fukasawa, the Japanese editor and columnist who coined the term in NB Online in 2006.

Grass-eating boys' commitment phobia is not the only thing that's worrying Japanese women. Unlike earlier generations of Japanese men, they prefer not to make the first move, they like to split the bill, and they're not particularly motivated by sex. "I spent the night at one guy's house, and nothing happened—we just went to sleep!" moaned one incredulous woman on a TV program devoted to herbivores. "It's like something's missing with them," said Yoko Yatsu, a 34-year-old housewife, in an interview. "If they were more normal, they'd be more interested in women. They'd at least want to talk to women."

Shigeru Sakai of Media Shakers suggests that grass-eating men don't pursue women because they are bad at expressing themselves. He attributes their poor communication skills to the fact that many grew up without siblings in households where both parents worked. "Because they had TVs, stereos and game consoles in their bedrooms, it became more common for them to shut themselves in their rooms when they got home and communicate less with their families, which left them with poor communication skills," he wrote in an e-mail. (Japan has rarely needed its men to have sex as much as it does now. Low birth rates, combined with a lack of immigration, have caused the country's population to shrink every year since 2005...)

Hmm... where to begin?

The article mentions a few of the key drivers that have influenced the Soushoku Danshi movement. Another reason might be that Japan is a brutally competitive and perfectionist society. Most children go to school six days a week. High school kids have to pass courses in advanced calculus and trigonometry, subjects that I didn't tackle until college.

My clique of friends from university (who are American, Japanese, and South Korean) and I have come to the consensus that American students can bullshit their way through high school, but really have to buckle down in college.

But in Asia, it's the exact opposite. Students in Asia have to study like crazy from elementary to high school and can only relax once they pass extremely difficult college entrance exams.

Even if one does manage to enter an elite university, he only has a short time period to relax. Because after he graduates, the pressure to enter the Salaryman lifestyle, which, as the article alludes to, could and often does lead to incredibly long workdays (my old roommate told me stories of working 14 hours in one day!), six days a week, forced participation in neverending after hours karaoke parties and socalizing, and so much alcohol consumption... it should be against the law!

Oh, and before I forget... there's also the occasional group trip to the neighborhood Soapland...

Just remember that DECADES of long, tedious, and back breaking work lie ahead for our young Grass Eating Man. That's a lot of pressure for a young buck to live with... and, while some people thrive in such settings, not every Japanese guy wants to lead such a life. If they have anything to say about it, they would naturally look to get off the treadmill at the earliest possible opportunity.

Like most men worldwide, Japanese men want the freedom and the flexibility to pursue their own happiness instead of working to make some else rich, or putting up with a ball-busting Oniyome　(鬼嫁）demon wife when he gets home.

Nope... better for men in every country to Go Their Own Way.

Back to the Slate article:

... Japanese women are not taking the herbivores' indifference lightly. In response to the herbivorous boys' tepidity, "carnivorous girls" are taking matters into their own hands, pursuing men more aggressively. Also known as "hunters," these women could be seen as Japan's version of America's cougars.

While many Japanese women might disagree, Fukasawa sees grass-eating boys as a positive development for Japanese society. She notes that before World War II, herbivores were more common: Novelists such as Osamu Dazai and Soseki Natsume would have been considered grass-eating boys. But in the postwar economic boom, men became increasingly macho, increasingly hungry for products to mark their personal economic progress. Young Japanese men today are choosing to have less to prove.

I couldn't agree more. The way things are done in the J-Land serves only to rob many men of their time, their creativity, and their freedom. And, as more Japanese women (still a million times more feminine than 80% of their Western sisters) become more "manly", selfish, and demanding, many of our Grass Eaters are making a conscious decision to pursue their own goals and chase their own dreams. Marriage, on the other hand, comes dead last in their list of priorities.

And if left wing Minshunto makes good and encodes more Political Feminist public policy into Japanese law, then the MGTOW philosophy will only become more popular in the years to come.

If Japan (and other low birthrate nations, such as South Korea) decide to aggressively pursue feminist policies (which is doubtful, but anything can happen), then it will only insure its eventual depopulation because traditional patriarchal civilization is the only way a nation in such dire demographic straits can make a successful comeback.

Fatherhood and the Future of Civilization

From the Christian Post:

Will the world soon experience a return of patriarchy? That is the question raised by Phillip Longman in the March/April 2006 issue of Foreign Policy.
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The magazine's cover features a rather stunning headline: "Why Men Rule – and Conservatives Will Inherit the Earth." That headline would be surprising in almost any contemporary periodical, but it is especially significant that this article should appear in the pages of Foreign Policy, published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The publication of this article set a good many heads to spinning.

Phillip Longman is Bernard L Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is a well-respected author and researcher, whose books have included The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What to Do about It (2004). In his previous works, Longman has projected how falling birthrates throughout advanced societies will lead to financial, political, social, and demographic decline.

In this article, he pressed his argument to the next stage – announcing the return of patriarchy – the concept of male leadership – as essential to a recovery of higher birthrates and reproduction.

"With the number of human beings having increased more than sixfold in the past 200 years, the modern mind simply assumes that men and women, no matter how estranged, will always breed enough children to grow the population – at least until plague or starvation sets in," Longman explains.

"Yet, for more than a generation now, well-fed, healthy, peaceful populations around the world have been producing too few children to avoid population decline. That is true even though dramatic improvements in infant and child mortality mean that far fewer children are needed today (only about 2.1 per woman in modern societies) to avoid population loss. Birthrates are falling far below replacement levels in one country after the next – from China, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea, to Canada, the Caribbean, all of Europe, Russia, and even parts of the Middle East."

Throughout human history, a persistent fall in birthrates has served as a harbinger of cultural decline and a warning of cultural collapse. The reasons for this are many, but center in the fact that the cause of falling birthrates is often a loss of social cohesion and confidence and the effect of falling reproduction rates is a decline in economic prosperity and erosion of the social structure.

Put simply, a significant fall in birthrates means that, in the next generation, there will be fewer workers, parents, consumers, and contributors to the common welfare. As societies age, a greater percentage of the population tends toward the older end of the age spectrum – representing greater dependency and less economic contribution...

... Longman argues that the return of patriarchy is almost assured, given the social crisis that will be produced by a catastrophic fall in birthrates.

"Patriarchy does not simply mean that men rule," Longman explains. "Indeed, it is a particular value system that not only requires men to marry but to marry a woman of proper station. It competes with many other male visions of the good life, and for that reason alone is prone to come in cycles."

Longman understands the simple fact that a great deal of cultural capital is required in order to encourage young men to marry and men of all ages to fulfill responsibilities as husbands and fathers. The normative picture of the "good life" for men, at least as presented in the dominant media culture, does not include the comprehensive responsibilities of fatherhood. When men are not stigmatized for failure to be faithful as husbands and fathers, young men will take marriage and parenthood with little significance, as many will avoid marriage and fatherhood altogether...

Now at this stage, Dear Reader, I will have to disagree with Mr. Longman on a very important point.

The biggest fallacy that I see when I read about marriage and family issues is that men are behaving "irresponsibly", or that men are being allowed to "abandon" their marital and familial responsibilities.

NOTHING COULD BE FARTHER FROM THE TRUTH.

Churches don't get it... this is why more men are leaving churches.

Institutions don't get it... this is why more men are turning their backs on institutions.

Governments don't get it... this is why more men are losing confidence in government.

MEN HAVE NOT ABANDONED ANYTHING. SOCIETY AT LARGE HAS ABANDONED MEN!

In the American case... Congress, the Supreme Court [a][b], and the Executive Branch have set up laws, regulations, and legal precedents that create a complex web of feminist public policy that has neutered marriage, family, and male headship into oblivion.

Men in this country do not have any legal rights when it comes to their marriages and their families. They only have obligations and liabilities.

Once again, it doesn't take rocket science to understand that when one faces physical imprisonment or financial slavery if one marries or has a family, then the logical choice for men is to minimize their exposure by any means necessary. And at any time, a "Patriarchal" man who attempts to live the life that many Conservative types expect him to live can be PUT OUT OF HIS HOME AND REMOVED FROM HIS FAMILY ANY TIME HIS WIFE DESIRES, FOR ANY REASON AT ALL. AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS, THE SAME PEOPLE THAT ENCOURAGED HIM TO "DO THE RIGHT THING" WILL BLAME HIM FOR "ABANDONING HIS FAMILY".

Individuals are compelled, on pain of financial and physical ruination, to guide their conduct according to the letter of the law. And Law, in partnership with Custom, has combined to eliminate Patriarchy in the good ol' USA. And the total lack of understanding of this crucial point on the part of churches, institutions, and academia is profoundly disturbing. It's no wonder than men are leaving these institutions, and going their own way in ever increasing numbers!

When the laws and the customs change to protect, honor, and respect men and male headship, then you will have it in abundance. Keep our current Matriarchal system in place, and male headship will flee for greener pastures.

Back to the Christian Post:

To some extent, the statistics tell the story. Almost twenty percent of women born in the late 1950s are nearing the end of their reproductive lives without ever having had children. Longman's assessment is blunt: "The greatly expanded childless segment of contemporary society, whose members are drawn disproportionately from the feminist and countercultural movements of the 1960s and 70s, will have no genetic legacy."

Beyond this, the falling birthrate contributes to many other social ills. "Falling fertility is also responsible for many financial and economic problems that dominate today's headlines," Longman asserts. "The long-term financing of social security schemes, private pension plans, and health-care systems has little to do with people living longer. . . . Instead, the falling ratio of workers to retirees is overwhelmingly caused by workers who were never born."

The effects within the society are psychological as well as demographic, political, and financial. As Longman understands, declining birthrates can also affect what he calls "national temperament." He attributes the fact that the American voting population has become more conservative in recent years to anxiety over falling birthrates. Beyond this, we must now add the fact that millions of voters, who would have been raised by more liberal parents, were simply never born...

... A truly Christian response to this argument must go further than cultural concerns alone can sustain. In the biblical vision, patriarchs establish a trans-generational vision for their families, looking to generations beyond with the promise that the father will give himself to the task of fatherhood and leadership in order to perpetuate the promise and establish the line.

Beyond this, Christians should understand that the Bible reveals a form of patriarchy as the norm – with men called to lead within the marital union and the family, as well as the church.

... His verdict is clear – societies that follow a patriarchal pattern tend to reproduce at a higher rate and advance, while those who devalue the role and responsibilities of men as fathers find themselves in decline.

Most of us know by now that the way of political feminism is the way of death, and that more feminism leads to lower birthrates, and more men breaking away to seek their own rewards as their traditional rights are stripped away in order to meet political feminist objectives.

However, I would also like to point out that, in America at least, the Christian Church, as a whole, has done a miserable job in protecting the rights of men that were entrusted to it long ages ago.

I don't see correct and hard hitting sermons, publications, and speeches against the totality of feminism and feminist public policy being produced by the Churches, except to oppose limited issues such as abortion. I don't see religious organizations suing to have political feminist public policy overturned. I don't see the Religious Right, or any other spiritual organization, lobbying members of Congress to have Patriarchy and Male Headship restored to this country.

As a matter of fact, I hardly hear any religious group, with the exception of Islamic organizations and underground Christian groups, challenging the full breadth of political feminist ideology.

The sad truth is that most mainstream religious groups sold out to political feminism a long time ago, and are afraid to examine the totality of this hate movement in a bold, public, and political fashion. Worst of all, they fail to uphold their own body of sacred scripture and knowledge as they bow down to feminist soul-controllers when it comes to the rights of men, marriage, and family life.

One of my biggest beefs with most religious groups today (and one of the main reasons why I became a Truthseeker some three odd years ago) is that they don't practice or support the ideals that they preach.

With that said, let's transition to our last topic of the day...

The defense of Tiger Woods from a Men's Rights Perspective.

Tiger Woods, one of the most exceptional golfers to ever live, posted the following on his website:

Tiger Woods taking hiatus from golf
By Tiger Woods

I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children. I want to say again to everyone that I am profoundly sorry and that I ask forgiveness. It may not be possible to repair the damage I've done, but I want to do my best to try.

I would like to ask everyone, including my fans, the good people at my foundation, business partners, the PGA Tour, and my fellow competitors, for their understanding. What's most important now is that my family has the time, privacy, and safe haven we will need for personal healing.

After much soul searching, I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf. I need to focus my attention on being a better husband, father, and person.

Again, I ask for privacy for my family and I am especially grateful for all those who have offered compassion and concern during this difficult period.

At this juncture, I am going to do something that many on the internet and blogosphere have not done, and that is to defend the Tiger.

In many ways, I can relate to Mr. Woods. He and I are of the same generation, we are both multi-racial individuals trying to excel in our chosen paths, and we are both married guys trying to make it in a society that discourages marriage on a multitude of levels.

Unlike me, the Tiger has a few billion more dollars in the bank than I do, and that can certainly lead to temptation...

But let me flesh out my argument.

Marriage in America is really hard to do. The culture is against you. The laws are stacked against you. There is no real understanding, or acknowledgment, about what makes men tick. Marriage in this country, in other words, is a hazardous proposition that is best avoided at the present time, except by the ignorant or the insane (like me).

Now did Tiger mess up? Sure he did.

I don't think he handled his business in a skillful way, nor do I think he planned on being exposed like he has. He probably thought shit was all good until that fateful day when he wrecked his SUV into a tree.

One would think that he would have played it smarter... confined his peccadilloes to a very small number of highly trusted confidants, and would have known better than to have someone potentially take naked pictures of him!

Also, it seems that he failed to consider the impact of his actions upon his wife, children, and fanbase. As the head of his household, this is a weighty obligation indeed, and I have to call him out for that.

But in any event, it is what it is. He was doing too much, and it finally caught up with him.

But there is much more to this story than meets the eye. My argument is that there are structural inconsistencies in our society that lead people to do crazy things like the Tiger.

I have to agree somewhat with Hugh Heffner's take on Tigergate:

Hugh Hefner wasn't surprised one bit when he heard about allegations of Tiger Woods cheating on his wife.

"I think the only surprise in it, quite frankly, is that anybody would be surprised," the Playboy mogul tells me exclusively. "If you're a good-looking guy and young and healthy, the notion that there would be something else going on, well, marriage is just a convenience.

"It's very nice for raising kids," he adds, "but the notion that monogamy lasts forever is a wish!..."

I'll have to take some issue with Heff's comments by saying that for some people, monogamous marriage is right and proper. And I would much prefer a monogamous marriage culture to no marriage culture at all.

After all, our current Matriarchal utopia, and the damage it is doing to our babies is enough evidence that marriage is an honorable institution in and of itself that is worth preserving.

However, in my opinion, it is our modern lack of flexibility, as well as a profound ignorance of what makes men tick, that is the real problem.

For example, check out the following article from the Huffington Post:

Jay Michaelson

It's Not Just Tiger: Monogamous Marriage Is An Anomaly

Let the clucking begin. As the tabloids pile on the revelations about our falling star, Tiger Woods, pundits have begun the predictable and proverbial shaking of heads, clucking of tongues, and various forms of bemoaning. Are none of our heroes pure anymore? Or, conversely, is our celebrity culture so ravenous for scandal that there is no privacy left?

Et cetera, et cetera.

But what's the takeaway from all this? We've been through so many celebrity-affair scandals (does anyone remember Eliot Spitzer?) -- haven't we learned anything?

(And, Dear Readers, don't forget David Letterman's indecent confessions)

... How about this one: that the modern institution of marriage, so ardently fought-over by activists across the country, is a historical anomaly that has never been taken seriously in the past, and is unlikely to work in the future. It's a flawed model, and it's not worth defending - because it never really existed, apart from an ideal.

Truly traditional marriage, after all, is polygamy. This is what the Bible instructs, and it's been the dominant familial arrangement in the Western world for longer than any other form, including nuclear-family monogamy. Kings had their concubines, noblemen had their mistresses and kept women, and the rest of us - well, we had the world's oldest profession. None of these were exactly God's word, but they were understood to be part of life.

Indeed, maybe we forget how widespread prostitution really was for most of our history, and how even today, sex is Internet's #1 business and how an estimated 700,000 American men pay women for sex every year. This is not an innovation of our degraded age. It was understood - in the Bible, in the Talmud, in Protestant Europe, in colonial America - that married men would visit prostitutes. And while this may have been a sin, it was everyone's sin - and not a particularly serious one.

What changed all this was, ironically, feminism. The first feminists weren't bra-burning radicals: they were pious scolds, who in late 19th century America mobilized for purifying American manhood. They cleaned out the brothels and closed the pubs - feminists were the first prohibitionists. What had for hundreds of years been the common practice of men of all social classes became a great vice to be eradicated...

... Twentieth century feminism added another layer of condemnation: after all, why should men be allowed to philander while women were expected to remain faithful and stand by their (abusive, cheating) men no matter what? Why are promiscuous men heroes, and promiscuous women sluts? Women aren't slaves, feminism taught us, and men need to respect them as equal partners in marriage. Infidelity had been a religious sin - now it was a secular one as well.

So here we are, 2010 upon us, and still trying to live up to a hopeless monogamous ideal that had never been so strictly upheld before - and is not helping anybody...

There is a lot of painful truth here. Long time readers know that I am for a "polygamous option", where a man could take a set number of women as wives.

I am also for the legalization of prostitution, something I speak about here.

The cold truth is that "Conservatives" have it ass backwards most of the time when they "defend marriage." What they are really doing is defending a chivalrous and zombified institution formerly known as marriage. They intend for men to shoulder crap-tons of responsibility, while at the same time, denying men any reasonable and sustainable way of dealing with their sexual drives, which are much more voracious than those of women, not to mention championing the outdated Victorian idea of putting women up on ivory pedestals just because they have a vagina.

Now here is where I begin to defend Tiger.

We really don't know what exactly was going on in the Woods household. But, it is very possible that sexual relations between himself and his wife dried up or was insufficient to meet the needs of a world class athlete. In the lives of ordinary married men, this happens quite a bit.

It's kinda hard to have those all day Kamasutra sex sessions when a young child is present in the home. It's a little difficult to have your honey walking around in suggestive lingerie when she is trying to do the laundry. Perhaps your wife has a major presentation due next week, and she comes home from work late at night exhausted. And understandably, your all night sexfest = FUBAR.

Shit happens.

So... if your only legal wife decides (remember gents: her body, her choice!) to stop giving up the Nappy Dugout, what do you do?

You are not a woman. You are a man who needs sexual stimulation. This isn't optional... this is a hardwired need.

Well... you could become an ascetic monk and use your sexual energy to open your Kundalini energy system through intense meditation or...

Download a crap ton of internet porn and break out the tissues or...

Go cold turkey and suppress your inherent desires or...

Take up a new hobby to burn off the excess energy or...

Do stupid shit like have 10 mistresses so they can tell everyone they know about your personal business, blow big money on strippers, start drinking heavily, or put your profile on Craigslist.

You get the idea. Men denied satisfaction on a consistent and regular basis tend to do crazy things in order to cope.

Traditionally, men have had two outlets for their desires that at the same time preserved a relatively stable marriage culture. These two systems are prostitution and polygamous marriage.

Both of these are illegal today in the vast majority of the United States.

So what's a man to do?

Tiger, Letterman, and Eliot Spitzer have shown us that the rich and powerful grapple with these issues just like the average married man does. And in each case, the final decision was to go out and get them some Strange.

And many marriages are destroyed because our society does not deal with these very real issues in a skillful and realistic manner. Instead, we have a Matriarchal system of double standards, Catch 22's, and Damned-if-you-do, Damned-if-you-don't-isms. If we want to really protect and preserve marriage in the years to come, then we need to rethink what marriage is about, and actually understand that men have needs too, just as women do. We've taken into account what women want, but we have yet to acknowledge what men want.

This is not a sustainable situation, and we need to get it right for ourselves, for our children, for our nation, and our world.

Bottom line: While I am disappointed that Mr. Woods handled his business in such a sloppy manner, I can understand where he's coming from. He came clean, him and his woman are going to hopefully work it out, and they'll move on with life. But, in my opinion, this case demonstrates the need for men to consider our own interests for a change, and allow men who do need more than one woman to take care of their needs in the least socially disruptive manner possible.

Conclusion.

It remains to be seen if Tiger can resurrect his career, his image, and his marriage. But I can't help but think: what if his wife had some knowledge of his doings... and what if she was down with that? Does she truly understand her man more than the army of media types telling all of their personal business 24-7? If so, then she is ahead of the curve.

I said it once, and I'll say it again... our legal, religious, and social systems need to be changed so that the rights, desires, and wishes of men are respected, so long as these rights and desires do not violate the rights of others. Unless this happens, society, economy, liberty and spirituality will all continue to degrade and implode.

We all love to look out for the children, and we bend over backwards to enforce feminist public policy... but what about the men? When do we get what the fuck we want?

From Grass Eating men, sagging birthrates, to the latest celebrity sex scandal, it is becoming apparent that Men have judged our current social constructs, and found them wanting. Man is the spark, the thumos, the creative and driving force on this planet. But in many places, Man is in chains. He is being artificially constrained. And he is making decisions, some wise, others damn foolish, in an attempt to find his equilibrium.

No matter where we look, be it government, finance, marriage or career life, the bulk of men are not being served. Their needs are not being met, and their happiness is not being considered. And in response, we are seeing once vibrant institutions imploding as vast numbers of men decide to seek their own path.

If the way of political feminism is death, then the way of enlightened manliness will bring life.

Until these sorely needed changes are made, then it is better for Men to Go Their Own Way. Unfortunately, the social order will suffer in direct proportion.

Balance and a happy mean is needed.

Gyo.

What the F^&k now??

2009-12-06T12:08:00.005+09:00

Ladies and gentlemen,

Your attention please.

Adults who are 18 years of age or older and not easily offended should click here to watch a very important video on Youtube.

Please watch carefully.

If you believe this video is of some f*&king value, please share this with others.

Oh and before I go... I have a special message for the feminists...

SHUT THE F#$K UP!

Love,

Tony "Pretty Boy" Gyokko.

Forecasting the End of Feminism

2009-11-29T23:21:00.003+09:00

What's good?

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving holiday!

Most readers know that I am optimistic about the future of Men's rights, and I believe that Political Feminism will be put out of its misery in the near future.

So let's talk about why I think the femmes are doomed.

Let's go!!

Radar: First they ignore you.

Not too long ago, a valued reader asked me why I was so optimistic about the future of Men's Rights. How could I be so confident, he wondered, that the power of political feminism is beginning to wane?

Firstly, I want to make it clear that political feminists still have a lot of clout, and that terrible injustices are happening to men and boys day in and day out. That is the reality. And we shouldn't forget that change happens very slowly; political feminism will do everything it can to prolong its unnatural life. Political feminism, in other words, is still armed and extremely dangerous.

In making statements about the future of feminism, I evaluate the ideology in the same way I evaluate the future prospects of an investment. I am looking for trends; small and subtle happenings that could lead to huge manifestations at some point in the future.

I forecast the ebb and flow of political feminist dominance using a variety of tools. One method I use, because I believe that feminism is an expression of psychic forces and human will, is the law of In and Yo (more commonly known as Yin and Yang).

As I mentioned in a previous post, I belong to a certain school of knowledge that prepares one for a wide range of combat and survival scenarios. When one is engaged in a military operation, forecasting the winds of fortune becomes a valuable skill.

One method to try to determine the outcome of an engagement in advance is the art of forecasting using In and Yo.

The law of In and Yo is fairly simple. The universe is cyclical in nature. All things ebb and flow. There is a waxing and a waning cycle that applies to all things.

The stock market rises and falls. Nations rise and fall. The moon waxes and wanes. People are born and then they die.

Nothing rests indefinitely, and everything is in constant motion.

Nothing in the natural world lasts forever, and, by extension, no ideology lasts forever either.

This is a simplified explanation of the law of In and Yo. With this knowledge, one can look for signs and cues and determine where we are at in any particular cycle, and one can also look for clues for expansion or contraction.

If one determines that feminism is in its ascending phase, then it is wise to get out of the way unless one wants to be crushed underfoot.

If one determines that feminism is entering into its descending phase, then one can help the process along by intense criticism and activism. In other words, we as Men's Rights Activists can help hasten its fall as the inescapable force of gravity takes hold of our favorite hate movement.

I believe there is enough evidence out there to suggest that political feminism is in decline.

One must also remember the 80/20 rule: 80 percent of outputs are caused by 20 percent of inputs. As Mr. Koch explains here, small, seemingly random events, such as, for example, a man in the UK writing a blog post critical of political feminism, could cause massive waves. Add a court decision here, a breakthrough study there, an economic crisis on top of that, and all of a sudden, the ship of political feminism could face the perfect storm that could potentially tear the vessel apart and run it aground.

There are Universal Laws that can be observed and applied to real life events and situations. If one is looking for clues as to the future trends affecting an event, a nation, or an ideology, one can determine whether or not it is waxing or waning. One can also determine if it is wise to confront the ideology directly, or attack it subtly. Sometimes it is better to keep oneself out of harms way, and other times, bold and direct opposition is the best course of action.

It should also be pointed out that movements and ideologies that violate Universal Laws will not long survive, as they go against the Universal grain. It takes massive amounts of energy and capital to overcome resistance and advance the unnatural social organization that political feminist public policy demands, and I believe it is beginning to run out of steam as various forms of drag begin to take hold. As more men (and women) free themselves from the Fematrix, the political, economic, and social will to continue on with our Matriarchal public policy will dissolve along with it.

And, as a wee bit of evidence to support my ramblings, allow me to share this recent Radar alert:

"First they ignore you, ..."

Two weeks ago, Slate.com's short-lived1 publication "Double X" published an article by Kathryn Joyce entitled "'Men's Rights' Groups Have Become Frighteningly Effective."2

This was not Slate.com's finest hour. One thing this article could never be accused of is objective reporting.

On Nov. 5th, the very same day the Double X article appeared, Salon.com's Broadsheet published an article by Judy Berman entitled "'Men's rights' groups go mainstream"3 that adds no new information, and simply seems to be an effort to repeat the Double X article to Salon's readers...

... Mahatma Gandhi is reputed to have said: "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." The joint Slate/Salon attack pieces are a good indication that we're well past stage 1.

Congratulation to all RADAR supporters and allies for getting us this far. Let's keep it up!

Respect to RADAR, Glen Sacks, and countless other MRAs who are on the front lines in the battle against Political Feminism.

Let's take a moment to look at the Double X article:

"Men's Rights" Groups Have Become Frighteningly Effective

They’re changing custody rights and domestic violence laws.

By: Kathryn Joyce

At the end of October, National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, members of the men’s movement group RADAR (Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting [2]) gathered on the steps of Congress to lobby against what they say are the suppressed truths about domestic violence: that false allegations are rampant, that a feminist-run court system fraudulently separates innocent fathers from children, that battered women’s shelters are running a racket that funnels federal dollars to feminists, that domestic-violence laws give cover to cagey mail-order brides seeking Green Cards, and finally, that men are victims of an unrecognized epidemic of violence at the hands of abusive wives.

“It’s now reached the point,” reads a statement from RADAR, “that domestic violence laws represent the largest roll-back in Americans’ civil rights since the Jim Crow era!”

RADAR’s rhetoric may seem overblown, but lately the group and its many partners have been racking up very real accomplishments. In 2008, the organization claimed to have blocked passage of four federal domestic-violence bills, among them an expansion of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to international scope and a grant to support lawyers in pro bono domestic-violence work. Members of this coalition have gotten themselves onto drafting committees for VAWA’s 2011 reauthorization. Local groups in West Virginia and California have also had important successes, criminalizing false claims of domestic violence in custody cases, and winning rulings that women-only shelters are discriminatory.

Ahh yes. You can feel the fear. The political feminists are worried, and for good reason. Their deceitful, harmful, and hurtful movement is going to be dumped like so much trash, and THEY KNOW IT.

The times, they are a changin'. And, in this next paragraph from Double X, we have a prime example of why feminism is toast... their entire movement is based upon lies, falsehoods, and propaganda:

... In this, critics like Australian sociologist Michael Flood say that men’s rights movements reflect the tactics of domestic abusers themselves, minimizing existing violence, calling it mutual, and discrediting victims. MRA groups downplay national abuse rates, just as abusers downplay their personal battery; they wage campaigns dismissing most allegations as false, as abusers claim partners are lying about being hit; and they depict the violence as mutual—part of an epidemic of wife-on-husband abuse—as individual batterers rationalize their behavior by saying that the violence was reciprocal. Additionally, MRA groups’ predictions of future violence by fed-up men wronged by the family-law system seem an obvious additional correlation, with the threat of violence seemingly intended to intimidate a community, like a fearful spouse, into compliance...

Good ol Michael Flood.

It turns out that I have already debunked his entire line of reasoning, and exposed his thesis as fundamentally flawed [a][b][c][d]. As usual, feminist rhetoric is trumped by correct reasoning and irrefutable evidence.

In any event... political feminism is a dead hag walking. It simply cannot stand up to any objective scrutiny, and its only a matter of time before it collapses upon itself like a ton of bricks. And believe you me... the feminists know this to be true.

Conclusion

The art of forecasting is an inexact science. My timing could be wrong, or something might happen to totally alter my prediction.

However, I see that the trends are lining up to sink the ship of political feminism. And, as they say in the world of finance, "the trend is your friend... until it ends."

So, until further notice, I will continue to assert that the best days of political feminism are behind it. Going forward, they are going to face ever mounting scrutiny and analysis.

Unfortunately for political feminism... an ideology based on deception and lies simply cannot take the heat. And I believe the day is coming when feminist public policy will be overthrown.

I, for one, can't wait for that day.

Gyokko.

National Inflation Association presents: The Dollar Bubble.

2009-11-25T08:09:00.003+09:00

The US Dollar/ US Treasury bubble...

The Final Frontier.

Check tha footage.

Time grows short. I highly recommend that you, Dear Reader, throw your financial survival plan into high gear...

End Transmission.

Man tries to sell $1100 one ounce gold coin...

2009-11-22T00:09:00.002+09:00

An interesting video.

Check it out:

There's a lot I could say about this video, but I'm going to keep it simple.

While some folks might be worried about if this coin was stolen or filled with Tungsten, the fact of the matter is that most people have no idea what real money is, or how economics or finance really works.

It's a sad state of affairs. A century or more ago, people knew what money was, and why having a precious metals standard was so important.

See the following:

Coin's Financial School

Coin at School in Finance

These two pamphlets were popular and widely read. Abhorrence to paper money was especially strong to these earlier generations.

And then... in the early twentieth century, the very nature of American government and society began to shift.

We saw the Federal Reserve come into being. We saw personal income taxes imposed upon the average citizen. We saw gold confiscation, wars, and inflation. The States were stripped of their Congressional representation, and the number of representatives that are directly accountable to the American public every two years were capped at a wholly inadequate proportion.

In short, the political and economic guarantors of the people's liberty were abolished in these pivotal years. America was transformed from Constitutional Republic, concerned with mostly domestic matters, to world beating empire hellbent on policing the world.

It's much easier to control 300 million people when they only have U.S. House representation of .00000145% (435/300,000,000).

It's much easier to control the populace when one can bypass the interests of 50 sovereign State governments and corrupt 100 members of the Senate directly.

It's a lot easier to control the people economically when the power to create and control valueless fiat money and credit rests in the hands of a very small number of Federal Reserve committee members.

It's certainly easy to control the masses when nine black robed justices have the sole power of defining what the Constitution means for 300 million people.

I imagine it would be extremely easy to dominate the serfs when there exists no office of the Tribune to actively defend the people from their government.

But most importantly, it is child's play to rule over the people when they have no working knowledge of finance, economics, politics or power.

The people, as a whole, have little to no understanding about these things. And, as I said in an earlier post, We the People, at this stage, have no concept of what true freedom is actually like, in any sphere, social, political, economic, or spiritual. Feminism is just a manifestation of a broader ignorance of reality.

When will the People finally understand what these things actually mean? And how long can the present corruption continue when the People finally awaken to the truth?

These are interesting questions. And I firmly believe that we are going to find out the answers in the very near future.

Gyo.

Congressional Reform is Way Overdue!

2009-11-18T07:59:00.004+09:00

Gang,

I wanted to bring two interesting websites to your attention:

Repeal the 17th Amendment

Thirty-Thousand.Org

Both sites make the case for sorely needed Congressional reform. The fact of the matter is that our system is broken, and the Republic no longer exists.

Indeed, as the website Criminal Government.com correctly argues, America abandoned Constitutional Republicanism in favor of a socialist state way back in the day.

Throw in Keynesianism and Political Feminism into the mix, and the inescapable conclusion is that Americans have no idea what real freedom even feels like. Almost every right the people of this nation THINK they have has been stripped away, and the Legislative Branch has been especially effective at snuffing out the Natural Rights of the people (i.e. VAWA), nine times out of ten.

When you have a moment, please visit these sites and ponder what they have to say. Congress, in my opinion, is a failed body, and needs radical and mindbending reform if it is to function as the Legislative branch of a Constitutional Republic.

Give it some thought. Until next time...

Gyokko Out.

This is Your Brain...

2009-11-08T23:57:00.006+09:00

Greetings and welcome to another installment of Jeweled Tiger School!!

I am your host, Gyokko the Kidd.

Without further ado, lets get 'er done!

Brainwork.

Here lately, I have emphasized the need to become more critical, more self aware, and more self determined. In other words, it is high time that Men Go Their Own Way, delete feminist and other self-defeating programming from their memory banks and society at large, and actually become the Masters of their own destiny.

As I have laid out in other postings, the process of creation and realization of key goals and objectives is out there. Certain enterprising individuals and groups are actively using these principles to win the game of life, and so must you.

Here's a little something about me:

Some of you might have already figured out that I belong to a certain organization. Every so often, I change the name of this blog to reflect certain branches of knowledge that this group teaches.

But for those who haven't noticed, click here to find out more about the Path that I follow. Please note that the content of this blog in no way represents the organization referenced above. My opinions are strictly my own.

Contained within the schools of knowledge that I have studied for over a decade is a principle known as Sanmitsu [1][2]. This is one of the ways in which certain Japanese warriors in dark costumes took care of business.

Thought energy, word energy, and physical energy (effort) come together in harmony, and the energies are amplified because the three waves of energy do not contradict one another. With self directed focus, commitment, and intention, the non physical is made manifest. This is one of the primary reasons why these certain individuals were widely feared in ancient Japan, and why their fame (and their art) has survived to modern times. Click here for more information.

Forgive me for digressing, but I am sharing all this with you, Dear Reader, for a number of important reasons.

1) By knowing my philosophical background, it will be easier for you to follow my thought process, and where I am coming from. You will also know why I emphasize certain principles more than others.

2) By understanding that the above mentioned principle of Sanmitsu has been tested over a vast time period and under extreme conditions, you can be confident that it is anything but "pie in the sky" wishful thinking. The principle works, and I would like to see enlightened men use it in their own lives, instead of constantly falling victim to it.

How do you think the feminists, socialists, and money men succeeded in undermining Western Civilization? Through Committed Thoughts, Well Chosen Words, and Countless Deeds over the course of centuries.

3) To encourage you to take control of your conscious and subconscious mental processes. As the Christians say, life is constant Spiritual Warfare. Those of us fighting the Fempire are really fighting a battle of the Spirit. We are constantly being programmed by family, friends, institutions, religions, corporations, and governments to feel, think, and behave in a certain way.

It would be one thing if the messages out there were empowering, enlightening, and beneficial for humankind. Unfortunately, the reality is that 80% of the programming available is wrong, flawed, and designed to control and subdue you. The instructions given are usually NOT in your best interests.

Feminism is a prime example of a philosophy built upon lies and deceit. It is an ideology that silences dissent and produces a host of negative outcomes, simply because 80% of the people buy into it. They Think feminism, Speak feminism, and Act according to feminist dogma.

Your duty, as an enlightened person who knows the facts about feminism, is to completely purge it from your mental processes, and to help others purge femi-fascism from their memory banks.

The various levels of mind are key to this whole struggle. Everything in this Universe literally depends on it. We have free will, and we must choose, very carefully, what we ultimately believe in because...

What we believe is what we will ultimately end up with.

See here for more info on the Biology of Belief.

Single Parents and the Brain.

From the Wall Street Journal:

This Is Your Brain Without Dad

... Conventional wisdom holds that two parents are better than one. Scientists are now finding that growing up without a father actually changes the way your brain develops.

German biologist Anna Katharina Braun and others are conducting research on animals that are typically raised by two parents, in the hopes of better understanding the impact on humans of being raised by a single parent. Dr. Braun's work focuses on degus, small rodents related to guinea pigs and chinchillas, because mother and father degus naturally raise their babies together.
[LAB] Matt Collins

When deprived of their father, the degu pups exhibit both short- and long-term changes in nerve-cell growth in different regions of the brain. Dr. Braun, director of the Institute of Biology at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg, and her colleagues are also looking at how these physical changes affect offspring behavior.

Their preliminary analysis indicates that fatherless degu pups exhibit more aggressive and impulsive behavior than pups raised by two parents...

... Dr. Braun and her colleagues found that in the two-parent families, the degu mothers and fathers cared for their pups in similar ways, including sleeping next to or crouching over them, licking and grooming them, and playing with them. The fathers even exhibited a "nursing-type" position.

When the mother was a single parent, the frequency of her interactions with her pups didn't change much, which means that those pups experienced significantly less touching and interaction than those with two parents.

The researchers then looked at the neurons—cells that send and receive messages between the brain and the body—of some pups at day 21, around the time they were weaned from their mothers, and others at day 90, which is considered adulthood for the species.

Neurons have branches, known as dendrites, that conduct electrical signals received from other nerve cells to the body, or trunk, of the neuron. The leaves of the dendrites are protrusions called dendritic spines that receive messages and serve as the contact between neurons.

Dr. Braun's group found that at 21 days, the fatherless animals had less dense dendritic spines compared to animals raised by both parents, though they "caught up" by day 90. However, the length of some types of dendrites was significantly shorter in some parts of the brain, even in adulthood, in fatherless animals.

"It just shows that parents are leaving footprints on the brain of their kids," says Dr. Braun, 54 years old.

The neuronal differences were observed in a part of the brain called the amygdala, which is related to emotional responses and fear, and the orbitofrontal cortex, or OFC, the brain's decision-making center...

... 'A Horse Without a Rider'

The balance between these two brain parts is critical to normal emotional and cognitive functioning, according to Dr. Braun. If the OFC isn't active, the amygdala "goes crazy, like a horse without a rider," she says. In the case of the fatherless pups, there were fewer dendritic spines in the OFC, while the dendrite trees in the amygdala grew more and longer branches.

A preliminary analysis of the degus' behavior showed that fatherless animals seemed to have a lack of impulse control, Dr. Braun says. And, when they played with siblings, they engaged in more play-fighting or aggressive behavior.

In a separate study in Dr. Braun's lab conducted by post-doctoral researcher Joerg Bock, degu pups were removed from their caregivers for one hour a day. Just this small amount of stress leads the pups to exhibit more hyperactive behaviors and less focused attention, compared to those who aren't separated, Dr. Braun says. They also exhibit changes in their brain.

The basic wiring between the brain regions in the degus is the same as in humans, and the nerve cells are identical in their function. "So on that level we can assume that what happens in the animal's brain when it's raised in an impoverished environment ... should be very similar to what happens in our children's brain," Dr. Braun says.

Other researchers, such as Xia Zhang, a senior scientist at the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research, and his colleagues in China, have observed different consequences using voles, mouselike rodents that also naturally co-parent. (Fewer than 10% of species raise their offspring with two parents.)

Voles deprived of their fathers—either from birth or later on in childhood—exhibited more anxious behaviors and were less social, spending less time engaging with stranger voles that were placed in their cage, according to a study by Dr. Zhang and his colleagues that was published in July in the journal Behavioral Processes.

Of course, the frontal cortex—where thinking and decision-making take place—is more complex in humans than it is in other animals. Thus, says Dr. Braun, it is important to be "really careful" about extrapolating the recent findings to human populations.

"The minute you get into stuff with extensive social and environmental components, the social differences between humans and animals are massive," says Simon Chapple, a senior economist in the social policy division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the 30-country grouping of the world's largest economies...

It amazes me how people can contradict themselves. Earlier in the piece, we have this comment:

"The basic wiring between the brain regions in the degus is the same as in humans, and the nerve cells are identical in their function. "So on that level we can assume that what happens in the animal's brain when it's raised in an impoverished environment ... should be very similar to what happens in our children's brain," Dr. Braun says."

And later, we have peoples who are desperate to negate the damning implications of this research:

"Of course, the frontal cortex—where thinking and decision-making take place—is more complex in humans than it is in other animals. Thus, says Dr. Braun, it is important to be "really careful" about extrapolating the recent findings to human populations.

"The minute you get into stuff with extensive social and environmental components, the social differences between humans and animals are massive," says Simon Chapple, a senior economist in the social policy division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the 30-country grouping of the world's largest economies."

Yes, caution should be warranted, and more extensive research should be carried out to see how fatherlessness affects brain development in human children.

HOWEVER.

Because research such as this greatly undercuts the legitimacy of Feminist theory and Feminist Public Policy, those who wish to continue said theories and policies are quick to backpedal with the "Humans are different" argument.

Nevermind the fact that if these findings had ZERO implications for humanity, the Journal would have ZERO interest in it and wouldn't even publish the story to begin with.

The "Humans are different" argument makes no sense in this case because we KNOW that the 80% (not an exact percentage, but a shorthand reference to the 80/20 principle) of children brought up in single parent families have all manner of negative outcomes in terms of wealth, health, crime, and relationships, just to name a few [1][2][3], just like the animals in the study.

Consider this article from Time Magazine:

Is There Hope for the American Marriage?

... the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in May that births to unmarried women have reached an astonishing 39.7%. (See pictures of love in the animal kingdom.)

How much does this matter? More than words can say. There is no other single force causing as much measurable hardship and human misery in this country as the collapse of marriage. It hurts children, it reduces mothers' financial security, and it has landed with particular devastation on those who can bear it least: the nation's underclass.

The Marriage Gap

The poor and the middle class are very different in the ways they have forsaken marriage. The poor are doing it by uncoupling parenthood from marriage, and the financially secure are doing it by blasting apart their unions if the principals aren't having fun anymore.

The growing tendency of the poor to have children before marriage — the vast majority of unmarried women having babies are undereducated and have low incomes — is a catastrophic approach to life, as three Presidents in a row have tried to convince them. Bill Clinton's welfare-to-work program encouraged marriage, George W. Bush spent millions to promote marriage, and Barack Obama has spoken powerfully on the need for men to stay with their children: "We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one." (See snapshots from a very special wedding.)

The reason for these appeals to lasting unions is simple: on every single significant outcome related to short-term well-being and long-term success, children from intact, two-parent families outperform those from single-parent households. Longevity, drug abuse, school performance and dropout rates, teen pregnancy, criminal behavior and incarceration — if you can measure it, a sociologist has; and in all cases, the kids living with both parents drastically outperform the others.

Few things hamper a child as much as not having a father at home. "As a feminist, I didn't want to believe it," says Maria Kefalas, a sociologist who studies marriage and family issues and co-authored a seminal book on low-income mothers called Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage. "Women always tell me, 'I can be a mother and a father to a child,' but it's not true." Growing up without a father has a deep psychological effect on a child. "The mom may not need that man," Kefalas says, "but her children still do."

This turns out to be true across the economic spectrum. The groundbreaking research on the effects of divorce on children from middle- and upper-income households comes from a surprising source: a Princeton sociologist and single mother named Sara McLanahan, who decided to study the fates of these children with the tacit assumption that once you control for income, being part of a single-parent household does not adversely affect kids. The results — which she published in the 1994 book Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps — were surprising. "Children who grow up in a household with only one biological parent," she found, "are worse off, on average, than children who grow up in a household with both of their biological parents, regardless of the parents' race or educational background....

The outcomes for the experimental animals raised without a father were empirically negative. We know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the outcomes for human children raised without a father are overwhelmingly negative. We know that the animals in question and human beings share similar brain wiring.

Because we know all of this, is it reasonable then to say that we shouldn't use this study as another piece of evidence that, in the case of human children, fathers are needed, on a biological level, for them to achieve maximum levels of health, wealth, social stability, and happiness?

Would it be unreasonable to say that, because human brains and social structures are more complex and evolved, the impact of fatherlessness is more damaging and harmful for human children (and society) than for the lab rats (Degu) profiled in this study?

I want to address one more point in the WSJ article before I move on:

Risk of Delinquency

Still, the prevalence of single-parent households has researchers looking at possible consequences for children. An OECD report found that just 57% of children in the U.S. live with both parents, among the lowest percentages of the world's richest nations.

The report, which sparked some controversy when it was released in September, found that children in single-parent households have an increased risk of delinquency and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, as well as poorer scholastic performance.

The OECD also analyzed data from 122 separate studies and found that there was variability in the negative effects on children of living in a single-parent home; on average, the OECD found, the magnitude of the impact was relatively small. On a standardized intelligence test with a median score of 100 points, for example, a child in a single-parent family would be about 3.5 points worse off than a similar child in a two-parent family, according to Dr. Chapple, who co-wrote the report.

Dr. Braun's goal for future research is to figure out whether degu pups' brains can be rewired by introducing a substitute caregiver, such as a grandmother, or whether other social and emotional enrichment can help "repair" the fatherless pups, she says. Human children may be sent to day care, for instance, which can help them form stable friendships with their peers and other adults.

The bottom line, says Dr. Braun, is that parents need to fuel their children's brains with talk, touch and sensitive stimulation that involves give and take.

Parents, she says, "are the sculptors of their children's brains."

Note the following passage:

Dr. Braun's goal for future research is to figure out whether degu pups' brains can be rewired by introducing a substitute caregiver, such as a grandmother, or whether other social and emotional enrichment can help "repair" the fatherless pups, she says. Human children may be sent to day care, for instance, which can help them form stable friendships with their peers and other adults.

If, at some point in the future, research is conducted to find a way to help the children of single mothers (like me) and the children of divorce heal the ugly scars that our man hating culture and feminist public policy has imposed upon them, it would be absolute madness to think that someone in a lab could ultimately create a cure-all in a laboratory to help our children while at the same time keeping the aforementioned Misandric culture and feminist public policy that creates 80% of the problems in place!

It would save everyone a lot of time, energy, and resources if we abolished feminism right now. We have more than enough evidence to do so, and we have thousands of years of human social history that shows that stable marriage and family culture leads to long term positive outcomes.

The easiest and best way to prevent the negative outcomes of children raised in single parent homes is to STOP SEPARATING FATHERS FROM THEIR CHILDREN via involuntary divorce, domestic violence laws, and cultural bullying. KILL FEMINISM, AND YOU AUTOMATICALLY KILL THE PROBLEM.

Imagine, for a moment, that a coalition of Big Government types and ideologists who believed that right arms were inherently violent and dangerous passed a law that decreed that innocent children should have their potentially dangerous right arm removed when they reached the tender age of two years old. Imagine how society would be negatively impacted by the legion of children who are missing right arms.

Now finally, imagine the billions of dollars that would be spent in researching, testing, and manufacturing artificial arms to replace the arms that were removed, by force of law and bizarre custom, FOR NO GOOD REASON!

THIS, my friends, is where we are at today. Ideology, bad economic theory, and public policy are coming together to fuck up the lives of millions of innocent children (and fathers). And I am quite sure that some batshit insane feminists would have the audacity to suggest at some point that the solution to the problems that THEY caused initially is to do more "research" in order to repair the damage that was unnecessarily caused in the first place (notice the similarity of this kind of thinking to our totally ass backwards economic policy).

If anything, the ultimate goal of society should be to find out if human children are neurologically impacted (which I'm sure they are) by the removal of their fathers. And, if the research confirms it, add the study to the mountain of reasons why feminist public policy should be completely abolished forever and ever.

Before we move on, this story is interesting to me because it is another piece of evidence that points to an obvious conclusion: Fathers are needed in the lives of their children, and this is a biological and a spiritual need. All the daycare and all the government welfare kool-aid in this world will not change this important fact.

Where mind and matter meet.

And for my next act, I want to merge the importance of critical and careful programming of the conscious and subconscious mind with the implications that this Wall Street Journal story raises.

I would like to briefly quote from Dr. Bruce Lipton's fascinating book, the Biology of Belief:

... Frontier science is confirming what mothers and enlightened fathers have known forever, that parents do matter, despite best selling books that try to convince us otherwise. To quote Dr. Thomas Verny, a pioneer in the field of prenatal and perinatal psychiatry: "Findings in the peer-reviewed literature over the course of decades establish, beyond any doubt, that parents have overwhelming influence on the mental and physical attributes of the children they raise." (Verny and Kelly 1981) (p. 125).

And that influence starts, says Verny, not after children are born, but BEFORE (author's emphasis) children are born (p. 126).

... experimental psychologists and neuroscientists are demolishing the myth that that infants cannot remember--or for that matter learn--and along with it the notion that parents are simply spectators in the unfolding of their children's lives. The fetal and infant nervous system has vast sensory and learning capabilities and a kind of memory that neuroscientists call implicit memory... "the quality of life in the womb, our temporary home before we were born, programs our susceptibility to coronary artery disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity, and a multitude of other conditions in later life," writes Dr. Peter W Nathanielsz in Life in the Womb, Origins of Health and Disease (p. 126)."

... parents can improve the prenatal environment. In doing so they act as genetic engineers for their children... influences continue after the child is born because parents continue to influence their child's environment. In particular, fascinating new research is emphasizing the importance of good parenting in the development in the brain. "For the growing brain of a young child, the social world supplies the most important experiences influencing the expression of genes, which determines how neurons connect to one another in creating the neuronal pathways which give rise to mental activity," writes Dr. Daniel J Siegal in The Developing Mind (p. 127-128).

The Author goes on to explain the brain wave activity in children, the conscious and subconscious mind and how it is programmed, and a ton of other news you can really use.

Sounds a lot like the Wall Street Journal piece... doesn't it?? Young brain development, environmental factors, parental influence trumping supposedly predetermined genetic predestination...

Ladies and gents, I would highly recommend that you pick up this book. Don't walk... RUN and get a copy today. Your mind will never be the same again. Be sure to read it carefully, and reflect on the full implications of the information presented there.

How much damage has our policies of abortion on demand, involuntary divorce, and single mother subsidization really inflicted upon our nation? Can the full criminality of this entire Matriarchal regime be fully calculated?

Read the book, and you be the judge.

Conclusion.

UNDERSTAND.

Feminism is flat out and totally wrong. It is based on lies. It is based on false premises. The errors of feminism are infinite and plainly obvious. There is no excuse for any thinking individual to buy into or support this hate filled ideology.

The feminist lie of "children don't no need fathers" has been debunked all to hell. The truth is out there. There is no need to give feminism any credibility or credence in your conscious or your subconscious mind. De-program thyself! Banish feminist theory from your heart and mind forever.

And don't forget... you have a duty to yourself, your children, and your fellow man (and woman) to slay feminist ideology and public policy wherever you find it.

Your babies are being brainwashed by flawed, false, and outdated feminist theory. Men are going to jail everyday due to flawed and wrongheaded feminist public policy.

IT IS YOUR DUTY to oppose feminism by any means you can, within the boundaries of legality and common sense.

And finally, understand that YOU have tremendous power over yourself and those who are in your care. Know, Understand, and Obey the Universal Law.

You have the authority, the ability, the power, and the responsibility to elevate yourself and those you love to tha next level. You, Dear Reader, can and must work with the Father to make things happen.

Feminists can't hold you down forever. Governments who are out of control will be brought to heel eventually. Economic mismanagement won't last forever.

Understand the power you have to make the best out your personal circumstances. I can point out principles that have worked for me; but at the end of the day, your Thoughts, your Words, and your Deeds are the only ones that matter in your world and those who live in it. Choose correctly, and with great care.

Kind Regards,

Gyokko.

State of the black American Family.

2009-11-02T02:04:00.005+09:00

Comrades,

Long time readers know that I am a man whose ancestors hail from Mozambique, Ireland, Germany, Israel, and parts unknown.

On U.S. Census forms, I identify myself as African American.

I've been writing for quite some time that the Afro-American family is dead, and that political feminism and government conspired to kill it. This is a subject that is near and dear to my heart.

Today, Dear Readers, I want to revisit this topic and chronicle the sad and bizarre situation that is black love, sex, marriage, and gender relations in 2009 America. On the bright side, some light bulbs are coming on. On the not-so-bright side, massive numbers of folks are suffering from tragically flawed political feminist public policy.

My gameplan is to share some stories of interest, and comment upon them as I see fit.

Is deal?

Ok, here we go!

Black Women still don't get it.

From MSNBC:

Marriage eludes high-achieving black women
Many remain single and childless, according to new research

By Brian Alexander
msnbc.com contributor
updated 8:31 a.m. ET, Thurs., Aug 13, 2009

Michelle Obama may have become an archetypal African-American female success story — law career, strong marriage, happy children — but the reality is often very different for other highly educated black women.

They face a series of challenges in navigating education, career, marriage and child-bearing, dilemmas that often leave them single and childless even when they’d prefer marriage and family, according to a research study recently presented at the American Sociological Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco.

Yale researchers Natalie Nitsche and Hannah Brueckner argued that “marriage chances for highly educated black women have declined over time relative to white women.” Women of both races with postgraduate educations “face particularly hard choices between career and motherhood,” they said, “but especially in the absence of a reliable partner...”

The plight of the (more often than not) ball busting African American career woman is both interesting and tragic on a number of levels.

For all of my natural life (30+ years), the guiding philosophy of (black and white) elites can be boiled down to: 'Little black girls are good and deserve all of our time, energy and resources, and little black boys are bad and deserved to be either stoned to death or locked up.'

Now that wasn't complicated, was it?

Black girls are the focus of numerous, well financed organizations and government bodies. Feminist groups, educational groups, civil rights groups, corporate entities, and others I can't think of at the moment have devoted an obscene amount of time and money to educate and elevate black women and girls to positions of power and influence in government, business, media, and academia.

Women (black and white) have benefited vastly from this concentrated effort. They have been less affected during our current economic downturn, they earn higher wages than men in certain major metropolitan areas, they are the majority of the nation's college and university students, and most importantly, the full force of feminist public policy is backing their every move.

In short, women can usually do no wrong.

By any objective measure, the efforts to elevate women over men have been quite effective. In the black community in particular, women rule in all the ways that matter.

With the exception of the money men and their manservants at the top of the food chain, America in general truly is a woman's nation.

I'm not saying this to be negative or self defeating, but only to acknowledge a hard fact. As I've been saying for quite a while: Women have all of the rights, privileges and prerogatives; while men only have responsibilities and liabilities.

Unfortunately for our lonely career woman, and for the nation in particular, the Matriarchal system is vastly inferior, less stable, and less productive than a society where male headship and the manly spirit of Thumos is the driving factor.

Proof of this can be found by comparing the fates of nations where the rights of men are respected and upheld, and the nations in which Matriarchy was public policy. Throughout history, the "Patriarchal" nations were more successful and productive because, sad to say, men value principles such as discipline, honor, and justice more than women do, and actually try to uphold them in a fair and impartial manner. Sometimes the efforts are successful, other times, not. But at least they try.

Furthermore, men and women are NOT the same. As a matter of fact, women and women are not the same. See here for posts dealing with the sliding scale of manliness and femininity [a][b].

Because of the absolute fact that men and women are different, and that women will seek certain kinds of men based on each individual's conscious and unconscious desires and needs, social conditioning be damned, many of today's successful black women, having drunk the feminist kool-aid, are finding that their degrees are hollow, their financial statements provide little warmth, and their lives are filled with loneliness.

The problem here is twofold:

1) The majority of black women are not brought up to attract, keep, or please a man who is in touch with his manliness or sense of honor. These women ignore the "good black men" and go for the "bad boy thug" who speaks to their deepest needs and desires. They have no inkling of what an honorable man is, or they simply don't see him because he doesn't have an MBA or doesn't drive a Mercedes Benz. In short, many of these women have contradictory programming and expectations, and are short circuited in their love lives as a result.

2) Our society is not producing the "evolved man" that the newly elevated black woman has been programmed to accept. The ideal black man that is on a higher level in terms of education, accomplishment, or success is a fairly rare commodity that is rapidly taken off the market by a huge number of hungry female competitors of all races and nations.

(I speak from personal experience; my Japanese wife aggressively pursued ME from the beginning of our relationship, and used all of her considerable womanly arts to seal the deal.)

Since this kind of sophisticated man is so highly desired by high powered black female career women, and the supply of such men is artificially limited by a misandric culture and wrongheaded public policy, shortages of "eligible men" are commonplace. One cannot artificially elevate one segment of the population, leave the other behind, and expect everything to turn out fine... unless you are a feminist that is.

Getting back to the article:

... And there’s the rub. As noted in a recent Sexploration column, contrary to old media reports, most educated, professional women who want to marry can and do marry. But the picture is less bright for high-achieving black women because “marriage markets” for them have deteriorated to the point that many remain unmarried, the researchers found. Since these women also feel pressured not to become single mothers, they often go childless as well, the researchers found...

Well, I'm glad to hear that at least some of these women choose not to become the scourge of American society, i.e. single mothers.

... In the study, Nitsche and Brueckner used data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey of 50,000 households dating back to the 1970s to tease out data points on race, gender, education, marriage and fertility.

Beyond the personal interests of individual women, the trend is significant because "in terms of American society, this is one additional obstacle” to the broadening of the black middle class, Brueckner said. Fewer highly educated black people having children means that they cannot pass on those advantages and knowledge.”

This defeats the goal of affirmative action, argue some demographers. The idea behind assuring that blacks had access to higher education and graduate school was that after a generation or so, African-Americans would reach a kind of achievement parity after generations of suffering educational and career restriction. But if black women, who comprise 71 percent of black graduate students, according to the census data, do not have children, the rate of achievement reaches a kind of familial dead end.

The massive explosion of Welfare and political feminist public policy has already killed the black family. It. Is. Already. Dead. The grossly unbalanced effort to elevate black women, and ignore, in all areas of life, the issues impacting black men, is just another nail in the coffin.

Declining marriage chances

One big reason why these women remained childless is, as one might expect, that they go unmarried, experts say. Among highly educated women of both races, about 22 percent between the ages of 20 and 45 were single in the 1970s. But then that number diverged. It has remained the same for white women, but now 38 percent of black women have never been married.

“Their marriage chances have declined,” Brueckner explained. “This may sound trivial but one reason is that they outnumber men in this education group.” The disparity in education is important because Americans have a strong tendency to marry those with equal levels of education, a trend that has only grown stronger since World War II. “So since there are fewer men with the same education,” Brueckner continued, “you either have to find another group you can marry or you are out of luck. You have nowhere to go.”

Highly educated black men tend to “outmarry” (marry outside race, religion or ethnicity) at a higher rate than black women, researchers say. Think of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates or Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Both married white women.

Black women are either much more reluctant to marry outside their race, or do not have the opportunity to do so. The answer is both, Clarke said.

Actually, most women would like a man who has superior credentials to their own. Most women are seeking a man who is slightly, moderately, or completely superior with respect to status, intelligence, earning power, and so forth. But any woman who lives in a country that produces men with less status, less education, or less earning power is bound to be disappointed once she reaches a certain level.

Again, by stacking the deck against men in all of the areas of life that matter, it is inevitable that the offending society functions at a lower level in multiple areas than it otherwise could have.

The article also references black men who marry outside of their race. As a highly intelligent black man, my philosophy is that an awake and intelligent man should NEVER compromise and marry a woman who doesn't know what the meaning of the word wife is.

If a woman cannot cook, clean, have a pleasant and supportive attitude, be kind to my children, and have some intelligence and positive life experiences to bring to the table... then she is not wife material and shouldn't be touched with a ten foot pole.

And unfortunately, most black women fall into this category. Not only do most have ZERO wifely skills, they are UNWILLING to develop them. And, in this global marketplace of love we find ourselves in, black American women simply cannot compete with delectable Brazilian women, sultry African women, sweet Asian women, feminine European women, or women of any nationality who are in full possession of their womanly charms and aren't afraid to use them. The global competition that black women face today is unreal, and, from my personal experience at least, women worldwide are very kind to black men.

At the end of the day, black women need to step up. If they want to find male companionship, I would urge them to stop looking outside, and look inward. Because, sisters, you have a lot of internal work to do.

Time to take out the Political Feminist garbage.

Fatherless Youth at the Brink

From the Toledo Journal:

Black Youth Face Growing Threat of Violence from Peers

By: Kristin Gray

Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspapers

Originally posted 10/8/2009

WASHINGTON (NNPA) - For soft-spoken honors student Derrion Albert, death came at the hands and feet of a savage mob of his peers.

Albert, 16, of Chicago, was brutally beaten as he walked home from school Sept. 26. The culprits, four angry Black boys between the ages of 16 and 19, were videotaped bludgeoning Albert with a railroad tie plank and pummeling him in an unprovoked fit of rage.

The church-going teen’s death has brought to light the ongoing war Black youth wage against one another. Even President Obama, whose former Chicago residence is less than an hour away from the site of Albert’s death, has called the grainy, two-minute cell phone video “chilling.”

Obama will deploy Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the former head of Chicago schools, to the Windy City next week to “talk about the issues of school violence and youth violence,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Oct.1...

To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, government cannot solve this problem, because it IS the problem. Governments have all manner of laws that discourage marriage, discourage family formation, and enable women to separate fathers from their children anytime they choose. Under legal and social conditions such as these, is there any wonder that the children of single mothers (like me) and broken families living in economic depression are literally beating each other to death?

Feminist public policy and Fiat economic policy combine to devastate young black men. And yet, only a few can make the connection. Government will do nothing to solve this problem unless it repeals or reforms family and domestic violence laws, re-institutes the gold standard, eliminates individual income and payroll taxes, and eliminates the central bank.... but I wouldn't recommend holding your breath while waiting for these reforms to get done.

Back to the piece:

... While youth violence has decreased nationally since 2004, Black children represent an overwhelming majority of crime victims and crime perpetrators.

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics released in 2008, the homicide rate among Black males ages 10 to 24 is more than double that of Hispanic and White males in the same age group, even though African-Americans are a minority population in the U.S.

The CDC also found that nearly 36 percent of students in grades 9 through 12 had been in physical fights in 2007, while 16.3 percent of male students surveyed said they had fought on school property. But statistics do little to explain why so many Black children are robbing each other of the opportunity to become adults. Some believe the breakdown of the Black family has created a generation of children lacking support at home and positive images of Black men. Others point to social Web sites like Facebook and YouTube as the new hangout for schoolyard bullies and promoters of teen-on-teen violence...

... nationwide, the Black family seems to be imploding.

Grandmothers are often forced to care for the offspring of their drug-addicted children and a sputtering economy has caused parents to spend longer hours on the job.

Even more troubling are the numbers of Black men and women committing to marriage. According to the 2008 Census Bureau Current Population Report, only 43 percent of Black women were married, compared to 79 percent of Asian women and 69 percent of White women. In the media, African-American fathers have been notoriously depicted as non-existent or transient parts of their children’s lives.

Both Conyers Johnese and Ogunronke point to firm parenting as the primary tool to prevent violence in young Black America.

“First and foremost, our children [and] youth need love, support and caring, as simple as that. If this is not in the household it indicates that these parents need assistance and help themselves,” Ogunronke said. “For parents that are struggling to do the right thing in raising their children, they should seek out resources within and outside of their community. They must also be willing to invest time within their hectic schedule to work with their children and those resources that are available and providing such services...”

As I wrote previously, the law is the lowest level of virtue. While I wholeheartedly agree that children need love, support, resources, and guidance, it also must be noted that all of these things are extremely difficult to provide to the youth if the entire system is set up to generate negative, wealth draining, and harmful outcomes.

Law and public policy is the foundation of a stable and productive society. If a country allows false accusations of rape, false accusations of domestic violence, unilateral divorce, wage slavery via child support obligations, and terrible economic and political policies in other areas, all of these seemingly abstract and separate conditions combine to sap the strength and the will from otherwise well intending individuals. If there is no justice coming from the law courts, the legislators and the executives, there will be no justice in the country. If people support and buy into harmful ideologies such as political feminism, then chaos, poverty, and injustice shall reign. It's a vicious cycle that generates wave after wave of destructive negative feedback loops.

No one should be surprised anymore by any horrendous outcomes our system brings into being.

I'll tell you one thing: unless and until we repeal all of the laws, and deep-six all of the anti-male attitudes that turn men off from marriage, family, and community life, you are going to see more shocking incidents than this.

Instead of trying to reform the political feminist system, they are going to declare open season and destroy as much of the Matriarchy as they can, however they can. How much you wanna bet that the wrong lessons will be learned from this and other harrowing incidents where a caring father and a stable family would have made all the difference?

How much you wanna bet that the violence and reprisals will only get worse, and not better?

Conclusion.

Political feminism is a dying movement. The young people know one of the two main reasons why their lives are less than ideal. Fiat money and misguided economic policy is the more hidden source of their problems. The problems that fatherlessness, brought to us by our political feminist friends, creates is more visible, and the children know it.

From the Washington Post:

Making the Grade Isn't About Race. It's About Parents.

"Why don't you guys study like the kids from Africa?"

In a moment of exasperation last spring, I asked that question to a virtually all-black class of 12th-graders who had done horribly on a test I had just given. A kid who seldom came to class -- and was constantly distracting other students when he did -- shot back: "It's because they have fathers who kick their butts and make them study."

Another student angrily challenged me: "You ask the class, just ask how many of us have our fathers living with us." When I did, not one hand went up.

I was stunned. These were good kids; I had grown attached to them over the school year. It hit me that these students, at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, understood what I knew too well: The lack of a father in their lives had undermined their education. The young man who spoke up knew that with a father in his house he probably wouldn't be ending 12 years of school in the bottom 10 percent of his class with a D average. His classmate, normally a sweet young woman with a great sense of humor, must have long harbored resentment at her father's absence to speak out as she did. Both had hit upon an essential difference between the kids who make it in school and those who don't: parents.

More and more people, of all races, are coming to understand that political feminism is their mortal enemy. They will also know that the twin evils of feminist public policy and fiat money, which causes all manner of economic chaos, flows from government, and persons acting in co-operation with government.

When the full enormity of these truths are grasped, maybe they will become Classical Liberals like me, and demand that the wild beast that is government be confined to its chains.

But until the truth is firmly and concretely understood, the masses might very well continue to blame men, push for more laws, and beef up the failed policies and ideas that have brought us to our current sorry state. We as enlightened men must understand this and stand ready to avoid the inevitable fallout, and be ready to educate the people during the aftermath.

In my case, I will continue to monitor the black American family. Without this venerable institution, my people will continue to struggle, suffer, and die unfulfilled. I will continue to make the case against political feminism until the day comes when it is broadly and publicly rejected.

I still firmly believe that day is coming. There will come a time when the pain that political feminism causes will be to great to be ignored. There will come a time when the rights of men will be respected and upheld by law and by custom, when all other options have failed.

And when that time comes, the black American family will live again. It will reconstitute itself; more rapidly than many might think.

Gyo.

Jewels for Your Consideration

2009-10-25T04:17:00.004+09:00

Gang,

Guess I'm all shook up!

Or, maybe everyone is. The United States of America is undergoing a major crisis of confidence at the moment.

Most everyone is soul searching and pointing fingers, looking for causes and solutions to our ongoing Depression.

To aid you in your search for truth, here are a few items I'd like to share.

Alex Jones: Fall of the Republic.

This two hour flick has it all: financial shenanigans, the fake Left/Right paradigm, Plato and his old skool foolishness, and of course, the New World Order.

It's well worth your time to give this one a look.

Financial Sense Newshour: The Warning.

This podcast is must listen to material, as it deals with Derivatives, coverups, political hardball, and, most interesting from a Men's Rights Perspective, proof positive that:

1) Political feminists such as Ms. Born are (unbeknownst to most feminists themselves) nothing more than slave girls to the Money Men, who hold real power.

2) The Money Men have no qualms about keeping their political feminist hoes in check when they start interfering in "Grown Folk Business." Notice how these non-feminist men thought nothing about running Ms. Born out of town when she (correctly) tried to put a stop to the massively leveraged Derivatives casino.

As a brief aside, click here for an interesting article about how the feminist movement was funded by the CIA. I am shocked... shocked!!!

Happy viewing/listening!

Gyo.

John Gatto: Weapons of Mass Instruction

2009-10-12T01:27:00.005+09:00

Gang,

Here is a four hour expose of American education entitled Weapons of Mass Instruction.

Would you like to know how and why the Average American has been dumbed down beyond belief?

Then this video is for you.

Highly recommended.

Edit: If the above vid isn't working, click here for more
John Gatto.

Demise of the Dollar, Demise of Political Feminism.

2009-10-11T22:28:00.003+09:00

Team,

I've got a lot to share in this transmission, so let's get right to it!

Demise of the Dollar?

As most of my dear Readers know, I have been writing about my economic fears for some time now. I have even gone so far as to blame fiat currency, as well as massive amounts of borrowing and spending, for most of the ills that plague the nation.

Fiat monopoly money and drunken sailor style government spending provides billions for wars, billions for health care reform, billions for feminism (see here and here), and trillions for bailouts, guarantees, loans and swaps to criminal banksters who nearly destroyed the American financial system.

Questions to ask yourself:

1) How does a bankrupt nation manage to spend trillions of dollars it doesn't have?

2) Does spending trillions on bailouts, bombs, and political feminist pet projects lead to ever increasing levels of efficiency, effectiveness, productivity, capital formation, and happiness?

3) Can a nation continue to print money, squander its resources, mislead its citizens while trampling their most basic rights underfoot, AND piss off its increasingly unhappy foreign creditors indefinitely?

I believe that we are running out of time to turn the ship of State around, and events this week have solidified my convictions. Reality is catching up to us, and it is going to bite us square on the collective ass in the very near future.

Please see the following article by Jim Willie CB:

The story hit like a thief in the night, even bearing Biblical proportions. The end of the exlusive sale of MidEast oil in USDollars, the rise of Russian and Chinese influence in the Persian Gulf, the rise in importance for the Intl Monetary Fund basket of currencies, the final clarion call for the free ride by Americans on the Dollar Credit Card, and hidden implications that the Saudis must shop for a new security lord in the region with broad military might, these are revolutionary steps with profound geopolitical implications. The back-to-back stories in the UK Independent struck like powerful bolts of lightning in the middle of the night from a North American perspective. These articles by a highly respected journalist will be posted on the Banker Church Doors just like Martin Luther’s demands for change in the Protestant Reformation that smashed the monopolistic power of the Catholic Church centuries ago. Enough of the mixed metaphors. This is truly incredible news. The US will soon no longer be permitted to sell its indulgences. This is major Paradigm Shift material...

... A quick read is required of two articles by Robert Fisk. He touches at the surface on a great many relevant and salient points. This story and its vast consequences will be discussed and analyzed for a full year. This is the biggest story on the USDollar in decades, sure to further develop...

...

“A Financial Revolution with Profound Political Implications”
“Demise of the Dollar”

Gents, be sure to read the above mentioned articles, as they are of vast importance in a multitude of ways.

While I don't believe that the dollar will be replaced as the reserve currency of the world in the near future, there is always the possibility that a new global currency could come like a thief in the night. It's possible that the U.S. dollar could be devalued, openly or in secret, in order to pay down trillions in debt. It's also very likely that the Bond market could impose harsh fiscal discipline on the U.S. as our mind boggling deficits continue to mount.

Foreign creditors and the U.N, now openly in revolt against the dollar system, hold all of the cards in this deadly game of economic poker. My worst fears are coming to fruition in slow motion. But on the bright side, I expect foreign financing of the above mentioned wasteful Fedgov spending to be greatly reduced in the years ahead. There is no way around the fact that massive, earthshaking change is coming.

However, change isn't always a bad thing. In fact, if one is prepared to ride it out, change can be both profitable and enjoyable.

Let's look closely at The Demise of the Dollar article by Robert Fisk:

... In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning - along with China, Russia, Japan and France - to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.

The plans, confirmed to The Independent by both Gulf Arab and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong, may help to explain the sudden rise in gold prices, but it also augurs an extraordinary transition from dollar markets within nine years...

Of course, diplomats 'round the world have denied that any meetings took place. And some very well respected financial commentators have pointed out that even if the above mentioned countries were to price oil in other currencies besides the dollar, the world would not come to an end.

Financially speaking, I agree that it wouldn't be such a big deal if oil were priced in Euros or Yen instead of the dollar. From a political perspective, however, the abandonment of a dollar standard would be huge. Remember that Fiat currencies work because people believe and have confidence in the currency. No one uses pieces of paper labeled dollars because they think they have value in and of itself.

They use the dollar because the full faith and credit of the State supposedly guarantees the currency, and legal tender laws compel people to accept them. And in normal times, the risk/reward ratio of complying with legal tender laws induces people to go along with the fairy tale of fiat fundage. Normally, its not worth the time and effort to challenge the validity of the federal reserve note because of its ease of usage in exchanges and the payment of debts.

Because fiat currency is nothing more than a confidence game, anything that rocks the Dollar reserve currency boat has vastly negative political, psychological, and ultimately, financial and economic consequences. The mere fact that dollar negative articles and reports are appearing with more and more frequency speaks volumes. If someone had written the above articles back in tha day, no one in their right mind would take them seriously.

When's the last time someone you know said "Almighty" and "dollar" in the same sentence?

The very idea that global precious metals and foreign exchange markets would be rocked by Mr Fisk's article is another troubling sign that America is heading down the road to serfdom.

Big picture worries aside, however, I'm smiling a lot these days. Why?

Current events on multiple fronts leads me to believe that fiat money, as well as the political feminist order that feeds off of it, is another step closer to oblivion.

My personal net worth has increased, thanks to recent gains in gold, silver, and precious metals equities. That's always a positive. On top of that, I don't spend a lot of time monitoring the markets. Mostly, I sit on my arse for a few minutes, visit a few favored websites, convert federal reserve notes to gold and 90% silver coins, and resume playing Street Fighter 4 like there's no tomorrow (for those who wanna battle, find me on Xbox Live. Gamertag: Mamo187)...

... and for those interested in obtaining physical gold and silver bullion, check these links for precious metals websites I use regularly.

Disclosure: Please note that I have no financial interest, nor am I being paid to share these links. Also, precious metals investing is a risky business, so I would urge you to speak with your registered financial adviser before investing in any financial asset.

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Demise of Political Feminism?

I would like to point out that the nations mentioned by Mr Fisk in his article include China, Japan, the Arab states, and Russia. As I've written previously, none of these nations is a fan or supporter of Political Feminism. I've also asserted that a Perfect Storm is going to tear the ship of political feminism apart. It will not long survive the upheaval that is sure to come.

It cannot be denied that feminism is strongest in the English speaking world, and that the United States is one of the biggest exporters and supporters of global feminist jihad [1][2].

As discussed previously, the Arab states, China, and others are fully aware of this fact and are even now inoculating themselves against feminist corruption. And while feminists do hold some sway in nations such as Japan, they are weak and largely ignored. Which, by the way, is the appropriate response to such a radical, deceitful, and dangerously destructive ideology.

When (not if) our foreign creditors assume more political and financial power on the world stage, methinks that the fortunes of global political feminism will be crushed underfoot. When these nations, who are quite hostile to feminism, decide what gets funded and what doesn't, do you really think they are going to provide the femmes the generous fiat bankroll that they currently enjoy here in America? Is there another financially solvent nation that is going to take up the political feminist football and run with it on the world stage?

France? Canada? New Zealand? Australia?

Don't think so.

Even in feminist Sweden, the ideological basis of feminism is coming under attack (respect to Men's News Daily for the story).

What IS this crazy world coming to??

Going forward, I think that the nations of the world will agree that American (and British) style feminism would be better off dying a quiet death, alone and forgotten, in a very dark alley. After all, most of our creditor nations have much higher esteem for marriage, family, and male headship than we do here in the States.

Sad but true.

Conclusion

The world is changing. I know you can feel it in your bones. You feel like the ground is shifting under your feet.

Courage friend. We must has courage.

Things are changing. Political feminism is losing the war. Fiat money, the root of all evil, is coming under attack. The massive failures of both of these ideas are coming into increasing focus day after day. Frauds are being exposed, and the implications are earthshaking.

While some of us have found out that most everything we were taught in government schools is a lie, most of us will learn in time. We will discover that modern day marriage is the ultimate bait and switch. We will understand that our government commits unconstitutional acts on a daily basis.

We will know that our spiritual leaders and our medical doctors have deceived us.

Withheld certain truths.

Sold us salt, knowing we are snails.

Obscuring our full potential.

Holding us captive with mental chains.

I know its difficult to adjust to all of these revelations. Fear not.

I smile a lot more than I did when I first fell down the rabbit hole. I've come to a place where the falsehoods and Machiavellian power plays of political feminists and others do not affect my spirit.

And, with open eyes, I consciously make decisions that determine my own destiny. I chase my own goals, and work, in a self directed manner, towards the fulfillment of my dreams.

And so, Dear Reader, I would advise that you steer clear of the dangers. Limit your entanglements. Stay flexible. Know the law. Understand finance and economics. Research spiritual matters with open eyes and a clean slate. Make good decisions that are in your best interests, and that benefit both yourself and society at large.

Slow down. 80% of what we do doesn't matter. But 20% of the decisions we make matter a great deal. Focus.

Stay free. Keep your nose clean. Keep a low profile. Plan your work, and work your plan.

The world is changing, and it's best to keep out of harms way until the dust settles.

And above all... relax! Life is good sometimes.

More to come.

Gyokko.

The Writing on the Wall.

2009-09-29T07:08:00.002+09:00

Ladies and gents,

Thanks for your patience as I work on my next series of posts.

Slightly off topic for a second, I should note that the family and I have just returned from Toronto, Canada.

Gyokko the Kidd works damn hard, so I decided to visit our northern neighbor for some much needed R&R. And let me tell you... I came away very impressed. We had an awesome time, outstanding micro brewed beer, and the locals were excellent hosts besides. I haven't experienced such a level of Metropolis sized politeness since I left Japan.

And of course, your humble author dropped in on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and visited some of the major players on Bay Street.

(What can I say? I'm a total Finance junkie. So sue me!!!)

Another amusing observation: Women literally mobbed my eight month old son wherever we went. From 5 years old to 50, ladies of all extractions fawned over him like groupies on an aging rock star.

Yep Yep... a chip off the old block! He is definitely going to be a heartbreaker... and fully informed about the dangers of marriage and family life if political feminism is still an issue when he comes of age. And if the femmes are still squawking their useless and irrelevant crappola... then I pity the feminist who tries to break my boy's spirit. He shall be well schooled to underhanded feminist tactics.

Poor dears.

But enough about me and my international adventures. I wanted to share these jewels with you while I continue my research.

First up, Mr. Howard Katz explains why there is No Retirement:

... The first thing to learn about retirement is that it is a fairly new idea in the scheme of things. Prior to 1785-86, there was no retirement. Everybody worked until they died (unless they were rich, in which case they did not work at all).

Retirement was invented in 1785-86 by Noah Webster, who is best known for being the author of the first American dictionary. Webster, then a young man, took a trip through the 13 newly independent states in 1785-86. He talked to state legislators and other influential people, and he convinced them to legalize interest. (This was only done in the northern states; the South waited until after the Civil War.) The following year the British philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, wrote a paper entitled, “In Defense of Usury [Interest],” and interest was legalized in Britain shortly thereafter.

Once receiving interest was legal, people began to save. A normal rate of interest from 1788 until 1933 was 5%. As people saved, they would put their money in the savings bank or purchase a corporate bond. Here is how it worked. Suppose a man whose average salary was 30 oz. of gold per year saved an average of 6 oz. each year. His first year’s savings receives interest for 49 years (age 16 to 65). His last year’s savings receives interest for 1 year. His average year’s savings receives interest for 25 years. This means that the money he saves multiplies by 3.4 times due to the working of compound interest. If you can save 6 oz. of gold each year, then over a 49 year working lifetime, he has saved 294 oz. of gold. Since compounding at 5% per year multiplies this by 3.4, he now as a total capital of 999 oz. of gold. At 5% interest, he would receive earnings of 50 oz. of gold per year, 1.7 times his annual salary. With this incentive, Americans (and British) began to save. They would quit work at age 65 and live off the interest on their accumulated savings. This had never before happened in world history...

Notice that individuals at this time did not have to speculate in the financial markets, or pay expensive brokers, commissions, and money managers. Also note that, along with the compounding of interest that occurred year after year, the value of the (gold or silver) money saved gradually increased over time due to advances in technology and productivity.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is wealth creation and capital formation.

When I and others harp about why inflation is harmful to your financial health (unless you are a savvy businessman or an investment banker who knows how to profit in an inflationary environment), this is what I am talking about. The ignorance of the people, and the cunning of the financial overlords who are supposed to be guiding the average investor to "retirement" and "financial freedom" leads to debt slavery, a greatly reduced quality of life, and eventual death without having anything to show for their years and years of hard work.

KINDA SOUNDS LIKE MARRIAGE... DOESN'T IT?

Once a honored institution that served to advance the greater society and its members, it has now been altered, by legal sleight of hand, into a virtual deathtrap. Once an institution that contributed greatly to wealth, happiness, and virtue, it has been perverted into a sacrament that leads to ruination and despair.

All due, once again, to the ignorance of the people, and the treachery of those who claim to be our authority figures.

My ultimate point being: Feminism is a symptom of a larger malaise. Recognize, Accept, and Adjust as needed. No one is going to do it for you, and Going Your Own Way is critical to your survival and happiness.

Be sure to read the entire piece, as it is extremely important that you understand the implications and adjust your gameplan accordingly.

Next up:

Please watch this video featuring Mr. Jim Rickards.

This is a sobering clip. Mr. Rickards makes the point that many "hard money" financial types such as Peter Schiff, Marc Faber, Ron Paul, and others have made a million times over.

Mainly: The U.S. dollar will be devalued on purpose. And as the dollar goes, so does the wealth and the prosperity of the people. All in the effort to default on Trillions worth of debt. The Gold price will "necessarily" be manipulated by the Fed and others to hide this all important fact from the People.

Again, gentlemen, it's time to Go Your Own Way. No matter what the subject, your sex life, your marriage, your money or your health, someone else wants to impose an agenda upon you that is NOT in your best interests, or in the best interests of the general society.

These people see you as a snail, and they have gallons of SALT that they want to sell you.

It's time to declare your independence gentlemen. And don't forget, in your haste to liberate yourself, that you have a responsibility to unplug other willing souls from the Fematrix.

In solidarity,

Gyokko.

Things to think about.

2009-09-14T02:38:00.004+09:00

Gang,

Sorry I've kept you. I have been busy pouring through various VAWA related publications in preparation for my next series of posts.

As I read the various documents, I'm amazed how much fiat fundage flows to feminist pork projects...

So bear with me so I can make sense of all this before I start talking about the virtues of feminist finance.

In the meantime, I would like to leave you with some interesting links:

1) C-Span coverage of the 09-12-09 Taxpayers March on Washington (courtesy of Infowars.com).

Please take a few moments and check it out.

Needless to say, I'm glad that so many attended this protest, and that it was carried on all of the major media outlets. Unless Americans want to doom themselves to eternal serfdom, we need to let it be known that ONLY limited, Constitutional government that protects life, liberty, and property is acceptable.

We have created government to be an impartial referee that upholds the natural rights and responsibilities of ALL the People. We DO NOT need government to be an all powerful ruler that micromanages all aspects of people's lives.

It feels good to know that Americans have finally caught the protest bug, because, as many first time protests have probably discovered, the spoken and written Word has tremendous power.

Remember Team:

No realization of a given goal can come into fruition without the use of Sanmitsu:

Thoughts, Words, and Deeds working together in harmony.

Complaining about the state of affairs solves nothing by itself. Only thinking deeply about a problem accomplishes nothing. Mindless action is a waste of time.

When you do all of the above however...

In any event, methinks that the Washington protest will be the first of many. And I predict that the protests will only be more strident and high profile until the government is forced to straighten up and fly right.

See this passage from Machiavelli's The Prince that explains why Americans will NEVER completely forsake their traditions of liberty. After all, all POWER is in the hands of the People.

2) Please watch this fascinating series of videos by Dr. Bruce Lipton. He makes a very strong argument that beliefs held by the mind control one's multi-dimensional reality. His observation is supported by thousands of years of religious and spiritual teachings about the nature of Mind, Body and Soul, as well as the personal testimony of legions of people throughout the ages.

Dr Lipton's work supports my own thesis that one must be very, very careful about what you consider as truth, and what belief system colors your view of the world.

Unfortunately, many people do not consciously and rationally choose their beliefs based on research, reflection, contemplation, and real life experience. Instead, they believe whatever their "Higher Authorities" have implanted in their minds, and then proceed to build castles of stone upon intellectual foundations of sand.

My personal truthseeking quest began about three years ago... and I am still searching. I am constantly questioning facts, figures, and belief systems to find out what the truth actually is. More often than not, I have found that there are usually multiple points of view regarding any general subject, and that perception and desire play a large role in shaping a religious system, a scientific study, or a school of economics.

However, there are a few key Universal Laws that apply at all times and under all circumstances, and the application of these principles allows one to achieve a desired state of being.

Now a key point here is... what is the desired state of being? What is the goal?

And most importantly... Is this desired outcome something you have chosen, or are you bringing about the goals and objectives of somebody else? Are these outcomes in your best interest? Are you in control of the process, or is someone else pulling your strings??

In short, my friends, I am asking that you take a hard look at your basic assumptions about life. Are they yours? Or are they the ideals and dreams of someone else? Do your beliefs help you accomplish the things you want to do in life, or are they harmful to yourself and others? Do your beliefs harmonize with the Universal Laws that govern all levels of existence?

Or to restate the question: Are you a feminist? Why are you a feminist? Who told you to be a feminist? Do the desired goals and outcomes of feminism help yourself and others or are they harmful? Do feminist goals and objectives lead to greater happiness, productivity, wealth, and spiritual growth in the real world, or do they impede these things?

Review, Examine, and Guard your thoughts carefully my Dear Readers. There are a lot more psychic vampires in the world than you might think...

3) Ron Paul's latest book, End the Fed.

This book, along with the Creature from Jekyll Island, explains in bloodcurdling detail the fraud that is the Federal Reserve, as well as why it should be abolished completely.

Short, crisp, and powerful, End the Fed is a must, must read.

Alright team, it's time for me to get back to my Laboratory.

See you next crime...

Gyokko.

The FED must die!!

2009-08-25T09:27:00.002+09:00

Greetings Gents!

Here's some more tidbits for your reading/viewing pleasure.

First up...

Ron Paul explains why we should bring transparency to the FED system (click here).

At one hour, it's chock full of damning information about the damnable Federal Reserve!

Always a hoot.

Second up...

James Quinn writes why the FED must die:

... The facts prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Federal Reserve has failed in every one of its mandates. Inflation has destroyed the value of the dollar. Interest rates and employment have been violently erratic. The Fed has been manipulated by politicians, showing a complete lack of independence. Only two of the fourteen Chairmen have been truly independent and competent – Paul Volcker & William McChesney Martin. The incompetence and arrogance of the other Chairmen have brought the country to its knees. The final chapter is about to be written...

Don't miss the Dynamic Duo of Ron Paul and James Quinn doing their thing.

And who knows... I might be inspired to put my government finance officer hat on and write up a post about the unceasing flow of federal fiat funds into programs such as VAWA, Child Support, and other cash cows that benefit from your misery.

I might just do such a thing indeed...

Out.

Plato Revisited, and Other Topics.

2009-08-23T22:08:00.003+09:00

What's going on fam?

Sorry I kept you... a lot has been going on lately.

But never fear... your man Gyo has been keeping a close eye on current events, feminism, and economic matters.

We all know that feminists are acting bad, people are protesting at town halls across the country, and the economy is allegedly moving towards "recovery."

So what's my take on all this?

Nothing has fundamentally changed. Political Feminism is knocking on death's door, the people are beginning to realize that their government is out of control, and the economy is still as weak as ever.

Because the fundamental trends haven't changed very much, I haven't felt the need to post every week to basically say the same things I've been saying for the last few months. What is going on all around us is part of a long term trend that will take years to play itself out.

The vital lessons that need to be learned haven't been absorbed yet by the population at large.

Peoples haven't awakened to the fact that Child Support is immoral. Folks still don't recognize that endowing women with special rights, and robbing men and children of their natural rights is fundamentally wrong. The masses still don't understand what their money is, and where it comes from.

And finally, humanity still looks to other people for answers, solutions, and salvation instead of looking to the place where true responsibility and power lies... their own hearts and minds.

But it's ok ya'll. The waves of truth and understanding are crashing against the walls of ignorance. The battering ram of knowledge will soon breach the gates of deception. People are starting to get it. The pendulum is beginning to swing in our favor.

As I walk down the streets of my city, my eyes are open. I see the changes in the womenfolk. Slowly and gradually, women are beginning to reclaim and express their femininity. As I watch man and woman interact with each other, I see how the interplay is becoming more natural and relaxed. Men and women have already begun to renegotiate the social contract that feminism had previously cast asunder.

Now don't misunderstand... the law is light years behind the emerging trends. It's still a dangerous time, and women still have plenty of tools to make a Man's life miserable. Marriage and other forms of co-habitation can still be lethal depending upon the laws in your area. Men should still go their own way until law and custom is changed to protect, uphold, and celebrate their Natural Rights.

All I'm saying is that I am seeing signs of evolution. The present Political Feminist regime is unnatural and unsustainable. It takes a huge amount of material and psychic resources to maintain it. Political feminism is based on lies and deception, and as such, it cannot stand.

Indeed, it's remarkable how resilient love and marriage has been in the face of the Political Feminist onslaught. If humans were the compliant and logical beings that socialists, feminists, and Platonists presuppose, then no one would dare mate, marry, and have children under our current feminist public policy. And yet, people still unconsciously buck the feminist system.

Hope brothers... we must have hope. There is no need to be frustrated by feminism, angry at feminism, or depressed over feminism. It's a waste of time to obsess about feminism, or spend all of your time fighting feminism.

We can and will accomplish our goals of social change, in a calm and relaxed manner. Just by putting the truth out there, MRAs have already altered the flow of events.

By speaking out, writing about, and protesting feminism, we have assured its destruction. By refusing to accept the Political Feminist status quo, we have set events into motion that will burst into the mainstream at some unknown point in the future. As I said before, political feminism is a harsh and unnatural system that requires its victims to buy into the ideology in order for it to be successful. If one domino falls, all the other pillars of political feminist hegemony fall along with it.

But in any event, I wanted to share some items that you might find interesting...

Plato Revisited.

A while back, I wrote a series of posts about Plato as source of socialist, communist, and feminist ideology [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8].

Interestingly, the Mises institute has recently posted an MP3 entitled, It All Started With Plato.

Please take a moment to listen to the podcast, as well as to review my previous posts. I think you will find the material both interesting and relevant to our current situation. More importantly, if we know that our enemies are using Platonic philosophy as the basis for their plans, then we can study the playbook for ourselves and counter their efforts.

What Economic Growth?

What if I told you a secret?

What if I told you that, for the last 50 years, the American people have believed in a massive lie that affected all parts of their lives?

Would you believe me?

What is it now Gyokko, you sigh, tired of my insane ramblings about Platonism, Feminism, and the Global Elite.

Well I'm glad you asked friend...

Here's the secret. The American economy hasn't had any real, debt free growth for the last half century!!

Shocking, I know. Maybe you need some proof...

Please listen to Mr. Andy Sutton explain why American economic growth is a sham. Also, please read this article for detailed commentary and charts.

Check them out, as the sources speak for themselves.

And people support debt based economics because...............

The Breakdown

With the realization that our economy is based on a fairy tale of "growth and prosperity", and that a significant minority of mankind's best and brightest worship at the fount of Platonic knowledge, and also understanding that the implications of these facts are far from pleasant, I have to take a moment and ask a few questions...

Isn't it time that people wake up and stop living in a dreamworld?

Wouldn't it be nice if people would stop drinking the damn Kool-Aid?

Wouldn't be great if people took off the blinders and questioned all of the facts they received from their government sponsored education [a][b] ?

Dear readers,

The time has come for all of us to use 100% of our mental and spiritual faculties. We can no longer outsource our thinking, understanding, belief systems, and social structures to unknown and uncaring people and groups who do not have our best interests at heart.

The truth is out there. There are clearly identified processes that people and societies can use to achieve maximum health, wealth, and happiness with a minimum of time, energy, and resources. And there are people in the world that use these principles and techniques in their personal lives, with outstanding results.

We must understand and accept the fact that massive portions of society are built upon a comedy of errors. In some ways we have improved upon the wisdom of our ancestors, but in many ways, we are woefully ignorant.

What to do? We need to use our noodles and start rejecting ideologies, philosophies, and systems that lead to undesirable and negative outcomes. We also need to embrace systems that lead to desirable and positive outcomes.

For example...

By all measures, feminism has been a massive failure. We must therefore eliminate political feminism in all of its forms.

Applied Platonism, in most cases, has been a resounding failure. We must therefore eradicate all manifestations of platonic philosophy that don't measure up.

Debt Based, Fiat Monetary systems, which have always collapsed upon themselves whenever they have been implemented, must be scrapped. While we're at it, we might as well get rid of flawed economic philosophies, such as the fabian socialist Keynesian school.

We need to begin cutting the fat ASAP. We cannot wait any longer.

Happily, while change is always slow in coming, it is my belief that people are finally beginning to identify the key players responsible for our social and economic malaise.

Assumptions that generations have lived and died under are finally beginning to be questioned.

This is a positive sign, and I keep my eyes open for developments as they occur.

My hope is that one day, we will decide as a society to keep the things that work and are beneficial, and eliminate that which is negative, costly, and harmful.

In the meantime, we who KNOW have a duty and responsibility to cut the fat. And as we do so, and positive events occur in our lives, others will be inspired to do the same.

Till next time,

Gyokko.

Economic Joints.

2009-07-29T08:48:00.006+09:00

Gang,

I would like to present some interesting items for your consideration.

First up... Dr. Edwin Vieira Jr asks, What is a Dollar?

Click on the link and find out!

(Hamilton)

My personal favorite passage from the good doctor's essay, in the words of Alexander Hamilton:

... [R]aising the denomination of the coin [is] a measure
which has been disapproved by the wisest men in the
nations in which it has been practiced, and condemned
by the rest of the world. To declare that a less weight of
gold or silver shall pass for the same sum, which before
represented a greater weight, or to ordain that the
same weight shall pass for a greater sum, are things
substantially of one nature. The consequence of either
of them is to degrade the money unit; obliging creditors
to receive less than their just dues, and depreciating
property of every kind.

* * * * *

The quantity of gold and silver in the national coins, corresponding with a given sum, cannot be made less than heretofore without disturbing the balance of intrinsic value, and making every acre of land, as well as every bushel of wheat, of less actual worth than in time past.

* * *

[A debasement would cause] a rise of prices proportioned to the diminution of the intrinsic value of the coins.

This might be looked for in every enlightened commercial country; but, perhaps, in none with greater certainty than in this; because in none are men less liable to be the dupes of sounds; in none has authority so little resource for substituting names for things.

A general revolution in prices * * * could not fail to distract the ideas of the community, and would be apt to breed discontents as well among those who live on the income of their money as among the poorer classes of the people, to whom the necessaries of life would *** become dearer...

Imagine that... a politician who understood the harm of currency debasement!

Unfortunately for us, we have Secretaries of the Treasury who are more than willing to debase our beloved Federal Reserve Notes with orgasmic abandon.

Now that's progress!!

Anyhoo... be sure to read up.

Next up: a utterly terrifying report from the good folks at Zerohedge.com entitled,

The End of the End of the Recession?

Seventy two punishing pages of why things ain't "All Good in tha Hood". Those who think that things are going to get better in a hurry... need to think again.

And... just in case these two pieces of Literature aren't enough for you, check out what's going on in Detroit:

Detroit is in danger of running out of cash if the city doesn’t take steps to eliminate a $20-million to $25-million budget shortfall before Oct. 1, Mayor Dave Bing told the Free Press on Thursday.
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After spending most of his first two months in office poring over Detroit’s financial books and organizational structure, Bing said the city is so deeply in the red that the following measures must be taken to avoid bankruptcy:

• The consolidation and elimination of some city departments.

• A reduction in nonessential city services.

• Concessions by city employees, including job losses in some cases.

• The hiring of an outside emergency collection agency to help recoup some of the debt owed to the city.

“We’ve got a cash-flow problem in the second quarter,” Bing said, referring to the autumn period of the city’s budget cycle. He told Free Press editors and reporters in an exclusive interview: “The city could actually run out of cash if we do nothing, and I’m not going to sit back and do nothing.”

Bing said the city cannot afford to continue operating the way it has for generations, nor can it afford to keep all of its 13,000 employees...

Just like in the Golden State, Leftist Femi-Socialist ideology has been running wild in the Motor City (and the rest of America) for decades. And, just like Killer Kali:

More Cuts for California Budget

LOS ANGELES — With the help of a blue pencil — with which he made a slew of line-item vetoes — and a ballpoint pen, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed California’s budget into law Tuesday morning, ending the painful and protracted wrangling over how to close a roughly $24 billion two-year gap.

Legislators finalized the document last week after a series of overnight sessions, cutting billions from social service programs. But the State Assembly rejected two revenue-producing measures that left the state $656 million short and without the cash reserve needed to cushion California through rough fiscal waters. To make up the money, the governor made the line-item cuts, in which he took more from services like health insurance for poor children, AIDS programs and the state’s parks system.

For instance, the governor reduced the State Department of Aging’s financing by about $100,000, to $4,121,000. He cut the Department of Public Health’s money by about $7 million, to $47,354,000. He cut millions from domestic violence, AIDS and infant health programs...

Detroit, as well as the United States as a whole, is going to be forced to cut feminist pork projects. They don't WANNA cut the Femi-fat, but they simply won't have a choice.

The seemingly unending flow of fiat dollars might continue a while longer on the Federal level, but this source of income shall too be cut once America can no longer borrow obscene amounts of cheap money from foreign creditors.

The direct and indirect costs of the divorce, the child support, and the family destruction regimes, once ignored and swept under the rug, will become too expensive and too freakin' painful to ignore.

The reality is simple. There can be no wealth creation, or societal advancement without a stable family structure. The traditional family unit brings important economic benefits to the table such as the division of labor and specialization. A family unit also generates superior levels of human and other forms of capital.

Prosperity cannot be found in printing little green pieces of paper. Nor will any happiness or wealth be sustained in a nation where men and women are constantly at war with each other.

The sooner the country realizes this, the better. If resistant elements of the populace cling to their feminist wet dreams, then they will learn the folly of their ways the hard way, as they are reduced to destitution.

(C'mon... did you really think there would be enough social security funds left to take care of the vast hordes of single, cat-owning, Medusa looking, geriatric feminist revolutionaries? I wouldn't be sure sure if I were you!)

So much the better. May the bankrupting of Political Feminism be so utterly complete and thorough that its failure echos for all eternity.

So let it be.

Gyokko.

Gyokko's Musings

2009-07-27T01:47:00.004+09:00

Greetings team!

I know that I've been slow in posting lately. Please bear with us as we make power-moves towards a better tomorrow. Speaking of getting ready... Economic and social Winter is coming soon. Are you and your household prepared to ride out the storm?

Animal Farm.

Mr. James Quinn has written an outstanding piece entitled, "Animal Farm - 2009"

We are now going to examine some excerpts from the article. Be sure to read the entire essay, as it is well worth your time.

The author notes:

... Since the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the United States has gone from taking personal responsibility for our own lives to dependence on government to make all decisions in our lives. There are 306 million Americans and we have defaulted on our responsibility for governing this nation to 535 corrupt politicians, 10 “too big to fail” banks, a secretive Central Bank, 17,000 corporate lobbyists, and thousands of government bureaucrats. Essentially 306 million citizens are managed by a few thousand elitist rulers. George Orwell’s classic novel Animal Farm was inspired by the a scene he witnessed:

“I saw a little boy, perhaps ten years old, driving a huge carthorse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever it tried to turn. It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat...”

Much of my free time these days is spent searching for the truth about humanity, and unlocking the physical, mental, and spiritual powers that have been given to Man by the Creator.

Using myself and my life as a guinea pig of sorts, I have come to the same conclusions as Mr. Orwell. If the average man on the street was aware of his full potential, and structured his life in such a way as to develop and strengthen his innate abilities, then very few intolerable situations would exist in our world.

For example, there are well known Universal Laws that, if adhered to, would provide more returns for less expenditure of time, energy, and resources. There are certain properties of the mind and spirit that can be consciously brought to bear in everyday life to achieve desired goals and to solve difficult problems. Most importantly, humanity has known, for quite some time, that he is in the Image of God and has the ability to create as God creates.

The scale and magnitude of the creation will certainly differ, but the creative process is the same for the Father as it is for the child.

(See Ma'at, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt, page 186, as well as The Gospel of Jesus, page 260. for more information on the above statement.)

Let me end this point by saying that people have more power than they know. However, this power manifests only when one applies Sanmitsu (known in certain circles as the Triple Secret) for their own creative benefit, instead of meekly handing their power to others who DO NOT have their best interests at heart.

The Sanmitsu of thought, word, and deed is an important concept for men who are Going Their Own Way, and I will explain this principle in more detail in future writings.

Mr. Quinn continues:

... Federalist Papers 55 and 56 explicitly promised, without qualification, that there would be one Representative for every thirty-thousand inhabitants. The framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights intended that the total population of Congressional districts never exceed 50,000 to 60,000. Currently, the average population size of the districts is nearly 700,000 and, consequently, the principle of proportionally equitable representation has been abandoned. Our elected officials no longer represent the people. They represent the 17,000 corporate lobbyists who spend $3.3 billion per year to “persuade” them what is best for their special interests. This is why a Congressperson can receive 9 to 1 calls from their constituents against a $700 billion banker bailout bill and still vote for the bill. The ideals of our fledgling Republic have been corrupted by politicians who have sold their souls to corporate and banking interests.

The corruption became more insidious with the creation of the Federal Reserve and the institution of the Federal income tax in 1913. The levers of money printing and raising taxes gave the select few (Pigs) the wherewithal to control and manipulate the working class population. Debt and taxes are the friends of a corrupt politician. The Cabal of bankers who control the Federal Reserve has been printing money for 96 years to such an extent that the U.S. dollar has lost 96% of its purchasing power versus gold. But, with Orwellian irony our government leaders proclaim a “strong dollar policy”. This is a lie. The only way out of the current colossal debt dilemma is by allowing our currency to depreciate even more so that the debt becomes less burdensome in dollar terms. The National Debt is now $11.6 trillion. The National Debt in 1913 was $2.9 billion. Therefore, the National Debt has gone up by 400,000% in 96 years. FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND PERCENT! ...

As I've written previously, Fiat money is the true root of all evil. Political Feminism in particular has benefited tremendously from the unceasing flow of fiat dollars.

... The combination of a permanent political class with an undereducated, uninterested, gullible, naïve electorate has permitted the few to wield immense power over the majority. In Animal Farm, the working class is represented by Boxer the workhorse. He is a hard working non-thinking animal that repeats over and over that “Napoleon (Stalin) is always right”. He is representative of those who believe everything that Barack Obama says is gospel.

Ultimately, Boxer is sacrificed so that the Pigs can live more luxuriously. A highly educated involved electorate would be dangerous to those in power. An atrocious public education system is actually beneficial to the Pigs. There are 34 million Americans without a high school degree, constituting 15% of those over 18 years old. Another 112 million have graduated high school without progressing any further with their education. Many of these people are functionally illiterate, can’t add, can’t spell, don’t know when World War II happened, or who is the Vice President. Only 69% of entering 9th graders in the public school system graduate high school (for more on the secret history of our Public Education system, go here. It is an eye-opener - Gyokko)...

... The proliferation of drugs among the poor keeps them dazed and sedated. Various welfare programs and easy credit keep them from rioting as they can “purchase” luxury cars and electronic gadgets enjoyed by the upper classes. The bad debts are picked up by the taxpayers. As a further control, those in power have put 2.3 million people in prisons, most of whom are poor and 60% who are minorities...

The writer hits the nail on the head with the above list of the major symptoms of our larger sickness. I would also add feminism, a movement aided and abetted by hardcore Leftists and Communists [1][2][3], to the list.

Feminism is a movement based on deceit, and funded with massive quantities of Federal Reserve notes printed out of thin air. More importantly, political feminism has been a powerful tool in destroying families and sowing dissension between men and women. Instead of banding together to face down the common threat of political totalitarianism and economic ruin, men and women have decided to go their own separate ways, with many women choosing feminism (and tyranny) over freedom (and true equality).

Indeed, the Trojan Horse of feminism is more insidious than other forms of in-your-face political dictatorship. Similar to the process by which governments confiscate the wealth of its citizens via inflation, the damaging effects of political feminism are almost invisible. Most people involved in the Truth, Libertarian, Free Market, Sound Money, or traditional Religious movements barely give political feminism, its origins, or its consequences any serious thought.

Members of these movements will correctly identify every other element of the ongoing war on economic, political, social, or religious freedom except the most important detail of all: how a small group of radicals and government politicians have teamed up to regulate all aspects of your intimate relationships.

One cannot have economic freedom when a simple phone call or involuntary divorce filing can result in the confiscation of your home, freedom, and assets. It's kinda hard to have religious freedom when government Child Protective Service agents can swoop in and violate all manner of rights whenever they feel like it.

Social freedom is a non issue when you live in fear of false accusations of rape, domestic violence, dating violence, economic violence, or whatever the hell else the feminists have come up with as Public Policy for these United States. Same thing goes for political freedoms.

Consequently, we as freedom fighters cannot overlook political feminism and the poisonous and corrupting influence that it has on society and its institutions. There can be no proper healing until feminism is purged completely from law and custom, and a basic assumption that everyone has equal rights (as opposed to some being more equal than others) and equal responsibilities (as opposed to giving women a universal "Pussy Pass" to escape the consequences of her actions) assumes its proper place in government, commerce, and social intercourse.

We need this basic assumption of true Equality and Responsibility, as well as an intimate understanding of the Rule of Law and why it is so important to a free and prosperous society.

There will be no evolution of humanity, and no better tomorrow, unless and until this happens.

Getting back to Animal Farm 2009:

Abuse of Language

George Orwell’s most pointed criticism of political leaders was their misuse of language to further their wicked agendas. He exposes the outrageous abuse of words in 1984 and Animal Farm. The ruling elite manipulate the language as an instrument of control over the masses.

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”

George Orwell

The intelligentsia understands that the masses can be manipulated with convincing talking points and misleading slogans. Politicians never tell their constituents they are doing some pork barrel spending. Every dollar of new spending is spun as “investment spending”. We have evidently made $11.6 trillion of “investments” in our National Debt.

Somehow we enacted “campaign finance reform” and still manage to spend $1.3 billion on political campaigns. Our beloved numbskull Vice President Joe Biden said last week, “We have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt”. President Bush said, “I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free market system”. President Obama insisted that the only way to save our country from catastrophe caused by excessive debt was to borrow $700 billion and spend it on infrastructure projects, of which only 3.5% was allocated to our crumbling infrastructure.

During the Vietnam War a U.S. Major declared, “It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it.”

Since we here at Jeweled Tiger School have added feminism to our Most Wanted list, I need to point out that manipulation of language is a prime weapon of the Political Feminists.

Harvey Mansfield, in his masterwork, Manliness, writes:

What was womanly in the woman's movement? It was the manner of this accomplishment... The revolution was done by "raising consciousness," a new method of political promotion borrowed from business psychology. This (the feminists of the 1970's - Gyokko) generation of feminists did not go into the streets, as their sisters had in the campaign for women's suffrage.

They did not flaunt their virtue or appeal to the conscience of society. Working through language, they just asked some men and other women why is it natural to use "he" instead of "she" to refer, for example, a doctor. Isn't this bias in favor of the male sex? And the males nodded dumbly in agreement... This was enough; no heavy argumentation was required (Mansfield, p. 122-123).

And, as the Mighty Marc Rudov has pointed out countless times, Men, for a variety of reasons, are unable or unwilling to challenge women in verbal combat. This situation is nothing new... as writer E Belfort Bax observes, Men have been legally subjected by feminism for quite some time.

In summary, Mr. Quinn's article has given me a lot of food for thought, and there is much that can be said about our present political circumstances and political feminism feed off one another.

However, I think its time to move on and give you something to chew on before I wrap up this post.

Obamacare: WTF??

As the healthcare debate rages on, I wanted to share some interesting bits of information that probably won't show up in the mainstream media.

Check out this podcast by the Financial Sense crew on the subject, and take a look at this healthcare industry insider's blog that explains why this plan is a bad idea and should die a violent death.

Finally, check out how the femmes want to mandate national abortion coverage. Story here.

I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this topic, as these sources reflect my own thinking that socialized medicine is a bad idea, incredibly expense, and a massive invasion of my privacy and liberty.

There are things that can and should be done to fix our system... but this ain't the solution.

Astrology and the Financial Crisis.

Since I gather intelligence from a broad variety of sources, I stumbled onto this very interesting discussion between a business owner and her astrologer.

The main topic: Politics, economics, and the heavenly bodies.

I found the points made to be interesting, largely on target, and confirmation of my own thesis that our social institutions are going to undergo a thorough housecleaning within the next few years.

Political feminism, the Military-Industrial complex, the Financial Elite... all of the old line institutions and movements are about to have a very rude awakening, in my view.

My forecast is simple. There will be a time of tribulations. Those who come out on the other side will inherent the Earth and the wonders thereof. The future belongs to those who understand what rights and responsibilities are, to those who create in order to benefit all instead of enslaving their fellow man for fun and profit, and that entrepreneurship and innovation are going to drive the world's economies into an uncharted territory of productivity, effectiveness, and plenty... if we choose correctly.

I think we will choose correctly in the long run, as pain and misery focus the mind and force societies to seek out alternatives to failed ways of doing business.

In my perfect world, a combination of personal liberty, minimal taxes, technology, free markets, non feminist family values, and a sound monetary system would allow fewer people to work fewer hours. At the same time, these fewer people could easily support a greater number of people in their households.

More people would be unemployed... by choice.

Haven't you noticed that more than 26 million people are unemployed, and that jobs have basically stagnated for the last decade?

Hasn't anyone noticed that all of the fiat dollars and all of the artificial booms have produced ZERO net job growth over the decade? Why?

My guess is that too many people are competing for a limited number of jobs. Due to a variety of reasons, less people do more and better work than ever before.

If we focus on women for a second, we know that they entered the workforce in large numbers for mainly three reasons:

1) Feminism.

2) To support the household standard of living which was and has been eroded due to fiat money creation. Purchasing power of dollars has fallen, and in response, women went to work in order to help pay the bills.

3) Personal expression.

Let's focus on number two for a moment...

While I don't have any solid numbers on how many women entered into the workforce because of the decline of purchasing power, I'm sure the number is significant. If we lived in a society of leisure; a society in which dollars earned went up in value year over year, and savings rates were sufficient to encourage significant savings by households (instead of borrowing and spending), how many people would choose not to work and stay home?

If it were possible for one breadwinner to earn enough to take care of three other people (spouse and two kids, for example), would we have so many people hunting for jobs?

What would these people do with all of this spare time?

Would society be better off if more people were freed up to focus on community activities, child rearing, or other pursuits?

What if men decided to go their own way, and support themselves by creating and producing instead of living their lives as wage slaves? What if women were the ones stuck in 9 to 5 jobs, while their men were at home living it up?

Would governments act differently if they knew there were people who had nothing else to do but to monitor their every move? What if 25% of the American public became C-Span junkies??

These are interesting questions... and maybe I will flesh them out some other time.

But I will tell you this: we might find out the answers to these queries in the very near future.

Methinks that the Age of Leisure will arrive sooner than we might think. And technology, Entrepreneurship, and innovation will be the keys to the kingdom.

Until next time,

Gyokko.

Gyo does the Wall Street Journal.

2009-07-05T23:07:00.002+09:00

Gang,

Please see the article written by Kay S Hymowitz and hosted by the Wall Street Journal entitled, Losing Confidence in Marriage.

I would urge you to read the entire article, as it brings up some interesting points. Be sure to read the comments as well... it looks like MRAs are everywhere!

At this time, however, I would like to draw your attention to the comment I posted in response to the main article and other people who commented on it:

A quick intro. I am a black man who is married with one child. I am also a Mens Rights Activist who has been speaking out about the bias against men in marriage, divorce, and the popular culture for 5 years now.

When the author states that marriage is missing from the black community (in other words, that black people are experiencing a divorce rate much higher than the general population), she is referring to articles like these:

http://grenadianconnection.com/Grenada/EventView.asp?key=2485

http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_black_family.html

http://blackamericans.com/blogs/news/archive/2008/01/25/about-80-of-black-babies-are-born-to-unwed-moms.aspx

The sad truth is that 70 to 80% of black children are born outside of marriage, and the prevailing attitude amongst my people these days is that "marriage is for white people." See below:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/25/AR2006032500029.html

Now, with that being said...

@ all readers:

As previous commenters have pointed out, the problem is not just that attitudes are becoming more permissive, or that religious values are shifting, or that the economy sucks now that the Real Estate Bubble has burst. These things are indeed contributing to our marriage problems. HOWEVER...

The most important factor, that is hardly ever discussed, is that marriage breakdown is driven largely by our ever expanding body of "family" law and "family" institutions that do nothing but to make marriage a net loss proposition for men today.

Please see:

http://antipoliticalfeminism.blogspot.com/2009/06/fathers-day-quick-shot.html

http://www.laryholland.com/

http://www.glennsacks.com/blog/

http://www.stephenbaskerville.net/

These sites will provide a wealth of information about the biggest driver of divorce, and the biggest reason why young people will do anything and everything except get married.

Since this is the WSJ, I don't need to point out that when governments pass laws and uphold precedents that negatively encumber or impact market participants, then you will have inefficiencies, unforeseen negative consequences, and the market actors will increasingly choose to stay on the sidelines until the market becomes more free, more fair, and less burdensome.

We all know this by default. If this is the case... why is it that otherwise intelligent people will forget this truth as soon as it is pointed out that governments are imposing unfair, discriminatory, and unreasonable burdens and regulations upon MEN, thus causing them to avoid marriage in the first place? To say nothing of the variety of moral hazards that cause married couples to blow up simply because they are encouraged, by a host of interested parties, to end their relationships in "family" courts and enrich "family" attorneys at the first signs of trouble or difficulty.

It makes no FINANCIAL (and legal) SENSE to marry today. Men are better off in every respect by steering clear of marriage in legal and social climates that do nothing to buttress marriage, and do everything in their power to rend couples asunder.

In summary,

All of the readers who are happily married are to be congratulated. I also enjoy being married, and we adore our beautiful son.

However, I cannot allow my personal happiness to cloud my vision. Black Americans, and others are suffering BECAUSE our social and legal framework does everything it possibly can to discourage healthy family networks. Those who are married are happy IN SPITE OF our present climate, not because of it. I challenge anyone to go through the "family" law, and observe the "family" courts in action. They do nothing to keep couples together and work through their difficulties... and spend much time relieving one involuntarily divorced party, usually the man, of this (his) economic and parental rights.

Men should go their own way, and keep fighting until our family policies are reformed to support and uphold genuine family relationships for all classes of our society.

Marriage: NOT FREE, NOT FAIR, and not worth it until laws, policies, and attitudes change.

Gyokko.

Hyper Inflation Nation.

2009-07-05T01:11:00.002+09:00

Ladies and gents,

Please see the Youtube video below:

This is a nice, compact documentary that makes the case for Hyperinflation.

The Great Inflation/Deflation debate rages in financial circles, and it appears, from my point of view, that these two forces are locked in an epic struggle for dominance.

The massive ongoing printing of money is, by definition, inflationary. On the other hand, the massive, ongoing destruction of credit, as well as the contraction of fractional reserve lending (by which the bulk of our debt based money comes into existence), is a powerful deflationary force.

Which will win the day?

I anticipate inflation, possibly hyperinflation, as being the eventual outcome of this desperate financial war that is being fought on all fronts.

I side with the inflationists because:

1) Governments will do anything to avoid facing the deflationary consequences of their reckless fiscal, monetary, and economic actions.

After all, deflation is the natural state of affairs.

2) The government, and the Banking Cartel via the Federal Reserve, have absolute control over the production and issuance of legal tender on an unprecedented scale. Gold is no longer a barrier to their inflationary ambitions.

3) The mainstream has been thoroughly miseducated as to how Finance and Economics really works. Consequently, intellectuals propose, and policy makers implement, laws and programs that utterly violate the laws of Finance and Economics.

Just like feminist public policy that is based on complete nonsense, our financial policy will lead to nothing but pain and ruin... for those who are not prepared.

On the bright side... our current regime of Political Feminist domination will be smashed.

On the downside, our entire social order might be smashed should hyperinflation take hold. The future, being what it is, is always uncertain.

In any event...

Kick back, keep an open mind, let this film give you some food for thought, and we'll meet in the middle.

Gyo.

Hot Flixx: Fiat Empire.

2009-06-30T08:09:00.002+09:00

Gang,

Instead of listening to me go on and on this week, I'll simply share this film with you instead.

Check it out, and realize that our economic system is completely arse backwards. As the Mighty Mish notes: Deflation is the natural order of things... not massive bubbles and violent inflationary cycles created by Central Banking Cartels.

Your daily cost of living should be falling, not rising.

Your money should become more valuable over time, not less. And you should be earning a fair amount of interest, instead of the pittance banks are paying out today.

Your working hours should be gradually declining over time, instead of either increasing exponentially or being suddenly cut short by sudden downturns in the economy that lead to you being issued a pinkslip.

FIAT EMPIRE - Why The Federal Reserve Violates The U.S. Constitu - Watch more amazing videos here

By all means... be sure to set aside a few hours, grab your family members, and be prepared to experience a rude awakening.

You are a serf.

You are a loyal citizen of the Fiat Empire.

Gyokko out.

Father's Day Quick Shot.

2009-06-22T02:34:00.004+09:00

Gang,

Happy Father's day!

If you live with your children, give them a big ol hug. If you have been involuntarily exiled from them... hold your head up and stay strong!

A better day is coming.

Leftists are starting to get it.

As I survey the Net for Father's Day related articles, I found this interesting Huffington Post gem entitled,

Fathers Matter "Now" More Than Ever:

Fathers matter more than ever, and anyone who doubts their importance has inevitably endured life without one.

Even feminist Gloria Steinem said, "Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."

The politically correct modern notion is that as long as a child is healthy and loved, it doesn't matter who they are raised and nurtured by. And of course if there is no father, any loving parent is integral for a child's well being.

But the male influence in a child's life is invaluable, irreplaceable and necessary for most of us. There, I said it...

And there it is, in a nutshell. Please note how even the words of arch feminists are beginning to be used to justify and defend fatherhood.

Just wait and see. This is the beginning of the Great American Fatherhood Bull Market.

Getting back to the article:

... This article in no way suggests that millions of single mothers, aunts, grandmothers and other female caregivers have done amazing jobs in raising beautiful, strong boys into men, and with little help. And most women who raise boys alone do so not by choice but because of economic disparity or because husbands, boy friends or mere "sperm donors" have walked out on them no support...

Now longtime readers know that the paragraph above is a DAMN lie... women file 70% of the divorces, initiate the majority of the breakups in cohabiting situations, and are choosing to remain single in increasing numbers [1][2][3]. On top of this, women are choosing to have children out of wedlock more than ever before. WOMEN HAVE ALL OF THE RIGHTS WHEN IT COMES TO HAVING AND RAISING CHILDREN, WHILE MEN ONLY HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES AND DRACONIAN OBLIGATIONS. This is a fact of life in these United States, and is firmly rooted in precedent and public policy.

Now some will argue that women are forced to abandon their relationships due to violence or unavoidable necessity. And in some cases, that may be true.

However, I have two responses to this argument:

1) Genuine, life-threatening, injurious violence against women in relationships is rare... and the sum total of women walking out on their families is much greater than the number of incidents that would fall under the truly serious abuse category. More often than not, women leave their relationships as a personal lifestyle choice, not out of dire necessity. I would also offer my personal opinion that the dynamics of our Matriarchal regime create the conditions that lead to relationship conflict, dissatisfaction, dissolution, and violence.

2) Even if women are being forced to leave in droves due to situations beyond their control (which they are not), we as a society have no way of knowing for sure if basic, fundamental rights are being upheld in the process. We live in a regime of no-fault divorce, mandatory arrest policies, and free-for-all restraining order issuance. More often than not, evidence and facts are the first casualties of the No-Holds-Barred Political Feminist inspired War on Men and families. As a result, commentators on family breakdown issues have NO BASIS to make the claim that, at all times, woman=Good and Man=Bad.

There is no evidence, or moral authority to assign women the higher ethical ground when it comes to relationship issues of any kind. There is no possible way to know if each and every instance of women walking out on their relationships was truly justified. All we know is that women are usually the ones initiating the break ups, and we hear, from a multitude of sources, that women are choosing to do so because of "boredom," "lack of romance," or some other ridiculous reason.

Therefore, when the author of the Huffington Post piece states that "... most women who raise boys alone do so not by choice but because of economic disparity or because husbands, boy friends or mere "sperm donors" have walked out on them no support...", we know it is a boldfaced lie on its face.

Ditto when we read in the multitude of mainstream Father's Day articles that men are abandoning their families in droves, just for the hell of it. BOLD. FACED. LIE.

However, I would urge you to read the entire piece. The paragraph mentioned above notwithstanding, it frames the institution of Fatherhood in a positive light.

In fact, one could say that even the rank and file Leftists of the world are slowly starting to realize the error of their ways. I've had many discussions about Men's Rights Issues with folks who would be considered "socially liberal" who recongize the basic injustice of our "family" court regime. It's just that most of them read articles, such as this one, where the writer will talk out of both sides of her or his mouth, or crank out doublespeak of the highest order to suit their specific purposes. And, as you probably guessed, consuming too much of this material for any length of time scrambles the mind to the point where clear thinking is next to impossible.

Perhaps a MRA re-education camp is in order??

In any event,

Methinks that, going forward, we will have more and more supporters of Men's Rights who identify themselves with the Political Left. Who knows? Maybe challenging the Political Feminist status quo will become the new rallying cry for radicals throughout the world.

Men's Rights Activists of the World... Unite!!

The Trouble with Child Protection Services.

Please take a moment to view these videos as a reminder that, while the country is groaning and writhing over the epidemic of "Men abandoning their families," most individuals don't have a clue as to the real creator and sustainer of fatherless families...

Big Daddy Government.

Unless and until the mainstream understands the depth of the corruption that permeates the entire family law system, we will continue to have to endure the mountains of articles informing us that fatherlessness continues to increase year after year at alarming rates... because of those damn deadbeat dads of course.

Gyokko Out.

Dear Mr. President.

2009-06-20T23:08:00.003+09:00

Gang,

The following the text of a letter I recently sent to President Obama.

Enjoy!

Gyokko writes a letter.

Dear Mr. President,

The AP recently ran a story about Fatherhood and your thoughts on the subject:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090619/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_fatherhood

As a 32 year old black man (and a father of a very handsome five month old son), I can definitely understand your feelings, as I too grew up without my father. I can related to the black hole (spiritually, financially, etc) of emptiness that fatherlessness can create.

I too have searched for answers to this problem, which has reached epidemic proportions in the black community. The outcome of my research, however, has led me to believe that government, via programs such as Welfare (that only pays benefits if fathers are out of the picture), and more importantly, the vast infrastructure of laws and policies on the books, contribute more to family destruction and the discouragement of marriage that anything else.

Please visit the following sites for more information:

http://www.fragilefamilies.princeton.edu/

http://www.stephenbaskerville.net/

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/08/10/missing_men/

http://marriage.rutgers.edu/

Mr. President... it is my conclusion, based on a mountain of evidence, that government is the main source of our current epidemic of fatherlessness. It sounds counter-intuitive I know... but that is the reality.

As President of the United States, and a servant of the People, you have the ability to raise awareness and lobby for true equality, and for meaningful change on this issue. We should work to create a framework of laws and customs that buttresses and supports the family, instead of undermining it at every turn. This also means that groups such as feminists and others have to understand that men AND women have equal rights, complementary roles, and equal RESPONSIBILITIES. To simply say that the problem is "irresponsible men" is an intellectually dishonest oversimplification of the real issues at hand.

The evidence overwhelmingly shows that men are still involved in family matters IN SPITE of official public policy, not because of it. Indeed, official policy has led to a very active movement to discourage men from even marrying in the first place.

In any event, I know you are a very busy man, and that there are certain political realities that might prevent you from making the radical changes that need to be made in order to save fathers and families. However, it is your duty to examine all of the facts and to champion reforms that promote the general welfare of the nation.

In the case of Ancient Egypt (the land where you saw your image in stone), the King had a duty to uphold Ma'at... which means to uphold justice, right and order, and to destroy Isfet (evil, disorder and chaos) wherever it may be found. Our public policy generates much more chaos and disorder than it prevents, and this must change.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ams2OPbmHMUC&pg=PA104&dq=kemet&lr=#PPA31,M1

I recognize that what I am sharing with you is 360 degrees from the common wisdom. But as a finance professional, I can tell you that the truth of things is found not with the masses, but in the margins. What I am asking you to do is to examine the above information and bring it into the mainstream.

Since you and I are basically on the same page when it comes to the outcomes of fatherlessness, I urge you to have your aides look at the linked websites, gather more information, and do whatever you can do to encourage and strengthen (in a positive and correct way, not in the current punitive and incorrect way of doing business, i.e. involuntary divorce, impoverishment and imprisonment) marriage, fatherhood and families.

Otherwise,

America can never regain its previous position as the most powerful, prosperous, and influential nation on the face of the earth.

From one father to another, please look at the information presented, and do whatever it is that you can do to turn this situation around.

Respectfully,

Gyokko.

If I ruled the World...

2009-06-13T07:24:00.007+09:00

Team-members,

Wherever you are in the world, I hope today finds you in good spirits.

Speaking of going global, some of you might have noticed that I have added a Clustermap to the blogspot. And I have to tell ya, its pretty cool (and humbling) to know that I have valued readers in several continents tuning in to my delusional writings and paranoid ravings on a regular basis.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you enjoy the content that Jeweled Tiger School has to offer. And of course, if you like what you read, tell a friend about it. The Mo' readers, the Mo' better.

Desperation in California.

The pressure continues to mount on the largest State in the Union. Indeed, State government is on the verge of a total shutdown. Mish the Enthusiastic lays out the details blow by blow here.

I know I've mentioned this subject before, but I believe the goings-on in Cali are of monumental importance to MRAs, Libertarians, and Truthseekers everywhere.

Notice how Leftist government programs are on the chopping block. Leftist legislators, as usual, refuse to accept the reality of the present situation. Leftist unions of all kinds are engaged in a desperate battle to carry on with business as usual.

(For the record, I have no beef with workers exercising their right to form collective bargaining organizations. The struggle between labor and management is eternal, and there should be no special favoritism for or against labor or the owners of capital. Let the two sides battle it out, and let the chips fall where they may. The Laws of Economics will inevitably punish factions that are economically inefficient or excessively greedy in the long run.)

But it is becoming increasingly obvious that the bulk of government programs serve no purpose other than to make life more costly, inefficient, and difficult. Programs such as these will go the way of the Dodo bird. Programs of all kinds that have a negative return on investment, including feminist pet projects, are all going DOWN.

(Unlike most Libertarians, I accept the fact that there are some essential government services, and that when governments stick to these core functions, they do them quite well. But that is another topic for another time.)

What should be instructive to MRAs everywhere is how politicians are increasingly being forced to choose between supporting Leftist/feminist pork, or making sure that their entities remain financially and politically viable.

Political feminism, which is based on blatant lies and incredibly flawed logic, has had a good run. So long as cheap and easy fiat dollars flowed into feminist and "social services" coffers, everything was just peachy.

So long as society, and the families that hold it together, managed to limp along and pretend that, yes, one-sided, unilateral divorce, the politically motivated plundering of men, and the massive expansion of government into everyone's personal and family lives was a desirable and noble set of objectives, no one really paid much attention to the silent rotting of the nation's marriage and family support structure. Social Dividends were recklessly blown on cheap booze, flat screen TVs, and 40" rims for luxury SUVs.

Nothing to fear... someone else will pay for it.

Nothing to see here folks, that bastard of a man deserved the ass-raping he received in the 'family' courts of injustice. Besides, he looks like an abuser anyway.

Hit the road Jack... You aren't needed in this family unit anymore. The role Yo' sorry male ass used to play has been outsourced to Welfare and Child Protective services.

Yes... we could squander obscene amounts of money and manpower to enforce the Political Feminist regime. But in California, in many States across the Union, and in many Western Countries deep in the quagmire of the new unfolding Great Depression, Political Feminist sacred cows that provide ultra-negative returns on investment are on their way out.

Believe it!

You can almost feel the conflict that many aiders and abettors of these failed and bankrupt government programs are wrestling with.

Whatever shall they do??? It is mysterious indeed how Habitforce brings about long overdue and greatly needed changes.

This just in... the BRICS want their money back!

Check out this eye opening piece posted at Global Research entitled, De-Dollarization:Dismantling America's Financial Military Empire:

... The city of Yakaterinburg, Russia’s largest east of the Urals, may become known not only as the death place of the tsars but of American hegemony too – and not only where US U-2 pilot Gary Powers was shot down in 1960, but where the US-centered international financial order was brought to ground.

Challenging America will be the prime focus of extended meetings in Yekaterinburg, Russia (formerly Sverdlovsk) today and tomorrow (June 15-16) for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and other top officials of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The alliance is comprised of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrghyzstan and Uzbekistan, with observer status for Iran, India, Pakistan and Mongolia. It will be joined on Tuesday by Brazil for trade discussions among the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China).

The attendees have assured American diplomats that dismantling the US financial and military empire is not their aim. They simply want to discuss mutual aid – but in a way that has no role for the United States, NATO or the US dollar as a vehicle for trade. US diplomats may well ask what this really means, if not a move to make US hegemony obsolete...

... In addition to avoiding financing the US buyout of their own industry and the US military encirclement of the globe, China, Russia and other countries no doubt would like to get the same kind of free ride that America has been getting. As matters stand, they see the United States as a lawless nation, financially as well as militarily. How else to characterize a nation that holds out a set of laws for others – on war, debt repayment and treatment of prisoners – but ignores them itself? The United States is now the world’s largest debtor yet has avoided the pain of “structural adjustments” imposed on other debtor economies. US interest-rate and tax reductions in the face of exploding trade and budget deficits are seen as the height of hypocrisy in view of the austerity programs that Washington forces on other countries via the IMF and other Washington vehicles...

... the nations meeting at Yekaterinburg are taking steps to avoid being the unwilling recipients of yet more dollars. Seeing that US global hegemony cannot continue without spending power that they themselves supply, governments are attempting to hasten what Chalmers Johnson has called “the sorrows of empire” in his book by that name – the bankruptcy of the US financial-military world order. If China, Russia and their non-aligned allies have their way, the United States will no longer live off the savings of others (in the form of its own recycled dollars) nor have the money for unlimited military expenditures and adventures.

US officials wanted to attend the Yekaterinburg meeting as observers. They were told No. It is a word that Americans will hear much more in the future...

Be sure to read the entire piece, as this is a vitally important story.

The issues that California is facing are going to be the same issues faced by Fedgov once our foreign creditors oh-so-politely refuse to lend us ever increasing amounts of money via purchasing U.S. T-Bills and Notes.

This won't happen overnight or tomorrow, or the next day. It will be a slow, gradual process of strangulation.

While the lifestyle of many Americans is going to take a major hit, there are a few good things that our forced declaration of insolvency (either by default or by massive money printing) will bring about.

For one thing, our insane quest for global empire will come to an end, and Americans will demand that their political and business leaders focus their efforts and energies into rebuilding America. The much neglected homeland will benefit greatly as a result.

Government, not surprisingly, will be forced to downsize and stick to the core functions that it is actually good at, such as police and fire services. Programs will be cut, workers will be let go, and it will be quickly discovered that giving power and responsibility back to the People will be the cheapest and most effective solution to the multitude of problems that the nation will face. I guess you could say that government powers will be reverse-outsourced back to the People.

Speaking of which, the masses, once their belief that government-can-do-it-all is completely annihilated, will re-discover their personal power and act on it to create a better world out of pure necessity and capitalistic self interest. Community and society will once again have meaning, urgency, and vitality. The great healing process will finally begin.

I am also bullish on American manufacturing and the American employment market, as our vastly depreciated dollar will, if political conditions permit, a great wave of Reverse-Outsourcing as global companies seek to build their goods cheaply in America for local consumption and overseas markets. American factories are going to make a massive comeback in the decades to come.

And finally, the American man is going to benefit tremendously, as Political Feminism crumbles under widespread and sudden abandonment of its ideals and objectives on a local and global scale. The Femmes will still be preaching their rabid stupidity, but no one will take them seriously.

I wonder if the term "Old Maid" will experience a revival in popularity??

I previously wrote a post explaining why the soon to be global economic powers, including Russia and China, have little love for U.N./American fiat financed global feminism.

When the tectonic plates finally shift in the global financial and political landscape, Feminist blowhards will find that their support is as fundamentally unstable as the Leaning Tower of Pisa in the middle of a category 200 Typhoon. Feminist pet projects WILL be sacrificed, and the country will be forced to move in more family friendly direction, if they ever hope to see true social and economic recovery.

Methinks that Political Feminism's 40 year run is coming to a close. Only time will tell if my assertion is the correct one.

In the meantime, let's kick back and enjoy the show. Especially since, with the Bond Markets [1][2] becoming increasingly unstable, the real fireworks might unfold over the weeks and months to come.

If I ruled the World...

Okay, Okay.

Let's be real for a minute.

I know I talk alot about feminism, government sponsored failure, bond market collapses, and fat arsed womenfolk who could stand to lose a few pounds.

A lot.

Often.

Gloom and doom... Doom and gloom.

And I know some of you might be thinking... "Sakes alive! Gyo is one gloomy Gus!"

"Since you're such a smart boy... what exactly would you do to fix things?"

"Can't you bring anything positive to the table??"

Hmm... Good Question. Let's speculate for a minute.

If I were calling the shots, what would I do to turn things around?

Well, before I wax poetical, let me say that I am becoming more and more optimistic about America's future as time goes on.

Contradictory, I know.

In the short term, and in the intermediate long term, we have a lot of problems that we have to deal with. It can't be helped, and the pain cannot be avoided.

Financial commentator James Quinn writes in his must-read article, The Great Awakening: Boomers, Your Crisis Has Arrived:

As a student of history I’m drawn to the concept of cycles. It is comforting to think that history has recurring patterns and a natural rhythm. Trying to figure out why the major events in history occurred is complex, challenging and fascinating. When I read an updated 1997 article by Doug Casey in December on John Mauldin’s site called Foundations of Crisis, I was blown away. Mr. Casey had read the book The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe and made some forecasts of what would happen in the next few years. They were eerily accurate, including an airliner being purposefully crashed into a government building to trigger a crisis. After reading this article I’ve been trying to wrap my arms around the implications of their theory and the possible consequences for the United States. I know that an individual can learn from the past. I’ve always thought that poet George Santayana’s quote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", is profound and worth studying.

The crucial issue is whether societies as a whole are capable of learning from the past or are they condemned to the inevitable cycle of history. Can an individual change the course of history? Was World War II inevitable, even if Adolph Hitler had been killed during World War I? Is there anything that can be done to avert the cyclical crisis that seems to arrive on a consistent basis throughout history? Is our destiny already preordained? Mr. Strauss and Mr. Howe wrote the following words in 1997:

Based on historical patterns, America will hit a once-in-a-century national crisis within the decade...'like winter,' the crisis or 'fourth turning' cannot be averted. It will last 20 years or so and bring hardship and upheavals similar to previous fourth turnings, such as the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II. The fourth turning is a perilous time because the result could be a new 'golden age' for America or the beginning of the end. It all will begin with a 'sudden spark' that catalyzes a crisis mood around the year 2005.

Mr. Quinn's article is required reading... so be sure to check out the entire piece.

In any event, we have a convergence of storms on the horizon... political, financial, social, natural resource related, water and other essential commodity related... the list goes on and on.

We know these storms are coming. There is plenty of time to prepare, to make plans, to alert others and batten down the hatches. We have to recognize the dangers and take the appropriate precautions. I live by the Boy Scout Motto: Be Prepared.

But once you have gotten ready to ride out the storm as best you can, there is simply no need to wallow in negativity or to become depressed about things outside of your control. Indeed, the person who has a backup plan is the one who sleeps the best at night.

Your friend Gyokko smiles quite a bit these days. There is a bounty of opportunity even in the worst of times. And I for one count my blessings, as many other people in the world have much bigger problems than I do.

And, for Men Going Their Own Way, life couldn't be happier. Having successfully avoided the Political Feminist deathtrap called Marriage, and having devoted his time and resources to pursuing his own dreams and to build his spiritual and material wealth, he is truly flexible and free to sidestep the multitude of hazards that befall the less enlightened.

Indeed, such a man has the power to reach and teach his brothers. He has the moral authority to help brothers who have fallen victim to the Divorce and Child Support regime, or have suffered job losses and the like. And best of all, he is free to create blogs, produce Youtube videos, or upload podcasts to combat the feminist onslaught in relative privacy and comfort.

Applied knowledge is truly power, and those who utilize their information and skills in the correct way can create their own reality by the power of focused intention alone. I know this is so because I have literally built my own world by doing that which is right, and shunning that which is wrong. The Enemy has no power over me because I am the one who is in control of my own thoughts, words, and deeds.

The day when one recognizes this fact and takes full and conscious control of their own heart and mind is the day when one becomes truly free from the delusions of the Big Wide World.

Feminists cannot assault me, because I know their ways, their thoughts, and their methods. Fiat central bankers hold no sway over me because I refuse to put myself in their power by excessive borrowing, spending, and hoarding of Federal Reserve Notes. Criminals do not trouble me because I hold no criminal thoughts, I don't live in violent neighborhoods, and I have a wide assortment of tools to protect against potential encounters with them.

But anyway Dear Readers... I digress.

So... getting back on topic: What would I do to fix our most pressing problems?

1) Make the Rule of Law Absolute.

Instead of trying to fix everything in my society, including the things about which I know nothing about, I would rather create a constitution, a body of laws that are in complete harmony with the true and correct Universal Laws and are strictly interpreted and enforced.

We know what the Universal Laws are... these are the principles that have been proven, by thousands of years of human experience, testing, and observation to be true. Many cultures and thinkers have spent countless hours examining, refining, and writing about them, and the effects they have across many diverse and seemingly unrelated disciplines.

The Universal Laws are truisms that, based on long centuries of experience, observation, and experimentation, are proven beyond doubt and human prejudice to be true and correct. Obeying such laws equals success, and breaking such laws uniformly leads to failure.

I would create a body of basic, fundamental laws that would regulate the conduct of all Men without prejudice or unnecessary encumbrances. In addition, my laws would be accessible and easy to understand. None of this thousands of pages of laws business in my Kingdom!

Everyone would know what the fundamental laws are, and would know that these are fixed rules not subject to change based on a whim. The inflexibility and universality of a legal code is what the Rule of Law is all about. It is when a nation is governed by the law, and not by men and their likes and dislikes. The Law is the Law.

2) Insure that the laws are applied to every individual without differentiation or discrimination.

As Bastiat tells us in The Law, favoritism of any sort is the basis of political instability and chaos. Equal rights for all, special rights for none.

3) By upholding the Rule of Law and insuring that they will be applied without bias, I have built the foundation for a society where people will be free to utilize their own unique talents as they see fit, so long as they do not violate the rights of others. The empowered populace would naturally gravitate to the fields where they can maximize their contribution with a minimal amount of personal effort. Technology, productivity, and best practices would rule the day.

But... just in case my people were slow to find their niches, I would hire consultants such as Mr. Richard Koch to provide seminars and training so they could find the occupations and activities where 20% of their energy would yield 80% in terms of positive and beneficial outcomes.

4) I would encourage, by means of moral persuasion, not by force, the populace to become independent producers and entrepreneurs. While not everyone has the desire to do such things, it wouldn't hurt to teach the public how to become self sufficient in economic matters, thereby dramatically elevating the country's standard of living and competitiveness in world markets. To aid me in this effort, I would hire instructors such as Robert Kiyosaki and Tim Ferris to spread the economic gospel to my fellow citizens.

It goes without saying that in my country, Equality of Opportunity is in, and Equality of Outcomes is definitely out. All of my subjects would have an equal right to pursue whatever path they desire, so long as they don't infringe upon the rights of others.

However, trying to insure Equality of Outcomes is a massive waste of time, energy, and resources. Human beings have to accept the consequences of their actions, be it negative or positive. If a man does the right things in the right way, then he is entitled to the fruits of his success. But if a man does the wrong thing the wrong way, then he alone is responsible for his failure.

Oh and by the way... no Most Favored Corporation/Industry policies or Bailouts would be allowed in my Kingdom. All have the opportunity to succeed, as well as the opportunity to fail.

5) Once my fellow citizens have created a peaceable, just, and wealthy society, then it is time to elevate the spiritual and moral level of the people.

My country would be a free marketplace of religious ideals, where differing groups competed in an almost Anything Goes free-for-all to save souls and gain converts. Those who promote violence or commit illegal acts in the process of battling for religious supremacy would be dealt with very harshly. The people would be free to believe whatever they want, so long as they do not violate the rights of others in the process.

And, as the imaginary Royal Prince of Zamunda, I would use my moral authority to promote an environment conducive to ever higher levels of spiritual awareness. To borrow from the Ancients for a moment, I would speak Ma'at, live Ma'at, and do Ma'at at all times... well maybe most of the time.

Anyhoo, I would make damn sure that my laws supported positive spiritual growth, instead of creating perverse incentives and moral hazards to encourage evil, excessive greed, obscene amounts of leverage, and the all consuming abomination of Church's Chicken!

After all, the Law is the lowest level of virtue.

Beyond these basic things... I would leave people alone to do what they do. I would protect the innocent, and reward what is right, while I would be equally focused on punishing the guilty, and completely eliminating what is wrong, ineffective, or harmful to society. I certainly would NOT set up a legal/social framework that rewards incompetence and drives out good and productive things as our present system does today.

So ends my thoughts on if I ruled the world.

Conclusion.

No matter what evils a minority of men may do to one another, I can't shake my feeling of optimism and hope that I hold for humanity at large.

Looking back to history, I know that Germany has experienced hyperinflation and two World Wars. And yet, there she is, a modern and prosperous nation. I know that Britain underwent the devastating loss of Empire, raw materials, and markets, and yet she still maintains a high standard of living. I know that other nations have experienced the worst... wars, famine, disease, inhuman cruelty... but the worst passes eventually, and people somehow find a way to keep on moving and better themselves and their societies; even though the healing process might take a very long period of time to manifest itself.

Even in my own country, I know that my ancestors were impoverished and illiterate slaves and field hands. My ancestors were beaten, sold, and confined to a second class existence for centuries.

And yet, many people, of many racial, religious, and political persuasions, interacted and produced the society in which I live today; a society that has millions of people just like me, a free black man using the internet to record his thoughts on a blog that will be read by individuals throughout the world. the way the world has changed for the better is nothing short of a miracle, in my view.

At the same time, I definitely recognize that life isn't fair all of the time, and that injustice still exists in our day and age.

Men are being discriminated against and are being torn limb from limb by the "family" court system. Big Banks are being bailed out, while the little people work two jobs just to pay the mortgage and buy a loaf of bread. Wars rage around the globe, and shadows of global pandemic loom large.

But in spite of it all, I have faith that truth wins over lies, and that Men always seek to correct that which is wrong... even if the wheels of Justice and Karma are much slower than many would desire.

Happily, there are many avenues an enlightened man can take to evade the grasp of the Enemy, even during the worst of times. And for those of us with eyes to see and ears to hear, those rare men who are going their own way, we can make some pretty good lemonade from the lemons that life tries to hand us. All in all, I think the day is coming soon when I can stop blogging about the evils of feminism, and write posts full time about how awesome your life will be if you decide to take control and go your own way.

Gyokko.

California Implodes, and the Real U.S. National Debt.

2009-05-25T05:29:00.002+09:00

Greetings!

On this special weekend of memorials and barbecues, I hope everyone is doing well and taking a load off.

Two items I wanted to share:

U.S. Debt Clock.Org has a frightening yet fascinating page that every freedom loving American needs to visit.

Click here for the ugly truth (Hat tip to Dollarcollapse.com for the linkage).

Ladies and gents, America is broke. There is no way out of this debt trap except to either:

1) Take the bitter medicine of bankruptices, liquidations, defaults and higher interest rate costs on future borrowings or...

2) Inflate.

Guess which option Uncle Sam is going to choose?

The other item I wanted to bring to your attention is California's current budget crisis.

We all know that California has spent money like a rock star, financing its Leftist, Socialist and Feminist machine by issuing billions in Municipal Bonds.

Even though the State has requested a massive bailout from the Feds, it should be pointed out that the time is coming when even the U.S. Government will be shut out of the Debt markets.

What will happen when the country can no longer borrow extreme amounts of money cheaply and easily?

We need to pay close attention to the California situation because it is the true canary in the coal mine. What's happening in Cali on a micro level is what will probably happen to the Country on a macro level, once we suffer a crippling dollar collapse/debt default scenario.

As depressing as things seem, the economic situation will force everyone to make significant changes to their personal, financial, and political lives... and most of these changes will be for the best in the long run.

For example, government programs that don't cut the Cost/Benefit mustard are going to be cut. And most-favored-feminist programs will not be spared the Axe when that time comes.

While I definitely sympathize with the poor people who are going to suffer the most from these cuts, my hope is that they will be driven to search for the real causes to their suffering, as well as to seek out positive and productive solutions to increase the quality and happiness of their own lives, once they become free of the 80% of government programs that do nothing but reward and perpetuate failure.

Also, failed laws on the books that cost tons of money to enforce are going to be repealed. My guess is that Marijuana will be legal in California (and other States, when the crisis hits in earnest), in the near future. Non violent offenders will be released from the country's jails and prisons, and resources will be reallocated to pursue the 20% of individuals who commit 80% of serious criminal offenses.

Due process and other Constitutional protections will be strengthened because the prevailing attitude will be to keep innocent people out of the criminal justice system. More prosecutions, trials, and convictions = more dollars needed to incarcerate and feed more inmates.

And finally, public policy in this country is going to change. Feminist public policy will be out... marriage and family friendly public policy will be in. Men and women, left to fend for themselves after the collapse of private and public debt bubbles, will quickly rediscover that marriage is the oldest and best wealth creating institution. The people, and their elected representatives will relearn that a stable and equitable marriage culture saves billions of dollars and pays real social and economic dividends.

Less people will commit crimes, less children will be abused, and fewer children will grow up in poverty. More people will be happier and healthier, more secure in their personal and professional lives, and will be more self sufficient as part of a family unit.

But before all of these dividends can be realized, the government barriers to the free marketplace of love and marriage must be destroyed.

And since most are wholly ignorant as to how government has destroyed marriage and family life, it looks like a massive bond market collapse will be the corrective mechanism that brings us back to our senses.

Time marches onwards... and the interest on our massive debts compound every minute of everyday.

The more time we waste on ideas, movements, and programs that have proven themselves to be complete and utter failures, the less time, energy and resources we will have to elevate our society to spectacular heights of happiness, contentment, and satisfaction.

Too bad... so sad.

Gyokko.

The Separation of Marriage and State.

2009-05-22T08:03:00.005+09:00

Valued readers,

Mr. Jerry Salcido, writing for Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty, has published an excellent article that is required reading for those of us who are opposed to the Feminist State and its deathgrip on Marriage:

... California, like the other 49 states and most countries in the world, holds a monopoly over marriage. Who can get married and un-married is at its sole discretion, through the granting and revocation of the marriage license -- that fiat currency, if you will, whose only value derives from the powers and privileges that accompany it at the behest of the State, but which nonetheless is required to consummate human relationships.

The state's involvement with marriage is rarely questioned. Advocates and enemies of same sex marriage alike all seek the endorsement of the state, never stopping to ask why the states approval is needed at all. The reason behind this submission appears simple enough -- the philosophy ascribed by our society today which has led to the displacement of the private sector with the substitution of the state in nearly all facets concerning the rights of life, liberty, and property has taken root in the marriage issue.

Thanks to the state, marriage is no longer a covenant between two people or between two people and God. No, marriage is a state classification, which connotes state-provided benefits or detriments. Marriage is married to the state imposed tax structure and the state created probate system, and in many instances marriage defines the powers of the state over the married individuals.

This unholy union between the state and marriage has transformed marriage from an inalienable or natural right in which government's only place was as protector of that right, to a civil right in which the state became the creator of the right...

It's refreshing that the viewpoints that Senior MRAs such as Baskerville have been writing about for a long time are finally being exposed to a wider audience.

Fiat Financed government, along with the Political Feminists and others who manipulate it, has destroyed marriage in Western society. No man can marry and know that his natural rights will be protected from family court encroachment. The unimpeachable truth of this statement is supported by the volumes of evidence posted throughout this blogspot.

Seek and ye shall find.

At first, only Men's Rights Activists would dare to put two and two together. But ever so slowly, I am beginning to see "green shoots" of understanding blooming in the post Political Feminist landscape. The masses of people who are slowly coming out of their slumber are connecting the dots. Bank Bailouts, Patriot Act abuses, and the Tyranny of the Divorce court [a][b] are all manifestations of private interest groups and public entities running roughshod over any and all notions of Rights, Responsibilities, and Common Sense.

Government is a necessity for civilized living. However, the role and scope of government must be limited to securing the full and equal rights of all of its people without exception. When one group of citizens succumbs to the temptation of using government power to harass, oppress, or seek vengeance upon another group of people, unscrupulous actors within government feed upon this discord in order to maximize their own power and influence. Before long, the newly empowered government regulates all aspects of life. In short order, the controllers wind up being controlled... for their own protection of course.

Continuing with the essay:

... First, the State declares what are and are not rights. Second, even if the State recognizes that something is a right, the State can abrogate that right so long as the State has a sufficient interest. Gone is the day when government's role was to protect the individual's natural rights.

By transitioning away from a protector of rights to a provider of rights, the state has laid the groundwork for the problems that are so evident in the same sex marriage issue. If the government were to take its proper place as a protector of rights then a private union between a same sex couple which the couple calls "marriage" would be inconsequential to same sex marriage opponents, even though it may be morally repugnant to some and nonsensical to others. Likewise, refusal to recognize a private same sex union as "marriage" would be inconsequential to gays and lesbians, even though such refusal may personally offend the practitioners of same sex unions. In a free society any individual could "marry" whomever he wants by whatever procedure he desires, and the government's only role would be to make sure that in doing so he does not violate the natural rights of others.

Such a scenario, of course, assumes that the state would be acting in its proper role as protector of rights in all regards, which would mean that private contractual relationships would replace the state created systems of benefits. Marriage, in that situation, would be relevant only where the contracting parties made it so; and, the state's only role with regards to such contracts would be to ensure that the contract is enforced or to protect the parties against the other's fraud...

And this failure of the government courts to enforce the marriage contract and protect against fraud is exactly why marriage in the West is a losing proposition.

As the Wise Robb Fedders wrote in his essay Marriage is Fraud:

... A contract says that if you behave in such and such manner and don’t deviate out of that behaviour, you will be compensated with a guarantee of this and this behaviour from the other party. Step out of these guidelines and you will be legally liable, stay within them and your rights will be guaranteed.

But, in the 1970’s, the ever wise feminists declared that it was far too difficult to find fault in people’s complex personal relationships, and therefore “No Fault Divorce” was implemented, again with the aid of the heavy hand of the courts. (Odd, isn’t it? They have no troubles at all finding “fault” in cases of domestic violence.)

So what have we got left here?

WE HAVE A FRAUDULENT CONTRACT MASQUERADING AS MARRIAGE!

Indeed we do. And consequently, no Man should even consider entering into such a one sided and dangerous agreement.

In any event, please read Mr. Salcido's article, as it is a good one. But also recognize that it doesn't go far enough (the definitive work on the topic of the destruction of Western Marriage by the State can be found here). Not only does the State need to exit the Marriage Licensing Business, but it also needs to either protect against fraud and enforce the provisions of the Marriage Contract equally and without favoritism towards women, as is the case today, or get the hell out of the way and let private mediators weigh in on marital disputes or dissolutions.

Don't get me wrong though... I view this well written article as another positive sign that the Political Feminist jig is up. Understanding will reach the masses, and then the mangled corpse of the Political Feminist vulture will be tossed into the garbage bin, to rot and fester in its own private Hell where it belongs.

Gyokko out.

キリガクレ学校 － Kirigakure School.