American Hostages: We Are Coming (For You)

Alicia Keys is slammed for asking fans if she should take up PARAGLIDING 

   

 Gigi Hadid and family 'receive death threats and forced to change phone numbers' after sharing support for Palestine 

   

 Guardian cartoonist’s contract not renewed after Netanyahu drawing 

   

 Mexican Cartel’s Message to Members: Stop Making Fentanyl or Die 

 Citibank sacking banker over two-sandwich lunch 

   

 Alternative medicine and antivax: Two crappy tastes that taste crappy together—particularly among physicians

Kat Von D won't become 'the poster child for Christianity' 

   

 What Happened to San Francisco, Really? 

   

 Blue state delivers crippling blow to green energy development

Domed fantasy village for sale for $1.8M 

   

 Riley Gaines says transgender identities are 'spiritual warfare' 

   

 11,000-year-old statue of giant man clutching penis

Happy Feelings All Around

Most Cancer Patients Use Complementary or Alternative Medicine even though Steve Jobs' example is out there in neon. These NewAge people do NOT learn.

Police found 115 bodies at a ‘green’ funeral home

Students fight to defend school against takeover by fringe religious ideology

Slow News Day/Slow News Gay (Everybody Just Calm Down)

“Girl-children and their Pied Pipers took to the streets, demanding — demanding! — an end to all traditional sources of energy and the immediate installation of the net-zero, carbon-free, powered-by-unicorn-farts utopian future they believe they’re owed because, well, just because.”

It's Time To Settle Scores (And The Currency Is Dollars)

So we're NOT running out of oil? I told you nut jobs we weren't running out of oil - you've been forcing me to listen to, endure, and pay for your ethically-challenged, personal insecurity, bullshit:

“The flood of North American crude oil is set to become a deluge,...”

I'm going green now:

Reparations from environmentalists, too,...

 

There's A Reason So Many Women Invest In Their Looks

But, to be honest, a low-cut top would have sold this argument,...

There's No Difference Between NewAgers & Other Fools

“A mouldering pile of newspaper clippings about Prince Charles’s organic farms is a Holy Relic.”

A Death In The Family (Of We Who Watch You Squirm)

Nobody ever joins a cult. One joins a nonprofit group that promotes green technology, animal rights, or transcendental meditation. One joins a yoga class or an entrepreneurial workshop. One begins practicing an Eastern religion that preaches peace and forbearance. The first rule of recruitment, writes Margaret Singer, the doyenne of cult scholarship, is that a recruit must never suspect he or she is being recruited. The second rule is that the cult must monopolize the recruit’s time. Therefore, in order to have any chance of rescuing a new acolyte, it is critical to act quickly. The problem is that family and friends, much like the new cult member, are often slow to admit the severity of the situation. “Clients usually don’t come to me until their daughter is already to-the-tits brainwashed,” says David Sullivan, a private investigator in San Francisco who specializes in cults. “By that point the success rate is very low.”

Private Investigator David Sullivan, who specialized in rescuing people out of cults, died October 11 in his San Francisco home at the age of 62, following a recurrence of cancer.

Hitler May Be Dead But Nazi Ideas Are Strong As Ever

When the connection between Nazi and NewAger becomes clear: 

  “Women must be the spiritual caregivers and the secret queens of our people, called upon by fate for this special task!”

Yep - that's how they see themselves:

Women, doing "the special task" of carrying on the Nazi's obsessions with yoga, homeopathy, the environment, feminism, producing "special" children, euthanasia, hating the Jews, worshiping the East, etc. It's all there:

And denying it - as the Germans did - just makes it stand out more,...

 

I Will Not Save The Planet Until Women Stop Ruining It

You wouldn't think it, after visiting a Whole Foods, but it looks like I'm not alone on everything:

   "Why don’t people behave in more environmentally friendly ways? New research presents one uncomfortable answer: They don’t want to be associated with environmentalists.

That’s the conclusion of troubling new research from Canada, which similarly finds support for feminist goals is hampered by a dislike of feminists."

"Troubling new research"? You know what's "troubling"?

"Twig Boy" and "FemiNazi" and they still don't get the hint,...

NewAge: The Only Belief You Have To Catch In The Act

I haven't read this whole piece yet, but I like that it begins with the NewAge cult's multi-pronged al Qaeda-like structure:

New Age Movement Explained The New Age Movement (NAM) is both a religious and a social movement. In fact, Western culture is currently experiencing a phenomenal, spiritual, ideological, and sociological shift. It is a religious world view that is alien and hostile to Christianity. It’s a multi-focused, multi-faceted synthesis, in varying degrees, of the Far Eastern, mystical religions, mainly Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Western Occultism, adapted to and influenced by Western, materialistic culture. It sometimes appears in secularized forms.

Yep - it's political, and religious, but also "spiritual but not religious". It can be exercise - or a 5,000 year old spiritual practice (yoga). NewAgers gather in churches, or spiritual retreats, or even corporate gatherings. Daytime TV shows are also popular. Environmentalism, feminism, healthcare, science (and pseudoscience) they've got their claws dug into any crevice, or bit of soft flesh, they can find in society.

Tell me what you think before I finish the whole thing,...

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Were We Sure, When We Said, "It Can't Happen Here?"

Finding these memes can be amazing sometimes:

"Many of the progressive and holistic ideas that lie at the heart of today’s lifestyle Left, the environmental Left, and the New Age movement share numerous unquestioned philosophical, emotional, and practical similarities with the intellectual and cultural currents that fed into and sustained Nazism."

- JONAH GOLDBERG

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Looking At Things Side-Ways (To Avoid Choosing One)

Yea! THE INTERNET STAYS ON! And I've finally got company in the G.O.P.:

“I’m sorry to be the skunk at the garden party, but I think if Dr. King were alive today, he would step on some of these sacred issues.”

Republicans love to scream MLK was one of ours. Not cool to think like him nowadays - TMR is definitely "the skunk at the garden party" - but still the appropriate place to be. So what's the beef? Try this one on for size - a point I've made many times, before, to crickets:

“Everybody has come in front of [blacks] on the bus — gays, immigrants, women, environmentalists. You never hear any talk about the conditions confronting poor blacks and poor people in general.”

He got a standing O for show. I get push-back.

Let's see - he said gays. More important than poor blacks. That's been made clear. The coverage is overwhelming. Blacks have been struggling to keep food on the table for as long as I've been alive, but that obviously doesn't compare to gay marriage. Nobody's ever called anybody a loser for not resolving conditions in the ghettos. We should've thrown glitter in church for attention.

Immigrants. Hear about them all-the-time now. Will they be able to stay? Won't they? Not as important as how Americans can keep a roof over our heads. That's not very important at all. Never has been. Never hear about it. It's not a priority. Weird.

Women? Women. Ann Althouse makes $177,000 a year, for God knows what, and still bitches like she's raped daily. The average black household makes around $20,000. You do the math on "oppression".

And environmentalists? Why bother with blacks when they're determined to "save the planet" - which has only been around for, oh, what? 4 and a half billion years without their assistance? I can feel the love. But it makes total sense.

I've got two things that don't make sense, though:

A) Why it takes an idiot conservative like me to notice this is how it's been working, and B) why it took another one to mention it,...

Hypnotized (By The Cult Of Enviro-Mentalism)

"Sometimes a book, or an idea, can be obscure and widely influential at the same time. That’s the case with 'Ecotopia,' a 1970s cult novel, originally self-published by its author, Ernest Callenbach, that has seeped into the American groundwater without becoming well known."

 

The novel, now being rediscovered, speaks to our ecological present: in the flush of a financial crisis, the Pacific Northwest secedes from the United States, and its citizens establish a sustainable economy, a cross between Scandinavian socialism and Northern California back-to-the-landism, with the custom — years before the environmental writer Michael Pollan began his campaign — to eat local.

White bicycles sit in public places, to be borrowed at will. A creek runs down Market Street in San Francisco. Strange receptacles called 'recycle bins' sit on trains, along with 'hanging ferns and small plants.'

A female president, more Hillary Clinton than Sarah Palin, rules this nation, from Northern California up through Oregon and Washington.

“ ‘Ecotopia’ became almost immediately absorbed into the popular culture,” said Scott Slovic, a professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a pioneer of the growing literature-and-the-environment movement. 

'You hear people talking about the idea of Ecotopia, or about the Northwest as Ecotopia. But a lot of them don’t know where the term came from.'

...Its characters are flat; its prose — well, call it utilitarian. 

 

And the plot, in which the narrator drops his skepticism and settles into Ecotopian life, thanks in part to a love interest, lacks sophistication. 

...'Ecotopia' has its critics. Feminists attacked it for its ritual war games, in which men don spears to work off their 'natural' aggression, dragging women into the woods to celebrate. (Mr. Callenbach said he was influenced by the anthropologist Margaret Mead, and her idea that the sexes express aggression differently.)

 Some were made uncomfortable by the way black people were excluded from Ecotopian society: 

 

Most live in Soul City, which is less affluent and green than the rest of Mr. Callenbach’s world.

Over the years, Mr. Callenbach’s readership has changed, as hippies and New Agers have been joined by churchgoers. The author often visits St. Mary’s College of California, a Catholic school near Oakland. 'Ecotopia' is required freshman reading at the Presbyterian-affiliated Muskingum College in rural Ohio. And it’s part of the curriculum at the University of San Francisco, a Jesuit institution.

Mr. Callenbach hopes the book will resonate among the greening edges of an evangelical movement. But the novel’s relatively free sex and liberal politics may limit that readership. 

Susanna Hecht, a professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, sees it as a counterpoint to Thoreau’s more austere 'Walden.'

“ ‘Walden’ is very Protestant,” she said. 'This is pagan, with a Zen relationship to nature.'

But to Mr. Callenbach and many of his fans, 'Ecotopia' is a blueprint for the future.

'It is so hard to imagine anything fundamentally different from what we have now,' he said. 'But without these alternate visions, we get stuck on dead center.'

'And we’d better get ready,' he added. 'We need to know where we’d like to go.'"

-- Scott Timberg, on the '70s cult novel that has been discovered as a cultishly philosophical blueprint for American society's current manipulation, in The New York Times.