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- Avoid News Towards a Healthy News Diet By Rolf Dobelli
Coronavirus: USA reopening up again:
- Hospitals can safely treat all patients who need it.
- At least everyone with symptoms can be tested.
- All confirmed cases and their contacts can be monitored.
- The number of cases fall for at least 14 days.[1]
Think tanks:
- Claremont Institute
- City Journal
- American Mind
- American Enterprise Institute
- Heritage Foundation
- Manhattan Institute For Policy Research
- Hudson Institute
Websites:
YouTube video channels:
Right wing YouTube channels:
News:
- The New American
- City Journal
- Daily Signal
- American Thinker
- Drudge Report
- WND
- World News
- Evangelical Focus
Political/religious blogs:
Video:
Center/libertarian/right-leaning YouTube channels:
News from a variety of political perspectives:
Rank | Information Source | Comments |
---|---|---|
Cybercast News | uniquely informative news across all issues, including social ones; a top-quality news site in every respect | |
Western Center for Journalism | Conservative news | |
Gerald Celente | Center/right politically and big on economics and trends | |
WorldNetDaily | has reporters at conservative events; moved to number 1 with its candid and courageous reporting about the homosexual agenda | |
One News Now | Christian conservative news source | |
Drudge Report | ||
City Journal | Quarterly Journal - Thomas Sowell calls it "Arguably America's best magazine" | |
Breitbart | breaks some big stories and political exposés | |
Fox News | high volume of info | |
The Hill | terrific source of news from Washington, D.C., without liberal bias |
Contents
- 1 Conservative trends
- 2 Libertine values and societal decay
- 3 Muslim migrant problems
- 4 Rise of right-wing populism
- 5 Major causal factors for politics today
- 6 Evangelical organizations
- 7 Racial demographic/political shifts
- 8 Academic and highly educated/intelligent people, political elitism and pride/blindsidedness
- 9 America in crisis. A window of opportunity
- 10 Major powers: USA, European nations, China and Russia
- 11 Decline of nations/civilizations
- 12 Leftism
- 13 Freedom vs. complete autonomy vs. social responsibilities
- 14 Right-wing news
- 15 China and Christianity
- 16 Peter L. Berger's blog
- 17 GSS trends
- 18 Western culture
- 19 Paul Joseph Johnson
- 20 Gerald Celente YouTube channel
- 21 = Donald Trump
- 21.1 Trump and Christianity/religion
- 21.2 2020 Presidential election anomolies
- 21.3 Demography and religion/Global Christianity
- 21.4 Decline of the state/nations
- 21.5 Expansion of right-wing material on the internet
- 21.6 Feminism
- 21.7 Secular left
- 21.8 Political/religious essays
- 21.9 Islam
- 21.10 Muslims/evangelicals. Secular leftism collapsing faster than I expected
- 21.11 Election betting odds
- 21.12 Books
- 21.13 Essays
Conservative trends
Libertine values and societal decay
Muslim migrant problems
Rise of right-wing populism
- The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism is On. As of Now, the Right-Wing is Ahead
- Book Review: National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy by Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin
- Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin - YouTube
- National Populism: the revolt against liberal democracy
- National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy - book
Major causal factors for politics today
- What’s behind the rise of radicalism? Here are some theories By Megan McArdle, Washington Post, Oct. 9, 2019
- How Progressivism Enabled the Rise of the Populist Right, Eric Kaufmann, 2019
- The Shocking Paper Predicting the End of Democracy, By RICK SHENKMAN, Politico, September 08, 2019
- The rise of populism shouldn’t have surprised anyone, Washington Post, 2017
- Trump rode an 'us versus them' populism all the way to the White House. A global recession could take it to dangerous levels, Business Insider, 2019
Evangelical organizations
Racial demographic/political shifts
- Who Polarized Us?, Eric kaufmann
- STUDIES: Whites (not strictly defined) Projected to Become Dominant Supermajority in U.S
- Interview with Eric Kaufmann: race on a professor’s whiteboard
- Eric Kaufmann on Nationalism, White Identity & Immigration
- Harvard: Diversity + Proximity = Republican Voters
Racial demographic shifts - Eric Kaufmann, Book: White Shift
Eric Kaufmann, Book: White Shift
Multiculturism, Western culture and anti-white bashing
Academic and highly educated/intelligent people, political elitism and pride/blindsidedness
"Yet the cognitive and behavioral science literature suggests that those who are highly educated, intelligent or rhetorically skilled tend to be significantly less likely than most to revise their beliefs or adjust their positions when confronted with evidence or arguments that contradict their priors. This is because, in virtue of knowing more about the world, or being better at arguing, they are better equipped to punch holes in data or arguments that contradict their prior views or to otherwise make excuses for “sticking to their guns” regardless. And so, they do...
Indeed, research suggests that people with highly refined critical capacities often deploy them to scrutinize others. Hence, those with higher education levels and academic aptitude (college GPA) tend to be less attuned than most to ambiguity, complexity, uncertainty and limitations in their own knowledge -- and less prone to innovative or creative thinking.
That is perhaps because studies show that, compared to the general public, highly educated or intelligent people tend to be more ideological in their thinking, more ideologically rigid and more extreme in their ideological leanings. Highly educated and intelligent people are also more likely to grow obsessed with some moral or political cause. Research suggests that they are more likely to overreact to small shocks, challenges or slights. Other studies have found that, while they are less likely to be prejudiced against others on the basis of things like race, they tend to be more prejudiced than most against those who seem to think differently than they do -- and often look down on those with less education.
In short, many of the biases and distortions to which all people are susceptible seem to be even more pronounced among those who are highly educated or intelligent."[2]
Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality
People clinging to dead ideas which have repeatedly failed: Ideological necrophilia
"Bernie Sanders’s attraction to massive, government-centered programs places him squarely among populists who dismiss the need to maintain fiscal balances and end up with unsustainable government budget deficits. The plans on his campaign website would amount to an estimated $18 trillion to $30 trillion in new spending over the next 10 years. In pledging a form of European-like socialism to throngs of adoring young people, he doesn’t mention that if they were European, many of them would be unemployed and without prospects of finding a well-paying job. The bottom line: Many of his policies have already been tested, and many don’t work all that well.
In a world in which a few keystrokes on a computer can lead to a wealth of information about the track record of a particular economic or political proposal, it’s surprising that ideological necrophilia is still so common. There are many reasons why bad ideas endure, but perhaps the most important is people’s need to believe in a leader when faced with the grave anxieties and uncertainties associated with rapid change—and the demagogue’s inclination in these fragile moments to promise anything, even the discarded notions of demagogues past, in order to obtain and retain power.
There are many reasons why bad ideas endure, but perhaps the most important is people’s need to believe in a leader when faced with the grave anxieties and uncertainties associated with rapid change—and the demagogue’s inclination in these fragile moments to promise anything, even the discarded notions of demagogues past, in order to obtain and retain power." - What Is Ideological Necrophilia? by MOISÉS NAÍM
America in crisis. A window of opportunity
- I’ve Experienced This Cultural Moment Before … in Russia, Christianity Today
Major powers: USA, European nations, China and Russia
China
Japan
Russia
Post Western Civ World. US and China prominent powers. European decline
USA:
China:
Europe:
Post Western World
Decline of nations:
Map of world by population size
Decline of nations/civilizations
Leftism
Leftism is dead/collapsing
- The Left is collapsing everywhere, Washington Examiner, February 2017
- The collapse of the political Left, Washington Examiner by Michael Barone, Dec 7, 2016
- Despite Thomas Piketty, Voters Reject Economic Redistribution, Townhall, 2014
Political left collapsing while leftism ascending in Democrat party
- Is the political Left collapsing?, Democrats not doing well politically. Regional party of American NE and some coastal regions and don't have national appeal
Identity politics
Anti-white identity politics
Freedom vs. complete autonomy vs. social responsibilities
Right-wing news
China and Christianity
Peter L. Berger's blog
GSS trends
GSS belief in God/irreligion
Western culture
Feminism
Identity politics
Racial politics and immigration
- Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann
Paul Joseph Johnson
Gerald Celente YouTube channel
= Donald Trump
Trump and Christianity/religion
- Recognizing God's Hand in Donald Trump's Election
- Importance of the 'faith factor' in Trump's election win
- Michele Bachmann on Election Night Prayer: 'The Lord Did This'
- Billy Graham's Son: God Put Trump in Office
- Franklin Graham: God had a hand in this election
- Sarah Sanders: God wanted Trump as president
- ‘God is the ultimate’: How Trump talks about his faith
- Trump Pledges to Protect Christianity
- Christmas message from President and Mrs. Trump
- Trump: We're saying 'Merry Christmas' again
- Trump on saying ‘Merry Christmas’
- Trump Responds To Pope
2020 Presidential election anomolies
Demography and religion/Global Christianity
- Shall the religious inherit the earth - Eric Kaufmann
- Europe and Islam - Eric Kaufmann
American evangelical hispanics:
- American Hispanic population to triple by 2050
- How shifting religious and other experiences are affecting Hispanic political identities - Pew Research
Eric Kaufmann:
Decline of the state/nations
- Men have forgotten God by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Expansion of right-wing material on the internet
- Why the Right Is Dominating YouTube - Vice News
- Psychological effects of right-wing and Islamic extremist videos - Netherlands and German report
Feminism
Secular left
Political/religious essays
Islam
Europe: Mass immigration, guilt and a continent on the brink of 'societal catastrophe'
Islamic populations hitting various percentages of population and the consequences
- What Islam Isn't - Dr. Peter Hammond
- What Islam Isn't - Dr. Peter Hammond, 2008 - from his 2005 book
Islam and indoctrination
Islam, Europe and demographics
Muslims/evangelicals. Secular leftism collapsing faster than I expected
Please read the following articles:
Germany/France are two main pillars upon which Western, secular, liberalism rests now. If Gave is roughly correct (he did have a mathematical error as per the latter link given above), then an anti-atheism, anti-homosexuality, ant-feminism Muslim population may strike a huge blow against secular leftism much earlier than I thought.
On top of this, Merkel appears to be much weaker now and the French youth are becoming more right-wing in recent years.
I do know that Muslims are not assimilating and they tend to live in isolated ghettos in France (See: European desecularization in the 21st century).
My guess is that the accuracy of Gave's calculation rests on whether or not the fertility rate of French Muslims will about stay the same or significantly drop in the next 40 years.
After all is said and done, secular leftism appears to be between a quickly growing hammer of right-wing populism and an anvil of Muslim/Christian evangelicalism.
Secular leftism is collapsing much faster than I anticipated. However, I did foresee an acceleration of desecularization happening in the world so I was not completely caught off guard (see: Acceleration of 21st century desecularization).
Election betting odds
Accuracy of political prediction/betting markets
Books
Martin van Creveld books:
Reviews:
- REVIEW: Equality – The Impossible Quest by Dr. Martin van Creveld
- Book Review: Equality: The Impossible Quest