What he really means to say is that the long-term HE-cession that years of neglecting male needs for education and job training will soon become such a problem that pols/ex-pols like him won't be able to drive around in their fancy cars without being encased in bullet-proof windows. My, what a world we are making for ourselves. Article here. Excerpt:

'Gordon Brown will warn on Thursday that the world faces youth unemployment of "epidemic proportions", as he urges joint action by the G20 group of developed and developing nations to tackle rising joblessness.
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"Unemployment is an international timebomb for both developed and developing worlds," Brown will say in the Ted Kennedy/John Harvard memorial lecture.

With some labour market analysts predicting that under-25 joblessness in the UK will edge closer to the 1 million level in today's figures, the former prime minister will say: "The world faces global youth unemployment of epidemic proportions."'

Press release here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The majority of domestic violence education programs supported by the federal government do not provide a truthful depiction of the problem of partner abuse, according to a report released today. The document, "Most DV Educational Programs Lack Accuracy, Balance, and Truthfulness" concludes that nine out of 10 training, education, and public awareness programs fail to meet minimum standards of objectivity.

The report is issued by Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE), a victim advocacy group working for evidence-based solutions to domestic violence. The full report can viewed here: http://www.saveservices.org/downloads/SAVE-DV-Educational-Programs

Article here. Excerpt:

The Khasi, who number about 1 million in India's north-eastern state of Meghalaya, carry on the matrilineal tradition. The youngest daughter inherits, children take their mother's surname, and once married, men live in their mother-in-law's home.

"Only mothers or mother-in-laws look after the children. Men are not even entitled to take part in family gatherings. The husband is up against a whole clan of people: his wife, his mother-in-law and his children. So all he can do is play the guitar, sing, take to drink and die young," Pariat concludes gloomily.

In September 2010, the 'Medical Journal of Australia' (MJA) published an editorial entitled "The case for boosting infant male circumcision in the face of rising heterosexual transmission of HIV" (here).

The e-version of this editorial is behind a paywall on the MJA site, but you can get the jist of the editorial - and how it was used in the mainstream media - from this ABC article: here (the smirking female journalist adds a particularly sick resonance to the story).

According to a recent article in the professional publication 'Australian Doctor' (homepage), "Circumcision row erupts" - also behind a paywall but reproduced in full on The Intactivism Pages website: here - the MJA editorial resulted in a 'barrage of angry letters' from doctors (eight letters were actually published).

Story here.

'A teenage boy arrested on suspicion of rape has been released without charge.

The 17-year-old, from Slough, was arrested in connection with the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Tilehurst in November.

The schoolgirl, from Tilehurst, was attacked inside a car in a car park after accepting a lift as she walked along Northumberland Avenue, in Whitley, on Tuesday, November 16.

Det Sgt Elton Evans, from Reading CID, said: “Thames Valley Police now believes this incident to be a false report of rape and an investigation into the circumstances is continuing.”'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Their mouths were muzzled and wrapped in so much tape they couldn't breathe, bark or eat. Their fur was matted with filth and the house was crammed with so much trash, it hid the floor.

A Long Island mother and daughter were arrested yesterday after more than a dozen tortured dogs and cats were rescued from a filth-riddled Rockville Centre home that included more than two dozen decomposing animal remains, cops said.
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Faith Ross, 54, a secretary, and Francesca Maselli, 24, a nursing-home aide, pleaded not guilty and were being held at the Nassau County Jail on more than $75,000 bail each on three felony animal-cruelty counts.
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Ross' ex-husband, Louis Maselli, said he has had no contact with daughter Francesca for more than a decade because Ross cut her off from him and his family after the courts refused to require visitation.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Children say the cutest things! Over Christmas one of mine told me that years ago she asked me why I was a feminist. It was on the way to school and I am not a morning person. Possibly she was expecting something about equal pay. Apparently I snapped: "Because men do horrible, horrible things". She was alarmed.

That was bad of me wasn't it? A little sexist? Warping the mind of a young girl. She is now grown up and thinks it's funny. It's probably not in any childcare manual and the right answer would have been stuff about wanting equal opportunities. Or I could have replied that anyone with a brain, man or woman, would see the necessity of feminism. I could have been "inclusive".

Article here. Excerpt:

'A woman who lied about being gang raped in Somalia to claim more than £250,000 in benefits had moved to Britain after boasting it was the ‘land of easy money’.

Ayan Abdulle was jailed this week after investigators discovered that the story she used to win asylum – and later UK citizenship – was a pack of lies.

Now the Daily Mail can reveal the full scale of her fraud and how easily she was able to milk the benefits system for years.

Abdulle, who also used the fake name Amina Muse and is from Somalia, was living in Gothenburg when the authorities insisted immigrants learn Swedish if they wanted to continue to claim handouts.'

Here are the feminists again creating women-only deals! When will it ever end? Excerpt:

'FAIRFIELD-CABRAMATTA PCYC will build a new female-only cardio oasis and upgrade its facilities after it received a $54,000 boost under the State Budget.

The organisation was among 11 others in the area receiving $400,000 as part of the State Government’s $35 million Community Building Partnership program.

Fairfield-Cabramatta PCYC manager Jeannie Banks said the money would also go towards upgrading the kitchen and constructing a new carpark.

“We will be spending $17,500 on buying a fridge and microwave, as well as upgrading the kitchen which will actually comply with OH&S,” she said. “We will also spend $11,500 on the demolition of the old dilapidated house next door and build a new carpark for our staff. We will then look at increasing it to hold more activities for the community.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Prescott police arrested a woman Tuesday evening on misdemeanor charges of assault per domestic violence and criminal damage per domestic violence, and booked her into the Yavapai County Jail in Camp Verde on the same day she had been released after allegedly threatening her mother and kicking her brother as they drove her home from jail.

The mother told the officer they picked up her daughter from the jail earlier that day after a 27-day lockup, and during the trip back to town her daughter had continuously yelled, argued, swore and threatened them with physical harm and death, according to the police report. The brother told the officer that the woman had kicked him in the face.
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After an officer arrived at the Circle K and spoke with them, he saw the woman jump out of the car and run toward Highway 89. The officer handcuffed the woman, and she reportedly swore, yelled, spit, insulted and threatened the officer and continued on the way to the police department and in the booking room.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A Manhattan lawyer who has filed a series of antifeminist lawsuits in recent years -– with little success — has suffered his latest defeat: the United States Supreme Court refused to hear what he calls his “ladies’ night lawsuit.”
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The suit, filed in federal court, was dismissed, and so was a subsequent appeal. Mr. Den Hollander then submitted a petition to the United States Supreme Court on the same issue. He said he received word on Wednesday that the court had refused to hear the case.
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Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, said that Mr. Den Hollander reminded her of Bobby Riggs, who challenged Billie Jean King to a “battle of the sexes” tennis match in 1973 and then lost.

“He was one of the best things to happen to women’s tennis because he started a national conversation about the inequality of prize money and other issues, for women.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'One resident will ­forever carry the scars from near-fatal stab wounds, while another sits silently in the corner with a face etched with fear.

Both have fled to this safe house to escape violent partners. Both have done so in fear of their lives and — shockingly — both are men: members of a growing band of British male domestic abuse victims.

Jay is a soft-spoken, gentle, 22-year-old labourer from Cardiff who was repeatedly punched by his 32-year-old girlfriend. He tells me he’d be on the streets if it wasn’t for the help he’s getting here now.

‘People don’t think men get hit, but we do. People don’t think men suffer, but we do,’ he tells me.

‘At first I didn’t speak about the violence because of the stigma, but in the end I did and it was social ­services who helped me come here. I had nowhere else to go.’

The ‘here’ is an unremarkable looking ­terrace house in a valley in Powys, midWales.

A story in The Wall Street Journal describes the postings that Jared Lee Loughner typed to a group of about 50 online gamers located around the world. Readers will remember that he is alleged to be the shooter a shooting rampage that took place in Tucson, Arizona. This article goes on at length describing Loughner's trouble with the legal system, his trouble with women, his trouble finding a job, and his trouble dealing with mental illness. Loughner cries for help repeatedly, but all he gets are some suggestions to handle it himself. He is left entirely on his own, although he shows bizarre behavior which is clearly publicly evident. For example, he was suspended from and later withdrew from a community college, allegedly for off-topic outbursts during a math class. If he were a woman, there would be all sorts of support offered to him, all sorts of safety nets would have been deployed. In some respects this sorry case reveals how little support there is for men in today's American culture.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Japan's birth rate stands at 1.21 per family, far below the rate of 2.08 babies that is required for a stable population.
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According to the survey of 671 men and 869 women, issued by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 35.1 per cent of men aged 16 to 19 said they are not interested in or averse to sex, more than double the 17.5 per cent of men in the previous study in 2008.

"Obviously, the most important reason for Japan's declining birth rate is that people are not having sex," Dr. Kunio Kitamura, head of the Japan Family Planning Association, told The Daily Telegraph.

"Combined with the rising number of elderly people, this population imbalance is a major problem," he said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A TORY councillor has vowed not to campaign for his party until it reverses a policy designed to combat domestic violence.
Portsmouth City Councillor James Williams (pictured) announced he will not work for the Tories outside his own Nelson ward unless it withdraws the new 'Go' orders.

The orders give senior police officers on-the-spot rights to remove men suspected of committing acts of domestic abuse from their homes for 48 hours. Courts can then extend that to two weeks.

The policy was designed by the last Labour government, but is now being piloted in three areas of the UK by Home Secretary Theresa May. There is no equivalent policy aimed at women. Cllr Williams says the orders challenge freedom and are part of a feminist war on men.'