Article here. Excerpt:

'Hong Kong's Equal Opportunities Commission says men are discriminated against in the workplace.

"We're not out to stir up trouble," says Commission Chairman Lam Woon-Kwong. "For lower-educated men, even the young ones, finding a job is difficult. Even if they get one, the salary is low."

The service industry in particular prefers to hire women for posts such as cashier. Ironically, part of the reason is unequal salary expectations -- women are generally willing to work for lower pay.

In the 1980s, when Hong Kong lost its competitive edge in manufacturing, many factories relocated to the Chinese mainland. With them went male-dominated factory employment.

Now, low-level white-collar jobs are also being lost to the mainland.

Hong Kong men with low-education levels find it difficult to get hired. And while there are many welfare programs for women in Hong Kong, social initiatives for men are lacking.'

She's made here fortune from a life of crime, and most of here Male family members have spilled blood for her, so this "matriarch" is ready to retire. Link to article here. Excerpt:

'The matriarch of the Chaouk family has "put her foot down" and urged her relatives to end their deadly dispute with the rival Haddara clan.

Cancer-stricken widow Fatma Chaouk is "sick and tired and dying" and does not want to see any more family members killed, barrister Tas Roubos told the Victorian County Court on Monday.

Mrs Chaouk's change of attitude comes after the death of her husband Macchour, who was gunned down in the backyard of the family's western Melbourne home in August.'

Report here. Excerpt:

'The hard work has been done by James Williams, the presenter of the radio show “Men’s Matters”, at ExpressFM in Portsmouth, UK. He has, of his own volition and independently of me, adapted the Feminism series of films to make it suitable for radio, and then broadcast it at ExpressFM virtually in its entirety.

This is absolutely unheard of in any mainstream media and is nothing short of an historic achievement!

As anyone familiar with men’s issues will know, the genuine viewpoints expressed by men’s rights advocates and any views that are remotely anti-Feminist are simply not allowed to be aired and so this radio broadcast is undoubtedly a first in Britain and a phenomenal achievement.'

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'Authorities in Yemen have released on bail a 22-year-old female engineering student whose name and phone number were on the shipping documents for the two bombs sent to the United States.
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A Yemeni official briefed on the investigation said the suspect "is not allowed to leave the country pending further questioning."

The official said the shipping agent who received the packages was called in to identify her and said Samawi "was not the person who signed the shipping manifesto."
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But as her fellow students mounted a protest Sunday at a university, her lawyers questioned why anyone involved in the plot would use their real name and phone number to ship a bomb.'

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'One thing the rates don’t reflect is the disproportionate number of men who are receiving unemployment insurance.

“If you look, 80 percent receiving unemployment insurance payments are male, whereas they are just about 50 percent of the population,” he said. “The issue is that the big hits in jobs have been in construction and manufacturing that are heavily male and the gains have been in health care and education that are more female.

“People are using the term ‘mancession,’ ” he said.

Nationally, first-time claims for unemployment fell 21,000 to 434,000, the third straight decline. The report boosted early Wall Street trading that actually ended the day slightly lower.

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'On the Facebook page for the Foundation for Male Studies, the up-and-coming academic group spearheading this movement, articles abound justifying the need to address this supposed crisis. One such article involves the decreasing ratio of men to women attending four-year colleges and universities, and another addresses the statistic that women “for the first time ever” make up the majority of the workforce due to layoffs associated with the economic recession.

In a recent New York Times article, male-studies proponent and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute Christina Hoff Sommers says that “male-averse attitudes are widespread in the United States” due in part to feminist studies and the fact that masculinity has become a social taboo.
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So, what does Stanford have to think about this new branch of study?

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'The University of Tulsa’s Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) program is hosting a three-night film festival this week examining the unique conditions and tribulations facing incarcerated women.

“Women and Incarceration” is this year’s theme for the many WGS events to take place on campus. Oklahoma incarcerates more women per capita than any other state in the nation. The WGS program will feature two films each night on Oct. 5, 6 and 7.

On Tuesday, the two feature films will focus specifically on incarcerated mothers. “Prison Lullabies” follows the stories of four women serving prison sentences for nonviolent crimes.

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'9:22 a.m., Oct. 26, 2010----The Department of Women's Studies at the University of Delaware has been awarded a grant from Verizon Delaware that will be used to start a new undergraduate concentration in domestic violence and to prepare students to earn certification in the field.

The three-year, $187,000 grant also will allow UD to offer an intensive 10-week summer practicum in which students will work with community agencies throughout Delaware, gaining firsthand experience in such areas as providing services to domestic violence victims. The Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence (DCADV) announced the grant this week; a formal presentation will be made at the coalition's annual Purple Ribbon public-awareness event on Oct. 28 in Wilmington.

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'Prior to August 2010, British Airways had a policy whereby they would not allow adult male passengers to sit next to unaccompanied children on flights, even if the man was travelling with others. Many other airlines still enforce such erroneous policies, which are doing nothing short of presuming all men to be potential paedophiles. I don’t recall any similar rule being applicable to women. More to the point, no rule of this kind should have been implemented whatsoever. Such political correctness gone mad has even resulted in one airline (British Airways) trying to separate a man from his own children on one occasion, namely a certain Boris Johnson.

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'Ever wondered why there are such few women in math-intensive fields? Two psychological scientists at Cornell University believe women aren't innately poor at math; instead they choose to stay away from the subject.

Stephen Ceci and Wendy Williams reviewed all of the evidence and concluded that the main factor is women's choices-both freely made, such as that they'd rather study biology than math, and constrained, such as the fact that the difficult first years as a professor coincide with the time when many women are having children.

But girls' grades in math from grade school through college are as good as or better than boys', and women and men earn comparable average scores on standardized math tests.

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'Barack Obama’s pandering to the feminists makes him look like the suitor who is unwilling to face up to his beloved’s announcing she will marry another man. In desperation, he showers her with expensive gifts, hoping to win back her favor.
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Obama’s principal plan to nail down the loyalty of the feminists is to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act (PFA). It has already passed the House and Majority Leader Harry Reid plans a Senate vote in a mischievous Lame Duck session.

This bill would amend the Equal Pay Act (EPA) to shift decision-making about wages and salaries from employers to judges and juries, a longtime goal of the feminists who want wages to be based on subjective motions of “worth” rather than on market rates. The Paycheck Fairness Act (PFA) would also reward another Obama constituency by opening a lucrative channel for trial lawyers to file class-action lawsuits against employers and collect punitive damages in unlimited amounts.

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'Republican Sharron Angle famously told Sen. Harry Reid to "man up" during a Nevada debate this month -- the implication being that Reid is a wuss, or not man enough to do his job. You'll get no argument from me, but I did note Reid didn't fire back at his opponent. That's because feminists have taught him well.

When faced with whether or not to make a disparaging remark about the female gender, most men know to keep their mouths shut.

In politics today, women can do and say whatever they want about the opposite sex, but men can't do likewise. "You can't come back on gender grounds to a female candidate," says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Link to article here. Let's hope they catch the bas***d! Excerpt:

'Four cats and a pet dog survived living alone in squalor by eating one another, a British court has heard.

The owner of the animals, Lorraine Peake, left them when she moved from her home in Bolton in the country's north-west in March this year, the Daily Mail reports.

The 48-year-old said she paid a man $80 to check on the animals — but could not provide any more details when pressed by the RSPCA.'

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'Nurses have been banned from flirting with patients under new ethics guidelines for hospitals.

The rules also crack down on sexual innuendo, “off-colour” jokes and offensive language, The Sunday Telegraph reported.
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The guidelines come after the number of complaints made about NSW nurses with “professional boundary issues” almost tripled in the year to June 2009, compared with the previous year.

Figures from the NSW Nurses and Midwives Board reveal there were 17 complaints made in 2009, while there were a total 47 complaints over the past five years.'

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'Yemeni police have arrested a woman on suspicion of mailing a pair of bombs powerful enough to take down aircraft, officials said on Saturday as details emerged about a terrorist plot aimed at the US that exploited security gaps in the worldwide shipping system.

Investigators were hunting the Arabian Peninsula nation for more suspects tied to al-Qaeda and several American officials identified the terrorist group's top explosives expert in Yemen as the most likely bombmaker.

The explosives, addressed to synagogues in the Chicago area, were pulled off planes in England and the United Arab Emirates early on Friday morning, touching off a tense search for other devices.'