Article here. Excerpt:

'There is a school of thought that the crisis was the product of overwrought masculinity on trading floors and in bank boardrooms. The mostly male commentary is in a similar vein, couched in language that is dehumanising, aggressive and militaristic.

We can't undo the crisis, but we can change the terms of the analysis so we think and talk about it in a more rounded way; so that we listen to the voices of women; and so that we bring some humanity into economic discourse. The harsh truth is that this clean-up is too important to be left to the men who made the mess.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'The probe into the November 26 Mumbai terror attack took an unusual twist with one of the accused, Faheem Ansari, levelling sexual harassment allegations against a woman officer of America's Federal Bureau of Investigation.

An FBI team is conducting an independent probe into the attacks. Faheem has moved the court with his lawyer Ejaz Naqvi filing an application before an Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate alleging that a woman FBI officer, who had interrogated the accused, had "sexually harrassed him all through the night."
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"According to Indian law, no foreign agency can be allowed to interrogate an Indian suspect and we have sought relief from the court," Naqvi said.
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Ansari and Sabauddin were arrested last year in connection with the 2007 New Year eve attack on a CRPF camp in Rampur in Uttar Pradesh. The lone terrorist, Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, arrested in the November 26 terror strikes is also presently in police custody till February 13.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Brewer Monday pleaded "not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect," and will now be sent to a secure upstate psychiatric facility indefinitely, prosecutors said.
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Brewer, prosecutors and Berkowitz all agreed to the plea after two independent psychiatric evaluations showed that, at the time she killed the three children, she didn't know that what she was doing was wrong.

"My granddaughter loved her children," said Brewer's grandmother Maebell Mickens, outside the courtroom. "I feel she's getting ready to get the help she needs."

Brewer, 28, is accused of drowning her three children in February 2008, and she later said she feared that her children were under a voodoo curse. Killed were Jewell Ward, 6, Michael Demesyeux, 5, and Innocent Demesyeux, 18 months.
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The father of the youngest children, Innocent Demesyeux, said in a statement issued by his attorney last week that he was "shocked" that prosecutors would let Brewer plead insanity.

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Australian Institute of Criminology has recently corrected an error in its National Homicide Monitoring Program 2006-07 Annual Report (see email below).

The original report stated that 7 homicides involved a mother and 15 involved male family members.

The corrected report states that 11 homicides involved a mother and 11 homicides involved a male family member. When the category of 'male family member' is broken down, we see that only 5 perpetrators were fathers, while another 5 five were de-facto partners of the mother who lived with the child (one father murdered two children). Importantly, no child victims were killed by a complete stranger in 200607.'

The Economic Stimulus plan currently being considered by the Senate allocates 400 million dollars to fund ineffective domestic violence programs?¹.

Last week, we asked you to call three key Senators on the stimulus bill, Senators Ben Nelson, Susan Collins, and Arlen Specter regarding the proposed funding. This week, we ask you to contact those Senators again and two additional Senators, Sen. Olympia J. Snowe and Sen. Joe Lieberman.

Because of the importance of the stimulus package, you may be unable to get through on the Senators' main numbers in D.C. If you cannot get through, we ask you to either fax them or contact their district offices. The web pages with their district office contact information is included below:

'About' page here. Excerpt:

'That chart you see above is one reason why this issue is so intriguing: What happened in that time interval to motivate so many more girls than boys to aspire to higher education? That’s a puzzle, but there are reasons beyond that puzzle to conclude this is an issue that will rise in importance. Regardless of why boys are relative slackers, the momentum of this social change appears unstoppable, at least in the near future. Women will increasingly dominate higher education. Within about ten years, the average U.S. campus will have two females for every male.

Given that both the College Board and U.S. Department of Education agree there are no economic reasons for these imbalances (men and women get equal income boosts from earning bachelor’s degrees), something here is amiss. My own theory is that as the world has become more verbal, schools have allowed boys to slip behind in literacy skills.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Marijuana use may increase the risk of developing testicular cancer, in particular a more aggressive form of the disease, according to a U.S. study published on Monday.

The study of 369 Seattle-area men ages 18 to 44 with testicular cancer and 979 men in the same age bracket without the disease found that current marijuana users were 70 percent more likely to develop it compared to nonusers.

The risk appeared to be highest among men who had reported smoking marijuana for at least 10 years, used it more than once a week or started using it before age 18, the researchers wrote in the journal Cancer.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON, February 6 - Some groups worry that the $400 million in bill for abuse-reduction efforts will do little to stimulate the economy, and are calling on lawmakers to remove the funds until domestic violence programs show proof of effectiveness. The call comes from RADAR (Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting), a victim advocacy organization, as well as from other partner organizations.
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Groups such as African-Americans for VAWA Reform believe the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) relies too heavily on law enforcement and ignores the needs of male abuse victims. Other problems include a rise in false accusations of domestic violence which lead to families unnecessarily being torn apart, and victims revictimized by abuse shelter staff, and immigration loopholes that grant permanent status to foreign nationals based on a simple allegation of abuse. In addition, statistics show that VAWA has not been effective in reducing domestic violence.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'While I agreed with Dr. Sax's main ideas when I heard him speak on the radio program, I wasn't sure what was behind his assertion that the American culture was in trouble unless we reverse this trend. After reading this book (in one day, I might add - I couldn't put it down), I'm sold. We cannot afford to have nearly one-fourth of our young men living at home, not working or contributing to society, avoiding responsibility and believing that this approach to life is just fine - but that's the way American society is headed. Something is wrong, and Dr. Sax believes he knows why American boys and young men can't find their way toward a purpose-filled life.

Article here. Excerpt:

'JERUSALEM, Feb 9 (Reuters) - With Israeli pollsters predicting a close national election on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is wooing female swing voters whose support could help her clinch victory.

Campaign ads for Livni's centrist Kadima party splashed over billboards and across websites promise a "different kind of prime minister" and urge Israelis to elect the country's first woman prime minister in three decades.
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"I make decisions, not coffee," Livni told an audience in Tel Aviv of her role in the assault on Gaza, countering critics who have said she lacks high-level experience.

"This can also be a country in which women decide their future," she told a rally in Jerusalem to women wearing pink T-shirts saying: "The time has come for women to be first".
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"It is sexist to say Livni lacks experience. Here the (male) generals think they are God," Shulamit Aloni, a retired dovish lawmaker, told Reuters of Livni, Israel's chief negotiator with the Palestinians and a senior cabinet minister through two wars.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'HAMTRAMCK -- The license plate in the window of the family Cadillac reads "Best Dad." But a 4-year-old girl told police Mom wasn't nearly so kind.

"Mom cooks me like a turkey in the oven," she told police.

Hamtramck cops stumbled onto the graphic allegations of burnings, beatings and torture after the girl's mother phoned police Jan. 23 and confessed to "harming her children," Detective Ben Bielecki said Thursday.
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Police said Valentino's husband, Randy, wasn't home and there's no evidence that he abused their children.

After the incident, Valentino called police about 3 p.m. to come get her.

"She said she is harming her family," Bielecki said. "It's extreme. It's an awful thing that's happened. I just hope she doesn't get custody of the kids -- ever."'

You may be interested in A Father's Promise by Al Roker on MSNBC. While this show correctly shows the importance of fathers to their children's well-being, it appears to blame fathers for being absent as well. Excerpt:

"More American boys and girls than ever are growing up without a father. It is a cultural issue that has emerged at the forefront of American politics. "A Father's Promise" explores this unsettling crisis. Coinciding with Black History Month, MSNBC will premiere "A Father's Promise" Sunday, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. ET."

Sorry for the short lead time with this.

These are entirely made up, concocted and twisted statistics that these Indian feminists are projecting to the world in order to beg for more and more millions from the taxpayers money of the western countries. Then of course, the money is used primarily to feed their own gigantic greed, and with whatever leftover money, to bribe the politicians into passing more and more anti-men laws, so that all men get so scared that they start to shy away from the institution of marriage itself. And quite obviously no one is worried about the ever increasing men facing domestic violence from their women partners! Here's the story: Ring the bell, stop domestic violence

'What do you do when the man next door is beating his wife? A) Close the windows and turn up the volume on the telly. B) Squirm but tell yourself it's no use interfering. It is simpler to not do anything and that is exactly what Mumbai resident Christina Lobo Jha did till a new initiative to end domestic violence gave her a third option - Ring the Bell or Bell Bajao.

Story here. Excerpt:

'BRASILIA, Brazil - An American who has waged a four-year custody battle for his son in Brazil reached an agreement Friday to visit the 8-year-old boy.

David Goldman reached the agreement during a five-hour mediation session. The custody battle started in 2004 after his wife took the boy to her native Brazil, according to Goldman.

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, who traveled to Brazil with Goldman in an attempt to reunite him with his son, announced the agreement after attending the session, which was presided over by a high-ranking federal judge.
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He said he has not seen his son since his former wife Bruna took the boy for a two-week vacation to her native Brazil in 2004 and never returned.

She later divorced Goldman in Brazil — a divorce he says is not valid in the United States — and married Rio de Janeiro lawyer Joao Paulo Lins e Silva. She died last year of complications from the birth of another child.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Iceland, ravaged throughout history by volcanic eruptions and natural catastrophes, is struggling with a man-made disaster so overwhelming that the women are taking over. It is, they say here, the end of the Age of Testosterone.

Next week a newly minted left-leaning Government led by Johanna Sigurdardottir will start to tackle the tough agenda of cleaning out the old-school-chum networks that have led Iceland to the verge of bankruptcy.