Circumcision Failure Leads To Lawsuit: Botched Bris Caused 'Catastrophic' Injury

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Pennsylvania rabbi has been sued by the parents of the baby boy he circumcised on April 28 in a botched ceremony that caused a "catastrophic and life-changing injury," reports Trib Total Media. Rabbi Mordechai Rosenberg, an Orthodox mohel, or ritual circumciser, acted "with a total disregard" for the child, alleges the civil lawsuit brought by parents identified only by their initials, in order to protect the identity of their son.

Attorney Neil Rosen called the accident "unimaginable" but declined to elaborate on the nature of the injury. However, the baby was rushed to a Children's Hospital for "emergency reconstructive surgery and leech therapy," according to the lawsuit. Clinical pharmacist Carrie Sorenson told Trib Total Media that "leeches help a body accept reattached parts by promoting blood flow and tissue regeneration." The infant required several follow-up visits to the hospital.'

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European Central Bank fails to attract enough female applicants to fill own quota

Article here. Excerpt:

'The European Central Bank is struggling to attract enough women to meet its self-imposed quotas for female staff in the first round of a hiring spree as it prepares to take on supervision of the continent’s largest banks next year.

The central bank has so far confirmed Daniele Nouy, previously in charge of France’s prudential supervisor, as the head of its Single Supervisory Mechanism.

But applications from women in the first round of hiring have fallen short of the ECB’s own targets for other senior and middle management positions, according to an official familiar with the hiring process, who did not specify by how much. Around 100 jobs have so far been advertised and have closed to new applications.'

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Pakistan: Yes, men face gender discrimination too

Article here. Excerpt:

'With feministic values seeping into the core of our society, unconstitutional ‘family only’ areas, no recognition of domestic violence against men and reserved seats for women in the assemblies, Pakistan seems to be a feminist’s dream.

Out of the total 269 elected National Assembly seats, only eight are occupied by women. Yet, 68 women sit in the assembly, thanks to the 60 seats reserved for women. The oft-cited reason for this quota is to ensure that the assemblies, both national and provincial, represent the actual population of the country.

... A 2006 study by the University of Florida, one of the first to include psychological abuse in their findings, revealed that “women are more likely than men to stalk, attack and psychologically abuse their partners”. While this may not entirely be true in Pakistan, where an overwhelming majority of domestic violence victims are indeed women, it is not uncommon for men in the country to suffer from domestic violence too.

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‘Sexism’ charges prove bogus

Article here. Excerpt:

'Is Harvard Law School — that liberal Utopia and bastion of political correctness — sexist?

A group of feminist students and alumni thinks so.

In a short film available online, a group calling itself the “Shatter the Ceiling” coalition claims that Harvard Law’s competitive climate is “hostile to women.”

“Hostile?” Maybe. But sexist or hostile to women, in particular? Please.
...
When I was at HLS in the early 1990s, enormous classes and campus political polarization contributed to a feeling of alienation among male and female students alike. Students were intellectually challenged, but unhappy.

Then came Dean Elena Kagan (now on the U.S. Supreme Court), and much of what made Harvard Law so miserable began to change.

Kagan reduced class size, modernized the curriculum, and dramatically upgraded the infrastructure. Most important, she personally hosted numerous community-building events and made scholars and students of all political perspectives feel welcome. Students were happier.

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Barbara Kay: Battered women should not get away with statutory murder

Article here. Excerpt:

'In a just-published book, Defending Battered Women on Trial, University of Ottawa law professor Elizabeth Sheehy argues that chronically battered women should have a “statutory escape hatch” if they kill their male abusers pre-emptively rather than “live in anticipatory dread and hypervigilance.”

That is, battered women should be allowed to get away with statutory murder — killing their abuser not in spontaneous self-defence during a crisis, say, but premeditatedly killing the man in his sleep, an action that would incur a murder charge for anyone else. A number of sympathetic Canadian courts have already exonerated such women de facto. Sheehy would like the practice to be entrenched de jure.

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Washington Post's 'Fact Checker' takes Eric Holder to task

From SAVE:

We've found the domestic violence industry is riddled with a nearly endless assortment of half-truths, misleading claims, and outright falsehoods. See http://www.saveservices.org/camp/truth/

On Dec. 18, the Washington Post's Fact Checker Glenn Kessler reported that this claim by AG Eric Holder can now be consigned to the dustbin of "damned lies:"

“Disturbingly, intimate partner homicide is the leading cause of death for African American women ages 15 to 45.”

In 2014, SAVE will be working to expose many more of these "noble lies."

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Math and science scores in highly feminist-influenced countries

This article shows the countries that score the hightest in math and science. Notice that so few -- hardly any -- are steeped in feminism. These are countries that value their men. Meanwhile, in the US, Sweden, Norway and so on, where they are no longer teaching rigorous math, where they are no longer teaching physics, where they are asking boys to study knitting, where they are devaluing the male gender... technology scores are dropping. I wonder if there is a connection? Countries that devalue men are fast losing their competitive edge. Excerpt:

'TOKYO -- The OECD's latest international student assessment shows that Asia continues to have some of the highest scoring students in the world when it comes to reading, mathematics and science.

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NPO: What Does Newtown Teach Us About Fatherhood? Last Year's Lesson Re-Learned

Article here. Excerpt:

'Last year December, Ned Holstein wrote about the Newtown tragedy and Adam Lanza. With the continuing discussion and anniversary, we are running his article again. His points about fatherhood and family law reform remain pertinent to the discussion.
...
After our tears dry for the twenty little darlings and seven others who were mowed down by Adam Lanza, we begin to ask “Why?”

There is always a dominant narrative to explain the unthinkable. Now it is mostly about the absence of effective gun controls, or about mental illness. Or, we hear about the effects of violence on television and video games.

We don’t hear about the effects of fatherlessness, especially on young men. We don’t hear that the most reliable predictor of crime is neither poverty nor race but growing up fatherless. We don’t hear that a large majority of violent criminals were fatherless. We don’t even hear that young male elephants go on violent rampages unless they are kept in line by the old bulls. ...'

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'Mary Poppins', just for sharing

Every now and then, I turn back to childhood and view a specific sequence of a specific movie: "Mary Poppins". Most people think it is about a magic lady.
Others think it is about women gaining suffrage (the wife in the story). But I have always felt the story comes to an emotional peak in this one sequence.

Sometimes men must learn what values most: their own families. Society expects and demands of men so much and many of my brothers let their lives pass them by. In this sequence, two men share the important lesson of life.

With that in mind, watch the sequence, note the return of the theme song "Spoonful of Sugar" and the recitative section without the accompaniment. Most of all, just watch the face of the father; the acting is perfection.

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'Serial kissers: what you need to know about babies'

Article here. Excerpt:

'People are up in arms that an adorable 6-year-old boy was suspended for sexual harassment after kissing a little girl he liked on the hand during reading group.

They say officials at Lincoln School of Science and Technology in Cañon City, Colorado took the discipline of first-grader Hunter Yelton too far even though the youngster admits his guilt.
...
As a society, we must fight nature at all costs and combat should begin before hand-kissing offenders reach the ripe old age of 6.

You’ve got to start these things young — like just out of the womb young.

Babies are the most dangerous serial kissers on the planet.

Stopping babies from kissing or showing any public or private affection is the only way we can live free of Hunter’s brand of sexual harassment.

Nothing and no one is safe from these precious beasts.'

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Please lodge anti-circumcision replies with the U.S. State Dept re PEPFAR -- deadline is 23 December 2013

This is a response to the document "Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: PEPFAR Program Expenditures" [Form Number: DS-4213, OMB Control Number: 1405-0208].

Due to a past lack of oversight by the CDC, the State Department is proposing to require recipients of PEPFAR funds to account for expenditures by program area. This response is in agreement with this requirement, also highlighting the lack of oversight and free-spending culture of the NIH at the time of sponsoring the circumcision trials in Africa, the adverse affects of funding circumcision in Africa (coercion of men and boys to be circumcised, misdirection of scarce medical resources from higher priority health areas), and continuing problems within the CDC raising questions about the capability of the organisation to oversee the activities of grantees inrecipients of federal funds.

The deadline for submissions is 23 December 2013.

This submission can be made by anybody from any country around the world.

Instructions:

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SAVE E-lert: The Blithe Dishonesty of the Avon Foundation for Women

To reduce domestic violence, we need to tell the truth about domestic violence.

Unfortunately, some Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)-funded DV organizations don't share this opinion. Or they are clueless.

One example is Avon Foundation. They claim that 85% of DV victims are female, even though the CDC National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey found that more men are victims of physical partner abuse than women.

The time has come to end the misinformation.

We have been polite long enough. Starting next year, when we see a lie, we'll call it a lie.

Help us expose the liars. Please make a tax-deductible donation HERE.

On behalf of the truth, thank you.

Teri Stoddard, Program Director
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
www.saveservices.org

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UK: Father climbs shopping centre in protest

Originally, this story was found here. But now mysteriously, it has vanished! It is not even in the Google cache indexed to the published URL. However it looks like it was snagged by at least one scrapers before it was pulled. Part of it can still be seen here. Bots and scrapers: The web's #1 defense against post-facto imposed- and self-censorship alike!

'A TUNBRIDGE Wells dad caused a stir this afternoon when he appeared on the top of a shopping centre.

Father-of-one Marcus Riley, of Rusthall, was protesting for the right to see his one-year-old daughter, Lacie.

Dressed as Father Christmas and waving a 'Fathers for Justice' banner, he scaled Royal Victoria Place's multi-storey carpark at 11:50 this morning.

At midday, he appeared on the roof at the entrance opposite coffee shop Pret A Manger.

During his demonstration, a woman stood in the road...'

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Prisoner's sister seeks signatures for petition to allow him to see dying daughter

Petition here. Excerpt:

'My name is Jasmin Iglesia, sister of inmate #18498280 Junior Manuel Iglesias located at Wilaccy County Texas, Facility #278580, 1800 Industrial Drive, Raymondville, TX 78580. I launched this campaign on the behalf of my two nieces who need their dad during this family emergency. My brother Junior Manuel Iglesias has been held in Texas for over 5 years, 1,938 miles away from his daughters and family. He has yet to receive any visitation due to the distance and his families struggle because of their separation.

On Tuesday, November 19th, 2013 at approximately 9am his youngest daughter Yasmelin Iglesias, 16, was hit and ran over by a speeding van. Yasmelin received severe and critical injuries to her liver, brain, and lungs. She is now in ICU at a Nassau County hospital in New York. Every day since then has been a fighting struggle for her to stay with us, our prayers are the only thing we have to hold us up. Her father Junior, is in extreme emotional disbelief and pain, all he wants is the chance to hold is daughter's hand at this time.

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In the U.K., Male Teachers Are Teaching Schoolboys the Art of Wooing

Article here. Excerpt:

'According to the Telegraph, schoolboys in parts of England have no positive male mentors and watch too much porn, and therefore, have no idea how to court a lady. To address the problem, school administrators have begun to implement a curriculum that sounds like a Dickensian version of Hitch meets Rodger Dodger.

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