Society's ChildS


Gingerbread

American 'pick-up artist' and 'neo-masculine' guru Daryush Valizadeh ridiculed online for advocating legalization of rape

Roosh
Chief of the Man-Boy tribe, Daryush Valizadeh
Social media users have slammed and ridiculed an American blogger who leads a so-called "neomasculinity" movement which advocates the legalization of rape. He is due to visit Australia to meet some of his international supporters.

Return of Kings, an online group proclaiming men's supremacy over women, headed by anti-feminist blogger and pick-up guru Daryush Valizadeh, is to hold a real-life meeting which has sparked a firestorm among Twitter users.


Comment: 'Men bonding'? Boy bonding, more like.

Yes, there is sound basis for 'men being masculine' and 'women being feminine', but these boys in men's bodies are incapable of discerning which is which.


Health

Mother and Baby die from carbon monoxide staying warm during blizzard while dad shoveled snow from around car

A New Jersey mom and her 1-year-old son died of carbon monoxide poisoning while keeping warm in a car as the dad cleared snow from around the vehicle, cops said.

Sasha Lynn Rosa, 23, was in the white, four-door Mazda in Passaic with her son, Messiah, and daughter, Saniyah, when the tailpipe became clogged with snow in the blizzard Saturday night, cops said, according to NorthJersey.com.

As the mother and children huddled for warmth, the man, who was not identified, told Rosa to start the engine, cops said.

The dad was shoveling for about 20 minutes when he checked on them and found that they were all unconscious.

Comment: See also: Fumes from generator kill father and 7 children after power company shut off electricity


Books

Michigan Court of Appeal rules state has no responsibility to provide quality public education

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© Zenobia Jeffries/The Michigan CitizenHighland Park parent Michelle Johnson, a plaintiff in the ACLU lawsuit against the state of Michigan, says students deserve a fair education.
In a blow to schoolchildren statewide, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled on Nov. 7 the State of Michigan has no legal obligation to provide a quality public education to students in the struggling Highland Park School District.

A 2-1 decision reversed an earlier circuit court ruling that there is a "broad compelling state interest in the provision of an education to all children." The appellate court said the state has no constitutional requirement to ensure schoolchildren actually learn fundamental skills such as reading — but rather is obligated only to establish and finance a public education system, regardless of quality. Waving off decades of historic judicial impact on educational reform, the majority opinion also contends that "judges are not equipped to decide educational policy."

"This ruling should outrage anyone who cares about our public education system," said Kary L. Moss, executive director of the American Civil Liberties of Michigan. "The court washes its hands and absolves the state of any responsibility in a district that has failed and continues to fail its children." The decision dismisses an unprecedented "right-to-read" lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Michigan in July 2012 on behalf of eight students of nearly 1,000 children attending K-12 public schools in Highland Park, Mich. The suit, which named as defendants the State of Michigan, its agencies charged with overseeing public education and the Highland Park School District, maintained that the state failed to take effective steps to ensure that students are reading at grade level.

Comment: Cue the charter-school carpetbaggers promising to remedy the situation. Once the profit motive enters into the picture, all other considerations are subordinated to it.


People 2

Bigotry on the rise: Over half of France doesn't want their child to marry a Muslim


Comment: Imagine if the headline were this: Over half of France doesn't want their child to marry a Jew. That would be fairly shocking, wouldn't it? Instead, bigotry like this against Muslims is the new normal. It's acceptable to hold opinions about Muslims that would be lambasted as disgustingly racist if they were in reference to Jews.


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© Jean-Paul Pelissier / ReutersMembers of the Muslim community pray in a mosque in Marseille during an open day weekend for mosques in France
A survey gauging racist sentiment polled the French on how they would react if their children married Muslims and whether they think that there are too many Jews in France. The results have turned out to be shocking.

The provocative poll published in the French weekly Le Journal Du Dimanche (JDD) was commissioned by the Jewish Foundation of France. It was conducted over the course of 18 months by Ipsos which asked 1,000 random people questions. Furthermore the pollsters sourced additional respondents from the Jewish and Muslim communities to allegedly level the bias. Many regarded the questions to be inflammatory.

One of the questions to respondents was about their likely reaction should their children marry a person from another ethnic group or a person of the same sex. More than half of French respondents said they would not like it if their daughter-in law or son-in-law were Muslim.

Black Magic

People disintegrating: Females on the attack and acting like vampires in New Zealand

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A number of people have been injured during a series of vampire-like biting attacks on New Zealand's North Island.

Over the past two days, a woman was accused of biting a man's neck so hard, her teeth cut through an artery, while another woman was arrested after allegedly chomping on a woman's ear.

Stuff.co.nz reports the two incidents on Saturday and early Sunday were unrelated.

"It was a fight between three females and during the fight one of the females has bitten another one's ear and drawn blood. She hasn't bitten it off, but quite badly so she needed some medical attention," a Hawke's Bay District Command Centre spokesman said of the first incident.

Comment: Certainly New Zealand isn't the only place to be experiencing such bizarrely violent behavior. Over the past few years we've heard other stories from around the world that resemble this one. So what's happening??


Heart

Edward Snowden, Nobel Peace Prize candidate

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© AFPDemonstrators hold placards supporting former US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden during a protest against government surveillance in Washington, DC
US whistle-blower and former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden is among the top candidates for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize which is awarded in Oslo, Norway. "2016 may finally be Edward Snowden's year ... His leaks are now having a positive effect," Kristian Berg Harpviken, head of the Peace Research Institute in Oslo told Reuters, putting him on top of his list of candidates.

In the wake of Snowden's leaks of details of the US government's spy programs, many countries have been reforming laws to restrict surveillance programs, helping human rights, Harpviken said.

Snowden began leaking classified intelligence documents in June 2013, revealing the extent of the NSA's spying activities, including the massive collections of phone records of Americans and foreign nationals as well as political leaders around the world. The US government has filed espionage charges against Snowden, who has been granted asylum in Russia.

Comment: The two Norwegian politicians, who have nominated Snowden, stated his revelations "revealed the nature and technological prowess of modern surveillance," and "contributed to a more stable and peaceful world order." "His actions have in effect led to the reintroduction of trust and transparency as a leading principle in global security policies. Its value can't be overestimated."


Heart - Black

Chris Hedges: Pity the children

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© mike mois
Larry—not his real name—is 38. He is serving a 30-year sentence for murder in a New Jersey prison. He will not be eligible for parole until 2032, when he will be 55. His impoverished and nightmarish childhood mirrors that of nearly all prisoners I have worked with who were convicted of violent crimes. And as governmental austerity and chronic poverty consume the American landscape, as little is done to blunt poverty's disintegration of families, as mass incarceration and indiscriminate police violence continue to have a catastrophic impact on communities, Larry's childhood is becoming the norm for millions of boys and girls.

Bomb

Nigeria: Militants blow pipeline, massive oil spill

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© www.today.ngMilitant-caused pipeline ruptures ravage surrounding area environment, health and livelihood.
Militant attacks in southern Nigeria on a major oil pipeline have caused a massive oil spill into surrounding areas. A spokesman for Italian ENI company, which is in charge of the oil operations in Bayelsa State, said on Monday that thousands of barrels of oil have spilled into waterways, farms and fishing grounds in the area after recent multiple attacks targeting the Agip oil pipelines.

The unidentified official said 16,000 barrels of oil per day were lost since explosions on Thursday and Friday which were blamed on militants who want a bigger share of oil revenues in the producing state. Fishermen in the region said oil flowed unabated for two successive days while a community leader said the spill was the biggest in years in the Brass local government area.

Militant attacks are less prevalent in southern Nigeria compared to northern territories where the Takfiri group Boko Haram have killed thousands over the past six years in a militancy that has hugely undermined the security in the region. Officials said on Monday in the latest such raids, at least 85 people were killed in a brazen attack by Boko Haram on Dalori village, located just five kilometers (three miles) from Maiduguri, the capital and the largest city of Borno State, in northeast Nigeria. Militants reportedly burned to death children after they firebombed huts during the raid on Dalori.

Similar attacks on installations and pipelines were reported last week in oil-producing southern states, with the government estimating the cost of the acts of sabotage at around $2.4 million a day.

Comment: Takfiri Boko Haram sabotage: A 'crude' awakening to life under attack and the dire consequences of societal chaos perpetrated by Takfiri factions, their sponsors and their counterparts. The affected communities were Orukari, Golubokiri and Kpongbokiri and the explosions were triggered by dynamite.


House

Union plumbers install water filters for free in Flint, MI

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Due to the inaction of state and federal officials, thousands of people in Flint have been exposed to unsafe levels of lead in their water. Now a group of union plumber are taking matters into their own hands.

On Saturday, 300 plumbers from unions across the country descended on Flint to install new faucets and water filters for free.


Comment: People can often come together and do things that need to be done, especially when their government is corrupt, criminal and useless.


Extinguisher

NYPD upgrades to triple strength pepper spray; the old stuff was powerful enough

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Only in the twisted minds of NYPD officials would "more powerful weapons" be a solution to prevent their officers from killing people. Sadly, this is no joke. The NYPD recently announced that they are planning to stock more powerful and potent pepper spray, and they actually claim that this would be intended to prevent police from shooting people.

The potency that has been used by the NYPD and other departments previously is already highly dangerous with a concentration of just .21% capsaicinoids. The new spray will be concentrated at .67% which will undoubtedly be more dangerous and far more painful. The NYPD has already begun rolling out the new concentration and has equipped over 19,000 officers with the new mixture.

NYPD Deputy Chief, Edward Mullen, claimed in an interview with the Daily News that a higher concentrated pepper spray would help officers subdue unruly suspects more easily.