Examining Male Underachievement in Education

ThatCynicalCynicism:

Abstract: For a number of decades now, the gap in educational achievement between boys and girls has been widening significantly in favor of girls. Instead of blaming male attitudes towards education however, I think we have a duty to question whether the current education system is simply more suited to girls.

If the culturally deterministic, "blank slate" theory of behavioral sex differences is inaccurate, then this brings into question the egalitarian code of conduct which is common practice in many western governments today.

More Misleading Official US Employment Statistics + US 2014 Recession - The One Topic No One Is Discussing

By Paul Craig Roberts: The payroll jobs report for November from the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that the US economy created 203,000 jobs in November. As it takes about 130,000 new jobs each month to keep up with population growth, if the payroll report is correct, then most of the new jobs would have been used up keeping the unemployment rate constant for the growth in the population of working age persons, and about 70,000 of the jobs would have slightly reduced the rate of unemployment. Yet, the unemployment rate (U3) fell from 7.3 to 7.0, which is too much for the job gain. It seems that the numbers and the news reports are not conveying correct information.
As the payroll jobs and unemployment rate reports are released together and are usually covered in the same press report, it is natural to assume that the reports come from the same data. However, the unemployment rate is calculated from the household survey, not from payroll jobs, so there is no statistical relationship between the number of new payroll jobs and the change in the rate of unemployment.
It is doubtful that the differences in the two data sets can be meaningfully resolved. Consider only the definitional differences. The payroll survey counts a person holding two jobs as if it were two employed persons, while the household survey counts a person holding two jobs as one job. Also the two surveys treated furloughed government workers during the shutdown differently. They were unemployed according to the household survey and employed according to the payroll survey.

Institutionalized Misandry: Six year old boy is suspended from school and labeled with sexual harassment, for kissing a girl on the hand

By Paul Elam: Are school officials interested in education and the well-being of students anymore, or are they just a bunch of sociopathic, opportunistic scumbags willing to savage children for the sake of political correctness and to get back slaps from their left of Mao, morally derelict cohorts in the teachers union?
Never mind, the question was rhetorical. And if it wasn’t, it was just given another resounding answer by Robin Gooldy, district superintendent over Lincoln School of Science and Technology in Canon City, Colorado, where he just explained the suspension of six year old Hunter Yelton, for, get this, kissing a girl on the hand, an apparently at some point, her cheek.
Oh, and they also stamped “sexual harassment” on his permanent school record.
I started to write this up as a news story, but I was too pissed off to keep my opinion out of it.
Now, I am not going to waste keystrokes explaining how a six year old doesn’t understand sex, much less sexual harassment. Nor am I going to offer a step by step rationale why behavior of this kind is perfectly normal. If you need that explained to you, then I can only suggest Googling “Darwin Awards” and then just using your limited brain power on not getting one. Either that, or consider a career in education.

A New Political Party Emerges in India and Shocks Everyone with Strong Election Results

By Michael Krieger: Political grounds are shaking all over the world, and it seems India is the latest nation to experience such tremors.
Back in October, I highlighted the fact that the formerly “fringe” anti-euro Front National Party in France, led by Marine Le Pen, had shocked the nation by performing exceptionally well in regional elections. Not only was this a surprise because its strong anti-euro (currency) position is so outside the so-called “mainstream,” but also because it is not one of the traditional parties that shares power in France’s own version of the false left-right (Democrat/Republican) sham political paradigm.
Well now it appears the same thing is happening in India, with the sudden emergence of the AAP (Aam Admi or Common Man Party). Frustrated with the inept governance of the ruling Congress Party, and unwilling to embrace what is seen as a corporate backed Hindu-nationalist opposition BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party), many Indians, at least in Delhi, are looking to embrace something new.
From the Guardian:
Outside the headquarters of the Aam Admi (Common Man) party in central Delhi on Sunday night, hawkers sold poppadoms, bored police watched from squad cars and a crowd of excited young people sang songs dating back to the days of India’s independence movement.
“This is what we do best in this country: non-violent revolution,” said Shehshan Partak, a 25-year-old engineer and activist for Aam Admi (AAP). “And this is a revolution.”

Misandry: This Is What The Truth Looks Like

By Victor Zen (Sage Gerard): I stumbled upon an image from 9gag.com, a site with user-generated content. The original uploader of this piece is unknown, but he or she used several shots from JustGirlyThings, a Tumblr blog, and juxtaposed their captions against pictures that actually need them. If the following images do not teach you about the double standards and exaggerations that harm men, nothing will.

Cyprus and the Bitcoin Battle - Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert with Dr. Christos Vlachos + Gold, Silver & Bitcoin - Jan Skoyles with Ben Davies

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the bitcoin price plunge as Baidu ditches the crypto currency and China bans it for financial firms. Unnoticed at the same time, Germany declares bitcoin to be private money and Merrill Lynch claims it can replace money transfer systems like Western Union.

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The NWO: 27% Of Greeks, 3 Million People, Cut Off From Health Insurance Plan

By Agence France-Presse: More than a quarter of Greeks are unable to afford health cover, a medical aid group said Monday, apparently warning that they couldn't care less about men but children and pregnant women were at risk.
Doctors of the World (MDM) said more than three million people, or 27.2 percent of the population, cannot pay their contributions to social security and are therefore barred from free healthcare.
“We are very worried by the number of people who have lost access to social insurance,” Anna Maili, head of MDM’s Greek branch, told a news conference.
“This has grave consequences for the health of children and pregnant women,” she said, explaining that thankfully many families no longer had infants vaccinated.
Over a child’s first six years €1,400 and €1,800 ($1,900-2,500) is doled out from the people's taxes to the 'Immunisation Industrial Complex'.
(Angelo: Now it makes sense why the ousted German king of Greece, Constantine, came to London and opened a chain of chemist shops. On the bright side, poor kids are saved from being injected with toxic mercury, especially in their undernourished state.) “Every day we see children aged two or three who have not been vaccinated,”

Write NWO Wrongs! Over 500 World-Famous Authors Sign Anti-Surveillance Petition

RT: More than 500 renowned authors – including five Nobel laureates - from across the globe have signed a petition demanding an end to ‘mass surveillance’. It follows the revelations over the last few months of the US and other countries spying.
Their open appeal is called ‘A Stand for Democracy in the Digital Age’. Among the signatories are Nobel laureates Orhan Pamuk, JM Coetzee, Elfriede Jelinek, Günter Grass and Tomas Tranströmer.

Others who signed the letter include Bjork, Umberto Eco, Yann Martel, Ian McEwan and many others.

“WE DEMAND THE RIGHT for all people, as democratic citizens, to determine to what extent their personal data may be collected, stored and processed, and by whom; to obtain information on where their data is stored and how it is being used; to obtain the deletion of their data if it has been illegally collected and stored. WE CALL ON ALL STATES AND CORPORATIONS to respect these rights,”

HOW UK JOBCENTRE PLUS STATISTICS ARE BEING INFLATED TO SUPPORT OSBORNE’S ECONOMIC GROWTH FICTION

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By John Ward: The Slog predicted that JobCentre privatisation ‘may yet turn into one of the major scandals of Camerlot government’. It looks like this might have been one of my more prescient forecasts. Nothing like adding a flash new brand suffix to a rickety service to sprinkle a little pa-zazz onto it. Thus these days at Gov.UK, help with finding a job (or employees to do one) is now provided by JobCentre Plus.
You are about to learn what the plus stands for. But in the meantime, go to the site and you’ll see other signs of the growing drivel-level there: Universal Jobmatch, work choice, work trials, time-flexing and so forth – the usual syntax of the three-card trick artist….who is actually talking in those cases about lower hourly rates, poorer quality jobs, working for nothing, working shorter hours, and zero-hours contracts respectively. Mr Orwell’s Winston Smith would’ve been the only man in Britain working 24/7 to make up new and more diametrically misleading euphemisms.
One reason for the growing tidal wave of hogwash, however, is this newish element in the mix: private organisations are now under contract with the government to provide services  such as ‘Employment Zones’ and ‘Pathways to Work’, with ‘touchscreen interactive jobpoints’ inside Jobcentres.

UK Students Unite Against Violent Police ‘Persecution’

RT: UK students are rallying together against a ‘police crackdown’ after a week of protests led to violence and a ban on demonstrations at a London university. Activists claim the police and universities are using intimidation tactics to gag protesters.
The student protest movement in the UK has taken social media by storm under the hashtag #copsoffcampus to call for an end to student repression. Students have organized a ‘Day of Action’ for Wednesday and asked students around Britain to join together in mass protest.
“Across the country, students are initiating a vibrant, popular, winnable fight for democratic and public universities, free from exploitation and repression. We cannot be beaten if we stand together,” says the description of the event on Facebook that already has over 2,000 confirmed attendees.