By Michael Snyder: What
advice would you give to a retired Air Force Colonel that has three
graduate degrees and that cannot even find work as a janitor?
59-year-old Robert Freniere once served as a special assistant to
General Stanley McChrystal, and he has spent extensive time in both Iraq
and Afghanistan. But now this man who once had an office in the heart
of the Pentagon cannot find anyone who will hire him. In addition to
his story, in this article you will also hear about several other
middle-aged professionals that cannot find work in this economy either.
Despite what the Obama administration and the mainstream media are
telling you, the truth is that there has been no employment recovery
in this country. What you are about to read is absolutely
heartbreaking, but it represents the reality of what is really going on
out there in the streets of America today.
A lot of unemployed Americans believe that they cannot find work
because they don't have enough "education" or enough "experience".
Well, the truth is that there are a whole lot of people out there like
Freniere that have lots of both and still can't even get hired as a janitor...
By Martin Armstrong: Official and security departments throughout Europe are now worried about a rising tide in Europe of Civil Unrest. In Spain,
anyone who demonstrates spontaneously in the Spanish Parliament, have
to pay a fine of €600,000 euros and thus no free speech. The Spanish are
increasing penalties for protesting and threatening anyone who dares to
film police officers responding to protesters – meaning journalists,
will not be tolerated. This also applies to people who burn photos of
the king in public. These laws are also being applied including bankers
who are to be immune from any intimidation.
In Italy, the Pitchfork Protesters
(Forconi) are gaining in number. In January massive strikes are now
planned again in throughout Italy. Even the Telecom employees and the
lawyers of the country go on strike.
In Portugal, the protests have turned to throwing garbage in front of the banks. Even Goldman Sachs now questions about the survival of the euro-zone.
We should expect the civil unrest to rise and turn more violent in
2014. Don’t worry. The trend will begin to appear in the USA starting as
early as 2016.
Alison Tieman: You may have noticed that I haven’t been updating as frequently as I was. In part this is because I’ve taken on another big project: Honey Badger Radio.
Honey Badger Radio is a group of women who don’t blame men talking about men’s rights, feminism, geek culture and men’s issues.
I know that women have a unique invulnerability to criticism when it
comes to men’s rights; and this effect is exponentially greater with a
group of women.
I see Honey Badger Radio as a vanguard, breaking the ice around men’s
rights discussion, and framing it as not just socially acceptable but
socially responsible.
AJ: Alex breaks down latest on the Corporate plan to control America and Her Citizens and the Governments collusion to help.
By Robert St. Estephe: There was a time in the early twentieth century that equity feminists
fought for true equality: the right of a woman to be executed; the
right of men to alimony (when justified), the end of predatory alimony
(for young, childless women looking for a free ride) and an end to the
excessive lenience towards woman as exhibited by male juries in homicide
trials, among other items on the equity wish-list. In the United States
Judge Rhea M. Whitehead (Seattle, 1921), Judge Florence Allen (Cleveland, 1921), and Chicago lawyer Gladys McHugh (Chicago,
1917), had strong words of condemnation for the gullible male jury
members and the teary-eyed murderesses they routinely set free.
Today, we are faced with a proposal, from Canadian law professor
Elizabeth Sheehy — a feminist of a much different kind, a dogmatic
gender ideologue — to turn the clock backwards and openly return to the
ethos of rampant privilege, of old-fashioned chivalry.
Submitted by Tyler Durden: "It's a very straightforward result," UCSD professors Joseph Engleberg calmly states, hospitalizations rise on days when shares fall, and "people are hospitalized disproportionately for mental conditions." Equity-market
losses appeared to induce 3,700 market-related hospitalizations a year
in California, which implies visits add roughly $650 million a year to
U.S. health-care costs when data from the most-populous state are
extrapolated nationally - another additional cost of QE? The findings, Bloomberg reports, show a one-day
drop in equities of around 1.5% is followed by about a 0.26% increase
in hospital admissions on average over the next two days.
Via Bloomberg,
Declining stocks worry people sick, if hospital records are any guide.
By Mike Buchanan: Our thanks to Greg for pointing us to this piece in the Guardian:
We could find only the following gender-specific statements in the
fairly lengthy piece (726 words). Feminist fingerprints are all over
both the article and the proposed new bill:
Supporters of the new bill say it would encourage more
women to report a crime which is often neglected by the criminal justice
system…
Supporters say this would encourage more women to report a crime…
Now the proposed law would provide a legal framework that would make
domestic abuse a specific offence and would allow for the examination of
an offender’s course of conduct over a period of time. Supporters say
this would encourage more women to report a crime that is often
neglected by the criminal justice system, sometimes with tragic
consequences…
According to the Home Office, some 1.2 million women in the UK said
they had experienced domestic abuse last year. Two out of three
incidents involved repeat victims. Two women are killed by a partner,
ex-partner or lover each week. Last year 400,000 women were sexually
assaulted, of whom 70,000 were victims of rape or attempted rape.
Home Office statistics cover both female and male victims of domestic
abuse, of course, so why is there only female victim data in this
article? Because feminists. Because Guardian pro-feminist
anti-male bias.
SparkyFister: I try to get though as much of this idiot's shit as I can. I don't last that long, understandably.
By Victor Zen (Sage Gerard): Your reputation is what other people say about you.
While you, as a mature adult, don’t care what strangers think, we do
live in an existential nightmare where potential employers and
vigilantes can and will look you up and get their first impression of
you from other people. For that reason, your identity must be protected
in our interconnected world.
Of course this makes participating in politics awkward, because
adopting a political label means associating with controversies around
that label. For this reason, identifying with a label is a serious
decision with real consequences. People will write demonstrably
false lies about you, and there is no lie about your character so laughably ridiculous that your political opponents won’t spread it.
AVFM’s primary audience is young men aged 18–24, but I conjecture
that they seem to be the least active demographic if we consider
activism away from the computer. Note that I said “conjecture,” since I
cannot find any data to prove this directly. I can only point to data
showing that whippersnappers tend to limit their political activism to
actions performed on the Internet using social media (which comes with
the obvious benefit of a pseudonym).
As the youngest man on staff at AVFM,
I have not been around long enough to establish the social and
financial support that will keep my career and my future secure. I infer
that the risks involved with my circumstances are probably what keep
other young men like me behind their aliases.
Sandman: Arthur Schopenhauer lived out his life without the company of a woman or
wife. But they still fascinated him as a philosopher. So he wrote "On
or Of Women." This is a review of his work from a mgtow perspective.
