Global Paradox Of Risk

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the fact that, now that the statute of limitations for Global Financial Crisis banking crimes has passed, Ben Bernanke has his Come to Jesus moment. In the second half, Max interviews Charles Hugh Smith of OfTwoMinds.com about days of rage, fractal behaviour and the paradox of risk.

So Who Are 'The Syrian Moderates' Anyway? (Hint: Al CIAda)

By Michael Krieger: You don’t need me to tell you how disastrous the Obama Administration’s Syria “strategy” has been. After all, he pretty much admitted as much by announcing a pullback earlier today.
While the retreat in itself is garnering all the headlines, with people superficially focused on how “Putin outmaneuvered Obama,” the truth is far more disturbing. Putin didn’t so much outmaneuver Obama, as much as he called bullshit on the entire operation. Putin basically said that Russia would begin bombing terrorists in Syria, but the problem is that the U.S. is supporting terrorists in Syria. This is undoubtably true, which is the real reason Obama is pulling back. He needs to get out now before Putin proves to the whole world that the CIA is fighting with al-Qaeda in Syria.
For a dose of hard-hitting truth, I once again turn to one of the best sources out there, investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed.
Here is some of what he published at Middle East Eye: 
The first Russian airstrikes hit the rebel-held town of Talbisah north of Homs City, home to al-Qaeda’s official Syrian arm, Jabhat al-Nusra, and the pro-al-Qaeda Ahrar al-Sham, among other local rebel groups. Both al-Nusra and the Islamic State have claimed responsibility for vehicle-borne IEDs (VBIEDs) in Homs City, which is 12 kilometers south of Talbisah.

Dave’s Email To Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep was recently wittering on about how few women run film studios, major organizations, etc.

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To: merylstreeponline@gmail.com

Subject: More Inclusion of Women Comment
Dear Ms Streep,

I noticed that you consider that there should be “more inclusion” for women in organisations. On the face of it there is nothing stopping women getting into any areas of business, commerce or academia however one of the areas not talked about is why women themselves do not put their own capital at risk, like many male entrepreneurs do, and build their own businesses and/or organisations.

Women want to join all the successful organisations built by men but rarely do they put their money where their mouths are and do it themselves.

Kampus Kangaroo Kourt

"Is your son safe on campus?" Asks Professor Fiamengo. Sex is dangerous for male students. An accusation from an angry female ex-partner can lead to the total destruction of his life in the Kangaroo courts set up at every university in North America. The male student has no legal rights and the word of his accuser is often enough "evidence" to find him guilty.

Letter To My Son + The Men's Rights Movement

CS MGTOW: "The most important aspects of life will have most certainly been neglected by your school teachers. Son the quality of your life will almost completely be determined by the condition of your health, once your health is lost it is often impossible to regain. With women, firstly never live together. There is something called common law marriage and this is becoming quite poplar these days.

London MRAs Protest Against Suffragettes Propaganda Film

By Mike Buchanan: There’s a group of courageous London MRAs I admire, who do such things as speak at Speaker’s Corner. At a recent meeting of MRAs in Oxford they committed to demonstrating outside the premiere of the new propaganda film about the Suffragettes, by presenting themselves as injured soldiers of WW1. An account of their actions is here, along with some remarkable photographs.
With the lame-stream media giving little or no exposure to men’s issues and anti-feminist arguments, it’s time we saw a lot more street campaigning. It’s time for a large number of people to be prepared to get away from their keyboards and engage face-to-face with members of the public.

...The time has come.

Victim Blaming: The Whine Of The Tinkerbell Feminist

By August Løvenskiolds: The next time you hear a feminist woman complain that efforts to teach women to protect themselves from rape are “victim blaming,” feel free to yell at her “oh, sorry, Tinkerbell, but it is time for you go grow up and take responsibility for your own safety.”
“Victim blaming,” unbelievably, is the charge feminists level at anyone – even one of their own, like Susan Brownmiller, who suggests that women should take reasonable, effective precautions to protect themselves from sexual predators.
When the potential victims of rape deliberately eschew taking even the simplest of safety precautions – not getting blindly drunk, preferring the wearing of clothes to nakedness, avoiding known dangerous areas, going out with friends instead of alone, and so on, it is natural to wonder what is going on in their minds that is compromising their judgment, including asking ourselves, are they adult enough mentally to be making adult decisions at all?
Adults take precautions against danger and look out for others too immature to understand the danger. Adults bucket children into car safety seats and teach kids to use seatbelts when they outgrow safety seats. Risk management is a marker of adulthood – one cannot protect against all mishaps but one can take reasonable steps to reduce risk.

Milo Yiannopoulos And Julie Bindel Prohibited From Speaking In A Debate About Censorship

After barring Julie Bindel from a debate on censorship planned for mid-October, the Students’ Union have now told Milo Yiannopoulos that he is also prohibited from attending

By Jenny Sterne and Charlie Spargo: After Bindel's banning, further developments have led to the Union banning Yiannopoulos too. Photo: piku @Flickr

Following the decision to prohibit Julie Bindel from speaking at an event hosted by the University of Manchester Free Speech and Secular Society, the Students’ Union Executive Team have now moved to ban men’s rights activist Milo Yiannapoulos, who was originally scheduled to debate alongside her.
Bindel and Yiannapoulos were both booked to speak at a debate entitled “From liberation to censorship: Does modern feminism have a problem with free speech?”

to take place on the 15th of October.
In their initial statement the Students’ Union Executive Team rejected Bindel on the grounds that her appearance would be “potentially in breach of [the] safe space policy.”

Ranking The Peasants - China Introduces Orwellian “Citizen Scores”

By Michael Krieger: The following is extraordinarily creepy and disturbing. It’s also extremely clever, from a jackbooted, fascist thug perspective. When massive censorship itself isn’t enough…
TechDirt reports:

China’s plan to control the hearts, minds and internet connections of its citizens continues unimpeded. That’s the great thing about authoritarian regimes: rollout of mandatory programs is usually only a problem of logistics, not opposition.
The Chinese government has mandated a rating system for all of its connected citizens. It looks like a credit rating but goes much deeper than just tying a measurement of financial risk to a number. It’s a way of defining who someone in terms of the government’s desires and aims. And its desires aren’t all that honorable.