3 Jun 2014

What The Hell Is Philosophy For? + 8 Unsolvable Philosophical Questions - Solved!

Stefan answers the question: What the Hell is Philosophy for?

Shocking Radical Feminists' Death Threats Against MHRAs, Hotel Staff, Visitors And The People Of Detroit!

Paul Elam
Angelo: "The short story is, The Double Tree Hilton, ..has been receiving an escalating number of DEATH THREATS and threats to vandalise their property and harm their guests as well as their staff because they have allowed us to rent their facilities to host the first international conference on men's issues!" Said Dean Esmay.
I noticed on the AVfM site that various people from the US armed forces etc. have pledged support and the capability to have hundreds of troops made available to guard the event and allow the event and debate to happen by any means necessary. Guess they're concerned about rights for men and boys. That's cool. Break the grip of shame.

George Galloway MP on Peter Robinson & Audience Bigot

Molucca Media: "This pastor said Muslims were "THE SPAWN OF THE DEVIL!"" George Galloway MP discusses Peter Robinson's decision to back crackpot Pastor James McConnell and his anti-Islamic remarks - The Nolan Show.

Gynocentric UK: Mark Brooks (Mankind Initiative) and Polly Neate (Women's Aid) on 'Woman's Hour'

By Mike Buchanan: Mark Brooks, chairman of Mankind Initiative - http://mankind.org.uk - was his usual convincing self in this interview. Predictably, the narrative of the presenter, Jane Garvey, was more sympathetic towards Polly Neate, the head of Women's Aid. I'm sure if Mark had been given even a little more time, he'd have made some very strong points in response to Polly Neates's claim that 89% of victims of 'repeated abuse / coercive control' are women. It's a claim Women's Aid spokeswomen keep trotting out without being challenged, but we're going to publicly challenge Polly Neate on it (along with other claims WA spokeswomen make) later this week.

MGTOW: All Men Are Responsible? Plus Some Thoughts on Elliot Rodger

"Religious feminism, ...men are guilty of original sin! Only THEY can provide the solution, shame on you, ...this is so religious, ...you are born guilty if you have a penis. Feminism is a hateful destructive ideology, it simply is. ...there is no way that someone like this could ever provide a shred of evidence that we live in a society that condones and normalises misogyny, not one shred of evidence, but we in the MGTOW movement can and do on a daily basis, provide evidence that we do in fact live in a misandric culture."

Syrian Girl: Can We Call This a Victory in Syria? + Even After Syrians Make The Peace - Jihadists Will Continue

"...it's a whole scam from the beginning. The whole incitement of the war in Syria is about getting the refugees, ..just uprooting them, divorcing them from their history and background. Destroying their culture in effect." Morris.

2 Jun 2014

Apartheid: 80,000 Palestinians Left Without Drinking Water, East Al-Quds

Thousands of Palestinians have been without clean water in the occupied East al-Quds (aka Jerusalem) for more than 60 days:
Orwellian UK Banned Press TV: 80,000 residents in the region have been denied access to running water by the genocidal Israeli regime.
The report says that despite calls by Palestinian residents and human rights groups for providing residents in the region with running water, the Israeli water company, Gihon, denies water to Palestinian areas, including Shuafat Refugee Camp, Ras Khamis, Ras Sh'hadeh and Dahiyat As-Salam.
“The water comes only once a week here and it is not good. Israel sends only a small amount of water," Nutfah Rajah, a resident of Shuafat Refugee Camp, told Press TV.
Officials say the water infrastructure in those areas can support only 15,000 people. Human rights organizations have handed a petition to the Israeli High Court to protest Tel Aviv’s negligence in the matter.
Residents, who are suffering from the lack of water, say that the water shortage is part of Israel’s plans to force them to leave the region, the report says.
“This is part of Israel’s policy to make life unbearable in order to displace Palestinians from the camps," said Jamin Asaadik, another resident of Shuafat camp.

Where Does "Rule Of Thumb" Come From?

American Enterprise Institute: Feminist analysis of the term, "rule of thumb" usually refers to an alleged law where a man could beat his wife with a stick no wider than his thumb. But is that true? And if not, how did the term originate? The Factual Feminist answers these questions and more.

Chasing Feminist Rainbows + Those Who Oppose Us

“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.” - Barry Goldwater
Lecture 8: By
What is it that enables us to live meaningful lives? This is a question with a long history, and after more than two thousand years of scratching our heads, our species is not much the wiser. Answers fall just as easily as they are formed. Perhaps the only real wisdom to be imparted by centuries of soul-searching is that the solution cannot be reduced to the realization of only one value. Efforts to bring about a social system based upon the realization of one value in particular – be it religious doctrine, the will of the nation, or social equality – have invariably resulted in widespread repression, and not the golden age of peace and virtue as postulated by their ideologues. In contrast, those societies which have managed to create and maintain the space for people to actually live what they might call ‘meaningful lives’ are those which have kept a number of values in balance. This is not a very exciting solution, but it is better to be dissatisfied with the great mysteries of life than to be enserfed or ‘disappeared’ by a regime in pursuit of a more enticing dictum.

‘Reset The Net!’ Reddit, Greenpeace, Amnesty, AVfM, J4MB, SGW, All The Good Good People, Unite in Anti-NSA Hit Campaign

RT: Opponents of mass government surveillance are braced for the June-5 campaign for a free and secure internet, led by some of the world’s largest websites. A massive electronic ‘Thunderclap’ is planned for the first anniversary of Snowden’s revelations.
Some 200 websites have joined the #ResetTheNet campaign, urging internet users, developers and content providers to use “NSA-resistant” software, and tools to protect the global net against intrusive government surveillance.
The sites, which vary from individual pages to internet giants like Reddit, Imgur and Boing Boing, various rights groups, including Amnesty International and Greenpeace will place an internet “splash screen” on Thursday in support of the campaign.
The screen will give tips on ensuring web privacy, and simply by submitting an email on the campaign’s website, users can download a “privacy pack of free software tools that make end-to-end encryption easy.”

Europe's Colossal Humanitarian Catastrophe Of Refugees Dying At Sea

UN considers Africa holding centres as 'boat season' is expected to bring sharp increase in migrants making treacherous crossing
, in Athens, in Rome and
The United Nations has been forced to consider establishing refugee holding centres in north Africa and the Middle East due to the spiralling numbers of migrants attempting perilous journeys across the Mediterranean in a desperate effort to reach Europe.
The UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, has said for the first time that the large-scale processing of migrants and refugees outside Europe, in countries such as Egypt, Libya or Sudan, may be necessary as frontline authorities claim they have been abandoned by Brussels in the face of a "colossal humanitarian catastrophe".
Hundreds of thousands of people are preparing to make treacherous crossings on unseaworthy vessels from the north African coast to Greece and Italy as this summer's "boat season" gets under way, say officials. Figures for the first few months of this year already show a dramatic increase on previous years.

QE, Bailouts, And Families Struggling to Buy Food

By Wolf Richter: It was a very basic question: “Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to buy the food that you or your family needed?” In wealthy countries, the percentage of those answering “yes” should be very small, and given all the money-printing, it should be zero, you’d think.
But when Gallup surveyed families in the 34 member countries of the OECD, the richest countries in the world, it found a reality on the ground that turned out to be an indictment of the Fed, other central banks, their policies, and bailouts in general.
Topping the list of the 10 countries with the highest incidence of families reporting difficulty in buying food over the past 12 months are, as you’d expect, the OECD’s poorest members. Turkey, with the second lowest per-capita GDP in the group, is number one: 50% of the families with children and 40% of the families without children reported difficulties buying food. It’s followed by Hungary, which has been hit by all sorts of economic and currency crises, self-inflicted or not, and multiple recessions over the past few years. So 47% of the families with children and 35% of those without had trouble buying food. Mexico is in third place, with 33% and 30% respectively.