A Male-Centered Approach To Disability – Part 1: Supercrip

By Peter Wright: Throughout history men with disabilities have reached the heights of human achievement in personal and cultural terms, and they did so without the help of social justice warriors or modern reforms to laws, community access, or improved social attitudes toward disability.
Think of the presidents, artists, scientists, blade runners and the Everest-scaling amputees who reached for greatness, along with their less visible counterparts who went about their daily lives in less grandiose but nevertheless competent ways while living with a disability.
Disability always poses limitations on a person’s physical or mental abilities, but the disability never encompasses the entire person – there remain competencies that deserve equal recognition in the mix.
Said differently a person is never completely disabled, just as there is no such thing as a person without a disability, however mild; eg. asthma, eczema, or gluten allergy can likewise interfere with daily functioning, forcing you to buy special creams and soaps or having to skip lunch with friends because you can’t eat the food at that restaurant.
A study of high achievers illustrates the point of competency existing alongside disability. Franklin D. Roosevelt had post-polio paralysis, Ray Charles was blind, Christopher Reeve had a spinal injury, George Washington had dyslexia, Ludwig van Beethoven went deaf, Albert Einstein had Aspergers, Leonardo Da Vinci was epileptic, and the cosmologist Stephen Hawking has advanced motor neurone disease. Yet all of these men reached the top of their fields of interest.

Varoufakis Slams Bailout #3 As "Greatest Macroeconomic Disaster In History" While Tsipras "Doesn't Eat Or Sleep"

Submitted by Tyler Durden: In an rare convergence of Greek and German viewpoints, overnight former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis told the BBC that "economic reforms imposed on his country by creditors are "going to fail", ahead of talks on a huge bailout. At the same time, Germany's most noted Eurosceptic, Hans-Werner Sinn, in an interview with the newspaper "Passauer Neue Presse" also earlier today warned that any new aid would be "totally worthless" and "would never come back."

In what was practically a race who can find harsher terms to describe the Greek bailout, Varoufakis said that Greece was subject to a programme that will "go down in history as the greatest disaster of macroeconomic management ever".
As reported yesterday, the German parliament approved the opening of negotiations of Greece's third €86 billion bailout when it rushed to vote through a bridge loan to Greece so the insolvent nation had some funds to repay the ECB's Monday debt maturity, as well as repay the roughly €2 billion for Greece is in default to the IMF. Of note was the jump in German MPs who voted "no" to 119 from just 32 in the February vote to extend the Greek bailout.
In a damning assessment, Varoufakis told the BBC's Mark Lobel: "This programme is going to fail whoever undertakes its implementation."

Shemitah Charade: A New Corporatist Paradigm Launched In Greece?

By Jeff Berwick: How poetic was it that in the birthplace of democracy, democracy just died in Greece.

Last week, the Greek people voted heavily against the EU’s proposal… and then this week Greek Parliament voted heavily in favor of it!
How’s that for democracy!  Those who adore democracy (we are not included in that group!) always say that it is the best system because it lets the majority of people get their way.  Opa, that’s not what happened!

In fact it rarely happens, anywhere.  Voters are just made to feel like they have some sort of say in government but most of the time the politicians just do whatever profits them and their friends.

Interestingly, however, there was not much in the way of violent protests in the streets of Greece for the past few weeks despite the tough conditions.  In fact, it was a huge party after the voters voted overwhelming not to accept the deal.  Then, today, the politicians accepted it and all of a sudden the state’s henchman were doing a fire dance. 
A BIG SHOW

But really the vote is a kind of charade. In fact, the last months have simply added to the charade of the Greek “rescue.” The idea is to make Greece submit to a kind of corporatocracy managed by Brussels’ technocrats at the behest of international banking. Democracy – no matter what you think of it – is being strangled in Greece.

Herbert Purdy Responds To A Comment By Fabian - Solutions On ‘The Conservative Woman’ Website

By Mike Buchanan: One of the reasons we [J4MB] moderate our blog comments is to minimize the time wasted by feminists posting nonsense. But sometimes I (and J4MB supporters) engage in exchanges with feminists on other websites, not to persuade them through rational arguments to reconsider their positions – that would be impossible – but to inform other readers of some of our arguments and sources of information.
Earlier today an excellent new piece was posted on The Conservative Woman website, Laura Perrins’s Women must do as they are told. Study science, forget children, and earn a lot. Into the comments stream (predictably) stormed two jack-booted FemiNazis, ‘Feminist_Future’ and ‘Fabian_Solutions’.
Fabian_Solutions posted a lengthy series of comments, which were ludicrous even by her woeful standards:

A List of Men’s Rights Issues That Feminism Is Already Working On
Feminists do not want you to lose custody of your children. The assumption that women are naturally better caregivers is part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not like commercials in which bumbling dads mess up the laundry and competent wives have to bustle in and fix it. The assumption that women are naturally better housekeepers is part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not want you to have to make alimony payments.

#ShootAFeministInTheFace

By Janet Bloomfield (aka JudgyBitch): Remember when I mentioned that I had a bit of my own hypocrisy to exploit? The exploitation is complete.

End The Jewish Occupation Of The Solidarity Movement

By Gilad Atzmon: I would like to congratulate The US Campaign To End Israeli Occupation (EOIO) for confirming the substance of my argument that Jewish domination of the solidarity movement has had a corrosive effect on the movement. My argument is detailed in my recent book, The Wandering Who.

Ten days ago, we learned that the Israeli Government has actually recruited left organisations to cleanse the Solidarity movement of its ‘radicals’ –those who dare to tell the truth about the Jewish State and the culture and ideology that drive its politics. EOIO seems to be exceedingly enthusiastic about its role as dictated by its Jerusalem masters. Following JVP’s AKA Jewish Voice Police campaign against Alison Weir, the EOIO has now published its complete list of ‘accusations’ against Ms. Weir. Alison Weir is a dedicated, articulate pro Palestinian American patriot and the founder of the very informative outlet, If Americans Knew.
The list of ridiculous ‘charges’ made by the EOIO against Weir demonstrates that the EOIO is determined to block any attempt to explore the crimes committed by the Jewish State within the context of Jewish culture, Jewish politics, Jewish ideology, Jewish religion or Jewish history. Imagine an anti Nazi organisation that blocked any attempt to examine Nazi crimes within the context of Nazi culture, Nazi politics, Nazi ideology, Nazi spirit or Nazi history. Such an endeavour seems unthinkable. I guess that in the eyes of the EOIO, Jews are exempt from such standard intellectual examination, somehow privileged or shall we say ‘chosen.’

Anti-Semitism Term A Lie Shows How Gullible We Are

"Jews parading as something genetically different. ...The BBC is anything but independent pushing false causes. ...The US is a hegemonic force and corrupt." Morris. BBC To Lose Its Independence Hahaha - Palm Sugar - Pro Israel Senators are traitors to the USA - Alleged Aurora Shooter in Shock - Kurds strength in Syria Threatens Turkey

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Obama's Iran Deal Credit Iran Not Obama

"Obama tried as hard as he could to prevent this, he had his nuts on the chopping block, if he didn't take this deal he would have lost every European Ally. ...He's the one who co signed the bill to put Iran on sanctions to begin with." Ryan Dawson

The Fall Of Greece. Prepare Yourself Accordingly

Stefan Molyneux: The world’s economic landscape has been rocked by the Greece Debt Crisis and as austerity looms over the Greek population - Athens burns, protests mount and fear of a Grexit rises. As discussions about debt forgiveness and a possible bailout continue the Eurozone is on edge with fears as to the future stability of the Euro and the possibility of economic collapse. As Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel engage in a showdown with the world watching, everybody is looking for answers as to how this problem originated.

What is the Truth About the Greece Debt Crisis? How did this start - and how can it be prevented in the future? Those who don’t learn from their mistakes shall be doomed to repeat them. Sadly, politicians never learn. There will be no economic recovery, prepare yourself accordingly.

Laura Perrins: Women Must Do As They Are Told. Study Science, Forget Children And Earn A Lot

By Laura Perrins: We have been talking about the gender pay gap this week at The Conservative Woman. Prime Minister Cameron has declared war on said gap by forcing companies to publish their payroll.

To re-cap, we must remember that for the under-30s in full-time employment, women slightly out earn men. For the under-40s in full-time employment, the gap is zero.
Cameron and journalist Tom Chivers have some ideas on how to close the pay gap that opens up at 40. They are the new Victorians – a bunch of men telling women what to do. The diktats include making more women take STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths)  degrees and expanding childcare.
So let’s cut to the chase ladies. This is how we close the pay gap.
1)   Do a STEM degree.
You want to be a midwife? Tough, it is not paid well. A nurse or a primary school teacher? Don’t be such a loser. Your great passion is English or History? Cameron and Chivers spit in your face. The only way you are doing an arts degree is if you then convert to law and become a commercial lawyer, as these are the best paid.
It is not about what you want, it what about what the new Victorians want. And they want you in STEM.
Great – you are doing STEM a difficult degree. You just about graduated from the course because it was not your passion.

UK High Court Rules Surveillance Legislation ‘Unlawful’

The High Court has ruled that emergency data retention and surveillance legislation the coalition government introduced last year is unlawful.

UK BANNED Press TV: The law is the latest government and intelligence legislation to be deemed illegal.
The Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act, DRIPA must now be overturned because judges ruled it is inconsistent with the existing EU laws. The government must replace the law by the end of March 2016.

GCHQ received private communications intercepted by the NSA

The ruling will be seen as a victory for Labour MP Tom Watson and the Conservative MP David Davis who brought the claim.  The two had argued that the law violates article 8 of the EU human rights and lets police and intelligence services to spy on citizens without proper safeguards.

“The reality is that at this moment a government with full authorities for example in the UK has taken upon themselves the powers not only to spy on every aspect of life such email, telephone and social communication networks but at the same time it is combined with powers to potentially control people’s finances.