Institutionalised Misandry: ‘Violence Against Women And Girls’ Newsletter, Summer 2015

'So, the term ‘people’ doesn’t include heterosexual men.
I guess that must mean they’re never abused'

J4MB Nigel: Anyone who is deluded enough to accept the government’s rationale for including violence against men and boys within the term ‘Violence Against Women and Girls’ – VAWG – should read the report. More clued-up people will also find it interesting.
FGM alone takes up pp.4-7. A few examples of the report’s lack of interest in violence committed against men and boys, starting with a few lines from the Foreword (p.3):

Much has happened since our last newsletter in March not least the election of a new Government which has made it clear that protecting women and girls from violence, [my emphasis] and supporting victims and survivors of sexual violence, remains a key priority.
The Government is committed to publishing an updated VAWG strategy in the Autumn, and we are currently engaged in working with departments across government, and consulting with women’s groups, [my emphasis] third sector organisations and wider experts, on the development of that strategy.

The Financial Times Calls For Ending Cash, Calls It A “Barbarous Relic”

By Michael Krieger: Earlier this week, as the financial world was mesmerized by a min-stock market crash, the Financial Times published a dastardly little piece of fascist propaganda.
There is no more egregious anti-liberty economic policy imaginable than banning cash. I covered this earlier in the year in the post, Martin Armstrong Reports on a Secret Meeting in London to Ban Cash. Here’s an excerpt:

At this point, anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention to the central planning economic totalitarians running the fraudulent global financial system is aware of the blatant push in the media to acclimate the masses to accepting a “cashless society.”

Refugees Expose Europe’s Lack Of Decency

By Raúl Ilargi Meijer: This is a story I’ve been wanting to write for a while now, at least two full weeks, but haven’t gotten around to because I have my dying mother to attend to. Something I can to an extent approach from a rational point of view, because she has expressed her explicit will to die. But it will of course never be easy, if only because I’ve been close to her all my life even in the 20-odd years I lived thousands of miles away. It’s a thing of the heart.
And so must be, at some moment or another, my dealing with what she goes through, and what I will go through when she finally gets her wish. A wish I would have thought would be reasonably easy to fulfill in a country as supposedly advanced as Holland, but that’s not true. People have to suffer more, long after they’ve signaled they’ve had enough, just to satisfy someone or another’s idea of ethics who has little to no involvement in the situation. Unless they’ve been through endless series of conversations with total strangers who will then decide when it’s time.
The person herself doesn’t have the right to make that decision. Now that I’m witnessing the process in progress, I would recommend everyone buy that pill or that gun well in advance, lest they get subjected to the same kind of self-serving morality nonsense themselves. We may not have the legal right to decide about our own lives, but what law is going to stop us from taking that decision regardless? The craziest expression of this mindless attitude is probably that in countless nations and cultures, suicide is still a punishable offence. My mother is not the suicidal kind; she just wants dignity, and is denied it.

BP Settlements & Uber’s Profit

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss BP settlements, fracking abandonments and Uber’s balance sheet. In the second half, Max interviews ‘America’s Lawyer’ Mike Papantonio about Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder and the failure of the left and progressive wing in America.

Jagged Little Feminism: Hiding The Raw Hatred Of Men

By August Løvenskiolds: Feminists love hating men, and they also love denying that feminism involves hating men. Just use Google to search for the words “feminism is not about hating men” to get a taste of the ambivalence today’s feminists feel about openly expressing their true contempt for men.
Now, deflection and deception of one’s true emotional nature is a human staple that goes back thousands of years: even the ancient Egyptians used cosmetics to pretty up their faces, a practice women still use today even when feminists half-heartedly tell them that pleasing men with pretty faces is wrong. Women still encourage men to share their feelings – and women explode into anger and reject those men stupid enough to take women at their word about this.
Because the expressions of women’s raw negative emotions are seen as a bit more acceptable than men’s, women are more likely to let loose their rage in public (and especially in private). This emotional repression of the dark demons of the human soul persists to this day: a certain public sense of decorum (and a lot of public shaming) still restricts the public release of emotions in both men and women. Feminists term this decorum “patriarchal repression” but the truth is that women are the real arbiters of what emotional displays are allowed: for example, the open expressions of men’s sexual desires are characterized by hypocritical feminists as “harassment” and “oppressive” even as feminists fight to “free the nipple” and demonize so-called “slut shaming.”

China's Treasury Liquidation Means $1 Trillion QE In Reverse

Submitted by Tyler Durden: Earlier today, Bloomberg - citing the ubiquitous "people familiar with the matter" - confirmed what we’ve been pounding the table on for months; namely that China is liquidating its UST holdings. 

As we outlined in July, from the first of the year through June, China looked to have sold somewhere around $107 billion worth of US paper. While that might have seemed like a breakneck pace back then, it was nothing compared to what would transpire in the last two weeks of August. Following the devaluation of the yuan, the PBoC found itself in the awkward position of having to intervene openly in the FX market, despite the fact that the new currency regime was supposed to represent a shift towards a more market-determined exchange rate. That intervention has come at a steep cost - around $106 billion according to Soc Gen. In other words, stabilizing the yuan in the wake of the devaluation has resulted in the sale of more than $100 billion in USTs from China’s FX reserves. 
That dramatic drawdown has an equal and opposite effect on liquidity.

Why Women Can’t Cope With Stress - Or At Least, Not As Well As Men - Because Hormones

By Mike Buchanan: Our thanks to Jeff for this. It’s about time women started to admit publicly what we all see with our own eyes, in our work and home lives, decade after decade. Woman are typically more prone to anxiety than men, and they don’t cope well with competition, so they suffer more stress when put under pressure, such as in the workplace – the subject of the newspaper article.
Year after year we hear calls for more female role models to ‘celebrate’ and ‘inspire’ women – who will be those role models’ role models? – taxpayer-funded initiatives to ‘encourage’ women into fields they don’t want to enter (e.g. engineering, £30 million), lowering of standards to enable more women to meet entry and ongoing employment requirements (police, fire service…), the decline of state education (masked only by grade inflation, decade after decade), and so much more.
For three years Campaign for Merit in Business has been informing the government and businesses of the evidence that driving up female representation on corporate boards leads to corporate financial decline – a short briefing paper is here. On the basis of merit we’d expect women to occupy fewer than 5% of the board places in major companies – for the calculation leading to that conclusion, see reference #2 on p.68 of our election manifesto – yet due to government threats of legislated gender quotas, the proportion of women on FTSE100 boards has risen from 12.5% to 25% in the space of five years. Almost all the new female directors were appointed as non-executive directors, what does that tell you about the competence gender gap at the top of major businesses?

"Straight Outta Compton" Depicts Dr. Dre's Crummy Mummy Experience

"Dre was raised by a crummy mummy! Black America does indeed have a crummy mommy problem and in the film 'Straight out of Compton' you see that with the way Dr Dre's mother treats him, starting with the fact that she doesn't support or nurture his talent. Everybody else in the film can see Dr Dre's talent, but his mother." Obsidian.

They Want Your Money

By mom4dads: Wage gap is a myth.

What is real, is that feminists want men to give them their money. #GiveYourMoneyToWomen
“The idea behind the hashtag was even better than that: Women were banding together to demand payment for all the emotional work we do that goes completely unpaid—the exhausting work of being a tolerant, gentle, nurturing, listening woman in our relationships with men, at all times. Women put up with a lot of bullshit, and we have a science-backed term for it: Emotional labor. And as with any kind of labor, women are now ready and eager to get paid.”
Emotional labor? Being tolerant, gentle, nurturing and listening is how kind, compassionate, pleasant normal people try to be, especially with the people you love. If to you it feels like hard work, you are free to leave. Good luck with finding somebody who wants to be with you.

“Hot Money” Flees Latin America, Triggers Currency Bloodbath, Risk Of Mega Debt Crisis

By Don Quijones: The script of the current dramas besieging the global economy was written seven years ago. It was written when the world’s biggest central banks, with the Federal Reserve leading the way, decided to combat (or at least postpone) an endemic banking crisis by flooding the globe with countless trillions of dirt-cheap dollars, euros, yen, pounds, Swiss francs, and yuan.
With most developed economies stalled and their engines flooded, part of this “hot money” went elsewhere, and much of it poured into the fast-growing developing and emerging markets of Latin America, where it chased high-yield risks that would have been unthinkable, were it not for the newfound abundance of cheap money.
Coinciding with China’s seemingly insatiable thirst for commodities, this sudden glut of global liquidity helped transform Latin America into one of the world’s fastest growing regions. Western corporations, banks and investors also benefited along their way, as their high-yield emerging market investments more than compensated for the lackluster opportunities offered by the stagnating economies of Europe, North America and Japan. For many Spanish multinationals, the region is now the most important source of revenues and profits [read: Downturn in Latin America Mauls Spanish Companies, Threatens Spain’s “Recovery”].
However, seven years after the world’s central banks embarked on the biggest money printing spree in recorded history, the movement of funds has begun reversing — and at a vicious rate!

American Men Have No Reproductive Rights

By Michael Bargo, Jr.: The debate and policy initiatives to establish and codify reproductive rights for women are sexist and reflect gender bias. There are few, if any, laws and policies in the U.S. at the state or Federal levels which make any effort to protect men regarding their reproductive rights. The debate has been so one-sided that most people don’t even think about this as an issue, yet a quick review of the topic reveals the extent to which men’s reproductive rights have been not just ignored but aggressively impaired. In Marxist terms, men as a class are engaged in an historic struggle to establish their rights.
Here are some examples. Right now many states have family laws which clearly establish that when a man engages in the sex act with a woman, he is, by virtue of willfully participating in that act, agreeing to an irrevocable, binding legal contract to support the child financially if the woman becomes pregnant. But women are allowed a free ride on the sex act. There is no law in Illinois, or I would venture to say, any other state that stipulates that a woman who willfully engages in the sex act with a man thereby enters into a binding contractual agreement to allow the man to visit the child created by the act and have an unlimited opportunity to text or email the child 24/7 throughout the life of the child ...These issues, of men’s rights in child custody are largely ignored by law. They are left to be resolved by divorce courts, which are stuck in the past with regard to sexual stereotyping and gender bias. And it is a situation women are loath to change. There is no incentive for them to change. After all, as things stand now, women have all the reproductive rights and men are left only with the responsibilities. They are fighting an uphill battle in court when they seek to assert their rights as a biological father.

Men’s Rights Bodies In India Call Out Misandric Legal System

By Payal Gwalani: The laws and policies in the country are inclined towards women in a way that they are based on the assumption that women can never be perpetrators of a crime. While this has been a bone of contention for men's rights activists, they now believe it is time that men's social, emotional and physical wellbeing is given due importance while designing policies.
During their 7th annual national conference on Saturday, over 180 delegates representing 50 NGOs under the banner of Save Indian Family (SIF) discussed these issues. They met to brainstorm on the need for gender neutral laws in the country. A few resolutions were passed during the meet, which will be turned into a memorandum of demands and handed over to several authorities including PM Narendra Modi.
"Over the last ten years that we have been running a helpline for men, there have been a lot of distressed and abused men who have had some common complaints. Often, these are men with a familial strife going on. If these problems end up in the court, it is assumed by most legal entities that women don't lie or cheat. Such biased opinion of lawmakers only makes it more difficult for men facing abuse to seek legal resort," said Swarup Sarkar, founder of SIF's Delhi chapter.