Another American Gift Of Death And Destruction To Iraq

Mosul dam engineers warn it could fail at any time, killing 1 million people

By Julian Borger: Iraqis who built dam say structure is increasingly precarious and describe government response as ‘ridiculous’

Iraqi engineers involved in building the Mosul dam 30 years ago have warned that the risk of its imminent collapse and the consequent death toll could be even worse than reported.
They pointed out that pressure on the dam’s compromised structure was building up rapidly as winter snows melted and more water flowed into the reservoir, bringing it up to its maximum capacity, while the sluice gates normally used to relieve that pressure were jammed shut.
The Iraqi engineers also said the failure to replace machinery or assemble a full workforce more than a year after Islamic State temporarily held the dam means that the chasms in the porous rock under the dam were getting bigger and more dangerous every day.

Global Housing Bubbles

Max and Stacy are joined by Professor Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics, and Ross Ashcroft of RenegadeInc.com and the crowd-funded series, Meet the Renegades. They discuss housing bubbles in Australia, housing policy in the UK, and the rise of Donald Trump as a sign of the great recession happening outside the property bubble cities in which both politicians and journalists live.

Feminist Terminology 5: Microaggression

Professor Fiamengo discusses the fifth of five pernicious feminist terms: Microaggression. Fiamengo also explains how feminists use the theory of microaggression, and the misandric claim that masculinity is toxic, in their strategy for power through the dehumanization of males.

Announcing mhrm.uk [Men's Human Rights Movement]

UK MHRM Self-Study Guide and Wiki

By William Collins [aka MRA-UK]: This post is partly to advertise a new site, snappily named mhrm.uk.

The new site is a Wiki, not a blog (despite looking like a blog).

The intention is to provide a repository of factual information relevant to the MHRM in the UK. The use of a Wiki platform is to enable multiple contributors and hence, ultimately, an integration of knowledge in different people’s heads. Readers of this blog will need no explanation for why Wikipedia is not fulfilling this role. Authoring/editing rights will therefore be controlled (see the site).

Data in particular requires constant updating and this would be impossibly burdensome for one individual. The hope is that having sufficient editors will facilitate keeping data up to date.

The aim is that the site should out-grow, and become independent of, me. However, I plan to put in a substantial amount of material prior to throwing the site open to a few hand-picked individuals – probably in late 2016. Thereafter the number of authors/editors will expand, I hope. Meanwhile, feel free to read/use it, as the content increases.

The second purpose of this post is to advertise some content already in mhrm.uk. Most of Education has already appeared on this blog, but there are substantial parts of The UK Way Of Death that have not. Take a look.

No Privacy, Snooping, Encryption, Back Doors

Re Apple Vs FBI and Snooping Charter. Morris.

Beware The Average

DoctorRandomercam: One thing I have finally learned: Feminism is not the problem; Religion is not the problem. No creed or colour is the problem.  

The problem is identity politics.

This is by no means limited to any one group. It includes atheists and theists, MGTOW and MRAs, feminists and anti-feminists. Indeed, all identities are susceptible to it. But in this video we see a couple of examples of the most rabid lunatic fundamentalists of identity politics you'll ever see. In short, this is what happened:

Drunk Sex: A Treatise in Three Parts - Part Two

"In the last episode we discussed measures. ...Assuming we can objectively define drunk what if we're both drunk?" Says Josh O'Brien

Economic Collapse: Saudi Arabia

By Stacy Herbert: Whilst all mainstream media eyes are on Russia and wishing and hoping for an economic collapse and default (a very laughable notion), over in Saudi Arabia the nation is in a genuine economic meltdown. Not that you would know it if your only source of news was the likes of the BBC or Washington Post. With the Saudi government having to borrowing 13% of GDP just to keep basic services running to prevent complete overthrow and with them refusing to unpeg their currency to the dollar (perhaps they’re not allowed to based on whatever secret deal they did at Bitter Lake?), workers are going unpaid for months on end.
The BBC will not call your attention to this story as they would were the scenes in the above video to have happened in Moscow and not Mecca.

Traditionalism v Traditionalism

By Peter Wright & Paul Elam: The topic of gynocentrism is a perpetual undercurrent in the realm of red pill philosophy. It came up again recently, in a critique of a largely popular, critical commentator on third-wave feminism. That touched a nerve in the MHRM, and sparked some spirited, even acrimonious debate.
That nerve, we think, is connected directly to faultline, to a zone of demarcation within the nonfeminist sector that manages to surface regularly in the new narrative.
If history is any indication, we will see this friction revisited with greater intensity in the months and years ahead. That heat will increase with the commensurate increase in the popularity of nonfeminism. It warrants a good faith attempt to identify and explain what is happening. We may even head off some problems.
Traditionalism vs. modernism
Ostensibly, it appears that we have a long-running conflict between traditionalists and those who would make a clean break from any and all social constructs that govern identity and expectation based on sex.
Yet the debate about traditionalism is clearly more complex than a disagreement between people who want traditional vs. non-traditional relationships, a fact that becomes more evident with each flare-up of controversy and dissent.

The Six Eye-Watering Reasons Why You Should NEVER Allow Your Son To Be Genitally Mutilated AKA Circumcised

Last month, Dr Paul Turek espoused the benefits of genital mutilation.
He claimed it reduces the risk of HIV and STD infection, but Peter Lloyd, [right] author of Stand by Your Manhood, slams the advice as preposterous.
Like an eyelid, he says the foreskin has many functions - and its removal causes the head of the penis to harden and desensitise, like a callus.
He also calls out feminist double-standards on the issue, claiming the frequent violation of boys is 'systematically ignored.

By Peter Lloyd: Most people would consider the bodies of men and women equally valuable.  But, when it comes to circumcision, that clearly isn’t true - which is odd considering the procedure removes functional tissue, causes extreme pain, permanently disfigures and forever damages sexual response, regardless of gender.

SuffraGENTS: First Annual Convention, Bedford, 12th-3-2016

By Mike Buchanan: Suffragents is an organization based in my adopted home town of Bedford, and its strapline is:

Campaigning for gender equality, legal justice for fathers, and the recognition of domestic violence against men.

On Saturday 12 March they’ll be holding their first annual convention, details here. Admission is free but by invitation only, you need to fill in a short contact form.
I won’t be speaking at the convention, but I look forward to attending.

Gloria Steinem Leads Women Up The Parden Path

By Kathy Gyngell: Did childlessness or an antipathy to children form Gloria Steinem’s barren feminism? Or was she unloved herself? I wondered about this as I read Jan Moir’s interview with her to celebrate her 82^nd birthday.

Children simply do not feature in Ms Steinem’s world. She takes not one minute to consider them or how the fall-out from her feminist strictures has impacted on them. She reflects neither on the massive expansion of daycare that followed hard on the heels of ‘women’s lib’ nor the exponential rise of child and adolescent mental health disorders we are witnessing today.
Despite her age, Gloria Steinem strikes me as an immature woman, still at the centre of her own world – still the child or adolescent in Jungian terms –  still seeking experience to confirm her belief system.
Asked if she regrets her childlessness, Steinem says that even though: “I can feel the pressure to say yes. But I don’t and I never did”.
This is the only mention children get – apart from when she invokes the women having it all mantra – a career (what a revealing term) and a baby. They can’t she says, until men have it all too – career and baby.
No, adults and mainly women (men are lovers or helps) are the centre of Ms Steinem’s egocentric world.