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Herman Cain, the ex-pizza guy, who is now under scrutiny for a settlement that took place after allegations of sexual harassment during Cain’s tenure as a lobbyist for the restaurant industry. But Cain has argued that he never sexually harassed anyone or had to settle any sort of sexual harassment complaint – outside that one, pesky incident.
http://veracitystew.com/2011/11/01/indecision-2012-ruh-roh-pizza-guy-edition-video/Herman Cain, the ex-pizza guy, who is now under scrutiny for a settlement that took... more
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This week's edition of the Ironic News Report makes you wonder! We also take on Walmart and Climate Deniers as we juxtapose Al Gore and Current's 24 hr's of Reality with the media climate of unreality over at Fox's Deny-a-nator 2000. Hosted by comedian and activist Julianna Forlano.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJdzd4VdQ1Q&feature=autoplay&list=HL1316877653&lf=mh_lolz&index=2&playnext=1This week's edition of the Ironic News Report makes you wonder! We also take on... more
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‘Porn’, to quote journalism professor and anti-pornography activist Robert Jensen, ‘is what the end of the world looks like’. I must admit that, until I read this statement (from this book), I rather thought that the apocalypse would be more of the meteor-striking, sun-exploding, fiery-death kind. Instead, Jensen seems to think armageddon will come in an avalanche of breast enhancements, fake grunting, and peroxide. He meant was that porn is the end of the world because it epitomises uncaring, unfeeling interactions between men and women, and will eventually erase loving relationships from our society. .... http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43001-porn-is-what-the-end-of-the-world-looks-like‘Porn’, to quote journalism professor and anti-pornography activist Robert... more
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But to “Femen” — a Ukrainian feminist movement with hundreds of members and thousands of supporters — such tactics are essential elements in their struggle to raise social consciousness as an increasingly authoritarian state attempts to silence them.But to “Femen” — a Ukrainian feminist movement with hundreds of... more
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JAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR - INDONESIAN Gina Puspita traded a career in aircraft engineering for a mission to preach Islam and help young women build happy marriages through good sex.
The French-educated mother of three hosts religious programmes through the Obedient Wives Club which is based on the belief that a fulfilling sex life is the cure for Western-style social problems such as divorce and abuse.
'Wives must obey the husbands in all aspect of life, such as serving food and drinks, giving calm and support for the husband, as well as in sex relations,' Mrs Pusipita, who shares her spouse with three other women, told Reuters.
A Muslim group which espouses good sex as a foundation for healthy marriages and a strong society, the Obedient Wives Club is gaining converts in the world's most populous Muslim country after setting up in Jordan, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore.
Founded by Global Ikhwan, a Malaysian firm involved in businesses ranging from laundromats to pharmacies, the club was initially intended to help the company's female staff to be good wives as well as productive employees.
Global Ikhwan's officials have been linked to the now-defunct Malaysia-based Al-Arqam religious sect which was banned by the government in 1994. Before the Obedient Wives Club, Global Ikhwan had earlier established the Polygamy Club which encourages polygamy among Muslims. -- REUTERS
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/SEAsia/Story/STIStory_683457.htmlJAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR - INDONESIAN Gina Puspita traded a career in aircraft engineering... more
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Ian K. Judge-Lord
10/16/2004-4/16/07
“Any society that would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary security will not deserve nor will ever receive neither liberty nor security and lose both.”
Benjamin Franklin
The world is changing. Even now the balance of world power is shifting. Over 30 percent of the world population lives in abject destitution and poverty. The treat of a large-scale thermonuclear confrontation or war is ever looming on the world stage, prevented only by a failing and corrupt international bureaucracy. But not all is yet lost.Ian K. Judge-Lord
10/16/2004-4/16/07
“Any society that would give up... more
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Source http://souciant.com/2011/05/holy-misogyny/
By Joe Lockard
One of the more astonishing moments among autobiographies I have read appears in Maryse Choisy’s Un Mois Chez les Hommes (1929). In preparation for a visit to Mount Athos, the long peninsula in northern Greece that constitutes a monastic republic where by religious edict women have been forbidden to visit for over a thousand years, Choisy relates how she decided to have an elective bilateral radical mastectomy. She called it the ‘Amazonian’ surgical procedure and undertook it with her boyfriend’s agreement. It worked: she was able to pose as a male servant, smuggle herself over the isthmus border beyond which women are prohibited, and spend a month wandering between the peninsula’s twenty monasteries.
Choisy, briefly a patient of Sigmund Freud, had a personality that swung between enthusiastic extremes. Her immediately previous book, Un Mois Chez les Filles (1928), had been a participatory journalism study of a Marseilles brothel. She went from sexual dissipation to self-mutilation and chastity in the space of two closely-spaced books. Much of the remainder of her career was taken up with an intellectual effort to synthesize psychoanalysis with Christianity, an issue of concern especially to conservative Catholics in Europe. That’s why Choisy’s work remains one of the curious corners of French psychoanalytic history.
Read rest at link:
http://souciant.com/2011/05/holy-misogyny/Source http://souciant.com/2011/05/holy-misogyny/
By Joe Lockard
One of the more... more
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Neely Swanson, former SVP of Development for David E. Kelley, explains how the situation for women TV pilot writers is much improved in 2011 vs. 2010.Neely Swanson, former SVP of Development for David E. Kelley, explains how the... more
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God forbid you were born prior to 1950 and/or your birth certificate was improperly filed or maybe the original copy that is embossed got lost in a house fire or a NUMBER of different reasons, you now are not ALLOWED to leave the country? THIS is America? EXCUSE me? I'm pretty sure my own original birth certificate DOES meet these requirements, but I think the original was lovingly taped to a page of my baby book by mom which is somewhere in my parents' home. I'm sure it's in a special fire safe or something since my parents are so organized. So whenever it is that I decide to get another passport I guess I have to go bug my parents, carry a really big baby book to some government office, and I hope I can pass as "American enough" to go on vacation? Even to Canada? Really?
Yet I guess it's no big deal if people are allowed to buy up all sorts of military assault rifles without any proof of mental sanity or criminal background check. That's cute. I know I was born into a country with a lot of really nice rights and freedoms. I was brainwashed by the powers that be in this country that a flag is holier than a Bible or a Constitution and that soldiers who are forced to go kill innocent brown people on other continents are "protecting my freedoms" and other such propaganda. Now that I'm 30 I've lost more and more of my rights. I don't have anymore rights to privacy, that's for sure. I don't have the right to get on an airplane without some pervert TSA agent either feeling up all my private parts or taking a naked x-ray scan of me, if I ever were to get an abortion I might be forced to do so within a couple of months and wait several days and hear my doctor read some stupid script and have a medically un-necessary ultrasound and prove I wasn't raped, I will never get the right to have Medicare when I am old let alone Social Security which I've been forced to pay into while working, the banks all got bailed out with TARP funds yet I still don't have the right to access my OWN money I earn and pay taxes on from an ATM machine without paying a $3 (and soon $5) fee because I guess the banks are big greedy babies who want it ALL, I don't have the right to clean air and water because our world leaders can't stop drilling for oil and spilling the crap all over the place, I don't have the right to my own cell phone if a cop decides to stop me for some arbitrary reason and demands I turn over the phone so they can remove the SIM card and steal all my PERSONAL phone information (not making that one up), and if certain GOP candidates God forbid win the 2012 presidency, children won't have the right to wear sagging pants (and probably not plumbers either as they'd be guilty of the same crime) but heroin MIGHT become legal. Yes, HEROIN, not pot. (Meaning the drug that kills people, not the one that makes you hungry for Cheetos.)
I am confused. WHAT country do I live in now? One with rights? Or a Capitalistic fascist one? I'm a little confused about what I was taught as a little kid when the school I went to insisted we recite the Pledge of Allegiance in addition to all the propaganda I got from the textbooks (ALL Texas based publishing company since schools never get to decide textbooks) which were completely focused on white men and wars and nothing else. War war war and more war and guns guns guns and bombs. What happened to the days of John Lennon and Peace and Love? Really, what has happened to my country? All because a really smart Harvard graduate black man got elected and a bunch of KKK Teabagging idiots can't stand that thought? The Tea Party wants us broke, stupid, trapped, with guns to our heads. That's the message I'm getting lately.
http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_5401.html
New U.S. Birth Certificate Requirement
Beginning April 1, 2011, the U.S. Department of State will require the full names of the applicant’s parent(s) to be listed on all certified birth certificates to be considered as primary evidence of U.S. citizenship for all passport applicants, regardless of age. Certified birth certificates missing this information will not be acceptable as evidence of citizenship. This will not affect applications already in-process that have been submitted or accepted before the effective date.
For more information, see 22 CFR 51.42(a).
To obtain a new birth certificate, see the CDC.
In addition to this requirement, certified copies of birth certificates must also include the following information to be considered acceptable primary evidence of U.S. citizenship:
* Full name of the applicant
* Date of birth
* Place of birth
* Raised, embossed, impressed or multicolored seal of issuing authority
* Registrar’s signature
* The date the certificate was filed with the registrar’s office (must be within one year)
If you cannot obtain a birth certificate that meets these requirements, please see Secondary Evidence of U.S. Citizenship.God forbid you were born prior to 1950 and/or your birth certificate was improperly... more
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This is the moment that the female linesman at the centre of a recent sexism row is violently knocked to the ground by a Cardiff City football player.
Defender Kevin McNaughton is seen running to keep the ball in play when he appears to drop his shoulder and steer himself into Sian Massey - knocking her off her feet.
Some viewers have demanded that he should say sorry for his actions. However his agent has said he does not need to apologise for anything as he was only trying to keep the ball in play.
What do you think?
Massey was at the centre of a sexism row over comments made by Sky Sports Andy Gray and Richard Keys who said that women "don't know the offside rule" ultimately leading to them losing their jobs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1383355/Video-Sexism-referee-Sian-Massey-knocked-floor-player.html#ixzz1LNKGcgNTThis is the moment that the female linesman at the centre of a recent sexism row is... more
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A skeptical Supreme Court heard arguments March 29 in the largest employment-discrimination case in history, suggesting that the massive, decade-old class-action suit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. may have run aground at what could be its final stop.
The issue before the justices involves whether the plaintiffs can sue together as a sprawling class — all women who worked for the chain since 1998 — or whether their discrimination claims are too diverse to be banded together in a single action. The plaintiffs maintain that individual suits against Wal-Mart would be too costly and difficult to pursue.
Nearly all justices appeared troubled by aspects of the litigation, with concerns including how back pay would be awarded to plaintiffs and whether the company would be afforded ample opportunity to present evidence of non-discrimination at trial, according to a March 29 report by The Los Angeles Times.
For more on the Wal-Mart discrimination case, visit related stories by WeNews:
http://womensenews.org/story/in-the-courts/110301/high-court-urged-give-wal-mart-women-hearingA skeptical Supreme Court heard arguments March 29 in the largest... more
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The images of Egyptian men and women standing side-by-side in Cairo's Tahrir Square inspired and captured the attention of the world and shattered stereotypes about the restriction of women from political life.
But the exclusion of women from the political transition process questions that optimism.
No women are on the constitutional drafting committee and none of the newly appointed cabinet ministers is female.
The United Nations, recognizing the role that women play at these critical junctures, has set out conditions that should be met to ensure that women are able to participate fully and meaningfully in political life.
These include making sure that women can freely express their views about politics, join and participate in political parties and activities and have access to information about political processes. It calls for special attention to empowering young women to participate in politics and civil society.
But will they make a difference?
Find out more at Women's eNews http://www.womensenews.org/story/equalitywomen%E2%80%99s-rights/110313/male-domination-in-egypt-only-half-revolutionThe images of Egyptian men and women standing side-by-side in Cairo's Tahrir... more
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Major women's rights groups and unions that represent many female employees joined together Tuesday, the first day of Women's History Month, to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to approve a court hearing for a group of Wal-Mart employees' claims of company-wide sex bias reports Women's eNews -- http://womensenews.org/story/in-the-courts/110301/high-court-urged-give-wal-mart-women-hearing
The High Court's decision could permit allegations of gender discrimination on behalf of more than one million current and former Wal-Mart female employees to go to a public trial.
A High Court ruling could also provide guidelines for other groups of employees on what is necessary for them to claim gender bias, rather than limiting the litigation and its outcomes to individuals with specific claims.
The women's organizations brief argues that the court should approve the hearing because doing otherwise would drastically limit the ability of employees who believe they experienced sex discrimination to rely on the courts to challenge job discrimination.
It describes sex discrimination in the workplace as a "serious national problem" that can best be addressed through class actions rather than individual claims. It adds that expert evaluations indicate that across the board female Wal-Mart employees were paid as much as 15 percent less than men doing the same job.
In addition, the brief asserts that Wal-Mart relied on individual managers to make decisions about salary increases and promotions, allowing decisions influenced by "biases and stereotypes to stand without meaningful assessment or correction."
The brief quotes one Wal-Mart senior vice president saying that one female employee "should raise a family and stay in the kitchen" rather than push for career advancement.
When she complained to her supervisor, the brief says, she was told to "shrug it off."
The Supreme Court, now with a total of three female members, is likely to ask both sides to present their cases in person and then make a decision sometime before its summer recess.
This is the largest civil rights class action--as such large lawsuits are called--in U.S. history.
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Sky Sports have sacked football pundit Andy Gray following off-air sexist comments.
Gray was suspended when he and a reporter made off-air comments on the female referee assistant Sian Massey during the Wolves vs. Liverpool match on Saturday, but on recently new unaired footage of Andy making comments on a female lineman during another match from December was leaked to the press. In a statement, the sports channel's Managing Director Barney Francis said "Andy Gray's contract has been terminated for unacceptable behaviour. After issuing a warning yesterday, we have no hesitation in taking this action after becoming aware of new information today."
Source: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/25012011/58/premier-league-sky-sports-sack-offensive-andy-gray.htmlSky Sports have sacked football pundit Andy Gray following off-air sexist comments.... more
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Moshe Katsav, the former president of Israel, has been convicted of twice raping an employee when he was a cabinet minister.
Katsav, 65, now faces up to 16 years in prison for the crimes, which included the two counts of rape against an employee in 1998 when he was tourism minister and counts of indecent acts and sexual harassment involving two other women who worked for him when he was president.
Katsav served as a minister in several right-wing Likud governments before he was elected president in 2000. He has denied the rape charges, claiming he was a victim of a political witch hunt and suggesting he was targeted because he comes from Israel's Sephardic community.
Katsav, who is a father of five, was ordered to surrender his passport while awaiting sentencing. His lawyers said they would appeal.
The conviction capped a long saga that stunned Israelis since it broke in 2006. The then-president initially complained that a female employee was blackmailing him but the woman went to police with her side of the story, and that prompted other women to come forward.
According to the indictment, Katsav forced one woman to the floor of his office at the Tourism Ministry in 1998 and raped her. A second time that year, he summoned her to a Jerusalem hotel to go over paperwork and raped her on the bed in his room. The indictment alleged that Katsav tried to calm his victim by saying: "Relax, you'll enjoy it."
The indictment also alleged that he harassed two women during his term as president, embracing them against their will and making unwanted sexual comments.
On Katsav's 60th birthday in 2005, an assistant offered congratulations. He then hugged her at length, sniffing her neck, according to the indictment. She complained to police, and the indictment said Katsav later tried to persuade her to change her testimony, earning him an additional charge of obstruction of justice.
The conviction by a three-judge panel was widely praised as a victory for Israel's legal system and for women's rights.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, said: "The court sent two clear and sharp messages: that everyone is equal and every woman has the full right to her body." He called the verdict a sad day for Israel and its citizens.
Katsav resigned in 2007, under a plea bargain that would have required him to admit to lesser charges of sexual misconduct. But in April 2009, he rejected the deal and vowed to clear his name in court.
Around that time, he held a bizarre news conference in which he lashed out at prosecutors and the media and denied any wrongdoing. He shook in anger, waved a computer disk that he said proved his innocence and screamed at reporters in the room.
The president of Israel is head of state but holds a largely ceremonial post. It is currently held by Shimon Peres.
LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8231865/Former-Israeli-president-guilty-of-rape.htmlMoshe Katsav, the former president of Israel, has been convicted of twice raping an... more
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An Israeli activist who defied orthodox Jewish custom by leading a group of women in open prayer at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall has been told to expect years in prison for breaching the peace.
Many in the country's rapidly growing ultra-orthodox community believe that a woman's role at the wall should be limited to silent worship. Women should not be allowed, they believe, to read aloud, sing or read from the Torah.
Anat Hoffman has been awaiting her fate since being arrested in August amid a worsening debate about her campaign to allow women to pray at Judaism's holiest site in the same way as men. The police have now chosen to ask prosecutors to charge her with "disrupting a policeman performing his duties under dire circumstances", a crime that carries a mandatory prison sentence of up to three years.
That she is facing so stern a request for punishment from the authorities is evidence, Mrs Hoffman said, of the rise of the religion Right in what is allegedly a secular country, which deems inter-faith and inter-racial marriage illegal.
Mrs Hoffman's case is a stark illustration of the growing power of religious groups in Israel, particularly in Jerusalem where the segregation of the sexes is becoming more common. She and her followers have been taunted and even assaulted by ultra-orthodox men at the Wailing Wall, part of the western wall of the Jewish Temple that was otherwise destroyed by the Romans in 70AD.
"The religious world in Israel has become more and more extreme," Mrs Hoffman said. "Much like in Islam, religiosity is now measured by the distances at which women are kept from society."
In August, she recalled recently: "They took me to the jail and told me: 'we're going to put an end to this behaviour; you won't get away with it any more'."
There are now over 100 state bus routes, many of them in Jerusalem, that offer segregated services requiring women to sit in the back. Israel's High Court yesterday ruled that the practice could continue. Many offices in the city also keep the sexes apart while a growing number of clinics require men and women to book appointments on different days.
"The religious world in Israel has become more and more extreme," Mrs Hoffman said. "Much like in Islam, religiosity is now measured by the distances at which women are kept from society."
Despite the threat of jail, Mrs Hoffman and her supporters are continuing their monthly services at the Wailing Wall. Mrs Hoffman and her fellow members of the Women of the Wall group test the boundaries of religious strictures by singing and praying out loud but they refrain from reading the Torah.
As they broke into song at a recent gathering, the men's section grew more restive as resentment started to stir. A bearded man, his black cloak marking him as ultra-orthodox, shook a fist at the women and yelled: "Burn in hell, you dogs."An Israeli activist who defied orthodox Jewish custom by leading a group of women in... more
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The ban on women serving in close-combat roles in the armed forces is to stay in place after new research failed to allay concerns the MoD has about the impact of introducing female soldiers into frontline fighting units.
Ministers and forces chiefs felt there would be "potential risks" to "cohesion" from scrapping the exclusion of women from such ground combat roles, according to a review .
"Their capability in almost all areas is not in doubt, they win the highest decorations for valour and demonstrate that they are capable of acting independently and with great initiative," the review stated.
"But these situations are not those typical of the small tactical teams in the combat arms which are required deliberately to close with and kill the enemy.
"The consequences of opening up these small tactical teams in close-combat roles to women are unknown. Other nations have very mixed experiences."
The decision was "not based on a stereotypical view of women's abilities but on the potential risks associated with maintaining cohesion in small mixed-gender tactical teams engaged in highly dangerous close-combat operations," it added.
The review of the policy was the first since 2002 and was required under European law.
The Daily Mail interprets the concerns as meaning 'male soldiers were more likely to risk death to try to save a wounded female comrade instead of fighting on'.
Do you think female soldiers should be allowed to fight in the frontline?
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I was at the beach at lake Temescal in Oakland, California, with my 3 children peacefully enjoying myself. 3 policemen showed up and gave me a citation for nudity even though I was wearing 2 sweaters and a bikini bottom (not a thong). They justified their actions with East Bay Parks regulations that say that you are not allowed to show buttocks at the beach. I was showing buttocks and was in violation according to their rules.
Ordinance 38/Section 405.
NUDITY. No person shall appear, swim, bathe, sunbathe, walk or be in any of the parks, lands, beaches, waters or any place owned, managed, controlled or otherwise under the jurisdiction of the East Bay Regional Park District, in such a manner that the genitals, vulva, pubis, symphysis, pubic hair, buttocks, and cleft, perineum, anus, anal region, or pubic hair region of any person, or any portion of the breast at or below the upper edge of the areola thereof of any female person, is exposed to public view or is not covered by an opaque covering. This subdivision shall not apply to children under the age of 5 years.
This citation was a result of sexual harassment and retaliation by one of the park rangers. Ranger Vernon Jones had previously asked me out and was turned down and 2 days prior to the incident I filed a complaint about him driving too fast in his personal vehicle down a pedestrian path. He called the police on me in retaliation. The policemen kept insisting that it was a member of the public and not a ranger who called them.
A couple weeks later I was given another citation for swimming while the beach was officially closed even though none of the police saw me swim. It was another ranger Cliff Rocha - agianst whom I had also complained in the past - who called the police and convinced them to give me a ticket. Officer Torres insisted on giving me a citation against the will of the other police officers who were present. Officer Torres said the ranger would sign the citation. This citation was so illegal that 5 days later I received a letter from the Alameda County DA saying that my citation was not going to be filed and that there was no need to go to court nor pay the fine.
I made a video about the incident and uploaded it here.
I host a naked TV show where I interview people in the nude. I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to make a nude interview about this incident. I did an interview with one of the women who go to lake Temescal to swim, Cara Judea Alhadeff. This interview is currently airing on Public Access channels in SanFrancisco and Berkeley, California, and it is posted on line at www.MyNakedTruth.TV
Gypsy Taub
www.MyNakedTruth.TVI was at the beach at lake Temescal in Oakland, California, with my 3 children... more
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Gutsy piece. This couldn't have been easy to write. Thought-provoking, too. A LOT thought-provoking.Gutsy piece. This couldn't have been easy to write. Thought-provoking, too. A LOT... more
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