Racial and Religious Abuse Increasing Among Small Children

A three-year-old Mancunian has been questioned by police for a possible hate crime after causing "harassment, alarm, or distress" to his victim.

The Gynocratic Nobility

Men, fearful of female disapproval, hid from the discussion or overcompensated, accepting these irrational arguments. All the major movements of the era: civil rights, feminism and immigration, all had the strange consequence of increasing the number of both workers and consumers. Wages began to stagnate and then, in real terms, fall. When interest, debt service and taxes are considered, wages plummeted. That’s not a coincidence. Feminism is a mystification.

My Generation, Baby

“Millennials” have become both a media scapegoat for, and a distraction from, widespread economic suffering. Having experienced no economy other than the recession’s false recovery, young Americans have arguably suffered the most. The remedy lies not in judging their lifestyle choices—or worse yet, perpetuating the illusion that they have money to burn—but by acknowledging the new economy for what it is: a structural crisis, one that future generations will share.

Boredom Good For Young Minds

“A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony.”

Meanwhile, in Israel

Israeli marriage law makes it a two-year prison offence for any Jew marrying outside of the rabbinical authorities in that country, it has emerged after a failed attempt to overturn the rabbinate’s authority in the Israeli parliament.

Closing Borders Will Drive Germans To Incest

German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble has been quoted as saying, "Isolation is what would ruin us - it would lead us into incest."  The answer is the importation of cultures with a long-standing tradition of cousin marriages.

Sweden Baffled By Too Many Men

In the natural course of things, there are usually slightly more women than men in a given population.  This standard has been established over millions of years of evolution to be about right for the needs of the species.  The country of Sweden has a curious case on their hands, where the natural order of things has been upended, and for some mysterious reason there are more men than women now.  No one knows why.

Multipolarity is Orthodox

While the Catholic Pope Francis calls walls unchristian and washes the feet of migrants, the Russian Orthodox Church makes the ethical argument for sovereignty in the face of the financial and cultural pressures of transnational elites.

Muslims Prize Canadian Freedoms

Canadian Muslims are more proud of being Canadian than non-Muslim Canadians--but young Muslims are more attached to their religious identity than their parents, more likely to value Canada for its multiculturalism and diversity rather than its freedom and democracy, more likely to be pessimistic about discrimination, and more likely to say their faith is more important to them than their nationality.

More female Muslims are wearing the niqab than ten years ago, with the largest growth among young people who have been to university.  In general, Muslims with less education are more likely to wear the niqab, but not in Canada.

Almost twice as many Muslims as non-Muslims think that the father should be the master of the house, and less than half as many think homosexuality should be accepted by society.  89% of Muslims report being satisfied with the direction Canada is going, compared with 56% of non-Muslims.

"Muslim Canadians," itself a discrimination, say they have experienced discrimination more than that reported by the "general population," an apparently undifferentiated mass.  How it could be logically otherwise is unclear.

Neighbour Sees Children, Reports Them As Unsupervised

A Winnipeg mother was interrogated by Child and Family Services after an anonymous complaint that her children were seen playing in her backyard.

"First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin"

Berlin has been "lost" to a criminal underworld of about eight Arab families, who came in the late 1970s, and who have exploited the migrant crisis to swell their ranks.

TV Worse Than Nothing For Learning, Parents Don't Care

Television time in early childhood has been found to decrease motor, vocabulary, math, and social skills, as well as "physical prowess at kindergarten."

British Judge Enforces Islam on Nine-Year-Old

A father born in the UK to Pakistani parents has been denied the right to take his son to church picnics, because his ex-wife does not want her son to be confused.  The court order decrees that the father is to provide halal food, and reassure the boy that he is "an ordinary Muslim boy following Muslim rules."

Grown-ups Ruin Easter

The Pez candy visitor's centre in Orange, Connecticut was the site of a planned hunt for plastic eggs containing Pez.  The plan was for three waves of children, starting with the youngest, to be allowed onto three separate fields littered with candy.  Instead, certain parents descended on each field in turn (“kind of like locusts”) before the hunt was intended to begin -- knocking over children, trampling them, and stealing eggs from other people's baskets.  It's what Jesus would have wanted.

Portland State course aims to 'make whiteness strange'

The University of Southern California also gave students the chance to study whiteness this semester. “Critical Studies in Whiteness,” offered by USC’s graduate school, focuses “on how whiteness operates within specific racial regimes to perpetuate inequality.”

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“Thousand are just too many”, resident Dirk Hammer told the meeting. His family has lived for 400 years in the village. He wants as many as a “reasonable solution” would allow to “minimize disruption” but ultimately the feelings expressed were that residents were not consulted.

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"These findings are very striking, and consistent with the idea that brain mechanisms that evolved for relatively basic threat-response functions are re-purposed to also produce ideological reactions."

Poverty's most insidious damage is to a child's brain

"'In developmental science and medicine, it is not often that the cause and solution of a public health problem become so clearly elucidated,' Luby wrote in the editorial. 'It is even less common that feasible and cost-effective solutions to such problems are discovered and within reach.'"

The Pain of Modern Life: Loneliness and Isolation

"As Mohandas Gandhi famously said: 'All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family.' This is not a sycophantic religious concept, but the fact of our inherent nature; a nature that the current World socio-economic order systematically works against, forcing us to live in unnatural, unhealthy, un-fulfilling, and unjust ways."

Nurture, not physical environment, explains human behavior

"Cultural inertia is not necessarily disadvantageous, the research noted. Learning from one's parent's generation could be beneficial because it allows for the accumulation of information through time. This capacity for cultural learning may be why modern humans were able to thrive in virtually every terrestrial habitat on Earth and why human societies vary to an extent unmatched in the animal world."

Masculinity Is Killing Men: The Roots of Men and Trauma

"When a group of 204 adults was shown video of the same baby crying and given differing information about the baby's sex, they judged the 'female' baby to be scared, while the 'male' baby was described as 'angry.'"

Professor: If You Read To Your Kids, You’re ‘Unfairly Disadvantaging’ Others

"At one point, Swift even flirted with the idea of 'simply abolishing the family' as a way of 'solving the social justice problem' because 'there would be a more level playing field' if we did."