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Male Feminist Calls For “Liberating Cis Men” From The “Oppressive Force” Of Masculinity…





Much of the work I’ve done here at Feministing has been an attempt to unpack the oppressive nature of our current constructs of masculinity. Sometimes this means discussing the ways in which defining masculinity around dominance, violence, coercion, and invulnerability limit the identities and expression of men who are beholden to this definition.

And I continue to believe that is an important conversation to have. It’s true that a patriarchal definition of masculinity and manhood is damaging to men — physically, emotionally, and psychologically. […]

My issue is that masculinity acts as oppressive force, and any conversation about oppression that leaves out the oppressed is not one I find worth having. What masculinity does to heterosexual cis men is important to discuss, but what it does to everyone else, especially women, is far more important. Because while it can leave us men broken in many ways, the privilege to be able to move through the world adopting this masculinity bestows upon us a tremendous amount of power. That power has been used to render everyone else second- and third-class citizens. This is the true danger.

When people of good faith and goodwill push this to the side to focus solely on the ways in which masculinity affects men and boys, it only serves to diminish the fight for gender equality by not dealing with it directly. When we re-center men in this discussion, we’re saying that the effects felt by women are not just secondary but can be ignored and still eradicated. That’s simply not true. It’s possible to do the work of redefining masculinity and liberating men from patriarchy and still reinforce the same gendered power dynamics under the guise of a “progressive masculinity.”

Ultimately, the definition of a progressive masculinity, if there is to be one, will not be cis het men’s to define, but to actualize. We will not be the experts on what this new masculinity should look like because we are not the ones whose liberation is truly at stake. We will only benefit from redefining masculinity if it is done with the goal dismantling the current power structure. We are not the ones best equipped to do that.




http://feministing.com/2015/03/19/remembering-why-redefining-masculinity-is-important/

Compared that to what adria said. He is a good man.

Hank's much better man than I am!

and you read it... duty full.

I knew exactly what you meant... I still hope she will see the light, whatever that maybe for her 

But yes. Great ending. This could be a great screenplay. I wonder who could play adria's father...

I was thinking more like, he has a job and she doesn't. Sweet sweet justice.

As far as hank being terrified for life, perhaps he should have been terrified of woman all along and he just didnt realize the danger but now he has gained a perspective that is more in line with the real world. Fear is a good thing if it is rational.

Hank is afraid of femal coworkers for life and adria blamed hank for telling the world he lost his job and would do it again (the vibe I am getting at the end)


OK... No one died, so it is a happy ending...

 

What a great story! I'm so glad it had a happy ending.

How A Tweet Can Ruin Your Life






In this exclusive extract from his timely new book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson investigates a peculiar case of online retribution, and asks how we arrived at a situation where the fake indignation particular to social media can have such devastating real-world consequences



“I am a nobody,” said Hank, “just a guy with a family and a job, a middle-America type guy.”

Hank wasn’t his real name. He’d managed to keep that aspect of himself a secret. He was talking to me via a Google Hangout from his kitchen in a suburban house in a West Coast American town I promised him I wouldn’t name. He looked frail, fidgety, the sort of man more comfortable working alone at a computer than talking to a human stranger via one.

On 17 March 2013, Hank was in the audience at a conference for tech developers in Santa Clara when a stupid joke popped into his head, which he murmured to his friend, Alex.

“What was the joke?” I asked him.

“It was so bad I don’t remember the exact words,” he said. “It was about a fictitious piece of hardware that has a really big dongle – a ridiculous dongle. We were giggling about that. It wasn’t even conversation-level volume.”

A few moments earlier Hank and Alex had been giggling over some other Beavis and Butt-head-type tech in-joke about “forking someone’s repo”. “We’d decided it was a new form of flattery,” Hank explained. “A guy had been on stage presenting his new project and Alex said, ‘I would fork that guy’s repo.’”

(In tech jargon, to “fork” means to take a copy of another person’s software so you can work on it independently. Another word for software is “repository”. This is why “forking someone’s repo” works both as a term of flattery and also as sexual innuendo. Just in case you wanted to know. I think it is a very special sort of hell where you’re compelled to explain to a journalist some terrible throwaway joke you made 10 months earlier and the journalist keeps saying, “I’m sorry. I still don’t get it,” but that was the hell Hank found himself in during his Google Hangout chat with me.)

Moments after making the dongle joke, Hank half noticed the woman sitting in front of them at the conference stand up, turn around, and take a photograph. Hank thought she was taking a picture of the crowd. So he looked forward, trying not to mess up her shot.

It’s a little painful to look at that photograph now – knowing what was about to happen to them. Those mischievous, stupid smiles that follow in the wake of a dongle joke successfully shared would be Hank and Alex’s last smiles for a while.

Ten minutes after the photograph was taken a conference organiser came down the aisle and said to Hank and Alex, “Can you come with me?”

They were taken into an office and told there’d been a complaint about sexual comments. “I immediately apologised,” Hank said. “I knew exactly what they were talking about. I told them what we’d said, and that we didn’t mean for it to come across as a sexual comment, and that we were sorry if someone overheard and was offended. They were like, ‘OK. I see what happened.’”

And that was that. The incident passed. Hank and Alex were badly shaken up — “We’re nerdy guys and confrontation isn’t something we handle well. It’s not something we’re accustomed to” — and so they decided to leave the conference early.

They were on their way to the airport when they started to wonder exactly how the woman sitting in front of them had conveyed her complaint to the conference organisers. They suddenly felt anxious about this. The nightmarish possibility was that it had been communicated in the form of a public tweet. And so, with apprehension, they had a look.

A bolt of anxiety shot through Hank. He quickly scanned her replies, but there was nothing much – just the odd congratulation from a few of her 9,209 followers for the “noble” way she’d “educated” the men behind her. He noticed ruefully that a few days earlier the woman – her name was Adria Richards – had herself tweeted a stupid penis joke. She’d suggested to a friend that he put socks down his pants to bewilder TSA agents at the airport. Hank relaxed a little. The next day Adria Richards followed up her tweet with a blog post:
“Yesterday, I publicly called out a group of guys at the PyCon conference who were not being respectful to the community.”

She explained the background – how she was a “developer evangelist at a successful start-up” and that while the men had been giggling about big dongles the presenter on stage was talking about initiatives to bring more women into the industry. In fact, he’d just projected onto the screen a photograph of a little girl at a tech workshop.

“Accountability was important. These guys sitting right behind me felt safe in the crowd. I got that and realised that being anonymous was fuelling their behaviour. This is known as Deindividuation. Theories of deindividuation propose that it is a psychological state of decreased self-evaluation causing antinormative and disinhibited behaviour. Deindividuation theory seeks to provide an explanation for a variety of antinormative collective behaviour, such as violent crowds, lynch mobs, etc…

“…I stood up slowly, turned around and took three, clear photos. There is something about crushing a little kid’s dream that gets me really angry. It takes three words to make a difference: “That’s not cool.” Yesterday the future of programming was on the line and I made myself heard.”

But Hank had already been called into his boss's office and fired.

***

“I packed up all my stuff in a box,” Hank said, “then I went outside to call my wife. I’m not one to shed tears but…” Hank paused. “When I got in the car with my wife I just… I’ve got three kids. Getting fired was terrifying.”

That night Hank made his only public statement (he had never spoken to a journalist about what had happened before he spoke to me). He posted a short message on the discussion board Hacker News:

“Hi, I’m the guy who made a comment about big dongles. First of all I’d like to say I’m sorry. I really did not mean to offend anyone and I really do regret the comment and how it made Adria feel.

“She had every right to report me to staff, and I defend her position. [But] as a result of the picture she took I was let go from my job today. Which sucks because I have three kids and I really liked that job.

“She gave me no warning, she smiled while she snapped the pic and sealed my fate.”

“The next day,” Hank said, “Adria Richards called my company asking them to ask me to remove the portion of my apology that stated I lost my job as a result of her tweet.”

***

I sent Adria an interview request. “All right, pitch me via email and if relevant, I’ll respond,” she replied. So I pitched. Successfully. We agreed to meet two weeks later. “We will meet in a public place for safety reasons,” Adria wrote. “Make sure to bring along your ID for verification.”

We settled on the international check-in desks at San Francisco Airport. I was expecting someone fiercer. But when I saw her half wave at me from across the terminal she didn’t seem fierce at all. She seemed introverted and delicate, just like how Hank had come across over the Google Hangout. We found a cafe and she told me about the moment it all began for her — the moment she overheard the comment about the big dongle.

“Have you ever had an altercation at school and you could feel the hairs rise up on your back?” she asked me.

“You felt fear?” I asked.

“Danger,” she said. “Clearly my body was telling me, ‘You are unsafe.’”

Which was why, she said, she “slowly stood up, rotated from my hips, and took three photos.” She tweeted one, “with a very brief summary of what they said. Then I sent another tweet describing my location. Right? And then the third tweet was the [conference's] code of conduct.”

“You talked about danger," I said. "What were you imagining might...?"

“Have you ever heard that thing, men are afraid that women will laugh at them and women are afraid that men will kill them?” she said.

I told Adria that people might consider that an overblown thing to say. She had, after all, been in the middle of a tech conference with 800 bystanders.

“Sure,” Adria replied. “And those people would probably be white and they would probably be male.”

This seemed a weak gambit. Men can sometimes be correct. There is some Latin for this kind of logical fallacy. It’s called an ad hominem attack. When someone can’t defend a criticism against them, they change the subject by attacking the criticiser.

“Somebody getting fired is pretty bad,” I said. “I know you didn’t call for him to be fired. But you must have felt pretty bad.”

“Not too bad,” she said. She thought more and shook her head decisively. “He’s a white male. I’m a black Jewish female. He was saying things that could be inferred as offensive to me, sitting in front of him. I do have empathy for him but it only goes so far. If he had Down’s Syndrome and he accidently pushed someone off a subway that would be different... I’ve seen things where people are like, ‘Adria didn’t know what she was doing by tweeting it.’ Yes, I did.”

“Hank’s actions resulted in him getting fired, yet he framed it in a way to blame me. If I had two kids, I wouldn’t tell ‘jokes’”

The evening Hank posted his statement on Hacker News, outsiders began to involve themselves in his and Adria’s story. Hank started to receive messages of support from men’s-rights bloggers. He didn’t respond to any of them. Later, a Gucci Little Piggy blogger wrote that Hank’s Hacker News message had revealed him to be a man with: “a complete lack of backbone… by apologising you are just saying, ‘I am a weak enemy – do with me what you will.’ [In publicly shaming Hank, Adria had] complete and utter power over his children. That doesn’t piss this guy off?”

At the same time that Hank was being feted and then insulted by the men’s-rights bloggers, Adria discovered she was getting discussed on a famous meeting place for trolls: 4chan/b/.

“A father of three is out of a job because a silly joke he was telling a friend was overheard by someone with more power than sense. Let’s crucify this cunt.”

“Kill her.”

“Cut out her uterus with an X-ACTO knife.”

Someone sent Adria a photograph of a beheaded woman with tape over her mouth. Adria’s face was superimposed onto the bodies of porn actors. Websites were created to teach people how to make the superimposing look seamless — by matching skin-tones. On Facebook someone wrote, “I hope I can find Adria, kidnap her, put a torture bag over her head, and shoot a .22 subsonic round right into her fucking skull. Fuck that bitch, make her pay, make her obey.” (That one, Adria told me, although I couldn’t confirm it, was from a student at the New York City College of Technology.)

“Death threats and rape threats only feed her cause,” someone eventually wrote on 4chan/b/. “I don’t mean stop doing things. Just think first. Do something productive.”

Soon after, her employer’s website went down. Someone launched a DDoS attack, which overwhelms a site’s servers with repeated requests. SendGrid, her employer, was told the attacks would stop if Adria was fired. Hours later, she was publicly let go.

“I cried a lot, journaled and escaped by watching movies,’’ she later said to me in an email. ‘‘I felt betrayed. I felt abandoned. I felt ashamed. I felt rejected. I felt alone.’’

***

The death threats and rape threats against Adria continued even after she was fired. “Things got very bad for her,” Hank told me. “She had to disappear for six months. Her entire life was being evaluated by the Internet. It was not a good situation for her at all.”

“Have you ever met her?” I asked him.

“No,” he replied. “There’s never been any contact between us. Since she turned around and took my photograph.”

Ten months had passed since that day. Hank had had 10 months to allow his feelings about her to settle into something coherent, so I asked him what he thought of her now?

“I think that nobody deserves what she went through,” he replied.

***

““Maybe it was [Hank] who started all of this,” Adria told me in the cafe at San Francisco Airport. “No one would have known he got fired until he complained. Maybe he’s to blame for complaining that he got fired. Maybe he secretly seeded the hate groups. Right?”

I was so taken aback by this suggestion I didn’t say anything in defence of Hank at the time. But later I felt bad that I hadn’t stuck up for him. So I emailed her. I told her what he had told me – how he’d refused to engage with any of the bloggers or trolls who sent him messages of support. I added that I felt Hank was within his rights to post the message on Hacker News revealing he’d been fired.

Adria replied that she was happy to hear that Hank “wasn’t active in driving their interests to mount the raid attack”, but she held him responsible for it anyway. It was “his own actions that resulted in his own firing, yet he framed it in a way to blame me… If I had a spouse and two kids to support I certainly would not be telling ‘jokes’ like he was doing at a conference. Oh but wait, I have compassion, empathy, morals and ethics to guide my daily life choices. I often wonder how people like Hank make it through life seemingly unaware of how ‘the other’ lives in the same world he does but with countless less opportunities.”

***

I asked Hank if he found himself behaving differently since the incident. Had it altered how he lived his life?

“I distance myself from female developers a little bit now,” he replied. “I’m not as friendly. There’s humour, but it’s very mundane. You just don’t know. I can’t afford another Donglegate.”

“Give me an example,” I said. “So you’re in your new workplace…” (Hank was offered another job right away) “…and you’re talking to a female developer. In what way do you act differently towards her?”

“Well,” Hank said. “We don’t have any female developers at the place I’m working at now. So.”

***

“You’ve got a new job now, right?” I said to Adria.

“No,” she said.

***

Adria’s father was an alcoholic. He used to beat Adria’s mother. He hit her with a hammer. He knocked all her teeth out. After he left them Adria’s mother fell apart. She didn’t feed or wash Adria. “Going to school was hard,” Adria wrote in her blog in February 2013. “The kids would tease me because my clothes were dirty and my shoes had holes. My hair was a complete mess. I felt ashamed. I was hungry all the time.” Adria ended up in foster care.

She sent me a letter she’d written to her father. “It’s Adria! How are you doing? I know it’s been a very, very long time. I want to see you. I love you daddy. I’m 26 years old now. If you get this, please contact me as I really would love to see you.”

Her father didn’t write back. She hasn’t heard from him in decades. She thinks he’s probably dead.

When I asked Adria if her childhood trauma might have influenced the way she’d regarded Hank and Alex, she said no. “They say the same thing for rape victims. If you’ve been raped you think all men are rapists.” She paused. “No. These dudes were straight up being not cool.”


http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/books/7933/exclusive-extract-from-jon-ronson-book-so-youve-been-publicly-shamed/



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She became her own father...

I remember the time when one who could not or would not keep their child dropped them near an orphanage, or a church, or were raised by family members, etc. Now it is so easy to kill.

But what if that attitude was always part of history since the beginning of mankind? Now imagine a world without those names:



List of orphans and foundlings


Figures from classical history and religious scripture

Aandaal, Tamil saint, found in a temple garden.
Aristotle, Greek philosopher and scientist, orphaned in early childhood.
Beowulf, mythical hero-king of the Geats, raised by his grandfather.
Cyrus the Great, Persian emperor, orphaned in childhood.
Oedipus, mythical Greek king, abandoned on a mountain.
Moses, major prophet in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, given up as an infant.
Muhammad, prophet of Islam, orphaned at age 6.
Saint Nicholas, patron saint of children, orphaned early in childhood.
Romulus and Remus, traditional founders of Ancient Rome, orphaned in infancy.
 

Civic leaders

Simón Bolívar, Latin American independence leader, orphaned at age 8.
John Church, clergyman, found as a toddler and sent to the Foundling Hospital.
Peter Francisco, soldier, found on a Virginia dock as a young child.
Mariano Gálvez, Guatemalan Chief of State in the 1830s, foundling adopted and raised by Gálvez family.
Alexander Hamilton, U.S. founding father, orphaned at age 13.
Ben W. Hooper, governor of Tennessee, 1911 to 1915, raised in an orphanage.
Herbert Hoover, 31st U.S. president, orphaned at age 9.
Ivan IV of Russia, Russian ruler, orphaned at age 8.
Andrew Jackson, U.S. president, orphaned at age 14.
Benito Juarez, Mexican president, orphaned at age 3.
Edward Langworthy, U.S. patriot and founding father, raised in an orphanage.
Nelson Mandela, president of South Africa, raised as a ward.
Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. First Lady, civil-rights activist, orphaned at age 10.
Joseph F. Smith, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, orphaned at age 13.
Tecumseh, Native American leader, orphaned as a child.
Tom Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, former Iowa governor, adopted at birth.
James West, first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America, raised in an orphanage.
Malcolm X, politician and civil rights activist, raised in an orphanage and foster care.


Writers

Edward Albee, playwright, adopted as an infant.
Joseph Conrad, author, orphaned at age 11
John Keats, poet, raised partly by his grandmother.
Hugh Leonard, playwright and essayist, abandoned as an infant.
W. Somerset Maugham, author, orphaned at age 10
Andy McNab, soldier and novelist, found as a baby on the steps of Guy's Hospital.
James A. Michener, author, abandoned as an infant.
Edgar Allan Poe, author, orphaned at age 2.
Jean Racine, French playwright, orphaned at age 4.
J. R. R. Tolkien, author, orphaned at age 12.
Leo Tolstoy, author, orphaned at age 9.
Henry Morton Stanley, journalist, explorer, raised in a workhouse.
Dale Wasserman, playwright, orphaned at age 9.
William Wordsworth, poet, orphaned at age 12.


Musicians and singers

Louis Armstrong, musician, raised in an orphanage and by his grandmother.
Johann Sebastian Bach, composer, orphaned at age 9.
Ray Charles, singer, orphaned at age 15.
Ella Fitzgerald, singer, orphaned in childhood.
James Hetfield, singer, orphaned by cancer at 16.
Faith Hill, singer, adopted as an infant.
Billie Holiday, singer, intermittently abandoned in childhood.
Emmanuel Jal, rapper, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan.
Juan Karlos Labajo, singer, abandoned by father and mother died at age 12
John Lennon, musician, raised by his aunt and uncle.
Mims, rapper, orphaned at age 13.
Sonny Moore, musician, adopted as an infant.
Trent Reznor, orphaned when parents abandoned him at age 5 and raised by grandparents.
John Rzeznik, musician, orphaned at age 15.
Bessie Smith, singer, orphaned at age 9.
Tina Turner, singer, intermittently abandoned in childhood.
Kiri Te Kanawa, singer, adopted as an infant.
Jimmy Wayne, singer, homeless foster teen taken in by a couple in their 70's


Artists, actors, and entertainers

Tallulah Bankhead, actress, orphaned as an infant.
Ingrid Bergman, actress, orphaned at age 12.
Tuki Brando, model, orphaned at age 4.
Carol Burnett, entertainer, raised by her grandmother.
Henry Darger, artist whose work focused on orphans, orphaned at age 13.
Tommy Davidson, comedian, orphaned as an infant.
Ger Duany, actor, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan.
Juliette Drouet, actress, orphaned in childhood.
Samuel Goldwyn, film mogul, raised by relatives.
Ice-T, actor, rapper, orphaned at age 9.
Rajesh Khanna, Bollywood actor.
Art Linkletter, entertainer, abandoned as an infant.
Ray Liotta, actor, adopted at 6 months
George Lopez, comedian, raised by a grandmother.
Lee Majors, actor, orphaned at age 2, raised by his aunt and uncle.
Frances McDormand, best actress Academy Award winner, adopted as an infant.
Marilyn Monroe, entertainer, raised in foster care.
Steve Oedekerk, comedian and film producer, adopted as an infant.
Ivian Sarcos, Miss World 2011, orphaned at age 8.
Barbara Stanwyck, actress, raised in foster homes from age 2.
Orson Welles, actor and director, orphaned at age 15.


Athletes

Scott Hamilton, figure skater, adopted as an infant.
Lopez Lomong, U.S. Olympic track star, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan.
Greg Louganis, Olympic diver, adopted as an infant.
Guor Marial, Olympic runner, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan.
Billy Mills, Olympic runner, orphaned at age 12.
Babe Ruth, baseball star, raised in an orphanage.
Jim Thorpe, multi-sport Olympic and professional athlete, orphaned as a teen.
Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, African triathlete and advocate for the rights of the disabled.


Scientists and scholars

George Washington Carver, scientist, inventor, orphaned while a slave.
Maud Chifamba, the youngest university student in Africa, orphaned at age 14.
Johannes Kepler, scientist, raised by grandmother.
Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician, abandoned as an infant.
Bertrand Russell, philosopher, orphaned at age 3.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher, raised by aunt and uncle.
Percy Spencer, inventor, orphaned in childhood.


Business people

Arthur E. Andersen, founder of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, orphaned as a teen.
Anthony Bacon, helped found the British iron industry.
L.L. Bean, retail catalog magnate, orphaned at age 12.
Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer, adopted as an infant.
Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, orphaned as a teen.
Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza, partially raised in an orphanage.
Mary Portas, English retail consultant, and broadcaster, orphaned at age 18.
Vidal Sassoon, beauty products magnate, placed in an orphanage at age 7.
Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's restaurants, adopted as an infant, adoption advocate.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_orphans_and_foundlings

That's why im actually pro choice. Its a practical matter. Do we really want the sorts of people who would be willing to murder babies raising children? Of course the best solution for every party would be a white market in babies, but that's a bit unrealistic.

+1.  I cannot imagine what a miserable life a kid would have with a fucked up monster like this for a mom.  Hopefully she'll stay away from the turkey baster and not get knocked up again.

The only sin more grievous than murdering that poor baby would have been for that woman to raise it.

'I Aborted My Baby Because It Was A Boy'



Today, my doctor, who I will call “Sandy” did an ultrasound and everything appeared to be fine. “Would you like to know the gender?” Sandy asked. I thought to myself “That machine is an ultrasound, not a crystal ball, you couldn’t tell me the gender of my baby even if you wanted to”
“Sure” was my response.

“It’s a boy”…..

……

“What?” I managed to sputter. Sandy then showed me on the ultrasound how exactly my body had betrayed me even worse than the misogynistic suit jockey on the airplane so many months before. I was in shock, I started crying, weeping at the thought of what I was about to curse the world with.

On my way home, my driver asked if I was ok and if I needed anything. “JUST STOP RIGHT HERE” I yelled. Deciding to walk the 4 blocks back home. My home became my prison and my fetus became my warden the next 48 hours. Crying, sobbing, uncontrollable weeping, mental anguish the likes of which may only be experienced by those who have had their lives destroyed by war, I was a refugee, and my home was my refugee camp, an unfamiliar place that was just….sheltering me.


http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2015/02/08/wow-i-aborted-my-baby-because-it-was-a-boy-n1954531?utm_source=BreakingOnTownhallWidget_4&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=BreakingOnTownhall

Feminist 'Music' is the Funniest Thing Ever!





I guess this is why the #GamerGate crowd are so petrified of feminists taking control of their art form.


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In the latest issue of Sierra magazine, The Sierra Club argues that an “even more potent ally” than President Obama in their fight against the Keystone XL pipeline is the House of Saud, the largest exporter of petroleum liquids in the world.

“Environmentalists are depending on President Barack Obama's veto pen to block the project--at least until the State Department issues its final ruling in the matter,” writes Sierra’s Paul Rauber. “But we have another, even more potent ally in the fight: the House of Saud.”

This new-found ally—which owns 16% of the world's oil reserves and has the world's largest crude oil production capability—Rauber explains, is helping to thwart the progress of the pipeline deal:

Rather than cutting back production in order to stabilize oil prices, the world's largest oil producer is keeping its petroleum taps wide open, hoping to drown upstart competitors in Canada, North Dakota, and Russia in a sea of cheap oil.

The dramatically cheaper crude oil, Rauber explains, is “sure to stifle new production--and put the hurt on sellers of expensive, dirty oil to new customers.”

According to Rauber’s logic, the way to combat “dirty oil” is to make that “dirty oil” more inexpensive and thus more accessible globally. (Or maybe this is really only a war on “dirty American oil.”) Rauber acknowledges the glaring contradiction, but maintains that this is all the more reason to champion Obama’s oppressive new fuel economy standards:

Of course, this "sea of cheap oil" has its own severe environmental downsides. Sales of gas-guzzling vehicles are rebounding, for example, creating a bind for automakers who are under federal mandates to increase the fuel-efficiency of their vehicle fleets. This is when we see the real value of higher fuel economy rules[…]


http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/sierra-club-our-most-potent-ally-against-keystone-xl-house-saud

Feminist activist wears plastic bags over shoes to mock female Senator Joni Ernst (R)







While attending a pro-abortion celebration this past weekend, the secretary for Florida’s National Organization for Women chapter was caught wearing plastic bags over her shoes in an attempt to mock Sen. Joni Ernst (R).

In her GOP response to the State of the Union, Ernst, a freshman senator from Iowa, recalled wearing plastic bags over her one good pair of shoes in order to keep them from getting ruined on rainy days.

Bonni Axler, Florida’s NOW secretary, donned plastic Target bags over her own shoes while attending a pro-abortion celebration in Tampa over the weekend.

“She was poor? That was the response to the State of the Union address. That was the Republican response to the State of the Union address,” Axler told Campus Reform.


http://campusreform.org/?ID=6231




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Good job Bonni! Good job! 

He could be a gay environmentalist anti capitalist muslim and no one would care.
The one thing that brought total respect to him from anyone with the widest political and religious views is he saw the bitcoin protocol as free speech. He could be mad as hell Wilikon loves bitcoin. As long as the code is not shutting down free speech, as long as he says a service is safe and does what it says it does, he is fine in my book. If he is sucked into spending more time pushing for a third wave feminism agenda his gray cells will be paralyzed, becoming useless to the bitcoin community at large. Cold fact.

We usually can only hear the loud ones, and the loud ones are usually the crazy idiotic ones. Changes should be made, but sometimes the way they go about making those changes is all wrong.

Well, Andreas seems like a feminist to me given some of his talks. I dont see people hating on Andreas over there..