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Trials of a new male contraceptive are being expanded in the US after overwhelming initial interest.

Recently for the first time in human history women could control thier fertility. It sparked a social revolution - women moving out of the home and into the public workforce in huge numbers.

Now we are on the threshold of another huge social revolution whereby men will for the first time ever in history control reproduction en masse.

Just think about the ramifications of that for a moment.

In effect a whole raft of legislation, social mores and conventions which treat men as reproductively the second sex will become defunct.

It’s a simple mix of supply economics and game theory.
In the fertility market/game whoever controls fertility controls the value and rules of engagement as we’ve seen in the increased formation of overbearing femocentric laws in the last 40 odd years.

Now ask yourself -

Why does the nz media with it’s many ties to socialist feminist government AND it’s state services AND bureaucracy riddled with feminists continue to maintain A HUGE SILENCE about this profoundly empowering event for it’s menfolk about to happen?

� The Sunday Hearld and Auntie Judith� a at it again.

So lets look at the quality of Journalism that the Sunday Herald provides in this article.
Stephen Cook showcases how lamentable the quality of journalism on Child Support Tax debt actually is.

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1) Focusing on “387 fathers” who are alleged to owe “6.3 in Child Support” is a good example of� tabloid statistics. There are 123,134 parents who IRD consider in debt� and this sensationalist journalism “rich dads owe millions” focuses on 0.3143% of this population excluding the other 97.7%

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2) Granny Herald continues to � promote Auntie Judy’s claim there is over 1 billion in Child Support Tax owed. This claim is incorrect and a quick search of Google reveals “The latest figures for child support debt nationally show that the total is just over $1 billion, with unpaid penalties making up about $640 million of that.”
The reality is that child support tax owed is about 360 Million. Number two example of the failure of Granny Heralds “journalist”, Stephen Cook to do conduct any basic research and analysis� before publication. Penalties go to the crown as will the bulk of the “debt”. Very little of any money collected will go to children.

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3) I must ask where the balance in this artilce is. Where is the interview with the mother who earned over 100K and was placed into debt by IRD misadministration? This person is real, but was the “journalist” interested? No, looking at the root cause of the failure of this legislation for both paying and reciving parents is beyond the tabloid press brief.

Who was quoted? An IRD Spokespersom, whats the name of the offical? An Auckland mother, related to the journalist perhaps? Judith Collin a National MP� who should employ a decent analyst. Where is the balance?

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4)� Would not the basic question to be asked in an article that slams as deadbeat any parent who is “in debt” for child support tax be : Whyare 72% of parents who pay child support tax in debt ?�

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5) Judith Collins, representing the National Party, is following in the footsteps of a campgain begun by Katherine Rich� is seeking to reduce the publics perception of any parent who owes a child support tax debt as a deadbeat dad, depriving their children of� the support they are entitled to.� These errant parents will be forced into line when the National Party takes control.�

Now surely any reporter would have sought more information on these 387 fathers before he reacged a conclusion that tey are deadbeat.

How many of these parents are in “debt” as a result of IRD’s admoinistration of the Act?

How many parents in this group have had an unrealistic payment level set in the secret administrative review tribunal?

How many of these parents are making compulsory student loan repayments.

How many of these parents have been a;llenated from the children they are levied for?

How many of these parents are making payments agreed to with IRD to repay the� “debt”?

Why do 387 parents owe 6.3 million dollars?

That represents an average debt of of about $162,000.

This should be demanding some investigative journalism!Any improvement reuires that the root cause or causes not chasing symptoms. The “debt is a symptom” of fundemtal flaws in the underlying legislation.

This legislation is not serving parents or their children and the best the� “journalists ” can come up with is� National Party Spin�

It would be nice to see a journalist who had the� “balls” to report the real story of Child Support Tax in this country.

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So, while we sit back and watch our country turn into a COMPLETE frenzy over women being safe from even a hard word, we need to ask ourselves “Do our youth have a hope for a future?”

My 2 eyes and ears have been watching and hearing some really disturbing facts.

Over the last week I have been discussing with young males aged 15, 16, and 17 the implications of them taping kitchen knives to their calves when going out to the city to listen to a band or to the plaza to watch a movie. I do understand why they are doing this and I do not misunderstand the fear they feel. I mean, it has become life threateneing for our young men to leave home on an outing especially at night . But I can’t help but see the innocence in their eyes and wonder if they could even use a knife to lunge into another human being’s body.

There is no way it would be easy to cut someone but then they are starting by explaining to each other that you need to stab and twist else the perpertrator will get back up even with the knife lodged inside them.

Do you know that these are good boys. They are not the one’s whose father’s are involved in gangs but have father’s and mother’s who would love to give luxuries but can only afford the bare essentials. These young guys are the kids getting the high marks at school, love sports and can cook and clean, wash they own clothes, clean their rooms, read books, are computer savvy and more. They are the next generation of University students, polititions and parents.

But today they live in fear and the adults don’t seem to care. The fear is not just from gangsters in their colors parading the streets looking for victims or driving around in their cars looking to jump one or a few unsuspecting young males but it is the females who males normally wouldn’t fear because they are not supposed to be able to harm as bad as a male. But these women have no fear, no consequenses to keep them accountalbe and they have knives in their bags ready and waiting for the opportune moment. And the boys know they are powerless to the females.

Only last week I sat at a train station with around 20 other adults listening to 3 teenage girls in high school uniforms loudly discussing how they punch and kick males and one had stabbed a young man, got caught but with no real consequense. How ugly these girls looked to me but then to them it was all one big joke and nothing to be ashamed of for they were proud and it was as if they had no shame to carry on infront of all the adults.

Just for a moment I will tell of even the younger generation. While sitting at the library, I saw and heard a lovely librarian female walk up to a 9 year old boy who was using the computer and asked if he needed some help. He turned to her and said, “You can’t assualt me.”

Little does this young man know of his future from 3 years on.

What is going on??????

Mr Dunne released a discussion document setting out options, including a possible initiative to recognise the work of volunteers by giving them a tax rebate as well.

The document suggests rewarding volunteers for their time by setting a nominal hourly rate which they could use to claim a tax rebate.

Link:

Link to Bad News.

Hit the link, scroll down to legal issues, listen, pray, then imagine the goal posts fading into the distance.

Yes they have done it again, the girls have changed the rules.

For some reason I can’t make comments on Menz, so I will post this, because I it is important to teach society what the individual reality is. It was intended as a comment to the bottom line.

I remember writing a comment a while back to this effect. When you look at what a person describes, ask yourself where it happened. In the home, in a lawyer’s office, in the family court, at a Police Station, an IRD admin review and so on. The operative word here is isolated: without an audience, in secret, away from the public eye, without a process of accountability. It is an invisible wall in society that is as real as the Berlin wall, and probably twice as effective, because it is transparent but so many people still can’t see through it.

Feminism has hidden its foot soldiers in the noblest of professions. We just have trouble accepting that the people we would normally trust can often be a ruthless enemy.

Christianj, blogs at What Men are saying about “WOMEN” write this gem, which I want to share.

Well, men aren’t stupid, despite near-constant whinging to the contrary by women.

Men look at some of these women and say “Let’s see: she expects me to earn more than she does, be her knight in shining armor, do the cooking, the cleaning, dress in bespoke suits and tuxes to go anywhere, listen to her constant, endless bellyaching about every little damn thing like one of her girlfriends and if I should marry her, when she gets into some midlife funk, she’s going to sue for divorce and take half of my life’s work and any kids we have.

“The male mind then turns the gears for a little while, netting this out on the bottom line of life:

“Nope. No sale.”

If you ever get a chance to use any of the public library’s computers around New Zealand that are free for public use you will notice that you can research anything on women’s rights and have access to any site but men’s right’s sites are being blocked as inappropriate.

I wonder where else this is happening?

Scoop article

quoting Dalziel

I understand that you are also very close to concluding (or recently have concluded) a two-year contract with the Ministry of Social Development, which will give you certainty about ongoing core funding. The challenge though is to ensure that funding levels remain realistic over time.

It wasn’t the justification I was pointing out it was the 2 year funding contract from the government. What also concerns me is that the new charities commission having the power to deregister charities for political intent. If you don’t suit the politics of the day we will deregister you, if you suit the politics of the day we will fund you.

It just so happens that I am renting 2 houses for the next 3 weeks and 1 of them is empty. (we can furnish if need be)
So, if anyone knows someone who finds themselves served with domestic violence papers because their partner has decided they want you/them out instantly or you have to get away for a break give me a call.

Also if you want to come to Auckland for the ‘Child Support Seminar’ on October 29th 2006 and need somewhere to stay give me a call. 025 224 1548 or julie_mtw@hotmail.com

House available from 17th October to 6th November 2006.