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A Grieving son thanks Jordan Peterson in response to twitter attacks

Chris Bustin
Red State
Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
The Rise of Jordan Peterson
I've struggled with anxiety my entire life, along with intermittent bouts of depression. One evening, when life had rendered me completely shell shocked, I asked my mom that age-old question: "What's the meaning of life?" My mom answered quickly, with a five-word response that was both simple and powerful: "how you treat other people."

This answer reminded me of a story Jordan Peterson told to his Beacon Theater audience. Peterson discussed the extremely dark places people can retreat to when they leave their suffering unchecked. However, many admirable people out in the world choose compassion over bitterness.

Peterson continues, sharing his experience with an outpatient he counseled at the Douglas Hospital in Montreal. The woman suffered mightily from a living environment tangled up in severe social anxiety, schizophrenia, alcoholism, and unemployment.

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Israel cuts Palestinian farmers' access to their land behind separation wall with yearly quotas


RT
Sun, 24 Nov 2019 15:28 UTC
Farmers
© REUTERS / Mohamad TorokmanA Palestinian farmer shows the damage to his land, he said was caused by Israeli settlers' attack.
Palestinian farmers, whose land ended up on the wrong side of Israel's West Bank separation wall, have had their access further restricted with yearly quotas. Those affected see it as part of a creeping theft of their property.

In the early 2000s, Israel began the construction of a long barrier between itself and the West Bank, saying it was a necessary temporary measure in response to the Second Intifada. Two decades on, the wall is still in place, and its impact on the life of Palestinian civilians is increasingly harsh.

Large sections of the separation wall have been built across land seized from Palestinian farmers, trapping some of their lots on the Israeli side. The owners now have to receive permits from Israel's Civil Administration in the West Bank to gain access to tend to the land. The rules on what kind of access can be granted have been recently tightened, the newspaper Haaretz reported.

The changes include a limit on how many times a farmer can travel through a wall checkpoint each year, depending on the type of produce he grows on his land. The quota is 40 times a year for olives, 50 times for figs, 30 for barley, and 220 for tomatoes or strawberries.

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'Better red than dead': Lavrov remembers Soviet diplomat who turned cold-war slogan into UN meme


RT
Sun, 24 Nov 2019 13:05 UTC
Better Red than Dead
© AFP / Rafa Rivas
Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Oleg Troyanovsky, a sharp-witted diplomat who famously was painted red by Chinese protesters, only to snidely remark in response that it was better to be 'red than dead.'

Troyanovsky, the son of the Soviet Union's first ambassador to the US, picked his father's profession and represented his home country in several senior diplomatic positions. He served as the Soviet ambassador to Japan and China, as well as the envoy to the UN, a role that he held for a decade, starting in 1976.

The current Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took the same role eight years after Troyanovsky left. Lavrov said he was lucky to work under his predecessor at the UN and recalled an anecdote from that time which showcases his sense of humor.
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Russia's Magdalen region extracts more gold than some countries' entire bullion reserves, mining $1.9 billion in under a year


RT
Sat, 23 Nov 2019 23:17 UTC
russian gold Magadan
The Magadan region and nearby territories are the champions of Russia’s gold-mining industry. Last year some 37 tons of the yellow metal were extracted from local deposits.
Russian gold miners in the Far Eastern region of Magadan have extracted more gold than some countries' entire bullion reserves. They've mined over 40 tons of the precious metal since the beginning of 2019.

While there is still time before the end of the year, the figure can exceed 50 tons, the authorities of the rich gold-mining region said on Tuesday.

As of November 1, the gold miners had unearthed 40.23 tons of the commodity, a record amount in 40 years and seven tons more than at the same period last year. At the same time, nearly 560 tons of silver were mined in Magadan.

Comment: Which also goes a long way toward helping Putin thumb his nose at the West:

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Arrow Down

Asylum seeker accused of attempted arson after smashing alcohol bottles in German store & trying to ignite them


RT
Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:05 UTC
Man breaking bottles
© Ulf Maahs / Facebook
An asylum seeker who ransacked the alcohol aisle of a German supermarket, causing €1,000 ($1,100) worth of damage, is being investigated for attempted arson after allegedly trying to set the flammable spillage alight.

The 24-year-old Afghan "rioted" in a supermarket in Nordhausen, central Germany on Thursday, local police said, sweeping scores of wine and spirit bottles off a shelf. According to Nordhauser Kriminalpolizei investigators, he then tried to ignite the alcohol.
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NPC

Students at Washington and Lee University want portraits of college namesakes removed from diplomas

Breck Dumas
The Blaze
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
george washington and robert e lee
Law students at Washington and Lee University are circulating a petition asking for the option to have portraits of the school's namesakes — George Washington and Robert E. Lee — removed from diplomas, so alumni can be "proud to prominently display" their sheepskin without the images that "some may find controversial or offensive."

What are the details?

The petition is not asking for a mandatory removal of the portraits, but requests that students be allowed to opt out. It argues, "Given the aftermath of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville and the heightened awareness of making Washington & Lee an inclusive and compassionate environment to all students, we believe this request provides alumni the ability to honor their alma mater without the presence of the portraits that some may find controversial or offensive."

Hundreds of past and future graduates have signed the petition endorsed by several student groups and addressed to the school's administration and president. Some faculty members have also signed on.

Comment: What hypocrites! If these students with such high morals find the school namesakes so offensive, why have they elected to attend the university and partake of the generous endowment?

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Pakistani govt. says all is fine while smog and pollution make Lahore look like 'the apocalypse'

Daniyal Umer
SAMAA
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
smog pollution lahore
Pakistan may have a very different way of looking at air quality than the rest of the world—it revised its air quality standards to say levels that the rest of the world considers dangerous are just moderate—but that doesn’t mean Pakistani lungs can survive this.
All schools in Lahore will be closed tomorrow (Friday) because of "dense smog".

This includes both private and public schools. Schools in Gujranwala and Faisalabad will also remain shut.

The Punjab School Education Department has issued the notification for the closure and blamed it on the smog.

Air quality levels across the city are rising every day. People are filing petitions in the Lahore High Court and organising protests but the government says everything is fine. Pakistan may have a very different way of looking at air quality than the rest of the world — it revised its air quality standards to say levels that the rest of the world considers dangerous are just moderate — but that doesn't mean Pakistani lungs can survive this.

AirVisual.com and aqicn.org, two websites that measure air quality, have both declared that the air in Lahore is very unhealthy.

According to Pakistan's revised air quality standards, an index of 200-300 is 'moderately polluted', while the rest of the world considers this 'very unhealthy'.

Comment: See also: 'Collective death sentence': Toxic haze envelops New Delhi as air pollution rockets

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Germany again deports Lebanese crime gang leader


Detusch Welle
Sun, 24 Nov 2019 13:54 UTC
Ibrahim Miri
Lebanese gangster Ibrahim Miri landed in Beirut on Saturday morning. The criminal mastermind was deported just months before, but he thwarted a travel ban and reappeared in Bremen, where he registered an asylum claim.

Miri's flight landed at 10 a.m. German time (0900 UTC) in Beirut, where the German police handed him over to Lebanese authorities.

The deportation marked the second time in a matter of months that 46-year-old Miri has been deported. He reappeared in the German city of Bremen just months after he was flown back to his home country in June, following years in prison.

German security authorities believe him to be the chief of a criminal family network, active in Bremen.

Interior Minister Horst Seehofer confirmed that Miri had arrived and thanked all those involved in the operation that "the deportation of Miri was so swiftly carried out."

He added: "This deportation case proved what can be achieved when there is good cooperation between Germany and other countries."

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Propaganda

NPR censors their podcast to cover up for US govt censorship


Spy Culture
Sat, 23 Nov 2019 20:54 UTC
censored censorship
Yesterday, NPR's podcast Marketplace released a new episode titled How Chinese censorship changed "Top Gun" (and the rest of Hollywood). It is the latest in the never-ending stream of mainstream media output complaining about Chinese government censorship of Hollywood.

The episode's segment focused on Top Gun: Maverick, and the removal of a patch on the back of Maverick's leather jacket featuring a Taiwanese flag. The change was presumably made to pre-empt the Chinese government censors, for whom the notion of Taiwan being an independent state is a no-no. This caused a controversy when sharp-eyed Top Gun fans noticed the change in the trailer for the film.

At the time I criticised the US media for failing to place this apparent act of self-censorship in the proper context: namely, of both Top Gun films having been through the stringent censorship process operated by the US military. Not a single article thought to draw that parallel. Every single one was written from the perspective of 'look at what these dirty foreigners are doing to OUR movies'.

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NPC

Animal rights activist stabs woman inside Ohio church for wearing fur


Cleveland.com
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
meredith lowell, knife attack animal rights
Cleveland Heights police believe that a woman stabbed another woman inside a Fairmount Boulevard Church because the woman was wearing fur boots.

Meredith Lowell, 35, of Cleveland Heights, is charged with attempted murder and felonious assault in the stabbing that happened about 5:15 p.m. Wednesday at Fairmount Presbyterian Church, according to a Cleveland Heights police report and Police Chief Anne Mecklenburg.

Police believe based on a prior arrest for a similar incident in 2012 that Lowell, an animal-rights activist, stabbed the woman because she was wearing fur, Mecklenburg said.

The victim's current condition was not immediately available, but police said Thursday morning that she was taken to University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. Police report that she was stabbed twice in the arm and once in the abdomen.

Comment: Another local news source adds that the activist's previous arrest was for hiring a hitman to kill a person wearing fur. In this instance the woman she attacked was wearing faux fur boots! It appears the animal rights movement has been co-opted because many of its current member's antics seem designed more to inspire fury and disgust than to actually help abused animals.

Animals are not people: Disentangling animal rights vs. animal welfare

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