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Jordan Peterson gives warning to parents: 'Dangerous people are indoctrinating young minds' at colleges


Fox News
Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:39 UTC
Jordan Peterson
Canadian professor Jordan Peterson warned Tuesday of the expansion of humanitarian disciplines on college campuses, especially at "radical" liberal institutions.

Peterson warned parents in a video about sending their children to liberal colleges, saying that by doing so, they'd be "supporting ideologues who claim that all truth is subjective, that all sex differences are socially constructed."

"If you're a taxpayer or paying for your kid's liberal arts degree, you're underwriting this gang of nihilists. You're supporting ideologues who claim that all truth is subjective, that all sex differences are socially constructed, and that western imperialism is the sole source of all Third World problems. They're the post-modernists pushing progressive activism at a college near you," said Peterson in the PragerU video.

Appearing on "Fox & Friends," Peterson backed up his remarks and said that on all levels of education, faculties are mostly comprised of radical people.

"Ideologues have a very simple way of looking at the world," he said. "They reduce it to a few principles like inequality and unfairness and power."


Comment: So just how far gone is radical liberal academia? See:

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SOTT Focus: Brexit Has Exposed The Rotten Foundations of Britain's Political System

John Wight
RT
Tue, 31 Jul 2018 13:57 UTC
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© Dinendra Haria / Global Look Press
Brexit has exposed the rotten foundations of Britain's political system, corroded by that most pernicious of maladies: rank opportunism.

Khrushchev's logic and democracy as a zero sum game

With the kind of homespun logic for which he was famous, and which never failed to cut through the fog of theoretical obfuscations spouted by ideologues for whom reality is often a foreign land, Nikita Khrushchev once sagely opined that "you can't make soup out of an idea." Yet if the former Soviet premier dared offered this opinion to proponents of a 'hard Brexit' today he would be accused of attempting to betray the will of the British people, of subverting democracy - of being a shill for Brussels.

Regardless, Khrushchev's words do more to place in perspective the most far reaching political crisis to engulf Westminster since the Second World War than any of the ideologically-heavy but reality-light arguments that have been swirling around Brexit since the British people, by a small majority proportionate to turnout, elected to leave the EU in the referendum that was held on the question back in 2016.

It reminds us that when democracy lapses into a zero sum game of winner-take-all it becomes a tyranny of the majority, attacking the bonds of social cohesion that are essential to stability - without this kind of stability nothing exists, including democracy. Just ask people in Russia, those who went through the hell of the 1990s, if democracy should be regarded as an end rather than the means to an end. Ask them if you can make soup out of an idea.

Comment: The UK is just one of many countries that realises it needs to take control of its own future. But the author needn't worry: Britain will remain in the EU: Why 'Brexit' outcome is a foregone conclusion

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Propaganda

Facebook users slam NATO's online 'detect fake news' game - call it 'ridiculous propaganda'


RT
Tue, 31 Jul 2018 17:05 UTC
The News Hero / Facebook
© The News Hero / Facebook
A new NATO-developed Facebook game, which claims to help users differentiate between real and fake news, is proving to be a complete flop with users who are dismissing it as "propaganda".

The News Hero takes the player inside the editorial office of a fictional newspaper where they are tasked with sifting through various news stories and choosing which ones are real or fake with the aid of hints provided by a fact checker. The more real news the player publishes, the more points they accrue which in turn allows them to expand their office.

"The News Hero is an online education game designed to burst the bubble of an elite dominated discussion about critical thinking and empower the society to become more conscious readers through a gamified approach," the developers wrote on Facebook.


Comment: Chalk it up to NATO's obvious and stupid attempts to further propagandize Westerners and demonize Russia. And oh boy are they trying!

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Afghan migrant whose deportation was halted by Swedish SJW 'hero' was actually being extradited over assault

Lucas Mikelionis
Fox News
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 20:55 UTC
Elin Ersson
© FacebookElin Ersson, a student at Gothenburg University, was subjected to fawning media coverage over her stunt earlier this month when she refused to take her seat on the plane until the 52-year-old Afghan deportee was released. She was successful and authorities weren’t able to deport the man.
The Swedish student who was branded a "hero" and captured worldwide attention after she stopped the deportation of an Afghan migrant by refusing to sit down on a plane instead prevented the extradition of a man sentenced for assault and whose asylum application was rejected.

Elin Ersson, a student at Gothenburg University, was subjected to fawning media coverage over her stunt earlier this month when she refused to take her seat on the plane until the 52-year-old Afghan deportee was released. She was successful and authorities weren't able to deport the man.

However, Swedish Police confirmed to Fox News that the man whose deportation Ersson prevented had received a prison sentence in Sweden for assault. The police spokesman declined to go into more details about the crime the migrant has committed. His asylum application was also rejected.

Comment: This is what happens when triggered feelings are willingly allowed to conquer reason. SJW activism has little regard for details like context or background information. Modern liberalism is rushing to the defense of criminality, no doubt because much of the same entitled mindset is shared among their most vocal advocates.

See also: Upside-down values: Swede deemed 'hero' for stopping deportation of migrant sentenced for assault

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Bad Guys

American leftists are the locusts of cultural destruction

Sarah Hoyt
PJ Media
Tue, 31 Jul 2018 18:23 UTC
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There is a scene in Independence Day where the character mind-melds with the alien, and receives a sudden understanding of the peril the Earth is in.

Quoting from memory, he says something like "They're like locusts. They move from planet to planet, take everything it has to give and move on."

For some time now, I've thought this applies to the left. Certainly, entire fields of endeavor, entire expanses of human knowledge, science, and interest, seem to collapse in the wake of an infestation by the left.

I used to think this happened because of the left's charming habit of hiring only on political conformity, and not on talent, intellectual ability or even interest in the field.
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USA

Red state? Blue state? It all depends on the map

Issie Lapowsky
Wired
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 19:50 UTC
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© Ken Field
On May 11, 2017, a reporter named Trey Yingst, who covers the White House for the conservative news network OANN, tweeted a photo of a framed map of the United States being carried into the West Wing. The map depicted the 2016 election results county-by-county, as a blanket of red, marked with flecks of blue and peachy pink along the West Coast and a thin snake of blue extending from the northeast to Louisiana.

It was a portrait of the country on election night, but on Twitter, it was also a Rorschach test.


Conservatives replying to Yingst's tweet interpreted the expanse of red as proof of their party's dominance throughout all levels of government. Liberals viewed the map as a distortion, masking the fact that most of that redness covers sparsely populated land, with relatively few voters.
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Russia: Lawmakers urge bill for journalists' protection after 3 reporters were murdered in Africa


RT
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 10:54 UTC
murdered journalists
© Evgenya Novozhenina/SputnikKirill Radchenko • Alexander Rastorguyev • Orkhan Dzhemal (L to R)
Russian MPs have supported the idea of a bill offering social guarantees to reporters working in "hot spots" and on other dangerous missions after three Russian journalists were killed in the Central African Republic.

The head of the Lower House Committee for Information Policy and Communications, MP Leonid Levin (Fair Russia), said in comments with RIA Novosti that he personally expected the State Duma to pass the bill during the next parliamentary session.

"The sad incident is yet another reminder about the dangers and risks that are an inseparable part of mass media's work. I expect that the bill on social guarantees to journalists who work in hot spots will be passed during the fall session," RIA Novosti quoted the lawmaker as saying on Wednesday. He also expressed his condolences to friends and relatives of the killed journalists.

Levin's comments came soon after it was confirmed that three Russian journalists: Orhan Dzhemal, Aleksandr Rastorguyev, and Kirill Radchenko had been killed in the Central African Republic in what local authorities describe as a robbery.

Comment: See also:

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USA

Police in Wyoming looking for culprit who tore down US flag and replaced it with Nazi flag


RT
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 18:50 UTC
swastika flag
© Spencer Platt / AFP
Police are hunting those who tore down a US flag, flying in a public park in Laramie, southwestern Wyoming, and replaced it with the flag of Nazi Germany. The authorities say they aren't used to hate crimes like this.

The flag used by the Third Reich was discovered flying in Washington Park on Monday. The US flag, originally hoisted atop of the flagpole, was found nearby, shoved into a corner of a band shell.

The Swastika banner was removed by police and taken in as evidence, local media reports.

No signs of vandalism were found at the scene, and no charges have yet been filed. The Laramie Police Department, nevertheless, is looking for the culprits and asking the residents for assistance. Locals are asked to inform the police of any suspicious activity relating to the flag incident.
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Handcuffs

South Korean cult leader arrested after confiscating passports of worshippers, also implicated in ritual beatings and brain damage


RT
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 18:28 UTC
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A South Korean cult leader has been arrested after she allegedly confiscated the passports of 400 of her worshippers, subjected them to ritual beatings, and left them stranded in Fiji.

Shin Ok-ju was arrested at South Korea's Incheon International Airport, along with three other leaders of Grace Road Church, reports The Korean Times.

Shin's worshippers started following her to Fiji in 2014 because she predicted a famine on the Korean peninsula. Once they arrived, their passports were reportedly seized and a selected group of "guardians" prevented them from leaving.
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Handcuffs

North Carolina police dept. suspends multiple cops, charges them with conspiracy

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
cops conspiracy
Blowing the one bad apple theory out of the water, an entire department in North Carolina has been suspended after the two top cops were arrested for conspiracy.

All too often those who continuously apologize for crimes committed by police officers are able to justify some of the most egregious instances of outright murder by claiming the officer was a bad apple. Almost as often, however, as TFTP has shown numerous times, the bad apple theory is exactly that - a theory - with no evidence to support it.

Illustrating the nature of the bad apple theory is the fact that another entire police department in North Carolina was suspended recently after the department's chief and lieutenant were arrested on conspiracy charges.
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