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Jordan Peterson goes to Russia for emergency treatment after 4 weeks in ICU


Sputnik
Sat, 08 Feb 2020 06:53 UTC
jordan peterson
© CC BY 2.0 / Gage Skidmore
The Canadian professor's health sparked concerns just months ago, when he had to check into rehab to take himself off an anti-anxiety drug that caused adverse effects and made him suicidal.

Jordan Peterson has made a "desperate" decision to seek drug detox treatment in Russia after several failed attempts at North American hospitals.

His daughter Mikhaila said in a video from Russia that Peterson had been prescribed a low dose of benzodiazepine "a few years ago" to treat anxiety caused by a severe autoimmune response to food (in an earlier video, she identified it as clonazepam, a type of medication of the benzodiazepine class). Jordan had also adopted Mikhaila's all-beef diet, which he said fixed some of his health problems.

However, his anxiety apparently grew stronger after his wife of 30 years, Tammy, was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and the dose of the drug was increased last April. That lead to the professor suffering from "both a physical dependency and a paradoxical (opposite to the intended effect) reaction to the medication," Mikhaila recounted.

Comment: Here's the video update:

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Twitterati report widespread outage & share conspiracies


RT
Fri, 07 Feb 2020 22:27 UTC
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© Downdetector.comDowndetector report on Twitter outages, February 7, 2020
Was it #Vindman or #PetesBillionaires?

With rumors swirling around the White House's dismissal of #Resistance hero Lt.Col. Alexander Vindman and the deep-pocketed figures behind Democratic frontrunner Pete Buttigieg, Twitter has mysteriously gone AWOL for some.


Over 11,000 users reported Twitter outages on Friday evening, according to DownDetector - just as conversations about #Resistance poster-boy and Ukrainian-American impeachment witness Vindman had shifted from "will he be fired?" to "OMG he's being escorted from the White House!"
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Shock after alcohol flows from kitchen taps in Kerala, India


BBC
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC
Alcohol contaminated water
© JOSHY MALIYEKKALDrinking water reeking of alcohol started flowing out of the apartment taps
Residents of an apartment building in southern India were left in shock after a mix of beer, brandy and rum started gushing out of their taps.

The smelly, brown liquid began flowing from kitchen taps in the block of flats, in Kerala, on Monday morning.

Bemused residents then contacted the authorities for help, and discovered their water well had been contaminated by officials - albeit accidentally.
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Heart - Black

Political correctness gone too far? Grooming gangs and indifferent UK police

Ben Sixsmith
Quillette
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC
UK paedophile news clippings
Victoria Agoglia was reported missing 136 times between February and September 2002. Whenever she returned to her residential care home she was thought to be drunk or to have taken drugs. Staff at the home were aware of a "pimp" who appeared to be in his mid-twenties and who was thought to have been supplying her with drugs. "No attempts were made to verify his age," one reported. Victoria told her social worker that she had been injected with heroin by an older man. This information was not relayed to the police. Astonishingly, Victoria's "drugs worker" thought an appropriate course of action was to make the girl agree to smoke rather than inject heroin. Within two months, Victoria was dead after a 50-year-old man injected her with the drug.

This tragic and appalling case is detailed in a new review of "the effectiveness of multi-agency responses to child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester." As in similar cases in Rotherham, Rochdale and elsewhere, there were numerous victims and the perpetrators were Pakistani-Muslim. As on other occasions, the authorities did not respond to the discovery that the offenses were taking place with anything resembling appropriate force.

Comment: Criminal investigations into high profile British celebrities implicated in these pedophilia scandals, including Prince Andrew, Jimmy Savile. and others, have, for the most part, been prevented and then covered up by the establishment:
Following allegations that British celebrity and former BBC presenter Jimmy Savile had violated hundreds of children and adults over the span of his lengthy career ("Giving Victims a Voice" organization reported that over 400 people had filed complaints against Savile), allegations of a Westminster pedophile ring possibly involving many well-known MPs have surfaced.

In July 2014 Peter Mckelvie, a whistleblower who kicked off UK police pedophile probe Operation Fernbridge, disclosed a list compiled by police of current and former politicians suspected of participating in the child sex abuse.

He revealed that as many as 40 British MPs and peers either knew about or took part in the Westminster "pedophile ring."
Is political correctness used as a cover to safeguard the British establishment's crimes of pedophilia, leaving the helpless victims to suffer?

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Dicamba goes on trial: The history behind Monsanto's friendship-wilting weed killer

Corinne Ruff
NPR
Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:00 UTC
Farmers
© DAVID KOVALUK | ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIOThe growing use of dicamba-based herbicides has become a divisive topic among farmers in the Midwest. The first dicamba-related lawsuit heads to federal court Monday.
Five years ago, the owner of Missouri's largest peach farm started noticing damage to his orchard. A year later, Bader Farms estimated a loss of more than 30,000 trees.

A lawsuit filed by the farm in 2016 alleges Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, and herbicide maker BASF Corp. are to blame because the weed killer drifted from other fields. Both companies deny the allegations.

That suit, which seeks $21 million in damages, will be heard in federal court starting Monday in Cape Girardeau. It will be the first of several dicamba-related suits against the corporations to go to trial.

Weed scientist Aaron Hager has been watching the dispute play out in the fields as more farmers plant dicamba-resistant seeds.
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Project Veritas founder: 'Never in a million years would Twitter take down posts from an NYT reporter'


RT
Fri, 07 Feb 2020 21:55 UTC
james o'keefe project veritas
© REUTERS/Yuri GripasJames O'Keefe
James O'Keefe, who had his account locked down after tweeting about Bernie Sanders's staffers, told RT the reason he was hit so hard by Twitter's online minders is that he doesn't come from an established, corporate publisher.

O'Keefe, a conservative activist and founder of investigative outlet Project Veritas, was targeted by social media censors earlier this month, when he sent a tweet to Dave Weigel of the Washington Post, asking him to remove a "factually inaccurate bit of reporting" on Sanders staffers Kyle Jurek and Martin Weissgerber.

The two were called "volunteers" in the Post article which covered Project Veritas's #Expose2020 Sanders campaign. The designation didn't sit well with O'Keefe, who insisted that both Jurek and Weissgerber "are still paid employees of Bernie Sanders' campaign."

Comment: James O'Keefe is certainly an equal opportunity gadfly. Some of Project Veritas' wide range of work, stemming from those who were brave enough to gather information we would otherwise never know:

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Pentagon report shows suicide rates soared by a record 33% in 2019, killed more US Air Force servicemen than any other cause

Drago Bosnic
Fort Russ News
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC
soldier suicide
The United States Air Force officially announced that almost 140 (137) USAF personnel across the active duty, National Guard and Reserve died by committing suicide in 2019, which is a staggering 33 percent increase over the previous year statistics.
"Suicide is a difficult national problem without easily identifiable solutions that has the full attention of leadership," Lieutenant General Brian Kelly, Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services for the Air Force, told Military.com.
The new total marks the highest annual number since the US Air Force began keeping an official record in 2008, stated service spokeswoman Lynn Kirby. Some 60 active-duty airmen died by suicide in 2018 and the service lost 103 airmen across the total force that year, according to the US Department of Defense.

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India: Man charged with rape of girl, 5, at US embassy complex in Delhi


The Guradian
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC
Assault allegedly took place at living quarters for local housekeeping staff, say police

Woman protestors in Delhi
© STR/EPAProtesters call for an end to violence against women and girls during a march in Delhi in December.
A man has been charged after a five-year-old girl was allegedly raped on the premises of the US embassy in Delhi.

The 25-year-old was arrested at the high-security mission in the Indian capital on Sunday after the girl's family complained of the sexual assault, which allegedly took place on Saturday at the living quarters for local housekeeping staff , the investigating officer, Yogesh Kumar, told AFP on Thursday.

'If you saw her body, you will never sleep again': despair as India rape crisis grows. Kumar said preliminary medical tests confirmed the girl had been raped. The man was charged under child rape laws, which carry the death penalty.

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Arrow Up

'We have to say no now': Danish Parliament finally musters majority to ban child sex dolls


Sputnik
Fri, 07 Feb 2020 06:20 UTC
doll
© CC0
A historic decision to ban sex dolls shaped like children is in the works in Denmark.

The right-wing Danish People's Party has long been trying to get a ban on child-like sex dolls through the Danish Parliament, and now there is a majority in place, which today (7 February) is set to back the party's proposal, Danish Radio reported.

The ruling Social Democrats have long supported the ban, and now the Socialist People's Party and the Red-Green Alliance have jumped aboard.

Comment: It says a lot about the other parties, and Western society in general, that they needed some persuading that these dolls should be banned.

See also: Post-nihilism, a template for where we are heading

And check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: How Postmodernism Usurped the Western Mind

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Pakistan swiftly passes resolution calling for public hanging of pedophiles

Elias Marat
The Mind Unleashed
Fri, 07 Feb 2020 01:11 UTC
Noose
Child killers and rapists "should not only be given the death penalty by hanging, but they should be hanged publicly."

Pakistan's parliament passed a resolution Friday that calls for the public hanging of convicted child killers and rapists.

AFP reports that the resolution, which is non-binding, comes after a number of high-profile child sex-abuse cases have scandalized the South Asian nation in recent years, leading to major outbreaks of unrest and riots.

Parliamentary affairs minister Ali Muhammad Khan, who presented the resolution in the lower house of the legislature, said that child killers and rapists "should not only be given the death penalty by hanging, but they should be hanged publicly."
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