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Things Jordan Peterson's rehab taught me

BJ Campbell
Medium
Sat, 21 Sep 2019 15:58 UTC
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Jordan Peterson is many things. His media exposure comes mostly from his position in the front lines of the Culture War, bearing the battle standard of individualism against social constructionist collectivists in a skirmish we've spoken about before on HWFO. But he's (at least) two other things.

He spends most of his life as a self-help public speaker, conveying a different if parallel message to a wash of youth abandoned by the collectivists, for whom his message of individual strength in the face of external chaos is beneficial. And he's also a husband and father.

I paid a lot of attention when Peterson's wife was diagnosed with terminal cancer, because his predicament and my predicament over the last several years were tangled together in a curiously parallel way. And because of this entanglement, I feel I have some unique perspectives on the fact that he recently checked himself into rehab for withdrawals from the anti-depressant Clonazepam.

My Dragon

My wife Buffy was diagnosed with stage four early onset colon cancer in August of 2017 at the age of 41, a hopeless initial diagnosis, with tumors on her liver and lungs on her first CT scan. This was irrecoverable, and our only available medical approach after the colectomy was to prolong her life as long as possible with chemotherapy. This threw our lives, as well as the lives of our three and five-year-old children, into nearly unbearable chaos. My task and responsibility as the father and husband was to hold the family together through what I hope will be the darkest part of any of our lives.
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Texas School District mandates transgender education for 8-year-olds

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:43 UTC
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A Texas school district board has unanimously approved a proposal to introduce transgender education for children as young as 8-years-old.

The Austin Independent School District rubber stamped the new curriculum, which will for the first time will see students taught about "gender identity and sexual orientation."

"The lessons will also help kids identify an adult they can trust; plus talk to them about options if they get pregnant, and seventh graders would learn how to use a condom," reports KXAN.

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15-year-old punched in face by NYPD during subway brawl to sue city for $5M

Andrew Denney
New York Post
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29 UTC
Benjamin Marshall
© New York Post/Andrew Denney
A 15-year-old who was punched in the face by an NYPD cop last week during a wild brawl at a Brooklyn subway station that was captured in viral videos plans to sue the city for $5 million.

Benjamin Marshall filed a notice of his intention to sue Wednesday, claiming he was "doing nothing wrong" when a melee broke out in the Jay Street-MetroTech station on Oct. 25 between a group of teens and a dozen officers from the 84th Precinct.

Marshall's father, Anthony Noel, said at a news conference that his son was headed into the subway station to retrieve his backpack when he was slugged by a cop.

"While he was there he was punched multiple times by one of New York's Finest — which should never happen," Noel said. "If you look at the video you would see he was laying on the ground. There were about six cops on his back. One had his knee on his neck. Benjamin was crying out 'I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe.' "

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Genocide has no statute of limitations: Russia investigates declassified Nazi murder of 214 disabled kids


RT
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:38 UTC
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© Archive photo courtesy of FSB's Krasnodar branchA building in Yeysk, where the handicapped children's shelter was located in 1942-1943.
Russia has opened a criminal probe into one of the many crimes committed by occupying Nazi forces, the murder of 214 wards of a shelter for handicapped children in the Krasnodar region by the German deaths squads.

The probe into an alleged act of genocide was launched on Wednesday by Russia's Investigative Committee, shortly after documents detailing a wartime investigation of the mass killings of children were declassified.

The Krasnodar region remained under Nazi control between August 1942 and February 1943. Soviet territory was perceived by Berlin as the land to be colonized by Germans, so they had no intention to win the hearts of the local population. Instead a brutal regime of terror was imposed, with the dreaded Einsatzgruppen death squads serving as a primary tool. In addition to crushing insurgency, they were also tasked with exterminating those deemed undesirable: Jews, Roma, gay people and mentally or physically impaired individuals.

Comment: Meanwhile in Ukraine: Ukraine decides to give nationalist post-WII Nazi collaborators same status as war vets

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Mainstream journalists who refuse to defend dissident journalists are worshippers of power

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:01 UTC
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Alternative media circles have been buzzing for the last two days ever since news broke about the arrest of Grayzone journalist Max Blumenthal, who was reportedly jailed for two days after a SWAT-style police team showed up threatening to break his door down last Friday.

Blumenthal is charged with simple assault alleged to have taken place five months ago during the notorious standoff when the US government was working to remove the official Venezuelan government from its DC embassy and replace it with diplomats from the Guaido-led puppet government it was attempting to force into power. Dissident journalists, including Blumenthal, stationed themselves in the embassy in opposition to the illegal eviction and to document the behavior of the evictors. Blumenthal calls the assault charge "a 100 percent false, fabricated, bogus, untrue, and malicious lie."

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Attention

The intolerant radicals and their Meghan Murphy circus: Trans activists mob controversial feminist's talk in Toronto

Sue-Ann Levy
The Sun
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:14 UTC
meghan murphy protest
© Toronto SunProtestors outside the Palmerston Library following a talk by controversial speaker Meghan Murphy on Tuesday October 29, 2019.
The irony would probably be lost on the angry mob of radicals, but the circus they created Tuesday night around the 45-minute appearance of controversial feminist Meghan Murphy made them come across as obstinate, intolerant and as Murphy suggested — steeped in bigotry.

As Murphy spoke inside the Palmerston Library to a capacity crowd, the rent-a-mob of trans and LGBT people and assorted hangers-on grew louder, angrier and more intimidating to those who aren't used to their cries of self-righteous indignation as I am.

Egged on by the ideologues at the CBC, other left-wing media and various leftist authors — enabled by Mayor John Tory who pushed to get the Toronto public library to cancel the event (not one of his finer moments) — hundreds of regressives tried to bully attendees by either holding them captive inside the library or screaming "shame, shame" as they departed, surrounded by a phalanx of cops and security guards.

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People

Lorry driver calls police over 12 men stowaways in his refrigerated lorry in Belgium

Jennifer Rankin
The Guardian
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:23 UTC
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© Gareth Fuller/PALorry drivers are increasingly reluctant to drive to the UK because they risk being fined if people are illicitly found onboard.
Belgian police say they have found 12 people "safe and well" in a refrigerated lorry, one week after 39 people lost their lives in a similar vehicle that had travelled to Essex via continental Europe.

The migrants were discovered in the back of a fruit and vegetable lorry on the motorway, near the Flemish town of Oud-Turnhout, in the early hours of Wednesday. Police said they found 12 adult men: 11 Syrians and one Sudanese citizen.

"Yesterday evening we received a call from a lorry driver near Oud-Turnhout who suspected that there were people in his refrigerated lorry," Sarah Frederickx, a federal police spokeswoman, told the Flemish national broadcaster VRT. "The 12 men were found safe and sound."

Comment: As noted above, this story comes on the heels of the 39 bodies that were found in a lorry container in the UK; they were later found to be from Vietnam.

There has been a surge of illegal immigrants to Europe this year, totaling 456,000 so far, up 10% on last year, mostly from Africa and the Middle East, along with similar reports of migrant problems in the US.

See also: "This is a bomb that will explode": Greek ministers admit services overwhelmed after riots at refugee camp on Lesbos

And check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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It's time for 'LGB' and 'T' to go their separate ways

Brad Polumbo
Quillette
Sat, 26 Oct 2019 00:01 UTC
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The growing rift between increasingly radicalized transgender-rights activists and the lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) communities has finally come out into the open. This week, Europe's biggest LGBT-rights organization, the London-based Stonewall charity, was publicly accused of subordinating LGB rights to the group's increasingly single-minded goal of replacing sex with gender as a marker of identity. As Helen Joyce recently wrote in Standpoint, "Stonewall went all in for gender self-ID. Its online glossary now describes biological sex as 'assigned at birth' (presumably by a midwife with a Hogwarts-style Sorting Hat). 'Gay' and 'lesbian' now mean same-gender, not same-sex, attraction. 'Transphobia' is the 'fear or dislike of someone based on the fact that they are trans, including the denial/refusal to accept their gender identity.' At a stroke, anyone who declares themselves exclusively attracted to people of the same sex has become a bigot."

As a gay man who lives in the United States, I have no direct stake in Britain's intra-LGBT politics. ("LGB/T" might now be a more apt term.) But I am surprised that it has taken this long for such a formal breach to occur. The same pressures have been building everywhere, and it was only a matter of time before someone acted on them.

Comment: It's interesting that there seems to be a growing sentiment among the LGBs to separate, at least ideologically, from the Ts. The recent rise of Meghan Murphy in the news cycle in Canada (and worldwide) is one such example. The simple fact of the matter is that the radical remodeling of the concept of gender and complete denial of biological reality the trans activists are fighting for is a threat to everything our society has been built upon. Previous fights for women's rights, gay rights and even racial equality, is all threatened by these new kids on the block and their insane religious worldview.

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Sue 'em! Bayer says US glyphosate plaintiffs more than double since July

Ludwig Burger and Patricia Weiss
Reuters
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:56 UTC
Logo and flags of Bayer AG
© REUTERS/Wolfgang RattayLogo and flags of Bayer AG are pictured outside a plant of the German pharmaceutical and chemical maker in Wuppertal, Germany August 9, 2019.
Germany's Bayer (BAYGn.DE) is now facing 42,700 U.S. plaintiffs blaming its glyphosate-based weedkillers for their cancer, more than twice the tally in July and potentially raising any future settlement.

Bayer, the inventor of aspirin and owner of Yasmin birth control and Claritin allergy relief brands, is widely expected to eventually buy itself out of the litigation, with analysts currently estimating the size of a future settlement at $8-$12 billion.

It put the increase in claims down to a significant increase in plaintiff-side television advertising spending.

"The number of lawsuits, first and foremost, doesn't tell us anything about their merits," Chief Executive Werner Baumann said in a media call. "The number of the lawsuits in no way, shape or form is indicative of the amount of the settlement."

The company said it was still constructively engaged in a mediation process ordered by a federal judge.

Bayer, which last year acquired Monsanto for $63 billion, revealed the spike in claims as it reported a 7.5% rise in third-quarter adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) to 2.3 billion euros ($2.6 billion), in line with market expectations.

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Fire

Devastating fire kills 70 passengers as gas stove explodes on train in Pakistan


RT
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:41 UTC
Pakistan train fire
© Asghar Bhawalpuri / Reuters TV
Passengers leaped to their death, trying to escape the raging fire, which devoured several train cars in eastern Pakistan, killing at least 70 people.

The packed train was traveling from Karachi to the city of Rawalpindi in eastern Punjab province when a gas cylinder blew up inside.

The cylinder was booked by a group of passengers who were using it to boil eggs on a gas stove when the blast happened. Cooking oil added fuel to the blaze, which spread rapidly, completely burning three cars.

Firefighters were deployed to the site, and military helicopters were flown in to airlift the injured.

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