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'Trump hasn't turned out to be the disaster his enemies predicted': Jordan Peterson at Cambridge

James Innes-Smith
Spectator
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:37 UTC
jordan peterson caricature

Backstage at the Union the individualist's individualist is readying himself for a possible avalanche of groupthink snowflakery

'I'm hoping the Democrats get walloped.' Doctor Jordan B Peterson is in a rambunctious mood as he prepares to address a packed Cambridge Union. He is of course referring to the midterm elections and he appears especially troubled by the Democrats' determination to appeal to what he describes as a 'tiny radical faction of the voter base'. 'I don't think they're going to wake up until they get defeated,' he tells me, furrowing that famous brow. A preferable outcome for America, he thinks, would be if a set of moderate Democrats was elected but in such aggressively partisan times, this seems an unlikely scenario.

Backstage at the Union the individualist's individualist is readying himself for a possible avalanche of groupthink snowflakery. Although pumped and ready for action, I sense an edge of weary incredulity as we discuss the parlous state of US politics. The Democrats' failure to convince Trump supporters of their hero's feckless bigotry has, he believes, deepened already entrenched opinions. With trust in political leaders at an all time low, the author of 12 Rules for Life thinks the two parties should take a leaf out of his bestselling book and get their own houses in order before hurling insults at each other. He worries that a flailing liberal elite, hungry for impeachment, has been unfairly targeting the president. 'It's ridiculous to label Trump as far-right; he's certainly an anomaly. As a personality, he's more of a libertarian. He's not a traditional Republican and he's certainly not a traditional rightwing figure apart from the fact that he has this large populist base.'

Comment: Could it be that part of the reason for Jordan Peterson's popularity, something that seems to continually baffle the lefty NPC crowd, is because such a huge majority of the population doesn't agree with political correctness, much less the social justice agenda?

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'All hope is gone': Parents of deceased Yemeni girl speak out in emotional interview


RT
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 11:58 UTC
Amal Hussain Yemeni girl starving
The grief-stricken parents of the young Yemeni girl who died of malnutrition last week have spoken in a heart-rending interview after images of their emaciated child drew attention to the nation's worsening humanitarian disaster.

Harrowing photos of the now-deceased seven-year-old Amal Hussain published by the New York Times put a human face on Yemen's famine and highlighted the impact of the Saudi-Arabia led bombing campaign on the country's vulnerable civilians, millions of whom are facing starvation.

In an interview with RT's Ruptly video agency, Amal's mother, Mariam Ali said that she had lost hope since the death of her young daughter."Our situation is deteriorating, and we suffer from malnutrition. We do not have healthy nutrition," Ali said, explaining that she returned home from hospital with her sick daughter after receiving a call to say another one of her children was unwell.

Comment: The UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa had this to say recently about conditions in Yemen:
"I want this moment with you, distinguished colleagues, partners in the media, to be in memory of Amal. Amal's emaciated body was last week on the cover of the New York Times and shocked the world. But now sadly, she passed away on the 1st of November as you all know. Unfortunately, Amal is not the only Yemeni child suffering that fate.

Colleagues, friends - 30,000 children in Yemen die every single year of malnutrition as one of the most important underlying causes. There is not one Amal - there are many thousands of "Amals".

"Yemen is today a living hell for children. A living hell not for 50-60 per cent of children. It is a living hell for every single boy and girl in Yemen."

I know that figures don't say much but they are important - just as a reminder for all of us to realize how dire the situation has become.

There are in Yemen during any given year, 1.8 million children suffering from acute malnutrition. 400,000 children on any given day suffering from a life-threatening form of severe acute malnutrition. Forty per cent of these 400,000 are living in Hodeida and in neighbouring governorates where the war is raging.
All thanks to the financial, military, and media support of the West.

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US religious leader stops just short of calling America "the Great Satan" on Iran visit


RT
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 10:26 UTC
Louis Farrakhan
© Reuters / Rebecca CookFILE PHOTO: Louis Farrakhan
Controversial religious leader Louis Farrakhan told Iranians that "victory will be yours," calling on them to persevere despite unprecedented sanctions from the country their leaders have called "the Great Satan."

Farrakhan, who heads the Chicago-based Nation of Islam (NOI) political and religious movement with a nearly 90-year-old history, stopped just short of calling America 'the Great Satan' himself when he spoke at Tehran University.

"Is it not true that you have called America the Great Satan? Well, if you believe what you say, then would not Satan be actively involved in trying to destroy a nation that is set up on the belief and practice of submission to the will of God?"

Comment: The Iranian's have a point, the American Empire does bear striking similarities to the biblical Babylon - and for more on that, check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Babylon, Ancient Rome and the American Empire

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Bomb scare prompts security operation at London Heathrow airport


RT
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 22:48 UTC
heathrow terminal 4
A "suspicious package" discovered at a check-in desk at Terminal 4 of Heathrow Airport in London sparked a police operation that saw armed officers sealing off the departure area of the terminal and evacuating passengers. The object was reportedly discovered at the check-in desk for an El Al Israeli Airlines flight at Terminal 4, according to the Daily Express. The alarm turned out to be false and the terminal resumed operating as normal less than half an hour after the incident.

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Why I made a film about Jordan Peterson

Patricia Marcoccia
CBC
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 21:00 UTC
peterson documentary Patricia Marcoccia
Where to start? Should I break the ice with a joke about how awful it is to associate my name with that of Jordan Peterson's in an attempt to appease those who feel indignant that I've made this film? Or should I boast about how cool it is to have hundreds of hours of Jordan Peterson footage that no one has seen before? It's suffocating to think between these walls.

There is certainly a spectrum of perspectives in between these two, but while making this film over the past couple of years, my mind couldn't help but fluctuate between these opposing vantage points. This topic has been a very polarizing one.

The truth is that I didn't chase this divisive story; it came to me.

Comment: Unfortunately, the documentary is currently limited to streaming within Canada, but it does a relatively good job of a balanced portrayal - not the hit-piece the trailer made it out to be. If it becomes available to the rest of the world in the future, it's worth the watch.

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Prof asks students to compare Trump, Nazi policies

Celine Ryan
Campus Reform
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 08:47 UTC
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A University of Arizona student has reported that she was asked to compare President Donald Trump's policies to those of the Nazis in a course based on the history of the Holocaust.

"Now that you have studied the Vichy Anti-Jewish Laws, the German Ordinances, and pre-Vichy laws imposed on the Jews (French, immigrant, and refugee) and the repercussions that they had for Jews in France, examine and analyze more current anti-immigrant laws in the United States," the extra credit assignment reads.

holocaust class
As examples of these "anti-immigrant laws," the assignment referenced the DACA, Arizona SB 1070, and Executive Order 13769, which the professor described as a "Muslim ban requested by the Trump administration."

Students were asked to answer, "What populations are targeted by these laws? In what ways are they being used? Would the term 'scapegoating' be applicable here and therefore, what did (does) President Trump hope to achieve by invoking them?"

Comment: What the students should really be asked to compare is fascism with liberalism. There are many more similarities there to be found. See also: Liberal Fascism: Why Fascism Has Always Been a Leftist Movement, And How to Recognize Its Flavor

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"Stay in that good fight" retired Green Beret urges Americans to stand up to the globalists

Tyler Durden
Zero hedge
Sun, 04 Nov 2018 03:58 UTC
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Authored by Jeremiah Johnson (nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces) via SHTFplan.com,

The actions that are taken are a three-pronged attack in order to foster in global governance, and they are as such:
  1. Create ubiquitous electronic surveillance with unlimited police power
  2. Throw the entire earth into an economic tailspin
  3. Destroy all nationalism, national borders, and create chaos among all nations prior to an "incendiary event" or series of actions that leads to a world war.
The world war is the most important part of it all, in the eyes of the globalists. The Great Depression culminated in a world war, and periods of economic upheaval are always followed by wars. The war is most needed by the globalists because they need to rid the world of about 7 billion people. This is why such experimentation as you see progresses: infecting vectors such as mosquitoes with viruses that are almost immune to antibiotics, the unearthing of ancient viruses in the permafrost and frozen areas of the Arctic, and the insect-sized drones and smaller nanobots touted to bring a cure but in reality capable of delivering disease.

You are seeing the destruction of the nationalism that exists in Europe: globalists such as Merkel are destroying their own countries from within by introducing hostile and ethnically (as well as religiously) diverse elements. The countries are submitting to the "World Court" based in The Hague: a court that (similar to the U.S. Supreme Court) is using its powers to circumvent the nations...the laws of the French, the Italians, the British, the Germans...all of Europe...and inculcate doctrines both globalist and Malthusian in nature.
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USA: 9 Years Into Common Core, Test Scores Are Down, Indoctrination Up

Joy Pullmann
The Federalist
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Common Core sucked all the energy, money, and motivation right out of desperately needed potential reforms to U.S. public schools for a decade, and for nothing.
Common Core Students
It's been about nine years since the Obama administration lured states into adopting Common Core sight unseen, with promises it would improve student achievement. Like President Obama's other big promises - "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" - this one's been proven a scam.

"If you set and enforce rigorous and challenging standards and assessments; if you put outstanding teachers at the front of the classroom; if you turn around failing schools - your state can win a Race to the Top grant that will not only help students outcompete workers around the world, but let them fulfill their God-given potential," President Obama said in July 2009.

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A vicious new breed of gangs has taken over Central America causing people to flee

Robbie Whelan
The Wall Street Journal
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 10:07 UTC
Government officers San Salvador
© Juan CarlosGovernment officers during a gang sweep in San Salvador, El Salvador, this year.
Gangs such as MS-13 and Barrio 18 prey on their own neighborhoods in a violent, chaotic model spreading through the region

The Congress of El Salvador agreed in April to extend the authority of jailers to keep gang leaders in solitary confinement. Over the next five days, the two reigning street gangs killed more than 100 people.

With the highest homicide rate of all countries in the world, El Salvador is a nation held hostage.

Law-enforcement officials estimate that one gang, MS-13, operates an extortion racket with little pressure from authorities in 248 of the 262 of the country's municipalities. It battles for neighborhood control with another gang, Barrio 18, which runs its own protection scheme in nearly as many regions.

Politicians must ask permission of gangs to hold rallies or canvass in many neighborhoods, law-enforcement officials and prosecutors said. In San Salvador, the nation's capital, gangs control the local distribution of consumer products, experts said, including diapers and Coca-Cola . They extort commuters, call-center employees, and restaurant and store owners. In the rural east, gangs threaten to burn sugar plantations unless farmers pay up.
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Sarah Lawrence Prof writes Op-Ed about lack of intellectual diversity - and social justice warriors want him kicked off campus

Mike LaChance
Legal Insurrection
Sat, 03 Nov 2018 10:00 UTC
Professor Samuel Abrams
Conservative Prof. Samuel Abrams becomes target of harassment and is thrown under bus by administration after his NY Times Op-Ed, proving his point.

Professor Samuel Abrams is a conservative-leaning tenured professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College. He is active in Heterodox Academy, a group of almost 2000 academics devoted to intellectual diversity on campus.

Prof. Abrams recently wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about the lack of ideological diversity among administrators at his school and elsewhere. The column, titled Think Professors Are Liberal? Try School Administrators, brought together research Prof. Abrams had done on left-leaning bias among college professors and administrators, and how it stifles open debate.
This warped ideological distribution among college administrators should give our students and their families pause. To students who are in their first semester at school, I urge you not to accept unthinkingly what your campus administrators are telling you. Their ideological imbalance, coupled with their agenda-setting power, threatens the free and open exchange of ideas, which is precisely what we need to protect in higher education in these politically polarized times.
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