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The left and the right don't hear the same Jordan Peterson

David Marius
The Federalist
Fri, 25 May 2018 11:55 UTC
A New York Times Magazine hit piece says more about the mainstream media than it says about Jordan Peterson.
Dr. Peterson
Dr. Jordan Peterson, who has enjoyed a surge into fame over the past year, has become a bit like the Yanny and Laurel audio meme. People listen to what he has to say but disagree wildly about what they are hearing.

Some hear a man with important ideas that can help people live a more fulfilling life, others hear a dangerous misogynist who wants to set back the cause of liberated women, trans people, and the rest of the cast(e) of oppression. In a feature for The New York Times Magazine this weekend, Nellie Bowles clearly came down on the latter side.

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At least 15 injured as two men blow up IED inside Indian restaurant in Canada


RT
Fri, 25 May 2018 09:49 UTC
Two suspects entering in restaurant
© Peel Regional Police / Twitter
Police have released a photo of two suspects who detonated an explosive device in a restaurant in Mississauga, a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. At least 15 people have been injured.

Police say they received a call for "an incident" at 10:32 pm and have cordoned off the area. Local media report that there has been an explosion at an Indian restaurant in the central area of the city.

Law enforcement is asking for public assistance in the hunt for the two male suspects who "fled the scene immediately after the incident." Apart from pictures of the suspected perpetrators, they published a detailed description of the men's outfits. Both wore jeans and hoodies, and had their faces covered.

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The mainstream media want you to see only one collusion story

John Fund
National Review
Sun, 20 May 2018 23:20 UTC
Trump
© Jim Bourg/ReutersPresident Trump speaks with reporters outside the White House, December 21, 2017.
Anyone examining FBI and Justice Department abuses is smeared and ridiculed.

President Trump is opening a whole new chapter in the war between him and the investigators pursuing him. Today, he tweeted: "I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!"

It's unclear how the Justice Department will respond. In March, Justice's inspector general, Michael Horowitz, announced he would be examining exactly how the DOJ set about employing the so-called Steele dossier to help obtain permission from a special court, the FISA court, to eavesdrop on Trump foreign-policy adviser Carter Page. Apparently, Trump is demanding that the DOJ now look at a range of recent developments, including the news that an FBI informant was fishing for information from Trump officials before any Justice investigation of possible Trump-campaign collusion with Russia was supposed to have begun.

Comment: Indeed, the possibility that a spy was planted in the Trump campaign organization is gaining strength.

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RT exposes mainstream media's pro-Israel bias when reporting on Gaza massacre

Michael Quinn
Russia Insider
Thu, 24 May 2018 23:04 UTC
Russia today logo
© RT
RT makes a huge contribution every day to the public's understanding of world events. No wonder the deep state hates them.

RT does invaluable work in challenging the Western (largely Jewish influenced) media monopolies. The media's coverage of the Gaza massacre is a great chance to look at how the media's portrayal of ethnic conflicts is distorted when Jewish interests are involved.

When Syrian President Bashar Assad violently suppresses protests (or actual terrorists) the western media immediately demonizes him as an "animal" and a monster. When "white supremacists" in Charlottesville have a rally that ends in the death of one of the violent "counter-protestors", the western media pushes for vicious consequences.
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Australian parents furious as city council seeks to ban use of "boy" or "girl" in books

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 22 May 2018 19:01 UTC
gender neutral
"For goodness sake, this is social engineering gone crazy...

Leave kids alone to be kids. Stop trying to destroy kids' childhoods..."
That is an example of the furious reaction from parents in Victoria, Australia where the local city council has announced plans to audit children's books and toys with a plan to ban them from kindergartens, schools and libraries if they don't meet strict gender guidelines.

The Herald Sun reports that the local government's justice warriors were inspired by research from the Australian National University that showed children were influenced by gender stereotyping, and urged a ban on the terms 'boy' and 'girl'.

ban the books

Comment: And the gender-neutral madness continues. See also:

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Red Flag

UK Labour Party lunacy: Men who self-identify as women will be eligible for all-female shortlists


RT
Thu, 24 May 2018 19:05 UTC
lgbt flag
© Daniel Becerril / Reuters
Labour confirmed that men who self-identify as women will be eligible for all-female shortlists. It comes days after a party member was suspended for saying he was female on Wednesdays in an attempt to test their 'self-ID' policy.

On Monday it was revealed that Labour activist David Lewis was suspended from the party after standing as a women's officer, claiming he identified as a woman on one day of the week - Wednesday.

Lewis said that he pulled the stunt to highlight problems with self-identification, arguing that he wanted to "inform the constituency Labour Party, and maybe some other people, about what this policy means, about what happens when you say that someone's gender depends only on what they say and nothing else."

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Anti-semitism: Israel's perpetual get-out-of-jail-free card

Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook Blog
Mon, 21 May 2018 18:48 UTC
netanyahu eurovision cartoon
© Dieter Hanitzsch"Next year in Jerusalem!"
The silencing of critics of Israel using anti-semitism as the pretext is far from restricted to the current wave of attacks on Jeremy Corbyn and his Labour party. It is now used to intimidate anyone who steps out of line on Israel. Once we raged against the conflation of anti-semitism and anti-Zionism. We have so lost that battle that it is now standard operating procedure for Israel's apologists to conflate anti-semitism with simple criticisms of the current ultra-nationalist Israeli government.

Here is an illustration of our defeat, reported in the Israeli daily Haaretz. It concerns what would in other circumstances be a fairly standard satirical cartoon: this one published by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung about Israel winning the Eurovision song contest last week. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is shown on stage dressed as Israel's winning singer, Netta, and proclaiming "Next year in Jerusalem!".

After the usual outcry, the cartoonist, Dieter Hanitzsch, was sacked. No Charlie Hebdo-style concerns about free speech on this occasion, it seems.
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'First step' accomplished: House passes prison reform bill uniting some Dems and Trump


RT
Wed, 23 May 2018 00:20 UTC
prisoner
© CBN.com
The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly backed the First Step Act, which would allow more inmates to earn an early release from federal prisons and end practices such as shackling female prisoners during childbirth.

The bill, House Resolution 5682, was approved on Tuesday evening by a vote of 360 in favor and 59 opposed. Co-sponsored by Representatives Doug Collins (R-Georgia) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York), the bill managed to unite President Donald Trump and some of his critics among the Democrats.

Under the law, federal inmates would be able to earn up to 54 days per year in "good time credits" towards an early release, up from the previous cap of 47. This would apply retroactively, meaning that around 4,000 inmates could be released immediately once it is signed into law, according to Axios.

The law also seeks to fund additional vocational and rehabilitative programs in federal prisons, to the tune of $50 million over five years, in order to help former convicts rebuild their lives after release. Among the reforms in the treatment of inmates, it would abolish the practice of shackling female prisoners during childbirth and place inmates no further than 500 miles away from their families.

Comment: 'Crime doesn't pay'. This is correct. Crime gets paid. The 2.3 million behind bars in the USA is the size of a small country - funded by American taxpayers!

See also: Trump to sign prison reform bill, could free thousands

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Yesterday's man rages against the dying of the light: Michael McFaul's Russian memoir

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Thu, 24 May 2018 18:30 UTC
Michael McFaul
© Maxim Shemetov / ReutersMichael McFaul walks outside as he leaves the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow, May 15, 2013
From Cold War to Hot Peace: 483 pages of a controversial former US ambassador to Moscow venting his agitation over unfulfilled potential.

As Theresa May might say, it's "highly likely" that Michael McFaul, given he's a professional scholar, is familiar with the work of George Berkeley. For the uninitiated, or those who couldn't care less, he was a philosopher from Kilkenny, Ireland, famous for advancing a theory now known as "subjective idealism."

Whether he knows it or not, McFaul has spent decades channeling Berkeley, except he's substituted the Irishman's mystic optimism for a messianic devotion to his own "higher calling:" that of "democracy promotion." Yet, in reality, the former US ambassador to Russia has mostly indulged in pretty selective idealism.
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Star of David

Israel: Hospitals segregate Arab and Jewish women in maternity wards


Middle East Monitor
Mon, 21 May 2018 09:49 UTC
Palestinian ward
© Mohammed Asad/ApaimagesA Palestinian baby can be seen receiving treatment in Gaza on 19 February 2018.
In at least four Israeli hospitals, Arab women are separated from Jewish women in maternity wards, Haaretz newspaper reported.

In a report based on testimonies collected from the four hospitals, the paper said the segregation policy has become the norm, explaining that the hospitals segregate the mothers either at their request or because they deem it right.

According to the paper, the testimonies were collected from women who gave birth at the Hadassah University Hospital, Mt. Scopus in Jerusalem; Haemek in Afula; Nahariya's Western Galilee Hospital in and Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba and who were victims of the segregation policy.
"We are trying to make separate rooms because the culture is really different and the visit hours," the paper quoted a hospital nurse as saying during a recorded phone call. "We feel very strongly that there is one person, and there is a clan, We try, we can't say 100 per cent, but on days that there's no pressure, we arrange separate accommodations [for people speaking] different languages," she added.


Comment: Others would call this an administrative excuse for apartheid.


According to Haaretz, four Arab women filed a class demanding the hospitals end the policy and compensate those who were subjected to it, they believe the Ministry of Health is aware of the policy but turns a blind eye to it.
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