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Jordan Peterson: An antidote against the pitfalls of postmodernism?

Jeffrey Howard
Erraticus
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:24 UTC
Peterson
© Lenaleestore.comDr. Jordan Peterson
Feminist maverick Camille Paglia has called him "the most important and influential Canadian thinker since Marshall McLuhan," declaring that "his bold interdisciplinary synthesis of psychology, anthropology, science, politics and comparative religion is forming the template for the genuinely humanistic university of the future." Meanwhile, conservative commentator David Brooks has echoed sentiments also shared by economist Tyler Cowen, referring to this moment as Jordan Peterson's ascension to the most influential public intellectual in the West.

A clinical psychologist initially trained in political science, Peterson is a professor at the University of Toronto who has risen to prominence as a firm advocate of free speech and individual responsibility. Raised as a cowboy on the Canadian plains, he toiled through various trades before entering the ivory halls of Harvard, writing Maps of Meaning, a complex but groundbreaking tome in the psychology of religion. His recently published, and more accessible book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, could not come at a more perfect time for Peterson's career, and perhaps, for Western civilization.

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We just witnessed the stock market take its largest one day decline ever, down 1,175 points

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
stock market crash
The mainstream media seems so surprised that the stock market is crashing, but the truth is that it isn't a surprise at all. In fact, this crash is way, way overdue. If the Dow Jones industrial average fell another 10,000 points, stock prices would still be overvalued. I have been warning and warning and warning that this would happen, because stock valuations always return to their long-term averages eventually. On Monday, the Dow was down a staggering 1,175 points, which was the largest single day decline that we have ever seen by a very wide margin. In fact, it shattered the old record by nearly 400 points.

Shortly after 3 PM, all hell broke loose on Wall Street. The Dow dropped by more than 800 points in just 10 minutes. At one point on Monday, the Dow was down nearly 1,600 points, but a brief rally cut those losses roughly in half. However, the rally did not last long and stock prices collapsed hard as the market closed. At this moment, the Dow is already down more than 2,200 points from the peak of the market, and we are not too far from officially entering "correction" territory.

Comment: If one considers that financial markets - like the stock market - are nearly all manipulated and subject to changes by those with the knowledge, power and will to do so, it is interesting to consider the timing of this event. By all accounts, the Deep State narrative on 'Russian collusion' is coming apart at the seams. Considering the moneyed and political interests involved - and who have much to lose here - it's possible that this crash was timed to distract from all that's coming now. At the same time, as the author says, this bubble has been waiting to burst for quite a while now, so who knows.

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Monsanto's suppression tactics: 'Decades of deceptive tactics to make billions of dollars'


RT
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:05 UTC
Monsanto coverup
© Yves Herman / ReutersARCHIVE: A protest against a planned $66 billion takeover of Monsanto by Bayer and Monsanto's glyphosate herbicides
Monsanto has been using different tactics to suppress vital information for people who are being exposed to Roundup to decide if they want to use it or not, says Carey Gillam, investigative journalist and author.

The story with the agricultural giant's Roundup weed killer began in the 1980s when tests on its primary ingredient, glyphosate, began to show cellular changes in laboratory animals that should have been considered early signals that the product could cause cancer. In 1995, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined that this compound needed to be classified as a carcinogen.

Comment: Monsanto: History of Contamination and Cover-up

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Everyone's forgotten about male suffrage. Why?

Neil Lyndon
The Telegraph
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 23:57 UTC
While the story of female suffrage is taught at school from a young age, few people today know the long and gruesome history of how men won the right to vote, says Neil Lyndon
hands raised
© Igor Stevanovic / AlamyHundreds of thousands of men were killed before male suffrage came into effect
On 23 March, while arguing the case on these pages for a Minister for Men, Tim Samuels apologised for trespassing on feminism's most hallowed ground and said: "We men have not had to fight tooth and nail for our votes".

No doubt, everybody would go along with that. Everybody in this country is taught from infancy that the Suffragettes had to wrest votes for women from a brutal male establishment that was protecting the monopoly exercised by all men. My daughters learned that lesson at primary school before they had even been introduced to the cardinal beliefs of the world's leading religions.

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Study: Eindhoven has an underage male prostitution problem

Janene Pieters
NL Times
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 23:50 UTC
Stock photo of a teen sitting against a stone wall.
© Wokandapix / PixabayStock photo of a teen sitting against a stone wall.
At least 70 boys and young men between the ages of 14 and 22 years are active in prostitution in and around Eindhoven, and not all of them willingly, according to a study by welfare organization Lumens. The municipality of Eindhoven is shocked by these figures, alderman Renate Richters said to Nieuwsuur.

For this study, Lumens researchers spent 18 months speaking to boys and young men in places where they offer themselves. "We had a boy who was being exploited by his family", researcher Danielle van Went said to Nieuwsuur. His family dropped him off with men who he had to have sex with, and the extorted those men with videos of the encounter, she said.
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The rise of Professor Jordan Peterson

Izzy Kalman
Psychology Today
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 23:15 UTC
A brave Canadian psychologist is saving psychology from political correctness.
jourdan peterson
We often hear people say they wish they had the fortune to purchase Microsoft or Apple or Amazon before those companies began their meteoric rise on the stock market. I am thrilled to be able to claim a similarly rare pleasure. If psychologists were traded on Wall Street, I would now be rich.

There is a decent chance, of course, that you still haven't heard of Jordan Peterson. After all, the general public doesn't get as excited about psychology professors as they do about the solar eclipse, the Super Bowl, or President Trump. But if you care about psychology, especially the way it's influencing education, culture, politics, history, and general mental health, do a search on Jordan Peterson. You will discover that he is currently the most sought-after psychologist in the world. He went viral not only in cyberspace, a "relatively" easy accomplishment, but also in the concrete worlds of print and TV.
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Intellectuals-yet-idiots: Why is the left-leaning anti-Trump 'resistance' so in love with the FBI-CIA-NSA?

James Howard Kunstler
Russia Insider
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
The Slate Gabfest Gang
The Slate Gabfest Gang - This is what passes for 'informed opinion' on the left in current day USA - 'honey-badger' partisans
It is the super-duper quandary of the moment: choose between the oafish, charmless, and possibly not-so-stable-genius Leader-of-the-Free-World... and a security state that will do whatever it takes to get rid of him, for instance, engineering a nationwide hysteria over Russia.

Has anyone else noticed how odd it is that the so-called "Resistance" has all along included the state security apparatus in its every sordid iteration - the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, and God knows how many others among the touted "seventeen security agencies" who supposedly ginned up the Russian Meddling story on behalf of the Democratic National Committee. Movements that affect to be revolutionary don't usually turn to the secret police and their equivalents for aid and comfort.

The Resistance pulled out all the stops last week in its shrieking denunciation of the Nunes Memo, and the various complaints had one thing in common: a complete lack of interest in the facts of the matter, in particular the shenanigans in the upper ranks of the FBI. Give a listen, for instance, to last Thursday's Slate's Political Gabfest with David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon, the three honey-badgers of Resistance Radio (like the fabled honey-badgers of the veldt, they don't give a shit about any obstacles in their pursuit of their quarry: Trump). They've even been able to one-up Nassim Taleb's defined category of "intellectuals-yet-idiots" to intellectuals-yet-useful-idiots.

Comment: If one's ever considered themself to be a 'liberal' or a 'progressive', now's a great time to evaluate all the assumptions, biases and data that has informed that perspective. Doesn't mean that one's wrong about everything, or even most things, it's just that like any other ideology - it, and the forces that have been steering it, are quite often seldom questioned, if at all.

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Super Bowl mayhem: Philadelphia,'city of brotherly love' has gone on a frenzy of looting, shooting and torn up light poles (VIDEO)


RT
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:08 UTC
Mayhem in Philly, PA
© Aaron P. Bernstein / Getty Images / AFPFebruary 4, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A blast of unknown origin has occurred in Philadelphia and several people have reportedly been injured in street violence amid celebrations of the Philadelphia Eagles' victory over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII.

Celebrations of the historic Super Bowl victory of the Philadelphia Eagles led to havoc on Sunday night, as cheering crowds damaged property and turned cars upside down, and an explosion was reported in the city.
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Climate change and the choice of bringing children into this world

Maggie Astor
The New York Times
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
An incorrect perception of 'climate change' courtesy of the NY Times
© Credit Josh Haner/The New York TimesAn incorrect perception of 'climate change' courtesy of the NY Times
Add this to the list of decisions affected by climate change: Should I have children?

It is not an easy time for people to feel hopeful, with the effects of global warming no longer theoretical, projections becoming more dire and governmental action lagging. And while few, if any, studies have examined how large a role climate change plays in people's childbearing decisions, it loomed large in interviews with more than a dozen people ages 18 to 43.


Comment: Right off the bat the NY Times frames the discussion incorrectly; citing spurious sources and giving credence to the now-debunked mass psy-op of anthropogenic 'global warming'. See: And regarding 'Global Warming's' chief proponent and profiteer:


A 32-year-old who always thought she would have children can no longer justify it to herself. A Mormon has bucked the expectations of her religion by resolving to adopt rather than give birth. An Ohio woman had her first child after an unplanned pregnancy - and then had a second because she did not want her daughter to face an environmental collapse alone.

Comment: But alas, even if the people interviewed for this article are feeling responsible for the environment and questioning the possibility of having children based on ideas that are false - their concerns are not entirely misplaced. Because as we've been documenting here on Sott.net, in addition to the strong possibility of a mini-ice age, there is also the increased probability of world-wide earthquakes, meteor impacts, economic collapses, war, and other things that would make any potential parent think twice about bringing a child into this world. As well they should.

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Fourteen year old epileptic child the latest victim in Israel's dehumanization of Palestinian children

Jonathan Cook
The National
Sun, 04 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
Erez border crossing,
© AFPGhada was taken to the Erez border crossing into Gaza, seen here from the Palestinian side
The teenager locked up in Gaza, despite never living there, was viewed simply as a package, to be delivered to whatever location was on the docket

How did a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who has never set foot in the open-air prison of Gaza find herself being dumped there by Israeli officials - alone, at night and without her parents being informed?

The terrifying ordeal - a child realising she had not been taken home but discarded in a place where she knew no one - is hard to contemplate for any parent.

And yet for Israel's gargantuan bureaucratic structure that has ruled over Palestinians for five decades, this was just another routine error. One mishap among many that day.

A single, abstract noun - "occupation" - obscures a multitude of crimes.

What crushes Palestinian spirits is not just the calculated malevolence of Israel's occupation authorities as they kill and imprison Palestinians, seal them in ghettos, steal land and demolish homes. It is also the system's casual indifference to their fate.

Comment: One of many - Israel's treatment of Palestinian children is cruel beyond measure, yet the international community does little to nothing other than make occasional feeble protests with no real consequences. Israel takes this as tacit acceptance and continues to act with impunity.

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