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Jordan Peterson - a real professor who is standing up for free speech

Jordan Peterson
Professor Peterson is at the center of freedom-of-speech battle at the University of Toronto
By now most of the country is familiar with the story of one professor, Jordan Peterson, at the University of Toronto, who has expressed strong and vivid dissent over the university's attempt to force him to use certain words — ersatz pronouns, a batch of neologisms (ze, zim, zer, and a raft of others, in place of he or she) coined by progressive groups, intended to apply to students who "self-identify" as other than the archaic and obsolete designations of man and woman.

Prof. Peterson will not use these new cant words. He will not be ordered by the university, or pressured by activists, to take their words and put them in his mouth. He goes further and insists that it is an abandonment of academic freedom, and freedom of speech more generally, for the university or others to insist or attempt to mandate such a practice. He has made three videos arguing his case. He points out the ideological forces, the "political agenda" behind "language politics," and correctly argues and identifies that there is far more at stake in this instance than some local gripe about grammatical commonplaces on a single campus.

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Hacker who helped expose Ohio high school football team rape faces longer prison sentence than the rapists

 KYAnonymous, hacker exposes Steubenville rapists
© KYAnonymous / Facebook KYAnonymous
A Kentucky man who, in 2012, hacked into an online account for followers of a Ohio high school's football team to expose a gang rape of a teenage girl has pleaded guilty to charges associated with the hack. He is facing a longer term than the rapists.

Earlier this week, Deric Lostutter, 29, known online as "KYAnonymous," pleaded guilty in federal court in Kentucky to one count of conspiracy and one count of making false statements to law enforcement agents for his hack of the Steubenville (Ohio) High School football fan website Roll Red Roll in December 2012.

Lostutter has said he hacked into the site to expose information about the gang rape of an unconscious teenage girl from West Virginia by members of the football team. Two of those team members, Trent Mays and Malik Richmond, were eventually sentenced to serve time — two years and one year, respectively — in a juvenile detention center for rape and kidnap.

Comment: More evidence of the depth of ponerization in Western society where those who commit vicious crimes are routinely protected, while the victims are blamed and anyone who dares to expose such crimes often pays a heavy price for their conscientiousness.


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Liberals: Seek out silent Trump voters like me, says female millennial Trump supporter

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© PoliticoTrump supporters
I am an urban, millennial woman, and I voted for Trump. Now, I'm afraid to explain my reasoning to an angry, vitriolic left that will not listen to me.

I'm a graduate-educated, millennial generation, urban-dwelling white woman. Not just that, I'm also a women's health nurse practitioner and I've cared for women of many different religions, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations.

I'm also a silent Donald Trump supporter.

I admit, I have enjoyed indulging in some schadenfreude as I watched the aftermath of the presidential election implode on social media. But that wore off quickly. Now, the fearmongering and widespread terror plaguing my Facebook news feed just makes me sad.

I haven't posted a thing on social media. For that matter, I don't intend on disclosing my vote to others anytime soon—first and foremost because I think it might jeopardize my career, and I sincerely fear people would not listen or seek to understand my rationale. I hope I'm proven wrong.

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'When he kills you, we'll come and inspect your corpse': Police tells woman before she's beaten to death

Woman killed in a domestic violence incident in Oryol, Russia
© vk.comA woman, whose name has not officially been released, was killed in a domestic violence incident in Oryol, Russia.
A police officer in a central Russian town faces trial after she refused to accept a complaint from a domestic violence victim who was being abused and bullied by a former lover.

The police said they would arrive only after she was killed in order to file an autopsy report. The woman died 40 minutes later.

The gruesome incident took place in the Central Russian city of Oryol last week. The 37-year-old man had a fight with his 36-year-old ex-girlfriend, allegedly due to a dispute over the couple's common belongings. After the heated quarrel, during which the woman demanded that her former lover take his things and leave, he followed her to the car, violently kicked her, and then left, investigators say in a statement.

The woman eventually died of head injuries in hospital.

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The old is dying, the new is struggling to be born

George Galloway
George Galloway
Thugs will not silence me

Many of you will have read about an unpleasant and, at the time, distressing experience I had at the University of Aberdeen earlier this week, which was widely reported in the national news. Someone, who claimed responsibility on Twitter, calling themselves "trans" and an "anarchist", led a five person attack on me as I began my speech, with no intervention from university security, and threw a then unknown substance into my face from point blank range. We had warned the university of a planned protest, which we suspected would be violent, and provided them with the names and faces of the expected aggressors - who did in fact turn out to be the aggressors - yet nothing was done to prevent it.

As someone who has recently been violently attacked a number of times in public, including in broad daylight, this was alarming. I continued as normal, while my pregnant wife bravely tried to detain and then chased after the attackers.

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Japanese civil defense issue survival advice should North Korea press the red button

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
© ReutersNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un eagerly looks at a rocket warhead tip after a simulated test of atmospheric re-entry of a ballistic missile
Japanese people are bracing themselves for nuclear attack with chilling advise on what to do if Kim Jong-un presses the red button.

For the first time since North Korea began a series of nuke tests, people in Japan are being issued with terrifying instruction on how to deal with nuclear war.

A downloadable pamphlet is now available on the island nation's civil defense website.

Called "Protecting Ourselves against Armed Attacks and Terrorism," it outlines emergency measures in the event North Korean missiles are fired at the country.

It bears similarities to the creepy Protect and Survive documents issued in Britain and Northern Ireland during the early 1980's following the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.

Like the UK's booklet it give top-tips on how to avoid being fried and radiated.

It urges people to take shelter indoors behind thick walls to avoid blast injuries but also radiation.

Underground shopping malls would be an ideal place to take cover, it advises.

Stock Up

The mysterious case of Jill Stein's surging recount fundraiser costs

Jill Stein
© Jim Young | Reuters
Just yesterday we noted that Jill Stein was acting on behalf of Hillary Clinton to raise money for recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. As we noted then, we continue to be astonished by the amount of money flowing into the fundraising campaign and would love to see which of Hillary's mega donors have spent the most on the effort...somehow we suspect this isn't just a "grassroots organizing" effort as Stein described it.
So, in less than 1 day, Jill Stein raised over $3mm, which is more than the $2mm needed to force a recount in Wisconsin. While she attributed the accomplishment to "the power of grassroots organizing," we would tend to be a little more skeptical and would love to see exactly where those donations came from. Then again, maybe we're wrong and there really are just that many disaffected snowflakes out there willing to blow their money on an extreme long shot.
But, today a new mystery has emerged in Stein's fundraising efforts. Apparently, the more money she raises the more expensive the recount effort becomes. Courtesy of the Wayback Machine we have the following snapshots from her fundraising page over the past couple of days:

Comment: There's always the chance that a recount will show that Trump won by a larger margin than he officially did, so far. But just what is Stein up to? Jerome Corsi at WND writes:
Stein raised only $3.5 million from donors during her 2016 presidential campaign, prompting critics to charge that her ability to quickly raise nearly $5 million for an election recount indicates Clinton supporters are funding her.
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In the third presidential debate, however, Clinton chastised Trump for his unwillingness to pledge that he would accept the outcome of the election, reserving the right to challenge voter fraud. She called Trump's statement "horrifying." "That is not the way our democracy works," she said. "We've been around for 240 years. We've had free and fair elections. We've accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them, and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage during a general election."
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No recount in U.S. history has ever changed the outcome of a presidential election, including in 2000, when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a recount in Florida that Democratic candidate Al Gore had hoped would deprive Republican George W. Bush of a narrow win.
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Meanwhile, efforts are under way to challenge the votes in three states won by Clinton: Nevada, Colorado and Virginia. Operation Sabot 2016, launched by the group Oath Keepers is contesting vote totals in Clark County in Nevada; Denver and Boulder Counties in Colorado; and Richmond, Fairfax, and Henrico Counties in Virginia.

"In all three states there were precincts where over 95 percent of the vote went to Clinton with voter turnouts above 90 percent," wrote "Navy Jack," an anonymous Navy veteran leading the Operation Sabot 2016 charge on the Oath Keeper's website. "Richmond, Denver and Clark County had precincts with more votes than registered voters," Navy Jack continued. "This is similar to what occurred in Philadelphia back in 2012. In Virginia, Governor McAuliffe issued 60,000 autopen pardons to allow felons to vote."

Navy Jack continued to note that McAuliffe sent each pardoned felon a personal letter asking them to vote for Clinton, accompanied by a voter-registration form, ballot and a return postage paid envelope. "In each of these cases, the President Elect appears to have been disadvantaged," Navy Jack concluded. "If recounts and investigations become inevitable, expanding the list of states to also include states won by former Secretary Clinton would be appropriate."



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Thanksgiving online sales surge as Americans choose to shop from home

Christmas shopping
© Kamil Krzaczynski / Reuters
US consumers spent over a billion dollars online on Thanksgiving evening, according to Adobe Digital Index. Online spending rose nearly 14 percent from last year, continuing the trend away from shopping in stores.

Between midnight and 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, US consumers spent $1.15 billion shopping online, Adobe estimates.

"Online discounts are earlier and a lot bigger than last year," said Tamara Gaffney, principal research analyst at Adobe Digital Index, as quoted be Reuters.

The holiday shopping season commonly starts the day after Thanksgiving, or Black Friday with all the retailers offering attractive discounts.

Comment: No doubt it's safer to shop from home.
See also: 2 people shot dead in Black Friday madness


TV

Scientologists demand A&E Network pull former disciple Leah Remini's exposé from air

Leah Remini
© CBSDoug (Kevin James) and Carrie (Leah Remini) in the sixth-season of THE KING OF QUEENS, on the CBS Television Network.
Leah Remini has reportedly demanded the Church of Scientology pay her US$1.5 million after it lobbied a TV network to get her new show shut down.

A lawyer acting for the Scientologists tried to get the show, which threatens to reveal details about the church, pulled before it airs on cable channel The Arts & Entertainment Network.

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Hundreds of porn sites run out of 1 sleepy English town

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© Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
Consett, a sleepy town nestled in the English countryside near the Pennines, is apparently the home of hundreds of porn websites. Sheepish locals say they had no idea.

More than 400 of Consett's residents work as directors of shell companies for online businesses, which, to the locals' surprise, sell anything from diet pills to hardcore porn.