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Jordan Peterson is showing us that identity politics is all about one thing: Coercion

James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
Mon, 18 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC

It's worth checking out the YouTube video of this year's semi-annual Munk Debate held in Toronto this spring. The proposition at hand: Be it resolved, what you call political correctness, I call progress.... For the pro position: Michael Eric Dyson, sociology prof from Georgetown U, and New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg; on the con side, Jordan Peterson, psychologist and U of Toronto prof, and Stephen Fry, British actor and screenwriter.

The debate quickly beat a path to identity politics, which make up the actual substance of PC, itself only a method of conveying the substance. PC acts as a filter for sifting out thought that doesn't conform to orthodox ideology, and for punishing those who dare to express the filtered-out ideas. So, PC only allows for a narrow range of expressed opinion on identity politics. PC is literally thought-policing. It's hard to imagine anyone being in favor of that, which is exactly why PC behavior is so odious to those of us who value free speech.

Comment: Indeed the reality hurts so much that the Left has been very busy lately impugning, misrepresenting and attacking Jordan B. Peterson in any way they can. And they seem to be coming out to do this from all corners. Take a look!

Ideological possession: Israeli lawmaker says 'Jewish race is the greatest human capital, the smartest'

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Sat, 16 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC

Miki Zohar, member of Knesset, Likud

There are certain racist expressions that you're not supposed to use, even in Israel. One of them is referring to Jews as a "race". Even if you're speaking favorably about Jews. But a rightwing lawmaker did that the other day.

"The whole Jewish race is the greatest human capital, and the smartest and the most understanding," Miki Zohar said Wednesday. The member of Knesset for Likud was debating the Benjamin Netanyahu corruption scandals together with Haaretz journalist Dan Margalit, on the 103 FM radio station (owned by the centrist Maariv daily).

Here Miki Zohar went into unabashed race-supremacist talk about Jews. He literally referred to it as the Jewish race (not nation or people). The Hebrew term he used is "GEZA". It's the literal parallel of 'race' in English, no doubt there.

Comment: It's becoming clearer by the day that Israeli society (if you want to call it that) has gone past the point of no return in its expressions of arrogance and hubris.

Laura Bush criticizes Trump Admin. for child immigrant policy - Sarah Sanders points out law was signed by her husband

Conservative Fighters
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:10 UTC

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders fired back at former First Lady Laura Bush on Monday over her recent criticisms of the current administration's "zero tolerance" policy.

Sanders pointed out how the current separation of children from their families at the border is the result of actions taken by prior administrations, specifically Bush's husband, George W. Bush.

"Frankly this law was actually signed into effect in 2008 under her husband's leadership. Not under this administration," Sanders shot back in response to Bush's recent op-ed.

"We're not the ones responsible for creating this problem. We've inherited it," Sanders continued. "But we're actually the first administration stepping up and trying to fix it."

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Sorry Russophobes And Neocons, The World Cup in Russia is Off to a Flyer

John Wight
Sputnik
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 21:31 UTC

The World Cup in Russia is off to a flyer, serving up a feast of football amid the special and unique atmosphere generated by this quadrennial event. Fans from every corner of the globe having been packing the stadiums, some of them custom-built, reminding us that, despite our differences, we are one human family.

However not everyone is happy. For Russophobes and neocons the success of the World Cup in Russia is something to mourn rather than celebrate, interfering as it does with their relentless demonisation of a country, in Russia, which refuses to know its place as a subaltern power, home to retrograde cultural values, relative to the West.

In fact given the intensity of anti-Russia invective that has played out in the Western mainstream media these past few years, many watching the World Cup will have been genuinely surprised to know that, yes, the sun actually shines in Russia too; and that, yes, its people are not oppressed and living in gulags.

Remember The Russian Artist Who Nailed His Nuts to Red Square? You Won't Believe What Happened to Him Next

Sott.net
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 20:38 UTC

Russia's Vesti news network has the incredible story of how an ultra-liberal star wound up sharing bunks with Muslim terrorists outside Paris

You may remember Russian performance artist Petr Pavlensky from such daring 'art' as sewing his lips shut in protest over the arrest of 'edgy' punk band Pussy Riot, cutting off his earlobe with a chef's knife while sitting naked on the roof of the Serbsky Center to protest political abuse of psychiatry in Russia, and nailing his scrotum to Red Square's cobblestone paving ("A naked artist, looking at his testicles nailed to the cobblestone is a metaphor of apathy, political indifference, and fatalism of Russian society," he said in a press statement).

Celebrated among liberal intelligentsia at home and abroad, Pavlensky's last major stunt in Russia - in 2015 - was to set an entrance to the FSB HQ on fire, an offense for which he was fined. In 2017, he fled to France with his partner and their two children after being accused of sexual assault by a Moscow actress. There he received political asylum, and was feted in Paris as a champion of freedom persecuted by Big Mad Vlad.

Until a repeat performance of the FSB stunt at an entrance to the Banque de France landed him in one of the worst prisons in Europe...

Freight train derails and explodes in southern Indiana forcing evacuations

RT
Tue, 19 Jun 2018 08:47 UTC

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© Indiana State Police / Twitter
Authorities ordered a mandatory resident evacuation within a one-mile radius of Princeton, Indiana shortly after the train derailed.

A freight train derailment that resulted in a large explosion and fire has forced some residents of an Indiana town to evacuate. Authorities are still struggling to contain the blaze 12 hours after the accident.

Witnesses have been posting photos and videos of the fire, which started Sunday evening. The train, which was carrying 89 loaded rail cars and nine empty rail cars, derailed at around 7:20pm local time.

Comment: Update: Authorities have lifted the evacuation order and reopened the highway that was closed due to the derailment. Indiana State Police say the smoke from the train is mostly coming from burning refrigerated cars carrying french fries. CSX is allowing the fires to burn themselves out.

Owner of the largest hosting site for child porn will be extradited to the US for prosecution

Red Pill
The Goldwater
Mon, 18 Jun 2018 19:56 UTC

Law enforcement agencies are now saying that the "world's largest facilitator" of child pornography - Eric Eoin Marques - who the Federal Bureau of Investigation says is the owner of Freedom Hosting - is being extradited into the United States of America.

Eric Eoin Marques is both the owner and Administrator of Freedom Hosting, according to the FBI, which is the world's largest anonymous internet hosting website.

The National Security Agency (NSA) is alleged to have taken down the multiple sites connected to Freedom Hosting in a series of hacking attacks which have never been officially confirmed, that targeted multiple pedophile networks across the globe in an effort to shut down the victimization of innocent children.

That website has become a bastion of hosting other websites which either produce, distribute, or share child pornography; with the potential of expanding across the globe reaching billions of people.

Deputy keeps his job after threatening to kill his daughter's boyfriend and his mother

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 18 Jun 2018 19:47 UTC

A sheriff's deputy was caught on video walking into an innocent man's place of work and threatening to murder him and his mother. Not only was he not arrested for making these threats to kill two innocent people but he wasn't even fired.

Surveillance footage from inside a Cricket Wireless store captured Palm Beach Sheriff's Office Deputy Javier Lasso breaking the law by threatening to murder his daughter's boyfriend because he did not approve of their relationship.

On June 7, 2017, while off-duty, Lasso got dressed in his uniform, got into his patrol vehicle and drove up to the Cricket Wireless. According to the internal affairs report and the video, Lasso then entered the building and began making threats to kill people.

"I want to tell you this one more time. Stop seeing my daughter. Copy that? Is that a no?" said Deputy Lasso in the video.

"I don't think it's up to you, bro," the daughter's boyfriend said.

Migration debate roils Europe; meanwhile sea convoy reaches Spain

Renata Brito, Iain Sullivan
AP
Mon, 18 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC

An aid group's ship and two Italian military vessels docked Sunday at the Spanish port of Valencia, ending a weeklong ordeal for hundreds of people who were rescued from the Mediterranean Sea only to become pawns in a European political fight.

The Italian coast guard vessel Dattilo was the first of the boats in the convoy bearing 630 migrants to touch land, pulling in just before 7 a.m. The 274 rescued people on board disembarked after medical staff made a preliminary inspection.

The rescue ship Aquarius came in four hours later carrying another 106 migrants. Aid workers awaiting their arrival clapped and cheered as the first passengers walked down the gangway. An Italian navy ship, the Orione, came in shortly after 1 p.m with the remaining 250.

The Aquarius, operated by the aid groups SOS Mediterranee Sea and Doctors Without Borders, was stuck off the coast of Sicily on June 9 when Italy's new populist government refused it permission to dock and demanded that Malta do so. Malta also refused.

After days of bickering and food and water running low on the ship, Spain stepped in and granted the rescue boat entry with a plan called "Operation Mediterranean Hope." The 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) journey across the Mediterranean from Sicily to Valencia took nearly a week.

Comment: Spain provided an emergency solution this time. As this crisis continues, without resolution or abatement, who will step up next?

In Yemen's port city of Hudaida the 'sound of warplanes' never ceases

Linah Alsaafin
Al-Jazeera News
Mon, 18 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC

As a Saudi and Emirati-led coalition continues launching air raids in the Yemeni port city of Hudaida, nearly 4,500 families have fled their homes in the front line districts amid rising fears of a humanitarian catastrophe.

Five days into the offensive, residents inside Houthi-held Hudaida pondered an uncertain future as thousands of other civilians were forced to abandon their towns and villages on the city's southern outskirts due to the escalating bombardment.

"The sound of the warplanes above never ceases, night and day," Manal Qaed, an independent journalist who works with a community centre for the displaced in Hudaida, told Al Jazeera over the phone on Sunday. "The planes are low in the sky; we hear every explosion on the edges of the city," added the 34-year-old. "Everyone is worried. We just don't know what is going to happen."

Comment: For more on the bombing of Yemen's Hudaida port and escalation of an already severe humanitarian crisis, see also:

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Society's Child

Jordan Peterson is showing us that identity politics is all about one thing: Coercion

Ideological possession: Israeli lawmaker says 'Jewish race is the greatest human capital, the smartest'

Laura Bush criticizes Trump Admin. for child immigrant policy - Sarah Sanders points out law was signed by her husband

Sorry Russophobes And Neocons, The World Cup in Russia is Off to a Flyer

Remember The Russian Artist Who Nailed His Nuts to Red Square? You Won't Believe What Happened to Him Next

Freight train derails and explodes in southern Indiana forcing evacuations

Owner of the largest hosting site for child porn will be extradited to the US for prosecution

Deputy keeps his job after threatening to kill his daughter's boyfriend and his mother

Migration debate roils Europe; meanwhile sea convoy reaches Spain

In Yemen's port city of Hudaida the 'sound of warplanes' never ceases

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