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Professor Jordan B. Peterson: A hero for our times?

Patricia Casey
Irish Times
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 12:17 UTC

To those of you familiar with his name, Jordan B. Peterson is an inspirational phenomenon or an alt-right bigot, depending on your perspective. To those who have never heard of him - he is worth getting to know.

Peterson is Canadian and Professor of Psychology at Toronto University. I vaguely heard of him a few months ago when my attention was drawn to a YouTube clip of him being challenged by a number of transgender students for refusing to use their preferred pronouns. You might ask, what's so remarkable about this? Well, for transgender people this is now mandated by the Canadian Government's Bill C-16 and Peterson sees this as an assault on free speech.

Head teacher under fire over Millennial tirade

RT
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:56 UTC

The head teacher of one of England's top boarding schools is under fire after branding his students' generation "mollycoddled, entitled and spoilt."

Douglas Robb, who has been head teacher of the £34,000-a-year Gresham's school in Norfolk for the past three years, blasted millennials for having a "sense of entitlement" as they think a "one-in-a million-job" will land on their doorstep in no time.

Making the comments in a blog post on the school website, he wrote: "They have been advertised to since birth; they have had credit and loans on a plate; they have been overly molly-coddled; and they have been overwhelmed by a strange combination of fictional sitcom characters, reality TV and social media stars, who paint a picture of perfection to be achieved.

Radical liberal indoctrination in schools: It's worse than you think

John Hinderaker
Powerline
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:27 UTC

Edina High School in suburban Minneapolis was long regarded as one of the country's top secondary schools. In recent years, its national ratings and its local reputation have slipped, perhaps in part because teachers are spending time promoting a left-wing agenda and bullying conservative students rather than teaching the subjects they are paid to teach.

Following last November's election, 80 Edina High School teachers-which must represent pretty much the entire faculty-signed an editorial in the school's newspaper that was basically a Democratic Party manifesto. The editorial was authored by Tim Klobuchar (second cousin). It went so far as to oppose calls for unity; unity, it implied, will exist only when all conservatives have been banished from the stage.

Americans express shock at acts of disorganized violence and are oblivious to its organized violence

Frank Scott
legalienate
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 03:23 UTC

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do": Samuel P. Huntington

The latest American slaughter of innocents - at home instead of abroad - has led to the usual outpourings from political leaders expressing prayers and sympathy and then switching to attacks on the evil weapons wielders that completely avoid the social system relying on massive weapons production and their wielding by military forces glorified for making wars.

The bloody horror in Florida that took seventeen lives is known to everyone in the USA but that same population is kept relatively ignorant of the bloody horror being perpetrated everyday in Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Palestine/Israel - to mention only the Middle East - by people using the armaments we sell them, when they're not being used by our own military which we train to use our weapons to kill people; foreigners, until further notice.

Report reveals US weapons for sale on Syrian terrorist website

Sputnik
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:25 UTC

A wide assortment of US-supplied weapons ended up for sale on an online terrorist marketplace in Syria, a CNN investigation revealed on Tuesday.

"Grenade launchers, heavy machine guns, thermal sniper scopes and body armor all appear on the jihadist channels, which also offer tips on encryption and even introduce smugglers to get people in and out of Syria," the CNN report said.

The media outlet also published a string of messages between someone in Syria's Idlib province and a reporter, in which the reporter negotiated a discount to purchase the M-16 rifle for $775 using the encryption app Telegram.

Meet the secretive family who's selling billions in OxyContin and profiting from the opioid crisis (VIDEO)

Investment Watch Blog
Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC

The Sackler Family

Money is Power! Legal Drugs for Profits, Pain, and Stupidity?

President Donald Trump's nominee for drug czar, Republican Congressmember Tom Marino, had to withdraw from consideration after a Washington Post / "60 Minutes" investigation found he led a drug industry-backed effort to pass a law that weakened the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's ability to crack down on addictive opioids. Meanwhile, calls are growing to look at the major pharmaceutical companies that have fueled the opioid crisis.

A new investigation by Esquire magazine reveals how the secretive Sackler family, owners of the company that invented OxyContin, downplayed the risks of addiction and exploited doctors' confusion over the drug's strength. We speak with Christopher Glazek, the Esquire reporter behind the story.

Rabbi faces criminal charges over allegedly having sex with underage prostitute

Sputnik
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:21 UTC

The teenager is said to have been forced to have sex with the rabbi along with 30 other men by two US residents aged 18 and 23.

A rabbi from New Jersey has been accused of having sex with a juvenile prostitute and is currently facing charges of engaging in prostitution with a child and endangering the welfare of a child, as reported by NJ.com.

Aryeh Goodman, 35, who runs a Jewish education center at his home was allegedly one of some 30 men using sex services, provided by the 17-year-old girl.

Thinking things: Interview with Jordan Peterson

Alexander Blum
Psychology Today
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:21 UTC

The rockstar of modern psychology strips the mythology off divisive beliefs.

Jordan Peterson is a Canadian psychologist whose seemingly overnight ascent to cultural rockstar comes after years of deep scholarship in many disciplines. His new book, 12 Rules for Life, is atop bestseller lists, and millions have followed his lectures on YouTube. He has a penchant for seeing the application of micro-scale information to societal problems. Over a breakfast Skype from New York to his hometown of Fairview, Alberta, he spoke on topics ranging from intellectual and economic inequality to sexual mythology.

America's dangerous decent into psychosis

James Howard Kunstler
Russia Insider
Sat, 17 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC

"If I was running the Russian intel services, I'd just pay to send a few Nebraska county commissioners to Disneyland - that would keep our seventeen US intel agencies busy until kingdom come trying to figure out the angle."

Forget about sharks. In their Valentine's Day editorial: Why Does Trump Ignore Top Officials' Warnings on Russia?, The New York Times jumped several blue whales (all the ones left on earth), a cruise ship, a subtropical archipelago, a giant vortex of plastic bottles, and the Sport's Illustrated swimsuit shoot. The lede said:

The phalanx of intelligence chiefs who testified on Capitol Hill delivered a chilling message: Not only did Russia interfere in the 2016 election, it is already meddling in the 2018 election by using a digital strategy to exacerbate the country's political and social divisions.

Hmmm.... After almost two years of relentless public paranoia about Russia and US elections, don't you suppose these Ruskie gremlins would find some other way to make mischief in our world - maybe meddle in the NHL playoffs, or hack WalMart's bookkeeping department, or covertly switch out the real Dwayne Johnson with a robot? I kind of completely and absolutely doubt that they'll bother with our elections.

Muslim teen charged after beating his sister with a baseball bat for refusing to wear a veil

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 22:54 UTC

A 19-year-old man in Sweden has been charged with abuse after he beat his 14-year-old sister with a baseball bat because she refused to wear an Islamic veil.

The young man, who lives in the municipality of Karlskrona, was brought before the Blekinge District Court last week on charges of abuse and assault. He is alleged to have struck his younger sister with a baseball bat several times while yelling at her "wear a veil", 24Blekinge reports.

The 19-year-old is said to have become angry with his sister after she returned from a shopping trip with their mother and he noticed she was not wearing an Islamic veil. When he asked her why she was not wearing a veil, the girl refused to answer. The brother then walked to his room and emerged with a baseball bat which he used to strike the 14-year-old on the head, leg, and arm.

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Society's Child

Professor Jordan B. Peterson: A hero for our times?

Head teacher under fire over Millennial tirade

Radical liberal indoctrination in schools: It's worse than you think

Americans express shock at acts of disorganized violence and are oblivious to its organized violence

Report reveals US weapons for sale on Syrian terrorist website

Meet the secretive family who's selling billions in OxyContin and profiting from the opioid crisis (VIDEO)

Rabbi faces criminal charges over allegedly having sex with underage prostitute

Thinking things: Interview with Jordan Peterson

America's dangerous decent into psychosis

Muslim teen charged after beating his sister with a baseball bat for refusing to wear a veil

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