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An interview quote from Jordan Peterson:
“And we did that to elevate our moral stature in relation to ‘saving the planet.’ And here we are, facing a very dire winter, hoisted on the petard of our very own foolishness and moral presumption,” he added.
Peterson was referring to the concern that humanity was facing an existential threat due to climate change, a threat that he believes to be exaggerated. The unintended consequences of the West’s conflict with Russia are a far more imminent and real threat to humans, he pointed out, as “the World Bank already estimated that we’ve put 350 million people into what they call ‘food insecurity’.”
“But the planet has too many people on it anyway, so, you know… It’s just poor people,” he added.
בת בליעל לקול בכיתו של רבי ישמעאל עמדה, תאר יפיו בלבה חמדה, ושאלה מאת אביה חיתו להעמידה. נאץ בליעל דבר זה לעשותו. להפשיט עורו מעל פניו שאלה מאתו, ולא עכב דבר זה לעשותו, וכשהגיע למקום תפלין צרח בקול מר ליוצר נשמתו.
להפשיט עורו – The flesh be flayed.In a display of cruelty that showed what a contemptible being she was, she asked that Rabbi Yishmael’s flesh be torn from his face while he was still alive. She could then stuff the skin to preserve his handsome features for her to gaze upon.
Reprinted with permission (courtesy of Chananya Weissman).
One excerpt:
Our glittering nation of laws observes this year two birthdays: the 70th anniversary of the National Security Agency, on which my thoughts have been recorded, and the 75th anniversary of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The CIA was founded in the wake of the 1947 National Security Act. The Act foresaw no need for the Courts and Congress to oversee a simple information-aggregation facility, and therefore subordinated it exclusively to the President, through the National Security Council he controls.
Within a year, the young agency had already slipped the leash of its intended role of intelligence collection and analysis to establish a covert operations division. Within a decade, the CIA was directing the coverage of American news organizations, overthrowing democratically elected governments (at times merely to benefit a favored corporation), establishing propaganda outfits to manipulate public sentiment, launching a long-running series of mind-control experiments on unwitting human subjects (purportedly contributing to the creation of the Unabomber), and—gasp—interfering with foreign elections. From there, it was a short hop to wiretapping journalists and compiling files on Americans who opposed its wars.
In 1963, no less than former President Harry Truman confessed that the very agency he personally signed into law had transformed into something altogether different than he intended, writing:
“For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble…”