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Capitol officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt should not face charges, investigators say

Jack Hadfield
National File
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:03 UTC
Ashli Babbitt
Investigators looking into the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt by a Capitol Police officer have determined that the officer should not face charges.

Sources familiar with the situation have told the Wall Street Journal that the investigators behind a preliminary look into Ashli Babbitt's killing by the officer during the Capitol Hill protests on January 6th have recommended that the man not face any charges for her death.

Babbitt, a 35 year-old veteran of the US Air Force who had served four tours, was shot and killed by the officer when she entered the Capitol with hundreds of others. Her husband described her as a "strong supporter of President Trump, and a great patriot to all who knew her."
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Two FBI agents fatally shot, three wounded while serving warrant in South Florida

David J. Neal, Michelle Marchante, Jay Weaver and David Ovalle
Tampa Bay Times
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 18:57 UTC
Florida FBI agents killed
© JOE CAVARETTA | South Florida Sun Sentinel
Two FBI agents were shot and killed in a Sunrise neighborhood attempting to serve a warrant on Tuesday.
Two agents were shot and killed and three wounded while serving a warrant at a Sunrise home Tuesday morning, the FBI confirmed Tuesday morning. After barricading himself in the home for several hours, the suspected gunman is believed to have shot and killed himself, one law-enforcement source said.

Sunrise police said the suspect, a man suspected of child pornography possession, had holed up in his home at an apartment complex at 10100 Reflections Blvd. West. Nob Hill Road is closed in both directions from Northwest 44th Street to Oakland Park Boulevard.

"Two wounded agents were transported to hospital and are in stable condition," the FBI said in a statement. The statement did not address the condition of the third agent. The victims appeared to have been taken to the trauma unit at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. Dozen of police officers from area agencies were already gathered outside by 11 a.m.
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Lockdowns cause alcohol related deaths to soar to highest in 20 years in UK - ONS


RT
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 15:28 UTC
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© REUTERS / Henry Nicholls
FILE PHOTO: Drinkers socialize in London.
More people have died in England and Wales from drinking alcohol during the first three quarters of 2020 than at any other time in the past two decades, according to records kept by the UK's Office of National Statistics (ONS).

In a new report released on Tuesday, the ONS found that alcohol was a contributing factor in 5,460 deaths in England and Wales between January and September - a 17-percent increase on booze-related fatalities over the same period of the year before.

In 2019, there were 11 deaths per 100,000. That rate increased to 12.8 in 2020.

Comment: Mental illness, addiction and trauma of all kinds are reaching levels never seen before, and it's bound to only get worse because the government have hinted that there's no end in sight to the lockdowns:

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Shopify pulls conservative company's 'Free Kyle' Rittenhouse shirt


Fox Business
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 18:50 UTC
Shopify conservative
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A conservative small business owner is accusing Shopify of conservative bias after the e-commerce platform blocked a "Free Kyle" shirt in his shop.
A small business owner says he was banned from selling a "Free Kyle" shirt on the e-commerce platform Shopify referring to Kyle Rittenhouse, an Illinois teen accused of killing two people during unrest in Kenosha, Wis.

The company told Seth Weathers, founder and owner of BringAmmo.com, that the product violated its Acceptable Use Policy, Weathers said. Weathers is now accusing Shopify of anti-conservative bias, telling FOX Business that the decision had little explanation and came "out of the blue," since the item had been listed since summer 2020.

"To me, it's a scary precedent and just shows where everything's going with Big Tech," Weathers told FOX Business. "With a company pushing conservative products ... and can be anti-establishment at times ... it's already a bit of a rough road."
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Study touted as blow to conservative complaints about Big Tech censorship was funded by major Biden donor

Chuck Ross
Daily Caller
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 18:37 UTC
twitter censorship
A study from New York University released on Monday that dismisses conservative allegations of Big Tech bias and calls for President Joe Biden to establish a Digital Regulatory Agency was funded by Craig Newmark, a billionaire tech titan who donated $100,000 to Biden's campaign victory fund.

The study, entitled "False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives," also defends decisions by Facebook and Twitter to both ban President Donald Trump from their platforms last month, and to limit circulation of a story from The New York Post weeks before the election about emails from Hunter Biden's laptop.

The report says that Facebook and Twitter made "reasonable decisions" in both instances.
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Swedish capital sees 79% spike in shootings last year


RT
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:44 UTC
Malmo
© TT News Agency/Johan Nilsson via REUTERS
Police forensics examine the crime scene where a 15-year-old was fatally hit and another severely wounded when attackers opened fire on a pizzeria before fleeing the scene on bicycles in Malmo, Sweden November 9, 2019.
Sweden recorded a surge in gun-related violence last year, according to new figures released by the government amid accusations that authorities have turned a blind eye to rising crime in the country.

Interior Minister Mikael Damberg disclosed on Monday that 47 people were killed and 117 injured in 366 shooting incidents in 2020, marking a 10 percent increase in gun violence when compared to statistics from 2019.

Damberg noted that in nearly half of the shootings registered last year, someone was injured or killed. "We will neither accept nor get used to such high levels of violence," he said.

Comment: And perhaps in response to the soaring crime, Sweden appears to be rethinking its disastrous mass migrations policies: Sweden denies entry to migrants from Greece's Moria camp, is a radical policy change on the cards?

See also: And check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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California teacher says Bernie's mittens are symbol of 'white privilege,' in 'stupidest op-ed ever'


RT
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 18:19 UTC
Bernie Sanders
© Reuters / Caroline Brehman
Bernie Sanders attends the Presidential Inauguration of Joe Biden on the West Front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 20, 2021
Progressive godfather Bernie Sanders has been cancelled and is now, according to a San Francisco journalist and teacher, the embodiment of "white privilege," all because he wears meme-able mittens, or something.

Few people would associate Bernie Sanders with "white supremacy." An elderly Jewish progressive whose ill-fated presidential campaign last year promised to build a left-wing "multi-generational, multi-racial coalition," the Vermont senator is about as far from the prototypical skinhead as it's possible to be.

Not so for Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, a high school teacher (that's right, she shapes the youth of America) and San Francisco Chronicle columnist. In an op-ed on Saturday, Seyer-Ochi argued that Sanders "manifests privilege, white privilege, male privilege and class privilege."

By turning up to Joe Biden's inauguration in a puffy jacket and mittens, her argument went, Sanders didn't show the appropriate respect to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Why Biden - who has worked with segregationists in the Senate, voted for the Iraq war, and authored a draconian crime bill that incarcerated masses of African-Americans - was given a pass is of course left unsaid.

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De Croo's home vandalized with swastikas

Helen Lyons
The Brussels Times
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 18:04 UTC
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo
© Belga
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo
Multiple swastikas were found spray-painted onto the home of Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo this morning.

There were seven in total, painted on both the letterbox and the outside of the house in Michelbeke.

There was a protest by the far-right political movement Vlaanderen Ons Land that took place nearby on Saturday, but no connection between the demonstration and the vandalism has been established at this time.

While dozens of local and federal police were on hand in preparation of that rally, only about 15 protestors participated.

Comment: Those darned white supremacist anti-lockdowners. Always making it easier for governments to make a false connection between those who are against lockdowns and racism, bigotry, etc.

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Acronyms are 'symptoms of white supremacy', says San Francisco public schools' art dept, after dropping its abbreviation


RT
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:55 UTC
School buses
© REUTERS/Stephen Lam
School buses are seen in San Francisco, California, U.S. April 7, 2020.
The San Francisco Unified School District Arts Department has decided to abandon its acronym, apparently in a bid to end racism - but many Twitter users have failed to appreciate this historic step forward for equality.

Formerly known as 'VAPA', short for 'Visual and Performing Arts', the department announced that going forward it would be referred to as the SFUSD Arts Department because "acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture," a local ABC affiliate reported.

The name change is a "simple step" that can be taken to ensure families from all backgrounds "better understand who we are," explained the department's director, Sam Bass. He said the move, which comes at a time when San Francisco schools remain shuttered due to Covid-19 restrictions, was part of a policy aimed at "prioritizing antiracist arts instruction in our work."

Elaborating on the new name, which also uses an acronym, Bass stressed that he didn't want to "alienate" those who may not speak English and therefore are unable to understand what 'VAPA' stands for. He did not explain how the same individuals could comprehend the meaning of 'SFUSD Arts Department'.

But the re-brand has apparently already sparked confusion. When San Francisco Mayor London Breed was pressed to comment on the name change by the media, she reportedly was initially unaware of the move and didn't understand the question.

Comment: LGBTQ. QED.

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Attention

Redefining death and the big lie

Eric Peters
EricPetersAuto
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 18:04 UTC
The Big Lie
© EricPetersAuto

The biggest lies go down easiest - because most psychologically normal people have trouble believing anyone could lie on a scale like that. This is why psychopaths get away with lying on an epic scale. It is literally unbelievable.

It is why people working 60 hours a week for $15 an hour believe in TV evangelists who live in multimillion dollar homes and travel in private jets.

And it is why people believe that "400,000" have died Because Corona. They hear the sermons - which like those of the TV evangelist are full of fire and brimstone, death - and promises of salvation. Now send in $100.

Or wear "your" mask.

Accept a life of perpetual diminishment, personal and economic. Subservience eternal - as the price of your salvation.

But maybe hold off on sending in that $100 and consider some simple division.

We're told that - as of the end of 2020 - about 315,00 people died Because Corona. The problem is, almost no one died of anything else.

The CDC said - in late December - that the total number of deaths from all causes in the U.S. over 2020 was about 2.9 million. If you subtract the number of asserted deaths Because Corona, you end up with fewer total deaths than in any years since 2014.
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