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2 officers killed during shooting at Bridgewater College campus in Virginia, suspect in custody

Nadine El-Bawab and Meredith Deliso
ABC News
Wed, 02 Feb 2022 03:55 UTC
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© Daniel Lin / Daily News-RecordDaniel Lin / Daily News-RecordA suspect is taken into custody by law enforcement following an active shooter alert at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Va., Feb. 1, 2022.
A campus police officer and a campus safety officer were killed during a shooting at a Virginia college Tuesday afternoon after responding to reports of a "suspicious" person on campus, officials said.

Multiple agencies responded to Bridgewater College in Bridgewater following a report of an active shooter around 1:20 p.m. local time, school officials said.

The two officers were responding to a call of a "suspicious male individual" on the grounds of the college's Memorial Hall, according to Virginia State Police spokesperson Corinne Geller. After a brief interaction, the suspect opened fire, striking both officers, she said.

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Elections Canada: 205,000 mail-in ballots were not counted


Toronto Sun
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 10:15 UTC
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© Patrick Doyle /REUTERSA special ballot officer holds a box of ballots from national, international, Canadian Forces and incarcerated electors that were received by mail during the federal election in Ottawa, Monday, Sept. 20, 2021.
Elections Canada says more than 200,000 mail-in ballots sent to voters in the last federal election were not counted, according to Blacklock's Reporter.

Those ballot kits which were late, cancelled, or marked as lost in the mail, totalled 205,000 and were greater than the margin of victory between Liberal and Conservative candidates nationwide — 190,790 votes.

"We are deeply sorry for any elector who was unable to vote on election day," said Susan Torosian, executive policy director for Elections Canada.

Comment: It's funny how much Canada tends to parallel what their big brother to the south is involved in; even their scandals. It's little wonder so many consider Canada to be the 51st state.

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New York state university professor under review for 'reprehensible' video defending pedophilia

Emma Colton
Fox News
Wed, 02 Feb 2022 14:57 UTC
Stephen Kershnar
© State University of New York at FredoniaStephen Kershnar is a distinguished teaching professor in the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Fredonia and an attorney. He focuses on applied ethics and political philosophy. Kershnar has written one hundred articles and book chapters on such diverse topics as abortion, adult-child sex, hell, most valuable player, pornography, punishment, sexual fantasies, slavery, and torture.
The professor says it's 'not obvious to me' that pedophilia is wrong.

A State University of New York at Fredonia professor is under review after video clips surfaced of him on social media defending pedophilia.

"Imagine that an adult male wants to have sex with a 12-year-old girl. Imagine that she's a willing participant. A very standard, very widely held view is there's something deeply wrong about this. And it's wrong independent of it being criminalized," Fredonia philosophy professor Stephen Kershnar says in a clip posted to Twitter Tuesday.

"It's not obvious to me that is in fact wrong. I think this is a mistake. And I think that exploring why it's a mistake will tell us not only things about adult-child sex and statutory rape, but also about fundamental principles of morality," he said.

Comment: The sheer number of academics, politicians and celebrities being outed as pedophiles (or as supporting pedophilia) is truly repulsive. One wonders if the deep underbelly of humanity is being exposed against the wishes of the control system, or if this is an attempt at shifting the Overton window in an attempt at broad scale acceptance.

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The Joe Rogan controversy isn't about truth - it's about control

Kat Rosenfield
The New Statesman
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:01 UTC
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The podcaster's most virulent haters not only don't listen to his show, but are militant in their determination not to let it pollute their circles.

It's been a week since Neil Young issued an ultimatum to Spotify: either Joe Rogan goes, or I do.

The ensuing battle over content and censorship on the audio streaming platform covered all the usual (and some unusual) territory, the outrage cycling from social media to print to television news and back again. Young pulled his music from the platform and was closely followed by Joni Mitchell; James Blunt hopped on the bandwagon with a joking threat to punish the world with more music if Spotify didn't jettison Rogan; Barry Manilow issued a perplexed statement debunking an unspecified rumour that he might be leaving the platform too. Now, as the dust settles, Rogan remains — but in the wake of the controversy Spotify is making changes. From now on, they promise, any podcast episode that discusses Covid-19 will be tagged with a content warning to "combat misinformation".

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Surprise! Tucker Carlson draws the most Democratic viewers in key demo, even topping Rachel Maddow

Lindsey Ellefson
The Wrap
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 14:38 UTC
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© Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson
There is an entire cottage industry within media dedicated to disseminating Tucker Carlson's nightly Fox News musings to presumably liberal audiences who may not be tuning in to hear what the leading conservative voice is telling his large following. But recent data from Nielsen MRI Fusion suggests those nightly dispatches may not be necessary: In October, the most recent month for which data is available, Carlson's 9 p.m. ET program was the top cable news show among Democrats in the advertiser-coveted age range of 25-54.

The Nielsen MRI Fusion numbers reveal that in October, Fox News unsurprisingly got the majority of the audience of self-proclaimed Republicans, with 69% of them overall tuning into total-day programming and 73% of them in the demo tuning into primetime programming. CNN and MSNBC split the remaining conservatives with totals in the low double-digit percentages. Fox News also commanded the largest number of independents in the key news demo during primetime and total-day hours: 55% of those 25-54 watched the network in primetime, compared to CNN's 23% and MSNBC's 22%. During total-day hours, 58% of independents in the demo watch Fox News, 18% chose MSNBC and 25% selected CNN.

Comment: This is good news. These numbers suggest that self-proclaimed democrats seem to be venturing out of their bubble, something which they rarely do. Carlson is quite adept at not sticking to partisan talking points (for the most part) but will call it like he sees it, which seems to be what viewers are increasingly attracted to (which is likely the reason that other voices are making inroads into the public consciousness as well, like Joe Rogan). Any signs of Americans becoming less partisan are most welcome.

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NSA watchdog finds 'concerns' with searches of Americans' communications

Katie Bo Lillis
CNN
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 03:48 UTC
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The National Security Agency failed to follow both court-approved and internal procedures designed to prevent officials from using a controversial foreign surveillance law to inappropriately monitor Americans' communications, the NSA inspector general found in a semi-annual report released on Monday.

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows the US government to collect communications, such as emails and phone records, of foreigners on foreign soil without warrants. But while it broadly prohibits the intelligence community and law enforcement from targeting US persons, there is a loophole that allows the NSA and the CIA to query 702-gathered information for Americans' records if "a query is reasonably likely to return foreign intelligence information."

Still, those searches are governed by a set of internal rules and procedures designed to protect Americans' privacy and civil liberties.

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Lockdowns virtually useless in curbing Covid-19 deaths, study claims


RT
Wed, 02 Feb 2022 07:58 UTC
A closed shop during a lockdown in Auckland, New Zealand.
© Adam Bradley / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty ImagesA closed shop during a lockdown in Auckland, New Zealand.
A meta-analysis suggested mandating social distancing was ineffective during the first wave of the pandemic

Compulsory social distancing measures, touted to the public as necessary to fight back the spread of Covid-19, did not have any significant effect on mortality rates during the first wave of the disease, a new study said. Policymakers could have just trusted people to act rationally and responsibly and take precautions without any mandates.

The striking conclusion was made after a meta-analysis study of 24 scientific papers, which was described by a team of researchers led by Professor Steve H. Hanke, who co-directs the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.

They wanted to see if there was empirical evidence that lockdowns - compulsory government policies on things like freedom of domestic and international movement, business operations or public gatherings - prevented deaths from Covid-19. The answer was no, according to the paper.

Comment: People who were saying that lockdowns are not protecting anyone and anything when it all began 2 years ago when this masquerade started, were incorrectly labeled as conspiracy theorists.

At present it is apparent that the purpose of the lockdowns was never to protect anyone from the virus. The PTB intent was to establish what they call "the new normal" , the authoritarianism as a new way of oppressive rule on the whole planet disguised as public health care.

Despite all the scientific facts and evidence many people still can't face the harsh reality that we are living in.

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Native American tribes reach $590M opioid settlement

Geoff Mulvihill, Felecia Fonseca
ABC News
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 11:00 UTC
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© WireAP5MG Oxycodone
Native American tribes have reached settlements over the toll of opioids totaling $590 million with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and the country's three largest drug distribution companies, according to a court filing made public Tuesday.

The filing in U.S. District Court in Cleveland lays out the broad terms of the settlements with Johnson & Johnson and distribution companies AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson. Some details are still being hashed out.

All federally recognized tribes in the U.S. will be able to participate in the settlements, even if they did not sue over opioids. And there could be settlements between other firms in the industry and tribes, many of which have been hit hard by the overdose crisis.

W. Ron Allen, chairman of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in Washington state, called it a big deal for tribes to reach their own settlement, in contrast with tobacco industry deals in the 1990s that left out Native American groups. Allen doesn't expect his tribe of about 550 people to get much from the settlement, but it will help in its efforts to build a healing center that will address opioid addiction, he said.

"Every penny counts, so we'll take it and run with it," he said.
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Putting skin & sex before qualifications is destroying US - Tulsi Gabbard

Samuel Chamberlain
NY Post
Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:49 UTC
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Former Democratic congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard lamented President Biden's vow to select the first black woman to the Supreme Court, tweeting Monday that "[i]dentity politics is destroying our country."

"Biden chose [Kamala] Harris as his VP because of the color of her skin and sex — not qualification. She's been a disaster," wrote Gabbard, who is part-Samoan. "Now he promises to choose Supreme Court nominee on the same criteria."

Gabbard, who represented Hawaii for eight years in the House of Representatives, endorsed Biden for president after she dropped out of the race in March 2020.

Biden confirmed last week that he would pick a black woman to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, saying it was "long overdue."
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Poll reveals American views on peace deal with Russia


RT
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 20:45 UTC
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© AP / Alex Brandon
A new poll has revealed that American voters overwhelmingly support the idea of striking a diplomatic deal with Russia "to avoid war over Ukraine," with some 58% of respondents in favor. About 29% are opposed, favoring the path of putting more pressure on Moscow instead.

This is according to a survey by Data for Progress, a left-leaning progressive think tank. The research was conducted from January 21-24, on a sample of 1,214 "likely voters."

The idea of taking the diplomatic approach to the crisis was overwhelmingly favored by Democrats, with 71% of them in favor against only 17% opposed. Independents showed less certainty in backing such approach, with 51% positive and 33% negative about diplomacy, while Republicans were more evenly divided with 46% of respondents backing talks and 40% against.
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