[Jpost] A gunman opened fire on Monday night at Michigan State University's main campus, killing three people and injuring five, some severely, before he was found dead hours later, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot, police said.
The 43-year-old gunman had no known affiliation to the university, and his motive remained a mystery, police said at an early morning news briefing more than five hours after the violence began on the East Lansing campus, about 90 miles northwest of Detroit.
Details about the sequence of events remained sketchy, but Chris Rozman, interim deputy chief of the university police, said shots were fired in two locations - an academic building called Berkey Hall and the Michigan State University (MSU) Union building.
Police responding to the shooting, which began shortly after 8 p.m. (0100 GMT), found victims at both locations, Rozman told reporters at a televised briefing about three hours later.
Rozman said investigators had no information about the motive. He also said the university was not aware of any threats made to the campus before Monday's bloodshed.
Rozman said three victims were killed and five were taken to hospital, some of them with life-threatening injuries. Two of the dead were at Berkey Hall and the other at the MSU Union.
Officials declined to provide any details about the victims, some of whose identities and relationships to the university were still being determined, Rozman said.
The name and other information about the suspect were not immediately released, and police said they remained baffled by what precipitated the shooting.
"We have no idea why he came to campus to do this tonight," Rozman told reporters.
The gunman was confirmed dead, from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot roughly four hours after the bloodshed had started, Rozman said.
"There is no longer a threat to campus. We believe there to be only one suspect in this incident," he said.
Rozman said the suspect "was contacted by law enforcement off campus" at some point, adding, "that scene is being investigated as a crime scene."
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From Skidmark’s Daily Mail link — the gentleman is probably a moderately functioning schizophrenic:
The gunman who killed three students and then himself at Michigan State University last night was arrested in 2019 for keeping a loaded gun in his car.
Anthony McRae, 43, opened fire on MSU campus at 8.18pm last night, shooting dead two kids at Berkey Hall before moving on to Union Hall, where he killed a third student.
His motive for the rampage remains unclear - he has no known ties to the school. Public records show McRae lived in Lansing with his father. His mother died last year.
It's unclear what he did for work, if anything. On social media, he ranted about God, frequently posting disturbing exorcist photos, selfies with crucifixes and bible verses. He also posted about schizophrenia and Satan.
Police have also said McRae was found with a note in his pocket indicating a threat to two public schools in Ewing, New Jersey, which were closed for the day 'out of an abundance of caution'.
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"CNN Anchor Left Out Key Detail for MSU Shooting Suspect While He Was at Large" - Ongoing MSM pattern of selective editing to avoid asking the inconvenient questions about the trendline of black-on-white crime!
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Anthony McRae, the Michigan State shooter, was charged in June 2019 with illegally carrying a concealed handgun without a permit, but later had those charges dismissed by George Soros-backed prosecutor Carol Siemon.https://t.co/z6JS22mof5
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Siemon made it her office’s official policy in August 2021 to drop mandatory prison sentences for felony firearms charges. She said the sentencing enhancement led to “dramatic racial inequity” and was “not in any way linked to the goal that we share of keeping the public safe.”
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Had he been a what supremaciss wit a gun, he'd be on death row...
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This Day in History That Matters
"Happy Birthday to you, Freddy D.!
Can I buy ya a Newark Ice-T?"
"Nah, I reckon I'll pass
On his cranky old ass.
Say, I thought we're supposed to be free?"
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Huh. My files say 14 Feb for Mr. Marrow, Wikipedia 16 Feb. Poetic privilege?
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[Epoch Times, January 31] The climate and social justice movement is seeking to rebrand itself from a progressive ideology to a prudent tool for risk management. This not only allows it to frame its bleak vision of the future as a safety measure; it also allows its corporate and Wall Street adherents to claim that they’re not pursuing a political agenda at shareholders’ expense but rather managing risk on their behalf.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) laid out the latest chapter of its crisis-management plan in its 2023 Global Risks Report. The report sketched out short-term risks under the heading "Today’s Crisis," and long-term threats described as "Tomorrow’s Catastrophe."
Both descriptors being, of course, entirely balanced and not at all biased. Q.E.D.
Topping the short-term list are the "energy supply crisis," the "cost of living crisis," and the "food supply crisis"; in the longer term, however, climate change is the apex threat.
Underscoring this narrative, former Vice President Al Gore told attendees that the accumulated amount of CO2 emissions in our atmosphere "is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released from 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth. That’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers and the rain bombs and sucking the moisture out of the land." You got some 'science' to back that up, Al?
Al don’t do science or math, though he has f’ing loved it since his Harvard days.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres echoed these remarks, declaring that the production of fossil fuels was "inconsistent with human survival."
WEF Founder Klaus Schwab spoke in more pedestrian terms but nonetheless declared that this is a moment of "unprecedented multiple crises." The WEF has designated 2023 as the "Year of the Polycrisis."
The Global Risks Report states that shortages of energy and food, and the consequent "cost of living crisis," are primarily the result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. The solution, says the WEF, is accelerating the transition from fossil fuels to wind and solar and reaching "net zero" emissions on schedule, which will help resolve shortages, bring down inflation, and stabilize the climate. But some are skeptical. No matter the crisis, just give your betters your money and the steering wheel and accelerator, then sit down and shut up.
[Epoch Times] A recall was issued for more than 56,000 COVID-19 rapid tests last week because they were not distributed with the proper clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), according to an announcement posted on its website.
Some 56,000 Skippack Medical Lab SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Test Kits are being recalled by its maker, Universal Meditech Inc., because the "products were distributed without appropriate premarket clearance or approval which potentially could result in inaccurate test results due to lack of performance evaluation by the FDA," according to an FDA notice, dated Feb. 10.
People who have the Skippack Medical Lab SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Tests should stop using the device and contact the distributor for a return, according to the notice. The recalled products were made between October 2021 and December 2021 and were distributed in January 2022. The horse departed a year ago, but the FDA is now closing the barn door.
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Many already suspect the test kits of PRODUCING HIGH false positives. So the FDA just splash gas on the thought.
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I liked the report about how school kids learned to fake a positive so they could stay home. Pretty sure that happened with adults and work as well. Isn't tough at all.
My family was all sick with the same bug for like a week and a half, living noses to elbows. One tested 'positive' with a home kit. That makes no sense either way.
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Had friends stay with me the night before they left on a cruise. They sent phone pix of their negative tests to get cleared to embark 12 hours later.
Science!
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The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center will cease its data collection and reporting efforts on March 10, 2023. Following consistent declines in public reporting of pandemic data from U.S. states and the expansion of the federal government’s data capacities, the CRC’s world-leading, comprehensive pandemic data will be archived to ensure it remains accessible to the global research and response community, while Johns Hopkins experts will continue to provide the public with analysis and guidance regarding the ongoing pandemic. Does this mean it's over?
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Does it mean it's over?
Well, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., said it was on national television several weeks ago.
Then again, perhaps we now have a pandemic of the vaccinated.
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"I wore this stupid mask all year two years, got all the shots, and all I got was this stupid mask, myocarditis, a pink slip and an eviction notice."
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"But it sure was nice working from home, until my company realized people in Punjab can work from home, too, and...."
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As a parent, it is a call I dread. Not as much as the other type but it's still a dread. Got a call when my son had a seizure and I was 10 minutes from home with dinner. Never wanted to kill everyone in sight and in my way so much in my life as I waited in traffic to get home. Obviously, I didn't and wouldn't do that but your kid being hurt or having a medical incident is NOT pleasant.
If you don't have kids, I don't think you can truly understand how....horrible having that switch in your brain thrown can be. Yes I'd be relieved that a wrist injury was the worst, but no injury bigger than minor cuts or scrapes is a pleasant experience for a parent. I can deal with being hurt, I know what it's like, how to deal with it. When it's your kid, in serious not-boo-boo pain, that helpless feeling is one of the most horrible I've ever felt.
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The derailment was on Norfolk Southern’s rails, not BNSF; Buffet owns BNSF. Still a bad deal. Interesting detail: the trackside defect detector alerted crew to axle issue, but I have ‘t seen anything that describes elapsed time between that and the actual derailment.
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A number of years ago, a Union Pacific crew observes a bearing had burned off, so they stopped the coal train and called the dispatcher. Dispatcher says, "Stay where you are." Crew says, "But the melted axle is dripping burning hot metal on the long wooden trestle."
"Rules are rules", sez the Dispatcher, so the bridge burned to the ground and a dozen 100-ton coal cars fell into the gap, adding their cargo to the blaze.
No fluffy bunnies were known to be harmed by the incident.
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[IsraelTimes] Rescue teams turn focus to humanitarian disaster, as international pariah Assad allows more aid to rebel-held areas and estimated 5 million Syrians left homeless
Rescue teams began winding down the search for survivors on Monday as the focus switched to tackling a dire humanitarian disaster caused by the earthquake that has left more than 35,000 dead in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and Syria.
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F-35 fighter jets were sent up to investigate after the object was first detected on Thursday, according to a US official. Kirby told reporters that the first fly-by of US fighter aircraft happened Thursday night, and the second happened Friday morning. Both brought back "limited" information about the object. But the pilots later gave differing reports of what they observed, the source briefed on the intelligence said.
Some pilots said the object "interfered with their sensors" on the planes, but not all pilots reported experiencing that.
Some pilots also claimed to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, and could not explain how it was staying in the air, despite the object cruising at an altitude of 40,000 feet.
The conflicting eyewitness accounts are partly why the Pentagon has been unable to fully explain what the object is, the source briefed on the matter said.
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So when I first read this I chuckled. But lets back up. The balloons did not flow with the jet stream or prevailing winds. So how did it move or navigate the winds were not?
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My thoughts they are using R/C plane tech most likely ducted fans. I have seen model e jets break 200mph. Most of these motors are made in China, in fact one dealer ran an ad stated that his Lipo batteries were made by the same manufacturer that built batteries for torpedos used by the People's Liberation Army"s Navy.
Batteries and big enough solar array could power a balloons thrusters for a long time. Also by going slow you mihjt trick radar into thinking it's not an aircraft or missile so it must not be important so don't track it.
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Reports indicate the first Sidewinder fired at the Lake Huron object missed. That’s curious. Was that pilot aiming error, missile technical failure, countermeasures or?
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So the photos of it are out. This looks more like a dirigible than balloon. Explains the propulsion question.
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So can Ion wind power a blimp or dirigible?
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A balloon, blimp or dirigible is absurdly at the mercy of wind. We are not talking about the Goodyear Blimp at a football game. At high altitude, the large gas bag is a sail. The air that rudders and fans of any type would interact with is thin.
It's worth a try if your satellites aren't gettin' it. We don't use them because we don't have to.
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Wouldn't it be about right if this was a dotgov MIT style observation platform, and they just gave it away?
The #Philippine Coast Guard on Monday accused a #Chinese coast guard vessel of shining a “military-grade laser light” at one of its boats in the disputed South China Sea pic.twitter.com/uCqUeU1qqr
January all items +0.5
January all items less food and fuel +0.4
Year to Year
All Items +6.4
All Items less food and fuel +5.6
pretty much guarantees another 25 point basis hike in the Fed Fund rate on March 21 or 22.
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Details are still a bit sparse, but this appears to be pretty much across the board. That is, you can't just point to one particular commodity or item and say that it is causing the spike.
Which means, still too much money chasing too few goods. The Fed's reckless injection of $3 trillion into the economy in 2020 is still harming us.
And I'd bet on a half percent increase on March 21.
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How much has the Ukraine war contributed to our inflation? In addition crappy Biden economic policies are hitting Americans hard.
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How much has the Ukraine war contributed to our inflation?
My guess is it is the other way around. It was our inflation (high oil prices) that emboldened the Russians to invade. Can't use the oil and gas weapon when prices are in the basement. Be sure to thank Joebama III at the polls.
[ALESTIKLAL.NET] The devastating earthquake of February 6, 2023, not only destroyed 10 Ottoman Turkish cities and some others in northern Syria but also destroyed the entire Middle East, according to Arab and foreign scientists and geologists.
Monday’s magnitude 7.8 quake cut a swath of destruction that stretched hundreds of kilometers across southeastern Turkiye and neighboring Syria.
[US02Web] With 15 cargo planes carrying tons of medical equipment and over 230 medical personnel including doctors, nurses and paramedics, Israel's Defense Forces have set up a field hospital in Kahramanmaras, also known as Marash, Turkiye.
Within a few days of disaster striking around the world, Israel is known to deploy field hospitals to facilitate much needed medical support of the recovery efforts. Within three days of the earthquake in Turkiye, Israeli doctors were treating patients in the most recent deployment.
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[FoxNews] In what was considered to be one of the largest protests in Israel's history more than 80,000 people demonstrated against judicial reforms put forward by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Jerusalem on Monday. Other protests where also held across the country.
The demonstrators, marched and gathered outside the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, held flags and chanted "democracy" and "no to dictatorship" as Netanyahu's government formally launched a controversial plan to overhaul the country's judicial system.
According to the suggested plan, which was introduced mid-January, the ruling coalition will have control over the appointment of judges, including high court justices, and allow the Knesset to re-legislate laws the court annuls with a majority of a simple majority of 61 of the 120 Knesset members.
The government will also be able to appoint the president and vice president of the supreme court neither of whom needed to have previously served on the court and potentially not even served as a lower court judge. Justice Minister Yariv Levin has argued that the hight court has surpassed its authority in the last two decades and severely interfered with the ability of elected coalitions and ministers to enact government policies.
Netanyahu released a short video following Monday's mass demonstration where he called on the leaders of opposition to "Stop it. Stop deliberately deteriorating the country into anarchy. Take care of yourselves, and show responsibility and leadership. Most Israeli citizens do not want anarchy. They want a substantive discussion, and in the end, they want unity," he said.
Despite Herzog's plea the Knesset's constitution, law, and justice Committee, headed by MK Simcha Rothman, approved the second bill that would prevent the Supreme Court from overruling legislation amending one of Israel's semi-constitutional basic laws – effectively restricting the court's power of judicial review on core issues.
The vote now sends the legislation to the entire parliament for a series of votes. The step caused chaos in the committee, as opposition members who objected to the move shouted at Rothman 'shame' and were removed from the meeting.
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Frankly I'd love to see a law (or probably need a Constitutional amendment here) that our elected representatives--who, you know, actually have to face the people every so often--could nullify or override any court decision.
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This is exactly what we're going to do in India this year or the next. There has been a lot of globalist interfere through judicial activism and compromised judges, in domestic policies. Very sound decision. Fuck checks and balances and to hell with seperation of powers.
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It's almost like there is a global playbook and stylebook in gaslighting local creation of Occupy/Antifa/BLM type liberal brown shirt political action committee groups.
Access to social media platforms has been restricted in #Ethiopia, the Internet watchdog NetBlocks says, after violent protests sparked by a rift within the country’s Orthodox #Church. pic.twitter.com/Arh5fa14JJ
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Underscoring this narrative, former Vice President Al Gore told attendees that the accumulated amount of CO2 emissions in our atmosphere "is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released from 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth. That’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers and the rain bombs and sucking the moisture out of the land."
The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center will cease its data collection and reporting efforts on March 10, 2023. Following consistent declines in public reporting of pandemic data from U.S. states and the expansion of the federal government’s data capacities, the CRC’s world-leading, comprehensive pandemic data will be archived to ensure it remains accessible to the global research and response community, while Johns Hopkins experts will continue to provide the public with analysis and guidance regarding the ongoing pandemic. 
[GatewayPundit] The fighter jet employed an AIM-9X to take down the object.
