Multiple people were shot on Wednesday morning at Timberview High School in Arlington, Texas.

Students and staff are currently locked in their classrooms.

The campus is on lockdown.

According to unconfirmed reports, a student shot a teacher in a classroom – the suspect has fled the scene.

Video from inside of one of the classrooms via KTLA reporter:

My daughter just texted me that there was a school school shooting at Timberview H.S. In Mansfield ISD in Arlington, TX. She sent this video that’s out. Her nearby school is on lockdown also, and we hear police sirens rushing in. Police confirm there is an active shooter. Praying pic.twitter.com/m90QzZUfTz

— Nerissa Knight (@nerissaknight) October 6, 2021

The shooting victims were transported to a local hospital and their condition is unknown.

Live updates via NBCDFW:

DEVELOPING

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An unvaccinated Wisconsin high school freshman was targeted with a court order to quarantine at home under guard last week because she refused to stay home from school after exposure to a COVID infected person because the student had natural immunity from a COVID infection earlier this year.

Mikaila Spiess, a 14-year-old Eau Claire high school freshman, fought back against a health department order to stay home by showing up to school for classes. The school responded by placing Spiess in an empty room with the principal.

Mikaila Spiess, image via Dan O’Donnell/Twitter.

The health department then sought and obtained a quarantine order, enforceable by guards, which Spiess obeyed, however the guards were not deployed to her home.

This past weekend Spiess tested negative for COVID and was allowed to return to school.

Spiess’ mother, Kita Busse made her case public on Facebook, and the stunning story was reported by Wisconsin Right Now (excerpt):

An Eau Claire County judge, Sarah Harless, has ordered a 14-year-old Eau Claire teenager – Mikaila Spiess – temporarily quarantined, and the county is seeking her confinement for longer, after the girl refused to stay home from school after being labeled a “close contact” with someone who had COVID-19, court records show. The judge’s order even says “guards may be posted” at the girl’s home to make sure she doesn’t leave.

The school district obtained a “court order by the end of the day with four armed police officers ready to remove her from school,” the girl’s mother, Kita Busse, says. Now the teenager and school district are engaged in a civil court battle over the matter, she confirmed. The girl is quarantined at her home, Busse says.

Court records show that the judge, having reviewed the petition of the Eau Claire City-County Health Officer, ordered Mikaila Spiess temporarily confined “for the purposes of quarantine” pending a hearing held within 72 hours, excluding weekends and legal holidays. The Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Department or City of Eau Claire Police Department were authorized to detain and transport Mikaila Spiess to her home in Eau Claire if necessary.

“Guards may be posted” in compliance with Wisconsin state statutes and Wisconsin administrative code, the order says…(copy of court order at source link.)

Empower Wisconsin reported that even after her negative COVID test on Sunday, the government barred her return to classes Monday while waiting on the court order to be resolved (excerpt):

After being locked out by an overzealous health director, Mikaila Spiess can finally go back to school.

An Eau Claire County judge today dismissed a public health court order requiring the 14-year-old Eau Claire high school freshman to remain in quarantine at home. A hearing slated for Tuesday has been canceled.

On Sunday afternoon, Mikaila tested negative for COVID-19, as she and her mother Kita Busse suspected she would.

But Eau Claire City-County Health Department Director Elizabeth “Lieske” demanded the girl stay home Monday until the judge resolved the case. It was the latest vindictive act from an overreaching unelected health bureaucrat, Busse said.

“Lieske (Giese) told me that she was prepared to remove (Mikaila) today if she shows up to school,” the mother said. The health czar truculently pushed her power trip even as the county attorney assured Busse the case would be dismissed upon the negative test result, Busse said…

My latest at @MacIverWisc: Sometimes the flames of revolt are sparked by the tiniest flickers. Meet Wisconsin’s Joan of Arc–a teenaged girl who stood up to COVID tyranny…and won. https://t.co/m54oKIb6N2 pic.twitter.com/aId8puDh4C

— Dan O’Donnell (@DanODonnellShow) October 6, 2021

Wisconsin radio host Dan O’Donnell wrote about Spiess’ battle, calling her Joan of Eau Claire (excerpt):

Throughout history, the fires of revolution have been burned from the tiniest of sparks. The flicker of rebellion—often from the unlikeliest of sources—engulfs a people and inspires them to burn down the tyranny that has subjugated them.

Long after the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the most draconian of COVID restrictions, a handful of tinpot dictators in local health departments are still doing their best to keep their cities as miserable as possible.

Fortunately, the spark of rebellion is still flickering and in Wisconsin it lies in a teenaged girl whose civil disobedience has exposed the absurdity of her city’s quarantine rules and made her into something of the state’s Joan of Arc.

Call her Joan of Eau Claire.

Last week, Mikaila Spiess, a freshman at Eau Claire Memorial High School, was notified that she came into close contact with a classmate who tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, she would have to be quarantined for 14 days, or seven days if she tests negative.

Mikaila, who goes by the nickname Pixie, immediately recognized that this was unfair. Vaccinated students who show no COVID symptoms don’t need to quarantine at all, and although she is unvaccinated, she had contracted the disease earlier this year and has natural immunity…

Note: There are more details to the story at each source linked above.

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Former Governor and current Missouri Senate candidate, Eric Greitens traveled to the US southern border this week to witness the historic collapse of our country’s international border.

Greitens joined Ben Bengquam from Real America’s Voice to travel the border and talk with border officials who are unable to establish order out of the chaos Joe Biden created on his first day in office.

The US international border is wide open. That is a fact.

Eric Greitens labeled Joe Biden the “greatest human trafficker in the world today.”
And we all know it’s true.

Eric Greitens: It is important for us to recognize that Joe Biden is the largest child trafficker in the world right now. You come down here and you talk with the border patrol. Not only has Joe Biden made it impossible for them to do their job, made it impossible for us to secure the border. What’s also happened is that kids are being sold to families, to people, to present themselves as a family they walk across the border. And then those children are sent back across the border and used again. We’re talking to a border patrol agent who came across one kid who’d been trafficked 17 times across the border. Joe Biden is the largest human trafficker in the world right now.

Via The War Room:

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In April 2020 Democrats, Black Lives Matter, Hollywood, NBA, the tech giants, and Major US Corporations launched their official War on Police across the United States.

The consequences of their actions were devastating, resulting in 1,990 more homicides in urban centers this past year.

The Democrat War on Civil Society resulted in a 33% increase in homicides across the major urban centers across the United States.

We can all blame this on Democrats.

The Major City Chiefs Association’s year-end violent crime survey released in May saw 1,990 more murders in 2020 than in 2019. This is an absolutely horrendous number. It is completely the result of the Democrat Party’s war on civility and civil society.

Now this…
The latest numbers show last year was worse than we thought. The US recorded its highest increase in the nation’s homicide rate in the last 100 years!

CNN reported:

The United States has just recorded its highest increase in rates of homicide in modern history, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Provisional data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, released early Wednesday, suggest the homicide rate for the United States rose 30% between 2019 and 2020. It is the highest increase recorded in modern history — and confirms through public health data a rise in homicides that so far had been identified only through crime statistics.

The previous largest increase in the US homicide rate was a 20% rise recorded from 2000 to 2001 because of the September 11 terror attacks, according to NCHS.

“It is the largest increase in 100 years,” Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at NCHS, said.

“The only larger increase since we’ve been recording these data occurred between 1904 and 1905, and that increase was most likely — at least partly — the result of better reporting,” Anderson told CNN. “We had states being added to what we refer to as the death registration areas, so we were counting deaths in more areas over time. We didn’t have all states reporting until 1933.”

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This article is cross-posted from the Gateway Pundit Fact-Check Bureau: TGPFactCheck.com

• Almost every study says that ‘contingency management’ makes a small positive impact on addicts staying clean for a few extra weeks, NPR exaggerates to say that paying addicts works and should be tried everywhere
• Link NPR provides to the study backing up their wild claims is laughably broken
• Left-wing worldview once again at odds with actual science and what studies actually say, pretty obvious unethical reporter didn’t even bother to read them

OUR RATING: Major Negligence. MSNBC-level basic journalistic negligence

Indicted Outlet: April Dembosky | National Public Radio | Link | Archive | 9/30/21

If you notice anything with NPR, it is that they only things they consider are those that fit their extreme left views, and they very conspicuously avoid thoughts and consequences to the contrary. NPR is constitutionally incapable of considering alternative views, and that is once again clear in their recent article discussing California’s plan to pay drug addicts not to do drugs.

It’s kind of the perfect neoliberal meme, so you know it’s all make-believe: if only the too-little-taxed rich gave more of their evil money to the needy deserving poor, they wouldn’t be using drugs to cope with their existential angst about late-stage capitalism. 

Too bad all the studies involved show that the impact is marginal or minor at best, but you’d never know that from reading April Dembosky’s article.

Major Violations:

• Opinion as Fact
• Unbalanced
• Misrepresentation
• Statistics Abuse
• Missing Context
• Exaggeration

Here’s what Reporter Dembosky writes in NPR:

As overdoses and public health costs related to meth and cocaine continue to spiral in California, state officials are desperate for more effective treatment options and are pursuing legislation and appealing to federal regulators to make contingency management more widely available. Washington, Montana, and West Virginia are also exploring similar strategies.

Because studies show contingency management works. The principles of the treatment – positive reinforcement techniques, primarily – are used widely in weight loss, fitness programs, and in families, as parents coax their children into adopting good behaviors, rather than punishing them for poor behaviors.

Research shows contingency management is the most effective treatment for meth or cocaine addiction, especially when combined with other behavioral therapy.

The key phrase here is ‘contingency management’ when it comes to influencing behaviors. Another way of saying it that sounds less academic is to say positive consequences. 

But part of the missing context is that those positive consequences don’t have to be financial in nature, that’s just part of the legislative lobbying that is also a part of this piece. 

Lobbyist/Reporter Dembosky makes her motives pretty plain on the legislative front:

…state officials are desperate for more effective treatment options and are pursuing legislation and appealing to federal regulators to make contingency management more widely available. Washington, Montana, and West Virginia are also exploring similar strategies.

No doubt she’s been contacted and fed this story by someone looking to push and advance these stories. Probably a public relations flak for one of the treatment center chains that contracts with the government and stands to make out handsomely with new contracts.

The link to the supposed study that proves Dembosky’s point? Wait wait, don’t tell me: yea, that link’s as broken as her ethics. [1]

It’s the most central claim in her article and the link doesn’t work. I wish I was making this up.

Research shows contingency management is the most effective treatment for meth or cocaine addiction

Click it for yourself and see!

THE MOST EFFECTIVE TREATMENT is a link that IS COMPLETELY BROKEN. 

*This* is NPR.

I dug into the studies and literature myself and tried to find answers on the efficacy of ‘contingency management’ on meth addiction. 

Here’s again the standard that NPR set on the topic:

…studies show contingency management works.

Now, this method might positively impact weight loss, or smoking, or addiction, but it seems a bit too strong to just say it ‘works’ because that implies that other methods do not work and it also suggests that these methods work completely. 

When you say or write that something works, you usually don’t mean that it works a little bit. Or that it works to improve things a tad. Or that it makes a small impact on the margins. To write that a particular thing works is to say that it solves the problem at hand. It ‘works’ by being the solution to the problem.

The literature suggests that NPR Reporter Dembosky either does not understand the science and studies, or she was radically dishonest in her description of it. 

*This* is NPR.

Here are some of the relevant studies as they relate to meth addiction: 

The American Journal of Psychiatry in 2006 tested 113 people who were diagnosed with meth, and those who received a small benefit stayed in treatment and stayed off drugs for 5 weeks instead of the 3 weeks that was normal. [2]

A 2007 literature review said that contingency management was a ‘good candidate for inclusion’ and still noted that other non-financial similar practices were deployed to be positive feedback for not using drugs, and that there had not been relevant long-term studies. [3]

This 2019 study in Malaysia interviewed 7 meth addicts and asked them for about 45 minutes each whether they liked receiving free stuff when they didn’t do meth. They all said they liked the free stuff. [4]  

A 2020 literature review surveyed 27 studies. 20 of the 21 that reported their findings in a useful way found that there was a positive impact of ‘contingency management’ on outcomes. The extent of that benefit was not provided. [5] 

So the extent of the benefit of contingency management on meth addiction? Instead of addicts lasting just three weeks without relapsing, they might last two extra weeks. Meth is a horrible drug and that’s great and all, but that’s not nearly the same as what NPR wrote when they exaggerated saying that it works and exists as a standalone treatment to solve addiction. 

NPR wrote the left-wing fantasy of poor vulnerable drug addicts being helped by the big sweet neoliberal unicorn tooth fairies providing benevolent tax dollars to alleviate the stresses of capitalism, as backed up by the science which has spoken and is now closed to debate from anyone especially evil-bad conservatives! 

But once again, the mainstream media lied to us. It’s almost as though they don’t know how to do anything else, they’re compulsively dishonest, deceitful, and unethical. NPR and April Dembosky are addicted to lying in order to advance a political agenda.

OUR RATING: Major Negligence. MSNBC-level basic journalistic negligence

Bibliography:

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4 ] http://www.ijepc.com/PDF/IJEPC-2019-31-06-02.pdf
5 ] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33007699/

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A woman from King County, Washington, who was in her late 30’s, has died from a rare blood-clotting syndrome after receiving Johnson & Johnson vaccine on September 7, according to a statement by Public Health – Seattle & King County.

The woman, whose identity was not disclosed, received her vaccination on August 26, 2021. After 11 days of getting the vaccine, she died on September 7 with thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS).

The CDC verified that the woman indeed died from the vaccine and confirmed the diagnosis.

The Washington State Department of Health released a statement regarding the recent death of the woman:

“Sadly, this is the first such death in Washington State. We send our deepest condolences to her family and loved ones. Losing a loved one at any time is a tragic and difficult and pain that’s become all too familiar in the last year and a half of this pandemic.” says Umair A. Shah, MD, MPH, Secretary of Health.

A 20-year-old woman in Slovenia suffered the same fate and died two weeks after taking the J&J shot.

More from Aljazeera:

Slovenia has suspended vaccinations with the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus jab while it probes the death of a 20-year-old woman, as thousands gathered to protest against vaccination in the small European Union nation.

The suspension will be in place until experts examine whether there is a link between the woman’s death from a stroke and the vaccine she received two weeks earlier, Health Minister Janez Poklukar said on Wednesday.

Despite the risk of the vaccine, one-shot Johnson & Johnson had submitted an application to the F.D.A for emergency use authorization of a booster shot in people aged 18 and older and is planning to submit data to WHO and to other health agencies.

J&J said that the booster shot will increase effectiveness to 94%, given about two months after the first shot. If approve, J&J is no longer a one-shot vaccine.

The Biden administration previously called on states to ‘pause’ the J&J vaccine after reports of blood clots in women aged 18-48–including one fatality–out of about seven million administered vaccines.

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Afghan gun dealers are buying and selling American weapons that were seized from American-trained Afghan soldiers by the Taliban, according to a new report.

Three weapons dealers spoke to the New York Times about the market.

The Times reports, “in interviews, three weapons dealers in Kandahar said that dozens of Afghans have set up weapons shops in Afghanistan’s south, selling American-made pistols, rifles, grenades, binoculars and night-vision goggles. The equipment was originally provided to the Afghan security forces under a U.S. training and assistance program that cost American taxpayers more than $83 billion through two decades of war.”

“During the insurgency, the Taliban eagerly sought out American-supplied weapons and gear. But now much of that weaponry is being sold to Afghan entrepreneurs because Taliban demand has eased with the end of combat, the gun merchants said.” They say that many gun dealers have smuggled the weapons to Pakistan, where demand for American-made weapons is strong,” the report details.

While the Pentagon said that all advanced weaponry was disabled prior to the withdrawal, thousands of smaller weapons were left behind.

“Since 2005, the U.S. military has provided the Afghan national defense and security forces with many thousands of small arms, ranging from pistols to medium machine guns,” Maj. Rob Lodewick, a Defense Department spokesman, said in a statement to The Times.

Some of the weapons are reportedly even being sold in Pakistan.

The Taliban’s official spokesperson has denied selling the weapons, however.

In an interview with The New York Times, a Taliban spokesman, Bilal Karimi, said that weapons were not for sale. “I totally deny this; our fighters cannot be that careless,” he said. “Even a single person cannot sell a bullet in the market or smuggle it.”

Karimi added that captured weapons “are all listed, verified and are all saved and secure under the Islamic Emirate for the future army.”

Other members of the Taliban have admitted that the weapons made their way to the market.

As reported earlier the Biden administration left billions in US weapons in Afghanistan that went to the Taliban after the US withdrew from the country.

It’s Worse Than We Thought: Complete List of Armaments US Is Leaving to Taliban and Islamist Groups — Enough to Fortify Them for Years – Secret Warehouse of US Equipment Captured?

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