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Cancel Culture and The Problem with Gen Z with Rikki Schlott Feb 09, 2024

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Rikki Schlott is a journalist and political commentator. She is a research fellow at FIRE, host of the Lost Debate podcast, a columnist at the New York Post, and a regular contributor to numerous publications and television programs. She is co-author of The Canceling of the American Mind.

Predicting the Future: Noam and Numerologist Carmen Harra Feb 02, 2024

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Dr. Carmen Harra is a world-renowned intuitive psychologist, best-selling author, radio show host, and relationship expert. Her new book, Plus One: the Numerology of Relationships is available now.

Donald G. McNeil - Surviving COVID, Pandemics, and Working at the New York Times. Jan 31, 2024

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Donald G. McNeil, author of the new book, "The Wisdom of Plagues," discusses where we went wrong on COVID policies, as well as his outrageous termination at the NY Times.

Here is folder with PDFs of all the docs: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wfTdozvW-vpuot2XXkwnQT9GG717txf3?usp=sharing

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/02/17/nih-disease-official-anthony-fauci-risk-of-coronavirus-in-u-s-is-minuscule-skip-mask-and-wash-hands/4787209002/

https://web.archive.org/web/20220112073517/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/types-of-masks.html

https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/2021-01-26/some-european-countries-move-to-require-medical-grade-masks-in-public

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-11688-7

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/health/cloth-masks-covid-cdc.html

https://reason.com/volokh/2023/01/10/no-lockdown-sweden-seemingly-tied-for-lowest-all-causes-mortality-in-oecd-since-covid-arrived/

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31441-x

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/17/king-sweden-failed-covid-strategy-rare-royal-rebuke-lockdown-hospitals-cases

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52903717

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/24/sweden-wrong-not-to-shut-down-says-former-state-epidemiologist

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-31/sweden-covid-policy-was-a-disaster

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/19/1010646/campaign-stop-covid-19-vaccine-trump-election-day/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8783302/

https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/228/12/1720/7103191

Comedy Clubs, Political Beliefs and Social Media Jan 26, 2024

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Felicia Madison, GM of the West Side Comedy Club has it out with Comedian Geoffrey Asmus over their differing views on Israel/Palestine and whether it should affect his spots.

Journalist Robert Wright - The Retributive Impulse, Realism vis-a-vis Israel and other Matters. Jan 21, 2024

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Fascinating and thoughtful journalist Rober Wright discusses his view of the Israeli conflict, the dangers of the "retributive impulse," realism in foreign policy and more...

David Rothkopf - War crimes in Israel? Jan 21, 2024

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Foreign policy expert David Rothkopf discusses the non-existential threats to Israel and (his views) the war crimes Israel is committing in response. Needless to say, a debate ensues.

Documentary Filmmaker Caroline Suh Jan 19, 2024

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Caroline Suh is an independent documentary filmmaker, whose work in film, television and commercials has been featured on Netflix, CNN Films, Sundance Channel, PBS, and Epix, among others.

The Art of Naming a Special with Carmen Lynch and Jeffrey Gurian Jan 12, 2024

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Carmen Lynch has appeared on a string of late night TV shows including The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Show with David Letterman and Conan. She has also appeared on Inside Amy Schumer, That Damn Michael Che, Life & Beth and the documentary Hysterical. Her latest special, Queef Week, is out now.

Jeffrey Gurian is the host of Comedy Matters TV where he has over 500 interviews with celebrities. He has written eight books, five on comedy. The 2020 documentary, Who the F*ck is Jeffrey Gurian, is available on Vimeo.

The Controversial Sinai Plan - Is it Expulsion or Expansion: Israeli Professor Joel Roskin Jan 09, 2024

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Israeli Professor Joel Roskin caused an international stir with his editorial - "Why Moving to the Sinai Peninsula is the Solution for Gaza's Palestinians". Was he misinterpreted? He explains his intentions.

Did Derek Chauvin Get a Fair Trial? Jan 09, 2024

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A new documentary maintains that Derek Chauvin was not given a fair trial. We interview doc creator Liz Collin.

In my view this is as much about the trial as it is the right to discuss it.

You be the judge.

Here is a folder of some docs, including the Minnesota training manual. I do NOT endorse or know the reliability of these studies.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10MnO6P-T6z5SVtveGKKACBuueJzU80Xf?usp=drive_link

Doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFPi3EigjFA&t=3414s

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