Remember the NYTimes reports that "Russia" put bounties on US Soldiers in Afghanistan and they ran the story prior to the election to bash @realDonaldTrump?

Well @DNI_Ratcliffe is declassifying intelligence that indicates "China" put bounties in Afghanistan on US soldiers.

The good ole cited "sources familiar" and 'unnamed sources"

The actual Spokespeople at the National Security Council, the Pentagon, the State Department and the C.I.A. declined to comment.

But the NYTimes went with their

The MSM went ballistic when the claims it was Russia and Trump pushed beck saying that report was inaccurate.

Now there is actual documented Intel soon to drop that indicates it was actually CHINA paying non-state actors in Afghanistan to attack US soldiers!

The original leak out of the Pentagon didn't indicated foreign bad actors were financing Bounties on US Soldiers, and the MSM just immediately inserted Russia to keep up the Trump Russia narrative. Johnny Ratcliffe pushed back on the original report saying it was inconclusive!

Now further intelligence along with an actual money trail is pointing to China as the financiers of Bountygate, and when Trumps said he asked Putin point blank about Bountygate, Putin denied Russian involvement, may have been actually true, and the MSM got it wrong again

MHRA exceptional authorisation of Innova for asymptomatic individuals was issued on 22nd Dec.

This is a LIMITED approval, and the details of how and why it is LIMITED are important. It does not cover all current uses of INNOVA by

Details here have been provided by the @MHRAgovuk by email. If any fact is incorrect here @DHSCgovuk @MHRAgovuk please let me know and I will change – it is a bit complicated and rather unusual.

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First, approved test is called the “NHS Test and Trace COVID-19 Self-Test kit” - the LFT test in it is the INNOVA test.

Second, the test manufacturer is stated as “Department of Health and Social Care”, and not Innova.

This determines who has the duty of care and safety.

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MHRA confirmed details of the limited approval by email (their emphasis):

“ONLY allows for the test to be used to “find” positive cases.

MHRA HAVE NOT approved the test for use in a ‘test to enable’ scenario.”

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MHRA continue:

“as stated on our webpage, people should not act on a negative result and should continue to follow their local guidelines.”

“Any other use of the kit is outside of MHRA’s remit and at the manufacturer’s own risk.”

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You're going to find out, in the near future, that all those people who studied the government for decades, but you denounced as "crazy conspiracy theorists" were right about everything.

Apologies will be in order.

Also, this is far from over. It's just the beginning.

On the morning of 9-11-2001 I was awoken by a family member immediately after first tower was hit. I go to the tv. I see it. "America's under attack," someone said. My response, "No. They've planned this for a long time. That bldg will probably collapse."

I've known things weren't right for at least 26 years. On 9-12-2001 I was searching the Federal Register for a company I'd heard about called UNOCAL (pipelines). I read w/ my own eyes that in early 2001 the Co. had approached Congress & got permission to invade ...

Afghanistan on 10-1-2001. These documents were from EARLY 2001. When George Bush, Jr. announced in mid-September we would be invading Afghanistan on October 1st, I realized 9-11 was the pretext for a business deal that had been approved by US Congress.

The deal was for a pipeline. Back then, you couldn't screenshot things as easy, hard drives weren't as big. I only read these documents w/ my own eyes & thought, "they're caught" bc it was in the Federal Register.

Welp.

Republican majority of the Pennsylvania State Senate just removed @JohnFetterman from the chamber. President Pro Temp Corman is presiding instead. Fetterman refused to recognize a motion that would have prevented a duly elected Democratic senator from being sworn in.

Fetterman did not leave the chamber or the rostrum so there are two people presiding. Fetterman is being ignored by the Republican senators in the majority. Corman is starting the certification of the results district by district.

Very ugly.

For background on what's happening, read @AngelasInk on the dispute:

Under Corman's presiding, all results but in the 45th district were read. The election of Jim Brewster was not recognized. @SenTonyWilliams shouted the results in that race, showing Brewster's win, to the chamber as Corman moved to start the Republican senators' swearing in.

The Republican State Senator in Pennsylvania just set a very dangerous precedent: as long as your opponent refuses to concede, you will not be sworn in. No matter that the *highest court in the state* already said the election is Kosher.

Here they are being sworn in.

Am I concerned about Twitter banning the President? No, because I've been online since I was 17 years old. Any venue too haphazardly moderated—either too strictly or too loosely—grows unstable and collapses.

So what if Twitter is Too Big. So was MySpace, Livejournal, Usenet...

Did Twitter make a mistake? I don't think so. Its primary concern is that its HQ is here in the US and frankly the Reps are more likely to drop the hammer on social media than the Dems, especially if the Reps can ignore election results.

The irony is that the recent conservative rage over Section 230 is so misplaced. If you want to turn social media into publishers responsible for the user-base's content, you're going to have giant swaths of users banned to avoid lawsuits.

Every town and city newspaper gets letters from their subscribers reading, "Jesus told me in a dream that we should go down to City Hall and string up the mayor! This Monday, at 3pm...."

They don't publish them. Think for two seconds as to why.

Same with printing. Years ago I edited the book SAVING PRIVATE POWER by Mickey Z which included images of a Nazi swastika. Printer wouldn't run the plate, and yes it was an anti-Nazi book.

Didn't want to have a worker traumatized by seeing 10000 swastikas go by.

Ok, I've held my powder long enough, I am now going to come out SWANGING. Let me do a thread on what has been irking the hell out of me the last few weeks. Between the GA Senate race and Barack Obama, I've been REALLY ANGRY about how the Black church is being talked about.

Can someone tell me why former President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama keep trying to dunk on Jeremiah Wright in their books? I mean damn, they treat the republicans and Tea Partiers who called them apes better. YES I SAID IT.

It has really really soured me on both of them. The man had a stroke. Yes, he did some things that didn't play well during the campaign but that sermon about God Damn America was taken out of context. And the same thing is happening to Rafael Warnock.

This vilification of Warnock and Wright is about taking the teeth out of the black church's prophetic tradition of speaking truth to racist power in America. Who knew that Loeffler and Obama would be on the same side to quench that message?

Folks, the problem is that politicians love the Black church for Photo ops, quenching unrest, and singing. When the Prophets start speaking about SIN, they get to criticizing scripture and pastor's characters. This is a Republican and Democrat practice.

In 10 months, the U.S. transformed into an obedient socialist country. Government dictated what events are acceptable to attend. Violent protests that instill fear are OK but church services, family funerals & patriotic celebrations are dangerous & you bought it without a fight.

A word of caution: many aspects of the social, political and informational mess that led to extremists storming the US Capitol are present in Western Europe too. (1)

I. Political Violence

Wednesday didn’t happen in a vacuum: it happened in a context of rising right-wing terrorism, aimed at their adversaries in the elite (pipe bombs mailed to Obama, Biden, Clinton, DNC) and among the public (Charlottesville, El Paso, Pittsburgh, Charleston).

Europe has seen its share of the same violence.

Against parliamentarians: Jo Cox, Labour Party MP, and Walter Lübke (CDU politician in Hesse) have been assassinated. Plots against other politicians, in Germany and the UK, led to further convictions. (3)

Against minorities: in Florence and Macerata, racist shooters targeted, injured and killed black people; there were mass shootings targeted at minorities in a synagogue and a kebab shop in Halle, and shisha bars in Hanau; in Finsbury Park a man drove a van into mosque-goers. (4)

Against seats of power: German protesters tried to storm the Bundestag during the coronavirus protests. The Gilets Jaunes broke into a ministry, after attempting to tear down its front door with a forklift. (5)

Here are the actual physical and temporal limiting factors on presidential nuclear launch authority. 1/

1. POTUS needs to contact the NMCC or an alternate command post. This requires a phone number. These number are on speed-dial on the phones carried by the military aide and emergency action team from WHMO.

2. He could also ask a White House operator from Royal Crown, the secure switchboard to connect him. But he’d have to know exactly what to ask for. Not a big constraint - a tiny one.

3. Assuming POTUS connects to a commander center, he would be transferred to an Emergency Actions controller. By this point lots of other people would be notified that POTUS was trying to do something.

4. The controller would first ask for authentication. POTUS would be read aloud a series of alphanumeric as and challenged to provide the corresponding alphanumeric on the nuclear authentication card he carries.

@USNavy @USNavyCNO @USNavyUnderSec @NavyTimes just wanted to know, when the contract was signed with IAL to ship our vehicles did you question the wording of the clause, "It will get there in the same condition it left, occasionally."
At this point I don't care how much it costs-

IAL needs to be held responsible for their poor quality of service and attempts to deny claims that are obviously the fault of their staff and subcontractors.
Backstory:
I just got out of the Navy after serving 8 honorable, rewarding years. Covid-19 is in full swing. I am living-

- off of savings while I wait for the spring semester at school to start because finding part time work in my skill-set is difficult in this climate. I have no vehicle and am still waiting for my household goods to arrive at my home. I'm informed that my car has arrived in NJ--

--and is ready for pickup. Imagine my surprise when I take a train across four states and walk 30 minutes in snow to pick up my car, only to find it has been damaged mechanically in transport because someone didn't know how to drive manual and couldn't be bothered to operate--

-a winch. My car is now ruined and I'm stuck in NJ trying to find a mechanic to replace my clutch on December 23rd. I ended up having to tow the car 30 minutes to a mechanic, out of pocket, and leave it in NJ, then try to catch a train to make it home to my family for the--

Here’s my question @SenTomCotton, if the Congress’s role is simply to rubber stamp the state certified electoral college then why include in the Constitution a mechanism, specific to the election of a President, that includes the ability to object to state certified electors? 1/