This needs to go far and wide.

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Highlights of this thread:
1. China is the aggressor
2. Iran is the proxy bogeyman - the excuse to launch WWIII (look here not there)
3. Their aim is to divide the country against itself and they feel they succeeded
4. They use crime (poisoning) + law to protract the crisis
5. They are throwing low level operatives under the bus and distancing themselves from them
6. They are projecting their own crimes onto the victims of their crimes (eg blaming General Flynn’s “digital soldiers” for election interference - that is all of us, folks)
7. The war is going to intensify
8. We must stick together and pray if we are going to win
9. There are a lot of people who silently live in panic and fear for trying to do the right thing
10. Know that when Patriots speak of the true evil of the enemy we are fighting, that they are not making stuff up.

**THEY NEED TO COMPROMISE SCOTUS TO FINISH THIS — EYES ON!**
From me: Why in the last two days am I “suddenly” seeing Chinese social as a “share” item on YouTube; Chinese payment methods at CVS; and the Chinese non-social-distanced, New Year’s celebration online? Economy tops?

WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP
WAKE OTHER PEOPLE UP
WHITE SQUALL!
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Also, I am suddenly getting tons of recommended or promoted accounts that are blue checkmark Chinese.

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I just finished Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics, and wanted to say something about Joel Christiansen's review linked below. I am not sure what motivates the review (I speculate a bit below), but it gives a very misleading impression of the book. 1/x


The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x

Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x

The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x

It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x
@bellingcat's attempt in their new book, published by
@BloomsburyBooks, to coverup the @OPCW #Douma controversy, promote US and UK gov. war narratives, and whitewash fraudulent conduct within the OPCW, is an exercise in deception through omission. @BloomsburyPub @Tim_Hayward_


1) 2000 words are devoted to the OPCW controversy regarding the alleged chemical weapon attack in #Douma, Syria in 2018 but critical material is omitted from the book. Reading it, one would never know the following:

2) That the controversy started when the original interim report, drafted and agreed by Douma inspection team members, was secretly modified by an unknown OPCW person who had manipulated the findings to suggest an attack had occurred. https://t.co/QtAAyH9WyX… @RobertF40396660


3) This act of attempted deception was only derailed because an inspector discovered the secret changes. The manipulations were reported by @ClarkeMicah
and can be readily observed in documents now available https://t.co/2BUNlD8ZUv….

4) @bellingcat's book also makes no mention of the @couragefoundation panel, attended by the @opcw's first Director General, Jose Bustani, at which an OPCW official detailed key procedural irregularities and scientific flaws with the Final Douma Report:

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