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The investigatory/legal fallout from 1/6 seems by all accounts to be shaping up to be pretty massive, which is not entirely shocking given that fash just humiliated cops and feds at the heart of the nation's Capitol.

None of that will make this go away.

What happened in DC was a revolution for the right.

They claimed their power and, at least for a few hours, they got away with it.

They really smell themselves now, as a pastor friend of mine likes to put it.

In liberatory organizing, we talk all the time about what it means to give up power because we don't think we have it, and how tidal the shift is when folks awaken to what happens when they act in mass movement together.

That's how people start to believe a win is possible.

Well, that's what the far right got a taste of in DC.

That realization of, oh, mass organizing oriented towards action can move mountains.

They understand that the absence of a militarized cop presence was a product of their political will.

When they start seeing large-scale legal consequences, they will react the way they always do when their infrastructure is under attack, which is to be like "this only makes us stronger and radicalizes more people!"

It's not true, but it's also worth unpacking a bit.

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Larry Rendall Brock Jr. with Joshua Matthew Black:

Look, it's a PR war. Okay? You have to understand, it's an IO war. We can't lose the IO war.

[Man] Hawley, Cruz.
I think Cruz would want us to do this, so.
Yeah, absolutely

Outside the Capitol a noose hangs on a makeshift gallows.

MAGA Mob storms the Capitol
"If they don't fix this sh*t, we're gonna fu*king take this... Millions of Americans are armed. To protect the Constitution of the United States, against enemies foreign and domestic... F**k you police"

People who haven't studied guns tend to assume that the evolution of small arms towards an assault rifle was in someway inevitable.

I'm here to say that this doesn't follow.

In this thread, I'll pickup on the US crossovers I referenced but didn't cash out in my last thread

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If you look closely, there is a tendency among some scholars to erroneously link 3 things:

-the qualities of the infantry

-the soldier's capacity to think & use weapons independently

-& the notion of a democratic values

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This really struck me when reading Stephen Biddle's really interesting (but obvs I don't agree with it)

The problem with that argument is its underlying technological determinism that implies only democracies can really produce the type of soldier capable of employing weapons like assault rifles.
4/

The argument makes little empirical sense but it also demonstrates a misunderstanding as to how technologies emerge into the military organisation.

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1, Government messaging has become progressively hyperbolic and confusing. Balance and perspective is in short supply. As a result, the information we receive often feels alarming and frightening.

2, Trust is a vital component of effective public messaging, erosion of it is deeply concerning.Disconnection between governments, local level management and society. Information given without context is harmful. A recent advisory report

3, “ministers adopt a more straightforward approach to communicating with the public, taking care not to send out conflicting messages, admitting mistakes, foregoing “hyperbolic language and rhetoric” and adopting “an open dialogue rather than speaking at the public”.

4, Has this advice been heeded?
Did yesterday's UK briefing clearly communicate information accurately and clearly?
Was the information presented

5.The news of an increased mortality risk with the UK variant is based upon conclusions from a Nervtag meeting held on Thursday.
Full report here.

It's important to recognize that the intended impact of the murderous US blockade of Venezuela isn't just regime change, but also forcing the Chavista government to liberalize the economy, privatize state institutions, allow in foreign capital, and adopt the dollar (thread below)

Venezuela's economy has been almost entirely dependent on oil for 100 years. This is a problem going back many decades before Chavismo.

This made it very susceptible to being hurt by US sanctions, which expanded into a full economic blockade that has killed 10,000s of civilians.

The US economic war on Venezuela -- through blockade, sanctions, attacks on the currency, hyperinflation, blocking oil exports in an oil-based economy, and internal sabotage and hoarding by right-wing oligarchs who still dominate import-heavy industries -- forced it to dollarize.

Inflation in Venezuela is complicated, but there has been a sustained economic attack on the currency, called the bolívar, by the USA and right-wing Venezuelan capitalist oligarchs who use websites to create a black market rate which drives up the exchange rate many times per day

The US blockade and sanctions, inability to export oil and get access to foreign currencies, and internal sabotage by right-wing opposition - which uses the black market rate to drive up insane inflation - forced President Maduro to legalize the US

Here is why you shouldn't trust anything that was sampled after the outbreak: https://t.co/VoC1cwmfdz all samples were collected at June 2020. they mentioned an "oligo array" which is how they get to all virus, no bacteria. they claim "pangolins" but there were only bat.

What they actually did: the first part of SRR13380247 were virus at the 1st read and nothing at the 2nd read, despite the quality score say otherwise. what this tells you is that they have used a blank bat sample and artificially added in reads of fake viruses.

all samples lacked non-coronavirus reads. one have traces of human Flu virus and other have trace (6Kbp) "picornavirales". both were likely probes that have fell off. the samples were very late, so the most likely route: High throughput gene synthesis->mix into blank sample

(they forgot to add the bacteria, again!) and then mock "sequencing". also, since this is already when SARS-CoV-2 have been widely circulating in THailand, there exist a change that this backbone may have spilled into bats and have recombined with the circulating strains.

If you have ever studied bat viromes, you known that a real bat sample would have more than just one viral families. ajority of bats have picoRNAviruses and other respiratory viruses, yet none of these samples gave any other bat viruses other than their single "Coronavirus"

Military Intel Lays Out Plan to Take Over US: https://t.co/m5z4mZLUQi

1. This election was a military operation to bring down the New World Order.

A thread.
on Solarwinds. you all have seen information on this?
If not, please see @truthserum4all and work your way through their postings. Great information.
Our Government is compromised. That's a fact. our governments are compromised. see @TexasWhiteHats2 @Johnheretohelp

FRSC PROMOTES 2880 OFFICERS AND MARSHALS TO THE NEXT RANK

The Federal Road Safety Commission has on 14 December, 2020 after due consideration of the report submitted by its Est. Committee in respect to the 2019 promotion,

...approved the promotion of 435 Officers to their next ranks, as the Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi also approved the promotion of 769 Marshal Inspectors and 1676 Road Marshal Assistants to the next rank.

According to the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, out of the 435 Officers, 33 were promoted from the rank of Chief Route Commander to Assistant Route Commander, 15 moved from Superintendent Route Commander to Chief Route Commander,

..while 73 Officers were promoted from the rank of Route Commander to Superintendent Route Commander.

In addition, 214 Officers were elevated from the rank of Deputy Route Commander to Route Commander, and 100 Assistant Route Commanders advanced to Deputy Route Commander.

Who are “WHITE HATS?”

The “White Hats” is an allegorical reference to the “good guys” taken from American movie tradition, in which the good cowboys always wore white hats and the bad guys (bandits, rustlers, thugs) wore black hats.
Used to refer to the secret group;

The UK government's only strategy for some time - and this goes for everything, not just the pandemic - is leaking vague policy plans to trusted journos and letting the speculation outrage simmer to guage public reactions before committing to anything.

It happens so consistently that it simply must be be their core PR policy, and you just know they're very smug about how effective it is (note: it isn't).

This generation of Tories, as we've talked about before, have the concept of social engineering built into their ideology. It's their one guiding principle: you don't ever admit what you want, you just convince people they want it too.

It's all about manipulation and optics. It sort-of-kind-of worked with Brexit, in that it got them a result that brought them to power, but they've run up against the basic inertia of reality since.

As the wrestler Scott Steiner once put it in an interview, "You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit."

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.