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A recent report in Quartz Africa falsely claimed a \u201cVirginia-based energy firm, signed a $3.6 billion deal with Ethiopia\u2019s ministry of Mines and Petroleum on April 28 to construct an oil refinery in Ethiopia\u2019s oil-rich Somali region.\u201d https://t.co/uBAuDhoutE @ZekuZelalem
— Fitsum Arega (@fitsumaregaa) December 24, 2020
The study is but part of an agreement...which includes as detailed by @fanatelevision the construction, an effort involving Korean company Hyundai and costing 3.6 billion. The citing of Hyundai's involvement clearly indicates a settlement on a deal to push on with construction.
As was reported by Kaleyesus Bekele of @TheReporterET in 2018....Greencomm's proposal was not limited to a study....in fact they initially evaluated the project at 2 billion$. This reveals that the Ethiopian government was acquainted with the proposal and the company in 2018.
Mr. Ambassador...a government run oil corporate official claimed in 2018 that Greencomm Technologies was vetted & deemed worthy of accomodating. We now know this clearly was not the case. How did this official & the Ministry deem a company with no office, no experience "viable?"
In addition to what the company and government officials claimed to me both publicly and in interviews....local outlets also highlighted that the deal is an agreement that would see on the ground construction work of the oil refinery.
But a couple things to expand on from a virology point of view.
The article and the accompanying thread from @kakape are well worth a read https://t.co/32c8l66eTV
— Jason Kindrachuk, PhD (@KindrachukJason) January 9, 2021
The piece talks about the B117 variant as if it’s not SARS-CoV-2, but it is. B117 is distinguished by 23 changes across the genome, but it’s still fundamentally the same virus. It’s a different variant (some are calling it a strain depending on how that’s defined).
But 23 nucleotide changes aren’t sufficient to make this a completely different virus. So we are still fighting SARS-CoV-2. Just a new and improved version. Improved how? Well it’s more transmissible but the mechanism isn’t yet known.
When viruses become more transmissible it can happen in a few different ways:
-virus can be more fit (replicate to higher titers, hence more shedding)
-virus can replicate more efficiently in specific tissues (like the nose)
-spike can bind the receptor more efficiently and...
...thus infect host cells more efficiently
-virus can get better at evading/antagonizing innate host antiviral defenses
-increased environmental stability
-people can shed virus for longer periods of time
Curious - do you think it doesn\u2019t work because it\u2019s obsolete in the social media era, or that it\u2019s impossible to enforce for Fox and Newsmax?
— SIMD Crawford (@omershapira) January 7, 2021
He knows what he is proposing. He knows it is a backdoor. He knows it can entrench and promote white supremacist fascist propaganda forever. He is counting on there being a backdoor when he takes the presidency.
Look at all the calls to police the social media companies for “bias” against conservatives. Look how it propped up the kind of speech that took us to yesterday. “Fairness” and “political neutrality” were euphemisms for forcing platforms to carry propaganda and incitement.
CDA 230 is a sideshow but it’s not an empty one.
There’s a lot of good-hearted and intelligent people who are going to fall for this shit in the coming days. Do not forget where Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz have stood on 230, fairness doctrine, and the like. Do not forget who they were when they took their masks off yesterday.
No media
No leaks
How many MI generals have been in/out of WH in the past 30 days?
Focus on Flynn.
If Trump failed, if we failed, and HRC assumed control, we as Patriots were prepared to do the unthinkable.....
Thread⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/msIkZs3Y77
Speaking for America! https://t.co/jowS1B9qqf
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2020
I hope nobody had high hopes that the GOP would do the right thing.
The GOP remains the Party of Trump and is hardening into an extremist anti-democratic
They are the anti-rule of law, anti truth party. https://t.co/e6EME39xNn
Fortunately, they're outnumbered.
Not by much, but they're outnumbered.
They clearly aren\u2019t the party of LAW AND ORDER
— DWUK (@UKfriendlyguy) January 26, 2021
Hi, everyone.
A lot of these doomsday comments are annoying me.
Have you all learned nothing over the past few years?
You might want to duck because, I'm about to go on a tear . . .
The same people telling me we're doomed and democracy is dead are probably the same people who told me (1) Trump would make himself dictator (2) The Supreme Court would keep him in office and (3) he would never leave the White House.
Nobody owes you a democracy . . .
My mantra the past 4 years: democracy will survive if enough people want it to, and are willing to do the work.
Did the doomsday people happen to see that the vote was 55-45 in favor of holding a trial?
I think the problem is there has been so much peddling of hope porn. . .
#GodSaveTheRepublic #AdjudicateFraud #FraudMatters #EvidenceMatters #MassiveFraudEvidence
Judge rules \u201cno standing\u201d in my lawsuit to toss fraudulent Biden electors. If I don\u2019t have standing, no one does. When no one ever has standing, what good is a court system? My response on @Newsmax below #SaveTheRepublic #StopTheSteal https://t.co/HLQCM6S5CE
— Louie Gohmert (@replouiegohmert) January 2, 2021
2/ Judges refuse to review fraud evidence based on an alleged lack of standing. Why do illegal aliens have more standing in the US? Louie Gohmert on Pence: 'ignore all electors' and choose a winner as he sees fit' https://t.co/OHbSpEEPnp
#Trump2021 #Amendment12 #ElectoralVote
Gohmert: Pence may 'ignore all electors' and choose a winner as he sees fit https://t.co/NHlH9niN6o pic.twitter.com/1Ux10lsJ2Y
— Newsmax (@newsmax) January 2, 2021
3/ Are Mike Pence and the 12th Amendment January 6th the last hope to save the US Republic from becoming the perpetually corrupt US Banana Republic tossed into the waste bin of history?
https://t.co/7HYkLVfAq3
#ElectionFraud #BananaRepublic #Amendment12 #January6 #Jan6th
Federal courts rule that lawsuits for @RealDonaldTrump before election law/constitutional violations are premature and that lawsuits after election law/constitutional violations are too late.
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) January 2, 2021
4/ Election fraud increases daily: EXCLUSIVE: Fraudulent Georgia Ballots Were Addressed to Elections Consultant Dwight Brower - The Same Guy Who Reported the Fake Water Main Break and Then Terminated Election Whistleblower via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/RkgSD0wwXf #StopTheSteal
5/ Donald Trump's correct. The Georgia Senate runoffs are illegal and invalid, STILL using illegal Dominion, owned and influenced by hostile foreign election interference, against 2018 EO prohibiting Foreign Election Interference.
https://t.co/J1pJ9fPrqh via @whitehouse
But American institutions are strong in significant part because we don't let politicians act like Donald Trump, particularly not when they get close to the white house. It's not a law of nature; it's something we're actively doing. If we stop doing it, we lose our immunity.
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) January 8, 2021
My right-wing followers, of course, understand why this won't fly: America borrowing in dollars, and under US law rather than some neutral third country, is not a law of nature. People with money could easily decide it was too risky to make us dollar-denominated loans.
(Or at least, at any price we'd want to pay.)
What would make them decide this? The fastest way would be for America to borrow a metric crap ton of money, and then default or let inflation eat away the value of our loans so we're repaying pennies on the dollar in real terms.
And since the "America can't have Greek-style debt crisis" talking point is genreallly only uttered by people who are urgin gus to do exactly the sort of thing that make it more likely we'll have trouble borrowing money in dollars, this is just deeply, deeply silly.
I mean it would probably work for a while--as Adam Smith said, "There's a lot of ruin in a nation". I am prepared to concede that the natural stopping point of this binge might be quite a few years away. I only say there is some stopping point.