This is exactly what the UK Government does to unpaid carers -IF you are fortunate to have time to have another job (because you're not caring 24/7) they take your income support or UC pound for pound for every pound you earn. Once that's all gone they take your carers allowance.

So in other words - IF you are fortunate enough to have time to take a job - you end up doing two jobs for half the money. So what you end up with is most full time carers being locked-in to the caring roll earning less than £2.30 an hour.

2020 has been a lesson that the UK population doesn't give a crap about carers, or low income families. Sure, they'll stand on their doorsteps and clap, or abuse their neighbour who didn't clap, but the reality is that it serves the British state to keep low income carers...

...and unpaid carers in forced servitude (and that's exactly what it is). When it broke that people were being forced to work for £3, 4, 5 per hour in sweat shops in northern England at the start of the pandemic, you couldn't turn on a TV channel without some politician...

...talking about "worker exploitation", but the reality is that the UK is ok with worker exploitation. It has engaged in it for decades through both Labour and Tory governments. It actually has legislation that specifically defines Carers Allowance as an allowance...

Man, I remember when I first started reporting on the Proud Boys and their founder, Gavin McInnes. One major form of pushback I got was, “ Why are you wasting your time on these nobodies?”

This is why.

At the time, the Proud Boys got a lot of credulous coverage from mainstream outlets that passed McInnes off as a "provocateur," as if this was all about having a little fun at the expense of the "politically correct". McInnes's claims not to be racist were taken at face value.

McInnes understood that if he forefronted his group's sexism and told reporters the group was about reclaiming manhood and putting women back in the kitchen, that would successfully conceal the racism of the Proud Boys. Most reporters don't understand the two are linked.

Moreover, mainstream media continues to treat misogyny as a harmless peccadillo, just a matter of being "old-fashioned". (Anti-choicers have benefitted from this for a long time, as well.) This, even though misogyny is the root of most prejudice-driven violence in our country.

One in 5 women will be raped, and 1 in 4 will experience domestic violence. 3 women are murdered *a day* by partners or former partners. Misogyny is violent and deadly, but if a group portrays itself as proudly sexist, they get to pretend it's just "Leave It To Beaver" longings.

1)
Republicans grill Bruce Ohr on Trump dossier, Steele ties...

[KNOWINGLY]

2)
DOJ's Bruce Ohr kept Mueller deputy 'in the loop' about anti-Trump dossier, sources

3)
The sources said Ohr's outreach about the dossier – as well as its author, ex-British spy Christopher Steele; the opposition research firm behind it, Glenn Simpson’s Fusion GPS; and his wife Nellie Ohr's work for Fusion – occurred before and after the FBI fired Steele as a...

4)
...source over his media contacts. Ohr's network of contacts on the dossier included: former FBI agent Peter Strzok; former FBI lawyer Lisa Page; former deputy director Andrew McCabe; Weissmann and at least one other DOJ official; and a current FBI agent who worked with...

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Strzok on the Russia case.

Weissmann was kept "in the loop" on the dossier, a source said, while he was chief of the criminal fraud division. He is now assigned to Special Counsel Mueller’s team.

Now that @erinotoole has completed the defenestration of @DerekSloanCPC, it's time for him to come clean on his relations with Canada's NRA-style gun lobbies.
Is he still with them, as he proclaimed loudly during his leadership campaign?👇🏻

Here's Mr. O'Toole meeting with one of those groups, the Canadian Coalition for "Firearm Rights", less than a year ago:
1. He maintains he's the only person in the leadership race who's spoken against the Liberals' Bill

2. He says he'll repeal the Firearms Act and replace it with something drafted by gun owners, gun manufacturers, police and 'members of the public' (appointed by @CPC_HQ no doubt).
3. He promises to 'educate' Canadians who have no contact
with what he calls 'gun culture'...

...(an NRA term?).
4. He claims suburban voters are 'prone to Liberal lies and deception'.
5. He characterizes himself as a 'proud Blue Conservative' who's not in the 'mushy middle'.

Remember, the CCFR organization is the one that publicly endorses permits for 'concealed carry' of firearms to be widely available across Canada, claiming in its Policy 15-10 that concealed carry is 'a significant benefit to society' and...

PETITION FOR TEXAS SOVEREIGN ACTION

Dear @GregAbbott_TX As NBCs of the United States for the preservation of the Union we petition you to call up the Texas Constitutional Militia, resubmit your case to SCOTUS, occupy all assets of Chinese nationalists suspected of high treason!

With the Constitutional Militia Mustered, SCOTUS will hear you case! and the other Patriot States will take similar actions to preserve these United States of America as a government of the people, by the people and for the people with the right to 1 legal vote per 1 voter.

Never has #TEXAS had a cause so just and righteous, so patriotic, so universal. For as Christ teaches, when we see America beaten up on the side of the road, we cannot pass by like the hypocrite and pretend his wounds do not need caring for. (cf. Luke 10:25-37)

Moreover, as it is now public knowledge that #Scotus refused to hear the #TEXAS case out of prejudice, the implied contract of one citizen one vote is constitutionally threatened if the High court refuses to hear the case. Texas has the constitutional duty to uphold that right!

PETITION FOR SOVEREIGN ACTION OF #ARKANSAS #LOUISIANA #MISSISSIPPI #MISSOURI #SOUTHCAROLINA and #UTAH

to join #Texas in above constitutional redress authorized by the #10thAmendment and #2ndAmendment as solution to grave constitutional crises! (see top tweet in this thread)

BEWARE NEW WORLD ORDER
August 15, 2011
The following was spoken by David Rockefeller at the Bilderberger Meeting, Baden Germany, June 1991. /1

#Deepstate
#NWO
#Cabal
#TheGreatReset
#TheGreatAwekening

Rockefeller has devoted his life to one world government, i.e. the New World Order (NWO). He founded the Trilateral Commission and is integral to the Council on Foreign Relations. /2

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. /3

… It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. /4

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” /5

Good morning Zimbabwe. Thank you again to all the people messaging me to be part of the anti-corruption movement. My desire is to build teams of people for different focus areas to apply pressure on the system.

1. Judiciary- work to identify and expose compromised justices, state interference of court cases. Persecution of opposition figures and journalists. Fight for s59 of the constitution as a key part of the fight against corruption.

2. ZACC- work closely with ZACC to communicate status of current investigations. Identify weaknesses and strengths.

3. Auditor General- work with the AG to better understand how tax dollars are being spent. Scrutinize government operations.

4. National budget- forensic accountants to review current and previous budgets. Identify things that don't make sense.

Every AMERICAN should want FREE & FAIR elections and NO TRAITORS inside our government.

For 4 YEARS the traitors have been exposed and there's been NO JUSTICE yet leaders call for PEACE as Nation descends into the hands of the ENEMY who are openly talking about HUNTING AMERICANS

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki Asked About New Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Being Paid $810,000 From Citadel In Speaking Fees

"Are there any plans to have her recuse herself from advising the President on GameStop and the whole Robinhood situation?"

This. Is. Horrifying.

Inside the Capitol siege: How barricaded lawmakers and aides sounded urgent pleas for help as police lost control

When I was Assembly presiding officer I worked closely w/our sergeant at arms. And when I introduced the bill to end Open Carry I had to travel with armed escorts to public events. There is no excuse for this type of breakdown of security in a professional law-enforcement body

This reminds me of an event in 2017 #ProudBoys began harassing attendees at an event in #SanDiego at the @SanDiegoCounty Admin Bldg. Deputies stood & watched so I called @SDSheriff Bill Gore on his cellphone & asked him: Why are your Deputies letting Proud Boys incite fights? 3/

I joined w/event organizers to meet w/@SDSheriff Gore in August re:this event. We also reported it to #CLERB.

A few days later: Heather Peyer was run over & killed by a violent white nationalist in Charlottesville & the #SanDiego #ProudBoys were arrested... in Berkeley 4/

It didn't stop them: They organized a "Pizza Party" at Chicano Park that required @sandiegoPD response. They put out invitations that used the @SDSheriff address as their own & called themselves "Border Patriots"

In other words: they've been hiding in plain sight for years 5/

Today saw the launch conference for the Peace and Justice Project, founded by former Labour leader Jeremy #Corbyn. As the veteran British #socialist recently told Jacobin, the project aims to bring together movements around the world confronting the key questions of our time,

from the social fallout of the #COVID-19 pandemic to imperialist #war and #ecological disaster.

The conference was addressed by author Noam Chomsky, anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils, and climate activist Scarlett Westbrook. In #Corbyn’s own address, produced below,

the socialist leader argued against defeatism, insisting that, faced with today’s crises, social movements are already in a stronger position than they were at the time of the 2008 crisis.

Highlighting the power of demands like the Green New Deal, #Corbyn called for steps

to break the corporate stranglehold on mass media — and mount a frontal challenge to the neoliberal dogmas that are today wreaking such havoc across the globe.
I want to start with a huge thank you to everybody taking part today.

People have tuned in from all across the UK, communities big and small, and from countries all over the world. Our coming together across borders, backgrounds, and experiences has never been more important. That’s what we want to do with this project:

After the province's ambulance dispatch consolidation plan took place last month, mayors of Calgary, Red Deer, Lethbridge and Wood Buffalo are sharing concerns. #ableg

This morning, during a council meeting, Calgary's 911 director said they experienced issues on the first day of the switch in the city that prevented someone from receiving timely medical assistance.

Red Deer Mayor Tara Veer says they have all been seeing issues since the switch. She is calling for a third-party inquiry to investigate these problems.

Lethbridge Mayor Chris Spearman says they're not too surprised about technical failures, but they are particularly concerned that AHS has not been very up front about what happened. There have also been several mix-ups in his community. Lack of accountability from the province.

Spearman says this is clearly not about money or patient care, so he asks the province why are they doing this? "Lives are at risk, and we need to pause this transition now." He also calls for an investigation.