They're talking about a military coup right now and if it doesn't happen we're going to be told the best way to heal is pretending it never happened.

This is how abuse works.

3,000 people are dying a day and after nearly a year of this Congress is releasing the barest fraction of the economic relief needed to keep people safe and only in exchange for the promise that we can't sue those who endangered the dead.

This is how abuse works.

We have a president who spent 4 yrs lying every time he opened his mouth, obvious lies everyone knew were lies, which his followers believed mostly because the sight of them believing lies caused the rest of us distress, and they loved our distress.

This is how abuse works.

We've endured the sight of police brutalizing our fellow citizens for years, a horror magnified by the knowledge that for Black people this brutality has been a constant way of life, but we're told change must wait, because we aren't asking right.

This is how abuse works.

We have been menaced and lied to and confronted with a daily litany of atrocity that has only made the Republican rank and file happier, and the only message we ever get is that we need to be better at relating to the feelings of people who find comfort in suffering.

It's abuse.

DMK President MK Stalin after presenting a detailed complaint to Governor Banwarilal Purohit, speaking to media said, the complaints that have been given to the governor had already been given to DVAC, but to no avail. Since the DVAC failed to take action, 1/n

the DMK had moved court and Madras HC had ordered a CBI investigation against CM Edappadi Palanisamy, which was subsequently stayed by HC. The Governor has the power to order a probe, and told the media that Governor said “he will take appropriate action”. 2/n

Stalin also said, DMK will take these charges to people’s court.

However, Stalin should be aware that, Banwarlial Purohit’s only interests in Tamil Nadu is to protect the interest of Brahminical forces. 3/n

Sources say, apart from, supporting Anna University VC Soorappa, an RSS stooge, to protect him from a Commission of Inquiry, Banwarilal has been pressurizing EPS, to convey the land encroached by SASTRA University, for more than three decades. 4/n

In a detailed order, Madras HC has categorically rejected SASTRA’s request to re-convey and regularize the encroachment of more than 50 acres of government land and the appeal of SASTRA to Supreme Court has also turned down. 5/n

1) Diebold, eventually purchased by Dominion, at one point produced and sold voting machines are other ostensibly secure machines such as ATMs. It charged with fraud by the DOJ after it paid bribes to foreign governments to secure contracts. Sounds like some of the Ga allegations

2) Here's the DOJ case, as resolved by a $25 million fine. Bribes were paid to all the right suspects: China, Russia, Indonesia.

3) In 2006, before Dominion purchased Diebold, CNN reported massive security issues inherent in Diebold voting machines. Oddly, it was leftists and Dems who were afraid of the systems enabling a Bush victory in his last term.

4) After inspecting a Diebold voting machine, a computer science professor stated: "What Felten found wasn't a bug in the software," he says. "It was a deliberate feature that comes from the need to be able to update the machines quickly."

5) This allowed the relatively simple manipulation of vote counts.

Press release

*Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning welcomes Sudan’s delisting from the SSTL*

The official delisting of Sudan from the list of states sponsors of terrorism by the US government marks a momentous turn in Sudan’s recent history. This achievement was (1/14)

one of the transitional government's top priorities, and now, it is considered one of its primary achievements. Sudan’s presence on the SSTL was one of the biggest obstacles to achieving economic stability and prosperity. Over the past year, the Transitional Government of (2/14)

Sudan carried out a series of negotiations, which included the Staff Monitored Program with the International Monetary Fund to restore credibility and confidence in the Sudanese economy.

The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning is pleased by the international (3/14)

community’s response to the aspiration of the Sudanese people, including their support for its economic reform program by providing more than $1.8 billion in support at the Berlin Conference.

The decision to delist Sudan will bring multiple benefits to our economy, and (4/14)

to the Sudanese people directly. First, from now on, Sudanese financial institutions can re-establish direct banking relationships with international banks, especially in the United States and Europe, such as Citi Bank and Barclays. Within the Ministry’s efforts to (5/14)

1) Washington is staring at the potential of a government shutdown Monday night. This is grim. Congress has approved four temporary spending bills since the end of the government’s fiscal year in September to prevent a shutdown.

2) The most recent stopgap measure was a seven day plan this week. Mbrs knew that the COVID/coronavirus bill was so large, it would take several days to send to the White House. Yes, that bill funds the government until next fall. But it isn’t law until the President signs it.

3) So, the most recent Band-Aid measure was the equivalent of fiscal grout. The House will approve another emergency measure on Monday. But there's doubt the Senate will do anything before then. And, it’s unclear if President Trump would sign anything. That means a shutdown.

4) A shutdown is always dangerous. It could be more dangerous during a pandemic. And it’s unclear if a shutdown could have devastating impacts on distributing the vaccine.

5) It takes a two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate to override a presidential veto. With 359 House yeas and 92 Senate yeas on the COVID/omnibus bill, both bodies have way more than a supermajority to override a presidential veto.

That first $1,200 check was obviously based on gross income from US federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr, for 40 hours a week, for a month: $1,160

What is this $600 amount based on?

The first was "fuck it, give em a month of minimum wage income. No, I don't give a fuck if it's $4 higher in their state."

So: $600. 2 40-hour weeks at $7.25 is $580.

Which is close enough that it *could* be what this number was based on

"Here's 2 weeks of minimum wage income for free, ya fucking plebes" does seem fully believable.

But, it doesn't seem as convincing. Deliberate gesture of cruelty, yes. But they'd try to gussy it up somehow.

@RoyalFamily @KensingtonRoyal
Please.

SACK YOUR PRIME MINISTER & GOVT
Britain NEEDS a GNU or Britain WILL FALL
That will be your legacy.
This Govt is Killing people needlessly. Deliberately so
& stealing from the state.

STOP

1. Military Intelligence contact continued:
. Everything is being coordinated and the funds were finally situated at 3:30am EST this morning Sat 12 Dec for what we have been waiting for FOREVER to pay out the final accounts (downstream liquidity in payouts to lowest level...

2. ... accounts Over the initial 72 hours after the shotgun release starts approx Mon 14 Dec);
. They are finishing this weekend the final settlements, closings, and processing of the master major accounts--that's what started at 3:30 am EST today Sat 12/12 when Trump, the...

3. ... top 5 Chinese Elders, and everyone got on the same page to start the release process;
. They are ON IT and Tue 15 Dec is the date to start Tue-into-Wed 15-16 Dec--it would take a major BOMB of interference to move it from that date—he said PLEASE PRAY.

4. . Trump wants everything FINISHED by Wed 23 Dec by mid-day--so the RV teams are pressing extremely HARD this weekend to get things ready, closed, funds settled in accounts GLOBALLY in all the levels, tiers 1-4, to start on time next week;(edited)
[10:42 PM]

5. . They will move forward within A 72-HOUR PERIOD with MON 14 DEC as INTENDED kick-off day but it WON'T REACH T4B till TUE-WED 15-16 at the earliest; currently they EXPECT T4B start APPROX. WED 16 DEC but it could go beyond that;

@DanScavino tweet at 1:37 AM · Dec 25, 2020
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year. God Bless you all. Pray for #POTUS and his family.
@realDonaldTrump
#MerryChristmas
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#WeAreTheNewsNow

@PMOIndia @criminalreforms @CVCIndia

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Believing that keeping a small state party or an anti-corruption NGO can eradicate corruption all over Tamil Nadu is tantamount to saying that we will put out all the fire in a small glass of water to put out the huge fire that erupted on a large multi-storey.
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Fighting bribery and corruption in the courts cannot be won.
Even a major state party in politics cannot eradicate this completely.

This will be possible only if bribery and corruption are eradicated from the whole of India.
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Bribery and corruption are not a statewide, they are a nationwide disaster.

Corruption cannot be eradicated in Tamil Nadu alone. This is a nationwide disaster like Corona.
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Only the demonic power available to the Indian National Party can eradicate this deadly poisonous bribery and corruption that is ravaging this country.

Prime Minister Modi has got such a terrible strength. But the million-dollar question is whether he will do this.
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Is this our moment in time? Here we are, and here is not that good for us. We are at the end of our Republic. The mechanism that controls our republican form of government has broken. It has been corroded by the corruption of a generation of greed.

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

2/

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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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

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."