THREAD: So @UKLabour think they can win back the red wall by "use of the union flag, veterans & dressing smartly?" Here's why this is ludicrous fantasy

1. You don't "use" the union flag & especially veterans. You believe in them, from the patriotic heart. Anything else is lies

2. How can Keir Starmer pretend to love the Union flag, when he knelt to BLM, who set fire to it at the Cenotaph? No way will patriots swallow this co-opting of the flag for votes

3. Labour MPs are secretly or even openly ashamed of our flag & history, esp Corbynistas

4. Labour want to win back working class voters? First, believe in Brexit. Except Starmer led Labour's #PeoplesVote movement to cancel Brexit & most Labour MPs are ardent Remainers, so there goes that one

5. Labour are so soaked in identity politics, their top brass believe the white working classes are "privileged" - even though WWC boys are the least likely to go to Uni & perform worst at school. Instead, they are fixated with minority projects, so get minority numbers of votes

6. Trans issues: huge majority of British people are not "transphobic" & want people to live happily. But they don't want trans women in women's toilets, jails, changing rooms or sports. That is a majority position. Crying "transphobe" doesn't help: it repels moderate voters

The debate on the Bill in @UKHouseofLords has started. We will be live tweeting on the debate here. THREAD.

#NoStateSanctionedVAWG

The amendments we're supporting will allow a better, safer balance between protecting CHIS agents' cover AND protecting all of us from potentially grave crimes and abuses of power. #nostatesanctionedVAWG

BREAKING📢Baroness Chakrabarti says: "This Bill unamended is one of the most dangerous I have ever seen presented to Your Lordships' house." #nostatesanctionedVAWG

Baroness Chakrabarti goes on to say that this legislation creates total advanced immunity [for CHIS]. This is certainly not the status quo. It will make a difference to the ethical behaviour of CHIS in the heat of the moment. #nostatesanctionedVAWG

Baroness Chakrabarti says: "If we allow this Bill to pass unamended today...I really do believe that we will be opening the door to countless abuses of power and scandals...and abuses of human rights potentially for many, many years into the future."
@libertyhq

"National Security Directive-1" What the hell? A short

Listen, there has been a simple pattern for my entire lifetime. When Nixon and Ford issued presidential directives, they we called National Security Decision Memoranda or NSDMs.

When Carter took office, he renamed those documents "Presidential Directives." This kicked off a process in which Republican and Democratic Presidents used different naming conventions for presidential directives. It was childish, sure. But so what?

Republicans always started with "National Security." So, naturally Reagan changed it back:
National Security Decision Directives (Reagan)
National Security Directives (GHW Bush)
National Security Presidential Directives (GW Bush)
National Security Presidential Memoranda (Trump)

Democrats, by contrast, never ever used "National Security."
Presidential Directives (Carter)
Presidential Decision Directives (Clinton)
Presidential Policy Directives (Obama)

1/11

An article worth thinking about: “As changes to the world structure accelerate, China’s rule is in sharp contrast with the turmoil in the West,” says Beijing.

I agree, but I draw a different conclusion. The world is certainly currently

2/11

through "a period of turbulent change", in Beijing’s words, and great structural adjustments, but usually when that happens, what matters in the long run is not how stable a system seems but rather how successfully political, economic and social institutions adjust to...

3/11

the new conditions. In the past these adjustments have almost always been messy, chaotic, and disheartening to most, but ultimately they were necessary even if we were unable to judge them so at the time.

I would argue that the world today is undergoing both a reversal...

4/11

and rejection of the current model of globalization and an urgent need for most countries in the world, including China, to initiate a major rebalancing of the way income and wealth (and ultimately political power) is distributed, but there are few if any historical...

5/11

precedents in which this level of restructuring and rebalancing have been neat or orderly.

Beijing's response, which is to do whatever it takes to maintain stability, may look good in the short term, as this strategy always does, but if it prevents the necessary...

Based on the latest info I could find, here's why what happened on Jan. 6th was worse than we thought.

It was coordinated. This was not merely a crowd of protestors accidentally incited to storm the Capitol by the intemperance of the President & other speakers at the rally.

Security experts are combing through the online chatter leading up to the rally and have found extremist groups planning violence. People came w/ malice aforethought, thus armored insurrectionists pushing to the front of the crowd, pipe bombs, & so

But it gets worse. The feds seem to be investigating several Republican members of Congress for connections to the organizers of the rally. (The FBI has warned lawmakers in closed door hearings that they may be shocked with what comes out.)

Indeed, at least one member of Congress, Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) alleges that these GOP members gave some of the insurrectionists tours of the Capitol building on January 5th, the day before.

The implication is that these GOP congressmen used the walkthroughs to familiarize the insurrectionists with the building layout so that they could push into the building and confront their colleagues who were opposed to overturning the electoral ballot count.

Just reminding everybody of this for no particular reason whatsoever.

There are a few points we need to discuss about how this year has begun and where we’re heading in the immediate future.

This is 2021 and your world is about to change drastically, so get prepared for the struggle that will ensue.

The Great Reset is officially upon us.

1/12

The “storming” of Capitol Hill was a defining moment, not because it was real, but because of how it will be used.

As @_WhitneyWebb has already been warning, the US intelligence were already looking to pivot from international terror threats to domestic terror.

2/12

To concentrate on domestic terror, those in power needed an event that they could allow them to label any anti-globalist Americans as “domestic terrorists”.

They stood down part of the D.C. police knowing that the peaceful protests would spill over into a minor skirmish.

3/12

Those who organised this debacle risked the lives of their police officers & innocent protesters by undermanning the security on Capitol Hill.

They now call it a coup attempt, infiltration & sedition. But it was really a disorganised rabble, many with legitimate issues.

4/12

The MSM have hyped up this event as though it was the end of US democracy & ironically that’s exactly what it signalled, but not in the way they portray it.

All world governments are planning to end most democratic processes, many of which have been suspended due Covid.

5/12

Let's talk about this North Dakota attempt to legislate around Section 230 and create a civil right of action for users censored by social media sites. CC @mmasnick

Forget, for a moment, that this law, if it passed would immediately be deemed void as preempted by Section 230 (Federal law is supreme over state law where they conflict, and this would create an express conflict). This bill is a really good example of why this stuff is hard

Here's the key provision of the bill. The various highlighting on these versions shows areas we'll touch on

First of all, let's look at the last of those images. There's no question that this would target conduct immune under federal law - and, in fact, if 230 were repealed nobody could ever be liable under this law (since it only reaches immune conduct). So it's incredibly stupid.

But again, put that aside. Let's look at the substance.

First of all, who gets to decide whether content fits into these highlighted categories? Do they actually think that the government will get to decide what counts as "otherwise objectionable"?

1. Military Intelligence Contact Update Continued:

. His info agrees with those sources saying that tomorrow Wed 20 Jan through next weekend, and beyond, as we in T4B are exchanging, there will be a SMOOTH TRANSITION to a military backed interim government in the USA and NOT...

1. This is how our country was being operated prior to the bankruptcy of the Corporation of the United States, and our being returned as a Constitutional Republic under DJT. Biden was fraudulently elected to the defunct Corporation.

Pelosi: "The President of the United States incited this insurrection, this armed rebellion, against our common country. He must go. He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love."

Pelosi: "They were domestic terrorists and justice must prevail. But they did not appear out of a vacuum. They were sent here, sent here by the president, with words such as a cry to 'fight like hell.' Words matter. Truth matters. Accountability matters."

who wants to tell him?

"They want to cancel the president" -- Jim Jordan

Rep. McClintock (R) is out here arguing that Trump's speech encouraging a riot was "freedom of speech"

1/13
This past week, before he did an interview with a top-rated AM radio station in St. Louis, and THEN being interviewed on CNN, Senator @HawleyMO wrote an Op-Ed for the fourth highest circulated newspaper in America. #velshi

2/13
In all of those extremely high-profile appearances, he repeated his grievance that he is being quote "cancelled" and quote "muzzled." That's rich. #velshi

3/13
Hawley freely discussing his being "muzzled" seems lost on him as he writes about how "corporate monopolies and the left team up to shut down speech they don't like and force their political agenda on America…” #velshi

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Hawley continues: "For those who still believe in free speech & the First Amendment, this is the time to take a stand." That's cute. Complaining about being cancelled while speaking on the Senate floor. Complaining about shutting down free speech in a major newspaper #velshi

5/13
Hawley seems to enjoy taking stands, he's just not overly discerning about their being rooted in truth. And when they clearly aren't rooted in the truth, Hawley believes he bears no responsibility for what he says. Hawley can apparently dish it out but can't take it #velshi

1. Sun. 10 Jan. Simon Parkes Update: https://t.co/8bLsoBcbB2
•Source close to decision making team said “This is not a drill.”
•We expected the announcement next Wed, not last night.

Here’s newly-elected QAnon gun nut Rep. Boebert, the morning of the insurrection, referencing 1776.

Here she is that same morning, pushing lies about election fraud.

Here she is that morning calling on all of “us” (IE her fellow MAGAs) to “fight with everything” for a fair election to be achieved.

Here she is live-tweeting the location of members of Congress & the Speaker, as the mob invades the Capitol building. Either she has no regard for maintaining the safety of herself & her colleagues, or—not to start a conspiracy theory—she intentionally relayed info to rioters.

Here she is, after the attack ended, again evoking 1776.

Dear @SecDef :

First, as an African American Navy veteran who is the daughter of one of the first five Black Men to serve as officers on the USS Midway in the 50s, I cannot express how delighted & proud I am of you and yours ascension to the awesome responsibility & authority

of Secretary of the entire Department of Defense and its multiple subordinate entities. Congratulations, Sir. Yours will not be an easy task, but your reputation of being a smart, deeply ethical and formidable leader proceeds you, and will serve you well.

I write to raise very

specific concern I have regarding the radicalization and polarization of our troops by media outlets that have targeted them with propaganda and deception.

As I am sure you know, FoxNews, OANN and Newsmax have been selling white supremacy grievance as a business model for years

and their presence on Military bases, installation and deployed units is almost ubiquitous.

As the events of January 6, and the ongoing investigations that have ensued demonstrate, the poison of those

outlets is infecting and debilitating our troops.

It is killing off their discernment, causing them to encamp on absolute lies & fiction, tearing them apart from their fellow brothers & sisters in arms, and in too many cases, inciting people who swear to defend the