I'm going to share a timeline below of statements and actions from Alex Jones/Infowars in the days leading up to the failed insurrection at the US Capitol building.

The key takeaways are:
1. Alex Jones says he spent nearly $500,000 organizing the event that culminated in the mob storming the Capitol.
2. Jones says he did this in coordination with the White House.
3. Jones made several speeches in DC where he used very violent rhetoric.

On December 31, Infowars released a promo video for its event. A man says that "liberals think they can just do whatever the fuck they want" because "we sit there and we say we want to talk it out." Jones can then be heard saying "it's 1776 time" in the promo.

During his Jan 2 and Jan 3 broadcasts, Jones again discussed how much money he says he spent to organize the event. He asked people to buy products from the Infowars Store to support his efforts to fund "the second American Revolution."

Jones, Infowars host Owen Shroyer, and other Infowars employees then traveled to D.C. During a daytime Jan 5 speech, Jones again riled up a crowd with a line about "1776."

It's always frustrating to see images go viral with no credit to the incredible photographers who take them. And it's happening with the National Guard at Capitol pics. So this remarkable image was captured by the AP's J. Scott Applewhite.

This is by AFP's @saulloeb.

Excellent one from Sarah Silbiger.

Same scene, different angle from Reuters' Joshua Roberts.

This from EPA's Jim Lo Scalzo says so much.

🚨Must read thread on GB News! 🚨

Andrew Neil claims that “British people are crying out for a news service that is more diverse and more representative of their values and concerns”

Whose concerns will it REALLY represent?

We investigate... /1

The best place to start is always an analysis of the economic base.

Does this match with the show’s focus on the concerns of the British people?

As you’ll see below, the two main funders are mega-rich New Zealand and US businessmen… /2

“Co-lead investor in GB News, is the New Zealand-born, Dubai-based Christopher Chandler”

“US media group Discovery Inc is the other co-lead investor. Its significant shareholder is John Malone, the libertarian and erstwhile Murdoch cable

Still, at least ONE major investor is British…

“The channel’s third major investor is British businessman and philanthropist Sir Paul Marshall”

According to Byline Times, Marshall is the man who convinced Michael Gove to throw his political weight behind Brexit... /4

Marshall's hedge fund “successfully bet on the ensuing political and economic chaos after its initial big wins on Brexit”

Meanwhile, he made clear that he is as avariciously “British” as the rest of his investors by…“setting up a fund in Dublin..."

/5

Finally found the time to digest the Energy White Paper properly. Here is the slowest hot take ever (thread).

TL;DR: The WP (rightly) mainly focuses on progressing some chunky tech decisions. It also reveals several emerging faultlines that still need to to be resolved...

Big clean power tech delivery: delighted to see moves on nuclear, CCUS, offshore wind (inc. floating), building on announcements in the 10-point plan. We are going to need a bucket-load of low carbon power. So moving into negotiations with EDF on Sizewell very welcome step.

Progress on CCUS, particularly industrial clusters (already announced in 10-point plan) is also excellent news. Politics and industry now much better aligned than 5 years ago when second competition canned. Positive also to see BECCS feature, a potentially important technology.

The commitment to greater openness in modelling is also a real shift that will lead to better policymaking. As the White Paper said: "[Ensure HMG models/data are] open to all and trusted by the department and wider stakeholders." Geeks of the energy world rejoice...

This includes once again publishing clear information on prices and bills (I confess I may have played a part in its disappearance). Think tankers should be happy (I ruthlessly mined it for stories/papers when @Policy_Exchange)

Okay, so... let's start going down the list. Who is really behind the False Flag storming of the Capitol on Jan 6th, and who is behind the onslaught of social media attacks? My short list of possible culprits.

Former CIA Director John Brennan
Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal
...

My money is on Brennan for directing the whole thing.

"Former CIA Director John Brennan Calls for Mao-Like Public Humiliation Sessions for Trump Supporters Before They Are Accepted Back into

Retired Gen Stanley McChrystal on the other hand, seems to be disgraced and out of

McChrystal directed the usage of DARPA software used to disrupt ISIS, by Democrats, against

This article about Jack Dorsey's connections to the Clintons and the CIA is enlightening to say the

Stepping back from the ledge - a thread.

The military and veterans have been mythologized far too long. All are infallible heroes regardless of their service record. 1/

Yet on Jan 6th, veterans and some members of the military, encouraged by the President and other politicians, actively participated or supported the insurrection in DC. 2/

All this because the favored candidate lost and a self-fulfilling prophecy of alleged election fraud led to his inevitable defeat. Defeat equated to theft. 3/

How did we get here? In part, a disinterested public willing to overlook our flaws while correcting Vietnam’s scornful legacy. Military leaders repeatedly telling their subordinates how special they were – the 1% trope. 4/

Here's something we all know is true:

When things go well, whoever is president benefits -- whether he deserves it or not.

When things go badly, the president gets blamed -- whether he deserves it or not.

Let's go from there:

1/11

We all know what Occam's Razor is: The principle that the simplest of competing theories is most likely true.

Folks, we're standing in Occam's Sawmill staring right at Occam's Buzzsaw here.

Covid cost Donald Trump re-election. 2/11

Perhaps he would have lost anyway. Perhaps not. But covid slammed the lid.

If you believe Trump didn't deserve blame for the pandemic, I won't argue.

No one whose house got flattened by a tornado deserved that either.

3/11

Truth be told, the fact Trump's clear and decisive loss wasn't worse than it was is an impressive testament to the underlying political strength of the Republican Party.

4/11

The idea Trump's defeat is attributable to fraud would have been a hard sell before he and his allies racked up a 1-59 win/loss record in court. And the one win, in Penn., was trivial. 5/11

So it turns out that @RepBillJohnson is pretty cozy I guess with one of the guys who just tearfully confessed to his part in the #CapitolRiots

Here is Adam Newbold, former Navy SEAL, in an @ABC report that includes video of him boasting of "breaching the capitol" and how "to get in, we had to destroy doors and

Adam is a director of ATG Worldwide, a company in Lisbon Ohio that provides weapons and tactical training. Their website says they serve "a wide variety of federal agencies, law enforcement and military

They have a Facebook page, with Adam's more recent videos about what a hero he was standing up to save his country. These new videos omit his previous boasts of destroying federal property and "breaching" a building with his fellow

And that page also includes a lovely post about ATG Worldwide having a "range day" for @RepBillJohnson and his

1/ @kyrstensinema I’m not sure if you remember me, and no worries if you dont. We shared a donut in the call center during the Prop 107 campaign. I helped a little with your social media on your 2010 State Senate run. I helped gather signatures to get you on the ballot in 2012...

2/ @kyrstensinema ...I mention all that so you know I’ve been a supporter with my time and effort since you started public service and so you don’t think I’m some random troll when I ask you what I’m about to ask you...

3/ @kyrstensinema ...I’ve watched you thread a nearly impossible needle of being blue at heart but still growing your influence in a red state. You’re a proud member of the LGBTQ community, a Democrat and a woman, who now sits in Barry Goldwater’s Senate seat. It’s astonishing...

4/ @kyrstensinema ...That balance you’ve maintained so you can grow has led you to be sometimes not as far left as I’d like, but I still trust and support you because of what I’ve seen you do. You led Arizona to be the first state ever to defeat an anti-LGBTQ ballot measure...

5/ @kyrstensinema ...the influence you’ve grown in Arizona and the Country has never been more needed than it is at this moment. The President of the United States tried to start a war with the People of the United States and he had the help of other members of the Senate...

#BenjaminFulford
01-11-2021

#Khazarian Mafia Seeks to #Surrender as #SecondAmericanRevolution Underway

The events of the past week, and the coming weeks, will go down in #history as one of the #biggest, if not THE biggest, #revolutions in history

Report https://t.co/XyjfsPODfW

We #WDS are not talking just about the fall of the United States of America #Corporation; we are talking about the end to a system of #slavery that has continued for thousands of years

The #USmilitary is now officially on the warpath

Report

How come the mayoral candidates haven’t been asked whether they agree with the de Blasio administration’s separate-but-equal defense to the Fair Housing Act lawsuit challenging NYC’s discriminatory “community preference” policy, @JeffCMays?

https://t.co/oEP4CxHgyp (1/10)

The candidates, @ShantRS, have been falling all over themselves claiming their civil rights bona fides. But, on this issue, they’ve been silent. (2/10)

There have been more than a MILLION households in NYC that have participated in affordable housing lotteries, @sallygold, so that system’s denial of a level playing field is a critical issue that any mayoral candidate genuinely interested in civil rights needs to speak to. (3/10)

Contrary to what you hear from those professionally invested in maintaining the status quo, @JCColtin, TONS of applicants are interested in applying outside of their community districts. (4/10)

In fact, @RossBarkan, about 85 percent of housing lottery applicants apply outside of their CD at least 75 percent of the time. True for all races. (5/10)

My two cents on this important article from @David_Philipps. I've been trying to tell people for years now that SOF has absolutely no special ability to resist attacks on their cognitive spaces. We have no special training to deal with

I first started noticing this during the Obama admin as I was watching Special Forces veterans (mostly on Facebook) jump onboard with clear Russian propaganda, the source was not even concealed. These were Cold Warriors, now worshipping Putin as a defender of Christianity.

It was absolutely bizarre watching people who I thought should know better salivate over a foreign dictator while they decried Obama as a usurper undermining the fabric of America. Putin was the strong white man, Obama was the secret Muslim. Their minds had been captured.

Okayyyy, I’ll join everyone else in responding to today’s news (instead of just sighing, gazing into middle distance). The profit incentive baked into private prisons is a mess. But you know what else is a HUGE MESS?

The revenue incentive in the federal jail market. 🧵

The federal government spends an estimated $1.3 billion to house people in a loose network of local jails. These agencies—primarily the US Marshals and ICE—are directly under federal control.

All of this federal $$ has incentivized counties to BUILD BIG when they’re thinking about adding local jail space.

The wonderful Jack Norton @jcknorton calls this “an intercounty carceral arms race... to build and bigger and bigger

As he point out in the piece, this was catalyze largely by “The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984,” which I like to “the lesser know crime Bill ™️.” After passage, the no.
of people detained by the Marshals increased 32 percent in ONE YEAR.

The fact that so many people are now held for ICE in local jails—or at least that the contracts are in place to allow that—is a legacy of this bill. And you know who was was among the bill’s biggest champions? That’s right, one @POTUS Biden.

THREAD - Face Covering Regulations: How the UK government instructed supermarkets and major retailers to respond to exemptions. /1

Last year the heads of supermarkets and *major* retailers received a ‘secret’ Cabinet Office document about face covering exemptions /2

An important point to make here is that small independent businesses were NOT given the same details. And neither has the government ever shared it with the public. In fact, they REALLY do not want you to see it. /3

Although I’ve known of this document since September, I previously decided not share it for fear that it would make life even more difficult for people with genuine medical exemptions and disabilities /4

Yet, this week, the government has mounted a fear campaign that has caused widespread confusion and despair for people who are not able to wear a mask. Notably, those with hidden disabilities. It must now be made public /5

National Guard Gearing Up At Washington D.C. Capitol

#WashingtonDC

Even those casually following immigration are likely aware of the active role Trump's attorneys general played.

This participation entailed unprecedented use of "referral & review"... a power with a problematic & twisted journey beyond Trump...

More in my report out today⬇️

Referral & review dates back to a time when the immigration bureaucracy was housed within the Justice Department.

The power helped the attorney general to manage this system - knitting adjudications, rulemaking, & other decisions into one coherent immigration policy framework.

That's not to say it wasn't without its issues!

Allowing the attorney general—the country’s chief law enforcement officer—to intercede in individual immigration cases has raised questions about the true independence of the immigration adjudication system.

Plus, the attorney general can issue referral & reviews without transparency or briefings, which has negative implications for the legal and policy soundness of the decisions and their acceptance.

But then! 2003 happens.

Under the government restructuring following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, most of the immigration system was moved out of the Justice Department.

The attorney general was left with the immigration court system and...referral & review.