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

Sources : TN CM Edappadi Palanisamy, who claims to run “Amma’s government” has decided to accord the ceremonious farewell parade to disgraced police officer Jaffar Sait, who retires on 31.12.2020. While all DG level officers are eligible 1/n

for this parade on their retirement, no such honour was accorded to the DGPs who had retired in the recent past. A few of them are Ashok Kumar, SR Jangid, S. George, Ashish Bhengra, Asuthosh Shukla, Sri Lakshmi Prasad, RC Kudawla etc. 2/n

Rehearsal for Jaffar Sait’s ceremonious farewell parade is being held from 21.12.2020 at Avadi TSP Battalion grounds till date and the rehearsal would continue till 30.12.2020 say sources.

Edappadi Palanisamy should remember that Jayalalitha, 3/n

in 2011, immediately on assumption of her charge as CM in 2011, transferred Jaffar Sait to a post in the rank of Sub-Inspector of Police – Special Officer Mandapam Special Camp for Sri Lankan Refugees. 4/n

DVAC registered two criminal cases against Jaffar Sait on 23 July 2011 and he was suspended on 1st August 2011 and his headquarters was fixed as Ramanathapuram. Jayalalitha didn’t even allow him to come to Chennai. 5/n

Sources : DMK’s Minority Wing Secretary Dr Masthan issues a statement that, news reports about invitation being extended by DMK to All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi for its convention to be held on 6th of January at YMCA, Royapettah. 1/n

He says, news reports that appear in certain TV Channels to this effect are untrue.

DMK is a party filled with liars. Invitation was extended to Owaisi and this invitation was extended in person by the same Dr Masthan who denied the news. 2/n

Apart from this, sources say, DMK LS leader TR Balu spoke on phone with Owaisi.

Even a person with basic knowledge knows Owaisi is a vote splitter and all his forays always help BJP. By inviting him to DMK conference, 3/n

Stalin has antagonised DMK’s long term trustable and reliable partners like MMK and IUML. They are reliable partners. Manithaneya Makkal Katchi is quite popular among Muslims and it has trustworthy leaders. 4/n

Owaisi is a Urudhu speaking Muslim and he won’t get a single vote from Tamil speaking Muslims.

If Stalin thinks, a Bihari Brahmin Prasanth Kishore and his dumb and useless son Udhay, can ensure victory, doomsday is nearing not only for DMK, but to MK Stalin also. 5/n

Sources : BJP / @RSSOrg makes deep inroads in Tamil Nadu.

TN Government started a local channel, named “Kalvi Tholaikatchi”. When the Channel was initiated on 27 August 2019, TN CM Edappadi Palanichamy said this : “Education is like eyesight. 1/n

The state government has taken this initiative to support students. The students can now learn from home,"

TN Government’s intention was to educate the children for NEET and other competitive exams. The broadcasts begin at 6 am and continue till 11 pm. 2/n

Entire cable distribution network in TN, barring a few districts partially are government controlled through a PSU called “Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation Limited (TACTV). 3/n

Jayalalitha mooted this and formed this to break the iron clout of KD brothers (Kalanidhi & Dayanidhi) in cable TV distribution. Earlier, KD brothers’ owned Sumangali Cable Vision (SCV) controlled entire distribution of channels. 4/n

One Thanjai Jeeeva, an ADMK man, is a benami of TN Animal Husbandry Minister Udumalai Radhakrishnan. He is the State General Secretary of Tamil Nadu Cable TV Association. He controls the entire cable distribution business across the state. 5/n

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Sources : The charge sheet filed by CBI in the #HathrasCase is filled with flaws and three innocents have been roped in as accused, in spite of them having strong alibis.

While the prime accused did commit the act and there is strong evidence against him, 1/n

the remaining three were implicated only based on their ‘tower location’ of their cell phones. Two of the accused who are implicated were employees of a dairy located a kilometre away from the scene of crime (SoC) and witnesses working in the dairy, 2/n

had given statements that the two accused were working in the dairy at the time of crime. The other innocent accused was present in a place away from SoC and witnesses had deposed that he too was not in the SoC.

CBI comprises fine officers with investigating skills. 3/n

They always do their job with due diligence keeping in mind the reputation of India’s premiere investigating agency. But, superiors, who are IPS officers on deputation to CBI always toe the line of the ruling regime and act as mercenaries. 4/n

Highly placed sources in CBI say, the Director of Prosecution of CBI, one Ms Sudha Rani concurred with the findings of the investigating officers that only one accused need to be charge sheeted. Ajay Bhatnagar, a 1989 batch officer of Jharkhand cadre, 5/n

Sources : TN Minister for Food and Civil Supplies, R Kamaraj gets infected with Covid19. He has been admitted in MIOT.

A few questions to @CMOTamilNadu 1/n

1) When he claims that he is providing world class health facility and claims the state has prospered under his rule, why none of his cabinet colleagues, who were infected with Covid19, for example Minister for Higher Education KP Anbalagan get admitted into a government 2/n

hospital. Does @CMOTamilNadu’s own cabinet colleagues don’t trust government hospitals ? Or, whatever @CMOTamilNadu says is a lie ?

2) When his own cabinet colleagues get infected with Covid19, and have the risk of becoming a super-spreader, why is @CMOTamilNadu 3/n

undertake political campaigns ?

3) Is @CMOTamilNadu aware that Minister Kamaraj, recently participated in the recent function to distribute Pongal gifts and people jostled to get a selfie with him and he has become a super spreader of Covid 19 now ? 4/n

4) When his own cabinet colleagues who get infected with Covid19, are crorepatis and get treatment in private hospitals, what would a poor @actorvijay fan most of whom are BPL & their family will do in case they get infected ? 5/n

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I'm thinking about Tim Keller's influence.

There is the curious fact that Keller is well-regarded among the culture elite (or at least has not suffered the sort of vilification one might expect given his influence). How can we explain this?

Looking at Prodigal God and other writings, you see that his approach to urban ministry is deeply political in a way that appeals to Democrat-heavy cities. It involves two moves:

1) equalizing sins: elevating the sin of hypocrisy, "moralism," and "religion" (the sins of "conservatives") and equating these with the sins tolerated among liberal (e.g., homosexuality)
&
2) emphasizing "self-righteousness" as a sort of chief sin (the sin of "red states").

Keller effectively downplays the sins that liberals tolerate while elevating the sins of their political enemies, the red state conservatives.

But the greatest appeal to liberals is that critiquing the "self-righteous" vilifies political action, particularly the action of social conservatives (e.g., anti-gay marriage). And the equalization of sins eases concerns over changes in social policy (e.g., gay marriage).

NEW: @SidneyPowell1 in radio interview w/ @toddeherman when asked what her "Elevator Pitch" to the Supreme Court would be "The very night of the election many people saw something that they had never seen before in the history of our elections. They saw votes being changed on

2/ the screen in front of them, going from President @realDonaldTrump to @JoeBiden. On top of that, the morning after the election, even that night, the voting stopped. They stopped counting in multiple districts at the same time before the vote got to 270 electors for President

3/ Trump. That's never happened before. The only time votes have ever stopped being counted in this country on election night was when the Broward County problem developed over the Hanging Chad's in one county in FL. So for FIVE states to stop counting on election night is

4/ absolutely UNPRECEDENTED. And they did it because the vote count for the electoral college was about to hit [+ go over] 270 for President @realDonaldTrump, because of the massive outpouring of votes for him that night. By the next morning, multiple mathematicians had contacted

5/ me and told me they knew the algorithm that had been run to change the votes. It was that obvious to people with mathematical expertise. It is a mathematical impossibility for 100's of thousands of votes to show up for VP Biden alone, and to have been injected into the system

South African science was crucial in helping UK discover its new variants; but then the UK govt claimed (wrongly) that the SA variant is more transmissible. No evidence to support this, according to @krisp_news

From the Times article: SA scientists "were the first to recognize the importance of a genetic change in the spike protein, something that allows the virus to attach more easily to human cells, making it more infectious than the original version."

The SA discovery was shared on Dec 4 over the WHO’s Covid-19 Evolution Working Group. “Our British colleagues were able to go back to their own databases and interrogate them as a result of the work we shared,” Richard Lessells, an infectious diseases specialist at Krisp, said.

More from the Times article by @janeflan: "While working on a much smaller budget than their British colleagues, the South African team, experienced with work on HIV, have the skills to decode the genome of viruses."

"They started work on samples of the Covid-19 virus soon after the first cases reached South Africa in March. In October they identified the first example that had changed significantly."

In LEFT TO DIE, we document how families of the disappeared face a negligent and hostile Border Patrol search and rescue response system.

Lacking adequate government emergency services, many seek help from aid groups.

Border Patrol routinely obstructs these efforts. 🧵⬇️

Families often receive urgent calls from loved ones who are lost and in distress in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, or from an eyewitness who was with them in the desert.

These calls can contain crucial details regarding the person’s location and medical condition.

Faced with an inadequate and discriminatory emergency response system controlled by Border Patrol, family members take on the monumental work of acting as emergency first responders.

Here’s a partial list of actions family members have taken to locate their missing loved ones...

1. Repeatedly calling police, Border Patrol, ICE offices, hospitals, detention centers, morgues, immigration attorneys, non-profits, and news outlets.

2. Taking out missing persons ads, putting up posters, searching and posting on the Internet, in hopes of hearing word of their loved ones whereabouts.