1. Fri. 15 Jan. Zoom call with retired Generals, Colonels & Lin Wood: https://t.co/YGaFI5adpm

- 25,000 troops are now in DC, under the guise of riot control for the inauguration.

- More troops across the country-all major Democrat cities-are on standby which is 1hr recall

Thx to @USAmbIsrael David Friedman for his time: Intvu ran > 2 hours. Lots of important/interesting stuff didn’t make it into piece. But for students of the conflict, it’s worth setting down some of that here. This will take 2 threads. Here goes 1st.

Straining credulity, he insisted there’d been no pressure campaign vs. the Palestinians. “I would call it minimal accountability, not maximum pressure,” he said — “holding them accountable to sort of basic norms of conduct.” /2

E.g., after PA Pres. Mahmoud Abbas defied Congress and urged the Int'l Criminal Court to prosecute Israelis, allowing the PLO mission to remain in Washington would have required the administration to defy Congress, too. “None of us wanted to shut down the mission,” DF said./3

Similarly, he argued that attacking UNRWA was not tantamount to harming the Palestinians, it was about defunding a “corrupt, decidedly unhelpful” agency that “perpetuates rather than relieves” suffering./4

“Almost every single thing that was adverse to the Palestinians by way of aid was completely avoidable” had they conformed to U.S. laws, he said: “These were all unforced errors on their part.” /5

This is the mind-blistering fact that everyone should be aware of. The government still has *no plan* for ending the pandemic. Or even for ending the lockdown. I knew we had a troupe of clowns in charge, but this is beyond incompetence.
My column.

Taiwan's most recent death from covid-19 was on May 11th last year. It stopped the virus without lockdowns. How? Mostly through its genuinely world-beating test-trace-isolate-and-support system, developed with the help of participatory democracy. Compare, contrast and weep.

See those numbers on the y axis? They are the actual numbers. SEVEN deaths in total from covid-19, in a nation with over twice our population density. This is what competent government looks like.

From the outset, the Taiwanese government built its system on mass popular engagement and active consent. It also understood the central importance of getting TTIS right, part of which means providing a 5-star service for people who have to go into isolation.

Taiwan's approach was the exact opposite of the racist trope with which some people have tried to explain its success: "people in East Asian countries do what they're told, we don't". It actively built public engagement and enthusiasm, while our government centralised everything.

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@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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1. Note: The Free World, led by the US, was in a war between Good and Evil. A Sat*an-worshipping Cabal was trying to take us over using their international chi*ld pedo*phile, gun running, drug and money laundering ring. Since at least the end of World War II all has been run...

@bbclaurak asks what went wrong. Many things....

1. The government and particularly the PM was complacent in getting into gear as the virus gathered pace in China and Italy.

2. The March lockdown came far too late. A fault that may lie with the govt and the scientists advising; perhaps the latter were incorrectly assuming a lockdown would not be agreed to and so did not recommend it early enough.

3. The first lockdown was arguably too stringent and inefficient, and possibly even too long. IMO it was a reasonable precautionary design. But a case can be made.

4. Test trace isolate was a total disaster. Including the hiccoughs developing the app[s], and the non digital side of the operation. Time spent lockdown, and enjoying low transmission in Summer, was wasted.

Special Report: Manipulating America—The Chinese Communist Playbook

There is an invisible war raging in the world. Not a war fought with bullets and guns, but a war of bribery, manipulation & propaganda, fought against the free world with their full

Here are some observations from the EU side on the touring issue facing musicians

2/ The European Commission offered the UK a standard mobility clause in its draft legal text back in March last year that would cover musicians, sportspersons etc... It's on page 354 of the EU's opening text ahead of the negotiations

3/ Under a standard mobility clause, acc to one official, EU member states can ask for visas for certain people coming to carry out paid activity. However, there's a list of exemptions for people who don't need visas:

4/ This list includes those "travelling for the purpose of business deliberations..., sportspersons or artists [including musicians] performing an activity on an ad-hoc basis, journalists sent by the media of their country of residence, and intra-corporate trainees."

5/ In other words, under a standard mobility provision, musicians, journalists, sports people and business people who travel to discuss contracts etc do not need visas. Officials say this is the standard EU arrangement for third countries, eg the US.

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
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One year ago, the US targeted killing of #Iran’s #GeneralSoleimani in #Iraq became the first known incident outside the context of a declared conflict in which a State invoked self-defence as justification for an attack against a State-actor.

The international community feared its aftermath would see military escalation with devastating consequences. However, while the worst in terms of a global conflict was avoided, worse struck nevertheless.

On 8 January,176 innocent people subsequently lost their lives when their flight, PS 752, was struck down by Iranian missiles. A month later, Iranians were killed, and hundreds arrested, as they demonstrated for accountability and truth from the Iranian leadership for this attack

And what of the young Iraqis killed throughout 2020 because they dared demand a better world? Because they dared reject the rule of the militias? A year later, those demonstrations have been crushed in blood.

So yes, there was no international war. But many paid the highest price, and many more continue, in the name of justice, to risk the same. And didn’t the US attack and its aftermath hammer yet another nail in the coffin of international law and international rule?

The very idea that we should concern ourselves with establishing rules of conduct that guarantee equal treatment for both ourselves & for the racist, murdering fascists who are aiming to carry out genocide & overthrow democratic governments makes no sense.

I appreciate everyone’s commitment to ideas of liberalism & equality but fascism exists outside of liberalism & there are people trying to kill us whose very ideology is based on the idea of there being no equality. They can only defeat us or be defeated.

There’s a reason we had an entire world war over this issue and it’s not because people at the time couldn’t figure out how to come up with a standard for free speech that applied equally to fascists & all the people they were trying to kill.

Furthermore, the idea we have to apply equal standards to all forms of speech implies all speech is equal. By that logic, there’s no difference b/w someone using social media to incite genocide v someone using it to advocate equal rights. Is that really the moral position?

The idea that holding Trump & other fascists to account might later have negative impact on others ignores that it’s already been the case that Black & brown ppl have received unequal policing & banishment online. The only thing new is that they’ve finally banned Trump.

Robert Sanford, the retired PA firefighter who has been charged in the DC riot, went to the Capitol following "the President's instructions," a complaining witness told the FBI.

Peter Harding, a Buffalo area man, has been charged by feds in the Capitol riot. The FBI notes that he was captured in social media photo lighting fire to media camera equipment outside building before entering.

The FBI says Kevin Lyons was "evasive" at first about being inside the Capitol. Then, when agents showed him an Instagram pic he'd taken & posted of Nancy Pelosi's office, he caved.
"Wow, you're pretty good," he said. "That was only up for an hour."

Kevin Seefried told the feds that he and his son Hunter went to DC on Jan. 6 from their home in Delaware "to hear President Trump speak."
They brought along the Confederate battle flag from the house "where it is usually displayed outside."

The feds were able to find & charge Jenny Cudd of Texas in part b/c she posted a FB video of her incursion on the Capitol.
"We did break down Nancy Pelosi's office door & somebody stole her gavel..." Cudd said. "...Hell yes I am proud of my actions."

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Leftists accused me of tin foil hattery for writing communists already took over America. Look what Washington Post published today:

New Demshevik Party narrative spread by their most loyal attack dog Washington Post: the GOP and the 75 million people who support Trump are potential terrorists, similar to the Lebanese terror organization Hizb'Allah.

For those who don't remember or were not born at the time, Hizb'Allah or Hezbollah perpetrated the 1983 Beirut bombing that killed 200+ Marines. This act forced the US and UN to pull out their peace keeping forces and started the civil war that turned Lebanon into ruins.

By calling the GOP a terrorist organization, the communists running today Democratic Party are using the same old but proven tactic of communist/fascist demonization and de-humanization of their political enemies.

Portraying political enemies in the subservient media as a group of soulless terrorists and irreconcilable enemies capable of mass murdering innocent people is a tactic long used by totalitarian communist and fascist regimes...

Capital Jan 6th - Notes (thread)
This is a compilation of info I have collected from various pages and sites.