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📌 Four people have died in Washington after Trump protesters stormed the Capitol

📌 52 people have been arrested

📌 Officials are discussing the 25th amendment to remove Donald

In pictures: Donald Trump supporters storm the US Capitol Building
Priti Patel says, "Words of provocation are completely wrong"

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Protests have erupted in Los Angeles, Arizona and Colorado
Republican lawmakers have objected to counting Pennsylvania's electors, further delaying the certification of Joe Biden's election victory
People take shelter in the House Chamber and protestors are detained
The White House's deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger has resigned, according to media reports.

He joins two top aides to first lady Melania Trump who also resigned on Wednesday
A Trump supporter sits at the desk of the US House Speaker and the SWAT team arrive
US lawmakers say they will investigate how law enforcement handled Wednesday's violent breach at the Capitol, questioning whether a lack of preparedness allowed a mob to occupy and vandalise the building
Facebook declared an “emergency situation” and removed Mr Trump's ability to post on its services

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Seventeen Democratic congressmen signed a letter on Wednesday night calling on Mr Pence to enact the amendment and remove Donald Trump

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Ivanka Trump's sister-in-law, Karlie Kloss, says she has tried unsuccessfully to convince the president's daughter that he lost the election
Former President Barack Obama has said that history will rightly remember the violence at the Capitol as a moment of great dishonour and shame for the nation
"If you’re surprised, you haven’t been paying attention"

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Former US President George Bush has condemned the "sickening and heartbreaking sight" at the US Capitol and said he is "appalled by the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election."

He added: "This is how election results are disputed in a banana republic"
🚨 The US Congress has certified 270 Electoral College votes for Joe Biden, confirming that he will become the next President of the United States of America
Vice-President Mike Pence has declared that Congress accepts the results of the Electoral College vote, officially paving the way for Joe Biden to take office on January 20
🚨 Donald Trump has released a statement this morning, committing to a peaceful transition of power for the first time
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says, "I deeply regret that President Trump has not conceded his defeat, since November and again yesterday. Doubts about the election outcome were stoked and created the atmosphere that made the events of last night possible"
"Republicans’ first priority will be to make clear to the outgoing President that he can not run again" | writes @RosaFPrince

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A senior Russian lawmaker says:

"It is clear that American democracy is limping on both feet.

The celebration of democracy has ended. It has, unfortunately, hit rock bottom.

America no longer charts the course and so has lost all right to set it"
The Iranian President comments:

"What we saw in the United States yesterday evening and today shows above all how fragile and vulnerable Western democracy is.

A populist man came and damaged the reputation of his country. [Trump] dealt severe blows to the American system"
Official Chinese state outlets gloat:

“@SpeakerPelosi once referred to the Hong Kong riots as a ‘beautiful sight to behold’ – it remains yet to be seen whether she will say the same about the recent developments in Capitol Hill... US finally tasted ‘karma’ of double standards”
"[Trump] will be gone, soon; don't be surprised if he pardons himself before the curtain falls| | writes @timothy_stanley

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Emmanuel Macron says what happened in Washington "is not America."

"We will not yield to the violence of a few individuals who want to challenge that. I want to express our confidence in the strength of American democracy"
Trump supporters wear gas masks and the FBI enter the Capitol
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tweeted, saying he was "distressed" by the scenes of "rioting and violence" at the US Capitol yesterday
The US media reacts to the Capitol breach
Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington DC, has extended an Emergency Declaration imposed on the city yesterday until January 21, the day after Joe Biden's inauguration
Trump supporters turned their ire on members of the media outside the US Capitol on Wednesday.

Journalists were sworn at, spat at and their equipment destroyed causing some to flee.

Follow our live blog for the latest updates on the #CapitolRiots: https://t.co/sY73x8UUon
Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has released a statement saying that Facebook and Instagram will suspend President Trump's account for "at least two weeks" in order to "ensure the peaceful transition of power"
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Members of law enforcement rest in the US Capitol in Washington D.C. on Wednesday.

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GP State Department diplomats work for Pompeo, not the other way around. They should shut their yaps or quit.

Also, it's telling how much the horrible, illegal attacks on the Capitol have made establishment DC and its permanent bureaucracy quake in their boots.


GP The bureaucrats have always assumed they were untouchable, unassailable, protected. They assumed things would never change and that people in the hinterlands could safely be ignored forever because they're backwards hick Jesus-loving gun clingers and too dumb to listen to.

GP Government's overall disregard for ordinary Americans from treating us like bottomless wallets to trying to force us to believe as they do to ignoring basic legal and constitutional restraints on their actions built resentment over time and DC was blind to it.

GP When the hicks from the sticks got Trump elected, DC fought back against Trump and by extension them with everything at its disposal. Media pushed made up crap to hamstring Trump. Biden and Obama secretly used government to torment and assail an incoming administration.

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Great article from @AsheSchow. I lived thru the 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980's/early 1990's asking myself "Has eveyrbody lost their GODDAMN MINDS?!"


The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.

1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!

2) "Repressed memory" syndrome

3) Facilitated Communication [FC]

All 3 led to massive abuse.

"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.

Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.

FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.
दधीचि ऋषि को मनाही थी कि वह अश्विनी कुमारों को किसी भी अवस्था में ब्रह्मविद्या का उपदेश नहीं दें। ये आदेश देवराज इन्द्र का था।वह नहीं चाहते थे कि उनके सिंहासन को प्रत्यक्ष या परोक्ष रुप से कोई भी खतरा हो।मगर जब अश्विनी कुमारों ने सहृदय प्रार्थना की तो महर्षि सहर्ष मान गए।


और उन्होनें ब्रह्मविद्या का ज्ञान अश्विनि कुमारों को दे दिया। गुप्तचरों के माध्यम से जब खबर इन्द्रदेव तक पहुंची तो वे क्रोध में खड़ग ले कर गए और महर्षि दधीचि का सर धड़ से अलग कर दिया।मगर अश्विनी कुमार भी कहां चुप बैठने वाले थे।उन्होने तुरंत एक अश्व का सिर महर्षि के धड़ पे...


...प्रत्यारोपित कर उन्हें जीवित रख लिया।उस दिन के पश्चात महर्षि दधीचि अश्वशिरा भी कहलाए जाने लगे।अब आगे सुनिये की किस प्रकार महर्षि दधीचि का सर काटने वाले इन्द्र कैसे अपनी रक्षा हेतु उनके आगे गिड़गिड़ाए ।

एक बार देवराज इन्द्र अपनी सभा में बैठे थे, तो उन्हे खुद पर अभिमान हो आया।


वे सोचने लगे कि हम तीनों लोकों के स्वामी हैं। ब्राह्मण हमें यज्ञ में आहुति देते हैं और हमारी उपासना करते हैं। फिर हम सामान्य ब्राह्मण बृहस्पति से क्यों डरते हैं ?उनके आने पर क्यों खड़े हो जाते हैं?वे तो हमारी जीविका से पलते हैं। देवर्षि बृहस्पति देवताओं के गुरु थे।

अभिमान के कारण ऋषि बृहस्पति के पधारने पर न तो इन्द्र ही खड़े हुए और न ही अन्य देवों को खड़े होने दिया।देवगुरु बृहस्पति इन्द्र का ये कठोर दुर्व्यवहार देख कर चुप चाप वहां से लौट गए।कुछ देर पश्चात जब देवराज का मद उतरा तो उन्हे अपनी गलती का एहसास हुआ।