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Good thread and it's well worth reading the paper (it's linked in the last post).

Some of my own comments in this thread


First, it's really good to see that the paper has either adopted the policies of or has come to the same conclusion as @Common_Weal's paper on rail nationalisation.

If we don't own all parts of the network, we can't strategically plan for

Excellent to see the plan include measures of how we get to the stations too. That has been too often omitted from previous attempts to do this kind of thing.

Also good to see some thought on intra-city travel as well as inter-city (again, something too often omitted) though I'll come back to that point.

And any plan that moves us away from cars being the default mode of travel is an improvement.
1/13 In this thread, I have collected links to all videos mentioned in @adrian_horton's great @guardian article on late-night hosts' reactions to Wednesday's terrorist attack on #CapitolHill - and more. I believe that they offered some of the best

2/13 #StephenColbert: Hey, Republicans Who Supported This President: Are We Great Again Yet? - LIVE MONOLOGUE
https://t.co/CyLxDjP193 via @StephenAtHome @colbertlateshow #CapitolRiots

3/13 "Moments after voting on the Senate floor, Senator @amyklobuchar joins us from a secure location inside #CapitolBuilding and says the president is responsible for today's failed attempted coup, and she wants every person involved to be prosecuted."

4/13 "Republican @RepKinzinger joins @StephenAtHome to describe his experience inside the #CapitolBuilding during today's failed coup attempt and says that he expects conversations about using the 25th Amendment to remove the president will begin

5/13 #SethMeyers: Seth Meyers Calls For Trump's Removal After Violent Insurrection at Capitol
https://t.co/wOLtpCRkkc via @sethmeyers @LateNightSeth #CapitolRiots
There was a time when @RichLowry writing something this nakedly despicable would have been unthinkable. Accusing a man of helping provoke a crime via something he wrote FOUR YEARS BEFOREHAND is the kind of ethics you want Buckley's life's work to be associated with, Rich? Really?


Beyond that stunning abandonment of conscience, @RichLowry naturally neglects to include a link to the Flight 93 Election essay, because when you're lying about something it's better the readers you're trying to deceive not have the original on hand for quick comparison.

Here is that link, where you will find that, contrary to @RichLowry's journalistic malpractice, Anton does not "valorize" Trump's flaws, argue that Trump is a "savior," or suggest that "character and norms no longer

If you don't have time for the the full essay right now, at least read the following passages and ask yourself how well they match @RichLowry's misrepresentations:


There is a strong case to be made for the Flight 93 Election essay being the single most impactful piece of political writing of the decade. I can think of no other work that has provoked so many responses, over so long, of so much anger and yet so little substance.
Beyond disappointment in @johnfocook and his @skepticscience. It has become another scientology church.

Maybe @ggreenwald will want to make a paper on this:

> **How the imperialist mindset/narrative is infesting the scientific fields.**

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What @skepticscience posted on their FB page
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https://t.co/NXMG74TVhm

My instantaneously censored comment + blocking me for being able to comment on their page.
> //next tweet

"You mean the team of Biden ?
The oligarch team who's as dirty as Trump's team ?
The same Biden who has relentlessly hunted Snowden under Obama and forced both Snowden and Greenwald into exile?
Sure!
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I used to appreciate reading "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" and "Skeptical Science". Now you both are deep in political platitudes.
Your rationals are completely outdated.
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You should educate yourself and guess better on the future of climate under neoliberalism (be it nationalist or globalist) IF the issue really concerns
If you send goods across a non porous border you need
-lots of paperwork. Filling it in triggers delays.
-trained customs staff. We're short by 50k. That'll cause delays.
- IT systems. Several haven't launched yet. More delays.

This is why there'll be shortages @jbhearn. /1


If you're exporting to EU, in the case of food products (dead or alive) you also need an official veterinarian (that's a thing) working with a certification support officer to deal with the sanitary and phytosanitory checks to generate a European Health Certificate /2

That EHC is then submitted at a border control post and also on the EU import control system. Only then can the truck travel into the EU. /3

Thing is, the importer in the EU will have to input *LOTS* of information into the EU's trade control and expert system (not the same as as the EU import control system) because it's arriving from outside the EU. /4

Alternatively the EU importer can skip all of the admin, fees and taxes triggered by importing from the UK by instead sourcing from a EU based company. That is why brexit will be an economic calamity for the UK; the operational reality is going to trump the economic theory. /5