2021-01-13
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Mexico moves to create world’s largest legal cannabis market | Drugs News | Al Jazeera
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Pirate Bay Founder Thinks Parler’s Inability to Stay Online Is 'Embarrassing'
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Gas prices drove up consumer costs in December; inflation ticks up - UPI.com
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Steamworks Development - Steam - 2020 Year in Review - Steam News
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Unresponsive Private Jet Prompted Sonic Boom Over England - Simple Flying
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Yellow mealworm safe for humans to eat, says EU food safety agency
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Man Injected Magic Mushrooms Into His Veins, And They Started To Grow In His Blood | IFLScience
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Intel CEO Bob Swan to Step Down in Feb, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to Replace Him
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Tulsi Gabbard Pulls Back the Curtain on Why Congress Won't Act Against Big Tech
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Repressive Tolerance (full text) - Herbert Marcuse Official Website
Future Riots
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Opinion: Nothing will be allowed to stop Joe Biden's inauguration - CNN
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With 10s of 1000s of National Guard troops deploying to Washington D.C., President Trump urged the American public on Wednesday to refrain from violence ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, again calling for a peaceful transition of power. Unable to transmit his statement through any form of social media, President Trump asked Fox News to publish the following short comment: > “In light of reports of more demonstrations, I urge that there must be NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind. That is not what I stand for and it is not what America stands for. I call on ALL Americans to help ease tensions and calm tempers. Thank You.”
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Trump calls for 'NO violence' amid concerns of threats around inauguration | TheHill
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Impeachment: Trump releases tweet-like statement denouncing violence - Vox
First, Trump’s call for “ALL Americans to help ease tensions and calm tempers” suggests that Democrats share in the guilt for the fact National Guard troops are stationed at the Capitol to protect it from Trump supporters, when in reality they’ve done nothing to incite Trump supporters beyond debunking the lies the president and other Republicans spent months pushing about the “stolen election.”
Second, Trump’s statement doesn’t denounce the aforementioned lies about the election — ones that motivated the rioters who ransacked the Capitol last week in hopes of stopping “the steal.” In fact, while Trump has generically denounced violence a number of times since last week’s riot, he hasn’t once acknowledged the truth that Biden legitimately and decisively won the election.
- k, I get that yall think he's wrong; but can't he just be wrong? He goes away and behaves civilly and is just there, talking, and wrong? Why's that so hard to live with? Remember all them times Mr Gore said the world would end? He still exists, and he's still wrong, and that's ok.
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"Do you feel safer now?" In pictures: Troops guard US Capitol, one week after riots - BBC News
- Troops armed, with live ammo, sleeping in the halls and spaces of the Capitol.
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1000s Of National Guard Troops Briefed On Explosives Threat In DC | ZeroHedge
Buzz Feed's Paul McLeod reports, "about 3,000 total national guard troops sheltering in the Capitol right now."
McLeod said Guardsmen had to stay in the Capitol building "overnight because there was nowhere to put all 15,000 troops being brought into DC for inauguration from various state national guards (eg New York sent 1,000)"
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Google Pausing All Political Ads, Airbnb Canceling All DC Reservations This Week | ZeroHedge
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Airbnb cancels all DC reservations to prevent return of rioters
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Just video Law Enforcement Gearing Up for Biden’s Inauguration | Voice of America - English
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Democratic Congressman Conor Lamb told CNN: "They were talking about 4,000 armed "patriots" to surround the Capitol and prevent any Democrat from going in. They have published rules of engagement, meaning when you shoot and when you don't. So this is an organized group that has a plan."
After all, the forces who mobilized to kidnap and kill Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer were promoted by powerful forces within the ruling class who opposed any coronavirus-related restrictions on corporate production and profit. This “back to work” movement had bipartisan support.
Capitol Siege
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Timeline of Capitol riots, from Trump's speech to break in | abc10.com
It was around 2:00 p.m. when the gates on the east and west sides of the Capitol were breached. On the east side, there were about 10 U.S. Capitol Police officers that kept the chanting crowd at bay at the bottom of the steps. For four minutes, that's where they stayed, until they were joined by more U.S. Capitol Police officers, some in full riot gear.
- but yesterday,
This correlates with Sund’s interview, where he admits: “I realized at 1pm, things aren’t going well… I’m watching my people getting slammed.”
- Of course fact dont matter and reality is whatever it needs to be in service of the narrative. The "wrong people" were raising questions about the timing yesterday; so today the invasion happened an hour later and those questions are jsut silly! stupid wrong people. see how wrong they are?
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Cori Bush slams lawmakers who refused to go through metal detector outside House chamber | TheHill
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SUSPECTED PIPE BOMBS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. — FBI
> At approximately 1:00 p.m. EST on January 6, 2021, multiple lawenforcement agencies received reports of a suspected pipe bomb with wires at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee (RNC) located at 310 First Street Southeast in Washington, D.C. At approximately 1:15 p.m. EST, a second suspected pipe bomb with similar descriptors was reported at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) at 430 South Capitol Street Southeast #3 in Washington, D.C.
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Panic Buttons Taken out of Congressional offices ahead of insurrection
On the House floor, one of Pelosi’s aides asked McGovern to take over in the speaker’s chair. He figured she just needed to take some calls in her office.
“I don’t think she even knew what was about to happen because she left her phone there,” he said. But after a few minutes McGovern was forced to adjourn the House when it became clear Pelosi wasn’t going back to her office but was being evacuated.
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Capitol Police official tells Congress he saw no FBI intelligence before Jan. 6 siege
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Here Are The Donors To Tea Party Group That Helped Organize Pre-Riot Rally
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GitHub Fires Jewish Employee For Warning That "Nazis" Were Among the US Capitol Rioters
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Dunno who wrote this shit but they should be publicly shamed for it: The Capitol Insurrection: Our Altamont Moment | The American Conservative
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For the mob that stormed the US Capitol, a lesson from Charlottesville
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'QAnon Shaman' in Federal Custody Granted Special Organic Diet
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(site redirects and does hinky link stuff) Rep. Mikie Sherrill: Remove Congressmembers who led a reconnaissance tour Jan 5
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, during a live webcast Tuesday evening, said she witnessed some members of Congress leading people through the Capitol on Jan. 5 in what she termed a "reconnaissance for the next day" when insurrectionists took part in a deadly siege on the legislative branch.
[Sherrill says:] And so not only do I intend to see that the president is removed and never runs for office again and doesn’t have access to classified material, I also intend to see that those members of Congress who abetted him; those members of Congress who had groups coming through the Capitol that I saw on Jan. 5 – a reconnaissance for the next day; those members of Congress that incited this violent crowd; those members of Congress that attempted to help our president undermine our democracy; I'm going to see they are held accountable, and if necessary, ensure that they don't serve in Congress.”
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This Is the Arsenal That an Alabama Man Brought to Washington – Mother Jones
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Medical examiner releases Georgia man's cause of death after Capitol riot
The Fulton County Medical Examiner ruled that Christopher Stanton Georgia died by suicide, according to local outlet 11Alive News.
The 53-year-old — who had been charged with unlawful entry and violating a citywide curfew that took effect at 6 p.m. Wednesday, the day of the siege — was found Saturday by his wife, in the basement of their Alpharetta home.
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"Use your words" How To Talk To Kids About The Riots At The U.S. Capitol - capradio.org
"I think I'd probably tell them that today some people threw big naughty grownup temper tantrums because they didn't like how the vote for president turned out. They did this instead of using their words and it was a little scary, just like it can be scary when you see another kid (or sibling?) throw a BIG temper tantrum. They were loud and interrupted our leaders while they were doing important work. But helpers stopped them and our leaders got to do their jobs!"
The Purge
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What covering heavy metal taught me about spotting Nazis - Columbia Journalism Review
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Ocasio-Cortez: Congress looking into ways to rein in 'disinformation' | TheHill
“And we're going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can't just spew disinformation and misinformation. It's one thing to have differing opinions, but it's another thing entirely to just say things that are false.”
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The world's biggest gun forum was booted off the Internet because they can be. | Not the Bee
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Here's the List of Powerful Companies Cutting Off Trump and His Supporters After Capitol Siege
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“Fired from my job because I previously worked for the Trump campaign”
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Conservative Commentator Says AIG Canceled His Insurance Over His Social Media Posts – Summit News
Conservative commentator and former baseball star Curt Schilling says that AIG canceled his insurance policy over his “social media profile,” a new level of deplatforming not yet seen.
Impeachment 2: I've seen this movie before, or I would rather have Peach Brandy
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(Video) Gohmert Flips Script, Reads Pelosi's Own Words and Asked Why She Isn't Impeached
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Trump Impeached By House For Second Time | ZeroHedge
Update (1635ET): The House now has voted to impeach President Trump for allegedly inciting last week's riot in the Capitol by a margin of 232-197.
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McConnell Won't Convene Senate For Emergency Impeachment Trial | ZeroHedge
Update (1257ET): According to the Washington Post, McConnell is done mulling - and has decided not to convene the Senate for an emergency trial - meaning the Democrat-controlled Senate will do so during the Biden administration.
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Pelosi Names Eric Swalwell As House Impeachment Manager | ZeroHedge
OrangeManBad
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Facebook Turned on Trump After Warnings That ‘Business as Usual Isn’t Working’
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NYC to terminate Trump contracts after Capitol insurrection
“I’m here to announce that the city of New York is severing all contracts with the Trump Organization,” de Blasio said in an interview on MSNBC.
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Key steps in Trump Organization criminal probe stall as investigators await Supreme Court decision
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Exclusive: Civil rights groups demand Google remove Trump's YouTube channel | Reuters
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Trump Admin’s attempt to “red team” climate research gets people fired
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Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital Renounces His Support for Donald Trump
Scared Now Hold Me
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AOC: Country will heal with the 'actual liberation of southern states' from GOP control | Fox News
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America’s Yeltsin moment - The Spectator - news, politics, life & arts
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Democrats Are Using The Recent Capitol Riot To Consolidate Power
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Leftists Are Colonizing Red Towns Like Mine, And Locals Are Clueless
Not Going Quietly
World
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US Cancels Top UN Envoy's Provocative Trip To Taiwan, Avoiding China Showdown | ZeroHedge
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Google removes Australian news content in experiment amid media bargaining code debate
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Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech
- The HN thread on this one is awful; "talk about how China's government might be misusing this tech isn't relevant" and "this come from the Epoch Times / Falun Gong - China's version of Scientology," with no assertion that its wrong, just that because the messenger is these people the message must be disregarded.