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15 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
As a forensic matter, emails are either hacked (the emails are real but were obtained unlawfully) or they are forged (the emails are fake and whoever produced them has engaged in deceit). Not sure which side Biden's counsel has taken.
The Wikileaks hacks were just that - Assange (aka the Russian GRU/SVR) targeted certain accounts and obtained their emails. The emails were real but obtained unlawfully. One can safely assume Russians, Chinese, Iranians etal hack often eg the PRC's US OPM hack a few years ago
There is a form of 'grey' propaganda where communications that are real are dumped with messages that are fake. The efficacy of this is limited over time as doubt on A leads to doubt on B & C, cf the long term damage in the UK done by the Zinioviev Letter
This BI response says based on unclear sources (which tbf may or may not exist) that the Hunter Biden emails were "stolen emails" which suggests the emails are real but their chain of custody is, at the least, in dispute.

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16 Oct
There are two major Western schools or systems of law: there is the Civil Law system (also known as Roman Law) and the Common Law system (which is English law). What follows is an abbreviated & hopefully clear summary of Roman Law & its impact on the Common Law world. 🏛️⚖️👑⚜️🇻🇦
For ease of understanding, and as I am writing in English not Latin, I will describe law using Jus rather “Ius”. I do realise this will upset the purists. Also I am trying to make clear what is a large and complex jurisprudential history.
Put very simply, the Common Law system of law grew up with Britons, then Anglo-Saxons, then Norman, to become English law & this Common Law followed with the English language to the rest of the English speaking world and wherever became or was influenced by the British Empire.
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14 Oct
“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure,” the email reads.

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"Ye, who had ties to the Chinese military and intelligence service, hasn’t been seen since being taken into custody by Chinese authorities in early 2018, and CEFC went bankrupt earlier this year, according to reports."

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"Still at the helm of the firm, Hunter flew aboard Air Force Two to China in December 2013, accompanying his then-veep father on an official visit where Joe Biden reportedly met with Hunter’s Chinese partners."

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19 Sep
May RBG RIP. Condolences to family. No court - even a final court - should have so much power. A healthy polity is one in which most people respect the work done by courts presided over by judges they cannot name because they are not in the news. Juristocracy is very unhealthy.
American liberalism sought to use courts to obtain victories - which tbf it has had - for results that it could never have achieved through elected legislatures. This may work until the “court as super legislature” also turns against you.
The elected Parliaments and legislatures are messy & full of disreputable hacks etc. But they are elected and they can also compromise. Courts esp constitutional courts are absolutist and final. While the latter is tempting, the former is a much healthier place to reform society.
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12 Sep
In the 1970s, the British Labour Party's bourgeois liberal wing, which would become Labour's dominant bloc under Tony Blair, found itself in league with the "Paedophile Information Exchange".

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There is a not insignificant portion of small l liberalism that sees age of consent laws as some legacy of Judeo-Christian censorship. In 2009, Anne Applebaum wrote a bonkers piece protesting Roman Polanski's arrest in Switzerland.
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The fact that a Tulsi Gabbard's instincts are so much sounder than the original axis of evil's own David Frum is very on-brand for 2020

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5 Sep
Seeing a lot of expressions of concern for "The Troops" from the very same people in my timeline who promoted the Iraq War, the Afghan War (Year 19), Operation Syrian Freedom, and who rebuked Trump for not bombing Iran ... many principled norms being whithered, now, thankfully.
Remember that @TheAtlantic supported "The Troops" so much that it had David "Axis of Evil" Frum write this hit piece on Tulsi Gabbard, who, before she was accused by Hillary & Co of being a Russian agent, served in a a Medical Unit in Balad & remains a serving US Army reservist
One of the strangest parts of the last 20 years has been the memory-holing of Iraq & Afghanistan. To some degree, unless you or your loved ones were in it, it probably is an event worth memory holing, really. But no one who pushed it suffered...just the killed & the wounded.
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3 Sep
Apropos of nothing in particular: you have to have a certain income & security to afford (and a tendency to idolatry) to be "inspired" by politics. Most people are surviving & want security & order in their lives. People vote defensively & realistically: prudential 'least worst'
This is actually the hope for pluralistic constitutional states: most people vote defensively and not ideologically. Most normal people have good friendships with friends with different politics or religions or whatever, if they have ever really discussed such things.
Anglophone countries are often criticised by their resident 'betters' for their political apathy (Australia had to make voting compulsory to compel interest) but there are worse things than ideological apathy if you look over the 20thC. You can be too 'politically engaged'.
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