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Stephen McIntyre

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9 Jan

Holocaust Encyclopaedia has interesting article on Reichstag fire, on how a previous supposed assault on democracy was used by opportunists to abridge constitutional protections. Will be of interest to those concerned with situation in, uh, Belarus.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…

I urge all those concerned about Belarus to read article in full.

just to remind people why situation in Belarus is so worrying. Secretary Pompeo condemned "use of internet shutdowns to hinder ability of Belarusians to share information about the election and demonstrations".

reuters.com/article/us-bel…

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Stephen McIntyre

@ClimateAudit

8 Jan

here is video uploaded on Jan 22, 2014 of vimeo.com/85770265 of what Joe Biden called "peaceful protestors" in Maidan square in Ukraine in front of their parliament

Biden demanded that Ukraine "meaningfully address legitimate concerns of peaceful protesters, stressing importance of the ongoing dialogue with the opposition and need for genuine compromise as only solution to the crisis" obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-offi…

In US, Biden hasn't taken similar initiative. Zero attempt to "meaningfully address legitimate concerns of peaceful protesters, stressing importance of the ongoing dialogue with the opposition and need for genuine compromise as only solution to the crisis".

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Stephen McIntyre

@ClimateAudit

6 Jan

@walkafyre

'@walkafyre's muellerfiles themyefiles.knack.com/mueller-files/ is a tour de force of data assimilation. In addition to the laborious and essential work of collating dates, W has made some inspired identifications. 302s from early days of Crossfire are of particular interest to me.

2/ FBI either did hardly any interviewing prior to ICA or hasn't included them in release or both. Vault includes only two Aug 2016 302s, both concerning Manafort. One from Sep 2016 - plausibly identified by W as Alexandra Stephania Chalupa.

3/ there's a certain, shall-we-say, insolent appropriateness of FBI relying on highly Ukraine-partisan Chalupa as a supposed source and authority.

Character counts for both full name and surname match exactly.

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Stephen McIntyre

@ClimateAudit

1 Jan

@ejmalrai

Excellent article by on-the-ground journalist @ejmalrai on one-year anniversary of US assassination of Qassem Soleimani and Iraq general Mohandis. I was very critical. Its purported justification seemed very dubious to me both in international law and recent pretext.

https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1345021926201290758

2/ I realize that nearly all of my readers take an opposite view of this event and valued that this particular corner of twitter could disagree without rancor, understanding that the full story of these events was murky, particularly in real time.

3/ Magnier raises an issue about Soleimani's assassination that I hadn't considered at the time. Magnier says that Soleimani was a voice of moderation, seeking to mitigate local attacks on remaining US forces in Iraq, rather than a zealot. People forget that Soleimani was

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Stephen McIntyre

@ClimateAudit

26 Dec 20

I've been complaining about Ontario's vaccination plan, in which vulnerable seniors in long-term care homes did not receive vaccines until Phase 2 in late January. Govt just announced Moderna vaccines allocated to long-term care homes in December. 👍toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-to-rec…

2/ Premier Ford announced this as a "game changer". It is. Also I can see that Pfizer vaccine, which is set up presently only in well-equipped hospitals due to -70 deg, is much harder to take to vulnerable seniors than Moderna.

3/ this makes the pointless delay of Trudeau's federal government in approving Moderna vaccine even more frustrating.

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Stephen McIntyre

@ClimateAudit

22 Dec 20

Ontario just announced punitive new lockdowns on fears of ICU overcrowding. It also announced that first vaccine tranche would have ~90,000, all of which would be allocated to health care workers.

2/ in Toronto, there are ~100,000 people (3.7%) between 80 and 90. They make up 25% of hospitalized. There are sections of city in which COVID is ten times more prevalent than others. Why not vaccinate most likely to be hospitalized in most vulnerable neighborhoods?

3/ I certainly believe that young health care workers deserve very high priority, but lockdown is blunt policy that damages young non-public sector workers. Quickest way of constraining potential ICU crisis is vaccinating 80-90s in high-risk areas, NOT 25-40 year old HC workers.

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