I've been listening to a reading of @AI_Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. This book is so powerful, so timeless, so important, with some much intellectual fodder for today.

Many have heard, "The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being," but...
2/ what does that actually mean? Only into the 4th chapter, "The Bluecaps," of the Abridged edition (which, incidentally, should be required reading on its own), I'm being blown away, again, about how important this powerful meditation on what humans are capable of, & how/why...
3/ I'll use this thread to post some passages that really grab my attention (& this will take a while, certainly). In case you're wondering this is exactly what I'm listening to, the authorized Abridgment by Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
harpercollins.com/products/the-g…
4/ I've come to find that many of the passages I've been struck by require the context of the chapter to place, will consider how to do this. Sound bites won't do. Part of the magnificence of this work is that it creates a world in your mind that you are invited to contemplate...
5/ For now, let's start w/ this: @AI_Solzhenitsyn's prescient 1978 Commencement Address at Harvard University, "A World Split Apart." Solzhenitsyn's time in the Gulag & contemplation of it gave him incredible insight into the West (text/vid for 1 sitting)
solzhenitsyncenter.org/a-world-split-…

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17 Nov 20
1/n "The circumstances & events are eerily reminiscent of what happened with #Smartmatic software electronically changing votes in the 2013 presidential election in Venezuela."

—Whistleblower documented in sworn affidavit obtained by @SidneyPowell1, on why he came forward.
2/n "I am alarmed because of what is occurring in plain sight during this #2020election for President of the United States… What happened in the United States was that the vote counting was abruptly stopped in five states using Dominion software."
3/n "I want to point out that the software and fundamental design of the electronic electoral system and software of #Dominion and other election tabulating companies relies upon software that is a descendant of the #Smartmatic Electoral Management System."
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15 Nov 20
It's amazing to me that anyone even discusses whether the #CCP will live up to its promises on anything. How many examples of disingenuous agreements/promises do you need?

The only way the CCP ever complies is if you have the leverage to force it to (or it has one over on you).
This is so predictable that we might call it "Mao's Law." 1st draft, anyone care to edit?

"The #CCP's compliance w/ any agreement is independent of the nature or details of that agreement; happens only when 1) you have powerful leverage or 2) it's fleecing you & you can't tell"
Another version of, or perhaps a corollary to, "Mao's Law":

"Any promise or agreement the #CCP makes, it will break, and if you take issue with this you will find yourself in jail, bankrupt, or 'hurting the feelings of the Chinese people.'"
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.@SecPompeo: If we want a free 21st century, blind engagement won’t get it done. We must not continue it.

The free world must triumph over this new tyranny.

#CCP #China
.@SecPompeo: Corporate acquiescence to the #CCP is commonplace.

#CCP regime is a Marxist-Leninist regime. Xi is a true believer in this ideology.

Act not on basis of what Chinese leaders say, but how they behave.

“We must distrust, but verify.”
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🚨 I've decided to put together a THREAD of prominent voices for #HongKong from around the word. Start with U.S. politicians. Note how @RepGregSteube is saying (as I read it) the newly-revealed #HK #NationalSecurityLaw will "threaten democracy around the world." 👇👇👇
[2/n] @HawleyMO: "Question now is whether Beijing will use this as a pretext to jail pro-democracy leaders."
[3/n] @RepJimBanks highlights how the #HongKong #NationalSecurityLaw "prohibits 'collusion' w/ foreign govs or institutions, which could target those who've lobbied the U.S. Congress for sanctions."
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29 May 20
BREAKING: President Trump terminating the U.S. relationship with the World Health Organization #WHO.
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PRC officials involved in eroding #HongKong's freedoms will be sanctioned.

"Our actions will be strong. Our actions will be meaningful."
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27 May 20
A few have asked me, we're already "at war" with #China, why is this "massive?"

The short answer is special status makes #HongKong "the goose that lays the golden eggs" for the Chinese communist party #CCP, as @EmilyLauWH tells me in an interview we shot moments before this.
.@Michael_Yon says it very well: "#HongKong… is the tumor on Xi's brain… If they don't treat it, it's going to grow. If they treat it, they can only treat it with a chainsaw."

The #CCP has opted for the chainsaw.

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