can someone do an analysis of the language in the flyer to identify which outside group apparently drafted the proposal for the white supremacist caucus that Greene seems to be backing away from?
“The Anglo-Saxons were migrants”— whoah!—“from northern Europe who settled in England in the fifth and sixth centuries. ...
They remained the dominant political force until... Harold II was killed by the Normans at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.” bl.uk/anglo-saxons/a…
...”Gildas and Bede...present a picture of a series of conflicts between the Anglo-Saxons and native Britons in the early centuries. Gildas suggested that the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons was a punishment from God for the depraved behaviour of certain British leaders.”
“Today, historians use this term as a shorthand for referring to the period between the Roman occupation of Britain and the Norman Conquest of England. [...]
The Anglo-Saxons who first settled in England in the fifth and sixth centuries were pagans....”
“During the 11th century, Anglo-Saxon England was conquered not once but twice.”
more setbacks for the anglo-saxon caucus
“Then, after an interlude... Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon king, was killed at Hastings on 14 Oct. 1066. Harold’s successor...was Edgar the Atheling (d. 1125), but he never took power...The new Norman dynasty held sway in England for the best part of a century.”
“Their language was displaced by French”— 🚨 — “as the official language of the royal court and the legal system, but books continued to be written in English into the 12th century and beyond.”
“In its annal for 1066, one manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle provides a pessimistic view of the outcome of the Norman Conquest for the Anglo-Saxons – ‘and ever after the Conquest things grew much worse’ – but Anglo-Saxon customs... prevailed for centuries to come.”
Arizona Republic on Gosar’s membership in the shrinking anglo saxon caucus: “When I heard about it, I knew without even looking that Arizona’s biggest congressional crackpot would figure prominently in this crusade.”
🧵”PM Andrej Babis said Czech authorities had ‘clear evidence’ linking GRU officers to an explosion in an ammunition warehouse in 2014 which left two people dead.
‘We have good reason to suspect the involvement of GRU officers from unit 29155 in the explosion at the ammunition
Some of the reporting in this is astonishing, and one has to wonder if Trump's plan to install Patel as CIA dep director/acting director in December was linked to the advice he was getting on how to stage a coup washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
We would have been in such a bad place if these people had not been driven from power. We were very lucky in November and that the Jan. 6 coup attempt failed. These people need to be held accountable so this never happens again washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
How does this relate to Trump's efforts at the time to overturn the election, one wonders
"On Dec. 12, while Trump was attending the Army-Navy football game, he discussed with top aides a sensitive future assignment for Patel, one person recalled." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
EU official said he expects the talks in Vienna to go on for a few more days. And then he thinks two most relevant delegations will go back home to consult capitals for further instructions. We are reaching a point when decision capacity is back to the capitals.
He said of the apparent attack on Natanz and subsequent Iran decision to start 60% enrichment between the talks last week and this week: So these two issues make the negotiations a bit more difficult, but at the same time make it more urgent and important.
EU official: not exactly aware of how far along they are, but "the one thing is that we are closer than last week. This is definitely the case."
Biden says his conversation with Putin earlier this week was candid and respectful.
Despite all the problems and antagonisms, Biden making a point to demonstrate a lot of respect for Russia as a nation and for the Russian people in his remarks.
Biden: The US not looking to kick off a cycle of escalation with Russia
“Beute — whose ordeal triggered some of the events that followed — said he believes fallout from the case could force a reckoning for the lax oversight and clubby nature of Florida’s political system.”
“Emails from 2018 show that Greenberg agreed to put his name on an op-ed, which aides to Gaetz had been circulating among themselves, defending the congressman for inviting a Holocaust denier to Trump’s State of the Union address that year.” washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
So satisfying and rare to see the little guy smeared by dirty trickster scumbags get justice for once
Both the Iran FM, directly, and the US, tacitly/indirectly, linked suspected suspected sabotage op to the diplomatic track to revive the Iran deal gathering momentum: diplomatic.substack.com/p/us-disowning…
On Wednesday—a day after the strategic dialogue with the Israelis—the Biden admin plans to resume Iran nuclear talks in Vienna. “Our focus is, of course, on the diplomatic path forward,” the White House’s Psaki said. “So that’s where our focus is.” diplomatic.substack.com/p/us-disowning…