Reader’s Links for September 5, 2021

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

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  2. Ground robots will be put on trial to patrol and survey a public area with high foot traffic.

    This is a joint project involving five public agencies: HTX (Home Team Science and Technology Agency), National Environment Agency, Land Transport Authority, Singapore Food Agency, and Housing & Development Board.

    Xavier on trial at Toa Payoh central

    A media release stated that a HTX robot will be deployed for a three-week period from Sep. 5 to patrol Toa Payoh Central.

    The robot(s), called Xavier, will weave its way autonomously through the crowds to detect “undesirable social behaviours”. This includes:

    Smoking in prohibited areas

    Illegal hawking

    Improperly parked bicycles within HDB Hub

    Congregation of more than five people (in line with prevailing Safe Management Measures)

    Motorised active mobility devices and motorcycles on footpaths

    https://mothership.sg/2021/09/xavier-robot-patrol-toa-payoh/

    • Viewing people more directly
      Finding conduct incorrectly
      Hair out of place
      Frown on your face
      Thousand eyes to expect me.

  3. Benny: Things my 1-year-old does better than President Biden (light, biting humor folowed by hard facts)

  7. We have all heard the old cliche that there has never been a good war or a bad peace.

    The peace that leads to slavery isn’t good and the war that leads to freedom isn’t bad.

  9. Private team leader describes U.S. admin officials who ‘did absolutely nothing’ to help girls escape Taliban – Liberty Unyielding
    Daily Caller News Foundation
    11-13 minutes

    Private team leader describes U.S. admin officials who ‘did absolutely nothing’ to help girls escape Taliban

    President Biden meets with a bank of nameplates (well, his NSC principals) on 18 Aug 2021. White House image

    By Jennie Taer

    Robert Stryk revealed the names exclusively to the Daily Caller News Foundation of the Biden administration officials he said failed to support his team’s private evacuation effort out of Afghanistan.
    One of the emails was a “911” message, asking Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer for his help in getting 280 vulnerable girls to the airport. Finer had previously acknowledged the team’s effort to get Americans and Afghans out of the country.
    “This was an unholy alliance between the United States government and the Taliban,” Stryk said. “These girls were left to fend for themselves.”

    The Biden administration ignored several pleas for help from an American evacuation team in the waning days of the Afghanistan withdrawal, emails reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation show.

    The team had contacted senior officials in the administration to help evacuate people from Afghanistan before the U.S. withdrawal, according to emails obtained by the DCNF. They were working to get Americans and vulnerable Afghans out of the country, but it was a difficult task to do alone, according to the team.

    Robert Stryk, who earlier spoke with the DCNF about his frustrations with the administration before Aug. 31, said Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer failed to act on his team’s desperate pleas for help in getting hundreds of girls out of Afghanistan as the U.S. withdrawal deadline approached.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/09/05/private-team-leader-describes-u-s-admin-officials-who-did-absolutely-nothing-to-help-girls-escape-taliban/

    • The US gave the Taliban veto power. Who could predict that the Talibman would not allow passage for women unless each had a male guardian? How do I know the Talibans’s crtieria? Lucky guess. No one mentions it in the article.

  10. What the polls tell us: Americans hate the government
    By LU Staff September 4, 2021
    What the polls tell us: Americans hate the government
    Image: Shutterstock

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    Or most of the people in it. That’s the key takeaway from a RealClear Politics average out today that shows, among other things, that Joe Biden for the first time since his election is underwater. As the chart below reveals, 46.4% of those surveyed have a favorable view of the job he’s doing, while 49.2% so not. His approval rating has been trending downward over the past few days, which have witnessed not only a continuation of the nightmare he caused in Afghanistan but an unspectacular jobs report.

    Kamala Harris likewise has a lower approval rating than disapproval, but this is mainly because she has made herself invisible in recent weeks. When she was actively involved “solving the border crisis,” the difference between her positives and negatives was much greater.

    There is also cold comfort for those who delight in the falling numbers of the president and vice president and wish Donald Trump were still president. Namely, the former president’s favorability is at 41.3%, while his unfavorability is at 52%.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/09/05/private-team-leader-describes-u-s-admin-officials-who-did-absolutely-nothing-to-help-girls-escape-taliban/

    (Richard: Remember the pollsters question something like 50% Dems 30% Repubs and 20% independents. This throws them off a lot)

  11. Reports: Taliban push deep into Panjshir | Afghanistan | Latest World English News | WION News

    • Note how Milley is worried that the Taliban may have trouble seizing power over all of Afghanistan, he seems to think that the Taliban will keep the other terror groups out of Afghanistan.

  14. ‘Very shortly’ we are going to be challenged on a ‘bigger scale’ by China and by Russia

  15. Berlin stabbing: Two attacked by Afghan national with ‘possible Islamist motivation’

    AN AFGHAN national with “possible Islamist motivation” stabbed a female gardener in the neck because he didn’t believe a woman should be doing such a job, it has been claimed.

    In a statement, the force said the suspect approached the 58-year-old woman and reportedly attacked her because he did not believe a woman should be doing such a job.

    The man is then said to have stabbed the gardener several times in the neck, leaving her with serious injuries.

    A 66-year-old man saw the attack unfold and “rushed” to help the woman, German police said.

    The suspect is said to have then attacked the Good Samaritan – also leaving him with serious injuries, a police statement claimed.

    Police later arrived and arrested the man on suspicion of having mental health issues. They are also looking into whether he had “Islamist motivation”.

    According to a statement released this morning the suspect had been living in Germany since 2016.

    The Public Prosecutor’s Office and the State Police Department of the State Criminal Police Office are conducting “extensive investigations” into the crime, it said.

    The suspect is due to be brought before a judge later today.

    Both victims remain in hospital after being treated for their injuries, police said.

    Angela Merkel’s government has faced repeated attacks since welcoming tens of thousands of refugees from countries including Syria in 2015.

    According to the UN’s refugee agency, European countries now host more than a million Syrian asylum-seekers and refugees.

    Around 70 percent of these are hosted in two countries, with Germany taking 59 percent and Sweden 11 percent.

    This huge influx of migrants has sparked a massive backlash – prompting the rise of populist far-right groups including Alternative for Germany.

    As well as the sheer number of migrants, others claim that they often come from vastly different cultures which harbour archaic views on topics such as women’s rights and LGBT issues.

    Despite this fury, outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel has insisted she has no regrets about the decision six years ago.

    Her likely successor Armin Laschet, the CDU’s party leader, has taken a different tact.

    He recently warned against “repeating the mistakes of 2015” in an apparent bid to appease the outrage.

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1486540/Berlin-stabbing-latest-Afghan-national-arrested-two-injured-police-Germany

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    Two Seniors Injured in Stabbing Attack by Person of Afghan Origin in Berlin

    BERLIN (Sputnik) – A person of Afghan origin has severely wounded two people in a stabbing attack in Berlin, the city police said on Sunday, adding that the perpetrator was detained.

    The incident took place on Saturday afternoon when the Afghan, who has lived in Germany since 2016, attacked a 58-year-old woman gardening in a park because “he supposedly did not like the fact that she works being female.” After that, he attacked a 66-year-old man who came to the woman’s rescue.

    Both victims were wounded in the neck, the police said, adding that both underwent surgery and are currently hospitalised.

    The attacker was detained on the spot. According to a preliminary investigation, mental issues could provoke the incident.

    Prosecutors are currently investigating the details of the crime and its motives, not excluding the possibility of an “Islamist-motivated attack.”

    https://sputniknews.com/europe/202109051083801185-two-seniors-injured-in-stabbing-attack-by-person-of-afghan-origin-in-berlin/

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    BILD – Afghane (29) sticht Gärtnerin mehrmals in den Hals

    […]Laut Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft könnte eine psychische Erkrankung des Mannes, der seit 2016 in Deutschland lebt, eine Rolle bei der Tat gespielt haben. Gegenüber BILD sagte Martin Steltner, Sprecher der Staatsanwaltschaft Berlin: „Der Mann war in psychiatrischer Behandlung.“

    https://www.bild.de/regional/berlin/berlin-aktuell/berlin-mann-29-sticht-auf-zwei-personen-ein-klinik-not-op-77586476.bild.html

  18. GREECE – Refugee doll procession in Athens interrupted as protesters confront police

    Dozens of far-right nationalists gathered in central Athens to protest against the planned procession of Little Amal, a 3.5-meter-tall doll symbolizing the plight of refugees and their children.

  21. “For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”

    Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”

    But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.””

    “For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse.”
    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+3%3A10-14&version=ESV

    Exactly, Shariah Law, saves no one except from a beating, because “the law is not of faith,” but submission to it. A fixed recording of the dead gone by. The heart does not sing because an animal is slaughtered inhumanely by chanting prayers while cutting its throat. If we were lions, we may have made slaughter-by-suffocation our kosher way.

    But we have better tools today than knives. What are you going to do without knives? Starve? Knife-cultures dictatating religious futures?

    “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith”

    But what if Christ died in Pompey? Would we then be forced to worship his lava-encased tomb? And what if the Romans had perfected something more debasing like a spike in the rear “so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles”?

    “The righteous shall live by faith spirit.” And the lost only need to repent from pride and forgive to retrieve it back.

  22. Wisconsin fans ‘Jump Around’ for the first time in two years
    CFB On FOX – September 4, 2021

  29. Afghanistan: The Taliban’s chain of command to have a supra council |Latest World English News |WION

  34. Hasidic rabbi makes Shabbat jacket for carrying guns at synagogue

    JTA — Rabbi Raziel Cohen doesn’t want you to have to draw a gun in synagogue. But if you must, he doesn’t want you to waste precious time unbuttoning your kapota, a type of jacket worn by men in the Chabad Hasidic community on Shabbat and Jewish holidays.

    So Cohen, a firearms instructor who goes by the moniker “The Tactical Rabbi,” worked with Shaul Snovsky, who sells kapotas in South Florida, to create the Tactical Kapota. The jacket, which looks like any other kapota, closes with snaps instead of buttons for easy opening. Its cost: $550.

    “The issue came up with when you wear a kapota … the ‘gartel’ gets in the way and the kapota gets in the way and it can make it dangerous to draw your weapon,” Cohen said, using the Yiddish word for the belt worn over the kapota.

    By adding snaps underneath the buttons, the Tactical Kapota looks like a regular jacket.

    “Usually in a shul we try to keep a low profile, we don’t want to look like we’re in a war zone,” Cohen said.

    A video ad for the kapota shows a man studying in a synagogue when the building is attacked. The man fumbles to unbutton his kapota to reach his holstered gun until the words “every second counts” flash across the screen. The video then shows the man unsnapping the Tactical Kapota in seconds before drawing his gun.

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/hasidic-rabbi-makes-shabbat-jacket-for-carrying-guns-at-synagogue/

    • I knew there were still “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition” types in charge of various places of worship.

      • About a third of the adults in my congregation have military experience.

        Lots of security for the High Holy Days. It’s got an Israeli feel to it: matter of fact, civil defense procedures in the event of disruption. We don’t have to know anything more specific.

  38. Jamaat-e-Islami women’s wing in Pakistan demands state hijab law

    The women’s wing of the advocacy group Jamaat-e-Islami took to the streets of the Pakistani city of Karachi to demand a state law enforcing the wearing of hijabs.

  39. Why Leftists Still Get Away w/ Racism & Socialism…

    (Good – and includes a clip of Ayn Rand interview.)

  43. zero hedge – Domestic Flights Resume At Kabul Airport A Mere Week After US Exit

    […]A technical team deployed to the airport by Qatar had helped ready the airport to resume operations, in particular to get humanitarian aid flying into the war-torn country. Turkey is reportedly also involved in assisting with getting the airport operational once again.

    […]

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/domestic-flights-resume-kabul-airport-mere-week-after-us-exit

  44. New Zealand supermarkets take knives off shelves after ‘extremist’ stabbing
    Thomson Reuters Foundation
    3 minutes

    By Praveen Menon

    WELLINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) – New Zealand supermarket group Countdown said on Saturday it has removed knives and scissors from its shelves, a day after a man the authorities called an Islamist extremist stabbed six people in one of the company’s stores.

    “Last night, we made the decision to temporarily remove all knives and scissors from our shelves while we consider whether we should continue to sell them,” said Kiri Hannifin, Countdown’s general manager for safety.

    “We want all of our team to feel safe when they come to work, especially considering the events of yesterday,” she said in a media statement.

    Other supermarket chains had also removed sharp knives from sale, local media reported.

    https://news.trust.org/item/20210904013457-5nck0

  45. thecongressionalinsider.com
    Former Marine SLAMS Biden Admin: ‘We Don’t Negotiate And Ask For Permission From Terrorists’
    2-3 minutes

    Robichaux, a former Force Recon Marine, spoke with Samantha Renck, a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation, about the Biden administration’s evacuation plan as well as the possibility of additional assaults in the run-up to the August 31st departure deadline.

    In addition, the intelligence community and all military advisors shared Robichaux’s point of view. Thus this conclusion was not difficult to obtain. Moreover, Biden overcame their opposition, ordering a rapid drawdown, if not a total withdrawal, of American soldiers in Afghanistan. According to the American public and a sizable number of newscasters, including conservative newscasters, they are all starting from the wrong foundational position, namely that it has been 20 years since the start of this long war, and it is time to end it, or that America could use a different withdrawal strategy. However, if they begin with this assumption, they make statements that Americans have been conditioned to complete due to being fed this story by the military. The fact is that the United States should not have withdrawn from Afghanistan or wholly withdrawn. The notion that Americans should’ve used different strategies to withdrawal is patently false.

    The United States had in Afghanistan just four thousand United States military personnel stationed at Bagram Air Force Base, supporting and advising both the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police. The US has been doing so for the past two years, and they have not been involved in an Afghan war with the Taliban in a long time. Because of this, it is simply not accurate to say that Americans must hurry up and get out of this war as soon as possible.

    https://thecongressionalinsider.com/former-marine-slams-biden-admin-we-dont-negotiate-and-ask-for-permission-from-terrorists/

  49. dailywire.com
    ‘We Will Keep Going As Long As We Can’: Former Special Forces Operator Describes Ongoing Afghanistan Evacuation Mission
    Ian Haworth
    6-8 minutes

    On Thursday, Travis Dale Peterson spoke with The Daily Wire’s “Morning Wire” about the awe-inspiring effort by a group of former U.S. Special Forces personnel who are now organizing a massive rescue effort of Afghan allies from Afghanistan.

    Peterson is a retired Air Force Master Sergeant and a board member with Ark Salus, “a group of private American citizens and former U.S. Special Operations advisors with unique expertise,” driven by a “moral obligation to assist and protect the Afghans who assisted and protected” them during the War in Afghanistan.

    “Myself and two others developed it about three weeks ago prior to the fall of Kabul,” Peterson said, explaining the origins of the Ark Salus organization.

    “Our goal was to evacuate the families of the commandos,” Peterson continued, “so the commandos could stay and fight and stand for Kabul.” Unfortunately, Kabul fell to the Taliban “a lot quicker than anticipated,” so the mission of the organization changed from getting the families of the commandos to safety to getting both the commandos and their families to safety.

    Peterson explained that he has “been with these guys for over a decade,” on counter-drug and counter-terrorism missions. The initial intent behind this mission was to save the families of these commandos so they did “not have to worry about their families while they fought.”

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-will-keep-going-as-long-as-we-can-former-special-forces-operator-describes-ongoing-afghanistan-evacuation-mission?itm_source=parsely-api?utm_source=cnemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=090521-news&utm_campaign=position7

  50. americanconservatives.com
    Biden Administration Turns A Blind Eye To The Afghan Men & Their Child Brides Arriving In The States
    4-5 minutes

    U.S officials are currently looking into reports that older Afghan men from Kabul had been admitted at intake centers in the United Arab Emirates and in a number of military bases with young girls they claimed as ‘brides.’ The girls were presented to the authorities as to the ‘wives’ or brides of these much older men. Some even arrived at the 60,000 acre Army base in Wisconsin with more than one wife. There are currently more than 123,000 people, mostly Afghans, who have been evacuated by the Biden Administration during the chaotic Kabul withdrawal.

    While child marriage is not uncommon in Afghanistan, it is reported that these ‘brides’ are sexually abused and forced to marry in order to escape. They can often be presented as ‘married’ to adult Afghan men, as well as polygamous families. The U.S has strict policies against human trafficking and sexual abuse, but most Biden Administration officials are saying the allegations against Afghan evacuees are “anecdotal and difficult to prove.”

    https://americanconservatives.com/2021/09/biden-administration-turns-a-blind-eye-to-the-afghan-men-their-child-brides-arriving-in-the-states/